Exactly, almost no church to rapture. You preach the falling away is a good thing. It is the shame of the church and gives Satan the upper hand. Islam is a religion, not a nation. When the Lamb and God on the throne appear in the 6th seal, religion will cease. Kind of hard to pretend God and the Lamb do not exist, and humans can concoct any theology they want. Those days of religion are over after the 6th seal. No more athiest either. That does not mean humanity rejects Satan and the false prophet. Humanity still does not fear God. They think they can still appease God in their own works. Look at God's own chosen people at Mt. Sinai. They built a golden calf and worshipped it, right in front of God. The tribulation will be no different. But economy and work will be front and center. If humanism is not a religion, it will not become one. Humanism is the ideology of today.
It is not going to get any better. That has little to do with the church obeying God. In the 4th seal 25% of humanity is killed in war, famine, covid19, and wild animals. God will not respect between the lost or the church. This judgment comes from God. It is not the work of Satan or the false prophet.
Shhh... calm down. Let start with Revelation 16 and I will be the one who is teaching.
Did God talk about physical great river Euphrates in the Middle East or does it signifies the protective border for the New Testament Congregation of Israel, the woman who has fled into the wilderness (world) safe from Satan for 1,260 symbolic days? After 1,260 days, the people of the congregation has become more unfaithful to obey God's commandments. God will allow the river to dry up so that He will use the wicked enemies to come in as a tool of judgment. Again, the drying up of the Euphrates signifies the way for the armies to come across to destroy them.
Do you know who are the kings of the East? Have you considered that the drying up of the river is not only to let the wicked rulers of the world in, but also give God's people a way OUT from among these people who are now under wrath and judgment of God. The kings of the East symbolize the people of Christ, the TRUE believers who heard God's command to come out from among them Christ Himself being the Ultimate King from the East, and we, his people as kings and priests of His Kingdom? Didn't you read the Scripture?
Matthew 2:2
Matthew 2:9
- "Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen His star in the East, and are come to worship him."
Revelation 7:2
- "When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the East, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was."
The Messenger from the East possessing the seal to secure the servants of in their forehead is the Spirit of Christ. Those kings from the east are those sealed of Christ.
- "And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,"
Selah!
Have you studied the meaning of number three in Scripture? It signifies God's purpose and will. The answer is this:
Revelation 17:16-18 KJV
[16] And 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.
[17] For 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.
[18] And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
See, it is God's will and purpose that he will allow His congregation to be attacked by the enemies. To let them in, but at the same time, call his faithful one to come out of her.
Revelation 9:3
So when God says here locusts came from the smoke of the pit and were given power as scorpions, the Scripture being its own dictionary, this clearly refers to the spirits of devils loosed to rule men to cause them to rise up as an army of locusts to plague the people who afflict God's children.
- "And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power."
This is the same cryptic imagery and symbology of the plagues God poured out upon Exdous' Egypt, except this is poured upon spiritual Egypt, a rebellious house that wants a false Christ instead of the true Christ. Therefore, God sent enemies upon them as Locusts, frogs, poison rivers, and pestilence as a judgment. And note who God identifies them as "the spirits of Devils" that go forth to the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. Even as Revelation 20 so plainly reiterates. These aren't literal frogs anymore than Revelation 9 were literal locusts. They are an army of unrighteous men, sent by God to plague man. To decevie those people WITHIN the congregation (woman) who are not yet sealed (saved) by God. It is a judgment upon the PROFESSED CHRISTIANS!
Revelation 9:3-4 KJV
[3] And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
[4] And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.
Those who are sealed by God are saved and secured in Christ. But those professed Christians who have not yet seal of God, are subject to God's judgment upon them with locusts, frogs, pestilence, etc. It is cryptic to be sure, especially for natural or carnal mind Christians, but not unable to understand unless one has spirit of Christ to understand it. For with the power of the Holy Spirit, and a sound hermeneutic, we can SEE the mystery of the woman that rides the beast. We can see unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon. We can see the false prophet as the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. See them as a plague of locusts which go forth to destroy!
Now, let hear from you on your position about Revelation 16.
You remained refuted on Revelation 16.
I take it that covid19 is not literal either? It is a spiritual curse, messing with people's thoughts and emotional life. People are only dying spiritually and not physically. Your refutation of the first seal, and the consequential 2nd and 3rd seals, has been noted. It is past history, and we should ignore all seals as being relevant today.Incorrect. It is God's interpreting HIS own Word that I testified. But it's okay if you cannot see this as a natural man.
Well, okay. It literally happens which has spiritual signification for us today in the book of Revelation.
Due to time and space, I will not respond to all of your erroneous vial listings. So I will respond to the first two to show you how well I understood Scripture instead that trumps your silly literal interpretations.
Revelation 16:2 KJV
[2] And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.
The noisome is an old word that literally means an "annoyance, from noy," illustrating something that causes grief. By extension, it delineates something very bad or hurtful--such as a repulsive and tormenting sore. Along with the qualifying word here that is translated "grievous," God is illustrated some calamitous thing that has fallen upon those who are marked of Satan, and pointing us back to His judgments upon the wicked of Egypt whom He brought the plague of sores upon. Here God says only those marked of the beast, and that's an important distinction and yet another signpost that these sores are not physical anymore than the mark of the beast on these people is. The word noisome is the Greek [kakos] depicting what we might call today something "extremely grievous and painful," such as a cancerous or putrefying sore. Like was signified in the plagues of Egypt, it illustrates being unclean, which is why only those who are marked slaves of Satan could be cursed with this plague. While (as Revelation also plainly says) those with the seal of God in their forehead cannot be hurt by these plagues.
I believe it is saying they blasphemed God because of their sores, meaning the reason they blasphemed or spoke evil of God was because of their sores. Or to put it another way, because they were pained with sores, they blasphemed God. They are deceived, they are not even aware of their pain or sores because it is not physical. It is a spiritual uncleanness that has befallen them, not that they are in any way physically wrecked with pain and sores. They are spiritually unclean. This is just as Christ illustrated in the parable of the Rich man and Lazarus. Lazarus was a beggar who laid at the gate full of sores, only desiring to be fed with crumbs from the rich man's table. His sores illustrated his wretched unclean condition on earth, wherein with Christ he was made clean to stand before God while the rich man whose rich and prosperous condition on earth, in the afterlife he was in hell being tormented. The sores illustrate uncleanness, like an ulcer. And because God sent these sores upon them as judgment, they blasphemed.
Next!
Revelation 16:3 KJV
[3] And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.
You said, "sea dies and all the creatures in it" is pretty stupid without actually studying and compare Scripture with Scripture. Watch me on how I understood it.
Isaiah 57:20
The sea becoming blood again signifies another plague upon the wicked of the Church, which was supposed to be fishers of men, but which has spiritually become Egypt. In other words, the turning of the sea (wicked) to blood hearkens us back to God's judgments upon Egypt for holding God's people prisoner. These were supposed to preach the gospel, but instead, they turned against the faithful, became enemies raging in these troubled times like the sea. Not unlike our lord explains in Jude of the unrighteous in His house.
- "But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt."
Jude 1:11
These are the apostatized, and these are those plagued. The sea become position with false gospels and doctrines. And many in the sea were once a living soul, has tasted heavenly thing, dies, because they are deceived by their own doctrines.
- "Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core."
- These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
- Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever."
I assure you that God was not talking about seafood here.
The mark is not forced. The mark is the curse placed on all Adam's descendants. It is the curse of labor by the sweat of the brow. During this 3.5 year period this 666 brand will appear on the brow. Satan does not give free things to humans. Satan demands a payment. That payment is acknowledgment of the curse God allows to come out on the brow. Proud people will tattoo 666 on their arms so they can see it without having to constantly look in a mirror. Some will probably constantly look in a mirror and tattoo it on their body. I guess it depends on how much credit they have with Satan to worship him instead of God.
According to your own scriptural argument, those verses mention that even the spirit of wickedness is quite aware of these things as well. We are in the generation of spiritual wickedness. This spirit claims to have knowledge. The spirit of those who claim to understand what other's cannot is a spirit of wickedness. All heretical doctrine was exposed as false, because God’s Word is for all the world to understand. That some do not is because Satan has deceived them. It is not because God has not revealed His Word to them. Even those in Christ, your elect, can still be deceived by Satan. Those who also have to change or "cut out" Scripture to prove a point, hardly have a God revelation.
