2012 Year of The Dragon?
Revelation 12:
The Woman and the Dragon
1 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: Gen. 37.9
2 and she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. Mic. 4.10
3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, Dan. 7.7 and seven crowns upon his heads.
4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: Dan. 8.10and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
Many people in the "Christian" world feel they understand the Bible. Tens of thousands of books, major commentaries, Bible dictionaries and prophetic writings explain and re-explain it, by thesis and exegesis. How much of this is real understanding?
If the Bible is so easy to understand, why are there so many varying opinions? Why do equally brilliant scholars come up with diametrically opposed explanations? Denominations have innumerable disagreements on virtually every part of God's Word.
The Bible is full of imagery. It is self-proclaimed to be written in parables, riddles, symbols, similitudes, allegories and analogies, and there are good reasons for this. To probe these depths, I will devote this study to understanding the Bible's language and imagery.
1. What is a parable? Matthew 13:34-35.
Comment
: "Parable" (Gk. parabole, Strong's #3850 from #3846) is a "similitude, i.e. (symbol.) fictitious narrative (of common life conveying a moral), apothegm or adage." In the KJV this Greek word is rendered "comparison," "figure," "parable," and "proverb." Thus, a parable is not a straightforward description of an event just as it occurred or will occur. It is intended to be similar to a real event, a comparison that has to be interpreted to reveal the true meaning.
2. Why are parables used? Why not "just the facts"? Matthew 13:9-17; Isaiah 28:9-13; Mark 4:11-13; Proverbs 26:7;Romans 11:32-33.
Comment: Christ did not speak in parables to make the meaning clear to just any reader! From the very beginning, God has supervised the writing of the Bible so that it cannot be understood without outside help. Even prophets and righteous men of old did not understand, nor did the multitudes who heard the parables of Christ. According to Romans 11, the meaning is veiled from most of mankind until the day God offers them salvation. They are relegated to unbelief until a later time (i.e. the Millennium or Great White Throne Judgment), lest they rebel and must be destroyed.
3. Who, then, can understand? John 6:44; 14:26; Luke 8:9-10; 12:30-32; I Corinthians 1:25-29; Matthew 11:25; Romans 10:13-17.
Comment: God has set up a system to call, convert and educate a people for Himself. They are a minority, very few in number. They are not mighty, noble and learned, but the weak of the world. God calls them and gives them His Spirit and teachers to help them understand. Of all people on earth, only they have a chance to understand the Bible. "It's not by power nor by might, but by my Spirit saith the Lord."
4. Another word for parable is "similitude." How does the Bible define this word? How should we view similitudes?DDeuteronomy 4:16; Psalm 106:20; James 3:9; Romans 5:14; I Corinthians 10:11; Hosea 12:10; Galatians 6:16.
Comment: A similitude is a similarity, a comparison, a likeness, a shadow—essentially the same as a parable. Paul says all the Old Testament accounts are written for our understanding today. Hosea writes that the prophets spoke to us in similitudes or similarities. Thus, what happened to Israel and Judah in the prophecies applies in principle to the church today, the New Testament "Isfurther, what is occurring in the church today is similar to what is occurring and prophesied to occur in the physical may be meant for the spiritual. It may not unfold in exactly the same detail, but very similarly. What understanding this concept opens up to those who have eyes to see and ears to hear!
5. What is an allegory? Does it further solidify and underscore the relevance of physical-spiritual types? Galatians 4:19-31.
Comment: Webster's Dictionary defines allegory as "to speak figuratively, a symbolic representation." Unger's Bible Dictionary defines it as expressing or explaining one thing under the image of another and showing a second and deeper meaning than would seem apparent. Again, it is similar to a parable.
Paul—addressing the New Testament church, which he calls "the Israel of God" (Galatians 6:16 )—shows that the Old Covenant points to and helps explain the New. He writes that Jerusalem is a figure, forerunner, type and present-day symbol of the New Covenant and church today (see also Hebrews 12:22-23, Romans 9:1-8; I Peter 2:9). We can then read both the history and prophecy regarding Jerusalem, the physical capital of Israel, and apply it to the church, the spiritual "Jerusalem, . . . mother of us all."
So symbolism is really much of scripture. Adam and Eve were told by God not to eat of the fruit of the tree of good and evil lest they die. Of course they did not die physically until many years later, but died spiritually from communion with God immediately.
Literal-ism by those who insist that Moses wrote Genesis as history only overlook the fact that Moses was a prophet as much as Ezekiel was when he wrote about Lucifer in Ezekiel 28 and all of Ezekiel's visions which are clearly symbolical, yet they do not insist these have to be interpreted literally. Even actual historic biblical events and characters have divine significance and are used in allegory like Galatians 4:21Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? 22For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. 23But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise. 24Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. 25For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. 26But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
Coincidence that these events and characters turned out as allegory? Of course not, every hair on every head is counted, and Ecclesiastes 1:
9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 3:
1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
So all through the Bible we find God's finger writing on the wall of prophesy, types and shadow, forerunners and anti types, similes and allegories, even numbers and divine mathematical repetitive and progressive revelation.
God has controlled every word that was written in Holy writ, and even later verse and chapter designations that were added were by his hand.
"The hand that made us is divine."
So as we approach the year 2012 is it coincidence that 12 refers to God's divine government, and man is on the brink of restoring the "Nimrod" One World Government in rebellion against God? Nimrod being the first type/shadow of Antichrist Kingdom. Semiramis his wife is Mystery Babylon and Tammuz is the son who was Nimrod reincarnated as the Beast with the deadly wound is healed, and comes back to life...the son of perdition.
All false religion with it's secret societies are born of that pattern. 2012 is the Chinese New Year of the Dragon...coincidence? Coincidence that China is rising into dominance and power and The Dragon gives the Beast his power? And that the Dragon is the 12th sign of the Chinese Year? And that Revelation 12 is about the Dragon and the Woman with the crown of 12 stars on her head? Coincidence that the 12th sign of the zodiac is Sagittarius, a man-beast hunter as Nimrod? And coincidence that the one who rides the white horse of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse with a bow & arrow is picture of Antichrist?
Revelation is the 66th book of the Bible, Rev Ch 6= 666? More coincidence? "And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer."
Gen 10:8 10 + 8 = 18 (666) 6+6+6=18 more coincidence? Gen 10:8 And Cush begat Nimrod
666... the number of his name) he began to be a mighty one in the earth.( here we see the Cursed lineage of Ham stamped with 666)
9He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD. (he hunts the souls of men)
10And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Nimrod was king/god over the seven city-nations who worshiped Nimrod/satan from their "High places of human sacrafice/prostitution etc..." that their satanic "arc-demons" were over. "for we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities against powers, against spiritual wickedness in HIGH PLACES, against the RULERS of the darkness of THIS WORLD." Eph 6:12
Not including Babel, "Babylon" the capital and highest place, we see Babylon sitting on"SEVEN" city/states that make up this dark kingdom. So the SEVEN MOUNTAINS (high places) represent all false religion usurping God's place (7) of Deity including atheistic, agnostic or any "HIGH THING THAT EXALTETH IT"SELF AGAINST THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD." II Cor 10:4-6
Is 2012 the beginning of tribulation? "20 represents 2 x10= double divine ordination. 10 is divine ordination. 10x100=1000 year reign that ordains the final destruction of Satan the Great Dragon thrown into the Lake of Fire.
Elisha asked for double anointing of Elijah. Elijah was a type of the 11th hour Church ministry. Elisha a type of the second coming of the Lord anointing the Church double as they are in Resurrected bodies, who with the Lord destroys the Antichrist as Elijah/Elisha destroyed Ahab/Jezebel through Jehu (strength of Jehovah) Ahab/ Jezebel a type of Nimrod/Mystery Babylon.
Since the pattern has been an actual human figure(s) has manifested as type and shadow of Nimrod and Semiramis, Ahab & Jezebel, Herod & Herodius etc...will we expect to see a "personification" of "The harlot?"
The scriptural problem is that we get the role of Semiramis not from cannon scripture, but extra biblical sources. Daniel paints the end time Antichrist figure as one who has no desire of "women" Daniel 11:37
Whether he is active homosexual or a sexual is up for speculation. But the absence of Semiramis in the Genesis account is perhaps bound by the interpretive principle of "law of first mention." And that is that the "true anti type" will be without a female personification, and that personification is embodied in "Babylon The Great City." (allegory)
As Nimrod was the Son of Cush, who was of Ham, whom evil pervaded through as a type of demonic succession, we can see how God has allowed the "sins of the fathers" to be inherited through the flesh. "That which is of the flesh is flesh, that which is of the Spirit is spirit." Ham represents the "Flesh" as he and his lineage was cursed for his sin against Noah. Shem, the lineage from which Christ would come and Japheth took the second son position from Ham, symbolizing Shem (Spirit) Japheth (Soul) Ham (Flesh)
As Judas Iscariot is referred to as "The son of perdition"... and so is the end time Antichrist figure, we again see a tpe and shadow of Judas where no wife or female figure is associated as prophetic typing is concerned.
Jehu (anointed of Elisha) gets Jezebel's Eunuchs to throw her down into the street. Jehu means "strength of Jehovah" 15And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the harlot sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
Rev 17:
16And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the harlot, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. ( as the dogs of Jezreel did to Jezebel)
17For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
18And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
No man knows the day or hour...but Jesus teaches we can know the season, I am pointing to possible season, not day and hour.
And also we have to consider is the time element of seven years literal? Is tribulation longer or exact? Where do we draw the literal line against the symbolical line?
Being good stewards we plan for the literal, prepare for God's will however he decides to perform his will, and continue to be amazed at his handiwork and divine design for the ages that cause us to ask, "What is man that God is mindful of him?"
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Revelation 12:
The Woman and the Dragon
1 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: Gen. 37.9
2 and she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. Mic. 4.10
3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, Dan. 7.7 and seven crowns upon his heads.
4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: Dan. 8.10and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
Many people in the "Christian" world feel they understand the Bible. Tens of thousands of books, major commentaries, Bible dictionaries and prophetic writings explain and re-explain it, by thesis and exegesis. How much of this is real understanding?
If the Bible is so easy to understand, why are there so many varying opinions? Why do equally brilliant scholars come up with diametrically opposed explanations? Denominations have innumerable disagreements on virtually every part of God's Word.
The Bible is full of imagery. It is self-proclaimed to be written in parables, riddles, symbols, similitudes, allegories and analogies, and there are good reasons for this. To probe these depths, I will devote this study to understanding the Bible's language and imagery.
1. What is a parable? Matthew 13:34-35.
Comment
: "Parable" (Gk. parabole, Strong's #3850 from #3846) is a "similitude, i.e. (symbol.) fictitious narrative (of common life conveying a moral), apothegm or adage." In the KJV this Greek word is rendered "comparison," "figure," "parable," and "proverb." Thus, a parable is not a straightforward description of an event just as it occurred or will occur. It is intended to be similar to a real event, a comparison that has to be interpreted to reveal the true meaning.
2. Why are parables used? Why not "just the facts"? Matthew 13:9-17; Isaiah 28:9-13; Mark 4:11-13; Proverbs 26:7;Romans 11:32-33.
Comment: Christ did not speak in parables to make the meaning clear to just any reader! From the very beginning, God has supervised the writing of the Bible so that it cannot be understood without outside help. Even prophets and righteous men of old did not understand, nor did the multitudes who heard the parables of Christ. According to Romans 11, the meaning is veiled from most of mankind until the day God offers them salvation. They are relegated to unbelief until a later time (i.e. the Millennium or Great White Throne Judgment), lest they rebel and must be destroyed.
3. Who, then, can understand? John 6:44; 14:26; Luke 8:9-10; 12:30-32; I Corinthians 1:25-29; Matthew 11:25; Romans 10:13-17.
Comment: God has set up a system to call, convert and educate a people for Himself. They are a minority, very few in number. They are not mighty, noble and learned, but the weak of the world. God calls them and gives them His Spirit and teachers to help them understand. Of all people on earth, only they have a chance to understand the Bible. "It's not by power nor by might, but by my Spirit saith the Lord."
4. Another word for parable is "similitude." How does the Bible define this word? How should we view similitudes?DDeuteronomy 4:16; Psalm 106:20; James 3:9; Romans 5:14; I Corinthians 10:11; Hosea 12:10; Galatians 6:16.
Comment: A similitude is a similarity, a comparison, a likeness, a shadow—essentially the same as a parable. Paul says all the Old Testament accounts are written for our understanding today. Hosea writes that the prophets spoke to us in similitudes or similarities. Thus, what happened to Israel and Judah in the prophecies applies in principle to the church today, the New Testament "Isfurther, what is occurring in the church today is similar to what is occurring and prophesied to occur in the physical may be meant for the spiritual. It may not unfold in exactly the same detail, but very similarly. What understanding this concept opens up to those who have eyes to see and ears to hear!
5. What is an allegory? Does it further solidify and underscore the relevance of physical-spiritual types? Galatians 4:19-31.
Comment: Webster's Dictionary defines allegory as "to speak figuratively, a symbolic representation." Unger's Bible Dictionary defines it as expressing or explaining one thing under the image of another and showing a second and deeper meaning than would seem apparent. Again, it is similar to a parable.
Paul—addressing the New Testament church, which he calls "the Israel of God" (Galatians 6:16 )—shows that the Old Covenant points to and helps explain the New. He writes that Jerusalem is a figure, forerunner, type and present-day symbol of the New Covenant and church today (see also Hebrews 12:22-23, Romans 9:1-8; I Peter 2:9). We can then read both the history and prophecy regarding Jerusalem, the physical capital of Israel, and apply it to the church, the spiritual "Jerusalem, . . . mother of us all."
So symbolism is really much of scripture. Adam and Eve were told by God not to eat of the fruit of the tree of good and evil lest they die. Of course they did not die physically until many years later, but died spiritually from communion with God immediately.
Literal-ism by those who insist that Moses wrote Genesis as history only overlook the fact that Moses was a prophet as much as Ezekiel was when he wrote about Lucifer in Ezekiel 28 and all of Ezekiel's visions which are clearly symbolical, yet they do not insist these have to be interpreted literally. Even actual historic biblical events and characters have divine significance and are used in allegory like Galatians 4:21Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? 22For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. 23But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise. 24Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. 25For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. 26But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
Coincidence that these events and characters turned out as allegory? Of course not, every hair on every head is counted, and Ecclesiastes 1:
9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 3:
1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
So all through the Bible we find God's finger writing on the wall of prophesy, types and shadow, forerunners and anti types, similes and allegories, even numbers and divine mathematical repetitive and progressive revelation.
God has controlled every word that was written in Holy writ, and even later verse and chapter designations that were added were by his hand.
"The hand that made us is divine."
So as we approach the year 2012 is it coincidence that 12 refers to God's divine government, and man is on the brink of restoring the "Nimrod" One World Government in rebellion against God? Nimrod being the first type/shadow of Antichrist Kingdom. Semiramis his wife is Mystery Babylon and Tammuz is the son who was Nimrod reincarnated as the Beast with the deadly wound is healed, and comes back to life...the son of perdition.
All false religion with it's secret societies are born of that pattern. 2012 is the Chinese New Year of the Dragon...coincidence? Coincidence that China is rising into dominance and power and The Dragon gives the Beast his power? And that the Dragon is the 12th sign of the Chinese Year? And that Revelation 12 is about the Dragon and the Woman with the crown of 12 stars on her head? Coincidence that the 12th sign of the zodiac is Sagittarius, a man-beast hunter as Nimrod? And coincidence that the one who rides the white horse of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse with a bow & arrow is picture of Antichrist?
Revelation is the 66th book of the Bible, Rev Ch 6= 666? More coincidence? "And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer."
Gen 10:8 10 + 8 = 18 (666) 6+6+6=18 more coincidence? Gen 10:8 And Cush begat Nimrod
666... the number of his name) he began to be a mighty one in the earth.( here we see the Cursed lineage of Ham stamped with 666)9He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD. (he hunts the souls of men)
10And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Nimrod was king/god over the seven city-nations who worshiped Nimrod/satan from their "High places of human sacrafice/prostitution etc..." that their satanic "arc-demons" were over. "for we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities against powers, against spiritual wickedness in HIGH PLACES, against the RULERS of the darkness of THIS WORLD." Eph 6:12
Not including Babel, "Babylon" the capital and highest place, we see Babylon sitting on"SEVEN" city/states that make up this dark kingdom. So the SEVEN MOUNTAINS (high places) represent all false religion usurping God's place (7) of Deity including atheistic, agnostic or any "HIGH THING THAT EXALTETH IT"SELF AGAINST THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD." II Cor 10:4-6
Is 2012 the beginning of tribulation? "20 represents 2 x10= double divine ordination. 10 is divine ordination. 10x100=1000 year reign that ordains the final destruction of Satan the Great Dragon thrown into the Lake of Fire.
Elisha asked for double anointing of Elijah. Elijah was a type of the 11th hour Church ministry. Elisha a type of the second coming of the Lord anointing the Church double as they are in Resurrected bodies, who with the Lord destroys the Antichrist as Elijah/Elisha destroyed Ahab/Jezebel through Jehu (strength of Jehovah) Ahab/ Jezebel a type of Nimrod/Mystery Babylon.
Since the pattern has been an actual human figure(s) has manifested as type and shadow of Nimrod and Semiramis, Ahab & Jezebel, Herod & Herodius etc...will we expect to see a "personification" of "The harlot?"
The scriptural problem is that we get the role of Semiramis not from cannon scripture, but extra biblical sources. Daniel paints the end time Antichrist figure as one who has no desire of "women" Daniel 11:37
Whether he is active homosexual or a sexual is up for speculation. But the absence of Semiramis in the Genesis account is perhaps bound by the interpretive principle of "law of first mention." And that is that the "true anti type" will be without a female personification, and that personification is embodied in "Babylon The Great City." (allegory)
As Nimrod was the Son of Cush, who was of Ham, whom evil pervaded through as a type of demonic succession, we can see how God has allowed the "sins of the fathers" to be inherited through the flesh. "That which is of the flesh is flesh, that which is of the Spirit is spirit." Ham represents the "Flesh" as he and his lineage was cursed for his sin against Noah. Shem, the lineage from which Christ would come and Japheth took the second son position from Ham, symbolizing Shem (Spirit) Japheth (Soul) Ham (Flesh)
As Judas Iscariot is referred to as "The son of perdition"... and so is the end time Antichrist figure, we again see a tpe and shadow of Judas where no wife or female figure is associated as prophetic typing is concerned.
Jehu (anointed of Elisha) gets Jezebel's Eunuchs to throw her down into the street. Jehu means "strength of Jehovah" 15And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the harlot sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
Rev 17:
16And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the harlot, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. ( as the dogs of Jezreel did to Jezebel)
17For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
18And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
No man knows the day or hour...but Jesus teaches we can know the season, I am pointing to possible season, not day and hour.
And also we have to consider is the time element of seven years literal? Is tribulation longer or exact? Where do we draw the literal line against the symbolical line?
Being good stewards we plan for the literal, prepare for God's will however he decides to perform his will, and continue to be amazed at his handiwork and divine design for the ages that cause us to ask, "What is man that God is mindful of him?"
see full teaching ... endtimetruth11thhour.blogspot.com
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