REVELATION - 19 17-21

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BOOK OF REVELATION

  17 - Then I (John) saw an angel. He was radiant, as though standing in the sun. And with a loud voice he called out to the birds of midheaven.

     {To the high flying, predator birds, calling them to armageddon battle; the calling to the birds is metaphor for the literal armageddon battle about to be portrayed.}

     He called out, “Come! Gather for the great supper of God!”

     {God actually takes responsibility! Having “subjected and consigned all to disobedience” Romans 11:32. Supersized the option to stray in Eden so “all of heaven and all of earth” take this unavoidable journey through this all important contrast, all together at once.}

     18 “Come! And eat the flesh of kings, of captains, of mighty men, of horses and their riders, and of all, both free and slave, both small and great.”

     {The final war is totally mankind done. Man, we have his number, is carbon based which has 6 electrons, 6 neutrons and 6 protons. Armageddon is the last war between human empires, Isaiah 24:20/Rev.10:4, end of the Act, over and out. “All the world is a stage” - Shakespeare.}

     19 And then I saw the beast and the kings of earth, with their armies, gathered to make war against he who was sitting on the (white) horse and against his army of heaven {the two thirds faithful angels}. 20 And the {many headed, geopolitical} beast was taken, and with it, its false prophet who had done the signs [sémeion - miracles, signs, marks, tokens] {modern wonders and “miracles to mislead”} by which he deceived those who had received the “mark” of the beast and who worshiped/were in allegiance to, its image. [“The mark” is from the word - charagma- which is a “mark, stamp, sign, engraving, from charassō - meaning to engrave or stamp, the term charagma means a mark or stamp often used to denote ownership or authenticity.]

     These two {they are noT individuals, the huge (many headed, many horned/seats/powers) beast and its “false prophet” at Armageddon battle} were thrown alive {active} into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur. {The fire of armageddon battle, with global chain reaction, Is.24:20/Rev.10:4.} [Jude 1:7, “Gomorrah and cities are an example of (such) aionion fire”, translated as ‘eternal fire’. Aionion is the adjective of aion, which in english is eon. So aionion fire ..temporary, sudden? ..fire of the age? Isaiah 24:20/Rev.20:4?

     The 3 mentions of a fiery lake/lake of fire, are at three separate, huge, fiery events: 1-Armageddon battle/5-thunders; 2-at the fiery, final defeat of the adversary; and 3-at the fiery “palin(again)genesis” at which time, God says “Behold! I make all new!” (translators due to disbelief? changed all, to all things.. elsewhere as well. And then “the lion will eat straw.. bear will graze with cow” Isaiah 11:7.]

     {Both this fiery ‘wonder’ the “7 thunders” (like 13:13 but which pinpointed an office) and the “strong delusion” that “seated man/anthropoi in the temple as god”/highest power, causing the west, once called Christendom, to “fall away” - are from the “false prophet” Rev.12:15?}

     21 And the rest were slain by the sWord {truth, the iron rod/unbreakable measure} that came from the mouth of He who was sitting on the horse, and all the birds were gorged. {Symbolic imagery, aka, build a house on Truth, it endures. Build using unTruth (or guile) and like being built on sand, when the storm comes, there’s crashing and fiery apocalypse. It’s what dog eat dog/every self first, does. There is one thing that can simply never (ever) work, straying from God who iS Life! ..And he “is perfect” so imperfection, logically, is the opposite of Life.

     History has - already - proven that (straying and) imperfect is an “abyss” of potential. And logically, it’s also entropy, the “worm that doesn’t quit” and the “fire”/slow burn/slow-fade/slow-gehenna “that cannot be put out”. Entropy does not reverse.

     But we have thought we humans are inherently immortal? Death is nothing more than another form of life and living? Well that idea/myth was needed for the - extremely ancient - crowd controlling spiritual propaganda myth of afterlife torment.. Any visits (Elijah and Moses on the mountain with Jesus?) are from a dimension called the future.. “No one has ascended” …We will “put on immortality” because - we will “put on perfection/incorruptibility”/total-catharsis.. “God is savior of all, especially those who believe/are believing” and Jesus “will draw all” so aka, “all”. 1Tim.4:10, Jn.12:32.}

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