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Prophecy: Revelation Puzzle-Part 1 (Introduction-The Papacy)
August 31, 2017 Ellul (Mo 6) 9, 5777


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Please go to Revelation Puzzle-Part 1 to read the first article in this series.

Please go to Revelation Puzzle-Part 2 to read the second article in this series.

Please go to Revelation Puzzle-Part 3 to read the third article in this series.

Please go to Revelation Puzzle-Part 4 to read the fourth article in this series.

Please go to Revelation Puzzle-Part 5 to read the fifth article in this series.

Please go to Revelation Puzzle-Part 6 to read the sixth article in this series.

Please go to Revelation Puzzle-Part 7 to read the seventh article in this series.

Link to Horae Apocalypticae by E.B. Elliott



Please review and use my Revelation Spreadsheet Analysis Tool. This series of Revelation Puzzle articles is meant to be used in conjunction with the Revelation Spreadsheet Analysis Tool. Here, you can SEE the dates of when these events took place, as well as reference sources in various writings. I hold the view that several of the vials are still pouring...something the Historicist writers could not have foreseen 110 to 160 years ago.

INTRODUCTION TO THE REVELATION PUZZLE

I woke this morning, thinking about certain sections of the Revelation of John, when the Holy Spirit interjected: "Think about it just like you would a crossword puzzle". Immediately, my mind turned to the New York Times and their famous word puzzle, faithfully presented since 1942. Perhaps you young ones have never filled one out, but for those of us "in the know", the way you approach it is that you do not start at the top left. Instead, you review the list of questions to see which ones are easy; where you are sure you know the right answer. You fill those in, then based upon the help you get from the crossing letters of your "knowns", you can make some more sure guesses about your "unknowns". Puzzles always come with assumptions: the Times puzzle is prepared in English, so you can leave your Spanish behind, unless they clue you in especially in the question.

The great assumption you must make when approaching our "Revelation Puzzle" is that it flows in chronological order. See part 2 of this series if you need more convincing regarding the making of this assumption. When we look at the prophetic things that begin in chapter 4 and 5 with our Lord and a sealed up book, we then see Him as He begins to open these seals in Chapter 6. Daniel was also shown apocalyptic things about 700 years prior to John and he was told that his "scrolls" were sealed up until the time of the end. Since this sealed up book in Revelation is a book, which in the Lord's day was a scroll or series of sealed up scrolls, we immediately get the idea that as we move from Seal one to Seal Seven, there is an orderly flow to this, just as you would find in any book. This beginning to end chronological flow is reinforced by the presence of the last judgement and the resurrection at the end of the book. I would put forward the idea here that it is unnatural to hop around chronologically, although we find that some fiction writers employ this "foreshadowing" tactic, usually in a limited fashion. Things in those books always clear up by the end of the book. In like manner, there are a few parenthetical visions that have a bit of foreshadowing involved, but these are all clearing up at this time of history.

We know we must be getting near to the time of the end, one way or another, so according to the bible, these things of Daniel and John should be getting unsealed, or perhaps they already are unsealed. Elijah is credited by most with starting the tradition that just as the world was created in six days, so the creation will endure for 6,000 years, and then the end will come, starting a seventh day period of 1,000 years of Millenial rest. This is carried forth in writing in the "Epistle of Barnabas", an apocryphal writing, where this notion is presented as something that everyone knew and accepted at the time of the apostles. So, I think it is logical to conclude that now, or very soon, we should be able to unseal these puzzles and come to some solid answers regarding their proper, Godly interpretation, without utilizing a lot of speculation.

I do not believe that our Lord would have put this book into our hands unless there was one very clear, predominant meaning to the prophecies that are presented in it. To think otherwise would cause us to view God as an author of confusion, which He is most certainly not. Modern writers have dozens of interpretations for the various apocalyptic symbols that are included in the book. Some hop and jump all over the timeline as they tell you that primarily, these events cover the last two thousand years, but they are either in no particular order, or they are in some triplicate order, where the Seals, Trumpets and Vials all cover the same events. This gets confusing internally and I reject it outright. Others say that these events refer to things that are still going to happen in the future: a notion that sticks head in the sand regarding 1,900 years of World and Church history. Who do we think we are to arrogantly tell the Reformation saints that they wrongly interpreted the Book of Revelation as applying to them in a very major way? No, the natural flow of the vision, as it is given to John, suggests most plainly that it is most proper to operate under the assumption that a chronological flow of historical events is what is prophetically being shown in these pages. Yet, where are we to start with the process of interpreting it? Certainly not at the first seal, as there is no information there, given by God, that would identify just who is being spoken about, other than a White Horse, which was one of the six winged Beasts that were around the throne when Jesus was found worthy to break the seals of this Holy Book.

Past Biblical historical writings were huge works: very large, with lots of small print and footnotes. They are slow reads. One of my favorite works, written in 1905 by H. Grattan Guinness, is called History Unveiling Prophecy. That is a great work and you would be very well armed against the deception of Satan if you were to read it, but you probably will not read it, will you? It covers 522 pages. It took me about a week to read. Next, a great reference work I use is the 1862 version of E.B. Elliott's reference work Horae Apocalypticae by E.B. Elliott It is very scholarly and written in minute detail that covers 2,387 pages. I have read most of it and I am still working on parts of it. Clearly, most people of the Facebook era are not going to crack open even one of the almost 3,000 pages of these works. I have written about them in articles that number into the dozens of pages. Overall, I do not believe I have made much headway in getting people to read, ponder about and pray over these things. Evidently, people either do not think that much can be known about the Revelation, they throw up their hands about all the alternative theories and crackpot ideas that so many people present today or they simply do not think these things are important for us to know. I believe we can, right now, know what this Book means. I believe we can know the truth of the Revelation and separate it from these lies and frauds. Finally, I believe we really need to understand the message of the warnings that are contained within it as they are critical for us today. He who will not learn history is destined to repeat it.

The Lord brought before me the assignment of writing a series of five page articles, as measured on a computer screen. These will probably fill about ten smartphone screens. Hopefully, each one in the series will entice the reader to click on the next link and to proceed to the next article. How are we to fill in this Revelation Crossword Puzzle? I am not a D.D. Theologian and I will not try to rewrite the works of Guinness and Elliott, but I did pass the CPA (Certified Public Accountant) exam and I have been considered, for more than twenty years, a power spreadsheet user; first of Lotus and now of Excel. These Theologians simply did not have my tools, so I have used my advantages and have prepared spreadsheets on the Apocalypse and on their works. So, here is my Revelation Spreadsheet Tool as it has been completed to date. Revelation Spreadsheet Analysis Tool. Much of the work is complete from Chapter 6 through Chapter 17.

Where will we go from here to understand these things? First, Guinness suggested that we should fill in the Divinely given information first. There is only one Divinely interpreted sign found in the Seals, Trumpets and Vials of Revelation. Do you know what it is? Then, fill in the events that are most clearly identified by the presentation of a preponderance of evidence regarding undeniable apocalyptic symbols with their Godly intended meanings. Then, fill in those events on the timeline that fit best for the remainder of the puzzle and try to sensibly make events on the outline of history fit within the chronological flow assumption.

Why should you attempt to fill out this Revelation Puzzle? I will attempt to tantalize you with a few things.

  • Church writers of the time of Constantine (312 AD) believed, with one accord, that the church had entered into the 1,000 year Millenial reign of Christ at that time. Christianity had been made the official religion of the Roman Empire. What could be wrong? Persecution was at an end! Incumbent with this belief was the idea that Satan would be sealed up for that 1,000 year period. Because of this error in interpretation, believers were wholly unprepared for the collapse of the Imperial Roman Empire in 476 AD and the raising up of the Bishop of Rome to primacy and preeminence, first at 533 AD and then 606 AD. These errors in interpretation led to a very slow realization that the Papacy was not, in fact, Christ ruling on the Earth, but anti-christ to the core. There is no record of any Christian writer who recognized the Papacy as anti-christ prior to 1,000 AD. Once another seven hundred years had passed, practically everyone outside of Roman Catholicism could see that truth and agreed with it. What we believe, if it is wrong, can blind us to the truth. They were kept in the dark for hundreds of years. Are you in the dark right now? Do you have the right mind set, or are you waiting for some charismatic anti-christ to come? Are you waiting on fools gold: a faux rapture, or are you armed with faith and knowledge that will produce patient endurance for whatever we are to experience? Are you waiting to become a vigilant believer until you see a rebuilt temple in Jerusalem? You may be waiting for something that will never come.

  • The forty year period of time preceding the French Revolution saw an outpouring of immorality, infidelity and atheism in that nation. Then, beginning in 1793, insanity prevailed, as millions were killed or made homeless, 24,000 Roman Catholic priests were killed, 40,000 church properties were confiscated, looted and re-appropriated for other uses. The scriptures had foretold this, as Isaac Newton had said around 1700, published in 1733, that such an outpouring of infidelity would precede the dissolution of the Papal Roman Empire. This came to pass, as he foresaw. Today, we have seen our world, and most especially our nation, endure a tsunami of filth, immorality, infidelity and atheism that has been at work for more than fifty years. Now, insanity has been unleashed among our politicians and our news media. Think not that history remains in the grave: that Roman Catholic harlot is referred to as the "Mother of harlots" (Revelation 17:5). Which of our churches today might qualify, because of their wickedness and immorality, to receive of the vials of wrath in the same manner as their mother harlot received?

  • Events of the last twenty five years have caused attention to be focused more and more on Islam. ISIS has been working for the last several years to re-establish the Islamic Caliphate. Historically, Turkey has always been involved as the leading party whenever Islam advances on the world stage. Now, Turkey and Japan are cooperating to bring Turkey into the nuclear club. Prophecy, as I was taught it through study bibles, television prophecy teachers and books, had mainly concerned itself with the expectation that Europe was going to form again as a re-united Roman Empire and would produce a charismatic anti-christ who would make treaties to rebuild the temple in Jerusalem. Over time, I have become convinced that we have been told to look for the wrong things, while the prophetically indicated things are beginning to happen and most are oblivious to the fact that we have been shown clearly that the Fifth trumpet of Revelation had to do with the rise of Mohammedan forces between 606 AD and 756 AD. The Sixth trumpet clearly had to do with two periods of just under 400 years of Turkish-Moslem military advances, terminating in 1699. The scriptures clearly point eventually to a weakening of this Turkish led empire, which dissolved in 1923, but the sixth vial contains such language that points to a re invigoration of this Turkish-Moslem power that is still shown to be future. We have not been taught any of this by almost all of our prophecy teachers of the last fifty years. We may very possibly be viewing the process of this re-invigoration.

    THE REVELATION PUZZLE-COMPLETED
    Let us take a quick look at the finished puzzle, with the links, that I am going to work very hard to prove. This is what I am going to be discussing in the succeeding six articles. How can you reach the point where you can see this as the truth that God intended to convey when He delivered this Revelation to John? Read on! You can use this as a sort of TABLE OF CONTENTS to all seven puzzle pieces. I will also fill in the remaining puzzle pieces here as E.B. Elliott determines them to have fallen out in the Horae Apocalypticae. You can follow these and read additional summarized commentary at the Revelation Spreadsheet Analysis Tool.

    Please remember that I have numbered these puzzle pieces by the strength of certainty with which I believe we have completely identified the historical event with the related scriptural signification:

    90AD--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2018AD--

    SEVEN SEALS
    Conquering Invasions By The Romans--------90AD-180AD-----
    That event represents-------------Seal 1
    Found in------------------------------Revelation 6

    Internal Roman Empire Violence--------185AD-192AD-----
    That event represents-------------Seal 2
    Found in------------------------------Revelation 6

    Corruption In Roman Trade/Scarcity--------248AD-265AD-----
    That event represents-------------Seal 3
    Found in------------------------------Revelation 6

    Death From Famine and Plague--------248AD-292AD-----
    That event represents-------------Seal 4
    Found in------------------------------Revelation 6

    9)DIOCLETIAN'S PERSECUTION--------303AD-312AD----
    That event represents-------------Seal 5
    Found in------------------------------Revelation 6 and Revelation Puzzle-Part 4

    8)GREAT EARTHQUAKE-CONSTANTINE-------312AD------
    That event represents-------------Seal 6
    Found in------------------------------Revelation 6 and Revelation Puzzle-Part 4

    Fall Of The Pagan Roman Empire--------395AD-476AD-----
    That event represents-------------Seal 7
    Found in------------------------------Revelation 8



    SEVEN TRUMPETS
    Gothic Invasions of Roman Empire--------395AD-410AD-----
    That event represents-------------Trumpet 1
    Found in------------------------------Revelation 8

    Gothic Invasions Under Vandal Genseric--------429AD-468AD-----
    That event represents-------------Trumpet 2
    Found in------------------------------Revelation 8

    Gothic Invasions-Atila The Hun--------433AD-446AD-----
    That event represents-------------Trumpet 3
    Found in------------------------------Revelation 8

    Gothic invasions: The period of Odoacer--------456AD-476AD-----
    That event represents-------------Trumpet 4
    Found in------------------------------Revelation 8

    1)RULE OF PAPACY-SUBJUGATION OF THE CLERGY---------593AD------------------------------------------------1793AD
    Found in---------------------Revelation 12, 13, 17 and Revelation Puzzle-Part 1 and Revelation Puzzle-Part 2 and Revelation Puzzle-Part 3 and Revelation Puzzle-Part 6

    5)TESTIMONY OF 2 WITNESSES--606AD---------------------------------------------------------1866AD
    Found in-----------------------------Revelation 11 and 15 and and Revelation Puzzle-Part 2 and Revelation Puzzle-Part 3

    2)MOHAMMEDAN RISE-------------612AD----762AD
    That event represents-------------Trumpet 5
    Found in------------------------------Revelation 9 and Revelation Puzzle-Part 2

    7)FOUR ANGELS BOUND AT EUPHRATES-------762AD---1057AD
    That event must happen before---------------------------------Trumpet 6
    Found in----------------------------------------------Revelation 9 and Revelation Puzzle-Part 3

    4)TURKISH WOE-----------------------------------------1057AD--1453AD
    That event represents---------------------------------Trumpet 6
    Found in--------------------------------------------------Revelation 9 and Revelation Puzzle-Part 2

    6)EVERLASTING GOSPEL PREACHED--------------------------------1560AD-------1790AD
    That event must happen before---------------------------------Trumpet 7
    Found in------------------------------------------------------------------Revelation 14 and Revelation Puzzle-Part 3

    5)TWO WITNESSES KILLED AND RAISED---------------------------------1685AD-1689AD
    That event represents--------------------------------------Last Biblical Event Before Trumpet7- Vial 1
    Found in----------------------------------------------------------------------Revelation 11, 15 and Revelation Puzzle-Part 2 and Revelation Puzzle-Part 3



    SEVEN VIALS
    3)FALL OF PAPACY-JUDGEMENT ON CLERGY/FALSE PROPHET-----------------------------------------------------------------1793AD----1866AD--FUTURE
    That event represents--------------------------------------------------Trumpet 7, Vial 1 thru Vial 5
    Found in-----------------------------------------------------------------------------Revelation 16, 17, 18 and Revelation Puzzle-Part 1 and Revelation Puzzle-Part 2 and Revelation Puzzle-Part 3 and Revelation Puzzle-Part 5 and Revelation Puzzle-Part 6

    Wrath Upon The Turkish/Moslem Power--------1810AD-1923AD-Future-----
    That event represents-------------Vial 6
    Found in------------------------------Revelation 16, 17, 18 and The 2,670 Day Prophecy Of Daniel

    Completion Of Wrath Upon All Papal/Turkish/Moslem Remnants--------Future-----
    That event represents-------------Vial 7
    Found in------------------------------Revelation 16, 17, 18 and





    EXAMPLE
    How to use THE REVELATION PUZZLE PIECES SERIES in conjunction with THE REVELATION SPREADSHEET ANALYSIS TOOL and with THE HORAE APOCALYPTICAE

    Step 1: Go to Prophetic Superpages and click on the link in the second column to the right to Revelation Puzzle-Part 1 and scroll down to the completed Revelation Puzzle. Keep both pages open in your browser.
    Step 2: Let us say you want to know more about the Great Earthquake in the Sixth Seal. Look down the Completed Revelation Puzzle until you get to the Sixth Seal, and click on the link to Revelation Puzzle-Part 4 to read the fourth article in this series. Keep this third page open in your browser as well.
    Step 3-Click on the link to open the Revelation Spreadsheet Analysis Tool that you can easily find on any of the Puzzle Pieces articles. Keep all four pages open in your browser and click on the link for Revelation 6 and scroll down to verse 12, where you will find the scripture relating to the Great Earthquake. Look to the right to see the Volume Number and Page Reference where you you will find this information in the Horae Apocalypticae.
    Step 4-Refer back to Prophetic Superpages that you should still have open in your browser and click on the link to the appropriate volume of the Horae Apocalypticae, found in the third column to the right, which in this case is Horae Apocalypticae, Volume 1, Fifth Edition. Scroll to page 235 to page 252 in the Horae Apocalypticae to perform in depth research on the Sixth Seal. Keep all five pages open in your browser to quickly move back and forth between the resources.



    Stephen L. Bening


    Please go to Revelation Puzzle-Part 1 to read the first article in this series.

    Please go to Revelation Puzzle-Part 2 to read the second article in this series.

    Please go to Revelation Puzzle-Part 3 to read the third article in this series.

    Please go to Revelation Puzzle-Part 4 to read the fourth article in this series.

    Please go to Revelation Puzzle-Part 5 to read the fifth article in this series.

    Please go to Revelation Puzzle-Part 6 to read the sixth article in this series.

    Please go to Revelation Puzzle-Part 7 to read the seventh article in this series.

    "Edward Bishop Elliott (1793-1875) All the major Reformers and all the major Reformation creeds and confessions adopted the historicist position — and it is this position that Elliott so skillfully defends. Included in Horae Apocalypticae you will also find a very useful historical survey of who held which positions concerning eschatology, much history on the Roman empire (and its interaction with Christianity), how the Reformation, Islam, etc. were prophesied in the Apocalypse, a world chronology according to the Hebrew Scriptures (which would make the Earth 6127 years old), patristic views of prophecy, the beast and his mark (666) revealed, and much more. The Papacy is also shown to be the apocalyptic antichrist, which was a standard position among the Reformers. Elliott also deals with Moses Stuart's Preterism. Horae Apocalypticae by E.B. Elliott

    Please review and use my Revelation Spreadsheet Analysis Tool. This series of Revelation Puzzle articles is meant to be used in conjunction with the Revelation Spreadsheet Analysis Tool. Here, you can SEE the dates of when these events took place, as well as reference sources in various writings. I hold the view that several of the vials are still pouring...something the Historicist writers could not have foreseen 110 to 160 years ago.

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