The Judgment of the Sheep and Goats At Christ’s Return

written by Alfred Persson | December 31, 2022

31 “When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory.
32 “All the nations (1484 ἔθνος ethnos) will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats.
33 “And He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left. (Matt. 25:31-33 NKJ)

1484 ἔθνος ethnos {eth’-nos}

Meaning: 1) a multitude (whether of men or of beasts) associated or living together 1a) a company, troop, swarm 2) a multitude of individuals of the same nature or genus 2a) the human race 3) a race, nation, people group 4) in the OT, foreign nations not worshipping the true God, pagans, Gentiles 5) Paul uses the term for Gentile Christians

Origin: probably from 1486; TDNT – 2:364,201; n n

Usage: AV – Gentiles 93, nation 64, heathen 5, people 2; 164-Strong-s

The English word “ethnic” is derived from the Greek word “ethnos” (ἔθνος). In ancient Greek, “ethnos” primarily referred to a multitude of people who share common characteristics, such as language, customs, or cultural traits.

Paul uses the term for Gentile Christians:

for before certain men came from James, he would eat with the Gentiles (1484 ἔθνος ethnos); but when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision. (Gal. 2:12 NKJ)

When interpreting scripture context determines the meaning of a word or symbol. The Parable of the Ten Virgins (Mt. 25:1-13), the Servants of the Master (Mt. 25:14-30) are spoken to Christians as group:

“Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming. (Matt. 25:13 NKJ)

“All the nations” therefore is warning to Christians of the world what will happen when Christ and His angels arrive:

Notice Their final judgment is the same:

29 `For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.
30 `And cast the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
31 “When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory.
32 “All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats.
33 “And He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left.
…
46 “And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.” (Matt. 25:46 NKJ)
(Matt. 25:29-33, 46 NKJ)

17 For the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God?
18 Now “If the righteous one is scarcely saved, Where will the ungodly and the sinner appear?” (1 Pet. 4:17-18 NKJ)

Christ sent the gospel out into the earth to make “disciples of all the nations”, and now those who had heard the Gospel but didn’t respond in time to be raptured with the church, are being judged.

“Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations (1484 ἔθνος ethnos), baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, (Matt. 28:19 NKJ)

 

Did Christ say “all the nations [of the world]” will be judged, or “all the [Christian] nations” will be judged?

That is how some in the early Church interpreted it:

If, after all this, we cannot suppose that a judgment of non-Christians is here meant, we may even go still further, and say that non-Christians are not included at all, and so we must also reject the view usually adopted, since Chrysostom and Augustine, that what is here exhibited is a judgment of all men, believers and unbelievers alike. For, so far from the mention of the divine ἐκλογή, ver. 34, or the idea of the δίκαιοι, ver. 37, or what Jesus says at ver. 35, or the answer of those assembled before the Judge, vv. 37 and 44, or the entire omission generally of any distinction between belief and unbelief, harmonizing with the notion of a mixed body consisting of Christians and non-Christians, they entirely exclude the latter. We should therefore return to the very old view (Lactantius, Instit. vii. 20; Jerome, Euthymius Zigabenus), which, though it had been neglected in consequence of the prevalent eschatology, was preserved by Grotius, the view, namely, that what Jesus is here depicting is the judgment of Christians: περὶ τῶν Χριστιανῶν δὲ μόνων ὁ λόγος ἐνταῦθα, Euthymius Zigabenus, who proves this, above all, from vv. 35, 36. All the points previously adduced as arguments against the other explanations combine to favour this view.-Meyer, H. A. W. (1884). Critical and Exegetical Handbook to the Gospel of Matthew (W. Stewart, Ed.; P. Christie, Trans.; Vol. 2, pp. 178–179). T&T Clark.

Context supports this early Christian Interpretation. “Goat-like behavoir” is seen in the Five Virgins foolishly failing to greet the Bridegroom when He came (Mt. 25:1-13) and in the “wicked and lazy servant” who did nothing for the Kingdom of God (Mt. 25:14-31). After saying these parables, Christ talks about the Judgment of the Sheep and the Goats. Isn’t it reasonable He is still talking about those who should have been ready for His arrival? That can’t be said about “all the nations [of the world],” it can only be said about ‘All the nations [liable for having heard the gospel of Christ].”

Moreover, it would violate Christ’s principle that those who did not know God’s will receive severe punishment of eternal flame (Lk. 12:47-48; Mt. 25:41-45). Only those who know what God requires, and fail to do it would be judged so harshly.

The proof “all the nations” cannot refer to all the population of the earth, is found in the context of the New Testament:

The judgment of the Sheep and the Goats happens at Christ’s return, not after the 1000-year millennial Kingdom. Also, unlike Judgment Day when the dead are raised from the Sea, Death, and Hades (Rev. 20:11-15) , no resurrection occurs in Matthew 25: 31-46.

Furthermore, the Sheep cannot be Christians because this Judgment occurs while they are seated with Christ and His angels, as Kings and Priests. “These my Brethren (Mt. 25:40; Rm. 8:29) were “gathered” (2 Thess. 2:1) from the earth during Christ’s coming in glory. They reign with Christ as Kings and Priests (Rev. 1:6; 20:4-6; 1 Thess. 4:14-18; 1 Cor. 15:51-58; Mat. 24:29-31; Rev. 14:14-16). Because they believed in Christ when physically alive, they do not “come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.” (John 5:24). As Christ’s “Brethren” they have authority to judge the unsaved with Christ (Mt. 19:28; 1 Cor. 6:3; Rev. 20:4), the “firstborn among many brethren” (Rm. 8:29).

Both the Sheep and the Goats know Christ, they call Him LORD. They know Christ’s disciples but had not joined them in the Faith. King Jesus decrees if they received His disciples (Mt. 12:40) they have received Him. Those who helped His brethren during the Great Tribulation would receive their reward (Mt. 10:42; Mk. 9:41), entry into the Kingdom of God.

Therefore, “all the nations” refers to all the survivors of Armageddon from all nations that heard the Gospel of Christ, but failed to do it. Christ judges those who practiced Christianity as having professed faith in His Name, and He invites them to join “Christ’s brethren” seated there with Christ—all the Christians who were raptured at Christ’s coming and were then serving as His Kings and Priests (Rev. 1:5-6; 5:10). Its implied the Sheep were “translated” like Enoch (Heb. 11:5) “; changed” “in the twinkling of an eye” (1 Cor. 15:51-52) when they join the redeemed (Dan. 12:3; Mt. 13:43).

Then the goats are cast into the lake of fire to join the Beast and False Prophet (Mt. 25:41, 46; Rev. 19:20; Compare Mt. 8:10-12; 13:24-30, 36-42; 22:1-14; 24:45-51; 25:24-30).

The rest of the earth who had no connections to “Christ’s brethren” (which implies they had not heard the gospel preached sufficiently to incur liability for not believing it), enter the 1000-year kingdom of Christ. They marry and populate the earth resulting in billions more of humanity to enter the New Heavens and New Earth of God’s Kingdom (Rev. 21:1-8). Although aging has ceased, they do not have eternal life at this time. They must first pass the final test of the earth (Rev. 20:7-15); until then they counted as still “dead” (Rev. 20:12; John 5:25).

Their judgment is ongoing. If anyone sin during the Millennial Kingdom they are cast off accursed, which means tossed into the lake of fire:

19 I will rejoice in Jerusalem, And joy in My people; The voice of weeping shall no longer be heard in her, Nor the voice of crying.
20 “No more shall an infant from there live but a few days, Nor an old man who has not fulfilled his days; For the child shall die one hundred years old, But the sinner being one hundred years old shall be accursed.
21 They shall build houses and inhabit them; They shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
22 They shall not build and another inhabit; They shall not plant and another eat; For as the days of a tree, so shall be the days of My people, And My elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
23 They shall not labor in vain, Nor bring forth children for trouble; For they shall be the descendants of the blessed of the LORD, And their offspring with them.
24 “It shall come to pass That before they call, I will answer; And while they are still speaking, I will hear.
25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, The lion shall eat straw like the ox, And dust shall be the serpent’s food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain,” Says the LORD. (Isa. 65:19-25 NKJ)

END
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The Daily Sacrifice shall be taken away—Daniel 12:11

written by Alfred Persson | December 31, 2022

The End-Time clock begins at the start of the seven year “week”, not in the middle as some suggest. That is clear from the 1290 and 1335 days, these are different points on the same time line that must include the 1260 days when the Beast rises up breaking covenants scattering the power of the holy people (Dan. 12:7; 9:27).

Some object confusing the “sacrifice (02077 זֶבַח zebach) and the oblation (04503 מִנְחָה minchah) in Daniel 9:27 with the “daily (08548 תָּמִיד tamiyd)” in Daniel 12:11. The “Daily sacrifice” ended with the apostasy of the Church at the beginning of the week, when it received the false Christ.

The “Man of Sin” appears to a “fallen away church” as a false Christ condoner of sin, at midway he morphs into the Beast Son of Destruction Antichrist (Dan. 7:25; 9:27; 12:7) ending all “sacrifice and oblation” worldwide (2 Th. 2:3-4; Rev. 11:7; 13:5).

Is it hermeneutically sound we interpret “the daily [sacrifice]” as figurative of Christians taking up the cross daily and serving Christ?

Yes, that is 100% consistent with the NT applying Temple language to the church (1 Cor. 3:16-17; 6:19; 2 Cor. 6:16; Eph. 2:19-21). Peter identifies the church as a spiritual house “a holy priesthood, to offer up “spiritual sacrifices” (πνευματικὰς θυσίας) acceptable to God” (1 Pet. 2:5). In Hebrews we are admonished to “offer (399 ἀναφέρω anaphero) sacrifice (2378 θυσία thusia)” and that word is used in the Greek Septuagint to offer (399 ἀναφέρω anaphero) the whole burnt offering that in Hebrew is the “daily” (08548 תָּמִיד tamiyd) 1 Ch. 16:40; 23:31; 2 Ch. 2:3; 24:14.

Our sacrifice of praise is to be 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), it follows “that the daily sacrifice “shall be taken away” (05493 סוּר cuwr; 868 ἀφίστημι) is taken away by the church’s apostasy when it receives the false Christ man of sin, which occurs at the commencement of the seven years.

Not taking up the cross daily for Christ, doing service to the false Christ, is the apostasy that removes the daily sacrifice of praise and offerings to God and that marks the beginning of the end time week as does the arrival of Moses and Elijah to prophesy in Jerusalem (Rev. 11:3-7)

Some object its unhistorical NT usage define OT meaning, but that is not pertinent to prophecy whose words are sealed (Dan. 12:9) until the generation it was written for had arrived (1 Pt. 1:12). Confirming this, the angel said the righteous and wise would understand in the end time (Dan. 12:10). However, righteous and wise Daniel (Dan. 1:17; 4:9-10, 18; 5:10-12, 14-16) could not understand because he was not in the end time when the unsealed meaning of the words would be known.

This radically affects classic pre/mid/post tribulation discussion, and how long the Great Tribulation will be (45 days), for more on this:

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

written by Alfred Persson | December 31, 2022

The Seals refer to events in the world, the Revelation Trumpets herald events in Christendom, the bowls events against the kingdom of the Beast.

The Seven Trumpets

Revelation is a book of prophecy (Rev. 1:3; 22:7, 10, 18-19). Therefore, although Christianity barely existed when John wrote, the fact a third of today’s population claims to be Christian must be given weight. Especially as we are interpreting prophecy about the population as it exists on earth in the end time.

Its natural in a prophetic book about the End, whose first three chapters concern the seven churches then existing in Asia, it treats the end time church in a special and unique way.

Consistent with the view the third of the earth’s population that claims to be Christian is the main target of these Trumpets, in Revelation 9:4 “trees, grass, green thing” consists of those who have or do not have the name of God on their forehead. That division in end time church population was predicted by Christ (Mt. 13:36-42).

What should we conclude then? John used symbols pertinent to Christendom, not the world in general. The “earth, sea, rivers and springs” “signify” (4591 σημαίνω semaino Rev. 1:1) Christendom. The first three trumpets spiritually kill all the TARES in Christendom, a third at a time (Rev. 8:7-11).

It is not until the fourth Trumpet announces the effect the first three Trumpets had on God’s revelation to the earth, that things get literal in the last Three Trumpets. God’s revelation on earth has been darkened by the loss of light from the church (cp. Gen. 1:14-18; Rev. 12:1), its apostasy has caused the earth to be in total darkness a third of both day and night (Rev. 8:12).

Then an angel appears in mid-heaven warning about the “three woes of spiritism”, two more are left. (First woe is Rev. 8:7-11; Second Woe is Rev. 9:1-21; 11:7-14; Third Woe is (Rev. 12:9-12).

First Trumpet

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)

When hail and fire struck ancient Egypt (Ex. 9:23-26), it literally destroyed trees and grass, but that wouldn’t the “signification” of hail and fire mingled with blood striking an apostate church (2 Th. 2:3). This scene springs from an angel taking fire from God’s altar, and casting it down to the earth, signifying the hail mixed with blood is 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, here hail is about to be unleashed on the apostates (Ps. 78:47; Hag. 2:17) so the power of God symbolized by “noises, thunderings, lightnings” include an earthquake because earth is about to be radically shaken by this display power. 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 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.

God would not treat the false prophets of Christendom differently than the false prophets of Israel

1 And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
2 “Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy, and say to those who prophesy out of their own heart,`Hear the word of the LORD!'”
3 Thus says the Lord GOD: “Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing!
4 “O Israel, your prophets are like foxes in the deserts.
5 “You have not gone up into the gaps to build a wall for the house of Israel to stand in battle on the day of the LORD.
6 “They have envisioned futility and false divination, saying,`Thus says the LORD!’ But the LORD has not sent them; yet they hope that the word may be confirmed.
7 “Have you not seen a futile vision, and have you not spoken false divination? You say,`The LORD says,’ but I have not spoken.”
8 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: “Because you have spoken nonsense and envisioned lies, therefore I am indeed against you,” says the Lord GOD.
9 “My hand will be against the prophets who envision futility and who divine lies; they shall not be in the assembly of My people, nor be written in the record of the house of Israel, nor shall they enter into the land of Israel. Then you shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
10 “Because, indeed, because they have seduced My people, saying,`Peace!’ when there is no peace– and one builds a wall, and they plaster it with untempered mortar–
11 “say to those who plaster it with untempered mortar, that it will fall. There will be flooding rain, and you, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall tear it down.
12 “Surely, when the wall has fallen, will it not be said to you,`Where is the mortar with which you plastered it?'”
13 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: “I will cause a stormy wind to break forth in My fury; and there shall be a flooding rain in My anger, and great hailstones in fury to consume it.
14 “So I will break down the wall you have plastered with untempered mortar, and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation will be uncovered; it will fall, and you shall be consumed in the midst of it. Then you shall know that I am the LORD. (Ezek. 13:1-14 NKJ)

13 And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.
14 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
15 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land. (Jer. 23:13-15 KJV)

Second Trumpet

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.
9 And a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed. (Rev. 8:8-9 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 “great mountain burning with fire” signifies the arrival of the “Man of Sin” who destroys the church by condoning every sort of sin, making the sea become blood so a third of those swimming in it, or making their living from it, die spiritually.

Third Trumpet

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)

13 “And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria: They prophesied by Baal And caused My people Israel to err.
14 Also I have seen a horrible thing in the prophets of Jerusalem: They commit adultery and walk in lies; They also strengthen the hands of evildoers, So that no one turns back from his wickedness. All of them are like Sodom to Me, And her inhabitants like Gomorrah.
15 “Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets: `Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, And make them drink the water of gall; For from the prophets of Jerusalem Profaneness has gone out into all the land.'”
16 Thus says the LORD of hosts: “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They make you worthless; They speak a vision of their own heart, Not from the mouth of the LORD. (Jer. 23:13-20 NKJ)

Fourth Trumpet

Then the fourth angel sounded: And a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them were darkened. A third of the day did not shine, and likewise the night. (Rev. 8:12 NKJ)

This isn’t the coming of the Day of the LORD (Joel 2:31; Ac. 2:20) because then more than a third of the sun and moon would be affected.

The first three Trumpets spiritually killed everyone in Christendom “not having the seal of God on their forehead”. That affects Divine Light reaching the earth, because the Church radiates that light to the earth (Rev. 12:1).

The fallen away Church has become Egypt, Sodom (cp. Rev. 11:8) to God. Her apostasy will reap its just reward.

The darkening of sun moon and stars signifies calamity is about to befall Christendom, just like it did to Egypt:

2 “Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him:`You are like a young lion among the nations, And you are like a monster in the seas, Bursting forth in your rivers, Troubling the waters with your feet, And fouling their rivers.
3 `Thus says the Lord GOD: “I will therefore spread My net over you with a company of many people, And they will draw you up in My net.
4 Then I will leave you on the land; I will cast you out on the open fields, And cause to settle on you all the birds of the heavens. And with you I will fill the beasts of the whole earth.
5 I will lay your flesh on the mountains, And fill the valleys with your carcass.
6 “I will also water the land with the flow of your blood, Even to the mountains; And the riverbeds will be full of you.
7 When I put out your light, I will cover the heavens, and make its stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, And the moon shall not give her light.
8 All the bright lights of the heavens I will make dark over you, And bring darkness upon your land,” Says the Lord GOD.
9 `I will also trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries which you have not known.
10 `Yes, I will make many peoples astonished at you, and their kings shall be horribly afraid of you when I brandish My sword before them; and they shall tremble every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of your fall.
11 `For thus says the Lord GOD: “The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon you. (Ezek. 32:2-11 NKJ)

Fifth Trumpet

1 Then the fifth angel sounded: And I saw a star fallen from heaven to the earth. To him was given the key to the bottomless pit.
2 And he opened the bottomless pit, and smoke arose out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace. So the sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke of the pit.
3 Then out of the smoke locusts came upon the earth. And to them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
4 They were commanded not to harm the grass of the earth, or any green thing, or any tree, but only those men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
5 And they were not given authority to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man.
6 In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will desire to die, and death will flee from them.
7 The shape of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle. On their heads were crowns of something like gold, and their faces were like the faces of men.
8 They had hair like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth.
9 And they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots with many horses running into battle.
10 They had tails like scorpions, and there were stings in their tails. Their power was to hurt men five months.
11 And they had as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, but in Greek he has the name Apollyon. (Rev. 9:1-11 NKJ)

The star/angel given the keys is not a fallen angel, later the key is used to imprison Satan (Rev. 20:1-2). The angel had “fallen” (4098 πίπτω pipto) before the fifth Trumpet sounded, he was waiting to get this key.

This event illustrates how God is lifting His restraint on spiritism (2 Th. 2:6-7), His decree limiting its manifestation “taken out of the way” just like the decrees against us were taken “out of the way” ( ἐκ τοῦ μέσου Col. 2:14 BGT).

God sends the “deluding influence” (NAS) by not restraining the energy of Satan and his agents to inwardly convince people falsehood is true (2 Th. 2:7-10), that the “Lawless One” “Man of Sin” false Christ is The Christ:

7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work (1754 ἐνεργέω energeo); 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 (1753 ἐνέργεια energeia) 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 (1753 ἐνέργεια energeia), 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. 2:7-12 NKJ)

The angel uses the key to open the prison door so the “spirits of demons”, disembodied Nephilim (“Fallen Ones” Gen. 6:4), can flood the earth.

They have been in the Abyss since they died physically in the flood of Noah’s Day (Gen. 7:21-23). That explains their appearance. Their crowns of something like gold show they are Satan’s “principalities and powers” (Eph. 6:12) who were cast down to the earth to stop the incarnation of Christ (Rev. 12:4) warring against the woman’s seed (Gen. 3:15) by corrupting the image of God in man with the DNA of angels. That is why they have “hair like women”, to identify sex with human women is the chief reason for their being imprisoned in the abyss (Gen. 6:1-4; 2 Pt. 2:4; Jude 1:6-7).

Apostates Tares (Mt. 13:36-42) will never choose to be true believers in Christ (Rev. 9:4), but these cowards don’t want to manifest themselves. Lest they fail to do so in a timely fashion, God permits the Devil persuade them. The demon-locusts torment and afflict until they do what they want to do anyway, follow the Antichrist Beast.

The locusts are bioships, “fallen angel technology” that allows disembodied “spirits of demons” ( πνεύματα δαιμονίων Rev. 16:14 BGT) to physically torment humans. The “locust/bioships” fly out of the tunnel of the abyss, having the “appearance” (3667 ὁμοίωμα homoioma) like “horses prepared for battle” because they are coming out to battle.

Confirming these are “bioship locusts”: They have breastplates like iron, which signifies spears and arrows cannot pierce them. The engines in their wings had the sound of chariots with many horses running into battle (Rev. 9:9-10), like a jet engine.

After five months of intense torment the TARES of Christendom are on board. They can’t wait for the Man of Sin to reveal himself at midweek, as the “son of Destruction” seed of Satan” (Gen. 3:15) prophesied to come, declaring himself God above all Elohim, including above the God of God’s Yahweh, in the Temple of God the Church:

3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away 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) (Mt. 24:15; Dan. 7:8, 11, 25; 9:27; Rev. 13:5-8)

He declares war on everything called god, especially blaspheming Yahweh and his angels, claiming: “He is just another Extraterrestrial Elohim who can be defeated in battle. He is jealous of His position, doesn’t want humans to increase in knowledge and ascend to a higher plane, immortality” (Gen. 3:22-24; 6:1-4). “Ancient alien theory” reveals he can be defeated at Armageddon (Rev. 16:13-16).

5 And he was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and he was given authority to continue for forty-two months.
6 Then he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, His tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven. (Rev. 13:5-6 NKJ)

Sixth Trumpet

13 Then the sixth angel sounded: And I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.”
15 So the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, were released to kill a third of mankind.
16 Now the number of the army of the horsemen was two hundred million; I heard the number of them.
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.
19 For their power is in their mouth and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents, having heads; and with them they do harm.
20 But the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and idols of gold, silver, brass, stone, and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk.
21 And they did not repent of their murders or their sorceries (5331 φαρμακεία pharmakeia) or their sexual immorality or their thefts. (Rev. 9:13-10:1 NKJ)

The voice coming from the altar signifies this is God’s answer to the prayers for justice by the saints (Rev. 6:10; 8:3-5).

The “great river Euphrates” is the symbolic boundary of the land of God (Gen. 15:18; Deut. 1:7; 11:24; Josh. 1:4). Releasing the four angels signifies the dimensional barrier separating the spiritual realm from the physical has been removed. Spiritual wickedness in heavenly places (Eph. 6:12) can now manifest itself on earth, the restraint has been “taken out of the way” (2 Th. 2:6-8).

If these four angels were demons John would have said so. Therefore, we should interpret their being “bound” (1210 δέω deo) to mean they were “put under obligation” (Strong’s), just as the Cherubim were keeping humanity out of the Garden of Eden (Gen. 3:24). They were awaiting God’s orders to accomplish the work they were ordained and prepared to do (Rev. 9:15). They likely are the same “four winds of heaven” stirring up the “Great Sea” who permitted the four beasts to rise onto the earth (Dan. 7:1-3). We can speculate they had shifts standing post at the “great river Euphrates”, which likely exists in the parallel world of heaven also.

Except for the breastplate armor, John does not describe the horsemen, only the craft they pilot. John’s description could fit modern military drones. As these are fallen angels, its certain they will be piloting truly dreadful attack vehicles appearing just as John described, killing just like he said.

When the Elohim appear and their technology is seen I’m sure what John described will be obvious.

John is surprised this massive betrayal of Beast worshipers didn’t cause the rest of the earth to question their allegiance to the Dragon. The slaughter of Christendom by Satan’s Nephilim didn’t slow the worship of demons and idols even little. Incredibly, the earth continued their murders, drug use (5331 φαρμακεία pharmakeia), sexual immorality and thefts as if nothing ever happened. John’s wording may imply his shock, not just because they didn’t repent, but they even celebrated the destruction of those Christendom hypocrites.

Seventh Trumpet

15 Then the seventh angel sounded: And there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever!”
16 And the twenty-four elders who sat before God on their thrones fell on their faces and worshiped God,
17 saying: “We give You thanks, O Lord God Almighty, The One who is and who was and who is to come, Because You have taken Your great power and reigned.
18 The nations were angry, and Your wrath has come, And the time of the dead, that they should be judged, And that You should reward Your servants the prophets and the saints, And those who fear Your name, small and great, And should destroy those who destroy the earth.”
19 Then the temple of God was opened in heaven, and the ark of His covenant was seen in His temple. And there were lightnings, noises, thunderings, an earthquake, and great hail. (Rev. 11:15-19 NKJ)

The “third woe” is Satan appearing on earth (Rev. 12:12), not the seventh Trumpet which flashes forward in time to AFTER the Bowls of God’s wrath have been poured out. That is why the verbs are in the past tense, these are “prophetic perfects”, John is seeing the Future after God began to rule. Its interpretation is obvious, plainly stated. It telescopes forward to the millennial Kingdom of Christ and then to the Great White Throne Judgment of the dead. Why flash forward to God’s Kingdom just before the bowls poured out? Its in celebration, now God will “kick ass” and soon nothing will remain of the enemy, God will rule!

Revelation 6 The Seven Seals
The War Between God and Satan: The Seven Bowls
The Sign of Jesus’ Coming will be an Opening in the Heavens
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
The Antichrist: His Names Titles and Descriptions
What did the apostle John reveal when he said: “It is the last hour”?
Where Is The Judgment Of Fallen Angels?



The Image of the Beast will be an Artificial Intelligence

written by Alfred Persson | December 31, 2022
Image of the Beast

Many nations make the image to the beast; therefore it cannot be a low tech idol. It is a “living” Artificial Intelligence able to defend itself, killing anyone who tries to disconnect.

14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. (Rev. 13:14-15 KJV)

An image for the monster. The dative is used, not the genitive, “an image for the monster” rather than “of the monster.”- (2008). Revelation: introduction, translation, and commentary (Vol. 38, p. 214). New Haven; London: Yale University Press.

The nations are deceived into making this image, “deception” (4105 πλανάω planao) required to overcome fear of tyranny an AI Network controlling the global economy made possible. Interfaced with the AI, Adonikam the Beast can see and hear everything near a connected device in real time as though he were God Himself. Like an artificial life-form, the Network can defend itself successfully against attacks.

[Christian Hacker-Warriors of the LORD (Dan. 11:32-33); Holy Messenger (32 ἄγγελος aggelos ) in the cloud! (Rev. 14:6-7) Be vigilant! Your death is its top priority.]

The AI is patterned in the image of the Beast, his evil personality governs it. Its Icon (1504 εἰκών eikon) is the image of the Beastly Empire or Beast Emperor or both. Likely it doubles as “the Mark of the Beast” or is part of it.

Like the Swastika was in Nazi Germany, it will be everywhere. Everyone will know it proclaims rebellion against Yahweh God, no one was deceived into receiving the mark. They rejoice in the delusion they can defeat Yahweh! Like the Days of Noah (Mt. 24:37-39), Nephilim Fallen Angels and Man conspire against Yahweh hoping to seduce His sons and daughters (Gen. 6:1-5; Mk. 9:42-49). Therefore, the worst punishment is reserved for them:

9 Then a third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives his mark on his forehead or on his hand,
10 “he himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out full strength into the cup of His indignation. He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.
11 “And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.”
12 Here is the patience of the saints; here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. (Rev. 14:9-12 NKJ)

Under the guise of fairly distributing earth’s scarce resources, nations were deceived in creating this monster and now all must worship Adonikam or they cannot buy or sell.

16 He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads,
17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. (Rev. 13:16-17 NKJ)

If it were not for the economic collapse that occurred when rebuilt Babylon was destroyed (Rev. 18:11), its unlikely even the signs and wonders accomplished by the Anglo-American False Prophet could have convinced the nations give control of their economies to Emperor Adonikam. But during times of great crisis such radical changes can occur.

Deadly Wound Was Healed When Babylon Rebuilt
Britain and America in Prophecy
Adonikam is the Name of the Beast having 666 meaning
The Two Phases of Antichrist: Man of Sin & Son of Destruction
The Antichrist: His Names Titles and Descriptions
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



Where Is The Judgment Of Fallen Angels?

written by Alfred Persson | December 31, 2022
judgment of fallen angels

Where is the judgment of fallen angels?

The Judgment of fallen angels will certainly take place (Jude 6; 2 Pet. 2:4; Matt. 25:41) and saints will play a role judging them (1 Cor. 6:3), but scholars cannot agree where the judgment occurs in the Bible.

I believe their methodology is flawed, that if we use Sherlock Holmes-like deduction the precise time and place of the judgment of fallen angels can be found in the Bible. Scripture provides the clues; we need only connect the dots:

Fallen angels are judged on the “great day” of God Almighty:

And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day; (Jude 1:6 NKJ) See also 2 Pet. 2:4

The Church will participate in their judgment:

2 Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world will be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
3 Do you not know that we shall judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life? (1 Cor. 6:2-3 NKJ)

The “great day” of God Almighty spans the time before the coming of Christ (Mal. 4:5; Rev. 6:17; 16:14) and End Time Judgment.

Accordingly, there seems to be a judgment prior to Christ’s return (Dan. 7:9-12; Rev. 20:4-5) and another after the Millennial reign of Christ, the Great White Throne Judgment (Rev. 13:11-15):

9 “I watched till thrones were put in place, And the Ancient of Days was seated; His garment was white as snow, And the hair of His head was like pure wool. His throne was a fiery flame, Its wheels a burning fire;
10 A fiery stream issued And came forth from before Him. A thousand thousands ministered to Him; Ten thousand times ten thousand stood before Him. The court was seated, And the books were opened.
11 “I watched then because of the sound of the pompous words which the horn was speaking; I watched till the beast was slain, and its body destroyed and given to the burning flame.
12 “As for the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away, yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time. (Dan. 7:9-12 NKJ)

The Church “received authority to Judge” (CJB) in Revelation 20:4 and this implies they continue to play a role in the Great White Throne Judgment in Revelation 20:11-12.

4 And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
5 But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. (Rev. 20:4-5 NKJ)

Although the angels are not explicitly said to be judged by what’s written in the books, its follows from the existence of “elect angels” (1 Tim. 5:21) that their names also appear in the “book of life” just like human elect (Phil. 4:3).

That this judgment includes more than the human “dead” is implied in Revelation 20:13. It is impossible to personify “Sea…Death…Hades” in this verse, therefore listing “sea” alongside “death” —which contains all human dead who died in the sea; is tautological UNLESS the intent is to imply angels leaving their prison Tartarus (5020 ταρταρόω tartaroo, 2 Pet. 2:4), whose entrance was believed to be in the sea (Compare Job 26:4-5).

Corroborating this, theSea of Chaos (Prov. 8:29) is associated with angels and demons (Job 26:13; Isa. 27:1; 51:9; Ps. 74:13-14; Dan. 7:2; Rev. 7:1; 13:1). Moreover, the sea is “the realm of the Devil” (Isa. 27:1; Dan. 7:2-3; Rev. 20:13). That would explain why the “sea” does not exist in the New Heavens and New Earth (Rev. 21:1).

11 Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And there was found no place for them.
12 And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books.
13 The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works.
14 Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
15 And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire. (Rev. 20:11-15 NKJ)

Both angels and men will be judged together.

The punishment of God must fall at the same time both upon the princes of heaven and upon the princes of earth…Verse 22a announces the preliminary punishment of both angelic and human princes.-Keil, C. F., & Delitzsch, F. (1996). Commentary on the Old Testament (Vol. 7, p. 282). Peabody, MA: Hendrickson

21 It shall come to pass in that day That the LORD will punish on high the host of exalted ones, And on the earth the kings of the earth.
22 They will be gathered together, As prisoners are gathered in the pit, And will be shut up in the prison; After many days they will be punished.
23 Then the moon will be disgraced And the sun ashamed; For the LORD of hosts will reign On Mount Zion and in Jerusalem And before His elders, gloriously. (Isa. 24:21-23 NKJ)

At Armageddon Satan’s “angels” (= “stars” Rev. 1:20; 9:1) his angelic UFO armada fall from the heavens like “untimely figs” while the Beast’s armies are bombarded on earth (Isa. 34:4-8; Rev. 6:13-17). Then the “mighty”(2478 ἰσχυρός ischuros) Nephilim “Kings of the sunrising” (395 ἀνατολή Anatole) (Rev. 16:12; 19:18) are slain alongside the Beast’s human army by the King of Kings Jesus Christ our LORD (Rev. 19:11-21). Imprisoned in their appropriate places in Hell they wait for the resurrection of condemnation (John 5:28-29; Rev. 20:11-15) on Judgment Day.

The Beast and False prophet are cast body and soul into the Lake of fire (Rev. 19:20; Mt. 10:28), perhaps in a “twinkling of an eye” their bodies changed (Contrast 1 Cor. 15:52) into abominable bodies reeking of corruption (Dan. 12:2; Isa. 14:11; 66:24; Mk. 9:42-48; Gal. 6:8). Satan is bound and imprisoned in a separate place to be unleashed once again on the earth (Rev. 20:1-3, 7-9) and will join the Beast and False prophet in the lake of fire later (Rev. 20:10).

The judgment of fallen angels was prefigured when a legion of demons, imprisoned in “unclean flesh” (which could symbolize the abominable resurrection bodies of the damned), were driven into the Lake where they died physically, their spirits ending up in the very abyss they feared. Gehenna, Lake of Fire, Furnace of Fire, the Depths, Destruction, and Abyss refer essentially to the same place:

30 And Jesus questioned him, saying, ‘What is thy name?’ and he said, ‘Legion,’ (because many demons were entered into him,)
31 and he was calling on him, that he may not command them to go away to the abyss,
32 and there was there a herd of many swine feeding in the mountain, and they were calling on him, that he might suffer them to enter into these, and he suffered them,
33 and the demons having gone forth from the man, did enter into the swine, and the herd rushed down the steep to the lake, and were choked. (Lk. 8:30-33 YLT)

END NOTES:

[1] Contrary to the “ruling” of the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215, angels are corporeal (1 Cor. 15:40). The theory angels materialize physical bodies to appear physical in our realm is a hasty generalization fallacy confusing “spirits” with “angels”. They are distinguished from each other in Acts 23:8-9. The lying spirit who fools the prophets (1Kings 22:21-22) is nothing like the angels who ate and drank with Abraham (Gen. 18:1-8) or sat under a tree speaking to Gideon (Judges 6:11-12). Rather than conjure up physical forms to be seen, it appears they have cloaking technology (2Kings 6:17) and appear in our matrix without walking through doors or walls just as Jesus did in his physical resurrection body (John 20:19-20). Jesus eats a fish to contradict any suggestion He is a spirit (Luke 24:36-43).

Angels are always represented as physical and the theory they have God like power to create living bodies contradicts the declaration God alone has that power (Dt. 32:39). Rather, scripture reveals there are portals that can connect earthly and heavenly realms. Jacob saw angels walking through a portal on a ladder through the “gate of heaven” (Gen. 28:12, 17). John went through a similar door to enter heaven (Rev. 4:1). So did the chariots of fire that took Elijah away, a swirling energy vortex (2 Kings 2:11). Christ and His heavenly army will enter our Matrix through an opening in the sky (Rev. 19:11) perhaps similar to when the clouds concealed His departure during his Ascension (Acts. 1:9).

When the “complete” (5046 τέλειος teleios) and “partial” (3313 μέρος meros) (1 Cor. 13:10) touched each other [“kingdom of God came in power (Mk. 9:1)] during the Transfiguration, Moses and Elijah step into our Matrix still physical as Peter confirms by wanting to build tents for them (Mk. 9:4-5). [Satan had tried to prevent the resurrection of Moses (Jude 1:9)]. It is a massive violation of Occam’s razor sola scripturists ignore these scriptures to perpetuate the error proposed by the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215.

“Spirits of demons” implies angelic bodies contain within them an immaterial spirit (Rev. 16:14). Spirits and angels are distinguished from each other (Ac. 23:8-9). The hapax legomen λειτουργικὰ πνεύματα “ministering spirits” in Hebrews 1:14 notwithstanding. This is not a reference to angelic nature, but to their function as minsters of the spirit. If these were immaterial spirits, then God wouldn’t have to make them spirits after creation (Ps. 104:4. Heb. 1:7).

Nothing about New Jerusalem coming down from heaven implies an “immaterial city”, it follows neither would their likely builders be immaterial (Rev. 21:10-27). If one cannot be physical in heaven, why didn’t Paul realize he wasn’t still in his own body while in third heaven? (1 Cor. 12:2, 4). The description of this matrix as a “partial” requires it is less substantial as “the complete”. The “teleios” contains dimensions of revelation of God we lack (1 Cor. 13:8-12). If anything is “immaterial”, it be us ghostly photons consisting in the Infinite Mind of God the Eternal Son held together by His thought (Col. 1:17. Ac. 17:28). As the “Word of God” Jesus makes concrete what Triune YHWH God conceives (2Cor. 4:6. Gen. 1:1).

Let’s not confuse the “spirits of demons” (Rev. 16:14) with angels still having “celestial bodies” (1Cor. 15:40).

Unclean spirits and demons wandering tombs etc. craving corporeality, are the spirits of Nephilim Fallen Angels who did not corrupt the image of God in man; but not permitted to reenter the dimension of heaven as the flood waters killed all flesh alive on the earth (Gen. 7:21-23). Included among these are the evil hybrid offspring of the angels (Gen. 6:4). Desperately craving corporeality, they pathetically roam the wastelands possessing anything they can, insects (2Kings 1:2), animals (Lk. 8:33) or men (Lk. 8:30-32).

Nephilim Fallen Angels and the Sons of God
Angels are cast out of Heaven Twice?
God vs Devil How could Satan hope to win?
Three Unclean Spirits Like Frogs: The Big Lie God is an ET
The War Between God and Satan: The Seven Bowls
What did the apostle John reveal when he said: “It is the last hour”?
Do Ancient Aliens Appear in the Bible?
The Origin of Satan and Demons
The Coming False Christ and His Followers Revealed



Satan’s Angels are cast out of Heaven Twice?

written by Alfred Persson | December 31, 2022
Angels are cast out

Satan’s angels are cast out twice: Angels are cast out by Satan (Rev. 12:4), Satan and his angels are cast out by Michael (Rev. 12:9-11). The prophecy is “telescoped” skipping over the time separating the Flood of Noah’s Day and the End Time Seven Year “Week” revealed in the Apocalypse. As the Days of Noah were, so also the Days of Christs return (Luk. 17:26). Angels appeared physically on the earth both times.

During Satan’s war against the Woman’s Seed (Gen. 3:15) which he waged by corrupting the human genome with Nephilim DNA, hoping to prevent the incarnation of the Son of God in truly human flesh (John 1:14; 1 John 4:2-3), Noah’s generation joined the conspiracy, tempting the sons of God sent to minister to them with their beautiful daughters, seducing them to sin (Gen. 6:1-4). All Nephilim and God’s angelic sons guilty of corrupting the human genome were not permitted to return to heaven when the Flood came killing them all (Gen. 7:21-23).

When these angels died physically their spirits (cf. πνεύματα δαιμονων Rev. 16:14 compare Acts 23:9) were bound in chains in Tartarus (2 Pet. 2:4; Jude 1:6). Demon spirits were segregated from them and cast into the fiery “Abyss” (Rev. 9:1-2) . Their hybrid children who refused to believe God would forgive their Frankenstein human-Elohim nature, and so refused to believe Noah and be saved, were cast into a separate prison (1 Pet. 3:19-20) after they died physically in the flood. Christ preached salvation to these after His Crucifixion and they believed His preaching and were led back into paradise to wait with righteous dead (1 Pet. 3:21-22; Eph. 4:8). Those dismbodied spirits God judged not worthy of any of these fates, remained on the earth wandering as unclean demon spirits desperately seeking to be “clothed” again (cf. 2 Cor. 5:4) by possessing insects animals and men (Luke 8:29-30). The swine drowning in the lake prefigures their being driven into the Lake of Fire when Christ sets up His Reign, before the Great White Throne (Rev. 20:11) Judgment Day (Jude 1:6 “Judgment of the Great Day” is the day of Jesus’ return Acts 2:20; Rev. 6:17; 16:14).

After Michael casts them out “woe to the earth” because they walk again among mankind as they did in the Days of Noah to deceive mankind again to fight against God (Gen. 6:1-4; 2 Thess. 2:11; 1 Tim. 4:1; Rev. 16:13-14).

That this prophecy is telescoped showing what happened in the Days of Noah and the Days of the coming of the Son of Man, is confirmed by the appearance of transcendent Lady Zion in heaven, at the dawn of human history when the war against the woman’s seed began. (Gen. 3:15; 37:9-10; Gal. 4:26).

It was in Genesis Satan first tried to destroy her seed by defiling the image of God in man with that of angels (Gen. 6:1-4). Therefore, its deducible the Dragon cast his angels down to earth in Genesis before the flood of Noah’s Day.. [They were called the Nephilim (fallen ones), and these conspired with humanity enticing their contemporaries the “sons of God” to partake of forbidden relationships with the daughters of men. Their role in enticing the sons of God is why they are mentioned first Genesis 6:4, its looking backward to what they did. The fallen angels on earth who had not taken wives were allowed to return to heaven].

So this apocalyptic scene is telescoped from Genesis to the end time week when Michael and his angels cast Satan and his angels out of heaven. That is how they can be cast down to the earth twice.

It follows that Satan and his angels are literally cast out and come down from heaven when Michael and his angels cast them out. They will be visible, Satan the Dragon will appear (Rev. 16:13) and so will the demon Kings of the East (Rev. 16:12). Unlike the “spirits of demons” (Rev. 16:14) they retain their corporeal.

It wasn’t until the Fourth Lateran Council that the corporeality of angels was seriously rejected. Most Protestants faithfully retain this Catholic tradition. However, that dogma is a massive violation of Occam’s razor as not one scripture implies a creative act occurs whenever angels enter our realm. Rather, Scripture implies an “opening” connects the realms (Gen. 28:12-13, 17; Mat. 3:16; Lk. 3:21; Ac. 7:56; 10:11; Jo. 1:51; Rev. 4:1; 19:11). Jesus did not materialize physical forms to prove He had risen from the dead (Lk 24:39). He did not walk through locked doors or a wall, He suddenly “stood in their midst” (Lk. 24:36; Jo. 20:26). At Jesus’ ascension a cloud received him out of their sight (Ac. 1:9).

At the transfiguration the “kingdom of God come with power” (Mk. 9:1) implying a point of connection was made linking the heaven and earthly realms, an opening into heavenly TELEIOS (“complete”) and the earthly MEROS (“incomplete”) 1 Cor. 13:10. This point of connection is where Elijah, Moses and Jesus stand and converse in radiant light. That all three were physically standing together and not spirits is confirmed by Peter’s reaction, he wanted to build tents for them (Mk. 9:23-5).

Enoch was translated (3331 μετάθεσις), a transfer not a dematerialization (Gen. 5:22; Heb. 11:5). Paul did not know if he went to third heaven in the body or out (2 Cor. 12:3) which could not be the case if he couldn’t enter heaven physically. Elijah was taken up into heaven in a chariot ascending into heaven through a vortex opening said described as a “whirlwind”.

New Jerusalem descends from heaven, it does not materialize on earth and its clear mankind will physically walk its streets (Rev. 21:2-3).

A study of 1 Cor. 13:10 indicates within the meta-universe two parallel universes consist. The more substantial reality is the TELEIOS “kingdom of God”, not our MEROS “that which is in part” because it lacks the dimension of the revelation of God (1 Cor. 13:10-12). In the infinite mind of Christ the Multiverse (meta-universe) consists and has its being (Col. 1:17), in Him both human and angel exist and have their being (Ac. 17:28).

This does not deny spirits (whatever their nature) exist in heaven (1 Ki. 22:21), only that they are another form of life within it. Evil spirits and demons wandering the earth longing for the corporeality they lost in the flood (Gen. 7:21-23) cannot be confused with Satan and the rest of his angels who retain their physical form (Dan. 10:13; Rev. 12:7-8; 16;13). Only God’s restraining decree (2 Thess. 2:7; Rev. 9:1, 14-16) prevents these from appearing physically now on the planet. Any time after God lifts that restraint is when they can appear, no doubt disguised as an extraterrestrial race.

So the angels Michael kicks out of heaven will appear on earth physically, in effect the Nephilim will have returned just as it was in the Days of Noah.

Its not symbolic, its literal. They will walk among us, deceiving mankind they offer immortality, a “workaround” to God’s denying humanity this casting them out of the garden of Eden (Gen. 3:22-24), just as they deceived men in the Days of Noah (Gen. 6:1-4).

Ancient Aliens or Angels? Even the Elect might be deceived
Nephilim Fallen Angels and the Sons of God
As in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man
Satan’s War against the Woman’s Seed, the Child of the Daughter of Zion
What did the apostle John reveal when he said: “It is the last hour”?
Where Is The Judgment Of Fallen Angels?
The Coming False Christ and His Followers Revealed



Words are closed up and sealed

written by Alfred Persson | December 31, 2022
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Words are closed up and sealed

In Daniel 12:4 the angel commands the preservation of the words of the vision by closing and sealing the book. Once the original is preserved from changes, unclosed and unsealed copies are made for study (Jer. 32:9-12). “Many will go here and there [throughout the earth looking for answers (compare Amos 8:12; 2 Chron. 16:9; Zech. 4:10), and “the knowledge” shall increase.

4 “But you, Daniel, shut up (05640 סָתַם catham) the words, and seal (02856 חָתַם chatham ) the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro (07751 סוּט shuwt), and knowledge shall increase.”

So “the knowledge” shall increase as interpreters go “to and fro” in the “the time of the end” to discover the new meaning old words have. Prior to the End Time Generation, some of the words remain “closed up and sealed.”

8 Although I heard, I did not understand. Then I said, “My lord, what shall be the end of these things?”
9 And he said, “Go your way, Daniel, for the words are closed up (05640 סָתַם catham) and sealed (02856 חָתַם chatham ) till the time (06256 עֵת `eth) of the end (07093 קֵץ qets).
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 (07919 שָׂכַל sakal) shall understand. (Dan. 12:4, 8-10 NKJ)

“Closed up” and “sealed” reappear in Daniel 12:9 with a change in meaning, now words in the vision are “obscure” and “mysterious” and there is no reference to literally “shutting up” and “sealing” the book to preserve its words from harm.

End time events “open up” and “unseal” what is “obscure” and “mysterious”, not “special revelation by God’s Holy Spirit.” “The wise (prudent, circumspect) shall understand”. Everyone “critically thinking” on the text and looking “to and fro” in End Time events will discern the meaning of the prophecy.

Until End Time events uncover the new meaning of old words, they remain obscure and mysterious. The prophet Daniel illustrates this perfectly. Daniel and his associates were experts in Jewish customs, its Temple and sacrifices including past interruptions of its Daily Sacrifices. Yet in prophecies which todays interpreters so confidently apply to Antiochus and Antichrist and a third Temple yet to be rebuilt, Daniel and his contemporaries don’t understand the vision at all.

27 And I, Daniel, fainted and was sick for days; afterward I arose and went about the king’s business. I was astonished by the vision, but no one understood it. (Dan. 8:27 NKJ)

The events giving new meaning to old terminology had not yet happened in Daniel’s time. It was not until the New Covenant in Christ’s blood we see a new application for old terms like “Temple of God” and “Daily Sacrifice”. 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).

It was impossible Daniel understand his own prophecy even though he was expert in Jewish custom and law and specially gifted by Holy Spirit to interpret visions and enigmas (Dan. 4:8-9, 18; 5:11-12). Without knowledge of these new events, the words remained “closed up” and “sealed.”

As it is “end time events” that “open up and unseal” what is “obscure and mysterious”, special revelation by God is not required for the critical thinker studying the text to know what it predicts. Only those living in the End Time will have all the necessary information to know what Daniel’s prophecy predicts.

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

written by Alfred Persson | December 31, 2022
wing of abominations

What is the “wing of abominations” in Daniel 9:27?

A literal rendering of the Hebrew text is, “And on the wing of abominations one who causes desolation [will come].”-Miller, S. R. (1994). Daniel (Vol. 18, pp. 272–273). Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers.

“Abominations” usually refers to idols (Dt. 29:16; Jer. 7:30; 16:18; 32:34; Ezek. 5:11; 7:20; 11:21; 20:7, 8, 30; 37:23), hence “wing of idols” doesn’t make sense. How can [plural] idols have just one [singular] wing? Hence interpreters ancient and modern remove the conflict, changing “wing” into “wings” or “abominations” into “abomination”, then interpret the verse.

However, when an explanation does not conform to fact it is no longer “true”. Rather than change God’s Word to fit a preferred interpretation, why not change the assumptions of the Interpreters and see if that “opens up” and “unseals” the words in this time of the End (Dan. 12:9)?

19 What am I saying then? That an idol is anything, or what is offered to idols is anything?
20 Rather, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to have fellowship with demons. (1 Cor. 10:19-20 NKJ)

The plural šiqqûṣîm, ‘abominations’, refers to unspecified deities other than the LORD and their respective cult statues in Deut 29:16; Jer 7:30; 16:18; 32:34; Ezek 5:11; 7:20; 11:21; 20:7, 8, 30; 37:23.-Gruber, M. I. (1999). Abomination. In K. van der Toorn, B. Becking, & P. W. van der Horst (Eds.), Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible (2nd extensively rev. ed., p. 3). Leiden; Boston; Köln; Grand Rapids, MI; Cambridge: Brill; Eerdmans.

A “wing” infested with demons would fit the description of a “wing of abominations”. In Luke 8:30 A “Legion” of demons control a single man.

What did Daniel mean by “wing of abominations”? Recall he is seeing the future End Time when things exist that would “astonish” him” (Dan. 8:27), such as flying vehicles:

But from such passages as Deut. 32:11, Ex. 19:4, and Ps. 18:11, we perceive the sense in which wings are attributed to the שִׁקּוּצִים, the idolatrous objects. In the first of these passages (Deut. 32:11), wings, the wings of an eagle, are attributed to God, because He is the power which raises up Israel, and lifting it up, and carrying it throughout its history, guides it over the earth. In P. 18 wings are attributed to the wind, because the wind is contemplated as the power which carries out the will of God throughout the kingdom of nature. “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.

Although Keil did change “wing” to “wings”, he ably connects the dots between the demons energizing idols and the “wing of abominations.”

Many reports of UFO/UAP craft comment on the lack of any visible means of propulsion. These reports do not necessarily conflict with Bob Lazar’s testimony of an “antimatter propulsion reactor” powering the ship he worked on. The facts surrounding UAP events imply the existence of both purely demonic entities (which violate all known laws of physics and appear and disappear with ease); and the deployment of physical objects that leave physical evidence and show up on radar etc., These transit into our Matrix through a “trans dimensional portal” (cp. 2 Ki. 2:11) into the TELEIOS (“heavenly places”) Satan and his corporeal angels inhabit (Eph. 6:12; Rev. 12:7-9).

The Desolator (Beast) commands this “flying abomination of desolation” to terrorize the earth desolating all who oppose him.

2 Now the beast which I saw was like a leopard, his feet were like the feet of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority.
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4 So they worshiped the dragon who gave authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?”
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13 He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. (Rev. 13:2-13 NKJ)

His power shall be mighty, but not by his own power; He shall destroy fearfully, And shall prosper and thrive; He shall destroy the mighty, and also the holy people. (Dan. 8:24 NKJ)

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)

The False Christ (Man of Sin) will reign for seven years. He will promise to respect the world’s religions. But after 3 ½ years “Chancellor” Adonikam morphs into the Son of Satan Antichrist and he will destroy the Great Harlot Babylon world Empire of false religion, demanding all worship him. And on flying wings of fallen angel technology Satan the Destroyer will rain down destruction upon all who oppose his Seed the Son of Destruction Adonikam, This continues for 3 ½ years until Adonikim’s prophesied end at Armageddon, and he is cast in the lake of fire.
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The False Christ (Man of Sin) will reign for seven years

The prophecy telescopes to the end time “week” because Christ died in the Seventieth Week. AFTER the “seven and sixty two weeks Messiah shall be cut off” (Dan. 9:25-26).

Therefore Dan. 9:26b should begin a new verse:

26 “And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself;

26b And the people of the prince who is to come Shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end of it shall be with a flood, And till the end of the war desolations are determined.

The “Seventy Weeks” end when Christ ushers in the New Covenant in His Blood. Everything listed in Daniel 9:24 is fulfilled. See Seventy Weeks Explained

What happens thereafter is not part of the Seventy weeks. The Destruction of the Temple by Titus in 70 A.D., then in 136 A.D. Hadrian drives the Jews out of Jerusalem to become a pagan city.

Christ’s prophecy covers the time from the end of the Seventy weeks, “the times of the Gentiles” go from 70 AD to the End Time when Christ sets up His Kingdom. The last seven-year period is not part of the Seventy Weeks.

22 “For these are the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
23 “But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days! For there will be great distress in the land and wrath upon this people.
24 “And they will fall by the edge of the sword, and be led away captive into all nations. And Jerusalem will be trampled by Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. (Lk. 21:22-24 NKJ)

Daniel 9:27 telescopes to the end time, from the people who destroyed Jerusalem to the rise of the Grecian Roman Empire the Elohim insist be created, that lasts seven years (Rev. 13:1-2). Because Adonikam the False Christ hailed Satan’s arrival as the “kingdom of God” he is made its “Chancellor” and for 3.5 years the “man of sin” conquers the earth with the false gospel of scientific Atheism. After 42 months he reveals he is the “seed of Satan” Son of Destruction (2 Thess. 2:3-4; Rev. 13:5). Harlot Babylon is then destroyed, only the 666 religion permitted. Without the political protection of Babylon the church is persecuted into near extinction.

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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 (02077 זֶבַח zebach) and offering (04503 מִנְחָה minchah).

“And from the time that the daily (08548 תָּמִיד tamiyd) sacrifice is taken away, and the abomination of desolation is set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred and ninety days. (Dan. 12:11 NKJ)

There is no contradiction, the “Sacrifice and offering” in Dan. 9:27 refers to any sacrifice and offering (Num 25:2; Isa. 66:3) unlike the “daily” sacrifice of the lamb in the Temple. Therefore, in Daniel 9:27 the Man of Sin breaks his covenant with the world’s religions at mid-week, when he declares himself God. In Daniel 12:11 the “end time clock” begins when Christendom’s “daily sacrifice” to God end, and they worship the false Christ man of sin, at the beginning of the seven-year end time “week”.

Christ is our “continual” [08548 תָּמִיד tamiyd] sacrifice (ἡ θυσία δι παντoς, LXX) . Confirming this, the apostles apply Old Testament Temple imagery to the Church, calling it “the Temple of God” (1 Cor. 3:16-17; 6:19; 2 Cor. 6:16; 2 Thess. 2:4; Eph. 2:21). Its members Temple priests (1 Pet. 2:5).

you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. (1 Pet. 2:5) NKJ

As we take up Christ’s cross daily (Lk. 9:23) our sacrifice and service is continual:

Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name. (Heb. 13:15) NKJ

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. (Rom. 12:1) NKJ

The End Time “clock” starts when the fallen away Church receives the Antichrist as Christ. The Antichrist breaks his covenant with the world’s religions when he declares himself God and outlaws all other worship than to him.

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. 12:11-12 NKJ)

The “man of sin” false Christ morphs into the “Son of Perdition” (2 Thess. 2:3) at “mid-week” or 1,260 days (42 months, 3 1/2 years) (Dan. 9:27; Rev. 13:5). The beast with two horns like a lamb Britain and America convinced the world to build a global network to manage the earth’s dwindling resources as famine, pestilence, civil unrest and war overwhelmed the earth’s ability to manage the crises. When Russia Turkey and allies nuke the rebuilt city of Babylon, Britain and America rise unite to form two-horned beast under an individual called the “False Prophet” (Rev. 16:13; 19:20; 20:10) and rise to support of the wounded Grecian Empire Beast (Rev. 13:11-2). Formerly Christian free market nations, they now speak like a Devil. For decades Satan seeded their black-operations with fallen-angel technology through the ruse (Roswell etc.) of crashed spaceships, piloted by plant-based drones (Exod. 7:11-12). Their military capability enhanced far above all other military power on earth. That advanced technology causes Russia and allies to cease attacking the Beast’s empire. The Anglo-American false prophet deceives the nations into networking their economies with the Beast, to manage resources against the global depression the destruction of the city of Babylon caused. Then the earth’s economies are commandeered by that very network (Rev. 13:14-17).
End Time events timeline

When Adonikam declares himself God his interface with the AI enhanced network truly affords him godlike abilities such as seeing and hearing in real time everywhere a device is connected. The AI programmed in his image, is an “abomination that causes desolation” able to kill anyone who tries to disconnect. It required 30 days to fully set up, or 1,290 days counting from the beginning of the end time week. Blessed are Christians who are still alive after the intense persecution that follows, for at 1, 335 days they will be raptured:

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.”
14 Then I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and on the cloud sat One like the Son of Man, having on His head a golden crown, and in His hand a sharp sickle.
15 And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to Him who sat on the cloud, “Thrust in Your sickle and reap, for the time has come for You to reap, for the harvest of the earth is ripe.”
(Rev. 14:12-15 NKJ)

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And on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate

and a destroyer comes on a wing (on the wings) of the monster (monsters)-Koehler, L., Baumgartner, W., Richardson, M. E. J., &; Stamm, J. J. (1994–2000). The Hebrew and Aramaic lexicon of the Old Testament (electronic ed., p. 1640). Leiden: E.J. Brill.

“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” (Kliefoth, T.). -Keil, C. F., & Delitzsch, F. (2002). Commentary on the Old Testament [1866 first edition]. (Da 9:27). Peabody, MA: Hendrickson.

Demons supply the Satanic “working” (1753 ἐνέργεια energeia), abominations energizing idols (2 Thess. 2:9; 1 Cor. 10:19-20; 1 Ki. 11:5; 2 Ki. 23:24; Ez. 20:7-8; Dt. 32:17; Lev. 17:7). No doubt multiple demons are in each fallen angel craft, “abominations”.

38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for gain. (Dan. 11:38-39 KJV)

And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? (Rev. 13:4 KJV)

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The Seventy Weeks in Daniel 9 Explained

written by Alfred Persson | December 31, 2022

Daniel 9 24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
Daniel 9 25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
Daniel 9 26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. (Daniel 9 24-26 KJV)

These Seventy Weeks (of years) are divided into three segments characterized by special events. In the first Jerusalem’s streets and wall are rebuilt in troublous times. The second counts down to the appearance of the Messiah. After those 69 weeks, the Messiah is crucified but His sacrifice accomplishes all six items listed in Daniel 9:24 . That ends the Seventy Weeks.

The Six Elements Christ Fulfilled at His first Advent

1) to finish the transgression

Neither transgression or sins literally cease within the Seventy weeks, both are seen after the 1,000 year reign of Christ (Rev. 20:7-10). Therefore, we must look for a “literal spiritual” meaning, a particular event Daniel had a mind when he used the definite form of pešaʿ (06588 פֶּשַׁע pesha`). Only one Transgression to end all transgression was committed by “Daniel’s people in their holy city Jerusalem during these seventy weeks,” that was when the “Messiah be cut off”, i.e., the crucifixion of Christ the lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.

Christ’s murder was an abominable “transgression (06588 פֶּשַׁע pesha`) of desolation” (Compare Daniel 8:13) causing God “go far off from my sanctuary” (Compare Ezek. 8:6). His leaving rending the veil of the Sanctuary and breaking the rocks as He “passed by” (Mt. 27:51. Compare 1 Kings 19:11).

That sin merited the literal desolation of the Temple about 40 years later just as Gabriel said would happen in Daniel 9:26 (b). The people of the Beast Ruler (05057 נָגִיד nagiyd) to come (Dan. 9:27) destroys the city and the sanctuary. That is, the revived Roman Empire that rises from the sea in Revelation 13:1-2, their “ancestors” the Romans came and destroyed. In other words, the 1st century people of the Ruler who rises centuries later in the end time, destroys the city and temple. Then the “times of the Gentiles” begin, and that desolation continues “until the end of the war” when Christ destroys the Beast Adonikam at Armageddon.

2)to make an end of sins

20 Moreover the law entered (3922 παρεισέρχομαι), that the offence (3900 παράπτωμα) might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. (Rom. 5:20-21 KJV)

Romans 5:20-21 is exposition of Daniel 9:24, revealing its application:.

Paul says “the law slipped in that the Trespass abound to its greatest [completion], the crucifixion of the Incarnate Son of God. But that was so God’s grace could abound, bring in everlasting righteousness of the New Covenant in Christ’s blood bringing reconciliation to all in heaven and earth (Col 1:20).

So God did this not to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through Him (John 3:15).

Where transgression abounded, God’s Grace abounded even more. Christ appeared to the condemned end of the world, to save them:

But now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. (Heb. 9:26 KJV)

Jesus said “It is finished” (John 19:30). The “vision and the prophecy” of Lamb of God our Redeemer Lawmaker like unto Moses, had fulfilled the law (Mt. 5:18)

3)to make reconciliation for iniquity

20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
21 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
22 In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight: (Col. 1:20-22 KJV)

8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
11 And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement. (Rom. 5:8-11 KJV)

4) to bring in everlasting righteousness

God alone is righteous, He alone is everlasting, therefore bringing in everlasting righteousness is bringing in “justification by faith” (Rom. 3:25-26), the righteousness that that is of God that was foretold in vision and prophecy of the New Covenant in Christ’s Blood:

24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. (Rom. 3:24-26 KJV)

19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.
21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. (2 Cor. 5:19-21 KJV)

5)to seal up the vision and prophecy
Christ’s fulfilling the other five elements of Daniel 9:24, vision and prophecy were authenticated, closed and sealed with God’s seal of truth.

6)to anoint the most Holy.

1 When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.
3 Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them.
4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. (Acts 2:1-4 NKJ)

The Most Holy Temple of God the Church is anointed to be His Dwelling forever.

The Church is the Temple of God in the New Covenant, Paul transferred the imagery of the priesthood and Daily Sacrifice to the church even while the literal Temple in Jerusalem was still standing. The Church is “the Temple of God” (1 Cor. 3:16-17; 6:19; 2 Cor. 6:16; 2 Thess. 2:4; Eph. 2:21). Its members Temple priests (1 Pet. 2:5). Christians offer up “the Daily Sacrifice” (1 Pet. 2:5; Rom. 12:1; Lk. 9:23; Heb. 13:15).

Therefore, the Seventy Weeks were completed in the 1st century, when the cutting off of the Messiah fulfilled all the elements of Daniel 9:24. The destruction of the Temple that occurred about 40 years later, not part of the seventy weeks. That is confirmed by the complete absence of any mention of the Temple or Jerusalem’s destruction in Daniel 9:24.

But Gabriel continues to prophesy about events that occur AFTER the Seventy weeks are ended. Jerusalem’s Temple will be destroyed in A.D. 70, and Hadrian destroys the nation forbidding Jews live in the Holy Land leading them as captives into all the nations in A.D. 131. The “times of the Gentiles” persist until the coming of Jesus Christ.

Daniel 9 27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate. (Dan. 9:27 KJV)

When the “times of the Gentiles” are about to end, another week separated from the seventy by the “times of the Gentiles” appears, in which the Antichrist rises from the people who destroyed the Temple and Israel. After 3 ½ years of benign rule as the Man of Sin false Christ, Chancellor Adonikam morphs into the “Son of Perdition” Seed of Satan Emperor Beast 666 Adonikam of the tyrannical Babylonianish Roman Empire, the Ten Horn Version Daniel saw in his vision. Adonikam rules for 42 months until the times of the Gentiles are ended by the return of Christ, who rains down desolation upon the Antichrist Beast Desolator at Armageddon.

Considerations

Hundreds of weeks cannot be called “seventy weeks”

How can Gabriel call hundreds of weeks “seventy weeks”? If the 69th week is followed by a “gap hundreds of weeks long”, how can the last week be called “the 70th week”? Obviously, it cannot as the total is much greater than “Seventy Weeks”.

Destruction of Temple and holy city Jerusalem not among the six items listed in Daniel 9:24

It is fitting the 70th week end when the Messiah is cut off, for then is when all six items in Daniel 9:24 are fulfilled. The events that follow Messiah’s being cut off are not part of the seventieth week. How do we know this? See for yourself, reread Daniel 9:24 and find these events among the six items:

23 But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.
24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. (Luk 21:23-24 KJV)

Messiah appears at the end of the 69th week, then “after shall Messiah be cut off”. Therefore, it is in the 70th week Messiah is cut off. That’s where the verse should end, Daniel 9:26 (b) a new verse.

Daniel 9 26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself.

[All six items of Dan. 9:24 now fulfilled, so the verse should end here.]

And the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.

“The army of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the temple” (Dan. 9:26 NIRV), nothing is said when the Ruler himself will appear. The “Ruler” doesn’t appear until the end time, when the Roman Empire is revived and the Ten Horn (ten toed) version of it Daniel saw appear in the end time (Dan. 2:40-45; 7:7-10. Rev. 13:1-2). That is when the 666 Beast Ruler himself comes. This enigmatic wording is consistent with sealing up these prophecies until the end time (Dan. 12:9-10).

“That holy thing” the Son of God (Lk. 1:35) was put to death and this sealed up the vision of the prophets about the coming of the New Covenant in Christ’s blood which would reconcile all things in heaven and earth to God (Col. 1:20). The benefits of His sacrifice are now universal, bringing in everlasting righteousness making an end of sins to all who believe in His Name (John 3:15; 20:31).

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The Temple’s destruction is a sign of the end times (Mk. 13:2-4)

Jesus did not say the destroyed Temple would be rebuilt, only that “there shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down” (Mt. 24:2). The “abomination of desolation” “Man of Sin” who rises in the end time shattering the power of the “holy people” (Dan. 12:11), appears to the Church the only “Sanctuary of God” (1 Cor. 3:16-17; 6:19; 2 Cor. 6:16; Eph. 2:21) existing in the end time. This changed reality of the end time explains how the words were “sealed” until the end time (Dan. 12:7-9). The New Testament changed the meaning of the “abomination of desolation”, in Daniel 12:11 it is completely unlike the image placed in the Temple by Antiochus (Daniel 11:31). This one can “standup” (Mk. 13:14) and be called “the Desolator” (Dan. 9:27).

The subtle difference in Hebrew explains why Jesus cautioned future readers of His prophecy (Mt. 24:15. Mk. 13:14) to think critically on the “abomination of desolation” in Daniel 12:11. The New Testament reality sealed the meaning of the words. In the “time of the end” Christians are the “holy people” and the Temple God” is the Church. The “Daily” is their taking up the cross of Christ. It is their apostasy accepting the “Man of Sin” as the Christ that takes away the Daily (08548 תָּמִיד tamiyd). Readers must deliberate carefully upon what they read, even Daniel expert interpreter of enigma (Dan. 5:12-16) was hopelessly confused (Dan. 12:8-9).

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There are four possible “decrees” 1)Cyrus 538 B.C. (Ezra 1:1-4; 5:13-17); 2)Darius 517 B.C. (Ezra 6:6-12); 3)Artaxerxes 458 B.C. (Ezra 7:11-26); 4) Artaxerxes 458 B.C. (Neh. 2:1-8). Of these the most “scriptural” is by Cyrus (2Chron. 36:22-23; Ezra 1:1-4; Isa. 44:26-28):

26 That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof:
27 That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:
28 That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid. (Isa. 44:26-28 KJV)

Many reject Cyrus’ decree as the beginning of the Seventy Weeks. Ptolemy based Chronologies don’t have 483 years pointing to Christ’s appearance and the consensus accepts that construct. However, Philip Mauro (Seventy Weeks and the Great Tribulation, 1921) citing Rev. Martin Anstey (The Romance of Biblical Chronology, NY 1913) document the uncertainty surrounding some of Ptolemy’s assumptions. They have 483 years pointing to Jesus’ anointing at His baptism in 26 A.D. That is a very scriptural view given the pertinent verses cited and the fact His Baptism was meant to manifest the Messiah to Israel (John 1:31-34).

31 And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.
32 And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.
33 And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.
34 And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God. (Jn. 1:31-34 KJV)

I agree with Philip Mauro, its unwise we interpret scripture according to secular theories of probability. Whether Anstey’s correction of Ptolemy’s work or J. D. Davis rejection of his argument (The Princeton Theological Review, 1915, XIII, 1-4, p. 106) is accepted, neither can achieve the certainty of John the Baptist’s declaration he came baptizing to manifest the Messiah to Israel.

“Confirmation bias” and “mass delusion” evident in the evolution consensus could be replicated in consensus accepting Ptolemy based chronologies, just as easily.

However, A.D. 26 still results if we count 483 years from 458 B.C. (Ezra 7:11-26) leaving undiminished the precision of this prophecy. That this “decree” didn’t command the restoration of Jerusalem isn’t a weighty objection because it is implied by the simple fact the Jews could never return from exile without restoring and rebuilding Jerusalem.

As for Gabriel using a 360-day year in his seventy weeks, nothing in the context or the rest of the OT suggests Israelites used it to count literal years.



Deadly Wound Was Healed When Babylon Rebuilt

written by Alfred Persson | December 31, 2022

Many interpret the “mortally wounded head” in (Rev. 13:3) and the “beast whose deadly wound was healed” (Rev. 13:12) as the same thing. But that ignores the different imagery and time frame wherein these wounds exist:

The author switches from past [Rev. 13:1-11] to present tenses in Rev. 13:12–18, though apart from producing a more vivid narrative, the reasons for this stylistic change are not immediately evident.-Aune, D. E. (1998). Revelation 6–16 (Vol. 52B, p. 757). Dallas: Word, Incorporated.

The wounds are not the same. The first was a “death blow” to the head that killed it (Rev. 13:3). The second survived a sword stroke (Rev. 13:14). Although weakened it was not killed as in the first.

The wounded head is ancient Babylon, the wounded Beast is the Revived Roman Empire that appears in the end time.

John provides the interpretive key, “the Sea”. That alludes to the “Great Sea” the Mediterranean. From whence four beasts came in Daniel 7:2-8. The first two beasts have one head each, the third beast has four heads, that totals 6 heads. Therefore, the head of the fourth beast is the seventh head (Dan. 7:2-7). The final form of the empire (eighth king Rev. 17:11) is the Grecian Roman Empire is the final ten-horned ten-toed form (Dan. 2:44; 7:7) containing the rebuilt city of Babylon.

Confirming Revelation’s end time Roman Empire Beast having seven heads and ten horns is a composite of Daniel’s last beast, the same animals leading up to it are in both. But notice the order of appearance is reversed, in Daniel its lion, bear then a leopard. In Revelation its leopard, bear then a lion. This confirms they are not the same beast. Unlike Daniel’s seven successive kingdoms rising from the sea, John’s Beast rises from the sea a single kingdom FROM them. Therefore, the ten horned version of Daniel’s fourth beast, is the John’s beast having seven heads and ten horns.

9 “Here is the mind which has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits,
10 and they are seven kings; five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come; and when he comes, he must remain a little while.
11 “And the beast which was and is not, is himself also an eighth, and is one of the seven, and he goes to destruction. (Rev. 17:9-11 NAS)

But the actual kingdoms are different in John, he is looking from the end time into the entire span of human history whereas Daniel was looking from Babylon onward. The seven great empires of history 1)Old Babylonian, 2)Assyrian, 3)New Babylonian, 4)Medo-Persian, 5)Grecian 6)”one is” Roman 7)British Empire.

British empire whose mandate over Palestine was only a short while is the seventh head. The Balfour Declaration supported the establishment of Israel but Britain’s mandate over Palestine was short lived. This is consistent with Scripture listing only nations that impacted Israel in a meaningful way. The League of Nations/United Nations isn’t a kingdom and never did anything binding. America makes her appearance with Britain as the Beast with two horns like a lamb.

Therefore, the wounded head (old Babylon) “was and is not” (in ruins) and is healed (restored in the Grecian Roman Empire) and so “of the seven” but itself is an eighth king (Rev. 17:11) and goes off into destruction.

Ancient Babylon (mortally wounded head) died and was buried under the desert sand. It is “healed” in the end time when fallen angels return claiming to be extraterrestrials. The magic of fallen angel technology inspires Progressive Globalists to worship the New World Order of the Beast and its “Dragon Commander.” That is the meaning of Babylon rising from the abyss of demons (Rev. 17:8; 9:1-3). [1]

Wounded by the sword and lived

This Final Version of the Roman Empire and the power of Emperor Adonikam is wounded by a sword when Russia, Iran and Turkey reject the new World Order. They are the forces from Babylon’s North that destroy her (Jer. 50:41-42; 51:47-48). It then goes off into total destruction fulfilling the OT prophecies (Jer. 50:3, 13, 39-40; 51:29. Rev. 18:2-10). Although Babylon’s destruction causes global Economic Depression (Rev. 18:11), Emperor Adonikam and his beast kingdom survive the wound.

Then the formerly Christian (and liberty loving free market) nations of Britain and America unite under a “False Prophet” President or Prime Minister and ally themselves with Antichrist Beast. Against this alliance Russia, Iran and Turkey cannot war. They stand down and join the Beast’s Federation.

Therefore, the wounds are completely different. The wounded head was the ancient kingdom of Babylon restored in the ten horn Grecian Roman Empire that rises in the end time. The wounded Beast is that Empire Beast when its rebuilt capital city of Babylon is destroyed by the sword by forces from her North. It survives and regains control with the aid of the two horned beast like a lamb Britain and America. Now speaking like a Dragon, they support the Antichrist, totalitarianism and controlled markets.

For more on this click:
Revelation 13 Seven Heads and Ten Horns Explained

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Adonikam the “man of sin” false Christ who morphs into the Beast Son of Destruction after 3 ½ years (2 Thess. 2:3-4) also ascends from the abyss (Rev. 11:7) because he is the literal seed of Satan, a hybrid angel human creation.

The Nephilim will return disguised as Extraterrestrials with Satan as their Dragon Commander (Rev. 12:7-9). The “ancient alien theory” is the satanically energized strong delusion (2Th. 2:11-12; Rev. 16:13-14) The “flying frog” demons out of their mouths “the BIG LIE” Satan and his angels are extraterrestrials. They will cause the Great Revolt (2Th. 2:3-4) against even the definition of God, opposing it while exalting the hybrid 666 Beast as above “the Elohim extraterrestrial gods” hoping to change times and law of civil society (2Th. 2:4. Dan. 7:8, 25; 8:10-11, 24; 11:36-39). The hybrid Satan-human is “Satan’s seed” (Gen. 3:15) “The Beast”(Rev. 16:13) “the Antichrist” (1Jn. 2:18; 22-23; 4:3. 2Jn. 1:7) whose human name will be “Adonikam” (Rev. 13:18; Ezr. 2:13). On this see: The 666 Riddle solved

Satan craftily spoke through a serpent corrupting Eve from the simplicity of God’s truth beguiling her to eat (2Cor. 11:3) from the tree of knowledge (Gen. 3:1-6). Satan is called a cedar tree (Ezek. 31:8-11), whom the fallen angels followed (Ezek. 31:6). Christ “the ruler of the nations” and His angels will cast them into “the pit” (Ezek. 31:11-14). In Ezekiel 31:3 this “cedar” is called Assyria, his “seed” then would be “the Assyrian” (Mic. 5:5-6; Isa. 14:25-27), the apostate Jewish Christian named Adonikam (King of the North) Satan’s seed (Gen. 3:15).

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