REVELATION - 12 7-12

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BOOK OF REVELATION

     {After the manchild(/Son of man) was taken up to God’s throne where he will rule with the unbreakable measuring rod of Truth, and the faith had fled, migrated} 7 - War arose in heaven, Michael and his angels warred against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels warred against Michael and his angels. 8 But the dragon hadn’t the strength, and no longer was a place for them found in heaven. 9 And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent (oR “cherubim” from Ezek.28:12-  “Son of man, raise a lamentation over the king of Tyre {god of this world}.. you were in Eden, the garden of God.. an anointed covering cherub [kerub - an order of angelic beings, cherub, cheribim].

     I appointed you on the holy mountain.. You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created, till unrighteousness [evel or avel or avlah or olah - unrighteousness, injustice] was found in you..”

     (Like David is used as a representation of Christ in prophecy, so too are despotic kings used as a representation of Satan the adversary.)

     9 And the great dragon was thrown out, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown to the earth, and his angels were thrown with him. 10 And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come {to the heavens}! For “the accuser” of our brethren has been thrown out {of heaven, not yet Earth} who accused them day and night {right} before our God.

     11 And the brethren overcome him because of the blood of the lamb, and because of [dia - by, because of, for the sake of, by reason of, through] the word of their testimony, and (word for word) (they) not loved the life of them unto death”. {I think may also read? — didn’t love their life that leads to death? Perhaps, in this verse anyway, in Rev.20 is different?🤷🏼‍♀️} 12 “Therefore, rejoice, O heavens and you who dwell therein! But woe to you, O earth and sea, for the devil has come to you in great wrath, because he knows his time is short.” {And total world domination is still the goal. Which has  nothing to do with ‘afterlife’ or that is, between life, i.e. between death and resurrection, and, or later, as it’s resurrection into 2nd advent to serve called reigning, or, towards end of 2nd advent into GWT judgment/“korrection” ‘Day’}.

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Hebrews 8 11 - 9 5

 a paraphrased ‘enter the story’

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07/06 ~ From New Testament Letters

   (In the Order Believed Written)

{When all is done and completed under the covenant works of God}11 - “They shall not teach each one their neighbor and each one their brother or sister, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least to the greatest. 12 For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins [hamartia - missing the mark] no more.”

     13 In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete, old and fading is ready to vanish away.

     9:1 - Now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly place of holiness. 2 For a tent was prepared, the first section, called the Holy Place, in which were the lampstand, the table and the bread of the Presence. 3 And behind the second curtain was a second section, which is called the Most Holy Place, 4 and in it is the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold, in which was a golden urn holding the manna, Aaron's staff that budded, and the tablets of the (first, hamartia revealing) covenant. 5 Above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat. But of these things we cannot now speak in detail. {The cherubim, a likeness of an around the throne cherubim/seraphim, also called a “covering angel”? Of which Satan was one?? ..Some covering angels of animals of Eden joined the sedition? As God foresaw, and having waited patiently for first bound to occur rebel thought to occur and mature, so that all take this unavoidable journey all together at once.}

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Tomorrows verses - Hebrews 9:6-10

My own studies, had to paraphrase to post..

Start the day with a Psalm (jan 1-20, feb-20’s, mar-30’s, apr-40’s, etc. dec-120-150)

£XpLaiNing ReVeLaTion 12 1-6

     WeeKly BooK oF Revelation

                paraphrased study

1 - A great sign appeared in heaven! A woman who was clothed with the sun and the moon was under her feet. Upon her head was a crown of twelve stars. {She was a virgin! Code for innocent and of purity. God’s spiritual ideal and blueprint. But if there had been no option to stray in Eden, no power of choice in creation, creation would be an ant farm. So, first, this unavoidable, yet all important contrast is being gone through by “all in heaven and earth” (the angels and humanity).}

     2 She was with child and was crying out because of her birth pains and the torment of giving birth. 3 And then another sign appeared in heaven - behold! A great red dragon. This dragon had seven heads and ten horns. And on the heads were seven royal crowns. [“The ‘god’ of this world” 2Cor.4:4 (who ends up having/being seven “changing” versions of false “light”/entities/‘world’ empires, throughout Earth’s ages.] 4 His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. {Obviously, this is one third of the angels, as surely(?) some angels followed the cherubim which plotted his revolt using Eden - “you were a covering angel [kerub - probably an order of angelic beings, cherub, cherubim — “Yahweh Sabaoth throned on the cherubim” 1Sam.4:4, referring to the Ark of the Covenant. A symbol. Cherubim - a high angel devised in his heart to “ascend above God”. And from being a high angelic being, became a dragon.}

     And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth [to the Son of man, Messiah Jesus] so that when she bore her child he might devour [kill] it. 5 She gave birth to a manchild, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron (with Truth, a measuring rod that cannot be broken). But instead the child was caught up to God and to his throne. 6 And the woman (after the razing of Jerusalem in 70 CE) fled into the wilderness, where she (the faith) had a place prepared by God, in which she was to be fed [trephó - made to grow, nourished] for 1,260 days.

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A Covering Seraphim

    I watched a video, a short, and then later realized in my studies has been coming up the phrase “about to happen”.. And now I find myself thinking of it in terms of this — I’ve thought to myself how patient God is, how he waited a long time for the first bound to occur rebellious thought to happen and fully mature, before creating the universe and man and woman.

     “In the beginning God..” alone. Undifferentiated. Then became the “only begotten” - only straight out from God one, the “firstborn over all creation” - the Son.

     Sometime later.. Father and Son create spirit beings, the angels. And that some “left their first place” shows they were endowed with thinking and reasoning ability. Using the King of Tyre - as a type - the occurrence of the first bound to occur stray and rebel thinking is made mention of (in Ezek.28:14). The adversary, the serpent in Eden was a “covering cherub/cherubim/seraphim”. See link to the short below, and Rev.12:9.

     So now I realize, covering seraphim of what? Eden. All ready and set up, for the seditious thought of a covering seraphim that “was about to occur”. And the ark of the covenant portrays this whole story..?! The covering seraphim (plural) over creation (angels helped ‘build’ doing God’s bidding?) ..And one day while looking down and covering with wings stretched out.. the first fully formed imperfect and seditious way of thinking - “I - will be God.. I will! Ascend..! My throne, my seat above His.”

     A first straying/imperfection, which set in motion the change of everything. And by this, God engineered it so that “all in heaven and earth” take this unavoidable journey/lesson all together at once. Otherwise each thinking, reasoning, thus able to make choices being, would stray in their own timing, one now, another later.. etc. etc. and etc., taking virtually ‘forever’. And what a disorganized mess!

     Two major questions concerning life - what are the options for a creation? [1] A total ant farm? Or [2] not? And second question, just how do you create genuinely able to think and reason beings, aNd, keep paradise/perfection intact?

     God being 100% unfettered Genius, and who “is perfect” (mt.5:48) is up to the task. He has “subjected all (of us mortals) to disobedience/straying” (Ro.11:32) all at once. As sooner or later all are bound to have a questioning God thought. Which is imperfection, the opposite of Life/Perfection, God.

     And so it is that Jesus “will draw all” (Jn.12:32). He said - “All those in the tombs/graves” — and God surely(?) is Life, and “is perfect” so straying/imperfect can never work — they “will hear God’s voice and will come forth” (from the graves/tombs) “some into the resurrection of life” (into THE millennium and long second advent, to serve called reigning.. for to do His works is surely to reign.. crown of Life, not metal). “And some in the resurrection into the” (GWT) “judgment” ‘day’ (Jn.5:28-29, discernment day?) which elsewhere He calls agelasting correction [“kolasin aionion” oR “korrection eonian”] Mt.25:46. The completing of drawing all! And surely(?) it’s a same process of refinement/correction/learning for all. The crucible being life as we presently know it - this unavoidable, all important contrast - until vivification either at 1Cor.15:52,53 or at Rev.21:5, 1Cor.15:24-28. All shall have character, and thought, which is clear as crystal. Humanity and creation sealed.

     Lake of fire is earthly prophecy.

Oxygen, air.. breath of life, this life and living is on fire.. Ever had a compost pile? Life as presently known - imperfect - is a living parable of the decomposing ‘apple’/or fruit, and its worm (decay) that does not quit.

     The good news of the Kingdom (and of the resurrection) is - “God will tabernacle/dwell with mankind.. everyone living under vines and fruit trees.. the lion will eat straw like the ox. The bear will graze with the cow, with their young will pasture and lie down together” Rev.21:3, Micah 4:4, Isaiah 11:7. “His kingdom will never end” Lk.1:33.

Link to the short - the serpent is a seraphim