GOD’S CALENDAR IS NOT MAYAN: “I Am the Beginning & the End”

REVIEW Lesson 1

INTRODUCTION: CONTEXT WHO? –John WHAT IS IT? –Apocalyptic / Prophecy WHEN? –AD 90s WHERE FROM? –Patmos WHERE TO? –Churches, Asia Minor WHY? –Reasons to Hold On! SO WHAT FOR US? –In WHOSE Kingdom are You?

APPROACHES FUTURISTIC –“Reading Daily News til Jesus Returns” HISTORICAL-SOCIAL –1 st Century A.D. Context –All that’s left is Judgment! THEOLOGICAL –Power Structures –What God Does About Them –What It Means for Us

GOD’S RULE –TRUTH –MESSIAH, LAMB –BRIDE, NEW JERUSALEM –GOD’S KINGDOM PREVAILS SATAN’S PRETEND RULE –DECEIT, SEDUCTION –BEASTS & FALSE PROPHETS –“HARLOTS & BABYLONS” –PRETEND RULE DESTROYED

A REVELATION FROM GOD TO JESUS TO JOHN PROPHECY –JUDGMENT in Real Time –RENEWAL in Real Time LAND TEMPLE KING (David) 12 TRIBES APOCALYPTIC –World-View SHIFT DUALISTIC PESSIMISTIC DETERMINISTIC –Social Structure: EVIL A BLEND OF...

APOCALYPTIC: EARLY EXAMPLES Biblical –(Joel) –(Zechariah) –Isa. 24 – 27 –Ezek –Dan Jewish –Sibylline Oracles 150 B.C. –Jubilees 150 B.C. –1 Enoch 2 nd C. B.C st C. A.D. –Apoc. Abraham 1 st C. A.D. –2 Baruch 1 st C. A.D –4 Ezra 1 st C. A.D.

GOD’S CALENDAR IS NOT MAYAN: “I Am the Beginning & the End” Lesson 2 REVIEW

LIFE, DEATH, & LIFE EVERMORE ! “Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last; I am the Living One. I was dead, and, behold, I am alive forever and ever. And I hold the Keys of Death and Hades.” Rev. 1:18

SEALS, TRUMPETS, BOWLS SEALS: 6: 1 – 8:1 TRUMPETS: 8:2 - 11:18 BOWLS: 15:1 – 16:21

SEALS: REV. 6: 1 – 8:1 –Seals 1 thru 5: Set the Stage –Seal 6: 144,000 THE LAMB & THE 7 SEALS

7 TRUMPETS TRUMPETS 1, 2,3, 4: SET THE STAGE TRUMPETS 5, 6, 7: “THE 3 WOES” 6 TH TRUMPET: CITIES of Revelation

CITIES of REVELATION BABYLONS –NEBUCHADNEZZAR’S DESTROYED JERUSALEM 586 B.C. –JOHN’S HARLOT ROME  DESTRUCTION JERUSALEMS –TITUS DESTROYED JERUSALEM A.D. 70 –JOHN’S BRIDE COMING DOWN OUT OF HEAVEN

SEALS, TRUMPETS, BOWLS SEALS: 6: 1 – 8:1 TRUMPETS: 8:2 - 11:18 –REV. 12, 13 –THE WOMAN & THE MALE CHILD –THE DRAGON –THE 2 BEASTS BOWLS : 15:1 – 16:21

MESSIAH & HIS ENEMIES REV. 12, 13 THE WOMAN – Gives Birth to CHILD –COSMOS –ISRAEL –NEW CREATION MALE CHILD –JESUS –MESSIAH

MESSIAH & HIS ENEMIES REV. 12, 13 WAR IN HEAVEN: Michael vs. Dragon –THE DRAGON: Serpent, Devil, Satan Satan Cast to Earth BEAST Out of the SEA: 7 Heads, 10 Horns –Fatal Wound, Now Healed –“His number is the number of a man” –Rev. 13:18 BEAST Out of the “EARTH”: False Prophet

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BEAST Out of the SEA: “NERO” vs THE LAMB REV. 13: WHO IS 666 ? –THE NAME and THE NUMBER –NERO: Not Dead, but Returning (Redux) –NERO: Dead & Back to Life (Redivivus) BEAST & “NERO” ALL Power-Structures Opposed to God

CHRIST & THE “NERO MYTH” CHRIST REV. 1:18 REV. 2:8 REV. 5:6 THE BEAST / 666 REV. 13:3 REV. 13:12, 14 REV. 17:8, 11

The gematria of 666 Therion -- “beast” = 666 QSR NRWN = 666 “The one whose fatal wound had been healed.”

NERO & “NERO” NERO Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus A.D. 37 – 54 – 68 Titus Flavius Caesar DOMITIANUS Augustus A. D. 51 –

BEAST FROM THE SEA 7 HEADS OF BEAST = 7 KINGS 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 = “FALLEN” 6 TH : Domitian 7 TH - 8 TH IS COMING “Nero”-in-Domitian Nero Redivivus / Redux REV. 17:

RISE & FALL - EVIL POWERS 1. SATAN THROWN: HEAVEN TO EARTH –REV Satan thrown: Earth to LAKE of BURNING SULFUR –Rev BEAST & FALSE PROPHET BLASPHEME, SEDUCE –REV Beast & False Prophet to LAKE of BURNING SULFUR –Rev HARLOT of BEAST MAKES WAR ON THE LAMB –REV Harlot CONQUERED & BURNED by BEAST –Rev. 17

FINAL BATTLE: WHITE HORSE vs RED DRAGON *EZEK. 38, 39 *ZECH. 14 *(REV 16:16); 19: 11 – 21: 27

144,000 & “GREAT MULTITUDE” 144,000 “Sealed” 12 Tribes, Israel 7:1-8; 14:1-5 “GREAT MULTITUDE” All Nations, Peoples 7:9-17; 5:9,10; 6:9-11; 20:4-6 “WHO ARE THESE?”

MARTYRED IN THE “GREAT TRIBULATION” BEFORE THE LAMB’S THRONE WHITE ROBES WASHED IN BLOOD OF LAMB SERVE GOD IN HIS TEMPLE NO HUNGER, NO THIRST NO SCORCHING HEAT LAMB IS THEIR SHEPHERD GOD WIPES AWAY EVERY TEAR “Bore Testimony to Jesus” Revelation 5:9-10 6: 9 – 11 14:1-5 17: 6 19:2 20:4-6

NEW JERUSALEM / BRIDE ENVISIONED IN PROPHECY ISA. 2:2–5 // MIC. 4:1-5 ISA. 49:17-19 ISA. 51:1-16 *ISA. 54:1 – 55:2 ISA. 61:1-10 ISA. 62:4-6 ISA. 65:18 ZECH. 14:10-11 EXPRESSED IN THE CHURCH EPH. 1-3 EPH. 5: HEB. 12:22-24 TRANSFORMED IN APOCALYPTIC REV. 19: 7-9 REV. 21:1-2

NEW HEAVENS, NEW EARTH ENVISIONED IN PROPHECY ISA. 4:2-6 ISA. 42:9 ISA. 48:6-8 ISA. 65:17 ISA. 66:22 EXPRESSED IN THE CHURCH ROM. 8: COR. 5: 17 GAL. 6:15 2 PET. 3:13 TRANSFORMED IN APOCALYPTIC JUB. 1:29 1 ENOCH 45:4-5; 91: APOC. BAR. 32:6 REV. 3:12

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THE END AND THE BEGINNING !!!