I am good thank you for asking. Happy to hear from you back.
I am doing some processes in getting rehired after I impulsively resigned from a previous job.
Now it is not me who will decide for me, I do not want to make wrong decision and regret it later, so this time I wont forget praying for everything and let God do the work in my life and my family, loved ones, and for every believers.
The world is really a battleground and we will end up tired and weary,.. discouraged,.. if we don't put Jesus in the center of our lives...
God bless you and your beautiful boys and the whole family!
Psalms 136:3 O give thanks unto the LORD of LORDS .....
Deuteronomy 10:17 For the LORD your God is GOD of GODS, and LORD of LORDS .....
Revelation 17:14 .....for he is LORD of LORDS, and KING of KINGS .....
Joshua 22:22 The Lord GOD of GODS, the LORD GOD of GODS ....
Psalms 82 :6 I have said YOU are gods, the children of the most high.
John 10:34 Jesus answered them, is it not written in your law, Ye are gods?
John 10:35 If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken.
Romans 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he did also predestinated to be conformed to the image of Christ, the firstborn (God) among many brethren (Gods).
Jesus Christ, The Messiah ... King of Kings, and Lord of Lord's, God's role of office,,,Praise HIM ... Check out Psalms 110
Hebrews 7:1 For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him.
2 To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace;(Abraham would not tithe to a type)
3 Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.
4 Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.
There's only ONE King of righteousness !!! King of Peace !!!
Jesse you won't be offended if l make some linguistic corrections, will you?
a. The greek text says "bacame/was/was made in spirit". In greek Bibles it is always interpreted as " came into spiritual ecstasy.
b. People at that time used only capital letters without punctuation. It was a lot later that small letters and punctuation came in use.
c. In Rev 1, Lord's Day is Sunday actually. History. The early church greek christians abandoned the pagan names of the week and started using the Hebrew ones (First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Preparation, Sabbath), with one exception, they renamed the first day as Lord's Day to honor the day Jesus was resurrected from the dead and use it as their formal day for the church service. These names are still in use in Greece and few other countries as well. The name Lord's Day for Sunday is still in use in Romance languages too ie Italian (Domenica), Spanish (Domingo), French (Dimanche), even in English speaking countries the R.Catholic church uses this name in their Liturgies. ..
In the Book of Acts Sunday is still called the first day of the week, but the Revelation was written more than 50 years later (100AD) at a time when the name Lord's Day came in use among christians. Apart from the Bibke, the first early christian to mention this name was Justin the martyr in his "First Apology". (approx. 150AD).
Linguistically talking since you study Koine Greek, If it was "day of the Lord" as the day of the second coming of Jesus or the day of judgement, in Greek it would have been " ten hemera toy Kyriou" but it is "ten Kyriake hemera" [in your Lexicon instead of "y" it has "u" I believe, this is due to a change of pronouncing the greek letter u(y)psilon from antiquity to nowadays]. It is a different expression because it is reffered to that specific day of the week, Sunday
To be a king in the kingdom, requires determination and the love for His heavenly Father! A selflessness, leading and feeding the children of God. Knowing His will, living in His judgments, even suffering those moments that are from Him, these judgments, others who don't know Him, may never know.
This was the man David, who's heart was toward God, who would make some mistakes finding himself in a bad way, along the way because of sin. His family and friends turning on Him, finding himself on the run for His life. He would know of nowhere to go , but the house of God! How a natural born king could find himself in such a way?
David with His two body guards, open the doors and find no one their. No one their to get the permission to eat. No one their for consolation, no one their to absolve Him from sin. This day being the Sabbath, David becomes bold, falling on His knees!
David who's heart is toward God, reaches into the altar, takes of those things that are given freely to those who love God.
Without the priest, David a leader in eyes of God, will now receive the forgiveness, strengthened to go forward in his own righteousness, found in and through the bread and wine! A Bread and wine at the alter of life! The bread of life!
Those who understand what it means to love God, are become friends to the King. A king who reigns and rules now and forever more! Jesus the Christ, our sabbath even in the darkest of time.
I just wanted to elaborate on what I said that "John got to see the future happen before it happens, while it's happening," because what I said sounds like a little Dr. Suess going on here.
I like to use the analogy of when you watch a movie for the first time, especially where they create these moments when you're fixed on the screen, and then all of a sudden somebody jumps out and screams, and you just about have a heart attack. Or you really don't know what's going to happen and you're on pins and needles through the whole thing.
Well, after you watch it once, and somebody says have you watched this movie? Yes I have. Well, I haven't, do you want to watch it with me? Sure, this is going to be good!
And you're sitting there and you know exactly what's going to happen because you've seen it. It's already happened.
If we understand this about God, we are living in the present, the now. Every second and every minute is new to us because we've never been there before. Things happen in our day. But God's already been there and it's already happened. It's a re-run to Him. He's not surprised!
It is comforting to know that God, who is outside our time domain and space factor in which we live, but with God, He knows everything from the beginning to the end.
But John got to see it all. John saw the future happen, before it happened, while it was happening.
I hold the historical/prophetic view of the book of Revelation. I see the book of Revelation as being both historical and futuristic. I understand the seven churches in Chapters 2 and 3 were literal churches in John's day, and that the events in Chapters 4 through 22 are yet future.
Whatever view a person takes, it must fit in with what John saw in the past. He just saw the vision of Christ, the things that are, that is, the condition of the churches in John's day, and the things that will be after the church (Chapters 4 through 22).
It must fit into that past, present, and future scheme that the book of Revelation divides up for us.
In Revelation 1:10, John says, " I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day."
The phrase "I was in the Spirit," in the King James translation, Spirit is capitalized to indicate the Holy Spirit. But in the Greek text, there is no word "the." There's no definite article. And the spirit is understood to be not the Holy Spirit, but the spirit realm. And we see that throughout the book, he was caught up in spirit.
And then he says on the Lord's day. And in the bible, Sunday is never called the Lord's day, which you also alluded to.
The scriptures tell us that this is an OT term for the day of the Lord, or Lord's day, and it is a reference to the day of judgment.
It is called the Lord's day in Isaiah 2:12, and Zephaniah 1:14-16. Even Paul, in 1 Thessalonians 5:2, he used that Jewish phrase from the Old Testament, and says that the day of the Lord is going to come as a thief in the night. But you don't have to worry because you're children of light.
Peter also, in 2 Peter 3:10 used the same phrase as the day of judgment of God.
When John was caught up to see the Lord's day, this period of judgment, he got to see the future happen before it happens, while it's happening. He saw everything from where he's at, all the way to the end, and what's going to happen at the end. It just hasn't happened yet for us
Greetings in the mighty name of Jesus our Savior. I just want to thank you for breaking down the question from the Book of Revelation (the Day of the Lord). Many young Christians are not able to understand some of the writings. You have made it so clear that even a child can understand. I thank you so much. God bless and keep you well and protected. In Jesus' name.
Chronologically; it would seem that this would be an event immediately after the seal judgments. It is entirely possible even with some overlap after the Tribulation begins that the 144,000 had already begun their ministry. We go then immediately to the great multitude of those in verse 9 and 10; and repeated in verses 13-14. This would appear to be resurrected bodies which would mean this signifies the Second Coming when they finally appear. What is not clear is whether these 144,000 were actually involved at all in witnessing to the multitude; we notice the absence of any mention of it here. What we do know is that they are given a seal of being "untouchable" much as Elijah was and will be along with the other prophet giving witness in Jerusalem at that time. The trumpet judgments destroying the earth will not affect them (verse 3). This reminds us of the angel in Ezekiel 9:4 where those who would decry the evil would be marked and preserved from destruction (also something like those who had blood on their door before the Exodus).
Clearly Antichrist will mock this with his OWN mark either then or right after the 2 prophets are killed and resurrected. He also will imitate the works of Elijah bringing fire down from heaven; no doubt to authenticate his "divinity" and also to imitate what the 2 Prophets did.
It seems the 144,000 may be translated; there is no doubt that they will be persecuted which could explain Matthew 25:36-40. Those who help or don't help the Jews in prison at that time will be judged accordingly as to being saved or not; as once again we have to remember the sixth seal will mean any declaration of Jesus being Lord is moot; as all will KNOW that God and the Son are in heaven and starting wrath. If the wicked know certainly the righteous will. This is more like Christ when he went to free the captives in sheol; it is a declaration of victory over the grave to those imprisoned there; man; angels and nephilim.
I, too, believe that the angels were created before the creation of the physical universe. I think that God created the spiritual "universe" first. It says in the Word that the sons of god (angels) rejoiced with God when He created the earth, singing with joy. (can't find the Scripture right now). The rebellion and fall of Satan and the other angels happened after the physical universe was created, I believe, but before creatures and humans were created
Jesus said that the angels do not marry in heaven. So, in that realm, which is wholly spiritual, there is no marriage nor procreation. Angels are God's messengers, protectors of humans, warring against evil angels and forces, and praisers of God. They do not accept any worship for themselves, nor do anything other than what God's will is for them to do.
Not sure am understanding the first question, but Revelation 12 does mention past events, it refers to the birth of this 2nd world age i.e 12: 1-12. IN HEAVEN. (Woman, Child, and Dragon.) [Satan's First Rebellion]
The events are not consecutive throughout but it doesn't interfere with the study.
And In reference to the latter part of your comment :So to be clear, Christ return's just (after) the five month tribulation, thus ending this dispensation of time, whereby beginning the first day of the millennium, the 3rd world age (The Lords Day) where John was taken to in spirit in verse 10 where he is told to write it and send it.
The events leading up to The Lords Day (or) just before, are written of in the Book of Joel.
Joel's prophecy, No references are made to time, because it looks onward to the time of the end, and the events that will usher in "the Day of the Lord".
I am good thank you for asking. Happy to hear from you back.
I am doing some processes in getting rehired after I impulsively resigned from a previous job.
Now it is not me who will decide for me, I do not want to make wrong decision and regret it later, so this time I wont forget praying for everything and let God do the work in my life and my family, loved ones, and for every believers.
The world is really a battleground and we will end up tired and weary,.. discouraged,.. if we don't put Jesus in the center of our lives...
God bless you and your beautiful boys and the whole family!
Psalms 136:3 O give thanks unto the LORD of LORDS .....
Deuteronomy 10:17 For the LORD your God is GOD of GODS, and LORD of LORDS .....
Revelation 17:14 .....for he is LORD of LORDS, and KING of KINGS .....
Joshua 22:22 The Lord GOD of GODS, the LORD GOD of GODS ....
Psalms 82 :6 I have said YOU are gods, the children of the most high.
John 10:34 Jesus answered them, is it not written in your law, Ye are gods?
John 10:35 If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken.
Romans 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he did also predestinated to be conformed to the image of Christ, the firstborn (God) among many brethren (Gods).
God Bless YOU, Christ's BODY.
Can you provide any scripture with this reference.
Thanks and God bless.
Is the age of Grace wherein walking via the spirit in love is 24/7 or everyday
For a believer is holy. Many Christian's I know work the sunday and are blessed
They have a job that meets their need. Trust me God is not judging you for
This, also Jesus Christ condemned the religious leaders for that kind of
Thinking, remember the sabbath was made for man not man for the sabbath.
Hebrews 7:1 For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him.
2 To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace;(Abraham would not tithe to a type)
3 Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.
4 Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.
There's only ONE King of righteousness !!! King of Peace !!!
Information that cannot be known by the five senses it is supernatural it is not
analytical. Example in Acts Chapter 10 when Peter saw heaven open and
The vision of the vessel with animals that was revealed info or given by the
Spirit information to either show teach or explain what God wants done. It
Never contradicts scripture and always Glorifies God and blessed the receiver
And those it pertains to. To unbelievers most of the time it's not good news.
Also the true God will always communicate to the individual so they understand
It and there:s never confusion. This is in addition to what Jesse shared.
a. The greek text says "bacame/was/was made in spirit". In greek Bibles it is always interpreted as " came into spiritual ecstasy.
b. People at that time used only capital letters without punctuation. It was a lot later that small letters and punctuation came in use.
c. In Rev 1, Lord's Day is Sunday actually. History. The early church greek christians abandoned the pagan names of the week and started using the Hebrew ones (First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Preparation, Sabbath), with one exception, they renamed the first day as Lord's Day to honor the day Jesus was resurrected from the dead and use it as their formal day for the church service. These names are still in use in Greece and few other countries as well. The name Lord's Day for Sunday is still in use in Romance languages too ie Italian (Domenica), Spanish (Domingo), French (Dimanche), even in English speaking countries the R.Catholic church uses this name in their Liturgies. ..
In the Book of Acts Sunday is still called the first day of the week, but the Revelation was written more than 50 years later (100AD) at a time when the name Lord's Day came in use among christians. Apart from the Bibke, the first early christian to mention this name was Justin the martyr in his "First Apology". (approx. 150AD).
Linguistically talking since you study Koine Greek, If it was "day of the Lord" as the day of the second coming of Jesus or the day of judgement, in Greek it would have been " ten hemera toy Kyriou" but it is "ten Kyriake hemera" [in your Lexicon instead of "y" it has "u" I believe, this is due to a change of pronouncing the greek letter u(y)psilon from antiquity to nowadays]. It is a different expression because it is reffered to that specific day of the week, Sunday
GBU
To be a king in the kingdom, requires determination and the love for His heavenly Father! A selflessness, leading and feeding the children of God. Knowing His will, living in His judgments, even suffering those moments that are from Him, these judgments, others who don't know Him, may never know.
This was the man David, who's heart was toward God, who would make some mistakes finding himself in a bad way, along the way because of sin. His family and friends turning on Him, finding himself on the run for His life. He would know of nowhere to go , but the house of God! How a natural born king could find himself in such a way?
David with His two body guards, open the doors and find no one their. No one their to get the permission to eat. No one their for consolation, no one their to absolve Him from sin. This day being the Sabbath, David becomes bold, falling on His knees!
David who's heart is toward God, reaches into the altar, takes of those things that are given freely to those who love God.
Without the priest, David a leader in eyes of God, will now receive the forgiveness, strengthened to go forward in his own righteousness, found in and through the bread and wine! A Bread and wine at the alter of life! The bread of life!
Those who understand what it means to love God, are become friends to the King. A king who reigns and rules now and forever more! Jesus the Christ, our sabbath even in the darkest of time.
Repent and be Baptized
I just wanted to elaborate on what I said that "John got to see the future happen before it happens, while it's happening," because what I said sounds like a little Dr. Suess going on here.
I like to use the analogy of when you watch a movie for the first time, especially where they create these moments when you're fixed on the screen, and then all of a sudden somebody jumps out and screams, and you just about have a heart attack. Or you really don't know what's going to happen and you're on pins and needles through the whole thing.
Well, after you watch it once, and somebody says have you watched this movie? Yes I have. Well, I haven't, do you want to watch it with me? Sure, this is going to be good!
And you're sitting there and you know exactly what's going to happen because you've seen it. It's already happened.
If we understand this about God, we are living in the present, the now. Every second and every minute is new to us because we've never been there before. Things happen in our day. But God's already been there and it's already happened. It's a re-run to Him. He's not surprised!
It is comforting to know that God, who is outside our time domain and space factor in which we live, but with God, He knows everything from the beginning to the end.
But John got to see it all. John saw the future happen, before it happened, while it was happening.
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I hold the historical/prophetic view of the book of Revelation. I see the book of Revelation as being both historical and futuristic. I understand the seven churches in Chapters 2 and 3 were literal churches in John's day, and that the events in Chapters 4 through 22 are yet future.
Whatever view a person takes, it must fit in with what John saw in the past. He just saw the vision of Christ, the things that are, that is, the condition of the churches in John's day, and the things that will be after the church (Chapters 4 through 22).
It must fit into that past, present, and future scheme that the book of Revelation divides up for us.
In Revelation 1:10, John says, " I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day."
The phrase "I was in the Spirit," in the King James translation, Spirit is capitalized to indicate the Holy Spirit. But in the Greek text, there is no word "the." There's no definite article. And the spirit is understood to be not the Holy Spirit, but the spirit realm. And we see that throughout the book, he was caught up in spirit.
And then he says on the Lord's day. And in the bible, Sunday is never called the Lord's day, which you also alluded to.
The scriptures tell us that this is an OT term for the day of the Lord, or Lord's day, and it is a reference to the day of judgment.
It is called the Lord's day in Isaiah 2:12, and Zephaniah 1:14-16. Even Paul, in 1 Thessalonians 5:2, he used that Jewish phrase from the Old Testament, and says that the day of the Lord is going to come as a thief in the night. But you don't have to worry because you're children of light.
Peter also, in 2 Peter 3:10 used the same phrase as the day of judgment of God.
When John was caught up to see the Lord's day, this period of judgment, he got to see the future happen before it happens, while it's happening. He saw everything from where he's at, all the way to the end, and what's going to happen at the end. It just hasn't happened yet for us
Chronologically; it would seem that this would be an event immediately after the seal judgments. It is entirely possible even with some overlap after the Tribulation begins that the 144,000 had already begun their ministry. We go then immediately to the great multitude of those in verse 9 and 10; and repeated in verses 13-14. This would appear to be resurrected bodies which would mean this signifies the Second Coming when they finally appear. What is not clear is whether these 144,000 were actually involved at all in witnessing to the multitude; we notice the absence of any mention of it here. What we do know is that they are given a seal of being "untouchable" much as Elijah was and will be along with the other prophet giving witness in Jerusalem at that time. The trumpet judgments destroying the earth will not affect them (verse 3). This reminds us of the angel in Ezekiel 9:4 where those who would decry the evil would be marked and preserved from destruction (also something like those who had blood on their door before the Exodus).
Clearly Antichrist will mock this with his OWN mark either then or right after the 2 prophets are killed and resurrected. He also will imitate the works of Elijah bringing fire down from heaven; no doubt to authenticate his "divinity" and also to imitate what the 2 Prophets did.
It seems the 144,000 may be translated; there is no doubt that they will be persecuted which could explain Matthew 25:36-40. Those who help or don't help the Jews in prison at that time will be judged accordingly as to being saved or not; as once again we have to remember the sixth seal will mean any declaration of Jesus being Lord is moot; as all will KNOW that God and the Son are in heaven and starting wrath. If the wicked know certainly the righteous will. This is more like Christ when he went to free the captives in sheol; it is a declaration of victory over the grave to those imprisoned there; man; angels and nephilim.
You can find biographical information on Marcus, mentioned in 1 Peter by asking the question, "Who was Marcus in the Bible?"
I suggest you read from the Christian sites that explain who he was.
I, too, believe that the angels were created before the creation of the physical universe. I think that God created the spiritual "universe" first. It says in the Word that the sons of god (angels) rejoiced with God when He created the earth, singing with joy. (can't find the Scripture right now). The rebellion and fall of Satan and the other angels happened after the physical universe was created, I believe, but before creatures and humans were created
Jesus said that the angels do not marry in heaven. So, in that realm, which is wholly spiritual, there is no marriage nor procreation. Angels are God's messengers, protectors of humans, warring against evil angels and forces, and praisers of God. They do not accept any worship for themselves, nor do anything other than what God's will is for them to do.
The events are not consecutive throughout but it doesn't interfere with the study.
And In reference to the latter part of your comment :So to be clear, Christ return's just (after) the five month tribulation, thus ending this dispensation of time, whereby beginning the first day of the millennium, the 3rd world age (The Lords Day) where John was taken to in spirit in verse 10 where he is told to write it and send it.
The events leading up to The Lords Day (or) just before, are written of in the Book of Joel.
Joel's prophecy, No references are made to time, because it looks onward to the time of the end, and the events that will usher in "the Day of the Lord".