Thursday, March 31, 2022

Word For 3/31/2022

 

Word For 3/31/2022

 

“The LORD searches all hearts and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts: if you seek Him, He will be found by you.” 1 Chronicles 28:9

“If there is stagnation spiritually, never allow it to go on, but get into GOD’s Presence and find out the reason for it.”

Oswald Chambers

 

“I waited patiently for The LORD; and He inclined to me, and heard my cry. He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a Rock, and established my steps.” Psalm 40:1-2

 

All through the Scriptures we see where GOD revealed Himself to people, sometimes we don’t see the back story, like Abraham and sometimes we do like Moses. But GOD always comes to those who call on Him, like Hagar.

Seek GOD First!

GOD Bless, Bob & Charlene

Wednesday, March 30, 2022

Word For 3/30/2022

 

Word For 3/30/2022

 

“Therefore, after this manner pray: ‘Our Father Who is in Heaven; Holy is Your Name.’” Matthew 6:9

“Prayer does not fit us for the greater works; prayer is the greater work.”

Oswald Chambers

 

“A Father of the fatherless, a Defender of widows, is GOD in His Holy Habitation.” Psalm 68:5

 

“Effective Bible study is built on three key questions: What does The Bible say? What does it mean? How does it apply to my life? Each of these questions is important, but applying The Word must always be the highest goal, knowledge without application is useless.”

John MacArthur

 

“In Your Christians walk – You will NEVER CHANGE what You don’t CONFRONT!”

Psalm 32:5-7 “Finally I CONFESSED ALL My sins to YOU and STOPPED Trying to HIDE My GUILT. I said to Myself, ‘I will CONFESS My REBELLION to The LORD.’ And YOU Forgave Me! ALL My GUILT is Gone. Therefore, let ALL the Godly PRAY to YOU while there is still TIME, that They may NOT DROWN in the Floodwaters of JUDGMENT. For YOU are My HIDING PLACE; YOU PROTECT ME from Trouble. YOU SURROUND ME with Songs of Victory.”

“STOP HIDING what GOD wants to REVEAL and HEAL!”

Be Blessed, Pastor Bob Harris

 

The SPIRIT, The Bible and Prayer; it should be a lifestyle!

Seek GOD First!

GOD Bless, Bob & Charlene

Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Word For 3/29/2022

 

Word For 3/29/2022

 

“No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve GOD and mammon.” Matthew 6:24

“In a conflict of loyalty, obey JESUS CHRIST at all costs.”

Oswald Chambers

 

“Commit your works to The LORD and your thoughts will be established.” Proverbs 16:3

 

The Word seems clear: Seek GOD First!

GOD Bless, Bob & Charlene

Monday, March 28, 2022

Who? What? When? Where? Why? How"

 

Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?

 

We all have questions when we read The Bible who, what, when, where, why and how. Do you ever think these questions in relation to GOD? These are the questions that scientists and evolutionists must ask everyday, many of them ignore the Who question, they don’t want to believe in GOD; but without the answer to Who there are no answers to any of the other questions. Not that they haven’t made up answers.

 

What happened in the beginning? They say there was a big bang, a cataclysmic event that started everything to form and evolve (order out of chaos). They do not know what the what was, how it happen, where it happened, why it happened, when it happened (they just give us an enormous number of billions of years ago, or Who caused it to happen (they ignore the Who). Anyone who has lived in any household of a couple or more people know that chaos never results in order unless someone (Who) institutes a system of order (how).

 

GOD on the other hand has told us the answer to every one of these questions, starting with The Who: “In the beginning GOD created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was chaos and waste, darkness was on the surface of the deep, and the Ruach Elohim (SPIRIT of GOD) was hovering upon the water.” Genesis 1:1-2 TLV

The How: “Then GOD said…” Genesis 1:3-31, everything that happened in creation was because GOD said.

The When: “’In the beginning” is pretty undefined, but GOD created time, “Then GOD said let there be light!’ and there was light and GOD saw that it was good. So GOD distinguished the light from the darkness. GOD called the light ‘day,’ and the darkness He called ‘night.’ So there was evening and there was morning – one day…Then GOD said, ‘Let lights in the expanse of the sky be for separating the day from the night. They will be for signs and for seasons and for days and years.” Genesis 1:3-5, 14-19 LTV. GOD gave us the solar calendar (it’s a long story but by the best estimates of scholars we have just entered the earth year of 5947 AM).

The What: “In the beginning GOD created the heavens and the earth.” “In the beginning was The WORD, the WORD was with God and the WORD was GOD. He was with GOD in the beginning. All things were made through Him, and apart from Him nothing was made that has come into being.” “In these last days He has spoken to us through a Son, Whom He appointed heir of all things and through Whom He created the universe.” “Worthy are You, our LORD and GOD, to receive glory and honor and power, for You created all things, and because of Your Will they existed and were created!” Genesis 1:1a, John 1:1-3, Hebrews 1:2, Revelation 4:11 TLV

The Why: “Then GOD said, ‘Lets Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness! Let them rule over the fish of the sea, over the flying creatures of the sky, over the livestock, over the whole earth, and over every crawling creature that crawls on the land.’ GOD created humankind in His image, in the image of GOD He created him, male and female He created them. GOD blessed them and GOD said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply, fill the land and conquer it. Rule over the fish of the sea, the flying creatures of the sky, and over every animal that crawls on the land.’” “For GOD so Loved the world that He gave His One and Only Son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.” Genesis 1:26-28, John 3:16 TLV

The Where: The Bible does not really say where, but since there in nothing that we know of outside of GOD the where must be in GOD. All things exist in GOD, by GOD and for GOD!

Word For 3/28/2022

 

Word For 3/28/2022

 

“But you, when you pray, enter into your closet and when you shut the door, pray to your Father which is in secret.” Matthew 6:6

“It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer.”

Oswald Chambers

 

“Whatever You ALLOW to Mold You, OWNS You!”

Genesis 4:7 “You will be ACCEPTED if You DO what is Right. But if You REFUSE to DO what is RIGHT, then WATCH OUT! Sin is CROUCHING at the Door, EAGER to CONTROL You. But You must SUBDUE IT and be ITS Master.”

“The same People that SELL the PANIC (Social Media), SELL THE PILL (Negative News)!”

Be Challenged, Pastor Bob Harris

 

“Trust in The LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct your paths.” Proverbs 3:5-6

There are so many distractions, so many voices clamoring in our heads that it is hard to stay focused on GOD’s Will for our life sometimes. Our trust in GOD is what will keep us on the straight and narrow.

Seek GOD First!

GOD Bless, Bob & Charlene

Saturday, March 26, 2022

Word For 3/26/2022

 

Word For 3/26/2022

 

“Then JESUS said to them, ‘A little while longer The Light is with you. Walk while you have The Light, lest darkness overtake you; he who walks in darkness does not know where he is going.’” John 12:35

“Beware of not acting upon what you see in your moments on the mount with GOD. If you do not obey The Light, it will turn into darkness.”

Oswald Chambers

 

“Don’t let Anyone turn your SKY into a CEILING – keep Believing and Reaching for ALL that GOD has for You!”

Proverbs 4:25-27 “LOOK STRAIGHT AHEAD and FIX Your Eyes on what LIES BEFORE You. MARK OUT a Straight PATH for Your Feet; STAY ON the Safe Path. DON’T GET SIDETRACKED; Keep Your Feet from FOLLOWING Evil.”

“STARVE Your Distraction and FEED Your Focus!”

Be Blessed, Pastor Bob Harris

 

“Thought the fig tree may not blossom, not fruit be on the vines; though the labor of the olive may fail, and the field yield no food; thought the flock may be cut off from the fold, and there be no herd in the stalls – Yet I will rejoice in The LORD, I will joy in The GOD of my Salvation.” Habakkuk 3:17-18

 

While the signs of our times look dark our hope is not in the world’s ability to fix itself. Humanity never can! OUR HOPE Must be in GOD and HIM Alone Who is Working out His Will in the earth as it is in Heaven.

Seek GOD First!

GOD Bless, Bob & Charlene

Friday, March 25, 2022

Word For 3/25/2022

 

Word For 3/25/2022

 

“For GOD so Loved the world, that He Gave His Only Begotten Son that, whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have Everlasting Life.” John 3:16

“Salvation is easy because it cost GOD so much.”

Oswald Chambers

 

“WORRYING is Us having FAITH in FEAR!”

Psalm 27:1 “The LORD is My LIGHT and My SALVATION – so WHY should I be AFRAID? The LORD is My FORTRESS, Protecting Me from Danger, so WHY should I TREMBLE?”

“WORRYING Only PROVES that We DON’T BELIEVE GOD CAN TAKE CARE of Us!”

Be Encouraged, Pastor Bob Harris

 

The greater the temptation, the greater the trial, the harder the test are all the more that we have to seek Shelter, Protection and Grace in GOD. Only in GOD through CHRIST are we Victorious in this life.

Seek GOD First!

GOD Bless, Bob & Charlene

Thursday, March 24, 2022

The Harmonized Revelation of JESUS Part 4

 

The Harmonized Revelation of JESUS Part 4

 

Chapter 4

Harmony of Revelation

The Beginning

 

In the beginning GOD created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void; darkness was on the face of the deep. The SPIRIT of GOD was hovering over the face of the waters. Then GOD said, “Let there be Light!” and there was light. In the beginning was The Word and The Word was with GOD and The Word was GOD. He was in the beginning with GOD. All Things were created by Him and without Him nothing was made that exists. In Him was Life and the Life is the light of humanity.

 

A great sign appeared in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and on her head a garland of twelve stars. Then being with child she cried out in labor and in pain to give birth. Then another sign appeared in heaven: a great fiery red dragon having seven heads and ten horns and seven diadems on his heads. His tail drew a third of the stars of Heaven and threw them to the earth. The dragon stood before the woman who was ready to give birth, to devour her Child as soon as He was born. She bore a male Child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron. Her Child was caught up to GOD and His Throne.

 

War broke out in Heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon. The dragon and his angels fought but they could not prevail and there was no place for them in Heaven any longer. So the great dragon, that serpent of old, called the devil and satan was cast to the earth and his angels were cast out with him.

 

Then a loud voice in Heaven said, “Now salvation and strength and The Kingdom of our GOD and the power of His CHRIST have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our GOD day and night has been cast down. They overcome him by the Blood of The Lamb, by the word of their testimony and they do not love their lives more than death. Therefore rejoice you Heavens and you who dwell in them! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath because he knows he has a short time.”

 

Now when the devil saw that he had been cast to the earth he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male Child. But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle that she might fly into the wilderness to her place prepared for her where she is nourished one thousand two hundred and sixty days from the presence of the serpent. So the serpent spewed water out of his mouth like a flood after the woman that he might cause her to be carried away by the flood, but the earth helped the woman by opening its mouth and swallowed up the flood. The dragon was enraged with the woman and went to make war with the rest of her offspring who keep the commandments of GOD and have the testimony of JESUS CHRIST.

 

The Revelation

 

The revelation of JESUS CHRIST; which GOD gave Him to give to His servant John Ben-Zebedee; by His angel. John bore witness to The Word of GOD and to The Testimony of JESUS CHRIST, to everything that he saw. Blessed is he who reads and hears the Words of This Prophecy and keeps them for the time is near.

 

“John, to the seven Churches that are in Asia: Grace and Peace to you from Him Who is, Who was and Who is to come and from the Seven Spirits who are before His Throne; and from JESUS CHRIST, The Faithful Witness, The Firstborn from the dead and The Ruler over the kings of the earth.

 

To Him who Loved us and washed us from our sins in His Own Blood and has made us kings and priests to His GOD and Father, to Him be Glory and Dominion forever and ever. Amen! Behold He is coming and every eye will see Him, even they who pierced Him, all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. Even so, Amen!”

 

“I Am The Alpha and The Omega, The Beginning and The End,” says The LORD, “Who is, Who was and Who is to come, The Almighty!.”

 

“I, John, your brother and companion in the tribulation, The Kingdom and the patience of JESUS CHRIST; was on the island of Patmos for The Word of GOD and for The Testimony of JESUS CHRIST. I was in The SPIRIT on The LORD’s Day and I heard a loud voice, like a trumpet, behind me, saying, ‘I Am The Alpha and The Omega, The First and The Last; what you see write in a book and sent it to the seven Churches which are in Asia, to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamos, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.’”

 

Then I  turned to see the voice that spoke to me, I saw seven Golden Lampstands and in the midst of them One like the Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the feet and girded around the chest with a golden band. His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow and His eyes were like a flame of fire. His feet were like fine brass refined in a furnace and His voice as the sound of many waters. He had seven Stars in His right hand, out of His mouth went a sharp two edged sword and His countenance was like the sun shining in its strength.

 

When I saw Him I fell at His feet as dead, but He laid His right hand on me, saying, “Do not be afraid, I Am The First and The Last, I Am He Who lives and was dead; behold I Am alive forevermore! Amen! I have the keys of death and hell. Write the things which you have seen, the things that are and the things that will take place after this. The mystery of the seven Stars which you saw in My right hand and the seven Golden Lampstands: the seven Stars are the angels of the seven Churches and the seven Golden Lampstands are the seven Churches.”

 

The Letters

 

“To the angel of the Church in Ephesus write: He who holds the seven Stars in His right hand and who walks in the midst of the seven Golden Lampstands says; ‘I know your work, your labor your patience and that you cannot bear those who are evil. You have tested those who claim to be apostles and found them to be liars, you have persevered, have patience and have labored for My Name’s sake and you have not become weary. Nevertheless I have this against you: you have left your first Love. Therefore remember from where you have fallen, repent and do the first works or else I will come to you quickly and remove your Lampstand from its place – unless you repent. Yet, this you have, that you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans which I also hate. He who has an ear, let him hear what The SPIRIT says to the Churches. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from The Tree of Life which is in the midst of The Paradise of GOD.’”

 

To the angel of the Church in Smyrna write: ‘These things’, says The First and The Last, Who was dead and came to Life: ‘I know your works, tribulation and poverty (but you are rich). I know the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of satan. Do not fear any of those things which you are about to suffer, indeed the devil is about to throw some of you into prison so that you may be tested and you will have tribulation for ten days. Be faithful until death and I will give you the Crown of Life. He who has an ear let him hear what The SPIRIT says to the Churches. He who overcomes shall not be hurt by the second death.’”

 

“To the angel of the Church in Pergamos write: ‘These things’, says He Who has The sharp two edged Sword: ‘I know your works and where you dwell, where satan’s throne is, and you hold fast to My Name. You did not deny My faith even in the days when Antipas who was My faithful martyr, who was killed among you, where satan lives. But I have a few things against you; because you have there those who hold to the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the Children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality. Thus you also have those who hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which I hate. Repent or else I will come to you quickly and will fight against them with the Sword of My mouth. He who has an ear let him hear what The SPIRIT says to the Churches. To him who overcomes I will give some of the hidden manna to eat. I will give him a white stone with a new name written on it which no one knows except him who receives it.’”

 

“To the angel of the Church in Thyatira write: ‘These things,’ says the Son of GOD who has eyes like a flame of fire and feet like fine brass. ‘I know your works, love, service, faith and your patience; as for your works, the last are more than the first. Nevertheless I have a few things against you, because you allow that woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess to teach and seduce My servants to commit sexual immorality and to eat things sacrificed to idols. I gave her time to repent of her sexual immorality and she did not repent. Indeed I will cast her into a sickbed and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of their deed. I will kill her children with death and all the Churches shall know that I Am He Who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your works. Now to you I say and to the rest in Thyatira, as many as do not have this doctrine, who have not known the depths of satan, as they say, “I will put on you no other burden”, but hold fast what you have until I come. He who overcomes and keeps My Works until The End, to him I will give power over the nations. He shall rule with a rod of iron; they shall be dashed to pieces like the potter’s vessels’– I also have received from My Father and I will give him the morning star. He who has an ear let him hear what the SPIRIT says to the Churches.’”

 

“To the angel of the Church in Sardis write: ‘These things’, says He Who has the seven Spirits of GOD and the seven Stars. ‘I know your works, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead. Be watchful and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die, for I have not found your works perfect before GOD. Remember therefore how you have received and heard; hold fast and repent. Therefore if you will not watch I will come upon you as a thief and you will not know what hour I will come upon you. You have a few names, even in Sardis, who have not defiled their garments they shall walk with Me in white for they are worthy. He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments and I will not blot out his name from The Book of Life, but I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels. He who has an ear let him hear what The SPIRIT says to the Churches.’”

 

“To the angel of the Church in Philadelphia write: ‘These things’, says He Who is Holy, He Who is True, He Who has the key of David, He Who opens and on one shuts and He Who shuts and no one opens; ‘I know your works. See, I have set before you an open door and no one can shut it; for you have a little strength, have kept My Word and have not denied My Name. Indeed I will make those of the synagogue of satan, who say they are Jews and are not, but lie – indeed I will make them come and worship before your feet and to know that I have Loved you. Because you have kept My Command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which will come upon the whole world to test those who dwell on the earth. Behold I am coming quickly! Hold fast to what you have so that no one may take your crown. He who over comes I will make him a pillar in the Temple of My GOD, and he shall go out no more. I will write on him the Name of My GOD and the name of The City of My GOD, The New Jerusalem, which comes down out of Heaven from My GOD; and I will write on him My New Name. He who has an ear let him hear what The SPIRIT is saying to the Churches.’”

 

“To the angel of the Church in Laodicea write: ‘These things’, says The Amen, The Faithful and True Witness, The Beginning of the creation of GOD; ‘I know your works, that you are neither cold or hot, I wish you were cold or hot. So because you are lukewarm, neither cold or hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth. You say “I am rich, have become wealthy and have need of nothing”–you do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked–I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich and purchase white garments that you may be clothed that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve so that you can see. As many as I Love I rebuke and chasten, therefore be zealous and repent. Look, I stand at the door and knock, if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in and have fellowship with them. To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My Throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His Throne. He who has an ear let him hear what The SPIRIT says to the Churches.’”

 

The One Hundred Forty-four Thousand

 

I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth holding back the four winds of the earth so that they could not blow on the land, on the sea or on any tree. I saw another angel coming up from the east with a seal from The Living GOD, he shouted to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea, “Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we have sealed the servants of our GOD on their foreheads!” I heard the number of them, one hundred forty-four thousand, twelve thousand from every tribe of the people of Israel: 12,000 from Judah; 12,000 from Reuben; 12,000 from Gad; 12,000 from Asher; 12,000 from Naphtali; 12,000 from Manasseh; 12,000 from Simeon; 12,000 from Levi; 12,000 from Issachar; 12,000 from Zebulun; 12,000 from Joseph; 12,000 from Benjamin were sealed.

 

The Throne Room, The LAMB and The Scroll

 

Next I saw a door standing open in Heaven. The first voice I heard was like a trumpet saying, “Come up here and I will show you what happens next.” Immediately I was in The SPIRIT, I saw a Throne set in Heaven and The One Who sat on it. He Who sat on The Throne was like a jasper and a sardius stone in appearance, there was a rainbow around The Throne that looked like an emerald. Around The Throne were twenty four thrones with twenty-four elders seated dressed in white robes and they had crowns of gold on their heads.

 

From The Throne came peels of thunder, lightnings and voices. Seven lamps of fire were burning before The Throne which are the seven Spirits of GOD. In front of The Throne was a sea of glass, like crystal, in the midst of The Throne and around The Throne were four living creatures full of eyes in front and back.

 

The first living creature was like a lion, the second living creature was like a calf, the third living creature had a face like a man and the fourth living creature was like a flying eagle. The four living creatures each having six wings were covered with eyes, inside and out. They did not rest day or night and were always saying,

“Holy, Holy, Holy, LORD GOD Almighty, who was, who is and who is to come!”

 

Whenever the four living creatures give Glory, Honor and Thanks to Him Who sits on The Throne and lives forever and ever; the twenty-four elders fall down before Him and worship Him Who lives forever and ever, casting their crowns before The Throne saying,

“Your are worthy O LORD to receive Glory, Honor and Power;

for You created All things and by Your Will they exist.”

 

Then I saw in the right hand of Him Who sat on The Throne a scroll, it was written on the inside and the outside and sealed with seven seals. Then a strong angel proclaimed with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the scroll and its seals?” No one in Heaven or on the earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or look inside it. I cried and cried because there was no one to open or read the scroll. One of the elders said to me, “Do not cry, see The Lion of the tribe of Judah, The Root of David has won the right to open the scroll and its seven seals. As I looked I saw in the midst of The Throne, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders, stood a LAMB that appeared to have been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes which are the seven Spirits of GOD sent out into all the earth. He came and took the scroll out of the hand of The One sitting on The Throne.

 

When He took the scroll the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down in front of The LAMB, each one had a harp and gold bowls filled with pieces of incense which are the prayers of GOD’s people and they sang a new song:

“You are worthy to take the scroll and break its seals because You were killed;

at the cost of Blood You ransomed for GOD persons from every tribe, language, people and nation. You made them into a Kingdom for GOD to rule,

priests to serve Him and they will rule over the earth.”

 

Then I saw and heard the sound of a vast number of angels – thousands and thousands, millions and millions! They were all around The Throne; the living creatures and the elders and they shouted out:

“Worthy is the LAMB that was slain to receive power,

riches, wisdom, strength, honor, glory and praise!”

 

I heard every creature in heaven, on earth, under the earth and on the sea – yes, everything in them saying:

“To The One sitting on The Throne and to The Lamb

belong praise, glory and power forever and ever!”

 

The four living creatures said, “Amen!” and the elders fell down and worshipped.

 

The First Three and a Half Years!

The Anti-Christ, The False Prophet, The Image:

 

I saw the anti-christ come up out of the sea, he had ten horns and seven heads, on each horn was a royal crown and on its heads were blasphemous names. He was like a leopard but with feet like a bear and a mouth like a lions. To it the dragon gave his power, its throne and great authority. One of the heads of the anti-christ appeared to have received a fatal wound, but its fatal wound was healed, and the whole earth followed after the anti-christ in amazement. They worshipped the dragon because he had given his authority to the anti-christ and they worshipped the anti-christ saying, “Who is like the anti-christ, who can fight it?” It had a mouth for speaking blasphemies and it had authority to act for forty-two months. It spoke blasphemies against GOD, His Tabernacle and those living in Heaven; it was allowed to make war on GOD’s Holy People and to defeat them; it was given authority over every tribe, language, people and nation. Everyone on earth will worship it except those whose name is written in the Book of Life belonging to The LAMB slain before the foundation of the world.

“Those who have ears let them hear!

If anyone is meant for captivity, into captivity he goes!

If anyone is to be killed with the sword, with the sword he is to be killed!

This is when GOD’s Holy People must persevere and trust!”

 

Then a false prophet was raised up from the land, it had two horns like those of a lamb but it spoke like a dragon. It exercises all of the authority of the anti-christ in its presence and it makes the earth and its inhabitants worship the anti-christ, whose fatal wound has been healed. It performs great miracles, even causing fire to come down from heaven to the earth as people watch. It deceives the people living on the earth by the miracles it is allowed to perform in the presence of the anti-christ. It tells the people to make an image honoring the anti-christ that was wounded but came alive again. It was allowed to put breath into the image of the anti-christ so that the image could speak and it was allowed to make anyone who would not worship the image of the anti-christ to be put to death. Also it forces everyone, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave to receive a mark on their right hand or on their forehead. Preventing anyone from buying or selling unless they have the mark, that is the name of the anti-christ or the number of its name. This is where wisdom is needed, those who understand should count the number of the anti-christ, for it is the number of a person and its number is 666.

 

The Last Three and a Half Years!

The Seals: The Four Horsemen of The Apocalypse

 

I watched as The LAMB broke the first of the seven seals and I heard one of the four living creatures say in a thundering voice, “Go!” I looked and there in front of me was a white horse, its rider had a bow and was given a crown; he rode off as a conqueror to conquer.

 

When He broke the second seal I heard the second living creature say, “Go!” A red horse went out and its rider was given a great sword and was given the power to take peace away from the earth and make people kill each other.

 

When He broke the third seal I heard the third living creature say, “Go!” There in front of me was a black horse and its rider held in his hand a pair of scales. Then a voice from among the four living creatures said, “Two pounds of wheat for a day’s wages! Six pounds of barley for the same price! But don’t damage the oil or the wine.”

 

When He broke the fourth seal I heard the fourth living creature say, “Go!” There was a pallid, sickly looking horse whose rider’s name was death and hell followed close behind him. They were given authority to kill one quarter of the world by war, by famine, by plagues and by the wild animals of the earth.

 

The Martyrs

 

When The LAMB broke the fifth seal I saw under the Altar the souls of those who had been slain for proclaiming The Word of GOD; that is for bearing witness. They cried out in a loud voice, “How long, O LORD, Holy and True, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?” Each of them was given a white robe and told to wait a little longer, until the full number of their fellow servants should be reached, of their brothers who would be killed just as they had been.

 

Prelude to the Last Day

 

When The LAMB broke the sixth seal there was a great earthquake, the sun turned black as sackcloth worn in morning, the full moon became blood red, the stars fell from heaven to the earth just like the fig tree drops it’s figs when shaken by a strong wind. The sky receded like a scroll being rolled up and every mountain and island were moved from their place. Then the earth’s kings, rulers, generals, rich and mighty – indeed everyone slave and free – hid himself in caves and among rocks in the mountains; they cried to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of The One sitting on The Throne and from the fury of The LAMB! The Great Day of Their fury has come and who can stand?!”

 

When The LAMB broke the seventh seal there was silence in Heaven for about half an hour. Then the seven angels who stand before GOD were given seven trumpets. Another angel came and stood at the Altar with a gold incense bowl, he was given a large quantity of incense to add to the prayers of all GOD’s people to offer on the golden Altar in front of The Throne. The smoke of the incense went up with the prayers of GOD’s people from the hand of the angel before GOD. Then the angel filled the incense bowl with fire from the Altar and threw it down onto the earth; there were peals of thunder, voices, flashes of lightning and an earthquake. Then the seven angels with the seven trumpets prepared to sound them.

 

Witnesses, Trumpets, Bowls, Woes, Proclamations

 

I was given a measuring rod and told, “Get up and measure the Temple of GOD and the Altar, count how many people are worshipping there! Do not measure the outer court, leave that out, it has been given to the nations and they will trample over the holy city for forty-two months.”

 

“I will give power to My two witnesses; they will prophesy for forty-two months dressed in sackcloth. These two are the two olive trees and the two lampstands standing before The LORD of the earth. If anyone tries to harm them fire comes out of their mouth and consumes them – yes, if anyone tries to harm them that is how they must die. They have the authority to shut up the sky so that no rain falls during the period of their prophesying. They also have the authority to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they want.”

 

The first angel sounded his trumpet and hail and fire mingled with blood was thrown down upon the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up and all the green grass was burned up.

 

The second angel sounded his trumpet and what looked like a giant blazing mountain was hurled into the sea. A third of the sea turned to blood, a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.

 

The third angel sounded his trumpet and a great star, blazing like a torch fell from the sky onto a third of the rivers and onto the springs of water. The name of the star was “Wormwood” and a third of the water became bitter, and many people died because the water became bitter.

 

The forth angel sounded his trumpet and a third of the sun was struck, also a third of the moon and a third of the stars so that a third of them were darkened; the day and the night each had a third less light.

 

Then I saw and heard a lone eagle give a loud cry as it flew in mid-heaven saying, “Woe! Woe! Woe! to the people living on the earth, because of the remaining blasts from the remaining three angels who have yet to sound their trumpets.”

 

The fifth angel sounded his trumpet and I saw a star that had fallen out of heaven onto the earth, he was given the key to the shaft leading down to the Abyss. He opened the shaft and smoke went up from the shaft like the smoke from a great furnace, the sun was darkened and the sky too by the smoke from the shaft. Then out of the smoke onto the earth came locusts, they were given power like the power of scorpions have on the earth. They were instructed not to harm the grass on the earth, any green plant or any tree, only people who did not have the seal of GOD on their foreheads. The locusts were not allowed to kill them, only to inflict pain for five months and the pain they caused was like the pain of a scorpion sting. In those days people will seek death but will not fine it, they will long to die but death will elude them.

 

These locusts look like horses outfitted for battle, on their heads were what looked like crowns of gold and their faces were like human faces. They had hair likes women’s hair and their teeth were like lion’s teeth. Their chests were like iron breastplates and the sound their wings made was like the sound of many horses and chariots rushing to battle. They had tails like those of scorpions, with stingers in their tails with the power to hurt people for five months. They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is “Abaddon” and in our language is “Destroyer”. The first woe is past and there are still two more woes to come.

 

The sixth angel sounded his trumpet and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden Altar before GOD, saying to the sixth angel with the trumpet, “Release the four angels that are bound to the great river Euphrates!” They were released, these four angels had been kept ready for this moment, for this day and month and year to kill a third of humanity; the number of the cavalry soldiers was two hundred million – I heard the number. Here is how the horses looked in the vision: the riders had breastplates that were fire-red, iris-blue and sulfur-yellow; the horses’ heads were like lions’ heads, from their mouths issued fire, smoke and sulfur. It was these three plagues that killed a third of humanity – the fire, smoke and sulfur issuing from their mouths. The power of the horses was in their mouths and also in their tails, for their tails were like snakes with heads and with them they could cause injury.

 

The rest of humanity that were not killed by these plagues even then did not turn from what they made with their own hands, they did not stop worshipping demons and idols made of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood which cannot see or hear or walk. Neither did they turn from their murdering, their involvement with the occult, with drugs, sexual immorality or stealing.

 

Another mighty angel came down from Heaven, he was dressed in a cloud with a rainbow over his head; his face was like the sun, his legs like columns of fire and he had a little scroll lying open in his hand; he planted his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land, he shouted in a voice as loud as a lion; when he shouted, seven thunderclaps sounded with voices that spoke. When the seven thunders spoke I was about to write, but a heard a voice from Heaven say,

“Seal up the things the seven thunders said, do not write them down!”

 

The angel standing on the sea and the land lifted his right hand toward Heaven and swore by The One Who lives forever and ever, Who created heaven and what is in it, earth and what is in it and the sea and what is in it. “There will be no more delay; on the contrary in the days of the sound from the seventh angel when he sounds his trumpet; the hidden plans of GOD will be brought to completion, the Good News as He proclaimed it to His servants the prophets.”

 

Then the voice I heard from Heaven said to me, “Go, take the scroll lying open in the hand of the angel standing on the sea and the land!” So I went to the angel and asked him to give me the little scroll; he said to me, “Take it and eat it; it will turn bitter in your stomach, but in your mouth it will be sweet as honey.” I took the little scroll from the angel’s hand and ate it; it was sweet as honey in my mouth, but after I swallowed it my stomach turned bitter. Then I was told “You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, languages and kings.”

 

The seventh angel sounded his trumpet and there were loud voices in Heaven saying,

“The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom

of our LORD and Messiah and He will rule forever and ever!”

 

The twenty-four elders sitting on their thrones in GOD’s presence fell on their faces and worshipped GOD saying,

“We thank You ADONAI, GOD of Heaven’s armies, The One Who is and was,

that You have taken Your Power and have begun to rule.

The nations raged but now Your rage has come,

the time for the dead to be judged, the time for rewarding Your servants the prophets

and Your holy People, those who stand in awe of Your Name, both small and great.

 It is also time for destroying those who destroy the earth.”

 

Then The Temple of GOD in Heaven was opened and the Ark of The Covenant was seen in His Temple; there were flashes of lightning, voices, peals of thunder, an earthquake and violent hail.

 

I saw another angel flying in mid-heaven with the everlasting Good News to proclaim to those living on the earth – to every nation, tribe, language and people, in a loud voice saying,

“Fear GOD, give Him Glory for the hour has come when He will pass judgment!

Worship the One Who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water!”

 

Another angel, a second one followed saying,

“She has fallen, she has fallen! Babylon the Great!

She made all the nations drink the wine of GOD’s fury caused by her whoring!”

 

Another angel, a third one followed them and said in a loud voice,

“If anyone worships the anti-christ or it’s image and receives the mark on his forehead or on his hand, he will indeed drink the wine of GOD’s fury poured out undiluted into the cup of His rage. He will be tormented by fire and sulfur before the holy angels and before The LAMB, and the smoke from their torment goes up forever and ever. They have no rest day or night, those who worship the anti-christ and his image and those who receive the mark of his name.”

 

This is when perseverance is needed on the part of GOD’s people, those who observe His Commands and exercise JESUS’ faithfulness.

 

I heard a voice from Heaven saying, “Write, ‘How blessed are the dead who die united with The LORD, from now on! Yes’, says The SPIRIT, ‘now they may rest from their efforts, for the things they have accomplished follow along with them.’”

 

When the two witnesses finish their witnessing the anti-christ comes up out of the Abyss and fights against them, he overcomes them and kills them. Their dead bodies will lie in the main street of the great city whose name; to reflect its spiritual condition is, “Sodom” and “Egypt” – the city where their LORD was executed on a cross. Some from the nations, tribes, languages and people see their bodies for three and a half days and do not permit the corpses to be buried. The people living in the land will celebrate and send each other gifts because these two prophets tormented them so much.

 

After the three and a half days the Breath of GOD entered them and they stood up on their feet. Great fear came over all who saw them. Then the two heard a loud voice saying, “Come up here!”  They went up into Heaven in a cloud while their enemies watched. In that hour there was a great earthquake, a tenth of the city collapsed and seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, the rest of the people were awestruck and gave Glory to the GOD of Heaven. The second woe is past watch the third woe is coming.

 

Word For 3/24/2022

 

Word For 3/24/2022

 

“When You’re a DEDICATED Christian, You’re a DISOBEDIENT Saint!”

John 15:4-5 “Remain in ME and I Will REMAIN in You. For a Branch CANNOT PRODUCE Fruit if IT is SEVERED from the Vine, and You CANNOT be Fruitful unless You REMAIN in ME. Yes, I AM the VINE; You are the BRANCHES. Those Who REMAIN in ME, and I in Them will PRODUCE MUCH Fruit. For APART from ME You Can Do NOTHING.”

“GOD SEES, GOD HEARS and GOD Will DELIVER You – Stay FAITHFUL to JESUS in the midst of Your STORM!”

Be Encouraged, Pastor Bob Harris

 

“For CHRIST also has once suffered for sins, the Just for the unjust, that He might bring us to GOD.” 1 Peter 3:18

“The Cross of CHRIST is a triumph. Every human being can get into the Presence of GOD now because of what The Son of Man went through.”

Oswald Chambers

 

“Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.” Matthew 6:34

 

We have so many things to distract us from GOD Who is the only thing we should be concentrating on.

Seek GOD First!

GOD Bless, Bob & Charlene

Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Word For 3/23/2022

 

Word For 3/23/2022

 

“And He was withdrawn from them about a stone’s throw, and He knelt down and prayed saying, ‘Father, if it is Your Will take this cup away from Me; nevertheless, not My Will but Yours be done.’ Then an angel appeared to Him from Heaven, strengthening Him. And being in agony, He prayed more earnestly. Then His sweat became like great drops of Blood falling down to the ground.” Luke 22:41-44

“And about the ninth hour JESUS cried out with a loud voice, saying, ‘Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?’ which is translated. ‘My GOD, My GOD, why have YOU forsaken Me?’” Mark 15:34

“In Gethsemane the veil is drawn aside to reveal all it cost JESUS to make it possible for us to becomes Sons of GOD.”

Oswald Chambers

 

“For the eyes of The LORD are on the righteous, and His ears are open to their prayers; but the face of the LORD is against those who do evil.” 1 Peter 3:12

Seek GOD First!

GOD Bless, Bob & Charlene

Tuesday, March 22, 2022

The Harmonized Revelation of JESUS Part 3

 Chapter 3

Notes and Comments

 

Reading Revelation in chapter order makes it seem like all the chapters are consecutive events. There are those who will point out small differences and what about chapters 10, part of 11 and 12-15. How is it that these events cannot be taking place during the trumpet and bowl events or have already happened? Remember The Bible was not written with the chapter and verse divisions, those were added latter to help readers and students. We do not know if John received this full revelation in one session or over more than one visit, it seems that it was one event. Remember this is seven years of events! I believe the first five seals have been happening since CHRIST ascended to Heaven.

 

While Revelation is a standalone book given by JESUS CHRIST to John toward the end of the first century of The Gospel era (in which we still live); there are many references to the events described in Revelation throughout The Bible. I will add some references of prophesies and scripture from the rest of the Bible for the reader to read and study.

 

Chapters 1 through 4 are completed and closed (actually all the Books of The Bible are completed and closed in GOD’s Eternal Kingdom; it is just the time line of humanity that has not yet been completed in the natural realm). There are many cross references throughout the Scriptures that complement these four chapters but nothing that specifically prophesied of these events. The verbal and visual presentation of GOD and JESUS is found in many places in the Bible:  Genesis 1:1; John 1:1-3, 8:12-18; Exodus 3; Colossians 1:14-20; Isaiah 6:1-4, 9:6-7, 11:1-5, 22:22, 41:4, 44:6-8, 48:12-13, 55:8-9; Ezekiel 1:24-28, 43:1-4; Daniel 7:9-13, 10:5-6; Matthew 16:19, 17:1-2; Romans 6:9-10, 11:33-36; Zechariah 4, 12:10-14; Hebrews 4:12-13; Acts 3:12-16; 1 John 5:20-21; Job 12:13-15, 36:22-26, 41:3; 2 Corinthians 1:20-22; Psalm 29, 145:21.

 

Chapters 2 and 3 the seven letters to the seven Churches in Asia are still relevant to the Church today! Every book of the Bible is GOD’s Word, Letter, Law or Instruction to humanity and relevant for today. Psalm 1, 2:8-9, 23:6; 1 John 4:1, 5:20; 2 Corinthians 1:20, 5:3, 11:13; Galatians 6:6-10; Matthew 7:21-23, 10:16-26, 11:15, 16:19, 19:28-30, 24:3-14,42-43; Genesis 2:8-17, 3:22-24; Luke 12:8-12,35-48;  James 1:12; Numbers 31:16; 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12; Exodus 32:31-33; 2 Timothy 3:1-9; John  14:22-24; 2 Peter 1:16-21, 2:9-11; Jude :20-25; Isaiah 9:6-7,  24; Job 5:17-27; Hebrews 12:1-11,18-29; Colossians 1:9-18; Hosea 12:8.

 

Chapter 4 John’s being visited by angels and caught up into Heaven for the presentation of The Revelation of JESUS CHRIST is not the first time someone has been caught up into Heaven. Daniel 10, Ezekiel 1:1,5-10,28, 2:1-5, 10:14, 43:5; 2 Corinthians 12:1-4; Isaiah 6:1-3; Exodus 37:23; Genesis 1:1; Colossians 1:16; Romans 11:36; Proverbs 16:4; Amos 3:13, 4:13.

 

Chapter 5 The scroll written on the inside and on the back with seven seals; that only The LION of the tribe of Judah, The Root of David, The LAMB of GOD that was slain but is Alive having seven horns and seven eyes which are The Seven Spirits of GOD sent out into all the earth; is worthy and able to open and loose the seven seals! John 1:29, 35-36; Zechariah 3:7-9, 4:1-10, 5:1-4; Genesis 49:8-12; Hebrews 7:14, 9:11-17; Isaiah 11:1-5,10, 29:11, 40:12-14, 61:5-6; Exodus 19:5-6;  Philippians 2:6-11; 1 Chronicles 29:9-13; Ezekiel 2:9-10; 2 Chronicles 29:11; Psalm 29:9, 145:21.

 

Chapters 6 through 19 are not consecutive; there is much overlapping because of simultaneous events. Over the last seven years before the thousand year reign of CHRIST from Jerusalem there will be twenty one events of judgment on the whole earth and all alive will experience them. We know that the attacking locus will last for five months (Revelation 9:1-12), the others do not have a duration reference. If there are twelve judgments over three and half years that is one every three and a half months, depending on duration most of them will overlap. There are differing teachings on this but none of us actually knows. See addendum 1.

 

Chapter 6, it seems that it is from this point that people get the most confused about the timeline of events leading to our eternal Heavenly union with CHRIST. Many of the events of the following chapters are simultaneous; John writes them in the order they were revealed to him, using “then I saw”, “then I heard”, “after that”, “then these things”; but that does not mean that they happen in the order that they were revealed to him. Study them for yourself! The first four seals are the four horsemen of the apocalypse; these events along with the fifth seal seem to be have been happening throughout history. So are they ancient events like chapter 12 or are they specific to the Great Tribulation like chapter 13? I believe they could not have happened until CHRIST ascended, since it is only The LAMB Who was slain that could open the seals, but CHRIST was crucified since the foundation of the earth was laid (Revelation 13:8). Seals six and seven seem to go with chapters 7 and 14:1-5 which are seventh trumpet-last day events.

 

The four horsemen of the apocalypse: the first seal is a white horse with a crowned conqueror armed with a bow gone out to conquer; the second seal is a red horse whose rider with a great sword takes away peace and causes people to kill one another, the third seal is a black horse whose rider has a pair of scales causing widespread famines and shortages, the fourth seal is a pale horse ridden by Death and accompanied by Hell with the power to kill twenty five percent of humanity by war, famine, plagues and the beasts of the earth. Genesis 6:1-7; Zechariah 1:8, 6:1-3; Psalm 45:4-5; Ezekiel 5:7-17, 14:21-23, 29:1-7; Leviticus 26:21-22.

 

The fifth seal reveals those who “had been slain for The Word of GOD and the testimony which they held.” these are also referenced to in Chapter 12:10-12 “And they overcome him (the devil) by The Blood of The LAMB and the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.” Is that from the beginning of time or CHRIST’s ascension? 2 Timothy 1:8-9; Hebrews 11:39-40; Zechariah 1:12; Mark 13:13.

 

The sixth seal – the earth is shaken, the sun is darkened, the stars fall, the sky recedes, the mountains and islands are moved, men great and small call on the mountains to fall on them because of GOD’s wrath, “For the Great Day of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand?” The sixth seal and the seventh trumpet both seem to be the opening of the Great Last Day. Matthew 24:7; Joel 2, 3:14-17; Isaiah 2:10-11, 19-21, 24:19-23, 34:1-4; Luke 23:27-31; Zephaniah 1:14-18; Hosea 10:8.

 

Chapters 7:1-8 and 14:1-5 presents the one hundred and forty four thousand virgin male Jews who are sealed with the Name of GOD on their forehead; twelve thousand from each of the following twelve tribes of Israel; Judah, Reuben, Gad, Asher, Naphtali, Manasseh, Simeon, Levi, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph and Benjamin (Notice the tribes are not listed in birth order and that Dan and Ephraim (Joseph’s younger son are replaced by Joseph and Levi [Levi did not receive a parcel of land like the other tribes, they received cities within each tribes territory] see addendum 2). They sing a new song; before the Throne, the four living creatures and the elders accompanied by an ensemble of harpists (could these be the Believers who overcome the devil during the Great Tribulation as mentioned in Chapter 15); that only they could learn. They are redeemed from among men and follow The LAMB wherever He goes as first fruits to GOD and The LAMB. Out of their mouth is found no deceit because they are without fault before the Throne of GOD. Some could be from the four hundred years of slavery in Egypt, some from the seventy years of exile in Babylon, some could be from the great dispersion after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD, some could be from the holocaust of the 1930s and 40s, some or all could be from the Great Tribulation. There is no other mention of them, we do not know what time in history they are from, if they all are sealed at the same time or at different times in history; but it seems reasonable that since they are only mentioned in the book of Revelation and they go everywhere CHRIST goes that they are from the time of the Great Tribulation. Daniel 7; Genesis 49:1-27; Hosea 12-14; James 1:17-18; Psalm 32, 119:1-8; Ephesians 5:25-27; 2 Corinthians 1:21.

 

Chapter 7:9-17 presents the multitudes of martyrs from the Great Tribulation, also mentioned in Revelation 15:2 and 20:4-6. “After this I looked and before me was a huge crowd, too large for anyone to count, from every nation, tribe, people and language. They were standing in front of the Throne and in front of The LAMB, dressed in white robes and holding palm branches in their hands;…One of the elders asked me, ‘These people dressed in white robes – who are they and where are they from?’ ‘Sir,’ I answered, ‘you know.’ Then he told me, ‘These are the people who have come out of the Great Persecution. They have washed their robes and made them white with the Blood of The LAMB. That is why they are before GOD’s Throne. Day and night they serve Him in His Temple and The One who sits on the Throne will put His Sh’khinah upon them.’…Then I saw thrones and those seated on them received authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for testifying about YESHUA and proclaiming The Word of GOD, also those who had not worshipped the beast or its image and had not received the mark on their foreheads and on their hands. They came to life and ruled with the Messiah for a thousand years. (The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were over.) This is the first resurrection.” Revelation 7:9, 13-15; 20:4-5 CJB. For those who believe in the rapture of all Believers before the Great Tribulation, where does this great multitude that come out of the Great Tribulation and cannot be numbered come from? If there are only some nominal Christians left after the rapture then in three and a half to seven years they are better evangelists than all the Christians who lived for the two thousand plus years before the rapture. Hebrews 9:11-28, 10; Psalm 23:1-2; ; Isaiah 25:8, 49:10; Jeremiah 2:13; Ezekiel 34:23.

 

Chapter 8:1-6 The Seventh Seal is the prelude to the Seven Trumpets. Verses 7-13 Trumpets 1 through 4 and the announcement of three Woes! 2 Chronicles 29:25-28; Psalm 141:1-2; 2 Samuel 22:5-16; Ezekiel 14:12-23, 38, 39; Isaiah 13, 14.

 

Chapter 9 Trumpets 5 and 6: fifth trumpet is the opening of the bottomless pit and the release of attacking locusts to attack those who do not have the seal of GOD on their forehead. Is this seal The HOLY SPIRIT who seals all believers to GOD or is this the seal just of the one hundred forty four thousand Israelites of chapter 7? The sixth trumpet is four angels bound to the Euphrates River who are released to kill one third of humanity, they have an army of two hundred million horsemen. 2 Timothy 3:1-5; Luke 8:30-31; Joel 11-126, 2:1-11; Nahum 3:12-17; Daniel 5:23, 7; Ephesians 2:1-13; Ezekiel 38:1-17; Isaiah 5:24-30; 2 Corinthians 1:21; Psalm 115:4-7, 135:15-17.

 

Chapter 10 – John eats the little book from the angel, this is after the seven seals, when he receives the rest of The Revelation. Jeremiah 15:16; Ezekiel 2:10-14, 3:1-8; Psalm 29:3-9; Daniel 8:15-27, 12; Deuteronomy 32:40; Nehemiah 9:6.

 

Chapter 11:1-14 – Is about the Two Witnesses who are in Jerusalem for the last three and one half years of the Great Tribulation, they are the second woe and their resurrection and ascension ushers in the seventh trumpet; 11:15-19 is the sounding of the seventh trumpet. Ezekiel 37:1-14, 40:3-42:20; Numbers 16:24-35; Psalm 2, 79:1-7; Zechariah 4; 2 Kings 1:9-15; 1 Kings 17:1; Hebrews 13:12-13; Isaiah 27:13; Exodus 15:18; Amos 3:13, 4:13.

 

Chapter 12 – Is the history of Israel and CHRIST and lucifer, this plays out from before creation, throughout history and until the final White Throne judgment. Psalm 2:8-9; Isaiah 14:12-17, 66:5-11; Daniel  7:23-27, 12:7; John 12:27-33; Genesis 3:1-5; Job 1:6-9; Zechariah 3:1-2; Romans 16:17-20; Luke 14:26-27; Ephesians 6:10-18; 2 Corinthians 10:3-6; 1 Peter 5:6-11; 1 John 5:4-5.

 

Chapter 13 – Is about the beast (anti-christ), the false prophet, the image of the beast and the name or mark of the beast. The beast (anti-christ) rises from the sea and the false prophet from the land. Is the sea like 17:15 – representative of the nations and the land representative of just one nation? Is 666 (the mark of the beast), man was created on the sixth day of creation, man was redeemed on the sixth day of the week, mans’ reign on the earth is for six Biblical days (six thousand years)? By the current Jewish calendar we are in the Biblical year of 5782 (2022 in the Gregorian calendar) the year according to the Essenes calendar is 5945 (see addendum 3) which means there are between fifty five and two hundred and eighteen years before we get to the Sabbath Day or Millennial Reign (1000 years) of CHRIST that will be followed by Eternity. Daniel 2:1-45, 7-8; Ezekiel 1; Jeremiah 15:2, 43:11.

 

Chapter 14:1-5 – Is the revelation of The Lamb standing on Mount Zion and of the one hundred and forty four thousand Hebrew males having the name of The Father on their foreheads. 14:6-13 is three proclamations – fear GOD and give Him Glory; Babylon the Great is fallen; those who worship the anti-christ and take his mark will burn forever in the lake of fire. For those who believe and teach that this second death is final in the sense that it has a duration or time limit, they are wrong, throughout the Gospels and Revelation it is proclaimed as lasting forever and ever or for eternity; and those cast into it are alive and tormented forever and ever. 14:14-20 – The Harvest: Many teach that the Church will be Raptured from the earth just before or half way through the Great Tribulation; but this passage has the harvest of the Saints and the wicked happening consecutively as in chapter 20:11-15. Remember those raised from the dead at CHRIST’s return in chapter 20:4-6 were “those who had been beheaded for their witness to JESUS and for The Word of GOD, who had not worshipped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with CHRIST for a thousand years. But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.” (See Revelation 19:17-21). Psalm 32, 75, 119:1-8; 2 Corinthians 11:1-4; James 1:2-8,17-18; Ephesians 3:8-12, 5:25-27; Nehemiah 9:5-6; Isaiah 21:9, 34, 63:1-6; 2 Thessalonians 1, 2:1-12, 3:5; Ecclesiastes 4:1-8; 1 Corinthians 3:11-23, 15; Hebrews 4, 13:20-22; Joel 3; Matthew 10:28, 13:14-31,36-43,47-50, 24:29-31; Mark 13; John 17:20-26; Ephesians 1:3-14; Acts 15:16-18; Titus 1:1-3; 1 Peter 1:13-21, 2:17-25; Colossians 2:8-9; Daniel 7:13.

 

Chapters 15-16 – Are the seven bowl judgments that final judgment of GOD on the earth that happen during the Last Day of the Great Tribulation. In Matthew 24:22, JESUS talking about the Great Tribulation says that its length of time is predetermined so that everyone will not be destroyed for the sake of the Chosen. Matthew 3:11-12, 24; Exodus 7:14-11:10, 15:1-21, 19:17-20; Psalm 145:17-21; Isaiah 66:14-24; 1 Thessalonians 1:8-10; 2 Thessalonians 1:3-12, 2:1-12; Daniel 5, 12:1-4; 1 John 4:1-3; 2 Corinthians 1:21, 5:1-11; Amos 3:13, 4:13.

 

Chapters 17:1-19:4 – Is about the fall of Babylon, the great whore. “Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came to me and said, ‘Come, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters and the rulers of the earth committed fornication with her and the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication.’…On her forehead was a name, ‘Mystery Babylon The Great. The Mother Of Harlots And Of The Abominations Of The Earth.’ I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the Saints and with the blood of the martyrs of JESUS. When I saw her I was greatly amazed. The angel said to me, ‘Why are you amazed? I will show you the mystery of the woman and the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns. The beast that you saw was, is not and will ascend out to the bottomless pit and go to perdition. Those on the earth whose names are not written in The Book of Life since the foundation of the earth will marvel when they see the beast who was, is not and is yet to be. Here is wisdom; the seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits. There are also seven kings, five have fallen, one is and the other is yet to come; when he comes he will last only a short time. The beast that was and is not is himself the eighth king and is one of the seven and he is going to perdition. The ten horns are ten rulers who have not received a kingdom yet but will receive authority for one hour as rulers with the beast. These are of one mind and they will give their authority and power to the beast. They will make war with The LAMB and He will defeat them, for He is LORD of lords and KING of kings; those who are with Him are called Chosen and Faithful. Then he said to me, ‘The waters where the harlot sits is peoples, multitudes, nations and tongues. The ten horns on the beast will hate the harlot make her desolate and naked, and eat her flesh and burn her with fire. For GOD has put it in their hearts to fulfill His Purpose, to be of one mind and to give their kingdom to the beast until the Words of GOD are fulfilled. The woman you saw is that great city which reigns over the rulers of the earth.’”

 

This section is confusing, the beast the Great Harlot rides on is the anti-christ (the beast that rises out of the sea) and she is the city that sets on 7 mountains. Over the years many have tried to figure out who is the anti-christ and how does he have 7 heads; what city or system is the Great Harlot and how do the kings eat her flesh. We will not know until it happens because it is as much spiritual as physical, do not let this type of language confuse you or discourage you in your study. We can only understand what GOD gives us His Wisdom Knowledge and Understanding to know.  Nahum 3:1-7; Jeremiah 50-51; Daniel 7, 11; 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12; 1 Timothy 6:11-16; Isaiah 13:17-22, 14:22-23, 21, 23, 34, 47, 48:20-22; Ezekiel 26, 43; Psalm 2:8-9, 10, 22:25-31, 134, 137:8-9; Luke 14:15-24; Deuteronomy 32:43; Matthew 22:1-14, 23-33; Hebrews 1:1-14; Mark 9:42-49.

 

Chapter 19:11-21 – Is the battle of Armageddon. (See Revelation 16:12-21) This is not the final battle of a human army led by the devil attacking Jerusalem that is Revelation 20:7-10. Matthew 24:4-44, 28:3; Joel 2, 3; Isaiah 2:10-21, 11:4, 34:1-4, 63:2-6; Psalm 2:1-9, 21:8-13, 67:4; Zephaniah 1:14-18; John 1:1-18; 1 Timothy 6:15; Daniel 2:46-47, 7, 8; Ezekiel 39:17-20; Amos 3:13, 4:13.

 

Chapter 20:1-10 – Is about Christ’s thousand year reign over the earth from Jerusalem with a rod of iron. Why a rod of iron, because not all who reject Christ are in the army of the anti-christ and destroyed at Armageddon. While CHRIST Reigns from Jerusalem for a thousand years not everyone will be happy about that. When CHRIST destroys the anti-christ and all who serve him many people will repent and live their life for GOD, but not all. Some will not want to stop stealing rather that working, some will not stop lying rather than being honest, some will not give up their lusts rather than living morally, some will not stop cheating rather than living life with integrity. Satan is imprisoned in a bottomless pit during the thousand years; with his release he raises an enormous army to attack CHRIST. We do not know how long this period of time is but there will be a lot of people on the earth who still live by their own desires and will. This massive army surrounds the “camp of the Saints and the beloved city. And fire came down from GOD out of Heaven and devoured them.” This is the fire that destroys the heavens and the earth. 2 Peter 2:4-11; Psalm 2, 46, 47, 72:5-19, 93, 96, 97, 99, 110, 146:10; Proverbs 23:17-18; Daniel 7:9-14; 1 Corinthians 6:1-3, 15:20-28; John 14:19-31; Romans 8:12-39, 15:7-12; Ezekiel 38, 39:1-20; Isaiah 4:4-6, 9:6-7, 11:1-10, 24, 40:6-11, 52:7-10; Zechariah 6:12-13; Micah 4:1-8, 7:14; Luke 1:30-33; Exodus 15:18; Jeremiah 23:5-8, 33:19-26; 2 Timothy 2:7-13; 1 Chronicles 16:31-33, 29:10-12.

 

Chapter 20:1-6 There are some who discount the thousand year reign of Christ because it is not found anywhere else in The Bible. But it is! Why would He rule from Heaven with a rod of iron over all the resurrected Saints and The Heavenly Hosts? He won’t! He will rule over the earth from the city of Jerusalem and all the nations will pay Him homage, but according to verses 7-11 not all will want His rule, hence the rod of iron and the final battle. (See Revelation 2:27) Psalm 2:8-9, 45:6-7, 110:1-3; Zechariah 14:16; Matthew 25:31-46. Study Psalms 110 through 113.

 

Chapter 20:11-15 says that all the dead will be raised to judgment and be judged from the books, those whose name is not found in The Lamb’s Book of Life will be cast into the lake of fire where satan, the anti-christ and the false prophet already are. (See Revelation 2:20-2) Psalm 9:6-8,17-20, 62:11-12, 67:3-4, 69:19-28, 75, 139:1-12; 1 Corinthians 15:20-28; Proverbs 15:3; Job 34:21-23; Hebrews 10:11-13; Acts 17:29-31; 2 Peter 3; Daniel 2:36-45, 7:9-10; Matthew 13:36-43, 16:24-27, 25:31-46; Jude :5-7, 14-15; Isaiah 26:7-9,19, 35:3-4, 60; 66:14-21; Zechariah 14; Exodus 32:32-33; 2 Thessalonians; John 5:24-30.

 

Notice that the first resurrection according to Revelation 20:1-6 is at the beginning of CHRIST’s one thousand year reign on the earth from Jerusalem and only includes those martyred during the Great Tribulation. This contradicts the general teaching that 1 Corinthians 15:50-56 and 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 are about the rapture of the Church at the beginning of the Great Tribulation. There is a difference between The Last Day and The Final (Seventh) Trumpet! 1 Corinthians 15:50-56 is about the last (seventh) trumpet when CHRIST returns to establish His thousand year reign over the nations of the earth. 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 fits better with the Final Judgment of Revelation 20:11-15. There will be births and deaths during the thousand year reign. The Last Day is the final battle between the devil’s human forces and the Saint’s encampment and Jerusalem. This is when the earth, seas and heavens are destroyed by fire and the new Earth, Heaven and Jerusalem are created. Also there is no day and night in the New Heaven and New Earth, there is no sun and moon, GOD’s Sh’khinah and CHRIST is their Light (Revelation 21).

 

JESUS in John 5 in dealing with the religious leaders about His authority over the Sabbath, healing and judgment tells them in verses 24-30, “Yes indeed, I tell you that there is coming a time – in fact, it’s already here – when the dead will hear the voice of The Son of GOD, and those who listen will come to life. For just as The Father has Life in Himself, so He has given The Son to have Life in Himself. Also He has given Him authority to execute judgment, because He is The Son of Man. Don’t be surprised at this; because the time is coming when all in the grave will hear His voice and come out – those who have done good to a resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to a resurrection of judgment. I can’t do a thing on My own. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is right; because I don’t seek My own desire, but the desire of The One who sent Me.” CJB In John 11:21-28 about the death and resurrection of Lazarus, Martha makes the statement to JESUS, “I know that he will rise again at the Resurrection on the Last Day.” John 11:24 CJB How did Martha know this? She knew because that was a teaching of the Pharisees according to the Law and The Prophets. JESUS did not correct her theology because it was correct; He informed her that He was the Resurrection and the Life of all who believe in Him. In John 12:44-50 JESUS said about The Last Day, “If anyone hears what I Am saying and does not observe it, I don’t judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world. Those who reject Me and don’t accept what I say have a judge – The Word I have spoken will judge them on The Last Day.” 12:47-48 CJB Again JESUS is telling us that on The Last Day all will be raised and judged as described in Revelation 20 this is the second resurrection. In Revelation 3:10 in the letter to the Church at Philadelphia JESUS tells them, “Because you have kept My Command to persevere I will keep you from the hour of trial which will come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.” This time period of “the hour” could imply the full seven years of tribulation, the last three and a half years or just the day of the seventh trumpet. The Church will be raptured at the sound of the Seventh Trumpet, the shortest time period, we will not be burned up in the final judgment (The Last Day) but we will go through the full tribulation period.

 

I first became a Christian on December 8th, 1974; I started Bible College in August of 1975, what I learned during that time was the Seventh Trumpet would sound and CHRIST would return for the Christians (the rapture) the sky would be bright around the world and everyone would see CHRIST and the Saints being raptured. Then there would be seven years of tribulation on the world and CHRIST would come back and establish His thousand year reign after the seven years of tribulation (I don’t hear that being taught anymore, they teach that the Church will be raptured but not that CHRIST will return to rapture the Church). This would mean that CHRIST comes to the earth three times His Birth, The Rapture and the Battle of Armageddon, but the Bible says that JESUS only comes to the earth two times, His Birth and at the Sound of the Seventh Trumpet when the battle of Armageddon takes place and He establishes His thousand year reign over the nations. That means that the Church will not be raptured before the Great Tribulation

 

The Last Day and the seventh trumpet are not the same event! The seventh trumpet is the return of CHRIST to defeat the anti-christ and set up His thousand year reign in Jerusalem while the devil is chained for the thousand years. This is the first resurrection, the resurrection of those who died during the Great Tribulation (Revelation 20:4-6). The Last Day is the day that He defeats the devil casting him into the Lake of Fire and the earth, seas and heaven are burned up. This is the day of the second resurrection and final judgment – the second death. Isaiah 2:2,12,20; Micah 4:1-8; Matthew 7:21-23, 24:29-31, 25:31-46; John 6:37-65, 11:17-27; 2 Timothy 4:1; James 5:1-12; 2 Peter 3:1-13

 

Chapter 20:11-15 Some believe that this does not include those who lived and died or were alive in CHRIST and were raptured. Many believe that those not raptured who knew about CHRIST will repent and live for Him during the Great Tribulation and will lead others to a saving faith in CHIRST. I do not believe that there is a rapture of the living before or during the Great Tribulation. This, all the dead refers to all who ever lived and died from creation to the final battle and destruction of the earth. The fact is that they are judged out of the books and that if their name in not found in The Book of Life they are cast into the Lake of Fire with the devil. There is no need to mention The Book of Life if there are no Believers in this resurrection and judgment. 20:10,14 “The adversary who had deceived them was hurled into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet were; and they were tormented day and night forever and ever. Then Death and Sh’ol were hurled into the lake of fire. This is the second death – the lake of fire.” Rejecting JESUS CHRIST results in eternal (forever and ever) torment in the lake of fire!

 

 Paul wrote that at The Last Trumpet the dead in CHRIST will rise first and those alive who serve Him will be caught up and changed into their eternal body and join with CHRIST’s great host in The Heavens. As mentioned before there are many events happening on the day of the seventh trumpet. In Revelation 14:14-20 there is the reaping of earth’s harvest (the rapture) where CHRIST reaps the harvest the earth and an angel harvests the grapes of the earth and throws them into the winepress of His wrath. This is not the rapture because it is the harvest of the Saints and the non-saints. This does not match with Revelation 19:17-20:6 where at the seventh Trumpet there is the battle of Armageddon, the resurrection of those slain during the Great Tribulation and the beginning of CHRIST’s thousand year reign from Jerusalem. So is this event, The Last Trumpet in 1 Corinthians? It sounds more like the last great battle against satan and his human army at the end of CHRIST’s thousand year reign in Jerusalem; where there is the destruction of the heavens and earth by fire? Before He destroys the heavens and the earth which includes the seas He will resurrect all who have died and were not part of the first resurrection in Revelation 20:4-6! Remember, Paul’s letters to the Corinthians and Thessalonians were written several years before John received JESUS’ revelation. 1 Corinthians 3:8-15, 15:1-28; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; Matthew 25:31-46; Luke 19:1-27; Luke 21-This passage was fulfilled in 70 and 90 AD, in 1948, 1967, 1976 and it will be fulfilled at the end of the Great Tribulation (the battle of Armageddon) and at the end of CHRIST’s thousand year reign in Jerusalem.

 

Chapter 21:1-22:5 is about the New Heaven (there is no sun or moon), the New Earth (there are no seas), the New Jerusalem, the River of Life and the Tree of Life, The Father and The Son are the Light. Matthew 5:5,8,10, 13:43, 18:6-11, 24:12-13; Psalm 36:7-9, 37:9-11; 46; Daniel 7:13-14,18,26-27; 2 Peter 3:13; Isaiah 7:14, 8:8-10, 25:8-9, 35:8-10, 43:19, 51:10-11, 54:11-14, 62:11-12, 65:17-19, 66:22-24; 2 Corinthians 11:2; Leviticus 26:9-13; 1 Corinthians 6:8-11, 15:29-58; Zechariah 8:1-8; Ezekiel 37:27, 47:1-12; Ephesians 2:19-22; Genesis 2:8-10; Jeremiah 31:34; 2 Chronicles 6:18 .

 

Chapter 22:6-21 is a reminder to obey GOD, watch and be ready for CHRIST’s return by obeying GOD’s Word “For I testify to everyone who hears the Words of the Prophesy of This Book [Revelation]: If anyone adds to these things GOD will add to him the plagues that are written in This Book. If anyone takes away from the Words of This Book of Prophesy, GOD will take his name from the Book of Life, from The Holy City and from the things that are written in This Book.” JESUS says, “Truly, I Am coming quickly.” Verses 14-16 JESUS says, “How blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they have the right to eat from the Tree of Life and go through the Gates into The City! Outside are the homosexuals, those involved with the occult and with drugs, the sexually immoral, murderers, idol worshippers and everyone who loves and practices falsehood. I, YESHUA, have sent My angel to give you this testimony for the Messianic Communities.” Is this a reminder that during His thousand year reign only those who have given their life for The Gospel and those who have survived the Great Tribulation without the mark of the anti-christ will have access to Jerusalem and the Tree of Life. Or! Does it mean that in the new earth there will still be unbelievers? I do not see any reference to the Tree of Life being in Jerusalem during CHRIST’s thousand year reign, but that does not mean it won’t be there, but there will not be any unbelievers in the new earth. Hebrews 10:35-39; Daniel 12:12-13; Psalm 50:16-23; Proverbs 11:30, 13:13-14, 30:5-6; Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 12:32; Numbers 24:15-25; Daniel 12:4.

 

So a person’s name can be removed from The Book of Life, if a person’s name is removed from The Book of Life then they will be cast into the lake of fire and not enter into GOD’s Eternal Kingdom!