This Coming Food Crisis

This Coming Food Crisis

How many signs and wonders would it take for you to believe?   Or if you stood on the Word of God alone, how many verses until you were convinced?  Matt 24:45 talks about a wise servant who provides food rations in due season up until his master’s coming.  In order to show that is it necessary right now to provide for this time of scarcity this book will do three things: show that the church will not be raptured until the ministry of the two witnesses is complete, that during the time of their ministry there will be a worldwide famine, and that the Revelation clock has begun ticking: we are about to enter that phase.

Part 1

When will the church be raptured?

Chapter 1: Discerning between fact and fiction

Chapter 2: “Who do men say that I am? What think ye of Christ?”

Chapter 3: An overview of when these things will be

Chapter 4: When is the rapture?

Part 2

What will the time of the two witnesses be like?

Chapter 5: Understanding Matthew 24:45

Part 3

What season are we in now?

Chapter 6: The Sign of his Birth

Chapter 7: What should be done?

Matthew 24:45

Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?

⁴⁶ Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.

Part 1

When will the church be raptured?

Chapter 1: Discerning between fact and fiction

There are preachers who preach what they hope will come to pass and not what God has actually told them will come to pass.

“Peace when there is no peace”

Ezekiel 13:3

Thus says the Lord God: “Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing! ⁴ O Israel, your prophets are like foxes in the deserts. ⁵ You have not gone up into the gaps to build a wall for the house of Israel to stand in battle on the day of the Lord. ⁶ They have envisioned futility and false divination, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord!’ But the Lord has not sent them; yet they hope that the word may be confirmed. ⁷ Have you not seen a futile vision, and have you not spoken false divination? You say, ‘The Lord says,’ but I have not spoken.”

What is this lie that preachers love to broadcast?

Jeremiah 5:12

They have belied the Lord, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:

¹³ And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.

¹⁴ Wherefore thus saith the Lord God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

¹⁵ Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the Lord: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.

¹⁶ Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.

Christ – the one who rides out getting the victory and to get the victory, the who has received the victors crown who alone is pure and roars as a lion to reclaim his bride – him they have made out to be the antichrist. 

The antichrist – which enters slain: defeated – him they have saluted as the one who enters victoriously and is worshiped and feared when he is the pale one who can only follow and mimic and has no real power.  

But you?  Who will you see?

Isaiah 33:17

 Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.

¹⁸ Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?

¹⁹ Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.

²⁰ Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.

Where is the scribe?  He has also dealt falsehood.

Jeremiah 8:7

Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.

[why don’t the people know?]

⁸ How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.

⁹ The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord; and what wisdom is in them?

Jesus says to know the time of his coming and the appointed seasons is as easy as looking at the leaves on a tree or the clouds in the sky.

Matthew 24:42

Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:

³³ So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.

Matthew 16:2

He answered and said to them, “When it is evening you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red’; ³ and in the morning, ‘It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ Hypocrites! You know how to discern the face of the sky, but you cannot discern the signs of the times. ⁴ A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign shall be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.” And He left them and departed.

Do you need signs and wonders In order to believe or can you go humbly to the throne of grace and ask him what is truth and lie? 

The only way you can receive the things of God is through faith by the Holy Spirit.  This message of us going through tribulation, picking up our cross and carrying it is offensive and a cause of stumbling to the flesh.  You must come in faith willing to receive the will of God laying aside your own desires.

The message of the gospel is this:

Titus 2:11

For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,

¹² Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

¹³ Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;

¹⁴ Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

¹⁵ These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.

No, the message of the gospel is not that God wants to make your fleshly desires feel good because the flesh is enmity with God and the only way to please him is to come in faith.  And no, the message of the gospel is not all the other things that people have added to the Word of God.

Hebrews 11:6

But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

It is an abomination to lift up anyone (idolatry.)  There is no other name; there is not one else that can save.  You cannot save yourself and then come to Jesus for Jesus alone has the power to save from sin.  That’s why he asks  you to come as you are.

Luke 16:15

And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.

When people lifted up the scribes and Pharisees to save them and to trust in them and did not seek God out for themselves they were committing the sin of Babylon: idolatry. 

So let go the notions of men and fear of what you may have to go through for God’s grace is sufficient; he is all you need.

Chapter 2: “Who do men say that I am? What think ye of Christ?”

I Corinthians 15:51

Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

⁵² In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

⁵³ For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

⁵⁴ So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

⁵⁵ O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?

When does the rapture take place?  The day heaven and earth pass away!

Matthew 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

¹⁸ For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

(Jesus fulfilled all prophecy with his first coming, but he will fulfill it all again in even more detail with his second!)

II Peter 3:5

For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:

⁶ Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:

⁷ But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

⁸ But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

⁹ The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

¹⁰ But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

¹¹ Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,

¹² Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?

¹³ Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

(So the earth has passed away before in water yet still here it is; the second time it will be destroyed by fire then made new for the 1,000 year reign.)

Revelation 10:7

But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.

This ties it all together.  You see this is at the sounding of the last trumpet right before he sounds.  I can list for you what is the mystery of God.  Once again when heaven and earth pass away all will be fulfilled/ the mystery of God will be finished. Matt 5:18

One Mystery: One Revelation: One Word: Jesus

Revelation 10:7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.

First realize that all scripture is a revelation of Jesus Christ.  The Old Testament is Jesus Christ concealed and the New Testament is Jesus Christ revealed.

Colossians 2:3

In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

The entire epistles are the gospel message; the gospel is not a one-time conversion, but a lifelong process of perfection.  The final enemy that must be defeated is death.  In order for us to be immune to death we must walk in the Spirit and be one spiritual body not a carnal one that is subjective to this world and its desires.  The rapture is an event where we would have died, but we instead gain the victory over this final enemy. (I Cor 15:54)

(Rom 1:1 Paul is separated to the gospel; 2:16 we will be judged by his gospel; II Cor 4:3 his writing are called our gospel.)

The entire scripture is a hiden mystery of Jesus Christ: his will, his body, his gospel etc.  The scriptures are a double edged sword bringing blindness and confusion to those who do not enter by faith and light with deliverance to those who submit to his Spirit.  The book of Revelation is the final culmination of the completed Revelation.  In Revelation 1:1 Jesus says he has received this from his Father and then delivers it to John to give to the church.

Luke 8:10 And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.

A mystery is not something that cannot be understood, but rather a message that is hid to be understood; God wants us to understand, but not the enemy.

Romans 11:25  For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

²⁶ And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:

Here is a twofold mystery: the fullness of the Gentiles will be in and then Israel will no longer be blinded: they will be able to be grafted back in.  This is fulfilled in Revelation 10:7.

Paul concludes the book of Romans with this statement:

Romans 16:25 Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,

²⁶ But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith:

²⁷ To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ forever. Amen.

This reminds me of I John 1:1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;

² (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;)

I John clearly tells us that what is made manifest is Jesus Christ.  Jesus Christ is what is manifested to us in the scriptures.  Look back at Romans 16:25: the revelation of the mystery.  The word revelation there is the same one for the book of Revelation.  The mystery and the revelation is Jesus Christ!

I Corinthians 2:1 And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.

² For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

The word translated testimony in verse one is originally the same word for mystery.  He expounds on this saying the only thing he was interested in knowing with others was Jesus Christ and him crucified.  So this mystery also revolves around the gospel message and this is the power of God to save us in our daily walks from the wiles of the enemy.  So you see, Paul was concerned that they died daily to the flesh, walking instead in Jesus Christ.  (Dying to the flesh daily is not a part of the good news that is broadcasted much, but is essential to be able to rise above.  Will you follow Jesus to the cross to crucify your own members?  Remember to live positively mortified every day.)

He goes on to say…

And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

⁴ And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:

⁵ That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

⁶ Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:

⁷ But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

⁸ Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

⁹ But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

¹⁰ But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

So the hidden wisdom is linked up with the Holy Spirit.  If the princes of this world had the Holy Spirit they would not have crucified the Lord.  It is through the Spirit that we know all things.  The Spirit-led man looks into all things comparing spiritual with spiritual, but the flesh-led man does not even know the question to ask.

So what does I Corinthians chapter 2 have to do with Revelation 10:7?  At this point the restraining work of the Holy Spirit will be completed and the man of perdition can be fully revealed.  I believe this happens after the death of the witnesses who have been protecting the holy place and those who worship there.  After their death the beast will be free to set up his image there.  Immediately following the rapture it seems or up to 12 ‘days’ later at the close of the day of the Lord the mark of the beast is set up along with worship of the image.  (I understand the Day of the Lord as up to a 24 day day where the sun is obscured and it seems like evening with there being light to some and darkness to others depending on perspective.)

I Corinthians 4:1 Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

As you come to revelation of The Mystery, you become a steward of the knowledge of him.  We don’t throw what is holy to the dogs or our pearls of wisdom to swine.  We move at the moving of the Holy Spirit within us.

I Corinthians 13:1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

² And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing...

⁸ Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

⁹ For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

¹⁰ But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

Paul needed a thorn in the flesh because of the abundance of revelation he had received so he didn’t become puffed up; knowledge puffs up.  It is better to know nothing and show true love than to know it all and forget to love.  Keep in mind that at the point of Revelation 10:7 that which is perfect will be seen and known: Jesus Christ including his completed body.  From that point on no longer will anyone need prophecy of him or speak in tongues.  All this old world will be set on fire and knowledge of how it was will perish with it.  This world will be purged in fire and made new again as the river flows from Jerusalem.  If there is one thing that will endure that you need it is love; all you need is love.  And God is love.  He will take your through.

(And in I Cor 15:2 tongues is also called a mystery and so done away with/fulfilled/completed)

I Corinthians 15:51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

⁵² In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

This ties in with Revelation 10:7 as the time of the rapture.  It is at the last trump – right before it sounds.

Revelation 10:7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.

And so the rapture is yet another mystery to be understand by us.

Speaking of the law (verse 56)

Matthew 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

Revelation 10:7 takes place on the day heaven and earth pass away.  Not only will prophecy be done away with, but the law will also become unnecessary as we will no longer need a schoolmaster to bring us to Christ for we will be with him.  The first time the earth passed away by water; the second time will be by fire.

I believe Paul is the angel to the church of Ephesus, of the seven churches - Ephesus is the only one that he sent an epistle to and it is in the middle of his epistles.

Ephesians 1:4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

⁵ Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

⁶ To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.

⁷ In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

⁸ Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;

⁹ Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:

¹⁰ That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:...

¹⁵ Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,

¹⁶ Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;

¹⁷ That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:

¹⁸ The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

¹⁹ And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,

²⁰ Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,

²¹ Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:

²² And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,

²³ Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

Fill me up God. 

Here is a mystery for the church: John 20:21 Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.

²² And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:

²³ Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.

Paul talks about going from faith to faith.  The disciples before Jesus had even died were given power to raise the dead and heal the sick, cast out demons in Matt 10:8.  He says but you shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you and you shall be witnesses for me.  What was this new power?  He says greater things than what I have done, you will do because I go to the Father, but I will not leave you comfortless…This power is God himself flowing through us.  This power is his Holy Spirit not just being received to be in us, but reaching out to the world through us.  This power is that we are transformed into no longer what we once were but to be the body of Jesus Christ.

Ephesians 3:1 For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,

² If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:

³ How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,

⁴ Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)

⁵ Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;

⁶ That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:…

⁹ And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:

¹⁰ To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,

¹¹ According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:…

¹⁶ That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;

¹⁷ That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,

¹⁸ May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;

¹⁹ And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

²⁰ Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,

²¹ Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.

¹⁰ To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God, [wisdom of God which is one of the mysteries: His Holy Spirit in us]

Since the natural man cannot even comprehend the things of the Spirit of God because they are foolishness to him, we can discern that we are to make known to what may seem our enemies but are not if they still have flesh and are desiring to be spiritually minded with us.

Ephesians 5:30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

³¹ For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

³² This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

-That we should cherish each other as our own flesh, being joined in holy matrimony spiritually, no longer looking to our own interest, but each one the interests of the others, because what is yours is mine and what is mine is now yours.

Ephesians 6:10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

¹¹ Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

¹² For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

¹³ Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

So here we see that those in the heavenly places still have a hope of redemption, though there are some principalities and powers that perhaps have lost flesh and blood – all feeling.  The current rulers of the darkness of this world are not mentioned in 3:10.  I believe that the war in the heavenly place (Rev 12) is destroying the abode of the original sons of God and that they are coming to earth as they did in Genesis.  Not all of them will be too far gone and those that still have flesh will not be considered our enemies, but our battle will be to wrestle for their souls to also be joined into the body of Christ with us (to the best of my understanding.)

I Timothy 5:21 I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels…

There are angels who are elect which seems to imply that just as we are elect to be in Christ so are they.

I Peter 3:22 Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.

It seems after his resurrection and being seated at the right hand of God, that angels and authorities and powers were made subject to him.  In fact, anything that has flesh, he is given authority over (to redeem them.)

John 17:2 As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.

Acts 1:8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

The word power in Acts 1:8 is the same word for authority in I Peter 3:22 and is also translated power in John 17:2.  What authority Jesus has received, he gives to us to witness.

Acts 26:18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.

Paul’s vision on the road: ‘and from the power’ is the word for authority.  When we witness we are taking what Satan temped Jesus with (all this will I give you…) and giving it back to God until all is put under his feet.  The authority we have is grace for apostleship.  We are not to take the grace in which we stand and use it for a cause of stumbling for others, but to be a witness for others.  –The whole purpose is to reach the ends of the world.

Even those authorities and powers that rebel will be put under him:

I Corinthians 15:24 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.

²⁴ Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.

Ephesians 2:2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

‘Of the power’ is the word for authority.  The devil also has a seed that he calls his sons, but we no longer call our Father the Devil.  By the power of God we bring many sons to glory.

Colossians 1:13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:

¹⁴ In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:

All Power and authority is now his alone; any that the enemy has is temporally given that grace may much more abound and sin be clearly seen as sin.  You have been saved from the flesh, beware that you do not walk any more after the law and doctrines of man, but after the spirit (so the devil does not have a foothold in your life anymore.)

Colossians 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

⁹ For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

¹⁰ And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:

¹¹ In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:

¹² Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.

¹³ And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;

¹⁴ Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;

¹⁵ And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

When Jesus died creating a new body for us to be part of – a spiritual one – he set us free from the hold the devil would have over our fleshly desires. 

If the head of Christ is the church and there are principalities and powers under that head, then I would say there are principalities and powers that are and will be part of the church.  (And because Ephesians says we are reaching principalities and powers in the heavenly places this distinguishes them from those on earth.  The final church to receive the Revelation message is Laodicea.)

While the churches of Sardis and Philadelphia are the churches of the sheep that are led, the church that is specifically given this authority of God is the church of Thyatira.  This is the lampstand that witnesses – I believe – with the witnesses.  We are called to witness and rule!

Revelation 2:26 And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:

(power in this verse is the word for authority.)

Everyone can have no power except that it be given them:

Romans 13:1 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

² Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.

Because there is a spiritual battle going on this is why we put on the armor of God – and especially in preparation for that evil day:

Ephesians 6:14 ¹⁴ Stand therefore, (armor of God)

¹⁹ And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel,

²⁰ For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

Colosians 1:25 Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;

²⁶ Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:

²⁷ To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

²⁸ Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:

²⁹ Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.

So you see: the mystery is Jesus Christ.  Not just Jesus Christ, but how we also can be transformed into his body to be found in him alone.

Colossians 2:1 For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

² That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;

³ In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

The church of Laodicea – the final church.  You know angels desire to look into the mystery?  We pray right now that those we have not yet met in the flesh will right now be comforted, being knit together in love and that they will receive all the riches of the full assurance of understanding that they may acknowledge to receive Jesus Christ where true wisdom and knowledge lie and they may be perfect and complete in him lacking nothing good.  Let them receive Jesus Christ that they may truly find Wisdom and Knowledge.

I Peter 1:12 Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.

¹³ Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

The original sons of men (and sons of God) were not told this:

Ephesians 2:4 Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)

⁵ Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;

⁶ That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:

But our eternal purpose will be to tell them as well; we are grafted in being shown mercy that by our mercy others too can be added.

Ephesians 3:10 To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,

¹¹ According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:

God send forth labors into your harvest.  Here I am Lord: send me!

Colossians 4:2 Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;

³ Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds:

⁴ That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.

II Thessalonians 2:1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,

² That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.

[I believe it is a lie of the enemy that the rapture can happen at any time.]

³ Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

⁴ Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

⁵ Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?

⁶ And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.

⁷ For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

⁸ And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

⁹ Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

¹⁰ And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

¹¹ And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

God has sent false shepherds to lead the sheep astray in accordance with their hardness and unrepentant hearts, but they lead more astray than he has given to them to do:

(Of Israel, but also true of those who say they are Jews/his but are not just as we all have been grafted into one vine that is Jesus Christ of the seed of Abraham.)

Jeremiah 5:12 They have belied the Lord, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:

¹³ And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.

¹⁴ Wherefore thus saith the Lord God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

¹⁵ Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the Lord: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.

¹⁶ Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men…

As we can see that the gospel message is tied in with the identity of Jesus Christ, we must lay down all other authority to not put our trust in it/them until Jesus Christ alone stands and those that are his body.  (Stand in the evil day and remain standing)  This begins with us when we are to take up our cross daily and follow after him.  We must mortify our own members that are of Death and lead to Death.  We no longer walk after the flesh.  No longer ask God to revive your fleshly pursuits that he has put to death!  Ask according to his will.  We also no longer walk after the law and dictates of others.  We only walk after the Spirit.  There are two things that people trip over.  People don’t like to hear that I do not seek my own happiness – that I seek to put myself down, and people do not like to hear that the Holy Spirit can teach me all things apart from being dependent on man to do so.  True as one body we edify each other, but each one needs to be fully convinced in his own mind – which is also Christ’s.  Everything, everyplace, every high and lifted up thing will be cast down in that day.  There will be no more mountains and the valleys will be filled in.  The water will be licked up in flame and the fish will die.  There will remain no strength in man to even bleat for their own help so why should we be putting our trust in man to save us? 

Jeremiah 17:5  Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.

⁶ For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.

⁷ Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.

⁸ For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

⁹ The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

¹⁰ I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

Don’t start getting excited about all the Revelation God is giving you thinking you can now go out on your own.  We must serve him with fear and trembling because of the wickedness that seeks to creep in that we all are so susceptible to.

Just like Paul was separated to the gospel of God, we also must serve God wholeheartedly.  With all of our heart and all our soul and all of our strength and all of our mind.  There cannot be one ember of flesh that is not dedicated to be burnt upon the altar; we must leave worthless pursuits.  All can become good if we can direct our praise and thanksgiving to him through it all.

Luke 10:27 And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.

Matthew 26:27 And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it;

I Corinthians 10:16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?

¹⁷ For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.

Lutherans say that when we take of the communion the bread and wine turns into the body and blood of Jesus.  I say to you that when we commune together with other believers edifying and building up to unity and good works we are becoming the literal body of Jesus Christ with his blood flowing through us.  When we commune together and bone touches bone it is his flesh that covers us and dry bones come alive in unity.  The bread that we break and the juice that we drink is an outward manifestation of what is taking place when we come together showing the Lord’s death until he comes.  As we partake together with Jesus as our head may sickness be reversed and the schemes of Death be vanquished from us in the name of the Lord.  This is a holy union.  Everything he has becomes what we have and we have everything in common.  Do not partake in hypocrisy or outward show, but from an inward hunger for him and exchange of what you were. When we go through the experience on the mount of Transfiguration no longer do we look at others after the flesh, but we see Jesus only.

Matthew 17:7 And Jesus came and touched them, and said, Arise, and be not afraid.

⁸ And when they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no man, save Jesus only.

Mark 9:8 And suddenly, when they had looked round about, they saw no man any more, save Jesus only with themselves.

[The word for with primarily means amid.]

II Corinthians 5:13 For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause.

¹⁴ For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:

¹⁵ And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.

¹⁶ Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.

¹⁷ Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

¹⁸ And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

This is the mystery that is completed in Revelation 10:7 and the gospel message how through the dying off of our flesh we can be part of the body of Jesus and instead have his Spirit and his mind and no longer walk after the flesh to fulfill its needs and desires.

I believe on that Sunday that the two witnesses die, atonement is complete and the dead can be raised and the rapture happens.  On that day Jesus Christ comes to claim the world as his own.  On that day he rewards his saints and we rule and reign with him.

Let’s thank God for his atoning blood that was spilt and body that was broken for us.

I Timothy 3:9 Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

Romans 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

¹⁷ For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

Jesus took the disciples from one level of faith to another level of indwelling on Pentecost.

I Timothy 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

He is our righteousness – nothing that we do amounts to anything good.

In Revelation 1:20 we see the seven stars are also a mystery – how seven angels could be – I believe – part of the body of Jesus just as the body of the beast is 7 headed with the beast being the eight.  But we can understand this through the Spirit of God.  (He has appointed first apostles…)

The final mystery is that of Babylon.  Babylon and the woman that sits there is just a copycat wana-be version of Jesus.

Colossians 2:9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

¹⁰ And ye are complete in him

Ephesians 3:9 And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:

Romans 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

In conclusion: There is one Revelation and one Mystery and that is in Jesus Christ.  He is all we could ever want and need.  He satisfies when we walk in the Spirit.  The gospel message is that we can die to our flesh and live in the Spirit through him - becoming his body with the rest of the church.  Through him we have one mind and one spirit and one body.  His body the church will be complete at the point of Revelation 10:7.  At this time all other mysteries associated with him are also completed as far as atonement for iniquity with the death of his body through the witnesses, the resurrection of the dead and our ascension to rule with him.  The mystery of Israel being grafted out to be grafted back in will also take place at this point.  The mystery of the enemy will also be seen because all will see him as he is:

Revelation 11:12 And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.

¹³ And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.

¹⁴ The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly.

Matthew 22:42 Saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, The son of David.

⁴³ He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying,

⁴⁴ The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool?

⁴⁵ If David then call him Lord, how is he his son?

Jesus Christ is the only way, the truth and the life; no one can come to the Father except through him.  The seven headed beast is the seven religions that deny that Jesus Christ is God.  If John the Baptist is more than a prophet so that all those that are grafted into Jesus becoming one with his body are greater than John the Baptist and if Jesus is also a Prophet: how much more so is Jesus more than a Prophet?

There was a man that was blind who was able to realize that Jesus was a prophet after Jesus opened his eyes.  Jesus returned to him with an invitation to believe:

John 9:35

 Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had found him, he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God?

³⁶ He answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him?

³⁷ And Jesus said unto him, Thou hast both seen him, and it is he that talketh with thee.

³⁸ And he said, Lord, I believe. And he worshipped him.

³⁹ And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.

⁴⁰ And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also?

⁴¹ Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.

Chapter 3: An overview of when these things will be

Is it for us to know the times and seasons?

Acts 1:7 And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.

⁸ But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

It is not of you or from you or concerning you to know…

…The Father has put in his own jurisdiction/ authority…

But you will receive power…

What is this power they receive? –to be the body of Jesus

Who has all authority been given to? –Jesus (Matt 28:18)

(Note that the disciples had already been given power to raise the dead and cast out demons and heal the sick and cleanse lepers.  They had already received the Holy Spirit from Jesus before Pentecost.  John 20:22)

(Also note that when Jesus was talking with the disciples that he didn’t even know the day or hour that this was before he was glorified.  In Revelation 1:1 he claims to have received revelation from his Father which he passed onto us.)

What does it mean for that day to overtake us as a thief?

-Matt 24:50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of

I Thessalonians 5:1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.

² For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

³ For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

⁴ But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

So in context Acts 1:7 Jesus responds to the disciples not currently being able to know times or seasons with the word contrariwise/nevertheless/but you shall receive power….

If we walk in the light as he is in the light we have fellowship one with another…

Matthew 24:42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

⁴³ But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.

⁴⁴ Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.

⁴⁵ Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?

⁴⁶ Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.

⁴⁷ Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.

⁴⁸ But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;

⁴⁹ And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;

⁵⁰ The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,

⁵¹ And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

The final error of this servant that the master had left responsible over others was that he did not watch to know when his master would return.  Apparently there was expected to be indications where if he were watching this wise servant would have seen and clearly known.

In verse 43 we see part of being able to watch is in knowing what watch the thief is coming.  So we have to watch to know the times.  Jesus says this is as clear as discerning natural seasons.  Jesus is coming at an hour that seems improbable to our own understanding.  We must discern with the Holy Spirit.   (In Matt 24 when the disciples asked when will the destruction of the temple be and sign of his coming and the end of the age, Jesus answered in detail.  When they asked in Acts 1 when he will restore Israel, it is not for the Jews to know for as long as they are ‘grafted out.’)

Luke 12:56  Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time?

Matthew 16:3 And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowering. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?

⁴ A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.

In other words if you cannot discern the sign of his birth, the only sign given is the sign of his death – at the time of the rapture.  (Matt 24:3 – The ‘sign of your coming.’)

What are the events that led up to the birth of the Christ Child – and death?

Daniel 9:2  In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem…

9:24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.

²⁵ Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.

²⁶ And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.

²⁷ And he 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 cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

To finish the transgression:

To restrict (by action of holding back or prohibiting word, finish, forbid, keep back, refrain, restrain, retain, shut up, withhold) a revolt (national, moral or religious: rebellion, sin, transgression, trespassive)

Until the 70 weeks are complete will the mark of the beast be set up and the Holy Spirit that is restricting be taken out of the way.

To make an end of sins:

To close up (especially to seal, make an end, mark, seal up, stop) offence (and its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, or expiation, also an offender, punishment of sin, purification for sin, sin offering)

Until the 70 weeks are complete will atonement be completed in the body of Christ his church and Death be overcome.

To make reconciliation for iniquity:

To cover (specifically with bitumen [a mortar] figuratively to expiate or condone, to placate or cancel: appease, make an atonement, cleanse, disannul, forgive, be merciful, pacify, pardon, to pitch, purge away, put off, make reconciliation) perversity (moral evil: fault, iniquity, mischief, punishment of iniquity, sin)

Until the 70 weeks are complete will the old covenant of the law be forgotten and a new face to face covenant be brought in.

To bring in everlasting righteousness:

To come (abide, attain, bring forth, enter in) concealed (that is the vanishing point, time out of mind - past or future - that is, eternity, everlasting, perpetual, world without end) righteousness (the right)

Until the 70 weeks are complete will Jesus come.

To close up (especially to seal: to seal, make an end, mark, seal up, stop) sight (that is a dream, revelation, oracle: vision) a prophet (generally inspired man)

Until the 70 weeks are complete will the sight of the prophet be ended.

To anoint the most Holy:

To rub with oil (that is to anoint, by implication to consecrate) a sacred place or thing (consecrated, dedicated, hallowed, (X most holy or holy - day portion or thing) saint, sanctuary) (X = word is repeated here)

Until the 70 weeks are complete will the church be perfected/ ready for marriage and the Lord's Day can begin and Christ crowned King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

At the end of the 69 weeks:

The street:

A width (concretely avenue or area - broad place/way, street)

shall be built:

to build (literally and figuratively, obtain children, begin to build, make, repair, set up)

again:

To turn back (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point; generally to retreat, often adverbially again, send, deliver (again) carry again back, come again (back) get oneself back, go again back home, rescue, restore, retrieve, send back)

and the wall:

incised (a trench as dug, gold as mined, threshing sledge, determination, decision, pointed things, sharp, threshing instrument, wall)

even in troublous:

a strait (figuratively distress: anguish, X troublous)

times:

time (now, when etc: due season, evening tide, noontide)

A way will be made to get yourself back as sharp threshing instrument against the evil day.

­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­During the final week:

Messiah:

anointed (the Messiah)

be cut off:

to cut (off, down or asunder; by implication to destroy or consume; specifically to covenant that is make an alliance or bargain, originally by cutting flesh and passing between the pieces, hew down, make a league/covenant)

but not:

not (to be nothing or not exist, never)

for himself: and the people:

a people (as a congregated unit; specifically a tribe as those of Israel, figuratively a flock)

Messiah will covenant with those who are not a people.

During the final week:

of the prince:

a commander (as occupying the front, civil, military or religious; captain, chief, prince, chief ruler)

that shall come:

to go or come (befall, besiege, bring forth...)

shall destroy:

to decay (causatively ruin; batter, cast off, corrupt, destroy, utterly, waste)

the city:

city (a place guarded by waking or a watch)

and the sanctuary:

a sacred place or thing (consecrated, dedicated, hallowed, saint, sanctuary)

and the end:

an extremity (adverbially after, utmost border, end)

thereof shall be with a flood:

a deluge (flood, outrageous, overflowing)

and unto:

as far (or long or much as, even unto (of space) or during, while, until (of time) equally with (or of degree): against, by that, even to, as long/much as, toward, until, as yet)

the end:

an extremity

of the war:

a battle (that is the engagement, war)

desolations:

to stun (or intransitively grow numb, devastate, stupefy, be astonied, be an astonishment, make amazed, make desolate, be destitute, destroy (self) make waste, wonder)

determined:

to point sharply (to wound literally or figuratively to be alert, to decide: decree, determine, maim, move)

The prince will go to lay waste the city and sanctuary.  At the end he will send out a flood after them.  At that time he will make war but the desolations he has caused are pre-determined to reach his own heart.

Start, middle and conclusion of final week:

And he shall confirm:

be strong (to prevail, act insolently: exceed, confirm, be great, be mighty, prevail, strengthen, be stronger, be valiant)

the covenant:

a compact (in the sense of cutting, confederacy, covenant, league)

with many:

abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quantity: do/have many, plenteous....)

for one:

one (united)

week:

sevened (a week: specifically of years)

and in the midst:

the half or middle (midst, two parts)

of the week:

sevened

he shall cause the sacrifice:

a slaughter (flesh of an animal, by implication a sacrifice, offering)

and the oblation:

to apportion (bestow; a donation; euphemistically tribute, sacrificial offering usually bloodless and voluntary: gift, oblation, present)

to cease:

to repose (desist from exertion, cause to cease, make to fail, suffer to be lacking, put away, make to rest, rid, still)

and for:

above (over, upon, against, because of, concerning for, touching)

the overspreading:

an edge or extremity (a wing, a flap, a quarter, end)

of abominations:

disgusting (filthy; especially idolatrous or concretely an idol, abominable filth, detestable thing)

he shall make it desolate:

to stun (grow numb that is devastate...)

even until:

as far (or long or much as, against, even to, till, until, by that)

the consummation:

a completion (adverbially completely; also destruction, altogether, be utterly consumed, consummation, full/utter end, riddance)

and that determined:

point sharply (to wound, figuratively be alert, to decide: bestir, self, decide, decree, determine)

shall be poured:

to flow forth (by implication to liquefy, drop, gather together, melt, pour forth/out)

upon:

above (over, upon, against...)

the desolate:

ruined (desolate)

Start:

Insolently strengthening an abundant confederacy with the abundant for one week.

Middle:

In the middle of the week sacrifice and oblation will cease.

End:

Leading to and against the end (to the intent that) they may set up the idol that makes the Holy place desolate leading to (and against that) the temple will be completely destroyed  them threshed/determined to have vials poured upon them until they are also ruined/desolate.

Conclusion:

Right before the seventieth week, Messiah rides forth to set up a marriage covenant with a people who have gone astray from him and played the harlot.  He speaks peace to her and sets her free from her captivity, leading her out. 

The leader will mimic this beginning a peace treaty with the Jews and Jerusalem.  But in the middle of the week he will begin to lay siege to Jerusalem and no one will go there anymore to sacrifice or offer gifts.  His ultimate intention is to set up an image in the Holy of Holies that he is not able to get to until the end of week (in the middle of his week.)  This will start the Day of the Lord and in a great shaking the temple will be completely destroyed.  The enemy will send out a flood after the Jews but the earth will open its mouth cracking open to swallow the flood.  It will be given to him to make war with the rest of the saints, but the barrenness he causes will reach his own heart in terror and emptiness.  The sword will be put in the Lord’s bodies’ hands and the enemy will be threshed.  The messengers of the churches (most likely) will pour out the vials upon the enemy until they are destroyed and left desolate.  (This is all to the best of my understanding.)  (All this should happen in the middle of his week and at the end of the 70 weeks.  The possessed merchants and shipmen etc. will survive the fall of the second Babylon leading to them being led into the abyss 3 ½ years later.)

Timeline of the Jews

70 generations then 70 weeks (7x7 years) then 70 years

70 generations:

-The book of Enoch is a book that writers of the Bible have accepted as reference material.  Enoch says that the angels who sinned were locked in the earth after watching their children die off over 500 years.

Matthew 1:17 So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations.

-      1966 BC When Abram was 75 years old the 7 headed sign appeared in the sky over Sodom and Gomorrah destroying it 7 years later.  This begins the moon phases of the virgin beginning in total darkness.

-      1300 BC 666 years later 14 generations are completed with King David.  The moon phase of the virgin is now totally bright.

-      634 BC 666 years later 14 more generations are completed with the carrying away to Babylon.  The moon phase of the virgin is now totally darkness.

-      33 AD 666 years later 14 more generations are completed with the death and resurrection of the promised Messiah.  The moon phase of the virgin is now total darkness.

-      699 AD 666 years later 14 more generations are complete.  The moon phase of the virgin is total darkness.

-      1365 AD 666 years later the 70 generations that Enoch talks about are completed.  The fallen angels are released from their chains to tempt the earth for a short time.  (To the best of my understanding)  The moon phase of the virgin is totally bright.

-      2031 AD The fallen angels would have had 666 years to temp the earth bringing it into total darkness.  However…

-      2017 AD A child was born for a fallen world.  He brings out of darkness into light.  They are given 14 years to become totally bright.

Enoch also talks about the sun that one year is actually 364 days.  When you account for this 6,000 years since Adam and Eve began to age is our year of 2017.  Another pseudepigrapha book talks about a place that takes 1,000 years to revolve one time.  In other words according to that place 6 days have gone by since Adam and Eve began to age making 2017 the start of the seventh day when we are to begin to enter into his rest.

70 weeks:

69 x 7 years back from 2017 is the year 1534 (483 years.)  This is the year the Jesuits were founded.  They were given authority from the pope to kill all that oppose.  Through things like this and false religions of manifest destiny where people felt it was their God-given right to slaughter Indians in a holocaust perhaps worse than Hitler’s.  There is evidence that at least some of the Indians were Jews and descendants of the 10 lost tribes that got carried away.

70 years:

70 years before 2017 on May 14, 1948 Israel became a nation again.

50 years:

50 years before 2017 on June 7, 1967 there was a war that interrupted this and ended up restoring the nation’s capital.  Since the establishments of the Jubilee do not count while Israel is not a nation this made 2017 their year of Jubilee when all Israelites who were in slavery were commanded to be set free.

So what was the big event that took place in the year 2017?

Here is a public article on that:

The End Times Forecaster

A GUIDING LIGHT IN THE END TIMES

TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2013

The Sign of the Woman Clothed with the Sun in 2017

The Sign Of The Woman Clothed With The Sun—9/23/2017

 The following is an excerpt from Chapter 12 of The Coming Epiphany. (Updated May 2016)

 …The Woman Clothed with the Sun

 In Revelation 12 I believe that we are given a very important sign regarding the coming of the Lord.

 12:1 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: 2 And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.

 Here I believe we see a symbolic picture of the nation of Israel—the woman—and the coming of the Christ child. I believe this symbolism appeared as a sign in the skies over Jerusalem in the alignment of the stars on Rosh Hashanah 9/11/3 BC.

  On that day the constellation Virgo was “clothed with the sun,” and the moon was under her feet. Above her head 3 planets—Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter—were in alignment with the star Regulus in Leo, Regulus was also in conjunction with Jupiter. This Regulus/Jupiter conjunction is what David Larson, mentioned above, believes is the famed Star of Bethlehem. The 9 stars of Leo and the 3 planets aligning with Regulus make the crown of 12 stars.

 Now let’s examine the skies around the time that the Great Pyramid complex points to, Rosh Hashanah in 2017. On 9/20-21/17 Rosh Hashanah; Virgo is clothed with the Sun, the Moon is not under her feet but is in close conjunction with the sun, and there is an alignment of Jupiter, the Moon, Mercury, Mars, Venus, and Regulus, with Venus in conjunction with Regulus.

  Three days after this alignment on 9/23/17, Virgo is “clothed with the sun,” the moon is now under her feet, and above her head are 3 planets—Mercury, Mars, and Venus, which are in alignment with the star Regulus in Leo. The 9 stars of Leo and the 3 aligning planets make the crown of 12 stars. Thus this alignment meets the criteria of the Rev. 12 sign and is similar to the 3 BC alignment. Interestingly enough this alignment occurs the day after the second day of Rosh Hashanah on the day of Shabbat Shuvah—the Sabbath of Return.^[1] We will discuss implications regarding this below.

 So there we have it, the sign of Revelation 12 in the sky above Jerusalem on special days, of which in their alignments and their meanings point to major prophetic events surrounding the First and Second Coming of Christ.

 But wait there is more; look at what Jupiter—the king planet—does in the months prior to this 2017 sign. On November 20^th 2016 Jupiter enters the womb of Virgo.

 Due to retrograde motion Jupiter stays in or near the abdomen of Virgo until September 9, 2017.

 Thus it is in or near the abdomen of Virgo for a day short of 42 weeks after which time it is born out of the abdomen of Virgo. Note: Normal human gestation is from 37-42 weeks.

 Is this what this verse is in reference to? Rev 12:2 And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.

 Thus this truly is a unique sign and according to one researcher is the only time in all of earth’s history that Jupiter stays in or near the womb of Virgo for a normal human gestation period, which is then followed by the sun clothing the constellation Virgo with the moon under her feet and twelve stars on her head.

 There is more to the sign; what about the red dragon?

 3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.

 4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.

 Prophetically we know that this passage is a symbolic representation of the devil, his kingdom, and some of his actions. But will a celestial great dragon appear in the sky after the sign of the woman clothed with the sun occurs?

 Many researchers believe this great red dragon may be the famed planet X/Nibiru system. In fact look at this area of the sky between the legs of Virgo.

  Why is it blacked out? Here it is from another telescope.

 Is this the coming red dragon or is it merely an anomaly? Scripturally a planet X passage most closely matches the events after the opening of Seal 6, which we know includes the rapture.

 [1] Shabbat Shuvah or Shabbat T'shuvah ("Sabbath [of] Return" שבת שובה or "Sabbath [of] Repentance" שבת תשובה) refers to the Shabbat that occurs during the Ten Days of Repentance, but is between (i.e. not including): the two consecutive Days of Rosh Hashanah; and the Day of Yom Kippur. The name Shabbat Shuvah comes from the first word of the Haftarah that is read on that day, Hosea 14:2-10, and literally means "Return!" It is alternately known as Shabbat T'shuvah owing to its being one of the Aseret Y'may T'shuvah (Ten Day of Repentance).

This was all quotes from the End times forecaster website.

The three Jewish holidays yet to be fulfilled:

Day of Remembrance/Trumpets begins Oct 2^nd 2024 at the close of the week of the Jews. (Rosh Hashanah)

(The 10 days of repentance occur between these two holidays.)

Day of Atonement begins sunset Oct 11^th 2024 and end with the sunrise Sunday, Oct 13^th 2024.  (Yom Kippur)

Tabernacles begins the 16^th of Oct (evening) (this is the 14^th day of the month when the moon is full) and ends sunrise Oct 23^rd. (Sukkot)

Phase 1: The beginning of Sorrows

(October 2^nd – April Fools 2021)

Matthew 24:1 And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.

² And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

³ And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?

⁴ And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.

⁵ For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

⁶ And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

⁷ For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

⁸ All these are the beginning of sorrows.

The four horsemen:

1.       While the actual horseman is riding out to free his run-away bride to be from her captives, what we see on earth is many saying they are Christ’s when they are not.

II Cor 10:7
Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? if any man trust to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's.

The meaning for the word used for Christ in 24:5 and II Cor 10:7 both mean anointed/Messiah.  Translators have made the word possessive based on how they feel it is being used in context.  So in other words, we could say in II Cor 10:7 that we are Christ and in Matt 24:5 that we are Christ’s.  However you look at, we are all as the members of the body of Christ – Christ and Christ’s.  But wolves will come into the flock in sheep’s clothing who will deceive others that they are Christ/Christ’s.  Because technically, we all should be saying we are Christ or at least a component of his body.

2.       While the actual war is going on in a heavenly realm, we only hear rumors of this war; it does not say we are seeing the effects of this war yet or participating in it (and he is speaking to Jews on earth.)  Verse 7 lets us know this is a civil war.

3.       Famine: While in heaven their spot is being destroyed, on earth we know this is in a specific spot in space. 

4.       Pestilences and earthquakes: While in a specific spot in heaven this shaking and pestilence is being poured out, we only feel the uttermost tremors of it.

In diverse places:

A spot (generally in space, but limited by occupancy, location)

In other words, we do not see the heart of what is going on during the beginning of sorrows here on earth, but what takes place in the heavenly realm is reflected down here on earth, so we figuratively feel aftershocks or shadowy reflections and feel in our spirit that these things are going on.  The things we see happening around us are a reflection of the heavens suffering violence and the violent taking it by force.  Its like we are all spiritually connected such as you can tell what kind of owner an animal has by seeing what that animal is like.  During the final phase the beasts of the earth will become so bad they will play a part in wiping out ¼ of the earth.  Right now we are beginning to feel those tremors within us like premonitions or the nesting effect a mother-to-be gets that the baby is on its way.  This is only beginning to effect the actions of people and the whole entire earth – is beginning to feel this.

The four horsemen – While each horsemen plays a role in each of the 4 phases of Revelation (seals, trumpets, thunders, vials) the primary effects that are seen of each one on earth is accented with one horseman at a time in order.  (For example the seals would be Christ riding out to purify his bride. (2017 (/33 AD) – 2024) (John 14:2,3 “I go.”)

September 23^rd 2017 (morning Rosh Hashanah/Trumpets ended) Jupiter born (Christ child.)

October 1^st 2017 (morning Yom Kippur ended) eighth day for circumcision (Christ child caught up to God and the throne.) (7 years later so would we.)

Woman immediately begins her wilderness journey of 1,260 days.  This puts them concluding their journey March 14^th 2021 which is also the first of Nissan.  14 days later is when they should celebrate Passover in Jerusalem. (March 27^th) 

-      Rev 12:6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.

Just like the children of Israel trapped at the Red Sea, the enemy seeks to surround the Jews in Jerusalem.  This should occur April 1^st 2021 because this date is 42 months before October 2^nd 2024.

-      Rev 11:2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.

The reason why the inner court is not trampled at this time is because it has been measured out for the two witnesses to have.  Because we have already concluded that one of the lampstands (churches) to the two olive trees (witnesses) is the 144,000 the time of the two witnesses cannot overlap with the wilderness journey.  (Pergamum Moses allusions: Balaam and manna/ Thyatira Elijah allusions: Jezebel; the two witness will carry the mantles of Moses and Elijah. Two witness allusions: fire and plagues) This lasts 1,260 days concluding the Jews final week.  50 days after Passover: May 16^th 2021 would be Pentecost when the witness would most likely begin their ministry.  1,260 days later they would finish their ministry about October 26^/ 27^th 2024.  (The two witnesses would finish theirs 13/14 days sooner Sunday the 13^th.) (The blinded Jews are given an additional time/times and half a time: 3 ½ days of witnesses death, 7 days shut outside the camp for Tabernacles because Miriam’s leprosy, 1 ¾ days to pour out vials trampling enemy totaling just over 12 days all on the Day of the Lord – each day is about an hour in the day of the Lord is how I perceive it.)

-      Rev 11:3 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth

-      ⁴ These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.

42 months after October 1^st 2024 is April 1^st 2028.  (The beast’s time is given in months: it could be April 2^nd –Oct 2^nd for example)

-      Rev 13:5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. 

Phase 2: The Tribulation of those days

(April Fools 2021-October 2^nd 2024)

Matthew 24: 9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.

¹⁰ And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.

¹¹ And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.

¹² And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

¹³ But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

¹⁴ And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

Rev 11:10 [on two witnesses death] And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.

The problems on the earth will be blamed on the two witness and their churches.  Make sure you have both the oil and the wine as your only two components so you can be untouchable to the enemy (only as Lord wills/ anointing and blood.)  If our love is not rooted and grounded in Christ right now and linked together with his body our love will likely grow cold during this time.  This we can see is the interruption of peace, not the beginning of a peace treaty.  (So the week Daniel talks about is not the beast’s week, but the Jews final week.  Peace à block sacrifice à concluding with abomination.)  It should be clear the power of the two witnesses, but at this time there will also be many false prophets that arise and so many will be confused to are not already walking in the Holy Spirit to be able to discern what is lie.  In verse 14 this is clearly the time of the two witnesses.  The temple should be already built before April Fools 2021 or all the supplies for it within Jerusalem for them to complete it as this should begin the siege of Jerusalem when many starve and even resort to cannibalism.  During this time, since their ministry is worldwide, expect lack of rain and other intense plagues.  God is able to keep these plagues from reaching you as in the time of Pharaoh only be obedient to his warnings.

Phase 3: The start of the Great Tribulation with the (up to 24 day) Day of the Lord

(Sunset October 2^nd 2024 – October 26 10 days of repentance/atonement and rapture/12 days of Jews)

Matthew 24: 15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)

¹⁶ Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:

¹⁷ Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:

¹⁸ Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.

¹⁹ And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

²⁰ But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:

²¹ For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

²² And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.

²³ Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.

²⁴ For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.

²⁵ Behold, I have told you before.

²⁶ Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.

²⁷ For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

²⁸ For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.

²⁹ Immediately after the tribulation of those days [referring back to phase 2 since verses 16-29 is listed in a different order in Revelation because it happens at the same time] shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

³⁰ And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

³¹ And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

Here he is talking specifically to Jews and the time, times and half a time that they go through.  The abomination of Desolation in verse 15 should only be possible after the death of the witnesses.  (Or perhaps they leave to seal the 144,000 at the start of the Day to come back to find this.)  We do go through a brief time to get to safety at the start: October 2^nd where the 6^th seal takes place and people go their bunkers and caves to escape the wrath.  The Jews however escape the flood that the dragon spews out of his mouth and would seem to be protected for their time and times and half a time.  We see three levels of deception in Matthew 24: people professing to be Christ /’s when they are not, people deceiving with signs and wonders deceiving many, and those who in this third phase may deceive even the very elect they are so believable.  This third phase takes place after the stars of the 6^th seal have fallen to the earth.  (In Rev 12 the devil/antichrist and his home are called Dragons and in the 6^th seal and trumpets they, their home and followers are called stars.)  So in this third phase there most certainly have to be many fallen angels claiming they are Christ /’s.   Verses 15-31 are taking place on the same Day of the Lord, so the order is slightly different in Revelation but irrelevant because all taking place within the same time period.  (Abomination of Desolation, sixth seal with sun being darkened…) 

In Revelation 12 the birth of the Christ child is called a sign, but the other sign here we see is his death.

Matt 12:39 But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:

⁴⁰ For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. [death of the two witnesses for second coming]

So the point where the tribes of earth mourn in verse 30 is at the resurrection of the two witnesses when the temple is seen in heaven and they can see those on the sea of glass who have gotten the victory very much alive as well.

Rev 15:1 And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God.

² And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.

Rev 11:13 And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.

¹⁴ The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly.

Rev 16:17 And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done.

¹⁸ And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.

¹⁹ And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.

²⁰ And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.

²¹ And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.

If the earthquake of chapter 11 is not the same as chapter 16 they are practically back to back.  The seventh seal to the seventh vial all takes place on the Day of the Lord because the seventh seal is the unleashing of the seven trumpets and the seventh trumpet is the unleashing of the seven vials with the 7 thunders being right before the seventh trumpet as he is beginning to sound most likely.

Verse 31 of Matt 24 deals with the will of the Lord to gather together all flesh to one body in him.  These were apparently given over to the jurisdiction of the Devil / blindness prior to the Day of the Lord.  While the rapture happens right before the sounding of the seventh trumpet as he is preparing to sound for the Gentiles/church this final trumpet most likely is for the Jews.  Rev 14:1 would be when the Jews are welcomed into New Jerusalem after having been shut out due to unbelief. 

Phase 4: The rest of the Great Tribulation

(Around October 26, 2024 – April 2028)

This would be primarily for the final church of Laodicea who would have to die by beheading.

Isaiah 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

¹⁹ If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

²⁰ But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

These are prodigal sons of God who have been in a distant land, but return and need only receive the mercy that is freely given them by the Father.  (In the first destruction of Jerusalem, merchants and sailors and kings stand back watching.  It also seems that as a portion of Jerusalem falls into the abyss, those that fall in spend a night in the Lion’s Den, but God is able to save them from the abyss.  After the vials we see the white horse rider ride out with his completed body where he need only speak the word and the possessed run over the steep place into the abyss.  But before then, the original sons of God may be given a space of time to repent

Chapter 4:  When is the Rapture?

Let us follow John on his journey through Revelation.

In the first chapter he is transported to the Lord’s Day through the Spirit.  This is likely the day of his death if he is one of the angels to the seven churches.  (In Revelation 1:1 it literally reads: Set apart/sent out to indicate/signify through his angel servant John.)

I believe the day the two witnesses die will be on Sunday October 13^th 2024.   This is on the Day of the Lord that may take up to 24 earth days but since the sun will be obscured through much of it will be like each day is an hour in this final Day in which the earth passes away in fervent heat and Jesus comes to rule and reign.  October 13^th is in the middle of this day is would be similar to the darkest hour when Jesus died.  It is also the Jews Day of Atonement; once full atonement has been made in the necessary deaths of these martyrs, the rest of the body of Jesus Christ will be immune to death.  (This is to the best of my understanding.  I do understand that Jesus’ work on the cross was complete to atone for our sin.  This atonement is to defeat the final death where we too follow in his steps to the verge of death yet find ourselves also immune.)

So understand in context John has already been transported to another time.  The second time the spirit takes him to another place which is in Revelation 4:1.  From this timeless heavenly realm John takes a look back at when the Lamb first received the scroll (after he has just been slain and found worthy to receive this Revelation of his Father) then forward to the conclusion of all things.  This verse (Rev 4:1) is when many will tell you is the rapture.  But this is not the only time the voice is heard: “Come up here.”  This voice is heard simultaneously in Revelation 11:12 following the event of what I believe is the death of John and Peter the two witnesses (They receive this mantle from Moses and Elijah.)  If you understand that John has already been transported to another time on the Lord’s Day then you have to understand than in Rev 4:1 this is a picture of the rapture, but not at the start of the tribulation at all.

But God has not appointed us to wrath!!

Don’t you know that the comfortable do not need comfort, but those who are troubled?

I Thessalonians 4:13

But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

¹⁴ For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

¹⁵ For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.

¹⁶ For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

¹⁷ Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

¹⁸ Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

The comfort given here is for those who are troubled due to loved ones following the false shepherds.  This is the dead church of Sardis who I believe will be rapture at the start of the Day of the Lord following the sixth seal.  Because the prophets and elders will be put to open shame, these sheep will be able to cry out to their true shepherd who will save them from sure death.  This church is the innumerable who appear in Revelation chapter 7.  Many, many are following pastors and leaders and not following God directly.

I Thessalonians goes on to say in chapter 5 verse 8:

But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.

⁹ For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

¹⁰ Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

¹¹ Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

Why do you need to wear the armor of God?

Ephesians 6:13

Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

-Because there is an evil day coming when you are going to need full armor.

But understand that through this fiery trial and tribulation that is test us and purify us we should be found unharmed by it for it is not ultimately for us.  There is a final hour of wrath coming that will be completely for the unbelievers.

I Peter 4:17

For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

¹⁸ And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

The Philadelphia church will be raptured before the cup of God’s wrath is poured out.

Revelation 3:10

Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

The day of God’s wrath is the same as the Lord’s Day.  This begins with the first seal.

Revelation 6:17

For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?

There is also an hour of wrath at the close of this day:

Revelation 14:7

Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters…

¹⁰ The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:

¹¹ And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.

So let’s look at the events of the Lord’s Day and the three times of deliverance.

1)      The church of Sardis

Since all the churches are relevant, each church has a role to play in the book of Revelation.  This church is called Dead, but is clarified with they are ready to die.  At the start of the Day of the Lord people will look up and see the sure destruction that is coming.  Those that did not obey the witnesses to have a cave or bunker to go to will be caught helpless.  But so long as they have kept their garments white God can save them from what looks to be a pole shift, the whole world catching flame and tsunamis helping putting out 2/3rds of the fire.  It says every and all go to caves and bunkers; in other words those that don’t are dead men.

This first calling out takes place around the evening of October 2^nd, 2024 when the Jewish holiday of Trumpets or Remembrance begins.  This day is called the hidden day because no one truly knows the day of the hour that it starts.  The priest has to go out each day to see if he can see the sliver of the moon appear in the sky.  Until he can see it, the Holiday does not officially begin.

The start of the Day of the Lord events: Revelation 6:12

And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;

¹³ And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.

¹⁴ And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.

Which lines up with Matthew 24:29

Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

³⁰ And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

³¹ And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

(This happens at the same time as the abomination of Desolation.  Matthew 24 lists the abomination first in order and Revelation second.  They both happen at the start of the Day of the Lord.  Then happens the three in gatherings.  In this case he is talking with the Jews who are gathered in after the church of Philadelphia around the seventh trumpet.

2)      The church of Philadelphia

The first 5 trumpets seem to happen at the start of the Day of the Lord.  The sixth one involves the death of the two witnesses (Rev 12:14 lines up with the second woe which is the 5^th trumpet.)  While many feel this is the only church to be in, its rewards are only slightly better than that of Sardis.  These are both sheep.  The wise servant who helps distribute nourishment to others is from the church of Thyatira; those from this church will rule and reign.) 

Revelation 11:13

And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.

This happens at the sounding of the seventh angel as he begins to sound.  It is a mere tremor of what is about to happen.  The seventh trumpet is the unleashing of the seven vials which has the conclusion of this powerful earth quake.

Revelation 16:17

And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done.

¹⁸ And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.

¹⁹ And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.

²⁰ And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.

3)      The church of Pergamum

Each of the witness is also lampstands.  Lampstands are churches.  The church of Peter is the 144,000 (to the best of my understanding!)  These are seen with Jesus on Mount Zion in Revelation 14:1 after having been shut outside the camp due to their unbelief similar to Miriam during the feast of Tabernacles.  It is believed they will be so pure they will be able to fly from the early Zion to the heavenly one that is then revealed to be in the sky above as the darkness lifts and light dawns for all to see.  They then can stand before the throne in verse three.  This New Jerusalem will be so large it will be almost the size of America in every direction. 

4)      Those who enter by death. 

It is sad to know that the final church of Laodicea must enter by beheading.  This is the final ingathering before the winepress is trodden.  This lines up with the 6^th vial when the demons are going out to gather everyone to the Battle of Armageddon: to refuse is to be die.  (Chapters 14 and 16 overlap.)

Revelation 14:14

And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.

¹⁵ And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe.

¹⁶ And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.

16:15

Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.

(Ephesus is those of the whole church age led by Paul who die before the Day of the Lord.  Smyrna is of the church of James who intercedes at the altar during the time of the Witnesses who received the mantle of priesthood from Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration for atonement to be made. They go through the first 10 days of The Great Tribulation which is also the first half of the Day of the Lord. Thyatira seems to have a choice to either hold fast till he come to go with Philadelphia or keep his words until the end with Pergamum.)

If you step back and read through Revelation with these insights, not reading into it what you hope will happen but what God’s word actually says, I believe you will be able to see that the rapture happens on the Day of the Lord which begins with the sixth seal.  Over the next 21-24 days God’s people will be rapture at the start, middle and end of this day. 

Remember though this puts the rapture happening after the ministry of the 2 witnesses is complete and they have died.  That means we will go through the Tribulation that Matthew 24 talks about which is the time of witnessing to the ends of the earth. 

Revelation cannot be separated as it is one Revelation.  The words that are translated “after this,” in Rev 4:1 some translations carry with it the meaning that what happened before is still continuing (amid these things.)  There is no age of the church but one complete Revelation which is Jesus Christ alone.  Revelation can be understood will with verse 1:1.  Shortly come to pass means in a brief space of time come into being.  These events unfold so quickly that John explains what happens from one perspective then has to often look back and catch us up to speed with something else such as after mentioning the fall of the final Babylon he goes back and describes the heavenly one and earthly one in the next two chapters.  The entire book of Revelation focuses on the Day of the Lord which is an extremely brief space of time.

There is one hour and day and month and year that has been set apart for the hour of turning point when the Mystery of God is complete and vengeance can then be poured on the ungodly.

This is the sixth trumpet which is also the second woe: Revelation 9:15:

And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.

(The judgment of the 4th and 6^th trumpets targets only the unsealed by the Holy Spirit and those who are unrepentant.  Though we are tested we the wrath is not for us.  We are to come through the fire unsigned.)

Part 2

What will the time of the two witnesses be like?

Chapter 5: Understanding Matthew 24:45

Matthew 24:45

Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?

⁴⁶ Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.

Is it talking about giving spiritual nourishment or physical?  Both: they are connected; what happens in the spiritual manifests in the physical.

They are leaders, but are the preachers of congregations?  During this time many more false leaders will arise as we enter another level of deception. (phase 2)

Phase 1 Beginning of Sorrows: People say they are Christ/Christ’s body when they really are not.  Matt 24:5  Many will be deceived.

Phase 2 Tribulation of those days: many false prophets will rise and deceive many; when the gospel of the kingdom has been preached to all the world the end will come. Matt 24:11,14

Phase 3 Great Tribulation: false Christs will arise and false prophets that show great signs and wonders deceiving if possible the very elect.  Matt 24:24

Just as beginning from Jerusalem the Gospel is preached so spreads the famine.

Romans 15:19

Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.

Isaiah 3:1

For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water.

² The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,

³ The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.

⁴ And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

⁵ And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.

So the questions is are the wise men in Matt 24:45 preachers?  During this time being a Christian will not be popular.  Many churches will have to go underground or shut down.  But by the start of the Day of the Lord the Prophets and Elders will be brought down due to their false teaching, so anyone by that time that is still exalted as an acceptable and glorified preacher will be shown to be false.

Isaiah 9:13

For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the Lord of hosts.

¹⁴ Therefore the Lord will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.

¹⁵ The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.

¹⁶ For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.

The wise servant in Matthew 24 will be a leader whether the world recognizes them as such or not (and they will not) because these wise men do not blindly accept what man tells them is true; they get their manna directly from Jesus Christ and are fed and feed others.

So it will be unpopular during this time to be a true witness?  Yes.  They will be blamed for the plagues and famine and fires.

Revelation 11:10

And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.

But who are these witnesses?  Both trees that pour into candlesticks and candlesticks.

Revelation 11:3

And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.

⁴ These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.

⁵ And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.

⁶ These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.

What are candlesticks? They are the seven churches.

Revelation 1:20

The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.

So which two churches are the churches of the two candlesticks?  Pergamos and Thyatira are led by Peter and John most likely.

Mantle of Moses: Revelation 2:14,17

 But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.

To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna,

Revelation 11:6b

and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.

Mantle of Elijah: Revelation 2:20

 Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.

Revelation 11:5, 6a

These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy:

⁷And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.

John being called:

Revelation 10:11

And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.

John 21:2

There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two other of his disciples.

(A total of 7 who were called a second time after Jesus’ resurrection by Jesus himself)

Pergamos would be the 144,000 who are the Virgins in the heavenly realm seen in the sign of the Virgin of Revelation 12.

So we will look at Thyatira as this is the church of the wise servant.  This church lines up with Matthew 24:45.  They begin by being tolerant of the leader of this world which I believe has been the spirit of Isis who once was a son of God that the Bible talks about in Genesis (sons of God who intermarried with man’s daughters.)  Just was we collectively are now the sons of God, these seem to also have had females at one time even if this was only through their marriage where they would have had daughters.

But not everyone in Thyatira held to her doctrine of glorification of self and others (starting with Eve.)  2:25 says this:

But that which ye have already hold fast till I come.

What you possess - use strength/retain/seize - up until whenever He comes.

The reward to this church is to have power over the nations, to rule with a rod of iron.  Let’s compare this to Matthew 24:45

Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?

⁴⁶ Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.

⁴⁷ Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.

⁴⁸ But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;

⁴⁹ And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;

⁵⁰ The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,

⁵¹ And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

 The word translated meat means: nourishment (literally or figuratively); by implication rations (wages): - food, meat.

Someone who is mature in Christ will not only be able to share the gospel of the kingdom but will also have the secondary supplying of physical food.

Psalm 37:25

I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

²⁶ He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed is blessed.

Those who are truly God’s prophets will know what God is about to do.

Amos 3:7

Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.

This is akin to the story of Joseph who knew ahead that a famine was coming and was ready to tell the king to prepare.

If no rain falls during the time of their ministry, will it be worldwide?

While their ministry will be centered in Jerusalem, their ministry will be to the whole earth so yes, they will have that power if they see fit.  This will be in preparation for the Great Tribulation when at the start of the Lord’s Day (the first trumpet) the whole world will catch fire (all green grass will burn/everything that burns quickly whereas trees will be still burning when the tsunamis hit.)  At the close of the Day of the Lord the mark of the beast will be set up where no one can buy or sell save the one that has the mark.  This has also been prepared for during the time of witnesses because food will be just about completely gone.  When you compare to the plagues of Egypt some things the Israelites did not have to worry about, but some things they needed to be obedient.  The plague of the hail they were told to get their servants and livestock to shelter.  Those that did not obey were struck.  This will be true for the start of the Day of the Lord when people must seek suitable shelter from the first 4 trumpets.  (Hail, fire and blood, Babylon cast into the sea, Wormwood covering part of the earth, and the sun and moon being pounded as well: 1/3^rd)  However during the famine of Elijah’s time he was kept safe by a brook and there were also prophets that were hidden and cared for from the king who wanted them killed.  During the time of Elijah it was high treason to be a true prophet.

Matthew 24:49

And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;

We do not currently see wise servants who are leaders appointed by God over his sheep smiting and killing their fellow servants.  In verse 49 what follows this outrage is that they eat and drink with the drunken.  Is the fear of starvation driving them to kill each other for food?   This would be the opposite of the one who was appointed to provide nourishment (same servant.)

I can certainly say that there will be famine in Jerusalem at this time.  This will also be due to the briars and thorns (armies) that surround her.  No one will enter to perform sacrifices for fear of the briars and thorns (it seems the temple will be completed during this time.)  It will be so severe in Jerusalem that they will resort to cannibalism.  To still be left standing in Jerusalem is recognition that you have been fed by hidden manna. 

But how many signs and wonders do you need?  What is God telling you to do?  Should you prepare for the coming famine?

Part 3

What season are we in now?

Chapter 6: The Sign of his Birth

It all begins with his birth.  If you miss this, the only sign left to see is the sign of his death and resurrection (2 witnesses.)  September 23^rd, 2017 Jupiter was born from the constellation Virgo.  If this event ever has happened before it may have happened at the time when Jesus was first born on his first coming.  Today we are the body of Jesus Christ.  We are waking up as through the Holy Spirit he is being made perfect in us.

Psalm 53

The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.

² God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.

³ Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

⁴ Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.

⁵ There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.

⁶ Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When God bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

Romans 3:10

As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

¹¹ There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

¹² They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

¹³ Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

¹⁴ Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

¹⁵ Their feet are swift to shed blood:

¹⁶ Destruction and misery are in their ways:

¹⁷ And the way of peace have they not known:

¹⁸ There is no fear of God before their eyes.

Just as in his first coming the world was in great darkness, but the light began to shine.  Be someone who seeks God directly as he has made a way through his Holy Spirit to understand and enter the Holy of Holies on your own.  Seek God.

It all begins with his birth.  Eight days later he would be caught up to God (circumcised) on October 1^st 2017.  Then the woman would begin her wilderness journey.

Revelation 12:1

And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:

² And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.

³ And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.

⁴ And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.

⁵ And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.

⁶ And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.

The heavens is the area of the Virgin’s wilderness journey just as is the harlot’s.

Revelation 17:3

So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.

(12:3 in heaven)

The original sons of God did not have true knowledge or wisdom.

Jeremiah 4:22

For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

²³ I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

²⁴ I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.

²⁵ I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.

²⁶ I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the Lord, and by his fierce anger.

²⁷ For thus hath the Lord said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.

²⁸ For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.

I believe this is when the original sons of God had a part in attacking earth and making her void.  Babylon (the original sons of God) is the mother of harlotry and idolatry.  Finally all the things they have set up on this earth that seem unmovable will be shaken and crumble and destroyed and found no more neither remembered.  God will make this earth new.  The new sons of God (144,000) who are virgins should be arriving in time for Passover in Jerusalem in the year 2021.  The beast’s week of false peace should begin starting as early as April fools 2021.  (We have been in the Jews true week of peace announced by Trump and confirmed with the emissary.  The false week of peace will not be for the Jews but the world who blames their lack of peace on the church.  The midpoint of the Jews week of peace is the start of the beast’s week of peace.)  About a month later in May (Pentecost?) the time of the witnesses will begin (1,260 days is slightly less than 3 ½ years.)

How do I come by this?  Because the 144,000 are also witness during the time of the two witnesses that overlaps with the treading of the outer courts than this cannot also be their wilderness journey; it all begins with his birth.  Then the time of the Great Tribulation the beast will be able to enter the Holy of Holies which he is unable to do during the time of witness (who protect it and those who worship there.)  So in Revelation 13 the final 42 months are an additional 3 ½ years.  But there is a 4^th 3 ½ and that is the time, times and half a time that the Jews are shut outside the camp due to their unbelief.  I believe this to be a mere 12 days.  (For the elcts sake this 3 ½ is shortened when truly the whole time of Revelation should over 14 years not 3 3 ½ years.  This is the 3 ½ days the witness are dead followed by the 7 days of Feast of Tabernacles followed by them joining the lamb to the Mount to join him in battle probably playing a role in turning on their enemies.)

Manna could be considered to be made of milk and honey.  This is what the 144,000 are fed.

Isaiah 7:14

Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

¹⁵ Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.

¹⁶ For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.

¹⁷ The Lord shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.

¹⁸ And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

¹⁹ And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes.

²⁰ In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.

²¹ And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep;

²² And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land.

²³ And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.

²⁴ With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.

²⁵ And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.

This is what the churches of Thyatira and Pergamum eat whom Jesus is birthed in: milk and honey, the riches of the Word of God.  Notice that from the time this sign appeared the clock has begun ticking; before this child grows to be able to discern evil from good (3 ½?) the abhorred land (10 the kings hate the harlot.  There is a civil war going on in heaven where the 7 crowns on the head of the beast are being transferred to the 10 horns or leaders of the 10 tribes of Israel.  Rev 12:3 crowns on heads, Rev 13:1 crowns on horns.  There are mortals in the heavenly battle who give their lives but the white horse rider who then becomes the red horse rider is victorious. 12:13)  So the abhorred land is forsaken by both sides of the battle.  This could be referring to the 10 kings leaving Nibiru and Death and hell (Markuk/ Babylonian kingdom.)

Daniel 12:3

And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.

Then, continuing with Isaiah 7, in verse 18 plagues begin.  I believe the young cow and two sheep in verse 21 could be referring to the two witness as well as the church of the slaughtered (young cow/James’) making a total of actually 3 witnesses.  (Where there is two there is three.)  Because they spread the word in verse 22 everyone else  has the opportunity to eat butter and honey.

Isaiah 5:6 talks about a time of famine:

And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

⁷ For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.

⁸ Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!

⁹ In mine ears said the Lord of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.

¹⁰ Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.

¹¹ Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!

¹² And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands.

¹³ Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

¹⁴ Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.

¹⁵ And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:

¹⁶ But the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.

¹⁷ Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.

¹⁸ Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:

¹⁹ That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!

²⁰ Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

²¹ Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

²² Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:

²³ Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

²⁴ Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

²⁵ Therefore is the anger of the Lord kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcasses were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Starting with verse 26 is the time that the fallen sons of God arrive I believe (devil’s angels.)  Up until that time (verses 6-25) should be talking about the time of the witnesses.  There comes a time when the word of the Lord will be so scarce that people will search and search for it and not be able to find it.  Even though it will be the time of the witnesses, it will also be another level of deception.  We are considered to be Israelites; Abraham is the father of us all by faith and through the promise (Romans 4:16, 9:7)  So if in Isaiah 5:6 it says the clouds will not rain upon his vineyard do not think that you are excepted.  There is certainly a famine coming.  The most likely time for this will be for the entire 3 ½ years of the tribulation.  The church will go through the tribulation.  Who is that wise servant who can store up for this time of need to be found providing nourishment to others when the master returns?  This servant will be made ruler over all he has.

Chapter 7: What should be done?

Crisis centers should lay aside anything they receive that is good through the year 2021 and beyond.  With regards to the third horseman of famine (which is not fully seen until the thunders) it says “Do not harm the oil and the wine.”  While this is mostly referring to the anointed with the Holy Spirit and covered in the blood of the lamb something I feel that should never run dry is communion. 

Luke 22:19

And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.

²⁰ Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.

I Corinthians 11:26

For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.

Until the Lord returns continue fellowship one with another demonstrating his death within your own bodies as you obediently partake of communion.

Hebrews 10:25

Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

I Corinthians 11:17

Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.

There should always be nourishment found in the house of God and this should be Holy Communion.  (Continue reading from verse 17.)  (Flour, oil, salt and juice from grapes)

For individuals you should talk with your household if they are willing to listen and come up with a plan of having water and other things that can last up to a few years by the spring of 2021.  We know for certain things will continue to wax worse and worse.  There is no loss to you to have planned ahead and stored up for times of need.

Most of all do not get your eyes off of Jesus. 

Isaiah 8:11

For the Lord spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,

¹² Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.

¹³ Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

¹⁴ And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

¹⁵ And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

¹⁶ Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

¹⁷ And I will wait upon the Lord, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

¹⁸ Behold, I and the children whom the Lord hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the Lord of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.

¹⁹ And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?

²⁰ To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

²¹ And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.

²² And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.

Fall on the rock (Jesus) and be saved or he will fall on you and grind you to powder.  He alone holds the keys; to him belongs all the glory and all the honor and all the praise, the dominion and the kingdom is his and he will rule and reign on this earth!