The REVELATION of Jesus Christ - Chapter Eleven

 

The REVELATION of Jesus Christ

 - Overview -

The Bible Project - Chapter 12 to 22

1 I was given a reed like a measuring rod and was told, ‘Go and measure the temple of God and the altar, with its worshippers. 2 But exclude the outer court; do not measure it, because it has been given to the Gentiles. They will trample on the holy city for 42 months. 3 And I will appoint my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.’ 4 They are ‘the two olive trees’ and the two lampstands, and ‘they stand before the Lord of the earth.’ 5 If anyone tries to harm them, fire comes from their mouths and devours their enemies. This is how anyone who wants to harm them must die. 6 They have power to shut up the heavens so that it will not rain during the time they are prophesying; and they have power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they want.

7 Now when they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the Abyss will attack them, and overpower and kill them. 8 Their bodies will lie in the public square of the great city – which is figuratively called Sodom and Egypt – where also their Lord was crucified. 9 For three and a half days some from every people, tribe, language and nation will gaze on their bodies and refuse them burial. 10 The inhabitants of the earth will gloat over them and will celebrate by sending each other gifts, because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth.

11 But after the three and a half days the breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and terror struck those who saw them. 12 Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, ‘Come up here.’ And they went up to heaven in a cloud, while their enemies looked on.

13 At that very hour there was a severe earthquake and a tenth of the city collapsed. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the survivors were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.

14 The second woe has passed; the third woe is coming soon.

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15 The seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, which said:

‘The kingdom of the world has become

    the kingdom of our Lord and of his Messiah,

    and he will reign for ever and ever.’

16 And the twenty-four elders, who were seated on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and worshipped God, 17 saying:

‘We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty,

    the One who is and who was,

because you have taken your great power

    and have begun to reign.

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The nations were angry,

    and your wrath has come.

The time has come for judging the dead,

    and for rewarding your servants the prophets

and your people who revere your name,

    both great and small –

and for destroying those who destroy the earth.’

19 Then God’s temple in heaven was opened, and within his temple was seen the ark of his covenant. And there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake and a severe hailstorm.

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Word by Word Meditations 

by Fred Ursell

Revelation 11: “figuratively” (v.8)

Many people love to speculate. The mysteries of life are almost like an intriguing puzzle that they can mentally wrestle with. Interest is hypothetical, not real. All parables and symbols are helpful to the sincere seeker, but are for many just a game of idle curiosity to spend time on. 

This passage refers to “the great city which is figuratively called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified” (v.8). 

Jerusalem is identified by the last phrase, but the two figurative labels spell out clearly its true nature of immorality and enslavement, unmasked by how “the author of life” was killed there (Acts 3 v.15).

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READINGS

The REVELATION of Jesus christ

Chapter Eleven

Read by Sir David Suchet

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OVERVIEW 

The REVELATION of Jesus Christ

 - Overview -

The Bible Project 

Chapter  1 to 11 

Chapter 12 to 22

https://youtu.be/QpnIrbq2bKo

How to Read the Bible  

Apocalyptic Literature

Revelation “The Bible in 5” 

Tim Mackie  (The Bible Project)

https://youtu.be/Oj7WcXVzHpI

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STUDY - LINKS

The REVELATION of Jesus Christ

David Pawson

-Part 1-

https://youtu.be/xZP8kbY-Cec

-Part 2 - 

https://youtu.be/xn_E5VoeH1w

Part 3

https://youtu.be/OWcgyuQc9Wc

Part 4

https://youtu.be/_A_4PaSsHXE

Part 5

https://youtu.be/91rKSt2B8sc

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The REVELATION of Jesus Christ - Chapter Ten

1 Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven. He was robed in a cloud, with a rainbow above his head; his face was like the sun, and his legs were like fiery pillars. 2 He was holding a little scroll, which lay open in his hand. He planted his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land, 3 and he gave a loud shout like the roar of a lion. When he shouted, the voices of the seven thunders spoke. 4 And when the seven thunders spoke, I was about to write; but I heard a voice from heaven say, ‘Seal up what the seven thunders have said and do not write it down.’

5 Then the angel I had seen standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven. 6 And he swore by him who lives for ever and ever, who created the heavens and all that is in them, the earth and all that is in it, and the sea and all that is in it, and said, ‘There will be no more delay! 7 But in the days when the seventh angel is about to sound his trumpet, the mystery of God will be accomplished, just as he announced to his servants the prophets.’

8 Then the voice that I had heard from heaven spoke to me once more: ‘Go, take the scroll that lies open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land.’

9 So I went to the angel and asked him to give me the little scroll. He said to me, ‘Take it and eat it. It will turn your stomach sour, but “in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.”’ 10 I took the little scroll from the angel’s hand and ate it. It tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it, my stomach turned sour. 11 Then I was told, ‘You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, languages and kings.’

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Word by Word Meditations 

by Fred Ursell

Revelation 10: “accomplished” (v.7)

There have been times in history when some have naively felt that Utopia was just round the corner. It wasn’t; and it isn’t now either. What may not be far ahead of us is the sci-fi style havoc painted in this book of Revelation. 

The opening of 6 seals has been pictured already. John writes solemnly for the record now, “in the days when the seventh angel is about to sound his trumpet, the mystery of God will be accomplished” (v.7). 

Despite cataclysmic events, it won’t ‘end in tears’ –‘ God is working His purpose out’, as the words from an old hymn put it. He will “accomplish” it 100% (Isaiah 9 v.7)!

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READINGS

The REVELATION of Jesus christ

Chapter Ten

Read by Sir David Suchet

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OVERVIEW 

The REVELATION of Jesus Christ

Chapter  1 to 11

 - Overview -

The Bible Project 

How to Read the Bible  

Apocalyptic Literature

Revelation “The Bible in 5” 

Tim Mackie  (The Bible Project)

https://youtu.be/Oj7WcXVzHpI

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STUDY - LINKS

The REVELATION of Jesus Christ

David Pawson

-Part 1-

https://youtu.be/xZP8kbY-Cec

-Part 2 - 

https://youtu.be/xn_E5VoeH1w

Part 3

https://youtu.be/OWcgyuQc9Wc

Part 4

https://youtu.be/_A_4PaSsHXE

Part 5

https://youtu.be/91rKSt2B8sc

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SONGS

- Revelation 10 - 

Immeasurably More: 

Worship From Spring Harvest

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The REVELATION of Jesus Christ - Chapter Nine

 

1 The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss. 2 When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss. 3 And out of the smoke locusts came down on the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth. 4 They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads. 5 They were not allowed to kill them but only to torture them for five months. And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes. 6 During those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.

7 The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces. 8 Their hair was like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth. 9 They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle. 10 They had tails with stings, like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months. 11 They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek is Apollyon (that is, Destroyer).

12 The first woe is past; two other woes are yet to come.

13 The sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the four horns of the golden altar that is before God. 14 It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, ‘Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.’ 15 And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind. 16 The number of the mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand. I heard their number.

17 The horses and riders I saw in my vision looked like this: their breastplates were fiery red, dark blue, and yellow as sulphur. The heads of the horses resembled the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire, smoke and sulphur. 18 A third of mankind was killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke and sulphur that came out of their mouths. 19 The power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails were like snakes, having heads with which they inflict injury.

20 The rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshipping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood – idols that cannot see or hear or walk. 21 Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts.

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Word by Word Meditations 

by Fred Ursell

Revelation 9: “mankind” (vv.18 & 20)

Further horrors descend on the world at unprecedented levels after the opening of the next two seals. “A third of mankind was killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke and sulphur” (v.18). In 2020 a most recent statistic gave the world population as exceeding over 7.5 billion. So “a third” these days is - 2.5 billion!  “Killed” - not just injured!  What follows?  

One might well think that slaughter on such a scale would drive all people to rectify. But … no. “The rest of mankind … still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshipping demons” (v.20). God is kind. Mankind is something else.

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READINGS

The REVELATION of Jesus christ

Chapter Nine

Read by Sir David Suchet

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OVERVIEW 

The REVELATION of Jesus Christ

Chapter  1 to 11

 - Overview -

The Bible Project 

How to Read the Bible 

Apocalyptic Literature

Revelation “The Bible in 5” 

Tim Mackie  (The Bible Project)

https://youtu.be/Oj7WcXVzHpI

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STUDY - LINKS

The REVELATION of Jesus Christ

David Pawson

-Part 1-

https://youtu.be/xZP8kbY-Cec

-Part 2 - 

https://youtu.be/xn_E5VoeH1w

Part 3

https://youtu.be/OWcgyuQc9Wc

Part 4

https://youtu.be/_A_4PaSsHXE

Part 5

https://youtu.be/91rKSt2B8sc

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The REVELATION of Jesus Christ - Chapter Eight

1 When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.

2 And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.

3 Another angel, who had a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense to offer, with the prayers of all God’s people, on the golden altar in front of the throne. 4 The smoke of the incense, together with the prayers of God’s people, went up before God from the angel’s hand. 5 Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it on the earth; and there came peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning and an earthquake.

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6 Then the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared to sound them.

7 The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down on the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.

8 The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain, all ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned into blood, 9 a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.

10 The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water – 11 the name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.

12 The fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them turned dark. A third of the day was without light, and also a third of the night.

13 As I watched, I heard an eagle that was flying in mid-air call out in a loud voice: ‘Woe! Woe! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the trumpet blasts about to be sounded by the other three angels!’

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Word by Word Meditations 

by Fred Ursell

Revelation 8: “trumpets” (v.2)

On the opening of the 7^th seal John sees “7 angels” with “7 trumpets” (v.2). Before they sound them “another angel” appears with “a golden censer” (v.3), scattering incense that symbolises “the prayers of the saints”. His action in hurling “fire from the altar” (v.5) onto the earth precedes the blowing of the first 4 “trumpets”. 

These announce successive calamities – fire on land, massive marine disasters devastating water supplies, and cosmic upheavals. They are not ‘natural’ disasters; each one is predicted and proclaimed by the angels’ “trumpets”. 

God is ‘calling the tune’ of human history’s finale.

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READINGS

The REVELATION of Jesus christ

Chapter Eight

Read by Sir David Suchet

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OVERVIEW 

The REVELATION of Jesus Christ

Chapter  1 to 11

 - Overview -

The Bible Project 

How to Read the Bible - 

Apocalyptic Literature

Revelation “The Bible in 5” 

Tim Mackie  (The Bible Project)

https://youtu.be/Oj7WcXVzHpI

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STUDY - LINKS

The REVELATION of Jesus Christ

David Pawson

-Part 1-

https://youtu.be/xZP8kbY-Cec

-Part 2 - 

https://youtu.be/xn_E5VoeH1w

Part 3

https://youtu.be/OWcgyuQc9Wc

Part 4

https://youtu.be/_A_4PaSsHXE

Part 5

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