THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST

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THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST

A REVIEW OF REVELATION
CHAPTERS 1 THROUGH 11
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• 
  INTRODUCTION
• Written by JOHN (Not the Baptistthe Disciple).
• The youngest of the disciples, the beloved, a
  part of the inner 3.
• Written about 90-95 AD. John would have been
  in his 80s.
• He was on the Island of Patmos a Roman Prison
  Camp Island.
• He was there for his preaching of Jesus!
  (Rev. 19)
• IT IS FROM -Verse 1. THE REVELATION OF JESUS
  CHRIST! From Jesus, through His angel
  (messenger). In the book The angel speaks to
  John, and Jesus speaks to John. It is all
  about JESUS!
• IT IS TO -V1 His servants -
  Christiansindividually them and US!
• V4 To the 7 Churches - them and US!

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• 
  CHAPTER 1
• FOUR major keys in properly
  interpreting Revelation
• Key One The book is divided into two major
  sections What is - Chapters 1-5 and What is
  to come - Chapters 6-22.
• Key Two The book is NOT in a perfect
  Chronology. It is a series of vignettes
  beginning and ending at different points,
  highlighting different features of the future
  along the same line. Most of this is centered
  around the 7 Seals, the 7 Trumpets and the 7
  Bowls. THIS IS A MOST IMPORTANT KEY!
• Key Three - We MUST understand IT IS ALL ABOUT
  JESUS and HIS ultimate VICTORY!
• Key Four - You must be saved and serious!

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• CHAPTERS 2-3 THE SEVEN LETTERS TO THE SEVEN
  CHURCHES
• The NUMBER SEVEN 7
  
  The
  Biblical number of COMPLETION.
• 7 Oceans, 7 Continents, 7 Chords of a musical
  scale, 7 Seals, 7 Trumpets, 7 Bowls, 7 Angels, 7
  Days in a week, The 7th Day is HOLY, The 7 fold
  Spirit, 7 things God hates (Prov. 616), There
  are 7 colors in the rainbow and 3 primary colors,
  The 7 last words of Jesus, the 7 CHURCHES!
• THIS BOOK IS THE BOOK OF COMPLETION! IT IS TO
  THE 7 CHURCHES - THEM and US!

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• The 7 Churches of
  Revelation
• 1. Ephesus The Loveless Church
• 2. Smyrna The Lasting Church
• 3. Pergamum The Lenient Church
• 4. Thyatira The Licentious Church
• 5. Sardis The Lifeless Church
• 6. Philadelphia The Loved Church
• 7. Laodicea The Lukewarm Church

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• REVELATION CHAPTERS 4-5
• THE WHOLE SCENE is WORSHIP!
• W.I.S.A.T. !
• Isnt amazing everybody wants to go to heaven
  and everybody ultimately believes that they will
  go to heaven! ( over 90 of American
  population when polled) Yet only less than 40
  are actively and consistently in Church on Sunday
  Mornings!
• If you are not happy in church NOWyou wont be
  happy in Heaven for ETERNITY! If you cant
  bear to WORSHIP nowhow will you do it with JOY
  for ever and ever?
• It all is about your RELATIONSHIP
  WITH JESUS!

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• REVELATION CHAPTER 5
• THE FOCAL
  POINTS
• 1. Throne of God The focal point of the entire
  Bible!
• 2. Scroll 7 seals
• 3. Who can open - The LION/LAMB - no one
  in Heaven or on Earth
• 4. The Lamb - 7 horns, 7 eyes,
  Standing in the center of the THRONE
• 5. The opening of the seals - will and can be
  done by - only ONE

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• REVELATION CHAPTERS 6-7
• THE 7
  SEALS
• Chapters 4 and 5 building
  to THIS!
• The focus is on the SCROLL and the LAMB the
  unfolding
• REVELATION 7s
• Each set of seven -unfolds into the other
• Not Chronological 3 vignettes interspersed with
  other vignettes, signs and scenes.
• The 7 Seals unfolding of general history
• The 7 Trumpets unfolding of last days
• The 7 Bowls The outpouring of Gods Wrath after
  the rapture.
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• REVELATION CHAPTERS 6-7
• Just as Jesus told his disciples while He was
  here on earth with themthe general unfolding
  of history right down to the last daysAgain in
  Revelation, He tells John in more detailed
  imagery.
• MATTHEW 24 COMPARED WITH REVELATION 6 - THE
  7 SEALS
• Seal One Rider on the White Horse bent on
  conquest False Christs and religious systems.
• Seal Two Rider on the Red Horse wars and
  rumors of wars
• Seal Three Rider on the Black Horse famine
  poverty.
• Seal Four - Rider on the Pale Horse disease,
  plagues, terrorism, dread.
• Seal Five - The martyrdom of the saints -
  increasing in the last days.
• Seal Six - The harvesting of the earth
  (rapture) and the beginning of the outpouring of
  Gods Wrath!

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• CHAPTERS 8-9
• The 7 TRUMPETS a closer, more focused look at
  the specific end time generation(s) these are
  warnings and announcements especially to
  GODS PEOPLE (as ALL the trumpets of the Bible
  are)
• BUTalso a revelation to the world of the
  TRUTHFULNESS of Gods Word so that some, in
  this end time would REPENT and turn to Jesus!
  
• These are mile-markers or signs along the way
  of history that declare THE TIME OF THE RETURN
  OF JESUS IS NEAR!

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• WHAT DID WE DISCOVER THAT THE SEVEN TRUMPETS
  POSSIBLY ARE?
  1945
• Trumpets One and Two Speak of the devastation,
  human loss, destruction and the Nuclear Bomb of
  WWII. This signaled to the World that the End
  Time Generation(s) were here!
• -literally 1/3 of all who fought and involved
  in WWII were killed.
• -literally - 1/3 of all ships used in WWII were
  destroyed.
• -literally hail and fire mixed with blood fell
  from the heavens.
• -literally a burning mountain, huge and all
  ablaze was thrown into the sea.
• THE LARGEST WAR IN HUMAN HISTORY
• THE MOST KILLED IN HUMAN HISTORY
• THE MOST NATIONS INVOLVED IN WAR IN HUMAN HISTORY
• THE FIRST USE OF A NUCLEAR WEAPON IN HISTORY
  

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  1986
• TRUMPET THREE
  
• THE CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR PLANT EXPLOSION
• The FIRST nuclear accident in the history of the
  world
• The LARGEST amount of radiation released into the
  atmosphere, water and soil in human history (10X
  the amount of Hiroshima)
• Hundreds of thousands dead and MILLIONS more
  poisoned and dying as we speak!
• Wormwood CHERNOBYL in Russian GOD GAVE THE
  NAME! He could not have been more CLEAR!
• Literally fell blazing from the sky to the earth.
• Literally poisoned the waters (turned them
  bitter).

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• 1991
  PRESENT!
• TRUMPETS 4 and 5
  Began with invasion of
• KUWAIT / GULF
  WAR
• Continued with a 10 year man hunt for Saddam and
  we are back there NOW! (Operation Iraqi Freedom)
  -
• Desert Storm - THE SHORTEST WAR OF ITS SIZE in
  HUMAN HISTORY with the LEAST killed! The FIRST
  WAR in HUMAN HISTORY to be watched LIVE by the
  entire world! THE FIRST USE OF SMART BOMB
  technology and a myriad of other weapons
  technologies the world had never seen before!
  Operation Iraqi Freedom The SHORTEST, SWIFTEST
  conquering of an entire nation with the most
  massive forces used in HUMAN HISTORY. The
  largest, longest, most expensive manhunt in human
  history unsuccessful for TEN YEARS!
• SADDAM THE DESTROYER in Arabic
• Literally 1/3 of day and night darkened by THICK
  SMOKE (for eight months 700 oil wells)
• The invasion of Kuwait lasted exactly 5 MONTHS
• The locusts (helicopters) came out of the
  smoke and stung like scorpions
• Saddams troops were not allowed to kill
  (conquer) Kuwait only torment them for 5
  months
• Saddam did not want to destroy the trees, grass
  (the land) he wanted the land and its oil!
• We sought the death and longed for the death
  to die, but he kept alluding us for 10 years.
• The people under this torment? MILLIONS of
  them! MUSLIM! Not the sealed!

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• WHAT DO THE FIRST THREE SIGNS (first 5
  trumpets)
• HAVE IN COMMON?
• First, Longest, Shortest, Most, Largest in
  HUMAN HISTORY!
• Each event was witnessed and participated in -
  in one way or another by the ENTIRE PLANET!
• EACH OF THE ELEMENTS WERE NAMED BY THE LORD
  AND/OR GIVEN an UNMISTAKABLE DESCRIPTION!
• Wormwood Chernobyl (Russian Bible)
• Destroyer Saddam (Arabic Bible)
• Huge mountain all ablaze thrown into the sea
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  Trumpet 6
• IT IS STILL IN THE
  FUTURE
• POSSIBLY
• a coming Middle Eastern WAR centered in IRAQ?
• Along the Euphrates (Bible starts here Eden
  1st murder 1st Sin 1st war counsel 1st
  worldwide revolt against God (Babel) nations
  scattered from here ABRAHAM called from here
  (Israel born from here) last war on earth
  fought HERE (Armageddon Revelation 1612)
• The United States of America is THERE NOW!
• IT IS THE FOCUS OF THE WORLD NOW!
• IT IS THE FOCUS OF THE UPCOMING PRESIDENTIAL
  ELECTION NOW!
• Horses and their riders looked like lions heads
  with tails that had heads that shot fire!

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• CHAPTER
  10
• Chapter 10 declares that the SEVENTH
  TRUMPET signals the very last days and
  particularly - the hour of the rapture. Rev
  107 and I Corinthians 1551 make this extremely
  clear.
• Rev. 107 But in the days when the seventh angel
  is about to sound his trumpet, the mystery of God
  will be accomplished
• 1 Corinthians 1551-52
• 51 Listen, I tell you a mystery We will not all
  sleep, but we will all be changed--
• 52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the
  last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the
  dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be
  changed.

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THE FOCAL POINTS OF CHAPTER
10 1. THE MIGHTY ANGEL who is he, why is he
significant? Dan 105-8, Dan 127-10 Same
angel Raises hand and swears by Him who lives
forever Both tell listener to seal up part of
what they are shown Both speak of End times,
Anti-Christ appearance, Anti-Christ persecution
of Gods people, the rapture. THE EARLY
CHRISTIANS WOULD HAVE KNOWN THIS! 2. THE LITTLE
SCROLL what is this little scroll why is it
significant? little as opposed to the 7
sealed scroll of Chapter 5 open in his hand
for all who care to see, read, hear. one foot on
land, one on sea available to the world
take the scroll and eat it sweet as honey in
mouth Same as in Ezekiel 2 and 3!
Ezekiels job with the scroll was to be a
watchman to warn of sin and judgment! THE
EARLY CHRISTIANS WOULD HAVE KNOWN THIS!

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• THE MAIN STORY LINE OF
  CHAPTER 11
• The Holy City (Jerusalem and/or the Church) will
  be trampled by Gentiles (profane or unbelievers
  particularly the antichrist) for 3 1/2 years.
  He will set up some of his authority here. This
  corresponds exactly with Daniel 725-27, Daniel
  811-12, Daniel 926-27 The antichrist will
  rule from here. (See also Luke 2124)
• 2. TWO WITNESSES from the Lord will preach
  during this 3 ½ years and will infuriate the
  ANTI-CHRIST.
• 3. The two witnesses are ISRAEL (National
  and Spiritual) and the CHURCH! Chapter 114
  These (two witnesses) ARE the two olive trees
  and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord
  of the earth. (Zechariah Chapter 4, Revelation
  120, Eph.34-6, Romans Chapters 8-11)

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• THE MAIN STORY LINE OF CHAPTER
  11-continued
• 4. The anti-Christ will show his rage towards
  these two witnesses at about the 3 ½ year mark
  of his rule!
• 5. These two witnesses will be killed
  (silenced, stopped, put-down outlawed). This
  decree of killing them will come from the
  anti-Christ himself . (Again both of the above
  correspond exactly to Daniel 725)
• 6. For 3 ½ days they will appear to be
  completely put down dead. The unbelieving
  - profane and vile world will celebrate the
  putdown of (Biblical) Christianity. 3 ½ days
  corresponds to 3 ½ years in other words ONLY
  FOR A SHORT TIME!
• 7. After this short time of apparently being
  finally put down THEY ARE RAPTURED!
• 8. There is celebration in Heavenand the Wrath
  of God is about to be poured out on the
  unbelieving world.

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• DO YOU SEE A
  PATTERN?
• Chapter ONE John in the Spirit
  future revealed The message is especially to
  the CHURCH
• Chapters TWO and THREE Letters
  (completion) to the CHURCHES
• Chapters FOUR and FIVE all about
  WORSHIP and that JESUS alone is worthy to
  unlock the seals to the future and reveal the
  future to the CHURCH
• Chapters SIX and SEVEN The 7 seals
  are openedTHE CHURCH is shown the signs of the
  last days generation and warned of persecution in
  the last daysbut also told hang on! Jesus
  is coming soon!
• Chapters EIGHT and NINE 6 of the 7
  Trumpets are blown and revealed a sound of GET
  READY for the CHURCHThe King is coming!
• Chapters TEN and ELEVEN The CHURCH
  is told that WE are the Witnesses, WE have the
  GOSPEL, WE are the Watchmen in these last
  days! AND.the CHURCH is told hang on!
  The 7th TRUMPET is going to be blown SOON!