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there will be a mighty spiritual battle with 200,000,000 horsemen5
fighting, Man will hide in the caves in the ground and under
mountains, but he will not repent of his rebellion and sorcery and
idolatry (Rev 9:20-21). That sounds like today, doesn't it?
(C-C) The 144,000 and the Great Multitude: Central in it all are
the redeemed of the Christian Era: they from this great tribulation
of this era whom the Lord Jesus has reconciled to God the Father.
Included are the physical seed of Israel (Rev 7:4-8) and the
Gentile church (Rev 7:9). The seal on the heads of the 144,000 is
the name of the Father (Rev 14:1). The fifth seal (Rev 6:9)
describes the brethren who have gone before us. They are clothed
in white robes (the righteousness of Christ) and stand beneath an
the altar in heaven (a symbol of the cross). They do not cease to
cry, "how long, Oh Lord, how long?"
Rev 7:13-17 "And one of the elders answered, saying unto
me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and
whence came they? And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest.
And he said to me, These are they which came out of great
tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them
white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore are they before
the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his
temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among
them. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall
feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of
waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes."
REVELATION'S 2ND CHIASM
Now that we understand the chiasmic pattern, the last half of
Revelation is quite open. Most of these later visions can be related
to world history. It is not the author's intent to belabor the
chiasmic form, but it is one of the major tools proving Revelation
is repetitive in an organized way. Remember in Daniel, how half
of that book was to Gentile nations, while the other half was to
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5 Throughout Scripture, angelic hosts are depicted as horsemen (2Ki 2:11, 2Ki
6:15-18, 2Ki 7:6; Zec 1:8, Zec 6:2-6; Rev 6:2-8, Rev 9:16, Rev 19:14). Conse-
quently, a major portion of the 200,000,000 horsemen of Rev 9:16 may be unseen
spiritual forces. If that is correct, then we may not see vast human armies massed
in the Middle East for this final battle.
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the Jews? Revelation is a little different. The audience is the same,
the Church, but the subjects are different. The 1st chiasm is God
the Father's spiritual view of this era, the 2nd chiasm is His view of
happenings in our material world. As a result, the central message
of the 2nd chiasm appears to be:
Seven satanic empires will seize control of the Holy Land
throughout history. Concurrent with those visible kingdoms,
God will have a spiritual kingdom on Earth composed of the
Jewish people and the Gentile church. In the fullness of time,
Jesus will return to reward the saints and judge the wicked.
This second chiasm is about kingdoms, both earthly and
spiritual. The Jews and the Church are the Lord's spiritual
kingdom on earth, while the beasts and Babylon are various
aspects of the enemy's satanic kingdom, both seen and unseen.
Babylon centers on the world socioeconomic system, while the
beasts are governmental.
1. As the Scarlet beast, Satan is the embodiment of the sin in
the world. He finally goes forth to deceive the nations as an
8th beast who has been loosed. That's today!
2. Through Leopard-Bear-Lion beast, Satan displays his
control of the kingdoms of the Middle East where the seat of
his earthly throne lies. The Islamic world!
Sometimes man's chapter breaks are in the wrong place, or
don't belong in the passage at all because they interfere with the
flow of Scripture. The last half of Revelation is an example.
1. Rev 13 and 14 appears to be all one vision.
2. Rev 17 through 19 appears to be one vision.
This 2nd Chiasm shows us both godly and satanic kingdoms and
the final outcomes for both. The rejoicing of the saints is the
subject of Ch 15, while God's wrath on those who have rejected
His Son is the subject of Rev 16. This ABC=CBA structure is a
little complicated, and there are alternative views, but careful
study appears to support this version.
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(A-A) Israel and the Church: Rev 12, Rev 20. The Woman with
Twelve Stars, and the reign of Christ. Many take Rev 20, the so-
called millennium literally,6 because it appears to use literal
language. The fact that Revelation is figurative, as are all other
biblical visions, makes that view difficult to support.
More likely, this is the whole body of Christ, all the redeemed
both Jew and Gentile. From the time of Moses, Israel has been the
caretaker of the oracles of God (Rom 3:2). Israel was the line
through whom the Savior of the world would come. After Jesus
was glorified, Israel and the Church (the spiritual kingdom over
which the Lord now reigns, Rev 20:4), would be persecuted but
not destroyed. Satan would be bound so as not to deceive the
nations during the Christian Era (Rev 20:2, Mat 12:29, Joh 12:31).
At the end of the Christian Era, Satan would be released for a
little season (Rev 12:12-13 and 20:7). Jesus is the first and only
resurrection. There is no other resurrection in scripture. Blessed,
indeed, are those who have part in Him as born-again believers.
Over them the second death has no power (Rev 20:6). In the
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6 The Greek P\84@4 (chilioi) Strong's No. G5507, is an indefinite plural form of
P484VH (chilias), the word for a single thousand. This indefinite chilioi is the only
word translated "thousand" in Rev 20, so it cannot be proven that the "thou-
sand" in Rev 20 represents only one thousand years. Instead, this chilioi could
be referring any number of thousands of years. As a result, Rev 20:1-6 can be a
pictorial representation of the whole Christian Era, regardless of length.
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culmination of all things on this present Earth, there is a final
battle (Rev 12:17 and 20:7-9). Please notice how the account in
Rev 12 parallels Rev 20, and the many parallel verses indicate that
they are about the same time and events.
(B-B) The Beast with Seven Heads, and the Leopard, Bear, Lion:
Rev 13, Rev 17. Throughout history there have been only seven
major empires and their descendants ruling in the Earth. They
have been satanically empowered (Rev 17:3) because they are his
domain (Luk 4:6). Out of the Middle East we now have an empire
that is the combination of three ancient ones, Babylon, Medo-
Persia, and Greece. The whole Middle East is the home of the
Islamic world. Those nations are held together by a common
religion and have a satanically inspired hatred for the Church and
Israel. They will always be at war with the spiritual kingdom of
Jesus (Rev 13:12 and 17:14).
The 144,000, the Eternal Gospel and Babylon: Rev 14-15, Rev 17-
19. The servants of the Lord are compared with servants of the
enemy. Now in the Christian Era, the Old Testament saints sing
about Jesus.7 For them He is a new song (Rev 14:3). The eternal
gospel is preached to the Church (Rev 14:6). The trials of the
Christian Era are foretold, followed by the Lord coming in the
clouds to reap the Earth of the saints (Rev 14:14-16). In the
Grapes of Wrath, more is told about the final battle (Rev 14:17-
19). The battlefront will be 200 miles long, from Jerusalem north-
ward. Knowing that the prophecies in Revelation are parallel
makes this a lot easier. The various little pieces at the end of each
prophecy, about a great battle, appear to be about the same great
battle - at least partially spiritual - of Armageddon.
Mighty Babylon falls (Rev 18). She is the haunt for every evil
beast and bird and creeping thing. Who is she? Since every death
on Earth is attributed to her, from the prophets of the Old
Testament to the saints of the Church, Babylon is far broader than
one single empire or city, no matter how great and long-lasting.
Babylon is every unsaved rebellious person, land, and empire that
has ever existed on Earth.
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7 That the 144,000 are the Old Testament Israelites is provable by comparing
their identification as "first-fruits" (Rev 14:4) with Jer 2:3 and other Scriptures.
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Rev 18:24 "And in her was found the blood of prophets,
and of saints, and of ALL that were slain upon the earth."
Babylon began when Cain murdered his brother Abel and
continues until the last Christian is impaled or beheaded in some
spiritually dark and human-snake infested concrete jungle.
Babylon means confusion. Satan is the author of confusion.
Babylon is Satan's world. We have been commanded throughout
Scripture to separate ourselves from her. We haven't listened very
well, have we, so the Lord reminds us here:
Rev 18:4-5 "And I heard another voice from heaven,
saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not
partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her
plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God
hath remembered her iniquities."
Soon the light of the Word will be heard in her no more, nor the
voice of Jesus the bridegroom, nor the witness of the bride (the
Church is the bride of Christ), and Babylon will be no more...
Rev 18:23, 19:1 "And the light of a candle shall shine no
more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of
the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy
merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy
sorceries were all nations deceived . . . And after these
things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven,
saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honor, and
power, unto the Lord our God."
(C-C) The Songs of Moses and the Lamb and the Return of the
King: Rev 19. In the return of Jesus and the song of the redeemed,
the Lord closes the doors on the great beasts of Revelation. For
the world it is all over. As is true in the rest of Revelation, a dual
address is made to distinguish between the Old Testament saints
and the Church. The song of Moses is sung by Israel, while glory
to the Lamb is sung by the Church.
The Seven Bowls: Rev 16. The judgment of the bowls is a
terrible intensification of the seven trumpets. The plagues are
similar. The bowls are directed at one geographic area, the throne
of the beast. Spiritual in nature, these bowls tells us of the
spiritual darkness that now engulfs the Middle East and that
darkness will intensify until the end.
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Rev 16:13-14 "And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs
come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth
of the beast (notice there are three, the Leopord-Bear-Lion,
i.e., the Middle East), and out of the mouth of the false
prophet (Muhammad). For they are the spirits of devils,
working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the
earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle
of that great day of God Almighty."
The only threefold enemy the Lord mentions in Revelation is the
Leopard-Bear-Lion, so these three unclean spirits, like frogs, are
probably the satanic princes who spiritually control those lands,
Muhammad being the false prophet. These spirits have remained
in the Middle East throughout the Christian Era, but the poison of
Islam is now spreading all over the world. As is true of the other
prophecies which tell us of man's final rebellion, this one also ends
with Armageddon.
We can now see how the Lord had planned the Christian Era
all along. There have been Two Witnesses, the Jews and the
Gentile church. The Lord never forgot His chosen people, and
through the Gentile church untold numbers of Ephraim have
unknowingly returned to the Lord. Through bifids and chiasms we
can now understand that both Daniel and Revelation are repetitive
in an organized way. Since the time of the Gentiles was over in
1967, Daniel, for the most part, is fulfilled.
Using the same bifidic and chiasmic style as Daniel, Revelation
continues where Daniel left off. With 12 parallel prophecies in two
chiasms, Revelation reviews the Old Testament Era and amplifies
what Daniel told us about the time of the Gentiles. Then it
expounds on the satanically controlled empires of the world and
identifies the final enemies of his Two Witnesses. Revelation
closes with a brief description of the eternal kingdom of God.
A NOTE ON DANIEL EIGHT
Daniel 8:17-19 declares that the last half of the vision of the
Ram and the He Goat is a vision of the time of the very end, so we
should probably look at it for a bit.
The angelic being speaking to Daniel was not battling some
mere mortal. Those were satanic princes, as Dan 10:20 points out!
At the end of time, out of the area controlled by those spiritual
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princes, a little horn -- a wicked ruler -- will arise who will lead the
enemy's forces at the end of time, however, he will be brought to
ultimate defeat when Messiah returns.8
"Finally," you say, "there is your Antichrist. We knew it all
along." Not at all. This will undoubtedly be a political or military
leader, but he will be coming from the Middle East. The "little
horn" of Dan 8 could be Ben Laden of Al Queda or one of those
deranged mullahs from Iran. He could also be someone acting
behind the scenes that we don't think very important, like Hassan
al-Tourabi, of Sudan:
DAN 8:9-11 "And out of one of them came forth a little
horn9, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and
toward the east, and toward the pleasant land. And it
waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down
some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and
stamped upon them."
DAN 8:23-25 "And in the latter time of their kingdom,
when the transgressors come to the full, a king of fierce
countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall
stand up. And his power shall be mighty, but not by his
own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall
prosper, and practice, and shall destroy the mighty and the
holy people. And through his policy also he shall cause
craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself
in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall
also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be
broken without hand."
This is indeed a vision of the end (Dan 8:17 and 19), and this
little horn does not come out of the Roman Empire, but out of the
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8 Many try to identify the little horn of Dan 8:9-11 and 8:23-25 as Antiochus
Epiphanies, the Greek king who desecrated the temple in 168BC. The problem
with that interpretation is that 168BC was not "the ultimate time of the end"
v.17, or "the appointed time of the end" v.19. Scripture declares this to be an
end-time vision and we see it now being fulfilled in satanically inspired shadow
empires like Al Queda.
9 There is no reason to believe that we will be able to recognize the "little horn"
of Dan 8 when he appears, any more than we were able to recognize Adolf Hitler
as the "little horn" of Dan 7 until after Hitler was killed.
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lands once ruled by Greece (Dan 8:21). The Grecian Empire of
Alexander the Great covered the whole Middle East. Notice that
this final ruler is going to use peace talks to put people off their
guard. Sound familiar? Read the newspaper.
There is so much Scripture for the location and behavior of the
final enemy of the Jews and the Church that it is difficult to avoid
duplication. All end-time prophecy points to the Middle East. The
final enemy of God's people is the Islamic world. However, from
what we now know about Ten-Horns of the Scarlet Beast, the
Islamic states won't be in this war by themselves. They will be
supported by the rest of the world. Nevertheless, at the very end,
it won't be man's weaponry but the voice of the King of kings who
will defeat them.10
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10 Included in the prophecy of the Ram and the He-Goat is a time period of 2300
evenings and mornings (Dan 8:14). From Scripture we know that evenings and
mornings are not days, and not times. The Lord gave us a day (a yom) for a year,
and a time (iddan or mowada) has been identified with some certainty, as 1000
years. God did not give us evenings and mornings for years. The author confesses
that he is not sure what these evenings and mornings mean. Are they 2300 days, or
since an evening and morning appears in each day, are they 1150 days?
Impossible to tell, but these evening and mornings probably refer to the evening and
morning sacrifices offered by the priests on the alter of burnt offerings. .
