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The Revelation of Yeshua to Yochanan

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Having presented the sounding of the Seventh Trumpet and showing us the Messianic Kingdom being established:

11:15 And the seventh angel sounded; and there followed great voices in heaven, and they said, The kingdom of this world has become [the kingdom] of our God, and of His Mashiach: and he will reign for ever and ever.

Yochanan now takes us back to the beginning of the Seven Years so that as we behold the birth pangs of the Kingdom we will recognize what is taking place.

In this commentary on The Revelation From Yeshua to Yochanan from a Jewish perspective there are three main areas where I expect key disagreements with many Nicene Christian readers. First is my identification of the Nicolaitan Heresy and the usurpation of the Jewish Way sect by Roman Pagans. Most Nicean Christians will not be pleased to hear this information. Second is my rejection of the Rapture theory, and third is my presentation of the identity of this woman and her child. In all three cases I am convinced that my views are correct and I invite readers to offer opposing or supporting views. Once we are in the Tribulation Period none of these three points will seem as important as they do now. When I originally wrote this study the War of Magog seemed far in the future, but now, in 2023, it seems that war may have begun with Russian (Magog) invassion of Ukraine and the apparent intention of the US government to trun this conflict into World War Three. It is very likely, in my opinion, that we will experience everything recorded in this book. This is why I, a Jewish Rabbi, am sharing this material. So my advise is to be like the Bereans in the Book of Acts. Read these teachings with an open mind, and then search the scriptures to determine whether these things are so (Acts 17:10,11).

We continue:

12:1 And a great sign was seen in heaven: a woman arrayed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars;

Who is this woman? From a Jewish and contexual perspectiove it is of obvious. Of Israel, the Jewish people HaShem says:

Deuteronomy 32:8 When the Most High gave the nations their inheritances He separated the children of men. He set the bounderies of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
9 For Adonai's portion is His people; Ya'akov (Jacob/Israel) is the lot of His inheritance.
10 Adonai found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. Adonai compassed him about, He cared for him, He kept him as the apple of His eye.
11 As an eagle that stirs up her nest, that flutters over her young, He spread abroad His wings, He took them, He bare them on His pinions.
12 Adonai alone led him, and there was no foreign god with him.

This "woman" can only be Israel. The twelve stars are the twelve tribes. The Sun in this context is Abraham and the Moon is Sarah. Those coming through the lineage of Sarah's servant Hagar are not included in this blessing as Scripture makes clear. As the text says, only those who came through Ya'akov (whose name HaShem changed to Israel) are being referred to here. The people collectively known as Israel are uniquely the apple of HaShem's Eye and Eretz Israel (the Land of Israel) is our eternal Homeland. Those who bless the Jews will be blessed by HaShem and those who oppose them will be cursed (Gen 12:1-3).

Yeshua fortold the destruction of the Second Temple and taught that Israel would be reborn in the End of Days, and that it would gradually put forth its leaves again as a mighty nation (Matt 24:32). He said that Israel would not return suddenly under the reign of Mashiach as many expected, but gradually, as a tree putting forth its leaves and sending out sprouts.

We need to understand a bit of relevant history: The United Kingdom of Israel under King Solomon was divided after his death (circa 931 B.C.E.). Due to disobedience and lack of emunah, HaShem eventually allowed the two resulting Kingdoms (the Northern Kingdom of Israel and the Southern Kingdom of Judah) to be conquered. The Northern Kingdom fell to Assyria in 721 B.C.E., yet Judah refused to repent; so the Southern Kingdom fell to Babylon in 586 B.C.E. From 586 B.C.E. onward there was no independent Israel (other than briefly under the Maccabean rebellion) until Israel's rebirth on May 14, 1948 (5 Iyar, 5708). Despite their lack of independence, Shevet Yehudah, the Judahites, maintained their ethnic and religious identity and centered their existence in Eretz Yisrael (the Land of Israel). During Yeshua's life Israel was the Roman Province of Judea (Jerusalem had been the capital of the Southern Jewish Kingdom of Judah). About half of the Jews of the Southern Kingdom (the tribes of Judah and Benjamin) returned to Eretz Israel after the Babylonian captivity, but the Israelites of the Northern ten tribes were never heard from again. There's been a lot of speculation about the "lost ten tribes." During the reign Mashiach ben Yosef the Ten Houses will be restored.

Prophet Daniel, living under the reign of Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, gives us this important information. When I do my commentary on his prophecy I will cover this material in more detail, for now however note this important prophecy:

Daniel 4:10 Thus were the visions of my head upon my bed: I saw, and, behold, a tree in the midst of the earth; and the height thereof was great.
11 The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth.
12 The leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was food for all: the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the birds of the heavens dwelt in the branches thereof, and all flesh was fed from it.
13 I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a watcher and a holy one came down from heaven.
14 He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off its branches, shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from its branches.
15 Nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven: and let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth:
16 let his heart be changed from man's, and let a beast's heart be given unto him; and let seven times pass over him.
17 The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones; to the intent that the living may know that the Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the lowest of men.

Nebuchadnezzar was King of the mighty Babylonian Empire at this time. He was a powerful and haughty man with a penchant for mysticism. He was a firm believer in dreams and visions. The above is a dream he had. He shared it with many people, but only accepted Daniel's interpretation.

Prophet Daniel (or Belteshazzar as the King called him) was summoned to interpret the dream. Without going into too much detail here, the prophecies and interpretations of Daniel often have dual fulfillments. This was such a dream. It was fulfilled when the King went mad for seven years and then returned to his senses, but just as we saw with the Seven Churches, this prophecy had a dual purpose and meaning. For our present purposes, we are concerned with the greater fulfillment.

Under King Nebuchadnezzar the Jewish people lost their remaining earthly kingdom. We have discussed the image of Israel as a tree before in this study when looking at Romans 11, where the grafted-on Gentile branches were threatened with severance from the Tree of Israel for abandoning the Way sect. The Tree analogy deals with Israel as a political entity, not a spiritual entity (although these are one). As Israel began putting forth its leaves in 1948 Nicean Christianity began fading. The Laodecian Church period - discussed in chapters two and three - continues. Like many Jews, many Christians are becoming so assimilated into the rising Global culture that they are being 'spat out' from God's presence. Only a remnant will remain by the time these prohecies are completed. The same tree image is used here.

As a tree, the Kingdom was "chopped down" by the Will of HaShem due to Israelite disobedience (we need not get into that recalcitrance here). However HaShem controls all things, especially concerning Israel. While we have individual and collective freedom, HaShem has always been active in human affairs so that when the time comes His deliverance methods will be ready. As candidly recorded in the Tanach, the Israelites were not ready to accept the Kingship of HaShem at that time and so He banded the "stump of the tree of Israel," so that it would not grow again until the end of days: our days. The Covenant with Israel is eternal, but with the loss of the Second Temple in 70 CE biblical Judaism could not be practiced. It was 'banded.' From seventy CE and continuing Rabbinic Judaism maintains the Covenant and is roughly the same age as Christianity. Much of biblical Judaism was lost with the Temple and much of the Derech Yeshua was lost with the establishment of the Christian religion by Emperor Constantine. Once Mashiach ben David is enthroned and Third Beit HaMikdash is built and sanctified, Judaism will become One and our diverse conceptions of God will become one (Jeremiah 31:34 and I Corinthians 15:28).

In 1948 (or arguably 1967) the essential End Time prophecy was fulfilled. The bands on the Tree of Israel were removed and the tree began to sprout. Prior to this happening those who understood the prophecies knew the End Times had not yet arrived, as Paul cautions at I Thessalonians 2:1,2. Yeshua said he didn't know when this was going to happen (Mark 13:32) either. Only God knew. Those who failed to understand this key point fundamentally erred in their interpretations and in many cases caused grave harm.

The bands of the tree were finally removed in 1947 and Israel gradually began to put forth leaves. Today Israel exists, however it is not yet fully restored. Only part of Eretz Yisrael is under Israeli control and the country remains a democratic republic rather than the foretold theocracy. Most of Israel's modern leaders have bent their knees to the UN and the US. Rather than standing firm as the Nation of HaShem, modern Israel remains a state under Globalist domination. However as Yeshua taught:

Matthew 24:31 And He [HaShem] will send forth His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
32 Now from the fig tree learn her parable: when her branch becomes tender and puts forth leaves, you know that the summer is near;
33 Likewise, when you see all these things, know that he [Mashiach] is close, even at the doors.
34 Verily I say to you, the generation that sees this, will not pass away untill all these things are accomplished.
35 Heaven and earth may pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
36 But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, neither the Son, but the Father only.

Another statement affirming that Yeshua did not consider himself to be God is here in verse 36, where he says he doesn't know the times, only God does. We are now seeing the Tree of Israel putting forth her leaves. This began in 1948 with the rebirth of the nation for the first time since 586 B.C.E. Some argue it began with the Balfore Declaration in 1917, and other say in 1967 when Jerusalem and the Temple Mount was restored. Yeshua says that the generation that witnesses this event will be the one in which the Mashiach will gather all the Jews back to Israel, sound the Seventh Trumpet (as we have been discussing), and establish the Kingdom of the Olam Haba.

Possible dates based on Yeshua's statement:

• 1917: 106 years ago as of the time of this update: Not likely.
• 1948: 76 years ago as of the time of this update: Possible, time is getting short.
• 1967: 56 years ago as of the time of this update: Possible, time is getting short.

If we assume Yeshua was an empowered prophet, then one of these three dates should be correct. In all cases the target generation is getting old. Regardless, this will happen according to God's timing. Mashiach ben Yosef will defeat the New World Order and its coming Rex Mundi in Israel. Mashiach ben David will take to the Throne of his father David, and the Seventh Trumpet will be sounded, and the Olam Haba will begin.

On November 2, 1917 the Balfour Declaration declared by the authority of the UK that Israel would be reborn on our Land. World War One interupted those plans. World War Two pushedthem back ever farther, however the Jewish hope and intention remained strong.

On May 14, 1948 that intention became a reality and the Tree of Israel (Daniel 4:10, Matthew 24:32, Romans 11) began putting forth its leaves.

From 1948 until 1967 West Jerusalem served as Israel's capital, but was not recognized as such internationally because UN General Assembly Resolution 194 envisioned stealing Jerusalem and making it an international city. For this reason Tel Aviv was recognized as Israel's capital by the Globalists even though Jerusalem is Israel's eternal capital. American President Donald J. Trump changed this, to his great and lasting credit.

As a result of the Six-Day War in 1967, the whole of Jerusalem came under Israeli control. Because of a few verses regarding Zion some believe the date 1967 for the 'unbanding' is more accurate than the 1948 date for the fulfillment of Yeshu'a prophecy. On June 27, 1967, the government of Levi Eshkol extended Israeli law and jurisdiction to East Jerusalem, but unfortunately ceded practical control of the Temple Mount compound to the Jordanian waqf, under the Jordanian Ministry of Religious Endowments. Today Muslims frequently desecrate the Holy Temple Mount and look for hidden treasures beneath it including, they hope, the ark of the covenant.

We continue:

12:2 and she [Israel] was child; and she cried out, travailing in birth, and in pain to be delivered.

Israel began 'putting forth her leaves' in 1948/1967 but the kingdom is being discussed here does not yet exist. Modern Israel is the precursor of the Theocratic Kingdom of HaShem, not that kingdom itself. World War One (Matthew 24:6) was the beginning of the birth pangs. We might say that in 1947 the baby's head could be seen. However when Mashiach ben David approaches the Throne of HaShem, reaches out his hand and takes the Seven Sealed Scrolls, this prophecy will be fulfilled and not before. Mashiach's taking up his destiny was previously described with these words:

Revelation 5:2 And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a great voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?
3 And no one in the heaven, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book, or to look thereon.
4 And I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open the book, or to look thereon:
5 and one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not; behold, the Lion that is of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath overcome to open the book and the seven seals thereof.
6 And I saw in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, having seven horns, and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent forth into all the earth.
7 And he came, and he taketh [it] out of the right hand of him that sat on the throne.
8 And when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having each one a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.

A very long labor indeed!

12:3 And there was seen another sign in heaven: and behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his heads seven diadems.
4 And his tail drew a third part of the stars of heaven, and cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman that was about to be delivered, that when she is delivered he may devour her child.

The meaning is fairly clear now that the context has been established.

What may not be completely clear however is this description of the Red Dragon having seven heads and ten horns with seven crowns on his heads. In my upcoming study of the Book of Daniel I'll be going into this in some depth. For now, you might find my study The Image of the Beast helpful. The image is of Lucifer and his earthly power base, the Merovingian House that rules Europe and controls the developing Globalist Empire over which Rex Mundi will soon reign. For the purposes of this present study this should suffice I think.

The great red dragon is Lucifer, god of the Global Elite of the Order of the Defeated Dragon and the Merovingian controlled Novus Ordo Seclorum.

Order of the Defeated Dragon - Merovingian Bloodline

We now look back to Revelation 6:1 for a moment to get our bearing. As we saw there, as the Mashiach opened the First Sealed Scroll Rex Mundi, seated on his white war stallion, advanced onto the world stage. This is the point being discussed here using different symbolism than we saw earlier. The earlier description focused on matters on the Earth. This description reveals the scenes unfolding in the celestial realms of the Merkaba.

Note that Mashiach is no humble baby being born here! He is the leader of HaShem's Celestial Forces! He is opening the Seven Seals and revealing the previously hidden plans of HaShem sealed by Daniel (Daniel 12:4). This child therefore is not Yeshua as many suppose, but the Kingdom of HaShem being born.

12:5a And she was delivered of a son, a man child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron:

Again, this is not a gentle itinerant preacher but a powerful general and monarch. Under his spiritual direction Mashiach ben Yosef will establish Israel in all the lands promised to Abraham and his descendants. He will the present the Land to Mashiach ben David. Mashiach ben David will then conquer the entire world without firing a single bullet - Siach Sarfey Kodesh 1-67. Once Israel is living in peace, Mashiach ben David will inspire the world and:

Mashiach will conquer the world only through simple people who recite the Psalms simply and sincerely.

You may understand this through a parable about a certain king who went hunting dressed in ordinary clothing for greater comfort. A sudden cloud-burst, a literal flood of water, sent all the ministers scattering in search of shelter. The king was in great danger but finally found the house of a villager, who invited him inside with great honor, dressed him in warm clothes and gave him simple peasant food, lighting a fire and leaving him there to sleep and warm up. The king was so exhausted that the food and rest in the home of the peasant were the sweetest delight, the like of which he felt he had never tasted.

The ministers searched for the king until they came to the peasant's house and found the king asleep. They waited until he awoke. They wanted him to return home with them, but the king said to them: "None of you came to save me: you all scattered in different directions to save yourselves! Only this peasant saved me. Since I have tasted the sweetest delight with him, he will bring me home in his wagon and I will sit on my royal throne in the very clothes in which he dressed me!

Likewise, just before Mashiach comes, there will be a flood of atheism - not a literal flood of water but one of strange thoughts that will cover all the "high mountains" even in the land of Israel, which was not affected by Noah's flood. The rains will teem down with such force that even the "mountains of Israel " will be drenched - even the hearts of the pure will be affected.

Wisdom and sophistication will be of no avail. The only ones who will hold firm are the simple Jews who recite Psalms simply and sincerely. That is why, when the Mashiach comes, they will be the ones who place the royal crown on his head - Sipurim Niflaim.

Under ben David's reign, Israel will exist as the foretold Theocratic Kingdom of HaShem. This is the biblical, prophetic meaning of the term Mashiach and is the central role of Shiloh, to sit as king upon the throne of David at Jerusalem. Until this takes place the Messiah has not come.

There will be one united Kingdom of Israel and various Gentile countries during the Millennial Kingdom period. These will be semi-independent lands that will voluntary submit to the overlordship of HaShem and His Mashiach. Of these nations we read:

Zechariah 8:1 And the word of Adonai Tzva’ot came to me, saying,
2 Thus says Adonai Tzva’ot: I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath.
3 Thus says Adonai: I will return to Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called The city of truth; and the mountain of Adonai Tzva’ot, The holy mountain...

The Name Adonai Tzva’ot or literally, Lord of Armies, indicates that HaShem, though His servants, has now conquered all earthly powers. That He alone controls all the earth through His Mashiach and other servants.

8:22 Indeed, many peoples and strong nations will come to seek Adonai Tzva’ot in Jerusalem, and to seek the favor of Adonai.
23 Thus says Adonai Tzva’ot: It will come to pass in those days that ten men out of all the languages of the nations will take hold of the hem the Jews and say, We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.

We continue with our Revelation text:

12:5b and her child was caught up to God, and unto his throne.
6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God. They will nourish her there for a thousand two hundred and threescore days.

This verse interprets itself thankfully. Those who believe Yeshua is the child here have only to look at the next verse. The governance of the Messianic Kingdom of Israel will be taken up by Mashiach ben David, Mashiach ben Yosef, and the people of Israel will be removed to a safe place.

Yeshua clarifies this more in his most famous prophecy:

Matthew 24:15 When you therefore see the abomination of desolation spoken of through Daniel the prophet standing in the holy place (let him that reads understand),
16 then let them that are in Judaea flee to the mountains:
17 let him that is on the housetop not go down to take things out of his house:
18 and let him that is in the field not return back to take his cloak.
19 And woe to pregnant and nursing women in those days!
20 Pray that your flight is not in the winter nor on a shabbat:
21 because then will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor will ever be again.
22 And if those days are not shortened no flesh will be saved: but to save the elect [i.e., the Jews] those days will be shortened.
23 At that time, if anyone says to you, Look, here is the Mashiach, or, There he is, he is lying to you.

Note the direct connection between the Abomination of Desolation at the proclamation that Rex Mundi is the Mashiach (verse 23). The Abomination will include the placing of his idol in the Holy of Holies. Based on the Christian belief that Yeshua was god incarnate, he will likely claim to be Messiah and god. In any event, he will certainly declare that he has established world peace, the declaration of his divinity and, according to tradition, the sacrificing of a sow in the holy place.

In the "Middle of the Week" when Rex Mundi commits the Abomination of Desolation spoken of previously, Yeshua urges those Jews living in Jerusalem to immediately flee the city for the hills! The global Jewish purge will be unlike anything ever witnessed. Like the biblical Haman, the Rex Mundi will call upon his loyal subjects to rid the earth of the Jewish infestation. Killing us will be both legal and encouraged.

Those who are wise will flee to Petra even before the abomination is committed. HaShem has promised to protect his people there for the duration of the Great Tribulation, the final one thousand, two hundred and sixty days or forty-two months. Despite this protection, 2/3 of world Jewry will perish.

Isaiah 42:11 Let the wilderness and the cities thereof raise their voices, the villages that Kedar inhabits; let the inhabitants of Sela sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.
12 Let them give glory to Adonai, and declare His praise in the islands
. 13 Adonai will go forth as a mighty man; He will excite His zeal like a man of war: He will cry, yes, He will shout aloud; He will do mightily against His enemies.

Petra

As Mashiach opens the Seven Sealed Scrolls his armies will begin their attacks and counterattacks:

12:7 And there was war in the heavens: Michael and his angels going forth to battle with the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels;

As we saw in the first chapter of Job, all angels have access to the Throne Room and Courts of HaShem. The Christian concept of angels draws heavily from Paganism. All angelic beings serve HaShem as He directs. It is God's Will that humans be free to persue their desires and He assigns His servants, the angels, to help facilitate this. These warring angels are not rival angelic factions in a celestial civil war against HaShem, but rather are reflecting the struggles between humans. This is a struggle between the humans who are committed to God, the Sons of Light, and the Globalists, the Sons of Darkness. Both are empowered the angels of their own creation. Now comes to past the war referenced in the Egyptian Book of Enoch. The War of Magog endagers all of creation. These beings go forth throughout all the created realms. Now however, as Mashiach opens the first of the Seven Sealed Scrolls the celestial realms break into open warfare: a struggle beyond our limited comprehension. This seven year war will begin with the opening of the First Sealed Scroll. It may well have already begun in our own time.

12:8 And they prevailed not, neither was their place found any more in heaven [ouranos].

The KJV, the ASV, which we're using here as our base text, and others translate ouranos as "heaven" in both 12:7 and 12:8. The WEB and others have it as "sky," in both cases, the equivilent of the Hebrew shamayim. Strong's Dictionary tells us this about the word:

Ouranos: the vaulted expanse of the sky with all things visible in it
the universe, the world
the aerial heavens or sky, the region where the clouds and the tempests gather, and where thunder and lightning are produced
the sidereal or starry heavens
the region above the sidereal heavens, the seat of order of things eternal and consummately perfect where God dwells and other heavenly beings.

Amazingly accurate! Ouranos is the abode of everything that exists within the "Dome" covering the earth. Above Ouranos is the Merkaba, the Throne of HaShem as described in Genesis chapter one. This battle of the greater War of Magog will take place in all realms, especially the celestial ones in this context. But "Heaven" in 12:8 signifies that all negative angelic powers will be expelled from the presence of HaShem (in Shamayim) and will downward upon the Plain of the Earth, the primary battlefield of the War.

12:9 And the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent, he that is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world; he was cast down to the earth, and his angels were cast down with him.

The Sheep and the Goats are now permantly separated (Matthew 25:31-46). The Yetzer Hatov and the Yetzer Hara, the dual nature of positive and negative, will be disassociated. Everyone on earth will have made their choice, sides will have been taken. What people need to know will be revealed to them. Once the First Sealed Scroll is opened the Seven Year War begins. Three and a half years into it Heaven will be cleansed of the Rebellion. At that point the Yetzer Hara, Lucifer, will completely possess and re-animate the dead body of the slain Rex Mundi. Demon forces will possess everyone who has taken the Mark of God, all who have not chosen the Light, the Yetzer Hatov. As we will discuss when we come to the Mark of the Beast, all those who accept that Mark will be possessed by these demons and lose their individual rational existence. During the Great Tribulation (the second three and half years) all those who have not been sealed by HaShem will be possessed by demons.

The difference between the created angelic being or malachim and humans is that we have a reasoning mind and individual volition. The angels are somewhat copmparable to dogs. They have awareness, they can think on ruidimentary levels as needfed for their various tasks, but they have no sense of indivudal awareness. They are possessed by God and always serve as He directs them. Humans can debate, agree or disagree, comply or refuse. Those who recieve the Mark of the Beast surrender this ability and become, ineffect, dark angels. Like the angels, they merely perform the will of their master, dipicted as the Dark Lord with only enough independant thought and volition to carry out his will. This is why humans, homo sapiens, are currently 'lower' than the angels. We abuse our freedoms. After the Great War however humans will be elevated above them. Those who take the Mark will surrender their eternal consciousness. Their holy sparks (souls) will merge into the darkenss of unmanifested abyss.

12:10 And I heard a great voice in heaven saying, Now has come the Redemption. The power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Mashiach: for the accuser of our brethren who accuses them before our God day and night has been cast down.

This accusation is two-fold. From what we are told, Lucifer rebelled against HaShem prior to the beginning of the Olam Hazeh (the present age), which is to say, prior to the establishment of the Garden of Eden. We may take these accounts at face value and concieve of a malevolent being or we see it as a metephore of the Yetzer Hara, the negative human inclination. I discuss this elsewhere. However conceived, Lucifer challenged that humans would not embrace the Way of HaShem without a payoff. The accusation is that humans are inanately greedy and violent and hence poorly created. This is recorded in the oldest book of the Bible, the Book of Job. The accusation is against all humanity. Human history has been the settlement of these accusations. Now in Ouranos (Heaven) the matter has been decided and Lucifer and his minions have been exiled. On the Earth Mashiach ben Yoself will lead the forces of righteous humanity in uniting the earth under the banner of HaShem. Thus an uncertain percentage of humanity will answer the accusation.

12:11 And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony; and they loved not their life even unto death.

The King James has this important verse this way:

12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.

As with identifying the "child" earlier in this chapter, there is an understandable tendency to interpret this as the blood of Yeshua, shed at his execution and emphesized by Christian salvation dogma. However read this verse carefully and without assumption:

They (plural) overcame him (Lucifer) because of or by the Lamb's blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn't love their life, even to death. As before, to help with translations words are added to the texts to tie desperate clauses together. The words in brackets do not appear in the actual text:

And they overcame him by [the] blood [of the] Lamb, and by [the] word of their testimony; and [they] loved not their lives unto [the] death.

Read without added words, commas etc. the text reads: And they overcame him by blood Lamb and by word of their testimony and loved not their lives unto death.

Who are these referenced people? The context of this chapter is Israel. The woman Israel is giving birth to the Messianic Kingdom of the Olam Haba. Lucifer seeks to thwart the Kingdom and maintain Globalist rule. In this chapter's context, the Rex Mundi will deceive the Jews and have his deceitful peace plan signed by them. According to this text, the weapon that defeats Rex Mundi is the sacrificial lamb-blood of the martyrs refernced above. Since the beginning the Jewish people have been sacrificed for others as described in Isaiah 52-54. During these seven years massive numbers of Jews (and Gentiles) will be martyred. This is the clear meaning in context. its not talkig about the death of Yeshua. In context that makes no sense.

Recall that the challenge is that people will not chose to submit to HaShem if there is not a pay-off. That they would rather submit to Lucifer's system. As we saw earlier, the Jews are "HaShem's lot," His percentage of the population. A remnant of Jews and righteous Gentiles at this point will willingly surrender their lives with no visible pay-off rather than submit to Lucifer and his Novus Ordo Seclorum. They are obviously the referenced lamb. Their devotion to HaShem alone wields power in this now ending court case. The Blood of these Martyrs is a powerful thing and by it they will defeat the lies of the Luciferian systm.

As I explain in detail in my study on Isaiah 52-54 ,the Suffering Servant of HaShem is the Jewish people. Once again the Suffering Servant will be slaughtered by the millions as lambs.

Of the Jews as the Suffering Servants we read:

Isaiah 52:1 Awake, awake, put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there will no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean.
2 Shake yourself from the dust; arise, sit on your throne, O Jerusalem: loose yourself from the bonds of your neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
3 For thus says Adonai, You were sold for nothing; and you will be redeemed without money.
4 For thus says the Lord Adonai, My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there: and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.
5 Now therefore, what I do here, says Adonai, seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? They that rule over them howl, says Adonai, and my name continually all the day is blasphemed...

52:13 Behold, my servant will deal wisely, he will be exalted and lifted up, and be very high.
14 Many were astonished at you, his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men,
15 so shall he sprinkle many nations; kings will shut their mouths before him: because that which had not been told to them they will see; and that which they had not heard they will understand....

53:3 He was despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: like one from whom men hide their face, he was despised; and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted...

53:10 Yet it pleased Adonai to bruise him; He has put him to grief: when you will make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his seed, he will prolong his days, and the pleasure of Adonai shall prosper in his hand.
11 He will see the travail of his soul, and will be satisfied: by the knowledge of himself will my righteous servant justify many; and he shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore I will divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out his soul unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors: yet he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

Many Nicene Christians believe this is a prophecy of Yeshua however the context is clear. "My people went down at the first into Egypt..." They did not undergo all the pain and humiliation for nothing! By their sufferings and through their experiences HaShem was busy preparing His inheritance. This servant will live to see his offspring (53:10). According to the Church, Yeshua was a lifelong virgin and yet this servant "will see his seed," his children. There is no way this secton is talking the Mashiach, let alone Yeshua. The second discussing the children of Zion and concludes with the Jews surviving despite the difficulties they experience, both them and their children.

As we read:

Genesis 12:1 Now Adonai said to Avram, Get out of your country, and from your kindred, and from your father's house, unto the land that I will show you. 2 I will make of you a great nation and will bless you and make your name great and a blessing.
3 I will bless all who bless you, and curse all who curse you. In you all the families of the earth will be blessed.

All of the families of the earth will be blessed by the Jews. This is the point of this section of Isaiah quoted above, and this is the point of these verses in our Revelation study under consideration. The suffering service of the Jews throughout the ages will now be rewarded by God and He utterly annihilates the Nifilim-born Globalists. As Yeshua said, For the Elect's sake the Great Tribulation will be shortened by the coming of Mashiach (Matt. 24:22). If they weren't, no Jews would survive this war.

12:12 Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you that dwell in them. Woe to the earth and for the sea: because the devil is cast down unto you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a short time.

Just under three and a half years to be precise.

The Luciferian Globalists must believe they have a chance at winning, certainly their human followers do! Lucifer will be furious at losing the celestial regions and thus his anger will burn white hot as he enters the Rex Mundi and begins his last ditch effort at planetary victory!

12:13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast down to the earth, he persecuted the woman that brought forth the man child.
14 And there was given to the woman the two wings of the great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness unto her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

This "time and times and half a time" is again speaking of the final three and a half years.

That we are again referencing the woman Israel adds support to the interpretations shared above. The topic hasn't changed since the beginning.

Rex Mundi will commit the Abomination of Desolation and be slain. Lucifer himself, having been exiled to the Earth as discussed above, will then reanimate and possess his corpse and focus the brunt of his anger on the Jews. He will probably do this for the following reasons. His assassin will probably be one of his former Jewish followers who, witnessing the Abomination in the Temple, will realize that he and his people were deceived. That will drive him to strike out in anger. In part the Beast will probably go after the Jews because they worship the One True God and obey the orders of His Mashiach and that causes him jealous rage. And doubtless these pograms will happen in part because, as Yeshua makes clear, Mashiach is specifically fighting to save the Jews (Matt. 24:22). If Rex Mundi can genocide the last of the Jews he will win! The Jews are the key to everything as has been the case since there beginning of time.

As the Abomination of Desolation is committed, and in the hours and days following it, Jews around the world, but especially in Israel, will be frantically freeing to Petra, Jordan, looking for hiding places, or joining with the various opposition forces prior to the rise of Mashiach ben Yosef. Many will begin making serious teshuvah or repentance. When repentance engulfs all the surviving Jews Mashiach ben Yosef will arise. But not yet.

It appears that HaShem will grant protection to His people as they flee to Petra in Jordanian controlled Eretz Israel (Matt. 24:15-23). As the Jews are fleeing:

12:15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth after the woman water as a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by the stream.
16 And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon cast out of his mouth.

During this great escape to Petra the forces of the Rex Mundi will do whatever they can to capture the fleeing Jews. This may include soldiers, tanks, aircraft, bombs, drones, sound weapons, etc. Because Rex Mundi is now Lucifer incarnate he may literally cause massive waves to flow across the desert (in mockery perhaps of HaShem's parting of the Red Sea when Lucifer sought to murder the Hebrews with the forces of Egypt). What is certain is that HaShem will defend His people so they can reach the Haven He has for them to live in for the final three and half years.

12:17 And the dragon waxed furious towards the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her seed, that keep the commandments of God, and hold the testimony of Yeshua.

The remainder of the Jews will live in perpetual jeopardy and most won't survive. Unable to murder the Petra Jews, the Global New World Order government will begin hunting and slaughtering Jews and their supporters.

Here ends Chapter Twelve.

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