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The Lord's Day
– a short oversight, a work in progress

Revelation 1:10 informs us when the things in Revelation begin to happen.

I came to be, in Spirit, in the Lord’s Day, and heard, behind me, a loud voice, as of a trumpet.
Later, this day is redefined as God and Christ's Day of Wrath. (Rev 6:16)

There are places in the sequence below in which it may be possible to theorise that the events described are parallel with previous ones rather than sequential.  Thus from chapter fifteen, an obvious break occurs that tells us this is not a series of events taking place after chapter fourteen, but, rather, they are a series of events that happen simultaneously with previous ones.  Similar the events of some earlier chapters make occur later than those of subsequent chapters.

Care must be taken to not view the book of Revelation as describing things in a sequential time line.  The chapters below should not be viewed as connected in time necessarily.

Chapter:
4.
Chapter four introduces us to this divine comedy by taking us in to God's throne room.  The narrator Jesus focuses our attention on the Almighty, the Creator, who is an enigmatic being that exists in the past, present and future all at once.  Instead of being bogged down in details, we enjoy the spectacle of this never before seen place filled with alien and exotic beings.  (The information about the symbolism in chapter four is however available if someone desires this.)

5.
Instantly after having dazzled us with its until now unimaginable glory, a dramatic event occurs in the throne room.  The King, the Almighty has an ancient type document, a scroll, of utmost importance to the whole universe, but with no one fit to handle it at first.

The Lion of Judah, standing in the form of a young but slain Lamb evidenced perhaps by its blood dripping onto the royal floor in front of the throne, takes the scroll. (6 . . .a young lamb having been standing as having been slaughtered . . .  YLT)

Next we are told that the Lion of Judah, the Lamb, takes out from among mankind king-priests to help him rule the earth and dispense the value of his shed blood upon his people.

6.
Seven seals keep the scrolls contents secure from prying eyes.  As the Lamb opens each seal an accompanying plague goes out over the earth.  Understanding dawns that we indeed are in God and Christ's Day of Wrath, the last days of this system of things.  The earth is rocked with war, emaciated with famine, shaken with earthquakes, and feverish with pestilence.  Fearful things are the norm during this day of wrath.  (See other pages for more.)  Armageddon is upon earth.

8.
The seventh seals opened with a resounding silence followed by blaring trumpets.  Each trumpet has as accompaniment some woe for the earth.  But in contrast with the seals that produced palpable terrors for earth's inhabitants, the trumpets' woes seem non-physical and symbolic, perhaps to be taken in a spiritual manner.  (the symbolic details are not for this page of overview)  It is maybe for this reason that angels, or messengers, are used to sound the trumpets; they are delivering damaging messages. 

Here commences the woes.  The first one starts with the fifth angel sounding his trumpet.

9.
The fifth messenger begins the chapter more by accident of numbering than by reason of anything else.  Things are so dire on earth that we are told, " 6And in those days men shall seek death, and shall in no wise find it; and they shall desire to die, and death fleeth from them. " (ASV)  Who are these?  They are the Saints undergoing tribulation, and for them to commit suicide would mean cowardice and thus disapproval.  This is how "death fleeth from them" since they cannot die until they are either approved or disapproved.  These Saints have stinging messages for all unfaithful.  These saint locust have the angel of the Abyss for king; namely, Jesus Christ. ( v.11)

The second woe begins from verse thirteen with the sixth angel sounding his trumpet.  The four angels holding back the winds of destruction at the Euphrates river are loosed.

10.
An angel, perhaps Jesus himself?, cried and the seven thunders sounded.  What they said was kept secret.  But once the seventh messenger angel sounds his trumpet the work of God, of his Christ, has been accomplished on earth.

The focus changes here to the temple and God's witnesses.  One would surmise that this witness work is going on from the beginning of the Lord's Day and even prior to it.  For this reason the things described here could easily be parallel to the prior ones.

11.
God's temple is being measured, but the outside is left untouched.  Their witness work and testimony is commented on in cryptic language.  In verse fourteen, the second woe comes to its finish.  From the language here, it would seem that some great earthly conflict occurred at this time in verse eighteen.  The language makes it obvious that it is Armageddon. 

12.
The infant kingdom is born.  The refers to the dead in Christ, the incomplete number of Saints being resurrected to heaven; the kingdom is still an infant because only the dead in Christ receive their resurrection; the rest are still being refined and gathered.  (They will not be joined with the ones just resurrected until they themselves die or until after the Great Tribulation.)  For more on this chapter see this link: Twelve

Around this time, Satan and his angels are thrown out of heaven after warring with Michael, the archangel.  Because of Satan being confined to earth, he begins to war against God's Saints still in the flesh.

This must be the third woe since it says woe to the earth because Satan has come down to earth.

13.
The beast-like nations on earth war against the Saints in what they are told they need patience for.  It is going to be a long war.  All the people on earth except for a relatively few will be marked with the mark of the beast-like nations.

14.
It is harvest time.  The Saints have been gathered, the people of the nations have been marked with the beast's mark, the gospel has been preached to all the nations, Babylon the Great has fallen.  Yes, it is Armageddon time.

A break in the account is found to indicate that the events below are not in sequence but in parallel, taking place simultaneously with the above ones.

15.
Great and wonderful is the description for what is coming, the seven plagues that bring to a close God's Day of Wrath.  The Saints stand next to the sea of glass clearly having been washed clean in its fire.  Apart from the seven plagues, seven bowls of wrath are given the messengers to distribute upon earth.

16.
At once the messengers go out by number and pour out His anger upon the earth.  On earth, men start suffering as the Egyptians did from Moses' plagues.  They must be spiritual plagues that demonstrate the invalidity of the false gods' and false worship.  This Babylon the Great, the great spiritual harlot, is made to suffer because of what it does and did to the Saints.

Babylon, whose waters, the Euphrates' river, feeds it, now experience a drying up of its people, its numbers, its water.  This is done so that the great Cyrus, Jesus Christ , who comes from the east, the sunrising as it says, may overpower it.  The Great dragon, Satan, is not unaware of these events and start taking action to gather the nations for the last battle before his sojourn into the abyss.  Armageddon is approaching but clearly the above events take time, and this calls for endurance of the part of the Saints.

17.
Babylon's judgment time has arrived.  This great religious harlot that has fornicated with the kings of the earth is now held accountable for her bloodshed that the earth has experienced.  The kings who are lead by demonic expressions now give their combined power to the beast that will receive power for one hour, a global political entity.  They will assembled under Satan fight the Lion of Judah, the angel of the abyss.

18.
Before their fight starts, their omni-global lover, Babylon the Great, is destroyed by God and his Son.  Its destruction causes great economic distress world wide and much commerce terminates forever.  She was held guilty of the killings of the prophets, the Saints and of all the slain of the earth. 

19.
The time for Armageddon has arrived, but before it begins, the Lamb must marry.  The Saints are now gathered all, the ones still surviving are being taken away from earth, the Great Tribulation is over, and all the Saints have been sealed with the final seal of approval.  Their waiting is over, they are ready to marry their Lord and Owner.  After completing the marriage wows, their Lord, the Lion of Judah, and the Saints go off to war in Armageddon.

20.
The harvest is finished; the nations are conquered, and Christ turns his attention to Satan and his demons.  As the angel of the Abyss, Jesus has the key to it, and when he shuts the gate behind Satan and the demons, they will stay there until let out. 

From verse four a logical break in sequence must be acknowledged.  Why?  Because the rest of the Bible such as Matthew 24:29-32 clearly give us a timeline on the resurrection of the last remnant of Saints.  These who receive the first resurrection, get this pre-Armageddon, before Satan is bound.  Thus the above is seen not as a time sequence, but as a break in subject.  The new subject then reiterates what the resurrections are about, both the first and the second resurrection.

The second resurrection, though only named indirectly as such, is discussed then from chapter 20: 11-15.  This subject has its own page (Rev 20:11-15)

We are told that the Saints who benefit from the first resurrection cannot be harmed by the second death; obviously then, the conclusion is that those that receive the other one may be harmed by the second death.
 
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