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

Last Days Timeline

 

A literal interpretation of biblical prophecy, second edition

 

The Prophesied Times

This second edition is an edited and reformatted version of the book I published in 2018. That other edition was a compilation of notes from previous writings and very poorly formatted. This book is not professionally edited, but more carefully written and formatted to make it more readable. And it remains a literal interpretation of the last-days prophecies in both the Old and New Testaments. I explain the prophesied events in the order that the prophecies said they would occur, chronologically, as a timeline. Of course, in the biblical prophesies, this timeline of the last days began with first advent of the Messiah and His New Covenant salvation. Yahweh God came to us in a body of human flesh, to gather us into the New Covenant relationship with Him. And the only reason our Messiah initiated His new relationship with us, through the death and resurrection of His flesh, was so He could teach and train our elect human spirits, born of His Spirit and made in His just, loving image.

All the human spirits who are capable of giving and receiving His kind of just, equitable, God-like love, who can learn the meaning and effective, right application of the Creator’s laws and ways, will soon begin to build up His kingdom on earth, in preparation for His second advent. When we see this being accomplished, our God Jesus shall send devastating plagues over all the earth, to judge and utterly destroy Satan’s kingdom of the world order, especially that devil’s fourth religious kingdom of Rome. Then Jesus will return, to rule as the only King over all the earth, providing stability, freedom from fear, true justice and healing which restores all losses, causing His elect to build love on a solid foundation of truth. Following a millennium of His instructive exemplification of His ways on earth, He will then gather all the humans who ever lived on earth, at the gates of heaven, and grant each individual a biblical kind of judgment. Then all who can be taught for repentance into the truth will be redeemed into heaven. But all the loveless who cannot repent will be cast into the darkness of their own spiritual lies and delusions, in hell forever. Then the elect will dwell in their waiting homes in heaven, and labor to serve all life there, working beside Jesus to build life forever.

That briefly summarizes the timeline which God consistently proclaimed in His Word. But these truths have remained obscured throughout most of history, due to vain teachings. For the only way all the prophetic Scriptures can be fully harmonized is by trusting the order of God’s revelations, which the most ancient of eschatological doctrines taught by the church did, in a system theologians call Historic Premillennialism. Yet most books about the end times cannot effectively harmonize the biblical prophecies because their authors do not interpret Scriptures literally, but always to justify the fiction of vain men who are worshiped in their own denominations. There can never be a consistent, harmonious and logical interpretation of the prophecies while one stubbornly adheres to humanistic propaganda that inevitably leads to the esteem of men and churches in their eschatological doctrines of Amillennialism, Postmillennialism, Preterism or Dispensationalism. By trapping their thoughts in those tiny little limiting prison cells of denominationalism, they can produce only the interpretations which contradict one another in irreconcilable ways. So they either end up denying true biblical faith altogether, or create a hybrid faith to justify their beliefs by nullifying words and adding many lies.

 

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In my previous long-forgotten and abandoned books (The Last Days, © 1995, 2000, 2006 and 2007), I discussed ways in which the authors of those eschatological teachings nullified God’s words, as they interpolated many false meanings into them. In those apologetical and polemical works, I also somewhat defended Historic Premillennialism against their teachings, affirming the integrity of that far more ancient interpretation. Now, in this book, I reiterate some teachings from my earlier books. But this book is far less polemical, and it also updates those previous teaching. This book focuses far more on the task of exegeting God’s Word, and leaves behind most of the attacks against the lies of the false interpretations. For exposing what God actually did say in His Word is a more effective way of refuting the devious and cunning propaganda of the humanists. For it is the truth which set us free.

The arrangement of this timeline follows the order and numbering system provided by Jesus in His Revelation to John, which is the most comprehensive prophecy about the last days. I follow the Revelation’s numbering system because it places all the events of the last days in exactly the same chronological order as all the other Old and New Testament prophecies about the last days. And we must realize that, by the time John received the Revelation in his old age, he must have been deeply disturbed by the fact that Jesus had not yet returned, even as he was seeing the erosion of the true apostolic church, which his Lord Jesus and fellow apostles had literally died to establish. Churches everywhere were beginning to adopt the blasphemous doctrines of Roman humanism, the greatest enemy of God, whom Daniel and the prophets had warned Israel about. And, just like the pagan Romans, the churches were committing vile sins against God and His priesthood of Israel. At that time, John must have been praying fervently and desperately for Jesus to explain all that he was seeing in his day. Therefore, Jesus answered John by revealing to him what must happen first. All must occur throughout many eras, before He would finally return to correct all, and to restore all.

When Jesus comforted John through the words of His Revelation, He told John that all history had been predestined and ordained, that the occurrence of each event was timed to produce the maximum good at the minimum spiritual cost, but regardless of the price that human flesh had to pay. First, His Revelation divided up the entire time of last days, a time that we assume to be as long as it took for God to fulfill the Abrahamic Covenant with His New Covenant, which was about 2,000 years. The last days, or New Covenant times, would unfold in seven eras, represented by seven “seals.” Then Jesus further divided the era of the seventh seal into seven short periods of time, where each brief period would be announced by the sounding of a “trumpet.” Lastly, during the period of the seventh trumpet, Jesus told John that God’s wrath would strike the beast (i.e., the final ruler of the devil’s fourth Roman kingdom) through devastations delivered by seven angels, as each poured out a plague from a “bowl.” Then He will return right after those last seven “bowls” of His wrath had poured out.

In Jesus revealed order of the last-days to John, we also find many digressions, added explanations and more detailed descriptions of people or events. At those points in the text, we assume Jesus had often paused to allow John to ask Him questions, then answered him. Or, perhaps, Jesus simply saw that more information was required for a deeper understanding. But we need to pay attention and maintain the order of events which Jesus Himself revealed, and not wildly imagine all kinds of speculations regarding those digressions, as many like to do. Rather, since Jesus chose to divide the last days into the eras of the seven seals, with seven trumpeted periods in the seventh era, and seven bowls of wrath in the period of the seventh trumpet, this timeline will follow the ordering of Jesus.

I divided this timeline into seven main sections, one for each era represented by the seven seals. And the first four eras establish permanent works of God altering the earth, where those works begin to erode the power of Satan’s fourth Roman kingdom. So the eras of the first four seals never actually end, but simply keep piling more of God’s wrath upon Rome, as Rome spreads out to conquer all of

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the earth, in the evil spiritual way the Old Covenant prophets told us it would. Then each subsequent era of the seven seals describes a shorter period of perceived time. The earlier eras occur over a longer period of time, and the latter eras are much shorter, but far more intense and devastating to the world. Finally, the eras of the sixth and seventh seals culminate in the most violence and the greatest efforts to resist God, but both occurring within only one generation. So Jesus, to warn His elect about their great tribulations during those last two eras, gave a more detailed description of them and broke the seventh seal’s era down into seven periods heralded by angels blowing trumpets, and the seventh trumpet into times of seven bowls of wrath, each lasting only a few days to a few months. Thus, I also divide the seventh era into seven sub-headings, one for each of the events of the seventh trumpets. As for the final seven bowls of wrath, a paragraph or two is enough to explain each, in the chapter describing the events of the seventh trumpet, which is in the seventh section.

But before I begin, let me affirm the definition of the term “last days,” as used in the Scriptures. All the apostles, immediately after Christ’s ascension in the first century, believed they were currently living in the last days. And, on the day of the Pentecost, just after Jesus ascended, Peter quoted Joel’s prophecy about the last days (i.e., he paraphrased Joel 2:28-32 in Acts 2:17-21). So Peter obviously believed the last days had begun. Also, at that time, Peter represented all the other disciples, and was simply reiterating what Jesus taught them. So the other apostles, and even Jesus Himself, must have believed that the last days began by then. Thus, the last days began immediately after Jesus had died, risen from the dead, ascended into heaven, and sent His Holy Spirit to His church. Since all this had

occurred in about AD 28,1 the last days began in AD 28. Consequently, we must also conclude that all the Old and New Testament prophecies about the last days—about all that was to occur before the Messiah’s glorious second advent to rule over all the earth before the earth ends—must be about the events occurring since AD 28, even the events in our future, everything until the earth is destroyed.

The last days began when our God Jesus ratified His New Covenant with His church of Israel on the day of His crucifixion, or when chosen Jews in His church received His Holy Spirit on the day of the Pentecost. So we have been living in the last days for almost two millenniums. And the last days will not end until a thousand years after Jesus returns. After a millennium of Jesus’ rule on earth, there will be a rebellion of Gog and Magog followed by an unspecified number of years where a remnant live on earth. After this, all who ever died throughout history, all the elect and all the non-elect, will be resurrected. And it seems that all these will be placed upon the earth for an indefinite (but likely very short) period of time. Following this resurrection, all the previously deceased ones will be lifted up into heaven first. Then those who remained alive on earth will be “raptured” into heaven too. So the “burning” of the entire material universe will not occur until all this happens first. Once literally all human souls who have ever lived upon the earth reach the gates of heaven, the final judgment day will begin, which will be after each receives a body made of spiritual substances. Then that judgment day will be the very last of the last days, the last day we will exist outside of our homes in heaven.

This is the order of events portrayed in virtually all of the biblical prophecies, without deviation. Various preachers and theologians define the last days differently, and interpret the Scriptures in personally preferred ways. But almost none of them ever even bothers to follow the order of events found in the Scriptures. Consequently, each contradicts the other authors and the Scriptures, or even oneself. Then some like to differentiate between Old and New Testament prophecies, insisting that New Testament prophecies nullify some of the Old Testament prophecies. In particular, many of these interpretations insist that God cast out the old Israel, the Jews, and has now established a new church, a new Israel, consisting mostly of Gentiles who believe the doctrines of theistic humanism taught by their churches, the teachings from pagan Platonism taught in ancient Rome. But not one of

 

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those teachings can be found in God’s Word. And every New Testament prophecy always confirms or expounds upon the Old Testament prophecies. Furthermore, not a word in the New Testament has ever even suggested that God has nullified or has ever broken His promises to natural Israel, to Abraham’s physical descendants. God never “pruned out” all the natural branches of Israel, only a few. God has never replaced Jewish Israel with a Gentile church, as the replacement theology of the false churches claim. Rather, God’s Word declares that He brings Gentiles into His church of Israel.

So the last days are a very lengthy period of time, in which God gradually fulfills all His promises of His New Covenant, all His salvation promises granted to Old Covenant Israel alone, to souls within Judah and Israel (see Jer. 31:31-34), and to no one else. God revealed His New Covenant salvation only to the Jewish prophets and to the Jewish apostles, and the Gentile whom He had gathered into His one and only church of Israel. God has never revealed any Scriptures to any Gentile prophets or apostles who separated themselves from His old church of Israel, never in all history. This is because God created Israel to be His one and only priesthood in the entire world, ordained by Him to serve the whole earth in His name, as His representatives, to spread His light as a blessing for the rest of the world. So now let us, the Gentiles whom God’s almighty Holy Spirit has gathered into His one and only church formed through Abraham, testify about God’s two main salvation promises, which He made in His New Covenant with Israel, with all the true spiritual descendants of Abraham’s faith:

(1) God will cause Himself to serve as the God of all the elect in Israel and Judah (i.e., by

personally serving as each one’s Father, Teacher, Counsellor, Provider and Protector), and

(2) God will cause each elect child of Israel and Judah to worship Him, straight from the

heart, as their own personal God, as the God whom each one’s spirit serves and esteems.

Neither of these New Covenant promises were granted to any Gentiles, except to the Gentiles that God Himself brought into His priesthood of Israel. Nor did God ever say we could save ourselves, or that a priest’s body of flesh could ever perform magic deeds to save us or help us save ourselves in any way. God never defined His salvation as magic performed by mortal men. For magic rituals and ceremonies have always been the attempts of deluded fools to manipulate God’s decisions or God’s actions. But the all-knowing and almighty Creator cannot be manipulated. No one can be saved through a magic sacrament or a magic “Sinner’s Prayer,” nor by any deeds or creeds performed by human minds and bodies of flesh. Only false churches claim to have exclusive rights to salvation.

God’s New Covenant is entirely an unconditional covenant, worked upon our spirits solely by God Himself. In the Messiah’s New Covenant promise to provide salvation, God only revealed what He Himself was going to do to save His priesthood of Israel and Judah. God said He will fulfill all of His promises found in it, regardless of what His people might say or do, either through their flesh or through their spirits. And His principal promise was that He would “manipulate” or change their hearts, that He would transform the wills and thoughts of their spirits, through His own power and according to His own will. Therefore, His New Covenant did not place any conditions whatsoever upon His people. He did not require Israel to do anything to “earn” His will to fulfill His promises.

Instead, God has always declared that only He Himself is able to fulfill all His promises, through His unearned, unmerited desires of loving grace, by performing all His works of salvation in and upon the minds of our human spirits, entirely through His own will, wisdom and power alone. His New Covenant causes His people to place faith in Him alone. And our salvation is through this kind of faith, through our spirits ever-growing trust and confidence in our Father and Teacher, who pours truths about justice and love into our hearts. And, no, the real God has never told us to artificially manufacture our own faith through the emotions and wills of our flesh, by listening to tear-jerking

 

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music as a motivational speaker makes our flesh feel like gods who can force the real God to do our bidding. If any church manufactures faith and performs magic deeds, claiming that their works will supposedly cause their own invented, weak, manipulated god to save anyone, simply ignore them.

Only God Himself is able to cause His people to speak and do all that shall be according to His will. God did not say He would grant salvation to Israel and Judah on the condition that they must first make themselves faithful and sinless. If anyone has to make oneself sinless, in order for God to save that one, then why would Isaiah 53 declare that we all needed the Messiah to die as a sin offering for us, to save us from our lies and sins? Clearly, the Messiah and His New Covenant salvation had to be granted to us while we were still sinners, not after our wills made ourselves righteous. This is why Jesus clearly stated that He did not come to save the righteous (since there are none), but He came to save only sinners (since all are sinners). Jesus came to forgive our sins and work inside us, to make our spirits as righteous as His Spirit. He saves us through His works alone. We are His workmanship presented to our Father. And this also means that those saved into heaven possess a different kind of “righteousness,” not a “righteousness” worked by men, which is as filthy rags in the eyes of God, but true holiness purchased and created by Jesus inside us. Jesus only promised this salvation for Israel.

So God promised to save only the sinners who were His chosen or elected people of Israel, only the spiritual descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, only those possessing spirits created in His own image, only spirits bearing the potential to love in a just, equitable, honest and pure way, in the same way that He Himself loves and serves His creations. And God did not come to save them because they were righteous. For none in Israel were ever any better than the rest of mankind. But, if Jesus came only to save the sinners of Israel, then Jesus has never rejected Israel, and certainly not because any were sinners. Yet that is exactly what replacement theology teaches! Furthermore, that same kind of replacement theology permeates literally all the most popular eschatological teachings now found on this earth. It is a foundation of dispensationalism, amillennialism, postmillennialism and so on. Every one of those fictions assumes that their Gentile church replaced God’s church of Israel.

Jesus did not come to create a new church, filled with obviously sinful and often murderous Gentiles, to replace a sinful Israel. God did not cast out His old church of Israel just because they were almost as sinful as the Gentiles. And, as we have witnessed throughout history, Gentile churches committed even greater sins than Israel, everything from the worship of human gods to the murdering of their siblings in the family of humankind. Furthermore, they condemn the Muslims, who lie about God replacing their “Christian” churches with the Islamic churches in the seventh century. So Muslims use exactly the same kind of false reasoning. Muslims say a fickle god rejected Gentile “Christian” churches when their invented god sent the prophet Mohammad to establish a new church and the religion of Islam. Yet Muslims are also as sinful, or worse. So, if God was fickle and vindictive, as both the fake “Christians” and Muslims claim, and if God rejects His people when they inevitably become sinful through a humanistic faith in themselves, through a belief that human flesh can earn God’s favor and salvation, then this cycle of creating a new “peoples of God” would go on forever. And this is precisely why the real God established only one church for all time, Israel, which He created through sinners like Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Then God sent the Messiah to this people, to Israel, and gave salvation to this church alone. God never ever created any other church in all time.

But, then, what does God do with all the elect Gentiles? Surely some Gentiles also believe in Him through elect spirits in their hearts! Will He reject them because His New Covenant salvation is only for Israel and for the tribe of Judah within Israel? No! Remember how God’s Word defined Judah, from the beginning. In God’s Word, God frequently demonstrated how the tribe of Judah included all the elect Gentiles whom He brought into Israel, since the tribe of the Messiah Jesus is Judah. So the

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Father adopts elect Gentiles as His spiritual children, just as He once adopted the Gentile named Abraham. But when God adopts Gentiles, they become sons of the tribe of Judah within Israel. All Gentiles previously were not part of His church and priesthood of Israel, and both the Old and New Testaments confirm this. So Gentiles do not replace Israel, but merely enter God’s church of Israel.

In addition, we also realize that God’s New Covenant promised more than salvation to Israel. In fact, most teachings and prophecies made in the New Covenant times, beginning at the Pentecost, contain New Covenant promises. For instance, we know that one of God’s New Covenant promises was to destroy all the wicked deceivers of the world and to nullify their lies, so Jesus could then establish His kingdom of wisdom and truth on earth, then personally rule over all until the end of earthly time. God’s Spirit was to someday dwell in a body of human flesh on the earth, to serve as the High King of all the earth, of all its survivors. Then almost all Gentile survivors will know Jesus as their only Lord, and enter the priesthood of Israel, His church. Before Jesus returns, all the elect on earth will see Him and repent to Him. So we know the last days will see many destructive events, all working through a very long and gradual process occurring over a span of many centuries. Due to our weak, dull hearts, God will fulfill His promises gradually, not all at once, lest we all perish. But, eventually, He will gather all elect Gentiles into His true church of Israel, into the Messiah’s own tribe of Judah.

Now look at the Revelation, which Jesus granted to John near the end of the first century, possibly as late as AD 96, or not too long before that. Near the beginning of that Revelation, Jesus told John, “Write therefore the things that you have seen, those that are and those that are to take place after this” (Rev. 1:19, ESV). Thus, Jesus clearly stated that He would grant revelations of both present and future events. Jesus told John about things in that present time, then in future times. Also, Jesus took John to see those future events, all that John wrote in the Revelation. He took John into those future times, to witness and testify about them. But first Jesus showed John the state of seven churches, at that present time, churches that John previously visited and corresponded with. In particular, Jesus showed John how those struggling churches were already becoming corrupt. Thus, Jesus revealed things “that are.” After this, Jesus let John see the future. After speaking about the current churches, Jesus’ voice from heaven told John, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this” (Rev. 4:1, ESV). So the rest of the Revelation (from chapter four on) reveals “things that are to take place after this” (i.e., after AD 96). Consequently, this last-days timeline begins in about AD 96.

In other words, this timeline basically starts about 70 years after Jesus’ body died and rose from the dead in AD 28, and almost at the beginning of the second century. All the future events recorded in the Revelation begin in chapter four, and all those events were to occur after about AD 96. So this timeline does not discuss much about Christ’s letters to the seven churches, since those letters were not about the future. Of course, the greatest events of the prophesied last days, the most important works of God in all history occurred before AD 96. For the first century saw God dwell in a body of flesh for an entire lifetime on the earth, followed by His body’s death, resurrection and ascension, all to provide the means for His Spirit to enter into and save His children. All those first-century events began to fulfill God’s New Covenant promises, began to establish His new relationship with Israel and Judah. Yet God ordained that most of the last-days events would occur after the first century, after He ratified His New Covenant relationship with His elect. And the most important of the future events would be the physical return of Jesus, in the era of the seventh seal. In fact, most last-days prophecies, in both the New and Old Testaments, have not yet occurred by this time (in AD 2025).

Then the last chapter of the Revelation explains God’s purpose for this book, and also declares that all its prophesied events will soon begin to unfold, that is, after John wrote them down in about AD 96. This last chapter of the Revelation further states that none of the future events it prophesied had

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occurred yet. So let me exegete that epilogue here—because it indicated that all the events of the seven seals were to begin shortly after John finished writing down the Revelation (in AD 96). Thus, we know the first seal’s events had not yet begun by that point in time, which nullifies many false interpretations of the Revelation, particularly preterist interpretations. Jesus also told us that His Revelation was given to His churches for their benefit. Then John warned us to be faithful, to never add any unintended meanings to God’s words, and to never remove any intended meaning from His words. For, if we do not accept the meanings God intended His words to bear, we will forfeit His blessings and the essential benefits of this good gift from Him. Any false interpretation may also cause a curse to fall upon us, or severely harm us in many other ways. Since the message of John’s final chapter is good to hear at the beginning of this book, to start it off on the right foot, here it is:

Revelation 22:6-21 (ESV): “And he said to me, [i.e., here John heard an angel speak to him—one of

the seven angels who poured out bowls of wrath during the last few months of the beast’s seven-year reign]

‘These words are trustworthy and true. And the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets,

has sent His angel to show His servants what must soon take place .’

After John had been taken into the future, Jesus had then brought John back to the place and in the time he had been previously living in (to Patmos in about AD 96). Now that John had returned from heaven, and from various places in future times, he began to write down the words which God and His angels told him to record. So he described all he had seen in the future times and places where they had taken him, in best way he could, phenomenologically, using first-century terms and his own first century experiences as a frame of reference. Not long after writing down these revelations, the first of the seven seals was to be opened. For the angel said that all those revealed events would “soon take place,” shortly after John finished writing down the words. Thus, the era of the first seal began at the end of the first century, or at the start of the second century. All the future events John described in the Revelation, from chapter four onward, began after this moment, after about AD 96. But preterists build their eschatological doctrines on a foundation which interprets the Revelation’s prophecies (including those after chapter 4) as events which already occurred in the first century. Thus, the preterists definitely teach a wrong interpretation, which adds to and nullifies Scriptures.

The angel also assured John that all the words God commanded him to record were “trustworthy and true.” John’s readers needed this assurance, since many untrustworthy and false words had begun to circulate in the churches by that time, originating from many false prophets and humanistic false teachers infiltrating the churches, even as the ink was still drying on John’s paper. Then notice how it was actually after this assurance that the angel said: “the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, has sent His angel to show His servants what must soon take place.” In this statement, the angel first confirmed the source of this Revelation, that it truly came from God Himself, and from the angels God Himself had sent. Then the genitive indicates that the words were granted to the “spirits of the prophets.” So it was not granted to the eyes and ears of any body of flesh, nor to any mind of flesh.

God gave this Revelation to the spirits of prophets like John. And God also gave other prophecies about the future were granted to the spirits of other prophets, both in the Old Covenant times and in the New Covenant times. God took their spirits to places in future times, poured concepts, sights and sounds into the minds of their spirits, so they could see what would occur in the future, then write down what they saw, in the best way they could describe it, given their limited language and lack of terminology. Therefore, since God did not reveal this book to or through any minds of flesh, they cannot be rightly interpreted only through our minds of flesh, but require God to reveal the correct meanings of those Scriptures to our spirits. First God pours concepts into minds of spirits, then our

 

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spirits pour them into our minds of flesh. And only the more rational, honest minds of elect spirits, through the counsel and teachings of God, can truly comprehend and bravely accept those meanings.

Nothing in God’s Word, certainly no biblical prophecies, can ever be understood through merely academic exercises, nor through physically induced mystical experiences produced through minds of flesh, such as through active meditation techniques or fasting. God’s words do not consist of mere intellectual ideas and speculations invented by minds of flesh, nor the self-induced imaginings of starving or self-flagellated flesh. Biblical prophecies are inerrant, immutable truths which God freely grants to the minds of our spirits, according to His will and whenever He desires. And all His real truths can only be accepted by the minds of honest, awake, elect spirits, like the spirits of the true prophets, whom God trained to utter only what He told their spirits to say. God seldom speaks to bodies and minds of flesh, since flesh cannot easily acknowledge truth. God almost never speaks in audible words that the flesh can hear. God almost always speaks directly to our spirits, in a spiritual language which conveys His very complex concepts instantly, whole truths that a mind of flesh can never fully comprehend. And, when God does this, the minds of our spirits fully understand those concepts, although it usually takes our uncomprehending minds of flesh some time to express them.

Now look at how this angel also told John why God granted this Revelation. The dative with the infinitive indicates that these words were for the benefit of “His servants,” for the δούλοις, literally the owned “slaves” of Jesus. God wanted to show His owned people these truths, for their own good. His people had to know “what must soon take place,” what was to happen in the future. The phrase, ἃ δεῖ γενέσθαι ἐν τάχει, literally means, “what necessarily is to occur in a short time.” That is, all the events revealed to John (after chapter four) had to begin “in a short time,” after he wrote them down. And these prophecies were to happen out of necessity, as predestined events. They had to occur and could not fail to occur. Also, the revelation of these events, and the events themselves, exist for the benefit of all the true elect, all the souls whom Jesus names and claims in all time, because each and every future generation of God’s true elect children would have to endure the trials of one or more of the seven seals. But now our current generation may soon be facing the worst and darkest times of the seven seals, those prophesied by the sixth and seventh seals. Therefore, rightly understanding the prophecies of Jesus Christ’s Revelation will be most necessary for this and the next few generations.

Since God said the prophecies about the last days are for our benefit, we need to interpret them correctly, with the precise meanings that God intended His words to bear. For, if we interpret them wrongly, they will not benefit us in an effective way, not in the way God wisely and lovingly intended us to be blessed by them. But, if we truly know the future, and realize that all will turn out for our good in the very end, we will lose much needless anxiety about the future when it comes. We will be able to take hold of ourselves and face those horrors with greater courage, and in a much wiser way, even with a strong hope, smiling as we anticipate the Messiah’s glorious parousia. Also keep in mind that, when the angel said this, he called the people of Christ’s true church “His slaves,” indicating that He take responsibility for us, but also that our duty is to hear and serve Jesus. True Christians do not merely seek to be heard and to be served by Jesus. Jesus is not the god that false, humanistic churches were beginning to proclaim back then, not the Jesus that those false churches have continued to proclaim to this very day. The spirits of all true Christians strive, with all zeal, to learn real, effective, useful truths from the Spirit of Jesus, and desire His kind of wisdom which applies those truths rightly. Our spirits eagerly long to serve Jesus, to partake in His works, as He effectively undoes the works of Satan, all that is killing their loved ones, so He can build up His kingdom on earth through us. The elect want to learn to do God’s just and loving will on earth, as it is done in heaven, so that some parts of the earth can become just and loving places, like in heaven.

 

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Jesus also told John, “And behold, I am coming quickly. Blessed is the one continuously guarding the rational concepts of prophecy belonging to this book” (Rev. 22:7, ALT, from: μακάριος ὁ τηρῶν τοὺς λόγους τῆς προφητείας τοῦ βιβλίου τούτου). Here Jesus, who was standing with John at the time, interjected and supplemented the angel’s words with this promise. And this promise also conveys a threat against those who do not love and serve Him, to those who do not believe or who falsely interpret His words in this book of the Revelation. For Jesus is coming soon, to judge all human beings, even while we live on this earth. For we will all see Him either when He returns to rule the earth, or immediately after our extremely short lives on this earth end, that is, on the judgment day, after our spirits depart from this earthly flesh. He will come to all, and He will indeed judge all, very “soon,” since all lives are very short. So, who will be “blessed” when they see Him?

Now Jesus, said He would bless those “continuously guarding the rational concepts belonging to this book,” referring to the book we call the Revelation. And, when He said this, He employed a present (durative) active participle form of the verb τηρέω (the form τηρῶν), which means “continuously guarding.” So Jesus will bless those “continuously guarding” the prophecies, not those trying to “keep” or “obey” the prophesied events in the Revelation. For it is not possible to “keep” or “obey” any events, especially not His predestined events that will all occur regardless of what anyone might try to do, to either cause or prevent them. All we can realistically do is “guard” those truths in the minds of our spirits, so we might glean hope from them and make future plans based on them, in a way that can be a great blessing to our lives. And God will curse those who try in vain to “keep” or “obey” the events, that is, any who try to alter the events through human wills and works of flesh. And, actually, it is even impossible to “keep” or “obey” God’s teachings and laws through mere human wills flesh. We can only “guard” the right interpretations of His words in the minds of our spirits, then let Him train us to rightly apply them according to His will. Therefore, clearly, Jesus was not telling us to “keep” or “obey” the prophecies of the Revelation. In reality, Jesus wants us all to “continuously guard” the right interpretations of His words in our hearts, in the minds of our spirits.

In context, the present participle (τηρῶν) bears a strong durative aspect. And neither its core lexical meaning nor its ecclesiastical meaning has anything to do with “keeping” or “obeying” any kind of commands or laws. Rather, it means: “continuously guarding/protecting/preserving” the integrity of God’s intended meanings. And this is done primarily by the spirit in the heart, not just by the mind and body of flesh, and certainly not by the use of swords. It is exhorts us to maintain the truth inside us, to not let anyone corrupt the truths that God revealed to us. Then the ecclesiastical definition of the noun λόγος never refers to physical words alone. When it relates to God’s words to our spirits, it always refers to the whole concepts presented through the reasoning of the words, to the meanings or the rational principles conveyed by the words. So here Jesus promises to inwardly bless all the spirits who continuously guard, protect and preserve the true meaning of the Revelation’s prophecies, with honest, awake spirits truly knowing what God intended His words to mean, to studiously guard those meanings from being corrupted by the persuasive tongues and devices of false prophets or teachers.

John also explicitly declared: “I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things” (Rev. 22:8, ESV). John not only heard the words of Jesus and His angels, but also witnessed those events occurring in the future (because, as we know through scientific discoveries, all future times actually exist now, in the present time, as does every moment of the past). John testified before God and us, that he heard and saw all that he wrote down in this book, in the Revelation. In other words, John denied that this book came from mere self-induced visions, denied that his words were produced through speculations from the imagination of his mind of flesh. John did not hear non-existent voices or see hallucinations after working himself into a frenzy, or after starving himself, like the pagans

 

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did. He did not induce a state of ecstasy through excessive fasting, too little sleep, drugs, alcohol, chanting or any other physical means. Nor did John see and hear these things in a delirium caused by physical means. This book did not come from the mind of his flesh. John said his spirit was taken away to see and hear all these things. So his awakened spirit heard teachings and saw future events.

Now many do not like to admit that certain spiritual and material realities exist. However, as I will discuss later, scientific studies of God’s creations indicate that there must be a non-material space-time continuum, with an intelligence ruling over it, who causes our perceptions of this material space-time continuum. That is, there must be a God and a spiritual realm. And it also seems that John had some kind of body used by his spirit when he “heard” these words from real beings in a real spiritual realm, as well as when he “saw” future events as they were actually occurring on earth in a future time. So his body may have been his earthly body of flesh or a “transfigured” his earthly body into a body made of spiritual substances. Most people are not very scientific and automatically dismiss testimonies or evidence of spiritual realities, since they fear what is not controlled by their own hands of flesh. But let us keep a sound, open and scientific perspective on all this, which will acknowledge that effects exist from unseen entities. We can trust that John, who never lied in any of the Scriptures he wrote, actually did hear real spiritual beings and did see real events from the future.

Now some might not believe John. But consider how John, an honest man committed to the truth in every aspect of his life, testified about what he heard and saw. This faithful, God-fearing, Christ-loving man described those who spoke to him and the places he was taken. Then he declared that all this was true and real. He clearly knew all of it was very real. And, obviously, he was consistent, coherent and sane when he wrote down all these things. These are not the words of a deluded or insane man. Therefore, if one does not believe the words of this honest, sane John, then one is calling John a deliberate liar. And, at the same time, one is declaring oneself to be more committed to the truth than John was, as well as more sane, spiritual and qualified to make that kind of moral or spiritual judgment than John, more than all who believe John. But only liars ever claim to know all things, and claim that they are superior to all who profess real truths, and denounce all they dislike.

The fulfilling of past biblical prophecies and the efficacy of biblical teachings, including what John wrote in his Gospel, in his letters and in the Revelation, proves those words are true. Real evidence proves it. So God Himself proves the prophets and John to be honest, right and sane. Thus, those who mock and dismiss the Scriptures without any real evidence at all, based solely on their blind faith in materialism, are not qualified to judge John and the Scriptures. In reality, their spirits are so suppressed by their flesh that their spirits sleep in a state of stupor, unable to see or hear anything in or from the spiritual realm. Most have never had enough spiritual experiences to make any kind of judgment concerning the claims of John. Most possess nothing which qualifies them to make expert opinions on the vast amounts of evidence for spiritual realities existing all around them, throughout their lives. They cannot even experience basic spiritual realities of love, hate, morality, laws and life.

So most human beings are unable to even look at the evidence in any rational way, or make any kind of sound judgment, since they are blind and deaf to all the evidence that needs be considered in order to make a valid judgment. In fact, there are humanists who are so biased that their own spirits deny that their own spirits exist, even as the minds of their spirits make spiritual moral judgments, then irrationally declare that their entirely amoral minds of flesh make those spiritual choices. On top of all this, they claim to be rational while actually opposing the scientific fact that all past and future times exist in the present, all space in the universe is infinitely close to us, and all material energy must be the power of a Creator who defines time and space for our consciousnesses, which must be in our spirits’ minds, while they deny that God let John’s spirit see and hear those real future events.

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When real evidence is gathered, seen and heard, it supports our judgment and conclusion that John was indeed telling the truth. All real science and reason supports the existence of spirits and the possibility of a spirit’s time travel. First, John’s testimony should be heard because his character reference is definitely better than the vast majority of souls who have ever lived on earth. During his life, John proved to be honest, intelligent, aware and rational, very capable of discerning physical and spiritual realities existing outside of himself. John knew how all kinds of people around him truly thought and felt. Yet most of his delusional critics are far too deluded, irrational, self-absorbed and dishonest to judge either John or anyone else. John was extremely sane, awake and aware, while the vast majority of souls who have lived on earth have remained loveless, ignorant, unwise, sinful, deluded, self-indulgent wretches, void of any ability to rationally judge even their own thoughts or actions, unable to see how their own foolish, blind sins are now destroying themselves and others.

Thus, John’s testimony bears far more weight than the testimonies of most of his critics. Then look at those who give their own reasons for believing John’s words, who make judgments supporting the validity of his words. These are not blind, self-psyched up believers, like those found in humanistic churches, who hypocritically say they believe. Nor are they so self-absorbed that they become blind and delusional like secular humanists. Rather, these believers are generally more humble and honest about most physical and spiritual matters of life, more firmly grounded in reality, better able to truly recognize physical and spiritual realities outside of themselves, even truths and realities that oppose or tear down their own egos and self-interests. This is the kind of person who tends to believe John’s testimony, while all John’s most vocal critics are irrational, blind, self-absorbed and self-justifying.

Those who laugh at the prophecies of Scripture never actually employ any process of true logic to draw their self-serving conclusions, never apply any genuine logic to a carefully chosen set of rational and proven assumptions. They simply make false statements and use them to produce a fake appearance of logic, in a way that produces the results they desire. They put garbage into their logic and algorithms, to produce their preferred kind of garbage as output. Since they cannot find rational grounds for justifying their own delusions and lies, they trick people with false logic. But an honest and truly rational man knows it is both logical and scientifically feasible to believe that a space-time continuum, like the heaven John wrote about, can exist. True science does not oppose the Scriptures.

Those who keep up with scientific discoveries know that material time, space and energy somehow originate from the “field” of space, that the field of space is somehow time, that energy pops out of space from seemingly nowhere and nothing, that energy somehow defines time, that time is a fourth dimension defining gravity by “warping” it to cause attractions of energy to energy. So all material existence is, therefore, utterly inexplicable. And so is our consciousness which perceives it all and thinks in terms of both that material existence and in totally unrelated terms which have absolutely no effect on material existence, such as in terms of seeking to keep “life” in material bodies for no good material reason whatsoever, and with other entirely non-material considerations like morals, love, hate and so on. Consequently, all so-called “scientific” speculations about the origins of the material universe, and life within it, are the mere imaginings and speculations of scientists based on their religious preferences. Scientists are all religious philosophers defining spiritual meanings for all they claim to study scientifically, and most of them blindly believe in ruthless humanistic relgions.

However, it is also completely rational and truly scientific to believe that spirits from a spiritual space-time continuum exist, spirits like those described in the Bible and a continuum like the realm which we call God’s heaven. It is not irrational to empirically observe entirely non-material effects and phenomenon, such as the spiritual effects of love, hate, good, evil and so on, then conclude that spiritual realities cause them. It is rational to believe that non-material spirits can access any point in

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time and space within the material space-time continuum, because they come from and actually currently in a more powerful and more real spiritual space-time continuum. So, if governing forces in the spiritual realm allow it, a spirit can instantly move to any place and time this material space-time continuum, into the past, present or future. If an eternal and far superior spiritual space-time continuum does exist, then time-travel in the material universe is not only possible but likely, since all that exists in the material space-time continuum is merely a perception worked by God’s power for the spirits of life placed in it, into a randomly-accessed reality created and maintained by God.

The evidence for the existence of a spiritual realm and spiritual beings is overwhelming, since there are physical effects of it all around us, in vast quantities. And all this is especially evident if we also consider all the scientific evidence proving that all past and future times exist in one “now,” and no material entity is any distance at all from any other material entity in space, and that material energy must actually be a non-material force which defines our perceptions of both time and space. For we communicate with satellites existing in the real past every day, as we exist in their futures. Today, the theories of Einstein and other physicists have been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt. Now we all must admit that time does not actually flow as we perceive it, moment following moment, and even material space does not exist as we perceive it. And we must now begin to admit that we all truly do experience non-material but rational forces steering our lives daily, such as love and hate, good and evil powers, as well as the spiritual effects of all these. In fact, spiritual forces rule our entire lives.

Naturally, in our day, most people, especially scientists, are extremely irrational and hyper-religious, all clinging to extreme biases taught by their religion of humanism, with totally blind loyalty to its superstitious religious dogmas. In fact, we have entered the darkest ages in all history. We see the greatest stupidity and barbaric ignorance of mankind, more than has ever manifested in the world. And, as prophesied, all of it comes from Rome’s religion of humanism, the religion of the Antichrist (the beast). Yet, throughout history, at least some human beings have always been a little honest and rational enough to see the manifold evidence of the interaction between the material universe and the spiritual space-time continuum. Not all have been or are now blind and stupid like the vast majority.

Some souls have been able to witness and even experience true love, as well as the utter darkness of hatred. Their spirits have been aware of the spiritual source of all that is good, as well as the spiritual source of all evil. Their hearts understand the presence of purity, corruption, truth, lies, inner clarity or permeating delusions. Clearly, spirits and spiritual places—like those John calls heaven and hell, each with its own native beings—do indeed exist, and both interface with the spirits of life whom God has temporarily confined within earthly perceptions. From the beginning of time, and to this day, all of the most honest and rational people on earth have been aware of a God, angels, demons, human spirits and animal spirits. Only the most dishonest and irrational souls become so deluded, irrational and hypocritical that they deny the existence of spirits and spiritual places. For this is the first and most destructive punishments of God, casting the wicked into the darkness of delusions.

Of course, during the last century or so, secular humanists have engaged in the most ruthless religious oppression this world has ever seen. Through violence and forceful persecutions, they have now managed to socially and physically oppress and suppress the obvious fact that spirits and spiritual places exist. For their very spirits hate and ridicule the truth that spirits exist, and they devise spiritual plots against all spiritual truths, and especially against spiritually wisdom. This is because, above all, spirits of humanists want to become their own gods. Humanists want to steal the freedom of other spirits, force those souls to worship them as gods, to esteem and serve them only, because those despots want to be “free” to be enslaved by lies and sins. So humanists crush anything that reminds them of the reality that they cannot ever be their own gods. They bully everyone they

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can, force others into acknowledging their own superstitious, irrational beliefs, then tell themselves that love, truth, justice, and meaning are unreal or merely biological impulses from the brain of flesh.

Roman humanists feel the need to do all this because literally all of their most exalted, prominent, authoritative guides and leaders are actually psychopaths, who are deeply threatened by all forms of genuine love and equitable justice. For psychopaths must maintain artificial hierarchies built upon delusions, to maintain their own delusions that they are gods. Those leading humanists want to invent their own self-serving laws, so they can force their dupes to serve them, so they can gratify every lust in their flesh. Yet genuine evidence cannot be denied, and is utterly impossible to nullify.

Only awake elect spirits are truly logical—since the Spirit of God uses logic to create and maintain all things, and God gave all elect spirits, all who were created in His image, the ability to use the same kind of logic He uses. Logic itself is a “spiritual” quality, just like love, joy, truth, justice and inner peace. And the very existence of logic, like the existence of all the intelligently balanced laws of nature, is itself hard evidence, interpreted through inductive logic, that an extremely intelligent and powerful spiritual Being created and now maintains the material universe. The existence of another space-time continuum, apart from the material universe, and native beings living in that spiritual universe, is supported by both logic and evidence. For a rational Spirit necessarily had to exist before material existence. A preexisting eternal spiritual continuum must have provided the purpose and design for the complex but very temporary material continuum. One could write lengthy books on this subject, but the point is that we can and should believe that John actually told the truth.

In our day, scientists speculate that our perceptions of material space-time must be some kind of hallucination or dream, possibly caused by aliens, because they know this space and time cannot be truly real, while they also refuse to accept that a God and a spiritual realm exists outside of their own consciousness. Then those scientists think they are superior to the ancients, and believe that only their speculations must be right. They think the ancient people must have all been wrong because they could not empirically observe realities like modern scientists can, although scientists blindly believe the ancient Greek and Roman humanistic philosophers, of course. But those ancient prophets and apostles actually did have eyes to observe realities, and rational minds to interpret those realities. So they also came to the very same conclusion, that our perceptions of material space-time are not entirely real. They saw that the physical was only as real as their spirits were allowed to perceive it to be real, but that spiritual realities were actually the only truly, everlasting and more solid realities.

Now we must leave the physicists and other scientists to speculate about the discoveries they have made about the material space-time continuum. Yes, much of their science is a verifiable account of God’s material creation. But their conclusions are merely religious speculations based on the ancient religious writings of Plato, Aristotle and other humanists. And it is about time that theologians begin to believe the eye-witness accounts of the prophets and apostles, rather than humanistic speculations made by pagan humanists. There is no rational reason to doubt what John or any of the other honest prophets and apostles told us, when they said they heard and saw what they actually did hear and see. For there is indeed a spiritual space-time continuum underlying all material realities, as the only foundation and purpose for the Spirit of God causing us to perceive material realities. God causes us to see material existence to teach and train our spirits about spiritual principles such as love and hate.

Now, after my long and distracting diatribe, look at what John told us: “And when [the Greek word is ὅτεor means ‘just after’] I heard and saw them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who showed them to me, but he said to me, ‘You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers the prophets, and with those [continuously guarding] the words of this book. Worship

 

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God’” (Rev. 22:8-9, ESV). Clearly, this was a real event experienced “just after” John heard and saw an angel, a messenger of our God Jesus, appear before his very eyes, uttering words he could hear with his own ears. That angel took on a form that had “feet” which John could see. Then that angel reasoned with the mind of John, telling him that men must only esteem and serve one Being through worship. The angel told John that he was merely a “fellow servant” like all human beings, like all the elect whose spirits continuously guard the truths in this book, and in all the other Scriptures. Thus, the only Being worthy for our spirits to worship in this truth is the Creator of all truth and ourselves.

John recorded this self-abasing event for our benefit. Naturally, we can see how a person might feel obligated to bow down before a magnificent and high-ranking angel like this one. This was the automatic trained inclination of most souls who lived in the humanistic Roman Empire during the first century. For all the humanistic lords wanted to be gods, and forced their siblings in the family of humankind to submissively bow before them, to teat those wretched sinners like superiors. However, it is puzzling to see how John felt inclined to do this, especially while our God Jesus stood nearby.

Surely, if anyone knew that it is sinful and foolish to bow before anyone or anything other than God, it would be John. For John was a devout Jew from birth, and all devout Jews should have known better than to do something like that! But, unfortunately, even the Jews in ancient Egypt had learned to bow before men with delusions of superiority, even men who called themselves a god. And Jews continued this practice even after God gave them His Law, commanding them to have no other gods but Yahweh, and to bow to no one or nothing except the Creator God Himself. John also had lived in the very presence of Jesus, the incarnate Creator God, for three years. John saw the transfiguration of Jesus into the glory of God, and how Jesus was worshiped by many angels. Even Satan could not help but bow before the almighty power of our God Jesus. So why did John suddenly decide to bow before this angel? Surely this angel must have been extremely impressive if John was then somehow tempted to bow before him! Nevertheless, John admitted that he was guilty of this very obvious sin.

John testified against himself regarding this sin, and did not simply omit the description of this embarrassing offense against God. But why did he think it was relevant to provide a brief and candid account of his sin here? Clearly he thought we might learn from his mistake. This testimony not only proved his true humility, honesty and love for his people, but it also helps us realize the truth of what the angel said and did. That angel had poured out a bowl of God’s wrath against the last remnants of the beast’s kingdom. And that beast was the embodiment of Satan on earth, the demonic messiah of the fourth kingdom which Daniel prophesied about, which was the culmination of that devil’s own religion of Roman humanism. So that angel came to punish those on earth who worshiped human beings, those who esteemed, served and bowed before human gods ruling over artificial hierarchies.

Then that angel explained that every elect angel in heaven, even the greatest, is merely a “fellow servant,” like all the elect humans who serve God. The spirits of the elect angels are no greater than the spirits of elect human beings, and we should never pray to them nor bow before them, just as we should never pray to nor bow before any living or dead human beings. All the angels are God’s servants like “the prophets and those who are continuously (and inwardly) guarding the meaning of the words of this book” (τῶν προφητῶν καὶ τῶν τηρούντων τοὺς λόγους τοῦ βιβλίου τούτου). So, instead of worshiping “great” angels or men, God’s beloved elect children are to do what this angel begged us to do: “Worship God” (τῷ θεῷ προσκύνησον), and Him alone—like John did when he was boy at the last supper, when he leaned upon the the chest of our God’s human body, while that body reclined on a couch beside the table. At the time John wrote the Revelation, doctrines of the religion of humanism, which is the worship of man (the esteeming and serving of man), had already infiltrated the churches. Because that religion was the very heart of Rome, and because Rome sought

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to conquer and enslave all life, it sent toxic messengers into the pure New Covenant Israel as soon as it was able, as soon as God’s true church grew too large for the aging true apostles and faithful elders to guard it. Then Rome began to transform pure Christianity into yet another sect of humanism, so it could be used for its own nefarious purposes, just as Rome had done with all the other religions it had encountered. And, by the time John wrote the Revelation, Rome had succeeded in it conquest.

Of course, Rome’s conquest and corruption of the true church was prophesied and predestined. For the prophets told us that God would raise up His New Covenant kingdom on earth gradually, over a long period of time, until that small Rock grew into a giant Mountain, so it could rule over all the earth. After all, the Father knew His children’s spirits were infants, and could not handle too much victory all at once. First they had to mature into His love. To manage the earth well, they had to see and experience the necessity of just, equitable, humble, peaceful and joyful love from their spirits, so they would not fall into a life of loveless arrogance, like the humanists practiced. Over the centuries, His people had to witness how the hierarchies, brute force, money and doctrines of humanism fail.

But, by now, John had seen how much Roman humanism had poisoned the true church, to such an extent that they even began to influence the behavior of John himself. All humanists worship other sinful and inept human beings in their artificial hierarchical systems. And, if they worship “great” humans, who are all wretched sinners, then they would definitely worship “greater” angels and demons, who all bear far more power than humans. But true Christians must respect all living beings as God’s property, knowing that no man has any right to bully and lord it over any other man, or to demand more privilege, esteem and service than any other man. Conversely, faithful Christians must also disrespect literally all human beings as worthless sinners, knowing that sin alone makes us all equal in the sight of God, equally needy of His grace to teach and train our spirits to love rightly.

By the end of the first century, churches had begun to esteem certain men as their new heads and lords, including this old man, John. They had forgotten that Jesus is the only Head and only Lord of each and every man. They utterly neglected what Jesus taught them. Even John seemed to have cast aside the second of the Ten Commandments, commanding us to never make anyone or anything into an idol, to never bow before, esteem and serve anyone or anything. Yet John had been with Jesus all his life. John was even standing with the body of Jesus when He commanded His disciples to heed none but Him as their Head Teacher. So, if anyone knew that Jesus came to fulfill God’s Law in us and through us, including the second of the Ten Commandments, it should have been John. Thus, after John realized how he had deeply sinned by bowing before the impressive and powerful angel, and how evil that form of humanism actually was, he confessed his sin—to let humanistic churches know they must not esteem, heed or serve anyone or anything but God Himself. Clearly, if we must not worship angels, we definitely must not worship sinful and far less perfect human beings either.

Then John testified: “And he [the angel] said to me, ‘Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is near. Let the evildoer still do evil, and the filthy still be filthy, and the righteous still do right, and the holy still be holy’” (Rev. 22:10-11, ESV). This book of revelations from our God Jesus must not be kept secret, must not be “sealed” and made available only to a few chosen proselytes. Rather, it must be made public, available to all, even to the evil ones. For the events of this prophecy were to begin immediately, to teach and train the elect of the whole earth to love in a just and equitable ways, as God Himself loves all His creations. And many of those elect were still sinners, trapped in false religions and brainwashed by the lies of deceivers. So Jesus’ Holy Spirit could use this book to wake up their spirits, to jolt them out of their delusions. But this book would not affect the intentional liars who corrupted the church, nor the committed secular humanists who loved their service to Satan’s fourth kingdom of Rome. Rather, the evildoer would still do evil and

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the filthy would remain filthy. Still, with this book and the other Scriptures, the elect with a calling and propensity to be just will do right, and Jesus’ sanctification of that one’s spirit will keep it holy.

In this verse, also notice how the first concept relates to the second. The first is a command to refrain from sealing up the prophecies which John wrote down in the book of Revelation. Like all the other prophecies about the last days, throughout the Old and New Covenant Scriptures, these revelations from our God Jesus must remain open, freely available to all, not sealed and made available only to a secretive society of a few authorized elite souls. Rather, like all the other prophecies that harmonize and confirm this prophecy, it must be made available to the public, to all the elect in the entire world.

The second concept (v. 22:11) was also a command in God’s name, which would be enforced by God’s almighty power. The angel told John that he must not use his own human will and power to resist evil and promote good, but must let God’s will and power do His works on earth. In other words, John had to walk in the name of our God Jesus, which meant that he must speak and act according to the will, commands, power and authority of Jesus, not according to his own volition.

The aorist active and passive imperatives in this series of commands, along with the adverb ἔτι (“hereafter,” in a continuous sense), are also very revealing. Through the angel, God commanded:

1. the evil one is to continue to complete his evil deeds (ὁ ἀδικῶν ἀδικησάτω ἔτι, where an

aorist active imperative indicates that the subject shall complete the action, so the “unjust”

shall continue to work injustice to its completion, until those predestined works must end);

2. the filthy one will be caused to remain filthy (ὁ ῥυπαρὸς ῥυπαρευθήτω ἔτι, where an aorist

passive imperative indicates that the action will be completed upon the subject, so the “dirty,

vile, immoral one” shall continue to be caused to become defiled and filthy until the end);

3. the righteous one is to continue to finish doing works of justice (ὁ δίκαιος δικαιοσύνην

ποιησάτω ἔτι, where the aorist active imperative indicates that the subject will continue the

action, so the “just, righteous, equitable one” shall continue to do or perform acts of justice);

4. and the holy one will be caused to remain holy (ὁ ἅγιος ἁγιασθήτω ἔτι, where the aorist

passive imperative indicates that the subject shall be caused to perform the action, so the

“one who is set apart for God’s purposes” shall continue to be made fit for His purposes).

Now, since the first command relates to the second command, we can conclude that a free and public access to this book of the Revelation will not change either the behaviors or the spiritual conditions of either the evil or the good. The physical book itself, the words of ink on paper, can do nothing for anyone. For God alone bears the power to allow the evil to do evil or remain filthy, while God alone also causes the righteous to do just deeds and remain holy. The only reason God wants this book to be available for free and public access is because God Himself, the Holy Spirit of Jesus, can and will use the words of this book as His instrument, in the same way He uses all the other Scriptures. The Holy Spirit of Jesus will use the prophecies that John wrote down in the Revelation as an effective and efficient tool for the teaching and training of His beloved elect spirits on earth. The real and original words of Scripture, rightly interpreted by Jesus’ own Spirit to our spirits, can and will be extremely useful to the elect spirits whom He chooses to awaken and disciple. Therefore, this book must be made freely available to all. Yet the real meaning of those words shall be totally hidden from the wicked spirits of Satan’s children, even while those words can be freely read by their own eyes of flesh. Then, after these commands issued in God’s name, Jesus once more spoke directly to John:

 

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Jesus Himself then assured John with these words: “‘Behold, I am coming soon, bringing My recompense with Me, to repay everyone for what he has done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end’” (Rev. 22:12-13, ESV). So our God Jesus alone bears the power to allow evil or causes good on earth. Yet here He warns us that He will soon bring the wages of both the world’s sins and loving deeds with Him when He returns, even though He was the one who allowed (and indirectly caused) those sins, as well as the one who also caused those loving deeds. And all those rewards will be judgments. Jesus will judge the wicked and give them the wage of sin, which is death. Then Jesus will judge those doing just, equitable, loving works, and give them the wage of righteousness, which are His manifold blessings worked through His wise and almighty power, especially His spiritual blessings in heavenly places. Still, since all the wicked were dupes manipulated by the loveless and therefore unjust spirit of the devil, whom God Himself created to be loveless, why will they be punished? Conversely, since all elect human beings on earth possessed spirits which God created in His own image, complete with a propensity to love in a just way that is built upon realities and truths, and since God also shaped the wills of those elect by teaching and training their spirits to do loving, just, equitable works in wise and loving ways, why should any of the elect receive any of His blessings? The reason is because the elect or the non-elect desire very different kinds of rewards. The elect want the light of God while the non-elect want only darkness.

The words of Jesus to John suggest that the teachings of Middle Platonism had corrupted most churches existing at that time. His words here, along with many other Scriptures, clearly indicate that God did not create our perceptions of this material universe to test our supposed “free wills,” not merely to determine who shall earn enough brownie points to buy some real estate in heaven. For, if all humans are simply what they were created to be, either good or evil, either the elect or non-elect, and all are irresistibly caused to do whatever they do, then God’s purpose for causing our eternal spirits to perceive and experience life on earth must be for a radically different purpose than that which the humanists taught. It meant that the humanists who took over the churches were all wrong.

Even from the beginning of creation, our God has always taught and trained the spirits of His beloved elect children to love rightly. So we know that our perceptions and our experiences of earthly life were granted to us for this purpose, and for this purpose alone. The only reason our heavenly Father and oldest Brother gave us earthly lives, together with His Holy Spirit dwelling in and counseling our spirits in our hearts, was to build up and shape the wills of our spirits. Thus, the more we trust and put confidence in Him, so He can more readily teach and train our spirits, the more He allows us to partake in His predestined works of building up His loving, just, equitable kingdom on earth, as well as His works of nullifying Satan’s works. And, since all those good works are caused and predestined, this means that each elect spirit will learn different truths and different skills. For some elect will not partake in very many works of God’s true eternal priesthood of Israel at all, while others, like John, will partake in God’s most powerful works in the entire history of His eternal church, even His great miracles and truths that will never be forgotten as long as earth exists.

Jesus clearly intended these statements to supplement the commands uttered through His angel immediately before this. Here His words relate directly to the commands of the angel, because the angel himself referred to the things Jesus spoke about when that angel said, “the time is near.” The time the angel was talking about was the same time that Jesus spoke about, the last days, the days of mankind’s judgment. But the way the commands of the angel and the words of Jesus relate to each other seem strange to those taught by false humanistic churches. First, Jesus warns all mankind that He is coming soon, to judge all. He will either judge us after our short lives on this earth end, on the judgment day, or He will judge the living when He returns to earth. And, when He does, He said:

 

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“My wages [will be] with Me, to give out to each one, as the work is from him” (ὁ μισθός μου μετʼ ἐμοῦ, ἀποδοῦναι ἑκάστῳ ὡς τὸ ἔργον ἐστὶν αὐτοῦ). Yet the works of each individual will be caused by God, either directly through His power or indirectly through His will, according to the commands which the angel had uttered in His name, that is, in Christ’s authority and according to Christ’s will.

Here Jesus was telling us about the effects that will result from the commands uttered by His angel. So here Jesus warned those who do evil works about their punishment, although they are caused to do evil through their inherently evil inner natures and by the manipulations of their God-created demon father, Satan, solely because their spirits were created in the image of that father, then shaped by that devil as well. Likewise, Jesus promised good wages for those who did just and loving works, truly righteous and equitable deeds, although they too are merely caused to do good through their inherently loving and good inner natures, because their spirits were created in the image of their Father, God, then further shaped into His image by Him. As we look at the angel’s commands and the related statements of Jesus, we realize that none “earn” their wages, none cause either any good nor any bad eternal consequences. Instead, Jesus judges each one solely by the innate desires in each one’s heart, by what is exists inside, by the inner motives and intentions of the spirit in one’s heart.

So the purpose of the elect living on earth cannot be to make choices by some kind of autonomous ‘free will,’ and thus earn their own salvation, as humanists like to think. Salvation depends on God alone, not upon our flesh being baptized in water, not by rituals performed by the hands of deluded sinners whose spirits bow before “superior” human gods in demonic hierarchies. The real purpose of life on earth must be something else. The real purpose must be to learn God’s ways, because our God Jesus taught Adam and Eve His ways in the beginning, then first came to us in human flesh to make us all into His disciples, so our spirits might learn to fulfill His just and loving Law. The reason God puts our infantile spirits on earth is to teach and train our spirits to be more like Him, more like the Messiah who lived on earth together with us. And the reason He died on the cross was to free us from Satan’s kingdom of the world order, because that devil had a right to rule over all loveless sinners. Then the reason Jesus rose from the dead was to teach us while we live in bodies of flesh.

All this may seem strange to humanists, who are taught to worship human beings through esteem for their words and by serving their purposes, instead of God’s purposes, by those who to strive to be their own gods by trying to earn their own eternal destinies through works of their own hands. Their minds of flesh know only what is taught by human heads of institutions and human lords in their churches. Yet hearts with elect spirits are able to truly believe the Scriptures, as Jesus’ Holy Spirit teaches it to their spirits. Elect spirits can be awakened by God, and are capable of inwardly trusting the meanings that God intended His own words to bear. These will also see how Jesus words here correlate to the commands of the angel. They will understand. Then only those elect spirits will be able to comprehend how Jesus truly is “the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.” Jesus initiates, maintains and completes absolutely everything in their lives, as well as everything in the lives of every other created being, all that will ever occur on the face of the earth.

Jesus created all the words of knowledge and wisdom in the Scriptures, which tell us how Jesus’ power predestines the first and last of all that has happened and will happen in our lives and upon the entire earth. Jesus formed all inherent attributes, potentials and propensities that all spirits possess. And Jesus will teach and train the spirits of His elect, will take them through all the experiences they shall ever know, until each learns all He intended each to discover through this life on earth. Then Jesus will complete and perfect all of this earthly teaching and training on the final judgment day. So Jesus will bring an end to His purpose of placing their souls on earth, because all the elect who have ever lived on earth, even for one brief moment, will be fully prepared to enter their heavenly labors.

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After Jesus proclaimed Himself to be the beginning and the end of all existence, John encouraged us with these words: “Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and that they may enter the city by the gates” (Rev. 22:14, ESV). First of all, to “wash” one’s “robes” means allowing the works of Jesus to cleanse every aspect of one’s life with the living waters of His Holy Spirit. For these “robes” refer to the attributes, characteristics and qualities of our spirits and all we do in life. John is saying that we must let our spirits be taught and trained by Jesus’ Spirit, until our spirits love in the same way He loves, until we can do the just, equitable and loving will of God for the good of all His creations, wisely and rightly, every day and in every way in life.

Then the “city” John referred to here is New Jerusalem, the eternal home of our God Jesus and all the elect who have ever lived on earth. In this city, the priesthood of God will serve all life in the vast heavenly kingdom which will never see death. There the “robe” of every elect spirit, worn from birth and made of a fabric woven from the threads of each spirit’s God-like love, will consist of all that each spirit thinks, desires, hopes and builds within oneself through love. And, even the non-elect shall wear a “robe” too, revealing all of each one’s developed inner attributes. Each one’s own true character, either the brightness or the darkness of all the motives and intentions of the heart, will be and is now worn by all spirits. But any dirt or darkness of selfish, exploitative, sinless and loveless deeds which now stain the robes of the elect can be washed away, in the forgiveness purchased by the blood of our sinless Lord Jesus. And every elect one’s robe will be cleansed on the judgment day.

Of course, we wash our man-made physical clothing for our bodies of flesh due to our instinct to abhor filth, and its scent, since filth can cause destructive diseases and many other problems for the flesh. And, in the same way, elect spirits are born with an instinct to abhor filthy spiritual robes, since that soiling sin and injustice can interfere with the effective functioning of the spirit. We need our spiritual robes to be clean, to wash them as soon as they become unclean. Our spirits somehow understand that the power of God will not allow a priest to enter His presence in the Holy of Holies with filthy garments, since we are freely granted the means to cleanse every stain from our robes.

But non-elect spirits have no desire to come into the presence of the heavenly Father, because they seek the source of death, not the Source of life. In fact, all the human spirits born of Satan hate to wear clean spiritual robes, and continuously brag about the filth on their garments. For they love darkness rather than light, and only feel comfortable when their robes are darkened by spiritual filth. Then they constantly spew out words of filth to focus their minds of flesh on sins and lusts of the flesh. Nor do they want the elect to be cleansed of their filth, because the non-elect want to be gods who rule over elect lives. They hate when God rules over elect lives through love, with the guidance of His Holy Spirit. For the non-elect want all others to dwell with them in Satan’s dark spiritual kingdom of the unjust, inequitable world order. They incessantly encourage others to soil the robes of their spirits with evil, with lies and murder, so all wear the uniform of their king and father, Satan.

They non-elect must test all others too, since they seek their siblings, the other children of Satan, all who will join with them in the enslaving financial and sexual exploitation of the elect. So, if one does not freely and willingly participate in their sins, together with them, the non-elect will not only reject that cleaner spirit, but also persecute that one, and even try to kill any soul who is washed in the blood of the Lamb. In the end, none but the elect ever strive to keep the robes of their spirits clean, to wash their garments in forgiveness through repentance into works of truth. And Jesus shall complete and perfect this washing on the judgment day at the gates of heaven, so “they may enter the city by the gates.” Jesus will sanctify literally all who were born with the ability to love, will set apart literally all the elect for His purposes. All will be fully taught and trained to serve beside Him in His homeland of life. And Jesus will grants all the elect “the decision-making authority” (ἐξουσία)

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to partake in “the tree of life” found in those lands. But only the elect will pass through those gates after the judgment day. Only the thoroughly washed elect will enter the new and eternal Jerusalem.

“Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood” (Rev. 22:15, ESV). And, in the eternal spiritual realm, after God dissolves or “burns” our perceptions of the entire material universe, there will only be two places to go. One place includes the “gates” of heaven, and all that is in the infinite expanse of the homeland God created for all elect spirits. Then the other place is hell, a small place without a bottom, where the non-elect can wallow in their beloved darkness of lies and delusions, and where no good creations of God exist. So those with unwashed robes, if they are left “outside” of heaven, will all go to hell. The “dogs” who exploit the weak and dying; the “sorcerers” who attempt to force their carnal wills upon all others; the “sexually immoral” who seek victims to feed their lusts; the “murderers” who strive for power and gain by stealing the lives of others; the “idolaters” who turn away from the real God to worship themselves or other wanna-be gods for a bribe; and all those who also “love” and “practice” the lies and delusions of Satan’s world order, shall all be cast into hell.

At the very beginning of the judgment day, on vast fields at the gates of heaven, Satan’s non-elect human children will stand for a moment in their filthy robes, which they purposefully plastered with the blood of the innocent souls they exploited and hounded to death. They will pound their chests and brag about how they were mighty victors in the dog-eat-dog kingdom of Satan, and how they all became the top dogs in that devil’s factious artificial hierarchies. But, even before the dawn of that day, before the Son appears before all standing there, heaven’s angels will herd those barking dogs, like a chaos of bleating goats, into the bottomless pit. Then, all they will ever possess throughout eternity will be the darkness of their cherished delusions and lies, but not one of God’s true realities.

All those cast “outside” of heaven, into hell, will never again know the pleasures of life, because all hated the flavor of the fruits from the tree of life. None enjoyed the simple joys of humble, just and equitable love. Instead, all of Satan’s loveless children pursued only the carnal rewards offered by the devil in his kingdom of the world order. All exploited their siblings in the family of humankind to gratify the greed and lusts of their flesh. They all loved Satan’s invention of money, so none were able to love God. Their selfish ambitions drove them to do all they did, to exploit all they could, in every aspect of life. To them, everything was about gaining the power to become gods, to use their worthless digits of currency to manipulate and control their own siblings, as well as all the rest of God’s own earthly creations. Then they destroyed all that life just to manifest a fake god-like power.

John lists six kinds of souls who will be cast “outside,” and will not be allowed to enter the gates of heaven. But his list is not exhaustive by any means, although it covers all the principal types of wanna-be human gods. And very many of those human gods fall into two or more of these six categories. Also, we must remember that these six kinds hell-bound sinners only include those who will never repent, whose non-elect spirits condone and cause these sins, whose spirits possess no ability to repent, because they love darkness rather than the light of realities and truths. This is always the assumption whenever the Bible talks about sinners cast into hell. For literally all the elect who go to heaven are sinners too, just like the sinners John listed here. Countless elect have also committed all the sins listed in all six categories. The only real difference is that those who go to hell also sin against the Holy Spirit. That is, they all mock the voice of God’s Spirit whenever He speaks to the spirits of the elect, whenever His Spirit convicts the elect of sin, righteousness and judgment, because the non-elect hate God’s Holy Spirit, and can never inwardly repent into His loving ways.

 

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In order to justify their sins, hell-bound sinners daily slander the words and deeds of the very Spirit of God, whenever He speaks to His elect. They tell the elect that they must not be so “naive” and so incredibly “stupid” as to believe that honesty and justice matters, since the loveless non-elect cannot love anyone, and their selfish ambitions lead them only into more lies and more murdering. For their spirits are born of Satan and they all long to replace the real God, as well as all His real truth, with their own god-like power to control their own destinies for their own self-indulgent carnal pleasures.

Now the first kind of sinner John listed were are those called the “dogs.” Both Jews and Christians used this derogatory term as a reference to pagan unbelievers who hated and rejected the church of Israel, who were inwardly hostile to God’s true servants. Most of these “dogs” were Roman Gentiles, but also included apostate Jews or Christians. They likened them to “dogs” because literal canines at that time and in that region were mostly dangerous scavengers, living off dead or dying animals, scraps and garbage, even dead people. They were also vicious and, when they were hungry, they could attack children and those who were not able to defend themselves, as prey. So, to Christians and Jews, every selfishly ambitious, exploitative, ruthless pagan, prowling the streets in search of opportunistic advantages, resembled a “dog.” And the falsely religious, who fed on scraps of biblical teachings, but only for the feeding of their flesh, were the worst of all “dogs,” since they possessed even more nefarious motives and intentions of the heart. Yet most human “dogs” were dupes who fed on the garbage of false teachings of pagan philosophers who opposed by God and His people.

Next, the cast-out “sorcerers” were the kind who longed for power, who wanted to force their own personal wills upon others. They craved the power of the gods, the ability to make others fear and respect them, to esteem and serve them with unquestioning worship. And these not only employed trickery and deceptions to make themselves seem powerful, but also drugs, potions and sometimes even demonic powers to manipulate people, for their own benefit. Sorcerers gathered a vast array of knowledge about drugs and herbs, as well as methods of deception, which they zealously guarded and kept secret, lest anyone discover their actual importance and wretchedness. Then they applied this knowledge in ways that both harmed and healed, but strictly for their own personal gain, for financial rewards or to acquire power over others. And some would even murder those who opposed them. To feed their inflated egos, they also liked to impress people with their “magic” deeds, with mere tricks, like the “magic” we see today, just to bolster their public esteem and reputations. But most were not so faithful to Satan that the demons would work real deceiving miracles for them, and those that were truly faithful to the devil lived horrifyingly dark and painful lives. Then those few sorcerers whom Satan favored would seldom work signs and wonders unless they were able to fully enslave souls through that power, to create cults of blind dupes. And those awakened servants of Satan hid behind a facade of false goodness, since Satan never allows his power to work through his enslaved and severely abused non-elect sorcerers unless he can gain worshiping slaves for himself.

And remember, sorcerers are not extinct upon this earth. The devil will raise up many more of these demonically empowered sorcerers shortly before the beast arrives, in the very last days. Also keep in mind that John was not talking about those who used drugs and herbs benevolently, for healing and good purposes, who actually cared for the well-being of other souls. In context, the word φάρμακος is used as an ecclesiastical term, and does not refer to those whom we call pharmacists or medical doctors in our day. For God’s Word never condemned the use of medicines. Rather, God told His true servant, the prophet Isaiah to make a medication, a poultice, and give it to Hezekiah, to heal him (Is. 39:21). Also, the Gentile apostle, Luke, used drugs and herbs to heal people, while he faithfully served Jesus. This is why Luke was called “the beloved physician,” not a sorcerer. So all those fake

 

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religious “leaders” who condemn vaccines and other beneficial medicines are liars, and should not be heeded by those who trust in the words of God. God created all things, even all our medicines.

Now, after this, John declared that the sexually immoral (πόρνοι) would go to hell. This referred to all who deliberately committed sins of the seventh order without repentance, all who broke God’s laws prohibiting ocular adultery, any kind of extramarital sex, homosexuality, cross-dressing, incest, rape and other sexual sins, if they did so through evil motives and malicious intent. For all such sins are also committed by the spirit. Some sexual sins occur through the weakness of the flesh, and are seventh-order sins which God readily forgives. But the kinds of sexual sins that God does not forgive involve deliberate and unrepentant exploitation to gratify carnal delusions, which are often done to hold power over others. When anyone uses sex to exert their own personal power and exploit other souls, such as through rape, seduction or a marriage for personal profit or to oppress another soul, it is condemned by God, until one’s very spirit repents into the truth and bears fruits of repentance. But sex itself is merely a strong, natural impulse created by God in all mammals, and is not only useful for procreation, but also for the expression of all kinds of physical emotions or feelings of the flesh.

Then the “murderers” (φονεῖς) whom God condemns to hell commit sins of the sixth order through evil intentions and motives of their spirits. This includes more than premeditated murder. If a spirit is so loveless that it allows one to cause harm or death to others through negligence or selfish ambition, then that one is a murderer. There are also many other forms of murder through impure motives or malicious intent, anything which involves belittling or dehumanizing other siblings in the family of humankind, including racism, bullying, rape, the use of violence, threats or oppression to gain financial or or personal power, and so on, even if it does not cause physical deaths. For, if one’s spirit intentionally refuses to recognize the value of life belonging to God, then that one is a murderer.

And the “idolaters” who will be herded into hell include all who esteem and serve gods created in the minds of men or demons, even if those invented false gods are called by the names of the real God. For the golden calf which Israel made, while Moses was delayed on Mount Sinai, was called by the name of Yahweh God (Ex. 32:4-6). Yet, since Israel committed this sin of idolatry after God gave them His Ten Commandments, God struck down all those idolaters who did not repent. Also, not all idols are represented by figures made of metal, stone, clay or wood. Most are mental images. For, the foremost false false god in Paul’s list of gods in the days of ancient Rome (Rom. 1:22) was the image of man, the high god of the religion of humanism. And most of the human gods that Rome bowed before and worshiped back then were living and breathing human bodies of flesh. To this day, Roman humanists still bow before human gods in bodies of flesh. Worship is esteeming and serving anyone or anything as one’s final authority in some or all matters of life and faith, such as the way demonic humanists bow before Hitler and Trump in our day, believing all their lies and serving them with the labors of their hands. And all Roman humanists set up hierarchies of men, so the people can bow to the elite, to whom they offer blind loyalty and faithful service. Yes, humanists also make statues of human gods. But they prefer to worship the living human gods themselves, even the worst and most evil of those fakes. And Rome still exists today, still demands the worship of sinful, corrupt and foolish human beings, whom they put on pedestals like gods. But all the spirits who intentionally worship those humans, who refuse to repent, especially those who worship themselves, will surely be cast into hell. For idolaters obey unjust demands of their idols, and do not obey the loving God.

The sixth and last category John mentioned included “all kinds of people who are fond of [a lie] and making a lie” (πᾶς φιλῶν καὶ ποιῶν ψεῦδος.). Of course, this makes us think of those who believed the lies of Trump, Hitler and all the other lying dictators in history. All the spirits who prefer the darkness of false doctrines, delusions and lies, and all the spirits who love to invent self-serving lies,

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will go to hell. For the spirits of these people hate the light and cannot repent into God’s light of truth. But I repeat, not everyone who lies will go to hell. For God does grant elect sinners both the desire and the ability to repent, even as He casts the non-elect ever deeper into delusions. Literally all the elect have committed some of the sins listed here. Yet all elect will receive repentance and forgiveness through Jesus, with a complete atonement that fully restores their relationship with God.

Then Jesus said this to John: “I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you about these things for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star” (Rev. 22:16, ESV). So the purpose of giving John this Revelation was “for the churches.” This book of prophecies would grant the people in His New Covenant churches the incentive to prepare mutually beneficial bonds, to solidify them for the last days, especially for the horrifying eras of the sixth and seventh seals. Yet John was very old and about to die. His flesh still held enough strength to speak and write, but he now lacked the power to fight or labor against these prophesied attacks upon his loved ones, and this would have disturbed him greatly. For he longed to go home with Jesus, to rest in the peaceful lands above. But he also wanted to live on earth, to protect his children. It would be heartbreaking to leave those sweet souls to suffer torments and threats, one after another, even for countless generations to come. But Jesus told John not to worry. For He is the promised Messiah, Yahweh God among men, and the sign that the brightness of morning shall come. Jesus had the power to care for the beloved ones John left behind. One trouble after the other would be resolved through His wisdom and love.

Here the “root” of David refers to the origin of David, because Jesus was in the beginning and He created David. But it also means that His human body descended from David’s body. Now Jesus reiterates that He gave us this Revelation as a gift for His elect children whom He gathers into His priesthood of His churches, so those priests can serve the rest of the people in this world, so His priests can represent Him to them, and represent them to Him. Jesus wanted His church to pay attention to the words of this Revelation for their own good and for the good of all the other living creations existing on earth. All the elect human spirits He wakens and brings into His own family, the church, must learn to look outside their own lives, into the hearts of their human siblings. All desperately need to hear the loving and just wisdom of God’s Word and apply its precepts rightly for the benefit of all. We must all train to be truly alive, must learn to love in a just, pure, God-like way, so we can make covenants of love through the minds of our spirits. And our God Jesus is the only true and authoritative Teacher of all. So let our spirits let Jesus teach us, both directly through His Holy Spirit, and indirectly through His agents and instruments, even His messengers, the angels.

This Revelation is not fiction, not a fantasy imagined by a mind of a spirit or a mind of flesh. Its prophecies, and all other prophecies of the Old and New Covenant Scriptures (which all harmonize perfectly with it), have been and are being fulfilled, sequentially, as they were written. Even events thought to be impossible—such as the conquest of the entire world by Rome’s spiritual kingdom of humanism, or Israel becoming a nation again after 2,000 years—did indeed occur. Thousands of details in these prophecies were correct, and none were wrong. None of these prophecies, nor any of the other Scriptures, were ever designed to manipulate, impress nor entertain the weak, deluded and carnal minds of flesh into some kind of cult headed by a wanna-be human god, like the Scriptures of most other religions. These words are not for tithing dupes sitting passively and silently in a spiritual slumber before an esteemed man standing on a raised pulpit. Rather, the Revelation, and all last-days prophecies, as well as all other Scriptures, call us to enter the active service of Jesus, as His priests.

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spirits to say and do, for our own good and for the good of all His creations. And these prophecies call us to spiritually and physically prepare for an onslaught of injuring, killing and destruction that Satan’s world order has been, is now and will inflict upon the entire earth. For all awake elect spirits with the ability to see and hear, the time has come to share in the works of our Lord Jesus, including His works of nullifying the works of Satan. And the Old Covenant Jews will share in these works too, beside the truly elect Gentiles He has brought into Israel. If Jewish minds of flesh do not accept that Jesus is indeed the Messiah, if they do believe He is “the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star,” then at least the spirits of all elect Jews will surely recognize the truths found in this book, and in all the books of the New Testament. For all these truths harmonize with all the Old Covenant prophecies and fulfill all the laws which God gave to Moses. Only let all the elect spirits of Jews and Gentiles wake from the mind-dulling lies of false preachers. Let all rise up, hear and see.

It was likely Jesus who then told John: “The Spirit and the Bride say, ‘Come.’ And let the one who hears say, ‘Come.’ And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price” (Rev. 22:17, ESV). We purchase the truths of God, the effective principles of life and faith, as well as the prophecies which bind our hearts together in preparation for our future trials, with the currency of faith, with the trust and confidence of our spirits in Him and His words. We do not buy any of this with a tithe of Satan’s invention of money given to an inflated ego. The living waters of Jesus’ Holy Spirit are freely granted to all who thirst for them, as are all His other gifts.

Both the spirit of the angel who will soon pour out the seventh bowl of God’s wrath upon the beast’s kingdom, and His Bride, who is His true church of Israel, and includes both the Old and New Covenant branches of that church, shall eventually see the entire remnant of elect human beings on earth love and worship our God Jesus. During the last few weeks of the end times, just days before Jesus returns, His church of the sixth seal’s revival and the angels destroying the beast’s power on earth, will turn even the dullest of sleeping elect spirits to Jesus. And, considering the context of our God Jesus previously speaking about the church through the words of the last and first of the angels who would pour out the final bowls of wrath upon the fourth Roman kingdom, we see that God does indeed speak through His angels. God speaks through many instruments and agents, even things like a burning bush. So we cannot say the words of an angel or a prophet are not the words of His Spirit.

The “Spirit” speaking above is the Holy Spirit of Jesus speaking through the angel whom Jesus sent to John and to His true church. Then the “bride” is clearly His universal church of Israel, God’s gathering of the Father’s chosen and awakened children into His earthly priesthood, into His family of the siblings He personally created and elected to forever serve His creations throughout all time. His “bride” includes all the elect Jews and Gentiles who have ever lived on earth and who ever will live on earth, for He will gather them all into His heavenly family by the end of the final judgment day. Ultimately, literally all elect human beings, all who can potentially love as He loves, shall enter heaven after their completion and perfection on the judgment day. But there will also come a time on earth, lasting for more than a thousand years, in which many shall be gathered to serve as His priests.

The message of Jesus’ Holy Spirit and His seventh angel and the church is “come.” The message of anyone who hears God is “come.” Jesus calls all who are thirsty for the truth, all spirits who long to give and receive His just, equitable kind of love built upon truth alone. Let all these go to Jesus. For only Jesus can provide the “water of life.” His Holy Spirit—who teaches all knowledge and wisdom, all the ways God designed into His spiritual and physical creations, all that He causes to produce the most beneficial results for all—shall enter the hearts and souls of all who come to Him. His Spirit will counsel, teach and train elect spirits to rightly and effectively apply His laws of love, so all might express God-like, pure love without causing any injustice or harm. And Jesus shall grant this

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abundant life to each of the Father’s children freely, “without price.” Likewise, His elect angels and true church will also freely invite all to “come” and dwell among them. For we all freely receive His life, and all the truths building up love. Thus, Jesus commanded us all to “freely give” (Mat. 10:8).

Then John spoke to those whom he knew would try to exploit, abuse or nullify the valuable words of this book: “I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book, and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book” (Rev. 22:18-19, ESV). And John was right to warn us. For, throughout history, we have seen unscrupulous frauds use the prophecies of this book to start unholy and senseless wars, terrorize dupes into their webs of binding deceit, or twist its words in many other ways, all to gain power and wealth. All such liars will share the eternal fate of Satan’s beast and will not receive a home in heaven’s New Jerusalem. Of course, those fools care nothing about eternal matters like that now, since they seek only temporary and superficial rewards of this earth, as they exploit their siblings in the family of humankind. But their blind souls will truly regret it all later.

Here John, speaking in the name of our God Jesus, spoke with authority to all who heard or read “the words of the prophecy from this book” (τοὺς λόγους τῆς προφητείας τοῦ βιβλίου τούτου). This is an infallible warning, upheld by the almighty power of God Himself. All who read the book of the Revelation must not add any meaning to it. That is, the word λόγους indicates the rationally ordered words and concepts presented in this book, the intended meanings of those words. So this warning does not prohibit explanations of these words, but it does prohibit anyone from interpolating any kind of additional and unintended meanings into any of its prophecies or teachings. If anyone adds any unintended meanings, God will add the plagues against Satan’s kingdom to that one’s life, and likely the final sentence of hell. And this book also warned against the false prophets and teachers corrupting the seven churches in Asia Minor. But their humanistic descendants continue to corrupt the existing mainline and evangelical churches to this day. So this warning is directed against them as well, for they constantly add unintended meanings to its words. All who dream up sensationalistic interpretations to sell books or fill their churches with tithing members are the kind who will join the beast in the end times, who will ride on his back to gain the rewards of fame and fortune. These will not “come” to Jesus or His true church. So those liars will share in the plagues upon Satan’s slaves.

Or, if anyone removes any of God’s intended meanings from the prophecies of the Revelation, God will take away that one’s share in heaven. And the false prophets and false teachers, especially the teachers of Middle Platonism who have infiltrated the churches throughout history, have always been very busy doing this. They all love to say that these prophesied events have already occurred in the past and are irrelevant to us in our day, or that Jesus will not physically return because they alone are left on earth to rule the church. And notice how their interpretations always seem to delete these words from this book: “Write therefore the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will happen hereafter” (Rev. 1:19, WEB). They remove these words so they can confuse their people, so they will not distinguish between what was written to the churches existing in John’s day, and the prophecies about the future events after the first century. Then they always nullify the sequential order of events presented in the Revelation too, or say the seals, trumpets and bowls of wrath are all the same, so they can nullify the ability of the church to prepare for those events. All they want to do is invent self-serving fiction which distorts the intended meaning of those words of God, usually for a financial profit. And those deceivers want to build up their own church kingdoms on earth, full of dupes who worship them more than God Himself. Therefore, God lets them receive a temporary reward on earth, all the fake glory and devil’s currency they can possibly

 

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glean from their victims. But, forever after, they will exist only within the delusions and lies they have created for themselves, and absolutely nothing more, within the vacuum of a bottomless pit.

Now some will even add meanings and false doctrines to this very warning from God (Rev. 22:18-19). For they say it means that the cannon of Scriptures is sealed, and that no new Scriptures will ever be added to the Bible. But, of course, that is ridiculous, and is simply one more way they bring plagues and curses upon themselves. For absolutely nothing in this statement implies any such thing. In fact, the book of the Revelation actually indicates the exact opposite. For the Revelation, like very many other Scriptures, declares that Jesus, our Creator and God, shall return to the earth in a body of human flesh to teach and guide His elect in His kingdom. Therefore, while our God Jesus remains on the earth for a thousand years, He is not going to remain completely silent. And anything He teaches or proclaims will be God’s words, will be included with all the other Scriptures written by our God.

Whenever God speaks, those words are the words of God. And, whenever His words are repeated or written down, they are the Scriptures, one with all the other Scriptures. Since Jesus will surely speak and write words after He returns, where every word will be for the edification of His people in His true church, all of those words shall certainly be joined to the canon of Scripture. All His teachings and explanations of history will be added to the Bible. And, in the days of the millennium, every word that Jesus’ Holy Spirit commands His prophets to add to the Bible will also be added to the Bible. Furthermore, if the real Jesus commands a true prophet to add something to the Bible at some time before He returns, it too will be added. So let no man dare to resist God when our God wills to do this! Yes, we must test all words and all things that men claim to have originated from God. And His Holy Spirit will convict His awakened elect elect regarding what is the truth and what is not the truth. So we will know what to accept and what to reject. But those who war against God’s will, by automatically rejecting His words based on a false doctrine invented by liars, will feel God’s wrath.

Those who like to say the canon is complete, that no words shall ever be added to the Scriptures, are making exactly the same sinful mistake that the heretical Jewish Sadducees made in the days when our God Jesus walked among us in a body of flesh. For the Sadducees of that day also deliberately misinterpreted God’s command: “You shall not add to the word that I command you, nor take from it, that you may [guard] the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you” (Deut. 4:2). And the Sadducees wanted the canon of Scriptures to be limited only to the first five books of Moses for the the same reason that churches today want the Scriptures to be limited to the 66 books we now have. That is, both the Sadducees and churches in our day spent many years of hard labor in attempts to twist the Scriptures to their liking, to force their own false meanings upon their limited body of the Scriptures. Thus, if anyone explained the true meanings of those Scriptures, or any real truths originating from God, those truths would utterly destroy their theological systems. And, since their own fake theological systems were used to gain financial and political rewards from Satan’s world order, the destruction of their lies would mean financial and political ruin for all their false teachers.

Both the Sadducees and the cessationists of our day developed rationally sounding answers to every objection against them and their lies. With their limited array of biblical words, they could justify their sins adequately in the eyes of the irrationally biased fools among them, with what they deemed to be the only words of God. So, if God’s true servants pointed out how the prophecies of Isaiah and the other Scriptures proved that those Sadducees were actually hypocritical enemies of God, those Sadducees would simply laugh and declare: “Isaiah and all those others were false prophets, because only the books of Moses are true words of God.” Then, if God’s true servants also pointed out that even Moses condemned them and their sins, they simply said, “You are interpreting Moses falsely.”

 

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And now, in our day, churches proclaim that everyone who condemns their lies and unjust deeds by quoting the Scriptures according to God’s intended meanings, through right interpretations taught by Jesus’ Holy Spirit, must be falsely and foolishly interpreting those Scriptures, since only their leaders bear a right to interpret them. And, if those fake churches acknowledged that the real God’s Holy Spirit does actually speak to the spirits of His awakened elect even today, and that Jesus rose from the dead in order to teach and train His intended meaning of the Scriptures to His elect throughout all history, then those liars would actually be forced to sit down with God’s true servants, so their words and the words of God’s true servants could be tested by the Scriptures. Then the truths of God would expose their lies, forcing them all to publicly relinquish their illicit incomes and positions of power.

Sadducees also claimed exactly what today’s cessationists claim, that God sealed the Scriptures after He gave His children a limited array of information about Himself and His ways, after God had revealed all that His people could handle at a certain time in history. So, to the Sadducees, the only authoritative Scriptures were the books of Moses. Then they also insisted that only their own very peculiar and carnal interpretation of that limited subset of God’s words could possibly be correct. The Sadducees did not trust the writings of the subsequent prophets, none of the Scriptures added after the books of Moses. To the Sadducees, most Old Covenant Scriptures were not words from God, although the prophets claimed they were words from God. The Sadducees never even bothered to seriously test or even look at those other Scriptures, to see if the claims of the prophets were true, to determine whether or not their words expounded upon all that was already known, without any contradictions. Rather, the Sadducees automatically assumed that the canon of Scriptures was sealed and closed. Thus, the Sadducees became very corrupt, carnal and political. In the end, God utterly destroyed that cult forever. After the temple was destroyed, their self-serving cult could not recover.

God’s intended meaning of Deuteronomy 4:2 actually forbade anyone to add any kind of unintended meanings to His words, nor remove any of His intended meanings from His words. And not one of the true prophets ever did such things. All God’s true prophets merely expounded on God’s intended meanings of the words which God granted through Moses. Then Jesus and the apostles did the same. All the Scriptures do this, all of the New and Old Covenant Scriptures, including the Revelation of Jesus to John. All the other Scriptures explain, exemplify and fulfill all God’s Mosaic laws and all that God revealed through Moses. And, in Revelation 22:18-19, Jesus told John exactly what what He told Moses, when Moses wrote Deuteronomy 4:2 in His name. If anyone deliberately adds any false meanings to the prophecies in the Revelation, any meanings that God did not intend it to bear, that one will surely suffer for that sin. And if anyone deliberately nullifies any of God’s intended meanings from the prophecies in the Revelation, that one will not receive a home in heaven above.

Whenever the elect hear any corruption of God’s Word, the Holy Spirit of God always warns their spirits about that corruption, loudly and persistently. Conversely, when the elect hear the real truth, His Holy Spirit confirms those words, often loudly and persistently. So, unless an elect spirit is being strongly suppressed through the fears and lusts of the flesh, they will not be deceived. On the other hand, if anyone deliberately lies about the Scriptures for one’s own personal gain, or lies about anything else persistently and intentionally, through evil motives and intentions of the spirit, then it is a sign that this liar’s spirit was born of Satan, who was a liar and murderer from the beginning. Yet our God Jesus also warns those non-elect spirits about their lies, as we saw when He walked among us in His body of flesh. Therefore, when the spirits of those non-elect deliberately lie, and do so as fake servants of God preaching in His name, they are slandering both Jesus and His Holy Spirit. And there can be no forgiveness for those who intentionally blaspheme the Holy Spirit, not in all eternity.

 

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So the corruption or nullifying of God’s words is actually a great sin. It is a sin of the third order, since it is falsely proclaiming that that a teaching or prophecy bears the authority of God’s name, by falsely claiming that they are teaching about the Scriptures as God’s appointed servants. And God considers those third order sins to be worse than the sixth or seventh order sins, of murder and sexual exploitation. So this does not bode well for those who make a good profit from sensationalizing the words of the prophets, through their false teachings about the last days and end times. There is God’s very real condemnation for all who intentionally invent falsely comforting doctrines for carnally minded souls, such as the pretribulation rapture doctrines, or amillennialism, postmillennialism and so on. And, coincidentally, these are often the same liars who claim that the canon of Scriptures was sealed and closed after the book of the Revelation was written. But all true believers know that many more Scriptures definitely will be added to the Bible, to God’s Word, after Jesus returns, if not even before then. Only we must be extremely careful to correctly test and judge anything that anyone claims to be the words of God. If any writing contradicts any existing Scriptures—by adding any meaning or teaching that God did not intend to be added, or by taking away any meaning or teaching that God intended His words to bear—then that one’s words cannot possibly have come from God.

To end the book, John stated: “He who testifies to these things says, ‘Surely I am coming soon.’ Amen. Come, Lord Jesus! The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all. Amen” (Rev. 22:20-21, ESV). The One who testified all that was written in the Revelation is the One who also said, “Surely I am coming soon.” And that One is our risen God, King and High Priest, Jesus. All that was written in the Revelation was either spoken by Jesus or revealed by Him, as He took John into the future. And John recorded it all in Jesus’ name, that is, according to the will, authority and power of Jesus, all worked through His Holy Spirit. Jesus even invoked these last words from John’s spirit, when John heartily exclaimed and prayed, “Amen. Come, Lord Jesus! The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all. Amen.” And now we repeat these same words through the same Holy Spirit of Jesus. For we also long for His coming, when His loving justice will at last restore all the lands upon this entire earth.

As for Jesus saying that He is coming “soon,” this certainly was not an exaggeration, although it has now been almost two millenniums since He spoke those words to John. For one thing, old men like me can look back on our lives, even full and abundant lives like I have been blessed with, and very honestly say our lives were a mere moment in time, the blink of an eye. And, after death, time will not be linear like it is on earth. So it will be only a thought or two after the death of our flesh that we will see Jesus return to the earth, to rule there for a thousand years. Yet even that millennium will not be longer than a word of teaching from His mouth. Time is indeed relative to the mind of God and to the minds of our eternal spirits. Time is whatever God causes us to perceive it, and all time is “soon.”

Now that we have exegeted the end of the Revelation (vv. 22:6-21), we can clearly see that most of this book, all the prophesied events after John’s letter to the seven churches which existed at the end of the first century, were future events. For, just after recording his letter to the seven churches, John wrote: “After these things I looked and saw a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, like a trumpet speaking with me, was one saying, ‘Come up here, and I will show you the things which must happen after this’” (Rev. 4:1, WEB). Therefore, Jesus revealed the future to John after He revealed current events in the seven churches. Jesus then took John into the spiritual space-time continuum, which we call heaven, where John was granted access to times that exist in this material space-time continuum. And all the past and all the future times in this material creation exist at the same time, in one “now.” Then Jesus showed John “what necessarily will occur” (ἃ δεῖ γενέσθαι), what He had predestined to happen on the earth, all His major future works upon the earth during the last days, all the events of the last days which would take place after that very day, in about AD 96.

 

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After that day, John’s people witnessed two major future events which occurred during the second century, shortly after he wrote the Revelation and after his flesh died: (1) the expulsion of Israel from their homeland and (2) the birth of the great false church called the Prostitute of Babylon. Both of these events were caused by what occurred during the first century, while John was still alive: (1) John saw the radical Jewish resistance to Rome during the first century, resulting in the first Jewish-Roman war (AD 66-70) and Rome’s vengeful destruction of Jerusalem's temple. That past event left both the Jews and Rome so resentful that their mutual animosity resulted in a second Jewish-Roman war in the second century (the Bar Kokhba Rebellion, AD 132-135). And, after this second century war, the invading Romans deported almost all the Jews from their homeland. (2) In the first century, John also saw many false Jews and fake Christians syncretizing humanistic Roman teachings with biblical teachings. One of these influential corrupters was Philo, a contemporary of Jesus, who was highly esteemed by both false Jews and false Christians. So, by the beginning of the second century, false apologists and other prominent deceivers had thoroughly infiltrated the true church which Jesus had established through His apostles. These false teachers managed to produce a total and complete corruption of biblical teachings among almost all the Jewish and Christian assemblies in the known world. Very few true biblical Gospel teachings were openly taught anywhere in the world after that.

So the second century, shortly after John’s body of flesh had died, saw the birth of a false Christian church which entirely obliterated the visible true Christian church—although the invisible true church of Israel’s Messiah has always existed, because Jesus has always been directly teaching the spirits in the hearts of His elect, and has never ceased working His New Covenant salvation in them, to build up His real church on earth. Then we must also realize that the visible true Christian church, which was established by the Jewish Messiah and His Jewish apostles, has always acknowledged that they are a sect of the old church of Israel. True Christians have always believed that God has merely adopted elect Gentiles into His family priesthood, and has joined them to the church of His true Israel, causing elect Gentiles to become one people with the natural-born elect Jews. All the apostles also recognized that most of the natural-born Israelites had been hardened in their hearts by God, caused to remain in an Old Covenant relationship with God, but only until all the elect Gentiles had been brought into Israel. Thus, because both the New Covenant (Christian) church and the Old Covenant church were simply two different branches of God's one and only true church of Israel, God saw both churches as one and the same body. But God also told us that a false church would develop too, one destined to grow until she and her daughter churches corrupted the whole world.

So the letters to the seven current churches—found at the beginning of the Revelation to John—gave us a mood-setting introduction to the prophecies about future events, and clearly hinted about a false church being formed at that very moment, in about AD 96. Those seven letters were not prophecies about the future false church, but they were definitely designed to inform John, and us, about very bad doctrines that were already beginning to be taught in the churches at that time, and that those false teachings would only get much worse. Then, in the following chapters of the Revelation, in its prophecies about the future events, Jesus revealed the religion of the future beast, describing it as the worship of man, even in a way which denies the existence of God and opposes God’s equitable, just and loving ways. In other words, Satan’s beast would practice what we now call secular humanism.

This Roman religion of humanism would spread and grow until it corrupted the whole earth. Then the Revelation prophesied that a false church would sit upon the beast (Rev. 17:3,7-8). In other words, a great false church and the beast would work together for one and the same purpose, for the same spiritual or religious purposes. Both would share the same world views, involving greed and the murdering of innocent souls. Both would be humanists. The beast’s people would be secular

 

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humanists and the false churches would be theistic humanists, falsely claiming to believe in God. And both would strive together for their common goal of corrupting the whole earth, in their war against the real God. And this is exactly what we have been seeing for almost two thousand years.

John was completely shocked when he was shown the evil works of the Great Prostitute of Babylon throughout history. For John immediately recognized that repulsive creature, riding on the back of Satan’s fourth Roman kingdom. It was a great false church. And this broke John’s heart, because he and the other true apostles had worked so hard and so long to keep the church pure, even to the point of shedding their own blood in death. Yet he now saw this monstrous and vile thing proclaiming lies throughout the earth, pretending to serve Jesus and falsely claiming to preach salvation, all to gain Satan’s invention of money and political power. John also realized that the beast’s religious Roman kingdom of secular humanism had sown the seeds of this great false church, had caused it to preach theistic humanism, the same kind of humanism John had been warring against in his true churches, the kind of humanism which originated from Rome’s creation of Middle Platonism. So now John knew that the Roman religion would soon corrupt all the earth, just as Daniel had prophesied. Both secular and theistic humanism would spread its unjust doctrines of Middle Platonism to every land, every government and every other religion, until the end times. God would allow this, in order to prove that man’s will fails, that Jesus alone can grant freedom from lies and sins for the spirits of His elect children, that His salvation from death can never be achieved by man’s own will and strength.

Naturally, almost nothing is taught about these matters in humanistic churches today. So they might sound strange to the people in the churches which preach the doctrines of Platonism. Still, it is a fact that the prophesied great false church is a Roman church that has existed since the end of the first century, and has given birth to many “daughter” churches since then, to many humanistic churches like their mother. All these false churches are also related to the beast (i.e., to the Antichrist). For their mother sits on the back of that beast, meaning her corrupting influence is related to the beast’s own corrupting influence. They all teach the same false religion. For all the false churches practice forms of theistic humanism, which comes directly from the pagan Platonism of first-century Rome.

The beast’s secular humanism, the prophesied religion of Satan’s fourth kingdom, the spiritual evil Daniel prophesied about, is the pagan Platonism taught by false churches. So, just like the secular humanists throughout history, false churches also proclaim the core false teachings of humanism, especially the doctrine that everyone is able to determine one’s own destiny through one’s own supposed “free will.” And, if man controls his own destiny, then God does not. In other words, humanism tries to convince man that he is his own highest god, that he is the only one who controls his own destiny. Then humanism strives to make the most selfishly ambitious psychopaths into the gods of other human beings too, by telling others that those ruthless souls are superior, and bear a right to control both the earthly or eternal destinies of those artificially deemed to be “inferiors.”

So the greatest sin of the false churches is that they actually worship human beings. Yes, they also claim to worship the Creator God who lives in heaven. And, yes, there are some truly loving elect souls trapped in those churches, who believe this particular lie, but genuinely do worship the real Creator God to some extent. Yet, in reality, those fake churches themselves practice only the worship of human beings, and establish hierarchies of “superiors” and “inferiors” to enforce the worship of human beings as the highest gods over all men. So the wills of those churches are firmly against the worship of the one God, and continuously war against the real Jesus. By their fruits, by the way they behave, it is clearly evident that they actually worship human beings far more than they have ever worshiped any other gods, even more than they worship their other principal god, the demonic spirit of Mammon, their god of money. Furthermore, whenever they teach about the God in heaven, they

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alter His words to create a new god, one that conforms to their humanistic beliefs. All these churches actually invent a new heavenly god for their people to worship. Each church invents its own weak heavenly god, and all their heavenly gods are merely their secondary gods who supposedly can be manipulated by the human “gods” of their churches, through their own magic sacraments or prayers.

So, even when these false churches claim to believe in heavenly gods, like the true God described in the Bible, they are actually and essentially exactly the same as atheistic secular humanists, because those false churches also delude themselves into thinking that human beings remain in control of God and their own destinies. All those false churches, in reality, despise the one real, omniscient, omnipotent Father who truly does control the destinies of all men and all things. In their hearts, those false churches are identical to secular humanists, although those theistic humanists also place some faith in their invented secondary heavenly gods. Both secular and theistic humanists belong to sects of the same religion, the worship of man, a belief that man determines his own destiny through his own decisions of his own will. Both follow the religion of the future beast, the religion of humanism.

These two religions, secular and theistic humanism, are simply two faces of the same corrupting religion. The only difference is that one corrupts from the outside, through secular powers, because secular souls have already committed themselves to the worship of human beings. But the other theistic form of humanism corrupts from the inside, through religious deceit, because religious souls have not consciously committed themselves to the worship of human beings. Thus, the invention of fake heavenly gods by theistic humanists is irrelevant, and does not differentiate them from secular humanists at all. For their invented heavenly gods simply provide minor services for their much greater human gods in their churches, in the same way the greatest human gods of secular humanists also provide minor services for them. Consequently, both are exactly the same religion. Both place faith in man above all other gods, and both also place a weak, secondary faith in a few other gods.

Even atheistic secular humanists worship other gods, such as Mammon, the demonic spirit who helps human beings exact ruthless and complete control over every aspect of other lives through the application of financial delusions. So a human being, particularly oneself, is the highest god of both a theistic and a secular humanist, the only god they trust, the god in whom they place most of their confidence, above all other gods. They believe that oneself alone ultimately determines both one’s own earthly and eternal destinies. And this is why theistic humanists, for all these centuries, have corrupted the earth, together with the secular humanists. Both have preached the same delusional core beliefs. And both perpetuate the same political, military, economic, educational and spiritual delusions taught by the religion of humanism. Both are opposites and enemies of true faith in God, of the religion of biblical Judaism and true Christianity. And, in essence, this religion of humanism is the foundation of all other false religions. For, in all false religions, man desires to be his own god, just as Satan did in the beginning, when he rebelled against God. Then this desire produces all sins.

Of course, both secular and theistic humanists are also highly factious, always dividing into warring cliques. Secular humanists hate theistic humanists, and vise versa. Then each of these two major sects further divide into countless minor sects too, which frequently bicker with one another. For each one wants to be worshiped as the highest god in the cult, and each leader insists that his own will must be done by all, for the “salvation” of all. Only at the end of the fourth Roman kingdom, shortly before Jesus returns, will secular humanists unite under the beast’s banner. And, just before then, they will destroy the mother of all the false churches, the great champion of theistic humanism, the church called the “Great Prostitute” or “Great Harlot.” Only after the beast destroys the mother of all daughter false churches, will the armies of secular humanists unite, to war against God. Yet they will soon destroy themselves. Nevertheless, until the Satanically controlled beast comes to rule

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over the final version of the Roman religion, humanists will remain divided, since human “gods” will continue to strive against one another, and one human god after another will seek to be the one god ruling over all, for one’s own selfish purposes. And this rivalry will be their greatest weakness.

When carnally minded human beings each become their own gods, they can never develop any true unity of mind and purpose, because each will strive to advance one’s own irrational purposes of one’s own will. Among humanists, only threats, bribery and the many lies of sly manipulation can cause a group of them to grudgingly march together against a falsely perceived common enemy. Yet God has also always manipulated them too, has always distracted the beast's kingdom and the false church into folly, causing their kingdoms to rise and fall according to His will. And God will cause all the humanists to endure temporary, strained partnerships until the end, although He will often cause the united ones to split again into quarreling, bickering factions, whenever necessary. For God is able to hand over all sinners, including humanists, into any delusions He wants them to believe.

Only after the beast comes as the messiah of the humanists, will God allow Satan to unite humanists. But that unity will only begin with seven nations who endure for seven years. Then God will allow the beast to form a world-wide union of all humanists at the end of his reign, although only for a few weeks, until Jesus returns to destroy all those humanists. Furthermore, God will only let this happen after He has caused a world-wide revival of His true, visible church, after He has granted most of the world’s elect their repentance into a knowledge of His genuine saving truths, to eternally unite them.

With this summary of the last days and end times, let me get back to an explanation of how this timeline follows Jesus' numbering system found in His Revelation to John. The Revelation is divided into seven eras represented by seven seals. So this timeline has one section devoted to the events which occur during each of the eras represented by those seven seals. Then the Revelation divides the era of the seventh seal into seven shorter periods of time, where each begins with the sounding of seven trumpets. So the seventh section of this timeline is subdivided into seven sub-sections that explain the events during each period of time heralded by each of the seven trumpets. Lastly, Jesus defines seven brief periods of time within the seventh trumpet’s time period, where each brief time is delineated by an angel pouring out a bowl of God’s wrath upon the beast’s kingdom, with a total of seven bowls of wrath in quick succession. But I will describe these very brief periods of time, the events of the seven bowls occurring within the time of the seventh trumpet, in just a few paragraphs,, all in the sub-section of the seventh trumpet, since there is no need to provide a sub-section for each.

Then, also in a sub-section about the seventh trumpet, I will examine the Revelation’s account of how all earthly life ends, and its description of the judgment day, when the time of the seventh seal ends after lasting more than a thousand years. The seventh seal’s period of time includes the day of Christ’s return, followed by His rule on earth for a thousand years. After this, there will be the final resurrection of all the dead who ever lived on earth, and their lifting up to the gates of heaven. Then, immediately after this, the survivors living on earth shall be raptured up into that spiritual realm as well. Once all are gathered together there, God will “burn” the material universe and begin the final judgment, examining the inner motives causing all the earthly works of all their spirits. Those who remain loveless, and cannot repent, will go to hell. Then those who are able to repent will be taught and trained to completion and perfection, until they are able to enter their homes in heaven. This is judgment day, the last day outside of heaven, ending the time God had assigned to seventh trumpet.

When we look at this order of events, dictated by Jesus, we see how God gradually builds a greater distinction between Satan’s kingdom (often called the “world order”) and His true kingdom of inward righteousness expressed through acts of just love. Before New Covenant times, God allowed

 

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pagans to go their own way. He did not condemn nor interfere much. The only people God strictly disciplined were those in His priesthood of Israel, if they wandered far astray. Yet this changed in the New Covenant times. After God visited mankind, in the body of Jesus, He began to influence all the world, demanding closer attention to their Creator and God. As Paul said, “The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now He commands all people everywhere to repent” (Acts 17:30, ESV). Jesus has been steadily introducing Himself and His truths to the entire world for two millenniums now.

Of course, God did not expect all Gentiles to repent immediately. Rather, He ordained the preaching of His just, equitable ways of salvation to gradually increase over a period of many centuries, as He touched one nation after another. God gradually began to reveal Himself to each nation and each individual elect soul through the teachings of His Spirit. But, after each nation or individual heard the truth, that one became responsible for accepting and applying it. Each individual or nation who became aware of His principles and ways also became culpable for any kind of rebellion against those just and equitable truths. And each was obligated to allow His elect to learn His ways from His Holy Spirit, for salvation from lies and sins. Of course, Satan’s subject kingdoms and non-elect brood always rebelled instead, and have always suffered the consequences. So, as they gained a knowledge of His truths over the centuries, their punishments have grown increasingly harsh. And now, as we approach the end times, God’s wrath will strike them harder than He has in all history.

During the last two millenniums, God has taught His principles of loving justice and equity in all the earth. But this truth has also drawn Satan’s world order into ever greater conflicts with Him and His true elect children. For God has been demanding their repentance in stronger and stronger terms. He has been sending them increasingly heavy condemnation for their unjust and loveless pagan ways. Of course, most have not been aware of this. Most do not even know that the Mosaic Law and the fulfillment of that Law by Jesus, are the sources of the just, equitable principles they learn, since most are dull of spirit and are not able to hear what God’s Spirit is teaching to their spirits. But this is changing. God has been waking both the spirits of the elect and the non-elect, and are becoming aware of this. Thus, human spirits are choosing sides, either to fight for the kind of honest, just, equitable love that they find in the Creator’s heart, or to war against that kind of love, to defend their “good old” pagan ways for clearly selfish reasons. This conflict is continuously building a greater dichotomy between God’s elect children and the non-elect children of Satan. And soon God will cause a full revival of His true church and, with it, issue an ultimatum. After the true revival during the era of the sixth seal, the polarization of elect and non-elect souls will be almost complete. So, if anyone refuses to repent into the truth, that one will perish with Satan’s messiah, who is the beast.

So this is the order of prophesied events which Jesus provided in the Revelation, and will be the order of the sub-sections in this book. This outline of the Revelation represents the order of events found in all the other last-days prophecies too, and they also will be examined within this timeline.

I. First Seal – Antiquity (this era began in AD 28 and primarily accomplishes its works by the 7th century. However, its plagues and their harmful effects will continue to occur until Jesus returns)

 An era of transition. Gentiles begin transitioning out of a former state of being “overlooked”

by God, into a state where God demands their repentance and acquiescence to His just ways.

 God allowed Satan to destroy or thoroughly corrupt the entire visible true church during this

era, to transform all visible churches into one great false church, into the Great Prostitute. Yet

this also caused the salvation of the New Covenant to become an entirely inward work of

Jesus, and scattered His saving works into all the world, as the seeds of a final, true church.

 

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 The exile of natural Israel also occurs at the beginning of this era, a scattering the physical

descendants of Jacob to all parts of the globe, shortly after Israel is conquered by Daniel’s

“fourth kingdom” (Rome). Biblical prophecies also declared that Israel must remain in exile

until God will make her land utterly “desolate.” At the same time, God also promised to

gradually return the natural Jews to their land, in preparation for their Messiah’s arrival.

 The false church, “Babylon, the Great Prostitute, Mother of Harlots,” is born. She is a Gentile

church corrupting the world as she sits on the back of the Gentile beast. She also physically

sits on the beast’s city of Rome, while spiritually sitting on (proclaiming) the beast’s religion.

 The beast’s fourth kingdom, the Roman Empire, is fractured, in order to spread its religion of

humanism. So the kings from different nations go out to conquer parts of the Roman Empire.

 The beast’s religion of humanism is disseminated to literally all parts of the world, chiefly

through the conquerors from various parts of the Roman Empire, and by the false church.

 God begins His initial work of dichotomizing the whole earth, dividing the non-elect from

the elect through the beast’s religion. Elect Jews and Gentiles begin to value God’s loving

ways more and more over time, while the non-elect begin to hate God more and more over

time, opposing God’s loving ways and persecuting God’s faithful children more and more.

II. Second Seal – Middle Ages th th (approximately from the 5 to the 13 centuries. However, its plagues and their effects will also continue until Jesus returns, just as the second seal’s plagues will)

 An era of violence exposes the brutality and futility of humanistic ways and human power.

As nations engage in self-serving wars and spill blood, they actually conquer nothing and

accomplish nothing. This reveals God’s condemnation of the beast’s religion of humanism,

where men make themselves into their own gods of their own destinies and strive to force

their own wills on others, whom they see as their possessions, demanding obedience as to

gods. It exposes the folly of worshiping human gods, as absolute power corrupts their lives.

 This era solidifies the power of the false church, the Great Prostitute, until she has no rivals.

III. Third Seal – Renaissance (approximately from the 12th to the 18th centuries. But the plagues and effects of this era will also continue until Jesus returns, together with those of the first two seals)

 This era exposes the ruthless inhumanity of man. Men cause artificial famines and extreme

poverty through the exploitation of their brothers and sisters, all for personal gain. It is the

birth of the humanistic economic systems, where men force their wills on others through

financial power. This further justifies God’s condemnation of the religion of humanism, and

God now begins to expose humanism as unjust, futile, senseless and extremely destructive.

So this further helps to divide the elect from the non-elect, increasing the polarization effect.

 This era began after the Great Prostitute became complacent in her power. When she did, she

relaxed her guard and allowed truths to rise in her midst. This freed ancient secular Roman

humanists to rise to power once more, but also allowed the long-buried truths of the Bible to

be resurrected again as well. After groups of rebellious children rapidly grew to a substantial

size inside the Great Prostitute, they left their mother. Then these groups attacked her from all

sides. Since the Great Prostitute no longer possessed the strength to kill them all, many

prospered, then built the foundations of both the beast’s final kingdom and God’s true church.

 

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IV. Fourth Seal – Modern Era (approximately the 16th to the 21st centuries. This is the last of the four horsemen, the final kind of plague that will continue until Jesus returns. This, together with the plagues of the first three seals, and their harmful effects, will not cease until Jesus rules the earth)

 God begins to frustrate the doctrines and works of both the secular and theistic humanists

during this era. God primarily does this by causing deaths through many of their decisions

and actions. The people of the humanistic nations die in wars, famines, epidemics and even

by the activities of God’s non-human creatures. All the sins of the past three eras are now

combined and the demonic system of Satan’s world order is most thoroughly exposed. So

“Hades,” the figurative representation of human apostasies, follows those deaths, creating an

apocalyptic landscape for all. This will bring the world to a boiling point, full of frustration

and hopelessness, where the lawless humanists begin to most violently rage against God.

 As the Great Prostitute’s impotence to overcome the exponentially increasing tribulations of

the world, the power base of the secular Roman beast is strengthened. Likewise, through the

same process, more elect turn away from the Great Prostitute and her daughters. They begin

to more urgently seek seek the real God and His real truths. So the Great Prostitute grows

weaker, but the beast’s secular kingdom has not yet grown to its full strength, so he cannot

destroy her yet. Therefore, this gives the Jews a chance to begin to return to their land and it

also prepares the world’s elect for their “sealing” from God, during the era of the sixth seal.

V. Fifth Seal – A Great Increase in the Persecution of God’s People (from the 19th to 21st centuries, although the persecution of the “saints” will also continue under the reign of the beast)

 Occurring within the last centuries of the era of the fourth seal, this is actually the sign that

the eras of the first four seals are about to end with Christ’s second advent. All the first four

seals are related and all bear similar purposes. All the first four were like four horsemen in

the same army and the same battlefield. But now the end of those nebulous and overlapping

eras of the first four seals are ending with a greater persecution of God’s people, both Jews

and Gentile Christians. After this, the “end times” (the eras of the sixth and seventh seals)

will begin. The fifth seal is our sign that the end times will soon begin. Then the start of the

sixth seal’s era will be clearly delineated by a world-wide earthquake with falling meteors.

 This persecution accelerates the polarizing and dichotomizing effect worked by God during

all the previous eras, and separates the elect from the non-elect more rapidly, firmly and with

greater resolve than ever before. During this time, the elect will also begin to more clearly

detect the demonic influences of humanism and the spiritual prostitution of false churches.

So the elect will leave the Great Prostitute and her daughters, the false churches of all kinds.

 This fifth era sees the Jews gradually return to their homeland too. In many ways, their return

to their own land also produces a dichotomizing effect between the elect and the non-elect.

VI. Sixth Seal (in either the 21st or the 22nd century, for a short period lasting only about 20 years)

 This era begins with a world-wide earthquake and meteors striking the earth. These events

silence the world order for a time, in a quietness lasting until the seventh seal’s era begins.

 The main event of this era is the sealing of God’s elect around the world, which is the one

true and everlasting revival of God’s real church. Since the first century, the true church has

not been a visible church, but now it will be visible again, and consisting only of His elect.

 

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This is very short era, yet one of the most critical eras in history, since it prepares God’s elect

for the return of Jesus and for the great tribulation which occurs during the seventh seal’s era.

 The preaching of the true Gospel throughout the world finally will begin during this era.

 This is also likely when the religion of Islam falls and many Muslims, especially in Egypt

and in lands formerly belonging to ancient Assyria, become true Christians, as prophesied.

VII. Seventh Seal (the plagues of this era occur in only one generation, likely in either the 21st or 22nd century, but the seventh seal’s era actually lasts 1,000 years, until the end of the judgment day)

 This era will see all of Satan’s non-elect gather together for their last stand as defenders of

his fourth Roman kingdom, for their greatest and most overt rebellion against God. This is

when they oppose Jesus’ final command to be recognized as the Ruler of all destinies, as the

Creator and God, whom all His creations should respect and love. This is also when the true

church shall mature, a time when some nations also repent into the loving justice of Jesus.

 This era begins with a brief continuation of the silencing of the world order’s confrontation

with God in heaven, a silence that began with the world-wide devastation occurring in the

sixth seal’s era. This silence is necessary to build up, teach and strengthen the newly revived,

true, visible church. Since the effects of the sixth seal’s devastation and revival are still felt as

the seventh seal’s era begins, this means that the sixth and seventh seals almost merge into

one contiguous period which most prophecies focus upon, which we call the “end times.” But

Jesus delineates the sixth seal’s era as a separate period of time due to it very critical role in

reviving His true church, because it prepares His elect for His return to rule over all the earth.

 The worst tribulations the world will ever experience shall occur after that short period of

silence, and will continue for less than one generation (less than 40 years), ending on the day

Jesus returns. During that time, God will proclaim His wrath to the entire lawless, rebellious

earth. The plagues of His unbridled wrath will strike in seven main waves, each announced

by an angel blowing a trumpet. And the seven trumpets will direct unseen troops into battle:

● VII.A. The First Trumpet – A third of the earth will burn as another plague of meteors

falls upon it. This destruction, coming from the sky, is a blatant symbol God’s wrath from heaven above. In God’s Law, fire was to purify ceremonially “unclean” things, such as the sacrifices which took our sins upon them, or metal utensils used in pagan idolatry. So this fire will be sent to demonstrate how much God condemns the world’s vile idolatry, impurity, injustice and exploitative immorality. Also keep in mind that this fire may not burn one contiguous part of the earth, but may actually burn many distant places on earth.

● VII.B. Second Trumpet – God causes a third of the earth’s oceans to turn to “blood”

after yet another large meteor falls into waters at an unspecified location. This likely means the oceans will be polluted with ferric oxide from a disintegrated iron meteor, which will make it look blood red. Currents will spread the red waters over great distances, but this third of the oceans may not be in one contiguous area. Currents might make this “blood” flow along the coastlines of several continents. God seems to send this plague to demonstrate His condemnation of ruthless oppression and the slaughtering of “common” folk throughout history, such as in wars. In the Bible and some ecclesiastical literature, ocean waters often symbolized the meeker masses. Thus, when God turns the oceans into “blood,” it would likely be God’s sign that He is punishing the world for the way it has unjustly killed the innocent masses through its greed and in its lust for power.

 

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● VII.C. Third Trumpet – A third of the earth’s fresh water sources become too bitter to

drink after another meteor strikes the earth. A meteor, falling at a very steep angle, may disintegrate into dust which pollutes rivers and lakes across a wide swath of land. Potable waters on land may represent martyred servants of God. So this plague may demonstrate God’s wrath against the persecutions of Jews and Christians, or of all truly just and loving elect souls. Or it may represent God’s anger over the corruption and abuse of His truth and wisdom, which are biblically depicted as the satisfying “waters” of His Holy Spirit, which those people’s spirits should have drunk. Although God granted us truth through His Word and through examples illustrating truths in His creations—to serve for the good of all, to be used to teach all to love in just, pure ways—mankind poisoned those truths throughout history, in order to deceive, murder and oppress for their own personal gain.

● VII.D. Fourth Trumpet – The light from the heavens is reduced by a third. And, since

these trumpets are all causing plagues in a worldwide context, this would occur over all the earth. God may do this to once more condemn the world’s suppression of His “light” of truth and wisdom. While the third trumpet’s events condemn those who had poisoned God’s “waters” of truth, such as by false churches, this plague seems to condemn those who strove to suppress and oppress the truth, to stop God’s light from shining. The world order loves the darkness of its delusions and lies, far more than the light of God. So, if they lack the power to prevent His light from shining, they poison it, use it for evil gain. However, once they possess enough power, they invariably try to stop God’s light from shining at all, to censor all into their darkness. They make laws against the publication of the Bible and any other literature that opposes their lies. Since the world has always tried to nullify God’s truth, or darken its light, God sends this plague of darkness to the earth.

● VII.E. Fifth Trumpet – Demonic locust-scorpion creatures, who cause excruciating pain

when they sting, are released throughout the world. These creatures are controlled by the spirit of Satan and plague only Satan’s children. They are not allowed to touch any of the elect who had been sealed by God during the revival of His church in the sixth seal’s era. (By the way, since we see here that those all who were spiritually sealed by God during the time of the sixth seal’s era are still living at this time, this fifth trumpet’s plague must occur within a couple decades after the sixth seal’s era.) The reason God allows Satan to torture his own children now would be to harden their hearts. For Satan wants to induce a greater dichotomizing effect as much as God does. The devil wants to further separate his children from God’s children, so he may gather them into an army of like-minded souls who will hate and ruthlessly attack God’s kingdom on earth, to destroy the revived true church of God. Since torture hardens non-elect hearts, this plague will cause them to more faithfully follow the coming beast, and transform them into virtual psychopaths.

● VII.F. Sixth Trumpet – God causes an army of 200 million to start a world war which

kills a third of humankind. This army comes from a land east of the beast’s kingdom, and its purpose is likely to weaken or nullify the powers of most nations on earth. For, after this happens, the beast’s kingdom takes control and becomes the dominant world power.

● VII.G. Seventh Trumpet – The beast arrives. This beast is Satan in a human body, now

coming to inherit his ancient kingdom of sinners, and to personally lead them in a futile war against God. This secular humanist rules the fourth kingdom that Daniel prophesied about, and that fourth kingdom is the Roman Empire. But, in the future, it will actually consist of only six other nations, five associated with ancient Rome, plus one that was not

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a part of ancient Rome. After the beast’s seven-year reign, Jesus shall return. On the very day of His arrival, Jesus will destroy this beast and his entire kingdom, then slay all the wicked God-haters on the earth. But this period of the seventh trumpet will not end when Jesus returns and destroys Satan’s fourth kingdom. Rather, the times of the seventh trumpet will actually last more than a thousand years, since Christ’s rule on earth will also occur within the times allotted for the seventh trumpet. The seventh trumpet is the “last trumpet,” signaling the completion of plagues and the victory of our God Jesus over His enemy. So the time of the seventh trumpet includes numerous plagues striking the beast’s kingdom in rapid succession, the seven bowls of God’s wrath poured out upon the beast’s kingdom, all within a few months. But the entire era of the seventh seal includes Christ’s millennial rule on earth, as well as the judgment day at the gates of heaven. The time of the seven bowls of God wrath within the period of the seventh trumpet will see all the following events, some of which will occur rapidly, but others that will last eternally:

◦ At the very start of his reign, the beast conquers “the holy land,” Israel, as well as

a number of other lands in the Middle East and northern Africa, including Egypt.

◦ A temple of God exists in Jerusalem before the beast’s first invasion of Israel.

Therefore we know that a third temple will be built in Jerusalem, and will become functional, before the beast’s reign begins, likely long before the beast arrives.

◦ Just before or during the beast’s first invasion of Israel, God will send two

prophets to Jerusalem, to proclaim God’s words to the world, probably as they stand on temple grounds. They will preach while the beast “tramples” Jerusalem.

◦ After three and a half years, in the middle of the beast’s seven year reign as the

dominant world power, that beast will suddenly decide to execute the two prophets, stop temple sacrifices, defile the temple in Jerusalem and withdraw most of his troops from the Middle East. He seems to make these decisions after his homeland is attacked by two nations located north and east of his own lands.

◦ The beast—and likely all the lands which ally themselves or sympathize with the

beast—now begin to behead God’s people (true Christians and true Jews). The Great Prostitute and the false churches will remain exempt from this persecution.

◦ The beast burns and utterly destroys the Great Prostitute at a time near the end of

his reign, just before God pours out the seven bowls of wrath on his kingdom.

◦ Now God rapidly pours out seven bowls of His wrath upon the beast’s kingdom.

These only fall upon the beast’s kingdom. Some are similar to the plagues of the seven trumpets, and seem to repeat the same messages of condemnation, but only within the beast’s kingdom. This brief time signals the beast’s end. But the final blow against his kingdom, and all workers of iniquity, occurs when Jesus returns.

• VII.G.1. First Bowl of God’s Wrath – strikes the beast’s people with

sores on their flesh, since they trusted in works of their flesh so much.

• VII.G.2. Second Bowl of God’s Wrath – turns the sea ruled by the beast

(the Mediterranean) into blood, which kills all life within it. This would serve as a sign that all the masses who worship the beast will soon die.

 

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• VII.G.3. Third Bowl of God’s Wrath – turns the fresh (potable) water

sources within the beast’s kingdom into blood. Because they murdered God’s elect, they shall be given only blood to drink, and thirst in hatred.

• VII.G.4. Fourth Bowl of God’s Wrath – scorches the beast’s lands with

intense sunlight. This likely illustrates how God’s truth cannot be blotted out as they thought it could, but surely shine, judging them without mercy.

• VII.G.5. Fifth Bowl of God’s Wrath – God casts the beast’s land into

utter darkness. This will let them experience what they will receive in hell.

• VII.G.6. Sixth Bowl of God’s Wrath – spirits gather all the humanistic

nations of the world, all the enemies of God, and allies them with the God-hating beast. Not only does God send demons to lure the beast’s armies to Armageddon, but these demons also lure all other God-hating armies on the earth there too. Warriors are the glory of godless, humanistic nations. So they are sent to battle God, to try and destroy His true church of Israel. But God is manipulating them, sending them all to their own destruction.

• VII.G.7 Seventh Bowl of God’s Wrath – this is a great earthquake with

huge hailstones to destroy the city of Rome, the beast’s own headquarters.

◦ Now Jesus returns. The beast’s armies and his allies, as well as all the godless on

the earth, are destroyed. The first resurrection occurs. All this happens in one day.

◦ Jesus rules the entire earth for a millennium, with true, beneficial justice for all.

◦ After the millennium ends, Satan is released from hell to create and deceive his

own children again, to cause the rebellion of Gog and Magog against Jesus. This movement would take years to raise and assemble. Then Jesus destroys them all in one day. This crushes the last of the corruptions and deceptions remaining on the earth. A state of absolute purity is achieved, as Satan is cast into hell again.

◦ There is a second resurrection upon the earth. The resurrected dead are scattered

among those who are still alive after the millennium. The resurrected remain on earth for an unspecified time. At this second resurrection, God will raise all who ever died in all history, both the good and the evil. After a time, Jesus shall ascend and all the resurrected dead will be raptured (lifted up) into heaven. Immediately after this, there is another rapture of all the living who survived the millennium.

◦ God destroys the entire material universe, the earth and the first two “heavens.”

 The Judgment Day in Heaven – occurs at a place of judgment. which, according to

biblical teachings, would be at the gates of heaven. Since this concludes all earthly matters, it is included with the seventh trumpet’s events related to the earth. On this day, Jesus will perfect and complete all the elect, by causing their repentance as He teaches and admonishes them. But the non-elect will never repent. So Jesus will cast them into hell, letting them drift forever in the spiritual darkness of the lies they love.

 Heaven – After being perfected and completed on the judgment day, literally all the

elect whom God had ever placed on the earth will enter heaven and live there forever, serving all the heavenly creatures and creations together with Jesus and their Father.

 

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Because I follow the Revelation’s order literally, I reject the so-called “Semitic” numbering system and other systems used by other interpretations. The “Semitic” system telescopes all the events of the seven seals, seven trumpets and seven bowls of wrath. It teaches that all these “sevens” are actually prophesies about one and the same sequential series of events, even though the scope and the order differs in all of them, and the Revelation explicitly states that the seven trumpets occur in the era of the seventh seal, and that the seven bowls of wrath are all poured out during the time of the seventh trumpet. Most interpretations completely ignore the numbering system of the Revelation. Then all such systems introduce many contradictions and nullify many other biblical prophecies, especially the prophecies about the last days and end times from the Old Testament. So those other interpretations are all entirely unacceptable, and commit the very sins which John and God’s Law prohibited. Now, the only reason we bother to interpret biblical prophecies is because we assume that they came from God, who cannot ever contradict Himself, nor make any mistakes. Therefore, let us now make those assumptions and interpret the Revelation literally, and in the order in which it clearly portrays the events of the last days, with respectful considerations for all the other Scriptures.

All true interpretations must fully harmonize all the biblical prophecies, not letting any interpretation contradict nor nullify even one other Scripture. Now, since the only way to harmonize literally all the prophecies, from both the Old and New Testaments, is to remain faithful to the original numbering system given by Jesus Christ in His Revelation to John, we must trust that numbering system. And it is truly a Jewish numbering system. Just as God’s Word used a base-seven numeral system (which some call a septenary system) to delineate a Sabbath day every seven days, and a Sabbath year every seven years, and a year of Jubilee after seven Sabbath years (after 49 years), Jesus also divided the eras of history, up to the day of His return, into the seven eras the seven seals. Then Jesus split the era of the seventh seal into seven shorter periods of time announced by the seven trumpets. After this, the briefest times, when God’s wrath pours out upon the beast, were represented by seven bowls within the period of seventh trumpet, near the end of that period. The only possible way to actually and effectively harmonize literally all the biblical last-days prophecies, without contradictions, is to arrange all their sequential prophesied events according to Jesus' numbering system, the one found in His Revelation to John. In fact, His Revelation was primarily given to us so we may know this order.

One more thing needs to be remembered. It is regarding the world-wide scope of most prophecies about the last days. Although these biblical prophecies are about the fates of all the people on earth, they primarily focus upon the Messiah interactions with His New and Old Covenant branches of His church of Israel, and in the physical area where that church began, in the Middle East. The mission of Jesus is to save all the elect in all of the earth through His Spirit working inside His people. Yet it is the Mediterranean Basin and the Middle East where most of the action will take place, especially during the time of the seventh trumpet—when the battle of the two great world religions takes place, when humanism attempts to entirely eradicate the Judea-Christian religion, but utterly fails to do so.

Then, naturally, some prophecies also focus on the realm of the beast. The Bible clearly defines the beast’s kingdom as the Roman Empire, but as a religious power applying doctrines originating from three previous empires: Babylon, the Persian Empire and the Greek Empire. Furthermore, Scriptures have always seen Babylon as the Roman Empire’s founder and head. So the Bible will, at times, figuratively use the name “Babylon” when it is actually referring to the beast’s Roman Empire. At any rate, this religious Roman Empire or “Babylon” is very much alive and well today. In fact, it is much bigger and stronger than it ever was before. For the essence of its dark, oppressive power over the people was always its demonic religion of humanism, which has become the chief manipulator of minds all over the world. No other religion remains free from the controlling influence of humanism.

 

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Almost all the souls of the world are now humanists. Yes, this humanistic Roman religion which binds together all the nations of the world has produced an extremely factious spiritual kingdom. Yet it is still the strongest and most powerful kingdom in the world. Later, at the end of the last days, the Roman Empire will become a physical kingdom again as well, with physical borders—the beast’s kingdom, an alliance of seven European nations, where one is the beast’s homeland (Italy), five will have once belonged to the ancient Roman Empire, and one nation will not have belonged to the first-century Roman Empire. This kingdom of the beast will become the dominant world power, but not the only power on earth. However, we should remember that, although some prophecies focus on the beast’s European nations warring against Israel and the Middle East, events in that small part of the world will determine the destinies of all the souls existing in the whole world. So let the Americans learn a little humility, and realize that God’s prophecies do not even mention them, except possibly as one of many nations who feel God’s wrath for their many sins, or possibly as a repentant nation.

Now, before I continue, let me quote Isaiah’s summary of the last days, since it serves as an outline for the contents of this book as well. Of course, through Isaiah, God also provided prophecies about the Messiah’s first advent too, like those found in chapter 52. But most of his prophecies were about His second advent. And here Isaiah summarized the events of the Messiah’s first and second advents:

God begins this prophecy in Isaiah by proclaiming: “Behold My Servant, whom I uphold, My chosen, in whom My Soul delights; I have put My Spirit upon Him; He will bring forth justice to the nations” (Is. 42:1, ESV). The second clause may also be translated as: “I will give My Spirit charge over Him.” Of course, God is referring to the Messiah, Jesus. And, since this prophecy portrays His Messiah as a human being walking among God’s people, but also as one whom His Spirit rules over, as the only Spirit in or upon Him, even the only Spirit controlling or given “charge over Him,” then we conclude that the Messiah is God in a human body walking upon the earth, speaking to other human bodies. And some Scriptures actually refer to the Messiah as Yahweh, as the one God, even though He obviously exists in a human body. God will “put” His Spirit in this Messiah, or “give” His Spirit to this Messiah. Thus, the Spirit in the Messiah’s body will not be a created human spirit. For God, thee uncreated Spirit, will be His Spirit. The spirits animating most human bodies are created by God. But the animating Spirit in Jesus’ body is God’s Spirit “put upon” Him, not a created spirit.

Then God tells us that His Messiah “will not cry aloud or lift up His voice, or make it heard in the street; a bruised reed He will not break, and a faintly burning wick He will not quench; He will faithfully bring forth justice” (Is. 42:2-3, ESV). This describes the Messiah’s mild gentleness during His first advent, when He establishes our New Covenant relationship. The Messiah did not come to us in the likeness of a vain mortal king, with gleaming robes designed to draw attention to Himself, while standing above the silenced masses shouting commands. Nor did He come like a salesman loudly proclaiming a carefully rehearsed sales pitch in the marketplace, so dupes could be conned into buying His wares. Rather, the Messiah came as a mild, gentle, wise Teacher walking among His people, simply serving each according to his or her individual needs, for each one’s own good. Jesus will not crush those who are barely hanging on to their faith in times of tragedy. He will not make threats and unjust demands upon us, like wanna-be human gods do. Rather, the Messiah came as our Healer and Helper, to serve His compassionate and loving kind of justice in the world, the kind of true justice that works through love. Jesus is a true serving King, the example of a King for all kings.

Jesus is also the strongest and most persistent King this world has ever seen, for “He will not grow faint or be discouraged till He has established justice in the earth; and the coastlands wait for His law” (Is. 42:4, ESV). Here the word translated as “coastlands” is actually a Hebrew word that refers to any lands which are a great distance away, even to land-locked kingdoms or city-states. So this

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prophecy is telling us that, forever after the Messiah’s first advent, He will steadfastly advance His Gospel of New Covenant salvation, year after year, until He has brought His loving and equitable justice to the entire earth, even to the lands that are the farthest from Israel. Then, once all the elect and non-elect in the world stand before that truth, and make their choices, He will return to judge them. Yet, when He returns, this educational process will not be completed in full, to perfection, until after the final judgment day. But a basic understanding of God’s just, pure love—built upon a solid foundation of genuine truths which bind His people together—has been growing everywhere on this earth, since Jesus ascended in AD 28. God’s elect have always longed for the loving justice of God’s own right interpretations and applications of His own Law, as He has been fulfilling it in their hearts.

And our God is not too weak that He will not accomplish His purpose to establish justice over all the earth, for He is Yahweh, “who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it” (Is. 42:5, ESV). Here Isaiah heard and recorded the words that the Creator’s Holy Spirit spoke directly to his spirit. And our God Yahweh proclaimed that He made the three heavens, the earth’s atmosphere, outer space and the spiritual space-time continuum. And that third heaven consists of His eternal homeland and everlasting hell. Then God also claimed to have “stretched them out.” This most likely refers to His work of creation on the fourth day (Gen. 1:14-19), when He spread out the stars in the sky, when He caused our spirits to perceive time and space in the material universe as infinite. Of course, science now indicates that time and space are actually defined by God’s power, that God causes our perceptions of physical existence. Yet all material past and future times exist at once, in an ever-present “now,” and the farthest reaches of space are just as close to us as our own hands and feet. So energy defines our perceptions of time and space, but that energy is actually the transformed power of God causing our perceptions. Thus, God did stretch out the material space-time continuum.

Then, in the Hebrew, when God stated that He “stretched out” the three heavens, there is a double meaning. For the word also suggests that all three heavens, and all that is ruled by them, “stretches out” before Him in worshipful obedience and service to Him. All His creations bow before Him, lay prostrated at His feet, faithfully serving His loving purposes at all times. And this means that certain meteors orbiting our sun will also strike the earth at their appointed times, at the predestined times prophesied in His Revelation and in His other ancient prophecies. These natural disasters, which God Himself will cause on His earth, shall kill the temporary flesh of countless continuously dying people, animals and plants. It will be horrifying and painful for the flesh. But remember that it is also God who gives breath to each body of flesh, or the perceptions of earthly life to each eternal spirit on the earth. And it is the spirit in each which is the only real life, a spirit that cannot die, but always will continue to think, will, remember, hope and grow in knowledge and wisdom after the flesh dies.

And this is why I cannot believe in the “Big Bang” theory, nor in most aspects of the theory of evolution. For none can honestly deny that all humans, and even all living things, have spirits. Then all material existence, including our brains of flesh, must be perceptions of the minds of our spirits, for the material must be perceived by that which is not material, by spirits. So, after we realize that we all have loving or hating spirits, we are forced to believe, trust and place confidence in the Spirit who created our spirits, in the Creator and Designer of all spiritual and physical existence, in the God of the Bible. For God’s Word frequently declares that God created the heavens and the earth, and all that live upon it. So one greater non-material Entity, one extremely intelligent Spirit, has designed and granted each of us a perceived body of flesh, by granting that temporary perception to our eternal spirits. The mind of the spirit in a human being and in every other living entity bears the rational perceptions of directed energy, time and space which God initiates and maintains in the

 

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minds of our spirits. For, without a non-material spirit, our flesh is just a space, time and energy defined in another non-material mind or spirit, like the lifeless rocks and dirt, over which we live and move. Without the spirit perceiving and animating a body, a body will die almost instantly, no matter how healthy that body might be. This is a rational belief based on empirical observations of material existence and living human beings with spirits that will all leave flesh behind. This is a belief built on sound faith, on God-given inductive reasoning which interprets empirical observations of causes and effects. This is not blind faith, like the faith in Platonic ‘Big Bang’ and evolutionary theories.

The “Big Bang” speculation is based solely on Platonic religious beliefs in an impassive creator who leaves human beings with a fictional “free will,” namely in a tiny particle, a “cosmic egg” creator god who once existed outside of this material space-time continuum, in an undefinable place, and was possibly a fluctuation occurring in a space which did not yet exist. Then this “egg” expanded to create the entire material space-time continuum, then carefully maintained itself with laws so precise that variations of something like 10-80 would cause its own destruction. But, if this material “egg,” which is also non-material, supposedly contained an infinite amount of material energy while it supposedly existed outside of the material space-time continuum—that is, before any space, time and energy existed—then its energy existed apart from time, and this “egg” had no material space which could contain its energy anywhere “inside” it. And this logically implies that this “cosmic egg” must have been a spiritual entity. For it could not be a material entity or particle, not if material energy did not yet exist. According to their own “theory” (which is not a scientific theory, just an idle speculation) this “cosmic egg” had to be a powerful spiritual (non-material) entity, existing in some kind of non-material space-time continuum, since it was a power existing before the material space and time even existed. Then some try to get around this problem by inventing speculations about an oscillating eternal universe. But how can this universe go through cycles of expansion and contraction if literally all empirical evidence indicates that the forces of nature are far too weak to ever cause its contraction even in its current state? And entropy does not allow for eternal energy and matter. So those speculations just beg the question, “Where did material existence, with its past and future times existing at the same time, and its space manifested solely through energy, originate?”

Given what science has now discovered, it is irrational to say there was a material particle existing outside a not-yet-existing material space-time continuum. Only a non-material entity, that is, a spiritual entity, could exist outside of space, time and energy. Only a non-created entity in a spiritual space-time continuum, which has no entropy and no linear arrow of time, even an entity that is the power behind the entire spiritual space-time continuum, could possess a different kind of power which was used to define and cause our perceptions of material space and time. Only an extremely intelligent spirit, with a will and a purpose, a spirit existing before material space, time and energy began to exist, could create what earthly life perceives to be the material space-time continuum.

This is a very deep and complex scientific and philosophical subject, far beyond the understanding of mere irrational minds of flesh, although comprehensible to spirits. Nevertheless, God has always deemed that it is important for us to know that our earthly lives are temporary, and that our eternal spirits come from Him and will return to Him in the very end. The understanding of our purpose in life, for our spirits to be educated by our heavenly Father, is critical to our well-being, both on this earth and forever after. And that means we must acknowledge that only a creating Spirit, God, could transform His spiritual power into material energy, and cause us to perceive energy moving through material space in material time, all relative to His will. Learning that God created and maintains all that exists is part of His education for our spirits while we dwell on this earth, and His education of our spirits is our salvation. Therefore, there are some of God’s elect servants in His priesthood of the

 

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church who have been called and compelled to look into these matters, to assure us of these truths. Isaiah and the other prophets might not have expressed these concepts in modern terms, but knew them and expressed them in the language they knew, in the terms that our spirits can comprehend.

Also, the supporters of the ‘Big Bang’ theory are totally irrational when they say they have absolute proof of their beliefs. For all they actually have is proof that the material universe expanded, that God “stretched out” the heavens. So they do not really possess any actual proof that all originated from one material particle that some call a “cosmic egg.” Proof that the material universe expanded is just that, proof that it expanded. And not even the past or current rates of expansion can possibly be determined from that discovery, since God’s natural laws never allow energy to travel faster than the speed of light, although God’s power can create, expand and travels through our perceptions of space at inconceivable rates. Thus, since the oldest books of the Bible declare that God “created the heavens and stretched them out,” proof of an expanding universe, or the cosmic radiation left over from that initial expansion, and the manipulated calculations used to “prove” those wildly imagined speculations, as well as other data, cannot possibly prove that God does not exist and that this incredibly finely balanced and complex universe had no Creator or Designer who “stretched it out.”

Clearly, God created our perceptions of the material universe with an unspecified amount of space, where everything in it instantly communicates with everything else, as entangled particles indicate. And that means that space actually has no measurable distance between each particles of energy within it, nothing that limits communication between energy manifestations to the speed of light. For the power which manifests velocity to our perceptions is all controlled by one will who directs all of it all at once, in the flow of material time which we perceive through His power as well, a time that science has discovered to consist of all the past and future at one time. So, yes, God’s non-material Spirit causes our perceptions of the material universe, and we see it as still expanding to this day.

Furthermore, a mindless entity like a “cosmic egg” particle could never create the extremely intricately balanced forces of the material universe in only one accidental expansion. This universe could never begin through a random action, by a mindless particle beginning to expand without any intelligence directing and limiting its energy to form this incredibly stable and balanced universe, then stop that energy from altering its behaviors or laws frequently and with devastating results. If the forces of nature were unbalanced in the slightest way, it would collapse soon after it began. If the balance of the forces were off by anything more than an inconceivably small fraction, the material universe would end almost instantly. And science has also shown that the material universe would never again have any opportunity to start over (there can be no “oscillating universe”). Likewise, physics proves that random chance can never accidentally arrange energy or particles to produce order at a ratio any greater than 10 to 2, which means that mindless, undirected randomness certainly could never produce anything remotely close to the order of the material universe. Thus, science forces us to conclude that an extremely intelligent, powerful spiritual entity created and “stretched out” the material universe. And all “Big Bang” physicists inadvertently agree that some kind of Spirit created the material universe, since all believe in an almighty, wise, non-material entity that created all material existence, but call it a “cosmic egg,” insisting that their creator god is just an impassive and impersonal thing like Plato’s god, through their extreme biases as Roman humanists.

Throughout history, only biblical Christians and Jews have been rational enough to believe in the kind of God that is now being proved by scientific discoveries. Neither the Roman humanists, nor any other religion, believed that an infinitely intelligent and powerful non-material Spirit created the universe, and did so willingly, for His own personal purposes, so He might serve all His creations through love, and is therefore personally interested in His living creations, in all that possesses an

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eternal spirit of life. But now we have proof that a personal Spirit created our eternal spirits with perceptions of material existence, and for reasons our elect spirits know through our God Jesus, so our spirits might learn to serve life through love, in just and equitable ways, like our Creator God.

Only biblical believers are rational enough to believe that the perfect, extremely complex, stable kind of order in the material universe could not possibly have formed through an undirected series of random events. And those elect believers knew this before mathematics and the laws of nature (such as the laws of entropy) proved that only the intelligent input of an extremely powerful Spirit could have formed our perceptions of this material universe, and only through His personal will and His interest in creating all this for His own purposes. We call that personal, creating Spirit our God. And our personal God also created many other human spirits like His Spirit, in His image, as His beloved heirs. He did not create the material universe for any purpose other than to create beloved children and other life for Himself, and to educate all life to serve eternally through love, even as He does.

Then Isaiah recorded these words from our God: “I am [Yahweh]; I have called You [i.e., here God is speaking to the Messiah] in righteousness; I will take You by the hand and [guard] You; I will give You as a covenant for the people, a light for the nations, to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison those who sit in darkness” (Is. 42:6-7, ESV). God calls Himself Yahweh, because it means “He is,” for He is all that exists. And He sent us the Messiah, as the only truly mature, just, fully loving Spirit that ever lived in a human body of flesh. And all that our Messiah Jesus did on earth was by the hand of Yahweh, all His miraculous works of love. Then Yahweh guarded Jesus until the day He willingly offered Him up as a sacrifice to establish the new, eternal and unconditional covenant of His salvation for His elect. This New Covenant would send His Holy Spirit into elect hearts, to make the blind see and free them from prisons of lies and sins.

This covenant or promise of God is the Messiah’s salvation of Israel, which Jeremiah called the “New Covenant.” This covenant was God’s promise to do all the works necessary to develop a new relationship between Him and the people whom He had chosen, a promise that He would personally teach and train the spirits of His people until they could love in the fulfilled, just ways of His own kind of love. Yes, these just, equitable loving ways are partially described in His written Law of His Old Covenant, which His people could not fulfill through their own wills of their infantile spirits and their amoral minds of flesh. Thus, the New Covenant was God’s promise to cause His people to truly fulfill His Law, through His interventions. God Himself would cause His people to know Him and His ways through His own works, by “writing” His far more complete Law on their “hearts,” where their spirits dwell. God Himself would cause His heirs to fulfill His will, by shaping the motives and intentions of their loving spirits, so that His intended purposes of His Law would permanently reside in them and would be worked through them. In this way, God would save His children from hell and gather them all into heaven, after He completed and perfected their spirits during the judgment day.

And notice the world-wide scope of the Messiah’s ministry of this New Covenant salvation. Yahweh God would send the Messiah to be “a light for the nations” too, not just for Israel, but also for all the Gentiles in the world. For Yahweh is not a local god of the Jews alone, which many Jews do not seem to fully comprehend. Yahweh brought an educating light for the Jews so they could lovingly reflect His light into all the world, because His purpose for establishing Israel through Abraham was to provide a priesthood nation which would serve the entire world in His name. The Messiah came to gather all the elect who ever lived on earth, even all who ever lived throughout history, into His eternal true church of Israel. The salvation of His New Covenant with Israel would be for both all elect Jews and all elect Gentiles. Literally all the elect on earth would receive God’s personal and complete education of their spirits, to prepare them all for their works of love in their eternal home.

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And there would be physical effects of this spiritual education as well. The Messiah Jesus would open both the blind spiritual and physical eyes, so His elect priesthood could see Him and His good spiritual creations, as well as discern the writing of His loving ways into His physical creations, or read God’s warnings against injustice and sin in those same physical creations. With His power, He would free them from the confining prisons of lies and delusions, from the spiritual walls that the devil’s world order uses to keep them in dungeon-like darkness. Our God in a body of flesh would bear all the power of the heavenly Father of our elect spirits, because He is one with Him, and God has never been confined by the time and space He created, because God is ubiquitous and can come to us as multiple persons at the same time. So He can and will awaken both Jews and Gentiles inside, to see the spiritual and physical realities existing all around them, then empower them to fulfill the world’s need for justice and truth. And we will surely see more of these works just before He returns.

Our God also declared: “I am [Yahweh]; that is My name; My glory I give to no other , nor My praise to carved idols. Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things I now declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them” (Is. 42:8-9, ESV). Our God is Yahweh, the only God who is all that exists. That is why He chose that name. And our God cannot give His “glory” or good opinion to any other wanna-be god, neither to a god invented by human imaginations, nor to a humanist who exalts himself as the god of his siblings’ destinies, nor to a demonic spirit who claims to rule God’s creations. For, if He gave a good opinion or praise to a fake god, then His elect would heed the lies of that fake god, then sin against Him and His creations. And He will not cause sins.

God cannot give His glory to any other entity. For God alone represents all that is good, right and holy. God alone is the source of all that should rightly be glorified, of all that the truly wise elect will always admire through the good opinions of their spirits. If God gave any glory to any less holy, less good entity, it would be tantamount to God also endorsing the weaknesses, failures, wrong teachings and sins of that other entity. This is why God cannot give His glory to anyone or anything except Himself, since He alone is the completely perfect Teacher for all of us, He who never fails or sins.

Yet, both in the Old and New Covenant Scriptures, Yahweh God did actually give His glory to the Messiah. Thus, the Messiah must be the one and only perfect God, Yahweh. For God has never called any human, nor any angel in heaven, what He called the Messiah. To whom has Yahweh ever said You are “My Servant, whom I uphold, My chosen, in whom My Soul delights; I have put My Spirit upon Him; He will bring forth justice to the nations.” Or whom did Yahweh ever call by the name, “Yahweh-our-righteousness” (Jer. 33:16), except the Messiah? If we search the Scriptures, we discover that our heavenly Father, Yahweh God, gave His name, His identity and all of His own glory to the prophesied Messiah. And the only human being who could possibly be this prophesied Messiah, the only one who healed the blind and freed Satan’s captives from bondage to lies and delusions, is Jesus. And only Jesus came at the precise time Daniel prophesied. That is, Daniel 9:25-26 prophesied that the Messiah would be “cut off” (die) at some time after He arrived, and He was prophesied to arrive at 7 + 62 Sabbath years (483 years) after a decree to restore all of Jerusalem, a decree that Artaxerxes made in 458 BC (cf. Ezra 7). Therefore, since Jesus was the only direct descendant of David who came to Israel at that prophesied time in history and miraculously healed the blind, only Jesus can possibly be the prophesied Messiah. And He must also be Yahweh God.

Isaiah’s prophecy also told us that the Messiah would declare “new things,” seemingly because the “former things have come to pass.” The “former things” would be His Old Covenant laws worked through the wills of human spirits and flesh. But, although His laws would have indeed produced an extremely just, equitable and free society, if wisely followed, centuries of history proved that neither the Jews nor the Gentiles could actually obey those laws laws in any way that even remotely pleased

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the Creator God. And many of those laws were ceremonial, serving as symbols which taught about God’s attributes and ways. But human beings could not even interpret those rightly, and used even those rituals to oppress more than to teach. Thus, all humans were infantile and inadequate, in ways that prevented them from rightly interpreting, understanding and wisely applying God’s spiritual laws. Because God’s Old Covenant relationship with His church of Israel conclusively proved that no laws can effectively save an individual or a nation, the Messiah came to declare “new things,” that is, the salvation worked by God in us, through His New Covenant relationship with us. Our God Jesus would proclaim a new way of administering His laws and ways, in His people and through His people, through a new relationship with them. Then we would experience truly just, equitable love.

Therefore, God and His prophet commands us: “Sing to [Yahweh] a new song, His praise from the end of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that fills it, the coastlands and their inhabitants. Let the desert and its cities lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar inhabits; let the habitants of Sela sing for joy, let them shout from the top of the mountains. Let them give glory to [Yahweh], and declare His praise in the coastlands. [Yahweh] goes out like a mighty Man, like a Man of war He stirs up His zeal; He cries out, He shouts aloud, He shows Himself mighty against His foes. For a long time I have held My peace; I have kept still and restrained Myself; now I will cry out like a woman in labor; I will gasp and pant. I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their vegetation; I will turn the rivers into islands, and dry up the pools [i.e., cause droughts]” (Is. 42:10-15, ESV). Now the Messiah will come a second time, after the sixth seal’s revival, after the “coastlands” or nations far from Israel “sing for joy” and “give glory to Yahweh.” And He held His “peace” the first time He came, but will do so no longer. His second coming will be to destroy His foes, who kill His children. Soon our Messiah “Yahweh” will go “out like a mighty man ... of war” against all evil.

This “new song” represents the effects of Israel’s New Covenant relationship with God. But the church or kuriakoi of Israel, the priesthood of God, will include both elect Jews and elect Gentiles everywhere on earth. After the sixth seal’s revival, just before Jesus returns, most of the elect on the earth will know, praise and give glory to Yahweh, even in the most distant nations on earth (i.e., the “coastlands” or “islands” refer to distant nations). Clearly, this part of Isaiah’s prophecy is about the second coming of the Messiah, Jesus. And the Messiah is called Yahweh here, the one will go “out like a mighty Man” to rid the earth of His foes in the end times. So our God Jesus will return as a Man, as God’s Spirit dwelling in a body of a male human being, who is the prophesied Messiah.

Yahweh God says, “For a long time I have held My peace.” This refers to the eras of the first five seals, to all the centuries after His first advent, until the end times begin. For God has overlooked the ignorance, lies and sins of humankind until His Gospel of New Covenant salvation reached the ends of the earth. Then, when the short era of the sixth seal revives His true church of Israel on earth, when 144,000 virgin male Jews proclaim the true Gospel of New Covenant salvation, together with many other elect Jews and Gentiles throughout the earth, our Messiah Yahweh will no longer hold His peace. Within that same revived and awakened generation of elect souls, our God Jesus will begin to reveal His wrath. Our Creator God will rage against the whole unjust world, during the eras of the sixth and seventh seals. First He will save and separate His apostate elect from all others. And these will be painful times for them and all people on earth, the worst times in all history, even for God Himself. For God hates to destroy even the wicked. Yet, since there will be so much evil upon the earth, particularly through Satan’s kingdom of Roman humanism, God will need to destroy much of the earth and kill very many souls. By the time Jesus sets His feet upon the Mount of Olives, He will have utterly destroyed about two thirds of the world’s population, possibly even more than that.

 

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Yet the lies, delusions, hierarchies, oppression, exploitations and murders of Satan’s world order, and especially of his fourth kingdom of Roman humanism, will be finally crushed, with no one left to cause its deceptions any longer. Therefore, our God Jesus will be praised by a remnant of elect, who will be scattered throughout the earth, even in the most distant “islands” or “coastlands.” Jesus will not be silenced any longer, but will make war on the wicked of the earth, since they have killed and oppressed His children for centuries, and did not repent into the truth. In the end times, just before Jesus returns, the wicked will have raised up their most lowly, unjust and worthless wretches to the highest and most esteemed positions in all their lands, all standing like mountains and hills, lording it over a people brought very low. But Jesus shall knock those vain souls down and level their lofty little egos. Jesus will not only humble them, but will kill most of them on the day He returns. Isaiah prophesied that God remained silent for a long time, even many centuries. But, during all that time, Jesus was not idle. Rather, His Holy Spirit was working inwardly to build up His truth in the spirits of His elect, so that His kind of free, just, equitable love could be recognized everywhere on earth. And, in the end times, God will not allow that kind of love to be so easily dismissed by the world, no longer slandered and mocked by them. Very soon, the entire world will hear our God’s just rebuke.

Then our God prophesied about the days after His wrath had washed the wicked from the face of His earthly kingdom: “And I will lead the blind in a way that they do not know, in paths that they have not known I will guide them. I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level ground. These are the things I do, and I do not forsake them. They are turned back and utterly put to shame, who trust in carved idols, who say to metal images, ‘You are our gods’” (Is. 42:16-17, ESV). Since the days when our Messiah first walked on earth, Roman humanists have taught all the people to worship human gods as their saviors, then carved statues or idols of those psychopaths for the people to admire, “metal images” in town squares and sanctuaries dedicated to their religion of humanism. But that darkness will no longer exist when Jesus comes to rule over the surviving elect.

Here Isaiah prophesied God’s words about what the Revelation described as the millennium. Our God, in the body of Jesus, said that He shall return to the earth, to govern and guide His people. But He also indicated that the idolaters will be “turned back” or “utterly put to shame” in those future times, starting even before He returns to rule the earth. Jesus shall destroy those who “trust in carved idols,” who esteem and serve “metal images” as their gods. These were actually the two principal kinds of idols made by pagans: (1) idols carved out of hard substances and (2) idols formed by pouring liquid metal or clay into molds and letting them solidify. And human gods are made in the same way, either by carving off all the excess weaknesses and sins until they outwardly appear worthy of worship, or by pouring their souls into predefined molds of nurturing until they become solid enough to be worshiped. Humanists artificially eliminate all that is outwardly unbecoming or distasteful in the eyes of their dupes, so those dupes will admire and serve their elite human gods. For they must pretend that those weak exploiters are “great” and “superior” rulers over the lives of those inferior dupes. Or they must shape heirs of fake “superiors” from birth to be worshiped as lords and kings, in environments that mold them into arrogant, useless, entitled, worshiped fools.

But Jesus will turn us back from trusting in and worshiping those human gods, or any other gods. And all who do not turn back in repentance will be cast further into delusions, until they end up as the slaves of the demonic beast in the end times. And even now, some are little copies of that beast sent to each generation, like Hitler, Trump, Stalin, Putin, Zedong, Xi or the other self-worshiping fools demanding esteem and obedience. And, when Jesus destroys the beast at Armageddon, He will also kill any of the unrepentant copies and idolaters still living, along with the beast and his armies. For the hearts of all Romans worship their carved or molded images of Satan’s presence in the man

 

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called the beast, or Satan’s lying and murdering image in other men. Whenever a people creates idols to esteem and serve, they doom themselves, through all of the delusions associated with those idols.

As you can see, the prophecies granted by God to His truly faithful servants, to the prophets and the apostles, do not treat the salvation of Christ as a religious game to be played with the mind and will of the flesh. Rather, the Creator God’s real salvation is portrayed as a direct work of Himself inside of us, as His teaching and training of our spirits for life on this earth and for our eternal home above. For the real God described by the Bible is not merely one of the many differing gods of the false churches in our day, and certainly is not like the psychopathic little human gods ruling over most humanistic churches. Likewise, God’s harmonious, consistent and intended meanings of His own words in the Scriptures are nothing like the always self-contradicting, inconsistent and intentionally self-serving interpretations of those same words by the false churches and their human gods. So we need to take note of these great differences and expose them, to worship the real God in real truth.

Our spirits must take the matters of biblical salvation very seriously. For the thoughts of our spirits, and the physical deeds we do from our hearts, through the guidance of our God for our spirits, will determine whether or not we have joy on earth and for all eternity. God also has a very good reason for being deeply concerned about the inner beliefs of elect spirits, whether or not our spirits absorb and emit His light or remain in darkness, whether or not His Spirit truly counsels, teaches and trains the minds of our spirits. For what our spirits within our hearts believe and think will ultimately affect how our minds of flesh will think and what deeds we will do through our bodies of flesh. Each dark, deluded, deceived spirit will commit loveless sins and crimes, either in ignorance or intentionally through malicious intent. But every elect spirit can actually be taught by God to apply its mind and body of flesh to good and loving purposes, in ways that see God’s wise, just and loving will done on earth as it is in heaven above. So it is time to let Jesus do His works in us, and shine His light of life.

Now look at the Old and New Covenant prophecies about the last days, and especially the end times, since all those prophecies emphasized the end times more than any other times in history. For our God Jesus promised that these prophecies will be a blessing for us all, and will help His elect prepare for His second advent, by more seriously and effectively experiencing His works of salvation within our eternal spirits. As mentioned, those prophecies will be presented here in the order that our God Jesus presented them in His Revelation to John, since all the other prophecies about the last days, in the Old and New Covenant Scriptures, also fit harmoniously and consistently into this order as well.

The eras of the first four seals overlap and merge, as one long stretch of time, with the end of that lengthy time signaled and warned by the fifth seal’s era. And nothing in the Revelation or in the other prophecies about the last days clearly delineates a precise beginning of the second, third or fourth seals. But the end of the first four seals begins with the events of the fifth seal. The defining and most significant characteristics of the first four seals are all caused by horsemen, who go out to sabotage and wreak havoc in enemy territories, in the beast’s kingdom of the world order. All four horsemen resemble one another, much like four captains in an army, each sent out on a different mission at a different time, but all during one long battle, fighting for God’s kingdom, as soldiers who are all one in mind and purpose. But, as in a real battle, although each captain’s squadron may be deployed at a different time, it seldom means that the mission of each deployed squadron must be completed and end before the next captain’s squadron can be sent out. There is almost always an overlap in missions of multiple deployed squadrons, and all are actively engaged in battle at once.

Each of the four horsemen are like military commanders, each sent out on a mission. Each fulfills a specific objective which is slightly different from the other’s mission. Each horseman causes a

 

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