Category: In these last days… Revelation

He came and took the book out of the right hand of Him who sat on the throne. Revelation 5:7
His Authority to Judge

In these last days – The Revelation of Jesus Christ

to John.

– IS HE TALKING TO US?

– How does CHRIST’s Revelation written to seven first century churches apply to you + millennia later in the 21st century of the Common Era?

What should we expect any DAY now?

– Do YOU have the boldness to SHARE the revealed ending [apocalypses] to your SOCIAL friends?

Take a glimpse and tell us what you think about the apocalypse revealed by the risen Christ Jesus to the Apostle John. THEN SHARE God’s WARNINGS with a comment added to Talk of JESUS .com

  • Apocalypse 9 – the Wrath of the Lamb

    Apocalypse 9 – the Wrath of the Lamb

    We live now in a day of grace – but there is coming a day when the man that spits in the face of God shall meet His judgment.

    Dr. W. A. Criswell on Revelation 1:19

    Disaster on the Whole Earth

    Perhaps you remember recent disasters or recall the terror of some singular event of history.

    Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter

    The Revelation of Jesus Christ to John 1:19 KJV

    In the opening of the sixth seal Jesus Christ reveals to John an apocalypse of terror, which we might pray will not occur in our brief mortal days.

    OR the intro:

    where I first quoted from the Sixth Seal Rev. 6:16-17.

    The Sixth Seal

    Terror! – Cowering in the Wrath of the Lamb

    November A.D. 1945 – Nagasaki three months after dropping of ATOMIC BOMB!

    You can hardly image the devastations, the losses of so many lives, the traumatic terror of the sole survivors of unspoken disaster.

    • August 1931, Yangtze River, China #1 20th c. natural disaster
      • 30,000 sq. mi. flooded, 40 million homes destroyed, 15% of crops destroyed
      • > 3 million, 700 thousand deaths, many from starvation & disease.

    Do you recall from Apocalypse 7 – Death & Hell follows him the fourth seal deaths of 25% in China would be a hundred times that?

    • > 360.7 MILLION souls!
    9 AUG, 1945, explosion of Atomic Bomb 2000 feet above Nagasaki, Japan.

    We needn’t attempt to measure the devastation of nuclear holocausts beyond that of just two cities in 1945 Japan to realize that when a time of the wrath of God is to come upon the world at the end of these last days its terrorized creatures, men of dust and ashes, will hope to hide from Almighty God.

    Revelation 6:

    12 I watched as the Lamb broke the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake. The sun became as dark as black cloth, and the moon became as red as blood.

    Would a nuclear blast above your city or an even more powerful manifestation of the Lord God not do the same in an instant? It would blacken the sun, cloud the moon and choke God’s breath of life from the atmosphere!

    13 Then the stars of the sky fell to the earth like green figs falling from a tree shaken by a strong wind.

    The Apostle John sees them as stars, but the science of these last days tell us that even an asteroid (let alone many meteors striking the earth) would destroy life as we know it. And ‘mother nature’ never caused it, nor could sinful scientists prevent it. Just imagine the force of a hurricane throwing the hard surfaces of space onto the homes and workplaces of your existence.

    14 The sky was rolled up like a scroll, and all of the mountains and islands were moved from their places.

    It is a hail storm, a tornado; the eruption of a volcano swallowing up the earth and pouring fire into the cities; a hurricane and tsunami billowing waves of destruction into the unsuspecting great cities by the sea.

    Terror at the Wrath of the Lord!

    Then everyone—the kings of the earth, the rulers, the generals, the wealthy, the powerful, and every slave and free person—all hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.

    Revelation 6:15 NLT

    NO, it will not be only on earth — but from beneath it and into the depths of the seas the vengeance of Almighty God will finally punish the wicked and sinners..

    • Deaths of 25% of Mankind; >1 BILLION, 961 MILLION
    • > the TOTAL POPULATIONS of Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, Northern America, (including the U.S.) and Oceania.

    16 and they said to the mountains and to the rocks, “Fall on us..

    and hide us

    from the presence of Him who sits on the throne,

    and from the wrath of the Lamb;

    for the great day of their wrath has come,

    and who is able to stand?”

    Revelation 6:16b-17 NASB

    Is your name in the Book of the Lamb?

    ..Then a white robe was given to each of them..

    Revelation 6:11 – to the saints from Martyrs + the saints cry out
    apokalypsis of Good News

    Can you stand for the opening of the seventh seal?

    WAIT for a time; for first these must be sealed.

    Revelation 7 | iiiiiii |Complete Jewish Bible
    To be continued...
  • Apocalypse 8 – Martyrs + the saints cry out

    Apocalypse 8 – Martyrs + the saints cry out

    “How long, O Lord, holy and true, will You refrain from judging and avenging our blood on those who live on the earth?”

    Revelation 6:10b NASB – the cry of the martyrs from beneath the altar

    Martyrs

    judge's gavel - quote: And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment

    UNANSWERED Questions of those who died for their faith in Jesus Christ:

    Where is JUSTICE for those who die by the hands of the evil?

    Who will JUDGE those who kill the innocent and oppress the righteous?

    Rembrandt-Lapidation-Saint-Etienne-MBA-Lyon
    the Stoning of Stephen- painting by Rembrandt

    And all who were sitting in the Sanhedrin looked intently at him and saw that his face was like the face of an angel.

    “Are these things true? ” the high priest asked.

    “Brothers and fathers,” he replied, “listen: The God of glory appeared..

    .. and Stephen proceeded to preach the Gospel until those who rejected the God of Glory and cut by Truth silenced him in rage, stoning Christ’s martyr by the weight of their own guilt.

    Roger @ talk of Jesus {dot}.com on Acts 6:8-8:3 excerpt from CSB
    foxe's book of martyrs

    Stephen, the Apostles & many more martyrs among the saints

    The Acts of the Apostles record the power of the preaching of the Gospel of Jesus Christ crucified and risen, but also the suffering by the saints of the church for witness of the Gospel to those who would believe.

    Resource: https://www.ccel.org/f/foxe/martyrs/fox101.htm

    Acts of the Apostles:

    • 4:3-4 And they laid hands on them [Peter & John] and put them in prison.. and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.

    “You men who are stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears are always resisting the Holy Spirit; you are doing just as your fathers did.. and you have now become betrayers and murderers of Him; you who received the Law as ordained by angels, and yet did not keep it.”

    Acts 7:51-53 excerpt NASB – indictment of the Jews through the martyr Stephen
    • 8:1b And on that day [of the stoning of Stephen] a great persecution began against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles.
      • DATE: ~A.D. 33-36
    • 12:2b-3a [Herod Agrippa I] .. had James the brother of John executed with a sword. When he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter as well.
      • DATE: A.D. 44
    • 14:19b20a .. they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing him to be dead. But while the disciples stood around him, he got up and entered the city.
      • After many additional attacks, Paul would be executed in Rome – DATE: ~ A.D. 64-68
    • Simon Peter was also crucified in Rome during the persecutions of Nero – DATE: ~ A.D. 64-68 as were many other saints killed throughout the Empire both before and after the fall of Jerusalem.

    When will justice be served to those who crucify Truth and destroy the lives of the faithful?

    DATE ~A.D. 94–96 + John wrote the Revelation of Jesus Christ

    The deaths of martyrs mentioned had already taken place when John writes Revelation. The opening of the seven seals gives the Church a glimpse of Justice at the End of these last days.

    Jerusalem would fall in A.D. 70. The Sanhedrin would no more convict Christian or Jew.

    Rome would divide and crumble by the third century and the Empire would fall in A.D. 476.

    Even so, we realize now in A.D. 2021, the prophesy of the last days revealed by John is for a time nearer to US than that of the Apostles.

    The Fifth Seal

    the saints cry out!

    Revelation 6:

    9 When the Lamb broke the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed because of the word of God, and because of the testimony which they had maintained..

    It is the Altar of the Holy Throne Room of Heaven! The Lamb stands surrounded by seraphim and four living creatures, angels and elders of the heavenly court, hearing the prayers of the saints as these plead for justice.

    They cried out with a loud voice,

    “Lord, the one who is holy and true,

    how long until you judge those who live on the earth and avenge our blood?”

    Revelation 6:10 CSB

    Oh Lord, δεσπότης – despotēsas a bond servant addresses one’s Master, as one of the saints, bound to our Lord Christ as husband to the church.

    Jesus Christ is HOLY AND TRUE! –

    ἅγιος – hagios (an awful One) & ἀληθινός – alēthinosReal in name and resemblance, but the real nature corresponding to the name.

    “How long, O [Master], holy and true, will You refrain from judging and avenging our blood on those who live on the earth?”

    • Do you not judge and avenge?

    Rest yet a while longer

    You servants of the Lord

    take comfort in His answer to you;

    for only He IS righteous in judgment

    and vengeance belongs only

    to the Lamb on the Throne.

    And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellow servants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.

    Revelation 6:11 KJV

    NEXT Unsealed :

    The Great Day of the Wrath of the Lamb

  • Apocalypse 7 – Death & Hell follows him

    Apocalypse 7 – Death & Hell follows him

    When the Lamb broke the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, “Come!”

    Revelation 6:7

    Four Living Creatures: “Come!”

    Note the description of this fourth beast and the other living creatures who have summoned John to the apocalypse of the Book (scroll).

    Recalling that the four living creatures worship the LORD day and night and that they reside even closer to the Throne than the thrones of the Elders of Heaven, image how in awe of these you would be as a mere mortal.

    • The first living creature was like a lion;
    • the second living creature was like an ox;
    • the third living creature had a face like a man
    • and the fourth living creature was like a flying eagle.

    And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.

    Revelation 4:8 KJV

    The Fourth Seal:

    Death and Hades

    Revelation 6:

    8 I looked, and behold, an ashen horse..

    Describing ashes, a very symbol of repentance or death — some versions translate the colorless look of the fourth horse as ‘pale.’ Look on the ashen or pale horse as you might view the face of one close to death.

    .. and the one who sat on it had the name Death..

    Little surprise here as the three riders before had carried a bow, a sword and scales to weigh the scarcity of famine. In fact, after mention of hell, the remainder of the prophesy refers to the judgment given to them all!

    and Hades was following with him.

    Authority was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, and famine, and plague, and by the wild animals of the earth.

    What the Hades?

    • How many of us have faced death?

    If you have, perhaps then the prospect of heaven or hell became more pressing in your consideration of the Lord God and Jesus Christ.

    This apocalypse of Jesus Christ to John seems far from the Good News of the pristine amusement parklike picture of heaven many of us hope for after the inevitable end of our mortal life.

    • Do you have a ‘happily ever after’ view of heaven?
    • Isn’t Hell just a threat to everyone else but ME?
      • (For surely I don’t deserve punishment, because Jesus wants everyone in my church to be with Him.)
    • I believe in God and Heaven and Jesus,
      • BUT I don’t really think Hades or Hell exists — does it?
    • Can’t the evil lives of others just end so we won’t have to put up with THEM anymore?
    ᾅδης – Hades

    What hidden (and perhaps dreaded) truth is being revealed here in this awful ἀποκάλυψις apocalyptic appearance to John?

    The KJV translates Strong’s G86 in the following manner: hell (10x), grave (1x).

    Jesus spoke of it in His teachings. The rebuke of the Lord was for those of His own home town, churchgoers (synagogue šabāṯkeepers) where the māšîaḥ preached to those who denied that He IS the Son of God.

    “And you, Capernaum, will not be exalted to heaven, will you? You will descend to Hades; or if the miracles had occurred in Sodom which occurred in you, it would have remained to this day.

    Matthew 11:23 NASB

    Yes, Capernaum was destroyed — and it did not take until the end of all days of the heavens and the earth.

    So it will be for most mortals who must face death.

    You will face death: you may die in suffering or war of even in peace — but the judgment of all flesh will come at the end of these last days.

    • Will it be heaven for you (even as those in Capernaum believed)?

    Or Hell, the same Hades of which Christ Jesus cautions Capernaum?

    Hell on earth!

    NO, it will not be only on earth — but from beneath it and into the depths of the seas the vengeance of Almighty God will finally punish the wicked and sinners.

    And let’s not forget that we ALL have sinned!

    As it is now we see in Revelation that even the saints suffer; but in the judgment of the end, only the saints of the Lord have Good News.

    And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.

    And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

    Revelation 6:8 KJV

    Death… and Hell always follows.

    After warnings to the seven churches, the Apocalypse began its Revelation of unseen Truth near to the Throne of Heaven.

    From there the seals removed by the Lamb have revealed the voice of what is to come — spoken in Heaven.

    We have seen the terrible messengers sent to the four corners of the earth in a time that is yet to come. Now note the extent of death on the earth.

    If the Vision was for today

    And I make not any claim that it is; but look at the numbers:

    Source: https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/ 
    
    [Secure links on talk of Jesus {dot}.com provide additional opportunity to research scripture and other facts beyond those mentioned here and in other posts.]
    • Does this mean that after war and famine on the earth — that one fourth of mankind will suffer death?
    Lincoln penny 2020

    We have already seen a frightful vision [Revelation 6:6] of the time when a day’s wages of a denarius (comparable to a penny) might only feed one man or small family for just one day — AND that assumes that a man could find work in an economy devastated by war.

    See what that could look like in these last days in the year of our Lord, 2021.

    A.D. 2021 – counting what counts

    We easily get lost in today’s HEADLINE numbers of bad NEWS, but let’s begin with a couple of everyday numbers from which we can weigh what happens on a daily basis AND and give context to the foreboding projections of Revelation.

    Current World Population

    7,845,681,871 >TODAY

    More than 7 BILLION, 800 MILLION

    • Deaths this year >7 MILLION
    • Deaths today >92,600

    Deaths of 25% of Mankind

    > 1 BILLION, 961 MILLION

    MORE THAN the TOTAL POPULATIONS of Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, Northern America, (including the U.S.) and Oceania.

    One fourth of ALL mankind destroyed by God’s wrath!

    Now see TODAY’S HEADLINES in light of the apocalypse of THE END.

    A closer look at A.D. 2021 population:

    • China > 1.4 BILLION — Deaths of 25% > 360.7 MILLION
    • India < 1.4 BILLION — Deaths of 25% > 347.1 MILLION
    • U.S. < 0.3 BILLION — Deaths of 25% > 83 THOUSAND
      • * US> 332,221,081

    Compare today’s HEADLINES:

    • CORONAVIRUS DEATHS = 2,411,000
    • COVID deaths per million of population = 0,000,309.3
    • Abortions this year > 5.2 million
    • Communicable disease deaths < 1.6 million
    • Cancer deaths this year > 1.0 million

    Death Toll: 1/4 of the earth!

    And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.

    And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth,

    to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

    Revelation 6:8 – apocalypse of the fourth seal

    AS OF TODAY …

    https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/

    more than 7 BILLION, 8 million souls …

    MORE THAN 1 BILLION, 961 million lives would end in death!

    Math of the fourth seal of Revelation applied to AD 2021

    Do you indeed speak righteousness?

    (WLC 58:11) יִשְׂמַח צַדִּיק כִּי־חָזָה נָקָם פְּעָמָיו יִרְחַץ בְּדַם הָרָשָֽׁע׃

    The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance;
    He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked

    So that men will say,
    “Surely there is a reward for the righteous;
    Surely He is God who judges in the earth.”

    excerpt from Psalm 58: NKJV


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