
Greetings to all lovers
of the truth:
The apostle John was exiled in the first century to the scorpion infested isle of Patmos in the Aegean Sea, an arm of the Mediterranean between Greece and Turkey by the officials of Rome to die a disillusioned death. But this is exactly where the Lord wanted John so he could receive the revelation of Jesus Christ. The Lord wanted John to get away from all the activities and pressures of the church and the distractions of the world to prepare him for the most important revelatory experience of receiving the hidden knowledge of future events contained in the master plan of the ages. All the future events revealed to John in the first century are the days, weeks, and years you and I are living now.
John was probably sitting in the shade of a palm tree when the anointing of Christ took control of his mind and he was drawn into a trance to receive the vision of Christ. And the segment of his book we are interested in today is the secret knowledge of the approaching Kingdom. We begin this article with the present day reality of the visual substance John received in his day, and it is wrote in the Book of Revelation with the blood of Jesus Christ, the prophets and saints. But before we begin in chapter-one, let us first review a giant image seen in a night vision by Nebuchadnezzar, the monarch of the Chaldean empire in the days of antiquity. This image of a giant man symbolizes the national powers of the Gentiles as conquerors of the known world. This is the reason Almighty God gave Nebuchadnezzar the prophetic name of Lucifer. This name defined means "the morning star of Gentile world domination." I know, you thought Lucifer was the Devil that was cast out of heaven.
The name Lucifer is a vindication to Nebuchadnezzar and to ourselves that the night vision given to the king about the complete scenario of Gentile domination of this disordered world state of civilization establishes him as the Father, the morning star of the reign of the Gentiles. Hence, the golden head of the image. Daniel saw in a vision the consummation of the reign of the Gentiles, or more specifically, the restored so-called Holy Roman empire, known as the European Community ruled by the antichrist Pope from the "seat of the beast at Vatican City, Rome, Italy.
The apostle John saw the last battle as the armies of the ten toes of the image, or the ten horns on the seventh head of the dragon beast system, who are ten kings ruling a quasi-confederacy in Europe send their armies into the Middle East and to Armageddon in Israel to conquer and destroy the Israeli people. At the very end of Nebuchadnezzar's night-vision he saw a "stone" cut out without hands in heaven that came crashing down upon the image's feet and crushed it to powder. This is the stone that came rolling through Babylon to destroy the kingdoms of this world. And the moment the stone destroyed the kingdoms and nations of the earth it grew into a mighty mountain that covered the planet.
The visual effect of the city coming down from God out of heaven does not convey the idea the celestial city of God is up there in that illusionary place where the throne of God supposedly exists, except in the minds of a few religious pumpkin heads whose artificial candle light has been extinguished by the truth of Christ. The city was designed by thought in the mind of the omnipresent God before the universe was created, and this is where it originated and came from in word-form to be expressed here in the consummation of all things.(Eph.1:3-10)
We can see by this scriptural statement that New Jerusalem is the "body", or "tabernacled of God", which of course is the glorified people of the church residing on this planet as God unto the natural people of Israel, and to reign and rule the natural Gentile people of this earth with the law of God and a "rod of iron" for a thousand years. There is more "of that which is perfect has come", so stay tuned.
Yours in Christ~ ~Gene
Austin
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