Many people think that Revelation is the hardest set of chapters to understand in the entire Bible. Actually that is untrue. To understand to its fullest extent, Romans 11 is by far the hardest because in order to understand it, you must get to the end of nearly every mystery of God to recognize it’s all really written there in Romans 11. There is no way to fully understand Romans 11 to its full extent by reading it until after you’ve understood what we’re all doing here. Why are we in this human flesh. Why God gave us instincts and then made laws to go against them. Why Jesus is the foundation of this age. How old our souls really are. And finally, who Ba’al truly was. Faith is a work. Showing faith is a good work. Being unfaithful is a bad work. The election of grace were not chosen for any work they’ve done in this life, therefore there must be more to the picture to Ba’al than most know. Refer all those with Jeremiah 1:5 and see what you come up with. It also shows that they did not show their faith in this life, or else it would be called “the election of work”, not grace. How can a person that has lived be referred to as “reserved” from God’s point of view? There is Elijah and Enoch, who never died for God took them, but that’s just two men. Those 7000 did not show their faith in this life. That is why Paul stated on his own to clarify afterward that grace is grace. Not work. The election of grace were chosen before this age started. Again, use Jeremiah 1:5 as a reference. Some people even say that no one is allowed to understand Revelation. Apocalypse means “reveal”, so why would it be called “revelation” if you couldn’t understand it? Here is the most comprehensive blog I’ve written about Revelation.

Jesus speaks against five of the seven churches of Christ. One of those churches he speaks against he threatens to remove altogether. That is the church of Ephesus. How that will be done is it will cease from being a Christian church and turn into the synagogue of Satan. The only two he finds no fault in are the churches of Philadelphia and Smyrna. These churches don’t exist yet. Why I know that is the churches that were established in those two places weren’t new types of churches. The church of Philadelphia will ONLY be attended by the election of grace. Only they will not be here during the hour of temptation. The church of Smyrna will be the most faithful church outside of the church of Philadelphia, and will have great faith that the doctrine of the elect is true.

The four horsemen of the Apocalypse are these: the white horse, the black horse, the red horse, and the pale horse. The rider of the white horse is the Beast. The Beast is the Antichrist human being. A human with the spirit of Satan inside him. He will go forth conquering the world peacefully coming to “save the day”. The rider of the black horse had a pair of balances in his hand. A voice was heard saying “a measure of wheat for a penny and three measures of barley for a penny; see you hurt not the oil and the wine.” This is a plague of great economic woe. A penny is what we would term as a poor working man’s daily wage, as was written in Matthew 20. What it basically says is that it would take a good portion of a working man’s daily wage to be able to buy a loaf of bread. Before thinking this is impossible, think of when the Soviet Union fell. People were lining up to pay the equivilant to $20 for a loaf of bread. Where it says “see you hurt not the oil and the wine” could really have been written anywhere in Revelation. If the price on everything goes up, then so would actual oil and wine, right? Why it’s there is so it gets you to ask “what does that mean then?” What do you do with oil besides cook with it, religiously speaking? You anoint with it. What happens to grape juice during the process of fermentation? Not only does it turn into alcohol, but the impurities come out. What it really says is “see you hurt not the anointed and the pure”. Before casting that doctrine away, consider Psalm 105:15 which says “Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.” Looks like an exact match to me. The rider of the red horse is really like Murphy’s Law. What can go wrong will go wrong. War, famine, pestilence will be more widespread than perhaps ever before in our age. The rider of the red horse really envelopes much of what is continued in Revelation. The rider of the pale horse is Satan himself. The Antichrist human will die in the midst of the Tribulation Period. He will seemingly rise three days later, but it will not be him. It will be Satan in his angelic flesh. Satan’s name is Death, and Hell will follow him.

The harlot is the revived Roman Empire. The Beast will come from the revived Roman Empire as is written in Daniel 4 and 7. The fourth empire to come will break up and reform. That empire was the Roman Empire. The revival of the Roman Empire will start with ten nations. The eleventh will be the one where the Antichrist will come from. If we are in the last days, the revived Roman Empire could only be the European Union. The EU’s eleventh nation was either Portugal or Spain since they came in at the same time. If the EU is this revival, then the Antichrist will come from Spain or Portugal. This is how the Beast will ride the harlot for a period of time. They will put him in power.

Much of what is written in Revelation is written somewhere in the Old Testament in the books of the prophets, especially Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, and the minor prophets. For example, Revelation 18 goes directly with Jeremiah 50-51. Part of the reason why Revelation is so difficult is because it’s so concise. In the older prophetical books, the prophecies are written in greater detail and length. John of Patmos couldn’t do that or Revelation would be one huge book. Also nothing in Revelation has happened yet. Don’t let anyone fool you otherwise. Reveal… do you reveal the past or the future? The reason why most of it is written in the past tense is because John of Patmos was taken to the future, so to him it was the past. Not our past. Just his. When he says that he saw those things, it’s because he saw those things. The last few chapters of Revelation deal with what’s written in Ezekiel 40-48, which deals with the next age and beyond. As is written in the original Greek, when Jesus returns that ends this age. Not the world. Revelation 20 describes life in the next age after his return, as does Ezekiel 40-48. Pay close attention to the temple to come. As is written in Ezekiel 44:25, the dead are held inside the temple. What temple made of men ever held anything that could be termed as “the dead”? Revelation 20 says the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished, which Satan will be released to tempt the world once again.

When Satan is kicked down to Earth, he comes with those aligned with him. The fallen angels are the plague of locusts that will have power to torment men for five months, outside those with the seal of God in their foreheads (the 144,000 Jews). Their master is Apollyon, which is another name for the Devil. Those five months will be the last five months, and will be known as the hour of temptation. How they will torment men will be to spiritually torment men. It will be the sounding of the seventh and last trump that the mystery of God will be finished. All will know who God is. They’ll also know Jesus is the Messiah. They’ll know the Bible is genuinely God’s word. They’ll know who Satan is. Even with knowing all of that and the mystery being finished, men will still fail to a great extent. Every human weakness will be magnified by the plagues, and Satan with his fallen angels will play on those weaknesses brilliantly. Even though men will know it will be wrong, to seemingly save their lives they will lose them by failing God. That will fulfill a prophecy Jesus made that those who will seek to save their lives will lose it, and those who will lose it for his name’s sake will find life everlasting. The plague of the locusts really is about testing one’s resolve and will to hold onto what is right when it will be so difficult to do so. The stronger your faith, the easier it will be. Paul said it best when he said in Romans 8:38-39 “For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,” “Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” If you hold onto that, you’ll be fine if we are in the last days. If you’re flight be in winter, meaning too late (a reference when birds fly south), then it’s going to be incredibly difficult. If you are with child and give suck in those days, meaning you are still eating the food of babes instead of eating the word of God as an adult, then it will be most difficult for you.

Imagine that, even knowing what to do and what not to do many men will still fail even knowing their souls are on the line. I think it says everything about men, especially highminded Bill Maher-types that it will take the seventh trump before the mystery of God is finished for them. Not any of the other plagues before it coming true like it is written, or the prophets doing miraculous things is good enough for them. It will take the last trump for them. And with them in mind, when it is all over the Song of Moses will be sung which in part shows how the highminded were the real fools. Only a real fool will call a faithful Christian a fool but not consider the Lord that put this creation upon the Earth. The Song of Moses is very apt for the end. I hope you have learned something here. God bless.

The four horsemen of the Apocalypse is one of the most intriguing tales of the Bible. Each rider of the horse brings about a plague that is designed to make it difficult for men. Prideful men. Things to humble men down from their self-imposed pedestals. Men, fools and teachers alike wonder aloud “why would a good God let this happen?” The answer is beyond their comprehension at least at this point in this age’s history. At the blowing of the seventh trump, they will have their answer. All of God’s mysteries will be revealed and the spirit of slumber upon them will be lifted. Until then, it is not for anyone but the election of grace to know. They do not have the spirit of slumber. I will say this though, our souls are much older than our bodies. This Earth despite what your teachers have told you is much older than several thousand years old. This age is several thousand years old. Not the world. If you trace what is written in the NT back to the original Greek, you would see that this is an age we’re living in. There will be another age after this one. That's where Jesus reigns upon Earth with his saints while Satan is in the bottomless pit. Being that our souls are much older than our human bodies, there are things our creation may have done beforehand that God found disgraceful. Just because we are not allowed to remember, it doesn't mean it never happened. That’s how God chose certain people to be his prophets. As God told Jeremiah, “I knew you before you were in your mother’s womb”. There must have been a reason why God chose Jeremiah and other prophets to be His prophets. God would not create a soul and say at random “okay, you’re going to be my prophet”. God didn't send one of these prophets to live at random either. They all had their own time to be put here in this sinful, human flesh to serve God by guiding men to Him. There are things at work here that will be revealed, perhaps in this very generation itself. The tribulation period is the culmination of this age.

The rider of the first horse of the Apocalypse is riding a white horse. His power was to be able to conquer much of Earth. The color of the horse being white is significant because this is the Antichrist who will be as Christ coming in riding on a white horse. The Antichrist will conquer the world to be his one world government. We’re closer to that now than anyone might think. With the recent economic collapses revealing the vulnerabilities of the global economy, it goes to show our economies are already tied to one another. With Obama's rise to power and the adoration he's received from the spiritually empty, that also goes to show how vulnerable people are to following someone with some charisma. The Antichrist will have much more charisma than Obama and won't need to use the words "hope, change, shooting stars, purple horseshoes, rainbows, and lucky charms" to inspire the masses. The cult of the spiritual empty who look down on religion and religious people have proven that they are very receptive to having a god, too.

The rider of the red horse is next, and his power was to take peace from the Earth. Again, we’re right at the door of this possibly happening. Iran is close to having a nuclear bomb to which Israel cannot let them have. Israel as they have done in times past will see to it that this does not come to pass. Iran has the backing of many countries which are not coincidentally the same countries listed as the ones written in the Bible that will come against Israel. The Arab World, Russia, China, and others will be among these nations. Right now a snapping of a twig can send this world into a world war. Even nonbelievers can see this as a possibility. You have the situation inside Iran, the tensions between Iran and Israel, India and Pakistan, North Korea and nearly everyone else. One casted stone can send this entire world into war.

The rider of the black horse is more difficult to understand than the others. He was given a pair of balances. There was a voice that said “a measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.” As most know, this is a plague on the economy. What is a bit of a mystery is how specific this plague really is and it goes to show how subtle some of God’s words really are. One part is that the oil and the wine aren’t actually oil and wine at all. If there is a great plague upon the economy, of course oil and wine would be hurt. There is no way oil or wine itself won't be hurt in a bad economy, so you have to ask yourself what that must mean. What do you do with oil besides cook with it? You anoint with it. Wine is fermented grape juice, but during fermentation impurities come out of the grape juice. Wine is pure and fermented grape juice. What that really says is “don’t hurt the anointed and the pure”. To prove this contention, Psalm 105:15 says “touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.” Exactly what my interpretation of Revelation 4:6 is. It’s either that or that the price of oil and wine will not go up when everything else does. You be the judge. Two, specifically one measure of wheat and three measures of barley make up a good sized loaf of bread. You can make two decent sized loaves of bread. It says that each a measure of wheat and three measures of barley are a penny. What is a penny according to what is written? The answer is in Matthew chapter 20. Just about all of that chapter is a parable from Christ which means that it doesn’t matter when a person comes to Christ in their life. That they will receive the same things a person will receive if they came to Christ early in their lives. Hidden in that parable is what a penny is. The man who owned the land offered men to work in his field a penny for a day’s work. That seems so innocent there and one would just blow by it except for one of the elect. A penny represents a lower class working man’s daily wage. This clarifies the economic plague of the black horse making it mean it would take a blue collar working man’s daily wage to be able to buy a loaf or so of bread. If that seems far-fetched as how there could be a plague so strong, one must be a student of history. In Russia shortly before and after communism fell, people lined up in the streets to pay $20 for a loaf of bread. I remember bread being mentioned specifically in those old news stories. This will be a plague of great economic woe and will give power to the one who has “the solution”.

The rider of the last horse rides a pale horse. The worst of all of the horsemen. The rider of the pale horse had Hell follow with him. His name was Death. This is no longer the Antichrist as a human being anymore, but Satan being kicked down to Earth himself. Halfway through the tribulation period, the Antichrist will die. He will seemingly rise again, but this time what this world will see is not a human being with the spirit of Satan inside him. It will be Satan himself in the flesh. Satan is Death, and Hell will follow him. Satan will make war with Israel and the nations aligned with Israel. War, hunger, and pestilences will kill a fourth part of the Earth. Pestilence isn’t written there specifically, but among the things described by Jesus in Matthew 24 and other gospels when he describes the end times says that there will be many pestilences. We’ve had SARS, swine flu, and the bird flu threaten to take many people for the last several years now. An outbreak of either or something new would do great damage. AIDS already has taken many, and continues to be the biggest threat to the people of Africa.

These plagues are frightening to say the least, but if this is the generation to see it then it has a lot of work to do. This is the most selfish and lost generation in this age’s history. So many do not believe and belittle things that are of God. Many who do believe don’t fully believe what is written. “It’s all in the interpretation” I’ve heard many times. That’s such a lazy thought to have. Of course it’s in the interpretation, but God’s word is GOD’S WORD. Not man’s. Trace things back to the original languages of Hebrew and Greek. Those are God’s words written in its original form. The King James is man’s translation of God’s word. As good as it is, there are mistranslations. Read it with a Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance which will trace back for you what is originally written in the Hebrew for the OT and the Greek for the NT. People will survive to the end, then among them they will be divided to the left and right of Jesus. The faithful from those who made the wrong choice. Get ready. Prepare yourselves. We are at the door.

Some people hear “Lucifer” and “Satan” and just think those are the names of the devil and don’t even question why. There is a huge difference between the two names and when they were his names. When taking all of this in with the meaning of his names, it can provide you a whole lot of wisdom about not just him, but about us and why we are here. That’s a trip for you to take if you decide to though. I cannot go any further than where this post ends.

In the KJV and other translated versions of the Bible, for some reason they mistranslated the word "Lucifer". Lucifer in the Hebrew is actually Helel (hay-LALE). If you open a Hebrew OT, it would read in the Hebrew "Helel", not Lucifer. The definition of it is “morning star”. Only one time does the Bible mention the word Helel, or “Lucifer”. That is in Isaiah 14:12. There’s a reason for that. It mentions what Helel’s crime was, in which he was banished from God and sentenced to everlasting torture. It says Helel exalted himself above all of the other stars of God and tried to be the god of the congregation. Helel was Satan’s name before he committed his crime.

Satan in the Hebrew means “the opponent” or “adversary”. There’s a reason for that too. Satan is what he became after his crime. He was the morning star, and now he’s the adversary. Since the days of Adam, he has been known as Satan. The reason why he’s mentioned as Lucifer in Isaiah 14:12 is because that’s what he was known as when he committed this crime. Since the days of Adam, Satan has been the adversary. People don’t trace back what is written in Revelation 20:2 back to the serpent written of in Genesis with Adam and Eve. “And he laid hold on the dragon, THAT OLD SERPENT, which is the devil and Satan and bound him for a thousand years.” What was John of Patmos referring to?

Ba’al was a fertility god of the pagans, but was he more than that? In Elijah’s time, Ba’al was the great opponent god and Jezebel was the chief pagan prophetess. As Paul reiterates the conversation between Elijah and God in Romans 11, he adds something that really puts traditional teaching into question. As is written, God tells Elijah “I have reserved to myself 7000 men who have not bowed the knee to Ba’al.” Traditional teachers have said that God meant there were 7000 people living in Israel who did not bow the knee to this pagan god. That’s wrong. If God reserves to himself a person, it means that that particular person has not lived yet. Proof of that is what Paul said afterward. “Even so at this present time there is also a remnant according to the election of grace.” A remnant. That means there are still some left. Elijah lived around 900 BC. Paul wrote this around 900 years afterward. There couldn’t be any living still if the traditional teachers are correct. God reserves to himself a person by not letting them live. In that particular conversation God meant that He has reserved to Himself 7000 men (and women) for the last generation. When else? Another secret to all of this is what Ba’al truly was. Ba’al may have been the pagan god of fertility, but he was also the deity of Venus. Lucifer means the morning star. What is the morning star? Venus is. Take it from there. I cannot go any further. I wish you luck.