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Matthew chapter 24 can be
interpreted SEQUENTIALLY, that is, starting at one date and
progressing logically to an ending at a much later date. However, to
view Revelation in its entirety in such a manner will be a grave
mistake.
A lot of would-be
prophets are indeed trying to do this, however, mostly those trying to
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Using a modern prophecy based on "Three Wicked
Generations of Israel" with the last (3d) generation being the
rebirth of Israel of a nation on May 14-15 of 1948, a number of these
modern would-be prophets have predicted that Jesus would return in a
"Secret Rapture" on or about September 11-13 of 1988,
with Revelation 1:7 being the marker for this "Secret
Rapture", ignoring that "every eye shall see him"
seems to indicate everyone on earth, not just those Christians ready and
acceptable to Jesus.
Now taking the rest of Revelation as written
both literally and sequentially, that is, every event following
the event written before it in the order in which it is written, a
fantastic and utterly improbable series of literal happenings is
predicted. Chapter 11, in this scenario, predicts the return to
earth of the Biblical Moses and Elijah, who preach for a period
of time, and are then slain but left unburied for a literal 3 1/2 days,
and are then resurrected and taken to heaven. The following
picture illustrates this event.
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"The fellow in red followed by a lot of red
angels is of course the "Antichrist" who rules the entire
world for 7 years in these fanciful predictions, and when Moses and
Elijah are resurrected and taken up into the clouds, so are those who
have been converted by their preaching. This event is called the
"Mid-Tribulation Rapture."
In Revelation 19:11-16, the scene in
which Jesus comes forth riding a white horse followed by an army clothed as
he is clothed, and also riding on white horses -- is interpreted as being
the third of three "raptures", the final collection of Christians
from off the earth, left for the Jews to rule using once more the Ten
Commandments and Laws of Moses as the basis for the Millennial
Rule of earth.
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As we will see on the
following pages, except for the "Letters to the Seven Churches"
Revelation is not "sequential" except in a general sense, and
even the "Letters to the Seven Churches" are not
"sequential" in the sense that people have taught that they
are. They do teach the 7MILLENNIUMS, the MILLENNIAL WEEK, but
in a hidden fashion that I will demonstrate. The MILLENNIAL WEEK
is, of course, "sequential" in that each millennial day follows
the previous millennial day, and the 7th MILLENNIUM, the "Sabbath
Millennium" is the last in the series.
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