Friday, January 6, 2012

Study Notes- Revelation 13

Revelation 13

Revelation 13:1+2
-This beast is similar to the one in Revelation 12 but they are also different
-The beast in Revelation 12 is Pagan Rome while the one that comes against Jesus in Revelation 13 represents Papal Rome

Revelation 13:2
-Pagan Rome gave the Papacy civil power, the city of Rome and religious power

Revelation 13:3
-Each head represents a different phase of historical period.
-The deadly wound was brought onto Papal Rome in 1798 when Napolian's General Berthier captured the Pope and exiled him until death.

Revelation 13:11
-The next beast coming out of the Earth is the United States of America.
-The two horns are Republicanism and Protestantism
-The leaders of the US begin to contradict the constitution by forcing worship of the papacy.
-They combine Church and State once again

Revelation 13:16+17
-The mark of the beast is Sunday worship which is the opposite of the seal of God (Sabbath).
-The Seal of God appears only on the forehead representing character
-The Mark of the Beast appears on either the forehead and the right hand representing character and acts.

Friday, December 30, 2011

Study Notes- Revelation 12

Revelation 12
-Woman represents the Church
-This church is the Jewish church which refers to the birth of Jesus

Genesis 37:1-10
-Joseph's family was the Sun (father), Moon (Mother) and the Stars (Joseph's eleven brothers).

Revelation 12:1
-The sun represents God
-The moon is the Bible because the moon reflects the light of the sun
-The stars represent the twelve tribes of Israel (Joseph's brothers)

Revelation 12:3
-Satan is the great red dragon
-the seven heads are the lion, the bear then the leapord-like beast with four heads, then the fourth beast with one head
-the fourth beast had ten horns
-the seven crowns are the seven kingdoms (represented as horns on the beast).  there were ten kingdoms but three were plucked up

Revelation 12:4
-a third of the angels were cast out of heaven with satan
-Satan waited for Jesus to be born so he could get rid of him

Revelation 12:6
-talking about the 1260 days prophecy
-We know that there were 30 days in a Jewish month and 360 days in a jewish year... THIS WILL NEVER CHANGE!!!

Revelation 12:7-9
-Once again, talking about Michael and his Angels and the Great Controversy

Daniel 10: 1-12
-jesus is called Michael when it refers to the Great Controversy of Heaven

Revelation 12: 14
-The context tells us  that a time is a year.  Linguistic support doesn't help you here!!!

Revelation 12:13-17
-Satan can't kill Christ but he can persecute God's Church (the woman)
-Satan brought armies and people against God's Church
-The ending of persecution was when the US came around.  US was the first place that gave religious freedom, freedom from persecution


Chart of Representations
Woman= God's Church (Changed from Jewish to christian church)
Dragon=Satan
Moon= Bible
Sun= God
Stars= Tribes
Water= People
Floods= Armies
Earth=US

We're Back!!!

We are back and ready to study!!!  Tonight's study is on Revelation 12.  Let's see how far we get!!!

Saturday, October 15, 2011

Revelation 17 Notes

Revelation 17

Revelation 17:1-Judgement of the great whore

Women-
-A corrupt woman= corrupt church
-A pure woman= pure church

Revelation 17:2-Spiritual adultery
-not JUST Catholicism is being talked about. Even Protestantism is being controlled

Papacy-Political powers of the world have combined with the false Papal system
-In that process the world has received these false doctrines
.-The Papacy believes that once they have control of the world then Jesus will come back
-It will join with the politic powers to dominate

Revelation 17:3-The Church was in the wilderness for a thousand two hundred and threescore days (1260 prophetic days) Rev_12:6 which went from 538 to 1798
-When John who wrote this chapter he was carried away into wilderness- the end of this period
-The Papacy ruled from 538 to 1798
-This is the second half of the 2520 for Israel (Pagan Rome is the first half)
-The Church was being trampled on first by Paganism then by Papalism
-The Scarlet Coloured Beast represents the kingdoms of the Earth

Powers-Two basic powers exist, Satan and God
-They are parallel because Satan has fake versions of the truth
- Satan puts many falsehoods in Christianity

Revelation 17:4-5-Woman shows wealth of the Papacy
-This shows the Papacy's outward deception and display which hides an inward corruption
-60 million Christians were killed by the Catholic church during the inquisition

Revelation 17

It has been a while since we have had a study so we will now resume our place in Revelation, the seven-teenth chapter. I will once again be posting up our study notes so you can follow our studies even without attending. Let the study begin!

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Revelation 15 and 16

Revelation 15

So far in Revelation we have seen so many things. Now would be a good time to review all that we have learned... which is so much!

We see that Revelation 15 is another vision from
Revelation_15:1

Revelation_15:2 :
The sea of glass is the laver (wash basin)
This laver was the one that priests would wash themselves in before entering the temple and wash offerings as well
These lavers could be quite large

Sea of Glass Mingled with Fire

Malachi_3:1-8Malachi_3:17-18 Malachi_4:1-6
According to these verses, the righteous get purified during the judgement of the wicked
Read Great Controversy chapter 24

Song of Moses

Exodus_15:1-19 Deuteronomy_32:1-22
In these verses the people are being scattered
We're not sure what the song of the lamb is about. We think that it is the song of the hundred and forty four thousand

Revelation 16:1-15
The seven last plagues
This is about the time of trouble (chapter 39 of Great Controversy)
In the seven last plagues, evil angels are going to be part of the destruction like in the story of Job, just with God's permission
When God closes probabtion, God is showing that he knows our hearts. The righteous will remain faithful to God and the wicked will not change

The Plagues (Pouring out of the vials)

First five plauges are litteral the last two are symbolic. They all have some symbolisim in them, anyway
Revelation_16:2 sores and dieses
Revelation_16:3 Sea became blood that killed the living things in the sea
Revelation_16:4 Rivers and fountains of water beocme blood
Revelation_16:8-9 The hot sun
Revelation_16:10-11 The kingdom was full of darkness
Revelation_16:12-16 The waters are dried up
Revelation_16:17 A voice from the throne in heaven saying "It Is Finished"

The sixth plague
The sixth plague says that the waters are dried up. Waters represent people.
The king of the east was Cyrus who set the Israelites free from Babylon
Satan uses tricks to get people to follow him by saying he is god
Th battle of Armageddon is in the sixth plague

Armageddon
We must be wide awake like the wise virgine
We need to understand the pouring out of the seventh vial in order to survive Armageddon
There is a great hail

Hail
The end of Babylon and the beginning of God's Kingdom
The stone that hits the feet of the statue in Nebuchadnezzar's dream is "made without hands" which usually reffers to hail

The Seventh Plague

The coming of Christ

Revelation 15

Today we are studying Revelation 15. I don't know what it's about but I guess that's why we're here.