The Beasts: Revelation 12, Revelation 13 & Revelation 17

 By Joannes Simin
   

    The present United Nations could be allegorized as a weak sago worm, that later in the very near future metamorphoses into a sago palm weevil, the future “Scarlet Beast.”The possibility of Christ‘s return during the rulership of the United Nations is recognizable “as its twigs get tender and it leaves come out”; nonetheless its signs must be correctly interpreted as according to all Laws, Prophecies and Lyrics (Luke 24: 44). St. Paul said in 1 Thessalonian 5: 1-3, “Now, brothers and sisters, about times and dates we do not need to write to you, 2 for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.  But then he continued his presaging description with surprising clues; “3 while people are saying ‘Peace and safety,’ destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.” St. Paul prophesied unknowingly the meaning of the phrase “Peace and Safety, “but its message somehow says, as if the inhabitants of the earth are asserting the same agreed principle of life on earth. Interpretation through observation of that presaging phrase “peace and safety” reveals surprising secret behind the purpose of the present world governing body. Paul‘s phrase “Peace and safety” is the exact resemblance with the principle establishment of the United Nations i.e. “to maintain international peace and security" prescribed by the 1st Article, Chapter 1 of the United Nations Charter.”[1] We are already in the 69th year (2014 CE) since the establishment of the United Nations in 1945 CE. The United Nations was established based on the Principle “peace and security.”The purpose of the creation of this beast is to maintain “peace and security"  for the whole world.

     In contrast, the Prince of Peace offers us the ultimate peace that the world cannot give. He reconciles us to, the Creator, the Spirit of God. There shall be peace on earth when peoples on earth truly experience peace with God, peace with each another, and peace within us. We are unable to become true peacemakers unless we have experienced those threefold peace. Jesus said, "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God” (Matthew 5: 9). Alas, how could we find peace on earth when leaders reign in unrighteousness, and rulers rule with injustices? “The fruit of righteousness is peace; the effect of righteousness will be quietness and confidence forever” Isaiah 32: 17.

     The Word became flesh in order to fulfill Luke 24: 44 and those who believe in him would be reconciled to the Spirit of God, so that they become the recipients of the ultimate blessing of the Lord i.e. the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Since the time of Noah, the hearts of the rulers on earth continuously become the battlefields between Good and Evil. King Solomon likened the king's heart as a flow of a river in the Hand of God (Proverb 21: 1), and yet it is easily fallen into the unseen hand of the Serpent as well. During the eschatological era rhymed as a time, times, and half a time, the Serpent’s deceptions in ensnaring the hearts of the inhabitants of the world would be running into full measure. St. John the apocalypse wrote in Revelation 12 that “the Serpent spewed out water ‘like a river’ aimed at overtaking the woman and sweeping her away with the torrent.”

     The “spewed out water like a river” allegorizes subtle-antiChrist deceptions aimed at overtaking the hearts of the saints or prophetically called the Woman (not to be mistaken with the woman in Revelation 17), so that they would give up believing in God. The “like a river” begins in the realms of the spirits. The hosts of the devil would choreograph the unrighteous leaders manifesting their diabolic agendas. The widowed woman propagates biblical deceptions as well, so that the modern secular Israel created by the beasts would be supported by Christendom. Zionism is the core politics of the widowed woman aka Mother of prostitutes. The river from the Serpent's mouth was specifically aimed at influencing both the Hebraic Christians and the offspring (non Hebraic Christians), so that they may embrace the biblical Land Grant as if ordained by God for Zionism. The Hebraic Christians knew this deception, and therefore the Dragon was enraged at them and also at the offspring. The woman (referring to the Christians house of Jacob in Revelation 12) knew that the ultimate blessing of the Lord is not the literal Land grant, but the Spirit of God Himself i.e. the promised outpouring of the Holy Spirit among all believers either the house of Jacob or the offspring (converted heathens/other nations).

The “earth” in Revelation 12: 15 symbolize divine intervention which helped the followers of Christ to discern antiChrist deception and divine intervention as depicted by the phrases “by opening its mouth and swallowing the river that the Serpent had spewed out of his mouth.” This divine intervention called the “earth” would be continuously interposed as creative divine arbitration throughout the Church's age. However, Revelation 12 disclosed the latter part of it. The adversary‘s subtlest-scriptural apologetic had enchanted the Christendom especially those who have superficially embraced the Word; the half true Scriptural-weaved propaganda aimed to turn the tide of political support in favour of the widowed woman who rides the present beasts and the future Beasts.

     We know that the ancient theocratic Israel (the deserted woman) was born right from the Lord‘s Pass Over in Egypt. As long as she was obedience to the marriage Covenant (...the 'way' of expiation as according to Torah) then she could remain as the wife of YHVH in the Promised Land. Because of their rebellions against Yahweh, either the kingdom of priests, or the monarchy kingdoms had had become the things of the past. The holy land vomited them out into Diaspora. They had abandoned the way to be reconciled to YHVH, and Prophet Ezekiel allegorized the widowhood of Judah and Samaria by insinuation, calling them Oholibah and Oholibamah respectively (see Ezekiel 16 & 23).

     Though the New Covenant woman (Hebraic Christians) had wisely disclosed the subtle orchestration of the Dragon concerning the created secular nation for the widowed woman, Christendom had been divided into three different groups depending on their paradigms. The first group is those who are deceived, and thus support the cause of Israel (which was created by the beasts in 1948 CE), and the second group is those who correctly interpret biblical prophecies concerning the true restoration of Israel, and therefore shedding off the deceptions of the beasts. The third group represents either the uninformed Christians or perhaps simply occupied by their own chores of life. The discerning group is, in fact, not mystified by the Mystery Babylon the Great, the Mother of Prostitutes and abominations of the earth in Revelation 17: 5. The New Covenant woman cannot be the woman who rides the Scarlet Beast because the New Covenant woman is always married to, King Jesus Christ, her bridegroom. Jesus’ perfect Pass Over guarantees the blamelessness of the Church, and therefore she is always to be the delight of the Lord Jesus Christ.

There are only two women in the Scripture i.e. the ex-wife of King Yahweh, and the forever-married woman betrothed to King Jesus Christ. The Mother Harlot who rides the Scarlet Beast is, indeed, the ex-wife of Yahweh. Forsaken by King Yahweh, this widowed woman had been ruled by the gentile kings, and they have been thriving to ride every beast on earth through Zionism. Her last husband would be the prophesied the Scarlet Beast in Revelation 17. Personally, I‘m not against the creation of the modern secular nation of Israel because it was already sanctioned by the United Nations. However, as far as Scriptural prophecies are concerned, this created secular nation is not the genuine restoration of the House of Jacob. And yet, there will be 12,000-Hebraic Christians from each tribe of Israel prophesied to be the 144,000 elect House of Jacob. He had twelve Apostles when he was on earth and when he returns he would have 144,000 “who follow him wherever he goes” (Revelation 14: 4).

     True restoration would only come true during the Messianic Judgment era, the Father ushers us into the unknown 1,000 years of Christ. Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all tribes of Israel (Revelation 7: 4-5). Those non-elect Hebraic people (those who rejected Jesus Christ as the Lamb of God) were those whom restored by the shadow of the Scarlet Beast (the United Nations). They would end up riding their last husband i.e. the Scarlet Beast centered in the city of Jerusalem. Indeed, the Spirit of God had revealed unto us of the things to come in the future. They were written in metaphors and allegories.  “...Who foretold this long ago, who declared it from the distant past? Was it not I, the God? And there is no God apart from me, a righteous God and a Savior; there is none but me” (Isaiah 45: 21). “I make known the end from the beginning, from the ancient times, what is still to come" (Isaiah 46: 10).

Two different women (Covenant Peoples) in the Bible: the Old Covenant woman and the New Covenant woman

     In the whole bible, the Covenant people of God are prophetically called as a woman; her bridegroom was once King Yahweh in the Old Covenant, and then King Jesus Christ in the New Covenant. So, there would be only two covenant people of God or prophetically called two women in the Scripture. The former was the widowed woman because they had broken the Covenant, and abandoning the way of atonement (or simply rejecting the Lord‘s Pass Over observation). By rejecting the Lord‘s Pass Over observation, the Old Covenant woman was deserted by YHVH, and thus becoming a degraded woman or a prostitute (Ezekiel 16 and Ezekiel 23). Allegorically, faithfulness in observing the way (the rites of expiation) simply means remaining betrothed to God. By observing the Mosaic Laws as if like “the mark on the right hand and on the forehead” would save her marriage. Through disobedience they became a prostitute.

Any member of the Old Covenant woman who believed in the redemption of Christ would be encompassed within the new-covenant-marriage; a woman depicted as “clothed with the sun with moon under her feet and twelve stars above her head” (Revelation 12: 1). Symbolically, the cryptic depiction means “the house of Jacob” (Genesis 37:9), and spiritually it means betrothed to Jesus Christ (Isaiah 62: 3-4). The house of Jacob was called as a woman while the rest of the heathen nations on earth were symbolically called as the beasts on earth.

     Later, the Old Covenant woman whom Ezekiel allegorized as sister-prostitutes namely Oholibah and Oholibamah aggravated into further callousness; contemptuously refusing the prophesied redemption through the Cross of Jesus. In the end times’ era, she would end up as the Mother of all prostitutes who was riding on the Scarlet Beast. She was called the “mother” of all prostitutes due to the continuous tumultuous enslavement by various heathen rulers since their earliest era of Diaspora. Those foreign dominions over them were the manifestation of divine punishments upon them according to the dictation of divine punishments in Leviticus 26. She (the Old Covenant‘s house of Jacob) disobeyed YHVH, and thus became a prostitute. And yet since she was once betrothed to him, her prostitution would not change her status as a “woman”; to the rest of the nations, YHVH figuratively called them as the beasts. A widowed woman with her genius political maneuvers, they seek rapprochements among the beasts of the earth. She rejected Jesus as God's perfect Pass over, and the prophecy reveals that she would end up “marrying” the Scarlet Beast (Revelation 17: 5). The believing Hebrews who accepted Jesus as the perfect heaven Lamb‘s Sacrifice would be called the woman of the New Covenant. The evangelized heathens in the book of Revelation called as Offspring or children as written in Revelation 12: 17.

The dream of Joseph in Genesis 37: 9 and the Vision of St. John Revelation 12: 1

In the earliest era of the Church (the followers of Christ were Hebrews), she was identified with the symbol of the Old Covenant house of Jacob because it meant the Spirit of God of the Old Covenant Hebraic people was exactly the same with the Spirit of God of the New Covenant Hebraic people. Since she is betrothed with the same Spirit of God, thus the symbol must be retained in order to reveal that it was from the same Spirit of God who fulfilled both Missions: the Old Covenant‘s mission and the New Covenant‘s mission. If the prophetic symbol (see Revelation 12: 1;Ezekiel 48; Genesis 35 and Genesis 37: 9) for both Covenant peoples is not the same then the Spirit of God of the Old Covenant and the New Covenant would have been different. Isn‘t? There were only eleven “bowing down” stars in Joseph‘s dream because the twelfth star was the object of reverence; the twelfth referred to “the dreamer” himself (Genesis 37: 9). The New Covenant woman had been prophesied in Isaiah 54: 9b-10, which says, “I have sworn that I will not be angry with you and will not rebuke you. 10 for the mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but my steadfast love shall not depart from you, and my Covenant of Peace shall not be removed, says the LORD, who has compassion on you.” But why then in Revelation 3: 19, it is written that those whom God loves would be rebuked and disciplined? Rebukes and disciplines are meant for those who do not repent earnestly.

The prostitute woman (the ex-wife of Yahweh) and the married woman (The wife of Jesus Christ)

     Since all of us are sinning then all of us have experienced the disciplining of the Lord. The Church was prophesied by Prophet Isaiah as a woman who is “...neither be forsaken, nor be desolated, but to be the delight of the Lord and forever married to God” Isaiah 62: 3-4. Therefore, the Church is also called as a woman because she is betrothed to Jesus Christ while the rest of the nations symbolically remained to be called as the beasts on earth.

    The offspring of the New Covenant woman who abandons the Covenant is not termed as a prostituteprostitute, but merely an apostate; and they would end up obeying the laws made by the Beast during a time, times and half a time. They won‘t be warring (against) against the Laws of the beast. The Hebraic peoples who rejected the Christ of Christianity would become the sole race on earth riding the Scarlet Beast. Either the apostates or the faithful of the New Covenant people wouldn‘t be riding on the Scarlet Beast, but they would be forced to obey (worshipping) the Laws made by the rulers (beasts).

The woman who rides the Scarlet Beast is specifically referring to the Old Covenant people (Judaism) in the end times. Prophet Ezekiel was commanded by Yahweh to prophesy the architectural descriptions of the Temple in Ezekiel 43: 10-12, so that they (the Old Covenant worshipers) may be ashamed of their sins. These prophetic descriptions of the Temple (Ezekiel Chapters 40-42) would remind them of their current predisposition; “unreconciled” to the Spirit of God. She became the widowed-covenant peoples who ended up thriving for tumultuous political relationships with the rulers of the earth. The Diasporas were due to their stiff-necked rebellions against YHVH, and their rejection of both the “way” and the “Way” of atonement. The term “prostitute” is merely an allegory referring to the Old Covenant people who abandoned the Covenant, and it does not literally definable in relation to the decency of the people. The apocalyptic language in Revelation 17: 5, “mother of all prostitute” merely unfolds the widowhood and her political subtle prowess denoted by “the act of riding the beast.” Her figurative harlotry does not necessarily to be associated with moral ascription. It simply says that if you (Hebrew peoples) abandoned the “redemption/Redemption” then you were automatically among that “harlot.” That prostitute during the period of a time, times, and half a time would be riding the Scarlet Beast.

The woman and the dragon during the prophesied apocalyptic Chastisement period called a time, times and half a time

The Chastisement of the New Covenant woman would begin in Matthew 24: 29, soon after it is pronounced by the Court of heaven, and spoken through his true mouths on earth. Both the “deserted” Old Covenant woman and the New Covenant woman would enter the same eschatological distress called a time, times and half a time. However, only the widow would continue riding the beasts on earth. This eschatological rhyme is related to the place prepared for her in the “desert” (Revelation 12: 14). This end time‘s “desert” is merely a metaphor which suggests judgment era. The desert in Revelation 12: 14 are the same with the desert (a time, times and half a time) in Revelation 17: 3. The rephrased version of Revelation 17: 3 is somehow like “the angel carried St. John far away into the future, in the Spirit into the rhymed period; a time, times, and half a time, and it takes place in a desert” which means the woman (the ex-wife of Yahweh) was riding the Scarlet Beast during that rhymed-chastisement‘s era.

     The period of 1,260 days in Revelation 12: 6 is not applicable in interpreting the meaning of the eschatological chastisement period a time, times and half a time in Revelation 12: 14. What is the difference between 1,260 days in Revelation 12: 6 and the phrases, a time, times and half a time in Revelation 12: 14?

    Many apocalyptists interpret the phrases, a time, times and half a time as equivalent to 1,260 days. Though the phrase “half a time” is interpreted as 1,260 days, this interpretation is not derived from verse 6 of Revelation 12. Verse 6 and verse 14 unfold different messages. The term “desert” in both verses symbolizes the place of refuge during the persecution of the covenant people. However, the desert in verse 6 was related to the persecution during the destruction of the Temple‘s era in 70 CE. The desert became their sole place of refuge where they could escape from the fury of Roman-General Titus. Obviously, the woman must flee into the desert (wilderness) in order to escape from the abomination of desolation. Revelation 12: 6 says, “The woman fled into the desert to a place prepared for her by God, where she might be taken care of for 1,260 days (Revelation 12: 6). The desert itself did not totally guarantee her safety since it is written that “she might be taken care of for 1,260 days,” but her act of fleeing into the desert would be necessary in escaping the abomination that causes desolation. The earliest Hebrew Christians were advised by the divine Spirit to stay out of the Promised Land especially in the city of Jerusalem, lest they might be wiped out together with the Old Covenant worshippers of Yahweh. They had to flee into the wildernesses even among the heathens until the Roman wrath had subsided.

“Desert”

The desert in verse 14 specifically refers to the end times’ persecution because it is identified with the eschatological rhymed phrases a time, times, and half a time. In contrast, verse 6 specifically marked by the numerical period of 1,260 days-persecution. Verse 6 serves to be the marker of bird‘s-eye-view of what the Church had to go through in her earliest persecuted era as the brief “backdrop” of Revelation 12. Verse 14 depicts the persecution of the woman in the end of times, as if likened by that “backdrop;” the earliest persecution demanded the act of fleeing in order to have divine refuge in the wilderness. But the latter persecution in verse 14 suggests that it is inescapable (no where to go), and the woman ought to depend solely on Divine interventions. She needs to receive “what is given to her;” the woman was given the "treasure" prophesied in Isaiah 33: 6.  By that treasure, she was endowed divine protection from the beasts. Revelation 12: 14, says “the woman was given two wings of a great eagle, so that she might fly to the place prepared for her in the desert, where she would be taken care of for a time, times and half a time.” The woman was not demanded to flee into the desert by her own initiative, but she is endowed with “what is given” to her i.e. the two wings of a great eagle. In Daniel 12: 1, it is prophesied that during the end times’ distress, Archangel Michael (a great eagle) would arise to give protection to the saints (New Covenant people woman) see Exodus 19: 4 and Exodus 23: 20-21.

Therefore, we know that the rulership of the Scarlet Beast would begin to be manifested (...which is prophesied as yet will come in Revelation 17: 8) right from the early period of the prophesied a time, times and half a time or right after Matthew 24: 29. However, its (Scarlet Beast) official ruler-ship would be clearly manifested after World War III. In fact, that final world ruler was prophesied by St. John as “he once was, now is not, and yet will come” (Revelation 17: 8). The Old Covenant woman was persecuting the Church since the earliest era of the Apostles, and later in the end times she would be politically riding the Scarlet Beast. The Scarlet Beast and the ten kings will later hate the manipulative “mother of all prostitutes.” God would work through the hearts of the leaders (the 10 kings) of the Scarlet beast in order to accomplish God‘s promises (Revelation 17: 15-17). The Scarlet Beast would bring Jerusalem (woman on the beast) to ruin and leave her naked; they will eat her flesh and burn her with fire. It seems that there would be changes which take place within “the hearts” of leaders of the Scarlet Beast in the latter period of her rulership; the secular nation of Israel would end up against the ten rulers of the Scarlet Beast. This aggressive confrontation would bring forth ruins of the great city of Jerusalem. “God figuratively called this great city as Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified (Revelation 9: 8).”

“like a river”

     During the apocalyptic Chastisement period (Matthew 24: 29, Daniel 7: 25), the New Covenant woman, —whom Prophet Isaiah prophesied as Beuleh and Hepzibah would be sealed by the angels as the elect. She would be pursued by the spewed out water “like a river.” It is written in Isaiah 48: 18 that “peace” is “like a river.” God endows this true peace unto His covenant people. Jesus came in the flesh and said “I am … the life.” Since then the Serpent had heard it thousands of times, and he deceived the whole world under his spells by orchestrating wars, spewing out antichrist-ideologies, and plotting diabolic-economic-conquest. Even in our present materialistic-based societies, he (the Serpent) already succeeded in contriving the worldwide-masterpiece-laws of money as the bubbling source of life, thrusting Jesus’ word “I am…the life” into irrelevancy. So, our materialistic-based societies began to reason out that the redemption of Christ is not the real giver of life. People wage wars against each another because of the lustful desire of money. The spewed out water “like a river” out of the Serpent‘s mouth means the “false peace or peace and security” propagated and instituted by the diabolic undisputed-world rulers as the Serpent‘s emissaries. Briefly, the “like a river” treated God with contempt. “But the earth helped the woman by opening its mouth and swallowing the river (Revelation 12: 15 and Numbers 16: 30)” which refers to the divine interventions in upholding our faith in God in situ of its object of worship.

The devil‘s manipulation of leaders on earth as his emissaries is also metaphorically expressed as water “like a river.” In fact, we have seen many unrighteous rulers or “like a river” since the earliest era of the Church. But this “like a river” in verse 15 of Revelation 12, is specifically referring to a prototype antichrist who arises during the earliest phase of Judgment era. Certainly he is not a king because a king is allegorized as the “river” like King Sennacherib. So, “a river” means a king who persecutes the woman, but “like a river” suggests the leaders who have kingly authorities ruling the roost of the world. They would choreograph World War III in order to uphold their status as “gods of this world,” and thus paving the way for the unrighteous kings from the Beasts in Revelation 13 to exercise their immense authorities on earth.

     King David revealed the secret of the “like a river” rulers in the end of Church's age, and he sang 6 “I said, 'You are "gods" ;  you are all sons of the Most High.' 7 But you will die like mere men; you will fall like every other ruler.” David continued singing as if pleading God, “rise up, O God, judge the earth, for all the nations are your inheritance" (Psalm 82: 6-8). King David‘s presaging lyrics elucidated the righteous desire of justice on earth since only God alone who judges in equity. His lyrics are imparting God‘s grandeur plan after the Judgment era where all nations would eventually become God‘s inheritance. David‘s lyrics are disclosing that the rulers of this present world‘s system are the unjust “gods.‘ David knew that the exaltation of the rulers was due to the fingers of God, and therefore their responsibilities should be carried out as if they are “the sons of the Most High.” During the Judgment era, the rulers‘ exaltations come from the dragon. Thus, “all the foundations of the earth will be shaken (Psalm 82: 5).”

     During the end times’ Chastisement period, the Serpent would creatively delegate his power to a certain world leader allegorized as “like a river.” In Isaiah 8:7, it was the Lord who caused the mighty floodwaters of “River” (referring to the King of Assyria) to bring judgment upon Judah. Thus, we know that water and the river means political conquest made by a king (…in Isaiah 8: 7, “the River” specifically refers to King Sennacherib). In Revelation 12: 13-17, the foretold distress called “a time, times and half a time” would be marked by political scenarios where a leader called “like a river” would be diabolically inspired by the Devil. This “like a river” leader is not the same with the river (King Sennacherib) written in Isaiah 8:7 because the river in Isaiah 8:7 was orchestrated by the hand of Yahweh, whereas this end times’ “like a river” leader with kingly authority is orchestrated by the unseen diabolic forces of the Devil.

He is not a king, but his power is of kingly authority or simply called “like a river.” He is going to conquer the woman depicted by the strong torrent. The diabolic purpose of this leader, “like a river,” is to take over the influences of the woman in every stratum of societies, and also to change the woman‘s imprints in any bureaucracy existed among the inhabitants of the world in the name of “Peace and Safety,” and also through the hegemony of “river of life” i.e. fiat money. Briefly, the “like a river” tries to obliterate the work of the woman by presenting to the world “hegemonic money” as the “river of life.” So, it certainly brings distress to the followers of Christ. Their lives are enslaved by hegemonic mammon, and thus leaving Jesus’ Word “I am…the life” as powerless truth in Christianity.

     The divine intervention or identified as the “earth” would swallow the torrential water in order to save the woman and her offspring, so that she would not end up over-whelmed or felt worthless in holding to the testimony of Jesus (Revelation 12: 16). In the eyes of the secular political analysts, this ambitious “like a river” leader might not be seen as the threat to the woman, but rather be seen as the one who makes dominating decision makings in the international politics. Thus, this leader would subtly cause the surges of domino tensions, and the world is eventually succumbed into another world war. In the eyes of the spiritual men, this “like a river” leader would be seen as the diabolic emissary of the Serpent on earth.

I make known the end from the beginning, from the ancient times, what is still to come (Isaiah 46: 10)

     The League of Nations was born after the World War I and the United Nations was established immediately after World War II. [2] Therefore, any establishment of governing global bureaucracy that would become the caretaker of Peace and Safety (see 1 Thessalonians 5: 3) must be from the Abyss. The Scarlet Beast shall come out after the World War III. And this “like a river” leader (Revelation 12: 15) would initiate the spark for the WW III. The prophesied World War III is orchestrated by the Serpent. World War III is the manifestation of the word “Abyss.” In the near future, the veto-power signatories of the present United Nations shall find the way to metamorphose her bureaucracy in order to cope with the chaotic political conditions of the world. She would continue to be the new-metamorphosed Custodian of “Peace and Safety” called the Scarlet Beast. The unseen Devil would continue to be enraged at the woman because she had survived through the World War III. The Devils’ deceptive hostilities would be endlessly scoffing, and conquering the woman and her offspring. The Scarlet Beast‘s elite decision makers namely the Beast out of the Sea and the Beast out of the Earth would continue to oppress and to conquer the woman. The Beasts would proudly reason out that he is the real giver of “peace and safety” on earth. The inhabitants of the earth believe in his deceptions, and they worship the beasts. The word worship here means “obeying the Laws” made by the global governing body (The Beasts). The Prince of Peace said, “Peace is with you.” He is offering us the Way of reconciliation to the Spirit of God.

     The present beasts on earth override Jesus’ teachings by offering the world with mortal “Peace and Safety,” at the expense of their superguns and their enslaving monetary systems. He enraged (Revelation 12: 17) at the woman because she faithfully shepherded her offspring, and thus they remained observing the divine ordained “times,” but the coming diabolic beasts (Revelation13 and Revelation17) would try to change their “times.” Prophetic term “times” means “life.” The beasts try to change their lives including their beliefs. (see “set times” Daniel 7: 25. The Devil knows that this woman and her offspring would someday inherit the earth. It was foretold that the beasts was given with the power from the dragon (Revelation 13: 7-8), so that the beasts could oppress the woman on his behalf. The devil‘s agenda is to conquer the woman, so that she may fail in becoming the inheritor of the earth. Jesus said, “blessed are the meek (submissive to God), for they shall inherit the earth” (Matthew 5: 5). King David prophesied that the righteous ones shall inherit the earth. “Like a river‘s” failure to take over the woman through world war III would not frustrate the Devil in orchestrating another diabolic metamorphosis among the custodians of “Peace and Safety” of the world.

The relationship between the beast out of the Sea, the beast out of the earth and the Scarlet Beast

The human mission ("name")“peace and safety” on earth (1 Thessalonian 5: 1-3) offered by the future metamorphosed United Nations (the Scarlet Beast) is irresistible for those whose names are not written in the book of life. The elite-decision makers of this prophesied Scarlet Beast (Revelation 17) would be from the diabolically orchestrated Beast out of the Sea (Revelation 13: 1-10), and also the Beast out of the Earth. Both exercise their authorities under the global diabolic umbrella called the Scarlet Beast. The two horned Beast is the end times diabolical superpower nation who controls the hegemony of money on earth (Revelation 13: 11-18). He is the elite within the Scarlet Beast. The Beast out of the Earth, “exercised all the authority of the first beast on his behalf, and made the earth, and its inhabitants worship the first beast.” The 10-horned Beast out of the Sea would become the Adversary‘s diabolical emissary on earth who “utter proud words and blasphemous, and to exercise his authority for forty two months ~3.449756 years (3 years and 164 days i.e. during the “half a time” period). The beast out of the earth “exercised all the authorities of the first beast on his behalf, and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast” (Revelation 13: 12).

     The Beast out of the Earth is the co-top seed group together with the first Beast who comes out of the Sea within the larger governing body of the world called the Scarlet Beast. Thus, he ratified and enforced all the Laws which had been covenanted by the fatally wounded beast who is one of the “many nations” cryptically depicted as “out of the sea.” By exercising the Laws enacted (amended/legislated) by the first beast, and her political and economic rapprochement between the first and the second beast  had fulfilled the metaphor “he made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast” and “to give breath to the statue of the first beast, so that it could speak” and cause all who refused to worship the first beast ...to be killed.” The phrase “it could speak” refers to the ratification and rapprochement  made by the second beast out of the earth in favour of the revived dominance on earth. Thus, the inhabitants are directly and indirectly subjected back to the power of the first "fatally" wounded beast.

     Through his technological advancement, surely he would be the leading authority in the frontier of Science (Revelation 13: 13-14). “He ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast that was wounded by the sword and yet live. He was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that it could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed (Revelation 13: 14 b– 15).” The USA world's dominance had revived the "wounded" British Imperialism. It also means that the Beast out of the Earth is exercising all the Laws which were formerly covenanted by the first beast through-out the colonies, mandates, and protectorates. The Second Beast was merely the rapprochement of the fatally wounded beast. Why the beast was seen by St. John as coming out from the “earth”? The word “earth” in verse 1 of Revelation 13 is related to the “earth” in verse 16…"the earth helped the woman”…in Revelation 12. The history of the “earth” that helped the widowed woman was briefly explained by Wikipedia:

“On May 14, 1948, the last British forces left Haifa, and the Jewish Agency, led by David Ben-Gurion, declared the creation of the State of Israel, in accordance with the 1947 UN Partition Plan. Both superpower-leaders, U.S. President Harry S. Truman and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, immediately recognized the new state. …On 11 May 1949, Israel was admitted as a member of the United Nations” [3]

     Throughout the history of Diaspora, the Hebrews (widowed woman) had experienced a prolonged period of anti-Semitism. Eventually, the creation of the secular nation of the widowed woman in 1948 was recognized by most of the Christian nations. But the Muslim countries, mostly the Arabic nations aggressively against the creation of the state of that widowed woman. Since the creation of the state of the widowed woman, the pre-metamorphosed two-horned beast out of the earth (the United States) had allowed her to ride on her back. The pre-metamorphosed “beast out of the earth” had placed the nation of Israel as her national commitment as if Israel was part of her country. The prophecy had long foretold these political relationships between the United States and the widowed-woman of YHVH. In Revelation 12, it is understood that the “woman” refers to the Hebrew Christians since they were the ones that evangelized the heathens, and thus giving the offspring. Since “a woman” must be associated with a geopolitical description; and thus, it is also referring to the widowed woman who acquired the created secular modern nation of Israel. According to Wikipedia, America had been the safe haven for the “woman” either the Hebrew Judaists (Old Covenant woman) or the Hebrew Christians (New Covenant woman) since the late 19^th century:

“…the formation of modern nations in Europe was accompanied by changes in the prejudice against Jews. What had previously been mainly religious persecution now became mainly racial hatred, and acquired a new name: 'anti-Semitism.' Anti-Semites saw Jews as an alien religious, national and racial group and actively tried to prevent Jews from acquiring equal rights and citizenship. In the 19th century most Jews lived within the Russian Empire, where authorities sought to forcibly convert them by requiring 25 years military service from Jewish boys aged 12, to keep them in poverty by banning Jews from cities, universities, restricting their access to schools and to drive them out by encouraging violent mobs which would also divert popular resentment away from the Tsarist regime…millions of Jews left eastern Europe in the late 19th  century, mainly for the USA, but a small percentage headed for Palestine and Jews began to consider the possibility of reestablishing themselves as an independent nation.”  [4]

     Therefore, the “earth” in Revelation 12: 15 symbolized intervention which helped the widowed in the land of Israel. Since Christianity is rooted in Hebrews religious Old Testament, therefore, it won‘t be surprising that most Christian nations are recognizing the existence of the modern nation of Israel. Though, it is apparent that the woman in the delectable land was not representing the true restoration of Israel then they conclude that either they were graced by the hand of YHVH or vice versa, they reasoned out that their existence in the holy land would pave the way of the awaited Messiah. Since Christianity is deeply rooted in Hebrew Old Covenant and thus, it is predictable that those who are against Israelites would also turn their hostilities towards Christian nations. The Scripture says that the Israelites in Diaspora wouldn't be wiped out “if they will confess their sins, and the sins of their fathers…when they are in the land of their enemies, I (G-d) will not reject them or abhor them as to destroy them completely…” (Leviticus 26: 40-45). It was recorded in history that millions of Hebrew people were seeking safety in the country called the “earth.”

     This “earth” continent received those fleeing Jews from the world wide anti-Semitism, and today she remains in favor of the causes of Israelites either those of her own Jewish origin citizens or even those who had opted to return to the modern secular nation of Israel in the former British mandate. The Serpent knew well the Arabs’ hatred since it was already foretold in the ancient scriptural prophecies during the era of Abraham. Being conscious of his fate, he is all out to orchestrate all available abominations on earth in fulfilling his devilish agendas during the rhymed a time, times, and half a time. The “earth” nation (the United States of America) who emerged as the new superpower of the world had already manifested her role as the pre-metamorphosed 666. The future United States or the shadow of the final 666 (see notes about 666) appeared “like a lamb but he spoke like a dragon”; he was likened “like a lamb” because she was, undeniably, one of the cabal-vetoed power nations within the United Nations: "peace and safety." Besides, that country adopts friendly approaches towards foreign nations. But this friendliness might be due to her popular cultures and ideology dished out by the globalized mass media networks. Her “monstrous (dragon) political power” is undeniably the most powerful on earth. The US began her hegemony of money on earth since the establishment of Bretton Wood Agreement in 1944 together with the United Kingdom, and Canada as the pioneering signatories.[5]  Later Germany, Japan, and France joined the rank in the shareholders of the World Bank. [6]

     We are on the brink of “Christ Second Advent”; the distress we are seeing and experiencing at this moment, preceded the fulfillment of the prophesied a time, times, and half a time. However, we would only see the manifestations of evil in full measure when the divine favor is no longer guaranteed by the Mediator who seats at the right hand of the Father. The image refers to the Laws i.e. the beasts as the object of obedience (worship).

The words “image” and “worship” in Revelation 13

     Both the first Beast and the Second Beast out of the Earth are adhering and enforcing the same Principles or Charter/Covenant. The difference was that the first beast became world superpower earlier than the beast out of the earth. And both of them are allied forces. The beast that had had fatal wound referred to the United Kingdom who once ruled one fourth of the earth‘s surfaces; she had the dominions, colonies, and mandates. After World War I and World War II, she lost most of her colonies and mandates. She regained her status as world superpower via her position as the one of the five-permanent members of Security Council of the United Nations. She would hold this elite position till the day of Christ‘s Second Coming. The Scripture says “3One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed. The whole world was astonished and followed the beast.”

World dominancy depends on the capability of military might, political power and economic power. Thus, superpowers are those who have the capability to conquer the world through military campaigns (wars), ideological (politics) conquests and economic conquest. Both veto-power nations, the United Kingdom and the United States seemed to be invulnerable in those three aspects of world dominance namely military, politics and economics because they become the elite decision makers of the world. They are “the gods of this world;” the inhabitants of the world say “Who is like the beast? Who can make war against him?" (Revelation 13: 4). Through the agreed principles or Charter they dominate the international politics (see the metaphor revelation in Revelation 13: 12). Briefly, the rapprochement of the beast out of the Earth with the laws (principles) established by the first Beast out of the Sea. The special authority of the Beast out of the earth enables her to exercise all authorities of the Beast out of the Sea is metaphorically revealed as “giving breath to the image of the first beast” (Revelation 13: 15a). The strict observance of the covenant is written in apocalyptic word as if “to worship” the image (the image is the Laws/Principles).

     The interpretation of “worship” is simply derived from the Old Covenant worship where the Lawmaker was YHVH, and He was imaged by the Laws or Torah. Thus, the observance of Mosaic laws was the act of worshipping YHVH. In the Old Covenant, the 10 Commandments was the image of Yahweh. Therefore, when the makers of the laws are the diabolic beasts then the object of worship must be the diabolic beasts. One of the wondrous things of Laws was seeing the image of YHVH‘s heart through the Laws. King David sang, “Open my eyes that I may see wonderful things of the law" (Psalm 119: 18). In the same way, we could pray that may we see the diabolical things of the beasts’ laws. The diabolic laws of the beast are the very image of the hearts of the lawmakers of the diabolic Beasts.

    Those two Beasts, in fact, would be the elite members of the Scarlet Beast. In Revelation 11: 3-8, the Scarlet Beast will kill the end time‘s two prophets soon after they've finished prophesying for 1,260 days. It is prophesied that “...the beast (Scarlet Beast) that comes up from the Abyss (WW III) will attack them (two prophets), and overpower and kill them (Revelation 11: 7).” These foretold killings reveal unto us that the Beast out of the Sea and the Beast out of the Earth, in fact, co-established the elite decision makers within the Scarlet Beast's governance. Briefly, the Beast out of the Sea and the Beast out of the Earth are the top seed group of the Scarlet Beasts.

Together they become the global Custodians of “Peace and Safety.” They would wage war against the saints and defeating them during the eschatological a time, times, and half a time (Daniel 7: 21; Revelation 13: 5 ~ half a time). Waging wars is not necessarily defined as literal wars, but it is interpreted as the Adversary‘s deceptions against the teachings of Christ on earth manifested by the enactment of the duplicitous torah-like laws of the beasts. Any stand against the rapprochement with the “gods of this world aka creators of money” would be economically sanctioned or else be confronted with “suppression of any act of aggression”; frequently dominated by the elite decision makers through bellicose rhetoric. Through the distress of wars, the saints would be powerless in invoking “true peace” from above; they would give in to the authority of the beasts for people would say “who is like the beast? Who can make war against him? Thus, they end up conquered by the beasts.

   One of the heads (a super power nation or a kingdom) of the Beast seemed had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed (Revelation 13: 3). The recuperative power from the fatal wound could be understood as “the lost of world dominancy in world politics” due to her loses of colonies, dominions or mandates. But her authority in world politics was restored through political maneuvers; placing her to be the leading elite of the global governing bodies. Her elite role in world politics would convince the whole world that she is the undeniably the adorable god (ruler) of this secular world. The diabolic Scarlet Beast and her consorting beasts define the saints’  belief as merely shackling the secular progress, and also against the popular relativism ideologies of the world. Therefore, the fire of the saints must be put off. The lawless one who rules the world through the Scarlet Beast would then “speak against the Most High and oppress his saints, and try to change the set times and the laws. The saints will be handed over to him for a time, times and half a time (Daniel 7: 25). These phrases are representing the period of eschatological Chastisement.

Daniel 12: 7 says that, “it will be a time, times, and half a times. When the power of the holy people has been finally broken…” This half a time period i.e. 1,260 days is the same time frame prophesied in Revelation 11: 3. This “half a time” also exactly points to the same period of distress of the saints in Revelation 13: 5-7 which says, “…the beasts exercise his authority for forty two months (1,260) days….he was given power (diabolical power) to make war against the saints and conquer them.” The diabolic agendas aim at warring against the saints. Such wars are originated from spirit realms (Serpent), and when manifested on earth, they were seen as tangible realities which would be totally against the Scriptural teachings. It is prophesied that the saints (New Covenant‘s woman) are called for patient endurance and faithfulness as they go through the eschatological a time, times and half a time; numerically translated into 7 years (6.89953 years), 49 years (48.508546 years), 3.5 years (3.4497656 years). The agenda of the Beast out of the Sea is to conquer the saints. The Beast out of the earth would continue in oppressing just as what the first beast had done to the saints. The saints would experience great distress because the whole world would be enslaved through forced monetary system under the authority of the beast that comes out of the earth. The diabolic leader of the Beast out of the Earth would control the whole transactions of buying and selling through enforcement of monetary laws. “He forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand and on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name" (Revelation 13: 16).

by Joannes Simin( c) Copyright 2014

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[1]  Martin, Elizabeth A, ed. Oxford Dictionary of Law. London: Oxford University Press. 5th ed. 2002. p.517

[2]  Martin, Elizabeth A, ed. Oxford Dictionary of Law. London: Oxford University Press. 5th ed. 2002. p.517

[3] "History of Israel.” Wikipedia The Free Encylopedia. June 23, 2012. Wikipedia.org  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Israel.
 

[4] History of Israel. Wikipedia the Free Encyclopedia. June 23, 2012. Wikipedia.org <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Israel.>

[5] "Bretton Woods System.” Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 15 April 2014. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system.

[6] Ibid.

Revelation 17 ~Exposition by L.B. Woolfolk (1890 AD)

     In the 17th chapter of Revelation, where the Seven Heads and Ten Horns appear upon the body of the Beast from the Pit, they are elaborately described by the angel to John .  The following is the text of the passage:—

“So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness :  and I saw a woman sit upon scarlet-coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns .
“And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abomination and filthiness of her fornication :  and upon her forehead was a name written, mystery, Babylon the great, the mother of harlots and abominations of the Earth.
“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 .
“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 .
“The beast that thou sawest was ;
“And is not ;
“and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit ;
“and go into perdition :
“and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, (whose names are not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world) when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is .
“And here is the mind which hath wisdom .
“The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sitteth .
“And there are seven kings :
“five are fallen ;
“and one is ;
“and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space .
“And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition .
“And the horns which thou sawest are ten kings which have received no kingdom as yet ;  but receive power as kings one hour with the beast .
“These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast . **
* * * * “And the woman which thou sawest is that great city which reigneth over the kings of the earth .”  Rev. xvii: 3-13, and 18.

     In each of the above instances, while they appear upon different bodies, the Seven Heads and Ten Horns are the same, and symbolize the same powers .  In the 17th Chapter, the angel explains to John that the Seven Heads and ten horns symbolize “seven kings,” prophetic phrase for seven kingdoms or empires .  The angel says “five are fallen ;  and one is ;  and the other is not yet come, and when he cometh he must continue for a short space”

From this explanation, we are able to understand the Appearance Of The Seven Heads And Ten Horns, as they appear on the body of the Dragon .  As the Dragon stands uplifted before the woman, five heads hang down dead, underneath its neck, symbolizing the five empires which had fallen at the time the Revelation was given .  The Sixth Head is on the end of the Serpent’s neck, and on it are ten horns .  The Seventh Head is the Serpent’s head, jutting out through the top of the Sixth head, and dominating all .  Such is the appearance of the Dragon, with its Seven heads and Ten horns .

 

What is the symbolic signification of the Seven Heads and Ten Horns ?  What power do they symbolize ? Before giving the true exposition, it will be best to notice 1. the erroneous interpretation formerly given of the seven heads.

     In former interpretations, the Headed Beast was interpreted as symbolizing the Roman empire, exclusively .  This interpretation could be made, only by an entire misapplication of the facts of history .  The Five Heads that had fallen at the time of the vision, have been interpreted as symbolizing the five forms of administration that existed under the Roman Republic,—Kings, Consuls, Decemvirs, Military Tribunes, and Dictators .

1st. I Object To This,

 

1 .  That there were only two forms of government in Rome that had fallen at the time the vision was given,—the Kings; and the Republic. The Republic was always a government of the Senate and the People, throughout its entire existence .  And, during its entire existence, the Executive of the Republic was in the hands of the Consuls, except during brief intervals .

 

2. Again, I Object To The Interpretation, That
 

It is a violation of all the facts of history to call the Decemvirate, the Military Tribunes, and the Dictators, such forms of the Roman government as would be symbolized by “heads.”

1) The Decemvirate was a brief rule of ten persons who had been sent to Greece, to obtain new institutions, and who ruled about a year, while they put the institutions in operation .  They were overthrown in a popular uprising against the crime of one of their number .

2) The Military Tribunes were a temporary arrangement, that lasted only a few years .  It was only another name for the Consuls ;  and it was adopted, in order that one of the officers might be a Plebeian .  It was merely a temporary expedient for a special purpose, and was soon set aside .

3) The Dictatorship only existed in times of great public danger when a Dictator was appointed, whose authority only lasted six months .  It is absurd to call the Dictatorship a “head” of the Beast .  What sort of head is that, which comes on and falls of constantly ?  Such a symbol is ridiculous .

4) These forms of administration can not be called “heads”.  The government of the Roman Republic was continuous all the while; and these changes of administration did not affect its identity in the least. France, since the Revolution of 1789-93, has had nine different dorms of executive administration,—the Monarchy, Convention, the Directory, the Consulate, the Empire, the Monarchy again, the Republic, the Empire, and the Republic .  All these were much more fundamental than those changes of the Roman executive .  And yet, France has been the same power all the while .—Who would think of saying that any prophecy would represent France, during the last hundred years, by a beast with nine heads ?  The idea is absurd .  The French nation has been the same, all the while .

3. I Object To This Application Of The Symbol That

If the Different Forms of the Roman Administration Are to be Continued as Heads, then the Triumvirate of Octavius, Antony and Lepidus must be counted also; and it will make six heads that had lived, instead of five ! !

4. I Object To This Interpretation That

A Head, in Prophecy is Never the Symbol of a Mere Form of Administration .  A head in prophecy, always symbolizes a kingdom, or an empire .  The four heads of the Macedonian Leopard, in the second vision of Daniel symbolize the four kingdoms into which the Macedonian Empire was divided .—And these seven heads, in like manner, represent seven empires that have risen in the earth.

 

2nd. But The Greatest Absurdity Of This Exposition remains to be stated .—By making the “Seven Heads” symbolize the seven forms of Roman administration, former expositors had to find fulfilment for the Seventh Head in some form of Roman power ;  and they found it in the Heathen Roman empire.

 

1. But The Dragon Is A Power Of The Latter Days.
 

This is certain.
 

1) It is contemporary with the Beast from the Pit; and all expositors agree that the Beast from the Pit is a power that has not yet risen .

2) In the Great Final War of the Earth, just before the Millennium, the Dragon is engaged in the war, in alliance with the Beast from the Pit and the False Prophet .

3) And all the facts respecting the Dragon, in the Apocalypse, prove that it is a power of the Latter Days.

 

     The idea of making the dragon symbolize the Heathen Roman empire is perfectly absurd .  It is this kind of interpretation,—such a straining of all the facts of history, such a jumble of symbolism and imagery,—that has made of this grand symbol, the Beast with Seven Heads and Ten Horns, an epithet of contempt and derision, hurled by the scoffer against all prophecy.

 

ii. the true interpretation of the seven heads and ten horns.
 

The Beast with Seven Heads and Ten Horns is a most remarkable symbol .  It is so peculiar, so complex, and yet so simple, that it will not fit any powers but those it was intended to set forth.

 

     As the four heads of the Macedonian Leopard, in the second vision of Daniel, symbolize the four kingdoms into which the Macedonian empire was divided, so here, the Seven Heads symbolize seven empires .  But, as we might suppose, from the analogy of the vision of Daniel, that the seven empires were contemporary like those of the Macedonian Beast, it is expressly stated that they are consecutive.

 

The Seven Heads Symbolize Seven Empires having relations with the people of God, and existing from the earliest times down to a time yet future .  Of these empires, five had fallen at the time of the vision .
 

1st. Exposition Of The First Five Heads.
 

The first Five Dead Heads hanging down under the neck of the Dragon symbolize five empires that had fallen at the time the revelation was given :  “five are fallen.”

 

1. The First Dead Head Hanging Down
 

under the neck of the Serpent .  Symbolizes the Egyptian empire; which under the Eighteenth Dynasty, as we learn from the records of the Egyptian monuments, recently deciphered, extended over Western Asia beyond the Euphrates and the Tigris .  It was the Nineteenth Dynasty which persecuted Israel .  The Pharaoh of the Persecution, under whom Moses was born, was the second king of the Nineteenth Dynasty .  The Pharaoh of the Exodus died at Memphis, some twenty years after that event, with his Asiatic empire all lost, and with Egypt divided between himself and two rival kings, who reigned in the Delta .  The great Egyptian empire fell before the judgments of God, visited upon Egypt for the deliverance of His people.

 

2. The Second Dead Head Hanging Down

 

beneath the neck of the Dragon is a Lion’s head, and symbolizes the Assyrian empire, which carried away the Ten Tribes into captivity in Media.
 

3. The Third Dead Head Hanging Down
 

is also a Lion’s head, and symbolizes the Babylonian empire, which carried Judah away captive to Babylon .
 

4. The Fourth Dead Head Hanging Down
 

is a Bear’s head, and symbolizes the Persian empire, which restored the Jews to their own land, and always treated them kindly .

 

5. The Fifth Dead Head Hanging Down
 

beneath the neck of the Dragon is a Leopard’s head, and symbolizes the Macedonian empire, which, under Alexander the Great, overthrew the Persian empire, and which, under Antiochus Epiphanes, afflicted the Jews with a grievous persecution .  These five empires had fallen, when the vision of Revelation was given .

 

2nd. exposition of the sixth head, with its ten horns.
 

The Sixth Head was the Roman Empire, which was then in existence, and of which the angel said “One now is”.  The Sixth Head, the Roman empire, was slain by the “sword” of the Northern Barbarians, in the year 476, a. d., at which time historians date the fall of the Western Roman empire .

 

The Northern Barbarians Planted Their Kingdoms in the territories of the Roman empire.  In the year 476, a.d.,—the very year of the fall of the Western Roman empire,—we find, for the first time, Ten Kingdoms within its boundaries .

 

In the eye of prophecy, the Babylonian, the Persian, and Macedonian empires continued to exist geographically, after their fall as political powers ;  just as Ireland and Poland are still recognized as having a geographical existence, after they have ceased to be political powers .  According to prophecy, the Roman territory was that part of the Roman empire which was not covered by the Babylonian, Persian and Macedonian empires,—the territory extending from the head of the Adriatic to the Danube, and thence westward, within the Rhine and the Danube, to the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, and including England and a part of Scotland .

 

Within This Territory, We Find Ten Barbarian Kingdoms in the year 476, a.d. And there have been Ten Kingdoms in the territories of the Roman empire ever since that time. Not always the same kingdoms :  sometimes, some would fall, and others would rise in their place: sometimes, in eras of transition, there have been one or two more or less than ten kingdoms .  But when these eras of transition were over, and Europe returned to its normal condition, there would be Ten Kingdoms again .  There have been Ten Kingdoms in Southern and Western Europe, for thirteen hundred years :  there are Ten Kingdoms in Europe now, within the limits of the Roman empire .

 

These Ten Kingdoms are fully set forth in my work, “Key to Prophecy,” and it is not necessary to present them further here .
 

These Ten Kingdoms within the territories of the Roman empire are symbolized by the Ten Horns, which grew out of the dead Sixth Head .  This Sixth Head corresponds with the fourth beast of the second vision of Daniel .  That beast symbolized the Roman empire :  so here, the Sixth Head .  That beast had ten horns ;  so, on the Sixth head here, are the same ten horns .

 

3rd. The Seventh Head.
 

The Seventh Head is the Serpent head,—the empire of the Dragon .  It is the subject of this work to prove that the Seventh or Dragon Head symbolizes the London Money Power—the Imperialism of Capital centred in London .  We will proceed in the next chapter to give the proof .  At present we will proceed to the identification of 4th. The Beast From The Pit.

After explaining to John the Seven Heads and Ten Horns, the angel goes on to give an explanation of the Scarlet Beast,—the Beast from the Pit .  The angel says of him :  “The beast that thou sawest was, and is not ;  and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition .”  And he says again :  “The beast that was and is not, even he is the eighth, and is one of the seven .”

 

1. This shows that the Beast from the Pit rises after all the other seven empires have risen,—after the rise of the Dragon Empire, the Seventh Head .  “He is the Eighth .”

 

After the rise of the Dragon empire, another empire rises, which is the Eighth in order of time, but which is actually not a new empire but is one of the first Seven Empires :  that is, it is a new imperial power, in whose dominion one of the dead six empires comes to life again, and is re-established .

 

All expositors agree that the Roman empire,—the dead Sixth Head,—is to be re-established in the dominion of the Beast from the Pit .  There are many other prophecies which foreshow this re-establishment of the Roman empire .  The re-establishment of the Roman empire under the dominion of the Beast from the Pit is set forth with great clearness in the 13th chapter of Revelation, and also is the First and Second Visions of Daniel .

In the 13th chapter of Revelation, this re-establishment of the Roman empire is set forth .  The context reads as follows :—

“And I stood upon the sand of the sea,
“and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the names of blasphemy .
“And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion .
“And I saw one of his heads as it had been wounded to death [or slain;] and his deadly wound was healed .
“ And the Dragon gave him his power and his seat and great authority .”
“And all the world wondered after the beast .  And they worshipped the Dragon which gave power to the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who like unto the beast? Who is able to make war with him .”  Rev. XIII: 1-4.

I have, in one place, slightly transposed this passage, so as to give the proper order of sequence .
 

The Seven Heads here, as has been already explained, are

I)  Egypt ; 
2) Assyria ; 
3) Babylon ; 
4) Persia ; 
5) Macedon ; 
6) Rome ; 
7) The Dragon head; which I expound as the symbol of the Money Power .  This is the point now being established .
 

2. It Is Important To Fix The Time when the vision begins .
 

The Beast, in its first rise from the Sea, represents Medieval Europe, after the fall of the Roman empire, under the Ten Kingdoms .  This is evident both from history, and from the symbolism of the Beast:—

1) The Ten horns represent the Kingdoms of the Northern Barbarians who overran the Roman empire .  It is Europe under the Ten Kingdoms that is here represented .  That the time is during the reign of the Ten Kingdoms is evident from the fact that the ten horns in the symbol are crowned ;  which shows that they are reigning in the era set forth in the vision .

2) The Beast rises up out of “the Sea.”  The “Sea” is a prophetic image frequently employed, to represent a chaotic condition of society, in which all the elements of social life are unsettled .  Such was the condition of the territory of the Roman empire after the fall of the Western empire .  All the institutions of Roman civilization were broken down :  society was dissolved by the Barbarians who overswept the Roman empire, ravaging, destroying, burning ;  until the remnants of the Roman population were reduced to the condition of serfs, hoveled in the forests which grew up in the cultivated provinces that were reduced to desolation .  Out of this chaos modern Europe emerged .

 

3) When the Beast rose it had the Sixth or Roman head “as it had been wounded unto death,” that is, freshly slain .  This was true of the Roman empire, which was just recently slain by the “sword” of the Northern Barbarians . All the symbolism shows that the Beast represents Europe during the era of the reign of the Ten Kingdoms, after the fall of the Roman empire .

4) The description of the Beast also agrees perfectly with Europe under the Ten Kingdoms .

 

1] “The Beast was like a leopard.”—In the Macedonian Leopard (Daniel vii), the spots indicate the great number of Grecian states that entered into the Macedonian empire .  The Amphyctionic Council of the Grecian states made Phillip, King of Macedon, and afterwards Alexander, the head of Greece for the war with Persia, while each state continued to maintain its independence .

 

    So here, the spots of the Leopard indicate the Ten Kingdoms of Europe, which have maintained a sort of loose combination through their community of religion and interest, but have always maintained their independence as separate states .—They were combined during the Crusades by a common religious enthusiasm ; and all through the Middle Ages, they were united in their allegiance to the Papacy .—In Modern Times, community of interest has caused them to combine against any preponderant nation, to maintain the Balance of Power .  The ten crowned horns have thus been united on the head of the Beast from the Sea . 

 

2] “The feet were as the feet of a bear.”—The Persian bear was slow in its conquests; and these bear feet show that the states of Europe were, like Persia, slow in their military operations .  And indeed, the Ten Kingdoms of Europe have always been slow and sluggish in any military conquests, and generally close their slow wars with but little or no conquests on either side .

 

3] “His mouth was as the mouth of a lion .”—This lion mouth tears and ravages, and shows the ferocity of the European states in their furious and bloody wars .  There can the no doubt that the Beast from the Sea represents Roman Europe after the fall of the Roman empire, under the dominion of the Ten Kingdoms .

 

3. The Healing Of The Deadly Wound.

The Seer defers the mention of the deadly wound, until he speaks of the healing of the wound .  The first act which John saw was the healing of the deadly wound .  This symbolizes the Restoration of the slain Roman head to life,—the re-establishment of the Roman empire .

 

After the healing of the dead Sixth Head, that head, when restored to life, is the Beast from the Pit .  This fully explains the symbolism of the Beast from the Pit :—

 

1) It shows the Beast from the Pit was the Eighth empire in the order of time, but was not a new head, but one of the seven heads, being the Sixth Head restored to life .

 

2) We also perceive how the Beast from the Pit might be called “The Beast that was, and is not, and yet is .”  It is the Roman empire ;  it is not, in its new form, actually the Roman empire but the German empire ;  and yet, it is the Roman empire, re-established under a new form .

 

3) The Beast from the Pit is the Roman empire reestablished, under the imperial supremacy of Prussia over the kingdoms of Southern and Western Europe .  The symbolism plainly shows that the power under which the Roman empire is to be re-established is Prussia:—

 

1]      From the nature of the symbolism, none of the ten horns can be the Beast from the Pit .  For a horn can not be a head, much less can a horn be a Beast .  The horns are all on the Sixth Head of the Beast: they are all accounted for ;  and none of them can be the Beast from the Pit .

 

     This shows that none of the Ten Kingdoms of Western and Southern Europe can be the Beast from the Pit .  This excludes all the kingdoms in the territories of the Roman empire, within the Rhine and the Danube, from the head of the Adriatic westward to the Atlantic, including England and part of Scotland .  Neither France, nor Austria, nor Italy, nor Spain, nor Britain, can be the Beast from the Pit ;  for they are horns on the head of the Beast .  A common sense analysis of the symbol would have prevented all the blunders that have been made in expounding the Beast from the Pit as the symbol of the French empire .

 

2] The Beast from the Pit must, from the nature of the symbol, be some power in Europe outside of the Rhine and the Danube .  It must be either Prussia or Russia . But it is not Russia, because in prophecy, Russia is called by name as at the head of Europe, at an era after the Beast from the Pit has fallen . Hence, as the Beast from the Pit can not be any of the ten kingdoms of Europe within the Rhine and the Danube, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, can not be Russia, it must be Prussia . The very nature of the symbolism demonstrates the fact that Prussia is the Beast from the Pit . We will find that identifying Prussia as the Beast from the Pit is a strong point of the evidence in proving the Dragon to be the symbol of the London Money Power .

 

The phrase "Peace and Security"...tips off His Second return!

By Joannes Simin

What did the Holy Ghost mean when He inspired St. Paul in writing the phrase "peace and safety" in 1 Thes. 5: 3 ? 

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"3 While people are saying, 'peace and safety,'  destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape" ( 1 Thes. 5: 3)...

WHILE PEOPLE ARE SAYING "PEACE AND SAFETY"... 

    When God is saying something, then we know that the Spirit of God would truly fulfill what He had said.  When people are collectively 'saying' (fulfilling worldwide agenda) something, then we know it is concerning a particular 'mission' of men on earth through a world governing body.  St. Paul, the Prophet for the gentiles, tipped off one of the clues in discerning the proximity of the Day of the Lord. He wrote to the Thessalonians the prophetic phrase "Peace and Safety" [1] which disclosed the future agreed principle in maintaining peace on earth. In other words, St. Paul was saying that while people thriving for peace on earth through the principle of "Peace and Safety" then suddenly Christ would return like a thief in the night. "Peace and Safety" articulates the primary purpose of The United Nations, and it is stipulated in Article 1, Chapter 1 of The United Nations Charter. [2] 

"Article 1, The Purposes of The United Nations are: 1. To maintain international 'peace and security,‘ and to that end: to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace, and to bring about by peaceful means, and in conformity with the principles of justice and international law, adjustment or settlement of international disputes or situations which might lead to a breach of the peace; " [3]

    So, Article 1 of the United Nations stipulates that the purpose of the establishment of the World governing body is to maintain international "peace and security."   The message in 1Thessalonians 5: 1-3 was written by St. Paul more than 1,800 years prior to the establishment of The United Nations in 1945 CE.  He wrote this in response to the widespread misleading-belief among the Thessalonians upon the apocalyptic return of Christ in those earlier days of the persecuted Church. St. Paul prognostically revealed the phrase "Peace and Safety" which imparted the distinguishable sign, identifying the Principle of the future world governing body (The United Nations) in which Jesus‘ Second Advent would take place. 

    Surely, St. Paul had unknowingly revealed  the foremost principle of the future world governing body i.e. The United Nations.  St. Paul's letter conveyed―"Now, brothers and sisters, about times and dates we do not need to write to you, 2 for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. 3 While people are saying, 'Peace and Safety,' destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. [4] Thus, the Second Coming of Christ would take place during the ruler-ship of The United Nations i .e. while people on earth maintaining for "peace and security (safety)," as according to St. Paul's presaging phrase "Peace and safety." St. Paul gave us one of the ''readable Signs" on earth which pointed to the Second Coming of Christ!

    We are already in the 70th year under the governance of The United Nations since its establishment in 1945 CE (as on 04th October 2015).   Sister Elena Aiello prophesied on 16 April 1954 CE, "Behold my child, see to what ends the sins of man have reduced me. The world has lowered itself in overflowing corruption. The governments of the people have risen like demons incarnated, and, while they speak of 'peace' they prepare for war with the most devastating implements to destroy peoples and nations. Men have become ungrateful to My Sacred Heart, and abusing My Mercy, have transformed the earth into a scene of crime." [5]

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[1] Thessalonians 5: 1-3. The Holy Bible, New International Version. BibleGateway. Biblica Inc., 05 May 2014. <http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1thes.5&version=NIV>.

[2] Article 1. Chapter 1: The Purpose and Principles of the United Nations. 10 April 2014 <http://www.un.org/en/documents/charter/chapter1.shtml>.

[3] Ibid.
[4] 1Thessalonians 5: 1-3. The Holy Bible, New International Version. BibleGateway. Biblica Inc., 05 May 2014. <http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1thes.5&version=NIV>.

[5] The Prophecies of Sister Elena Aiello.  Mystic of the Church. 08 April 2014. <http://www.mysticsofthechurch.com/2011/09/blessed-elena-aiello-mystic-stigmatic.html>

The seemingly unceasing "day and night"...

The Spirit of Judgment

The Spirit of Yahweh was the Sovereign Divine King who executed Judgments on earth throughout the Old Covenant days; the Holy Spirit adjudged the inhabitants of the earth, under the ‘handiwork’ of YHVH. Whereas the Holy Spirit becomes the Spirit of Judgment throughout the Church's age as under the ‘name’ Prince of Peace or lyrically known as "day and night will never cease." 

As long as "the Sun is not darkened, and the Moon does not cease giving off her light, and the stars are harmoniously shining above in heavens," then the Holy Spirit would continue to be the Spirit of Judgment on earth. The sinning believers would be softly touched by the rod and staff of the Holy Spirit (Romans 8: 28-29), and yet the Spirit pronounces daily judgment upon those who reject the Word. David revealed through his song in Psalm 76: 8 that "from heaven You pronounced Judgment..." It means that the pronouncement of Judgment is from the heart of the Father for God Himself is the Judge (Psalm 50:6).

Knowing the secret of the pronouncement of Judgment means knowing the Heart of the Father. In truth, God displays His wrath every day on Earth. However, His wrath during the mediator-ship of the Lamb of God would be executed by the Holy Spirit: the Sevenfold fire of Judgment.  Christ mediatory role in heaven as according to the Order of Melchizedec is somehow restraining the "consuming holiness of God" from consuming "the thistles and briers" on earth. The main difference between divine Judgment during Church's age, and the post Second Coming Judgment of Christ period is that Divine Judgment during Church age is executed by the Holy Spirit on earth, whereas Judgment during post second coming of Christ is executed by the returned Christ, the Holy Spirit, and the angels as reapers; and the 'elect' would join the company.

The purposes of Judgment

The purposes of Divine Judgment are part of the Divine agenda for the ‘wounded’ men on earth. It would be his primordial divine nature because He is the Source of all life, and the power of life is holy. Any 'wounded’ man who lives on this earth would be subjected to that Holy Power of Life. Neither God has intention in wiping out nor consuming the sinning men on earth. He has no intention in choreographing the sufferings of mankind on earth whom he had created according to His image. He is the ultimate Holy Source of life. He is not the author of death because He is the Creator of Life, and yet he holds the key of death and the keys of the kingdom of death.

This Creation is sustained by His Holy Power, and therefore men need the Way, the Door and the Key granted by His unfailing love, so that they would be able to understand the key of eternity in His Holy Creation. And yet, men reject the fullness of life in the Spirit. Wounded men are inclined to the consciousness of the flesh. Unless we are granted with gift of the Spirit "the fear of the Lord," then we could be staggering in the mediocre zone of Christianity: "to be offended by the Lord" is one of the paintings of spiritual mediocrity. Wrong precepts could lead us into ungratefulness. Wrong precepts could cause us to abandon the journey of our faith. Or at best, we could be merely conforming the religion without joy in the Spirit. Divine Judgment dispenses Justice for all believers who have been ruled by the kingdoms of the ‘beasts,’ and granting them the ‘saving justice;’ He is the God of Justice, and all righteous men would receive justice from Him."

Moses acquainted us with the attributes of YHVH as in Exodus 34: 6-7, which says "the Lord, the Lord, the Compassionate, and Gracious God , slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousand, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet He does not leave the guilty unpunished;" All punishments descend down from His Holiness because sins are enemies against the Holiness of God.

Sins are enemies of the Consuming Fire of the Divine, and thus all sinners and sinning believers are actually opposing the the Holy source of Life. And yet, we crucified the Spirit, and we choose the flesh. Without 'the Way' who faithfully endows us "the garment of righteousness” (“pure in heart") then everybody would be consumed by that Consuming fire of God. Through the blessing of the Cross of Christ, He endows us the Way, the Door and the Key to be reconciled to His Holy Source of Life. Unbelief means we become the enemies of the Holy Source of Life on earth which means we choose separation from the Giver of Life.

God would only pronounce his judgment when evil things are in full measure on earth as in the Deluge. The ‘ripeness’ of sins on earth would mean invoking the wrath of the Consuming Holy Fire. The Source of all Life who destroys life itself such as in the Deluge presents the enigma in understanding His divine attributes. Both Judgment and unfailing love become the stupefying polarity of God especially for those immature Christians. King David who joyfully sang "His unfailing love" was surely knew the key in unlocking the seemingly contradicting attributes of the Divine. Inability to see the mystery of Creation would deprive us the ascending praises in our hearts; unresolved understanding concerning Judgment and Unfailing love of God would hinder the fullness of our faith.

The Scriptural presentation of God as the Creator of the Universe is not acceptable according to the secular paradigms. Such belief does not make any sense for those who are not called by the Father through Christ. Judgment and unfailing love of God could be easily understood when we believe in the Divine power who sustains life in this Universe.  Seeing the ‘holiness’ of the Source of Life, and the underlying power which constantly sustains this Universe would resolve that confusion. Due to that Holy Source of Life, then it would be normal for the Creator in exhorting mankind to "be holy for I am Holy" since His holiness is the consuming fire!

Knowing the underlying Spiritual Secret of the Universe i.e. the ‘holy’ Divine Power means we are endowed with the wisdom of knowing Christ's Word "apart from Me you can do nothing" (John 15: 5). God says in Isaiah 45: 12 "It is I who made the earth, and created mankind upon it." He is not exerting His rights upon men, but it means we are living in His Creation sustained by the Holy power of God, and therefore we know that "apart from Christ, we are indeed nothing."

The phrase "slow to anger" means His endurance in bearing our burden or iniquities day and night. His endurance also expressed as "as long as the earth endures" or "day and night will never cease." The ripeness of sins on earth and the bloodshed upon the earth would lead His endurance to ‘anger,’ and thus ‘day and night’ would turn into "without daytime or nighttime" as in Zechariah 14: 6-7; Matthew 24: 29 and Revelation 6: 12-15.

So, the Deluge was not meant to display His divine rights, but it truly means that every sin committed on earth is against the Most Holy Source of all Life: Holy Power of God. Spiritually, there is no place for every sinning man on earth because the owner of this earth is God, and he is the One that endowing the Source of Life for every living thing on earth. We temporarily survive in the flesh due to His divine patience, or Moses wrote it ‘slow to anger.’ The ripeness of sins on earth invoked His divine wraths as in the days of Deluge. God spared Noah and his family in order to repopulate the earth, and, so that through the chosen lineage, someday "at an appointed time," He could then deliver the ‘Word’ became ‘Flesh’: the awaited Messiah.

In the Deluge, God saved mankind flesh together with the chosen species of the animal kingdom by embarking the ‘Ark.’ When YHVH closed the door of the Ark, every living creature outside the ark was literally wiped out except the fishes. So, the ‘Ark’ of Noah was meant to save the human ‘flesh’ out of Divine Wrath. But, the ‘Spiritual Ark’(the Church) of the New Covenant is meant to bring forth reconciliation for our spirits when it was born again by the Sevenfold Spirit, and that same Sevenfold Spirit would continously operating on those spirits of whose names written in the Book of life.

Therefore, Divine exhortation "Go, my people enter your own chamber" means to be the core message of the ‘two silver trumpets’ who calls every follower of the Way to embark the ‘Reconciliation’ by faithfully putting the ‘righteous garment;’ the garment that was cleansed seven times by the blood of the Lamb. The heart is the garment of the spirit. And we are unable to cleanse that garment, unless by believing the power of Christ Blood that cleanses our hearts seven times. Apart from the Cross, we are "not approved to enter His Presence" via our human-precepts-coverings. “Apart from Christ we can do nothing" concerning the business of holiness. Apart from the God's-made-garments for Adam and Eve, then their invented ‘sewn fig-leaves’ weren't approved to be the covering in entering His Most Holy Presence.  We must accept His cleansing power for our ‘arks’ (hearts) i.e. Lamb's Blood that purifies seven times which was foreshadowed by the ‘seven times sprinkling ritual’ on the day of atonement (see Leviticus 16). To accept means believing it 100 % and to believe it means continually confessing it.

Judgment is pronounced in the Court of Heaven.

David likened the pronouncement of Judgment, as if it is in the Court of Heaven because he used to prosiding the royal court of Israel. Divine Judgment is in the Father's Heart. The heavenly Court was in His heart. And we could hear His resonating ‘lyrics’ in His heart proclaiming His handiwork: Judgment. Those Lyrics are ‘Sun turned to darkness,’ "Moon does not gives its light," and "the stars are falling down," (Matthew 24: 29. Or "no heat, no cold or no frost." "without daytime and without nighttime." Those ‘skies’ or heavenly depictions in His ‘Lyrics’ proclaim His Judgment.

The pronouncement of ‘desert’ or the rhymed phrases "a time, times and half a time" means the beginning of the skies' proclamation of Divine Judgment mission "sun turned to darkness, moon does not gives its lights and the stars above are falling down." After that pronouncement, the Mediator, the Lamb of God, would leave his mediatory seat on the right hand of the Father, and he would descend on earth delegated with new mission as the Lion of Judah who has "seven eyes, seven horns and seven spirits." Seven eyes means divine perfection as the Judge who judges in equity. Seven horns means His perfect power in executing Judgment. And seven spirits means seven fold divine woes as in seven Seals, seven Trumpets and seven bowls executed as to fulfill the ‘fire’ that comes out from the ‘mouths’ of God. That Sevenfold spirit of Judgment also would carry out the "a time, times and half a time" into completion. It is translated " 7 years, 49 years and 3.5 years" according to the inspired interpretation seen through the lenses of the Spirit of the Laws and as according to the spiritual Hebraic lunar calendar.

Prophet Daniel wrote “some of the wise (believers) will stumble, so that they may be refined, purified and made spotless until the time of the end, for it will come at the appointed time." Some of the be believers as they are ushered into " a time, times and half a time" would be 'adjudged’ or given ‘saving justice.’ They are purified seven times by the descended Word: the Sevenfold Spirits. The messages of the seven angels of the seven churches in Asia minor would be resonating throughout the church's age, and they continue to resonate even during the rhymed "a time, times, half a time" or ‘ desert.’ The Judge during the judgment period would be no longer subjected to the Peace Covenant, but His Heart remains immutable.

His unfailing love would be remaining the same in His heart. There in the ‘desert,’ every professing follower of the Way would be tested as if "standing on the Holy Ground" either consumed by the Consuming Presence of God or "aflame and yet not consumed." Those who triumph over those ‘trials’ would emerge as purified seven times by the seven spirits of Christ. Those who become ‘elect’ are warring against the beasts on earth, but the 'minor' believers would be protected by the harvesters (angels). However, they are unable to join the spiritual armies of Christ. The tongues of the 'elect' would be ‘fire,’ and the ‘tares’ would become the wood of it. Since ‘sin’ is ‘fuel’ that catches Fire from the holy harvesters, thus we would see blood, fire, and billowing of smoke on earth throughout the appointed time "a time, times, and half time" or simply called a ‘desert.’