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The “First” Resurrection of Revelation 20:5-6

The “First” Resurrection of Revelation 20:5-6 Some people have misunderstood the πρωτη/“first” resurrection of Revelation 20:5-6. As a result, they have missed the mark about when, and why, the saints will be resurrected from the dead in the End Times. Here is that passage in its context. These events follow the Battle of Armageddon – at which Christ fully defeats his earthly enemies and secures his earthly reign – and mark the commencement of the Millennium. Revelation 20:1 Then

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The Shekhinah and the Manchild

The Shekhinah is the feminine manifestation of Deity, the original and continuing “visible manifestation of the Divine Presence.” She is the aspect of Deity that voluntarily limits itself, thereby providing a place and means by which the holiness of the Infinite Light is able to become tangibly expressed. (Because Infinite Light cannot be perceived by finite beings; rather, only a limited part of its radiance.) In Hebraic thought, the feminine is the outward form and vessel, being the recep

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The Beast, Part 8: Final Judgments

The Beast, Part 8: Final Judgments Final Judgments After the great Battle of Armageddon, the Beast and the False Prophet – the leaders of the earthly warfare against Christ – will be “cast alive into a lake of fire.” Rev. 19:20 This fulfills the prophecy of Enoch about their latter end: Enoch 10:9 “…and in the great day of judgment let him [Azazel] be cast into the fire.” … 15 Shemhazai and…the others who are with him…bind them for seventy generations underneath the earth, even to

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The Beast, Part 7: The Beast and Satan

The Beast and Satan: Their Natures and Forms Traditional depictions of Satan the Devil portray him in two distinctly different ways: as a cloven-footed, goat-headed Horned God, and as a wily but powerful red Serpent-Dragon. Often these two figures are confused, as in the standard depiction of a red devil with a goat’s head, cloven feet, and horns – but also with a dragon’s tail and serpent’s fangs! Confused indeed. Such mixed images reflect a common misunderstanding of not one, but two

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The Beast, Part 6: The Mouth of the Beast

The Mouth of the Beast So the Beast and the False Prophet are rebellious fallen angels, not men. However, the Beast will be Revelation 13:5 …given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies… 6 …against God… 5 …and he [will be] given authority for 42 months [= 1260 days]. … 7 It [will be] granted to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them.  A biblical precedent for a spokesman being called a mouth is found in the case of Moses and Aaron: Exodus 4:16 …he [Aaron

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The Beast, Part 5: The King of the Abyss

The King of the Abyss At the opening of Revelation 6ʼs Sixth Seal, a Latter Day Revelation 6:12 …great earthquake… 14 …[causes] every mountain and island [to be] moved out of its place.” Sometime thereafter, Revelation 9:1 …a star having fallen from heaven to the earth…[will be] given the key to the pit [or, the shaft] of the Abyss. 2 And he [shall] open the pit of the Abyss, thereby releasing its evil spirits. This “fallen star” will either be Satan or one of his host

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The Beast, Part 4: Azazel and the Abyss

Mosaic Law and Jewish Lore about Azazel Leviticus 16 provides much of the Mosaic Law for Yom Kippur/the Day of Atonement, the holiest day of the year in the Israelite religious calendar. In verses 8, 10, and 26, the Hebrew word traditionally translated in English as “the scapegoat” is Azazel. The passages in Hebrew literally mean “for Azazel,” not “for the Azazel” – Leviticus 16:8 Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats [:5 for a sin offering]: one lot for YHWH, and one lot for Azazel

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The Beast, Part 3: Who IS the Beast?

Who IS the Beast? We saw in Part 2 that “the Beast will ascend out of the Abyss.” Rev. 17:8; 11:7 So then, we need to discover WHO is presently in the Abyss, and WHY. These questions have been answered by Jude, Peter, Enoch, and also in Hebrew and Greek mythology: Jude 6 The angels who did not keep their place of authority, but left their habitation, [God] has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day. 2 Peter 2:4 …God did not spare the angels

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The Beast Is Not a (Seven-headed!) Man, Part 1

The Beast Is Not a (Seven-headed!) Man, Part 1 It is widely taught in the Church that the Beast of Revelation 13 will be a man. Revelation 13’s Beast has “seven heads and ten horns.” Rev. 13:1; 17:3 There never has been, nor ever will be, such a man. We find in Revelation 12:3 that the Devil/Satan/Dragon also has seven heads and ten horns. Satan is an angelic spirit. Now, we know that the Holy Spirit can inhabit many people. Also, that God took the spirit that was upon Moses and

The Beast, Part 2: Its Seven Heads

The Beast’s Seven Heads Revelation 17 tells us that in John’s time, the seven-headed Beast Revelation 17:8 “…was, and is not [present], and shall ascend out of the Abyss and go to perdition… 9 The seven heads are seven mountains… 10 and are seven kings. Five have fallen, one is, and the other has not yet come. And when he comes, he must remain a short time.” Jeremiah 51:24-26 and Daniel 2:34-35 tell us that – speaking prophetically – “mountains” may symbolize great kingdoms or em

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Virgins and Stewards, Part 2: Answers

(As per the usual, this will be easier to read if you cut and paste it to a word-processing program. This site badly compresses the lines.) Virgins and Stewards, Part 2: Answers   1) Why does Luke say “return from the wedding”? What happened to the virgins? The two passages, from Matthew 25 and Luke 12, clearly prophecy two separate comings of the Lord: The first, to take “the virgins…in with Him to the wedding.” Matt. 25:10 The second, to “return from the wedding” to “his ho

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Virgins and Stewards, Part 1: Questions

(As per the usual, this will be easier to read if you cut and paste it to a word-processing program. This site badly compresses the lines.) Virgins and Stewards, Part 1: Questions Matthew 25:1 “Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. 2 Now five of them were wise, and five were foolish. 3 Those who were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them, 4 but the wise took oil in their vessels with th

Four Dual Witnesses Foretell Early Events of “The Time of the End”: Part 1

Four Dual Witnesses Foretell Early Events of “The Time of the End”: Part 1 [These parallel NT and OT passages have been explained elsewhere, in blogs 5, 8, and 29, as parts of longer narratives. But I think it useful to focus on them here by themselves alone.] 1) Matthew 24:15 “Therefore when you see the Abomination of Desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, having stood in the holy place…” 1) Daniel 11:45 “And he [the King of the North] shall plant the tents of his pavilion

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Egypt, Part 2: Its Coming "Cruel Master"

Egypt, Part 2: Its Coming “Cruel Master” Isaiah 19:2 “And I will set Egyptians against Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom. 3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in its midst… 4 And the Egyptians I will give over into the hand of A CRUEL MASTER; and a fierce king shall rule over them,” says the Lord, the LORD of Hosts. 5 “And the waters of the sea [or, estuary] will become dried up,

Egypt, Part 1: Its Coming 40-Year Desolation

Egypt, Part 1: Its Coming 40-Year Desolation Ezekiel 29:10 …“I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate from Migdol [N. Egypt] to Syene [= Aswan, S Egypt], even unto the border of Ethiopia. 11 NEITHER FOOT OF MAN SHALL PASS THROUGH IT NOR FOOT OF BEAST PASS THROUGH IT, AND IT SHALL BE UNINHABITED FORTY YEARS. 12 I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the lands having been desolated; and among the cities that are laid waste, her cities shall be desolate forty ye

Trials and Temptations

Trials and Temptations A trial (a.k.a. a test) is a transition point when a choice must be made. Trials come every day. A temptation comes when one listens to an evil spirit when meditating about a choice to be made. One can blink away the evil spirit’s temptations. Literally. God does not tempt anyone, but God does try everyone. Eternity is when/where trials are not found, because the choices have been made.   Index and summaries of all articles is here:

Covenant, Corporation, and Constitution

Covenant, Corporation, and Constitution      Under precedent dating back to Israel’s covenant with God at Mount Sinai, corporations (assemblies, congregations of people) – be they public, private, for- or non-profit, or national – are formed by two-part written covenants. The first part, commonly called the articles, summarizes the basic beliefs, principles, and purposes for which the corporation is founded. (At Mount Sinai, this was the Ten Commandments.) The second and longer part, the by

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Turning Evil into Good

Turning Evil into Good      Our pasts are our teachers and guides.      Now, even though we have done foolish and evil things in the past, if, because of them, we have learned not to do such things, then God has brought the good of wisdom out of our past foolishness and evil. Thus, good fruits in our lives can be harvested out of our past evils, even as good fruits of a garden may be derived from composted dung.      Two prime examples of this principle are seen in the lives of Pe

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Four Dual Witnesses, Part 2: The Resurrections of the Righteous and the Evil Dead

Four Dual Witnesses, Part 2: The Resurrections of the Righteous and the Evil Dead 1) Matthew 24:15 “Therefore when you see the Abomination of Desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, having stood in the holy place…” 1) Daniel 11:45 “And he [the King of the North] shall plant the tents of his pavilion between the seas at the glorious holy mountain…” 2) Matthew 24:21 “…then there will be the Great Tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until thi

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The Firstfruits and the Harvest 2.0; Part 2

The Firstfruits and the Harvest 2.0 Part 2: The Earthbound [Last paragraph of Part 1: In the End Times, the spiritual fulfillment of the “first of the firstfruits” will be that of the Manchild of Revelation 12:5, who is to be “caught up to God and to His throne” before the Woman has fully escaped into the wilderness with her people. Rev. 12:6; see Part 2.] Firstfruits are but a small portion of any harvest. The greater parts of both Israel and the Gentile Church will remain on Ear

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The Firstfruits and the Harvest 2.0; Part 1

This article is an upgrade of article # 24. Index and summaries of all articles is here: https://www.worthychristianforums.com/blogs/entry/1403-index-and-summaries-of-articles/ The Firstfruits and the Harvest 2.0 Part 1: The Heaven-Bound Under the Mount Sinai Covenant, all firstfruits were to be given to God: not just the firstfruits of the Spring grain harvest, but also of the Autumn harvest of fruit, wine and oil. Likewise, all the firstborn/firstfruit-of-the-womb of both

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Preparing for Combat

Index and summaries of my articles is here: https://www.worthychristianforums.com/blogs/entry/1403-index-and-summaries-of-articles/   Preparing for Combat   Every soldier, Christian or otherwise, preparing for combat must train for combat. A believer posting in a Christian forum wherein doctrines are discussed and debated should be prepared to get battered and cut. Because the Word is a sharp sword, and it is a rod of iron. People always get injured during heavy training

Ivermectin

Ivermectin So on my three-plus weeks supply run, I stopped into a farm supply store to try to get some 8ˊ T-posts. Out. Still So thought I’d check out the horse supply section just to see – curious – if they carried Ivermectin paste. Sure enough – two stuffed rows of it. Some on sale, $5.99. Dwarfs the other horse treatment supplies. Having the obligatory sign “Not for human use” prominently posted. Naturally. Store is making some bucks off Ivermectin. Must be a big outbreak

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Testing and Establishing Sound Doctrine

Index and summaries of my articles is here: https://www.worthychristianforums.com/blogs/entry/1403-index-and-summaries-of-articles/ Testing and Establishing Sound Doctrine   7+ Steps to testing a doctrine:   1) Gather and integrate all Scriptures that appear to support it. 2) Gather all Scriptures that appear to contradict it.     3) Remove any parts of the doctrine that cannot truthfully respond to #2’s Scriptures. Be honest: avoid using vague or dubious count

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