The soul within an Aborted fetus “wakes up in hades” (the unseen realm) in neither torment or bliss, fully grown up intellectually, having free will. “He” is in hades not because he  sinned but because he never became alive in Christ. As a descendant of Adam he remained “in a state of death”. Only what is alive can be in God’s presence:

Human beings are “born dead spiritually”, they remain dead until belief in Christ, then they become alive:

For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive. (1 Cor. 15:22 NKJ)

“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life. (Jn. 5:24 NKJ)

Therefore, the aborted fetus cannot enter heaven (or the upper level of sheol, paradise, third heaven) because it is dead. What is dead descends into a  part of Hades that is “NEUTRAL”, to be judged. It is appointed all in Adam (still dead, not saved) die and then they are judged:

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment, (Heb. 9:27 RPTE)

The Gospel is preached to the dead so they can believe the gospel and choose to live according to God:

For this reason the gospel was preached also to those who are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit. (1 Pet. 4:6 NKJ)

Those who choose to live according to God are then “enveloped by the Holy Spirit” and live in a “state of sleeplike bliss” “eagerly waiting” for Christ’s second appearing when the “first resurrection” “rapture” “gathering” “rising with the church” AT Christ’s Second Coming salvation from Hades:

so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation. (Heb. 9:28 RPTE)

During their “Judgment” it was determined “those who believe the Gospel of Christ preached to them” are among “the many” Christ was offered to bear the sins for. But they cannot cross over from Hades (Lk. 16 :26) to paradise where the redeemed are with Abraham. They have to wait in the “neutral part” of Hades until Christ’s second coming, THEN the dead in Christ rise to meet Him in the air:

16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.

17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. (1 Thess. 4:16-17 NKJ)

 

What about those in the upper level of Sheol/Hades/Unseen Realm, in “third heaven/paradise/Abraham’s bosom” with Abraham and Lazarus? What of their souls? When Christ begins His second coming, He brings them with Him as He descends:

 13 But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope.

14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus.

15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep.

16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.

17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.

18 Therefore comfort one another with these words. (1 Thess. 4:13-5:1 NKJ)

 

During Christ’s parousia (“coming”) those He brough with Him and the dead in Him in Hades, rise in supernatural bodies like Christ’s. They are changed in a “twinkling of an eye”, reunited with their glorious resurrection body that is infused with life, immortality, power like the resurrection body of Christ:

 

45 And so it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

46 However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual.

47 The first man was of the earth, made of dust; the second Man is the Lord from heaven.

48 As was the man of dust, so also are those who are made of dust; and as is the heavenly Man, so also are those who are heavenly.

49 And as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man.

50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption.

51 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed–

52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

54 So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”

55 “O Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?” (1 Cor. 15:45-55 NKJ)

 

“It is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment” Hebrews 9:27

What if the Bible Teaches Both Predestination and Free Will?

Scripture says divine election is conditioned “according to the foreknowledge of God” (1 Pt. 1:2):

Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied. (1 Pet. 1:2 KJV)

Scripture also says divine election was not conditioned according to works either good or evil the Elect do:

For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth. (Rom. 9:11 KJV)

The apparent contradiction has caused controversy in the Church. John Calvin cited Paul to propose Election was by Sovereign choice and not based upon foreknowledge at all, while Jacob Arminius cited Peter to propose Election is conditioned on foreknowledge of “foreseen faith”. Both assume only two classes of people exist, the Righteous and the Unrighteous. Suppose they are wrong, suppose three classes exist: “The Righeous+The Wicked+The Middling People”?

For example, everyone assumes there are only two classes of people in this context (Mt. 25:31-46)

“And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.” (Matt. 25:46 NKJ)

Actually, Christ points to a third called: “My Brethren”

“And the King will answer and say to them,`Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.’ (Matt. 25:40 NKJ)

Paul hints there is a “third class” of People in Romans 11:5-32, who when added to the Elect become Israel’s “fullness”:

5 Even so then, at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
6 And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.
7 What then? Israel has not obtained what it seeks; but the elect have obtained it, and the rest were blinded.
8 Just as it is written: “God has given them a spirit of stupor, Eyes that they should not see And ears that they should not hear, To this very day.”
9 And David says: “Let their table become a snare and a trap, A stumbling block and a recompense to them.
10 Let their eyes be darkened, so that they do not see, and bow down their back always.”
11 I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not! But through their fall, to provoke them to jealousy, salvation has come to the Gentiles.
12 Now if their fall is riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more their fullness!(Rom. 11:5-12 NKJ)

In Revelation 3:15-16 Christ criticizes those who could be categorized as “middling people” who are neither cold or hot:

15 “I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot.
16 “So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth. (Rev. 3:15-16 NKJ)

James warns against being “double minded” who might not receive salvation from the LORD, something that could be said only about those whose fate is undetermined:

6 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind.
7 For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord;
8 he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. (Jas. 1:6-8 NKJ)

Lets assume the School of Hillel (Gamaliel, Paul the apostle Acts 22:3) is correct, that three classes of people exist on Judgment Day, which is confirmed in the book of Revelation when the “book of life” is opened so names could be written into it (Rev. 20:12) :

[I.15 A] Said R. Kruspedai said R. Yohanan, “Three books are opened [by God] on the New Year: one for the thoroughly wicked, one for the thoroughly righteous, and one for middling [people].
“The thoroughly righteous immediately are inscribed and sealed for [continued] life.
[C] “The thoroughly wicked immediately are inscribed and sealed for death.
[D] “Middling [people] are left hanging from New Year until the Day of Atonement.
[E] “If they [are found to have] merit, they are inscribed for life.
[F] “If they [are found] not [to have] merit, they are inscribed for death.”
[G] Said R. Abin, “What is the Scriptural [foundation for this]? [Ps. 69:28 states]: ‘Let them be blotted out of the book of the living. Let them not be inscribed among the righteous.’ ‘Let them be blotted out of the book’-this refers to the book of the thoroughly wicked. ‘[… of the] living’-this refers to the book of the righteous. ‘Let them not be inscribed among the righteous’-this refers to the book of middling [people].”-Neusner, J. (2011). The Babylonian Talmud: A Translation and Commentary (Vol. 6b, p. 83). Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers.

Rabbi Abin relies on unstated implications: “Let them be blotted out” implies the Book of the Thoroughly Wicked because the action is ongoing, they will never repent. “Book of the Living” lists the names of the Thoroughly Righteous. “Inscribed among the righteous” implies the Book of the Middling.

If this construct of three classes is correct, then both Arminius and Calvin were partly right. Both Predestination and Free Will are taught in scripture. Its a matter of perspective, the texts that seem to contradict one of the possitions taken, actually apply to the “middling people”.

Another way we can resolve the paradox is to infer what it was God foreknew. Then the paradox vanishes. Before the foundation of the world it follows Omniscient God had two versions of Creation in view, the “Unfallen Version” which existed only in the Mind of God, and the “Fallen Version” that actually came into existence.

If God elects according to “a condition” foreknown in the “unfallen version” (which never comes into existence), Election would be according to God’s Sovereign “good purpose and will” and free of any hint of unfairness even though it is not based upon any works of good or evil the Elect do in this life.

Before God created, in His Omniscience He experiences everyone who would come into existence, some respond to His love with love, others with hate. The “children of God” and the “children of the Devil” were fully known.

God skipped over the children of the Devil. By a special act of “foreknowledge”, God “knew before” all those who loved Him like “highlighted text” is known before surrounding dark text. And God loved them even more (cp. Rom. 11:2). [2] Therefore, before they did anything good or bad God predestined those He foreknew loved Him unto salvation, regardless what their “fallen versions” do in this fallen realm.

This is not Molinism. His view depended on the existence of “Middle Knowledge”, this view is founded in God’s “Natural Knowledge” which no one objects to.

God Omnisciently knows what every unfallen individual human would do in a particular set of circumstances, where they came to into existence knowing fully God’s love for them, and His Person. Those who responded to God’s love and Person, with love —-God predestines all things will work together for their good:

And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. (Rom. 8:28 NKJ)

Those who are called to live with God forever, according to the purpose of enjoying life with Him for all eternity, in love and holiness, enjoying life to its fullest with God—He in them, and they in Him, are selected from among all who would ever live, and predestined unto salvation.

God will not tolerate Death or Satan have the victory over one of these He foreknew are His, therefore He predestines them unto salvation.

29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30 Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.
31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?
33 Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.
34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written: “For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”
37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come,
39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Rom. 8:29-39 NKJ)

Everyone else is “undetermined”, they choose in this life whether they also will live eternally with God in love.

Those who haven’t heard the gospel of Christ, will upon death, even infants are granted the intellectually ability to understand, and those who believe Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God and trust in His sacrifice to pay for their sins, will be raised to the resurrection of life, even if they hear the gospel while in Hades, the grave:

5 They will give an account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.
6 For this reason the gospel was preached also to those who are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit. (1 Pet. 4:5-6 NKJ)

28 “Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice
29 “and come forth– those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation. (Jn. 5:28-29 NKJ)

Upon death there is a judgment, the dead hear Christ’s voice and all who obey pass over from death into life, eagerly waiting for His second appearance unto salvation:

24 For Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;
25 not that He should offer Himself often, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood of another–
26 He then would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.
27 And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment,
28 so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation. (Heb. 9:24-28 NKJ)

Predestination unto salvation is the action God took to guarantee none of His children were lost because of the Fall.

God Predestined those He foreknew would fall, unto salvation. Not based upon anything the “fallen version” were or did in this life. It was God’s good will and pleasure not to lose any of His beloved because the Fall prevented the “unfallen version” from coming into existence.

(for the children not yet being born, nor having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works but of Him who calls), (Rom. 9:11 NKJ)

4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,
5 having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will. (Eph. 1:4-5 NKJ)

8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
9 not of works, lest anyone should boast.
10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. (Eph. 2:8-10 NKJ)

Evidently it was unacceptable to God the fallen realm would corrupt so many of those He knows are His. Nor was it acceptable to refuse to create and all who would choose to love God (after He loved them first 1 Jn. 4:19) would not come into existence. Neither was tolerable.

Election unto Salvation resolved God’s dilemma. Only creatures with absolute free will, could love God freely for Who He is. If their Free Will were a farce, their “robot love” would be an abomination. Therefore, to endow free will yet permit the inevitable fall occur [or the Beloved would never exist], God had to predestine they be saved, regardless what the fall made them become.

In other words, in a fallen world few would be saved in this life. Most never hear the gospel. Many are deceived by the temptations and lies of this fallen realm and so ignore or despise what little of the gospel they heard.

Therefore, God predestines the Elect unto salvation, even if they must pass through hell first before they repent and believe in Jesus.

The torments of Hades are the “antidote” to the poison of the fall. Those torments cannot fail to bring one to their senses. Only those irrevocably set against living in God (John 17:21; Rev. 21:3, 22-23) in Holiness and light (James 1:17) will fail to repent and believe in Jesus and be saved.

But there is a penalty to pay for endowing creatures with free will. Some would choose evil. As God knew the fall was inevitable, He had to endure with much long suffering these vessels of wrath (Rom. 9:22-24).

Why didn’t God predestine everyone unto salvation? That would violate their free will. Not all in the “unfallen realm” loved God after God loved them first. Absolutely free will resulted in about a third of the angels (Rev. 12:4) choosing evil. The analogy implies a third of humanity reject God’s love also. They love evil. Forcing them into a relationship would be an evil act. Forcing them against their will, is antithetical to God’s character.

Everyone has every opportunity to choose life and join the Elect. That is required by the presence of names in the Book of Life that are not “The Elect”:

“He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life; but I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels. (Rev. 3:5 NKJ)

The promise is a fraud if the name cannot be blotted out from the Book of Life. Therefore, this is not spoken to the Elect whose names cannot be blotted out. Elected before they did good or bad (Rom. 9:11) their names were written “before the foundation of the world” (Rev. 13:8; 17:8; Eph. 1:4). As they are predestined unto salvation (Rom. 8:29) they overcome.

Therefore, names can exist in the Book of life that are not “Elect”, the “undetermined” could be written in or blotted out. They have free will choice and equal chance to be saved with the Elect. For example, the names of the wicked men chasing David potentially could be written in the book of life. David asks God blot their names out so that doesn’t happen:

May they be blotted out of the book of life, And may they not be recorded with the righteous. (Ps. 69:28 NAS)

An Aramaic Psalms Targum explains how some ancients understood this verse:

Give iniquity for their iniquity, and let them not be purified to enter the assembly of your righteous ones. (Ps. 69:28 PST)

The Book of Life has the names of the Elect and potentially the undetermined (who could choose to go either way). The latter are judged according to their works (Rev. 20:13,15), which determines which books their names appear in on Judgment Day.

God is “longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance” (2 Pet. 3:9 NKJ). If the “undetermined” do what is right, their names won’t be blotted out from the Book of Life.

14 “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
15 “that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.
16 “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
17 “For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19 “And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20 “For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.
21 “But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.” (Jn. 3:14-21 NKJ)

11 For there is no partiality with God.
12 For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law, and as many as have sinned in the law will be judged by the law
13 (for not the hearers of the law are just in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be justified. (Rom. 2:11-13 NKJ)

And if you call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves throughout the time of your stay here in fear (1 Pet. 1:17 NKJ)

Unfortunately, when Paul affirmed “there is no unrighteousness with God” (Rom. 9:14) he assumed readers accepted that premise without question. That all would discern God never subverted Pharaoh’s free will. Pharaoh hardened his own heart. God orchestrated events that enabled Pharaoh’s free will manifest itself, but never subverted it.

God hardened Pharaoh’s heart (Ex. 7:3) by permitting Satan work deceiving wonders (Ex. 7:11-13) that strengthened Pharaoh’s free will choice to resist God. No “hardening energy” went from God to Pharaoh to make him choose evil. That was entirely Pharaoh’s choice, but orchestrated events led to Pharaoh being ruler over God’s people and his choice to resist God be actualized. God did not cause Pharoah to attack God’s people, he chose to do that on his own. Compare what this verse says about a different attack:

Indeed they shall surely assemble, but not because of Me. Whoever assembles against you shall fall for your sake. (Isa. 54:15 NKJ)

If any nation comes to fight you, it is not because I sent them. Whoever attacks you will go down in defeat. (Isa. 54:15 NLT)

“Their eyes THEY have closed”

For the hearts of this people have grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, And their eyes they have closed, Lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, So that I should heal them.’ (Matt. 13:15 NKJ)

As everything requires Sovereign God’s permission to occur, it can be said “God sends the energy of delusion”, but in context God stops restraining the energy of spiritism that is deceiving Satan’s children [like Pharoah was deceived] so they can do the evil they freely desire to do:

6 And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time.
7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way.
8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming.
9 The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders,
10 and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie,
12 that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. (2 Thess. 2:6-12 NKJ)

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[1]
4268 πρόγνωσις prognosis
Meaning: 1) foreknowledge 2) forethought, pre-arrangement-Strong’s Concordance

QUESTION—What is meant by πρόγνωσιν ‘foreknowledge/predestination’?
1. It refers to what is known beforehand [LN; KJV, NAB, NIV, REB]: he chose you in accordance with what he knew beforehand. It is the personal intimacy of a loving father, not just a knowledge of facts [TNTC]. It speaks of a relationship that has its origin in God himself [NIC].-Abernathy, D. (2008). An Exegetical Summary of 1 Peter (2nd ed., p. 13). Dallas, TX: SIL International.

[2]
4267 προγινώσκω proginosko

The church has debated what the “foreknowledge” of God is since Augustine and I believe they missed Paul uses “foreknew” in Romans 8:29 in the same way he does in Romans 11:2. Perhaps they didn’t correctly quantify God’s Omniscience, He knows all things without the act of foreknowledge. He is Infinite, all spacetime is in Him, including what is future. Nothing exists apart from God, including the future.

29 For whom He foreknew (4267 προγινώσκω proginosko), He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. (Rom. 8:29 NKJ)

2 God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew (4267 προγινώσκω proginosko). Or do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel, saying, (Rom. 11:2 NKJ)

The sense of “foreknew” (4267 προγινώσκω proginosko) in Romans 11:2 is found Romans 8:29, its knowing a selection of people “before others”:
Sense: to foreknow (personally) – to befriend or be acquainted with someone in a familiar way ahead of time or before meeting; implying an exclusivity of choice relative to those not befriended-Bible Sense Lexicon, Logos Bible Software

QUESTION—In what sense is the verb προγινώσκω ‘know beforehand’ used here?
… Before the foundation of the world God knew them intimately and chose them [NICNT, NTC], or loved them specially and chose them [Ho].…The knowing here has the Hebraic sense of a relationship experienced and acknowledged [WBC]. God knew and loved them beforehand [Mu, St].-Abernathy, D. (2008). An Exegetical Summary of Romans 1–8 (2nd ed., p. 560). Dallas, TX: SIL International.

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34 All these things Jesus spoke to the multitude in parables; and without a parable He did not speak to them,
35 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: “I will open My mouth in parables; I will utter things kept secret from the foundation of the world.” (Matt. 13:34-35 NKJ)

When Jesus asserted Messianic authority, the Pharisees derided Him. Jesus warns ‘the Law and the Prophets were until John’, after that everyone pressing into the Kingdom accepts His authority:

13 “No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.”
14 Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they derided Him.
15 And He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly esteemed among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
16 “The law and the prophets were until John. Since that time the kingdom of God has been preached, and everyone is pressing into it. (Lk. 16:13-16 NKJ)

Jesus prophesied the Pharisees would reject His teaching against adultery with mammon and end up in hell, even though Lazarus would return from the dead to warn them:

9 Now a great many of the Jews knew that He was there; and they came, not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might also see Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead.
10 But the chief priests plotted to put Lazarus to death also,
11 because on account of him many of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus. (Jn. 12:9-11 NKJ)

Therefore, the parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus is prophetic, a revelation about the afterlife the Pharisees were certain to experience:

19 “There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day.
20 “But there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, full of sores, who was laid at his gate,
21 “desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table. Moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
22 “So it was that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried.
23 “And being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
24 “Then he cried and said, `Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.’
25 “But Abraham said, `Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted and you are tormented.
26 `And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot, nor can those from there pass to us.’
27 “Then he said, `I beg you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house,
28 `for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, lest they also come to this place of torment.’
29 “Abraham said to him, `They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.’
30 “And he said, `No, father Abraham; but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’
31 “But he said to him, `If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rise from the dead.'” (Lk. 16:19-31 NKJ)

A prophetic warning to repent must be literal, or the warning becomes mere comedy. But does “retributive justice” exhaust the symbolism of this parable, or does it imply there is hope the unsaved dead ?

Ask yourself, aren’t Abraham and Lazarus “on the Lord’s side” completely supporting God’s retributive justice? (Exod. 32:26-27) How is it they want to cross the gulf and comfort the Rich Man? (Lk. 15:26) As that would be rebellion against God’s judgment, the rich man’s torment must have another purpose than “retributive justice”. It must have as its goal the possible redemption of the Rich Man.

22 “So it was that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried.
23 “And being in torments (931 βάσανος basanos) in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
24 “Then he cried and said, `Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented (3600 ὀδυνάω odunao) in this flame (5395 φλόξ phlox).’
25 “But Abraham said, `Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted (3870 παρακαλέω parakaleo) and you are tormented (3600 ὀδυνάω odunao). (Lk. 16:22-25 NKJ)

If the “torment” (3600 ὀδυνάω odunao) is the classic idea of hell-fire, the Rich Man would ask for a lot more than a little water to cool his tongue. Odunao here refers to mental anguish (Luke 2:48; 16:25; Acts 20:38). Its antithesis is parakaleo ‘to be consoled for sorrow’ like Lazarus (Lk. 16:25).

Christ chose the word “torment” (931 βάσανος basanos) to describe the Torment in Hades:

Meaning: 1) a touchstone, which is a black siliceous stone used to test the purity of gold or silver by the colour of the streak produced on it by rubbing it with either metal 2) the rack or instrument of torture by which one is forced to divulge the truth.-Strong’s Concordance

This “torment” is the kind that brings truth to the surface, resulting in “anguish” and “sorrow” (3600 ὀδυνάω odunao cp. Acts 20:38) for sin. The imagery of purging from sin is common in the Old Testament (Zech. 13:9; Ps. 51:7; 66:10; Isa. 1:25; 4:4; 6:7; 48:10; Ezek. 24:13; Dan. 11:35):

2 “But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner’s fire And like launderer’s soap.
3 He will sit as a refiner and a purifier of silver; He will purify the sons of Levi, And purge them as gold and silver, That they may offer to the LORD An offering in righteousness. (Mal. 3:2-3 NKJ)

In Luke 16:24 the “flame” (5395 φλόξ phlox) causes the “agony” or “anguish” (3600 ὀδυνάω odunao). The Rich Man is being purged (Mal. 3:3; Job 23:10; Zech. 13:9 cp. 1 Pet. 1:7) by the “flame of God’s inspection”: “His eyes like a flame” (Rev. 1:14; 2:18; 19:12). The “flame” is the “visible aspect of a fire that springs upward and is usually orange”(Logos Bible Sense Lexicon). God is revealed in the “flame” (Ex. 3:2; Judges 13:20; Isa. 66:15 LXX; Acts 7:30; 2 Thess. 1:8).

The “torments of Hades” are designed to bring the true person to the surface, liberate their free will from all bondage to sin and delusion. After suffering for their sins “judged according to men in the flesh” , if they choose to believe the gospel preached to them in Hades they will “live according to God in the Spirit” apart from any torment (1 Pet. 4:6), eagerly waiting for the Second Coming of Christ when they will rise with the dead in Christ (Heb. 9:27-28) [2]:

6 For this reason the gospel was preached also to those who are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit. (1 Pet. 4:6 NKJ)

[Compare the similar wording in 1 Peter 3:18 θανατωθεὶς μὲν σαρκί, ζῳοποιηθεὶς δὲ πνεύματι “put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit”. This implies the “trial/judgment/torment” in hades ends” when they repent and “live according to God in the Spirit” (ζῶσιν δὲ κατὰ θεὸν πνεύματι). Their “spirit” quickened is now abiding surrounded by the Holy Spirit (Compare ἐν ᾧ καὶ “in which also” 1 Pet. 3:19) shielded from any torments.]

After death is a trial, a judgement, so Christ was offered to bear their sins to make possible they pass the Trial by believing the gospel preached to the dead (1 Pet. 6:4) and then eagerly wait for Christ’s return, for salvation.

27 And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment,[1]
28 so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation. (Heb. 9:27-28 NKJ)

Context confirms the torments in Hades have redemption in view. The Rich Man is clearly sorrowful. He has Christian like concern for his family, that they not end up like he. Moreover, the redeemed in heaven want to comfort the Rich Man (Lk. 16:26), but that would be out of place if he were irredeemably wicked and was being punished eternally for sin. That would be rebellion against God’s judgment (compare: Deut. 19:21).

If the Rich Man knew his torment was eternal, if he were irredeemably wicked the entire conversation is irrational. Its much more likely he would curse God and Abraham and everyone else. Therefore, his rational demeanor, his concern for his family are consistent with his still having hope for future relief.

Finally, it follows from God’s love for humanity (John 3:16) Hades is among the “all things work together for good to them that love God” (Rom. 8:28) because the majority of these would be eternally lost if postmortem evangelization does not occur. Hades is an “intermediate state” before the final judgment; therefore its logical purpose is re-education, not judgment. If that is not so, from whence these who rise from Hades to a resurrection of life?

28 “Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice
29 “and come forth– those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation. (Jn. 5:28-29 NKJ)

13 The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them…
15 And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire. (Rev. 20:13-15 NKJ)

John is viewing this terrifying event and observes only those NOT written in the book of life were cast into the Lake of Fire. For John to know that, he had to see those who WERE written in the book of life and notice they were NOT cast into the Lake of Fire.[4]

That fits the scripture revealing God is in Hades, no doubt to save as many as He can:

If I ascend into heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there.(Ps. 139:8 NKJ)

And he said: “I cried out to the LORD because of my affliction, And He answered me. “Out of the belly of Sheol I cried, And You heard my voice. (Jon. 2:2 NKJ)

18 You have ascended on high, You have led captivity captive; You have received gifts among men, Even from the rebellious, That the LORD God might dwell there.
19 Blessed be the Lord, Who daily loads us with benefits, The God of our salvation! Selah
20 Our God is the God of salvation; And to GOD the Lord belong escapes from death. (Ps. 68:18-20 NKJ)

Upon repentance and belief in Jesus Christ, it follows torment in Hades ends once God’s anger for sin is turned away (Isa. 12:1-2; 54:8; Ps. 30:5; 126:5).

The purpose of Hell is to liberate those who are slaves to sin, restoring their free will so they can choose life in Christ rather than eternal death. Having been “judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit” (1 Pet. 4:6), compare the similar wording in 1 Peter 3:18 θανατωθεὶς μὲν σαρκί, ζῳοποιηθεὶς δὲ πνεύματι “put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit”. This implies the “trial/judgment/torment” in hades ends”[3] when they repent and “live according to God in the Spirit” (ζῶσιν δὲ κατὰ θεὸν πνεύματι). Their “spirit” quickened and now abiding in the sphere of the Holy Spirit (Ps. 139:8; Jonah 2:2). Now that their “judgment” ended they eagerly wait for the return of Christ (Heb. 9:27-28) when their “spirit will be saved in the Day of the lord Jesus (cp. 1 Cor. 5:5) either rising with all the dead on Judgment Day (Jn. 5:28-29; Rev. 20:13; Da. 12:2) or at His coming. [2]

In other words, once ‘judged according to men in the flesh, they live according to God in the Spirit’ (1 Pet. 4:6; Psa. 86:13; 139:8; Jonah 2:2). Although they remain in Hades (Luke 16:26), when they repent and believe the gospel preached they live according to God in His Spirit apart from torments eagerly waiting for the Return of Christ (1 Pet. 4:6; Heb. 9:27-28; 1 Cor. 5:5; 1 Thess. 4:15-18). Like Lazarus they are in a restful state.

Confirming repentance and eventual salvation is possible for the elect in Hades, Jews who died enemies of the Gospel are still God’s Elect (Rom. 11:28) He will not forsake (Rom. 11:1). God’s election to predestination (Rom. 8:29), the gifts and calling of God; are irrevocable (Rom. 11:29). Although they died enemies of the Gospel (Rom. 11:28), and so judged according to men in the flesh, they can choose to live according to God in the Spirit (1 Pet. 4:6), eagerly waiting (Heb. 9:28) for their Deliverer:

26 And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer will come out of Zion, And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;
27 For this is My covenant with them, When I take away their sins.”
28 Concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but concerning the election they are beloved for the sake of the fathers.
29 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. (Rom. 11:26-29 NKJ)

When God’s mercy and love, His righteous judgments are made manifest, all the earth will see His glory and cry out:

Who shall not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy. For all nations shall come and worship before You, For Your judgments have been manifested.” (Rev. 15:4 NKJ)

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[1]

27 Καὶ καθ᾽ ὅσον ἀπόκειται τοῖς ἀνθρώποις ἅπαξ ἀποθανεῖν, μετὰ δὲ τοῦτο κρίσις·
28 οὕτως καὶ ὁ χριστός, ἅπαξ προσενεχθεὶς εἰς τὸ πολλῶν ἀνενεγκεῖν ἁμαρτίας (Heb. 9:27-28
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The article doesn’t appear before krisis so this does not refer to “the Judgment” before the Great White Throne (Rev. 20:11). The parallel with humans is elegance with a twist. Both Christ and humans were appointed to die once for sins. His death is a sacrifice for our sins, while our death for our sins. The Divine “determination” or “Judgment” is we bear their cost in Hades, but the Divine “determination” for Christ’s sacrifice is He became our Redeemer who takes away the sins of the many who repent and “live according to God in the Spirit” (1 Pet. 4:6). That is why these human dead eagerly wait in Hades for the coming of Christ a second time apart from sins when He will raise them from the dead in Salvation:

so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation. (Heb. 9:28 NKJ)

[2]
It is possible those who died and repented before Christ’s Second Coming rise with the church (Consistent with the precedence set in 1 Pet. 3:18-22; Eph. 4:8 compare 1 Thess. 4:13-18); but its possible they must wait until Judgment Day (Dan. 12:2; John 5:28-29; Rev. 20:11-15; Compare Luke 16:26 but see Mt. 19:26). Perhaps the most likely scenario is a combination, those who repented before Christ’s coming rise with the Church’s dead at His coming, those who repent after rising on Judgment Day. That is consistent with all these scriptures. As for the wicked who die during the Millennial Kingdom, including those with Gog and Magog (Rev. 20:7-9), they die “accursed” (Isa. 65:20) and so rise to a resurrection of condemnation.

[3]
Objections have been raised on two grounds. 1) Faith in Christ is a gift and not a “work” (Eph 2:8-9); 2) There is no work possible in Hell (Eccl. 9:10).

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (Heb. 11:1 NKJ)

1). Faith without “seeing” “the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Heb. 11:1) is materially different than faith in what one sees (John 20:29). Christ calls those having faith in Him because they saw Him “a work” therefore those obeying Christ’s preaching in Hades can be saved:

28 Then they said to Him, “What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?”
29 Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.” (Jn. 6:28-29 NKJ)

2). No works in the grave like building houses, making money or getting married or any of the other works related to the “vanities of life”. This scripture does NOT rule out all works in the grave:

9 Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your vain life which He has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity; for that is your portion in life, and in the labor which you perform under the sun.
10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work or device or knowledge or wisdom in the grave where you are going (Eccl. 9:9-10 NKJ)

[4]

And if any (εἴ τις) was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire. (Rev. 20:15 ASV)

James Boyer incorrectly includes Revelation 20:15 εἴ τις (if any) in his “Corpus of First Class Conditions in the NT” discussing its use in discourse:

If the first class condition states or implies the actual truth, then it could not possibly be used by Christ to say, “If [or according to this view, since] I by Beelzebub cast out demons…(Matt 12:27), nor “Since I do not do the deeds of my father…” (John 10:37), nor “Since I have spoken evil…” (John 18:23). Paul could not have written “Since there is no resurrection…” (1 Cor 15:13), nor “Since Christ is not raised…” (1 Cor 15:14). These are not isolated, peculiar examples; they represent 12% of all the first class conditions in the NT. It is simply not true that first conditions indicate the external objective truth or reality of the condition.-First Class Conditions: What Do They Mean?”(Grace Theological Journal Vol 2, p.75)

Revelation 20:15 isn’t discussion, it is a prose report of what is being seen by John. This is NOT a conditional argument, John is reporting what he saw as a statement of fact. Therefore, when John notices “if any was not found written in the book of life he was cast into the lake of fire” it implies some raised from Hades were written in the book of life and therefore not cast into the lake of fire. Why express it negatively? Whether the multitude of Gog and Magog (Rev. 20:8-9) are judged first (cp. Mt. 20:16) or last, the impression of so many not written in the book of life and cast into the lake of fire would be searing, set the tone for the entire horror.

God’s Plan for the Lost
Elect Rise From Hell On Judgment Day?
Preaching to the Dead (Postmortem Evangelism)
Does the Lake of Fire Symbolize Eternal Torment for all cast into it?
Jesus Preached to the Dead
What did the apostle John reveal when he said: “It is the last hour”?
Where Is The Judgment Of Fallen Angels?
The Origin of Satan and Demons
The Coming False Christ and His Followers Revealed

 

In the End Time God’s lifts His restraint completely, permitting Satan’s angels (the Nephilim; the “Fallen Ones”) to once again walk among men physically as they did in the Days of Noah (Gen. 6:4; Rev. 12:4, 7-9) and do great signs and wonders deceiving mankind to believe “ancient alien theory” and unite humanity against Christ (Rev. 16:13-14, 16) .

The sign of Israel’s regathering (Luke 21:24) coincided with a spectacular rise in UFO events that confirm this is the End Time. Luis “Lue” Elizondo former head of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), the Pentagon unit that researched UFOs now known as Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) reports a nonhuman body was recovered from a UFO crash.

Several of the senior officials I worked with eventually told me that when one of my colleagues worked at the CIA some decades earlier, he was given an official report/autopsy of the dissection of a nonhuman body that was recovered from an unspecified crashed UAP. This colleague asked me not to use his name. The report stated that the brain had no convolutions (the wrinkled exterior portion of the brain). Rather, what was described was a smooth surface, similar to lower-functioning animals here on earth. It also described a conjoined gut and liver, and a three-chambered heart, like reptiles. The author of the autopsy came to the conclusion the cadaver did not appear to have the requisite brain capacity to design and create aircraft capable of such stunning maneuverability. It was postulated that it might be some sort of biological automaton, created by something else with a greater intellect.-Elizondo, Luis. Imminent: Inside the Pentagon’s Hunt for UFOs: the Former Head of the Program Responsible for Investigating UAPs Reveals Profound Secrets (p. 114). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.

Although this conclusion of lower intelligence was later disputed, no evidence came forth to disprove the original conclusion.

Satan has successfully deceived the planet extraterrestrials are active on earth. To corrupt the two main Christian nations Britain and America (the beast government with two horns led by a false prophet ruler), Satan created semi-intelligent drones to pilot the “ufo ships” that “accidentally” crash on earth. This stratagem not only corrupts Christian nations destroying their faith in God, it ensures “alien technology” will be available when the Antichrist arrives to subdue to earth.

11 Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon.
12 And he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence, and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
13 He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. (Rev. 13:11-13 NKJ)

Satan has the power to produce semi-intelligent life forms. During the Exodus when God sent Moses to command the children of Israel be freed, God caused Aaron’s rod to become a serpent to prove Moses was under His command. However, Satan was able to duplicate that miracle, transforming plant life into reptilian life which caused Pharoah to harden his heart and refuse to let them go:

9 “When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying,`Show a miracle for yourselves,’ then you shall say to Aaron,`Take your rod and cast it before Pharaoh, and let it become a serpent.'”
10 So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and they did so, just as the LORD commanded. And Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a serpent.
11 But Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers; so the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments.
12 For every man threw down his rod, and they became serpents. But Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods. (Exod. 7:9-12 NKJ)

Just as God chose a miracle be done before Pharoah that He knew Satan could duplicate—thus “sending Pharoah the strong delusion” resistance was possible (Ex. 9:12-16), so also God removes all restraint on Satan’s power so he will successfully deceive the Earth “ancient alien theory” is true.

All who reject the truth of the Bible taking pleasure in unrighteousness will be deceived (2 Thess. 2:9-12). God lets them have what they chose. He stops restraining anything that would prevent their filling up the full measure of their sin lest their punishment be less than they deserve.

The only true “Disclosure” of the UFO spectacle takes place in the pages of Scripture. Satan’s plan is to destroy as much of mankind as he can in his final act of hatred for God.

7 And war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought,
8 but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer.
9 So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
…
12 …Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has a short time.”- (Rev. 12:7-12 NKJ)

“Alien Technology” has totally corrupted the Congressional Industrial Military Complex, it has become super rich selling “advanced alien technology, beyond their wildest dreams. Although Satan has convinced most the phenomena and technology are “extraterrestrial”, there will be a time when its Satanic origins will be revealed (Dan. 9:27; Mt. 24:15; 2 Th. 2:3-4; Rev. 13:5-6). Dwellers of the earth will be convinced Satan, his demon Kings of the East together with the earth’s armies can defeat the “jealous extraterrestrial Elohim Yehovah God at Armageddon, liberating the earth so it can advance in knowledge and ascend to immortal life.”

12 Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, so that the way of the kings from the east might be prepared.
13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs coming out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
14 For they are spirits of demons, performing signs, which go out to the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
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And they gathered them together to the place called in Hebrew, Armageddon. (Rev. 16:12-16 NKJ)

True Disclosure occurs only in the Holy Scriptures. Only those who believe it realize how badly the earth is being manipulated by Satan, not only through corporate media, big Tech, crony capitalists, but also by demonic telepathic suggestion.

https://endtimenews.net/the-origin-of-satan-and-demons/

https://endtimenews.net/nephilim/

https://endtimenews.net/satan-and-demons-use-telepathic-deception-to-deceive-the-entire-earth/

https://endtimenews.net/ancient-aliens/

 

When the First Seal is opened (Rev. 6:2) the First Half of End-Time “Week” of 7 Years (= 84 months; 2,520 days) begins:

A disclaimer: I am a Cessationist, a believer in the sufficiency of Scripture (sola scriptura). Not one word of this is “thus saith the Lord prophecy”. I pray its correct so believers know God did reveal these things in the Holy Scriptures, well before they happened, and they should trust Scripture completely, the only source of divine truth always 100% correct (2 Tim. 3:16-17). If I didn’t get it right, someone else will.

If you hover your mouse over a Bible reference the Scripture will appear in a pop up. If you click the Bracketed Item Number, it will take you to additional information on the item. Mouse click the number to go back to list. This blog is unfinished, check back for updates.

The featured Image is from “Stars Wars” franchise character Sheev Palpatine who rises from humble beginnings to become “Chancellor” of the Empire, but then morphs into “Darth Sidious” a demonic “Sith Lord”. That transition is very similar to the coming “Man of Sin”/”False Christ” who rises from humble Assyrian origins to become the “lions mouth” “Chancellor” “Prince” of the Revived Grecian Roman Empire (Rev. 13:2; Dan. 9:26) and at mid-week morphs into the “pompous mouth” “Desolator” (Rev. 13:5; Dan. 9:27) demonic “Son of Destruction” Antichrist (2 Thess. 2:3-4; 1 John 2:18). It is unknown whether his physical appearance will reflect the change as in “Star Wars”.

Scholars have questioned why John’s Four riders in the apocalypse (Rev. 6:1-8) don’t include the end-time “earthquakes” Jesus included in His list of end-time signs (Mt. 24:7; Mk. 13:8; Lk. 21:11). The reason is, Satan doesn’t cause the earthquakes that result naturally from “plate tectonics”. The first four riders symbolize Satanic activity inspiring the False Christ, war, famine and plague designed to overwhelm the earth’s ability to cope with existential crisis so it accepts the Dragon’s radical solutions for global peace and safety enabling the first rider the “False Christ” “conquer” the earth; that otherwise would have been rejected by many nations and viewed with great distrust and suspicion.

Just before End-Time Week Begins

[001] The Apostasy “comes first” before End Time “Week” of 7 Years. 2 Thess. 2:3
[002] God’s Restraint on Satanic Deception Removed 2 Thess. 2:6-7

The First Half of End-Time “Week” (=3.5 Years; 42 months; 1260 days)

[003] First Seal: Rider on White Horse False Christ (aka Man of Sin; Lawless One) Matt. 24:4-5; Rev. 6:2; 2 Thess. 2:3, 8
[004] Daily Sacrifice to Christ ends when Church receives “Man of Sin” as “The Christ”. Dan. 12:11; 2 Thess. 2:3-4
[005] First Trumpet: Hail and fire mixed with blood signify judgment for Apostasy, a third of Christendom’s Leaders and all their Followers eternally destroyed spiritually Rev. 8:7.
[006] Second Trumpet: The Destroying Mountain is the New King of Babylon the False Christ who leads the church into further apostasy and the world into worship of the Dragon spiritually killing another third of Christendom. Rev. 8:8
[007] False Christ (Man of Sin) makes Jerusalem his base of operations Luke 21:20
[008] God’s Two Witnesses Moses and Elijah appear preaching in Jerusalem 1260 days restoring hearts back to God Rev. 11:3-6.
[009] Lady Zion true Church flees into wilderness for 1,260 days separating herself from the apostates Rev. 12:6.
[010] Holy Spirit Poured out on Church: “Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your young men shall see visions, Your old men shall dream dreams.” Acts 2:17 Rev. 11:1-4.
[011] 144,000 Israelites Born Again Rev. 7:3-8.
[012] Satan the Serpent spews out river of demonic activity (Rev. 12:15-16) the energia of Satan (2 Thess. 2:9) hoping to carry away the church into idolatry but the apostates trampling the outer courtyard (Rev. 11:2) greedily swallow up the foul water.
[013] Seal Two: Rider on Red Horse Wars and Rumors of wars; People hate each other for differences of opinion Matt. 24:6-7; Rev. 6:3-4
[014] Seal Three: Rider on Black Horse = Famine Rev. 6:5-6 Often caused by Earthquakes Mat. 24:7.
[015] Seal Four: Rider on Pale Horse = Pestilence Rev. 6:8 Often caused by Earthquakes Mat. 24:7.
[016] War in heaven, Michael and angels cast Satan and Nephilim Fallen angels out of heaven Rev. 12:7-12.
[017] Satan and angels appear on earth (Rev. 12:9-12) As Frog-like Extraterrestrials (Rev. 16:13-14) led by Dragon Satan claiming to be the Elohim designers of life on Earth.
[018] “Ancient Alien Theory” is the inspired “Big Lie:” that is used to unite the world against Christ at Armageddon Rev. 16:13-16.
[019] Satan blasphemes Yehovah God as Jealous Extraterrestrial who does not want humans to progress in knowledge and achieve immortality. [Deduced from UFO cult “Experiencers”]
[020] Satan promises peace and safety from wars famines and pestilence plaguing the earth an Extinction level event. 1 Thess. 5:3
[021] Third Trumpet: The arrival of the Dragon Commander and his UFO fleet caused global acceptance of Ancient Alien Theory spiritually killing the last third of Christendom eternally. Rev. 8:10-11
[022] Miracle Working False Christ Man who condones every sin and lawlessness subtly adopts “ancient alien theory” preached by Satan denying the Father and the Son 1 John 2:18-22
[023] Globalist ecstasy: Dragon/Elohim demand New World Order=7 head 10 horn revived Grecian Roman Empire; They back election of Man of Sin False Christ Adonikam as its “Chancellor” Rev. 13:1-4
[024] Revived Grecian Roman Empire rises from the sea” to become The New World Order And the “Man of Sin” False Christ is its Chancellor Rev. 6:2; 13:1-2
[025] Times and Law of Human Society changes as global belief in God vanishes Dan. 7:25; Rev. 12:9
[026] All the world’s religions join the NWO. Mother of Harlots Babylon the Great rides Grecian Empire Beast (Dan. 9:27; Rev. 17)
[027] Fourth Trumpet: One third of sun moon stars darkened signifying horrific calamity will befall the third of the earth that is apostate Christendom
[028] Lady Zion flees into Religious Babylon for political and legal protection against haters of the True Christian Church Micah 4:10
[029] Ancient literal city of Babylon has its head wound healed and is Rebuilt using wonderous “alien technology”. To become Capitol of 7 head 10 horn Beast empire Rev. 13:3

Five Months before Mid-Week begins

[030] Fifth Trumpet: Bioship locusts possessed by spirits of demons are released from Abyss to physically torment apostates who want to follow the False Christ as he morphs into the Son of Destruction Beast but are too slow to commit in time. They are tormented five months, so they completely reveal themselves. Rev. 9:1-11

Last Half of End Time Seven Year Week Begins (3.5 years; 42 months; 1,260 days)

[031] Man of Sin morphs into abomination of Desolation Son of Destruction Seed of Satan Antichrist. Declares himself God in Temple of God the Church breaking covenant with world’s religions Dan. 9:27
[032] Emperor Adonikam becomes the pompous mouth given to the Beast Empire and he will rule for 42 months blaspheming Yehovah God and His angels (Mt. 24:15; Dan. 7:8, 11, 25; 9:27; Rev. 13:5-8)
[033] The Tares: sign and wonder working Christians remain loyal to Judas Man of Sin as he betrays all belief in God. They begin leaving the Church denying both The Father and The Son 1 John 2:18-23
[034] Moses and Elijah are slain by Adonikam the Beast. Resurrected 3.5 days later they ascend into heaven. (Rev. 11:7-12) Tribulation Martyrdom of the Church begins
[035] Power of God’s Holy People shattered completely (Dan. 12:7) Lady Zion comes out of Babylon Rev. 18:4; Jer. 51:45-50
[036] Jerusalem is surrounded by the Beasts Armies. Christians flee Jerusalem to the mountains. Lk. 21:20-23 in dual fulfillment in 1st and 21ST century
[037] The Ten King Political Supporters of “Emperor” Adonikam Destroy the Religious Harlot Babylon, her services no longer required Rev 17:16-17; 18:6-8)
[038] Times and Law Changed: Earth now convinced God is an Extraterrestrial: Almost everyone hates religion, and join the destruction of Babylon the Harlot Rev. 18:5-8
[039] Adonikam The little horn Beast “King of the North” rewards and punishes nations as if he were god. Dan. 11:36-39
[040] Russia, Iran, Turkey and allies reject NWO defying Emperor Adonikam the Beast; They Nuke rebuilt Babylon the literal city Jer. 50:2-3, 9-13; 39- 42; 51:27-29, 47-48
[041] The destruction of both religious and rebuilt Babylon causes worldwide depression Rev. 18:8-18
[042] Britain and America two horned Beast unite under False Prophet to aid the Beast whose Empire wounded when the literal city of Babylon destroyed. Rev. 13:11-12
[043] Russia, Iran, Turkey and allies end their rebellion against
[044] Britain and America deceive world to create Artificial Intelligence Neuralinked with Adonikam in 666 Mark Membership controlled economy to manage earth’s scarce resources. Rev. 13:14
[045] Quantum Computing Image of the Beast is “alive” able to defend itself and gives Beast “god-like” ability to see and hear everything through connected devices. Rev. 13:15-16

1,290 days

[046] It takes 30 days to set up Abomination of Desolation Artificial Intelligence to control earths resources Networked to Antichrist. 1,290 days counting from week start. Dan. 12:11
[047] Great Tribulation intensifies for all who refuse the Mark of the Beast Rev. 14:13 Church nearly wiped out. Rev. 13:9-10; 14:12- 13
[048] Many arise claiming “here is the Christ, or there”. False Christ and False Prophets show great signs and wonders that almost deceive the elect. Matt. 24:24-27
[049] Fifth Seal: Souls appear under Altar of God in heaven and ask “How Long until our blood is avenged?” Rev. 6:9-11
[050] Angel Hackers preach the everlasting Gospel on the World Wide Web Mid-Heaven defeating its security saying “Fear God and give glory to Him” Rev. 14:6-7
[051] Another angel follows saying “Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all the earth drunk on spiritism. Rev. 14:7
[052] Third Angel says with Loud Voice: If anyone worships the beast and receives his mark, they will suffer eternal torment. Rev. 14:9-11

1,335 days

[053] 12 Here is the patience of the saints; here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. 13 Then I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, “Write: `Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.'” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, and their works follow them.” (Rev. 14:12-13 NKJ)m 12 “Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days. (Dan. 12:12 NKJ)
[054] Angel on White Cloud Appears Church Raptured (Rev. 14:14-16) Blessed is he who endured to the end (Dan. 12:12; Mat. 24:13)
[055] Two in Field, one taken in Rapture the other left to become food for vultures Mt. 24:21-31; Lk. 17:26-37; Rev. 19:13-21

Remainder of last half of End-Time Week

[056] Sixth Trumpet: Second Woe: Demonic cavalry literally kill the third of the earth that once professed Christianity. God punishes those who took Mark of the Beast Rev. 9:12-21
[057] The Sun will be darkened and the moon not give its light for the Day of the LORD is near! Mt. 24:29; Isa. 13:10-13
[058] Star Wars: Powers of the heavens shaken, principalities and powers war. Satan’s Elohim fleet falls from heaven Mat. 24:27; Isa. 24:21; Rev. 6:12-13
[059] Seventh Trumpet: Flashes forward to 2,300 days when celebration in Heaven give thanks for God for taking His great power and reigning, by pouring out seven bowls that bring certain victory Rev.10:7; 11:15-19; 15:1-4. Faith in God vindicated Dan. 8:14, 26
[060] First Bowl: Foul and loathsome sores appear on all having the mark of the Beast, and those who worshiped his image Rev. 16:2
[061] Second Bowl: Sea becomes foul blood of a dead man. Every living thing in the sea dies Rev. 16:3
[062] Third Bowl: Rivers and springs become blood to drink. Rev. 16:4-7
[063] Fourth Bowl: Solar flares scorch earthlings with fire and this caused them to blaspheme “the Extraterrestrial” Yehovah God for having the power over these plagues, but they did not repent and give Him glory. Rev. 16:8-9
[064] Fifth Bowl: Poured out on Throne of Beast and it became full of darkness, nothing pleasing to see. Beast followers gnaw their togues because of the pain. Rev. 16:10
[065] God’s power over the heavens so evidently greater than Satan and Beast forces blasphemy is now against “the God of the Heavens” begrudgingly confessing there are none like Him in power. Rev. 16:11
[066] The King of the South Egypt and allies sensing weakness, revolt against the Beast. Dan. 11:40
[067] The armies of the Beast “King of the North” flood into the Middle East overthrowing Egypt’s rebellion completely taking possession of all its riches. Egypt’s former allies are lap dogs at his heels. Dan. 11:40-43
[068] Gog and Magog sensing weakness attack the Beast forces in Israel flooding into the North swarming on the mountains of Israel Ezek. 38:2-13; 39:1-2
[069] Enraged the Beast prepares to attack Gog and Magog (Dan. 11:44-45) but Yehovah God so powerfully destroys Gog and Magog’s forces on the mountains of Israel and even in the coastlands where they felt secure, the Terror of the LORD overwhelms the earth. Ezek. 38:14-23; 39:1-7
[070] Jesus Christ who is The Word of God Yehovah God the Eternal Son, also dissolved Gog and Magog ravishing Jerusalem. With the brush of His Feet He splits the Mount of Olives into two creating a valley into which His people can escape Jerusalem and not be consumed with the wicked. Zech. 14:1-7, 12-13.
[071] The Earth Terrified shrinks back from challenging Yehovah “the God of Heaven and Earth”. Ezek. 38:21-23; 39:7
[072] The Sixth Bowl: Takes out of the way the dimensional barrier symbolized by the Euphrates, permitting the principalities and powers of wickedness in heavenly places Demon Kings of the Sunrising to flood the Holy land.
[073] Demonic propaganda campaign by Dragon Beast False Prophet reinforces Strong Delusion Yehovah can be defeated by their combined forces. Rev. 16:13-14
[074] The Nephilim “Mighty Ones” “Kings of the East” and all the Beast’s human forces gather at Armageddon to fight Yehovah God. Rev. 16:12-16)
[075] The Sign of Christ’s Coming appears: a great opening in the sky flashing lightning. Mat. 24:30; Rev. 19:11
[076] Christ Flashing Lightning from East to West is seen with His Holy Myriads gathering to attack. Christ sends out His angels to gather His Elect wherever on the earth they may be, all who missed the rapture but now repented. Mat. 24:30-31.
[077] The Archangel Michael is specially tasked to gather all in Israel whose names are in the book of life but had missed the rapture. Dan. 12:1
[078] Those left behind will become food for the eagles (vultures etc.)[1] at Armageddon Mat. 24:30-31 Rev. 19:17-21
[079] Satan’s UFO fleet falls out of the sky like leaves shaken off a tree by a mighty wind: The LORD will punish the Exalted on High and Kings of the earth Rev. 6:13; Isa. 13:10-13; 24:21
[080] The sky rolls up like a scroll, and every mountain and island moved out of its place. Rev. 6:14
[081] Beast followers worldwide cry out “hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb” Rev. 6:15-17
[082] Like lightning Flashing from east to west, so everyone one earth will see the coming of the LORD Jesus on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory Mat. 24:27, 30
[083] On white horse, The Word of God, robe dipped in blood, and His armies follow Him, KING OF KINGS LORD OF LORDS. Rev. 19:11-16
[084] Saints volunteer to be in His Army and He brings them with Him. Ps. 110:3; 1 Thess. 4:14
[085] Angel standing in the sun cries out to the birds: “Come, feast on the corpses of the Mighty Nephilim and Men, a great supper prepared for you by God.” Rev. 19:17-18
[086] The blood of the slain rises up to the height of horses bridles for 200 miles Rev. 14:18
[087] The Beast and false prophet are captured, cast body and soul into Gehenna the lake of fire Rev. 19:20; Matt. 10:28
[088] The rest were killed by Christ and became food for the carrion birds of heaven. Rev. 19:21
[089] The angel with the key to the bottomless pit lays hold of Satan and imprisons him in chains in the abyss. Rev. 20:1-3
[090] The Seventh Bowl is poured out upon the air and a loud voice came out of the Temple saying “It is done.” God’s Rule is established Rev. 16:17-18
[091] Flashes of Lightning and peals of thunder draw attention to the great earthquake change in rulership on the earth, unlike anything seen before. Rev. 16:18
[092] Babylon divided into three parts signifies: 1)Rebuilt Babylon Nuked by Gog; 2)Ten Horns burned Religious Harlot; 3)Now God remembers remaining Atheists which includes Scientific Atheism Beast Followers. Rev. 16:19
[093] Every possible island and mountain refuge flees from the Atheists. God sends the worst hail plague ever. In their insane rage they blaspheme God uncontrollably. Angelic reapers will gather these fools after the Sheep and Goat Judgment” (Mt. 13:38-42).
[094] Christ and His Holy Myriads set up camp in Jerusalem to judge the Sheep and the Goats, unsaved members of Christendom who either helped Christ’s brethren, or did not during the Great Tribulation. Mat. 25:31-46. Compare Mt. 22:1-14; 24:45-51; 25:24-30.
[095] Those who received Christ’s brethren join the Kings and Priests who came with Christ to Jerusalem, their bodies changed in a twinkling of an eye to be like Christ’s resurrected body as is true for all the saints. 1 Thess. 4:14; 1 Cor. 15:51-52
[096] Then Angelic Reapers go forth into the world where the Gospel of Christ has been preached and they gather all who caused others to sin or practiced lawlessness and they are cast into the unquenchable fire (Mt. 13:24-30, 36-42, 47-50; 2 Thess. 1:7-10).
[097] After those judgments billions of unsaved humanity remain. They are forgiven offenses (Mt. 12:31-32) and enter Christ’s millennial kingdom where the wheat will be separated from the chaff (Rev. 19:15; 20:7-9; Compare Ps. 2:9-12; 72:1-4; Is. 65:20; Zech. 14:16-21).
[098] Out of Jerusalem shall go forth the Word of the LORD (Isa. 2:3; 4:3-5; Isa. 24:33), and there is “no death in all My holy mountain” (Isa. 11:9; 65:25). Christ is King (Jer. 23:5; Lk. 1:31-33), and His Saints will be Kings and Priests (Rev. 1:6; 5:10; 20:4, 6) over the nations (Ps. 72:11; 86:9; Dan. 7:13-14). A time of prosperity (Jer. 23:5-6) and peace (Isa. 2:4; 11:5-9; Mic 4:3). Sin and rebellion not tolerated (Ps. 2:9; 72:1-4; Isa 65:20; Zech. 14:16-21). They will marry and replenish the population of the earth (Isa. 65:20-22). Sinners cast into the lake of fire (Isa. 65:20).
[099] After 1,000 years Satan is released from his prison to deceive the earth once again, to test the trillions of population. Rev. 20:7-8
[100] The deceived of the nations number as the sand of the sea and gather against the Holy City surrounding it Rev. 20:7-10.
[101] They are called Gog and Magog because they resemble them and the same fire from heaven destroys them resulting in the same glory to God’s Name Ezek. 38:14-16; Rev. 20:9
[102] The Devil who was deceiving them is cast into the lake of fire body and spirit to join the Beast and False prophet, and be tormented day and night forever and ever Rev. 20:10
[103] The Great White Throne of Christ appears, heaven and earth vanishes, all eyes are on God. Rev. 20:11
[104] he population of the Millennial Kingdom are judged first. They are called “dead” because they have yet to be given eternal life. Rev. 20:12
[105] Then Death and Hades are emptied and all who passed the trial after they died once rise to a resurrection of life John 5:28-29; 1 Pet. 4:6; 1 Cor. 5:5; Heb. 9:27-28; Rev. 20:13
[106] The Sea is emptied signifying fallen angels from Tartarus and Abyss rise imprisoned in abominable resurrection bodies reeking of corruption and driven to run uncontrollably into Gehenna the Lake of Fire body and spirit. Rev. 20:13-15; Luke 8:30-33.
[107] Only those not found written in book of life are cast into the lake of fire Rev. 20:15.
[108] Death and Hades are cast into Lake of Fire signifying they died the second death never to return.
[109] This Heaven and Earth Matrix dissolves in fervent heat and the infinite Mind of God creates a New Heaven and New Earth and there is no more sea. 2 Pet. 3:10-11; 1 Cor. 13:10; Rev. 21:1
[110] Then New Jerusalem built by God’s Holy Angels descends from heaven from God: Behold, God tabernacles with humans and they will be His people and He will be their God. Tears, death, sorrow is no more. We will be one with God. It has not entered the heart of man the things has prepared for those who love Him. Rev. 21:2-7; John 17:21; 1 Cor. 2:9

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[001] The Apostasy “comes first” before End Time “Week” of 7 Years. 2 Thess. 2:3

Satan is already sowing the seeds of the “Strong Delusion” that will deceive the entire earth that will complete the global apostasy from all belief in God.

Ancient Aliens: The Satan Conspiracy (S6, E5) | Full Episode

https://play.history.com/shows/ancient-aliens/season-6/episode-5
If your faith is weak, if “ancient alien theory” is plausible to you, do not watch the video.

The coming “Man of Sin” (2 Thess. 2:3-4), a miracle working False Christ will be hailed as “The Christ” by apostate Christendom that began obeying spiritual experiences (that have no parallel in the NT) instead of the Word of God.

The “Man of Sin” will subtly support the rising belief in the “Satan Conspiracy” that will be fueled by the arrival of Fallen Angels disguised as Extraterrestrials, their Dragon Commander’s name will be Satan. They will preach Yehovah God is the leader of rival Extraterrestrials who jealousy don’t want man to advance in knowledge and become immortal.

During this time the world’s belief in God will vanish, Ancient Alien theory, the “Satan Conspiracy” will replace all belief in God. Times and Law have been changed.

3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away (646 ἀποστασία apostasia) comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition,
4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. (2 Thess. 2:3-4 NKJ)

Tares will outnumber the Wheat in the End Time (Matt. 13:24-30). Paul (1 Tim. 4:1–3; 2 Tim. 3:1–5; 4:3–4) and the other apostles (2 Peter 2:1; 3:3; Jude 1:18; 1 John 2:18-19; 4:3-6) warned about this end time apostasy, churches so lawless they receive “the Lawless One” “Man of Sin” (man who condones sin) as “the Christ”. That apostasy “takes away the daily sacrifice” to the true Christ starting the “end-time seven year “week” (Dan. 12:11; Rev. 6:2).

Lawless apostate churches refuse to teach the sound doctrine of the apostles:

9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites,
10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. (1 Cor. 6:9-10 NKJ)

646. ἀποστασία apostasía; gen. apostasías, fem. noun from aphístēmi (868), to depart. Departure, apostasy. Occurs in Acts 21:21 translated “forsake” and in 2 Thess. 2:3, “a falling away”; Sept.: 2 Chr. 29:19; Jer. 29:32. In Acts 21:21 the new Christian believers among the Jews, having departed from Moses and coming to Jesus Christ, decided that they should stay apart from Moses, i.e., their Judaistic practices, for they were in a new dispensation. They were not Judaizing Christians, but Christians standing apart from Moses. In 2 Thess. 2:3 the word apostasía does not refer to genuine Christians who depart from the faith, but mere professors who, without divine grace, succumb to the Satanic deception of the Antichrist. -Zodhiates, S. (2000). In The complete word study dictionary: New Testament (electronic ed.). AMG Publishers.

What did the apostle John reveal when he said: “It is the last hour”?

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[002] God’s Restraint on Satanic Deception Removed 2 Thess. 2:6-7

6 And now you know what is restraining (κατέχον), that he may be revealed in his own time.
7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains (κατέχων) will do so until He is taken out of the way. (2 Thess. 2:6-7 NKJ)

The “mystery” (3466 μυστήριον musterion) or “secret power” (NIV) of lawlessness is “the working (1753 ἐνέργεια energeia) of Satan” that was already inspiring belief in falsehood through evil “spirit…word…letter” (2 Thess. 2:2) shaking the faith of Thessalonians “the resurrection is already past” (2 Tim. 2:18), and the Church was raptured (1 Thess. 4:13-18; 1 Cor. 15:51-52) leaving them behind.

Only God can restrain “Satanic energy that inspires lawlessness” i.e., “spiritism”. Some are confused about that because the “(thing) restraining” (neuter) has gender in verse 7 the “(one) restraining”. How can God be “taken out of the way”? Elementary, God’s decree (δόγμα) is the “thing” restraining Satanic power. When this ordinance is lifted (compare: ἐκ τοῦ μέσου Col. 2:14 BGT), “out of [the] midst he be [gone]”-Interlinear Literal Translation of the Greek New Testament, Thomas Newberry.
The Katechon Restrainer of the Mystery of Lawlessness: Who is He?

As Satan and Nephilim haven’t appeared physically on earth since the flood of Noah’s Day (Rev. 12:4; Gen. 3:1-5; 6:4), one restraint has prevented the physical appearance of the Nephilim “Fallen Ones” on earth. But Jesus words here imply that restraint will be lifted, both the angelic sons of God and Satan’s “fallen Ones” the Nephilim took human wives (Gen. 6:2, 4):

26 “And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man:
27 “They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. (Lk. 17:26-27 NKJ)

The restraint on Satanic energy is in stages, revealed in the book of Revelation and is a consequence of Christendom’s apostasy from God’s Law (Th. 2:11-12). A judgment the apostate Tares reveal themselves within the seven-year time allotted for the End Time “week”.

First evil spirits are released from the abyss prison (Rev. 9:1-3); Second the symbolic Euphrates removed as a dimensional barrier into Israel and therefore the Earth. Demons enter this realm (Rev. 9:14-16; 16:12). Third Michael and his angels cast Satan and angels out of heaven and the context emphasizes they are “no place… in heaven; cast to the earth; has been cast down; has come down to you; cast to the earth.” They being “cast to the earth” the precise reason given for this even causing “Woe to the inhabitants of the earth” (Rev. 12:7-13). That exegesis fits prophetic texts which depict angelic warfare in the skies and on earth (Jdg. 5:20; 2 Ki. 19:35; 2 Chron. 32:21; Dan. 10:13, 20) in the end time (Isa. 24:21; 34:4; Dan. 8:10; 9:27; 11:38-39).

Growing in popularity is Ancient Alien Theory which claims God and the angels are extraterrestrial beings. That also is the preaching of demonic spirits inspiring dreams and visions of “UFO Experiencers”. The “trans dimensional beings” claim to be the “Elohim”, designers of life on earth”. The most likely cause of the end-time global rebellion against all called God or worshiped would be a “UFO invasion.” It would change historic concepts of God, changing “times and law” (Dan. 7:25; 2 Thess. 2:3-4). From the symbolism of Revelation 16:13-16 it would appear Ancient Alien Theory (flying frogs) will be the demonically inspired “Big Lie” that deceives the earth to fight God at Armageddon (2 Thess. 2:9-12; Rev. 16:13-14, 16).

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[003] First Seal: Rider on White Horse False Christ (aka Man of Sin; Lawless One) Matt. 24:4-5; Rev. 6:2; 2 Thess. 2:3, 8

1 Now I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals; and I heard one of the four living creatures saying with a voice like thunder, “Come and see.”
2 And I looked, and behold, a white horse. He who sat on it had a bow; and a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and to conquer. (Rev. 6:1-2 NKJ)

In the first four seals (Rev. 6:1, 3, 5, 7) the KJV reads “come and see”. A living creature is commanding John to “come and see” what happens on earth through a viewer. Modern Bibles delete “and see” changing the interpretation to the horsemen being commanded to “come” forth presumably from heaven. But the four demon riders are not from heaven as 2 Thessalonians 2:6-8 makes clear, the first rider is the “Lawless One” and he is a spawned by Satanic energy that had its restraint taken out of the way. That is confirmed in Daniel 8:24 “his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power” and by a foreign god in Daniel 11:38-39. The “foreign god” is the Dragon Satan disguised as an Extraterrestrial Commander of a UFO fleet. The earth in globalist ecstasy willingly created the Grecian Roman Empire Beast and anoint the Man of Sin False Christ as its first “Chancellor” on the command of the Dragon.

The false Christ “mouth of a lion” (Rev. 13:2) “man of sin” (2 Thess. 2:3) “prince” (Dan. 9:26) covenants with the world’s religions the first half (Dan. 9:27) of the end time week. Perhaps giving them time to accept His claim to be Christ. The Rider’s bow has no arrows because Satan crowns him (Rev. 13:2, 4; Dan. 8:24), the earth in globalist ecstasy willingly submit to the New World Order under the False Christ. He keeps on conquering until Armageddon, and cast into the lake of fire (Rev. 19:19-20).
Revelation 6 The Seven Seals

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[004] Daily Sacrifice to Christ ends when Church receives “Man of Sin” as “The Christ”. Dan. 12:11; 2 Thess. 2:3-4

Our LORD Jesus Christ prayed “(whoever reads, let him understand)” (Matt. 24:15 NKJ) because He knew the “Temple of God” and “Daily Sacrifice” in the End Time would not be found in Christ rejecting Judaism. If it were, Daniel would have understood these words clearly. But he could not because “Temple of God” and “Daily Sacrifice” and “Abomination of Desolation” have new meaning in the New Covenant of Christ’s blood. The “saints” now include the greater “Israel of God” (Gal. 6:15-16), Jew and Gentile descendants of Abraham’s seed (Gal. 3:27-29). The Temple priesthood and Daily Sacrifice are in the Christian Church. The Church is the Temple of God (1 Cor. 3:16-17; 6:19; 2 Cor. 6:16; Eph. 2:21), Christians its priests (1 Pet. 2:5). We offer up “the Daily Sacrifice” (1 Pet. 2:5; Rom. 12:1; Lk. 9:23; Heb. 13:15).

9 And he said, “Go your way, Daniel, for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
10 “Many shall be purified, made white, and refined, but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand.
11 “And from the time that the daily sacrifice is taken away, and the abomination of desolation is set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred and ninety days.
12 “Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days. (Dan. 12:9-12 NKJ)

The New Testament church has the “holy priesthood, to offer up “spiritual sacrifices” (πνευματικὰς θυσίας) acceptable to God” (1 Pet. 2:5). Christians “offer (399 ἀναφέρω anaphero) sacrifice (2378 θυσία thusia)” to God, the same word used in the Greek Septuagint to offer (399 ἀναφέρω anaphero) the “daily” (08548 תָּמִיד tamiyd) 1 Ch. 16:40; 23:31; 2 Ch. 2:3; 24:14 in the Hebrew version.

The Christian daily sacrifice is offered “continually” (1275 διαπαντός) to God. In Hebrews 13:1-17 the ethical exhortations being an expansion of the acceptable duties priests offer God daily (Heb. 12:28 λατρεύωμεν εὐαρέστως τῷ θεῷ).

Christ is our perpetual sacrifice for sin (Heb. 10:11-18), the daily sacrifice to Him is our “taking up the cross daily”. The “apostasy” or “revolt” that “takes away” (Dan. 12:11 05493 סוּר cuwr; 868 ἀφίστημι) the sacrifice is receiving the false Christ man of sin as “the Christ”. Then the end time “week” of seven-years begins.
The Daily Sacrifice shall be taken away—Daniel 12:11
The Third Temple: Does scripture anticipate a future Jewish Temple?
The Desolator is the Abomination of Desolation

At 1,260 days the “false Christ” “Man of Sin” morphs into the seed of Satan (Gen. 3:15) “Son of Destruction” (2 Thess. 2:3-4) pompous mouth (Rev. 13:5) blaspheming God and His holy angels. Then a quantum computing network in his image begins enforcing the 666 mark membership only economy. It required an additional 30 days for that “abomination that causes desolation” to be set up; 30 days + 1,260 days (42 months; 3 ½ years) equal 1,290 days.

That’s when the Great Tribulation for the Church ramps up, as they refuse to accept the Mark of the Beast they are slaughtered (Rev. 14:12-13).

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[005] First Trumpet: Hail and fire mixed with blood signify judgment for Apostasy, a third of Christendom’s Leaders and all who follow them are eternally destroyed Rev. 8:7.

The first angel sounded: And hail and fire followed, mingled with blood, and they were thrown to the earth. And a third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up. (Rev. 8:7 NKJ)

What happened to “shorter reading is better?” New Bibles add “and a third of the earth was burned up”, which creates a contradiction. If a third is burned up at the first Trumpet, where did the 2/3rds come from in the next two Trumpets? Best we stick with the KJV & NKJ “Majority Text” of the Greek NT and not let a scribal addition reproduced in a tiny stream of inferior texts lead us astray.

The first three Trumpets kill Christendom completely, 1/3rd at a time. This hail kills a third of Trees/leaders in Christendom, and all the grass/followers living under their shade.

When literal hail and fire struck ancient Egypt (Ex. 9:23-26) it destroyed trees and grass. The “signification” of hail and fire mingled with blood is striking an apostate church having bloodguilt (2 Th. 2:3). In the opening scene an angel takes fire from God’s altar and casts it to the earth, signifying this is a judgment of God against an apostate church. Recompense for sin against God’s saints (Rev. 6:9-11). Jesus predicted apostates would betray believers to the Beast (Mt. 24:9-10). This is the wrath of God, unlike Revelation 11:19 where the hail remains in heaven, this hail is unleashed on the apostates (Ps. 78:47; Hag. 2:17). God’s decree symbolized by “noises, thunderings, lightnings” which include an earthquake because earth is about to be radically shaken by this display power. The Hail destroys the refuge of lies and affirms God’s authority (Is. 28:17; 30:30; 32:19; Ezek. 13:11, 13). Fire (Rev. 1:5) and blood (Rev. 16:6) signify God’s judgment is the apostates die eternally.

The seals Trumpets and bowls events overlap each other in time. Like Quentin Tarantino’s movie “Pulp Fiction”, past, present and future scenes appear without affecting the actual linear plot.
The Revelation Trumpets Herald Events in the Christian Third of the Earth

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[006] Second Trumpet: The Destroying Mountain is the New King of Babylon the False Christ who leads the church into further apostasy and the world into worship of the Dragon killing another third of Christendom. Rev. 8:8.

Then the second angel sounded: And something like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood. (Rev. 8:8 NKJ)

Mountains can signify enemies of God (Isa. 41:15), the king of Babylon is likened to a great destroying mountain:

“Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, Who destroys all the earth,” says the LORD. “And I will stretch out My hand against you, Roll you down from the rocks, And make you a burnt mountain. (Jer. 51:25 NKJ)

The Destroying Mountain is New King of Babylon the “lion mouth” False Christ Chancellor of the Grecian Roman Empire that rises from the sea, with the city of Babylon’s mortal wound healed and now its capitol. He leads the Church into further apostasy and worship of the Dragon (Rev. 13:1-4) killing another third of Christendom. Rev. 8:8
The Antichrist His Names Titles and Descriptions
Antichrist will sit in the Temple of God: Third Temple or the Church?
The Two Phases of Antichrist: Man of Sin and Son of Destruction

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[007] False Christ (Man of Sin) makes Jerusalem his base of operations Luke 21:20

The false Christ will be a miracle working Assyrian (Mic. 5:5-6; Isa. 14:25-27) Christian Jew (Dan. 11:37) from ancient Nineveh (Nah. 1:11) rising up from nothing near the ancient city of Antioch, Turkey (Dan. 7:11:21-45). His name will be “Adonikam” (Ezra 2:13; Neh. 7:18; Rev. 13:18 Asymmetric Janus Parallelism on 666).
The Antichrist His Names Titles and Descriptions

No false Christ worth his salt would base his operations anywhere but in Jerusalem. By induction, armed forces surrounding a city indicates its importance to Government. Therefore, the surrounding of Jerusalem in the end time indicates the “mouth of a lion” (Rev. 13:2) “Chancellor” of the revived Grecian Roman Empire (Luke 21:20) made Jerusalem his base of operations.

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[008] God’s Two Witnesses Moses and Elijah appear preaching in Jerusalem 1260 days restoring hearts back to God Rev. 11:3-6.

Our LORD said Elijah will come; He didn’t retract that when He said John the Baptist also was “Elijah” figuratively speaking:

11 And they asked Him, saying, “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”
12 Then He answered and told them, “Indeed, Elijah is coming first and restores all things. (Mk. 9:11-12 NKJ)

So one of the witnesses MUST be Elijah. Then by deduction, we can conclude Moses is the other Witness:

“…there are a number of reasons that suggest that they may be Moses and Elijah.

First, the miracles they will perform (destroying their enemies with fire, withholding rain, turning water into blood, and striking the earth with plagues) are similar to the judgments inflicted in the Old Testament by Moses and Elijah for the purpose of stimulating repentance. Elijah called down fire from heaven (2 Kings 1:10, 12) and pronounced a three-and-one-half-year drought on the land (1 Kings 17:1; James 5:17)—the same length as the drought brought by the two witnesses (Rev. 11:6). Moses turned the waters of the Nile into blood (Ex. 7:17–21) and announced the other plagues on Egypt recorded in Exodus chapters 7–12.-MacArthur, J. F., Jr. (1999). Revelation 1–11 (pp. 300–301). Moody Press.
The Two Witnesses Moses and Elijah

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[009] Lady Zion true Church flees into wilderness for 1,260 days separating herself from the apostates Rev. 12:6.

1 Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a garland of twelve stars.
2 Then being with child, she cried out in labor and in pain to give birth. (Rev. 12:1-2 NKJ)

This great sign is Lady Zion aka “New Jerusalem” the “mother of us all” (Gal. 4:26) who are born of God, “for out of Zion shall go forth the Law, And the word of the LORD from Jerusalem” (Isa. 2:3; Mic. 4:2). As the Mother of all born of God what affects her on earth affects the people of God both Old and New Covenants. In Revelation she represents the true Church. Through Zion God’s light shines on the earth both day and night though the sun moon and stars. The stars signify the Twelve patriarchs or tribes of Israel.

In this context the wilderness is not a place of deprivation, it’s a place of refuge where God is experienced (Rev. 12:14; 1 Ki. 19:4; Num. 14:22; Deut. 2:7; 32:10; Ps. 68:7). As the true church exists in the midst of Christendom and its apostate TARES, fleeing to the wilderness signifies separation from the apostates. While they are trampling the outer courtyard, Christians remain holy and obedient to God worshipping Him at His altar:

1 Then I was given a reed like a measuring rod. And the angel stood, saying, “Rise and measure the temple of God, the altar, and those who worship there.
2 “But leave out the court which is outside the temple, and do not measure it, for it has been given to the Gentiles. And they will tread the holy city underfoot for forty-two months. (Rev. 11:1-2 NKJ)

She is protected by God from the flood of spiritism the Dragon spewed out hoping to carry off the church into idolatry (Rev. 12:14-16). She is safe until Adonikam the Beast ascends at mid-week declaring himself the “seed of Satan” (Gen. 3:15) Son of Destruction (2 Thess. 2:3-4) and kills God’s two witnesses (Rev. 11:7-8).
Revelation 12:6b The woman fled into the wilderness
Woman clothed with the sun is Lady Zion mother of all born of God

16 “But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:
17 `And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your young men shall see visions, Your old men shall dream dreams.
18 And on My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days; And they shall prophesy.
19 I will show wonders in heaven above And signs in the earth beneath: Blood and fire and vapor of smoke.
20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the LORD.
21 And it shall come to pass That whoever calls on the name of the LORD Shall be saved.’ (Acts 2:16-21 NKJ)

It is obvious this text has dual fulfillment, on the Day of Pentecost and in the End Time when the signs on earth appear, just before the coming of the Day of the Lord.

The Holy Spirit will be poured out on the church worshipping God at His altar. The two witness are called the “two olive trees” for that is the source of the oil (signifying the Holy Spirit) burning in the Lamps lighting up the world with God’s light (Zech. 4:1-14). This strengthens them so they spiritually survive the Great Tribulation coming after the Beast slays the two witnesses.
In the last days, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy

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[011] 144,000 Israelites Born Again Rev. 7:3-8.

And I heard the number of those who were sealed. One hundred and forty-four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel were sealed: (Rev. 7:4 NKJ)

The outpouring of the Holy Spirit gives birth to 144,000 Christian Jews specially tasked with evangelizing Jews.

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[012] Satan the Serpent spews out river of demonic activity (Rev. 12:15-16) the energia of Satan (2 Thess. 2:9) hoping to carry away the church into idolatry but the apostates trampling the outer courtyard (Rev. 11:2) greedily swallow up the foul water.

15 So the serpent spewed water out of his mouth like a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away by the flood.
16 But the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the flood which the dragon had spewed out of his mouth. (Rev. 12:15-16 NKJ)

The Serpent spews out river of demonic activity (Rev. 12:15-16), the energia of Satan (ἐνέργειαν τοῦ σατανᾶ 2 Thess. 2:9) hoping to carry away the church into idolatry (cp. 1 Cor. 12:2). However, the “earth dwellers” trampling the outer courtyard (Rev. 11:2) greedily swallow up the foul river of spiritism (cp. Mt. 7:22-23; 1 Jn. 2:18-20; 4:1).

For more on the energy of Satan that inwardly works to experientially convince people falsehood is truth, go here:

God Will Allow the Strong Delusion of the Antichrist Test the Earth
Test The Spirits in Dreams Visions Abductions

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[013] Seal Two: Rider on Red Horse Wars & Rumors of wars; People hate each other for differences of opinion Matt. 24:6-7; Rev. 6:3-4

3 When He opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, “Come and see.”
4 Another horse, fiery red, went out. And it was granted to the one who sat on it to take peace from the earth, and that people should kill one another; and there was given to him a great sword. (Rev. 6:3-4 NKJ)

Fiery red signifies bloodshed because of the fires of war. The sword given to him is “great” because it causes widespread bloodshed whether in civil or international conflict. People hate and kill each other for differences in opinion.

There are four living creatures before the throne of God, each a different viewer and they beckon to John “Come and see” through their viewer what Satan strategically sends out onto the earth (Rev. 6:1, 3, 5, 7). God is not sending these demon riders, Satan is. Its strategic, by overwhelming the earth with war, famine and plague the earth will cry out for a Savior, the False Christ and then the Dragon and his promise of global peace and safety (1 Thess. 5:3).

“A crisis is a terrible thing to waste” evil men say, and Satan won’t waste the extinction level crises he caused by sending war, famine and pestilence overwhelming the earth’s governments. Everyone will clamor for Satan’s global solution, the revived Grecian Roman Empire to restore “peace and safety” (Rev. 13:1-4; 1 Thess. 5:2).
Revelation 6 The Seven Seals

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[014] Seal Three: Rider on Black Horse = Famine Rev. 6:5-6 Often caused by Earthquakes Mat. 24:7.

5 When He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come and see.” So I looked, and behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine.” Rev. 6:5-6 NKJ)

Black horse = death from famine, food too expensive for the poor. Not harming oil and wine implies market manipulation, dishonest scales. If it were weather caused scarcity, oil and wine would also be harmed (cp. Ps.104:14-15).
Revelation 6 The Seven Seals

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[015] Seal Four: Rider on Pale Horse = Pestilence Rev. 6:8 Often caused by Earthquakes Mat. 24:7.

7 When He opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, “Come and see.”
8 So I looked, and behold, a pale (5515 χλωρός chloros) horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death (2288 θάνατος Thanatos), and Hades followed with him. And power was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death (2288 θάνατος Thanatos), and by the beasts of the earth. (Rev. 6:7-8 NKJ)

For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. (Matt. 24:7 KJV)

Death rides into town on his sickly horse and Pestilence kills a fourth of the population, filling up Hades trailing behind him.

Some (Charles; Moffatt) make the case “Death (2288 θάνατος thanatos)” should be rendered “Pestilence” given the context and its appearance in the LXX translating the Hebrew (01698 דֶּבֶר deber) over thirty times. The rider’s horse is “pale, a sickly looking horse. Most versions translate the second appearance of thanatos as “pestilence” or “plague”.

Pestilence is the common denominator, arising from war, famine, pestilence and by beasts of the earth such as rats:

Throughout human history, disease has killed people on a far more massive scale than war. More Union and Confederate soldiers died from disease during the Civil War than were killed in battle. An estimated 30 million people died during the great influenza epidemic of 1918–19—more than three times as many as the estimated 8.5 million soldiers who died in battle during World War I. In addition, several million more died at about that same time in an outbreak of typhus in Russia, Poland, and Romania. In a world ravaged by war and famine, it is inevitable that such disease will be widespread.-MacArthur, J. F., Jr. (1999). Revelation 1–11 (p. 184). Moody Press.
Revelation 6 The Seven Seals

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[016] War in heaven, Michael and angels cast Satan and Nephilim Fallen angels out of heaven Rev. 12:7-12.

7 And war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought,
8 but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer.
9 So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
10 Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, “Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down.
11 “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.
12 “Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has a short time.” (Rev. 12:7-12 NKJ)

Satan and his angels will appear on earth, that idea is expressed four times and its “Woe to the earth” precisely because Satan and his angels “have come down to you.” Satan’s lies poison the waters that sustain life with Ancient Alien Theory. More on that here [017]

The Third Trumpet [021] cues this war in heaven and the effect it had on Christendom, spiritually killing the last third of the TARES the first two trumpets left alive, as well as killing many others:

10 Then the third angel sounded: And a great star fell from heaven, burning like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water.
11 The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many men died from the water, because it was made bitter. (Rev. 8:10-11 NKJ)
The Revelation Trumpets Herald Events in the Christian Third of the Earth

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[017] Satan and angels appear on earth (Rev. 12:9-12) As Frog-like Extraterrestrials (Rev. 16:13-14) led by Dragon Satan claiming to be the Elohim designers of life on Earth.

13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs coming out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
14 For they are spirits of demons, performing signs, which go out to the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
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16 And they gathered them together to the place called in Hebrew, Armageddon. (Rev. 16:13-16 NKJ)

The frogs flying out of the mouths of the Dragon Beast and False Prophet are prophetic, signify the satanically energized strong delusion of “Ancient Alien Theory” that God and angels are extraterrestrials. The evil Trinity preach this Big Lie to unite the earth to fight Yehovah God at Armageddon.

Satan and demons already claim to be Designers of life on earth and preach God is an ET through UFO cult “experiencers” and corporate media (“Ancient Aliens”, History Channel). The Theory’s power to destroy belief in God is well known. Among the most likely causes of global apostasy from belief in God, Ancient Alien Theory reigns supreme. A fleet of UFO ships commanded by a Dragon like Commander, with Extraterrestrials having a frog like appearance. That spectacle would change the times and law (Dan. 7:25) upon which all human society is based, the belief in God.
Satan’s Angels are cast out of Heaven Twice?
Nephilim Fallen Angels and the Sons of God
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[018] “Ancient Alien Theory” is the inspired “Big Lie:” that is used to unite the world against Christ at Armageddon Rev. 16:13-16.

Bible prophecy reveals the blasphemy against God pertain to His Name, His dwelling and His hosts (Rev. 13:6). Insulting the reasons Yehovah alone is God is blasphemy against His Name, and simultaneously insults the uniqueness of His dwelling. However, for an insult that can blaspheme all three must pertain to the nature of God’s hosts the Elohim; God and His Sons. Ancient Alien Theory does precisely that when it claims God and angels are an extraterrestrial race of finite beings. That insults all three.

Confirming the blasphemy insults the nature of God are Paul words in 2 Thessalonians 2:4, that the Beast “opposes and exalts himself above all called God…showing himself that he is God.” He “opposes” the historic definition of God and exalts himself as having a nature above what is called Elohim. In other words, the Beast at mid-week reveals he is the “Son of Destruction” hybrid human and “seed of Satan” (Gen. 3:15) who in nature is therefore superior to all Elohim, including Yehovah God and His angels. Then he works supernatural signs and wonders by Satan’s power “showing that he is God.”

Daniel confirms this:

36 “Then the king shall do according to his own will: he shall exalt and magnify himself above every god, shall speak blasphemies against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the wrath has been accomplished; for what has been determined shall be done.
37 “He shall regard neither the God of his fathers nor the desire of women, nor regard any god; for he shall exalt himself above them all. (Dan. 11:36-37 NKJ)

With this modern context in mind Daniel’s reference to a god of “fortresses or armed places” a “foreign god “whom his fathers knew not” is clearly a description of Satan masquerading as the Dragon Commander of the Elohim UFO fleet. Upon wings of demon powered abominations, the Desolator with Satan’s fleet backing him, rain down fire upon the earth to consume his enemies:

Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week; But in the middle of the week He shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate, Even until the consummation, which is determined, Is poured out on the desolate.” (Dan. 9:27 NKJ)

“Thus in this passage wings are attributed to the שִׁקּוּצִים, idol-objects, and to idolatry with its abominations, because that shall be the power which lifts upwards the destroyer and desolater, carries him, and moves with him over the earth to lay waste” (Klief.)-Keil, C. F., & Delitzsch, F. (1996). Commentary on the Old Testament (Vol. 9, pp. 739–740). Peabody, MA: Hendrickson.

Is the Wing of Abominations in Daniel 9:27 a Demon Powered UFO?
Star Wars in Daniel

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[019] Satan blasphemes Yehovah God as Jealous Extraterrestrial who does not want humans to progress in knowledge and achieve immortality. [Deduced from UFO cult “Experiencers”]

Satan and demons already claim to be Designers of life on earth and preach God is an ET through UFO cult “experiencers” and corporate media (“Ancient Aliens”, History Channel).
God Will Allow the Strong Delusion of the Antichrist Test the Earth

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[020] Satan promises peace and safety from wars famines and pestilence plaguing the earth an Extinction level event. 1 Thess. 5:3

The Devil deceives the whole world (Rev. 12:9; 20:3) only global governance can quell the wars famine and pestilence plaguing the earth that he caused when he sent out the first four demon riders (Rev. 6:1-8). That is why the Grecian Roman Empire rises from the “sea of chaos” (Dan. 7:2), symbolizing the realm of the Dragon (Jer. 5:22):

In that day the LORD with His severe sword, great and strong, Will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan that twisted serpent; And He will slay the reptile that is in the sea. (Isa. 27:1 NKJ)
The Grecian-Roman Empire with Seven Heads and Ten Horns

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[021] Third Trumpet: The arrival of the Dragon Commander and his UFO fleet caused global acceptance of Ancient Alien Theory spiritually killing the last third of Christendom eternally. Rev. 8:10-11

10 Then the third angel sounded: And a great star fell from heaven, burning like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water.
11 The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many men died from the water, because it was made bitter. (Rev. 8:10-11 NKJ)

John often uses stars to signify angels (Rev. 8:12; 9:1; 12:4; cp. Job 25:5; 38:7; Dan. 8:10), Satan is the burning star that poisoned the rivers and springs of the church with damnable lies and apostasies, that kill all who drink them in.

12 “How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, You who weakened the nations!
13 For you have said in your heart:`I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation On the farthest sides of the north;
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.’
15 Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, To the lowest depths of the Pit.
16 “Those who see you will gaze at you, And consider you, saying:`Is this the man who made the earth tremble, Who shook kingdoms,
17 Who made the world as a wilderness And destroyed its cities, Who did not open the house of his prisoners?’ (Isa. 14:12-17 NKJ)
The Revelation Trumpets Herald Events in the Christian Third of the Earth

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[022] Miracle Working False Christ Man who condones every sin and lawlessness subtly adopts “ancient alien theory” preached by Satan denying the Father and the Son 1 John 2:18-22

18 Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour.
19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.
20 But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things.
21 I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
22 Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son. (1 Jn. 2:18-22 NKJ)

Miracle working tares were leaving John’s church denying the Father and the Son. This so reminded John of the End Time Antichrist he calls this is “a last hour”, the definite article is not in the Greek. Confirming he is not saying “this is THE last hour”, John only mentions the end time Antichrist to talk about what was happening then.
On this see What did the apostle John reveal when he said: “It is the last hour”?

Prior to mid-week the “man of sin” false Christ must adapt, the Dragon and his Nephilim are winning hearts and minds with Ancient Alien Theory. The whole concept of God is being rejected globally. As he separates himself from Christianity, so do his followers. They begin leaving the church denying Father and Son.
The Two Phases of Antichrist: Man of Sin and Son of Destruction

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[023] Globalist ecstasy: Dragon/Elohim demand New World Order=7 head 10 horn revived Grecian Roman Empire; They back election of Man of Sin False Christ Adonikam as its “Chancellor” Rev. 13:1-4

See The Two Phases of Antichrist: Man of Sin and Son of Destruction
See The Grecian-Roman Empire with Seven Heads and Ten Horns
Adonikam is the Name of the Beast having 666 meaningTEXT

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[024] Revived Grecian Roman Empire rises from the sea” to become The New World Order And the “Man of Sin” False Christ is its Chancellor Rev. 6:2; 13:1-2

The first seal (Rev. 6:2) reveals the “prince to come” (Dan. 9:26) “little horn” (Dan. 7:8) “Man of Sin” false Christ (2 Thess. 2:3; Mt. 24:5), he is the “mouth like the mouth of a lion” (Rev. 13:2). At mid-week the “prince” morphs into the “Desolator” (Dan. 9:27) “Son of Destruction” (2 Thess. 2:3-4) Seed of Satan (Gen. 3:15) and so Revelation 13:5 says “he was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies…to continue for forty-two months.”

See The Two Phases of Antichrist: Man of Sin and Son of Destruction

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[025] Times and Law of Human Society changes as global belief in God vanishes Dan. 7:25; Rev. 12:9

See The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

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[026] All the world’s religions join the NWO. Mother of Harlots Babylon the Great rides Grecian Empire Beast (Dan. 9:27; Rev. 17)
Mystery Babylon Returns in the End Time: Religious-Political Harlot City

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[027] Fourth Trumpet: One third of sun moon stars darkened signifying horrific calamity will befall the third of the earth that is apostate Christendom

See The Revelation Trumpets Herald Events in the Christian Third of the Earth

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[028] Lady Zion flees into Religious Babylon for political and legal protection against haters of the True Christian Church Micah 4:10

Satan’s War against the Woman’s Seed, the Child of the Daughter of Zion

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[029] Ancient literal city of Babylon has its head wound healed and is Rebuilt using wonderous “alien technology”. To become Capitol of 7 head 10 horn Beast empire Rev. 13:3

See Deadly Wound Was Healed When Babylon Rebuilt

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[030] Fifth Trumpet: First Woe: Bioship locusts possessed by spirits of demons are released from Abyss to physically torment apostates who want to follow the False Christ as he morphs into the Son of Destruction Beast but are too slow to commit in time. They are tormented five months, so they completely reveal themselves. Rev. 9:1-11 The first woe signifies a shift from spiritual to physical. The apostates had died spiritually for all eternity, now the the torment is physical. In the Second woe, they are physically killed by the demon calvary and as signified by the imagery their souls eternally cast into the fire:

17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision: those who sat on them had breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow; and the heads of the horses were like the heads of lions; and out of their mouths came fire, smoke, and brimstone.
18 By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed– by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone which came out of their mouths. (Rev. 9:17-18 NKJ)

See The Revelation Trumpets Herald Events in the Christian Third of the Earth

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[031] Man of Sin morphs into abomination of Desolation Son of Destruction Seed of Satan Antichrist. Declares himself God in Temple of God the Church breaking covenant with world’s religions Dan. 9:27

See The Two Phases of Antichrist: Man of Sin and Son of Destruction
Antichrist will sit in the Temple of God: Third Temple or the Church?
Do the Little Horns in Daniel refer to Antichrist or Antiochus?

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[032] Emperor Adonikam becomes the pompous mouth given to the Beast Empire and he will rule for 42 months blaspheming Yehovah God and His angels (Mt. 24:15; Dan. 7:8, 11, 25; 9:27; Rev. 13:5-8)

The Little Horn in Daniel with the Big Mouth
Do the Little Horns in Daniel refer to Antichrist or Antiochus?

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[033] The Tares: sign and wonder working Christians remain loyal to Judas Man of Sin as he betrays all belief in God. They begin leaving the Church denying both The Father and The Son 1 John 2:18-23
The Coming false Christ And His Followers Revealed
What did the apostle John reveal when he said: “It is the last hour”?

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[034] Moses and Elijah are slain by Adonikam the Beast. Resurrected 3.5 days later they ascend into heaven. (Rev. 11:7-12) Great Tribulation of Church begins
The Two Witnesses Moses and Elijah

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[035] Power of God’s Holy People shattered completely (Dan. 12:7) Lady Zion comes out of Babylon Rev. 18:4; Jer. 51:45-50
An Explanation of Daniel’s Days 1260, 1290, 1335, 2300

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[036] Jerusalem is surrounded by the Beasts Armies. Christians flee Jerusalem to the mountains. Lk. 21:20-23 in dual fulfillment in 1st and 21ST century
The Seventy Weeks in Daniel 9 Explained

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[037] The Ten King Political Supporters of “Emperor” Adonikam Destroy the Religious Harlot Babylon, her services no longer required Rev 17:16-17; 18:6-8)
Mystery Babylon Returns in the End Time: Religious-Political Harlot City

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[038] Times and Law Changed: Earth now convinced God is an Extraterrestrial: Almost everyone hates religion, and join the destruction of Babylon the Harlot Rev. 18:5-8
Do Ancient Aliens Appear in the Bible?

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[039] Adonikam The little horn Beast “King of the North” rewards and punishes nations as if he were god. Dan. 11:36-39
The Little Horn in Daniel with the Big Mouth
Do the Little Horns in Daniel refer to Antichrist or Antiochus?

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[040] Russia, Iran, Turkey and allies reject NWO defying Emperor Adonikam the Beast; They Nuke rebuilt Babylon the literal city Jer. 50:2-3, 9-13; 39- 42; 51:27-29, 47-48
Gog and Magog in Ezekiel and Revelation

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[041] The destruction of both religious and rebuilt Babylon causes worldwide depression Rev. 18:8-18
Deadly Wound Was Healed When Babylon Rebuilt

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[042] Britain and America two horned Beast unite under False Prophet to aid the Beast whose Empire wounded when the literal city of Babylon destroyed. Rev. 13:11-12

For decades Satan has been seeding fallen-angel technology through the ruse of crashed spaceships (Roswell etc.), piloted by plant-based drones (Exod. 7:11-12). The military capability of Britain and America has been enhanced far above other militaries earth. Britain and America are destined to be the two horned Beast False Prophet after the great falling away has occurred (2 Thess. 2:3-4; Rev. 13:11-17).

Britain and America in Prophecy

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[043] Russia, Iran, Turkey and allies end their rebellion against
Britain and America in Prophecy

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[044] Britain and America deceive world to create Artificial Intelligence Neuralinked with Adonikam in 666 Mark Membership controlled economy to manage earth’s scarce resources. Rev. 13:14
Britain and America in Prophecy
The Image of the Beast will be an Artificial Intelligence

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[045] Quantum Computing Image of the Beast is “alive” able to defend itself and gives Beast “god-like” ability to see and hear everything through connected devices. Rev. 13:15-16
The Image of the Beast will be an Artificial Intelligence

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[046] It takes 30 days to set up Abomination of Desolation Artificial Intelligence to control earths resources Networked to Antichrist. 1,290 days counting from week start. Dan. 12:11
The Image of the Beast will be an Artificial Intelligence

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[047] Great Tribulation intensifies for all who refuse the Mark of the Beast Rev. 14:13 Church nearly wiped out. Rev. 13:9-10; 14:12- 13
An Explanation of Daniel’s Days 1260, 1290, 1335, 2300

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[048] Many arise claiming “here is the Christ, or there”. False Christ and False Prophets show great signs and wonders that almost deceive the elect. Matt. 24:24-27
The Coming false Christ And His Followers Revealed

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[049] Fifth Seal: Souls appear under Altar of God in heaven and ask “How Long until our blood is avenged?” Rev. 6:9-11
Revelation 6 The Seven Seals

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[050] Angel Hackers preach the everlasting Gospel on the World Wide Web Mid-Heaven defeating its security saying “Fear God and give glory to Him” Rev. 14:6-7
The Interpretation of Matthew 24:1-31

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[051] Another angel follows saying “Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all the earth drunk on spiritism. Rev. 14:7
Mystery Babylon Returns in the End Time: Religious-Political Harlot City

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[052] Third Angel says with Loud Voice: If anyone worships the beast and receives his mark, they will suffer eternal torment. Rev. 14:9-11

Does the Lake of Fire Symbolize Eternal Torment for all cast into it

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[053] 12 Here is the patience of the saints; here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. 13 Then I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, “Write: `Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.'” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, and their works follow them.” (Rev. 14:12-13 NKJ)m 12 “Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days. (Dan. 12:12 NKJ)

The Pre-Wrath Rapture of the Church
2 Thessalonians 2:1-3 Excludes the Pretribulation Rapture

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[054] Angel on White Cloud Appears Church Raptured (Rev. 14:14-16) Blessed is he who endured to the end (Dan. 12:12; Mat. 24:13)

The Pre-Wrath Rapture of the Church

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[055] Two in Field, one taken in Rapture the other left to become food for vultures Mt. 24:21-31; Lk. 17:26-37; Rev. 19:13-21

The Rapture is a gathering of believers both living and dead to meet Christ in the air (1 Thessalonians 4:14-18) and angels play no role in the gathering. It is a supernatural event the “first resurrection” and those “resurrected” will reign with Christ as Kings and Priests (Rev. 20:4-5) during His Millennial Kingdom. This event happens before the bowls of God’s wrath are poured out (Rev. 14:17-21; 15:1) “during the Great Tribulation” for not accepting the Mark of the Beast, right after Harlot Babylon is destroyed (Rev. 14:8-16). In a twinkling of an eye they will be raised up incorruptible (1 Corinthians 15:51-58).

AFTER the Tribulation of those days, while the bowls of God’s wrath are still being poured out, the “sign of Christ’s presence” will light up the sky worldwide, and Christ will send forth His angels to gather His elect who missed the rapture (Mt. 24:21-31; Lk. 17:26-37; Mk. 13:24-27). Then brings all of them with Him as He arrives with His Holy Myriads (1 Thessalonians 4:14-18) to war against the Beast at Armageddon (Ps. 110:3; Rev. 19:13-21).

In both cases, those left behind are likened to those who died by the Flood of Noah’s Day, or fire in Sodom. All left behind become food for carrion birds (Rev. 19:17-18) or some other calamity. Its odd how few connect the dots, in these parallels Christ emphasizes the destruction of those not saved, so when asked “where LORD” His answer isn’t about the taken, only those left behind.

26 “And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man:
27 “They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
28 “Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;
29 “but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.
30 “Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.
31 “In that day, he who is on the housetop, and his goods are in the house, let him not come down to take them away. And likewise the one who is in the field, let him not turn back.
32 “Remember Lot’s wife.
33 “Whoever seeks to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.
34 “I tell you, in that night there will be two men in one bed: the one will be taken and the other will be left.
35 “Two women will be grinding together: the one will be taken and the other left.
36 “Two men will be in the field: the one will be taken and the other left.”
37 And they answered and said to Him, “Where, Lord?” So He said to them, “Wherever the body is, there the eagles will be gathered together.” (Lk. 17:26-18:1 NKJ)

The Pre-Wrath Rapture of the Church

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[056] Sixth Trumpet: Second Woe: Demonic cavalry literally kill the third of the earth that once professed Christianity. God punishes those who took Mark of the Beast Rev. 9:12-21

The Revelation Trumpets Herald Events in the Christian Third of the Earth

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[057] The Sun will be darkened and the moon not give its light for the Day of the LORD is near! Mt. 24:29; Isa. 13:10-13

The War Between God and Satan: The Seven Bowls

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[058] Star Wars: Powers of the heavens shaken, principalities and powers war. Satan’s Elohim fleet falls from heaven Mat. 24:27; Isa. 24:21; Rev. 6:12-13

Revelation 6 The Seven Seals
The War Between God and Satan: The Seven Bowls

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[059] Seventh Trumpet: Flashes forward to 2,300 days when celebration in Heaven give thanks for God for taking His great power and reigning, by pouring out seven bowls that bring certain victory Rev.10:7; 11:15-19; 15:1-4. Faith in God vindicated Dan. 8:14, 26

The Revelation Trumpets Herald Events in the Christian Third of the Earth

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[060] First Bowl: Foul and loathsome sores appear on all having the mark of the Beast, and those who worshiped his image Rev. 16:2

The War Between God and Satan: The Seven Bowls

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[061] Second Bowl: Sea becomes foul blood of a dead man. Every living thing in the sea dies Rev. 16:3

The War Between God and Satan: The Seven Bowls

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[062] Third Bowl: Rivers and springs become blood to drink. Rev. 16:4-7

The War Between God and Satan: The Seven Bowls

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[063] Fourth Bowl: Solar flares scorch earthlings with fire and this caused them to blaspheme “the Extraterrestrial” Yehovah God for having the power over these plagues, but they did not repent and give Him glory. Rev. 16:8-9

The War Between God and Satan: The Seven Bowls

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[064] Fifth Bowl: Poured out on Throne of Beast and it became full of darkness, nothing pleasing to see. Beast followers gnaw their togues because of the pain. Rev. 16:10

The War Between God and Satan: The Seven Bowls

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[065] God’s power over the heavens so evidently greater than Satan and Beast forces blasphemy is now against “the God of the Heavens” begrudgingly confessing there are none like Him in power. Rev. 16:11

The War Between God and Satan: The Seven Bowls

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[066] The King of the South Egypt and allies sensing weakness, revolt against the Beast. Dan. 11:40

The War Between God and Satan: The Seven Bowls

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[067] The armies of the Beast “King of the North” flood into the Middle East overthrowing Egypt’s rebellion completely taking possession of all its riches. Egypt’s former allies are lap dogs at his heels. Dan. 11:40-43

The War Between God and Satan: The Seven Bowls

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[068] Gog and Magog sensing weakness attack the Beast forces in Israel flooding into the North swarming on the mountains of Israel Ezek. 38:2-13; 39:1-2

The War Between God and Satan: The Seven Bowls
Gog and Magog in Ezekiel and Revelation

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[069] Enraged the Beast prepares to attack Gog and Magog (Dan. 11:44-45) but Yehovah God so powerfully destroys Gog and Magog’s forces on the mountains of Israel and even in the coastlands where they felt secure, the Terror of the LORD overwhelms the earth. Ezek. 38:14-23; 39:1-7

The War Between God and Satan: The Seven Bowls
Gog and Magog in Ezekiel and Revelation

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[070] Jesus Christ who is The Word of God Yehovah God the Eternal Son, also dissolved Gog and Magog ravishing Jerusalem. With the brush of His Feet He splits the Mount of Olives into two creating a valley into which His people can escape Jerusalem and not be consumed with the wicked. Zech. 14:3-7, 12-13.

1 Behold, the day of the LORD is coming, And your spoil will be divided in your midst.
2 For I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem; The city shall be taken, The houses rifled, And the women ravished. Half of the city shall go into captivity, But the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
3 Then the LORD will go forth And fight against those nations, As He fights in the day of battle.
4 And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, Which faces Jerusalem on the east. And the Mount of Olives shall be split in two, From east to west, Making a very large valley; Half of the mountain shall move toward the north And half of it toward the south.
5 Then you shall flee through My mountain valley, For the mountain valley shall reach to Azal. Yes, you shall flee As you fled from the earthquake In the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Thus the LORD my God will come, And all the saints with You.
6 It shall come to pass in that day That there will be no light; The lights will diminish.
7 It shall be one day Which is known to the LORD– Neither day nor night. But at evening time it shall happen That it will be light.
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12 And this shall be the plague with which the LORD will strike all the people who fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh shall dissolve while they stand on their feet, Their eyes shall dissolve in their sockets, And their tongues shall dissolve in their mouths.
13 It shall come to pass in that day That a great panic from the LORD will be among them. Everyone will seize the hand of his neighbor, And raise his hand against his neighbor’s hand. (Zech. 14:1-7, 12-13 NKJ)

Gog and Magog so powerfully destroyed both Jew and Gentile realize God has dealt with Israel harshly because of her sins, not because His Hand could not save. Our of Zion her redeemer will come. The Almighty power God displayed causes the terror of the LORD to overwhelm them. Ezek. 39:21-24.

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[071] The Earth Terrified shrinks back from challenging Yehovah the “God of Heaven and Earth” Ezek. 38:21-23; 39:7

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[072] The Sixth Bowl: Takes out of the way the dimensional barrier symbolized by the Euphrates, permitting the principalities and powers of wickedness in heavenly places Demon Kings of the Sunrising to flood the Holy land.

The War Between God and Satan: The Seven Bowls

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[073] Demonic propaganda campaign by Dragon Beast False Prophet reinforces Strong Delusion Yehovah can be defeated by their combined forces. Rev. 16:13-14

The War Between God and Satan: The Seven Bowls
Three Unclean Spirits Like Frogs: The Big Lie God is an ET

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[074] The Nephilim “Mighty Ones” “Kings of the East” and all the Beast’s human forces gather at Armageddon to fight Yehovah God. Rev. 16:12-16)

The War Between God and Satan: The Seven Bowls

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[075] The Sign of Christ’s Coming appears: a great opening in the sky flashing lightning. Mat. 24:30; Rev. 19:11

The Sign of Jesus’ Coming will be an Opening in the Heavens

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[076] Christ Flashing Lightning from East to West is seen with His Holy Myriads gathering to attack. Christ sends out His angels to gather His Elect wherever on the earth they may be, all who missed the rapture but now repented. Mat. 24:30-31

The War Between God and Satan: The Seven Bowls

Also see #077 below this:

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[077] The Archangel Michael is specially tasked to gather all in Israel whose names are in the book of life but had missed the rapture. Dan. 12:1

Just as the Jesus coming (3952 παρουσία Parousia) spans a short time, so does the First (4413 πρῶτος protos) Resurrection (Rev. 12:5), a succession of people take part in this “first in rank” resurrection.

In the Telescoped Prophecy the resurrection is linked with Michael gathering the elect. This implies these saints also “change in a twinkling of an eye” and are given immortal supernatural “First resurrection” bodies just like Christians received at the rapture/gathering/first resurrection, then the angels take them to the redeemed coming with Christ. Also, Daniel is told “many of those who sleep” which means this cannot be the general resurrection of all the dead.

1 “At that time Michael shall stand up, The great prince who stands watch over the sons of your people; And there shall be a time of trouble, Such as never was since there was a nation, Even to that time. And at that time your people shall be delivered, Every one who is found written in the book.
2 And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, Some to everlasting life, Some to shame and everlasting contempt. (Dan. 12:1-2 NKJ)

The War Between God and Satan: The Seven Bowls

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[078] Those left behind will become food for the eagles (vultures etc.) at Armageddon Mat. 24:30-31 Rev. 19:17-21

The War Between God and Satan: The Seven Bowls

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[079] Satan’s UFO fleet falls out of the sky like leaves shaken off a tree by a mighty wind: The LORD will punish the Exalted on High and Kings of the earth Rev. 6:13; Isa. 13:10-13; 24:21

Revelation 6 The Seven Seals
The War Between God and Satan: The Seven Bowls
The Seventy Weeks in Daniel 9 Explained

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[080] The sky rolls up like a scroll, and every mountain and island moved out of its place. Rev. 6:14

Revelation 6 The Seven Seals
The War Between God and Satan: The Seven Bowls

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[081] Beast followers worldwide cry out “hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb” Rev. 6:15-17

Revelation 6 The Seven Seals
The War Between God and Satan: The Seven Bowls

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[082] Like lightning Flashing from east to west, so everyone one earth will see the coming of the LORD Jesus on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory Mat. 24:27, 30

The War Between God and Satan: The Seven Bowls

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[083] On white horse, The Word of God, robe dipped in blood, and His armies follow Him, KING OF KINGS LORD OF LORDS. Rev. 19:11-16

Riddle of Armageddon Meaning Solved: Solution Hiding in Plain Sight
The War Between God and Satan: The Seven Bowls

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[084] Saints volunteer to be in His Army and He brings them with Him. Ps. 110:3; 1 Thess. 4:14

The War Between God and Satan: The Seven Bowls

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[085] Angel standing in the sun cries out to the birds: “Come, feast on the corpses of the Mighty Nephilim and Men, a great supper prepared for you by God.” Rev. 19:17-18

The War Between God and Satan: The Seven Bowls

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[086] The blood of the slain rises up to the height of horses bridles for 200 miles Rev. 14:18

The War Between God and Satan: The Seven Bowls

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[087] The Beast and false prophet are captured, cast body and soul into Gehenna the lake of fire Rev. 19:20; Matt. 10:28

The War Between God and Satan: The Seven Bowls

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[088] The rest were killed by Christ and became food for the carrion birds of heaven. Rev. 19:21

The War Between God and Satan: The Seven Bowls

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[089] The angel with the key to the bottomless pit lays hold of Satan and imprisons him in chains in the abyss. Rev. 20:1-3

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[090] The Seventh Bowl is poured out upon the air and a loud voice came out of the Temple saying “It is done.” God’s Rule is established Rev. 16:17-18

The War Between God and Satan: The Seven Bowls

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[091] Flashes of Lightning and peals of thunder draw attention to the great earthquake change in rulership on the earth, unlike anything seen before. Rev. 16:18

Revelation 6 The Seven Seals
The War Between God and Satan: The Seven Bowls

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[092] Babylon divided into three parts signifies: 1)Rebuilt Babylon Nuked by Gog; 2)Ten Horns burned Religious Harlot; 3)Now God remembers remaining Atheists which includes Scientific Atheism Beast Followers. Rev. 16:19

Revelation 6 The Seven Seals
The War Between God and Satan: The Seven Bowls

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[093] Every possible island and mountain refuge flees from the Atheists. God sends the worst hail plague ever. In their insane rage they blaspheme God uncontrollably. Angelic reapers will gather these fools after the Sheep and Goat Judgment” (Mt. 13:38-42).

Revelation 6 The Seven Seals

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[094] Christ and His Holy Myriads set up camp in Jerusalem to judge the Sheep and the Goats, unsaved members of Christendom who either helped Christ’s brethren, or did not during the Great Tribulation. Mat. 25:31-46. Compare Mt. 22:1-14; 24:45-51; 25:24-30.

The Judgment of the Sheep and Goats At Christ’s Return
Billions Now Living May Never Die! Billions Now Dead May Rise To life!

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[095] Those who received Christ’s brethren join the Kings and Priests who came with Christ to Jerusalem, their bodies changed in a twinkling of an eye to be like Christ’s resurrected body as is true for all the saints. 1 Thess. 4:14; 1 Cor. 15:51-52.

The Judgment of the Sheep and Goats At Christ’s Return
Billions Now Living May Never Die! Billions Now Dead May Rise To life!

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[096] Then Angelic Reapers go forth into the world where the Gospel of Christ has been preached and they gather all who caused others to sin or practiced lawlessness and they are cast into the unquenchable fire (Mt. 13:24-30, 36-42, 47-50; 2 Thess. 1:7-10).

36 Then Jesus sent the multitude away and went into the house. And His disciples came to Him, saying, “Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field.”
37 He answered and said to them: “He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man.
38 “The field is the world, the good seeds are the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of the wicked one.
39 “The enemy who sowed them is the devil, the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are the angels.
40 “Therefore as the tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of this age.
41 “The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness,
42 “and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
43 “Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear! (Matt. 13:36-43 NKJ)

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[097] After those judgments billions of unsaved humanity remain. They are forgiven offenses (Mt. 12:31-32) and enter Christ’s millennial kingdom where the wheat will be separated from the chaff (Rev. 19:15; 20:7-9; Compare Ps. 2:9-12; 72:1-4; Is. 65:20; Zech. 14:16-21).

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[098] Out of Jerusalem shall go forth the Word of the LORD (Isa. 2:3; 4:3-5; Isa. 24:33), and there is “no death in all My holy mountain” (Isa. 11:9; 65:25). Christ is King (Jer. 23:5; Lk. 1:31-33), and His Saints will be Kings and Priests (Rev. 1:6; 5:10; 20:4, 6) over the nations (Ps. 72:11; 86:9; Dan. 7:13-14). A time of prosperity (Jer 23:5-6) and peace (Isa. 2:4; 11:5-9; Mic 4:3). Sin and rebellion not tolerated (Ps. 2:9; 72:1-4; Isa 65:20; Zech. 14:16-21). They will marry and replenish the population of the earth (Isa. 65:20-22). Sinners cast into the lake of fire (Isa. 65:20).

Billions Now Living May Never Die! Billions Now Dead May Rise To life!

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[099] After 1,000 years Satan is released from his prison to deceive the earth once again, to test the trillions of population. Rev. 20:7-8

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[100] The deceived of the nations number as the sand of the sea and gather against the Holy City surrounding it Rev. 20:7-10

Millions surrounding Jerusalem would seem numberless like the “sand of the sea.” John is communicating the greatness of God’s victory, not concerned some absurdly infer the majority of mankind rejected eternal life with God. Given a 1,000 years of uninterrupted procreation when old age and death didn’t exist, the earth’s population would be in the Trillions. Then, a few million fools surrounding Jerusalem would not be statistically significant.

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[101] They are called Gog and Magog because they resemble them and the same fire from heaven destroys them resulting in the same glory to God’s Name Ezek. 38:14-16; Rev. 20:9

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[102] The Devil who was deceiving them is cast into the lake of fire body and spirit to join the Beast and False prophet, and be tormented day and night forever and ever Rev. 20:10

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[103] The Great White Throne of Christ appears, heaven and earth vanishes, all eyes are on God. Rev. 20:11

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[104] The population of the Millennial Kingdom are judged first. They are called “dead” because they have yet to be given eternal life. Rev. 20:12

Billions Now Living May Never Die! Billions Now Dead May Rise To life!

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[105] Then Death and Hades are emptied and all who passed the trial after they died once rise to a resurrection of life John 5:28-29; 1 Pet. 4:6; 1 Cor. 5:5; Heb. 9:27-28; Rev. 20:13

Preaching to the Dead (Postmortem Evangelism)
Elect in Hell Rise On Judgment Day?
Billions Now Living May Never Die! Billions Now Dead May Rise To life!

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[106] The Sea is emptied signifying fallen angels from Tartarus and Abyss rise imprisoned in abominable resurrection bodies reeking of corruption and driven to run uncontrollably into Gehenna the Lake of Fire body and spirit. Rev. 20:13-15; Luke 8:30-33.

Where Is The Judgment Of Fallen Angels?

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[107] Only those not found written in book of life are cast into the lake of fire Rev. 20:15.

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[108] Death and Hades are cast into Lake of Fire signifying they died the second death never to return.

Does the Lake of Fire Symbolize Eternal Torment for all cast into it

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[109] This Heaven and Earth Matrix dissolves in fervent heat and the infinite Mind of God creates a New Heaven and New Earth and there is no more sea. 2 Pet. 3:10-11; 1 Cor. 13:10; Rev. 21:1

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[110] Then New Jerusalem built by God’s Holy Angels descends from heaven from God: Behold, God tabernacles with humans and they will be His people and He will be their God. Tears, death, sorrow is no more. We will be one with God. It has not entered the heart of man the things has prepared for those who love Him. Rev. 21:2-7; John 17:21; 1 Cor. 2:9

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Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six (Rev. 13:18 KJV)

Many insist we use Gematria (substituting letters for numbers) to solve the riddle of 666 meaning, although they cannot point to any undisputed[1] examples of its use elsewhere in Scripture. How can we decide this issue?

John states wisdom is required to solve the riddle.[2] If  Gematria revealed the name whose number is 666, it would be wise to use that method. However,  Gematria results in too many possible names. Therefore, as John states wisdom is required Gematria is ruled out as a way to solve the riddle.

What is a riddle? “A question or statement intentionally phrased so as to require ingenuity in ascertaining its answer or meaning, typically presented as a game.”-Oxford Languages

John gamely invites all “that hath understanding count the number”. It follows solving the riddle depends on how the text is phrased.

Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666. (Rev. 13:18 NKJ)

the sons of Adonikam, 666 (Ezr. 2:13 NAS)
the sons of Adonikam, 667 (Neh. 7:18 NAS)

John gives three clues how 666 points to one name.
1) “Calculate the number” (666+1=667 Adonikam).
2) “Number OF a man” (666 sons are “OF” the man Adonikam)
3) “His number is 666” (Only one name Adonikam is associated with the number 666 )

John wasn’t like modern critics, he would consider the difference (666 in Ezra 2:13; 667 in Nehemiah 7:18) in number intentional. Experts in Hebrew Scripture will immediately recognize John’s riddle is a asymmetric Janus Parallelism(Gen. 6:3; 49:26; Cant. 2:12; Ezek. 20:37; Dan. 11:35; Nah. 1:8.)

Adonikam had 666 sons or counting from his father also named Adonikam, 667 sons.

From the “Janus” 666 we look back and “count” (5585 ψηφίζω psephizo) “as with pebbles” 666+1=667 to “Adonikam” as the Beast’s name.

From the “Janus” 666 we look forward, Adonikam had 666 sons, they are “of” him. Again the name Adonikam appears.

“His [Adonikam] number is 666.” The only name in the Bible closely associated with 666 is “Adonikam”.

Therefore, solution to John’s riddle is “Adonikam“.

Hebrew Scholar Cyrus Gordon discovered ancient Hebrews used parallelism to communicate meaning, today called Janus Parallelism. Examples can be found in Gen. 6:3; 49:26; Cant. 2:12; Ezek. 20:37; Dan. 11:35; Nah. 1:8; Mat. 16:18.

Janus Parallelism. This type of parallelism hinges on the use of a single word with two different meanings, one of which forms a parallel with what precedes and the other with what follows. Thus, by virtue of a double entendre, the parallelism faces in both directions. Berlin, A. (1992). Parallelism. In D. N. Freedman (Ed.), The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary (Vol. 5, p. 157). New York: Doubleday.

Professor of Theology in Berlin E. W. Engstenberg says in his Revelation of St. John commentary:

Our business is first to discover the name of the beast which furnishes the number 666. And here we must not wander about after our own imaginations. The Seer of the Apocalypse lives entirely in holy Scripture. On this territory, therefore, is the solution of the sacred riddle to be sought. And there also it can be found with perfect certainty. In the whole of the Old Testament there is but one instance in which the number 666 occurs in connection with a name. It is said in Ezra 2:13, “The sons of Adonikam 666.” The name Adonikam must therefore be the name of the beast. It was admirably fitted for being so. It means: the Lord arises,* and is in excellent agreement with the watch-word of the worshippers of the beast: “Who is like the beast, and who is able to make war with him?” It combines all, that in the preceding description had been said to characterize the beast. It is a name of blasphemy; it corresponds to the mouth speaking great things; it accords admirably with the demand upon all the inhabitants of the earth to worship the beast. It points to the war against the saints, and the carrying away of these into captivity, and killing them with the sword. It also perfectly agrees with the description, which St. Paul, in 2 Thess. 2:4, gives of the man of sin: “Who opposeth and exalteth himself against all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he, as God, sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.” The Lord arises—this name originally consecrated to the true God, and derived from the songs of the church, that celebrate him as the Almighty Being, who rises to avenge his enemies, the beast appropriates to himself, as his adherents had already in ver. 4 claimed for him the name Michael. By this reference of the name to its original destination, its blasphemous character is heightened; q.d. not that one, the miserable product of the vain imaginations and arrogant claims of his wretched worshippers, it is not he who is the Lord, but I, whose omnipotence is palpable to all; it is not he, who arises to help his poor worshippers, and execute vengeance on his enemies, but I that arise to extinguish those wretched saints with their crucified One and their God. Besides, the name Adonikam in its original reference to the living God reacts against the claim, as also the number 666, according to what is presently to be remarked, at once indicates the claim, and marks its presumptuous and shameful character.

[*Footnote on meaning of Adonikam]
אדוך without the article is used of the Lord in Ps. 114:7. The Jod is commonly in the proper names a connective vowel, and not the suffix—see Ewald, p. 499, Anm. 2. So also in other proper names, which are compounded of Adon: Adoniram (Jehoram corresponds), the high lord, a designation of him, to whom the bearer of the name was devoted, as so many similar names—for example, Eliah, God-father, Joab, Joel, Jehoshua; Adonijah, the Lord is Jehovah (not my Lord). The קִום is used of the Lord, who rises up to the help of his people, and for vengeance on his enemies; comp. קִימה יהוה in Ps. 3:7, 7:6, 9:19, 10:12; also Ps. 12:5, 44:26, 68:1. The name took its rise from these passages of the Psalms; as indeed it was very natural that the Psalms, whose words were continually sounding in the ears of the Lord’s people, should especially exercise an important influence in the formation of names. A reference is found to those passages even in Is. 33:10. The name Asrikam is formed in the same way; the help (the Lord as helper) rises up, resting on Ps. 44:2.—We must take the name Adonikam in no other signification than that in which it occurs in the fundamental passages; not, for example, with Vitringa in the sense of the Lord’s enemy; which is also grammatically inadmissible.-Hengstenberg, E. W. (1853). The Revelation of St. John. (P. Fairbairn, Trans.) (Vol. 2, pp. 69–71). New York: Robert Carter & Brothers. Bolding mine.

QUESTION—What person is indicated by the number 666?

It may refer to the trinity composed of Satan, the antichrist, and the false prophet. Each have the number 6 symbolizing that they each fall short of divinity whose number is seven [Hu]. All other commentaries consulted simply listed the possibilities that have been suggested by authorities, but none committed themselves to a definite answer.-Trail, R. (2008). An Exegetical Summary of Revelation 12–22 (2nd ed., p. 55). Dallas, TX: SIL International.

666 is none of those things. Rather, the great revolt against all called God (2 Thess. 2:3-4) prophesied in Daniel and Revelation make 666 the likely “flag” of the revolt against YHWH, similar to the Swastika to Nazis. Sporting the mark to proclaim one’s allegiance to Beast Adonikam merits ETERNAL punishment (Rev. 14:9-12). John also reveals it is mandatory one have the mark to buy and sell (Rev. 13:16-17).

A friend asked, “wouldn’t the Antichrist change his name from Adonikam to hide his identity?” That would not be consistent with the character of the “little horn” who is so boastful against God (Dan. 7:8, 11, 20, 25; 8:9-11, 23-25; 11:36-37; 2 Thess. 2:4; Rev. 13:5-6). Its more likely, if Adonikam isn’t his birth name, that he would change it to “Adonikam” to boast he fulfills the prophecy of the Antichrist.

 

Beast worshipers will celebrate it…until they don’t. Notice the subtle change, men go from boldly blaspheming “the name of God”, to grudgingly conceding His power as “the God of heaven”. This happens after the fifth bowl, when YHWH God strikes the seat of the beast with darkness causing them to gnaw their tongues for pain (Rev. 16:9-11). They became so weak at the knees upon experiencing God’s awesome power a fresh dose of demonic propaganda was necessary to restore courage (Rev. 16:12-14).

On this see:
War between God and Satan

 

Another interesting riddle is Samson’s riddle, it reveals a blueprint for solving Biblical riddles. An important clue is the double meaning of the words “lion” and “honey” in the language of Samson and the Philistines:

The word “lion” in Hebrew (ʾarî) is almost identical to an Arabic word for “honey” (ʾary).-Wolf, H. (1992). Judges. In F. E. Gaebelein (Ed.), The Expositor’s Bible Commentary: Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 & 2 Samuel (Vol. 3, p. 468). Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House.

The Riddle:

So he said to them: “Out of the eater came something to eat, And out of the strong came something sweet.” Now for three days they could not explain the riddle. (Jdg. 14:14) NKJ

“Eater” in Hebrew can be a man, beast or insect that “devours with extreme violence” (0398 אָכַל ‘akal Num. 23:24; 1 Ki. 13:28). As the “eater” is “strong” (05794 עַז `az) “mighty, fierce” the image of lion naturally arises. Confirming this describes a lion is the irony of taking food from the lion’s mouth, a definite clue.

As for “sweet” honey naturally comes to mind (Jdg. 14:18).

The “lion/honey” homonym is what made this a valid riddle. Notice these points are present in the answer the Philistines gave to Samson:

What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? (Jdg. 14:18)

Many commentators object the riddle was unfair, but the context contradicts that claim. They wouldn’t have wasted three days trying to solve it, or by the seventh day threaten the bride’s family if they could have simply objected it wasn’t a fair riddle (Jdg. 14:14-15). Their answer in Judges 14:18 implies they considered it fair, the answer a valid result of the clues in the riddle.

What likely prevented the Philistines from solving the riddle was the presence of many possible “strong eaters” and “sweets” at the feast. That would misdirect their attention away from the solution.

They broke the first rule for solving riddles, thinking outside of the box is a must.. It is likely John’s choice of “count” (ψηφίζω) is intended to “misdirect” the uninitiated to the wrong solution. If so, it worked fabulously well. Those in the habit of seeking solution to enigma outside of scripture took the bait with Gematria, as they often do appealing to apocrypha and pseudepigrapha rather than seeking the answer in scripture critically thinking on the context.

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[1]It is disputed Matthew 1:17 is Gematria pointing to David (14). Jesus is the subject, “carrying away into Babylon unto Christ” does not point to David without circular reasoning, eisegesis which contradicts the theory. Other suggested reasons, none of which satisfy: 1) Emphasize importance of Abraham, David and captivity, that the promises of Messianic kingdom fulfilled in Christ; 2) Show God’s grace in Israel’s rise, fall and redemption. 3) Symbolic of completeness (“7” x 2 = 14, thrice for intensity). This is not a complete list; good hunting.

[2] Ωδε ἡ σοφία ἐστίν: “Here is wisdom” (KJV); “Wisdom is needed here” (NLT); “This calls for wisdom” (NIV); “This is where wisdom is needed” (CJB).

The Antichrist: His Names Titles and Descriptions
The Two Phases of Antichrist: Man of Sin; Son of Destruction
Antichrist will sit in the Temple of God: Third Temple or the Church?
Deadly Wound Was Healed When Babylon Rebuilt
What did the apostle John reveal when he said: “It is the last hour”?
Where Is The Judgment Of Fallen Angels?
Do Ancient Aliens Appear in the Bible?
The Coming False Christ and His Followers Revealed

Is it possible to reconcile the existence of evil with the Sovereign LORD Yehovah who is Love who is impeccably good?

Calvinism emphasizes the absolute sovereignty and predestination of God, therefore must maintain the Sovereign has predestined everything, including ordaining the existence of evil. While they insist this does not make God the author of sin or evil although it serves God’s purposes, this raises questions about God’s goodness if everything, including evil acts, is predestined by God.

Arminianism, on the other hand, with its emphasis on human free will attributes the existence of evil to human free will and the consequential nature of human choices rather than God’s direct decree. But this raises questions about the extent of God’s sovereignty and control over the world if human choices can contravene His will.

Does a “Grand Theory of Everything” exist that can reconcile the Sovereignty of the God of Love and Good, with the existence of evil that both John Calvin and Jacob Arminius didn’t know?

I believe there is, and it can be deduced from the paradox of Election:

How can individuals be “Elect according to the foreknowledge of God” (1 Pt. 1:2) when their Election occurred before they were born “neither having done any good or evil” (Rom. 9:11 KJV).

For both statements to be true, two versions of the Elect must exist, and they must be forever separate and distinct. Version #1 resides in God’s Foreknowledge and never came into existence, while Version #2 is what became actual, coming into existence through one man, Adam after he sinned (Rom. 5:12ff).

The Grand Theory proposes God foreknew everything, including who everyone would be if the fall never happened. Where Version #1 was truly free, their response to God not affected by sin and delusion. Those who responded to God’s Love, with love were elected, predestined unto salvation lest any of them be lost in this fallen world of sin and delusion:

28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.
29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.

30 Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified. (Rom. 8:28-30 NKJ)

As Version #1 exists solely in God’s omniscience, nothing Version 2 does in this life was a factor in God’s selection. Individuals can be elect according to the foreknowledge of God, yet not according to their works in this life they may do.

So how does this result in a “Grand Theory of God’s Love?’ God loves His children whom He foreknew so much, He is willing to endure with much patience and long suffering the fallen realm, and all its vessels of wrath who have fitted themselves to eternal destruction:

22 What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,
23 and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory, (Rom. 9:22-23 NKJ)

For the greater good of enjoying eternity with Version #1, whom Version #2 will become when all things are restored in Christ. God permitted the fall of creation. Otherwise Version #1 would never spring into existence.

Another aspect of this Grand Theory, is to acknowledge the infinity of God (1 Kings 8:27), that our matrix exists in the infinite Mind of the Word, who verbalizes God’s bringing it into concrete existence:

“But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain You. How much less this temple which I have built! (1 Ki. 8:27 NKJ)

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 He was in the beginning with God.
All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. (Jn. 1:1-3 NKJ)

15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him.
17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. (Col. 1:15-17 NKJ)

“for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said,`For we are also His offspring.’ (Acts 17:28 NKJ)

Jesus is God the Son, Second Person of the holy Trinity, and cannot be a lesser deity as some suppose. No one but God Himself can be the Glue holding everything together much like electromagnetism holds atoms together “bound by light” so they have the appearance of being solid”:

For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse. (Rom. 1:20 NKJ)

Our spacetime continuum, past present future exists in timeless infinite God. From His perspective, the elect are already seated with Christ in His kingdom, but to finite creatures this reality will become known in the coming ages:

4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,
5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
6 and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
7 that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. (Eph. 2:4-7 NKJ)

Divine Holiness is separateness from all evil. Evil occurs in the Matrix caused solely by the actors in the Matrix, much as in the movie “The Matrix”. God cooperates with created things by sustaining the reality in which it exists, but this “concurrence” doesn’t mean that God is the direct cause or author of evil.

Satan and fallen humanity are the blame for the existence of evil, but lest the “greater good” not come into existence God permits it be so for now.

Does that “Grand Theory of Creation” satisfy the “problem of evil?” What say you?

Everything I said uses words as they are defined in the scriptures.

1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To the pilgrims of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
2 elect according to the foreknowledge (4268. πρόγνωσις) of God the Father (1 Pet. 1:1-2 NKJ)

4268. πρόγνωσις prógnōsis; gen. prognṓseōs, fem. noun from proginṓskō (4267), to know beforehand.-Zodhiates, S. (2000). In The Complete Word Study Dictionary: New Testament (electronic ed.). AMG Publishers.

God didn’t choose without knowing anything about the chosen. No intelligent Being ignores what he knows when choosing people or things.

The proposition God did not elect according to what He knew about the Elect, is a contradiction of the plain teaching of scripture.

The Majority Text dates back to the autographs but because it (being excellent copy) was often worn out by use, new copies were continually made. Although these copies are later than those found in ancient garbage dumps and monastery trash bins, that is explained by their excellency causing them to be worn out by use.

But the strongest evidence for the “Johannine comma” is the context. Its written against those like Cerinthus who theorized a divine Christ descended on the man Jesus, so He was not the Son of God.

There is symmetry in the proof Jesus is the Son of God. Father, Word, Holy Spirit IN HEAVEN “these three are one” testify Jesus is the Son of God, and ON EARTH the witness is paralleled by the water and blood that flowed out from Christ’s heart when the soldiers pierced His side (John 19:34). This signifyed “eternal life” or “living water” gushes out from Jesus because of the New Testament in His Blood shed at Calvary, which the Holy Spirit bears witness to ON EARTH every time someone is converted to Christ (“born of water and the Spirit”, John 3:5-7) “so these three agree as one”

The symmetry is lost when the text is corrupted leaving out the phrase. Three in Heaven and Three on Earth are united in compound unity to proclaim Jesus is the Son of God

4 For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world– our faith.
5 Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
6 This is He who came by water and blood– Jesus Christ; not only by water, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who bears witness, because the Spirit is truth.
7 For there are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one.
8 And there are three that bear witness on earth: the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and these three agree as one.
9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for this is the witness of God which He has testified of His Son.
10 He who believes in the Son of God has the witness in himself; he who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed the testimony that God has given of His Son.
11 And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son (1 Jn. 5:4-11 NKJ)

Early Christians were aware of the phrase:

Cyprian (c. 200 – 258 AD) – Cyprian, the Bishop of Carthage, is one of the earliest and most frequently cited fathers in relation to the Comma. In his treatise, “De ecclesiae catholicae unitate,” Cyprian makes a statement that has been interpreted as an allusion to the Comma Johanneum: “The Lord says, ‘I and the Father are one;’ and again it is written of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, ‘And these three are one.'” While this does not directly quote the passage as it appears in later Latin manuscripts, it reflects a Trinitarian understanding that some argue hints at a knowledge of the Comma.
Priscillian (c. 340 – 385 AD) – Priscillian, a Spanish ascetic and theologian, is another figure associated with an early reference to the Comma. His writings include a Latin text that resembles the Comma, but this could reflect a later interpolation or recension in the manuscript tradition rather than an original citation.
Jerome (c. 347 – 420 AD) – Jerome, who translated the Latin Vulgate, noted that the Comma was found in some Greek manuscripts, although it is widely accepted that these references might be to Latin manuscripts, as no existing Greek manuscript from his time or earlier contains the Comma. Jerome’s involvement and comments have been seen as key in the Comma’s inclusion in the Latin Vulgate tradition.
Augustine (354 – 430 AD) – Augustine sometimes mentioned a triadic formula when discussing the unity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, but his writings do not explicitly quote the Comma. Like Cyprian, his discussions on the Trinity have been scrutinized for possible allusions to the Comma.

Are God and His angels Extraterrestrials? Ancient Alien Theory claims they are astronauts from another planet that primitive humans mistook for gods. Once a theory believed only by “tin foil hatters”, it is rapidly growing in acceptance since the US military released videos confirming UFOs exist[1]:

Some have found Ancient Alien Theory so compelling they lost their Christian faith. Barry Downing was a Presbyterian Minister. He lost his faith when he was convinced Jesus was an ET. Minister Downing was not a stupid man, he has a PhD in religion and science from the University of Edinburgh, physics from Harwick College and a degree from Princeton. He was pastor of the Northminister NY Presbyterian Church, a well-established protestant denomination.

The pastor was blinded by a confirmation bias so strong he couldn’t see the fallacy of his position, the clear and incontrovertible fact ONLY God knows the future (Is. 46:9-10) and THAT puts Him infinitely above the angels. [2]

It is counterintuitive “Ancient Aliens” had any influence over the Bible because its teachings contradict premise of their existence:

1. Monotheism;
2. Creation by divine Fiat;
3. Personal relationship with God;
4. The Law of Moses prefiguring the Sacrifice of Christ for the sins of the world;
5. Exclusivity of Earth as sole inhabited planet;
6. Uniqueness of Humans made in the image and likeness of God;
7. Neither Angels or Demons are portrayed as Extraterrestrial life forms.
8. Extraterrestrials not mentioned in End of the World prophecies.
9. Extraterrestrials not found in the “New Heavens and New Earth” God will create that lasts for eternity.
10. The impossibility of Aliens correctly predicting the circumstances of Jesus Christ’s birth, life, death and resurrection centuries in advance.

This last is particularly true as it is reported Aliens have crashed their space ships dozens of times throughout history. Apparently, seeing even a few seconds into the future is beyond their ability.

This contrasts with the God of the Bible:

21 “Present your case,” says the LORD. “Bring forth your strong reasons,” says the King of Jacob.
22 “Let them bring forth and show us what will happen; Let them show the former things, what they were, That we may consider them, And know the latter end of them; Or declare to us things to come.
23 Show the things that are to come hereafter, That we may know that you are gods; Yes, do good or do evil, That we may be dismayed and see it together.
24 Indeed you are nothing, And your work is nothing; He who chooses you is an abomination. (Isa. 41.21-24 NKJ

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[1]
Some allege UFO reports are government disinformation to hide secret weapons programs. However, its impossible as no earthly government could replicate the global UFO phenomena that has been recorded throughout history. However, the idea ancient aliens are visiting the earth is Satanic disinformation and clearly has fooled everyone, including the US Government:

So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. (Rev. 12:9 NKJ)

[2]
Messiah to be born in Bethlehem (Mic. 5:2; Mt. 2:5-6); Worshiped by wise men and presented gifts (Ps. 72:10; Is. 60:3, 6, 9; Mt. 2:11); Infants slaughtered at birthplace (Jer. 31:15; Mt. 2:17-18); Rejected by His own (Is. 53:3; Ps. 69:8; Jn. 1:11; 7:5); Triumphal entry into Jerusalem (Zech. 9:9; Mt. 21:4-5); Betrayed by Friend for thirty pieces of silver (Ps. 41:9; 55:12, 14; Zech. 11:12; Mt. 26:14-16, 21-25) used by buy a potters field (Zech. 11:12-13; Jer. 18:1-4; 19:1-4; Mt. 27:9-10); Crucified between two thieves (Is. 53:12; Mt. 27:38); Given vinegar to drink (Ps. 69:21; Mt. 27:34; Jn. 19:34, 37; 20:25-27); Garments parted and gambled for (Ps. 22:18; Lk. 23:34; Jn. 19:23-24); Buried with the Rich (Is. 53:9; Mt. 27:57-60); To be raised from the dead quickly after death (Ps. 16:10; Mt. 28:2-8). Christ fulfilled hundreds of OT prophecies and allusions, even the most ardent sceptics admit dozens of them are incontrovertibly about Christ.

Contrast God’s impeccable knowledge of the future with the angels who read scripture to know the future (1 Pet. 1:12; Dan. 10:21). I would cite the crashes of alien ships as proof the future is unknown to them except I believe that is strategy to seed the earth with “alien tech”.

In Scripture Angels are revealed to be physical beings who enter our realm of existence through a “portal” from a region of time and space in the alternate parallel dimension called “heaven”. Both the angels of God and the angels of the Devil use technology including spaceships and these war against each other everywhere, including our limited realm of existence. Angels built heavenly “New Jerusalem” which will become visible when the “MEROS” or “partial realm” of our existence is done away by the coming of the “TELEIOS” or “complete realm” of the New Heavens and New Earth (1 Cor. 13:10; Rev. 21:2). For more on this see the following blogs:

Angels are physical beings
The Heavenly Angels God’s Army in Daniel 8:9-14
Star Wars in Daniel
Is the Wing of Abominations in Daniel 9:27 a UFO?
In Him The Meta-Universe Holds Together: The TELEIOS MEROS Multiverse
As in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man
Nephilim Fallen Angels and the Sons of God
The Origin of Satan and Demons
The Coming False Christ and His Followers Revealed
The Free Speech forum where you can share your ideas

Satan is the head of the demons and led their rebellion against God; he now leads them in propagating evil in the world.

According to Scripture, Satan was a particularly powerful and high-ranking angel who led one third of the angelic host to rebel against God (Eph 2:2; Rev 12:1–12). Satan is a Hebrew word that means “adversary” (שָׂטָן). Scripture also refers to Satan as “the devil” (Matt 4:1, 5; Lk 4:2, 3; Eph 6:11), “the serpent” (Gen 3:1; 2 Cor 11:3; Rev 20:2), “the great dragon” (Rev 12:9; cf Rev 20:2), “the prince of the power of the air” (Eph 2:2), “the god of this age” (2 Cor 4:4), “the evil one” (Matt 13:19, 38; Jn 17:15; Eph 6:16), “the prince of demons” (Matt 9:34; 12:24; Mk 3:22; Lk 11:15), “the accuser” (Rev 12:10), and “the tempter” (Matt 4:3; 1 Thess 3:5). Like the other angels and demons, Satan is an invisible being who is highly intelligent and very powerful.

Satan was responsible for tempting Eve in the garden and leading humanity’s first parents into sin. Though Genesis never explicitly identifies the serpent as Satan, later Scripture identifies the “ancient serpent” as “Satan” (Rev 12:9; 20:2). Since his initial rebellion, Satan has continued to work against God’s righteous and saving purposes in the world. He actively opposes the propagation of the gospel by blinding unbelievers to its truth (2 Cor 4:4), persecuting the church (2 Cor 12:7; 1 Thess 2:17–18; Rev 2:10), and promoting false doctrine (Jn 8:44; cf 1 Tim 4:1). Satan actively seeks to incite Christians to fall into sin and is constantly attempting to ensnare them in unrighteousness (2 Cor 11:3). Satan is also an accuser, calling the faith of Christians into question before God and accusing them of sin (Job 1:9–11; Rev 12:10).

As a created being, Satan, though powerful, is not equal with God. Instead, like the other demons, he is wholly subject to God’s sovereign will (Job 1:6–12; 2:1–10).-Emadi, S. (2018). Satan. In M. Ward, J. Parks, B. Ellis, & T. Hains (Eds.), Lexham Survey of Theology. Lexham Press.

Any Bible dictionary will provide the above, what follows is the rest of the story they do not report.

Satan is more powerful than the Archangel Michael (Dan. 10:13; Jude 1:9), he is called the “anointed cherub” making him “Arch-cherub” among the Cherubim which is the highest order of created beings above seraphim and angels. While the other cherubim carried the throne of God, Satan was its “covering roof” a “canopy over the Throne” (Ez. 28:14).

“Perfect” in his ways until iniquity was found in him, he became prideful about his own beauty (Ez. 28:15, 17; 1 Tim. 3:6) and his wisdom was corrupted (Ez. 28:17), desiring to be worshiped (Isa. 14:13-15; Lk. 4:6-8). Rather than glorify God for his perfections, he became vain in his reasoning.

Satan looked deep within himself and saw iniquity, he had selfish motives for serving God. Likely “Confirmation Bias” convinced him the same was true for everyone. Therefore, God made a terrible mistake believing sentient life would share life with Him in mutual “true love”. As God made a mistake, His own criteria disqualified from being God (Is. 41:21-24). Satan then “trafficked (Ez. 28:5) his argument angel to angel, eventually convincing a third of likeminded angels to join his rebellion (Rev. 12:4).

Satan thought Job would prove to the heavenly court: “God’s pronouncement Job is blameless and upright is an error, God made a mistaking believing Job does not have selfish motives causing his devotion to God:

6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them.
7 And the LORD said to Satan, “From where do you come?” So Satan answered the LORD and said, “From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking back and forth on it.”
8 Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil?”
9 So Satan answered the LORD and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing?
10 “Have You not made a hedge around him, around his household, and around all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.
11 “But now, stretch out Your hand and touch all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face!”
12 And the LORD said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your power; only do not lay a hand on his person.” So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD. (Job 1:6-12 NKJ)

Satan lost his case, God was right about Job. But Satan’s main argument, “there is a selfish motive for every act of devotion to God” still seemed incontrovertible to a third of heavens angels (Rev. 12:3-4) No doubt “confirmation bias” contributed to their error, they projected their own selfish motives onto others.

What incontrovertible proof “unselfish love” exists would convince the heavenly court? The incarnation of Christ.

Jesus proved unselfish love exists when He made Himself of no reputation leaving all the privileges and prerogatives of Godhood because He loved the Father more than life itself and loved man with true unselfish love.

4 Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.
5 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,
6 who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God,7 but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men.
8 And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.
9 Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name,
10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth,
11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Phil. 2:4-11 NKJ)

The Father proved unselfish love exists, when He gave His only begotten Son the “apple of His eye” so all who believe in Him shall not perish.

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, (Jn. 3:16 NKJ)

Therefore, both the Father and Son incontrovertibly establish unselfish love exists:

It is written:

By the mouth of two or three witnesses the matter shall be established. (Deut. 19:15 NKJ)

The incarnation of Christ so irrefutably proved Satan wrong demons cannot say “Jesus Christ came in the flesh”, they choke on the words as the terror of the LORD overwhelms all rational thought.

2 By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,
3 and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world. (1 Jn. 4:2-3 NKJ)

That is the origin of Satan and his fallen angels. They “bet the farm” God would disqualify Himself from being God once Satan proved He made a great mistake creating intelligent free willed life to dwell with, in mutual “true love”:

13 For you have said in your heart:`I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation On the farthest sides of the north;
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.’
15 Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, To the lowest depths of the Pit.
16 “Those who see you will gaze at you, And consider you, saying:`Is this the man who made the earth tremble, Who shook kingdoms,
17 Who made the world as a wilderness And destroyed its cities, Who did not open the house of his prisoners?’
18 “All the kings of the nations, All of them, sleep in glory, Everyone in his own house;
19 But you are cast out of your grave Like an abominable branch, Like the garment of those who are slain, Thrust through with a sword, Who go down to the stones of the pit, Like a corpse trodden underfoot.
20 You will not be joined with them in burial, Because you have destroyed your land And slain your people. The brood of evildoers shall never be named. (Isa. 14:13-20 NKJ)