A Revelation Creed : for the Believer God is on the Throne Trust ‘til the End The Lamb wins His people win also!
Read the Bible with the Bible Open! Gen 37.9 – 10 “the sun, the moon, the 11 stars were bowing down to me” … Jacob/Israel, Rachel, family (11 tribes) … People of God Isaiah 54.1 – 8 … Israel as a Mother (Husband-Redeemer = God) Isaiah 26.17; 66.7; Micah 4.10 … Israel as a Woman in labour Galatians 4.21 – 31 … God’s People as Mother Sarah (free woman vrs Hagar)
“time, times and half a time” Symbolic Numbers! 42 months 1 260 days 3½ years “time, times and half a time” … are all saying THE SAME THING! … intense suffering, persecution (Antiochus Epiphanes) … Symbolic time of suffering but it will be cut short
God will look after His People (v6) Israel in Wilderness (Exodus; Numbers; Psalm 78.19) … provide & watch over His Church Elijah in Wilderness (3½ yrs, 1260 days; 1 Kings 17) … provide for His Church God’s People in Wilderness (Hosea 2.14) … look after His Church / speak tenderly Jesus provides Food in Wilderness (John 6; Mark 6) … supply & sustain His Chosen People
Rev 12.1 – 6 in Genesis 3.15 “… I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring; He shall crush your head and you shall bruise His heel”
Read the Bible with the Bible Open! Satan kicked out of heaven (Rev 12.8 – 10) Luke 10.18 John 12.31 1 John 3.8; 5.19 Colossians 2.14 – 15 Hebrews 2.14 – 15 Isaiah 14.12 (cf. Ezekiel 28.11 – 19) … though we can argue about this verse until the Return of Jesus!
Read the Bible with the Bible Open! Exodus 19.4 carried on WINGS OF AN EAGLE and God cares for His People Ruth 2.12 refuge / safety under WINGS OF YAHWEH and finds rest & redemption Psalm 17.8 (also Ps 36.7; 57.1; 61.4; 63.7; 91.4) keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the SHADOW OF YOUR WINGS
Read the Bible with the Bible Open! Isaiah 40.31(also Jeremiah 49.22) those that wait on the Lord – He shall renew their strength & they shall mount up with WINGS LIKE EAGLES; they shall run & not be weary; they shall walk & not faint Matt 23.37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem … how often I would have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood UNDER HER WINGS
A Revelation Creed : for the Believer God is on the Throne Trust ‘til the End The Lamb wins His people win also!