Revelation Charts

The chart above and other great resources are at revelationlogic.com

The link below is to a video on youtube.  If you pause it as soon as you get there you can make the screen bigger and look at it.  I will cover the points as best as I can below.

https://youtu.be/rSMppLZvH3I?list=PLekyKj4hnn9y2fgvoJ5SWeATTiOSh-RX3&t=3896

Daniel Chapter 8, 9  and 11 have some events that occur during the last 7 year period.

• 9:27 speaks of a 7-year covenant that is made that allows for the start of the rebuilding of the temple.
• 8:9-14 speaks of the "little horn" who rises up to become the anti-Christ and it has a specific day count of 2,300 that seems to indicate that about 8 months into this final 7 year period the daily sacrifice on an altar (the temple doesn't have to be fully rebuilt) will start.
• 11:25-28 speaks of a war that takes place before the final 3 1/2 years that results in the man who will become the anti-Christ having more power and wealth. His location is North of Jerusalem and he fights someone south of Jerusalem.  (Historically armies from the east or the north both attack from the north in this region.)

This begins a series of events that occur just before, during and after the only "time event" that is a solid marker, the abomination of desolation, that marks the beginning of the great tribulation, the 3 1/2 year time period spoken of in Daniel and Revelation.

• The man who will be the anti-Christ is now referred to as the King of the North he comes down to attack Jerusalem but is stopped by powers from the west.  At this time or soon afterward he is given a fatal wound. (Zechariah 11:17, Revelation 13:3)
• At this time the sealing of the 144,000 takes place.
• Revelation 12 and 13 speak of resurrection of the anti-Christ from his fatal wound. Also in Revelation 12 Satan is cast out of heaven.
• With the new found fame of being "resurrected" the anti-Christ is now able to form alliances with 10 kings that give him an overwhelming army (along with the casting down of Satan and his forces to the earth) with which he conquers Jerusalem, stands in the temple, declares himself God (the abomination of desolation).
• At this point the 7 trumpets begin and the 7 bowls start at the 7th trumpet very near the end of this time.

The overwhelming death and devastation that is necessary for the close and the cleansing of this evil age would indeed leave "no flesh" that could survive.  It is mercy that warns us of this time.  It is mercy that protects a remnant.  It is mercy that is constantly warning us not to put any ultimate hope in anyone or anything in this evil age. It is mercy that calls us to moment by moment dependence on His life not on our own understanding. It is mercy that guarantees a future kingdom for those who suffer martyrdom because of remaining faithful to Him. It is mercy that told Daniel of the time period of 70 7's.  It is mercy that left a gap after 483 of those 490 years.  That gap is where the gentiles have been coming into this Kingdom.  That gap has been very costly to the Jewish people.  This final 7 year period of time will result in the beauty of Daniel 9:24 coming to pass. “Seventy ‘sevens’ are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the Most Holy Place."  

In talking with a friend recently we recalled the Lord's words to Peter that ultimate forgiveness was not 7 times but 70 x 7 times.  This period of time spoken of in Daniel is the only other 70 x 7 in the Bible.  We can trust the ONE who is Faithful and True to bring about ultimate forgiveness.  We can trust the ONE who way back in Exodus and Leviticus proclaimed that the last 3 feasts were to be trumpets, with a call to repentance, atonement with sins forgiven and tabernacles with God dwelling with His people.  All of these things happen or start to happen in the final 3 1/2 years.  To God be the glory, the only One who can tell the end from the beginning.

 

Revelation - Does This Help

Daniel cried out to God in chapter 9 of the book of Daniel. It is recorded that he prayed, repented and sought the heart of God for the destiny of his people, the chosen people of God, Israel. This was one man doing what God had said would release the Kingdom of God in the last days when the nation does it. Leviticus 26:39-41 39”And those of you who are left shall rot away in your enemies’ lands because of their iniquity, and also because of the iniquities of their fathers they shall rot away like them. 40“But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they committed against me, and also in walking contrary to me, 41so that I walked contrary to them and brought them into the land of their enemies—if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled and they make amends for their iniquity, 42then I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and I will remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.”

The last few verses of Daniel chapter 9 reveal information about the end of this evil age that has never been revealed before or since. There is one “week” of years, so in other words, a 7 year period of time that finishes off this evil age and accomplishes, “to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place” (Daniel 9:24b) The last ½ of that period (3 and ½ years) starts with a seminal event that Jesus told His followers to go back to Daniel and understand, the abomination of desolation in a temple in Jerusalem (Daniel 9:27, 11:31, 12:11, Matthew 24:15). There is one other period of time mentioned by so many scriptures in the Bible it would take a page to document them, the Day of the Lord. This is the final time at the close of this evil age, where judgment falls on all who oppose God and His very soon coming Kingdom. All who have gotten the mark of the beast to display their worship of the beast will be killed during this time. These three periods of time, the 7 years, the 3 ½ years and the day of the Lord will help us navigate through Revelation.

An overview of Revelation will help to simplify it and will help to avoid false alarms and will help us to help others as the day approaches.

Revelation 1 introduces Yeshua the focus of the vision and prophecy.

Chapters 2 and 3 are letters of warning, preparation, and reward all with an eye to help the hearers persevere through the coming time of trouble.

Chapters 4 and 5 picture the throne room of God being set up as a court that will pass the fair and righteous judgment and the Lamb of God , the Lion of the Tribe of Judah the only being worthy to open the seals of judgment of the times of the end. Chapters 6-18 contain the seals, trumpets and bowls of judgement. The three time periods have been shown to line up with these times of judgment. The seals start off and grow more and more as the 7 years progress, deception, war, famine and death are released and grow ever more strong especially at the 3 ½ year mark, that starts the great tribulation and coincides with the 7 trumpets. The final period of time known by most of the prophets and Paul and other writers is the Day of the Lord and it is the short time of the most severe judgments on the portion of mankind that took the mark of the beast and choose to worship him, these are the bowl judgments. Having these periods clearly shown will preserve us from false alarms and speculation. Having the abomination of desolation as an event that takes place at a rebuilt temple in Jerusalem gives the end times their proper center. Satan knows that this age is about the faithfulness of God to His promises to a people and a land. When we see the totally out of proportion hatred and anger directed against the Jewish people and their status in that land, hopefully we are led to the question, Why? When God chose Abraham and stated His intention to be the God of Abraham and to give Abraham and his descendants that land, everything changed. All the other nations, the goyim, had gods and had territory, but God chose this tiny people and this tiny sliver of land to be the people and the place that would make His name known. It is key to notice how much God rails against adultery and unfaithfulness. This being the case would He be unfaithful to the people and the land of promise, no! Or as Paul would say, God forbid! Daniel 2:44 “And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, nor shall the kingdom be left to another people. It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand forever,” The people matter to God. Hosea 1:10 “Yet the number of the sons of Israel Will be like the sand of the sea, Which cannot be measured or numbered; And in the place Where it is said to them, “You are not My people,” It will be said to them, “You are the sons of the living God.” The place matters to God. The Revelation of Yeshua is a revelation of a God who is Faithful and True.

This is the key to understanding the book of Revelation.   (I'm posting this as a rough draft and asking for any input, suggestions, corrections, in fact, any feedback whatsoever - chuckabean@hotmail.com - put "Revelation" in the subject line, and by the grace of God I will read it and respond)

 

Revelation Made More Clear

Two downloads that do a better job of explaining the timing of events in Revelation than I have ever seen done.  

https://www.facebook.com/messenger_file/?attachment_id=662573282185797&message_id=mid.%24gAA9EQZSU4BmLLvi0ZWE_bNbzliK6&thread_id=4297173107007513 

https://www.facebook.com/messenger_file/?attachment_id=616643180232486&message_id=mid.%24gAA9EQZSU4BmLLvkUuGE_bO8ln_XD&thread_id=4297173107007513

The idea that the seals start before the 3 and 1/2 years of tribulation is not as unusual as it seems at first because these "horses" go forth in the first 1/2 of Daniel's final week of 7 years, and continue and increase as the tribulation starts.  Deception, war, famine, death will be beginning to increase, but most people will not notice because this evil age, has always been dealing with these things, but those who know the Lord and love truth will be aware of the "shift" because the altar and temple will be being rebuilt in Jerusalem and this is a precursor to the abomination of desolation who must have a temple to stand in and proclaim himself "God". 

The Trumpets taking place fully in the final 3 and 1/2 years of great tribulation lines up perfectly.  Trumpets is the first of the fall feasts that have not been fulfilled yet, Atonement is next as the Spirit of Grace and Supplication is poured out on the ethnic, chosen people and they as a nation, turn to the Lord in repentance. Lastly Tabernacles is the feast that wraps it all up as the Millennial time begins and the Lord is living with His people!

The Bowls and their intense, brutal coming have to be limited to a "Day of the Lord" short time at the end of the tribulation, because, indeed, if they continued beyond that "no flesh" would survive.

Praise God, none of this wrath will be one millisecond longer than the perfect justice of God has determined it needs to be.

Let him who has ears to hear, hear what the Spirit is saying.

Revelation 6

 Revelation 6

Vs 1-8 Ezek. 14:12-23 , Zech. 6:5-8 Zech. 1:8-15

Vs. 2 Psalm 45:3-6, 77:18, 144:6  Ezek. 5:16,17  Hab. 3:8-11 Deut 32:23-26

Vs. 4 Ezek. 14:17 21:1-19 38:21 “slaughter” is always used in reference to the death of Jesus or His followers in this book.

Vs. 5  Lev. 26:26  2 Kings 7:1 Ezek. 4:10,16

Vs. 6 Wine is associated with joy and oil with anointing

Vs. 7 and 8 Death and Hades are personified as Satanic gods under the ultimate governance of the throne room.  Hosea 13:8,14 Prov. 2:18, 5:5, Job 17:13-16, 33:22 (Revelation 1:18) Plague and pestilence Ezek. 14:19-21  Lev. 26:25 Jer. 16:4,5  Four corners of the earth speaks of a universality-affecting the whole earth.

Vs. 8 “beasts of the earth” usually being who execute Satan’s will in persecuting saints, in Jewish commentaries the 4 horseman, the 4 beasts and the 4 kingdoms of Daniel are often identified with each other.

Vs 9 Golden altar of incense often equated with the throne of God and under it is a place of ultimate protection

Vs. 10 How long Psalm 6:3,4 13:1 74:10 and many more in Psalms Daniel 8:13 Zech. 1:12

Vs. 11 Genesis 15:16 Daniel 8:23 Matthew 23:32

Vs. 12-17 Jumps ahead to the 6th seal, a time of final punishment Isaiah 34:4 Isaiah 13:10-13 24:1-6, 19-23, 34:4  Ezek. 32:6-8  Joel 2:10, 30-31 3:15-16 Hab. 3:6-11

Rev. 6:12 earthquake 11:13 and 16:18 similar.

Vs. 12,13 talks about all stars which seems to indicate a final end.

Vs. 15 Isaiah 34:12  Psalm 2:2 Isaiah 2:10, 18-21 Hiding in caves Israelite idolaters

Vs. 16 Hosea 10:8 Gen. 3:9 (Hiding) Jer. 4:29

Vs. 17 Joel 2:10,11 Nahum 1:5,6 Malachi 4:5 isaiah 13:9

Incarnation God Through Man

 Before I get started this article from FAI publishing is clear and true regarding the necessity of the flood and the necessity of wiping out whole nations when Israel entered the promised 

land.  https://www.faipublishing.org/articles/generations-days-of-noah

This line in that article added to my thoughts on incarnation. "Noah became an heir of righteousness which is according to faith." Hebrews 11:7

Art Katz has a series of teachings on incarnation which are also being played in my ears as I seek to convey this truth.  Most of the series is on this page, but you would have to go back one page (index is at the bottom of the page) to get the first one in the series. 

Lastly this podcast episode starting at about 31:45 minutes is very good for understanding the incarnation as a dance.

https://www.ivoox.com/en/dancing-with-the-spirit-gal-5-16-18-the-audios-mp3_rf_97023476_1.html

When our humanity is fully submitted and surrendered to God what is left is incarnation.

Incarnation is a place that is gained in the heavenly realm because of the death and resurrection of Yeshua.

Incarnation is a process as we die daily to self.  Self in both the sinful things and self in the desire to be known as a great person.  The only source of power for that process is faith that God's Life is enabling

 you to ferret out all of self.

This is the teen lesson that resulted from these thought on Incarnation.

Incarnation - The Life of God Being Lived Through a Human Life

Finding Purpose - Why Am I Here?

“When our humanity is fully submitted and surrendered to God what is

left is incarnation.”

Luke 8:43 And there was a woman with a blood flow for twelve

 years, who could not

 be healed by anyone. 44 She came up from behind and

touched the tzitzit of Yeshua’s garment. Immediately, her blood flow

stopped. 45 Yeshua said, “Who touched Me?”   When everyone

denied it, Peter said, “Master,

the crowds are surrounding You and pressing in!”   46 But Yeshua

  said, “Someone touched Me,

 for I recognized power going out from Me.”

47 Then seeing that she did not escape notice, the woman came trembling

and fell prostrate before Him. In the presence of all the people, 

she confessed

why she had touched Him and how she had been healed immediately.

48 He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. 

Go in shalom.”

A touch of faith is totally different from being jostled by

the crowd. 

Yeshua, as a human being,

recognized that someone had just transacted with God

through His human body, and

He wanted to give the person the opportunity to glorify God

for the healing.

There is an inner “knowing” when a human is aware

that God wants you to do something, so I would say,

God the Father gave Jesus an inner knowing that a woman

had just been healed by touching His “prayer tassel” with faith.  

Acts 19:13-14 Some itinerant Jewish exorcists noticed Paul’s

success in this regard, so they tried to use the name of Jesus,

the King, in an exorcism they

were performing.  Imagine this: There are seven of them,

all sons of a Jewish chief priest

named Sceva, gathered

around a demonized man in a house.   One of the Jewish Exorcists: I

 command you to

 depart, by

the Jesus proclaimed

by Paul!  Evil Spirit: 15 Jesus I know. Paul I know. But who are you? 

16 Then the man leaps up, attacks them all, rips off their clothing,

and beats them so badly that they run out of the house stark naked

and covered in bruises.17 Word of this strange event spread

throughout Ephesus among

both Jews and Greeks.

Everyone was shocked and realized that the name of

Jesus was indeed powerful and praiseworthy. 

Paul had been faithful to the process of dying to self to the point

that He was an incarnation of God. 

The demons in this case know,

“Yep that is the name of a man we have to submit to

just like we have to submit to Jesus name,

because Paul is so “dead to self” that he is incarnating God.”  

Philippians 2:5 You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had.

6 Though he was God,   he did not think of equality with God

as something to cling to.

7 Instead, he gave up his divine privileges; he took the humble

position of a slave    and was born as a human being.  When he

appeared in human form, 8 he humbled himself in obedience

to God and died a

criminal’s death on a cross.

John 5:19 So Jesus explained, “I tell you the truth, the Son

can do nothing by himself.

He does only what he sees the Father doing. Whatever the

Father does, the Son also does. 

John 5:30 I can do nothing on my own. I judge as God tells me.

Therefore, my judgment is just, because I carry out the will

of the one who sent me, not my own will.

John 6:38  For I have come down from heaven to do the will of God

who sent me, not to do my own will.

So here is the ultimate answer to the question

“Why am I here?” for the follower of Yeshua. 

You are here to be the human representative of the Life of God

and in community with other humans who are vessels of His life,

you are a witness to the world of what can happen when a human being

gets totally out of the way and lets the Life of God flow through them. 

This is the purpose of our lives to glorify God by being a vessel

of His Life.