1 Fourth Seal
2 Pale Horse aka Green Horse
3 Death
4 Hell aka Hades
5 Fourth Part of the Earth
Killed with:
6 Sword
7 Famine for the Poor
8 Kill with Death
9 Beasts of the Earth
10 Murderers
Fourth Seal
Rev 6:7
And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard
the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
The opening of the fourth seal is the beginning of the
time of great tribulation for the gentile peoples; especially those who have
true faith in Jesus Christ. This is not God’s wrath which does not begin until
the sixth seal, but is the wrath of Satan and the power given to him to try
those gentiles of righteousness. Much of the information given about the people
killed for their faith involved in the fourth seal shall overlap with the fifth
and sixth seals because more information is revealed about them as each seal is
opened.
Pale aka
Green Horse
Rev 6:8
And I looked, and behold a pale G5515 horse:
and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power
was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and
with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
G5515 χλωρός
chlōros khlo-ros'
From the same as G5514;
greenish,
that is, verdant, dun-colored:
- green,
pale.
The
literal Greek translation for a pale horse in Revelation is a green
horse. There are no natural colored green horses here on earth so it appears
the Bible translators thought it would be best to interpret the Greek word chloros to be pale. In every other instance the
word is written in the New Testament it is obviously green. We do know that
when people die their flesh becomes colorless and pale. The four horses are
symbolic of four powerful spirits and not fleshly animals; therefore they are not
visible to the eyes of those who dwell upon the earth. The white and red horses
symbolically are already certainly roaming the earth at the present time. Green is often representative of life, prosperity
and flourishing. It may be the horse is green
because he searches after the lives of the living and takes it from them. His
rider is after all death and his partner is Hades, the abode of the dead.
Here
are the other three examples of the same Greek word chloros
written in the Holy Bible:
Rev 8:7
The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood,
and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up,
and all green G5515 grass was burnt
up.
Rev 9:4
And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth,
neither any green G5515 thing, neither any tree; but only those men
which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.
Mar 6:39
And he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green G5515 grass.
Here below are the Hebrew words written to describe green or pale.
H3418 יֶרֶק
yereq yeh'-rek
From H3417
(in the sense of vacuity of color); properly pallor, that is, hence the yellowish green of young and sickly
vegetation; concretely verdure, that is, grass
or vegetation:
- grass, green
(thing).
H3420 יֵרָקוֹן
yêrâqôn yay-raw-kone'
From H3418;
paleness,
whether of persons (from fright), or of plants (from drought): - mildew, paleness.
The
three evil unclean spirits which come out of the beast, false prophet and
dragon which we can assume is symbolically another reptile are described as green like frogs
and serpents or snakes are often used to
describe these wicked creatures which are currently invisible to the human eye.
Rev 16:13
And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs G944 come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
Rev 16:14
For they are the spirits of devils, working
miracles, which go forth unto the
kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that
great day of God Almighty.
G944 βάτραχος
Batrachos bat'-rakh-os
Of uncertain derivation; a frog: - frog.
G1404 δράκων
drakōn drak'-own
Probably from an alternate form of δέρκομαι derkomai (to look); a fabulous kind
of serpent (perhaps
as supposed to fascinate): - dragon.
Death
Contrary
to the other three horses in Revelation 6 there is little mystery surrounding
the identity of the rider on the pale green
horse and what mission he shall accomplish. Death
is the name of the rider on the pale horse
and he has a partner who follows with him named Hades.
Rev 6:8
And I looked, and behold a green horse: and his name that sat on him was Death,
and Hades followed with him. And power was given unto
them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death,
and with the beasts of the earth.
Satan currently has some power over death of the body but Jesus Christ has
the keys to unlock death and Hades in that all those who follow and worship him
shall live with him eternally by being born again of the Spirit above. Our Lord
has even selected some elect who will not die in the flesh but their bodies
will be changed at his arrival. None of this group of believers shall be
raptured alive. Those who choose not to follow him shall experience the second
death of the spirit and are cast into the lake of fire for evermore.
Heb 2:14
Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh
and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death
he might destroy him that had the power of death, that
is, the devil;
Before Jesus died and resurrected all died in the
flesh with the exception of Enoch and Elijah whose spirit came back as John the
Baptist and was beheaded.
Rev 1:18
I am he that lives, and was dead;
and, behold, I am
alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hades and
of death.
1Co 15:26
The last enemy that shall be destroyed
is death.
Rev 20:13
And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hades delivered up the dead which were in them: and
they were judged every man according to their works.
Rev 20:14
And death and hell were cast
into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
Rev 20:15
And whosoever was not found written in the book of life
was cast into the lake of fire.
Luk 12:4 And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.
Gehenna is the lake of fire; the future permanent residence of the
wicked as opposed to Hades which is temporary.
Luk
12:5 But I
will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear
him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into gehenna; yea, I say unto you, Fear
him.
Jesus went down into Abraham’s bosom and preached his gospel unto the dead
saints of the Old Covenant.
Joh 5:25 Verily, verily,
I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the
dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.
Some of the 24 elders come from this group of saints seen walking around
Jerusalem.
Matthew
27:50. Jesus, when He had cried out
again with a loud voice, yielded up His spirit.
51. And behold, the veil of the
temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth quaked, and the rocks
were split, 52. and the graves were
opened; and many bodies of the saints who had
fallen asleep were raised; 53. and coming
out of the graves after His resurrection,
they went into the holy city and appeared to
many.
1
Peter 4:6. For this reason the gospel was preached also to those who are dead, that they might be judged
according to men in the flesh, but live
according to God in the spirit.
Isa 26:19
Thy dead men
shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye
that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as
the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the
dead.
Isa 26:20
Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and
shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
Joh 8:51 Verily, verily,
I say unto you, If a man keep my Word, he shall never see death.
Death still has dominion over those who choose not to accept Christ and be
baptized.
Rom 6:3 Know ye not, that as many of us baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
Rom
6:4 Therefore we
are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised
up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk
in newness of life.
Rom
6:5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also
in the likeness of his resurrection:
Death of the body is now a temporary occurrence for most of the
followers of Christ with the exception of
the 144000 virgins and the small remnant of Jerusalem whose flesh shall
not die but be changed at the conclusion of the first judgment.
Heb 9:27
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but
after this the judgment:
Joh 5:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that hears my Word, and believeth on Him
that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
Rom
5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered
into the world, and death by sin;
and so death passed upon all men, for that all have
sinned:
Rom 6:9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the
dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
Act 2:24
Whom God hath raised
up, having loosed the pains of death:
because it was not
possible that he should be holden of it.
Hell aka Hades
There
is some confusion about the meaning of Hell
and its location. Hades and Gehenna which is the lake of fire are sometime
both interpreted or translated as hell. Both
are places of fiery torment for the wicked but Hades
is a temporary holding area for the dead until the second and final judgment.
From there the wicked dead are cast into the lake
of fire for eternity.
Luk 16:23
And in hell G86 he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
G86 ᾅδης
hadēs hah'-dace
From G1
(as a negative particle) and G1492; properly
unseen, that is, “Hades” or the place (state) of departed souls: - grave,
hell.
Luk 16:24
And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me,
and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my
tongue; for I am
tormented in this flame.
Luk 16:25
But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime received
thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is
comforted, and thou art tormented.
Luk 16:26
And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that
they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would
come from thence.
The
good departed dead who have not yet ascended into heaven reside in the bosom of Abraham or Paradise
the new name given by Jesus on the cross, which is across an impenetrable
barrier in Hades. In the Old Testament Hebrew the word Sheol
is used.
Paradise
Luk 23:42
And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.
Luk 23:43 And Jesus
said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with
me in paradise.
Jesus did not resurrect and ascend into heaven until
the third day so I must deduce that Paradise is the new name given by our Lord
to the area known as Abraham’s bosom which is in the same vicinity of Hades as
illustrated in the poor beggar Lazarus scriptures. Jesus dying on the cross for
the whole world obviously changed many things including Abraham’s bosom and for
those who reside in that temporary holding area. It is not uncommon for our
Lord to give different names to people, places and things as time unfolds.
Eph 4:9
(Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?
Eph 4:10
He that descended is the same also that ascended
up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)
1Pe 3:18
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the
just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the
flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
1Pe 3:19
By which also he went and preached unto the spirits
in prison;
Act 2:31
He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in Hades, neither his flesh did see corruption.
Joh 20:1
The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early,
when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from
the sepulchre.
Joh 20:16
Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned
herself, and saith unto him, Rabboni; which is to say, Master.
Joh 20:17
Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto
my Father, and your Father; and to
my God, and your God.
Joh 20:19
Then the same day at evening,
being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut
where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood
in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.
Jesus had now ascended into heaven with our Father and
was then able to give his Holy Spirit to his disciples.
Joh 20:22
And when he had said this, he breathed on them,
and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:
1
Peter 4:6. For this reason the gospel was preached also to those who are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the
flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
Abraham’s bosom or Paradise is in a protected area
of Hades which is in the heart of the earth where scientists have theorized is
fiery hot molten location.
Mat 12:40
For as Jonas was three
days and three nights in the whale's
belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart
of the earth.
Sheol is the Hebrew name for Hades
H7585 שְׁאֹל
שְׁאוֹל
she'ôl she'ôl sheh-ole',
sheh-ole'
From H7592;
hades or the world of
the dead (as if a subterranian retreat),
including its accessories and inmates: - grave, hell, pit.
Hos 13:14 I will ransom them
from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from
death: O death, where are thy plagues? O Sheol, where is thy destruction? repentance shall be
hid from mine eyes.
1Sa 2:6
The LORD kills, and makes alive: he brings down to
Sheol, and brings up.
1Sa 2:8
He raises up the poor out of the dust, and lifts up the
beggar from the dunghill, to set them
among princes, and to make them inherit the throne
of glory: for the pillars of the earth are
the LORD'S, and he hath set the world upon them.
Gen 37:34 And Jacob rent
his garments, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many
days.
Righteous patriarch of faith Jacob proclaimed that he
would go down to Sheol to be with his son.
Gen 37:35 And all his sons and all his daughters rose
up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I
will go down to Sheol to my son mourning. And his father wept for him.
I must deduce that the lowest Sheol is where the
wicked are in the fiery, tormenting section of Hades.
Deu 32:22 For a fire is kindled in mine
anger, And burns unto the lowest Sheol, And
devoureth the earth with its increase, And setteth on fire the foundations of
the mountains.
Psa 30:3 O Jahavah, thou hast brought
up my soul from Sheol; Thou hast kept me alive,
that I should not go down to the pit.
Psa 89:48 What man is he that
shall live and not see death, That shall deliver his soul from the power of
Sheol? Selah.
Psa 139:8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: If
I make my bed in Sheol, behold, thou art there.
Pro 7:27 Her house is the way to Sheol, Going down to the chambers of death.
Isa 14:15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to Sheol, to the uttermost parts of the pit.
At
the first judgment only righteous souls are resurrected unto eternal life. At
the second judgment two books are opened; the first being death and the second
is life.
Rev 20:11
And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat
on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found
no place for them.
Rev
20:12 And I saw the dead, small and great,
stand before God; and the a
books were was
opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were
written in the books, according to their works.
Two books of death and life are opened; while death and hades seem to be
two separate entities yet similar and always together.
Rev 20:13
And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hades delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged
every man according to their works.
There will be some righteous at the final judgment
which is after the millennial reign of Christ upon earth who are written in the
book of life.
Rev 20:14
And death and hades were cast into the
lake of fire. This is the second death.
Fourth Part of the Earth
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 part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the
beasts of the earth.
There are scriptures which refer to the fourth part of
Jacob or Israel descended through Abraham who was promised blessing to all
nations of his seed.
Num 23:10
Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number
of the fourth
part of Israel? Let me die
the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like
his!
Gen 13:14
And the LORD said unto Abram,
after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from
the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and
westward:
Gen 13:15
For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
The seed of Abraham
is all those of every nation and kindred who have faith
in Jesus Christ, the seed of David
through the Holy Spirit which came upon the
virgin Mary.
Gen 13:16
And I will make thy
seed as the dust of the earth:
so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then
shall thy seed also be numbered.
Gen 22:17
That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply
thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the
sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
Gen 22:18
And in thy seed shall all
the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.
Gen 28:13
And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am
the LORD God of Abraham thy
father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will
I give it, and to thy seed;
Gen 28:14
And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt
spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south:
and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
Gen 28:16
And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD
is in this place; and I knew it
not.
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.
Isa 10:22
For though thy people Israel be as
the sand of the sea, yet
a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with
righteousness.
Jer 33:15
In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch
of righteousness to grow up unto David;
and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land.
Jer 33:22
As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply
the seed of David my servant, and the Levites
that minister unto me.
Hos 1:10
Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea,
which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.
Rom 9:24
Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews
only, but also of the Gentiles?
Rom 9:25
As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not
my people; and her beloved, which was not
beloved.
Rom 9:26
And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them,
Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.
The gentiles are sometimes referred to as strangers in
the Old Covenant.
2Ch 15:9
And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh,
and out of Simeon: for they
fell to Israel in abundance, when they saw that the
LORD his God was with them
Isa 14:1
For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land:
and the strangers
shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave
to the house of Jacob.
Jesus garments were divided into four parts by the
Roman soldiers.
Joh 19:23
Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus,
took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven
from the top throughout.
Joh 19:24
They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it,
whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they
did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did.
Isa 49:18
Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all
these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As
I live, saith the LORD, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as
with an ornament, and bind them on thee,
as a bride doeth.
Isa 49:21
Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I
have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and
who hath brought up these? Behold,
I was left alone; these, where had they been?
Rev 7:13
And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?
Isa 49:22
Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and
set up my standard to the people:
and they shall bring thy sons in their
arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their
shoulders.
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;
Isa 49:23
And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers:
they shall bow down to thee with their
face toward the earth, and lick up the dust
of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed
that wait for me.
Isa 49:25
But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of
the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of
the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth
with thee, and I will save thy children.
Isa 49:26
And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own
flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own
blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh
shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and
thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
Isa 61:10
I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he
hath clothed me with the garments of salvation,
he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness,
as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments,
and as a bride adorneth herself with
her jewels.
Isa 61:11
For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as
the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord
GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth
before all the nations.
We
know from the book of Revelation that there are seven
churches which make up the whole church of Christ but there are only four quarters of his house. There are seven lampstands but only four
bowls in the menorah which represent
the four houses taken in the four watches of the night in great tribulation.
Exo 25:31
And thou shalt make a menorah of pure gold: of
beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his
bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same.
The shaft of the menorah is the center branch which
added to the six makes up the seven churches.
Exo 25:32
And six branches
shall come out of the sides of it; three branches of the menorah out of the one side, and three branches of the
menorah out of the other side:
Exo 25:34
And in the menorah shall
be four
bowls H1375 made like unto almonds H8246,
with their knops and their
flowers.
H1375 גְּבִיעַ
gebı̂ya‛ gheb-ee'-ah
From an unused root (meaning to be convex); a goblet; by analogy the calyx of a flower: - house, cup, pot.
H1360 גֶּבֶא
gebe' geh'-beh
From an unused root meaning probably to collect;
a reservoir; by analogy a marsh: - marsh,
pit.
H8247 שָׁקֵד
shâqêd shaw-kade'
From H8245;
the almond (tree or nut; as being the earliest in bloom):
- almond (tree).
There are four watches in the night…see below.
H8245 שָׁקַד
shâqad shaw-kad'
A primitive root; to be alert,
that is, sleepless; hence to be on the
lookout (whether
for good or ill): - hasten, remain, wake, watch (for).
Symbolically
the Lord sometimes uses fruits or firstfruits of the earth to describe his
people who are harvested. The four fruits listed in Revelation are wheat, barley, oil which comes from olives and wine
which comes from grapes; both of which are
pressed, trampled, squished, or squeezed. Great tribulation is narrowness and
tightness achieved to enter into the straight and narrow gate to heaven. The
sycamore fig tree must be pinched in order to ripen on the tree.
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 thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
The
fourth part of the earth slain in the book
of Revelation 6 represented by the barley is
the gentile portion of his church that was promised and is blessed through Abraham by faith in Christ. There are four corners
of a great sheet shown to the apostle Simon Peter when it was revealed to him that
salvation is also offered unto the gentile peoples of the world.
Act 11:5
I was in the city of Joppa praying: and in a trance I saw a vision, A certain
vessel descend, as it had been a great sheet,
let down from heaven by four
corners; and it came even to me:
This revelation in the book of Acts is a parable that
some of the church use to rationalize eating anything they want but it is a
spiritual message about the gentiles supping or dining with our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ the Son of God. In other words we must all be fit for his
consumption, just as we must be fit to consume him as the bread of Christ when
we take communion.
Act 11:1
And the apostles and brethren that were in Judaea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.
Act 11:2
And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they that were of the circumcision contended with
him,
Act 11:3
Saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst
eat with them.
Act 11:7
And I heard a voice saying unto me, Arise, Peter; slay and eat.
Rev 3:20
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man
hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in
to him, and will sup with him, and he
with me.
Act 11:8
But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean
hath at any time entered into my mouth.
Act 11:9
But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
Act 11:18
When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying,
Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto
life.
The whole church of Laodicea in its present state is
not fit for Christ consumption and will be vomited out into great tribulation
to be refined or cooked in the fire in order to be consumable.
Rev 3:16
So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold
nor hot, I will spue thee out
of my mouth.
The apostle and prophet Paul explains that the
faithful gentiles are grafted into Israel.
Rom 11:17
And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild
olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the
root and fatness of the olive tree;
Eze 47:22
And it shall come to pass, that ye
shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn among you, which shall beget children among
you: and they shall be unto you as born in the country among the
children of Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of
Israel.
Isa 49:6
And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up
the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the
preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light
to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation
unto the end of the earth.
Isa 49:12
Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo,
these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.
Isa 49:13
Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O
mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.
Four Watches in the Night of Great Tribulation
There are four separate watches for the four separate
corners or houses of the whole church of Christ with the gentiles being taken
at even or evening in the first watch of the night.
Mar 13:33
Take ye heed, watch
and pray: for ye know not when the time is.
Mar 13:34
For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and
gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.
Mar 13:35
Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master
of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:
Luk 12:37 Blessed are
those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make
them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.
Luk 12:38 And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them
so, blessed are those servants.
Luk 12:39 And this know,
that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he
would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.
The surviving remnant of Jerusalem are taken
in the fourth watch of the night.
Mat 14:25
And in the fourth
watch of the night Jesus went unto them,
walking on the sea.
Four different groups of laborers are hired by the
Lord at four different times.
Mat 20:3
And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace,
Mat 20:4
And said unto them; Go ye also into the vineyard,
and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way.
Mat 20:5
Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise.
Mat 20:6
And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith
unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?
In the prophecy of Ezekiel Noah
represents all nations of the gentiles, Daniel represents the 144000
virgins and Job represents the house
of Israel. The fourth
house is the remnant which survives and
comes out of apostate Jerusalem which is the
capitol of mystery Babylon.
Eze 14:18
Though these three men were
in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD,
they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only shall be delivered themselves.
Eze 14:19
Or if I send a pestilence into that
land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and
beast:
Eze 14:20
Though Noah,
Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall
deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but
deliver their own souls by their righteousness.
Eze 14:21
For thus saith 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 ye shall see their way and their doings: and ye shall
be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought upon
it.
Mat 24:31 And he
shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Sword
Psa 37:14
The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have
bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy,
and to slay
such as be of upright conversation.
Mat 26:52 Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they
that take the sword
shall perish with the sword.
Rev 13:10
He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the
saints.
Jer 25:29
For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and
should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call
for a sword upon
all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the LORD of hosts.
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;
G4501 ῥομφαία
Rhomphaia hrom-fah'-yah
Probably of foreign origin; a sabre,
that is, a long and broad cutlass (any weapon
of the kind, literally
or figuratively): - sword.
A sword in the modern age
would also represent a weapon which can kill the body such as a gun. The great
sword given to the rider on the red horse is obviously not a traditional sharp
steel sword used as the weapon of choice in the pre-technology age. This sword
used to kill also does not represent the sword of the mouth of the Lord because
his wrath does not begin until the sixth seal is opened. When I think about
being killed by the sword I always remember a television documentary which
showed a young thin African male approximately 16 to 20 years old being killed
by an African rebel who was executing a whole tribe one by one with a large
sword and he told his victim to be quiet and not make a fuss while his throat
was being slit. This young African male did exactly as he was told and I can
only think he was a born again saved Christian who was led to the slaughter.
The church of Smyrna is this gentile church who suffers and dies for their
faith; being murdered and killed intentionally by evil people in power.
This next chapter written by
the prophet Isaiah is of course describing our Lord and savior Jesus Christ who
set the example for suffering and dying for the sins of the entire world.
Isa 53:1 Who hath
believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
Isa 53:2
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant,
and as a root out of a dry
ground: he hath no form nor comeliness;
and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Isa 53:3
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from
him; he was despised, and we esteemed
him not.
Just as many ignored and ignore Jesus Christ, a large
number of us hide our faces and eyes from the terrible conditions and deaths of
the poor gentile peoples around the world.
Isa 53:4
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of
God, and afflicted.
Isa 53:5
But he was wounded
for our transgressions, he was
bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of
our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
Isa 53:6
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way;
and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Isa 53:7
He was oppressed,
and he was afflicted,
yet he opened
not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep
before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
The poor gentile peoples have no mouth to speak. There
are few standing in the gap for them save Jesus Christ.
Mat 25:41
Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand,
Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and
his angels:
Mat 25:42
For I was an
hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
Mat 25:43
I was a stranger,
and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me
not: sick,
and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Mat 25:44
Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when
saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in
prison, and did not minister unto thee?
Mat 25:45
Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the
least of these, ye did it not to me.
Mat 25:46
And these shall go away into everlasting
punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
Isa 53:8
He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his
generation? for he was cut off out of the
land of the living:
for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
Isa 53:9
And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because
he had done no violence, neither was any
deceit in his mouth.
Isa 53:10
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him
to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for
sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his
days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
Isa 53:11
He shall see of the travail of his soul, and
shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many;
for he shall bear their iniquities.
Isa 53:12
Therefore will I divide him a portion
with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered
with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for
the transgressors.
Famine
Drought causes famine and disease which still kill
many people in the world today despite the great wealth, food, clean water
technology and medical supplies available today. The pale green horse of
Revelation which is given power to kill a fourth of the earth is a spirit but
works through the bodies of people who shall be accountable for these deaths
because they rejected the truth of Jesus Christ.
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 part of the earth, to
kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the
beasts of the earth.
Famine is usually the result of drought because there
is a lack of rain or precipitation to grow crops.
1Ki 18:1
And it came to pass after many days,
that the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, shew
thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon
the earth.
1Ki 18:2
And Elijah went to shew himself unto Ahab. And there
was a sore famine in Samaria.
Great multitude of the Gentile Nations of Abraham
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 arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?
Rev 7:14
And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. 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.
Rev 7:15
Therefore are they before the throne of God, and
serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them.
This scripture alludes to the fact that this group was
suffering famine which is the result of drought.
Rev 7:16
They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun
light on them, nor any heat.
Rev 7:17
For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed
them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of
waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from
their eyes.
Isa 41:17
When the poor and needy seek water,
and there is none, and their tongue faileth
for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of
Israel will not forsake them.
The poor and needy are the first to feel the effects
of drought as the rich horde the water resources for greedy gain of profits and
wealth. The church of Smyrna is the poor, persecuted, suffering and murdered church
of the gentiles.
Rev 2:8
And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive;
Rev 2:9
I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of
Satan
Rev 2:10
Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall
cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death,
and I will give thee a crown of life.
Jer 16:19
O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto
thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there
is no profit.
Jas 2:5
Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of
this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised
to them that love him?
Exo 22:25
If thou lend money to any of my people that
is poor by thee,
thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him interest.
Deu 24:14
Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are
in thy land within thy gates:
The persecution, affliction, torment and murder of the
poor and needy is intentional and organized
Psa 10:2
The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: H6041 let them be taken in the devices
that they have imagined.
H6041 עָנִי
‛ânı̂y aw-nee'
From H6031;
depressed,
in mind or circumstances (practically the same as H6035
subjectively and H6041 objectively): - afflicted,
humble`, lowly`, needy, poor.
Psa 10:8
He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret
places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor. H2489
H2489 חֵלְכָה
חֵלְכָא
chêlekâ' chêlekâh khay-lek-aw',
khay-lek-aw'
Apparently from an unused root probably
meaning to be dark or
(figuratively) unhappy; a wretch, that is, unfortunate: -
poor.
Psa 10:9
He lieth
in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he
draweth him into his net.
Psa 10:10
He croucheth, and humbleth himself,
that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
Psa 10:11
He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he
hideth his face; he will never see it.
Psa 12:5
For the oppression
of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, H34 now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from
him that puffeth at him.
H34 אֶבְיוֹן
'ebyôn eb-yone'
From H14,
in the sense of want (especially in feeling); destitute:
- beggar,
needy, poor (man).
Psa 37:14
The wicked
have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast
down the poor and needy, and
to slay
such as be of upright conversation.
Pro 28:6
Better is the poor H7326 that walketh
in his uprightness, than he that is
perverse in his ways, though he be rich.
H7326 רוּשׁ
rûsh roosh
A primitive root; to be destitute: - lack, needy, (make
self) poor (man).
Pro 30:12
There is a generation
that are pure in their own eyes, and yet
is not washed from their filthiness.
Pro 30:13
There is a generation,
O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
Pro 30:14
There is a
generation, whose teeth are as
swords, and their jaw teeth as
knives, to devour
the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
Isa 32:6
For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to
practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause
the drink of the thirsty to fail.
Isa 32:7
The instruments also of the churl are
evil: he deviseth wicked devices to
destroy the poor with lying words, even
when the needy speaketh right.
Jer 2:34
Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of
the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all
these.
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Eze 22:29
The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
Amo 4:1
Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are
in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor,
which crush the needy, which say to their
masters, Bring, and let us drink.
Amo 5:12
For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
Amo 8:4
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even
to make the poor of the land to fail,
Hab 3:14
Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came
out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was
as to devour the poor secretly.
Lord Jesus Christ looks on the poor, hungry and
afflicted a whole lot differently.
Luk 6:20
And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed
be ye poor: for yours is the
kingdom of God.
Luk 6:21
Blessed are ye that hunger now:
for ye shall be filled. Blessed are
ye that weep
now: for ye shall laugh.
Luk 6:22
Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate
you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil,
for the Son of man's sake.
Luk 6:23
Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner
did their fathers unto the prophets.
The Overwhelming Majority of the Earth’s Poor
Live Near the Equator and are of the gentile races.
The countries listed here are within just
1,500 miles of the equator): India, Kenya, Haiti, Yemen, Guatemala, Honduras, Somalia, Ethiopia,
Liberia, Uganda, Rwanda, Congo, Burundi,
Zimbabwe, Brazil and Indonesia.
The time of great tribulation is sometimes symbolically
represented by summer and the heat of the day, so the multitudes of gentiles
which come out of great tribulation are from the church of Smyrna which is poor
suffer both physically from drought and famine and great spiritual persecution.
The majority of the poor in the world are close to the equator where it is the
hottest and some of the world’s greatest droughts are in Africa and where dark
skinned people reside.
Most
if not all these poor people who live near the equator are dark skinned and I
believe that Simon the Cyrenian although apparently of Jewish blood that
carried the cross of Jesus may represent them in their struggle to serve
Christ. Carrying the cross of Jesus Christ was and is a great honor and should
not be looked upon in a negative manner.
Luk 23:26
And as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon,
a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on
him they laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus.
Kurēnē koo-ray'-nay
Of uncertain derivation; Cyrene,
a region of Africa:
- Cyrene.
Cyrene is in
Libya which originally was settled by the sons of Ham: not necessarily the
people who live there today as the arabs and muslims have settled in most
places in the middle east.
Act 13:1
Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers;
as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger,
and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been
brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
Simeon is an alternative spelling of the name Simon.
The spelling of the word Niger has been slightly altered in America yet in its
original definition it was not derogatory but simply meant black the same as
negro. There are currently two countries in the continent of Africa named Niger
and Nigeria.
G3526 Νίγερ
Niger neeg'-er
Of Latin origin; black;
Niger, a Christian:
- Niger.
G4826 Συμεών
Sumeōn soom-eh-one'
From the same as G4613; Symeon
(that is, Shimon), the name of five Israelites: - Simeon, Simon.
Jer 16:19
O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in
the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say,
Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things
wherein there is no profit.
The gentile church simply have faith in Jesus Christ
and obey him which brings upon them trials and tribulations which are initiated
by Satan’s church of Mystery Babylon. Those who endure and overcome until the
end shall be saved.
The name Smyrna is interpreted to mean myrrh which is known to be bitter.
G4667 Σμύρνα
Smurna smoor'-nah
The same as G4666;
Smyrna, a
place in Asia Minor: - Smyrna.
G4666 σμύρνα
Smurna smoor'-nah
Apparently strengthened for G3464; myrrh: - myrrh.
G4669 σμυρνίζω
smurnizō smoor-nid'-zo
From G4667;
to tincture with myrrh, that is, embitter
(as a narcotic): - mingle with myrrh.
In the Old Covenant law which shall be executed upon
the wicked mixed serpent seed of Israel, those who do not repent, there was a
law of jealousy performed for accused adultery of a woman with the use of
bitter water. Symbolically the greater part of Israel is the woman accused
rightfully so by God of adultery by worshiping other gods and therefore being
infidel and provoking him to jealousy. The bitter water is representative of
the gentile church who provokes Israel to jealousy.
Rom 11:13
For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the
apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
Rom 11:14
If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some
of them.
Rom 10:19
But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish
nation I will anger you.
Rom 11:11
I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
Deu 32:21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them
to anger with a foolish nation.
The apostate Jews of today are angered and disturbed
to say the least that the gentiles claim to know the God of Israel through
faith in Christ and hate them in their heart.
Rev 2:9
I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty,
(but thou art rich) and I know
the blasphemy of
them which say they are Jews, and are
not, but are the synagogue of Satan.
The Law of Jealousy symbolically depicts the gentiles
being the bitter water made from the dust of the floor which enters into the
woman which represents Israel. The woman whose stomach becomes bitter receives
a curse. The good woman cannot conceive seed unless the bitter water does not
defile her. The wicked woman is Mystery Babylon and the good woman is faithful
Israel. The man who lied with the wicked woman is Baal or Satan as we call him
today.
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.
Num 5:11
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Num 5:12
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto
them, If any man's wife go aside, and commit a
trespass against him,
Num 5:13
And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid
from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she
be defiled, and there be no
witness against her, neither she be taken with
the manner;
Num 5:14
And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he
be jealous of his wife, and she be
defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon
him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not
defiled:
Num 5:15
Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her
offering for her, the tenth part of
an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put
frankincense thereon; for it is
an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing
iniquity to remembrance.
Num 5:16
And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD:
Num 5:17
And the priest shall take holy water in an
earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest
shall take, and put it into the water:
Num 5:18
And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and uncover the woman's
head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which is the jealousy
offering: and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter
water that causeth the curse:
H4751 מָרָה
מַר
mar mârâh mar, maw-raw'
From H4843; bitter
(literally or figuratively); also (as noun) bitterness, or (adverbially) bitterly:
- + angry, bitter (-ly, -ness), chafed, discontented, X
great, heavy.
H4753 מוֹר
מֹר
môr
môr more, more
From H4843; myrrh (as distilling in drops, and also as bitter):
- myrrh.
H4843 מָרַר
mârar maw-rar'
A primitive root; properly to trickle (see H4752); but used
only as a denominative from H4751; to be (causatively make) bitter (literally or figuratively): - (be, be in, deal,
have, make) bitter
(-ly, -ness), be moved with choler, (be, have sorely, it) grieved (-eth), provoke,
vex.
Num 5:19
And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the woman, If no man
have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse:
Num 5:20
But if thou hast gone aside to another
instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and
some man have lain with thee beside thine husband:
Num 5:21
Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of
cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth
make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;
Num 5:22
And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say,
Amen, amen.
Num 5:23
And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and
he shall blot them out with the bitter water:
Num 5:24
And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causeth
the curse: and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and
become bitter.
Num 5:25
Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering
out of the woman's hand, and shall wave the offering before the LORD, and offer it upon the altar:
Num 5:26
And the priest shall take an handful of the offering, even the memorial thereof, and burn it upon the altar, and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water.
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:
Num 5:27
And when he hath made her to drink the water,
then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her
husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and
become bitter,
and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a
curse among her people.
Num 5:28
And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.
Those of Israel who confess their sins and are
repentant shall be saved and born again in the Spirit after the fullness of the
gentile church is accomplished as we see the wrath of the lamb of God and the
144000 virgins of the twelve tribes of Israel marked with a seal immediately
following.
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 7:3
Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their
foreheads.
Rev 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 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;
Num 5:29
This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth
aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;
Exo 34:14
For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD,
whose name is Jealous,
is a jealous
God:
Eze 16:38 And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and
shed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.
1Th 2:14
For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are
in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even
as they have of the Jews:
1Th 2:15
Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us;
and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
1Th 2:16
Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved,
to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the
uttermost.
Act 13:45
But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by
Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
Act 13:46
Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of
God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and
judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we
turn to the Gentiles.
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 6:10
And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O
Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on
the earth?
Lev 4:18
And he shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar which is before the LORD, that is in the tabernacle
of the congregation, and shall pour out all the
blood at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation.
Lev 8:15
And he slew it; and Moses took the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar round
about with his finger, and purified the altar,
and poured the blood at the bottom of the altar, and
sanctified it, to make reconciliation upon it.
Kill with Death
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 part
of the earth, to kill with sword, and
with hunger, and with death, and
with the beasts of the earth.
When I read
that death kills with death it causes a little confusion in my understanding of
the structure of the grammar written. God’s Word does not always follow man’s
order of translation and interpretation procedures. Occasionally a mistake is
made by men but the Holy Scriptures indicate a relationship between death and
pestilence or plagues. In the Septuagint pestilence is the interpretation which
is a weapon of choice for death as they go hand in hand. The following results
of drought and famine are disease from fouled water and tainted food.
Jesus
indicated that pestilence which follows famine would be one of the beginnings
of sorrows or travailing in birth which is what the four horsemen bring upon
the earth.
Mat 24:7
For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom
against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
Mat 24:8
All these are
the beginning of sorrows.
Once again this is not the judgment of God upon Israel
and Jerusalem but the power given to Satan over Death and Hades to kill a
fourth of the earth in his imitation of God.
Hos 13:14 I will ransom them from the hand of Sheol; I will redeem them from death. O death, where is
your pestilence H1698?
O Sheol, where is your ruin? Repentance is
hidden from My eyes.
H1698 דֶּבֶר
Deber deh'-ber
From H1696
(in the sense of destroying); a pestilence: - murrain, pestilence, plague.
Vincent’s
Word Studies
With
death (ἐι θανάτῳ)
Or
pestilence.
The Hebrew deber, pestilence,
is rendered by the Greek word for death in the Septuagint. See Jer_14:12; Jer_21:7.
Compare the term black-death applied to an Oriental plague
which raged in the fourteenth century.
Psa 78:50
He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over
to the pestilence;
Psa 78:51
And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their
strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
Psa 91:3
Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and
from the noisome
pestilence.
Psa 91:6
Nor for the pestilence that walks
in darkness; nor for the
destruction that wasteth at
noonday.
Jer 28:8
The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old prophesied both against many countries, and
against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.
Beasts of the Earth
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 part of the earth, to kill with
sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the
beasts of the earth.
In Bible prophecy beasts of the earth usually refer to
Satan’s spiritually indwelt evil people who do his will. Instruction was given
in the books written by Moses warning not to drive out the wicked Canaanites
too quickly, allowing the literal beasts of the field to multiply.
Exo 23:29
I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become
desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.
Deu 7:22
And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and
little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the
beasts of the field increase upon thee.
The prophetical beasts of the earth
Jer 34:20
I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them
that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of
the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth.
Zep 3:3
Her princes within her are roaring lions;
her judges are
evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the
morrow.
Nah 2:11
Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion,
walked, and the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid?
Nah 2:12
The lion did tear in pieces enough for his
whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and
filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.
Nah 2:13
Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will burn her
chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and
the voice of thy messengers shall no more be
heard.
Joe 1:6
For a nation is come up upon my land, strong,
and without number, whose teeth are
the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth
of a great lion.
Eze 32:2
Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh
king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion
of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy
rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their
rivers.
Eze 22:25
There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured
souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her
many widows in the midst thereof.
Eze 19:1
Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes
of Israel,
Eze 19:2
And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions,
she nourished her whelps among young lions.
Eze 19:3
And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
Eze 19:4
The nations also heard of him; he was taken in
their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.
Eze 19:5
Now when she saw that she had waited, and
her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.
Eze 19:6
And he went up and down among the lions, he
became a young lion, and learned to catch the
prey, and devoured men.
Eze 19:7
And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the
land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.
Eze 19:8
Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread
their net over him: he was taken in their pit.
Eze 19:9
And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon:
they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the
mountains of Israel.
2Ch 36:8
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his
abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel
and Judah: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
Jer 51:37
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons,
an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
Jer 51:38
They shall roar together like lions: they shall
yell as lions' whelps.
Jer 50:17 Israel is
a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king
of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon hath broken his bones.
Jer 12:6 For even thy brethren,
and the house of thy father, even they have
dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have called a multitude after thee:
believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee.
Jer 12:7
I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have given the dearly
beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
Jer 12:8
Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out against me:
therefore have I hated it.
Jer 12:9
Mine heritage is
unto me as a speckled bird, the birds
round about are against her; come ye,
assemble all the beasts of the field, come to
devour.
Jer 12:10
Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they
have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a
desolate wilderness.
Jer 4:7
The lion is come up from his thicket, and the
destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is
gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an
inhabitant.
Isa 30:6
The burden of the beasts of the south: into the
land of trouble and anguish, from whence come
the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent,
they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that
shall not profit them.
Eze 33:27
Say thou thus unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; As
I live, surely they that are in the
wastes shall fall by the sword, and him that is
in the open field will I give to the beasts to be devoured, and they that be in the forts and in the caves shall die of
the pestilence.
Jer 15:3
And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and
the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts
of the earth, to devour and destroy.
Rev 13:11
And I beheld another beast G2342 coming up out of the earth;
and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake
as a dragon.
Vengeance is the Lord’s and he will give back to those
who torment and kill his people in greater measure.
Deu 32:24
They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning
heat, and with bitter destruction: I will
also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
G2342 θηρίον
thērion thay-ree'-on
Diminutive from the same as G2339; a dangerous animal: - (venomous, wild)
beast.
2Pe 2:12
But these, as natural brute beasts G2342,
made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand
not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
Tit 1:12
One of themselves, even a prophet of
their own, said, The Cretians are
alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
1Co 15:32
If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead
rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.
Jud 1:4
For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to
this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the
grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our
Lord Jesus Christ.
Jud 1:10
But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know
naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they
corrupt themselves.
Jud 1:13
Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering
stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
2Ti 4:14
Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the
Lord reward him according to his works:
2Ti 4:17
Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the
preaching might be fully known, and that
all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
1Pe 5:8
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the
devil, as a roaring lion,
walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Hos 2:12
And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me:
and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the
field shall eat them.
Eze 34:8 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely because my flock became a prey, and my
flock became meat to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd,
neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds
fed themselves, and fed not my flock;
Eze 34:9
Therefore, O ye shepherds, hear the word of the
LORD;
Eze 34:10
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am
against the shepherds; and I will require my
flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither
shall the shepherds feed themselves any more;
for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they
may not be meat for them.
Psa 35:15
But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects
gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it
not; they did tear me,
and ceased not:
Psa 35:16
With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
Psa 35:17
Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my
darling from the lions.
Psa 38:19
But mine enemies are
lively, and they are strong:
and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
H2416 חַי
Chay khah'ee
From H2421;
alive; hence raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and
masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether
literally or figuratively: - + age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast,
company, congregation, life (-time), live (-ly), living (creature, thing),
maintenance, + merry, multitude, + (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing,
troop.
The Murderers
God calls these evil serpent seed of the devil Mystery
Babylon. While it is often reported that Muslims are starving and murdering the
Christian peoples of some of these poor countries it is in the power of wealthy
and mighty Mystery Babylon to stop these tragedies but they do not. In fact
scripture indicates that it is intentionally devised and planned by Mystery Babylon as they are
accountable for all the deaths of the righteous upon the whole earth.
Pro 30:14
There is a generation, whose teeth
are as swords,
and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among
men.
Psa 10:2
The wicked in his pride doth
persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices
that they have imagined.
Psa 10:8
He sitteth in the lurking places of the
villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the
poor.
Psa 10:9
He lieth in wait secretly as a lion
in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch
the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
Psa 10:10
He croucheth, and humbleth himself,
that the poor may fall by his strong
ones.
Psa 10:11
He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he
hideth his face; he will never see it.
Psa 37:14
The wicked have drawn out the sword,
and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and
needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.
Psa 37:15
Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be
broken.
Psa 37:16
A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many
wicked.
The Jewish religious leaders were responsible for the
death of Jesus Christ at the hands of the gentiles. In their eyes they are
innocent because their hands were not dirty. All nations are deceived by
Mystery Babylon and often whether knowingly or not do their dirty work for
them.
Jer 2:33
Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou
also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
Jer 2:34
Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of
the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all
these.
Jer 2:35
Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely
his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.
Eze 22:12
In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood;
thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy
neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.
Eze 22:13
Behold, therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest
gain which thou hast made, and at thy blood
which hath been in the midst of thee.
Eze 22:24
Son of man, say unto her, Thou art
the land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.
Eze 22:25
There is a conspiracy
of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring
lion ravening the
prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and
precious things; they have made her many widows
in the midst thereof.
Eze 22:26
Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have
put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean,
and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
Eze 22:27
Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey,
to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
Eze 22:28
And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter,
seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD,
when the LORD hath not spoken.
Eze 22:29
The people of the land have used oppression, and
exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed
the stranger wrongfully.
Eze 22:30
And I sought for a man among them, that should make up
the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not
destroy it: but I found none.
Hab 3:14
Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came
out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing
was as to devour the poor secretly.
Luk 6:20
And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God.
Luk 6:21
Blessed are
ye that hunger now: for ye shall be
filled. Blessed
are ye that weep now: for ye shall
laugh.
Luk 6:22
Blessed are ye,
when men shall hate you, and when they shall
separate you from
their company, and shall reproach you,
and cast out your
name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.
Luk 6:23
Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for,
behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.
The wicked religious leaders of mystery Babylon and
all its offshoots of false Christianity are responsible for the deaths of the
poor and afflicted as well as all the saints of God. They will tell you it’s
the Kazars who say they are Jews and are not but are the synagogue of Satan but
Jesus says it’s them, the descendants of Abraham, yet at the same time they are
also offspring of the serpent that belong to the synagogue of Satan. Who do you
believe?
Mat 23:29
Woe unto you, scribes
and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build
the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
Mat 23:30
And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers,
we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
Mat 23:31
Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of
them which killed the prophets.
Mat 23:32
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
Mat 23:33
Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
Mat 23:34
Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men,
and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and
crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and
persecute them from city to city:
Mat 23:35
That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the
earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto
the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and
the altar.
Mat 23:37
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the
prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together,
even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her
wings, and ye would not!
Joh 8:37
I know that ye
are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.
Joh 8:38
I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye
have seen with your father.
Joh 8:39
They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's
children, ye would do the works of Abraham.
Joh 8:40
But now ye seek to kill me,
a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.
Joh 8:41
Ye do the deeds
of your father. Then said they to
him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
Joh 8:44
Ye are of your
father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth,
because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Joh 8:47
He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them
not, because ye are not of God.
Joh 8:53
Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which
is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself?
Joh 8:56
Your father Abraham
rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it,
and was glad.
Rev 18:2
And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon
the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
Rev 18:3
For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of
her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication
with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance
of her delicacies.
Rev 18:24
And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all
that were slain upon the earth.
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.
There are many things to say about the who and how the
poor and needy are being afflicted and murdered in this great technological age . Jesus only condemned the apostate religious leaders who
claimed to know the Most High God of the Holy Scriptures and I now know that
this extends to the apostate Christian leaders of the American and western churches
who are workers of unrighteousness. Choose what and who you fight wisely. At its core and in the
end our fight is a spiritual fight. My fight is with Satan and his offspring
through the power of the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ the Lord of lords and King
of kings.
Amo 5:10
They hate him that rebukes in the
gate, and they abhor him that speakes uprightly.
Amo 5:11
Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the
poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of
hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards,
but ye shall not drink wine of them.
Amo 5:12
For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take
a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in
the gate from their right.
Amo 5:13
Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for
it is an evil time.
Amo 5:14
Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and
so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you,
as ye have spoken.
Amo 5:15
Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the
LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of
Joseph.
Know this that those with eyes to see and ears to hear
put a greater target upon themselves when they become aware of the evil
happening in this evil day, yet it is necessary to overcome the great deception
of the workings of Satan and his offspring.
Isa 59:15
Yea, truth faileth; and he that departs from evil makes
himself a prey: and the LORD saw it,
and it displeased him that there was
no judgment.
2Ch 32:8
With him is an arm of flesh; but with
us is the LORD our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And
the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.
The apostle Paul, whom is the called and anointed
shepherd of the great multitude of gentiles, spoke most eloquently on this
matter about this evil day which has come upon us.
Eph 6:10 Finally,
my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
Eph 6:11
Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Eph 6:12
For we wrestle not against flesh
and blood, but against
principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this
world,
against spiritual
wickedness in high places.
Eph 6:13
Wherefore take unto you the whole armour
of God, that ye may be able to withstand
in the evil day, and having done
all, to stand.
Eph 6:14
Stand therefore, having
your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
Eph 6:15
And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
Eph 6:16
Above all, taking the shield
of faith,
wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts
of the wicked.
Eph 6:17
And take the helmet of salvation,
and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God:
Eph 6:18
Praying always with
all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching
thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
Eph 6:19
And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open
my mouth boldly, to make
known the mystery of the gospel,
Amen
Forgive
them Father; they know not what they do.
