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02 July 2011

Connections in Revelations and other books

This is just a short list of things that I discovered recently about Revelations, and connections Revelations has with other books.

1) Revelations dragon>sea>earth power chain.
a) Satan/Lucifer, the dragon with seven heads and ten horns, the dragon, and the leader of the locust from the abyss whose name is Apollyon or Abaddon which means destruction, are all one and the same person.
b) The beast from the sea is often referred to as simply 'the beast', although the dragon is also sometimes 'the beast'. He derives his power from the devil and is the main big-brother totalitarian.
c) The beast from the earth is the false prophet and serves as a proponent for the sea beast.
A) These three act in a command chain 1>2>3 and rule earth. Demon frogs come from their mouths and summon the kings of the earth, (Ma)Gog, to Armageddon.

2) Daniel
a) The four beasts from Daniels vision are of a Lion, Bear, Leopard, and different iron teeth thing with ten horns. The sea beast from Revelations has the mouth of a lion, the feet of a bear, the normal body of leopard, and has the seven heads and ten horns of his master, the devil. These four beasts correlate in the short run to the kingdoms of Babylon, Persia, Greece (Alexander the Great), and Rome.
b) Daniels 'time, times, and half a time' of breaking the holy people and the 1290 days (same length) of abomination at the end of Daniel during the End is the same time period in Revelations given to i) Gentiles trampling the temple (abomination), ii) The length of the two witnesses, iii) The duration that the woman with child flees the devil.

3) The two witnesses in Revelations are highly likely to represent Jesus.
a) They operate in Jerusalem
b) They prphesy for 3.5 years, the same period and Jesus' ministry.
c) They are killed by Satan and rise again 3.5 days later, approtimately the same time as Jesus.
d) The are taken into heaven soon after.
e) Immediately following this there is a large earthquake. There was also an earthquake at the death of Jesus.
f) This story is immediately followed by the pregant woman. I'm not sure if this is even a bonus, but the pregnant woman is obviously about Jesus.
g) Jesus is described as a witness in Revelations 1:5 and John 1:7
A) The problem with two witnesses instead of one Jesus may be explained in several ways: i) Jesus as man and Jesus as God, ii) Possibly related to the testimony of the water and the blood and spirit in 1 John 5.

4) Zachariah
h) (additional support to #3) The two witnesses are described as olive trees and lampstands, which matches Zachariah 4, in which two olive trees represent Joshua (not the Jehrico one, a JC figure) and Zerubbabel, a real person but also symbolic of the future king. Revelation and Zachariah also share the seven eyes of God.
a) In the first and sixth chapters they have multicolored horses like Revelations. They go over the earth and determine that it is at peace, ripe for being destroyed and paid a lesson for oppressing Israel.

5) The abyss appears multiple times. First the Lamp opens the seven seals. The seventh seal releases the seven trumpets. The fifth trumpet has a star fall into earth and open up the Abyss and release the locust. The devil, p.s., is the fallen star Lucifer., lord of light. Angels are often symbolized as stars (Revelation 1:20). It is this same abyss that satan is locked in at the 1000 year reign.

6) In the letters to the seven churches, JC introduces himself with part of his description in the first chapter except for the last church (Laodicea) for which he is the Amen, the Faithful and True Witness.
P.S. some see the seven churches as seven different pitfalls, seven actual churches with those needs, or a time progression of the church through history. (which is cool because at least in America we probably fit the last one the best).

7) Oh, yes! More stuff. Let's make a nice 7 out of it.
a) And as previously stated, the new Jerusalem will come down out of the sky and is 1,400 miles in each dimension, making it a huge cube. Fun!
b) The seven trumpets all involve something coming to earth from heaven, a big mountain, star wormwood, fire, etc. The plauges are kind of also this way. I'm thinking meter shower/could big enough to blot out the sun sometimes, burn everything, and deliver us some 'mountains'.

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