REVELATION - 13 1-8

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BOOK OF REVELATION

{Chapter 13 begins the third and last version of the vision. But from a modern geopolitical perspective. The three versions rejoin at the sounding of the seventh trumpet.

When we left off last week (or so) the dragon was raging. And he was turning his attention more fully upon “the faith’s other children who have the commandments of God and” - by then - “the testimony of Jesus” - Mt.23:39, Rev.7:9. (Which testimony was always their’s ..and then also the nations’.)

So, end of Revelation chapter 12, being also the end of one of three tellings of the vision, surely(?) delivers us to Revelation 16’s gathering to Armageddon battle (Mt.13:30). The chapter concluding with — “..And the dragon stood on the sand of the sea shore”.. HOW he turns his rage upon Israel and takes the world to Armageddon, is chapter 13.

     13:1 - And I (John) saw a {many headed geopolitical} beast {entity, institution} rising up out of the sea [of humanity]. It had ten horns and seven different heads. It had ten crowns upon the ten horns. And upon the heads of it, were inscribed names of blasphemy [blasphémia - slander]. {The spiritual and psychological energy, roar of the dragon, is slander, accusation, rage, hatred which is, of course, madness..} 2 And the beast that I saw was like a leopard {quick?}. But it had feet like a bear's {totalitarian?}. And its mouth was like a lion's mouth {a roman/graeco institution?} {All predator beasts.} But it was the dragon that gave to it, his power, throne and great authority. {Political, societal, ‘global’ king like rule.}

     3 One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound {expired} but the fatal wound was healed {after the 13:13 event, and it comes about that} the whole world admires and follows after the beast. 4 And (so) they revered the dragon, who had given the authority to the beast, and they revered the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast? And who can make war against it?” [Polemeó - wage war, fight, to engage in battle, quarrel; proskuneó - worship, bow down; exousia - authority, power, right, jurisdiction.]

    5 And was given to the beast, a mouth uttering haughty, slanderous and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise {all} authority for forty-two months. {This is the second 42 months/3.5 years of the lauded peace [covenant, treaty, league] that alas, will only last seven years, and will be broken in the middle against Israel - Rev.12:1;, Dan.12:11 with Lk.19:41,44.}

     6 It {the many headed geopolitical beast which rose out of the sea of humanity} opened its mouth to utter slanders against God, blaspheming his name and his tabernacle, and those tabernacling in heaven. [Angels… cherubim; Father and Son (proto) only straight out from God one, so close both pour out God’s Spirit/Presence.] 7 Also it was allowed to make war against the saints [believers/followers] and to conquer them. And authority was given to it over every tribe, people, language and nation. 8 And all who dwell upon earth will revere it, everyone whose name has not {yet} been written in the book of life of the lamb who was slain from the founding [katabolé - laying down] of the world [kosmos - order, the world, a properly ordered system, universe, creation].

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Revelation 19 17-21

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17 - Then I (John) saw an angel, radiant, as though standing in the sun. And with a loud voice he called 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) saying, “Come, gather for the great supper of God!” {He 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 of earth” take this unavoidable journey through this all important contrast, all together at once.} 18 “Come to 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. It is the last war between human empires, Isaiah 24:20, Rev.10:4, ten, four, 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 third faithful angels). {Aka against all knowledge of the one true God. Against national Israel and the grafted in, spiritual Israel, which by then includes many of ethnic Israel.} 20 And the {many headed, geopolitical} beast was taken, and with it the {of the world} false prophet who in its presence 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. [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 were thrown alive {active, as they are not individuals} into the lake of fire {armageddon battle, with global chain reaction} that burns with sulfur {Jude 1:7!} {Both that ‘miracle’ and the “strong delusion” that “seats man/anthropos in the temple as God”/highest power, is 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, there’s crashing and fiery apocalypse. It’s what dog eat dog/every self first, does. There are two things that can simply never (ever) work, (1) straying from God who iS Life - logic, yes? To stray from Life, not good. And he “is perfect, so (2) imperfection, logically, is the opposite of Life. And history has - already - proven that (straying and) imperfect is an “abyss” of potential. And logically is 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 you think 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.. We will “put on immortality” at one of TWO vivifications - because - we will “put on perfection/incorruptibility”. Clue, the second vivification is not simultaneous with its partner “resurrection”.}

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