We've been warned.

You were warned.

Why are we warned?  Is it always a bad thing to be warned by someone? Are bad people the only ones who warn others? No, absolutely not. We warn people all the time about various dangers and we do it because we care for them. The Word of God warns us and we need to heed the warnings.

Rev_16:15  Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.

2Pe_3:17  Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.

Heb_12:13  And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.

******* Continuing our prophecy study--  Please GO back and READ the study from the beginning to gain full understanding of where we are if you haven't been following this study daily.  Thank you :)  We are on lesson number 85. God bless you! ******

It sounds amazing! So incredibly amazing! It is PROPHECY.

A beast is not always simply a beast.

A crown is not always simply a crown.

A star is not always simply a star.

Waters are not always simply waters.

Earth is not always simply earth.

Remember in the book of Daniel how grieved Daniel was because he couldn't understand the things he was being shown? He'd see these INCREDIBLE visions given him by God and he'd be just as confused as we are when we read them, more so really because He didn't have the wealth of Biblical knowledge we have at our fingertips. We have such a fantastic source of information available to us as we study prophecy. As Daniel wrote what he saw and lived in a state of confusion from what he witness we can only imagine his thoughts, his passion to understand. He prayed hard and sacrificed much just to hopefully, prayerfully get answers. An angel was sent to him and opened Daniel's understanding at least to a degree. The angel also told Daniel that the book would be closed up- that it wouldn't be understood not until it was the proper time.

We have this amazing book- the Bible - and it's filled with prophecy starting right in the beginning and going all the way unto the end, no matter what order you believe the Bible should be read in. The Bible is not only filled with prophecy but history that in and of itself reveals God's plans for mankind over and over again - which become historical prophecy. We can look back at history- actual history - actual lives of people who lived just assuredly as you and I are alive, as our parents are or were alive and our grandparents and their parents and so on. No one can dispute our historical fact, no one. Do you dispute your own existence or the existence of your parents and so on? We can't. Our amazing God guided the lives of people who loved Him and those lives that were guided so amazing have been recorded for our learning, for our understanding of how wondrous our God is! We can look at so much in the Bible and see a guiding force beyond anything that we can fully comprehend and yet people refuse to believe! People still doubt! People would rather believe in false gods that have nothing to show them, nothing at all. People would rather worship the sun and moon than a living God, the Creator of the sun and moon!

This book of Revelation  is filled with cryptic imagery that is given to us for a reason.  Our Savior instructed us to WATCH and to PRAY.  Our Savior gave us PROPHECY, prophecy came from the lips of our Savior. Our Savior mentioned the prophet Daniel.

Mat 24:15  When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)

We were pointed to Daniel by Jesus and in Revelation Jesus points us back to Daniel using John as His prophet to give us His message.  We are supposed to study prophecy. We are blessed when we study prophecy, so why do we neglect it so much? Why do we give up because we find it incomprehensible? Why do we not search it over and over again, praying all while for our eyes to be opened.  Jesus WANTS us to comprehend! Jesus wants us to be blessed! When we are given various meanings for prophecies given we HAVE a duty to search the Scriptures and find out where the truth exists in those meanings. We could be given a thousand different interpretations and it is our duty to examine those interpretations to see if they do fit into God's plan. Is my interpretation correct? Is my following the interpretations of another correct? God will guide me to know the truth I have to believe this just as every single one of us has to seek the truth for ourselves.

We are going to go through this section of prophecy slowly because so many people believe that the 'two witnesses' are supposed to be real men, real angels, real figures that show up and these people are waiting for them!  Is it possible there will be these special witnesses? I believe the devil can impersonate angels of light, my Bible tells me so. I firmly believe the prophecy fits so much more perfectly when we understand the witnesses to be figures of the Old and New Testament and how throughout our history the Bible has been abused over and over.  Like I said, I want to study this more, much more closely all by the grace of God! All by His love, through His righteousness, His mercy, His grace! 

Amen.

Let's slowly read through the same verses we historically dissected yesterday before we start to  delve deeply into them again.

Rev 10:1  And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:

Rev 10:2  And he had in his hand a little book open and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth

Rev 10:3  And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.

Rev 10:4  And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.         

Rev 10:5  And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven,

Rev 10:6  And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer

Rev 10:7  But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.

Rev 10:8  And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.

Rev 10:9  And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.

Rev 10:10  And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.

Rev 10:11  And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.

Rev 11:1  And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.

Rev 11:2  But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.

Rev 11:3  And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.

Rev 11:4  These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.

Rev 11:5  And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed

Rev 22:19  And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

Rev 11:9  And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.

Rev 11:10  And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.

Rev 11:11  And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.

Rev 11:12  And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.

Rev 11:13  And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.

Rev 11:14  The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly.