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- Verse by verse teaching in Revelation 17:1-6 titled “Mystery, Babylon the Great - Part 1” by Pastor Kevin Edwards of Calvary Chapel Clayton, NC on December 6, 2020.
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I am just loving this channel. Here in the U.K it is very gloomy and you lift me up. Praise the lord!
Thank you so much for your kind words, Helen. Praise God!
You are speaking right from the midst of the The revived Roman Empire. She is the 4th and final beast that would hold Gods people according to the flesh(Israel) in captivity for 400yrs as it was told to Abraham in Genesis.
America is Mystery Babylon and she sits on many water and affects all nations.
All the kings of the world have waxed rich from her luxuries. She is the daughter of Babylon spoken of in Jeremiah 50
Zechariah 2:7-9 says
Up Zion flee! You who dwell in the daughter of Babylon for after glory he has sent me. For he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.
I will waive my hand over them so that they will become plunder for their slaves.
You(pastor) are of the tribe of Judah! This is what was not told to us and hidden from us in our history.
Lamentations 1:3
Judah has gone into captivity because of harsh oppression and cruel slavery. She dwells amongst the nations.
Lamentations 28:68
And I will send you back into Egypt(slavery)by ships to a nation that you do not know and there you shall offer yourselves as male and female slaves.
Acts 7:6-7
God also told him that his descendants would live in a foreign land, where they would be oppressed as slaves for 400 years.
But I will punish the nation that enslaves them,’ God said, ‘and afterward they will come forth and worship Me in this place.’
Jesus speaking of his people the Jews said they would be led away into captivity and hated by all nations because of his name.
We are the only people stripped of their true names and identity and the only ones hated by all people yet we are the praise of the whole earth.
Revelations 2:9
I know your afflictions and your poverty-yet you are rich!(A) I know about the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not,(B) but are a synagogue of Satan.(C)
Isaiah 52: 1-4
Up Zion awake!!
Shake off your dust;(H)
rise up,(I) sit enthroned, Jerusalem.
Free yourself from the chains on your neck,(J)
Daughter Zion,(K) now a captive.
3 For this is what the Lord says:
“You were sold for nothing,(L)
and without money(M) you will be redeemed
When you study the word it is impossible to know they prophecies unless we know who Israel and the Jews are. Not what are oppressors have taught us.
Luke 21:24 says, "Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
That time is coming to an end
1619-2019. Time of the Jews enslavement in America
And the judgment has begun
Jeremiah 51:9
Babylon must fall because of Israel's slain, just as the slain in all the earth have fallen because of Babylon
Are blood is spilled everyday in this nation but our redeemer is strong the Lord of host is his name!
God bless
America is indeed mystery Babylon.America is the only Country that other Countries are taken the example of the sinful life style of America.
That is why she is called the mother of abominations of the earth.It is not Rome or Jerusalem or Israel.
About hell.
One of the simplest way of understanding what Jesus said to realise he quotes a lot from the Old Testament.
For example, many people fall under the assumption when Jesus said this:
Mark 9:47-48
And if your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell, where
“‘the worms that eat them do not die,
and the fire is not quenched.’
many would assume it is speaking about hell and eternal torment.
He wasn’t. He was quoting this.
Isaiah 66:24
“And they will go out and look on the dead bodies of those who rebelled against me; the worms that eat them will not die, the fire that burns them will not be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind.”
If you are careful in reading this. You will see the words “dead bodies”.
In another version of this verse the bodies there are translated as carcasses.
Isaiah 66:24
And 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 abhorrence unto all flesh.
They do not refer to souls being tormented in eternity.
What Jesus was referring to was the destruction which would come upon Jerusalem in AD70.
You will read about this same account here.
Revelation 11:8-10
Their bodies will lie in the public square of the great city-which is figuratively called Sodom and Egypt-where also their Lord was crucified. For three and a half days some from every people, tribe, language and nation will gaze on their bodies and refuse them burial. The inhabitants of the earth will gloat over them and will celebrate by sending each other gifts, because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth.
The “Sodom” and “Egypt” here is how Jerusalem was depicted. God would name Jerusalem the names of Jerusalem’s enemies when she fell. She was also known as “Sinai” and “Babylon” in Galatians 4 and Revelation 18.
Therefore the “hell” Jesus so often quoted by preachers is actually the massacre of the Jews in Jerusalem in AD70.
“Inside the walls, the bodies of natives, aliens, priest and laymen were piled on each other, and the blood of men and beasts formed lakes in the sacred courts. When it was no longer possible to carry out the bodies, the corpses had been piled up in the largest houses and the doors locked. The innumerable bodies piled up all over Zion were not merely a revolting, stinking sight, but they also obstructed the fighting men as they made their sorties. For like men marching across a battlefield littered with thousands of dead, they were forced to trample dead bodies. Indeed, there was no more room to bury the dead.
An excerpt from what happened in Jerusalem
I've heard the word worm translates to soul
@@sonofroyalty4113 Well there you go
Amen brother you are telling the truth it sounds like you have been reading the book
The Antiquities of Flavius Josephus the war of the Jews every Christian needs to read that book to get a better understanding of the book of Revelation.
Amen !
@@Charles73358 amen again
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I believe the church of Thyatira if they are born again have to be raptured, I think what this says is great tribulation. not "The great tribulation" partial rapture brings about a lot of questions of Salvation by grace and loss of salvation, which is impossible if one is truly born again. I do believe many people who have not been born again but are religious only cannot be raptured but hopefully will be saved during "the tribulation"
And there are seven hills in DC I'm giving you one Capitol Hill a hill can also mean a mountain
When does Mystery Babylon get destroyed? Let's discuss.
When the governments of this world turn against Babylon the Great (The World Empire of False Religion), they will be carrying out an execution of God’s judgment, a great event in the outworking of God’s purpose. This will mark the beginning of the Great Tribulation, a time of unprecedented turmoil. (Matthew 24:21). The climax of that tribulation will be Armageddon, Jehovah’s war against this wicked system of things. (Revelation 16:14,16)
@@sunnyjohnson992 I agree, I feel that Mystery Babylon's destruction sets off the Great Tribulation. I also agree that the battle of Armageddon ends of the tribulation.
The book of Revelation and the Song of Songs ( which has nothing to do with love or romance) tell us clearly that Mystery Babylon is like two sides of one coin. In fact the Bible shows that there are two "cities" that answer to the name of Mystery Babylon or the great prostitute and Rome or the Roman Catholic system is not one of them as many people claim. There is a baby Babylon and a mother Babylon, hence the term "Mystery Babylon". The baby Babylon is the end time city of Jerusalem which Jesus accused of killing all the prophets and God’s holy people (Mathew 23:37). This is the first Babylon or great harlot which the Apostle John saw riding on the back of the Dragon or Satan (Revelation 17:1-7). This is why John was greatly amazed when he saw this holy city which also sits on seven hills and rules the kings of the earth. This refers to Jerusalem or daughter Babylon which God will destroy by fire during the great tribulation (Revelation 17:16 ). The identity of the seven hills or mountains on which the great prostitute sits are given in the Song of Songs as follows: "Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, come with me from Lebanon. Descend from the crest of Amana, from the top of Senir, the summit of Hermon, from the lions’ dens and the mountain haunts of leopards". (Song 4:8). If you count the number of hills or mountains in the above scripture you will notice that they are of course seven. And the one being commanded to come away from the seven hills is the bride of the Lamb, a reference to the 144,000 firstfruits of Revelation 14 being resurrected at the pre-tribulation rapture.
Then there is the mother Babylon which is described towards the end of Revelation 18, which contains the blood of everyone else who has ever died upon the earth, including God's prophets and holy people and the blood of all non believers ( Revelation 18:17). This is the false religious system of the world, better known as the Kingdom of the devil, the same kingdom which Nimrod started building in Genesis 10:9-12 and Genesis 11. This second Babylon is not destroyed by fire, but by a violent earthquake during the Battle of Armageddon ( Revelation 18:21; 16:16-21). Please read chapter four of the Song of Songs, explained in chapter four of my book below, for more details of the Mother-Daughter Mystery Babylon entity encorporating the end time city of Jerusalem, which the Bible also calls Sodom (Revelation 11:8) where the Lord Jesus was crucified. Here is what Isaiah says about baby Babylon, or the end time city of Jerusalem. "Jerusalem staggers, Judah is falling; their words and deeds are against the LORD, defying his glorious presence. The look on their faces testifies against them; they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it" ( Isaiah 3:8-9). God’s word interprets itself and neither the Roman Catholic church nor Rome is the Great Prostitute. For more on the identity of Babylon, click on the link below.
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Mystery Babylon should be very easy for us to figure out as stated in Revelation 17.
And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon The Great, The Mother Of Harlots And Abominations Of The Earth.
6 And 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.
7 And 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.
Who killed the prohpets, saints and Jesus? Luke 13:33 plainly tells us.
33 Nevertheless I must journey today, tomorrow, and the day following; for it cannot be that a prophet should perish outside of Jerusalem.
There re only two woman - the wife and the Bride, and there two cities, Hagar and Zion.
Lol you didn't say who you think it is after saying it's obvious
At present time the city of Jerusalem the opposite of ancient Babylon, the city break into three false religion, Islam, catholic and Judaism, that three religion murders christians, roman before they were killed christians believers same two religions
The three religions killed prophets Islam,roman catholic and judaism
After all these interpretations of The Book of Revelation, ad nauseam, I'm waiting for the building of the third temple to set prophecy in motion.
A third temple will never happen it would be blaspheme against God the scriptures have already been fulfilled
Says who ?!@@Charles73358
ONLY way to know the bible is by the Holy Spirit. No man! There are millions of interpretations from man.
The best way to recognize a preacher that is interpreting the book of Revelation correctly is by going by what John wrote in chapter one of Revelation 1:1-2
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
2 Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.
There are about 99 percent of preachers who teach that this book of Revelation is referring to future events in our Modern times in which every thing has already been fulfilled this preacher on this platform said that Mystery Babylon is some Religious or political system that is coming in the future but that type of teaching is not true and in the very last chapter of Revelation it says the same thing as in chapter one .
Revelation 22:6-7
6 And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.
7 Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.
And when he said he cometh quickly this is not referring to the rapture of the church but he is coming quick in judgment just as Jesus told the 5 bad churches in Asia Minor that if they would not repent that he would come quickly and remove their candle stick and this was concerning idolatry worship and mixing idolatry with the true faith of God through Jesus Christ
Amen 🙏!
It could be the one world government of the United Nations
it is the first false religion that originated in Babylon through Nimrod, Babylon the Great is Freemasonry bc freemasonry is the oldest religion on earth.
Matthew 21:42 is talking about the builders of this world, the Freemasons, and their punishment is in revelation 18:21-23. Is it not true that those who are practicing Freemasons are considered the elites, the top ranking men of the earth. And their punishment is with a stone that the Masons have crafted and used since the beginning of Babel at Nimrod.
REVELATIONMYSTERY...D...O...T...C...O...M
The Great Creator Has a Creation not a Kingdom
The Great Creator has no Kingdom, no Dominion and no Lords.
Kingdoms, Dominions, and Lords are the corruption of the human.
No Human has the right to rule over other humans.
It appears that the Great Creator is an anarchist. It appears that the Great Creator will destroy that Great America and all other kingdoms and dominions in the end of the age.
The Great Creator has Truth and is truth.
And truth is all that exists. Other than truth there is just the understood concept a an absence.
knowledge is spiritual and is not created in the human brain. However, the Human brain was designed and created to receive and understand knowledge.
The Great creator is not in singular form. The Great Creator is a huge mass of spirits. All in unison and in perfect care for each other.
Spirits have no physical form. The likeness of the Great Creator to the human is only in the mass, not singular. The human can not survive singular.
The secret to success of the human is in mass not singular.
by the principles of working in a mass the human creates Great cars and cell phones. And the creator is the whole of the mass not singular. very similar to the Great Creator that created all that exists.
Most all great creations are created by the mass of human's Not just one human. That makes the mass of humans the creator.
spirits do not have bodies they just poses bodies. Life itself is spirit.
And creation is only the rearrangement of Matter, as Matter does not evolve from nothing.
True Science is the studies, research and Understanding of the Great Creator and the Great Creator's creation.
The Great Creator has no laws. Laws are just humans dominating over Humans.
Gods are not creators. There are a great many Gods that have been worshiped. Gods are just Imaginary mythical personages of worship; Gods are not Creators.
There is one and only Great Creator. And the Great Creator is not an imaginary mythical personage somewhere in space.
Words to the Honest and Wise: Honesty and understanding is the only true belief.
Without honesty and understanding we do not know what to believe.
To accept other’s opinion of the truth without proving it to yourself; it is being deceived it is not believing.
We must understand to believe.
Truth will solve all our problems before we create them; and ignore or reject the truth; problems will multiply all by themselves; those problems will need no help.
Have a great and a meaningful life if it is at all possible.
Just whispers, of the Ghost of Reality!!!
Please note the word “antichrist” was only used by John in 1 and 2 John and no where else.
1 John 2:18
Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour.
1 John 2:22
Who is the liar? It is whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a person is the antichrist-denying the Father and the Son.
1 John 4:2-3
This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.
2 John 1:7
I say this because many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist.
Putting the verses together you would realize the antichrist is denying Jesus had a human body.
Few realized context is everything. John was in Ephesus at the time of writing. The challenge there was the teaching of Cerinthus. He stated teaching people Jesus was spirit and not human. Hence denying Jesus came in the flesh.
He says all spirit is good. All flesh is evil. The problem with that is that God made Jesus is likeness of sinful flesh so that your sins are placed on that body and condemned.
Romans 8:3-4
For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
If what Cerinthus says is true, your sins were not condemned and still in you. That’s why 1 John starts off, with “touching seeing and hearing”.
John says that to prove he saw, touched and heard Jesus, not only as Spirit but also as a human being with a body.
1 John 1:1-3
That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched-this we proclaim concerning the Word of life.
The life appeared; we have seen it and testify to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and has appeared to us.
We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.
That was also what he said in his gospel.
John 1:14
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
In Cerinthus’ interpretation, the Christ came to Jesus at baptism, guided him in his ministry, but left him at the crucifixion.
Early Christian tradition describes Cerinthus as a contemporary to and opponent of John the Evangelist, who may have written the First Epistle of John and the Second Epistle of John to warn the less mature in faith and doctrine about the changes he was making to the original gospel.
Let me just share with you an account of how John saw this man as the personification of the antichrist.
According to Irenaeus, Polycarp told the story that John the Apostle, in particular, is said to have so detested Cerinthus that he once fled a bathhouse when he found out Cerinthus was inside, yelling “Let us flee, lest the building fall down; for Cerinthus, the enemy of the truth, is inside!”
One tradition maintains that John wrote his first two epistles to counter Cerinthus’ heresy.
Therefore. Please note the antichrist is not the beast. He has nothing to do with 666 who is Nero. They are 2 different characters. The beast is described as one who sits on 7 hills which is clearly Rome.
Anyone who says that we should associate the 2 clearly has not taken the trouble to study scriptures understanding that motive of the letters of John.
Revelation 17:10 gives us a way for us to identify the Beast.
They are also seven kings. Five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come; but when he does come, he must remain for only a little while (Revelation 17:10).
This passage, gives us the line of rulers in Rome. It makes us the job by telling us exactly how many rulers had already come, which one was currently in power, and that the next one would only last a short while.
Please see below and see how it perfectly fits with Nero and the Roman Empire of the first century. The rule of the first seven Roman Emperor’s are as follows:
“Five have fallen…”
1. Julius Caesar (49-44 BC)
2. Augustus (27 BC-AD 14)
3. Tiberius (AD 14-37)
4. Caligula (AD 37-41)
5. Claudius (AD 41-54)\
“One is…”
6. Nero (AD 54-68)
“the other has not yet come; but when he does come, he must remain for only a little while.”
7. Galba (June AD 68-January AD 69, a six month ruler-ship)
Of the first seven kings of the Roman Empire, five had come (Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Gaius, and Claudius), one was now in power (Nero), and one had not yet come (Galba), but would only remain a little time (six months).
The vast majority throughout Church history have understood that the beast in Revelation 17 is a reference to Nero.
…And I saw a beast coming out of the sea. It had…seven heads….One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed. The whole world was filled with wonder and followed the beast. People worshiped the dragon because he had given authority to the beast, and they also worshiped the beast and asked, “Who is like the beast? Who can wage war against it?” (Revelation 13:1-4).
Based on what we have seen from Revelation 17 that Nero fits the timeline as the sixth of the seven heads and that Galba is the one to come that shall only remain a little while. It is well accepted by historians and scholars that Rome was in a way wounded and faltering as an empire because of Nero.
It is written in records that Nero was a psychopath as he burned down one third of Rome and put the blame on the Christians and persecuted them brutally, but also, when Nero killed himself (in AD 68), the political climate of Rome changed dramatically and was unstable temporarily.
One of the major changes was that Nero was officially the last of the Julio-Claudian line of emperors; thus the line ended, and it would have seemed, symbolically, as if the head of the empire had been wounded to death.
Nero’s sudden death caused an event that has been historically called the “Year of the Four Emperors.”
Because of tumult caused by his suicide, three short-lived emperors followed Nero. Many thought that the Roman Empire would not survive the transition.
Here is the timeline of AD 69, the “Year of the Four Emperors”:
Nero (AD 54-68)
Galba (AD 68-69)
Otho (AD 69)
Vitellius (AD 69)
Vespasian (AD 69-80)
In what appeared to be a miraculous turn around, the Empire was revived under Vespasian and Titus. When they came into power, they established the Flavian dynasty of Caesars. Instead of the beast dying, it resurrected under Vespasian, and he ruled for a solid ten years.
Nero began his reign as emperor in A.D. 54. His imperial persecution of the Christian community was launched in A.D. 64, the same year as the famous fire (which burned 1/3 of Rome) that many believe was set by Nero himself. It is often assumed that the persecution of Christians, whom Nero blamed for the fire, was a diversionary tactic to shift blame for his own actions to others. Nero committed suicide in A.D. 68, when he was but 31 years of age.
Many ancient writers mention the bestial character of Nero, and Gentry summarizes these references:
Tacitus…spoke of Nero’s “cruel nature” that “put to death so many innocent men.” Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder…described Nero as “the destroyer of the human race” and “the poison of the world.” Roman satirist Juvenal…speaks of “Nero’s cruel and bloody tyranny.” …Apollonius of Tyana…specifically mentions that Nero was called a “beast” : “In my travels, which have been wider than ever man yet accomplished, I have seen many many wild beasts of Arabia and India; but this beast, that is commonly called a Tyrant, I know not how many heads it has, nor if it be crooked of claw, and armed with horrible fangs…And of wild beasts you cannot say that they were ever known to eat their own mother, but Nero has gorged himself on this diet.”
The beast is not a coming antichrist or the man of lawlessness. The beast was Nero and the Roman Empire. It is amazing how we take the biblical events and make them fit our own idea and it has shaped our idea of our to live life based on ignorant and unfounded theories that are being down through generations. People are inheriting lies and fears and not making the best of the Kingdom of God.
The kingdom is the only solution in the world today. This apprehension can only stop when truth is resounded from the mountain tops.
Neither is he Obama or Oprah. That’s nonsense. Statements like these just shows hatred and complete ignorance toward one of the most fundamental rules of interpretation. Audience relevance.
So if I were you I won’t go around and call everyone that disagree with your understating of being an antichrist. It was maybe anti-you but not antichrist.
That is simply not grace at all.
Shake All events of Rev 6-19 was fulfilled in the first century. LOL
@@bradmyers7109 What means what in the Bible. The Bible made simple.
1. Heaven and earth is the temple. The new heaven and earth is you.
2. Sun moon and stars is about Israel. It’s about Joseph’s dream.
3. Satan refers to anything which forms an objection to God’s wills or plans. This includes the old covenant, Job’s oppressor, Israel, the Pharisees and etc. He is not a fallen angel.
4. The air is not the spiritual realm. It’s actually the temple. As such being caught in the air means replacing the priests and the Jewish leaders as the guardians of the temple. They were the guardians of the spirit which is at work against those where disobedient.
5. The prince of darkness and of this world is the high priest. He is the keeper of the law. Darkness is often a reference to Mount Sinai which was covered with darkness.
6. The children of darkness and of disobedience and the term unbelievers are the old covenant Jews who refused to leave Jerusalem. They are not children of Satan or demons. They are also not non -Christians.
7. The terms “remnant, chosen ones, the generation“ has nothing to do with you. They refer to the first generation of Christians at Jesus’s time. It’s also the 144000 mentioned in Revelation 7.
8. Confessing Jesus is Lord is not for today. It’s a confession which was relevant when Caesar is Lord was pronounced. It’s also a reference to Isaiah 45:23-24 which states,
By myself I have sworn,
my mouth has uttered in all integrity
a word that will not be revoked:
Before me every knee will bow;
by me every tongue will swear.
They will say of me, ‘In the Lord alone
are deliverance and strength. ’”
All who have raged against him
will come to him and be put to shame.
It means trusting Jesus as their saviour and not the Law. That’s the context of Romans 10:9.
9. When the Bible speaks about the “present time”, it is not about the 21st century. It is referring to the transition period when the Law became obsolete and finally faded away. It was between AD30 to AD70. Its also called the “present age”.
10. When the scriptures speaks about the “flesh”, it is not speaking about your sinful nature. It’s speaking about people trying to please God by their human effort through the old covenant. You were never a sinner. You were born after AD70, after the Law ended. You were born in the age of grace. You were born righteous.
I hope these 10 points change the way you look at scriptures.
So who is Revelation written to?
Revelation 10:7
but that in the days of the trumpet call to be sounded by the seventh angel, the MYSTERY of God would be fulfilled, just as he announced to his servants the prophets.
What is this mystery?
Ephesians 1:9
making known to us the MYSTERY of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ
Christians will tell you it’s about the unification of the whole world.
They quote this.
Ephesians 1:10
as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.
So.
They argue when you read these verses it would mean everyone.
Ephesians 3:6
This MYSTERY is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
So they argue that we are involve in this reunification since we are “Gentiles”.
Ephesians 3:8-9
To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to bring to light for everyone what is the plan of the MYSTERY hidden for ages in God, who created all things,
Seems clear isn’t it?
It’s not so simple. Read this.
Romans 11:25
The Mystery of Israel's Salvation
Lest you be wise in your own sight, I do not want you to be unaware of this MYSTERY, brothers: a partial hardening has come upon ISRAEL, until the fullness of the GENTILES has come in.
Now look at this.
Romans 11:26
And in this way ALL ISRAEL will be saved, as it is written,
“The Deliverer will come from Zion,
he will banish ungodliness from Jacob”;
The “Gentiles” seem to indicate there are lost Israelites which are given time to come into the commonwealth of Israel.
Look at this.
Romans 11:28
As regards the gospel, they are ENEMIES for your sake. But as regards election, they are beloved for the sake of their FOREFATHERS.
Note these Gentiles were their enemies and they were saved because of their forefathers.
Are we the “Gentiles” who are saved because of our forefathers?
I don’t think so.
These forefathers are clearly Abraham Isaac and Jacob.
So these “enemy Gentiles” are Hebrews.
As such when you read this:
Ephesians 2:14-16
For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.
Know that the law cause the enmity between Judea and Israel. Not us.
The new humanity here is the reconciliation between Israel and Judea to form the new Israel.
This is not about us.
So.
Revelation was never about us.
It’s about Israel.
You were never separated from God. Hence you never needed reconciliatio
Revelation 20:6
6 Blessed and holy are those who have part in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years.
Revelation 20:12
12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books.
Do you know that there are 2 resurrections and that they are 1000 years apart?
Did you also know the resurrections are not where they are judged in terms of where they will go? The 2nd resurrection judges those already dead. Already dead. Already dead. There were pronounced as dead even before the throne. Guess what they are judged for? For what they did.
Now look at the first resurrection. Look at what they are called. They are called blessed and holy. Note they were already judged as blessed and holy. Their holiness came from their blessings.
Notice the dead are judged already dead. Not at the great white thrown. That means judgment was made here. Today.
We become righteous through our pronouncement from and in Christ. When we come to believe in Him we see ourselves judged in Jesus.
The dead are called the dead even before their deeds are judged. This means their death is not based on deeds but their own righteousness. They are called the dead because they rely on works. Notice after they are raised and classified as dead. Then an only then they are judged and thrown into the lake of fire. Why are they thrown there? Notice this.
The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books.
Works.
You cannot be saved by works. You can only be saved by the grace of God. Jesus Christ.
@Julian Clarke LET THEM WHO ARE IN JERUSALEM FLEE". I'M STILL WAITING FOR A FUTURIST TO EXPLAIN THIS STATEMENT.
How have ended up here after searching for Nebuchanezzar and the Babylonian Empire will remain a mystery...was sure this was a lecture about he historical empire of Babylon....this Bible cristian stuff confused me a bit gotta say...now Jesus was a cool Rabbi and all but this seems way to dark...and only made it 13:03 minutes in..
May I ask what you mean by “this seems way to dark?”
@@noahlooney8219 You may...to dark in that it has no redeeming qualities, no good whatever and only negative....doomsday like, dystopian...what did you UNDERSTAND by it ???
@@adrianhdragon718 I understand your viewpoint. However, God is not a simple entity. We see Him violently drive out nations before the Hebrews in the Torah, yet we also see His grace and longsuffering as portrayed in the New Testament. God's wrath and His mercy are not mutually exclusive. God is not purely negative, though frankly it would suck to be under His wrath. There is nothing comfortable about the End Times; it is a time of justice that involves the punishment of those that reject God with finality.
In sum: I agree that the End Times will be dark. But mercy will reign after the judgement. Remember, God is not simple or comfy; He is a lion.
@@noahlooney8219 The End Times ??? Please summarize ? You Believe Rabbi Jesus is Coming Back as Messiah ???
@@adrianhdragon718 I believe in the entirety of the Christian Bible. Because of that, I take the New Testament literally. This teaching is taught out of the Book of Revelation by a man who believes in the truth and validity of the New Testament. Both Pastor Edwards and I would say that yes, Jesus is Emmanuel (God with Us).