In this week’s study, I continue in Chapter 14 beginning with verse 13. Before I begin I go into a rant on some of the current events that affected our daily life. I talk about Klaus Schwab’s agenda with the WEF, Joe Biden plan on 2 beers a week agenda, Trump connection to Soro and the Rothschild
The Fifth Vision "On Earth"
14:6-20
The Six Angels and the Son of Man
The Fifth Vision in heaven is very brief. It is another Episode, telling us of those who will have come through the great Tribulation, and have been caught up to Heaven.
It is part of the larger Episode, and is parenthetical. The previous vision on Earth has told us of those who were slain because they refused to worship the Beast or receive his mark. Those who were for death, had been killed; and those who were to be kept alive, have been kept alive (13:10). The worshippers of the Beast received his mark; and those who refused to take the mark of the beast, BUT received the mark of the Lamb (Yahshua Messiah) and of His Father in their foreheads. This seems to point to the 144,000 sealed ones, of whose sealing we read in chapter 7. They had passed unharmed through the judgments of Yahweh, and through the persecutions of the Beast.
Once again as we continue in this Chapter 14, we must remember that at this time there is total chaos on earth. Satan now realizes that after the resurrection of the 2 witnessess that the 7th trumpet is now blowing and the 3rd Woe is about to begin.
In this verse 13 there are three important themes that I believe emerge from this stunning pronouncement of blessing that awaits the worshippers of the Lamb. They are, number 1, the perseverance of the genuine faith; secondly, the promise of future blessing and, thirdly, the perpetual reward of righteous deeds.
13. And I heard a voice from heaven saying: = It seems most natural to suppose that the voice is that of the angel who directs the visions of St. John
Then notice, “Yea!” The Greek grammar here indicates that this is a strong affirmation. “‘Yes,’ says the Spirit, ‘that they may rest from their labors, and their works do follow them.’”
"Write, Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth:" = This is another voice: not that of the third angel. The connection is clear; "from henceforth" refers to death from that time.
"Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours, for their works follow them." = A proclamation is declared toward this ‘patience of the saints’. They are dead unto sin, but alive unto Yahweh through Yahshua Messiah.
Labours = As he had said that the ungodly have no rest for ever, so, on the contrary, he shows that the faithful, who are helped by their former works, from now on rest, that is, from the time of death.
Yahweh’s Wrath (Preview of Bowls)
The next few verses are a preview of the bowl events that contain Yahweh’s wrath. In fact, these verses focus mainly on the visible return of Yahshua Messiah which takes place at the end of the bowl judgments, and which is itself the most severe event of them all. I believe that this event is highlighted because it marks the conclusion of Yahweh’s long-standing offer of redemption to sinners. As discussed in verse 13 above, people may still repent and be redeemed in the midst of Yahweh’s wrath during the bowls, but those who remain unrepentant up to the visible return of Yahshua Messiah must face Yahweh’s wrath in the eternal way.
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