| When is Satan thrown down to the earth? |
| Rev.12:5 She gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron. Her child was caught up to God, and to his throne. Rev.12:6 The woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that there they may nourish her one thousand two hundred sixty days. † The only Seed of the woman is the LORD Jesus. The only enemy of the serpent is the true Israel, the woman. This male child born of the woman, is the One who will rule all nations. Only the LORD Jesus can rule over all nations. Of course, the saints will also receive the authority of a rod of iron in the LORD Jesus, and they will rule as royal priests over the nations in the LORD Jesus.[1] However, there is only the LORD Jesus who will rule all nations. Therefore, I believe that although this male child born of the woman, true Israel, can figuratively symbolize the overcoming saints, the child directly represents only the LORD Jesus, the Son of God. Therefore, I believe that the claim that this male child is the 2 witnesses, or the 144000 firstfruits, may be indirectly correct only in didactic use, but be directly wrong. I also think the fact that this male child was caught up to God and to His throne, does not mean that the 1st resurrectioin of the saints, but the ascension of the LORD Jesus. In my opinion, the 1260 days reign of the beast does not begin after the 1st resurrection of the saints. After the reign of the beast for 1260 days, the 1st resurrection of the martyr witnesses takes place. After the reign of the beast for the 1st half of the 70th week, the 1st resurrection takes place. † The Seed of the woman comes though Israel[2], but Israel also comes through the Seed of the woman.[3] Although the Seed of the woman came through the outward Israel[4], the inward Israel, the church, also came out through the Seed of the woman.[5] The woman before giving birth to the male child, means the enemy of the serpent, that is, the true Israel.[6] In the past, most of the true Israel was in the outward Israel, but as of 2022, most of the true Israel is in the gentile churches.[7] Soon, outward Israel will become the true Israel[8], and both outward Israel and the gentile church will become one[9] as the true Israel.[10] The male child came through the true Israel that was still left among the outward Israel that had already become the brood of vipers.[11] † The woman after giving birth to the male child, means the true Israel who was purified by the blood of the LORD Jesus, the male child, and betrothed to the LORD Jesus.[12] The true Israel receives the word of the LORD Jesus, the seed of the Bridegroom[13], and gives birth to the images of God.[14] Not all of the outward Israel or those who attend church, are true Israel.[15] Only the enemy of the serpent[16] who obeys the LORD Jesus, is the true Israel.[17] Through the LORD Jesus, Jews and gentiles are united[18] to become the true Israel.[19] No matter who the woman is, or even assuming that the male child is the saints who have received the authority of a rod of iron, I don't view the ascension of the male child as the 1st resurrection of the martyr witnesses that will take place when the 7th trumpet is sounded. If we view the ascension of the child as the resurrection or the transformation of the martyr witnesses, it can be difficult to understand the 1260 days or the prepared place. † There are 1260 days following the ascension of the LORD Jesus. This is the story of a connected period. The 69 weeks ended just before the ascension of the LORD Jesus. Now, out of 70-weeks, only the 70th week is left. The 70-weeks are the period remaining until the end of human history[20], and 1260 days are the 1st half of the last remaining 1 week of the 70-weeks. Since the 69 weeks ended a few months[21] or years[22] before the ascension of the LORD Jesus, the story of the remaining 1 week continues.[23] Rev.12:7 There was war in the sky. Michael and his angels made war on the dragon. The dragon and his angels made war. Rev.12:8 They didn't prevail, neither was a place found for him any more in heaven. † Satan fraudswarms who were expelled from the heaven of angels and confined in Hades, was cast out of heaven again. Therefore, this heaven may be a heaven made in Hades[24], different from the heaven of angels from which Satan fraudswarms had been cast out before.[25] Rev.12:9 The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. Rev.12:10 I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now is come the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night. Rev.12:11 They overcame him because of the Lamb's blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn't love their life, even to death. † The brothers and sisters overcome Satan fraudswarms with the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony. To not love their lives even to death, means to be martyred or to live a life equivalent to martyrdom.[26] Rev.12:12 Therefore rejoice, heavens, and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and to the sea, because the devil has gone down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a short time." † Satan, cast out of heaven, harms the sea and the earth. Satan raises beasts from the sea[27] and the earth.[28] These beasts will harm the world for the 70th week, and eventually they will be judged by the LORD Jesus.[29] Rev.12:13 When the dragon saw that he was thrown down to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male child. Rev.12:14 Two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, so that she might be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent. † Satan who was thrown down to the earth, raises beasts from the sea and the earth, and persecutes the true church for 1 time times and a half, 3 times and a half, 3 years and 6 months, the 1st half of the 70th week, that is, for 1260 days. |
| Note: View of 1260 days in Revelation 12 as 1260 years[30] |
| At the beginning of the 1260 years, Satan who lost the war in heaven, is expelled to the earth, and persecutes the woman, the true church, for 1260 years. The victory or defeat of the war in the heaven is decided by whether or not the appointed number of martyr witnesses are completed on the earth. The fact that Satan lost the war in the heaven, means that the appointed number of martyr witnesses is completed or it is certain that it will be completed soon.[31] The dragon persecutes the true church by using the little horn[32] from Rome.[33] The little horn that speaks great things[34] and blasphemy[35] symbolizes the Babylon papacy.[36] Accordingly, the 1260 years must be counted from when the Babylon papacy began to gain enough power to persecute the saints. There is an opinion that the 1260 years begin around 538 when the eastern roman emperor Justinian destroyed the ostrogoths and granted the pope power over western europe. If that were the case, the year 1798, the year Napoleon expelled the pope to France, would end the persecution of the 1260 years. There will be a battle when the dragon will fight against the rest of her seed.[37] This must be the battle of the 70th week or so. If we consider the period of nourishing the woman as 1260 days, it will obviously mean the 1st half of the 70th week. If so, it can be seen that the persecution and the battle take place at the same time for the 1260 days, the period when the dragon persecutes the true church after being cast out to the earth. (There may be an opinion that the battle between the dragon and the rest of her seed, will be at the end of the 2nd half of the 70th week. There is a possibility that the rest of her seed who are resurrected or transformed into the bride, will join the army of the LORD Jesus who comes even to the earth at the end of the 2nd half of the 70th week.[38]) However, if we consider the period of nourishing the woman as 1260 years, 1260 years would never mean the 1st half of the 70th week. Therefore, sometime after 1260 years, the 70th week will begin, and the battle between the dragon and the rest of her seed will be fought. To say that the 70th week begins sometime after 1260 years, means that 1260 years cannot be considered as part of the 70-weeks. The 42 months of Revelation 13 which follow immediately after[39], clearly mean the 1st half of the 70th week. If so, it means that the 1st half of the 70th week has nothing to do with the 1260 years, the 1260 days in which the woman is nourished. If we consider the 1260 days in which the woman is nourished in Revelation 12, and the 42 months in Revelation 13, are the same 1260 years, there is no way to explain the 70th week out of the 70-weeks. The beasts must have come up from the sea and the earth for the 1260 years, during the Babylon papacy was persecuting the saints. Also, the mark of the beast should have been enforced which would prevent trading if not received, for the 1260 years. What was the beasts that came up from the sea and the earth for the 1260 years? What was the mark of the beast for the 1260 years? I cannot explain it convincingly. At the end of the 70-weeks, iniquity will end by judgment.[40] Of course, human history will come to an end. However, as of 2022, human history is still continuing. Considering that even the 42 months of Revelation 13, are 1260 years that have already passed, when will the 70th week begin? Therefore, to see the 1260 days of nourishing the woman as 1260 years, the 42 months of Revelation 13 should not be regarded as the same 1260 years. The 42 months in Revelation 13 should be regarded as the period of the 70th week at least. If we still want to view the 42 months of Revelation 13 as 1260 years instead of 1260 days, in other words, if we do not want to view the 42 months that the earth beast force the saints to worship the sea beast, as 1260 days in the 1st half of the 70th week, we must interpet the 42 months of persecution as meaning that the sea beast had previously been given authority to persecute the saints for 42 months, that is, 1260 years. It means that the 42 months in which the earth beast enforces the mark of the beast, must be regarded as the history that has already ended. However, a combined beast with the political power as Babylon+Persia+Greece+Rome has not yet appeared in history. Nor has yet the mark of the beast ever been enforced in every tribe, people, language, and nation.[41] If it is forcibly interpreted to mean 'the beast persecuted the saints and enforced the mark of the beast for 1260 years', it would not fit the context. And I believe this interpretation is wrong. Revelation 13 did not take place for 1260 years, but it will be take place for the 1st half of the 70th week. Nevertheless, if we continue to view the 42 months of Revelation 13 as 1260 years, we must limit the 1260 years to the period applicable only to the sea beast among the sea beast and the earth beast, only then can we even make an attempt to assume that the earth beast will later enforce the mark of the beast. But no matter how plausible it may be, I think this view is wrong. However, if I explain it roughly, it would be possible to explain it to the extent that 'The beast that came up from the sea persecuted the saints for 1260 years, and in 1798 the persecution ended, and in the last days, the beast will come up from the earth to make the people of the world worship the sea beast, using the mark that gives right of buying and selling as a weapon.' But even so, since the previous 42 months have already been said to be 1260 years, the verse about what will happen in the 70th week, must be found elsewhere. If we consider the 1260 days in which the woman in Revelation 12 is nourished, as 1260 years, there is room to see the earth that saved the woman, the true church, by swallowing up the river that the dragon spewed to kill the true church, as the new world America. Also, there is a possibility that the earth where the beast of Revelation 13 comes up, and the wilderness where the woman was saved, can be seen as the same place. However, if we consider the 1260 days that the true church is nourished as the 1st half of the 70th week, it is impossible to equate the earth where the true church is saved to the earth where the beast is raised. The earth cannot protect the woman from the attack of the dragon while producing a beast that kills the woman for the dragon's sake. There is the earth to keep the woman and the earth to raise the beast. After the martyr witnesses overcame Satan, Satan is expelled to the earth, and after Satan is expelled to the earth, Satan persecutes the true church through the strengthened Babylon papacy.[42] Therefore, by the time the strengthened Babylon papacy begins to persecute the true church, it must be after the martyr witnesses have overcome Satan. ① After the martyr witnesses overcome Satan, when Satan is thrown down to the earth, the kingdom of God and the authority of Christ must come soon. However, Satan who was thrown down to the earth, persecutes the saints for 1260 years. It is awkward that there are still more than 1260 years left until the kingdom of God and the authority of Christ are come. After being thrown down, Satan should not have much time left. Satan raises beasts from the sea and the earth, having great wrath, because he knows that he has but a short time.[43] However, if the period of trampling on the saints with the beasts is 1260 years, it is too long to say that there is not much time left. If Satan was thrown down before the beginning of the persecution of the 1260 years, there is another question that needs to be explained. ② If it is enough to throw down Satan from heaven, the appointed number of martyr witnesses must be filled to some extent, if not all. However, since Satan was thrown down to the earth 1260 years ago, the persecution has not yet begun in earnest. It means that Satan will severly persecute the saints through the beasts for the next 1260 years. Rome also persecuted the saints, but the small persecution of Rome cannot be compared to the terrible genocide committed by the Babylon papacy. How can there be enough martyr witnesses to cast out Satan, even before the slaughter of Babylon papacy has begun? If anyone would claim the 42 months as 1260 years, I think he/she should be able to explain it first. I don't see the 1260 days as 1260 years. I see 1 week as 7 years, and the 1260 days as 3 years and 6 months. |
| View 1: The time when God confined Satan fraudswarms in Hades before making Adam. |
| It could be the war that drove the fallen Helel from the heaven of angels before the creation of Adam. Then, it is highly probable that the 1/3 of the stars that the dragon drew by its tail and threw to the earth in Revelation 12:4, were angels. Humans did not fall only 1/3. (However, if they are 1/3 of humans among those who can be regarded as stars, I think it is possible that they are humans.) If 1/3 of the angels had fallen, it would mean that the saying the LORD Jesus spoke of about more than 12 legions of angels[44], or that the betrayal of 1 of the 12 disciples[45], or that the disappearance of 1 of the 12 tribes[46], (unless the 1/3 of the angels were the 12th group) had little to do with the fall of the angels. Although it is said that 1 legion had about 6000 men, when 1 legion counted 10000 men, the 12 legions had 120000 men. The angels are not just 120000 or so.[47] There must be a reason why the LORD Jesus said the number 12. If it is the war in which Satan was thrown down, there are parts that need explanation. The time when Satan was thrown down to the earth, was after the failure of his plan to devour the male child born of the woman clothed with the sun, the man who will rule over all the nations with a rod of iron. When the dragon sees that he is thrown down to the earth, he persecutes the woman who has given birth to a male child. This child born of the woman is very likely to be the LORD Jesus, the Seed of the woman. If that is the case, it seems to me that it should be possible to explain how the dragon could try to devour the LORD Jesus even before Adam was made who would be the way for the LORD Jesus to come. In any case, even if this war did not explain the war in which the fallen Helel fell from the heaven of angels to Hades, when we see that God created Adam in darkness[48] and that the serpent deceived Adam[49], it is clear that Helel was confined in Hades before Adam was created.[50] |
| View 2: The time when the LORD Jesus was victorious on the cross and the saints who have the firstfruits of the Spirit were born. |
| It could be a war won by the LORD Jesus on the cross by obedience to His Father, proving the truthfulness of the commandments and completely exposing Satan's iniquity. Since it is the view that Satan was thrown down just after the saints who have the firstfruits of the Spirit were produced, it may not be sufficient to explain whether the appointed number of martyr witnesses who overcame Satan was completed sufficiently to expel Satan. Although God confined Satan in Hades, Satan's sins have not yet been fully revealed in the creation world. Then, immediately after Satan was expelled, some angels in the heaven of angels might have doubts about Satan's claims, saying 'Is his claim really completely wrong?'. If Satan's viciousness were not fully revealed, the angels in the heaven of angels may not have completely rejected Satan in the early days of confining Satan in Hades. Even if Satan was completely rejected, it seems that the angels could not formally throw Satan down from the heaven of Hades. No, there would be no heaven itself in Hades. It must have been before the coming of the rightful Heir. The rightful Heir came in the name of His Father, took up the cross, ascended into heaven, and sat down on the throne. Even if there were angels who had doubts about judgment against Satan until then, seeing Satan's attitude toward the Creator of all the creation world[51] and Satan's sins exposed through the evil act of killing the rightful Heir on the cross[52], none of the angels would have sympathized with Satan. Also, the Son became a fully human and kept the commandments perfectly[53], and thus Satan's allegation of accusation against the commandments were found to be false.[54] Therefore, even if God held Satan accountable for his iniquity, expelling him from the realm of God formed in the name of the Son in Hades, and judging him, there would have been no angels to object. However, seeing that God will produce the appointed number of martyr witnesses[55], it seems that the free will of the angels can only be perfected through the appointed number of martyr witnesses who are resurrected or transformed.[56] Therefore, it may be insufficient to claim that only the Son's death on the cross and His resurrection are sufficient to judge Satan. |
| [1st question about view2 and my thoughts on it] Then, where is the heaven where Satan originally resided before he was thown down from? If this view is correct, I think so. This heaven from which Satan was thrown down was not originally in Hades. Something that did not exist came into being. Before the Son came, almost all Hades was darkness except for a part of Israel. Then how can we say that Satan who cannot escape Hades, is thrown down from heaven which was not even in Hades? This heaven was created in Hades at the coming of the Son. It is the realm of truth and the realm of God the Holy Spirit. The place where the Son who is the temple[57], is located is heaven[58] and the kingdom of God.[59] Where the Son is, true rest is made and Satan fraudswarms cannot exert their power. Where the Son is, the reign of God the Holy Spirit is fully fulfilled. God the Holy Spirit came in the name of the Son[60], and the saints whom God the Holy Spirit came upon, became temples.[61] Therefore, the place where the disciples, the saints, from whom God the Holy Spirit has come, are located, is also heaven[62], and the kingdom of God where the reign of God the Holy Spirit is fulfilled[63], and the power of sin cannot exert its power in the realm where God the Holy Spirit reigns. Before the Son took up the cross, God the Holy Spirit could not come upon the saints. In other words, heaven could not come upon the saints. The name of the Son could not come upon the saints. Therefore, the authority in the name of the Son could not be manifested through the saints. However, after the atonement of the Son on the cross, God the Holy Spirit comes on the saints whose sins have been forgiven by the blood of the Son, in the name of the Son.[64] The kingdom of God could be established in the saints, and the heaven began to appear all over the world. If so, Satan could have predicted his own destruction from this point on. Satan who did not dare access the heavens where God the Holy Spirit resides, could not deny that the time of judgment was approaching, even if he killed the saints whose heavens were made. Even by threatening with death, Satan tried to prevent more of the saints whose heavens were formed in them, coming out. Even before the Son died on the cross, Satan dared not approach the heaven of righteousness where the Son was.[65] However, the reign of the Son could not yet be established over all Hades. This is because Satan's sins and his lies had not yet been fully revealed until the Son died on the cross. God does not judge sinful creatures when their sins are not fully revealed. Not because He lacks power, but because the free will of the unfallen creatures is not yet perfected.[66] But after the Son was crucified, the lies of Satan fraudswarms were exposed and they were condemned. The Son ascended into the heaven and is at the right hand of the throne of His Father, waiting for the appointed number of the firstfruits to be completed through God the Holy Spirit.[67] All authority in heaven and on earth was officially given to the Son.[68] God the Holy Spirit came in the name of the Son, and many saints were martyred. Following the atonement of the Son, it was again proved that the commandments of God are not heavy[69] and that the creatures can fully keep them in God the Holy Spirit.[70] Ever since the Son came to Hades, or maybe even after He confined Satan in Hades, Michael was fighting against Satan who was accusing the commandments of being unreasonable, in the heaven of truth, the realm that shone like a candle in Hades through Israel.[71] Finally, the saints who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, came out, and Satan's claims were proved to be false. Satan was thrown down from heaven by Michael. Satan can no longer sue the saints who overcome sin through God the Holy Spirit.[72] When even the last firstfruits, the firstfruits who are redeemed from among men, are produced[73], all that awaits Satan now is the judgment of the righteous Son. In the 1000-year kingdom that the Son will come again to establish, Satan will be imprisoned in the abyss. Accordingly, the reign of God's love and justice will be fulfilled in all the creation world except the abyss.[74] After that, after a brief release of Satan, Hades will be thrown into the lake of fire.[75] The inheritance of the Son will be perfected at last.[76] Creation will be completed.[77] But until then, there is the sea and the earth where Satan can exert his power.[78] Satan cannot accuse those in heaven, but he can still accuse those on the sea and on the earth. This is because the saints in heaven who are filled with God the Holy Spirit, overcome sin with the help of God the Holy Spirit and do not sin[79], but those on the sea and on the earth cannot overcome sin. (This does not mean that the saints will be completely free from sin, like the LORD Jesus. This part needs explanation.) Satan who still refuses to admit that his claims are false, will somehow try to keep people out of heaven and hold them to the sea and the earth. Satan will try to prevent the appointed number of martyr witnesses who keep the commandments to the point of death, from being produced. Satan will try to get people to break the commandments of God, even by threatening them with the fear of death.[80] Satan who has taken over the world, will try to kill everyone who wants to establish the heaven of love in this dark world. Satan will try to destroy all true churches. To do that, Satan will shake the sea and the earth with tribulation, trying to kill those who try to keep the commandments. However, God will send an angel to tread the sea and the earth[81] until the appointed number of sealed witnesses is completed[82], and when the number of sealed witnesses is completed, God will allow Satan fraudswarms to go wild and kill the saints. In the end, Satan will be defeated by the blood of countless saints who are indebted to the blood of the Son and dying to keep the commandments of God. The Son will crush Satan by means of the appointed number of the firstfruits.[83] The fear of death will not triumph over love.[84] |
| [2nd question about view2 and my thoughts on it] There is one more question that needs to be explained. If Satan was thrown down after the Son took up the cross, was it just after the Son died on the cross or immediately after His resurrection? Or right after His ascension or after God the Holy Spirit came upon the disciples and many of them were martyred? If this view 2 is correct, the most probable time would be after the saints who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, were martyred. For it is written that many saints did not love their life even to death. Through the cross, the inheritance of the Son was publicly confirmed, and the Son officially received all authority over all the creation world, namely heaven and earth. (Of course, even before that, He could have brought more than 12 legions of angels to Hades[85], but He would not have judged Satan yet.) Therefore, where the name of the Son comes, the authority of the Son will come, and salvation, power, and the kingdom of God will be come through the authority of the Son. Because the name of the Son comes to the saints through God the Holy Spirit, the heaven is made through the authority of the name of the Son that God the Holy Spirit has, for the saints to whom God the Holy Spirit comes.[86] The saints who come to live in heaven come to love God and keep the commandments until they die. Because it has been proved, I think that it is recorded that the saints who received God the Holy Spirit through the blood of the cross, overcame Satan with the blood and the word of the Lamb. Of course, Satan would claim that even though he was thrown down to the earth, he was not yet defeated. Within a few days after the ascension of the Son, God the Holy Spirit came upon the disciples, and the disciples and countless saints after that did not love their lives even to death for thousands of years. Now, when even the firstfruits who are redeemed from among men, are produced, the appointed number of martyr witnesses will be almost completed, and Satan will be judged soon. Some part of this view is difficult to explain. The difficult part of this view is that the gap between the time when Satan is thrown down from heaven and the time when the power of Christ is established, is too long. After throwing down Satan fraudswarms, a loud voice in heaven says, 'Now is come the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ'.[87] The time when the kingdom of God and the authority of Christ will be fully fulfilled, is after the 70-weeks are over.[88] In other words, it means that the 70-weeks must end soon, after Satan is thrown down. Since 69 out of 70-weeks have already ended, in order for the 70-weeks to end soon after Satan's expulsion, the period of Satan's expulsion must be around the 70th week at least. Therefore, in order to claim that Satan was thrown down from heaven not long after the saints who have the firstfruits of the Spirit were produced, it is necessary to be able to explain why at least 1500 years have elapsed until this age in 2022 which is approaching the 70th week. Moreover, even now, the saints who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, are still being produced. It means that the appointed number of martyr witnesses has been continuously filled up for 1500 years. Now is the time when the appointed number of martyr witnesses is much higher than 1500 years ago. The saints who have the firstfruits of the Spirit continue to be produced, so we should be able to explain why God threw down Satan fraudswarms in the early days. However, since this view has a long gap after the expulsion of Satan, 1 day can be converted into 1 year, and 1260 days, that is, 1 time times and a half, can be regarded as 1260 years. Accordingly, it is possible to explain that the dragon persecuted the true church for 1260 years after is was thrown down to the earth. Therefore, there is a lot of room for the new world America to be viewed as the earth that swallowed up the river spewed out of the dragon to kill the true church which fled into the wilderness to escape the dragon's persecution for 1260 years. The beast comes up from the earth persecuting the true church for the 1st half of the 70th week[89], and it is easy to view the earth from which the beast comes up, as the same earth that swallowed up the river, so it is easy to view the earth as the new world America. It is the view that the time when Satan was thrown down from heaven, was the period when the saints who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, were produced and the early martyr witnesses appeared. For this reason, if we consider 1 time times and a half as the 1st half of the 70th week, that is, the 1260 days, the interval between Satan's expulsion to the earth and the 70th week, is over 1500 years which is very long. Then, both her place in the wilderness where the woman flees from the dragon for 1 time times and a half, that is, for the 1st half of the 70th week, and the earth where swallows up the river that the dragon spewed, would all mean the prepared place. However, the prepared place cannot be the same as the earth from which the beast comes up, so if the 1260 days are counted as the 1st half of the 70th week, it is difficult to see that the beast comes up from her prepared place in the wilderness or from the earth that has swallowed up the river. Therefore, if we consider 1 time times and a half as the 1st half of the 70th week, ① Her place prepared in the wilderness or the earth that swallowed up the river[90] and ② the earth from which the beast comes up[91], cannot be the same place. |
| View 3-1: Around the beginning of the 70th week |
| Premise1: 1 time times and a half=the 1st half of the 70th week=1260 days≠1260 years. Premise2: Consider the earth that helped the woman, as the prepared place nourishing the woman for 1260 days of persecution, for the 1st half of the 70th week. Premise3: It is assumed that the 1st half of the 70th week begins when the number of the saints who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, is almost completed, and when the 144000 firstfruits who are redeemed from among men, are produced, at least after the sealing of the 144000 has been completed. |
| The time when Michael throws down Satan from heaven, is around the time when the number of the martyr witnesses who have the firstfruits of the Spirit is almost completed[92], and the firstfruits who are redeemed from among men, are produced.[93] The reason Satan is thrown down, is that Satan's claims have been proved to be false.[94] Therefore, in order for Satan to be thrown down, the appointed number of martyr witnesses who will prove the truthfulness of the commandments by their resurrecton or transformation, must be completed.[95] It is not known how many this appointed number is, but it must be a number that includes the 144000 firstfruits. I don't think that the firstfruits who are redeemed from among men, will be produced, only after all the saints who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, are produced. However, the 144000 firstfruits will not be produced until the 6th seal is broken.[96] This is because the sealing begins after the 6th seal is broken. (Assume that the 144000 in Revelation 7 and the 144000 in Revelation 14, are the same martyr witnesses.[97]) I think there may be a time when the saints who have the firstfruits of the Spirit and the firstfruits who are redeemed from among men, are produced together. However, it is assumed that by the time when the firstfruits from among humans, are produced, the number of the saints who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, may be almost completed. The 144000 firstfruits from among humans are those upon whom God the Holy Spirit came even as the latter rain. Only upon those who have the firstfruits of the Spirit who comes as the early rain, God the Holy Spirit comes even as the latter rain.[98] In Israel, the early rain in the sowing season is the autumn rain in 10th and 11th months to put forth shoots, and the latter rain in the harvest season is the spring rain in 3rd and 4th months to bring fruit to fullness. The latter rain is of no use to those who have not received the early rain. Those who have not received God the Holy Spirit who comes as the early rain, cannot recieve God the Holy Spirit who comes even as the latter rain. In other words, it means that only among the saints who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, the 144000 firstfruits from among humans, can be produced. Therefore, I think that the 144000 firstfruits from among humans who have received God the Holy Spirit who comes even as the latter rain, and the saints who have the firstfruits of God the Holy Spirit who comes as the early rain, can be together in the same period. After Satan is thrown down from heaven by Michael, Satan persecutes the woman who has given birth to the male child, and the woman flees into the wilderness to escape Satan's persecution for 1260 days. That means Satan is thrown down from heaven before he persecutes the woman for 1260 days. In other words, it could mean that Satan is thrown down from heaven around the beginning of the 70th week. After failing to kill the woman, Satan goes out to fight the rest of her seed who keep God's commandments and hold Jesus' testimony.[99] Depending on whether we view this period of time when Satan goes out to fight as ① going out to fight 'after' he persecuted the woman for 1260 days or, as ② going out to fight at the same time 'while' persecuting the woman, views on who the rest of her seed against whom Satan is trying to fight, are differ. If we look at this period of time when Satan goes out to fight as ① after the 1260 days, the rest of her seed may mean the resurrected or transformed martyr witnesses who came to be clothed with the spiritual body, and if we look at it as ② for the 1260 days, the rest of her seed may mean the martyr witnesses who will be resurrected or transformed. In any case, those who keep God's commandments and hold Jesus' testimony, are those who have overcome or will overcome the deception of the mark of the beast.[100] Because his defeat is confirmed by the blood of the martyr witnesses, Satan is thrown down to the earth and spews water like a river to kill the woman, and the earth swallows the water to save the woman.[101] There can be several views as to when this event takes place. This period must be after the appointed number of martyr witnesses is almost completed, enough to prove the truthfulness of the commandments, and before the beginning of the 70th week. Therefore, there can be a possibility whenever the time after the saints who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, are produced, and before the 70th week begins. After the blood of the martyr witnesses confirmed the judgment against Satan and Michael throws down Satan from heaven, a loud voice from heaven says, 'Now is come the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ'. This point that the kingdom of God and the authority of Christ are soon come, and that the judgment against Satan is near, and that the 1260 days, the 1st half of the 70th week, will soon begin, could be possible any time after the saints who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, are produced. Even so, I guess the most probable point is just before the 70th week. However, in the eyes of God who sees 1000 years as a day, it is the beginning of the last days since the LORD Jesus became a creature and came to the earth[102], so I think it should not be judged by human standards. If the time when Michael throws down Satan from heaven, was around the time when the number of the saints who have the firstfruits of the Spirit was almost completed, and the 144000 firstfruits from among humans were produced, it is highly likely that this time will be just before the 70th week. Therefore, there may be the view that the rest of her seed whom Satan is trying to fight against, may be the 144000 firstfruits. Does that mean, then, that there are only 144000 who keep God's commandments and hold Jesus' testimony, that is, those who overcome the mark of the beast666? The 144000 firstfruits will of course be included among those who overcome the mark of the beast666. However, I believe that the saints who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, more than these 144000, will be victorious.[103] All those who are not written in the book of life, worship the beast. Only those who are written in the book of life overcome the beast.[104] But it seems that there are not only 144000 who overcome the beast.[105] This is because not only the 144000 who stand on Mount Zion with the Lamb sing a new song[106], but also the overcomers who overcame the beast, sing the song of the Lamb on the sea of glass.[107] Also, it is very likely that the 144000 was symbolized by the 2 witnesses who eat the little book and prophesy again.[108] It means they proclaim the eternal gospel. The eternal gospel is also a warning to come out of Babylon. If the saints who will be in the 1st half of the 70th week, are only the 144000 firstfruits who are redeemed from among men, there will be no saints to come out of Babylon, because no saints will be in Babylon. If no saints would be in Babylon, there would be no reason for the 144000 firstfruits to proclaim the eternal gospel. Therefore, in the 1st half of the 70th week, there will be others who can hear the eternal gospel and come out of Babylon, besides the 144000. After the 6th seal is broken, the seals are sealed on the 144000 firstfruits, and after the 7th seal is broken, 7 trumpets are sounded one after the other, and the earth begins to be destroyed by 1/3. If the time when Satan is thrown down and the time when the 7th seal is broken, is near the 70th week, there may be an opinion that these troubles that take place near the 70th week, are because Satan was thrown down to the earth.[109] However, Satan is the one who destroys the earth[110] under God's permission.[111] Therefore, it is impossible to definitively relate the troubles or wars that take place near the 70th week, with Satan's expulsion to the earth. Because wars and troubles have always been there, it cannot be concluded that these things would not have happened, had Satan not been thrown down to the earth. (Of course, the great wars and disasters such as those that will occur around the 70th week, have not yet occured.[112]) Anyway, even if God allows troubles to take place on the earth by sounding the trumpets, it is certain that Satan is the one who directly destroys the earth through tribulations and disasters within God's permission.[113] (This does not mean that all disasters are the work of Satan.[114]) Here, the 1260 days are regarded as 1260 days, the 1st half of the 70th week, so we will consider this earth that saves the woman from the dragon, as the prepared place to protect the saints for 1260 days. For the 1260 days, the event that the 144000 fight against Satan, the event that Satan persecutes the saints, and the event that the woman who symbolizes the saints is protected, can take place at the same time.[115] A beast comes up from the earth. If we look at the earth that saves the woman, the true church, as the new world America, we can explain the beast that coming up from the earth, in such a way that the new world America which saved the church will eventually persecute the church. However, if we look at the earth that saves the true church, as the prepared place, we cannot think that the beast will come up from the prepared place, so it becomes impossible to explain the beast from the earth. Therefore, if 1 time times and a half is the 1260 days, the 1st half of the 70th week, the earth where the true church is nourished for 1260 days[116] and the earth where the beast comes up at the beginning of the 1260 days[117], cannot be the same earth. This is because the beast cannot come up from the earth where the true church is being nourished for the 1st half of the 70th week. Therefore, the earth will be two. One is the earth of the dragon, and the other is the earth of the woman. In other words, the earth to which Satan was thrown down and the earth in the wilderness to which the woman fled, would be different realms, even if they were on the same earth. The earth which opened its mouth and swallowed up the river that spewed from the mouth of the dragon, would be her prepared place in the wilderness where the woman fled to, and the earth where the beast came up, would be the earth to which Satan was thrown down and exerted his power. It means that the realm of God and the realm of Satan exist together on the earth. It is also the earth where the dragon threw 1/3 of the stars of the sky with its tail. The earth which the stars thrown down to, would not be the area to protect the woman. (However, if the meaning of the stars being thrown down to the earth, does not mean that the angels were deceived and fallen, but that the saints were martyred by persecution, the view may be changed.) If we consider 1 time times and a half as the 1st half of the 70th week, as the 1260 days, the earth where the dragon was thrown down to and the earth that helped the woman, should be viewed as different realms from the beginning to end. For the 1260 days that the woman is protected at her prepared place, the dragon and the 2 witnesses fight against each other. This means that for the 1260 days, the 1st half of the 70th week, protection and battle will take place simultaneously. |
| View 3-2: About the time when the 6th trumpet is sounded |
| This view is similar to the view 3-1 above. The time of Satan's expulsion to the earth is regarded as the certain point between after the 144000 firstfruits who are redeemed from among men are sealed and before the rest of her seed come out. The saints who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, have been produced since Pentecost[118], but the 144000 firstfruits who are redeemed from among men, are to be produced around the beginning of the 70th week.[119] After the 1260 days, at the 2nd half of the 70th week, Satan cannot fight against the firstfruits. Because after the 1260 days, the 1st half of the 70th week, the 1st resurrection takes place and the firstfruits are caught up into the air[120], and after that, the 7 plagues are poured out on the earth. Anyone who rejects the mark of the beast, is recognized as a martyr witness, whether dies by persecution or survives by fleeing.[121] It means that they will all be resurrected or transformed and be caught up into the air. Therefore, for the 70th week, when the mark of the beast is enforced, there are only martyr witnesses or beast worshipers on the earth. Those who refuse to worship the beast cannot but become the martyr witnesses, and those who are not the martyr witnesses cannot refuse to worship the beast. Either be martyred or receive the mark of the beast. There is no other possibility. The meaning that the 1st resurrection took place, means that all the martyr witnesses who refused to worship the beast and refused to receive the mark of the beast, were caught up into the air. Now there are only beast worshipers on earth who have received the mark of the beast. The saints are not on the earth when the 7 plagues are poured out. The saints no longer have to fight against the beast or flee from the beast. When the 7 plagues are poured out on the earth, it means that many will die, althouth not all of the beast worshipers who remain on the earth will die.[122] The 2nd half of the 70th week is also the time when the beast burns the prostitute.[123] The prostitute, the Babylon papacy, that is, the son of destruction, who was smashed by the 7 plagues and lost her authority[124], is burned by the sea beast, the superpower, that she had been parasitizing until then. Therefore, there cannot be any battle between Satan and the firstfruits in the 2nd half of the 70th week when there are no firstfruits and when the beast burns the son of destruction. The firstfruits will not be produced after the 1st half of the 70th week is over. They have already been resurrected or transformed and caught up into the air, but what will the firstfruits do anymore on the earth where the 7 plagues are pouring? What more can they say to the beast worshipers who have already received the mark of the beast? Until the LORD Jesus comes even to the earth, the firstfruits are just waiting on the sea of glass. The firstfruits, especially the 144000 firstfruits who are redeemed from among men, will be produced around the beginning of the 1260 days, around the beginning of the 70th week. Therefore, it is my view that the battle between Satan and the firstfruits will take place for the 1st half of the 70th week. For the 1260 days, for the 1st half of the 70th week, Satan persecutes the saints, and the woman, the true church, is nourished in the wilderness, that is, her prepared place.[125] Satan persecutes the woman even more severely after being thrown down to the earth.[126] Being thrown down to the earth, Satan is enraged and goes out to fight against the rest of her seed.[127] Depending on whether we view the time when Satan goes out to fight the remnant as 'in the middle' of the 1260 day period, or 'after' the 1260 day period, the follow-up views may vary. ① If we view the battle between Satan and the remnant will be 'in the middle' of the 1260 days, it is just that the firstfruits that Satan fought againt for the 1st half of the 70th week, are expressed differently as the 'remnant', and the firstfruits and the remnant will refer to the same people. It means that the rest of her seed are the 144000 firstfruits. (The saints who have the firstfruits of the Spirit might be included in this remnant, but they probably do not have the fighting power to smash the armies of the beast, because they may not have received God the Holy Spirit who comes even as the latter rain. Therefore, the rest of her seed will most likely be the 144000 firstfruits who are redeemed from among men.) While the woman, the true church, is being nourished in her prepared place, the rest of her seed who keep God's commandments and hold Jesus' testimony, proclaim the eternal gospel and smash the armies of the beast. It is expressed in the scene where the 2 witnesses prophesy and smash the armies of the beast for 1260 days.[128] ② If we view that the battle between Satan and the rest of her seed will be 'after' the 1260 days, then 1260 days, that is, 1 time times and a half, must pass before Satan fights against the rest of her seed.[129] It means that there will be no battle with the remnant until the 1 time times and a half is over. But for the 1260 days, there is obviously a battle between the firstfruits and the beasts.[130] The 70th week is the period for which the mark of the beast is enforced[131] and the battle between Satan and the firstfruits takes place.[132] Therefore, if the 1260 days of battle means the 1st half of the 70th week, the rest of her seed that Satan is trying to fight against after the 1st half of the 70th week is over, are probably not the firstfruits that Satan fought for the 1st half of the 70th week, or if they are the same people, it may be the 2nd fight against the same firstfruits. If the 'firstfruits' who Satan fought against for the 1st half of the 70th week, and the 'remnants' who Satan will fight against after the 1st half of the 70th week is over, are the same people, and if Satan will fight against them for the 2nd time, then views may differ as to when that period of 2nd fighting will be. The most probable view is that the firstfruits who followed the LORD Jesus and descended as the part of the heavenly army, are called the remnant.[133] Satan who fought against the dreadful firstfruits for the 1st half of the 70th week[134], must now fight again against the firstfruits who have been resurrected or transformed. When the saints are resurrected or transformed, they become like angels.[135] It means that their fighting power cannot be compared[136] to when they were only Adam who was nothing but dust.[137] In addition, after the 1st resurrection, not only the firstfruits of the 70th week, but also all the firstfruits in human history, must be included in the heavenly army.[138] So, even if all the fraudswarms of Satan gather and fight, they will just be crushed.[139] It was a battle that Satan could not win from the beginning, moreover, because the LORD Jesus Himself came down[140], there is no chance that Satan will win. |
| Premise1: It is assumed that the 144000 in Revelation 7[141] and the 144000 in Revelation 14[142], refer to the same people. Premise2: Assume that the 2 witnesses of Revelation 11 = the sealed 144000 firstfruits who are redeemed from among men. Premise3: It is assumed that the 4 angels holding the 4 winds from the time the 6th seal is broken until the sealing is finished[143], and the 4 angels bound at the great river Euphrates released after the 6th trumpet is sounded[144], are the same angels. Premise4: Beasts apprear where the winds blow. When the wind blows on the sea, a beast comes up from the sea[145], and when the winds blow on the sea and the earth, beasts come up[146] from the sea[147] and the earth.[148] Premise5: When the winds of Revelation 7 blow, the 6th trumpet of Revelation 9 is sounded[149], and when the 6th trumpet is sounded, the beasts of Revelation 13 come up.[150] (There may be an opinion that the 4 winds of Revelation 7 devastate the earth1/3 when the 1st to 4th trumpets are sounded, and the 4 angels of Revelation 9 raise the beasts from the sea and the earth. It is an opinion that views the 4 winds of Revelation 7 and the 4 angels of Revelation 9 as different creatures. Even so, there is no change in the fact that when the 4 angels of Revelation 9 are released, the beasts come up from the sea and the earth.) Premise6: Therefore, it is assumed that the 70th week begins with the sounding of the 6th trumpet that the beasts coming up from the sea and the earth. Premise7: Out of the 70th week, the 1st half begins after the sounding of the 6th trumpet and after death of the people1/3. The 7th trumpet is sounded just before pouring out of the 7 plagues in the 2nd half of the 70th week. Premise8: 1st half of the 70th week=42 months=1260 days=1 time times and a half=3 times and half a time=3 years and 6 months Premise9: Here, 1 time times and a half are considered 1260 days, not 1260 years. Therefore, we will consider the earth that saved the woman as her prepared place that protect the true church from the persecution of the dragon for 1260 days, for the 1st half of the 70th week. (The earth that saves the woman=her prepared place≠the earth where the beasts come up) |
| Rev.12:12 Therefore rejoice, heavens, and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and to the sea, because the devil has gone down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a short time." † The reason there is woe to the earth and to the sea, is because it is where the devil pours out his wrath. Rev.12:14 Two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, so that she might be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent. Rev.12:15 The serpent spewed water out of his mouth after the woman like a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by the stream. Rev.12:16 The earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon spewed out of his mouth. Rev.12:17 The dragon grew angry with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her seed, who keep God's commandments and hold Jesus' testimony. † The meaning that the battle between Satan and the rest of her seed takes place only after the woman who flew into the wilderness to her place is nourished for 1 time times and a half, is different from the meaning that the battle between Satan and the rest of her seed takes place while the woman is being nourished in the wilderness at her place for 1 time times and a half. The meaning that the dragon tries to kill the woman for 1 time times and a half, and only fight against the rest of her seed after the 1 time times and a half is over, is different from the meaning that while the dragon tries to kill the woman for 1 time times and a half, he also fights against the rest of her seed. † If the woman flies to her place to be nourished for 1 time times and a half, that is, for 1260 days, it is not awkward if the battle between Satan and the firstfruits takes place at the same time while the woman is being nourished. Actually, the 1st half of the 70th week is a period of persecution for the saints, and also a period when the 2 witnesses who symbolize the 144000 firstfruits, smash the armies of the beast.[151] If we take this to mean that after the woman has been nourished for 1 time times and a half, the battle between Satan and the firstfruits begins, then here, the 1 time times and a half cannot be the 1st half of the 70th week. This is because the 1st half of the 70th week, the 1260 days, that is, the 1 time times and a half, is the period for which Satan and the firstfruits fight against each other. † It is unlikely that the woman, the entire true church, who is being nourished in the wilderness at her place, is able to battle against Satan. It is because the saints who did not receive God the Holy Spirit who comes even as the latter rain[152], or the saints who came out of Babylon after hearing the eternal gospel proclaimed by the 2 witnesses for the 1st half of the 70th week, probably do not have enough fighting power to smash Satan. The saints who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, will overcome Satan through their martyrdom[153], but the firstfruits that can engage in an agressive battle against Satan, are probably the firstfruits of those who have received God the Holy Spirit who comes even as the latter rain.[154] Rev.10:1 I saw a mighty angel coming down out of the sky, clothed with a cloud. A rainbow was on his head. His face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire. Rev.10:2 He had in his hand a little book open. He set his right foot on the sea, and his left on the land. † A mighty angel is treading the sea and the earth, preventing the beast from coming up. Rev.13:1 Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names. † A beast comes up from the sea. This means that the mighty angel no longer prevents the appearance of the beast. Rev.13:11 I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke like a dragon. † A beast comes up from the earth, too. The devil raises beasts from the sea and the earth to express his wrath.[155] Beasts cause tribulation. Therefore, the time when the devil was thrown down to the earth is related to the time when the beasts come up from the sea[156] and the earth.[157] † Because the tribulation has always been there, it cannot be concluded that the tribulation is due to the devil being thrown down to the earth. However, since the tribulation of the 70th week will lead to the great tribulation such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time[158], it could be possible that it is because of the devil who was thrown down to the earth. Anyway, no matter when and how things happen in the creation world, whether it be blessings or tribulations[159], life or death[160], forever there is absolutely nothing that can escape God's control.[161] Rev.10:8 The voice which I heard from heaven, again speaking with me, said, "Go, take the book which is open in the hand of the angel who stands on the sea and on the land." Rev.10:9 I went to the angel, telling him to give me the little book. He said to me, "Take it, and eat it up. It will make your belly bitter, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey." Rev.10:10 I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up. It was as sweet as honey in my mouth. When I had eaten it, my belly was made bitter. Rev.10:11 They told me, "You must prophesy again over many peoples, nations, languages, and kings." † Before the beasts come up from the sea and the earth, the 2 witnesses are produced who will eat the little book and prophesy again.[162] These 2 witnesses represent the sealed saints who will proclaim the eternal gospel.[163] Perhaps these are the sealed 144000 firstfruits who have received God the Holy Spirit who comes even as the latter rain. This little book is the eternal gospel that will be prophesied in the age of the beast, and it may be the book of Revelation that is recorded what will happen in the age of the beast. Satan who tried to make Adam break the law and prevent Adam from receiving the Son, will set up Babylon and enforce the mark of the beast in order to prevent Adam from worshiping God in the 70th week. The eternal gospel in the age of the law was 'Keep the law', and the eternal gospel in the age of the Son was 'Receive the Son'. The eternal gospel in the age of the beast is 'Come out of Babylon and do not receive the mark of the beast, but worship only God'.[164] Rev.7:1 After this, I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, so that no wind would blow on the earth, or on the sea, or on any tree. Rev.7:2 I saw another angel ascend from the sunrise, having the seal of the living God. He cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was given to harm the earth and the sea, Rev.7:3 saying, "Don't harm the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, until we have sealed the bondservants of our God on their foreheads!" Rev.7:4 I heard the number of those who were sealed, one hundred forty-four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the children of Israel: † The appearance of the beasts is suspended until the sealing of the 144000 is finished. The 144000 are the firstfruits, especially the firstfruits who are redeemed from among men.[165] Since the beasts come up from the sea and the earth only after the 144000 firstfruits are sealed, Satan who raises the beasts is thrown down to the earth only after the 144000 firstfruits are sealed. Rev.9:13 The sixth angel sounded. I heard a voice from the horns of the golden altar which is before God, Rev.9:14 saying to the sixth angel who had one trumpet, "Free the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates!" Rev.9:15 The four angels were freed who had been prepared for that hour and day and month and year, so that they would kill one third of mankind. † The meaning that the beasts come up after the 4 winds have blown, means that the sealing on the 144000 has been completed. Therefore, the sealing is finished before the 6th trumpet is sounded, and when the sealing is finished, Satan fraudswarms are thrown down to the earth and raises the beasts from the sea and the earth. When the 6th trumpet is sounded, the beasts come up from the sea and the earth. Therefore, the time when Satan fraudswarms are thrown down from heaven, may be around the time of the sounding of the 6th trumpet. † When the 6th trumpet is sounded, the 4 angels are released because it is after the sealing is finished. The sealing must have already ended before the 5th trumpet is sounded.[166] Otherwise, it is impossible to distinguish between the sealed and the unsealed. The sealing could be already finished after the 6th seal was broken a long time ago.[167] After the 6th seal is broken, seals are sealed on the 144000[168], and while the seals are being sealed, the 4 angels hold the 4 winds that will harm the earth, sea, and trees.[169] After the sealing is finished, the 7th seal is broken, and there is a possibility that the sealing has already been completed at this time.[170] After the 7th seal is broken, the troubles of the trumpets begin in which 1/3 things of the earth are harmed. Then, at the time of the 6th trumpet, the 4 angels bound at Euphrates, are released.[171] ① If these 4 angels mean the angels holding the 4 winds at the time of the 6th seal, it means that the 4 winds will be released at the time of the 6th trumpet. ② If these 4 angels of Euphrates and the angels holding the 4 winds are different angels, it is impossible to know when the 4 winds will be released. Because there is no record. However, after the 7th seal is broken, the trumpets of troubles that harm the earth by 1/3 are sounded[172], so it can be inferred that this might be the result of the release of the 4 winds. But I see the 4 angels holding the 4 winds and the 4 angels bound at Euphrates, as the same. I believe that the 4 winds that were held at the time of the 6th seal, are released at the time of the 6th trumpet. † When even the 144000 firstfruits who are redeemed from among men, are produced, so the appointed number of martyr witnesses to prove the truthfulness of the commandments are almost completed[173], and the beasts that will come up from the sea and the earth are ready, all conditions for the beginning of the 70th week are met. It means that the 1260 days, the period of persecution of the saints, can begin at any time. I see the 144000 who are sealed after the breaking of the 6th seal[174], as the 144000 firstfruits who will stand on Mount Zion.[175] When the sealing of the 144000 is finished, the 70th week will begin soon. In other words, when the 144000 firstfruits receive God the Holy Spirit who comes even as the latter rain, the 70th week will begin soon. When the last firstfruits have been produced and all preparations have been made to prove the truthfulness of the commandments, the LORD Jesus will no longer see His creatures being trampled upon by Satan.[176] † If the 4 angels of Euphrates at the time of the 6th trumpet and the 4 angels holding the 4 winds at the time of the 6th seal, mean the same angels, there is a possibility that the sealing is finished just before the 6th trumpet is sounded. This is because the 4 angels must hold on to the 4 winds at least until the sealing is finished.[177] (However, considering that the sealed people are already distinguished when the 5th trumpet is sounded[178], it is thought that the sealing was finished long before the 6th trumpet is sounded, not just around the sounding of the 6th trumpet. Even though the 6th trumpet is sounded and the 70th week begins with the appearance of the beasts[179], it means that the sealed 144000 must have been produced before that. Of course, it can be argued that the sealing is not finished even when the 5th trumpet is sounded. 'Those who will escape from harm when the 5th trumpet is sounded, mean only those who have been sealed until then, and only these will be able to escape the trouble of the 5th trumpet. More will come to be sealed in the future, and the sealing is not finished yet.' There may be a claim like this, but I think such claim is wrong.) † When winds blow, the beasts come up. 4 winds blew in the sea, 4 beasts came up from the sea.[180] Therefore, perhaps when the 4 winds that harm the earth and the sea blow[181], beasts will come up[182] from the sea[183] and the earth.[184] The meaning that the 4 winds are not blown until the sealing is finished, means that when the sealing is finished, the 4 winds are blown and the beasts come up from the sea and the earth. The beasts persecute the saints and enforce the mark of the beast for the 1st half of the 70th week, for the 42 months. If the 4 angels of Euphrates and the 4 angels holding the 4 winds mean the same angels, it means that the 70th week that the beasts coming up, will begin at the time of the 6th trumpet when the 4 angels of Euphrates are released. When the 6th trumpet is sounded, the 4 winds are released and the beasts come up, but at the same time, the 2 witensses are established. Assuming that the 2 witnesses are the 144000, the sealed 144000 firstfruits who are redeemed from among men, prophesy eternal gospel for 42 months, for 1260 days, while the beasts oppress the saints. Therefore, it seems that after the 6th trumpet is sounded, the people1/3 die, the 70th week begins, and just before pouring out of the 7 plagues, the 7th trumpet is sounded and the 1st resurrection takes place. (There may be an opinion that the great tribulation will begin 'with' the 1st half of the 70th week, by interpreting 'half' in Dan 9:27 as 'for half'.[185] And there may be an opinion that the great tribulation will begin 'in' the 1st half of the 70th week, by interpreting 'half' in Dan 9:27 as 'in the middle'.) |
| Conclusion on view 3-2 that 'Satan is thrown down to the earth near the 6th trumpet is sounded' When the 6th angel blows the trumpet, a mighty angel comes down from heaven and treads on the sea and the earth[186], and gives John the little book. John who ate the little book, seems to symbolize the 2 witnesses, and the 2 witnesses seem to symbolize the 144000 firstfruits who are redeemed from among men.[187] The little book eaten by the 144000 who prophesy again for the 1st half of the 70th week, may be the word to be proclaimed for the 1st half of the 70th week.[188] Since it is a proclamation made during the period belonging to the 70th week, this prophecy of the 70th week may be the prophecy of Revelation, especially the eternal gospel in the 1st half of the 70th week.[189] Then, eating the prophecy of Revelation may mean being sealed. Of course, the sealing is basically only for those who submit to God the Holy Spirit.[190] In the 70th week near the harvest[191], God the Holy Spirit who came down even as the latter rain, seals the 144000 who eat the little book of Revelation,[192] and they smash the armies of the beast[193] for 1260 days.[194] When the 6th trumpet is sounded, the 70th week begins with the death of the people1/3, and the 2 witnesses smash the armies of the beast for the 1st half of the 70th week, for 42 months, that is, for 1260 days[195]. Accordingly, it can be seen that Satan is thrown down to the earth around the time of the sounding of the 6th trumpet. Woe to the earth and the sea because Satan is thrown down from heaven and oppresses the earth and the sea.[196] Satan raises the beasts from the sea and the earth to oppress the sea and the earth, that is, the world. Just as the winds stirred up the sea and the beasts came up from the sea[197], when the 6th trumpet is sounded, the 4 angels are released and the beasts come up from the sea[198] and the earth.[199] Therefore, Satan may be thrown down near the time of the 6th trumpet[200] which brings woe to the sea and the earth.[201] When the appointed number of the saints who have the firstfruits of the Spirit is almost completed and near the time when the 144000 firstfruits who are redeemed from among men are produced, Satan is thrown down from heaven. For this reason, even if there may still be Satan in heaven before the 70th week begins, this heaven in which Satan is active[202] must be different from the heaven that is made in God the Holy Spirit.[203] Satan cannot work in the realm reigned by God the Holy Spirit.[204] Perhaps it seems that Satan has been active in the power of the air[205], and may be thrown down from heaven to the earth and to the sea, when the appointed number of martyr witnesses is almost completed[206] and the authority of Christ has come.[207] |
| View 3-3: The time between the 5th seal ~ the 5th trumpet, especially immediately after the 5th trumpet is sounded. |
| Premise1: It is assumed that the 144000 in Revelation 7[208] and the 144000 in Revelation 14[209], refer to the same people. Premise2: Assume that the 2 witnesses of Revelation 11 = the sealed 144000 firstfruits who are redeemed from among men. Premise3: It is assumed that the 4 angels holding the 4 winds from the time the 6th seal is broken until the sealing is finished[210], and the 4 angels bound at the great river Euphrates released after the 6th trumpet is sounded[211], are the same angels. Premise4: Beasts apprear where the winds blow. When the wind blows on the sea, a beast comes up from the sea[212], and when the winds blow on the sea and the earth, beasts come up[213] from the sea[214] and the earth.[215] Premise5: When the winds of Revelation 7 blow, the 6th trumpet of Revelation 9 is sounded[216], and when the 6th trumpet is sounded, the beasts of Revelation 13 come up.[217] (There may be an opinion that the 4 winds of Revelation 7 devastate the earth1/3 when the 1st to 4th trumpets are sounded, and the 4 angels of Revelation 9 raise the beasts from the sea and the earth. It is an opinion that views the 4 winds of Revelation 7 and the 4 angels of Revelation 9 as different creatures. Even so, there is no change in the fact that when the 4 angels of Revelation 9 are released, the beasts come up from the sea and the earth.) Premise6: Therefore, it is assumed that the 70th week begins with the sounding of the 6th trumpet that the beasts coming up from the sea and the earth. Premise7: Out of the 70th week, the 1st half begins after the sounding of the 6th trumpet and after death of the people1/3. The 7th trumpet is sounded just before pouring out of the 7 plagues in the 2nd half of the 70th week. Premise8: 1st half of the 70th week=42 months=1260 days=1 time times and a half=3 times and half a time=3 years and 6 months Premise9: Here, 1 time times and a half are considered 1260 days, not 1260 years. Therefore, we will consider the earth that saved the woman as her prepared place that protect the true church from the persecution of the dragon for 1260 days, for the 1st half of the 70th week. (The earth that saves the woman=her prepared place≠the earth where the beasts come up) |
| This view is also similar to the two views above. This is because the 6th trumpet and the 5th seal are all the events that will take place around the 70th week. However, since the direct 70th week is around the time when the 6th trumpet is sounded, the 5th seal can be said to be a little earlier than the 6th trumpet. Dan.12:1 "At that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince who stands for the children of your people; and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone who shall be found written in the book. † Michael has been active[218] ever since.[219] When Michael stands up here, it seems that the end of the war is near.[220] Satan will go crazy and fight to the end[221], so there will be a great tribulation. When the martyr witnesses are victorious, Michael casts Satan to the earth.[222] And when Satan who was cast out to the earth, raises a beast from the sea, the tribulation that has never been since the beginning of the world, begins.[223] The beast that rises from the sea is the prostitute riding the scarlet beast[224], the son of destruction who has taken over the superpower. When the abomination of desolation, that is, the son of destruction, sits in the temple building and speaks blasphemies[225], the 42 months, the 1st half of the 70th week, begins.[226] † Martyrdom has always been. However, the martyr witnesses related to the 7 seals, are produced when the 5th seal is broken, and the 70th week begins with the appearance of the beasts after the sounding of the 6th trumpet. When Satan who was thrown down to the earth by Michael, brings forth beasts from the sea and the earth, the 70th week finally begins. And the saints are persecuted for 1260 days, for the 1st half of the 70th week. Therefore, the time when the great prince Michael is likely to stand, is the period from the time of the 5th seal when the witnesses are martyred, to just before the sounding of the 6th trumpet which begins the 70th week. In other words, during the period between the 5th seal ~ the 5th trumpet, the great prince Michael stands and throws Satan down to the earth. After Satan who was thrown down to the earth, kills at least[227] people1/3[228] and raises the beasts[229] from the sea and the earth[230], the 70th week begins in the end. Rev.6:9 When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had. Rev.6:10 They cried with a loud voice, saying, "How long, Master, the holy and true, do you not judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?" Rev.6:11 A long white robe was given them. They were told that they should rest yet for a while, until their fellow servants and their brothers, who would also be killed even as they were, completed their course. Rev.6:12 I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake. The sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became as blood. † Immediately after the martyr witnesses are produced, the 6th seal is broken, the 4 winds of the earth are held[231], and the seals begin to be sealed on the 144000 firstfruits[232] who are redeemed from among men.[233] These 4 winds that raise the beasts[234], are released when the 6th trumpet is sounded.[235] Since Satan is thrown down to the earth when the martyr witnesses overcome him, Michael may throw Satan down from heaven in the period between the 5th seal when the witnesses are martyred, and before the 6th trumpet when the persecution of the 1st half of the 70th week begins. Rev.9:1 The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from the sky fallen to the earth. The key to the pit of the abyss was given to him. Rev.9:2 He opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke from a burning furnace. The sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke from the pit. Rev.9:3 Then out of the smoke came forth locusts on the earth, and power was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have power. Rev.9:4 They were told that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those men who don't have God's seal on their foreheads. † It is possible that the event in which Satan is thrown down to the earth and the event in which a star falls to the earth, refer to the same event. This means that this star that has fallen to the earth, may represent Satan. This star which fell to the earth, is not a real star, but the one who can open the abyss by receiving the key to the abyss. If so, it must mean an angel.[236] Satan is also an angel[237], and what Satan does is the same thing as opening the abyss and inviting woes.[238] Since the angel who received the key to the abyss, may not be Satan but an angel who is a subordinate of Satan, it cannot be concluded that he is necessarily Satan. However, whether Satan opens the abyss or Satan's subordinate opens the abyss after receiving the order from Satan to open it, in the end, it will be the same as Satan opens it. For this reason, the event of the angel who fell to the earth opening the abyss, can be viewed as the event of Satan opening the abyss. Since Satan immediately raises the beasts and systematically slaughters God's people[239], opening the abyss does not seem to be happening outside of Satan's intentions. Even if (though I think it may not happen[240]) Satan's subordinate opens the abyss without Satan's knowledge, opening the abyss and inviting the locusts may not deviate from Satan's intentions.[241] † Since the time of the 5th trumpet when Satan opens the abyss, is the period between the 5th seal ~ 5th trumpet which is most likely the period when Satan was thrown down to the earth by Michael[242], the event that Satan was thrown down to the earth and the event that the star fell to the earth, could be the same event. The star that fell to the earth could be Satan. I don't know if the angel who fell to the earth and recieved the key to the abyss and opens the abyss, and the king of locusts, the angel of the abyss, refer to the same angel. Since the name of the angel of the abyss is 'Abaddon' or 'Apollyon' which means 'destruction'[243], if the angel who fell to the earth and the angel of the abyss are the same angel, the name of the angel who fell to the earth would be 'Abaddon' or 'Apollyon'. And if the angel who fell to the earth is Satan who was thrown down to the earth by Michael, then another name for Satan, the adversary[244], would be 'Abaddon', that is, 'destruction'.[245] However, 'Abaddon' may be the name of Satan's subordinate angel. † Perhaps there is an opinion that the star in Revelation 9 which fell from the sky, is not a fallen angel, but an angel of light who came down under God's command. This is because an angel comes down from heaven in Revelation 10, and an angel comes down from heaven in Revelation 20. In particular, the angel of Revelation 20 has the key of the abyss[246] just like the angel of Revelation 9 who receives the key to the abyss.[247] However, the angel of Revelation 9 opens the abyss to bring woe[248], and the angel of Revelation 20 locks and seals the abyss after imprisoning Satan.[249] In addition, the angel of Revelation 9 falls down (pipto:fall down) from heaven, but the angels of Revelation 10 and 20 who belong to God, come down (katabaheeno:come down) from heaven. In my personal opinion, it is unlikely that the angel in Revelation 9 who falls down to the earth and opens the abyss, is an angel who obeys God. † If Satan is thrown down to the earth by Michael and opens the abyss, causing the 'woe of the locusts', then Satan may be thrown down to the earth immediately after the sounding of the 5th trumpet. Satan must be defeated by the martyr witnesses to be thrown down to the earth.[250] And Satan must be thrown down to the earth right before the 6th trumpet is sounded. This is because the time when Satan raises the beasts from the sea and the earth[251], is after the sounding of the 6th trumpet. After being thrown down to the earth, Satan raises beasts from the sea and the earth to slaughter the saints.[252] Therefore, at some point between after the cry of the martyr witnesses[253] at the time of the 5th seal, and before the coming up the beasts at the time of the 6th trumpet, the martyr witnesses must overcome Satan and throw Satan down to the earth. The time when an angel falls from heaven to the earth, is also the time of the 5th trumpet during that period. And it is expressed as woe to the sea and the earth that Satan to be cast out of heaven and fall to the sea and the earth[254], likewise, the event that an angel opens the abyss after he fell to the earth at the time of the 5th trumpet, is also expressed as the 1st woe.[255] This could be the event that Satan is thrown down to the earth at the time of the 5th trumpet and causes the 1st woe. (The 2nd woe in which the beasts come up from the sea and the earth to slaughter the saints, is also caused by Satan.[256] The 3rd woe, the 7 golden bowl plagues, is God's wrath[257], so it seems that God Himself pours it out.[258] Anyway, the woes begin as Satan is thrown down to the earth.) † In short, this view is that when the saints who have the firstfruits of the Spirit and the 144000 firstfruits who are redeemded from among humans, are produced, the appointed number of martyr witnesses is almost[259] completed[260], and the 7th seal is broken, and even after the 5th trumpet is sounded, Satan is thrown down to the earth[261] and causes the 1st woe[262] and the 2nd woe.[263] About the 1st half of the 70th week, the time of the 6th trumpet, is the 2nd woe period. The time of the 7th trumpet, the period of the 7 plagues, which will be in the 2nd half of the 70th week, is the 3rd woe period. † However, there is also the view that the event of Satan's defeat by the martyr witnesses and being thrown down to the earth by Michael, is not an event of opening of the abyss at the time of the 5th trumpet, but an event of the release of the 4 angels bound at Euphrates at the time of the 6th trumpet. This view is similar to the view 3-2 above. For reference, the key to the abyss is owned by the LORD Jesus.[264] Satan can never act outside the scope of the permission of the LORD Jesus. (If Satan commits an iniquity that goes beyond the will of the LORD Jesus[265], he can do it only if the LORD Jesus does not stop it.[266] The LORD Jesus judges transgressions[267], but He does not impose circumstances[268] where the transgression itself is impossible.[269] In any case, the will of the LORD Jesus is always done.[270]) |
| View 3-3 summary ① After the cry of the martyr witnesses resounded in the creation world, ② When the 144000 firstfruits who are redeemed from among men symbolized by the 2 witnesses to fight against the beasts, are sealed[271] and the victory of the martyr witnesses is almost confirmed.[272] ③ [However, it has not yet been confirmed that the appointed number of martyr witnesses is completed. It is still before the mark of the beast666 is enforced. All the martyrdom is not yet fulfilled. Now only the sealing of the 144000 firstfruits, the last firstfruits, has been finished.[273] (I believe that there may be other saints[274] who have been sealed by God the Holy Spirit.[275] Although I think there is a difference between the sealing of the saints who have the firstfruits of the Spirit[276] and the sealing of the firstfruits who are redeemed from among men.[277] I think there will be saints who only receive God the Holy Spirit who comes as the early rain[278], and there will be saints who even receive God the Holy Spirit who comes even as the latter rain.[279]) I believe that the appointed number of martyr witnesses will be completed with the persecution of the mark of the beast666. Perhaps the sealed 144000 firstfruits are included in the appointed number of martyr witnesses, and the victory is temporarily confirmed. In that case, if even one of the sealed 144000 falls and receives the mark of the beast, Satan will win because the appointed number of martyr witnesses will be insufficient. But anyone who knows the truth knows that it is fundamentally impossible for that to happen. Even if a person falls among the 144000 firstfruits who are redeemed from among men, who are promised in the bible, I believe that the saints who have the firstfruits of the Spirit cannot replace him/her. The 144000 who are initially determined through the sealing, will be the only 144000 until the end as they are sealed.] ④ When the 5th trumpet is sounded, Satan is thrown down to the earth by Michael. (Some view that Satan fell to the earth some time after the Lamb broke the 5th seal, and opens the abyss only after the 5th trumpet is sounded.) ⑤ The thrown Satan opens the abyss and causes the woe of the locusts. This is the 1st woe. ⑥ When the 6th trumpet is sounded, Satan raises the beasts from the sea and the earth to force the mark of the beast666 and slaughter the saints.[280] This is the 2nd woe. ⑦ While Satan slaughters the saints, the 2 witnesses wage war against Satan and prophesy the eternal gospel.[281] |
| I agree with this view 3-3. |
| View 4: It is about half of the 70th week just after the 1st resurrection took place. |
| It may be a battle in which Satan has been defeated because the firstfruits including the 144000 firstfruits who are redeemed from among men, love God by keeping the commandments without loving their life even to death. It is the view that Satan must have been thrown down from heaven when Satan's judgment was confirmed through the 1st resurrection of the firstfruits. For this view to be persuasive, it is necessary to explain how Satan will fight against the firstfruits, the remnants, when there is no firstfruit on the earth because of their resurrection or transformation. According to this view, Satan who was thrown down to the earth by defeating, will raise the beasts from the sea and the earth to oppress the earth for the next 1260 days, that is, the 2nd half of the 70th week.[282] But will there still be saints left on the earth to fight against the beast? If the reign of the beast takes place for the 2nd half of the 70th week, it means that the reign of the beast would not have taken place for the 1st half of the 70th week. Without the beasts, how could the saints overcome the beasts and prove the truthfulness of the commandments? How can a resurrection or a transformation take place when the truthfulness of the commandments has not yet been proved? Rev.12:10 I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now is come the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night. Rev.12:11 They overcame him because of the Lamb's blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn't love their life, even to death. Rev.12:12 Therefore rejoice, heavens, and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and to the sea, because the devil has gone down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a short time." † The reason that the salvation, the power, the kingdom of God, and the authority of Christ come, is because it is the time when creation is completed. The completion of creation means that the free will of the angels and the saints who are resurrected or transformed, is perfected. The perfection of the free will of the angels means[283] that the resurrection and the transformation have taken place[284] and the truthfulness of the commandments has been proved.[285] The meaning of the 1st resurrection means that all the 3 firstfruits are produced and that the appointed number of martyr witnesses who kept the commandments by loving God even until death, was completed.[286] Since the LORD Jesus, the 1st firstfruits[287], the saints who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, the 2nd firstfruits[288], and the firstfruits who are redeemed from among men, the 3rd firstfruits[289], were produced and the appointed number was completed, the 1st resurrection took place. The 3rd firstfruits, the firstfruits who are redeemed from among men, were symbolized by the 2 witnesses[290] and are all 144000.[291] As the appointed number of martyr witnesses was completed, the martyr witnesses were resurrected or transformed, and the truthfulness of the commandments was proved through the 1st resurrection of the martyr witnesses, so Satan can no longer accuse the commandments by accusing them of being unable to keep. Therefore, God is throwing down Satan fraudswarms to the earth. Rev.12:13 When the dragon saw that he was thrown down to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male child. Rev.12:14 Two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, so that she might be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent. Rev.12:15 The serpent spewed water out of his mouth after the woman like a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by the stream. Rev.12:16 The earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon spewed out of his mouth. Rev.12:17 The dragon grew angry with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her seed, who keep God's commandments and hold Jesus' testimony. † After the dragon is thrown down to the earth, he raises the beasts from the sea and the earth to persecute the saints for 1 time times and a half, that is, for the 2nd half of the 70th week, for 1260 days. This means that even after the saints have been caught up into the air by the 1st resurrection, the true church still remains on the earth. Therefore, if the saints cannot remain on the earth after the 1st resurrection, this claim is wrong. Among the martyr witnesses who were resurrected or transformed, there are those who have overcome the beasts, and only after the dragon is thrown down to the earth do the beasts come up from the sea[292] and the earth.[293] However, if the dragon is thrown down to the earth after the 1st resurrection takes place, it means that there were no beasts in the earth for the 1260 days, for the 1st half of the 70th week, before the dragon was thrown down to the earth. Then, there would not have been an image of the beast nor the mark of the beast yet on the earth[294], and regardless of whether the saints can remain on the earth or not after the 1st resurrection, it is necessary to explain how the saints could overcome the beasts and become the martyr witnesses who are worthy to be resurrected or transformed in the absence of the beast itself. † Also, since the saints who are resurrected or transformed are the martyr witnesses, they will of course rule the 1000-year kingdom as royal priests.[295] These are those who participated in the 1st resurrection. The saints who endured the 1260 days of persecution of the beasts, for the 2nd half of the 70th week, after Satan was thrown down to the earth, must also be martyr witnesses who are martyred alive because they overcame the beasts.[296] However, the resurrection or the transformation had already taken place about 1200 days ago, around the half of the 70th week. After the 1st resurrection took place, the additional martyr witnesses are produced again, so it is a situation where the resurrection and the transformation have to take place once more. Therefore, if the dragon was thrown down to the earth at the time of the 1st resurrection, ① The resurrection and the transformation have to take place once more after the 2nd half of the 70th week, or ② The saints who endured the persecution of the 2nd half of the 70th week and overcame the beasts, should not be recognized as the martyr witnesses. It is going to be an unbelievable situation. (Assuming that the resurrection and the transformation takes place twice at the half of the 70th week and at the end of the 70-weeks, if the resurrection and the transformation that take place at the half of the 70th week is imperfect, the free will of the angels cannot be perfected at the half of the 70th week. This means that the atonement for the creation world cannot begin from the half of the 70th week. If the resurrection and the transformation that take place at the half of the 70th week, are sufficient to perfect the free will of the angels, the resurrection and the transformation that will take place at the end of the 70th week, will not have a direct effect on the completion of creation.) |
| Question about view 4 ① According to this view, the 2 witnesses will prophesy for 1260 days, for the 1st half of the 70th week, and the reign of the beast will take place for 1260 days, for the 2nd half of the 70th week. The time of the prophesying of the 2 witnesses and the time of the reign of the beast, will not take place at the same age. ② Also, for the 1260 days, for the 2nd half of the 70th week, some of the saints must be nourished in the prepared place.[297] However, the saints who remain on earth after the resurrection and the transformation of other saints, could not be resurrected or transformed. Accordingly, the place where the remained saints are nourished, may not be on the Mount Zion[298] or on the sea of glass[299] where the martyr witnesses must be caught up and waiting.[300] If so, a convincing explanation of where they might be, is needed. ③ With the end of the 70th week, 'sin' also ends.[301] Then, since the 1260 days, the 1st half of the 70th week, have already passed, all of the 7 plagues[302] and judgment against the beasts[303] (as well as the great tribulation and the resurrection) must be fulfilled for the 1260 days, for the 2nd half of the 70th week, within the period of the reign of the beast. In other words, for the 2nd half of the 70th week, during the period of the reign of the beast, even the atonement for the creation world must be completed. If we subtract the period during which the 7 plagues are poured out and the period during which the judgment against the beasts are executed, the period of the reign of the beast cannot be 1260 days, the 42 months.[304] (There may be an opinion that the reign of the beast will take place for 1260 days, for the 2nd half of the 70th week, and then the 7 plagues are poured out and the judgment against the beasts will be executed over the next (1335-1260=) 75 days.[305]) ④ If the faithful saints left behind in the 2nd half of the 70th week, cannot become the martyr witnesses even after overcoming the beasts and enduring the reign of the beast to the end, this means that they cannot become the bride. The martyr witnesses who are resurrected or transformed, must be the bride.[306] If so, they may be the bridesmaids or guests at the wedding feast. How can the martyr witnesses who overcame the beasts, not participate in the better resurrection[307], that is, the 1st resurrection? In order for those who have endured the 1260 days of the reign of the beast, to survive without being recognized as the martyr witnesses and enter the 1000-year kingdom as common people, they must be nourished for 1260 days without suffering the hardships that martyr witnesses have to endure.[308] However, I do not agree with the claim that even after overcoming the beasts, one cannot be a martyr witness. Also, I do not think that the reign of the beast will take place for the 2nd half of the 70th week, after the resurrection and the transformation already took place. |
| I do not agree with this view. |
| View 5: All views from view 1 to view 3 |
| Regarding view1, I think it may have been meant to shed light on the aspect of the war of heaven that confined Helel in Hades, even before the Son came to Hades. View2 is the view that Satan was thrown down immediately after the saints who have the firstfruits of the Spirit were produced, and view3-1 and view3-2 say that Satan was thrown down when the number of the saints who have the firstfruits of the Spirit were almost completed. Anytime after the firstfruits, the martyr witnesses, are produced, it is possible that Satan has been thrown down. So, to some extent, it might all be right. But I think the view4 is not possible. |
| It is too vague. |
[1] Rev.2:26 He who overcomes, and he who keeps my works to the end, to him I will give authority over the nations. He will rule them with a rod of iron, shattering them like clay pots; as I also have received of my Father:
[2] Gen.22:16 and said, "I have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son, that in blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is on the seashore. Your seed will possess the gate of his enemies.
[3] Eph.1:23 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.
[4] Rom.9:4 who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises; of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.
[5] Rom.2:28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh; but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.
[6] Gen.3:15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel."
[7] Rom.11:22 See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off. They also, if they don't continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
[8] Rom.11:2 God didn't reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don't you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel: "Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have broken down your altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life." But how does God answer him? "I have reserved for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal." Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
[9] Rom.11:25 For I don't desire, brothers, to have you ignorant of this mystery, so that you won't be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in, and so all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written, "There will come out of Zion the Deliverer, And he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob. This is my covenant to them, When I will take away their sins."
[10] Rom.11:13 For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry; if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them. For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead?
[11] Is.6:9 He said, "Go, and tell this people, 'You hear indeed, But don't understand; And you see indeed, But don't perceive.' Make the heart of this people fat; Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; Lest they see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And turn again, and be healed." Then I said, "Lord, how long?" He answered, "Until cities are waste without inhabitant, And houses without man, And the land becomes utterly waste, And Yahweh has removed men far away, And the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land. If there are yet a tenth in it, It also shall in turn be eaten up: As a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock remains, when they are felled; So the holy seed is its stock."
[12] 2Cor.11:2 For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ. But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
[13] 1Pet.1:23 having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.
[14] Gal.4:19 My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you--
1Cor.4:15 For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the gospel.
[15] Luke3:17 whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor, and will gather the wheat into his barn; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire."
Matt.13:47 "Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a dragnet, that was cast into the sea, and gathered some fish of every kind, which, when it was filled, they drew up on the beach. They sat down, and gathered the good into containers, but the bad they threw away. So will it be in the end of the world. The angels will come forth, and separate the wicked from among the righteous, and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth."
[16] John8:44 You are of your Father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn't stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of it.
[17] Luke3:7 He said therefore to the multitudes who went out to be baptized by him, "You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and don't begin to say among yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our father;' for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones!
[18] Eph.2:17 He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near. For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father. So then you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,
[19] Gal.3:8 The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you all the nations will be blessed." So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.
[20] Dan.9:24 Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
[21] Dan.9:26 After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One shall be cut off, and shall have nothing: and the people of the prince who shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end of it shall be with a flood, and even to the end shall be war; desolations are determined.
[22] Dan.9:25 Know therefore and discern, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the Anointed One, the prince, shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks: it shall be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times.
[23] Dan.9:27 He shall make a firm covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week(view2:for half of the week) he shall cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease; and on the wing of abominations [shall come] one who makes desolate; and even to the full end, and that determined, shall [wrath] be poured out on the desolate.
[24] Matt.12:28 But if I by the Spirit of God cast out demons, then the Kingdom of God has come on you.
[25] 2Pet.2:4 For if God didn't spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved to judgment;
[26] Heb.11:35 Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment. They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheepskins, in goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated(of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.
[27] Rev.13:1 Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names.
[28] Rev.13:11 I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke like a dragon.
[29] Rev.19:19 I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him who sat on the horse, and against his army. The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. They two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.
[30] Num.14:34 After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, shall you bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you shall know my alienation.
[31] Rev.6:9 When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had. They cried with a loud voice, saying, "How long, Master, the holy and true, do you not judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?" A long white robe was given them. They were told that they should rest yet for a while, until their fellow servants and their brothers, who would also be killed even as they were, completed their course.
[32] Dan.7:20 and concerning the ten horns that were on its head, and the other [horn] which came up, and before which three fell, even that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spoke great things, whose look was more stout than its fellows. I saw, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;
[33] Dan.7:7 After this I saw in the night-visions, and, behold, a fourth animal, awesome and powerful, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth; it devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet: and it was diverse from all the animals that were before it; and it had ten horns.
[34] John10:33 The Jews answered him, "We don't stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God."
Mark2:7 "Why does this man speak blasphemies like that? Who can forgive sins but God alone?"
[35] Rev.13:5 A mouth speaking great things and blasphemy was given to him. Authority to make war for forty-two months was given to him.
[36] Dan.7:25 He shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High; and he shall think to change the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time.
[37] Rev.12:17 The dragon grew angry with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her seed, who keep God's commandments and hold Jesus' testimony.
[38] Rev.19:14 The armies which are in heaven followed him on white horses, clothed in white, pure, fine linen. Out of his mouth proceeds a sharp, double-edged sword, that with it he should strike the nations. He will rule them with a rod of iron. He treads the winepress of the fierceness of the wrath of God, the Almighty. He has on his garment and on his thigh a name written, "KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS."
[39] Rev.13:5 A mouth speaking great things and blasphemy was given to him. Authority to make war for forty-two months was given to him.
[40] Dan.9:24 Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
[41] Rev.13:5 A mouth speaking great things and blasphemy was given to him. Authority to make war for forty-two months was given to him. He opened his mouth for blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his dwelling, those who dwell in heaven. It was given to him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them. Authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation was given to him.
[42] Rev.13:1 Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names.
[43] Rev.12:12 Therefore rejoice, heavens, and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and to the sea, because the devil has gone down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a short time."
[44] Matt.26:53 Or do you think that I can't ask my Father, and he would even now send me more than twelve legions of angels?
[45] John17:12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. Those whom you have given me I have kept. None of them is lost, except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
[46] Gen.49:17 Dan will be a serpent in the way, An adder in the path, That bites the horse's heels, So that his rider falls backward.
[There may be different views as to whether the Danites were cut off from the 12 tribes.]
[47] Rev.5:11 I saw, and I heard something like a voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders; and the number of them was ten thousands of ten thousands, and thousands of thousands;
[48] Gen.1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.
[49] Jude1:6 Angels who didn't keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.
[50] 2Pet.2:4 For if God didn't spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved to judgment;
[51] Luke4:5 The devil, leading him up on a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. The devil said to him, "I will give you all this authority, and their glory, for it has been delivered to me; and I give it to whomever I want. If you therefore will worship before me, it will all be yours."
[52] John19:10 Pilate therefore said to him, "Aren't you speaking to me? Don't you know that I have power to release you, and have power to crucify you?" Jesus answered, "You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin."
[53] Heb.4:15 For we don't have a high priest who can't be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.
[54] Rom.6:9 knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no more has dominion over him!
[55] Rev.6:9 When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had. They cried with a loud voice, saying, "How long, Master, the holy and true, do you not judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?" A long white robe was given them. They were told that they should rest yet for a while, until their fellow servants and their brothers, who would also be killed even as they were, completed their course.
[56] 1Pet.1:12 To them it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to you, did they minister these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into. Therefore, prepare your minds for action, be sober and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ --
[57] John2:21 But he spoke of the temple of his body.
[58] Eph.2:5 even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
[59] Matt.12:28 But if I by the Spirit of God cast out demons, then the Kingdom of God has come on you.
[60] John14:26 But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.
[61] 1Cor.6:19 Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,
[62] Rev.13:6 He opened his mouth for blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his dwelling, those who dwell in heaven.
[63] Luke17:20 Being asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God would come, he answered them, "The Kingdom of God doesn't come with observation; neither will they say, 'Look, here!' or, 'Look, there!' for behold, the Kingdom of God is within you."
[64] John14:26 But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.
[65] Matt.12:8 For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath."
[66] Rev.16:5 I heard the angel of the waters saying, "You are righteous, who are and who were, you Holy One, because you judged this way. For they poured out the blood of the saints and the prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this." I heard the altar saying, "Yes, Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are your judgments."
[67] Rom.8:18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us. For the creation waits with eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed.
[68] Matt.28:18 Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.
[69] Rev.14:4 These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb. In their mouth was found no lie, for they are blameless.
[70] 1John5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.
[71] Dan.10:20 Then he said, "Do you know why I have come to you? Now I will return to fight with the prince of Persia. When I go forth, behold, the prince of Greece shall come. But I will tell you that which is inscribed in the writing of truth: and there is none who holds with me against these, but Michael your prince."
[72] Rev.12:7 There was war in the sky. Michael and his angels made war on the dragon. The dragon and his angels made war. They didn't prevail, neither was a place found for him any more in heaven. The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now is come the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night. They overcame him because of the Lamb's blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn't love their life, even to death.
[73] Rev.14:3 They sing a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the one hundred forty-four thousand, those who had been redeemed out of the earth. These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.
[74] Rev.21:4 He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away. He who sits on the throne said, "Behold, I am making all things new." He said, "Write, for these words of God are faithful and true."
[75] Rev.20:14 Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
[76] 1Cor.15:25 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy that will be abolished is death.
[77] 1Cor.15:28 When all things have been subjected to him, then the Son will also himself be subjected to him who subjected all things to him, that God may be all in all.
[78] Rev.12:12 Therefore rejoice, heavens, and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and to the sea, because the devil has gone down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a short time."
[79] Rom.8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don't walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
[80] Heb.2:14 Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
[81] Rev.10:1 I saw a mighty angel coming down out of the sky, clothed with a cloud. A rainbow was on his head. His face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire. He had in his hand a little book open. He set his right foot on the sea, and his left on the land.
[82] Rev.6:10 They cried with a loud voice, saying, "How long, Master, the holy and true, do you not judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?" A long white robe was given them. They were told that they should rest yet for a while, until their fellow servants and their brothers, who would also be killed even as they were, completed their course.
[83] Heb.10:13 from that time waiting until his enemies are made the footstool of his feet.
[84] 1John4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love. We love Him, because he first loved us.
[85] Matt.26:53 Or do you think that I can't ask my Father, and he would even now send me more than twelve legions of angels? How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so?"
[86] Eph.2:5 even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
[87] Rev.12:10 I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now is come the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.
[88] Dan.9:24 Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
[89] Rev.13:11 I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke like a dragon.
[90] Rev.12:15 The serpent spewed water out of his mouth after the woman like a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by the stream. The earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon spewed out of his mouth.
[91] Rev.13:11 I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke like a dragon.
[92] Rom.8:23 Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.
[93] Rev.14:3 They sing a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the one hundred forty-four thousand, those who had been redeemed out of the earth. These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.
[94] Rev.12:10 I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now is come the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night. They overcame him because of the Lamb's blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn't love their life, even to death.
[95] Rev.6:9 When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had. They cried with a loud voice, saying, "How long, Master, the holy and true, do you not judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?" A long white robe was given them. They were told that they should rest yet for a while, until their fellow servants and their brothers, who would also be killed even as they were, completed their course.
[96] Rev.6:11 A long white robe was given them. They were told that they should rest yet for a while, until their fellow servants and their brothers, who would also be killed even as they were, completed their course. I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake. The sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became as blood.
Rev.7:1 After this, I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, so that no wind would blow on the earth, or on the sea, or on any tree. I saw another angel ascend from the sunrise, having the seal of the living God. He cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was given to harm the earth and the sea, saying, "Don't harm the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, until we have sealed the bondservants of our God on their foreheads!" I heard the number of those who were sealed, one hundred forty-four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the children of Israel:
[97] Rev.14:1 I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.
[98] James5:7 Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.
[99] Rev.12:16 The earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon spewed out of his mouth. The dragon grew angry with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her seed, who keep God's commandments and hold Jesus' testimony.
[100] Rev.14:11 The smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever. They have no rest day and night, those who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name. Here is the patience of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus."
[101] Rev.12:14 Two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, so that she might be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent. The serpent spewed water out of his mouth after the woman like a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by the stream. The earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon spewed out of his mouth.
[102] 1John2:18 Little children, these are the end times, and as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the end times.
1Pet.1:19 but with precious blood, as of a lamb without spot, the blood of Christ; who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed at the end of times for your sake,
Heb.1:2 has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.
Heb.9:26 or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
1Cor.10:11 Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.
1Cor.7:29 But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;
Heb.10:37 "In a very little while, He who comes will come, and will not wait.
[103] Rev.7:8 Of the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand, Of the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand, Of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand. After these things I saw, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.
[104] Rev.13:7 It was given to him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them. Authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation was given to him. All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.
[105] Rev.7:9 After these things I saw, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.
Rev.7:13 One of the elders answered, saying to me, "These who are arrayed in white robes, who are they, and where did they come from?" I told him, "My lord, you know." He said to me, "These are those who came out of the great oppression. They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb's blood.
[106] Rev.14:1 I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.
[107] Rev.15:2 I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, and those who overcame the beast, and his image, and the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, having harps of God. They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, "Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty; Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.
[108] Rev.11:3 I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth. These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands, standing before the Lord of the earth. If anyone desires to harm them, fire proceeds out of their mouth and devours their enemies. If anyone desires to harm them, he must be killed in this way. These have the power to shut up the sky, that it may not rain during the days of their prophecy. They have power over the waters, to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they desire.
[109] Rev.12:12 Therefore rejoice, heavens, and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and to the sea, because the devil has gone down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a short time."
[110] Rev.11:18 The nations were angry, and your wrath came, as did the time for the dead to be judged, and to give your servants the prophets, their reward, as well as the saints, and those who fear your name, the small and the great; and to destroy those who destroy the earth."
[111] Job1:11 But put forth your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce you to your face." Yahweh said to Satan, "Behold, all that he has is in your power. Only on himself don't put forth your hand." So Satan went forth from the presence of Yahweh.
[112] Matt.24:21 for then will be great oppression, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.
Dan.12:1 "At that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince who stands for the children of your people; and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone who shall be found written in the book.
[113] Rev.11:18 The nations were angry, and your wrath came, as did the time for the dead to be judged, and to give your servants the prophets, their reward, as well as the saints, and those who fear your name, the small and the great; and to destroy those who destroy the earth."
[114] Rev.11:18 The nations were angry, and your wrath came, as did the time for the dead to be judged, and to give your servants the prophets, their reward, as well as the saints, and those who fear your name, the small and the great; and to destroy those who destroy the earth."
[115] Rev.11:2 Leave out the court which is outside of the temple, and don't measure it, for it has been given to the gentiles. They will tread the holy city under foot for forty-two months. I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.
[116] Rev.12:16 The earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon spewed out of his mouth.
[117] Rev.13:11 I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke like a dragon.
[118] Rom.8:23 Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.
[119] Rev.7:3 saying, "Don't harm the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, until we have sealed the bondservants of our God on their foreheads!" I heard the number of those who were sealed, one hundred forty-four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the children of Israel:
[120] 1Thess.4:16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God's trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first, then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.
[121] Rev.20:4 I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn't worship the beast nor his image, and didn't receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived, and reigned with Christ for the thousand years.
[122] Rev.16:14 for they are spirits of demons, performing signs; which go forth to the kings of the whole inhabited earth, to gather them together for the war of that great day of God, the Almighty.
[123] Rev.17:16 The ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will hate the prostitute, and will make her desolate, and will make her naked, and will eat her flesh, and will burn her utterly with fire.
[124] Rev.18:20 Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints, apostles, and prophets; for God has judged your judgment on her." A mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, "Thus with violence will Babylon, the great city, be thrown down, and will be found no more at all.
[125] Rev.12:6 The woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that there they may nourish her one thousand two hundred sixty days.
[126] Rev.12:13 When the dragon saw that he was thrown down to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male child.
[127] Rev.12:17 The dragon grew angry with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her seed, who keep God's commandments and hold Jesus' testimony.
[128] Rev.11:2 Leave out the court which is outside of the temple, and don't measure it, for it has been given to the gentiles. They will tread the holy city under foot for forty-two months. I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth. These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands, standing before the Lord of the earth. If anyone desires to harm them, fire proceeds out of their mouth and devours their enemies. If anyone desires to harm them, he must be killed in this way. These have the power to shut up the sky, that it may not rain during the days of their prophecy. They have power over the waters, to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they desire.
[129] Rev.12:14 Two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, so that she might be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
[130] Rev.13:7 It was given to him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them. Authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation was given to him.
[131] Rev.13:5 A mouth speaking great things and blasphemy was given to him. Authority to make war for forty-two months was given to him.
Rev.13:16 He causes all, the small and the great, the rich and the poor, and the free and the slave, so that they should give them marks on their right hand, or on their forehead; and that no one would be able to buy or to sell, unless he has that mark, the name of the beast or the number of his name.
[132] Rev.11:2 Leave out the court which is outside of the temple, and don't measure it, for it has been given to the gentiles. They will tread the holy city under foot for forty-two months. I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.
[133] Rev.19:14 The armies which are in heaven followed him on white horses, clothed in white, pure, fine linen.
[134] Zech.12:8 In that day Yahweh will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem. He who is feeble among them at that day will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of Yahweh before them.
[135] Matt.22:30 For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like God's angels in heaven.
[136] Is.37:36 The angel of Yahweh went forth, and struck in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred and eighty-five thousand; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
[137] 1Cor.15:44 It is sown a natural(psookheekos:soulish) body; it is raised a spiritual(pnyoomatikos) body. There is a natural body and there is also a spiritual body.
[138] 1Cor.15:51 Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. But when this corruptible will have put on incorruption, and this mortal will have put on immortality,
[139] Rev.19:19 I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him who sat on the horse, and against his army. The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. They two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur. The rest were killed with the sword of him who sat on the horse, the sword which came forth out of his mouth. All the birds were filled with their flesh.
[140] Rev.19:15 Out of his mouth proceeds a sharp, double-edged sword, that with it he should strike the nations. He will rule them with a rod of iron. He treads the winepress of the fierceness of the wrath of God, the Almighty. He has on his garment and on his thigh a name written, "KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS."
[141] Rev.7:4 I heard the number of those who were sealed, one hundred forty-four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the children of Israel:
[142] Rev.14:3 They sing a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the one hundred forty-four thousand, those who had been redeemed out of the earth.
[143] Rev.7:1 After this, I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, so that no wind would blow on the earth, or on the sea, or on any tree.
[144] Rev.9:14 saying to the sixth angel who had one trumpet, "Free the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates!"
[145] Dan.7:2 Daniel spoke and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the sky broke forth on the great sea. Four great animals came up from the sea, diverse one from another.
[146] Rev.12:12 Therefore rejoice, heavens, and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and to the sea, because the devil has gone down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a short time."
[147] Rev.13:1 Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names.
[148] Rev.13:11 I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke like a dragon.
[149] Rev.9:13 The sixth angel sounded. I heard a voice from the horns of the golden altar which is before God, saying to the sixth angel who had one trumpet, "Free the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates!" The four angels were freed who had been prepared for that hour and day and month and year, so that they would kill one third of mankind.
[150] Rev.13:1 Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names.
[151] Rev.11:2 Leave out the court which is outside of the temple, and don't measure it, for it has been given to the gentiles. They will tread the holy city under foot for forty-two months. I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.
[152] Rev.7:8 Of the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand, Of the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand, Of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand. After these things I saw, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.
[153] Rev.12:10 I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now is come the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night. They overcame him because of the Lamb's blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn't love their life, even to death.
[154] Rev.11:3 I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth. These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands, standing before the Lord of the earth. If anyone desires to harm them, fire proceeds out of their mouth and devours their enemies. If anyone desires to harm them, he must be killed in this way. These have the power to shut up the sky, that it may not rain during the days of their prophecy. They have power over the waters, to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they desire.
[155] Rev.12:12 Therefore rejoice, heavens, and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and to the sea, because the devil has gone down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a short time."
[156] Rev.13:1 Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names.
[157] Rev.13:11 I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke like a dragon.
[158] Dan.12:1 "At that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince who stands for the children of your people; and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone who shall be found written in the book.
Matt.24:21 for then will be great oppression, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be. Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the elect's sake, those days will be shortened.
[159] Job1:11 But put forth your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce you to your face." Yahweh said to Satan, "Behold, all that he has is in your power. Only on himself don't put forth your hand." So Satan went forth from the presence of Yahweh.
Matt.10:29 "Aren't two sparrows sold for an assarion? Not one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father's will,
[160] Deut.30:15 Behold, I have set before you this day life and good, and death and evil; in that I command you this day to love Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that Yahweh your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it.
[161] Jer.23:23 Am I a God at hand, says Yahweh, and not a God afar off? Can any hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him? says Yahweh. Don't I fill heaven and earth? says Yahweh.
[162] Rev.11:3 I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth. These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands, standing before the Lord of the earth. If anyone desires to harm them, fire proceeds out of their mouth and devours their enemies. If anyone desires to harm them, he must be killed in this way. These have the power to shut up the sky, that it may not rain during the days of their prophecy. They have power over the waters, to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they desire.
[163] Rev.11:4 These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands, standing before the Lord of the earth.
Zech.4:14 Then he said, "These are the two anointed ones who stand by the Lord of the whole earth."
[164] Rev.14:6 I saw an angel flying in mid heaven, having an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on the earth, and to every nation, tribe, language, and people. He said with a loud voice, "Fear the Lord, and give him glory; for the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and the springs of waters!" Another, a second angel, followed, saying, "Babylon the great has fallen, which has made all the nations to drink of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality." Another angel, a third, followed them, saying with a great voice, "If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives a mark on his forehead, or on his hand, he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is prepared unmixed in the cup of his anger. He will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb. The smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever. They have no rest day and night, those who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.
[165] Rev.14:3 They sing a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the one hundred forty-four thousand, those who had been redeemed out of the earth. These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb. In their mouth was found no lie, for they are blameless.
[166] Rev.9:1 The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from the sky fallen to the earth. The key to the pit of the abyss was given to him. He opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke from a burning furnace. The sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke from the pit. Then out of the smoke came forth locusts on the earth, and power was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have power. They were told that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those men who don't have God's seal on their foreheads.
[167] Rev.6:12 I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake. The sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became as blood.
[168] Rev.7:3 saying, "Don't harm the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, until we have sealed the bondservants of our God on their foreheads!" I heard the number of those who were sealed, one hundred forty-four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the children of Israel:
[169] Rev.7:1 After this, I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, so that no wind would blow on the earth, or on the sea, or on any tree.
[170] Rev.8:1 When he opened the seventh seal, there followed a silence in heaven for about half an hour.
[171] Rev.9:14 saying to the sixth angel who had one trumpet, "Free the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates!" The four angels were freed who had been prepared for that hour and day and month and year, so that they would kill one third of mankind. The number of the armies of the horsemen was ten thousands of ten thousands. I heard the number of them.
[172] Rev.8:7 The first sounded, and there followed hail and fire, mixed with blood, and they were thrown on the earth. One third of the earth was burnt up, and one third of the trees were burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up. The second angel sounded, and something like a great burning mountain was thrown into the sea. One third of the sea became blood, and one third of the creatures which were in the sea died, those who had life. One third of the ships were destroyed. The third angel sounded, and a great star fell from the sky, burning like a torch, and it fell on one third of the rivers, and on the springs of the waters. The name of the star is called "Wormwood." One third of the waters became wormwood. Many men died from the waters, because they were made bitter. The fourth angel sounded, and one third of the sun was struck, and one third of the moon, and one third of the stars; so that one third of them would be darkened, and the day wouldn't shine for one third of it, and the night in the same way.
[173] Rev.6:9 When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had. They cried with a loud voice, saying, "How long, Master, the holy and true, do you not judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?" A long white robe was given them. They were told that they should rest yet for a while, until their fellow servants and their brothers, who would also be killed even as they were, completed their course.
[174] Rev.7:4 I heard the number of those who were sealed, one hundred forty-four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the children of Israel:
[175] Rev.14:1 I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.
[176] Rom.8:22 For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.
[177] Rev.7:3 saying, "Don't harm the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, until we have sealed the bondservants of our God on their foreheads!"
[178] Rev.9:4 They were told that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those men who don't have God's seal on their foreheads.
[179] Rev.13:1 Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names.
[180] Dan.7:2 Daniel spoke and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the sky broke forth on the great sea. Four great animals came up from the sea, diverse one from another.
[181] Rev.7:1 After this, I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, so that no wind would blow on the earth, or on the sea, or on any tree.
[182] Rev.12:12 Therefore rejoice, heavens, and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and to the sea, because the devil has gone down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a short time."
[183] Rev.13:1 Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names.
[184] Rev.13:11 I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke like a dragon.
[185] Dan.9:27 He shall make a firm covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week(view2:for half of the week) he shall cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease; and on the wing of abominations [shall come] one who makes desolate; and even to the full end, and that determined, shall [wrath] be poured out on the desolate.
[186] Rev.10:1 I saw a mighty angel coming down out of the sky, clothed with a cloud. A rainbow was on his head. His face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire. He had in his hand a little book open. He set his right foot on the sea, and his left on the land.
[187] Rev.10:10 I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up. It was as sweet as honey in my mouth. When I had eaten it, my belly was made bitter. They told me, "You must prophesy again over many peoples, nations, languages, and kings."
[188] Ezek.3:1 He said to me, Son of man, eat that which you find; eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel. So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat the scroll. He said to me, Son of man, cause your belly to eat, and fill your bowels with this scroll that I give you. Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.
[189] Rev.14:4 These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb. In their mouth was found no lie, for they are blameless. I saw an angel flying in mid heaven, having an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on the earth, and to every nation, tribe, language, and people.
[190] Rev.14:3 They sing a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the one hundred forty-four thousand, those who had been redeemed out of the earth. These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb. In their mouth was found no lie, for they are blameless.
[191] Rev.14:15 Another angel came out from the temple, crying with a loud voice to him who sat on the cloud, "Send forth your sickle, and reap; for the hour to reap has come; for the harvest of the earth is ripe!" He who sat on the cloud thrust his sickle on the earth, and the earth was reaped.
[192] Jer.5:24 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
[193] Zech.12:8 In that day Yahweh will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem. He who is feeble among them at that day will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of Yahweh before them.
[194] Rev.11:3 I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.
[195] Rev.11:2 Leave out the court which is outside of the temple, and don't measure it, for it has been given to the gentiles. They will tread the holy city under foot for forty-two months. I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.
[196] Rev.12:12 Therefore rejoice, heavens, and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and to the sea, because the devil has gone down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a short time."
[197] Dan.7:2 Daniel spoke and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the sky broke forth on the great sea. Four great animals came up from the sea, diverse one from another.
[198] Rev.13:1 Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names.
[199] Rev.13:11 I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke like a dragon.
[200] Rev.9:13 The sixth angel sounded. I heard a voice from the horns of the golden altar which is before God, saying to the sixth angel who had one trumpet, "Free the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates!" The four angels were freed who had been prepared for that hour and day and month and year, so that they would kill one third of mankind. The number of the armies of the horsemen was ten thousands of ten thousands. I heard the number of them.
[201] Rev.7:1 After this, I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, so that no wind would blow on the earth, or on the sea, or on any tree.
[202] Eph.6:12 For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world's rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
[203] Eph.2:6 and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
[204] Matt.12:28 But if I by the Spirit of God cast out demons, then the Kingdom of God has come on you.
[205] Eph.2:2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience;
[206] Rev.6:9 When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had. They cried with a loud voice, saying, "How long, Master, the holy and true, do you not judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?" A long white robe was given them. They were told that they should rest yet for a while, until their fellow servants and their brothers, who would also be killed even as they were, completed their course.
[207] Rev.12:10 I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now is come the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.
[208] Rev.7:4 I heard the number of those who were sealed, one hundred forty-four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the children of Israel:
[209] Rev.14:3 They sing a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the one hundred forty-four thousand, those who had been redeemed out of the earth.
[210] Rev.7:1 After this, I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, so that no wind would blow on the earth, or on the sea, or on any tree.
[211] Rev.9:14 saying to the sixth angel who had one trumpet, "Free the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates!"
[212] Dan.7:2 Daniel spoke and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the sky broke forth on the great sea. Four great animals came up from the sea, diverse one from another.
[213] Rev.12:12 Therefore rejoice, heavens, and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and to the sea, because the devil has gone down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a short time."
[214] Rev.13:1 Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names.
[215] Rev.13:11 I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke like a dragon.
[216] Rev.9:13 The sixth angel sounded. I heard a voice from the horns of the golden altar which is before God, saying to the sixth angel who had one trumpet, "Free the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates!" The four angels were freed who had been prepared for that hour and day and month and year, so that they would kill one third of mankind.
[217] Rev.13:1 Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names.
[218] Dan.10:13 But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days; but, behold, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me: and I remained there with the kings of Persia.
[219] Jude1:9 But Michael, the archangel, when contending with the devil and arguing about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him an abusive condemnation, but said, "May the Lord rebuke you!"
[220] Rev.12:10 I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now is come the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.
[221] Rev.12:12 Therefore rejoice, heavens, and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and to the sea, because the devil has gone down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a short time."
[222] Rev.12:11 They overcame him because of the Lamb's blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn't love their life, even to death.
[223] Matt.24:15 "When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),
Matt.24:21 for then will be great oppression, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.
[224] Rev.17:3 He carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet-colored animal, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns.
[225] Rev.13:5 A mouth speaking great things and blasphemy was given to him. Authority to make war for forty-two months was given to him.
[226] 2Thess.2:3 Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction, he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped; so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.
[227] Rev.9:1 The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from the sky fallen to the earth. The key to the pit of the abyss was given to him.
[228] Rev.9:14 saying to the sixth angel who had one trumpet, "Free the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates!" The four angels were freed who had been prepared for that hour and day and month and year, so that they would kill one third of mankind.
[229] Rev.13:1 Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names.
[230] Rev.12:12 Therefore rejoice, heavens, and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and to the sea, because the devil has gone down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a short time."
[231] Rev.7:1 After this, I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, so that no wind would blow on the earth, or on the sea, or on any tree.
[232] Rev.7:4 I heard the number of those who were sealed, one hundred forty-four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the children of Israel:
[233] Rev.14:1 I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.
[234] Dan.7:2 Daniel spoke and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the sky broke forth on the great sea. Four great animals came up from the sea, diverse one from another.
[235] Rev.9:13 The sixth angel sounded. I heard a voice from the horns of the golden altar which is before God, saying to the sixth angel who had one trumpet, "Free the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates!"
[236] Is.14:13 You said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; and I will sit on the mountain of congregation, in the uttermost parts of the north;
Job38:7 When the morning stars sang together, And all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Rev.12:4 His tail drew one third of the stars of the sky, and threw them to the earth. The dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might devour her child.
[237] Ezek.28:14 You were the anointed cherub who covers: and I set you, [so that] you were on the holy mountain of God; you have walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
[238] Job1:12 Yahweh said to Satan, "Behold, all that he has is in your power. Only on himself don't put forth your hand." So Satan went forth from the presence of Yahweh.
[239] Rev.13:5 A mouth speaking great things and blasphemy was given to him. Authority to make war for forty-two months was given to him. He opened his mouth for blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his dwelling, those who dwell in heaven. It was given to him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them. Authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation was given to him.
[240] Matt.12:26 If Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand?
[241] John10:10 The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
[242] Rev.12:7 There was war in the sky. Michael and his angels made war on the dragon. The dragon and his angels made war. They didn't prevail, neither was a place found for him any more in heaven. The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
[243] Rev.9:10 They have tails like those of scorpions, and stings. In their tails they have power to harm men for five months. They have over them as king the angel of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is "Abaddon," but in Greek, he has the name "Apollyon."
[244] Zech.3:1 He showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of Yahweh, and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary.
[245] Prov.15:11 Sheol and Abaddon are before Yahweh -- How much more then the hearts of the children of men!
[246] Rev.20:1 I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.
[247] Rev.9:1 The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from the sky fallen to the earth. The key to the pit of the abyss was given to him.
[248] Rev.9:2 He opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke from a burning furnace. The sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke from the pit. Then out of the smoke came forth locusts on the earth, and power was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
[249] Rev.20:2 He seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years, and cast him into the abyss, and shut it, and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years were finished. After this, he must be freed for a short time.
[250] Rev.12:11 They overcame him because of the Lamb's blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn't love their life, even to death. Therefore rejoice, heavens, and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and to the sea, because the devil has gone down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a short time."
[251] Rev.13:1 Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names.
[252] Rev.9:13 The sixth angel sounded. I heard a voice from the horns of the golden altar which is before God, saying to the sixth angel who had one trumpet, "Free the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates!" The four angels were freed who had been prepared for that hour and day and month and year, so that they would kill one third of mankind.
[253] Rev.6:9 When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had. They cried with a loud voice, saying, "How long, Master, the holy and true, do you not judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?" A long white robe was given them. They were told that they should rest yet for a while, until their fellow servants and their brothers, who would also be killed even as they were, completed their course.
[254] Rev.12:12 Therefore rejoice, heavens, and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and to the sea, because the devil has gone down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a short time."
[255] Rev.9:12 The first woe is past. Behold, there are still two woes coming after this. The sixth angel sounded. I heard a voice from the horns of the golden altar which is before God,
[256] Rev.13:1 Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names.
[257] Rev.15:7 One of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God, who lives forever and ever.
[258] Rev.15:1 I saw another great and marvelous sign in the sky: seven angels having the seven last plagues, for in them God's wrath is finished.
[259] Rev.6:11 A long white robe was given them. They were told that they should rest yet for a while, until their fellow servants and their brothers, who would also be killed even as they were, completed their course.
[260] Rev.12:11 They overcame him because of the Lamb's blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn't love their life, even to death.
[261] Rev.9:1 The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from the sky fallen to the earth. The key to the pit of the abyss was given to him.
[262] Rev.12:12 Therefore rejoice, heavens, and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and to the sea, because the devil has gone down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a short time."
[263] Rev.9:12 The first woe is past. Behold, there are still two woes coming after this. The sixth angel sounded. I heard a voice from the horns of the golden altar which is before God, saying to the sixth angel who had one trumpet, "Free the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates!"
[264] Rev.1:18 and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.
Rev.20:1 I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. He seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years,
Luke8:30 Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" He said, "Legion," for many demons had entered into him. They begged him that he would not command them to go into the abyss.
Matt.16:19 I will give to you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven."
[265] John13:27 After the morsel, then Satan entered into him. Jesus therefore said to him, "What you do, do quickly."
[266] Job34:14 If he set his heart on himself, If he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath; All flesh would perish together, And man would turn again to dust.
[267] John12:48 He who rejects me, and doesn't receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke, the same will judge him in the last day.
[268] Matt.10:29 "Aren't two sparrows sold for an assarion? Not one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father's will,
[269] Rom.1:28 Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
[270] Is.43:13 Yes, since the day was I am he; and there is none who can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who can hinder it?
[271] Rev.7:1 After this, I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, so that no wind would blow on the earth, or on the sea, or on any tree. I saw another angel ascend from the sunrise, having the seal of the living God. He cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was given to harm the earth and the sea, saying, "Don't harm the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, until we have sealed the bondservants of our God on their foreheads!" I heard the number of those who were sealed, one hundred forty-four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the children of Israel:
[272] Rev.7:13 One of the elders answered, saying to me, "These who are arrayed in white robes, who are they, and where did they come from?" I told him, "My lord, you know." He said to me, "These are those who came out of the great oppression. They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb's blood.
[273] Rev.9:4 They were told that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those men who don't have God's seal on their foreheads.
[274] Rev.7:9 After these things I saw, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.
[275] John3:33 He who has received his witness has set his seal to this, that God is true.
[276] Rev.15:2 I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, and those who overcame the beast, and his image, and the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, having harps of God.
[277] Rev.14:3 They sing a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the one hundred forty-four thousand, those who had been redeemed out of the earth.
[278] Rom.8:23 Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.
[279] Hos.6:3 Let us acknowledge Yahweh. Let us press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, Like the spring rain that waters the earth."
[280] Rev.13:15 It was given to him to give breath to it, to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause as many as wouldn't worship the image of the beast to be killed.
[281] Rev.11:2 Leave out the court which is outside of the temple, and don't measure it, for it has been given to the gentiles. They will tread the holy city under foot for forty-two months. I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.
[282] Rev.13:5 A mouth speaking great things and blasphemy was given to him. Authority to make war for forty-two months was given to him.
[283] 1Cor.15:56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
[284] 1Cor.15:54 But when this corruptible will have put on incorruption, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen:
[285] 1Cor.15:51 Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,
Rev.11:15 The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed, saying, "The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ. He will reign forever and ever!"
[286] Rev.6:10 They cried with a loud voice, saying, "How long, Master, the holy and true, do you not judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?" A long white robe was given them. They were told that they should rest yet for a while, until their fellow servants and their brothers, who would also be killed even as they were, completed their course.
[287] 1Cor.15:20 But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep.
[288] Rom.8:23 Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.
[289] Rev.14:4 These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.
[290] Rev.11:3 I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth. These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands, standing before the Lord of the earth.
[291] Rev.14:1 I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.
[292] Rev.13:1 Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names.
[293] Rev.13:11 I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke like a dragon.
[294] Rev.13:16 He causes all, the small and the great, the rich and the poor, and the free and the slave, so that they should give them marks on their right hand, or on their forehead; and that no one would be able to buy or to sell, unless he has that mark, the name of the beast or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. He who has understanding, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. His number is six hundred sixty-six.
[295] Rev.20:6 Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over these, the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him one thousand years.
[296] Rev.20:4 I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn't worship the beast nor his image, and didn't receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived, and reigned with Christ for the thousand years.
[297] Rev.12:14 Two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, so that she might be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
[298] Rev.14:1 I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.
[299] Rev.15:2 I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, and those who overcame the beast, and his image, and the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, having harps of God.
[300] 1Thess.4:16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God's trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first, then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.
[301] Dan.9:24 Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
[302] Rev.16:1 I heard a loud voice out of the temple, saying to the seven angels, "Go and pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God on the earth!"
[303] Rev.19:19 I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him who sat on the horse, and against his army. The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. They two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur. The rest were killed with the sword of him who sat on the horse, the sword which came forth out of his mouth. All the birds were filled with their flesh.
[304] Rev.13:5 A mouth speaking great things and blasphemy was given to him. Authority to make war for forty-two months was given to him.
[305] Dan.12:11 From the time that the continual [burnt offering] shall be taken away, and the abomination that makes desolate set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred ninety days. Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred thirty-five days.
[306] Rev.21:2 I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready like a bride adorned for her husband.
[307] Heb.11:35 Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.
[308] Rom.8:17 and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him. For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.https://youtu.be/AupisuARmgQ?feature=shared
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