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one book of the Bible. 1 did fit
into it a very FEW otber passages
of the Bible, BUT THERE IS MUCH
MORE.
So now Jet us fit in a number of
other passages of the Bible and
bring the WHOLE PICTURE more
clearly to completion.
The whole book of Revelation
is the Revelation of JEsus
CHRIST, not of "St. John the
Divine"- who was not divine–
YET!
Revelation
is a word trans–
lated from the Greek
apocalypse
meaning revealing, not hiding;
opening up, making clear, not a
mysterious concealing.
But Christ does not REVEAL
the meaning within this one book.
He gives the KEY to opening up
the meaning of the book in Mat–
thew 24, Mark 13 and Luke 21.
He opens up other portions of it
in other scriptures. Remember,
the WHOLE Bible is the written
WORD OF Goo, and Jesus Him–
self is the living personal Word of
God.
In Matthew 24, Jesus reveals
much of that portion of Revela–
tion 12, beginning with the time
when Jesus was on earth speaking
with His disciples.
The WHOLE book of Revelation
is summarízed in chapter 6-that
is, a summary begínning at the
time Jesus was teaching on
earth.
First, in Revelation 6, are the
famous "Four Horsemen.' ' They
are symbolic. Their meaning is
explained in Matthew 24 and
elsewhere.
First was the white horse, fol–
lowed by a horse symbolizing
w
AR, a black horse famine and a
paJe horse symbolizing death.
Now glance into Matthew 24.
Jesus had been showing His disci–
ples the buildings of the great
temple in Jerusalem. Then they
had gone to the Mount of Olives,
where His disciples asked Hím
privately, "When shall these
things be? and wbat shall be the
sign of thy coming, and of the end
of the world?"-this present evi l
world.
August 1980
Jesus was talking to His disci–
ples, about A.D. 31. He did not
answer their question
.first-in–
stead He warned them of what
would begin to occur even in their
lifetime.
"Take heed that no man de–
ceive you," He said to
them.
He
was talking about false teachers
that might deceive them, even in
A.D. 31. "For many shall come in
my name," He said. Now UNDER–
STAND this before reading the rest
of that sentence. You may re–
search the Bible thoroughly, and
you will find that everywhere
those coming "in Christ's name,"
come claiming to REPRESENT
Him- coming in the pretense
that they are the ministers of
Jesus Cbrist. They were to come,
even beginning A.D. 31, saying
that Jesus is the Christ, "and
deceiving many."
He was not referring to men
coming who would claim that
they
were the Messiah. But how
could they claim to be Christ's
Christian ministers proclaiming
that Jesus is the Christ, and still
deceive the MANY? Do you know
that people may even WORSHIP
Christ, and all IN VAIN? Jesus
said, "IN VAIN do they worship
me, teaching for doctrines the
commandments of men" (Mark
7:7).
But from A.D. 31 until now,
MANY have claimed to be minis–
ters of Jesus Christ, proclaiming
CHRIST, yet actually deceiving
the many who hear them, even
as they, themselves, were de–
ceived by a master Satan. They
have preached to this day ABOUT
Christ. Bu t they have not
preached HIS MESSAGE- which
was His GOSPEL. The true Gos–
PEL is the MESSAG E Jesus
brought for mankind from
God-the GOOD NEWS (Gospel)
of the coming KINGDOM OF
Goo. For 1,900 years-one
hundred 19-year time-cycles–
that true Gospel of Jesus
Christ-the Gospel
He
preached
- was suppressed! People heard
ABOUT Christ, but they did not
hear His GOSPEL.
That false preaching began in
the very first century, and con–
tinues UNTIL NOW!
Jesus reveaJed that the white
horse of Revelation 6 represented
these false preachers. Next, in
Reve1ation 6, carne the red horse
of WAR. And in Jesus ' 01ivet
prophecy (Matthew 24) Jesus
said wars would come, Matthew
24:6-7. Next, the black horse.
Jesus said , verse 7, there shall be
famínes and pestilences and
earthquakes.
Next, Jesus said, Chrístians
would be martyred-put to
death. That happened, beginning
wíth Stephen (Acts 7), and into
the Middle Ages, when, as in
Revelation
1
2, the Church had
to flee- and go underground,
meeting for worship services se–
cretly.
Then after that, Jesus carne to
the answer to theír question about
the sign preceding His return to
earth as KING of kings in verse
14: "This Gospel
of the
KING–
DOM
shall be preached in all the
world for a witness unto all
nations, and THEN [quickly after
that
1
shall the end [of this age
1
come. "
1
started proclaiming that Gos–
pel over radio the first week of
1934. But it did not go to other
nations until January, 1953-pre–
cisely 1900 years after Paul wrote
the Galatians (chapter 1:6-7) that
the Gospel was being SUP–
PRESSED!
Then what NEXT? The paJe
horse followed the black horse.
Jesus said, (Matthew 24:7) there
wou1d be famines and pesti–
lences.
Then the GOSPEL OF THE
KINGDOM OF Goo.
Then what? The fifth seal of
Revelation 6 shows another time
of martyrdom-this time the
GREAT TRIBULATION. In Mat–
thew 24, coming next to verses
21-22, Jesus shows the GREAT
TRIBULATION- a time of trouble
greater than any before, or any to
come later. This is also shown in
Daniel 12, as occurring just prior
to the resurrection of the saints.
Also in Jeremiah 30 as a trouble
coming chiefly on Americans and
British.
Then what next? The Great
Tribulation is shown as the fifth
sea!. The sixth seal shows there
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