This scripture is referring to the peoples and specifically the leadership of Mystery Babylon before the're mortally attacked. So, before the day of the Lord, when God allows the attack, the elect 144K church are sealed from death for 42 months, then, at the end of their testimony the same elect are resurrected up, Revelation 11:7-11. That's the totality of the firstfruit resurrection ( Revelation 14:4) hand picked by God himself. All the elect don't die with so many spread out. No one is raptured (not Bible doctrine) or resurrected, or given divine treatment until the last trumpet.
What is so bad about being part of the 2nd resurrection?
Arthur Koestler's book will change your mindset on the propaganda we were taught in school. The victors of war write history to cover up their war crimes.
Post a comment on your findings from down in the rabbit hole.
Yes, knowing the time stamps are crucial because the text skips back and forth. You said "There are many more passages that point to the church being raptured up before the tribulation period."
Can you show me in scripture where rapture happens before tribulation? Don't you mean before the great tribulation, before Jesus comes like a thief?
The 144K sealed are the church that is resurrected, depicted standing before the alter as redeemed from the earth. Show me where anyone else besides the 144K are resurrected. Who are like these? Revelation 14:1-5
Revelation 7:13-14
13 And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?
14 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.
Dear Lester Mendhelson ,i love Arthur Koestler ,Darkness at Noon is one of my very favourite books ,i shall defo look for the book you just mentioned ,thankyou .
When I sit back in my chair, close my eyes and picture mystery Babylon getting overpowered and blown away, the only nation that comes to mind is this one, America. Thomas Jefferson built us up like Rome to become a great nation. Now we've become sneaky as the devil himself.
The Iraq WMD lies, the MIC wants endless wars of choice. Under Obama, the US hired and funded ISIS mercenaries to fight along side US troops in Syria and Iraq. "brother against brother" for money.
An aggressive, dying empire can't resist the flame for glory. Without warning, things are going to get hot on mother earth.
Hello brother truth seeker. The more facts we have in the furnace, the better the forge. The Jews living in Israel today are not genetic Jews, but Jews strictly through religion. Todays occupants of Israel have no relations to Abraham, Issac, Jacob nor Judah. They are 2 completely different peoples and only bloodlines had claim to the land. Despite their European roots, their colony was set up in Israel by Rothschild, a wealthy European Jew. Jesus called out their end-time leaders as impostors, and "of the synagogue of satan" Rev 2:9 for this reason. Keep in mind, all 12 tribes lost their identity, blended in with other nations of the earth.
Read Jewish author Arthur Koestler's book: The Thirteenth Tribe
( Ezekiel 38:4) Esau, Gog, The king of the north, the beast = Russia.
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords: (Israel invaded at sixth trumpet)
Armageddon is not a battle ground, it is a gathering place for the beasts fractured army. When they see transfigured Jesus Messiah on Mount Zion, the reunited beast army will come down to their deaths.
You have a misunderstanding of what "the day of the Lord" is. It is not a joyous occasion, but the opposite. It is a one hour long battle, at the sixth trumpet, second woe. War. It is judgment day for the people of earth, leaders, bringing forth great tribulation. Read what really happens that day: Isaiah 13, Isaiah 21:1-9, Isaiah 24, Isaiah 47, Ezekiel 21:1-24, Ezekiel 38:1-17, Jeremiah 50/51, Joel 2:1-11, Revelation 17/18 & Luke 21:20-24 (Israel's fall).
Please tell me you understand what that term means.
If you already formed your opinion then why did you post your question pretending to be a real question? If this is about making some kind of public statement this is the wrong place for that. Jesus was a middle eastern Jew who walked a lot in the sun, so He was the same skin color as middle eastern Jews are today. If someone is trying to make Jesus into a certain skin color to earn fictional points for their own 'team' that is racism and that is wrong.
In this verse John describes Jesus as having hair like white wool and snow. The prophet Daniel wrote that he saw the Ancient of Days, describing Him as having hair that resembled wool ( Daniel 7:9). Seen as having such a resemblance to God the Father, Jesus is eternal. His white hair suggests He is wise, experienced, dignified, authoritative, pure, and glorious.
You have been given some very good comments on this. I pray you look past what "skin color" Jesus Christ was and just focus on His Word. The Lord searches hearts.
Just to be clear also you state "the furnace is like a chimney" and liken it to a charred pizza. The Greek word used for burned is "pepyrmens". Basically meaning "fiery or to glow". Not charred. Glowing with Glory.
You can believe what you want but I pray you keep your focus on things above. Not of this world.
Romans 1 shows us that just by creation, the world, and what is in it: God has clearly shown us that He made it, and us
He used DUST to make man. Dust under a microscope has ALL colors. God likes colors. Every color of the spectrum (colors plus black and white). God Himself is Spirit. The Holy Spirit is Spirit. Jesus's mother was a resident of The mid-east. Jesus's skin color was from his mom. He was not born with white hair.
The Revelation scripture is the Glorious, Resurrected, Triumphant, ready for Battle, Jesus The son of God.
Even Solomon had 700 wives, 300 concubines; different cultures, religions, colors, hair types.
Our only prohibitions from Heaven are: Do Not inter-marry with Unbelievers! To do so, brings much grief and idolatry into our relationship and offspring.
Clearly in Genesis where God was giving Adam his orders: Mankind had Dominion over everything EXCEPT Other Mankind.
It was MAN that took dominion over what they deemed, lesser mankind. God DID NOT authorize that. The story of Nimrod and the Tower of Babel clearly demonstrates the human perversion of what God said concerning dominion.
God introduced different languages, and people dispersed to their own cultures where they could speak their own language. The rich and powerful still took dominion over the working class people. It continues to this day.
There will be no justice until this earth passes away as prophesied; and the New Heaven and New Earth is established by God. Without satans presence, we will all see what God intended for us: IN THE BEGINNING.
I think God still prefers different colors in creation and mankind. Don't you? I know I do. I like variety!! I think nutty buddy ice cream is the Tops, but other people like popsicles and frozen yogurt. Gee whiz...can't we just be happy with what we got? WE KNOW that GOD is going to make ALL THINGS NEW. Everybody's Life Matters to God. Choose Jesus now. Rest in GOD and TRUST HIM.
'' his head and hair as white like wool , as white as snow '' .
don't look at the colour , look at the texture . WOOL ! , wooly hair , curly hair , nappy hair , Afro hair .
if you look today , most people with that hair are ? , so called black people & islanders right ?
'' And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace '' .
Brass is the colour of a gold coin & the furnace is like a chimney .
if you put a pizza in the furnace and bring it out half time what colour is it ? golden-ish Brown-ish right & if you leave the pizza in the furnace overtime and bring it out afterwards , what colour is it then ? Black !
So what does this tell you ? because from reading , researching and connecting the dots it told me he is a dark skin man with very wooly hair & not a white man with straight hair and brown eyes , like they say today .
This description we have of the Lord in Revelation 1:14-16 is a picture of him in his Glory. Not the way he walked down hear on earth!!
Let's visit the text.
Revelation 1:14-16. His head and his hairs were "WHITE" like wool, as "WHITE" as "SNOW";
( the emphasis here is the color of his hair not texture! It speaks of ETERNITY, ANCIENT OF DAYS. )
as you see here in
Daniel 7:9. I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the ANCIENT OF DAYS did sit, WHOSE GARMENT WAS WHITE AS SNOW, and the hair of His Head like the pure wool:
and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
( His judgment is righteous, nothing hidden. )
as you see here in
Hebrews 4:13. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace;
( Brass is a material that could withstand heat, fire speaks of judgment )
( HE'S PURE ) " NO INIQUITY FOUND IN HIM "
and his voice as the sound of many waters.
And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.
and the two edged sword.
Hebrews 4:12. For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
THIS IS GOD! not a black man or a white man, or any other. HE'S THE GLORIFIED CHRIST JUDGING HIS CHURCH!!
It is what Babylon will declare in the face of the beast.
Peace and good will towards men.
This scripture is referring to the peoples and specifically the leadership of Mystery Babylon before the're mortally attacked. So, before the day of the Lord, when God allows the attack, the elect 144K church are sealed from death for 42 months, then, at the end of their testimony the same elect are resurrected up, Revelation 11:7-11. That's the totality of the firstfruit resurrection ( Revelation 14:4) hand picked by God himself. All the elect don't die with so many spread out. No one is raptured (not Bible doctrine) or resurrected, or given divine treatment until the last trumpet.
What is so bad about being part of the 2nd resurrection?
Arthur Koestler's book will change your mindset on the propaganda we were taught in school. The victors of war write history to cover up their war crimes.
Post a comment on your findings from down in the rabbit hole.
Have a blessed day.
Yes, knowing the time stamps are crucial because the text skips back and forth. You said "There are many more passages that point to the church being raptured up before the tribulation period."
Can you show me in scripture where rapture happens before tribulation? Don't you mean before the great tribulation, before Jesus comes like a thief?
The 144K sealed are the church that is resurrected, depicted standing before the alter as redeemed from the earth. Show me where anyone else besides the 144K are resurrected. Who are like these? Revelation 14:1-5
Revelation 7:13-14
13 And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?
14 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.
God bless you Barney
When I sit back in my chair, close my eyes and picture mystery Babylon getting overpowered and blown away, the only nation that comes to mind is this one, America. Thomas Jefferson built us up like Rome to become a great nation. Now we've become sneaky as the devil himself.
The Iraq WMD lies, the MIC wants endless wars of choice. Under Obama, the US hired and funded ISIS mercenaries to fight along side US troops in Syria and Iraq. "brother against brother" for money.
An aggressive, dying empire can't resist the flame for glory. Without warning, things are going to get hot on mother earth.
Read Jewish author Arthur Koestler's book: The Thirteenth Tribe
May God bless you in your search for answers.
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords: (Israel invaded at sixth trumpet)
Armageddon is not a battle ground, it is a gathering place for the beasts fractured army. When they see transfigured Jesus Messiah on Mount Zion, the reunited beast army will come down to their deaths.
i do not understand how Genesis one, link with the great tribulation. Please clarify
One is the beginning and the latter is the end (last battle, which started in heaven)
You have a misunderstanding of what "the day of the Lord" is. It is not a joyous occasion, but the opposite. It is a one hour long battle, at the sixth trumpet, second woe. War. It is judgment day for the people of earth, leaders, bringing forth great tribulation. Read what really happens that day: Isaiah 13, Isaiah 21:1-9, Isaiah 24, Isaiah 47, Ezekiel 21:1-24, Ezekiel 38:1-17, Jeremiah 50/51, Joel 2:1-11, Revelation 17/18 & Luke 21:20-24 (Israel's fall).
Please tell me you understand what that term means.
What was written in the Bible, the writer was saying: as it is written...so be it.
No I don't think you will find that in scripture,
You have been given some very good comments on this. I pray you look past what "skin color" Jesus Christ was and just focus on His Word. The Lord searches hearts.
Just to be clear also you state "the furnace is like a chimney" and liken it to a charred pizza. The Greek word used for burned is "pepyrmens". Basically meaning "fiery or to glow". Not charred. Glowing with Glory.
You can believe what you want but I pray you keep your focus on things above. Not of this world.
God Bless.
He used DUST to make man. Dust under a microscope has ALL colors. God likes colors. Every color of the spectrum (colors plus black and white). God Himself is Spirit. The Holy Spirit is Spirit. Jesus's mother was a resident of The mid-east. Jesus's skin color was from his mom. He was not born with white hair.
The Revelation scripture is the Glorious, Resurrected, Triumphant, ready for Battle, Jesus The son of God.
Even Solomon had 700 wives, 300 concubines; different cultures, religions, colors, hair types.
Our only prohibitions from Heaven are: Do Not inter-marry with Unbelievers! To do so, brings much grief and idolatry into our relationship and offspring.
Clearly in Genesis where God was giving Adam his orders: Mankind had Dominion over everything EXCEPT Other Mankind.
It was MAN that took dominion over what they deemed, lesser mankind. God DID NOT authorize that. The story of Nimrod and the Tower of Babel clearly demonstrates the human perversion of what God said concerning dominion.
God introduced different languages, and people dispersed to their own cultures where they could speak their own language. The rich and powerful still took dominion over the working class people. It continues to this day.
There will be no justice until this earth passes away as prophesied; and the New Heaven and New Earth is established by God. Without satans presence, we will all see what God intended for us: IN THE BEGINNING.
I think God still prefers different colors in creation and mankind. Don't you? I know I do. I like variety!! I think nutty buddy ice cream is the Tops, but other people like popsicles and frozen yogurt. Gee whiz...can't we just be happy with what we got? WE KNOW that GOD is going to make ALL THINGS NEW. Everybody's Life Matters to God. Choose Jesus now. Rest in GOD and TRUST HIM.
Mishael
His hair, AND HIS HEAD" was white.
AND HE HAD A TONGUE FOR A TWO EDGE SWORD!!!!
THIS IS """THE REVELATION""" OF JESUS CHRIST AFTER READING ALL THE OTHER 65 BOOKS. ITS THE CONCLUSION.
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, THE ALMIGHTY.
It's a shame you reduce him to a man.
with a fork tongue. After reading these 66 books that tells you what these symbols mean.
Revelation 1:14, 16. His ""HEAD" and his hairs were
"WHITE like wool, as"""""" WHITE AS SNOW; """"""""
and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
And he had in his right hand seven stars:
( AND OUT OF HIS MOUTH WENT A SHARP TWOEDGED SWORD""""""""": )
and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.
'' his head and hair as white like wool , as white as snow '' .
don't look at the colour , look at the texture . WOOL ! , wooly hair , curly hair , nappy hair , Afro hair .
if you look today , most people with that hair are ? , so called black people & islanders right ?
'' And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace '' .
Brass is the colour of a gold coin & the furnace is like a chimney .
if you put a pizza in the furnace and bring it out half time what colour is it ? golden-ish Brown-ish right & if you leave the pizza in the furnace overtime and bring it out afterwards , what colour is it then ? Black !
So what does this tell you ? because from reading , researching and connecting the dots it told me he is a dark skin man with very wooly hair & not a white man with straight hair and brown eyes , like they say today .
God Bless.
GBU
This description we have of the Lord in Revelation 1:14-16 is a picture of him in his Glory. Not the way he walked down hear on earth!!
Let's visit the text.
Revelation 1:14-16. His head and his hairs were "WHITE" like wool, as "WHITE" as "SNOW";
( the emphasis here is the color of his hair not texture! It speaks of ETERNITY, ANCIENT OF DAYS. )
as you see here in
Daniel 7:9. I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the ANCIENT OF DAYS did sit, WHOSE GARMENT WAS WHITE AS SNOW, and the hair of His Head like the pure wool:
and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
( His judgment is righteous, nothing hidden. )
as you see here in
Hebrews 4:13. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace;
( Brass is a material that could withstand heat, fire speaks of judgment )
( HE'S PURE ) " NO INIQUITY FOUND IN HIM "
and his voice as the sound of many waters.
And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.
and the two edged sword.
Hebrews 4:12. For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
THIS IS GOD! not a black man or a white man, or any other. HE'S THE GLORIFIED CHRIST JUDGING HIS CHURCH!!
I'm sure others can add more revelation to this.
God bless.