The Supernatural

 

An explanation of things, so that the prophecies make a little more sense!

 

-Seraphim, cherubim, angels, and all other heavenly beings were created and did not exist from all eternity as God does.

-Demons are not angels; they appear to be the “disembodied spirits” of beings that were around before mankind was created. They are also the principalities, powers, age rulers of darkness, wicked spirits, thrones, and dominions. One of these huge principalities has to do with Islam and is called the Prince of Persia. "But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia."- Daniel 10:13

-Angels have free will and a little more strength than humans but are similar. Some of them sided with Satan after the war in heaven, and they are chained up in hell until judgement day. The angels that are chained up in hell are not demons.

-Three prominent personages spoken of in the Scriptures are Michael, Gabriel, and Lucifer.  Unfortunately, Lucifer wanted to be exalted above God Himself and there was a war in Heaven.  One third of the angels went with “Satan”, formerly Lucifer and the other two-thirds stayed with God.  Michael and Gabriel are still archangels. We all have one “guardian angel” who was assigned to us even before birth, who escorts us, if we are a believer, into Heaven.

-The trinity of God is Father, Son and Holy Spirit, which are three yet one.

-The spirits in prison who disobeyed God in the days of Noah (probably the “regular” sinners of that time, not the “Sons of God” or race of giant men as a result of them), Jesus preached to them when He went to hell for a time.

-Man is body (carnal), soul (natural man) and spirit (that needs the Holy Spirit).

 

An Explanation of Some of the Mysteries Contained in the Bible

-The Wheels Described in Ezekiel: www.gotquestions.org/Ezekiel-wheels.html Book of Ezekiel Summarized (very general): http://www.gotquestions.org/life-Ezekiel.html (At the end of the Book of Ezekiel God gives him a vision of the Millennial Temple.

-Chariots of Fire in the Bible: http://www.bibleufo.com/chariots.htm

-General Summary of Revelation: http://www.gotquestions.org/Book-Revelation.html and Daniel: http://www.gotquestions.org/Book-of-Daniel.html (both of these books (although Daniel is in the Old Testament and Revelation is in the New) are prophetic in nature and it would be appropriate to study both of them together).

-Who are the Two Witnesses in Revelation? http://www.gotquestions.org/two-witnesses.html

-The Four Living Creatures: http://www.gotquestions.org/four-living-creatures.html and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: http://www.gotquestions.org/four-horsemen-apocalypse.html

-Revelation 9:11 "And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon." More info: http://www.gotquestions.org/Abaddon-Apollyon.html He is a Nephilim and/or Destroying Angel probably mentioned in the Old Testament Passover as just like in Revelation he has authority to attack those without the Mark of God. There is an evil Greek Demi-God (Nephilim) type who is called Apollo: http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/grecoromanmyth1/p/Apollo.htm   

-Melchizedek is a mystery, but he had nothing to do with reincarnation. He was probably either an angel-type or he had to do with Shem's anointing into priesthood which gave Jesus a right to be prophet, priest, and future king: http://www.bibletruthonline.com/melchizedek.htm His position as king as God anointed David: http://www.gotquestions.org/Jesus-son-of-David.html

-Leviathan: http://www.openbible.info/topics/leviathan  (In Isaiah 27:1 it says "In that day the Lord with his hard and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay the dragon that is in the sea." So it is real and/or also symbolic for Satan as Satan is also referred to as a dragon (it is also possible that dinosaurs existed around the pre-adamic times and that God created a few of these dinosaur-type creatures when man was around as well) Leviathan was a real creature, unlike some of the mythological representations of great sea creatures that do battle with the gods. Leviathan is no myth, but rather a creature of the sea, whether a fish, a sea dragon, a mammal such as a whale, or a reptile such as a crocodile. It is also possible that the leviathan, whatever it was, is now extinct.)

-Dinosaurs in the Bible: http://www.christiananswers.net/q-eden/edn-c004.html

-Talking Animals in the Garden of Eden? www.gotquestions.org/talking-snake.html  

-Info on the Nephilim: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCySeXTLuH6wSJveZrA-sz9A and https://lamarzulli.net/

 

 

Biblical Prophecy 

+Prophetic Word

-The Bible is about 1. God the Father, Son, Holy Spirit and Satan. 2.

Heaven, earth, hell. 3. Jew, Gentile, Church of God.

-It is important when reading the Bible to avoid

misinterpretation, misapplication, and dislocation of Scripture.

 

+Second Coming of Christ

-       We do not know the exact time or season this will happen, but

are expected to watch for it.

-       There will be two stages to the Rapture for the Church. First

the spirits of the dead in Christ who died and went to heaven will come

back for their bodies to be perfected, then the living saints shall hear

the ‘midnight cry’ and be caught up in the Rapture.

 

 

 

+ History and Prophecy

-       God has a plan and purpose, as well as for the ages.

-       In the past He spoke to us by prophets, presently in the last

days, by the Son.

-       1. The Antediluvian age extends from the ‘fall’ (in the garden

of Eden) to the Great Flood, 2. The present age extends to the ‘flood’

to the ‘second coming’ of Christ, 3. The age of ages extends to the

‘Second Coming’ of Christ to the ‘end of times’. This last age is a

‘Dual Age’ consisting of the Millennial age and Perfect age.

-       The original creation of the heavens and the earth is in the

dateless past. The beginning in the Bible refers to the restoration of

earth, as we know it.

-       Therefore, we must understand science to understand the past.

-       The Nebular Hypothesis is that there was a spherical nebular

mass formed that’s shape flattened and finally there was a throwing of

the nebular masses that formed the planets.

-       The creation of the ‘original earth’ is in the dateless past. It

was a beautiful earth covered with vegetation, inhabited with fish, fowl,

and animal life, and probably with (some sort of) human life.

-       It is not known how long this lasted, but at some point, a

catastrophe befell and the ‘original earth’ became formless and void.

‘Thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; He is God; that formed

the earth and made it; He established it, He created it not a waste, He

formed it to be inhabited’.

-       It is clear from the account of Adam and Eve that sin existed

before man was created.

-       In passage Ezekiel 28: 12-14 there is revealed to us under the title

of ‘The King of Tyrus’, a being of surpassing beauty and wisdom, who had

been in Eden (not the same as Adam and Eve, that one may have been the

restoration of the original). This being was ‘perfect in all his ways

from the day that he was created, until iniquity was found in him’. But

his heart was lifted up because of his beauty and thus his wisdom was

corrupted.

-       This passage is to be taken as a prophetic portion of the

antichrist, and as the antichrist is an incarnation of Satan, it is

probably a description of Satan before his fall.

-       The intimation of this Scripture then is, that Satan, with a

host of angelic beings was placed in charge of the primeval earth, and

that through pride sought to be equal with God, and that to punish him,

the earth was to be thrown into a chaotic state and Satan and his

angels, amounting to a third of the angelic hosts were excluded from

heaven, and took up their abode in the heavenlies, the Second Heaven

located between the atmosphere of our earth and the Heaven where God

dwells, and thus became the ‘principalities and powers’ and ‘rulers of

the darkness of this age’ and the ‘spiritual wickedness’ in ‘high

places

(Second Heaven), of whom we are warned.

-       This makes sense because Satan is said to be the ‘prince of the

powers of the air’ and the ‘god of this world (age)’, and it looks like

his plan for the fall of man was a scheme to regain control of this

earth.

-       If there were human beings on the original, pre Adamite earth,

they were doubtless involved in Satan’s fall and destroyed.

-       Demons are believed to be the disembodied of the inhabitants of

the Pre Adamite earth, and their efforts to re-embody themselves in

human beings, as in the days of Christ, is evidence that they once

possessed bodies similar to human beings.

-       If their bodies were destroyed when the earth went into chaotic

mode and burned by fire, then their ‘escaping spirits’ are demons, not

fallen angels or ‘principalities’.

-       If the Pre Adamite earth had death, the bodies may rest at the

bottom of the ocean.

 

+ Current earth

-       Restoration began, day began light, second day firmament formed,

third day land and vegetation reappear, fourth day solar light restored,

fifth day creation of fish and fowl, sixth day creation of animals,

creation of man.

-       We were not evolved from one common species. Proof of this is

that the crossing of a donkey and a mare is a mule, and a mule is a

hybrid and sterile.

-       God may have fashioned man out of the ‘dust of the ground’, as a

sculptor fashions the statue out of clay, and then breathed life into

us, in a threefold: 1. formation of body 2. The gift of spirit, natural

man, that needs the Holy Spirit 3. The soul, self-conscious

nature, memory, affections etc.

-       Woman was created by a rib that God had taken from man, God did

this to represent that man and woman were of one flesh.

-       Adam and Eve were full-grown with intellect, not ever children.

-       At first, until the fall of man, man only ate vegetation, then

God later allowed for us to eat meat.

-       On Gods Day of Rest, Jews observe the end of the week as the

Sabbath, at the end of the week.

-       1. Edenic Dispensation (innocence): Adam and Eve were tested and

failed by eating from the ‘Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil’. Adam and
Eve were tempted by Satan.

-       2. Antediluvian Dispensation (conscience): This is the origin of

all human religions.

-       Angels do not marry, but are not sexless; they never die and

were created ‘en masse’, all at once. Marriage is a human institution to

prevent extinction of the race by death. There is no marriage in Heaven.

-       It is possible there was intercourse between angels and human

beings.

-       “Sons of God” assumed human bodies and as men married ‘the

daughters of men’.

-       These are fallen angels, not doing Satan’s work, these are the ones chained

in hell until Judgment Day as punishment.

-       Proof of this theory is that progeny of this union was a race of

‘giants’. Godly descendants of men never gave birth to the ‘giants’ of

Noah’s day.

-       There was a great flood where only Moses family and two of each

kind of animal were on his ark. God’s sign that there would never be

another great flood was the rainbow.

-       3. Post-Diluvian Dispensation (human government and the beginning

of our current age): This was when the earth was divided into nations.

Men tried to build Babel to Heaven and this was God’s punishment, as men

now speak different languages and cannot communicate through one

language.

-       4. Patriarchal Dispensation (family): During this time was the

Exodus of Egypt and Egyptian crisis.

-       5. Legal Dispensation (law): God was with the people, but they

forsook Him and became idolaters, so He left and gave them over to their

enemies, and then sent Jesus, they were so filled with unbelief and

hatred that they said this is the ‘heir’ let us kill Him, and they took

and crucified Him.

-       6. Ecclesiastical Dispensation (grace): This is current and

defined by the Second Coming of Christ.

-       “As the days of Noah were, so shall the coming of the Son of man

be”.

-       Seven features prove this:

1. A tendency to worship God simply as Creator, and not as Jehovah

requiring atonement for sin.

2. There was a rapid advance in civilization and in the arts and

sciences.

3. There was a union between the holy line of Seth and the wicked

line of Cain.

4. A vast increase in population and congestion of population in

the great cities.

5. Unlawful intercourse of ‘Denizens of the Air’ with the daughters

of men (this may or may not be current and could have to do with sexual immorality).

6. The rejection of the preaching of Enoch and Noah (Christians persecuted).

-“Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers,

walking after their own lusts and saying- where is the promise of His

coming?” 2Pet 3:3-4

 

+Tribulation (judgment): Jews, gentiles, and the Church are

to be judged as bodies, not as individuals. The Church will be caught up

in the beginning and will be judged at the ‘Judgment Seat of Christ’.

The Jews are to be judged during the dispensation under the antichrist

on the earth. The gentiles are to be judged at the close of the

Tribulation, Jesus Christ shall descend from Heaven and sit on the

‘Throne of His Glory’ at Jerusalem, and the ‘sheep nations’ shall be rewarded entrance into the Millennial

Kingdom, ‘Goat Nations’ shall be destroyed.

-       The Millennial Age is the final test (not for the current

Church) that will deny man of any excuse. Man has blamed Satan, saying

that man is radically good without Satan’s influence.

-       Satan shall be bound in a bottomless pit for a thousand years,

man shall be blessed not with a perfect age, but one blessed with all

the influences of the Holy Spirit.

-       The outcome is that when Satan is loosed man will reveal that he

is still a rebellious creature.

-       The Church will not be on earth, only as it is represented by

those who will assist Christ the King in His Administration of the

Millennial Kingdom.

-       This will be known as the Messianic dispensation (for

righteousness).

-       At the close of the Millennial Age the wicked dead and Satan will be put

in the ‘Lake of Fire’. The present earth will then be renovated by fire

(Church and those of the faith who have passed through the Tribulation

will leave the earth at this time); the outcome will be a ‘New Heaven’

and a ‘New Earth’.

-       Then there is the perfect age of holiness. ‘Dispensation of the

fullness of times’.

-       The Ages of the Ages are simply the surrender of the ‘Perfect

Kingdom’ to the Father.

-       The devil, beast, and false prophet will be tormented day and

night, ions of the ions, ages of the ages.

-       At this point time ceases and there is eternity. This shall

reveal the plan and purpose of God. We don’t know of it yet but if we

are His we shall know. We may be included in the development.

 

+The Present Evil World

-       There are two opposing spirits, the Holy Spirit who is engaged

in gathering out the elect body of the Church and there is the spirit of

evil.

-       The spirit of the world is Satan; he is the god of this age.

-       There are two ‘distinct bodies’ in this ‘present evil age’ in

the process of formation. 1. The Body of Christ, the Church 2. The body

of the antichrist. The first is being gathered by the Spirit of God and

the second by the spirit of evil.

-       The difference between the ‘body’ the Holy Spirit is forming and

the ‘body’ the spirit of evil is forming, is that the former is united

to a ‘living head’, while the later has no ‘living head’ for it is

simply an ‘organization’. The Body of Christ is an ‘organism’.

-       At His Second Coming Christ will punish two distinct governing

bodies 1. ‘The ones that are on high’ that is Satan and the ‘evil powers

of the air’ 2. ‘the kings of the earth upon the earth’ That is the

anti-Christian world powers represented by the ‘Ten Federated Kings’

under the control of the antichrist, the heavens will be cleansed of all

the ‘powers of evil’ and their place will be taken and occupied by

Christ and the saints who constitute the Church and they will reign

during the Millennium, from the heavens over the earth, as Satan and his

hosts do now.

 

+The work of Jesus Christ

-The ‘office work’ of Christ is a ‘threefold’, that of prophet, priest

and king. But He does not hold these offices conjointly but

successively. His prophetic work from creation to His ascension, His

priestly work extends from His ascension to the rapture of the Church

and His kingly work from His revelation at the close of the

Tribulation period, until He surrenders the Kingdom to the Father, that

‘God may be all and in all’.

-       Jesus became by His human birth- ‘God manifest in the flesh’,

this becoming to men ‘the image of the invisible God’, that He thus

became the first-born’ of the ‘new creation’ of God of which the race of

the ‘second’ or ‘last Adam’.

-       However, the ‘Divine Three’ existed in co-ordinate relation with

each other before anything else existed.

-       The work of the Father was the creation of matter, that of the

Son formation of matter into all its various forms, and that of the Holy

Spirit to give life to such forms as have life.

-       Christ was active between creation and His incarnation to His

ascension. It was Christ who as ‘captain of the Lords host’ opened

the Jordan River that Israel might cross over.

-       While Moses asked the Lord to ‘show him His glory’ the Lord said

‘Thou canst not see my face, for there shall no man see me and live.’

-       When He personally appeared to men, as to Abraham at his tent

door, He did so in disguise or in some supposed form, that the Lord

provided Himself with before the creation of man, in the anticipation of

the need of personally appearing to men.

-       God said – ‘Let us make him in our own image, after our

likeness’.

-       Now it is a ‘principal of law’ that the penalty of a broken law

must fall on the breaker of the law, or on a substitute, otherwise the

law is of no effect.

-       Now Adam broke the law, the penalty for breaking the law was

death, spiritual and physical death. “And you being dead in your sins

and the uncircumcism of your flesh, hath He quickened together with Him,

having forgiven you all trespasses; blotting out the handwriting of

ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it

out of the way, nailing it to the Cross”.

-       ‘Wherefore, my brethren ye are also become dead to the law (our

first husband) by the body of Christ (that is, by Christ’s death); that

ye should be married to another, even to Him (Christ) who is raised from

the dead’ –Rom 7:4

-       ‘By the cancellation of the “bond” the law and justice of God

were satisfied, and it were possible for God to be just and the

justifier of them who believe in Jesus’. Rom 3:26

-       Jesus, now ‘High Priest’ entered the most Holy Place.

-       Christ is the mediator between God and man.

-       God can now honorably and justly forgive any man his sin who

repents and accepts Christ as His Savior.

-       And no man shall be able to pluck us out of our Fathers hands,

for we are sealed until the Day of Redemption.

-       There are two sides to a believer, that of the flesh and that of

our spiritual nature.

 

+ The Work of the Holy Spirit

-       In creation the Holy Spirit breathed into us, life from the fall

to the flood to strive with men through their conscience to live better

lives, from the flood to the birth of Jesus was about the same and He

came upon specific men and women for some special service. Jesus was

without the aid and co-operation of the Holy Spirit, now the Holy

Spirit’s work is in the Church, to live within the Church, the Holy

Spirit

will be absent of earth during the Tribulation to return in the

Millennium.

 

+The Jews

-       The Jews have been well preserved throughout history and in the

Millennium, they will be restored as the ‘head of nations.’

 

+ The Gentiles

-       These are the times of the gentiles, not the Church. The Jews

will be trodden down during these times, and after the Tribulation they

will be judged as nations. The ‘Sheep Nations’ will enter into the

‘Millennial Age’; the great nations will be destroyed.

 

+ The Church

-       A person can exist without a physical body, as the soul exists

without a physical body between the death and the resurrection of the

body, but that existence cannot be made manifest. So, the only way is

Christ, who is new in glory, who can manifest Himself to the world

through His body- the Church. The only way to see Christ is in today’s

believers.

-       “And He gave some apostles, and some prophets, and some

evangelists, and some pastors and teachers for the perfecting of the

saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of ‘the body

Christ’, till we all come in the unity of the faith, and the knowledge

of

the Son of God, measure of the stature of the fullness in Christ.” –

Eph.

4:11-13

-       the Church is to be the ‘Bride of Christ’, the two Brides

mentioned in the Scriptures are Israel, the Bride of Jehovah and the

Church the Bride of Christ. Israel is a cast-off wife because of her

whoredoms, but God promises to take her back when she ceases from her

adulteries.

-       The Church did not exist until after Christ’s ascension, so the

Church Christ’s Bride are His saints of the Rapture.

-       The Church is to be caught up in the Rapture, the dead in

Christ and the living Saints.

-       After the Church is caught up it will be judged, not for sins

but for the works at “The Judgment Seat of Christ”. Then is the marriage

of the Church, and Jesus will return with His ‘Bride’ to earth to rule

for 1000 years. Then they shall return to the Fathers House as the earth

has its ‘Baptism of Fire’, after this they will return with the descent

of the ‘Holy City’ to abide on the New Earth forever.

-       The current Church consists of Jew and gentile (other nations)

on this earth who are saved.

 

+ The King

-       Jesus is to be given the Throne of David. The only living man

today that can establish an unbroken genealogy directly and incontrovertibly

from King David, is the man Jesus Christ.

-       Jesus’ coming must then have two stages, the first time as

‘suffering savior’, when He did not receive the Throne of David, and

then a second coming as King.

-       The Throne of David has been vacant for around 2500 years, but

when the ‘times of the gentiles’ have run their course and the time has

come to set up again the “Tabernacle (house) of David” which has fallen

down, the ‘Throne of David’ will be re-established and given to Christ.

 

+The Kingdom

-       It is clear from the Scriptures that God has been trying to set

up a ‘visible’ Kingdom on this earth ever since the creation of man, to

whom He gave dominion.

-       The Kingdom was at hand during the crucifix, but not in a

‘physical’,’ visible’ way, just yet… this was a prelude or the beginning

of sorts so that God could form His Church.

-       After the resurrection of Jesus, the hope of a visible Kingdom

was revived.

-       The Kingdom of Heaven is like unto 1. The Sower – is to cause

the hindrance of the growth of the seed.2. The wayside hearer doesn’t

have a chance to take root, the ‘devils birds’ snatch up the seed before

it can work into the soil 3. The stony ground hearer is the seed that

takes root, but dies before it can grow up because of the shallowness of

the soil. Jesus mentioned ‘two stones’ that underlie the soil of the

heart of the stony ground hearer. These will still suffer persecution

and

tribulation 4. The thorny ground hearer is where the seed takes

root, grows up, but does not bear fruit; the thorns on it are the cares

of this world, deceitfulness of riches, lust of things, and the

pleasures of this life 5. The good ground hearer is for those who do

bear fruit.

-       During the Millennial age changes will be made in the animal

kingdom. Animal will not eat animal, there will be ‘wolves dwelling with

lambs.’

-       Human life will be prolonged, the Church will live forever.

-       Light will increase, moonlight shall be as bright as day.

-       Israel shall receive their blessing “I will make thee the Head

and not the Tail”. –Deu. 28:13

 

+The Spirit World

-       There are three prominent personages spoken of in the Scriptures

outside of the Triune God.

-       1. Michael- His work seems to be to deliver God’s people,

particularly the Jews, from the power of Satan, and finally to oust him

and his angels from the heavenlies and cast them down onto the earth. He

also has something to do with the resurrection of the dead.

-       2. Gabriel – He seems to be associated with the redemptive work

of God.

-       3. Satan – He is the source of the anarchy and rebellion of the

universe.

-       The threefold nature of man is the carnal body, natural soul,

and

spiritual spirit. The eye is connected to imagination, smell to

conscience, taste to reason, touch to affections, these are all of the

soul. But hearing connects to the memory of the soul to the will and

spiritual insight of the spirit, of which the Holy Spirit gives. This

explains why many do not understand the things of God.

 

+Spiritism

-       Spiritism nowadays goes under the title of ‘physical research’.

The Biblical name for this is ‘demonism.’

-       It is forbidden in the Scriptures “The soul that turneth after

such as have ‘familiar spirits’ and after ‘wizards’, to go a whoring

after them, I will set my face against that soul, and will cut him off

from amongst his people.” –Lev. 20:6 “A man or woman that hath a

‘familiar spirit’ or that is a ‘wizard’ shall surely be put to

death, they shall stone them with stones” – Lev. 20:27

-       Now in the New Testament says “Thou who hast not sinned may cast

the first stone”. As Satan is the god of this age, this is also the age

of grace. The Old Testament shows how greatly spiritism offended God.

-       The ‘familiar spirits’ of the Old Testament are the same as the

‘demons’ and ‘seducing spirits’ of the New Testament.

-       Mediums who claim to talk to the dead are talking to

‘familiar spirits’ of a person that takes on the character.
This is what ghosts are.

-       Demons can cause dumbness, blindness, insanity, suicidal mania,

personal injuries, supernatural strength and physical defects and

deformities. Once they gain control of the human body, they can come and

go at will. They use humans as instruments of unrighteousness.

-       ‘Seducing spirits’ may account for sensual gratification and
sexual immorality.

-       Mediums may not speak of the dead because a good man’s spirit may

not, and the spirit of a bad man cannot return to this earth.

 

+The Resurrection

-If we die before the resurrection, we look the same as we did in our

bodies, in our souls, so that our spirit may live in it.

-       The evil dead are condemned even until the renovation of the

earth by fire.

 

+The Judgments

-       The 5 judgments are:

-       Judgment of the sinners, fulfilled by the death as to Christ.

-       Judgment to believers, as of their good works, which they shall

receive different crowns.

-       Judgment of the Jews, as to the conversion and reception of

Christ as their Savior at the beginning of the Tribulation.

-       Judgment of nations, in which the sheep nations live on in the

Millennial age and the goat nations destroyed (as not to individual

believers).

-       Judgment of the wicked, they are to be cast into the Lake of

Fire.

 

+Satan

-       As Lucifer He was the protector of the ‘Throne of God’.

-       He oversaw this world in the heavenlies, but he wanted

to be exalted even above God. This explains for his battle to regain

possession of the earth. If God gave it up to him, he would stop all

that he has done now.

-       Satan resides in the heavenlies.

-       When his expulsion from the heavenlies comes he will take on

human form as the antichrist, and will soon be cast out into the Lake of

Fire for eternity.

 

+The antichrist

-       The antichrist will deny all things of God and His Church during

the Tribulation.

-       He shall be crowned king and deceive many, the papal church will

be around when the real Church has been caught up, and will be destroyed

right away.

-       He will act as if to usher in the “Golden Age”, posing as a good

person.

-       He shall rule for seven years.

-       He will be slain and rise again, as being evil.

-       All nations will worship him, taking the mark of the beast as

they cannot buy or sell otherwise, whose names shall not be in the Book

of Life.

-       At the end he will make war with God and His people, and lose,

eventually cast into the Lake of Fire forever.

 

+ Satanic Trinity

-       The dragon-antigod

-       The beast-antichrist

-       The false spirit-antispirit

-       The image of the beast shall be a talking idol to worship.

-       The mark of the beast is the brand of 666, the number of men,

not the perfect number of 7.

-       Those who don’t worship or take the Mark of the Beast will be

starved killed or even by guillotine.

 

 +The Four Gospels

- Gospel means ‘good news’.

-       The four gospels are;

-       1. The Gospel of the Kingdom- This is the ‘good news’ that God

purposes to set up a Kingdom on this earth over which David’s Son Jesus

shall reign, as prophesied in Luke 1:32-33.Two preachings of the gospel

are mentioned, one past that ended with the rejection of Jesus as

King. This gospel is to be preached again after the Church is taken out.

-       2. The Gospel of the Grace of God- This is the ‘good news’ that

Jesus Christ died on the Cross for our salvation. It is called the

Gospel of God because it has its source in the love of God, its

character is grace. Its subject is Christ, and it is the power of God

unto salvation. And it is the gospel of peace because it makes peace

between the sinner and God and brings peace to the soul.

-       3. The Glorious Gospel- This has to do with the grace of God in

glory and having been glorified and is bringing many sons to glory. It

is

comforting to those looking for His glorious appearing, His second

coming.

-       4. The Everlasting Gospel- This gospel is proclaimed just before

‘the vial judgments’ and by an angel. It is the only gospel committed

to an angel. It is not salvation, but judgment. It is ‘good news’ to

Israel and all who are passing through the ‘fires of judgment’ because

it declares their troubles will soon be done.

-       There is another gospel, which is not another. It is the

perversion of the true Gospel, but teaches faith is not sufficient to

salvation but emphasizes ‘good works.’

 

+The Seven Churches

-       1. Ephesus Period, was a backslidden Church, who lost its first

love, God. And there was the separation from the Clergy from the Laity,

a thing that God hates.

-       2. Smyrna Period, was “chastised” so as to cause it to return to

God, and they were persecuted by Satan. Their persecution ended with the

last and fiercest persecution under Diocletian.

-       3. Pergamos Period, Pergamos is spoken of as “Satan’s seat”. The

Church was exalted, which was Satan’s work, not Gods, and Church and

state were united as the Church opened up for all kinds of worldly

people

to come in. The Church was now more political. The Clergy had supremacy

over the Laity. A sensuous form of worship was introduced, the character

of preaching was changed and great Pagan Festivals were adopted, with

but little alteration to please the Pagan members of the Church, and

attract Pagans to the Church.

-       4. Thyatra Period, A ‘system’ was introduced and that ‘system’

was the papal church. When the papal church introduced images and

pictures into its churches for the people to bow down to, it became

idolatrous. And when it set up its claim that the teaching of the church

was superior to the Word of God, it assumed the role of

‘prophetess’ (Jezebel in Rel 2:18-19)

-       5. Sardis Period, this was when the Church became ritualistic in

its ways. And this is where there was a reformation and some people of

the Church formed Protestant religion.

-       6. Philadelphia Period, three things are said of this Church 1. It

had a ‘little strength’. It was like a person coming back to life who

was still very weak. It was the ‘dead’ Sardis Church revived. 2. It had

‘opened the door’ that no man could shut for Christ. This is where

Evangelism began (preaching of the gospel worldwide). 3. It was to be

kept from the ‘hour of temptations’ and shall not pass through the

Tribulation.

-       7. Laodicea Period, our Churches today are larger ‘luke warm’.

There is very little warm-hearted spirituality, there is much going on

in them, but it is largely mechanical and of a social natural. Revival

meetings are held, but instead of waiting on the Lord for

power, evangelists and paid singers are hired, and soul winning is made a

business. The cause of this is self-deception. The trouble with the

Church today is that it thinks that nothing can be done without money.

-       “Behold I stand at the door and knock.” This means that Christ

had once stood but now found Himself excluded and standing outside

knocking for admittance into the Church.

-       “If any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to

him and will sup with him, and he with Me.” To re-open the Church to God

it will take individual members to open their hearts and let Christ

enter.

 

+The Tribulation

-       The Tribulation will last for seven years, the last half will be the

exceedingly worse “Great Tribulation.”

-       The antichrist will come and unite with the “Ten Kingdom

Federation”, as the head.

-       There will be war and famine; great physical changes will take

place on the earth.

-       Gentiles who accept Christ as Savior after the Church is

caught out will be saved and serve God in His heavenly temple, and never

thirst or hunger anymore, but they are not part of the Church, and shall

not participate in any Millennial blessings on the earth.

-       The Tribulation is God’s wrath cast out.

-       Jewish people will flee for a ‘place of refuge’ and be

protected, and they will escape the antichrist’s wrath.

-       Angels will come and warn of the ‘hour of judgment’, and of the

‘Wrath of God’.

-       The persons with the mark of the beast shall be tormented, as

will those who worship the antichrist.

-       They will announce that ‘Babylon has fallen.’

-       The Tribulation will close with a “Battle of Armageddon.' Before

the destruction of the army of the antichrist he and the false prophet

will be cast into the Lake of Fire, and Satan will be thrown into the

bottomless pit.

-        John tells us that he saw two beasts in his vision. The first came up out of the sea.
This represents “antichrist” after his incarnation by the “dragon” (antigod). The second came
out of the earth and is called the “false prophet.”

 

+Babylon the Great

-       Babylon is the bride of Satan, opposite of Israel. Babylon has

been destroyed but shall rise again. This may happen after the

Resurrection of the Church.

-       This will be sort of a repeat, as they were once a glorious

nation, destroyed, without God.

-       They will be so rich, probably the most magnificent city the

world has ever seen, but they shall forsake God.

-       Even as Babylon will be destroyed, God will mercifully take out

His own people, a voice from Heaven will cry- “Come out of her my

people, that ye be not partakers of her sin, and that ye receive not of

her plagues.” And Babylon will be no more.

 

+Renovation of the earth

-       The meek shall inherit the earth.

-       There will be no sin, after this, no more sea, and a new city.

-       The Church of today will be of a high elect with God, those who

made it past the Millennial age shall be its inhabitants.

-       The solar system is so large because it serves a bigger purpose.

There shall be no death and people may inhabit other planets as people

will multiply as after Noah’s flood in this time.

-       This will be the sinless human race.

-       Then time shall end into eternity; there shall be no end.

-       After the ‘Ages of Ages’ ends, Christ shall surrender the

Kingdom to God, that God may be all in all. This will be so, as Christ

has finished His work that was given to Him. His title ‘Son of Man’ will

merge into ‘Son of God’ again.

 

+The Covenants

-       1. The Edenic Covenant- Was to replenish the earth, subdue the

earth, give man dominion over animal creation, restrict themselves to a

vegetable diet, till the garden, abstain from eating of the “Tree of the

Knowledge of Good and Evil”, the punishment of this was physical death.

-       2. The Adamic Covenant- The curse to the serpent was to be

condemned to crawl upon its belly and eat dust, the woman would have

pain in childbirth, and as man and woman were once created to be

equal, man would have headship, the man had the ground cursed for his

sake and would have to secure a living from hard labor, which would wear

out his system and end in physical death, the ground was cursed with

thorns, the promise was the seed of a woman (Christ) should crush the

serpents head while his ‘seed’ should bruise Christ’s heel.

-       3. The Noahic Covenant- That God would not curse the ground

anymore, or destroy the living, Noah's descendants were to be fruitful

and

multiply, the law of ‘capital punishment’ was established, a rainbow is

Gods promise the earth shall never be destroyed again by water of a

Great Flood.

-       4. The Abrahamic Covenant- “I will make thee a great

nation”, natural posterity, spiritual posterity,” I will bless thee,”

And

curse them that curseth thee”, “In thee shall all families of the earth

be blessed.”

-       The Abrahamic is confined to the Hebrew race, while the others

cover the whole gentile world.

-       5. The Mosaic Covenant- The moral law consists of the Ten

Commandments, the civil law, and the ceremonial law.

-       This Covenant continued until the Jews were scattered at the

destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70. It will be renewed by the

“Palestinian Covenant.”

-       6. The Davidic Covenant- The posterity of David’s house shall

never be destroyed neither shall his throne, David’s Son will have an

earthly rule over the Millennial earth, the Kingdom shall be established

forever.

-       7. The Jewish Covenant- This is the repentance of Israel.

-       8. The New Covenant- It has nothing to do with the Church and

this Dispensation, it speaks of Resurrection and eternal completeness.

 

+ The Mysteries

-       These are the incarnation, divine indwelling, the union of the

Jews and gentiles as the Church, the seven Churches, the Kingdom of

Heaven, the translation of the saints, Israel's blindness, of the

antichrists iniquity, Babylon the Great, the Church as the Bride of

Christ

and the restoration of all things.

-       “Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the

Church, and gave Himself for it; that He might sanctify and cleanse it

with the washing of water by the Word, that He might be present to give

Himself a glorious Church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such

thing: but that it should be holy and without blemish.” – Eph 5:25-32

 

+ Types and Anti-types

-       contrasts:

1. Christ came from above; antichrist ascends from the pit.
2. Christ humbled Himself, antichrist exalts himself.
3. Christ came in His Father’s name; antichrist will come in his own

name.

4. Christ despised; antichrist admired.
5. Christ exalted; antichrist cast down to hell.
6. Christ to do His Fathers will, antichrist to do his own will.
7. Christ came to save; antichrist comes to destroy.
8. Christ is the good Shepard; antichrist is the idol (evil)

Shepard.

9. Christ is the ‘true vine’; antichrist is the ‘vine of the

earth.’

10. Christ is the truth; antichrist is full of lies.
11. Christ is the holy one, antichrist is the lawless one.
12. Christ is the ‘man of sorrows’, antichrist is the ‘man of sins.’
13. Christ is the Son of God; antichrist is the son of perdition.
14. Christ, “The Mystery of Godliness”, is God manifest in the

flesh,

antichrist, “The Mystery of Iniquity”, will be Satan manifest in the

flesh.

-       There are also many Biblical anti-types, such as Abraham

(prophetically) was a type of God, Eliezer was a type of Holy Spirit,

Rebekah a type of the “Bride of Christ” and Joseph a type of Christ.

 

 + The three trees to which Israel is compared to in Scriptures

- The vine is a symbol of Israel’s spiritual privileges.

-       The fig tree is a symbol of Israel’s national privileges.

-       The olive tree is a symbol of Israel’s religious privileges.

 

 + The feasts of the Lord

-       The Passover feast, the Feast of Unleavened Bread, The Feast of

First Fruits, The Feast of Pentecost, The Feast of Trumpets, the Day of

Atonement and the Feast of Tabernacles are all symbolic of Israel, as to

redemption on the Cross: the holy walk, resurrection, the Holy Spirit,

the regathering of Israel, atonement of Israel and Israel’s Millennial

rest.

 

+ The Offerings

-       These offerings are all symbolic of something:

-       The burnt offering symbolic of the complete consecration of the

offerer to God, the teaching was that Christ gave Himself as a whole

burnt offering on the Altar on the Cross.

-       The meal offering symbolic of the consecration of offerer’s toil

and possessions to God, it taught that Christ was the ‘corn of wheat’,

bruised on the mill of Calvary and offered as ‘the bread of life’ to His

people.

-       The peace offering symbolic of the reconciliation of the offerer

with God, it taught that Christ is our ‘peace offering.’

-       The sin offering symbolic of the expiation of the sin of the

offerer and taught that Christ is our ‘sin offering.’

-       The trespass offering symbolic as was to make reparation and

restitution for the trespass of the offerer. Teaching that Christ is our

‘trespass offering.’

-       All of this happened before Christ died on the Cross and rose

again, and comes from the Old Testament book Leviticus. Since the Cross

‘points both ways’, this may have just been a reminder of what was to

come.

 

+ Dispensational Teaching of the Great Pyramid

-       “The Great Pyramid” is the only one remaining of the “Seven

Wonders of the World” and is in Egypt. Of the pyramids in

Egypt, it was the first and largest of them all, and served as a pattern

for others but was not a tomb.

-       In its construction it embodies such knowledge of mathematics,

astronomy and Scriptural information as to clearly show that the

architect and builder was especially endowed with Divine wisdom.

-       “Where waste thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?

Declare, if thou has understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof,

if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched the line upon it? Where upon are

the foundations thereof fastened? Or who laid the cornerstone thereof;

when the Morning Stars sang together, and all the Sons of God shouted

for joy.” – Job 38:4-7 (the question is asked of Job)

-       The pyramids chambers represent prophecy and what has happened

and is now.

-       Most likely the Egyptians did not build this pyramid.

 

+ Scripture Numerics

-       Different numbers in the Bible have great significance.

-       One: “The Number of Unity”-One body, one spirit, one hope, one

Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God.

-       Two: “The Number of Union”-The union of marriage as becoming

one, the union of Christ and the Church, the union of the ‘two natures’

in Jesus.

-       Three: “The Number of Divinity”-The trinity of God, the trinity

of man (body, soul and spirit), the three great feasts, the three

temptations of Christ and His three prayers in Gethsemane.

-       Four: “The Number of the World”-The four seasons, the four

points of the compass, the four earth elements (earth, air, fire and

water), the four judgments to come upon the nations, the four divisions

of the human race (nations, kindred, peoples, tongues).

-       Five: “The Number of Division”-There were five wise and five

foolish virgins, David took five smooth stones from the brook, there are

five digits on each hand and foot, there are five senses.

-       Six: “The Number of Man”-Man was made on the sixth day, the

kingdoms of the world are to last for six thousand years, it was

prophetic of ‘the image of the beast.’

-       Seven: “The Number of Perfection”-There are seven days in the

week, the Book is addressed to the Seven Churches of Asia, Seven angels

sound seven trumpets and Seven angels pour seven vials containing the

last seven plagues.

-       Eight, ten, twelve, forty, seventy, one hundred twenty, one

hundred forty-four are also symbolic numbers in the Bible.

 

+  The Signs of the Times

-       “But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even

to ‘the time of the end.’ Many shall be purified, and made white, and

tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall

understand.” (Dan 12:4,9-10)

-       1. Post Millennial Scoffers-“That there shall come in the last

days, scoffers, walking after their own lusts and saying- where is the

promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things

continue as they were in the beginning of the creation.” (2 Pet 3:3-4)

-       2. Apostasy- “That day” shall not come before a “Falling

Away” (of the Church).

-       3. False Teachers- Many churchgoers demand teachers’ ‘tickle’

their ears with pleasing, novel, and sensational Doctrines.

-       4. Spiritualism- Many shall depart from the faith, giving heed

to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils (demons).

-       5. Perilous Times- Men shall be lovers of their own selves,

covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents,

unthankful, unholy, without natural affection (for their offspring),

truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those

who are good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more

than

lovers of God: having a form of godliness, but denying the power

thereof.

-       6. Heaped Treasure- “rich men, who shall have heaped treasure

together, and that by fraud, and who shall use their ill-gotten gain in

the pursuit of pleasure and wantonness, and that God will hear the cry

of those who have been cheated of their just share of profits, and will

send a sore judgment upon the guilty.” (James 5:16 1-6)

-       7. A Laodicean Church- In, which Christ will be excluded from

the

Church.

-       8. The fig-tree Sign- The fig-tree symbolizes the nation of

Israel, and it’s budding the revival of Israel as a nation. For the

revival of Zionism, and the passing of the land of Palestine into the

hands of a Christian nation, opens the way for the restoration of the

Jews to their own land, and the fulfillment of the fig-tree sign.

-       9. The distress of nations- “Thus saith the Lord of hosts, yet

once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth,

and the sea, and the dry land; and I will shake all nations, and the

desire (Christ) of all nations will come.” Distress of the nations, the

uprising of the masses in “National Revolutions”, the “Tottering

Thrones”, are indications that the nations are being shaken.

-       10. Noah Days- As in the days of Noah, men did eat, drink,

marry, they bought, sold, planted, built, so shall it be in the last

days of man, but these are not the sins, the sin is that they forgot to

worship their Maker. They were so busy building homes for themselves

that they forgot to secure a home in Heaven.

(This is from Clarence Larkin's book "Dispensational Truth", which is now in the public domain. It has many useful charts and other information that is worth checking out!

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