Show me where you think that happens many times. Heaven is rolled together only once. The stars of heaven fall only one time. The wicked hide in the rocks as foretold in Isaiah 2 only once in Revelation/6th seal. They hide from the face of the One on the throne. The OT shows that God hides His face when He sells Israel into the hand of her enemies. It is time for mercy when He shows it.
Earthquakes are mentioned several times in Revelation, but they are not all showing right then an earthquake upon the earth is underway. Just like in the OT, God revealed how long He will punish places/people. He will be angry until....
At the end of Revelation 11 is not an earthquake or great hail right then on the earth killing people. It is being revealed how long the next set of plagues/full vials will last. The final event will be the great hail. This is why the end of Revelation 11 actually leads us next to Revelation 16:1 and we learn in the rest of the chapters what was written in the little open book that John had eaten back in chapter 10, so he could prophesy again. This is the little book - that cannot have the sayingq of its prophecy sealed. It was a section of Revelation that was given to us in the same sequence that it was shown to John.
Another example of when an actual earthquake did not happen is in Revelation 8 just ahead of the story of the past job of the seven trumpets angels. John did not tell us a damage report...so many people died...cities fell...or anything. It just shows how the next set of plagues will end. 6th seal opens/earthquake
trib ends/sun black///Immediately after the tribulation of those days....sun...darkened....the stars fall from heaven....
Joel shows the moon blood event is before the day of the Lord.
Joel 2:31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
6th seal/sun black - moon blood
Revelation 12:4-5; can be a historical context that reflects the Great confrontation between the Messiah and Satan.
John had already seen the birth to ascension back before the church officially began.
Israel did birth the Messiah and her child grew to a man and was caught up to God and his throne and he was to rule back then Isaiah 9:6, but the nation of Israel rejected the Messiah Matthew 23:37-39.
The problem is that the time favor of Revelation is found in Revelation 1:19. So this a future picture in fulfillment.
This whole chapter is happening in real time in the middle of the tribulation.
The sun clothed woman and the dragon are not in the past in fulfillment for the dragon is chasing her into the wilderness by Satan.
The text above is literally double-talk.
Either the beginning of Revelation chapter 12 is a history including the birth and death of Christ, or it is not.
Psalm 2 proves that the manchild who is to rule with an iron rod is Christ.
Satan did fall before the birth of Christ. Satan did use Herod to try and kill the Messiah.
Joseph did take the baby Jesus and his wife to Egypt to escape those trying to destroy the Christ-child.
You cannot have it both ways.
It also happens after the time of the judgment of the dead in Revelation 11:18.
Your perfect chronology disintegrates after that point.
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I told you in another post that the time of the dead was before the Wrath of God Revelation 15:1-2 which is before the battle of Armageddon 16:16.
So it is not at the beginning of the the 7th trumpet angel sounding and neither is the rewards of the saints.
Rev 11:15 Then the seventh angel sounded: And there were loud voices in heaven, saying, "The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever!"
Rev 11:18 The nations were angry, and Your wrath has come, And the time of the dead, that they should be judged, And that You should reward Your servants the prophets and the saints, And those who fear Your name, small and great, And should destroy those who destroy the earth."
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Joh 5:24 "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.
The Holy Spirit Falls on the Gentiles (Subtitle from the NKJV)
Act 10:44 While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon all those who heard the word.
Act 10:45 And those of the circumcision who believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the Gentiles also.
Act 10:46 For they heard them speak with tongues and magnify God. Then Peter answered,
Act 10:47 "Can anyone forbid water, that these should not be baptized who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?"
Act 10:48 And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then they asked him to stay a few days.
Joh 3:5 Jesus answered, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
How long did you have to run the race before you were saved?
What happened on that day that let you know you were finally saved?
It happened in one day to those in the household of Cornelius.
You seem to be confused about the process of being "born again" through receiving the Holy Spirit.
When did you receive the Holy Spirit?
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How does that expound on the parable of the 10 virgins? Please explain what the parable means.
Please also explain the difference between the new covenant church and the old covenant church. Just make it all up as you go along.
One last thing. What's a real member and a fake member of the new covenant church?
God
He called me at the age of fifteen to study the Bible as one day I would teach it.
What angels were seen after the 7th seal was opened?
the seven angels
What angels did John see at the start of Revelation 7?
four angels
When John wanted to refer to this group again, then what did he say?
the four angels
So when did John see that group of seven angels for the first time?
Revelation 15:1 "....seven angels..."
Revelation 8:2 "....the seven angels..."
Revelation is not given to us in the same order that it was given to John.
Back at the first part of Revelation, how did John introduce the subjects of the visions? a great voice...the voice....seven golden candlesticks....seven stars....the seven candlesticks....the seven stars....
How about later?
a woman....the woman
a great red dragon.....the dragon
a beast...the beast
We need to watch John's grammar clues if we want to understand Revelation.
Revelation 10 shows that before he ate the little open book/chapters 16-22, he had to make other parts into the mystery of God. make it obscure/hide it
They were not for John's day, and would be made into a puzzle...visions would be
given to us out of their proper order.
The disciples that were with Jesus Christ at the time did not just ask Him one
question...such as to the great tribulation events only. They wanted to know
about the end of the world. In Matthew 24 we hear of many coming events...time passes....and then we learn of what will occur once the great tribulation is over.
After that, we switch to a new time of the future....when heaven and earth shall pass away......all the way into Matthew 25 that begins...."Then shall...."
Matthew 24:35
"Heaven and earth shall pass away....v 26.....that day....25:1...."Then shall...ten virgins...talents....sheep....goats...
Mark 13:31
"Heaven and earth shall pass away....v32....that day....Watch....v35...for ye know no when...v37 ...Watch.
The ten virgins are for the hour and day not known by man. This parable shows that they all had lit lamps, and then the wise were not able to give up some of their oil, because they did not know the time as to the day and the hour. It says. "lest, there not be enough for us". They tell the others to go to those that sell, and buy.
If this was the great tribulation time, then the foolish virgins would need the mark of the beast and what good would a lit lamp do them after that?
The people in Matthew 25 are those that will still be alive at the end of this world.
They will not die the first death, but be judged as sheep and goats/wheat and tares.
The goats/tares will be burned/everlasting punishment.
Matthew 13:49
"So shall it be at the end of the world....sever the wicked from the just."
This is from a parable as to the field of the world and how people grow in it.
They keep growing in it until the time to split them apart before the new earth
comes. These people do not come from hell, nor heaven. As shown in Matthew 25, the sheep/the righteous will inherit the kingdom and the goats will not. This is the kingdom of God present on the new earth, not the 1000 years reign of Jesus Christ on the earth. People then will still be in flesh and blood bodies that have never died, and flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God.
How long did you have to run the race before you were saved?
What happened on that day that let you know you were finally saved?
It happened in one day to those in the household of Cornelius.
Read below. How long was Cornelius honoring God before he received the holy spirit? I can tell you for a fact he didn't give to the poor and prayed to God after one day and than received the holy spirit. When God decides to come live with you, that only takes a minute and you're instantly baptized and filled with the holy ghost.
Acts 10:1-2King James Version (KJV)
1 There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band,
2 A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.
Why do you think the definite article was used in Revelation 8:2?
the seven angels
It means they were already in action before this verse.
What did they do?
They sealed the 144,000 as the set of "we" angels.
What happens after a sealing is done?
The ones that did it go report back to God to tell Him what they did.
What happened?
John saw the seven angels stand before God and tell the numbers report as to how many they had sealed back when they had been on earth.
Revelation 8:2 "....the seven angels which stood before God
/all a past event
Sealing took place back in the time of Ezekiel 9. After it was done, a report was given to God by the one that sealed the people.
According to Ezekiel 7, what time was it then?
four corners upon the land
What did that mean in Ezekiel 7?
It meant that it was time to send the worst of the heathen against the land of
Israel to destroy.
What heathen? How did he destroy Israel?
Nebuchadnezzar II ....and by using different methods/just like the 4th seal time of
Revelation 6
Habakkuk 2 gives us a prophecy about a proud Chaldean man, what was his
name?
death and desires to be as hell
/4th seal names of Revelation 6
What does the prophecy say he will do?
gather the nations
In Revelation 21, we find one of the seven angels being mentioned as had one of the seven vials - full. Does this mean he had yet to pour it?
No, because John was just identifying him to the reader by what he saw him do
the last time he saw him. He was one of the seven angels that had the seven last plagues.
This is the same case with the seven angels in Revelation 8. John tells us what set has shown up -not that then get trumpets and sound them.
4th seal rider - gathers the nations
5th seal - great tribulation
6th seal - end of trib
resurrection of the just/rapture
7th seal - silence in heaven
return of the seven angels set
Why? It is time for them to soon go and pour out the vials full of God's wrath.
But John placed the trumpets story in Revelation 8 to get it started?
No, the trumpets actually sound at the end of Revelation 15 and then men can
enter into the temple in heaven...as shown in Rev. 7. men are seen inside of the temple
What about the smoke time in Rev. 8?
It links back to Rev. 15 and its smoke time too.
Rev. 8 tells how it was done, and Rev. 15 tells why.
They are the same time.
It actually goes - Rev. 7:1 four angels - the four angels
another angel ascending from the east/as in he is not the first one of this group, but the last one. He carries with him the trees plague. Why do they carry plagues?
Because the set of "we" angels will give them - to whom it was given - to the set of four angels to cause the chaos as the trumpets sound, The set of "we" angels will return to heaven, stand before God, give their report as to how many they had sealed on the earth, get trumpets, sound them - and the first trumpet will bring the
plague against the trees. The trees being harmed by the set of four angels still on the earth.
"to whom it was given to hurt" given /delivered/handed off
earth, sea, trees
The 7th seal involves the 7th trumpet angels preparation to sound for it is a Jewish Yom Kippur Service.
You need to learn the Jewish context of being purged in the tribulation Daniel 9:24-27.
From the 1599 Geneva Bible, which is the Bible the Pilgrims brought to America, before John Nelson Darby showed up on our shores about the time of the Civil War.
Daniel 9:27
And he (a) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to (b) cease, (c) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make [it] desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
(a) By the preaching of the Gospel he affirmed his promise, first to the Jews, and after to the Gentiles.
(b) Christ accomplished this by his death and resurrection.
(c) Meaning that Jerusalem and the sanctuary would be utterly destroyed because of their rebellion against God, and their idolatry: or as some read, that the plague will be so great, that they will all be astonished at them.
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Who Confirmed The Covenant?
James Lloyd
http://christianmediaresearch.com/node/1023
A Baptist speaks on the History of Dispensationalism in America
Ernest Reisinger
http://founders.org/fj09/the-history-of-dispensationalism-in-america/
PROPHETIC DEVELOPMENTS
with particular reference to the early Brethren Movement.
F. Roy Coad (Brethren Historian) pages 10-26
http://brethrenhistory.org/qwicsitePro/php/docsview.php?docid=418
Origin of the Pretrib Rapture Doctrine
Pastor Tim Warner
http://www.answersinrevelation.org/pretrib_history.pdf
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