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221 | computers... | Revelation | There | 12697 | ||
Thanks for the info Ed. I'd heard that on the 10 o'clock news... should have known better than to believe it I guess. :) | ||||||
222 | Please explain who the 144,000 are. | Revelation | There | 12705 | ||
The 144,000 are Israelites (12,000 from each of the twelve tribes of Israel). Mid-point in the seventieth week God will seal unto salvation and protect "the woman" who flees to the wilderness of Edom, i.e. the 144,000. From the only other passage that refers explicitly to the 144,000, we learn "these are the ones wo have not been defiled with women [i.e. have not committed spiritual adultery], for they have kept themselves [spiritually] chaste. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These have been purchased from among men as firstfruits to God and the Lamb" (Rev. 14:4) Although they will be protected from the persecution from Antichrist during the second half of the seventieth week, they are not raptured with the church at Christ's return at the end of the seventieth week. Either similtaneously or immediately after the church is raptured, the 144,000 dwelling in Edom will be brought into a saving relationship with their Messiah, Jesus Christ. Just as God prophecied through Ezekiel: "I shall bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I shall enter into judgement with you face to face... And I shall make you pass under the rod, and I shall bring you into the bond of the covenant" (Ezek. 20:35,37). Therefore, it is this 144,000 who will flee into the wilderness of Edom at mid-point in the seventieth week and are sealed for salvation; they are protected (Rev. 12:6) until Christ's return at the end of the seventieth week, when they will be "brought into the bond of the covenant", i.e. brought into a saving relationship with their Messiah, Jesus Christ. At this point they will "follow the Lamb wherever He will go" (also Isaiah 63:1-3), and will be protected from the wrath of God (Day of the Lord). (see Rev. 9:4 where God's wrath is directly against all "the men who have not received the seal of God on their foreheads".) Then will follow the final Day of the Lord judgments and the 30 day reclamation of the nation of Israel [i.e. those who survive the 70th week] by Jesus Christ (Isaiah 24:6; Habakkuk 3). Also Micah 2:12,13 tells of Israel's (i.e. 144,000) protection in Edom ("fold" is actually "Bozrah" a capital of Edom), and the restoration of the nation of Israel by Messiah which will enter physically into the millenium. [The times are mentioned in Daniel and Revelation, and the 30 day reclamation of Israel is foretold by Hosea also.] This process of saving the "nation" of Israel is mentioned in Romans, culminating with Paul's words "The Deliverer will come from Zion to remove ungodliness from Jacob (Israel)" when the time of the Gentiles is complete. |
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223 | Point of No Return | Revelation | There | 12708 | ||
SSprin mentioned 2Thes 2:9-12, and those who did not have a love for the truth (God is truth) are given "strong delusion to believe the lie", and they WILL be willing to accept the mark of the beast. In not having a love for the Lord, they had already rejected Him. | ||||||
224 | The beast with seven heads | Revelation | There | 12723 | ||
A reference for that verse is Revelation 12:3 "... a great and fiery red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems (crowns) on his heads." Revelation 17:9,10 "... The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits. There are also seven kings. Five have fallen (at the time of John's writing), one is (Roman empire), and the other has not yet come... he must continue for a short time" These describe the seven beast empires that have today expired, but from which will come the 8th beast empire during the latter days. Revelation 17:12,13 "And the ten horns which you (John) saw are ten kings, who have not yet received a kingdom, but they receive authority as kings with the beast (antichrist) for one hour. These have one purpose and they give their power and authority to the beast". The 10 horns represent the eighth beast empire, which will consist of 10 kingdoms or "groupings". Daniel wrote "while I was contemplating the (ten) horns, behold, another horn, a little one, came up among them, and three of the first horns were pulled out by the roots before it, and behold this horn possessed eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth uttering great boasts" (7:8). And he later explains "As for the ten horns, out of this kingdom ten kings will arise, and another will arise after them, and he will be different from the previous ones and will subdue three kings" (7:23,24). The little horn of verse 8 is the same as "another" king of verses 23,24. So although the 8th beast empire will begin with 10 horns, three are taken over by the "little horn". That leaves "seven" leaders (represented by the crowns or diadems). |
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225 | I agree, but I also have a question | Revelation | There | 18595 | ||
I agree with that position. Except what do you mean by "This is to those of the churches which overcome on 'the lord's day'"? | ||||||
226 | God's wrath tribulational. | Revelation | There | 18663 | ||
The book "The Sign" by Robert Van Kampen is very good too. Also very intense reading! | ||||||
227 | I agree, but I also have a question | Revelation | There | 18719 | ||
Okay, I understand what you mean. I'm afraid I have done some "discussing" with SDA's in the recent past and wondered if your opinion of "overcoming on the Lord's day" had something to do with Sabbath keeping. It's refeshing to hear that it isn't. | ||||||
228 | I agree, but I also have a question | Revelation | There | 18754 | ||
Seventh Day Adventist. | ||||||
229 | How can we return to our first love? | Rev 2:4 | There | 12917 | ||
Hi Steve, I've thought about this too a little bit. I'm not sure I have much of an answer, but those verses remind me of a person that begins with a fire for the Lord that is so great they desire to do everything and anything He leads them to do just because they love Him so much -- and then later that same person when the fire is diminished, doing the good works, but the fire is gone. Or another way of saying it maybe, is that they are going through the motions, but there is not a heart for the Lord there -- only works. Could that be what it's talking about? You said: Can we work hard for Him, yet not love Him? I'm going to rephrase that, in a way that makes the answer simple to me. Can we work hard for anyone (doing the best we can do), yet not love that other person? Is the hard work always the result of a commitment to someone else, or is it sometimes self-serving. Let's face it, it does make us feel good to do good things. |
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230 | Rev 2:17 additional question | Rev 2:17 | There | 15682 | ||
I agree with "outfora" in that the white stone is singular and isn't linked to the 144,000. This verse is speaking to the "church", not God's remnant of Israel. It is my understanding that the 144,000 are God's insaved remnant (Israelites - 12 thousand from each tribe) who refuse to follow or worship the "Antichrist" during the 70th week. Fearing God they will refuse to support the covenant that AntiChrist makes with Israel, and mid-point of the 70th week, they will will flee to the wilderness of Edom before the tribulation by "Antichrist" begins. These will become the firstfruits of Israel to come to Christ immediately after or similtaneously with the rapture of the church, and will be sealed for protection and salvation just before the day of the Lord begins. |
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231 | What happened to the Tribe of Dan | Rev 7:5 | There | 19286 | ||
First post of two. In Genesis 49 Jacob gathered his sons to tell them what would befall them in the last days. Concerning Dan, Jacob said "Dan shall judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel, Dan shall be a serpent by the way, a viper by the path, that bites the horse's heels so that its rider shall fall backward. I have waited for your salvation, O Lord!" (vs. 16-18) It was also said in the surrounding passages in Genesis that Jacob pronounced national prestige on Joseph's son Ephraim (49:19-22; 49:22-26; 1Chron. 5:1-2). There is no reason given why Jacob gave the eldest son's (Manesseh's) birthright to the younger (Ephraim), but Ephraim is represented in Revelation as the tribe of Joseph, whereas Manesseh (as eldest son) is listed as a separate tribe, replacing the tribe of Dan. (See Numbers 1:32-35) The Danites broke away from the tribe of Judah in the last chapters of the book of Judges. In 1Chronicles 1-8, the tribes of Israel are listed -- all but the tribe of Dan. The date for writing the first 8 chapters of the Chronicles has been placed at 1056 B.C. By then Dan had become a lost tribe (of Israel), although there is some mention of Dan after that. On a map of ancient Israel, the territory of Dan appears like a wing attached to the shoulder of the territory of Judah. Among the possible interpretations of Daniel's vision [Dan. 7:4], we should consider the story of Dan leaving its original territory and moving north into Lebanon. When Moses gave his prophecies of the 12 tribes, he said that Benjamin would "dwell between the shoulders of Judah" (Deut.33:12), and that Dan, "as a lion's whelp, would leap from Bashan" (Deut. 33:22). Bashan was located in ancient Lebanon. Moses prediction came to pass when the tribe of Dan was deprived of its territory adjacent to Judah, moved north to Lebanon, and established its territory in Bashan (Judges 18). From there the Danites made a symbolic leap into obscurity. Also when they migrated to southern Lebanon, they captured the city of Laish and changed it's name to Dan (Jud. 18:27-31). The ancient name "Laish" means "a lion", which fulfills the prophecy of Moses in Deut. 33:22 when he said: "Dan is a lion's whelp: he shall leap from Bashan." The city of the lion (Laish) was located in the ancient province of Bashan, in the territory of Lebanon. According to that same chapter, the Danites established an idolatrous religion -- the worship of the sun and moon, with the summation given in Judges 29:30. According to the story, the tribe of Dan moved into Lebanon and lived there for at least the next 600 years. In the year 721 B.C. the Assyrians took the northern ten tribes captive. Though there is no historical documents to prove that the tribe moved westward into Europe, there are some interesting possibilities. According to the "World Book Encyclopedia", the Celts, in 400 B.C. divided Ireland into small kingdoms called tuatha. Celtic mythology claims that the most important race was the "Tuatha de Danann, or People of the Goddess Danu". There is also a legend written about the son of Belus, king of the Spartans -- in which is given the story of one named "Danaus", who arrived in Greece with his daughters by ship. According to the legend, his daughters called themselves Danades. They introduced the cult of the mother goddess, which became the religion of the Arcadians and developed over the years into the worship of Diana. (Diana may even be another form of "Dan".) The Spartans so loved their king that they called themselves Danaans -- long before they adopted the name of Spartans. Also in the legend is a record of the arrival of "colonists from Palestine", and again -- the expedition was headed by a man named Danaus. In the apocryphal book of 1Maccabees there is an account about the Spartans of southern Greece -- claiming that they were related to the Jewish people and were, in fact, of the stock of Abraham. A letter from the king of the Spartans to the Jewish high priest in Jerusalem: "It has been discovered in a document concerning the Spartans and Jews that they are brothers, and are of the race of Abraham" (1Macabees 12:21). Continued in another post. |
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232 | What happened to the Tribe of Dan | Rev 7:5 | There | 19287 | ||
Second post of two. Flavius Josephus also records the letter in his writings: "We have met with a certain writing, whereby we have discovered that both the Jew and the Spartans are of one stock, and are derived from the kindred of Abraham. It is but just, therefore, that you, who are our brethren, should send to us about any of your concerns as you please. We will also do the same thing, and esteem your concerns as our own, and will look upon our concerns as in common with yours. Demotoles, who brings you this letter, will bring your answer back to us. This letter is foursquare; and the symbol is an eagle, with a dragon in his claws." To Dan was given the symbol of Scorpio, which in ancient Egyptian zodiac was a snake. However, when the time came to hoist the symbol of the snake, Ahiezer refused and chose instead the symbol of an eagle -- according to Unger's Bible Dictionary: "The standard of the tribe of Dan was of white and red, and the crest upon it, an eagle, the great foe of serpents, which had been chosen by the leader instead of a serpent, because Jacob had compared Dan to a serpent. Ahiezer substituted the eagle, the destroyer of serpents, as he shrank from carrying an adder upon his flag." Comparing that information with a description by Flavius Josephus of the Spartan's symbol, which was an eagle with a dragon in his claws, we can see that it could represent the tribe of Dan. The dragon, many times is synonymous with the snake. And the Spartans also claimed to be descendants of Abraham. The Spartans lived in Laconia, near Arcadia, in the southern Greek peninsula called Peloponnesus. Over the centuries some of the group migrated northeast across the Aegean Sea to build the city of Troy. Supposedly the remotest ancestor of the Trojan line of royalty was Dardanus. Their insignia contained an eagle, serpent, and sometimes bees/honey. Over the centuries some of the Spartans migrated into southern France, and some of the surviving Trojans moved north and west into Germany, Belgium and northern France, and it is said that it was the Trojans that first settled Rome after defeating the Kittim of Italy. Here too brings again to mind that first verse quoted from Genesis, and the fact that Dan is missing from the tribes mentioned in Revelation. I think it's possible that the Antichrist (represented by the serpent) will come from the line of Dan (and the line of Japheth [Noah's son], as the Danites married into the Gentile descendants of Japheth]. Concerning Dan, this supposition is based also on the verses and testament below: Daniel 11:37 speaking of the Antichrist, "Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all." And again, Jacob's prediction that "Dan shall judge his people" and "Dan shall be a serpent" in "the last days". Another apocryphal writing called the "Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs" where Dan was suppose to have made certain predictions concerning his offspring, has been dated by scholars to have been written/copied around 150 B.C. Fragments of this writing were found in the Quumran caves as part of the Dead Sea Scrolls. This "testament" is suppose to be the final utterances of the 12 sons of Jacob concerning things that would befall each tribe in the future. According to the "testament" of Dan, he gathered his sons around him when he was 125 years old. One of the things he stated was "I read in the Book of Enoch, the Righteous, that your prince is Satan..." Because of that statement, Jewish scholars, some 150 years before Christ, linked the tribe of Dan with the Antichrist -- "your prince is Satan". Another statement reads "I know that in the last days you will defect from the Lord, you will be offended at Levi, and revolt against Judah; but you will not prevail over them." I hope this helps a bit. |
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233 | What is the bottomless pit? | Rev 9:1 | There | 12949 | ||
It seems that the angel (messenger from God) sounded the 5th trumpet. And the apostle John saw the star that had fallen from heaven (Wormwood v. 10-11). And then the angel was given the key to unlock the bottomless pit (the infernal abyss). If we look at all of the Trumpets judgments, we can see that they seem to be things that are happening in rapid succession, as one thing would follow right on top of the other. It almost sounds like the heavens are falling apart and some of those things are hitting the earth. 1st- hail and fire and blood fell hard and destroyed 1/3 of the vegetation. 2nd- something like a burning mountain (meteorite?) fell into the sea, destroying 1/3 of the living creatures and ships. 3rd- Wormwood (asteroid?) fell ON 1/3 of the rivers and springs of water causing pollution so intense that many people died from consuming it. 4th- 1/3 of the sun, moon and stars were darkened. And at this point an angel said "Woe, woe, woe... to the inhabitants of the earth" because of what was yet to come. 5th- God gave the angel the key to open the bottomless pit (infernal abyss, i.e. bottomless hole in the ground), and the "broken" earth already damaged greatly by Wormwood, begins emitting smoke which darkened the sun and the air on the earth. Along with the smoke, "locusts" also come upon the earth to torment "unsealed" men for 5 months. |
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