Revelation 9:13-21
Sixth trumpet was blew, voice from the four horns of the golden altar before God.
Four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates were released to kill a third of mankind.
Vision: horses and those who rode them; they wore breastplates the colors of fire and of sapphire and of sulfur and the heads of the horses were like lions heads, and fire and smoke and sulfur came out of their mouths.
The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands nor give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood.
Why?
This is the world we live in; a world that resists God to the bitter end; a world that creates its own 'god's and has no qualms疑慮 about murder, theft or moral standards.
Most people don't repent to the Lord, there are some chosen one who need us to let them know God, the number of Christians is full filled, then the day will come.
How?
This world is not my world of God, but the kingdom of God is located in my heart. Obey God's word and walk on his way with love and righteousness.
Monday, September 8, 2014
Sunday, September 7, 2014
Who can stand before the wrath of the Lord!
Revelation 9:1-12
5th angle blew his trumpet: Star fallen from heaven to earth, bottomless pit. locust came on the earth. Locusts have power to hurt people for 5 months bring torment like the torment of scorpion when it stings someone.
Locust has king, his name is Abaddon, in Greek he is called Appollyon. It means destruction; and destroyer.
Demonic forces(monstrous stinging locusts), servants of 'the Destroyer' are next unleashed. But God sets them a time-limit. Though human beings are their target they have no power to touch those who belong to God.
Why?
It is like Die stone殞石 fallen down to the earth, it may destroy the earth with fire and smoke. Bottomless pit comes out the disaster to human being.
God has mercy to people, limit time, five months, give people opportunity turn to the Lord!
How?
Who can stand before the wrath of the Lord!
5th angle blew his trumpet: Star fallen from heaven to earth, bottomless pit. locust came on the earth. Locusts have power to hurt people for 5 months bring torment like the torment of scorpion when it stings someone.
Locust has king, his name is Abaddon, in Greek he is called Appollyon. It means destruction; and destroyer.
Demonic forces(monstrous stinging locusts), servants of 'the Destroyer' are next unleashed. But God sets them a time-limit. Though human beings are their target they have no power to touch those who belong to God.
Why?
It is like Die stone殞石 fallen down to the earth, it may destroy the earth with fire and smoke. Bottomless pit comes out the disaster to human being.
God has mercy to people, limit time, five months, give people opportunity turn to the Lord!
How?
Who can stand before the wrath of the Lord!
Saturday, September 6, 2014
Keep praying
Revelation 8:1-13
Lamb opened the seventh seal. There was silence in heaven for about half an hour.
Seven angles who stand before God and seven trumpets were given to them.
Angle threw the censer and filled it with fire from the alter and threw it on the earth, there were peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning and an earthquake.
1st trumpet sound: 1/3 of the land was burned up.
2nd trumpet sound: 1/2 of the sea became blood and 1/3 of the living creature died.
3rd trumpet sound: 1/3 of river, lake became bitter, Wormwood.
4th trumpet sound: 1/3 of the sun, the moon and stars are darkened.
The first six judgement which follow the trumpet-blasts echo the plagues of Egypt recorded in Exodus 7-12
The trumpets which signal God's judgements parallel the seven seals, but the judgements are intensified.
The prayer of God's people play a significant part in all this.
The trumpets sound a note of warning.
The judgements, though severe, are not total.
They are intended to bring people to their senses.
In symbolic picture-language John describes four calamities affecting the natural world - earth, sea, water and the heavens.
The woes of the lone eagle imply that there is worse to come. The remaining judgments directly affect humanity.
How?
Keep praying which play significant part in all this calamities.
Lamb opened the seventh seal. There was silence in heaven for about half an hour.
Seven angles who stand before God and seven trumpets were given to them.
Angle threw the censer and filled it with fire from the alter and threw it on the earth, there were peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning and an earthquake.
1st trumpet sound: 1/3 of the land was burned up.
2nd trumpet sound: 1/2 of the sea became blood and 1/3 of the living creature died.
3rd trumpet sound: 1/3 of river, lake became bitter, Wormwood.
4th trumpet sound: 1/3 of the sun, the moon and stars are darkened.
The first six judgement which follow the trumpet-blasts echo the plagues of Egypt recorded in Exodus 7-12
The trumpets which signal God's judgements parallel the seven seals, but the judgements are intensified.
The prayer of God's people play a significant part in all this.
The trumpets sound a note of warning.
The judgements, though severe, are not total.
They are intended to bring people to their senses.
In symbolic picture-language John describes four calamities affecting the natural world - earth, sea, water and the heavens.
The woes of the lone eagle imply that there is worse to come. The remaining judgments directly affect humanity.
How?
Keep praying which play significant part in all this calamities.
Thursday, September 4, 2014
Seal on the foreheads of the servants of out God
Revelation 7:1-8
A pause in tribulation, 144000 Jews will turn to the Lord.
Four angels standing at the four corner so the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth to prevent any wind from blowing on the land or on the sea or on any tree. They have power to harm the land and the sea. -- Hot weather, tornado.
Another angel coming up from the east, having the seal of the living God.
"Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of out God." loud voice called out.
The four winds may be the same as the four horsemen of chapter 6. If so John sees the forces of destruction held back while God sets his mark of ownership on everyone who belongs to him.
After this: indicates a new vision, not later in time than the events of chapter 6.
144000: A symbolic number: the total of all God's people(12x12x1000), identical with the 'great multiple'(v9). See numbers with special meaning. We take Israel to mean, not the nation, but God's people - Old Testament believers and new Testament Christians alike.
Dan is omitted from this list. Unusually, both Joseph and his son Manasseh are included (but not Joseph's other son Ephraim); Manasseh was the firstborn.
Why?
Those who live along the seacoast or in an area subject to tornadoes can understand this text better than those who yearn for refreshing breezes in the desert.
In each case John's vision accomplishes a transformation (compare Gundry 1987:260). A Lion is transformed into a Lamb, and 144,000 Jews are transformed into an innumerable multitude from every nation on earth!
Some scholars believe the tribe of Dan is missing because the Jewish Antichrist, known as the False Prophet, will be a descendant. This certainly seems to be the meaning of an ancient prophecy that Jacob gave about the tribes of Israel in the last days: "Dan will be a serpent in the way, a venomous viper by the path, that bites the horse's heels so that his rider falls backward".(Gen. 49 v.17) We can expect the Holy Spirit to move on the hearts of people at the beginning of the Tribulation and culminate with the second coming of Christ.
How?
Selected one who may escape from the disaster of that day!
A pause in tribulation, 144000 Jews will turn to the Lord.
Four angels standing at the four corner so the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth to prevent any wind from blowing on the land or on the sea or on any tree. They have power to harm the land and the sea. -- Hot weather, tornado.
Another angel coming up from the east, having the seal of the living God.
"Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of out God." loud voice called out.
The four winds may be the same as the four horsemen of chapter 6. If so John sees the forces of destruction held back while God sets his mark of ownership on everyone who belongs to him.
After this: indicates a new vision, not later in time than the events of chapter 6.
144000: A symbolic number: the total of all God's people(12x12x1000), identical with the 'great multiple'(v9). See numbers with special meaning. We take Israel to mean, not the nation, but God's people - Old Testament believers and new Testament Christians alike.
Dan is omitted from this list. Unusually, both Joseph and his son Manasseh are included (but not Joseph's other son Ephraim); Manasseh was the firstborn.
Why?
Those who live along the seacoast or in an area subject to tornadoes can understand this text better than those who yearn for refreshing breezes in the desert.
In each case John's vision accomplishes a transformation (compare Gundry 1987:260). A Lion is transformed into a Lamb, and 144,000 Jews are transformed into an innumerable multitude from every nation on earth!
Some scholars believe the tribe of Dan is missing because the Jewish Antichrist, known as the False Prophet, will be a descendant. This certainly seems to be the meaning of an ancient prophecy that Jacob gave about the tribes of Israel in the last days: "Dan will be a serpent in the way, a venomous viper by the path, that bites the horse's heels so that his rider falls backward".(Gen. 49 v.17) We can expect the Holy Spirit to move on the hearts of people at the beginning of the Tribulation and culminate with the second coming of Christ.
How?
Selected one who may escape from the disaster of that day!
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
God's love and care for his people never fails.
Revelation 6:7-16
Fourth seal opened: Voice of the 4 living creature say, "Come!" Pale horse! Its rider was named Death and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.
Open the 5th seal, under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained. Each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and brothers who were to be killed as they had been was completed.
Sixth seal: Great earth quake, the sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood read, and the stars in the sky fell to earth. The sky receded like a scroll, rolling up.
All the free men hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains. The great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?
On the heels of conquest come slaughter, famine and disease - the classic judgments of God so often predicted by the prophets.
But no matter what the disaster, God is in control. His love and care for his people never fails.
In apocalyptic language John depict the disintegration of the fixed and stable world we know.
Why?
The end of world will come when the servants and brothers who were to be killed as they had been was completed, so there will be many Christians be persecuted before Jesus comes again.
How?
Be faithful to the Lord, for his love endure forever and his care for his people never fails.
Fourth seal opened: Voice of the 4 living creature say, "Come!" Pale horse! Its rider was named Death and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.
Open the 5th seal, under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained. Each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and brothers who were to be killed as they had been was completed.
Sixth seal: Great earth quake, the sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood read, and the stars in the sky fell to earth. The sky receded like a scroll, rolling up.
All the free men hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains. The great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?
On the heels of conquest come slaughter, famine and disease - the classic judgments of God so often predicted by the prophets.
But no matter what the disaster, God is in control. His love and care for his people never fails.
In apocalyptic language John depict the disintegration of the fixed and stable world we know.
Why?
The end of world will come when the servants and brothers who were to be killed as they had been was completed, so there will be many Christians be persecuted before Jesus comes again.
How?
Be faithful to the Lord, for his love endure forever and his care for his people never fails.
Monday, September 1, 2014
Enjoy and treasure l before seven seals are opened
Revelation 6:1-6
1)The first of the seven seals,
White horse! Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest.
2)Second:a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to take peace from the earth and to make people kill each other.
3)Third: a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand, saying, “Two pounds of wheat for a day’s wages, and six pounds of barley for a day’s wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine!”
The breaking of the seals sets in train a series of disasters. Many see the seven seals, the seven trumpets and the rest as parallel descriptions of the same reality - not a sequence in time order.
Why?
White means conquer, it is victory to the evil one.
Red: like blood, so there are many people die and shed blood for the war.
Black: There is judgement, and oil and wine is for beauty and joy, so it is means joy and beauty will fade soon.
How?
Enjoy and treasure the life now with peace and joy, the coming world is black and filled with war and dead.
1)The first of the seven seals,
White horse! Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest.
2)Second:a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to take peace from the earth and to make people kill each other.
3)Third: a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand, saying, “Two pounds of wheat for a day’s wages, and six pounds of barley for a day’s wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine!”
The breaking of the seals sets in train a series of disasters. Many see the seven seals, the seven trumpets and the rest as parallel descriptions of the same reality - not a sequence in time order.
Why?
White means conquer, it is victory to the evil one.
Red: like blood, so there are many people die and shed blood for the war.
Black: There is judgement, and oil and wine is for beauty and joy, so it is means joy and beauty will fade soon.
How?
Enjoy and treasure the life now with peace and joy, the coming world is black and filled with war and dead.
More prayer more incense in heaven
Revelation 5:6-14
A lamb, looking as if it had been slain. He had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth.
Golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
The lamb have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God through his blood, and they will reign on the earth.
Worthy is the lamb, who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise!
To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power for ever and ever!
The elders and living creatures are joined by countless myriads of angels.
Seven horns and seven eyes: All powerful, all-seeing.
Why?
Prayer of the saints will become incense to heaven, so prayer is worthy to every Christian.
Jesus saved us, them we are the kingdom of God and priest to serve the Lord. How great is our job!
How?
Praise the Lamb and the Lord, for his honor and glory and power and wisdom and wealth for ever and ever!
More prayer more incense in heaven!
A lamb, looking as if it had been slain. He had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth.
Golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
The lamb have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God through his blood, and they will reign on the earth.
Worthy is the lamb, who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise!
To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power for ever and ever!
The elders and living creatures are joined by countless myriads of angels.
Seven horns and seven eyes: All powerful, all-seeing.
Why?
Prayer of the saints will become incense to heaven, so prayer is worthy to every Christian.
Jesus saved us, them we are the kingdom of God and priest to serve the Lord. How great is our job!
How?
Praise the Lamb and the Lord, for his honor and glory and power and wisdom and wealth for ever and ever!
More prayer more incense in heaven!
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