Revelation 2 8-11

 BooK of Revelation

                a paraphrased study

8 - “And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: ‘The words of the first and the last, the oNe, who died and is alive. 9 I know your tribulation [thlipsis - oppression, affliction, tribulation, distress, straits, pressed/pressure faced] and your poverty - but you are rich - and the slander of those who say they are genuine and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. {Are a teaching of the adversary - we can tell pseudo truth by its fruit, key word here is slander?} 10 Don’t fear these things you suffer. Look, some of you will be tested when the devil casts some into prison. For ten days you will have {great?} tribulation.” {The last ten days will be an acceleration..? “In the last hour” - there’s rev.17:12,16, the fall {crashing} of $ity Babylon that sits on seven continents/hills; the triple six is running; and the nations/unbelievers are being gathered to the final armageddon battle.. So the last “ten days” of things, is an escalation in each one these?} “Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of Life. 11 Those who have an ear {🌽} let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who conquers [nikaó - from níkē - victory - to conquer - overcomes, prevails, gains the victory] will not be hurt [adikeó - acted unjustly towards, injured, harmed] by the second [deuteros - duo - two, in second place, for the second time; second in order, rank, or time; the concept of "second" often implied a position of lesser importance compared to the "first," but it could also indicate a necessary step in a sequence or process, in scriptural tradition, the number two can symbolize witness or confirmation, as seen in the requirement for two witnesses to establish a matter] {everyone suffers two, to believe is to not be injured or hurt by the second/lesser(?)} “death.’”

     {The 666, logically, being Daniel 12:11-12 with Luke 19:41,44 (hello?) and 1 Corinthians 3:16. Armageddon being Isaiah 24:20, Rev.10:4 (Ps.91). Matthew 13:30 being Rev.16:14-15-16 and Matthew 25:1-13.}

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🗝️ [  ] - word/language insights, cross references, etc.

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   📜🍞+🍷🕊️(+Logic)

Logic of things allowed to run their course..

W𝕖𝕖𝕜𝕝𝕪 B𝕠𝕠𝕜 𝕠𝕗 R𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕝𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 13 9-13

9 Anyone with ears to hear should listen and understand. 10 If anyone is taken prisoner, he must go to prison. If anyone is killed with a sword, with a sword he must be killed. In all this God's holy people need endurance and confidence.

     11 Then I saw another beast come up out of the earth. [Not like the huge many headed beast that came up out of the sea.] This one had two horns like those of a lamb. But he spoke with the voice of a dragon. 12 And this beast exercised all the authority of the first (many headed geopolitical?) beast and he caused the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the (huge) first beast, whose mortal wound had been healed, 13 and did great signs, so that he even made fire to come down from the heavens upon the earth in the sight of men. (Hello?) (This event, the first seal six occurrence, pinpoints an office, not [yet] an individual.)

The revelation vision is told three times, all meeting and concluding at the seventh trumpet. (1)6:1-2 to 11:19 (2)chapter 12, vs 17 with mt.23:39, and (3)13:1 to 19:11.

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🌽💫𝒲𝒽𝑜𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝒽𝒶𝓈 𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓈.. 𝒽𝑒𝒶𝓇 𝓌𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒮𝓅𝒾𝓇𝒾𝓉/𝒫𝓇𝑒𝓈𝑒𝓃𝒸𝑒 𝑜𝒻 𝒢𝑜𝒹 𝒾𝓈 𝓈𝒶𝓎𝒾𝓃𝑔..

Rev/Apoc Cast of Characters & Events ~ is pinned📌 in the side column.

Acts and Revelation were late this week, I’ve been sick, as has the household.

God Talks To Us

God talks to each one of us. Not usually as an audible voice.. though in deep quietness, his 'voice' can be heard.. a thought floating down like a feather.. but often making a profound splash.. Or, of course (mainly) through the scriptures - but critics of the Bible have been shouting and criticizing so loudly, it's caused many to miss the message the Bible tells (it's drowned out by visions of a burning afterlife, and not recognizing why the anger of the Old Testament, which btw, was because of mankind's doings, the last straw being the practice of infant sacrifice.. what God worth His salt, wouldn't be angry?) But also, day in and day out, God talks to us in millions of other ways.. a dream, a song, something someone says, a color pattern.. birds singing, butterflies flying.. etc, etc.. if we have ears to hear, we will hear it.. One of mine has always been numbers.. double numbers and triple numbers (are always showing up).. I'm sure God, the Great Mathematician uses numbers in many ways and with many people. My birth date is all the same number. I know four people with the same birth date, but not year, and just before 'finding God' I met a person with my exact (same) birth date. It's just one tiny door God can use to say hello.. here I am.. so close by..
- Are we listening enough? Of course we're not!