Thunder Vision

Calvin

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To the Church of Christ.
Who is God and what evidence is there that what he says is real and true?
What are the promises of God?
Has God delivered on his promises?
If The God of the Bible is the one and only true god is there a logical way to see and know the things he claims is true?
In this Book Thunder Vision I would like to make the case that the book of revelation gives us the ability to see the evidence on all these questions.
In the post modern world we live we are bombarded with questions about God and our faith in god that are hard to answer. We hear Questions like these almost every day. People are looking for the truth, some belief the bible at face value and some look for more concrete evidence. In the end we all have to look at the evidence in the Creation and more importantly his revealed will in his law and through his Son Jesus Christ.
Because of my belief and faith in God as an Evangelical Christian and student of the Bible, faith has been essential for understanding his Promises. On the other hand I want to show you there are Logical numerical patterns encoded in the Chapters and verses of the book of revelation that will enhance your faith which in turn authenticates the words of God by using simple math. Addition, division, subtraction. This plays on our intellect and in turn helps us to understand what he is saying. This pattern of numbers or seals in the book of revelation lets us see God and his promises to us in the rest of the bible clearer than ever before. The Bible was written to us by God through many people through the ages, as we look back into history at His promises in the light of the seven seals, this helps us understand him more. The seals coincide with the seven days of creation in genesis and we see this pattern throughout the bible as a whole. So when God references ideas and promises in Prophesies in the seven seal structure we can always get a better sense what he is talking about. My hope is that we will learn to love him more through Johns teaching in the book of Revelation.

Sujets

• Philosophie et théologie
• Religion

Informations

• Publié par: Xlibris US
• Date de parution: 30 décembre 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781493143283
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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THUNDER VISION
STUDY OF THE BOOK OF REVELATION
CALVIN

 
Copyright © 2013 by Calvin.
 
Library of Congress Control Number:2013921105
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Scripture taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® (ESV®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
 
Scripture taken from the King James Version of the Bible.
 
 
 
 
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CONTENTS
Introduction
Parallel Views of the seven days of creation in Genesis and the seven Seals in the book of revelation.
 
Chapter 1The Seals
Chapter 2Values
Chapter 3Government
Chapter 4Another View
Chapter 5Grace and Mercy
Chapter 6The Warning

No one knows the day or the hour except God himself. Even Jesus said this. In all that I write, I do not claim to know it either.
Introduction
As I was studying the fundamental teachings of the church of Christ and what the church was teaching on eschatology, I found that the church was divided in what John was telling us in the book of Revelation about the time of the end. I found that the book of Revelation was not so much a study of the end as it was a writing to put all things into the right perspective.
This study includes all books of the Bible and the church’s history. I noticed a pattern in the way the book of Revelation was written and put together and how it applies to the whole Bible. One of the biggest things I noticed with this pattern was that it was in a sequence of sevens. So I started asking, “Why seven? What is the meaning in the numbers?”
While paying careful attention to wording and number sequence of verses and chapters in the book of Revelation and what God was saying, I found that the number sequencing and numeral meanings are not limited to only the book of Revelation, but their meanings are the same throughout the Bible, and these patterns encompass all the books of the Bible. In this writing, I will show some detail, but this book is mainly an overview of the things that I see. By the light of the book of Revelation, per chapter or per verse, you can see that their meanings encompass the whole Word of God, and the numbers are a revelation to us in the light of the book of Revelation.
I believe the book of Revelation is all about time from the beginning to the end. There are a number of different time lines. These stories of time start at different events in history and always go on to other events in history or the future. Subject matter is always determined by the number of the seal you are in, with history and future events in mind. God knows the end from the beginning, and his glory shines throughout this book. The seals are a time frame of the whole human race and the redemption of the human race (through Jesus Christ) within that time frame.
The seven seals are the time from the beginning to the end.
This revelation of seals is shown to us in the first seven chapters of Revelation, and then it progressively moves us to other views or more detailed views. The order in which it is written is very important to the message God has for us. John first shows us Almighty God in the fourth chapter; his son, Jesus, in the fifth chapter; the whole human race in the sixth chapter; and last, his seven remnants associated with Jesus and God in a very unique partnership in the seventh chapter. Then we go on to God’s redeemed remnants as a whole from every tribe and nation (the seventh chapter).
In chapter 10, John then gives us another view. He gives a second view, but along the same lines. The second view is an image of the temple of the living God. This is the body of Christ. He shows us this image in the form of a human figure. He calls it an angel (the angel John keeps falling down to worship). This image is like the image of the metal statue in the book of Daniel—like, but not the same. The angel in Revelation is the living and fruitful one where the one in Daniel is decaying down through time.
These are two very different images of government. What John is showing us are the differences between the two. This is what the author is trying to portray to the church of Christ.
These two Images of government are two parallel worlds, so to speak. The two parallel governments’ names are Babylon and the New Jerusalem—two different worldviews.
John shows us these two and the events that define them for who they are and what will become of them. This image is commonly viewed as one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years is as one day, with a total of seven days or seven thousand years.
You could also put this image into the frame of seven hours on the clock.
These number sequences start with the time on the clock. We could look at them as the six days of creation, such as 1:11 and 2:22 and 3:33 and 4:44 and 5:55 and 6:66 and 7:77. The hourly would be a reverence to time narrowing downward. This would apply to the three woes.
Genesis tells us the same story but in fewer details. We can see prophetic revelations in the book of Genesis also, but to divide it correctly, we have to look at it in the light of the seven.
You know there is room on the clock for one to five, but there is no 6:66 on the clock.
A verse to remember is Romans 8:6, “For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.”
The reason for the hourly interpretation is because I was reading prophecy in my studies of scripture and was waking up at night at exactly those numbers on the clock. And in February, which is the second month of the year, I was waking up and had these overwhelming feelings of wanting and seeking to know what these things mean. After looking out my bedroom window, I started to see lit-up clouds in the west, just above the horizon. It was a glowing light in the clouds and stayed for a while, about half an hour or so. I would go back to sleep and would wake up again at a later three-digit number sequence. The light was there around those times and stayed for a while then went away. These times also corresponded with the dates on the calendar—dates such as 2/2/2011 and also 2/12/2011, and then comes 2/22/2011. At this point, I was not sleeping much anymore and was up at 5:55, seeing what was going to happen. And right on time, there was a lightning strike and loud thunder! Thunder snow ! Because of the dreams I was having at those times and because I had been studying the book of Revelation and other prophets, I just knew! God revealed to me in that moment a mystery, a mystery I had been longing to know. This was something that had eluded me until that very moment. The mystery was that the whole book was all about time! I realized that to understand this book, you had to put it into the image of all time—time from the beginning to the end divided into seven parts. This is kind of crazy because this is what is clear to me now.
There are a lot of time events going on through the whole book. It was like a light bulb going off when I saw what He was trying to tell me. A eureka moment, if you will. It is all about the seven seals, and they are time itself! And they are the seven remnants. They are, in one sense, the whole body. These are the elect. These are the ones whose names are written in the book of life.
While this may seem far out to you right now, I will show you in great detail the pattern that I see. These patterns and images are not something new. When looking at this pattern by the number, it’s really cool! And we can see that God has always had everything in mind, and it was always his plan from the beginning.
So through God’s leading and the things John was saying, it was clear to me that time was captured in a number of different ways to tell the story. One clear way was in chapters 6 and 7 ( the seven seals ). So I started to run the numbers in the sixth chapter like the numbers on the clock. You can see this at the end of my comments in chapter 7 on the structure and outline of the seals.
 
The titles I have added on top of the seven seals (chapter 7) are cryptic guidelines for us from God and John. This is his language and prophetic writings, and there is more to be said. They are based on time and the character of the peoples it’s talking about that is according to the time or period that seal represents. Written within the Word of God are meanings within meanings of the texts, such as prophecies. God reverences ideas and commands from his continuing story and plan for the redemption of the human race all the way back to the six days of creation and even before creation. If we are adding them up correctly, they are clear to us. If not, the book is a book of stories with no point or no conclusion!
In the later days, it comes down to hours—He does this in all the books of prophecy. The revelations reveal the secrets that God has hidden for a time such as this