You will learn more in 24 minutes with these two videos about the book of Revelation than you have ever heard in 80 years in the Church of God. You will soon see why the crap being spewed by Bob Thiel, Gerald Flurry, Dave Pack, Ron Weinland, and others is nothing more than a load of useless bull.
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These are fantastic! No class at Ambassador was ever this succinct in the overview of revelation. We had to add our useless interpretations to it.
This video trivializes the book of Revelation. Typical protestant mush.
It ignored God's just vengeance on a evil world, including an army of 200 million sweeping through Europe. resulting in the death of a third of mankind.
And that people will be won over and repent by the example of Christians being put to death for their faith is ridiculous. Where's reality? And I've never heard before the authors claim that it's Christs own blood on His garment.
The above is the "speak smooth things to us" version of the bible.
I would suggest the typology of Joshua [Iesous, LXX] and Jericho provides a type of Jesus [Iesous] and Jerusalem, which then helps in understanding the chronological story line in Revelation.
"Jericho ... was the key to the conquest of the whole land, the possession of which would open the way to the whole, as it were, into their hands... In this way He ... showed to His congregation that it would not be all at once,
"Thus the fall of Jericho became the symbol and type of the overthrow of every worldly power before the Lord, when he should come to lead His people into Canaan and establish the kingdom upon the earth...” (Carl Keil, Joshua, KD, pp.51-52).
The typology of Israel's conquest of Jericho adds extra weight to the argument that the "great day of God Almighty" occurs immediately after the pouring out of the seven bowl plagues of the seventh trumpet. It also pictures the "wrath of the Lamb". This may be seen in the verses below:
"You shall march around the city, all your men of war, you shall go all around the city once" (Jos 6:3a).
"And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priest took up the ark of the LORD. Then seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD went on continually and blew with trumpets. And the armed men went before them. But the rear guard came after the ark of the LORD, while the priests continued blowing the trumpets" (Jos 6:12-13).
"This shall you do six days" (Jos 6:3a).
"And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets [salpigx]" (Rev 8:2).
"And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets [salpigx] prepared themselves to sound [salpizo]" (Rev 8:6)
The six days of marching, of once around Jericho, picture the sounding of the trumpets by the first six angels of the seventh seal in the book of Revelation.
"But the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow [salpizo, LXX] the trumpets [salpigx, LXX]" (Jos 6:4b).
The seventh day of marching, seven times around Jericho, picture the sounding of the seventh trumpet (Revelation 11:15). After the retro-perspective prophecy of Rev 12-14 it is revealed, in the chronological story line of Revelation, that the seventh trumpet comprises seven angels and their plagues (Rev 15-16).
"On that day only they marched around the city seven times. And the seventh time it happened, when the priests blew with the trumpets, Joshua said unto the people, Shout..." (Jos 6:15b-16a).
"So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat..." (Jos 6:20a).
"For 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" (1Th 4:16).
"...Then the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city. And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, ox and sheep and donkey, with the edge of the sword [romphaia, LXX]" (Jos 6:20b-21).
"And the remnant were slain with the sword [rhomphaia] of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh" (Rev 19:21).
"... they burned the city and all that was in it with fire..." (Jos 6:24).
"Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire..." (Rev 18:8)
After the seventh time around Jericho, on the seventh day, the battle begins. After the seventh of seven plagues is poured out "the battle of that great day of God Almighty" (Rev 16:14) begins. This battle in the chronological story line of the book of Revelation is in chapter 19.
This cuts into the profits of the acog's. It must be rejected. Profits over truth and people is a major concern to any cult leader. If people begin to wake up and question their leadership they will be labeled as having a bad attitude and disfellowshipped. The promotion of fear is something that the acog's must never let up on if they want to profit from armstrongism. Of course the true believer never questions anything. They are a role model to be exploited in order to get others to submit to the anti-intellectual teaching's of high school dropout, Herbert Wanker Armstrong. Send us another co-worker letter weston! Brainwash us!
actually, the guy does a pretty good job....
I think that these videos represent an excellent overview of the book and are largely consistent with a Bible study I once attended in a small COG, 7th Day congregation. Unfortunately, however, there are a large number of Christians who will continue to insist on their literalistic interpretations of the book. These folks actually prefer the angry, vengeful and blood thirsty God portrayed by so many folks down through the ages. Like Herbie, they make fun of the loving, compassionate and merciful God whom a large number of Christians recognize in Scripture. For Herbie and his followers, that God is a milquetoast - something to be made fun of - something to reject and loathe! So, let them continue to speculate about the identity of the two witnesses and disparage their Catholic brethren - we'll see which interpretation prevails in the end (I'm betting it won't be theirs)!
Once a Catholic, always a Catholic 'Miller Jones'.
Miller Jones
Try reading the book of Ezekiel where God unleashes His terminator sub personality on a depraved Jerusalem. Like Arnie's terminator, it has no pity and mercy toward the young, the old, as well as women and children until it has accomplished its task. Everyone is born with this sub personality, though it's universally condemned by most religions.
"Blood thirsty?" Not really. Rather it craves vengeance. Try Googling "killer instinct."
Mk 13:14 But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing [hestekota, masculine] where it ought not...
Mt 24:15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation ... stand [hestos. neuter] in the holy [hagio] place [topos]...
Mt 24:20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:
Mt 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.
Mt 24:22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
"While the time of the siege and destruction of Jerusalem was horrible, Matthew description here indicates a time of tribulation that did not occur during the fall of Jerusalem. The horrors that fell on the Jewish people and on the entire world with the two world wars of the twentieth century are a sombre warning that the devastation that comes from humanity's unleashed depravity will yet be unequalled. The vison Jesus paints must yet be ahead. The apostle John reveals such a future time of incredible horror (Rev. 7-19)" (Michael J. Wilkins, Matthew, NIVAC, (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2004), p.780).
"There have been a greater number of deaths - six million in the Nazi death camps, mostly Jews, and an estimated twenty million under Stalin, but never so high a percentage of a great city's population so thoroughly and painfully exterminated and enslaved as during the fall of Jerusalem" (D. A. Carson, Matthew, EBC, Vol. 8, 501).
"The fall of Jerusalem becomes a type of the great and final tribulation that, if God should not intervene, would bring an end to the human race" (Robert H. Mounce, Matthew, NIBC, p.225).
When Titus’ standard was placed in the Temple it was too late to flee. This abomination - a person (Mk 13:14) and his image (Mt 24:15 - is yet future.
Rev 5:6 ... a Lamb ... having seven horns and seven eyes,
Rev 13:1 ... a beast ... having seven heads and ten horns,
Rev 5:6 a Lamb standing, as [hos] having been slain [esphagmenen]
Rev 13:3 one of its heads, as [hos] having been slain [esphagmenen] to death
Rev 2:8b ... the First and the Last, who became dead, and lived [ezesen]
Rev 13:14b ... the beast who has the wound of the sword, and lived [ezesen]
"In John's description of the beast, there are numerous parallels with Jesus that should alert the reader to the fact that John is seeking to establish...a theological characterization...: Both wielded swords; both had followers on whose foreheads were inscribed their names (13:16-14:1); both had horns (5:6; 13:1); both were slain... both had arisen to new life and authority; and both were given (by different authorities) power over every nation, tribe, people, and tongue as well as over kings of the earth (1:5; 7:9; with 13:7; 17:12). The beast described here is the great theological counterpart to all that Christ represents..." (Alan F. Johnson, Revelation, EBC, Vol.12, p.527).
2Th 2:4a Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped;
2 Th 2:4b so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
Dan 11:36 ... and the king shall exalt and magnify himself against every god... (Brenton, LXX).
"... the coming of Antichrist will be such a clever parody of the coming Christ that many will be taken in by the satanic deception" (J.R.W. Stott, The Gospel and the End of Time, p.172).
Rev 13:7 And 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.
Rev 13:8 And 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.
It doesn’t matter if you are a Sabbath-keeper of Sunday-keeper, including those in the RCC, if you don’t worship the Antichrist, aka, the Beast, you will be killed during the Great Tribulation.
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