Dimensions
of God
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Dimensions
of God |
Reason
for Prophecy ----- To Demonstrate the Word of God
Notice
these things Earthquakes
announce major chances Stars
are angels Rev 1:20 Candlesticks
are churches Rev 1:20 Beasts
are Kingdoms / empires Dan 7:23 Horns
are kings Dan 7:24 Dragon
is Satan Rev 12:9 fine
linen, clean and white is the righteousness of saints
Rev 19:8 Bright
and morning star is Jesus Rev
22:16 Chapter
2
the colossus Chapter
7
the four beasts, the forth explained chapter
8
historians have given this to the Persian-Greacian war, could be, but I
see end time elements in it, notably vs. 25,26 chapter
9:24-27 seventy weeks
prophecy chapter
11:29-45 Christ until the end chapter
12
resurrection/rapture and tribulation Daniel’s
70 weeks from Dan 9:20-27 has often been associated with end time events by
later day readers. This would
require a new temple to be built during a peace agreement where sacrifices would
resume Rev.11:1,2 and would have to be built during the opening of the seals 3.5
years before the trumpets of the Great Tribulation.
3.5 years later sacrifices would be put to an end and the following 3.5
years for the abomination of desolations. This looks plausible but there are a
couple problems. Daniel didn't mention the rebuilding of the nation, city or the
temple after the 69 weeks. There is no mention of what happened with the second
3.5 years. These may just be assumed. The
real problem is Rev.11:1,2 which says the temple court area is not to be
measured and "is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they
tread under foot forty and two months" indicating the times of the Gentiles
still has another 3.5yrs and the 70th week, Jewish covenant and sacrifices, will
either have to overlap the times of the Gentiles by 3.5 years or will start
after the times of the Gentiles and include the Bowl judgment time which has
only unbelievers. Another
view is much older and is submitted here for argument. Daniels 70th week would
set up the new covenant and is interrupted midway by the end to sacrifices.
Jesus’ death and resurrection 3.5 years after the start of his ministry
is a good end to sacrifices by a new covenant. The woman in Rev 12 was protected
and fed 3.5 years after the child was caught up to God.
See attachment from Adam Clark for details of an already fulfilled 70
weeks. This version of the
Revelation of Jesus Christ will use the later day beliefs. Each
Beast represent power kingdoms of the world,
The first three are past and the 4th will be evident with the scarlet
woman at the beginning of the Great Tribulation Daniel
7:1In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and
visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of
the matters. 2Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold,
the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea. 3And four great beasts
came up from the sea, diverse one from another. 4The first was like a lion, and
had eagle’s wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was
lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man’s
heart was given to it. 5And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and
it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it
between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.
6After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of
it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given
to it. 7After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast,
dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it
devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and
it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns. 8I
considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn,
before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and,
behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great
things. Daniel
7:15 I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of my body, and the visions
of my head troubled me. 16I came near unto one of them that stood by, and asked
him the truth of all this. So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of
the things. 17These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall
arise out of the earth. 18But the saints of the most High shall take the
kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever. 19Then I
would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was diverse from all the others,
exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass; which
devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet; 20And of the
ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom
three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great
things, whose look was more stout than his fellows. 21I beheld, and the same
horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them; 22Until the Ancient
of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the
time came that the saints possessed the kingdom. 23Thus he said, The fourth
beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all
kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break
it in pieces. 24And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall
arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the
first, and he shall subdue three kings. 25And he shall speak great words against
the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to
change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and
times and the dividing of time. 26But the judgment shall sit, and they shall
take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end. 27And the
kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven,
shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an
everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him. 28Hitherto is
the end of the matter. As for me Daniel, my cogitations much troubled me, and my
countenance changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart. Beast
#1 Dan 7:1-4
Lion
Babylonian Empire
606BC Israel and
Judah exiled 70yrs Beast
#2 Dan 7:5
Bear
Medo-Persian Empire 536BC
Israel/Judah returned as one nation 206yrs Beast
#3 Dan 7:6
Leopard Grecian
Empire
330BC Destroyed Persia
& divided by Alexander 300yrs Beast
#4 Dan 7:7-8
Unnamed Roman Empire
30BC Invaded Israel
after the fall of the Maccabees Israel
has been downtrodden since the Maccabees' fall and finally scattered throughout
the world. The Roman Empire lost its hold after 200yrs however its brutality
galvanized the Christian Church. The
Church slowly grew to sufficient political power within some countries that they
began liberating oppressed peoples. In
time Israel was allowed a grant to their homeland.
The Church has lost much of its political clout in the recent past and is
now undergoing increased persecution by a new world order.
This new order consists of the worlds superpowers as well as the whole of
the old Roman Empire, the old Roman influence is still strong today; a type of
the Beast that was slain yet lived again. Extreme
care must be taken when applying the book of Ezekiel to the end times.
Most of what is thought of as the end time events have already taken
place, remember, Israel has been overrun and rebuilt a number of times.
Below is the last falling away and gathering back, a scant 13 verses.
The rest of the chapters that follow are visions of the Millennium. Israel rejected Christ and was conquered by RomeEzekiel 39:17And, thou son of man, thus
saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the
field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my
sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains
of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood. 18Ye shall eat the
flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams,
of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan. 19And
ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my
sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you. 20Thus ye shall be filled
at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war,
saith the Lord GOD. 21And I will set my glory among the heathen, and
all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I
have laid upon them. 22So the house of Israel shall know that I am
the LORD their God from that day and forward. Israel scattered throughout the WorldEzekiel 39:23And the heathen shall know
that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they
trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the
hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword. 24According to
their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them,
and hid my face from them. 25Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Now
will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house
of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name; Israel returned to their own landEzekiel 39:26After that they have borne
their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me,
when they dwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid. 27When
I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their
enemies’ lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations; 28Then
shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which caused them to be led into
captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and
have left none of them any more there. 29Neither will I hide my face
any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel,
saith the Lord GOD. REVELATION REVEALED Introduction
REV. 1:1-3
John
told to make a record/book of the things that are and will be hereafter 65AD 1The
Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to show unto his servants(believers)
things which must shortly come to pass(Dan 2:28,29,45 will happen quickly); and he sent and signified it by his angel
unto his servant John: 2Who bare record of the word of God, and of
the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw. 3Blessed
is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep
those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand. Seven
“Blessed”s in Revelation 1:3; 14:13; 16:15; 19:9; 20:6; 22:7, 14 2 Peter 3:7But the heavens and the earth,
which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against
the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. 8But, beloved, be
not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand
years, and a thousand years as one day. Time
is near
22:6-11 6And he said unto me, These sayings
are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to
show unto his servants the things which must shortly be done. 7Behold,
I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this
book. (angel’s message from Jesus)8And
I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell
down to worship before the feet of the angel which showed me these things. 9Then
saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy
brethren the prophets(angelic), and of them which keep the
sayings of this book: worship God. 10And he saith unto me, Seal not
the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand. 11He
that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be
filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that
is holy, let him be holy still. Jesus
testifies to the Churches
22:12-17 12And, behold, I
come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work
shall be. 13I am Alpha and Omega,
the beginning and the end, the first and the last. 14Blessed
are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree
of life(promise of Rev22:2 at the new heaven and earth), and may enter in through the gates into the city. 15For
without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters,
and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie(not
receiving the blessing results in being left behind and ultimately the eternal
lake of fire, away from the new heaven and earth).
16I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify
unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David,
and the bright and morning star. 17And the Spirit and the
bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst
come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. A
Warning
22:18,19 18For I testify unto every man that
heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these
things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: 19And
if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God
shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and
from the things which are written in this book. I
AM Coming Quickly
22:20,21 20He
which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come
quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. 21The grace of our
Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. Background of the
past and future
The Woman Child & Dragon 12:1-63BC
to 30AD 1And
there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the
moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars (Israel) : 2And she being with child cried,
travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. 3And there appeared
another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon(Satan),
having(possessing)
seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.(the 7 crowned heads depict the early Roman Empire,
not the Tribulation Beast.) 4And his tail drew(coaxed) the third part of the stars(angels)
of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman
which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
5And she brought forth a man child(Jesus), who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was
caught up unto God, and to his throne. End
Daniel’s 69th week Even
as Satan gets credit for his evil, God is in full control. Zechariah 9:9Rejoice greatly, O daughter
of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he
is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt
the foal of an ass. 10And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim,
and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall
speak peace unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea,
and from the river even to the ends of the earth. Zechariah 11:7And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock(Canaanites). And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty(grace), and the other I called Bands(unity); and I fed the flock. 10And I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people. 11And it was broken in that day: and so the poor of the flock that waited upon me knew that it was the word of the LORD. 12And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver. 13And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prised at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD. 14Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel. Skip
1900+ years … Daniel’s 70th week 2nd half
ref vs.14 6And
the woman fled into the wilderness (land
of the heathen, Gentiles), where she hath a place prepared of God, that
they should feed her there (except
for the final?) a
thousand two hundred and threescore days. Some
have suggested the 1260 days should be seen as 1260 years. From the time of
Israel being dispersed by the Romans to the renewed Israel Nation in 1948 was
nearly 1900 years. There was no
significant change around 1330 therefore I have discounted this assumption.
There was also no identifiable occurrence of Israel being fed in the
desert for 1260 days following the dispersal.
I must therefore identify this event with Daniel’s 70th week
2nd half. The first half
is to be relatively peaceful under a treaty, but as scripture bears out, the
treaty will break down and Israel will be severely attacked and run into the
mountains. Satan thrown out of heaven
12:7-12
The return of Jesus to Heaven called for the permanent oust of Satan. Yes, Satan did have access to heaven, Job 1: Job 1:6 Now
there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD,
and Satan came also among them.
5And she brought forth a man child(Jesus), who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was
caught up unto God, and to his throne. 6And
the woman (nation
that bore the Son of God)
fled into the wilderness (land
of the heathen, Gentiles), where she hath a place prepared of God, that
they should feed her there (until
the final 3 1/2 years?) a
thousand two hundred and threescore days. Immediately following Jesus' ascension and return to His thrown, having concurred death and carrying His new sword of salvation, Satin could no longer hold the authority or right to accuse the Saints. It was at this point where Satan being cast from heaven that Jesus sent His Comforter/Holy Spirit to tend the the needs of the Saints 30AD
to present 7And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, 8And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. 9And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. 10And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ (Christianity): for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. 11And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death (martyrs). 12Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. (1900+ years is short compared to eternity) John
12:31 Now is the
judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. 32And I,
if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.
The woman persecuted 12:13-17Daniel’s
70th week 2nd half 13And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child. 14And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle(i.e. the Roman standard and the American symbol; possible airlift but more likely refers to God providing a swift escape to the mountains in and around Israel), that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place(Israel), where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time(3.5 yrs, see vs.6), from the face of the serpent. 15And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood (an army) after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. 16And the earth helped the woman(could be International protection, but I look for God’s intervention as in the period of trumpets), and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth. 17And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ (144,000 Jews) . Look for the possibility that Israel may be hidden or protected
by another country during the last half. Greetings to the
Seven Churches
1:4-8
4John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne; 5And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood(To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord! 2 Cor 5:8), 6And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. 7Behold, he cometh with clouds(all the saints with Him); and every eye shall see him(televised?), and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen. 8I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty. Vision of the Son
of Man
1:9-20
9I
John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom
and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the
word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ. 10I was in the
Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, 11Saying,
I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What
thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in
Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and
unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea. 12And I
turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden
candlesticks; 13And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like
unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the
paps with a golden girdle. 14His head and his hairs were white like
wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; 15And
his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as
the sound of many waters. 16And he had in his right hand seven stars:
and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the
sun shineth in his strength. 17And when I saw him, I fell at his feet
as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear
not; I am the first and the last: 18I
am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and
have the keys of hell and of death. 19Write
the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which
shall be hereafter; 20The mystery of the seven stars which thou
sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars
are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks
which thou sawest are the seven churches. While
some have tried to identify a church period for each of the seven churches there
are elements of all seven seen in all ages.
It may be more accurate to identify these churches with those in approach
to the great tribulation. Read them
carefully. They speak to seven
different attributes of which one or more will apply to any church today.
Some tell of the unrepentant going through the wrath of God, the bowl
judgments, and others being caught out before the great tribulation.
While some over-comers appear to take on the white regiment of the
millennial kingdom others are promised the eternal kingdom of the new heaven and
new earth. Read them carefully,
and chose of which church you want to be part. The Loveless Church
2:1-7
70
A.D. 1Unto
the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the
seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden
candlesticks; 2I
know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear
them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and
are not, and hast found them liars: 3And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name’s sake hast
laboured, and hast not fainted. 4Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee,
because thou hast left thy first love. 5Remember
therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or
else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick(church)
out of his place, except thou repent. 6But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitanes,
which I also hate. 7He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the
churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life(Rev22:2
at the new heaven and earth), which is in the midst of the paradise of God. The Persecuted
Church
2:8-11
170
A.D 8And
unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and
the last, which was dead, and is alive; 9I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich)
and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews(Jewish
proselytes or unbelievers, undermining the church),
and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan. 10Fear none of those things which thou shalt
suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be
tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days(brief suffering):
be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. 11He
that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that
overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death(lake of fire, Rev20:14 passes through
the Great White throne judgment). The Compromising
Church
2:12-17
312
A.D. 12And
to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath
the sharp sword with two edges; 13I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s seat
is(in
the compromising church): and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith,
even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among
you, where Satan dwelleth. 14But I have a few things against thee,
because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught
Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things
sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication. 15So
hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitanes, which thing I
hate.
16Repent;
or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the
sword of my mouth(Rev19:15 Christ returns to smite the nations after the Wrath).
17He
that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him
that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a
white stone, and in the stone a new name(similar to Rev3:12 going into new heaven
and earth) written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it. The Corrupt Church
2:18-29
606
A.D. 18And
unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of
God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine
brass; 19I
know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience,
and thy works; and the last to be more than the first. 20Notwithstanding
I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel,
which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit
fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols. 21And
I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not. 22Behold,
I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great
tribulation(unrepentant go into the great tribulation),
except they repent of their deeds. 23And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall
know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto
every one of you according to your works. 24But unto you I say, and unto the rest in
Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths
of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden. 25But
that which ye have already hold fast till I come. 26And he that overcometh, and keepeth my
works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: 27And
he shall rule them with a rod of iron(millennial kingdom); as the vessels of a potter shall they be
broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father. 28And
I will give him the morning star(Rev22:16). 29He that hath an ear, let him hear what the
Spirit saith unto the churches. The Dead Church
3:1-6
1520
A.D. 1And
unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath
the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast
a name that thou livest, and art dead. 2Be watchful, and strengthen the things
which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect
before God. 3Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast,
and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief(will
go to the 6th bowel of wrath and Armageddon Rev16:15),
and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee. 4Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which
have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they
are worthy. 5He
that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment(dressed
for the millennial kingdom); and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life(everyone’s
name is there from birth but later taken away for rejecting the Christ),
but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels. 6He
that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. The Faithful Church
3:7-13
1750
A.D. 7And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things
saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that
openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth; 8I
know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut
it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied
my name. 9Behold,
I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews(Jewish
proselytes or unbelievers, undermining the church),
and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy
feet, and to know that I have loved thee. 10Because thou hast kept the word of my
patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation (great
tribulation), which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon
the earth. 11Behold,
I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown. 12Him
that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no
more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city
of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from
my God(not a millennial reign but at the new heaven and earth, Rev 21:2):
and I will write upon him my new name. 13He that hath an ear, let him hear
what the Spirit saith unto the churches. The Lukewarm Church
3:14-22
1900
A.D. 14And
unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the
Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; 15I
know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or
hot. 16So
then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee
out of my mouth. 17Because
thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and
knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and
naked: 18I
counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and
white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness
do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.(things
to do to stop being lukewarm) 19As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and
repent. 20Behold,
I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I
will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. 21To
him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also
overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne(the throne is not a seat for one
but a position of honor). 22He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the
churches. Last
mention of the Church until chapter 19. Woman in purple and scarlet riding the Beast of the Sea into power MYSTERY, BABYLONMystery
Babylon has been around for a very long time, in fact since the Tower of Babel.
As a result of the four
horsemen war, a new mortal Beast (Anti-Christ) will offer the promise of peace
through a seven year treaty and the Woman will ride it into renewed power.
Chapter 17 covers a period from before the Roman empire until the Beast
asserts power over the Woman in the middle if the 70th week, around
the 6th Trumpet. Note
that much of this may already be happening. See
Appendix I for a modern application to the national representation of the Beast. Revelation 171And
there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with
me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will show unto thee the judgment of the great
whore(perverting
the Word of God) that
sitteth upon many waters(worldwide):
2With
whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of
the earth have been made drunk(deceivable)
with the wine of her
fornication. 3So he carried me away in the spirit into the
wilderness: and I saw a woman(deception) sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of
blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns(no crowns at this point). 4And
the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and
precious stones and pearls(rich),
having a golden cup(the
golden cup of the Lord will be poured out on her) in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: 5And
upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY (originated at the Tower of Babel Acts
19:23-27 perversion of every religion) , BABYLON THE GREAT(world view, multi-God/anti-God worship),
THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS
AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. 6And I saw the woman drunken with the
blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw
her, I wondered with great admiration. 7And the angel said unto me,
Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the
beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns. 8The
beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless
pit, and go into perdition(lake of fire)(a person, anti-Christ, leader of a beastly nation):
and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in
the book of life from the foundation of the world(some names not written into the book of life, destined to aid in
fulfilling God’s Plan vs.17),
when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is. 9And
here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains((kingdoms(Empires)not
the hills of Rome, see vs.10), on which the woman sitteth. 10And there are seven kings: five
are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he
must continue a short space.(see appendix I) 11And
the beast(a
person) that
was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition(destroyed
by Christ Rev19:20). 12And
the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as
yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast(sold
out to rule). 13These
have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast. 14These
shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord
of lords, and King of kings(Rev 19:19-21): and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful. 15And
he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are
peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues(the
seat of the whore is the center where the nations meet, i.e. the UN,
vs18).
16And the ten horns(kings) which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate
the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn
her with fire (Rev 18:8). 17For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and
to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be
fulfilled. (some
names not written into the book of life, destined to aid in fulfilling God’s
Plan) 18And
the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of
the earth. (one
world system meeting in a central city; United Nations?) Matt 24:4And Jesus answered and said unto
them, Take heed that no man deceive you. 5For
many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. 6And
ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all
these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7For
nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall
be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. 8All
these are the beginning of sorrows. 9Then
shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be
hated of all nations for my name’s sake. 10And
then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one
another. 11And
many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. 12And
because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. 13But
he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. 14And
this gospel of the kingdom (reign of Christ)
shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then
shall the end come. 1 John 2:18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. The Throne Room of
Heaven
Ch 4
1After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will show thee things which must be hereafter. 2And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne. 3And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald. 4And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment(redeemed); and they had on their heads crowns of gold. 5And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.(6 spirits, wisdom, understanding, counsel, might, knowledge & fear of the Lord listed in Is 11:2, spirit of truth in John 15:26;other spirits from God found such as faith, prophesy & life.) 6And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind. 7And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle. Ez
1:10
NT reference to Lion
king Calf(ox)
servant Face
man Flying Eagle piety 8And
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. 9And when those beasts
give glory and honour and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth for
ever and ever, 10The four and twenty elders fall down before him that
sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their
crowns before the throne, saying, 11Thou art worthy, O Lord, to
receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for
thy pleasure they are and were created. Christians
aren’t seen falling down to worship; by the blood of Jesus we are heirs to the
throne. The Lamb takes the
Scroll
5:1-7
1And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne(God) a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals. 2And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof? 3And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon. 4And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon. 5And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof. 6And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb (name used only by John) as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. 7And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne. This
is a reference to a document such as a Mortgage.
Private on the inside and Public on the outside.
There was no next of kin, financial supportability, or willing person to
accept the mortgage except the Lamb. Requirement
established in Lev. (******) Worthy is the Lamb
5:8-14
8And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints. 9And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;(who are these if the rapture has not taken place yet? To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord! 2 Cor 5:8) 10And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall(future) reign on the earth. 11And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands(100million+); 12Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing. 13And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea (Rom 8:18-24), and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever. 14And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever. Take special notice; This single verse sums up the entirety of the last 7 year period of the Jewish Nation(And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week), the timing of their loss of sacrifice and worship (in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease), the period of the occupation of Israel (for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate) until the harvesting of all nations (even until the consummation). It even adds a time for the poured out Wrath over the wicked (and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate). All that is left is for Christ to set up His Kingdom. Daniel 9:27And he shall
confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he
shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading
of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that
determined shall be poured upon the desolate. Beginning of Sorrows Matt 24:8prelude
to the Great Tribulation no
time element given Prepare for the endZechariah 11:15And the LORD said unto me, Take unto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd. 16For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces. 17Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened. Joel 2:12Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye
even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with
mourning: 13And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD
your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness,
and repenteth him of the evil. 14Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and
leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the
LORD your God? 15Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn
assembly: 16Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders,
gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go
forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet. 17Let the priests, the
ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say,
Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the
heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where
is their God? Joel 3:1For, behold, in those days, and in that time,
when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, 2I will also
gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and
will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they
have scattered among the nations, and parted my land. 3And they have cast lots
for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine,
that they might drink. 4Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon,
and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompense? and if ye
recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompense upon your own
head; 5Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your
temples my goodly pleasant things: 6The children also of Judah and the children
of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from
their border. 7Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold
them, and will return your recompense upon your own head: 8And I will sell your
sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall
sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken it. Zechariah 13 1In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the
house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.
2And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will cut
off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be
remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass
out of the land. 3And it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet prophesy,
then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not
live; for thou speakest lies in the name of the LORD: and his father and his
mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth. 4And it
shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be ashamed every one of
his vision, when he hath prophesied; neither shall they wear a rough garment to
deceive: 5But he shall say, I am no prophet, I am an husbandman; for man taught
me to keep cattle from my youth. 6And one shall say unto him, What are these
wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in
the house of my friends. 7Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the
man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the
sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones. 8And
it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein
shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. 9And I will bring
the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and
will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear
them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God. The Four Horsemen
of the Apocalypse
1st
Seal
The Conqueror
6:1,2 1And
I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise
of thunder(army
in battle),
one of the four beasts saying, Come and see. 2And I saw, and behold a
white horse(making
war in the name of righteousness):
and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him
(not earned in battle, rather as in a presidency) (could also be exaggerated by a situation such as the
election of President Bush in 2000): and he went forth conquering, and to conquer. 2nd
Seal
Conflict on earth
6:3,4 3And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see. 4And there went out another horse that was red(angry, retaliatory, warring, wants only to kill): and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword. Zechariah 14:1Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and
thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. 2For I will gather all nations
against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled,
and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and
the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city. 3Then shall the
LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of
battle. 3rd
Seal
Scarcity on earth
6:5,6 5And
when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see.
And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of
balances in his hand. 6And I heard a voice in the midst of the four
beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a
penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine. 4th
Seal
Widespread Death
6:7,8 7And
when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say,
Come and see. 8And 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. RAPTUREWhile
the Rapture may take place before or
during the Horsemen of the Apocalypse (first four seals), it should surely have
occurred before the seven year peace treaty between the Beast and the Jewish
nation. The treaty will mark the
beginning of Daniel’s 70th week and an end to the time of the
Gentiles. Almost ALL references to the Rapture, the dead first then the
living, come from the writings of Paul, the apostle to the Gentiles.
The dead first should be obvious, since once the body of the obedient
Christian dies, the spirit is immediately taken to heaven.
Jesus will bring them back with Him to retrieve their translated bodies,
then the living Christians who are faithful, obedient and ready will be
translated and join Him. Most Gospel
writings and all the old testament refer to the nation of Israel.
Jesus spent most of His ministry preparing the Jews for the coming
Kingdom of His earthly rule. Their
final rejection at the end focused His redemptive action for all nations and
doomed the Jewish Nation to destruction and dispersal.
Jesus was not only aware of this but planned it, scattering bits of
information for Christianity throughout His ministry.
The Apostles still directed most of their attention to the Jews even
after His Resurrection but the Holy Spirit in the book of Acts intervened to
show Peter, as an example, that he also needed to reach the Gentiles. 1 Thess 5:1-9 watch
the pronouns we & us vs they
& them 1But
of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. 2For
yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the
night. 3For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden
destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall
not escape. 4But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day
should overtake you as a thief. 5Ye are all the children of light,
and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. 6Therefore
let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. 7For
they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the
night. 8But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the
breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. 9For
God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord
Jesus Christ, 10Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we
should live together with him. 11Wherefore comfort yourselves
together, and edify one another, even as also ye do. See
appendix II for references to the Rapture. The
result of the four horsemen war and/or the sixth seal will make the missing
persons of the rapture insignificant and unnoticed. 5th
Seal
Cry of the Martyrs
6:9-11 an
event which requires no earth time 9And
when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that
were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:(past
martyrs) 10And
they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou
not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? 11And
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 fellowservants also and
their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled
(future martyrs). Rev 20:4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them,
and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded
for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped
the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their
foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand
years. 2 Cor. 5:8 We are confident, I say, and willing
rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. Phil. 1:23 For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a
desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better: Rev 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the
Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto
the death. Luke 18:7 And shall not God avenge his own elect,
which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? 8I tell you
that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh,
shall he find faith on the earth? Isaiah 26:20 Come, my people, enter thou into thy
chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little
moment, until the indignation be overpast. 21For, behold, the LORD cometh out of
his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth
also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain. Dan 12:11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice
shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there
shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. 12Blessed is he that waiteth,
and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days. 13But go thou
thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of
the days. Daniel
9:27And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the
midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and
for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the
consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate. The New Temple
Rev 11:1,2
Daniel’s
70th week 1st half 1And
there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise,
and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein. 2But
the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is
given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and
two months. This
is the Tribulation Temple not the Millennial temple of Ezekiel 40 to 46.
Ezekiel's temple has an outer court. Also Refer to Ez 43:7 .
Sacrifices should start soon after the treaty whether the temple is
finished or not, Moses started with a tent Tabernacle, however they must stop
3.5 years before the abomination that maketh desolate.
Dan 12: 11And from the time that the daily
sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up,
there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. 12Blessed is he that
waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.
The sealed of
Israel
7:1-8
1And
after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth,
holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth,
nor on the sea, nor on any tree. 2And I saw another angel ascending
from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice
to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, 3Saying,
Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the
servants of our God in their foreheads. Verse
3 must come before the 6th seal since this is the first cosmic / global time of
destruction. 4And
I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred
and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel. 5Of
the tribe of Judah were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben
were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve
thousand. 6Of the tribe of Aser were sealed twelve thousand.
Of the tribe of Nepthalim were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Manasses
were sealed twelve thousand. 7Of the tribe of Simeon were
sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Levi were sealed twelve thousand.
Of the tribe of Issachar were sealed twelve thousand. 8Of the
tribe of Zabulon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Joseph
were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve
thousand. Note
that Dan and Ephreum are not listed, they moved on and sinned.
Ref? 6th
Seal
Cosmic Disturbances
6:12-17 12And
I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great
earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became
as blood; 13And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a
fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. 14And
the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain
and island were moved out of their places. Matt 24:29
Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and
the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the
powers of the heavens shall be shaken: 15And
the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief
captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid
themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; 16And said
to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that
sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: 17For the
great day of his wrath is come(premature,
they think it’s over but it’s just getting started);
and who shall be able to stand? Wrath
is announced by the 24 elders at 7th trumpet Rev 11:16-18 and
delivered from the Vials Judgment Rev15:7. Joel 2:30And I will show wonders in the heavens and
in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. 31The sun shall be turned
into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of
the LORD come. 32And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the
name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be
deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call. Isa. 2:10Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the
dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty. 11The lofty looks
of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the
LORD alone shall be exalted in that day. 12For the day of the LORD of hosts
shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is
lifted up; and he shall be brought low: 13And upon all the cedars of Lebanon,
that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan, 14And upon all the
high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up, 15And upon every high
tower, and upon every fenced wall, 16And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and
upon all pleasant pictures. 17And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and
the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in
that day. 18And the idols he shall utterly abolish. 19And they shall go into the
holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and
for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. 20In
that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they
made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats; 21To go into
the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the
LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the
earth. 22Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he
to be accounted of? Joel 2:28And it shall come to pass afterward, that I
will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall
prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:
29And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour
out my spirit. 30And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood,
and fire, and pillars of smoke. 31The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the
moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come. 32And
it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall
be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the
LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call. Luke 21:24 And
they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all
nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of
the Gentiles be fulfilled. 25And
there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the
earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; 26Men’s
hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are
coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. 27And
then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. 7th
Seal
Prelude to trumpets
8:1-6 1And
when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space
of half an hour. (7.5
days? If 7 days = 7 years then .5 hours = 7.5 days) 2And I saw the seven angels which stood
before God; and to them were given seven trumpets. 3And another angel
came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto
him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon
the golden altar which was before the throne. 4And the smoke of the
incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out
of the angel’s hand. 5And the angel took the censer, and filled
it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were
voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake. 6And the
seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound. TRUMPETS calling to judgment The
Great Tribulation
3.5yrs First
3.5yrs
Danial's 70th week 2nd half Daniel
9:27And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the
midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and
for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until
the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
The Two Witnesses Revealed
Rev 11:3-6 3And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. 4These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth. 5And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed. 6These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will. Mal 4:5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: Matt 11:14 And if ye will
receive it, this is Elias (John the
Baptist) ,
which was for to come. Elijah stopped rain, brought down fire from God,
walked with God Moses turned water to blood, plagues Enoch walked with God This
will mark an end to the sacrifices Danial's
70th week 2nd half +30days Dan 12: 11And from the time that the daily sacrifice
shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there
shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. Danial's 70th week 2nd half
+75days Dan 12: 12Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to
the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.
The
first four Trumpets, like the first four Seals, will probably occur quickly as
one continuing event. As a "to
be continued" cosmic carry over from the sixth Seal, there will evidently
be a short break, 7.5 days, in the earth's changes until the seventh seal is
opened and trumpets blown for the punishment of a disobedient and rebellious
people left behind after the rapture. 1st
Trumpet
Vegetation struck
8:7 7The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up. 2nd
Trumpet
Seas struck
8:8,9 8And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood; 9And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed. 3rd
Trumpet
Fresh water struck
8:10,11 10And
the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it
were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the
fountains of waters; 11And the name of the star is called Wormwood (Chernobyl): and the third part of the waters became wormwood;
and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter. 4th
Trumpet
Heavens struck
8:12 12And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise. While
some argue that this will effect only a third of the planet there is good
evidence that this is at least in part global. GLOBAL third
part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up the
third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life,
died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed Possibly
REGIONAL the
third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters,
because they were made bitter the
third part of the sun, moon, and stars darkened, and the day shone not for a
third part of it, and the night likewise.
3 Woes to follow
8:13
13And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound! 5th
Trumpet
Locust strike
9:1-12 1
I saw a star(angel
Rev 20:1) fall
from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the
bottomless pit. 2And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a
smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air
were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. 3And there came out
of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the
scorpions of the earth have power. 4And it was commanded them that
they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither
any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads
(144,000).
5And
to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be
tormented five months(duration
of 5th Trumpet): and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a
man. 6And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not
find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. 7And
the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on
their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces
of men. 8And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were
as the teeth of lions. 9And they had breastplates, as it were
breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots
of many horses running to battle. 10And they had tails like unto
scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men
five months. 11And they had a king over them, which is the angel of
the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek
tongue hath his name Apollyon. 12One woe is past; and, behold, there
come two woes more hereafter. Interesting note: scorpions from the pit, king in the pit --- to hurt bad guys?? Jesus
is the Bright and Morning Star Rev22:16 and is called the morning star in the
NIV at 2 Peter 1:19 and Rev. 2:28 however
Lucifer is called a morning star in Isaiah 14:12(NIV) and son of the morning (KJV) Joel 2:Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand; 2A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations. 3A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them. 4The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run. 5Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array. 6Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness. 7They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks: 8Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded. 9They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief. 10The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining: 11And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it? 6th
Trumpet
Angels at Euphrates
9:13-21 13And
the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden
altar which is before God, 14Saying to the sixth angel which had the
trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. 15And
the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a
month, and a year(planned release), for to slay the third part of men. 16And the number of the
army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand (200Million):
and I heard the number of them. 17And thus I saw the horses in the
vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth,
and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out
of their mouths issued fire and smoke(gas)
and brimstone. 18By
these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke(gas)
, and by the brimstone,
which issued out of their mouths. 19For their power is in their
mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had
heads, and with them they do hurt. 20And the rest of the men which
were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands,
that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass,
and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: 21Neither
repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their
fornication, nor of their thefts. to
slay the third part of men. vs21
sorceries = pharmakeia = drugs Joel 2:3A fire devoureth before them; and behind them
a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them
a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them. 4The appearance of
them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run. 5Like
the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise
of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle
array. Jer. 4:19My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very
heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast
heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war. 20Destruction upon
destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents
spoiled, and my curtains in a moment. 21How long shall I see the standard, and
hear the sound of the trumpet? 22For my people is foolish, they have not known
me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise
to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. 23I beheld the earth, and,
lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. 24I
beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
25I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were
fled. 26I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the
cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce
anger. 27For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet
will I not make a full end. 28For this shall the earth mourn, and the
heavens above be black: because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will
not repent, neither will I turn back from it. 29The whole city shall flee for
the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up
upon the rocks: every city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein. 30And
when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with
crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest
thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will
despise thee, they will seek thy life. 31For I have heard a voice as of a woman
in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the
voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands,
saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers. 2nd
3.5yrs The Beast from the
Sea Resurrected and in the full power of Satan
13:1-10
Crowns are now
given to the ten kings
1And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast(anti-Christ) rise up out of the sea(humanity), having seven heads(empires past & future) and ten horns(kings Dan 7:24), and upon his horns ten crowns(authority), and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. 2And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion(Dan 7:2-7 reverse order): and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority. 3And I saw one of his heads(empires) as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. 4And they worshipped the dragon(Satan, Rev 12:9) which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? 5And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue(some texts say make war) forty and two months. 6And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. Matt 24:15 When ye
therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the
prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) 7And
it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them:
and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. Matt 24:16 Then
let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains: 17Let
him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house: 18Neither
let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes. 19And
woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! 20But
pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:
No
flight on the Sabbath day indicates the old Law of Moses is in force. 8And
all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in
the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. 9If
any man have an ear, let him hear. 10He that leadeth into captivity
shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the
sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints. GT+1260 Must
still be in power when Christ rides in to conquer him in ch19:20 Is
given power to make war with the saints so some of the saints must be
resurrected later Zechariah 8:23Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those
days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of
the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We
will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you. Danial 7:7After this I saw in the night visions, and
behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it
had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue
with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it;
and it had ten horns. 8I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among
them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns
plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of
man, and a mouth speaking great things. Danial 7:19Then I would know the truth of the
fourth beast, which was diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful,
whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass; which devoured, brake in
pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet; 20And of the ten horns that were
in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of
that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look
was more stout than his fellows. 21I beheld, and the same horn made war with the
saints, and prevailed against them; 22Until the Ancient of days came, and
judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the
saints possessed the kingdom. 23Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the
fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and
shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
24And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that
shall arise: and another shall rise after them(the
False Prophet);
and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings. 25And
he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints
of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given
into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time. The Beast from the
Earth (false prophet)
13:11-18
11And
I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a
lamb(saint),
and he spake as a dragon(like
Satan). 12And
he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth
and them which dwell therein to worship(religious leader)
the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. 13And he doeth great
wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight
of men, 14And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of
those miracles(satanic
power) which
he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the
earth, that they should make an image to the beast(commonly done in dictatorships),
which had the wound by a sword, and did live. 15And he had power to
give life(breath)
unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and
cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
16And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and
bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: 17And
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. 18Here is wisdom. Let him that hath
understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and
his number is Six hundred threescore and six. Many
expect this to be a Jew – Several times in history a great Jew was 2nd
in command of a foreign land, i.e.
Moses, Joseph, and Daniel. There
will be some to aid and abed those that don’t take the mark. Matt 25:31-46
35For I was an hungered, and ye gave
me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me
in: 36Naked, and ye clothed me: I was
sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. By
most historical theologies Daniel 8 is seen as foretelling the Greek/Persian war
of Alexander the Great and final overthrow by the Roman Empire.
Many verses give it credence for the end times, and supplies a good
picture of the origin and end of the beast. Danial 8:1In the third year of the reign of king
Belshazzar a vision appeared unto me, even unto me Daniel, after that which
appeared unto me at the first. 2And I saw in a vision; and it came to pass, when
I saw, that I was at Shushan in the palace, which is in the province of Elam;
and I saw in a vision, and I was by the river of Ulai. 3Then I lifted up mine
eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram(region)
which had two horns(kings): and the two horns were high(strong);
but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last. 4I saw the ram
pushing westward, and northward, and southward; so that no beasts might stand
before him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand; but he did
according to his will, and became great. 5And as I was considering, behold, an he
goat(powerful force, Coalition)
(goat used for sin offering for the people Lev 16:15) came
from the west on the face of the whole
earth, and
touched not the ground:
and the goat had a notable horn(king) between his eyes. 6And he came to
the ram that had two horns, which I had seen standing before the river, and ran
unto him in the fury of his power. 7And I saw him come close unto the ram, and
he was moved with choler against him, and smote the ram, and brake his two
horns: and there was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him
down to the ground, and stamped upon him: and there was none that could deliver
the ram out of his hand. 8Therefore the he goat waxed very great: and when he
was strong, the great horn was broken(Coalition broke up); and for it
came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven. 9And out of one of
them came forth a little horn(origin of the beast), which waxed exceeding
great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land(Saudi
Arabia). 10And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down
some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them(Rev
12:4). 11Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host(Christ),
and by him(the beast Anti-Christ) the daily sacrifice was taken away, and
the place of his sanctuary was cast down. 12And an host(false prophet)
was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it
cast down the truth to the ground; and it practiced(did miracles Rev 13:14),
and prospered. 13Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto
that certain saint which spake, How long shall be the vision concerning the
daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the
sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot? 14And he said unto me, Unto
two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.
(6yr 4mo. The destruction by the Romans has lasted 1900+ years)
15And it came to pass, when I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, and
sought for the meaning, then, behold, there stood before me as the appearance of
a man. 16And I heard a man’s voice between the banks of Ulai, which called,
and said, Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision. 17So he came near
where I stood: and when he came, I was afraid, and fell upon my face: but he
said unto me, Understand, O son of man: for at the time of the end shall be
the vision. 18Now as he was speaking with me, I was in a deep sleep on my
face toward the ground: but he touched me, and set me upright. 19And he said,
Behold, I will make thee know what shall be in the last end of the
indignation: for at the time appointed the end shall be. The following explanation by Gabriel fits the time of Alexander the Great to the Roman Empire, however, take note to the underlines that indicate end times. I have also added notes to give possibility to modern times. It is good to remember that if the Jews had accepted Jesus this would have fit their end in AD 70. I believe this may be a dual purpose chapter. 20The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the
kings of Media(Iraq) and Persia(Iran). 21And the rough goat is the
king of Grecia(European Union, U.S. Coalition): and the great horn that
is between his eyes(centering the Coalition) is the first king(leader).
22Now that being broken(coalition split), whereas four stood up for it,
four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in his power(U.N.
ruled). 23And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors
are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark
sentences, shall stand up(beast). 24And his power shall be mighty, but
not by his own power(Satan’s): and he shall destroy wonderfully, and
shall prosper, and practice, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people(Israel
destroyed in AD70 by the first Roman beast.
Won’t happen again until the end of Daniels 70th week).
25And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and
he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many:
he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes(Christ); but
he shall be broken without hand(Rev 19:15). 26And the vision of the
evening and the morning which was told is true: wherefore shut thou up the
vision; for it shall be for many days. 27And I Daniel fainted, and was sick
certain days; afterward I rose up, and did the king’s business; and I was
astonished at the vision, but none understood it. The
Beast comes before the witness are killed --------------- it is the beast that
kills them. Matt 24:21 For
then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the
world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. 22And
except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for
the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened. 23Then
if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. 24For
there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs
and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very
elect. 25Behold,
I have told you before. 26Wherefore
if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold,
he is in the secret chambers; believe it not. GT+1260 The Two Witnesses
Killed
Ch 11:7-10
7And
when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of
the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and
kill them. 8And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the
great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was
crucified. 9And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and
nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer
their dead bodies to be put in graves. 10And they that dwell upon the
earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to
another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth. The Two Witnesses
Resurrected 11:11-13
11And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them. 12And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them. 13And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven. vs
13 the rest were afraid and gave glory to God---- noone gave God Glory in the
Bowl judgements Rev11:14
The second woe
passed. Behold, the
third woe is coming quickly. Danial's 70th week 2nd half
+30days the image of the beast (statue) should both speak,
and cause non-worshipers of the image to be killed Rev.13:15And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. Dan 11:31And arms shall stand on his part, and they
shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily
sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate. GT+1290 Dan 12: 11And from the time that the daily sacrifice
shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there
shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. 12Blessed is he that waiteth,
and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.
Matt 24:15When ye therefore shall see the abomination
of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso
readeth, let him understand:) 16Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the
mountains: 17Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing
out of his house: 18Neither let him which is in the field return back to take
his clothes. 19And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck
in those days! 20But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on
the sabbath day: 21For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since
the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. 22And except
those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the
elect’s sake those days shall be shortened. 23Then if any man shall say unto
you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. 24For there shall arise false
Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch
that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. 25Behold, I have
told you before. 26Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the
desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
27For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west;
so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. 28For wheresoever the carcase is,
there will the eagles be gathered together. 29Immediately after the tribulation
of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,
and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be
shaken: 30And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then
shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man
coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 31And he shall send
his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his
elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. John's commission to spread the Word of the end Strong angel and
little Book
ch10
1And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire: 2And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth, 3And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices. 4And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not. 5And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, 6And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer: 7But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets. TimeLine
--- The seventh trumpet will finish what was given to the prophets as the
seventh week. 8And
the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take
the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the
sea and upon the earth. 9And I went unto the angel, and said unto
him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and
it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey. 10And
I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ate it up; and it was in
my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter. 11And
he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and
tongues, and kings. 7th
Trumpet Trump of God (7)
The Kingdom Proclaimed
11:15-19 15And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever. Matt 4:8 Again,
the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and showeth him all the
kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; 9And saith unto him,
All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.
(Satan cannot see the future!) Luke 15:10Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in
the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth. 16And
the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their
faces, and worshipped God, 17Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God
Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee
thy great power, and hast reigned. 18And the nations were angry, and
thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged,
and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the
saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them
which destroy the earth. Dan 12:1And at that time shall Michael stand up, the
great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a
time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same
time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that
shall be found written in the book. 2And many of them that sleep in the
dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame
and everlasting contempt. Isa 26:19Thy dead men shall live, together with my
dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy
dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead. 20Come, my
people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide
thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
21For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the
earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no
more cover her slain. 19And
the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark
of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings,
and an earthquake, and great hail. Ex 25:8-9 8And
let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them. 9According
to all that I show thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the
pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it. Heb 9:11-12 11But
Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more
perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; 12Neither
by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into
the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. The
ark of his testiment is a type of the ark of the covenent with the addition of
the testiment of the Christ. Daniel
9:27And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst
of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the
overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the
consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate. The Lamb and the
144,000
14:1-5
1And
I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an
hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their
foreheads. 2And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many
waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers
harping with their harps: 3And they sung as it were a new song before
the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could
learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed
from the earth. 4These are they which were not defiled with
women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever
he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits
unto God and to the Lamb. 5And in their mouth was found no guile:
for they are without fault before the throne of God. Heb 12:18For ye are not come unto the mount that
might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness,
and tempest, 19And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice
they that heard entreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
20(For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast
touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart: 21And so
terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:) 22But ye
are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly
Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, 23To the general assembly
and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge
of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24And to Jesus the mediator
of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things
than that of Abel. The Proclamations
of Angels (3)
14:6-13
The
proclamations give a strong message of what is expected for those who are left
behind after the harvest. 6And
I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to
preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and
tongue, and people, An
angel will carry on the spread of the Gospel when the ministers of this world
are taken out. 7Saying
with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his
judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea,
and the fountains of waters. Matt. 25:28 Marvel
not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves
shall hear his voice, 29And
shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and
they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation. Rom. 2:5But after thy hardness and impenitent heart
treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation
of the righteous judgment of God; 6Who will render to every man according
to his deeds: 7To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for
glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: 8But unto them that are
contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation
and wrath, 9Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil,
of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; 10But glory, honour, and peace, to
every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the
Gentile: The
message from the angel is expanded by the warning of "the hour of His
judgment". Matt 25:28 and
Romans 2:5-10 indicate the time of grace is over and what you do bares it's full
weight. 8And
there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great
city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her
fornication. Babylon’s
control is fallen, now all the earth is controlled by of the Beast and the 10
crowned kings. Isa 13:19-22 19And
Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees’ excellency, shall
be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. 20It shall never be
inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither
shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold
there. 21But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their
houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and
satyrs shall dance there. 22And the wild beasts of the islands shall
cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and
her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged. Isa. 21:9And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men,
with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is
fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the
ground. Jer. 51:7Babylon hath been a golden cup in the
LORD’S hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of
her wine; therefore the nations are mad. Heaven exults over
Babylon’s fall
Revelation 18 1And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. 2And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. 3For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. 4And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues (1 Cor 3:16,17; 1 Cor 6:19; 2 Cor 6:17). 5For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. 6Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double. 7How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. (FUTURE TENSE)>> 8Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her. 9And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, 10Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come. 11And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: 12The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble, 13And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men. 14And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all. 15The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing, 16And saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls! 17For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off, 18And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city! 19And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate. 20Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her. 21And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all. 22And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee; 23And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived. 24And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth. 9And
the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the
beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, 10The
same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without
mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and
brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: 11And
the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest
day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the
mark of his name. Isa. 51:17Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which
hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the
dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.
19These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee?
desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I
comfort thee? Ps. 11:6 Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire
and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their
cup. 12Here
is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God,
and the faith of Jesus. 13And
I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which
die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from
their labours; and their works do follow them. 2 Thes. 1:6Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to
recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; 7And to you who are troubled
rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty
angels, 8In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that
obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: 9Who shall be punished with
everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his
power; Heb. 6:10For God is not unrighteous to forget your
work and labour of love, which ye have showed toward his name, in that ye have
ministered to the saints, and do minister. Note
that it is good for them to die to obtain rest, their WORKS, not Grace will
follow them. The period of Grace
ended with the resurrection of the prepared saints before the trumpet call and
/or the harvest. Danial's
70th week 2nd half +75days Dan 12: 11And from the time that the daily sacrifice
shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there
shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. 12Blessed is he that waiteth,
and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.
Reaping
the Earth's Harvest at the
last Trump of God '7th'
14:14-16 14And
I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son
of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle. Matt 24:30 And
then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the
tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the
clouds of heaven with power and great glory. Heb. 2:9But we see Jesus, who was made a
little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and
honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man. Mark 4:29 But when
the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the
harvest is come. 15And
another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat
on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to
reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe. 16And he that sat on the
cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped. 1 Corinthians 15:51Behold, I show you a mystery; We
shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52In a moment, in the
twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall
sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be
changed. Matthew 24:31And
he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall
gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the
other. 1 Thess 4:16For the Lord himself shall descend from
heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump
of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17Then we which are alive
and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the
Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Danial's
70th week 2nd half +75days+ The Multitude from
the Great Tribulation
7:9-17
9After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; 10And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb. 11And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God, 12Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen. 13And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they? 14And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb(martyrs). 15Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. 16They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. 17For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. These
had to do / prove something to be saved, not simply accepting salvation of the
Christ. They represent the "five virgins" left behind. Reaping the Grapes
of Wrath
14:17-20
Jesus
will reap His Church after the tares are harvested. The time of harvesting
will occur during the sounding of an angel at the seventh Trumpet,
here an angel reaps at the command of another angel.
Only the evil ones already dead are reaped "11:18
the time of the dead, that they should be judged"; the Bowl
judgements are loaded with evil men and Ch19:11-21 shows Christ leading the
charge to finish off the followers of the Beast. It
may be interesting to note that the angel is to thrust his sickle into
the earth while Jesus will thrust His sickle on the earth.
Another hint that this harvest time is for the evil dead, the
living believers and the martyres for Christ. 17And
another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp
sickle. 18And another angel came out from the altar, which had power
over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying,
Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth;
for her grapes are fully ripe. 19And the angel thrust in his
sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and
cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God. 20And the
winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress,
even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred
furlongs. Matt. 13:49So
shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever
the wicked from among the just, 50And
shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of
teeth. Joel 3:13Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is
ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the vats overflow; for their
wickedness is great. 14Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the
day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision. This
Joel reference points to both the reaping of the grapes of wrath and to the 6th
Bowl Judgement where the nations will come to the valley of Megiddo /
Armageddon. Another example of the
dead wicked lost harvested, yet leaving the multitudes alive to meet the Lord in
the valley of decision. Daniel
9:27And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst
of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the
overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the
consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate. of
the wrath of God's judgment Note
that the Bowl Judgments have many similarities to the Trumpets, but the Bowls
are far more intense. Prelude to Bowl
judgments
15:1-16:1
1And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God. 2And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God. 3And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints. 4Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest. 5And after that I looked, and, behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened: 6And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed in pure and white linen, and having their breasts girded with golden girdles. 7And one of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials(as opposed to the golden cup of Babylon) full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and ever. 8And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple(of heaven), till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled. Overview
REVELATION 16 v.
1, The angels pour out their vials of wrath; v. 6, The plagues that follow; v.
15, Christ comes as a thief. Blessed
are they that watch. Rev16:1And
I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your
ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth. 1 Sam. 15:3Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly
destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman,
infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass. 1 Sam. 15:18And the LORD sent thee on a journey, and
said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them
until they be consumed. The
Amalekites, a people of Arabia Petrea, who inhabited a tract of country on the
frontiers of Egypt and Canaan, had acted with great cruelty towards the
Israelites on their coming out of Egypt, and God then purposed that Amalek, as a
nation, should be blotted out from under heaven; but it had been spared till it
had filled up the measure of its iniquities, and now this purpose is carried
into effect by Saul, upwards of 400 years afterwards!
Nothing could justify such an exterminating decree but the absolute
authority of God; and this was given. All
the reasons of it we do not know; but this we know well, the Judge of all the
earth doeth right. Ezek. 5:5And to the others he said in mine hearing,
Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither
have ye pity: 6Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and
women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my
sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house. 7And
he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye
forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city. 8And it came to pass, while
they were slaying them, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and
said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring
out of thy fury upon Jerusalem? 9Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house
of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the
city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and
the LORD seeth not. Ezek. 10:2And he spake unto the man clothed with
linen, and said, Go in between the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill
thine hand with coals of fire from between the cherubims, and scatter them over
the city. And he went in in my sight. Matt. 13:41The Son
of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all
things that offend, and them which do iniquity; 42And
shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of
teeth. 2And
the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome
and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them
which worshipped his image. (this
will be everyone, all believers have been harvested) Exod. 9:8And the LORD said unto Moses and unto Aaron,
Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward
the heaven in the sight of Pharaoh. 9And it shall become small dust in all the
land of Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon
beast, throughout all the land of Egypt. 10And they took ashes of the furnace,
and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became
a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast. 11And the magicians
could not stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boil was upon the
magicians, and upon all the Egyptians. This
was a significant command; not only referring to the fiery furnace, which was a
type of the slavery of the Israelites, but to a cruel rite common among the
Egyptians. They had several cities styled Typhonian, in which at particular
seasons they sacrificed men, who were burnt alive; and the ashes of the victim
were scattered upwards in the air, with the view, probably, that where any atom
of dust was carried, a blessing was entailed.
The like, therefore, was done by Moses, though with a different
intention, and more certain effect. Deut. 7:15And the LORD will take away from thee all
sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest,
upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee. Deut. 28:27The LORD will smite thee with the botch of
Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou
canst not be healed. 28The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness,
and astonishment of heart: 29And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind
gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be
only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee. Job 2:7So went Satan forth from the presence of the
LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.
8And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the
ashes. Luke 16:20 And
there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of
sores, 21And
desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table:
moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. 22And
it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into
Abraham’s bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; 2nd
Bowl Sea turns to blood
16:3 3And
the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of
a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea. Ezek. 16:38And I will judge thee, as women that break
wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and
jealousy. Blood
as of a dead man is an interesting wording, will it coagulate, loose its
oxygen, turn black, or a combination of any or all three.
Reguardless, nothing can live in this 'water of death'.
This could be an anti-type if the 'water of life'. 3rd
Bowl Fresh water turns to blood
16:4-7 4And
the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and
they became blood. 5And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art
righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged
thus. 6For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou
hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy(blood thirsty). 7And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord
God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments. Exod. 7:20And Moses and Aaron did so, as the LORD
commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and smote the waters that were in the
river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the
waters that were in the river were turned to blood. 21And the fish that was in
the river died; and the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink of the
water of the river; and there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt. Dan. 9:14Therefore hath the LORD watched upon the
evil, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all his works
which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice. Rom. 2:5But after thy hardness and impenitent heart
treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the
righteous judgment of God; 2 Thes. 1:5Which is a manifest token of the righteous
judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which
ye also suffer: 6Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense
tribulation to them that trouble you; Isa. 49:26And I will feed them that oppress thee with
their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet
wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer,
the mighty One of Jacob. Matt. 23:28 Even
so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of
hypocrisy and iniquity. 29Woe
unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the
prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, 30And
say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers
with them in the blood of the prophets. 31Wherefore
ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed
the prophets. 32Fill ye up then the measure of
your fathers. 33Ye
serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? 34Wherefore,
behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye
shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues,
and persecute them from city to city: 35That
upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of
righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew
between the temple and the altar. 36Verily
I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation. 37O
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are
sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a
hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! Rev. 14:18And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire……. 4th
Bowl Men are scorched
16:8-9 8And
the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him
to scorch men with fire. 9And men were scorched with great heat, and
blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they
repented not to give him glory. Isa 24: 6Therefore
hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate:
therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left. Isa 13: 13Therefore
I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in
the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger. Isa 24: 20The
earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like
a cottage; (this is not a simple movement of its axis but more
like an elliptical orbit, burning the earth for part of a year and darkening it
for the other) Luke 21:25 And
there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the
earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; Jonah 4:8And it came to pass, when the sun did arise,
that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah,
that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to
die than to live. Matt. 13:6
And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no
root, they withered away. Jer. 5:3O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth?
thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but
they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than
a rock; they have refused to return. Luke 13:3 I tell
you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. 5th
Bowl Darkness and Pain
16:10,11 10And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain, 11And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds. Exod. 10:21And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out
thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt,
even darkness which may be felt. 22And Moses stretched forth his hand toward
heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days:
23They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but
all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings. Psa. 78:49He cast upon them the fierceness of his
anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them. Joel 3:15The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and
the stars shall withdraw their shining. Isa. 8:21And they shall pass through it, hardly
bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry,
they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
22And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness
of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness. Luke 13:28
There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth,
when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the
kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out. 2 Tim. 3:13But evil men and seducers shall wax worse
and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. 6th
Bowl Euphrates Dried up
16:12-16 12And
the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the
water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be
prepared. 13And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come
out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast,
and out of the mouth of the false prophet(the
call of the satanic trinity for an ungodly war).
14For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go
forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the
battle of that great day of God Almighty. 15Behold, I come as a
thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk
naked, and they see his shame(last
call). 16And
he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. vs12 Isa. 11:15And the LORD shall utterly destroy the
tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand
over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over
dryshod. 16And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which
shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up
out of the land of Egypt. Isa. 44:27That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will
dry up thy rivers: Ezek. 38:15And thou shalt come from thy place out of
the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon
horses, a great company, and a mighty army: 16And thou shalt come up against my
people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days,
and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I
shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes. vs13
prior to tribulation 1 Tim 4:1Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in
the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing
spirits, and doctrines of devils; 2Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their
conscience seared with a hot iron; 3Forbidding to marry, and commanding to
abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of
them which believe and know the truth. Exod. 8:2And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I
will smite all thy borders with frogs: vs14 2 Chr. 18:20Then there came out a spirit, and stood
before the LORD, and said, I will entice him. And the LORD said unto him,
Wherewith? 21And he said, I will go out, and be a lying spirit in the mouth of
all his prophets. And the LORD said, Thou shalt entice him, and thou shalt also
prevail: go out, and do even so. 22Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a
lying spirit in the mouth of these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil
against thee. John 8:44Ye are of your father the devil, and the
lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode
not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he
speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. Matt. 24:24
For there shall arise false Christs, and false
prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were
possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Joel 3:11Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye
heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty
ones to come down, O LORD. 12Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the
valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round
about. Isa. 34:5 For my sword shall be bathed in heaven:
behold, it shall come down upon Idumea(Edom, East and south of the Jordan
river and the Dead Sea, currently the country of Jordan), and upon the
people of my curse, to judgment. 6The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it
is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of
the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great
slaughter in the land of Idumea. 7And the unicorns shall come down with them,
and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and
their dust made fat with fatness. 8For it is the day of the LORD’S vengeance,
and the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion. vs15 1 Thes. 5:2For yourselves know perfectly that the day
of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. 3For when they shall say, Peace
and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman
with child; and they shall not escape. 4But ye, brethren, are not in darkness,
that that day should overtake you as a thief. 5Ye are all the children of light,
and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Rev. 3:2 Be
watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I
have not found thy works perfect before God. 3Remember
therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If
therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt
not know what hour I will come upon thee. Christ
coming as a thief vs.15
This is a very interesting warning -- Here is the only real
clue in Revelation providing a time that Christ as the Thief is coming soon.
The warning is to those who have not been watching as the events of the
tribulation unfold, Keepeth
his garments, lest he walk naked—Here is a plain allusion to the office of
him who was called the prefect or overseer, of the mountain of the temple. His
custom was to go his rounds during the watches of the night; and if he found any
of the Levites sleeping on his watch, he had authority to beat him with a stick,
and burn his vestments. See Middoth, fol. 34, 1, and Tamid. fol. 27, 2; 28, 1.
Such a person being found on his return home naked, it was at once known that he
had been found asleep at his post, had been beaten, and his clothes burnt; thus
his shame was seen—he was reproached for his infidelity and irreligion. vs16
wars have been fought in this valley throughout history Zech. 12:11In that day shall there be a great
mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon. Joel 3:9Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare
war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:
10Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the
weak say, I am strong. 11Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and
gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come
down, O LORD. 12Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of
Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about. Zechariah 14:12And this shall be the plague wherewith
the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their
flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall
consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall
be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour,
and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour. 14And Judah also
shall fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the heathen round about shall be
gathered together, gold, and silver, and apparel, in great abundance. 15And so
shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and
of all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as this plague. 7th
Bowl Earth utterly shaken
16:17-21 17And
the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice
out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done. 18And
there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great
earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an
earthquake, and so great. 19And the great city was divided into three
parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance
before God(past
tense), to
give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. 20And
every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. 21And there
fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a
talent (about
75 pounds):
and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof
was exceeding great. Eph. 2:1And you hath he quickened, who were dead in
trespasses and sins; 2Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of
this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit
that now worketh in the children of disobedience: Eph. 6:12For we wrestle not against flesh and blood,
but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness
of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Dan. 12:7And I heard the man clothed in linen, which
was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left
hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a
time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the
power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished. Dan. 12:1And at that time shall Michael stand up, the
great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a
time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same
time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall
be found written in the book. Ezek. 38:22And I will plead against him with
pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and
upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great
hailstones, fire, and brimstone. Joel 3:16The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and
utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but
the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of
Israel. 17So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy
mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass
through her any more. Zechariah 14:4And his feet shall stand in that day
upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount
of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west,
and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove
toward the north, and half of it toward the south. 5And ye shall flee to the
valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal:
yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of
Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with
thee. 6And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear,
nor dark: 7But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day,
nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light. Heaven Exults over Babylon Rev 19:1-5 1And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God: 2For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore(Babylon), which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand(past tense). 3And again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever. 4And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped God that sat on the throne, saying, Amen; Alleluia. 5And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great. Marrage
supper of the Lamb
19:6-10 6And I heard as it were the voice of
a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty
thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. 7Let
us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is
come, and his wife hath made herself ready. 8And to her was granted
that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the
fine linen is the righteousness of saints. 9And he saith unto me,
Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb.
And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God. 10And I fell
at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy
fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship
God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. vs.10
warning to John not to fall the
inhabitants of Heaven the
testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy Christ on a white
horse
19:11-16
11And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. 12His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. 13And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. 14And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean(saints/Christians come back with Jesus). 15And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. 16And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. Matt 24:27 For as
the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall
also the coming of the Son of man be. Isa 63:1-6 1Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save. 2Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat? 3I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment. 4For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come. 5And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me. 6And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth. The Beast and his
Armies Defeated
19:17-21
17And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven(air), Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; 18That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great. Matt 24:28 For wheresoever
the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together. 19And
I saw the beast(anti-Christ),
and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war
against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. 20And the
beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before
him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and
them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire
burning with brimstone. 21And the remnant were slain with the sword
of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth(the Word of God): and all the fowls were filled with their
flesh. Satan bound 1000
years
20:1-3
1And
I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a
great chain in his hand. 2And he laid hold on the dragon, that old
serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, 3And
cast him into the bottomless pit(not hell or lake of fire), and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he
should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled:
and after that he must be loosed a little season(7th
period of testing). The Millennium Temple CleansedDetailed
description of the Temple found in Ezekiel Chs 40-46 Dan 8:13Then I heard one saint speaking, and another
saint said unto that certain saint which spake, How long shall be the vision
concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give
both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot? 14And he said unto me,
Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.
(6yr 4mo) Ezekiel 43:1Afterward he brought me to the gate, even
the gate that looketh toward the east: 2And, behold, the glory of the God of
Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many
waters: and the earth shined with his glory. 3And it was according to the
appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw
when I came to destroy the city: and the visions were like the vision that I saw
by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face. 4And the glory of the LORD came
into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east. 5So the
spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory
of the LORD filled the house. 6And I heard him speaking unto me out of the
house; and the man stood by me. Saints Reign with
Christ
20:4-6
4And I saw thrones, and they sat upon
them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were
beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not
worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon
their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a
thousand years. 5But the rest of the dead lived not again until
the thousand years were finished(not
the 1st resurrection). This (verse
4) is the first resurrection. 6Blessed
and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second
death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall
reign with him a thousand years. Satanic rebellion
Crushed
20:7-10
7And when the thousand years are
expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, 8And shall go out
to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and
Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of
the sea. 9And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed
the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God
out of heaven, and devoured them. (this
is to include the whole earth Rev 20:11, 21:1)
10And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and
brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day
and night for ever and ever. 2 Pet 3:10-13 10But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.11Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, 12Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? 13Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. Great White Throne
Judgment (BEMA SEAT)
20:11-15
This is the only Judgment where the Book of Life is USED vs. 15 earth
& heaven (air) destroyed 11And I saw a great white throne, and
him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and
there was found no place for them. 12And I saw the dead, small and
great(everyone),
stand before God(some versions
say “the Throne”); and the books were opened: and another book was opened,
which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which
were written in the books, according to their works. 13And the
sea(the earth is gone.
This would be the sea which is before the throne)
gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead
which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. 14And
death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. 15And
whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of
fire. Daniel 7:9I beheld till the
thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white
as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the
fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire. 10A fiery stream issued and came
forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand
times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were
opened. 11I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn
spake: I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given
to the burning flame. 12As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their
dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time. 13I
saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the
clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near
before him. 14And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that
all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an
everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which
shall not be destroyed. Daniel 7:26But the judgment shall
sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto
the end. 27And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under
the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High,
whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey
him. New
heaven and earth
21:1-8 1And I saw a new heaven and a new
earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no
more sea. 2And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming
down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3And
I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is
with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God
himself shall be with them, and be their God. 4And God shall wipe
away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither
sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things
are passed away. 5And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I
make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and
faithful. 6And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the
beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of
the water of life freely. 7He that overcometh shall inherit all
things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. 8But the
fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers,
and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake
which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. New
Jerusalem
21:9-27 9And there came unto me one of the
seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and
talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will show thee the bride, the Lamb’s
wife(a city with people vs. 24).
10And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain,
and showed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from
God, 11Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone
most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal; 12And had
a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and
names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children
of Israel: 13On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on
the south three gates; and on the west three gates. 14And the wall of
the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of
the Lamb. 15And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure
the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof. 16And the city
lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the
city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs(1400 miles cubed). The length and the
breadth and the height of it are equal. 17And he measured the
wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits(200 feet),
according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel. 18And the
building of the wall of it
was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass. 19And
the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of
precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the
third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald; 20The fifth, sardonyx;
the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolyte; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a
topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an
amethyst. 21And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several
gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were
transparent glass. 22And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God
Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. 23And the city had no
need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did
lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. 24And the nations of
them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth
do bring their glory and honour into it. 25And the gates of it shall
not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there. 26And
they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it. 27And
there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever
worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s
book of life. The
River of Life
22:1-5 1And he showed me a pure river of
water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the
Lamb. 2In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the
river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and
yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing
of the nations. 3And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of
God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him: 4And
they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads. 5And
there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the
sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever. 10 PAC NATIONS OF MUSLEM EMPIRE These kingdoms were not established at the time John wrote
but will receive their crown/authority at the time the beast(anti-christ) rules.
REV.17:12 1
SYRIA 2
LEBANON 3
IRAQ 4
IRAN 5
AFGANASTAN 6
PAKISTAN 7
YEMAN 8
OMAN 9
JORDAN 10
SAUDI ARABIA BREAK AWAY MUSLEM REPUBLICS
KUAIT
BAHRAIN
QUTAR NON-PAC MUSLEM NATIONS
EGYPT
TURKEY NON-MUSLEM NATION
ISRAEL 7 HEADS / MOUNTAINS / HILLS / KINGDOMS/ EMPIRES 5 ARE PAST, 1 IS AND ONE IS YET TO COME
REV.17:9,10 ASSYRIA
TOGLATH-PILESER III
734-701 B.C. 3 campaigns
2
KINGS 15:29 BABYLON
NEBUCHADNEZZER
605-586 B.C.
LION
2 KINGS 24:10 MEDO/PERSIA
CYRUS 550-548-539 B.C.
BEAR
2 CHRO 36:18 GREECE
ALAXANDER THE
GREAT
334-323 B.C.
LEOPARD
DANIAL 8 SELEUCID
ANTIOCHUS III&IV 221-190 B.C.
DANIAL 10&11
/PTOLEMAIC ROMAN EMP.
The beast that was,
and is not, and yet is to come. REV.17:8 Long space of time, the
beast seems dead MUSLEM FEDERATION THE BEAST(ANTICHRIST) IS THE 8TH
REV.17:11 Takes over the 10 PAC back to top RAPTURE known mainly as the resurrectionthe
second resurrection will be known as the harvest suffered
his house to be broken up
1st of at least two resurrections
This
parable leads us to the ones who will know Jesus as Lord but will still be shut
out because they weren't properly prepared.
They haphazardly followed Jesus, but Jesus didn't know them. Matt 24:43
But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the
thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his
house to be broken up. 44Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an
hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh. Matt 25:1
Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their
lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. 2And five of them were wise, and
five were foolish. 3They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil
with them: 4But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. 5While the
bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. 6And at midnight there was a
cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him. 7Then all those
virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. 8And the foolish said unto the wise,
Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out. 9But the wise answered, saying,
Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that
sell, and buy for yourselves. 10And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came;
and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and
the door was shut. 11Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord,
Lord, open to us. 12But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I
know you not. 13Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour
wherein the Son of man cometh. Here
is an example of what kind of sin that will send an unprepared Christian into
the tribulation. Matt 18:21 Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? 22Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven. 23Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king, which would take account of his servants. 24And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents. 25But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. 26The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. 27Then the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt. 28But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellowservants, which owed him an hundred pence: and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest. 29And his fellowservant fell down at his feet, and besought him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. 30And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay the debt. 31So when his fellowservants saw what was done, they were very sorry, and came and told unto their lord all that was done. 32Then his lord, after that he had called him, said unto him, O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me: 33Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee? 34And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him. 35 So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses. Those
raised later will receive the same as the first and we all will belong to
Christ. Matt 20:1 For the kingdom of
heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the
morning to hire labourers into his vineyard. 2And when he had agreed with the
labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard. 3And he went out
about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace, 4And said
unto them; Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give
you. And they went their way. 5Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour,
and did likewise. 6And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others
standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle? 7They
say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into
the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive. 8So when even was
come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and
give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first. 9And when they
came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.
10But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more;
and they likewise received every man a penny. 11And when they had received it,
they murmured against the goodman of the house, 12Saying, These last have
wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne
the burden and heat of the day. 13But
he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou
agree with me for a penny? 14Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give
unto this last, even as unto thee. 15Is it not lawful for me to do what I
will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good? 16So the last
shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen. Talking
to the Apostles, they would follow him into the regeneration and would sit on 12
of the 24 thrones Matt 19:28 And Jesus said
unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the
regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also
shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. 29And every
one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or
wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, shall receive an hundredfold,
and shall inherit everlasting life. 30But many that are first shall be last; and
the last shall be first. Area for more studyThe
Last will be First --- Those martyred for Christ in the Great Tribulation are
called the First The
rest of the dead (earlier resurrection) lived not again until the 1000 years
were finished --- on the new Earth ???
Those dead (not martyred) raised in the first resurection shall live
later on the new earth but those who are living raptured and martyred (last)
will reign first in the last 1000 years of this earth. ??? Rev 20:4And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. 5But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. 6Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years. The
early resurrection of the dead will rest in Heaven with the Lord until the 1000
years are finished 2 Corinthians 5:6Therefore we are always confident,
knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
7(For we walk by faith, not by sight:) 8We are confident, I say, and willing
rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. Dan 12:2And many of them that sleep in the dust of
the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and
everlasting contempt. Firstfruits 1 Corinthians 15:20But now is Christ risen from the
dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. 1 Corinthians 15:23But every man in his own order:
Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming. 24Then
cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the
Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. Exodus 23:19The first of the firstfruits of thy land
thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Romans 8:23And not only they, but ourselves also,
which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within
ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. James 1:18Of his own will begat he us with the word
of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. Resurrection Matt 27:51And, behold, the veil of the temple was
rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks
rent; 52And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept
arose, 53And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the
holy city, and appeared unto many. Luke 14:13 But when thou
makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: 14And thou shalt
be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at
the resurrection of the just. Luke 20:33 Therefore in the resurrection whose wife
of them is she? for seven had her to wife. 34And Jesus answering said unto them,
The children of this world marry, and are given in
marriage: 35But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and
the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:
36Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the
children of God, being the children of the resurrection. 37Now that the dead are
raised, even Moses showed at the bush, when he calleth the Lord the God of
Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. 38For he is not a God of
the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him. John 11:25Jesus said unto her, I
am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead,
yet shall he live: 26And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.
Believest thou this? 1 Corinthians 15:42So also is the resurrection of the
dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: 43It is sown in
dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:
44It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural
body, and there is a spiritual body. 45And so it is written, The first man Adam
was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. 46Howbeit
that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward
that which is spiritual. 47The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man
is the Lord from heaven. 48As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy:
and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. 49And as we have
borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
50Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of
God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. 1 Peter 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto
a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4To an
inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in
heaven for you, 5Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation
ready to be revealed in the last time. 1 Thessalonians 5
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh
upon them 1But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have
no need that I write unto you. 2For yourselves know perfectly that the day of
the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. 3For when they shall say, Peace and
safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with
child; and they shall not escape. 4But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that
that day (of the Lord) should overtake you as a thief. 5Ye are all the children
of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. APPENDIX VII Matthew
24 1And Jesus went out, and departed
from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to show him the buildings of
the temple. 2And Jesus said unto them, See ye
not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one
stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.(Roman
destruction of Israel) 3And
as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately,
saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the
sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
(three
questions) The last 1900 years, growth of Mystery Babylon before the
fall Rev. Ch. 17 4And Jesus answered and said unto
them, Take heed that no man deceive you. 5For
many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. 6And
ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all
these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. The Seals 7For nation shall
rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines,
and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. 8All
these are the beginning of sorrows. Trumpets, end of sacrifices 9Then shall they
deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all
nations for my name’s sake. 10And
then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one
another. 11And many false prophets
shall rise, and shall deceive many. 12And
because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. 13But
he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. 144000 Jews preach 3.5 years 14And this gospel of
the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all
nations; and then shall the end come. The Beast in full power, claims himself god in the temple 15When ye therefore shall
see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the
holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) 16Then
let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains: 17Let
him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house: 18Neither
let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes. 19And
woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! 20But
pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day: Trumpets 21For then shall be
great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this
time, no, nor ever shall be. 22And
except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for
the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened. 23Then
if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. 24For
there shall arise false Christs(anti-Christ),
and false prophets (False Prophet), and shall show great signs and wonders;
insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. 25Behold,
I have told you before. 26Wherefore if they
shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in
the secret chambers; believe it not. 27For
as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so
shall also the coming of the Son of man be. Armageddon 28For wheresoever the
carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together. 6th Seal ? 29Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun
be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall
from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: Harvest
at 7th Trumpet 30And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven:
and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of
man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 31And
he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall
gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the
other. Signs of the times 32Now
learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth
forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: (Israel is putting out new communities) 33So
likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at
the doors. 34Verily I say unto you,
This generation (present day Israel) shall not
pass (biblical life span of man is 120 years, 1948+120=2068),
till all these things be fulfilled. 35Heaven
and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. 36But
of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father
only. 37But as the days of Noe
were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. 38For
as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking,
marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, 39And
knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming
of the Son of man be. 40Then shall two be
in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. 41Two
women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
42Watch therefore: for ye
know not what hour your Lord doth come. 43But
know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief
would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be
broken up. 44Therefore be ye also
ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh. 45Who
then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his
household, to give them meat in due season? 46Blessed
is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. 47Verily
I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods. 48But
and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; 49And
shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken; 50The lord of that servant shall come in a
day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, 51And
shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there
shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. elect from the four winds, from one end
of heaven to the other. Matthew
25 1Then shall the
kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went
forth to meet the bridegroom. 2And five of them
were wise, and five were foolish. 3They
that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: 4But
the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. 5While
the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. 6And
at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to
meet him. 7Then all those virgins
arose, and trimmed their lamps. 8And
the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.
9But the wise answered,
saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to
them that sell, and buy for yourselves. 10And
while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in
with him to the marriage: and the door was shut. 11Afterward
came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. 12But
he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not. 13Watch
therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man
cometh. 14For the kingdom
of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own
servants, and delivered unto them his goods. 15And
unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man
according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey. 16Then
he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same, and made
them other five talents. 17And likewise he
that had received two, he also gained other two. 18But
he that had received one went and digged in the earth, and hid his lord’s
money. 19After a long time the
lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them. 20And
so he that had received five talents came and brought other five talents,
saying, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me five talents: behold, I have gained
beside them five talents more. 21His
lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been
faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou
into the joy of thy lord. 22He also that had
received two talents came and said, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me two talents:
behold, I have gained two other talents beside them. 23His
lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been
faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou
into the joy of thy lord. 24Then he which had
received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard
man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed:
25And I was afraid, and
went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine. 26His
lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest
that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed: 27Thou
oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming
I should have received mine own with usury. 28Take
therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents. 29For
unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from
him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. 30And
cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and
gnashing of teeth. 31When the Son of
man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit
upon the throne of his glory: 32And
before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from
another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: 33And
he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. 34Then
shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father,
inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: 35For
I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I
was a stranger, and ye took me in: 36Naked,
and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came
unto me. 37Then shall the righteous
answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, and fed thee? or
thirsty, and gave thee drink? 38When
saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? 39Or
when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? 40And
the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye
have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto
me. 41Then shall he say also
unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire,
prepared for the devil and his angels: 42For
I was an hungered, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no
drink: 43I was a stranger, and ye
took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye
visited me not. 44Then shall they
also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, or athirst, or a
stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? 45Then
shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not
to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. 46And
these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life
eternal. Mark 13
1And
as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto him, Master, see
what manner of stones and what buildings are here! 2And Jesus
answering said unto him, Seest thou these great
buildings? there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be
thrown down. 3And as he sat upon the mount of Olives over
against the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately, 4Tell
us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign when all these
things shall be fulfilled? 5And
Jesus answering them began to say, Take heed lest any man
deceive you: 6For many shall come in
my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. 7And
when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such
things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet. 8For
nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall
be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are
the beginnings of sorrows. 9But take
heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the
synagogues ye shall be beaten: and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings
for my sake, for a testimony against them. 10And the gospel must first be published among all nations. 11But
when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand
what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given
you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy
Ghost. 12Now the brother shall betray
the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against
their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death. 13And
ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that shall
endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. 14But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by
Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth
understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains:
15And let him that is on the housetop not go
down into the house, neither enter therein, to take any thing out of his
house: 16And let him that is in the
field not turn back again for to take up his garment. 17But
woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
18And pray ye that your flight be not in the
winter. 19For in those days
shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which
God created unto this time, neither shall be. 20And
except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for
the elect’s sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days. 21And
then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ; or, lo, he is
there; believe him not: 22For
false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall show signs and wonders,
to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect. 23But
take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things. 24But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened,
and the moon shall not give her light, 25And the
stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.
26And then shall they see the Son of man
coming in the clouds with great power and glory. 27And
then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four
winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven. 28Now learn a parable of
the fig tree; When her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know
that summer is near: 29So ye in like
manner, when ye shall see these things come to pass, know that it is nigh, even
at the doors. 30Verily I say unto you,
that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done. 31Heaven
and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away. 32But
of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in
heaven, neither the Son, but the Father. 33Take
ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is. 34For
the Son of man is as a man taking a far
journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every
man his work, and commanded the porter to watch. 35Watch
ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or
at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: 36Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. 37And
what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch. Luke
21 1And
he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury. 2And
he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites. 3And
he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow
hath cast in more than they all: 4For
all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God: but she of
her penury hath cast in all the living that she had. 5And
as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he
said, 6As for
these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not
be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. 7And
they asked him, saying, Master, but when shall these things be? and what sign will
there be when these things shall come to pass? 8And he said, Take
heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ;
and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them. 9But
when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things
must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by. 10Then
said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and
kingdom against kingdom: 11And great
earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful
sights and great signs shall there be from heaven. 12But
before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you,
delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought
before kings and rulers for my name’s sake. 13And
it shall turn to you for a testimony. 14Settle
it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer:
15For I will give you a mouth and wisdom,
which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist. 16And
ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends;
and some of you shall they cause to be put to death. 17And
ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake. 18But
there shall not an hair of your head perish. 19In
your patience possess ye your souls. 20And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that
the desolation thereof is nigh. 21Then let them
which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst
of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto.
22For these be the days of vengeance, that
all things which are written may be fulfilled. 23But
woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days!
for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.
24And they shall fall by the edge of the
sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be
trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
25And there shall be signs in the sun, and in
the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with
perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; 26Men’s
hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are
coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. 27And
then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
28And when these things begin to come to
pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh. 29And
he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all
the trees; 30When they now shoot
forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.
31So likewise ye, when ye see these things
come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand. 32Verily
I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.
33Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my
words shall not pass away. 34And take heed to
yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and
drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you
unawares. 35For as a snare shall
it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. 36Watch
ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all
these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
37And in the day time he was teaching in the temple; and at night he
went out, and abode in the mount that is called the mount of Olives. 38And
all the people came early in the morning to him in the temple, for to hear him. Isaiah
13 1The
burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see. 2Lift ye up
a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto them, shake the hand, that
they may go into the gates of the nobles. 3I have commanded my
sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even
them that rejoice in my highness. 4The noise of a multitude in the
mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of
nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the battle. 5They
come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the
weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land. 6Howl
ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction
from the Almighty. 7Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every
man’s heart shall melt: 8And they shall be afraid: pangs and
sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that
travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as
flames. 9Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath
and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners
thereof out of it. 10For the stars of heaven and the
constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in
his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine. 11And
I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their
iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low
the haughtiness of the terrible. 12I will make a man more precious
than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir. 13Therefore
I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the
wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger. 14And
it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall
every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land. 15Every
one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto
them shall fall by the sword. 16Their children also shall be
dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their
wives ravished. 17Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them,
which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in
it. 18Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and
they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare
children. 19And
Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees’ excellency, shall
be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. 20It shall never be
inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither
shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold
there. 21But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their
houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and
satyrs shall dance there. 22And the wild beasts of the islands shall
cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and
her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged. Isaiah
14 1For
the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in
their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall
cleave to the house of Jacob. 2And the people shall take them, and
bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the
land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives,
whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors. 3And
it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy
sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to
serve, 4That
thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath
the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! 5The LORD hath broken
the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers. 6He
who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations
in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth. 7The whole earth
is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing. 8Yea,
the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying,
Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us. 9Hell from
beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the
dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up
from their thrones all the kings of the nations. 10All they shall
speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like
unto us? 11Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the
noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee. 12How
art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou
cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! 13For thou
hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne
above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in
the sides of the north: 14I will ascend above the heights of the
clouds; I will be like the most High. 15Yet thou shalt be brought
down to hell, to the sides of the pit. 16They that see thee shall
narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the
man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; 17That
made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that
opened not the house of his prisoners? 18All the kings of the
nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house. 19But
thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the
raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to
the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet. 20Thou shalt
not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and
slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned. 21Prepare
slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not
rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities. 22For
I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon
the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the LORD. 23I will
also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep
it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts. 24The
LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to
pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand: 25That I will
break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then
shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their
shoulders. 26This is the purpose that is purposed upon the
whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the
nations. 27For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall
disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it
back? 28In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden. 29Rejoice
not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for
out of the serpent’s root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall
be a fiery flying serpent. 30And the firstborn of the poor shall
feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with
famine, and he shall slay thy remnant. 31Howl, O gate; cry, O city;
thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved: for there shall come from the north
a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times. 32What
shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath
founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it. Isaiah
15 1The
burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and
brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and
brought to silence; 2He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high
places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall
be baldness, and every beard cut off. 3In their streets
they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in
their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly. 4And Heshbon
shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even unto Jahaz:
therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous
unto him. 5My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall
flee unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of
Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall
raise up a cry of destruction. 6For
the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass
faileth, there is no green thing. 7Therefore the abundance they have
gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of
the willows. 8For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab;
the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beerelim. 9For
the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will bring more upon Dimon,
lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land. Isaiah
16 1Send
ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount
of the daughter of Zion. 2For it shall be, that, as a
wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at
the fords of Arnon. 3Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow
as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; betray not him that
wandereth. 4Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert
to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the
spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land. 5And in
mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the
tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness. 6We
have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his
haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be
so. 7Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for
the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn; surely they are stricken. 8For
the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the
heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even
unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are
stretched out, they are gone over the sea. 9Therefore I will bewail
with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O
Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest
is fallen. 10And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful
field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be
shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have
made their vintage shouting to cease. 11Wherefore my bowels
shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kirharesh. 12And
it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place,
that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail. 13This
is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning Moab since that time. 14But
now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an
hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great
multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble. Isaiah
17 1The
burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and
it shall be a ruinous heap. 2The cities of Aroer are forsaken:
they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them
afraid. 3The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom
from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the
children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts. 4And in that day it
shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the
fatness of his flesh shall wax lean. 5And it shall be as when the
harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall
be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim. 6Yet
gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or
three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the
outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel. 7At
that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the
Holy One of Israel. 8And he shall not look to the altars, the work of
his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either
the groves, or the images. 9In
that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost
branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be
desolation. 10Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation,
and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou
plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips: 11In the
day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy
seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of
grief and of desperate sorrow. 12Woe
to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the
seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing
of mighty waters! 13The nations shall rush like the rushing of many
waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall
be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling
thing before the whirlwind. 14And behold at eveningtide trouble; and
before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that
spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us. Isaiah
18 1Woe
to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
2That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes
upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered
and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted
out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled! 3All ye
inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up
an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye. 4For
so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my
dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in
the heat of harvest. 5For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect,
and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs
with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches. 6They
shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the
earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth
shall winter upon them. 7In that time shall the present be brought
unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people
terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under
foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD
of hosts, the mount Zion. Isaiah
19 1The
burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into
Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of
Egypt shall melt in the midst of it. 2And I will set the Egyptians
against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and
every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against
kingdom. 3And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof;
and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to
the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards. 4And
the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king
shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts. 5And the
waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up. 6And
they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be
emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither. 7The paper
reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the
brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more. 8The
fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall
lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish. 9Moreover
they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded. 10And
they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and
ponds for fish. 11Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the
counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto
Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings? 12Where
are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee
now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt. 13The
princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have
also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof. 14The
LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused
Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his
vomit. 15Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the
head or tail, branch or rush, may do. 16In that day shall Egypt be
like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the
hand of the LORD of hosts, which he shaketh over it. 17And the land
of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one that maketh mention thereof
shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which
he hath determined against it. 18In
that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan,
and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction. 19In
that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt,
and a pillar at the border thereof to the LORD. 20And it shall be for
a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they
shall cry unto the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a
saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them. 21And the LORD
shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day, and
shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the LORD, and
perform it. 22And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite
and heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall
be entreated of them, and shall heal them. 23In that day shall there
be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt,
and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.
24In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even
a blessing in the midst of the land: 25Whom the LORD of hosts shall
bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my
hands, and Israel mine inheritance. Isaiah
21 1The
burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so
it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land. 2A grievous vision
is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the
spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have
I made to cease. 3Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have
taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at
the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it. 4My
heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned
into fear unto me. 5Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat,
drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield. 6For thus
hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth. 7And
he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and
a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed: 8And
he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the
daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights: 9And, behold, here
cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and
said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he
hath broken unto the ground. 10O my threshing, and the corn of my
floor: that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I
declared unto you. 11The
burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night?
Watchman, what of the night? 12The watchman said, The morning cometh,
and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire ye: return, come. 13The
burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling
companies of Dedanim. 14The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought
water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled. 15For
they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from
the grievousness of war. 16For thus hath the Lord said unto me,
Within a year, according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar
shall fail: 17And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty
men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel
hath spoken it. Isaiah
24 1Behold,
the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside
down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. 2And it shall
be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his
master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the
seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so
with the giver of usury to him. 3The land shall be utterly emptied,
and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word. 4The earth
mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away,
the haughty people of the earth do languish. 5The earth also is
defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws,
changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. 6Therefore
hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate:
therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left. 7The
new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh. 8The
mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the
harp ceaseth. 9They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink
shall be bitter to them that drink it. 10The city of confusion is
broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in. 11There
is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the
land is gone. 12In the city is left desolation, and the gate is
smitten with destruction. 13When
thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be
as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the
vintage is done. 14They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing
for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea. 15Wherefore
glorify ye the LORD in the fires, even the name of the LORD God of Israel
in the isles of the sea. 16From
the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the
righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous
dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very
treacherously. 17Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon
thee, O inhabitant of the earth. 18And it shall come to pass, that
he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that
cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the
windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake. 19The
earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved
exceedingly. 20The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and
shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy
upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again. 21And it
shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of
the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the
earth. 22And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are
gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days
shall they be visited. 23Then the moon shall be confounded, and the
sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem,
and before his ancients gloriously. Isaiah
30 1Woe
to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me;
and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to
sin: 2That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my
mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the
shadow of Egypt! 3Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your
shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion. 4For
his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes. 5They
were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help
nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach. 6The burden of the
beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come
the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry
their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the
bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them. 7For
the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried
concerning this, Their strength is to sit still. 8Now
go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for
the time to come for ever and ever: 9That this is a rebellious
people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD: 10Which
say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right
things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits: 11Get you out
of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease
from before us. 12Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel,
Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay
thereon: 13Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready
to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an
instant. 14And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters’
vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be
found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take
water withal out of the pit. 15For thus saith the Lord GOD,
the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness
and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not. 16But ye
said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will
ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift. 17One
thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye
flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign
on an hill. 18And
therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore
will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a
God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him. 19For
the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be
very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will
answer thee. 20And though the Lord give you the bread of
adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed
into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers: 21And
thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk
ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left. 22Ye
shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament
of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth;
thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence. 23Then shall he give the rain
of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of
the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed
in large pastures. 24The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear
the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel
and with the fan. 25And there shall be upon every high mountain, and
upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the
great slaughter, when the towers fall. 26Moreover the light of the
moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be
sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the
breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound. 27Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his
anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation,
and his tongue as a devouring fire: 28And his breath, as an
overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations
with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of
the people, causing them to err. 29Ye shall have a song,
as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as
when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty
One of Israel. 30And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be
heard, and shall show the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his
anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering,
and tempest, and hailstones. 31For through the voice of the LORD
shall the Assyrian be beaten down, which smote with a rod. 32And in every place where the grounded staff shall
pass, which the LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and
harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it. 33For Tophet is
ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and
large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD,
like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it. Isaiah
31 1Woe
to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in
chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very
strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD! 2Yet
he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words:
but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them
that work iniquity. 3Now the Egyptians are men, and not God;
and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his
hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down,
and they all shall fail together. 4For thus hath the LORD spoken unto
me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of
shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their
voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come
down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof. 5As birds
flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will
deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it. 6Turn
ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted. 7For
in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of
gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin. 8Then
shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not
of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young
men shall be discomfited. 9And he shall pass over to his strong hold
for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the LORD, whose
fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem. Isaiah
32 1Behold,
a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment. 2And
a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest;
as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary
land. 3And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears
of them that hear shall hearken. 4The heart also of the rash shall
understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak
plainly. 5The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the
churl said to be bountiful. 6For the vile person will speak
villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice hypocrisy, and to utter
error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause
the drink of the thirsty to fail. 7The instruments also of the churl are
evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when
the needy speaketh right. 8But the liberal deviseth liberal things;
and by liberal things shall he stand. 9Rise
up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear
unto my speech. 10Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye
careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come. 11Tremble,
ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make
you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins. 12They
shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. 13Upon
the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the
houses of joy in the joyous city: 14Because the palaces shall
be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall
be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks; 15Until
the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful
field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest. 16Then
judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful
field. 17And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect
of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever. 18And my people
shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet
resting places; 19When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and
the city shall be low in a low place. 20Blessed are ye that
sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the
ass. Isaiah
33 1Woe
to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest
treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease
to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt make an end to deal
treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee. 2O LORD, be
gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our
salvation also in the time of trouble. 3At the noise of the tumult
the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered. 4And
your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpillar: as
the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them. 5The LORD
is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and
righteousness. 6And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of
thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his
treasure. 7Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the
ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly. 8The highways lie waste,
the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the
cities, he regardeth no man. 9The earth mourneth and
languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a
wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits. 10Now
will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself. 11Ye
shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire,
shall devour you. 12And the people shall be as the burnings of
lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire. 13Hear,
ye that are far off, what I have done; and, ye that are near,
acknowledge my might. 14The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness
hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire?
who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings? 15He that walketh
righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions,
that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from
hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil; 16He shall
dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks:
bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure. 17Thine
eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very
far off. 18Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the
scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the
towers? 19Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper
speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst
not understand. 20Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine
eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not
be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither
shall any of the cords thereof be broken. 21But there the glorious
LORD will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein
shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby. 22For
the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is
our king; he will save us. 23Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not
well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of
a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey. 24And the inhabitant
shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven
their iniquity. Isaiah
34 1Come
near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all
that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it. 2For
the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury upon
all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the
slaughter. 3Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall
come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their
blood. 4And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the
heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall
down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from
the fig tree. 5For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it
shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment. 6The
sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and
with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the
LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea. 7And
the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and
their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. 8For
it is the day of the LORD’S vengeance, and the year of
recompenses for the controversy of Zion. 9And
the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into
brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch. 10It
shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever:
from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for
ever and ever. 11But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it;
the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it
the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness. 12They shall call
the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her
princes shall be nothing. 13And thorns shall come up in her palaces,
nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of
dragons, and a court for owls. 14The wild beasts of the desert
shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to
his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place
of rest. 15There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and
hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered,
every one with her mate. 16Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and
read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath
commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them. 17And he hath cast
the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall
possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein. Isaiah
35 1The
wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall
rejoice, and blossom as the rose. 2It shall blossom abundantly, and
rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it,
the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and
the excellency of our God. 3Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm
the feeble knees. 4Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be
strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even
God with a recompense; he will come and save you. 5Then
the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be
unstopped. 6Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the
tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and
streams in the desert. 7And the parched ground shall become a pool,
and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each
lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes. 8And an highway
shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the
unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring
men, though fools, shall not err therein. 9No lion shall be
there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found
there; but the redeemed shall walk there: 10And the ransomed
of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon
their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall
flee away. Isaiah
40 1Comfort
ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. 2Speak ye comfortably to
Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity
is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD’S hand double for all her sins. 3The
voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make
straight in the desert a highway for our God. 4Every valley shall be
exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be
made straight, and the rough places plain: 5And the glory of the LORD
shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of
the LORD hath spoken it. 6The voice said, Cry. And he said,
What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is
as the flower of the field: 7The grass withereth, the flower fadeth:
because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is
grass. 8The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our
God shall stand for ever. 9O
Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O
Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it
up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God! 10Behold,
the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him:
behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him. 11He
shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm,
and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are
with young. 12Who
hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with
the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the
mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? 13Who hath directed
the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him? 14With
whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path
of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way of
understanding? 15Behold, the nations are as a drop of a
bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up
the isles as a very little thing. 16And Lebanon is not
sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering. 17All
nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than
nothing, and vanity. 18To
whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him? 19The
workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold,
and casteth silver chains. 20He that is so impoverished that
he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto
him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.
21Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you
from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth? 22It
is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof
are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and
spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: 23That bringeth the princes
to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity. 24Yea, they
shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not
take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither,
and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble. 25To whom then
will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One. 26Lift up
your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that
bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness
of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth. 27Why
sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and
my judgment is passed over from my God? 28Hast thou not known? hast
thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the
ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching
of his understanding. 29He giveth power to the faint; and to them
that have no might he increaseth strength. 30Even the youths
shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: 31But
they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount
up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall
walk, and not faint. Isaiah
41 1Keep
silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength:
let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment. 2Who
raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave
the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them
as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow. 3He
pursued them, and passed safely; even by the way that he
had not gone with his feet. 4Who hath wrought and done it,
calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the
last; I am he. 5The isles saw it, and feared; the ends
of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came. 6They helped every one
his neighbour; and every one said to his brother, Be of good courage. 7So
the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with
the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the
soldering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved. 8But
thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of
Abraham my friend. 9Thou whom I have taken from the ends of
the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art
my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away. 10Fear
thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I
will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the
right hand of my righteousness. 11Behold, all they that were incensed
against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they
that strive with thee shall perish. 12Thou shalt seek them, and shalt
not find them, even them that contended with thee: they that war against
thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought. 13For I the LORD
thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee. 14Fear
not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the
LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. 15Behold, I will make
thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the
mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff. 16Thou
shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall
scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and shalt glory in the
Holy One of Israel. 17When the poor and needy seek water, and there
is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear
them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. 18I will open rivers
in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the
wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water. 19I
will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and
the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and
the box tree together: 20That they may see, and know, and consider,
and understand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy
One of Israel hath created it. 21Produce
your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the
King of Jacob. 22Let them bring them forth, and show us what
shall happen: let them show the former things, what they be, that we may
consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to
come. 23Show the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know
that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and
behold it together. 24Behold, ye are of nothing, and
your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you. 25I
have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of
the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon
mortar, and as the potter treadeth clay. 26Who hath declared from the
beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, He is
righteous? yea, there is none that showeth, yea, there is none
that declareth, yea, there is none that heareth your words. 27The
first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give to
Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings. 28For I beheld, and there
was no man; even among them, and there was no counsellor, that, when
I asked of them, could answer a word. 29Behold, they are all
vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and
confusion. Isaiah
42 1Behold
my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have
put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. 2He
shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street. 3A
bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he
shall bring forth judgment unto truth. 4He shall not fail nor be
discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait
for his law. 5Thus
saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that
spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath
unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein: 6I the
LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep
thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles; 7To
open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them
that sit in darkness out of the prison house. 8I am the LORD:
that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my
praise to graven images. 9Behold, the former things are come to pass,
and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them. 10Sing
unto the LORD a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye
that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants
thereof. 11Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their
voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of
the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains. 12Let
them give glory unto the LORD, and declare his praise in the islands. 13The
LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of
war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies. 14I
have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now
will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once. 15I
will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make
the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools. 16And I will bring
the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that
they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things
straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them. 17They
shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven
images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods. 18Hear,
ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see. 19Who is blind,
but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? who is blind
as he that is perfect, and blind as the LORD’S servant? 20Seeing
many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not. 21The
LORD is well pleased for his righteousness’ sake; he will magnify the law, and
make it honourable. 22But this is a people robbed and
spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison
houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith,
Restore. 23Who among you will give ear to this? who will
hearken and hear for the time to come? 24Who gave Jacob for a spoil,
and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for
they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law. 25Therefore
he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and
it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he
laid it not to heart. Isaiah
43 1But
now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O
Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy
name; thou art mine. 2When thou passest through the waters, I will
be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when
thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame
kindle upon thee. 3For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of
Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for
thee. 4Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been
honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and
people for thy life. 5Fear not: for I am with thee: I will
bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west; 6I will
say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from
far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth; 7Even every
one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have
formed him; yea, I have made him. 8Bring
forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears. 9Let
all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among
them can declare this, and show us former things? let them bring forth their
witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is
truth. 10Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant
whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am
he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. 11I,
even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour. 12I
have declared, and have saved, and I have showed, when there was no
strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the
LORD, that I am God. 13Yea, before the day was I am
he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and
who shall let it? 14Thus
saith the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent
to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry
is in the ships. 15I am the LORD, your Holy One, the
creator of Israel, your King. 16Thus saith the LORD, which maketh a
way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters; 17Which bringeth
forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie down
together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as tow. 18Remember
ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. 19Behold,
I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will
even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. 20The
beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give
waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my
people, my chosen. 21This people have I formed for myself; they shall
show forth my praise. 22But
thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel.
23Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings;
neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to
serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense. 24Thou hast
bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of
thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied
me with thine iniquities. 25I, even I, am he that
blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy
sins. 26Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou,
that thou mayest be justified. 27Thy first father hath sinned, and
thy teachers have transgressed against me. 28Therefore I have
profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and
Israel to reproaches. Isaiah
44 1Yet
now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen: 2Thus
saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will
help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, whom I have chosen.
3For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the
dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine
offspring: 4And they shall spring up as among the grass, as
willows by the water courses. 5One shall say, I am the
LORD’S; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and
another shall subscribe with his hand unto the LORD, and surname himself
by the name of Israel. 6Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and
his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last;
and beside me there is no God. 7And who, as I, shall call, and
shall declare it, and set it in order for me, since I appointed the ancient
people? and the things that are coming, and shall come, let them show unto them.
8Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time,
and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God
beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any. 9They
that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable
things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not,
nor know; that they may be ashamed. 10Who hath formed a god, or
molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing? 11Behold,
all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they are of men: let
them all be gathered together, let them stand up; yet they shall fear, and
they shall be ashamed together. 12The smith with the tongs both
worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the
strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh
no water, and is faint. 13The carpenter stretcheth out his
rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh
it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to
the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house. 14He heweth him
down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for
himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth
nourish it. 15Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will
take thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread;
yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image,
and falleth down thereto. 16He burneth part thereof in the fire; with
part thereof he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied: yea, he
warmeth himself, and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire: 17And
the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image: he falleth
down unto it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver
me; for thou art my god. 18They have not known nor understood:
for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that
they cannot understand. 19And none considereth in his heart, neither is
there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the
fire; yea, also I have baken bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh,
and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall
I fall down to the stock of a tree? 20He feedeth on ashes: a deceived
heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is
there not a lie in my right hand? 21Remember
these, O Jacob and Israel; for thou art my servant: I have formed thee;
thou art my servant: O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten of me. 22I
have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy
sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee. 23Sing, O ye heavens;
for the LORD hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break
forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the LORD
hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel. 24Thus saith
the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the
LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone;
that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself; 25That frustrateth the
tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men
backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish; 26That confirmeth the
word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to
Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be
built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof: 27That saith
to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers: 28That saith of
Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying
to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be
laid. Isaiah
47 1Come
down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there
is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called
tender and delicate. 2Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover
thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers. 3Thy
nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take
vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man. 4As for
our redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel. 5Sit
thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou
shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms. 6I was wroth with my
people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou
didst show them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke. 7And
thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these
things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it. 8Therefore
hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest
carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I
shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children: 9But
these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of
children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the
multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine
enchantments. 10For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast
said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and
thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me. 11Therefore
shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and
mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and
desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know. 12Stand
now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein
thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so
be thou mayest prevail. 13Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy
counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators,
stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee. 14Behold,
they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver
themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal
to warm at, nor fire to sit before it. 15Thus shall they be
unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, even thy merchants, from thy
youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee. Isaiah
48 1Hear
ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come
forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the LORD, and make
mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness. 2For
they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of
Israel; The LORD of hosts is his name. 3I have declared the
former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I
showed them; I did them suddenly, and they came to pass. 4Because
I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and
thy brow brass; 5I have even from the beginning declared it to
thee; before it came to pass I showed it thee: lest thou shouldest say,
Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath
commanded them. 6Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye
declare it? I have showed thee new things from this time, even hidden
things, and thou didst not know them. 7They are created now, and not
from the beginning; even before the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou
shouldest say, Behold, I knew them. 8Yea, thou heardest not; yea,
thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened: for
I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a
transgressor from the womb. 9For
my name’s sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for
thee, that I cut thee not off. 10Behold, I have refined thee, but not
with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. 11For
mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how
should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another. 12Hearken
unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I
also am the last. 13Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of
the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto
them, they stand up together. 14All ye, assemble yourselves, and
hear; which among them hath declared these things? The LORD hath loved
him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the
Chaldeans. 15I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I
have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous. 16Come
ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning;
from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord GOD, and his
Spirit, hath sent me. 17Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy
One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which
leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go. 18O that thou
hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy
righteousness as the waves of the sea: 19Thy seed also had been as
the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name
should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me. 20Go ye
forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare
ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say ye, The LORD
hath redeemed his servant Jacob. 21And they thirsted not when
he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock
for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out. 22There
is no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked. Isaiah
49 1Listen,
O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from
the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. 2And
he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid
me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me; 3And
said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified.
4Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for
nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and
my work with my God. 5And now, saith the LORD that formed me from the
womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not
gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be
my strength. 6And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be
my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of
Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be
my salvation unto the end of the earth. 7Thus
saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man
despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall
see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful,
and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee. 8Thus
saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of
salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a
covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate
heritages; 9That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them
that are in darkness, Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and
their pastures shall be in all high places. 10They shall not
hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath
mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.
11And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be
exalted. 12Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the
north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim. 13Sing,
O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains:
for the LORD hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted. 14But
Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me. 15Can
a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son
of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. 16Behold,
I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are
continually before me. 17Thy children shall make haste; thy
destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee. 18Lift
up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and
come to thee. As I live, saith the LORD, thou shalt surely clothe thee
with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride doeth.
19For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy
destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they
that swallowed thee up shall be far away. 20The children which thou
shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The
place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell. 21Then
shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my
children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath
brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been?
22Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the
Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in
their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their
shoulders. 23And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens
thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward
the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am
the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me. 24Shall
the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered? 25But
thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and
the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that
contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children. 26And I will feed
them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with
their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am
thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob. Isaiah
50 1Thus
saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I
have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you?
Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions
is your mother put away. 2Wherefore, when I came, was there no
man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at
all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke
I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there
is no water, and dieth for thirst. 3I clothe the heavens with
blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering. 4The
Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to
speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by
morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned. 5The Lord GOD
hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back. 6I
gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I
hid not my face from shame and spitting. 7For the Lord GOD will help
me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a
flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed. 8He is near
that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is
mine adversary? let him come near to me. 9Behold, the Lord GOD will
help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax
old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up. 10Who
is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his
servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in
the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God. 11Behold, all ye that
kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the
light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye
have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow. Isaiah
51 1Hearken
to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the
rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are
digged. 2Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that
bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him. 3For
the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will
make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy
and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody. 4Hearken
unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed
from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people. 5My
righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall
judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shall they
trust. 6Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth
beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax
old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my
salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished. 7Hearken
unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law;
fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings. 8For
the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like
wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation
to generation. 9Awake,
awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the
generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and
wounded the dragon? 10Art thou not it which hath dried the
sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way
for the ransomed to pass over? 11Therefore the redeemed of the LORD
shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be
upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and
mourning shall flee away. 12I, even I, am he that
comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that
shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass; 13And
forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid
the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of
the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is
the fury of the oppressor? 14The captive exile hasteneth that he may
be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should
fail. 15But I am the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose
waves roared: The LORD of hosts is his name. 16And I have put
my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that
I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto
Zion, Thou art my people. 17Awake,
awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup
of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and
wrung them out. 18There is none to guide her among all
the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that
taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up. 19These
two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation,
and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee? 20Thy
sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a
net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God. 21Therefore
hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine: 22Thus
saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his
people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even
the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again: 23But
I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy
soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground,
and as the street, to them that went over. Isaiah
52 1Awake,
awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem,
the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the
uncircumcised and the unclean. 2Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and
sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive
daughter of Zion. 3For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves
for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money. 4For thus saith
the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the
Assyrian oppressed them without cause. 5Now therefore, what have I
here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule
over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is
blasphemed. 6Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they
shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is
I. 7How
beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings,
that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth
salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth! 8Thy watchmen
shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall
see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion. 9Break forth
into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath
comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem. 10The LORD hath
made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the
earth shall see the salvation of our God. 11Depart ye, depart ye, go
ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of
her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD. 12For ye shall
not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and
the God of Israel will be your rereward. 13Behold,
my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very
high. 14As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more
than any man, and his form more than the sons of men: 15So shall he
sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that
which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not
heard shall they consider. Isaiah
53 1Who
hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? 2For
he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry
ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is
no beauty that we should desire him. 3He is despised and rejected of
men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our
faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 4Surely
he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him
stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5But he was wounded
for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the
chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are
healed. 6All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one
to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. 7He
was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought
as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he
openeth not his mouth. 8He was taken from prison and from judgment:
and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the
living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. 9And he
made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had
done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. 10Yet
it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou
shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall
prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
11He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be
satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he
shall bear their iniquities. 12Therefore will I divide him a
portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong;
because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the
transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the
transgressors. Isaiah
54 1Sing,
O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry
aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the
children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD. 2Enlarge
the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine
habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes; 3For
thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall
inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited. 4Fear
not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt
not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not
remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more. 5For thy Maker is
thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy
One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called. 6For
the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife
of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God. 7For a small moment
have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. 8In
a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting
kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer. 9For
this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that
the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I
would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee. 10For the mountains
shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from
thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that
hath mercy on thee. 11O
thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will
lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires. 12And
I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy
borders of pleasant stones. 13And all thy children shall be
taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children. 14In
righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for
thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee. 15Behold,
they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather
together against thee shall fall for thy sake. 16Behold, I have
created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an
instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy. 17No
weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that
shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the
heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me,
saith the LORD. Isaiah
55 1Ho,
every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come
ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. 2Wherefore
do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that
which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which
is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. 3Incline
your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an
everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David. 4Behold,
I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to
the people. 5Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou
knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because
of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee. 6Seek
ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: 7Let
the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him
return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he
will abundantly pardon. 8For my thoughts are not your
thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. 9For as
the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and
my thoughts than your thoughts. 10For as the rain cometh down, and
the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and
maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to
the eater: 11So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it
shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and
it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. 12For ye
shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills
shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall
clap their hands. 13Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir
tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to
the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off. Isaiah
56 1Thus
saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is
near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed. 2Blessed is
the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on
it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing
any evil. 3Neither
let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak,
saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the
eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree. 4For thus saith the LORD
unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please
me, and take hold of my covenant; 5Even unto them will I give in mine
house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of
daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off. 6Also
the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to
love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the
sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant; 7Even them
will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer:
their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine
altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people. 8The
Lord GOD which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others
to him, beside those that are gathered unto him. 9All
ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the forest.
10His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are
all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. 11Yea,
they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are
shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every
one for his gain, from his quarter. 12Come ye, say they, I
will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow
shall be as this day, and much more abundant. Isaiah
60 1Arise,
shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee. 2For,
behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but
the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. 3And
the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.
4Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves
together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters
shall be nursed at thy side. 5Then thou shalt see, and flow
together, and thine heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of
the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto
thee. 6The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of
Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and
incense; and they shall show forth the praises of the LORD. 7All the
flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall
minister unto thee: they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar, and I will
glorify the house of my glory. 8Who are these that fly
as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows? 9Surely
the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons
from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy
God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee. 10And
the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister
unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on
thee. 11Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not
be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the
Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought. 12For
the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those
nations shall be utterly wasted. 13The glory of Lebanon shall come
unto thee, the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box together, to beautify the
place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious. 14The
sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they
that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they
shall call thee, The city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel. 15Whereas
thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through thee, I
will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations. 16Thou
shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast of kings:
and thou shalt know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the
mighty One of Jacob. 17For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I
will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy
officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness. 18Violence shall no
more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou
shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise. 19The sun shall
be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light
unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy
glory. 20Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon
withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of
thy mourning shall be ended. 21Thy people also shall be all
righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the
work of my hands, that I may be glorified. 22A little one shall
become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in
his time. Isaiah
65 1I
am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them
that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that
was not called by my name. 2I have spread out my hands all the day
unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after
their own thoughts; 3A people that provoketh me to anger continually
to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of
brick; 4Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments,
which eat swine’s flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their
vessels; 5Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am
holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all
the day. 6Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep
silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom, 7Your
iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, which
have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills:
therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom. 8Thus
saith the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith,
Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants’
sakes, that I may not destroy them all. 9And I will bring forth a
seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect
shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there. 10And Sharon
shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie
down in, for my people that have sought me. 11But
ye are they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, that
prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink offering unto that
number. 12Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all
bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I
spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that
wherein I delighted not. 13Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold,
my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink,
but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be
ashamed: 14Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye
shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit. 15And
ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord GOD shall slay
thee, and call his servants by another name: 16That he who blesseth
himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that
sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former
troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes. 17For,
behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be
remembered, nor come into mind. 18But be ye glad and rejoice for ever
in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and
her people a joy. 19And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my
people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of
crying. 20There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old
man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old;
but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed. 21And
they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant
vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. 22They shall not build, and
another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a
tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work
of their hands. 23They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for
trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their
offspring with them. 24And it shall come to pass, that before they
call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear. 25The
wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the
bullock: and dust shall be the serpent’s meat. They shall not hurt nor
destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD. Isaiah
66 1Thus
saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my
footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is
the place of my rest? 2For all those things hath mine hand
made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man
will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit,
and trembleth at my word. 3He that killeth an ox is as if he
slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog’s neck;
he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine’s blood; he that
burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their
own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations. 4I also
will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when
I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil
before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not. 5Hear
the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you,
that cast you out for my name’s sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he
shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed. 6A voice of
noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD that rendereth
recompense to his enemies. 7Before she travailed, she brought forth;
before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child. 8Who hath
heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring
forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion
travailed, she brought forth her children. 9Shall I bring to the
birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring
forth, and shut the womb? saith thy God. 10Rejoice ye with
Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her,
all ye that mourn for her: 11That ye may suck, and be satisfied with
the breasts of her consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the
abundance of her glory. 12For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will
extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing
stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, and be
dandled upon her knees. 13As one whom his mother comforteth,
so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem. 14And
when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish
like an herb: and the hand of the LORD shall be known toward his servants, and his
indignation toward his enemies. 15For,
behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to
render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire. 16For
by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of
the LORD shall be many. 17They that sanctify themselves, and purify
themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine’s
flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the
LORD. 18For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall
come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see
my glory. 19And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those
that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that
draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off, that
have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my
glory among the Gentiles. 20And they shall bring all your brethren for
an offering unto the LORD out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and
in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain
Jerusalem, saith the LORD, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a
clean vessel into the house of the LORD. 21And I will also take of
them for priests and for Levites, saith the LORD. 22For as the
new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith
the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain. 23And it shall
come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to
another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD. 24And
they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have
transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire
be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh. Ezekiel 8
ABOMINATIONS IN THE TEMPLE 1And
it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day
of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before
me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon me. 2Then I beheld,
and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins
even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of
brightness, as the colour of amber. 3And he put forth the form of an
hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between
the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to
the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the
seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy. 4And,
behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision
that I saw in the plain. 5Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up
thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward
the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy
in the entry. 6He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou
what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel
committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet
again, and thou shalt see greater abominations. 7And
he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the
wall. 8Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and
when I had digged in the wall, behold a door. 9And he said unto me,
Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here. 10So I
went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable
beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon the wall round
about. 11And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of
the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of
Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense
went up. 12Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the
ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his
imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth. 13He said also unto me, Turn thee
yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations that they do. 14Then
he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD’S house which was
toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz. 15Then
said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? turn thee yet again, and
thou shalt see greater abominations than these. 16And he brought me
into the inner court of the LORD’S house, and, behold, at the door of the
temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and
twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces
toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east. 17Then
he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing
to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here?
for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to
anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose. 18Therefore will I
also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and
though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them. Ezekiel 37
VALLEY OF DRY
BONES 1The
hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and
set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones, 2And
caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many
in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry. 3And he said
unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou
knowest. 4Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say
unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD. 5Thus saith the
Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye
shall live: 6And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh
upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and
ye shall know that I am the LORD. 7So I prophesied as I was
commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the
bones came together, bone to his bone. 8And when I beheld, lo, the
sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there
was no breath in them. 9Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the
wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come
from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
10So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them,
and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army. 11Then
he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold,
they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our
parts. 12Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out
of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. 13And ye shall
know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and
brought you up out of your graves, 14And shall put my spirit in you,
and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know
that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD. ONE KINGDOM, ONE KING 15The word of the LORD came again
unto me, saying, 16Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick,
and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions:
then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim,
and for all the house of Israel his companions: 17And join
them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand. 18And
when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not
show us what thou meanest by these? 19Say unto them, Thus
saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in
the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them
with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they
shall be one in mine hand. 20And the sticks whereon thou writest
shall be in thine hand before their eyes. 21And say unto them, Thus
saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the
heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring
them into their own land: 22And I will make them one nation in the
land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and
they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two
kingdoms any more at all: 23Neither shall they defile themselves any
more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their
transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein
they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will
be their God. 24And David my servant shall be king over them;
and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and
observe my statutes, and do them. 25And they shall dwell in the land
that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and
they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their
children’s children for ever: and my servant David shall be their
prince for ever. 26Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with
them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and
multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore. 27My
tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be
my people. 28And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify
Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore. Ezekiel 38
GOG AND ALLIES
ATTACK ISRAEL 1And
the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2Son of man, set thy face
against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and
prophesy against him, 3And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am
against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: 4And I
will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth,
and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of
armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them
handling swords: 5Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them
with shield and helmet: 6Gomer, and all his bands; the house of
Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with
thee. 7Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy
company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them. 8After
many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the
land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of
many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but
it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud
to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee. 10Thus
saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time
shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought: 11And
thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them
that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and
having neither bars nor gates, 12To take a spoil, and to take a prey;
to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and
upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten
cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land. 13Sheba, and
Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall
say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to
take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to
take a great spoil? 14Therefore, son of man, prophesy
and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel
dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it? 15And thou shalt come
from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of
them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army: 16And
thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it
shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the
heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their
eyes. 17Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have
spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in
those days many years that I would bring thee against them? JUDGMENT
ON GOG 18And it shall come to pass at the
same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that
my fury shall come up in my face. 19For in my jealousy and in
the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great
shaking in the land of Israel; 20So that the fishes of the sea, and
the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things
that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the
earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and
the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground. 21And
I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord
GOD: every man’s sword shall be against his brother. 22And I will
plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and
upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an
overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone. 23Thus
will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of
many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD. Ezekiel 39
GOG’S ARMIES
DESTROYED 1Therefore,
thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold,
I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: 2And
I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee
to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of
Israel: 3And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will
cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand. 4Thou shalt fall
upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is
with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to
the beasts of the field to be devoured. 5Thou shalt fall upon the
open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. 6And I
will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles:
and they shall know that I am the LORD. 7So will I make my
holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them
pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the
LORD, the Holy One in Israel. 8Behold,
it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I
have spoken. 9And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go
forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the
bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they
shall burn them with fire seven years: 10So that they shall take no
wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they
shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them,
and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord GOD. THE BURIAL OF GOG 11And
it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place
there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea:
and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury
Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.
12And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that
they may cleanse the land. 13Yea, all the people of the land shall
bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be
glorified, saith the Lord GOD. 14And they shall sever out men of
continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those
that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven
months shall they search. 15And the passengers that pass
through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a
sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamongog. 16And
also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the
land. A TRIUMPHANT FESTIVAL 17And,
thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and
to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on
every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great
sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood. 18Ye
shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the
earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of
Bashan. 19And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till
ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you. 20Thus
ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and
with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD. ISRAEL RESTORED TO THE LAND 21And
I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment
that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them. 22So
the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day
and forward. 23And the heathen shall know that
the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they
trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the
hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword. 24According to
their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them,
and hid my face from them. 25Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Now
will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house
of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name; 26After that they
have borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed
against me, when they dwelt safely in their land, and none made them
afraid. 27When I have brought them again from the people, and
gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and am sanctified in them in the
sight of many nations; 28Then shall they know that I am the
LORD their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen:
but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any
more there. 29Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I
have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD. Ezekiel 40
A NEW CITY, A
NEW TEMPLE 1In
the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in
the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city
was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and brought
me thither. 2In the visions of God brought he me into the land of
Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain, by which was as the frame
of a city on the south. 3And he brought me thither, and, behold, there
was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a
line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate. 4And
the man said unto me, Son of man, behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine
ears, and set thine heart upon all that I shall show thee; for to the intent
that I might show them unto thee art thou brought hither: declare
all that thou seest to the house of Israel. 5And
behold a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man’s hand a
measuring reed of six cubits long by the cubit and an hand breadth: so he
measured the breadth of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed. THE EASTERN GATEWAY OF THE TEMPLE 6Then
came he unto the gate which looketh toward the east, and went up the stairs
thereof, and measured the threshold of the gate, which was one reed
broad; and the other threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad. 7And
every little chamber was one reed long, and one reed broad; and
between the little chambers were five cubits; and the threshold of the
gate by the porch of the gate within was one reed. 8He
measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed. 9Then measured
he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts thereof, two cubits; and
the porch of the gate was inward. 10And the little chambers of
the gate eastward were three on this side, and three on that side; they
three were of one measure: and the posts had one measure on this side and
on that side. 11And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate,
ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits. 12The
space also before the little chambers was one cubit on this side,
and the space was one cubit on that side: and the little chambers were
six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side. 13He measured
then the gate from the roof of one little chamber to the roof of another:
the breadth was five and twenty cubits, door against door. 14He
made also posts of threescore cubits, even unto the post of the court round
about the gate. 15And from the face of the gate of the entrance unto
the face of the porch of the inner gate were fifty cubits. 16And
there were narrow windows to the little chambers, and to their posts
within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches: and windows were
round about inward: and upon each post were palm trees. THE OUTER COURT 17Then
brought he me into the outward court, and, lo, there were chambers, and a
pavement made for the court round about: thirty chambers were upon the
pavement. 18And the pavement by the side of the gates over against
the length of the gates was the lower pavement. 19Then he
measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate unto the forefront of
the inner court without, an hundred cubits eastward and northward. THE NORTHERN GATEWAY 20And
the gate of the outward court that looked toward the north, he measured the
length thereof, and the breadth thereof. 21And the little chambers
thereof were three on this side and three on that side; and the posts
thereof and the arches thereof were after the measure of the first gate: the
length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits. 22And
their windows, and their arches, and their palm trees, were after the
measure of the gate that looketh toward the east; and they went up unto it by
seven steps; and the arches thereof were before them. 23And
the gate of the inner court was over against the gate toward the north,
and toward the east; and he measured from gate to gate an hundred cubits. THE SOUTHERN GATEWAY 24After
that he brought me toward the south, and behold a gate toward the south: and he
measured the posts thereof and the arches thereof according to these measures. 25And
there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about, like
those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and
twenty cubits. 26And there were seven steps to go up to it,
and the arches thereof were before them: and it had palm trees, one on
this side, and another on that side, upon the posts thereof. 27And
there was a gate in the inner court toward the south: and he measured
from gate to gate toward the south an hundred cubits. GATEWAYS OF THE INNER COURT 28And
he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he measured the south
gate according to these measures; 29And the little chambers thereof,
and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, according to these measures: and there
were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about: it was
fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad. 30And the arches
round about were five and twenty cubits long, and five cubits broad. 31And
the arches thereof were toward the utter court; and palm trees were
upon the posts thereof: and the going up to it had eight steps. 32And
he brought me into the inner court toward the east: and he measured the gate
according to these measures. 33And the little chambers thereof, and
the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, were according to these
measures: and there were windows therein and in the arches thereof round
about: it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad. 34And
the arches thereof were toward the outward court; and palm trees were
upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the going up to it had
eight steps. 35And he brought me to the north gate, and measured it
according to these measures; 36The little chambers thereof, the posts
thereof, and the arches thereof, and the windows to it round about: the length was
fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits. 37And the posts
thereof were toward the utter court; and palm trees were upon the
posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the going up to it had
eight steps. WHERE SACRIFICES ARE PREPAIRED 38And
the chambers and the entries thereof were by the posts of the gates,
where they washed the burnt offering. 39And in the porch of the gate were
two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, to slay thereon the burnt
offering and the sin offering and the trespass offering. 40And at the
side without, as one goeth up to the entry of the north gate, were two
tables; and on the other side, which was at the porch of the gate, were
two tables. 41Four tables were on this side, and four tables
on that side, by the side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon they slew their
sacrifices. 42And the four tables were of hewn stone for
the burnt offering, of a cubit and an half long, and a cubit and an half broad,
and one cubit high: whereupon also they laid the instruments wherewith they slew
the burnt offering and the sacrifice. 43And within were hooks,
an hand broad, fastened round about: and upon the tables was the flesh of
the offering. CHAMBERS FOR SINGERS AND PRIESTS 44And
without the inner gate were the chambers of the singers in the inner
court, which was at the side of the north gate; and their prospect was
toward the south: one at the side of the east gate having the prospect
toward the north. 45And he said unto me, This chamber, whose prospect
is toward the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the charge
of the house. 46And the chamber whose prospect is toward the
north is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar: these are
the sons of Zadok among the sons of Levi, which come near to the LORD to
minister unto him. DIMENSIONS OF THE INNER COURT AND VESTIBULE 47So
he measured the court, an hundred cubits long, and an hundred cubits broad,
foursquare; and the altar that was before the house. 48And he
brought me to the porch of the house, and measured each post of the
porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side: and the breadth
of the gate was three cubits on this side, and three cubits on that side.
49The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth
eleven cubits; and he brought me by the steps whereby they went up to it:
and there were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on
that side. Ezekiel 41
DIMENSIONS OF
THE SANCTUARY 1Afterward
he brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one
side, and six cubits broad on the other side, which was the breadth of
the tabernacle. 2And the breadth of the door was ten cubits;
and the sides of the door were five cubits on the one side, and five
cubits on the other side: and he measured the length thereof, forty cubits: and
the breadth, twenty cubits. 3Then went he inward, and measured the
post of the door, two cubits; and the door, six cubits; and the breadth of the
door, seven cubits. 4So he measured the length thereof, twenty
cubits; and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said unto me,
This is the most holy place. THE SIDE CHAMBERS ON THE WALL 5After
he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every
side chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every side. 6And
the side chambers were three, one over another, and thirty in order; and
they entered into the wall which was of the house for the side chambers
round about, that they might have hold, but they had not hold in the wall of the
house. 7And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still
upward to the side chambers: for the winding about of the house went still
upward round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house was still
upward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by
the midst. 8I saw also the height of the house round about: the
foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six great cubits. 9The
thickness of the wall, which was for the side chamber without, was
five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the
side chambers that were within. 10And between the chambers was
the wideness of twenty cubits round about the house on every side. 11And
the doors of the side chambers were toward the place that was
left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south: and the
breadth of the place that was left was five cubits round about. THE BUILDING AT THE WESTERN WALL 12Now the building that was
before the separate place at the end toward the west was seventy cubits
broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about,
and the length thereof ninety cubits. DIMENSIONS
AND DESIGN OF THE TEMPLE AREA 13So he measured the house, an
hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls
thereof, an hundred cubits long; 14Also the breadth of the face of
the house, and of the separate place toward the east, an hundred cubits. 15And
he measured the length of the building over against the separate place which was
behind it, and the galleries thereof on the one side and on the other side, an
hundred cubits, with the inner temple, and the porches of the court; 16The
door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about on their three
stories, over against the door, ceiled with wood round about, and from the
ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered; 17To
that above the door, even unto the inner house, and without, and by all the wall
round about within and without, by measure. 18And it was made
with cherubims and palm trees, so that a palm tree was between a cherub
and a cherub; and every cherub had two faces; 19So that the
face of a man was toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a
young lion toward the palm tree on the other side: it was made through
all the house round about. 20From the ground unto above the door were
cherubims and palm trees made, and on the wall of the temple. 21The
posts of the temple were squared, and the face of the sanctuary;
the appearance of the one as the appearance of the other. 22The
altar of wood was three cubits high, and the length thereof two cubits;
and the corners thereof, and the length thereof, and the walls thereof, were
of wood: and he said unto me, This is the table that is before the
LORD. 23And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors. 24And
the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves; two leaves
for the one door, and two leaves for the other door. 25And there
were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubims and palm trees,
like as were made upon the walls; and there were thick planks upon
the face of the porch without. 26And there were narrow windows
and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch,
and upon the side chambers of the house, and thick planks. Ezekiel 42
THE CHAMBERS
FOR THE PRIESTS 1Then
he brought me forth into the utter court, the way toward the north: and he
brought me into the chamber that was over against the separate place, and
which was before the building toward the north. 2Before the
length of an hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was
fifty cubits. 3Over against the twenty cubits which were
for the inner court, and over against the pavement which was for the
utter court, was gallery against gallery in three stories. 4And
before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one
cubit; and their doors toward the north. 5Now the upper chambers were
shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the
middlemost of the building. 6For they were in three stories,
but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building
was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground. 7And
the wall that was without over against the chambers, toward the utter
court on the forepart of the chambers, the length thereof was fifty
cubits. 8For the length of the chambers that were in the utter
court was fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple were an hundred
cubits. 9And from under these chambers was the entry on the
east side, as one goeth into them from the utter court. 10The
chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east,
over against the separate place, and over against the building. 11And
the way before them was like the appearance of the chambers which were
toward the north, as long as they, and as broad as they: and all their
goings out were both according to their fashions, and according to their
doors. 12And according to the doors of the chambers that were
toward the south was a door in the head of the way, even the way
directly before the wall toward the east, as one entereth into them. 13Then
said he unto me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are
before the separate place, they be holy chambers, where the priests that
approach unto the LORD shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the
most holy things, and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass
offering; for the place is holy. 14When the priests enter
therein, then shall they not go out of the holy place into the utter
court, but there they shall lay their garments wherein they minister; for they are
holy; and shall put on other garments, and shall approach to those things
which are for the people. OUTER DIMENSIONS OF THE TEMPLE 15Now when he had made an end of
measuring the inner house, he brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect is
toward the east, and measured it round about. 16He measured the east
side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round
about. 17He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the
measuring reed round about. 18He measured the south side, five
hundred reeds, with the measuring reed. 19He turned about to the west
side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed. 20He
measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred reeds
long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the
profane place. Ezekiel 43
THE TEMPLE,
THE LORD’S DWELLING PLACE 1Afterward
he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east: 2And,
behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his
voice was like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined with his
glory. 3And it was according to the appearance of the vision
which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to
destroy the city: and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the
river Chebar; and I fell upon my face. 4And the glory of the LORD
came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the
east. 5So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court;
and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house. 6And I heard him
speaking unto me out of the house; and the man stood by me. 7And
he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles
of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever,
and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they,
nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their
high places. 8In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds,
and their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even
defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I
have consumed them in mine anger. 9Now let them put away their
whoredom, and the carcases of their kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the
midst of them for ever. 10Thou son of man, show the house to the
house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them
measure the pattern. 11And if they be ashamed of all that they have
done, show them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings
out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the
ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and
write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and
all the ordinances thereof, and do them. 12This is the law of
the house; Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall
be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house. DIMENSIONS OF THE ALTAR 13And these are the measures
of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth;
even the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border
thereof by the edge thereof round about shall be a span: and this shall
be the higher place of the altar. 14And from the bottom upon
the ground even to the lower settle shall be two cubits, and the
breadth one cubit; and from the lesser settle even to the greater settle shall
be four cubits, and the breadth one cubit. 15So the altar shall
be four cubits; and from the altar and upward shall be four horns. 16And
the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, square in the
four squares thereof. 17And the settle shall be fourteen cubits
long and fourteen broad in the four squares thereof; and the border about it shall
be half a cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about; and
his stairs shall look toward the east. CONSECRATING
THE ALTAR 18And he said unto me, Son of man,
thus saith the Lord GOD; These are the ordinances of the altar in the day
when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood
thereon. 19And thou shalt give to the priests the Levites that be of
the seed of Zadok, which approach unto me, to minister unto me, saith the Lord
GOD, a young bullock for a sin offering. 20And thou shalt take of the
blood thereof, and put it on the four horns of it, and on the four
corners of the settle, and upon the border round about: thus shalt thou cleanse
and purge it. 21Thou shalt take the bullock also of the sin offering,
and he shall burn it in the appointed place of the house, without the sanctuary.
22And on the second day thou shalt offer a kid of the goats without
blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they did
cleanse it with the bullock. 23When thou hast made an end of
cleansing it, thou shalt offer a young bullock without blemish, and a ram
out of the flock without blemish. 24And thou shalt offer them before
the LORD, and the priests shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them
up for a burnt offering unto the LORD. 25Seven days shalt thou
prepare every day a goat for a sin offering: they shall also prepare a
young bullock, and a ram out of the flock, without blemish. 26Seven
days shall they purge the altar and purify it; and they shall consecrate
themselves. 27And when these days are expired, it shall be, that
upon the eighth day, and so forward, the priests shall make your burnt
offerings upon the altar, and your peace offerings; and I will accept you, saith
the Lord GOD. Ezekiel 44
THE EAST GATE
AND THE PRINCE 1Then
he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary which looketh
toward the east; and it was shut. 2Then said the LORD unto me;
This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by
it; because the LORD, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it
shall be shut. 3It is for the prince; the prince, he shall sit
in it to eat bread before the LORD; he shall enter by the way of the porch of that
gate, and shall go out by the way of the same. THOSE ADMITTED TO THE TEMPLE 4Then
brought he me the way of the north gate before the house: and I looked, and,
behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD: and I fell upon my
face. 5And the LORD said unto me, Son of man, mark well, and behold
with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say unto thee concerning
all the ordinances of the house of the LORD, and all the laws thereof; and mark
well the entering in of the house, with every going forth of the sanctuary. 6And
thou shalt say to the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus saith
the Lord GOD; O ye house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations,
7In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers,
uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to
pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood,
and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations. 8And
ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye have set keepers of my
charge in my sanctuary for yourselves. 9Thus saith the Lord GOD; No
stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into
my sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of Israel. LAWS GOVERNING PRIESTS 10And
the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, which went
astray away from me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity. 11Yet
they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having charge at the gates of
the house, and ministering to the house: they shall slay the burnt offering and
the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister unto
them. 12Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and
caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore have I lifted up
mine hand against them, saith the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their iniquity. 13And
they shall not come near unto me, to do the office of a priest unto me, nor to
come near to any of my holy things, in the most holy place: but they
shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed. 14But
I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service
thereof, and for all that shall be done therein. 15But the priests
the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the
children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister
unto me, and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood,
saith the Lord GOD: 16They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they
shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge. 17And it shall come to pass, that
when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with
linen garments; and no wool shall come upon them, whiles they minister in the
gates of the inner court, and within. 18They shall have linen bonnets
upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not
gird themselves with any thing that causeth sweat. 19And when
they go forth into the utter court, even into the utter court to the
people, they shall put off their garments wherein they ministered, and lay them
in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments; and they shall not
sanctify the people with their garments. 20Neither shall they shave
their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their
heads. 21Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into
the inner court. 22Neither shall they take for their wives a widow,
nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house
of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before. 23And they shall
teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause
them to discern between the unclean and the clean. 24And in
controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it
according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all
mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths. 25And they shall
come at no dead person to defile themselves: but for father, or for mother, or
for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband,
they may defile themselves. 26And after he is cleansed, they shall
reckon unto him seven days. 27And in the day that he goeth into the
sanctuary, unto the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer
his sin offering, saith the Lord GOD. 28And it shall be unto them for
an inheritance: I am their inheritance: and ye shall give them no
possession in Israel: I am their possession. 29They shall eat
the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every
dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs. 30And the first of all the
firstfruits of all things, and every oblation of all, of every sort
of your oblations, shall be the priest’s: ye shall also give unto the priest
the first of your dough, that he may cause the blessing to rest in thine house. 31The
priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself, or torn, whether it
be fowl or beast. Ezekiel 45
THE HOLY
DISTRICT 1Moreover,
when ye shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, ye shall offer an oblation
unto the LORD, an holy portion of the land: the length shall be the
length of five and twenty thousand reeds, and the breadth shall be
ten thousand. This shall be holy in all the borders thereof round about. 2Of
this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred in length, with five
hundred in breadth, square round about; and fifty cubits round about for
the suburbs thereof. 3And of this measure shalt thou measure the
length of five and twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand: and in it
shall be the sanctuary and the most holy place. 4The
holy portion of the land shall be for the priests the ministers of the
sanctuary, which shall come near to minister unto the LORD: and it shall be a
place for their houses, and an holy place for the sanctuary. 5And the
five and twenty thousand of length, and the ten thousand of breadth, shall also
the Levites, the ministers of the house, have for themselves, for a possession
for twenty chambers. PROPERTIES OF THE CITY AND THE PRINCE 6And
ye shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand broad, and five and
twenty thousand long, over against the oblation of the holy portion: it
shall be for the whole house of Israel. 7And a portion shall be
for the prince on the one side and on the other side of the oblation of the holy
portion, and of the possession of the city, before the oblation of the
holy portion, and before the possession of the city, from the west side
westward, and from the east side eastward: and the length shall be over
against one of the portions, from the west border unto the east border. 8In
the land shall be his possession in Israel: and my princes shall no more oppress
my people; and the rest of the land shall they give to the house of
Israel according to their tribes. LAWS GOVERNING THE PRINCE 9Thus
saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and
spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my
people, saith the Lord GOD. 10Ye shall have just balances, and a just
ephah, and a just bath. 11The ephah and the bath shall be of one
measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the
tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer. 12And
the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty
shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh. 13This is the oblation that
ye shall offer; the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of wheat, and ye shall
give the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of barley: 14Concerning
the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, ye shall offer the tenth part of a
bath out of the cor, which is an homer of ten baths; for ten baths are
an homer: 15And one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of
the fat pastures of Israel; for a meat offering, and for a burnt offering, and
for peace offerings, to make reconciliation for them, saith the Lord GOD. 16All
the people of the land shall give this oblation for the prince in Israel. 17And
it shall be the prince’s part to give burnt offerings, and meat
offerings, and drink offerings, in the feasts, and in the new moons, and in the
sabbaths, in all solemnities of the house of Israel: he shall prepare the sin
offering, and the meat offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace
offerings, to make reconciliation for the house of Israel. KEEPING
THE FEASTS 18Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the
first month, in the first day of the month, thou shalt take a
young bullock without blemish, and cleanse the sanctuary: 19And the
priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and put it upon the
posts of the house, and upon the four corners of the settle of the altar, and
upon the posts of the gate of the inner court. 20And so thou shalt do
the seventh day of the month for every one that erreth, and for him
that is simple: so shall ye reconcile the house. 21In the first month,
in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the passover, a feast of seven
days; unleavened bread shall be eaten. 22And upon that day shall the
prince prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bullock for
a sin offering. 23And seven days of the feast he shall prepare a
burnt offering to the LORD, seven bullocks and seven rams without blemish daily
the seven days; and a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering. 24And
he shall prepare a meat offering of an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a
ram, and an hin of oil for an ephah. 25In the seventh month,
in the fifteenth day of the month, shall he do the like in the feast of the
seven days, according to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering, and
according to the meat offering, and according to the oil. Ezekiel 46
THE MANNER OF
WORSHIP 1Thus
saith the Lord GOD; The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east
shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and
in the day of the new moon it shall be opened. 2And the prince shall
enter by the way of the porch of that gate without, and shall stand by
the post of the gate, and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his
peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate: then he
shall go forth; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening. 3Likewise
the people of the land shall worship at the door of this gate before the LORD in
the sabbaths and in the new moons. 4And the burnt offering that the
prince shall offer unto the LORD in the sabbath day shall be six lambs
without blemish, and a ram without blemish. 5And the meat offering shall
be an ephah for a ram, and the meat offering for the lambs as he shall be
able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah. 6And in the day of the
new moon it shall be a young bullock without blemish, and six lambs, and
a ram: they shall be without blemish. 7And he shall prepare a meat
offering, an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs
according as his hand shall attain unto, and an hin of oil to an ephah. 8And
when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch of that
gate, and he shall go forth by the way thereof. 9But when the people
of the land shall come before the LORD in the solemn feasts, he that entereth in
by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south
gate; and he that entereth by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the
way of the north gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate whereby he
came in, but shall go forth over against it. 10And the prince in the
midst of them, when they go in, shall go in; and when they go forth, shall go
forth. 11And in the feasts and in the solemnities the meat offering
shall be an ephah to a bullock, and an ephah to a ram, and to the lambs as he is
able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah. 12Now when the prince
shall prepare a voluntary burnt offering or peace offerings voluntarily unto the
LORD, one shall then open him the gate that looketh toward the east, and
he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he did on the
sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and after his going forth one shall
shut the gate. 13Thou shalt daily prepare a burnt offering unto the
LORD of a lamb of the first year without blemish: thou shalt prepare it
every morning. 14And thou shalt prepare a meat offering for it every
morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of an hin of oil, to
temper with the fine flour; a meat offering continually by a perpetual ordinance
unto the LORD. 15Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meat
offering, and the oil, every morning for a continual burnt offering. THE PRINCE AND INHERITANCE LAWS 16Thus
saith the Lord GOD; If the prince give a gift unto any of his sons, the
inheritance thereof shall be his sons’; it shall be their possession by
inheritance. 17But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his
servants, then it shall be his to the year of liberty; after it shall return to
the prince: but his inheritance shall be his sons’ for them. 18Moreover
the prince shall not take of the people’s inheritance by oppression, to thrust
them out of their possession; but he shall give his sons inheritance out
of his own possession: that my people be not scattered every man from his
possession. HOW THE OFFERINGS WERE PREPAIRED 19After he brought me through the
entry, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers of the
priests, which looked toward the north: and, behold, there was a place on
the two sides westward. 20Then said he unto me, This is the
place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering,
where they shall bake the meat offering; that they bear them not out into
the utter court, to sanctify the people. 21Then he brought me forth
into the utter court, and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court;
and, behold, in every corner of the court there was a court. 22In
the four corners of the court there were courts joined of forty cubits
long and thirty broad: these four corners were of one measure. 23And
there was a row of building round about in them, round about them
four, and it was made with boiling places under the rows round about. 24Then
said he unto me, These are the places of them that boil, where the
ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people. Ezekiel 47
THE HEALING
WATERS AND TREES 1Afterward
he brought me again unto the door of the house; and, behold, waters issued out
from under the threshold of the house eastward: for the forefront of the house stood
toward the east, and the waters came down from under from the right side of
the house, at the south side of the altar. 2Then brought he me
out of the way of the gate northward, and led me about the way without unto the
utter gate by the way that looketh eastward; and, behold, there ran out waters
on the right side. 3And when the man that had the line in his hand
went forth eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me through
the waters; the waters were to the ankles. 4Again he measured
a thousand, and brought me through the waters; the waters were to the
knees. Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through; the waters were
to the loins. 5Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a
river that I could not pass over: for the waters were risen, waters to swim in,
a river that could not be passed over. 6And he said unto me, Son of
man, hast thou seen this? Then he brought me, and caused me to return to
the brink of the river. 7Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank
of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other. 8Then
said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down
into the desert, and go into the sea: which being brought forth into the
sea, the waters shall be healed. 9And it shall come to pass, that
every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come,
shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these
waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live
whither the river cometh. 10And it shall come to pass, that
the fishers shall stand upon it from Engedi even unto Eneglaim; they shall be a place
to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish
of the great sea, exceeding many. 11But the miry places thereof and
the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt. 12And
by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow
all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof
be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because
their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be
for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine. BORDERS OF THE LAND 13Thus saith the Lord GOD; This shall
be the border, whereby ye shall inherit the land according to the twelve
tribes of Israel: Joseph shall have two portions. 14And ye
shall inherit it, one as well as another: concerning the which I lifted
up mine hand to give it unto your fathers: and this land shall fall unto you for
inheritance. 15And this shall be the border of the land toward
the north side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men go to Zedad; 16Hamath,
Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border
of Hamath; Hazarhatticon, which is by the coast of Hauran. 17And
the border from the sea shall be Hazarenan, the border of Damascus, and the
north northward, and the border of Hamath. And this is the north side. 18And
the east side ye shall measure from Hauran, and from Damascus, and from Gilead,
and from the land of Israel by Jordan, from the border unto the east sea.
And this is the east side. 19And the south side southward,
from Tamar even to the waters of strife in Kadesh, the river to
the great sea. And this is the south side southward. 20The
west side also shall be the great sea from the border, till a man come
over against Hamath. This is the west side. 21So shall ye
divide this land unto you according to the tribes of Israel. 22And it
shall come to pass, that ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance
unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn among you, which shall beget
children among you: and they shall be unto you as born in the country among the
children of Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of
Israel. 23And it shall come to pass, that in what tribe the
stranger sojourneth, there shall ye give him his inheritance, saith the
Lord GOD. Ezekiel 48
DIVISIONS OF
THE LAND 1Now
these are the names of the tribes. From the north end to the coast of the
way of Hethlon, as one goeth to Hamath, Hazarenan, the border of Damascus
northward, to the coast of Hamath; for these are his sides east and west;
a portion for Dan. 2And by the border of Dan, from the east
side unto the west side, a portion for Asher. 3And by the
border of Asher, from the east side even unto the west side, a portion for
Naphtali. 4And by the border of Naphtali, from the east side unto the
west side, a portion for Manasseh. 5And by the border of
Manasseh, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Ephraim. 6And
by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even unto the west side, a portion
for Reuben. 7And by the border of Reuben, from the east side unto
the west side, a portion for Judah. 8And by the border of
Judah, from the east side unto the west side, shall be the offering which ye
shall offer of five and twenty thousand reeds in breadth, and in
length as one of the other parts, from the east side unto the west side:
and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it. 9The oblation that ye
shall offer unto the LORD shall be of five and twenty thousand in length,
and of ten thousand in breadth. 10And for them, even for the
priests, shall be this holy oblation; toward the north five and twenty
thousand in length, and toward the west ten thousand in breadth, and
toward the east ten thousand in breadth, and toward the south five and twenty
thousand in length: and the sanctuary of the LORD shall be in the midst thereof.
11It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons
of Zadok; which have kept my charge, which went not astray when the children of
Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray. 12And this
oblation of the land that is offered shall be unto them a thing most holy by the
border of the Levites. 13And over against the border of the priests
the Levites shall have five and twenty thousand in length, and ten
thousand in breadth: all the length shall be five and twenty thousand,
and the breadth ten thousand. 14And they shall not sell of it,
neither exchange, nor alienate the firstfruits of the land: for it is
holy unto the LORD. 15And the five thousand, that are left in the
breadth over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place
for the city, for dwelling, and for suburbs: and the city shall be in the midst
thereof. 16And these shall be the measures thereof; the north
side four thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five
hundred, and on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the west side
four thousand and five hundred. 17And the suburbs of the city shall
be toward the north two hundred and fifty, and toward the south two hundred and
fifty, and toward the east two hundred and fifty, and toward the west two
hundred and fifty. 18And the residue in length over against the
oblation of the holy portion shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten
thousand westward: and it shall be over against the oblation of the holy portion;
and the increase thereof shall be for food unto them that serve the city. 19And
they that serve the city shall serve it out of all the tribes of Israel. 20All
the oblation shall be five and twenty thousand by five and twenty
thousand: ye shall offer the holy oblation foursquare, with the possession of
the city. 21And the residue shall be for the prince, on the
one side and on the other of the holy oblation, and of the possession of the
city, over against the five and twenty thousand of the oblation toward the east
border, and westward over against the five and twenty thousand toward the west
border, over against the portions for the prince: and it shall be the holy
oblation; and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst thereof. 22Moreover
from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the city, being
in the midst of that which is the prince’s, between the border of Judah
and the border of Benjamin, shall be for the prince. 23As for the
rest of the tribes, from the east side unto the west side, Benjamin shall
have a portion. 24And by the border of Benjamin, from the
east side unto the west side, Simeon shall have a portion. 25And
by the border of Simeon, from the east side unto the west side, Issachar a portion.
26And by the border of Issachar, from the east side unto the west
side, Zebulun a portion. 27And by the border of Zebulun, from
the east side unto the west side, Gad a portion. 28And by the
border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar unto
the waters of strife in Kadesh, and to the river toward the great
sea. 29This is the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the
tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their portions, saith the
Lord GOD. THE GATES OF THE CITY AND ITS NAME 30And
these are the goings out of the city on the north side, four thousand and
five hundred measures. 31And the gates of the city shall
be after the names of the tribes of Israel: three gates northward; one gate
of Reuben, one gate of Judah, one gate of Levi. 32And at the east
side four thousand and five hundred: and three gates; and one gate of Joseph,
one gate of Benjamin, one gate of Dan. 33And at the south side four
thousand and five hundred measures: and three gates; one gate of Simeon, one
gate of Issachar, one gate of Zebulun. 34At the west side four
thousand and five hundred, with their three gates; one gate of Gad, one
gate of Asher, one gate of Naphtali. 35It was round about
eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the city from that day
shall be, The LORD is there. Daniel
2 NEBUCHADNEZZAR’S DREAM
1And
in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams,
wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him. 2Then
the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the
sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to show the king his dreams. So they came and
stood before the king. 3And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a
dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream. 4Then spake the
Chaldeans to the king in Syriack, O king, live for ever: tell thy servants the
dream, and we will show the interpretation. 5The king answered and
said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye will not make known unto
me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and
your houses shall be made a dunghill. 6But if ye show the dream, and
the interpretation thereof, ye shall receive of me gifts and rewards and great
honour: therefore show me the dream, and the interpretation thereof. 7They
answered again and said, Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will
show the interpretation of it. 8The king answered and said, I know of
certainty that ye would gain the time, because ye see the thing is gone from me.
9But if ye will not make known unto me the dream, there is but
one decree for you: for ye have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before
me, till the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that
ye can show me the interpretation thereof. 10The Chaldeans answered
before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can show the
king’s matter: therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that
asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean. 11And it
is a rare thing that the king requireth, and there is none other that can
show it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh. 12For
this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the
wise men of Babylon. 13And the decree went forth that the wise
men should be slain; and they sought Daniel and his fellows to be slain. GOD REVEALS NEBUCHADNEZZAR’S DREAM 14Then
Daniel answered with counsel and wisdom to Arioch the captain of the king’s
guard, which was gone forth to slay the wise men of Babylon: 15He
answered and said to Arioch the king’s captain, Why is the decree so
hasty from the king? Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel. 16Then
Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would give him time, and that he
would show the king the interpretation. 17Then Daniel went to his
house, and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his
companions: 18That they would desire mercies of the God of heaven
concerning this secret; that Daniel and his fellows should not perish with the
rest of the wise men of Babylon. 19Then was the secret
revealed unto Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven. 20Daniel
answered and said, Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and
might are his: 21And he changeth the times and the seasons: he
removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and
knowledge to them that know understanding: 22He revealeth the deep
and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light
dwelleth with him. 23I thank thee, and praise thee, O thou God of my
fathers, who hast given me wisdom and might, and hast made known unto me now
what we desired of thee: for thou hast now made known unto us the
king’s matter. DANIEL EXPLAINS THE DREAM 24Therefore
Daniel went in unto Arioch, whom the king had ordained to destroy the wise men
of Babylon: he went and said thus unto him; Destroy not the wise men of
Babylon: bring me in before the king, and I will show unto the king the
interpretation. 25Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in
haste, and said thus unto him, I have found a man of the captives of Judah, that
will make known unto the king the interpretation. 26The king answered
and said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, Art thou able to make
known unto me the dream which I have seen, and the interpretation thereof? 27Daniel
answered in the presence of the king, and said, The secret which the king hath
demanded cannot the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, the
soothsayers, show unto the king; 28But there is a God in heaven that
revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in
the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these;
29As for thee, O king, thy thoughts came into thy mind upon
thy bed, what should come to pass hereafter: and he that revealeth secrets
maketh known to thee what shall come to pass. 30But as for me, this
secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any
living, but for their sakes that shall make known the interpretation to
the king, and that thou mightest know the thoughts of thy heart. 31Thou,
O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was
excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible. 32This
image’s head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his
belly and his thighs of brass, 33His legs of iron, his feet part of
iron and part of clay. 34Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out
without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and
clay, and brake them to pieces. 35Then was the iron, the clay, the
brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the
chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no
place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great
mountain, and filled the whole earth. 36This is the dream; and
we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king. 37Thou, O
king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a
kingdom, power, and strength, and glory. 38And wheresoever the
children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath
he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art
this head of gold. 39And after thee shall arise another kingdom
inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over
all the earth. 40And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron:
forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron
that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise. 41And
whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of
iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of
the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. 42And
as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so
the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. 43And whereas
thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the
seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed
with clay. 44And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven
set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be
left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these
kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. 45Forasmuch as thou sawest
that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in
pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God
hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is
certain, and the interpretation thereof sure. DANIEL AND HIS FRIENDS PROMOTED 46Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell
upon his face, and worshipped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an
oblation and sweet odours unto him. 47The king answered unto Daniel,
and said, Of a truth it is, that your God is a God of gods, and a
Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, seeing thou couldest reveal this
secret. 48Then the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many
great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief of
the governors over all the wise men of Babylon. 49Then Daniel
requested of the king, and he set Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, over the
affairs of the province of Babylon: but Daniel sat in the gate of the
king. Daniel 8
VISION OF A
RAM AND A GOAT 1In
the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared unto me, even
unto me Daniel, after that which appeared unto me at the first. 2And
I saw in a vision; and it came to pass, when I saw, that I was at Shushan
in the palace, which is in the province of Elam; and I saw in a
vision, and I was by the river of Ulai. 3Then I lifted up mine eyes,
and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two
horns: and the two horns were high; but one was higher than
the other, and the higher came up last. 4I saw the ram pushing
westward, and northward, and southward; so that no beasts might stand before
him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand; but he did
according to his will, and became great. 5And as I was considering,
behold, an he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and
touched not the ground: and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes.
6And he came to the ram that had two horns, which I had seen
standing before the river, and ran unto him in the fury of his power. 7And
I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with choler against him, and
smote the ram, and brake his two horns: and there was no power in the ram to
stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground, and stamped upon him: and
there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand. 8Therefore
the he goat waxed very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken;
and for it came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven. 9And
out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward
the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land. 10And
it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down some
of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them. 11Yea,
he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily
sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down. 12And
an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of
transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practiced, and
prospered. 13Then
I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint
which spake, How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice,
and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to
be trodden under foot? 14And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and
three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed. GABRIEL INTERPRETS THE VISION 15And it came to pass, when I, even
I Daniel, had seen the vision, and sought for the meaning, then, behold, there
stood before me as the appearance of a man. 16And I heard a man’s
voice between the banks of Ulai, which called, and said, Gabriel, make
this man to understand the vision. 17So he came near where I
stood: and when he came, I was afraid, and fell upon my face: but he said unto
me, Understand, O son of man: for at the time of the end shall be the
vision. 18Now as he was speaking with me, I was in a deep sleep on my
face toward the ground: but he touched me, and set me upright. 19And
he said, Behold, I will make thee know what shall be in the last end of the
indignation: for at the time appointed the end shall be. 20The
ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of Media and
Persia. 21And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the
great horn that is between his eyes is the first king. 22Now
that being broken, whereas four stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up
out of the nation, but not in his power. 23And in the latter time of
their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce
countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up. 24And
his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy
wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practice, and shall destroy the mighty and
the holy people. 25And through his policy also he shall cause craft
to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by
peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;
but he shall be broken without hand. 26And the vision of the evening
and the morning which was told is true: wherefore shut thou up the
vision; for it shall be for many days. 27And I Daniel fainted,
and was sick certain days; afterward I rose up, and did the king’s
business; and I was astonished at the vision, but none understood it. Daniel 9
DANIEL’S
PRAYER FOR THE PEOPLE 1In
the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which
was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans; 2In the first year of
his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word
of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years
in the desolations of Jerusalem. 3And I set my face unto the Lord
God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and
ashes: 4And
I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the
great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him,
and to them that keep his commandments; 5We have sinned, and have
committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing
from thy precepts and from thy judgments: 6Neither have we hearkened
unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our
princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. 7O Lord,
righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at
this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all
Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the
countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they
have trespassed against thee. 8O Lord, to us belongeth
confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we
have sinned against thee. 9To the Lord our God belong mercies
and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him; 10Neither
have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in his laws, which he set
before us by his servants the prophets. 11Yea, all Israel have
transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice;
therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in
the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him. 12And
he hath confirmed his words, which he spake against us, and against our judges
that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven
hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem. 13As it is
written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our
prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and
understand thy truth. 14Therefore hath the LORD watched upon the
evil, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all
his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice. 15And now, O
Lord our God, that hast brought thy people forth out of the land of Egypt with a
mighty hand, and hast gotten thee renown, as at this day; we have sinned, we
have done wickedly. 16O
Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and
thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for
our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are
become a reproach to all that are about us. 17Now
therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and
cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord’s
sake. 18O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and
behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not
present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great
mercies. 19O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do;
defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called
by thy name. THE SEVENTY WEEKS PROPHECY 20And whiles I was speaking,
and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and
presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my
God; 21Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man
Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly
swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation. 22And he
informed me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth
to give thee skill and understanding. 23At the beginning of thy
supplications the commandment came forth, and I am come to show thee; for
thou art greatly beloved: therefore understand the matter, and consider
the vision. 24Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon
thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to
make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and
to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. 25Know
therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to
restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven
weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the
wall, even in troublous times. 26And after threescore and two weeks
shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that
shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall
be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. 27And
he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the
week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the
overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the
consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate. Daniel 12
PROPHECY OF
THE END TIME Tribulation,
Seals and Trumpets 1And
at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the
children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was
since there was a nation even to that same time: Harvest and
at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found
written in the book. 2And many of them that sleep in the dust of the
earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and
everlasting contempt. 3And they that be wise shall shine as the
brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the
stars for ever and ever. 4But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and
seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,
and knowledge shall be increased. Another vision 5Then I Daniel looked, and, behold,
there stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river, and the
other on that side of the bank of the river. First 3.5 years 6And one said to the man
clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, How long shall
it be to the end of these wonders? 7And I heard the man
clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up
his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for
ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half (3.5
Yrs);
and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people,
all these things shall be finished. Second 3.5 years 8And I heard, but I understood not:
then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things? 9And
he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed
till the time of the end. 10Many shall be purified, and made
white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall
understand; but the wise shall understand. 11And from the time that
the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the
abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand
two hundred and ninety days.(3.5
Yrs)
12Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three
hundred and five and thirty days.(+75 Days) 13But go thou thy way till the end be:
for thou shalt rest(die), and stand in thy lot at the end of the days. Joel 2
THE DAY OF THE
LORD The
power of Israel near the end 1Blow
ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the
inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is
nigh at hand; 2A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds
and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people
and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after
it, even to the years of many generations. 3A fire devoureth
before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden
of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing
shall escape them. 4The appearance of them is as the
appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run. 5Like the
noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a
flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle
array. 6Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces
shall gather blackness. 7They shall run like mighty men; they shall
climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and
they shall not break their ranks: Beginning
of sorrows 8Neither
shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and when
they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded. 9They shall run
to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon
the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief. Tribulation 10The
earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon
shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining: Jesus
returns 11And
the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very
great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD is
great and very terrible; and who can abide it? A CALL TO REPENTANCE 12Therefore
also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and
with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: 13And rend your
heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is
gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him
of the evil. 14Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and
leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering
unto the LORD your God? 15Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast,
call a solemn assembly: 16Gather the people, sanctify the
congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the
breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her
closet. 17Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between
the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give
not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them:
wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God? THE LAND REFRESHED 18Then
will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his people. 19Yea,
the LORD will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and
wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you
a reproach among the heathen: 20But I will remove far off from you
the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate,
with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea,
and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath
done great things. 21Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the
LORD will do great things. 22Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field:
for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit,
the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength. 23Be glad then, ye
children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the
former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the
former rain, and the latter rain in the first month. 24And the
floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with wine and oil. 25And
I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and
the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you. 26And
ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your
God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed. 27And
ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am
the LORD your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed. GOD’S SPIRIT POURED OUT The Holy Spirit 28And it shall come to pass
afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons
and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young
men shall see visions: 29And also upon the servants and upon the
handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit. Tribulation 30And I will show wonders in the
heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. 31The
sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before
the great and the terrible day of the LORD come. 32And it shall come
to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be
delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD
hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call. Joel 3
GOD JUDGES THE
NATIONS Roman
conquest 1For,
behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity
of Judah and Jerusalem, 2I will also gather all nations, and will
bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there
for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among
the nations, and parted my land. 3And they have cast lots for my
people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they
might drink. 4Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon,
and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompense? and if ye
recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompense upon
your own head; 5Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have
carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things: 6The children
also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that
ye might remove them far from their border. Gathering
Israel 7Behold,
I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return
your recompense upon your own head: 8And I will sell your sons and
your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them
to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken it. Army
of the Beast 9Proclaim
ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men
of war draw near; let them come up: 10Beat your plowshares into
swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
11Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather
yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O
LORD. 12Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of
Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about. Harvest 13Put
ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is
full, the vats overflow; for their wickedness is great. Armageddon 14Multitudes,
multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in
the valley of decision. 15The
sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. Jesus
returns to Jerusalem 16The
LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the
heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his
people, and the strength of the children of Israel. 17So shall ye
know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then
shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more. GOD BLESSES HIS PEOPLE Millennial
Kingdom 18And it shall come to pass in that
day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall
flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a
fountain shall come forth of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley
of Shittim. 19Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a
desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah,
because they have shed innocent blood in their land. 20But Judah
shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation. 21For
I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the LORD
dwelleth in Zion. Micah 4
THE LORD’S
REIGN IN ZION Millennial
Kingdom 1But
in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of
the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be
exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it. 2And many
nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD,
and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we
will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the
LORD from Jerusalem. 3And
he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they
shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks:
nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war
any more. 4But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his
fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of
hosts hath spoken it. 5For all people will walk every one in
the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever
and ever. ZION’S FUTURE TRIUMPH Gathering
Israel 6In
that day, saith the LORD, will I assemble her that halteth, and I will gather
her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted; 7And I will
make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation:
and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever. 8And
thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee
shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter
of Jerusalem. 9Now why dost thou cry out aloud? is there no
king in thee? is thy counsellor perished? for pangs have taken thee as a woman
in travail. 10Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of
Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and
thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to Babylon; there
shalt thou be delivered; there the LORD shall redeem thee from the hand of thine
enemies. Nations
fail against Israel 11Now also many nations are gathered
against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion. 12But
they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for
he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor. 13Arise and
thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy
hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate
their gain unto the LORD, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth. Micah 5
1Now
gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us:
they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek. THE COMING MESSIAH 2But thou,
Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet
out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel;
whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting. 3Therefore
will he give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath
brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children
of Israel. 4And
he shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name
of the LORD his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the
ends of the earth. 5And this man shall be the peace, JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL’S ENEMIES when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in
our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight
principal men. 6And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the
sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us
from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our
borders. 7And the remnant of Jacob shall be
in the midst of many people as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the
grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men. 8And
the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as
a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of
sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and
none can deliver. 9Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine
adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off. 10And it shall
come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that I will cut off thy horses out of
the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy chariots: 11And I will cut
off the cities of thy land, and throw down all thy strong holds: 12And
I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more
soothsayers: 13Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy
standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the
work of thine hands. 14And I will pluck up thy groves out of the
midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities. 15And I will execute
vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard. Zephaniah 1
1The
word of the LORD which came unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of
Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hizkiah, in the days of Josiah the son
of Amon, king of Judah. THE GREAT DAY OF THE LORD 2I
will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the LORD. 3I
will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the
fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off
man from off the land, saith the LORD. 4I will also stretch out mine
hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off
the remnant of Baal from this place, and the name of the Chemarims with
the priests; 5And them that worship the host of heaven upon the
housetops; and them that worship and that swear by the LORD, and that
swear by Malcham; 6And them that are turned back from the LORD; and those
that have not sought the LORD, nor inquired for him. Trumpets 7Hold
thy peace at the presence of the Lord GOD: for the day of the LORD is at
hand: for the LORD hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid his guests. 8And
it shall come to pass in the day of the LORD’S sacrifice, that I will punish
the princes, and the king’s children, and all such as are clothed with strange
apparel. 9In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on
the threshold, which fill their masters’ houses with violence and deceit. 10And
it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that there shall be
the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an howling from the second, and a
great crashing from the hills. 11Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for
all the merchant people are cut down; all they that bear silver are cut off. 12And
it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with
candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees: that say in their
heart, The LORD will not do good, neither will he do evil. 13Therefore
their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also
build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but
not drink the wine thereof. Bowl Judgments 14The great day of the LORD is
near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day
of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly. 15That day is
a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and
desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick
darkness, 16A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities,
and against the high towers. 17And I will bring distress upon men,
that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the LORD:
and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung. 18Neither
their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the
LORD’S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his
jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the
land. Zephaniah 2
A CALL TO
REPENTANCE 1Gather
yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired; 2Before
the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the
fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the day of the LORD’S anger
come upon you. 3Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which
have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall
be hid in the day of the LORD’S anger. JUDGMENT ON NATIONS 4For
Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod
at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up. 5Woe unto the
inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the
LORD is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even
destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant. 6And the sea coast
shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks. 7And
the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed
thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening: for the
LORD their God shall visit them, and turn away their captivity. 8I
have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon,
whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against
their border. 9Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts,
the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as
Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual
desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my
people shall possess them. 10This shall they have for their pride,
because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people
of the LORD of hosts. 11The LORD will be terrible unto them:
for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him,
every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen. 12Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be
slain by my sword. 13And he will stretch out his hand against the
north, and destroy Assyria(Syria);
and will make Nineveh a desolation (Iraq), and dry like a
wilderness. 14And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the
beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the
upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall
be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work. 15This
is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am,
and there is none beside me(Babylon?): how is she become a desolation,
a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and
wag his hand. Zephaniah 3
THE WICKEDNESS
OF JERUSALEM The
Gathered Nation Failing God 1Woe
to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city! 2She
obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the LORD;
she drew not near to her God. 3Her princes within her are
roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones
till the morrow. 4Her prophets are light and
treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done
violence to the law. 5The just LORD is in the midst thereof;
he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he
faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame. 6I have cut off the
nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none
passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is
none inhabitant. 7I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive
instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off, howsoever I punished them:
but they rose early, and corrupted all their doings. A FAITHFUL REMNANT Bowl
Judgment 8Therefore
wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for
my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the
kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger:
for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy. Millennial
Kingdom 9For
then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the
name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent. 10From beyond the
rivers of Ethiopia my suppliants, even the daughter of my dispersed,
shall bring mine offering. 11In that day shalt thou not be ashamed
for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then I will
take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou
shalt no more be haughty because of my holy mountain. 12I will also
leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they shall trust in
the name of the LORD. 13The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity,
nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for
they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid. 14Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O
Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem. 15The
LORD hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: the king of
Israel, even the LORD, is in the midst of thee: thou shalt not see
evil any more. 16In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou
not: and to Zion, Let not thine hands be slack. 17The LORD thy
God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over
thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing. 18I
will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly, who
are of thee, to whom the reproach of it was a burden. 19Behold,
at that time I will undo all that afflict thee: and I will save her that
halteth, and gather her that was driven out; and I will get them praise and fame
in every land where they have been put to shame. 20At that time will
I bring you again, even in the time that I gather you: for I will make
you a name and a praise among all people of the earth, when I turn back your
captivity before your eyes, saith the LORD. Zechariah 14
THE DAY OF THE
LORD 2nd
3.5 Years, Trumpets 5 thru 7 1Behold,
the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
2For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the
city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of
the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not
be cut off from the city. 3Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight
against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. Return
of Jesus after the Bowl Judgments 4And
his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is
before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst
thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very
great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half
of it toward the south. 5And ye shall flee to the valley of
the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye
shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah
king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with
thee. 6And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light
shall not be clear, nor dark: 7But it shall be one day which
shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that
at evening time it shall be light(spin of the earth slowed?). Millennial
Kingdom 8And
it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem;
half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in
summer and in winter shall it be. 9And the LORD shall be king over
all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one. 10All
the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and
it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin’s gate unto
the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of
Hananeel unto the king’s winepresses. 11And men shall dwell
in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall be
safely inhabited. Atomic
Holocaust during Armageddon 12And
this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have
fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon
their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue
shall consume away in their mouth. 13And it shall come to pass in
that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they
shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise
up against the hand of his neighbour. 14And Judah also shall fight at
Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the heathen round about shall be gathered
together, gold, and silver, and apparel, in great abundance. 15And so
shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and
of all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as this plague. THE NATIONS WORSHIP THE LORD Millennial Kingdom 16And
it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations
which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the
King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles. 17And
it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of
the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them
shall be no rain. 18And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come
not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the
LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. 19This
shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come
not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. 20In that day shall there be upon
the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the LORD’S
house shall be like the bowls before the altar. 21Yea, every pot in
Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the LORD of hosts: and all they
that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that day
there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts. Malachi 4
THE GREAT DAY
OF GOD Atomic
Holocaust during Armageddon 1For,
behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and
all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them
up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. Millennial
Kingdom 2But
unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in
his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. 3And
ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your
feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts. Two
witnesses revealed at the beginning of the Trumpets 4Remember ye the law of Moses my
servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the
statutes and judgments. 5Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet(one
of the two witnesses)
before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: 6And he
shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the
children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.(Their
murder brought in the Bowl Judgments) |
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