Bible Prophecy Master Class, Part 1

Bible Prophecy Master Class, Part 1

di Alvin Mitchell
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Revelation 14: The Beast (Part 4; The Anti-Christ; The Celebration and The Warnings; Armageddon Preview)

The Warning Verse 9, And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, Verse 10, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: Verse 11, And the smoke of their torment ascends up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receives the mark of his name. John’s third angel comes bearing an ominous warning from God to all of these people regarding the image of the one world leader and his mark: everyone who bows down to worship and pay homage to either the one world dictator or his image, and anyone receiving his mark upon either his right hand or upon his forehead, will be subjected to the wrath of God Almighty, in the full. His anger will not be abated. It will not be watered down in any way. There will be no deliverance, and no forgiveness, for any such person. In addition, this means then that there will be ample time in advance of the beast and his mark to make the decision to accept, or, to reject. Multitudes will doubtless therefore be saved well ahead of the seating of the beast, and the enforcement of his hellish demand, although many will probably be saved just-in-time, afterwards as well. In fact, it almost appears that this warning may well be or will have to be generated and circulated before there is any real or perceived basis for them. That is, there will not be any beast or mark, before the warnings begin. They will, however, no doubt continue, and they will intensify as the moment of truth draws nearer, and nearer. Needless to say, this declaration will leave believers ‘born’ during these dark days quite literally between the proverbial rock and a hard place. Worship God, per the invitation of the angelic preacher, letting one’s faith be known, and one is a dead man (albeit, having lost his life on account of his faith, he will in the end regain it to live throughout all eternity in the presence of the Lamb and the Father; this in accord with the promise of Jesus Christ: “…all who lose their lives for My Sake and the gospel, will gain new lives…”). Worship the beast, and his image, per the warning of the angelic preacher, and death (while not eluded entirely) may come more slowly, as one saves his life temporarily to live through the reign of the one world dictator but, death (eternal separation from God) will come surely (into and perhaps through the Millennial Reign of Christ, if he is numbered among the lucky (albeit eternally lost) ones! None should hedge any bets on his being among those “lucky ones”, as the chances for that would be a long shot at best; this, given that as many as 1.5 billion unsaved souls will lose their lives just during phase 1 of the Battle of Armageddon. There is no telling who might make up that rank of the dead, but, most assuredly, there is plenty of room for anyone, within the confines of a number so large!), yet, he is a dead man no less—destined to spend a never-ending eternity separated and isolated, with the devil they served, away from the God to whom they thumbed their noses, as they turned their backs to Him.
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3 set 2024
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Revelation 12: : The Beast (Part 2; The Power and the Authority behind The Anti-Christ)

A Great Wonder in Heaven A Pregnant Woman Chapter 12, Verse 1, And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: This chapter opens with a pageantry of events that encapsulate the history and trauma of the nation of Israel, from God’s perspective. It is an allegory (a story told in symbols or pictures) of the complete history of the nation of the Jews, from the conception, as it was revealed to the elder of the two youngest of Jacob’s sons—Joseph—to the mid-point of the last seven years of modern history (the story is complete with the hellish power behind the troubles Israel has often faced, throughout her long history). Moreover, what we have here in heavenly graphics is another one of a plethora of scripture (in addition to the 144,000), which quite dispel false notions as that God is in anywise finished with the Jew (or, even, that there are no more of them!). The Jew is very much alive, even as he is very much an indelible, integral part of God’s plans for the future and last days of this old, battered world in which we live. They are not hapless victims of so-called “replacement theology”. They have not been replaced in favor of the church. When Jacob’s son Joseph was his well-favored seventeen-year-old, God gave him a dream, which prefigured the nation that was to be born and rooted in his family. Joseph shared that dream with his eleven envious brothers, all of whom hated his guts, initially, and even more, afterwards. They instantly understood fully, the ramifications. In a second dream, God enlarged upon the first, whereupon, Joseph informed both his brothers and his father. The sum of the dreams was such that the sun and the moon, along with eleven sheaves/stars would someday fall prostrate before the one sheaf or star. All, including old Jacob, with measurable consternation (and contempt, from the brothers) interpreted the dreams to imply that the entire family would at some point be subject to the elder of the two youngest sons. What they failed to realize, given of course that they could not see the future, was that God was mapping in advance His plan for first the preservation of a people (through unforeseen tough times ahead, over which they had no control), then, the birthing of a nation by whom He would birth His Blessing upon all the nations of the earth, according to His promise to Adam, Abraham and Isaac.
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27 ago 2024
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Revelation 11:7a-19 : The Two Witnesses (aka, The Beast/Italian Prince)

The Beast Mortal Combat! Verse 7a, And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them. Whatever their immense power, no matter the amount of misery they are allowed to inflict upon a God-less, Christ rejecting world, etc., the two witnesses will still, at the same time, be mortal men, subject to all the rules governing life and mortality. The world will have done everything that it can to rid itself of their enigmatic presences. Every effort to stop and/or apprehend the witnesses will have ended with the relentless deaths of their pursuers. At this point, the Italian leader (who will become the “beast”) enters the picture. Upon his arrival he is met with the same fate as all who dare oppose the two prophets: he will be killed as they will be. Meanwhile, their rampage will continue. The term beast is a rough translation of the Greek word “therion”, thay-ri’-on, meaning more literally a dangerous, wild animal. It is illustrative of God’s perception of him as a loathsome thing, one esteemed as exceptionally low, or, lowdown; detestable. It is impossible at this point to tell who the beast will be, or precisely what his rank or status will be at the moment of his calling. Daniel, however, gives clues that are most enlightening. Thus, according to Daniel’s prophecies, his being will be that of an individual of high station, a prince and ruler of the people who destroyed the city of Jerusalem and its Temple (70 AD and 135 AD)—who will or could be anything from some high-ranking Italian government official having a strong background in law enforcement or the military, to even Italy’s Prime Minister, in those days. John’s depiction in Revelation 17 assigns him the rank/title of a “Caesar” (Greek, Kaisar, kah’-ee-sar=Caesar)—which need not mean that, as such, this end-times ruler will have ties to any of the ancient Caesars, given that they were not all related even then. Entry of one of his rank and caliber into the fracas orchestrated and managed by the two witnesses will signal that the world now realizes that facilitation of the deaths of these two agonizing thorns in their sides can no longer be left to chance. Nor must it be further entrusted to a posse of lesser-lings who will have been left looking like a squad of witless misfits (as prescribed by their Commissioner, all who challenge them winds up, not just defeated but, dead!). The witnesses need to go, and, they need to go now! The globally destabilizing romps of God’s two olive trees must be brought to a swift end. Verse 7b, and shall overcome them, and kill them.
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20 ago 2024
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Revelation 11:1-7: The Beast/Prince (Part 3; And, The Two Witnesses of God)

.....Scourge of the Two Witnesses Woe #2 Begins Verse 3a, And I will give power unto my two witnesses, The appearance of these individuals, identified here only as the “two witnesses of God”, will mark the official launch of the beginning of the end—the horrific, last seven hellish years of human history (not that the years leading up to this point will have been any picnic. God will take pangs to insure that they will be no cake walk.). These will be the years known to Bible prophecy students as Daniel’s 70th Week…which then begs the question: Since we are told that none of the Trumpet Judgments will begin until the peeling of the 7th Seal…which proves that they do not overlap or happen at the same time as the Seal Judgments…and, given that this “woe #2” (Rev. 11:3-14; encompassing the ministry of the witnesses and the death of Daniel’s little horn, before he becomes the “beast”) clearly follows the events of woe #1 (Rev. 9:1-12; the torment of the Locusts from the Abyss)…and, realizing that each of these woes is consigned to the sound of the 6th Trumpet, further proving that not one of the Trumpet Judgments occurs concurrent with the Seals, one cannot but wonder then, how is it that practically all prophecy students and the so-called experts insist that the entirety of the Apocalyptic period, starting with Rev. 6-19 will be confined to only 7 years? Consider also that, “woe #3” covers the following events, and they only transpire AFTER the sounding of the 7th Trumpet (and is limited to the latter 3.5 years of the last 7 before the 2nd Coming of Christ!): · Satan is ousted from Heaven forever (Rev. 12:7-12) · Satan allowed to resurrect and empower Daniel’s horn, who (at that moment and only under that circumstance) becomes the abomination of desolation, Paul’s son of perdition, John’s beast (aka, the “antichrist”; per Dan. 12:11; Matt. 24:15; II Thes. 2; Rev. 11:7; 13:3-5; 17:8-11)
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6 ago 2024
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Revelation 17:8, 9-14 : The Beast, A Preview (aka, The Anti-Christ, Part 1)

Although he is alluded to variously throughout several places in scripture and known by an assortment of names, the end times world dictator so detested by God the Almighty is referred to here in the Revelation as the “beast” (a k a, often referred to as the “anti-Christ” by modern churches; Daniel is the first to make his mention, calling him the mouthy little horn, the prince who will destroy the Jerusalem Temple and the abomination of desolation, in chapters 7, 9 and 12 respectively. Jesus repeats Daniel’s reference in Matthew 24, while Paul called him the “son of perdition”, per his 2nd epistle to the Thessalonians, chapter 2). It is John the apostle and revelator who gives the most revealing description of this eschatological end times character, first mentioning him in chapter 11, following his resurrection and battle with God’s two witnesses, who will occasion his death. Chapter 13 of the Revelation is devoted to a broad snapshot of the early days of his rise and reign, after he kills the two witnesses, in revenge. It is here, in chapter 17, however, it might be argued, where his story begins. That said then, it should be noted, perhaps, that God’s use of the term “beast” to describe what He sees as the epitome and thus the most detestable, eschatological enemy and threat to his people is a kind of play on words. The term in the Greek means “dangerous wild animal”. It is used, interchangeably by the Lord, to refer to both an end times kingdom and to the person who will be the leader of that kingdom. That being so, the focus in this context is specifically on the individual who will preside over that kingdom.
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30 lug 2024
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Revelation, Chapter 7: Tribulation Evangelism (Part 3)

Tribulation Souls—Washed in The Blood Verse 14 identifies this congregation of people as more Christians born during the tribulation, wearing white garments that have been washed in the blood of the Lamb, so that they are now outfitted with His imputed righteousness. Without doubt, they are the product of the work and the energies of the 144,000 strong “special force” of evangelists, hand selected and picked by the Lamb, for a mission of soul winning that will be fraught with spiritual intrigue, betrayals by false Christians, false Christs and false prophets and other constant perils and dangers in the extreme. Moreover, these are the ones whose coming was (foretold and) promised to the saints under the altar, the ones already dead, having been murdered for their faith, a number of years earlier. In addition, in order to have arrived at this point, they will have to have represented—among unbelievers—some of the most difficult of prospective saints to reach. If the Old Testament tale and narrative of Israel’s most wicked and most ignominious of kings is in anywise instructive (King Manasseh), some of these may even arrive at the foot of the cross with guilt-ridden consciences and bloody hands, having participated directly or indirectly in the roundup and slaughter of the first wave of tribulation saints (those were featured for us and shown under the altar of Heaven, in chapter 6).
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23 lug 2024
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Revelation, Chapter 7: Tribulation Evangelism (Part 2)

The 144,000 Evangelists Their Mission Verse 4b These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goes. These were redeemed from among men, being the first fruits unto God and to the Lamb. Thus, having been successfully preserved, recruited, thoroughly enlightened and generously endowed, with eyes wide open, their mission is such that they “…follow Him wherever He goes”. That is, these 144,000 Jews, having been ‘redeemed’ from among the ranks of unbelieving men and women—a kind of offering of first-fruits of Jewish believers rescued from the tribulation period—they themselves will now do the work of the Man from Galilee (as when He walked the earth) following in His footsteps, hastily, speedily boldly evangelizing and preaching the gospel in His Name, so as to bring in a fat harvest of souls just before His return at Armageddon (albeit, at great peril to themselves and those whom they lead to salvation; all will lose their lives, because of their faith; none will live to see the actual, physical return of their Lord). They will have to do this while facing the constant menace and life endangering threat of a hostile world that will not submit to a God it will then know is quite real; a wicked world spurred and led by the “crowned rider”, in one way or the other, until the beast usurps power, trumpeting his agenda, pushing his mark and promoting himself as “God”, the Almighty—able to stop and to right all the “wrongs” that will have been incurred thus far, owing to the acts and exhibitions of wrath administered by Him who is indeed, “God”. Furthermore, it is by the feet and voices of these men
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16 lug 2024
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Revelation Chapter 7 Tribulation Evangelism

At this point, still early in the unfolding of God’s choreographed end-times drama, hundreds of millions of souls (maybe more) are missing, vanished without a trace; bloodstained trails mar the paths to mass graves housing billions more (saints murdered, and sinners slaughtered during WWIII). By virtue of their witness of this human carnage, some having firsthand knowledge, if they did not participate in the aforementioned bloodletting—their stomachs turned—will have experienced a change of heart. Coupled with all the evidences that remind of the “snatch”, in the midst of bombed out, burning buildings, bodies and body parts lining streets of all the major cities around the world, smoke will ascend up into the upper atmosphere—from forest fires and oil fields set ablaze—further complicating life and making lives miserable by blocking the sun, thereby contributing to a throwing-off of the growing seasons. In the face of these and other horrifying sights, hard, heretofore, otherwise impenetrable hearts, impervious to the gospel message preached, will have softened tremendously. Traumatized minds will be flooded with streams of endless questions that will not suffer silence. Desperate searches in frantic quests for rational solutions will only be appeased by one unlikely source…the Bible. Chains of doubt, shackled to lost souls that locked God out (by whatever means, for whatever reason) will have been loosened, leaving fertile minds exposed to a faith oft spurned, and now at last ready for a harvest long held at bay. In full awareness of this, the Lord God will have already graciously, mercifully prepared a troop that will fish for their souls, well in advance of the rivers of blood in which their corpses will float during the reign, and the terror, of the dreaded beast (Rev. 13:1-18). War Moratorium God’s Choice: New Direction—Short Stick! Barring traditional Judaism, all practical knowledge of God will have been eliminated from the earth. Without benefit of a more direct involvement and input, Satan will appear to have won the battle (the telling, chilling cameo appearance of an angry Lamb of God at the end of chap. 6, notwithstanding). Every Christian “left behind” will then be completely useless (If Christ came for His church today—01/04/2013—the “left behind” could easily include perhaps 90 to 95% of all professing Christians!). All denominations and churches will be under the devil’s direct control and supervision—a definite impediment to anything God initiates and every soul that God will save, from here on out. “Left-behind” Christians (being false saints, false prophets and false preachers, in addition to “unproductive” true saints given to compromise, or who simply refuse to grow) will doubtless have been instrumental in the round up and slaughter of the first wave of “new converts”, specifically, those true Christians introduced to us, under the altar, in chap. 6. This being so, as is customary, the vision of the Lamb having dissipated, God will quietly shift gears here, changing course slightly, so as to lay the foundation for the next phase of His salvation program and process. His preference, like always, is to start in obscurity, in the least likely of places, in a corner where Satan is least likely to anticipate resistance, in a manner that is tantamount to always choosing, intentionally, the “short end of the stick”. That then begs the question: If the Old Testament Israeli/Jewish saints and the pre-tribulation churches are in Heaven, and, the first wave of tribulation saints are in the graves, how then will the work of evangelizing the second wave of lost souls be facilitated?
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9 lug 2024
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Revelation, Chapter 6:9-11 (Part 3): The Martyred Saints & The Angry Lamb!

Bible Prophecy Master Class, Part 3 by Alvin Mitchell Tribulation Christian Murders: Wave #1. The scene changes and the action ceases as the Lamb of God peels away the fifth seal, to reveal the fifth mystery written within the Scroll. It appears that the events of these first four seals represent the passage of a fair amount of time (clearly this time is not part of the seven last years, as will be seem later in the three “woes”, and in the Lord’s comments here), relatively speaking, since the first seal was opened; how much time, however, is not at all clear (one will therefore arbitrarily assume roughly one quarter of the apocalyptic period, at least). The presence of the souls of deceased saints under the altar (for their deaths will be precious in His eyes—Psalm 116:15), and their conversation with the Lamb, who is Lord of all, is on the other hand in itself revealing (This suggests quite handily, that upon dying, the saints—contrary to current evangelical teaching—do not automatically go directly into the literal presence of God; rather, they are in “Paradise”, the abode and temporary place of the “righteous” dead, as they await something akin to the “Bema Seat” Judgment—where all pre-trib saints will appear—Luke 23:43; John 20:17). These people represent the first wave of saints to be slaughtered following God’s merciless smashing of the US, followed hard by the crushing demise of the military might of the Russians, the EU, and the armies of the Muslim world (all of which will foment and facilitate the transfer of their power and wealth into the hands of the Jews.). There will be no experienced, seasoned Christians from before the beginning of the Apocalypse, as none will be brought over into this hellish time on earth (this, per God’s promise through the apostle Paul, recorded in 1 Thessalonians 5:9). They will all be “raptured” as they are all represented before John by the twenty-four elders, being in Heaven around the Throne (Revelation 5:8-10), encircling the Father, the Son (who is the Lamb) and the Spirit (whose omni-presence is portrayed as being sevenfold). Thus, the Christians appearing on earth after seal #1 are all both ‘born-again’ and murdered during the Tribulation. Which again, begs the question: Who are they, and how will they be saved, without a “seasoned” preacher…if only the left-behind church-rejects remain? As was the case during Martin Luther’s day, when there were no seasoned, veteran Christian churches as such to lead the protestants to the level of knowledge and understanding they sought (all were Roman Catholics, more or less), yet the church—splintered and fractured, yes—by the will of God was able to re-birth itself out of and separate from its catholic cocoon (where it lay dead, for 1000 years, or so), so likewise it is not the least inconceivable that certain key individuals left behind, perhaps those whom the churches could save now, if they would do their jobs, will be able to recognize immediately what has happened, why, and, drawing on what they know already, using Bibles they have on hand (of which there will likely be plenty), piece together enough information so as to rapidly grow their ranks, thereby saving themselves, and others, if not their families. The preachers then, will most probably have to come from within the rank and file of these “soft unbelievers”.
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2 lug 2024
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Revelation, Chapter 6:3-4 (Part 2): WWIII & International Infighting Amongst the Nations!

Bible Prophecy Master Class, Part 3 by Alvin Mitchell Seal #2: World War III. International Infighting. Verse 3 And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see. Verse 4 And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword. It is imperative to reiterate, and to stress, again, that (contrary to the thinking of so-called prophecy “experts” and teachers like pastor John MacArthur) the wars here mentioned are not and they have nothing to do with the Battle of Armageddon (in fact, if one may be so bold, such thinking as theirs and that of the general evangelical community, is not just ‘wrong’, it is in truth an outright lie!). This is not the end of the apocalyptic tribulation period, as rather it is the very “beginning”! Thus, this infighting of the nations amongst themselves all around the world is not to be equated with God’s gathering of the nations around Israel as detailed in the prophecies of Joel (chapter 3) and Zechariah (chapters 12 and 14), which gathering will indeed take place at the Battle of Armageddon, just prior to the coming of the Lord. Obviously, Israel is by no means the focus of their sore displeasure, as rather it is ‘they’ themselves. There is absolutely nothing anywhere in this context to suggest even remotely that their guns are or will be in anywise trained on the Lord Jesus Christ at His advent, per Revelation 17:12-13 (rather, at the Lamb’s manifestation of Himself looking down upon war-weary, battered and beleaguered men at the end of this chapter 6, they flee in terror at the sight of Him! No one dares lift a finger to fight.). On the contrary, each is out to kill his neighbor, and/or bring him into subjugation, whereupon, per the will and mind of Almighty God, they will further make shipwreck of mankind’s already extremely fragile system of global economics; much to His Supreme satisfaction (the lynch-pin in that system having already been demolished, at their hands, to their detriment; per His will (see Judgment Day, Volume 1; Prelude to Armageddon (Part 1): The United States of America in Bible Prophecy)!). Furthermore, it should also be stated that the sudden, apparently spontaneous appearance of Jesus Christ at the end of chapter 6 here is not to be construed with His coming in “clouds with great glory” (Matthew 24:27-30), which event is synonymous with Revelation 19:11-21 (thus, there will be no dispatch of angelic beings or “gathering of the elect”, given that at this commencement of the Apocalypse period, those saints have not yet been born-again, thus they have not yet been murdered, as they most assuredly will be, for their faith, per Revelation 6:9-11; 7:9-17; 12:11; 14:12-13; 15:2-4.). Upon the breaking of the Scroll’s second seal, John heard the voice of the second living creature around God’s Throne, the one having the calf’s face, booming out this same thunderous command, “come”. Afterwards, there appeared a red horse (upon which sat a rider) whose job it was, in tandem with the rider upon the white horse, to rid the world of peace, ushering in global unrest and war with his great sword. One should stress that this is not the Battle of Armageddon, contrary to popular evangelical/fundamentalist thought, nor does this international fighting take place in the middle of the last seven years of human history.
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