An Emergency Exposition of Revelation 11

[Jerryhuerta]

Jerry, Israel, a nation back in the land in 1948, is fulfillment of the reuniting of the northern and southern kingdoms back into one kingdom, one nation again.

You don’t even read my posts, Douglas; that’s pretty small. I already destroyed your point here by citing Isaiah 11, which proves God unites Judah and Ephriam at the time he “smites the earth and the wicked,” which is at his second advent, and parallels Revelation 19:11-21,

And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse… with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked… in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. (Isaiah 11:1, 4, 10-11)​

I’ve colored the relevant passages that destroy your notion that Ephriam and Judah were united in 1948. According to God’s word, Ephriam and Judah are united at Christ’s return when he destroys the enemies of his people, and the Church is Christ’s people under the New Covenant. You’re trying to hammer a square peg into a round hole and then try and get me to admit how well it fits. That’s not going to happen.

Ezekiel 39:21-29, is Jesus Himself speaking in the text having returned to this earth, 7 years after the Gog/Magog event. Ezekiel 39:28 is the final completed gathering of the house of Israel back to the land of Israel - which is the gathering of the elect in Matthew 24:31, from one end of heaven to the other - a saying taken from Deuteronomy 30:4, regarding gathering of the children of Israel.

Again, Ezekiel 38-39 doesn’t support your claim. Israel is already dwelling safe and secure for many years before God compels Gog to come against them,

Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog… and prophesy against him, And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD … After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them… And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates. (Ezekiel 38:2-3, 8, 11)​

For those with comprehension, Gog is a metaphor for Satan, who has been confined to the abyss for many days, a thousand years, and then God compels him to gather bands of people from the four corners of the earth to come against Israel after they’ve been “brought back from the sword and gathered out of many people," and have been “dwelling without walls, and having neither bars and gates.” In other words, Israel has been dwelling safe and secure for 1000 years before God compels Gog to come against them.

History proves there has been no safety or security in Palestine, whoops, the Jewish secular state, since 1948. It will continue in that state for some time in the future. The proper interpretation of Ezekiel 38-39 proves your interpretation is just another attempt to hammer a square peg into a round hole and then try and get people to admit how well it fits. That’s not going to happen as far as I’m concerned.

There is no time following the Revelation 20:9 destruction of them who will attack the camp of the saints, i.e. saved persons, which the Jews will be during the thousand years. No time, Jerry, for the 7 years and 7 months of Ezekiel 39 to take place. Ezekiel 39 is the 7 years before Jesus returns, His Second Coming.

Again, your reading is convoluted and skewed. Revelation 20 affirms after many days, a thousand years, Satan is compelled to gather bands of people from the four corners of the earth to come against Israel after they’ve been “brought back from the sword, and gathered out of many people, and have been “dwelling without walls, and having neither bars and gates,”

And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. (Revelation 20:7-8)​

It doesn’t matter that Ezekiel and John use different language; the prophets aren’t given the complete picture, but only part. That is why we must study all the prophets to get the full picture. Ezekiel is given part of what happens after the 1000 years, and John is given more. Otherwise, we get the foolish notion that there are two Gog and Magog events, like you, which is like trying to hammer a square peg into a round hole and then trying to get people to admit how well it fits. That’s not going to happen as far as I’m concerned.

Jerry, who is cast into the lake of fire in Revelation 19:19-20 ? The church? Who's armies are destroyed by Jesus in Revelation 19:21 ? Those of the church ?

Your challenge here is just another attempt to sidestep the evidence of the seven churches and 1 Peter 4:17. Judgment begins at the house of God before he judges the unbeliever, according to scripture. In Christ’s mediation, he judges the church in Sardis as “ready to die.” Again, you’re trying to hammer a square peg into a round hole and then try to get people to admit how well it fits. That’s not going to happen, as far as I’m concerned.

 

[Douggg]

You don’t even read my posts, Douglas; that’s pretty small. I already destroyed your point here by citing Isaiah 11, which proves God unites Judah and Ephriam at the time he “smites the earth and the wicked,” which is at his second advent, and parallels Revelation 19:11-21,

And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse… with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked… in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. (Isaiah 11:1, 4, 10-11)

Jerry, the verses you quoted from Isaiah 11, verses1,4, 10-11 are not about the reuniting of the two kingdoms. When Jesus's returns to this earth at His Second Coming in Ezekiel 39:21-29, He will send out His angels to gather the last remaining remnant of the whole House of Israel back to the land of Israel, in Ezekiel 39:28 and Matthew 24:31.

The Jews (Judaism) use the term of that final regathering as "the final redemption".

Again, your reading is convoluted and skewed

My reading is not convoluted nor skewed. In Revelation 20 following Satan's last deception of the nations and their destruction - there is no 7 months of burying the dead, nor 7 years of burning the weapons, like in Ezekiel 39. If there was, you could simply copy and paste the verses from Revelation 20.

It doesn’t matter that Ezekiel and John use different language; the prophets aren’t given the complete picture, but only part. That is why we must study all the prophets to get the full picture. Ezekiel is given part of what happens after the 1000 years, and John is given more. Otherwise, we get the foolish notion that there are two Gog and Magog events, like you, which is like trying to hammer a square peg into a round hole and then trying to get people to admit how well it fits. That’s not going to happen as far as I’m concerned.

Jerry, you are ranting and being hostile. Jerry, I am speaking to you with a nice calm voice. Jesus's Second Coming is in Ezekiel 39:21-29. Revelation 20, Satan's release from the bottomless pit will be a thousand years after Jesus's Second Coming.

Do you know why I am not speaking to you like you are speaking to me ? It is because Jesus has made me a king, and I want to behave in the manner He wants of His kings and priests. I offer that advice to others here as well.

Revelation 1:5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,

6 And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

 

[Jerryhuerta]

Jerry, the verses you quoted from Isaiah 11, verses1,4, 10-11 are not about the reuniting of the two kingdoms. When Jesus's returns to this earth at His Second Coming in Ezekiel 39:21-29, He will send out His angels to gather the last remaining remnant of the whole House of Israel back to the land of Israel, in Ezekiel 39:28 and Matthew 24:31.

The Jews (Judaism) use the term of that final regathering as "the final redemption".

You're still trying to hammer a square peg in a round hole. Isaiah 11 prophecies,

The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim. (Isaiah 11:13)​

Israel cannot live safely and securely so long as there is envy and aggravation between Judah and Ephriam, so I’m right that Ezekiel 38-39 is post-second advent.

My reading is not convoluted nor skewed. In Revelation 20 following Satan's last deception of the nations and their destruction - there is no 7 months of burying the dead, nor 7 years of burning the weapons, like in Ezekiel 39. If there was, you could simply copy and paste the verses from Revelation 20.

Thanks for admitting to the copying and pasting hermeneutics. I don’t work that way. The fact that Israel is depicted as living safely and securely in Ezekiel 38-39 vindicates its post-second advent and parallels Revelation 20. History proves there has been no safety or security in Palestine, whoops, the Jewish secular state, since 1948. It will continue in that state for some time in the future. The proper interpretation of Ezekiel 38-39 proves your interpretation is just another attempt to hammer a square peg into a round hole and then try and get people to admit how well it fits. That’s not going to happen as far as I’m concerned.

Jerry, you are ranting and being hostile. Jerry, I am speaking to you with a nice calm voice. Jesus's Second Coming is in Ezekiel 39:21-29. Revelation 20, Satan's release from the bottomless pit will be a thousand years after Jesus's Second Coming.

Do you know why I am not speaking to you like you are speaking to me ? It is because God has made me a king, and I want to behave in the manner God wants of His kings and priests. I offer that advice to others here as well.

The mere fact that Chapter 37 illustrates the resurrection and that Ephriam and Judah are brought together at this event proves that you're just trying to hammer a square peg into a round hole and then try to get people to admit how well it fits. That’s not going to happen, as far as I’m concerned.

And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land: And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all: Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God. (Ezekiel 37:21-23)​

Your hermeneutic of copying and pasting doesn't work.

As to my demeanor, what about your aggressiveness? You cast aspersions that I can't "admit" to your version, which is the only way to see it. You always want to have the last gotcha moment, and since you came at me, it shows where the aggression resides. If you can't walk away and realize I won't change my mind, then why are you surprised when things are bound to escalate?

 

[Douggg]

The mere fact that Chapter 37 illustrates the resurrection and that Ephriam and Judah are brought together at this event proves that you're just trying to hammer a square peg into a round hole and then try to get people to admit how well it fits. That’s not going to happen, as far as I’m concerned.

And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land: And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all: Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God. (Ezekiel 37:21-23)

Jerry, you left out verses 24-25.

24 And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.
25 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children's children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.

David my servant - is a referral to the messiah Jesus. Jesus, after His return in Ezekiel 39:21-29, begins his 1000 year millennium rule on this current earth. Then, after the 1000 years, is Satan's last deception of the nations. Then this current earth is destroyed in Revelation 20:11.

As to my demeanor, what about your aggressiveness? You cast aspersions that I can't "admit" to your version, which is the only way to see it. You always want to have the last gotcha moment, and since you came at me, it shows where the aggression resides. If you can't walk away and realize I won't change my mind, then why are you surprised when things are bound to escalate?

Jerry, you can't show the Ezekiel 39, 7 months and 7 years and Jesus's Second Coming in the text of Revelation 20 as following the 1000 years.

 

[Jerryhuerta]

Jerry, you left out verses 24-25.

24 And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.
25 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children's children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.

David my servant - is a referral to the messiah Jesus. Jesus, after His return in Ezekiel 39:21-29, begins his 1000 year millennium rule on this current earth. Then, after the 1000 years, is Satan's last deception of the nations. Then this current earth is destroyed in Revelation 20:11.

Right, and Christ will be King over both houses when God takes “the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land,” in verse 21. Ezekiel 37 supports my interpretation. Christ did not become King over the secular Jews in 1948 because it wasn’t God who gathered them; it was the hardened tenants trying to take the kingdom by force.

Jerry, you can't show the Ezekiel 39, 7 months and 7 years and Jesus's Second Coming in the text of Revelation 20 as following the 1000 years.

Right, because I don’t use the copy-and-paste hermeneutic. I use the old-fashioned way of line upon line, here a little and there a little.

 

[Douggg]

The Jews may sacrifice a red heifer in the month of April. The Muslim world is worried about it, because it could spell a big change to the temple mount current status, and also result in the destruction of their Al Aqsa mosque - according to some Muslim videos, I have seen on You Tube.

And if the Muslim world is upset enough, it could actually lead to the Ezekiel 39 Gog/Magog event.

 

[Oseas]

The Jews may sacrifice a red heifer in the month of April. The Muslim world is worried about it, because it could spell a big change to the temple mount current status, and also result in the destruction of their Al Aqsa mosque - according to some Muslim videos, I have seen on You Tube.

And if the Muslim world is upset enough, it could actually lead to the Ezekiel 39 Gog/Magog event.

The red heifer has nothing to do with the Word of GOD and its prophecies, you are believing in lies invented by those which is possessed by the spirit of darkness. According to the biblical prophecy, the Spirit of Truth, what you and all will see in Israel is the red Dragon- Revelation 12:9- that old serpent, called the Devil; GOD, even GOD, "will send STRONG DELUSION that they-the esoteric and kabbalistic Jews- should believe a lie (John 5:43-47 combined with Revelation 13:11): That they all might be DAMNED who believed not the Truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness"- 2Thes.2: 11-12.

By the way, the MAN on sin-the Devil-son of perdition, father of the Jews-John 8:44, he was born decadas ago, understand? and he will manifest himself very soon as a Messiah, maybe next months, AN IMPOSTOR, and esoteric, kabbalistic and spiritist messiah, the own Satan incarnated, the red Dragon, understand? as JESUS prophesied: John 5:43-47, and 2Thes.2:3-12. And he will make a deal with his main religious partner-the religious and satanic Beast of sea-the Pope, the next and last Pope-guide and ruler of the Roman Catholic Church which rides upon the Beast, the iron of the feet and 10 toes of the great statue of Nebuchadnezzar's dream-Daniel 2:42.

2Peter 3:7-the heavens (the environment of the OT and NT established by GOD) and the earth which are now, by the same Word are kept in store, reserved unto FIRE against this Day of Judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

The red heifer is the rebel people of the nation of Israel that chose Barrabas instead JESUS, and shall be burned in the sight of all ; their skin, and their flesh, and their blood, with their spiritual dung, shall be burned, with the cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, all will be cast it into the midst of the burning of the red heifer-the nation of the rebel Israel.

Get ready

 

[Timtofly]

Maria, I am using the same terminology the old writers used, such as John Gill, Alexander Hislop and others who lived and wrote long before Dispensationalism was a thing. The issue we have today is that Christians have forsaken the writings and insights of the Reformers and 17th Century English Puritans. This is why terrible chastening begins next year and it will hit most believers like a freight train.

Is that not just saying that the Reformers were futurist, but now they are not, because we are living in their future?

They did not know the future any more than we do living in that future.

 

[Timtofly]

My work scares and upsets most "Christians."

Actually you post everything in a locked thread for historicist only, and no one is even allowed to engage you.

 

[Jerryhuerta]

Actually you post everything in a locked thread for historicist only, and no one is even allowed to engage you.

Actually, few ever engage my contentions or refute my work. They merely parrot their dogma, which forces me to refute theirs. It's called side-stepping. I got tired of the games.

 

[Oseas]

Interpreting GODs' mysteries

Israel, as 'Dry Bones'- Ezekiel 37- Now, Dry land, but before was the clay(Isaiah 64:8), exactly when the Most High make a separation between water and water- Genesis 1:9-, that is, when the Most High separated the Hebrews from the Egypcians through Moses, and He created a celestial environment and called it of expanse, called heaven (that is the Dispensation of the Old Testament used in the Promised Land), then the Most High, the Lord, the I AM, separated the water (the Egypcians) that was BELOW of the expanse He created(an heavenly environment), and the water that that was ABOVE the expanse (the people of Israel- GOD's people), and it was evening, and it was morning, the second GOD's Day.

Genesis 1:10-19
10And God called the dry land Earth(Israel); and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas(Gentile peoples/nations): and God saw that it was good.

11And God said,Let the earth(Israel)bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind , whose seed is in itself, upon the earth(Israel) :and it was so.

12And the earth(Israel) brought forth grass,and herb yielding seed after his kind,and the tree yielding fruit,whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

13And the evening and the morning were the third day.

14And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day(light)from the night(darkness);and let them be for signs,and for seasons , and for days, and years:

15And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven(expanse)to give light upon the earth and it was so.

16And God MADE two great lights; the Greater Light-JESUS-to rule the day, and the Lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

17And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

18And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

"John 5:17 - My Lord JESUS said: My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.

GOD sent JESUS in the turn from the fourth Day to the fifth Day, i.e. around 4000 years after Adam, and around 1500 years after Moses. As JESUS said, GOD the Father still was working, in fact until the END of the recent last millennium, the sixth millennium.

Based in the Word of God,on GOD's six Days of creation and one Day of rest(a total of seven days) plus the Scriptures that teach that one Day is with the Lord as a thousand years,so MANKIND would go through six GOD Days of 1,000 years each(a total of 6000 years)plus a Millennium of 1000 years rest(now a total of 7,000 years)

Biblical Chronology - Genesis 5:
Adam lived ...................................................130 yrs-begat Seth
Seth lived ......................................................105 yrs-begat Enosh;
Enosh lived .....................................................90 yrs-begat Kenan;
Kenan lived.....................................................70 yrs-begat Mahalalel;
Mahalalel lived .............................................65 yrs-begat Jared;
Jared lived ....................................................162 yrs-begat Enoch;
Enoch lived ......................................................65 yrs-begat Methuselah;
Methuselah lived..........................................187 yrs-begat Lamech;
Lamech lived..................................................182 yrs-begat Noah;
From Noahs birth until the Flood..........600 yrs.
Total years from Adam to the Flood=1656 years

SIX PERIODS OF BIBLICAL TIMES ------------------ DURATION
I- From Adam to the Flood-(Gen.5)---------------- 1656 years
II- From the Flood to Abraham-(Gen. 11&12)-------427 years
III- From Abraham to Exodus-(Gal.3:17)-------------430 years
IV-From Exodus to king Saul-(1Reis6:1(480-84)-----396 years
V-From Saul to the fall of Jerusalem -----------------508 years
VI-From the fall of Jerusalem to Jesus ---------------587 years
Thus,from Adam to the 1st coming of Jesus -------4004 years
From Jesus to our days(Christian Calendar)---------2023 years
Total from Adam to our days ------------------------6027 years"

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[Oseas]

What shall happen from now on?Exactly what the true Christians have announced for many years before- 2Peter 3:10-13:

10 The heavens(both environment of the Old Testament and New Testament) shall pass away with a great noise (be imploded, or even heavily hit or impacted like the WTC twin towers, because that which decayeth and waxeth old is READY to vanish away- Hebrews 8:13), and the elements shall melt with fervent heat (GOD is a devouring fire, understand?), and the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up (even now, from now on, as is determined in the Word of GOD-Daniel 2:34-35 & 44-45-, take a look, for the Word is GOD, GOD Himself, self-executing, understand?)

11 Seeing then that all THESE THINGS shall be DISSOLVED (DISMANTLED), what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the Day of GOD (the Lord's Day, seventh and last Day or seventh and last millennium-see post 51 above), wherein the heavens (both environment of the Old Testament and New Testament), being on FIRE shall be DISSOLVED(will no longer exist), and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?

13 Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. (Phil.3:20-21: -->20 For our conversation is in heaven(heaven? Ephesians 1:3-8); from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: 21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body(Luke 20:35-36), according to the working whereby He is able even to subdue all things unto Himself.)

Re.11:15-18KJV
15 The kingdoms OF THIS WORLD are become the kingdoms of our Lord,and of His Christ;and He shall reign for ever and ever.
...
18 And the nations were (WILL BE) angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be Judged, and that thou should give reward unto thy servants the prophets,and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and should DESTROY them which destroy the earth.

GET READY -Matthew 25:10 - GET READY

 

[JesusFollowerForever]

I have written a free 300K+ word e-book (PDF) entitled An Emergency Exposition of Revelation 11, subtitled as Apocalyptic Events in the 21st Century, starting in the present third decade (Interpreted using Reformation & 17th Century English Puritan Principles).

It is largely an update on the interpretations of John Gill (in the 1700s) and Thomas Goodwin (in the 1600s), and accordingly uses the Reformation’s historicist eschatological model and stands as a necessary eleventh hour antidote to the ruinous, and very grievous, misconceptions Christians today possess concerning the Antichrist, the supposed Rapture, an imminent Second Advent, etc.

The book’s core theses are:

• We are, as of 2024, on the eve of the killing of the Two Witnesses of Revelation 11, and that slaying will be, as Thomas Goodwin described it, a civic gagging of the Lord’s faithful ministries in the West at the hands of the scarlet coloured beast from the bottomless pit of Rev 17, which is the same beast as in Rev 11.
  
  
• The scarlet coloured beast represents the third, final, and most depraved phase of Daniel 7’s fourth beast system; the first of those three phases was the Great Red Dragon of Rev 12 (Pagan Roman Empire), the second was the Beast from the Sea of Revelation 13 (European civilisation with an apostate Christian veneer), and the third "that was, is not and yet is" being the West as a bloc under final-phase Marxist (aka Globalist) control.
  
  
• We are at the close of the Sardian church era, contrary to the view of many that we are somehow in a Laodicean state (despite there having been no Philadelphian era behind us).
  
  
• The coming silencing of the Lord’s public witness in the West will be part of a twofold chastening on Sardis for failing or refusing to adhere to, and look back at, the “morning star” early step towards the Kingdom’s golden age that was the Reformation. In particular, the charge from Christ in Rev 3 is lack of watchfulness; Sardis has forsaken the Reformation gains in the form of worship (despising the Regulative Principle), in its eschatology (embracing Futurism), in its lack of filial love among the brethren (paying lip service to it or fixating on legalism at its expense), among other issues.
  
  
• The other element of the chastening will come in the form of the great difficulty Christians will experience in trying to conduct commerce, travel, receive healthcare, etc., caused by their just refusal to express state-backed views on the woke agenda, which will become enshrined in a social credit system around late 2025 onwards.
  
  
• The social credit system will be the superlative system of the Mark, which saw historical prototypes in Popish efforts at excluding believers in the past from commerce, for which reason the Mark and the Image of the Beast are introduced under the Beast from the Sea’s tenure in Rev 13.
  
  
• The Mark is, contrary to futurist interpretations, not an implanted microchip or quantum tattoo, but rather is something the ungodly inflict upon themselves at the urging of the False Prophet (“the beast from the earth” of Rev 13), and, being organically tied to the Image of the Beast, consists of any expression of allegiance to that Image and compliance with its evil demands.
  
  
• The False Prophet is an umbrella term for all who informally advance the narrative of the Beast system in any of its latter two phases (i.e. nominally Christian western civilisation and secular, atheistic, tyrannical, final-phase Marxist conditions); accordingly, it consists of apostate clergy, godless educators, experts, authors, scientists, musicians, actors, sports stars, and anyone else used to synthesise “organic” movements that the beast system can then “react to” through the formulation of evil laws.
  
  
• The Image of the Beast is thus a product of the work of the False Prophet in stirring up the masses to create new objects of worship, as it were, and in the final, to-be-short-lived scarlet phase of the beast system, those demanding, angry, threatening objects of worship consisting of all the sacred cows of the Left: LGBT, Critical Race Theory, feminism, and perhaps also the neo-Paganism that is climate-hysteria-driven enviro-kult.
  
  
• The number of the beast is a linguistic hieroglyph for nothing less than a class of man, styled in Rev 13 as “a man”, that is, a caste, whom I refer to as “the hidden man”, or the Lateinos, and is none other than the hyper rich elites of the West who exercise real power behind the facade of democracy. This corrects the Reformers’ and English Puritans’ mistake in bundling the entirety of the Beast system from Rev 13 onwards into the singularity of the Papacy; rather, the evil beasts of Daniel and Revelation are oligarch-owned ungodly blocs or empires, as distinct from the Papacy, which is but the Little Horn, the definitive Antichrist.
  
  
• The chastening on Sardis will endure for a literal 3.5 years commencing at an indeterminate date in 2025, hence this is an emergency exposition; however, it must be acknowledged that warnings such as this will, prophetically, be ignored by the vast majority of believers until Christ repeats His message to Sardis in Revelation 16:15, on the eve of Armageddon, at which point Sardis will repent en masse in readiness for transitioning into Philadelphia.
  
  
• 2025 is the operative year for the slaying of the Two Witnesses as it falls 1,260 years after AD 765, when the Little Horn that is the Papacy reached its apotheosis as the Antichrist, in that the Donation of Pepin from AD 754-756 finally came into meaningful being with the defeat of the recalcitrant Lombards, facilitating the first realisation of the Pope’s claims of temporal supremacy in addition to his ecclesiastical claims of supremacy.
  
  
• As with Gill and others, I take the Seven Last Plagues of Revelation 16 to commence during the 3.5 years in which the Lord’s public witness lies silent in the West, and that those plagues are directed at the ungodly of the world, styled as “the earth” in the West and “the sea” in the East, and culminating between mid 2028 and mid 2029 with a last minute heeding of Christ’s command to Sardis and an end to the slain condition of the Two Witnesses.
  
  
• The restoration of the Two Witnesses I take to consist of the reaction of the Lord’s faithful few public ministries to the Jewish Epiphany on the eve of the Armageddon event, which is contemporaneous with Joel 3’s prophecy and which opens with the events of Ezekiel 38-39.
  
  
• Further, I take the restoration to occur specifically in the US rather than in my country (the UK), contrary to the views of the old writers, who predicted it would be Britain or even France.
  
  
• The ascent to “heaven” of the resurrected Two Witnesses in Rev 11:11 I take, as did Gill et al, to be the elevation to a place within government of the Lord’s faithful public ministries, triggering a “great earthquake” that will, in fact, be a political earthquake severing the US from the rest of the West and leading to a three-way split among the other western nations, just as global war with the East begins.
  
  
• During this political earthquake, all those behind the beast system in the US will be promptly arrested and publicly executed as the seven thousand slain in Rev 11:13.
  
  
• This will mark the saints of the most High beginning to take the Kingdom, in accordance with Daniel 7:18,22 and will entail the wholesale destruction of all western political power as it dashes in pieces of the feet and toes of iron and clay of Daniel 2’s image, and grows until it eventually fills the whole earth, a process I interpret from Daniel 12 to be completed at the end of the present century.
  
  
• I concur with Gill, and thereby stand against some / most modern Reformed notions, in affirming that the golden age of the Kingdom is not one and the same as the Millennium, but rather precedes it and constitutes “the brightness of His coming”.
  
  
• I further concur with Gill in asserting that the golden age, which he calls “Christ’s spiritual reign”, is one and the same as the Philadelphian church state, but unlike Gill, I assert that the Jews shall return to the Messianic fold right at the start of the Philadelphian age, rather than later within its early decades.

Aside from those core points, the book also expounds Revelation 1-10 and resolves some issues the old writers were unable to, due to their position on the prophetic timelines:

• The hour, day, month, year symbol of Revelation 9:15.
  
  
• The content of the seven thunderings of Revelation 10, that John was forbidden to write, and an explanation for why they were to be hidden, and their relevance to the present time in which we live (hint: their obscuration marks God's displeasure with the church transcendent's widespread abandonment of historicism from the mid 1800s until now).
  
  
• The exact meaning of each of the 7 last plagues of Rev 16, with projected (speculated) timings.
  
  
• The exact year in which the Papacy and its Romish Antichurch are removed from this world (interpretation rather than speculated timing).
  
  
• The proper identification and projected timing of the Gog-Magog event of Ezekiel 38-39, its relation to Revelation 16, its spiritually transformative aftermath, and the great destruction it heralds for the ungodly in both the East and the West during the “great hail” of Rev 16, which is the same as the “fire” of Ezekiel 39:6.

If you are interested in seeing this book, please get in touch with me and I can send you a link to the PDF. I would ideally like to add an Appendix on Matthew 24 (having for now outsourced that to John Gill's commentary!), but apart from that, I consider the book to be largely complete. I know that, at over 300K words, it’s something of a “weighty tome”, but deep subjects require extensive exposition and observation. One of the gross sins of Sardis is its failure to study, to be watchful...

I must point out, though, that from Rev 3:1-5 it is plain that almost nobody will heed warnings such as this on time for the coming chastening. I therefore regard the book as being something that might gather dust until the appointed time of Sardis’ awakening in 2028/29, when believers will have been totally disenfranchised with all the dead-ends of futurism and finally receptive to materials such as the theses of my book, and all just as the world will be standing on the precipice of the terrible war that all our leaders in the West are now openly predicting is coming in the next few years.

Could you send me the link, thanks, looks interesting,

Blessings.