It must be humans who pronounce these words. How is it possible for John to hear this song at God's Throne without humans there to sing it? Have we encountered this already? In fact we have. Compare it to these words: "And I heard a sound from Heaven like the roar of rushing waters and like a loud peal of thunder. The sound I heard was like that of harpists playing their harps. And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders" (Revelation 14:2-3). We are hearing the 144,000, as they praise God that they were saved when the judgment fell upon the world.
The song continues. "And again they shouted: "Hallelujah! The smoke from her goes up for ever and ever." If they mentioned twice the condemnation of the great prostitute, then she was punished twice: First before the Seventh Scroll (Hollywood), and secondly at the end of God's Wrath.
Now John sees that "the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God, who was seated on the throne." Please, those of you who still see twenty-four men in those twenty-four, accept that they are not men. They now neither sing, nor need to bring human praises to God (Revelation 5:8-10). The believers sang, and they cried: "Amen, Hallelujah!"
Then a voice came from the Throne, saying: "Praise our God, all you his servants, you who fear him, both small and great!" How is it possible that commands come from God's Throne to praise God? This is possible only if God the Holy Spirit is commanding God's servants to praise God the Father. It commands the four living creatures that are also in the center and around the Throne (Revelation 4:6), and so it must be God the Holy Spirit commanding.
Then John hears the praises of God's servants ring out: "Hallelujah! For our Lord God Almighty reigns. Let us rejoice and be glad and give him glory! For the Wedding of the Lamb has come, and His Bride has made herself ready. Fine linen, bright and clean, was given her to wear." The Lord's Bride does not sing this song, obviously. Although John did not mention angels, it must be they who are singing. Angels are God's primary servants. Some are higher in rank than others. If they hear the command of God the Holy Spirit to praise God the Father, they should do so wherever they are. (His voice is God's, and therefore it reaches everywhere.) So, not only are the voices of the 144,000 heard at the Throne though they are not there, but so are the voices of angels.
Humans are also God's servants, because when John intended to worship the angel, the angel said to him: "Do not do it! I am a fellow servant with you and with your brothers who hold to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God!" From this statement, we can conclude that the humans abiding at the Wedding of the Lamb are also God's servants. This means that they are going to serve God after the wedding banquet. (Then they will also praise God upon hearing the command to praise Him, although they will be on the Earth).
Here is their first commission: "I saw Heaven standing open and there before me was a White Horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. The armies of Heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean." Are there angels among them? John did not show angels in Heaven, and so they should not be there among the host of the Army. Earlier, angels stood by the Throne at the opening of the Book, in order to be sent to fulfill God's will as written in the Book (as reinforcements for Michael). Angels might be busy conducting the affairs of wars and harvesting the Earth. Therefore, these on the white horses are recruits just enrolled in God's Army. They are dressed in fine linen, white and clean, and so are not returning from battles or other commitments.
The result of their expedition is the final destruction of the evildoers, and the rescue of those left behind for the new Lord of the world. They were already performing this task in flesh, when they used faith. At the time, they believed that God's servants were nearby, to help or to save them in all situations. Now, they are going to save and to help other believers in God.
Jesus Christ takes the office of KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS (Zechariah 12). The old lords of the world see that "the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who had performed the miraculous signs on his behalf. With these signs he had deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped his image. The two of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur. The rest of them were killed."
The Lord enters Jerusalem. "The day of the LORD is coming when your plunder will be divided among you" (Zechariah 14). And so Lord Jesus comes. The Earth is the first one to welcome Him. The Mount of Olives will split open to form a very great valley; and half the mountain will be moved to the north, and half of it to the south. The light shall not be clear, nor dark in this day, without daytime and without nighttime. So, the Planet will not move on its axis.
The Lord will deliver the city and the people from all those nations fighting against Jerusalem. The people of Jerusalem will see The One who was wounded by their hands, pierced; their grief for him will be bitter, like the grief of one sorrowing for his oldest son. In that day there will be a great weeping in Jerusalem (Zechariah 12:10-14).
The power will take those awaiting Him for so long, those 144,000 who were sealed away and kept safe for this hour. The Lord Jesus Christ will be the King of the material world through them. After they are unsealed, they will work for the new order on the Earth, until others take their places or until they die. One of them will be a prince of the government, probably a prime minister.
The Lord Jesus Christ will show Himself as God the Son. "His voice was like the roar of rushing waters, and the land was radiant with his glory." He will enter the Temple using the gate facing east. He will not return to the material world again. "Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place for the soles of my feet. This is where I will live among the Israelis forever" (Ezekiel 43:1-7). The outer gate of the sanctuary, the one facing east, "remains shut. It must not be opened; no one may enter through it. It is to remain shut because the LORD, the God of Israel, has entered through it. The prince himself is the only one who may sit inside the gateway to eat in the presence of the LORD" (Ezekiel 44:1-4). I understand that the governor of the world will come for advices from God in Jesus Christ. Therefore, he will talk with Him during the Sabbath for creation.
The spiritual healing will occur in the Temple. Priests will serve the people and help them to live a holy life. Ezekiel speaks of the Temple services, as does Zechariah: "In that day a fountain will be opened to the house of David and to the people of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity." (13:1)
God needs to heal the material world. This healing will also come from the Temple, because waters will flow from the Temple and into the sea. "When it empties into the sea, the water there becomes fresh. Swarms of living creatures will live wherever the river flows. There will be large numbers of fish, because this water flows there and makes the salt water fresh; so where the river flows everything will live." "Fruit trees of all kinds will grow on both banks of the river. Their leaves will not wither, nor will their fruit fail. Every month they will bear, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will serve for food and their leaves for healing" (Ezekiel 47 and Zechariah 14)
Hence, "the name of the city from that time on will be: THE LORD IS THERE" (Ezekiel 48:35).
Viewed from another angle, the impact of the Millennium is that no evil powers will be allowed to afflict Creation for a thousand years. Therefore, the angels should bind them for this period; in a sense, the evil powers shall be put in jail. The Apostle John sees "an angel coming down out of Heaven, having the key to the Abyss and holding in his hand a great chain. He seized the Dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years."
Some new beings in the likeness of angels must inhabit the invisible world of the Earth. These new beings are "those who had been beheaded because of their testimony for Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received his mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years."
Here you will not find those who disliked God's rule, because the next verse tells us; "The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended."
Some of these new beings are set higher than others, because John sees "thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge." So, they will judge and rule the material world from the invisible world. They should not be without Christ, and so He will be with them. They cannot die again because are resurrected; and neither can Satan deceive them.
And "when the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the Earth -- Gog and Magog
-- to gather them for battle." None of those taking "part in the first Resurrection" can go to war against Jerusalem. They were already in the war for Jerusalem a thousand years ago. Therefore, these new nations must be Earthly beings, created beings -- men in flesh.
During the Scrolls the world will lose two-thirds of its population. The last third will be saved, although they must go through the fire (Zechariah 13:8-9). They will then repopulate and overpopulate the Earth at the end of a thousand years because, "in number they are like the sand on the seashore." Perhaps jealousy or the desire to carry God's blessing away from Jerusalem will lead others into this war against Jerusalem. "They marched across the breadth of the Earth and surrounded the camp of God's people, the city he loves."
Satan intention's in the last war on Earth is to destroy the Temple. "But fire came down from Heaven and devoured them." First they were killed with the sword that came out of the mouth of Christ Jesus (i.e., He took power), and now they are destroyed by fire from Heaven (as Heaven or fire takes power over the Earth.).
Here the world ends, because the Earth is on fire. Creation needs a blue planet to survive, not a red one.
Science also tells us that fire will eventually devour the Earth. The fire will come from the Sun. The Sun is mostly made of hydrogen. In the Sun's core, the pressure and temperature are very high, due to the gravitation generated by its enormous mass. The high pressure and heat cause the nuclei of hydrogen atoms to fuse and form heavier atoms. This fusion produces massive amounts of energy, mostly as heat and light.
This new fire coming from the Sun can be compared to fire on the Earth. If we burn a huge heap of soaked wood just in its center, soon the fuel there will be gone, and then the outside wood may sink down, or we may push it to the center. Because this incoming wood is already dry and hot, it makes a bigger fire. A higher temperature occurs in the fireplace, and given the opportunity the fire will spread. So, we will get a huge fire in the second step of burning our fuel.
We can anticipate this as the second step of burning hydrogen in the Sun. When the hydrogen in the core burns out, gravity will crush the core and initiate the burning of the initial products of stellar combustion (usually helium). This will make the fire bigger, so that the heat output will be huge.
According to Isaiah 30: 25-33, "And the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times greater, as the light of seven days."
The nuclear fusion of two atoms of hydrogen to make one of helium (in atomic weights, 1 + 1 = 2) produces energy with a value 2.3 million electron volts (MeV). This fusion can bring the interior temperature of the Sun to more than thirteen millions degrees Celsius (13.6 million Kelvins, or MK). Some sources cite a core temperature of 15 MK for our sun. As the stellar evolution continues, new fuel is burned; then the fusion of hydrogen and helium atoms (1 +2 = 3) makes 5.4 MeV of energy. However, we need more heat and pressure to get this reaction running. These products can burn further, unlike our example with wood in a fireplace, where the fire produces first just carbon monoxide, which combusts further into carbon dioxide.
The fusion of an atomic nucleus having three atomic particles needs a higher pressure and a temperature seven times higher (100 MK) than the initial fusion of hydrogen to helium. This will begin only when the reaction 1+1 runs outside the core, causing a higher temperature and pressure inside the core, so that the first products of fusion will begin to burn.
The reaction of 2 + 2 = 4 produces 23.6 MeV. I conclude that next step of the Sun's cycle may produce seven times more heat. Seven times more heat would cause quick evaporation of Earthly waters. They would then condense as water or hailstones high in the atmosphere, and rain down on Earth. Therefore, "when the towers fall, streams of water will flow on every high mountain and every lofty hill." Here the words "the towers fall" should not refer to the fall of mountains and hills; it refers instead to the "fall" of products of the first nuclear reaction inside the center of the Sun.
Because the reactions now run outside the core as well (in what is today called the radiation zone), the Sun must increase in its volume: the Sun will expand into a Red Giant. This Red Giant will grow to be so large in diameter that it will devour the inner planets of the solar system, including the Earth. The Biblical description of this is as so: "See, the Name of the LORD comes from afar, with burning anger and dense clouds of smoke; his lips are full of wrath, and his tongue is a consuming fire. His breath is like a rushing torrent, rising up to the neck." Waters destroyed the first world, but now "the present Heaven and Earth are reserved for fire" (2 Peter 3:7). "The LORD will cause men to hear his majestic voice and will make them see his arm coming down with raging anger and consuming fire, with cloudburst, thunderstorm and hail."
The change of temperature should also cause increased movement of the lithosphere -- that is, the tectonic plates on which the continents of Earth ride. Their movement (specially upon reaching the hot core) should generate an awesome sound. "Topheth (the Hell) has long been prepared; it has been made ready for the king. Its fire pit has been made deep and wide, with an abundance of fire and wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of burning sulfur, sets it ablaze." The king should be Satan, who will rule on such Earth. High temperature must set combustible matter on fire, and where there is no combustible material, the incoming hydrogen from the Sun will burn, reacting with oxygen wherever it is be found. If it says that Hell will be deep and wide, then it should be at least 300 million kilometers in diameter.
My conclusion is that the Hell, or the Lake of Fire, is real, and will occur on the Earth when the Sun expands into a Red Giant. Therefore, the Lake of Fire is the next stage of the Earth's evolution. The Earth will become a part of the Lake of Fire. This means the death of any Earthly life, and therefore the Bible calls it also the second death. Satan and his servants will live there as in the desert, in searing heat; and their hope will be that eventually the Sun will burn out.
When Revelation says, "And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the
lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will
be tormented day and night for ever and ever," then this could happen when the Sun
expands to engulf the Earth. This clarifies the logic of why Satan and His followers were
released to come back on the Earth. The Earth will be a ship for them to sail into the Red
Giant, into the Lake of Fire.
How will things resolve for the other beings on Earth? Well, since Creation will have ended, so also will the need for humans to remain in flesh. They cannot remain forever as spirits or souls, either, since this is just the Creation level of the Kingdom. They will need to exchange their created forms for their eternal forms, and so they will be resurrected into the eternal form.
The duty of any master whose project has been realized is to examine it. So it is with God's Creation. The Bible calls this the Great White Throne Judgment: "I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. Earth and sky fled from his presence, and there was no place for them. And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books."
"The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what he had done." Here we see mention of Hades -- what might be the temporal and temporary Hell for evil beings and souls awaiting the final judgment, waiting for the Lake of Fire. "Then death and Hades were thrown into the Lake of Fire. The Lake of Fire is the second death." Death is destroyed now, not at the beginning of the Millennium. This means that people will have been coming into life and dying from the beginning, from Adam until the advent of the Lake of Fire.
If you look even closer the nucleus of an atom, you find that the protons and neutrons consist of nothing more than energy concentrated in three quarks. Does this not reflect both eternity and the Trinity?
In the nuclei of atoms, there exist the strong nuclear forces, which are not used naturally except in nuclear reactions. However, the force holding together the universe is hidden somewhere within them. This power is called gravity. It holds us onto the Earth, binds us to the Sun, and thence to our galaxy. God must have used gravity in the Creation of the Universe. Namely, the first words of the Bible say that there was already another beginning to the universe ("In the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth").
Another force is electromagnetism. The particles that carry it are called photons. We may put the birth of electromagnetism and photons in the atomic nucleus. For instance, a neutron decays into a proton and an electron. Electromagnetism is practically bound to electrons. Photons always travel at the speed of light. If a photon (light) enters a medium and then continues on at its original speed, there is some delay; it appears as if the speed of light has changed. But speed of photons can never change. Continual absorption and re-emission of photons causes their delay. And I see in this our time, our timely world. This delay that we cause to light represents our own time.
Our time might be changed if we could modify this delay. This is possible if the medium moves; then the delay is less, because during absorption and reemission of photon, light travels also with the speed of the medium. If we cause less delay, less time passes and we live longer. For instance, some particles with short lives (e.g., mesons) survive longer if they travel close to the speed of light.
If the medium could travel at lightspeed, there could not be any absorption, and therefore there could not be any delay -- and so there would not be any time. Therefore, a timely being never could travel at the speed of light. Einstein demonstrated this, and his mathematical formulas do not allow for the existence of any means by which a person could travel at the speed of light. In other words, none may reach the speed of light.
On the Earth that already existed, God said, "Let there be light, and there was light. God saw that the light was good." God gave an unvarying speed to photons, so that he could see the influence of matter on them. He observed the delay of light's speed because of the presence of matter. Now He could measure this delay, and so time came to be. What an instrument at God refers to evaluating time?
God the Holy Spirit should do it. I already identify Him in the chapter 3 of this book. According to Ezekiel 1 and 10, He has also four wheels. They should represent this instrument because Ezekiel saw them on the ground, in the created world (1:15-21), and therefore they should refer to this instrument. A wheel intersecting a wheel calculates our delay to eternity. Thus, where God the Holy Spirit faces at timely world, there these wheels course.
Photons are also a wave phenomenon used to transmit information of their source or re-emission from matter that is struck. Eyes detect them. Even in relation to time, the wheel in the wheel has eyes. "Their rims were high and awesome, and all four rims were full of eyes around" (1:18). Nothing can escape from Godly view. Even at night some level of light or other electromagnetic radiation exists. (But less than in day, and therefore demons like to work at the night). If God registers delays from living matter, then He knows that an organism still lives; if its delay is on the way out, then it does not move in light, so he knows that it is dying. Therefore light, beside helping us see, also refers to our time.
The Apostle John says: "I saw a new Heaven and a new Earth, for the first Heaven and the first Earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea." This new Earth and the new Heaven exist outside of time, because "the glory of God gives it light." So we will live in relation to God, and not in relation to electromagnetism. We will live directly from the energy coming from God.
The Lord tells us emphatically: "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End." If the beginning and the end lie in Him, then any delay (the time from Alpha to Omega) does not exist in Him. And so, any (created) time does not exist in eternity. I repeat, when we move in Him, there cannot be any delay. We should already, now, move in Him (Galatians 5:25; 2. Corinthian 5:17-18). If resurrected people move in God, then they shall also be free from gravity.
Angels, are also eternal beings. God could not make them timely beings, since they existed before time was created. Still, angels are created beings (Ezekiel 28:14-15), and so they should have been created in gravitation. Our world does not know which particle carries gravitation, though we can guess; scientists are looking for it, and have already named it the graviton. So for angels, gravitons could be something like photons are to us.
Gravitons operate differently than photons. Namely, atomic particles oscillate like a mechanical oscillator (spring) and therefore they produce the other kind of waves. These are not electromagnetic waves, but the mechanical waves of any spring. Matter does not absorb them. When a graviton hits matter it moves more quickly through it than before, because atomic particles carry gravitons at higher speeds than normal for these particles. If a delay of photons causes time for us, then for gravitons, it is their acceleration that creates the angelic version of time.
Therefore, matter is a graviton accelerator: it transfers energy to gravitons as atomic particles oscillate. If matter gives the gravitons more energy, then they should move quicker after passing through matter. However, as with photons, I am assuming that the speed of gravitons remains constant. If this is so, then gravitons must accelerate matter. So gravitons force matter to move in the direction of an object radiating gravitons. And therefore we have the force we call gravitation, which attracts all objects in the universe. Objects falling freely toward the ground experience a uniform acceleration due to gravity of the Earth.
Energetic matter is a source of photons. When an electron traveling in an orbit jumps in another orbit, a photon is emitted. An object radiating them is cooling -- shifting from one energy state to a lower one. Likewise, an object radiating gravitons is in transition, oscillating from higher to lower energy levels (like a spring). Heavier particles and atoms have more "spring" strength (and many springs) than lighter ones, and therefore gravitation depends upon mass. In any case, the decline of energy in the matter is the source of both photons and gravitons and we do not have any evolution, but rather a decline, according to the second law of thermodynamics.
So the Creator first used accelerating gravitons to create the universe. I believe that angels were created there, because I consider them to be higher (older) than men. In today's world, we see each other thanks to the delay of photons; beside us there exist angels and their world, where they "see" each other thanks to accelerating gravitons. This is why their world is invisible to us, and we are unable to see them.
We see because we are able to register photons with our eyes. God sees us because God the Holy Spirit is covered by eyes in front and back (Revelation 4:6-8). Angels see because they are able to register gravitons. They need membranes for their registration, as we have tympanic membrane for hearing. Maybe this is why some men saw angels with wings. God could create angels to register gravitons with wings (some of which are like membranes) because God the Holy Spirit has many wings (24).
Gravitons are emitted by oscillating heavy particles, so they would come from items such as stones. Therefore the Bible describes Satan as a model of perfection, as a model of precious stones (some of which might be unknown to the Earth; Ezekiel 28:13-14). If angels see because of gravitons, then more gravitations means better sight; and so Satan is sometimes called the Son of the Dawn (Isaiah 14:12) -- a morning star, a cherub of light. "I expelled you, O guardian cherub, from among the fiery stones" (Ezekiel 28:16). The planet Venus, Earth's near-twin, might be his first dwelling place, because for us the Morning Star is Venus. Some occult teachings consider Venus to be the abode of some gods or of the Greek goddess of love, Venus.
After the angels God created time, and beings within time. These angels who followed God (moved in Him) would be advancing in another Creation. Those who did not did so because they wanted to stay with the original Creation. This suggests that if someone looks for spirituality in the Sun, Moon, planets and stars, they are looking for Satanic influence. Society has a name for this widespread practice: astrology.
When Satan and the other angels were thrown out of Heaven (that is, when they stopped moving in God), then could have been pulled down to Earth by gravity. The early Satan did not have any problems with gravity: see Job 1:7 and Revelation 12:4. But now we can see the Earth will pull him and the others into the Lake of Fire.
The common understanding is that the invisible world of the Earth does not know gravitation. But look, can the spirits of dead persons go anywhere in the universe, even to other galaxies? They cannot; they stay on the Earth. Yet the words of the Bible are: "The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them"(Revelation 20:13). Also, the spirit of Samuel went out from the earth (1 Samuel 28:13). When Jesus Christ opens the door for Eden, do people who pass away in Him fly or walk there? When Satan is hurled down on the Earth, he is not in the timely or visible world. He must remain in the invisible world, because he was not created for the visible world, and is now bound by the gravitation of the Earth forever.
Our basic interest in the world is to find and own houses in it, so that we have places to live. We also need places to live in Heaven. John reveals the city prepared for us there: its name is the New Jerusalem. The resurrected believers in Christ Jesus will dwell there. The Resurrection began before the end of the world, and therefore these resurrected ones should inhabit this city from the opening of the Seventh Scroll. The Bible calls this group "the Bride, the wife of the Lamb." They should come to the Earth after the Wedding Banquet. This should be at the end of the last Trumpet, because "one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came" and showed "the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of Heaven from God."
We will see then whether Jerusalem will really be replaced. It is quite possible that God will just tunnel it into the Earth. In this tunnel time will no longer exist, so there will be no problems with speed, and there should not be no problems with gravitation. Our position will depend upon God the Son, because we will move in Him.
We understand that any city must be built upon land somewhere. If the city was built up in Heaven, in Heaven it should stay. Ezekiel (prophesying about the Millennium) saw the Glory of God to be on the Earth (the Temple) and connected (above) to the Throne in Heaven (Ezekiel 10). So, in moving in God ("The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp"), they will know no problem with distances. Our new address is: the New Jerusalem. Showing you your house there is not easy, because although the city was laid out like a square, as long as it was wide, it was also just as high.
"Now the dwelling of God is with men, and He will live with them." Please read chapter 21 to learn more about this city prepared for the new inhabitants of Heaven.
At first, God the Son sat on the Throne in the Temple, and therefore reigned with Jesus Christ in the timely world. New eternal beings helped Israel to manage the world. Now, "the Throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city," so God the Father is on the Throne now, and therefore this refers to God's Throne in Heaven. The words of the Apostle Paul, "then the end will come when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father then the Son himself will be made subject to him who put everything under him, so that God may be all in all" are accomplished now (1 Corinthians 15:24-28).
The Bible says also, "They will reign for ever and ever." So they are in eternity now, where time does not exist. They first reigned on the Earth for just a thousand years. When the Bible speaks of people reigning besides God, it points to small thrones or seats near God's Throne. God the Son had twelve such thrones during his rule on Earth. We saw twenty-four small thrones at the Throne of God the Father in Heaven from the beginning. If God the Son has now come onto God's Throne in Heaven, then His twelve small thrones (of the Apostles) are there also. Altogether, there are thirty-six small thrones around God's. If they are spaced evenly around the Throne, then this number better fits a circle than the number twenty-four. The Twelve Princes of God the Son learned to rule on the Earth, and so advance to rule with God the Father.
"His servants will serve him." To serve originally meant to be priests. Now they are servants of God the Father. Our position will be the same as that of God's angels: we will simply be just God's servants. Yet to whom should we be priests?
"They will see his face." First they could not see His face directly; they had to have the Lamb between them and God the Father (see Revelation 7:9-10). Now they have advanced to be servants of God the Father, and He is clear in their site. "His name will be on their foreheads." Since they are in service of God the Father, they should work for Him, and so are under His authority. Therefore, His name must be seen on them, just as when they served God the Son and carried His authority on the Earth. (Words for the overcomers in the churches; Revelation 2-3.)
In earlier chapters and verses of Revelation, we saw 144,000 people with the seal of God on their foreheads, which made it so that no one could harm them, and so that they were able to have their voices heard at the Throne in Heaven. So, the same awaits us in Heaven. We will not have our places at the Throne, however, except for the twelve of us; we will have rooms in the New Jerusalem.
Life will be perfect there. "Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb." So, we must not afraid to be thirsty there, as are those dwelling in the Lake of Fire.
During the Millennium, the waters emerged from the Temple, because God the Son was there. Now He is on the Throne in Heaven and so from the water of life comes out. If I put together all the results of God the Son's energy (creation or evolution first, then making people have eternal spirits and then eternal flesh), then God the Son carries everything needed for life of God's beings. Waters "flow down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the Tree of Life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing." These trees should be similar to the Tree of Life in Eden (Genesis 2:9).
"No longer will there be any curse." First, we heard the individual curses of people and later their collective curses when all the nations rushed into the war to destroy Jerusalem. Now they have lost any connection to the Earth, where cursing will continue forever. (The Earth is in the Lake of Fire.)
The Apostle John testifies, "when I had heard and seen them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who had been showing them to me. But he said to me, "Do not do it! I am a fellow servant with you and with your brothers the prophets and of all who keep the words of this book. Worship God!" He had already tried once to worship the angel when those belonging first to the Bride of the Lamb became the servants of God the Son. If he tried again, then another kind of service was introduced. They are now (and John will be also) servants of God the Father, just as the angels are. Worshiping anyone in God's Kingdom besides Him Who sits on God's Throne is impossible.
"Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, because the time is near." If the words are not sealed, then they are unsealed for everyone, and everyone can understand them. So, call on Jesus Christ so that you may receive the water of life from this book.
"Let him who does wrong continue to do wrong; let him who is vile continue to be vile; let him who does right continue to do right and let him who is holy continue to be holy."
"Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done."
The Lord's concluding words are:
"I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First
and the Last, the Beginning and the End."
So, let us hear the words leading to these
concluding word.
The Blessing comes first: "Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the Tree of Life and may go through the gates into the city." Then the warning comes not to falsely teach His book; that its, there should be no new and false prophets. Zechariah has already shown us the fate of false prophets at the Lord's coming. The prophet's relatives and students will destroy him for misleading them (Zechariah 13:2-6). Their excuses that they were just teachers, preachers, publishers, authors, redactors, or otherwise just workers for Revelation will not help them.
Although every (independent) human, from increased movements on the Earth and in the world, understands that the Book of Revelation is open, false workers fight against this reality. They add to Revelation what is not there: that the first horseman is the Antichrist, that the Rapture occurs before the opening of the Book, that the Book covers only seven years, and much more. The Lord says, "warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book."
False workers take from the chronology of Revelation the Rapture and Resurrection (Revelation 7:9-10) before the unsealing of the seventh Scroll. But the Bible says, "And if anyone takes words away from this book of prophecy, God will take away from him his share in the Tree of Life and in the holy city, which are described in this book."
Many deny that Jesus Christ and the Apostle John are the most perfect of authors, and consider their book to be a labyrinth of thoughts. Others use Revelation for inspiration to display their mystified identity (they picture a wild rider on a White Horse). So they look for a new prophet to reveal the Revelation.
The Lord wants everyone to repent, especially should those who try to put dirty clothes on the rider on the White Horse, because the white horses are coming soon to take their revenge.
"Behold, I am coming soon! Amen!"
"Come, Lord Jesus."
Appendix
I am sure that the beginning of this book, my discussion of the letters to the churches, did not look very conclusive to the casual reader. However, what are you saying now, when the Lord ends the Book, and the world, with the Climax of God's kingdom? Is it not a good idea to take up the Book of Revelation and read it again from the very beginning? Surely the Lord will bless you by opening your eyes to new discoveries.
I am only a man, as John the Baptist said. "A man can receive only what is given him from Heaven." "He must become greater; I must become less." "He is the greatest author; I must become less in your eyes."
"The one who comes from above is above all; the one who is from the Earth belongs to the Earth, and speaks as one from the Earth. The one who comes from Heaven is above all." The author from above is above all authors of the Earth. Therefore, we must not read any book of any Earthly author more often than we read Revelation.
"He testifies to what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his testimony."
"The man who has accepted it has certified that God is truthful."
"Whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him." (John 3:27-36).
"The grace of the Lord Jesus be with God's people."
THE END