Revelations Explained

Matthew 24:29 (Christ speaking on the events of the end times) “Immediately after the (great) tribulation of those days, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 30 “Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven (I suspect this will be a giant cross, perhaps like Constantine, the soon-to-be Emperor of Rome, saw just before his victory at the Milvian Bridge circa 313 AD.  Words underneath the cross were ‘In thi...

Most prophecy writing that I have read divide the final week of Daniel- 7 Biblical years of 360 days/year into two equal portions of 1260 days each.  I suspect they are wrong.  Instead, the final week of Daniel works like this. Daniel’s 70th week ends on Hanukkah, an 8- day Hebrew feast.  Daniel 12:11 notes there will be 1290 days from the time the daily sacrifice is taken away and the abomination of desolation is set up.  Now this is a problem as Daniel 7:25 & 12:7 as well as Revelation 12:6, 14 & 13:5 indicate the anti-Christ has 1260 days, the Great Tribulation, and he is toast. But it takes 30 days to rededicate a desecrated Temple according to my readings, hence the extra days.  Daniel 9:24 indicates the final event of the seventy weeks is to anoint the Most Holy, which my readings indicate is a place.  I believe that 30 days after the Great Tribulation ends would be the earliest end to the final week of Daniel.  Therefore,  Daniel’s 70th week could not be divided into two equal 1...

About 30 years ago, I came to the LORD.  I began to read the Bible regularly.  One of the things that always puzzled me was where the Muslim Arabs were in the Bible.  The Muslim Arabs say their ancestor was Ishmael, who was placed on a makeshift altar by his father Abraham as an offering to God.  Some sources say on what became the (supposed) Temple Mount in Jerusalem though most Muslims believe it was in Mecca.  The Christian Bible relates it was Isaac in the land of Moriah per Genesis 22:2.  By tradition this is where Solomon’s temple was built centuries later.

God promised Abraham the land of Canaan and also seed.  However, God took His own time as He often does, and Abram and Sarah decided to help Him.  As Sarah apparently could not have children, she gave her Egyptian maidservant to Abraham to produce the required seed per Genesis 16, a common custom for the time.  Abraham was 86 at this time.  At the age of 13 for Ishmael and 99 for Abraham, God instituted...

I believe the Bible clearly teaches that Christ’s millennium of Revelation 20 is the Sabbath millennium of a Biblical week with each millennium representing a day in the week.  I covered this in my very first writing using verses Psalm 90:4, 2 Peter 3:8, Hebrews 4:1-11, especially verse 4, and others.  There were three periods within the initial 6,000 years, each approximately 2,000 years as follows: 1. Creation with the Flood at year 1656 after creation and Abram born 2008 years after creation, 2. Then about 2,000 years of Israel till the birth of Christ,  3. Then about 2,000 years of the church.  We are at the end of this third period.  If this interpretation is correct, then Christ should soon return.  However, I first started looking for Him about 22 years ago, based on Archbishop Ussher’s several centuries ago calculation of creation beginning on 23 October, 4004 BC.  This was inscribed in many Bibles in the 1800s.  If Ussher were correct, the final or 70th week of Daniel should h...

Psalm 118 is the last of the Egyptian Hallel Psalms (113 to 118) that are sung at Passover.  Hallel means to praise.  This is likely the last psalm that Christ and His disciples sang after the Passover Seder before heading for the Mount of Olives per Matthew 26:30 and Mark 14:26.  Both report:  And when they had sung a hymn (psalm), they went out to the Mount of Olives.

Psalm 118 is the middle chapter of the Bible, and it also contains the middle verse – 118:8:  It is better to trust in the LORD, than to put confidence in man.  Chapters were first put in the Bible circa 1300 or so, and verses in English with the Geneva Bible circa 1560.  It is between the shortest chapter in the Bible, Psalm 117, and the longest chapter, Psalm 119.  

JR Church wrote a book, Hidden Prophecies in the Psalms in 1986, revised in 1990.  He believed the 150 psalms were a code in years, beginning with 1901 for the Psalm 1, 1902 for Psalm 2, 2000 for Psalm 100, 2018 for Psalm 118, a...

Prophecy to the Greek or Western man is prediction and fulfilment.  To the Jew, it is pattern.

The Jewish sages compiled the 150 psalms long ago.  We have forgotten how. They divided the Psalms into 5 books just like the Torah, or first 5 books of the Bible.  5 was the number for grace, the unmerited favor of God, and the Torah had 5 books.  They believed these 5 books could be correlated with human life.   

    Genesis is the book of life and election.

    Exodus is the book of redemption.

    Leviticus is the book of sanctification.

    Numbers is the book of testing and experience.

    Deuteronomy is the book of divine government. 

Or:

          Genesis                   - God forms the soul.

          Exodus                    - Birth...

Daniel is one of the major books on prophecy in the Bible.  Daniel is divided into the first six chapters which are historical and the last six which are prophetic, though it should be noted that the famous statue of Nebuchadnezzar with the head of gold for Babylon, the upper torso and arms of silver for Medo-Persia, the bronze belly and thighs for Alexander the Great’s Greek empire, and the lower legs of iron for Rome, still awaits the identity of the feet of iron and clay, but perhaps not much longer. 

Though Revelation is an open book per Revelation 22:10, Daniel is a closed book till the time of the end per Daniel 12:4, i.e., the meanings of the prophecies will not be understood until the End Days.  If Daniel is now an open book, then the End Times (Daniel’s final or 70th week) could well have begun or are close to starting. 

The upper four metals of Nebuchadnezzar’s statue were likely clearly understood by the mid-2nd century BC, but certainly by Christ’s crucifixion...

Most of the books I have read on Daniel’s final or 70th week relate it will be divided into two equal halves of 1260 days, a multiple of three and one-half multiplied by 360, the number of days in the ancient calendar year from Creation about 6,000 years ago until it was changed around 701 BC to the present 365.2422 days per year.  I suspect this is from Daniel 9:27 “Then he (anti-Christ) shall confirm a covenant with many for one week;                                                                                                                                                                  But in the middle of the week                                                                                                                                                                            He shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering.                                                                                                                                              And on...

In 1776, the Continental Army was defeated at Long Island in August.  The 20,000 British and Hessian troops turned the Americans’ flank and destroyed about one-third of their army which withdrew to their coastal fortifications   The next day the British did not attack to Washington’s surprise, but drew their cannons closer in a storm.  There was a mile of open water between Long Island and safety in Manhattan.  The British fleet could cut off their escape and easily bombard their Long Island fort from the water, in effect, surrounding them with artillery, but the winds were adverse, so the fleet remained at anchor below them.  Washington decided to evacuate his entire force that night, but the sea was too rough to cross as darkness arrived.  At 11 pm, the wind died down, and the troops began to enter the boats.  All through the night they rowed to Manhattan and back and again.  With the dawn, two-thirds of the army had been evacuated, but the remaining third was becoming more and more...

Around 1530, Henry VIII broke with the Catholic Church and formed the Church of England. The Catholic Church refused to annul his marriage with Catherine, the daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, the hyperpower of the time, whose coffers annually filled with New World gold and silver. Henry VIII desperately wanted a male heir, and his Spanish Queen had only provided Mary, later known as Bloody Mary to history for her persecution of Protestants. Now, she was past the age of child-bearing.  Hence, Henry formed his own church- the Episcopalian. On October 31, 1517, Martin Luther had nailed his 95 theses on the Wittenburg Cathedral and begun the Protestant Reformation. (This Oct 31 just past was the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. It is the 100th year since the Balfour Declaration and the taking of Jerusalem and Palestine from the Turks by Great Britain, both in 1917. It is the 50th year since Jerusalem was retaken by the Israelis in June, 1967. Finally, it is the...