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Keys to Prophecy: Subjects are Often Discussed in Relation to the End of All Things

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This is not an absolute law, but it is a common pattern seen in many Scriptures. So there are continual jumps in time from the present to the end and final judgment. Readers sometimes try to look for the end things in the history, but of course they are not there.

“The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed
good seed in his field.” Mtt 13:24

But some enemy hated this farmer, and quietly planted weeds, darnel (the Greek is zizanion), among the wheat. The servants ask if they should uproot the weeds?

“29 But he said, ‘No, lest perhaps while you gather up the darnel, you root up the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, “First, gather up the darnel, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”
Mtt 13:28-30 WEB

Later Jesus explained. The one sowing the good seed was “the Son of Man,” Jesus Himself. The enemy sowing the bad seed is the devil. So what happens when we let bad things grow in us?

“40 As therefore the darnel is gathered up and burned with fire; so will it be at the end of this age. 41 The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all things that cause stumbling, and those who do iniquity, 42 and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be weeping and the gnashing of teeth.”
Mtt 13:40-42 WEB

So what we let grow in us has literally eternal consequences.

Or look at Isaiah chapter 24.

It after a series of oracles about the sins of various nations including Israel. Isaiah 13 and 14 is an oracle about Babylon and her sins. Isaiah 15 and 16 is an about the nation of Moab. Isaiah 17 is about Damascus, and so on. Then Isaiah 24 comes along and God says He will make the earth empty and waste, and turn it upside down, Isa 24:1. We are left wondering about how these judgments will come, and how literally we should take this. There are indications that much of this judgement is in history. But then we come to some of the clearer passages, as in Isaiah 24.

“19 The earth is utterly broken, the earth is torn apart, the earth is shaken violently. 20 The earth shall stagger like a drunken man, and shall sway back and forth like a hammock; and the disobedience of it shall be heavy on it, and it shall fall, and not rise again. 21 … in that day, that Yahweh will punish the host of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth on the earth.”
Isa 24:19-21 WEB

There is much more to quote in Isaiah 24. Clearly it is speaking of the end of the world and final judgement, as in many other places in these passages. Linking things soon to come with the end of all things.

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Keys to Prophecy: Prophesy is Not Always Sequential.

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It has been said that prophecy is generally conversational in nature. A conversation between God and his children. You and I will often have to pay close attention or we may not notice when the conversation suddenly goes in new directions.

In “Prophecy Principles” Psalm 22 was used to
Illustrate these points.

For instance, look at the death of Jesus as prophesied in Psa 22:14-18. You can read what actually happened about a thousand years later in the Gospels, and see that Psalm 22 was very accurate, but it still was not a rigidly chronological discussion. Nor are few prophecies.

Some speak of this trait as being almost
intolerable.

Some say this is something weird and strange and unknown about Scripture and prophecy. Actually much writing and much history is not always sequential.

Take Will Durant’s “The Age of Reason Begins.”

This is Durant’s history of these things from 1558-1648, a mere 90 years. Is it rigidly sequential? It is divided in to three books:

Book I, The English Ecstasy: 1558-1648

Book II, Faith Fights for Power: 1556-1648

Book III, The Tentatives of Reason: 1558-1648

Similarly, even within these “Books” it is not rigidly sequential, nor can it be. In fact in this case it is a series of parallel accounts. This is common especially in books of history. However, Scripture is sometimes unjustly criticized for not being sequential.

Psalm 22 for instance is generally sequential,
but not rigidly so.

The subject, Jesus death, is announced in the first verse,

“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
Psa 22:1 WEB

Such announcing of the subject at first, is also common in historical accounts. Finally the Psalm ends with all men having to bow before Jesus.

“… All those who go down to the dust shall bow before him,
Even he who can’t keep his soul alive.”
Psa 22:29

So it is generally sequential, much as with a good history, but not rigidly so.

Similarly, Matthew chapter 24 is generally sequential,
but not rigidly so.

Matthew 24 clearly talks about the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD (some 40 years into the future), and also talks about the end of this world (very clearly in Mtt 24:36 and the verses following). Evidently, the destruction of Jerusalem is symbolic of the end of this world. However, look at verse 6. It is in the early section about the fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD.

“You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you aren’t troubled, for all this must happen, but the end is not yet.”
Mtt 24:6 WEB

Many quote this of the end of this world, and they are right. Wars and rumors of wars are not a sign of the end of the world! However, “wars and rumors of war,” ARE A SIGN OF THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM IN 70 AD! You see Jerusalem was destroyed in a Roman invasion of Judea to suppress the Jewish revolt!

So at the start of the discussion of 70 AD is a verse about the end of the world. Generally sequential, but not rigidly so.

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Out of the North, Part III of III

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Not all the references to the North seem to have an earthly reference. When Ezekiel has a vision of God, it seems it comes out of the North.

“I looked, and, behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, a great cloud, with flashing lightning, and a brightness round about it, and out of the midst of it as it were glowing metal, out of the midst of the fire.” Ezek 1:4 WEB

Then there follows a dazzling vision of God and of the four living creatures which surround him.

God? From the North?

There are other references, which could be taken more than one way.

“Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth,
Is Mount Zion, on the north sides,
The city of the great King.” Psa 48:2 WEB

The KJV and the New King James Version says “on the sides of the north.” The New American Standard Bible, 1995 edition, and the English Standard Version say “Mount Zion in the far north.” Taken this way it would seem to say that the “true” Mount Zion is in the far north, and earthly Mount Zion is only symbolic of the true Zion in heaven!

The Hebrew word is yerekah, and can mean the side of something, the flanks, or can mean the extremes or far parts of something. None of the translations are entirely satisfying. Mount Zion on the North sides? Well, maybe, but look at some maps. Mount Zion in the far North? Mount Zion is not really in the North at all, of anything. Perhaps we should come back to this.

Or again, where does exaltation come from?

“6 For neither from the east, nor from the west,
Nor yet from the south, comes exaltation.
7 But God is the judge.
He puts down one, and lifts up another.”
Psa 75:6-7 WEB

Here is another enigmatic passage. Exaltation is clearly from the Lord, but look how it states this. Exaltation is not from the east or the west or south, … but it leaves out the North, and says exaltation is from God, and seems to imply that His throne is in the North!

When Isaiah writes of Satan’s revolt
against God in Isaiah 14, it says.

“You said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; and I will sit on the mountain of congregation, in the uttermost parts of the north;” Isa 14:13 WEB

This is a far plainer passage about where “heaven” is. Further this word “uttermost” is again that word yerekah. If you take the KJV on this passage, then heaven is “in the sides of the north,” “above the stars of God“!

Where does God come from?

The book of Job of course far precedes those later times when Assyria and Babylon are such powerful entities. But Job speaks of the North in more than one place.

“Out of the north comes golden splendor;
With God is awesome majesty.”
Job 37:22 WEB

Other translations are more explicit.

“He comes from the north as golden splendor;
With God is awesome majesty.”
Job 37:22 New King James Version

Putting them together, it does seem to suggest that heaven is North of our earth, and that God will come out of the North.

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Talking About Heaven, Part II of III

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As has been discussed, a world dominated by sin and death is falling apart. In physics it is called the Second Law of Thermodynamics, that is to say, things run down, things decay, and fall apart

We are made so that we need rest.

In rest and in sleep, we can repair some of the loss. Even so our ability to repair loss and ruin and decay is limited. If you stick your finger in a fan and knock some of the skin off of your finger, then your body can over time repair that loss of skin, and restore your finger to like new. However, if that fan actually cuts off part of your finger … well … you will never be able to grow back that finger. We do not have that sort of regenerative capability.

And even our senses run down.

In a world dominated by sin and death that is often a good thing. This means if we are surrounded by death and stinking decay, we may at first accurately sense the stink and the filth. It is nauseating, and we can hardly stand it. But if we are forced to stay around the stink, then after a little while our sense of the stinking decay tends to run down. After a little while, it does not bother us quite so bad. In a world dominated by sin and death that can be a good thing, within limits.

It is the same for many of our very stupid mistakes and slip-ups. At first the shame of how dumb we have been is overwhelming. But fortunately that sense of being so shamefully stupid wears off. Thank God! Imagine how bad it would be if we fully and accurately felt that shame and embarrassment forever! That would be hard to bear. So it is in part a good thing that our senses also run down.

Part of the other side of that of course is when we are trying to fully enjoy something that is good or beautiful. Almost all of us have had times when we came across a song or a piece of music that was so beautiful that we could not get enough of it. We played it, we listened to it over and over and over and seemingly could not get enough of it. Even at our best though, after a while our senses run down, and we can no longer enjoy that music as we once did.

In heaven, in the new universe NOT dominated by
sin and death and decay,

we will be able to perfectly enjoy good things forever. We will be purified from all wickedness and decay forever.

And since things will not run down in this
new universe without sin and death,

we will not need and rest.

“but those who wait for Yahweh shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.”
Isa 40:28-31 WEB

You would not want to miss it for the world!

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Talking About Heaven, Part I of III

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This present universe is under a curse!

It is because of sin, because of rebellion, against the Lord our God in our present universe. It appears that this rebellion started before before man was created, but it is not clear how long before man was created.

Even matter is temporary.

Now we come to a fundamental law of our universe. The actual “laws” of science are few and far between. Even so, some of what we sometimes call “laws” are only rules that only work within some pretty narrow limits, that is to say they are not really “laws.” But one of the fundamental laws of our universe is what is sometimes called “The Second law of Thermodynamics.” It is also called “Entropy,” or to state it another way: Things run down. In our universe things to go from order to disorder, and the amount of energy available to do any work is steadily diminishing.

One of the astonishing things which came out of the early nuclear work of Madam Curie and others is that sometimes even matter itself disintegrates The atoms themselves are unstable, they disintegrate.. The most unstable of our elements are called “radioactive,” and they steadily loose small particles as they disintegrate to other forms of matter.

Take your room, your house, or your
car or lawnmower.

You do not have to do something to them for them to disintegrate, for them to rundown, for them to slide into disorder and ruin. Just leaven them alone and they will do that on their own. Entropy, things run down.

Even our bodies, even when starting out correctly, over time disintegrate.

The sun, it turns out is a giant hydrogen bomb.

Now how fast does a hydrogen bomb convert matter into energy? I do not know how to express that mathematically, but it is very fast. Realizing that the Sun is such a giant bomb, it would be natural to expect that it is shrinking, and very fast, and it is!

The British Greenwich Observatory and the U. S. Naval Observatory did a 90 year study of the Sun’s diameter, and the result of that study is that the Sun is shrinking at an astonishing six feet per hour! (Eddy and Boornazian, 1979. “Secular decrease in the solar diameter, 1863-1953.” Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 11:437.)

But if the earth was 4 or 5 billion years old, it would mean that the earth would have been inside the sun. We are about 93 million miles from the sun. Run the figures for yourself. This and much other evidence points to a relatively young solar system, and a young earth.

Scripture calls the Second Law of Thermodynamics
the law of sin and death.

And one day, a new universe, called “a new heavens and a new earth,” Isa 65:17, 2Pe 3:13, etc., will be created, which will not be subject to this law.

“that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.”
Rom 8:21 WEB

That will indeed be heaven.

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Multiple Types of the beast: the Caesars and others.

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The caesars and Rome are definitely in the book of Revelation, and few would bother to deny that. Still, we must realize that Revelation describes what is going on with the early church, and what is going on at the end of this present age. Many an interpretation of Revelation has made a good case for one end of this spectrum or the other, but not both ends of this story.

The caesars did allow themselves to be
set up as “gods.”

The political argument was that Rome needed an empire wide religion, that would give needed political and philosophical unity. The caesars at first accepted such treatment with reluctance, and at times no little embarrassment. Most knew they were not really gods. This was just politics. Domitian was an obnoxious exception in taking all of this very seriously.

Even so, once in place it had to be either enforced or abandoned entirely. So there was persecution of those who refused to appear before the magistrates and offer a pinch of incense on the altar fires, and say “Caesar is Lord.” So far this seems to fit Revelation’s declaration of “things which must happen soon,” Rev 1:1 WEB. However, Jesus also says, “Yes, I come quickly.” Rev 22:20 WEB, and that also is undoubtably true in an eternal perspective.

The liberals treat all of this as very simple.

They say all of this applies to a few of the early caesars, and they give names and dates … However, even the best of these accounts break down upon close examination. Then you are faced with either: discounting their interpretation … OR discounting Revelation as being the Word of the Lord.

Actually there many things missing.

There is much more about Rome and what was missing, in Revealing the Christian Age.
  1. There NEVER WAS any world-wide acknowledgement of the caesars as god, as is clearly pictured of the beast in Rev 13:8. The Romans clearly knew they did NOT rule the entire earth, and they had debates among themselves as to how far it made sense to expand the empire.
  2. They NEVER WAS a “mark” (Rev 13:16) that EVERYONE had to have in order to buy or sell things. Such was imminently expected with so much else going on, but … it NEVER happened. Yet!
  3. The Roman empire did NOT conquer “the saints” as clearly forecast in Rev 13:7. Instead the saints conquered the Roman Empire as clearly forecast in Dan 2:44 and other passages, and this was NOT complete by the end of the first century AD!
  4. Whoever you think was the ultimate beast/caesar was NOT alive to be destroyed by Jesus second coming, as is clearly forecast in 2Thes 2:8 and Rev 19:20.

This is just a short list. Other issues are discussed in Revealing the Christian Age.

So either Revelation is a false prophecy,
a failure in the first century,
OR
The caesars and Rome are merely
types and shadows of
what is yet to come.

The mystery of lawlessness (2Thes 2:7) and Mystery Babylon are Christian Age long entities. All through our age we have had to guard against new attempts at a world-wide antichrist hegemony.

And it hasn’t even discussed two of the main types of the beast: Antiochus IV Epiphanes, and the original “abomination of desolation,” both of which are discussed in detail in the books.

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Multiple Types of the beast: the Man of Lawlessness

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Admittedly the man of lawlessness is not actually a type of the beast. Rather it another description of the beast, and another name for the beast.

There is a variation here between versions
and manuscripts on the name.

Some of our oldest manuscripts show the reading of man of “lawlessness” (anomias). This the preferred reading by most scholars today, and this matches with calling this organization the “mystery of lawlessness” in verse 7. The alternate reading is man of “sin” (hamartia). If we take the reading “man of lawlessness” as being correct, that means this man is characterized by lawlessness, and of course, “Sin is lawlessness,” 1Jn 3:4

A great rebellion must come first.

The Greek word is apostasia, and is actually a very strong word for a rebellion or a “defection” or desertion of one’s obligations to someone or thing. Liddell and Scott’s Greek-English Lexicon. Oxford, 1889, a lexicon of Classical Greek, lists the primary reading as “1. a defection, revolt.” It is a word for what we would call a political revolution, or an attempt to overthrow. Implied in both Revelation and 2Thessalonian 2 is that this is a world-wide phenomena that takes in “all” of the lost of this world, 2Thes 2:10-11, Rev 13:8.

In English this word apostasia has been watered down in some of the older Greek dictionaries, translations and commentaries. This word is much stronger than just “falling away,” or a “departure.” It has the idea in context of shaking your fist in the face of God. The newer dictionaries/lexicons are going back to the old Classical definition, and the watering down was never justified.

There is going to be a world-wide rebellion against God and against all law and order before the man of lawlessness comes. This has to happen BEFORE the the second coming of Christ, 2Thes 2:2-3.

This man is against the worship of ANYTHING or
ANYONE except himself.

“he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped; so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.”
2Thes 2:4 WEB

He is brought to power by a “mystery of lawlessness”
that has been working since the
first century, 2Thes 2:7.

See the previous posts about the mystery religions. So this is a multi-melenia struggle to seat this servant of Satan (Rev 13:2-3) as the true “god” of this world.

There is someone or thing who is restraining this mystery, to keep it from having success, until just the right time, 2Thes 2:6.

“even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders.”
2Thes 2:9 WEB

God also helps this man succeed, so that all
who “didn’t believe the truth but had
pleasure in unrighteousness,”
would be lost.
2The 2:12

“Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie;”
2Thes 2:11 WEB

This man is destroyed by the Second
Coming of Christ.
2Thes 2:8, Rev 19:20.

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Multiple Types of the beast: Ahab, King of Israel

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In most important things, Scripture gives us more than one opportunity to see, and understand, and be ready, for what will be. In prophecy, if something is very important, quite often times God gives us more than one opportunity to understand.

Ahab has a kingdom that is united
around false religion.

Subversion of God’s Holy religions began with the first king of the northern kingdom of Israel. It was all about subverting true religion to serve the political purposes of government. Many rulers, as perhaps mini-types of the beast, fall guilty to such temptations. Ahab then increased the turn to evil religion.

He did “evil in the sight of Yahweh above all that were before him,” 1Kgs 16:30.

Ahab toke as a wife a Sidonian worshipper of Baal: Jezebel. She soon organized the extermination of the prophets of God, 1Kgs 18:4; and Ahab began in Israel the worship of the Mother Earth “goddess” Asherah, the covert passion of the modern ecology movement. It was a fertility cult involving religious prostitution and infanticide.

Elijah responded,

“… As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word. ”
1Kgs 17:1 WEB

James tells us,

“Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn’t rain on the earth for three years and six months.”
Jas 5:17 WEB

That is exactly the amount of time that the beast rules in Revelation. This amount of time is variously expressed as “three years and six months, 1,260 days, forty-two months, or as “time, times, and half a time.”

Also the two witnesses in Revelation 11,
for 1,260 days, Rev 11:3

“have the power to shut up the sky, that it may not rain during the days of their prophecy.” Rev 11:6 WEB. Indeed, the two witnesses seem a little like Moses, and a little like Elijah.

Elijah even proved to Ahab that Yahweh, the Lord our God, was superior to Baal at the dramatic confrontation on Mont Carmel in 2Kings 18.

And Ahab, multiple times, was close
to true and lasting repentance.

When his conscience afflicted him over the murder of Naboth in 1Kings 21, it says,

“… when Ahab heard those words, that he tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.”
1Kgs 21:27 WEB

His repentance was sincere enough to touch God’s heart, 1Kgs 21:29;

but Ahab never let his repentance last.

So in the end he had to be lured to his death, as is clearly depicted in 1Kings 22. In the end, the dogs of Samaria licked up his blood, 1Kgs 22:38.

Of the beast himself, he is destroyed in the great battle against God at the Second coming of Christ, Revelation 19 and many other passages, and is thrown alive into hell, Rev 19:20, where the worms will eternally eat on them.

“… for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring to all flesh.”
Isa 66:24 WEB

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Multiple Types of the beast: Pharaoh of the Exodus

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The oppression of Israel began out of fear.

Political fear of these “outsiders” taking over their country, or siding with their enemies. So the Pharaoh said,

“Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.”
Ex 1:9 WEB

So a Egypt far less populous that even in later ancient times, oppressed God’s people and “set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens,” Ex 1:11 WEB. The purpose was not just to use them for labor, but indeed to ruin them with hard labor and oppression. Often in history political fears drive religious oppressions, with genocidal results. Then God sent Moses to secure their release.

It has been briefly discussed in posts on Identifying Types, that the wilderness wanderings are typical (symbolic) of the Christian life, with the Red Sea finally separating Israel from the Egypt of this world. That means: that Egypt is symbolic of this world, and then the Pharaoh is symbolic of the “god of this world,” 2Cor 4:4.

The beast in Revelation 13 is trying to unite a one-world government, with a single religious focus on himself, as the true god of this world! Christians then become obstacles to the political unification of this world. This is indeed like the ancient Caesars as “gods,” but what is pictured in Revelation is far more complete and thorough than anything done in ancient times, and “All who dwell on earth will worship him,” Rev 13:8, even all who are not written in the book of life. The phony man/god will make war on the saints and overcome them, Rev 13:7. However neither ancient Rome nor the caesars ever overcame the church.

Similarly, Pharaoh did overcome and enslave Israel in ancient Egypt.

God’s people are to have their spokesmen.

It was Moses in ancient Egypt. It is the two witnesses in Revelation 11. It seems an attempt is made in both cases to bring this arrogant king to reason. The pattern seen over and over again, is that Moses bargains for freedom for Israel, the Pharaoh responds with greater oppressions, and God responds with increasingly harsh strokes on the beast and his kingdom.

Moses turns the waters of the Nile into blood. The two witnesses “have power over the waters, to turn them to blood,” Rev 11:6. “A great mountain burning with fire” is thrown into the sea and turns it to blood in Rev 8:8 WEB.

Repeatedly the Pharaoh ALMOST relents.

Pharaoh’s servants repeatedly plea “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve Yahweh,” Ex 10:7. There was frogs, darkness, locusts, hail, and boils on all the people. All of these things have their equivalent in Revelation. At one point the Pharaoh even says,

… “I have sinned this time. Yahweh is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.”
Ex 9:27 WEB

But the Pharaoh of Egypt will never let
repentance stick.

So in the end he has to be broken and destroyed, when he goes to fight directly against God.

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Identifying Some Types, Part 9 of 9

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Ancient Israel has a huge “exodus” from the
Egypt of this world

They had been in bondage in Egypt, a bondage directed by the Pharaoh as a type of the god of this world (2Cor 4:4). Then God personally delivered them from Egypt and bondage, and put a separation between them and the Egypt of this world, and led them into the promised land.

A new “god” of this world will come.

“he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped; so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.”
2Thes 2:4 WEB

This man has the entire world worship him.

“All who dwell on the earth will worship him …”
Rev 13:8 WEB

This has obviously NOT happened yet! No one man has been worshipped by “all,” yet! He will be destroyed by Christ’ second coming, 2Thes 2:8, Rev 19:20.

This man will overcome the church.

“It was given to him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them.”
Rev 13:7 WEB

I am sorry to tell you this folks. Rome and the caesars did NOT overcome the church. Instead the church overcame Rome and the caesars! But this beast will overcome the church.

And one more time the true church will be forced
out into the wilderness.

The church is pictured as the faithful woman.

“The woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that there they may nourish her one thousand two hundred sixty days.”
Rev 12:6 WEB

Hosea speaks of the future of what God “will” do.

““Therefore, behold, I will allure her,
And bring her into the wilderness,
And speak tenderly to her.”
Hos 2:14 WEB

For the days that this vicious beast rules (1,260), the church will be protected in the wilderness (Rev 12:6 above).

God will send plagues on the beast and his kingdom
like the plagues of Egypt.

Read of those plagues in Revelation chapters 15 and 16, and other places in Revelation and the rest of Scripture. They are very much like the plagues God sent on Egypt in 15th century BC, including waters turning to blood, darkness, and hail and all the rest.

Then will come Greater Exodus to Come

Ancient Israel came out of Egypt, into the wilderness, an into a this world promised land. The saints will have an exodus, The Great Exodus into the wilderness, and then into the new heavens and new earth where righteousness dwells, 2Pe 3:13.

“16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first, 17 then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.”
1The 4:16-17 WEB

The Greater Exodus into the Greater Promised land.

Understanding types is essential for understanding prophecy. This has been some practice.

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