GOD’S CALENDAR IS NOT MAYAN: “I Am the Beginning & the End”

1. GOD’S CALENDARIS NOT MAYAN:“I Am the Beginning & the End”

3. GOD’S CALENDARIS NOT MAYAN:“I Am the Beginning & the End” REVIEW Lesson 1

4. INTRODUCTION: CONTEXT • WHO? • John • WHAT IS IT? • Apocalyptic / Prophecy • WHEN? • AD 90s • WHERE FROM? • Patmos • WHERE TO? • Churches, Asia Minor • WHY? • Reasons to Hold On! • SO WHAT FOR US? • In WHOSE Kingdom are You?

5. APPROACHES • FUTURISTIC • “Reading Daily News til Jesus Returns” • HISTORICAL-SOCIAL • 1st Century A.D. Context • All that’s left is Judgment! • THEOLOGICAL • Power Structures • What God Does About Them • What It Means for Us

6. GOD’S RULE • TRUTH • MESSIAH, LAMB • BRIDE, NEW JERUSALEM • GOD’S KINGDOM PREVAILS • SATAN’S PRETEND RULE • DECEIT, SEDUCTION • BEASTS & FALSE PROPHETS • “HARLOTS & BABYLONS” • PRETEND RULE DESTROYED

7. A REVELATIONFROM GOD TO JESUS TO JOHN A BLEND OF . . . • PROPHECY • JUDGMENT in Real Time • RENEWAL in Real Time • LAND • TEMPLE • KING (David) • 12 TRIBES • APOCALYPTIC • World-View SHIFT • DUALISTIC • PESSIMISTIC • DETERMINISTIC • Social Structure: EVIL

8. APOCALYPTIC: EARLY EXAMPLES • Biblical • (Joel) • (Zechariah) • Isa. 24 – 27 • Ezek. 38 - 39 • Dan. 7 - 12 • Jewish • Sibylline Oracles 150 B.C. • Jubilees 150 B.C. • 1 Enoch • 2nd C. B.C. -- 1st C. A.D. • Apoc. Abraham 1st C. A.D. • 2 Baruch 1st C. A.D • 4 Ezra 1st C. A.D.

9. GOD’S CALENDARIS NOT MAYAN:“I Am the Beginning & the End” Lesson 2 REVIEW

10. LIFE, DEATH, &LIFE EVERMORE ! • “Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last; I am the Living One. I was dead, and, behold, I am alive forever and ever. And I hold the Keys of Death and Hades.” Rev. 1:18

11. SEALS, TRUMPETS, BOWLS • SEALS: 6: 1 – 8:1 • TRUMPETS: 8:2 - 11:18 • BOWLS: 15:1 – 16:21

12. THE LAMB & THE 7 SEALS • SEALS: REV. 6: 1 – 8:1 • Seals 1 thru 5: Set the Stage • Seal 6: 144,000

13. 7 TRUMPETS • TRUMPETS 1, 2,3, 4: SET THE STAGE • TRUMPETS 5, 6, 7: “THE 3 WOES” • 6TH TRUMPET: CITIES of Revelation

14. CITIES of REVELATION • BABYLONS • NEBUCHADNEZZAR’S • DESTROYED JERUSALEM • 586 B.C. • JOHN’S • HARLOT • ROME  DESTRUCTION • JERUSALEMS • TITUS • DESTROYED JERUSALEM • A.D. 70 • JOHN’S • BRIDE • COMING DOWN OUT OF HEAVEN

15. SEALS, TRUMPETS, BOWLS • SEALS: 6: 1 – 8:1 • TRUMPETS: 8:2 - 11:18 • REV. 12, 13 • THE WOMAN & THE MALE CHILD • THE DRAGON • THE 2 BEASTS • BOWLS: 15:1 – 16:21

16. MESSIAH & HIS ENEMIESREV. 12, 13 • THE WOMAN – Gives Birth to CHILD • COSMOS • ISRAEL • NEW CREATION • MALE CHILD • JESUS • MESSIAH

17. MESSIAH & HIS ENEMIESREV. 12, 13 • WAR IN HEAVEN: Michael vs. Dragon • THE DRAGON: Serpent, Devil, Satan • Satan Cast to Earth • BEAST Out of the SEA: 7 Heads, 10 Horns • Fatal Wound, Now Healed • “His number is the number of a man” • Rev. 13:18 • BEAST Out of the “EARTH”: False Prophet

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19. BEAST Out of the SEA:“NERO” vs THE LAMB • REV. 13: 18 -- WHO IS 666 ? • THE NAME and THE NUMBER • NERO: Not Dead, but Returning (Redux) • NERO: Dead & Back to Life (Redivivus) BEAST & “NERO” ALL Power-Structures Opposed to God

20. CHRIST & THE “NERO MYTH” CHRIST THE BEAST / 666 REV. 13:3 REV. 13:12, 14 REV. 17:8, 11 • REV. 1:18 • REV. 2:8 • REV. 5:6

21. The gematria of 666 • Therion -- “beast” = 666 • QSR NRWN = 666 • “The one whose fatal wound had been healed.”

22. NERO & “NERO” • NERO Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus A.D. 37 – 54 – 68 • Titus Flavius Caesar DOMITIANUS AugustusA. D. 51 – 81 -96

23. BEAST FROM THE SEA 7 HEADS OF BEAST = 7 KINGS 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 = “FALLEN” 6TH: Domitian 7TH - 8TH IS COMING “Nero”-in-Domitian Nero Redivivus / Redux REV. 17: 9 - 11

24. RISE & FALL - EVIL POWERS • 1. SATAN THROWN: HEAVEN TO EARTH • REV. 12 • 3. Satan thrown: Earth to LAKE of BURNING SULFUR • Rev. 20 • 2. BEAST & FALSE PROPHET BLASPHEME, SEDUCE • REV. 13 • 2. Beast & False Prophet to LAKE of BURNING SULFUR • Rev. 19 • 3. HARLOT of BEAST MAKES WAR ON THE LAMB • REV. 17 • 1. Harlot CONQUERED & BURNED by BEAST • Rev. 17

25. FINAL BATTLE:WHITE HORSE vs RED DRAGON *EZEK. 38, 39 *ZECH. 14 *(REV 16:16); 19: 11 – 21: 27

26. 144,000 & “GREAT MULTITUDE” 144,000 “GREAT MULTITUDE” All Nations, Peoples 7:9-17; 5:9,10; 6:9-11; 20:4-6 • “Sealed” • 12 Tribes, Israel • 7:1-8; 14:1-5 “WHO ARE THESE?”

27. MARTYRED IN THE “GREAT TRIBULATION” • BEFORE THE LAMB’S THRONE • WHITE ROBES • WASHED IN BLOOD OF LAMB • SERVE GOD IN HIS TEMPLE • NO HUNGER, NO THIRST • NO SCORCHING HEAT • LAMB IS THEIR SHEPHERD • GOD WIPES AWAY EVERY TEAR “Bore Testimony to Jesus” Revelation 5:9-10 6: 9 – 11 14:1-5 17: 6 19:2 20:4-6

28. NEW JERUSALEM / BRIDE TRANSFORMED IN APOCALYPTIC REV. 19: 7-9 REV. 21:1-2 ENVISIONED IN PROPHECY ISA. 2:2–5 // MIC. 4:1-5 ISA. 49:17-19 ISA. 51:1-16 *ISA. 54:1 – 55:2 ISA. 61:1-10 ISA. 62:4-6 ISA. 65:18 ZECH. 14:10-11 EXPRESSED IN THE CHURCH EPH. 1-3 EPH. 5: 25-33 HEB. 12:22-24

29. NEW HEAVENS, NEW EARTH ENVISIONED IN PROPHECY ISA. 4:2-6 ISA. 42:9 ISA. 48:6-8 ISA. 65:17 ISA. 66:22 TRANSFORMED IN APOCALYPTIC JUB. 1:29 1 ENOCH45:4-5; 91:16-17 2 APOC. BAR. 32:6 REV. 3:12 EXPRESSED IN THE CHURCH ROM. 8:18-25 2 COR. 5: 17 GAL. 6:15 2 PET. 3:13

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32. THE END AND THE BEGINNING !!!