🗝️’s to riddles, N.T. in a yr study, verses paraphrased Logic [ ] references { } thots
BOOK OF REVELATION
1 - Then I (John) looked - and behold - on Mount Zion stood the Lamb. And with him 144,000 {men of Israel?} who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads. {It’s time - Mt.23:39, Ro.11:15, Rev.7:9,4.} {But Mt.Zion is the spiritual/heavenly, and Mt. of Olives is the literal/earthly.}
2 And I heard a voice from heaven like the sound of rushing waters and of loud thunder. And like the sound of harpists playing on their harps. 3 And they were singing a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and before the elders. No one could learn that song except the 144,000 having been redeemed from the earth. {Or? Unless, or until? the 144,000 have been redeemed..} 4 They are those who have not defiled themselves with women for they are virgins. {Truth virgins.} Who follow the Lamb wherever he goes, having been redeemed out from men as firstfruits for God and the Lamb, 5 and in their mouth no lie was found, for they are blameless.
6 Then I saw another angel flying directly overhead. He had glad tidings to proclaim to those who dwell upon earth, to eveRy nation, tribe, language and people, 7 saying with a loud voice, “Fear/revere” {fear or revere whatever one’s case may be.. think cruel despots and heartless bullies, etc. “Reverence God and give him glory! For the hour of his judgment {of the world, this wrong way that can never work} has come! Worship he, who made heaven and earth, the sea and the fresh springs of water!”
Next - 14:8-13
