REVELATION - 14 8-13

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BOOK OF REVELATION

8 - Then I (John) saw a second angel following the first angel across the sky, crying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She who has given all nations to drink the wine of her passionate immorality and corruption.” {Imo, $ity of Babble on all seven hills/continents, which embraced a certain enchantment to sell. Rode upon the beasts of earth.. And what happens when they are one huge beast and ride her? Rev.17:12,16. Like so many things, free enterprise highjacked.}

     9 And another angel, a third, followed, saying with a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast {ultimately the world?} and its image {“given the ability — to speak”-Rev.13 ..nonstop? After awhile other voices removed/prohibited} and receives a mark on their forehead or hand, 10 they also will drink the cup of the wine of God's wrath {consequences, Obadiah 1:15, Ps.90:3,5-7} poured undiluted. {Things are being allowed to run their fuLL course. Otherwise why bother?} And they will be tormented with fire and sulfur {EARTHLY event} before the holy angels and the Lamb. {“All the world is a stage” Shakespeare.} 11 And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever. {There’s a “palin/again-genesis”, so that must be the smoke of the torment/destruction “rising age to age” in the memories of all.}

     And they have no rest, day or night, those worshipping the beast {many headed geopolitical} and its image. And who receive the {“desolating”} mark [charagma - a stamp, impress, originally an impress on a coin or a seal, later an identification marker, owner's unique brand-mark] of its name.”

    12 Here is a call for the endurance of his people, all those who keep the instructions of God and their faith in Jesus. {Dn.12:11-12 w/ Lk.19:41,44 and 1Cor.3:16, escalation being Rev.2:10?}

     13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.” “Blessed indeed,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors [kopos - labor, toil, trouble, weariness] for their work [ergon - deeds, action, task, labor, work] follows them.” {Straightaway. 🤔 I realize at the back of my mind I’ve wondered why every worker for the Lord’s, work, doesn’t follow as right away.. for “in the grave there’s no thought or doing”.. So why don’t their works rise with them at Jesus’ return? ..Because their contemporaries who “perished still in their sins” and still very much of the world and generation of their time - with their issues - rise still in this imperfect/entropic state.. not yet born again.. and not until “after” the first millennium, and also after the release of the adversary/accelerant & co. that follows it, and the consequent war, and the gathering to it of descendants of mortal survivors of the apocalypse. Rising after that “war” - which is where, at the conclusion, the second of three mentions of lake of fire is, if you know the chapter, Rev.20. After that fiery event and conclusion, begins the GWT Judgment/discernment/review/closure for all ‘day’. Followed of course with Rev.21:5’s “behold I make all new” at the universal (fiery) “palin/again-genesis”. Third and last mention of a lake of fire.} {First mention? Isaiah 24:20/Rev.10:4.} 

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