Rev 6:5 And when he had opened
the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo
a black horse;
and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
The
black horse is one of the
four spirits which stand before the Lord and represents mourning.
Dozens of scriptures interpret black to
mean mourning which is often accompanied by fasting, weeping, ripping of clothes, wearing
sackcloth, shaving the head bald and falling to the ground. The black horse of mourning precedes the green horse of death.
Jer 4:27 For thus hath the LORD said, The
whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not
make a full end.
Jer 4:28 For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from
it.
Jer 14:2 Judah mourns, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto
the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is
gone up.
Gen 37:34 And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
Est 4:3 And in every province, whithersoever the king's
commandment and his decree came, there was
great mourning
among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing;
and many lay in sackcloth
and ashes.
Isa 22:12 And in that day did the
Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
Jer 6:26 O daughter of my people, gird you
with sackcloth,
and wallow yourself in ashes:
make you mourning,
as for an only
son, most bitter lamentation: for the
spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
We
read in Revelation that sackcloth is made from black hair, probably of goats.
Rev 6:12 And I beheld when he had
opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun
became black as sackcloth of hair,
and the moon became as blood;
G4526 σάκκος
Sakkos sak'-kos
Of Hebrew origin [H8242];
“sack” cloth, that is, mohair (the
material or garments made of it, worn as a sign of grief): - sackcloth.
H8242 שַׂק
Śaq sak
From H8264; properly a mesh
(as allowing a liquid to run through), that is, coarse loose cloth or sacking
(used in mourning and for bagging); hence a bag (for grain, etc.):
- sack (-cloth,
-clothes).
H7838 שָׁחוֹר שָׁחֹר
shâchôr shâchôr
shaw-khore', shaw-khore'
From H7835; properly dusky, but also (absolutely) jetty: - black.
Heb 11:37 They were stoned, they
were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about
in sheepskins and goatskins;
being destitute, afflicted, tormented;
Great God Almighty mourns for his children before they die in the
flesh. King David mourns before his son dies.
2Sa 12:16 David therefore besought
God for the child; and David
fasted, and went
in, and lay all night upon the earth.
2Sa 12:19 But when David saw that
his servants whispered, David perceived that the child was dead: therefore
David said unto his servants, Is the child dead? And they said, He is dead.
2Sa 12:20 Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his apparel, and came
into the house of the LORD, and worshipped: then he came to his own house; and
when he required, they set bread before him, and he did eat.
2Sa 12:21 Then said his servants
unto him, What thing is this that you
have done? you didst fast and weep for the child,
while it was alive;
but when the child was dead, you didst rise and eat bread.
2Sa 12:22 And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted
and wept:
for I said, Who can tell whether GOD will be gracious to me, that the
child may live?
2Sa 12:23 But now he is dead,
wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I
shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.
Father God Almighty Jahavah mourned for three
hours for his only begotten son before he died in the flesh.
Luk 23:44 And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all
the earth until
the ninth hour.
Luk 23:45 And the sun was darkened,
and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.
Luk 23:46 And when Jesus had cried with a
loud voice, he said, Father, into your hands I
commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.
Instead of a man’s
clothing being torn, the veil of the temple is torn in two.
Mat 27:51 And, behold, the veil
of the temple was rent in twain
from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake,
and the rocks rent;
The word mourning used in this verse of scripture is
also interpreted black.
Psa 38:6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I
go mourning
H6937
all the day long.
H6937 קָדַר
qâdar kaw-dar'
A primitive root; to be ashy,
that is, dark colored; by implication to mourn (in sackcloth
or sordid garments): - be black (-ish), be (make) dark (-en), X heavily, (cause to) mourn.
Psa 42:9 I will say unto God my
rock, Why have you forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
The Rider
on black horse weighs all the people in the balance dwelling
upon the earth before the time of great tribulation begins with the
opening of the fourth seal. The purchase is made for the bodies of the righteous to be killed for Christ sake.
Rev 6:5 And when he had opened
the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo
a black horse; and he
that sat on him had
a pair of balances
in his hand.
Rev 6:6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the
four beasts say, A measure
of
wheat for
a denarion,
and three measures of barley for a denarion;
and see you hurt
not the oil and the wine.
Job 31:6 Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.
Psa 62:9 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and
men of high degree are
a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter
than vanity.
Isa 40:15 Behold, the nations are
as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small
dust of the balance: behold, he takes up the isles
as a very little thing.
Dan 5:27 TEKEL; You are weighed in the balances, and are found
wanting.
Zec 11:12 And I said unto them, If you
think good, give me my
price; and if not,
forbear. So they weighed for my
price thirty pieces of
silver.
The apostate chief
priests valued the betrayal of Jesus to be thirty pieces of silver.
Mat 26:14 Then one of the twelve,
called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests,
Mat 26:15 And said unto them, What will you give me, and I will
deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty
pieces of silver.
Jesus our High Priest,
the Lamb of God is whose voice comes from the midst of the
throne and the four beasts and makes the purchases and the redemption
of the bodies from the rider on the black horse of mourning.
Rev 6:6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a
penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see you hurt not the oil and the wine.
Rev 5:6 And I beheld, and, lo, in
the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the
elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having
seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into
all the earth.
Rev 5:7 And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him
that sat upon the throne.
Rev 5:8 And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the
Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odors, which are
the prayers of saints.
Rev 5:9 And they sung a new song,
saying, You are woryour to take the book, and to open the seals
thereof: for you wast slain, and have redeemed us to God by your blood out of every
kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
Heb 3:1 Wherefore, holy brethren,
partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High
Priest of
our profession, Christ Jesus;
Heb 4:14 Seeing then that we have a great high
priest, that is
passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God,
let us hold fast our profession.
Jeremiah was a priest
and prophet whose writings disclose many of these same words in this passage
also used in Revelation. Jesus, our high priest buys his field, has the money
weighed, the seal of the book was opened and the 24 elders are the witnesses
Jer 32:9 And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle's son,
that was in Anathoth, and weighed him the money, even
seventeen shekels of silver.
Jer 32:10 And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took
witnesses,
and weighed him the money in the balances.
Jer 32:11 So I took the evidence of the purchase, both
that which was sealed according to the law and custom, and that which was
open:
Jer 32:12 And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah,
the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle's son, and in the presence
of the witnesses
that subscribed the book of the purchase,
before all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison.
The Law and many of the acts of the Old Testament were foreshadows or
rehearsals of greater things to come in the future. Pentecost which means 50 is
the feast of Weeks which was celebrated every year, Jubilee occurred only once
every 50 years.
Lev 25:8 And you shall number seven sabbaths of years unto you, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven
sabbaths of years shall be unto you forty and nine years.
Lev 25:9 Then shall you cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall you make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
Lev 25:10 And you shall hallow the fiftieth
year, and proclaim liberty throughout all
the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee
unto you; and you
shall return every man unto his possession, and you shall return
every man unto his family.
Lev 25:11 A jubilee shall that fiftieth
year be unto you: you
shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of your vine undressed.
Lev 25:12 For it is the jubilee; it shall be holy unto you: you
shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.
Lev 25:13 In the year of this jubilee
you shall
return every man unto his possession.
Lev 27:16 And if a man shall sanctify unto the LORD some
pare of a field of
his possession, then your estimation shall be according to the seed thereof: an homer of barley seed shall
be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
Lev 27:17 If he sanctify his field from the year of jubilee, according to your estimation
it shall stand.
Lev 27:18 But if he sanctify his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall reckon
unto him the money
according to the years that remain, even unto the year of the jubilee, and it shall be abated from your estimation.
Jesus the Lamb of God is the priest, purchaser and possessor of the field of seed which returns to him in that glorious day.
Lev 27:21 But the field, when it goes out in the jubilee, shall be holy unto
the LORD, as a field devoted;
the possession thereof shall be the priest's.
Lev 27:23 Then the priest shall reckon
unto him the worth of your estimation,
even unto the year of the jubilee: and he shall give your
estimation in that day,
as a holy thing
unto the LORD.
Lev 27:24 In the year of the jubilee the field shall return
unto him
of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land did belong.
Lord Jesus explains
the parable of the seed
of produce in the
field which shall be harvested.
Mat 13:23 But
he that received seed
into the good ground
is he that hears the word,
and understands
it; which
also bears fruit,
and brings forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
Mat 13:24 Another parable put he
forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is
likened unto a man which sowed
good seed in his field:
Mat 13:37 He answered and said unto
them, He
that sows the good seed
is the Son of man;
Mat 13:38 The
field is the world; the good seed are
the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;
Mat 13:39 The
enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers
are the angels.
Numerous scriptures were written and spoken by our
Lord Jesus Christ which symbolically uses the produce of the earth such as wheat,
barley and grain in an analogy with the human body.
1Co 15:20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and
become the firstfruits
of them that slept.
1Co 15:22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
1Co 15:23 But every man in his own
order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his
coming.
1Co 15:35 But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and
with what body do
they come?
1Co 15:36 You fool, that which you
sow is not quickened, except it die:
1Co 15:37 And that which you sow, you
sow not that body
that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some
other grain:
1Co 15:38 But God gives it a body as it hath pleased him, and to
every seed his
own body.
Joh 12:24 Verily,
verily, I say unto you, Except a grain of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abides alone: but if it die, it brings forth much fruit.
All of this was foreshadowed in the Old
Testament Law.
Exo 34:22 And you shall observe the
feast of weeks jubilee, of
the firstfruits of wheat harvest,
and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.
Lev 23:10 Speak unto the children
of Israel, and say unto them, When you be come into the land which I give unto
you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then you shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest:
Mat 13:30 Let
both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather you together first the tares,
and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
Mat 13:38 The
field
is the world; the good seed
are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;
Mat 13:39 The
enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers
are the angels.
Rev 14:15 And another angel came
out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud,
Thrust in your sickle, and reap: for the time is come for you to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe.
Hos 14:7 They that dwell under his
shadow shall return; they shall revive as
the grain,
and grow as the vine:
the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.
Tithing is not practiced in the New Testament because God’s people who do his will are
the tithe.
Jer 2:3 Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall
offend; evil shall come upon them, said the LORD.
Deu 14:22 You shall truly tithe all the increase of your seed, that the field brings forth year by year.
Deu 14:28 At the end of three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of your increase the same year, and shall rest within your gates:
Mar 4:26 And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground;
Mar 4:27 And
should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he
knows not how.
Mar 4:28 For
the earth brings forth fruit of herself; first
the blade, then the head of grain, after that the
full wheat in the head of grain.
Mar 4:29 But
when the fruit is brought forth,
immediately he puts in the sickle,
because the harvest is come.
Jas 1:18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
Jas 5:7 Be patient therefore,
brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waits for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it,
until he receive the early and latter rain.
Psa 126:5 They that sow
in tears shall reap
in joy.
Psa 126:6 He that goes forth and weeps,
bearing precious seed,
shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with
him.
Jer 31:11 For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed
him from the hand of him that was
stronger than he.
Jer 31:12 Therefore they shall come
and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow
together to the goodness of the LORD, for
as wheat,
and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock
and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered
garden; and they
shall not sorrow any more at all.
Isa 65:8 Thus said the LORD, As
the new wine is found in the
cluster, and one said, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may not destroy them
all.
Isa 65:9 I
will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah
an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
Yes it is true that we have already been
redeemed by the blood of Jesus. This purchase documented in the book of
Revelation is for the final redemption of the bodies of those who serve Jesus
Christ.. We shall receive a new spiritual heavenly body but somehow the DNA or marrow
of these bones is used in the new formation.
Eze 37:5 Thus said the Lord GOD
unto these bones;
Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live:
Eze 37:6 And I will lay sinews
upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am the LORD.
Eze 37:11 Then he said unto me, Son
of man, these bones are the whole house
of Israel:
behold, they say, Our bones
are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our pares.
Eze 37:12 Therefore prophesy and
say unto them, Thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your
graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
Eze 37:13 And you shall know that I
am the LORD, when I have opened your
graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your
graves,
Eze 37:14 And shall put
my spirit in you,
and you shall live, and I shall place you in your
own land: then shall you know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it,
said the LORD.
We who have received the firstfruits of the
Holy Spirit still await the redemption of our bodies.
Rom 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits
of the Spirit, even
we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
Eph 1:4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world,
that we should be holy and without blame before
him in love:
Eph 1:5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by
Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
Eph 1:6 To the praise of the
glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
Eph 1:7 In
whom we have redemption through his blood,
the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
Eph 1:13 In whom you also trusted, after that you heard the Word of Truth, the gospel of your salvation:
in whom also after that you believed, you were sealed with that Holy
Spirit of
promise,
The down payment was
made but the final purchase has not yet taken place.
Eph 1:14 Which is the earnest promise our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased
possession, unto
the praise of his glory.
Eph 4:16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together and
compacted by that which every joint supplies, according to the effectual
working in the measure of every pare,
makes increase
of the body unto
the edifying of itself in love.
Eph 4:30 And grieve not the holy
Spirit of God, whereby you are sealed
unto the day
of redemption.
Luk 21:28 And
when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads;
for your redemption draws nigh.
Hos 13:14 I will ransom them from the power
of the grave; I
will redeem them from death: O
death, I will be your plagues; O grave, I will be your destruction: repentance
shall be hid from mine eyes.
Orders are given not to hurt the oil and the wine
whose fleshly bodies are refined even further and shall not die during this time
but be changed at the Lord’s return.
Rev 6:6 And I heard a voice in
the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three
measures of barley for a penny; and see
you hurt not the oil and the
wine.
Rev 7:3 Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither
the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants
of our God in their foreheads.
Rev 9:4 And it was commanded them that
they should not hurt the grass
of the earth, neither any green thing, neither
any tree; but only those
men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.
The sealing is the
down payment of redemption. The virgins, the wine of Israel are sealed in
Revelation 7 and shown redeemed in with their new bodies in Revelation 14.
Rev 7:4 And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and
there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the
tribes of the children of Israel.
Rev 14:3 And they sung as it were
a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and
no man could learn that song but the hundred and
forty and four thousand, which were redeemed
from the earth.
Rev 14:4 These are they which were
not defiled with women; for they are virgins.
These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goes. These were redeemed from among men, being
the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.
The remaining living oil of Jerusalem are sealed in Ezekiel 9 and
they are redeemed when they come out of mystery Babylon, ascending up into the
air to be with the Lord in their new bodies.
Eze 9:4 And the LORD said unto
him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of
the men that
sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.
Eze 9:5 And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go you after him
through the city, and smite: let not your eye
spare, neither have you pity:
Eze 9:6 Slay
utterly old and young, both maids,
and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon
whom is the mark;
and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at
the ancient men which were before the house.
Apostate Jerusalem and its people is Mystery Babylon.
True Jerusalem and its remnant of people are the olive oil.
Rev 18:4 And I heard another voice
from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my
people, that you be
not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues.
Num 18:12 All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they shall offer
unto the LORD, them
have I given you.
Hos 2:22 And the earth shall hear
the grain,
and the wine,
and the oil; and
they shall hear Jezreel.
Hos 2:23 And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her
that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them
which were not my people, You are my people; and they shall say, You are my God.
Deu 18:4 The firstfruit also
of your grain,
of your wine,
and of your oil, and
the first of the fleece of your sheep, shall you give him.
Isa 4:2 In that day shall the
branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit
of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that
are escaped of
Israel.
Isa 4:3 And it shall come to
pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remains in
Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is
written among the living in
Jerusalem:
Isa 4:4 When the Lord shall have
washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the
spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
Eze 14:21 For thus said the Lord
GOD; How much more when I send my four sore judgments
upon Jerusalem,
the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut
off from it man and beast?
Eze 14:22 Yet, behold, therein
shall be left a remnant that shall be brought forth, both sons and
daughters: behold, they shall come forth unto you, and you shall see
their way and their doings: and you shall be comforted concerning the evil that
I have brought upon Jerusalem,
even concerning all that I have
brought upon it.
Joe 2:32 And it shall come to
pass, that whosoever
shall call on the name of the LORD shall
be delivered: for in mount Zion and in
Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.
The apostle Paul read
the books of the Old Testament and it was revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that
a remnant which survives in the flesh from Jerusalem would be
saved at the last trumpet. For those who would categorize it as such it is a
post-tribulation rapture.
1Th 4:16 For the Lord himself
shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and
with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise
first:
1Th 4:17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up
together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in
the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
The virgins who are represented by the wine and remnant of Jerusalem represented
by the oil do not die in the body but shall require a new body for heaven, thus
all bodies shall be redeemed whether they die or not.
1Co 15:51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we
shall all be changed,
1Co 15:52 In a moment, in the
twinkling of an eye, at the last
trump: for the
trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we
shall be changed.
1Co 15:53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this
mortal must put on immortality.
1Co 15:54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal
shall have put on immortality,
then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in
victory.
Jerusalem shall be surrounded by armies.
Psa 118:10 All
nations compassed me about:
but in the name of the LORD will I destroy them.
Psa 118:17 I
shall not die, but live,
and declare the works of the LORD.
Psa 118:18 The LORD hath chastened
me sore: but he hath not given me over unto death.
Psa 118:22 The
stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the
corner.
Psa 118:26 Blessed be he that comes in the name of the LORD: we have blessed you out of the
house of the LORD.
Luk 13:34 O
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which kills the prophets, and stones them that are sent unto you;
how often would I have gathered your children together, as a hen doth
gather her brood under her wings, and you
would not!
Luk 13:35 Behold, your house
is left unto you desolate: and verily I say unto you, You
shall not see me, until
the time come
when you shall say, Blessed is
he that comes in the name of the Lord.
Luk 19:41 And when he was come near, he beheld the city,
and wept over it,
Luk 19:42 Saying, If you had known, even you, at least in this your day,
the things which belong unto your peace! but now they are hid from your eyes.
Luk 19:43 For
the days shall come upon you, that your enemies shall cast a
trench about you, and compass you round, and keep you in on every side,
Luk 19:44 And
shall lay you even with the ground, and your children within you; and they
shall not leave in you one stone upon another; because you knew not the time of
your visitation.
The 144000 virgins of Israel who never believed or practiced the false
doctrines preached by apostate Jerusalem belong to the church of Philadelphia.
Rev 3:10 Because
you have kept the word of my patience, I also will keep
you from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell
upon the earth.
Rev 12:6 And
the woman fled into the wilderness,
where she hath a place prepared of God, that
they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and
threescore days.
Rev 12:14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great
eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness,
into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a
time,
from the face of the serpent.
God mourns for the wicked before he judges
them.
Eze 32:7 And when I shall put you
out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.
Eze 32:8 All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over you, and set darkness upon your land, said the Lord GOD.
Joe 2:10 The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:
Joe 3:15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.
Amo 5:20 Shall not the day of the LORD be
darkness, and not
light? even very dark,
and no brightness in it?
The knowledge which increases in the last
days is helped along by computers and Bible programs which save time and make
it easier to put the pieces of the book of Revelation together. Little about
prophecy is simple or easy to understand without the guidance of the Holy
Spirit and the Word of God. Even then it is difficult and must be studied often.
Simple analogies, proverbs, types, similitudes or parables are given for
complex issues, only to confuse those whom the Lord has not chosen and does not
invest the time to understand. The prophet Daniel understood the judgment
against Jerusalem by studying the books of the Law written by Moses and the
writings of Jeremiah. Daniel mourned and fasted three whole weeks before being given
knowledge and understanding of the end days. His great wisdom and understanding
were not just handed to him without any effort on his part.
Dan 9:2 In the first year of his
reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
Dan 9:3 And I set my face unto
the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting,
and sackcloth, and ashes:
Dan 9:4 And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful
God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that
keep his commandments;
Dan 9:5 We
have sinned, and have committed iniquity,
and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing
from your precepts and from your judgments:
Dan 9:6 Neither
have we hearkened unto your servants the prophets, which spoke
in your name to our
kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the
land.
Dan 9:10 Neither
have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in his
laws,
which he set before us by his servants the prophets.
Dan 9:11 Yea, all Israel have transgressed your law, even by departing, that they
might not obey your voice;
therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.
Dan 9:12 And he hath confirmed his
words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges that
judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven hath
not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem.
Dan 9:13 As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us:
yet made we not our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand
your truth.
Mat 5:18 For verily I say
unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from
the law, till all be fulfilled.
King David was also a
prophet who wrote many of the psalms which is nearly all prophecy beginning
with the birth of Christ all the way to the unification of all believers in New
Jerusalem.
Luk 24:44 And
he said unto them, These are the words
which I spoke unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which
were written in the law of Moses, and
in the
prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.
Yes there will be a great famine for
consumable food upon the earth but it begins at the opening of the fourth seal
which I believe is the beginning of the time of great tribulation upon the
whole earth.
Rev 6:7 And when he had opened
the fourth seal,
I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
Rev 6:8 And I looked, and behold
a pale horse:
and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them
over the fourth pare of the earth,
to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
The
great famine for the hearing of the Word of God
has been upon the earth for some time.
Amo 8:10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only
son, and the end
thereof as a bitter day.
Amo 8:11 Behold, the days come, said
the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of
hearing the words of the LORD:
Amo 8:12 And they shall wander
from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro
to seek the word of the LORD,
and shall not find it.
It is obvious to many
that Laodicea is the dominant church of the days we live in today. Symbolically
they are not an edible or consumable fruit or grain which the Lord could eat
and dine with so he shall spew them out of his mouth into great tribulation so
they can be refined and suitable for consumption. Those who have truly received
the Holy Spirit and study the Word of God know that the churches err, looking
for one to attend which teaches the truth but they do not find it. The Holy
Bible is still available for all to read freely but the gospel of the people is
being heard and believed by the masses of the deceived.
Amo 8:13 In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.
Jesus is the true
bread, dine with him.
Joh 6:32 Then Jesus said unto
them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave
you not that bread from heaven; but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.
Joh 6:33 For
the bread of God is he which comes down from heaven, and gives life
unto the world.
Joh 6:34 Then said they unto him,
Lord, evermore give us this bread.
Joh 6:35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread
of life:
he that comes to me shall never
hunger; and he that
believeth on me shall never
thirst.
Joh 4:13 Jesus answered and said
unto her, Whosoever drinks of this water shall thirst
again:
Joh 4:14 But whosoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never
thirst;
but the water that I shall give him shall be in
him a well of water springing
up into everlasting life.
Joh 4:21 Jesus said unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when you shall neither
in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.
Joh 4:22 You worship you know not what: we know what we worship:
for salvation is of the Jews.
Joh 4:23 But
the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and
in truth: for the Father seeks such to worship him.
Joh 4:24 God
is a Spirit: and they that
worship him must worship
him in spirit
and in truth.
Joh 7:37 In the last day, that
great day of the feast, Jesus stood
and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let
him come unto me, and drink.
Joh 7:38 He that believes on me, as the scripture
hath said, out of his belly shall
flow rivers of living water.
Rev 21:6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the
end. I will give unto him that
is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
Jer 2:13 For my people have committed two
evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and
hewed them out cisterns, broken
cisterns,
that can hold no water.
Jer 2:21 Yet I had planted you a noble vine,
wholly a right seed: how then are you turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
Every person coming
to Christ belongs to one of the seven churches listed in Revelation. The
majority of five of the seven are found guilty and wanting. Most of the people
of these churches do not know they are guilty.
Jer 2:23 How canst you
say, I am not polluted, I have not
gone after Baalim? see your way in the valley, know what you have
done: you are a swift dromedary
traversing her ways;
Jer 2:35 Yet you
say,
Because I am innocent,
surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with you, because you say, I have not sinned.
The answer to what
our Lord Jesus wrote in the sand in front of those who accused the woman of
adultery is right here in this verse from the book of the prophet Jeremiah.
Jer 17:13 O LORD, the hope of
Israel, all that forsake you shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me
shall be written in the earth,
because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.
This spiritual
message below is difficult to understand but one cannot deny that Jesus was the
whole staff of bread broken in Jerusalem, whose people and offspring of
churches would rather eat the polluted doctrines of men mixed with small
parcels of truth rather than the pure true Word of God.
Eze 4:10 And your meat which you shall
eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time
to time shall you eat it.
Eze 4:11 You shall drink also water by measure, the sixth pare of an hin: from
time to time shall you drink.
Eze 4:12 And you shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it with dung that comes out of man, in their
sight.
Eze 4:13 And the LORD said, Even
thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive
them.
Eze 4:14 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD!
behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my yeth up even till now have I not
eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in
pieces; neither came there abominable flesh
into my mouth.
Eze 4:15 Then he said unto me, Lo,
I have given you cow's dung for man's dung, and you
shall prepare your bread therewith.
Eze 4:16 Moreover he said unto me, Son of
man, behold, I will break the staff
of bread
in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and
they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:
Eze 4:17 That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with
another, and consume away for their iniquity.
Lev 26:26 And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread
in one oven, and they shall deliver you
your bread again by weight:
and you shall eat, and not be satisfied.
Isa 3:1 For,
behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole
stay of bread, and the whole
stay of water,
Isa 3:24 And it shall come to
pass, that instead of sweet smell
there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set
hair baldness;
and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and
burning instead of beauty.
Isa 3:25 Your men shall fall by
the sword, and your mighty in the war.
Isa 3:26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit
upon the ground.
Hos 9:4 They shall not offer wine offerings
to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their
sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted:
for their bread for their soul shall
not come into the house of the LORD.
Isa 24:4 The earth mourns and
fadeth away, the world languishes and
fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
Isa 24:5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof;
because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting
covenant.
Isa 24:6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein
are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth
are burned, and few men left.
Isa 24:7 The new wine
mourns, the vine languishes, all the merryhearted do sigh.
Isa 24:11 There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is
gone.
The opening of the fourth seal begins the
time of great tribulation and at the opening of the fifth seal all the slain
servants of the nations promised to Abraham are brought under the altar.
Rev 6:9 And when he had opened
the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God,
and for the testimony
which they held:
Rev 6:11 And white robes were given
unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season,
until their fellowservants also and their
brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
Rev 7:9 After this I beheld, and,
lo, a great multitude,
which no man could number, of all
nations, and
kindreds, and people, and tongues,
stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and
palms in their hands;
Rev 7:13 And one of the elders
answered, saying unto me, What are these which
are arrayoud in white robes? and whence came they?
Rev 7:14 And I said unto him, Sir,
you know. And he said to me, These are they
which came out of great tribulation, and
have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Some wrongfully believe that the seven seals coincide
with the seven trumpets and seven bowl judgments because the seals may seem to
be a summary or mini version of the rest of Revelation. The gentile peoples go
through a shorter version of great tribulation because they were not inheritors
of the promises and curses written in the Law attributed to Israel and Judah.
But still all true believers who have faith in Christ must be persecuted and
tried in the fire; therefore we see all the nations of gentiles which were promised
to Abraham come forth before the first trumpet judgment. The rest in Christ of
the seed of Abraham not found faithful from Israel, Judah and Jerusalem must go
further into the time of great tribulation because of their apostasy toward God
after receiving his truth and blessings so they are currently blinded and their
eyes shall not be opened until that time. The 144000 virgins of Israel shall be
found faithful to the Word and shall be exempted from the time of great
tribulation.
Gen 17:5 Neither shall your name
any more be called Abram, but your name shall be
Abraham;
for a father of many nations have I made you.
Gen 17:6 And I will make you exceeding
fruitful, and I will make nations
of you, and kings
shall come out of you.
Gal 3:7 Know you therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
Gal 3:8 And the scripture,
foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith,
preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying,
In you shall all nations be blessed.
Gal 3:9 So then they which be of
faith are
blessed with faithful Abraham.
Gal 3:14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus
Christ; that we
might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
The reasons for the
black horse of mourning and black darkness in the heavens and the earth is
because of the coming opening of the fourth seal revealing the pale green horse
whose rider is death with Hades following him along with the wrath of the
dragon serpent and of course the opening of the sixth seal the entire heavens
and earth mourn because of the great day of the Lord and the wrath of the Lamb
has come upon the whole world to judge the wicked and fulfilling all the curses
written in the Old Testament books of the Law. But the faithful righteous in
Christ have been paid for by his blood and their bodies redeemed in the
balances and have not been found wanting; they are to wear clean, spotless
white clothing having overcome the world and its current ruler Satan.
