If you can start to understand the beasts then you can see Revelations in a clearer way. Beasts, heads and horns have different properties. Horns are easy for when the word is referring to horns it is talking about people. When it is talking about heads it is talking about nations kingdoms or kings. So when Revelations talks about one of the heads suffering a mortal wound it is talking about a nation has had a mortal wound. Now the beast itself, that's the hard one. I could find no glue and had given up until I was putting this view together. I was reading about Mystery Babylon and writing that we couldn't understand it. When I noticed that the beast had come out of the Bottomless pit. Abaddon had come out of the Bottomless pit and was called the angel of the bottomless pit. This angel or beast was also described as a beast when he kill the two witnesses. So if Abaddon is the beast of Mystery Babylon the the other beast would have been powerful demonic beings as well. I say that there are ten beasts let's run through them. The first four are from Rev 4 when John is describing the four beasts in heaven around the throne. These beasts are Seraphim and Cherubim, types of angels, intelligent beings. This reaffirms the view that the beasts them selves are angelic beginnings both good and evil. In Daniel 7 there are four beasts from the sea with the forth Beast being the beast in Rev 13. That is eight beasts. Abaddon the beast from the bottomless pit and the Antichrist the beast from the earth that's ten. If we are flesh, spirit and soul then it stands to reason that all these things will have the same properties. For example the beast rose out of the sea (spirit). He had seven heads (flesh ) and ten horns (soul, mind or wills). Everything in the word has these aspects to be consistent.

Heads and horns are really important to establish. To do this we go to Daniel and look at the Goat and the Ram in Daniel 8. The ram had two horns and the goat had one big horn but it broke and four smaller ones arose in its place. In history we know that Kings of the Medes and the Persians reigned together. Alexander the Great was the large horn but when he died his four generals divided up the Kingdom. Then at the end of the chapter it describes that they are countries and the horns are people. In Rev 17 it is talking about heads and describes them as kingdoms or countries that do not all exist at the same time.

We end up with heads being countries and horns being people. Using this we can workout that the Beasts of Rev 13 and Rev 17 are two separate Beasts. It also bring clarity to other scriptures.

There are two common errors which make a huge difference to our understanding of Revelations. The first is the story Gog and Magog and it effects on our understanding of Russia's role in the end times. Gog and Magog do not get a mention in this view of Revelations. They appear in Rev 20 7 "And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be released from his prison 8 and will come out to deceive the nations that are at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle; their number is like the sand of the sea. We can see they are not part of the end of this age but the end of the next. They are part of the rebellion that takes place just before the resurrection. Often unintentionally used to confuse people about the roll of Russia before the Day of the Lord.
Because it is so wrong when used as part of the second coming of Jesus it has to bring in to question any writings of those people using it. They can not have read the book.
The other common big mistaken is the reading of Daniel Seven and the four beasts. Daniel 7-12 clearly states the the first three beasts live on after the forth beast is destroyed. Now the history of these beasts was related to what people new. Which was Babylon, Medes and Persians, Greece and Rome. The six nations that established the European Union did not do that until the 1950's. Since it says they live for a season and a time after the beast of Rev 13 is destroyed. We have to look at powers that exist during the same time period which is now. Lion with eagles wings is UK and USA. The Bear is Russia and the Leopard with four heads and four wings is the EU. This is covered in more detail later on. Once Babylon was overthrown it was gone and the same with Persia. They did not live on so they can not be these beasts. Most errors made about the second coming have to do with using the scriptures aimed at the end of the thousand years. The Rapture would be the most common.

The letters to the churches have lead to some debate. Are they just letters with no other meaning other than there face value or are they the different states that any church can fall into if the relationship with Jesus falls away. Could it be the ages of the churches through time or some combination of all three. The letter to Laodicea and Revelation 3;14 is where you will find the letter . In revelation 4 John sees a door to heaven open and what is said is  After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this. So I say to myself after what, it must be the letters for that is what proceeds it. If it is after then the proceeding must be a time line which makes the letters a prediction of the future of the church. Not that these are mutually exclusive. But we will look at the time line. Lodacea is the last letter and will run through to the second advent of Christ. When did it start? I don't know but I would think it would be in some unison with the white rider of deception. There is a famous picture of Jesus standing at a door and knocking. The door has a handle only on the inside. This was painted in 1851.  It is called The letter to Laodicea. Behold I stand at the door and knock. Rev 3.20

How long is the tribulation? Or even what is the tribulation. You have two distinct things happening. The first is the saints being persecuted by the Beast for three and a half years the second is the calamities of the trumpets and wrath's. We are also persecuted by the beast before the Antichrist arrives on the scene. The first period is 1260 this is the period that the ten horns get to rule the beast from Rev 13. This is the 1260 days that Daniel 12 accounts for. Then Daniel says the second period is 1335 days. When the Antichrist rises he brings in the mark of the beast. The persecution starts and last 1260 days begin. The calamities must start after the Antichrist arrives because the first wrath says that sores are given to those who have received the mark. This gives just 75 days if the calamities starts 1260 days out from the day of the Lord. This 75 days includes the Antichrists power play to take over. However, is does not say exactly how long the calamities will last. The second trumpet has a mountain of fire cast into the sea and the second wrath says that in then kills all the sea life it that sea. Depending on the sea it would take a year or more for all the sea life to die. The locust get to torment men for five months. So a minimum would be five months. I get the distinct impression the first five trumpets or wrath's are not spaced out but happen quickly one after another. Then there is a gap and the last two happen.

There is only one thing the saints can do to survive this period and that is hide.

Age of Philadelphia
The Age of Philadelphia runs for from 1520's to the 1840's. This age has a bit to do with the set up for the Age of Laodicea. This age started with the likes of Martin Luther. The during the previous age the Catholic Church had fallen under the power of Satan and numerous saints had spoken out against the fall away from the word. This resulted in much persecution culminating in the Spanish Inquisition. The part of this letter that carries on to the end of the age is Rev 3/9 Behold, I will make those of the synagogue of Satan who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie. Who are these Jews that say they are Jews but are not. In Malachi the prophet tells us the if the sons of Judea do not change they will be cast out like sewerage. There was no such promise to the Levi's. When Jesus came they killed him and rejected their God. The God of Abraham, Moses and David. We all know that the temple was destroyed in 70 AD but what few know was that 110 AD the Romans swept through the whole country with most people being killed and the rest were taken into slavery and disappeared from history as happened to the other tribes. If you go to Israel today you will find that only the Levite's can trace their heritage back to Adam. About 3% of the population so who are these imposters and were did they come from. The letter to Philadelphia warns us about them and they are not followers of our God. The bulk of them are the Khazar's and there is plenty of information about them that is easily found. They were Satan worshippers and believed in child sacrifice. They were a group of people that sat between the Christians in the north and Muslims in the south around 800 AD. If they chose one the other would attack them so they came up with a compromise and chose Judaism. They sat primarily in east Ukraine and Kazakhstan. They were driven out from there and into Europe by the Mongols. It is an interesting story and well worth the read. The rest came out of Europe itself with in similar circumstances as people rebelled against a corrupt Catholic church. The biggest single group came out of Spain. The Spanish Inquisition turned on the the Jews because of the large number of people were claiming to be Jews to escape persecution. 80,000 escaped and fled to Holland and from there joined up with Khazarian Jewish communities. This is why modern Jews can only trace their heritage back to the 16th century. A number of their modern religious books also date from this period. Later we will look at the chances that they were in fact the tribe of Dan.

How long is the tribulation? Or even what is the tribulation. You have two distinct things happening. The first is the saints being persecuted by the Beast for three and a half years the second is the calamities of the trumpets and wrath's. We are also persecuted by the beast before the Antichrist arrives on the scene. The first period is 1260 this is the period that the ten horns get to rule the beast from Rev 13. This is the 1260 days that Daniel 12 accounts for. Then Daniel says the second period is 1335 days. When the Antichrist rises he brings in the mark of the beast. The persecution starts and last 1260 days begin. The calamities must start after the Antichrist arrives because the first wrath says that sores are given to those who have received the mark. This gives just 75 days if the calamities starts 1260 days out from the day of the Lord. This 75 days includes the Antichrists power play to take over. However, is does not say exactly how long the calamities will last. The second trumpet has a mountain of fire cast into the sea and the second wrath says that in then kills all the sea life it that sea. Depending on the sea it would take a year or more for all the sea life to die. The locust get to torment men for five months. So a minimum would be five months. I get the distinct impression the first five trumpets or wrath's are not spaced out but happen quickly one after another. Then there is a gap and the last two happen.
There is only one thing the saints can do to survive this period and that is hide.

14“And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: ‘The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God’s creation.
15“‘I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! 16 So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth. 17 For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked. 18 I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself and the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see. 19 Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent. 20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me. 21 The one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne. 22 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’”
You are neither hot nor cold is a good description of today. Then I am rich and I need nothing is today's attitude. We are to repent and be zealous. The one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne!!!

The scene where there is a vast multitude before the throne will come up a number of times. Who they are what they are and how they got there can be worked out. We are told that the number is too great for John to count. I would think that looking at one hundred million people would be impossible to count. However Jesus can count them and tells us they are one hundred million strong. Where have they come from? It says out of the tribulation which is the last three and a half years. This one hundred million saints have had victory over the Antichrist. This victory is choosing not to receive the mark of the beast and dying instead. Choosing to be a witness to Jesus and helping the 144000. This is a form of Rapture, not by being spirited away but through death.
It also gives us some idea how many angels there are. Thousands of thousands. I once read that the estimated number was forty million but that sounds a bit high from the description. It is in the millions and because numbers are important it will be one of the more important numbers. My guess would be that there are seven or eight million angels.

The beasts of heaven. These are the Seraphim and Cherubim and they are powerful angelic beings that are very close to Jesus. They get called beast because they are not in human form. This leads me to believe that the other beasts except for the Antichrist will not have human from. It well be amazing to see what shape the beast has that kills the two witnesses. The one from the bottomless pit. I wonder if he really is scarlet. But don't blink for it will be at the very end . There will only be a few days before the Day of the Lord.

We are looking at Revelations as if each verse was a view of the same events but from a different perspective. In Rev 4-5 we are looking at what is going on in heaven while the end of the age is played out. Rev 4 sets the scene. Jesus on the throne and as the Lamb, the elders who I would guess are people from the earth as opposed to angels. The term elders has the meaning of wisdom gathered over time compared to younger people but the angels were created at the same time for the tasks set before them. The four living creatures or the seraphim and cherubim. These are types of angels. Which are then called beasts. The same as the other angels of darkness are called beasts. These is a bowl of incense before the Lord which are the prayers of the saints. Times are going to get very bad and you may despair that God does not hear your prayers but they are and come what may he hears and sees what is happening. The scroll is presented and The Lion of Judea can open it. The one hundred million saints who come out of the tribulation sing before the throne. It appears the number of angels left are seven or eight million. They all sing to the Lord then the victory comes and all of creation sings to the Lord

The scene where there is a vast multitude before the throne will come up a number of times. Who they are what they are and how they got there can be worked out. We are told that the number is too great for John to count. I would think that looking at one hundred million people would be impossible to count. However Jesus can count them and tells us they are one hundred million strong. Where have they come from? It says out of the tribulation which is the last three and a half years. This one hundred million saints have had victory over the Antichrist. This victory is choosing not to receive the mark of the beast and dying instead. Choosing to be a witness to Jesus and helping the 144000. This is a form of Rapture, not by being spirited away but through death.

It also gives us some idea how many angels there are. Thousands of thousands. I once read that the estimated number was forty million but that sounds a bit high from the description. It is in the millions and because numbers are important it will be one of the more important numbers. My guess would be that there are seven or eight million angels.

Pale or Green horseman.

Matthew 24 says “and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places. “ and Revelations says “And they were given authority over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by wild beasts of the earth “ Matthew adds earthquakes to the equation. We will start with earthquakes. Like wars and the red rider the amount of earthquakes was reasonably consistent over the decades. With around 1500 a year over 4 on the Richter scale. In the sixties that amount doubled to 3000. Seventies 6000, eighties 12000, nineties 24000, two thousands 48ooo and the last decade has seen over 100,000. This fits the pattern that each of these riders went out forty years apart. The same patterns can be seen is disastrous weather patterns causing famine in many places. The pictures of starving people mainly bursting on to our TV screens in untold mega pixals come from Africa but this has been a world wide pattern.
The green rider is followed by Death and Hades. Who are Death and Hades. Death and Hades are names of the most important Angels/Beasts in Sheol. Sheol appears to be dived into three regions. The closest to us is Hades who also gives his name to the place. The next level is Death and the lowest is the bottomless pit where Abaddon reigns. The bottomless pit is for fallen Angels. Later on in Revelations it say that Hades, Death and the sea give up their death for the final judgement of men. Abaddon is not mentioned. A reason why there will not be Giants or Nephilim in the last days. But that is a story for another time.
The Pale Green rider and the colour green is interesting and it's relationship to a quarter of the worlds population. The only defined group that is quarter of the worlds population are the Muslims. The African countries being hit time and again with droughts are the Muslim countries or parts of countries that are Muslim. National colour is Islam is green. Green is on many flags of Muslim countries. Muammar GadaffiIn once described the struggle between Muslin countries and the west as the battle between the white and the green. 1964 the Arab League was set up which quickly lead to the 1967 Israeli war. A disaster for them. There has been increasing violence ever since. With a great increase over the last decade with the Obama Wars.(Arab Spring)

The Black rider has a pair of scales in his hand. We think today of scales being Justice but to John it would have been trade as well. The balancing of one thing against another. Today, as has always been, there is a different standard of justice between the rich and the poor. Prices of goods are being set not by demand but by the will of the seller if he has control. We see that in the rise of the multinational companies and international banks. They just do what they want without fear of punishment.
The control of food prices and how you are to buy them are plain to see. However once we get into the tribulation things are going to get very bad. We are seeing the mechanics of how the mark of the beast will work in front of eyes right now. Add the new block chain technology. Note that the more expensive items are not to be touched

Red Horseman
There is not much to say on this horseman. He has been very active in the last 100 years. When you here of wars and rumours of wars from many far off places. This statement in Matthew is as much a comment on the news service as it is about wars. It would have been astonishing to Matthew that we could see these wars as they happened flooding into our living rooms in untold mega pixels. We have become so accustom to war and civil wars it's a shock when you list countries that have some soldiers fighting somewhere. Much easier to list the non warring countries. The red rider has a great sword. I assume that if he had an ordinary sword he would have caused ordinary wars and if he had a great sword he would cause great wars. I would place his appearance before WW1 and WW2. The Red rider scores an A plus.
Is there a point in time before the World wars the we can see a sudden change in the number of wars around the world. A quick study reveals there is a point in the late 1800's. Up until 1880 there was around 20 wars starting up per decade in the world. In the mid1880's there was a sudden leap to over 50 per decade and increased per decade since then. If the white horseman appeared in 1844 the red horseman made his appearance 40 years later in 1884. The black horseman should make his appearance around 1924. Lets have a look.

There are several ideas about who the white rider is. That it is Christ and he is leading the church in a race against time as the other three riders ride out to destroy after him. This can not be so for it clearly states that the rider is an angelic being. We also come across this white horse in Zechariah. The other popular one is that he is the Antichrist. That would likely make him the last horse and not the first. Else the time for the other horses would be very short. It would not be consistent with the rest of Revelations.
The white rider has a bow and a crown. The crown is a symbol of authority and leadership. So he has a sign of leadership in organisations. He has a bow which is a symbol of victory but also of deception or deceit. He rides a white horse that is the same colour as the horse Jesus and the angels ride in Rev 19. The same colour as the garment that the saints receive. So I read this as leaders of organisations that appear to be Christian but are not. They lead their organisations or churches astray with deception. They are victorious in their schemes. The deception is going to be so good that you well not be able to tell the difference. Even the elect would be deceived it it was possible. It is only by the spirit of God that we will be kept safe. If we look through our human eyes we will call evil good. If we look at what is happening in the mainstream churches with the grace doctrine, the prosperity doctrine and the doctrine of accommodation we see he has been very successful. These doctrines are the false Gospel talked about in the New Testament. We also see the rise of pseudo Christian churches in the 1800's. Mormons, Jehovah Witnesses, and Christadelphians and Darbyism to name a few. The Rapture doctrine came from this period. The age of Lodacea arises and the white horse is sent out. The industrial revolution is starting to produce great wealth and create an enviroment for the age of Lodacea and the white rider. I believe these two events go hand in hand.

It says seven seals but there are only six events . The seventh seal is just an introduction to the next angle of the story. In Rev 6 the first are the riders the next is the saints beneath the throne. Then the great earthquake that happens just before Jesus appears. The seventh a description of the last seven to ten years. When do these riders appear. The two theories that I think can fit best are strangely quite different. The first is that the white rider is a copy of Jesus and the Antichrist. That places the first rider at the start of the tribulation. The other riders then appear as the tribulation happens. Both ideas have the forth rider appearing during the tribulation. But for no good reason I am going with the riders appearing over a much longer period and their purpose is to set up the whole senario for the end of the age. We do find the riders in Zechariah 1. I saw in the night, and behold, a man riding on a red horse! He was standing among the myrtle trees in the glen, and behind him were red, sorrel (or pale), and white horses. Four horses but two red and none black. The black horse represents the banking system that has cursed the world but did not exist back then.They are sent out to patrol the earth. They change from keeping the peace to stirring up trouble. That is why I go for the longer period.

This massive earthquake is mentioned a number of times . It is the herald that Jesus and the army of the Lord are about to arrive. If you want to know exactly what its like on the day of the Lord read Joel. If some one says Jesus is here or there don't believe them for this is the description of the moment of Christ's return. The sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood, and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree sheds its winter fruit when shaken by a gale. The sky vanished like a scroll that is being rolled up, Blessed is he who lasts to the end of 1335 days. The the day of the Lord is here. There is a reasonable amount of information about what things are like when the Lord has returned and the period after. Hopefully I get time to put that together one day. It will serve no other purpose than being fascinating

The saints who cry out from under the throne although it is probably better described as around and lower than the throne. They are saint who have been martyred. They are killed because of the witness to Jesus that they provided. Remember this for later on during the tribulation. They are part of the one hundred million.

The scene where there is a vast multitude before the throne will come up a number of times. Who they are what they are and how they got there can be worked out. We are told that the number is too great for John to count. I would think that looking at one hundred million people would be impossible to count. However Jesus can count them and tells us they are one hundred million strong. Where have they come from? It says out of the tribulation which is the last three and a half years. This one hundred million saints have had victory over the Antichrist. This victory is choosing not to receive the mark of the beast and dying instead. Choosing to be a witness to Jesus and helping the 144000. This is a form of Rapture, not by being spirited away but through death.
It also gives us some idea how many angels there are. Thousands of thousands. I once read that the estimated number was forty million but that sounds a bit high from the description. It is in the millions and because numbers are important it will be one of the more important numbers. My guess would be that there are seven or eight million angels.

 I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth, that no wind might blow on earth or sea or against any tree. When you read this the first thing that crosses your mind is it is some kind of metaphor. The end of the sentence says "or against any tree" which leads me to believe that it is talking about the earth in real terms. There is going to be a calm over the whole earth. All heaven and earth taking a deep breathe and then plunging into the last days. Weather is driven by the energy of the sun. The sun has cycles of activity. There is a four hundred year cycle where the sun goes relatively dormant. The last one in the sixteen hundreds and saw a mini ice age. We are now at the next cycle and we are seeing the sun go to sleep with hardly any sun spots to be seen these days. I saw a picture of the sun spots twenty years ago and the change is dramatic. In around ten years we will be fully into it but we are already seeing the changes. The Antarctic is already growing to record levels. This calming down will see a great calm over the weather relatively speaking. This is happening now!!!

The 144000 appear before the tribulation. Who are they? The Israelites were scattered over much of the world so it could be anyone. 12000 from the different tribes. The twist is there is no one from the tribe of Dan. Why that is does not fit into the criteria of this essay. However, there is plenty of information on the net. The Great calm happens and it is a signal that the 144000 are to appear. These saints are to receive a seal on there foreheads.

The introduction of the 144000. These saints appear before or at the same time as the Beast and will meet Jesus and his angel army at the last battle. They will see Babylon fall the rise of the Antichrist and the calamities. They will see the miracles that the two witnesses perform and see beautiful saints die for there sake. This will take men of steel trained by the Holy Spirit. Are you one of them?

There are two sets of scriptures that deal with the kings of the East. Both are in revelations.
Rev 9 13-19 -13Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar before God, 14saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.” 15So the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour, the day, the month, and the year, were released to kill a third of mankind. 16The number of mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand; I heard their number. 17And this is how I saw the horses in my vision and those who rode them: they wore breastplates the color of fire and of sapphirec and of sulfur, and the heads of the horses were like lions’ heads, and fire and smoke and sulfur came out of their mouths. 18By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed, by the fire and smoke and sulfur coming out of their mouths. 19For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails, for their tails are like serpents with heads, and by means of them they wound. The other set is Revelations 16-12. 12The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, to prepare the way for the kings from the east. The second verse does not tell us much. It gives us a cross check with the Euphates drying up and it gives us a name for this army “The Kings Of the East. The first set gives us more to go on. The army is 200 million men and a good picture of tanks. More importantly it gives us a set of colours that are effectively the colour of flags. Sapphire-blue, fire-red, sulphur-yellow/white. If you look at the colours in flags in Asia you see from Mongolia and Japan in the north to New Zealand and Indonesia in the south to Myanmar in the east. All these countries flags are made up of the four colours. From Bangladesh East you get a complete change. India is sky blue and not sapphire blue.

The first asteroid its the sea the next one Hits the land. The result is that much of the earths fresh water becomes poisoned. It is called Wormwood. There is a odd coincidence in the one of the old uses of the name Chermobyl is wormwood. Chermobyl poisoned much od Ukraines water was poisoned with radiation.

The first Trumpet sounds and a third of the earth was burned up.  Rev 7 The first angel blew his trumpet, and there followed hail and fire, mixed with blood, and these were thrown upon the earth. This would be something that only effects one third of the earth. The description from Rev 8  is hail and fire mixed with blood. Hail is stored in the heavens for the day of wrath the fire comes from a censor in heaven and  blood means toxic or poisonous. This event is the first of the tribulations and it is supernatural. So in one third of the earth or the area controlled by the Anti-Christ, one third of trees and all grass are burnt up. That's a ninth of the trees of the earth. It does not sound like any natural occurrence but a supernatural one. It will be interesting to see how they explain it off. Just a bit of speculation here but enter the pale horse.

Rev 8-3 Another angel, who had a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense to offer, with the prayers of all God’s people, on the golden altar in front of the throne. The smoke of the incense, together with the prayers of God’s people, went up before God from the angel’s hand. Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it on the earth; and there came peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning and an earthquake.
The peals of thunder can be translated as voices. This event happen just before the seven trumpets a kind of pre trumpet. It is supernatural because it happens as a result of the censer being poured out. There is a earthquake to start these calamities and a earthquake to signal the end. The tribulation lasts three and a half years where the saints are given into the hand of Satan. However, the trumpets can be different. They last at least five months. That’s how long the locusts get to torment men.

Second trumpet and something like a great mountain on fire was cast into the sea. Something like a mountain so that would be a triangle shape not a round shape like an asteroid or meteor. The only thing I can come up with is one of these undersea mountains. It is on fire and is cast into the sea so some parts of it are above sea level. So one of these volcanic island would fit the bill. The next thing it needs to be in a position to sink one third of the ships in that sea. Not every sea and one third of all shipping just the sea it is in. That means it is in the North Atlantic or Indian Oceans. The Pacific is to big. The Volcanic islands in the South Atlantic are not in a good position to sink one third of ships and kill one third of fish with it initial explosion. One of the volcanoes at the northern end of Indonesia and the Bay of Bengal is the sea seems logical. There are others but my personal favourite is Ilha Des Flores or Vila Do Corvo some Portugese Island right in the middle of the North Atlantic. They are on the edge of a deep trench and could cause a massive tsunami.

A third of the light from the sun is dimmed. With all these fires and volcanic activity going on it could be that. This would happen slowly and I get the impression this happens dramatically.
So it is more likely something to do with the Thermonuclear reactions in the sun itself. This relates to the forth and fifth wrath's and the is some more information there. The does have cycles that it goes through. Every four hundred years it seems to go to sleep. The last time in the sixteen hundreds there was a mini ice age. This has started now and will be at it's worse in about twelve to twenty years time.

Rev 8-3 Another angel, who had a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense to offer, with the prayers of all God’s people, on the golden altar in front of the throne. The smoke of the incense, together with the prayers of God’s people, went up before God from the angel’s hand. Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it on the earth; and there came peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning and an earthquake.
The peals of thunder can be translated as voices. This event happen just before the seven trumpets a kind of pre trumpet. It is supernatural because it happens as a result of the censer being poured out. There is a earthquake to start these calamities and a earthquake to signal the end. The tribulation lasts three and a half years where the saints are given into the hand of Satan. However, the trumpets can be different. They last at least five months. That’s how long the locusts get to torment men

Rev 8 and 9 are the first of the calamities. The calamities are not to be confused with the tribulation which is the persecution of the saints and the mark of the beast. All we know is it lasts more than five months. That is the time that the creatures from the bottomless pit get to torment men.

Eagle Overhead
 In the middle of the calamities an eagle flies over head saying “Woe, woe, woe to those who dwell on the earth, at the blasts of the other trumpets that the three angels are about to blow!”

Satan is given the key to the bottomless pit and releases a stinging creatures and Appolyon the angel and king of the bottomless pit. We will see Appolyon again. Is a bottomless pit possible in the world of physics. The answer is yes, it's the centre of the earth. At the centre of the earth has gravitational fields equal in all directions and could be hollow to a level that the earth's rotation produces forces to push out. In fact the earth could be quite hollow. The stinging creatures are around for five months so the calamities must last for five months. Appolyon is also the beast that arises out of the bottomless pit.

At the end of the age a new Gospel will be preached. This new Gospel, how is it possible? But it will lead to death. Doing this view of Revelations has left me shocked. Most of what I though was wrong and has changed my thinking on many things. The one that is going to change me the most is the realization that this false Gospel is the greatest threat to the saints that has ever been. There are some basic principles to the Gospel that can not be changed. They are the need to repent of our sins. We need to be obedient to the word and there are serious consequences for failing to obey. Remember these points repent, obedience and consequences. If they deviate then it is false doctrine.

The mystery of the seven thunders. Did God say these things in the thunders then changed his mind. Then he forgot to take it out or is there something really important in these apparently messed up verses. If a mistake is not possible then what is God saying to us in this chapter. Let us see if we can glean some information out of it. There is an interesting angel that has the book in his hand "Another mighty angel coming down from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow over his head, and his face was like the sun, and his legs like pillars of fire." A powerful and important angel. In fact the most powerful and colourful of all the angels mentioned. It has a heap of symbolism. However, I can only speculate on the meanings and I want to keep speculations down to a minimum.

After the seven thunders speak and John is told not to reveal what is said he says that the mystery of God would be fulfilled, just as he announced to his servants the prophets. I think we can see some of this mystery later on. When this angel appears it says he has a book in his hand. At this point in the chapter John is given the book to eat. It tasted sweet as honey but was poisonous or toxic and made Johns stomach bitter. So what happened here. A book has words in it that give some kind of information. So it will not be the book as such that is toxic but the words or to be more exact what the words say. They also have to be toxic to John. This is John as a servant and prophet of God so the words must be the opposite to the Gospel. It says that a different Gospel will be preached in the last days. This poisonous gospel, this gospel of grace and its evil sister the gospel of prosperity. Probably even more metaphorical is the gospel of John Lennon, "all you need is love". While love is really important, our gospel is one of repentance, obedience and consequences. People do not want to face the difficult end because they are so attached to there wealth. That will lead tens of millions into hell. It makes my stomach bitter and I have not eaten it.

At the end of the age a new Gospel will be preached. This new Gospel, how is it possible? But it will lead to death. Doing this view of Revelations has left me shocked. Most of what I though was wrong and has changed my thinking on many things. The one that is going to change me the most is the realization that this false Gospel is the greatest threat to the saints that has ever been. There are some basic principles to the Gospel that can not be changed. They are the need to repent of our sins. We need to be obedient to the word and there are serious consequences for failing to obey. Remember these points repent, obedience and consequences. If they deviate then it is false doctrine.

The wholly city can only be Jerusalem. The inner city is going to be safe but the outer city is going to be given over to he nations. Israel is going to fall under the power of the nations. There is going to be much death and suffering.

The two witnesses complete their task and are killed. Elijah who finally gets to die. One of them is Moses who died 4500 years ago and gets to die a second time. In Matthew it is written that the Gospel will be preached to all nations and then the end will come. We think of it as a slow process I think it is one of the great misconceptions of the bible. That it is in fact a single event, the killing of the two witnesses and their bodies being seen by peoples from every nation and tongue. Then the end will come.

 Who are the two witnesses? We know one is Elijah and most likely the other is Moses. John is told to measure the inner temple. The outer temple is given over to the nations. If the temple is rebuilt then they well be based in Israel where Abaddon kills them. If the temple is not built then the temple is the church and they have a world wide ministry.

The two witnesses complete their task and are killed. Elijah who finally gets to die. One of them is Moses who died 4500 years ago and gets to die a second time.

And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
How long does this battle take? It says his time is short and pursues the woman which make me believe that the time is only months. Worse still be is very angry. Just a thought for the angels. It says in scriptures that angels can die. This says that angels die in this battle. Some of these messengers and works of Jesus will give up their lives. And many saints are about to die. This following scripture reaffirms that the child bought forth is a man. And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.

The Red Dragon
This is not Satan as Satan is about to go to war with Michael in heaven. This is the rise of the Beast that is going to be cover in Rev 13. There is a good description in thirteen but it is slightly different than Rev 12. The reason is Rev 13 is describing the full blown Beast but Rev 12 is describing the rise of the Beast. What is the difference? Rev 12“behold, a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven diadems.” Rev 13”I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on its horns “. In the look at Rev 13 we will go into much more detail about the Beast so bear with me. The beast is a spiritual being the heads are nations and the horns are people. When the Beast first rises it will not be the full blown Beast. The full Beast has the horns or people with crowns. That is even though there are only seven nations the people have the authority of nations. Similar to the current EU. When it arises the nations still have the crowns so when the three extra horns are given more authority that is when the reign of the last Beast begins and the last seven years start there count down. However back to the woman.

The child
The woman (Church) brings forth the child and by the description it is clearly Jesus. This concept of a woman giving birth to a child is an analogy. The church reaches maturity and the return of Jesus happens but God takes Jesus up to heaven. Jesus is taken out of the action. The period is for a thousand two hundred and threescore days. As I mentioned before the city is the opposite to the wilderness. This 1260 day period is the tribulation and we will not have Jesus to help us. We will still have the Father and the Holy Spirit to help us.

The first sentence sets the scene. A great sign appears in heaven. Which heaven are we talking about? The next part tells us. The heaven we associate with the sun the moon and the stars. This is a sign in the constellations. For these celestial elements to line up is a very rare thing. However, they did align in September 2017. This is a starting point for Rev 12. Who is this woman? The four choices are The Virgin Mary, Israel the Levitical priest hood or the church. Although the are some mentions in the old testament as Israel as a woman it is more common for Jerusalem to be described with female pronouns. Mary may be an important player to Catholics but not so to others. Mary is not the woman mainly because this is a view of the future and Mary is out of the past. The Leitical priesthood can not be ruled out for reasons already discussed. Where as the church is clearly described as a woman. The bride of Christ. The stars around her head are the twelve sons of Jacob or twelve Apostles were the start of the process that formed the church and the twelve Apostles were at the end of the process through whom God bought salvation to the world. In a way they are the same for the Apostles started the process that formed the church. In fact they were the very start of the church.

And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. REV 12-2She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pains and the agony of giving birth. Then there is a dragon scene. Then more about the woman. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she bore her child he might devour it. 5She gave birth to a male child, one who is to rulea all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne, 6and the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, in which she is to be nourished for 1,260 days.

Revelations 12 is the hardest book to look at from a practical point of view. This is dealing with the spiritual principals behind the physical world that we look at. God set the stars and moon in their places as a guide for man. First thing that happens before any major event is that there is a sign in the heavens. This is easy to understand but then it says the Satan pursues the woman and generally becomes difficult to understand. I am feely sure that this is closely tied to the outer court being given over to the nations and the two witnesses. The signs in the heavens come first. This will happen before the "great calm". The other problem is that this is the spiritual side of things and so when it talks about the pain of child birth and the baby beginning born these are analogies and parallels to Jesus. This is a view of Revelations through the signs in the heavens.

The Anti Christ Is known by many names. The Evil One the Son of Perdition the Nail The man of the Earth the Assryrian. The Assyrian people ended up in Germany which means the Anti Christ will almost certainly be German. He rises up and three fall before him. That means any mention of the Forth Beast having ten horns is during the rise of the beast and the Anti Christ taking over.

The False Prophet is a person with spiritual power. He does not get much of a mention but he does use his power to send out demonic spirits to all nations to gather them together for Armageddon.

11Then I saw another beast rising out of the earth.
Beasts are angelic beings. Unlike other beasts it does not rise out of the sea but out of the land. It is the beast that causes the people to follow the first beast. The beast has two horns, one is the false prophet False Prophet the out is thought to be the Anti Christ but that is a mistake we have no idea who the other will be. A number of things are attributed to the Anti Christ that are actually done by the Beast. People are horns when the Anti Christ appears it is from one of the heads of the forth beast because three horns fall before him. .

Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus. The tribulation begins and one hundred million saints will give up their lives rather than take the mark of the beast.

The most well known part of Revelations. Let's see what you get if you read it straight. That is one beast, ten horns or people with seven heads or countries indicating three people are not leaders of countries but are kings of a type because there are ten diadems or crowns. The Great dragon rises up and pursues the the woman only has seven diadems. As the beast rises or starts it only has the seven nations and must form a relationship where three others are given the power of kings. Joint Presidents or something like it. It is different than the other beasts as Daniel 7 says. Because it is different and we are given no information why it is hard to predict how it will appear.

The mark of the beast is the stuff of movies. This takes our eye off the ball. The whole scripture reads Rev 13-16 And he causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: 17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. He causes all to be numbered but there are three reasons why you can not by or sell. You have the mark, the name of the beast or the number of his name. If there are two other restrictions on buying and selling there must he people that fit into those categories. There could be some deception. Maybe a new kind of vaccine that has the property of numbering people. Not having the mark is no guarantee. If there are other categories some people will not have received the number to fit into the first category. If he causes all to receive the number then the restriction must be all within his power to force them to take the number. There are places that he will not have this power. I suspect that this will only happen in the few nations. We are going to have to wait to nearer the time to see how this works.
The number 666 being that of the beast but also a man. It is not two individuals but one individual with the nature of a man and that of Satan. An Antichrist. The beast can not be completely Satan because Satan is cast into the bottomless pit while the beast from the earth gets thrown into the lake of fire. Safest places to be to avoid the mark? Any country that belongs to the Kings of the East Pack, USA, South Africa and South America with Uruguay being number one. Although South America will be dependent on what role the Pope plays in all this. We currently have a non Christian Pope and he comes from South America. The number of the Antichrist is 666 and given that there are so many good theories already it could be quite difficult to tell who has the number. Scriptures say there will be an event that revels his appearance and who he is. How will this number be applied to the people? I will add my guess to all the methods you can read about. I am going for facial recognition and finger print recognition on your cell phone. My reasoning is that this is already available. I can not see how in one day everybody has this number. the logistics of chips and other ideas are impossible. Even cell phone apps. would take a while to implement. Some may have to deal with the situation for three and a half years but others it could be only a year. Some possibly up to five years. However, the rise of the crypto currencies and the ease of use may change that. I suspect that the USA may not get it at all. How do I come to that? Read on to Babylon the Great and the USA in the tribulation. With out this number you will not be able to buy and sell. The hundred million saints who are going to die during this period will most likely be because of this number that is required. You will see violent deaths and there will be many concentration camps. However, most people will starve, not get medical help or freeze because there will be no electricity. There will be no protection from law enforcement as we will be seen as rebels and evil. I would love to be able to show how the 666 works and who he is. All I can tell you is he will be German.

I have mentioned this elsewhere but I would like to reiterate it. This is a head that has been wounded. This means that it is a nation and not a person. This wound is done by the sword or by war. This mortal wound is healed. The only nation that fits this is East/West Germany. The wound is mentioned three times 13-3 13-12 13-14. Twice when talking about the beast from the earth. This suggests that there is a close tie between the Antichrist and Germany. One of the names of the Antichrist is the Assyrian. The people who try to trace the movement of the nations through linguistics place Assyria in Germany. This nation must be one of the eight nations of Daniel 7s first three beasts. The sudden and miraculous reunification of the Germany's fulfils these scriptures.

Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus. The tribulation begins and one hundred million saints will give up their lives rather than take the mark of the beast.

Fallen fallen
This is more than likely a sign what the 144000 will preach. The desire to start preaching the message that the first angel declares.
Firstly we have to see the great calm and given that the sun is entering into a dormant period right now and will be fully asleep in ten years time it could be as early as 2018. They preach this until we hear fallen fallen is Babylon the Great. Then it changes.
Now we have another event to align the 144000 with. You will see in chapter 17 that this is the economic collapse of the USA. This happens during or just prior to the 1260 reign of the Beast before the Antichrist appears. The call to preach Fear God is something that happens before or at the beginning of the Beasts reign.

 Then I saw another angel flying directly overhead, with an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on earth, to every nation and tribe and language and people. And he said with a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come, and worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water.”

Now the third angel cries out. “If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand, he also will drink the wine of God’s wrath, poured full strength into the cup of his anger, and he will be tormented with fire and sulphur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever, and they have no rest, day or night, these worshippers of the beast and its image, and whoever receives the mark of its name.” Now that preaching changes from fear God to do not take the mark of the Beast. It will be preached till the end. This is a very hard thing they have to do and the Lord well be training them. Does injustice seem to be following you or do you feel that you are receiving an unnatural amount of problems. You are being turned into men of steel to have victory in an seemingly impossible task. On the bright side you likely will get to speak face to face with Elijah and Moses. You get to met Jesus. On the harder side fellow saints will help you at the cost of there lives. If you think you spirit is calling you need to be putting it before the lord. your time could be as little as three years away.

And I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.” “Blessed indeed,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labours, for their deeds follow them!”
You who die between this point and the end up are part of the hundred million but you will have a special place for your deeds will follow you.

Then I saw another angel flying directly overhead, with an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on earth, to every nation and tribe and language and people. And he said with a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come, and worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water.”
This is a sign what the 144000 will preach. The desire to start preaching the message that the first angel declares. Is this to come or has it already happened. We have seen an unending stream of preachers saying the end of the age is hear. This started at a new level in the 1970's with books like The Late Great Planet Earth and a group of preachers starting to preach the end is here all over the world. I am saying that they are here now and are preaching that the day of judgement is at hand. I wonder what people like Rick Wiles and the team from Tru News would say to someone telling them they are part of the 144000?
They preach this until we hear fallen fallen is Babylon the Great. Then it changes.

The Lord and the 144000 stand on Mount Zion. Mount Zion is a name for erusalem but also a name for the temple mount. It is a name for the paradigm of Israel. It is an ideal so it does not mean the 144000 have to go to Jerusalem but has a condition of the heart. Blameless and have not defiled themselves with woman. You do not defile yourselves in marriage. These are Physical requirements that must be met. Now these saints are walking among us at this very time. You may be one but how do you know. Firstly the Lord will be calling you. You met the above requirements. Lastly there is a song that only you can learn. This is the test that you can apply that finds out false witnesses. What is the song?

The end with lightening and thunder and the great earthquake gets mentioned again. That places the great earthquake in a very specific time slot and can help put other mentions of it in unison. Huge hail stones and the destruction of the last remnants of Babylon. Currently, in 2020 the highest parts of our atmosphere are falling to freezing temperatures. A great storehouse of hail is starting to build up at the moment.

This is where the false prophet gets to do his bit. He has the ability to send out demonic spirits to deceive the nations to come for war. Then there is a strange statement. Behold I come like a thief and be ready. Are we going to find it difficult to believe what is going on. Is the delusion of the time that great?

Plunged into darkness. This happens to the throne of the Beast and its kingdom is thrown into darkness. That tells us that even though it has authority over everyone its actual kingdom is not over everyone.

Plunged into darkness. This happens to the throne of the Beast and its kingdom is thrown into darkness. That tells us that even though it has authority over everyone its actual kingdom is not over everyone.

The Island volcano has exploded and kills one third of fish. Now the eruption continues and pours chemicals into the sea and makes it so toxic that everything dies in the sea that the mountain is thrown into. This could not happen quickly as the toxic substance would take a while to travel the sea if it was one of the oceans. However if it was a small sea it could be quite quick. Remember it is not all seas but the sea the mountain is thrown into.

This is a repeat of the seven trumpet or another view of the calamities. The trumpet is an announcement where the bowls are a better view of what is happening. It for the most part runs parallel. I believe that one to five happen closely together at the beginning of these events with six and seven being the end. There is no time given for these thing to happen. The tribulation lasts three and a half years but these things could happen in the last year and a half or less with a minimum of five months.

This wrath is not the same as the first wrath of the trumpets . There could be a relationship as what ever burns a third of the earth is also toxic and could be the cause of the festering sores. One thing this wrath does is put it in relationship to other events. These sores affect only those who have received the mark of the beast or worship it. So these wrath's must start after the Antichrist has arisen. What makes me think they are related is because the first trumpet is a supernatural event, there is hail and fire mixed with blood, blood being a toxic substance. The fact the it only affects this select group is also supernatural.

The radioactive asteroid continues to poison the rivers and lakes. Many people die. An Angel says  "Just art thou in these thy judgments, thou who art and wast, O Holy One. For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink." The having shed the blood of the saints and the prophets would indicate somewhere where significant numbers of saints have been killed to receive special mention. Middle East does not fit because of the water restrictions. Probably Europe if it hit a nuclear reactor. Central Africa, China or Japan are not likely as they have not shed much blood of prophets.  Needs to be a place of river and they need to have shed the blood of prophets.

This seems to to be the view of Gods wrath by a group of witnesses. These witnesses have conquered the Beast. At this point the Beast has been active for more than forty two months. The Antichrist has taken over and the saints have been given into his hands. Many saints have not bowed to the Beast or they have helped the 144000 . This has cost them their lives. Yet they are counted as victorious and have defeated the power of the beast.
“Great and amazing are your deeds,
O Lord God the Almighty!
Just and true are your ways,
This is their song.

This seems to to be the view of Gods wrath by a group of witnesses. These witnesses have conquered the Beast. At this point the Beast has been active for more than forty two months. The Antichrist has taken over and the saints have been given into his hands. Many saints have not bowed to the Beast or they have helped the 144000 . This has cost them their lives. Yet they are counted as victorious and have defeated the beast.
“Great and amazing are your deeds,
O Lord God the Almighty!
Just and true are your ways,
This is their song.

The heads of the beast. These are not the heads of the beast that comes out of the sea. They rise together and co-exist. These heads come over time. They are the nations the developed great cities. Five have fallen one is, in Johns time so that is Rome, and one is to come. When describing the beast it says that it is an eighth head. Historically these nations are thought of as Egypt with Phoebes, Assyria with Nineveh, Babylon, Medes and Persians, Greeks with Athens and Rome. The Roman Empire never really went away. It just transformed over time into new empires but it roots are always from the Roman Empire. In fact you can say Australia,Canada and Brazil all have there roots in the Roman Empire. However, the meaning of a country is a geographical one. Even though you may have the heritage you also need the physical. All these countries of Europe are just different variations of the original Roman Empire so we need to see a change geographically as well for the seventh head to appear.  In December 1945 the nations signed into being the IMF and they also signed an agreement making the US dollar the world reserve currency. The USA met the criteria of being the strongest militarily and financially. At that point the USA became the seventh head of the beast. The USSR lasted 70 years because that is a significant number in the Word for nations. The USA as the head turns seventy in December 2015. If the last head is to last only a little while then you should see the demise of the USA and the rise of the forth beast some time in the next ten years after that. Psalm 90-10 The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; and so it goes with nations. I felt the Lord telling me that the USA is like King Saul and Saul lived for seventy two years which will make the fall sometime between December 2017 and November 2018.

The beast that the Harlot Rides on is not the the same beast from Rev 13. Lets recap the scriptures about the beast. 1)  A scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns. 2) The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to rise from the bottomless pit and go to destruction. 3) And the ten horns that you saw are ten kings who have not yet received royal power, but they are to receive authority as kings for one hour, together with the beast. Number one, now this beast is not the beast of Rev 13. This beast that the harlot rides is scarlet and not like a Leopard. Now number two gives us heaps of information to work with. We will see that the heads do not exist together but over time. The beast must also exist over a long  time. Was,  is not and is yet to come. So the nation that existed at Johns time was the Roman Empire so he had been put into the bottomless pit before then. Although he might have been put into the bottomless pit by Jesus. The other nations before then don't really matter and are a subject of another study although they do get covered briefly. There is plenty of information around already on these earlier nations and cities if you look.
When this demonic angel rises again he comes out of the bottomless pit. We know who the angel of the bottomless pit is because Satan releases him on the fifth trumpet. Appolyon is the beast from the bottomless pit goes on to kill the two witnesses. Appolyon gets released after the Antichrist arises and the tribulation starts. When this happens there are no longer ten horns but eight or nine. So when the horns hand their royal power over to the beast it can not be Appolyon because he is still in the bottomless pit. This beast must be the beast of Rev 13. Remember this for the tag 'Babylon is attacked.'

Fallen fallen is Babylon the Great.  No war no fire yet, just fallen. When will it fall. The 144000 have been preaching Fear God for a while. The plan to destroy her is made by the ten horns so the Antichrist has not appeared yet. There are things that cause her destruction like demonic activity and carvings . That  sexual perversion, child sacrifice (abortion) pornography and greed have killed her.

Revelation 17 the picture of the woman on the beast with seven heads. We will look at the picture in sections. First the woman. She is called by different names. The great harlot, the woman, the Mother of Harlots and the great city. The waters that are mentioned are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.  The beasts head, horns and the beast itself. The last description of the woman is the great city. Is this a particular city say New York or is it a generic city with a large population. The early counties had only one city that dominated like Rome. Phebes and Egypt, Assyria and Ninevah, Babylon and Rome. But as Rome Changed into the Holy Roman Empire and into Europe there became many large cities. Rome continued in many forms until the role was passed on to the seventh head. What made Rome any more wicked than Paris or Amsterdam or Berlin. It is the wickedness and not the location that makes it evil. I can only conclude that the great city is a name for all large cities within a country also they sit on many waters. If any one city within a large country like China, USA or Russia was destroyed the effects would be noticed but not destructive to the country.  The cry goes fallen is Babylon but it can never truly be destroyed until all large cities are destroyed.

Revelation 17 the picture of the woman on the beast with seven heads. We will look at the picture in sections. First the woman. She is called by different names. The great harlot, the woman, the Mother of Harlots and the great city. The waters that are mentioned are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues. The beasts head, horns and the beast itself. The last description of the woman is the great city. Is this a particular city say New York or is it a generic city with a large population. The early counties had only one city that dominated like Rome. Phebes and Egypt, Assyria and Ninevah, Babylon and Rome. But as Rome Changed into the Holy Roman Empire and into Europe there became many large cities. Rome continued in many forms until the role was passed on to the seventh head. What made Rome any more wicked than Paris or Amsterdam or Berlin. It is the wickedness and not the location that makes it evil. I can only conclude that the great city is a name for all large cities within a country also they sit on many waters. If any one city within a large country like China, USA or Russia was destroyed the effects would be noticed but not destructive to the country. The cry goes fallen is Babylon but it can never truly be destroyed until all large cities are destroyed.

 The description of the level of destruction the the cities have probably been done by nuclear weapons.  So when you leave the cities make sure you take into account the drift of radiation. Even though modern nuclear weapons have far less radiation than the older ones it is best to be safe.  The saints need to have a rough plan of what they are going to do. I assume most Americans are familiar with George Washington's dream. He said "I had a dream that he saw three wars on American soil". The first was a war of independence the second was a war of brother against brother. Then there was a final conflict where he saw the large cities being burnt to the ground. The people in the country arose and moved back to rebuild. If you do not want to believe me believe your founding father. I did not fit Revelations 17 and 18 to the prophesy but discovered it after writing this view of Revelations. The victory at the end of the prophecy is a physical one but a spiritual one. The reason Satan has so encouraged the Rapture concept is to make the Christians in the USA unprepared for the last battle against the Antichrist. If you are unfamiliar with the prophecy go to You tube and type in George Washington dream. I believe a large city could be as low as 250,000 people. The population of Babylon.

The description of the level of destruction the the cities have probably been done by nuclear weapons.  So when you leave the cities make sure you take into account the drift of radiation. Even though modern nuclear weapons have far less radiation than the older ones it is best to be safe.  The saints need to have a rough plan of what they are going to do. I assume most Americans are familiar with George Washington's dream. He said "I had a dream that he saw three wars on American soil". The first was a war of independence the second was a war of brother against brother. Then there was a final conflict where he saw the large cities being burnt to the ground. The people in the country arose and moved back to rebuild. If you do not want to believe me believe your founding father. I did not fit Revelations 17 and 18 to the prophesy but discovered it after writing this view of Revelations. The victory at the end of the prophecy is a physical one but a spiritual one. The reason Satan has so encouraged the Rapture concept is to make the Christians in the USA unprepared for the last battle against the Antichrist. If you are unfamiliar with the prophecy go to You tube and type in George Washington dream. I believe a large city could be as low as 250,000 people. The population of Babylon.

This is the financial collapse of the US. Probably the reserve currency status is lost and all is lost. I speculate the countries of the world are going to set up a trading currency that is used just for international trading. The Lord calls for his people to come out of her least you take part in her sins and punishment. We are talking about the great cities not all of the US. This is a call for the saints to be vigilant because of what is about to happen. When the US loses it position as the seventh head of the beast the woman is riding.  You must leave the cities they are about to be destroyed. The USA saints need to prepare early for this. Somewhere in the country or small cities. Babylon was one of these cities and its population was only two hundred and fifty thousand. They need also to prepare to be the nemesis of the Antichrist and you will need to listen to the Lord on that one. For a lot more information go to the blog USA in Revelations.

Revelations 18 is the look at the fall of Babylon the Great from the view of man. An angel appears with great authority and the earth is made bright by his presents. This is the revealing of things hidden by the darkness of deception. The wicked men who have stolen the USA from its people by using deception will be exposed to the rest of the world. As a result they will turn away from the manipulations that have been happening with the US. The Ace in the hole for the US has been having the world reserve currency. It meant that no matter how incompetent they got they could just print more money. It is why they have been interfering in every countries affairs from Ghana to Germany to Jamaica. They need to retain it.
Lets see what happens first then we get to the actual end of this age. There are things at the beginning of the end but which will come first? The woman in the heavens the Great Calm or the Powerful angel who's light reveals the hidden things at the end of the age. With this current USA election we see that it is the Powerful angel for things are being revealed at an astonishing pace. The woman in the heavens is September 2017.

Daniel seven has the same format and covers the same period as the views in Revelations. It adds some really important information as to who the nations are. Daniel twelve says that the first three beasts get to live on after the forth Beast is killed.

One of the greatest mistakes that is made in determining Christ return comes from these scriptures. It is that the Gospel will be preached to all nations. This is an on going process but this is wrong. This is an single event and Revelations tells us what it is. It is to do with the two witnesses. 7And when they have finished their testimony, the beast that rises from the bottomless pita will make war on them and conquer them and kill them, 8and their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city that symbolicallyb is called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was crucified. 9For three and a half days some from the peoples and tribes and languages and nations will gaze at their dead bodies and refuse to let them be placed in a tomb, 10and those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and make merry and exchange presents, because these two prophets had been a torment to those who dwell on the earth. 11But after the three and a half days a breath of life from God entered them, and they stood up on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them. With the days of mass communication it is not hard to see this happening. I got some idea of this when on holiday on a remote island in Tonga and every one had smart phones. The event is the death of the two witnesses and their raising from the dead.
The next section is the the description of the destruction of the temple. Matt24-15 through to 28.

Tribulation period. We get the sense that there is going to be some sort of moment when we go into a distinct period. In reality there is going to be a continual falling away, disasters and persecution. We will slip into this period and not realize it like boiled frogs.

Then lastly the green or pale horseman. “And there will be famines and earthquakes in various places. “ 8All these are but the beginning of the birth pains. The horsemen are setting up the conditions for the second coming to happen. 9-14 covers the tribulation period.

The black horseman. 7For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, The black horseman has control finance and politics. He made his appearance in the 1920'S which saw the battle between so called Communists and Capitalism and in recent years banker the people which has been divided into national conflict.

Next is the Red horseman. “And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet. “. 

The first event in Revelations is the white horseman. Deception of Christians is his purpose. And “Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray. 5For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray. This started in 1844 and is even stronger today.

the destruction of the temple 15-22. Titus set up a false god statue in the temple which caused the revolt. When they took the city after the seige they killed nearly all the 250,000 people inside. Just a few thousand remained and it was the same for the surrounding towns.

Matthew 24 is is often used when talking about the end of the age. Most inconsistencies occur because the disciples appear to ask two questions. As they are walking along they point out the temple buildings. Jesus tells them there will not be one stone left upon another. This leads them to say when they reached their destination. “Tell us, when will these things be, Question one ( the destruction of the temple)and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?” Question two So the question asked is later and does not involve the destruction of the temple but only his second coming. The questions are answered in order. There is further confusion added by the fact that there was an abomination of desolation set up in the temple just before it was destroyed. But not in order. Matthew 24-4 to 14 are in fact a synopsis of Revelations.
Signs of the end of the Age is first 4-14 then the destruction of the temple 15-22. Titus set up a false god statue in the temple which caused the revolt. When they took the city after the seige they killed nearly all the 250,000 people inside. Just a few thousand remained and it was the same for the surrounding towns.
We are interested in the Sign of the End of the Age. Can we fit it into our chart.

There are one hundred million who die during the tribulation. The huge crowd before the throne. They come back to life and live on earth the last thousand years with Jesus. The first resurrection. This must be a wonderful thing to experience. Do they spread out and repopulate the earth or are they just priests in and around Israel. What is their relationship with those who survive the Day of the Lord?

“Praise our God,
all you his servants,
you who fear him,
small and great.”

Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war. 12His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are many diadems, and he has a name written that no one knows but himself. 13He is clothed in a robe dipped inb blood, and the name by which he is called is The Word of God. 14And the armies of heaven, arrayed in fine linen, white and pure, were following him on white horses. 15From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and he will rulec them with a rod of iron. He will tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty. 16On his robe and on his thigh he has a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords.

Babylon judged. The Great Prostitute the great cities of the world. God remembers them and destroys them with earthquakes and huge hail stones. As I look out my window and look at a beautiful new house that has been built next door. Within  twenty years it will be nothing but matchsticks. This is all the great cities of the world. These cities will never be built again. Abaddon will be cast into the lake of fire along with the Antichrist and the False Prophet. House prices in major cities have been rising at an incredible rate to unbelievable amounts. Are worthless.