| Ω My view of the general situation of the 2nd coming |
| 1 When the 7th trumpet is sounded, the LORD Jesus will return.[1] However, He does not come down even to the earth, but stops in mid-air and catches the saints who have been resurrected or transformed[2] into the air.[3] I am not quite sure where this air is. Is it near the sea of glass, or is it the atmosphere that people can see with the naked eye, or is it some other place in the creation world? However, even if the air the LORD Jesus coming to is not necessarily the atmosphere, I will not conclude that those who mourn cannot see the LORD Jesus at the 2nd coming with their own eyes. There can be disagreement as to whether the time when all the peoples of the earth will mourn when the LORD Jesus comes again[4], will be when the LORD Jesus will come only to the air to catch up the saints, or will He come down even to the earth only after pouring out the 7 plagues while He is in the air. However, assuming that the words that were written in Matthew 24 were recorded sequentially[5], and assuming that all the peoples will weep when the LORD Jesus gathers the saints together, the time for all the peoples to weep seems to be when the LORD Jesus comes only to the air. Even the wicked of the earth will see the saints being caught up into the air.[6] 2 Through the 1st resurrection, God's love and justice are confirmed in the creation world[7], and the Son purifies the creation world from sin by His own blood.[8] I do not know whether the Son will enter the true sanctuary in the heaven of angels where the throne was before[9], or whether He will descend on cherubim and place His throne in the air. Judging from the word that no one can be in the true temple while the Son atones for the true temple[10] after the martyr witnesses are resurrected or transformed[11], we could think that the Son who has met the martyr witnesses in the air enters the true temple, and the martyr witnesses who are resurrected or transformed and the angels stay near the sea of glass. The tent of meeting where the atonement is made symbolizes the true temple. Perhaps no one can be in the true temple until the Son completes atonement for the creation world as the High Priest. I do not know if the entire heaven of angels is called the true temple. It may be 'Heaven of angels=True temple', but there may also be the true temple in the heaven of angels. If 'Heaven of angels=True temple', the angels cannot be in the heaven of angels during the time of the atonement, so it can be expected that they will probably stay on the sea of glass. After the resurrection and the transformation of the martyr witnesses, during the Son atones for the creation world, the 7 plagues are poured out on the earth. When the prayers and the incense from the altar of burnt offering that were offered on the golden altar of incense[12], fill the true most holy place (7th seal = 1st trumpet ~ 6th trumpet), the true most holy place is opened[13] (7th trumpet), and after the LORD Jesus who has come to the air[14], harvests the firstfruits[15], He finally enters the true most holy place filled with incense[16] as the High Priest.[17] The true temple where the LORD Jesus entered to atone for the creation world, is filled with smoke from the glory of God and from His power.[18] This does not mean that the LORD Jesus will only sit on the true throne in the true most holy place at this time. The LORD Jesus has already been seated on the throne since His resurrection[19] and ascension into heaven, and He is interceding for us as the High Priest.[20] However, it means that the intercession that has been made until then will be completed only after the 7th trumpet is sounded and the 1st resurrection takes place. The Son, seated on the throne and interceding, sends another Counselor, God the Holy Spirit, to His disciples.[21] It means that the intercession of the Son has continued since at least the Pentecost. And that intercession has already ended at least at the time of the 7 golden bowl plagues, appear after the 7th trumpet is sounded. The period of the 7 golden bowl plagues is not only the period of erasing sins from the creation world[22], but also the period of pouring out God's judgment of wrath.[23] The Son's intercession has a purpose.[24] The purpose of the Son's intercession is to annihilate sin in the creation world.[25] And that purpose is fulfilled[26] by the resurrection and the transformation[27] of the martyr witnesses. So, the Son has interceded and has sent God the Holy Spirit to the saints[28], and He has allowed the saints who received God the Holy Spirit to overcome their sins, leading them to the resurrection and the transformation.[29] Therefore, the intercession of the Son will be completed only at the time of the 7th trumpet, when the resurrection and the transformation occur. Then will there be no more intercession in the future? I do not know. Just guessing. At the great white throne judgment after the end of the 1000-year kingdom, Hades, the realm of sin[30], as well as death, the result of sin, will be annihilated.[31] The Son will obey His Father and the Father will become everything[32], so it can be good to say that the concept of sin itself will disappear. (We think limitedly as long as God the Son is limiting Himself as a creature in space-time.[33]) Since sin itself will be removed, there will no longer be a need for a mediator to connect the Creator with creatures. However, it is unlikely that the concept of intercession will disappear completely before the great white throne judgment, given that the martyr witnesses will serve as royal priests to connect the people to God and Christ during the 1000-year reign.[34] This is because, at the end of the 1000-year kingdom, there will be Satan's final deception.[35] However, the free will of the angels had already been completed[36], by the resurrection and the transformation of the martyr witnesses occured with the sounding of the 7th trumpet before the beginning of the 1000-year kingdom[37], before the pouring out of the 7 golden bowl plagues. Because the truthfulness of the commandments is proved by the 1st resurrection of the martyr witnesses who loved God and their neighbors until their death.[38] And God's love and justice are proved by the truthfulness of the commandments. 3 After the 7th trumpet is sounded, when the harvest is over[39] by the 1st resurrection[40], the gathering of grape clusters begins.[41] The temple of the tabernacle of the testimony is opened, and the atonement for the true temple begins. In other words, the traces of sin are washed away in the true temple and the free will of the angels comes to be perfected. When the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony, the true most holy place, is opened, the true temple comes to be filled with smoke from the glory of God and from His power.[42] And then the 7 golden bowl plagues are poured out on the earth. These plagues are the judgment against the surviving wicked who have refused the opportunity to repent until then and have decided to reject God. Especially 'Babylon the great' or 'The prostitute sitting on the scarlet beast'.[43] Since the free will of the angels has been perfected[44] by the confirmation of the truthfulness of the commandments[45] through the 1st resurrection of the martyr witnesses[46], there is no longer any need for God to do anything to perfect the will of the creatures. Now that the creation of the creatures who have entered into the Son has been completed[47], it is no longer necessary to wait for the creatures[48] to make a choice.[49] The free will of the unfallen angels has been perfected[50], the witnesses who have overcome sin have been resurrected or transformed[51], and only the wicked who join with Satan remain on the earth.[52] Therefore, the Son kills all the remaining criminals on the earth.[53] However, this plagues are not the lake of fire, but a judgment that returns only their body to dust. The wicked whose bodies have already returned to dust, cannot suffer from this plagues. The wicked who have already departed from their flesh will be resurrected and thrown into the lake of fire at the great white throne judgment.[54] The wicked will pay all the prices they did not pay in their lifetime. Although the firstfruits have already been resurrected or transformed and the harvest has been completed, based on the gleaning after the harvest[55], there may be an opinion that there will still be people on the earth who will be saved even when the 7 plagues begin to pour out. I do not think so, but if it were, their death, the return of their bodies to dust, wouldn't be martyrdom. This is because the martyr witnesses had already resurrected or transformed at the 7th trumpet before the 7 plagues began. If their death can be martyrdom, it means that there will be one more 1st resurrection of the saints before the 1000-year kingdom begins. If so, does that mean that even if their bodies returned to dust without receiving the mark of the beast666, they were not martyred? Assuming that there will still be people on the earth who will be saved even when the 7 plagues begin to pour, my thoughts are as follows. If they were to be martyred, they would have been martyred sooner. When we stand before the mark of the beast666, we have to choose between martyrdom or receiving the mark of the beast666. Of course, there are those who are martyred by living a life of love. Anyone who refuses to worship the beast in the midst of oppression is a martyr, even if his/her body does not return to dust.[56] Those who are martyred by their death will be resurrected, but those who are martyred by their life will be transformed.[57] Also, whoever worships the beast and receives the mark of the beast666 will never be forgiven and will be thrown into the lake of fire.[58] Therefore, if they were not resurrected or transformed and did not receive the mark of the beast666, the conclusion is that we cannot help but think that they did not stand before the test of the mark of the beast666. If they had rejected the mark of the beast666, they would have been recognized as martyr witnesses and would have been resurrected or transformed at the time of the 1st resurrection. To see that they were left in the midst of the 7 plagues, not martyred, not even worshiping the beast, we can only assume that they would never have been tested by the mark of the beast itself. Therefore, in order for these people to remain on the earth as those who have the potential to be saved when the 7 plagues are poured out after the 1st resurrection, they must survive without being resurrected or worshiping the beast. Well, is that really possible? Would this be possible if someone survived alone on a deserted island in the reign of the beast? Moreover, the 7 plagues are judgment without mercy.[59] Can anyone who will be saved and become God's people, be in the earth where judgment of wrath is poured out in a time of judgment? Opinions may differ as to whether the sealed 144000 in Revelation 7[60] means the 144000 firstfruits who stand on Mount Zion with the Lamb in Revelation 14.[61] 'A great multitude which no one could count' in Revelation 7[62] is different from the 144000, but assuming that they are also sealed, they will surely defeat the beast.[63] Because being sealed means being confirmed as God's possession.[64] In other words, it means that those who are sealed will be resurrected or transformed as martyr witnesses, whether they are martyred by living or dying. Therefore, if there are some who will be left on the earth with the possibility of being saved in the time of the 7 plagues, it means that they have not been sealed. Because if they had been sealed, they would have been martyred. The tribulation of the 70th week is a tribulation that has not been seen since the creation of the world.[65] Can those who have not even been sealed survive without worshiping the beast in such tribulation that the days must be shortened for the sake of the elect because unless those days had been cut short, even the elect cannot be saved? These great multitude clothed in white robes are also the martyr witnesses, if not the 144000 firstfruits. These are those who passed through the tribulation of the 1st half of the 70th week, and those who overcame the beasts, there is a high possibility that they may refer to the victors on the sea of glass in Revelation 15.[66] They will be able to serve God before the throne of God in the 1000-year kingdom.[67] They may not have been sealed by the seal of 144000[68], but they will be resurrected or transformed. Therefore, they cannot be left on the earth when the 7 plagues are poured out on the earth.[69] If it is assumed that these people can become martyr witnesses without being sealed, it is probable that there will be saints who survive on the earth even in the time of the 7 plagues without being sealed. However, I believe that these great multitude in white robes who were martyred by overcoming the beasts, were also sealed, even if they were sealed different from that of the 144000. It is because I believe that no one can become the martyr witness if God the Holy Spirit does not become the deposit[70] of those who have certified that God is truthful.[71] Therefore, I do not think that there are saints who can survive the great tribulation of the 1st half of the 70th week without being sealed. Moreover, even if they did not die and survived the tribulation of the 1st half of the 70th week without being sealed, (It is doubtful whether that would be possible under the reign of the beast, anyway,) because they did not experience the test of the mark of the beast666, (If they had passed the test, they would have died and were resurrected or they would have survived and were transformed. If they had not passed, they would have received the mark of the beast666 and would have already fallen. It is hard to imagine that those who survived the test would not have transformed when the 7th trumpet is sounded.) verification of the truthfulness of their faith may not have been completed. If anyone dies as soon as they make a covenant to obey the LORD Jesus, they are unverified.[72] In other words, if their bodies returned to dust before their faith was verified[73], they would have to undergo verification of faith as people in paradise, the 1000-year kingdom[74], like the criminal who died after receiving the LORD Jesus on the cross.[75] However, if they endured the tribulation through their faith under the reign of the beast, their faith has already been verified. Even if they cannot be raised by the 1st resurrection, it will be impossible for them not to be raised by the resurrection of life. But I don't think the saints who do not worship the beast will be left on the earth and have to endure the 7 plagues. Perhaps they were resurrected or transformed through the grace of being taken away from the evil to come[76], or at least their bodies returned to dust before the 7 plagues. By the time the 1st resurrection takes place and the 7 plagues are poured out on the earth, I believe that there will be no more saints on the earth. In any case, during the pouring out of the 7 plagues, the true temple is atoned for.[77] In other words, the free will of the angels is perfected during the pouring out of the 7 plagues.[78] On the Day of Atonement, the high priest sprinkled blood on the mercy seat, the throne, to make atonement for the most holy place and the tent of meeting, and after that, he went out to the courtyard and sprinkled blood on the altar of burnt offering to make atonement for it. Opinions may differ as to whether the 7 plagues are included in the atonement of the true temple or the atonement of Hades, the altar of burnt offering, but in any case, no one can enter the true temple until the 7 plagues are over. The 7 plagues are poured out in the period of the 2nd half of the 70th week. For 1260 days of the 1st half of the 70th week, the eternal gospel was proclaimed by the witnesses who had God the Holy Spirit who came even as the latter rain.[79] Shortly after the end of the 1st half of the 70th week, the 7th trumpet is sounded. About the half point of the 70th week, after the LORD Jesus who came to the air, catches the martyr witnesses up into the air, the angels commanded by the LORD Jesus pour out 'the 7 golden bowl plagues full of the wrath of God' on the earth.[80] 4 If the 6th golden bowl is poured into the Euphrates river, the way for the kings[81] from the east is prepared.[82] This is the reminiscent of Cyrus who destroyed Babylon[83], expressing the LORD Jesus and the army in white linen who will destroy Babylon the great. Cyrus turned the stream of the Euphrates river that entered the city of Babylon and attacked it along the lowered water level and captured the city of Babylon.[84] Babylon which took control of the beast, is burned by the beast, and the LORD Jesus burns the beast. Although it is done under the permission of the LORD Jesus[85], it means that the LORD Jesus Himself does not burn Babylon. Therefore, one might be of the view that Cyrus who destroyed Babylon, cannot be viewed as a type of kings from the east.[86] The rising of the sun[87] is often[88] expressed[89] as the realm of God[90], but sometimes[91] as the realm of sin.[92] When the 6th golden bowl is poured into the Euphrates river, the way for the kings is prepared, and the spirits of demons gather the kings of the earth to a place called Armageddon. The kings of the earth gathered by the spirits of demons, means the scarlet beast with 7 heads and 10 horns that burned Babylon the great symbolized by the prostitute riding the scarlet beast. 'Armageddon' means 'Har Megiddo' or 'the hill of Megiddo' which is the plain at the bottom of Mount Carmel[93] where Elijah fought with 850 Baal-Asherah prophets.[94] Therefore, Armageddon most likely means Mount Carmel. It is possible, of course, that it means that the beast armies will gather in the actual 'Megiddo' region of Israel, but I think more than that, as Elijah killed the false prophets on Mount Carmel, (or as Jehu killed the kings of Israel and Judah,) it more likely means that the LORD Jesus and the heavenly army that follows the LORD Jesus will exterminate the armies of the beast.[95] However, I don't think that the incident in which Elijah killed 850 false prophets on Mount Carmel, refers to the incident in Revelation 19 where the LORD Jesus exterminates the armies of the beast[96] gathered at the 6th bowl in Revelation 16[97], rather, I think it refers to the event that the 2 witnesses shut up the sky and kill their enemies with fire for 1260 days of the 1st half of the 70th week.[98] When the 70th week begins[99], the son of destruction sits in the temple building[100], causing the great tribulation that has not been seen since the creation of the world.[101] In the meantime, the 2 witnesses proclaim the eternal gospel and destroy the armies of the beast. After the great tribulation that lasted at least 42 months is over, the 7th trumpet is sounded and the 1st resurrection takes place.[102] (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'.[103] 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'.) There is a drought of 3 years and 6 months symbolizing the 1st half of the 70th week[104], there is Elijah symbolizing the 2 witnesses and the martyr witnesses, and there is Jezebel prostitute symbolizing the son of destruction. After the drought of 3 years and 6 months, Elijah kills the 850 false prophets, and after killing the false prophets, he is pursued by Jezebel prostitute. Elijah flees to the mountain[105] to avoid the great tribulation[106] that has not been seen since the foundation of the world, and ascends to heaven to become a foreshadowing of the being caught up (rapture).[107] But I believe that these things happen all at once for 3 years and 6 months of the 1st half of the 70th week. For the 3 years and 6 months of the great tribulation caused by Jezebel prostitute, there will be martyr witnesses who are nourished in the mountain, the prepared place[108], and there will be the 2 witnesses who smash the army of Jezebel. Around the end of the 3 years and 6 months, Jezebel prostitute will defeat the 2 witnesses, and the 2 witnesses will either die or flee.[109] Soon after that, the 1st resurrection will take place.[110] The martyr witnesses will be resurrected or transformed. The event of the LORD Jesus exterminating the beast armies gathered in the 'Megiddo' region, seems to have been foreshadowed in 2 Kings 9 where Jehu killed the kings of Israel[111] and Judah.[112] At this time, both Israel and Judah were under the control of Jezebel, the symbol of the Babylon prostitute.[113] In 2 Kings 9, the symbol, the kings die first and Jezebel dies a little later[114], but in reality, the beast controlled by the prostitute kills the prostitute first[115], and then the LORD Jesus kills the beast.[116] If the 7th bowl is poured into the air, Babylon the great is destroyed by an earthquake.[117] Babylon the great is burned with fire by the beast with 7 heads and 10 horns.[118] If Babylon the great had already been burned with fire before the 7th bowl was poured out, there would not have been Babylon the great itself that would be divided into 3 parts by an earthquake. Therefore, it is likely that Babylon was not burned by the beast before the pouring out of the 7th bowl. Babylon the great will be burned with fire by the beast with 7 heads and 10 horns after the 7th bowl is poured out.[119] After the 6th golden bowl is poured into the Euphrates river, after seeing the miracles performed by the spirits of demons that came out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet, the kings, that is, the armies of the beast with 7 heads and 10 horns, are gathered at Armageddon. After the 7th bowl is poured out, the armies of the beast burn Babylon the great which is divided into 3 parts by an earthquake, and face the army of the LORD Jesus who rides on a white horse and comes even to the earth at Armageddon.[120] When the martyr witnesses are resurrected or transformed, the free will of the unfallen angels is perfected, and the 7 plagues are poured out on the earth. With the end of the 7 plagues, the atonement for the true temple is also completed.[121] When sin is completely washed away in the true temple, the LORD Jesus who caught the resurrected or transformed martyr witnesses up into the air[122], finally comes even to the earth. 5 When the LORD Jesus pours out the 7 plagues on the earth and judges the prostitute Babylon the great, the will of the Creator for the creatures is almost fulfilled.[123] In other words, since the free will granted to the creatures, especially the angels, has been perfected, there is a clear distinction between the creatures whose free will is perfected and the criminals who refuse to put their will in the love of the Creator.[124] Through the 1st resurrection of the martyr witnesses, the truthfulness of the commandments came to be proved.[125] Satan's claim that the commandments are deceitful[126] and that the God who gave them is a liar[127] turned out to be false.[128] Even the possibility of the doubts of the creatures about Satan's evil deeds which deceived neighbor creatures[129] with lies[130] and committed all kinds of evil deeds, was extinguished.[131] The commandments are established as the basis for judgment.[132] Salvation and judgment are confirmed according to the established basis.[133] Creatures who entered into the LORD Jesus became those who can never die again[134], and the criminals who dared to despise the Creator who came as a weak creature[135], came to die. Now there is nothing more the LORD Jesus need to do to perfect the free will of His creatures that the LORD Jesus will bring into Him.[136] There is no longer any reason to withhold judgment on the evil creatures that the LORD Jesus will cut off from Him.[137] The creatures that will be brought into the LORD Jesus and the creatures that will be cast out of the LORD Jesus have confirmed their will.[138] Even when the LORD Jesus casts out imperfect creatures that trample their neighbors, they no longer misunderstand the love of their Creator.[139] A Man who has fought an enemy who is painfully oppressing his neighbor creatures to end the suffering of the creatures[140], marries a woman[141] who has fought the enemy to help Him[142], after defeating the enemy completely.[143] She is a woman who once was a slave to the enemy[144] and regarded the enemy[145] as her father[146], but she gets to know her true Father through the Man[147] and sees what the enemy is doing to her true Father.[148] She falls in love with Him[149] and finds out what her happiness is.[150] Realizing[151] the evil deeds of her enemy[152], the woman fights against her old slaver who has abused her and pretending to be her father[153], helping the Man[154] who fights to save His neighbors[155] who are suffering by the enemy.[156] The LORD Jesus who descended into the air, catches His resurrected or transformed bride up into the air[157] and pours out the 7 plagues on the earth. After coming down even to the earth with His bride and destroying the beast armies[158], the LORD Jesus finally imprisons Satan fraudswarms in the abyss.[159] The 1st heaven and the 1st earth are burned[160] by fire[161], and the martyr witnesses who have been resurrected or transformed, that is, the bride, sees the new heaven and the new earth.[162] The bride lives in new Jerusalem and rules the 1000-year kingdom as a royal priest under the Bridegroom, the King.[163] |
The Son judges the beast and its armies.
He casts the beast and the false prophet into the lake of fire.[164]
The rest are killed with the sword which came from the mouth of the Son and all the birds are filled with their flesh.[165]
Is.13:19 Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
Is.13:20 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be lived in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall shepherds make their flocks to lie down there.
Is.13:21 But wild animals of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and ostriches shall dwell there, and wild goats shall dance there.
Is.13:22 Wolves shall cry in their castles, and jackals in the pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
† Babylon shall never be inhabited but wild animals of the desert shall lie there.
Is.24:1 Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, and makes it waste, and turns it upside down, and scatters abroad the inhabitants of it.
Is.24:2 It shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest to him.
Is.24:3 The earth shall be utterly emptied, and utterly laid waste; for Yahweh has spoken this word.
Is.24:4 The earth mourns and fades away, the world languishes and fades away, the lofty people of the earth do languish.
Is.24:5 The earth also is polluted under the inhabitants of it; because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.
Is.24:6 Therefore has the curse devoured the earth, and those who dwell therein are found guilty: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
† The 1st heaven and the 1st earth, polluted with sin, will be burned and be utterly emptied.[166]
Is.24:21 It shall happen in that day, that Yahweh will punish the host of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth on the earth.
Is.24:22 They shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison; and after many days shall they be visited.
† The LORD Jesus will imprison the Satan fraudswarms in the abyss for 1000 years.[167]
Is.24:23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for Yahweh of Hosts will reign on Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem; and before his elders shall be glory.
† In new Jerusalem, the Son will rule over the new heaven and the new earth where there is no darkness.
Is.33:14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling has seized the godless ones: Who among us can dwell with the devouring fire? who among us can dwell with everlasting burning?
Is.33:15 He who walks righteously, and speaks blamelessly; he who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands from taking a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking on evil:
Is.33:16 He shall dwell on high; his place of defense shall be the munitions of rocks; his bread shall be given [him]; his waters shall be sure.
† Only those who forsake sin and submit to the reign of the Son, can see the Son in peace.[168]
Is.34:4 All the host of the sky shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll; and all their host shall fade away, as the leaf fades from off the vine, and as a fading [leaf] from the fig tree.
† The powers of the heavens shall be shaken, and the Son will come again to judge.[169]
Is.34:8 For Yahweh has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
Is.34:9 The streams of [Edom] shall be turned into pitch, and the dust of it into sulfur, and the land of it shall become burning pitch.
Is.34:10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke of it shall go up for ever; from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it forever and ever.
Is.34:11 But the pelican and the porcupine shall possess it; and the owl and the raven shall dwell therein: and he will stretch over it the line of confusion, and the plummet of emptiness.
Is.34:12 They shall call the nobles of it to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing.
Is.34:13 Thorns shall come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in the fortresses of it; and it shall be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches.
Is.34:14 The wild animals of the desert shall meet with the wolves, and the wild goat shall cry to his fellow; yes, the night-monster shall settle there, and shall find her a place of rest.
Is.34:15 There shall the dart-snake make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shade; yes, there shall the kites be gathered, everyone with her mate.
† Tannins and beasts usually symbolize Satan fraudswarms. And Satan fraudswarms are imprisoned in the abyss for 1000 years.[170] Then, from the above statement that tannins and beasts will gather in the 1st heaven and the 1st earth burned in the fire[171], it is thought that this wasted land is the same as or similar to the abyss where Satan fraudswarms are imprisoned. It seems unlikely that the earth will be restored and transformed into the paradise. The LORD Jesus will establish the 3rd heaven[172] in a new place.[173] Satan will be imprisoned in the abyss for 1000 years[174], but the beast and the false prophet will be thrown into the lake of fire at the beginning of the 1000 years.[175] Judging from this, Satan and the beasts cannot be in the same place for 1000 years, and the abyss and the lake of fire, even in the same Hades, may be different places.
Jer.50:13 Because of the wrath of Yahweh she shall not be inhabited, but she shall be wholly desolate: everyone who goes by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.
† Babylon will become desolate by the judgment of the Son.
Jer.50:20 In those days, and in that time, says Yahweh, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I leave as a remnant.
† Israel at this time are those who participated in the 1st resurrection. These are those who have already overcome sin through the Son and have overcome death and resurrected or transformed through the Son.[176] They do not sin again, and therefore cannot be cut off from God and die.[177]
Jer.50:31 Behold, I am against you, you proud one, says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts; for your day is come, the time that I will visit you.
Jer.50:32 The proud one shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up; and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all who are round about him.
† Babylon will be burned.
Jer.50:33 Thus says Yahweh of hosts: The children of Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together; and all who took them captive hold them fast; they refuse to let them go.
Jer.50:34 Their Redeemer is strong; Yahweh of Hosts is his name: he will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
† The Son will come again to save the saints in the great tribulation.[178]
Jer.50:35 A sword is on the Chaldeans, says Yahweh, and on the inhabitants of Babylon, and on her princes, and on her wise men.
Jer.50:38 A drought is on her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of engraved images, and they are mad over idols.
† Babylon will be judged by the Creator because she refuses to worship God and defiles the creation world by being mad over idols. When the forces of sin that separate the creatures from the life of the Creator are annihilated, the creation world will only be purified and be completed.
Jer.50:39 Therefore the wild animals of the desert with the wolves shall dwell there, and the ostriches shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited forever; neither shall it be lived in from generation to generation.
Jer.50:40 As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities of it, says Yahweh, so shall no man dwell there, neither shall any son of man sojourn therein.
† By the judgment of the Son, Babylon will become desolate.
Jer.50:44 Behold, [the enemy] shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoever is chosen, him will I appoint over it: for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is the shepherd who can stand before me?
Jer.51:5 For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, of his God, of Yahweh of Hosts; though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.
Jer.51:6 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and save every man his life; don't be cut off in her iniquity: for it is the time of Yahweh's vengeance; he will render to her a recompense.
† Only the saints fleeing out of the midst of Babylon will not be judged with Babylon.
Jer.51:7 Babylon has been a golden cup in Yahweh's hand, who made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
† God allows Babylon to deceive the world with lies in order to separate the creatures which decide to sin. Those who love God will not be deceived.[179] When the creatures that belong to sin are revealed, the LORD Jesus will judge all the creatures under sin and remove sin from the creation world. However, this judgment is only possible when the appointed number of firstfruits that overcome sin must be produced. Through the firstfruits that overcome sin, God will prove that the commandments are the just basis for judging sin.[180] The commandments are the standard that creatures can fully keep in the love of God.[181] It is not difficult for creatures to love their Creator.[182]
Jer.51:11 Make sharp the arrows; hold firm the shields: Yahweh has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes; because his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it: for it is the vengeance of Yahweh, the vengeance of his temple.
† The kings of the Medes foreshadow the kings from the east who will judge Babylon.[183] For the sin of attacking the temple where the name of God is placed[184], Babylon will be destroyed. When Babylon was strong, God gave this prophecy through Jeremiah. The destruction against Babylon the great in the 70th week has also been decided.
Jer.51:36 Therefore thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you; and I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.
† The combined forces of the Medes and Persians divert the river Euphrates to dry the moat surrounding the city of Babylon and break through the gates. The drying up of the Euphrates river will lead to Babylon's judgment.
Jer.51:37 Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
Jer.51:43 Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land in which no man dwells, neither does any son of man pass thereby.
Jer.51:45 My people, go you out of the midst of her, and save yourselves every man from the fierce anger of Yahweh.
Jer.51:47 Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will execute judgment on the engraved images of Babylon; and her whole land shall be confounded; and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.
† When the Son destroys the Satan fraudswarms, only those who come out of the midst of Babylon, the world of idols, will escape the judgment of the Son. Babylon is the realm of sin that Satan fraudswarms has taken over.
Jer.51:56 for the destroyer is come on her, even on Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, their bows are broken in pieces; for Yahweh is a God of recompenses, he will surely requite.
† The Son will surely avenge the downtrodden saints.[185]
Dan.2:44 In the days of those kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, nor shall the sovereignty of it be left to another people; but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.
Dan.2:45 Because you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God has made known to the king what shall happen hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation of it sure.
† If Babylon prostitute rides on the scarlet beast, she becomes Babylon the great. The LORD Jesus will come again when the whole world is taken over by Babylon prostitute, the son of destruction[186], and the great tribulation that the son of destruction slaughters the people of God, reaches its climax.[187] The LORD Jesus will destroy the power of Satan and establish the new heaven and the new earth to rule in righteousness.
Dan.7:13 I saw in the night-visions, and, behold, there came with the clouds of the sky one like a son of man, and he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.
Dan.7:14 There was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.
† The Son will come in the clouds[188] of glory.[189]
Zech.14:1 Behold, a day of Yahweh comes, when your spoil will be divided in your midst.
Zech.14:2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city will be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. half of the city will go out into captivity, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.
† The nations represent the power of Satan, and the people of Jerusalem represent the saints. It is said that the Jews will return to the LORD Jesus in the last days, so the people of Israel who are the ones outwardly will also be included[190], but the people of Jerusalem here refer to the true church, not the descendants of Israel who are the ones outwardly.
Zech.14:3 Then Yahweh will go out and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
Zech.14:4 His feet will stand in that day on the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in two, from east to west, making a very great valley. Half of the mountain will move toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
Zech.14:5 You shall flee by the valley of my mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azel; yes, you shall flee, just like you fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Yahweh my God will come, and all the holy ones with you.
† 'All the holy ones will be with you' means that the army in heaven will follow the Son[191] in white and clean linen.[192]
Zech.14:6 It will happen in that day, that there will not be light, cold, or frost.
Zech.14:7 It will be a unique day which is known to Yahweh; not day, and not night; but it will come to pass, that at evening time there will be light.
† There is also a translation that there will be light in the evening, not darkness.[193] That translation seems to be more accurate. There will be no darkness in the 1000-year kingdom that the Son will establish.[194]
Zech.14:8 It will happen in that day, that living waters will go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the western sea; in summer and in winter will it be.
Zech.14:9 Yahweh will be King over all the earth. In that day Yahweh will be one, and his name one.
Zech.14:10 All the land will be made like the Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and she will be lifted up, and will dwell in her place, from Benjamin's gate to the place of the first gate, to the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananel to the king's wine-presses.
Zech.14:11 Men will dwell therein, and there will be no more curse; but Jerusalem will dwell safely.
† There is no curse in the 1000-year kingdom.[195] Even when Satan is briefly released after 1000 years, there is no curse in new Jerusalem.
Zech.14:12 This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike all the peoples who have warred against Jerusalem: their flesh will consume away while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will consume away in their sockets, and their tongue will consume away in their mouth.
† At the end of the 1000-year kingdom, fire will come down from heaven and consume the forces of Satan[196], but this word does not seem to be referring to that time. Because there is a word behind that those who are left of all the nations that went against Jerusalem will go up to worship the King and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.[197] This word is thought to be referring to the coming of the Son to judge the armies of the beast before the establishing of the new heaven and the new earth.[198] The wicked will die, and the 1st heaven and the 1st earth will be burned and then will be desolated.[199] However, the martyr witnesses who participated in the 1st resurrection will reign and rest as royal priests[200] in the kingdom of the Son[201] that will be established in the new heaven and the new earth.
Zech.14:13 It will happen in that day, that a great panic from Yahweh will be among them; and they will lay hold everyone on the hand of his neighbor, and his hand will rise up against the hand of his neighbor.
Zech.14:14 Judah also will fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the surrounding nations will be gathered together: gold, and silver, and clothing, in great abundance.
† There may be different views as to whether Judah here refers to the outward Jews who have returned to the LORD Jesus in the last days[202], or the church which is the true Jews in God's view[203], or the heavenly army that came down with the LORD Jesus.[204] However, whether they are outward Jews or inward Jews, true saints will fight for the LORD Jesus and will eventually participate in the 1st resurrection and meet the LORD Jesus in the air.[205] Those who participated in the 1st resurrection may be included in the heavenly army. If the martyr witnesses who are caught up into the air come down with the LORD Jesus, these too will fight with the LORD Jesus. If that is the case, since the LORD Jesus comes with the angels[206], it is assumed that the heavenly army is made up of the angels and the martyr witnesses who have become like angels by the 1st resurrection.[207]
Zech.14:15 So will be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the donkey, and of all the animals that will be in those camps, as that plague.
Zech.14:16 It will happen that everyone who is left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, Yahweh of Hosts, and to keep the feast of tents.
† The Feast of Tabernacles (Feast of Booths, Feast of Tents)[208] celebrated after gathering in the harvest, symbolizes the 1000-year kingdom that will be established after the harvest of those who are saved.[209] Among these firstfruits who are harvested[210] there are the firstfruits who are redeemed from among men.[211]
† Opinions may differ as to who are left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem. I think these are the martyr witnesses who came out of Babylon.[212] I see this remnant as those who did not participate in the persecuting the saints. In other words, I see them as those who choose to become the saints who are persecuted. I don't think there can be any remnant in the armies of the beast that come against Jerusalem. The nations that came against Jerusalem must have been the armies of the beast, for if they had not come out of Babylon they would have received the mark of the beast666.[213] Even if those who received the mark of the beast666 survived, would they be able to participate in the 1000-year kingdom even as a people?[214]
[1] 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!" The twenty-four elders, who sit before God's throne on their thrones, fell on their faces and worshiped God, saying: "We give you thanks, Lord God, the Almighty, the one who is and who was; because you have taken your great power, and reigned. 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."
[2] Matt.24:30 and then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky. Then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory. He will send out his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.
Is.27:12 It shall happen in that day, that Yahweh will beat off [his fruit] from the flood of the River to the brook of Egypt; and you shall be gathered one by one, you children of Israel. It shall happen in that day, that a great trumpet shall be blown; and they shall come who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and those who were outcasts in the land of Egypt; and they shall worship Yahweh in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
[3] 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.
[4] Rev.1:7 Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.
[5] Matt.24:30 and then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky. Then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory. He will send out his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.
[6] Rev.11:11 After the three and a half days, the breath of life from God entered into them, and they stood on their feet. Great fear fell on those who saw them. I heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, "Come up here!" They went up into heaven in the cloud, and their enemies saw them.
[7] 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 --
[8] Col.1:20 and through him to reconcile all things to himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross. Through him, I say, whether things on the earth, or things in the heavens.
[9] 1Pet.3:22 who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.
[10] 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. The temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power. No one was able to enter into the temple, until the seven plagues of the seven angels would be finished.
Lev.16:16 and he shall make atonement for the Holy Place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions, even all their sins; and so he shall do for the Tent of Meeting, that dwells with them in the midst of their uncleanness. There shall be no one in the Tent of Meeting when he enters to make atonement in the Holy Place, until he comes out, and has made atonement for himself and for his household, and for all the assembly of Israel.
[11] 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. Who wouldn't fear you, Lord, And glorify your name? For you only are holy. For all the nations will come and worship before you. For your righteous acts have been revealed.
[12] Rev.8:3 Another angel came and stood over the altar, having a golden censer. Much incense was given to him, that he should add it to the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar which was before the throne. The smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, went up before God out of the angel's hand. The angel took the censer, and he filled it with the fire of the altar, and threw it on the earth. There followed thunders, sounds, lightnings, and an earthquake. The seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.
[13] 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!" The twenty-four elders, who sit before God's throne on their thrones, fell on their faces and worshiped God, saying: "We give you thanks, Lord God, the Almighty, the one who is and who was; because you have taken your great power, and reigned. 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." God's temple that is in heaven was opened, and the ark of the Lord's covenant was seen in his temple. Lightnings, sounds, thunders, an earthquake, and great hail followed.
[14] 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.
[15] Rev.14:14 I looked, and behold, a white cloud; and on the cloud one sitting like a son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle. 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.
[16] Lev.16:12 He shall take a censer full of coals of fire from off the altar before Yahweh, and two handfuls of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the veil: and he shall put the incense on the fire before Yahweh, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is on the testimony, so that he will not die.
[17] Heb.6:19 This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil; where as a forerunner Jesus entered for us, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
[18] 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. The temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power. No one was able to enter into the temple, until the seven plagues of the seven angels would be finished.
[19] 1Pet.3:22 who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.
[20] Rom.8:34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
[21] John14:16 I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever, --
[22] Lev.16:17 There shall be no one in the Tent of Meeting when he enters to make atonement in the Holy Place, until he comes out, and has made atonement for himself and for his household, and for all the assembly of Israel.
[23] 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. The temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power. No one was able to enter into the temple, until the seven plagues of the seven angels would be finished.
[24] Heb.9:14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
[25] Col.1:20 and through him to reconcile all things to himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross. Through him, I say, whether things on the earth, or things in the heavens.
[26] 1Pet.1:11 searching for who or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ, which was in them, pointed to, when he predicted the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that would follow them. 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 --
[27] 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: "Death is swallowed up in victory." "Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?" The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
[28] John17:9 I pray for them. I don't pray for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. All things that are mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. I am no more in the world, and these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.
[29] Rom.8:11 But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
[30] Rev.20:14 Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
[31] 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.
[32] 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.
[33] Phil.2:6 who, existing in the form of God, didn't consider it robbery to be equal with God, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.
[34] 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.
[35] Rev.20:7 And after the thousand years, Satan will be released from his prison, and he will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war; the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
[36] 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 --
[37] Gen.2:1 The heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. On the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
[38] 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: "Death is swallowed up in victory." "Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?" The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
[39] 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.
[40] 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.
[41] Rev.14:18 Another angel came out from the altar, he who has power over fire, and he called with a great voice to him who had the sharp sickle, saying, "Send forth your sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, for the earth's grapes are fully ripe!"
[42] Rev.15:5 After these things I looked, and the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened. The seven angels who had the seven plagues came out, clothed with pure, bright linen, and wearing golden sashes around their breasts. 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. The temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power. No one was able to enter into the temple, until the seven plagues of the seven angels would be finished.
[43] 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. The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of the sexual immorality of the earth. And on her forehead a name was written, "MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH."
[44] Rev.20:13 The sea gave up the dead who were in it. Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them. They were judged, each one according to his works. Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
Rom.6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
[45] 1John5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.
[46] 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: "Death is swallowed up in victory." "Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?" The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
[47] John3:35 The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand. One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won't see life, but the wrath of God remains on him."
[48] 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!" The twenty-four elders, who sit before God's throne on their thrones, fell on their faces and worshiped God, saying: "We give you thanks, Lord God, the Almighty, the one who is and who was; because you have taken your great power, and reigned. 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." God's temple that is in heaven was opened, and the ark of the Lord's covenant was seen in his temple. Lightnings, sounds, thunders, an earthquake, and great hail followed.
[49] 2Pet.3:9 The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.
[50] 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. They cried with a loud voice, saying, "Salvation be to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!" All the angels were standing around the throne, the elders, and the four living creatures; and they fell before his throne on their faces, and worshiped God, saying, "Amen! Blessing, glory, wisdom, thanksgiving, honor, power, and might, be to our God forever and ever! Amen." 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. Therefore they are before the throne of God, they serve him day and night in his temple. He who sits on the throne will spread his tent over them. They will never be hungry, neither thirsty any more; neither will the sun beat on them, nor any heat; for the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne shepherds them, and leads them to living springs of waters. God will wipe away every tear from their eyes."
[51] 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. The rest of the dead didn't live until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
[52] Rev.16:4 The third poured out his bowl into the rivers and springs of water, and it became blood. 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." The fourth poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given to him to scorch men with fire. People were scorched with great heat, and people blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues. They didn't repent and give him glory. The fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was darkened. They gnawed their tongues because of the pain, and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores. They didn't repent of their works.
[53] 2Pet.3:12 looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, by reason of which the heavens being on fire will be dissolved, and the elements will melt with fervent heat? But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, in which dwells righteousness.
[54] Rev.20:13 The sea gave up the dead who were in it. Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them. They were judged, each one according to his works. Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.
[55] Lev.19:9 When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleaning of your harvest. You shall not glean your vineyard, neither shall you gather the fallen fruit of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am Yahweh your God.
[56] 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.
[57] 1Cor.15:52 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.
[58] Rev.14:9 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.
[59] 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.
[60] 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:
[61] 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.
[62] 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. They cried with a loud voice, saying, "Salvation be to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!"
[63] 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. Therefore they are before the throne of God, they serve him day and night in his temple. He who sits on the throne will spread his tent over them. They will never be hungry, neither thirsty any more; neither will the sun beat on them, nor any heat; for the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne shepherds them, and leads them to living springs of waters. God will wipe away every tear from their eyes."
[64] Eph.1:13 in whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the gospel of your salvation, -- in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God's own possession, to the praise of his glory.
[65] Matt.24:20 Pray that your flight will not be in the winter, nor on a Sabbath, 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.
[66] 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.
[67] Rev.22:3 There will be no curse any more. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants serve him. They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.
[68] 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:
[69] 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.
[70] 2Cor.5:4 For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened; not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.
[71] John3:33 He who has received his witness has set his seal to this, that God is true.
[72] 2Pet.1:10 Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble. For thus will be richly supplied to you the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
[73] 1Pet.1:7 that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ -- whom not having known you love; in whom, though now you don't see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full receiving the result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
[74] Rev.20:7 And after the thousand years, Satan will be released from his prison, and he will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war; the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. They went up over the breadth of the earth, and surrounded the camp of the saints, and the beloved city. Fire came down out of heaven from God, and devoured them.
[75] Luke23:42 He said to Jesus, "Lord, remember me when you come into your kingdom." Jesus said to him, "Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise."
[76] Is.57:1 The righteous perishes, and no man lays it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil [to come].
[77] Lev.16:16 and he shall make atonement for the Holy Place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions, even all their sins; and so he shall do for the Tent of Meeting, that dwells with them in the midst of their uncleanness. There shall be no one in the Tent of Meeting when he enters to make atonement in the Holy Place, until he comes out, and has made atonement for himself and for his household, and for all the assembly of Israel. "He shall go out to the altar that is before Yahweh and make atonement for it, and shall take some of the bull's blood, and some of the goat's blood, and put it on the horns of the altar round about. He shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and make it holy from the uncleanness of the children of Israel. "When he has made an end of atoning for the Holy Place, the Tent of Meeting, and the altar, he shall present the live goat.
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. The temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power. No one was able to enter into the temple, until the seven plagues of the seven angels would be finished.
[78] Rev.15:4 Who wouldn't fear you, Lord, And glorify your name? For you only are holy. For all the nations will come and worship before you. For your righteous acts have been revealed.
[79] 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.
[80] Rev.11:12 I heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, "Come up here!" They went up into heaven in the cloud, and their enemies saw them. In that day there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified, and gave glory to the God of heaven. The second woe is past. Behold, the third woe comes quickly.
[81] 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.
[82] Rev.16:12 The sixth poured out his bowl on the great river, the Euphrates. Its water was dried up, that the way might be made ready for the kings that come from the sunrise.
[83] Is.44:27 who says to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up your rivers; Who says of Cyrus, [He is] my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure, even saying of Jerusalem, She shall be built; and of the temple, Your foundation shall be laid.
[84] Dan.5:30 In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain. Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.
[85] 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. For God has put in their hearts to do what he has in mind, and to come to unity of mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God should be accomplished.
[86] Is.41:25 I have raised up one from the north, and he has come; from the rising of the sun one who calls on my name: and he shall come on rulers as on mortar, and as the potter treads clay.
[87] 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, saying, "Don't harm the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, until we have sealed the bondservants of our God on their foreheads!"
[88] Matt.2:1 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying, "Where is he who is born King of the Jews? For we saw his star in the east, and have come to worship him."
[89] Is.41:2 Who has raised up one from the east, whom he calls in righteousness to his foot? he gives nations before him, and makes him rule over kings; he gives them as the dust to his sword, as the driven stubble to his bow. He pursues them, and passes on safely, even by a way that he had not gone with his feet. Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Yahweh, the first, and with the last, I am he.
Is.41:25 I have raised up one from the north, and he has come; from the rising of the sun one who calls on my name: and he shall come on rulers as on mortar, and as the potter treads clay.
[90] Is.46:10 declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not [yet] done; saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure; calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country; yes, I have spoken, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed, I will also do it.
[91] Ezek.8:16 He brought me into the inner court of Yahweh's house; and see, at the door of the temple of Yahweh, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs toward the temple of Yahweh, and their faces toward the east; and they were worshipping the sun toward the east.
[92] Is.2:6 For you have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob, Because they are filled from the east, With those who practice divination like the Philistines, And they clasp hands with the children of foreigners.
[93] 2Kin.23:29 In his days Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and [Pharaoh Necoh] killed him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.
[94] 1Kin.18:19 Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel to Mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred fifty, and the prophets of the Asherah four hundred, who eat at Jezebel's table.
[95] 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.
[96] 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.
[97] Rev.16:16 He gathered them together into the place which is called in Hebrew, Megiddo. The seventh poured out his bowl into the air. A loud voice came forth out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, "It is done!"
[98] 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.
[99] 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.
[100] 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.
[101] 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), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
[102] Rev.11:12 I heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, "Come up here!" They went up into heaven in the cloud, and their enemies saw them. In that day there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified, and gave glory to the God of heaven. The second woe is past. Behold, the third woe comes quickly. 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!"
[103] 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.
[104] Luke4:25 But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.
[105] 1Kin.19:5 He lay down and slept under a juniper tree; and, behold, an angel touched him, and said to him, Arise and eat. He looked, and, behold, there was at his head a cake baked on the coals, and a jar of water. He ate and drink, and laid him down again. The angel of Yahweh came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you. He arose, and ate and drink, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the Mount of God.
[106] 1Kin.19:1 Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword. Then Jezebel send a messenger to Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don't make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.
[107] 2Kin.2:1 It happened, when Yahweh would take up Elijah by a whirlwind into heaven, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.
[108] 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.
[109] Rev.11:7 When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them.
[110] Rev.11:10 Those who dwell on the earth rejoice over them, and they will be glad. They will give gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth. After the three and a half days, the breath of life from God entered into them, and they stood on their feet. Great fear fell on those who saw them. I heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, "Come up here!" They went up into heaven in the cloud, and their enemies saw them.
[111] 2Kin.9:22 It happened, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? He answered, What peace, so long as the prostitution of your mother Jezebel and her witchcraft abound? Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, There is treachery, Ahaziah. Jehu drew his bow with his full strength, and struck Joram between his arms; and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot.
[112] 2Kin.9:27 But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden-house. Jehu followed after him, and said, Smite him also in the chariot: [and they struck him] at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. He fled to Megiddo, and died there.
[113] 2Kin.8:27 He walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as did the house of Ahab; for he was the son-in-law of the house of Ahab.
[114] 2Kin.9:27 But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden-house. Jehu followed after him, and said, Smite him also in the chariot: [and they struck him] at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. He fled to Megiddo, and died there. His servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his tomb with his fathers in the city of David. In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah. When Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her eyes, and attired her head, and looked out at the window.
[115] 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.
[116] 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.
[117] Rev.17:18 The woman whom you saw is the great city, which reigns over the kings of the earth."
[118] Rev.17:15 He said to me, "The waters which you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages. 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. For God has put in their hearts to do what he has in mind, and to come to unity of mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God should be accomplished. The woman whom you saw is the great city, which reigns over the kings of the earth."
[119] Rev.16:17 The seventh poured out his bowl into the air. A loud voice came forth out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, "It is done!" There were lightnings, sounds, and thunders; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since there were men on the earth, so great an earthquake, so mighty. The great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the great was remembered in the sight of God, to give to her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
[120] 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.
[121] Lev.16:15 "Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the veil, and do with his blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat: and he shall make atonement for the Holy Place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions, even all their sins; and so he shall do for the Tent of Meeting, that dwells with them in the midst of their uncleanness. There shall be no one in the Tent of Meeting when he enters to make atonement in the Holy Place, until he comes out, and has made atonement for himself and for his household, and for all the assembly of Israel.
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. The temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power. No one was able to enter into the temple, until the seven plagues of the seven angels would be finished.
[122] 1Thess.4:17 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.
[123] Gen.2:1 The heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. On the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
[124] John3:35 The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand. One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won't see life, but the wrath of God remains on him."
[125] 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: "Death is swallowed up in victory." "Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?" The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
[126] Gen.3:4 The serpent said to the woman, "You won't surely die, for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
[127] 1John1:10 If we say that we haven't sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
[128] Ezek.28:2 Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet you are man, and not God, though you did set your heart as the heart of God;-
[129] Ezek.29:3 speak, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lies in the midst of his rivers, that has said, My river is my own, and I have made it for myself.
[130] 2Cor.11:3 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.
[131] 1John5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.
[132] 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.
[133] Mal.3:5 I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don't fear me," says Yahweh of Hosts.
[134] Luke20:35 But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage. For neither can they die any more, for they are like the angels, and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.
[135] Luke20:13 The lord of the vineyard said, 'What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. It may be that seeing him, they will respect him.' "But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.' They threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them?
[136] Is.5:4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?
[137] Matt.23:37 "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often would I have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not!
[138] 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;
[139] Rev.16:4 The third poured out his bowl into the rivers and springs of water, and it became blood. 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."
[140] 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.
[141] 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.
[142] Heb.10:12 but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; from that time waiting until his enemies are made the footstool of his feet.
[143] Rom.8:19 For the creation waits with eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now. 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.
[144] Eph.2:1 You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins, 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;
[145] 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.
[146] Ps.45:10 Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father's house. So the king will desire your beauty, Honor him, for he is your lord.
[147] Heb.12:9 Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?
[148] 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."
[149] Jer.2:2 Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says Yahweh, I remember for you the kindness of your youth, the love of your weddings; how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. Israel [was] holiness to Yahweh, the first fruits of his increase: all who devour him shall be held guilty; evil shall come on them, says Yahweh.
[150] Deut.33:29 Happy are you, Israel: Who is like you, a people saved by Yahweh, The shield of your help, The sword of your excellency! Your enemies shall submit themselves to you; You shall tread on their high places.
[151] Acts2:23 him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;
[152] Mark12:6 Therefore he had yet one, a beloved son, he sent him last to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.' But those farmers said among themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.' They took him, killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.
[153] 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. Therefore, put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all, to stand.
[154] Is.62:6 I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day nor night: you who call on Yahweh, take no rest, and give him no rest, until he establish, and until he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
[155] Is.62:1 For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until her righteousness go forth as brightness, and her salvation as a lamp that burns.
[156] 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,
[157] 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.
[158] 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.
[159] Is.24:21 It shall happen in that day, that Yahweh will punish the host of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth on the earth. They shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison; and after many days shall they be visited.
[160] Rev.19:20 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.
[161] 2Pet.3:12 looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, by reason of which the heavens being on fire will be dissolved, and the elements will melt with fervent heat? But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, in which dwells righteousness.
[162] Gen.8:13 It happened in the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dried.
[163] 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.
[164] Rev.19:20 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.
[165] Rev.19:21 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.
[166] 2Pet.3:12 looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, by reason of which the heavens being on fire will be dissolved, and the elements will melt with fervent heat? But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, in which dwells righteousness.
[167] 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, 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.
[168] Is.59:20 A Redeemer will come to Zion, and to those who turn from disobedience in Jacob, says Yahweh.
[169] Matt.24:29 But immediately after the oppression of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give her light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken; and then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky. Then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory. He will send out his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.
[170] 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, 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.
[171] 2Pet.3:12 looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, by reason of which the heavens being on fire will be dissolved, and the elements will melt with fervent heat? But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, in which dwells righteousness.
[172] 2Cor.12:2 I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I don't know, or whether out of the body, I don't know; God knows), such a one caught up into the third heaven. I know such a man (whether in the body, or outside of the body, I don't know; God knows), how he was caught up into Paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
[173] Rev.21:1 I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more.
[174] 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.
[175] Rev.19:20 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.
[176] 1Cor.15:52 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, then what is written will happen: "Death is swallowed up in victory." "Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?" The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
[177] Luke20:35 But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage. For neither can they die any more, for they are like the angels, and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.
[178] 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.
[179] John14:15 If you love me, keep my commandments.
[180] 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.
[181] 1John5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.
[182] 1John4:10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
[183] Rev.16:12 The sixth poured out his bowl on the great river, the Euphrates. Its water was dried up, that the way might be made ready for the kings that come from the sunrise.
[184] Ezra6:12 and the God who has caused his name to dwell there overthrow all kings and peoples who shall put forth their hand to alter [the same], to destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem. I Darius have made a decree; let it be done with all diligence.
[185] Luke18:7 Won't God avenge his elect, who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them? I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?"
[186] 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.
[187] 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), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
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.
[188] Rev.1:7 Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.
Luke21:27 Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
[189] 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,
[190] 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."
[191] Rev.19:13 He is clothed in a garment sprinkled with blood. His name is called "The Word of God." The armies which are in heaven followed him on white horses, clothed in white, pure, fine linen.
[192] Rev.19:8 It was given to her that she would array herself in bright, pure, fine linen: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.
[193] Zech.14:7 It will be a unique day which is known to Yahweh; not day, and not night; but it will come to pass, that at evening time there will be light.
[194] Rev.21:23 The city has no need for the sun, neither of the moon, to shine, for the very glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb. The nations will walk in its light. The kings of the earth bring the glory and honor of the nations into it. Its gates will in no way be shut by day (for there will be no night there),
Rev.22:5 There will be no night, and they need no lamp light; for the Lord God will illuminate them. They will reign forever and ever.
[195] Rev.22:3 There will be no curse any more. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants serve him.
[196] Rev.20:7 And after the thousand years, Satan will be released from his prison, and he will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war; the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. They went up over the breadth of the earth, and surrounded the camp of the saints, and the beloved city. Fire came down out of heaven from God, and devoured them. The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
[197] Zech.14:16 It will happen that everyone who is left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, Yahweh of Hosts, and to keep the feast of tents.
[198] 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.
[199] Is.13:19 Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be lived in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall shepherds make their flocks to lie down there. But wild animals of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and ostriches shall dwell there, and wild goats shall dance there. Wolves shall cry in their castles, and jackals in the pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
[200] 1Pet.2:9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
[201] Is.14:1 For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the sojourner shall join himself with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob. The peoples shall take them, and bring them to their place; and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of Yahweh for servants and for handmaids: and they shall take them captive whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
[202] 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."
[203] 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.
[204] Rev.19:13 He is clothed in a garment sprinkled with blood. His name is called "The Word of God." The armies which are in heaven followed him on white horses, clothed in white, pure, fine linen.
[205] 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.
[206] 2Thess.1:7 and to give relief to you that are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, giving vengeance to those who don't know God, and to those who don't obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus,
[207] Luke20:35 But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage. For neither can they die any more, for they are like the angels, and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.
1John3:2 Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.
Luke24:39 See my hands and my feet, that it is truly me. Touch me and see, for a spirit doesn't have flesh and bones, as you see that I have." When he had said this, he shown them his hands and his feet. While they still didn't believe for joy, and wondered, he said to them, "Do you have anything here to eat?" They gave him a piece of a broiled fish and some honeycomb. He took it, and ate in front of them.
[208] Deut.16:13 You shall keep the feast of tents seven days, after that you have gathered in from your threshing floor and from your winepress:
[209] Rev.14:14 I looked, and behold, a white cloud; and on the cloud one sitting like a son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle. 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.
[210] 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.
[211] 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.
[212] Rev.18:2 He cried with a mighty voice, saying, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, and has become a habitation of demons, and a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird! For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality, the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from the abundance of her luxury." I heard another voice from heaven, saying, "Come forth, my people, out of her, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don't receive of her plagues,
[213] 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. 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.
[214] Rev.14:9 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.https://youtu.be/AupisuARmgQ?feature=shared
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