Understanding belongs to Jehovah

Understanding belongs to Jehovah, I know this from experience, because I never had any at any time until I finally asked got to give it to me. Now I can interpret times and seasons even earthquakes and volcanoes.

But I don't claim understanding of the Revelations of The Apocalypse. Every man is on his own as far as I know, with this stuff. For some will search for answers and some will let others find them for them. And some will have the temerity to ask god himself. If my experience counts for anything those latter ones are like gold.

In the previous blog we were introduced to the super-inte-univeral salvation of mankind. and a hint that he is prepared to do more than save those of us willing enough. he is preparing the way for redemption of all, as far as I can make it out.

What do you think?
"After this I saw, and there in the sky was an opened door"


Are you getting the picture?
I have got you as far as the grasshoppers which is chapter 9 of the book -which just happens to be about as far as I thing we have come in the Revelation.
Have go at the rest of the pictures to see what you can make of them with god's help.

Go easy take time to be careful. Ask for more time if you need it.


And now we get an insight to what is going on as the story repeats but in more specific ways:

The one Woe has gone; two more Woes are coming after.

And the sixth angel blew, and I heard one voice from the horns of the golden altar before God, saying to the sixth angel, the one who had the trumpet:

“Unchain the four angels that are chained at the great river Euphrates.”

Are these the four horsemen mentioned earlier or another coincidental squad?
They don't seem to be quite the same picture until you remember that angels can be agencies and they don't have to correspond ro living entities.

They may be another type altogether like the angels that shut the gates of Eden on Adam, a geological sword like volcanoes.

The suddenly become very specific; so what are they "Four" or "Two hundred million"?

And the four angels that were kept in readiness for the hour and day and month and year, to kill a third of mankind, were unchained. And the number of the armies of cavalry was two hundred million; I heard their number.

And in my vision I saw the horses and their riders like this, with fire-coloured and violet and sulpher-coloured coats of armor; and the horses’ heads like lions’ heads, and out of their mouths went fire and smoke and sulphur-fumes. By these three scourges a third of men were killed, by the fire and the smoke and the sulphur-fumes that went out of their mouths;

For the powers of the horses are in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails are like snakes, with heads, and with them they do injury. And the rest of mankind, those who were not killed with these scourges, did not even repent of the deeds of their hands, not to do reverence to demons and to golden and silver and bronze and stone and wooden idols that can neither see nor hear nor walk, and did not repent of their murders nor of their witchcraft nor of their unchastity nor of their thefts.

And I saw another angel, a strong one, come down out of the sky, wrapped in a cloud, the rainbow on his head and his face like the sun and his legs like pillars of fire, and with a little open book in his hand; and he set his right foot on the sea and his left on the land, and cried out loudly, as a lion roars.

And when he cried out, the seven thunders spoke with their peals. And when the seven thunders spoke, I was going to write, and I heard a voice out of the sky say:

“Seal up what the seven thunders spoke and do not write it.”

And the angel that I saw standing on the sea and the land lifted his right hand to the sky and swore by him who lives forever and ever, who created the heavens and what is in them and the earth and what is in it and the sea and what is in it, that there should be no more delay, but in the days of the blast of the seventh angel, when he was to sound, God’s secret plan as he had communicated it to his servants the prophets would be all done.

And the voice that I had heard out of the sky I heard speaking with me again and saying:

“Go take the open book in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and the land.”

And I went to the angel, telling him to give me the little book; and he said to me:

“Take it and eat it up, and it shall turn your stomach bitter; but in your mouth it shall be as sweet as honey.”

Some of this forecast reminds me of earlier prophecies. (There has to be a clue in that.)

And I took the little book out of the angel’s hand and ate it up, and it was like sweet honey in my mouth; and when I had eaten it my stomach turned bitter. And they said to me

“You must prophesy again over many peoples and races and languages and kings.”

And I was given a reed like a staff, with the words

“Rise and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and those who worship in it. And exclude the court outside the temple, and do not measure it; because it is given to the nations, and they shall tread the sacred city underfoot forty-two months.

And I will give to my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy twelve hundred and sixty days, clad in sackcloth. These are the two olive-trees, and the two lampstands, that stand before the Lord of the Earth.

And again we have this kind of dichotomy with the character types. Are they people, vegetables or decorative utilities?

And if one intends to injure them fire goes out of their mouths and consumes their enemies: anyone who intends to injure them must be killed in this way. These have authority to shut the sky, that rain may not fall during the days of their prophesying, and have authority over the waters to convert them into blood, and to smite the earth with every scourge as often as they wish.

And when they have finished their testimony the beast that comes up out of the abyss shall make war with them and defeat them and kill them; and their corpses lie in the main street of the great city that is spiritually called Sodom and Egypt, the same where their Lord was crucified;

 and men of the peoples and tribes and languages and races look at their corpses three and a half days, and will not let their corpses be put in a tomb;  and those who live on the earth rejoice over them and jubilate, and shall send presents to each other, because these two prophets had tortured those who live on the earth.”

And after the three and a half days a spirit of life from God came into them, and they stood up on their feet, and great fear fell upon those who saw them. And they heard a loud voice out of the sky say to them

“Come up here”

; and they went up into the sky in a cloud, and their enemies saw them; and at that moment there came a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell, and there were killed in the earthquake seven thousand persons, and the rest were terror-struck and gave glory to the God of Heaven.

The second Woe has gone; the third Woe is coming quickly. And the seventh angel blew, and there came loud voices in heaven saying “The empire of the world has come to be our Lord’s and his Christ’s, and he shall reign forever and ever.”

And the sixth angel blew, and I heard one voice from the horns of the golden altar before God, saying to the sixth angel, the one who had the trumpet:

“Unchain the four angels that are chained at the great river Euphrates.”

And the four angels that were kept in readiness for the hour and day and month and year, to kill a third of mankind, were unchained. And the number of the armies of cavalry was two hundred million; I heard their number. And in my vision I saw the horses and their riders like this, with fire-coloured and violet and sulphur-coloured coats of armour; and the horses’ heads like lions’ heads, and out of their mouths went fire and smoke and sulfur-fumes.

By these three scourges a third of men were killed, by the fire and the smoke and the sulfur-fumes that went out of their mouths; for the powers of the horses are in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails are like snakes, with heads, and with them they do injury.

And the rest of mankind, those who were not killed with these scourges, did not even repent of the deeds of their hands, not to do reverence to demons and to golden and silver and bronze and stone and wooden idols that can neither see nor hear nor walk, and did not repent of their murders nor of their witchcraft nor of their unchastity nor of their thefts.

"And I saw lying in the right hand of him who sat on the throne a book written on the inside and on the back, sealed up with seven seals; and I saw a strong angel making proclamation in a loud voice:

“Who is worthy to open the book and break its seals?"
“Do not weep;  the Lion ... has won the day to open the book" but only for some.

He is not just an effing big lion. He is a angel and not just an angel at that. Maybe I am reading too much in between the lions into this. But a powerful lion is bloody powerful. Ordinary ones weigh half a ton fully grown. What do you imagine this one can not accomplish?
On with the show:

Imagine plugging the biggest sever directly into the biggest power source imaginable. Now imagine the absolute power of god. What would it look like?

"with seven heads and seven eyes, which are God’s Seven Spirits sent out into all the earth; and it came, and it took it out of the right hand of him who sat on the throne."

If you have bothered to follow me this far, you will now agree that interpretaion is not easy. I imagine that you wouldn't have it any other way.
You know who to ask for your answers.
Do so!