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.