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Here is a 20 page introduction and summary of Revelation. The book of Revelation describes the end of the world with amazing detail if you know which paragraphs are playing at the same time. The challenge for the Bible researcher is to figure how the paragraphs and subjects of Revelation are related to each other and then you know the sequence of events. When you find the right formula, you also can also see what the daily life will be like for each of the people groups during those 7 years. Those 7 years will be the most terrifying and deadly time ever. Many evils you see in the world today will become snares and disasters used by the devil's world govt. to kill 25% of the world's population and enslave the remaining middle class and poor people. And during that time the devil will make all sexual sins legal for his world government leaders and wealthy partners, and the wealthy will have every sinful pleasure they want. When you see the evil deeds in Revelation please try to look for the roots of those sins or crimes in the world today. Many of those evils already are the normal lifestyle of the leaders in secret societies, and they control the financial, political, military and religions organization today. The reason I include top religious leaders is so many of them live a secret lifestyle of sinning, and they helped design the 501c3 pledge to force all pastors to become agents for enforcing secret society rules. But this is the Church Age, many of the sins of secret societies are crimes according to the 'Constitution', so we can prosecute them in the USA, if the citizens decide they want to investigate and arrest those criminals. Before we start our studies; my advice is that our friends make sure they are walking close to Jesus and reading God's Word regularly and live in victory over sin as overcomers, so they will be worthy to escape those judgments Luke 21:36 & 20:35 and go to Heaven in the rapture in R.4:1-2 at the end of the Church Age. If you wait to get saved after the rapture, yes you will be gloriously saved, but your life will surely get a violent death, R.6:8-11 because the 7 years are the end of the world and the devil will help bring the world to its end Mark 13:19-20. The 7 years are divided into 2 halves; the first half is called Tribulation, then in Matt.24:21Jesus called the second half the “Great Tribulation”. To save paper I abbreviate the combined 7 years Tribulation and Great Tribulation as T/GT, and I abbreviate the World Government as WG, and the Rome Church as RC, and Revelation with R. so the first verse in Revelation is R.1:1.

Here is a brief preview of the chapters, if you don't understand all of this paragraph right now don't worry because it will make more sense later when we study those chapters. Chapter 1 starts with John in great distress because it looks like the Church Age is losing, and especially in Asia Minor. Then Jesus appears to John to explain that Jesus will prevail over all of His enemies. Chapters 2 & 3 are the 7 letters that Jesus dictates for John to send to those 7 Churches. In the 7 letters Jesus points out each Churches strengths if any and then exposes their failures. Those 7 letters also describe the basic summary of all 7 types of Churches. And remember Jesus chose the order of those 7 letters so they also become a 2,000 year prophecy to predict the overall pattern for the 2,000 years of the Church Age. Then Chapters 4 &5 describe the events in Heaven during the time gap on earth, it is after the Church Age and before the T/GT starts. During that time gap God will allow the devil to prepare his WG to get ready to start his WG in R.6:1-2. Then Chapters 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 & 14, 15, 16 describe the progression of God's judgments with the seal judgments, trumpet judgments, thunder judgments and bowl judgments. Chapter 19 is after God has defeated the devil's systems, then the saints in Heaven have another great celebration and this celebration must be the biggest celebration so far, followed by the battle of Armageddon. Chapter 20 is when God locks up the devil and demons before the 1,000 year reign of Christ with His saints as His partners, then the Great White Throne Judgment. But Chapters 11, 12, 13, 14 are different, they give us additional information; Chapter 11 tells us the Jews will start building their Tribulation temple at the start of the 7 year T/GT in R.6:1-2. Then R.11 tells about the 2 great witnesses who start preaching outside the temple just before the mid-point until almost the end of the 7 years. Chapter 12 explains the spiritual picture of Israel starting with Abraham, then tells about the devil tricking 1/ 3 of the new angels to reject God's righteousness shortly after creation , and then describes the devil's continuing attacks on Israel into the T/GT. Chapter 13 describes the devil looking over the sea of the Jewish population right after the rapture to find his anti-Christ who is also called “beast”, he will become the devil possessed king of the world through the WG, and it explains how the devil adds a false prophet to help promote the beast, he will do fire tricks and the 666 mark of the beast. Chapter 14 is the famous 144,000 Jews that travel around the world with Jesus to evangelize the world, they start at the mid-point during so many disasters, but God protects them from all of those disasters. When you combine chapters 11, 12, 13 & 14 with chapters 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 & 14, 15, 16 &19 you see the complex end of the earth after 6,000 years of the devil's sins and human rebellions.

Jesus gave to John this Revelation in the right order, start in chapter 1 then 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, follow the progression given by inspiration. You should toss out the writers who bring the battle of Armageddon from Rev.19:19 into the Church Age described in Rev. 2 & 3, they call it the Ezekiel option. This study looks briefly at how the earth got here, and how Jesus will win the total victory, and Jesus will share His victory and blessings with His saints forever. This study makes Revelation easier to follow by noting all of the major events in 56 Steps. Revelation 1:3 offers you a blessing you want to receive; “Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it.” You will have extra blessings form God if you study Revelation to understand it, and you will get more of that blessing if you read the verses in Revelation.

When holy God decided to make new angels and humans, the two basic choices were make robots that can't sin, or give each one a choice to love righteousness or like the deceitfulness of sin. Since robots can't think for themselves and they can't think about sinning, they also can't love God & His goodness. So robots could not become God's whole-hearted partners forever. God will surround Himself with angels and humans who have seen evil and hate it. God is building His kingdom with those who hate evil. When you make something in the work shop or kitchen, do you plan it before you make it? Yes, but God plans far ahead and much better than people can do. Before God created anything, God was able to calculate in advance the decisions each angel and human would make, we call that the foreknowledge of God. But God had to let each one make their decisions because it is part of the free-will package. And Romans 9:22 explains; “What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy which He had prepared beforehand for glory ...”

God made all of the new angels perfect and able to understanding righteousness. God gave those angels limited power and limited authority so they could maintain the new earth. The angels celebrated God's power & wisdom while they watched God create the heavens and earth Job 38:7. But after creation, while the angels were working their assignments, Lucifer started wanting more, he wanted to steal everything from God and he wanted to become god. Temptations to sin are explained in James 1:13-15 “Let no one say when he is tempted, 'I am tempted by God', for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He tempt anyone. But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. Then when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and sin when it is full-grown, brings forth death.” The devils beauty and pride are explained to us in Ezekiel 28:12-19. All of the angels started perfect, they had Godly wisdom and truth until Lucifer rejected holy truth and chose sins, then he convinced 1/ 3 of the angels to reject God's righteousness to join his rebellion. The devil and demons have no truth in them, because they rejected it and lost it. In Isaiah 14:12-15 God tells us the five “I will” boasts of the devil, and God's promise to judge those rebellious angels. The devil imagined that if he could get the humans to fall into sin, the fallen humans would join him and help his agenda. The devil didn't expect each person to be self serving and self guided egotists, Romans 3:10-18 proves each person is seeking their own wants. Most humans do not care about the devil's agenda, but they are seeking their own agenda which is almost as bad; they chose the pleasures of sins in exchange for their soul Matt.16:26. But masons and devil worshipers and some false religions have discovered they can enjoy their favorite sins while helping the devil's agenda. The humans sinned against small and limited knowledge about God's righteousness, so God had a plan from eternity past to enter the human race through Abraham's family Gen. 3:15, and Jesus will save those who repent. Biblical Christianity is a living relationship with holy God, as children we are learning why to hate sin, that learning brings spiritual growth, also we let God use us to reach lost souls for their salvation.

Please read R.12:1-6 because we should start with Israel's story since they started 4,300 years ago, and long before this Book of Revelation was written. God had a plan to use Abraham's family before the creation started. This parable starts with a quick summary of Genesis chapters 12-50, then a quick view of Lucifer's fall, then their Messiah's victory, then Israel's continuing story to the end of the T/GT. Let's look at that fast paced parable, “Now a great sign appeared in Heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet... on her head a garland of 12 stars.” The “woman” is the nation Israel, then Gen.37:9 explains the “sun & moon” are Jacob/Israel and Rachael, Leah and the “garland of 12 stars” are the 12 sons. God intended for Jacob to have one wife. The next part started 6,000 years ago; “Behold, a great, fiery red dragon... his tail drew 1/ 3 of the angels of Heaven... And the dragon stood... to devour her Child as soon as He was born... her Child was caught up to God...” Jesus sits at the right hand of the Father after His victory on the cross. The “dragon” is the devil, this is where we learn that the devil convinced 1/ 3 of the angels to reject God's righteousness and fall into sin. The dragon relentlessly attacked the leaders of Israel all through the O.T. The dragon used false teachers telling lies to lead Israel and their royal linage into idolatry, he wanted them to bring curses on themselves to prevent Christ's birth into the human race. It didn't work, because some leaders held on to their faith and God used them in the linage to bring Christ into the world. Jesus' life was sinless but the devil had Him killed anyway, that failure violated and forfeited many of Lucifer's leadership positions, given at creation, then forfeited to Jesus. This fast paced parable finishes with Israel fleeing into the wilderness at the mid-point of the 7 years. God will disciple and feed the Jews who make it to the wilderness. Jesus called the 2nd half of the final 7 years Jesus the “Great Tribulation” At the mid-point, the nation Israel will find God's protection in the wilderness, “the woman fled into the wilderness they shall feed her for 1,260 days.” R.12:14. You can enjoy this Bible study more if you read the verses referenced.

Brief Church history; when Jesus was preaching, many of the Jews left the temple to follow Jesus. After the temple leaders killed Jesus, many more people quit following the temple's teachings to follow the apostles preaching in their homes and at the temple, they joined the New Testament Church. The temple leaders became jealous, more hostile and dangerous against the Church. Most saints fled Jerusalem because of the persecution after Stephen's stoning. The apostles remained in Jerusalem, it was like a headquarters for the Churches Acts 15:2-31, until later when the apostles fled Jerusalem. When Paul got to Rome with some of his disciples he strengthened the home Churches in Rome. Then Peter was imprisoned there too, both apostles traveled with disciples and made disciples wherever they were. Paul wrote 5 books of the Bible in Rome and Peter wrote the powerful books 1st and 2nd Peter in Rome, even as prisoners they had a strong impact on Rome. Many Churches sent messengers to the apostles in Rome asking doctrinal questions and advice, after Paul and Peter were martyred the Churches sent their questions to Paul's and Peter's disciples. The Roman military destroyed Jerusalem in 70 AD. The Churches in Rome became very strong so the Rome Church leaders became the respected authority of the Churches. The spiritual growth in Rome continued for many decades. But, when humans become too successful they become proud and they fall into sin. The Churches in Rome started building big buildings and ignored the less popular leaders with strong messages, the Rome Churches declined spiritually before 313 AD, those apostate RC leaders made agreements with Roman Emperor Constantine. The RC leaders became more wealthy and politically influential. Later, when the Roman government collapsed the clever RC leaders gained greater world influence and wealth. The RC leaders continued to become more evil so that many years later the RC had its own bank and army and led the world into the dark ages. That is a brief history of how the church in Rome became so influential and later became so evil. The RC will become extremely evil during the 7 year T/GT.

Step 1 in R.1:1-10. In 95 AD John was the last living apostle 80-85 yrs. old, he was preaching boldly in Ephesus. My research leads me to a strong theory that Ephesus had their annual emperor worship festival and of course John never worshiped emperor Domitian. Then apostate Jews, “We have no king but Caesar.” jealous Jews reported John and got him arrested. The Roman govt. tried to kill John in boiling oil but it didn't kill him, so the Roman government banished John to be a work slave on Patmos. John probably thinks his life is over, but No, history proves that John's best 10 years just started when he received this book of Revelation. John had messengers he sent to Churches similar to what Paul had done 3 decades before this. When John's messengers to the 7 Churches came to Patmos, they brought painful reports about problems in the Churches. On a Sunday morning John was deeply distressed and praying for the 7 Churches, asking wisdom and ready to write. It has been about 65 years since Jesus ascended to Heaven, but Jesus appeared to John with a 7 golden lamp stand display. Jesus was walking among the 7 lampstands, it was not 500 or 1,000 small lampstands to represent all of the existing Churches. Instead Jesus appeared with 7 golden lampstands and they were medium sized with Jesus walking among them. The 7 lamp stands and the 7 letters are related to Jesus' 2,000 year Church Age ministry. Jesus chose the order of His 7 letters and Jesus dictated those messages for John. Those 7 letters became a 2,000 year prophecy too. Many Bible teachers have studied the 2,000 years of Church history, they write books to show the similar pattern of Church history and these 7 letters. Those writers have a few slight variations from each other, but they all prove that the Church Age has followed a general pattern of those 7 letters from one stage to the next. That is a fun study that I encourage our friends to research. We can't spend much time on that subject in this study but we included a few pointers and we made our own time line based on major historic facts. That parallel fits with the various troubles in Church history in a progressive pattern similar to those 7 letters. Of course there are Churches that are exceptions to the big pattern. But those letters describe a general picture of what the Church Age looked like to the majority of the populations in 7 time segments. So the 7 letters are truly to those 7 Churches, and those letters are a 2,000 year Church Age prophecy by showing a 7 stages pattern of the Church Age starting with the hopeful Ephesus then ending with lukewarm Laodicea. Some of the 7 stages overlap when the previous stage was still fading away in some parts of the known world, but the next stage was gaining momentum in other places. Today we are in the last stage, near the end of the Church Age, so most Churches we see are acting like Laodicea, but there are many exceptions. For example, there are many Smyrna Churches around the world today, and there are some Philadelphia Churches around the world today., but most of the Churches act like Laodicea The devil had the Jewish leaders ready to reject their Messiah before He came. The NT Church Age was a total surprise to the devil. But the devil has relentlessly attacked the Churches with false prophets and liars, as he did to Israel. But with the New Testament Church Age God can raise up any one who will honor and obey, to serve Him and do God's work. The Church doesn't need to follow the genetic families of the Jews or the apostles.

Step 2 in R.1:11-20 Jesus appeared to John in His glorified state, wearing His King of kings robe, His appearance is bright like the sun, Jesus' eyes are like flames of fire, feet like molten brass, a sharp 2 edged sword from His mouth and His voice sounds like a strong trumpet. Jesus is wearing many crowns just before the Battle of Armageddon in R.19:12, maybe Jesus is wearing many crowns here in chapter 1. Jesus told John to write 7 letters to the 7 Churches while Jesus dictated those 7 letters.

Step 3 in R.2:1-7 Ephesus, the first letter was written to the Churches in Ephesus. The city had the best harbor for trade ships and the Cayster River was a common trade route with the water flowing down to the harbor, the city had a large open area paved with stones and rocks near the harbor as a great place for marketing. And they had the most infamous temple of Artemis for prostitutes with every violent crime that is common to sinners. Paul had spent 3 years in Ephesus and he started other Churches in Asia Minor. Paul sent several of his companions to be a pastor in Ephesus, including Timothy. The Church leaders rejected Paul on his last visit about 65 AD. Continuing under John's care, the Churches in Ephesus were busy for Jesus with patience during harassment from the pagans and apostate Jews, they caught roaming false apostles and proved they were liars. But the Church people forgot about repentance and why Jesus gets their greatest loyalty and their first love. Prophetically the Ephesus Church gets the first letter representing the first stage of the Church Age. Jesus started the Church Age through the preaching of His apostles from 30 AD to 105 AD, the first stage mostly ended when John died, but it continued a little longer probable while their disciples held their strength, then several decades later Jesus removed that lampstand.

Step 4 in R.2:8-11 Smyrna, ancient historians say it was the most beautiful city of Asia Minor , the harbor was lined with beautiful pagan temples made of marble, and as you'd expect; all pagan temples had annual pagan festivals with required attendance, but the Christians refused to act like pagans or worship their idols and get drunk and immorality . The wealthy people, including many successful Jews controlled the job markets. They formed trade guilds similar to some labor unions today. Christians suffered from violent attacks by the pagans and jealous Jews and the arrogant emperors who wanted to be worshiped as if they were a god. The Church in Smyrna served in trials with suffering and persecuted by jealous Jews getting them killed by the Rome government. They were poor but Jesus says they are spiritually rich. Prophetically from 64 AD to 312 AD. That Church type will go up in the rapture. The words “you will have tribulation ten days” also prophesied 10 seasons of persecution Nero 64-68 AD, Domitian 95-96 AD, Trajan 103-117 AD, Marcus Aurelius 161-180 AD, Severus199-211 AD, Maximinus 235-238 AD, Decius 249-253 AD, Valerain 255-260 AD, 255-260 AD, Aurelian 270-274 AD, Diocletian 303-312 AD. The Smyrna stage was the overall pattern from 64AD to 312 AD. But there are Smyrna Churches in some parts of the world today.

Step 5 in R.2:12-17 Pergamum, the city with satan's throne and many pagan temples, including a temple for Asclepios the snake god they pretended that sleeping on the floor with snakes can heal people. It was an active college town with the largest library of 200,000 scrolls made of animal skins teaching paganism, their town and school was similar to the American collages, it was a waste of money to learn mostly false information. The Roman govt. capitol for Asia Minor was in their city. The Church held to Jesus in persecution, but they also allowed Balaam's doctrine to put stumbling blocks on the Jews promoting idolatry and immorality to the Jews. And Nicolaitans allowing idolatry while restricting honorable saints from teaching because they criticized the sins of fallen Church leaders. Prophetically 313 AD-800 AD. This type of church predicted the spiritual failure of the RC in 313 AD because the RC allowed these sins of idolatry, immorality and preventing honorable Christians from teaching. The RC started becoming a worldly power and their church type continues into the Tribulation. In this stage God allowed the devil to start a false religion called Islam and predicted by the words “Repent, or else I will come to you quickly and will fight against them with the sword of My mouth.” they murdered many unsaved lukewarm church people with swords starting in 623 AD. We still have some Churches like this one, but Jesus will put an end of that Church's rebellion with the sword of His mouth.” at the end of the 7 years in the Battle of Armageddon.

Step 6 in R.2:18-29 Thyatira, the city was known for their wool production and purple dye for the clothing of wealthy people and Roman government leaders. The Church served Jesus with patience, but they allowed the Jezebel type of immorality including to eat foods offered to idols, and they believed the false 'deep secrets of satan'. But the real “deep secrets of satan” prove the devil had great privileges in Heaven but he despised God's truth and lost everything. Jesus is sending sexually transmitted diseases to punish their immorality. Prophetically 800AD -1100 AD and portrays when RC caused the 'dark ages' This church type continues doing evil to the end of the T/GT.

Step 7 in R.3:1-6 Sardis was built on a natural plateau that was easy to defend, so the people felt safe. The people were wealthy, lazy and loved entertainment. The big scandal was a few times their city got looted for its gold. Jesus used that for part of His message to them to guard their spiritual treasures. The Church in Sardis got no commendation, “you have a name that you are alive but you are dead,” But they did have a few saints. Prophetically 1,100-1,400 AD, the RC grew to become a world power but Jesus called them spiritually dead. Jesus made reference about the practice of blotting out the names of those who criticize the Churches sins, that includes the Church in Sardis and the RC later..

Step 8 in R.3:7-13 Philadelphia, the city had many earthquakes causing fear and humility. They were afraid to go into the city for fear of building parts falling on them, that also kept them away from the pagan temples. Jesus called the Jews a synagogue of satan. The Church valued the gospel and shared it. Jesus gave them an open door for ministries and protection from the jealous Jews, Jesus will make the Jews know that God loves the overcomers in Philadelphia. Prophetically 1,400 AD and they go up in the rapture. The “open door” for ministry also predicted 'the great 'missionary age' when missionaries reached many countries. The USA got started in that missionary age. The USA has a covenant with God called the 'Constitution' During the Church Age the faithful Christians “overcomers”, are the keepers, they hold on to that covenant called the 'Constitution' until the rapture, Jesus gave strength to that “open door”, so the devil can't shut the door . This faithful Church type will go up in the rapture. Jesus said “Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial ... to test those who are left on the earth” - after the rapture.

Did you see the blessings Jesus will give to the saints that overcome the sins in their life? In R.2:7 “To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life...” In R.2:11 “He who overcomes will not be hurt by the second death.” In R.2:17 “To him who overcomes I will give some of the hidden manna to eat. And I will give him a stone with his new name written which no one knows except him who receives it.” In R.2:26 “And he who overcomes, and keeps My works until the end, to him I will give power over the nations...” In R.3:5 “He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot his name from the book of life; but I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels.” I R. 3:12 “ He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go out no more. I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem... and I will write on him My new name.” In R.3:21 “To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.” The final promise connected to those blessings gives all of those blessings to all overcomers. In R.21:7-8 “He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son. But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.” Jesus wants you to overcome the sins in your life, and you will go to Heaven at the end of your life then Jesus will give you great rewards.

Step 9 in R.3:14-22 Laodicea was a prosperous city, they sold eye salve that helped some people. The city didn't have a water source so they used aqueducts to pipe in water from several miles away and the water came in lukewarm. Jesus used those 3 points in His letter to the Church in Laodicea. The Church members were satisfied because of their worldly success and spiritually blind and they were lukewarm spiritually with unsaved pastors. Jesus knocks on the doors of individuals for salvation and spiritual growth. Jesus did not ask if they will let Him in to lead their church. I have prayed many times for the spiritual gold Jesus offers, and spiritual eye salve to see and the spiritual white clothes. Prophetically 1,750 AD into the Tribulation. Most churches we see today are 501c3 corporations pretending to be a Church, and they call themselves a Church, but they will be earning money wealth with worldliness into the Tribulation, business as usual. Don't get your spiritual beliefs from them.

Step 10 in R.4:1-2 “Come up here...a door standing open” That voice is either Jesus' trumpet voice, or “the voice of an archangel” in 1st Thess.4:16 calling the Church saints home. That call will identify those qualified to go up, and warn the other professing Christians why Jesus left them here. Most church members and pastors in America are not persevering as Jesus' disciples, they are not qualified to go in that door. Here in the Church Age they claim to know Jesus, but they deny Jesus by their sinful lifestyle Titus 1:16. They will see Jesus at the rapture R.1:7. Then multitudes of them will plead with God to save their soul as they make the decision to be dead to sin, as required in Romans 6. They get saved after the rapture. In the next 3 1/ 2 years they will be murdered by the devil's WG and the RC before the 5th seal in R.6:9-11. We will see them in this study in step 17, when their soul is in Paradise and they are distressed by the violence of their death in R.6:10 crying out to God for revenge on their murderers. Then we see them again in step 21, they are in Heaven celebrating salvation in R.7:9-17.

Many Americans were told to say a sinners prayer or be a church member of a 501c3 church to get saved, but what did Jesus teach? In John 3:3 Jesus said you must be “born again” In John 14:15-24 “If you love Me, keep My commandments ... he who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father... If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word, and My Father will love him... he who does not love Me does not keep My teachings.” In Matt. 10:38 Jesus said “...he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me, he who finds his own life will lose it, but he who loses his life for My sake will find it.” Jesus preached this sermon many times around Israel. Then in Matt. 16:24 and Mark 8:34 Jesus added the phrase “Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?. The phrases “not worthy of Me” and “What will a man give in exchange for his soul?” are clear cut teaching. Paul gave the same warning in Phil. 3:18 “...for many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you weeping, they are enemies of Christ: whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly –their wants and pleasures- and their glory is in their shame, who set their mind on earthly things. For our citizenship is in Heaven.” Jesus' repeats His message of discipleship in the 7 letters R.2 & R.3 to the churches saying; “him who overcomes” the sins in his life. The 1st warning is R.2:4 “I have this against you, that you have left your first love. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent”. In R.2:11 Jesus gives another warning “he who overcomes shall not be hurt by the second death.” In R.3:5 “he who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot his name from the Book of Life.” In R.3:9 Jesus makes a promise; “Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world to test those who are left on the earth.” Jesus gives another warning to lukewarm Church people in R.3:16; “because you are lukewarm I will vomit you out of My mouth.” Another invitation in R.3:19; “As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent.” Most Americans haven't heard those warnings because they get their spiritual beliefs from 501c3 corporations pretending to be a Church. If your agreement with Jesus does not include a honest heart for obedience and a real want for victory over sins in your life before the rapture, then at least you will understand why Jesus might leave you here with millions of other church people.

The church people who are left on the earth will see Jesus at the rapture because R.1:7 says “Behold Jesus is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because they missed Him. Even so, Amen.” The church people will instantly know they missed the rapture, then they will become urgent to get saved and then they will live for Jesus, it's a great revival for a short time. Those tribulation saints will struggle to survive but the devil's people will kill most of them in the next 3 years. The Jews will see Jesus and realize their ancestors missed their Messiah in His first visit and crucified Him. Soon after the rapture the Jews will be allowed to rebuild their temple and the teaching at this temple will be more honest than the teaching at the temple 2,000 years ago. All the tribes of the world will know that Jesus is real. But the devil will probably call the rapture an alien abduction. And the devil will promote the anti-Christ/beast as the messiah for all religions.

Does the Church Age end in R.4:1-2? Yes, here are a few of the many evidences that the Church is not on earth after R.4:1-2; God must focus back to the Jews and fulfill His promises to Abraham, Isaac & Jacob/ Israel. Look at Daniel the prophet; Nebuchadnezzar dragged the Jews from their land in 587 BC, his troops destroyed Jerusalem and the temple. The Jews were shocked and asking God when they can return home and rebuild the temple? The answer was delivered by Gabriel in Daniel 9:24-27. The Jews were given 3 time segments 7+62+1 weeks = 70 weeks of years; 49 years until they can return home and rebuild the temple, 434 years until the Messiah will ride a donkey into Jerusalem as their Messiah for Palm Sunday. But He was rejected by Israel's leaders and crucified, and God shifted His focus to the gentiles for 2,000 years till the third segment of 7 years Tribulation/ Great Tribulation. Gabriel said the 3 time segments were “for your people and for your holy city, to finish transgressions, to make an end of sinning, to make reconciliation for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness” The phrase “for your people” is the Jews, not the gentiles. In Jeremiah 30:7 that 7 years is called “the time of Jacob's trouble” God says “ I will make a full end of all the nations where I have scattered you...” But Jesus promises to protect the Church saints who “kept His command to persevere” in R.3:10 “I also will keep you from the hour of trial...” Then R.4:1 John saw “a door standing open in Heaven” and a voice “saying 'Come up here, and I will show you things which must take place after this” after the Church Age. The Church is in Heaven described in R.4 and R.5. Then from R.6 on the text is talking about the WG killing people saved after the rapture. Then the 144,000 Jews will do world evangelism with Jesus R.7:1-8. In R.11:13 we see the Tribulation temple and God's 2 witnesses. Then R.12:1-6 is about Abraham's family. In R.14:1-5 we see the victory celebration for the 144,000 Jew evangelists. The Jews are prominent after the Church Age, not the gentiles.

During the Church Age the Holy Spirit is restraining and stopping most of the devil's plans as described in 2 Thess. 2:6. But the devil sold his soul trying to pretend he is god over the earth , he wants people on earth worship him. The devil is only a fallen angel, a spirit without a body, he has limited powers, but he thinks he can use modern technology to fill in all of his weaknesses and pretend he is the all knowing god. The devil wants to build one more WG using modern technology to promote his WG with lies and spy on the masses so he can control or quickly kill his outspoken enemies. That will be his strongest and most violent WG ever. The devil has inspired many movies with a super hero to save the world, those characters are always flawed by sin. Those movies are preparing people to want a hero to run the world. The hero being offered will be the devil possessed anti-Christ called the beast. The devil will get most of the sins he sold his soul for, but it will not give him what he and demons expect. Instead the devil's wish list will bring the end of this sin cursed earth, and it ends any claim the devil thinks he has to rule the earth. During the 7 years the devil will kill many of the T/GT saints, but that sends those saints to Heaven where they celebrate their salvation in God's presence, and in Heaven they will watch and celebrate as God destroys the devil's empire in many waves of judgments. Then after the T/GT Holy God will lock up the devil and demons and Jesus will rule this earth for 1,000 years. And those saint the devil murdered will be restored to perfect health to live 1,000 years and they will rule with Christ through the Millennium. Then, God will create a new heavens and earth.

After the Church Age ends in R.4:1 there is a time gap of a few weeks before the start of the WG and the T/GT in R.6:1. The rapture doesn't start the 7 year T/GT because Daniel 9:27 says the T/GT starts when Israel's leaders sign the WG treaty. Wait, the devil needs a few weeks of time to form his WG. During that time gap God is waiting a few weeks. God will use the devil's evil deeds as the first part of the T/GT judgments. The first problem for the devil is he is a spirit, but he needs a human body so he can be seen and talk at the WG meetings, and then talk to the world's population in public addresses as the leader of the WG. So immediately after the rapture the devil will find the most evil man he can find from “the sand of the sea” referring to large Jewish populations. That will look like “a beast rising up out of the sea” That man must be a Jew/Arab to convince Israel's government leaders and Arab leaders to accept him as their messiah and get the nations to sign the WG agreement. That devil possessed man will like the devil's WG plans, and the devil will “give him his power, his throne, and great authority” he will have the evil powers he needs to be the WG leader. So the devil will have a human appearance then he will be able to form his team by inviting his favorite evil people to a secret meeting for arguing and planning the WG. Many of them are very rich and clever in evil ways, and they already use their evil talents to control money and people through the banking system, political power, military power and all of the world's religions. The laws and regulations for the WG will be a combination of the devil's wants and the winning arguments of those evil people. Those wealthy people become the devil's support team, but near the end of the 7 years, some of the wealthy criminals will hate the devil and try to stop him, but the devil/beast will use the mark of the beast to control them by controlling their money. The Scriptures calls him “beast” in R.13:1-2 because the devil/beast will take over the all of the world's governments swiftly like a leopard, with powerful jaws like a lion, and his feet will trample anything left of value like a bear's feet.

What are they planning during that gap of a few weeks? They will plan to say they can solve all of the world's money problems by creating a WG currency; it will have larger dollar numbers, but no one will know it is worth almost nothing. The WG team will take everyone's money by forcing them to convert their money to the WG currency. It will be grand theft against everyone around the world. The big bankers are already trying to replace the dollar with a junk currency to plunder everyone's money. We can already see the USA courts and international courts are expanding the rights of copyright laws for the big corporations. The devil's team will not warn that most people will become something like slaves to make luxury products for the devil's support team. We already know the work slave and sex slave industries are thriving. The WG will confuse many people about the rapture by using the alien hoax and calling the rapture an alien abduction, the alien hoax is already being taught by the entertainment industry . The WG will promise to assemble a WG military to fight the aliens. At the end of the 7 year T/GT the devil will force all rebels to fight the aliens, but it will be Jesus' 2nd coming. The devil is a liar, I'm sure they are told it is an alien attack. The WG will need lots of buildings around the world and they need many employees to enforce the WG regulations, so it is convenient that the US military corporations already have more than 900 bases around the world to build their empire . One of the jobs the WG employees will do is to stop all nutritious and luxury foods from being shipped to the 25% of the world's population targeted for starvation and population reduction. All food stores, farms, ranches and back yard gardens must have a WG license, then many of the existing food sources must be destroyed. The RC will get rid of everything in their past about Jesus as God and Messiah, then RC will persecute those who put their faith in Jesus during the T/GT. But the RC will promote the devil/beast as a good messiah and the fulfillment of all gods for all religions. Some teachers in the RC are already making that shift. The RC will be in control of all religions except Israel and their temple. One of the RC assignments in the WG will be to kill 25% of the world's populations of previously Christianized nations. The RC will use starvation, violence and bee headings in gill oh teens to do away with millions. Do you know there are hundreds of those things at US DUMB military bases today. The areas to be targeted are nations that were Christianized before the rapture because many of their people will get saved after they miss the rapture, they will not accept the beast as god, and they will not worship the devil/beast. Other people that will be targeted will be WG critics. The devil's support team will divide the world into 10 sections as described in Daniel 7:7-10, 7:21-27 and 9:27, they pick 10 popular persons to be the 10 kings for those 10 regions, but those kings are in agreement with the devil. The beast's private immoral behavior and all of his WG leaders are like the top political, financial, and religious leaders today in these last days; “no desire for women” Daniel 11:37, then Romans 1:26-27 describes their sins as “vile passions... committing what is shameful” Another major change is the land of Israel will be mostly protected and they will rebuild their temple and worship Jesus as their Messiah , because Israel's leaders will require that protection as their part of the WG deal. These are some of the many things planned during that time gap between R.4:1 and R.6:1. The devil's team will plan how to promote the WG and get everyone to obligate themselves and their country to the WG plan without knowing the secret plan. The media messages will be lies to convince everyone to dream about a WG that solves all of their worries with the “Peace and Safety” agreement mentioned in 1 Thess. 5:3. Now the devil's team is about ready to launch their WG and we will see that in steps 13, 14, 15 and 16.

Step 11 in R.4:3-11 In that same time gap between R.4:1 to R.6:1 the Church is in Heaven, the Church Age overcomers will be in Heaven and they will see our holy God, the Father of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self control, with great power, having perfect relationships with millions of angels, with the 24 elders and millions of saints. The Father looks like jasper/diamond & sardius red, and we will see 7 torches representing the Holy Spirit, and we will also see Jesus appearing as a Lamb that was slain for our sins.

Step 12 in R.5:1-14 Then the Father has the inheritance scroll to take back the earth from the devil. A search finds no one is worthy to open the scroll except Jesus. So Jesus will reveal the 7 seal judgments. Seal judgments 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, $6 fill up the first 3 1/ 2 years to the mid-point of the 7 years. The second 3 1/ 2 years are filled with the 7th seal judgment, it contains 7 trumpet judgments, but the 7th trumpet judgment has 7 thunder judgments and 7 bowl judgments. Those judgments take up the second 3 1/ 2 years, followed by the Battle of Armageddon where Jesus defeats His enemies and locks-up the devil and his demons. The seal judgments 1, 2, 3, and 4 are the devil's evil deeds and God allowed it, but seal judgments 5, 6 & 7 are God's judgments. The 7th seal judgment contains 7 trumpet judgments 7 thunder judgments and 7 bowl judgments when God completely destroys the devil's works.

Step 13 in R.6:1-2 Seal # 1, the beast rides a white horse, maybe there is a white horse, but the symbolism is the “beast” pretending to be a good messiah while conquering the world by getting signatures from every person or every country. When the world's population makes a deal with the devil and accept the devil's offer, they also reject God's protection. When they agree for the devil to be their WG they will be stuck because God's judgments hold a promise as spiritually binding. When they agree to the WG they are giving the devil the right to murder them or enslaving them. And those countries agree to pay for the evil regulations in the “Peace and Safety” deal described in Daniel 9:27 and R.6:1-8. When the WG deal is accepted by Israel, that starts the 7 year T/GT. The deal forms the WG while the gullible people believe the lies from the WG and people dream of God-less versions of peace to allow their sinful pleasures. The deal allows the Jews to rebuild their temple described in R.11:1-3. The WG and RC need to silence and isolate the old USA and other Christianized nations, to silence the Bible study books with God's messages about Jesus the real Messiah and His teachings about the Father's judgments. The WG is setting their trap to murder the Tribulation saints as described in R.6:9-11 and R.7:9-17 and R.17:6, while the devil's support team, the meanest money criminals party in Babylon along the Euphrates River as described in R.18:1-21. The land of Israel is mostly protected from the violence being planned against the world's population , they demanded protection before they signed the WG deal. Soon the temple will be finished and the temple worshipers will be learning real godliness with the knowledge of their real Messiah Jesus.

Step 14 in R.6:3-4 Seal # 2, the beast and WG forces riding a red horse, a blood red or fire red horse. Now the secret laws of the WG are enforced. The “ great sword” is probably symbolic. John saw a simple vision of millions of deaths, not a detailed news video of murders. The devil needs modern weapons to force his deadly regulations of the WG. The people are mad at the unfair exchange rate for WG currency and forced to lose most of their money. All citizens need a WG license for all farms, ranches, restaurants, food stores and back yard gardens, but no licenses given to the targeted 25% of the populations. The red horse includes WG forces burning unapproved food sources. The red horse includes the WG forces and RC already started bee headings using gill oh teens on 25% of the population, mostly Church people saved after the rapture and the WG critics.

Step 15 in R.6:5-6 Seal # 3, the beast and WG forces ride a black horse symbolizing famine. Maybe there is a black horse. Or maybe people should expect to see the WG forces driving black vehicles and wearing black uniforms while measuring small amounts of low nutrition food for a day's labor.

Step 16 in R.6:7-8 Seal # 4, the devil/beast and RC have successfully built a WG. God let them do many of the evil things they wanted to do, including killing 25% of the population using violence and famine, while blaming aliens or another similar nonexistent enemy. Those people signed their death warrant when they made an agreement with the devil. But holy God will use the devil's evil deeds to bring this sinful earth to its end. God's tribulation judgments sound tragic in human thinking, but the saints are safe in the loving presence of God in Heaven. The saints in Heaven will watch and cheer as God takes back the earth from the devil. Almost at the mid-point there is a conflict between the beast and RC. Rome wants more authority and glory. But the devil/beast is planning to take over God's temple as the WG capitol. The RC has a secret meeting and decides to kills the beast, and they do kill him. Then God allows the beast to be restored back to life for 42 months R.13:3-5 and R.17:7, 8, 16, the “beast “ gets lots of publicity for imitating Jesus' resurrection.

Step 17 in R.6:9-11 Seal # 5 the souls of the Tribulation martyrs are in Paradise and still shocked at the horror of their death, many were bee headed, so they cry to God for revenge. God sends them white robes and tells them to rest a little longer in Paradise and wait for the other martyrs to be killed. Also because they need to re-examine their life style on earth and realize why they missed the rapture and become thankful that God gave them another chance. We see these saints again in Step 21 thankful to be saved and celebrating the goodness of God's presence. The 2 great witnesses Enoch and Elijah are preaching God's righteousness at the temple before the mid-point. I'm sure they will be Enoch and Elijah because they are the only 2 people who never died. Some people try to say Moses is one of them but God told Moses he could not enter that land because he struck the rock in Numbers 20:11-12. Two witnesses are preaching strong with power from God, it encourages the temple worshipers just before they flee to the wilderness R.11:3-14. Their prophesying warns God's enemies for several weeks before the mid-point, than they preach around the world. I'm sure the 2 witnesses will be given power over the water like Jesus had and Peter had for a few minutes in John 6:19. And they can travel rapidly on sea and land like the boat in John 6:21 and like Philip did with his feet in Acts 8:39.

Step 18 in R.6:12-17 Seal # 6 God answers the prayers for revenge from the gentile Tribulation martyrs against their murderers; a great meteor shower causes great earthquakes; damaging bridges, roads, power lines, water lines, sewer lines, houses and cell phone towers. The dust blocks the sun and moon causing respiratory problems, suddenly very cold weather and the sky is dark both day and night for a few weeks. The cracks go 2 miles deep exposing the Deep Underground Military Bases where many murderers are hiding. The damage is so severe that most of the damage will not get repaired. Every mountain and island is moved. Then God peels back the sky for rebels to see His angry face. This judgment will cause strong wind damage, but 4 angels hold back the wind damage until the 144,000 Jews are sealed for protection. The murderers are in a panic and call on the mountains and rocks to kill them, to hide them from the Father's wrath and the wrath of the Lamb. Panic thinking is not very smart, if they die right there they are locked in their sins waiting for their judgment with nowhere to hide.

Step 19 The devil's spy systems are damaged and shut down; road side cameras, smart car camera and microphones, smart meters sending information, smoke detector microphones, smart TV cameras and microphones, smart appliances. Also the digital road signs, and cell phones and TV's with propaganda messages are silent. Those rebels saw God's angry face, now they can figure out many basic facts about God's judgments and their spiritual condemnation. Daily life just became a scrambled mess, but as they try to survive this disaster it makes them think for themselves. The silence allows the rebels to think about the wrath of God on them. The 2 witnesses are still preaching and I believe parts of their messages were broad casted in the TV news to stir up mockers before this judgment. Now the 144,000 Jews are almost ready for world evangelism with Jesus. This is a perfect time for evangelists to speak God's truth in a world controlled by liars and murderers, many people are alarmed at the disasters, ready to hear God's truth.

Step 20 R.7:1-8 Angels seal 144,000 male virgin Jews with the Father's seal for protection during world evangelizing with Jesus. Then the 4 angels will allow wind damage and they add to the winds as they were assigned to do, while the WG is trying hard to restore their spy systems to manipulate public messages, but the extra winds will make most repairs harder and some repairs impossible to do.

Step 21 R.7:9-17 Now the Tribulation martyrs are in Heaven “a great multitude”, too many to count with white robes and palm branches in their hands celebrating the goodness of God in Heaven. Millions of church people from R.6:9-11, they got saved in the Tribulation then murdered by the devil/beast and his WG and the RC, and now they are brought into God's presence in Heaven and watch God's judgments against the devil's systems.

Step 22 R.13:5-6 Marking the mid-point of the Tribulation the devil goes into God's temple and defiles it proclaiming himself as god, he blasphemes holy God's name and reputation, and slanders the angels who didn't sin, and the saints who will judge him as described in Dan.7:26 and 1st Corinthians 6:3. Jesus told the Jews what to do when the temple gets defiled in Matthew 24:15 “flee to mountains.”

Step 23 R.12:7-9 We all know the devil is evil, but he never did these sins and crimes before, those crimes get the devil banish from Heaven forever. Michael and holy angels cast out the devil and his angels, woe to the saints on the earth because now the devil knows he'll lose, so he is more dangerous.

Step 24 R.8:1-6 The 7th seal has 7 trumpet judgments to answer the prayers of those martyrs for God's revenge on their murderers. These are mostly Jews who were killed at the start of the 2nd half, called the Great Tribulation, immediately after the devil broke his treaty with Israel; “there were noises, thunderings, lightnings and an earthquake.” We have no details of what damage is done there.

Step 25 R.8:7 Trumpet 1 sends hail and fire mixed with blood. The fires burn 1/ 3 of all trees, mostly around the Europe/ Mediterranean area. God is judging the areas where the devil/beast is actively doing most of his evil and sins. The fire burns all grass, maybe plant based foods will burn with the grass.

Step 26 R.8:8-9 Trumpet 2 a burning mountain was thrown into the sea, 1/ 3 of the sea/oceans become blood, 1/ 3 sea creatures die and 1/ 3 ships were destroyed. God is judging the devil's evil deeds near the Mediterranean sea area. Maybe 15,000 ships were destroyed. God has given this type of judgment previously through Moses in Ex.7:20-21, it was real blood and it stank, and the fish died.

Step 27 R.8:10-11 Trumpet 3 a meteor explodes in the upper atmosphere scattering pieces of the meteor across the land on 1/ 3 of the worlds fresh water, probably around Europe/ Mediterranean Sea where the devil is most active, 1/ 3 of the world's fresh water is poisoned like wormwood, many people die.

Step 28 R.8:13 Trumpet 4 God sends something into the atmosphere to block 1/ 3 of the sunlight and moonlight, the shorter days protect saints lives who are trying to survive Matt. 24:22. This judgment sends very cold air again. An angel gives a loud warning Woe, Woe, Woe about the next 3 trumpet judgments. When Jesus walked on earth He locked up many demons as hinted in Matt. 8:29. I believe those millions and millions of demons are the same demons we will see in the 5th and 6th trumpet judgments. The text in R.9:4-5 indicates these demons obey an agreement they made with Jesus.

Step 29 R.9:1-12 Trumpet 5 and woe #1, the devil is given the key to the bottomless pit to release millions of demon possessed locusts. They have noisy wings and scorpion stinger tails. Their sting causes severe pain for 5 months. The demons are not allowed to kill people. People will want to die and try to die because of their pains, but death will flee from them for 5 months. This is God's last major effort to save the souls of those murders who control the earth. Yes they are in great pain, but not as much pain as the Lake of Fire forever. They have 5 months to lay in bed and think about death and eternal Hell. The 2 witnesses and the 144,000 evangelists are still preaching the gospel and many souls are getting saved.

Step 30 R.9:13-21 Trumpet 6 and woe #2 releases 4 commander demons and 200,000,000 demonic horses with riders to kill 1/ 3 of earth's population. The horses breathe out fire, molten sulfur and toxic smoke and their tails are deadly serpents. A few more people repent as they are dying. Sulfur is a pungent preservative, so many dead bodies will not get a quick burial. Maybe about 2 1/ 2 billion survive, they are the meanest, they want to fight Jesus at Armageddon. Most of them will not repent R.9:20-21 of worshiping demons, or idolatry, or murder, or sorceries, or sexual sins and stealing.

Step 31 R.10:1-11 A mighty angel stands on sea and land claiming God's ownership of the earth, and proclaiming God's victory over the devil's rebellion. Then the angel gives John a little prophecy book to eat, it's symbolic that John will be released to teach this great message of Revelation, and history records that John preached 10 more years. John is greatly encouraged from all of these visions.

Step 32 That mighty angel claimed God's victory and promised a quick final ending of the devil's kingdom. I guess there are about 3 to 4 weeks to the end of 7 years and then the Battle of Armageddon. Most evangelism is completed. It is time for the 2 witnesses to wrap up their prophesying ministry and receive their rewards in Heaven. They had a great ministry of reaching souls and troubling rebels.

Step 33 R.11:4-13 The 2 witnesses go to Jerusalem to be killed in a final battle with the devil/beast. Their dead bodies stay on the street for 3 1/ 2 days as rebels around the world celebrate their death by sending gifts to each other, because their judging and prophesying caused many problems for rebels around the world. Also the 2 witnesses were preventing some changes the WG wanted to do until now. So 7,000 of the greatest and most infamous rebels meet in Jerusalem to plan their next step of world control. Suddenly the breath of life from God entered the 2 witnesses, and they stood on their feet, and great fear fell on their enemies who saw them all around the world. Then God calls them up to Heaven while the world watches. A great earthquake kills the 7,000 infamous rebels. Maybe the 7,000 rebels had decided to add some fire tricks to the devil/beast's antics to impress and persuade their critics.

Step 34 R.13:11-18 The survivors want a normal life again, they hate the WG and God's judgments. The beast is powerless to stop the disasters while blaming the aliens. Wait, this is the devil's chance to pretend he is god, he must try harder. The devil gets a popular rebel to be a false prophet doing fire tricks, and he tells the people to make a living idolatry image of the beast. It's a hoax because the devil cannot create life or anything, he is only a fallen angel. God allows them to make an advanced robot imitating human life by breathing and talking. It's just a robot repeating messages from its computer programmers who are introducing the 666 mark. The devil can't convince the world he is great. I expect the 666 mark will be strongly coerced because it allows each person to be demoniacally possessed.

Step 35 R.13:16-18 The 666 mark of the beast is also God's judgment on the money criminals who set up the WG for greedy gain. Maybe some of them want to end the WG, and maybe there is a growing opposition? Something is forcing the devil to use more control tools like the mark. God might allow a few of the wealthy criminals to avoid the 666 mark by abandoning their wealth and going into hiding.

Step 36 R.14:1-5 Jesus and 144,000 male virgin Jews return to Mount Zion celebrating the great success of their world evangelism. The Father praises them, and gives them a new song with harp music from Heaven, only the only people who can learn that song are the 144,000 Jews. Then I believe the 144,000 Jews join their families in the mountains. They have great evangelism stories to share with their parents and siblings.

Step 37 R.14:6-13 An angel with a loud voice repeats the gospel everyone has already heard, but most people got the mark to save their life, so they can't get saved. Another angel announces Babylon is fallen, then another angel warning against the evil 666 mark because it brings maximum judgment from God. The devil is using extreme pressure trying to get everyone to receive the mark and be cursed.

Step 38 R.14:14-20 Jesus is sitting on clouds with a farmer's sickle. It's symbolic of Jesus harvesting murderers swiftly at Armageddon. I believe the people on earth can see something, but the devil tricks everyone that it's time to go fight the 'aliens'. The real battle will be Armageddon in R.19:11-21.

Step 39 R.15:1-8 Great Tribulation martyrs are in Heaven celebrating their salvation while playing worship music on the harps of God without having to learn and singing the Song of Moses and the Song of the Lamb as they watch God's judgments on their murderers. All of the Tribulation & Great Tribulation saints will be restored to life on earth in R.20:4 and they will reign with Christ for 1,000 years. The temple in R.15:5-8 is the Millennium temple and the bowl judgments are the last steps to prepare it as the Millennium temple, it will be far more glorious than Solomon's temple.

Step 40 R.16:1-2 Bowl judgment #1, the angel poured his bowl causing a foul and loathsome sore on everyone with the mark of the beast. The sore is painful it stinks and it's life threatening. Now all of those mean murders are worried about their destruction, they can't ignore their painful rotting flesh.

Step 41 R.16:3 Bowl # 2, the angel poured his bowl on all of the sea and oceans, all of the sea and oceans became stinky dead blood, all of the sea creatures died. All of the ships are probably destroyed, but we see the ship's crew members in R.18:17 mourning God's destruction of evil.

Step 42 R.16:4-7 Bowl Judgment # 3, the angel poured his bowl on all fresh waters, they became blood. A saint in Heaven asked if this judgment is too harsh, the angels answer; those murderers killed saints and prophets so God is giving them blood to drink. Some satanic rituals have the worshipers drink human blood, that might be some of the reasons for this dreadful judgment The only water remaining is in storage containers and water towers. The devil's human partners are at their end.

Step 43 R.16:8-9 Bowl # 4, the angel poured his bowl on the sun, the sun scorched those murderers with great heat. They blasphemed God, it's the wrong response, they did not repent and give God glory, and they were not honest about the fact that they deserved God's judgment .

Step 44 in R.16:10-11 Bowl # 5, the angel poured his bowl on the WG offices, the devil/beast's offices around the world became full of painful darkness. That is appropriate because the devil's kingdom is painful spiritual darkness. They gnawed their tongues because of the pain and blasphemed God.

Step 45 in R.16:12-16 Bowl # 6, his bowl dried the Euphrates river, making a path for the kings in the east coming for the Battle of Armageddon. And 3 demons looking like frogs calling all kings to the war. Some people can see Jesus sitting on the clouds, but they believe it is the aliens.

Step 46 in R.16:17-21 Bowl # 7, the angel poured his bowl on the air, God said “It is done” There were noises, thunderings, lightnings and the all time greatest earthquake ever. It flattened all mountains, city buildings, everyone's houses and both Babylons, all the islands sank into the sea, and filled the deep cracks from the 6th seal judgment. Then 100 pound hail killed some rebels. There is nothing left, the rebels who survived will want to fight those 'aliens' at the battle of Armageddon. I don't expect the devil/beast to say it is a war against Jesus their Creator. The devil is desperate to win this battle, or he loses everything he sold his sole for. This is the devil's last chance to avoid the Lake of Fire

Step 47 in R.17:1-18 After the total destruction of everything on the earth, then two of those angels will show John the sinful stories of both Babylons, they had been actively slandering and opposing God all through the Tribulation. The first Babylon is the apostate religious Babylon symbolized as a prostitute woman in R.17:1-18 “with whom the kings committed fornication and the inhabitants were made drunk with the wine...” Peter called Rome Babylon in 2nd Peter Near Paul's end while he was in prison in Rome the Holy Spirit strongly explained to Paul about the false religion of Rome described as “...in the latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron, forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods...” 1 Tim.4:1-3. We know they also make idolatry statues of saints and try to pray to those saints, and they are known for many sexual sins. In the T/GT the RC accepted and promoted idolatry and all sexual sins. The woman was drunk with the blood of the martyrs. In the T/GT the RC leaders had been getting their adrenalin thrills from murdering saints. R.17:8, 11. Remember the RC killed the beast just before the mid-point but God let the beast live for 42 months longer R.17:8. Then immediately the 10 kings of the WG killed the Rome Church leaders as revenge as explained later R.17:16 that was just before the mid-point. Some of the RC buildings lasted until the greatest earthquake of all time in R.16:18-19.

Step 48 R.18:1-24 This is the political/ financial Babylon of idolatry, probably on the Euphrates River and some businesses expanded into Israel. Remember these wealthy criminals stopped the good foods to previously Christian nations to starve the millions of Church people saved after the rapture R.7:13-14, while these wealthy criminals in idolatrous Babylon ate the best foods. In R.18:9-23 we see a list of their luxuries. After God destroyed this Babylon the kings mourn in R.18:9-10, the merchants mourn in R.18:1,1and ship captains & passengers & sailors mourn in R.18:17, all rebels are weeping and wailing after watching all of the great wealth and luxuries destroyed in one hour in R.16:17-21.

Step 49 R.18:20 and R.19:1-2 The martyrs in Heaven rejoice over the defeat of their murderers in both Babylons R.18:24 “In her was found the blood of prophets and saints, and of all who were slain...”

Step 50 R.19:6-10 The Marriage Supper of the Lamb forms a spiritual partnership with Jesus and the O.T and N.T. saints to rule the Kingdom with Christ. Jesus taught there is no sexual relations in Heaven. Matt.22:30 “in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels of God in Heaven...” And Matt.19:12 “...there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of Heaven's sake, he who is able to accept it, let him accept it.” God's highest praise was on the 144,000 Jews who are male virgins R.14:4 The marriage Supper of the Lamb is an eternal spiritual agreement so the OT and NT saints can rule the Kingdom with Christ. It's a high quality covenant.

Step 51 R.19:11-16 The Battle of Armageddon, Jesus is on His white horse, we are on white horses following Him. Jesus is killing His enemies, we do not do any killing. But before the battle starts Jesus captures the beast and the false prophet and throws them alive in the Lake of Fire. The first time the beast died his soul went in the fire, this time Jesus throws his living body in the Lake of Fire, this is the worst punishment possible for those liars and mockers.

Step 52 R.20:1-3 An angel with a great chain and the key to the Bottomless Pit locks up the devil and his angels for 1,000 years. How would you describe a chain that can lock up spirits? “a great chain”

Step 53 R.20:4-6 The devil killed lots of innocent saints, God will have the elders judge the evidence to see who refused to worship the devil. They will be restored to life and rule with Christ 1,000 years.

Step 54 R.20:6 Jesus will rule for 1,000 years. The people and animals get along with each other, the lions and lambs will eat straw together.. Please read Isaiah 65:19-25 and Ezekiel 37:24-28 and Zechariah 5:2-4. After 1,000 years the devil will be released to gather the millions of rebels who hate God's righteousness. The devil knows how to find them and convince them to march to Jerusalem to murder the faithful saints while they celebrate Passover. The rebels surround the camp, the saints cry out to God, then God sends fire from Heaven and destroys those rebels and protect the saints.

Step 55 R.20:1-15 The Great White Throne Judgment, the record books of sins will be open listing all sins of every unsaved person through all of earth's history, and the Book of Life will be opened. If their name was not written in the Book of Life they will be judged by the records of their sins listed in those books, and then punished the appropriate torment in the Lake of Fire forever. All sins must be accounted for; either on Jesus' cross on the sinner. If God overlooks any sin, then He would become an accomplice to that sin because He is their Creator.

Step 56 R.21 and R.22 This sin cursed earth is done, it will burn or melt with great heat R.21:1 and 2nd Peter 3:10-12, I picture it as a nuclear melting. The New Jerusalem's outer dimensions are 1,400 miles wide, 1,400 miles long and 1,400 miles high. It's a very large 12 story cube shaped structure with plenty of space for many mansions. There are 12 entrance gates, each gate made of solid pearl, and the streets are made of pure gold. The walls are made of jasper/ diamond 216 feet thick, strong enough to support the 12 foundation floors attached to the walls going up the walls. Each foundation floor is a precious stone; the bottom floor is the 1st foundation floor it's jasper/ diamond, the 2nd sapphire, 3rd chalcedony, 4th emerald, 5th sardonyx, 6th sardius, 7th chrysolite, 8th beryl, 9th topaz, 10th chrysoprase, 11th jacinth, 12th amethyst. God's glory lights the city like a jewelry box on display forever. There will be pillar supports between the foundation floors to hold up the structure named in honor of different saints, those saints are directly connected to the New Jerusalem R.3:12. The River of Life flows from God's throne and out of the great city to water the nations. The trees of life are inside the city along the River of Life, with a different fruit each month of the year, and the leaves are for healing the nations. We are not told what happens with the saints who live through the Millennium, but I believe they will be made sinless then populate the nations outside New Jerusalem. And the nations shall bring the glory and honor of the nations into New Jerusalem. It sounds like the people in the nations will be allowed to come into New Jerusalem, and it sounds like those people are happy to be living their lives as humans I picture the populations of nations outside New Jerusalem will be what God intended the earth to be without sin. There will be construction and forever building and expanding, there will sometimes be a construction accident so the leaves of the tree of life will be for the healing of the nations. This ending of Revelation explains some of the goodness of heart that God has planned for those who love Him.

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