BE NOT DECEIVED
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God is Thought. The brightness
of our revelations depends upon the correctness of our
doctrines, our building blocks, our Godly Thoughts laid
one upon
another, ascending into the mind of Christ.
THE PROPHECY
(Mat 24:1,2) And Jesus
went out, and departed from the
temple [“ye
are the temple of God”
1 Cor 3:16]: and his
disciples [Gk:
learners, pupils (students)] came to him for to
shew him the buildings
[Gk:
architecture, structure] [i.e., what man
has constructed] of
the temple. And
Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto
you, There
shall not be left here one stone upon another [(hard) stones are a Biblical
symbol of men, built up (pride)], that shall not be thrown down [Gk:
demolished: destroyed, dissolved].
THE WARNING: BE NOT DECEIVED
(Mat
24:3-5)
And as he sat upon the mount [Gk:
mountain] of Olives
[olives symbolize men; Jesus was
expressing dominion over all mankind],
the disciples came unto him privately [i.e.,
seeking revelations],
saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming,
and of the end of the world
[Gk: aion; this world]? And Jesus
answered and said unto them, Take heed [Gk:
beware] that no man
deceive you. For many shall come in my name,
saying, I am
Christ [Gk: anointed, the Messiah
(the expected deliverer)]; and
shall deceive many.
1.
deceive
= Gk: to cause (you)
to roam (from safety, truth, or virtue): go astray, err, (be) seduced,
wander,
be out of the way.
2.
(Rev
6:1,2) And
I saw [(one witness)] when
the Lamb [Christ Jesus] opened
[released the contents of] one of the seals [Gk: a signet (as
fencing in) /// to fence in or inclose, to block up; fig. to silence], and
I heard [(the second witness)], as
it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts [Gk:
animals] saying, Come and see [a command for “now”].
(Rev 6:2) And I saw, and behold
a
white horse [a]: and
he that sat on him [the rider-controller]
had a bow [versus
“a sharp
sword” Rev 19:15]; and a crown [versus “many crowns” Rev 19:12] was given
unto him: and [astonishingly]
he went forth conquering [Gk: subduing:
overcoming, prevailing]
[present tense], and to conquer [future tense].
a.
Commentary: “a
white horse” = white is a
Biblical symbol
of innocence and truth, and a
horse is a Biblical symbol of great
power; however, the remainder of this verse (Rev 6:2) proves this beast to be a symbol
of the deceptive power of “strong
delusion” (propaganda)
under the control (reins) of
the rider who himself is a
deceiver, an impersonator, an imposter, and
a counterfeit Christ Savior.
THE BEGINNING OF SORROWS
(BIRTH PANGS)
(Mat
24:6-8)
And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars [the second seal]: see that ye be not
troubled [Gk: frightened]: for all these things must come to pass, but
the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation [country or race, against country or
race], and kingdom against
kingdom [rule or realm against
rule or realm] [i.e., DIVISION - WARS]:
and there shall be famines [Gk:
scarcity of food: hunger] [the third seal], and pestilences
[Gk:
plagues, diseases] [deadly sickness],
and earthquakes [Gk:
commotions] [riots, revolutions], in
divers [many] places. All these are the
beginning of sorrows [Gk: pangs
or throes, especially of childbirth: pain, travail].
1.
(Rev
6:3,4) And
when he [Jesus] had opened [released the contents of] the
second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see [a command for “now”]. And there went out another
horse that was red
[the color of blood]: and power
was given [by
Satan, “the god of this world (Gk: aion)” 2 Cor 4:4] to
him [the antichrist
deceiver] that sat thereon [the red
horse of war] to take peace from the earth, and
that they should kill [Gk: butcher
or slaughter] one another [“and
the LORD set every man's sword
against his fellow” Judg 7:22]: and
there was given unto him a great sword.
2.
(Rev
6:5,6) And when he had opened [released
the contents of] the third seal,
I heard the third beast say, Come and see [a
command for “now”]. And I
beheld, and lo a black [i.e.,
starvation] horse; and he [the
antichrist deceiver] that sat on [controlled] him had a
pair of balances [weighting
scales] in his hand [under his
control]. And I heard a voice in the midst of
the four beasts say, A
measure of wheat [healthy food
sufficient for a man] for a penny
[a day’s wages], and three measures
of barley [standard animal fare and much less
healthy
food for a man] for a penny [a
day’s wages]; and see thou hurt
not [take not of] the oil and
the wine [premium expensive foods (also symbols of
the Holy Spirit)].
THE END: THE FOURTH
SEAL OF THE APOCALYPSE
3.
(Rev
6:7,8) And when he had opened [released the contents of] the fourth seal,
I heard the voice
of the fourth beast say, Come and see [a
command for “now”]. And I
looked, and behold a pale [Gk:
greenish] [i.e., gangrene] horse:
and his name [the antichrist
deceiver] that sat on him was Death,
and Hell followed with him
[exclusively for the unsaved. Why?].
And power was given unto them [the
antichrists] over the fourth part of
the earth, to kill with sword
[the second seal], and with hunger
[the third seal], and with death
[the
fourth seal], and with the beasts
[Gk: dangerous animals: venomous,
wild beasts] of the earth.
a.
Commentary:
Significantly, we may note that Jesus
did not include a description of the
fourth seal of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse in Matthew
24:1-7,
but He did summarize the first three
seals in verse 24:8 as “All these
are the beginning of sorrows.” Why did Jesus exclude a
description of
the fourth seal from His Matthew mention and summary to His disciples?
Answer:
because the disciples of Jesus Christ will
not suffer Hell, and therefore we
will not be here to experience the evils of this seal.
BUT BE NOT
DECEIVED
WE ARE NOW
EXPERIENCING AN EVIL SPIRITUAL PREGNANCY
BIRTHING
FROM WITHIN HUMANITY
(2 Thes 2:8-12) And then
shall that Wicked [Gk: lawless] [rider] be revealed [Gk: to take off the cover,
disclosed], whom
the Lord [Jesus
Christ] shall
consume with the
spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of
his coming
[“in flaming
fire” (2 Thes 1:8)]:
Even him [the antichrist], whose coming
is after the working of [after the bidding of] Satan [Gk: the accuser, the
devil] with all [of Satan’s] power and signs and lying
wonders, And with all deceivableness [Gk:
delusions] of [the] unrighteousness [Gk: injustice; moral wrongfulness] in
them that perish [Gk: are
fully destroyed: die]; because they received
not the love of the truth [i.e.,
Jesus Christ (John 14:6)], that
they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them
strong
delusion, that they should believe a lie [Gk:
falsehood: lying]: That
they all might be damned [Gk:
condemned, punished] who believed
not the truth [Jesus Christ],
but had pleasure in unrighteousness [Gk: injustice;
moral wrongfulness].
Amen