Before we begin our look at the temple spoken of in Ezekiel Chapter 40-48 we need to answer the question as to why? Why should we study about a relic from the Jewish age, especially about a building, a temple which was never built? As Christians shouldn’t we rather concern ourselves with those things pertaining to the Gospel age, on the things which are, and on the things which shall soon come to pass? (Rev 1:19) Ah! Yes, but…
Ezekiel Chapter 40 VERSE 4 “And the man said to me, “Son of man, look with your eyes and hear with your ears, and fix your mind on everything I show you; for you were brought here so that I might show them to you. Declare to the house of Israel everything you see.” How important is this vision? How is it to be received? And to whom exactly is it to be declared? This vision is very important…
The Great Time of Trouble Habakkuk’s Prophecy Continued Hab 1:9 “They all come for violence; their faces are set like the east wind. They gather captives like sand.” The New Living Translation states it thusly, “On they come, all bent on violence. Their hordes advance like a desert wind, sweeping captives ahead of them like sand.” “Their faces will be set in opposition to the east.” [The east is the direction of the suns rising, and here represents the dawn…
“Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.” Isa 13:6 “A day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wastefulness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, a day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers (the strong and well entrenched governments).” Zeph 1:15-16 “Blow the trumpet in Zion,…
THE GREAT TIME OF TROUBLE “For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.” Luke 21:22 “…Watchman what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? The watchman said the morning cometh, and also the night…” (Isa 21:12) “The Morning cometh“–of that there is no doubt–“and also the night“–the dark night of distress described by Daniel as “a time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation.” (Dan 12:1) “The…
The Seventh Plague Continued. “Now the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nation’s fell. And great Babylon was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of His wrath.” Rev 16:19 AND THE GREAT CITY: — Babylon the Great with all of its supporting and component parts, WAS SPLIT INTO THREE PARTS: The implication is that the three parts of the Rev 16:13 coalition falls apart, and…
Having we hope provided both the historical and the scriptural account of the rise of the Beast “THAT WAS” and “IS NOT” (i.e. the reasons for its subsequent disappearance), the next question naturally is, when will it “COME AGAIN”, when will it makes its appearance a second time? According to what we have learned thus far 1/10th of “the great city”, BABYLON THE GREAT (Rev 17:5, 18; 18:21), likewise spiritually referred to as Sodom and Egypt,” (Rev 11:8) fell during…
Having concluded our look at the Sixth seal and how it portrays conditions consistent to the rise of the Beast “THAT WAS” we now continued on with our investigation to see what THE SIXTH TRUMPET has to say on these matters. Keep in mind the object of the trumpets is not the same as that of the seals. The seals showed us how historical events of the period affected the church, (viz. the French Revolution, the Enlightenment, the emergence of…
THE SIXTH SEAL Continued Reiterating what was last stated in our previous post, viz. “The chapter division obscures the connection of Chapter 7 to what has come just before at the end of Chapter 6. It is VERY IMPORTANT to our understanding to see this connection. Rev 6:12-17 has just shown the terrible troubles of the French Revolution period. These troubles could have spread. But it was not yet time for the general Time of Trouble. Only 1/10th of the…
Having now we hope gain an idea somewhat of the arrangement of the seven stages of the church and their subsequent seals and trumpets we are now prepared to examine in more detail the Scriptural account of the rise of the Beast “THAT WAS” its subsequent disappearance, (its “IS NOT” condition), and its rise once again before going into destruction. It is the sixth church, seal and trumpet which we are specifically concerned with as it was during this stage…