What is represented by “stinging tails like scorpions”?
(Revelation 8:2-11:18; Num. 10:8-10; Eze. 10:2-7; Dan. 12:6-7; Zech. 13:8-9) Blog Feb. 10-16, 2019
REVIEW: Jesus is revealed in the book of Revelation as he works to recover his lost bride. The candlesticks symbolize the work of the Holy Spirit in the church. The table of showbread symbolizes the throne of God the Father from which God’s Word works to restore the bride to the Son. The altar of incense symbolizes Jesus ministering the prayers of his people as they bring earth’s inhabitants to God. These three articles of the Holy Place of the sanctuary depict parallel events during the Christian era, from Pentecost to Paradise. Finally in Revelation 11:19 the scene turns to the Most Holy Place where the marriage covenant will be made.
At Heaven’s Golden Altar (Revelation 8:2-5; 1:20; Num. 10:8-10; Acts 2:1-4)
1. Who are the seven angels mentioned in Revelation 8:2? And what should this tell us?
2. Where is the golden altar of Revelation 8:3 located? and what should this tell us?
3. What means of recovering the lost bride of Christ is emphasized in the seven trumpets?
4. What is symbolized by Jesus, the “angel” at the altar, casting fire from heaven’s altar to the earth?
The First Four Trumpets (Rev. 8:6-13; Num. 5:11-31; Deut.4:11-13, 19; Isa. 28:17; Zech. 13:8-9; Mark 11:23-24)
5. To what does the fraction “one third” refer?
6. What do hail, fire, and blood symbolize under the first trumpet?
7. To what does “a burning mountain” and being “turned to blood” refer under the second trumpet?
8. Why is Jesus bringing wormwood under the third trumpet to the reproductive organs of his church when corruption was entering after Constantine declared himself a Christian?
9. What is meant by the darkening of the sun, moon, and stars under the fourth trumpet?
The Fifth and Sixth Trumpets (Rev. 9:1-21; 2 Chron. 7:13-14; Isa. 9:15; Joel 2:1-11; Zech. 5:1-4; 13:8-9 )
10. If “smoke” symbolizes prayer what praying people tormented unbelievers while diverting Papal persecution away from God’s people?
11. Although Mohammedism darkened sun worship and Satan worship why could it not bring true conversion?
12. What is represented by “stinging tails like scorpions”?
13. Who are the four angels that were bound in the Euphrates River during 391 years and 15 days?
14. What is symbolized by the army of horsemen mentioned in Revelation 9:16?
15. As the result of 19th Century prayers by what means did God garner his “third” for salvation?
16. What additional proof that “one third” is God’s saved remnant is given at the end of Revelation 9?
The Little Book (Rev. 10:1-11; 11:1-14; Dan. 12:6-7; Zech. 4:1-11; )
17. What is contained in the little book that Jesus gives John to eat in Revelation 10?
18. After God’s people were disappointed concerning their ideas of time in Daniel where were they told to look for an explanation?
19. What other earthly event between the 6th and 7th trumpet interrupted Christ’s taking back his bride?
The Seventh Trumpet (Revelation 11:15-19; Dan. 7:13-14)
20. What passage in Daniel like Revelation 11:15 tells of Jesus legally receiving his bride?
21. What are we to learn from Revelation 11:18?
ANSWERS: 1. The definite article assures us that they were referred to before in /Revelation, therefore they must be the seven angels of the seven churches introduced in chapter one, which tells us that the seven trumpets they hold will correspond to the seven periods of church history covered by the candlesticks;2. In heaven’s Holy Place as distinct from the censer which can move from place to place, this indicating that the introduction to the seven trumpets points to their location in the same room as the candlesticks & table of showbread (God’s throne) & therefore will cover events from Pentecost to Paradise; 3. Prayer; 4. This symbolizes the day of Pentecost when God’s people received the Holy Spirit accompanied with voices, thunderings, lightnings, & an earthquake; 5. “One third” is a symbolic fraction referring to the portion of humanity that God will save according to Zechariah – it is the fraction of the heavenly host God lost to Satan & that he determines to replace; 6. “Hail” symbolizes the work of God’s Spirit in sweeping away lies, “fire” symbolizes the convicting work of the Holy Spirit, & “blood” to Christ’s blood which cleanses from all sin – these three came as the result of the prayers of the Apostolic church and brought God’s one third to him; 7. The Bible refers to only one “burning mountain” which was Sinai where God pronounced the words of his everlasting covenant which through the prayers of God’s people (see Mark eleven) was brought to humanity in the post-apostolic era, turning God’s “one third” to the blood of Christ for salvation; 8. Because that was what Numbers recommended for testing the faithfulness of a bride; 9. That through the prayers of God’s people at the time of the protestant Reformation God extinguished sun, church, & priest worship from his “third”; 10. The Mohammedan hordes led on by Satan, the star that fell from heaven; 11. Because it denied the deity of Jesus who is the only way to the Father & salvation; 12. The lying prophet that started the Islamic faith; 13. They are the three angels of Revelation fourteen who are joined by the angel of Revelation eighteen & had been bound by Babylon (the false church) until the fall of the Ottoman (Mohammedan) empire on the tenth of August in the year eighteen forty; 14. This is the Lord’s army referred to in Joel two & Zechariah five that have the Commandments of God that bring investigative judgment to every home; 15. The fire of Spirit-filled speech of God’s army, their prayers (smoke), & the covenant curses (brimstone) that fall on those who do not repent; 16. The “one third” are those that repented while the “two thirds” never repent, even at the time of God’s final investigative judgment; 17. The timing of God’s eternal covenant that is given in the book of Daniel that previously was sealed but is now opened; 18. To the heavenly sanctuary whose two part ministry would explain their disappointment; 19. The French Revolution & the worldwide rise of atheism that made fun of the Bible containing God’s two witnesses (the Old & New Testament [law & prophets]); 20. Daniel seven, verses thirteen & fourteen; 21. That upon receiving his kingdom (bride) from the Father the events listed here will rapidly take place in order – the winds of this earth are loosed for the sealing of God’s people is complete, so the nations become angry, God responds with the seven last plagues on the wicked, followed by the great white throne judgment of the impenitent & the giving of rewards to the faithful, culminating in the final destruction of the wicked at the end of the millennium.
