Thursday, May 17, 2012

REVELATION REVEALS the LAST SUPERPOWER.

    Have YOU, not ever questioned, why so many Pastors/Teachers, tell you; "Oh the Book of Revelations is a "Closed Book", . . .OR. . . "Well it's not meant for man to understand it?"
    I have!

    So, then YOU and I Must ask, the reason, for this verse, in what is said  to be a 'closed book'! We must also know that just over half, of the total words found in Revelation, are direct quotes from the Old Testament! Does that make it also a closed Book?

Revelation 1:3. "Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand."

Note: Blessed {Grk = happy} is the reader. and blessed is the hearer, and blessed is he that keep [do] that which is written herein. Thus we CAN read into this verse blessed are those that read, hear and do! Now does this sound like God, meant for His children to read it, YES OR NO?

The very end, Chapter 22, reveals the incredible reward, and a a journey to eternity, for those who because they know and love Jesus, will share this time and space with Him and the Father, as well as YOUR Guardian Angel!
Note: The Book of Daniel is as an overlay for Revelation, as Revelation needs the Old Book, to be its interpreter.!

Revelation 22:12. "And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be."

Note: Does not the above verse, tell all, that Judgment has been rendered, and probation is closed? As without this, how can any be rewarded, according to the life lived and actions done? Christ's return to earth marks the close of probation, and completed Judgment for all yet living, the dead have been judged since 1844, as you'll learn at a latter date, from the Book of Daniel.
   As this book, f Revelation, from about it's middle onwards, is directed at earth's last generations, the Last Day Events we find Jesus saying in. . .

Matthew 24:15. "When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)"

Note: Human history of this region, tells us that Pagan Rome's army, under Titus' s rule destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple, in 70 A.D. But He also drew our attention to the Book of Daniel, and one if its most important prophecies for human future is found in Daniel 2:1-11.
. "  And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him. Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to shew the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king. And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream. Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in Syriack, O king, live for ever: tell thy servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation.  The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.  But if ye shew the dream, and the interpretation thereof, ye shall receive of me gifts and rewards and great honour: therefore shew me the dream, and the interpretation thereof.  They answered again and said, Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation of it. The king answered and said, I know of certainty that ye would gain the time, because ye see the thing is gone from me.  But if ye will not make known unto me the dream, there is but one decree for you: for ye have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, till the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that ye can shew me the interpretation thereof. The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king's matter: therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean. And it is a rare thing that the king requireth, and there is none other that can shew it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh."

NOTE: In2:16 Daniel pleads for time to pray...

Daniel 2:16. "Then Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would give him time, and that he would shew the king the interpretation."

Note: God reveals the dream to Daniel...

Daniel 2:20-23. "Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are his: And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding: He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him. I thank thee, and praise thee, O thou God of my fathers, who hast given me wisdom and might, and hast made known unto me now what we desired of thee: for thou hast now made known unto us the king's matter."

Note: Daniel notes the fact that God gave him the answer to the dream.

Daniel 2:38.. "And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold."

Note: If you have taken the time to read all of Daniel thus far, you will know the King had a dream that so troubled him him that he woke up, yet could not remember any thing about other than it troubled him greatly.

Daniel 2:29-30. "As for thee, O king, thy thoughts came into thy mind upon thy bed, what should come to pass hereafter: and he that revealeth secrets maketh known to thee what shall come to pass.  But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but for their sakes that shall make known the interpretation to the king, and that thou mightest know the thoughts of thy heart."

Note: The dream revealed what shall come to pass hereafter.

Daniel 2:31-36. "Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible.  This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,  His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay. Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.  Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth. This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king."

Note: This figure in the dream, called by by many the Iron Man, and or the Dream Man, whose head was gold. chest and arms of silver, belly and thighs of brass/bronze, legs of iron, and feet and toes of both iron and clay.

Daniel 2:38. "And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold."

Note: Babylon was then the Head of Gold, in a Temple for Marduk there was, {at this time] some 8 tons of pure gold. This king a much gold. The Babylonians ruled this part of the world from 605B.C- to 539 B.C. Nebuchadnadnezzer it most famed king.It was his army that took Jerusalem by the 3rd siege.

 Daniel 2:39. "And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth."

Note: then will come and rule the Silver kingdom, and the 3rd shall be of brass/Bronze.

Daniel 5:28. "PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians."

Note: Belshazzar, the grandson of the king Nebuchadnezzar, who has passed, threw a drunken party asked for the Holy golden vessels taken from the Jerusalem's Temple, and used these to drink their wines. This caused, them to praise the gods of gold, silver, stone wood and iron and that's when a ....

Daniel 5:5-6. "In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another."

Daniel 5:25. "And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN."

Daniel 5:26-27. "This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting."

Daniel 5:28. "PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians"

Note: Just as the Babylon was know for its gold, the Medes.were the first power to stamp silver coins, each of a known weight of silver, plus take into account this Dream Man had two arms, one for the Medes the other for the Persians. See no accidents in God's Word, as you can see in Isaiah...

Isaiah 44:27-28. "That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers: That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid."
Isaiah 45:1. "Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;"

This prophecy was written by Isaiah, 150 years BEFORE the fact! the same Cyrus {Artrexerces in the Gk] God led him to divert the Euphrates river, and his army was able to walk in UNDER the heavy steel bar gates, and the Babylonians were so sure of their defenses, no interior doors or gates were unlocked, the king died that very night! Thus ended the captivity of the people of God, to gather up their belongings and return to rebuild Jerusalem, in 457B.C {Dan. 9:22 degree by Cyrus Ezra 1:1-4 and  by, Darius Ezra 6: 1-12 to rebuild the Temple and use the supplies given to them.}( Not all chose to return!}

Daniel 2:39. "And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth

Note: brass, bronze was the gift of the Greeks to the world, they are the third power, or kingdom the belly and thighs of brass. God uses prophecy to tell His children what shall be, and He tells, and then expands our view, and expands it again, as you'll see.

Daniel 8:20-21. "The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of Media and Persia. And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king."

Note; Greece, Grecia where the inventors and users of brass, as well as bronze for military purposes,a they were much harder than brass and copper arms most others used at the time. Macedonia's people were knows as Goat People, put this info in your memory bank.

 Daniel 2:40. "And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise."

Note: most of us know, that Pagan Rome became the power all around the Mediterranean's landmasses, right? Even captured the whole of the Greek empire, including Judeah and Jerusalem.Just as God's Word used the facts such as Medes to be silver in the Dream Man figure, they invented silver coinage to standard values. The Greeks, invented and used bras/bronze that made better weapons than copper, so to Rome invented methods to make steel and iron. In fact Rome was the original Iron Lady.

Daniel 2:41. "And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay."

Note:  Rome under the Emperors, took on for herself, much of the religions and its practices from the lands and peoples she had taken.This is why we find the religious practices of Babylon, Egypt, Assyria and Greece, with her system of gods, plus reason for these rulers to self made deities, as in Egypt and Assyria.
The Northern Tribes, of Germanic stock, became united enough to take Rome itself, and the empire was split up in Western Europe into TEN kingdom, but as the Dream Man figure showed, two legs of Iron, the Roman Empire was split into two itself, the West Roman Empire, ruled by permission and power of Constantine, who himself built a his new Capital in Constantinople [Istanbul,  Turkey  of today]
   Just as the feet were part iron and part clay, so also were the Ten Kingdoms some hard and strong, some soft and weak.

Daniel 2:42. "And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken."

Note: This is true even today, agree? Some nations in the West Europe are strong, large nations, with industrial and military might, while others,. . . well not so much, right?


 Daniel 2:43. "And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay."

Note: Men have tried to unite the old empire under the Holy Roan Empire by Charlemagne, then Napoleon, then Kaiser Wilhelm in W.W.1, and Hitler in W.W.2. and now with European Common Market , yet all have failed to fully united as one! In fact Napoleon is reported to have said, "God you are too much for me!"
Most, if not all, of these nations had a Royal Family, as Rulers or Titular heads of State, they were so intermarried, that W.W.1 could rightly have been called "A Family Feud." {this is the ... "mingle themselves with the seed of men.."

Daniel 2:44-45. "And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.  Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure"

Note: This Kingdom, shall be the very last one, because it is GOD' s Own! This Rock, is "...cut without hands..."  only God is able to do this.

Revelation 11:18. "And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth."

Note: Christ's return will not be silent, nor secret, and highly visible as every eye shall see Him, and this hall mark the end of ALL earthly  kingdoms, including Satan's!

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