Revelation

Chapter 1

Part 7

 

 

Only he is to recieve the glory

And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.  --  Rev 1:6 (KJV)

 

Behold, He Cometh

Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.  --  Rev 1:7 (KJV)

 

Daniel prophesied of Jesus and the kingdom age

I 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.  --  Dan 7:13 (KJV)

 

And 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.  --  Dan 7:14 (KJV)

 

 

Every Eye shall see him

 Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.  --  Rev 1:7 (KJV)

 

 

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:  --  Mat 24:29 (KJV)

 

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.  --  Mat 24:30 (KJV)

 

 

 

Israel's eyes will be suddenly opened

 Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.  --  Rev 1:7 (KJV)

 

And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.  --  Zec 12:10 (KJV)

 

 

Blindness in part

 

For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.  --  Rom 11:25 (KJV)

And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:  --  Rom 11:26 (KJV)

For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.  --  Rom 11:27 (KJV)

As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes.  --  Rom 11:28 (KJV)

For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.  --  Rom 11:29 (KJV)

 

 

 Jesus will come to fight the battle of Armageddon

Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.  --  Rev 1:7 (KJV)

 

And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.  --  Zec 12:9 (KJV)

 

For 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.  --  Zec 14:2 (KJV)

Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.  --  Zec 14:3 (KJV)

And 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.  --  Zec 14:4 (KJV)

 

 

Jesus is Jehovah, the Almighty God !

 

 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.  --  Rev 1:8 (KJV)

 

Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.  --  Isa 41:4 (KJV)

 

Ye 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.  --  Isa 43:10 (KJV)

 

Thus 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.  --  Isa 44:6 (KJV)

 

Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.  --  Isa 48:12 (KJV)

 

John was sent to bare witness to the truth !

 I 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.  --  Rev 1:9 (KJV)

 

Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.  --  Rev 1:2 (KJV)

 

 

 What does he mean, IN THE SPIRT  ???

I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,  -

-  Rev 1:10 (KJV)

 

Ezekiel was lifted out of his body

  and transported in the spirit to Jerusalem

And 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.  --  Ezek 8:1 (KJV)

Then 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.  --  Ezek 8:2 (KJV)

And 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.  --  Ezek 8:3 (KJV)

 

Paul was lifted out of his body

  and transported in the spirit to Paradise

 

It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.  --  2 Cor 12:1 (KJV)

I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.  --  2 Cor 12:2 (KJV)

And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)  --  2 Cor 12:3 (KJV)

How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.  --  2 Cor 12:4 (KJV)

 

 John was lifted out of his body

  and transported in the spirit to God's throne

 

After 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.  --  Rev 4:1 (KJV)

And immediately I was in the spirit; and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.  --  Rev 4:2 (KJV)

 

 What is the Day of the Lord ?

I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,  -

-  Rev 1:10 (KJV)

 

Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty.  --  Isa 2:10 (KJV)

The 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.  --  Isa 2:11 (KJV)

For 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:  --  Isa 2:12 (KJV)

 

And 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.  --  Isa 2:19 (KJV)

In 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;  --  Isa 2:20 (KJV)

To 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.  --  Isa 2:21 (KJV)

 

 

 

The 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.  --  Zep 1:14 (KJV)

That 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,  --  Zep 1:15 (KJV)

 

The Day of the Lord's Trumpet

 

A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers.  --  Zep 1:16 (KJV)

And 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.  --  Zep 1:17 (KJV)

Neither 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.  --  Zep 1:18 (KJV)

Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired;  --  Zep 2:1 (KJV)

Before 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.  --  Zep 2:2 (KJV)

Seek 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.  --  Zep 2:3 (KJV)

 

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;  --  Joel 2:1 (KJV)

A 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.  --  Joel 2:2 (KJV)

A 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.  --  Joel 2:3 (KJV)

They 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.  --  Joel 2:9 (KJV)

The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:  --  Joel 2:10 (KJV)

And 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?  --  Joel 2:11 (KJV)

 

Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:  --  Joel 3:9 (KJV)

Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.  --  Joel 3:10 (KJV)

Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD.  --  Joel 3:11 (KJV)

Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.  --  Joel 3:12 (KJV)

Put 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.  --  Joel 3:13 (KJV)

Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.  --  Joel 3:14 (KJV)

The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.  --  Joel 3:15 (KJV)

The 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.  --  Joel 3:16 (KJV)

 

The Lord's voice sounds like a great trumpet

 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,  --  Rev 1:10 (KJV)

 

Write this in a book 

 Saying, 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.  --  Rev 1:11 (KJV)

 

 

Why send it to the churches?

 

So that they might understand these things

 

 

And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do;  --  Gen 18:17 (KJV)

 

Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.  --  John 15:15 (KJV)

 

Why send it to the churches?

 

So that they might warn the world

 

Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.  --  Amos 3:7 (KJV)

 

 The 7  Churches (Ecclesia)

Saying, 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.  --  Rev 1:11 (KJV)

 

 

Who is the book written to?

 

 

          1. The 7 Churches or the 7 Ecclesia  (Ecclesiastical)

 

                        Ecclesia - A called out assembly

                                        Called out from among all others

 

 

 

The Greek word does not have to mean the "church"

 it can mean a secular assembly

 

Acts 19:28 And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians. 29 And the whole city was filled with confusion: and having caught Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul's companions in travel, they rushed with one accord into the theatre. 30 And when Paul would have entered in unto the people, the disciples suffered him not. 31 And certain of the chief of Asia, which were his friends, sent unto him, desiring him that he would not adventure himself into the theatre. 32 Some therefore cried one thing, and some another: for the assembly (evkklhsi,a) (ecclesia) was confused; and the more part knew not wherefore they were come together.

 

39 But if ye enquire any thing concerning other matters, it shall be determined in a lawful assembly (evkklhsi,a|)  (ecclesia) .

 

40 For we are in danger to be called in question for this day's uproar, there being no cause whereby we may give an account of this concourse. 41 And when he had thus spoken, he dismissed the assembly (evkklhsi,an) (ecclesiam).

 

 

The Greek word is used in the Septuagint Old Testament to dentote the "Jewish" assembly or congregation

 

                        Occurs 75 times in the Old Testament (Septuagint)

                                    70 times is translated from the Hebrew Cahal

                                                Cahal - Called together to Assemble

 

 

                        Cahal occurs 123 times in the Old Testament (Hebrew)

                                    83 times rendered Congregation

                                                (congreg·) gather into a flock, gather together

                                    17 times rendered Assembly

                                                (comiti·rum) assembly

                                    17 times rendered Company

                                                (coetus) meeting, gathering, company

                                      3 times rendered Multitude

                                                (multus) much, many, multitude

                                    NEVER RENDERED as Church

 

 

Psalm 22:22 I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation (evkklhsi,aj) (lh'q') (ecclesia) will I praise thee.

 

Hebrews 2:12 Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church  (evkklhsi,aj) (lh'q') (ecclesia) will I sing praise unto thee.

 

Acts 7:37-38

This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear.  --  Acts 7:37 (KJV)

 This is he, that was in the church (evkklhsi,a) (lh'q') (ecclesia)  in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:

 

The Greek word ecclesia came to denote the church as it became a new word in the Latin language.  The literal meaning or translation does NOT mean "Church" but rather

a more generic term for "congregation" or "assembly"

 

 

Note that Moses and the Jews are called the church in the wilderness.  This is simply to say the congregation or assembly in the wilderness.

 

 

 

 The 7 literal Churches of Asia in John's day ???

Saying, 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.  --  Rev 1:11 (KJV)

 

NO EVIDENCE THAT THESE SEVEN CHURCHES EXISTED IN JOHN'S DAY

 

          1.       Tertullian (145-220 A.D.) writes that no church existed

                   at Thyatira.

 

          2.       Epiphanius (367 A.D.) writes that John MUST have

                   wrote prophetically of a future church at Thyatira.

 

          3.       Council of Laodicea (363 A.D.)

                   a) Included 36 prominient bishops of Asia

                   b) Included the bishop of Ephesus

                   c) Rejected Book of Revelation as Non Canonical

 

 

 

He turned to see a voice

 

 And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;  --  Rev 1:12 (KJV)

 

One Like the Son of Man

 

And 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.  --  Rev 1:13 (KJV)

 

Eyes of Fire to discern the heart

 

His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;  --  Rev 1:14 (KJV)

 

Feet of Brass denote judgment

all things are now to be placed under his feet

 

And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.  --  Rev 1:15 (KJV)

 

Seven Stars

 

And 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.  --  Rev 1:16 (KJV)

 

The 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.  --  Rev 1:20 (KJV)

 

 

A  two-edged sword

 And 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.  --  Rev 1:16 (KJV)

 

Sword of The Spirit  -  The Word of God

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:  --  Eph 6:17 (KJV)

 

For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.  --  Heb 4:12 (KJV)

 

Wrapped in the Glory of God

 And 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.  --  Rev 1:16 (KJV)

 

I fell at his feet as a dead

 And 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:  --  Rev 1:17 (KJV)

 

 

Fear Not, I AM Jehovah

 And 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:  --  Rev 1:17 (KJV)

 

 

 

 

I was dead, I AM Jesus

 I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.  --  Rev 1:18 (KJV)

 

 

I have the keys of hell and death

 I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.  --  Rev 1:18 (KJV)

 

Things which have been that you have (past) seen,

things which now are (present)

and things which shall be (future)

 

Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter;  --  Rev 1:19 (KJV)

 

Mystery of the Seven Stars and Seven Candlesticks

 

The 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 (evkklhsi,a) (lh'q') (ecclesia) .

 --  Rev 1:20 (KJV)