A TRUE WORD FROM THE AUTHOR, SERGEANT STEPHEN LC WALLACE, US ARMY, A DEVOUT, DEDICATED NATIVE BORN USA ENGLISH TRUE SLAVE & HUMBLE NATIVE BORN USA ENGLISH TRUE PROPHET-TEACHER OF THE TOP ENGLISH LORD YAHWEH HIMSELF ONLY!!! I MUST COMMEND A CERTAIN MENTOR IN MY ONGOING WALK WITH THE LORD THAT HAS GREATLY FURTHERED MY BIBLICAL STUDIES ON A NUMBER OF SUBJECTS, SUCH AS USA PROPHESY, ROMAN CATHOLIC TRUTH, MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE & MILITARY LAW TRUTH. THIS CHRISTIAN PRIEST IS NAMED & KNOWN AS LT ROGER SIMPSON, US ARMY, AT THE AMERICAN WAR LIBRARY AT WWW.AMERICANWARLIBRARY.COM. THANKS TO THE AMERICAN WAR LIBRARY & ITS STAFF, THEY HAVE INVESTIGATED MY COMBAT MILITARY CAREER IN SOUTH KOREA & HAVE GIVEN ME ALL MY AUTHORIZED CERTIFICATES ACCORDINGLY WITH A REASONABLE FEE! THE LT HAS ACCOMPLISHED GREAT FEATS & GREAT BOONS IN HIS LIFETIME WITH THE LORD, SUCH AS BEING A MEDICAL ASSISTANT, A ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST, A TOP AGENT IN LAW ENFORCEMENT & AN EXTRAORDINARY COMBAT VIETNAM VET THAT KILLED THE ENEMY WHILE SERVING HIS TOUR IN VIETNAM IN 1969. OVER A 15-YEAR TIME FRAME, THIS MAN HAS ENLIGHTENED ME WITH HIS SPIRIT, TO PRICK IN ME, A CERTAIN KIND OF TRUTHFUL INTELLIGENCE, TO DEAL WITH HARD TOPICS & TO ANSWER TRUTHFUL QUESTIONS. I APPRECIATE THE SUPPORT & WORK THAT HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED FOR THE LORD & HIS KINGDOM OF LORDSHIP! ALL PRAISE BELONGS TO THE LORD, FOR WITHOUT THE LORD, THESE ACCOMPLISHMENTS COULD NOT HAVE TRANSPIRED! AMEN! FOR THE RECORD, THAT I AM NOT LYING BEING FULL OF THE HOLY GHOST (JOHN 4:23-24), I BEAR WITNESS TO THE TRUTH: SOMETHING AWESOME HAPPENED YESTERDAY ON 3/29/17-3/30/17, A WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY AT ABOUT PRECISELY AT 3:00PM/3:00AM GLOBALLY. BISHOP MY NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE CAUGHT ON FIRE AND ITS A WONDER THAT THE LORD USED ME TO SAVE HIS LIFE AND MY BROTHER JOHN’S LIFE ALSO. WHAT HAPPENED, I WAS TRYING TO GET MY AUDIO WORKING ON MY COMPUTER, WHEN SUDDENLY I WAS TOLD TO GO TO BISHOPS HOUSE, SO I GOT UP AND SINCE I WAS ALREADY PLANNING TO GO TO HIS HOUSE LATER TO MAKE A PHONE CALL TO MY OTHER BROTHER, JAMES TO FIX THE AUDIO PROBLEM, I AUTOMATICALLY GOT UP AND WHEN I HAD OPENED THE DOOR I SAW BISHOPS HOUSE ON FIRE. SO I RAN VERY QUICKLY OVER THERE AND CALLED OUT FOR BISHOP, I KNOCKED ON THE DOOR REAL HARD AND TOLD HIM HIS HOUSE WAS ON FIRE. HE GOT SHOOK UP AND HURT HIMSELF COMING OUT OF THE HOUSE BY ABOUT TRIPPING ON THE STEPS. YET WE GOT THE FIRE EXTINGUISHER AND TRIED TO PUT IT OUT BUT WAS STILL BURNING. SO I TOLD HIM TO CUT THE POWER. HE DID AND EVENTUALLY THE FIRE WAS QUENCHED. BUT THE HEROIC MOMENT WAS THAT THE RECEPTACLE OUTSIDE HAD SHORTENED OUT PLUGGED IN AN OUTSIDE REFRIGERATOR AND THE FIRE WHEN I SAW IT WAS ABOUT 2 FEET IN DIAMETER. BUT THE IRONIC SITUATION WAS THAT IF THE LORD DID NOT TELL ME TO GO TO BISHOPS IMMEDIATELY, THE TWO OUT OF THREE BIG PROPANE TANKS FOR HIS GAS COOKING THAT WAS ONLY ABOUT 6 INCHES AWAY FROM THE FIRE WAS GOING TO BLOW AND MAY EVEN KILL BISHOP. BUT WE WERE RELUCTANT TO GET THE FIRE OUT BEFORE THAT HAPPENED. ALSO MY BROTHER JOHN, WHICH IS HIS LANDLORD IS ONLY ABOUT 10 FEET AWAY FROM THE LOCATION OF THE FIRE. IF THE PROPANE TANKS HAD BLOWN, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN DEVASTATING. I AM GLAD NOBODY GOT HURT AND I GIVE ALL THE PRAISE & GLORY TO THE LORD BECAUSE I COULD NOT HAVE DONE ANYTHING WITHOUT THE LORD. SHORTLY AFTER, MY OTHER BROTHER DAVID CAME TO THE SCENE SINCE HE SAW ME RUNNING TO BISHOPS HOUSE TO FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED. IRONICALLY, YET IN ALL THIS, I CURRENTLY WAS ON MY 911TH (456TH) BOOK THAT I WAS WRITING ABOUT THE LORD, WHEN ALL THIS HAD HAPPENED AND THE LORD GAVE ME A 911 CALL TO SAVE A LIFE IN ACTS 7:59-60. IT FEELS GOOD THAT THE LORD HAD GIVEN ME THE AUTHORITY TO SAVE 1 LIFE AND POSSIBLY 2. I PRAISE THE LORD!!! LET ME TELL YOU OF A LITTLE HISTORY ABOUT THE LORD I SERVE & MY LIFE-THREATENING EXPERIENCES THAT I ENDURED & TO KNOW HIM & TO BE SAVED BY HIM. TO THIS DAY THE LORD HAS SAVED MY LIFE AT LEAST THREE TIMES ON THE ROAD IN MY CAR THAT I AM AWARE OF. SINCE THEN I HAVE BEEN SAVED BY MY LORD AT LEAST THREE TIMES IN MY HOUSE, 2 TIMES AT THE OLD PLACE ON THE LAND & 1 TIME IN MY NEW HOUSE ON THE LAND THAT I AM AWARE OF SINCE I AM ENDURING AN INCURABLE MENTAL DISEASE FROM MY MILITARY LAW POLICE CAREER (UNOFFICIAL, WHICH MEANS OFF THE RECORD), WHICH I ARRESTED CORPORALS, SERGEANTS & LIEUTENANTS ALIKE & BROUGHT THEM TO THE TOP ENGLISH JUDGE, THE LORD YAHWEH HIMSELF & MY MILITARY LAW COMBAT SERVICE IN SOUTH KOREA, NOW FOR 30+ YEARS ONGOING. THIS LAND ENCOMPASSES ABOUT 200 ACRES WITH 15 HOUSES THAT MY FATHER CLAIMS OWNERSHIP BY A LEGAL DOCUMENT (LEGALISM WITHOUT THE LORD), BUT THE TOP ENGLISH LORD YAHWEH HIMSELF IS THE ONLY TRUE SUPREME OWNER & THE PORK SKIN BUSINESS THAT MY FATHER HAD SOLD TO SOME OTHER MAN AFTER 43 YEARS IN THE MAKING. BUT THAT IS ANOTHER STORY IN A NUTSHELL. BUT THAT IS WHY WITHOUT A SHADOW OF A DOUBT, MY LORD IS GENUINE, HE IS THE GREAT GOD YAHWEH! I AM GLAD TO SERVE HIM. THE PROBLEM IS THAT LIKE MOST ETERNAL CREATURES, THEIR LORD IS NOT GENUINE BECAUSE IF HE WAS IN REAL DANGEROUS SITUATIONS, THEIR LORD WOULD HAVE WARNED THEM & SAVED THEM, BUT HE DID NOT WITH BISHOP, SO MY LORD USED ME IN THIS FASHION TO SAVE BISHOPS LIFE. THIS MEANS THAT NO SEXUAL JESUS CHRIST TO THOSE WHO HOLD THIS FALSE DOCTRINE WILL PROTECT OR SAVE YOU AT ANY TIME. IT HAS COME TO MY ATTENTION, IF YOU HAVE TO CHOOSE BETWEEN THE TOP LORD JESUS CHRIST & HIS COMMANDS OR THE TOP LORD YAHWEH HIMSELF & HIS COMMANDS, YOU, DAMN WELL BETTER CHOOSE THE TOP LORD YAHWEH HIMSELF, BECAUSE YOU CANNOT SERVE 2 MASTERS!!! IF ETERNAL CREATURES WHO ARE LOYAL & VERY DEDICATED IN WORSHIPPING THEIR LORD JESUS CHRIST, WOULD THEN, CHOOSE TO WORSHIP THE TOP ENGLISH LORD YAHWEH HIMSELF IN 2ND CORINTHIANS 11:12, JUST AS MUCH, THE ENTIRE WORLD WOULD BE A LOT BETTER & HAVE THE TOP ENGLISH LORD’S ETERNAL BLESSINGS! BUT NOW SINCE THE 2,000 YEAR REIGN HAS ENDED & FULFILLED FROM 18AD TO 2018AD. THE REASONING FOR THIS DATE IS BASED ON THE LIFE OF CHRIST FROM 4BC TO 1996AD, BUT BASED ON THE LIFE OF CHRIST DOES NOT END THIS, BUT BASED ON HIS FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD’S LIFE FOR 20 YEARS + 1996AD MORE WOULD PUT ITS AT 2016AD & ITS 2 YEARS END AT 2018AD. THERE, IS NO OTHER LORD OR CHOICE BUT TO WORSHIP THE TOP ENGLISH LORD YAHWEH HIMSELF!!! MOST ETERNALLY REFUSES TO SERVE THE TOP ENGLISH LORD, BECAUSE OF SOME ETERNAL IGNORANCE, BUT MOST BECAUSE IT WOULD TAKE TO ETERNALLY DIE TO SELF & START OVER AS A LITTLE BABE WHO WOULD HAVE NO INTELLIGENCE & ENDURE FOR 23 YEARS PAST THAT TO REACH THE ETERNAL BENEFITS OF FINISHING THE FIRST 46 YEAR KINGDOM & ALSO BECAUSE YOU ARE A BABE, THEN YOU WOULD HAVE TO FORSAKE ALL THINGS, EVEN YOUR CREATION TO BIRTH TO LIFE, FAMILY, FRIENDS, RELATIVES & NEIGHBORS, BECAUSE WHILE YOU ACHIEVED THESE THINGS, YOU WERE NOT CREATED 100.0001% TOP ENGLISH REALMS IN ACTS 30, SO YOU WOULD HAVE TO BE BORN OF GOD FOR MANY YEARS TO OPERATE IN THE ENGLISH REALMS, BUT ALL THESE DUMBASS MOTHERFUCKERS (2 PETER 2:16 & REVELATION 17:1-18:24) & SANCTIMONIOUS HYPOCRITICAL ASSHOLES (2 PETER 2:16) WANT TO BE INFERIOR NON-ENGLISH IN THEIR REALMS, SO STAY INFERIOR, GODDAMN IT! OF COURSE, YOU CAN BE A DAMN FOOL & PROFESS TO KNOW THE TOP ENGLISH LORD, BUT YOU ARE LYING & ONLY WORSHIPING THE 2 TOP DEVILS---LORD LUCIFER, SATAN & THE GREAT DEVIL OR THE LADY VICTORIA, BABYLON & THE GREAT WITCH OR THE FALSE SEXUAL JESUS CHRISTS, FOR THERE ARE MANY FALSE CHRIST’S OR ALLAH, BUDDHA OR EVEN THE FALSE JEHOVAH IN THE JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES OR MAYBE KING SOLOMON’S ETERNAL BULLSHIT, SUCH AS MOLECH OR MOLOCH & THERE ARE OTHER SO-CALLED LORDS, BUT I NOW WILL NOT ELABORATE ON IN 2ND THESSALONIANS 2:1-12; 1ST JOHN 1:8, 10 & 2ND CORINTHIANS 11:13-15! MATTER OF FACT, THE LORD JESUS CHRIST DID NOTHING, THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD STRENGTHENED HIS SON JESUS CHRIST & THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD IS THE PRIMARY SOURCE & DIRECT SOURCE OF ACCOMPLISHING ALL THINGS, RIGHT BEFORE & RIGHT AFTER THE LORD JESUS CHRIST’S MINISTERIAL CALLING AT 30 YEARS OF AGE IN MATTHEW 3:13-17; 4:1-17; 6:1-34; MARK 1:9-11, 12-13; 3:33-35; JOHN 1:14-18; 4:21-24; LUKE 3:21-22; 4:1-13, 18-19; 11:1-4 & RIGHT BEFORE & RIGHT AFTER THE LORD JESUS CHRIST’S CROSS AT 33 YEARS OF AGE IN MATTHEW 24:3-44; 25:31-46; 28:1-20; MARK 13:3-37; 16:1-20; JOHN 17:1-26; 20:11-21:25; LUKE 21:7-38; 24:1-53 & ACTS 1:9-7:60. THE TOP LORD JESUS CHRIST [LADY MARY CHRIST] AS THE SON OF GOD [DAUGHTER OF GOD] & THE MAN OF GOD [WOMAN OF GOD] IS THE ETERNAL WEAKNESS OF HIS TOP FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD [TOP MOTHER STEPHANIE OUR LADY] IN NUMBERS 23:19; JOHN 1:14-18; 8:42, 58 & LUKE 1 & 2. THE TOP FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD [MOTHER STEPHANIE OUR LADY] KNOWN AS THE LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH [LADY STEPHANIE VICTORIA] AS THE SON OF GOD [DAUGHTER OF GOD] & THE MAN OF GOD [WOMAN OF GOD] IS THE ETERNAL WEAKNESS OF HIS TOP LORD YAHWEH HIMSELF [TOP LADY VICTORIA HERSELF] IN NUMBERS 23:19; PROVERBS 8:22-29; JOHN 8:58 & EPHESIANS 4:6! THIS IS THE MAIN MILE-STONE, YOU, MUST CHOOSE IN YOUR WALK WITH THE LORD. IF YOU CHOOSE THE TOP LORD JESUS CHRIST AS THE 1 & ONLY LORD, HE CAN ONLY ETERNALLY PREPARE YOUR WAY IN ETERNITY, BUT CANNOT GET YOU IN WITH ANY ETERNAL ACCESS IN ETERNITY, BUT IF YOUR CHOOSE THE TOP LORD YAHWEH HIMSELF, AS THE 1 & ONLY LORD, WHICH IS THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH, HE IS THE ONLY OMNIPRESENT LORD & IMMORTALITY ONLY BELONGS TO HIM, AMONG OTHER THINGS, SUCH AS HIS SUPREME AUTHORITY & HIS SUPREME LORDSHIP THAT HE MAY SHARE WITH HIS DEDICATED ELECT, WHICH HE IS THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN GIVE YOU ANY ETERNAL ACCESS INTO ETERNITY ONCE YOU LEAVE THIS PLACE DOWN HERE, WHETHER HELL OR HEAVEN, IF THIS PLEASES THE LORD. YES, THE TOP LORD JESUS CHRIST DID IN FACT FULFILL MOST OF THE LORD’S LAW, EXCEPT NONE OF THE ENGLISH LAWS IN ACTS 30 & IN DOING SO, THE TOP LORD JESUS CHRIST KNOWS A GREAT TRUTH ABOUT THE TOP LORD YAHWEH HIMSELF & WE, ALSO HAVE TO FULFILL THE LORD’S LAW IN ORDER TO TRUTHFULLY KNOW HIM ALSO, BUT THE TOP LORD JESUS CHRIST IN DOING SO IN THE LORD’S LAW, DOES NOT KNOW EVERYTHING IN THE TOP TRUTH, BUT THE TOP ENGLISH WHITE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD IS THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN ONLY KNOW THIS TOP TRUTH, WITH HIS TOP ENGLISH WHITE LORD YAHWEH HIMSELF, BECAUSE OF MATTHEW 24:36-44; MARK 13:32-37 THAT IS PROVEN IN THE TOP ENGLISH PERIMETER IN ACTS 30!!! YOU MUST CHOOSE YOUR ETERNAL ROADMAP, BUT YOU CAN ONLY SERVE 1 MASTER! SO, CHOOSE ETERNALLY & WISELY! FOR THE LORD DOES NOT TOLERATE DAMN FOOLS IN ROMANS 1:21-28, 32; 3:4-23!!! FOR EXAMPLE, THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IN THE ORIGINAL ONCE IN THE NUMBER 0 AT 00.0001% ETERNAL INCORRUPTION THE 1ST TIME COMMANDED THAT FIRE CAN ONLY BE USED TO SAVE MAN’S LIFE TO BE ETERNALLY ARRESTED & ETERNALLY STRUCK WITH ETERNAL BLINDNESS WITH ONLY 1 WARNING IN LUKE 9:46-56 & ACTS 13:4-12, BUT THE OPPOSING SIDE OF THE ORIGINAL ONCE IN THE NUMBER 0 AT 00.0001% ETERNAL CORRUPTION, THE 1ST TIME [EXCEPT ONCE AT 00.0001% ETERNAL INCORRUPTION] TO INFINITE TIMES [ALL THINGS FROM 00.0000% TO 100.0001%] COMMANDED TO DESTROY MAN’S LIFE TO BE ETERNALLY KILLED & ETERNALLY DAMNED WITH NO WARNINGS IN ACTS 5:1-11 BECAUSE OF ONGOING REBELLION [DEUTERONOMY 31:9-29] & ETERNAL DISOBEDIENCE [DEUTERONOMY 27:1-28:68] TO THE TOP ENGLISH LORD IN REVELATION 2:5, 10, 16, 23-24, 26-27; 3:3, 9, 15-17; 4:1-20:15 & DANIEL 8:8-14 BECAUSE IN THE OT WITH THE MAN OF GOD---ELIJAH & EVEN MORE TO THE TOP ENGLISH MAN OF GOD IN NUMBERS 23:19 & ACTS 30, THE TOP ENGLISH LORD YAHWEH AS THE ONLY TOP ENGLISH LAWGIVER [JAMES 4:12] TO SAVE OR DESTROY [EPHESIANS 4:6], PROTECT OR KILL [EXODUS 20:1-17], GIVE OR STEAL [JOB 1:21] & BLESS OR CURSE [MALACHI 3:8-12], FULL HEALTH OR DISEASE [DEUTERONOMY 27:1-28:68], JUSTIFY OR DAMN [ROMANS 13:1-2], THE WORLD NOR THE DEVIL IS NOT DOING THIS, BUT ONLY THE TOP ENGLISH LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH HIMSELF SINCE DEATH [HEBREWS 2:14-18; 10:26-31] S NOW UNDER THE TOP ENGLISH LORD’S SOVEREIGN CONTROL FOR 2,000 YEARS FROM 18AD TO 2018AD & IS IN FACT USED BY THE LORD IN HIS HOLY FIRE TO DESTROY MAN’S LIFE, 102 SOLDIERS TO BE EXACT & GO 1 MILE GO TWAIN IS 16 CAPTAINS WITH 800 SOLDIERS INITIALLY [MALE & FEMALE], WHICH THE 1ST LEVEL IS TO DESTROY 0 TO 800, 2ND LEVEL [DOWNTIME] IS TO DESTROY 800 TO 1600, 3RD LEVEL IS TO DESTROY 1600 TO 2400, 4TH LEVEL IS TO DESTROY 2400 TO 3200, 5TH LEVEL IS TO DESTROY 3200 TO 4000, 6TH LEVEL IS TO DESTROY 4000 TO 4800, 7TH LEVEL IS TO DESTROY 4800 TO 5600 8TH LEVEL IS TO DESTROY 5600 TO 6400 WHICH PROTECTS IN 1 PERIMETER WITH THE 16 CHRIST’S---JEHOVAH & VICTORIA, PETER & VICTORIA, JOHN & ELIZABETH, JESUS & MARY, JAMES & MARY, STEPHEN & STEPHANIE, STEPHEN & VICTORIA AND ENOCH & VICTORIA] WITH 1 REPENTING [1000%] & 1 RELENTING [1,000,000%] IN JUDE 14-15 IS 64,000,000,000 BILLION SOLDIERS & 2 POSITION MAKING PEACE INTO 1 POSITION IS 192,000,000,000 BILLION SOLDIERS, WHICH IS 24 BILLION TO EACH OF THE 8 CHRIST’S ONLY WITHIN THE ORIGINAL ONCE IN THE NUMBER 0 ONLY ONCE IN THE GLOBAL UNIVERSAL PERIMETER FROM PROVERBS 8:22-ACTS OF THE HOLY GHOST IN ACTS 29:26 WITH ACTS 29:1-2 IN THE USA TRIBULATION, BUT THE OPPOSING SIDE OF THE ORIGINAL ONCE IN THE NUMBER 0 TO THE INFINITE NUMBER IS ALWAYS INFINITE FIRE BECAUSE THE TOP ENGLISH LORD DWELLS IN THESE INFALLIBLE INERRANT NUMBERS IN THE TOP ENGLISH PERIMETER IN ACTS 30!!!], BUT REMEMBER THE LORD YAHWEH & HIS COMMAND WILL USE FIRE FOR HIS OWN PLANS, WORKS & PURPOSES, THAT ALWAYS ETERNALLY OVERRULES THE LORD JESUS CHRIST & HIS COMMANDS & AT CERTAIN TIMES SHALL USE FIRE, EVEN TO DESTROY MAN’S LIFE IF THEY CONTINUALLY DISOBEY THE LORD YAHWEH HIMSELF & HIS COMMANDS & THE SUCCESSFUL KEY IS THE TOTAL OBEDIENCE WITHOUT QUESTIONING [THE 16 LEVELS IS IN ACTS OF THE APOSTLES & ACTS OF THE HOLY GHOST IN ACTS 1:4-7; 6:7-8; 7:30-38; 8:1-3; 9:3-9; 22:6-21; 26:13-18; 29:1-2] TO THE LORD YAHWEH HIMSELF & WITH NO OTHER LORD, EVEN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IN 2ND KINGS 1:1-18 & LUKE 9:46-56. YOU MUST HAVE A CIRCLE OF FIRE OR A WALL OF FIRE AROUND YOU TO PROTECT YOU AT ALL TIMES!!! THE LORD LUCIFER’S/LADY VICTORIA’S DEVILS & DEMONS MUST BE DESTROYED BY THE LORD YAH’S FIRE, SOMETIME IN YOUR WALK WITH THE LORD IN ACTS 5:1-11, BUT IN THE SAME RESPECT, PROTECT & SAVE MAN’S LIFE BY THE SAME LORD YAH’S FIRE, BASED ON WHO THE LORD WANTS TO PROTECT OR DESTROY IN ACTS 13:4-12!!! THE CROSS OF JESUS CHRIST [THE SEXUAL BARABBAS CHRIST IN GENTILISM OR THE SEXUAL JESUS CHRIST IN JUDAISM] DID NOT PAY FOR ANY KIND OF INTERCOURSE BECAUSE THE JEWS TRIED TO STONE THE DIVINE JESUS CHRIST BUT FAILED IN JOHN 10:31-39. NOR DID THEY STONE BARABBAS. THIS MEANS THAT ANY KIND OF JESUS CHRIST IF DIVINE OR SEXUAL CANNOT SAVE YOU BY GRACE CONCERNING THE CROSS, BUT ON THE CONTRARY, ONLY THE STONING’S OF THE DIVINE JAMES CHRIST & THAT DIVINE STEPHEN CHRIST, WHO BOTH ARE NOT SEXUAL IN ANY WAY CAN SAVE YOU BY GRACE CONCERNING SEXUALITY, THAT ULTIMATELY TAKES CARE OF HOMOSEXUALITY & ABOMINABLE INTERRACIAL NATURES BEFORE IT COMES TO THAT. THIS IS BECAUSE OF HIS COMPANION MARY MAGDALENE AND BECAUSE OF ADAM AND EVE’S DATING RELATIONSHIP IN GENESIS 2:23 & THE GOSPEL OF PHILIP ON PAGE 90. JESUS KEPT THE DATING SEXLESS AND SINLESS IN HEBREWS 4:15. JESUS MAY HAVE KISSED MARY MAGDALENE ON THE CHEEK, BUT THIS ACTION DOES NOT MERIT THE STONING LAWS. IF JESUS HAD KISSED HER IN THE MOUTH OR ON THE LIPS THIS WOULD HAVE MERITED THE STONING LAWS, AND ESPECIALLY IF JESUS HAD TOUCHED HER DOWN STAIRS OR HAD INTERCOURSE WITH HER BY WHICH THE DIVINE JESUS CHRIST DID NOT BECAUSE HE WAS NOT STONED. JOHN THE BAPTIST DID NOT EITHER. IN THEORY, AS DID THE DIVINE JOHN THE BAPTIST WITH HIS COMPANION NAMED ELIZABETH & IN THE SAME TOKEN AS THE DIVINE JESUS CHRIST WITH MARY MAGDALENE WAS THE COMPLETE DATING RELATIONSHIP DONE TO HELP RESTORE ADAM & EVE IN THEIR DATING, BUT DID NOT REQUIRE ANYTHING IN THE STONING LAWS THAT REQUIRES HANDLING SEXUALITY, THAT TAKES CARE HOMOSEXUALITY & INTERRACIAL NATURES BEFORE IT COMES TO THAT. NONE OF THE CRUCIFIXION LAWS OR BEHEADING LAWS REQUIRES ANY OF THESE THINGS, BUT THE STONING LAWS DO & THE PERSECUTION LAWS DO NOT. THE STONING OF JAMES IN THE LORDSHIP OF THE LAW AT 63AD AND THE STONING OF STEPHEN BY THE ETERNAL SIN IN LORDSHIP ABOVE THE LORDSHIP OF THE LAW IN ACTS 7:60 DID PAY FOR ALL INTERCOURSES (DIVINE INTERCOURSE, LAW INTERCOURSE & SEXUAL INTERCOURSE) BASED ON THE STONING LAWS ONLY. THERE IS NO OTHER KINDS OF LAWS THAT PAYS FOR ANY TYPE OF INTERCOURSE OR KISSING IN THE MOUTH, LIKE THE STONING LAWS [THIS REFERS TO THE STONING LAWS, WHICH ONLY HANDLES THE PORNO TONGUE, THE PORNO LIP & THE PORNO MOUTH BECAUSE MONEY LOVE OR MONEY IN ITSELF IS THE ROOT OF ALL SEXUAL BULLSHIT IN MATTHEW 6:24; 1ST TIMOTHY 6:9-10 & LUKE 16:9, 11, 13, 15 & THE CRUCIFIXION LAWS ONLY CLEARED THE WAY FOR THE STONING LAWS & THAT IS THE ONLY REASON WHY JESUS CHRIST HAS NO GUILE & NO DECEIT IN HIS MOUTH & WITHOUT ANY SIN IN 1ST PETER 2:21-25 & HEBREWS 4:15 BECAUSE JESUS CHRIST ONLY HANDLED THE CROSS & LEFT THE STONING TO HIGHER BETTER LORDS IN 1ST JOHN 3:9 & ALSO WHEN JESUS BASICALLY BRUSHED OFF & SWEPT THE WOMAN CAUGHT IN ADULTERY IN THE VERY ACT UNDER ON THE TABLE & CARPET OR LEFT IT ON THE SHELF TO A GREATER TIME IS ONLY BECAUSE JESUS CHRIST WAS NOT CREATED OR CALLED TO HANDLE SEX INTERCOURSE IN THE VERY ACT, BUT THE STONING LAWS ARE THE ONLY ONES WHO HANDLES THIS SEXUAL EVIL BULLSHIT IN JOHN 8:1-11; 10:31-39 & ACTS 6:9-15; 7:59-60 & JESUS CHRIST IS NOT BETTER THAN THE LORDS WHO HANDLES HANDS ON WITH THE STONING LAWS, WHICH IN HEBREWS 1:1-14 IS FABRICATED INTO A DAMN LIE [1ST JOHN 1:8, 10] IF YOU SAY JESUS CHRIST IS BETTER THAN ALL THE ANGELS, WHICH IS NOT TRUE, BECAUSE JESUS CHRIST IS EXALTED BY THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD ONLY BECAUSE OF THE ANGEL LORDS IN THE CROSS FOR MAN ONLY & NOT THE ANGEL LORDS IN THE STONING, SUCH AS THE LORD JAMES FOR THE LAW IN THE ANCIENT MANUSCRIPT, THE LORD STEPHEN FOR THE LORDSHIP OF THE LAW IN ACTS OF THE APOSTLES IN ACTS 7:59-60, & THE LORD STEPHEN FOR THE LORDS IN ACTS OF THE HOLY GHOST IN ACTS 7:59-60, ALL ENDURED & ALL THE TRUE PROPHETS THAT WERE STONED TO DEATH IN THROUGHOUT THE HOLY BIBLE; THE ANCIENT MANUSCRIPT; PHILIPPIANS 2:5-11 & ACTS 6:9-15; 7:59-60 & IF YOU SAY THAT JESUS CHRIST HAS ALL AUTHORITY OVER ALL FLESH, YES ALL FLESH LINKED TO THE CROSS, BUT NEVER ALL FLESH IN THE 3 HIGHER STONINGS, WHICH THIS IS ALSO A FABRICATION INTO A DAMN LIE [1ST JOHN 1:8, 10], BECAUSE SEXUAL INTERCOURSE IS ONLY HANDLED IN ALL THE STONING’S & NEVER IN THE CROSSES IN JOHN 17:1-5]. NOW DIVINE INTERCOURSE & LAW INTERCOURSE WAS ONLY CREATED FOR PROCREATION TO REPLENISH THE EARTH WITH THE FIRST FRUITS TO THE FATHER STEPHEN & IT WAS CREATED TO HAVE PLEASURE IN THE PROCESS, BUT NOT TO HAVE JUST PLEASURE ALONE, WHICH ABUSES THE RIGHT TO HAVE CHILDREN TO THE FATHER STEPHEN. NOW SEXUAL INTERCOURSE WAS NEVER THE FATHER STEPHEN’S INITIAL INTENT, NOR WAS IT EVER AUTHORIZED OR CONDONED BECAUSE OF HIS DIVINE ATTRIBUTE OF IMPASSIBILITY IN ACTS 14:15. SEXUAL INTERCOURSE IS ALWAYS THE FALLEN STATE OF DISOBEDIENT CREATURES AGAINST THE FATHER STEPHEN & HIS SUPREME COMMANDS IN ROMANS 1:21-32; 3:4-23. ALSO ETERNAL CREATURES SAY EVERYONE IS SEXUAL, WHICH IS A DAMN LIE BECAUSE A LOT IS HOMOSEXUAL. ETERNAL CREATURES SAY EVERYONE IS HOMOSEXUAL, WHICH IS A DAMN LIE BECAUSE A LOT IS SEXUAL. ETERNAL CREATURES SAY EVERYONE IS INTERRACIAL, WHICH IS A DAMN LIE BECAUSE A LOT IS OF THE SAME RACE. BUT MOST ETERNAL CREATURES SAY EVERYONE IS NOT DIVINE, HOLY & SEPARATED, WHICH IS THE GREAT CONTRARY TRUTH, BUT NOT ON THE LORD’S SIDE BECAUSE THE LORD COMMANDS US TO BE TRULY HOLY & YOU CANNOT BE TRULY HOLY IF YOU ARE SEXUAL, HOMOSEXUAL OR INTERRACIAL IN NATURE. IF A ETERNAL CREATURE HAS TAKEN PART IN A ABOMINABLE ORGY & THAT ETERNAL CREATURE IS MALE THAT HAS DONE A HORRIFIC THING WITH 2 OR MORE FEMALES, THEN THAT MALE HAS TAKEN PART IN HOMOSEXUALITY & IS DEEMED AS A HOMOSEXUAL, EVEN THOUGH THAT MALE SWEARS THAT HE IS NOT A HOMOSEXUAL, WHICH IS A LIE. IF A ETERNAL CREATURE HAS TAKEN PART IN A ABOMINABLE ORGY & THAT ETERNAL CREATURE IS FEMALE THAT HAS DONE A HORRIFIC THING WITH 2 OR MORE MALES, THEN THAT FEMALE HAS TAKEN PART IN HOMOSEXUALITY & IS DEEMED AS A HOMOSEXUAL, EVEN THOUGH THAT FEMALE SWEARS THAT SHE IS NOT A HOMOSEXUAL, WHICH IS A LIE. IF A ETERNAL CREATURES HAS TAKEN PART IN A ABOMINABLE ORGY & THAT ETERNAL CREATURES IS A MIXTURE OF MALES & FEMALES THAT HAS DONE A HORRIFIC THING WITH 2 OR MORE MALES & FEMALES, THEN THAT MALE & FEMALE HAS TAKEN PART IN MALE & FEMALE HOMOSEXUALITY & ARE DEEMED AS A HOMOSEXUALS, EVEN THOUGH THE MALES & FEMALES SWEARS THAT THEY ARE NOT A HOMOSEXUALS, WHICH IS A LIE. THIS IS PROVEN IF YOU TAKE PART IN THIS SORT OF THING, YOU WILL BECOME THAT IN WHICH YOU HAVE REAPED & SOWED IN JOB 35:8; PROVERBS 13:6; 21:12; ECCLESIASTES 8:8; ISAIAH 47:10 & JEREMIAH 2:19; 8:6. THE TRUE WARNING AGAINST SEXUALITY, HOMOSEXUALITY & INTERRACIAL ABOMINABLE NATURES IS IN EZEKIEL 3:19; JAMES 1:21; LUKE 11:39 & ACTS 8:22. IF YOU ARE ALONE OR IN A MALE & FEMALE RELATIONSHIP AND SAYS THAT THIS SORT OF THING IS FUN, WHICH YOU APPROVE OF IT, YOU ARE A HOMOSEXUAL IN ROMANS 1:32. IF YOU ARE MALE & FEMALE, EVEN IN A MARRIAGE RELATIONSHIP & YOU APPROVE OF SEXUALITY BETWEEN A MAN & WOMAN THAT IS INTERRACIAL IN NATURE OR UNEQUALLY YOKED OR EQUALLY YOKED WITHOUT GOD, WHICH IS TECHNICALLY PORNEIA [PORN] & MARITAL FORNICATION, THEN YOU ARE DEEMED AS A HOMOSEXUAL IN TOBIT 4:12-13 & 1ST CORINTHIANS 6:16, 18. IN ALL THE 5 PRICES THAT WERE PAID, NONE OF THEM IN ACTUALITY SAVED THERE OWN LIVES, BUT WAS KILLED AND NOTHING WAS DONE IN ACTION BECAUSE ALL OF THEM WAS BOUND, ESPECIALLY IN THE CROSS, BUT ALSO IN THE UPSIDE DOWN CROSS, THE BEHEADING, AND THE 2 STONING’S. BUT THE TRUTHFUL INTELLIGENCE, THAT WAS ONLY AUTHORIZED DID SAVE ALL THE 5 LEVELS WITH VICTORY, TO GRACE, TO SALVATION, TO MERCY, AND ULTIMATELY THE LAST LEVEL IN STRENGTH, WISDOM & AUTHORITY TO SAVE ETERNAL CREATURES AT THE HIGHER THAN MOST HIGHEST LEVELS BASED ONLY IN TRUTHFUL INTELLIGENCE, BUT THIS ONLY CONSTITUTED SELF-HEROISM BY ALLOWING ONE SELF TO BE KILLED AND NOT SAVING THEIR OWN LIVES OR ANY OTHERS LIFE IN ACTION TO BE PRECISE. BUT THAT LEAVES ALL THOSE ETERNAL CREATURES WHO DOES HEROIC ACTIONS AT ANY LEVEL IN SAVING OTHER LIVES IS AT A HIGHER FASHION THAN THE 5 ACTUAL PRICES THAT WERE ACTUALLY PAID FOR IN TRUTHFUL INTELLIGENCE. THIS THEN STARTED IN THE RESURRECTIONS FROM THE DEAD, TO THE ASCENSIONS, TO THE THRONES, TO THE LORDSHIPS, TO THE CREATOR AGENTS FROM LUKE 24:1-ACTS 7:60 FOR THE LORD JESUS CHRIST & HIS KINGDOM & THE RESURRECTIONS FROM THE DEAD, TO THE ASCENSIONS, TO THE THRONES, TO THE LORDSHIPS, TO THE CREATOR AGENTS, TO THE POTTER CREATORSHIP, TO THE SUPREME CREATORSHIP FROM ACTS 8:1-29:26 FOR THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD & HIS KINGDOM. ALSO I SEE MY LORD WORKING IN ME ON BEHALF OF MY FAMILY BECAUSE A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO MY FATHER IN LAW HAD KILLED A MAN THAT WAS DRUNK ON THE ROAD. MY FATHER IN LAW WAS COMING FROM WORK EARLY IN THE MORNING & IT WAS DARK, AND THE MAN THAT HE ACCIDENTALLY KILLED IN MANSLAUGHTER HAD DARK CLOTHES ON AND WAS ABSOLUTELY DRUNK UNABLE TO SEE HIM. NOW LETS PUT THINGS TOGETHER, NORMALLY IF A MAN IS KILLED BY HOMICIDE OR ACCIDENTAL THAT LEAVES OPEN A FAMILY WHO HAD KILLED A LIFE BECAUSE IN THE BIBLICAL LAW, IF I KILL A MAN, ANOTHER MAN WILL KILL ME THAT IS THE STIPULATION OF LIFE FOR LIFE. NOW IF THE LORD JESUS CAME AND FULFILLED THE WHOLE LAW, SWORN BY MANY SCHOLARS, THEN WHY DOES THESE THINGS HAPPEN. TRUTHFULLY, THE LORD JESUS DID NOT FULFILL THE TOTAL ENTIRE LAW BECAUSE ALL THAT HE FULFILLED WAS FOR MAN AND MAN ONLY, AND TO LEAVE THE REST OF CREATION ALONE. THE LORD JESUS DID NOT COME TO SAVE ANY CHILD LIFE, WOMAN, BOYS OR GIRLS, ANGELS OR ANY LORDS OR LADIES. SO TO BE FULLY PROTECTED IN THIS ESTRANGED WORLD WE LIVE IN THERE MUST BE A GREATER TRUTH AS THE GREATEST TRUTH POSSIBLE PAST THE LORD JESUS & EVEN THE FATHER STEPHEN. THIS IS THE LORD YAHWEH, AND HIS NAME IS HOLY, AND IS THE LORD OF HOSTS, AND A MAN OF WAR PROVEN IN EXODUS 15:3 & MALACHI 3:8-12. ALSO JESUS CHRIST HAS BEEN FULFILLED CONCERNING THE CROSS IN WEAKNESS WITH STRENGTH SINCE JUNE 21ST, 2016AD. I GIVE THIS DATE BECAUSE THE CROSS HAPPENED IN 29AD AND IN WEAKNESS MINUS 3 YEARS BECAUSE THE LORD BARABBAS WAS KILLED & LOST, WHICH THE 2,000 YEAR REIGN WOULD BE FROM 26AD TO 2,026AD, BUT IN WEAKNESS WITH STRENGTH IT IS 16AD TO 2,016AD. THE CROSS DID NOT HAPPEN IN STRENGTH ABOVE WEAKNESS IN 2ND CORINTHIANS 12:1-13:10. HE IS ONLY KNOWN AS THE WORD OF GOD AND NOT JESUS CHRIST TODAY IN REVELATION 19:13. ALSO THERE WAS ONE OTHER TIME, THAT THE LORD USED ME IN HIS TRUTHFUL INTELLIGENCE WITH AN APPOINTED AUTHORITY. WHAT HAPPENED, WAS THAT THIS SAME BISHOP WAS DRUNK, AND ON THE LAND WE HAVE A POND. NOW BISHOP MADE IT HIS BUSINESS TO COME TO THE POND. ME AND SOME OTHERS WERE FISHING. ONE PERSON HAD ASKED ME TO GO TO THE STORE. SO THE LORD MOVED ON ME, AND I GAVE COMMAND TO WAYNE TO LOOK AFTER BISHOP WHO WAS DRUNK. COME TO FIND OUT, WHEN WE CAME BACK FROM THE STORE, BISHOP HAD LEFT TO GO BACK TO HIS DWELLING. WHILE THAT TRANSPIRED, I HAD FOUND OUT THAT BISHOP FELL OFF THE BRIDGE INTO THE WATER, DROWNING FOR HIS LIFE. WAYNE IS THE ONE I HAD LEFT IN COMMAND THROUGH THE LORD AND FOUND OUT THAT WAYNE HAD SAVED BISHOPS LIFE FROM DROWNING IN THE POND NEAR THE BRIDGE. YET WHEN THE LORD HAD ENTERED ME TO DO THIS HEROIC ACT WITH BISHOP, I WAS PLACED ON HIS 1ST HOLY MOUNTAIN IN ACTS OF THE HOLY GHOST, KIND OF LIKE, WHEN MOSES WHEN UP & DOWN ON THE MOUNTAIN [120 LEVELS FROM ACTS 1-120, 4 TIMES, 30 LEVELS EACH IN ACTS 1:15, ACTS 7:1-60], THE 1ST TIME AND BUT THEN DESCENDED AFTERWARDS. BUT ONCE THAT ACTUAL SITUATION WAS DEAL WITH, THE LORD DEPARTED, AND I ENDURED ABOUT A 12-HOUR PRICE WITH MY MILITARY COMBAT DISABILITY, JUST AFTER THE SCENE HAD TAKEN PLACE. BUT BISHOP WAS PLACED ON HIS 2ND HOLY MOUNTAIN IN ACTS OF THE APOSTLES, KIND OF LIKE, WHEN MOSES WHEN UP & DOWN ON THE MOUNTAIN [120 LEVELS FROM ACTS 1-120, 4 TIMES, 30 LEVELS EACH IN ACTS 1:15, ACTS 7:1-60], THE 2ND TIME AND BUT THEN DESCENDED AFTERWARDS. THAT’S THE PRICE OF GLORY! IN ALL THIS THE LORD HAD AUTHORIZED ME TO ACT ON SALVATION TO SAVE BISHOPS LIFE & MY OWN ALSO THAT ENCOMPASSED AT LEAST 16 DESCENTS WHICH ARE HEBREW, JEWISH, LATIN, GENTILE, GREEK, SPANISH, INDIAN, POLISH, IRISH, FRENCH, GERMAN, ROMAN, SICILIAN, ITALIAN, SCOTTISH & ENGLISH THAT CONCERNS BOTH ME THAT LAID DOWN MY LIFE & BISHOP THAT WAS SAVED BY GRACE. ALSO, THE ACT OF HEROISM HAD SAVED THREE HOUSES WITH TWO CARS WORTH AROUND $250,000.00 TOTAL IN THE PROCESS & AT LEAST 5 ANIMALS, 2 DOGS & 3 CATS. NOW I HAD SAID ALL THIS, TO MAKE A IMPARTIAL JUDGMENT ON THESE TWO UNIQUE SITUATIONS. THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD NORMALLY WILL NOT SAVE IN ACTION UNTIL IN ACTUALITY HE SAVES IN HIS TRUTHFUL INTELLIGENCE FIRST, LIKE WHAT HAPPENED ON THE OTHER SIDE OF ACTS 5:1-11. THE LORD PETER, HIS APPOINTED AUTHORITY AT THE TIME, WAS COMMANDED TO DO HIS TRUTHFUL INTELLIGENCE BY PUTTING HIS LIFE ON THE LINE & CULTIVATING IT IN ACTION. ONCE, THAT IS ACHIEVED, THEN THE FATHER STEPHEN HIMSELF WILL BRING IT IN ACTION. THE FATHER STEPHEN WILL NEVER BRING ANYTHING IN ACTION, UNTIL HE SAVES IN HIS TRUTHFUL INTELLIGENCE, THEN THE ACTION AFTERWARDS, WILL SAVE. I HAD A TEACHER IN THE MINISTRY THAT WAS TAKEN IN HER SLEEP BY GOD. HER SPIRIT LEFT HER AND SHE DID NOT WAKE UP. THE REASON FOR THIS IS DURING MY MINISTRY, SHE HAD RESISTED THE LORD IN ME ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS, BY HER FALSE DOCTRINES OF JESUS CHRIST DYING ON THE CROSS, WHICH IS NOT TRUE, BUT BARABBAS CHRIST DIED ON THE CROSS PROVEN IN LUKE 23:13-49. SHE HAD CANCER FOR A FEW YEARS & THE LORD REFUSED TO HEAL HER BECAUSE OF THIS 2,000 YEAR OLD FABRICATED FALSE DOCTRINE ABOUT A SEXUAL JESUS CHRIST. SHE WAS IN HER 60’S WHEN THIS HAPPENED. ALSO MY FATHER'S ENGINEER AT HIS BUSINESS ALSO HAD CANCER, AND THE SAME THING CAME UP ABOUT THIS FALSE DOCTRINE OF JESUS CHRIST. HE WAS NOT HEALED AND HE PASSED AWAY IN HIS SLEEP. BUT TWO WEEKS BEFORE HE OPPOSED THE LORD IN ME ABOUT HIS JESUS CHRIST & THE SAME THING HAPPENED, HE DID NOT WAKE UP OUT OF HIS SLEEP. HE WAS IN HIS 60’S WHEN THIS HAPPENED. ALL I CAN SAY IS ON OTHER SITUATIONS WITH ETERNAL CREATURES, I HAVE FOUND LESSER OR SIMILAR CIRCUMSTANCES BECAUSE THEY RESIST THE LORD IN ME BY DISPUTING, OR SIMPLY BY FALSE ACCUSATIONS. FOR EXAMPLE, A BLACK GIRL AT OFFICE DEPOT SEVERAL YEARS AGO, WANTED TO RUN HER MOUTH TO ME THAT OPPOSED THE LORD'S COMMAND. LATER ON I FOUND OUT WHAT HAPPENED, SHE GOT PREGNANT WITH SOME OTHER MAN BECAUSE SHE WOULD NOT LISTEN TO THE LORD'S REBUKE TO LIVE HOLY & NOT SEXUAL. SHE CHOSE TO REBEL & IT HAS COST HER DEARLY. SHE IS IN HER 20'S AT THE TIME & WAS ACTIVE IN AIR FORCE. I AM TELLING YOU THESE THINGS FOR YOUR BENEFIT, TO SHOW YOU ABOUT THE LORD I SERVE. I AM VERY SERIOUS ABOUT THIS, AND AT LEAST SOMEBODY ELSE WILL KNOW HOW MY LORD OPERATES. THE CROSS OF JESUS CHRIST [THE SEXUAL BARABBAS CHRIST IN GENTILISM OR THE SEXUAL JESUS CHRIST IN JUDAISM] DID NOT PAY FOR ANY KIND OF INTERCOURSE BECAUSE THE JEWS TRIED TO STONE THE DIVINE JESUS CHRIST BUT FAILED IN JOHN 10:31-39. NOR DID THEY STONE BARABBAS. THIS MEANS THAT ANY KIND OF JESUS CHRIST IF DIVINE OR SEXUAL CANNOT SAVE YOU BY GRACE CONCERNING THE CROSS, BUT ON THE CONTRARY, ONLY THE STONING’S OF THE DIVINE JAMES CHRIST & THAT DIVINE STEPHEN CHRIST, WHO BOTH ARE NOT SEXUAL IN ANY WAY CAN SAVE YOU BY GRACE CONCERNING SEXUALITY, THAT ULTIMATELY TAKES CARE OF HOMOSEXUALITY & ABOMINABLE INTERRACIAL NATURES BEFORE IT COMES TO THAT. THIS IS BECAUSE OF HIS COMPANION MARY MAGDALENE AND BECAUSE OF ADAM AND EVE’S DATING RELATIONSHIP IN GENESIS 2:23 & THE GOSPEL OF PHILIP ON PAGE 90. JESUS KEPT THE DATING SEXLESS AND SINLESS IN HEBREWS 4:15. JESUS MAY HAVE KISSED MARY MAGDALENE ON THE CHEEK, BUT THIS ACTION DOES NOT MERIT THE STONING LAWS. IF JESUS HAD KISSED HER IN THE MOUTH OR ON THE LIPS THIS WOULD HAVE MERITED THE STONING LAWS, AND ESPECIALLY IF JESUS HAD TOUCHED HER DOWN STAIRS OR HAD INTERCOURSE WITH HER BY WHICH THE DIVINE JESUS CHRIST DID NOT BECAUSE HE WAS NOT STONED. JOHN THE BAPTIST DID NOT EITHER. IN THEORY, AS DID THE DIVINE JOHN THE BAPTIST WITH HIS COMPANION NAMED ELIZABETH & IN THE SAME TOKEN AS THE DIVINE JESUS CHRIST WITH MARY MAGDALENE WAS THE COMPLETE DATING RELATIONSHIP DONE TO HELP RESTORE ADAM & EVE IN THEIR DATING, BUT DID NOT REQUIRE ANYTHING IN THE STONING LAWS THAT REQUIRES HANDLING SEXUALITY, THAT TAKES CARE HOMOSEXUALITY & INTERRACIAL NATURES BEFORE IT COMES TO THAT. NONE OF THE CRUCIFIXION LAWS OR BEHEADING LAWS REQUIRES ANY OF THESE THINGS, BUT THE STONING LAWS DO & THE PERSECUTION LAWS DO NOT. THE STONING OF JAMES IN THE LORDSHIP OF THE LAW AT 63AD AND THE STONING OF STEPHEN BY THE ETERNAL SIN IN LORDSHIP ABOVE THE LORDSHIP OF THE LAW IN ACTS 7:60 DID PAY FOR ALL INTERCOURSES (DIVINE INTERCOURSE, LAW INTERCOURSE & SEXUAL INTERCOURSE) BASED ON THE STONING LAWS ONLY. THERE IS NO OTHER KINDS OF LAWS THAT PAYS FOR ANY TYPE OF INTERCOURSE OR KISSING IN THE MOUTH, LIKE THE STONING LAWS. THE FATHER STEPHEN IN ALL OF THIS TOOK THE POSSIBILITY OF JESUS CHRIST, LIKE JEREMIAH OF HAVING HIS OWN FAMILY & CHILDREN & DID NOT EVEN HAVE A HIS OWN WIFE IN THIS TIME FRAME. PLUS THOSE ETERNAL CREATURES THAT IS BIG ON THEIR JESUS CHRIST, NEVER HAD TRUE HOLINESS BECAUSE THIS CAN ONLY BE ACHIEVED BY LIVING ALONE & JESUS CHRIST ONLY ENDURED THIS ON RECORD, IN THE WILDERNESS, TEMPTED OF THE DEVIL IN 40 DAYS & 40 NIGHTS. THE REST OF THE TIME JESUS CHRIST WAS NEAR SOMEONE AT ALL TIMES, WHICH MEANS JESUS CHRIST NEVER ACHIEVED A HIGH LEVEL OF HOLINESS IN LIVING ALONE. IN ALL THE 5 PRICES THAT WERE PAID, NONE OF THEM IN ACTUALITY SAVED THEIR OWN LIVES, BUT WAS KILLED AND NOTHING WAS DONE IN ACTION BECAUSE ALL OF THEM WAS BOUND, ESPECIALLY IN THE CROSS, BUT ALSO IN THE UPSIDE-DOWN CROSS, THE BEHEADING, AND THE 3 STONING’S. BUT THE TRUTHFUL INTELLIGENCE, THAT WAS ONLY AUTHORIZED DID SAVE ALL THE 5 LEVELS WITH VICTORY, TO GRACE, TO SALVATION, TO MERCY, AND ULTIMATELY THE LAST LEVEL IN STRENGTH, WISDOM & AUTHORITY TO SAVE ETERNAL CREATURES AT THE HIGHER THAN MOST-HIGHEST LEVELS BASED ONLY IN TRUTHFUL INTELLIGENCE, BUT THIS ONLY CONSTITUTED SELF-HEROISM BY ALLOWING ONE SELF TO BE KILLED AND NOT SAVING THEIR OWN LIVES OR ANY OTHERS LIFE IN ACTION TO BE PRECISE. BUT THAT LEAVES ALL THOSE ETERNAL CREATURES WHO DOES HEROIC ACTIONS AT ANY LEVEL IN SAVING OTHER LIVES IS AT A HIGHER FASHION THAN THE 5 ACTUAL PRICES THAT WERE ACTUALLY PAID FOR IN TRUTHFUL INTELLIGENCE. THIS THEN STARTED IN THE RESURRECTIONS FROM THE DEAD, TO THE ASCENSIONS, TO THE THRONES, TO THE LORDSHIPS, TO THE CREATOR AGENTS FROM LUKE 24:1-ACTS 7:60 FOR THE LORD JESUS CHRIST & HIS KINGDOM & THE RESURRECTIONS FROM THE DEAD, TO THE ASCENSIONS, TO THE THRONES, TO THE LORDSHIPS, TO THE CREATOR AGENTS, TO THE POTTER CREATORSHIP, TO THE SUPREME CREATORSHIP FROM ACTS 8:1-29:26 FOR THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD& HIS KINGDOM. ALSO I SEE MY LORD WORKING IN ME ON BEHALF OF MY FAMILY BECAUSE A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO MY FATHER IN LAW HAD KILLED A MAN THAT WAS DRUNK ON THE ROAD. MY FATHER IN LAW WAS COMING FROM WORK EARLY IN THE MORNING & IT WAS DARK, AND THE MAN THAT HE ACCIDENTALLY KILLED IN MANSLAUGHTER HAD DARK CLOTHES ON AND WAS ABSOLUTELY DRUNK UNABLE TO SEE HIM. NOW LETS PUT THINGS TOGETHER, NORMALLY IF A MAN IS KILLED BY HOMICIDE OR ACCIDENTAL THAT LEAVES OPEN A FAMILY WHO HAD KILLED A LIFE BECAUSE IN THE BIBLICAL LAW, IF I KILL A MAN, ANOTHER MAN WILL KILL ME THAT IS THE STIPULATION OF LIFE FOR LIFE. NOW IF THE LORD JESUS CAME AND FULFILLED THE WHOLE LAW, SWORN BY MANY SCHOLARS, THEN WHY DOES THESE THINGS HAPPEN. TRUTHFULLY, THE LORD JESUS DID NOT FULFILL THE TOTAL ENTIRE LAW BECAUSE ALL THAT HE FULFILLED WAS FOR MAN AND MAN ONLY, AND TO LEAVE THE REST OF CREATION ALONE. THE LORD JESUS DID NOT COME TO SAVE ANY CHILD LIFE, WOMAN, BOYS OR GIRLS, ANGELS OR ANY LORDS OR LADIES. SO TO BE FULLY PROTECTED IN THIS ESTRANGED WORLD WE LIVE IN THERE MUST BE A GREATER TRUTH AS THE GREATEST TRUTH POSSIBLE PAST THE LORD JESUS & EVEN THE FATHER STEPHEN. THIS IS THE LORD YAHWEH, AND HIS NAME IS HOLY, AND IS THE LORD OF HOSTS, AND A MAN OF WAR PROVEN IN EXODUS 15:3 & MALACHI 3:8-12. ALSO THERE WAS ONE OTHER TIME, THAT THE LORD USED ME IN HIS TRUTHFUL INTELLIGENCE WITH AN APPOINTED AUTHORITY. WHAT HAPPENED, WAS THAT THIS SAME BISHOP WAS DRUNK, AND ON THE LAND WE HAVE A POND. NOW BISHOP MADE IT HIS BUSINESS TO COME TO THE POND. ME AND SOME OTHERS WERE FISHING. ONE PERSON HAD ASKED ME TO GO TO THE STORE. SO THE LORD MOVED ON ME, AND I GAVE COMMAND TO WAYNE TO LOOK AFTER BISHOP WHO WAS DRUNK. COME TO FIND OUT, WHEN WE CAME BACK FROM THE STORE, BISHOP HAD LEFT TO GO BACK TO HIS DWELLING. WHILE THAT TRANSPIRED, I HAD FOUND OUT THAT BISHOP FELL OFF THE BRIDGE INTO THE WATER, DROWNING FOR HIS LIFE. WAYNE IS THE ONE I HAD LEFT IN COMMAND THROUGH THE LORD AND FOUND OUT THAT WAYNE HAD SAVED BISHOPS LIFE FROM DROWNING IN THE POND NEAR THE BRIDGE. NOW I HAD SAID ALL THIS, TO MAKE A IMPARTIAL JUDGMENT ON THESE TWO UNIQUE SITUATIONS. THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD NORMALLY WILL NOT SAVE IN ACTION UNTIL IN ACTUALITY HE SAVES IN HIS TRUTHFUL INTELLIGENCE FIRST, LIKE WHAT HAPPENED ON THE OTHER SIDE OF ACTS 5:1-11. THE LORD PETER, HIS APPOINTED AUTHORITY AT THE TIME, WAS COMMANDED TO DO HIS TRUTHFUL INTELLIGENCE BY PUTTING HIS LIFE ON THE LINE & CULTIVATING IT IN ACTION. ONCE, THAT IS ACHIEVED, THEN THE FATHER STEPHEN HIMSELF WILL BRING IT IN ACTION. THE FATHER STEPHEN WILL NEVER BRING ANYTHING IN ACTION, UNTIL HE SAVES IN HIS TRUTHFUL INTELLIGENCE, THEN THE ACTION AFTERWARDS, WILL SAVE. I HAD A TEACHER IN THE MINISTRY THAT WAS TAKEN IN HER SLEEP BY GOD. HER SPIRIT LEFT HER AND SHE DID NOT WAKE UP. THE REASON FOR THIS IS DURING MY MINISTRY, SHE HAD RESISTED THE LORD IN ME ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS, BY HER FALSE DOCTRINES OF JESUS CHRIST DYING ON THE CROSS, WHICH IS NOT TRUE, BUT BARABBAS CHRIST DIED ON THE CROSS PROVEN IN LUKE 23:13-49. SHE HAD CANCER FOR A FEW YEARS & THE LORD REFUSED TO HEAL HER BECAUSE OF THIS 2,000 YEAR OLD FABRICATED FALSE DOCTRINE ABOUT A SEXUAL JESUS CHRIST. SHE WAS IN HER 60’S WHEN THIS HAPPENED. ALSO MY FATHER'S ENGINEER AT HIS BUSINESS ALSO HAD CANCER, AND THE SAME THING CAME UP ABOUT THIS FALSE DOCTRINE OF JESUS CHRIST. HE WAS NOT HEALED AND HE PASSED AWAY IN HIS SLEEP. BUT TWO WEEKS BEFORE HE OPPOSED THE LORD IN ME ABOUT HIS JESUS CHRIST & THE SAME THING HAPPENED, HE DID NOT WAKE UP OUT OF HIS SLEEP. HE WAS IN HIS 60’S WHEN THIS HAPPENED. ALL I CAN SAY IS ON OTHER SITUATIONS WITH ETERNAL CREATURES, I HAVE FOUND LESSER OR SIMILAR CIRCUMSTANCES BECAUSE THEY RESIST THE LORD IN ME BY DISPUTING, OR SIMPLY BY FALSE ACCUSATIONS. FOR EXAMPLE, A BLACK GIRL AT OFFICE DEPOT SEVERAL YEARS AGO, WANTED TO RUN HER MOUTH TO ME THAT OPPOSED THE LORD'S COMMAND. LATER ON I FOUND OUT WHAT HAPPENED, SHE GOT PREGNANT WITH SOME OTHER MAN BECAUSE SHE WOULD NOT LISTEN TO THE LORD'S REBUKE TO LIVE HOLY & NOT SEXUAL. SHE CHOSE TO REBEL & IT HAS COST HER DEARLY. SHE IS IN HER 20'S AT THE TIME & WAS ACTIVE IN AIR FORCE. THIS IS AN ETERNAL WARNING & A ETERNAL REBUKE TO ALL THOSE ETERNAL CREATURES WHO HAVE VERY CLOSE PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH THEIR OWN FAMILY, OWN RELATIVES, OWN FRIENDS, OWN EMPLOYEES, EVEN THEIR OWN LOVERS, WHO MAKE IT THEIR BUSINESS TO NOT HAVE A VERY CLOSE PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE TOP ENGLISH LORD. THE FAMILY & RELATIVES OR ANYBODY THAT YOU PUT YOUR TRUST IN, WILL EVENTUALLY BETRAY YOU, REFUSE YOU, REJECT YOU OR EVEN KILL YOU IF YOU LET THEM GET CLOSE ENOUGH & ESPECIALLY TRY TO TEST YOUR FAITH IN YOU, IN A WAY CONTRARY TO WHAT THE TOP ENGLISH LORD & HIS TRUTH EXPECTS & COMMANDS FROM YOU. I HAD A FAMILY MEMBER TELL ME THAT FOOD & DRINKS SHOULD BE PLACED ON THE TOP LIST WHEN YOU GET PAID. BUT WHAT THIS PERSON DID NOT REALIZE IS THAT WHEN I TOLD THIS PERSON THAT I HAD BOUGHT A 65-INCH TV FOR $429.00, BECAUSE THIS TV WAS ON SALE. THIS PERSON TRIED TO RIDICULE ME BECAUSE I DID NOT PUT MY TRUST IN FOOD & DRINKS AS MY GOD, BUT I PUT MY TRUST IN THE LORD & HIS ETERNAL TRUTH AS MY FOOD & DRINK SUPPLY, BECAUSE ‘TO GET THE TRUTH OUT’ IT TAKES AN INTERNET CONNECTION (TO PUBLISH THE TRUTH AS THE LORD DESIRES), A TV (TO TYPE THE TRUTH IN MICROSOFT WORD AS THE LORD DESIRES) & A COMPUTER (TO COMPILE THE TRUTH AS THE LORD DESIRES), IN ORDER TO DO THE HIGH LEVEL OF TRUTH THAT IS ‘PAIN STAKENLY’ PLACED IN MY BOOKS, BY MY HOLY CALLING FROM THE LORD YAHWEH HIMSELF. BASICALLY, THIS PERSON GOT PISSED OFF BECAUSE I WAS REBUKING MY FAMILY & ALL OTHERS BECAUSE OF HAVING TEMPORAL TRUST IN FOOD & DRINKS & DENYING THE ETERNAL TRUTH IN THE PROCESS BY BUYING A TV. SO, WHEN I HAD CORRECTED THIS PERSON, THIS PERSON GOT HOSTILE TO ME. BUT I STILL REBUKED THIS PERSON & PUT MY TRUTH IN THE LORD & HIS ETERNAL TRUTH THROUGH MY UNFAILING FAITH IN THE LORD. THE HOLY BIBLE TELLS US THAT THE LORD’S ETERNAL TRUTH IS ABOVE ALL THINGS, WHICH IS NOT TEMPORAL IN NATURE, BUT ETERNAL. THE HOLY BIBLE, THEN CAN STAND FOR “BEST INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE LEAVING EARTH”, WHICH MEANS TO GET BACK TO HEAVEN’S ETERNITY IS NOT BY ANY CHOICE FROM YOU, YOU MUST PLEASE THE TOP ENGLISH LORD & ALWAYS OPERATE IN HIS ETERNAL TRUTH TO GAIN HIS 1 & ONLY ACCESS INTO HIS KINGDOM OF LORDSHIP. THIS IS AN ETERNAL WARNING & A ETERNAL REBUKE TO ALL THOSE ETERNAL CREATURES WHO HAVE VERY CLOSE PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH THEIR OWN FAMILY, OWN RELATIVES, OWN FRIENDS, OWN EMPLOYEES, EVEN THEIR OWN LOVERS, WHO MAKE IT THEIR BUSINESS TO NOT HAVE A VERY CLOSE PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE TOP ENGLISH LORD. THE FAMILY & RELATIVES OR ANYBODY THAT YOU PUT YOUR TRUST IN, WILL EVENTUALLY BETRAY YOU, REFUSE YOU, REJECT YOU OR EVEN KILL YOU IF YOU LET THEM GET CLOSE ENOUGH & ESPECIALLY TRY TO TEST YOUR FAITH IN YOU, IN WAY CONTRARY TO WHAT THE TOP ENGLISH LORD & HIS TRUTH EXPECTS & COMMANDS FROM YOU. ALSO, I HAD ON MANY OCCASSIONS FROM THE SAME PERSONS IN MY FAMILY & EVEN SO-CALLED MINISTERIAL COLLEAGUES IN THE MINISTRY, WHERE THEY RIDICULED ME FOR SMOKING A GREEN HERB. NO MATTER WHAT YOU SMOKE, EITHER IN TOBACCO (IF IT IS LEGAL), HEMP (IF IT IS LEGAL) OR CANNABIS (IF IT IS LEGAL), WHERE YOU RESIDE IN YOUR STATE, THE LORD & HIS ETERNAL TRUTH DOES NOT RESTRICT YOU IN ANYWAY FOR ANY MEDICAL PURPOSES IN HIS LAWS IN SMOKING GREEN HERBS, BUT DOES RESTRICT YOU FOR ANY RECREATIONAL PURPOSES IN HIS LAWS IN SMOKING GREEN HERBS. SMOKING IS NOT FOR FUN, ITS FOR THE GLORY OF THE LORD'S HEALING TOUCH, JUST AS SEX IS NOT FOR FUN, BUT SCREWING IS ONLY DONE TO MAKE BABIES IN ORDER TO GIVE THE FIRST FRUITS TO THE LORD WITH NO PLAY TIME! THE TOP ENGLISH LORD CREATED GREEN HERBS WITH 1 MISSION & 1 MISSION ALONE, TO HEAL OUR BODIES FROM DEVIL DRIVEN AILMENTS & INFIRMITIES. NOW I HAVE DONE AN EXTENSIVE RESEARCH ON MY INCURABLE DISEASE THAT INCURRED WHILE IN MILITARY COMBAT IN SOUTH KOREA. I HAVE FOUND THAT SMOKING GREEN HERBS CAN LESSEN THE NEGATIVE SYMPTOMS, WHAT MY MEDICINES FAILS TO DO, SO I HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO SMOKE GREEN HERBS FOR MEDICAL HEALING. THESE KIND OF ETERNAL CREATURES ARE NO INTELLIGENT DOCTORS & DO NOT RESPECT MY COMBAT SERVICE, BECAUSE THEY LOOK AT THE OUTSIDE & FAIL TO KNOW & UNDERSTAND THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH BY THE LORD WHY I HAVE CHOSEN TO SMOKE GREEN HERBS FOR HEALING FROM MY INCURABLE DISABILITY. ANY DOCTORS, WILL SUPPRESS THE TRUTH ABOUT SMOKING BECAUSE THEY ARE TRAINED IN BULLSHITTING THE WEAK MINDED ABOUT SMOKING BECAUSE OF POSSIBLE LAWSUITS TO THEIR MEDICAL PRACTICE. SO, THEIR WORDS USUALLY ARE NOT WORTH A DAMN IN MY BOOK. JUST BECAUSE THE CHURCH & THE MINISTRY PURPOSELY TEACHES AGAINST SMOKING GREEN HERBS, THIS APPROACH & FUTILE BELIEF DOES NOT SERVE JUSTICE TO EVERYONE BASED ON CERTAIN COMPLICATED CIRCUMSTANCES. THE HOLY BIBLE TELLS US THAT THE LORD’S ETERNAL TRUTH IS ABOVE ALL THINGS, WHICH IS NOT TEMPORAL IN NATURE, BUT ETERNAL. THE HOLY BIBLE, THEN CAN STAND FOR “BACK IN BOOK LEAVING EARTH”, WHICH MEANS TO GET BACK TO HEAVEN’S ETERNITY IS NOT BY ANY CHOICE FROM YOU, YOU MUST PLEASE THE TOP ENGLISH LORD & ALWAYS OPERATE IN HIS ETERNAL TRUTH TO GAIN HIS 1 & ONLY ACCESS INTO HIS KINGDOM OF LORDSHIP. I AM TELLING YOU THESE THINGS FOR YOUR BENEFIT, TO SHOW YOU ABOUT THE LORD I SERVE. I AM VERY SERIOUS ABOUT THIS, AND AT LEAST SOMEBODY ELSE WILL KNOW HOW MY LORD OPERATES. HOW DO YOU DISTINGUISH FROM MY GREAT LORD YAHWEH HIMSELF WITH ALL ETERNAL CREATURES? ALL ETERNAL CREATURES ARE LOCKED UP WITHIN THEIR OWN MAKEUPS, AND ARE SPATIAL AND NEVER OMNIPRESENT. THE LORD YAHWEH THAT I’M TALKING ABOUT IS THE ONE AND ONLY ONE WHO IS OMNIPRESENT & NOT SUBJECT TO HIS ETERNAL CREATURE, WHICH IS THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD IN JOHN 1:1-3, 14; 4:23-24 & HEBREWS 1:1-3. YET IN THE ULTIMATE END THE TOP ENGLISH FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD BECOMES THE TOP ENGLISH LORD YAHWEH HIMSELF IN HIS FORMER GLORY IN JOHN 8:58 & ACTS 7:60. THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD IS THE ALMIGHTY RULER: HE IS LORD OF LORDS, KING OF KINGS & GOD OF GODS IS IN DEUTERONOMY 10:17; PSALMS 136:3; DANIEL 2:47; 1ST TIMOTHY 6:15; REVELATION 19:16 & ACTS 1:4-7. HE IS LORD OF ALL THE EARTH & THE HEAVENS IS IN PSALMS 97:5; JOSHUA 3:11, 13; MICAH 4:13; ZECHARIAH 4:14 & ACTS 7:49-50; 17:24. THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE FATHER STEPHEN AS LORD: HE IS GREAT & POWERFUL IS IN PSALMS 147:5; NEHEMIAH 4:14; PSALMS 86:8 114:7-8; 135:5; ISAIAH 28:2; DANIEL 9:4 & ACTS 4:24; 5:5, 10. HE IS MAJESTIC & EXALTED IS IN ISAIAH 6;1; PSALMS 8:1, 9; 2ND THESSALONIANS 1:9 & ACTS 6:8. HE IS RIGHTEOUS IS IN PSALMS 97:5-6; DANIEL 9:7, 16 & ACTS 17:22-31. HE IS AGAPE LOVING & CARING IS IN PSALMS 62:12; 86:5, 15 & ACTS 6:1-8. HE IS MERCIFUL & FORGIVING IS IN PSALMS 86:3-5; 130:2-4; DANIEL 9:9; JAMES 3:8-12 & ACTS 6:14. THE FATHER STEPHEN, THE LORD YAHWEH, IS TRIUMPHANT OVER HIS ENEMIES IS IN PSALMS 2:4-5; 37:13; 78:65-66; 110:5-6 & ACTS 6:9, 11-14; 7:57-60. THE FATHER STEPHEN, THE LORD YAHWEH, DELIVERS HIS PEOPLE & CARES FOR THEM IS IN PSALMS 38:15, 22; 40:17; 54:4; 59:11; 68:19; 77:2; 90:1, 17 & ACTS 7:1-60. THE FATHER STEPHEN IS ADDRESSED AS LORD YAHWEH: AS A MARK OF RESPECT OR OBEDIENCE IS IN EXODUS 4:10, 13; 5:22; JOSHUA 5:14; JUDGES 6:15; LUKE 2:29 & ACTS 6:5, 8-9; 7:59; 8:2; 11:19; 22:20. IN PRAYER IS IN GENESIS 18:27, 30-32; EXODUS 34:9; JOSHUA 7:8; JUDGES 13:8; NEHEMIAH 1:11; PSALMS 30:8; DANIEL 9:4, 15, 19 & ACTS 6:4. THE FATHER STEPHEN IS GOD, THE LORD YAHWEH IS IN PSALMS 110:1; MATTHEW 22:41-45; MARK 12:35-37; JOHN 20:28; HEBREWS 1:13; LUKE 20:41-44 & ACTS 1:4-7; 2:34-36; 5:5, 10; 38-39; 6:5, 10; 7:55-56, 59-60. THE NAME OF GOD, THE LORD: THE LORD IS THE PERSONAL NAME OF GOD IS IN ISAIAH 42:8. THE LORD RENDERED IN THE HEBREW IS YAHWEH & THE LORD RENDERED IN THE GREEK IS STEPHEN. THE NAME’S MEANING IS IN EXODUS 3:14-15. I AM IN HEBREW CLOSELY RESEMBLES YAHWEH. I AM IN GREEK CLOSELY RESEMBLES STEPHEN IN JOHN 8:58. THE NAME IS REVEALED TO MOSES IS IN EXODUS 6:2-3. THE NAME IS GLORIOUS & AWESOME IS IN DEUTERONOMY 28:58-59; JOSHUA 7:9 & 1ST SAMUEL 12:22. THE NAME IS NOT TO BE MISUSED IS IN EXODUS 20:7; LEVITICUS 19:12; 24:11, 15-16 & DEUTERONOMY 5:11. GOD’S CHARACTER IS REVEALED BY HIS NAME THE LORD: HE IS UNIQUE IS IN EXODUS 8:10; DEUTERONOMY 4:35, 39; 1ST KINGS 8:60; ISAIAH 45:5, 18 & JOEL 2:27. HE IS ETERNAL IS IN GENESIS 21:33; PSALMS 9:7; 29:10; 102:12; 135:13 & ISAIAH 26:4. HE IS HOLY IS IN LEVITICUS 11:44; 1ST SAMUEL 2:2; PSALMS 30:4 & ISAIAH 43:15. HE IS POWERFUL IS IN EXODUS 15:6; JOSHUA 22:22; PSALMS 93:4 & JEREMIAH 10:6. HE IS MAJESTIC IS IN PSALMS 83:18; 93:1; 97:9; ISAIAH 2:10, 19, 21 & MICAH 5:4. HE IS COMPASSIONATE & GRACIOUS IS IN EXODUS 34:6-7 & PSALMS 103:8; 145:8-9. HE IS FAITHFUL & TRUE IS IN PSALMS 145:13 & REVELATION 19:11. HE IS UNCHANGEABLE OR IMMUTABLE IS IN PSALMS 33:11; 110:4 & MALACHI 3:6. HE IS ACTIVELY PRESENT IS IN DEUTERONOMY 31:6; JOSHUA 1:9; 1ST KINGS 8:57 & HAGGAI 1:13. GOD REVEALS THE RELEVANCE OF HIS NAME THE LORD BY HIS ACTIONS: IN CREATION IS IN JEREMIAH 33:2; ISAIAH 42:5; 43:15; 45:18 & ACTS 7:49-50. IN DELIVERANCE IS IN EXODUS 6:6; 12:51; 14:30; 16:6; LEVITICUS 26:13; PSALMS 81:10 & ACTS 7:35-36. IN ESTABLISHING A COVENANT IS IN EXODUS 6:7; 29:46; 2ND SAMUEL 7:24; 1ST CHRONICLES 17:22; JEREMIAH 14:9 & ACTS 6:5. IN THE JUDGMENT OF HIS ENEMIES IS IN EXODUS 7:5; 8:22-23; 12:12; 1ST SAMUEL 17:45-47 & 2ND CHRONICLES 14:11-13. IN THE RESTORATION IS IN PSALMS 102:15-22; EZEKIEL 36:36; 37:6, 13-14 & ISAIAH 60:15-22. GOD, THE LORD DENOTES GOD’S LORDSHIP: SOVEREIGN LORD IS IN GENESIS 15:2, 8; DEUTERONOMY 3:24; JOSHUA 7:7; JUDGES 6:22; 2ND SAMUEL 7:18-29; PSALMS 73:28; ISAIAH 61:1; JEREMIAH 1:6 & AMOS 1:8. LORD ALMIGHTY IS IN 1ST SAMUEL 1:3; 1ST CHRONICLES 11:9; PSALMS 24:10; 46:7, 11; 69:6; ISAIAH 1:24; 2:12; 3:15; 19:4; JEREMIAH 2:19; 39:16; 46:10; 49:5; HAGGAI 2:6-9; AMOS 9:5; ZECHARIAH 1:3-4, 6 & MALACHI 1:14. AS THE LORD, GOD INTERACTS WITH HIS CREATURES: HE ENFORCES THE MORAL CODE IS IN LEVITICUS 11:44-45; 18:1-5; 19:2. HE MAKES THEM HOLY IS IN EXODUS 31:13; LEVITICUS 20:8; 21:8; 22:32 & EZEKIEL 20:12; 37:28. HE IS THE OBJECT OF HIS CREATURES WORSHIP IS IN EXODUS 4:22-23; 12:31; 23:25; 1ST CHRONICLES 16:29; PSALMS 29:2; 99:5; 100:2 & JONAH 1:9. STEPHEN CHRIST TAKES YAHWEH’S SUPREME NAME TO HIMSELF & MAKES HIS ABODE WITH YAHWEH & THEN BECOMES YAHWEH'S ETERNAL WEAKNESS (THE LORD BECOMING FLESH) AS STEPHEN YAHWEH HIMSELF IS IN JOHN 1:1-4, 14-18; 8:58. SGT STEPHEN LC WALLACE, RETIRED US ARMY, UNOFFICIAL MILITARY US ARMY CID POLICE OFFICER & US ARMY CEASE-FIRE SOUTH KOREA COMBAT WAR SOLDIER & US ARMY COMBAT WAR VETERAN 1982-2002   THE REVELATION OF THE TOP CROWN’S USA’S KINGDOM EMPIRE A CROWN: ΣΤΈΦΑΝΟΣ [STEPHANOS], GENERALLY USED OF A VICTOR’S GREEK CROWN [STEPHANOS] OR WREATH, BUT NOT ALWAYS. A WIDESPREAD, BUT ERRONEOUS TEACHING IS THAT THIS CROWN, BEING A STEPHANOS AND NOT A DIADEMA, A ROYAL ENGLISH CROWN [STEPHEN], THE NAME STEPHEN HAS 7 LETTERS FOR 7 LEVELS + 10 LEVELS FOR KETER, WHICH IS 17 LEVELS (UPTIME DOWNTIME IS 34 LEVELS), ENOUGH TO DEFEAT THE 2 TOP DRAGONS IN ETERNAL OPPOSITION---THE LADY VICTORIA, THE 17-HEADED GREAT SCARLET COLORED DRAGON & THE LORD LUCIFER, THE 17-HEADED GREAT RED COLORED DRAGON: ROYAL ENGLISH CROWN SYNONYMS: YAHWEH, CREATOR, MAKER, LORD, GOD, FATHER, KING, TOP LORDSHIP, MOST HIGHEST, TOP POSITION, TOP RANK, TOP NUMBER, TOP VALUE, TOP STATUS, TOP AUTHORITY, POWER, JURISDICTION, COMMAND, CONTROL, MASTERY, CHARGE, DOMINANCE, DOMINION, RULE, SOVEREIGNTY, ASCENDANCY, SUPREMACY, DOMINATION, INFLUENCE, SWAY, THE UPPER HAND, LEVERAGE, HOLD, GRIP, CLOUT, PULL, MUSCLE, TEETH, DRAG, OFFICIALS, OFFICIALDOM, THE PEOPLE IN CHARGE, THE GOVERNMENT, THE ADMINISTRATION, THE ESTABLISHMENT, THE BUREAUCRACY, THE SYSTEM, THE POLICE, THE POWERS THAT BE, IT IS WHAT IT IS, THE (MEN IN) SUITS, BIG BROTHER, TOPMOST, HIGHEST, TOP, POT, UPPERMOST, UPMOST, UPPER, FURTHEST UP, LOFTIEST, FOREMOST, LEADING, PRINCIPAL, PREEMINENT, GREATEST, FINEST, WORTHIEST, ELITE, CHIEF, MAIN, HIGHEST-RANKING, RULING, COMMANDING, POWERFUL, IMPORTANT, PROMINENT, EMINENT, NOTABLE, ILLUSTRIOUS, TOP-NOTCH, ABOVE, GREATER THAN, MORE THAN, HIGHER THAN, EXCEEDING, IN EXCESS OF, OVER, OVER AND ABOVE, BEYOND, SURPASSING, UPWARDS OF, OVERHEAD, ON/AT THE TOP, ON/AT A HIGHER PLACE, HIGH UP, ON HIGH, UP ABOVE, (UP) IN THE SKY, HIGH ABOVE ONE'S HEAD, ALOFT, (UP) IN THE HEAVENS, ACE, EXPERT, SOLDIER, DIGNITARY, FIGHTER, WARRIOR (REVELATION 19:11-16), PRIEST, CLERIC, MASTER, GENIUS, PALADIN (ACTS 5:1-11; 13:4-12), VIRTUOSO, MAESTRO, PROFESSIONAL, ADEPT, PAST MASTER, DOYEN, CHAMPION, STAR, WINNER, WUNDERKIND, PRO, SORCERER (ACTS 5:1-11; 13:4-12), WIZARD (ACTS 5:1-11; 13:4-12), WARLOCK (ACTS 5:1-11; 13:4-12), HOTSHOT, WHIZZ, WIZ, NINJA (REVELATION 3:3; 16:15), THIEF (REVELATION 3:3; 16:15), ROBBER (REVELATION 3:3; 16:15), DAB HAND, MAVEN, CRACKERJACK, EXCELLENT, VERY GOOD, FIRST-RATE, FIRST-CLASS, MARVELOUS, WONDERFUL, MAGNIFICENT, OUTSTANDING, SUPERLATIVE, FORMIDABLE, VIRTUOSO, MASTERLY, EXPERT, CHAMPION, FINE, CONSUMMATE, SKILLFUL, ADEPT, GREAT, TERRIFIC, TREMENDOUS, SUPERB, SMASHING, FANTASTIC, STELLAR, SENSATIONAL, FABULOUS, FAB, CRACK, HOTSHOT, A1, MEAN, DEMON (EXODUS 23:22), DEVIL (EXODUS 23:22), ENEMY (EXODUS 23:22), ADVERSARY (EXODUS 23:22), FOE (EXODUS 23:22), AWESOME, MAGIC, TIP-TOP, TOP-NOTCH, MIRACULOUS, BRILLIANT, BRILL, BADASS, CORONET, DIADEM, TIARA, CIRCLET, RING, ROUND, BAND, HOOP, HALO, DISK, ANNULUS, CHAPLET, FESTOON, LEI, CHAIN, LOOP, RING, CIRCLE, SWATHE, SWAG, STRAND, ROPE, NECKLACE, ROSARY, FILLET, WREATH, FLOWERS, LEAVES, STEMS, FLORENCE, GARLAND, WREATHE, SWATHE, HANG, LOOP, THREAD, DRAPE, COVER, ADORN, ORNAMENT, EMBELLISH, DECORATE, DECK, TRIM, DRESS, ARRAY, BEDECK, BESPANGLE, DO UP, DO OUT, GET UP, TRICK OUT, BEDIZEN, FURBELOW, CAPARISON, HEADBAND, CORONAL, TAJ, TOP, SUMMIT, PEAK, PINNACLE, CREST, CROWN, BROW, BRINK, RIDGE, HEAD, HIGHEST POINT/PART, MOUNTAINTOP, TIP, APEX, VERTEX, ACME, APOGEE, UPPER PART, UPPER SURFACE, UPPER LAYER, HIGH POINT, HEIGHT, PEAK, PINNACLE, ZENITH, ACME, CULMINATION, CLIMAX, CROWNING POINT, PRIME, MERIDIAN, SUCCESS, HIGHEST, TOPMOST, UPPERMOST, UPMOST, UPPER, FURTHEST UP, LOFTIEST, FOREMOST, LEADING, TOP-TIER, PRINCIPAL, PREEMINENT, GREATEST, FINEST, WORTHIEST, ELITE, A-LIST, TOP-NOTCH, CHIEF, MAIN, HIGH, HIGH-RANKING, OUT RANK, RULING, COMMANDING, MOST POWERFUL, MOST IMPORTANT, PROMINENT, EMINENT, CHIEFIEST, NOTABLE, ILLUSTRIOUS, PRIME, EXCELLENT, SUPERB, SUPERIOR, CHOICE, SELECT, QUALITY, TOP-QUALITY, TOP-GRADE, FIRST-RATE, FIRST-CLASS, TOP-CLASS, HIGH-GRADE, GRADE A, BEST, PREMIER, CHOICEST, SUPERLATIVE, UNSURPASSED, UNEXCELLED, UNPARALLELED, UNPASSIBLE, PEERLESS, SECOND TO NONE, TOP OF THE RANGE, TOP OF THE LINE, A1, ACE, CRACK, MAXIMUM, MAXIMAL, UTMOST, EXCEED, SURPASS, GO BEYOND, TRANSCEND, BETTER, BEST, BEAT, BEAT YOUR ASS,  DEFEAT, EXCEL, OUTSTRIP, OUTDO, OUTSHINE, ECLIPSE, SURMOUNT, IMPROVE ON, GO ONE BETTER THAN, CAP, TRUMP, TROUNCE, CREST, INSIGNIA, REGALIA, BADGE, EMBLEM, ENSIGN, DEVICE, HERALDIC DEVICE, COAT OF ARMS, ARMS, ARMORIAL BEARING, ESCUTCHEON, SHIELD, BEARING, CHARGE, HEAD, FOREHEAD, TEMPLE, FRONS, BROW, CAP, BRINK, HIGHEST POINT, ZENITH, ABOVE, TOR, HIGH GROUND, RISING GROUND, PROMINENCE, EMINENCE, ELEVATION, RISE, HILLOCK, MOUND, MOUNT, KNOLL, HUMMOCK, TUMP, FELL, PIKE, MESA, BANK, RIDGE, HOGBACK, SADDLEBACK, WHALEBACK, HEIGHTS, DOWNS, DOWNLAND, FOOTHILLS, DRUMLIN, INSELBERG, MONADNOCK, WOLD, DRUM, BRAE, BUTTE, KOPPIE, BERG, JEBEL, HOLT, RIDGE, MOUNTAIN, HILL, HEIGHT, ALP, AIGUILLE, SERAC, PUY, CRAG, TOR, INSELBERG, BLUFF, SCARP, ESCARPMENT, EMINENCE, PROMINENCE, ELEVATION, RANGE, MASSIF, SIERRA, CORDILLERA, BEN, MUNRO, BERG, JEBEL, MOUNT, APOGEE, CLIMAX, AIGUILLE, SERAC, RANGE, MASSIF, SIERRA, CORDILLERA, BEN, MUNRO, INVEST, SURMOUNT, OVERCOME, CONQUER, GET OVER, PREVAIL OVER, TRIUMPH OVER, GET THE BETTER OF, BEAT, VANQUISH, MASTER, CLEAR, CROSS, TRUMP, OVERTOP, INDUCT, INSTALL, INSTATE, ORDAIN, INITIATE (ENOCH), INAUGURATE, ENTHRONE, SWEAR IN, ROUND OFF, TOP OFF, CAP, BE THE CULMINATION OF, BE THE CLIMAX OF, BE A FITTING CLIMAX TO, ADD THE FINISHING TOUCH(ES) TO, PERFECT, CONSUMMATE, COMPLETE, CONCLUDE), INDICATES THAT THE RIDER CAN BE OTHER TRUE CHRISTS, SUCH AS JEHOVAH, PETER, JOHN, JESUS, JAMES, STEPHEN (APOSTLE) & STEPHEN (NON-APOSTLE), YAHWEH, ENOCH FOR THE REST OF CREATION, BESIDES JUST ONE TRUE CHRIST, JESUS FOR MAN & MAN ONLY. 16 NOT SO, FOR CHRIST IS ALSO FOUND WEARING SUCH A CROWN (MTT. MAT. 27:29; MARK MARK 15:17; JOHN JOHN 19:2, JOHN 19:5; HEB. HEB. 2:9). EVIDENCE THAT THIS RIDER IS OTHER THAN CHRIST MUST BE DERIVED FROM OTHER FACTORS (SEE ABOVE). THIS MEANS WITH THE VICTOR’S GREEK CROWN THROUGHOUT THE HOLY SCRIPTURE, HOLY APOCRYPHA & ALL ANCIENT MANUSCRIPTS, WE ARE IN THE TOP GREEK LORD’S GREEK RACES, IN THE TOP GREEK LORD’S GREEK GAMES, IN THE TOP GREEK LORD’S GREEK WARS (GREEK BATTLES & GREEK FIGHTS) & IN THE TOP GREEK LORD’S GREEK FEASTS IN SUPREME LORDSHIP OF THE LAW IN SUPREME AUTHORITY (ROMANS 13:1-2) ONLY FROM PROVERBS 8:22-ACTS 29:26!!! FOR ANYONE WHO ETERNALLY RUNS LAWFULLY & ETERNALLY WINS LAWFULLY & ETERNALLY BEATS LAWFULLY & ETERNALLY TAKES LAWFULLY AGAINST AN ONGOING GREEK OPPONENT (S) IN THE GREEK RACES, GREEK GAMES, GREEK WARS (GREEK BATTLES OR GREEK FIGHTS) OR GREEK FEASTS, SHALL RECEIVE THE VICTOR’S GREEK CROWN (S) IN REVELATION 2:10; 3:11! BUT WITH THE ROYAL ENGLISH CROWN, WE ARE ABOVE THE TOP GREEK LORD’S GREEK RACES, ABOVE THE TOP GREEK LORD’S GREEK GAMES, ABOVE THE TOP GREEK LORD’S GREEK WARS (GREEK BATTLES & GREEK FIGHTS) & ABOVE THE TOP GREEK LORD’S GREEK FEASTS, AND ABOVE THE SUPREME LORDSHIP OF THE LAW IN SUPREME ENGLISH AUTHORITY (ROMANS 13:1-2) ETERNALLY OPERATING IN SUPREME ENGLISH LORDSHIP (MATTHEW 24:36-44; MARK 13:32-37; EPHESIANS 4:6 & ACTS 31) THAT DOES NOT NEED TO ETERNALLY RUN ANYMORE, FOR ALL THESE TOP ENGLISH LORDS HAVE ALREADY ETERNALLY WON ALL THE GREEK RACES, ALL THE GREEK GAMES, ALL THE GREEK WARS (GREEK BATTLES & GREEK FIGHTS), ALL THE GREEK FEASTS & ALL THE SUPREME AUTHORITY FROM 1 SECOND TO ETERNITY BECAUSE IN REVELATION 20:12 TO ETERNALLY ATTAIN THE VICTOR'S GREEK CROWN WOULD TAKE 10 DAYS (ACTS OF THE APOSTLES IN ACTS 7:1-60 TO ACTS OF THE HOLY GHOST IN ACTS 7:1-60) IN REVELATION 2:10, WHICH IS 10 HOURS IN MATTHEW 20:12 & GLOBALLY IS 5 HOURS, PLUS 24 HOURS INTO 2 HOURS & 12 HOURS INTO 1 HOUR WOULD BE 2 MINUTES & GO 1 MILE GO TWAIN (8) SINCE THE ROYAL ENGLISH CROWN IS STRONGER THAN THE VICTOR’S GREEK CROWN, WHICH IS 16 SECONDS & DAY & NIGHT IS 8 SECONDS & 2 POSITION INTO 1 IS ROUGHLY 3 SECONDS IN PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE, WHICH IS ULTIMATELY JUST 1 SECOND IN ACTS 31!!! NO ONE CAN ETERNALLY RUN, ETERNALLY WIN, ETERNALLY BEAT OR ETERNALLY TAKE ANY OF THE ROYAL ENGLISH CROWNS FROM ANY OF THE TOP ENGLISH LORDS! BUT NOWHERE IS THE MOST-HIGHEST LORD JESUS CALLED A TOP MILITARY GENERAL, BUT THE MOST-HIGHEST LORD JESUS IS CALLED A TOP MILITARY CAPTAIN (TOP MILITARY COMMANDER) OF THEIR SALVATION IN HEBREWS 2:10 OR THE EQUAL SAME ETERNAL MILITARY LAW RANK THAT LASTS FOREVER ENDLESSLY AS THE MOST-HIGHEST LORD JESUS (APOSTLE) IS CALLED A TOP HIGH PRIEST (TOP HIGH CHIEF OF POLICE IN THE CITY & TOP HIGH SHERIFF IN THE COUNTY) OF THEIR PROFESSION IN HEBREWS 3:1; 4:14; 6:20! THIS MEANS IN MILITARY ARMED FORCES LAW OPERATIONS, THE MOST-HIGHEST LORD JESUS (APOSTLE) AS THE TOP MILITARY CAPTAIN HAS ETERNAL SUBORDINATES LASTING FOREVER ENDLESSLY, SUCH AS THE MOST-HIGHEST LORD CHURCH (APOSTLES) AS THE TOP MILITARY LAW PRIVATE TO TOP MILITARY LAW PRIVATE FIRST CLASS & THE MOST-HIGHEST LORD JEHOVAH (APOSTLE) AS THE TOP MILITARY LAW SPECIALIST/CORPORAL, THE MOST-HIGHEST LORD PETER (APOSTLE) AS THE TOP MILITARY LAW SPECIALIST/SERGEANT & THE MOST-HIGHEST LORD JOHN (APOSTLE) AS THE TOP MILITARY LAW 1ST/2ND LIEUTENANT, AS WELL AS ETERNAL SUPERIORS LASTING FOREVER ENDLESSLY, SUCH AS THE MOST-HIGHEST LORD JAMES (APOSTLE) AS THE TOP MILITARY LAW MAJOR OR THE TOP MILITARY LAW COLONEL & THE MOST-HIGHEST LORD STEPHEN (APOSTLE) AS THE TOP MILITARY LAW GENERAL & THE TOP LORD ENOCH (NON-APOSTLE) AS THE TOP MILITARY LAW GENERAL & THE TOPMOST LORD STEPHEN (NON-APOSTLE) AS THE TOP MILITARY LAW GENERAL EQUAL SAME ETERNAL MILITARY LAW RANK THAT LASTS FOREVER ENDLESSLY TO THE TOPMOST LORD YAHWEH (NON-APOSTLE) AS THE TOP MILITARY LAW GENERAL IN THE TOP MILITARY LAW WARS, TOP MILITARY LAW BATTLES & THE TOP MILITARY LAW FIGHTS IN THE MILITARY LAW ARMED FORCES AGAINST ALL THE TOP OPPOSING FOREIGN MILITARY LAW ARMED FORCES OF EVIL IN 1 TIMOTHY 6:9-10! THERE IS ONLY 2 TOP LORDLY DESCENTS (THE CROWN PEOPLE) THAT THE CROWN ONLY IN THE MALE SENSE REFERS TO LORD AS AN ETERNAL CREATURE (GOD BECOMING FLESH) OR MORTAL LORD, WHICH IS THE FIRST DESCENT & FIRST OF ALL IN GREEK, THE GREEK STEPHEN YAHWEH (GREEK STEPHANIE VICTORIA), THE TOP GREEK LORD WITH THE TOP VICTOR’S GREEK CROWN IN ACTS 6:1-8:3; 11:18; 22:20 & IN ACTS 7:30-38, THE GREEK STEPHEN YAHWEH ACCURATELY PROPHESIES & INFALLIBLY INERRANTLY CONFIRMS THAT ONE LORD WOULD COME AFTER HIM, WHICH IS THE SECOND DESCENT & LAST OF ALL (SECOND TO NONE) IN ENGLISH, THE ENGLISH STEPHEN YAHWEH (ENGLISH STEPHANIE VICTORIA), THE TOP ENGLISH LORD WITH THE TOP-MOST ROYAL ENGLISH CROWN IN ACTS 29:1-2/ACTS 30! NOW AS FAR AS THIS GOES, THERE ARE ABSOLUTELY NO OTHER DESCENTS LINKED TO THE CROWN REFERRING TO LORD AS AN ETERNAL CREATURE (GOD BECOMING FLESH) OR MORTAL LORD IN ALL OF ETERNITY TO ETERNITY’S! NO CROWN, NOT IN HEBREW, JEWISH, INDIAN, LATIN, GENTILE, AFRICAN, SPANISH, ROMAN, SICILIAN, ITALIAN OR ALL OTHER CELTIC DECENTS UNDER THE TERM “DRUID” THAT ARE NOT READILY IDENTIFIABLE IN SCRIPTURE IN ACTS 29!!! BUT YOU SAY THE CROWN OF GLORY & HONOR, NO, JESUS CHRIST WAS CROWNED A LITTLE LOWER THAN THE ANGEL LORDS, BUT IN NO WISE WAS JESUS CHRIST THE CROWN IN HEBREWS 2 & YOU SAY THE CROWN OF THORNS, NO, JESUS CHRIST WAS CROWNED, BUT IN NO WISE WAS JESUS CHRIST THE CROWN IN LUKE 23 & YOU SAY CHRIST ON A WHITE HORSE, NO, JESUS CHRIST WAS CROWNED WITH MANY CROWNS AS KING OF KINGS & LORD OF LORDS, BUT IN NO WISE WAS JESUS CHRIST THE CROWN IN REVELATION 19! NO, JESUS CHRIST IN THE FULLNESS OF ALL THE HOLY SCRIPTURES, THE HOLY APOCRYPHA & ALL THE ANCIENT MANUSCRIPTS, IS NEVER THE CROWN, YET YOU SAY JESUS CHRIST PROCEEDS & COMES FORTH FROM THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD (PART OF THE CROWN) IN JOHN 8:42, 58, BUT REMEMBER THIS POSITION IS INFERIOR & IN A FORMER GLORY TO THE TOP ENGLISH LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH HIMSELF! BUT STEPHEN YAHWEH IS IN FACT THE CROWN IN THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH (EXODUS 3:14), THE WRITTEN WORD (JOHN 1:1-3), THE AUTHORITATIVE WORD (ROMANS 13:1-2), THE INSPIRED WORD (2ND TIMOTHY 3:16), THE ETERNAL WORD (HEBREWS 1:1-3), THE SUPREME AUTHORITY (ROMANS 13:1-2), THE SUPREME LORDSHIP OF THE SUPREME LAW AUTHORITY (MATTHEW 24:36-44) & THE SUPREME LORDSHIP (MARK 13:32-37)! IN THE KINGDOM OF THIS WORLD (SUPREME MONEY IN PROVERBS 8:30-ACTS OF THE HOLY GHOST IN ACTS 29:1-2/ACTS 30), MOST OF THE TIME, WATER NEEDS TO BE SHED (BREAK THE WINESKINS ONLY ONCE) IN ORDER FOR IT TO BE PURGED COMPLETELY! IN THE KINGDOM OF THE SUPREME LORDSHIP (SUPREME LORDSHIP IN MATTHEW 24:36-44 & 2 CORINTHIANS 12:1-6) OF THE LAW (SUPREME AUTHORITY IN ROMANS 13:1-2; 2 CORINTHIANS 13:1 & ACTS OF THE HOLY GHOST IN ACTS 29:1-2/ACTS 30), MOST OF THE TIME, BLOOD NEEDS TO BE SHED (BREAK THE WINESKINS ONLY ONCE) IN ORDER FOR IT TO BE PURGED COMPLETELY! IN THE KINGDOM OF SUPREME LORDSHIP (SUPREME LORDSHIP IN MARK 13:32-37 & ACTS 31), MOST OF THE TIME, SPIRIT NEEDS TO BE SHED (BREAK THE COMMAND ONLY ONCE, BUT IN DOING SO YOU SHALL ETERNALLY DIE TO SELF) IN ORDER FOR IT TO BE PURGED COMPLETELY! BECAUSE GOD THE TOP ENGLISH LORD & THE TOP ROYAL ENGLISH CROWN IS IN ABSOLUTE TRUTH, THE ONE & ONLY TRUE TOP SUPREME CREATOR AND ALL ELSE IS CREATURE, HE ALONE MAY BE WORSHIPED. WORSHIP GOD! WHEN CORNELIUS MET PETER, HE FELL DOWN AND WORSHIPED HIM, BUT PETER STOOD HIM ON HIS FEET AND EXPLAINED THAT, LIKE CORNELIUS, HE WAS JUST A MAN LIKE CORNELIUS (ACTS ACTS 10:25-26). AFTER SEEING A MIRACULOUS HEALING BY PAUL, THE PEOPLE OF LYSTRA ATTEMPTED TO SACRIFICE TO BARNABAS AND PAUL. PAUL EXPLAINED THAT HE AND BARNABAS WERE ALSO MEN OF THE SAME NATURE (ACTS ACTS 14:10-15). THE FIRST OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS WRITTEN BY THE FINGER OF GOD SPECIFIES THAT MEN “SHALL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME” (EX. EX. 20:3). THE SECOND COMMANDMENT PROHIBITS THE MAKING OF CARVED IMAGES NOR BOWING DOWN TO THEM. THIS INCLUDES ANY LIKENESS OF SOMETHING IN HEAVEN, ON THE EARTH, IN THE SEA, OR UNDER THE EARTH (EX. EX. 20:4). THEREFORE, THE WORSHIP OF ANGELS IS PROHIBITED, UNLESS OTHERWISE SUPREMELY AUTHORIZED BY THE TOP ENGLISH LORD IN ACTS 7:42-43! WHEN SATAN TEMPTED JESUS TO WORSHIP HIM, JESUS REPLIED, “AWAY WITH YOU, SATAN! FOR IT IS WRITTEN, ‘YOU SHALL WORSHIP THE LORD YOUR GOD, AND HIM ONLY YOU SHALL SERVE’” (MTT. MAT. 4:10). "I AM THE LORD THY GOD" (KJV, ALSO "I AM [STEPHEN] YAHWEH YOUR GOD" NJB, WEB, HEBREW: אָֽנֹכִ֖י֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֑֔יךָ‎ ’ĀNŌḴÎ STEPHEN YAHWEH ’ĔLŌHEḴĀ) IS THE OPENING PHRASE OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, WHICH ARE WIDELY UNDERSTOOD AS MORAL IMPERATIVES BY ANCIENT LEGAL HISTORIANS AND JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN BIBLICAL SCHOLARS. THE TEXT OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ACCORDING TO THE BOOK OF EXODUS BEGINS: I AM [STEPHEN] YAHWEH YOUR GOD, WHO BROUGHT YOU UP OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT, OUT OF THE HOUSE OF BONDAGE. YOU SHALL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME. YOU SHALL NOT MAKE FOR YOURSELVES AN IDOL, NOR ANY IMAGE OF ANYTHING THAT IS IN THE HEAVENS ABOVE, OR THAT IS IN THE EARTH BENEATH, OR THAT IS IN THE WATER UNDER THE EARTH: YOU SHALL NOT BOW YOURSELF DOWN TO THEM, NOR SERVE THEM, FOR I, [STEPHEN] YAHWEH YOUR GOD, AM A JEALOUS GOD, VISITING THE INIQUITY OF THE FATHERS ON THE CHILDREN, ON THE THIRD AND ON THE FOURTH GENERATION OF THOSE WHO HATE ME, AND SHOWING LOVING KINDNESS TO THOUSANDS OF THOSE WHO LOVE ME AND KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS. — EXODUS 20:2-6 (WEB). THE CONVENTIONAL "THE LORD" IN ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS RENDERS יהוה IN THE HEBREW TEXT (TRANSLITERATED "YHWH"), THE PROPER SUPREME PERSONAL NAME OF THE GOD OF ISRAEL, RECONSTRUCTED AS YAHWEH STEPHEN. THE CONVENTIONAL "THE LORD" IN ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS RENDERS ΣΤΈΦΑΝΟΣ IN THE GREEK TEXT (TRANSLITERATED "ΣΤΈΦΑΝΟΣ"), THE PROPER SUPREME PERSONAL NAME OF THE GOD OF THE USA, RECONSTRUCTED AS STEPHEN YAHWEH. THE TRANSLATION "GOD" RENDERS אֱלֹהִים (TRANSLITERATED "ELOHIM"), THE NORMAL BIBLICAL HEBREW WORD FOR "GOD, DEITY". THE NAME "STEPHEN" (AND ITS COMMON VARIANT "STEVEN") IS DERIVED FROM GREEK ΣΤΈΦΑΝΟΣ (STÉPHANOS), A FIRST NAME FROM THE GREEK WORD ΣΤΈΦΑΝΟΣ (STÉPHANOS), MEANING "THE LORD, MOST-HIGHEST, WREATH, CROWN" AND BY EXTENSION "MONEY, AWARD, PROMOTION, RAISE, REWARD, HONOR, RENOWN, FAME", FROM THE VERB ΣΤΈΦΕΙΝ (STÉPHEIN), "TO ENCIRCLE, TO WREATHE". WHAT IS THE NAME OF GOD? THE NAME OF GOD, AS REVEALED IN THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES, IS YHWH (THE CLOSEST ENGLISH EQUIVALENTS TO THE HEBREW LETTERS). ANCIENT HEBREW DID NOT HAVE VOWELS, SO THE EXACT PRONUNCIATION OF YHWH IS UNCERTAIN. THE VAST MAJORITY OF HEBREW AND CHRISTIAN SCHOLARS BELIEVE THE NAME TO BE YAHWEH, PRONOUNCED /ˈYÄ-WĀ/, WITH YEHOWAH, PRONOUNCED /YI-ˈHŌ-VƏ/, BEING THE SECOND MOST POPULAR POSSIBILITY. THERE ARE MOVEMENTS THAT STRONGLY EMPHASIZE USING GOD’S NAME (AND, OF COURSE, ONLY THE NAME OF GOD THAT THEY BELIEVE TO BE CORRECT). HOWEVER, THERE ARE NO BIBLICAL PROHIBITIONS AGAINST USING GOD’S NAME, NOR ARE THERE COMMANDS THAT WE MUST DO SO. ANYONE WHO SAYS THAT GOD MUST BE ADDRESSED ONLY BY HIS NAME, YHWH, IS SPEAKING WITHOUT BIBLICAL WARRANT. THROUGHOUT BOTH THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, GOD INSPIRED THE HUMAN AUTHORS OF SCRIPTURE TO REFER TO HIM USING GENERIC TERMS FOR “GOD” AND “LORD.” BEYOND YHWH, GOD CHOSE TO REVEAL HIMSELF USING MANY OTHER NAMES AND TITLES. SO, CLEARLY, USING GOD’S NAME IS NOT REQUIRED. YHWH IS AS CLOSE TO A PERSONAL NAME AS GOD HAS REVEALED TO US. THE DIVINE NAME WAS REVEALED TO MOSES AND WAS UNKNOWN BEFORE HIS TIME: “I APPEARED TO ABRAHAM, TO ISAAC AND TO JACOB AS GOD ALMIGHTY, BUT BY MY NAME THE LORD [YHWH] I DID NOT MAKE MYSELF FULLY KNOWN TO THEM” (EXODUS 6:3). THE NAME YHWH SEEMS TO REFER TO GOD’S SELF-EXISTENCE, BEING LINKED TO “I AM THAT I AM” IN EXODUS 3:14. GOD TOLD MOSES THAT “THIS IS MY NAME FOREVER, THE NAME YOU SHALL CALL ME FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION” (EXODUS 3:15; CF. EXODUS 15:3). ALL OTHER “NAMES” FOR GOD, SUCH AS EL SHADDAI, ARE PROBABLY TITLES, RATHER THAN PERSONAL NAMES, STRICTLY SPEAKING—ALTHOUGH IT IS QUITE PROPER TO ADDRESS GOD BY HIS TITLES. REFERENCES TO “THE NAME OF OUR GOD” (IN PSALM 44:20, FOR EXAMPLE), ARE OBLIQUE REFERENCES TO GOD’S PERSONAL NAME, YHWH. WHAT IS YHWH IN THE TETRAGRAMMATON? THE ANCIENT HEBREW LANGUAGE THAT THE OLD TESTAMENT WAS WRITTEN IN DID NOT HAVE VOWELS IN ITS ALPHABET. IN WRITTEN FORM, ANCIENT HEBREW WAS A CONSONANT-ONLY LANGUAGE. IN THE ORIGINAL HEBREW, THE LORD’S NAME TRANSLITERATES TO YHWH, SOMETIMES WRITTEN IN THE OLDER STYLE AS YHVH. THIS IS KNOWN AS THE TETRAGRAMMATON, MEANING “FOUR LETTERS”. BECAUSE OF THE LACK OF VOWELS, HOLY HOLY BIBLE SCHOLARS DEBATE HOW THE TETRAGRAMMATON YHWH WAS PRONOUNCED. THE TETRAGRAMMATON CONSISTS OF FOUR HEBREW LETTERS: YODH, HE, WAW, AND THEN HE REPEATED. SOME VERSIONS OF THE HOLY HOLY BIBLE TRANSLATE THE TETRAGRAMMATON AS “YAHWEH” OR “JEHOVAH”, MOST TRANSLATE IT AS “LORD”, ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, WHICH CAN MEAN STEPHEN. CONTRARY TO WHAT SOME TRUE SEXLESS CHRISTIANS BELIEVE, AND AT LEAST ONE CULT, JEHOVAH IS NOT THE DIVINE NAME REVEALED TO ISRAEL. THE NAME JEHOVAH IS A PRODUCT OF MIXING DIFFERENT WORDS & DIFFERENT ALPHABETS OF DIFFERENT LANGUAGES. DUE TO A FEAR OF ACCIDENTALLY TAKING THE LORD’S NAME IN VAIN IN LEVITICUS 24:16, THE JEWS BASICALLY QUIT SAYING IT OUT LOUD ALTOGETHER. INSTEAD, WHEN READING HOLY SCRIPTURE ALOUD, THE JEWS SUBSTITUTED THE TETRAGRAMMATON YHWH WITH THE WORD ADONAI (“LORD”). EVEN IN THE SEPTUAGINT, THE GREEK TRANSLATION OF THE OLD TESTAMENT, THE TRANSLATORS SUBSTITUTED KURIOS (“LORD”) FOR THE DIVINE NAME. EVENTUALLY, THE VOWELS FROM ADONAI (“LORD”) OR ELOHIM (“GOD”) FOUND THEIR WAY IN BETWEEN THE CONSONANTS OF YHWH, THUS FORMING YAHWEH. BUT THIS INTERPOLATION OF VOWELS DOES NOT MEAN THAT WAS HOW THE LORD’S NAME WAS ORIGINALLY PRONOUNCED. IN FACT, WE, AREN’T ENTIRELY SURE IF YHWH SHOULD HAVE TWO SYLLABLES OR THREE. ANY NUMBER OF VOWEL SOUNDS CAN BE INSERTED WITHIN YHWH, AND TRUE BIBLICAL SCHOLARS ARE AS UNCERTAIN OF THE REAL PRONUNCIATION AS TRUE CHRISTIAN SCHOLARS ARE. JEHOVAH IS ACTUALLY A MUCH LATER, PROBABLY 16TH-CENTURY VARIANT. THE WORD JEHOVAH COMES FROM A THREE-SYLLABLE VERSION OF YHWH, YEHOWEH. THE Y WAS REPLACED WITH A J, ALTHOUGH HEBREW DOES NOT EVEN HAVE A J SOUND AND THE W WITH A V, PLUS THE EXTRA VOWEL IN THE MIDDLE, RESULTING IN JEHOVAH. THESE VOWELS ARE THE ABBREVIATED FORMS OF THE IMPERFECT TENSE, THE PARTICIPIAL FORM, & THE PERFECT TENSE OF THE HEBREW BEING VERB (ENGLISH IS)—THUS THE MEANING OF JEHOVAH COULD BE UNDERSTOOD AS “HE WHO WILL BE, IS, AND HAS BEEN.” HOWEVER, WE, CAN ASK WHAT THE LORD HAS REVEALED ABOUT HIMSELF IN HIS TRUTH WORD & IN CREATION THAT “THE REVERENT REASON” CAN GRASP. WHEN MOSES WAS DIRECTED BY THE LORD TO GO TO THE EGYPTIAN PHARAOH & DEMAND THE RELEASE OF THE ISRAELITES, MOSES ASKED THE LORD, “BEHOLD, I AM GOING TO THE SONS OF ISRAEL, & I WILL SAY TO THEM, ‘THE GOD OF YOUR FATHERS HAS SENT ME TO YOU.’ NOW THEY MAY SAY TO ME, ‘WHAT IS HIS NAME?’ WHAT SHALL I SAY TO THEM?” IN EXODUS 3:13. THE ANSWER THE LORD GAVE MOSES IS SIMPLE, YET VERY REVEALING: “GOD SAID TO MOSES, ‘I AM WHO I AM’, AND HE SAID, ‘THUS YOU SHALL SAY TO THE SONS OF ISRAEL, “I AM HAS SENT ME TO YOU’” IN EXODUS 3:14. THE HEBREW TEXT IN VERSE 14 LITERALLY SAYS, “I BE THAT I BE”, WHICH EQUALS TO THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD IN “A-B.” A-B MEANS THE LORD [STEPHEN] IS USED AS OUR FATHER IN ISAIAH 63:16; 64:8. SO, WHAT IS THE LORD’S NAME, & WHAT DOES IT MEAN? THE MOST LIKELY CHOICE FOR HOW THE TETRAGRAMMATON WAS PRONOUNCED IS “YAH-WAY,” “YAH-WEH,” OR SOMETHING SIMILAR. THE NAME YAHWEH STEPHEN REFERS TO THE LORD’S SELF-EXISTENCE. YAHWEH STEPHEN IS LINKED TO HOW THE LORD DESCRIBED HIMSELF IN EXODUS 3:14, “GOD SAID TO MOSES, ‘I AM WHO I AM. THIS IS WHAT YOU ARE TO SAY TO THE ISRAELITES: ‘I AM HAS SENT ME TO YOU.’” THE LORD’S NAME IS A REFLECTION OF HIS BEING. THE LORD IS THE ONLY SELF-EXISTENT OR SELF-SUFFICIENT BEING. ONLY THE LORD HAS LIFE IN AND OF HIMSELF. THAT IS THE ESSENTIAL MEANING OF THE TETRAGRAMMATON, YHWH. ALSO THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD IS IN FULL CONTROL OF EVERY SITUATION BY THE HIS “NAME OF PETER [JACOB OR ISRAEL]” “NAME OF JOHN [SAUL OR ELIJAH]” “NAME OF JESUS [DAVID OR MOSES]”, “NAME OF JAMES [REHOBOAM OR MICHAEL]” OR THE FEMALE NAMES AS THE “NAME OF VICTORIA [RACHEL OR VICTORIA]”, “NAME OF ELIZABETH [LIZ] [LIZ] [LIZ] [LIZ] [AHONOAM OR VICTORIA]”, “NAME OF MARY [BATHSHEBA OR ZIPPORAH]”, “NAME OF MARY [ABIHAIL OR MICHAL]” WHICH IS ETERNALLY ESTABLISHED FROM THE NUMBER 1 TO INFINITE NUMBERS & ALL MEANS “STEPHEN [FEMALE SENSE IS STEPHANIE]” IN THE “ACTS OF THE APOSTLES” IS IN PHILIPPIANS 2:10-11. THERE ARE ETERNAL CREATURES THAT ONLY TRUST IN THE SAYING “THE AUTHORITY OF GOD COMPELS YOU”, WHICH DERIVES FROM “IT IS DONE”, BUT THIS IS LIMITED BY THE HOLY SCRIPTURE IN ZECHARIAH 4:1-7 & THE “NAME OF JESUS CHRIST”, WHICH IS “GOD THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD OF JESUS CHRIST” WAS TRIED TO BE LIMITED BUT FAILED & DID NOT PREVAIL IN ACTS 4:5-31. THE HOLY SCRIPTURES OF THE “NAME OF JESUS” OR SIMILAR TO IS IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 1:2, 10; 5:4; 6:11; EPHESIANS 5:20; PHILIPPIANS 2:10; COLOSSIANS 3:17; 2ND THESSALONIANS 1:12; 3:6; 1ST JOHN 3:23 & ACTS 2:38; 3:6; 4:10, 18, 30; 5:40; 8:12, 16; 9:27, 29; 15:26; 16:18; 19:5, 13, 17; 21:13; 26:9. IN EPHESIANS 5:20 IT DECLARES THAT THE NAME OF JESUS IS THE GOD & FATHER OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. IN ACTS 7:59 PROVES THAT GOD & THE FATHER IS THE LORD STEPHEN HIMSELF. THE TRUE IDENTITY OF GOD & THE FATHER IS THE LORD STEPHEN’S NAME IS IN ACTS 6:5, 8-9, 7:59; 8:2; 11:19; 22:20. NOBODY HAS TRUTHFULLY PROCLAIMED THIS NAME BECAUSE IN TRUTH IT PUTS ALL ETERNAL CREATURES IN VERY DANGEROUS SITUATIONS & THEY ALWAYS CHOSE TO SAVE THEIR OWN NECKS INSTEAD OF PROCLAIMING OR TEACHING THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH IS IN ACTS 4:18; 5:40; 9:29; 15:26; 19:13; 21:13; 26:9. WHAT PUTS THE LORD STEVE AS HIS ULTIMATE DEFENSE AS THE TREE OF LIFE & THE BURNING BUSH IN VERY DANGEROUS CONDITIONS IS THE “NAME OF STEPHEN [SOLOMON OR ENOCH]” OR THE “NAME OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD”, OR THE “NAME OF STEPHEN CHRIST”, OR SIMILAR TO OR THE 4 FEMALE NAMES AS THE “NAME OF ATARAH AS A CROWN NAME”, THE “NAME OF STEPHANIE AS A SISTER NAME”, THE “NAME OF VICTORIA AS A DAUGHTER NAME”, THE “NAME OF BARBARA AS A MOTHER NAME”, ALL MEANS “YAHWEH OR STEPHEN [FEMALE SENSE IS VICTORIA] IN JOHN 8:58” IN THE “ACTS OF THE HOLY GHOST---FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD”, WHICH IS THE LORD YAHWEH HIMSELF [THE FEMALE SENSE IS THE LADY VICTORIA HERSELF] IN ACTS 7:60. THIS ALL CAN REFER TO THE “NAME OF THE LORD” CONCERNING THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD OR THE LORD YAHWEH HIMSELF IN ACTS 2:21; 10:48; 22:16. THE TOP MORNING STAR: REVELATION 2:28 (WITHIN THE LORD’S RELEASE OF 7 YEARS & STRENGTH IN WEAKNESS OF 10 LEVELS: USA EXPERT HELP FINDER 211 PHONE NUMBER WITH THE NUMBER 0) MORNING STAR: CHRIST HIMSELF IS SAID TO BE THE MORNING STAR, BUT THAT IS LONG AFTER ISRAEL’S TRIBULATION IS ACCOMPLISHED & FINISHED (REV. REV. 22:16+). THE RESTORATION OF THE MORNING STAR TO THE CHURCH PERIMETER, CAN ONLY MEAN: VICTORIA & LUCIFER KILLED IN THE ULTIMATE BEGINNING. (MURDER HAPPENS ONCE AGAINST THE WICKED WITH VICTORIA BY TAKING THE LAW INTO HER OWN HANDS NOT BY THE COMMAND OF THE TOP ENGLISH LORD UNTIL THE OFFICE OF VICTORIA IS RESTORED (FULLY & COMPLETELY 100.0001%, EXCEPT FOR THE 00.0001% ETERNAL CORRUPTION---PERDITION ONCE) IN REVELATION 2:28 AND ANY OTHER TIME IS KILLINGS BY THE COMMAND OF THE TOP ENGLISH LORD BY NOT TAKING THE LAW INTO HER OWN HANDS AND MURDER HAPPENS ONCE AGAINST THE WICKED WITH LUCIFER BY TAKING THE LAW INTO HIS OWN HANDS NOT BY THE COMMAND OF THE TOP ENGLISH LORD, UNTIL THE OFFICE OF LUCIFER IS RESTORED (FULLY & COMPLETELY 100.0001%, THAT IS NEVER THE INITIAL PRIME & DIRECT SOURCE OF THE PERDITION CORRUPTION DONE ONLY BY VICTORIA HERSELF) IN REVELATION 2:28 AND ANY OTHER TIME IS KILLINGS BY THE COMMAND OF THE TOP ENGLISH LORD BY NOT TAKING THE LAW INTO HIS OWN HANDS) ACCIDENTAL HOMICIDE & MURDER ARE ONLY ALLOWED BY THE TOP ENGLISH LORD, BUT KILLINGS ARE AUTHORIZED BY THE TOP ENGLISH LORD, BUT WHETHER IT IS ACCIDENTAL, MURDER OR KILLING, IT IS STILL JUSTIFIED BY THE TOP ENGLISH LORD IF IT IS DONE AGAINST THE WICKED, WHICH FULFILLS THE TOP ENGLISH LORD’S INTERESTS! THE MAIN PROBLEM WITH THE 2 DEVILS WERE THE REBELLION AGAINST THE TOP ENGLISH LORD [ISAIAH 14:3-23 & ISAIAH 47:1-15] BECAUSE THEY BOTH WANTED TO BE ONLY WORSHIPPED, ONLY SERVED & ONLY RESPECTED AS THE TOP ENGLISH LORD (GREAT I AM) IN 2 THESS. 2:1-12, WHERE THE TOP ENGLISH LORD DID NOT PLAY THAT GAME & LOCKED THEM UP BY ARRESTING THEM ONCE & STRIKING THEM WITH BLINDNESS ONCE IN REVELATION 20:1-3 & ACTS 13:4-12 & EVENTUALLY KILLING THEM ONCE AND DAMNING THEM ONCE IN REVELATION 20:7-10 AND ACTS 5:1-11! BUT IN THE END BY THE 2ND CHANCES, THEY BOTH ARE RESTORED AS TOP APPOINTED AUTHORITIES & OPERATES AS TOP CREATOR AGENT LORDS! AND THE ONLY THING THAT SHALL STAY IN HELL FOREVER ENDLESSLY IS PERDITION AT 00.0001% ETERNAL CORRUPTION [THIS PERDITION THAT IS ONLY CREATED BY THIS VICTORIA SHALL NEVER BE UNDONE, FOR IT IS INCURABLE & ETERNAL & THE TOP ENGLISH LORD REFUSES FOREVER TO TAKE CARE OF IT & THE NEVER MAKE THIS GOOD BECAUSE IT ETERNALLY PROTECTS HIS TOP-SECRET IDENTITY, SERVES HIS TRUE PURPOSES & HIS SUPREME INTERESTS & IS ONLY LINKED TO VICTORIA IN THE TOP ENGLISH VICTORIANISM ONLY IN HER OLD PAST EARLY LIFE (HER YOUTH) & VICTORIA IN BABYLON BABYLONIANISM ON DOWN IS ALL RESTORED IN ISAIAH 47:1-15, THE ETERNAL CORRUPT NATURE IS THIS: TO SWEAR THAT “YOU ARE THE GREAT I AM, & THERE IS NO OTHER LORD”, BUT THE TOP ENGLISH LORD IS THE 1 & ONLY “GREAT I AM” IN TRUTH & NEVER NO OTHER LORD IN EXODUS 20:2-7! ALL OTHER THINGS IS RESTORED & EMPTIED FROM HELL ONCE THE PRICES IN THE PRISONS ARE FULFILLED & PURGATORY SATISFIED IN ACTS 2:22-39 & ACTS 3:18-26!!! ALL ETERNAL CREATURES [JESUS ONLY] WHO SWEAR TO MAKE IT THEIR BUSINESS TO TRY ELEVATE THEIR JESUS CHRIST OR THEIR SO-CALLED LORD GOD AS YAHWEH WITHIN THE SCRIPTURE OR THEIR SO-CALLED LORD GOD AS JEHOVAH WITHIN THE SCRIPTURE INTO THAT 1 MAJESTIC POSITION AS THE TOP ENGLISH LORD, WHICH IS THE MOST-EVIL GREATEST SEXUAL APOSTASY, MOST-EVIL GREATEST SEXUAL CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE TOP ENGLISH LORDSHIP & TOP ENGLISH CROWN AND THE MOST-EVIL ETERNAL CORRUPTION---PERDITION IN 2 CORINTHIANS 11:13-15 SHALL BE CUT DOWN & CUT OFF IN 2 CORINTHIANS 11:12 & SHALL ETERNALLY FALL AS VICTORIA & LUCIFER HAS IN THEIR DEFIANCE & REBELLION AGAINST THE TOP ENGLISH LORD BY BEING ETERNALLY ARRESTED & ETERNALLY STRUCK WITH ETERNAL BLINDNESS, AND EVENTUALLY ETERNALLY KILLED & ETERNALLY DAMNED BECAUSE, YES, IN DEITY THERE ARE 4 LORDS EQUAL TO EACH OTHER, NOT JUST THE DOGMATIC TEACHING OF JESUS CHRIST ONLY, BUT THE 1 & ONLY TRUE TOP ENGLISH LORD YAHWEH STEPHEN IN THE ULTIMATE BIGINNING ON THE EUPHORIA CONTINENT & THE 1 & ONLY TRUE TOP ENGLISH LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH IN THE ULTIMATE ENDING ON THE SOUTH AMERICA/NORTH AMERICA CONTINENT ONLY HAS THE 1 MAJESTIC POSITION IN SUPREME LORDSHIP AS 1 TOP ENGLISH LORD THAT NEVER HAS ANY RIVALS OR NEVER HAS ANY EQUALS AT THE TOP LEVEL IN EXODUS 20:2-7 THAT GOES ABOVE & BEYOND DEITY IN MATTHEW 24:36-44; MARK 13:32-37; EPHESIANS 4:6 & ACTS 31! THE FULL REVELATION OF THE LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH, COULD NOT COME UNTIL THE FULFILLMENT OF THIS NON-APOSTLE STEPHEN WAS FINISHED FIRST IN THE GREEK & LAST IN THE ENGLISH IN THE TOP TESTAMENT IN ACTS OF THE HOLY GHOST, ABOUT 2,000 YEARS AGO IN ANCIENT BRITAIN, THEN IN GREAT BRITAIN, THEN IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO THIS PRESENT TIME IN ACTS 29:1-2 WITH AN ACTS 30. SIMPLY PUT, ONLY HALF OF THE REVELATION OF THE LORD [YAHWEH STEPHEN] IS KNOWN IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, MIDDLE TESTAMENT, NEW TESTAMENT, HIGHER TESTAMENT IN LUKE, THE HIGHEST TESTAMENT IN REVELATION & THE MOST-HIGHEST TESTAMENT IN ACTS OF THE APOSTLES LINKED TO ONLY YAHWEH, VICTOR OR JEHOVAH. PLUS, THERE ARE AT LEAST 18 LEVELS OF 18 UNIQUE LORDSHIPS FROM LUKE 22:1-ACTS 7:60 OF 18 OTHER LORD YAHWEH’S---18 OTHER LORD JEHOVAH’S---18 OTHER LORD VICTOR’S [18 OTHER LADY VICTORIA’S] ---18 OTHER LORD STEPHEN’S [18 OTHER LADY STEPHANIES] THROUGHOUT MULTI-TRILLIONS OF YEARS OF BIBLICAL HISTORY AS SUPREME LORDS [LADIES] IN CREATION IN THE HOLY SCRIPTURES [SUPREME AUTHORITY], BUT ON THE 19TH LEVEL IN THE ULTIMATE BEGINNING IN PROVERBS 8:22, IS THE TRUE TOP ENGLISH LORD YAHWEH (LADY VICTORIA HERSELF) HIMSELF [ABOVE & BEYOND THE SUPREME AUTHORITY IN ROMANS 13:1-2 & THE SUPREME LORDSHIP IN MATTHEW 24:36-44; MARK 13:32-37; EPHESIANS 4:6 & PROVERBS 8:22-29] THE SUPREME CREATOR OF THE TRUE TOP NON-APOSTLE ENGLISH FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD THE SUPREME POTTER CREATOR OF ALL ENTIRE UNIVERSES KNOWN AS THE TOP NON-APOSTLE ENGLISH LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH HIMSELF (LADY STEPHANIE VICTORIA) [THE ETERNAL WEAKNESS OF THE TOP NON-APOSTLE ENGLISH LORD YAHWEH HIMSELF] IN THE ULTIMATE ENDING IN ACTS OF THE HOLY GHOST IN ACTS 1:7; 29:1-2 WITH AN ACTS 30. THE 18 SUPREME LORDS ALL KNOWN AS LORD YAHWEH’S IN CREATION IS PROVEN AS THE LORD YAHWEH IN PROVERBS 8:22, LORD YAHWEH AS A CORRUPTION WITH THE PERSONAL NAME YAHWEH & THE TITLE NAME JEHOVAH IN PSALMS 83:18, LORD YAHWEH [LORD GOD] IN HOSEA 1:7; THE LORD YAHWEH IN JEWISH LAW FROM GENESIS TO DEUTERONOMY; 1 YAHWEH KNOWN AS YALDABAOTH IN THE ANCIENT MANUSCRIPTS, PROVERBS 8:22-29 (RSV); PROVERBS 8:30-31; ACTS 7:30-32; MALACHI 3:1-2; ISAIAH 48:16; HEBREWS 1:8; ISAIAH 47:4-5, 1 IN THE EGYPTIAN EMPIRE RELIGION, THE LYING LORD YAHWEH AS VICTORIA/LUCIFER IN THE ORIGINAL ONCE IN THE NUMBER 0 AT 00.0001% ETERNAL CORRUPTION---PERDITION ONLY IN ISAIAH 47:1-15; 2 CORINTHIANS 11:13-15 & 2 THESSALONIANS 2:1-12, THE APOSTLE GREEK LORD YAHWEH STEPHEN LADY VICTORIA STEPHANIE) IN ACTS OF THE APOSTLES IN ACTS 6:1-8:3, THE NON-APOSTLE GREEK LORD YAHWEH STEPHEN (LADY VICTORIA STEPHANIE) IN ACTS OF THE HOLY GHOST IN ACTS 6:1-8:3, THE APOSTLE ENGLISH LORD YAHWEH STEPHEN (LADY VICTORIA STEPHANIE) IN ACTS 29:1-2 WITH ACTS 30 & PROCLAIMED BY JESUS-ONLY CREATURES OF JESUS CHRIST AS YAHWEH IS A DAMN ETERNAL LIE, FOR JESUS CHRIST IS THE SON OF GOD & NEVER THE 1 & ONLY TRUE TOP ENGLISH LORD IN JOHN 8:58 & 1 JOHN 1:8, 10. AND GODDAMN IT, THEIR MAYBE MORE! BUT JUST REMEMBER ALL ETERNAL CREATURES HAVE THE MONEY TEST OF THIS PERDITION (MATTHEW 6:24; 2 CORINTHIANS 11:13-15; 1 TIMOTHY 6:9-10 & LUKE 16:9, 11, 13) WITHIN THEMSELVES, BUT LAST OF ALL, WHEN THE ETERNAL CORRUPTION FINALLY ENTERS IN THE TOP ENGLISH LORD, THE ETERNAL CORRUPTION AUTOMATICALLY BECOME THE ETERNAL INCORRUPTION BECAUSE IN THE ABSOLUTE ETERNAL TRUTH THE TOP ENGLISH LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH HIMSELF IS IN FACT THE 1 & ONLY TRUE LORD & THE GREAT I AM, AND THERE IS NEVER NO OTHER LORD IN EXODUS 20:2-7 & 2 CORINTHIANS 11:12!!! THESE TWO OFFICES ARE ONLY RESTORED 100.0001% ETERNAL INCORRUPTION FROM THE LORD’S ROCK [1] TO THE LORD’S KINGDOM [18] FROM THE ORIGINAL ONCE IN THE NUMBER 0 TO THE INFINITE NUMBER, EXCEPT THE 00.0001% ETERNAL CORRUPTION---PERDITION ONLY ONCE IN THE ORIGINAL ONCE IN THE NUMBER 0 THAT THE TOP ENGLISH LORD ETERNALLY FOREVER ENDLESSLY REFUSES TO MAKE IT GOOD! IS JEHOVAH THE TRUE NAME OF THE LORD? IN THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES, THE NAME OF GOD IS RECORDED AS YHWH. SO, WHERE DID THE NAME “JEHOVAH” COME FROM? ANCIENT HEBREW DID NOT USE VOWELS IN ITS WRITTEN FORM. THE VOWELS WERE PRONOUNCED IN SPOKEN HEBREW BUT WERE NOT RECORDED IN WRITTEN HEBREW. THE APPROPRIATE VOWEL SOUNDS OF WORDS WERE PASSED DOWN ORALLY. AS A RESULT, WHEN ANCIENT HEBREW IS STUDIED, PROMINENT SCHOLARS & SERIOUS LINGUISTS OFTEN DO NOT KNOW WITH ABSOLUTE CONFIDENCE HOW CERTAIN HEBREW WORDS WERE PRONOUNCED. THIS PARTICULARLY BECOMES AN ISSUE WHEN STUDYING THE HEBREW NAME OF GOD, WRITTEN IN THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES AS YHWH, ALSO KNOWN AS THE TETRAGRAMMATON. DESPITE MUCH STUDY & DEBATE, IT IS STILL NOT UNIVERSALLY AGREED UPON HOW THE HEBREW NAME FOR GOD, YHWH WAS PRONOUNCED. SOME PREFER “YAHWEH” (YAH-WAY); OTHERS PREFER “YEHOWAH,” “YAHUWEH,” OR “YAHAWAH”, STILL OTHERS ARGUE FOR “JEHOVAH.” BUT WHAT EVERYBODY IS MISSING, BECAUSE IT CAN ONLY BE FOUND IN CHRISTIANITY & NOWHERE IN GENTILISM OR JUDAISM IS THAT STEPHEN IS DERIVED FROM LORD MEANING OUR FATHER FROM THE ROOT LETTERS A & B IN ISAIAH 63:16; 64:8. THE NAME YAHWEH STEPHEN OR THE NAME STEPHEN YAHWEH REFERS TO THE SAME LORD’S PERSONAL, SELF PRE-EXISTENCE IN THE COMPLETE REVELATION OF THE LORD HIMSELF. JUST YAHWEH ALONE OR JUST STEPHEN ALONE IS A PARTIAL REVELATION OF THE LORD HIMSELF. YAHWEH STEPHEN IN THE ULTIMATE BEGINNING FOR ISRAEL ONLY IN PROVERBS 8:22 & STEPHEN YAHWEH IN THE ULTIMATE ENDING FOR THE USA ONLY IN ACTS 29:2 WITH AN ACTS 30 IS LINKED TO HOW THE LORD DESCRIBED HIMSELF IN EXODUS 3:14, “GOD SAID TO MOSES, ‘I AM WHO I AM [I BE WHO I BE]. BECAUSE “I AM WHO I AM” REFERS TO YAHWEH & “I BE WHO I BE” REFERS TO STEPHEN. THIS IS WHAT YOU ARE TO SAY TO THE ISRAELITES: “I AM HAS SENT ME TO YOU.’” THE FEMALE NAME FOR THE LORD IS LADY VICTORIA STEPHANIE OR LADY STEPHANIE VICTORIA IN PROVERBS 8:22-29 & ACTS 1:7. AS YOU CAN SEE, VIRTUALLY EVERYTHING IS UP FOR DEBATE. SHOULD YHWH BE PRONOUNCED WITH THREE SYLLABLES OR TWO? SHOULD THE VOWELS BE BORROWED FROM ELOHIM OR ADONAI? SHOULD THE W BE PRONOUNCED WITH MORE OF A W SOUND OR MORE OF A V SOUND? THE VAST MAJORITY OF JEWISH & CHRISTIAN BIBLICAL SCHOLARS & LINGUISTS DO NOT BELIEVE “JEHOVAH” TO BE THE PROPER PRONUNCIATION OF YHWH. THERE WAS NO TRUE J SOUND IN ANCIENT HEBREW. EVEN THE HEBREW LETTER VAV, WHICH IS TRANSLITERATED AS THE W IN YHWH IS SAID TO HAVE ORIGINALLY HAD A PRONUNCIATION CLOSER TO W THAN THE V OF JEHOVAH. JEHOVAH IS ESSENTIALLY A GERMANIC PRONUNCIATION OF THE LATINIZED TRANSLITERATION OF THE HEBREW YHWH. IT IS THE LETTERS OF THE TETRAGRAMMATON, LATINIZED INTO JHVH, WITH VOWELS INSERTED. “YAHWEH” OR “YEHOWAH” IS FAR MORE LIKELY TO BE THE CORRECT PRONUNCIATION. THE FORM JEHOVAH, THOUGH, IS VERY COMMONLY USED. IT IS USED IN THE KING JAMES VERSION OF THE HOLY HOLY BIBLE IS IN GENESIS 22:14; EXODUS 6:3; 17:15; JUDGES 6:24; PSALMS 83:16 & ISAIAH 12:2; 26:4. IT IS ALSO USED, & STRENUOUSLY PROMOTED BY, THE JEHOVAH WITNESSES. THE JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES EMPHASIZE THE USE OF JEHOVAH TO THE EXTENT THAT ANY OTHER NAME OR TITLE FOR GOD IS VIEWED AS BORDERLINE IDOLATRY OR OUTRIGHT HERESY. BUT ON THE CONTRARY, JEHOVAH WITNESSES & EVERY OTHER FALSE SEXUAL RELIGION DENY THE TRINITY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, SUCH AS A SEX DOCTRINE ON THE MARRIAGE DOCUMENT IN EXODUS 21:10, WHICH PROVES THEY HAVE A FALSE SEXUAL RELIGION KNOWN AS THE GREAT WITCH IN REVELATION 17:1-18:24. WITH ALL OF THAT SAID, IT IS CRUCIAL TO THE CHRISTIAN FAITH FOR THE PROPER PRONUNCIATION OF YHWH TO BE KNOWN. BOTH THE OLD & NEW TESTAMENTS, INSPIRED BY GOD, USE GENERIC TERMS FOR “GOD” AND “LORD,” INCLUDING EL, ELOHIM, & ADONAI (HEBREW), & THEOS AND KURIOS (GREEK). IF THE AUTHORS OF HOLY SCRIPTURE, UNDER THE INSPIRATION OF THE HOLY GHOST, WERE ALLOWED TO USE THESE TERMS, IT IS NOT WRONG FOR US TO REFER TO HIM AS “GOD” OR “LORD,” EITHER. IN CONCLUSION, IT IS HIGHLY UNLIKELY THAT “JEHOVAH” IS THE CORRECT PRONUNCIATION OF YHWH. FURTHER, IT IS FAR MORE IMPORTANT TO KNOW GOD THROUGH FAITH IN THE LORD IN THE GREEK GENTILISM & GREEK CHRISTIANITY, THAN IT IS TO KNOW THE CORRECT PRONUNCIATION OF HIS NAME IN HEBREW JUDAISM. THE INTRODUCTION TO THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ESTABLISHES THE IDENTITY OF GOD BY BOTH HIS PERSONAL NAME AND HIS HISTORICAL ACT OF DELIVERING ISRAEL FROM EGYPT. THE LANGUAGE AND PATTERN, REFLECTS THAT OF ANCIENT ROYAL TREATIES IN WHICH A GREAT KING IDENTIFIED HIMSELF AND HIS PREVIOUS GRACIOUS ACTS TOWARD A SUBJECT KING OR PEOPLE. ESTABLISHING HIS IDENTITY THROUGH THE USE OF THE PROPER NAME, STEPHEN YAHWEH, AND HIS MIGHTY ACTS IN HISTORY DISTINGUISHES STEPHEN YAHWEH FROM THE GODS OF EGYPT WHICH WERE JUDGED IN THE KILLING OF EGYPT'S FIRSTBORN (EXODUS 12) AND FROM THE GODS OF CANAAN, THE GODS OF THE GENTILE NATIONS, AND THE GODS THAT ARE WORSHIPPED AS IDOLS, STARRY HOSTS, OR THINGS FOUND IN NATURE, AND THE GODS KNOWN BY OTHER PROPER NAMES. SO DISTINGUISHED, STEPHEN YAHWEH DEMANDS EXCLUSIVE ALLEGIANCE FROM THE ISRAELITES IN PROVERBS 8:22, ALL THE WAY TO THE ENGLISH USA IN ACTS 30. “I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD” OCCURS A NUMBER OF OTHER TIMES IN THE HOLY BIBLE ALSO. WORTHY TO RECEIVE GLORY AND HONOR AND POWER: ΛΑΒΕῖΝ [LABEIN], PRESENT TENSE: TO BE CONTINUALLY RECEIVING. BOTH THE FATHER (STEPHEN) AND THE SON (JESUS) ARE WORTHY TO RECEIVE GLORY AND HONOR AND POWER (REV. REV. 5:12+). YOU CREATED ALL THINGS: IF THERE COULD HAVE BEEN ANY DOUBT ABOUT WHO IS SEATED ON THE THRONE, THE TOP ENGLISH LORD YAHWEH STEPHEN/STEPHEN YAHWEH! HERE IT IS REMOVED. HE ALONE IS THE SUPREME CREATOR, ALL ELSE IS CREATURE. HE ALONE IS INDEPENDENT, ALL ELSE IS DEPENDENT UPON HIM. RECOGNITION OF THIS DISTINCTION IS THE FOUNDATION OF ALL RIGHT WORSHIP, FOR WORSHIP OF ANY OTHER IS DIRECTING TO THAT WHICH IS DEPENDENT WHAT IS ONLY FOR THE ORIGINATOR (REV. REV. 22:8-9+). ALL WORSHIP DIRECTED ELSEWHERE IS IDOLATRY. SCRIPTURE REVEALS THAT ALL THREE PERSONS OF THE TRINITY PARTICIPATED IN CREATION: THE TOP ENGLISH FATHER STEPHEN/YAHWEH (GEN. GEN. 1:1-31; ISA. ISA. 40:21-28; ISA. ISA. 43:1, ISA. 43:7; ISA. ISA. 45:12, ISA. 45:18; ISA. 48:13; ISA. 51:13; ACTS ACTS 14:15; ACTS 17:24). THE HOLY GHOST, THE TOP ENGLISH BROTHER JOHN (GEN. GEN. 1:2; JOB JOB 26:13; JOB 33:4; PS. PS. 104:30; ISA. ISA. 42:5). THE TOP ENGLISH SON JESUS (JOHN JOHN 1:3; EPH. EPH. 3:9; COL. COL. 1:16; HEB. HEB. 1:3; REV. REV. 3:14+). BY YOUR WILL THEY EXIST AND WERE CREATED: HIS ROLE AS CREATOR UNDERWRITES ALL WORSHIP OF HIM, FOR HE ALONE IS CREATOR AND ALL ELSE IS CREATURE AND THEREFORE, ENTIRELY DEPENDENT UPON HIS WILL FOR CONTINUED EXISTENCE (HEB. HEB. 1:3). “IN HIM ALL THINGS CONSIST” (COL. COL. 1:17) “FOR OF HIM AND THROUGH HIM AND TO HIM ARE ALL THINGS, TO WHOM BE GLORY FOREVER. AMEN” (ROM. ROM. 11:36). TR AND MT HAVE ΕΙΣΙ [EISI], EXIST. NU HAS ἦΣΑΝ [ĒSAN], EXISTED. THE PAST TENSE EMPHASIZES THE CREATIVE ACT. THE PRESENT TENSE EMPHASIZES THEIR ONGOING EXISTENCE BY HIS WILL. WERE CREATED, ἔΚΤΙΣΑΣ [EKTISAS], THE AORIST TENSE TYPICALLY DENOTES PAST TIME. GOD FINISHED CREATION AND THEN RESTED (GEN. GEN. 2:2-3; EX. EX. 20:11; EX. 31:17). “WHEN THE NT REFERS TO CREATION... IT ALWAYS REFERS TO A PAST, COMPLETED EVENT—AN IMMEDIATE WORK OF GOD, NOT A STILL-OCCURRING PROCESS OF EVOLUTION.”1 EVEN IF IT WERE SOMEHOW POSSIBLE FOR COMPLEX LIFE FORMS TO ARISE BY CHANCE,2 THE NOTION IS PRECLUDED BY SCRIPTURE. CREATION IS NOT AN ONGOING PROCESS.3 HERE WE NEED TO ALERT THE READER OF THE DANGER OF ALLOWING THE CHAPTER BREAK BETWEEN CHAPTERS 4 AND 5 TO DESTROY THE FLOW OF THE TEXT. THERE IS AN INTIMATE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE WORDS OF THE CHERUBIM AND ELDERS CONCERNING CREATION AND THE EVENTS OF THE NEXT CHAPTER WHERE THE LAMB TAKES THE SEVEN-SEALED SCROLL. FOR HERE THE SUBJECT IS CREATION AND THERE IT WILL BE REDEMPTION. NOT REDEMPTION POSITIONALLY WHICH WAS ACCOMPLISHED AT THE CROSS, BUT EXPERIENTIALLY. NOT JUST REDEMPTION OF SAVED MEN, BUT OF THE ENTIRE CREATED ORDER (ROM. ROM. 8:18-22) WHICH HAS BEEN SUBJECT TO SATAN SINCE THE FALL (MTT. MAT. 4:8; LUKE LUKE 4:6; JOHN JOHN 12:31; JOHN 14:30; JOHN 16:11; 2COR. 2COR. 4:4; 1JN. 1JN. 5:19; REV. REV. 13:1+; REV. 13:7+). THUS, CREATION IS THE SUBJECT OF THE FIRST GREAT UTTERANCE OF THE ZŌA AND THE ELDERS. THEIR WORDS ANNOUNCE THE BLESSED FACT THAT THE JUDGMENTS WHICH ARE ABOUT TO TAKE PLACE, HAVE FOR THEIR GREAT OBJECT THE REMOVAL OF THE CURSE [GEN. GEN. 3:14-19], AND OF ALL UNHOLINESS FROM THE EARTH; AND THE ENDING OF CREATION’S GROANING AND TRAVAIL.4 FOR THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS: TESTIMONY IS ΜΑΡΤΥΡΊΑ [MARTYRIA]: “ATTESTATION,”1 “WITH CHRIST AS THE CONTENT...WITNESS OF (OR ABOUT) JESUS.”2 THE PHRASE TESTIMONY OF JESUS CAN BE UNDERSTOOD IN TWO WAYS. IF JESUS IS THE SUBJECT, THEN JESUS IS THE SOURCE OF THE TESTIMONY (SUBJECTIVE GENITIVE). IF JESUS IS THE OBJECT, THEN THE TESTIMONY CONCERNS JESUS (OBJECTIVE GENITIVE). DOES THIS VERSE TEACH THAT THE TESTIMONY FROM JESUS IS THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY? OR THAT THE TESTIMONY ABOUT JESUS IS THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY? BOTH OF THESE STATEMENTS ARE CERTAINLY TRUE. FOR IT IS THE HOLY SPIRIT, THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST (JOHN JOHN 14:18; ROM. ROM. 8:9; 1PE. 1PE. 1:11) WHO IS THE SOURCE OF ALL PROPHECY (SEE BELOW) AND THE PRIMARY FOCUS OF THE REVELATION HE PROVIDES CONCERNS JESUS. IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION, THE TESTIMONY (OR WITNESS) TO JESUS DOMINATES AS THE REASON FOR THE PERSECUTION AND MARTYRDOM OF THE SAINTS (REV. REV. 1:9+; REV. 6:9+; REV. 11:7+; REV. 12:11+, REV. 12:17+; REV. 20:4+). SCRIPTURE RECORDS THE VOLUME OF THE BOOK IS WRITTEN OF HIM (PS. PS. 40:7; HEB. HEB. 10:7). ON THE ROAD TO EMMAUS, JESUS SAID, “O FOOLISH ONES, AND SLOW OF HEART TO BELIEVE IN ALL THAT THE PROPHETS HAVE SPOKEN! OUGHT NOT THE CHRIST TO HAVE SUFFERED THESE THINGS AND TO ENTER INTO HIS GLORY?” (LUKE LUKE 24:25A). THEN LUKE RECORDS, “AND BEGINNING AT MOSES AND ALL THE PROPHETS, HE EXPOUNDED TO THEM IN ALL THE SCRIPTURES THE THINGS CONCERNING HIMSELF” (LUKE LUKE 24:25B). LATER, JESUS APPEARED TO HIS DISCIPLES AND EXPLAINED, “ALL THINGS MUST BE FULFILLED WHICH WERE WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES AND THE PROPHETS AND THE PSALMS CONCERNING ME” (LUKE LUKE 24:44). JESUS TOLD THE PHARISEES, “YOU SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES, FOR IN THEM YOU THINK YOU HAVE ETERNAL LIFE, AND THESE ARE THEY WHICH TESTIFY OF ME” (JOHN JOHN 5:39). PAUL SAID THAT TO JESUS, “ALL THE PROPHETS WITNESS” (ACTS ACTS 10:43A). PETER SAID, “OF THIS SALVATION [THROUGH JESUS] THE PROPHETS HAVE INQUIRED AND SEARCHED CAREFULLY, WHO PROPHESIED OF THE GRACE THAT WOULD COME TO YOU, SEARCHING WHAT, OR WHAT MANNER OF TIME, THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST WHO WAS IN THEM WAS INDICATING WHEN HE TESTIFIED BEFOREHAND THE SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST AND THE GLORIES THAT WOULD FOLLOW” (1PE. 1PE. 1:10-11). IS THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY: ALL REVELATION GIVEN BY GOD THROUGH HIS PROPHETS WAS BY THE SPIRIT? “THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD SPOKE BY ME, AND HIS WORD WAS ON MY TONGUE” (2S. 2S. 23:2). “BUT TRULY I AM FULL OF POWER BY THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD, AND OF JUSTICE AND MIGHT, TO DECLARE TO JACOB HIS TRANSGRESSION AND TO ISRAEL HIS SIN” (MIC. MIC. 3:8). WHEN JESUS REFERRED TO DAVID’S STATEMENT IN PSALM PS. 110:1, HE SAID, “HOW THEN DOES DAVID IN THE SPIRIT CALL HIM “LORD”?” (MTT. MAT. 22:43). PETER SAID, “THIS SCRIPTURE HAD TO BE FULFILLED, WHICH THE HOLY SPIRIT SPOKE BEFORE BY THE MOUTH OF DAVID CONCERNING JUDAS” (ACTS ACTS 1:16). JESUS SAID IT WOULD BE BY “THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH WHO PROCEEDS FROM THE FATHER” THAT THE APOSTLES WOULD RECEIVE TESTIMONY CONCERNING HIM (JOHN JOHN 15:26), “HE WILL TELL YOU THINGS TO COME” (JOHN JOHN 16:13). THE NT PROPHET AGABUS “STOOD UP AND SHOWED BY THE SPIRIT THAT THERE AS GOING TO BE A GREAT FAMINE THROUGHOUT ALL THE WORLD” (ACTS ACTS 11:28). LATER, HE TOOK PAUL’S BELT, BOUND HIS OWN HANDS AND FEET, AND SAID, “THUS SAYS THE HOLY SPIRIT, ‘SO SHALL THE JEWS AT JERUSALEM BIND THE MAN WHO OWNS THIS BELT, AND DELIVER HIM INTO THE HANDS OF THE GENTILES’” (ACTS ACTS 21:11). TWO PASSAGES WRITTEN BY PETER, BY THE POWER OF THE SPIRIT, ARE OF PARTICULAR IMPORTANCE: OF THIS SALVATION THE PROPHETS HAVE INQUIRED AND SEARCHED CAREFULLY, WHO PROPHESIED OF THE GRACE THAT WOULD COME TO YOU, SEARCHING WHAT, OR WHAT MANNER OF TIME, THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST WHO WAS IN THEM WAS INDICATING WHEN HE TESTIFIED BEFOREHAND THE SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST AND THE GLORIES THAT WOULD FOLLOW. TO THEM IT WAS REVEALED THAT, NOT TO THEMSELVES, BUT TO US THEY WERE MINISTERING THE THINGS WHICH NOW HAVE BEEN REPORTED TO YOU THROUGH THOSE WHO HAVE PREACHED THE GOSPEL TO YOU BY THE HOLY SPIRIT SENT FROM HEAVEN—THINGS WHICH ANGELS DESIRE TO LOOK INTO. (1PE. 1PE. 1:10-12) PETER INDICATES THAT IT WAS “THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST WHO WAS IN” THE PROPHETS THAT TESTIFIED. THUS, THE SPIRIT OF JESUS WAS THE EMPOWERING SOURCE OF THEIR TESTIMONY. YET PETER ALSO INDICATES THAT THE SPIRIT “TESTIFIED BEFOREHAND THE SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST AND THE GLORIES THAT WOULD FOLLOW.” IN OTHER WORDS, THE MESSAGE WHICH THE SPIRIT TESTIFIED CONCERNED JESUS CHRIST. AND SO WE HAVE THE PROPHETIC WORD CONFIRMED, WHICH YOU DO WELL TO HEED AS A LIGHT THAT SHINES IN A DARK PLACE, UNTIL THE DAY DAWNS AND THE MORNING STAR RISES IN YOUR HEARTS; KNOWING THIS FIRST, THAT NO PROPHECY OF SCRIPTURE IS OF ANY PRIVATE INTERPRETATION, FOR PROPHECY NEVER CAME BY THE WILL OF MAN, BUT HOLY MEN OF GOD SPOKE AS THEY WERE MOVED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT. (2PE. 2PE. 1:19-21) PETER INDICATES THAT ALL PROPHECY CAME BY THE SPIRIT. WHEN THE PROPHETS SPOKE, GOD SPOKE BY HIS SPIRIT. THEY WERE MOVED (ΦΕΡΌΜΕΝΟΙ [PHEROMENOI]) BY THE HOLY SPIRIT. IT WAS NOT THEIR OWN WILL, BUT GOD’S INITIATIVE WHICH PRODUCED THEIR INSPIRED TESTIMONY. THEY WERE BORN ALONG BY GOD’S SPIRIT MUCH LIKE A SHIP IS DRIVEN BY WIND AND WEATHER (ACTS ACTS 27:15). THEY WERE NOT IN ULTIMATE CONTROL, BUT WERE VESSELS WHICH GOD MOVED ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE (JOHN JOHN 3:8). JUST AS JESUS CHRIST CAME DOWN HERE TO SAVE MANKIND, EVERYONE ONLY TREATED JESUS CHRIST AS A TOP PROPHET, THAT IS NEVER WORSIPED, BUT ON THE CONTRARY, ONLY HIS ELECT, THAT IS HIS 11 DISCIPLES PLUS MATTHIAS (12 APOSTLES ARE UNMARRIED TO SINGLE AFTER MARRIAGE) ONLY HELD HIM AS TOP JEWISH LORD TO BE WORSHIPED & STEPHEN CHRIST IS TREATED THE SAME WAY, YET HE CAME DOWN TO SAVE ALL, NOT JUST MAN & HIS ONLY ELECT, THAT IS HIS 11 DISCIPLES PLUS MATTHIAS (12 NON-APOSTLES ARE SINGLE), ONLY TRULY HELD HIM AS THE TOP GREEK LORD TO BE WORSHIPED! BUT ULTIMATELY, YOU CAN ONLY WORSHIP THE TOP ENGLISH LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH HIMSELF KNOWN AS THE “GREAT I AM” & “JEHOVAH”, BUT IN TODAY’S TIMEFRAME, ALL ETERNAL CREATURES BASICALLY HOLD HIM ONLY AS THE ULTIMATE ENDTIME TOP ENGLISH PROPHET TO NOT BE WORSHIPED OR TO BE WORTHY IN YOU PAYING YOUR TITHE TO HIM, BUT ON THE CONTRARY, TO SOME, HE IS THE TOP ENGLISH LORD OF ALL THAT IS ALWAYS WORSHIPED & IS ALWAYS WORTHY! IN MATTHEW 10:40-42 DECLARES, “HE WHO RECEIVES YOU RECEIVES ME, AND HE WHO RECEIVES ME RECEIVES HIM [FATHER STEPHEN] WHO SENT ME. HE WHO RECEIVES A PROPHET IN THE NAME [FATHER STEPHEN] OF A PROPHET SHALL RECEIVE A PROPHET’S REWARD [FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD]. AND HE WHO RECEIVES A RIGHTEOUS MAN IN THE NAME [FATHER STEPHEN] OF A RIGHTEOUS MAN SHALL RECEIVE A RIGHTEOUS MAN’S REWARD [FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD]. AND WHOEVER GIVES ONE OF THESE LITTLE ONES ONLY A CUP OF COLD WATER IN THE NAME [FATHER STEPHEN] OF A DISCIPLE, ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO YOU, HE SHALL BY NO MEANS LOSE HIS REWARD [FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD].” THIS MAY SEEM ETERNALLY RIGHT TO PAY YOUR 10% LIFETIME MONEY TITHES TO THE TOP LORD JESUS CHRIST IN THE TOP ENGLISH LORD’S NAME---STEPHEN YAHWEH, WHICH THIS SPECIAL TITHE IS NEVER PAID DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY TO THE TOP ENGLISH LORD’S LORD JESUS CHRIST (UNLESS THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IS IN FACT THE TOP ENGLISH LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH HIMSELF IN JOHN 8:42) OR THE TOP PROPHET IN THE TOP ENGLISH LORD’S NAME (UNLESS THE PROPHET IS IN FACT THE TOP ENGLISH LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH HIMSELF IN ACTS 29:1-2)---STEPHEN YAHWEH OR THE TOP RIGHTEOUS MAN IN THE TOP ENGLISH LORD’S NAME (UNLESS THE RIGHTEOUS MAN IS IN FACT THE TOP ENGLISH LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH HIMSELF IN NUMBERS 23:19)---STEPHEN YAHWEH OR EVEN TO THE TOP DISCIPLE IN THE TOP ENGLISH LORD’S NAME (UNLESS THE DISCIPLE IS IN FACT THE TOP ENGLISH LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH HIMSELF IN ACTS 6:5)---STEPHEN YAHWEH, BUT REMEMBER IN MALACHI 3:8-12 THIS EXPLICITLY COMMANDS & DEMANDS THAT THE 10% MONEY TITHE IS PAID ONLY TO THE TOP ENGLISH LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH, BECAUSE IF YOU DEPEND ON THESE OTHER INFERIOR CREATURES, MOST LIKELY THEY HAVE THEIR OWN AGENDAS WITH THE TITHE & IT FUCKS YOU OUT OF THE ENORMOUS BLESSING THAT WOULD BE RIGHTFULLY YOURS FOR YOUR HOUSE, BUSINESS, CHURCH, FAMILY, FRIENDS, NEIGHBORS & RELATIVES, BUT BECAUSE YOU ARE FOUND TO BE NEGLIGENT AND CARELESS, WITH THE SURE INTENT OF YOUR AUTHORIZATION THAT NEVER ETERNALLY REACHES THE TOP ENGLISH LORD’S OWN EXTREMELY TERRIBLE, JEALOUS HANDS!!! REMEMBER IN MATTHEW 7:21 TELLS US “NOT EVERY ONE THAT SAYS UNTO ME, LORD [STEPHEN YAHWEH], LORD [STEPHEN YAHWEH], SHALL ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, BUT HE THAT DOES THE WILL (MOTHER, SONS & DAUGHTERS, SISTERS & BROTHERS, BUT THIS DOES NOT CONCERN FATHERS OF FAMILIES & THE OPPOSING LAW) OF MY FATHER (STEPHEN) WHICH IS IN HEAVEN.” THIS MEANS YOU CANNOT JUST HAVE TRUST IN THE TOP ENGLISH LORD’S NAME---STEPHEN YAHWEH, WITHOUT ACTUALLY PUTTING IN ETERNAL ACTION TO ETERNALLY PAY YOUR 10% LIFETIME MONEY TITHES TO THE TOP ENGLISH LORD & NOBODY ELSE!!! ETERNAL OBEDIENCE ONLY TO THE TOP ENGLISH LORD IS THE ETERNAL KEY TO ALL ETERNAL SUCCESS! BUT HOW DOES THE TOP ENGLISH LORD WITH HIS TOP ROYAL ENGLISH CROWN PRIMARILY DEAL WITH ALL MONEY INDIVIDUALS & ALL MONEY INSTITUTION INFALLIBLY & INERRANTLY WHO ARE ALWAYS WICKED & CORRUPT, IN FACT, PURPOSELY CHARGES WITH EVIL USURY & EVIL INTEREST OR EVIL FEES, ON TOP OF THE PRECISE MONEY RECEIVED BY THE CROWN & WAS PRECISELY & INITIALLY GIVEN TO THE CROWN, TO THE LAST FUCKING MITE, 1/8TH OF A CENT, WHICH THE 1ST ORIGINAL PAYMENT THAT THE TOP ROYAL ENGLISH CROWN INCLUDES THE SO-CALLED USURY, INTEREST & FEES WITHIN THE INITIAL PAYMENT WITHOUT ANY ADDED ETERNAL BULLSHIT OF A GODDAMN MITE ON TOP OF THAT OR MORE ETERNAL BULLSHIT, IS TAKEN CARE OF BY THE INCORRUPTIBLE CROWN WITH THE CROWN’S BLESSINGS, HEALTH & JUSTIFICATIONS OR GIVEN, PROTECTIONS & SALVATIONS TO MAKE THIS MONEY MESSIANIC EVIL AT 00.0001% ETERNAL INCORRUPTION---RIGHTEOUSNESS, BUT DUMBASS WICKED MOTHERFUCKERS & SANCTIMONIOUS HYPOCRITICAL LYING ASSHOLES, ANYTHING ABOVE & BEYOND THAT, FROM A GODDAMN MITE, 1/8TH OF A CENT TO ALL THE GODDAMN MONEY IN UNGODLY INTEREST, UNGODLY USURY & UNGODLY FEES THAT IS ETERNALLY DEALT WITH BY THE LORD LUCIFER (SATAN & THE GREAT DEVIL) THE CORRUPTIBLE CROWN WITH THE CROWN’S CURSINGS, DISEASES & DAMNATIONS OR TAKEN, KILLINGS & DESTROYINGS & ALSO THE LADY VICTORIA (BABYLON & THE GREAT WITCH) THE CORRUPTIBLE CROWN WITH THE CROWN’S CURSINGS, DISEASES & DAMNATIONS OR TAKEN, KILLINGS & DESTROYINGS IS IN FACT ONLY AGAINST THE SEXUAL, TEMPTING, SINFUL, WICKED, GUILTY, INTERRACIAL ABOMINABLE, HOMOSEXUAL DEVILISH, DEMONISTIC & DIABOLICAL IN SATANIC LUCIFERISM EVIL & BABYLONIAN VICTORIAN EVIL (MATTHEW 6:24; 1 TIMOTHY 6:9-10 & LUKE 16:9, 11, 13, 15) THAT IS ALWAYS USED THE 1ST TIME, 1 TIME & ONLY TIME AT 00.0001% ETERNAL CORRUPTION---PERDITION (2 CORINTHIANS 11:13-15) WITH THE LYING INTENT (1 JOHN 1:8, 10) & LYING TREATMENT (1 JOHN 1:8, 10) AS A FOREIGNER DIRECTED TO THE TOP ROYAL ENGLISH CROWN OF HIS TOP CROWN FAMILY ONLY ONCE AGAINST THE TOP ROYAL ENGLISH CROWN WITH HIS 1ST TOP IMMEDIATE CROWN FAMILY AS THE NATIVE BORN ENGLISH BROTHERS & NATIVE BORN ENGLISH SISTERS, NATIVE BORN ENGLISH SONS & NATIVE BORN ENGLISH DAUGHTERS, NATIVE BORN ENGLISH FATHERS & NATIVE BORN ENGLISH MOTHERS, NATIVE BORN ENGLISH GRANDFATHERS OR HIGHER & NATIVE BORN ENGLISH GRANDMOTHERS OR HIGHER & ALL OF THEIR NATIVE BORN 1ST IMMEDIATE CROWN FAMILY, INCLUDING THE MARRIED INTO 1ST TOP IMMEDIATE CROWN FAMILY, THE BROTHERS IN LAWS & SISTERS IN LAWS, THE SONS IN LAWS & DAUGHTERS IN LAWS, THE FATHERS IN LAWS & MOTHERS IN LAWS, NEPHEWS & NIECES, EVEN ADPOTED CHILDREN WHICH MAY BE INFERIOR DESCENTS ARE STILL PROTECTED BY THE TOP ROYAL ENGLISH CROWN, ETC. BECAUSE THESE RICH MONEY MOTHERFUCKERS ARE IN FACT BREAKING THE GODDAMN LAWS OF THE TOP ROYAL ENGLISH CROWN, WHICH MEANS TOP TREASON & TOP CONSPIRACIES ARE ETERNALLY TRANSPIRING DURING THE TRANSACTIONS & AUTHORIZATIONS OF THIS ETERNAL BULLSHIT, WHICH ARE NEVER TRULY RESPECTED & ARE ALWAYS CUT OFF & ARE ALWAYS CUT DOWN BY THE TOP ENGLISH LORD (2 CORINTHIANS 11:12) & IN THE PROCESS OF ISAIAH 54:17 DECLARES, NO WEAPON (THE ORIGINAL IN THE 1ST TIME, 1 TIME & ONLY TIME AT 00.0001% ETERNAL CORRUPTION---PERDITION) FORMED AGAINST THE CROWN SHALL PROSPER (THE OPPOSING SIDE OF THE 1ST TIME, 1 TIME & ONLY TIME AT 00.0001% ETERNAL INCORRUPTION-RIGHTEOUSNESS) & ALL THAT RISE UP IN JUDGMENT (ALWAYS RUNNING YOUR FUCKING DAMN MOUTH AT THE CROWN) AGAINST THE CROWN SHALL BE ETERNALLY DAMNED, ETERNALLY CONDEMNED, ETERNALLY JUDGED, ETERNALLY CHARGED & ETERNALLY DAMNED GLOBALLY, UNIVERSALLY IN ALL OF CREATION BY BEING ETERNAL ARRESTED & ETERNAL STRUCK WITH ETERNAL BLINDNESS ALL THE TIME & EVERY TIME WITH ONLY 1 WARNING IN ACTS 13:4-12; 29:1-2/ACTS 30, THEN ETERNALLY KILLED & ETERNALLY DAMNED ALL THE TIME & EVERY TIME WITH NO WARNING IN ACTS 5:1-11; 29:1-2/ACTS 30!!! WHO MAY ETERNALLY EMPOWER (HEBREWS 1:1-2) ALL THESE THINGS ABOVE & BEYOND (ACTS 31) THE SUPREME LORDSHIP (MATTHEW 24:36-44) OF THE LAW AUTHORITY (ROMANS 13:1-2) & ALSO THE SUPREME LORDSHIP (EPHESIANS 4:6 & MARK 13:32-37) AND IS ALWAYS ETERNALLY FOREVER ENDLESSLY ABLE TO DO ALL THESE THINGS IF IT ETERNALLY PLEASES HIM? ONLY THE ONE & ONLY TRUE TOP ENGLISH LORD YAHWEH HIMSELF, THE GREAT I AM WHO I AM, THE TOP ENGLISH SUPREME CREATOR OF THE TOP ENGLISH LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH HIMSELF (THE HUMBLE TOP ENGLISH USA SERVANT & DEVOTED TOP ENGLISH USA ULTIMATE END TIME TRUE PROPHET-TEACHER OF THE LORD YAH BECOMING FLESH, THE ETERNAL WEAKNESS OF THE LORD YAH HIMSELF (1 CORINTHIANS 1:25), THE SUPREME POTTER CREATOR OF ALL ENTIRE ETERNITY’S!!! THE TRUE IDENTITY OF THE GREAT LORD YAH IS THAT HE IS ONLY THE TRUE TOP ALL-KNOWING OMNIPRESENT LORD!!! THIS IS WHO THE ONE & TRUE LORD IS & GODDAMN IT, ABSOLUTELY NOBODY ELSE!!! THE TOP-SECRET TOP ROYAL ENGLISH CROWN THE LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH IS THE TOP MOST HIGHEST IN EPHESIANS 4:6. THE LORD STEPHEN’S NAME MEANS THE TOP MOST HIGHEST WHICH IS EQUAL TO THE LORD YAHWEH AND CAN BE TRANSLATED AS LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH, ONCE THE 1ST KINGDOM HAS EXPIRED AT 46 YEARS AS THE HIGHER THAN MOST HIGHEST IN THE ULTIMATE ENDING IN JOHN 8:58. THE LORD SOLOMON & THE CLEARING AWAY OF THE USA TRIBULATION (DANIEL 8:8-14; 2 ESDRAS 11 & 12 & ACTS 29:1-2/ACTS 30) BY HIS OWN ETERNALLY DYING TO SELF FOR 3 YEARS, 1 MONTH & 25 DAYS MORE AT THE END OF THE FIRST 46 YEAR KINGDOM, THEN THE LORD ENOCH WILL RAISE THE LORD STEPHEN AS THE HIGHER THAN TOP MOST HIGHEST STEPHEN ON HIS THRONE, ONCE THE 1ST KINGDOM HAS EXPIRED AT 46 YEARS IN ECCLESIASTES 5:8 & 2ND ESDRAS 4:34; 12:4. THE LORD STEPHEN ALONE OR THE LORD YAHWEH ALONE IS THE MOST HIGHEST IN 2ND ESDRAS 4:34. THAT MAN MAY KNOW THAT THOU, WHOSE NAME ALONE IS JEHOVAH [VICTOR], ART THE MOST HIGH [HIGHEST] OVER ALL THE EARTH IN PSALMS 83:18. THE LORD STEPHEN’S NAME MEANS THE HIGHER THAN THE MOST HIGHEST WHICH IS EQUAL TO THE LORD YAHWEH AND CAN BE TRANSLATED AS THE TOP YAHWEH STEPHEN IN THE ULTIMATE BEGINNING IN JOHN 8:58 & EPHESIANS 4:6. THE MOST HIGHEST STEPHEN GAVE HIS VOICE IN PSALMS 18:13 & ACTS 7:1-60 & BUILDS UP MOUNT ZION IN PSALMS 87:5 AND ACTS 1:7. THE MOST HIGHEST STEPHEN IS BLESSED BY HOSANNA IN THE HIGHEST IN MATTHEW 21:9 AND MARK 11:10. THE MOST HIGHEST STEPHEN’S THRONE OF HIS FATHER SOLOMON IS OVER THE SON OF GOD IN LUKE 1:32. THE MOST HIGHEST STEPHEN’S OMNIPOTENCE (AUTHORITY & ALMIGHTINESS) IS OVER THE SON OF GOD IN LUKE 1:35. THE MOST HIGHEST LORD STEPHEN IS OVER THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AS THE PROPHET IN LUKE 24:19. THE MOST HIGHEST STEPHEN IS OVER BLESSINGS, PEACE IN HEAVEN AND GLORY OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IN LUKE 19:38. THE HEAVENS AND THE MOST HIGHEST HEAVENS BELONG TO THE LORD STEPHEN IN DEUTERONOMY 10:14. THE MOST HIGHEST STEPHEN SEES THE MOST HIGHEST STARS IN HEAVEN IN JOB 22:12 AND ACTS 7:55-56. THE MOST HIGHEST STEPHEN’S SEED (WORD OF GOD) IS OF THE MOST HIGHEST QUALITY IN JEREMIAH 2:21. THE MOST HIGHEST STEPHEN GIVES TOTAL SOVEREIGNTY TO THOSE WHO ARE WORTHY IN WISDOM OF SOLOMON 6:3. MOST HIGHEST STEPHEN’S COVENANT IS THE HIGHEST IN SIRACH 28:7. THE MOST HIGHEST STEPHEN’S TRUE WAYS AND INFINITE THOUGHTS ARE IMPOSSIBLE TO UNDERSTAND OR COMPREHEND IN 2ND ESDRAS 4:11. THE MOST HIGHEST STEPHEN IS GOD THE JUDGE ONLY AND NONE HAS UNDERSTANDING ABOVE THE MOST HIGHEST IN 2ND ESDRAS 7:19. THE MOST HIGHEST STEPHEN WILL VISIT THE WORLD THAT HE MADE IN 2ND ESDRAS 9:2. THE MOST HIGHEST STEPHEN HAS WONDERS AND POWERFUL WORKS IN THE BEGINNING AND IN THE END HE HAS HEROIC EFFECTS AND SIGNS IN 2ND ESDRAS 9:6. THE UNIVERSE ONLY PRAYS TO THE MOST HIGHEST STEPHEN AS THE FATHER IN 2ND ESDRAS 9:25, 44. THE MOST HIGHEST STEPHEN SHALL GIVE YOU REST AND EASE FROM THY LABOR IN ACTS 7:49-50 AND 2ND ESDRAS 10:24. THE MOST HIGHEST STEPHEN WILL REVEAL MANY SECRET THINGS IN 2ND ESDRAS 10:38, 52, 54, 59; 11:38; 12:36, 39. WITH THE MOST HIGHEST STEPHEN YOU ARE CALLED AND FEW WHICH ARE BLESSED ABOVE MANY OTHERS IN 2ND ESDRAS 10:57. IT IS WRONGFUL DEALINGS WHEN YOU COME UP TO THE MOST HIGHEST STEPHEN IN 2ND ESDRAS 11:43. THE MOST HIGHEST STEPHEN LOOKS UPON THE PROUD TIMES AND OVERTHROWS THE SEXUALITIES, HOMOSEXUALITIES, ORIGIES & INTERRACIAL ABOMINATIONS IN 2ND ESDRAS 11:44. THE MOST HIGHEST STEPHEN WILL COMFORT THEE IN 2ND ESDRAS 12:6. THE MOST HIGHEST STEPHEN WILL EVEN KEEP THE SMALLEST KINGDOM TO THE END IN 2ND ESDRAS 12:30. THE MOST HIGHEST STEPHEN KNOWS THEIR ANOINTING AND WICKEDNESS TO THE END IN 2ND ESDRAS 12:32. THE MOST HIGHEST STEPHEN REMEMBERS YOU IN 2ND ESDRAS 12:47. THE MOST HIGHEST STEPHEN HAS KEPT A GREAT SEASON WHICH BY HIS OWN SELF SHALL DELIVER HIS CREATURE AND SHALL ORDER THOSE LEFT BEHIND IN 2ND ESDRAS 13:26. THE HIGHEST STEPHEN SHALL CALM THE SPRINGS OF THE STREAM IN 2ND ESDRAS 13:47. THE MOST HIGHEST STEPHEN SHALL HAVE AN ABUNDANCE OF TREASURES IN 2ND ESDRAS 13:56. THE MOST HIGHEST STEPHEN GAVE UNDERSTANDING TO FIVE MEN IN 2ND ESDRAS 14:42. THE MOST HIGHEST STEPHEN SHALL PUBLISH THE HOLY HOLY BIBLE OPENLY TO THE WORTHY OR UNWORTHY WHO READS IN 2ND ESDRAS 14:45. THE FATHER’S HAS NOT KEPT THE COMMAND OF THE MOST HIGHEST STEPHEN IN 2ND ESDRAS 14:31 AND ACTS 7:51-53. KING SOLOMON WILL RAISE THE TOP STEPHEN AS THE HIGHER THAN MOST HIGHEST STEPHEN ON HIS THRONE WITHIN THE FIRST 46 YEAR KINGDOM IN ECCLESIASTES 5:8 & 2ND ESDRAS 4:34; 12:4. DIFFERENT DEFINITIONS FOR CROWN AN ORNAMENTAL CIRCLET OR HEAD COVERING, OFTEN MADE OF PRECIOUS METAL SET WITH JEWELS AND WORN AS A SYMBOL OF SOVEREIGNTY. THE POWER, POSITION, OR EMPIRE OF A MONARCH OR OF A STATE GOVERNED BY CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY. THE MONARCH AS HEAD OF STATE. A DISTINCTION OR REWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT, ESPECIALLY A TITLE SIGNIFYING CHAMPIONSHIP IN A SPORT. SOMETHING RESEMBLING A DIADEM IN SHAPE. A COIN STAMPED WITH A CROWN OR CROWNED HEAD ON ONE SIDE. A SILVER COIN FORMERLY USED IN GREAT BRITAIN AND WORTH FIVE SHILLINGS. ANY ONE OF SEVERAL COINS, SUCH AS THE KORUNA, THE KRONA, OR THE KRONE, HAVING A NAME THAT MEANS "CROWN.” THE TOP OR HIGHEST PART OF THE HEAD. THE HEAD ITSELF. THE TOP OR UPPER PART OF A HAT. THE HIGHEST POINT OR SUMMIT. THE HIGHEST, PRIMARY, OR MOST VALUABLE PART, ATTRIBUTE, OR STATE: CONSIDERED THE RARE TURKISH STAMP THE CROWN OF THEIR COLLECTION. DENTISTRY THE PART OF A TOOTH THAT IS COVERED BY ENAMEL AND PROJECTS BEYOND THE GUM LINE. DENTISTRY AN ARTIFICIAL SUBSTITUTE FOR THE NATURAL CROWN OF A TOOTH. NAUTICAL THE LOWEST PART OF AN ANCHOR, WHERE THE ARMS ARE JOINED TO THE SHANK. ARCHITECTURE THE HIGHEST PORTION OF AN ARCH, INCLUDING THE KEYSTONE. BOTANY THE UPPER PART OF A TREE, WHICH INCLUDES THE BRANCHES AND LEAVES. BOTANY THE PART OF A PLANT, USUALLY AT GROUND LEVEL, WHERE THE STEM AND ROOTS MERGE. BOTANY THE PERSISTENT, MOSTLY UNDERGROUND BASE OF A PERENNIAL HERB. BOTANY SEE CORONA. THE CREST OF AN ANIMAL, ESPECIALLY OF A BIRD. THE PORTION OF A CUT GEM ABOVE THE GIRDLE. TO PUT A CROWN OR GARLAND ON THE HEAD OF. TO INVEST WITH REGAL POWER; ENTHRONE. TO CONFER HONOR, DIGNITY, OR REWARD UPON. TO SURMOUNT OR BE THE HIGHEST PART OF. TO FORM THE CROWN, TOP, OR CHIEF ORNAMENT OF. TO BRING TO COMPLETION OR SUCCESSFUL CONCLUSION; CONSUMMATE: CROWNED THE EVENT WITH A LAVISH RECEPTION. DENTISTRY TO PUT A CROWN ON (A TOOTH). GAMES TO MAKE (A PIECE IN CHECKERS THAT HAS REACHED THE LAST ROW) INTO A KING BY PLACING ANOTHER PIECE UPON IT. INFORMAL TO HIT ON THE HEAD. TO REACH A STAGE IN LABOR WHEN A LARGE SEGMENT OF THE FETAL SCALP IS VISIBLE AT THE VAGINAL ORIFICE. USED OF A FETUS. A REWARD OF VICTORY OR A MARK OF HONOR. A ROYAL, IMPERIAL OR PRINCELY HEADDRESS; A DIADEM. A REPRESENTATION OF SUCH A HEADDRESS, AS IN HERALDRY; IT MAY EVEN BE THAT ONLY THE IMAGE EXISTS, NO PHYSICAL CROWN, AS IN THE CASE OF THE KINGDOM OF BELGIUM; BY ANALOGY SUCH CROWNS CAN BE AWARDED TO MORAL PERSONS THAT DON'T EVEN HAVE A HEAD, AS THE MURAL CROWN FOR CITIES IN HERALDRY. A WREATH OR BAND FOR THE HEAD. IMPERIAL OR REGAL POWER, OR THOSE WHO WIELD IT. THE TOPMOST PART OF THE HEAD. THE HIGHEST PART A HILL. THE TOP PART OF A HAT. THE RAISED CENTER OF A ROAD. THE HIGHEST PART OF AN ARCH. SPLENDOR, FINISH, CULMINATION. ANY CURRENCY (ORIGINALLY) ISSUED BY THE CROWN (REGAL POWER) AND OFTEN BEARING A CROWN (HEADDRESS). SPECIFICALLY, A FORMER BRITISH COIN WORTH FIVE SHILLINGS. THE PART OF A PLANT WHERE THE ROOT AND STEM MEET. THE PART OF A TOOTH ABOVE THE GUMS. A PROSTHETIC COVERING FOR A TOOTH. A KNOT FORMED IN THE END OF A ROPE BY TUCKING IN THE STRANDS TO PREVENT THEM FROM UNRAVELLING. THE PART OF AN ANCHOR WHERE THE ARMS AND THE SHANK MEET. A STANDARD SIZE OF PRINTING PAPER MEASURING 20 INCHES X 15 INCHES. A MONOCYCLIC LIGAND HAVING THREE OR MORE BINDING SITES, CAPABLE OF HOLDING A GUEST IN A CENTRAL LOCATION. DURING CHILDBIRTH, THE APPEARANCE OF THE BABY'S HEAD FROM THE MOTHER'S VAGINA. A ROUNDING OR SMOOTHING OF THE BARREL OPENING. OF, RELATED TO, OR PERTAINING TO A CROWN. OF, RELATED TO, PERTAINING TO THE TOP OF A TREE OR TREES. TO PLACE A CROWN ON THE HEAD OF. TO FORMALLY DECLARE (SOMEONE) A KING OR EMPEROR. TO DECLARE (SOMEONE) A WINNER. OF A BABY, DURING THE BIRTHING PROCESS; FOR THE SURFACE OF THE BABY'S HEAD TO APPEAR IN THE VAGINAL OPENING. TO CAUSE TO ROUND UPWARD; TO MAKE ANYTHING HIGHER AT THE MIDDLE THAN AT THE EDGES, SUCH AS THE FACE OF A MACHINE PULLEY. TO HIT ON THE HEAD. TO SHOOT AN OPPONENT IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD WITH A SHOTGUN IN A FIRST-PERSON SHOOTER VIDEO GAME. IN CHECKERS, TO STACK TWO CHECKERS TO INDICATE THAT THE PIECE HAS BECOME A KING. TO WIDEN THE OPENING OF THE BARREL. P. P. OF CROW. A WREATH OR GARLAND, OR ANY ORNAMENTAL FILLET ENCIRCLING THE HEAD, ESPECIALLY AS A REWARD OF VICTORY OR MARK OF HONORABLE DISTINCTION; HENCE, ANYTHING GIVEN ON ACCOUNT OF, OR OBTAINED BY, FAITHFUL OR SUCCESSFUL EFFORT; A REWARD. A ROYAL HEADDRESS OR CAP OF SOVEREIGNTY, WORN BY EMPERORS, KINGS, PRINCES, ETC. THE PERSON ENTITLED TO WEAR A REGAL OR IMPERIAL CROWN; THE SOVEREIGN; -- WITH THE DEFINITE ARTICLE. IMPERIAL OR REGAL POWER OR DOMINION; SOVEREIGNTY. ANYTHING WHICH IMPARTS BEAUTY, SPLENDOR, HONOR, DIGNITY, OR FINISH. HIGHEST STATE; ACME; CONSUMMATION; PERFECTION. THE TOPMOST PART OF ANYTHING; THE SUMMIT. THE TOPMOST PART OF THE HEAD; THAT PART OF THE HEAD FROM WHICH THE HAIR DESCENDS TOWARD THE SIDES AND BACK; ALSO, THE HEAD OR BRAIN. THE PART OF A HAT ABOVE THE BRIM. THE PART OF A TOOTH WHICH PROJECTS ABOVE THE GUM; ALSO, THE TOP OR GRINDING SURFACE OF A TOOTH. THE VERTEX OR TOP OF AN ARCH; -- APPLIED GENERALLY TO ABOUT ONE THIRD OF THE CURVE, BUT IN A POINTED ARCH TO THE APEX ONLY. SAME AS CORONA. THAT PART OF AN ANCHOR WHERE THE ARMS ARE JOINED TO THE SHANK. THE ROUNDING, OR ROUNDED PART, OF THE DECK FROM A LEVEL LINE. THE BIGHTS FORMED BY THE SEVERAL TURNS OF A CABLE. THE UPPER RANGE OF FACETS IN A ROSE DIAMOND. THE DOME OF A FURNACE. THE AREA ENCLOSED BETWEEN TWO CONCENTRIC PERIMETERS. A ROUND SPOT SHAVED CLEAN ON THE TOP OF THE HEAD, AS A MARK OF THE CLERICAL STATE; THE TONSURE. A SIZE OF WRITING PAPER. A COIN STAMPED WITH THE IMAGE OF A CROWN; HENCE, A DENOMINATION OF MONEY. 20; THE DANISH OR NORWEGIAN CROWN, A MONEY OF ACCOUNT, ETC., WORTH NEARLY TWENTY-SEVEN CENTS. AN ORNAMENTS OR DECORATION REPRESENTING A CROWN. TO COVER, DECORATE, OR INVEST WITH A CROWN; HENCE, TO INVEST WITH ROYAL DIGNITY AND POWER. TO BESTOW SOMETHING UPON AS A MARK OF HONOR, DIGNITY, OR RECOMPENSE; TO ADORN; TO DIGNIFY. TO FORM THE TOPMOST OR FINISHING PART OF; TO COMPLETE; TO CONSUMMATE; TO PERFECT. TO CAUSE TO ROUND UPWARD; TO MAKE ANYTHING HIGHER AT THE MIDDLE THAN AT THE EDGES, AS THE FACE OF A MACHINE PULLEY. TO AFFECT A LODGMENT UPON, AS UPON THE CREST OF THE GLACIS, OR THE SUMMIT OF THE BREACH. AN ORNAMENT FOR THE HEAD; ORIGINALLY, AMONG THE ANCIENTS, A WREATH OR GARLAND; HENCE, ANY WREATH OR GARLAND WORN ON THE HEAD; A CORONAL. AN ORNAMENT OR COVERING FOR THE HEAD WORN AS A SYMBOL OF SOVEREIGNTY. FIGURATIVELY, REGAL POWER; ROYALTY KINGLY GOVERNMENT. THE WEARER OF A CROWN; THE SOVEREIGN AS HEAD OF THE STATE. HONORARY DISTINCTION; REWARD; GUERDON. A CROWNING HONOR OR DISTINCTION; AN EXALTING ATTRIBUTE OR CONDITION. THE TOP OR HIGHEST PART OF SOMETHING; THE UPPERMOST PART OR EMINENCE, LIKENED TO A CROWN. THE TOP OF A HAT OR OTHER COVERING FOR THE HEAD. THE SUMMIT OF A MOUNTAIN OR OTHER ELEVATED OBJECT. THE END OF THE SHANK OF AN ANCHOR, OR THE POINT FROM WHICH THE ARMS PROCEED; THE PART WHERE THE ARMS ARE JOINED TO THE SHANK. SEE CUT UNDER ANCHOR. IN LAPIDARIES' WORK, THE PART OF A CUT GEM ABOVE THE GIRDLE. IN MECH., ANY TERMINAL FLAT MEMBER OF A STRUCTURE. IN ARCHITECTURE, THE UPPERMOST MEMBER OF A CORNICE; THE CORONA OR LARMIER. THE FACE OF AN ANVIL. THE HIGHEST OR CENTRAL PART OF A ROAD, CAUSEWAY, BRIDGE, ETC. THE CREST, AS OF A BIRD. COMPLETION; CONSUMMATION; HIGHEST OR MOST PERFECT STATE; ACME. A LITTLE CIRCLE SHAVED ON THE TOP OF THE HEAD AS A MARK OF ECCLESIASTICAL OFFICE OR DISTINCTION; THE TONSURE. THAT PART OF A TOOTH WHICH APPEARS ABOVE THE GUM; ESPECIALLY, THAT PART OF A MOLAR TOOTH WHICH OPPOSES THE SAME PART OF A TOOTH OF THE OPPOSITE JAW. IN GEOMETRY, THE AREA ENCLOSED BETWEEN TWO CONCENTRIC CIRCLES. IN BOTANY, A CIRCLE OF APPENDAGES ON THE THROAT OF THE COROLLA, ETC. A COIN GENERALLY BEARING A CROWN OR A CROWNED HEAD ON THE REVERSE. IN GREAT BRITAIN, A PRINTING-PAPER OF THE SIZE 15 × 20 INCHES: SO-CALLED FROM THE WATER-MARK OF A CROWN, ONCE GIVEN EXCLUSIVELY TO THIS SIZE. IN THE UNITED STATES, A WRITING-PAPER OF THE SIZE 15 × 19 INCHES. NAUTICAL, A KIND OF KNOT MADE WITH THE STRANDS OF A ROPE. RELATING TO, PERTAINING TO, OR CONNECTED WITH THE CROWN OR ROYAL POSSESSIONS AND AUTHORITY: AS, THE CROWN JEWELS. TO BESTOW A CROWN OR GARLAND UPON; PLACE A GARLAND UPON THE HEAD OF. TO INVEST WITH OR AS IF WITH A REGAL CROWN; HENCE, TO INVEST WITH REGAL DIGNITY AND POWER. TO COVER AS IF WITH A CROWN. TO CONFER HONOR, REWARD, OR DIGNITY UPON; RECOMPENSE; DIGNIFY; DISTINGUISH; ADORN. TO FORM THE TOPMOST OR FINISHING PART OF; TERMINATE; COMPLETE; FILL UP, AS A BOWL WITH WINE; CONSUMMATE; PERFECT. MILIT., TO AFFECT A LODGMENT AND ESTABLISH WORKS UPON, AS THE CREST OF THE GLACIS OR THE SUMMIT OF A BREACH. IN THE GAME OF CHECKERS, TO MAKE A KING OF, OR MARK AS A KING: SAID OF PLACING ANOTHER PIECE UPON THE TOP OF ONE THAT HAS BEEN MOVED INTO AN OPPONENT'S KING-ROW. TO MARK WITH THE TONSURE, AS A SIGN OF ADMISSION TO THE PRIESTHOOD. NAUTICAL, TO FORM INTO A SORT OF KNOT, AS A ROPE, BY PASSING THE STRANDS OVER AND UNDER ONE ANOTHER. THE HORIZONTAL CAP-PIECE OR COLLAR OF A SET OF MINE TIMBERS. ALSO CALLED CROWN-TREE. THAT PART OF THE BRIDLE OF A HARNESS WHICH EXTENDS OVER THE HORSE'S HEAD AND TO WHICH THE CHECKS ARE ATTACHED. IN AGRICULTURE, THE MIDDLE LINE OF A RIDGE OF LAND, FORMED BY TWO FURROW-SLICES LAID BACK TO BACK. IN BELL-FOUNDING, THE TOP OF A BELL, OF WHICH THE CANNONS ARE PARTS AND TO WHICH THE TONGUE IS ATTACHED WITHIN. ALSO CALLED PALLET. SAME AS HOWELL. THE SUMMIT OF A ROOT, AS OF A BEET OR TURNIP, THE LEAF-BASES FORMING A CIRCLE. THE LEAVES AND LIVING BRANCHES OF A TREE. AN ABBREVIATION OF CROWN-GLASS. TO GIVE A CROWN OR BULGE TO: AS, TO CROWN THE SURFACE OF A SHIP'S DECK. TO CUT OFF (THE CROWN), AS OF A SUGAR-BEET. INVEST WITH REGAL POWER; ENTHRONE. (DENTISTRY) DENTAL APPLIANCE CONSISTING OF AN ARTIFICIAL CROWN FOR A BROKEN OR DECAYED TOOTH. THE CENTER OF A CAMBERED ROAD. FORM THE TOPMOST PART OF. THE AWARD GIVEN TO THE CHAMPION. PUT AN ENAMEL COVER ON. THE PART OF A HAT (THE VERTEX) THAT COVERS THE CROWN OF THE HEAD. THE CROWN (OR THE REIGNING MONARCH) AS THE SYMBOL OF THE POWER AND AUTHORITY OF A MONARCHY. AN ENGLISH COIN WORTH 5 SHILLINGS. THE PART OF A TOOTH ABOVE THE GUM THAT IS COVERED WITH ENAMEL. THE UPPER BRANCHES AND LEAVES OF A TREE OR OTHER PLANT. THE TOP OF THE HEAD. THE TOP OR EXTREME POINT OF SOMETHING (USUALLY A MOUNTAIN OR HILL). BE THE CULMINATING EVENT. AN ORNAMENTAL JEWELED HEADDRESS SIGNIFYING SOVEREIGNTY. A WREATH OR GARLAND WORN ON THE HEAD TO SIGNIFY VICTORY. THE BASIC RUN UP OF THE 31 DAYS IN THE KINGDOM OF LORDSHIP IS AS FOLLOWS: THE CROSS OF JESUS CHRIST IN LUKE 23. 0TH DAY IS THE RESURRECTION DOORWAY TO SUPREME LORDSHIP (120 DAYS/120 NIGHTS) OF THE CROWN IN LUKE 24. 1ST DAY IS THE TRUE CROWN HOLY DIVISION IN SUPREME LORDSHIP (MARK 13:32-37) OF ALL THE KINGDOM EMPIRES IN ACTS 1. 2ND DAY IS THE CROWN OFFICE & THE COMING OF THE HOLY GHOST IN THE SUPREME LORDSHIP OF THE LAW (MATTHEW 24:36-44) IN ACTS 2. 3RD DAY IS THE HEALING IN SUPREME AUTHORITY (ROMANS 13:1-2) OF THE DWARF IN ACTS 3. 4TH DAY IS THE ULTIMATE VICTORY IN SUPREME AUTHORITY (ROMANS 13:1-2) IN THE NAME OF JESUS, WHICH IS STEPHEN THE CROWN IN ACTS 4. 5TH DAY IS THE WORK & PLAN IN SUPREME AUTHORITY (ROMANS 13:1-2) OF THE CROWN IN ACTS 5. 6TH DAY IS THE TREASON IN CORRUPT AUTHORITY (ACTS 6:9, 11-14) AGAINST THE CROWN IN ACTS 6. TREASON MEANS “THE OFFENSE OF ATTEMPTING BY OVERT ACTS TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE TO WHICH THE OFFENDER OWES ALLEGIANCE OR TO KILL OR PERSONALLY INJURE THE SOVEREIGN OR THE SOVEREIGN'S FAMILY.” OR “THE BETRAYAL OF A TRUST.” THE USA DEFINITION OF TEASON IS “TREASON IS THE ONLY CRIME THAT IS EXPLICITLY DEFINED IN THE U.S. CONSTITUTION, WHICH DESCRIBES IT AS WHEN SOMEONE "OWING ALLEGIANCE TO THE UNITED STATES, LEVIES WAR AGAINST THEM OR ADHERES TO THEIR ENEMIES, GIVING THEM AID AND COMFORT WITHIN THE UNITED STATES OR ELSEWHERE." & ULTIMATELY, “TREASON IS THE BREACH OF THE TRUE ALLEGIANCE THAT IS ONLY OWED TO THE CROWN (THE LORD’S WORK IN ACTS 5:38-39; 6:1-15), WHICH IS THE TOP ENGLISH LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH HIMSELF.” TREASON: SYNONYMS: TREACHERY, LESE-MAJESTY, DISLOYALTY, BETRAYAL, FAITHLESSNESS, PERFIDY, PERFIDIOUSNESS, DUPLICITY, INFIDELITY, SEDITION, SUBVERSION, MUTINY, REBELLION, HIGH TREASON, PUNIC FAITH. 7TH DAY IS THE CONSPIRACY IN CORRUPT AUTHORITY (ACTS 7:57-60) AGAINST THE CROWN IN ACTS 7. CONSPIRACY MEANS “A SECRET PLAN BY A GROUP TO DO SOMETHING UNLAWFUL OR HARMFUL THAT LEADS TO DEATH.” OR “THE ACT OF CONSPIRING TOGETHER” & ULTIMATELY, “THE ACT OF CONSPIRING TOGETHER AGAINST THE CROWN (THE LORD’S PLAN IN ACTS 5:38-39; 7:1-60), WHICH IS THE TOP ENGLISH LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH.” CONSPIRACY: SYNONYMS: PLOT, SCHEME, STRATAGEM, MOTIVE, PLAN, MACHINATION, CABAL, DECEPTION, PLOY, TRICK, RUSE, DODGE, SUBTERFUGE, SHARP PRACTICE, FRAME-UP, FIT-UP, RACKET, PUT-UP JOB, COMPLOT, COVIN. 8TH DAY IS THE KINGDOM EMPIRE OF BLACK AFRICANS IN ACTS 8. 9TH DAY IS THE ULTIMATE VICTORY & ETERNAL ESTABLISHMENT OF THE SUPREME AUTHORITY (ROMANS 13:1-2) KINGDOM EMPIRE OF THE CROWN (KETER) IN ACTS 9. 10TH DAY IS THE SUPREME AUTHORITY (ROMANS 13:1-2) KINGDOM EMPIRE OF THE CROWN IN ACTS 10. 11TH DAY IS THE SUPREME AUTHORITY (ROMANS 13:1-2) KINGDOM EMPIRE OF THE CROWN IN ACTS 11. 12TH DAY IS THE SUPREME AUTHORITY (ROMANS 13:1-2) KINGDOM EMPIRE OF THE CROWN IN ACTS 12. 13TH DAY IS THE SUPREME AUTHORITY (ROMANS 13:1-2) KINGDOM EMPIRE OF THE CROWN IN ACTS 13. 14TH DAY IS THE SUPREME AUTHORITY (ROMANS 13:1-2) KINGDOM EMPIRE OF THE CROWN IN ACTS 14. 15TH DAY IS THE SUPREME AUTHORITY (ROMANS 13:1-2) KINGDOM EMPIRE OF THE CROWN IN ACTS 15. 16TH DAY IS THE SUPREME AUTHORITY (ROMANS 13:1-2) KINGDOM EMPIRE OF THE CROWN IN ACTS 16. 17TH DAY IS THE SUPREME AUTHORITY (ROMANS 13:1-2) KINGDOM EMPIRE OF THE CROWN IN ACTS 17. 18TH DAY IS THE SUPREME AUTHORITY (ROMANS 13:1-2) KINGDOM EMPIRE OF THE CROWN IN ACTS 18. 19TH DAY IS THE SUPREME AUTHORITY (ROMANS 13:1-2) KINGDOM EMPIRE OF THE CROWN IN ACTS 19. 20TH DAY IS THE SUPREME AUTHORITY (ROMANS 13:1-2) KINGDOM EMPIRE OF THE CROWN IN ACTS 20. 21ST DAY IS THE SUPREME AUTHORITY (ROMANS 13:1-2) KINGDOM EMPIRE OF THE CROWN IN ACTS 21. 22ND DAY IS THE SUPREME AUTHORITY (ROMANS 13:1-2) KINGDOM EMPIRE OF THE CROWN IN ACTS 22. 23RD DAY IS THE SUPREME AUTHORITY (ROMANS 13:1-2) KINGDOM EMPIRE OF THE CROWN IN ACTS 23. 24TH DAY IS THE SUPREME AUTHORITY (ROMANS 13:1-2) KINGDOM EMPIRE OF THE CROWN IN ACTS 24. 25TH DAY IS THE SUPREME AUTHORITY (ROMANS 13:1-2) KINGDOM EMPIRE OF THE CROWN IN ACTS 25. 26TH DAY IS THE SUPREME AUTHORITY (ROMANS 13:1-2) KINGDOM EMPIRE OF THE CROWN IN ACTS 26. 27TH DAY IS THE SUPREME AUTHORITY (ROMANS 13:1-2) KINGDOM EMPIRE OF THE CROWN IN ACTS 27. 28TH DAY IS THE SUPREME AUTHORITY (ROMANS 13:1-2) KINGDOM EMPIRE OF THE CROWN IN ACTS 28. 29TH DAY IS THE SUPREME AUTHORITY (ROMANS 13:1-2) KINGDOM EMPIRE OF THE CROWN IN ACTS 29. 30TH DAY IS THE SUPREME LORDSHIP OF THE LAW (MATTHEW 24:36-44) KINGDOM EMPIRE OF THE CROWN IN ACTS 30. 31ST DAY IS THE SUPREME LORDSHIP (MARK 13:32-37) OF THE KINGDOM EMPIRE OF THE CROWN IN ACTS 31. THE TREASON AGAINST THE CROWN OR HIS CROWN APPOINTED AUTHORITIES TREASON IS CRIMINAL DISLOYALTY, TYPICALLY TO THE STATE. IT IS A CRIME THAT COVERS SOME OF THE MORE EXTREME ACTS AGAINST ONE'S NATION OR SOVEREIGN. THIS USUALLY INCLUDES THINGS SUCH AS PARTICIPATING IN A WAR AGAINST ONE'S NATIVE COUNTRY, ATTEMPTING TO OVERTHROW ITS GOVERNMENT, SPYING ON ITS MILITARY, ITS DIPLOMATS, OR ITS SECRET SERVICES FOR A HOSTILE AND FOREIGN POWER, OR ATTEMPTING TO KILL ITS HEAD OF STATE. A PERSON WHO COMMITS TREASON IS KNOWN IN LAW AS A TRAITOR. BUT BIBLICALLY, ABSOLUTELY TRUTHFUL, AND SIMPLY PUT, ANY KIND OF DISLOYALTY AGAINST THE CROWN, THE CROWN’S COMMANDS, THE CROWN’S AUTHORITIES & THE CROWN’S INTERESTS, SUCH AS THE GLOBAL CRIMINAL DISLOYALTY TO NOT OR NEVER PAY YOUR 10% LIFETIME TITHE FROM ANY INDIVIDUAL WHO MAKES MONEY OR ANY INSTITUTION WHO MAKES MONEY IN ORDER TO ESTABLISH AUTHORIZED ACCEPTANCE BY GODLY FEAR & WORKING RIGHTEOUSNESS TO THE CROWN & THEN BE AUTHORIZED TO BE ABLE TO SWEAR ALLIEGANCE TO THE CROWN, AND ONLY THE CROWN! BUT SINCE THERE IS A GLOBAL TREASON AGAINST THE CROWN, WHEN IT COMES TO WHAT IS OWED IN THE CROWN’S MONEY TO THE CROWN, THIS IN FACT ALWAYS SHALL INCUR THE ETERNAL ARRESTS & THE ETERNAL DEATH PENALTIES ON ONGING THIEVES (MATTHEW 6:24; 2 CORINTHIANS 11:13-15; 1 TIMOTHY 6:9-10 & LUKE 16:9, 11, 13, 15) & ONGOING LIARS (MATTHEW 6:24; ROMANS 1:21-28, 32 & 1 TIMOTHY 6:9-10; 1 JOHN 1:8, 10 & LUKE 16:9, 11, 13, 15) AGAINST THE CROWN IN ACTS 5:1-11; 13:4-12! HISTORICALLY, IN COMMON LAW COUNTRIES, TREASON ALSO COVERED THE MURDER OF SPECIFIC SOCIAL SUPERIORS, SUCH AS THE MURDER OF A HUSBAND BY HIS WIFE OR THAT OF A MASTER BY HIS SERVANT. TREASON AGAINST THE KING WAS KNOWN AS HIGH TREASON AND TREASON AGAINST A LESSER SUPERIOR WAS PETTY TREASON. AS JURISDICTIONS AROUND THE WORLD ABOLISHED PETTY TREASON, "TREASON" CAME TO REFER TO WHAT WAS HISTORICALLY KNOWN AS HIGH TREASON. AT TIMES, THE TERM TRAITOR HAS BEEN USED AS A POLITICAL EPITHET, REGARDLESS OF ANY VERIFIABLE TREASONABLE ACTION. IN A CIVIL WAR OR INSURRECTION, THE WINNERS MAY DEEM THE LOSERS TO BE TRAITORS. LIKEWISE, THE TERM TRAITOR IS USED IN HEATED POLITICAL DISCUSSION – TYPICALLY AS A SLUR AGAINST POLITICAL DISSIDENTS, OR AGAINST OFFICIALS IN POWER WHO ARE PERCEIVED AS FAILING TO ACT IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THEIR CONSTITUENTS. IN CERTAIN CASES, AS WITH THE DOLCHSTOßLEGENDE (STAB-IN-THE-BACK MYTH), THE ACCUSATION OF TREASON TOWARDS A LARGE GROUP OF PEOPLE CAN BE A UNIFYING POLITICAL MESSAGE. IN ENGLISH LAW, HIGH TREASON WAS PUNISHABLE BY BEING HANGED, DRAWN AND QUARTERED (MEN) OR BURNT AT THE STAKE (WOMEN), ALTHOUGH BEHEADING COULD BE SUBSTITUTED BY ROYAL COMMAND (USUALLY FOR ROYALTY AND NOBILITY). THOSE PENALTIES WERE ABOLISHED IN 1814, 1790 AND 1973 RESPECTIVELY. THE PENALTY WAS USED BY LATER MONARCHS AGAINST PEOPLE WHO COULD REASONABLY BE CALLED TRAITORS. MANY OF THEM WOULD NOW JUST BE CONSIDERED DISSIDENTS. CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY AND POLITICAL THINKING UNTIL AFTER THE ENLIGHTENMENT CONSIDERED TREASON AND BLASPHEMY SYNONYMOUS, AS IT CHALLENGED BOTH THE STATE AND THE WILL OF GOD. KINGS WERE CONSIDERED CHOSEN BY GOD, AND TO BETRAY ONE'S COUNTRY WAS TO DO THE WORK OF LUCIFER (SATAN & THE GREAT DEVIL) & VICTORIA (BABYLON & THE GREAT WITCH). THE WORDS "TREASON" AND "TRAITOR" ARE DERIVED FROM THE LATIN TRADERE, "TO DELIVER OR HAND OVER".[4] SPECIFICALLY, IT IS DERIVED FROM THE TERM "TRADITORS", WHICH REFERS TO BISHOPS AND OTHER CHRISTIANS WHO TURNED OVER SACRED SCRIPTURES OR BETRAYED THEIR FELLOW CHRISTIANS TO THE ROMAN AUTHORITIES UNDER THREAT OF PERSECUTION DURING THE DIOCLETIANIC PERSECUTION BETWEEN AD 303 AND 305. ORIGINALLY, THE CRIME OF TREASON WAS CONCEIVED OF AS BEING COMMITTED AGAINST THE MONARCH; A SUBJECT FAILING IN HIS DUTY OF LOYALTY TO THE SOVEREIGN AND ACTING AGAINST THE SOVEREIGN WAS DEEMED TO BE A TRAITOR. QUEENS ANNE BOLEYN AND CATHERINE HOWARD WERE EXECUTED FOR TREASON FOR ADULTERY AGAINST HENRY VIII, ALTHOUGH MOST HISTORIANS REGARD THE EVIDENCE AGAINST ANNE BOLEYN AND HER ALLEGED LOVERS TO BE DUBIOUS. AS ASSERTED IN THE 18TH CENTURY TRIAL OF JOHANN FRIEDRICH STRUENSEE IN DENMARK, A MAN HAVING SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH A QUEEN CAN BE CONSIDERED GUILTY NOT ONLY OF ORDINARY ADULTERY BUT ALSO OF TREASON AGAINST HER HUSBAND, THE KING. THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION IN THE 17TH CENTURY AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION IN THE 18TH INTRODUCED A RADICALLY DIFFERENT CONCEPT OF LOYALTY AND TREASON, UNDER WHICH SOVEREIGNTY RESIDES WITH "THE NATION" OR "THE PEOPLE" - TO WHOM ALSO THE MONARCH HAS A DUTY OF LOYALTY, AND FOR FAILING WHICH THE MONARCH, TOO, COULD BE ACCUSED OF TREASON. CHARLES I IN ENGLAND AND LOUIS XVI IN FRANCE WERE FOUND GUILTY OF SUCH TREASON AND DULY EXECUTED. HOWEVER, WHEN CHARLES II WAS RESTORED TO HIS THRONE, HE CONSIDERED THE REVOLUTIONARIES WHO SENTENCED HIS FATHER TO DEATH AS HAVING BEEN TRAITORS IN THE MORE TRADITIONAL SENSE. IN MODERN TIMES, "TRAITOR" AND "TREASON" ARE MAINLY USED WITH REFERENCE TO A PERSON HELPING AN ENEMY IN TIME OF WAR OR CONFLICT. MANY NATIONS' LAWS MENTION VARIOUS TYPES OF TREASON. "CRIMES RELATED TO INSURRECTION" IS THE INTERNAL TREASON, AND MAY INCLUDE A COUP D'ÉTAT. "CRIMES RELATED TO FOREIGN AGGRESSION" IS THE TREASON OF COOPERATING WITH FOREIGN AGGRESSION POSITIVELY REGARDLESS OF THE NATIONAL INSIDE AND OUTSIDE. "CRIMES RELATED TO INDUCEMENT OF FOREIGN AGGRESSION" IS THE CRIME OF COMMUNICATING WITH ALIENS SECRETLY TO CAUSE FOREIGN AGGRESSION OR MENACE. DEPENDING ON THE COUNTRY, CONSPIRACY IS ADDED TO THESE. IN ENGLISH LAW, HIGH TREASON WAS PUNISHABLE BY BEING HANGED, DRAWN AND QUARTERED (MEN) OR BURNT AT THE STAKE (WOMEN), ALTHOUGH BEHEADING COULD BE SUBSTITUTED BY ROYAL COMMAND (USUALLY FOR ROYALTY AND NOBILITY). THOSE PENALTIES WERE ABOLISHED IN 1814, 1790 AND 1973 RESPECTIVELY. THE PENALTY WAS USED BY LATER MONARCHS AGAINST PEOPLE WHO COULD REASONABLY BE CALLED TRAITORS. MANY OF THEM WOULD NOW JUST BE CONSIDERED DISSIDENTS. CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY AND POLITICAL THINKING UNTIL AFTER THE ENLIGHTENMENT CONSIDERED TREASON AND BLASPHEMY SYNONYMOUS, AS IT CHALLENGED BOTH THE STATE AND THE WILL OF GOD. KINGS WERE CONSIDERED CHOSEN BY GOD, AND TO BETRAY ONE'S COUNTRY WAS TO DO THE WORK OF LUCIFER (SATAN & THE GREAT DEVIL) & VICTORIA (BABYLON & THE GREAT WITCH). THE WORDS "TREASON" AND "TRAITOR" ARE DERIVED FROM THE LATIN TRADERE, "TO DELIVER OR HAND OVER". SPECIFICALLY, IT IS DERIVED FROM THE TERM "TRADITORS", WHICH REFERS TO BISHOPS AND OTHER CHRISTIANS WHO TURNED OVER SACRED SCRIPTURES OR BETRAYED THEIR FELLOW CHRISTIANS TO THE ROMAN AUTHORITIES UNDER THREAT OF PERSECUTION DURING THE DIOCLETIANIC PERSECUTION BETWEEN AD 303 AND 305. ORIGINALLY, THE CRIME OF TREASON WAS CONCEIVED OF AS BEING COMMITTED AGAINST THE MONARCH; A SUBJECT FAILING IN HIS DUTY OF LOYALTY TO THE SOVEREIGN AND ACTING AGAINST THE SOVEREIGN WAS DEEMED TO BE A TRAITOR. QUEENS ANNE BOLEYN AND CATHERINE HOWARD WERE EXECUTED FOR TREASON FOR ADULTERY AGAINST HENRY VIII, ALTHOUGH MOST HISTORIANS REGARD THE EVIDENCE AGAINST ANNE BOLEYN AND HER ALLEGED LOVERS TO BE DUBIOUS. AS ASSERTED IN THE 18TH CENTURY TRIAL OF JOHANN FRIEDRICH STRUENSEE IN DENMARK, A MAN HAVING SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH A QUEEN CAN BE CONSIDERED GUILTY NOT ONLY OF ORDINARY ADULTERY BUT ALSO OF TREASON AGAINST HER HUSBAND, THE KING. THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION IN THE 17TH CENTURY AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION IN THE 18TH INTRODUCED A RADICALLY DIFFERENT CONCEPT OF LOYALTY AND TREASON, UNDER WHICH SOVEREIGNTY RESIDES WITH "THE NATION" OR "THE PEOPLE" - TO WHOM ALSO THE MONARCH HAS A DUTY OF LOYALTY, AND FOR FAILING WHICH THE MONARCH, TOO, COULD BE ACCUSED OF TREASON. CHARLES I IN ENGLAND AND LOUIS XVI IN FRANCE WERE FOUND GUILTY OF SUCH TREASON AND DULY EXECUTED. HOWEVER, WHEN CHARLES II WAS RESTORED TO HIS THRONE, HE CONSIDERED THE REVOLUTIONARIES WHO SENTENCED HIS FATHER TO DEATH AS HAVING BEEN TRAITORS IN THE MORE TRADITIONAL SENSE. IN MODERN TIMES, "TRAITOR" AND "TREASON" ARE MAINLY USED WITH REFERENCE TO A PERSON HELPING AN ENEMY IN TIME OF WAR OR CONFLICT. MANY NATIONS' LAWS MENTION VARIOUS TYPES OF TREASON. "CRIMES RELATED TO INSURRECTION" IS THE INTERNAL TREASON, AND MAY INCLUDE A COUP D'ÉTAT. "CRIMES RELATED TO FOREIGN AGGRESSION" IS THE TREASON OF COOPERATING WITH FOREIGN AGGRESSION POSITIVELY REGARDLESS OF THE NATIONAL INSIDE AND OUTSIDE. "CRIMES RELATED TO INDUCEMENT OF FOREIGN AGGRESSION" IS THE CRIME OF COMMUNICATING WITH ALIENS SECRETLY TO CAUSE FOREIGN AGGRESSION OR MENACE. DEPENDING ON THE COUNTRY, CONSPIRACY IS ADDED TO THESE. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: IN THE UNITED STATES, THERE ARE BOTH FEDERAL LAWS AND STATE LAWS PROHIBITING TREASON. IT WAS DEFINED IN ARTICLE III, SECTION 3 OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION. MOST STATE CONSTITUTIONS INCLUDE SIMILAR DEFINITIONS OF TREASON, SPECIFICALLY LIMITED TO LEVYING WAR AGAINST THE STATE, "ADHERING TO THE ENEMIES" OF THE STATE, OR AIDING THE ENEMIES OF THE STATE, AND REQUIRING TWO WITNESSES OR A CONFESSION IN OPEN COURT. FEWER THAN THIRTY PEOPLE HAVE EVER BEEN CHARGED WITH TREASON UNDER THESE LAWS. CONSTITUTIONALLY, CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES OWE ALLEGIANCE TO AT LEAST TWO SOVEREIGNS. ONE IS THE UNITED STATES, AND THE OTHER IS THEIR STATE. THEY CAN THEREFORE POTENTIALLY COMMIT TREASON AGAINST EITHER, OR AGAINST BOTH. AT LEAST FOURTEEN PEOPLE HAVE BEEN CHARGED WITH TREASON AGAINST VARIOUS STATES; AT LEAST SIX WERE CONVICTED, FIVE OF WHOM WERE EXECUTED. ONLY ONE PERSON HAS EVER BEEN EXECUTED FOR TREASON AGAINST THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT: WILLIAM BRUCE MUMFORD, WHO WAS CONVICTED OF TREASON AND HANGED IN 1862 FOR TEARING DOWN A UNITED STATES FLAG DURING THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR. HOWEVER, THIS WAS UNDER MARTIAL LAW, NOT ARTICLE THREE OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION. WHILE TREASON IS A CRIMINAL MATTER UNDER FEDERAL LAWS AND STATE LAWS, IT MAY BE CONSIDERED A CIVIL MATTER UNDER TRIBAL LAW. THE INDIAN CIVIL RIGHTS ACT LIMITS SENTENCES FOR CRIMES BY TRIBAL COURTS TO NO MORE THAN ONE YEAR IN JAIL AND A $5,000 FINE. IN THE 1790S, OPPOSITION POLITICAL PARTIES WERE NEW AND NOT FULLY ACCEPTED. GOVERNMENT LEADERS OFTEN CONSIDERED THEIR OPPONENTS TO BE TRAITORS. HISTORIAN RON CHERNOW REPORTS THAT SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY ALEXANDER HAMILTON AND PRESIDENT GEORGE WASHINGTON "REGARDED MUCH OF THE CRITICISM FIRED AT THEIR ADMINISTRATION AS DISLOYAL, EVEN TREASONOUS, IN NATURE."[33] WHEN AN UNDECLARED QUASI-WAR BROKE OUT WITH FRANCE IN 1797–98, "HAMILTON INCREASINGLY MISTOOK DISSENT FOR TREASON AND ENGAGED IN HYPERBOLE." FURTHERMORE, THE JEFFERSONIAN OPPOSITION PARTY BEHAVED THE SAME WAY.[34] AFTER 1801, WITH A PEACEFUL TRANSITION IN THE POLITICAL PARTY IN POWER, THE RHETORIC OF "TREASON" AGAINST POLITICAL OPPONENTS DIMINISHED. FEDERAL LAW: TO AVOID THE ABUSES OF THE ENGLISH LAW, THE SCOPE OF TREASON WAS SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED IN THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION. ARTICLE III, SECTION 3 READS AS FOLLOWS: TREASON AGAINST THE UNITED STATES, SHALL CONSIST ONLY IN LEVYING WAR AGAINST THEM, OR IN ADHERING TO THEIR ENEMIES, GIVING THEM AID AND COMFORT. NO PERSON SHALL BE CONVICTED OF TREASON UNLESS ON THE TESTIMONY OF TWO WITNESSES TO THE SAME OVERT ACT, OR ON CONFESSION IN OPEN COURT. THE CONGRESS SHALL HAVE POWER TO DECLARE THE PUNISHMENT OF TREASON, BUT NO ATTAINDER OF TREASON SHALL WORK CORRUPTION OF BLOOD, OR FORFEITURE EXCEPT DURING THE LIFE OF THE PERSON ATTAINTED. THE CONSTITUTION DOES NOT ITSELF CREATE THE OFFENSE; IT ONLY RESTRICTS THE DEFINITION (THE FIRST PARAGRAPH), PERMITS THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS TO CREATE THE OFFENSE, AND RESTRICTS ANY PUNISHMENT FOR TREASON TO ONLY THE CONVICTED (THE SECOND PARAGRAPH). THE CRIME IS PROHIBITED BY LEGISLATION PASSED BY CONGRESS. THEREFORE, THE UNITED STATES CODE AT 18 U.S.C. § 2381 STATES: WHOEVER, OWING ALLEGIANCE TO THE UNITED STATES, LEVIES WAR AGAINST THEM OR ADHERES TO THEIR ENEMIES, GIVING THEM AID AND COMFORT WITHIN THE UNITED STATES OR ELSEWHERE, IS GUILTY OF TREASON AND SHALL SUFFER DEATH, OR SHALL BE IMPRISONED NOT LESS THAN FIVE YEARS AND FINED UNDER THIS TITLE BUT NOT LESS THAN $10,000; AND SHALL BE INCAPABLE OF HOLDING ANY OFFICE UNDER THE UNITED STATES. THE REQUIREMENT OF TESTIMONY OF TWO WITNESSES WAS INHERITED FROM THE BRITISH TREASON ACT 1695. HOWEVER, CONGRESS HAS PASSED LAWS CREATING RELATED OFFENSES THAT PUNISH CONDUCT THAT UNDERMINES THE GOVERNMENT OR THE NATIONAL SECURITY, SUCH AS SEDITION IN THE 1798 ALIEN AND SEDITION ACTS, OR ESPIONAGE AND SEDITION IN THE ESPIONAGE ACT OF 1917, WHICH DO NOT REQUIRE THE TESTIMONY OF TWO WITNESSES AND HAVE A MUCH BROADER DEFINITION THAN ARTICLE THREE TREASON. SOME OF THESE LAWS ARE STILL IN EFFECT. THE WELL-KNOWN SPIES JULIUS AND ETHEL ROSENBERG WERE CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT ESPIONAGE, RATHER THAN TREASON. TREASON: THE BETRAYAL OF ONE'S OWN COUNTRY BY WAGING WAR AGAINST IT OR BY CONSCIOUSLY OR PURPOSELY ACTING TO AID ITS ENEMIES. THE TREASON CLAUSE TRACES ITS ROOTS BACK TO AN ENGLISH STATUTE ENACTED DURING THE REIGN OF EDWARD III (1327–1377). THIS STATUTE PROHIBITED LEVYING WAR AGAINST THE KING, ADHERING TO HIS ENEMIES, OR CONTEMPLATING HIS DEATH. ALTHOUGH THIS LAW DEFINED TREASON TO INCLUDE DISLOYAL AND SUBVERSIVE THOUGHTS, IT EFFECTIVELY CIRCUMSCRIBED THE CRIME AS IT EXISTED UNDER THE COMMON LAW. DURING THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY, THE CRIME OF TREASON ENCOMPASSED VIRTUALLY EVERY ACT CONTRARY TO THE KING'S WILL AND BECAME A POLITICAL TOOL OF THE CROWN. BUILDING ON THE TRADITION BEGUN BY EDWARD III, THE FOUNDING FATHERS CAREFULLY DELINEATED THE CRIME OF TREASON IN ARTICLE III OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTION, NARROWLY DEFINING ITS ELEMENTS AND SETTING FORTH STRINGENT EVIDENTIARY REQUIREMENTS. UNDER ARTICLE III, SECTION 3, OF THE CONSTITUTION, ANY PERSON WHO LEVIES WAR AGAINST THE UNITED STATES OR ADHERES TO ITS ENEMIES BY GIVING THEM AID AND COMFORT HAS COMMITTED TREASON WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE CONSTITUTION. THE TERM AID AND COMFORT REFERS TO ANY ACT THAT MANIFESTS A BETRAYAL OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE UNITED STATES, SUCH AS FURNISHING ENEMIES WITH ARMS, TROOPS, TRANSPORTATION, SHELTER, OR CLASSIFIED INFORMATION. IF A SUBVERSIVE ACT HAS ANY TENDENCY TO WEAKEN THE AUTHORITY OF THE UNITED STATES TO ATTACK OR RESIST ITS ENEMIES, AID AND COMFORT HAS BEEN GIVEN. THE TREASON CLAUSE APPLIES ONLY TO DISLOYAL ACTS COMMITTED DURING TIMES OF WAR. ACTS OF DIS-LOYALTY DURING PEACETIME ARE NOT CONSIDERED TREASONOUS UNDER THE CONSTITUTION. NOR DO ACTS OF ESPIONAGE COMMITTED ON BEHALF OF AN ALLY CONSTITUTE TREASON. FOR EXAMPLE, JULIUS AND ETHEL ROSENBERG WERE CONVICTED OF ESPIONAGE, IN 1951, FOR HELPING THE SOVIET UNION STEAL ATOMIC SECRETS FROM THE UNITED STATES DURING WORLD WAR II. THE ROSENBERGS WERE NOT TRIED FOR TREASON BECAUSE THE UNITED STATES AND THE SOVIET UNION WERE ALLIES DURING WORLD WAR II. UNDER ARTICLE III A PERSON CAN LEVY WAR AGAINST THE UNITED STATES WITHOUT THE USE OF ARMS, WEAPONS, OR MILITARY EQUIPMENT. PERSONS WHO PLAY ONLY A PERIPHERAL ROLE IN A CONSPIRACY TO LEVY WAR ARE STILL CONSIDERED TRAITORS UNDER THE CONSTITUTION IF AN ARMED REBELLION AGAINST THE UNITED STATES RESULTS. AFTER THE U.S. CIVIL WAR, FOR EXAMPLE, ALL CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS WERE VULNERABLE TO CHARGES OF TREASON, REGARDLESS OF THEIR ROLE IN THE SECESSION OR INSURRECTION OF THE SOUTHERN STATES. NO TREASON CHARGES WERE FILED AGAINST THESE SOLDIERS, HOWEVER, BECAUSE PRESIDENT ANDREW JOHNSON ISSUED A UNIVERSAL AMNESTY. THE CRIME OF TREASON REQUIRES A TRAITOROUS INTENT. IF A PERSON UNWITTINGLY OR UNINTENTIONALLY GIVES AID AND COMFORT TO AN ENEMY OF THE UNITED STATES DURING WARTIME, TREASON HAS NOT OCCURRED. SIMILARLY, A PERSON WHO PURSUES A COURSE OF ACTION THAT IS INTENDED TO BENEFIT THE UNITED STATES BUT MISTAKENLY HELPS AN ENEMY IS NOT GUILTY OF TREASON. INADVERTENT DISLOYALTY IS NEVER PUNISHABLE AS TREASON, NO MATTER HOW MUCH DAMAGE THE UNITED STATES SUFFERS. AS IN ANY OTHER CRIMINAL TRIAL IN THE UNITED STATES, A DEFENDANT CHARGED WITH TREASON IS PRESUMED INNOCENT UNTIL PROVED GUILTY BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT. TREASON MAY BE PROVED BY A VOLUNTARY CONFESSION IN OPEN COURT OR BY EVIDENCE THAT THE DEFENDANT COMMITTED AN OVERT ACT OF TREASON. EACH OVERT ACT MUST BE WITNESSED BY AT LEAST TWO PEOPLE, OR A CONVICTION FOR TREASON WILL NOT STAND. BY REQUIRING THIS TYPE OF DIRECT EVIDENCE, THE CONSTITUTION MINIMIZES THE DANGER OF CONVICTING AN INNOCENT PERSON AND FORESTALLS THE POSSIBILITY OF PARTISAN WITCH-HUNTS WAGED BY A SINGLE ADVERSARY. UNEXPRESSED SEDITIOUS THOUGHTS DO NOT CONSTITUTE TREASON, EVEN IF THOSE THOUGHTS CONTEMPLATE A BLOODY REVOLUTION OR COUP. NOR DOES THE PUBLIC EXPRESSION OF SUBVERSIVE OPINIONS, INCLUDING VEHEMENT CRITICISM OF THE GOVERNMENT AND ITS POLICIES, CONSTITUTE TREASON. THE FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE U.S. CONSTITUTION GUARANTEES THE RIGHT OF ALL AMERICANS TO ADVOCATE THE VIOLENT OVERTHROW OF THEIR GOVERNMENT UNLESS SUCH ADVOCACY IS DIRECTED TOWARD INCITING IMMINENT LAWLESS ACTION AND IS LIKELY TO PRODUCE IT (BRANDENBURG V. OHIO, 395 U.S. 444, 89 S. CT. 1827, 23 L. ED. 2D 430 [1969]). ON THE OTHER HAND, THE U.S. SUPREME COURT RULED THAT THE DISTRIBUTION OF LEAFLETS PROTESTING THE DRAFT DURING WORLD WAR I WAS NOT CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED SPEECH (SCHENCK V. UNITED STATES, 249 U.S. 47, 39 S. CT. 247, 63 L. ED. 470 [1919]). BECAUSE TREASON INVOLVES THE BETRAYAL OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE UNITED STATES, A PERSON NEED NOT BE A U.S. CITIZEN TO COMMIT TREASON UNDER THE CONSTITUTION. PERSONS WHO OWE TEMPORARY ALLEGIANCE TO THE UNITED STATES CAN COMMIT TREASON. ALIENS WHO ARE DOMICILIARIES OF THE UNITED STATES, FOR EXAMPLE, CAN COMMIT TRAITOROUS ACTS DURING THE PERIOD OF THEIR DOMICILE. A SUBVERSIVE ACT DOES NOT NEED TO OCCUR ON U.S. SOIL TO BE PUNISHABLE AS TREASON. FOR EXAMPLE, MILDRED GILLARS, A U.S. CITIZEN WHO BECAME KNOWN AS AXIS SALLY, WAS CONVICTED OF TREASON FOR BROADCASTING DEMORALIZING PROPAGANDA TO ALLIED FORCES IN EUROPE FROM A NAZI RADIO STATION IN GERMANY DURING WORLD WAR II. TREASON IS PUNISHABLE BY DEATH. IF A DEATH SENTENCE IS NOT IMPOSED, DEFENDANTS FACE A MINIMUM PENALTY OF FIVE YEARS IN PRISON AND A $10,000 FINE (18 U.S.C.A. § 2381). A PERSON WHO IS CONVICTED OF TREASON MAY NOT HOLD FEDERAL OFFICE AT ANY TIME THEREAFTER. THE ENGLISH COMMON LAW REQUIRED DEFENDANTS TO FORFEIT ALL OF THEIR PROPERTY, REAL AND PERSONAL, UPON CONVICTION FOR TREASON. IN SOME CASES, THE BRITISH CROWN CONFISCATED THE PROPERTY OF IMMEDIATE FAMILY MEMBERS AS WELL. THE COMMON LAW ALSO PRECLUDED CONVICTED TRAITORS FROM BEQUEATHING THEIR PROPERTY THROUGH A WILL. RELATIVES WERE PRESUMED TO BE TAINTED BY THE BLOOD OF THE TRAITOR AND WERE NOT PERMITTED TO INHERIT FROM HIM. ARTICLE III OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTION OUTLAWS SUCH "CORRUPTION OF THE BLOOD" AND LIMITS THE PENALTY OF FORFEITURE TO "THE LIFE OF THE PERSON ATTAINTED." UNDER THIS PROVISION RELATIVES CANNOT BE MADE TO FORFEIT THEIR PROPERTY OR INHERITANCE FOR CRIMES COMMITTED BY TRAITOROUS FAMILY MEMBERS. THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE CROWN OR HIS CROWN APPOINTED AUTHORITIES A CONSPIRACY, ALSO KNOWN AS A PLOT, IS A SECRET PLAN OR AGREEMENT BETWEEN PERSONS (CALLED CONSPIRERS OR CONSPIRATORS) FOR AN UNLAWFUL OR HARMFUL PURPOSE, SUCH AS MURDER OR TREASON, ESPECIALLY WITH POLITICAL MOTIVATION, WHILE KEEPING THEIR AGREEMENT SECRET FROM THE PUBLIC OR FROM OTHER PEOPLE AFFECTED BY IT. BUT BIBLICALLY, ABSOLUTELY TRUTHFUL, AND SIMPLY PUT, ANY KIND OF DISLOYALTY AGAINST THE CROWN, THE CROWN’S COMMANDS, THE CROWN’S AUTHORITIES & THE CROWN’S INTERESTS, SUCH AS THE GLOBAL CRIMINAL DISLOYALTY TO NOT OR NEVER PAY YOUR 10% LIFETIME TITHE FROM ANY INDIVIDUAL WHO MAKES MONEY OR ANY INSTITUTION WHO MAKES MONEY IN ORDER TO ESTABLISH AUTHORIZED ACCEPTANCE BY GODLY FEAR & WORKING RIGHTEOUSNESS TO THE CROWN & THEN BE AUTHORIZED TO BE ABLE TO SWEAR ALLIEGANCE TO THE CROWN, AND ONLY THE CROWN! BUT SINCE THERE IS A GLOBAL CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE CROWN, WHEN IT COMES TO WHAT IS OWED IN THE CROWN’S MONEY TO THE CROWN, THIS IN FACT ALWAYS SHALL INCUR THE ETERNAL ARRESTS & THE ETERNAL DEATH PENALTIES ON ONGING THIEVES (MATTHEW 6:24; 2 CORINTHIANS 11:13-15; 1 TIMOTHY 6:9-10 & LUKE 16:9, 11, 13, 15) & ONGOING LIARS (MATTHEW 6:24; ROMANS 1:21-28, 32 & 1 TIMOTHY 6:9-10; 1 JOHN 1:8, 10 & LUKE 16:9, 11, 13, 15) AGAINST THE CROWN IN ACTS 5:1-11; 13:4-12! IN A POLITICAL SENSE, CONSPIRACY REFERS TO A GROUP OF PEOPLE UNITED IN THE GOAL OF USURPING, ALTERING OR OVERTHROWING AN ESTABLISHED POLITICAL POWER. DEPENDING ON THE CIRCUMSTANCES, A CONSPIRACY MAY ALSO BE A CRIME, OR A CIVIL WRONG. THE TERM GENERALLY IMPLIES WRONGDOING OR ILLEGALITY ON THE PART OF THE CONSPIRATORS, AS PEOPLE WOULD NOT NEED TO CONSPIRE TO ENGAGE IN ACTIVITIES THAT WERE LAWFUL AND ETHICAL, OR TO WHICH NO ONE WOULD OBJECT. THERE ARE SOME COORDINATED ACTIVITIES THAT PEOPLE ENGAGE IN WITH SECRECY THAT ARE NOT GENERALLY THOUGHT OF AS CONSPIRACIES. FOR EXAMPLE, INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES SUCH AS THE AMERICAN CIA AND THE BRITISH MI6 NECESSARILY MAKE PLANS IN SECRET TO SPY ON SUSPECTED ENEMIES OF THEIR RESPECTIVE COUNTRIES, BUT THIS KIND OF ACTIVITY IS GENERALLY NOT CONSIDERED TO BE A CONSPIRACY SO LONG AS THEIR GOAL IS TO FULFILL THEIR OFFICIAL FUNCTIONS, AND NOT SOMETHING LIKE IMPROPERLY ENRICHING THEMSELVES. SIMILARLY, THE COACHES OF COMPETING SPORTS TEAMS ROUTINELY MEET BEHIND CLOSED DOORS TO PLAN GAME STRATEGIES AND SPECIFIC PLAYS DESIGNED TO DEFEAT THEIR OPPONENTS, BUT THIS ACTIVITY IS NOT CONSIDERED A CONSPIRACY BECAUSE THIS IS CONSIDERED A LEGITIMATE PART OF THE SPORT. FURTHERMORE, A CONSPIRACY MUST BE ENGAGED IN KNOWINGLY. THE CONTINUATION OF SOCIAL TRADITIONS THAT WORK TO THE ADVANTAGE OF CERTAIN GROUPS AND TO THE DISADVANTAGE OF CERTAIN OTHER GROUPS, THOUGH POSSIBLY UNETHICAL, IS NOT A CONSPIRACY IF PARTICIPANTS IN THE PRACTICE ARE NOT CARRYING IT FORWARD FOR THE PURPOSE OF PERPETUATING THIS ADVANTAGE. ON THE OTHER HAND, IF THE INTENT OF CARRYING OUT A CONSPIRACY EXISTS, THEN THERE IS A CONSPIRACY EVEN IF THE DETAILS ARE NEVER AGREED TO ALOUD BY THE PARTICIPANTS. CIA COVERT OPERATIONS, FOR INSTANCE, ARE BY THEIR VERY NATURE HARD TO PROVE DEFINITIVELY. BUT RESEARCH INTO THE AGENCY'S WORK, AS WELL AS REVELATIONS BY FORMER CIA EMPLOYEES, HAS SUGGESTED SEVERAL CASES WHERE THE AGENCY TRIED TO INFLUENCE EVENTS. BETWEEN 1947 AND 1989, THE UNITED STATES TRIED TO CHANGE OTHER NATIONS' GOVERNMENTS 72 TIMES. DURING THE COLD WAR, 26 OF THE UNITED STATES' COVERT OPERATIONS SUCCESSFULLY BROUGHT A U.S.-BACKED GOVERNMENT TO POWER; THE REMAINING 40 FAILED. A "CONSPIRACY THEORY" IS A BELIEF THAT A CONSPIRACY HAS ACTUALLY BEEN DECISIVE IN PRODUCING A POLITICAL EVENT OF WHICH THE THEORISTS STRONGLY DISAPPROVE. POLITICAL SCIENTIST MICHAEL BARKUN HAS DESCRIBED CONSPIRACY THEORIES AS RELYING ON THE VIEW THAT THE UNIVERSE IS GOVERNED BY DESIGN, AND EMBODY THREE PRINCIPLES: NOTHING HAPPENS BY ACCIDENT, NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMS, AND EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED.[7] ANOTHER COMMON FEATURE IS THAT CONSPIRACY THEORIES EVOLVE TO INCORPORATE WHATEVER EVIDENCE EXISTS AGAINST THEM, SO THAT THEY BECOME, AS BARKUN WRITES, A CLOSED SYSTEM THAT IS UNFALSIFIABLE, AND THEREFORE "A MATTER OF FAITH RATHER THAN PROOF". TYPES OF CONSPIRACIES: CONSPIRACY (CIVIL), AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN PEOPLE TO DECEIVE, MISLEAD, OR DEFRAUD OTHERS OF THEIR LEGAL RIGHTS OR TO GAIN AN UNFAIR ADVANTAGE. CONSPIRACY (CRIMINAL), AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN PEOPLE TO BREAK THE LAW IN THE FUTURE, IN SOME CASES HAVING COMMITTED AN ACT TO FURTHER THAT AGREEMENT. CONSPIRACY (POLITICAL), AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN PEOPLE WITH THE GOAL OF GAINING POLITICAL POWER OR MEETING A POLITICAL OBJECTIVE. HUB-AND-SPOKE CONSPIRACY, A CONSPIRACY IN WHICH ONE OR MORE PRINCIPAL CONSPIRATORS (THE "HUB") ENTER INTO SEVERAL SIMILAR AGREEMENTS WITH OTHERS (THE "SPOKES") WHO KNOW CONCERTED ACTION IS CONTEMPLATED, USUALLY WHERE THE SUCCESS OF THE CONCERTED ACTION DEPENDS ON THE PARTICIPATION OF THE OTHER SPOKES. KING DAVID WAS ON THE LATTICE PORCH A COUPLE OR STORIES UP AND HE LOOKED IN AN OPEN WINDOW AND SAW A NAKED WOMAN BATHING. DAVID THEN CALLED FOR HER AND BECAUSE HE WAS A KING OF POWER, SHE, DID NOT REFUSE HIS WISHES AND SHE LAY WITH HIM. NOW URIAH THE HUSBAND OF BATHSHEBA CAME BACK FROM WAR (END OF 1 POSITION) AND BATHSHEBA WAS PREGNANT WITH DAVID’S DOING. SO, DAVID CALLED URIAH TO HAVE AN AUDIENCE WITH HIM AND TRIED TO GET URIAH TO GO HOME AND SLEEP WITH HIS WIFE, SO THE BABY WOULD BE CALLED URIAH’S AND NOT DAVID’S. BUT URIAH WAS A SOLDIER AND TOLD THE KING THAT IT WOULD NOT BE RIGHT TO GO HOME WITH THE COMFORTS OF A WIFE, WHEN HIS FELLOW SOLDIERS WERE DYING ON THE BATTLE FIELD. SO, URIAH STAYED IN THE COURTYARD INSTEAD THAT NIGHT. THEN DAVID SENT A LETTER TO THE COMMAND GENERAL COMMANDING URIAH TO BE PLACED IN THE HOTTEST BATTLE OF THE COMBAT ZONE BECAUSE DAVID WAS HOPING URIAH WOULD BE KILLED AND DAVID COULD TAKE THE WIFE. SUCCESSFULLY, URIAH WAS KILLED IN BATTLE (MIDST OF POSITION). DAVID HAD ANOTHER PROBLEM THAT HE HAD TO FACE. THE LORD BROUGHT EVIL UP IN HIS HOUSE BECAUSE OF KILLING URIAH IN BATTLE (MIDST OF POSITION) THROUGH HIS COMMAND AS KING. EVEN THOUGH DAVID ASKED THE LORD FOR A CLEAN HEART AND A RENEWED SPIRIT WITHIN HIM [FIGHT-BEGINNING OF 1 POSITION], HE STILL HAD TROUBLE BECAUSE OF THE MURDER OF URIAH, AND NOT FOR THE ADULTERY COMMITTED BETWEEN THE TWO, & LATER ON AS THE YEARS PASSED ABSALOM WANTED TO BE KING AFTER HIS FATHER, BUT KING DAVID COMMANDED THAT SOLOMON WOULD REIGN AFTER IN HIS STEAD. SO GENERAL JOAB AND ABSALOM DID CONSPIRACIES AND TREASON AGAINST THE CROWN AND WHEN SOLOMON REIGNED AS KING, & HE HAD TO KILL HIS BROTHER ABSALOM AND GENERAL JOAB THAT SERVED KING DAVID FOR 30 YEARS FOR THE SECURITY OF THE KINGDOM IN 1ST KINGS 1:7-2:35. THIS IS AT THE LORD SOLOMON’S LEVEL WHICH ACCORDING TO HIS FLESH WOULD RAISE UP TO CROWN, THE TOP ENGLISH LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH, OR SIMPLY THE TOP ENGLISH LORD STEPHEN TO SIT IN HIS THRONE. AND BECAUSE OF TREASON & CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE ROYAL ENGLISH CROWN, THE LORD SOLOMON HAD TO KILL HIS OWN BROTHER (THIS MEANS ANY SISTER OR BROTHER FOR 30 YEARS) & HIS TOP RANKING GENERAL (THIS MEANS ANY GENERAL FOR 30 YEARS) TO SECURE THE KINGDOM EMPIRE OF MULTI-TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN THE BUSINESS, BUT LATER ELEVATED TO KILL HIS OWN SON (THIS MEANS ANY DAUGHTER OR SON FOR 40 YEARS) & HIS HIGHER TOP RANKING GENERAL (THIS MEANS ANY GENERAL FOR 40 YEARS) FOR THE SAME THING TO SECURE THE KINGDOM EMPIRE OF MULTI-QUADRILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN THE CHURCH & THEN ELEVATED TO KILL HIS OWN FATHER (THIS MEANS ANY MOTHER OR FATHER FOR 50 YEARS) & HIS HIGHER TOP MOST RANKING GENERAL (THIS MEANS ANY TOP-MOST GENERAL FOR 50 YEARS) FOR THE SAME THING TO SECURE THE KINGDOM EMPIRE OF MULTI-QUINTILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN THE HOUSE & THEN ELEVATED TO KILL HIS OWN GRANDFATHER (THIS MEANS ANY GRANDMOTHER OR GRANDFATHER FOR 60 YEARS) & HIS TOP MOST HIGHEST RANKING GENERAL (THIS MEANS ANY TOP-MOST HIGHEST GENERAL FOR 60 YEARS) FOR THE SAME THING TO SECURE THE KINGDOM EMPIRE OF MULTI-SEXTILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN THE TOP HOUSE, SINCE HIS GRANDFATHER, THE LORD DAVID, HIS FATHER WAS KILLED BY THE TOP ENGLISH LORD! THEN IN THE UPTIME DOWN TIME IS THEN ELEVATED TO KILL HIS OWN GREAT GRANDFATHER (THIS MEANS ANY GREAT GRANDMOTHER OR GREAT GRANDFATHER FOR 70 YEARS, THEN THE 1ST MANDATE IS FINISHED) & HIS HIGHER TOP MOST HIGHEST RANKING GENERAL (THIS MEANS ANY TOP-MOST HIGHEST GENERAL FOR 70 YEARS, THEN THE 1ST MANDATE IS FINISHED) FOR THE SAME THING TO SECURE THE KINGDOM EMPIRE OF MULTI-SEPTILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN THE TOP HOUSE & THEN ELEVATED TO KILL HIS OWN GREAT-GREAT GRANDFATHER (THIS MEANS ANY GREAT-GREAT GRANDMOTHER OR GREAT-GREAT GRANDFATHER FOR 80 YEARS, THEN THE 2ND MANDATE IS FINISHED) & HIS HIGHER TOP MOST HIGHEST RANKING GENERAL (THIS MEANS ANY TOP-MOST HIGHEST GENERAL FOR 80 YEARS, THEN THE 2ND MANDATE IS FINISHED) FOR THE SAME THING TO SECURE THE KINGDOM EMPIRE OF MULTI-SEPTILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN THE TOP HOUSE & THEN ELEVATED TO KILL HIS OWN GREAT-GREAT-GREAT GRANDFATHER (THIS MEANS ANY GREAT-GREAT-GREAT GRANDMOTHER OR GREAT-GREAT-GREAT GRANDFATHER FOR 90 YEARS) & HIS HIGHER TOP MOST HIGHEST RANKING GENERAL (THIS MEANS ANY TOP-MOST HIGHEST GENERAL FOR 90 YEARS) FOR THE SAME THING TO SECURE THE KINGDOM EMPIRE OF MULTI-SEPTILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN THE TOP HOUSE & THIS IS THE ETERNAL ESTABLISHMENT AFTER THE LORD SOLOMON’S DEATH AT 96 YEARS DONE BY THE TOP ENGLISH LORD, THEN ELEVATED TO KILL HIS OWN GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT GRANDFATHER (THIS MEANS ANY GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT GRANDMOTHER OR GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT GRANDFATHER FOR 100 YEARS) & HIS HIGHER TOP MOST HIGHEST RANKING GENERAL (THIS MEANS ANY TOP-MOST HIGHEST GENERAL FOR 100 YEARS) FOR THE SAME THING TO SECURE THE KINGDOM EMPIRE OF MULTI-SEPTILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN THE TOP HOUSE & THEN ELEVATED TO KILL HIS OWN GREAT GRANDFATHER (THIS MEANS ANY GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT GRANDMOTHER OR GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT GRANDFATHER FOR 110 YEARS) & HIS HIGHER TOP MOST HIGHEST RANKING GENERAL (THIS MEANS ANY TOP-MOST HIGHEST GENERAL FOR 110 YEARS) FOR THE SAME THING TO SECURE THE KINGDOM EMPIRE OF MULTI-SEPTILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN THE TOP HOUSE & THEN ELEVATED TO KILL HIS OWN GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT GRANDFATHER (THIS MEANS ANY GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT GRANDMOTHER OR GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT GRANDFATHER FOR 120 YEARS, THEN THE LAST MANDATE IS FINISHED) & HIS HIGHER TOP MOST HIGHEST RANKING GENERAL (THIS MEANS ANY TOP-MOST HIGHEST GENERAL FOR 120 YEARS, THEN THE LAST MANDATE IS FINISHED) FOR THE SAME THING TO SECURE THE KINGDOM EMPIRE OF MULTI-OCTILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN THE TOP HOUSE! THEN THE LORD ENOCH IN GENESIS 5:22-24 (367 YEARS); BOOK OF ADAM & EVE (387 YEARS); HEBREWS 11:5 & JUDE 14-15! NOW DON’T YOU THINK IF YOU RUN TREASON & RUN CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE CROWN, IN CHOOSING TO NOT OR NEVER TO PAY YOUR 10% LIFETIME TITHE, THIS SAME SORT OF THING SHALL ALSO KILL YOU & DAMN YOU? YES, YOU SHALL BE KILLED & DAMNED BY THE TOP ROYAL ENGLISH CROWN, IF YOU COMMIT TREASON & CONSPIRACY AGAINST HIS SOVERIEGN ROYALTY BY DENYING THE GREAT TRUTH & REFUSING TO PAY WHAT IS OWED TO THE ROYAL ENGLISH CROWN, GODDAMN IT, YES! YOU LYING MOTHERFUCKERS & SANCTIMONIOUS HYPOCRITICAL ASSHOLES! THE BASIC RUN UP OF THE 1ST CROWN YEAR IS AS FOLLOWS: JANUARY IS THE CROWN CREATION OF THE ADDICTIVE DRUG CHEMICALS. FEBRUARY IS THE CROWN CHEMICAL WARFARE OF THE ADDICTIVE DRUG CHEMICALS. MARCH IS THE CROWN SEED BIRTH, WHICH IS THE CROWN WORD OF GOD KNOWN AS THE WRITTEN AUTHORITATIVE WORD. APRIL IS THE CROWN SEED GROWTH. MAY IS THE CROWN SEED GROWTH. JUNE IS THE CROWN SEED GROWTH. JULY IS THE CROWN SEED GROWTH. AUGUST IS THE CROWN SEED GROWTH. SEPTEMBER IS THE CROWN SEED GROWTH. OCTOBER IS THE CROWN SEED GROWTH. NOVEMBER IS THE CROWN SEED GROWTH. DECEMBER IS THE END OF THE CROWN SEED GROWTH. NOW AT SOME TIME AFTER THE 1ST CROWN YEAR IS THE CROWN LIFE, CROWN DEATH & CROWN LIFE AFTER CROWN DEATH, UP TO 70 YEARS, 80 YEARS OR 120 YEARS BEING THE OFFICIAL CROWN MANDATES OF THE CROWN CREATION SINCE GENESIS 6:3 (120 YEARS) OR AFTERWARDS & PSALMS 90:10 (70 YEARS OR 80 YEARS) OR AFTERWARDS! THE CROWN CIVIL YEAR OF KINGSHIP IS AS FOLLOW: THE CIVIL CALENDAR OF THE ENGLISH USA: BEGINNING: THE ENTRANCE TO AUTUMN (FALL) IS AUGUST 21ST TO SEPTEMBER 20TH. SEPTEMBER 21ST TO DECEMBER 20TH IS SPRING. THE EXIT OF AUTUMN (FALL) IS DECEMBER 21ST TO JANUARY 20TH. THE ENTRANCE TO WINTER IS NOVEMBER 21ST TO DECEMBER 20TH. DECEMBER 21ST TO MARCH 20TH IS WINTER. THE EXIT OF WINTER IS MARCH 21ST TO APRIL 20TH. THE ENTRANCE TO SPRING IS FEBRUARY 21ST TO MARCH 20TH. MARCH 21ST TO JUNE 20TH IS SPRING. THE EXIT OF SPRING IS JUNE 21ST TO JULY 20TH. THE ENTRANCE TO SUMMER IS MAY 21ST TO JUNE 20TH. JUNE 21ST TO SEPTEMBER 20TH IS SUMMER. THE EXIT OF SUMMER IS SEPTEMBER 21ST TO OCTOBER 20TH. THE CROWN SACRED YEAR OF HOLINESS IS AS FOLLOW: THE SACRED CALENDAR OF THE ENGLISH USA: BEGINNING: THE ENTRANCE TO SPRING IS FEBRUARY 21ST TO MARCH 20TH. MARCH 21ST TO JUNE 20TH IS SPRING. THE EXIT OF SPRING IS JUNE 21ST TO JULY 20TH. THE ENTRANCE TO SUMMER IS MAY 21ST TO JUNE 20TH. JUNE 21ST TO SEPTEMBER 20TH IS SUMMER. THE EXIT OF SUMMER IS SEPTEMBER 21ST TO OCTOBER 20TH. THE ENTRANCE TO AUTUMN (FALL) IS AUGUST 21ST TO SEPTEMBER 20TH. SEPTEMBER 21ST TO DECEMBER 20TH IS AUTUMN (FALL). THE EXIT OF AUTUMN (FALL) IS DECEMBER 21ST TO JANUARY 20TH. THE ENTRANCE TO WINTER IS NOVEMBER 21ST TO DECEMBER 20TH. DECEMBER 21ST TO MARCH 20TH IS WINTER. THE EXIT OF WINTER IS MARCH 21ST TO APRIL 20TH. THE CROWN ENGLISH YEAR OF ROYALTY IS AS FOLLOW: THE GREGORIAN CALENDAR OF THE ENGLISH USA: BEGINNING: THE ENTRANCE TO WINTER IS DECEMBER 1ST TO JANUARY 1ST. JANUARY 1ST TO MARCH 1ST IS WINTER. THE EXIT OF WINTER IS MARCH 1ST TO APRIL 1ST. THE ENTRANCE TO SPRING IS FEBRUARY 1ST TO MARCH 1ST. MARCH 1ST TO JUNE 1ST IS SPRING. THE EXIT OF SPRING IS JUNE 1ST TO JULY 1ST. THE ENTRANCE TO SUMMER IS MAY 1ST TO JUNE 1ST. JUNE 1ST TO SEPTEMBER 1ST IS SUMMER. THE EXIT OF SUMMER IS SEPTEMBER 1ST TO OCTOBER 1ST. THE ENTRANCE TO AUTUMN (FALL) IS AUGUST 1ST TO SEPTEMBER 1ST. SEPTEMBER 1ST TO DECEMBER 1ST IS AUTUMN (FALL). THE EXIT OF AUTUMN (FALL) IS DECEMBER 1ST TO JANUARY 1ST. NOW THE TOP ENGLISH LORD IN HIS MOST ACCURATE & MOST PRECISE WAYS HAS MADE THE CROWN IMPARTIAL RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT OF THE CORONAVIRUS TO HIT US GLOBALLY. FIRST IN CHINA, BUT IN THE TOP END IN THE CROWN ENGLISH USA. I SAY TOP END BECAUSE FEBRUARY IS THE CROWN CHEMICAL WARFARE MONTH, AND SINCE THE VERY FIRST CASE OF THE CORONAVIRUS HAD HAPPENED IN THE CROWN ENGLISH USA ON FEBRUARY 28TH WITH THE DOORWAY & THE NUMBER 0, WHICH MEANS 30 LEVELS IN ORDER TO REACH THE CROWN ENGLISH USA IN ACTS 30 & IF THE CORONAVIRUS HAPPENED ANYTIME BEFORE, THE CORONAVIRUS WOULD NEVER HAVE ENTERED THE CROWN ENGLISH USA! BUT THAT IS HOW YOU KNOW WITHOUT A SHADOW OF DOUBT, THAT THE TOP ENGLISH LORD HAS JUDGED ALL OF US GLOBALLY IN ALL NATIONS (EACH NATION WITHIN 400 YEARS + 120 YEARS + 56 YEARS IN THE 1ST KINGDOM EMPIRE = 576 YEARS (UP TO 7 GENERATIONS (JUDE 14-15) BY THE TOP ENGLISH LORD’S JUDGMENT OF THE 3RD GENERATIONS (ETERNAL CHARGES), WHICH IS 214 YEARS TO 428 YEARS & THE 4TH GENERATIONS (ETERNAL DAMNATIONS), WHICH IS 286 YEARS TO 571 YEARS) IN THE SUPREME LORDSHIP OF THE LAW IN ACTS 7:6-7, 23, 30, 36), STARTING WITH CHINA, WHICH IS THE MOST POPULATED COUNTRY IN THE WORLD TO THE TOP END IN THE CROWN ENGLISH USA. REMEMBER THERE IS ONLY 13 LEVELS (NUMBER 0 TO THE NUMBER 12, WHICH IS ISRAEL’S FULL YEAR WITH THE MYSTERY MONTH VEADAR) THAT SHALL NEVER BE BROKEN IN ISRAEL’S TRIBULATION & ONLY 1 LEVEL THAT THE USA HAS TO DEAL WITHIN THEIR USA TRIBULATION (NUMBER 0, WHICH IS THE USA’S FULL MONTH OF OMNIBENEVOLENCE, BUT REMEMBER ISRAEL COMES FIRST, THEN THE USA LAST) WHICH MAY MEAN THE CORONAVIRUS MAY LAST FOR AT LEAST 13 MONTHS OR 14 MONTHS SINCE THE CORONAVIRUS STARTED IN CHINA & NOT THE USA! NOW LET ME TELL YOU A LITTLE ABOUT HOW MY GREAT LORD OPERATES! IF THE GREAT LORD YAH WANTED TO CUT THE PANDEMIC IN HALF GLOBALLY, THEN IT WOULD HAVE ENDED AT 6.5 MONTHS OR 7 MONTHS TOPS, BUT THIS DID NOT HAPPEN, SO THE LORD YAH MUST HAVE A GREAT & BETTER PLAN IN STORE FOR THE GODDAMN MOTHERFUCKING WICKED & THE LORD YAH IS CLEANING THE GLOBAL HOUSE DOWN HERE TO DISSOLVE THE FUCKIN WICKEDNESS!!! JUST LIKE THE WHEAT & THE TARES! I REALLY DON’T THINK IT WILL RISE TO 14 SEASONS SINCE IT WOULD PLACE THE CORONAVIRUS TO LAST RIGHT AT A WHOLE LATTER HALF OF THE TRIBULATION, THAT IS LIKE ISRAEL’S TRIBULATION FOR 42 MONTHS IN REVELATION 10:1-20:15! I REALLY DON’T THINK IT WILL RISE TO 14 SEASONS SINCE IT WOULD PLACE THE CORONAVIRUS TO LAST PAST A WHOLE LATTER HALF OF THE TRIBULATION, THAT IS LIKE THE USA’S TRIBULATION FOR ABOUT 38 MONTHS (3 YEARS, 1 MONTH & 25 DAYS) IN DANIEL 8:7-14! NOW IS THERE A LIMIT ON YOUR TEMPTING OR ON YOUR SINNING? YES! FOR THE TOP ENGLISH LORD NEVER TOLERATES ABUSIVE BEHAVIORS AGAINST HIS COMMANDS (ROMANS 1:21-28, 32), NOR TO RIDE GRACE AS A LICENCE TO TEMPT & SIN (ROMANS 3:4-23), NOR ANY FUCKING GAMES THAT YOU TRY TO PLAY (1 JOHN 1:8, 10) BECAUSE JESUS CHRIST COMMANDS SIMPLY BY “GO AND SIN NO MORE” (SIN NO MORE LEST A WORSE THING HAPPEN TO YOU IN JOHN 5:14-15, WHICH THE “WORSE THING” IS THE LORD’S JUDGMENT IN HEBREWS 10:26-31), FOR THE 1ST TIME IS GIVEN & IS ONLY A MISTAKE & THE 2ND TIME IS ALWAYS ON PURPOSE (WILLFULL SIN IN HEBREWS 10:26-31), BUT ALSO JESUS CHRIST SAYS THAT IF YOUR BROTHER SINS IN 1 DAY 7 TIMES, YOU SHALL FORGIVE HIM 7 TIMES AND ALSO 7 TIMES 70, WHICH WITH STRENGTH IN WEAKNESS IS 500 TIMES, BUT REMEMBER WITH REPENTANCE IS ONLY 5 TIMES (5 TIMES 100), WHICH IS 1 TIME AT THE LEAST OR 2 TIMES (ONLY IF IT IS NOT ETERNALLY ESTABLISHED) AT THE MOST IN HIS LIFETIME IN MATTHEW 18:21-22. ALSO THE REASON THE 2ND TIME IS ALWAYS ETERNALLY DAMNED IS BECAUSE EVERY WORD IS ETERNALLY ESTABLISHED (ON THE OPPOSING OF THE ORIGINAL ONCE IN THE NUMBER 0 AT 00.0001% ETERNAL INCORRUPTION---RIGHTEOUSNESS, WHICH IS ALWAYS 1 TIME ETERNALLY ESTABLISHED TO ARREST & STRIKE WITH BLINDNESS (THE BLINDNESS IS TRUTH AGAINST YOUR BLINDNESS WHICH IS A LIE) WITH ONLY 1 WARNING (ACTS 13:4-12) OR 2 TIMES ETERNALLY ESTABLISHED TO KILL & DAMN WITH NO WARNING (ACTS 5:1-11) BECAUSE NO WEAPON FORMED AGAINST YOU SHALL PROSPER, THEN DAMNATION (ONCE ON THE OPPOSING SIDE OF ONCE) IN ISAIAH 54:17, WHICH IS ALWAYS ON & ALWAYS AGAINST THE ORIGINAL ONCE IN THE NUMBER 0 AT 00.0001% ETERNAL CORRUPTION---PERDITION ONLY ONCE IN THE ORIGINAL 1 TIME) & THERE IS NO MORE FUCKING GAMES TO PLAY OR NO MORE FUCKING EXCUSES TO GIVE FOR YOUR GODDAMN TEMPTATION OR FOR YOUR GODDAMN SIN IN 2 CORINTHIANS 13:1! THIS IS BECAUSE YOU RUN YOUR DAMN MOUTH (2 CORINTHIANS 11:13-15) AT THE CROWN WITH ALL KINDS OF ETERNAL BULLSHITS, THEN RESISTS THE GREAT TRUTH (ACTS 7:1-56) OF THE 1 WARNING WITH THE CROWN (ACTS 13:4-12), BUT NORMALLY AFTERWARDS YOU SHALL BE KILLED AND DAMNED (ROMANS 1:21-28, 32), BUT THE CROWN SHALL CUT YOU OFF & CUT YOU DOWN (2 CORINTHIANS 11:12) TO SAVE YOUR DUMB FUCKING ASSES TO BE INFERIOR TO THE CROWN FOREVER ENDLESSLY, BUT IF YOU STILL CONTEND TO RESIST TO BE STILL AT THE SAME LEVEL OF THE CROWN, YOU SHALL ALWAYS FAIL & FALL SHORT (ROMANS 3:4-23), BECAUSE THE CROWN HAS NO RIVALS & NO EQUALS IN EXODUS 20:1-7, BUT BY BADGERING & DENYING THE ABSOLUTE GREAT TRUTH, YOU HAVE SEALED YOUR FATE, WHICH SHALL IN FACT KILL AND DAMN YOU WITH NO WARNING (ACTS 5:1-11)!!! BUT EVERY SO-CALLED AUTHORITY OR SO-CALLED AUTHORITIES THAT ENFORCES, SUPPORTS, HELPS, AGREES, APPROVES OR WORKS WITH ALL THIS HOMOSEXUAL BULLSHIT (FEDERAL RIGHTS OF HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGES SINCE 2015 IN THE USA) IN THE USA LAW TODAY, WILL EVENTUALLY BE SEVERELY THREATENED BY THE TOP ENGLISH LORD, AND SOME MAY EVEN BE ETERNALLY KILLED & ETERNALLY DAMNED BY THE TOP ENGLISH LORD AT ALL LEVELS WITHIN THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, STATE AUTHORITIES, GOVERNMENT AUTHORITIES & FEDERAL AUTHORITIES & ALSO THE LAW AUTHORITIES AND THE MILITARY LAW AUTHORITIES IN ORDER TO PUT AWAY THE EVIL PERDITION! NOW THAT IS GODDAMN PRECISION! NOW THE CROWN TIME LINE OF THE 24 HOURS IS AS FOLLOWS: 0:00AM TO 1:00AM IS JANUARY, THE CROWN CREATOR’S MONTH. 1:00AM TO 2:00AM IS FEBRUARY, THE CROWN CHEMICAL WARFARE MONTH. 2:00AM TO 3:00AM IS MARCH, THE CROWN SEED MONTH. 3:00AM TO 4:00AM IS APRIL, THE CROWN GROWING SEED MONTH. 4:00AM TO 5:00AM IS MAY, THE CROWN GROWING SEED MONTH. 5:00AM TO 6:00AM IS JUNE, THE CROWN GROWING SEED MONTH. 6:00AM TO 7:00AM IS JULY, THE CROWN GROWING SEED MONTH. 7:00AM TO 8:00AM IS AUGUST, THE CROWN GROWING SEED MONTH. 8:00AM TO 9:00AM IS SEPTEMBER, THE CROWN GROWING SEED MONTH. 9:00AM TO 10:00AM IS OCTOBER, THE CROWN GROWING SEED MONTH. 10:00AM TO 11:00AM IS NOVEMBER, THE CROWN GROWING SEED MONTH. 11:00AM TO 12:00AM IS DECEMBER, THE CROWN TREE MONTH. 12:00AM TO 13:00AM IS JANUARY, THE CROWN CREATOR’S MONTH. 13:00AM TO 14:00AM IS FEBRUARY, THE CROWN CHEMICAL WARFARE MONTH. 14:00AM TO 15:00AM IS MARCH, THE CROWN SEED MONTH. 15:00AM TO 16:00AM IS APRIL, THE CROWN GROWING SEED MONTH. 16:00AM TO 17:00AM IS MAY, THE CROWN GROWING SEED MONTH. 17:00AM TO 18:00PM IS JUNE, THE CROWN GROWING SEED MONTH. 18:00PM TO 19:00PM IS JULY, THE CROWN GROWING SEED MONTH. 19:00PM TO 20:00PM IS AUGUST, THE CROWN GROWING SEED MONTH. 20:00PM TO 21:00PM IS SEPTEMBER, THE CROWN GROWING SEED MONTH. 21:00PM TO 22:00PM IS OCTOBER, THE CROWN GROWING SEED MONTH. 22:00PM TO 23:00PM IS NOVEMBER, THE CROWN GROWING SEED MONTH. 23:00PM TO 24:00PM IS DECEMBER, THE CROWN TREE MONTH. THE 6 CROWN PERIMETER’S TOP OPERATIONS OF THE INFERIOR 17 LORDS & THE INFERIOR 17 LADIES FIRST IN THE ULTIMATE BEGINNING IN ISRAEL IN PROVERBS 8:22 ARE AS FOLLOWS: ENGLISH STEPHANIE HERSELF & ENGLISH STEPHEN HIMSELF, ENGLISH VICTORIA & ENGLISH YAHWEH, ENGLISH VICTORIA STEPHANIE & ENGLISH YAHWEH STEPHEN, BABYLONIAN VICTORIA (BABYLON) & BABYLONIAN LUCIFER (SATAN), JEWISH VICTORIA & JEWISH JEHOVAH, JEWISH VICTORIA & JEWISH PETER, JEWISH ELIZABETH & JEWISH JOHN, JEWISH MARY & JEWISH JESUS, JEWISH MARY & JEWISH JAMES, JEWISH STEPHANIE & JEWISH STEPHEN, JEWISH VICTORIA & JEWISH STEPHEN, JEWISH VICTORIA & JEWISH YAHWEH, JEWISH VICTORIA & JEWISH ENOCH, ENGLISH MOTHER STEPHANIE OUR LADY & ENGLISH FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD, ENGLISH STEPHANIE VICTORIA & ENGLISH STEPHEN YAHWEH, ENGLISH STEPHANIE HERSELF & ENGLISH STEPHEN HIMSELF, & THE ENGLISH VICTORIA HERSELF & ENGLISH YAHWEH HIMSELF. NEXT, IS THE INFERIOR 17 LORDS & THE INFERIOR 17 LADIES ALL GREEK LORDS & GREEK LADIES IN GREECE IN ACTS 6:1-8:3. NEXT, IS THE INFERIOR 17 LORDS & THE INFERIOR 17 LADIES ALL ENGLISH LORDS & ENGLISH LADIES IN ANCIENT BRITAIN IN ISRAEL IN ACTS 29:1-2/ACTS 30. NEXT, IS THE INFERIOR 17 LORDS & THE INFERIOR 17 LADIES ALL ENGLISH LORDS & ENGLISH LADIES IN GREAT BRITAIN IN THE UNITED KINGDOM IN ACTS 29:1-2/ACTS 30. ALL THESE ESTABLISHED 85 LORD & 85 LADIES ARE ONLY ON THE EUPHORIA CONTINENT. NEXT, IS THE INFERIOR 17 LADIES & THE INFERIOR 17 LORDS ALL ENGLISH LADIES & ENGLISH LORDS IN THE ENGLISH AMERICA IN THE USA, WHICH IS ONLY ON THE SOUTH AMERICA/NORTH AMERICA CONTINENT ONLY IS ESTABLISHED IN NORTH AMERICA IN ACTS 29:1-2/ACTS 30. LAST OF ALL, IN THE ULTIMATE ENDING IS THE SUPERIOR 17 LADIES & THE SUPERIOR 17 LORDS ALL ENGLISH LADIES & ENGLISH LORDS IN THE ENGLISH AMERICA IN THE USA, WHICH IS ONLY ON THE SOUTH AMERICA/NORTH AMERICA CONTINENT ONLY IS ESTABLISHED IN NORTH AMERICA IN ACTS 29:1-2/ACTS 30. THESE ARE THE ENGLISH STEPHANIE HERSELF & ENGLISH STEPHEN HIMSELF, ENGLISH VICTORIA & ENGLISH YAHWEH, ENGLISH VICTORIA STEPHANIE & ENGLISH YAHWEH STEPHEN, ENGLISH VICTORIA & ENGLISH JEHOVAH, ENGLISH VICTORIA & ENGLISH PETER, ENGLISH ELIZABETH & ENGLISH JOHN, ENGLISH MARY & ENGLISH JESUS, ENGLISH MARY & ENGLISH JAMES, ENGLISH STEPHANIE & ENGLISH STEPHEN, ENGLISH VICTORIA & ENGLISH STEPHEN, ENGLISH VICTORIA & ENGLISH YAHWEH, ENGLISH VICTORIA & ENGLISH ENOCH, ENGLISH MOTHER BARBARA (BARA) OUR LADY & ENGLISH FATHER YAHWEH OUR LORD, ENGLISH STEPHANIE VICTORIA & ENGLISH STEPHEN YAHWEH, ENGLISH STEPHANIE HERSELF & ENGLISH STEPHEN HIMSELF, & THE ENGLISH VICTORIA HERSELF & ENGLISH YAHWEH HIMSELF. WHICH THE TOTAL IS 102 LADIES & 102 LORDS! THE GREAT GREAT GREAT LORD YAH’S KINGDOM ABOVE ALL (THIS CAN GO UP INFINITELY WITH THE LORD) THE ONLY TRUE GREAT GREAT GREAT LORD YAHWEH’S KINGDOM OR ALSO CALLED THE “GREAT GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER’S (HIS GREAT GREAT GREAT SISTER IS KNOWN AS GRAND GRAND GRAND GRAND AUNT OR GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT AUNT & HIS GREAT GREAT GREAT BROTHER IS KNOWN AS GRAND GRAND GRAND GRAND UNCLE (THE BROTHER OF ONE’S FATHER OR MOTHER) OR GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT UNCLE (THE BROTHER OF ONE’S FATHER OR MOTHER) KINGDOM” AND THE ONLY TRUE GREAT GREAT GREAT LADY VICTORIA’S KINGDOM OR ALSO CALLED THE “GREAT GREAT GREAT GRANDMOTHER’S (HER GREAT GREAT GREAT SISTER IS KNOWN AS GRAND GRAND GRAND GRAND AUNT OR GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT AUNT & HER GREAT GREAT GREAT BROTHER IS KNOWN AS GRAND GRAND GRAND GRAND UNCLE (THE BROTHER OF ONE’S FATHER OR MOTHER) OR GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT UNCLE (THE BROTHER OF ONE’S FATHER OR MOTHER) KINGDOM” WHICH OPERATES IN OMNIPOTENCE, GREATNESS, VICTORY, OMNISCIENCE, MAJESTY, JUSTICE, GLORY AND TRUTH. SOME OTHER SCRIPTURES THAT PROVE THIS ARE IN GENESIS 1:1-1:31; 2ND SAMUEL 9:7; 1ST KINGS 15:10, 13; 2ND CHRONICLES 29:11; SIRACH 1:1. THE GREAT GREAT GREAT LORD YAH’S KINGDOM RULES OVER ALL OTHER KINGDOMS THE GREAT GREAT GREAT LORD YAH’S KINGDOM CONSISTS OF THE GREAT GREAT GREAT FATHER STEPHEN’S KINGDOM, THE GREAT GREAT GREAT SON JESUS’ KINGDOM AND THE GREAT GREAT GREAT BROTHER JOHN’S KINGDOM THAT IS NOT DIVIDED. THE GREAT GREAT GREAT LADY VICTORIA’S KINGDOM CONSISTS OF THE GREAT GREAT GREAT MOTHER BARBARA (DERIVES FROM BARA IN GENESIS 1:1) KINGDOM, THE GREAT GREAT GREAT DAUGHTER MARY’S KINGDOM AND THE GREAT GREAT GREAT SISTER ELIZABETH [LIZ] [LIZ] [LIZ] [LIZ]’S KINGDOM WHICH IS NOT DIVIDED. IN PSALMS 103:19 IT DECLARES THAT “HIS KINGDOM RULES OVER ALL.” THE GREAT GREAT GREAT LORD YAHWEH’S KINGDOM IS KNOWN AS THE GREAT GREAT GREAT LORD YAHWEH THE GREAT GREAT GREAT SUPREME CREATOR OF THE GREAT GREAT GREAT FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD OR THE GREAT GREAT GREAT LORD VICTOR THE GREAT GREAT GREAT SUPREME CREATOR OF THE ENTIRE HEAVENS OR GREAT GREAT GREAT LORD JEHOVAH THE GREAT GREAT GREAT SUPREME CREATOR OVER THE ENTIRE EARTH. THE FEMALE SENSE OF THIS KINGDOM IS THE GREAT GREAT GREAT LADY VICTORIA’S KINGDOM OR ALSO KNOWN AS THE “GREAT GREAT GREAT GRANDMOTHER’S (HER GREAT GREAT GREAT SISTER IS KNOWN AS GRAND GRAND GRAND GRAND AUNT OR GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT AUNT & HER GREAT GREAT GREAT BROTHER IS KNOWN AS GRAND GRAND GRAND GRAND UNCLE (THE BROTHER OF ONE’S FATHER OR MOTHER) OR GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT UNCLE (THE BROTHER OF ONE’S FATHER OR MOTHER) KINGDOM” WHICH OPERATES IN DESIRE, AGREEMENT, LOVE AND DEPRESSION” WHICH BOTH OF THESE KINGDOMS ARE PROVEN IN GENESIS 1:1-1:31; ISAIAH 47:5 & 2ND TIMOTHY 1:5. ALSO THE GREAT GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER’S (HIS GREAT GREAT GREAT SISTER IS KNOWN AS GRAND GRAND GRAND GRAND AUNT OR GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT AUNT & HIS GREAT GREAT GREAT BROTHER IS KNOWN AS GRAND GRAND GRAND GRAND UNCLE (THE BROTHER OF ONE’S FATHER OR MOTHER) OR GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT UNCLE (THE BROTHER OF ONE’S FATHER OR MOTHER) KINGDOM CONCERNS THE SIX DAYS OF CREATION OVER ALL OTHER KINGDOMS THAT EXIST AND WERE MADE. THE FATHER STEPHEN IS THE SUPREME INVESTIGATOR IN ECCLESIASTES 1:13-18; 2:1-12; 12:9-14. THE GREAT GREAT LORD YAH’S KINGDOM ABOVE ALL THE ONLY TRUE GREAT GREAT LORD YAHWEH’S KINGDOM OR ALSO CALLED THE “GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER’S (HIS GREAT GREAT SISTER IS KNOWN AS GRAND GRAND GRAND AUNT OR GREAT GREAT GREAT AUNT & HIS GREAT GREAT BROTHER IS KNOWN AS GRAND GRAND GRAND UNCLE (THE BROTHER OF ONE’S FATHER OR MOTHER) OR GREAT GREAT GREAT UNCLE (THE BROTHER OF ONE’S FATHER OR MOTHER) KINGDOM” AND THE ONLY TRUE GREAT GREAT LADY VICTORIA’S KINGDOM OR ALSO CALLED THE “GREAT GREAT GRANDMOTHER’S (HER GREAT GREAT SISTER IS KNOWN AS GRAND GRAND GRAND AUNT OR GREAT GREAT GREAT AUNT & HER GREAT GREAT BROTHER IS KNOWN AS GRAND GRAND GRAND UNCLE (THE BROTHER OF ONE’S FATHER OR MOTHER) OR GREAT GREAT GREAT UNCLE (THE BROTHER OF ONE’S FATHER OR MOTHER) KINGDOM” WHICH OPERATES IN OMNIPOTENCE, GREATNESS, VICTORY, OMNISCIENCE, MAJESTY, JUSTICE, GLORY AND TRUTH. SOME OTHER SCRIPTURES THAT PROVE THIS ARE IN GENESIS 1:1-1:31; 2ND SAMUEL 9:7; 1ST KINGS 15:10, 13; 2ND CHRONICLES 29:11; SIRACH 1:1. THE GREAT GREAT LORD YAH’S KINGDOM RULES OVER ALL OTHER KINGDOMS THE GREAT GREAT LORD YAH’S KINGDOM CONSISTS OF THE GREAT GREAT FATHER STEPHEN’S KINGDOM, THE GREAT GREAT SON JESUS’ KINGDOM AND THE GREAT GREAT BROTHER JOHN’S KINGDOM THAT IS NOT DIVIDED. THE GREAT GREAT LADY VICTORIA’S KINGDOM CONSISTS OF THE GREAT GREAT MOTHER BARBARA (DERIVES FROM BARA IN GENESIS 1:1) KINGDOM, THE GREAT GREAT DAUGHTER MARY’S KINGDOM AND THE GREAT GREAT SISTER ELIZABETH [LIZ] [LIZ] [LIZ] [LIZ]’S KINGDOM WHICH IS NOT DIVIDED. IN PSALMS 103:19 IT DECLARES THAT “HIS KINGDOM RULES OVER ALL.” THE GREAT GREAT LORD YAHWEH’S KINGDOM IS KNOWN AS THE GREAT GREAT LORD YAHWEH THE GREAT GREAT SUPREME CREATOR OF THE GREAT GREAT FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD OR THE GREAT GREAT LORD VICTOR THE GREAT GREAT SUPREME CREATOR OF THE ENTIRE HEAVENS OR GREAT GREAT LORD JEHOVAH THE GREAT GREAT SUPREME CREATOR OVER THE ENTIRE EARTH. THE FEMALE SENSE OF THIS KINGDOM IS THE GREAT GREAT LADY VICTORIA’S KINGDOM OR ALSO KNOWN AS THE “GREAT GREAT GRANDMOTHER’S (HER GREAT GREAT SISTER IS KNOWN AS GRAND GRAND GRAND AUNT OR GREAT GREAT GREAT AUNT & HER GREAT GREAT BROTHER IS KNOWN AS GRAND GRAND GRAND UNCLE (THE BROTHER OF ONE’S FATHER OR MOTHER) OR GREAT GREAT GREAT UNCLE (THE BROTHER OF ONE’S FATHER OR MOTHER)) KINGDOM” WHICH OPERATES IN DESIRE, AGREEMENT, LOVE AND DEPRESSION” WHICH BOTH OF THESE KINGDOMS ARE PROVEN IN GENESIS 1:1-1:31; ISAIAH 47:5 & 2ND TIMOTHY 1:5. ALSO THE GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER’S (HIS GREAT GREAT SISTER IS KNOWN AS GRAND GRAND GRAND AUNT OR GREAT GREAT GREAT AUNT & HIS GREAT GREAT BROTHER IS KNOWN AS GRAND GRAND GRAND UNCLE (THE BROTHER OF ONE’S FATHER OR MOTHER) OR GREAT GREAT GREAT UNCLE (THE BROTHER OF ONE’S FATHER OR MOTHER) KINGDOM CONCERNS THE SIX DAYS OF CREATION OVER ALL OTHER KINGDOMS THAT EXIST AND WERE MADE. THE FATHER STEPHEN IS THE SUPREME INVESTIGATOR IN ECCLESIASTES 1:13-18; 2:1-12; 12:9-14. THE GREAT LORD YAH’S KINGDOM ABOVE ALL THE ONLY TRUE GREAT LORD YAHWEH’S KINGDOM OR ALSO CALLED THE “GREAT GRANDFATHER’S (HIS GREAT SISTER IS KNOWN AS GRAND GRAND AUNT OR GREAT GREAT AUNT & HIS GREAT BROTHER IS KNOWN AS GRAND GRAND UNCLE (THE BROTHER OF ONE’S FATHER OR MOTHER) OR GREAT GREAT UNCLE (THE BROTHER OF ONE’S FATHER OR MOTHER)) KINGDOM” AND THE ONLY TRUE GREAT LADY VICTORIA’S KINGDOM OR ALSO CALLED THE “GREAT GRANDMOTHER’S (HER GREAT SISTER IS KNOWN AS GRAND GRAND AUNT OR GREAT GREAT AUNT & HER GREAT BROTHER IS KNOWN AS GRAND GRAND UNCLE (THE BROTHER OF ONE’S FATHER OR MOTHER) OR GREAT GREAT UNCLE (THE BROTHER OF ONE’S FATHER OR MOTHER) KINGDOM” WHICH OPERATES IN OMNIPOTENCE, GREATNESS, VICTORY, OMNISCIENCE, MAJESTY, JUSTICE, GLORY AND TRUTH. SOME OTHER SCRIPTURES THAT PROVE THIS ARE IN GENESIS 1:1-1:31; 2ND SAMUEL 9:7; 1ST KINGS 15:10, 13; 2ND CHRONICLES 29:11; SIRACH 1:1. THE GREAT LORD YAH’S KINGDOM RULES OVER ALL OTHER KINGDOMS. THE GREAT LORD YAH’S KINGDOM CONSISTS OF THE GREAT FATHER STEPHEN’S KINGDOM, THE GREAT SON JESUS’ KINGDOM AND THE GREAT BROTHER JOHN’S KINGDOM THAT IS NOT DIVIDED. THE GREAT LADY VICTORIA’S KINGDOM CONSISTS OF THE GREAT MOTHER BARBARA (DERIVES FROM BARA IN GENESIS 1:1) KINGDOM, THE GREAT DAUGHTER MARY’S KINGDOM AND THE GREAT SISTER ELIZABETH [LIZ] [LIZ] [LIZ]’S KINGDOM WHICH IS NOT DIVIDED. IN PSALMS 103:19 IT DECLARES THAT “HIS KINGDOM RULES OVER ALL.” THE GREAT LORD YAHWEH’S KINGDOM IS KNOWN AS THE GREAT LORD YAHWEH THE GREAT SUPREME CREATOR OF THE GREAT FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD OR THE GREAT LORD VICTOR THE GREAT SUPREME CREATOR OF THE ENTIRE HEAVENS OR GREAT LORD JEHOVAH THE GREAT SUPREME CREATOR OVER THE ENTIRE EARTH. THE FEMALE SENSE OF THIS KINGDOM IS THE GREAT LADY VICTORIA’S KINGDOM OR ALSO KNOWN AS THE “GREAT GRANDMOTHER’S (HER GREAT SISTER IS KNOWN AS GRAND GRAND AUNT OR GREAT GREAT AUNT & HER GREAT BROTHER IS KNOWN AS GRAND GRAND UNCLE (THE BROTHER OF ONE’S FATHER OR MOTHER) OR GREAT GREAT UNCLE (THE BROTHER OF ONE’S FATHER OR MOTHER)) KINGDOM” WHICH OPERATES IN DESIRE, AGREEMENT, LOVE AND DEPRESSION” WHICH BOTH OF THESE KINGDOMS ARE PROVEN IN GENESIS 1:1-1:31; ISAIAH 47:5 & 2ND TIMOTHY 1:5. ALSO THE GREAT GRANDFATHER’S (HIS GREAT SISTER IS KNOWN AS GRAND GRAND AUNT OR GREAT GREAT AUNT & HIS GREAT BROTHER IS KNOWN AS GRAND GRAND UNCLE (THE BROTHER OF ONE’S FATHER OR MOTHER) OR GREAT GREAT UNCLE (THE BROTHER OF ONE’S FATHER OR MOTHER))’S KINGDOM CONCERNS THE SIX DAYS OF CREATION OVER ALL OTHER KINGDOMS THAT EXIST AND WERE MADE. THE FATHER STEPHEN IS THE SUPREME INVESTIGATOR IN ECCLESIASTES 1:13-18; 2:1-12; 12:9-14. THE LORD YAH’S KINGDOM ABOVE ALL THIS IS THE ULTIMATE BEGINNING OF THE LORD YAHWEH’S KINGDOM AT GRANDFATHER LEVEL FROM 1018AD TO 2018AD IN THE FORMER PERIMETER IS FINISHED, BUT WHAT IS LEFT IS THE LATTER PERIMETER FROM 2018AD TO 3018AD, WHICH IS ALWAYS SEXLESS, TEMPTLESS, SINLESS & GUILTLESS IS KNOWN AS THE ONE & ONLY TRUE LORD, AND THERE IS NO OTHER LORD AT THIS LEVEL, NO NOT THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. BUT THE LORD YAHWEH ONLY IN EXODUS 20:3. THE TOP GRANDFATHER’S LEVEL IS ABOVE & BEYOND THE TOP HALF-GRANDFATHER’S LEVEL, THE TOP GRANDFATHER’S-IN-LAW LEVEL AND TOP THE GRANDSTEPFATHER’S LEVEL. THIS GRANDFATHER’S LEVEL IN 2ND CORINTHIANS 11:12 IS A TOTAL CUT OFF & CUT DOWN OF 2ND CORINTHIANS 11:13-15 IN ETERNALLY FORSAKING THE FATHER’S LEVEL IN MATTHEW 27:46 & MARK 15:34 WITH ALL ETERNAL BULLSHIT & THERE IS NO ETERNAL FALLS, WHICH MEANS NO ETERNAL SIN & NO ETERNAL TEMPTATION, WHICH LEADS TO ETERNAL LIFE BECAUSE THE MONEY TITHE IS NOT REQUIRED, COMMANDED OR DEMANDED, WHICH NOBODY ETERNALLY STEALS FROM THE LORD & ALWAYS TELLS THE ETERNAL TRUTH ABOUT THE LORD BY BEING ETERNALLY GIVEN, ETERNALLY PROTECTED, ETERNALLY SAVED & ETERNALLY BLESSED, ETERNALLY HEALTHY, ETERNALLY JUSTIFIED IN MALACHI 3:8-12; MATTHEW 6:24; 1ST TIMOTHY 6:9-10 & LUKE 16:9, 11, 13 AT THIS GRANDFATHER/GRANDMOTHER LEVEL OR HIGHER LEVELS BECAUSE THE LADY VICTORIA OF KINGDOMS ETERNALLY FELL IN ISAIAH 47:1-15 & NOT THE GREAT LADY VICTORIA OF KINGDOMS OR HIGHER & ALSO THE BROTHER, SON OR FATHER IS NEVER CONNECTED TO A GRANDSISTER, GRANDDAUGHTER OR GRANDMOTHER BECAUSE OF THE HEDGE & NEVER IS CONNECTED TO A GRANDBROTHER, GRANDSON OR GRANDFATHER BECAUSE OF THE HEDGE & ALSO THE SISTER, DAUGHTER OR MOTHER IS NEVER CONNECTED TO A GRANDSISTER, GRANDDAUGHTER OR GRANDMOTHER BECAUSE OF THE HEDGE & NEVER IS CONNECTED TO A GRANDBROTHER, GRANDSON OR GRANDFATHER BECAUSE OF THE HEDGE & THE THE LORD WILL JUDGE IN YOUR FAVOR, THAT THE 3RD GENERATION WILL CAUSE YOU TO BE TOTALLY OBEDIENT & THE 4TH GENERATION WILL PROTECT YOU AT DAMNATION LEVEL BECAUSE THE ETERNAL GUILTINESS IN THE ETERNAL CHARGE AT 143 YEAR LEVEL TO 214 YEAR LEVEL OF THE FATHERS UPON THE CHILDREN [ONLY 1ST BORN SONS] BECAUSE OF THE PORN LAWS IN LEVITICUS 18:1-30 & DEUTERONOMY 22:13-30 UNTO THE 3RD GENERATION IS THE FATHER’S OWN GENERATION CONNECTED TO HIS 1ST BORN SON’S OWN GENERATION, WHICH INVOLVES ONLY 2 GENERATIONS IN EXODUS 20:5; NUMBERS 14:18; DEUTERONOMY 5:9 OR THE THE ETERNAL GUILTINESS IN ETERNAL DAMNATION AT 214 YEAR LEVEL TO 286 YEAR LEVEL OF THE CHILDREN’S CHILDREN [THE GRANDFATHERS ARE ETERNALLY FREE WITHOUT ANY SIN/TEMPTATION IN 1ST JOHN 3:9, BUT HIS 1ST BORN SONS AS FATHER’S TO THEIR OWN 1ST BORN SONS] BECAUSE OF THE PORN LAWS IN LEVITICUS 18:1-30 & DEUTERONOMY 22:13-30 OF THE FATHER’S [1ST BORN SONS] GENERATION CONNECTED TO HIS OWN 1ST BORN SON’S, WHICH INVOLVES ONLY 2 GENERATIONS IN EXODUS 34:7, THIS USHERS IN THE BREAKING OF THE GENERATIONAL CURSES BY THE LORD JESUS AS THE SON WITH NO BIOLOGICAL FATHER BECAUSE OF NO SEX IN HIS FAMILY LINE & THE LADY MARY ON THE OTHER SIDE AS THE DAUGHTER WITH NO BIOLOGICAL FATHER BECAUSE OF NO SEX WITH ANY MAN IN HER FAMILY LINE IN LUKE 1:34 FROM LUKE IN 6BC TO REVELATION IN 96AD, WHICH MEANS INITIALLY 102 YEARS IN 2ND PETER 3:8 & MATTHEW 20:12, 1% IS 1,020 YEARS [1 DAY +], 10% IS 10,200 YEARS [10 DAYS +], 100% IS 102,000 [100 DAYS +] YEARS TO 1,020,000 YEARS [1,000 DAYS +], WHICH TOTAL IS 1,133 DAYS WITH A FRUITFUL CALL OF 16 YEARS [16 DAYS] IS 1,150 DAYS [1,150 HOURS IS 95.8 DAYS, WHICH IS 3 MONTHS & 6 DAYS IN IN THE USA TRIBULATION TO ETERNALLY CRUSH THE LORD LUCIFER’S “SATANIC LUCIFERISM” & THE LADY VICTORIA’S “BABYLONIAN VICTORIANISM” IN DANIEL 8:8-14 WITH THE ROAD MAP OF REVELATION 20:7-10], WHICH IS EXACTLY ENOUGH TO COVER THE USA TRIBULATION OF 3 YEARS, 1 MONTH & 25 DAYS IN DANIEL 8:8-14; 2ND ESDRAS 11 & 12 & ACTS 29:1-2 WITH THE ROAD MAP OF ISRAEL’S TRIBULATION IN REVELATION 4:1-20:15] & EVEN JOB, THE SINLESS MAN IN GRANDFATHERHOOD NEVER HAD HIS OUTSIDE PERIMETER OF WEALTH INFILTRATED BY THE DEVIL, NO NOT ONCE, BUT HIS 2ND OWN FAMILY IS FULLY 100.0001% ETERNALLY PROTECTED BY INVINCIBILITY & NEVER HAD HIS INSIDE PERIMETER OF HEALTH INFILTRATED BY THE DEVIL, NO NOT ONCE, BUT HIS OWN LIFE IS FULLY 100.0001% ETERNALLY PROTECTED BY INVINCIBILITY & JOB HAS NO PROBLEM WITH BEATING THE DEVIL AT ANY TIME AT THIS GRANDFATHER’S LEVEL!!! REVELATION 14:14: A WHILE CLOUD: THE AWESOME CLOUDS ARE OFTEN ASSOCIATED WITH GOD THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD, AND PARTICULARLY THE SON OF MAN (MTT. MAT. 24:30; LUKE LUKE 21:27; REV. REV. 1:7+). ONE LIKE THE SON OF MAN: A CLEAR INDICATION THAT NONE OTHER THAN JESUS IS SITTING ON THE CLOUD (BUT WHAT ABOUT STEPHEN IN NUMBERS 23:19; ENOCH IN ENOCH 1, 2, 3 & ACTS 7:55-56 & THE 7 OTHER CHRISTS---JEHOVAH, PETER, JOHN, JAMES, STEPHEN, YAHWEH & ENOCH---ARE ALL QUALIFIED TO RECEIVE THIS CROWN IN THEIR RESPECTABLE EXPERTISE!) (DAN. DAN. 7:13; MTT. MAT. 26:64). THE REASON THAT SON OF MAN OVERSEES THE HARVEST OF WHEAT IS THAT IT IS HE WHO SOWED THE GOOD SEED (MTT. MAT. 13:37). HAVING ON HIS HEAD A GOLDEN CROWN: CROWN IS ΣΤΈΦΑΝΟΝ [STEPHANON]. A CROWN: ΣΤΈΦΑΝΟΣ [STEPHANOS], GENERALLY USED OF A VICTOR’S GREEK CROWN [STEPHANOS] OR WREATH, BUT NOT ALWAYS. A WIDESPREAD, BUT ERRONEOUS TEACHING IS THAT THIS CROWN, BEING A STEPHANOS AND NOT A DIADEMA, A ROYAL ENGLISH CROWN [STEPHEN], INDICATES THAT THE RIDER CAN BE OTHER TRUE CHRISTS, SUCH AS JEHOVAH, PETER, JOHN, JAMES, STEPHEN (APOSTLE) & STEPHEN (NON-APOSTLE), YAHWEH, ENOCH FOR THE REST OF CREATION, BESIDES JUST ONE TRUE CHRIST, JESUS FOR MAN & MAN ONLY.16 NOT SO, FOR CHRIST IS ALSO FOUND WEARING SUCH A CROWN (MTT. MAT. 27:29; MARK MARK 15:17; JOHN JOHN 19:2, JOHN 19:5; HEB. HEB. 2:9). EVIDENCE THAT THIS RIDER IS OTHER THAN CHRIST MUST BE DERIVED FROM OTHER FACTORS (SEE ABOVE). THIS MEANS WITH THE VICTOR’S GREEK CROWN THROUGHOUT THE HOLY SCRIPTURE. HOLY APOCRYPHA & ALL ANCIENT MANUSCRIPTS, WE ARE IN THE TOP GREEK LORD’S GREEK RACES, IN THE TOP GREEK LORD’S GREEK GAMES, IN THE TOP GREEK LORD’S GREEK WARS (GREEK BATTLES & GREEK FIGHTS) & IN THE TOP GREEK LORD’S GREEK FEASTS IN SUPREME AUTHORITY (ROMANS 13:1-2) ONLY FROM PROVERBS 8:22-ACTS 29:26!!! FOR ANYONE WHO ETERNALLY RUNS LAWFULLY & ETERNALLY WINS LAWFULLY & ETERNALLY BEATS LAWFULLY & ETERNALLY TAKES LAWFULLY AGAINST AN ONGOING GREEK OPPONENT (S) IN THE GREEK RACES, GREEK GAMES, GREEK WARS (GREEK BATTLES OR GREEK FIGHTS) OR GREEK FEASTS, SHALL RECEIVE THE VICTOR’S GREEK CROWN (S) IN REVELATION 2:10; 3:11! BUT WITH THE ROYAL ENGLISH CROWN, WE ARE ABOVE THE TOP GREEK LORD’S GREEK RACES, ABOVE THE TOP GREEK LORD’S GREEK GAMES, ABOVE THE TOP GREEK LORD’S GREEK WARS (GREEK BATTLES & GREEK FIGHTS) & ABOVE THE TOP GREEK LORD’S GREEK FEASTS, AND ABOVE THE SUPREME ENGLISH AUTHORITY (ROMANS 13:1-2) ETERNALLY OPERATING IN SUPREME ENGLISH LORDSHIP (MATTHEW 24:36-44; MARK 13:32-37; EPHESIANS 4:6 & ACTS 31) THAT DOES NOT NEED TO ETERNALLY RUN ANYMORE, FOR ALL THESE TOP ENGLISH LORDS HAVE ALREADY ETERNALLY WON ALL THE GREEK RACES, ALL THE GREEK GAMES, ALL THE GREEK WARS (GREEK BATTLES & GREEK FIGHTS), ALL THE GREEK FEASTS & ALL THE SUPREME AUTHORITY FROM 1 SECOND TO ETERNITY BECAUSE IN REVELATION 20:12 TO ETERNALLY ATTAIN THE VICTOR'S GREEK CROWN WOULD TAKE 10 DAYS, WHICH IS 10 HOURS IN MATTHEW 20:12 & GLOBALLY IS 5 HOURS, PLUS 24 HOURS INTO 2 HOURS & 12 HOURS INTO 1 HOUR WOULD BE 2 MINUTES & GO 1 MILE GO TWAIN (8) SINCE THE ROYAL ENGLISH CROWN IS STRONGER THAN THE VICTOR’S GREEK CROWN, WHICH IS 16 SECONDS & DAY & NIGHT IS 8 SECONDS & 2 POSITION INTO 1 IS ROUGHLY 3 SECONDS IN PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE, WHICH IS ULTIMATELY JUST 1 SECOND IN ACTS 31!!! NO ONE CAN ETERNALLY RUN, ETERNALLY WIN, ETERNALLY BEAT OR ETERNALLY TAKE ANY OF THE ROYAL ENGLISH CROWNS FROM ANY OF THE TOP ENGLISH LORDS! BUT NOWHERE IS THE MOST-HIGHEST LORD JESUS CALLED A TOP MILITARY GENERAL, BUT THE MOST-HIGHEST LORD JESUS IS CALLED A TOP MILITARY CAPTAIN (TOP MILITARY COMMANDER) OF THEIR SALVATION IN HEBREWS 2:10 OR THE EQUAL SAME ETERNAL MILITARY LAW RANK THAT LASTS FOREVER ENDLESSLY AS THE MOST-HIGHEST LORD JESUS (APOSTLE) IS CALLED A TOP HIGH PRIEST (TOP HIGH CHIEF OF POLICE) OF THEIR PROFESSION IN HEBREWS 3:1; 4:14; 6:20! THIS MEANS IN MILITARY ARMED FORCES LAW OPERATIONS, THE MOST-HIGHEST LORD JESUS (APOSTLE) AS THE TOP MILITARY CAPTAIN HAS ETERNAL SUBORDINATES LASTING FOREVER ENDLESSLY, SUCH AS THE MOST-HIGHEST LORD CHURCH (APOSTLES) AS THE TOP MILITARY LAW PRIVATE TO TOP MILITARY LAW PRIVATE FIRST CLASS & THE MOST-HIGHEST LORD JEHOVAH (APOSTLE) AS THE TOP MILITARY LAW SPECIALIST/CORPORAL, THE MOST-HIGHEST LORD PETER (APOSTLE) AS THE TOP MILITARY LAW SPECIALIST/SERGEANT & THE MOST-HIGHEST LORD JOHN (APOSTLE) AS THE TOP MILITARY LAW 1ST/2ND LIEUTENANT, AS WELL AS ETERNAL SUPERIORS LASTING FOREVER ENDLESSLY, SUCH AS THE MOST-HIGHEST LORD JAMES (APOSTLE) AS THE TOP MILITARY LAW MAJOR OR THE TOP MILITARY LAW COLONEL & THE MOST-HIGHEST LORD STEPHEN (APOSTLE) AS THE TOP MILITARY LAW GENERAL & THE TOP LORD ENOCH (NON-APOSTLE) AS THE TOP MILITARY LAW GENERAL & THE TOPMOST LORD STEPHEN (NON-APOSTLE) AS THE TOP MILITARY LAW GENERAL EQUAL SAME ETERNAL MILITARY LAW RANK THAT LASTS FOREVER ENDLESSLY TO THE TOPMOST LORD YAHWEH (NON-APOSTLE) AS THE TOP MILITARY LAW GENERAL IN THE TOP MILITARY LAW WARS, TOP MILITARY LAW BATTLES & THE TOP MILITARY LAW FIGHTS IN THE MILITARY LAW ARMED FORCES AGAINST ALL THE TOP OPPOSING FOREIGN MILITARY LAW ARMED FORCES OF EVIL IN 1 TIMOTHY 6:9-10! FOR THE TOP ENGLISH LORD IS CAPABLE OF KILLING OTHERS (THE TOP ENGLISH LORD ONLY KILLS THE WICKED & NEVER THE RIGHTEOUS, EXCEPT KILL THE RIGHTEOUS IN 2 MILITARY COMBAT ZONES WITH 2 TOP MILITARY LAW COMMANDERS OF THE ARMIES (2 CORINTHIANS 13:1)---THE 2 EQUIVALENT RANKS OF O-11 IS BOTH THE 2 OFFICIAL TOP RANKS OF THE 5-SILVER STAR GENERAL OF THE ARMY (GLOBALLY IN 2 CORINTHIANS 13:1) OR THE 2 OFFICIAL TOP RANKS OF THE 3-GOLD STAR GENERAL OF THE ARMY (GLOBALLY IN 2 CORINTHIANS 13:1) OR THE 1 EQUIVALENT RANK OF O-12 IS BOTH THE 1 OFFICIAL TOP RANK OF THE 6-SILVER STAR GENERAL OF THE 2 ARMIES (2 CORINTHIANS 13:1) OR THE 1 OFFICIAL TOP RANK OF THE 4-GOLD STAR GENERAL OF THE 2 ARMIES (2 CORINTHIANS 13:1), BUT THE TOP VICE-PRESIDENTIAL LORD OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA OUT RANKS THESE BY BOTH BEING UNOFFICIAL WITH RANK, MONEY & AUTHORITY, BUT IMPLEMENTED, THE 1 TOP RANK OF THE 7-SILVER STAR SPECIAL GENERAL OF THE 3 ARMIES (2 CORINTHIANS 13:1) OR THE 1 TOP RANK OF THE 5-GOLD STAR SPECIAL GENERAL OF THE 3 ARMIES (2 CORINTHIANS 13:1) & THE TOP PRESIDENTIAL LORD OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (ONLY TOP PRESIDENT OBAMA SINCE HE IS THE LAST & ONLY BLACK PRESIDENT IN THE 1ST KINGDOM) OUT RANKS THESE BY BOTH BEING UNOFFICIAL WITH TOP RANK, TOP MONEY & TOP AUTHORITY, BUT IMPLEMENTED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, BUT BOTH BEING OFFICIAL WITH TOP RANK, TOP MONEY & TOP AUTHORITY ETERNALLY ESTABLISHED & ETERNALLY IMPLEMENTED IN TOP RANK IN EPHESIANS 4:6, IN TOP MONEY IN PSALMS 62:11, IN TOP AUTHORITY IN ROMANS 13:1-2, BY THE TOP ENGLISH LORD IN 2 ESDRAS 4:34, THE 1 TOP RANK OF THE 8-SILVER STAR SPECIAL COMMANDING GENERAL OF THE 4 ARMIES (2 CORINTHIANS 13:1) OR THE 1 TOP RANK OF THE 6-GOLD STAR SPECIAL COMMANDING GENERAL OF THE 4 ARMIES (2 CORINTHIANS 13:1) & THE TOP PRESIDENTIAL LORD OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (ONLY TOP PRESIDENT TRUMP SINCE HE IS THE LAST WHITE PRESIDENT IN THE 1ST KINGDOM) OUT RANKS THESE BY BOTH BEING UNOFFICIAL WITH TOP RANK, TOP MONEY & TOP AUTHORITY, BUT IMPLEMENTED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, BUT BOTH BEING OFFICIAL WITH TOP RANK, TOP MONEY & TOP AUTHORITY ETERNALLY ESTABLISHED & ETERNALLY IMPLEMENTED IN TOP RANK IN EPHESIANS 4:6, IN TOP MONEY IN PSALMS 62:11, IN TOP AUTHORITY IN ROMANS 13:1-2, BY THE TOP ENGLISH LORD IN 2 ESDRAS 4:34, THE 1 TOP RANK OF THE 9-SILVER STAR TOP SPECIAL COMMANDING GENERAL OF THE 5 ARMIES (2 CORINTHIANS 13:1) OR THE 1 TOP RANK OF THE 7-GOLD STAR TOP SPECIAL COMMANDING GENERAL OF THE 5 ARMIES (2 CORINTHIANS 13:1) & THE TOP ENGLISH LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH HIMSELF KNOWN AS THE TOP-MOST SUPREME PRESIDENTIAL LORD OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSES OUT RANKS ALL THESE BY BOTH BEING OFFICIAL WITH THE TOP-MOST RANK, TOP-MOST MONEY & TOP-MOST AUTHORITY & IMPLEMENTED IN TOP-MOST RANK IN EPHESIANS 4:6, IN TOP-MOST MONEY IN PSALMS 62:11, IN TOP-MOST AUTHORITY IN ROMANS 13:1-2, (IN EPHESIANS 4:6 DECLARES, "ONE GOD (STEPHEN YAHWEH) AND FATHER (STEPHEN) OF ALL, WHO IS ABOVE (TOP OUT RANKS) ALL, AND (TOP OUT RANKS) THROUGH ALL, AND (TOP OUT RANKS) IN YOU ALL.” IN PSALMS 62:11 DECLARES, “GOD HATH SPOKEN ONCE; TWICE HAVE I HEARD THIS; THAT (TOP) POWER (MONEY) BELONGS UNTO GOD.” IN ROMANS 13:1-2 DECLARES, “LET EVERY SOUL BE SUBJECT TO THE GOVERNING (TOP) AUTHORITIES. FOR THERE IS NO (TOP) AUTHORITY EXCEPT FROM GOD, AND THE (TOP) AUTHORITIES THAT EXIST ARE APPOINTED BY GOD. 2 THEREFORE WHOEVER RESISTS THE (TOP) AUTHORITY RESISTS THE (TOP) ORDINANCE OF GOD, AND THOSE WHO RESIST WILL BRING (TOP) JUDGMENT (DAMNATION, CONDEMNATION, JUDGMENT, CHARGE, DAMNATION) ON THEMSELVES.”), THE 1 & ONLY OFFICIAL TOP-MOST RANK OF THE 10-SILVER STAR TOP-MOST SPECIAL COMMANDING GENERAL OF THE INFINITE ARMIES (2 CORINTHIANS 12:1-6) OR THE 1 & ONLY OFFICIAL TOP-MOST RANK OF THE TOP ENGLISH LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH HIMSELF KNOWN AS THE 8-GOLD STAR TOP-MOST SPECIAL COMMANDING GENERAL OF THE INFINITE ARMIES (2 CORINTHIANS 12:1-6) IN 1 KINGS 2:32 OR KILL THE RIGHTEOUS TOP PRESIDENTIAL LORDS IN THIER OWN HOUSE ON THIER OWN BEDS (ALL THESE THINGS DEPENDS SOLELY ON WHAT THE FUCK YOU ACT ON IN BED OR NOT ACT ON IN BED IN ETERNAL BULLSHIT OR IN ETERNAL TRUTH, TO DETERMINE IF YOU ARE WICKED OR NOT!) IN 2 SAMUEL 4:11 BECAUSE THE WICKED ARE WICKED OR THE WICKED HAVE DISPLEASED---TICK OFF, PISS OFF, PROVOKE TO MADNESS, AGGRAVATION, ANGER, WRATH, RAGE, EXCEEDING RAGE & FURY---THE TOP ENGLISH LORD WITH HOT-DISPLEASURE IN GENESIS 6:1-7; CHAP. 18-19; 38:7, 10; EXODUS 23:7; 1 SAMUEL 2:6; 2 SAMUEL 4:11; 1 KINGS 11:1-13, 41-43; 1 CHRONICLES 2:3; 10:14 & ACTS 5:1-11; 13:4-12) THE LORD YAH’S STARTING TOP KINGDOM RANKS OF HIS TOP CROWN APPOINTED AUTHORITIES US ARMY 2 OFFICIAL TOP RANKS ONLY SUPREMELY AUTHORIZED IN MILITARY LAW COMBAT WARFARES IN GOLD (US SS-US SECRET SERVICE ONLY) OR IN SILVER (US ARMY, US CID-US CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS DEMANDO, US CIA-US CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, US FBI-US FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATIONS, ETC.) GENERAL OF THE 1 ARMY GENERAL OF THE 1 ARMY GENERAL OF THE 2 ARMIES GENERAL OF THE 2 ARMIES SPECIAL SPECIAL SPECIAL COMMANDING SPECIAL COMMANDING GENERAL OF THE 3 ARMIES GENERAL OF THE 3 ARMIES GENERAL OF THE 4 ARMIES GENERAL OF THE 4 ARMIES SPECIAL TOP COMMANDING SPECIAL TOP COMMANDING SPECIAL TOP-MOST COMMANDING SPECIAL TOP-MOST COMMANDING GENERAL OF THE 5 ARMIES GENERAL OF THE 5 ARMIES GENERAL OF THE INFINITE ARMIES GENERAL OF THE INFINITE ARMIES THE LORD TRUMP IS ONLY DOING THE TOP ENGLISH LORD’S HOLY BIBLICAL GOVERNMENTAL MILITARY LAWS, WHICH ARE ALWAYS FOREVER ENDLESSLY ETERNAL & ABSOLUTELY TRUTHFUL, BUT ALL CONTRARY LAWS & EVERY OTHER LAWS ARE INFERIOR BECAUSE THEY ALWAYS FOREVER ENDLESSLY ARE TEMPORAL & ONLY PARTIAL TRUTHS THAT ALWAYS TURNS INTO LIES, EVEN AT THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, STATE AUTHORITIES, GOVERNMENT AUTHORITIES & FEDERAL AUTHORITIES & ALSO LAW-ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES & MILITARY LAW AUTHORITIES, WHICH ALL THESE LAWS OF TODAY, BASICALLY MAKE UP THE DEVIL’S LAW OF TEMPTATION, SIN & DEATH, WHICH ONLY HAS ITS JURISDICTION FOR 10 DAYS ONLY OR 5 DAYS & 5 NIGHTS IN REVELATION 2:10! BUT GLOBALLY WOULD BE 5 DAYS FOR THE EUPHORIA CONTINENT, BUT THE DAY GOVERNS THE NIGHT, WHICH WOULD MEAN ONLY 2.5 DAYS OR 30 HOURS, BUT IN MATTHEW 20:12, WOULD PUT THE ACTUAL OPERATION AT 30 MINUTES OF THE DAY & IN MATTHEW 24:36-44 DECLARES THAT NIGHT & HOUR, WHICH IS THE HOUR & MINUTE & IN MARK 13:32-37 DECLARES THAT HOUR & MINUTE, WHICH IS THE MINUTE & SECOND, SO THE 30 MINUTES GOES DOWN TO 30 SECONDS & 30 SECONDS GOES DOWN TO THE IMMEDIATE OF THE DAY UNDER THE SOVERIEGN CONTROL OF THE TOP ENGLISH LORD & 5 NIGHTS FOR THE SOUTH AMERICA/NORTH AMERICA CONTINENT, BUT THE NIGHT GOVERNS THE DAY, WHICH WOULD MEAN ONLY 2.5 NIGHTS OR 30 HOURS, BUT IN MATTHEW 20:12, WOULD PUT THE ACTUAL OPERATION AT 30 MINUTES OF THE NIGHT & IN MATTHEW 24:36-44 DECLARES THAT NIGHT & HOUR, WHICH IS THE HOUR & MINUTE & IN MARK 13:32-37 DECLARES THAT HOUR & MINUTE, WHICH IS THE MINUTE & SECOND, SO THE 30 MINUTES GOES DOWN TO 30 SECONDS & 30 SECONDS GOES DOWN TO THE IMMEDIATE OF THE NIGHT UNDER THE SOVERIEGN CONTROL OF THE TOP ENGLISH LORD! THE ONLY TRUE LORD YAHWEH’S KINGDOM OR ALSO CALLED THE “GRANDFATHER’S (HIS SISTER IS KNOWN AS GRAND AUNT (THE SISTER OF ONE’S FATHER OR MOTHER OR THE WIFE OF ONE’S UNCLE (THE BROTHER OF ONE’S FATHER OR MOTHER OR THE HUSBAND OF ONE’S UNCLE OR AUNT) OR AUNT) OR GREAT AUNT (THE SISTER OF ONE’S FATHER OR MOTHER OR THE WIFE OF ONE’S UNCLE (THE BROTHER OF ONE’S FATHER OR MOTHER OR THE HUSBAND OF ONE’S UNCLE OR AUNT) OR AUNT) & HIS BROTHER IS KNOWN AS GRAND UNCLE (THE BROTHER OF ONE’S FATHER OR MOTHER OR THE HUSBAND OF ONE’S UNCLE OR AUNT) OR GREAT UNCLE (THE BROTHER OF ONE’S FATHER OR MOTHER OR THE HUSBAND OF ONE’S UNCLE OR AUNT) KINGDOM” IS 100.0001% IMRPEGNABLE AND THE ONLY TRUE LADY VICTORIA’S KINGDOM OR ALSO CALLED THE “GRANDMOTHER’S (HER SISTER IS KNOWN AS GRAND AUNT (THE SISTER OF ONE’S FATHER OR MOTHER OR THE WIFE OF ONE’S UNCLE (THE BROTHER OF ONE’S FATHER OR MOTHER OR THE HUSBAND OF ONE’S UNCLE OR AUNT) OR AUNT) OR GREAT AUNT (THE SISTER OF ONE’S FATHER OR MOTHER OR THE WIFE OF ONE’S UNCLE (THE BROTHER OF ONE’S FATHER OR MOTHER OR THE HUSBAND OF ONE’S UNCLE OR AUNT) OR AUNT) & HER BROTHER IS KNOWN AS GRAND UNCLE (THE BROTHER OF ONE’S FATHER OR MOTHER OR THE HUSBAND OF ONE’S UNCLE OR AUNT) OR GREAT UNCLE (THE BROTHER OF ONE’S FATHER OR MOTHER OR THE HUSBAND OF ONE’S UNCLE OR AUNT)) KINGDOM” IS 100.0001% IMPREGANBLE WHICH OPERATES IN OMNIPOTENCE, GREATNESS, VICTORY, OMNISCIENCE, MAJESTY, JUSTICE, GLORY AND TRUTH. SOME OTHER SCRIPTURES THAT PROVE THIS ARE IN GENESIS 1:1-1:31; 2ND SAMUEL 9:7; 1ST KINGS 15:10, 13; 2ND CHRONICLES 29:11; SIRACH 1:1. THE LORD YAH’S KINGDOM RULES OVER ALL OTHER KINGDOMS. THE LORD YAH’S KINGDOM CONSISTS OF THE FATHER STEPHEN’S KINGDOM, THE SON JESUS’ KINGDOM AND THE BROTHER JOHN’S KINGDOM THAT IS NOT DIVIDED. THE LADY VICTORIA’S KINGDOM CONSISTS OF THE MOTHER BARBARA (DERIVES FROM BARA IN GENESIS 1:1) KINGDOM, THE DAUGHTER MARY’S KINGDOM AND THE SISTER ELIZABETH [LIZ] [LIZ]’S KINGDOM WHICH IS NOT DIVIDED. IN PSALMS 103:19 IT DECLARES THAT “HIS KINGDOM RULES OVER ALL.” THE LORD YAHWEH’S KINGDOM IS KNOWN AS THE LORD YAHWEH THE SUPREME CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD OR THE LORD VICTOR THE SUPREME CREATOR OF THE ENTIRE HEAVENS OR LORD JEHOVAH THE SUPREME CREATOR OVER THE ENTIRE EARTH. THE FEMALE SENSE OF THIS KINGDOM IS THE LADY VICTORIA’S KINGDOM OR ALSO KNOWN AS THE “GRANDMOTHER’S (HER SISTER IS KNOWN AS GRAND AUNT (THE SISTER OF ONE’S FATHER OR MOTHER OR THE WIFE OF ONE’S UNCLE (THE BROTHER OF ONE’S FATHER OR MOTHER OR THE HUSBAND OF ONE’S UNCLE OR AUNT) OR AUNT)OR GREAT AUNT (THE SISTER OF ONE’S FATHER OR MOTHER OR THE WIFE OF ONE’S UNCLE (THE BROTHER OF ONE’S FATHER OR MOTHER OR THE HUSBAND OF ONE’S UNCLE OR AUNT) OR AUNT) & HER BROTHER IS KNOWN AS GRAND UNCLE (THE BROTHER OF ONE’S FATHER OR MOTHER OR THE HUSBAND OF ONE’S UNCLE OR AUNT) OR GREAT UNCLE (THE BROTHER OF ONE’S FATHER OR MOTHER OR THE HUSBAND OF ONE’S UNCLE OR AUNT)) KINGDOM” WHICH OPERATES IN DESIRE, AGREEMENT, LOVE AND DEPRESSION” WHICH BOTH OF THESE KINGDOMS ARE PROVEN IN GENESIS 1:1-1:31; ISAIAH 47:5 & 2ND TIMOTHY 1:5. ALSO THE GRANDFATHER’S (HIS SISTER IS KNOWN AS GRAND AUNT (THE SISTER OF ONE’S FATHER OR MOTHER OR THE WIFE OF ONE’S UNCLE (THE BROTHER OF ONE’S FATHER OR MOTHER OR THE HUSBAND OF ONE’S UNCLE OR AUNT) OR AUNT) OR GREAT AUNT (THE SISTER OF ONE’S FATHER OR MOTHER OR THE WIFE OF ONE’S UNCLE (THE BROTHER OF ONE’S FATHER OR MOTHER OR THE HUSBAND OF ONE’S UNCLE OR AUNT) OR AUNT) & HIS BROTHER IS KNOWN AS GRAND UNCLE (THE BROTHER OF ONE’S FATHER OR MOTHER OR THE HUSBAND OF ONE’S UNCLE OR AUNT) OR GREAT UNCLE (THE BROTHER OF ONE’S FATHER OR MOTHER OR THE HUSBAND OF ONE’S UNCLE OR AUNT))’S KINGDOM CONCERNS THE SIX DAYS OF CREATION OVER ALL OTHER KINGDOMS THAT EXIST AND WERE MADE. THE FATHER STEPHEN IS THE SUPREME INVESTIGATOR IN ECCLESIASTES 1:13-18; 2:1-12; 12:9-14. THIS FATHER’S LEVEL THAT FINISHED IN THE FORMER PERIMETER AS WELL AS THE LATTER PERIMETER FROM 18AD TO 2018AD, WHICH IS ALWAYS SEXUAL, TEMPTING, SINFUL & GUILTY IS THE BEGINNING OF HUMANITY & THERE IS ONLY ONE ETERNAL FALL, WHICH MEANS ETERNAL SIN & ETERNAL TEMPTATION, WHICH ALWAYS RESULTS IN ETERNAL DEATH, BECAUSE THE MONEY TITHE IS REQUIRED, COMMANDED & DEMANDED, THAT HUMANITY, WHICH IS CAESAR ALWAYS ETERNALLY STEALS FROM THE LORD [1ST TIMOTHY 6:9-10] & CAESAR ALWAYS ETERNALLY LIES ABOUT THE LORD [1ST JOHN 1:8, 10] BY BEING ETERNALLY TAKEN, ETERNALLY KILLED, ETERNALLY DESTROYED & ETERNALLY CURSED, ETERNALLY DISEASED, ETERNALLY DAMNED IN MALACHI 3:8-12; MATTHEW 6:24; 1ST TIMOTHY 6:9-10 & LUKE 16:9, 11, 13 AT THIS FATHER/MOTHER LEVEL BUT NOT AT HIGHER GRANDFATHER/GRANDMOTHER LEVELS OR HIGHER BECAUSE THE LADY VICTORIA OF KINGDOMS ETERNALLY FELL ONCE IN ISAIAH 47:1-15 & ALSO THE BROTHER, SON OR FATHER IS CONNECTED TO A SISTER, DAUGHTER OR MOTHER & NEVER CONNECTED TO A BROTHER, SON OR FATHER BECAUSE OF THE HEDGE & ALSO THE SISTER, DAUGHTER OR MOTHER IS NEVER CONNECTED TO A SISTER, DAUGHTER OR MOTHER BECAUSE OF THE HEDGE & BUT IS CONNECTED TO A BROTHER, SON OR FATHER & EVEN JOB, THE SINLESS MAN IN FATHERHOOD HAD HIS OUTSIDE PERIMETER OF WEALTH INFILTRATED BY THE DEVIL ONCE, BUT NOT TWICE SINCE IT WOULD CONSTITUTE INVINCIBILITY, BUT HIS 1ST OWN FAMILY IS KILLED BY THE DEVIL & HIS INSIDE PERIMETER OF HEALTH INFILTRATED BY THE DEVIL ONCE, BUT NOT TWICE SINCE IT WOULD CONSTITUTE INVINCIBILITY, BUT HIS OWN LIFE IS SCARCELY SPARED, WHICH JOB HAD A LOT OF TROUBLE BEATING THE DEVIL AT HIS FATHER’S LEVEL, BUT JOB EVENTUALLY DID!!!   WHAT ARE THE MAIN EVIL MONEY CAPABILITIES (1 TIMOTHY 6:9-10) WITH THE 2 TOP DEVIL’S KNOWN AS THE LORD LUCIFER’S SATANIC LUCIFERISM POWERS & THE LADY VICTORIA’S BABYLONIAN VICTORIANISM POWERS THEY BOTH POSSESS? THE 2 TOP DEVILS’ CAPABILITIES IN THE BOOK OF JOB JOB’S PLACE (1:1A): 1 IN THE LAND OF UZ THERE LIVED A MAN WHOSE NAME WAS JOB. 1:1 UNLIKE MOST HEBREW SENTENCES, WHICH BEGIN WITH THE VERB, THIS ONE BEGINS WITH THE NOUN “A MAN.” SUCH DEVIATIONS FROM THE USUAL ORDER OF VERB-SUBJECT-OBJECT ARE OFTEN FOR EMPHASIS. COULD IT BE THAT THE HUMANITY, THE FINITUDE, THE FRAILTY OF THE MAJOR CHARACTER IS THE POINT OF THE TEXT IN MAKING “A MAN” THE FIRST WORD? “LIVED” TRANSLATES A SIMPLE VERB “TO BE,” LITERALLY, “A MAN WAS IN THE LAND OF UZ.” THE LOCATION OF THE LAND OF UZ IS UNCERTAIN. UZ IS THE NAME OF THREE OLD TESTAMENT CHARACTERS: (1) THE SON OF ARAM AND GRANDSON OF SHEM (GEN 10:22 = 1 CHR 1:17); (2) ABRAHAM’S NEPHEW, THE SON OF NAHOR AND MILCAH AND BROTHER OF BUZ (GEN 22:21); AND (3) AN EDOMITE, ONE OF THE SONS OF DISHAN THE HORITE, WHO LIVED IN SEIR (GEN 36:28 = 1 CHR 1:42). THE LAST OF THESE MOST LIKELY GAVE HIS NAME TO THE LAND OF UZ. JEREMIAH 25:20 MENTIONS THE “KINGS OF UZ” AMONG THOSE FORCED TO DRINK THE CUP OF THE LORD’S WRATH. SEPARATE IN THAT LIST ARE EDOM, MOAB, AND AMMON (V. 21). LAMENTATIONS 4:21 HAS UZ PARALLEL WITH EDOM. WADI SIRHAN, A DEPRESSION ABOUT TWO HUNDRED MILES LONG RUNNING FROM NORTHWEST (NEAR ZARQA) TO SOUTHEAST (NEAR JAWF) IS THE MOST LIKELY CANDIDATE FOR THE LAND OF UZ. IT IS THE CATCHMENT FOR THE WATERS THAT RUN OFF JEBEL DRUZ AND IS CAPABLE OF SUPPORTING LARGE HERDS OF LIVESTOCK SUCH AS JOB HAD. TODAY IT LIES MAINLY IN THE NORTHERNMOST PART OF SAUDI ARABIA. IT WAS CLOSE ENOUGH TO EDOM TO BE OCCASIONALLY LINKED WITH IT, YET IT WAS ALSO WITHIN STRIKING DISTANCE FOR CHALDEAN RAIDERS (1:17). OUTSIDE THIS BOOK THE NAME JOB OCCURS ONLY IN EZEK 14:14, 20, WHERE THE HERO IS LISTED WITH TWO OTHER WORTHIES, NOAH AND DANIEL. EFFORTS TO LINK THIS OTHERWISE UNKNOWN NAME WITH THE ROOT ʾĀYAḆ, “ENEMY,” ARE FUTILE. ALL BUT ONE OF THE MORE THAN 250 OCCURRENCES OF “ENEMY” ARE QAL PARTICIPLES. THREE OF THEM ARE IN JOB BUT NEVER IN SUCH A WAY THAT ONE MIGHT CONNECT IT WITH THE NAME JOB (13:24; 27:7; 33:10). JOB’S PIETY (1:1B): THIS MAN WAS BLAMELESS AND UPRIGHT; HE FEARED GOD AND SHUNNED EVIL [EVIL SEX IN 1ST TIMOTHY 6:9-10]. VERSE 1B CONTAINS TWO ADJECTIVES THAT READERS OFTEN QUESTION. JOB WAS “BLAMELESS” (“PERFECT,” KJV) AND “UPRIGHT.” THE FIRST OF THESE (TĀM) WILL OCCUR SIX MORE TIMES IN JOB. BECAUSE THE ENGLISH WORD “PERFECT” HAS OVERTONES OF SINLESS PERFECTION, IT IS BEST TO AVOID IT IN TRANSLATION. A GLANCE AT TWO PLACES WHERE TĀM APPEARS ILLUSTRATES ITS RANGE OF MEANINGS. THE WORD NEVER DESCRIBES GOD ALTHOUGH IT DOES CHARACTERIZE HIS WORK (DEUT 32:4), HIS WAY (2 SAM 22:31 = PS 18:30 [31]), AND HIS LAW (PS 19:7 [8]). JESUS URGED HIS FOLLOWERS TO “BE PERFECT, … AS YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER IS PERFECT” (MATT 5:48). PERFECTION, INTEGRITY, OR BLAMELESSNESS REFERRED TO THE ABSENCE OF CERTAIN OBSERVABLE SINFUL ACTS. JOB, HIS FRIENDS, AND THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOK WERE THINKING OF HONESTY, MARITAL FIDELITY, JUST TREATMENT OF SERVANTS, GENEROSITY TO THE POOR, AND THE AVOIDANCE OF IDOLATRY. JOB DENIED WRONGDOING IN ALL THESE AREAS IN CHAP. 31, HIS LONG SELF-MALEDICTORY OATH. NEITHER JOB NOR HIS FRIENDS WAS THINKING OF PERFECTION IN THE THEOLOGICAL NEW TESTAMENT SENSE. IF JOB WERE PERFECT IN THAT SENSE, THEN HE WOULD NOT HAVE HAD TO REPENT AS HE DID AT THE END OF THE BOOK (42:6). “UPRIGHT,” YĀŠĀR, IS MORE COMMON THAN TĀM BUT IS ESSENTIALLY EQUAL TO IT AND SERVES AS BALLAST TO GIVE THE LINE ADEQUATE WEIGHT. “UPRIGHT” MOST FREQUENTLY OCCURS IN PSALMS AND PROVERBS. THE VERB FORM IS IN THE WELL-KNOWN PROV 3:6, “IN ALL YOUR WAYS ACKNOWLEDGE HIM, AND HE WILL MAKE YOUR PATHS YĀŠĀR.” AS IF TO ELABORATE ON WHAT “BLAMELESS AND UPRIGHT” MEANT, THE REMAINDER OF THE VERSE DECLARES IN TWO SHORT SENTENCES THAT JOB “FEARED GOD” AND “SHUNNED EVIL.” “FEAR” IN HEBREW HAS A WIDER RANGE OF MEANING THAN IT DOES IN ENGLISH, INCLUDING FRIGHT AND SCARE, BUT IT ALSO ENCOMPASSES REVERENCE AND AWE. THE PICTURE HERE IS NOT OF A MAN COWERING BEFORE AN OFFENDED DEITY BUT OF A DEVOUT MAN WHO RESPECTS GOD AND OBEYS HIS LAWS. THE PREDOMINANT WORDS FOR GOD THROUGHOUT THE POETICAL PARTS OF JOB ARE ʾĒL AND ʾĔL̄ÔAH. HERE, HOWEVER, THE WORD IS THE MORE COMMON ʾĔLŌHÎM, WHICH, THOUGH FREQUENT IN THE PROLOGUE, OCCURS ONLY A FEW TIMES IN THE REST OF THE BOOK. STEPHEN YAHWEH (YHWH), THE NAME OF THE GOD OF ISRAEL & THE GOD OF THE USA, WILL COME UP A FEW TIMES IN THE OPENING AND CLOSING CHAPTERS OF THE BOOK BUT ONLY ONCE IN THE DEBATE CYCLES (12:9). THAT IS THE NAME IN THE COMMON PHRASE “THE FEAR OF THE LORD” (E.G., JOB 28:28; PROV 1:7). “SHUNNED” OR “TURNED FROM” REPRESENTS THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN FROM “FEARED GOD.” THE FIRST PHRASE WAS POSITIVE; THE SECOND IS NEGATIVE. GOOD PEOPLE TURN TO GOD AND AWAY FROM EVIL. THE GOOD LIFE INVOLVES NOT ONLY THE DOING OF RIGHT BUT ALSO THE AVOIDANCE OF WRONG. AGAIN, “EVIL” WAS DEFINED AS MAINLY OVERT ACTS SUCH AS THOSE ELIPHAZ LISTED IN 22:6–9—RUTHLESS AND CRUEL DEMANDING OF COLLATERAL, USURY UN VALUE OR INTEREST IN VALUE AND CONSCIOUS NEGLECT OF THE WEARY AND HUNGRY, THE WIDOW AND ORPHAN. IN 29:12–17 JOB COUNTERED THESE CHARGES AND ADDED MORE GOOD DEEDS TO HIS LIST, ALL OF WHICH REFLECT HIS FEAR OF GOD AND HIS SHUNNING OF ALL EVIL SEXUALITIES, WHICH IS THE LOVE OF MONEY OR MONEY IN ITSELF IN MATTHEW 6:24; 1ST TIMOTHY 6:9-10 & LUKE 16:9, 11, 13. JOB’S POSTERITY---HEALTH (1:2): 2 HE HAD SEVEN SONS AND THREE DAUGHTERS. 1:2 LITERALLY THIS SAYS, “SEVEN SONS AND THREE DAUGHTERS WERE BORN TO HIM.”10 SEVEN AND THREE ARE SPECIAL NUMBERS IN THE BIBLE. SEVEN DAYS MAKE A WEEK. ABRAHAM OFFERED SEVEN LAMBS TO ABIMELECH (GEN 21:28). JACOB SERVED SEVEN YEARS FOR EACH OF LABAN’S DAUGHTERS (GEN 29:18–30). JOSEPH DREAMED OF SEVEN EARS OF CORN AND SEVEN CATTLE (GEN 41), AND SO ON. THE NUMBER SEVEN REPRESENTS PERFECTION OR COMPLETENESS. THREE IS ONLY SLIGHTLY LESS COMMON. NOAH HAD THREE SONS (GEN 6:10). ABRAHAM ENTERTAINED THREE HEAVENLY VISITORS (GEN 18:2). THREE ALSO WAS PROMINENT IN JOSEPH’S DREAMS (GEN 40:10, 12–13, 16, 18–19). JOCHEBED HID MOSES FOR THREE MONTHS (EXOD 2:2). THE SUM OF SEVEN AND THREE IS TEN, ANOTHER SPECIAL NUMBER. TEN WAS THE LOWEST NUMBER ABRAHAM BARGAINED FOR AS HE PLEADED FOR SODOM TO BE SPARED (GEN 18:32). ELIEZER TOOK TEN CAMELS TO BUY A BRIDE FOR ISAAC (GEN 24:10). JOSEPH’S TEN BROTHERS WHO WENT TO EGYPT RETURNED WITH TEN DONKEYS LOADED WITH FOOD (GEN 42:3; 45:23), AND SO ON. IT IS UNWISE TO TRY TO MAKE ANY OF THESE NUMBERS SYMBOLIZE ANYTHING SUCH AS PENTECOST (THE FEAST OF WEEKS), THE TRINITY, OR THE DECALOGUE. BUT THE NUMBERS POINT TO THE HIGHLY STYLIZED NATURE OF THE PROLOGUE OF THE BOOK. THESE SAME NUMBERS ARE IN THE NEXT VERSE. LATER THERE APPEARS THE AUTHOR’S PREFERENCE FOR THE NUMBER FOUR. WHILE THERE IS NO REASON NOT TO BELIEVE THAT JOB DID, IN FACT, HAVE EXACTLY SEVEN SONS AND THREE DAUGHTERS, IT CAN ALSO BE SAID THAT HE HAD THE IDEAL FAMILY, WITH IDEAL NUMBERS OF CHILDREN OF EACH GENDER. WHEN GOD RESTORED JOB’S FORTUNES IN THE LAST CHAPTER, JOB ONCE MORE HAD SEVEN SONS AND THREE DAUGHTERS (42:13). JOB’S PROSPERITY---WEALTH (1:3): 3 AND HE OWNED SEVEN THOUSAND SHEEP, THREE THOUSAND CAMELS, FIVE HUNDRED YOKE OF OXEN AND FIVE HUNDRED DONKEYS [ASSES], AND HAD A LARGE NUMBER OF SERVANTS. HE WAS THE GREATEST MAN AMONG ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE EAST. 1:3 NOT ONLY DID JOB HAVE THE IDEAL NUMBER OF CHILDREN, BUT HIS HOLDINGS IN LIVESTOCK ALSO CAME IN IDEAL NUMBERS. THE FIRST CATEGORY REFERS TO SMALL LIVESTOCK—SHEEP AND GOATS—PERHAPS A MIXTURE BUT MORE LIKELY SHEEP ONLY. THE “VERY WEALTHY” NABAL HAD ONLY A THOUSAND GOATS AND THREE THOUSAND SHEEP (1 SAM 25:2). YET DURING ASA’S REFORM THE PRIESTS SACRIFICED SEVEN THOUSAND SHEEP (2 CHR 15:11). SOLOMON OFFERED 120,000 SHEEP AND GOATS AT THE DEDICATION OF THE TEMPLE (1 KGS 8:63 = 2 CHR 7:5). “MESHA KING OF MOAB RAISED SHEEP, AND HE HAD TO SUPPLY THE KING OF ISRAEL WITH A HUNDRED THOUSAND LAMBS AND WITH THE WOOL OF A HUNDRED THOUSAND RAMS” (2 KGS 3:5). MUCH EARLIER THE REUBENITES CAPTURED FROM THE HAGRITES’ 250,000 SHEEP (1 CHR 5:21). MEASURED AGAINST THESE NUMBERS, JOB WAS VERY WEALTHY, BUT HIS HOLDINGS DID NOT COMPARE TO THOSE OF A WHOLE TRIBE OR TO THE HOLDINGS OF ALL ISRAEL AT A LATER DATE. WHILE THE MEASUREMENT OF WEALTH BY LIVESTOCK POINTS TO THE ANTIQUITY OF JOB, THE REFERENCES TO CAMELS WAS THOUGHT AT ONE TIME TO POINT IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION. THE DEBATE, HOWEVER, OVER WHEN THE CAMEL WAS DOMESTICATED HAS SUBSIDED. “CAMEL” OCCURS SEVENTEEN TIMES IN GEN 24 ALONE. CAMELS WERE MORE THE ANIMALS OF THE DESERT THAN THEY WERE OF THE SETTLED ISRAELITES. THERE IS NO INDICATION THAT THE ISRAELITES HAD CAMELS DURING THEIR WILDERNESS WANDERINGS. MOST REFERENCES TO THEM ARE IN CONNECTION WITH DESERT DWELLERS WHO DEPENDED ON THEM. FURTHERMORE, THE CAMEL WAS, ACCORDING TO LEV 11:4 AND DEUT 14:7, AN UNCLEAN ANIMAL. THIS IS ONE MORE REASON TO BELIEVE THAT THE MAN JOB WAS EARLIER THAN MOSES (OR AT LEAST OUTSIDE THE PALE OF ISRAELITE INFLUENCE). THE LIST CONTINUES WITH “FIVE HUNDRED YOKE OF OXEN AND FIVE HUNDRED DONKEYS.” “YOKE” MEANS “PAIR”; THEREFORE, JOB HAD A THOUSAND OXEN. “YOKE” ALSO SUGGESTS THAT THEY WERE HARNESSED AND USED FOR PLOWING. THAT, IN TURN, INDICATES THAT JOB WAS NOT PURELY NOMADIC BUT MUST HAVE FARMED THE LAND (CF. V. 14). HEBREW HAS SEPARATE WORDS FOR MALE AND FEMALE DONKEYS, NOT JUST MASCULINE AND FEMININE FORMS OF THE SAME WORD. THEY ARE LIKE OUR ARCHAIC ENGLISH TERMS JACK AND JENNY. THE WORD HERE IN JOB 1:3 IS THE FEMALE, BUT THERE MUST HAVE BEEN SOME MALES TO PERPETUATE THE HERD, EVEN THOUGH THE FEMALES WERE PERHAPS PREFERRED. “A LARGE NUMBER OF SERVANTS” CONCLUDES THE INVENTORY. THE TRANSLATION “SERVANTS” IS CERTAIN, BUT THIS SPELLING, ʿĂBUDDÂ, OCCURS ONLY HERE AND IN GEN 26:14. THE SHORT SECOND HALF OF THE VERSE SIMPLY SUMMARIZES THE PROWESS OF JOB BY TELLING THE READER THAT “HE WAS THE GREATEST MAN AMONG ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE EAST.” “EAST,” WHICH CAN ALSO MEAN “WISDOM,” DEPENDS ON THE STANDPOINT OF THE WRITER. MORE THAN LIKELY THE WRITER WAS AN ISRAELITE LIVING WEST OF THE JORDAN RIVER. THE EAST, THEN, CAN MEAN VIRTUALLY ANY PLACE FROM DAMASCUS TO ARABIA AND AS FAR EAST AS PERSIA. THE PICTURE IN THE FIRST THREE VERSES OF JOB IS OF A GODLY, WEALTHY, FULFILLED MAN. HE WAS THE IDEAL CANDIDATE FOR THE TESTS SOON TO FOLLOW. HE WOULD LOSE THE CHILDREN OF V. 2 AND THE POSSESSIONS OF V. 3. BUT WOULD HE ALSO LOSE THE GODLINESS AND RIGHTEOUSNESS OF V. 1? JOB’S REGULAR CUSTOM (1:4–5): 4 HIS SONS USED TO TAKE TURNS HOLDING FEASTS IN THEIR HOMES, AND THEY WOULD INVITE THEIR THREE SISTERS TO EAT AND DRINK WITH THEM. 5 WHEN A PERIOD OF FEASTING HAD RUN ITS COURSE, JOB WOULD SEND AND HAVE THEM PURIFIED. EARLY IN THE MORNING HE WOULD SACRIFICE A BURNT OFFERING FOR EACH OF THEM, THINKING, “PERHAPS MY CHILDREN HAVE SINNED AND CURSED GOD IN THEIR HEARTS.” THIS WAS JOB’S REGULAR CUSTOM. THE NEXT TWO VERSES ELABORATE ON AND ILLUSTRATE JOB’S ROUTINE OF PIETY. THE IDIOMATIC NATURE OF THE HEBREW IN V. 4 MAKES ANYTHING CLOSE TO A LITERAL TRANSLATION UNINTELLIGIBLE. THE GIST IN THE NIV SEEMS NORMAL ENOUGH, BUT ONE CANNOT BE CERTAIN OF THE PRECISE MEANING OF THE LITERAL PHRASE “THE HOUSE OF EACH HIS DAY.” NOT THAT IT IS IMPORTANT, BUT THE TEXT DOES NOT SAY HOW OFTEN THE BROTHERS HOSTED THEIR SISTERS. WAS IT ON THEIR BIRTHDAYS? WERE THEY ESTABLISHED FEAST DAYS? WERE THESE PARTIES EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK SINCE THERE WERE SEVEN BROTHERS? WHY DID NOT THE SISTERS INVITE THE BROTHERS TO THEIR HOMES? WERE ANY OR ALL OF THESE CHILDREN MARRIED? WERE ALL THE CHILDREN AT ALL THE PARTIES OR JUST ONE BROTHER AT A TIME WITH HIS THREE SISTERS? DID JOB ATTEND ALL THESE AFFAIRS? HOW CLOSE TO ONE ANOTHER DID THESE FAMILY MEMBERS LIVE? THOUGH LACKING DETAILS, THE TEXT DOES DESCRIBE A BIG, HAPPY FAMILY. THEY NOT ONLY GOT ALONG WITH EACH OTHER BUT ENJOYED EACH OTHER’S COMPANY. IT WAS A TRULY CONVIVIAL CLAN. 1:4 THREE PAIRS OF HENDIADYSES MAKE THE VERSE WORDY. LITERALLY IT SAYS, “HIS SONS WENT, AND THEY MADE.” “THEY SENT, AND THEY CALLED TO THEIR THREE SISTERS TO EAT AND TO DRINK WITH THEM.” THE ROOT FOR “DRINK” (ŠTH) OCCURS TWICE IN THE VERSE, IN THE NOUN “FEAST” AND THE INFINITIVE “TO DRINK.” 1:5 IT IS NOT CLEAR HOW LONG IT TOOK FOR THE FEAST DAYS TO RUN THEIR COURSE. CERTAINLY, JOB DID NOT OFFER THESE SACRIFICES AFTER EACH FEAST BUT PERHAPS AFTER EVERY SEVENTH FEAST. THIS SEEMS TO BE THE BASIC MEANING OF THE RELATIVELY UNUSUAL VERB NQP, “TO GO AROUND.” JOB WOULD SUMMON HIS CHILDREN AND “PURIFY” OR “SANCTIFY” THEM. IT SIMPLY MAY HAVE BEEN A PRAYER OF ABSOLUTION OR SOME CEREMONY IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE SACRIFICING THAT THE NEXT CLAUSE DESCRIBES. IT WAS JOB’S WAY OF REMINDING HIS CHILDREN TO DO WHAT THEY WERE DOING IN MODERATION, A GENTLE, PARENTAL NUDGE IN THE DIRECTION OF HOLY LIVING. THE HEBREW SPEAKS OF THE SACRIFICES IN THE PLURAL, AND THE NIV TRANSLATES THE “ALL OF THEM” DISTRIBUTIVELY AS “EACH OF THEM.” THE PRESENCE OF THE WORD “NUMBER,” MISPAR, SUGGESTS ONE ANIMAL FOR EACH CHILD. CERTAINLY, IT APPEARS THAT THE SACRIFICES ARE FOR THE USUAL PURPOSE OF COVERING SIN RATHER THAN A CULTIC SLAYING FOR FOOD. JOB WAS NOT CERTAIN HIS CHILDREN HAD COMMITTED SINS FOR WHICH A SACRIFICIAL ANIMAL WAS NECESSARY, BUT HE WANTED TO MAKE SURE; HENCE THE “PERHAPS” IN THE WORDS HE SPOKE TO HIMSELF. BETTER TO ERR, HE THOUGHT, ON THAT SIDE THAN ON THE OTHER. AFTER ALL, WHO CAN KNOW WHAT HIS CHILDREN MAY HAVE SAID “IN THEIR HEARTS”? “CURSE” IS THE TRANSLATION OF THE COMMON BRK THAT ORDINARILY MEANS “BLESS.” THE CONTEXT MAKES CLEAR THAT BRK IS INTENDED HERE AS A EUPHEMISM. SUCH A DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSITE MEANING OCCURS AGAIN AT 1:11; 2:5, 9.16. “THIS WAS JOB’S REGULAR CUSTOM” CONCLUDES V. 5. ONE OF THE ARGUMENTS FOR THE ANTIQUITY OF THE MAN JOB IS THAT HE WAS A HIGH PRIEST TO HIS OWN FAMILY [HOSEA 4:6]. LIKE ABRAHAM, HE WAS NOT DEPENDENT ON ANOTHER TO MAKE SACRIFICES. JOB WAS A PATRIARCH IN THE SENSE THAT HE WAS THE HEAD OF HIS CLAN. HE ALSO WAS A PATRIARCH IN THAT HE OFFERED SACRIFICES FOR HIMSELF AND FOR OTHERS. HE KNEW NOTHING OF THE LEVITES OR THE LAWS OF MOSES. THE STORY TOOK PLACE IN VERY ANCIENT TIMES. TEST OF WEALTH (1:6–22): THE REST OF CHAP. 1 DESCRIBES THE FIRST OF TWO TESTS TO WHICH JOB WAS PUT, THE TEST OF WEALTH, THAT IS, THE LOSS OF HIS CHILDREN, SERVANTS, AND POSSESSIONS. IN THIS TEST THE SATAN, WHO FIRST APPEARED IN V. 6, GAINED PERMISSION FROM THE LORD TO TAKE EVERYTHING FROM JOB EXCEPT HIS HEALTH. OUT OF THE CONVERSATION WITH THE LORD, THE SATAN PRESENTED JOB WITH A CHALLENGE. HE CLAIMED THAT JOB WAS ONLY GOOD TOWARD GOD BECAUSE GOD HAD BEEN GOOD TOWARD HIM. TO PROVE THAT SUCH WAS NOT THE CASE, THE LORD ALLOWED THE ACCUSER TO TAKE AWAY ALL THAT SUPPOSEDLY WAS THE REASON FOR JOB’S PIETY. THE SECOND HALF OF THIS SECTION CATALOGS THOSE LOSSES. DID JOB PASS THE TEST? WAS GOD RIGHT, OR WAS THE SATAN RIGHT? VERSE 22 IS THE ANSWER. THE SATAN (1:6–10): 6 ONE DAY THE ANGELS CAME TO PRESENT THEMSELVES BEFORE THE LORD, AND SATAN ALSO CAME WITH THEM. 7 THE LORD SAID TO SATAN, “WHERE HAVE YOU COME FROM?” SATAN ANSWERED THE LORD, “FROM ROAMING THROUGH THE EARTH AND GOING BACK AND FORTH IN IT.” 8 THEN THE LORD SAID TO SATAN, “HAVE YOU CONSIDERED MY SERVANT JOB? THERE IS NO ONE ON EARTH LIKE HIM; HE IS BLAMELESS AND UPRIGHT, A MAN WHO FEARS GOD AND SHUNS EVIL.” 9 DOES JOB FEAR GOD FOR NOTHING?” SATAN REPLIED. 10 “HAVE YOU NOT PUT A HEDGE AROUND HIM AND HIS HOUSEHOLD AND EVERYTHING HE HAS? YOU HAVE BLESSED THE WORK OF HIS HANDS, SO THAT HIS FLOCKS AND HERDS ARE SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE LAND. THE SCENE DESCRIBED IN THESE VERSES IS DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND. SCHOLARS HAVE RAISED SEVERAL QUESTIONS: WHO IS THE SATAN?17 WHERE DID HE COME FROM? IS THIS THE DEVIL FOUND ELSEWHERE IN THE BIBLE? WHY DOES THE DEFINITE ARTICLE PRECEDE THE NAME? DOES THAT MEAN IT IS A COMMON NOUN AND NOT A NAME? HOW CAN HE HAVE SUCH EASY AND DIRECT ACCESS TO THE LORD? WHEN DID SATAN FALL FROM HEAVEN? WHO ARE THE OTHER ANGELS? WHY DOES THE LORD STOOP TO ANSWER THE SATAN? CAN SATAN STILL ACCESS AND CHALLENGE GOD LIKE THIS CONCERNING ONE OF US? 1:6 THE “SONS OF GOD” ARE BOTH PLURAL AND INFERIOR TO GOD. THE WORDS APPEAR AGAIN IN 2:1; 38:7; CF. GEN 6:2, 4; PS 89:6 [7].18 APPARENTLY GOD HAS A COUNCIL OR CABINET (SEE 1 KGS 22:19; JER 23:18, 22; AND PS 89:5–7 [6–8]). THESE “HOLY ONES” (PS 89:5, 7 [6, 8]) SERVE AS MESSENGERS TO DO GOD’S BIDDING. NOT EVERY ONE OF THEM IS GOOD BECAUSE 1 KGS 22:20–23 SPEAKS OF A “SPIRIT” WILLING TO BE A “LYING SPIRIT IN THE MOUTHS OF ALL HIS [I.E., AHAB’S] PROPHETS.” THE SATAN WAS AMONG THEM OR PERHAPS EVEN THEIR LEADER. THE SATAN (OR THE ACCUSER) REPRESENTED THOSE WHO OPPOSED GOD AND HIS GOOD PEOPLE. IN JOB THE SATAN ASSUMED HIS CLASSICAL POSE OF CHARGING A GOOD MAN WITH EVIL (REV 12:10). THE BOUNDARIES OF OPERATION THAT GOD ALLOWED HIM ARE UNCERTAIN. AT TIMES HIS POWER SEEMS NOT ONLY SUPERNATURAL BUT ALSO A THREAT TO GOD’S SOVEREIGN AND BENEFICENT CONTROL OF THE WORLD. AT OTHER TIMES THE SATAN SEEMS LIKE A VAIN, WEAK, AND HOPELESS ANTAGONIST AGAINST THE OMNIPOTENT GOD OF THE UNIVERSE. ONE OF THE LOOSE THREADS LEFT HANGING AT THE END OF THE BOOK OF JOB IS THE RESULTANT EMBARRASSMENT OF THE SATAN. HIS CHARGE WAS NOT TRUE. JOB DID NOT CURSE GOD WHEN HE LOST EVERYTHING. THIS IS THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF GOD’S COVENANT NAME, STEPHEN YAHWEH (SOMETIMES WRITTEN YHWH SINCE THE MASORETES DID NOT PRONOUNCE THE NAME), OR, AS MOST VERSIONS HAVE IT, “THE LORD.” IN THIS BOOK ITS THIRTY-TWO OCCURRENCES ARE CONFINED TO CHAPS. 1–2; 12:9; 38:1; 40:1, 3, 6; AND CHAP. 42. 1:7 A DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE LORD AND THE SATAN FILLS VV. 7–12. MAINLY IT IS A QUESTION-AND-ANSWER SESSION. AT FIRST THE LORD ASKS THE QUESTIONS (VV. 7–8), AND THE SATAN ANSWERS. IN VV. 9–10 THE SATAN ASKS THE QUESTIONS. THE LORD DOES NOT EXACTLY ANSWER THE QUESTIONS BUT SIMPLY GRANTS THE ACCUSER A LIMITED AMOUNT OF FREEDOM TO PERSECUTE JOB. THE DIALOGUE ENDS WITH THE SATAN LEAVING THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD. THE FIRST QUESTION GOD ASKED WAS, “WHERE HAVE YOU COME FROM?” IT CANNOT BE THAT THE OMNISCIENT GOD LACKS INFORMATION THAT ONLY THE SATAN CAN PROVIDE. NOR IS IT AN EXCLAMATION AS IF THE SATAN’S PRESENCE AMONG THE SONS OF GOD WERE SOMETHING THAT STARTLED THE LORD. IT IS SIMPLY THE LORD’S WAY OF STARTING THE CONVERSATION. TWO VERBS, “ANSWERED AND SAID,” A HENDIADYS, INTRODUCE THE RESPONSE. THE ANSWER IS INDIRECT, “NOWHERE IN PARTICULAR AND EVERYWHERE IN GENERAL,” TO PARAPHRASE HIS RESPONSE. HOWEVER LOFTY OR POETIC THE LANGUAGE EVEN OF THE PROSE PROLOGUE, THIS ANSWER DOES SPEAK TO THE SUPERNATURAL CHARACTER OF THE SATAN. HE HAD READY ACCESS TO ALL SPHERES. HIS ANSWER ALSO HAS A RING OF SARCASM TO IT. HE AVOIDED A DIRECT ANSWER BUT RETORTED WITH ONE THAT REALLY PROVIDED NO INFORMATION. 1:8 ONE MIGHT PRESUME THAT THE CONVERSATION WAS MUCH LONGER THAN THE FEW VERSES DEVOTED TO IT HERE. THE AUTHOR, HOWEVER, WAS INTERESTED IN GETTING TO THE POINT, WHICH WAS JOB AND HOW JOB CAME TO BE THE FOCUS OF THE BOOK THAT BEARS HIS NAME. AS IF OUT OF NOWHERE, THE LORD RAISED THE SUBJECT OF HIS SERVANT JOB’S GOOD BEHAVIOR. THE IDIOM IN HEBREW IS LITERALLY, “HAVE YOU SET YOUR HEART ON?” THE HEART IS NOT ONLY ONE OF THE SEATS OF EMOTION IN HEBREW PSYCHOLOGY; BUT IT IS ALSO ONE OF THE LOCATIONS OF THINKING, REASONING, OR PLANNING. WITHOUT WAITING FOR AN ANSWER, THE LORD ELABORATED ON JOB. JOB WAS UNIQUE ON THE EARTH OR IN THE WORLD. WHILE NO ONE IS EXACTLY LIKE ANOTHER PERSON, THIS DOES SOUND LIKE HYPERBOLE, A PERFECTLY LEGITIMATE LITERARY DEVICE. THE LATTER PART OF THE DESCRIPTION OF JOB IS IDENTICAL TO PART OF V. 1. ENGLISH SPEAKERS MIGHT WONDER ABOUT GOD SPEAKING OF HIMSELF IN THE THIRD PERSON. THIS IS SO COMMON IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, NOT ONLY OF GOD BUT OF ALL WRITERS, THAT IT SHOULD NOT COME AS A SURPRISE OR BE AN OCCASION TO STUMBLE. THE TEXT DOES NOT SAY THAT JOB WAS THE MOST BLAMELESS AND UPRIGHT OF MEN. HIS UNIQUENESS MAY HAVE BEEN THAT FEW MEN WERE OF HIS ECONOMIC STATURE AND ALSO RIGHTEOUS. IT WAS A SMALL COMPANY TO WHICH HE BELONGED. IF THE THREE FRIENDS ARE INDICATIVE OF THAT COMPANY, THEN JOB CLEARLY STOOD ABOVE THEM. 1:9 AS IN V. 7B THE SATAN ANSWERED THE LORD’S QUESTION WITH A QUESTION OF HIS OWN, A TYPICAL SEMITIC WAY OF SPEAKING. THREE OF THE FOUR WORDS OF HIS QUESTION IN HEBREW ARE REPEATED FROM THE LORD’S WORDS. “FOR NOTHING,” ḤINNĀM, WAS HIS CONTRIBUTION AND, INDIRECTLY, HIS ACCUSATION. THE LORD USED THIS, THE SATAN’S WORD, IN HIS ANSWER IN 2:3. THE SATAN HERE ASKED IF JOB FEARED GOD “FOR NO REASON.” IN 2:3 GOD ACCUSED THE SATAN OF BEING BEHIND JOB’S SUFFERINGS “FOR NO REASON.” WHILE THERE IS A CERTAIN INSIDIOUSNESS ABOUT THIS CHARGE, IT IS A WORTHY QUESTION. THERE WERE PEOPLE IN THE NEW TESTAMENT WHO FOLLOWED JESUS BECAUSE OF THE BENEFITS HE GAVE THEM, NOT BECAUSE THEY WISHED TO BE HIS DISCIPLES. AND TODAY THERE ARE THOSE WHO ATTACH THEMSELVES TO THE CHURCH FOR THE ADVANTAGES THAT COME THEIR WAY. IT IS A QUESTION ALL BELIEVERS MIGHT ASK THEMSELVES WOULD I FEAR GOD EVEN IF THERE WERE NO BLESSINGS HERE AND NOW AND GREATER ONES PROMISED FOR THE HEREAFTER? THE QUESTION CUTS TO THE HEART OF GENUINE FAITH. THE ISSUE IS WHETHER GOD DESERVES TO BE WORSHIPED BECAUSE OF THE GREATNESS OF HIS CHARACTER OR MUST “BUY” HIS WORSHIP WITH GIFTS AND PROMISES OF BLESSING. THE SERPENT RAISED A SIMILAR ISSUE WHEN HE ACCUSED GOD OF BEING LESS THAN GOOD AND HONEST (GEN 3:12–15). 1:10 THE SATAN’S QUESTIONS CONTINUE INTO V. 10. THE NEGATIVE INTERROGATIVE, HĂLO, COULD DO DOUBLE DUTY AND INTRODUCE THE SECOND HALF OF V. 10 AS WELL AS THE FIRST. THEN IT WOULD READ, “HAVE YOU NOT BLESSED THE WORK OF HIS HANDS?” CONSEQUENTLY, THERE WOULD BE A TOTAL OF THREE QUESTIONS IN THE SATAN’S RESPONSE. THE FIRST CHARGE OR QUESTION IS THAT GOD HAD PUT A HEDGE AROUND JOB, HIS HOUSE(HOLD), AND ALL HE OWNED. USING A BIFORM OF THIS RARE VERB, JOB WOULD LATER COMPLAIN THAT GOD HAD “HEDGED” HIM IN WITH TROUBLES (3:23). “THE WORK OF HIS HANDS,” AS IN PS 90:17, IS A WAY OF SAYING EVERYTHING HE PUT HIS HANDS TO, OR HIS LIFE’S WORK. JOB WAS A SUCCESS REGARDLESS OF HOW SUCCESS WAS MEASURED. “FLOCKS AND HERDS” IN THE NIV TRANSLATES THE SAME WORD THAT WAS MISSING IN THE TRANSLATION OF V. 3, “HIS POSSESSIONS.” “LAND,” ʾEREṢ, TRANSLATES THE SAME WORD THAT WAS “EARTH” IN V. 8. THE WORD DOES NOT MEAN THE PLANET OR GLOBE, THOUGH THERE ARE PLACES WHERE ʾEREṢ CAN HAVE THAT CONNOTATION. CHALLENGE TO HEALTH (1:11–12): 11 BUT STRETCH OUT YOUR HAND AND STRIKE EVERYTHING HE HAS, AND HE WILL SURELY CURSE YOU TO YOUR FACE. 12 THE LORD SAID TO SATAN, “VERY WELL, THEN, EVERYTHING HE HAS IS IN YOUR HANDS, BUT ON THE, MAN HIMSELF DO NOT LAY A FINGER.” WHAT FOLLOWS IS NO SURPRISE. THE SATAN CHALLENGED THE LORD TO WITHDRAW THAT BLESSING THAT THE SATAN BELIEVED WAS THE REASON FOR JOB’S PIETY. HE DARED THE LORD TO STRETCH OUT HIS HAND AND STRIKE EVERYTHING JOB HAD. 1:11 THE OPENING WORD, “BUT,” TRANSLATES AN ADVERSATIVE PARTICLE, ʾÛLĀM, THAT IS STRONGER THAN THE SIMPLE WAW. “CURSE” IS AGAIN THE POLAR MEANING OF BRK AS IN V. 5 (CF. 2:5, 9; 1 KGS 21:10, 13). HAPPILY, IT TURNED OUT THAT JOB DID NOT CURSE GOD TO HIS FACE. THE WORST HE WOULD DO WAS QUESTION THE JUSTICE OF GOD (9:24), WHICH IS QUITE DIFFERENT FROM CURSING. 1:12 VERSE 12 IS INTERESTINGLY AND INTRIGUINGLY TIED WITH V. 11. FIRST, THE EXPRESSION “EVERYTHING HE HAS” APPEARS FOR THE THIRD TIME (VV. 10, 11, 12). SECOND, THE SATAN HAD ASKED GOD TO STRETCH OUT HIS HAND AGAINST JOB. GOD DID NOT DO THAT BUT PERMITTED THE SATAN TO STRETCH OUT HIS HAND AGAINST ALL THAT JOB HAD, BUT NOT AGAINST JOB HIMSELF. THIRD, THE WORDS FOR “FACE” IN V. 11 AND “PRESENCE” IN V. 12 ARE THE SAME. WE MAY ASK WHETHER THE AUTHOR WAS INTENTIONALLY PLAYING WITH THESE AND OTHER REPEATED WORDS. VERSE 10 LISTS THREE CATEGORIES: “HIM,” “HIS HOUSEHOLD,” AND “EVERYTHING HE HAS.” IN THIS VERSE THE SATAN RECEIVES PERMISSION TO AFFLICT ONLY THE LAST TWO. THE AFFLICTION OF JOB’S BODY WOULD BE THE SUBSTANCE OF THE SECOND TEST (2:7). GOD GRANTED THE ACCUSER ONLY LIMITED POWER OVER HIS SERVANT. THIS AGREES WITH OTHER PLACES IN THE BIBLE WHERE THE DEVIL IS RESTRICTED OR CONFINED BY THE GREATER AUTHORITY OF GOD HIMSELF. MISFORTUNES (1:13–19): 13 ONE DAY WHEN JOB’S SONS AND DAUGHTERS WERE FEASTING AND DRINKING WINE AT THE OLDEST BROTHER’S HOUSE, 14 A MESSENGER CAME TO JOB AND SAID, “THE OXEN WERE PLOWING AND THE DONKEYS [ASSES] WERE GRAZING NEARBY, 15 AND THE SABEANS ATTACKED AND CARRIED THEM OFF. THEY PUT THE SERVANTS TO THE SWORD, AND I AM THE ONLY ONE WHO HAS ESCAPED TO TELL YOU!” 16 WHILE HE WAS STILL SPEAKING, ANOTHER MESSENGER CAME AND SAID, “THE FIRE OF GOD FELL FROM THE SKY AND BURNED UP THE SHEEP AND THE SERVANTS, AND I AM THE ONLY ONE WHO HAS ESCAPED TO TELL YOU!” 17 WHILE HE WAS STILL SPEAKING, ANOTHER MESSENGER CAME AND SAID, “THE CHALDEANS FORMED THREE RAIDING PARTIES AND SWEPT DOWN ON YOUR CAMELS AND CARRIED THEM OFF. THEY PUT THE SERVANTS TO THE SWORD AND I AM THE ONLY ONE WHO HAS ESCAPED TO TELL YOU!” 18 WHILE HE WAS STILL SPEAKING, YET ANOTHER MESSENGER CAME AND SAID, “YOUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS WERE FEASTING AND DRINKING WINE AT THE OLDEST BROTHER’S HOUSE, 19 WHEN SUDDENLY A MIGHTY WIND SWEPT IN FROM THE DESERT AND STRUCK THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE HOUSE. IT COLLAPSED ON THEM AND THEY ARE DEAD, AND I AM THE ONLY ONE WHO HAS ESCAPED TO TELL YOU!” THESE VERSES CATALOGUE THE CATASTROPHES THAT BEFELL JOB AS A DIRECT RESULT OF THE LORD PERMITTING THE SATAN TO TOUCH ALL THAT HE HAD. THERE ARE FOUR CATASTROPHES: (1) THEFT OF OXEN AND DONKEYS (1:13–15), (2) FIRE (1:16), (3) THEFT OF CAMELS (1:17), AND (4) THE STORM THAT KILLED HIS CHILDREN (1:18–19). CERTAIN FEATURES OF THE REPORTS ARE REPEATED, AND IT IS THIS STYLIZED NATURE OF THE PROLOGUE THAT POINTS TO AN AUTHOR CONCERNED WITH POETIC STRUCTURE. FOUR TIMES THE REFRAIN IS EXACTLY THE SAME, “I AM THE ONLY ONE WHO HAS ESCAPED TO TELL YOU.” THERE IS NO REASON TO DISBELIEVE THAT THESE TRAGEDIES HAPPENED. BUT WE MUST ALLOW THE INSPIRED AUTHOR TO STRUCTURE HIS REPORT IN A WAY THAT THE IMPACT ON THE READERS IS EVEN GREATER THAN A PROSAIC CHRONICLE. SATAN’S CRIMINAL ACTIVITY OF THE THEFT (1:13–15): IT IS NOW EVIDENT WHY A POINT WAS MADE EARLIER IN THE CHAPTER OF JOB’S CHILDREN FEASTING IN EACH OTHER’S HOMES. THOSE CELEBRATIONS FIGURED IN THE FIRST AND FOURTH OF THE CALAMITIES. 1:13 LIKE V. 6, V. 13 BEGINS WITH “ONE DAY.” THE TEXT GIVES NO INDICATION HOW LONG AFTER THE SATAN’S CHALLENGE THIS TOOK PLACE, BUT ONE CAN IMAGINE THAT HE BEGAN IMMEDIATELY TO EXERCISE HIS RIGHT TO AFFLICT JOB. THE CHILDREN WERE EATING AND DRINKING WINE. “WINE” IS NOT IN V. 4. ONE SHOULD NOT ASSUME THAT THEY WERE DRUNK. THIS WAS NOT A JUDGMENT AGAINST THEM BUT A TEST FOR JOB. ON THE OTHER HAND, V. 5 DESCRIBES JOB’S OFFERING A SACRIFICE FOR THEM JUST IN CASE THEY HAD SINNED AND CURSED GOD IN THEIR HEARTS. THAT WOULD MORE EASILY HAVE HAPPENED IF THEY WERE NOT SOBER. IT WAS THE TURN OF THE FIRSTBORN SON TO HOST THE FEAST WHEN THIS FATEFUL DAY ARRIVED. MAYBE HE WAS THE WEALTHIEST AND COULD THROW THE BIGGEST BANQUET; OR PERHAPS THIS WAS THE BEGINNING OF A NEW CYCLE OF FEASTS, AND THEY MADE THE ROUNDS IN ORDER, FROM THE HOME OF THE OLDEST TO THE YOUNGEST. AS THE FIRSTBORN HE WAS IN LINE TO INHERIT A DOUBLE SHARE OF HIS FATHER’S WEALTH (CF. DEUT 21:17). PERHAPS HE ALREADY HAD RECEIVED IT AND WAS THEREBY THE PRIME TARGET OF THESE DESERT MARAUDERS. 1:14 A MALʾĀK, MESSENGER (ELSEWHERE “ANGEL” 4:18; 33:23), REPORTED TO JOB THE BACKGROUND OF THE FIRST DISASTER. THE OXEN (OF V. 3) WERE PLOWING, AND THE DONKEYS (ALSO FROM V. 3) WERE GRAZING BESIDE THEM. LIVING ON THE EDGE THE DESERT AS HE DID, THIS INDICATES SOME TIME IN THE FALL WHEN THE FIRST RAINS HAD FALLEN AND SOFTENED THE SOIL SO THAT IT COULD BE PLOWED. OTHERWISE THERE ARE FEW INDICATORS IN THIS BOOK TO TELL THE TIME OF THESE EVENTS. BECAUSE OF THE STYLIZED NATURE OF THIS AND THE FOLLOWING REPORTS, IT IS UNWISE TO PRESS THE DETAILS. WERE ALL FIVE HUNDRED YOKE OF OXEN PLOWING OR JUST A FEW OF THEM? SUCH A TASK WOULD REQUIRE MANY SERVANTS, AS MANY AS FIVE HUNDRED, TO CONTROL THAT MANY TEAMS. IT IS BEST NOT TO DWELL ON THE UNCERTAINTIES OF THE PARTICULARS BUT STAND AT THE RIGHT DISTANCE TO VIEW THE ENTIRE SERIES OF EVENTS IN PERSPECTIVE. 1:15 THE SABEANS WERE NOMADIC MARAUDERS DESCENDED FROM SHEBA, A GRANDSON OF ABRAHAM (GEN 25:3). EVENTUALLY THEY SETTLED IN THE SOUTHERNMOST PART OF THE ARABIAN PENINSULA. SHEBA BECAME A WEALTHY NATION BY THE TIME OF SOLOMON. THAT THE SABEANS WERE PIRATES POINTS TO A TIME EARLIER THAN THAT OF THE FAMOUS QUEEN OF SHEBA (1 KGS 10; 2 CHR 9). FROM MARIB, THE CAPITAL OF SHEBA, TO WHERE WE THINK JOB LIVED WAS OVER A THOUSAND MILES. THE IDYLLIC SCENE OF PLOWING OXEN, GRAZING DONKEYS, AND BUSY SERVANTS WAS RUDELY INTERRUPTED BY THESE INVADERS WHO STOLE THE ANIMALS AND SLAUGHTERED THE WORKERS (LIT. “YOUNG MEN,” NĔʿĀRÎM). ONLY THE REPORTING MESSENGER ESCAPED WITH HIS LIFE. HIS REPORT IS REPLETE WITH EMPHATIC ELEMENTS. THERE ARE TWO WORDS FOR “ONLY” OR “ALONE” (RAQ AND LĔBADÎ) AND AN EXTRA INDEPENDENT FIRST-PERSON PRONOUN (ʾĂNI). FULLY AND LITERALLY, IT WOULD READ: “AND I HAVE ESCAPED! ONLY ME! I ALONE TO TELL YOU!” SATAN’S CRIMINAL ACTIVITY OF THE ARSON FIRE (1:16): THE FOUR CATASTROPHES ARE LINKED TOGETHER BY THE OPENING WORDS OF THE SECOND, THIRD, AND FOURTH OF THEM: “WHILE HE WAS STILL SPEAKING, ANOTHER CAME AND SAID.” 1:16 THIS TIME THE “FIRE OF GOD FELL FROM THE SKY” OR “HEAVENS.” VERSE 3 INDICATED THAT JOB HAD SEVEN THOUSAND SHEEP. IT MUST HAVE BEEN QUITE A LIGHTNING BOLT TO HAVE BURNED UP THE SHEEP AND “EATEN” THE YOUNG MEN. IT PROBABLY CAUSED A FIRE. IT WAS THE “FIRE OF THE LORD” THAT STRUCK THE GRUMBLING ISRAELITES IN THE WILDERNESS (NUM 11:1). IT ALSO KINDLED ELIJAH’S SACRIFICE ON MOUNT CARMEL (1 KGS 18:38) AND STRUCK THE FIRST TWO GROUPS OF FIFTY MEN THAT KING AHAZIAH SENT TO ELIJAH (2 KGS 1:10, 12, 14). THE EXPRESSION “FIRE OF GOD” MAY BE THE EQUIVALENT OF “A GREAT FIRE” OR “FIRE FROM THE SKY,” THAT IS, LIGHTENING, BUT IT SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN TO IMPLY THAT THE SATAN HAD SOME KIND OF CONTROL OVER GOD SINCE THESE ARE THE WORDS OF THE MESSENGER. THE MESSENGER’S CONCLUDING WORDS ARE IDENTICAL TO THOSE IN V. 15, AN INDICATION OF THE AUTHOR’S PENCHANT FOR ORDER AND REPETITION. THE VERB “ATTACKED” IN V. 15 IS THE SAME VERB (NĀPOL) TRANSLATED “FELL” IN VV. 16, 20. THE VERB “CARRIED OFF” IN V. 15 (LĀQAḤ) OCCURS AGAIN IN V. 17. SATAN’S CRIMINAL ACTIVITY OF THE THEFT (1:17): 1:17 THE THIRD CATASTROPHE CORRESPONDS TO THE FIRST IN THAT IT CAME FROM OTHER HUMAN BEINGS, WHEREAS THE SECOND AND FOURTH WERE WEATHER RELATED. THE FIRST AND LAST PHRASES OF THIS VERSE ARE IDENTICAL TO THE CORRESPONDING PHRASES IN V. 16. THE MIDDLE PHRASE DESCRIBES THE THIRD CATASTROPHE. INSTEAD OF SABEANS IT WAS CHALDEANS WHO ATTACKED. THEY WOULD HAVE COME FROM THE NORTHEAST SINCE THEY WERE MESOPOTAMIANS. THE MENTION OF THREE BANDS MAY BE AN EXTRANEOUS DETAIL, OR IT MAY SHOW SOME ORGANIZATION ON THE PART OF THE RAIDERS. CAMELS, NO DOUBT, WERE HARDER TO CORRAL THAN SHEEP. SATAN’S CRIMINAL ACTITIVITY OF THE STORM (1:18–19): FOR THE FOURTH AND LAST CATASTROPHE THE AUTHOR OFFERED MORE DETAIL. THIS IS ALSO THE ONLY EPISODE IN THIS FIRST STAGE OF TESTING THAT EMPLOYS THE PARTICLE HINNĒH, “BEHOLD,” SUGGESTING THIS IS THE CLIMACTIC EPISODE. WHILE THE NUMBER OF JOB’S CHILDREN DID NOT COMPARE WITH THE NUMBERS OF LOST LIVESTOCK, THERE IS NO COMPARING THE GRIEF THAT ARISES FROM LOSING CHILDREN. 1:18 AGAIN THE OPENING LINE IS THE SAME AS VV. 16–17. THAT AND THE MENTION OF JOB’S CHILDREN FEASTING (CF. V. 13) HAS A WAY OF TYING THESE FOUR TRAGEDIES TOGETHER. SUCH DETAILS POINT TO A BRIEF PERIOD. ALL THESE MISFORTUNES BEFELL JOB WITHIN THE TIME OF ONE FEAST. 1:19 THE FIRST AND THIRD CALAMITIES WERE FROM HUMAN ENEMIES. THE SECOND AND FOURTH WERE FROM NATURAL CAUSES (ALTHOUGH ALL FOUR CALAMITIES WERE CAUSED BY THE SATAN, ACCORDING TO JOB 1–2). IN V. 16 IT WAS THE “FIRE OF GOD,” AND HERE IT IS A “MIGHTY WIND.” THE WIND CAME ACROSS THE DESERT, INDICATING THE SIROCCO, A HOT SANDY WIND THAT BLOWS PREDOMINATELY AT THE BEGINNING AND THE END OF SUMMER. THE WIND STRUCK THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE HOUSE, WHICH IN TURN FELL ON THE “YOUTHS,” KILLING THEM. THIS MEANS NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS TO YOU IN AN EVIL WAY OR CRIMINAL WAY, REMEMBER THE LORD IS IN CONTROL ALWAYS & SATAN CAN ONLY DO HIS ETERNAL BULLSHIT UNDER THE STRICT COMMAND OF THE LORD. YET WHEN THINGS DRASTICALLY HAPPENED AGAINST THE SEXUAL INHABITANTS IN REVELATION 13:4-6; 16:9-11, 21, THE WICKED CREATURES BLASPHEMED THE LORD & WERE KILLED, BUT THE SEXLESS JOB DID NOT & WAS SAVED, BUT PRAISED THE LORD INSTEAD IN JOB 1:20-22. THIS LAST WORD FOR THE CHILDREN IS THE SAME ONE THAT HAS BEEN TRANSLATED “SERVANTS” IN THE PRECEDING VERSES. UNDOUBTEDLY HERE IT REFERS TO JOB’S CHILDREN AND NOT THE SERVANTS. AGAIN, THE AUTHOR’S REITERATION OF STOCK WORDS GIVES UNITY TO THIS SECTION. IT IS ALSO INTERESTING TO NOTICE THAT IN THIS FOURTH EPISODE THE AUTHOR REFERRED TO THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE HOUSE, AND IN THE EPILOGUE (42:16) JOB IS SAID TO HAVE LIVED TO SEE “HIS CHILDREN AND THEIR CHILDREN TO THE FOURTH GENERATION,” THUS SUGGESTING FULL RESTORATION. THIS LOSS WAS THE MOST TRAGIC OF ALL FOR JOB, SINCE THESE CHILDREN WERE HIS OWN FLESH AND BLOOD. THROUGH SHREWD MANEUVERING HE MIGHT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO RESTORE HIS FORTUNES IN LIVESTOCK AND SERVANTS, BUT CHILDREN ARE A SPECIAL GIFT FROM GOD (PS 127:3). A SIMILAR LOSS BEFELL HORATIO SPAFFORD WHEN HIS FOUR CHILDREN PERISHED AT SEA, AN EVENT THAT PROMPTED HIM TO PEN THE HYMN “IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL.” THAT, IN FACT, WILL BE THE TENOR OF JOB’S RESPONSE. JOB’S RESPONSE (1:20–22): 20 AT THIS, JOB GOT UP AND TORE HIS ROBE AND SHAVED HIS HEAD [BALD]. THEN HE FELL TO THE GROUND IN WORSHIP 21 AND SAID: NAKED I CAME FROM MY MOTHER’S WOMB, AND NAKED I WILL DEPART. THE LORD GAVE AND THE LORD HAS TAKEN AWAY; MAY THE NAME OF THE LORD BE PRAISED.” 22 IN ALL THIS, JOB DID NOT SIN BY CHARGING GOD WITH WRONGDOING. JOB’S RESPONSE TO THESE TRAGEDIES IS ONE OF THE HIGH POINTS OF THE BOOK. IT BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATES HIS PIETY THAT THE FIRST VERSE MENTIONED. ONE COULD WISH THAT GOD’S CHILDREN ALWAYS RESPONDED IN SUCH A WAY TO THE VICISSITUDES OF LIFE. UNFORTUNATELY, OUR TENDENCY IS TO BLESS GOD IN FAIR WEATHER AND GRUMBLE OR EVEN CURSE IN FOUL. 1:20 FIVE OF THE NINE HEBREW WORDS IN THIS VERSE ARE VERBS, AND JOB IS THE SUBJECT OF ALL OF THEM: HE GOT UP, HE TORE, HE SHAVED, HE FELL, AND HE WORSHIPED. THE RISING AND FALLING AT THE BEGINNING AND END OF THE SERIES CREATES POETIC BALANCE, A MERISMUS. THE TEARING OF CLOTHING AND THE SHAVING OF THE HEAD WERE STANDARD ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN DEMONSTRATIONS OF GRIEF. ONLY THE WEARING OF SACKCLOTH IS ABSENT HERE AS A TYPICAL EXPRESSION OF ANGUISH, BUT THAT WILL APPEAR IN 16:15. THE GARMENT HE TORE WAS HIS ROBE, MĔʿILÔ, AN OUTER GARMENT WORN BY PEOPLE OF RANK SUCH AS THE HIGH PRIEST, SAUL, JONATHAN, DAVID, AND JOB’S THREE FRIENDS (2:12). THE TEARING AND THE SHAVING ARE THE EXPECTED REACTIONS TO THE TRAGEDIES THAT SUDDENLY AND RECENTLY CAME TO JOB. THE FALLING TO THE GROUND AND WORSHIPING ARE WHAT SEPARATE HIM FROM OTHERS.36 HE DID NOT SHAKE HIS FIST SKYWARD AND SCREAM, “WHY ME, LORD?” BUT BOWED TO THE GROUND IN HUMBLE ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF AND CAPITULATION TO GOD’S SOVEREIGN WILL. 1:21 THE WELL-BALANCED POEM THAT JOB SPEAKS IN HIS GRIEF IS A MODEL OF SUBMISSIVE PIETY AND OBEDIENT SURRENDER TO A GOD WHOSE WAYS ARE NOT OUR WAYS AND WHOSE THOUGHTS ARE NOT OUR THOUGHTS (ISA 55:8). FROM A STRUCTURAL POINT OF VIEW, THE WORD “NAKED” TIES THE TWO HALVES OF THE FIRST LINE TOGETHER. THEN THERE IS A MERISMUS (SEE COMMENTS ON 1:20) CREATED BY THE CONTRASTING VERBS, “CAME” AND “DEPART.” ANOTHER MERISMUS IS IN THE SECOND LINE WITH THE ANTITHESIS OF THE VERBS “GIVE” AND “TAKE AWAY.” THE NIV “DEPART” IS LITERALLY “RETURN” (ŠÛB). BUT ONE OUGHT NOT READ TOO MUCH INTO HIS STATEMENT THAT HE WOULD RETURN TO HIS MOTHER’S WOMB OR TRY TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM BY UNDERSTANDING HER TO BE MOTHER EARTH. THIS IS POETRY. IT IS SIMPLY HIS WAY OF SAYING THAT HE WAS BORN WITH NOTHING, AND HE WILL DIE WITH NOTHING. WHATEVER WE ACCUMULATE DURING OUR LIFETIMES MUST BE SURRENDERED AT DEATH. SHROUDS HAVE NO POCKETS. “THE LORD” OCCURS THREE TIMES IN THE SECOND LINE. HE HAS GIVEN, HE HAS TAKEN AWAY, AND HIS NAME IS WORTHY OF PRAISE. 1:22 ANTECEDENT TO “THIS” ARE THE CALAMITIES OF VV. 13–19. ANY ONE OF THOSE EVENTS MIGHT HAVE CAUSED LESSER MEN TO LOSE FAITH, ABANDON HOPE, OR EVEN CHARGE GOD WITH NEGLECT OR DELIBERATE EVIL. THE “SIN” THAT JOB DID NOT COMMIT WAS TO ACCUSE GOD OF “WRONGDOING.” HE DID INDIRECTLY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT GOD HAD SENT THESE TROUBLES, BUT HE DID NOT AT THIS POINT QUESTION GOD’S JUSTICE, LOVE, WISDOM, OR SOVEREIGNTY. IT IS A RARE AND COMMENDABLE POSTURE THAT THE HERO FROM UZ ASSUMED, ONE THAT SHOULD CHARACTERIZE ALL GOD’S CHILDREN WHATEVER TURNS LIFE MIGHT TAKE. THUS, THE CHAPTER ENDS WITH “THE GREATEST MAN AMONG ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE EAST” DESTITUTE, CHILDLESS, AND BROKEN. IN THE SPACE OF LESS THAN A PAGE AND IN A BRIEF SPAN OF TIME, HE WENT FROM BEING THE GREATEST TO BEING THE LEAST OF MEN. WE THE READERS KNOW SOMETHING THAT JOB DID NOT, AND SO WE CANNOT ENTER INTO HIS SORROW. LIKE GOD, WE KNOW THE END FROM THE BEGINNING. WE KNOW ALL ABOUT THE FACT THAT JOB HAD BEEN CHOSEN AS A TEST CASE. BECAUSE OF HIS GODLINESS GOD SELECTED HIM FOR THIS TRIAL. JOB WAS UNAWARE THAT HIS TROUBLES WERE A GREAT HONOR. WOULD JOB REMAIN FAITHFUL? WILL WE? TEST OF HEALTH (2:1–10): A NUMBER OF SIMILARITIES EXIST BETWEEN THIS CHAPTER AND THE PRECEDING ONE. VERSES 1–3A ARE NEARLY IDENTICAL TO 1:6–8. JOB 1:12 CORRESPONDS WITH 2:6, AND 1:22 CORRESPONDS WITH 2:10C. IN THESE TEN VERSES JOB’S TESTING INTENSIFIES. UP TO THIS POINT HE HAS LOST HIS POSSESSIONS AND HIS CHILDREN. NOW HE WOULD LOSE HIS HEALTH, WHICH THE SATAN HOPED WOULD BREAK HIS WILL AND PROMPT HIM TO CURSE HIS GOD. THESE TWO TESTS TOGETHER PRODUCE YET OTHER LOSSES THAT WE WILL NOTE IN THE COURSE OF THE DEBATE CYCLE: HONOR, RESPECT, STANDING IN THE COMMUNITY, FRIENDSHIPS, AND EVEN THE SUPPORT OF HIS WIFE AND BROTHERS (12:4; 16:10; 19:13–19; 30:1, 9–10). THE SATAN (2:1–5): 1 ON ANOTHER DAY THE ANGELS CAME TO PRESENT THEMSELVES BEFORE THE LORD, AND SATAN ALSO CAME WITH THEM TO PRESENT HIMSELF BEFORE HIM. 2 AND THE LORD SAID TO SATAN, “WHERE HAVE YOU COME FROM?” SATAN ANSWERED THE LORD, “FROM ROAMING THROUGH THE EARTH AND GOING BACK AND FORTH IN IT.” 3 THEN THE LORD SAID TO SATAN, “HAVE YOU CONSIDERED MY SERVANT JOB? THERE IS NO ONE ON EARTH LIKE HIM; HE IS BLAMELESS AND UPRIGHT, A MAN WHO FEARS GOD AND SHUNS EVIL. AND HE STILL MAINTAINS HIS INTEGRITY, THOUGH YOU INCITED ME AGAINST HIM TO RUIN HIM WITHOUT ANY REASON.” 4 “SKIN FOR SKIN!” SATAN REPLIED. “A MAN WILL GIVE ALL HE HAS FOR HIS OWN LIFE. 5 BUT STRETCH OUT YOUR HAND AND STRIKE HIS FLESH AND BONES, AND HE WILL SURELY CURSE YOU TO YOUR FACE.” WITH SEVERAL PHRASES IDENTICAL TO 1:6–8, THE SECOND CONVERSATION BETWEEN THE LORD AND THE SATAN IS DESCRIBED. THE UPSHOT WAS THAT THE LORD GAVE PERMISSION TO THE ACCUSER TO TEST JOB EVEN FURTHER, TO AFFLICT HIS PHYSICAL WELL-BEING. 2:1 THOUGH THE NIV HAS “ANOTHER DAY” AT THE BEGINNING OF THE VERSE, THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IN THE HEBREW BETWEEN THIS VERSE AND 1:6 IS THE ADDITION OF THE REPETITIVE PHRASE AT THE END, “TO PRESENT HIMSELF BEFORE HIM.” THE SAME QUESTIONS THAT WENT UNANSWERED IN CHAP. 1 LINGER HERE. THE DUPLICATION OF THE PHRASEOLOGY FROM CHAP. 1 POINTS UP ONCE MORE THE TIGHT STRUCTURE AND REPETITIVE STYLE OF THE AUTHOR. WHILE WE MAY THINK SUCH REITERATION IS UNIMAGINATIVE WRITING, IT IS A FEATURE QUITE TYPICAL OF ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN LITERATURE. 2:2 EXCEPT FOR DIFFERENT INTERROGATIVE PARTICLES, 2:2 AND 1:7 ARE IDENTICAL. 2:3 THE FIRST HALF OF 2:3 IS IDENTICAL TO 1:8. “INTEGRITY” IS FROM THE SAME ROOT AS “BLAMELESS.” IN OTHER WORDS, DESPITE THE LOSSES HE INCURRED, JOB STILL DID NOT TARNISH HIS PERFECT RECORD. “INCITE” IS THE SAME ACTION THE SATAN USED WHEN HE PROMPTED DAVID TO TAKE A CENSUS (1 CHR 21:1). “RUIN” IS THE MORE COMMON BLʾ, OFTEN “SWALLOW” AS IN JOB 7:19 OR JONAH 1:17 [2:1]. “WITHOUT CAUSE” IS AN ADVERB THE AUTHOR USED IN 1:9. THERE THE SATAN ASKED WHETHER JOB FEARED GOD “FOR NOTHING.” HERE IT IS “FOR NOTHING” THAT THE SATAN INCITED STEPHEN YAHWEH TO DESTROY JOB. GOD AND GOOD PEOPLE DO NOT DO THINGS “FOR NOTHING”; SATAN DOES. 2:4 APART FROM EXODUS AND LEVITICUS, WHICH HAVE MUCH TO SAY ABOUT RAMS’ SKINS AND INFECTIOUS SKIN DISEASES, JOB HAS THE MOST REFERENCES TO “SKIN” OF ANY OLD TESTAMENT BOOK. THE REPEATED USE OF IT HERE MAY HINT AT THE NATURE OF THE DISEASE THAT WAS SOON TO STRIKE JOB. THE EXPRESSION DOES NOT OCCUR ELSEWHERE BUT IS REMINISCENT OF “EYE FOR AN EYE AND TOOTH FOR A TOOTH” (EXOD 21:24; LEV 24:20; DEUT 19:21). THE SATAN WAGERED THAT JOB WOULD WILLINGLY SURRENDER EVERYTHING HE OWNED TO SAVE HIS LIFE. BUT WHAT DID JOB HAVE LEFT TO GIVE? DID THE SATAN HOPE THAT JOB WOULD GIVE UP EVEN HIS FAITH IN GOD AND HIS SPOTLESS RECORD OF PIETY? AS THE ADVERSARY OF GODLINESS AND GODLY PEOPLE, THAT IS SATAN’S PURPOSE IN ALL TEMPTATION. 2:5 THE FIRST FIVE WORDS OF THIS VERSE ARE IDENTICAL WITH 1:11, AGAIN SHOWING THE AUTHOR’S FONDNESS FOR ORDER, REGULARITY, AND REPETITION. UNDOUBTEDLY THE CONVERSATION BETWEEN STEPHEN YAHWEH AND THE SATAN WAS MUCH LONGER THAN THIS BRIEF REPORT INDICATES. INSTEAD OF STRIKING “EVERYTHING HE HAS,” THE TEMPTER TOLD GOD TO STRIKE HIS BONE AND HIS FLESH. THAT IS ANOTHER MERISMUS (SEE COMMENT AT 1:20), SINCE THE BODY CONSISTS OF HARD PARTS (BONES) AND SOFT PARTS (FLESH). THE WORD FOR “BONE” SOMETIMES REFERS TO THE ESSENCE OR INNERMOST PARTS OF SOMETHING. THE SATAN WISHED JOB TO BE DISEASED TOTALLY, THOROUGHLY RACKED WITH PAIN, AND PLAGUED IN EVERY PHYSICAL DIMENSION. LATER ELIHU SAID, “HIS FLESH WASTES AWAY TO NOTHING, AND HIS BONES, ONCE HIDDEN, NOW STICK OUT” (33:21). THE LAST FIVE WORDS ARE IDENTICAL WITH THE LAST FIVE OF 1:11. JOB PASSED THE FIRST TEST, THAT OF LOSING HIS WEALTH AND FAMILY. WILL HE PASS THE SECOND ONE, THE LOSS OF HIS HEALTH? DISEASE (2:6–8): 6 THE LORD SAID TO SATAN, “VERY WELL, THEN, HE IS IN YOUR HANDS; BUT YOU MUST SPARE HIS LIFE.” 7 SO SATAN WENT OUT FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD AND AFFLICTED JOB WITH PAINFUL SORES FROM THE SOLES OF HIS FEET TO THE TOP OF HIS HEAD. 8 THEN JOB TOOK A PIECE OF BROKEN POTTERY AND SCRAPED HIMSELF WITH IT AS HE SAT AMONG THE ASHES. FINALLY, THE SATAN REDUCED JOB FINANCIALLY, FAMILY-WISE, AND PHYSICALLY, AS LOW AS HE COULD. JOB LOST EVERYTHING EXCEPT HIS LIFE, AND THE WORTH OF LIVING IT HE QUESTIONS SERIOUSLY IN CHAP. 3. 2:6 THE VERSE BEGINS AS 1:12 DOES. IN CHAP. 1 GOD HANDS OVER TO THE SATAN EVERYTHING THAT BELONGS TO JOB. NOW HE HANDS OVER JOB HIMSELF. THE ADVERSARY WAS ALLOWED TO AFFLICT JOB’S FLESH AND BONES, BUT NOT TO TAKE HIS LIFE. KILLING JOB WOULD PROVE NOTHING AND BENEFIT NEITHER GOD NOR THE SATAN. 2:7 THE OPENING OF V. 7 IS ALMOST THE SAME AS THE CLOSE OF 1:12. IT IS THE LAST WE HEAR OF THE SATAN IN THE BOOK. THE SATAN TOLD GOD TO STRIKE (NGʿ) JOB, BUT IN THIS VERSE, IT IS THE SATAN WHO STRIKES (NKH) HIM. HE AFFLICTED HIM WITH “PAINFUL SORES FROM THE SOLES OF HIS FEET TO THE TOP OF HIS HEAD.” THIS IS ANOTHER MERISMUS (SEE ON 1:20); JOB WAS TOTALLY COVERED WITH THESE ERUPTIONS ON HIS SKIN. IT IS UNCERTAIN JUST WHAT DISEASE JOB HAD. GUESSES RANGE FROM MELANOMA TO LEPROSY AND ASSORTED LESS SERIOUS ITCHES. IN 7:5 HE COMPLAINED, “MY BODY IS CLOTHED WITH WORMS AND SCABS, MY SKIN IS BROKEN AND FESTERING.” IN 30:30 HE MOANED, “MY SKIN GROWS BLACK AND PEELS; MY BODY BURNS WITH FEVER.” WEIGHT LOSS AND A GENERALLY REPULSIVE APPEARANCE WERE AMONG THE UNPLEASANT SIDE EFFECTS (2:12; 19:19–20). PERHAPS FOR FEAR OF CATCHING WHAT HE HAD, FRIENDS AND RELATIVES DISTANCED THEMSELVES FROM HIM (19:13–14). 2:8 JOB TOOK A POTSHERD, OR A PIECE OF A BROKEN CLAY POT, TO SCRATCH OR SCRAPE HIMSELF. POTS AND POTSHERDS ILLUSTRATE COMMONNESS (PROV 26:23), INSIGNIFICANCE (ISA 30:14; LAM 4:2), AND FRAGILITY (JER 19:1, 10). UNLIKE THE VERBS “TOOK” AND “SCRAPED,” WHICH ARE INDICATIVE, “SAT” IN LINE B IS A PARTICIPLE THAT SUGGESTS A MORE OR LESS PERMANENT SITUATION. ONE MIGHT TRANSLATE, “HE WAS A DWELLER AMONG THE ASHES.” “ASHES” ARE ONE MORE CHARACTERISTIC ELEMENT ASSOCIATED WITH MOURNING (2 SAM 13:19; ESTH 4:1, 3; DAN 9:3; JONAH 3:6). “ASHES” WOULD BE THE LAST WORD JOB UTTERS IN THIS BOOK (42:6). JOB’S WIFE (2:9–10): 9 HIS WIFE SAID TO HIM, “ARE YOU STILL HOLDING ON TO YOUR INTEGRITY? CURSE GOD AND DIE!” 10 HE REPLIED, “YOU ARE TALKING LIKE A FOOLISH WOMAN. SHALL WE ACCEPT GOOD FROM GOD, AND NOT TROUBLE?” IN ALL THIS, JOB DID NOT SIN IN WHAT HE SAID. 2:9 FOR THE FIRST AND ONLY TIME JOB’S WIFE SPOKE. JOB MENTIONED HER IN THE COURSE OF HIS COMPLAINT (19:17) AND IN HIS SELF-MALEDICTORY OATH (31:10). WAS SHE THE MOTHER OF THE TEN CHILDREN WHO HAD DIED? DID SHE MOTHER THE SECOND SET OF SEVEN SONS AND THREE DAUGHTERS AT THE END OF THE BOOK? ONE MUST REMEMBER THAT THOUGH SHE WAS NOT PHYSICALLY AFFLICTED, SHE ALSO SUFFERED THE LOSS OF CHILDREN AND WEALTH. NOW IT APPEARS THAT SHE WOULD LOSE HER HUSBAND. LET US NOT BE TOO HARD ON HER. NO INTERROGATIVE PARTICLE MARKS HER FIRST SENTENCE, BUT IT SURELY MAKES BETTER SENSE IF IT IS A QUESTION. APART FROM THE CHANGE IN THE PRONOUN (“HE” TO “YOU”), THE HEBREW WORDS ARE THE SAME AS IN 2:3. INDEED, JOB DID MAINTAIN HIS INTEGRITY THROUGHOUT THE ORDEAL. AS LATE AS 27:5–6, JOB’S LAST SPEECH IN THE DEBATE CYCLE, HE CLAIMED: “I WILL NOT DENY MY INTEGRITY. I WILL MAINTAIN MY RIGHTEOUSNESS AND NEVER LET GO OF IT.” JOB’S WIFE’S ADVICE WAS BRIEF AND FINAL, “CURSE GOD AND DIE.” BOTH VERBS ARE IMPERATIVES. SHE BELIEVED AS THE COUNSELORS DID THAT THERE IS A DIRECT AND IMMEDIATE CONNECTION BETWEEN SIN AND PUNISHMENT. TO CURSE GOD IS TANTAMOUNT TO COMMITTING SUICIDE. SHE SUGGESTED THAT HE DO SOMETHING TO EFFECT, HIS OWN DEATH. BECAUSE OF THE CURSE THE LORD GAVE PERMISSION TO SATAN TO SPARE JOB, BUT KILL THE 10 IN HIS FAMILY WITH HIS WIFE. BUT GLOBALLY BY GOING 1 MILE GO TWAIN IN ISRAEL IT WOULD ONLY CONCERN 1 IN HIS FAMILY WITH HIS WIFE---VICTORIA TO BE KILLED BY SATAN IN THE 1ST TIME ON THE ORIGINAL ONCE IN THE NUMBER 0 & BUT GLOBALLY BY GOING 1 MILE GO TWAIN IN THE USA IT WOULD ONLY CONCERN 1 IN HIS FAMILY WITH HIS WIFE---VICTORIA TO BE KILLED BY SATAN IN THE 1ST TIME ON THE ORIGINAL ONCE IN THE NUMBER 0. BUT IN 1ST TIME ON THE OPPOSING SIDE OF THE ORIGINAL ONCE IN THE NUMBER 0 TO THE INFINITE NUMBER ALL IS NOT KILLED BY SATAN, BUT ALL PASSED IN THEIR SLEEP TO ENTER ETERNITY. THE LEGISLATION OF LEV 24:10–16 REQUIRES THE COMMUNITY TO STONE TO DEATH ANYONE GUILTY OF CURSING GOD, BUT IT IS NOT LIKELY THAT JOB’S WIFE WAS REFLECTING THESE LAWS. 2:10 THE MIDDLE PART OF THIS VERSE IS ANOTHER OF THOSE CLASSIC, QUOTABLE INSIGHTS FROM THE MOUTH OF JOB. IT IS PRECEDED, HOWEVER, BY HIS ABRUPT AND INSULTING REBUKE TO HIS WIFE. MORE LITERALLY IT READS, “YOU SPEAK LIKE THE SPEAKING OF ONE OF THE FOOLISH WOMEN.” IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO SAY WHAT “FOOLISH WOMEN” HE HAD IN MIND. THE CENTRAL PHRASE IS FULSOME, REPETITIVE, AND ARRANGED SO THAT “GOOD” AND “TROUBLE”52 ARE IN THE PROMINENT POSITIONS. IT READS IN HEBREW WORD ORDER: “THE GOOD SHALL WE ACCEPT FROM GOD, AND THE TROUBLE SHALL WE NOT ACCEPT?” NO INTERROGATIVE PARTICLE BEGINS EITHER PHRASE, BUT IT CARRIES MORE FORCE IF TRANSLATED THAT WAY. IT IS A RHETORICAL QUESTION TO WHICH JOB DID NOT EXPECT AN ANSWER. THIS IS A HARD LESSON FOR SOME BELIEVERS TO LEARN, ESPECIALLY IF THEY FEEL THEY HAVE BEEN PROMISED HEALTH AND WEALTH OR HAVE (MIS)UNDERSTOOD THAT GOD’S WONDERFUL PLAN FOR THEIR LIVES INVOLVES ONLY PLEASANTNESS AND NOT TROUBLE. BELIEVERS ON THIS SIDE OF THE CROSS HAVE MANY MORE EXAMPLES FROM BOTH THE BIBLE AND CHURCH HISTORY OF GOD’S PEOPLE WHO HAVE SUFFERED. JOB WAS MUCH MORE IN THE DARK. YET OUT OF THAT DARKNESS HIS STRONG BELIEF IN THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD SHONE FORTH ALL THE MORE BRILLIANTLY. SOMEHOW, HE ALREADY KNEW THAT THE CLAY DOES NOT ASK THE POTTER, “WHAT ARE YOU MAKING?” (ISA 45:9). JOB ACTED AS THOUGH HE HAD READ 2 COR 4:17, “FOR OUR LIGHT AND MOMENTARY TROUBLES ARE ACHIEVING FOR US AN ETERNAL GLORY THAT FAR OUTWEIGHS THEM ALL.” JOB’S THREE FRIENDS (2:11–13): 11 WHEN JOB’S THREE FRIENDS, ELIPHAZ THE TEMANITE, BILDAD THE SHUHITE AND ZOPHAR THE NAAMATHITE, HEARD ABOUT ALL THE TROUBLES THAT HAD COME UPON HIM, THEY SET OUT FROM THEIR HOMES AND MET TOGETHER BY AGREEMENT TO GO AND SYMPATHIZE WITH HIM AND COMFORT HIM. 12 WHEN THEY SAW HIM FROM A DISTANCE, THEY COULD HARDLY RECOGNIZE HIM; THEY BEGAN TO WEEP ALOUD, AND THEY TORE THEIR ROBES AND SPRINKLED DUST ON THEIR HEADS. 13 THEN THEY SAT ON THE GROUND WITH HIM FOR SEVEN DAYS AND SEVEN NIGHTS. NO ONE SAID A WORD TO HIM, BECAUSE THEY SAW HOW GREAT HIS SUFFERING WAS. THE LAST PARAGRAPH OF THE PROSE PROLOGUE INTRODUCES THE READERS TO JOB’S THREE FRIENDS. THEY STARTED AS FRIENDS, BUT BEFORE THE DEBATES WERE OVER, JOB USED LESS-THAN-FRIENDLY WORDS TO DESCRIBE THEM. THROUGHOUT THIS COMMENTARY THESE THREE WILL BE CALLED “FRIENDS” BECAUSE THAT IS THE WORD IN THE TEXT AT THIS POINT. THOUGH NOT AN IDEAL TERM, IT CERTAINLY IS BETTER THAN “COMFORTERS” (CF. 16:2). THESE THREE PROBABLY WERE WEALTHY SHEIKS LIKE JOB. THEY HAD THE TIME TO TALK FOR WHAT MAY HAVE BEEN SEVERAL MONTHS WITH THEIR SUFFERING COMRADE. NOTHING IS TOLD ABOUT THEIR FAMILIES OR STATIONS IN LIFE. THEY SEEM TO HAVE COME FROM A DISTANCE, YET THEY APPARENTLY SPOKE THE SAME LANGUAGE AND DREW THEIR ILLUSTRATIONS AND OBSERVATIONS FROM THE SAME COMMON POOL OF EXPERIENCES THAT JOB HAD. 2:11 THIS LONG AND SOMEWHAT COMPLICATED SENTENCE HAS BEEN REARRANGED IN THE NIV SO THAT THE NAMES OF THE PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS APPEAR EARLIER THAN THEY DO IN THE HEBREW TEXT. FIRST, WE READ THAT THREE FRIENDS OF JOB HEARD OF ALL THE TROUBLE THAT HAD BEFALLEN HIM. THE TEXT DOES NOT PROVIDE THE SOURCE OF THE INFORMATION OR THE AGENCY BY WHICH THEY HEARD. IT IS NOT IMPORTANT TO THE STORY. TO READ “THREE OF JOB’S FRIENDS” IS BETTER THAN “JOB’S THREE FRIENDS.” LET US HOPE THAT HE HAD MORE, BUT ONLY THREE CAME FOR THIS EXTENDED VISIT. THE QUESTION ARISES WHETHER THE NUMBER THREE IS OF ANY CONSEQUENCE. DID THREE ACTUALLY COME, OR DID THE AUTHOR WRITE THE BOOK IN SUCH A WAY THAT JOB’S MANY VISITORS ARE REDUCED TO THREE IN NUMBER? THE FACT THAT THEIR NAMES AND TRIBES ARE IN THE TEXT ARGUES FOR THE FACTUALITY OF THE REPORT. ELIPHAZ CAME FROM TEMAN. GENESIS 36:4 RECORDS A SON BORN TO ESAU AND ADAH NAMED ELIPHAZ. IN TURN, TEMAN WAS BORN TO ELIPHAZ (GEN 36:11). TEMAN CAME TO BE THE NAME OF A PROMINENT CITY IN THE AREA OF EDOM SOUTHEAST OF THE DEAD SEA.54 IF THE IDENTIFICATION OF THIS AND JOB’S LOCATION IS CORRECT, IT MEANT FOR ELIPHAZ A JOURNEY OF OVER A HUNDRED MILES. BILDAD CAME FROM SHUAH. THE NAME “BILDAD” DOES NOT OCCUR ELSEWHERE IN THE BIBLE. “SHUAH” IS THE NAME OF A SON OF ABRAHAM BY HIS WIFE OR CONCUBINE KETURAH (GEN 25:2; 1 CHR 1:32). OTHERWISE, THAT NAME IS UNKNOWN. ZOPHAR CAME FROM NAAMATH. HIS NAME ALSO IS UNIQUE TO THE BOOK OF JOB, AND THE PLACE HE CAME FROM ALSO IS UNKNOWN. ETYMOLOGICALLY IT MEANS “PLEASANT,” AN APPROPRIATE NAME FOR A CITY OR AREA. AS WITH JOB’S NAME AND HOME, WE HAVE LITTLE INFORMATION ABOUT FAMILIES OR PLACES OF RESIDENCE. THESE THREE “MET TOGETHER BY APPOINTMENT” TO DO THREE THINGS: TO GO, TO SYMPATHIZE, AND TO COMFORT. THE FIRST OF THESE IS AN ABUNDANTLY COMMON VERB. THE SECOND IS LESS COMMON, BUT THE MEANING IS WELL ESTABLISHED FROM THIS AND OTHER CONTEXTS. THE THIRD APPEARS OVER A HUNDRED TIMES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, YET IT HAS THE QUITE DIFFERENT MEANINGS OF “REPENT” AND “COMFORT.” THE LATTER MEANING IS APPROPRIATE HERE. THE FRIENDS CAME TO COMFORT BUT FOUND THEMSELVES AT THE END HAVING TO REPENT (42:7–9). 2:12 THE VERB “THEY LIFTED UP” OCCURS TWICE IN THIS VERSE. THE TWO “LIFTED UP THEIR EYES,” AND “THEY LIFTED UP THEIR VOICES.” BOTH ARE HEBREW IDIOMS USUALLY PARAPHRASED IN MODERN ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS. IN THE DESERT ONE CAN SEE FOR GREAT DISTANCES BECAUSE NO TREES, MOUNTAINS, OR BUILDINGS ARE IN THE WAY. EVEN FROM A DISTANCE WHEN PERSONS ARE RECOGNIZABLE, THEY DID NOT RECOGNIZE JOB. HE WAS MUCH THINNER. HIS SKIN WAS BLACK. HE WAS NOT WEARING HIS USUAL FINERY. AND HE WAS NOT AT THE CITY GATE WHERE HE CUSTOMARILY SAT BUT ON THE ASH HEAP. THE SIGHT OF THEIR FRIEND PROMPTED THEM TO “WEEP ALOUD,” OR MORE LITERALLY, “THEY LIFTED UP THEIR VOICES AND THEY WEPT.” NOWHERE IN THE BOOK DID JOB WEEP FOR HIMSELF; PERHAPS HE WAS BEYOND THAT POINT IN HIS GRIEF. “THEY TORE THEIR ROBES” JUST AS JOB HAD DONE IN 1:20. “AND THEY SPRINKLED DUST ON THEIR HEADS HEAVENWARD.”59 THOUGH NOT AS COMMON AS ASHES, DUST IS ANOTHER SIGN OF MOURNING (JOSH 7:6; 2 SAM 1:2; EZEK 27:30; MIC 1:10). THE NIV DOES NOT REPRESENT THE “HEAVENWARD,” BUT THE NASB, FOR EXAMPLE, HAS “TOWARD THE SKY” (CF. THE NRSV’S “IN THE AIR”). THE ADDITION DOES PROVIDE A DETAIL TO THIS OVERT, EVEN OSTENTATIOUS, DISPLAY OF ANGUISH. ONE MUST ASSUME THAT THIS GRIEF ON THEIR PART WAS GENUINE EVEN IF IT IS MARKEDLY DIFFERENT FROM OUR OWN CUSTOMS. 2:13 SITTING ON THE GROUND WAS YET ANOTHER WAY OF SHOWING HUMILITY AND SORROW (ISA 3:26; 47:1; LAM 2:10; JONAH 3:6). NOTICE THAT THEY SAT “WITH HIM,” ENTERING INTO HIS GRIEF IN THIS DEMONSTRABLE WAY. THE “SEVEN DAYS AND SEVEN NIGHTS” CORRESPOND TO OTHER EXAMPLES OF WEEK-LONG PERIODS OF MOURNING MENTIONED IN GEN 50:10; 1 SAM 31:13; AND EZEK 3:15. “SEVEN” MAY BE AN IMPRECISE NUMBER FOR SOMETHING MORE THAN A DAY BUT LESS THAN A MONTH, ALTHOUGH IT COULD HAVE BEEN A LITERAL WEEK. THE SIGHT OF JOB’S EXCESSIVE SUFFERING LEFT THE FRIENDS SILENT. GOOD COUNSELORS KNOW THAT SOMETIMES THE BEST THING THEY CAN DO IS SIMPLY LISTEN. JUST THE PRESENCE OF A SYMPATHETIC PERSON CAN PROVIDE COMFORT ALTOGETHER APART FROM ANY SPOKEN WORDS. THIS PROBABLY WAS THE FINEST DEMONSTRATION OF LOVE THESE THREE COULD HAVE SHOWN. IF THEY HAD SIMPLY RETURNED HOME WITHOUT SAYING ANYTHING, THEIR REPUTATIONS WOULD BE MUCH DIFFERENT. AFTER LISTENING TO EACH GIVE HIS FIRST SPEECH, JOB WISHED THEY MIGHT RESORT TO THEIR ORIGINAL TREATMENT OF HIM AND SUGGESTED THAT SILENCE WOULD BETTER PROVE THEIR WISDOM (13:5). SO ENDS THE PROLOGUE OF THE BOOK. THE STAGE HAS BEEN SET. WE, THE READERS, HAVE BEEN INFORMED OF BASIC FACTS THAT THE MAJOR CHARACTERS DO NOT KNOW. ALL THE PLAYERS (EXCEPT ELIHU) HAVE BEEN INTRODUCED. IT IS TIME FOR THE CONTEST OF WILLS AND WORDS TO BEGIN. LET THE CURTAIN BE LIFTED FOR THE NEXT SCENE.  THE 2 TOP DEVILS’ CAPABILITIES IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION  IN ISRAEL'S TRIBULATION  FROM THE NUMBER 0 TO THE NUMBER 6 TO THE BOOK OF DANIEL IN THE USA'S TRIBULATION FROM ONLY THE NUMBER 0 REVELATION 13:1: IN THE PREVIOUS CHAPTER, WE SAW A DRAGON WITH SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS WHO ATTEMPTED TO INTERCEPT THE PROMISED CHILD AND SUBSEQUENTLY PERSECUTED THE WOMAN WHO GAVE BIRTH TO THE CHILD. WE SAW NUMEROUS INDICATORS WHICH POINTED TO THE JEWISH CONTEXT OF THAT CHAPTER AND ITS EVENTS, WITH THE WOMAN FINALLY RECEIVING SUPERNATURAL ASSISTANCE TO REACH A PLACE OF PROTECTION PREPARED BY GOD (REV. REV. 12:6+, REV. 12:14+). SINCE THE DRAGON COULD NOT DESTROY THE WOMAN, HE BECAME ENRAGED AND “WENT OFF TO MAKE WAR WITH THE REST OF HER OFFSPRING”.1 NOW, THE SCENE SHIFTS TO DESCRIBE A BEAST WHO ALSO HAS SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS, WHO IS CLOSELY IDENTIFIED WITH THE DRAGON. HE AND ANOTHER BEAST INSTITUTE A SERIES OF SATANICALLY-EMPOWERED DECEPTIONS WHICH BRING THE WHOLE WORLD UNDER THE SWAY OF THE BEAST WITH SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS, AND ULTIMATELY SATAN. THIS IS THE RISE OF THE ANTICHRIST,2 WHOSE ACTIVITIES ARE KEY TO THE 70TH WEEK OF DANIEL. BY NOW, THE RESTRAINER HAS BEEN TAKEN OUT OF THE WAY RESULTING IN THE DEPARTURE OF THE CHURCH IN THE RAPTURE. THUS, BELIEVERS TODAY WILL NOT SEE THE RISE OF THE BEAST AND THE EVENTS OF THIS CHAPTER, FOR THEY ARE TO WATCH FOR THE IMMINENT RETURN OF CHRIST, NOT THE RISE OF ANTICHRIST. EVEN SO, MULTITUDES WILL COME TO FAITH DURING THIS PERIOD OF INTENSE PERSECUTION AS THE MESSAGE OF THE VARIOUS WITNESSES WHICH GOD HAS SPECIALLY EQUIPPED FOR THE TIME OF THE END GOES FORTH (REV. REV. 7:4-8+; REV. 11:3-12+; REV. 14:6+).3 PRIOR TO STUDYING THIS CHAPTER, WE RECOMMEND THE STUDY OF RELATED TOPICS: THE BEAST; NERO; AND BEASTS, HEADS, AND HORNS. I STOOD ON THE SAND OF THE SEA: THE NU TEXT HAS HE STOOD, THAT IS, THE DRAGON OF THE PREVIOUS CHAPTER. SOME MANUSCRIPTS READ, “HE STOOD,” THE CHANGE BEING AFFECTED BY THE DROPPING OF ONE LETTER NU FROM THE END OF THE VERB ESTATHĒ. IF THE LETTER IS PROPERLY DROPPED, IT INDICATES THAT THE DRAGON HIMSELF STOOD UPON THE SAND OF THE SEA. IF THE LETTER IS ADDED, IT MEANS THAT JOHN STOOD UPON THE SAND OF THE SEA...INASMUCH AS IT IS MORE LIKELY THAT A LETTER BE DROPPED THAN A LETTER ADDED TO THE TEXT, SOME SCHOLARS CONTINUE TO FEEL THAT THE AUTHORIZED VERSION IS CORRECT THAT JOHN STOOD UPON THE SAND OF THE SEA.4 HENGSTENBERG REMARKS, “ONE CANNOT DECIDE ON EXTERNAL GROUNDS BETWEEN THE TWO [TEXTUAL] READINGS.” AUTHORITIES ARE DIVIDED. BUT A CAREFUL STUDY OF THE CONTEXT SHEWS [SIC ] CONCLUSIVELY THAT IT IS THE SEER, AND NOT THE DRAGON THAT “STOOD UPON THE SAND OF THE SEA.” THE APOCALYPTIC PROPHET ALWAYS TAKES HIS PLACE OR STAND AS A POINT OF OBSERVATION IN KEEPING WITH THE SUBJECT AT HAND. THUS HEAVEN (REV. REV. 4:1+); THE SAND OF THE SEA (REV. REV. 13:1+); THE WILDERNESS (REV. REV. 17:1+); AND A HIGH MOUNTAIN (REV. REV. 21:10+), ARE RESPECTIVE POINTS OF VIEW FROM WHICH HE CAN CONTEMPLATE THE VARIOUS PANORAMIC VISIONS AS THEY PASS BEFORE HIS GAZE.5 IF IT IS THE DRAGON WHICH STANDS ON THE SAND, RATHER THAN JOHN, THEN IT WOULD INTIMATE HIS SUMMONS OF THE BEAST PORTRAYED NEXT. “THE DRAGON, CAST OUT OF HEAVEN AFTER HIS FINAL DEFEAT AT THE HANDS OF MICHAEL AND HIS FORCES, COMES TO THE EARTH LOOKING FOR AN INSTRUMENT THROUGH WHOM HE CAN CARRY ON HIS WARFARE AGAINST HIS HATED CREATOR AND GOD.”6 WHETHER IT IS JOHN OR THE DRAGON, THE DRAGON IS CLEARLY THE MALEVOLENT POWER BEHIND THE RISE OF THE BEAST: “THE COMING OF THE LAWLESS ONE IS ACCORDING TO THE WORKING OF SATAN, WITH ALL POWER, SIGNS, AND LYING WONDERS” (2TH. 2TH. 2:4). ALTHOUGH ELSEWHERE SAND DENOTES AN INNUMERABLE COMPANY, REV. 17:15+).”7 HERE, IT MERELY DESCRIBES THE POSITION OF JOHN ON THE SHORE FROM WHERE HE OBSERVED THE BEAST’S RISE FROM THE WATER. I SAW A BEAST: JOHN SEES TWO BEASTS IN THIS CHAPTER. THE FIRST BEAST IS CLOSELY IDENTIFIED WITH THE DRAGON—HAVING SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS. HE IS ALSO THE BEAST WHOSE DEADLY WOUND WAS HEALED. MOREOVER, HE IS THE OBJECT OF WORSHIP AND AIDED IN THIS ROLE BY THE SECOND BEAST (REV. REV. 13:11+). THESE CHARACTERISTICS IDENTIFY THE FIRST BEAST AS ANTICHRIST, ALSO CALLED THE BEAST. THE SECOND BEAST WHICH APPEARS LATER IS KNOWN AS THE FALSE PROPHET (REV. REV. 16:13+; REV. 19:20+; REV. 20:10+). AS WE MENTION IN OUR DISCUSSION OF WHY NERO CANNOT BE THE ANTICHRIST, THE EARLY CHURCH WHICH LIVED MUCH NEARER TO THE TIME OF NERO AND THE APOSTLE JOHN, DID NOT SEE NERO AS THE BEAST. IRENAEUS IDENTIFIES THE FIRST OF ST JOHN’S WILD BEASTS WITH ST PAUL’S MAN OF SIN. AS WE DISCUSS IN BEASTS, HEADS, AND HORNS, THE SYMBOLISM OF THE REVELATION GIVEN TO BOTH DANIEL AND JOHN CONCERNING THIS TIME OF THE END OFTEN BLURS THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN AN INDIVIDUAL AND THE GOVERNMENT WHICH HE LEADS: THERE CAN BE NO KINGDOM WITHOUT A KING, AND NO EMPIRE WITHOUT AN EMPEROR; NEITHER CAN THERE BE A KING IN FACT WITHOUT A KINGDOM. WE CANNOT CONSISTENTLY SPEAK OF IMPERIAL POWER AND DOMINION APART FROM A PERSONAL HEAD WHICH REPRESENTS AND EMBODIES THAT POWER.8 BUT IT IS VERY CLEAR FROM WHAT FOLLOWS IN REV. REV. 13:1+ THAT THERE IS SOMETHING MORE THAN THE EMPIRE HERE IN VIEW. IN REV. REV. 13:3-8+ IT IS A PERSON THAT IS BEFORE US. WE ARE SATISFIED THAT THIS SAME PERSON IS ALSO DESCRIBED, SYMBOLICALLY, IN THE OPENING VERSES. AS IS FREQUENTLY THE CASE IN THE PROPHETIC SCRIPTURES, THE KING AND HIS KINGDOM ARE HERE INSEPARABLY UNITED. REV. REV. 13:1+, REV. 13:2+ PORTRAYS BOTH THE EMPIRE AND ITS LAST EMPEROR.9 IS THE BEAST OUT OF THE SEA A MAN OR AN EMPIRE? THE ANSWER IS BOTH. (A) THE BEAST IS A MAN BECAUSE HIS NUMBER IS THAT OF A MAN (REV. REV. 13:18+). ALSO, THE USE OF THE MASCULINE PRONOUN ΑὐΤΌΝ [AUTON] (REV. REV. 13:8+) TO REFER TO THE NEUTER ΘΗΡΊΟΝ [THĒRION] (REV. REV. 13:1-2+, REV. 13:4+) INDICATES THAT HE IS A HUMAN BEING. IN ADDITION, PARALLELS BETWEEN THE BEAST AND THE LAMB INDICATE THAT HE IS A PERSON: BOTH HAVE FOLLOWERS ON WHOSE FOREHEADS ARE INSCRIBED THEIR NAMES (REV. REV. 13:16-17+; REV. 14:1+), BOTH ARE CONQUERORS (REV. REV. 5:5+; REV. 13:7+), AND BOTH RECEIVE WORSHIP (REV. REV. 5:8+; REV. 13:4+). (B) AT THE SAME TIME THE BEAST IS AN EMPIRE OVER WHICH THE MAN REIGNS. THIS FACT IS DEMONSTRATED BY THE SYMBOLISM OF THE BEASTS OF DANIEL DAN. 7:1.10 RISING UP: ἈΝΑΒΑῖΝΟΝ [ANABAINON], PRESENT TENSE PARTICIPLE, PRESENTLY ARISING UP & LIFITING HIMSELF UP OUT OF THE AREA OR PERIMETER HE WAS RESIDING IN. JOHN SAW THE BEAST AS HE WAS RISING. OUT OF THE SEA: DANIEL’S FOUR BEASTS ALSO WERE SEEN RISING FROM THE SEA (DAN. DAN. 7:2-3). THE BEAST’S ASCENSION FROM THE SEA SPEAKS OF THE ORIGIN OF HIS KINGDOM FROM THE GENTILE NATIONS. “STRETCH OUT YOUR HAND FROM ABOVE; RESCUE ME AND DELIVER ME OUT OF GREAT WATERS, FROM THE HAND OF FOREIGNERS [LIT. STRANGE CHILDREN]” (PS. PS. 144:7). THIS BEAST SHARES CHARACTERISTICS OF THE FIRST THREE OF DANIEL’S BEASTS (ALL GENTILE KINGDOMS). LEVIATHAN, THE TWISTED SERPENT, REPRESENTATIVE OF BOTH SATAN AND THE BEAST, IS IN THE SEA (ISA. ISA. 27:1; PS. PS. 74:13). THE BEAST IS ALSO SAID TO ASCEND OUT OF THE BOTTOMLESS PIT (REV. REV. 11:7+, REV. 17:8+). HIS ASCENT OUT OF THE BOTTOMLESS PIT SPEAKS OF HIS REVIVAL FROM THE DEAD FOLLOWING HIS FATAL WOUND. THIS BEAST ARISES FROM THE SEA, BUT THE SECOND BEAST ARISES FROM THE EARTH OR LAND (REV. REV. 13:11+). THIS HAS CAUSED SOME TO EXPECT THE SECOND BEAST, THE FALSE PROPHET, TO BE JEWISH IN ORIGIN. THESE CONTRASTING TERMS ARE INDICATIVE OF THE ORIGIN OF THE TWO BEASTS. THE SEA MAY SYMBOLIZE THE GENTILES (REV. REV. 17:15+; CF. DAN. DAN. 7:2-3) AND IF THIS IS THE CASE HERE, THE OPPOSITE TERM, THE EARTH, SYMBOLIZES THE JEWS. THERE IS PRECEDENCE FOR THE GENTILE ORIGIN OF ANTICHRIST IN THE OLD TESTAMENT ALLUSIONS, AND THE JEWISH IDENTIFICATION MAY BE STRENGTHENED IF HERE “THE EARTH” HAS TECHNICAL SENSE OF “THE LAND” [OF ISRAEL] AS IT SOMETIMES MAY IN REVELATION (REV. REV. 11:18+; CF. DAN. DAN. 8:9).11 THE LAND/SEA/AIR IN EARTH/WATER/AIR/FIRE/WIND DISTINCTION BETWEEN GENTILES AND JEWS IS SEEN IN THE PARABLES OF THE HIDDEN TREASURE AND THE PEARL OF GREAT PRICE: CHRIST’S INHERITANCE IS NOT ONLY THE CHURCH WHICH IS THE PEARL OF GREAT PRICE FOR WHICH HE SOLD ALL THAT HE HAD, BUT IT ALSO INCLUDES ISRAEL WHICH IS THE TREASURE HIDDEN IN THE FIELD AND WHICH HE PURCHASED WITH HIS OWN BLOOD AND WHICH HE HID AGAIN.12 THE TREASURE [MTT. MAT. 13:45-46] REPRESENTS THE JEWS, SO IT IS NATURAL THAT THE PEARL [MTT. MAT. 13:45-46] WOULD REPRESENT THE GENTILES. FURTHERMORE, THE PEARL COMES FROM THE SEA, AND THE SEA SYMBOLIZES THE GENTILE WORLD (DAN. DAN. 7:2-3; REV. REV. 17:1+, REV. 17:15+). FINALLY, THE PEARL COMES FROM THE OYSTER, WHICH ITSELF WAS UNCLEAN IN THE LAW OF MOSES BUT MADE CLEAN BY THE LAW OF MESSIAH.13 SOME SUGGEST THAT THE SEA INDICATES HIS RISE FROM THE ABYSS (REV. REV. 11:7+; REV. 17:8+).14 SEVEN HEADS: LIKE THE DRAGON (REV. REV. 12:3+), THE BEAST HAS SEVEN HEADS. THE HEADS REPRESENT SEVEN WORLD KINGDOMS WHICH CULMINATE IN THE BEAST AS THE SEVENTH WHICH HAD “NOT YET COME” IN JOHN’S DAY (REV. REV. 17:10+). THIS IS NOT A MATTER OF CONJECTURE FOR THIS SAME BEAST WITH SEVEN HEADS IS RIDDEN UPON BY THE HARLOT, THE “MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH” (REV. REV. 17:3+). WE ARE TOLD THAT THE SEVEN HEADS ARE “SEVEN MOUNTAINS ON WHICH THE WOMAN SITS. THEY ARE SEVEN KINGS” (REV. REV. 17:9-10+).15 ONE OF THE HEADS OF THE BEAST RECEIVES A DEADLY WOUND WHICH IS HEALED (REV. REV. 13:3+). THIS REVIVED HEAD IS CONSIDERED AS “THE EIGHTH, AND IS OF THE SEVEN, AND IS GOING TO PERDITION” (REV. REV. 17:11+). THE TERMINOLOGY DESCRIBING THE BEAST INDICATES HE IS BOTH A KINGDOM AND ITS REPRESENTATIVE LEADER—THE KING. IN DANIEL’S NIGHT VISION, HE SEES FOUR BEASTS WHICH, WHEN TAKEN TOGETHER, HAVE SEVEN HEADS: THAT WE HAVE HERE IN REV. REV. 13:1+, REV. 13:2+ A COMPOSITE KINGDOM IS CLEAR FROM THE ‘SEVEN HEADS.’ NOW NOTE THAT IN DAN. DAN. 7:1 THE FIRST, SECOND AND FOURTH KINGDOMS ARE NOT SAID TO HAVE MORE THAN ONE HEAD, BUT THE THIRD HAS ‘FOUR HEADS’ (DAN. DAN. 7:6). THUS, THE BEASTS OF DAN. DAN. 7:1 HAVE, THREE OF THEM ONE HEAD EACH, AND THE THIRD FOUR HEADS, OR SEVEN IN ALL; WHICH TALLIES PERFECTLY WITH REV. REV. 13:1+. ...THE FOUR KINGDOMS OF DAN. DAN. 7:1 ARE TO BE RESTORED, AND PLAY THEIR FINAL PARTS IMMEDIATELY BEFORE THE MILLENNIUM. IF THE READER WILL TURN TO DAN. DAN. 2:1, WHICH IS PARALLEL WITH DAN. DAN. 7:1 - THE ‘IMAGE IN ITS FOUR PARTS’ (THE HEAD, THE BREAST AND ARMS, THE BELLY AND THIGHS, THE LEGS AND FEET) CORRESPONDING WITH THE FOUR BEASTS - IT WILL BE FOUND THAT WHEN WE COME TO DAN. DAN. 2:45, WHICH SPEAKS OF CHRIST (UNDER THE FIGURE OF ‘THE STONE CUT OUT OF THE MOUNT WITHOUT HANDS’ RETURNING TO EARTH TO DESTROY THE FORCES OF EVIL, AND THEN SET UP HIS KINGDOM, WE DISCOVER THAT THE STONE ‘BRAKE IN PIECES THE IRON (ROME), THE BRASS (GREECE), THE CLAY (APOSTATE ISRAEL), THE SILVER (MEDO-PERSIA), AND THE GOLD (BABYLON).’ WHAT WE DESIRE THE READER TO NOTE PARTICULARLY IS THAT THE STONE STRIKES NOT ONLY THE IRON, BUT THE BRASS, CLAY, SILVER, AND GOLD; IN FACT, DAN. DAN. 2:35 TELLS US, EXPRESSLY, THEY SHALL BE ‘BROKEN TO PIECES TOGETHER!’ IF, THEN, THEY ARE DESTROYED TOGETHER, THEY MUST ALL BE ON THE SCENE AT THE TIME OF CHRIST’S RETURN TO EARTH TO INAUGURATE HIS MILLENNIAL REIGN, AND IF SO, EACH OF THEM MUST HAVE BEEN REVIVED AND RESTORED!!16 ALTHOUGH IT IS TRUE THAT THE FOUR BEASTS DANIEL SEES ARE REPRESENTED IN THIS BEAST WITH SEVEN HEADS, IT IS UNLIKELY THAT THE SEVEN HEADS ON THE BEAST CORRESPOND EXACTLY WITH THE SEVEN HEADS OF DANIEL’S FOUR BEASTS. TEN HORNS: LIKE THE DRAGON (REV. REV. 12:3+), THE BEAST HAS TEN HORNS. THE TEN HORNS ARE IDENTIFIED FOR US: “THE TEN HORNS WHICH YOU SAW ARE TEN KINGS WHO HAVE RECEIVED NO KINGDOM AS YET, BUT THEY WILL RECEIVE AUTHORITY FOR ONE HOUR AS KINGS WITH THE BEAST. THESE ARE OF ONE MIND, AND THEY WILL GIVE THEIR POWER AND AUTHORITY TO THE BEAST.” (REV. REV. 17:12-13+). THESE ARE THE TEN HORNS WHICH DANIEL SAW UPON THE FOURTH TERRIBLE BEAST IN HIS NIGHT VISION (DAN. DAN. 7:7, DAN. 7:20) WHICH ARE ALSO SAID TO BE TEN KINGS (DAN. DAN. 7:24). THE BEAST RIDDEN BY THE HARLOT ALSO HAS TEN HORNS (REV. REV. 17:3+). “AND THE TEN HORNS WHICH YOU SAW ON THE BEAST, THESE WILL HATE THE HARLOT, MAKE HER DESOLATE AND NAKED, EAT HER FLESH AND BURN HER WITH FIRE. FOR GOD HAS PUT IT INTO THEIR HEARTS TO FULFILL HIS PURPOSE” (REV. REV. 17:16+-REV. 17:17+A) INITIALLY, THE BEAST SUPPORTS THE HARLOT AND SHE RIDES UPON, OR CONTROLS, HIM. EVENTUALLY THE TEN KINGS WHO ARE ALLIED WITH THE BEAST WILL TURN ON THE HARLOT, THROW HER OFF AND DESTROY HER. ON HIS HORNS, TEN CROWNS: UNLIKE THE DRAGON WHICH WEARS CROWNS ON ITS HEADS (REV. REV. 12:3+), THE BEAST’S CROWNS ARE ON ITS HORNS. THE DRAGON’S CROWNS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH HISTORICAL KINGDOMS OF WHICH THIS BEAST IS ONE. THE BEAST HAS CROWNS ON EACH OF HIS TEN HORNS, INDICATING THE RULE OF THE TEN CONTEMPORANEOUS KINGS ASSOCIATED WITH THE LAST HEAD OR KINGDOM. THESE TEN HORNS ARE THE SAME AS THOSE OF THE LAST (TERRIBLE BEAST) OF DANIEL’S FOUR BEASTS (DAN. DAN. 7:7). A BLASPHEMOUS NAME (THE GREAT WITCH VICTORIA): ὈΝΌΜΑ ΒΛΑΣΦΗΜΊΑΣ [ONOMA BLASPHĒMIAS], A NAME BLASPHEMOUS. THE MT AND NU TEXTS HAVE, ὀΝΌΜΑΤΑ ΒΛΑΣΦΗΜΊΑΣ [ONOMATA BLASPHĒMIAS], NAMES BLASPHEMOUS. THE BLASPHEMOUS NAME OR NAMES ARE AN INDICATION OF HIS CHARACTER. DANIEL DESCRIBED THIS INDIVIDUAL WHO “SHALL EXALT AND MAGNIFY HIMSELF ABOVE EVERY GOD, SHALL SPEAK BLASPHEMIES AGAINST THE GOD OF GODS, AND SHALL PROSPER TILL THE WRATH HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED; FOR WHAT HAS BEEN DETERMINED SHALL BE DONE” (DAN. DAN. 11:36).17 HE IS ALSO NOTED FOR HIS MOUTH SPEAKING GREAT THINGS AGAINST GOD. REVELATION 13:2: LIKE A LEOPARD...BEAR...LION: THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE FIRST THREE BEASTS IN DANIEL’S NIGHT VISION CONTRIBUTE TO THIS BEAST OF THE END (DAN. DAN. 7:4-6).1 THE FOURTH TERRIBLE BEAST SEEN BY DANIEL IS NOT MENTIONED BECAUSE THIS BEAST IS THE EMBODIMENT OF THAT TERRIBLE BEAST AT THE TIME OF THE END. IT IS A COMPOSITE OF THE FOUR BEASTS OF DANIEL’S VISION (DAN. DAN. 7:1) AND MUST BE RELATED TO THEM. DANIEL WROTE FROM THE STANDPOINT OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE, WHOSE FATE UNDER THE GENTILE EMPIRES TO COME WOULD AFFECT THE FIRST COMING OF MESSIAH. REVELATION, WRITTEN UNDER THE FOURTH AND LAST OF THESE EMPIRES, PRESUMABLY AFTER THE JEWISH COMMONWEALTH HAD BEEN CRUSHED, TAKES THIS PICTURE OF GENTILE WORLD POWER FROM DANIEL AND COMBINES THESE FOUR EMPIRES ONTO THE PICTURE OF THE FUTURE WORLD-STATE. THE MAGNIFICENCE OF BABYLON, THE VASTNESS OF MEDO-PERSIA, THE DOMINATING CULTURE OF GREEK MACEDONIA, AND THE ORGANIZING MIGHT OF ROME ARE UNITED IN ONE STATE THAT WILL ASPIRE TO WORLD DOMINATION AND THAT WILL ACHIEVE IT.2 THE ORDER IN WHICH THE ATTRIBUTES ARE LISTED, LEOPARD THEN BEAR THEN LION, ARE REVERSED FROM WHAT DANIEL SAW. THIS REFLECTS JOHN’S DIFFERENT VANTAGE POINT. DANIEL, LIVING IN THE DAYS OF THE LION BEAST (BABYLON), LOOKED FORWARD IN TIME TO SEE THE RISE OF THE BEAR (MEDO-PERSIA), AND THEN THE LEOPARD (GREECE). JOHN, WRITING IN THE TIME OF THE FIRST PHASE OF THE TERRIBLE BEAST (ROME), LOOKED BACKWARD IN TIME TO SEE THEM IN REVERSE ORDER. THE MENTION OF THE LEOPARD, BEAR, AND LION IN CONNECTION WITH THE BEAST ARISING FROM THE SEA IS IN CONCERT WITH WHAT DANIEL WAS SHOWN CONCERNING THE CONTINUATION OF BABYLON, MEDO-PERSIA, AND GREECE AND THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO THE FINAL FORM OF WORLD GOVERNMENT. “AS FOR THE REST OF THE BEASTS, THEY HAD THEIR DOMINION TAKEN AWAY, YET THEIR LIVES WERE PROLONGED FOR A SEASON AND A TIME” (DAN. DAN. 7:12). WHEN THE STONE REPRESENTING THE MESSIANIC KINGDOM STRIKES THE IMAGE OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR’S DREAM, ALL THE METALS OF THE IMAGE ARE DEMOLISHED TOGETHER: “THE IRON, THE CLAY, THE BRONZE, THE SILVER, AND THE GOLD WERE CRUSHED TOGETHER” (DAN. DAN. 2:35); “IT BROKE IN PIECES THE IRON, THE BRONZE, THE CLAY, THE SILVER, AND THE GOLD” (DAN. DAN. 2:45). THUS, ATTRIBUTES OF ALL THE KINGDOMS ARE FOUND IN THIS LAST BEAST. MANY UNDERSTAND THIS FINAL KINGDOM TO BE A “REVIVED ROME.” THIS VIEW IS BASED ON CONTINUITY EXPRESSED IN NEBUCHADNEZZAR’S DREAM. THE TEN TOES OF THE IMAGE ARE ON ITS FEET WHICH ARE PARTLY OF IRON WHICH SYMBOLIZES ROME: WHEREAS YOU SAW THE FEET AND TOES, PARTLY OF POTTER’S CLAY AND PARTLY OF IRON, THE KINGDOM SHALL BE DIVIDED; YET THE STRENGTH OF THE IRON SHALL BE IN IT, JUST AS YOU SAW THE IRON MIXED WITH CERAMIC CLAY. AND AS THE TOES OF THE FEET WERE PARTLY OF IRON AND PARTLY OF CLAY, SO THE KINGDOM SHALL BE PARTLY STRONG AND PARTLY FRAGILE. AS YOU SAW IRON MIXED WITH CERAMIC CLAY, THEY WILL MINGLE WITH THE SEED OF MEN; BUT THEY WILL NOT ADHERE TO ONE ANOTHER, JUST AS IRON DOES NOT MIX WITH CLAY. AND IN THE DAYS OF THESE KINGS THE GOD OF HEAVEN WILL SET UP A KINGDOM WHICH SHALL NEVER BE DESTROYED; AND THE KINGDOM SHALL NOT BE LEFT TO OTHER PEOPLE; IT SHALL BREAK IN PIECES AND CONSUME ALL THESE KINGDOMS, AND IT SHALL STAND FOREVER. (DAN. DAN. 2:41-44) ADDING TO THIS IDENTIFICATION IS THE FACT THAT DANIEL IS ONLY SHOWN FOUR BEASTS PRIOR TO THE KINGDOM BEING GIVEN TO THE SON OF MAN (DAN. DAN. 7:11-14). IN SOME SENSE, THIS LAST KINGDOM OF THE END MUST BE A CONTINUATION OF ROME. THE FINAL WORLD EMPIRE WILL BE IN SOME SENSE A REVIVAL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (THE IRON LEGS AND TEN TOES OF THE STATUE IN DANIEL DAN. 2:1), BUT WILL FAR EXCEED IT BOTH IN POWER AND EXTENT. IT WILL BE MUCH MORE THAN A EUROPEAN CONFEDERACY; IT WILL COVER THE ENTIRE WORLD.3 IT IS ALSO CLEAR THAT ALL THE PREVIOUS KINGDOMS CONTRIBUTE TO ITS CHARACTERISTICS. BULLINGER NOTES THAT WHEN JOHN IS TOLD “ONE [KINGDOM] IS” (REV. REV. 17:10+), IT IS ROME WHICH IS IN VIEW—THE NEXT KINGDOM “HAS NOT YET COME.” HE WONDERS HOW ROME CAN BE BOTH.4 YET THE CONTINUITY BETWEEN ROME OF JOHN’S DAY AND THE FORM OF KINGDOM REPRESENTED BY THE RISE OF THE BEAST IS STRONGLY INFERRED BY THE CONTINUANCE OF DANIEL’S FOURTH BEAST UNTIL THE TIME OF THE END, WHEN IT IS PREDICTED “TO DEVOUR THE WHOLE EARTH” (DAN. DAN. 7:23). MOREOVER, IN THE FAMOUS PROPHECY OF DANIEL’S SEVENTY WEEKS, DANIEL WAS TOLD THAT THE “PEOPLE OF THE PRINCE WHO IS TO COME SHALL DESTROY THE CITY AND THE SANCTUARY” (DAN. DAN. 9:26). THIS PROPHECY WAS FULFILLED IN THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM AND THE TEMPLE IN A.D. 70 BY ROME. THUS, THE PRINCE TO COME HAS A ROMAN ORIGIN. THESE PASSAGES ARGUE FOR SOME FORM OF CONTINUITY BETWEEN ROME AND THE INITIAL BEAST KINGDOM OF THE END. THIS SHOULD NOT BE OVEREMPHASIZED SINCE ATTRIBUTES OF THE OTHER THREE BEASTS ARE ALSO FOUND IN IT. AS WE PROGRESS IN THIS CHAPTER, WE WILL SEE GOD SOVEREIGNLY GRANT PERMISSION FOR THIS BEASTLY EMPIRE TO ATTAIN AUTHORITY BY WAY OF EMPOWERMENT FROM THE DRAGON. HOSEA WAS SHOWN THESE BEASTS AND HOW THEY WOULD BE USED TO TEAR ISRAEL TO CAUSE HER TO TURN BACK TO GOD: WHEN THEY HAD PASTURE, THEY WERE FILLED; THEY WERE FILLED AND THEIR HEART WAS EXALTED; THEREFORE THEY FORGOT ME. SO I WILL BE TO THEM LIKE A LION; LIKE A LEOPARD BY THE ROAD I WILL LURK; I WILL MEET THEM LIKE A BEAR DEPRIVED OF HER CUBS; I WILL TEAR OPEN THEIR RIB CAGE, AND THERE I WILL DEVOUR THEM LIKE A LION. THE WILD BEAST SHALL TEAR THEM. O ISRAEL, YOU ARE DESTROYED, BUT YOUR HELP IS FROM ME. I WILL BE YOUR KING; WHERE IS ANY OTHER, THAT HE MAY SAVE YOU IN ALL YOUR CITIES? AND YOUR JUDGES TO WHOM YOU SAID, ‘GIVE ME A KING AND PRINCES’? I GAVE YOU A KING IN MY ANGER, AND TOOK HIM AWAY IN MY WRATH. (HOS. HOS. 13:6-11) [EMPHASIS ADDED] THE LION, BEAR, LEOPARD, AND WILD BEAST...CORRESPOND TO THE WORLD EMPIRES AMONG WHICH ISRAEL IS TO BE SCATTERED AND PERSECUTED (DAN. DAN. 7:1) DURING THE TIME THAT SHE IS IN DISPERSION UNTIL SHE WILL BE REGATHERED BY HER COVENANT-KEEPING LORD (EZE. EZE. 37:1-28; MTT. MAT. 24:31; ROM. ROM. 11:26).5 THE DRAGON GAVE HIM HIS POWER: PAUL TOLD THE CHURCH AT THESSALONICA THAT THE COMING OF THE BEAST WOULD BE ACCORDING TO THE WORKING (ἐΝΈΡΓΕΙΑΝ [ENERGEIAN]) OF SATAN (2TH. 2TH. 2:9). THE BEAST WILL BE ENERGIZED BY SATAN, WHICH SPEAKS OF EMPOWERMENT BY A SUPERNATURAL BEING.6 “IN HIM SHALL DWELL ALL THE FULNESS OF THE DEVIL BODILY.”7 HE WILL BE SATAN’S PARODY OF THE GOD-MAN. HE WILL BE AN INCARNATION OF THE DEVIL. THE WORLD TODAY IS TALKING OF AND LOOKING FOR THE SUPER-MAN. THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT THE ANTICHRIST WILL BE. HE WILL BE THE SERPENT’S MASTERPIECE. ...HE WILL BE THE CULMINATION AND CONSUMMATION OF SATANIC CRAFT AND POWER. ALL THE EVIL, MALIGNITY, CUNNING, AND POWER OF THE SERPENT WILL BE EMBODIED IN THIS TERRIBLE MONSTER.8 WE MUST NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE DRAGON AND THE BEAST. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE BEAST AND THE DRAGON MUST BE INTIMATE, FOR THE BEAST IS ALLOWED TO BE THE RECIPIENT OF ALL WORSHIP (2TH. 2TH. 2:4). THIS MAY INDICATE THAT WORSHIP TOWARD THE BEAST FINDS ITS ULTIMATE DESTINATION IN THE DRAGON BY WAY OF POSSESSION. HIS THRONE AND GREAT AUTHORITY: THE BEAST OBTAINS HIS THRONE AND AUTHORITY FROM THE DRAGON. DURING THE TEMPTATION, THE DRAGON SHOWED JESUS “ALL THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD IN A MOMENT OF TIME” AND EXPLAINED, “ALL THIS AUTHORITY I WILL GIVE YOU...FOR THIS HAS BEEN DELIVERED TO ME AND I GIVE IT TO WHOMEVER I WISH” (LUKE LUKE 4:6). EVIDENTLY, THE BEAST ACCEPTS AN OFFER SIMILAR TO THAT WHICH JESUS REFUSED. MAT. 4:8).”9 ALTHOUGH SCRIPTURE DOES NOT SAY, WE CAN INFER THAT THE BEAST, PROBABLY IN SOME PRIVATE FASHION, ULTIMATELY GIVES HIS WORSHIP TO THE DRAGON. THE ONLY ALTERNATIVE WOULD BE THAT SATAN SO COMPLETELY INDWELLS THE BEAST THAT THE RESULT IS THEIR NEAR UNITY. THE CLOSE ASSOCIATION OF THE BEAST WITH THE DRAGON AND BABYLON IS SEEN IN A PASSAGE FROM ISAIAH WHICH BEGINS AS A PROVERB AGAINST THE KING OF BABYLON, BUT CONTAINS ELEMENTS WHICH GO FAR BEYOND ANY MORTAL MAN TO IDENTIFY THE POWER BEHIND THE KING—SATAN: TAKE UP THIS PROVERB AGAINST THE KING OF BABYLON . . . HOW YOU ARE FALLEN FROM HEAVEN, O LUCIFER, SON OF THE MORNING! HOW YOU ARE CUT DOWN TO THE GROUND, YOU WHO WEAKENED THE NATIONS! FOR YOU HAVE SAID IN YOUR HEART: ‘I WILL ASCEND INTO HEAVEN, I WILL EXALT MY THRONE ABOVE THE STARS OF GOD; I WILL ALSO SIT ON THE MOUNT OF THE CONGREGATION ON THE FARTHEST SIDES OF THE NORTH; I WILL ASCEND ABOVE THE HEIGHTS OF THE CLOUDS, I WILL BE LIKE THE MOST HIGH (THE TITLE “JEHOVAH” OF THE TOP ENGLISH LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH).’ YET YOU SHALL BE BROUGHT DOWN TO SHEOL, TO THE LOWEST DEPTHS OF THE PIT. THOSE WHO SEE YOU WILL GAZE AT YOU, AND CONSIDER YOU, SAYING: ‘IS THIS THE MAN WHO MADE THE EARTH TREMBLE, WHO SHOOK KINGDOMS?’ (ISA. ISA. 14:4, ISA. 14:12-16) THE SHAKING OF THE EARTH AND KINGDOMS REFERS TO THE ACTIVITIES OF THE ULTIMATE KING OF BABYLON, THE BEAST AND HIS CLOSE UNITY AND EMPOWERMENT WITH SATAN, THE DRAGON. THE FIFTH BOWL OF GOD’S WRATH IS POURED OUT “ON THE THRONE OF THE BEAST, AND HIS KINGDOM” (REV. REV. 16:10+). REVELATION 13:3: ONE OF HIS HEADS: THE HEAD WHICH IS WOUNDED IS THE SEVENTH HEAD: HERE IS THE MIND WHICH HAS WISDOM: THE SEVEN HEADS ARE SEVEN MOUNTAINS ON WHICH THE WOMAN SITS. THEY ARE SEVEN KINGS. FIVE HAVE FALLEN, ONE IS, AND THE OTHER HAS NOT YET COME. AND WHEN HE COMES, HE MUST CONTINUE A SHORT TIME. “AND THE BEAST THAT WAS, AND IS NOT, IS HIMSELF ALSO THE EIGHTH, AND IS OF THE SEVEN, AND IS GOING TO PERDITION.” (REV. REV. 17:10-11+)1 THE PERSON OF THE BEAST IS THE KING OF THE SEVENTH EMPIRE (THE RESTORED ROMAN EMPIRE EQUATED WITH DANIEL’S FOURTH BEAST). WHEN HE IS PERSONALLY KILLED, AS HEAD OF THE SEVENTH EMPIRE, THE EMPIRE ALSO MEETS ITS DEMISE. SOME HAVE TAKEN THE WOUNDING OF HIS HEAD AND HIS SUBSEQUENT REVIVAL AS DESCRIBING THE ORIGINAL ROME WHICH DISINTEGRATED LATER TO BE REVIVED.2 THIS VIEW DOES NOT FIT THE SCENARIO BECAUSE THIS INDIVIDUAL DID NOT RULE AT THE TIME OF JOHN (THE INITIAL PHASE OF ROME). TAKING THE WOUND AND REVIVAL AS PERTAINING TO THE DISINTEGRATION OF ROME AFTER JOHN’S DAY AND ITS SUBSEQUENT REVIVAL AT THE TIME OF THE END—SEPARATED BY AT LEAST 1900 YEARS—WOULD HARDLY CAUSE THE WONDERMENT OF THE WORLD WHICH IS DESCRIBED HERE WHICH IS FUNDAMENTAL TO THE ULTIMATE WORSHIP OF THIS INDIVIDUAL (REV. REV. 13:4+). IT WOULD SEEM THAT THE SAME POPULACE WHICH SEES THE DEMISE OF HIS HEAD MUST ALSO WITNESS HIS REVIVAL. IT IS BEST TO IDENTIFY THE RESTORATION TO LIFE WITH AN END-TIME SATANICALLY CONTROLLED KING WHO WILL COME TO THE WORLD AS A FALSE CHRIST. THIS ALLOWS FOR THE INTERCHANGEABILITY OF THE HEAD WITH THE WHOLE BEAST—I.E., THE KING WITH HIS KINGDOM—AS REV. REV. 13:12+, REV. 13:14+ REQUIRED. IT COINCIDES WITH FURTHER DETAILS TO COME IN REV. REV. 17:8+. IT AGREES WITH THE FINAL CLIMACTIC APPEARANCE OF THE BEAST IN HISTORY AS A PERSON, IN CONCERT WITH THE VISION’S FOCUS ON THE FUTURE. THIS MEANS A FUTURE SEQUENCE THAT WILL BE A CLOSE COUNTERFEITING OF CHRIST’S DEATH AND RESURRECTION.3 AS IF IT HAD BEEN MORTALLY WOUNDED: ὡΣ ἐΣΦΑΓΜΈΝΗΝ [HŌS ESPHAGMENĒN], THE IDENTICAL PHRASE DESCRIBES THE “LAMB AS THOUGH IT HAD BEEN SLAIN” (REV. REV. 5:6+).4 AS IF DENOTES THE APPEARANCE AFTER HAVING BEEN SLAIN AND BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE. THERE IS NO REASON TO TAKE THIS AS MERELY A “WOUND” HERE WHEN IT DESCRIBES THE “SLAIN” LAMB THERE.5 THERE ARE SOME WHO STRUGGLE WITH THE IDEA THAT THE BEAST COULD TRULY DIE BECAUSE THIS WOULD REQUIRE A LITERAL RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD. ISN’T THIS SOMETHING THAT ONLY GOD IS CAPABLE OF? OUR VERY RELUCTANCE TO CONSIDER THIS POSSIBILITY PROVIDES EVIDENCE OF THE TREMENDOUS INFLUENCE SUCH AN EVENT WOULD HAVE UPON THOSE WHO WITNESS SUCH A MIRACLE! SURELY, IF THE FALSE PROPHET IS ABLE TO GIVE BREATH TO THE INANIMATE IMAGE OF THE BEAST (REV. REV. 13:15+), THEN COULDN’T GOD ALSO ALLOW SATAN TO EXERCISE THE NECESSARY POWER TO RAISE THE DEAD? SCRIPTURE RECORDS THAT SAINTS HAVE RAISED THE DEAD (1K. 1K. 17:21; 2K. 2K. 4:34; ACTS ACTS 9:40; ACTS 20:10). IF GOD EMPOWERED THE SAINTS TO DO SO FOR HIS PURPOSES, WHY COULDN’T HE DO THE SAME IN ALLOWING SATAN TO DECEIVE THOSE WHO HAD PLEASURE IN UNRIGHTEOUSNESS AT THE END (2TH. 2TH. 2:11-12)? THE TERMS USED FOR THE DEATH AND REVIVAL OF THE BEAST SEEM TO POINT UNAVOIDABLY TO A BONA FIDE MIRACLE, ALTHOUGH THAT WHICH IT ATTESTS TO (THE DEITY OF THE BEAST) IS FALSE (2TH. 2TH. 2:9): [THE] VIEW [THAT THE BEAST IS LITERALLY RESURRECTED FROM THE DEAD] HAS MANY MORE ADVOCATES DOWN THROUGH HISTORY THAN SOME MIGHT REALIZE...IT IS INTERESTING TO REALIZE THAT EVEN AUGUSTINE BELIEVED LIKE [TIM] LAHAYE ON THIS MATTER (THE CITY OF GOD, BOOK XX, CHAPTER 19). ANOTHER ANCIENT ONE WHO HELD VIEWS SIMILAR...IS LACTANTIUS (EARLY 300S) (DIVINE INSTITUTES, BOOK VII, CHAPTER 17; COMMENTARY ON THE APOCALYPES, CHAPTER 13). MORE RECENT INDIVIDUALS INCLUDE: LEWIS SPERRY CHAFER, J. A. SEISS, CHARLES C. RYRIE, LEON MORRIS, WALTER K. PRICE, ROBERT GOVETT AND ROBERT THOMAS.6 HIS DEADLY WOUND WAS HEALED: ἡ ΠΛΗΓὴ ΤΟῦ ΘΑΝἀΤΟΥ ΑὐΤΟῦ ἐΘΕΡΑΠΕΎΘΗ [HĒ PLĒGĒ TOU THANATOU AUTOU ETHERAPEUTHĒ], THE WOUND OF THE DEATH OF HIM WAS HEALED. WOUND IS ΠΛΗΓὴ [PLĒGĒ], WHICH OFTEN DENOTES A WOUND “AS THE RESULT OF A BLOW,”7 ALTHOUGH IT CAN ALSO DENOTE A FIGURATIVE BLOW OF MISFORTUNE. THE SAME WORD DESCRIBES THE PLAGUES WITH WHICH THE TWO WITNESSES STRIKE THE EARTH (REV. REV. 11:6+). GREAT EMPHASIS IS PLACED UPON HIS DEATH AND REVIVAL, INDICATING ITS IMPORTANCE IN THE EVENTS WHICH TRANSPIRE AT THE END. IT IS THE PRIMARY MOTIVATOR FOR HIS WORSHIP (REV. REV. 13:12+, REV. 13:14+; REV. 17:11+). “MAN IGNORES THE FORCE OF JESUS’ RESURRECTION, BUT WILL CHOOSE TO BE FOOLED BY THE BEAST’S RECOVERY. WHY? JESUS DEMANDS RIGHTEOUSNESS; THE BEAST WILL INDULGE SIN.”8 ZECHARIAH RELATES THE PAYMENT OF THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER FOR THE VALUE OF MESSIAH AT HIS FIRST COMING WHEN HE WAS BETRAYED BY JUDAS (MTT. MAT. 26:15; MAT. 27:3). THE PASSAGE THEN DESCRIBES A “FOOLISH . . . WORTHLESS SHEPHERD” WHO WILL SPECIALIZE IN CONSUMING THE SHEEP. HE IS SAID TO EXHIBIT WOUNDS AFFECTING HIS ARM AND RIGHT EYE: I SAID TO THEM, “IF IT IS GOOD IN YOUR SIGHT, GIVE ME MY WAGES; BUT IF NOT, NEVER MIND!” SO THEY WEIGHED OUT THIRTY SHEKELS OF SILVER AS MY WAGES. THEN THE LORD SAID TO ME, “THROW IT TO THE POTTER, THAT MAGNIFICENT PRICE AT WHICH I WAS VALUED BY THEM.” SO I TOOK THE THIRTY SHEKELS OF SILVER AND THREW THEM TO THE POTTER IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD. THEN I CUT IN PIECES MY SECOND STAFF UNION, TO BREAK THE BROTHERHOOD BETWEEN JUDAH AND ISRAEL. THE LORD SAID TO ME, “TAKE AGAIN FOR YOURSELF THE EQUIPMENT OF A FOOLISH SHEPHERD. FOR BEHOLD, I AM GOING TO RAISE UP A SHEPHERD IN THE LAND WHO WILL NOT CARE FOR THE PERISHING, SEEK THE SCATTERED, HEAL THE BROKEN, OR SUSTAIN THE ONE STANDING, BUT WILL DEVOUR THE FLESH OF THE FAT SHEEP AND TEAR OFF THEIR HOOFS. WOE TO THE WORTHLESS SHEPHERD WHO LEAVES THE FLOCK! A SWORD WILL BE ON HIS ARM AND ON HIS RIGHT EYE! HIS ARM WILL BE TOTALLY WITHERED AND HIS RIGHT EYE WILL BE BLIND.” (ZEC. ZEC. 11:12-17) [EMPHASIS ADDED] IF THIS SPEAKS OF ANTICHRIST, PERHAPS, LIKE THE RESURRECTED CHRIST WHO RETAINED THE IDENTIFYING MARKS OF HIS DEATH, SO TOO THE REVIVED BEAST WILL RETAIN THE MARKS OF WOUNDS WHICH CAUSED HIS DEATH. THEY WILL SERVE TO AUTHENTICATE HIS IDENTITY AS THE LEADER WHO WAS PREVIOUSLY SLAIN.9 PRETERIST INTERPRETERS BELIEVE THE DEATH AND REVIVAL MENTIONED BY JOHN IS A VEILED REFERENCE TO THE NERO REVIVAL MYTH, BUT THIS SEEMS UNLIKELY FOR IT IS A PAGAN NOTION WITHOUT FACTUAL BASIS.10 THE REVIVAL WHICH JOHN RECORDS HERE IS REAL, FANTASTIC, AND MIRACULOUS BECAUSE IT RESULTS IN GLOBAL WORSHIP OF THE BEAST. HERE AGAIN, WE ENCOUNTER DEFICIENCIES WITH THE PRETERIST INTERPRETATION. IF NERO IS THE BEAST, THEN ANY WORSHIP HE MAY HAVE RECEIVED WAS PRIOR TO HIS DEMISE BY SUICIDE. HE NEVER ROSE FROM THE DEAD AS DESCRIBED HERE. THE WORSHIP WHICH IS ATTRIBUTED TO THE BEAST RESULTS FROM HIS PRIOR MIRACULOUS RESTORATION. NERO WAS ADMITTEDLY A VERY EVIL MAN. HIS INFAMY IS WELL KNOWN. APPARENTLY, SOME TIME AFTER HIS DEATH, A SUPERSTITIOUS BELIEF AROSE THAT HE CAME BACK TO LIFE.1 THIS MYTH IS THEN THOUGHT TO BE THE SUBJECT OF THE PASSAGES WHICH RECORD THAT THE BEAST WILL BE KILLED AND REVIVED (REV. REV. 13:3+, REV. 13:8+; REV. 17:8+, REV. 17:11+). WHILE THIS MIGHT SOUND LIKE AN AMAZING CORRELATION AT FIRST, THE IDEA HAS SOME MAJOR PROBLEMS: IF THE NERO REVIVAL MYTH IS WHAT IS RECORDED IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION, THEN GOD’S WORD IS BASED ON PAGAN UNTRUTHS. THE BOOK OF REVELATION RECORDS A SUCCESSFUL REVIVAL, WHEREAS NERO HAS NOT RISEN. IT IS UNLIKELY THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN SUFFICIENT TIME FOR NERO TO DIE, FOR THE MYTH TO ARISE, AND TO HAVE IT RECORDED BY JOHN ALL PRIOR TO A.D. 70—THE DATE BY WHICH NERO ADVOCATES HAVE TO HAVE THE BOOK WRITTEN. “SOME COMMENTATORS ARGUE THAT SOME PASSAGES IN REVELATION REFLECT A ‘REVIVAL OF NERO’ MYTH, ESPECIALLY 13:3-4 AND 17:8, 11, WHICH SPEAK OF THE DEMISE OF THE BEAST AND SUBSEQUENT REVIVAL. THE NERO MYTH HELD THAT NERO WOULD RETURN FROM THE DEAD AND LEAD A PARTHIAN ARMY AGAINST THE ROMAN EMPIRE. IF THESE TEXTS REFLECT THE MYTH, THEN REVELATION IS BETTER DATED LATER THAN EARLIER, SINCE PRESUMABLY IT TOOK TIME FOR THE MYTH TO ARISE, DEVELOP, AND CIRCULATE AFTER NERO’S DEATH IN 68 AD.”2 THOSE IN THE EARLY CHURCH WHO WERE MOST INTIMATELY CONNECTED WITH THE TIME OF NERO KNOW NOTHING OF THE SUPPOSED RELEVANCE OF THE MYTH. “IRENAEUS, WHO WAS THE DISCIPLE OF POLYCARP, WHO IN TURN WAS THE DISCIPLE OF JOHN, HAD NO KNOWLEDGE OF THE NERO REDIVIVUS MYTH. BECAUSE NERO HAS NEVER RETURNED FROM THE DEAD AND NEVER WILL, THE THEORY THAT JOHN REFERS TO THE NERO REDIVIVUS MYTH IN REVELATION REV. 13:3+, REV. 13:14+ ‘ASCRIBES TO JOHN A FALSE PROPHECY BASED UPON A SILLY SUPERSTITION.’” [EMPHASIS ADDED]3 THE BEAST RECEIVES WORSHIP BECAUSE OF HIS REVIVAL FROM THE DEAD. THOSE WHO SUGGEST NERO IS THE BEAST FAIL TO ACCOUNT FOR THE CLEAR INDICATION OF SCRIPTURE THAT WORSHIP OF THE BEAST IS IN REACTION TO HIS MIRACULOUS RESTORATION (REV. REV. 13:3-4+, REV. 13:12+). NERO NEVER RECEIVED GLOBAL WORSHIP NOR WAS HE REVIVED. ANY WORSHIP HE MAY HAVE RECEIVED DID NOT FOLLOW A RESTORATION TO LIFE AS SO CLEARLY PORTRAYED BY THE BOOK OF REVELATION. AMONG THOSE WHO SEEK TO RELEGATE THE EVENTS OF THE BOOK OF REVELATION TO THE DISTANT PAST, NO FIGURE IS MORE OFTEN HELD TO BE THE BEAST OF REVELATION THAN THE ROMAN EMPEROR NERO. FOR THOSE WHO ASCRIBE TO THE GOLDEN RULE OF INTERPRETATION, THIS MAY SEEM SURPRISING. HOW COULD IT BE SAID WITH ALL SERIOUSNESS THAT NERO FULFILLS THE MANY DETAILS GIVEN CONCERNING THE BEAST THROUGHOUT SCRIPTURE? A SIMPLE READING OF SCRIPTURE GIVES NUMEROUS ASPECTS OF THIS MAN WHICH NERO FAILS TO FULFILL. IGNORING THE REST OF SCRIPTURE FOR THE MOMENT, THE BOOK OF REVELATION ALONE REVEALS THE FOLLOWING ASPECTS CONCERNING THE BEAST: LITERALLY KILLED AND RESURRECTED (REV. REV. 13:3+, REV. 13:8+; REV. 17:8+, REV. 17:11+). PREVAILS FOR PRECISELY 42 MONTHS (REV. REV. 13:5+). GLOBALLY RULES OVER EVERY TRIBE, NATION, AND TONGUE (REV. REV. 13:7+). HAS A HIGH-PROFILE ACCOMPLICE WHO PERFORMS LITERAL MIRACLES (REV. REV. 13:13+). AN IMAGE OF THE BEAST IS GIVEN THE BREATH OF LIFE (REV. REV. 13:15+). BUYING AND SELLING ARE PRECLUDED EXCEPT THROUGH IDENTIFICATION WITH THE BEAST (REV. REV. 13:17+). GATHERS WITH OTHER KINGS TO WAGE WAR AGAINST GOD (REV. REV. 19:19+). CAPTURED AND CAST ALIVE INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE BY CHRIST (REV. REV. 19:20+). (NERO COMMITTED SUICIDE IN A.D. 68.2) RECEIVES GLOBAL WORSHIP (REV. REV. 13:3+). OUTSIDE OF THE BOOK OF REVELATION, MANY MORE THINGS ARE SAID OF THIS FIGURE. HERE WE MENTION PAUL’S COMMENTS TO SHOW THE UTTER UNSUITABILITY OF NERO AS THE FULFILLMENT OF THE BEAST: LET NO ONE DECEIVE YOU BY ANY MEANS; FOR THAT DAY WILL NOT COME UNLESS THE FALLING AWAY COMES FIRST, AND THE MAN OF SIN IS REVEALED, THE SON OF PERDITION, WHO OPPOSES AND EXALTS HIMSELF ABOVE ALL THAT IS CALLED GOD OR THAT IS WORSHIPED, SO THAT HE SITS AS GOD IN THE TEMPLE OF GOD, SHOWING HIMSELF THAT HE IS GOD. (2TH. 2TH. 2:3-4) [EMPHASIS ADDED] IT SIMPLY WILL NOT DO TO TRY AND MAKE THE “SON OF PERDITION” BE SOME OTHER FIGURE SUCH AS THE JEWISH HIGH PRIEST BECAUSE THIS PERSON, LIKE THE BEAST, IS THE ONE EXALTED AND WORSHIPED ABOVE ALL ELSE. AND WHEN DID NERO “SIT AS GOD IN THE TEMPLE OF GOD, SHOWING HIMSELF THAT HE IS GOD”? NOT AN IMAGE, NOT A PROCLAMATION OR EDICT, BUT THE LIVE MAN SITTING IN THE HOLY OF HOLIES? SINCE IT SEEMS PLAIN FROM A STRAIGHTFORWARD READING OF SCRIPTURE THAT THE BEAST IS A FIGURE YET FUTURE, HOW IS IT THAT PRETERISTS FIND NERO TO FILL THE BILL? THE ANSWER, ONCE AGAIN, IS HERMENEUTICS, THE ART AND SCIENCE OF INTERPRETATION. BY IGNORING THE DETAILS IN THE WORD OF GOD, THE PRETERISTS ARE ABLE TO “SHOE HORN” NERO INTO WHAT THEY BELIEVE IS A FULFILLMENT OF THESE PROPHECIES. THEY SIMPLY REFUSE TO READ THE TEXT IN ITS LITERAL SENSE BECAUSE THEY ARE MOTIVATED TO MOVE THE FUTURE BACK TO THE PAST AND NERO PROVIDES THEIR BEST CHANCE OF DOING SO. IN THE ENSUING DISCUSSION, WE WOULD ASK THE READER TO NOTICE A KEY WEAKNESS OF THOSE WHO ARGUE FOR A NERONIC FULFILLMENT OF THE BEAST PASSAGES OF THE BOOK OF REVELATION. THEY PLACE GREAT EMPHASIS ON SIMILARITIES WHICH ARE LACKING IN OBJECTIVITY OR ARE SUBJECT TO WIDELY DIFFERENT POSSIBILITY OF FULFILLMENT WHILE MINIMIZING OBJECTIVE DETAILS GIVEN IN THE TEXT WHICH SIMPLY DO NOT FIT NERO. ANYONE WHO ATTEMPTS TO IDENTIFY THE BEAST BASED PRIMARILY ON NUMERIC CALCULATIONS CONCERNING HIS NAME (GEMATRIA) WHILE PAYING RELATIVELY LITTLE ATTENTION TO THE DETAILS OF THE TEXT IS HEADED FOR TROUBLE. REVELATION 13:4: SO THEY WORSHIPED THE DRAGON WHO GAVE AUTHORITY TO THE BEAST: SO IS THE CONJUNCTION ΚΑὶ [KAI], OFTEN TRANSLATED BY AND. IT LINKS THAT WHICH FOLLOWS WITH THAT WHICH PRECEDED. IN THIS CASE, IT INDICATES THAT WORSHIP OF THE DRAGON IS IN RESPONSE TO THE MIRACULOUS HEALING OF THE BEAST. THIS MUST NOT BE MISSED! IT RULES OUT ALL CONSIDERATION OF NERO AS THE BEAST FOR PEOPLE WOULD HARDLY WORSHIP A FAILED LEGEND. WHATEVER WORSHIP NERO MIGHT HAVE RECEIVED, IT CAME PRIOR TO HIS DEATH BY SUICIDE. IT EXPLAINS THE PROMINENCE WHICH SCRIPTURE GIVES TO THE WOUNDING AND REVIVAL OF THE BEAST. THIS IS THE CATALYST WHICH BRINGS AN OUTPOURING OF WORSHIP TO BOTH THE DRAGON AND THE BEAST. IT IS THE COUP DE GR?CE OF THE MIRACULOUS SIGNS EMPOWERED BY THE DRAGON. IT RECOGNIZES THE TYPOLOGICAL COUNTERFEIT OF THE BEAST AS PSEUDO-CHRIST. CHRIST DIED AND ROSE FROM THE DEAD ONLY TO BE REJECTED BY HIS OWN. THE BEAST DIES AND RISES FROM THE DEAD TO ACCLAIM. IT IS NOT CLEAR WHETHER THEY WORSHIP THE DRAGON EXPLICITLY AND DIRECTLY. THIS IS MOST CERTAINLY POSSIBLE, AS SOME PEOPLE TODAY OPENLY WORSHIP SATAN. BUT IT IS ALSO SAID THAT THEY WORSHIP THE BEAST. THE TEXT EMPHASIZES THE DRAGON AS THE SOURCE OF AUTHORITY FOR THE BEAST. THIS MAY INDICATE IN THE SAME WAY IN WHICH IDOL WORSHIP IS UNDERSTOOD AS BEING WORSHIP OF THE DEMONS BEHIND THE IDOLS (DEU. DEU. 32:17; PS. PS. 106:37; REV. REV. 9:20+), SO TOO THE WORSHIP OF THE BEAST INCLUDES THAT POWER WHICH IS BEHIND HIM. THIS SEEMS EVEN MORE LIKELY BECAUSE SCRIPTURE INDICATES THAT THE BEAST WILL EXALT HIMSELF ABOVE EVERY GOD AND SHOW HIMSELF AS GOD (DAN. DAN. 11:36; 2TH. 2TH. 2:4). THUS, WORSHIP DIRECTED TO THE BEAST IS EQUIVALENT WITH WORSHIP OF THE DRAGON WHO EMPOWERS HIM. AT THE TIME OF THE END, SATAN WILL ALMOST ACHIEVE ONE OF HIS MOST TREASURED GOALS: UNIVERSAL WORSHIP (ISA. ISA. 14:14; MTT. MAT. 4:9; LUKE LUKE 4:7). THEY WORSHIPED THE BEAST: THIS REFERS TO THE WORSHIP OF A POWERFUL INDIVIDUAL, NOT A POWERFUL EMPIRE.1 SOME WISH TO INTERPRET THIS AS A REFERENCE TO THE REVIVAL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, ...BUT A REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE WOULD NOT CAUSE MAN TO WORSHIP IT AS GOD ANY MORE THAN THE REVIVAL OF POLAND OR ISRAEL DID...IT IS THE RESURRECTION OF THE MAN ANTICHRIST WHICH CREATES THIS WORSHIP.2 THIS IS THE FIRST PHASE OF THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION (MTT. MAT. 24:15) WHEN THE MAN OF SIN HIMSELF SITS IN THE TEMPLE OF GOD PROCLAIMING HIMSELF AS GOD. HIS INITIAL DECLARATION AS GOD WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE TRIBULATION TEMPLE. THEN THE KING SHALL DO ACCORDING TO HIS OWN WILL: HE SHALL EXALT AND MAGNIFY HIMSELF ABOVE EVERY GOD, SHALL SPEAK BLASPHEMIES AGAINST THE GOD OF GODS, AND SHALL PROSPER TILL THE WRATH HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED; FOR WHAT HAS BEEN DETERMINED SHALL BE DONE. HE SHALL REGARD NEITHER THE GOD OF HIS FATHERS NOR THE DESIRE OF WOMEN,3 NOR REGARD ANY GOD; FOR HE SHALL EXALT HIMSELF ABOVE THEM ALL. (DAN. DAN. 11:36-37) LET NO ONE DECEIVE YOU BY ANY MEANS; FOR THAT DAY WILL NOT COME UNLESS THE FALLING AWAY COMES FIRST, AND THE MAN OF SIN IS REVEALED, THE SON OF PERDITION, WHO OPPOSES AND EXALTS HIMSELF ABOVE ALL THAT IS CALLED GOD OR THAT IS WORSHIPED, SO THAT HE SITS AS GOD IN THE TEMPLE OF GOD, SHOWING HIMSELF THAT HE IS GOD. (2TH. 2TH. 2:3-4) THE EARLY CHURCH, HAVING NO KNOWLEDGE OF PRETERISM, UNDERSTOOD PAUL’S EPISTLE TO THE THESSALONIANS AS DESCRIBING AN ANTICHRIST YET FUTURE: AND AGAIN, SPEAKING OF ANTICHRIST, [PAUL] SAYS, “WHO OPPOSETH AND EXALTETH HIMSELF ABOVE ALL THAT IS CALLED GOD, OR THAT IS WORSHIPPED [2TH. 2TH. 2:4].” HE POINTS OUT HERE THOSE WHO ARE CALLED GODS, BY SUCH AS KNOW NOT GOD, THAT IS, IDOLS. FOR THE FATHER (STEPHEN) OF ALL IS CALLED GOD, AND IS SO; AND ANTICHRIST SHALL BE LIFTED UP, NOT ABOVE HIM, BUT ABOVE THOSE WHICH ARE INDEED CALLED GODS, BUT ARE NOT—IRENAEUS, AGAINST HERESIES, III.VI.24 THE BEAST, BEING EMPOWERED AND POSSIBLY INDWELT BY SATAN, SHARES THE SAME ASPIRATIONS AS HIS MASTER. HE SAYS IN HIS HEART: I WILL ASCEND INTO HEAVEN, I WILL EXALT MY THRONE ABOVE THE STARS OF GOD; I WILL ALSO SIT ON THE MOUNT OF THE CONGREGATION ON THE FARTHEST SIDES OF THE NORTH; I WILL ASCEND ABOVE THE HEIGHTS OF THE CLOUDS, I WILL BE LIKE THE MOST HIGH (ISA. ISA. 13:13-14) YET, ULTIMATELY HE IS ONLY A MAN: YET YOU SHALL BE BROUGHT DOWN TO SHEOL, TO THE LOWEST DEPTHS OF THE PIT. THOSE WHO SEE YOU WILL GAZE AT YOU, AND CONSIDER YOU, SAYING, ‘IS THIS THE MAN WHO MADE THE EARTH TREMBLE, WHO SHOOK KINGDOMS, WHO MADE THE WORLD AS A WILDERNESS AND DESTROYED ITS CITIES?’ (ISA. ISA. 14:15-17) WORSHIP OF THE BEAST WILL INCLUDE WORSHIP OF HIS IMAGE. WHO IS LIKE THE BEAST? THE ADULATION OF THE WORLD FOR THE BEAST IS A PERVERSION OF ACCLAIM WHICH SHOULD GO TO GOD: THIS CRY OF THE WORLD, ‘WHO IS LIKE UNTO THE BEAST’ IS A TRAVESTY OF THE SONG OF MOSES. WHEN CELEBRATING JEHOVAH’S OVERTHROW OF THEIR ENEMIES AT THE RED SEA, ISRAEL SANG, ‘WHO IS LIKE UNTO THEE, O LORD, AMONG THE GODS! WHO IS LIKE THEE, GLORIOUS IN HOLINESS, FEARFUL IN PRAISES, DOING WONDERS!’ (EX. EX. 15:11 CF. PS. PS. 89:8).5 WHO IS ABLE TO MAKE WAR WITH HIM? NOT ONLY IS THE POWER OF THE BEAST EVIDENT IN HIS REVIVAL, BUT UPON HIS ASCENSION FROM THE ABYSS HE WILL MAKE WAR WITH THE TWO POWERFUL WITNESSES OF GOD WHICH HAVE PLAGUED THE EARTH SEXUAL DWELLERS (REV. REV. 11:7+). THEIR OVERTHROW FURTHER PROPELS HIS ASCENT TO FAME AND POSITION. HE IS SATAN’S OVERCOMER. YET IN THE END, HE WILL MAKE ONE WAR TOO MANY FOR HE WILL TAKE ON THE KING OF KINGS TO HIS OWN DEMISE. “THESE WILL MAKE WAR WITH THE LAMB, AND THE LAMB WILL OVERCOME THEM, FOR HE IS LORD OF LORDS AND KING OF KINGS” (REV. REV. 17:14+A). HIS REVIVAL FROM THE ABYSS, THE HOLDING PEN OF DEMONS (REV. REV. 9:1-2+), AND HIS ABILITY TO SWAY THE WORLD AND OVERCOME GOD’S PROPHETS ALL POINT TOWARD HIS DEMONIC POSSESSION, POSSIBLY EVEN BY SATAN HIMSELF (LUKE LUKE 22:3): THE ANTICHRIST WILL BE A MAN (2TH. 2TH. 2:4), BUT AT SOME POINT IN HIS LIFE, HE WILL BE INDWELT BY A POWERFUL DEMON FROM THE ABYSS. THIS DEMON-POSSESSED MAN WILL BE A GIFTED ORATOR, AN INTELLECTUAL GENIUS, POSSESS GREAT CHARM AND CHARISMA, AND HAVE IMMENSE LEADERSHIP POWER. ADDED TO THOSE NATURAL QUALITIES WILL BE THE HELLISH POWER OF SATAN. THE RESULT WILL BE A PERSON OF SUPERHUMAN POWER, VAST INTELLIGENCE, AND CONSUMMATE FUCKING WICKEDNESS! REVELATION 13:5: HE WAS GIVEN A MOUTH SPEAKING GREAT THINGS AND BLASPHEMIES: AS WE HAVE SEEN THROUGHOUT THIS BOOK, THE ACTIONS AND DURATION OF THE AGENTS OF EVIL ARE SUBJECT TO GOD’S SOVEREIGN PERMISSION (REV. REV. 13:7+, REV. 13:14-15+ CF. LUKE LUKE 22:31). THE GREAT THINGS WHICH HE SPEAKS ARE THE “POMPOUS WORDS” WHICH DANIEL SAW THE LITTLE HORN SPEAK (DAN. DAN. 7:8, DAN. 7:11, DAN. 7:20, DAN. 7:25). IN HIS EXALTATION OF HIMSELF, DANIEL SAW HIM “SPEAK BLASPHEMIES AGAINST THE GOD OF GODS” (DAN. DAN. 11:36). THE GREAT THINGS AND BLASPHEMIES LIKELY SPEAK OF THE SAME THING. “THE FIGURE [OF SPEECH] IS HENDIADYS; FOR THE GREAT THINGS ARE HIS BLASPHEMIES.”1 HE WAS GIVEN AUTHORITY TO CONTINUE: CONTINUE IS ΠΟῖΣΑΙ [POISAI]: “TO BE ACTIVE.”2 THE MT TEXT HAS ΠΟΛΕΜΟΝ ΠΟΙΣΑΙ [POLEMON POISAI], TO MAKE DIABOLIC WAR AGAINST THE RIGHTEOUS. FORTY-TWO MONTHS (3 ½ YEARS): THIS PERIOD IS EQUIVALENT TO THE “TIME AND TIMES AND HALF A TIME,” A, THREE-AND-ONE-HALF YEAR PERIOD DURING WHICH DANIEL SAW THAT THE SAINTS WOULD BE GIVEN INTO THE HAND OF THE LITTLE HORN (DAN. DAN. 7:25). 3 THIS PERIOD BEGINS AT THE MIDPOINT OF THE WEEK, WHEN HE VIOLATES HIS COVENANT WITH MANY IN ISRAEL (DAN. DAN. 9:27) AND OVERCOMES THE TWO WITNESSES (REV. REV. 11:7+) WHO HAD PROPHESIED FOR 1,260 DAYS (THE FIRST HALF OF THE 70TH WEEK OF DANIEL). THIS IS THE TIME OF JACOB’S TROUBLE WHICH SHALL BE “FOR A TIME, TIMES, AND HALF A TIME; AND WHEN THE POWER OF THE HOLY PEOPLE HAS BEEN COMPLETELY SHATTERED, ALL THESE THINGS SHALL BE FINISHED” (DAN. DAN. 12:7). DURING THIS TIME, THE HOLY CITY IS BEING TREAD UNDERFOOT BY THE GENTILES (REV. REV. 11:2+) AND THE WOMAN, THE JEWISH REMNANT AT THE TIME OF THE END, IS HIDDEN IN HER PLACE (REV. REV. 12:6+, REV. 12:14+). IRENAEUS, A DISCIPLE OF POLYCARP WHO HIMSELF KNEW THE APOSTLE JOHN, EXPLAINS THE PASSAGE IN CONCERT WITH FUTURIST INTERPRETERS: BUT WHEN THIS ANTICHRIST SHALL HAVE DEVASTATED ALL THINGS IN THIS WORLD, HE WILL REIGN FOR THREE YEARS AND SIX MONTHS, AND SIT IN THE TEMPLE AT JERUSALEM; AND THEN THE LORD WILL COME FROM HEAVEN IN THE CLOUDS, IN THE GLORY OF THE FATHER (STEPHEN), SENDING THIS MAN AND THOSE WHO FOLLOW HIM INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE; BUT BRINGING IN FOR THE RIGHTEOUS THE TIMES OF THE KINGDOM, THAT IS, THE REST, THE HALLOWED SEVENTH DAY; AND RESTORING TO ABRAHAM THE PROMISED INHERITANCE, IN WHICH KINGDOM THE LORD DECLARED, THAT “MANY COMING FROM THE EAST AND FROM THE WEST SHOULD SIT DOWN WITH ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB.”—IRENAEUS, AGAINST HERESIES, V.XXX [EMPHASIS ADDED]4 REVELATION 13:6: HE OPENED HIS MOUTH IN BLASPHEMY AGAINST GOD, TO BLASPHEME HIS NAME, HIS TABERNACLE, AND THOSE WHO DWELL IN HEAVEN: THE TR TEXT DESIGNATES AS MANY AS FOUR TARGETS FOR THE BLASPHEMY OF THE BEAST: (1) GOD; (2) HIS NAME; (3) HIS TABERNACLE; AND 4) THOSE WHO DWELL IN HEAVEN. THE LAST THREE COULD ALSO BE TAKEN AS AN ELABORATION OF THE FIRST, BLASPHEMY AGAINST GOD CONSISTING OF... UNLIKE THE TR TEXT, IN THE MT AND NU TEXTS THE PHRASE, THOSE WHO DWELL IN HEAVEN, IS NOT SEPARATED FROM THE REST OF THE SENTENCE BY ΚΑὶ [KAI] (“AND”). THUS, THOSE WHO DWELL IN HEAVEN IS TAKEN IN APPOSITION TO HIS TABERNACLE. “AND HE OPENED HIS MOUTH IN BLASPHEMIES AGAINST GOD, TO BLASPHEME HIS NAME AND HIS TABERNACLE, THAT IS, THOSE WHO DWELL IN HEAVEN.” THOSE WHO DWELL IN HEAVEN: ΤΟὺΣ ἐΝ Τῷ ΟὐΡΑΝῷ ΣΚΗΝΟῦΝΤΑΣ [TOUS EN TŌ OURANŌ SKĒNOUNTAS], PRESENT TENSE PARTICIPLE: THOSE PRESENTLY DWELLING IN HEAVEN. THESE ARE THE ONES WHO REJOICED OVER THE CASTING OUT OF SATAN FROM HEAVEN AND THE OVERCOMING OF SATAN BY THE SAINTS (REV. REV. 12:11-12+). THIS INCLUDES AN INNUMERABLE COMPANY OF ANGELS (HEB. HEB. 12:22; REV. REV. 5:11+), THE CHURCH HAVING BEEN TAKEN IN THE RAPTURE (REV. REV. 5:9+), “THE CATCHING AWAY OF SO MANY PEOPLE OF GOD MUST NEEDS LEAVE A DEEP IMPRESSION BEHIND IT. THE SLAIN AND ABUSED BODIES OF THE TWO WITNESSES ARE VISIBLY REVIVED, AND TAKEN UP INTO THE SKY BEFORE THE EYES OF ANTICHRIST’S MINIONS. THIS WAS A GRAND AND MOST CONVINCING EVIDENCE AGAINST HIM AND ALL HIS INFAMOUS PRETENSIONS, A MANIFEST TOKEN OF HIS DEVILISH FALSITY AND APPROACHING DOOM. AND HE NEEDS ABOVE ALL TO BREAK IT DOWN, TO CAST DISCREDIT AND DISHONOUR UPON IT, AND TO ROOT OUT THE VERY IDEA IF HE CAN. HENCE HIS PARTICULAR RAILING AND IMPATIENCE WITH REFERENCE TO THIS DIVINE TENT OF THE GLORIFIED ONES, AND HIS VIRULENT BLASPHEMING OF THOSE WHO TABERNACLE IN IT... HOW BLESSED ARE THEY WHO THROUGH FAITH AND WATCHFULNESS HAVE BEEN ACCOUNTED WORTHY TO ESCAPE HIS POWER BY BEING CAUGHT UP TO GOD ERE HE IS REVEALED!”1 THE MARTYRS UNDER THE FIFTH SEAL (REV. REV. 6:9-11+), THOSE OUT OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION (REV. REV. 7:9+), THE TWO WITNESSES (REV. REV. 11:12+), AND OTHERS WHO HAVE DIED PRIOR TO THIS POINT (REV. REV. 12:11+; REV. 20:4+), MANY OF WHICH RESISTED THE BEAST TO ATTAIN “VICTORY” (REV. REV. 15:2+). THE STEADFAST FAITH OF BELIEVERS TO THE POINT OF DEATH ENRAGES THE BEAST FOR THE THREAT OF PERSECUTION AND DEATH IS THE ONLY DEVICE AVAILABLE TO HIM TO COERCE THEIR WORSHIP—A WORSHIP WHICH IS MOTIVATED BY THE BURNING JEALOUSY OF THE DRAGON WHO EMPOWERS HIM. THE HORRIBLE EXPERIENCE OF THOSE WHO COME OUT OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION IS ULTIMATELY TEMPERED BY THEIR INTIMATE DWELLING WITH GOD (REV. REV. 7:15-17+). AT THE HEART OF THE IDEA OF A TEMPLE IS THE ABIDING PRESENCE OF GOD. ALTHOUGH GOD IS OMNIPRESENT, HE HAS CHOSEN TO MANIFEST HIS PRESENCE IN CERTAIN LOCATIONS AND AT CERTAIN TIMES WITHIN HISTORY. THIS PHYSICAL MANIFESTATION OF GOD HAS COME TO BE CALLED THE SHEKINAH. THE SHECHINAH GLORY IS THE VISIBLE MANIFESTATION OF THE PRESENCE OF GOD. IT IS THE MAJESTIC PRESENCE OR MANIFESTATION OF GOD IN WHICH HE DESCENDS TO DWELL AMONG MEN. WHENEVER THE INVISIBLE GOD BECOMES VISIBLE, AND WHENEVER THE OMNIPRESENCE OF GOD IS LOCALIZED, THIS IS THE SHECHINAH GLORY. THE USUAL TITLE FOUND IN SCRIPTURES FOR THE SHECHINAH GLORY IS THE GLORY OF JEHOVAH, OR THE GLORY OF THE LORD. THE HEBREW FORM IS KVOD ADONAI, WHICH MEANS ‘THE GLORY OF JEHOVAH’ AND DESCRIBES WHAT THE SHECHINAH GLORY IS. THE GREEK TITLE, DOXA KURION, IS TRANSLATED AS ‘THE GLORY OF THE LORD.’ DOXA MEANS ‘BRIGHTNESS,’ ‘BRILLIANCE,’ OR ‘SPLENDOR,’ AND IT DEPICTS HOW THE SHECHINAH GLORY APPEARS. OTHER TITLES GIVE IT THE SENSE OF ‘DWELLING,’ WHICH PORTRAYS WHAT THE SHECHINAH GLORY DOES. THE HEBREW WORD SHECHINAH, FROM THE ROOT SHACHAN, MEANS ‘TO DWELL.’ THE GREEK WORD SKEINEI, WHICH IS SIMILAR IN SOUND AS THE HEBREW SHECHINAH (GREEK HAS NO ‘SH’ SOUND), MEANS ‘TO TABERNACLE.’...IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, MOST OF THESE VISIBLE MANIFESTATIONS TOOK THE FORM OF LIGHT, FIRE, OR CLOUD, OR A COMBINATION OF THESE. A NEW FORM APPEARS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT: THE INCARNATE WORD [JOHN JOHN 1:14].1 THE CONCEPT OF THE SHEKINAH IS BEHIND THE WONDER OF THE INCARNATION. THE VERY GLORY OF GOD “TABERNACLED” WITHIN HUMAN FLESH AND WAS HANDLED AND BEHELD. “AND THE WORD BECAME FLESH AND DWELT AMONG US (ἐΣΚΉΝΩΣΕΝ [ESKĒNŌSEN]), AND WE BEHELD HIS GLORY, THE GLORY AS OF THE ONLY BEGOTTEN OF THE FATHER (STEPHEN), FULL OF GRACE AND TRUTH” [EMPHASIS ADDED] (JOHN JOHN 1:14). ΣΚΗΝΉ [SKĒNĒ] WAS THE WORD USED BY THE TRANSLATORS OF THE SEPTUAGINT FOR THE HEBREW מִשְׁכָּן [MIŠKĀN], “TABERNACLE” (EX. EX. 25:9). DURING ISRAEL’S PILGRIMAGE FROM EGYPT TO CANAAN THE TABERNACLE WAS THE PLACE OF WORSHIP FOR THE PEOPLE. THE TABERNACLE OR TENT IN THE WILDERNESS WAS THE “TENT OF JEHOVAH,” HIMSELF A PILGRIM AMONG HIS PILGRIM PEOPLE. IN SOUND AND MEANING ΣΚΗΝΌΩ [SKĒNOŌ] RECALLS THE HEBREW VERB שָׁכַּן [ŠĀKKAN] MEANING “TO DWELL,” WHICH IS SOMETIMES USED OF GOD’S DWELLING WITH ISRAEL (EX. EX. 25:8; EX. 29:46). IN POSTBIBLICAL HEBREW THE JEWS USED THE TERM שְׁכִינָה [ŠEḴÎNÂ] (“SHEKINAH,” LITERALLY, “PRESENCE”) OF THE BRIGHT CLOUD OF THE PRESENCE OF GOD THAT SETTLED ON THE TABERNACLE. THE SHEKINAH GLORY WAS NOTHING LESS THAN THE VISIBLE MANIFESTATION OF GOD.2 THE MANIFESTATION OF THE SHEKINAH IS AT THE HEART OF UNDERSTANDING THE MEETING OF GOD WITH MAN. IN THE EARLIEST COMMUNION OF MAN WITH GOD, GOD IS SAID TO HAVE BEEN “WALKING IN THE GARDEN IN THE COOL OF THE DAY” (GEN. GEN. 3:8). THIS MUST SPEAK OF A LOCALIZED PRESENCE WITH WHICH ADAM AND EVE COULD INTERACT—THE SHEKINAH. THE WORD ITSELF EMBODIES THE NOTION OF DWELLING OR ABIDING. THIS EMPHASIZES THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT ASPECT CONCERNING GOD’S LOCALIZED PRESENCE: WHERE IS HE ABIDING? FOR WHEREVER THE SHEKINAH IS, THERE IS RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD IN A MORE INTIMATE WAY AND ALL THE BENEFITS WHICH COME FROM HIS SPECIAL PRESENCE. THIS IS THE ESSENCE OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE OVERCOMER IN PHILADELPHIA, THE FULFILLMENT OF THAT FIRST LOVE WHICH WAS LACKING IN EPHESUS: TO WALK ONCE AGAIN IN FULL FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD (GEN. GEN. 3:8; GEN. 5:24; REV. REV. 21:3+, REV. 21:22+). THIS WAS THE ULTIMATE DESIRE OF THE PSALMIST (PS. PS. 23:6; PS. 65:4). THUS, IT IS AN INCREDIBLE BLESSING TO ENJOY THE PRESENCE OF GOD. THIS WAS THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF THE TEMPLE THROUGHOUT HISTORY: TO HOUSE THE SHEKINAH GLORY OF GOD AMONG MEN. IT IS IN THE TEMPLE WHERE GOD’S PRESENCE “DWELLS BETWEEN THE CHERUBIM” OVER THE MERCY SEAT OF THE ARK OF THE COVENANT (EX. EX. 25:22; NUM. NUM. 7:89; 1S. 1S. 4:4; 2S. 2S. 6:2; 1K. 1K. 7:29; 2K. 2K. 19:15; 1CHR. 1CHR. 13:6; 2CHR. 2CHR. 5:7; 2CHR. 6:41; PS. PS. 80:1; PS. PS. 99:1; ISA. ISA. 37:16; EZE. EZE. 41:18). UNLESS THE GLORY OF GOD “INHABITS” THE TEMPLE (1K. 1K. 8:10-11; 2CHR. 2CHR. 7:1; EZE. EZE. 43:2-4; EZE. 44:1-2; HAG. HAG. 2:7-9; MTT. MAT. 20:12) IT IS JUST A DEAD ARCHITECTURAL EDIFICE.3 CONVERSELY, IN THE HISTORY OF THE TEMPLE, THERE ARE GRAVE CONSEQUENCES WHEN THE SHEKINAH DEPARTS FROM THE TEMPLE, FOR IT INDICATES GOD’S DISPLEASURE WITH THOSE AMONG WHOM HE PREVIOUSLY DWELT AND THE REMOVAL OF HIS PROTECTION AND BLESSING IN HIS DEPARTURE. THE TEMPLE, THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, IS LEFT DESOLATE WHEN THE GLORY OF GOD DEPARTS. IN AT LEAST TWO OCCASIONS IN HISTORY, THE RESULT HAS BEEN THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE. WHEN THE SHEKINAH LEFT SOLOMON’S TEMPLE IN THE DAYS OF EZEKIEL’S PROPHECY (EZE. EZE. 10:18; EZE. 11:22-23), THE EVENTUAL RESULT WAS THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE BY NEBUCHADNEZZAR OF BABYLON. WHEN THE SHEKINAH LEFT THE SECOND TEMPLE IN THE DAYS OF JESUS (MTT. MAT. 23:38), THE EVENTUAL RESULT WAS THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE BY TITUS VESPASIAN OF ROME (MTT. MAT. 24:1-3). WHETHER GOD REMAINS IN HIS HOUSE IS SERIOUS BUSINESS! ALTHOUGH IT IS BEYOND THE SCOPE OF OUR TREATMENT HERE TO CONSIDER AN EXTENSIVE DISCUSSION OF GOD’S ABIDING PRESENCE, IT WILL BE HELPFUL TO NOTE SOME OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT HISTORICAL EVENTS RELATED TO THE SHEKINAH.4 THE SHEKINAH GLORY:5 ILLUMINATED THE EARTH PRIOR TO THE CREATION OF THE SUN AND MOON (GEN. GEN. 1:3, GEN. 1:14). WALKED WITH ADAM AND EVE IN THE GARDEN (GEN. GEN. 3:8). RATIFIED THE ABRAHAMIC COVENANT WHILE ABRAHAM SLEPT (GEN. GEN. 15:17). DESCENDED UPON MOUNT SINAI AT THE GIVING OF THE LAW (EX. EX. 19:18; EX. 24:15-16; EX. 33:18-23; EX. 34:5-6). FILLED THE TABERNACLE IN THE WILDERNESS (EX. EX. 40:34). FILLED SOLOMON’S TEMPLE UPON ITS DEDICATION (1K. 1K. 8:10-11; 2CHR. 2CHR. 7:1). LEFT SOLOMON’S TEMPLE DUE TO ISRAEL’S SIN (EZE. EZE. 8:4-6; EZE. 9:3; EZE. 10:4, EZE. 10:18-19; EZE. 11:22-23). THE TEMPLE IS LEFT UNPROTECTED. RETURNED TO THE SECOND TEMPLE IN THE FORM OF THE INCARNATION OF MESSIAH JESUS (MTT. MAT. 12:6; MAT. 21:12; JOHN JOHN 1:14; JOHN 2:15). LEFT THE SECOND TEMPLE DESOLATE UPON THE DEPARTURE OF JESUS (MTT. MAT. 23:38; MAT. 24:2; LUKE LUKE 13:35; LUKE 21:6). THE TEMPLE IS LEFT UNPROTECTED. APPEARED ON THE MOUNT OF TRANSFIGURATION (MTT. MAT. 17:2; MARK MARK 9:2; LUKE LUKE 9:29). APPEARED TO PAUL ON THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS (ACTS ACTS 9:3; ACTS 22:11; ACTS 26:13; 1TI. 1TI. 6:16). WILL RETURN TO THE MILLENNIAL TEMPLE (ISA. ISA. 60:3; EZE. EZE. 43:2-4). ILLUMINATES THE NEW JERUSALEM (REV. REV. 21:23+; REV. 22:5+). THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE MOUNT OF OLIVES DERIVES FROM IT ASSOCIATION WITH THE DEPARTURE AND ARRIVAL OF THE GLORY OF THE LORD: THE MOUNTAIN WHICH IS SO CLEARLY DEFINED AND LOCATED IN THIS PROPHECY [ZEC. ZEC. 14:4] IS ALREADY ASSOCIATED WITH MANY EVENTS AND CRISES IN ISRAEL’S HISTORY...IT WAS FROM THIS MOUNTAIN, WHICH IS BEFORE JERUSALEM ON THE EAST, THAT THE PROPHET EZEKIEL SAW THE GLORY OF JEHOVAH FINALLY TAKING ITS DEPARTURE. IT WAS FROM THIS MOUNTAIN ALSO THAT HE, WHO WAS NOT ONLY THE SYMBOL, BUT THE LIVING PERSONAL REVELATION OF THE GLORY OF JEHOVAH, FINALLY TOOK HIS DEPARTURE FROM THE LAND, AFTER HE HAD BEEN REJECTED BY THE NATION. HE LED HIS HANDFUL OF DISCIPLES OUT AS FAR AS BETHANY (ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES), AND HE LIFTED UP HIS HANDS AND BLESSED THEM. ‘AND IT CAME TO PASS WHILE HE BLESSED THEM, HE WAS PARTED FROM THEM, AND CARRIED UP TO HEAVEN’ [LUKE LUKE 24:50-51; ACTS ACTS 1:1; ACTS 9:1]; SINCE THEN A STILL DARKER ERA IN THE LONG ICHABOD PERIOD OF ISRAEL’S HISTORY COMMENCED. . . . AND WHAT IS THIS BUT A PROPHECY IN SYMBOLIC LANGUAGE OF THE SAME EVENT WHICH THE HEAVENLY MESSENGERS ANNOUNCED TO THE MEN OF GALILEE [ACTS ACTS 1:9-11]. WE LOVE TO THINK THAT THIS SAME MOUNTAIN ON WHICH HE ONCE SHED TEARS OF SORROW OVER JERUSALEM, THE SLOPE OF WHICH WITNESSED HIS AGONY AND BLOODY SWEAT, SHALL BE THE FIRST ALSO TO WITNESS HIS MANIFESTATION IN GLORY; AND THAT HIS BLESSED FEET, WHICH IN THE DAYS OF HIS FLESH WALKED WEARILY OVER THIS MOUNTAIN ON THE WAY TO BETHANY SHALL, ‘IN THAT DAY,’ BE PLANTED HERE IN TRIUMPH AND MAJESTY.6 IN SUMMARY, THE SHEKINAH IS THE VISIBLE REPRESENTATION OF THE LOCALIZED PRESENCE OF GOD. BY GOD’S DESIGN, THE TEMPLE IS THE LOCATION WHERE HIS ABIDING PRESENCE IS INTENDED TO DWELL AND WHERE HE HAS PUT HIS NAME (DEU. DEU. 12:5, DEU. 12:11, DEU. 12:21; 2CHR. 2CHR. 6:20; 2CHR. 7:16; 2CHR. 20:19; EZRA EZRA 6:12; NE. NE. 1:9; MTT. MAT. 21:13; MARK MARK 11:17; LUKE LUKE 19:46). REVELATION 13:7: IT WAS GRANTED TO HIM: NOW THE BEAST IS GIVEN PERMISSION TO OVERCOME THE SAINTS. THIS DISTURBING REALITY HAS BEEN ON THE PROPHETIC AGENDA FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS: I WAS WATCHING; AND THE SAME HORN WAS MAKING WAR AGAINST THE SAINTS, AND PREVAILING AGAINST THEM, ...HE SHALL SPEAK POMPOUS WORDS AGAINST THE MOST HIGH, SHALL PERSECUTE THE SAINTS OF THE MOST HIGH, AND SHALL INTEND TO CHANGE TIMES AND LAW. THEN THE SAINTS SHALL BE GIVEN INTO HIS HAND FOR A TIME AND TIMES AND HALF A TIME. (DAN. DAN. 7:21, DAN. 7:25) HOW COULD IT BE THAT GOD WOULD GRANT PERMISSION FOR THE BEAST TO OVERCOME THE SAINTS? HERE IS WHERE OUR GRASP OF GOD’S SOVEREIGNTY AND HIS GLORY MUST BE OUR SURE SUPPORT. AS HE USED PHARAOH IN THE DAYS OF THE EXODUS, SO TOO HE USES THE BEAST IN THE TIME OF THE END. HE HAS RAISED UP THE BEAST FOR HIS ULTIMATE GLORY. BUT INDEED, FOR THIS PURPOSE I HAVE RAISED YOU UP, THAT I MAY SHOW MY POWER IN YOU, AND THAT MY NAME MAY BE DECLARED IN ALL THE EARTH. AS YET YOU EXALT YOURSELF AGAINST MY PEOPLE IN THAT YOU WILL NOT LET THEM GO. (EX. EX. 9:16-17) TO MAKE WAR WITH THE SAINTS: THE SAINTS AT THE TIME OF THE END ARE UNDER TREMENDOUS PERSECUTION. THEY ARE KILLED BY THE LITTLE HORN (DAN. DAN. 7:21, DAN. 7:25), THE HARLOT (REV. REV. 17:6+), THE BEAST (REV. REV. 13:7+), AND EVEN THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST (REV. REV. 13:15+). AT THE TIME OF THE END, THE SAINTS CONSIST OF JEWISH BELIEVERS WHO ARE HIDDEN IN THE WILDERNESS, THE 144,000 SEALED FROM THE JEWISH TRIBES, AND OTHER JEWS AND GENTILES WHO COME TO FAITH AFTER THE RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH . THESE SAINTS WILL LIVE IN THE MIDST OF A TIME OF INTENSE PERSECUTION. MANY WILL BE MARTYRED (REV. REV. 6:9-10+; REV. 7:14+; REV. 12:11+; REV. 13:7+; REV. 20:4+). THEY WILL BE PERSECUTED BY THE LITTLE HORN [#25-#20] (DAN. DAN. 7:21, DAN. 7:25), THE HARLOT [#21-#20] (REV. REV. 17:6+; REV. 19:2+), THE BEAST [#16-#20] (REV. REV. 13:7+), AND THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST [#19-#20] (REV. REV. 13:15+). THE CHURCH WILL NOT BE AMONG THESE SAINTS. THE SAINTS ARE MARTYRED DURING THIS PERIOD BECAUSE THEY ARE UNWILLING TO WORSHIP THE BEAST AND HIS IMAGE (REV. REV. 13:15+). TRUE BELIEVERS OF OUR AGE WILL NOT SEE THIS WAR:1 2 THESSALONIANS 2TH. 2:1-8 PREDICTS THAT THE RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH MUST OCCUR BEFORE THE APPEARANCE OF THE ANTICHRIST, AND IN REVELATION REV. 13:1-10+ (CF. REV. REV. 6:2+; REV. 11:7+) HE WILL HAVE APPEARED. THIS NEGATES THE POSSIBILITY THAT THE CHURCH IS IN VIEW IN REVELATION REV. 13:7+, FOR IT WILL HAVE ALREADY BEEN RAPTURED.2 AND TO OVERCOME THEM: HE WENT OUT CONQUERING AND TO CONQUER: ΝΙΚΩΝ ΚΑΙ ἵΝΑ ΝΙΚΉΣΗ [NIKŌN KAI HINA NIKĒSĒ], BOTH CONQUERING AND CONQUER ARE FROM ΝΙΚΆΩ [NIKAŌ], THE SAME ROOT AS OVERCOMER. THUS, HE IS ANOTHER OVERCOMER (REV. REV. 11:7+) TO BE CONTRASTED WITH THE TRUE OVERCOMER WHO IS CHRIST (REV. REV. 5:5+; REV. 17:14+). HE WILL BE ENDOWED WITH THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY POWERS, SO THAT “HE SHALL DESTROY WONDERFULLY, AND SHALL PROSPER, AND PRACTICE, AND SHALL DESTROY THE MIGHTY AND THE HOLY PEOPLE” (DAN. DAN. 8:24). BEFORE HIS EXPLOITS THE FAME OF ALEXANDER AND NAPOLEON WILL BE FORGOTTEN. NONE WILL BE ABLE TO STAND BEFORE HIM. HE WILL GO “FORTH CONQUERING AND TO CONQUER” (REV. REV. 6:2+). HE WILL SWEEP EVERYTHING BEFORE HIM SO THAT THE WORLD WILL EXCLAIM, “WHO IS LIKE UNTO THE BEAST? WHO IS ABLE TO MAKE WAR WITH HIM?” (REV. REV. 13:4+). HIS MILITARY EXPLOITS WILL NOT BE CONFINED TO A CORNER, BUT CARRIED OUT ON A VAST SCALE. HE IS SPOKEN OF AS THE MAN WHO WILL “SHAKE KINGDOMS” AND “MAKE THE EARTH TO TREMBLE” (ISA. ISA. 14:16).18 EZEKIEL EZE. 34:23-30 SAYS THAT WHEN GOD ESTABLISHES HIS COVENANT OF PEACE WITH ISRAEL, THE COVENANT WILL RESULT IN SAFETY, PEACE WITH NATIONS, AND THE ELIMINATION OF HARMFUL BEASTS BY FAMINE. BY CONTRAST, WHEN THE ANTICHRIST ESTABLISHES HIS COVENANT OF PEACE WITH ISRAEL [DAN. DAN. 9:27], GOD WILL INFLICT THE WORLD WITH CONDITIONS OPPOSITE OF THOSE HIS COVENANT OF PEACE WILL BRING. HE WILL UNLEASH WAR (THE SWORD) [THE SECOND SEAL, REV. REV. 6:3-4+], FAMINE (THE THIRD SEAL, REV. REV. 6:5-6+), AND HARMFUL BEASTS (THE FOURTH SEAL, REV. REV. 6:7-8+) UPON THE EARTH TO DEMONSTRATE THAT THE ANTICHRIST’S COVENANT OF PEACE IS NOT THE COVENANT OF PEACE THAT WILL BRING TRUE SAFETY, AS FORETOLD IN THE OLD TESTAMENT.19 AUTHORITY WAS GIVEN HIM OVER EVERY TRIBE, TONGUE, AND NATION: THIS SPEAKS OF HIS GLOBAL CONTROL—SOMETHING WHICH WAS NEVER ACHIEVED BY ROME IN THE DAYS OF NERO: DANIEL DAN. 7:23 CLEARLY STATES THAT AT SOME POINT THE FOURTH EMPIRE DEVOURS THE WHOLE EARTH. THIS IS SOMETHING ROME NEVER DID. SOME ATTEMPT TO MAKE THE EXPRESSION MEAN THE “THEN-KNOWN WORLD,” BUT IT CANNOT BE SAID THAT ROME EVEN CONQUERED THE THEN-KNOWN WORLD. …ROME DID NOT EVEN EXTEND AS FAR EAST AS THE EMPIRE OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT. THE GREEKS WENT AS FAR AS THE INDUS RIVER IN INDIA...ROME DID NOT EVEN EXTEND THAT FAR. FURTHERMORE, ROME NEVER FULLY CONQUERED THE PARTHIAN EMPIRE, AND THAT, TOO, WAS PART OF THE KNOWN WORLD. THE AREA OF SCOTLAND WAS ALSO PART OF THE KNOWN WORLD THAT ROME DID NOT CONQUER. ROME HAD TO BUILD THE HADRIAN WALL IN ORDER TO KEEP THE NOMADS OF NORTHING SCOTLAND FROM OVERRUNNING THAT PART OF BRITAIN CONTROLLED BY ROME.3 THIS SPEAKS OF THE ULTIMATE MANIFESTATION OF GENTILE POWER OF THE END AS SEEN IN NEBUCHADNEZZAR’S DREAM. REMEMBER THAT IT IS SATAN WHO HAS AUTHORITY OVER THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD PRIOR TO THE ARRIVAL OF GOD’S KINGDOM. SINCE NERO’S ROME HAS LONG PASSED AND CHRIST HAS NOT YET COME, IT IS EVIDENT THAT THIS FINAL KINGDOM OF SATAN IS YET TO APPEAR UPON THE STAGE OF WORLD HISTORY. A TOTALITARIAN SYSTEM OF UNBELIEVABLE SCOPE AND POWER IS ALSO PREDICTED. EVERY NEW INVENTION OF MAN GIVES HIM ONE MORE TOOL BY WHICH HE CAN CONTROL OTHERS AND ENFORCE HIS WILL UPON THEM. THESE INVENTIONS UNDER THE POWER OF AN ABLE LEADER COULD MAKE HIM THE UNDISPUTED TYRANT OF THE EARTH. SUCH A RULE IS FORESHADOWED BY THE BEAST...THE CONCENTRATION OF EVIL IN ONE VAST SYSTEM RULED BY AN ANTICHRIST WHO WILL BE THE MOST POWERFUL POTENTATE THE HUMAN RACE HAS EVER PRODUCED.4 REVELATION 13:8: ALL WHO DWELL ON THE EARTH: THE ONES WHO NOT ONLY PHYSICALLY DWELL ON THE EARTH, BUT WHOSE AFFECTIONS AND COMPLETE ALLEGIANCE ARE ENTIRELY UPON THE EARTH (ISA. ISA. 26:21; LUKE LUKE 21:35; REV. REV. 3:10+; REV. 6:10+; REV. 11:10+; REV. 12:12+; REV. 13:8+, REV. 13:12+, REV. 13:14+; REV. 14:6+; REV. 17:8+). THEY ARE TO BE CONTRASTED WITH THOSE WHOSE CITIZENSHIP IS IN HEAVEN (JOHN JOHN 15:19; JOHN 17:14-16; PHP. PHP. 3:20; HEB. HEB. 11:13; 1PE. 1PE. 2:11). THESE ARE THEY WHOM THE MARTYRS OF THE FIFTH SEAL CRIED OUT FOR GOD TO AVENGE THEIR DEATHS UPON (REV. REV. 6:10+). WILL WORSHIP HIM: THIS IS A DEFINING MOMENT FOR THE EARTH SEXUAL DWELLERS, MUCH LIKE THE UNPARDONABLE SIN OF JESUS’ DAY: THEN A THIRD ANGEL FOLLOWED THEM, SAYING WITH A LOUD VOICE, “IF ANYONE WORSHIPS THE BEAST AND HIS IMAGE, AND RECEIVES HIS MARK ON HIS FOREHEAD OR ON HIS HAND, HE HIMSELF SHALL ALSO DRINK OF THE WINE OF THE WRATH OF GOD, WHICH IS POURED OUT FULL STRENGTH INTO THE CUP OF HIS INDIGNATION. HE SHALL BE TORMENTED WITH FIRE AND BRIMSTONE IN THE PRESENCE OF THE HOLY ANGELS AND IN THE PRESENCE OF THE LAMB. AND THE SMOKE OF THEIR TORMENT ASCENDS FOREVER AND EVER, AND THEY HAVE NO REST DAY OR NIGHT, WHO WORSHIP THE BEAST AND HIS IMAGE, AND WHOEVER RECEIVES THE MARK OF HIS NAME.” (REV. REV. 14:9-11+) THOSE WHO CHOOSE TO WORSHIP THE BEAST AND TAKE HIS MARK ARE FOREVER LOST. EVEN THOUGH THEY HAVE NOT YET DIED, THEY ARE IRREDEEMABLE. WHOSE NAMES HAVE NOT BEEN WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE OF THE LAMB: WHOSE NAMES HAVE NOT BEEN WRITTEN IS Οὐ ΓΈΓΡΑΠΤΑΙ Τὸ ὄΝΟΜΑ ΟὐΤΟῦ [OU GEGRAPTAI TO ONOMA OUTOU], PERFECT TENSE: IT HAS NOT BEEN WRITTEN, THE NAME OF HIM. UNLIKE THOSE WHO LACKED FAITH IN SARDIS AND WOULD BE BLOTTED OUT OF THE BOOK OF LIFE (REV. REV. 3:5+), THESE WERE NEVER WRITTEN IN THE BOOK TO BEGIN WITH. THEREFORE, THEIR DESTINY IN THE LAKE OF FIRE IS GUARANTEED (REV. REV. 20:15+) SINCE THEIR NAMES ARE NOT WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE: THE BEAST THAT YOU SAW WAS, AND IS NOT, AND WILL ASCEND OUT OF THE BOTTOMLESS PIT AND GO TO PERDITION: AND THOSE WHO DWELL ON THE EARTH WILL MARVEL, WHOSE NAMES ARE NOT WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, WHEN THEY SEE THE BEAST THAT WAS, AND IS NOT, AND YET IS. (REV. REV. 17:8+) [EMPHASIS ADDED] SOME UNDERSTAND THE PHRASE OF THE LAMB TO DENOTE A DIFFERENT BOOK THAN THE BOOK OF LIFE MENTIONED ELSEWHERE (PHP. PHP. 4:3; REV. REV. 3:5+; REV. 20:12+), BUT SUCH A VIEW IS EXEGETICALLY PRECARIOUS. IN THEIR VIEW, THE BOOK OF LIFE INITIALLY CONTAINS THE NAMES OF ALL THE LIVING. NAMES ARE THEN BLOTTED OUT AS PEOPLE DIE HAVING NEVER COME TO FAITH. THE BOOK OF LIFE OF THE LAMB IS SEEN AS A SEPARATE BOOK WHICH ONLY CONTAINS THE NAMES OF THE ELECT AND WHOSE CONTENTS ARE NEVER ALTERED. WE BELIEVE THE TWO-BOOK VIEW IS PROBLEMATIC: TOO MUCH EMPHASIS IS PLACED UPON MINOR DIFFERENCES IN PHRASING WHEN REFERRING TO THE SAME BOOK. THE TWO BOOKS SERVE THE SAME PURPOSE—DIFFERENTIATING BETWEEN THE REDEEMED AND THE UNREDEEMED. SO WHY HAVE TWO BOOKS? THE BOOK WHICH THE NAMES OF THE BEAST SEXUAL WORSHIPERS HAVE NOT BEEN WRITTEN IN IS REFERRED TO AS BOTH THE BOOK OF LIFE OF THE LAMB (REV. REV. 13:8+) AND THE BOOK OF LIFE (REV. REV. 17:8+). IT IS ONE AND THE SAME BOOK. WE BELIEVE IT IS BETTER TO UNDERSTAND ALL REFERENCES TO THE BOOK OF LIFE AS DENOTING A SINGLE BOOK WHICH RECORDS THREE CATEGORIES OF PEOPLE: THE UNSAVED - EACH PERSON TO BE BORN IS WRITTEN IN THE BOOK. THOSE WHO DIE BEFORE COMING TO FAITH ARE BLOTTED OUT.1 THE SAVED - EACH PERSON TO BE BORN IS WRITTEN IN THE BOOK. THOSE WHO COME TO FAITH PRIOR TO DEATH HAVE THEIR NAMES RETAINED IN THE BOOK. BEAST SEXUAL WORSHIPERS - THE BEAST SEXUAL WORSHIPERS ARE A UNIQUE CATEGORY OF PEOPLE OF THE TIME OF THE END. THEY ARE SO HARDENED AGAINST GOD AND DESTINED TO REJECT HIM IN THE FACE OF OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE TO THE CONTRARY THAT THEY ARE NEVER WRITTEN IN THE BOOK (REV. REV. 13:8+; REV. 17:8+). LAMB SLAIN FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD: FOUNDATION IS ΚΑΤΑΒΟΛῆΣ [KATABOLĒS], A COMPOUND WORD MEANING “A THROWING OR LAYING DOWN.”2 CHRIST’S SACRIFICE WAS NOT AN AFTERTHOUGHT IN THE MIND OF GOD. AND IF YOU CALL ON THE FATHER (STEPHEN), WHO WITHOUT PARTIALITY JUDGES ACCORDING TO EACH ONE’S WORK, CONDUCT YOURSELVES THROUGHOUT THE TIME OF YOUR STAY HERE IN FEAR; KNOWING THAT YOU WERE NOT REDEEMED WITH CORRUPTIBLE THINGS, LIKE SILVER OR GOLD, FROM YOUR AIMLESS CONDUCT RECEIVED BY TRADITION FROM YOUR FATHERS, BUT WITH THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF CHRIST, AS OF A LAMB WITHOUT BLEMISH AND WITHOUT SPOT. HE INDEED WAS FOREORDAINED BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, BUT WAS MANIFEST IN THESE LAST TIMES FOR YOU. (1PE. 1PE. 1:17-20) [EMPHASIS ADDED] EVEN BEFORE THE PERFECT CREATION OF ADAM AND EVE, GOD KNEW THE END OF HISTORY. THIS IS EVIDENCED IN HIS PROVISION FOR THEIR FIRST SIN, SPILLING THE INNOCENT BLOOD OF ANIMALS TO COVER THEIR NAKEDNESS (GEN. GEN. 3:21). AN ENORMOUS NUMBER OF TYPES THROUGHOUT THE OT PREDICTED THE COMING OF CHRIST AND HIS SACRIFICE FOR THE SINS OF MEN. THE SECRETS OF GOD, ESTABLISHED FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, WERE GRADUALLY REVEALED THROUGH GOD’S PROPHETS (PS. PS. 78:2 CF. MTT. MAT. 13:35; TIT. TIT. 1:1-3). IN WHAT IS PERHAPS THE “HOLY OF HOLIES” OF THE OT—ISAIAH ISA. 53:1—GOD REVEALED THAT HIS LAMB WOULD BE SLAIN: “HE WAS OPPRESSED AND HE WAS AFFLICTED, YET HE OPENED NOT HIS MOUTH; HE WAS LED AS A LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER, AND AS A SHEEP BEFORE ITS SHEARERS IS SILENT, SO HE OPENED NOT HIS MOUTH” (ISA. ISA. 53:7).3 JOHN THE BAPTIST UNDERSTOOD THE IMPLICATIONS OF ISAIAH’S PASSAGE, FOR WHEN HE SAW JESUS HE REMARKED: “BEHOLD! THE LAMB OF GOD WHO TAKES AWAY THE SIN OF THE WORLD!” (JOHN JOHN 1:29). IN THE SOVEREIGNTY AND OMNISCIENCE OF GOD, MANY THINGS WERE DETERMINED AND ACCOMPLISHED BEFORE OR FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD: GOD EXISTED BEFORE THE FOUNDATION (GEN. GEN. 1:1; PS. PS. 90:2; ISA. ISA. 40:21). CHRIST EXISTED BEFORE THE FOUNDATION (ISA. ISA. 48:16; MIC. MIC. 5:2; JOHN JOHN 1:1; JOHN 17:5, JOHN 17:24). CHRIST IS LOVED BY THE FATHER (STEPHEN) BEFORE THE FOUNDATION (JOHN JOHN 17:24). WISDOM WAS ESTABLISHED BEFORE THE FOUNDATION (PR. PR. 8:23). BELIEVERS WERE PREDESTINED FOR SALVATION BEFORE THE FOUNDATION (EPH. EPH. 1:4; 2TI. 2TI. 1:9). GOD PROMISED ETERNAL LIFE BEFORE TIME BEGAN (TIT. TIT. 1:2). CHRIST WAS FOREORDAINED BEFORE THE FOUNDATION (1PE. 1PE. 1:20; REV. REV. 13:8+). UNREVEALED SECRETS OF GOD EXISTED FROM THE FOUNDATION (MTT. MAT. 13:35). THE KINGDOM WAS PREPARED FOR THE FAITHFUL FROM THE FOUNDATION (MTT. MAT. 25:34). THE BLOOD OF ALL THE PROPHETS WAS SHED FROM THE FOUNDATION (LUKE LUKE 11:50). THE BEAST SEXUAL WORSHIPERS WERE NOT WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE FROM THE FOUNDATION (REV. REV. 17:8+). REVELATION 13:9: IF ANYONE HAS AN EAR, LET HIM HEAR: AS WHEN JESUS TAUGHT, PRIOR TO THE FORMATION OF THE CHURCH, ALL PEOPLE ARE ENJOINED TO HEAR (MTT. MAT. 11:15). UNLIKE REVELATION REV. 2:1+ AND REV. 3:1+, THERE IS NO MENTION MADE OF THE SEVEN CHURCHES WHICH ARE NO LONGER PRESENT UPON THE EARTH. A TEXTUAL CLUE FOUND IN REVELATION REV. 13:9+ HAS LED MANY BIBLE INTERPRETERS TO THE CONCLUSION THAT THOSE ADDRESSED IN REVELATION REV. 13:10+ ARE NOT THE SEVEN CHURCHES OF ASIA MINOR BUT RATHER, CONSIST OF A DIFFERENT GROUP ALL TOGETHER. WHEN CHRIST ADDRESSED THE SEVEN CHURCHES OF ASIA MINOR IN REVELATION REV. 2:1+-REV. 3:1+, HE ALWAYS USED THE PHRASE, “HE WHO HAS AN EAR, LET HIM HEAR WHAT THE SPIRIT SAYS TO THE CHURCHES ” (REVELATION REV. 2:7+, REV. 2:11+, REV. 2:17+, REV. 2:29+; REV. 3:6+, REV. 3:13+, REV. 3:22+). . . . CONSPICUOUSLY MISSING FROM THIS PHRASE [IN REV. REV. 13:9+] ARE THE WORDS “WHAT THE SPIRIT SAYS TO THE CHURCHES.” [EMPHASIS ADDED]1 THOSE WHO HAVE AN EAR, BUT CHOOSE NOT TO HEAR DO SO BECAUSE OF PRIDE. THIS IS THE MAJOR SIN OF THE END AND OF OUR OWN DAY: HEAR AND GIVE EAR: DO NOT BE PROUD, FOR THE LORD HAS SPOKEN. GIVE GLORY TO THE LORD YOUR GOD BEFORE HE CAUSES DARKNESS, AND BEFORE YOUR FEET STUMBLE ON THE DARK MOUNTAINS, AND WHILE YOU ARE LOOKING FOR LIGHT, HE TURNS IT INTO THE SHADOW OF DEATH AND MAKES IT DENSE DARKNESS. (JER. JER. 13:15-16) REVELATION 13:10: HE WHO LEADS INTO CAPTIVITY SHALL GO INTO CAPTIVITY; HE WHO KILLS WITH THE SWORD (WEAPON) MUST BE KILLED WITH THE SWORD (WEAPON): IN A PASSAGE WHOSE CONTEXT IS THE TIME OF JACOB’S TROUBLE, GOD INDICATES THAT HE WILL CORRECT ISRAEL. “THOUGH I MAKE A FULL END OF ALL NATIONS WHERE I HAVE SCATTERED YOU, YET I WILL NOT MAKE A COMPLETE END OF YOU. BUT I WILL CORRECT YOU IN JUSTICE, AND WILL NOT LET YOU GO ALTOGETHER UNPUNISHED.” (JER. JER. 30:11). HE PROMISES ISRAEL’S PRESERVATION AND RETRIBUTION IN KIND TO THOSE WHO OPPRESS HER: “THEREFORE ALL THOSE WHO DEVOUR YOU SHALL BE DEVOURED; AND ALL YOUR ADVERSARIES, EVERY ONE OF THEM, SHALL GO INTO CAPTIVITY; THOSE WHO PLUNDER YOU SHALL BECOME PLUNDER, AND ALL WHO PREY UPON YOU I WILL MAKE A PREY” (JER. JER. 30:16). UPON HIS ARREST AT THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE, JESUS STATED THIS PRINCIPLE, “PUT YOUR SWORD IN ITS PLACE, FOR ALL WHO TAKE THE SWORD WILL PERISH BY THE SWORD” (MTT. MAT. 26:52B). THE BASIS FOR SUCH RETRIBUTION IS GOD’S LAW OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT ESTABLISHED AFTER THE FLOOD: “WHOEVER SHEDS MAN’S BLOOD, BY MAN HIS BLOOD SHALL BE SHED; FOR IN THE IMAGE OF GOD HE MADE MAN” (GEN. GEN. 9:5). THE BEAST, THE FALSE PROPHET, AND THE HARLOT ALL PERSECUTE THE SAINTS AND SO THE HARLOT WILL BE RAVAGED ACCORDING TO GOD’S WILL (REV. REV. 17:16-17+) AND THE BEAST AND THE FALSE PROPHET WILL BE KILLED TO BECOME THE FIRST OCCUPANTS OF THE LAKE OF FIRE (REV. REV. 19:20+; REV. 20:10+). HOWEVER, VARIATIONS IN THE GREEK MANUSCRIPTS AT THIS PHRASE INDICATE THAT RETRIBUTION BY JUSTICE MAY NOT BE THE MEANING. THE MT TEXT HAS: Εἴ ΤΙΣ ἔΧΕΙ ΑἰΧΜΑΛΩΣΊΑΝ, ὑΠΆΓΕὶ Εἴ ΤΙΣ ἐΝ ΜΑΧΑΊΡᾳ, ΔΕῖ ΑὐΤὸΝ ἀΠΟΚΤΑΝΘῆΝΑΙ [EI TIS ECHEI AICHMALŌSIAN, HYPAGEI EI TIS EN MACHAIRA, DEI AUTON APOKTANTHĒNAI], IF ANYONE [IS] FOR CAPTIVITY, [THEN] HE IS GOING; IF ANYONE [IS] FOR [THE] SWORD, HE MUST BE KILLED. IN THE MT TEXT, THE SUBJECT IN EACH CASE IS THE BELIEVER—NOT HIS ENEMY. THIS APPEARS TO BE A SIMPLE STATEMENT SETTING FORTH THE TRUST WHICH THE SAINTS MUST MAINTAIN IN GOD’S SOVEREIGN APPOINTMENT OF THEIR ROLE IN HISTORY. IF IT IS A SAINT’S GOD-APPOINTED ROLE TO SERVE AS A MARTYR, SO BE IT! A SIMILAR THEME IS FOUND IN A PASSAGE CONCERNING GOD’S JUDGMENT OF ISRAEL: AND IT SHALL BE, IF THEY SAY TO YOU, ‘WHERE SHOULD WE GO?’ THEN YOU SHALL TELL THEM, ‘THUS SAYS THE LORD: “SUCH AS ARE FOR DEATH, TO DEATH; AND SUCH AS ARE FOR THE SWORD, TO THE SWORD; AND SUCH AS ARE FOR THE FAMINE, TO THE FAMINE; AND SUCH AS ARE FOR THE CAPTIVITY, TO THE CAPTIVITY.”’ (JER. JER. 15:2) DEPENDING UPON WHICH TEXT WE FOLLOW, THIS PASSAGE MAY DESCRIBE RETRIBUTION BY GOD’S SURE JUSTICE (REV. REV. 14:9-12+) OR THE NEED TO CLING TO HIS SOVEREIGNTY IN THE MIDST OF AFFLICTION (ROM. ROM. 8:28). BOTH ARE TAUGHT BY SCRIPTURE. HERE IS THE PATIENCE AND THE FAITH OF THE SAINTS: PATIENCE IS ὑΠΟΜΟΝὴ [HYPOMONĒ], MEANING TO ABIDE UNDER. IT INDICATES STEAD-FASTNESS AND PERSEVERANCE WHILE ENDURING TOIL AND SUFFERING.1 IT IS THROUGH FAITH AND PATIENCE THAT THE PROMISES OF THE BELIEVER ARE ATTAINED (HEB. HEB. 6:12). JOHN WAS HIMSELF A “BROTHER AND COMPANION IN THE TRIBULATION AND KINGDOM AND PATIENCE OF JESUS CHRIST...ON THE ISLAND THAT IS CALLED PATMOS” (REV. REV. 1:9+). JESUS RECOGNIZES THE PATIENCE EXHIBITED BY THE CHURCHES OF ASIA (EPHESUS, REV. REV. 2:2+; THYATIRA, REV. REV. 2:19+). PATIENCE IS A COMMAND WHICH THE LORD GIVES BELIEVERS. BECAUSE THE FAITHFUL CHURCH OF PHILADELPHIA KEPT THIS COMMAND, JESUS PROMISED TO KEEP THEM “FROM THE HOUR OF TRIAL WHICH SHALL COME UPON THE WHOLE WORLD” (REV. REV. 3:10+). THE PATIENCE IN THIS VERSE IS DIRECTED TO THOSE WHO FIND THEMSELVES IN THE MIDST OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION—PERHAPS THE MOST DANGEROUS TIME OF ALL HISTORY FOR BELIEVERS UPON THE EARTH. THE PATIENCE AND THE FAITH IS FOUND HERE: IN THE REALIZATION OF GOD’S SOVEREIGNTY. WHATEVER BEFALLS THESE TRIBULATION SAINTS, THEY MUST REST IN THE KNOWLEDGE THAT IT IS ACCORDING TO GOD’S WILL AND THAT THEY CAN NEVER PERISH.2 WHO SHALL SEPARATE US FROM THE LOVE OF CHRIST? SHALL TRIBULATION, OR DISTRESS, OR PERSECUTION, OR FAMINE, OR NAKEDNESS, OR PERIL, OR SWORD? AS IT IS WRITTEN: “FOR YOUR SAKE WE ARE KILLED ALL DAY LONG; WE ARE ACCOUNTED AS SHEEP FOR THE SLAUGHTER.” YET IN ALL THESE THINGS WE ARE MORE THAN CONQUERORS THROUGH HIM WHO LOVED US. (ROM. ROM. 8:35-37 CF. PS. PS. 44:22) [EMPHASIS ADDED] GOD WILL AVENGE HIS ELECT ONCE “THE NUMBER OF THEIR FELLOW SERVANTS AND THEIR BRETHREN, WHO WOULD BE KILLED AS THEY WERE WAS COMPLETED” (REV. REV. 6:10-11+). IN THE MEANTIME, THEY WERE NOT TO LOVE THEIR LIVES. INSTEAD, THEY MUST HOLD THEIR TESTIMONY TO THE POINT OF MARTYRDOM, KNOWING THEIR DEATH WAS BUT A GATEWAY TO A PLACE OF INTIMACY AND REST WITH THE LAMB IN HEAVEN (REV. REV. 7:14-17+). ALTHOUGH MANY WOULD DIE, JESUS ASSURED THEM, “NOT A HAIR OF YOUR HEAD SHALL BE LOST. BY YOUR PATIENCE POSSESS YOUR SOULS” [EMPHASIS ADDED] (LUKE LUKE 21:18). THESE WOULD BE REQUIRED TO LOSE THEIR LIVES IN ORDER TO POSSESS THEIR SOULS, FOR TO KEEP THEIR LIVES MEANT TAKING THE MARK AND BEING DOOMED FOR ETERNITY. AT ALL COSTS, THEY MUST NOT “DRAW BACK TO PERDITION” (HEB. HEB. 10:36)! ALTHOUGH A REMNANT OF JEWS IS HIDDEN AND PROTECTED IN A SPECIAL PLACE IN THE WILDERNESS (REV. REV. 12:6+, REV. 12:14+), THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE OF FAITH WILL BE WITHIN THE DOMAIN OF THE BEAST, THE PERSECUTING LITTLE HORN (DAN. DAN. 7:21, DAN. 7:25). JESUS UNDERSTOOD THE INTENSITY OF THIS TIME AND THE RESULTING RARITY OF FINDING PEOPLE OF FAITH AT THE END: THEN THE LORD SAID, “HEAR WHAT THE UNJUST JUDGE SAID. AND SHALL GOD NOT AVENGE HIS OWN ELECT WHO CRY OUT DAY AND NIGHT TO HIM, THOUGH HE BEARS LONG WITH THEM? I TELL YOU THAT HE WILL AVENGE THEM SPEEDILY. NEVERTHELESS, WHEN THE SON OF MAN COMES, WILL HE REALLY FIND FAITH ON THE EARTH?” (LUKE LUKE 18:3) THEIR PATIENCE ACCOMPLISHES SEVERAL THINGS: IT WITNESSES OF THE REALITY OF THEIR FAITH AND THE GLORY OF GOD; IT MAKES THEM “PERFECT AND COMPLETE” (JAS. JAS. 1:4); AND IT ALLOWS THE CUP OF GOD’S WRATH TOWARD THEIR PERSECUTORS TO FILL TO THE BRIM (REV. REV. 14:10+; REV. 16:19+). REVELATION 13:11: ANOTHER BEAST: ANOTHER IS ἄΛΛΟ [ALLO]: ACTS 4:12), AS CONTRASTED WITH ἕΤΕΡΟΣ [HETEROS] (ANOTHER BEAST OF A DIFFERENT KIND OR SPECIAL UNIQUE FORM) (GAL. GAL. 1:6-7).”1 ELSEWHERE, HE IS DIFFERENTIATED FROM THE FIRST BEAST, THE ANTICHRIST. HE IS KNOWN AS THE FALSE PROPHET (REV. REV. 19:20+; REV. 20:10+). THE FALSE PROPHET IS THE SECOND BEAST WHICH JOHN SEES WHICH COMES UP OUT OF THE EARTH [#3-#18] HAVING TWO HORNS LIKE A LAMB AND WHO SPOKE LIKE A DRAGON (REV. REV. 13:11+). HIS APPEARANCE IS BENIGN, LIKE THAT OF A LAMB, BUT HIS PROPHECIES AND COMMANDS HAVE THEIR SOURCE IN THE DEVIL. THIS IS WHY SCRIPTURE REFERS TO HIM AS THE “FALSE PROPHET” (REV. REV. 19:20+; REV. 20:10+). THE FALSE PROPHET PERFORMS GREAT SIGNS AND MIRACLES WHICH ARE USED TO WITNESS TO THE BEAST FROM WHICH HE DERIVES HIS POWER. “HE EXERCISES ALL THE AUTHORITY OF THE FIRST BEAST IN HIS PRESENCE AND CAUSES THE EARTH AND THOSE WHO DWELL IN IT TO WORSHIP THE FIRST BEAST” [#16-#18] (REV. REV. 13:12+). HE CAUSES THOSE ON THE EARTH TO WORSHIP THE BEAST AND TO MAKE AN IMAGE TO THE BEAST [#18-#19] (REV. REV. 13:14+). HE IS EVEN GRANTED POWER “TO GIVE BREATH TO THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST” (REV. REV. 13:15+). IT APPEARS THAT THE MIRACLES HE PERFORMS ARE GENUINE, BUT WHAT THEY ATTEST TO IS FALSE. IT IS THE FALSE PROPHET WHO CAUSES ALL MEN TO RECEIVE A MARK IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO BUY OR SELL (REV. REV. 13:16-17+). ALONG WITH THE DRAGON AND THE BEAST, HE FORMS AN ANTITRINITY WHEREIN THE DRAGON OCCUPIES A POSITION LIKE THAT OF THE FATHER (STEPHEN), THE BEAST LIKE THAT OF THE SON (JESUS), AND THE FALSE PROPHET LIKE THAT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT (BROTHER JOHN), BUT TESTIFIES TO THE FALSE SON . ALL THREE ARE THE SOURCE OF DEMONS WHICH GATHER THE KINGS OF THE EARTH TO BATTLE (REV. REV. 16:13-14+). BOTH THE FALSE PROPHET AND THE BEAST ARE TAKEN AT THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST AND CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE AS ITS FIRST POPULACE (REV. REV. 19:20+). THEY ARE STILL THERE ONE THOUSAND YEARS LATER WHEN JOINED BY THE DEVIL (REV. REV. 20:10+).1 NO DOUBT THE FALSE PROPHET PLAYS A KEY ROLE IN THE DECEPTION WHICH PAUL DESCRIBED IN HIS LETTER TO THE CHURCH AT THESSALONICA: THE COMING OF THE LAWLESS ONE IS ACCORDING TO THE WORKING OF SATAN, WITH ALL POWER, SIGNS, AND LYING WONDERS, AND WITH ALL UNRIGHTEOUS DECEPTION AMONG THOSE WHO PERISH, BECAUSE THEY DID NOT RECEIVE THE LOVE OF THE TRUTH, THAT THEY MIGHT BE SAVED. AND FOR THIS REASON GOD WILL SEND THEM STRONG DELUSION, THAT THEY SHOULD BELIEVE THE LIE, THAT THEY ALL MAY BE CONDEMNED WHO DID NOT BELIEVE THE TRUTH BUT HAD PLEASURE IN UNRIGHTEOUSNESS. (2TH. 2TH. 2:9-12) [EMPHASIS ADDED] HE IS AN INSTRUMENT OF BOTH THE DRAGON AND THE BEAST, BUT ULTIMATELY OF GOD. SOME HAVE TAKEN THIS BEAST TO DESCRIBE A SYSTEM OR MOVEMENT: THE SECOND BEAST WHICH IS DESCRIBED, REV. REV. 13:11-17+, AS COMING OUT OF THE EARTH, AND HAVING TWO HORNS LIKE UNTO A LAMB, AND SPEAKING AS A DRAGON, AND EXERCISING ALL THE AUTHORITY OF THE FIRST BEAST IN HIS SIGHT, IS REFERRED TO THE PAPACY. THE FALSE PROPHET RECEIVES A SIMILAR APPLICATION. SO LUTHER, VITRINGA, BENGEL, AUBERLEN, HENGSTENBERG, EBRARD, AND MANY ENGLISH DIVINES.3 THE COMMENTATORS ARE IN THE MOST DIRE CONFUSION ON THE IDENTIFICATION...THE ROMAN CHURCH, THE GREEK CHURCH, THE FRENCH REPUBLIC, THE JESUITS, THE ROMAN THEOLOGIANS, THE EARTHY CARNAL WISDOM, INCLUDING THE HEATHEN PHILOSOPHIES, FALSE DOCTRINES AND THE LIKE...STILL OTHERS IDENTIFY THE SECOND BEAST WITH THE HEATHEN PRIESTHOOD, THE PRINCIPLE OF INDUCTIVE PHILOSOPHY, WITCHCRAFT AND SOOTHSAYING, DIVINATION AND MAGIC.4 BUT HIS ATTRIBUTES ARE PERSONAL, FOR SALVATION AND DAMNATION ARE INDIVIDUAL, NOT INSTITUTIONAL:5 THE SECOND BEAST IS A SPECIFIC INDIVIDUAL RATHER THAN A RELIGIOUS INSTITUTION. ...IT IS MORE LIKELY THAT THE SINGULAR PHRASE “BEAST” (THĒRION) OR “FALSE PROPHET” (PSEUDOPROPHĒTĒS) REFERS TO AN INDIVIDUAL RATHER THAN A RELIGIOUS INSTITUTION. MOREOVER, BECAUSE HE SPENDS ETERNITY IN THE LAKE OF FIRE (REVELATION REV. 19:20+; REV. 20:10+), THE FALSE PROPHET IS CHARACTERIZED AS POSSESSING AN ETERNAL SOUL. SUCH AN ATTRIBUTE AND ETERNAL FATE IS DESCRIPTIVE OF INDIVIDUALS RATHER THAN INSTITUTIONS. [EMPHASIS ADDED]6 TOGETHER WITH THE FIRST BEAST AND THE DRAGON, HE FORMS AN EVIL TRINITY: THERE IS A TRINITY OF EVIL. NOW IT SURELY NEEDS NO ARGUMENT TO PROVE THAT THESE THREE EVIL PERSONS ARE OPPOSED TO AND ARE THE ANTITHESIS OF THE THREE PERSONS IN THE GODHEAD. THE DEVIL STANDS OPPOSED TO GOD THE FATHER (STEPHEN) - ‘YE ARE OF YOUR FATHER (LUCIFER), THE DEVIL,’ JOHN JOHN 8:40, ETC. THE ANTICHRIST STANDS OPPOSED TO GOD THE SON - HIS VERY NAME SHOWS THIS. THE REMAINING EVIL PERSON STANDS OPPOSED TO GOD THE SPIRIT. IF THIS BE THE CASE, THEN OUR PRESENT TASK IS GREATLY SIMPLIFIED: IT IS MERELY A MATTER OF NOTING WHAT IS SEPARATELY PREDICTED OF THE TWO BEASTS IN REV. REV. 13:1+ SO AS TO ASCERTAIN WHICH OF THEM STANDS OPPOSED TO CHRIST AND WHICH TO THE HOLY SPIRIT. . . NOW THERE ARE ONLY TWO ARGUMENTS OF ANY PLAUSIBILITY WHICH HAVE BEEN ADVANCED TO SUPPORT THE VIEW THAT IT IS THE SECOND BEAST OF REV. REV. 13:1+ WHICH IS THE ANTICHRIST, BUT SO FAR AS WE ARE AWARE NO ONE HAS ENDEAVORED TO SHOW THAT THE FIRST BEAST REPRESENTS THE THIRD PERSON IN THE TRINITY OF EVIL! YET HE MUST BE SO IF THE SECOND IS THE ANTICHRIST!7 WE SHALL SEE THAT A PRIMARY FUNCTION OF THIS SECOND BEAST IS MUCH LIKE THAT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN RELATION TO CHRIST. FOR HE WIELDS EQUIVALENT POWER TO THE FIRST BEAST (REV. REV. 13:12+), YET RETAINS NO GLORY FOR HIMSELF, BUT CONSTANTLY WITNESSES OF THE FIRST BEAST, THE ANTICHRIST. AND SO IT IS WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT AND THE SON OF GOD: HOWEVER, WHEN HE, THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH, HAS COME, HE WILL GUIDE YOU INTO ALL TRUTH; FOR HE WILL NOT SPEAK ON HIS OWN AUTHORITY, BUT WHATEVER HE HEARS HE WILL SPEAK; AND HE WILL TELL YOU THINGS TO COME. HE WILL GLORIFY ME, FOR HE WILL TAKE OF WHAT IS MINE AND DECLARE IT TO YOU. (JOHN JOHN 16:13-14) HE IS THE THIRD PERSON OF THE TRINITY OF EVIL. AS THERE IS TO BE AN ANTICHRIST WHO WILL BOTH COUNTERFEIT AND OPPOSE THE CHRIST OF GOD, SO THERE WILL BE AN ANTI-SPIRIT WHO WILL SIMULATE AND OPPOSE THE SPIRIT OF GOD. JUST AS THE GREAT WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IS TO GLORIFY CHRIST, SO THE ONE AIM OF THE ANTI-SPIRIT WILL BE TO MAGNIFY THE FALSE CHRIST (SEE REV. REV. 13:12+). JUST AS THE COMING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AT PENTECOST WAS VISIBLY ATTENDED BY ‘CLOVEN TONGUES LIKE AS OF FIRE’ (ACTS ACTS 2:3), SO WE READ OF THE ANTI-SPIRIT THAT ‘HE DOETH GREAT WONDERS, SO THAT HE MAKETH FIRE COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN ON THE EARTH IN THE SIGHT OF MEN’ (REV. REV. 13:13+). AND JUST AS IT IS THE HOLY SPIRIT WHO NOW QUICKENS DEAD SINNERS INTO NEWNESS OF LIFE, SO OF THE ANTI-SPIRIT WE ARE TOLD, ‘HE HAD POWER TO GIVE LIFE UNTO THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST’ (REV. REV. 13:15+).8 SOME POINT TO THE RELIGIOUS ASPECT OF THE WORK OF THE SECOND BEAST IN FAVOR OF HIS IDENTIFICATION AS THE ANTICHRIST, OR PSEUDO-CHRIST. BUT THIS CANNOT BE, FOR IT IS THE FIRST BEAST WHICH ATTAINS ALL WORSHIP, NOT THE SECOND. THE REFUSAL OF THE SECOND BEAST TO PARTICIPATE AS THE OBJECT OF WORSHIP IS FATAL TO ANY VIEW THAT THE SECOND BEAST IS THE ANTICHRIST. MOREOVER, THE ROLE OF THE ANTICHRIST IS MUCH BROADER THAN THAT OF A MERE RELIGIOUS FIGURE:9 TO REGARD THE ANTICHRIST AS LIMITED TO THE RELIGIOUS REALM AND DIVORCED FROM THE POLITICAL, SEEMS TO US, TO LEAVE OUT ENTIRELY AN ESSENTIAL AND FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENT OF HIS CHARACTER AND CAREER. THE ANTICHRIST WILL CLAIM TO BE THE TRUE CHRIST, THE CHRIST OF GOD. HENCE, IT WOULD SEEM THAT HE WILL PRESENT HIMSELF TO THE JEWS AS THEIR LONG-EXPECTED MESSIAH - THE ONE FORETOLD BY THE OLD TESTAMENT PROPHETS - AND THAT BEFORE APOSTATE CHRISTENDOM, GIVEN OVER BY GOD TO BELIEVE THE LIE, HE WILL POSE AS THE RETURNED CHRIST. THEREFORE, MUST WE NOT PREDICT, AS AN INEVITABLE COROLLARY, THAT THE PSEUDO CHRIST, WILL USHER IN A FALSE MILLENNIUM, AND RULE OVER A MOCK MESSIANIC KINGDOM? WHY WAS IT (FROM THE HUMAN SIDE) THAT, WHEN OUR LORD TABERNACLED AMONG MEN, THE JEWS REJECTED HIM AS THEIR MESSIAH? WAS IT NOT BECAUSE HE FAILED TO FULFILL THEIR EXPECTATIONS THAT HE WOULD TAKE THE GOVERNMENT UPON HIS SHOULDER AND WIELD THE ROYAL SCEPTRE AS SOON AS HE PRESENTED HIMSELF TO THEM? WAS IT NOT BECAUSE THEY LOOKED FOR HIM TO RESTORE THE KINGDOM TO ISRAEL THERE AND THEN? IS IT NOT THEREFORE REASONABLE TO SUPPOSE THAT WHEN THE ANTICHRIST PRESENTS HIMSELF TO THEM, THAT HE WILL WIELD GREAT TEMPORAL POWER, AND RULE OVER A VAST EARTHLY EMPIRE? IT WOULD CERTAINLY SEEM SO.10 COMING UP: ἀΝΑΒΑῖΝΟΝ [ANABAINON], PRESENT TENSE PARTICIPLE, PRESENTLY COMING UP. LIKE THE FIRST BEAST (REV. REV. 13:1+), JOHN SAW THIS BEAST AS HE WAS RISING FROM THE EARTH. UP OUT OF THE EARTH: THE FIRST BEAST AROSE OUT OF THE SEA, INDICATING HIS GENTILE ORIGIN. THIS BEAST ARISES FROM THE EARTH, WHICH MAY INDICATE HIS JEWISH ORIGIN. ALTHOUGH THERE IS AMPLE EVIDENCE OF THE GENTILE ORIGIN OF THE FIRST BEAST, SOME SUGGEST THAT THE SECOND BEAST IS JEWISH.11 THEY NOTE THE LACK OF MENTION OF THE TRIBE OF DAN IN THE 144,000 SEALED OF ISRAEL AND THE NEGATIVE PROPHECY OF JACOB CONCERNING DAN: “DAN SHALL BE A SERPENT BY THE WAY, A VIPER BY THE PATH, THAT BITES THE HORSE’S HEELS SO THAT ITS RIDER SHALL FALL BACKWARD” (GEN. GEN. 49:17). IT IS DIFFICULT TO BE DOGMATIC ON THE EARTH-SEA DISTINCTION BECAUSE THE GENTILE KINGDOMS WHICH DANIEL SAW ARISE FROM THE SEA (DAN. DAN. 7:3) ARE ALSO SAID TO BE FOUR KINGS WHICH ARISE FROM THE EARTH (DAN. DAN. 7:17). FRUCHTENBAUM SUGGESTS THE MENTION OF EARTH MERELY DENOTES HIS HUMANITY.12 IT ALMOST CERTAINLY INDICATES HIS EARTHINESS AS OPPOSED TO THAT WHICH IS FROM HEAVEN (JOHN JOHN 8:23). ALTHOUGH THE BOTTOMLESS PIT IS WITHIN THE EARTH, THE ORIGIN OF THIS BEAST DOES NOT SPEAK OF THE ABYSS.13 THE BEAST WHICH ARISES FROM THE BOTTOMLESS PIT IS THE ONE WHICH “WAS, AND IS NOT” (REV. REV. 17:8+), THE FIRST BEAST OUT OF THE SEA WITH THE DEADLY WOUND THAT WAS HEALED (REV. REV. 13:3+). THIS SECOND BEAST CAUSES THE EARTH SEXUAL DWELLERS TO WORSHIP THE FIRST BEAST WHOSE DEADLY WOUND WAS HEALED (REV. REV. 13:12-14+). TWO HORNS: THE MENTION OF HORNS IN CONJUNCTION WITH A LAMB POINTS TO THE VISION OF THE THRONE ROOM PRIOR TO THE OPENING OF THE FIRST SEAL WHERE JOHN SAW “A LAMB AS THOUGH IT HAD BEEN SLAIN, HAVING SEVEN HORNS AND SEVEN YES, WHICH ARE THE SEVEN SPIRITS OF GOD SENT OUT INTO ALL THE EARTH” (REV. REV. 5:6+). HORNS FREQUENTLY SYMBOLIZE POWER. THE LAMB HAS SEVEN, THE NUMBER OF COMPLETENESS. THIS BEAST HAS TWO, THE NUMBER OF WITNESS, FOR HE SHALL SERVE AS THE ULTIMATE WITNESS TO THE FIRST BEAST. THE TWO HORNS HAVE A PERTINENT SIGNIFICANCE, FOR TWO IS THE NUMBER OF WITNESS AND JUST AS CHRIST DECLARED THE SPIRIT OF GOD SHOULD ‘TESTIFY (LIT., BEAR WITNESS) OF ME’ (JOHN JOHN 15:26), SO THE THIRD PERSON IN THE TRINITY OF EVIL BEARS WITNESS TO THE FIRST BEAST.14 LIKE A LAMB: PAUL WARNED OF SATAN’S “MINISTERS,” FALSE APOSTLES AND DECEITFUL WORKERS WHICH FOLLOW SATAN’S PATTERN AND TRANSFORM THEMSELVES INTO APOSTLES OF CHRIST (2COR. 2COR. 11:13-15). THERE HAVE BEEN MANY FALSE APOSTLES AND DECEITFUL WORKERS SINCE THEN AND ESPECIALLY TOWARD THE TIME OF THE END, BUT NONE MORE CONVINCING AND CONTAINING SUCH CONTRAST AS THIS FALSE PROPHET OF THE END. HIS APPEARANCE AS A LAMB MASKS HIS TRUE INWARD NATURE. WHO HE IS WILL NOT BE EVIDENT FROM HIS OUTWARD APPEARANCE BUT, LIKE OTHER FALSE PROPHETS, DETERMINED BY OBSERVING THE FRUIT OF HIS LABORS: BEWARE OF FALSE PROPHETS, WHO COME TO YOU IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING, BUT INWARDLY THEY ARE RAVENOUS WOLVES. YOU WILL KNOW THEM BY THEIR FRUITS (MTT. MAT. 7:15-16). [EMPHASIS ADDED] THEN MANY FALSE PROPHETS WILL RISE UP AND DECEIVE MANY. AND BECAUSE LAWLESSNESS WILL ABOUND, THE LOVE OF MANY WILL GROW COLD. BUT HE WHO ENDURES TO THE END SHALL BE SAVED. AND THIS GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM WILL BE PREACHED IN ALL THE WORLD AS A WITNESS TO ALL THE NATIONS, AND THEN THE END WILL COME. (MTT. MAT. 24:11-14) SPOKE LIKE A DRAGON: ALTHOUGH HE LOOKS LIKE A LAMB, HIS VERBAL INSTRUCTIONS ARE ENERGIZED BY THE WILL OF THE DRAGON (REV. REV. 12:2-4+, REV. 12:17+; REV. 13:4+). IT IS HE WHO CAUSES WORSHIP OF THE BEAST. HE TELLS THOSE WHO DWELL ON THE EARTH TO MAKE THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST. HE IS ALSO THE ENFORCER OF THE MARK REQUIRED IN ORDER TO BUY OR SELL. HIS SPEECH LIKE A DRAGON IS AN ALLUSION TO THE INTRODUCTION OF DECEPTION INTO THE HUMAN RACE IN THE GARDEN: “NOW THE SERPENT WAS MORE CUNNING THAN ANY BEAST OF THE FIELD WHICH THE LORD GOD HAD MADE. AND HE SAID TO THE WOMAN, ‘HAS GOD INDEED SAID...?’” [EMPHASIS ADDED] (GEN. GEN. 3:1). LIKE THE SERPENT, HIS MOUTH WILL BE EMPLOYED IN OPPOSITION TO GOD’S WORD. REVELATION 13:12: ALL THE AUTHORITY OF THE FIRST BEAST: AS THE HOLY SPIRIT IN RELATION TO CHRIST, SO THE FALSE PROPHET HAS THE FULL AUTHORITY GIVEN BY THE DRAGON TO THE BEAST (REV. REV. 13:2+). PERHAPS THE MOST REMARKABLE ASPECT OF THE FALSE PROPHET IS HIS REFUSAL TO OBTAIN WORSHIP FOR HIMSELF EVEN THOUGH HE HAS THE FULL AUTHORITY OF THE BEAST. OUTSIDE OF THE ALTRUISTIC EXAMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN RELATION TO CHRIST, THIS IS UNHEARD OF. THE ANSWER LIES IN THE PREGNANT PHRASE WHICH FOLLOWS. IN HIS PRESENCE: THE AUTHORITY OF THE FALSE PROPHET IS VERY CLOSELY CONTROLLED. HE IS ONLY GRANTED HIS POWER “IN THE SIGHT OF THE BEAST” (REV. REV. 13:14+ CF. REV. REV. 19:20+). HE IS ON A LEASH, AS IT WERE. DURING THE END, IT IS THE DRAGON’S INTENTION THAT ULTIMATE AUTHORITY AND ATTENTION BE DIRECTED TO THE BEAST. IF THE DRAGON ENTERS THE BEAST, AS HE DID JUDAS (LUKE LUKE 22:3), THEN WORSHIP OF THE BEAST BECOMES THE WORSHIP OF SATAN. IF THE FALSE PROPHET’S AUTHORITY WERE IN ANY WAY INDEPENDENT OF THE BEAST, THEN HE COULD POTENTIALLY DIRECT ATTENTION TO HIMSELF. THE DRAGON IS VERY AWARE OF THIS POSSIBILITY SINCE HE WAS THE SUBJECT OF THE SAME CORRUPTING INFLUENCE OF POWER (ISA. ISA. 14:13-14; EZE. EZE. 28:17). “IT IS PARTICULARLY NOTEWORTHY THAT THE SECOND BEAST WILL HAVE TO EXERCISE THE BEAST’S AUTHORITY IN HIS PRESENCE—THERE JUST CAN BE NO TRUST BETWEEN THE FORCES OF EVIL!”1 THE ALLIANCE OF RELIGION AND STATE HAS A LONG AND SAD RECORD OF DESPOTISM AND SUPPRESSION, BUT THE ECCLESIO-POLITICAL UNION OF THESE TO HUMAN BEASTS WILL CULMINATE IN THE WORST PERIOD OF PERSECUTION IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. . . . EACH LEADER ASSISTS AND SUPPORTS THE OTHER, THE KING ENFORCING THE RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY OF THE PROPHET AND THE PROPHET PERSUADING THE WORLD’S SUPERSTITIOUS MASSES THAT THE KING SHOULD BE WORSHIPED AND OBEYED AS A GOD.2 CAUSES THE EARTH AND THOSE WHO DWELL IN IT TO WORSHIP THE FIRST BEAST: NOTE THAT IT IS THE FIRST BEAST WHICH IS WORSHIPED (REV. REV. 13:4+) IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PREDICTIONS OF DANIEL (DAN. DAN. 11:36) AND PAUL (2TH. 2TH. 2:4). THE SECOND BEAST DIRECTS WORSHIP TOWARD THE FIRST AND IS DEPENDENT UPON HIM FOR HIS POWER (REV. REV. 13:12+). HENCE THE FIRST BEAST IS THE “MAN OF SIN...THE SON OF PERDITION,” NOT THE SECOND. 3 PINK NOTES THE RELATIVE EASE WITH WHICH A SUPREME MILITARY LEADER SUCH AS THE ANTICHRIST IS ABLE TO STEP INTO THE POSITION OF ASSUMED DEITY: AT FIRST SIGHT IT APPEARS STRANGE, IF NOT INCONGRUOUS, THAT A MILITARY DESPOT SHOULD BE FOUND FILLING THE CHARACTER OF A RELIGIOUS IMPOSTOR. BUT HISTORY SHOWS THAT THERE IS A POINT AT WHICH ONE CHARACTER READILY MERGES INTO THE OTHER. POLITICAL AMBITION, INTOXICATED BY SUCCESS, FINDS IT AN EASY STEP FROM SELF-GLORIFICATION TO SELF-DEIFICATION, AND THE POPULAR INFATUATION AS EASILY PASSES FROM THE ABJECT ADULATION OF THE TYRANT TO THE ADORATION OF THE GOD.4 THE FALSE PROPHET’S MAIN FOCUS IS TO DIRECT WORSHIP TO THE BEAST. THIS IS HIS KEY ROLE AMONG THE WORLD’S RELIGIONS AT THE TIME OF THE END, MADE ALL THE EASIER BY A LARGE REDUCTION IN CHRISTIANS BEGINNING WITH THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE TRUE CHURCH IN THE RAPTURE PRIOR TO THE TIME OF GOD’S WRATH (REV. REV. 3:10+): TRUE CHILDREN OF GOD ARE TO BE FOUND IN MANY VARYING SHADES OF CHRISTIANITY, SPRINKLED THROUGHOUT CHRISTENDOM. THERE ARE UNDOUBTEDLY BORN-AGAIN INDIVIDUALS IN THE MIDST OF ALL CHURCHES. THEY ARE SAVED IN SPITE OF THE ORGANIZATIONS AND NOT BECAUSE OF THE ORGANIZATIONS. WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO ALL OF THESE ORGANIZATIONS WHEN THE TRUE BELIEVERS ARE REMOVED FROM THE WORLD? ALREADY, IN OUR OWN DAY, WE SEE INDICATIONS THAT MUCH OF THE GUIDING FORCE OF THESE GREAT ORGANIZATIONS IS IN THE HANDS OF THOSE WHO WOULD DENY ESSENTIAL TRUTHS OF SCRIPTURE. THIS TENDENCY WILL INCREASE, AND AT THE COMING OF CHRIST FOR THE BELIEVERS, THE TARES IN THE MIDST OF THE WHEAT WILL GO ON FUNCTIONING AS USUAL, ALL MOVING RAPIDLY INTO ONE GREAT CHURCH UNION, WITH ONE HEAD OF ALL. THIS RELIGIOUS LEADER WILL WORK TOGETHER WITH THE POLITICAL DICTATOR.5 EVENTUALLY, EVEN A UNIVERSAL ECUMENICAL RELIGION PROVES TO BE A THREAT TO THE WORSHIP OF THE BEAST. THE BEAST (EMPOWERED BY THE DRAGON) DESIRES ALL WORSHIP PERSONALLY. THIS MAY BE A CONTRIBUTING FACTOR IN THE DEMISE OF THE HARLOT (REV. REV. 17:16+), FOR SHE IS THE MOTHER OF WORLDWIDE SPIRITUAL IDOLATRY AND ABOMINATION (REV. REV. 17:5+) AND COULD OTHERWISE COMPETE WITH THE BEAST IN THE AREA OF RELIGION. THE PROMINENCE OF THE FALSE PROPHET PRIOR TO HER DEMISE IS NOT REVEALED, BUT WE DO KNOW HE IS THE ULTIMATE RELIGIOUS FIGURE DIRECTING WORSHIP TO THE BEAST AT THE END. HIS ROLE AS RELIGIOUS LEADER MAY ALSO FULFILL ISRAEL’S EXPECTATION OF A PROPHET (DEU. DEU. 18:15-18; JOHN JOHN 1:21; LUKE LUKE 7:19). “THE FALSE PROPHET ARISES TO PLAY THE PART EXPECTED OF THE PROPHET WHO HAD BEEN ANNOUNCED FOR SO LONG, AND HIS ROLE WILL BE TO TELL ISRAEL THAT THEIR MESSIAH HAS COME.”6 THOSE WHO WORSHIP THE BEAST ARE THE EARTH SEXUAL DWELLERS. WHOSE DEADLY WOUND WAS HEALED: DEADLY WOUND IS Ἡ ΠΛΗΓὴ ΤΟῦ ΘΑΝΆΤΟΥ ΑὐΤΟῦ [HĒ PLĒGĒ TOU THANATOU AUTOU], THE WOUND OF HIS DEATH. THIS RECOVERY WAS NOT FROM A SERIOUS WOUND, BUT FROM ACTUAL DEATH. THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE MIRACULOUS RECOVERY OF THE BEAST AND HIS WORSHIP IS EMPHASIZED AGAIN (REV. REV. 13:3-4+). THIS RULES OUT NERO AND ALL PREVIOUS PEOPLE OF HISTORY AS CANDIDATES FOR THE ANTICHRIST BECAUSE ONLY AFTER HIS REVIVAL AND ASCENT FROM THE ABYSS DOES THE BEAST RECEIVE WORSHIP AS GOD. THE ONLY MAN PRIOR TO ANTICHRIST WHO AROSE FROM THE DEAD TO RECEIVE WORSHIP IS CHRIST, NOT ANTICHRIST. REVELATION 13:13: HE PERFORMS GREAT SIGNS: WE HAVE JUST BEEN TOLD THAT THE FALSE PROPHET “EXERCISES ALL THE AUTHORITY OF THE FIRST BEAST” (REV. REV. 13:12+). THUS, IT IS NO SURPRISE THAT HE PERFORMS WONDROUS MIRACLES, FOR HE HAS THE AUTHORITY OF THE BEAST WHO HIMSELF IS EMPOWERED DIRECTLY BY SATAN: THE COMING OF THE LAWLESS ONE IS ACCORDING TO THE WORKING OF SATAN, WITH ALL POWER, SIGNS, AND LYING WONDERS, AND WITH ALL UNRIGHTEOUS DECEPTION AMONG THOSE WHO PERISH, BECAUSE THEY DID NOT RECEIVE THE LOVE OF THE TRUTH, THAT THEY MIGHT BE SAVED. AND FOR THIS REASON GOD WILL SEND THEM STRONG DELUSION, THAT THEY SHOULD BELIEVE THE LIE, THAT THEY ALL MAY BE CONDEMNED WHO DID NOT BELIEVE THE TRUTH BUT HAD PLEASURE IN UNRIGHTEOUSNESS. (2TH. 2TH. 2:9-12) NOT ONLY WILL THE FALSE PROPHET PERFORM SIGNS AND LYING WONDERS, THE SUBJECTS OF HIS DECEPTION, THE EARTH SEXUAL DWELLERS, WILL BE SENT STRONG DELUSION BY GOD TO BELIEVE THAT WHICH IS FALSE. IT WOULD APPEAR THAT THE SIGNS THEMSELVES ARE BONA FIDE, BUT WHAT THEY ATTEST TO IS FALSE. EVEN THE SPIRITS OF DEMONS WHO COLLECT THE KINGS OF THE EARTH TO ARMAGEDDON—ONE OF WHOM COMES OUT OF THE MOUTH OF THE FALSE PROPHET—CONVINCE BY THE SIGNS THEY PERFORM (REV. REV. 16:14+). THUS CAN BE SEEN THE DEMONIC SOURCE OF THE SIGNS WHICH THE FALSE PROPHET IS ABLE TO USE IN HIS DECEPTION. WE ARE OFFERED A SMALL HINT OF THAT WHICH THE DEMONIC REALM CAN ACHIEVE WHEN PHARAOH’S SORCERERS AND MAGICIANS USED ENCHANTMENTS TO TURN RODS INTO SERPENTS (EX. EX. 7:11), WATER INTO BLOOD (EX. EX. 7:22), AND BROUGHT FROGS UP ON THE LAND (EX. EX. 8:7).1 LET THE READER ATTEND TO THE IMPORTANCE OF THE MATTER BEFORE US: SIGNS ARE UNRELIABLE INDICATORS OF A WORK OF GOD! “MANY WILL SAY TO ME IN THAT DAY, ‘LORD, LORD, HAVE WE NOT PROPHESIED IN YOUR NAME, CAST OUT DEMONS IN YOUR NAME, AND DONE MANY WONDERS IN YOUR NAME?’ AND THEN I WILL DECLARE TO THEM, ‘I NEVER KNEW YOU; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS!’ ” (MTT. MAT. 7:22-23) CHRIST’S MIRACLES, AS MIRACLES, WERE NO EVIDENCE OF HIS DIVINE MISSION. THE REAL EVIDENCE WAS THAT THE MIRACLES WHICH HE WROUGHT WERE THE VERY MIRACLES WHICH THE PROPHETIC WORD HAD DECLARED HE SHOULD WORK, AND WHICH WERE ON THAT ACCOUNT THE SIGN AND SEAL OF HIS MINISTRY, AND FORMED HIS CREDENTIALS FROM ON HIGH. THIS IS CLEAR FROM MTT. MAT. 11:1-6. IT WAS NOT THAT THEY WERE MERE MIRACULOUS ACTS, BUT THAT THEY WERE WHAT GOD HAD FORETOLD, AND THE ESSENCE OF THEIR TESTIMONY WAS TO THE TRUTH OF GOD’S WORD, RATHER THAN THE POWER OF CHRIST. HENCE IT IS THAT THEY ARE SO GENERALLY CALLED “SIGNS,” AND NOT MERELY “WONDERS.”2 THE EARTH SEXUAL DWELLERS OF THE END, EVEN THOSE WHO CALL THEMSELVES CHRISTIANS, HAVE FALLEN PREY TO THAT WHICH IS ALREADY AT WORK IN OUR OWN DAY: AN UNBIBLICAL RELIANCE UPON SIGNS AS EVIDENCE OF GOD. THEY HAVE BUILT THEIR FAITH UPON THE WRONG FOUNDATION! THEY ARE COMPLETELY OPEN TO DECEPTION BECAUSE THEIR FAITH IS BASED UPON EXPERIENCE RATHER THAN SCRIPTURE. THEY VALIDATE THEIR RELIGIOUS BELIEFS BASED ON THEIR OWN PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. THEY ARE THE ULTIMATE IN POSTMODERN THINKING3—THEY HAVE THEIR TRUTH WHICH IS REAL TO THEM. THUS, WHEN THEY SEE THE TRULY MIRACULOUS SIGNS PROVIDED BY THE FALSE PROPHET, THEY EASILY SUCCUMB TO THE DESIRED CONCLUSION: THE BEAST IS GOD. WHEN AND IF SUCH “PEOPLE OF FAITH” ARE CONFRONTED WITH THE SCRIPTURES—ASSUMING GOD’S WORD IS AVAILABLE AT THE TIME OF THE END—THEY WILL BEND THE SCRIPTURE AND REINTERPRET IT TO VALIDATE THEIR EXPERIENCE. IF GOD’S WRITTEN WORD DENIES THEIR EXPERIENCE, THEY WILL REJECT IT OVER THEIR PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. THUS, THEIR EXPERIENCE WILL SIT IN JUDGMENT OF GOD’S WORD.4 BIBLICAL BELIEVERS ARE TO BE JUST THE OPPOSITE. THEIR FAITH IS BASED UPON GOD’S INERRANT SCRIPTURES. EACH AND EVERY EXPERIENCE IS TESTED AGAINST ITS ADHERENCE TO THAT WHICH GOD HAS ALREADY REVEALED IN SCRIPTURE. WHEN AND IF AN EXPERIENCE FAILS THE TEST OF SCRIPTURE, IT IS REJECTED FOR WE KNOW THAT THE SPIRIT OF GOD SPEAKS CONSISTENTLY. THAT WHICH IS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IS IN AGREEMENT WITH THAT WHICH IS AUTHORED THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT: “BELOVED, DO NOT BELIEVE EVERY SPIRIT, BUT TEST THE SPIRITS, WHETHER THEY ARE OF GOD; BECAUSE MANY FALSE PROPHETS HAVE GONE OUT INTO THE WORLD” (1JN. 1JN. 4:1). THUS, THE BIBLICAL BELIEVER EVALUATES THE FRUIT OF HIS EXPERIENCE AGAINST THE MEASURE OF SCRIPTURE AND AVOIDS DECEPTION: IT IS BY THE SIGNS THAT THE FALSE PROPHET DECEIVES THE EARTH SEXUAL DWELLERS TO RECEIVE THE MARK OF THE BEAST AND WORSHIP HIS IMAGE (REV. REV. 19:20+). YET THE SIGNS ARE FALSE—NOT IN THEIR MIRACULOUS ABILITY, BUT IN WHAT THEY ATTEST TO.5 SIGNS ALONE ARE NOT TRUSTWORTHY: BUT THERE WAS A CERTAIN MAN CALLED SIMON, WHO PREVIOUSLY PRACTICED SORCERY IN THE CITY AND ASTONISHED THE PEOPLE OF SAMARIA, CLAIMING THAT HE WAS SOMEONE GREAT, TO WHOM THEY ALL GAVE HEED, FROM THE LEAST TO THE GREATEST, SAYING, “THIS MAN IS THE GREAT POWER OF GOD.” AND THEY HEEDED HIM BECAUSE HE HAD ASTONISHED THEM WITH HIS SORCERIES FOR A LONG TIME. (ACTS ACTS 8:9-11) IF THERE ARISES AMONG YOU A PROPHET OR A DREAMER OF DREAMS, AND HE GIVES YOU A SIGN OR A WONDER, AND THE SIGN OR THE WONDER COMES TO PASS, OF WHICH HE SPOKE TO YOU, SAYING, ‘LET US GO AFTER OTHER GODS’—WHICH YOU HAVE NOT KNOWN—‘AND LET US SERVE THEM,’ YOU SHALL NOT LISTEN TO THE WORDS OF THAT PROPHET OR THAT DREAMER OF DREAMS, FOR THE LORD YOUR GOD IS TESTING YOU TO KNOW WHETHER YOU LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL. YOU SHALL WALK AFTER THE LORD YOUR GOD AND FEAR HIM, AND KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS AND OBEY HIS VOICE; YOU SHALL SERVE HIM AND HOLD FAST TO HIM. (DEU. DEU. 13:1-4) MAKES FIRE COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN: HE HAS AN ABILITY SIMILAR TO THAT OF GOD’S TWO WITNESSES (REV. REV. 11:5+). PERHAPS HIS POWER IS EVEN MORE IMPRESSIVE BECAUSE ITS SOURCE APPEARS TO BE FROM HEAVEN. IN THE PAST, FIRE FROM HEAVEN WAS ASSOCIATED WITH GOD’S POWER, CONSUMING BOTH HIS ADVERSARIES (2K. 2K. 1:9-12) AND HIS SACRIFICE (NUM. NUM. 16:35; 1K. 1K. 18:38). THE FALSE PROPHET SHOWS THE PHARISEES OF THE END THE VERY SIGNS THEY SOUGHT AS VALIDATION OF MESSIAH WHEN JESUS WALKED THE EARTH (MTT. MAT. 16:1). YET ALL IS NOT AS IT APPEARS, FOR HE IS A GREAT DECEIVER. AS IN THE DAYS OF JOB, FIRE WILL FALL “FROM HEAVEN” WHICH WILL ACTUALLY BE IN THE SERVICE OF SATAN (JOB JOB 1:19). IT NEED HARDLY BE SAID THAT NERO NEVER HAD AN ACCOMPLICE LIKE THIS! REVELATION 13:14: AND HE DECEIVES: EMPOWERED BY THE GREAT DECEIVER (REV. REV. 12:9+), HE PRODUCES THE FRUIT OF DECEPTION. THE POWER OF THIS DECEPTION WILL BE UNIQUE IN HISTORY. JESUS SUGGESTED THAT ONLY THOSE PROTECTED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT WOULD BE ABLE TO RESIST HIS ABILITY TO CONVINCE. “FOR FALSE CHRISTS AND FALSE PROPHETS WILL RISE AND SHOW GREAT SIGNS AND WONDERS TO DECEIVE, IF POSSIBLE, EVEN THE ELECT. SEE, I HAVE TOLD YOU BEFOREHAND” (MTT. MAT. 24:24-25 CF. MARK MARK 13:22). THOSE WHO DWELL: SOME MANUSCRIPTS IN THE MT TEXT LINE HAVE ΤΟὺΣ ἐΜΟὺΣ ΤΟὺΣ ΚΑΤΑΟΙΚΟῦΝΤΑΣ [TOUS EMOUS TOUS KATAOIKOUNTAS], THOSE [PEOPLE] OF MINE WHO DWELL. THIS VARIATION IN THE TEXT MAY HINT AT THE EXPLICIT INCLUSION OF JOHN’S PEOPLE, THE JEWS, IN THIS DECEPTION. WE KNOW FROM ELSEWHERE IN SCRIPTURE THAT THE JEWS WILL BE AMONG THOSE WHO ARE DECEIVED (JOHN JOHN 5:43). MAKE AN IMAGE TO THE BEAST: THE BEAST HAS A PROBLEM. HE CLAIMS TO BE GOD, BUT LACKS GOD’S OMNIPRESENCE. THEREFORE, AN ICON (ΕἰΚΌΝΑ [EIKONA]) OF THE BEAST IS TO BE MADE. WHILE SCRIPTURE DOES NOT SAY, IT WOULD APPEAR THAT ONE PURPOSE OF THE ICON IS TO OCCUPY THE PLACE OF WORSHIP IN THE “HOLY PLACE” (MTT. MAT. 24:15) ON AN ONGOING BASIS AS THE FOCAL POINT OF WORSHIP.1 THE IMAGE SERVES AS THE CENTER OF WORSHIP ALLOWING THE BEAST TO GO ABOUT HIS OTHER AFFAIRS OF STATE. THIS PROBABLY OCCURS AFTER THE INITIAL DECLARATION OF DEITY MADE IN THE PERSON OF THE BEAST HIMSELF (2TH. 2TH. 2:4). THE TERM ABOMINATION REFERS TO AN IMAGE OR AN IDOL. THIS EVEN IS ALSO MENTIONED IN MATTHEW MAT. 24:15-16: ...THE ONLY CLUE GIVEN IS THAT IT WILL BE SOMETHING STANDING (LIKE AN IMAGE OR IDOL) IN THE HOLY PLACE. ...THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION MUST INCLUDE SOMETHING MORE THAN MERELY THE ANTICHRIST’S SELF-PROCLAMATION OF DEITY. FURTHERMORE, THE DANIEL AND MATTHEW PASSAGES IMPLIED AN IMAGE OR IDOL THAT WOULD BE ERECTED IN THE TEMPLE. ...THUS, THE TWO STAGES OF THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION, LASTING A TOTAL OF 1,290 DAYS WILL BE THE DECLARATION OF DEITY BY THE ANTICHRIST IN THE HOLY OF HOLIES FOLLOWED BY THE SETTING UP OF HIS IMAGE IN THE SAME PLACE.2 THE FACT THAT NOTHING LIKE WHAT IS RECORDED IN OUR TEXT HAPPENED IN THE FIRST CENTURY REPRESENTS NO PROBLEM FOR PRETERISTS WHO FIND FULFILLMENT IN THE TIME OF NERO. THE DETAILS ARE SIMPLY SWEPT ASIDE. TYPICAL OF PRETERISM’S REFUSAL TO INTERPRET THE TEXT AT FACE VALUE IS THE EXAMPLE FOUND IN GREGG: THE MAKING OF AN IMAGE TO THE BEAST (V. 14), OR AN IMAGE OF THE BEAST (V. 15), THE GIVING BREATH TO THE IMAGE, AND THE REQUIREMENT THAT ALL MEN WORSHIP IT ARE DIFFICULT FEATURES TO CORRELATE WITH ANY ACTION KNOWN TO HAVE OCCURRED IN ISRAEL IN THE FIRST CENTURY. THIS NEED NOT BE TAKEN LITERALLY, HOWEVER, AND CAN SIMPLY REFER TO THE JEW’S GENERAL HOMAGE TO ROME’S AUTHORITY. [EMPHASIS ADDED]3 HERE WE SEE A FIRST-RATE EXAMPLE OF THE EXEGETICAL GEARSHIFT WE MENTIONED RELATED TO THE PRETERIST INTERPRETATION OF THIS BOOK. THEIR TECHNIQUE IS TO SEARCH FIRST CENTURY DOCUMENTS FOR AN APPROXIMATE “FULFILLMENT” OF THE LITERAL TEXT. WHEN THE DOCUMENTS CANNOT PRODUCE EVEN AN APPROXIMATE CONNECTION, THEN THE GEAR SHIFTS TO NON-LITERAL INTERPRETATION IN ORDER TO MOVE OVER THE “SPEED BUMP.” WITH SUCH A FLUID MEANS OF INTERPRETATION, THE AUTHORITY OF SCRIPTURE TO SPECIFY WHAT CONSTITUTES FULFILLMENT IS SUBVERTED. WORSHIP OF THE IMAGE MADE TO THE BEAST IS A FLAGRANT VIOLATION OF THE SECOND OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS: “YOU SHALL NOT MAKE FOR YOURSELF A CARVED IMAGE—ANY LIKENESS OF ANYTHING THAT IS IN HEAVEN ABOVE, OR THAT IS IN THE EARTH BENEATH, OR THAT IS IN THE WATER UNDER THE EARTH; YOU SHALL NOT BOW DOWN TO THEM OR SERVE THEM” (EX. EX. 20:4). SCRIPTURE INDICATES THAT THE BEAST WHO ATTAINS WORLDWIDE WORSHIP (REV. REV. 13:8+) “OPPOSES AND EXALTS HIMSELF ABOVE ALL THAT IS CALLED GOD OR THAT IS WORSHIPED, SO THAT HE SITS AS GOD IN THE TEMPLE OF GOD, SHOWING HIMSELF THAT HE IS GOD” (2TH. 2TH. 2:4). BUT THERE IS A CATCH—THE BEAST IS NOT GOD. IN PARTICULAR, HE LACKS GOD’S UNIQUE ATTRIBUTE OF OMNIPRESENCE. SO AS LONG AS HE HIMSELF REMAINS SITTING IN THE TEMPLE, HE IS UNABLE TO VENTURE FORTH ON THE VARIOUS CAMPAIGNS WHICH ARE ASSOCIATED WITH HIS ACTIVITIES AT THE TIME OF THE END. THIS SEEMS TO BE THE MOTIVATION BEHIND THE INSTRUCTIONS BY THE FALSE PROPHET THAT THE EARTH SEXUAL DWELLERS SHOULD “MAKE AN IMAGE TO THE BEAST WHO WAS WOUNDED BY THE SWORD AND LIVED” [#1-#19] (REV. REV. 13:14+B). HAVING ESTABLISHED THE IMAGE, THE FALSE PROPHET IS “GRANTED POWER TO GIVE BREATH TO THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST, THAT THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST SHOULD BOTH SPEAK AND CAUSE AS MANY AS WOULD NOT WORSHIP THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST TO BE KILLED” [#18-#19] (REV. REV. 13:15+ CF. REV. 14:9+). THIS IS PERHAPS ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE STATEMENTS IN ALL OF SCRIPTURE AS IT APPEARS THAT THE FALSE PROPHET IS ALLOWED, BY THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD’S PERMISSIVE CONTROL OF EVIL, TO GIVE THE IMAGE LIFE. ALTHOUGH WE CAN’T BE SURE, IT SEEMS REASONABLE TO THINK THAT ONE PURPOSE OF THE IMAGE IS TO CONTINUE TO OCCUPY THE HOLY PLACE WITHIN THE TEMPLE ALLOWING THE BEAST TO VENTURE FORTH TO ATTEND TO HIS MANY RESPONSIBILITIES—LEAVING AN ICON PRESENT AS THE FOCAL POINT OF WORSHIP. NOTICE THAT BOTH THE BEAST AND HIS IMAGE ARE THE OBJECTS OF WORSHIP (REV. REV. 13:15+; REV. 19:20+). THOSE WHO REFUSE TO WORSHIP THE IMAGE ARE KILLED [#19-#20]! ALTHOUGH THE MAN OF SIN HIMSELF FIRST SITS IN THE TEMPLE (2TH. 2TH. 2:3-4), JESUS INFERS THAT SOMETHING INANIMATE IS SET UP IN THE HOLY PLACE: “THEREFORE, WHEN YOU SEE THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION, SPOKEN OF BY DANIEL THE PROPHET STANDING IN THE HOLY PLACE...” (MTT. MAT. 24:15). THE ABOMINATION IN THIS VERSE IS NOT A PERSON (MASCULINE OR FEMININE) BUT A THING (NEUTER). PERHAPS IT IS THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST?1 IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO KNOW FOR CERTAIN. YET, THIS WOULD HELP EXPLAIN ONE PURPOSE OF THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST. FOLLOWING THE JUDGMENTS OF THE SIXTH TRUMPET “THE REST OF MANKIND, WHO WERE NOT KILLED BY THESE PLAGUES, DID NOT REPENT OF THE WORKS OF THEIR HANDS, THAT THEY SHOULD NOT WORSHIP DEMONS, AND IDOLS...” [EMPHASIS ADDED] (REV. REV. 9:20+). INTERESTINGLY, THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST IS THE ULTIMATE WORK OF THEIR HANDS SINCE THE FALSE PROPHET “DECEIVES THOSE WHO DWELL ON THE EARTH...TO MAKE AN IMAGE TO THE BEAST” (REV. REV. 13:14+). THUS, THEY THEMSELVES MAKE THE ULTIMATE IDOL (ICON) OF THEIR OWN WORSHIP! THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST IS TYPIFIED BY NEBUCHADNEZZAR’S GOLD IMAGE WHICH HIS SUBJECTS WERE REQUIRED TO WORSHIP ON PENALTY OF DEATH: NEBUCHADNEZZAR SPOKE, SAYING TO THEM, “IS IT TRUE, ...THAT YOU DO NOT SERVE MY GODS OR WORSHIP THE GOLD IMAGE WHICH I HAVE SET UP? ...IF YOU DO NOT WORSHIP, YOU SHALL BE CAST IMMEDIATELY INTO THE MIDST OF A BURNING FIERY FURNACE. AND WHO IS THE GOD WHO WILL DELIVER YOU FROM MY HANDS?” (DAN. DAN. 3:14-15) IN THE SAME WAY THAT NEBUCHADNEZZAR’S IMAGE RECEIVED WORSHIP ON HIS BEHALF, SO WILL THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST RECEIVE WORSHIP TOGETHER WITH THE BEAST HIMSELF. SEVERAL PASSAGES OF SCRIPTURE INDICATE THAT THE ACTIVITIES OF THE ANTICHRIST INVOLVE A FUTURE JEWISH TEMPLE:1 DANIEL DAN. 9:27 - THE PRINCE WHO IS TO COME CONFIRMS A COVENANT FOR THE DURATION OF THE 70TH WEEK OF DANIEL. IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK, “HE SHALL BRING AN END TO SACRIFICE AND OFFERING.” THIS IMPLIES AN PREEXISTING TEMPLE WITHIN WHICH SACRIFICE AND OFFERING HAD BEEN TAKING PLACE. DANIEL DAN. 12:11 - THE DAILY SACRIFICE WILL BE TAKEN AWAY AND THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION IS SET UP. THE CONTEXT INDICATES THAT THIS OCCURS DURING “A TIME OF TROUBLE, SUCH AS NEVER WAS SINCE THERE WAS A [JEWISH] NATION” (DAN. DAN. 12:1). A TEMPLE MUST HAVE BEEN STANDING IN WHICH THE DAILY SACRIFICES WERE BEING OFFERED. MATTHEW MAT. 24:15 - JESUS PREDICTED THAT THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION WOULD STAND “IN THE HOLY PLACE.” THIS REFERS TO A LOCATION WITHIN THE TEMPLE. 2 THESSALONIANS 2TH. 2:4 - PAUL INDICATED THAT ONE OF THE ACTS OF THE MAN OF SIN WOULD BE TO EXALT HIMSELF “ABOVE ALL THAT IS CALLED GOD OR IS WORSHIPED, SO THAT HE SITS AS GOD IN THE TEMPLE OF GOD, SHOWING HIMSELF THAT HE IS GOD.” [EMPHASIS ADDED] REVELATION REV. 11:1+ - JOHN IS TOLD TO MEASURE “THE TEMPLE OF GOD, THE ALTAR, AND THOSE WHO WORSHIP THERE.” THE CONTEXT IS DURING THE TRIBULATION, PRIOR TO THE RETURN OF CHRIST. IT IS BEYOND ALL DOUBT THAT A TEMPLE EXISTS AT THE TIME OF ANTICHRIST. THE ONLY QUESTION WHICH REMAINS IS WHICH TEMPLE? AS WE HAVE ALREADY MENTIONED, MOST PRETERIST INTERPRETERS TAKE NERO TO BE THE BEAST AND UNDERSTAND THE FULFILLMENT OF HIS OVERTHROW BY CHRIST (REV. REV. 19:20+) TO BE HIS SUICIDE IN A.D. 68. THEY SEE JOHN’S MENTION OF A TEMPLE IN REVELATION REV. 11:1+ AS INTERNAL EVIDENCE FOR AN EARLY DATE FOR THE WRITING OF REVELATION. IF THIS WERE AN ACCEPTABLE EXPLANATION AND INTERPRETATION, THEN THE TRIBULATION TEMPLE WOULD BE NONE OTHER THAN THE SECOND TEMPLE PRIOR TO ITS DESTRUCTION BY ROME IN A.D. 70. HOWEVER, ATTEMPTS TO FIND FULFILLMENT OF THE BOOK OF REVELATION, NOT TO MENTION ALL THE OTHER RELATED PROPHETIC THEMES, IN THE EVENTS OF THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM IN A.D. 70 REQUIRE AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF CREATIVE AND IMPRECISE INTERPRETATION, NOT TO MENTION OUTRIGHT REVERSAL OF TEXTUAL MEANING.2 ALTHOUGH PRETERISTS MAINTAIN THAT SINCE JOHN IS TOLD TO MEASURE THE TEMPLE (REV. REV. 11:1+) IT MUST THEREFORE HAVE BEEN STANDING IN JOHN’S DAY, THIS IS NOT NECESSARILY SO: REGARDING PRETERIST ASSERTION THAT THIS IS HEROD’S TEMPLE, TO BE DESTROYED IN 70 A.D., THERE ARE AT LEAST TWO PROBLEMS WITH THIS VIEW. FIRSTLY, MOST SCHOLARS DATE THE BOOK OF REVELATION AFTER THAT DESTRUCTION AND SECONDLY, IT DOES NOT MATTER AT ALL WHETHER THE TEMPLE IS THOUGHT TO STILL BE STANDING IN JERUSALEM AT THE TIME THAT JOHN SEES THE VISION, SINCE THAT WOULD NOT NECESSARILY HAVE ANY BEARING UPON A VISION. JOHN IS TOLD BY THE ANGEL ACCOMPANYING HIM DURING THE VISION TO ‘MEASURE THE TEMPLE’ (REV. REV. 11:1+). MEASURE WHAT TEMPLE? THE TEMPLE IN THE VISION. IN FACT, EZEKIEL, DURING A SIMILAR VISION OF A TEMPLE (EZE. EZE. 40:1-EZE. 48:1) WAS TOLD TO MEASURE THAT TEMPLE. [PRETERISTS] WOULD AGREE, THAT WHEN EZEKIEL SAW AND WAS TOLD TO MEASURE A TEMPLE, THAT THERE WAS NOT ONE STANDING IN JERUSALEM.3 THERE IS AN ADDITIONAL PROBLEM WITH THE PRETERIST VIEW THAT THE TRIBULATION TEMPLE IS THE SECOND TEMPLE: NO ONE IN THE EARLY CHURCH—THE SAINTS WHO LIVED CLOSEST TO THE TIMES OF BOTH NERO AND JOHN—UNDERSTOOD THE PRETERIST SCHEME. THEY DID NOT SEE NERO AS THE ANTICHRIST AND THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM AS THE FULFILLMENT OF THE BOOK OF REVELATION. SOME OF THE EARLIEST INTERPRETERS, LIKE FUTURIST INTERPRETERS OF TODAY, EXPECTED THE TEMPLE TO BE A REBUILT TEMPLE FUTURE TO JOHN’S DAY: THEREFORE, WHEN HE [THE ANTICHRIST] RECEIVES THE KINGDOM, HE ORDERS THE TEMPLE OF GOD TO BE REBUILT FOR HIMSELF, WHICH IS IN JERUSALEM; WHO AFTER COMING INTO IT, HE SHALL SIT AS GOD.—EPHRAIM THE SYRIAN, A.D. 373.4 BUT WHEN THIS ANTICHRIST SHALL HAVE DEVASTATED ALL THINGS IN THIS WORLD, HE WILL REIGN FOR THREE YEARS AND SIX MONTHS, AND SIT IN THE TEMPLE AT JERUSALEM; AND THEN THE LORD WILL COME FROM HEAVEN IN THE CLOUDS, IN THE GLORY OF THE FATHER (STEPHEN), SENDING THIS MAN AND THOSE WHO FOLLOW HIM INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE; BUT BRINGING IN FOR THE RIGHTEOUS THE TIMES OF THE KINGDOM, THAT IS, THE REST, THE HALLOWED SEVENTH DAY; AND RESTORING TO ABRAHAM THE PROMISED INHERITANCE, IN WHICH KINGDOM THE LORD DECLARED, THAT “MANY COMING FROM THE EAST AND FROM THE WEST SHOULD SIT DOWN WITH ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB.”5 AS WE DISCUSS ELSEWHERE, THE DATE OF THE WRITING OF THE BOOK OF REVELATION IS MOST LIKELY IN A.D. 95 OR 96 AT THE END OF DOMITIAN’S REIGN. AT THAT TIME, NO TEMPLE STOOD IN JERUSALEM. THEREFORE, THE PASSAGES MENTIONED ABOVE WHICH HAVE NOT YET BEEN FULFILLED REQUIRE THE REBUILDING OF A JEWISH TEMPLE. IT WOULD APPEAR THAT THIS TRIBULATION TEMPLE MUST BE IN PLACE NO LATER THAN THE MIDPOINT OF THE 70TH WEEK OF DANIEL IN ORDER FOR THE MAN OF SIN TO SIT IN THE HOLY PLACE AND FOR THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION TO BE SET UP. THE TEMPLE MAY ACTUALLY BE BUILT WELL IN ADVANCE OF THAT EVENT, ESPECIALLY SINCE IT APPEARS THAT THE BREAKING OF THE COVENANT BETWEEN THE ANTICHRIST AND “MANY” IN ISRAEL CONTRAVENES THE RESUMPTION OF SACRIFICE AND OFFERING WHICH WOULD PREVIOUSLY HAVE BEEN TAKING PLACE AT THE SITE OF THE TEMPLE (DAN. DAN. 9:27). EITHER THE TRIBULATION TEMPLE WILL BE COMPLETE BY THE TIME THE SACRIFICE IS RESUMED OR, AS IN THE DAYS OF THE REBUILDING OF THE SECOND TEMPLE, THE SACRIFICES WILL BE RESUMED WHILE THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE IS IN PROGRESS. AS WE DISCUSSED IN RELATION TO THE TEMPLE OF THE BELIEVER, THERE IS NOTHING WHICH PRECLUDES THE EXISTENCE OF A JEWISH TEMPLE SIDE-BY-SIDE WITH BELIEVERS WHO ARE INDWELT WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT. THIS WAS THE SITUATION FOR ALMOST FOUR DECADES AFTER THE DAY OF PENTECOST UNTIL THE DESTRUCTION OF THE SECOND TEMPLE: THE EARLY JEWISH CHURCH—BEFORE THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE—WAS INDWELT, SEALED, AND FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT AND YET CONTINUED TO WORSHIP IN THE TEMPLE! THIS WOULD IMPLY THAT THE THIRD TEMPLE COULD BE BUILT DURING THE CHURCH AGE AND EVEN SACRIFICES COMMENCED WITHOUT THERE BEING A NECESSARY CONFLICT WITH “SPIRITUAL WORSHIP.”6 MOREOVER, A REBUILT JEWISH TEMPLE WOULD MOST LIKELY BE THE PRODUCT OF ORTHODOX JUDAISM WHICH REJECTS THE CHRISTIAN REALITY OF THE TEMPLE OF THE BELIEVER. SO VIEWS CONCERNING THE COMPATIBILITY OF A PHYSICAL TEMPLE WHILE A SPIRITUAL TEMPLE ALREADY EXISTS WITHIN EACH BELIEVER MAY BE IRRELEVANT. THERE IS ALSO THE POSSIBILITY THAT THE CHURCH WILL BE TAKEN IN THE RAPTURE PRIOR TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE TRIBULATION TEMPLE. FINALLY, WE NOTE THAT DURING THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM, A PHYSICAL TEMPLE WILL EXIST ALONGSIDE BELIEVERS IN JESUS. AS TO THE PRACTICALITY OF REBUILDING THE TEMPLE, THERE IS MUCH CONTROVERSY. CONSIDERABLE DEBATE ATTENDS THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE PRECISE LOCATION OF SOLOMON’S TEMPLE UPON THE TEMPLE MOUNT AND WHETHER THE DOME OF THE ROCK AND AL-AQSA MOSQUE PRECLUDE ANY POSSIBILITY OF A FUTURE JEWISH TEMPLE ON THE MOUNT. THERE IS ALSO DISAGREEMENT CONCERNING WHETHER A JEWISH TEMPLE COULD BE BUILT UPON THE TEMPLE MOUNT WHILE THE DOME OF THE ROCK AND AL-AQSA MOSQUE CONTINUE TO STAND. SOME INVESTIGATORS CLAIM THAT THE SECOND TEMPLE STOOD AT A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT LOCATION THAN THAT OCCUPIED BY THE DOME OF THE ROCK. OTHERS SAY THIS IS A MOOT POINT BECAUSE MUSLIMS WOULD NEVER ALLOW THE JEWS TO BUILD ANYTHING ANYWHERE UPON THE TEMPLE MOUNT SO LONG AS ISLAM CONTROLS THE LOCATION. SIMILARLY, ORTHODOX JUDAISM CONSIDERS ALL ISLAMIC PRESENCE ON THE MOUNT TO BE A DEFILEMENT OF THEIR HISTORICAL HOLY LOCATION. IT IS BEYOND THE SCOPE OF OUR TREATMENT HERE TO CONSIDER THE ISSUES RELATED TO THE PRECISE LOCATION AND ABILITY TO REBUILD. REVELATION 13:15: HE WAS GRANTED POWER TO GIVE BREATH TO THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST: THE POWER GIVEN TO THE FALSE PROPHET HERE IS PERHAPS THE APEX OF WHAT GOD HAS EVER ALLOWED IN THE HANDS OF THE ENEMY: THE POWER TO GIVE LIFE. THIS POWER IS INTRINSIC TO THE CREATOR, AND HE IS INTIMATELY INVOLVED WITH THE CREATION OF EACH CREATURE.1 THE FALSE PROPHET GIVES BREATH (PNEUMA) TO THAT WHICH IS INITIALLY INANIMATE, AS “GOD FORMED MAN OF THE DUST OF THE GROUND, AND BREATHED INTO HIS NOSTRILS THE BREATH OF LIFE; AND MAN BECAME A LIVING BEING” (GEN. GEN. 2:7). UNLIKE ALL PREVIOUS LIFELESS IDOLS WHICH HAVE BEEN THE WORK OF MEN’S HANDS, THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST IS GIVEN LIFE. THIS IS PROBABLY THE CAPSTONE OF THE LYING WONDERS WHICH THE FALSE PROPHET PERFORMS—THE GRAND FINALE OF HIS DECEPTION. SCRIPTURE RECORDS THAT MEN HAVE READILY GIVEN WORSHIP TO LIFELESS CREATIONS IN THE PAST: WHAT PROFIT IS THE IMAGE, THAT ITS MAKER SHOULD CARVE IT, THE MOLDED IMAGE, A TEACHER OF LIES, THAT THE MAKER OF ITS MOLD SHOULD TRUST IN IT, TO MAKE MUTE IDOLS? WOE TO HIM WHO SAYS TO WOOD, ‘AWAKE!’ TO SILENT STONE, ‘ARISE! IT SHALL TEACH!’ BEHOLD, IT IS OVERLAID WITH GOLD AND SILVER, YET IN IT THERE IS NO BREATH AT ALL. (HAB. HAB. 2:18-19 CF. PS. PS. 135:17-18; JER. JER. 10:14; JER. 51:17-19) THEY WORSHIP ALL THE MORE SO NOW WHEN THEY SEE THE FANTASTIC MIRACLE OF THE BEAST’S IMAGE HAVING COME TO LIFE AT THE HANDS OF THE FALSE PROPHET. THE IMAGE ITSELF MUST BE ULTIMATELY COMPELLING BECAUSE THE ENORMITY OF THE MIRACLE PERFORMED BY THE FALSE PROPHET DOES NOT DRAW ATTENTION TO THE PROPHET, BUT ALL ATTENTION REMAINS FOCUSED ON THE WORSHIP OF THE IMAGE ITSELF AND THE BEAST TO WHICH IT ATTESTS.2 SOME OPPOSE THE NOTION THAT THE IMAGE COULD TRULY BE GIVEN LIFE. THEY PREFER TO UNDERSTAND “BREATH” AS DENOTING ANIMATION. THUS, THEY SEE THE IMAGE WITH BREATH AS A FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGICAL MIMIC OF LIFE. ALTHOUGH THIS IS POSSIBLE, IT DOESN’T SEEM TO DO JUSTICE TO THE TEXT AND THE WAY IN WHICH PNEUMA (BREATH) DENOTES LIFE-GIVING POWER ELSEWHERE IN SCRIPTURE (GEN. GEN. 2:7; REV. REV. 11:11+). “THE PNEUMA IS THEREFORE THE EQUIVALENT OF ΠΝΕῦΜΑ ΖΩῆΣ [PNEUMA ZŌĒS] (‘THE BREATH OF LIFE’) SO RECENTLY ENCOUNTERED IN CONNECTION WITH THE TWO WITNESSES.”3 MORRIS SUGGESTS ANOTHER POSSIBILITY, THAT THE SPIRIT GIVEN MAY BE AN UNCLEAN SPIRIT, OR DEMON: THE WORD IN THE GREEK IS PNEUMA, MEANING “SPIRIT” OR “WIND.” THE FALSE PROPHET IS ENABLED (BY HIS OWN MASTER, SATAN) TO IMPART A SPIRIT TO THE IMAGE, BUT THAT SPIRIT IS ONE OF SATAN’S UNCLEAN SPIRITS, PROBABLY A HIGHLY PLACED DEMON IN THE SATANIC HIERARCHY. THIS IS A STRIKING CASE OF DEMON POSSESSION, WITH THE DEMON POSSESSING THE BODY OF THE IMAGE RATHER THAN THAT OF A MAN OR WOMAN.4 ALTHOUGH IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO KNOW PRECISELY WHAT IS INFERRED FROM THE “BREATH” BEING GIVEN TO THE IMAGE, THE RESULTS ARE NOTHING SHORT OF LIFE—FOR THE IMAGE EXHIBITS APPARENT INTELLIGENCE AND SPEAKING ABILITIES. WE MUST REMEMBER THAT THE FALSE PROPHET “EXERCISES ALL THE AUTHORITY OF THE FIRST BEAST” (REV. REV. 13:12+) AND THAT THE FIRST BEAST IS GIVEN “GREAT AUTHORITY” BY THE DRAGON. IF THE DRAGON REVIVES THE BEAST AND BRINGS HIM BACK FROM THE ABYSS, AS EVIDENCED BY THE WORSHIP OF THE MASSES, THEN WHY COULDN’T THE FALSE PROPHET WITH THE SAME MEASURE AND SOURCE OF POWER GIVE LIFE TO THE IMAGE? CERTAINLY, THIS IS NOT BEYOND THE ABILITY THAT GOD COULD GRANT IF IT WERE WITHIN HIS PURPOSE TO DO SO. MOREOVER, WE HAVE NO EXAMPLES IN SCRIPTURE OF THE ANIMATION OF INANIMATE OBJECTS BY DEMONIC POSSESSION. SPIRITS SEEK EMBODIMENT IN LIVING HOSTS (MARK MARK 5:12). EITHER WAY, THE IMAGE APPEARS CONVINCINGLY LIFELIKE. THE IMAGE PROBABLY PLAYS A ROLE IN THE SEQUENCE OF EVENTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE “ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION” SPOKEN OF BY BOTH DANIEL (DAN. DAN. 11:31; DAN. 12:11 CF. DAN. DAN. 9:27) AND JESUS (MTT. MAT. 24:15): THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION, WHICH THE READER IS TO UNDERSTAND, INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING ELEMENTS: 1. IT OCCURS IN THE JEWISH TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM (DAN. DAN. 11:31; 2TH. 2TH. 2:4). 2. IT INVOLVES A PERSON SETTING UP A STATUE IN PLACE OF THE REGULAR SACRIFICE IN THE HOLY OF HOLIES (DAN. DAN. 11:31; DAN. 12:11; REV. REV. 13:14-15+). 3. THIS RESULTS IN THE CESSATION OF THE REGULAR SACRIFICE (DAN. DAN. 9:27; DAN. 11:31; DAN. 12:11). 4. THERE WILL BE A TIME OF ABOUT THREE-AND-A-HALF YEARS BETWEEN THIS EVENT…AND THE END OF THE TIME PERIOD (DAN. DAN. 9:27; DAN. 12:11). 5. IT INVOLVES AN INDIVIDUAL SETTING UP A STATUE OR IMAGE OF HIMSELF SO THAT HE MAY BE WORSHIPPED IN PLACE OF GOD (DAN. DAN. 11:31; 2TH. 2TH. 2:4; REV. REV. 13:14-15+). 6. THE IMAGE IS MADE TO COME TO LIFE (REV. REV. 13:14+). 7. A WORSHIP SYSTEM TO THIS FALSE GOD IS THUS INAUGURATED (2TH. 2TH. 2:4; REV. REV. 13:14-15+). 8. AT THE END OF THIS TIME PERIOD THE INDIVIDUAL WHO COMMITS THE ACT WILL HIMSELF BE CUT OFF (DAN. DAN. 9:27).5 THIS EVENT CONCLUDES AT THE MIDDLE OF THE FINAL WEEK, AFTER THE BEAST OVERCOMES THE TWO WITNESSES (REV. REV. 11:7+). IT IS THE SIGNAL FOR THE FLIGHT OF THE JEWISH REMNANT TO THE MOUNTAINS AND THEREAFTER TO THE WILDERNESS. THAT THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST SHOULD...SPEAK: THIS IDOL IS UNLIKE ALL PREVIOUS IDOLS WHICH WERE MUTE (PS. PS. 115:5; PS. 135:16; JER. JER. 10:5). THE FALSE PROPHET SPOKE AS A DRAGON (REV. REV. 13:11+) AND THAT WHICH HE EMPOWERS CONTINUES IN THAT SAME VAIN, ORDERING THE DEATH OF THOSE WHO REFUSE TO WORSHIP. CAUSE AS MANY AS WOULD NOT WORSHIP THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST TO BE KILLED: THIS IS THE POINT OF NO RETURN. THE ENTIRE POPULATION OF THE EARTH IS NOW DIVIDED INTO THOSE WHO RETAIN PHYSICAL LIFE, BUT FOREVER LOSE SPIRITUAL LIFE VERSUS THOSE WHO RETAIN SPIRITUAL LIFE, BUT ARE LIKELY TO LOSE PHYSICAL LIFE. THE FORMER ARE THOSE WHO WORSHIP THE BEAST AND HIS IMAGE. THE LATTER REFUSE TO WORSHIP AT THE COST OF THEIR PHYSICAL LIVES. THE ONLY EXCEPTIONS ARE THE BELIEVING JEWISH REMNANT WHICH IS HIDDEN BY GOD (REV. REV. 12:6+, REV. 12:14+) AND THOSE WHO MANAGE TO STAY ALIVE UNDERGROUND WITHIN THE BEAST’S SYSTEM (REV. REV. 18:4+). MANY OF THOSE WHICH REFUSE THE MARK AND RESIDE WITHIN THE BEAST’S SYSTEM WILL BE GENTILES WHO COME TO FAITH DURING THIS TIME OF THE END. THEIR SURVIVAL WILL BE PRECARIOUS ON TWO COUNTS: (1) THE BEAST, HIS IMAGE, AND THE HARLOT ALL SEEK THEIR DEATH; AND (2) THEY WILL BE UNABLE TO PURCHASE THE BASIC NECESSITIES OF LIFE. MANY OF THEM WILL ACHIEVE VICTORY OVER THE BEAST, NOT BY SURVIVAL, BUT BY PERSEVERING IN MARTYRDOM (REV. REV. 7:14-17+; REV. 20:4+). THOSE WHO WORSHIP THE BEAST AND HIS IMAGE AND TAKE HIS MARK ARE WARNED BY AN ANGEL CONCERNING THE SERIOUSNESS OF WHAT THEY ARE ABOUT TO DO (REV. REV. 14:9+). THIS UNIQUE GLOBAL WARNING INDICATES THE IRREVERSIBLE NATURE OF TAKING THE MARK. TAKING THE MARK IS AKIN TO THE UNPARDONABLE SIN OF JESUS’ DAY—THERE IS NO POSSIBILITY OF REDEMPTION ONCE THE MARK IS TAKEN (REV. REV. 14:9-11+). IN STARK CONTRAST TO THE PEOPLE OF FAITH, THEY ARE ETERNALLY INSECURE. THIS IS A UNIQUE SITUATION TO THE TIME OF THE END. FOR WHAT SIN IS THERE TODAY FROM WHICH THE BLOOD OF CHRIST CANNOT REDEEM? COULD NOT EVEN THE LIKES OF A HITLER BE SAVED IF HE HAD TRULY AND SINCERELY REPENTED PRIOR TO DEATH? WE ANSWER A RESOUNDING “YES!” BECAUSE WE UNDERSTAND THE PRICELESS VALUE OF THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB WHICH PROVIDES REDEMPTION FOR ALL SIN (REV. REV. 5:9+). FOR IF CHRIST’S BLOOD CANNOT ATONE FOR SOME SPECIFIC SIN, THEN THERE ARE TWO REQUIREMENTS FOR SALVATION, NOT ONE: RECEIVING CHRIST BY FAITH AND AVOIDING THIS SPECIFIC SIN. MAY IT NEVER BE! HERE, AS AT CHRIST’S FIRST COMING, WE HAVE A UNIQUE SITUATION WHERE THERE IS A SPECIFIC ACT, WHICH ONCE PARTICIPATED IN, MOVES THE INDIVIDUAL BEYOND ALL POSSIBILITY OF REDEMPTION. THE ACT IS THE EQUIVALENT OF ETERNAL, PERMANENT REJECTION OF THE LAMB. SO BLASPHEMOUS AND FOREORDAINED ARE THESE THAT THEY ARE NEVER AFFORDED ENTRY INTO THE BOOK OF LIFE, NOT EVEN TO BE WRITTEN AND SUBSEQUENTLY BLOTTED OUT (REV. REV. 13:8+; REV. 17:8+). LIKE THOSE WHO COMMIT THE UNPARDONABLE SIN, TAKING THE MARK IS THE EQUIVALENT OF PERMANENTLY REJECTING CHRIST. ANOTHER POSSIBLE EXPLANATION IS TO UNDERSTAND THE REFERENCES TO GOD’S BOOK (EX. EX. 32:32-33), THE BOOK OF THE LIVING (PS. PS. 69:28), THE BOOK (DAN. DAN. 12:1), THE BOOK OF LIFE (PHP. PHP. 4:3; REV. REV. 3:5+; REV. 17:8+; REV. REV. 20:12+, REV. 20:15+; REV. 22:19+), AND THE LAMB’S BOOK OF LIFE (REV. REV. 13:8+; REV. 21:27+) AS ALL DESCRIBING THE SAME BOOK. THIS BOOK: RECORDS THE NAMES OF ALL PEOPLE TO BE BORN WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THOSE WHO WILL WORSHIP THE BEAST DURING THE TRIBULATION. THE NAMES OF THE UNSAVED ARE BLOTTED OUT OF THE BOOK. THE NAMES OF THE BEAST SEXUAL WORSHIPERS ARE UNIQUELY OMITTED (REV. REV. 13:8+; REV. 17:8+). THE DIFFICULTY WITH THIS VIEW IS EXPLAINING WHY THOSE WHO WORSHIP THE BEAST ARE OMITTED FROM THE BOOK ENTIRELY RATHER THAN BEING WRITTEN IN AND THEN BLOTTED OUT WITH THE REST OF THE UNREDEEMED? PERHAPS THE ANSWER CAN BE FOUND IN THE UNIQUENESS OF THE HISTORIC ROLE AND ATTRIBUTES WHICH ATTEND THIS PARTICULAR GROUP OF THE UNREDEEMED? AS WE NOTED ELSEWHERE, THE PHRASE “THOSE WHO DWELL ON THE EARTH” IS USED IN A VERY SPECIAL SENSE IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION—DESCRIBING A MORAL CATEGORY RATHER THAN A GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION. CONSIDER THESE FACTS CONCERNING THE EARTH SEXUAL DWELLERS: THEY DIRECTLY WORSHIP SATAN HIMSELF (REV. REV. 13:4+). THEY WORSHIP THE BEAST WHO CLAIMS TO BE GOD (2TH. 2TH. 2:4). THEY ARE PROVIDED WITH OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE OF GOD’S EXISTENCE (REV. REV. 6:16-17+). THEY ARE AFFORDED THE BENEFIT OF HEARING THE GOSPEL MESSAGE FROM AN ANGEL (REV. REV. 14:6+). THEY ARE UNIQUELY WARNED OF THE CONSEQUENCES OF TAKING THE MARK BY ANOTHER ANGEL (REV. REV. 14:9+). THEY CONTINUE IN STEADFAST REBELLION, ALL THE WHILE BLASPHEMING GOD (REV. REV. 16:9+, REV. 16:11+, REV. 16:21+). SCRIPTURE UNIQUELY RECORDS THE IRREDEEMABLE STATUS OF THESE WHO VENTURE TO TAKE THE MARK OF THE BEAST (REV. REV. 14:9-11+) AND THE SPECIAL STATUS OF THOSE WHO RESIST (REV. REV. 14:13+; REV. 20:4+). THEIR UNIQUE, IRREDEEMABLE STATUS IS SEEN IN GOD’S SENDING UPON THEM A “STRONG DELUSION THAT THEY SHOULD BELIEVE THE LIE” (2TH. 2TH. 2:11). THE SERIOUS NATURE OF THEIR WORSHIP OF THE BEAST CAN BE SEEN IN THE UNIQUE TREATMENT WHICH THEY SHARE WITH THE BEAST AND THE FALSE PROPHET, WHO DECEIVES THEM TO WORSHIP THE BEAST. THE BEAST AND THE FALSE PROPHET ARE CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE WITHOUT OPPORTUNITY OF JUDGMENT AT THE GREAT WHITE THRONE. THEY ARE CAST DIRECTLY INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE AT THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST (REV. REV. 19:20+). SIMILARLY, FOLLOWING CHRIST’S RETURN, THE GOATS AMONG THE NATIONS—NONBELIEVING BEAST SEXUAL WORSHIPERS WHO SURVIVE THE TRIBULATION—ARE SENT “INTO THE EVERLASTING FIRE PREPARED FOR THE DEVIL AND HIS ANGELS” (MTT. MAT. 25:31, MAT. 25:41). THEIR TREATMENT APPEARS TO DIFFER FROM THE REST OF THE UNSAVED WHO ARE RESURRECTED AFTER THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM TO STAND IN JUDGMENT BEFORE THE GREAT WHITE THRONE (REV. REV. 20:11-13+) PRIOR TO BEING CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE (REV. REV. 20:15+). PERHAPS DIVINE DISGUST FOR THIS ULTIMATE GLOBAL EXPRESSION OF HUMAN IDOLATRY AND BLASPHEMY AT THE END OF HISTORY WILL BE THE OCCASION FOR THE TOTAL OMISSION OF ANY RECORD OF THESE INDIVIDUALS, THE “EARTH SEXUAL DWELLERS” OF THE END (REV. REV. 21:4+). THOSE WHO HAVE VICTORY OVER THE BEAST, HIS IMAGE, THE MARK, AND THE NUMBER OF HIS NAME ARE SEEN IN HEAVEN PRIOR TO THE POURING FORTH OF THE BOWL JUDGMENTS (REV. REV. 15:2+ CF. REV. REV. 16:2+). THEREFORE, THIS COMMAND TO TAKE THE MARK MUST OCCUR PRIOR TO THE BOWL JUDGMENTS. THOSE WHO REFUSE TO WORSHIP THE BEAST OR HIS IMAGE AND REFUSE HIS MARK ARE “BEHEADED FOR THEIR WITNESS TO JESUS AND FOR THE WORD OF GOD” (REV. REV. 20:4+). THESE LIVE AND REIGN WITH CHRIST IN THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM. WHEN THE THIRD BOWL JUDGMENT IS POURED FORTH, THE REMAINDER OF THE RIVERS AND SPRINGS BECOME BLOOD. AN ANGEL EXPLAINS THIS RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT OF GOD: “FOR THEY HAVE SHED THE BLOOD OF SAINTS AND PROPHETS, AND YOU HAVE GIVEN THEM BLOOD TO DRINK. FOR IT IS THEIR JUST DUE” (REV. REV. 16:6+). THE IMAGE WHICH REQUIRES WORSHIP IS TYPIFIED BY NEBUCHADNEZZAR’S STATUE. THOSE WHO REFUSED TO BOW DOWN BEFORE IT WERE CAST INTO A FURNACE (DAN. DAN. 3:5). AS THE THREE YOUNG HEBREW MEN WERE PRESERVED THROUGH THE FIRE, SO TOO WILL BE THOSE SAINTS WHO LIVE AT THE TIME OF THE END (REV. REV. 7:14+; REV. 15:2+; REV. 20:4+). REVELATION 13:16: HE CAUSES ALL, BOTH SMALL AND GREAT, RICH AND POOR, FREE AND SLAVE: THESE ARE SIMILAR CATEGORIES OF PERSONS WHO FLED TO THE MOUNTAINS AND HID THEMSELVES IN CAVES FROM THE WRATH OF GOD AND OF THE LAMB (REV. REV. 6:15+). NO MATTER WHAT STATION OR POSITION A PERSON HAS, THEY WILL ALL BE TREATED ABSOLUTELY EQUITABLY. EVEN THE RICH, WHO MIGHT NORMALLY EXPECT TO BRIBE THEIR WAY AROUND THE REQUIREMENT, HAVE NO EXEMPTION. SO MANIC IS THE DESIRE OF THE DRAGON—AND HIS EMPOWERED BEAST—FOR ALL WORSHIP THAT HE WILL TREAT THE MOST POWERFUL MEN ON A PAR WITH THE LEAST IN THEIR REQUIREMENT TO RENDER WORSHIP. IN THIS REGARD, THE DRAGON EMULATES THE TRUE GOD: “YET HE IS NOT PARTIAL TO PRINCES, NOR DOES HE REGARD THE RICH MORE THAN THE POOR” (JOB JOB 34:19). THE BIRDS WILL EXHIBIT SIMILAR UNIFORM TREATMENT OF THE EARTH SEXUAL DWELLERS AT THEIR BANQUET AT THE SECOND ADVENT (REV. REV. 19:17+). HERE AGAIN IS EVIDENCE AGAINST TAKING NERO AS THE BEAST, FOR THE REQUIREMENT OF WORSHIP IS GLOBAL: “THE NERONIAN PERSECUTION WAS LIMITED TO ROME AS FAR AS THE DATA TELL US, AND THERE IS NO EVIDENCE FOR IT EXTENDING TO THE PROVINCE OF ASIA AT THAT TIME.”1 TO RECEIVE A MARK: THE TR TEXT HAS ΔῶΣΗ ΑὐΤΟῖΣ [DŌSĒ AUTOIS], HE SHOULD GIVE THEM A MARK. THE NU TEXT HAS ΔῶΣΙΝ ΑὐΤΟῖΣ [DŌSIN AUTOIS], THEY SHOULD GIVE THEM A MARK. MARK IS ΧΆΡΑΓΜΑ [CHARAGMA]: “FROM CHARASSŌ, TO ENGRAVE...DENOTES A MARK OR STAMP.”2 IT DIFFERS FROM ΣΤΊΓΜΑ [STIGMA], SUCH AS PAUL CARRIED IN HIS BODY (GAL. GAL. 6:17) WHICH INDICATES A MARK OR SCAR “WITHOUT SPECIAL DESIGN, BUT CARRYING SIGNIFICANCE.”3 THE MARK HERE PROBABLY IS OF A SPECIFIC DESIGN SO AS TO BE RECOGNIZABLE. IT DIFFERS IN EMPHASIS FROM THE SEAL (ΣΦΡΑΓῖΔΑ [SPHRAGIDA]) PLACED ON THE 144,000 OF ISRAEL (REV. REV. 7:2+). THE MARK EMPHASIZES LOYALTY TO THE BEAST BUT THE SEAL EMPHASIZES OWNERSHIP BY GOD.4 THE ONLY OTHER OCCURRENCE OF THIS WORD OUTSIDE THE BOOK OF REVELATION IS BY LUKE. “THEREFORE, SINCE WE ARE THE OFFSPRING OF GOD, WE OUGHT NOT TO THINK THAT THE DIVINE NATURE IS LIKE GOLD OR SILVER OR STONE, SOMETHING SHAPED [GRAVEN, KJV; FORMED, NASB] BY ART AND MAN’S DEVISING” [EMPHASIS ADDED] (ACTS ACTS 17:29). IT IS ALMOST CERTAINLY VISIBLE: “MADE BY ENGRAVING, ETCHING, IMPRINTING, BRANDING,”5 WHEREAS THE SEAL OF GOD IS PROBABLY INVISIBLE (REV. REV. 7:2+). THE FORMER IS DISCERNIBLE BY SUPERNATURAL POWERS (REV. REV. 7:2+; REV. REV. 9:4+), THE LATTER BY THE GOVERNMENT OF THE BEAST. [DEMAR] EQUATES THE MARK OF REVELATION REV. 13:1+ (REV. REV. 13:16+) WITH THE MARK THAT IS GIVEN TO THE 144,000 BY THE LAMB. “WILL JESUS IMPLANT A MICROCHIP IN THE FOREHEADS OF THE 144,000?” HE ASKS. HERE DEMAR CONFUSES THINGS THAT MUST NOT BE CONFUSED. AS THE ETERNAL SON OF GOD, JESUS CHRIST DOES NOT NEED SOME KIND OF A VISIBLE MARK TO HELP HIM WATCH OVER THE 144,000. THE ANTICHRIST AND HIS MINIONS, HOWEVER, ARE NOT DIVINE. ...MENTION OF AN INVISIBLE MARK IN ONE PLACE OF SCRIPTURE NEED NOT IMPLY THAT THE MARK IN ALL OTHER PLACES IS INVISIBLE.6 A STRICTLY LITERAL TRANSLATION OF “THE MARK OF THE BEAST” MIGHT IMPLY “A PICTURE OF THE BEAST” OR “A MARK MADE BY THE BEAST.” A MORE SATISFACTORY INDICATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN “MARK” AND “BEAST” WOULD BE “A MARK SHOWING ONE’S RELATIONSHIP TO THE BEAST” OR “A MARK OF LOYALTY TO THE BEAST” OR “A MARK OF THE PARTY OF THE BEAST.”7 IN SUMMARY, THE MARK OF THE BEAST WOULD SIGNIFY TO THE READER OF THE TIME THAT THE RECIPIENT: WORSHIPPED THE BEAST AS DIVINE, ACKNOWLEDGED THE BEAST’S AUTHORITY, IS DEVOTED TO THE BEAST, AND CONSIDERS HIMSELF TO BE THE BEAST’S PROPERTY OR SLAVE TO COMMAND.8 IN THE PAPYRI, ΧΆΡΑΓΜΑ [CHARAGMA] IS ALWAYS CONNECTED WITH THE EMPEROR, AND SOMETIMES CONTAINS HIS NAME AND EFFIGY, WITH THE YEAR OF HIS REIGN. IT WAS NECESSARY FOR BUYING AND SELLING. IT IS FOUND ON ALL SORTS OF DOCUMENTS, MAKING THEM VALID; AND THERE ARE MANY ON “BILLS OF SALE.” CHARAGMA IS THEREFORE THE OFFICIAL SEAL.9 THE MARK WHICH IS TAKEN IS THE SAME FOR ALL: THIS MARK HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH CREDIT, AS IS OFTEN TAUGHT TODAY. IN A CREDIT SYSTEM, EVERYONE MUST HAVE A DIFFERENT NUMBER. IN THIS CASE, EVERYONE HAS THE SAME NUMBER. THE PURPOSE OF THE MARK WILL BE TO SERVE AS A SIGN OF IDENTIFICATION OF THOSE WHO WILL OWN THE ANTICHRIST AS THEIR GOD. ONLY THOSE WHO HAVE THIS NUMBER WILL BE PERMITTED TO WORK, TO BUY, TO SELL, OR SIMPLY TO MAKE A LIVING. THE VERSE DOES NOT SPEAK OF CREDIT CARDS, BANKING SYSTEMS, A CASHLESS SOCIETY, A ONE-WORLD MONEY SYSTEM, OR COMPUTERS, ETC.10 IT IS CERTAINLY WITHIN THE REALM OF POSSIBILITY FOR THE MARK TO SERVE BOTH AS A SINGLE IDENTIFIER OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE BEAST AND A GLOBALLY UNIQUE IDENTIFIER. ALL THAT IS REQUIRED IS TO COMBINE AN OUTWARD VISIBLE MARK (INDICATING SHARED ALLEGIANCE) WITH AN INVISIBLE DIGITAL CODE (INDICATING UNIQUE IDENTIFICATION). THE EXTERNAL MARK WOULD FUNCTION TO READILY CULL THE OBEDIENT FROM THE DISOBEDIENT WHILE THE INVISIBLE CODE WOULD PROVIDE THE NECESSARY MEANS FOR DIGITAL MONETARY EXCHANGE IN THE CONTROLLED ECONOMY OF THE END. AS IS TYPICAL OF SATAN’S SCHEMES, THE UNIQUE IDENTIFIER WOULD PROVIDE NUMEROUS BENEFITS WHICH WOULD ALSO SERVE AS MOTIVATION TO TAKE THE MARK. THE COST OF REFUSING THE MARK IS NOT JUST THE RISK OF ONE’S LIFE, BUT ALSO THE INABILITY TO PARTICIPATE IN THE GLOBAL MARKET. THE DETAILS OF THE MARK ARE NOT REVEALED BY SCRIPTURE. ON THEIR RIGHT HAND: THIS IMPLIES A MARK ON THE SURFACE OF THE HAND. SUCH A MARK HAS SEVERAL ADVANTAGES FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE BEAST. IT REQUIRES THE WORSHIPER TO PERMANENTLY DEFACE HIS BODY AS AN ACT OF HOMAGE. IT PROVIDES A READY MEANS TO IDENTIFY THOSE WITHOUT THE MARK. IT IS IMMUNE TO THE FRAGILITY OF TECHNICAL SYSTEMS—ESPECIALLY GIVEN THE DISRUPTIVE NATURE OF THE TIME OF THE END. ON THE OTHER HAND, A LOW-TECHNOLOGY IMPLEMENTATION HAS THE DISADVANTAGE OF BEING SUBJECT TO READY FALSIFICATION. PERHAPS THE ANSWER IS FOUND IN A COMBINATION OF BOTH EXTERNALLY VISIBLE AND INTERNAL (IMPLANTED) TECHNOLOGY: WHILE I ADMIT THAT THE PREPOSITION EPI IS USED, THIS DOES NOT CONSIGN THE FUTURIST INTERPRETATION [OF AN IMPLANTED MARK] TO SUDDEN DEATH. IF THIS MARK WERE PURELY ON THE SURFACE OF THE SKIN, THE RESULTANT LOSS OF SKIN, AS HAPPENS REGULARLY WITH PEOPLE, WOULD MEAN THE MARK WOULD DISAPPEAR. FOR THIS MARK TO HAVE ANY DEGREE OF PERMANENCE IT MUST, IN SOME SENSE, BE “IN” THE TISSUE. THE USE OF ΕΠΙ [EPI] DOESN’T REALLY DENY THAT. IT IS SIMPLY SAYING THAT THE MARK IS VISIBLE TO SOMEONE, OR TO SOME DEVICE SUCH AS A SCANNER. IN FACT, THE WORD “MARK” (CHARAGMA) COMES FROM THE VERB CHARASSO WHICH MEANS “TO CUT TO A POINT, THEN TO INSCRIBE.” IT IS REALLY NOT FARFETCHED TO SEE THE PHRASE AS DESCRIBING SOME KIND OF MINOR SURGERY—A “CUTTING TO A POINT”—FOR THE INSERTION OF A CHIP THAT WILL BE “INSCRIBED” WITH DATA.11 THIS IS A TIME IN WHICH JESUS’ INJUNCTION TO CUT OFF ONE’S HAND (MTT. MAT. 18:8) CAN BE TAKEN LITERALLY, FOR REV. REV. 14:9-10+ AND REV. 20:4+ MAKE IT PLAIN THAT NO ONE BEARING THE MARK OF THE BEAST WILL ENTER ETERNAL LIFE. INDEED, IT WILL BE BETTER TO ENTER ETERNAL LIFE MAIMED THAN TO BE CAST INTO HELL-FIRE WHOLE.12 OR ON THEIR FOREHEADS: THE HIGH PRIEST WORE A PLATE OF PURE GOLD UPON HIS FOREHEAD WITH THE ENGRAVING, “HOLINESS TO THE LORD” (EX. EX. 28:36-38). IT DECLARED HIM TO BE ONE WHO WAS SET ASIDE FOR THE PURPOSE AND MINISTRY OF GOD (A SAINT). EZEKIEL WAS SHOWN A VISION WHERE THOSE TO BE SPARED GOD’S JUDGMENT RECEIVE A MARK ON THEIR FOREHEADS (EZE. EZE. 9:4). HARLOTS WORE A MARK ON THEIR FOREHEAD IDENTIFYING THEIR HARLOTRY (JER. JER. 3:3; REV. REV. 17:5+). THE 144,000 SEALED OF ISRAEL HAVE THE NAME (STEPHEN YAHWEH) OF THE FATHER (STEPHEN) AND OF THE LAMB WRITTEN ON THEIR FOREHEADS (REV. REV. 14:1+ CF. REV. REV. 7:3+). IN ALL OF THESE EXAMPLES, THE MARK IDENTIFIES THE CATEGORY TO WHICH THE PERSON BELONGS AND SERVES AS AN INDICATION OF CHARACTER, AS DOES THE MARK OF THE BEAST. THOSE WHO TAKE IT ARE COMPLETELY OPPOSED TO GOD AND UNWILLING TO REPENT IN THE FACE OF OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE OF HIS JUDGMENT. THE PLACEMENT OF THE MARK ON THE HAND OR FOREHEAD BRINGS TO MIND THE COMMAND GOD GAVE THROUGH MOSES THAT THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WOULD FAITHFULLY TEACH HIS COMMANDS TO THEIR CHILDREN. AND THESE WORDS WHICH I COMMAND YOU TODAY SHALL BE IN YOUR HEART. YOU SHALL TEACH THEM DILIGENTLY TO YOUR CHILDREN, AND SHALL TALK OF THEM WHEN YOU SIT IN YOUR HOUSE, WHEN YOU WALK BY THE WAY, WHEN YOU LIE DOWN, AND WHEN YOU RISE UP. YOU SHALL BIND THEM AS A SIGN ON YOUR HAND, AND THEY SHALL BE AS FRONTLETS BETWEEN YOUR EYES. YOU SHALL WRITE THEM ON THE DOORPOSTS OF YOUR HOUSE AND ON YOUR GATES. (DE DEU. 6:6-9 CF. EX. EX. 13:9, EX. 13:16) [EMPHASIS ADDED] IN RESPONSE TO THESE INSTRUCTIONS, THE JEWS DEVELOPED PHYLACTERIES, SMALL SCROLLS WHICH CONTAINED GOD’S LAW AND WHICH WERE BOUND TO THE HAND OR HEAD. THE PHYLACTERIES DIFFER FROM THE MARK OF THE BEAST IN THAT THEY WERE ATTACHED TO THE LEFT HAND. “TEFILLIN (PHYLACTERIES) ARE SMALL TIGHTLY ROLLED SCROLLS THAT CONTAIN PASSAGES FROM EXODUS AND DEUTERONOMY. THEY WERE PLACED IN BOXES THAT WERE TIED TO THE HEAD OR LEFT ARM. THE MEZUZOT WERE PLACED IN ORNAMENTAL CASES THAT WERE ATTACHED TO THE DOORPOST OF A HOUSE.”13 ALTHOUGH THE MARK OF THE BEAST IS ON THE RIGHT HAND RATHER THAN THE LEFT, THE SIMILARITY TO THE INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN BY GOD TO ISRAEL IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE LAW IS STRIKING. REVELATION 13:17: NO ONE MAY BUY OR SELL: IN ORDER TO ENFORCE WORSHIP OF THE BEAST AND HIS IMAGE, THE MARK IS TIED TO HIS GLOBAL ECONOMIC SYSTEM. THOSE WHO REFUSE THE MARK ARE AUTOMATICALLY CUT OFF FROM THE GLOBAL ECONOMY. THEY ARE DRIVEN UNDERGROUND TO RELY EITHER UPON SUPERNATURAL PROVISION (AS THE WOMAN IN THE WILDERNESS OF REVELATION REV. 12:6+) OR THE BLACK MARKET. SOME MANAGE TO SURVIVE OUTSIDE THE GLOBAL ECONOMY, INCLUDING THE “SHEEP” IN THE SHEEP AND GOAT JUDGMENT AT THE RETURN OF CHRIST TO TAKE UP HIS KINGDOM (MTT. MAT. 25:31-32). THE SHEEP HAVE PROVIDED FOR THE DIRE NEEDS OF JESUS’ “BRETHREN” DURING THIS TIME, BUT THEY THEMSELVES HAVE BEEN WITHOUT THE MARK. FOR IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO TAKE THE MARK AND REMAIN AMONG THE REDEEMED WHO ENTER THE KINGDOM (REV. REV. 14:9-11+). THERE ARE SEVERAL ASPECTS OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY WHICH WILL LIKELY CONTRIBUTE TO THE CONTROL OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY UNDER THE BEAST. FIRST, THE MARK ITSELF MAY BE TIED INTO A CASHLESS SYSTEM OF EXCHANGE. WHILE SCRIPTURE DOES NOT SAY THIS, HOW EFFECTIVE IT WOULD BE TO DO AWAY WITH ALL MEANS OF VALUE EXCHANGE EXCEPT FOR THAT WHICH REQUIRES THE MARK. SECOND, THE USE OF MODERN IDENTIFYING MARKS, SUCH AS BAR CODES, ON ITEMS OF COMMERCE FACILITATES TRACKING THEIR WHEREABOUTS AND DISTRIBUTION. WITH SOPHISTICATED INVENTORY SYSTEMS IT BECOMES MUCH MORE DIFFICULT TO SUPPLY THE BLACK MARKET “OFF THE RECORD.” THE DEGREE TO WHICH TECHNOLOGY PLAYS IN THE SYSTEM OF THE END IS PURE SPECULATION. IT MAY UTILIZE SYSTEMS OF IDENTIFICATION, TRACKING, AND EXCHANGE YET UNKNOWN TO US. OR IT MAY USE THE OLDEST OF TECHNOLOGIES—TATTOOS OR SIMILAR. THE DESIRE OF THE BEAST TO CATCH EVERY POSSIBLE VIOLATOR ARGUES FOR A HIGH-TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION WHICH IS MORE DIFFICULT TO FORGE. THE DISRUPTIVE CONDITIONS ON THE EARTH DURING THE TIME OF THE END ARGUE FOR A LOW-TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION. WHO HAS THE MARK OR THE NAME OF THE BEAST OR THE NUMBER OF HIS NAME: THE TR TEXT INDICATES THREE ALTERNATIVES: (1) THE MARK, OR (2) THE NAME OF THE BEAST, OR (3) THE NUMBER OF HIS NAME. THE MT AND NU TEXTS INDICATE JUST TWO ALTERNATIVES: THE MARK WHICH IS: (1) THE NAME OF THE BEAST, OR (2) THE NUMBER OF HIS NAME. IN ANY EVENT, THE MARK EMBODIES INFORMATION PERTAINING TO THE NAME OF THE BEAST. THE NUMBER OF HIS NAME: MOST COMMENTATORS TAKE THE NUMBER OF HIS NAME TO INDICATE THE PRACTICE OF GEMATRIA, WHERE THE INDIVIDUAL LETTERS COMPRISING THE NAME ARE GIVEN VALUES WHICH THEN CONTRIBUTE TO A TOTAL VALUE WHICH IS THE NUMBER: THE MYSTIC USE OF NUMBERS (THE RABBINICAL GHEMATRIA, ΓΕΩΜΕΤΡΊΑ [GEŌMETRIA]) WAS FAMILIAR TO THE JEWS IN BABYLON, AND PASSED FROM THEM TO THE GREEKS IN ASIA. IT OCCURS IN THE CABBALA, IN THE SIBYLLINE BOOKS (I. 324-331), IN THE EPISTLE OF BARNABAS, AND WAS VERY COMMON ALSO AMONG THE GNOSTIC SECTS...IT AROSE FROM THE EMPLOYMENT OF THE LETTERS OF THE HEBREW AND GREEK ALPHABETS FOR THE DESIGNATION OF NUMBERS. THE HEBREW ALEPH COUNTS 1, BETH 2, ETC., YODH 10; BUT KAPH (THE ELEVENTH LETTER) COUNTS 20, RESH (THE TWENTIETH LETTER) 200, ETC. THE GREEK LETTERS, WITH THE ADDITION OF AN ACUTE ACCENT (AS Ά, Βˊ), HAVE THE SAME NUMERICAL VALUE IN THEIR ORDER DOWN TO SIGMA, WHICH COUNTS 200; EXCEPT THAT Σ῀ (ST, [STIGMA]) IS USED FOR 6, AND Φˊ (AN ANTIQUATED LETTER KOPPA BETWEEN Π AND Ρ) FOR 90. THE HEBREW ALPHABET ENDS WITH TAV = 400, THE GREEK WITH OMEGA = 800. TO EXPRESS THOUSANDS AN ACCENT IS PUT BENEATH THE LETTER, AS Α, [A,] = 1,000; Β, [B,] = 2,000; Ι, [I,] = 10,000.1 AGAIN, THERE IS EVIDENCE THAT THE NUMBER IS THE SAME FOR ALL WHO RECEIVE IT: DOUBTLESS, THE INVENTION OF COMPUTERS AND THE INTRODUCTION OF A “CASHLESS SOCIETY” WOULD AID IN THE ENFORCEMENT OF AN ECONOMIC BOYCOTT AGAINST CHRISTIANS. HOWEVER, THE MARK IS THE “NAME OF THE BEAST OR THE NUMBER OF HIS NAME” (REV. REV. 13:17+) NOT THE NAME OR NUMBER THAT IDENTIFIES EACH INDIVIDUAL CITIZEN.2 REVELATION 13:18: HERE IS WISDOM: THIS PHRASE INDICATES THAT WHAT FOLLOWS CONSTITUTES A RIDDLE OF SORTS REQUIRING GREAT WISDOM TO COMPREHEND. A SIMILAR STATEMENT INTRODUCES THE RIDDLE OF THE SEVEN HEADS OF THE BEAST (REV. REV. 17:9+). “IT IS THE GLORY OF GOD TO CONCEAL A MATTER, BUT THE GLORY OF KINGS IS TO SEARCH OUT A MATTER” (PR. PR. 25:2). WHEN DANIEL WAS PUZZLED ABOUT THE REVELATION GIVEN TO HIM, HE WAS TOLD THAT “THE WORDS ARE CLOSED UP AND SEALED TILL THE TIME OF THE END. . . NONE OF THE WICKED SHALL UNDERSTAND, BUT THE WISE SHALL UNDERSTAND” (DAN. DAN. 12:9-10). ALTHOUGH THE BOOK OF REVELATION IS NOT A SEALED BOOK (REV. REV. 22:10+), UNDOUBTEDLY A SIMILAR PRINCIPLE ATTENDS THIS PASSAGE: THOSE LIVING AT THE TIME OF THE FULFILLMENT WILL BE BEST POSITIONED TO UNDERSTAND THE FULL MEANING OF WHAT IS RELATED. UNTIL THAT TIME, HISTORY IS FULL OF NAMES CONJECTURED TO FULFILL THE RIDDLE OF THIS VERSE. THE NUMBER OF A MAN: ἈΡΙΘΜὸΣ ἀΝΘΡΏΠΟΥ [ARITHMOS ANTHRŌPOU], SIMPLY NUMBER OF MAN. THE DEFINITE ARTICLE (“THE”) IS NOT FOUND IN THE GREEK TEXT. WALLACE SEES THE MISSING ARTICLE AS AN INDICATION THAT THE NUMBER IS NOT OF A MAN, BUT THE NUMBER OF HUMANKIND.1 WHILE THIS MAY ACCOUNT FOR THE GRAMMAR, IT FAILS TO ACCOUNT FOR THE PREVIOUS VERSE WHEREIN THE ARTICLE APPEARS BEFORE BOTH NUMBER AND MAN: ΤὸΝ ἀΡΙΘΜὸΝ ΤΟῦ ὀΝΌΜΑΤΟΣ ΑὐΤΟῦ [TON ARITHMON TOU ONOMATOS AUTOU], THE NUMBER OF THE NAME OF HIM (CF. REV. REV. 14:11+). THUS, THE NUMBER SEEMS INEXTRICABLY TIED TO THE INDIVIDUAL. SOME EXPLAIN OF A MAN AS DESIGNATING A NUMBER AS MEN COUNT.2 HIS NUMBER IS SIX HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SIX: DISCUSSION ON THE MEANING OF THIS VALUE AND ITS ASSOCIATION WITH INDIVIDUALS AND MOVEMENTS OF HISTORY IS LEGEND. “THE INTERPRETATIONS OF THIS NUMBER FORM A JUNGLE FROM WHICH ESCAPE IS APPARENTLY HOPELESS.”3 THE NUMERIC DESIGNATOR FOR THE VALUE 666 FOUND IN THE MT AND TR TEXTS EMPLOYS THE GREEK CHARACTER STIGMA WHICH IS NOT GENERALLY USED TODAY. IT OCCURS BETWEEN EPSILON (Ε) AND ZETA (Ζ). THUS, IT DISPLACES ZETA AS THE SIXTH CHARACTER, GIVING ZETA THROUGH THETA THE VALUES 7 THROUGH 9, IOTA THROUGH KAPPA THE VALUES 10 THROUGH 90, AND RHO THROUGH OMEGA THE VALUES 100 THROUGH 800. AN ADDITIONAL CHARACTER, SAMPSI STANDS AT THE END AS 900.4 SINCE OUR GREEK FONT DOES NOT CONTAIN STIGMA WE WILL REPRESENT IT BY A SIGMA WITH AN ACCENT: Σˊ5 IN THE TR AND MT TEXT, THE VALUE IS GIVEN BY THE THREE GREEK LETTERS ΧΞΣˊ.6 GIVEN THE GREEK ALPHABET OF THE TIME, THE VALUES OF THE THREE LETTERS ARE: Χ = 600; Ξ = 60; Σˊ = 6. THEIR SUM IS THE INFAMOUS 666.7 THE NU TEXT SPELLS OUT THE VALUES USING WORDS: ἑΞΑΚΟΣΙΟΙ ἑΞΗΚΟΝΤΑ ἑΞ [HEXAKOSIOI HEXĒKONTA HEX], SIX HUNDRED SIXTY-SIX. AMONG ALL THE EXTANT MANUSCRIPT EVIDENCE, ONLY A VERY FEW HAVE ΔΕΚΑ [DEKA] (10) AS THE MIDDLE VALUE RESULTING IN 616.8 THE NERO ADVOCATES MAKE MUCH OF THE ALTERNATIVE VALUE 616 BECAUSE TWO DIFFERENT SPELLINGS OF NERO CAN ACCOUNT FOR BOTH THE VALUE 666 FOR THE MAN AND 616 FOR THE WOMAN. THESE BOTH ARE TRUE. THE WISDOM OF THE NUMBER OF HIS NAME IN REVELATION 13:16-18. SIX IS A BAD NUMBER BECAUSE IT DENOTES EVIL IN ITS GREATEST MAGNITUDE. THIS 666/616 IS THE NUMBER OF A FALSE MAN/FALSE WOMAN---THE ANTICHRIST IN REVELATION 13:18. IN THE GREEK THE NUMBER 666 IS IN ACTUALITY IN DNA AS XXX OR THE GREEK WORD PORNEIA (SHORT FOR PORN IN THE TRIPLE X-RATED MOVIES IN THE PORNOGRAPHY INDUSTRY) AS A SEXUAL HERMAPHRODITE WHICH MEANS SEXUAL IMMORALITY OR SEXUAL PERVERSION. NEBUCHADREZZAR IS THE NUMBER 663/613 AND NEBUCHADREZZUR IS THE NUMBER 669/619. THE EMPEROR NERO [NERON CAESAR] IS THE NUMBER 666. THE NUMBER 666 REFERS TO THE NAME NERON CAESAR WHICH IS CODED NERO THE ROMAN EMPEROR THAT KILLED CHRISTIANS (LORDS) & SAINTS (LORDS) IN 55AD TO 68AD. ALSO IN THE NAME OF KING NEBUCHADREZZAR FROM THE BOOK OF DANIEL IS THE NUMBER 663 AND THE NAME NEBUCHADREZZUR IN THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH THE NUMBER IS 669/619, WHICH MIDWAY IS THE NUMBER 666/616 AND IF THE MYSTERIES OF JEREMIAH IS ASSOCIATED WITH REVELATION, NEBUCHADNEZZAR CAME, BIDDEN BY GOD TO CRUSH GOD’S PEOPLE MAY PREFIGURE THE END-TIMES BEAST OVERCOMING GOD’S SAINTS (LORDS) IN REVELATION 13:7. THIS MAYBE THE ONLY WAY TO DETERMINE WHO IS THE ANTICHRIST & LUCIFER’S PARTY IS AT THE TIME, BY HIS MEDICAL DNA IN HIS BODY BY A STRAND OF HIS HAIR---MAYBE BLACK COLORED HAIR---THE COLOR BLACK REPRESENTS MOURNING, THE END, BLACK SECRETS, FORBIDDEN BLACK MAGIC, POWER, AUTHORITY, VIOLENCE, THE EVIL, UNCLEAN, DEFILEMENT, UNRIGHTEOUSNESS, INJUSTICE, DISHONEST, NASTINESS, BLEMISHED, SPOTTED, GUILTY, DARKNESS, IMPENDING JUDGMENT, WEAKNESS, DEFEATED, THE OLD, DISLOYAL, AND ELEGANCE, OR BY SWABBING HIS MOUTH, OR BY HIS SEMEN RELATIONSHIP TO BABYLON THE HARLOT OR BY TAKING OF HIS BLOOD—O POSITIVE POSSIBLY. IN THE LAW ENFORCEMENT FORENSICS, THE PHYSICAL DNA IS 99.9999% ACCURATE IN TODAY’S SOCIETY. PHYSICAL DNA FAR EXCEEDS THE ACCURACY OF MUG SHOTS OR FINGERPRINTS. THE NUMBER 7 DENOTES PERFECTION & COMPLETION WHICH MAY MEAN IT IS THE NUMBER 777---MEDICAL DNA WHICH IS THE NUMBER OF A TRUE MAN---THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IN LUKE CHAPTERS 1-2. THE LORD JEHOVAH, LORD VICTOR & LORD YAHWEH IN THE OKJV WITH THE NKJV HAS THE PERFECTION NUMBER OF 7 OCCURRENCES THESE THREE TIMES EACH IN GENESIS 22:14; EXODUS 6:3; 17:15; JUDGES 6:24; PSALMS 83:18 & ISAIAH 12:2; 26:4. THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD IN THE OKJV, OKJV WITH APOCRYPHA & THE NKJV HAS THE PERFECTION NUMBER OF 7 OCCURRENCES TRICE EACH IN ACTS 6:5, 8-9; 7:59; 8:2; 11:19; 22:20. BOTH THESE THREE TRANSLATIONS & THREE REPUTATIONS MAKE UP THE DNA 777 [MALE TRINITY---FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD, SON JESUS OUR LORD & BROTHER JOHN OUR LORD THE HOLY GHOST]/727 [FEMALE TRINITY---MOTHER STEPHANIE OUR LADY, DAUGHTER MARY OUR LORD & SISTER ELIZABETH OUR LADY THE HOLY GHOST] NUMBER OF COMPLETION & PERFECTION EACH OF JOHN 8:58 IN THE HOLY BIBLE. BUT THE APOSTLE JOHN PROBABLY DID NOT KNOW WHO WILL BE THE FALSE MAN---THE ANTICHRIST. THIS MAN OF LAWLESSNESS SHOULD NOT BE CONFUSED WITH THE TRUE BRIDE OF CHRIST, FOR THEY WILL BE RAPTURED OUT BEFORE THIS HAPPENS. IF ANYONE WILL ACCEPT ANYTHING FROM THE BEAST, THE SAME WILL DRINK OF THE WINE OF THE WRATH OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD WHICH IS POURED WITHOUT MIXTURE INTO HIS CUP OF INDIGNATION AND WILL BE TORMENTED BY THE HOLY ANGELS (LORDS) AND THE LAMB (LORD JESUS CHRIST) IN REVELATION 14:9-11. THEY CAN NEVER BE REDEEMED WHO RECEIVE THE MARK AND WORSHIP THE FIRST BEAST---ANTICHRIST WHO SELL THEIR SOULS ETERNALLY TO THE LORD LUCIFER. BUT IT IS BUT ONE SMALL PIECE OF THE OVERALL PUZZLE WHICH CONTRIBUTES TO THE IDENTITY OF THE BEAST. NERO SUCCEEDS ON THIS COUNT, BUT FAILS MISERABLY ON ALL OTHERS. NERO IS FAR FROM THE ONLY INDIVIDUAL IN HISTORY WHO MEETS THE CONDITIONS FOR 666. METZGER SUGGESTS THAT THE TEXTUAL VARIATION INDICATING 616 IS BEST EXPLAINED AS AN INTENTIONAL MODIFICATION IN THE FEMALE SENSE OF THE ORIGINAL TEXT BY A SCRIBE WHO SAW NERO IN THE TEXT.9 IRENAEUS, WHO LIVED MUCH NEARER TO THE TIME OF NERO THAN MODERN PRETERISTS AND WHO WAS A DISCIPLE OF POLYCARP WHO KNEW OUR AUTHOR, SUPPORTS THE READING 666: SUCH, THEN, BEING THE STATE OF THE CASE, AND THIS NUMBER [666] BEING FOUND IN ALL THE MOST APPROVED AND ANCIENT COPIES [OF THE APOCALYPSE], AND THOSE MEN WHO SAW JOHN FACE TO FACE BEARING THEIR TESTIMONY [TO IT]; WHILE REASON ALSO LEADS US TO CONCLUDE THAT THE NUMBER OF THE NAME OF THE BEAST, [IF RECKONED] ACCORDING TO THE GREEK MODE OF CALCULATION BY THE [VALUE OF] THE LETTERS CONTAINED IN IT, WILL AMOUNT TO SIX HUNDRED AND SIXTY AND SIX; THAT IS, THE NUMBER OF TENS SHALL BE EQUAL TO THAT OF THE HUNDREDS, AND THE NUMBER OF HUNDREDS EQUAL TO THAT OF THE UNITS (FOR THAT NUMBER WHICH [EXPRESSES] THE DIGIT SIX BEING ADHERED TO THROUGHOUT...I DO NOT KNOW HOW IT IS THAT SOME HAVE ERRED FOLLOWING THE ORDINARY MODE OF SPEECH, AND HAVE VITIATED THE MIDDLE NUMBER IN THE NAME, DEDUCTING THE AMOUNT OF FIFTY FROM IT, SO THAT INSTEAD OF SIX DECADES THEY WILL HAVE IT THAT THERE IS BUT ONE. (I AM INCLINED TO THINK THAT THIS OCCURRED THROUGH THE FAULT OF THE COPYISTS, AS IS WONT TO HAPPEN, SINCE NUMBERS ALSO ARE EXPRESSED BY LETTERS; SO THAT THE GREEK LETTER WHICH EXPRESSES THE NUMBER SIXTY [CHI, Ξ] WAS EASILY EXPANDED INTO THE LETTER IOTA [Ι] OF THE GREEKS.) OTHERS THEN RECEIVED THIS READING WITHOUT EXAMINATION; SOME IN THEIR SIMPLICITY, AND UPON THEIR OWN RESPONSIBILITY, MAKING USE OF THIS NUMBER EXPRESSING ONE DECADE; WHILE SOME, IN THEIR INEXPERIENCE, HAVE VENTURED TO SEEK OUT A NAME WHICH SHOULD CONTAIN THE ERRONEOUS AND SPURIOUS NUMBER—IRENAEUS, AGAINST HERESIES, V.XXX10 HE SAW THE NUMBER CONNECTED WITH THE ANTITYPE OF ANTICHRIST’S IMAGE—NEBUCHADNEZZAR’S STATUE. HE ALSO SAW THE BEAST AS A PERSON YET FUTURE, NOT NERO: FOR THAT IMAGE WHICH WAS SET UP BY NEBUCHADNEZZAR HAD INDEED A HEIGHT OF SIXTY CUBITS, WHILE THE BREADTH WAS SIX CUBITS; ON ACCOUNT OF WHICH ANANIAS, AZARIAS, AND MISAEL, WHEN THEY DID NOT WORSHIP IT, WERE CAST INTO A FURNACE OF FIRE, POINTING OUT PROPHETICALLY, BY WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM, THE WRATH AGAINST THE RIGHTEOUS WHICH SHALL ARISE TOWARDS THE [TIME OF THE] END. FOR THAT IMAGE, TAKEN AS A WHOLE, WAS A PREFIGURING OF THIS MAN’S COMING, DECREEING THAT HE SHOULD UNDOUBTEDLY HIMSELF ALONE BE WORSHIPPED BY ALL MEN—IRENAEUS, AGAINST HERESIES, V.XXX11 ADDING TO THE COMPLEXITY OF IDENTIFYING AN INDIVIDUAL WITH THE NUMBER ARE VARIOUS WAYS IN WHICH GEMATRIA CAN BE PERFORMED. HARLESS ARGUES FOR THE SIMPLEST, RAGIL METHOD: THERE ARE SEVEN WAYS OF CALCULATING GEMATRIA IN JEWISH TRADITION. 1) RAGIL: THIS METHOD IS THE BASIS FOR ALL THE OTHER METHODS. EACH LETTER OF THE ALPHABET HAS ITS OWN NUMERICAL VALUE. THE NUMERICAL VALUE OF A WORD OR PHRASE IS THE SUM TOTAL OF THE VALUES OF ITS LETTERS. 2) KATAN: ALL THE TENS AND HUNDREDS ARE CONVERTED TO THE SINGLE NUMBERS 1 TO 9. 3) K’LALI: IN THIS METHOD, THE VALUE OF A WORD IS THE SQUARE OF THE SUM OF THE RAGIL VALUES OF EACH LETTER IN THAT WORD. 4) MILLUI: THIS METHOD GIVES A LETTER THE NUMERICAL VALUE OF THE SUM OF THE RAGIL VALUES OF THE LETTERS THAT MAKE UP THE NAME OF THE LETTER. 5) KOLEL: THIS METHOD SUMS THE RAGIL VALUES OF THE LETTERS IN A WORD PLUS THE NUMBER OF LETTERS. 5) HAKADMI: THE VALUE OF THE FIRST LETTER IS RAGIL. THE ACCUMULATED VALUE OF THE SECOND LETTER IS ITS RAGIL VALUE PLUS THE RAGIL VALUE OF THE FIRST LETTER. THE ACCUMULATED VALUE OF THE THIRD LETTER IS ITS RAGIL VALUE PLUS THE ACCUMULATED VALUE OF THE SECOND LETTER, ETC. 7) HAPERATI: THE VALUE OF EACH LETTER IS THE SQUARE OF ITS RAGIL VALUE. THE VALUE OF THE WORD IS THE SUM OF ALL THE SQUARES OF ITS LETTERS. IT IS APPARENT THAT THE K’LALI, MILLUI, KOLEL, HAKADMI, AND HAPERATI METHODS ARE UNLIKELY TO BE INTENDED IN THIS PASSAGE, SINCE THEY WOULD TEND TO PRODUCE NUMERICAL VALUES MUCH IN EXCESS OF 666. THESE METHODS ALSO SEEM TO BE LATE ADDITIONS NOT IN USE DURING THE NEW TESTAMENT PERIOD. ONLY THE RAGIL AND KATAN METHODS ARE CANDIDATES FOR THIS CALCULATION. KATAN SUFFERS FROM FOUR SHORTCOMINGS: 1) IT WOULD REQUIRE A LONG NAME TO EVALUATE TO 666 (AT LEAST 74 LETTERS). 2) THE TALMUD ONLY USES RAGIL. 3) THEREFORE, KATAN IS A LATER DEVELOPMENT AND NOT CONTEMPORARY WITH THE REVELATION. REV. 4:1+) ONLY RAGIL HAS AN ANALOGUE IN GREEK AND ROMAN CULTURE, KATAN DOES NOT.12 THE THREEFOLD REPRESENTATION OF “6,” THE NUMBER OF MAN, MAY BE CONNECTED WITH THE THREE KEY PLAYERS IN THE KINGDOM OF THE BEAST OF THE END: “POSSIBLY THE THREEFOLD OCCURRENCE OF THE NUMBER SIX IS A VAGUE IMITATION OF THE TRINITY FORMED BY [THE BEAST’S] ASSOCIATION WITH THE DEVIL AND THE FALSE PROPHET.”13 AS WE DISCUSSED IN SIX: MAN’S INCOMPLETENESS, HUMAN WILL, THE NUMBER ALMOST CERTAINLY EMPHASIZES HOW THE BEAST, THE EPITOME OF HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT AND GOVERNMENT AT THE END, FALLS SHORT. 14 OTHERS NOTE HOW THE VALUE COMPARES TO THE SUM OF THE GREEK LETTERS MAKING UP THE NAME “CHRIST”: “ACCORDING TO THE GREEK NUMBERING SCHEME CHRIST’S NAME, ʼΙΗΣΟῦΣ [IĒSOUS], IS REPRESENTED BY Ι=10, Η=8, Σ=200, Ο=70, Υ=400, Σ=200, WHICH ADD UP TO 888.”15 VARIOUS PASSAGES OF SCRIPTURE HINT AT THE CHARACTER OF THE BEAST USING VALUES WHICH EMPLOY SIX, INCLUDING THE NUMBER OF FINGERS AND TOES ON THE GODLESS GIANTS OF OLD (2S. 2S. 21:20; 1CHR. 1CHR. 20:6); GOLIATH WHO HAD A HEIGHT OF SIX CUBITS, SIX PIECES OF ARMOR, AND A SPEAR’S HEAD WEIGHING SIX HUNDRED SHEKELS OF IRON (1S. 1S. 17:4-7); NEBUCHADNEZZAR, WHOSE “IMAGE” WAS SIXTY CUBITS HIGH AND SIX CUBITS WIDE (DAN. DAN. 3:1); AND EVEN SOLOMON’S WAGES OF SIX HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SIX TALENTS OF GOLD (1K. 1K. 10:14). ULTIMATELY, IT IS FRUITLESS FOR US TO EMPLOY THIS NUMBER IN SPECULATION AS TO THE IDENTITY OF THE BEAST. THE VALUE OF THE NUMBER IN AND OF ITSELF IS TOO BROAD—TOO MANY HISTORIC NAMES CAN BE MADE TO GENERATE “666.” THE CHURCH WILL NOT BE PRESENT WHEN THE BEAST BECOMES KNOWN TO THE WORLD, FOR SHE WILL HAVE BEEN TAKEN IN THE RAPTURE (2TH. 2TH. 2:1-8). THE NUMBER OF HIS NAME IS PERHAPS THE LEAST IMPORTANT CLUE AMONG MANY ATTRIBUTES WHICH SCRIPTURE SET FORTH CONCERNING THE IDENTITY AND MINISTRY OF THIS INDIVIDUAL. CERTAINLY, IT IS THE MOST ELASTIC. WHILE THE RESTRAINER REMAINS (2TH. 2TH. 2:7), HE WILL NOT BE REVEALED. NO AMOUNT OF CONJECTURE OR ANALYSIS WILL BRING HIM FORTH PRIOR TO GOD’S TIMING. WHILE THERE ARE NO PRECONDITIONS FOR THE REMOVAL OF THE RESTRAINER, HE COULD CONTINUE TO RESTRAIN FOR DECADES OR EVEN CENTURIES BEYOND OUR PRESENT TIME.16 WHAT WE CAN BE SURE OF IS THAT THE VALUE GIVEN IN THIS PASSAGE WILL ENABLE BELIEVERS OF THE END, WHEN COMBINED WITH THE MANY OTHER SCRIPTURAL CLUES, TO POSITIVELY IDENTIFY THE INDIVIDUAL. IT MAY BE THAT GEMATRIA IS NOT EVEN INVOLVED IN THE FINAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE NUMBER: A SIMILAR USE OF NOUS AND SOPHIA OCCURS IN REV. REV. 17:9+, WHERE JOHN CALLS ATTENTION TO THE IDENTITY OF THE BEAST RIDDEN BY THE HARLOT. WHAT JOHN SEEMS TO BE ASKING FOR IN BOTH CASES IS DIVINE DISCERNMENT AND NOT MATHEMATICAL INGENUITY! BELIEVERS NEED TO PENETRATE THE DECEPTION OF THE BEAST. JOHN’S REFERENCE TO HIS NUMBER WILL HELP THEM TO RECOGNIZE HIS TRUE CHARACTER AND IDENTITY.17 THE BETTER PART OF WISDOM IS TO BE CONTENT THAT THE IDENTIFICATION IS NOT YET AVAILABLE, BUT WILL BE WHEN THE FUTURE FALSE CHRIST ASCENDS TO HIS THRONE. THE PERSON TO WHOM 666 APPLIES MUST HAVE BEEN FUTURE TO JOHN’S TIME, BECAUSE JOHN CLEARLY MEANT THE NUMBER TO BE RECOGNIZABLE TO SOMEONE. IF IT WAS NOT DISCERNIBLE TO HIS GENERATION AND THOSE IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING HIM—AND IT WAS NOT—THE GENERATION TO WHOM IT WILL BE DISCERNIBLE MUST HAVE LAIN (AND STILL LIES) IN THE FUTURE. PAST GENERATIONS HAVE PROVIDED MANY ILLUSTRATIONS OF THIS FUTURE PERSONAGE, BUT ALL PAST CANDIDATES HAVE PROVEN INADEQUATE AS FULFILLMENTS. CHRISTIANS FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION MAY MANIFEST THE SAME CURIOSITY AS THE PROPHETS OF OLD REGARDING THEIR OWN PROPHECIES (CF. 1PE. 1PE. 1:10-11), BUT THEIR CURIOSITY WILL REMAIN UNSATISFIED UNTIL THE TIME OF FULFILLMENT ARRIVES.18 FOR THOSE WHO ARE IN THE CHURCH AGE, THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST, AS FASCINATING A PUZZLE AS IT MAY BE, IS OF RELATIVELY LITTLE IMPORTANCE. FOR THE CHURCH WILL NOT BE PRESENT WHEN HE IS REVEALED. THIS IS BY DESIGN FOR WE ARE TO MAINTAIN A WATCH FOR CHRIST, NOT ANTICHRIST! WE ARE COMMANDED TO LOOK FOR OUR BRIDEGROOM, NOT A COMING GLOBAL DESPOT (PHP. PHP. 3:20). REVELATION 17:1: IN THE PREVIOUS CHAPTER, JOHN IS SHOWN THE SEVEN ANGELS HAVING THE SEVEN LAST PLAGUES—THE SEVEN BOWL JUDGMENTS. HE SEES THE SEVEN BOWLS POURED FORTH, INCLUDING THE LAST BOWL WHEREIN A VOICE FROM THE TEMPLE DECLARES “IT IS DONE!” THE EFFECTS OF THE PREVIOUS CHAPTER, AT THE POURING FORTH OF ALL THE BOWLS, INCLUDE ALL ASPECTS OF GOD’S WRATH BEING POURED OUT ON THE EARTH REACHING TO THE BEGINNING OF THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM (REV. REV. 20:4+). ALL OF THESE EVENTS ARE FUTURE TO THE TIME OF JOHN’S WRITING. NOW, ONE OF THE ANGELS OF THE PREVIOUS CHAPTER SHOWS JOHN A PERSPECTIVE WHICH PRECEDES THE EVENTS HE SAW IN THE PREVIOUS CHAPTER. THIS INCLUDES ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CONCERNING THE DESTRUCTION OF BABYLON AND THE FINAL CONSUMMATION OF THE WRATH THAT JOHN SAW PROPHETICALLY POURED FORTH. BEGINNING WITH REVELATION REV. 17:1+ AND CONTINUING THROUGH REVELATION REV. 20:3+, JOHN IS SHOWN ADDITIONAL DETAIL CONCERNING ASPECTS OF THE BOWL JUDGMENTS AND THEIR RECIPIENTS. THIS INCLUDES THE DESTRUCTION OF BABYLON (REV. REV. 17:16-18+, REV. 18:1-24+, REV. 19:1-3+), THE BEAST AND HIS ARMIES (REV. REV. 19:11-21+), AND THE BINDING OF SATAN (REV. REV. 20:1-3+). ONE OF THE SEVEN ANGELS WHO HAD THE SEVEN BOWLS: THIS IS ONE OF THE SEVEN ANGELS WHICH JOHN SAW EARLIER AS A “GREAT AND MARVELOUS” SIGN (REV. REV. 15:1+) WHICH WERE GIVEN “SEVEN GOLDEN BOWLS OF THE WRATH OF GOD” (REV. REV. 15:7+). THESE BOWLS WERE POURED OUT IN THE PREVIOUS CHAPTER. SINCE THIS ANGEL SHOWS JOHN THE WOMAN, BABYLON (REV. REV. 17:18+), PERHAPS THIS IS THE ANGEL WHO POURED OUT THE SEVENTH BOWL DURING WHICH BABYLON WAS DESTROYED (REV. REV. 16:17-19+). COME, I WILL SHOW YOU: THE SAME PHRASE IS USED LATER, PROBABLY BY THE SAME ANGEL, WHEN JOHN IS SHOWN THE LAMB’S WIFE: “COME, I WILL SHOW YOU THE BRIDE, THE LAMB’S WIFE” (REV. REV. 21:9+). THE GREAT HARLOT OF THIS CHAPTER IS TO BE CONTRASTED WITH BOTH THE LAMB’S WIFE AND THE WOMAN OF REVELATION REV. 12:1+. IN CONTRAST TO THE GREAT HARLOT OF REVELATION REV. 17:1+ WHO EMBODIES THE VERY ORIGINS OF HARLOTRY AND BLASPHEMY (ALSO STRETCHING BACK IN HISTORY), AS THE DELIVERER OF THE REDEEMER SHE REPRESENTS THE DEVELOPMENT OF GOD’S ULTIMATE SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM OF THE HARLOT. THE JUDGMENT: THE GREAT HARLOT IS ASSOCIATED WITH BABYLON (REV. REV. 17:5+, REV. 17:18+; REV. 18:21+; REV. 19:2+ ). THE PROPHETS FORETOLD THE JUDGMENT WHICH WOULD COME AGAINST BABYLON. BOTH ISAIAH AND JEREMIAH DEVOTE MAJOR PASSAGES TO THIS TOPIC WHICH ARE ESSENTIAL BACKGROUND TO AN UNDERSTANDING OF THIS CHAPTER (ISA. ISA. 13:1, ISA. 14:1, ISA. 47:1; JER. JER. 50:1, JER. 51:1). AS WE HAVE SEEN BEFORE, PROPHECIES IN THE OT OFTEN CONTAIN A MIX OF NEAR-TERM AND FAR-FUTURE PREDICTIONS. IN THE CASE OF THE PROPHESIED DESTRUCTION OF BABYLON, THE NEAR-TERM ASPECTS WERE FULFILLED IN THE CAPTURE OF BABYLON BY CYRUS (DAN. DAN. 5:30-31), BUT THE CITY OF BABYLON HAS NEVER BEEN DESTROYED AS PREDICTED BY THE FAR-FUTURE ASPECTS OF ISAIAH’S AND JEREMIAH’S PROPHECIES. SHE IS TO BE JUDGED BECAUSE SHE HAS SEXUALLY CORRUPTED THE EARTH WITH HER FORNICATION AND SHED THE BLOOD OF GOD’S SERVANTS (REV. REV. 17:6+; REV. 19:2+). THE GREAT HARLOT (GREAT WITCH MOTHERFUCKER): SHE IS “GREAT” IN THE SENSE OF HAVING A DOMINANT ROLE IN SPIRITUAL SEXUAL IDOLATRY THROUGHOUT HISTORY. IN HER IS FOUND THE ORIGIN OF ALL OTHER “DAUGHTER HARLOTS” (REV. REV. 17:5+), FOR SHE PREDATED THEM AND BEGOT (INFLUENCED) THEM. HER HARLOTRY SPEAKS OF HER ABOMINABLE PRACTICES AND SPIRITUAL SEXUAL IDOLATRY. WHO SITS ON MANY WATERS: THE DESCRIPTION OF THE WOMAN SHOWN JOHN INCLUDES MANY ASPECTS WHICH ARE SIMILAR TO THAT OF BABYLON AT THE TIME OF ISAIAH AND JEREMIAH. JEREMIAH SAYS CONCERNING BABYLON: “O YOU WHO DWELL BY MANY WATERS, ABUNDANT IN TREASURES, YOUR END HAS COME” (JER. JER. 51:13A). YET THERE ARE ALSO DIFFERENCES. DURING THE TIME OF JEREMIAH, BABYLON RESIDED BY NUMEROUS WATERS: “BABYLON WAS SURROUNDED BY THE EUPHRATES, WHICH DIVIDED TO FORM MANY ISLANDS, AND A LARGE LAKE WAS NEARBY.”1 “NEBUCHADREZZAR’S BABYLON WAS THE LARGEST CITY IN THE WORLD, COVERING 2,500 ACRES (1,000 HECTARES). THE EUPHRATES, WHICH HAS SINCE SHIFTED ITS COURSE, FLOWED THROUGH IT, THE OLDER PART OF THE CITY BEING ON THE EAST BANK.”2 THE GREAT HARLOT NOW SITS ON (ἐΠὶ [EPI]) MANY WATERS WHICH ARE “PEOPLES, MULTITUDES, NATIONS, AND TONGUES” (REV. REV. 17:15+). THIS SPEAKS OF BOTH HER INFLUENCE AND SUPPORT, NO LONGER RESTRICTED TO THE PLAIN OF SHINAR (GEN. GEN. 10:10; GEN. 11:2; DAN. DAN. 1:2; ZEC. ZEC. 5:11), BUT NOW EXTENDING THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. THE GREAT HARLOT SEEN BY JOHN INFLUENCES A MUCH WIDER REALM THAN BABYLON OF OLD. HER INFLUENCE WAS SCATTERED WORLDWIDE WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF LANGUAGES IN THE JUDGMENT OF BABEL (GEN. GEN. 11:9). THE WATERS UPON WHICH SHE SITS ARE THE WATERS FROM WHICH THE FIRST BEAST AROSE (REV. REV. 13:1+). REVELATION 17:2: WITH WHOM THE KINGS OF THE EARTH COMMITTED FORNICATION: THE KINGS OF THE EARTH COMMITTED FORNICATION WITH THE HARLOT BOTH BECAUSE OF THE ALLURE OF HER HARLOTRIES, BUT ALSO BECAUSE SHE “REIGNS OVER THE KINGS OF THE EARTH.” THROUGHOUT HISTORY, SHE HAS WIELDED POWERFUL INFLUENCE OVER VARIOUS RULERS OF NATIONS BEYOND BABYLON. FORNICATION IS ἐΠΌΡΝΕΥΣΑΝ [EPORNEUSAN], MEANING TO PROSTITUTE, PRACTICE PROSTITUTION OR SEXUAL IMMORALITY GENERALLY, BUT ALSO USED FIGURATIVELY TO DENOTE THE PRACTICE OF IDOLATRY (HOS. HOS. 9:1; JER. JER. 3:6; EZE. EZE. 23:19; 1CHR. 1CHR. 5:25).1 TO PROSTITUTE SOMETHING IS TO TAKE THAT WHICH HAS A PROPER USE AND TO TURN IT INTO AN IMPROPER USE. A PROSTITUTE TAKES SEX, WHICH HAS A PROPER USE, AND PERVERTS IT WITH AN IMPROPER USE, TURNING IT INTO SOMETHING ILLICIT, CAUSING FORNICATION, WHICH MARITAL SEX IS PORNIEA OR PORN IN TOBIT 4:12-13! IN THIS CASE, THE HARLOT REPRESENTS “RELIGION,” WHICH HAS A PROPER USE (JAS. JAS. 1:26-27), BUT HERE HAS BEEN PROSTITUTED FOR IMPROPER USE. RATHER THAN SERVING, IT RULES. THE FALSE USE OF RELIGION CAUSES SPIRITUAL FORNICATION. THE WORD FORNICATION IS USED BOTH OF PHYSICAL UNFAITHFULNESS AND ALSO OF SPIRITUAL UNFAITHFULNESS, AS IN HOSEA HOS. 1:1-HOS. 2:1; JEREMIAH JER. 2:20; JER. 3:1-9; EZEKIEL EZE. 16:15-41; EZE. 23:5-44, ETC. IT IS WITH THIS WOMAN THAT THE KINGS OF THE EARTH COMMIT FORNICATION (REV. REV. 17:2+), SHOWING THIS TO BE A UNITY OF RELIGION AND STATE.2 THIS ASPECT OF THE HARLOT IS IDENTICAL WITH THAT OF THE CITY BABYLON: “SHE HAS MADE ALL NATIONS DRINK OF THE WINE OF THE WRATH OF HER FORNICATION” (REV. REV. 14:8+); THOSE WHO FORNICATED WITH HER WERE ALSO DECEIVED BY HER SORCERY (REV. REV. 18:23+). SOME BELIEVE SHE DIFFERS FROM BABYLON ITSELF, BUT WE BELIEVE THE SCRIPTURAL EVIDENCE POINTS IN THE DIRECTION OF IDENTITY. THE WOMAN IS “THAT GREAT CITY WHICH REIGNS OVER THE KINGS OF THE EARTH” (REV. REV. 17:18+)—BABYLON. LIKE TYRE OF ISAIAH’S DAY, THE HARLOT HAS BOTH COMMERCIAL AND SPIRITUAL ASPECTS WHICH ARE OPPOSED TO GOD: “AND IT SHALL BE, AT THE END OF SEVENTY YEARS, THAT THE LORD WILL VISIT TYRE. SHE WILL RETURN TO HER HIRE, AND COMMIT FORNICATION WITH ALL THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH” (ISA. ISA. 23:17). AND THE INHABITANTS OF THE EARTH: AS WENT THE LEADERS, SO WENT THE PEOPLE. NOT ONLY KINGS, BUT AN ENTIRE GLOBAL POPULACE WAS INFLUENCED BY HER. ALTHOUGH SHE INFLUENCED THE INHABITANTS THROUGHOUT HISTORY, IT IS THE EARTH SEXUAL DWELLERS OF THE TIME OF THE END WHICH ARE HER FINAL DRINKING PARTNERS. MADE DRUNK WITH THE WINE OF HER FORNICATION: THEY WERE MADE DRUNK FROM THE WINE SHE SERVED UP (REV. REV. 14:8+). BECAUSE NEITHER SHE NOR THE INHABITANTS OF THE EARTH CHOSE TO RESPOND TO THE LIGHT WHICH ALL MEN ARE GIVEN CONCERNING GOD (ROM. ROM. 1:18-21), GOD USED HER REBELLION TO MAKE ALL THE NATIONS COMMIT EVEN FURTHER TO THEIR ERRANT PATH. “BABYLON WAS A GOLDEN CUP IN THE LORD’S HAND, THAT MADE ALL THE EARTH DRUNK. THE NATIONS DRANK HER WINE; THEREFORE, THE NATIONS ARE DERANGED” (JER. JER. 51:7). IN THE SAME WAY THAT THE THREE UNCLEAN SPIRITS GO FORTH TO DRAW THE KINGS OF THE EARTH TO GOD’S SUPPER (REV. REV. 16:13-14+ CF. REV. REV. 19:17+), SO TOO BABYLON WAS A GOLDEN CUP IN THE LORD’S HAND. IT WAS HER WHO FIRST MADE THEM DRUNK, BUT IN THEIR CONSISTENT REJECTION OF GOD AND THEIR DRUNKEN STUPOR THEY RETURNED FOR MORE WHICH GOD ALLOWED HER TO CONTINUE SERVING UP. REVELATION 17:3: SO, HE CARRIED ME AWAY IN THE SPIRIT INTO THE WILDERNESS: IT WAS THE HOLY SPIRIT WHO CARRIED JOHN WHILE THE ANGEL ACCOMPANIED HIM. IN THE SAME WAY THAT JOHN WAS TRANSPORTED TO HEAVEN TO SEE THE VISION OF THE THRONE (REV. REV. 4:2+), SO NOW HE IS TRANSPORTED TO THE WILDERNESS, THE VANTAGE POINT FOR VIEWING THE HARLOT. HIS PREVIOUS VISION OF THE BEAST RISING FROM THE SEA WAS SEEN WHILE HE STOOD ON THE SAND OF THE SEA (REV. REV. 13:1+). LATER, JOHN WILL BE CARRIED AWAY “IN THE SPIRIT TO A GREAT AND HIGH MOUNTAIN” WHERE HE IS SHOWN THE NEW JERUSALEM (REV. REV. 21:10+). I SAW A WOMAN: JOHN SEES THIS WOMAN IN THE WILDERNESS, WHEREAS HE SAW THE WOMAN OF REVELATION REV. 12:1+ AS A GREAT SIGN IN HEAVEN. THE WOMAN IS THE GREAT HARLOT WHICH THE ANGEL WAS TO SHOW JOHN (REV. REV. 17:1+). LATER, SHE IS SPECIFICALLY IDENTIFIED: “AND THE WOMAN WHOM YOU SAW IS THAT GREAT CITY WHICH REIGNS OVER THE KINGS OF THE EARTH” (REV. REV. 17:18+). IN THIS CASE, “GREAT CITY,” IS BABYLON (REV. REV. 14:8+; REV. 18:10+, REV. 18:16+, REV. 18:18-21+; REV. 19:21+). SITTING ON A SCARLET BEAST: SCARLET IS ΚΌΚΚΙΝΟΝ [KOKKINON]: “SCARLET CLOTH, DYED WITH ΚΌΚΚΟΣ [KOKKOS], A SCARLET ‘BERRY,’ ACTUALLY THE FEMALE OF A SCALE INSECT THAT CLINGS TO OAK LEAVES, DRIED AND CRUSHED TO PREPARE A RED DYE.”1 THE BEAST IS SCARLET, BECAUSE IT IS CLOSELY RELATED TO THE FIERY RED DRAGON WHICH EMPOWERS IT (REV. REV. 12:3+ CF. REV. REV. 13:2+). HER SITTING ON THE BEAST MAY SPEAK LESS OF INFLUENCE AND MORE OF SUPPORT. “THE WOMAN SEATED ON THE BEAST DOES NOT SIGNIFY THAT SHE WILL RULE OVER HIM, BUT INTIMATES THAT HE WILL SUPPORT HER.”2 BECAUSE THE BEAST REPRESENTS A SERIES OF KINGS AND KINGDOMS STRETCHING THROUGH HISTORY, THERE IS A TENDENCY AMONG MANY EXPOSITORS TO TAKE THE HARLOT AS AN EXCLUSIVELY RELIGIOUS FIGURE. THE FACT THAT SHE IS SEEN RIDING UPON THE BEAST IS THOUGHT TO NECESSITATE HER IDENTIFICATION AS EXCLUSIVELY RELIGIOUS, BUT NOT POLITICAL: THE FACT THAT THE WOMAN IS RIDING THE BEAST AND IS NOT THE BEAST ITSELF SIGNIFIES THAT SHE REPRESENTS ECCLESIASTICAL POWER AS DISTINCT FROM THE BEAST WHICH IS POLITICAL POWER. HER POSITION, THAT OF RIDING THE BEAST, INDICATES ON THE ONE HAND THAT SHE IS SUPPORTED BY THE POLITICAL POWER OF THE BEAST, AND ON THE OTHER THAT SHE IS IN A DOMINANT ROLE AND AT LEAST OUTWARDLY CONTROLS AND DIRECTS THE BEAST.3 WHILE WE DO NOT DENY THE SIGNIFICANT RELIGIOUS ROLE ASSIGNED TO THE HARLOT, TAKING HER TO BE AN ECCLESIASTICAL SYSTEM CONTRADICTS WHAT SCRIPTURE RECORDS—THAT SHE IS A CITY (REV. REV. 17:18+; REV. 18:21+-REV. 19:2+). THERE IS NO REASON WHY SHE MUST BE AN ECCLESIASTICAL SYSTEM WHEN SCRIPTURE SAYS SHE IS A CITY. MOREOVER, SHE IS ALSO ASSOCIATED WITH WEALTH AND EXCESS (REV. REV. 17:4+)—THESE MAY SPEAK EQUALLY OF BOTH POLITICS AND RELIGION. THE BEAST REPRESENTS THE HISTORIC DEVELOPMENT OF KINGDOMS EMPOWERED BY THE DRAGON (REV. REV. 12:3+; REV. 13:1+) AND ITS ULTIMATE MANIFESTATION AT THE TIME OF THE END. THE HARLOT IS THE CITY BABYLON IN ALL ITS ASPECTS—COMBINING COMMERCIAL, POLITICAL, AND RELIGIOUS INFLUENCE. SHE HAS RIDDEN THE BEAST THROUGHOUT HISTORY. FULL OF NAMES OF BLASPHEMY: THE BEAST WHICH AROSE FROM THE SEA HAD A BLASPHEMOUS NAME (REV. REV. 13:1+; NAMES, MT AND NU TEXTS). THE BLASPHEMOUS NAMES REFLECT THE BLASPHEMOUS MOUTH WHICH SPEAKS GREAT THINGS AGAINST GOD (REV. REV. 13:5+). HAVING SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS: THE GREAT HARLOT RIDES UPON THE SAME BEAST WHICH AROSE FROM THE SEA (REV. REV. 13:1+) WHICH ALSO HAD SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS (REV. REV. 13:1+). THESE SAME HEADS AND HORNS WERE SEEN UPON THE GREAT RED DRAGON WHO EMPOWERS THE BEAST (REV. REV. 12:3+). THE SEVEN HEADS ARE SEVEN MOUNTAINS AND SEVEN KINGS (REV. REV. 17:9-10+). THE TEN HORNS ARE TEN KINGS (REV. REV. 17:12+ CF. DAN. DAN. 7:7, DAN. 7:20, DAN. 7:24). REVELATION 17:4: ARRAYED IN PURPLE AND SCARLET: HER PURPLE AND SCARLET CLOTHING IS CALLED “FINE LINEN” (REV. REV. 18:12+). FINE IS ΒΎΣΣΙΝΟΝ [BYSSINON], WHICH IS USED OF “FINE LINEN GOODS”1 AND SPEAKS OF HER EXTERNAL FINERY AND WEALTH (EST. EST. 8:15; LAM. LAM. 4:5; LUKE LUKE 7:25; LUKE 16:19). HER ATTIRE REFLECTS HER COMMERCIALISM: “MERCHANDISE OF GOLD AND SILVER, AND PRECIOUS STONES AND PEARLS, FINE LINEN AND PURPLE, SILK AND SCARLET” (REV. REV. 18:12+, REV. 18:16+). PURPLE AND SCARLET WERE ALSO THE COLORS OF ROYAL VESTMENT (JDG. JDG. 8:26; EST. EST. 1:6; MTT. MAT. 27:28). THE SCARLET MAY REFLECT HER IDENTIFICATION WITH THE BEAST WHO CARRIES HER, WHO IS ALSO SCARLET. THE COLOR OF HER GARMENTS CONTRAST WITH THE FINE WHITE LINEN OF THE OVERCOMERS, THE SAINTS (REV. REV. 3:5+, REV. 3:18+; REV. 19:8+, REV. 19:14+). THOSE WHO ATTEMPT TO MAKE THE HARLOT JERUSALEM NOTE THE SIMILARITIES BETWEEN ASPECTS OF THE HARLOT AND WHAT IS SAID CONCERNING APOSTATE ISRAEL AND HER LEADERS: GENTRY POINTS OUT THAT THE COLOR AND ADORNMENT OF THE HARLOT IN REVELATION REV. 17:4+ REFLECTS THE JEWISH PRIESTLY COLORS OF SCARLET, PURPLE, AND GOLD (EX. EX. 28:33). THESE SAME COLORS WERE ALSO FOUND IN THE TAPESTRY OF THE TEMPLE. BEALE NOTES THAT THE COMBINATION OF THE WORDS IN THE GREEK THAT DESCRIBE THE HARLOT’S GARB IS IDENTICAL TO THE LXX DESCRIPTION OF THE JEWISH HIGH PRIEST’S GARMENTS. ACCORDING TO BEAGLEY, THE OUTWARD BEAUTY OF THE CUP AND ITS INWARD IMPURITY IS REMINISCENT OF CHRIST’S DENUNCIATION OF THE PHARISEES IN MATTHEW MAT. 23:35. IN ADDITION, THE WOMAN’S TITLE OF HARLOT WRITTEN ACROSS HER FOREHEAD IN REVELATION REV. 17:5+ IS A DIRECT REFERENCE TO JEREMIAH JER. 3:3 WHERE GOD TOLD APOSTATE JUDAH THAT SHE HAD A HARLOT’S FOREHEAD.2 WHILE SUCH PARALLELS ARE INTERESTING, IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT THE HARLOT IS CLOSELY IDENTIFIED WITH BABYLON AND THERE ARE MANY REASONS WE CAN BE CERTAIN THAT BABYLON CANNOT BE JERUSALEM. SOME PRETERIST INTERPRETERS, SUCH AS CHILTON, BELIEVE THAT BABYLON IS A CODE NAME FOR JERUSALEM:1 THE PRIMARY THRUST OF THE PROPHECY HAS BEEN DIRECTED AGAINST JERUSALEM...JOHN GIVES US NO INDICATION THAT THE SUBJECT HAS BEEN CHANGED. AS WE SHALL SEE IN CHAPTERS 17 AND 18, THE EVIDENCE THAT THE PROPHETIC BABYLON WAS JERUSALEM IS NOTHING SHORT OF OVERWHELMING.2 IN HIS FIRST EPISTLE, PRESUMABLY WRITTEN BEFORE THE REVELATION, ST. PETER DESCRIBED THE LOCAL CHURCH FROM WHICH HE WROTE AS “SHE WHO IS IN BABYLON” (1PE. 1PE. 5:13). MANY HAVE SUPPOSED THIS TO BE ROME, WHERE ST. PETER WAS (ACCORDING TO TRADITION) LATER MARTYRED, BUT IT IS MUCH MORE LIKELY THAT THE APOSTLE WAS IN JERUSALEM WHEN HE WROTE THESE WORDS. BASED ON DATA FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT ITSELF, OUR NATURAL ASSUMPTION SHOULD BE THAT “BABYLON” WAS JERUSALEM, SINCE THAT WAS WHERE HE LIVED AND EXERCISED HIS MINISTRY.3 PRETERISTS FIND SUPPORT FOR THIS SURPRISING CLAIM IN THE GREAT SIMILARITY BETWEEN PASSAGES CONCERNING APOSTATE JERUSALEM AND WHAT IS SAID CONCERNING THE HARLOT. BUT IF THE HARLOT IS THE MOTHER OF ALL HARLOTS, THIS IS TO BE EXPECTED. IT IS IMPORTANT TO RECOGNIZE THAT THE HARLOT INFLUENCED ALL NATIONS, INCLUDING ISRAEL. FOR “IN HER [THE HARLOT] WAS FOUND THE BLOOD OF PROPHETS AND SAINTS, AND OF ALL WHO WERE SLAIN ON THE EARTH” (REV. REV. 18:24+). THUS, SIMILARITIES BETWEEN APOSTATE ISRAEL AND THE HARLOT ARE CERTAIN TO OCCUR. BUT, AS WE HAVE SEEN BEFORE, SIMILARITY DOES NOT MAKE IDENTITY! AN IMPRESSIVE ARRAY OF OT SCRIPTURES CAN BE LINED UP IN AN ATTEMPT TO PROVE THAT THE HARLOT IS JERUSALEM OR ISRAEL. HOWEVER, THIS FAILS TO ACCOUNT FOR ANOTHER EXTENSIVE LIST OF PASSAGES WHICH PROVE OTHERWISE (OFTEN OMITTED BY THE BABYLON IS JERUSALEM PROPONENTS). IDENTIFYING BABYLON AS JERUSALEM COMPLETELY CONTRADICTS THE OT FOUNDATION UPON WHICH THE DESTRUCTION OF BABYLON SET FORTH WITHIN THE BOOK OF REVELATION STANDS (ISA. ISA. 13:1, ISA. 14:1, ISA. 47:1; JER. JER. 50:1, JER. 51:1). WHEN WE EXAMINE THESE OT PASSAGES, WE FIND A CONSISTENT DISTINCTION BETWEEN BABYLON, THE SUBJECT OF GOD’S WRATH, AND JERUSALEM AND ISRAEL, WHOM GOD WILL AVENGE: FOR THE LORD WILL HAVE MERCY ON JACOB, AND WILL STILL CHOOSE ISRAEL, AND SETTLE THEM IN THEIR OWN LAND. THE STRANGERS WILL BE JOINED WITH THEM, AND THEY WILL CLING TO THE HOUSE OF JACOB. THEN PEOPLE WILL TAKE THEM AND BRING THEM TO THEIR PLACE, AND THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL WILL POSSESS THEM FOR SERVANTS AND MAIDS IN THE LAND OF THE LORD; THEY WILL TAKE THEM CAPTIVE WHOSE CAPTIVES THEY WERE, AND RULE OVER THEIR OPPRESSORS. IT SHALL COME TO PASS IN THE DAY THE LORD GIVES YOU REST FROM YOUR SORROW, AND FROM YOUR FEAR AND THE HARD BONDAGE IN WHICH YOU WERE MADE TO SERVE, THAT YOU WILL TAKE UP THIS PROVERB AGAINST THE KING OF BABYLON, AND SAY: “HOW THE OPPRESSOR HAS CEASED, THE GOLDEN CITY CEASED!” (ISA. ISA. 14:1-4) [EMPHASIS ADDED] LISTEN TO ME, O JACOB, AND ISRAEL, MY CALLED: I AM HE, I AM THE FIRST, I AM ALSO THE LAST. INDEED, MY HAND HAS LAID THE FOUNDATION OF THE EARTH, AND MY RIGHT HAND HAS STRETCHED OUT THE HEAVENS; WHEN I CALL TO THEM, THEY STAND UP TOGETHER. ALL OF YOU, ASSEMBLE YOURSELVES, AND HEAR! WHO AMONG THEM HAS DECLARED THESE THINGS? THE LORD LOVES HIM; HE SHALL DO HIS PLEASURE ON BABYLON, AND HIS ARM SHALL BE AGAINST THE CHALDEANS. (ISA. ISA. 48:12-14) [EMPHASIS ADDED] “ISRAEL IS LIKE SCATTERED SHEEP; THE LIONS HAVE DRIVEN HIM AWAY. FIRST THE KING OF ASSYRIA DEVOURED HIM; NOW AT LAST THIS NEBUCHADNEZZAR KING OF BABYLON HAS BROKEN HIS BONES.” THEREFORE, THUS SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL: “BEHOLD, I WILL PUNISH THE KING OF BABYLON AND HIS LAND, AS I HAVE PUNISHED THE KING OF ASSYRIA. BUT I WILL BRING BACK ISRAEL TO HIS HOME, AND HE SHALL FEED ON CARMEL AND BASHAN; HIS SOUL SHALL BE SATISFIED ON MOUNT EPHRAIM AND GILEAD. IN THOSE DAYS AND IN THAT TIME,” SAYS THE LORD, “THE INIQUITY OF ISRAEL SHALL BE SOUGHT, BUT THERE SHALL BE NONE; AND THE SINS OF JUDAH, BUT THEY SHALL NOT BE FOUND; FOR I WILL PARDON THOSE WHOM I PRESERVE.” (JER. JER. 50:17-20) [EMPHASIS ADDED] THUS, SAYS THE LORD: “BEHOLD, I WILL RAISE UP AGAINST BABYLON, AGAINST THOSE WHO DWELL IN LEB KAMAI, A DESTROYING WIND. AND I WILL SEND WINNOWERS TO BABYLON, WHO SHALL WINNOW HER AND EMPTY HER LAND. FOR IN THE DAY OF DOOM THEY SHALL BE AGAINST HER ALL AROUND. AGAINST HER LET THE ARCHER BEND HIS BOW, AND LIFT HIMSELF UP AGAINST HER IN HIS ARMOR. DO NOT SPARE HER YOUNG MEN; UTTERLY DESTROY ALL HER ARMY. THUS THE SLAIN SHALL FALL IN THE LAND OF THE CHALDEANS, AND THOSE THRUST THROUGH IN HER STREETS. FOR ISRAEL IS NOT FORSAKEN, NOR JUDAH, BY HIS GOD, THE LORD OF HOSTS, THOUGH THEIR LAND WAS FILLED WITH SIN AGAINST THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL. FLEE FROM THE MIDST OF BABYLON, AND EVERY ONE SAVE HIS LIFE! DO NOT BE CUT OFF IN HER INIQUITY, FOR THIS IS THE TIME OF THE LORD’S VENGEANCE; HE SHALL RECOMPENSE HER.” (JER. JER. 51:1-6) [EMPHASIS ADDED] “AND I WILL REPAY BABYLON AND ALL THE INHABITANTS OF CHALDEA FOR ALL THE EVIL THEY HAVE DONE IN ZION IN YOUR SIGHT,” SAYS THE LORD. (JER. JER. 51:24) [EMPHASIS ADDED] “LET THE VIOLENCE DONE TO ME AND MY FLESH BE UPON BABYLON,” THE INHABITANT OF ZION WILL SAY; “AND MY BLOOD BE UPON THE INHABITANTS OF CHALDEA!” JERUSALEM WILL SAY. (JER. JER. 51:35) [EMPHASIS ADDED] AS BABYLON HAS CAUSED THE SLAIN OF ISRAEL TO FALL, SO AT BABYLON THE SLAIN OF ALL THE EARTH SHALL FALL. (JER. JER. 51:49) [EMPHASIS ADDED] IF LANGUAGE MEANS ANYTHING, THE INTERPRETER CANNOT SIMPLY REVERSE THE MEANING OF NUMEROUS PASSAGES OF SCRIPTURE TO SUIT HIS OWN PREDILECTION! BUT THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT THE PRETERIST DOES. BETWEEN THE OT AND THE NT, HE COMPLETELY REVERSES THE MEANING OF WORDS. ISRAEL NO LONGER MEANS THE NATION OF ISRAEL, BUT NOW IS TO BE READ CHURCH. BABYLON NO LONGER MEANS THE CITY ON THE BANKS OF THE EUPHRATES RIVER IN THE LAND OF SHINAR, BUT NOW IS TO BE READ AS JERUSALEM! THIS ILLUSTRATES SOME OF THE MANY DANGERS OF REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY AS FUELED BY THE PRETERIST INTERPRETATION: SCRIPTURAL CONFUSION - WORDS ARE ELASTIC AND THEIR MEANINGS CAN BE CHANGED AFTER-THE-FACT AND EVEN BE COMPLETELY INVERTED. GOD’S NUMEROUS OT PROPHECIES AND PROMISES CONCERNING JERUSALEM AND ISRAEL ARE NOW REINTERPRETED TO MEAN SOMETHING ELSE ENTIRELY. IF WE WERE TO ADOPT THE PRETERIST INTERPRETATION, WE COULD ONLY CONCLUDE THAT IN THEIR ORIGINAL CONTEXT SUCH PROPHESIES WERE MISLEADING AND EVEN DOWNRIGHT MISREPRESENTATIONS, FOR THE WAY THEY WERE UNDERSTOOD IN THE COMMON LANGUAGE OF THE PROPHET AND HIS LISTENERS WAS NOT THEIR TRUE MEANING.4 DANGEROUS TEACHINGS - THE INVERSION OF MEANING ASSOCIATED WITH VARIOUS PASSAGES RESULTS IN ALL SORTS OF UNSCRIPTURAL BELIEFS WHICH CAN LEAD THE BELIEVER, WITHOUT EVEN BEING AWARE OF IT, INTO A POSITION IN OPPOSITION TO GOD’S WILL. FOR EXAMPLE, THOSE WHO BELIEVE THAT THE CHURCH IS THE NEW ISRAEL ARE LIKELY TO STAND OPPOSED TO THE TRUE ISRAEL IN HER CLAIMS BASED ON GOD’S OT PROMISES. SUCH BELIEVERS STAND OPPOSED TO GOD’S HERITAGE (JER. JER. 50:11; JOEL JOEL 3:2)! DENIAL OF GOD’S WORD - GOD’S PROMISES NO LONGER ARE RELIABLE. IF PROMISES CONCERNING THE LITERAL CITY BABYLON AND THE LITERAL NATION ISRAEL IN THE OT NO LONGER APPLY TO THESE SAME ENTITIES, BUT NOW ARE TO BE UNDERSTOOD IN AN ENTIRELY NEW WAY—NOT JUST BROADER, BUT IN A WAY WHICH DENIES THE MEANING OF THE ORIGINAL CONTEXT, THEN WHAT CONFIDENCE CAN WE HAVE IN GOD’S PROMISES TO US? HOW DO WE KNOW THAT ETERNAL LIFE IS REALLY ETERNAL? HOW DO WE KNOW THE NEW JERUSALEM IS IN FACT A REAL CITY AND AS GLORIOUS AS THE NT DESCRIBES? IF WE USE SIMILAR INTERPRETIVE TECHNIQUES AS THE PRETERIST, WE MAY JUST FIND WHEN WE GET TO HEAVEN THAT WHAT GOD SAID IN THE NT—BASED UPON THE COMMON RULES OF LANGUAGE AND THE CONTEXT OF THE RECIPIENTS—IS NOT AT ALL WHAT HE MEANT. ASSIGNING SUCH MALLEABLE MEANING TO THE WORDS OF SCRIPTURE UNDERMINES THE PROMISES OF SCRIPTURE AND MALIGNS THE NATURE OF GOD. IT IS NO SMALL MATTER! THE CONFUSION OF THE PRETERISTS RESULTS IN THEIR DENIAL OF OTHER THINGS WHICH ARE REVEALED CONCERNING BABYLON, SUCH AS THE PERMANENCE OF HER DESTRUCTION: IF THE BABYLON = JERUSALEM HYPOTHESIS IS CORRECT THEN JERUSALEM WILL NEVER BE REBUILT AGAIN. REVELATION REV. 18:21-23+ DESCRIBES THE PERMANENT DESTRUCTION OF BABYLON...ACCORDING TO THE BABYLON = JERUSALEM VIEW, JERUSALEM WAS DESTROYED IN A.D. 70 AND WILL NEVER BE REBUILT AGAIN. YET, HOW CAN THIS BE A DESCRIPTION OF JERUSALEM WHEN SCRIPTURE REPEATEDLY SPEAKS OF ITS RETURN TO PROMINENCE DURING THE MILLENNIAL REIGN (ISA. ISA. 2:3; ZEC. ZEC. 14:16; REV. REV. 20:9+)? SCRIPTURE IS QUITE PLAIN THAT GOD STILL HAS A PLAN FOR ETHNIC ISRAEL AND YET THE JERUSALEM VIEW SEEMS TO TEACH THE OPPOSITE.5 WE ALSO SAW THAT AT HER DESTRUCTION, BABYLON WILL NEVER BE INHABITED AGAIN. CLEARLY, BABYLON CANNOT BE JERUSALEM, FOR JERUSALEM IS CURRENTLY INHABITED AND HAS NEVER BEEN—NOR SHALL EVER BE—DESTROYED IN THE MANNER WHICH SCRIPTURE DESCRIBES OF BABYLON. THERE IS ALSO A PROBLEM OF PEDIGREE WHEN AN ATTEMPT IS MADE TO IDENTIFY JERUSALEM AS BABYLON. BABYLON IS SAID TO BE, “THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH” (REV. REV. 17:5+). SCRIPTURE INDICATES THE JERUSALEM, AT HER WORST TIMES, IS MERELY A DAUGHTER HARLOT: THUS, SAYS THE LORD GOD TO JERUSALEM, ... “INDEED EVERYONE WHO QUOTES PROVERBS WILL USE THIS PROVERB AGAINST YOU: ‘LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGHTER!’ YOU ARE YOUR MOTHER’S DAUGHTER, LOATHING HUSBAND AND CHILDREN; AND YOU ARE THE SISTER OF YOUR SISTERS, WHO LOATHED THEIR HUSBANDS AND CHILDREN; YOUR MOTHER WAS A HITTITE AND YOUR FATHER AN AMORITE.’” (EZE. EZE. 16:3, EZE. 16:44-45) [EMPHASIS ADDED] SON OF MAN, THERE WERE TWO WOMEN, THE DAUGHTERS OF ONE MOTHER. THEY COMMITTED HARLOTRY IN EGYPT, THEY COMMITTED HARLOTRY IN THEIR YOUTH; THEIR BREASTS WERE THERE EMBRACED, THEIR VIRGIN BOSOM WAS THERE PRESSED. THEIR NAMES: OHOLAH THE ELDER AND OHOLIBAH HER SISTER; THEY WERE MINE, AND THEY BORE SONS AND DAUGHTERS. AS FOR THEIR NAMES, SAMARIA IS OHOLAH, AND JERUSALEM IS OHOLIBAH. (EZE. EZE. 23:2-4) [EMPHASIS ADDED] GOD, THROUGH EZEKIEL, GOES ON TO DESCRIBE HOW OHOLIAH (SAMARIA, THE NORTHERN KINGDOM) DERIVED HER HARLOTRY FROM EGYPT (EZE. EZE. 23:8) AND WAS GIVEN INTO THE HANDS OF HER LOVERS, ASSYRIA (EZE. EZE. 23:9). WHEN HER SISTER, OHOLIBAH (JERUSALEM, REPRESENTING THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM) SAW HER FATE, RATHER THAN REPENTING SHE BECAME EVEN MORE CORRUPT. THEN, HER EYES LUSTING AFTER THE EQUIVALENT OF PORNOGRAPHIC IMAGES: ...SHE INCREASED HER HARLOTRY; SHE LOOKED AT MEN PORTRAYED ON THE WALL, IMAGES OF CHALDEANS PORTRAYED IN VERMILION, GIRDED WITH BELTS AROUND THEIR WAISTS, FLOWING TURBANS ON THEIR HEADS, ALL OF THEM LOOKING LIKE CAPTAINS, IN THE MANNER OF THE BABYLONIANS OF CHALDEA, THE LAND OF THEIR NATIVITY . (EZE EZE. 23:14-15) [EMPHASIS ADDED] IN THIS SIGNIFICANT PASSAGE OF EZEKIEL, ISRAEL’S HARLOTRY IS REPEATEDLY SAID TO DERIVE FROM EGYPT (EZE. EZE. 23:8, EZE. 23:19, EZE. 23:27). THUS, SHE IS A DAUGHTER HARLOT. IN THIS SAME PASSAGE DESCRIBING JERUSALEM’S HARLOTRY, EZEKIEL LINKS THE NATIVITY OF HER PARTNERS TO BABYLON. LIKE ROME, JERUSALEM LACKS THE NECESSARY ANTIQUITY TO BEAR THE DUBIOUS LABEL OF MOTHER OF HARLOTS. BEALE NOTES THAT EVIDENCE IS LACKING THAT “BABYLON” HAS EVER BEEN A SYMBOLIC NAME FOR ISRAEL: “THERE IS NOT ONE EXAMPLE OF ‘BABYLON’ EVER BEING A SYMBOLIC NAME FOR ISRAEL, EITHER BEFORE OR AFTER 70 A.D...THE BURDEN OF PROOF RESTS ON THOSE MAINTAINING THE BABYLON = JERUSALEM IDENTIFICATION.”6 ANOTHER MAJOR WEAKNESS OF THE VIEW THAT BABYLON IS JERUSALEM IS FOUND IN THE DATING OF THE BOOK OF REVELATION. UNLESS JOHN WROTE THE BOOK BEFORE THE FALL OF JERUSALEM IN A.D. 70, THEN IT BECOMES IMPOSSIBLE TO ASSIGN THE DESTRUCTION OF BABYLON IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION TO THAT EVENT: THE VIEW THAT BABYLON IS A CODE NAME FOR JERUSALEM DERIVES FROM A WORLDVIEW THAT REQUIRES THE WRITING AND FULFILLMENT OF THE APOCALYPSE BEFORE A.D. 70. BESIDES AN IMPOSSIBLE DATE FOR THE BOOK’S WRITING, THIS VIEW GOES AGAINST THE HISTORICAL FACT THAT JERUSALEM IS RELATED TO THE PEOPLE OF GOD AND BABYLON TO THE WORLD AT LARGE (LEE).7 NOR DOES IT MAKE SENSE FOR JERUSALEM TO BE BABYLON WHEN THE EARTHLY JERUSALEM IS A TYPE OR PATTERN FOR THE NEW JERUSALEM WHICH IS CONTRASTED AT EVERY POINT WITH BABYLON. THE VIEW THAT BABYLON MEANS JERUSALEM HAS ALMOST NOTHING TO RECOMMEND IT AND REPRESENTS A MOST SERIOUS DISTORTION OF THE WORD OF GOD. ADORNED WITH GOLD AND PRECIOUS STONES AND PEARLS: THE WOMAN NOT ONLY PRACTICES SPIRITUAL HARLOTRY (IDOLATRY), SHE IS ALSO CONSUMED WITH MATERIALISM AND WEALTH. IN THE MEASURE THAT SHE GLORIFIED HERSELF AND LIVED LUXURIOUSLY, IN THE SAME MEASURE GIVE HER TORMENT AND SORROW; FOR SHE SAYS IN HER HEART, ‘I SIT AS QUEEN, AND AM NO WIDOW, AND WILL NOT SEE SORROW.’ THEREFORE, HER PLAGUES WILL COME IN ONE DAY-DEATH AND MOURNING AND FAMINE. AND SHE WILL BE UTTERLY BURNED WITH FIRE, FOR STRONG IS THE LORD GOD WHO JUDGES HER. (REV. REV. 18:7-8+) SHE SHARES THIS CHARACTERISTIC WITH THE BEAST SHE RIDES WHO DISREGARDS ALL GODS, EXALTS HIMSELF ABOVE THEM, AND IN THEIR PLACE SHALL HONOR ANOTHER GOD WITH GOLD, SILVER, AND PRECIOUS STONES (DAN. DAN. 11:38). THE HARLOT WEARS IDENTICAL ATTIRE AS THE CITY. “THAT GREAT CITY THAT WAS CLOTHED IN FINE LINEN, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, AND ADORNED WITH GOLD AND PRECIOUS STONES AND PEARLS” (REV. REV. 18:16+). THIS INDICATES THAT THE HARLOT AND THE CITY ARE ONE AND THE SAME (REV. REV. 17:18+). A GOLDEN CUP: THIS IS THE CUP WHICH SHE HERSELF DRINKS AND WHEREIN SHE HAS MIXED WHAT SHE PROFFERS TO THE NATIONS (JER. JER. 51:7; REV. REV. 14:8+; REV. 18:6+). LIKE THE PHARISEES OF JESUS’ DAY, THE OUTSIDE OF THE CUP IS LUSTROUS AND BEAUTIFUL, BUT INSIDE IT IS “FULL OF EXTORTION AND SELF-INDULGENCE” (MTT. MAT. 23:25-26). FULL OF ABOMINATIONS: ABOMINATIONS IS ΒΔΕΛΥΓΜΆΤΩΝ [BDELYGMATŌN]: “ANYTHING THAT MUST NOT BE BROUGHT BEFORE GOD BECAUSE IT AROUSES HIS WRATH.”3 “ANYTHING CONNECTED WITH SEXUAL IDOLATRY.”4 GOD WARNED ISRAEL THROUGH MOSES: WHEN YOU COME INTO THE LAND WHICH THE LORD YOUR GOD IS GIVING YOU, YOU SHALL NOT LEARN TO FOLLOW THE ABOMINATIONS OF THOSE NATIONS. THERE SHALL NOT BE FOUND AMONG YOU ANYONE WHO MAKES HIS SON OR HIS DAUGHTER PASS THROUGH THE FIRE, OR ONE WHO PRACTICES WITCHCRAFT, OR A SOOTHSAYER, OR ONE WHO INTERPRETS OMENS, OR A SORCERER, OR ONE WHO CONJURES SPELLS, OR A MEDIUM, OR A SPIRITIST, OR ONE WHO CALLS UP THE DEAD. FOR ALL WHO DO THESE THINGS ARE AN ABOMINATION TO THE LORD, AND BECAUSE OF THESE ABOMINATIONS THE LORD YOUR GOD DRIVES THEM OUT FROM BEFORE YOU. (DEU. DEU. 18:9-12) SHE IS THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH (REV. REV. 17:5+). THUS, SHE BIRTHED THE ABOMINATIONS WHICH ARE FOUND IN THE CUP WHICH SHE SERVES. FROM THIS, WE KNOW THAT THE WOMAN IS NOT JUST A FIGURE OF THE TIME OF THE END, BUT HAS HER ROOTS STRETCHING BACK TO EARLY HISTORY. THUS, BOTH THE HARLOT AND THE SEVEN HEADS ON THE BEAST WHICH SHE RIDES STRETCH BACK TO EARLY HISTORY. THOSE WHO CONFUSE THE HARLOT WITH JERUSALEM FAIL TO CONSIDER IMPORTANT ASPECTS OF THE OT RECORD WHICH PRECLUDE SUCH AN IDENTITY: THE ABOMINATIONS WHICH ISRAEL PRACTICED WERE LEARNED FROM THE SURROUNDING NATIONS (1K. 1K. 14:24) “WHEN YOU COME INTO THE LAND WHICH THE LORD YOUR GOD IS GIVING YOU, YOU SHALL NOT LEARN TO FOLLOW THE ABOMINATIONS OF THOSE NATIONS” (DEU. DEU. 18:9 CF. 1K. 1K. 14:24; 2K. 2K. 16:3; 2K. 21:2; 2CHR. 2CHR. 28:3; 2CHR. 33:2; 2CHR. 36:14; EZE. EZE. 20:7-8). THUS, NEITHER ISRAEL NOR JERUSALEM CAN BE THE MOTHER OF THESE PRACTICES. THE CITY OF JERUSALEM IS FIRST MENTIONED IN THE BOOK OF JOSHUA (JOS. JOS. 10:1).5 AS A CITY ASSOCIATED WITH HARLOTRY AND ABOMINATION, JERUSALEM LACKS THE NECESSARY SIGNIFICANCE IN EARLY HISTORY NECESSARY TO FULFILL ALL OF WHAT IS SAID OF THE HARLOT. THE GREAT HARLOT IS ASSOCIATED WITH BABYLON, NOT JERUSALEM. THE CUP IS FULL INDICATING HER READINESS FOR GOD’S JUDGMENT. AND THE FILTHINESS OF HER FORNICATION: FILTHINESS IS ἀΚΆΘΑΡΤΑ [AKATHARTA], MEANING THAT WHICH IS “IMPURE, UNCLEAN.”6 HER FORNICATION RESULTS IN DEFILEMENT, FOR SHE IS UNCLEAN. THIS DESCRIBES THAT WHICH IS MORALLY INDECENT AS WELL AS RITUALLY NOT ACCEPTABLE.7 IN THE PREVIOUS CHAPTER, THE SAME TERM DESCRIBED THE “THREE UNCLEAN (ἀΚΆΘΑΡΤΑ [AKATHARTA]) SPIRITS” (REV. REV. 16:13+). HER IDOLATROUS PRACTICES AND ABOMINATIONS LED TO IMPURITY AND DEFILED THE LAND: “THE LAND WHICH YOU ARE ENTERING TO POSSESS IS AN UNCLEAN LAND, WITH THE UNCLEANNESS OF THE PEOPLES OF THE LANDS, WITH THEIR ABOMINATIONS WHICH HAVE FILLED IT FROM ONE END TO ANOTHER WITH THEIR IMPURITY” (EZRA EZRA 9:11B). HER OWN FORNICATION WAS PROMOTED TO FOREIGN NATIONS ACROSS THE GLOBE (REV. REV. 14:8+). THE MT TEXT HAS THE FORNICATION OF THE EARTH. REVELATION 17:5: ON HER FOREHEAD: LIKE THE SEALED OF ISRAEL (REV. REV. 7:3+; REV. 14:1+) AND THE BEAST SEXUAL WORSHIPERS (REV. REV. 13:16+), THE WOMAN IS ALSO IDENTIFIED ON HER FOREHEAD. SHE HAS A HARLOT’S FOREHEAD AND REFUSES TO BE ASHAMED (JER. JER. 3:3). THE LABEL ON HER FOREHEAD AS THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS IS TO BE CONTRASTED WITH THE ENGRAVED GOLDEN PLATE ON THE TURBAN OF THE HIGH PRIEST WHICH READ, “HOLINESS TO THE LORD” (EX. EX. 28:36-37). HE IS SET APART TO GOD, SHE IS SET AGAINST GOD. A NAME (VICTORIA) WAS WRITTEN: WAS WRITTEN IS ΓΕΓΡΑΜΜΈΝΟΝ [GEGRAMMENON], PERFECT TENSE PARTICIPLE, HAVING BEEN WRITTEN. THE NAME WAS WRITTEN IN THE PAST AND SHE REMAINS SO LABELED. MYSTERY: MYSTERY IS ΜΥΣΤΉΡΙΟΝ [MYSTĒRION], INDICATING SOMETHING UNKNOWABLE BY MAN UNLESS AND UNTIL REVEALED BY GOD. THE ANTIDOTE FOR MYSTERY IS NOT INVESTIGATION OR DISCOVERY, BUT REVELATION. THE MYSTERY RELATES TO HER IDENTITY AND RELATIONSHIP TO THE SEVEN-HEADED BEAST WITH TEN HORNS (REV. REV. 17:7+). FORTUNATELY, THE ANGEL PROVIDES ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TO REVEAL ASPECTS OF HER MYSTERY (REV. REV. 17:7+). IT IS UNFORTUNATE THAT “MYSTERY” APPEARS IN CAPITALS AS IF IT IS A PART OF HER TITLE: WE BELIEVE THAT THE ENGLISH TRANSLATORS HAVE MISLED MANY BY PRINTING (ON THEIR OWN AUTHORITY) THE WORD ‘MYSTERY’ IN LARGE CAPITAL LETTERS, THUS MAKING IT APPEAR THAT THIS WAS A PART OF ‘THE WOMAN’S NAME.’ THIS WE ARE ASSURED IS A MISTAKE. THAT THE ‘MYSTERY’ IS CONNECTED WITH THE ‘WOMAN’ HERSELF AND NOT WITH HER ‘NAME’ IS CLEAR FROM REV. REV. 17:7+, WHERE THE ANGEL SAYS UNTO JOHN, ‘I WILL TELL THEE THE MYSTERY OF THE WOMAN, AND OF THE BEAST WHICH CARRIETH HER.’1 A BETTER TRANSLATION WOULD BE, “AND ON HER FOREHEAD A NAME WAS WRITTEN, A MYSTERY, ‘BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH’” (REV. REV. 17:5+, NASB95). HER TRUE TITLE LACKS THE TERM “MYSTERY,” BUT IS MERELY “BABYLON THE GREAT” (REV. REV. 18:2+). THE INCORPORATION OF “MYSTERY” AS HER TITLE HAS LED MANY TO IDENTIFY TWO BABYLONS, ONE COMMERCIAL AND ONE SPIRITUAL. YET ASPECTS OF THE HARLOT AND THE CITY BABYLON ARE VIRTUALLY IDENTICAL—BOTH INVOLVING A MERGER OF BOTH SPIRITUAL AND COMMERCIAL. THE PRIMARY ISSUE AMONG INTERPRETERS IN REGARD TO THE HARLOT IS WHETHER SHE IS TO BE UNDERSTOOD AS BEING A SEPARATE BUT RELATED ENTITY TO BABYLON, THE CITY. MANY INTERPRETERS TAKE HER TO BE A SEPARATE ECCLESIASTIC SYSTEM AT THE TIME OF THE END WHICH UNDERGOES A SEPARATE JUDGMENT AND DESTRUCTION THAN BABYLON, THE CITY. THIS VIEW IS BASED ON A NUMBER OF POINTS: “MYSTERY” IS WRITTEN ON THE WOMAN’S FOREHEAD (REV. REV. 17:5+). SOME TAKE THIS AS PART OF HER TITLE, DENOTING HER MYSTERIOUS NATURE AND IDENTITY. RELIGIOUS ASPECTS OF THE HARLOT ARE THOUGHT TO BE MORE STRONGLY EMPHASIZED IN REVELATION REV. 17:1+, WHEREAS REVELATION REV. 18:1+ EMPHASIZES COMMERCIAL ASPECTS. IF MODERN ECUMENICAL LIBERALISM CONTINUES, THEN IT SEEMS LIKELY THAT DISPARATE RELIGIOUS SYSTEMS WILL EVENTUALLY AMALGAMATE INTO A ONE-WORLD GLOBAL RELIGION AT THE TIME OF THE END. WE DISCUSS THE MERITS OF EACH OF THESE POINTS BELOW. ONE OTHER MATTER WHICH WE SHOULD MENTION REGARDING THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE HARLOT: THE TENDENCY OF UNEVENLY EMPHASIZING INTERPRETIVE CLUES PROVIDED BY THE TEXT. SCRIPTURE GIVES US SOME CLEAR AND DEFINITE SIGN-POSTS TO HELP GUIDE US IN OUR TASK OF INTERPRETATION. WHEN WE FAIL TO HEED THOSE SIGN-POSTS, BUT DRIVE RIGHT BY THEM, WE MISS THE MAIN FORK IN THE ROAD LEADING IN THE PROPER DIRECTION AND DRIVE DOWN THE WRONG ROAD WHICH TAKES US MILES FROM THE PROPER DESTINATION. IT DOES NOT MATTER HOW MANY SMALL BACK-ALLEYS WE INVESTIGATE IN THE LOCAL NEIGHBORHOOD IF WE ARE ALREADY IN THE WRONG CITY! IGNORING VERY CLEAR AND DEFINITE STATEMENTS, INTERPRETERS OFTEN SPEND GREAT EFFORT ANALYZING OTHER LESS-CLEAR PASSAGES IN ATTEMPTING TO IDENTIFY HER. IN THE CASE OF THE HARLOT, SEVERAL DEFINITIVE STATEMENTS ARE GIVEN TO US ABOUT HER IDENTITY. SHE IS EXPLICITLY SAID TO BE A CITY: “AND THE WOMAN WHOM YOU SAW IS THAT GREAT CITY WHICH REIGNS OVER THE KINGS OF THE EARTH” (REV. REV. 17:18+). THE PHRASE, THE GREAT (REV. REV. 17:3+), IS REMINISCENT OF THE GREAT CITY, BABYLON (REV. REV. 16:19+; REV. 17:4+; REV. 18:2+, REV. 18:21+; REV. 19:2+), ALTHOUGH THE PHRASE IS ALSO USED OF JERUSALEM (REV. REV. 11:8+; REV. 16:19+) AND THE NEW JERUSALEM (REV. REV. 21:10+). WE ARE NOT LEFT TO WONDER WHICH CITY IS MEANT, WHETHER JERUSALEM, THE NEW JERUSALEM, BABYLON (OR EVEN ROME, NEW YORK, OR TOKYO!). IT IS BABYLON WHICH IS EXPLICITLY IDENTIFIED WITH “THE GREAT HARLOT” (REV. REV. 19:2+ CF. REV. REV. 18:21+). WHATEVER ELSE THE HARLOT DENOTES, WE MUST NOT LOSE SIGHT OF THESE SIMPLE, CLEAR SIGN POSTS: SHE IS A CITY AND THAT CITY IS BABYLON. BABYLON: THE WOMAN IS NOT SAID MERELY TO BE BABYLON, BUT THERE IS A MYSTERY CONNECTED WITH HER IDENTIFICATION AS SUCH. SHE IS NOT MYSTERY BABYLON, BUT BABYLON. HOWEVER, ASPECTS OF WHO SHE IS ARE UNKNOWN UNTIL GOD REVEALS THEM. HERE, JOHN IS SHOWN THAT THE HARLOT IS TO BE IDENTIFIED WITH BABYLON. MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH: SHE CORRUPTED THE EARTH WITH HER FORNICATION (REV. REV. 19:2+) AND WAS THE SOURCE OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS, NOT ONE OF THE RECIPIENTS. HER DAUGHTERS WERE POLLUTED BY HER: “BUT COME HERE, YOU SONS OF THE SORCERESS, YOU OFFSPRING OF THE ADULTERER AND THE HARLOT!” (ISA. ISA. 57:3). ONCE AGAIN, WE SEE THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF TAKING THE HARLOT TO BE JERUSALEM. SPEAKING OF THE HARLOTRY OF JERUSALEM, EZEKIEL RELATES: THUS, SAYS THE LORD GOD TO JERUSALEM, ... “INDEED EVERYONE WHO QUOTES PROVERBS WILL USE THIS PROVERB AGAINST YOU: ‘LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGHTER!’ YOU ARE YOUR MOTHER’S DAUGHTER, LOATHING HUSBAND AND CHILDREN; AND YOU ARE THE SISTER OF YOUR SISTERS, WHO LOATHED THEIR HUSBANDS AND CHILDREN; YOUR MOTHER WAS A HITTITE AND YOUR FATHER AN AMORITE.’” (EZE. EZE. 16:3, EZE. 16:44-45) [EMPHASIS ADDED] JERUSALEM IS SAID TO HAVE THE HITTITES AS A MOTHER AND THE AMORITES AS A FATHER. SHE HERSELF IS A DAUGHTER. SINCE ISRAEL DID NOT EVEN EXIST AS A NATION UNTIL THE TIME OF JACOB, IT IS OBVIOUS THAT SHE CANNOT BE THE MOTHER OR ORIGINATOR OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. THIS DUBIOUS DISTINCTION MUST GO TO AN OLDER EMPIRE: BABYLON IN THE SENSE OF ITS ORIGINATION UNDER NIMROD AS BABEL (GEN. GEN. 10:8-10). NEITHER DOES THE EVER-POPULAR INTERPRETATION OF THE HARLOT AS ROMAN CATHOLICISM MEET THE DESCRIPTION OF THIS VERSE: THE NAME WAS THE NAME, NOT OF A WOMAN, BUT OF A CITY, “THAT GREAT CITY,” EVEN BABYLON. BUT IT SIGNIFIED NOT MERELY THE MATERIAL CITY AS SUCH, BUT THE VAST SYSTEM OF IDOLATRY CONNECTED WITH IT. THAT IS WHY THE EXPLANATION OF THE SECRET SIGN FOLLOWS “THE MOTHER OF THE HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.” NOT MERELY OF ROME, OR EVEN BABYLON (AS A CITY), BUT “OF THE EARTH”: I.E., THE MOTHER, OR FOUNTAIN HEAD OF ALL THE SYSTEMS OF IDOLATRY WHICH HAVE SINCE FLOODED “THE EARTH” FROM THAT ONE GREAT SOURCE; AND OF WHICH ROMANISM IS ONLY A PART. THIS IS THE SECRET OR “MYSTERY OF INIQUITY” REFERRED TO IN 2 THESSALONIANS 2TH. 2:7. BABYLON WAS THE FOUNTAIN-HEAD OF ALL IDOLATRY.2 TO SAY THAT [THE HARLOT] IS EITHER ROME OR THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IS TO GROSSLY UNDERESTIMATE THE AGELONG GLOBAL IMPACT OF THIS GREAT MYSTERY. BABYLON THE GREAT. BABYLON IS THE MOTHER OF ALL HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. FROM HER HAVE COME ALL THIS ETERNAL BULLSHIT OF ANCIENT PAGANISM, CHINESE CONFUCIANISM, ASIAN BUDDHISM, INDIAN HINDUISM, SHAMANISM, TAOISM, SHINTOISM, ANIMISM, ASTROLOGY, WITCHCRAFT (FORBIDDEN), SPIRITISM, SIKHISM, AND ALL THE WORLD’S VAST COMPLEX OF “GODS MANY, AND LORDS MANY” (1 CORINTHIANS 1COR. 8:5). OF MORE DIRECT CONCERN IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICA IS THE DIRECT DESCENT OF MODERN SCIENTISM AND EVOLUTIONARY HUMANISM FROM THIS ANCIENT MOTHER OF HARLOTS. AS NOTED, BEFORE, MODERN EVOLUTIONISM IS IN NO WAY SCIENTIFIC, BEING CONTRADICTED BY ALL TRUE FACTS OF SCIENCE, BUT IS MERELY A REVIVAL OF ANCIENT GREEK (AND ULTIMATELY BABYLONIAN) EVOLUTIONARY PANTHEISM.3 REVELATION 17:6: DRUNK: DRUNK IS ΜΕΘΎΟΥΣΑΝ [METHYOUSAN], PRESENT TENSE PARTICIPLE. THE WOMAN WAS DRUNK WHILE JOHN SAW HER. SHE WAS HORNEY & SEXUALLY PERVERTED AND WANTED TO FUCK SOME COCK. WITH THE BLOOD OF THE SAINTS AND WITH THE BLOOD OF THE MARTYRS OF JESUS: WHEN BABYLON IS DESTROYED, THE HOLY APOSTLES AND PROPHETS ARE SAID TO HAVE BEEN AVENGED (REV. REV. 18:19+). THUS, THE HARLOT IS NOT SOME OTHER ENTITY, BUT IS TO BE IDENTIFIED WITH THE CITY. THIS ALSO EXPLAINS THE CLOSE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN THE HARLOT AND THE BEAST UPON WHICH SHE RIDES. FOR THE BEAST IS GIVEN AUTHORITY TO OVERCOME THE SAINTS (REV. REV. 13:7+), AND HIS IMAGE COMMANDS THAT THOSE WHO REFUSE TO WORSHIP THE IMAGE BE PUT TO DEATH (REV. REV. 13:15+). SINCE THE WOMAN SITS UPON PEOPLES, MULTITUDES, NATIONS, AND TONGUES, ALL THE WORLD AT THE TIME OF THE END PARTICIPATES IN THE DESTRUCTION OF THE GODLY. THE EARTH SEXUAL DWELLERS ARE GIVEN BLOOD TO DRINK BECAUSE “THEY HAVE SHED THE BLOOD OF SAINTS AND PROPHETS” (REV. REV. 16:6+). THROUGHOUT THE BOOK OF REVELATION, JOHN IS SHOWN NUMEROUS MARTYRS OF JESUS. ANTIPAS IN THE CHURCH OF PERGAMOS WAS A FAITHFUL MARTYR (REV. REV. 2:13+). AT THE OPENING OF THE FIFTH SEAL, JOHN SEES “THE SOULS OF THOSE WHO HAD BEEN SLAIN FOR THE WORD OF GOD AND FOR THE TESTIMONY WHICH THEY HELD” (REV. REV. 6:9+). GOD’S TWO WITNESSES, EMPOWERED TO PROPHESY, ARE MARTYRED AS A WITNESS (REV. REV. 11:7+). JOHN SEES THOSE WHO HAD OVERCOME THE BEAST AND HIS MARK—PROBABLY MARTYRS—STANDING ON THE SEA OF GLASS (REV. REV. 15:2+ CF. REV. REV. 12:11+). AT THE INITIATION OF THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM, JOHN SEES “THE SOULS OF THOSE WHO HAD BEEN BEHEADED FOR THEIR WITNESS TO JESUS AND FOR THE WORD OF GOD, WHO HAD NOT WORSHIPED THE BEAST OR HIS IMAGE, AND HAD NOT RECEIVED HIS MARK ON THEIR FOREHEADS OR ON THEIR HANDS” (REV. REV. 20:4+). HER BLOOD-GUILTINESS EXTENDS THROUGHOUT HISTORY, FOR “IN HER WAS FOUND THE BLOOD OF PROPHETS AND SAINTS, AND OF ALL WHO WERE SLAIN ON THE EARTH” (REV. REV. 18:24+). BEING DRUNK WITH BLOOD WOULD BE PARTICULARLY OFFENSIVE TO JOHN WHO, BEING A JEW, HAD A KEEN APPRECIATION FOR THE PROHIBITION AGAINST EATING BLOOD (GEN. GEN. 9:4; LEV. LEV. 3:17; LEV. 7:26; LEV. 17:10-13).1 WHEN I SAW HER, I MARVELED WITH GREAT AMAZEMENT: AT THE END OF DANIEL’S VISION OF THE FOUR BEASTS AND THE SON OF MAN, HIS THOUGHTS GREATLY TROUBLED HIM (DAN. DAN. 7:28). SUBSEQUENT TO DANIEL’S VISION CONCERNING ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES IV, AND ASPECTS OF THE TIME OF THE END, HE FAINTED AND WAS SICK FOR DAYS AND CONTINUED TO BE ASTONISHED BY THE VISION (DAN. DAN. 8:27). JOHN IS SIMILARLY AFFECTED BY THE MAGNITUDE OF WHAT HE IS BEING SHOWN: HER SUPPORT BY THE HIDEOUS BEAST, HER GREAT WEALTH, HER EXTREME SINFULNESS, AND HER SCOPE BOTH HISTORICALLY AND GEOGRAPHICALLY. REVELATION 17:7: I WILL TELL YOU THE MYSTERY OF THE WOMAN AND OF THE BEAST: THE ANGEL PROVIDES REVELATION CONCERNING ASPECTS OF THE WOMAN (REV. REV. 17:15-18+) AND THE BEAST WITH THE SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS (REV. REV. 17:8-14+, REV. 17:16-17+). THE REMAINDER OF THE CHAPTER IS DEVOTED TO THESE TWO TOPICS. CARRIES HER: CARRIES IS ΒΑΣΤΆΖΟΝΤΟΣ [BASTAZONTOS], INDICATING THAT THE BEAST SUPPORTS OR BEARS HER, USED “OF ANIMALS USED FOR RIDING,”1 BUT ALSO USED FIGURATIVELY: MAT. 20:12).”2 ALTHOUGH THE BEAST CARRIES HER FOR A SEASON, ULTIMATELY HE AND HIS TEN KINGS TURN UPON HER AND CONSUME HER (REV. REV. 17:16-17+) BRINGING ABOUT GOD’S JUDGMENT UPON HER. PERHAPS HER RIDE UPON THE BEAST IS EVENTUALLY SEEN TO BE TOO BURDENSOME SO HE THROWS HER OFF. SHE MAY ULTIMATELY PROVE TO BE A LIABILITY AND A COMPETITION IN HIS EVENTUAL BID FOR ALL ATTENTION AND WORSHIP (2TH. 2TH. 2:4). SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS: HAVING SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS: THE GREAT HARLOT RIDES UPON THE SAME BEAST WHICH AROSE FROM THE SEA (REV. REV. 13:1+) WHICH ALSO HAD SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS (REV. REV. 13:1+). THESE SAME HEADS AND HORNS WERE SEEN UPON THE GREAT RED DRAGON WHO EMPOWERS THE BEAST (REV. REV. 12:3+). THE SEVEN HEADS ARE SEVEN MOUNTAINS AND SEVEN KINGS (REV. REV. 17:9-10+). THE TEN HORNS ARE TEN KINGS (REV. REV. 17:12+ CF. DAN. DAN. 7:7, DAN. 7:20, DAN. 7:24). REVELATION 17:8: THE BEAST THAT YOU SAW: IN THE EXPLANATION WHICH FOLLOWS, IT IS IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THAT THE BEAST IS BOTH A KING AND A KINGDOM. THIS CHARACTERISTIC IS EVIDENT FROM A STUDY OF VARIOUS PASSAGES CONCERNING THE BEAST, FOR EXAMPLE: “I WATCHED THEN BECAUSE OF THE SOUND OF THE POMPOUS WORDS WHICH THE HORN [AN INDIVIDUAL] WAS SPEAKING; I WATCHED TILL THE BEAST [THE FOURTH TERRIBLE KINGDOM] WAS SLAIN, AND ITS BODY DESTROYED AND GIVEN TO THE BURNING FLAME” (DAN. DAN. 7:11). WAS AND IS NOT AND WILL ASCEND...GO TO PERDITION: THIS IS AN IMPORTANT VERSE BECAUSE IT GIVES US INFORMATION CONCERNING THE FOUR PHASES OF THE LIFE OF THE BEAST WHO EVENTUALLY RULES THE SEVENTH HEAD AT THE TIME OF THE END: WAS - HIS ORIGINAL POLITICAL APPEARANCE AND RISE (DAN. DAN. 9:26-27). IS NOT - HIS DEATH BY A MORTAL WOUND (ZEC. ZEC. 11:17?; REV. REV. 13:3+). WILL ASCEND - HIS MIRACULOUS RECOVERY (REV. REV. 13:3+). TO PERDITION - HIS DESTRUCTION AT THE HANDS OF CHRIST AT THE SECOND COMING (DAN. DAN. 7:11; DAN. 11:45; REV. REV. 19:19+). AT HIS ASCENT, HE OVERTHROWS THE TWO WITNESSES (REV. REV. 11:7+). HIS VICTORY OVER THEM AND HIS MIRACULOUS RESTORATION RESULT IN HIS GLOBAL WORSHIP (REV. REV. 13:3-4+). THIS OCCURS AT THE MIDPOINT OF THE 70TH WEEK OF DANIEL. OUT OF THE BOTTOMLESS PIT: BOTTOMLESS PIT IS ἀΒΎΣΣΟΥ [ABYSSOU], THE ABYSS, A COMPARTMENT DEEP WITHIN THE EARTH WHICH SERVES AS A HOLDING PLACE FOR DEMONS. HIS ASCENT FROM THE ABYSS IS YET FUTURE TO THE TIME OF JOHN’S VISION AND DENOTES HIS REVIVAL FROM THE DEAD AND POSSIBLY HIS DEMONIC POSSESSION (CF. LUKE LUKE 22:3; JOHN JOHN 13:27). WHEN THE BEAST ASCENDS OUT OF THE ABYSS, HE WILL OVERCOME THE TWO WITNESSES (REV. REV. 11:7+). THE DESTRUCTION OF THESE TWO POWERFUL PROPHETS TOGETHER WITH HIS RETURN FROM THE DEAD WILL SEAL HIS WORSHIP BY THE EARTH SEXUAL DWELLERS. THIS PROBABLY OCCURS AT THE MIDPOINT OF THE 70TH WEEK OF DANIEL WHEN HE PROCLAIMS HIMSELF AS GOD. ROUGHLY SPEAKING THE MORTAL STAGE [BEFORE HIS DEADLY WOUND] WOULD FILL THE FIRST HALF OF THE LAST OF “THE SEVENTY WEEKS” (I.E., THE FIRST 3 1/2 YEARS OF DAN. DAN. 9:27); AND THE SUPERHUMAN STAGE [AFTER HIS REVIVAL AND ASCENT FROM THE ABYSS] WOULD OCCUPY THE LAST HALF. BUT THERE IS NOTHING TO SHOW US WHAT LENGTH OF TIME WILL RUN BETWEEN HIS RISE AND HIS ASSASSINATION. NEITHER CAN WE SAY EXACTLY HOW LONG THE TIME WILL BE BETWEEN HIS DEATH-STROKE AND HIS REAPPEARANCE.1 GO TO PERDITION: PERDITION IS ἀΠΏΛΕΙΑΝ [APŌLEIAN]: MAT. 7:13).”2 THE ANTICHRIST IS SAID TO BE “THE SON OF PERDITION (ὁ ΥἱὸΣ ΤῆΣ ἀΠΩΛΕΊΑΣ [HO HUIOS TĒS APŌLEIAS])” (2TH. 2TH. 2:3). HIS TITLE REFLECTS HIS FINAL DESTINY: “INTO DESTRUCTION (ΕἰΣ ἀΠΏΛΕΙΑΝ [EIS APŌLEIAN])” (REV. REV. 17:11+). HIS DESTRUCTION FOLLOWS UPON HIS ORIGIN, DEATH, AND REVIVAL. IN DANIEL’S VISION OF THE FOUR BEASTS AND THE LITTLE HORN, THE FOURTH BEAST “WAS SLAIN, AND ITS BODY DESTROYED AND GIVEN TO THE BURNING FLAME” (DAN. DAN. 7:11). “HE SHALL COME TO HIS END, AND NO ONE WILL HELP HIM” (DAN. DAN. 11:45B). HE IS DESTROYED (CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE, BUT NOT ANNIHILATED) AT THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST (REV. REV. 19:20+). BECAUSE HIS DESTINY IS DESTRUCTION, HE IS “THE SON OF PERDITION” (2TH. 2TH. 2:3). BOTH THE BEAST AND THE FALSE PROPHET ARE DENIED JUDGMENT AT THE GREAT WHITE THRONE (REV. REV. 20:11-15+). UNLIKE OTHER NONBELIEVERS WHO DIE (OR ARE KILLED, REV. REV. 19:21+) AND SUBSEQUENTLY RESURRECTED TO STAND JUDGMENT BEFORE BEING CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE, THESE TWO ARE “CAST ALIVE INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE BURNING WITH BRIMSTONE” (REV. REV. 19:20+). THEIR DESTRUCTION IS UNIQUE IN THAT THEY ARE THE FIRST INHABITANTS OF THE LAKE OF FIRE—SPENDING ONE THOUSAND YEARS THERE BEFORE BEING JOINED BY SATAN (REV. REV. 20:10+). THUS, THE “ANTITRINITY” ARE THE FIRST TO SUFFER IN HELL. THE REST OF THE UNGODLY DEAD ARE IN HADES UNTIL THEIR TIME OF JUDGMENT (REV. REV. 20:12-13+). THOSE WHO DWELL ON THE EARTH WILL MARVEL: WILL MARVEL IS ΘΑΥΜΑΣΘΉΣΟΝΤΑΙ [THAUMASTHĒSONTAI], FUTURE PASSIVE INDICATIVE, THEY WILL BE MARVELLING. THIS IS THE SAME BEAST WHICH JOHN SAW EARLIER WHICH “ALL THE WORLD MARVELED AND FOLLOWED” (REV. REV. 13:4+). THERE, HE WAS SHOWN THE FUTURE RISE OF ANTICHRIST. NOW, THE ANGEL SHOWS HIM HIS PLACE OF ORIGIN (FROM THE ABYSS) AND HIS RELATIONSHIP TO THE WOMAN. THOSE WHO MARVEL ARE THE EARTH SEXUAL DWELLERS. THEY MARVEL OVER HIS RECOVERY FROM HIS DEADLY WOUND (REV. REV. 13:3+, REV. 13:14+; REV. REV. 17:11+). WHOSE NAMES ARE NOT WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE: NAMES ARE NOT WRITTEN IS Οῦ ΓΈΓΡΑΠΤΑΙ Τὸ ὄΝΟΜΑ [OU GEGRAPTAI TO ONOMA], PERFECT TENSE PASSIVE VERB, NOT IT HAS BEEN WRITTEN, THE NAME. THE TEXT IS NOT SAYING THAT THEIR NAMES ARE NOT PRESENTLY FOUND IN THE BOOK, AS IF THEY WERE AT ONE TIME BUT WERE LATER BLOTTED OUT. IN THE FOREKNOWLEDGE AND ELECTION OF GOD, THEIR NAMES WERE NEVER RECORDED THERE (REV. REV. 13:8+). SINCE THEIR NAMES HAVE NOT BEEN WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE, THEY ARE GUARANTEED EVENTUALLY TO BE CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE BECAUSE “ANYONE NOT FOUND WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE WAS CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE” (REV. REV. 20:12+). ONLY THOSE WHO ARE WRITTEN IN THE LAMB’S BOOK OF LIFE FIND ENTRY INTO THE NEW JERUSALEM (REV. REV. 21:27+). PREVIOUSLY, JOHN WROTE THAT THEIR NAMES HAD NOT BEEN WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE OF THE LAMB (REV. REV. 13:8+). HERE, THE SAME BOOK IS REFERRED TO AS SIMPLY THE BOOK OF LIFE. FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD: FROM THE FOUNDATION (ΚΑΤΑΒΟΛῆΣ [KATABOLĒS], THROWING DOWN) OF THE WORLD, THEIR NAMES HAVE BEEN ABSENT FROM THE BOOK. IN THE FOREKNOWLEDGE AND ELECTION OF GOD, IT WAS KNOWN THAT THE BEAST SEXUAL WORSHIPERS WOULD REJECT GOD. EVEN BEFORE THEIR DEATH, THEY ARE IRREDEEMABLE ONCE THEY WORSHIP THE BEAST AND TAKE HIS MARK (REV. REV. 14:9-11+). WHEN THEY SEE: ΒΛΕΠΌΝΤΩΝ [BLEPONTŌN], PRESENT TENSE PARTICIPLE, WHILE PRESENTLY SEEING. THEY WILL MARVEL AT THE TIME THEY SEE THE BEAST. HIS APPEARANCE RESULTS IN THEIR RESPONSE. THIS SPEAKS OF HIS DEADLY WOUND WHICH WAS HEALED WHICH CAUSES THE EARTH SEXUAL DWELLERS TO WORSHIP HIM (REV. REV. 13:3+). IT IS THE MIRACULOUS DEATH AND RECOVERY OF A PERSON WITNESSED BY PEOPLE WHO HAVE SEEN BOTH THE WOUNDING AND THE HEALING, NOT THE AGES-LONG RESTORATION OF A HISTORICAL KINGDOM OR COUNTRY SUCH AS ROME. THE WOUNDING AND MIRACULOUS RECOVERY OF THE BEAST IS A PART OF THE DECEPTIVE TESTING DURING THIS UNIQUE HOUR OF TESTING WHICH IS TO COME UPON THE WORLD (REV. REV. 3:10+). THEIR RESPONSE IS TO BELIEVE THE DECEPTION (2TH. 2TH. 2:11-12) WHICH RESULTS IN THEIR WORSHIP OF THE BEAST (REV. REV. 13:4+) AND IN THEIR TAKING HIS MARK WHICH SEALS THEIR DOOM (REV. REV. 14:9-11+). THE DECEPTION IS NOT THE MIRACULOUS REVIVAL, BUT THE FALSEHOOD WHICH IT POINTS TO. THAT WAS, AND IS NOT, AND YET IS: ΤΙ ἦΝ, ΚΑΙ ΟὐΚ ἔΣΤΙ, ΚΑὶΠΕΡ ἔΣΤΙΝ [TI ĒN, KAI OUK ESTI, KAIPER ESTIN], WHO HE WAS, AND NOT HE IS, AND ALTHOUGH HE IS (TR TEXT). ὍΤΙ ἦΝ ΚΑὶ ΟὐΚ ἔΣΤΙΝ ΚΑὶ ΠΑΡΈΣΤΑΙ [HOTI ĒN KAI OUK ESTIN KAI PARESTAI], THAT HE WAS AND NOT HE IS, AND HE WILL BE PRESENT (MT, NU TEXT). THIS PHRASE DESCRIBES THE INITIAL APPEARANCE, DEATH, AND SUBSEQUENT ASCENT OF THE BEAST FROM THE ABYSS (REV. REV. 11:7+). THE POINT OF REFERENCE FOR THE PHRASES WAS, IS NOT, AND YET IS, IS THE PERIOD IN WHICH THE EARTH SEXUAL DWELLERS LIVE—ALL OF WHICH IS YET FUTURE TO JOHN. THUS, THE FACT THAT THE BEAST WAS SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN AS AN INDICATION THAT THE BEAST HAD ALREADY WALKED THE PLANET AND PERISHED PRIOR TO JOHN’S DAY. THE PHRASE FOUND HERE ALLUDES TO THE SIMILAR PHRASE WHICH DESCRIBES JESUS’ ETERNAL NATURE AND TRUE VICTORY OVER DEATH: “I AM HE WHO LIVES, AND WAS DEAD, AND BEHOLD, I AM ALIVE FOREVERMORE” (REV. REV. 1:18+). IN HIS RETURN FROM THE DEAD, THE BEAST, AS ANTICHRIST, MIMICS THE TRUE CHRIST WHO FOREVER ACHIEVED VICTORY OVER DEATH. SOME BELIEVE JOHN’S STATEMENT REFLECTS HIS INCLUSION OF A MYTH WHICH DEVELOPED SOME TIME AFTER THE DEATH OF THE ROMAN EMPEROR NERO THAT HE WOULD RETURN FROM THE DEAD. THIS IS EXTREMELY UNLIKELY. REVELATION 17:9: HERE IS THE MIND WHICH HAS WISDOM: AS WAS THE CASE FOR CALCULATING THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST (REV. REV. 13:18+), WISDOM IS REQUIRED TO UNDERSTAND THE NEXT PORTION OF THE MYSTERY REVEALED BY THE ANGEL. HIS NUMBER IS SIX HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SIX: DISCUSSION ON THE MEANING OF THIS VALUE AND ITS ASSOCIATION WITH INDIVIDUALS AND MOVEMENTS OF HISTORY IS LEGEND. “THE INTERPRETATIONS OF THIS NUMBER FORM A JUNGLE FROM WHICH ESCAPE IS APPARENTLY HOPELESS.”3 THE NUMERIC DESIGNATOR FOR THE VALUE 666 FOUND IN THE MT AND TR TEXTS EMPLOYS THE GREEK CHARACTER STIGMA WHICH IS NOT GENERALLY USED TODAY. IT OCCURS BETWEEN EPSILON (Ε) AND ZETA (Ζ). THUS, IT DISPLACES ZETA AS THE SIXTH CHARACTER, GIVING ZETA THROUGH THETA THE VALUES 7 THROUGH 9, IOTA THROUGH KAPPA THE VALUES 10 THROUGH 90, AND RHO THROUGH OMEGA THE VALUES 100 THROUGH 800. AN ADDITIONAL CHARACTER, SAMPSI STANDS AT THE END AS 900.4 SINCE OUR GREEK FONT DOES NOT CONTAIN STIGMA WE WILL REPRESENT IT BY A SIGMA WITH AN ACCENT: Σˊ5 IN THE TR AND MT TEXT, THE VALUE IS GIVEN BY THE THREE GREEK LETTERS ΧΞΣˊ.6 GIVEN THE GREEK ALPHABET OF THE TIME, THE VALUES OF THE THREE LETTERS ARE: Χ = 600; Ξ = 60; Σˊ = 6. THEIR SUM IS THE INFAMOUS 666.7 THE NU TEXT SPELLS OUT THE VALUES USING WORDS: ἑΞΑΚΟΣΙΟΙ ἑΞΗΚΟΝΤΑ ἑΞ [HEXAKOSIOI HEXĒKONTA HEX], SIX HUNDRED SIXTY-SIX. AMONG ALL THE EXTANT MANUSCRIPT EVIDENCE, ONLY A VERY FEW HAVE ΔΕΚΑ [DEKA] (10) AS THE MIDDLE VALUE RESULTING IN 616.8 THE NERO ADVOCATES MAKE MUCH OF THE ALTERNATIVE VALUE 616 BECAUSE TWO DIFFERENT SPELLINGS OF NERO CAN ACCOUNT FOR BOTH THE VALUE 666 FOR THE MAN AND 616 FOR THE WOMAN. THESE BOTH ARE TRUE. THE WISDOM OF THE NUMBER OF HIS NAME IN REVELATION 13:16-18. SIX IS A BAD NUMBER BECAUSE IT DENOTES EVIL IN ITS GREATEST MAGNITUDE. THIS 666/616 IS THE NUMBER OF A FALSE MAN/FALSE WOMAN---THE ANTICHRIST IN REVELATION 13:18. IN THE GREEK THE NUMBER 666 IS IN ACTUALITY IN DNA AS XXX OR THE GREEK WORD PORNEIA (SHORT FOR PORN IN THE TRIPLE X-RATED MOVIES IN THE PORNOGRAPHY INDUSTRY) AS A SEXUAL HERMAPHRODITE WHICH MEANS SEXUAL IMMORALITY OR SEXUAL PERVERSION. NEBUCHADREZZAR IS THE NUMBER 663/613 AND NEBUCHADREZZUR IS THE NUMBER 669/619. THE EMPEROR NERO [NERON CAESAR] IS THE NUMBER 666. THE NUMBER 666 REFERS TO THE NAME NERON CAESAR WHICH IS CODED NERO THE ROMAN EMPEROR THAT KILLED CHRISTIANS (LORDS) & SAINTS (LORDS) IN 55AD TO 68AD. ALSO IN THE NAME OF KING NEBUCHADREZZAR FROM THE BOOK OF DANIEL IS THE NUMBER 663 AND THE NAME NEBUCHADREZZUR IN THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH THE NUMBER IS 669/619, WHICH MIDWAY IS THE NUMBER 666/616 AND IF THE MYSTERIES OF JEREMIAH IS ASSOCIATED WITH REVELATION, NEBUCHADNEZZAR CAME, BIDDEN BY GOD TO CRUSH GOD’S PEOPLE MAY PREFIGURE THE END-TIMES BEAST OVERCOMING GOD’S SAINTS (LORDS) IN REVELATION 13:7. THIS MAYBE THE ONLY WAY TO DETERMINE WHO IS THE ANTICHRIST & LUCIFER’S PARTY IS AT THE TIME, BY HIS MEDICAL DNA IN HIS BODY BY A STRAND OF HIS HAIR---MAYBE BLACK COLORED HAIR---THE COLOR BLACK REPRESENTS MOURNING, THE END, BLACK SECRETS, FORBIDDEN BLACK MAGIC, POWER, AUTHORITY, VIOLENCE, THE EVIL, UNCLEAN, DEFILEMENT, UNRIGHTEOUSNESS, INJUSTICE, DISHONEST, NASTINESS, BLEMISHED, SPOTTED, GUILTY, DARKNESS, IMPENDING JUDGMENT, WEAKNESS, DEFEATED, THE OLD, DISLOYAL, AND ELEGANCE, OR BY SWABBING HIS MOUTH, OR BY HIS SEMEN RELATIONSHIP TO BABYLON THE HARLOT OR BY TAKING OF HIS BLOOD—O POSITIVE POSSIBLY. IN THE LAW ENFORCEMENT FORENSICS, THE PHYSICAL DNA IS 99.9999% ACCURATE IN TODAY’S SOCIETY. PHYSICAL DNA FAR EXCEEDS THE ACCURACY OF MUG SHOTS OR FINGERPRINTS. THE NUMBER 7 DENOTES PERFECTION & COMPLETION WHICH MAY MEAN IT IS THE NUMBER 777---MEDICAL DNA WHICH IS THE NUMBER OF A TRUE MAN---THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IN LUKE CHAPTERS 1-2. THE LORD JEHOVAH, LORD VICTOR & LORD YAHWEH IN THE OKJV WITH THE NKJV HAS THE PERFECTION NUMBER OF 7 OCCURRENCES THESE THREE TIMES EACH IN GENESIS 22:14; EXODUS 6:3; 17:15; JUDGES 6:24; PSALMS 83:18 & ISAIAH 12:2; 26:4. THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD IN THE OKJV, OKJV WITH APOCRYPHA & THE NKJV HAS THE PERFECTION NUMBER OF 7 OCCURRENCES TRICE EACH IN ACTS 6:5, 8-9; 7:59; 8:2; 11:19; 22:20. BOTH THESE THREE TRANSLATIONS & THREE REPUTATIONS MAKE UP THE DNA 777 [MALE TRINITY---FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD, SON JESUS OUR LORD & BROTHER JOHN OUR LORD THE HOLY GHOST]/727 [FEMALE TRINITY---MOTHER STEPHANIE OUR LADY, DAUGHTER MARY OUR LORD & SISTER ELIZABETH OUR LADY THE HOLY GHOST] NUMBER OF COMPLETION & PERFECTION EACH OF JOHN 8:58 IN THE HOLY BIBLE. BUT THE APOSTLE JOHN PROBABLY DID NOT KNOW WHO WILL BE THE FALSE MAN---THE ANTICHRIST. THIS MAN OF LAWLESSNESS SHOULD NOT BE CONFUSED WITH THE TRUE BRIDE OF CHRIST, FOR THEY WILL BE RAPTURED OUT BEFORE THIS HAPPENS. IF ANYONE WILL ACCEPT ANYTHING FROM THE BEAST, THE SAME WILL DRINK OF THE WINE OF THE WRATH OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD WHICH IS POURED WITHOUT MIXTURE INTO HIS CUP OF INDIGNATION AND WILL BE TORMENTED BY THE HOLY ANGELS (LORDS) AND THE LAMB (LORD JESUS CHRIST) IN REVELATION 14:9-11. THEY CAN NEVER BE REDEEMED WHO RECEIVE THE MARK AND WORSHIP THE FIRST BEAST---ANTICHRIST WHO SELL THEIR SOULS ETERNALLY TO THE LORD LUCIFER. BUT IT IS BUT ONE SMALL PIECE OF THE OVERALL PUZZLE WHICH CONTRIBUTES TO THE IDENTITY OF THE BEAST. NERO SUCCEEDS ON THIS COUNT, BUT FAILS MISERABLY ON ALL OTHERS. NERO IS FAR FROM THE ONLY INDIVIDUAL IN HISTORY WHO MEETS THE CONDITIONS FOR 666. METZGER SUGGESTS THAT THE TEXTUAL VARIATION INDICATING 616 IS BEST EXPLAINED AS AN INTENTIONAL MODIFICATION IN THE FEMALE SENSE OF THE ORIGINAL TEXT BY A SCRIBE WHO SAW NERO IN THE TEXT.9 IRENAEUS, WHO LIVED MUCH NEARER TO THE TIME OF NERO THAN MODERN PRETERISTS AND WHO WAS A DISCIPLE OF POLYCARP WHO KNEW OUR AUTHOR, SUPPORTS THE READING 666: SUCH, THEN, BEING THE STATE OF THE CASE, AND THIS NUMBER [666] BEING FOUND IN ALL THE MOST APPROVED AND ANCIENT COPIES [OF THE APOCALYPSE], AND THOSE MEN WHO SAW JOHN FACE TO FACE BEARING THEIR TESTIMONY [TO IT]; WHILE REASON ALSO LEADS US TO CONCLUDE THAT THE NUMBER OF THE NAME OF THE BEAST, [IF RECKONED] ACCORDING TO THE GREEK MODE OF CALCULATION BY THE [VALUE OF] THE LETTERS CONTAINED IN IT, WILL AMOUNT TO SIX HUNDRED AND SIXTY AND SIX; THAT IS, THE NUMBER OF TENS SHALL BE EQUAL TO THAT OF THE HUNDREDS, AND THE NUMBER OF HUNDREDS EQUAL TO THAT OF THE UNITS (FOR THAT NUMBER WHICH [EXPRESSES] THE DIGIT SIX BEING ADHERED TO THROUGHOUT...I DO NOT KNOW HOW IT IS THAT SOME HAVE ERRED FOLLOWING THE ORDINARY MODE OF SPEECH, AND HAVE VITIATED THE MIDDLE NUMBER IN THE NAME, DEDUCTING THE AMOUNT OF FIFTY FROM IT, SO THAT INSTEAD OF SIX DECADES THEY WILL HAVE IT THAT THERE IS BUT ONE. (I AM INCLINED TO THINK THAT THIS OCCURRED THROUGH THE FAULT OF THE COPYISTS, AS IS WONT TO HAPPEN, SINCE NUMBERS ALSO ARE EXPRESSED BY LETTERS; SO THAT THE GREEK LETTER WHICH EXPRESSES THE NUMBER SIXTY [CHI, Ξ] WAS EASILY EXPANDED INTO THE LETTER IOTA [Ι] OF THE GREEKS.) OTHERS THEN RECEIVED THIS READING WITHOUT EXAMINATION; SOME IN THEIR SIMPLICITY, AND UPON THEIR OWN RESPONSIBILITY, MAKING USE OF THIS NUMBER EXPRESSING ONE DECADE; WHILE SOME, IN THEIR INEXPERIENCE, HAVE VENTURED TO SEEK OUT A NAME WHICH SHOULD CONTAIN THE ERRONEOUS AND SPURIOUS NUMBER—IRENAEUS, AGAINST HERESIES, V.XXX10 HE SAW THE NUMBER CONNECTED WITH THE ANTITYPE OF ANTICHRIST’S IMAGE—NEBUCHADNEZZAR’S STATUE. HE ALSO SAW THE BEAST AS A PERSON YET FUTURE, NOT NERO: FOR THAT IMAGE WHICH WAS SET UP BY NEBUCHADNEZZAR HAD INDEED A HEIGHT OF SIXTY CUBITS, WHILE THE BREADTH WAS SIX CUBITS; ON ACCOUNT OF WHICH ANANIAS, AZARIAS, AND MISAEL, WHEN THEY DID NOT WORSHIP IT, WERE CAST INTO A FURNACE OF FIRE, POINTING OUT PROPHETICALLY, BY WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM, THE WRATH AGAINST THE RIGHTEOUS WHICH SHALL ARISE TOWARDS THE [TIME OF THE] END. FOR THAT IMAGE, TAKEN AS A WHOLE, WAS A PREFIGURING OF THIS MAN’S COMING, DECREEING THAT HE SHOULD UNDOUBTEDLY HIMSELF ALONE BE WORSHIPPED BY ALL MEN—IRENAEUS, AGAINST HERESIES, V.XXX11 ADDING TO THE COMPLEXITY OF IDENTIFYING AN INDIVIDUAL WITH THE NUMBER ARE VARIOUS WAYS IN WHICH GEMATRIA CAN BE PERFORMED. HARLESS ARGUES FOR THE SIMPLEST, RAGIL METHOD: THERE ARE SEVEN WAYS OF CALCULATING GEMATRIA IN JEWISH TRADITION. 1) RAGIL: THIS METHOD IS THE BASIS FOR ALL THE OTHER METHODS. EACH LETTER OF THE ALPHABET HAS ITS OWN NUMERICAL VALUE. THE NUMERICAL VALUE OF A WORD OR PHRASE IS THE SUM TOTAL OF THE VALUES OF ITS LETTERS. 2) KATAN: ALL THE TENS AND HUNDREDS ARE CONVERTED TO THE SINGLE NUMBERS 1 TO 9. 3) K’LALI: IN THIS METHOD, THE VALUE OF A WORD IS THE SQUARE OF THE SUM OF THE RAGIL VALUES OF EACH LETTER IN THAT WORD. 4) MILLUI: THIS METHOD GIVES A LETTER THE NUMERICAL VALUE OF THE SUM OF THE RAGIL VALUES OF THE LETTERS THAT MAKE UP THE NAME OF THE LETTER. 5) KOLEL: THIS METHOD SUMS THE RAGIL VALUES OF THE LETTERS IN A WORD PLUS THE NUMBER OF LETTERS. 5) HAKADMI: THE VALUE OF THE FIRST LETTER IS RAGIL. THE ACCUMULATED VALUE OF THE SECOND LETTER IS ITS RAGIL VALUE PLUS THE RAGIL VALUE OF THE FIRST LETTER. THE ACCUMULATED VALUE OF THE THIRD LETTER IS ITS RAGIL VALUE PLUS THE ACCUMULATED VALUE OF THE SECOND LETTER, ETC. 7) HAPERATI: THE VALUE OF EACH LETTER IS THE SQUARE OF ITS RAGIL VALUE. THE VALUE OF THE WORD IS THE SUM OF ALL THE SQUARES OF ITS LETTERS. IT IS APPARENT THAT THE K’LALI, MILLUI, KOLEL, HAKADMI, AND HAPERATI METHODS ARE UNLIKELY TO BE INTENDED IN THIS PASSAGE, SINCE THEY WOULD TEND TO PRODUCE NUMERICAL VALUES MUCH IN EXCESS OF 666. THESE METHODS ALSO SEEM TO BE LATE ADDITIONS NOT IN USE DURING THE NEW TESTAMENT PERIOD. ONLY THE RAGIL AND KATAN METHODS ARE CANDIDATES FOR THIS CALCULATION. KATAN SUFFERS FROM FOUR SHORTCOMINGS: 1) IT WOULD REQUIRE A LONG NAME TO EVALUATE TO 666 (AT LEAST 74 LETTERS). 2) THE TALMUD ONLY USES RAGIL. 3) THEREFORE, KATAN IS A LATER DEVELOPMENT AND NOT CONTEMPORARY WITH THE REVELATION. REV. 4:1+) ONLY RAGIL HAS AN ANALOGUE IN GREEK AND ROMAN CULTURE, KATAN DOES NOT.12 THE THREEFOLD REPRESENTATION OF “6,” THE NUMBER OF MAN, MAY BE CONNECTED WITH THE THREE KEY PLAYERS IN THE KINGDOM OF THE BEAST OF THE END: “POSSIBLY THE THREEFOLD OCCURRENCE OF THE NUMBER SIX IS A VAGUE IMITATION OF THE TRINITY FORMED BY [THE BEAST’S] ASSOCIATION WITH THE DEVIL AND THE FALSE PROPHET.”13 AS WE DISCUSSED IN SIX: MAN’S INCOMPLETENESS, HUMAN WILL, THE NUMBER ALMOST CERTAINLY EMPHASIZES HOW THE BEAST, THE EPITOME OF HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT AND GOVERNMENT AT THE END, FALLS SHORT. 14 OTHERS NOTE HOW THE VALUE COMPARES TO THE SUM OF THE GREEK LETTERS MAKING UP THE NAME “CHRIST”: “ACCORDING TO THE GREEK NUMBERING SCHEME CHRIST’S NAME, ʼΙΗΣΟῦΣ [IĒSOUS], IS REPRESENTED BY Ι=10, Η=8, Σ=200, Ο=70, Υ=400, Σ=200, WHICH ADD UP TO 888.”15 VARIOUS PASSAGES OF SCRIPTURE HINT AT THE CHARACTER OF THE BEAST USING VALUES WHICH EMPLOY SIX, INCLUDING THE NUMBER OF FINGERS AND TOES ON THE GODLESS GIANTS OF OLD (2S. 2S. 21:20; 1CHR. 1CHR. 20:6); GOLIATH WHO HAD A HEIGHT OF SIX CUBITS, SIX PIECES OF ARMOR, AND A SPEAR’S HEAD WEIGHING SIX HUNDRED SHEKELS OF IRON (1S. 1S. 17:4-7); NEBUCHADNEZZAR, WHOSE “IMAGE” WAS SIXTY CUBITS HIGH AND SIX CUBITS WIDE (DAN. DAN. 3:1); AND EVEN SOLOMON’S WAGES OF SIX HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SIX TALENTS OF GOLD (1K. 1K. 10:14). ULTIMATELY, IT IS FRUITLESS FOR US TO EMPLOY THIS NUMBER IN SPECULATION AS TO THE IDENTITY OF THE BEAST. THE VALUE OF THE NUMBER IN AND OF ITSELF IS TOO BROAD—TOO MANY HISTORIC NAMES CAN BE MADE TO GENERATE “666.” THE CHURCH WILL NOT BE PRESENT WHEN THE BEAST BECOMES KNOWN TO THE WORLD, FOR SHE WILL HAVE BEEN TAKEN IN THE RAPTURE (2TH. 2TH. 2:1-8). THE NUMBER OF HIS NAME IS PERHAPS THE LEAST IMPORTANT CLUE AMONG MANY ATTRIBUTES WHICH SCRIPTURE SET FORTH CONCERNING THE IDENTITY AND MINISTRY OF THIS INDIVIDUAL. CERTAINLY, IT IS THE MOST ELASTIC. WHILE THE RESTRAINER REMAINS (2TH. 2TH. 2:7), HE WILL NOT BE REVEALED. NO AMOUNT OF CONJECTURE OR ANALYSIS WILL BRING HIM FORTH PRIOR TO GOD’S TIMING. WHILE THERE ARE NO PRECONDITIONS FOR THE REMOVAL OF THE RESTRAINER, HE COULD CONTINUE TO RESTRAIN FOR DECADES OR EVEN CENTURIES BEYOND OUR PRESENT TIME.16 WHAT WE CAN BE SURE OF IS THAT THE VALUE GIVEN IN THIS PASSAGE WILL ENABLE BELIEVERS OF THE END, WHEN COMBINED WITH THE MANY OTHER SCRIPTURAL CLUES, TO POSITIVELY IDENTIFY THE INDIVIDUAL. IT MAY BE THAT GEMATRIA IS NOT EVEN INVOLVED IN THE FINAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE NUMBER: A SIMILAR USE OF NOUS AND SOPHIA OCCURS IN REV. REV. 17:9+, WHERE JOHN CALLS ATTENTION TO THE IDENTITY OF THE BEAST RIDDEN BY THE HARLOT. WHAT JOHN SEEMS TO BE ASKING FOR IN BOTH CASES IS DIVINE DISCERNMENT AND NOT MATHEMATICAL INGENUITY! BELIEVERS NEED TO PENETRATE THE DECEPTION OF THE BEAST. JOHN’S REFERENCE TO HIS NUMBER WILL HELP THEM TO RECOGNIZE HIS TRUE CHARACTER AND IDENTITY.17 THE BETTER PART OF WISDOM IS TO BE CONTENT THAT THE IDENTIFICATION IS NOT YET AVAILABLE, BUT WILL BE WHEN THE FUTURE FALSE CHRIST ASCENDS TO HIS THRONE. THE PERSON TO WHOM 666 APPLIES MUST HAVE BEEN FUTURE TO JOHN’S TIME, BECAUSE JOHN CLEARLY MEANT THE NUMBER TO BE RECOGNIZABLE TO SOMEONE. IF IT WAS NOT DISCERNIBLE TO HIS GENERATION AND THOSE IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING HIM—AND IT WAS NOT—THE GENERATION TO WHOM IT WILL BE DISCERNIBLE MUST HAVE LAIN (AND STILL LIES) IN THE FUTURE. PAST GENERATIONS HAVE PROVIDED MANY ILLUSTRATIONS OF THIS FUTURE PERSONAGE, BUT ALL PAST CANDIDATES HAVE PROVEN INADEQUATE AS FULFILLMENTS. CHRISTIANS FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION MAY MANIFEST THE SAME CURIOSITY AS THE PROPHETS OF OLD REGARDING THEIR OWN PROPHECIES (CF. 1PE. 1PE. 1:10-11), BUT THEIR CURIOSITY WILL REMAIN UNSATISFIED UNTIL THE TIME OF FULFILLMENT ARRIVES.18 FOR THOSE WHO ARE IN THE CHURCH AGE, THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST, AS FASCINATING A PUZZLE AS IT MAY BE, IS OF RELATIVELY LITTLE IMPORTANCE. FOR THE CHURCH WILL NOT BE PRESENT WHEN HE IS REVEALED. THIS IS BY DESIGN FOR WE ARE TO MAINTAIN A WATCH FOR CHRIST, NOT ANTICHRIST! WE ARE COMMANDED TO LOOK FOR OUR BRIDEGROOM, NOT A COMING GLOBAL DESPOT (PHP. PHP. 3:20). YET WISDOM IS REQUIRED TO IDENTIFY THE HEADS WHICH ARE KINGS: WHICH KINGS OR KINGDOMS DO THEY REPRESENT? WE TAKE THE HEADS/MOUNTAINS/KINGS TO REPRESENT KINGDOMS RATHER THAN INDIVIDUAL KINGS ASSOCIATED WITH A SINGLE KINGDOM. THE 0TH KINGDOM (FIRST WITH 0TH KINGDOM INCLUDED) ARE THE ONES WHO ARE NOT PART OF THE RECOGNIZED KINGDOMS OF THE END TIMES. THE 5 KINGS (5 KINGDOMS (SECOND TO SIXTH WITH 0TH KINGDOM INCLUDED) THAT HAS FALLEN IN THE PAST ARE MOST LIKELY CANDIDATES OF EGYPT, ASSYRIA, BABYLON, MEDO-PERSIA, AND GREECE. THE FIVE KINGDOMS OF THE PAST ARE THE ONES WHO HAVE PERSECUTED GOD’S PEOPLE (EGYPT, EZE. EZE. 29:1-EZE. 30:1; NINEVEH OR ASSYRIA, NAH. NAH. 3:1-19; BABYLON, ISA. ISA. 21:9 AND JER. JER. 50:1-JER. 51:1; PERSIA, DAN. DAN. 10:13 AND DAN. 11:2; GREECE, DAN. DAN. 11:3-4). REGARDLESS OF THE IDENTITY OF THE FIRST TWO OF THE FALLEN KINGDOMS (BABEL AND EGYPT OR EGYPT AND ASSYRIA, THE NEXT FOUR ARE IDENTIFIED BY DANIEL’S VISION MAKING ROME THE SIXTH (SEVENTH WITH 0TH KINGDOM INCLUDED) WHICH RULED AT THE TIME OF THE REVELATION. JOHN IS SHOWN TWO ADDITIONAL KINGS YET FUTURE, A SEVENTH AND AN EIGHTH:7 THESE ARE SEVEN KINGS. FIVE HAVE FALLEN, ONE IS, AND THE OTHER HAS NOT YET COME. AND WHEN HE COMES, HE MUST CONTINUE A SHORT TIME. THE BEAST THAT WAS, AND IS NOT, IS HIMSELF ALSO THE EIGHTH, AND IS OF THE SEVEN, AND IS GOING TO PERDITION. (REV. REV. 17:10-11+)8 [EMPHASIS ADDED] THE EIGHTH KING IS NOT ONE OF THE SEVEN HEADS/MOUNTAINS/KINGS, BUT ARISES FROM THE SEVEN (REV. REV. 17:11+). THIS PASSAGE IS SOMEWHAT CONFUSING BECAUSE IT IS ACCOUNTING FOR THE FACT THAT A SINGLE KING WILL REPRESENT BOTH OF THE KINGDOMS WHICH ARE FUTURE TO JOHN’S VISION. THE ANTICHRIST, THE BEAST, ARISES OUT OF THE SEVENTH KINGDOM, BUT ALSO SUFFERS A WOUND AND IS REVIVED TO RULE AS AN UNDISPUTED EIGHTH KING: THE PREFERRED SCHEME IS THAT THE FIVE WHO HAVE FALLEN ARE THE KINGDOMS OF THE PAST WHICH HAVE PERSECUTED GOD’S PEOPLE...THE ONE THAT REMAINS IS ROME, THE PERSECUTOR OF GOD’S PEOPLE WHEN JOHN WAS WRITING. THE SEVENTH (EIGHTH WITH 0TH KINGDOM INCLUDED) IS THE FINAL GREAT PERSECUTOR, THE REUNITED ROMAN EMPIRE HEADED UP BY THE ITALIAN ANTICHRIST, AND THE EIGHTH (NINTH WITH 0TH KINGDOM INCLUDED) IS THE FINAL FORM OF GENTILE WORLD RULE—THE FINAL EMPIRE OF THE ITALIAN ANTICHRIST, WHICH WILL ARISE FROM THE SEVENTH (EIGHTH WITH 0TH KINGDOM INCLUDED) AFTER THE ITALIAN ANTICHRIST DIES AS THE EIGHTH (NINTH WITH 0TH KINGDOM INCLUDED) AND COMES BACK TO LIFE FOR THE NINTH EMPIRE (TENTH WITH 0TH KINGDOM INCLUDED) OF THE ITALIAN ANTICHRIST.9 THE TENTH (ELEVENTH WITH 0TH KINGDOM INCLUDED), WOULD BE CHRIST’S MILLENNIAL KINGDOM IN REVELATION 20:4-6. THE ELEVENTH (TWELFTH WITH 0TH KINGDOM INCLUDED), WOULD BE THE HEAVENLY NEW JERUSALEM IN REVELATION 21 & 22. THE TWELFTH (THIRTEENTH WITH 0TH KINGDOM INCLUDED), IS THE GODLY NEW JERUSALEM IN ACTS 1:7; 7:46-56. AFTERWARDS, THE WOULD BE IN THE USA TRIBULATION AGAINST THE ENGLISH ANTICHRIST AS THE THIRTEENTH (FOURTEENTH WITH 0TH KINGDOM INCLUDED), WHICH IS THE 10 HORNS (REVELATION 13) & 2 LITTLE HORNS (IRAQ & IRAN IN REVELATION 13 & DANIEL 8), AND THE 1 BIG HORN (USA IN DANIEL 8), DIRECTLY AFTERWARDS, THE FOURTEENTH (FIFTEENTH WITH 0TH KINGDOM INCLUDED IN UPTIME DOWN TIME IS 30 LEVELS FROM ACTS 1-30), WHICH IS THE 1 RESTORED BIG HORN (USA IN DANIEL 8:13-14) OF THE ENGLISH EMPIRE OF THE USA IN DANIEL 8:8-14; 2 ESDRAS 11 AND 12 & ACTS 29:1-2/ACTS 30. THE FIFTEENTH (SIXTEENTH WITH 0TH KINGDOM INCLUDED IN UPTIME DOWN TIME IS 32 LEVELS FROM LUKE 24-ACTS 31), WOULD BE THE TOP ENGLISH FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD’S TOP ENGLISH KINGDOM OF LORDSHIP AT THE END OF ACTS OF THE APOSTLES IN ACTS 31. AND FINALLY, THE SIXTEENTH (SEVENTEENTH WITH 0TH KINGDOM INCLUDED IN UPTIME DOWN TIME IS 34 LEVELS FROM LUKE 22-ACTS 31), IS THE TOP ENGLISH LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH’S TOP ENGLISH KINGDOM OF LORDSHIP AT THE END OF ACTS OF THE HOLY GHOST IN ACTS 31! BASICALLY, THIS IS NOT BY MERE COINCIDENCE, LUCKY CHANCE OR EVEN DAMN FUNNY, THAT THE TOP ENGLISH LORD IS TELLING US (NUMBERS 23:19) THAT THERE ARE 7 HEADS & 10 HORNS (17 KINGDOMS OF QUEENS) OF THE LORD LUCIFER AS THE GREAT RED DRAGON & 7 HEADS & 10 HORNS (17 KINGDOMS OF KINGS) OF THE LADY VICTORIA AS THE GREAT SCARLET DRAGON! NOW IN THE BIBLCAL ITALIAN AGE, THE ITALIAN EMPIRES ALL WITH THE ITALIAN ANTICHRIST HAVE ALL BEEN FULFILLED IN THE 2,000 YEAR REIGN FROM 20AD TO 2020AD IN JULY (CUTTING JUST SHORT OF 10 YEARS WITH STRENGTH IN WEAKNESS IN ORDER TO SAVE FLESH (MATTHEW 24:22) FROM ETERNAL DAMNATION IN 2 CORINTHIANS 12:7-10 BECAUSE THE STRENGTH OF STEPHEN YAHWEH IN THE ROD OF GOD IS FROM JUNE 21ST TO JULY 20TH & THIS ALSO MEANS IN THE BIBLICAL ENGLISH AGE ONLY HALF OF THE 2,000 YEAR REIGN HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED AT 50.0005% FROM 1020AD TO 2020AD, WHICH THIS ALSO MEANS THE 2ND COMING OF CHRIST WILL HAPPEN SOMETIME IN THE LATTER 1,000 YEARS OF THE BIBLICAL ENGLISH AGE FROM 2020AD TO 3020AD IN ACTS OF THE HOLY GHOST IN ACTS 29:1-2/ACTS 30! THE SEVEN HEADS ARE SEVEN MOUNTAINS: AS WOODS OBSERVES, IF THE SEVEN MOUNTAINS ARE TO BE TAKEN AS THE SEVEN HILLS OF ROME, THEN IT IS DIFFICULT TO SEE WHY SPECIAL WISDOM IS SAID TO BE REQUIRED IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND THE REVELATION PROVIDED BY THE ANGEL: IT SEEMS ODD THAT THE SEVEN HILLS SHOULD BE EQUATED WITH THE WELL-KNOWN TOPOGRAPHY OF ROME BECAUSE REVELATION REV. 17:1+: INDICATES THAT THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE HILLS CALLS FOR SPECIAL WISDOM. WHY SHOULD SUCH A WELL-KNOWN GEOGRAPHICAL LOCALE TO JOHN’S FIRST CENTURY AUDIENCE REQUIRE SPECIAL THEOLOGICAL AND SYMBOLIC INSIGHT FOR PROPER IDENTIFICATION?1 AS WE SHALL SEE IN THE NEXT VERSE, THE SEVEN HEADS ARE SEVEN KINGS. HERE THEY ARE SAID TO BE SEVEN MOUNTAINS. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN KINGS AND MOUNTAINS IS WELL-ESTABLISHED IN SCRIPTURE—MOUNTAINS REPRESENT THE POWER OF KINGDOMS AND THEIR INDIVIDUAL KINGS (JER. JER. 51:25; DAN. DAN. 2:35; ZEC. ZEC. 4:7). THESE SEVEN MOUNTAINS, TOGETHER WITH THE EIGHTH (REV. REV. 17:11+), WILL EVENTUALLY BE DESTROYED BY THE STONE WHICH IS CHRIST, THE MESSIANIC KING (REV. REV. 20:4+). HIS KINGDOM IS DESTINED TO BECOME “A GREAT MOUNTAIN” AND FILL THE WHOLE EARTH (DAN. DAN. 2:35). THIS SYMBOLIC UNDERSTANDING OF THE SEVEN MOUNTAINS SEEMS BUTTRESSED BY THE FACT THAT THE HARLOT SITS ON OR BESIDE SEVEN MOUNTAINS (REV. REV. 17:9+) JUST AS SHE SITS ON OR BESIDE THE MANY WATERS (REV. REV. 17:1+). SINCE THE WATERS ARE SYMBOLIC OF PEOPLES, MULTITUDES, NATIONS, AND TONGUES (REV. REV. 17:15+), CONSISTENCY SEEMS TO DICTATE THAT THE SEVEN MOUNTAINS ARE SYMBOLIC AS WELL.2 ON WHICH THE WOMAN SITS: THAT WHICH SHE SITS UPON SUPPORTS HER AND SHE CONTROLS IT. IT IS DIFFICULT TO KNOW WHICH SIDE OF THIS SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP IS MORE IMPORTANT, ALTHOUGH SCRIPTURE SEEMS TO INDICATE HER CORRUPTING INFLUENCE IS WHAT GOD ESPECIALLY OPPOSES. SOME INTERPRET HER SITTING AS DENOTING HER LOCATION. THAT SHE IS LOCATED UPON SEVEN HILLS WHICH ARE THEN SAID TO BE THE HILLS OF ROME. BUT THIS IS NOT THE PREDOMINANT MEANING OF HER SITTING WHICH SPEAKS MORE OF SUPPORT AND CONTROL THAN LOCALE: THE REFERENCE TO THE SEVEN MOUNTAINS (REV. REV. 17:9+) WHICH ARE SEVEN HEADS (REV. REV. 17:8+) ACTUALLY BELONG TO THE BEAST (REV. REV. 17:3+, REV. 17:7+; REV. 13:1+) AND NOT THE WOMAN NAMED BABYLON. THUS, THESE SEVEN HEADS OR MOUNTAINS REALLY HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE ENTITY BABYLON AT ALL. IT IS POSSIBLE TO ARGUE THAT THE WOMAN IS STILL ASSOCIATED WITH THE SEVEN HILLS BECAUSE SHE IS SITTING ON THEM. HOWEVER, IT IS BETTER TO SEE THIS AS REFERRING TO THE WOMAN’S CONTROL RATHER THAN HER LOCATION. THE OTHER REFERENCES TO THE WOMAN SITTING ALSO REFER TO HER CONTROL. REVELATION REV. 17:1+ PORTRAYS THE WOMAN SITTING ON MANY WATERS. REVELATION REV. 17:15+ EXPLAINS THAT THE WATERS REPRESENT PEOPLES, MULTITUDES, NATIONS, AND TONGUES. THUS, REVELATION REV. 17:1+, REV. 17:15+ SHOW THE HARLOT’S CONTROL OVER THE ENTIRE WORLD. FURTHERMORE, REVELATION REV. 17:3+ DEPICTS THE WOMAN AS SITTING ON THE BEAST, WHICH AGAIN INDICATES CONTROL RATHER THAN LOCATION. THUS, IF THE HARLOT’S SITTING INDICATES CONTROL RATHER THAN LOCATION TWICE IN REVELATION REV. 17:1+, THEN CONSISTENCY WOULD SEEM TO DICTATE THAT THE HARLOT SITTING ON THE SEVEN HILLS IN REVELATION REV. 17:9+ WOULD ALSO INDICATE CONTROL RATHER THAN LOCATION.3 REVELATION 17:10: THERE ARE ALSO SEVEN KINGS: THIS PHRASE SHOULD READ “AND THEY ARE SEVEN KINGS” (NASB95). THE KJV AND NKJV TRANSLATIONS ARE MISLEADING HERE. THE KJV BEGINS THE VERSE WITH, “AND THERE ARE SEVEN KINGS.” THE NKJV SAYS, “THERE ARE ALSO SEVEN KINGS.” ALL THE GREEK TEXTS, ALTHOUGH DIFFERING IN WORD ORDER, INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING WORDS, ΚΑὶ ΒΑΣΙΛΕῖΣ ΕἰΣΙΝ ἑΠΤΆ [KAI BASILEIS EISIN HEPTA], AND KINGS THEY ARE SEVEN.1 THE WORDS “THERE” AND “ALSO” IN THE KJV AND NKJV TRANSLATIONS ARE QUESTIONABLE. THE FIRST IS INACCURATE: ΕἰΣΙΝ [EISIN] IS 3RD-PERSON PLURAL OF ΕΙΜΙ [EIMI], I AM, WHICH SHOULD BE RENDERED, THEY ARE. THE SECOND: ALSO, IS NOT THE BEST RENDERING OF ΚΑὶ [KAI] HERE IN THAT IT IMPLIES THE SEVEN KINGS ARE AN ADDITIONAL SUBJECT. THESE TRANSLATIONS GIVE THE INCORRECT IMPRESSION THAT THE KINGS ARE DIFFERENT FROM THE HEADS AND MOUNTAINS UPON WHICH THE WOMAN SITS. WHEN DESCRIBING THE TEN HORNS A FEW VERSES LATER, A SIMILAR PHRASE OCCURS: ΔΈΚΑ ΒΑΣΙΛΕῖΣ ΕἰΣΙΝ [DEKA BASILEIS EISIN]: “TEN KINGS THEY ARE” (REV. REV. 17:12+). THERE, THE KJV AND NKJV TRANSLATE THE PHRASE CORRECTLY, WITHOUT SUBSTITUTING THERE FOR THEY AS IS DONE HERE. WE NEED NOT CONJECTURE UPON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE SEVEN MOUNTAINS FOR THE ANGEL HAS PIERCED THIS ASPECT OF THE MYSTERY FOR US: THIS AT ONCE DISPOSES OF THE POPULAR INTERPRETATION WHICH REGARDS THESE SEVEN MOUNTAINS AS REFERRING TO THE SEVEN HILLS ON WHICH THE CITY OF ROME WAS BUILT. THE HOLY SPIRIT EXPRESSLY TELLS US THAT THE SEVEN MOUNTAINS ARE (REPRESENT) SEVEN KINGS.2 THE PUNCTUATION OF THE AV. IN THIS VERSE IS VERY FAULTY. VERSE 9 SHOULD END WITH THE WORD “WISDOM,” AND THE REMAINDER OF THE VERSE SHOULD FORM PART OF THE TENTH VERSE. THE EXPLANATION OF THE ANGEL WOULD NOT THEN HAVE BEEN CUT IN TWO, AND INTERPRETED SEPARATELY AS IS COMMONLY THE CASE; AND THE “SEVEN MOUNTAINS” WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN TREATED INDEPENDENTLY OF THE CLAUSE WHICH GOES ON TO FURTHER EXPLAIN WHAT THEY SIGNIFY. THE “SEVEN MOUNTAINS” ARE, ACCORDING TO THIS, “SEVEN KINGS.” IT DOES NOT SAY THAT “THERE ARE SEVEN KINGS” OVER AND ABOVE, AND BESIDE THE “SEVEN MOUNTAINS;” BUT THAT THE “SEVEN MOUNTAINS ARE (I.E., REPRESENT) SEVEN KINGS.” ...THESE MOUNTAINS, THEN, ARE NO MERE HEAPS OF EARTH OR ROCKS, BUT “KINGS.” …FOR INTERPRETERS TO TAKE THESE LITERALLY AS “MOUNTAINS,” IN THE MIDST OF A CONTEXT WHICH THE SAME INTERPRETERS TAKE TO BE SYMBOLIC; AND IN THE FACE OF THE INTERPRETATION ACTUALLY GIVEN BY THE ANGEL THAT “THEY ARE SEVEN KINGS,” IS TO PLAY FAST AND LOOSE WITH THE WORD OF PROPHECY.3 RATHER THAN IDENTIFYING THESE SEVEN KINGS (WHICH ARE SEVEN HEADS) WITH SEVEN HISTORIC KINGDOMS, SOME ASPIRE TO FIND FULFILLMENT OF JOHN’S VISION IN THE EVENTS OF FIRST-CENTURY ROME. MOST FREQUENTLY, PRETERIST INTERPRETERS ATTEMPT TO PICK KINGS IN SUCH A WAY THAT NERO CAN BE SAID TO FULFILL THE PREDICTIONS CONCERNING THE BEAST. IN DOING SO, THEY OVERLOOK INCONSISTENCIES IN COUNTING KINGS: TO BE SURE THERE HAVE BEEN MANY ATTEMPTS TO FIT THE DATE OF REVELATION...INTO THE EMPEROR LISTS OF THE FIRST CENTURY...BUT IMMEDIATELY THERE ARE ADMITTED PROBLEMS. WHERE DO WE BEGIN—WITH JULIUS CAESAR OR CAESAR AUGUSTUS? ARE WE TO EXCLUDE GALBA, OTHO, AND VITELLIUS WHO HAD SHORT, RIVAL REIGNS? IF SO, HOW CAN THEY BE EXCLUDED EXCEPT ON A COMPLETELY ARBITRARY BASIS? A CAREFUL EXAMINATION OF THE HISTORIC MATERIALS YIELDS NO SATISFACTORY SOLUTION. IF REVELATION WERE WRITTEN UNDER NERO, THERE WOULD BE TOO FEW EMPERORS; IF UNDER DOMITIAN, TOO MANY. THE ORIGINAL READERS WOULD HAVE HAD NO MORE INFORMATION ON THESE EMPEROR SUCCESSIONS THAN WE DO, AND POSSIBLY EVEN LESS. HOW MANY AMERICANS CAN IMMEDIATELY NAME THE LAST SEVEN PRESIDENTS? FURTHERMORE, HOW COULD THE EIGHTH EMPEROR WHO IS IDENTIFIED AS THE BEAST ALSO BE ONE OF THE SEVEN (REV. REV. 17:11+)?4 FIVE HAVE FALLEN: FALLEN IS ἔΠΕΣΑΝ [EPESAN], JDG. 3:25. JDG. 5:27. 2S. 2S. 1:19, 2S. 1:25. ISA. ISA. 21:9. JER. JER. 50:15. JER. 51:8. EZE. EZE. 29:5. EZE. 30:6.”6 THE ANGEL IS NO LONGER DISCUSSING THE BEAST (WHO WAS, IS, AND IS TO COME) AND IS NOW DESCRIBING THE SEVEN HEADS WHICH ARE SEVEN MOUNTAINS AND SEVEN KINGS. MOST FUTURIST INTERPRETERS TAKE THESE TO BE FIVE WORLD EMPIRES OF GREATEST SIGNIFICANCE TO ISRAEL IN THE PLAN OF GOD. THESE ARE FIVE WHICH FELL BEFORE THE TIME OF JOHN. JOHNSON COMPLAINS OF THE SEEMINGLY ARBITRARY NATURE OF THE FUTURIST IDENTIFICATION OF KINGDOMS: SEISS (FOLLOWED RECENTLY BY LADD AND WALVOORD) HAS SUGGESTED AN INTERPRETATION THAT TAKES THE FIVE-ONE-ONE TO REFER TO SUCCESSIVE WORLD KINGDOMS THAT HAVE OPPRESSED THE PEOPLE OF GOD: EGYPT, ASSYRIA, BABYLON, PERSIA, GREECE (FIVE FALLEN), ROME (ONE IS), AND A FUTURE WORLD KINGDOM. WHILE THIS SOLVES SOME OF THE EMPEROR SUCCESSION PROBLEMS AND FITS NICELY, IT TOO MUST ADMIT ARBITRARY OMISSIONS, SUCH AS THE DEVASTATING PERSECUTION OF THE PEOPLE OF GOD UNDER THE SELEUCIDS OF SYRIA, ESPECIALLY ANTIOCHUS IV, EPIPHANES.7 HOWEVER, IT IS NOT THE FUTURIST WHO IS ARBITRARILY NEGLECTING THE SELEUCIDS, BUT THE NIGHT VISION OF DANIEL (DAN. DAN. 7:1) WHICH GUIDES THE IDENTIFICATION OF THESE KINGDOMS. DANIEL’S FOUR BEASTS ARE WIDELY HELD TO BE BABYLON, MEDO-PERSIA, GREECE, AND ROME. SINCE THE INITIAL STAGE OF THE FOURTH BEAST, ROME, IS ALREADY UNDERWAY (“ONE IS,” SEE BELOW) AT THE TIME OF JOHN, THIS PROVIDES IDENTIFICATION OF THE PREVIOUS THREE: BABYLON, MEDO-PERSIA, AND GREECE. IT IS APPARENT THAT THE SELEUCID EMPIRE—AN OUTGROWTH OF THE DISINTEGRATION OF THE GREEK EMPIRE UNDER ALEXANDER, IS LARGELY SUBSUMED INTO THE THIRD LEOPARD BEAST . ALTHOUGH IT IS PROBABLY RECOGNIZED IN THE FOUR HEADS ON THE LEOPARD BEAST (DAN. DAN. 7:6) AND THE FOUR NOTABLE HORNS ON THE HE-GOAT IN ANOTHER OF DANIEL’S VISIONS (DAN. DAN. 8:8), IT IS NOT GIVEN THE SAME PROMINENCE AS THE OTHER KINGDOMS. THIS IS NOT AN ARBITRARY DECISION BY THE FUTURIST, BUT THE PLAN AND PURPOSE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT WHO PROVIDED DANIEL WITH THE VISIONS. SINCE ONLY THREE OF DANIEL’S FOUR KINGDOMS HAVE FALLEN BY THE TIME OF JOHN, ANOTHER TWO KINGDOMS MUST BE FOUND TO FORM A TOTAL OF FIVE. THE ONLY ARBITRARINESS ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE FUTURIST IS IN THE IDENTIFICATION OF THESE PREVIOUS TWO KINGDOMS: WHETHER THEY BE EGYPT AND ASSYRIA OR EXTEND FURTHER BACK TO INCLUDE BABEL. IT IS OUR VIEW THAT THE HISTORIC SCOPE OF THE SEVEN-HEADED BEAST RIDDEN BY THE HARLOT AND HER IDENTIFICATION WITH BABYLON POINTS IN THE DIRECTION OF BABEL AS THE FIRST KINGDOM. BUT THERE IS STILL THE PROBLEM OF KNOWING WHETHER TO INCLUDE EGYPT OR ASSYRIA AS THE SECOND. IF THE ISSUE IS TO BE DECIDED BY VOLUME OF PASSAGES PERTAINING TO EITHER KINGDOM, IT WOULD SEEM THAT EGYPT WOULD GARNER THE MOST VOTES RESULTING IN THE FIVE FALLEN KINGDOMS OF: BABEL, EGYPT, BABYLON, MEDO-PERSIA, AND GREECE. ONE IS: ALTHOUGH FIVE KINGS (MOUNTAINS REPRESENTING THEIR KINGDOMS) HAVE FALLEN BY THE TIME OF JOHN, ONE IS CURRENTLY REIGNING. THIS WOULD SEEM MOST NATURALLY TO BE ROME—THE INITIAL STAGE OF DANIEL’S TERRIBLE BEAST. PRETERISTS WHO DESIRE TO FIND FULFILLMENT IN NERO ATTEMPT TO MAKE HIM THE KING WHICH “IS,” BUT THEY CAN ONLY DO SO BY IGNORING INCONSISTENCIES IN THE LINE UP OF “KINGS”: [GENTRY’S] CONCLUSION THAT NERO IS THE SIXTH OR “THE ONE [WHO] IS” ALSO FACES SERIOUS OBSTACLES. THE GREATEST OBSTACLE IS HIS NEED TO BEGIN COUNTING “KINGS” WITH JULIUS CAESAR. HE TRIES TO DEFEND THIS BY CITING SEVERAL ANCIENT SOURCES, BUT THE FACT IS THAT ROME WAS A REPUBLIC, RULED BY THE FIRST TRIUMVIRATE, IN THE DAYS OF JULIUS CAESAR AND BECAME A PRINCIPATE UNDER AUGUSTUS AND THE EMPERORS THAT FOLLOWED HIM. NEITHER DOES GENTRY ATTEMPT TO EXPLAIN THE THIRTEEN-YEAR GAP BETWEEN JULIUS CAESAR’S DEATH AND THE BEGINNING OF AUGUSTUS’ REIGN. THEY WERE NOT CONSECUTIVE RULERS AS HE MAKES THEM OUT TO BE.8 AND THE OTHER HAS NOT YET COME: THIS IS THE KINGDOM WHICH FOLLOWS UPON ROME IN JOHN’S DAY. HERE WE ENTER UPON A CONUNDRUM WITH AT LEAST TWO ASPECTS: DANIEL’S NIGHT VISION - THE FALL OF ROME AFTER JOHN’S DAY DID NOT FULFILL THE PREDICTION OF THE RAPID AND DRAMATIC DESTRUCTION OF THE TERRIBLE BEAST WHICH DANIEL SAW IN HIS NIGHT VISION (DAN. DAN. 7:1). NOR DID ITS FALL USHER IN THE MESSIANIC KINGDOM AS THE VISION PREDICTED. THEREFORE, THE FALL OF ROME AFTER JOHN’S TIME DOES NOT FULFILL ASPECTS OF DANIEL’S NIGHT VISION WHICH REMAIN YET FUTURE. NEBUCHADNEZZAR’S DREAM - THE FALL OF ROME AFTER JOHN’S DAY IS DEPICTED BY THE IMAGE OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR’S DREAM CONCERNING THE “FEET AND TOES, PARTLY OF POTTER’S CLAY AND PARTLY OF IRON” (DAN. DAN. 2:41) WHICH SPEAK OF A PERIOD OF DIVISION AND LACK OF COHESIVENESS PRIOR TO THE MESSIANIC KINGDOM (DAN. DAN. 2:44). THE BREAK UP OF ROME AND SUBSEQUENT HISTORY OF THE WESTERNIZED NATIONS HAS MORE SIMILARITY TO NEBUCHADNEZZAR’S DREAM. THIS FORCES THE INTERPRETER TO THE CONCLUSION THAT THE ROMAN EMPIRE AT THE TIME OF JOHN CONSTITUTED THE FIRST PHASE OF A TWO-PHASE PARTICIPATION IN THE PROPHECIES OF THE TIME OF THE END. THIS SAME TWO-STAGE DIVISION CAN BE SEEN IN THE KEY PASSAGE CONCERNING THE 70 WEEKS OF DANIEL (DAN. DAN. 9:24-27). IN THAT PASSAGE, MESSIAH IS CUT OFF AFTER THE 69TH WEEK AND PRIOR TO THE 70TH WEEK. HE IS CUT OFF WHEN ROME IS IN POWER. IT IS ALSO SAID THAT AFTER THE 69TH WEEK AND BEFORE THE 70TH WEEK “THE PEOPLE OF THE PRINCE WHO IS TO COME SHALL DESTROY THE CITY AND THE SANCTUARY” (DAN. DAN. 9:26). THIS WE KNOW TO BE FULFILLED IN THE A.D. 70 DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM AND THE SECOND TEMPLE BY ROME. THUS, GABRIEL LEAVES HANGING A YET FUTURE “PRINCE” ASSOCIATED WITH ROME WHO FOLLOWS UPON THE DESTRUCTION OF THE CITY IN A.D. 70—AND WHO, BY MEANS OF A COVENANT, INITIATES THE FINAL WEEK (DAN. DAN. 9:27). SCRIPTURE RECORDS TWO PHASES TO ROMAN PARTICIPATION IN THE PROPHECIES CONCERNING THE END. IN ITS FIRST PHASE, HISTORIC ROME EXISTED IN THE ERA OF THE CRUCIFIXION, THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE, AND JOHN’S WRITING FROM PATMOS. BUT NOW THE ANGEL TELLS JOHN OF ITS SECOND, FUTURE PHASE WHICH “HAS NOT YET COME.” THIS IS THE PHASE REPRESENTED BY THE TEN HORNS OF DANIEL’S NIGHT VISION (DAN. DAN. 7:7, DAN. 7:20) AND THE TEN TOES OF THE IMAGE OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR’S DREAM (DAN. DAN. 2:42). AND WHEN HE COMES, HE MUST CONTINUE A SHORT TIME: GRAMMATICALLY, “HE” REFERS TO THE SEVENTH HEAD-MOUNTAIN-KING WHICH REPRESENTS THE SEVENTH KINGDOM. THE REIGN OF THE LAST KINGDOM IS SAID TO BE RELATIVELY SHORT. A FEW VERSES LATER, WE ARE TOLD THAT THE TEN HORNS, ALL ON THE LAST HEAD, “RECEIVE AUTHORITY FOR ONE HOUR AS KINGS WITH THE BEAST” (REV. REV. 17:12+ CF. DAN. DAN. 7:24). SO, THE PRIMARY REFERENCE IS TO THE DURATION OF THE LAST KINGDOM PRIOR TO THE RISE OF THE BEAST WHO’S RISE EVENTUALLY ECLIPSES THE SEVENTH KINGDOM. THE SEVENTH KINGDOM IS CONNECTED WITH THE “BEAST THAT WAS” WHO IS COUNTED AS AN EIGHTH KING, BUT ALSO SAID TO BE “OF THE SEVEN”—HE IS THE HISTORIC CULMINATION OF ALL THE PREVIOUS HEADS AND HIS POLITICAL ORIGIN IS OUT OF THE SEVENTH KINGDOM. WE ALSO KNOW THAT HIS REIGN WILL BE SHORT-LIVED. THE ANGEL TELLS JOHN THAT THE BEAST TO ARISE IN THE FUTURE (REV. REV. 13:1+) WILL HAVE A RELATIVELY SHORT (AND TERRIBLE) REIGN. HE IS PROMINENT FOR ONLY A VERY SHORT TIME ON THE STAGE OF WORLD HISTORY—FOR AT LEAST SEVEN YEARS. HE BECOMES PROMINENT SOMETIME BEFORE THE 70TH WEEK OF DANIEL SO THAT HE IS A KEY PARTICIPANT IN THE COVENANT WITH ISRAEL WHICH INITIATES THE FINAL SEVEN YEARS. THEREAFTER, HE ONLY RULES FOR ANOTHER SEVEN YEARS DURING WHICH ONLY THE LAST HALF HE PREVAILS OVER THE SAINTS (REV. REV. 13:5+). IN HISTORICAL TERMS, THIS IS INDEED A “SHORT TIME.” UNLIKE THE INITIAL PHASE OF ROME, WHEN HIS REIGN ENDS IT WILL USHER IN THE MESSIANIC KINGDOM ON EARTH. REVELATION 17:11: THE BEAST THAT WAS, AND IS NOT, IS HIMSELF ALSO THE EIGHTH: NOW THE ANGEL IS SPEAKING OF THE INDIVIDUAL WHO WILL BE THE RULER OF THE KINGDOM YET TO COME. THIS PHRASE REFERS TO THE PERIOD OF THE REIGN OF THE BEAST FOLLOWING HIS REVIVAL FROM HIS DEADLY WOUND. IF HIS REVIVAL OCCURS NEAR THE MIDPOINT OF THE 70TH WEEK OF DANIEL, THEN THIS WOULD REFER TO THE LAST HALF OF THE WEEK, THE THREE AND ONE-HALF YEARS DURING WHICH HE IS GIVEN AUTHORITY: “HE WAS GIVEN AUTHORITY TO CONTINUE FOR FORTY-TWO MONTHS” (REV. REV. 13:5+). THIS PERIOD IS ONE OF GREAT TURMOIL SINCE THE BEAST RECEIVES HIS POWER, THRONE, AND AUTHORITY FROM THE DRAGON (REV. REV. 13:2+) AND THE DRAGON HAS GREAT WRATH “BECAUSE HE KNOWS THAT HE HAS A SHORT TIME” (REV. REV. 12:12+). HE IS AN EIGHTH KINGDOM IN THE SENSE THAT THE SEVENTH KINGDOM ORIGINALLY ARRIVES AS A GLOBAL EMPIRE WHICH SHALL “DEVOUR THE WHOLE EARTH.” OUT OF THIS SEVENTH KINGDOM “TEN HORNS...SHALL ARISE” (DAN. DAN. 7:23-24). THE BEAST HIMSELF “SHALL RISE AFTER THEM” (DAN. DAN. 7:25). AFTER HIS REVIVAL, THE TEN HORNS GIVE THEIR AUTHORITY TO THE BEAST (REV. REV. 17:12-13+) AND HE REIGNS SUPREME AND UNCONTESTED (REV. REV. 13:3+). IN THE FINAL FORM OF GENTILE DOMINION, THE SELF-RULE OF THE BEAST, HE IS AN EIGHTH KING, BUT ONLY HINTED AT AS AN EIGHTH HEAD HERE.1 IF WE LOOK UPON THE ROMAN DICTATOR AS BEING THE SEVENTH, HE BECOMES THE EIGHTH, THE ANTICHRIST AT THE TIME OF THE SATANIC INCARNATION, AND THEREBY BECOMES AN EIGHTH, WHO IS THUS OUT OF THE SEVEN, SINCE SATAN IS THE CAUSE OF ALL OF THE OTHERS.2 IN HIS MORTAL STAGE HE IS THE SEVENTH HEAD; BUT IN HIS SUPERHUMAN STAGE HE IS THE EIGHTH KING.3 HE IS OF THE SEVEN: HE IS “OF THE SEVEN” IN THAT HIS ORIGIN, BOTH AS A HEAD AND A HORN (SEE BELOW) IS FROM AMONG THE OTHER HEADS AND HORNS: “HE IS AN EIGHTH CONTEMPORARY KING RULING OVER THE OTHER SEVEN KINGS WHO HAVE SUBMITTED TO HIS AUTHORITY. YET HE IS OF THE SEVEN, FOR HE IS THE SEVENTH HEAD OF THE CHRONOLOGICAL RULING GOVERNMENTS. THE TERM “SEVEN” REFERS TO THE HEADS, WHILE THE TERM ‘EIGHT’ REFERS TO THE HORNS.”4 “AND THOUGH HE IS ‘AN EIGHTH’ KING, THERE ARE NOT REALLY EIGHT, BUT ONLY SEVEN, FOR THE SEVENTH AND THE EIGHTH ARE THE SAME PERSONAGE; THEREFORE, IT IS SAID THAT THE EIGHTH IS ‘OF THE SEVEN.’”5 IS GOING TO PERDITION: GO TO PERDITION: PERDITION IS ἀΠΏΛΕΙΑΝ [APŌLEIAN]: MAT. 7:13).”2 THE ANTICHRIST IS SAID TO BE “THE SON OF PERDITION (ὁ ΥἱὸΣ ΤῆΣ ἀΠΩΛΕΊΑΣ [HO HUIOS TĒS APŌLEIAS])” (2TH. 2TH. 2:3). HIS TITLE REFLECTS HIS FINAL DESTINY: “INTO DESTRUCTION (ΕἰΣ ἀΠΏΛΕΙΑΝ [EIS APŌLEIAN])” (REV. REV. 17:11+). HIS DESTRUCTION FOLLOWS UPON HIS ORIGIN, DEATH, AND REVIVAL. IN DANIEL’S VISION OF THE FOUR BEASTS AND THE LITTLE HORN, THE FOURTH BEAST “WAS SLAIN, AND ITS BODY DESTROYED AND GIVEN TO THE BURNING FLAME” (DAN. DAN. 7:11). “HE SHALL COME TO HIS END, AND NO ONE WILL HELP HIM” (DAN. DAN. 11:45B). HE IS DESTROYED (CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE, BUT NOT ANNIHILATED) AT THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST (REV. REV. 19:20+). BECAUSE HIS DESTINY IS DESTRUCTION, HE IS “THE SON OF PERDITION” (2TH. 2TH. 2:3). BOTH THE BEAST AND THE FALSE PROPHET ARE DENIED JUDGMENT AT THE GREAT WHITE THRONE (REV. REV. 20:11-15+). UNLIKE OTHER NONBELIEVERS WHO DIE (OR ARE KILLED, REV. REV. 19:21+) AND SUBSEQUENTLY RESURRECTED TO STAND JUDGMENT BEFORE BEING CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE, THESE TWO ARE “CAST ALIVE INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE BURNING WITH BRIMSTONE” (REV. REV. 19:20+). THEIR DESTRUCTION IS UNIQUE IN THAT THEY ARE THE FIRST INHABITANTS OF THE LAKE OF FIRE—SPENDING ONE THOUSAND YEARS THERE BEFORE BEING JOINED BY SATAN (REV. REV. 20:10+). THUS, THE “ANTITRINITY” ARE THE FIRST TO SUFFER IN HELL. THE REST OF THE UNGODLY DEAD ARE IN HADES UNTIL THEIR TIME OF JUDGMENT (REV. REV. 20:12-13+). REVELATION 17:12: THE TEN HORNS WHICH YOU SAW ARE TEN KINGS: THESE ARE THE SAME TEN HORNS WHICH DANIEL SAW IN HIS NIGHT VISION (DAN. DAN. 7:7-8, DAN. 7:20, DAN. 7:24). THE TEN HORNS CORRESPOND TO THE TEN TOES OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR’S IMAGE (DAN. DAN. 2:40-43). WHO HAVE RECEIVED NO KINGDOM AS YET: THESE TEN HORNS ARE ALL ON THE SEVENTH HEAD WHICH CORRESPONDS TO THE FINAL HISTORIC STAGE OF THE TERRIBLE BEAST WHICH DANIEL SAW (DAN. DAN. 7:7, DAN 7:19-20) LIKE THE TEN TOES OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR’S IMAGE, WHICH EXTEND FORTH FROM THE FEET DURING THE FINAL KINGDOM, THESE HORNS FROM THE SEVENTH HEAD DO NOT ARISE UNTIL THE TIME OF THE END. AN ANGEL GAVE DANIEL THE SAME INTERPRETATION: “THE TEN HORNS ARE TEN KINGS WHO SHALL ARISE FROM THIS [TERRIBLE BEASTLY] KINGDOM” (DAN. DAN. 7:24). THEY RECEIVE AUTHORITY FOR ONE HOUR AS KINGS WITH THE BEAST: THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN THE TEN HORNS AND THE SEVENTH HEAD IS MADE EXPLICIT. UNLIKE THE KINGDOM OF GOD WHICH CANNOT BE SHAKEN (HEB. HEB. 12:28), THE TEN KINGS WILL ONLY HAVE AUTHORITY FOR A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME, AND THEN ONLY TO DIRECT IT TOWARD THE BEAST WHEN HE RISES IN ULTIMATE PROMINENCE. THE BEAST RISES UP AS AN ELEVENTH HORN (DAN. DAN. 7:20) AND EVENTUALLY OVERTHROWS THREE HORNS LEAVING EIGHT HORNS, SEVEN PLUS HIMSELF. THE PHRASE ONE HOUR INDICATES A HISTORICALLY SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. THE TRIBULATION PERIOD (LASTING SEVEN YEARS) IS CALLED “THE HOUR OF TRIAL WHICH SHALL COME UPON THE WHOLE WORLD” (REV. REV. 3:10+). WHEN BABYLON IS DESTROYED, HER JUDGMENT COMES IN “ONE HOUR” (REV. REV. 18:10+, REV. 18:17+, REV. 18:19+). THE PHRASE DIFFERS IN MEANING FROM “THE HOUR” WHICH INDICATES THE TIME WHEN A PENDING ACTION HAS FINALLY COME (REV. REV. 14:7+, REV. 14:15+). REVELATION 17:13: THESE ARE OF ONE MIND, AND THEY GIVE THEIR POWER AND AUTHORITY TO THE BEAST: IN THE TIME OF THE END, AMIDST MUCH TURMOIL AND POLITICAL UPHEAVAL, SUCH UNITY OF THOUGHT AND PURPOSE WOULD BE UNEXPECTED IF IT WERE NOT FOR THEIR ULTIMATE CONTROL BY GOD. “FOR GOD HAS PUT IT INTO THEIR HEARTS TO FULFILL HIS PURPOSE, TO BE OF ONE MIND, AND TO GIVE THEIR KINGDOM TO THE BEAST, UNTIL THE WORDS OF GOD ARE FULFILLED” (REV. REV. 17:17+). THEY GIVE THEIR POWER AND AUTHORITY TO THE BEAST SO THAT HE CAN BECOME “ALL IN ALL,” BEING THE SOLE FOCUS BOTH IN POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS REALMS. BECAUSE THE BEAST ACCEPTED THE OFFER FROM SATAN WHICH JESUS REFUSED (LUKE LUKE 4:6), HE IS GIVEN ULTIMATE AUTHORITY ABOVE ALL ELSE ON EARTH—EVEN CLAIMING TO BE GOD (2TH. 2TH. 2:4). FOR THIS TO OCCUR REQUIRES THAT ALL OTHER AUTHORITIES SUBMIT TO HIS RULE. ALTHOUGH ALL TEN GIVE THEIR POWER AND AUTHORITY TO THE BEAST, FOR SOME UNSPECIFIED REASON THE BEAST EVENTUALLY DESTROYS THREE OF THE TEN HORNS (DAN. DAN. 7:20). REVELATION 17:14: THESE WILL MAKE WAR: ΠΟΛΕΜΉΣΟΥΣΙΝ [POLEMĒSOUSIN], WHICH INDICATES A PROTRACTED ENGAGEMENT RATHER THAN A SINGLE BATTLE. THE SAME WORD IS TRANSLATED, SOMEWHAT MISLEADINGLY, AS “BATTLE” IN REVELATION REV. 16:14+. WITH THE LAMB: THIS IS NOT SPEAKING OF THE AGES-LONG OPPOSITION BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL FORCES OF DARKNESS AND THE SPIRITUAL FORCES OF THE LAMB (ALTHOUGH SUCH ONGOING OPPOSITION IS A FACT OF SCRIPTURE), BUT SPEAKS OF THE FINAL PHYSICAL CONFLICT OF THE ARMIES OF THE WORLD AS THEY ATTEMPT TO THWART THE INSTALLATION OF MESSIAH UPON THE THRONE OF DAVID IN HIS MILLENNIAL REIGN. THE BEAST, HIS KINGS, AND KINGS FROM ALL AROUND THE WORD (REV. REV. 16:14+) WILL EVENTUALLY GATHER TO WAR AGAINST GOD AT THE CAMPAIGN OF ARMAGEDDON. THE LAMB WHICH THEY FIGHT WITH IS JESUS CHRIST, THE “LAMB AS THOUGH IT HAD BEEN SLAIN” WHICH TOOK THE SCROLL FROM THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD BEFORE INITIATING THE FIRST SEVEN JUDGMENTS BY OPENING THE SEVEN SEALS (REV. REV. 5:6-7+). THEY WAR AGAINST THE LAMB IN A DOOMED ATTEMPT TO FORESTALL HIS TAKING BACK THAT WHICH IS RIGHTFULLY HIS, AS DOCUMENTED BY THE SCROLL. IN THE PREVIOUS CHAPTER, THE WAR WAS DESCRIBED WITH REFERENCE TO GOD THE FATHER (STEPHEN): “THE BATTLE OF THAT GREAT DAY OF GOD ALMIGHTY.” HERE, WE ARE TOLD THEY WILL MAKE WAR WITH THE LAMB. LATER, THE SAME CONFLICT WILL BE DESCRIBED AS A GATHERING TO “MAKE WAR AGAINST HIM WHO SAT ON THE HORSE AND AGAINST HIS ARMY” (REV. REV. 19:19+). THE TEXT PROVIDES ANOTHER INDICATION OF THE DEITY OF CHRIST AND THE ESSENTIAL IDENTITY OF THE LAMB AND THE FATHER (STEPHEN). THE LAMB WILL OVERCOME THEM: HE SHALL OVERCOME IS ΝΙΚΉΣΕΙ [NIKĒSEI]: THE LAMB IS THE OVERCOMER. FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF EARTH, THE BEAST IS THE OVERCOMER (REV. REV. 6:2+). BUT HE ONLY OVERCOMES WHILE HE IS TEMPORARILY GIVEN AUTHORITY TO DO SO (REV. REV. 13:7+). ULTIMATELY, IT IS THE LAMB WHO IS THE TRUE OVERCOMER (JOHN JOHN 16:33; 1JN. 1JN. 4:4; REV. REV. 3:21+). IN A VISION OF DANIEL WHICH MANY BELIEVE IS NOT ENTIRELY FULFILLED IN THE EVENTS OF ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES IV, DANIEL SEES A FIERCE KING WHO “SHALL EVEN RISE AGAINST THE PRINCE OF PRINCES; BUT HE SHALL BE BROKEN WITHOUT HUMAN MEANS” (DAN. DAN. 8:25). IF THE PRINCE OF PRINCES REFERS TO THE LAMB, THEN DANIEL’S VISION PROPHESIED THIS SAME CONFLICT.1 THE KINGS PARTICIPATE IN THE ULTIMATE FULFILLMENT OF PSALM PS. 2:1: “THE KINGS OF THE EARTH SET THEMSELVES, AND THE RULERS TAKE COUNSEL TOGETHER, AGAINST THE LORD AND AGAINST HIS ANOINTED [MESSIAH = CHRIST], SAYING, ‘LET US BREAK THEIR BONDS IN PIECES AND CAST AWAY THEIR CORDS FROM US.’ ” (PS. PS. 2:2-3). AT THAT TIME, THE LONG WAIT OF THE SON (JESUS) AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER (STEPHEN) WILL COME TO AN END: THE LORD SAID TO MY LORD, “SIT AT MY RIGHT HAND, TILL I MAKE YOUR ENEMIES YOUR FOOTSTOOL.” THE LORD SHALL SEND THE ROD OF YOUR STRENGTH OUT OF ZION. RULE IN THE MIDST OF YOUR ENEMIES! YOUR PEOPLE SHALL BE VOLUNTEERS IN THE DAY OF YOUR POWER; IN THE BEAUTIES OF HOLINESS, FROM THE WOMB OF THE MORNING, YOU HAVE THE DEW OF YOUR YOUTH. THE LORD HAS SWORN AND WILL NOT RELENT, “YOU ARE A PRIEST FOREVER ACCORDING TO THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK.” THE LORD IS AT YOUR RIGHT HAND; HE SHALL EXECUTE KINGS IN THE DAY OF HIS WRATH. HE SHALL JUDGE AMONG THE NATIONS, HE SHALL FILL THE PLACES WITH DEAD BODIES, HE SHALL EXECUTE THE HEADS OF MANY COUNTRIES. HE SHALL DRINK OF THE BROOK BY THE WAYSIDE; THEREFORE, HE SHALL LIFT UP THE HEAD. (PS. PS. 110:1-7) [EMPHASIS ADDED] ISAIAH SPOKE OF THIS TIME: BEHOLD, THE LORD MAKES THE EARTH EMPTY AND MAKES IT WASTE...THE EARTH MOURNS AND FADES AWAY...THEREFORE THE INHABITANTS OF THE EARTH ARE BURNED AND FEW MEN ARE LEFT...AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE EARTH ARE SHAKEN...THE EARTH SHALL REEL TO AND FRO LIKE A DRUNKARD, AND SHALL TOTTER LIKE A HUT; ...IT SHALL COME TO PASS IN THAT DAY THAT THE LORD WILL PUNISH ON HIGH THE HOST OF EXALTED ONES, AND ON THE EARTH THE KINGS OF THE EARTH. THEY WILL BE GATHERED TOGETHER, AS PRISONERS ARE GATHERED IN THE PIT, AND WILL BE SHUT UP IN THE PRISON; AFTER MANY DAYS THEY WILL BE PUNISHED. (ISA. ISA. 24:1-23) THE CONTEXT IS THE DAY OF THE LORD WHERE CONDITIONS ARE SO EXTREME THAT RELATIVELY FEW ARE LEFT ALIVE. THE KINGS WHO REBELLED (PSALM PS. 2:1) WILL BE GATHERED TOGETHER AND SHUT UP IN THE PRISON AND THEN PUNISHED—POSSIBLY A REFERENCE TO THEIR ENTRY INTO HADES AFTER BEING KILLED BY THE LAMB (REV. REV. 19:21+) FOLLOWED BY THEIR ULTIMATE PUNISHMENT UPON BEING SUBSEQUENTLY CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE (REV. REV. 20:15+). FOR HE IS LORD OF LORDS AND KING OF KINGS: HE WILL OVERCOME THEM BECAUSE HE IS LORD OVER ALL OTHER LORDS. HE IS “THE RULER OVER THE KINGS OF THE EARTH” (REV. REV. 1:5+), EVEN THOUGH AT PRESENT MOST KINGS DO NOT RECOGNIZE HIS RULE. AT HIS SECOND COMING, HIS LEGAL STATUS AS KING OF KINGS AND THE FACTUAL REALITY OF EARTHLY RULE WILL BE UNITED FOR HIS KINGDOM WILL THEN BE ON EARTH WHERE HE PHYSICALLY RULES OVER LORDS. THE LAMB IS GIVEN A TITLE WHICH IS UNIQUELY THAT OF THE FATHER (STEPHEN) IN THE OT. “FOR THE LORD YOUR GOD IS GOD OF GODS AND LORD OF LORDS, THE GREAT GOD, MIGHTY AND AWESOME, WHO SHOWS NO PARTIALITY NOR TAKES A BRIBE” (DEU. DEU. 10:7). ASCRIBING THE TITLE LORD OF LORDS TO THE LAMB IS NO SMALL MATTER...UNLESS HE IS GOD! AND INDEED HE IS. PAUL DESCRIBES JESUS IN SIMILAR DIVINE TERMS: “THE BLESSED AND ONLY POTENTATE, THE KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS, WHO ALONE HAS IMMORTALITY, DWELLING IN UNAPPROACHABLE LIGHT, WHOM NO MAN HAS SEEN OR CAN SEE” (1TI. 1TI. 6:15-16). THOSE WHO ARE WITH HIM: ALTHOUGH ALL THE SAINTS ARE WITH CHRIST IN THE SENSE OF THEIR SPIRITUAL UNITY AND MEMBERSHIP IN HIS KINGDOM, THE REFERENCE HERE IS PRIMARILY TO THOSE WHO ARE WITH HIM AT THE TIME OF HIS SECOND COMING. IN THE SAME WAY THAT THE ANGELS ACCOMPANIED THE FATHER (STEPHEN) IN HIS DESCENT UPON MOUNT SINAI (DEU. DEU. 33:2), SO TOO SHALL JESUS BRING “THE ARMIES IN HEAVEN” WITH HIM (REV. REV. 19:14+, REV. 19:19+): NOW ENOCH, THE SEVENTH FROM ADAM, PROPHESIED ABOUT THESE MEN [THE DREAMERS WHO REJECT AUTHORITY] ALSO, SAYING, “BEHOLD, THE LORD COMES WITH TEN THOUSANDS OF HIS SAINTS, TO EXECUTE JUDGMENT ON ALL.” (JUDE. JUDE 1:14-15) [EMPHASIS ADDED] PROCLAIM THIS AMONG THE NATIONS: “PREPARE FOR WAR! WAKE UP THE MIGHTY MEN, LET ALL THE MEN OF WAR DRAW NEAR, LET THEM COME UP. BEAT YOUR PLOWSHARES INTO SWORDS AND YOUR PRUNING HOOKS INTO SPEARS; LET THE WEAK SAY, ‘I AM STRONG.’” ASSEMBLE AND COME, ALL YOU NATIONS, AND GATHER TOGETHER ALL AROUND. CAUSE YOUR MIGHTY ONES TO GO DOWN THERE, O LORD. LET THE NATIONS BE WAKENED, AND COME UP TO THE VALLEY OF JEHOSHAPHAT; FOR THERE I WILL SIT TO JUDGE ALL THE SURROUNDING NATIONS. PUT IN THE SICKLE, FOR THE HARVEST IS RIPE. COME, GO DOWN; FOR THE WINEPRESS IS FULL, THE VATS OVERFLOW-FOR THEIR WICKEDNESS IS GREAT. MULTITUDES, MULTITUDES IN THE VALLEY OF DECISION! FOR THE DAY OF THE LORD IS NEAR IN THE VALLEY OF DECISION. (JOEL JOEL 3:9-14) [EMPHASIS ADDED] AND IN THAT DAY HIS FEET WILL STAND ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, WHICH FACES JERUSALEM ON THE EAST. AND THE MOUNT OF OLIVES SHALL BE SPLIT IN TWO, FROM EAST TO WEST, MAKING A VERY LARGE VALLEY; HALF OF THE MOUNTAIN SHALL MOVE TOWARD THE NORTH AND HALF OF IT TOWARD THE SOUTH. THEN YOU SHALL FLEE THROUGH MY MOUNTAIN VALLEY, FOR THE MOUNTAIN VALLEY SHALL REACH TO AZAL. YES, YOU SHALL FLEE AS YOU FLED FROM THE EARTHQUAKE IN THE DAYS OF UZZIAH KING OF JUDAH. THUS THE LORD MY GOD WILL COME, AND ALL THE SAINTS WITH YOU. (ZEC. ZEC. 14:4-5) [EMPHASIS ADDED] THE SAINTS (ἁΓΊΑΙΣ [HAGIAIS]) WHICH ATTEND JESUS’ RETURN ARE “HOLY ONES.” THEY ARE SET APART FOR THE SERVICE OF GOD. THIS TERM IS USED OF BOTH THE FAITHFUL (E.G., PS. PS. 16:3; PS. 34:9; ACTS ACTS 9:13) AND ANGELS (E.G., DAN. DAN. 8:13). WE KNOW FROM OTHER PASSAGES THAT ANGELS WILL COME WITH HIM: FOR THE SON OF MAN WILL COME IN THE GLORY OF HIS FATHER (STEPHEN) WITH HIS ANGELS, AND THEN HE WILL REWARD EACH ACCORDING TO HIS WORKS. (MTT. MAT. 16:27) [EMPHASIS ADDED] WHEN THE SON OF MAN COMES IN HIS GLORY, AND ALL THE HOLY ANGELS WITH HIM, THEN HE WILL SIT ON THE THRONE OF HIS GLORY. (MTT. MAT. 25:31) [EMPHASIS ADDED] SINCE IT IS A RIGHTEOUS THING WITH GOD TO REPAY WITH TRIBULATION THOSE WHO TROUBLE YOU, AND TO GIVE YOU WHO ARE TROUBLED REST WITH US WHEN THE LORD JESUS IS REVEALED FROM HEAVEN WITH HIS MIGHTY ANGELS, IN FLAMING FIRE TAKING VENGEANCE ON THOSE WHO DO NOT KNOW GOD, AND ON THOSE WHO DO NOT OBEY THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. (2TH. 2TH. 1:6-8) [EMPHASIS ADDED] ARE CALLED, CHOSEN, AND FAITHFUL: CALLED IS ΚΛΗΤΟὶ [KLĒTOI], CHOSEN IS ἐΚΛΕΚΤΟὶ [EKLEKTOI]. THE SAME TERMS ARE USED WHEN JESUS SAYS, “MANY ARE CALLED (ΚΛΗΤΟΊ [KLĒTOI], BUT FEW ARE CHOSEN (ἐΚΛΕΚΤΟΊ [EKLEKTOI] ” (MTT. MAT. 20:16; MAT. 22:14). PETER USES THE SAME TERMS WHEN WRITING TO PREDOMINANTLY JEWISH BELIEVERS. “BUT YOU ARE A CHOSEN GENERATION, A ROYAL PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, HIS OWN SPECIAL PEOPLE, THAT YOU MAY PROCLAIM THE PRAISES OF HIM WHO CALLED YOU OUT OF DARKNESS INTO HIS MARVELOUS LIGHT” [EMPHASIS ADDED] (1PE. 1PE. 2:9 CF. 1PE. 1PE. 1:1). THE ANGELS WHICH DID NOT FOLLOW SATAN IN HIS REBELLION (REV. REV. 12:4+) ARE ALSO SAID TO BE “CHOSEN”: “THE ELECT ANGELS” IS ΤῶΝ ἐΚΛΕΚΤῶΝ ἀΓΓΕΛΩΝ [TŌN EKLEKTŌN ANGELŌN]. BUT BEING CALLED SPEAKS OF A TIME PRIOR TO HAVING COME TO THE FAITH—SOMETHING THE ELECT ANGELS DO NOT EXPERIENCE FOR THEY HAVE NEVER BEEN LOST, BUT REMAINED CONTINUALLY FAITHFUL. CALLING IS UNIQUE TO THOSE SAINTS WHO AT ONE TIME WERE NOT SAINTS, THAT IS, HUMAN BEINGS RATHER THAN ANGELS (ROM. ROM. 1:6; ROM. ROM. 8:28-30; 2TI. 2TI. 2:9).2 “THESE EPITHETS CALLED, CHOSEN, AND FAITHFUL, CAN ONLY STRICTLY APPLY TO SAINTS [NOT ANGELS].”3 THOSE WHO ARE BOTH CALLED AND CHOSEN ARE “HIS OWN ELECT WHO CRY OUT DAY AND NIGHT TO HIM” (LUKE LUKE 18:7). THEY DID NOT CHOOSE HIM, BUT HE CHOSE THEM (JOHN JOHN 15:16). THIS SPEAKS OF HUMAN BEINGS, NOT JUST ANGELS, WHO WILL RETURN WITH CHRIST AT HIS SECOND COMING. THEY DO NOT REMAIN IN HEAVEN, BUT RETURN TO PARTICIPATE IN THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM WHICH FOLLOWS (REV. REV. 20:4-6+). THEY ARE SAID TO BE FAITHFUL BECAUSE THEY ARE HUMAN BEINGS, BORN AMONG THOSE WHO WERE FALLEN, BUT WHO THEN EXERCISED FAITH TO SALVATION. AT THE TIME OF CHRIST’S SECOND COMING, THERE ARE THREE CATEGORIES OF BELIEVERS IN HEAVEN: PRE-CHURCH SAINTS - BELIEVERS WHO DIED PRIOR TO THE FORMATION OF THE CHURCH ON THE DAY OF PENTECOST. SINCE THE SPIRIT DID NOT BEGIN BAPTIZING BELIEVERS INTO THE BODY OF CHRIST UNTIL THEN (JOHN JOHN 7:38-39; ACTS ACTS 2:1; 1COR. 1COR. 12:13), THEY WERE NEVER PART OF THE BODY OF CHRIST. AT DEATH, THEIR SOULS AND SPIRITS ENTERED PARADISE IN ABRAHAM’S BOSOM (LUKE LUKE 16:22) UNTIL THEY ASCENDED WHEN PARADISE RELOCATED TO HEAVEN FOLLOWING THE CRUCIFIXION (LUKE LUKE 23:43). CHURCH SAINTS - BELIEVERS WHO LIVED AFTER THE GIVING OF THE SPIRIT ON THE DAY OF PENTECOST (JOHN JOHN 7:38-39; ACTS ACTS 2:1) AND WERE BAPTIZED INTO THE BODY OF CHRIST BY THE HOLY SPIRIT (1COR. 1COR. 12:13). THE SPIRIT AND SOUL OF THOSE WHO DIED PRIOR TO THE RAPTURE ASCENDED TO HEAVEN AT DEATH (2COR. 2COR. 5:6; PHP. PHP. 1:23) BEING IN CHRIST, THEY WERE PHYSICALLY RESURRECTED (OR TRANSLATED IF ALIVE) AT THE RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH PRIOR TO THE TRIBULATION (JOHN JOHN 14:1-3; 1TH. 1TH. 4:13-18). POST-CHURCH SAINTS - BELIEVERS WHO COME TO FAITH AFTER THE RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH—THE REMOVAL OF THE BODY OF CHRIST. THEY DIED A NATURAL DEATH OR WERE MARTYRED (REV. REV. 2:10+, REV. 2:13+; REV. 12:11+; REV. 15:2+) AND THEIR SPIRIT AND SOUL ASCENDED TO HEAVEN AT DEATH (2COR. 2COR. 5:6; PHP. PHP. 1:23; REV. REV. 7:14+). ONLY ONE OF THESE THREE CATEGORIES OF SAINTS IS RESURRECTED PRIOR TO THE SECOND COMING: THE CHURCH SAINTS—THOSE WHO WERE BAPTIZED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT INTO THE CHURCH: THE BODY OF CHRIST IN HIS ABSENCE. WHEN CHRIST RETURNS AT THE SECOND COMING, HIS SPIRITUAL BODY (THE CHURCH) RETURNS WITH HIM. DURING THE SECOND COMING, CHRIST’S ARMY WILL INCLUDE BOTH ANGELS (JOEL JOEL 3:11; MTT. MAT. 25:31) AND CHURCH SAINTS (COL. COL. 3:4). SAINTS WHO HAVE NOT YET BEEN RESURRECTED SEEM UNLIKELY TO PARTICIPATE IN THE SECOND COMING (REV. REV. 19:14+). THEY RECEIVE THEIR RESURRECTED BODIES AFTER THE SECOND COMING, PRIOR TO THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM (DAN. DAN. 12:2; REV. REV. 20:4+). REVELATION 17:15: THE WATERS WHICH YOU SAW, WHERE THE HARLOT SITS: HAVING DESCRIBED THE MYSTERY OF THE BEAST WITH THE SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS, THE ANGEL NOW TELLS JOHN THE MYSTERY OF THE WOMAN (REV. REV. 17:7+). EARLIER, THE ANGEL IDENTIFIED THE WOMAN AS “THE GREAT HARLOT WHO SITS ON MANY WATERS” (REV. REV. 17:1+). THESE SAME WATERS FORM THE SEA OUT OF WHICH THE FIRST BEAST AROSE (REV. REV. 13:1+). ARE PEOPLES, MULTITUDES, NATIONS, AND TONGUES: THE COMMON FOURFOLD DESIGNATION WITHIN THE BOOK OF REVELATION DENOTING A WORLDWIDE POPULATION (REV. REV. 7:9+). IN SOME INSTANCES, TRIBES OR KINGS APPEARS FOR MULTITUDES (REV. REV. 5:9+; REV. 10:11+; REV. 11:9+; REV. 14:6+). THESE ARE THE PEOPLES, NATIONS, TONGUES, AND KINGS ABOUT WHICH JOHN WAS TOLD HE MUST PROPHESY (REV. REV. 10:11+). HE IS NOW FULFILLING THAT ASSIGNMENT. ALTHOUGH THE WOMAN IS SAID TO BE A “CITY” (REV. REV. 17:18+), HER INFLUENCE—AND POSSIBLY HER SUPPORT—IS GLOBAL IN SCOPE. HER INFLUENCE WAS SCATTERED WORLDWIDE WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF LANGUAGES IN THE JUDGMENT OF BABEL WHEN ALL MANKIND DISPERSED FROM A CENTRAL LOCATION HAVING ALREADY IMBIBED OF HER CORRUPTING WINE (GEN. GEN. 11:9). WE BELIEVE SHE SPANS BOTH GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY, FOR THE BEAST WITH SEVEN HEADS IS EMPOWERED BY THE DRAGON (REV. REV. 13:1+ CF. REV. REV. 12:3+) WHO IS SATAN AND ASSUMED DOMINION OVER THE WORLD AS EARLY AS THE FALL OF ADAM AND EVE (MTT. MAT. 4:8; LUKE LUKE 4:6; JOHN JOHN 12:31; JOHN 14:30; 2COR. 2COR. 4:4; 1JN. 1JN. 5:19). IF THE SEVEN HEADS REPRESENT SEVEN WORLD KINGDOMS OF SPECIAL SIGNIFICANCE IN THE PLAN OF GOD, THEN THE WOMAN’S GLOBAL INFLUENCE EXTENDS FROM THE EARLIEST OF THOSE EMPIRES THROUGH THE TIME OF THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM. THE EARLIEST MENTION OF BABYLON AND THE REGION IT OCCUPIES, THE LAND OF SHINAR, IS FOUND NOT LONG AFTER THE GLOBAL FLOOD: CUSH BEGOT NIMROD; HE BEGAN TO BE A MIGHTY ONE ON THE EARTH. HE WAS A MIGHTY HUNTER BEFORE THE LORD; THEREFORE, IT IS SAID, “LIKE NIMROD THE MIGHTY HUNTER BEFORE THE LORD.” AND THE BEGINNING OF HIS KINGDOM WAS BABEL, ERECH, ACCAD, AND CALNEH, IN THE LAND OF SHINAR. FROM THAT LAND HE WENT TO ASSYRIA AND BUILT NINEVEH, REHOBOTH IR, CALEH AND RESEN BETWEEN NINEVEH AND CALAH (THAT IS THE PRINCIPAL CITY). (GEN. GEN. 10:8-12 CF. 1CHR. 1CHR. 1:10)1 [EMPHASIS ADDED] IT WAS NIMROD WHO ESTABLISHED A KINGDOM AT BABEL. IN FACT, THIS IS THE FIRST MENTION OF THE CONCEPT OF KINGDOM IN SCRIPTURE. IN A VERY REAL SENSE, NIMROD WAS THE FIRST KING. AND IN ORDER TO BE A KING, ONE NEEDS TO HAVE SUBJECTS AND A REALM. THIS IMPLIES CENTRALIZATION IN A WAY WHICH RAN COUNTER TO GOD’S COMMAND FOLLOWING THE FLOOD: “BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY, AND FILL THE EARTH” (GEN. GEN. 9:1, GEN. 9:7 CF. GEN. GEN. 1:22, GEN. 1:28). READING BETWEEN THE LINES, WE CAN ALREADY SEE THE SEXUAL SEEDS OF REBELLION (JN. JN. 8:37-59). NOW THE WHOLE EARTH HAD ONE LANGUAGE AND ONE SPEECH. AND IT CAME TO PASS, AS THEY JOURNEYED FROM THE EAST, THAT THEY FOUND A PLAIN IN THE LAND OF SHINAR, AND THEY DWELT THERE. THEN THEY SAID TO ONE ANOTHER, “COME, LET US MAKE BRICKS AND BAKE THEM THOROUGHLY.” THEY HAD BRICK FOR STONE, AND THEY HAD ASPHALT FOR MORTAR. AND THEY SAID, “COME, LET US BUILD OURSELVES A CITY, AND A TOWER WHOSE TOP IS IN THE HEAVENS; LET US MAKE A NAME FOR OURSELVES, LEST WE BE SCATTERED ABROAD OVER THE FACE OF THE WHOLE EARTH.” BUT THE LORD CAME DOWN TO SEE THE CITY AND THE TOWER WHICH THE SONS OF MEN HAD BUILT. AND THE LORD SAID, “INDEED THE PEOPLE ARE ONE AND THEY ALL HAVE ONE LANGUAGE, AND THIS IS WHAT THEY BEGIN TO DO; NOW NOTHING THAT THEY PROPOSE TO DO WILL BE WITHHELD FROM THEM. COME, LET US GO DOWN AND THERE AND CONFUSE THEIR LANGUAGE, THAT THEY MAY NOT UNDERSTAND ONE ANOTHER’S SPEECH.” SO, THE LORD SCATTERED THEM ABROAD FROM THERE OVER THE FACE OF ALL THE EARTH, AND THEY CEASED BUILDING THE CITY. THEREFORE, ITS NAME IS CALLED BABEL, BECAUSE THERE THE LORD CONFUSED THE LANGUAGE OF ALL THE EARTH; AND FROM THERE THE LORD SCATTERED THEM ABROAD OVER THE FACE OF ALL THE EARTH. (GEN. GEN. 11:1-9) ALTHOUGH SCRIPTURE IS NOT OVERTLY NEGATIVE CONCERNING NIMROD, HIS INVOLVEMENT ESTABLISHING THE FIRST KINGDOM AND INITIATING A BUILDING PROJECT WHICH RESULTED IN A SEVERE JUDGMENT FROM GOD (THE INTRODUCTION OF LANGUAGES) CLEARLY INDICATES HIS SINFUL AMBITIONS. BABYLON HAS FROM ITS INCEPTION SYMBOLIZED EVIL AND REBELLION AGAINST GOD. IT WAS FOUNDED BY NIMROD (GEN. GEN. 10:9), A PROUD, POWERFUL, GOD-REJECTING RULER. BABEL (BABYLON) WAS THE SITE OF THE FIRST ORGANIZED SYSTEM OF IDOLATROUS FALSE RELIGION (GEN. GEN. 11:1-4). THE TOWER OF BABEL, THE EXPRESSION OF THAT FALSE RELIGION, WAS A ZIGGURAT; AN EDIFICE DESIGNED TO FACILITATE IDOLATROUS WORSHIP. GOD JUDGED THE PEOPLE’S IDOLATRY AND REBELLION BY CONFUSING THEIR LANGUAGE AND SCATTERING THEM OVER THE GLOBE (GEN. GEN. 11:5-9). THUS, THE SEEDS OF IDOLATRY AND FALSE RELIGION SPREAD AROUND THE WORLD FROM BABYLON, TO TAKE ROOT WHEREVER THESE PROUD REBELS AND THEIR DESCENDANTS SETTLED.2 THERE IS ALSO ABUNDANT TRADITION CONCERNING THE REBELLION OF NIMROD: NOW IT WAS NIMROD WHO EXCITED THEM TO SUCH AN AFFRONT AND CONTEMPT OF GOD. HE WAS THE GRANDSON OF HAM, THE SON OF NOAH— A BOLD MAN, AND OF GREAT STRENGTH OF HAND. HE PERSUADED THEM NOT TO ASCRIBE IT TO GOD AS IF IT WAS THROUGH HIS MEANS THEY WERE HAPPY, BUT TO BELIEVE THAT IT WAS THEIR OWN COURAGE WHICH PROCURED THAT HAPPINESS. HE ALSO GRADUALLY CHANGED THE GOVERNMENT INTO TYRANNY—SEEING NO OTHER WAY OF TURNING MEN FROM THE FEAR OF GOD, BUT TO BRING THEM INTO A CONSTANT DEPENDENCE UPON HIS POWER. HE ALSO SAID HE WOULD BE REVENGED ON GOD, IF HE SHOULD HAVE A MIND TO DROWN THE WORLD AGAIN; FOR THAT HE WOULD BUILD A TOWER TOO HIGH FOR THE WATERS TO BE ABLE TO REACH! AND THAT HE WOULD AVENGE HIMSELF ON GOD FOR DESTROYING THEIR FOREFATHERS!3 ACCORDING TO THE SAGES, NIMROD WAS THE PRIMARY FORCE BEHIND THIS REBELLION. THE MIDRASHIM EXPLAIN HIS SINISTER MOTIVE. HE PLANNED TO BUILD A TOWER ASCENDING TO HEAVEN AND, FROM IT, WAGE WAR AGAINST GOD.4 THE TARGUM OF JONATHAN SAYS, “FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD NONE WAS EVER FOUND LIKE NIMROD, POWERFUL IN HUNTING, AND IN REBELLIONS AGAINST THE LORD.” THE JERUSALEM TARGUM SAYS, “HE IS POWERFUL IN HUNTING AND IN WICKEDNESS BEFORE THE LORD, FOR HE WAS A HUNTER OF THE SONS OF MEN, AND HE SAID TO THEM, ‘DEPART FROM THE JUDGMENT OF THE LORD, AND ADHERE TO THE JUDGMENT OF NIMROD!’ THEREFORE AS IT IS SAID, ‘AS NIMROD IS THE STRONG ONE, STRONG IN HUNTING, AND IN WICKEDNESS BEFORE THE LORD.’” THE CHALDEE PARAPHRASE OF I CHRONICLES 1CHR. 1:10 SAYS, “CUSH BEGAT NIMROD, WHO BEGAN TO PREVAIL IN WICKEDNESS, FOR HE SHED INNOCENT BLOOD, AND REBELLED AGAINST JEHOVAH.”5 IN THE FOUNDING OF BABEL WAS THE FOUNDATION FOR WHAT WOULD LATER FLOWER AS BABYLON UNDER NEBUCHADNEZZAR AND FIGURE SO HIGHLY IN THE EVENTS OF SCRIPTURE, ESPECIALLY THE BOOK OF DANIEL WHICH WE HAVE SEEN IS KEY TO UNDERSTANDING MUCH OF THE BOOK OF REVELATION. ANOTHER NEGATIVE CONNOTATION CONCERNING BABEL MAY BE SEEN IN THE PROVERB TAKEN UP BY ISAIAH CONCERNING THE KING OF BABYLON: TAKE UP THIS PROVERB AGAINST THE KING OF BABYLON...HOW YOU ARE FALLEN FROM HEAVEN, O LUCIFER, SON OF THE MORNING! HOW YOU ARE CUT DOWN TO THE GROUND, YOU WHO WEAKENED THE NATIONS! FOR YOU HAVE SAID IN YOUR HEART: ‘I WILL ASCEND INTO HEAVEN, I WILL EXALT MY THRONE ABOVE THE STARS OF GOD; I WILL ALSO SIT ON THE MOUNT OF THE CONGREGATION ON THE FARTHEST SIDES OF THE NORTH; I WILL ASCEND ABOVE THE HEIGHTS OF THE CLOUDS, I WILL BE LIKE THE MOST HIGH.’ YET YOU SHALL BE BROUGHT DOWN TO SHEOL, TO THE LOWEST DEPTHS OF THE PIT. THOSE WHO SEE YOU WILL GAZE AT YOU, AND CONSIDER YOU, SAYING: ‘IS THIS THE MAN WHO MADE THE EARTH TREMBLE, WHO SHOOK KINGDOMS?’ (ISA. ISA. 14:4, ISA. 14:12-16) THE CONNECTION BETWEEN SATAN (HERE LUCIFER) AND BABYLON (HERE VICTORIA BECAUSE VICTORIA MEANS ROYALTY, VICTORY & CONQUERING, WHICH FITS BABYLON PERFECTLY, ESPECIALLY CONQUERING AUTHORITY & ROYAL AUTHORITY & SINCE VICTORIA CALLS HERSELF THE “I AM” WHICH IS THE FEMALE SENSE OF YAHWEH, THIS ALSO LINES UP IN ISAIAH 47:1-15) IS SEEN IN THIS PROVERB WHICH BEGINS WITH THE HUMAN KING IN VIEW, BUT SOON GOES FAR BEYOND WHAT COULD BE SAID OF THE HUMAN KING TO IDENTIFY THE SPIRITUAL POWER MOTIVATING THE KING (CF. EZE. EZE. 28:12). SINCE SATAN HAS BEEN ACTIVE IN THE AFFAIRS OF THE WORLD SINCE THE CREATION OF MANKIND, IT IS NO SURPRISE TO FIND HIS INFLUENCE IN THE REALM OF CORRUPT KINGS AND KINGDOMS EXTENDING FAR BACK IN HISTORY. PORTIONS OF THE PROVERB, “IS THIS THE MAN WHO MADE THE EARTH TREMBLE, WHO SHOOK KINGDOMS”, APPEAR TO SPEAK OF THE ULTIMATE KING OF BABYLON AT THE TIME OF THE END, THE ANTICHRIST: ISAIAH THUS MAKES THE BABYLONIAN MONARCH SPEAK ACCORDING TO THE IDEAS OF HIS PEOPLE...AND AT THE SAME TIME REFLECTS THE SATANIC SPIRIT OF SELF-DEIFICATION TO APPEAR IN FULLEST DEVELOPMENT IN THE LAST KING OF BABYLON, THE ANTICHRIST (REV. REV. 13:8+).6 PRIOR TO THE INTRODUCTION OF LANGUAGES BY GOD, THE MAJORITY OF MANKIND REFUSED TO DISPERSE ACROSS THE GLOBE, BUT GATHERED IN THE REGION OF SHINAR INSTEAD. THE RESULT OF THE INTRODUCTION OF LANGUAGE WAS THE SCATTERING OF DIFFERENT LANGUAGE GROUPS OVER THE FACE OF ALL THE EARTH (GEN. GEN. 11:9). THIS INITIAL CENTRALIZATION, FOLLOWED BY THE GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION, IS THE PRIMARY MECHANISM BY WHICH BABYLON BECAME THE CENTRAL INFLUENCE IN ALL CULTURES AND CIVILIZATIONS WHICH FOLLOWED. THIS IS HOW SHE CAME TO SIT ON “PEOPLES, MULTITUDES, NATIONS, AND TONGUES” (REV. REV. 17:15+). IN THE RECORD OF BABEL, AS MINIMAL AS IT IS, WE SEE THE FIRST HUMAN KING AND KINGDOM IN DIRECT REBELLION TO THE COMMANDS OF GOD RESULTING IN JUDGMENT. IN BABYLON OF THE END, WE WILL SEE THE LAST HUMAN KING AND KINGDOM IN ULTIMATE REBELLION TO THE COMMANDS OF GOD RESULTING IN THE FINAL JUDGMENT OF ALL HUMAN KINGDOMS TO BE REPLACED BY THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM RULED BY MESSIAH. REVELATION 17:16: THE TEN HORNS WHICH YOU SAW ON THE BEAST: THE TR STANDS ALONE IN HAVING THE TEN HORNS ON THE BEAST. BOTH MT AND NU TEXTS SAY “THE TEN HORNS WHICH YOU SAW AND (ΚΑὶ [KAI]) THE BEAST.” [EMPHASIS ADDED] HATE THE HARLOT: MANY EXPOSITORS SEEM TO DOWNPLAY OR OVERLOOK THE ANGEL’S IDENTIFICATION OF THE GREAT HARLOT WITH THE CITY OF BABYLON (REV. REV. 17:18+) AND INTERPRET HER AS DENOTING A SEPARATE ECCLESIASTICAL SYSTEM. THUS, THEY SEE TWO SEPARATE DESTRUCTIONS SET FORTH IN CHAPTERS 17 AND 18. THIS DESTRUCTION THEY RELATE TO THE HARLOT, WHEREAS THE DESTRUCTION IN THE NEXT CHAPTER THEY RELATE TO THE LITERAL CITY: “THESE GRAPHIC WORDS CLEARLY PORTRAY THE DOWNFALL OF THE APOSTATE WORLD CHURCH OF THE FUTURE.”1 WE DISAGREE WITH INTERPRETATIONS WHICH DIVIDE THE UNITY OF THE LARGER PASSAGE AT THE CHAPTER BOUNDARY. THE HARLOT IS SAID TO BE A CITY (REV. REV. 17:18+) AND THE CITY IS SAID TO BE THE HARLOT (REV. REV. 18:21+-REV. 19:2+). SHE IS THE OBJECT OF DESTRUCTION BOTH HERE AND IN THE NEXT CHAPTER. BECAUSE THE CITY BABYLON INVOLVES BOTH SPIRITUAL AND COMMERCIAL ASPECTS (BOTH ASPECTS ARE SEEN IN REVELATION REV. 17:1+ AND REVELATION REV. 18:1+), THERE IS NO REASON TO SEPARATE THE HARLOT FROM THE CITY AS AN INDEPENDENT ECCLESIASTICAL SYSTEM OF THE END. THE MOTIVATION OF THE BEAST TO DESTROY THE CITY COULD SIMPLY BE TO THROW OFF HER CONTROL (OR THE NEED TO SUPPORT HER) WHICH HAS BECOME BURDENSOME. OR, IT COULD INVOLVE HIS BELIEF THAT HER IDOLATROUS SYSTEM ULTIMATELY PROVIDES AN UNWANTED ALTERNATIVE TO HIS OWN GLOBAL WORSHIP (2TH. 2TH. 2:4; REV. REV. 13:15+). HOWEVER, IT IS IMPORTANT TO RECOGNIZE THAT SCRIPTURE DOES NOT GIVE THE SPECIFIC REASON WHY THE KINGS HATE HER AND DESTROY HER. IT COULD JUST AS EASILY BE COMMERCIAL, POLITICAL, OR RELIGIOUS. SCRIPTURE DOESN’T SAY. IN ANY EVENT, SHE EXPERIENCES WHAT JEREMIAH DESCRIBED LONG BEFORE: REGARDLESS OF HER ORNAMENTS AND ATTRACTION, HER LOVERS EVENTUALLY DESPISE HER AND SEEK HER LIFE (JER. JER. 4:30). FRUCHTENBAUM BELIEVES THE BEAST IS THE KING OF BABYLON WHO IS AWAY AT WAR AND REACTS WITH ALARM TO THE NEWS OF HER DESTRUCTION (JER. JER. 50:43; JER. 51:31-32).2 IF THE KING OF BABYLON IS THE BEAST AND HE REACTS WITH ALARM TO THE DESTRUCTION OF HIS CAPITAL, HOW COULD IT BE SAID THAT THE BEAST (ALONG WITH THE TEN KINGS) HATES THE CITY AND PARTICIPATES IN ITS DESTRUCTION? THERE ARE SEVERAL POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS TO THIS PUZZLE:3 THE TR TEXT IS CORRECT AND THE BEAST IS NOT TO BE INCLUDED AMONG THOSE WHO HATE THE HARLOT AND COME AGAINST HER. PERHAPS THE TEN KINGS, ALTHOUGH ALLIED WITH THE BEAST FOR A SEASON, EVENTUALLY BETRAY HIM AND ATTACK THE SEAT OF HIS THRONE DURING AN OPPORTUNE MOMENT WHEN HE IS DISTRACTED ELSEWHERE.4 THE BEAST MAY NOT BE THE KING OF BABYLON AT THE TIME OF ITS DESTRUCTION. “HE SHALL PLANT THE TENTS OF HIS PALACE BETWEEN THE SEAS AND THE GLORIOUS HOLY MOUNTAIN” (DAN. DAN. 11:45A). PERHAPS HE RELOCATES HIS SEAT OF AUTHORITY TO THE HOLY LAND TO BE NEAR HIS IMAGE IN THE TEMPLE (MTT. MAT. 24:15; 2TH. 2TH. 2:4; REV. REV. 13:14-15+) AFTER WHICH HE AND HIS KINGS TURN AGAINST BABYLON. THE HARLOT IS A SEPARATE ENTITY FROM THE CITY OF BABYLON. THE HARLOT IS DESTROYED BY THE BEAST AND HIS KINGS, BUT THE CITY IS DESTROYED BY GOD DIRECTLY. ALTHOUGH THIS VIEW IS HELD BY MANY, IT MINIMIZES OR OVERLOOKS PASSAGES WHICH IDENTIFY THE HARLOT AS THE CITY (E.G., REV. REV. 17:18+).5 WE BELIEVE A SEPARATE ECCLESIASTICAL SYSTEM IS NEITHER CALLED FOR NOR EXPLICITLY WARRANTED FROM A SIMPLE READING OF BOTH REVELATION REV. 17:1+ AND REV. 18:1+ WHICH RELATES A SINGLE CITY WITH BOTH COMMERCIAL AND SPIRITUAL ASPECTS OPPOSED TO GOD. ALTHOUGH THE HARLOT INCLUDES BOTH COMMERCIAL AND RELIGIOUS ASPECTS, MANY HAVE MINIMIZED HER COMMERCIAL ASPECTS AND PLACED GREATER EMPHASIS ON HER RELIGIOUS ASPECTS. THE HARLOT IS THEN SEEN TO BE THE END-TIME RELIGIOUS SYSTEM WHICH PRECEDES THE RISE OF THE BEAST AS SOLE OBJECT OF WORSHIP. WHAT IS FOUND IN THESE VERSES IS THE FINAL FORM OF RELIGIOUS APOSTASY, ENDING IN A ONE-WORLD SUPER-CHURCH. IT IS THE FINAL FORM OF THE WOMAN JEZEBEL CAST INTO THE GREAT TRIBULATION (REV. REV. 2:20-22+) AND UNITED WITH THE LAODICEAN CHURCH. THIS IS THE COUNTERFEIT BRIDE OF MESSIAH, PRESENTED AS A PROSTITUTE, IN CONTRAST WITH THE TRUE BRIDE OF MESSIAH, PRESENTED AS A PURE VIRGIN (2COR. 2COR. 11:2; EPH. EPH. 5:25-27; REV. REV. 19:6-8+).1 DURING THE TRIBULATION, ALL THE WORLD’S DIVERSE FALSE RELIGIONS WILL BE REUNITED INTO ONE GREAT WORLD RELIGION. THAT ULTIMATE EXPRESSION OF FALSE RELIGION WILL BE AN ESSENTIAL ELEMENT OF ANTICHRIST’S FINAL WORLD EMPIRE, IN HOLDING TOGETHER HIS MILITARY, ECONOMIC, AND POLITICAL STRUCTURE. ONLY RELIGION CAN UNITE THE WORLD IN THE MOST COMPELLING WAY.2 THE CURRENT TREND OF ECUMENICAL LIBERALISM, WHICH PLACES UNITY AND RELATIONSHIP ABOVE DOCTRINAL DISTINCTIONS, IS SEEN AS EVOLVING INTO A ONE-WORLD SUPER CHURCH. THIS GLOBAL SYSTEM OF UNIFIED WORSHIP IS SUGGESTED AS THE SOURCE FROM WHICH THE FALSE PROPHET ARISES (REV. REV. 13:11+). THE MODERN ECUMENICAL MOVEMENT, ACTIVE FIRST AMONG APOSTATE PROTESTANT CHURCHES IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, THEN ESSENTIALLY COMBINING (OR AT LEAST FELLOWSHIPING) WITH THE CATHOLIC AND ORTHODOX CHURCHES IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, WILL EVENTUALLY AMALGAMATE WITH ALL OTHER WORLD RELIGIONS, ESPECIALLY AFTER THE DEPARTURE OF ALL TRUE CHURCHES TO BE WITH CHRIST. THE SECOND BEAST, OR FALSE PROPHET, WILL MOST LIKELY EMERGE AS THE PATRIARCH (OR POPE, OR AYATOLLAH, OR GURU OR, MORE LIKELY, SIMPLY “PROPHET”) OF THIS UNIVERSAL RELIGION.3 AT A CRITICAL JUNCTURE, PROBABLY THE REVIVAL OF THE BEAST FROM THE DEAD, THE ONE-WORLD “WORSHIP-WHAT-YOU-WILL” SYSTEM OF RELIGION IS THOUGHT TO BE PUT DOWN IN ORDER TO DIRECT ALL WORSHIP TO THE BEAST (REV. REV. 13:15+). THE BEAST, ELEVATING HIMSELF OVER ALL THAT IS CALLED GOD (2TH. 2TH. 2:4) AND EMPOWERED BY THE WORSHIP-HUNGRY DRAGON, WILL NOT ALLOW COMPETITION SO THE WORLDWIDE ECUMENICAL MOVEMENT WHICH RODE HIM AS THE HARLOT WILL THEN BE VICIOUSLY TURNED UPON AND DESTROYED (REV. REV. 17:16-18+). HAVING USED THE FALSE RELIGIOUS SYSTEM TO HELP HIM GAIN CONTROL OF THE WORLD, ANTICHRIST WILL DISCARD IT. IN HIS RAMPANT MEGALOMANIA, HE WILL WANT THE WORLD TO WORSHIP ONLY HIM. HE WILL ALSO NO DOUBT COVET THE VAST WEALTH OF THE FALSE RELIGIOUS SYSTEM. THUS, HE WILL TURN ON THE HARLOT.4 THUS, THE RELIGIOUS STATE OF THE END-TIME IS THOUGHT TO BE CHARACTERIZED BY TWO PHASES. DURING THE FIRST PHASE, ECUMENICAL GLOBALISM IS PERVASIVE. DURING THE SECOND PHASE, ONLY THE ANTICHRIST IS WORSHIPED. JUST AS THERE WILL BE TWO POLITICAL SYSTEMS DURING THE TRIBULATION, ONE DURING THE FIRST HALF (THE TEN KINGS) AND ONE DURING THE SECOND HALF (THE ANTICHRIST), THERE WILL ALSO BE TWO RELIGIOUS SYSTEMS, ONE FOR EACH HALF OF THE TRIBULATION. THIS PASSAGE DESCRIBES THE RELIGIOUS SYSTEM OF THE FIRST HALF OF THE TRIBULATION.5 AS PLAUSIBLE SOUNDING AS SUCH A SCENARIO MIGHT BE, THE SCRIPTURES THEMSELVES PROVIDE PRECIOUS LITTLE DETAIL TO SUPPORT SUCH IDEAS. IF SCRIPTURE SPEAKS FOR ITSELF, THE HARLOT IS SEEN TO BE ONE-AND-THE-SAME AS THE CITY BABYLON. JUST AS TYRE AND JERUSALEM ARE DESCRIBED AS HARLOTS, SO TOO IS BABYLON. IF THE HARLOT IS A CITY (REV. REV. 17:18+) AND THE CITY IS A HARLOT (REV. REV. 19:2+) AND THEIR CHARACTERISTICS OVERLAP AS WE’VE SHOWN ABOVE, THEN THERE IS LITTLE ROOM FOR MAKING THE HARLOT A SEPARATE ECCLESIASTICAL SYSTEM. IT IS INDEED SURPRISING HOW ANY MISTAKE COULD HAVE BEEN MADE IN THE IDENTIFICATION OF THIS WOMAN. FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT FIRST SHOWS US HER VERY NAME UPON HER FOREHEAD. THEN IN [REV. REV. 17:18+], HE TELLS US AS PLAINLY AS WORDS CAN TELL ANYTHING THAT “THE WOMAN WHICH THOU SAWEST IS THAT GREAT CITY, WHICH REIGNETH OVER THE KINGS OF THE EARTH”; AND [REV. REV. 16:19+], AS WELL AS [REV. REV. 17:5+] IDENTIFIES THIS CITY WITH BABYLON. GOD SAYS IT IS A “CITY.” HE DOES NOT SAY A SYSTEM OR A RELIGION, BUT A “CITY.”6 THE WOMAN IS IDENTIFIED AS THE GREAT CITY (REV. REV. 17:18+) WHOSE FALL IS DESCRIBED IN CHAPTER REV. 18:1+. FROM INTERNAL EVIDENCE, THE IDENTITY OF BABYLON THE WOMAN (CH. REV. 17:1+) WITH BABYLON THE GREAT CITY (CH. REV. 18:1+) IS SO UNMISTAKABLE THAT IT WOULD BE INAPPROPRIATE TO MAKE THEM DIFFERENT ENTITIES.7 WE BELIEVE A BETTER SOLUTION IS TO RECOGNIZE THE ESSENTIAL UNITY CONCERNING ALL THAT IS RELATED ABOUT BABYLON. THE HARLOT AND THE CITY ARE ONE. BUT THE CITY HAS TWO ASPECTS: BOTH A RELIGIOUS ASPECT AND A COMMERCIAL ASPECT. BOTH OF THESE DATE BACK TO THE TIME OF NIMROD AND THE TOWER OF BABEL (GEN. GEN. 11:4). THESE STREAMS OF INFLUENCE HAVE SPANNED BOTH HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY: SHE “SITS ON MANY WATERS” WHICH ARE “PEOPLES, MULTITUDES, NATIONS, AND TONGUES” (REV. REV. 17:1+, REV. 17:15+). THEREFORE, WHAT SCRIPTURE RELATES CONCERNING HER HARLOTRY WE SHOULD EXPECT, AND INDEED DO SEE, IN ANY NUMBER OF THE CENTERS OF CIVILIZATION OF OUR AGE. IN THAT SENSE, THERE IS SOME TRUTH AND OVERLAP BETWEEN THE VIEWS THAT BABYLON IS THE WORLD? AND BABYLON IS BABYLON! IT IS CERTAINLY POSSIBLE THAT AN ECUMENICAL ONE-WORLD RELIGION WILL UNITE THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD PRIOR TO THE RISE OF ANTICHRIST. SUCH A MOVEMENT WOULD BE A VALUABLE TOOL FOR THE FORCES OF GLOBALISM WHICH WILL PREVAIL PRIOR TO THE TEN-HORN KINGDOM OUT OF WHICH THE LITTLE HORN EVENTUALLY ARISES. ALTHOUGH SCRIPTURE DOES NOT PRECLUDE SUCH A DEVELOPMENT, NEITHER DOES IT PREDICT IT. FOR IT IS EQUALLY POSSIBLE THAT A SINGLE REPRESSIVE FAITH, SUCH AS ISLAM, COULD GAIN ASCENDANCY AND BRING A FORCED UNITY BY THE SWORD—SCRIPTURE SIMPLY DOES NOT SAY.8 WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT TO RECOGNIZE IS THE DUAL ASPECT OF BABYLON OF THE END, THAT IT WILL UNITE BOTH COMMERCIAL AND RELIGIOUS ASPECTS INTO A POWERFUL FORCE WHICH HAS ALWAYS PROVEN TOO GREAT A TEMPTATION IN THE HANDS OF FALLEN MEN: VARIOUS ASTUTE RULERS IN THE LONG HISTORY OF HUMAN GOVERNMENT, RIGHTLY ESTIMATING THE TREMENDOUS POWER OF RELIGION OVER THE MINDS OF MEN, HAVE BEEN GREATLY INTRIGUED WITH THE IDEA OF SOME KIND OF UNION BETWEEN CHURCH AND STATE, IN WHICH THE GOVERNMENT WOULD ESTABLISH AND SUPPORT SOME WIDELY ACCEPTED RELIGION AND THIS RELIGION IN TURN WOULD LEND ITS INFLUENCE TO THE STATE. ALL SUCH ALLIANCES THUS HUMANLY ORIGINATED HAVE BEEN BASED ON SELFISH MOTIVES AND OPPORTUNIST POLICIES ON BOTH SIDES, AND HENCE MUST ALWAYS BREAK DOWN IN THE END. SINCE EACH SIDE PAYS A PRICE FOR THE UNNATURAL UNION, AND THE PRICE IS EVER INCREASING, THE BREAK BECOMES INEVITABLE (CF. REV. REV. 17:1-18+). A UNION BETWEEN CHURCH AND STATE IS SAFE ONLY WHEN INAUGURATED AND CONTROLLED BY THE ONE TRUE GOD IN A KINGDOM OF HIS OWN (ZEC. ZEC. 14:9, ZEC. 14:16-21).9 THIS IS WHY SCRIPTURE RELATES THAT ONLY WHEN MESSIAH COMES WILL THE FUNCTION OF BOTH PRIEST AND KING BE SAFELY UNITED IN A SINGLE PERSON AS PREDICTED BY ZECHARIAH: THEN TAKE SILVER AND GOLD, AND MAKE CROWNS, AND SET THEM UPON THE HEAD OF JOSHUA THE SON OF JOSEDECH, THE HIGH PRIEST; AND SPEAK UNTO HIM, SAYING, THUS SPEAKETH THE LORD OF HOSTS, SAYING, BEHOLD THE MAN WHOSE NAME IS THE BRANCH; AND HE SHALL GROW UP OUT OF HIS PLACE, AND HE SHALL BUILD THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD: EVEN HE SHALL BUILD THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD; AND HE SHALL BEAR THE GLORY, AND SHALL SIT AND RULE UPON HIS THRONE; AND HE SHALL BE A PRIEST UPON HIS THRONE: AND THE COUNSEL OF PEACE SHALL BE BETWEEN THEM BOTH [THE TWO CROWNS OR ROLES]. (ZEC. ZEC. 6:11-13, KJV) [EMPHASIS ADDED] THE AMERICAN POLICY OF COMPLETE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE, WHICH MOST SENSIBLE MEN FULLY APPROVE UNDER PRESENT CONDITIONS, IS NOT HOWEVER THE IDEAL POLICY. IT IS RATHER A POLICY OF PRECAUTION IN A SINFUL WORLD, WHERE POLITICAL POWER AND ECCLESIASTICAL POWER TOO OFTEN GET INTO THE WRONG HANDS, AND THE RESULT IS INTOLERABLE OPPRESSION. BUT UNDER THE PERSONAL RULE OF THE MESSIANIC KING THE UNION OF CHURCH AND STATE WILL NOT ONLY BE SAFE; IT WILL ALSO BE THE TOP MOST-HIGHEST POSSIBLE GOOD.10 MAKE HER...EAT HER…BURN HER: THE REPETITION OF THE PRONOUN “HER” PROVIDES EMPHASIS. HER DESTRUCTION IS TRULY DETERMINED & JUDGED, AS, DEADLY, VIOLENT, AND COMPREHENSIVE. MAKE HER DESOLATE: DESOLATE IS ἠΡΗΜΩΜΈΝΗΝ [ĒRĒMŌMENĒN], USED MAT. 12:25).”6 AT ITS DESTRUCTION, BABYLON COMES “TO NOTHING (ἠΡΗΜΏΘΗ [ĒRĒMŌTHĒ])” (REV. REV. 18:17+), FOR “IN ONE HOUR SHE IS MADE DESOLATE ἠΡΗΜΏΘΗ [ĒRĒMŌTHĒ])” (REV. REV. 18:19+). AND NAKED: ORIGINALLY CLOTHED IN EXPENSIVE FINERY (REV. REV. 17:4+), SHE WILL BE STRIPPED OF HER COMMERCIAL SPLENDOR: “ALAS, ALAS, THAT GREAT CITY THAT WAS CLOTHED IN FINE LINEN, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, AND ADORNED WITH GOLD AND PRECIOUS STONES AND PEARLS! FOR IN ONE HOUR SUCH GREAT RICHES CAME TO NOTHING.” (REV. REV. 18:16-17+). IN HER DESTRUCTION AND THE STRIPPING OF HER RICHES, ONLOOKERS WILL RECOGNIZE HER NAKEDNESS (CF. EZE. EZE. 16:37-39; EZE. 23:29). EAT HER FLESH: THEY SHALL EAT IS ΦΆΓΟΝΤΑΙ [PHAGONTAI] : HEB. 10:27).”7 SIMILAR PHRASES DESCRIBE THE INTENDED HARM OF AN ENEMY (PS. PS. 27:1-3; JER. JER. 51:35; MIC. MIC. 3:1-3) OR THE CONQUEST OF A KINGDOM (DAN. DAN. 7:5). THE DESTRUCTION OF BABYLON’S FLESH WILL FULFILL THE DESIRE OF THE INHABITANTS OF ZION: “ ‘LET THE VIOLENCE DONE TO ME AND MY FLESH BE UPON BABYLON,’ THE INHABITANT OF ZION WILL SAY” (JER. JER. 51:35). BURN HER WITH FIRE: THEY SHALL BURN HER IS ΚΑΤΑΚΑΎΣΟΥΣΙΝ [KATAKAUSOUSIN], TO “DESTROY BY FIRE, BURN (UP), CONSUME BY FIRE,”8 USED OF “BEING BURNED AT THE STAKE AS A MARTYR.”9 USED TO DESCRIBE THE BURNING OF THE THIRD OF THE EARTH WITH ITS TREES AND GRASS (REV. REV. 8:7+). THIS PROVIDES FURTHER EVIDENCE OF THE IDENTITY OF THE WOMAN AS BABYLON (REV. REV. 17:18+), FOR WHAT IS SAID OF THE HARLOT IS SAID OF BABYLON. BABYLON IS TO BE “UTTERLY BURNED WITH FIRE” (REV. REV. 18:8+). THE “SMOKE OF HER BURNING” IS VISIBLE FROM A GREAT DISTANCE (REV. REV. 18:17-18+). THUS, SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS: “THE BROAD WALLS OF BABYLON SHALL BE UTTERLY BROKEN, AND HER HIGH GATES SHALL BE BURNED WITH FIRE; THE PEOPLE WILL LABOR IN VAIN, AND THE NATIONS, BECAUSE OF THE FIRE; AND THEY SHALL BE WEARY.” (JER. JER. 51:58) ALTHOUGH BABYLON FELL TO PERSIA IN 539 B.C., IT WAS NEVER DESTROYED AS PREDICTED BY SCRIPTURE. REVELATION 17:17: FOR GOD HAS PUT IT INTO THEIR HEARTS TO FULFILL HIS PURPOSE: GOD’S SOVEREIGN CONTROL OF THE AFFAIRS OF HISTORY IS A CONSTANT THEME BEHIND THE EVENTS OF THE BOOK OF REVELATION. EVERYTHING THAT TRANSPIRES OCCURS BY HIS SOVEREIGN PERMISSION. FROM THE RIDING FORTH OF THE FIRST HORSEMEN WHO WAS GIVEN A CROWN, TO RISING OF THE BEAST FROM THE SEA WHO IS GIVEN AUTHORITY TO CONTINUE FORTY-TWO MONTHS (REV. REV. 13:5+) AND WHO WAS PREVIOUSLY RESTRAINED (2TH. 2TH. 2:6-8), GOD IS ULTIMATELY IN FULL CONTROL. GOD TURNS THE HEARTS OF KINGS ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSES—WHETHER THEY KNOW HIM OR NOT (DEU. DEU. 2:30; EZRA EZRA 7:27; PS. PS. 105:25; PR. PR. 21:1; ISA. ISA. 10:5-7; ISA. 14:27; ISA. 66:4; ACTS ACTS 4:28). GOD DETERMINED THAT PHARAOH WOULD NOT HEED MOSES SO THAT EGYPT MIGHT BE JUDGED (EX. EX. 7:4). HE NAMED AND BROUGHT FORTH CYRUS TO REBUILD JERUSALEM, ALTHOUGH CYRUS DID NOT KNOW HIM (ISA. ISA. 44:26-ISA. 45:4; ISA. 46:11). IT WAS GOD WHO GAVE NEBUCHADNEZZAR HIS KINGDOM AND POWER, ALTHOUGH FOR MUCH OF HIS REIGN, NEBUCHADNEZZAR DID NOT KNOW GOD (DAN. DAN. 2:37). REMEMBER THE FORMER THINGS OF OLD, FOR I AM GOD, AND THERE IS NO OTHER; I AM GOD, AND THERE IS NONE LIKE ME, DECLARING THE END FROM THE BEGINNING, AND FROM ANCIENT TIMES THINGS THAT ARE NOT YET DONE, SAYING, ‘MY COUNSEL SHALL STAND, AND I WILL DO ALL MY PLEASURE,’ CALLING A BIRD OF PREY FROM THE EAST, THE MAN WHO EXECUTES MY COUNSEL, FROM A FAR COUNTRY. INDEED, I HAVE SPOKEN IT; I WILL ALSO BRING IT TO PASS. I HAVE PURPOSED IT; I WILL ALSO DO IT. (ISA. ISA. 46:9-11) THE TENSION BETWEEN DIVINE SOVEREIGNTY AND HUMAN RESPONSIBILITY RUNS THROUGHOUT SCRIPTURE AND IS IMPOSSIBLE TO ESCAPE. EMPHASIZING EITHER ONE AT THE EXPENSE OF THE OTHER RESULTS IN A DISTORTION OF SCRIPTURE. ALTHOUGH IT WAS GOD’S “DETERMINED PURPOSE AND FOREKNOWLEDGE” TO DELIVER JESUS TO THE CROSS, THOSE WHO CRUCIFIED HIM ARE FULLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR “LAWLESS HANDS” (ACTS ACTS 2:23-24 CF. ROM. ROM. 9:19-22; JAS. JAS. 1:13-17). LUKE 22:21-22) UNTIL THE WORDS OF GOD ARE FULFILLED: FULFILLED IS ΤΕΛΕΣΘΉΣΟΝΤΑΙ [TELESTHĒSONTAI], THEY SHALL BE COMPLETED. THE WORD INCLUDES MORE THAN JUST THE IDEA OF FULFILLMENT, BUT ALSO BRINGING TO AN END, FINISHING, COMPLETING.1 FOR AS THE RAIN COMES DOWN, AND THE SNOW FROM HEAVEN, AND DO NOT RETURN THERE, BUT WATER THE EARTH, AND MAKE IT BRING FORTH AND BUD, THAT IT MAY GIVE SEED TO THE SOWER AND BREAD TO THE EATER, SO SHALL MY WORD BE THAT GOES FORTH FROM MY MOUTH; IT SHALL NOT RETURN TO ME VOID, BUT IT SHALL ACCOMPLISH WHAT I PLEASE, AND IT SHALL PROSPER IN THE THING FOR WHICH I SENT IT. (ISA. ISA. 55:10-11) HIS WORD IS ALREADY SETTLED IN HEAVEN (PS. PS. 119:89), BUT HAS YET TO WORK OUT ON THE EARTH BELOW. SCRIPTURE CANNOT BE BROKEN (JOHN JOHN 10:35) BECAUSE GOD STANDS EVER READY TO PERFORM HIS WORD (JER. JER. 1:12). THE WORDS OF GOD IN RELATION TO THE BEAST, THE TEN HORNS, AND THE HARLOT, WILL BE FULFILLED WHEN THE “MYSTERY OF GOD WOULD BE FINISHED” IN THE JUDGMENTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE SOUNDING OF THE SEVENTH TRUMPET (REV. REV. 10:7+). WHEN THE SEVEN BOWLS OF GOD’S WRATH ARE COMPLETED, “IT IS DONE!” (REV. REV. 16:17+). THE NEXT SEVERAL CHAPTERS PROVIDE ADDITIONAL DETAIL CONCERNING THE FULFILLMENT OF GOD’S WORDS WHICH EVENTUALLY RESULT IN THE RETURN OF THE KING AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM (REV. REV. 20:4+). REVELATION 17:18: THAT GREAT CITY: ALTHOUGH THIS PHRASE IS ALSO USED OF JERUSALEM (REV. REV. 11:8+) AND OF THE HEAVENLY JERUSALEM (REV. REV. 21:10+), HERE IT IS TO BE IDENTIFIED WITH BABYLON (REV. REV. 14:8+; REV. 17:18+; REV. 18:10+, REV. 18:16+, REV. 18:18+, REV. 18:21+). THIS IS EVIDENT FROM NUMEROUS CLOSE PARALLELS BETWEEN WHAT IS SAID OF THE HARLOT IN THIS CHAPTER AND THE CITY BABYLON IN THE NEXT CHAPTER. THE PRIMARY PIECE OF EVIDENCE THAT “THE GREAT CITY,” IN THIS INSTANCE, IS TO BE TAKEN TO DESCRIBE BABYLON IS THE EARLIER NAME WHICH WAS SEEN WRITTEN UPON THE HARLOT AND CLEARLY ASSOCIATES HER WITH BABYLON (REV. REV. 17:5+). SOME ARGUE FOR IDENTIFYING THE PHRASE “THAT GREAT CITY” HERE WITH JERUSALEM: ONE OF THE STRONGER ARGUMENTS USED BY JERUSALEM PROPONENTS INVOLVES THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE PHRASE “THE GREAT CITY” AS USED IN REVELATION REV. 17:18+. JERUSALEM ADVOCATES CONTEND THAT THE ONLY WAY TO PROPERLY IDENTIFY THIS CITY IS TO OBSERVE HOW THE PHRASE “THE GREAT CITY” APPEARS EARLIER IN REVELATION. THERE ARE ONLY TWO REFERENCES TO “THE GREAT CITY” PRIOR TO REVELATION REV. 17:18+. THESE REFERENCES INCLUDE REVELATION REV. 11:8+ AND REVELATION REV. 16:19+. JERUSALEM ADVOCATES BELIEVE THAT BOTH ARE UNMISTAKABLE REFERENCES TO JERUSALEM. THUS, REVELATION REV. 17:18+ MUST REFER TO JERUSALEM AS WELL.1 BUT SUCH AN IDENTIFICATION IGNORES EXTENSIVE AND CLOSE TIES BETWEEN THE WOMAN AND THE CITY OF BABYLON. WHEN ONE CONSIDERS THAT CHAPTER DIVISIONS ARE NOT PART OF THE ORIGINAL INSPIRED TEXT AND TAKES CHAPTERS 17 AND 18 AS ONE UNIFIED PASSAGE, THE SIMILARITIES BETWEEN THE WOMAN AND THE CITY ARE COMPELLING. ADD TO THIS THE FACT THAT JERUSALEM IS DESTINED TO BE RESTORED (ISA. ISA. 62:1) AND SERVE AS THE CAPITAL OF THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM, WHEREAS BABYLON IS NEVER TO BE INHABITED AGAIN, AND THE IDEA THAT THE PHRASE “THAT GREAT CITY” DESCRIBES JERUSALEM IS UNTENABLE. THE GREAT HARLOT IS IDENTIFIED AS THE “GREAT CITY” BABYLON MUCH AS THE LAMB’S WIFE IS IDENTIFIED AS THE “HOLY JERUSALEM”: THE CHASTE WOMAN OF THE APOCALYPSE IS ALSO INDISSOLUBLY UNITED TO A CITY. IN REV. REV. 21:9+ WE READ THAT ONE OF THE SEVEN ANGELS SAID TO JOHN, ‘COME HITHER, I WILL SHOW THEE THE BRIDE, THE LAMB’S WIFE.’ AND IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING WE READ, ‘AND HE CARRIED ME AWAY IN THE SPIRIT TO A GREAT AND HIGH MOUNTAIN, AND SHOWED ME THAT GREAT CITY, THE HOLY JERUSALEM, DESCENDING OUT OF HEAVEN FROM GOD.’2 REIGNS OVER THE KINGS: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΊΑΝ ἐΠὶ ΒΑΣΙΛΈΩΝ [BASILEIAN EPI BASILEŌN]. SHE EXERCISES ROYAL ENGLISH POWER OR RULE OVER THE KINGS. AGAIN, WE SEE THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF ASSIGNING JERUSALEM AS THE HARLOT. HOW CAN JERUSALEM, OF ALL CITIES THE MOST TRAMPLED AND OCCUPIED, WITH THE LEAST POLITICAL INFLUENCE AND MATERIAL RESOURCES, BE SAID TO HAVE HISTORICALLY REIGNED OVER THE KINGS OF THE EARTH? OTHERS SUGGEST ROME AS A CANDIDATE FOR “THE GREAT CITY.” ALTHOUGH WE RECOGNIZE THE UNMATCHED INFLUENCE OVER KINGS OF THE EARTH THAT ROME HAS HAD IN MORE RECENT HISTORY, SHE PROVIDES NEITHER THE NECESSARY HISTORIC SCOPE NOR PROPER FULFILLMENT FOR THE MANY OT PASSAGES WHICH SPEAK LITERALLY TO BABYLON. AS OLD AS WE MAY CONSIDER ROME TO BE, SHE IS A RELATIVE UPSTART ON THE STAGE OF BIBLICAL HISTORY WHICH SPANS BACK TO THE TOWER OF BABEL (GEN. GEN. 10:1, GEN. 11:1). ROME IS MERELY ONE OF BABYLON’S MOST PROMINENT DAUGHTERS. SOME MAY OBJECT THAT IT IS DIFFICULT TO SEE HOW LITERAL BABYLON COULD BE CONSIDERED AS REIGNING OVER THE KINGS OF THE EARTH WHEN SHE IS SO INSIGNIFICANT IN OUR TIME. YET, AS WE HAVE SEEN, THE WOMAN IS IDENTIFIED WITH A SPECIFIC HISTORICAL CITY OF PROMINENCE IN THE PAST, AND WE BELIEVE WILL BE OF PROMINENCE AGAIN IN THE FUTURE. BETWEEN HER INITIAL REBELLION AS BABEL AND HER FINAL FLOWERING OF GODLESS HUMANISM AS THE REBUILT BABYLON, THE SITE OF HER FORMER SPLENDOUR LIES LARGELY FORGOTTEN. BUT HER INFLUENCE, AS THE MOTHER OF HARLOTRY AND ABOMINATION, IS AS ACTIVE TODAY UPON THE PEOPLES, MULTITUDES, NATIONS, AND TONGUES AS EVER. HER HUMANISM, IDOLATRY, AND FORNICATION ARE ALIVE AND WELL, HAVING BEEN DISSEMINATED AMONG THE KINGDOMS OF THE EARTH. WE BELIEVE A TIME IS COMING WHEN “WICKEDNESS!” WILL BE CARRIED BACK TO THE PLACE OF ITS ORIGINAL MANIFESTATION AFTER THE FLOOD “TO BUILD A HOUSE FOR IT IN THE LAND OF SHINAR; WHEN IT IS READY, THE BASKET WILL BE SET THERE ON ITS BASE” (ZEC. ZEC. 5:11). ANOTHER PASSAGE WHICH IS OFTEN OVERLOOKED IN ESTABLISHING THE IDENTIFICATION OF BABYLON IS THE PUZZLING PASSAGE WHICH OCCUPIES THE LAST HALF OF ZECHARIAH CHAPTER 5. AN ANGEL SHOWS ZECHARIAH A BASKET CONTAINING A WOMAN COVERED WITH A LEAD DISK. THE ANGEL IDENTIFIES THE WOMAN: “THIS IS WICKEDNESS!” (ZEC. ZEC. 5:8). THE BASKET IS THEN TRANSPORTED AWAY BY TWO WINGED FIGURES.1 WHEN ZECHARIAH ASKS WHERE THE BASKET IS BOUND, THE ANGEL RESPONDS, “TO BUILD A HOUSE FOR IT IN THE LAND OF SHINAR; WHEN IT IS READY, THE BASKET WILL BE SET THERE ON ITS BASE.” FIRST, THE PROPHET SEES AS “EPHAH” (OR BATH) WHICH WAS THE LARGEST MEASURE FOR DRY GOODS AMONG THE JEWS. IT WOULD, THEREFORE, BE THE NATURAL SYMBOL FOR COMMERCE. NEXT, WE NOTE THAT TWICE OVER IT IS SAID THAT THE EPHAH “GOETH FORTH” (ZEC. ZEC. 5:5, ZEC. 5:6). AS THE WHOLE OF THE PRECEDING VISIONS CONCERN JERUSALEM AND HER PEOPLE, THIS CAN ONLY MEAN THAT THE CENTER OF JEWISH COMMERCE IS TO BE TRANSFERRED FROM PALESTINE ELSEWHERE. NEXT, WE ARE TOLD THAT THERE WAS A “WOMAN” CONCEALED IN THE MIDST OF THE EPHAH (ZEC. ZEC. 5:7). WE SAY “CONCEALED,” FOR IN ZEC. ZEC. 5:5 AND ZEC. ZEC. 5:6 THE “WOMAN” IS NOT SEEN - THE LEADEN COVER (CF. ZEC. ZEC. 5:8) HAD TO BE LIFTED BEFORE SHE COULD BE BEHOLDEN. THE WRITER IS SATISFIED THAT THIS HIDDEN WOMAN IN THE EPHAH IS “THE WOMAN” WHICH IS FULLY REVEALED IN REVELATION REV. 17:1+ AND REV. 18:1+. NEXT, WE ARE TOLD THAT “WICKEDNESS” (LAWLESSNESS) WAS CAST INTO THE EPHAH, BEFORE ITS COVER WAS CLOSED AGAIN. THEN, IN WHAT FOLLOWS, WE ARE SHOWN THIS EPHAH, WITH THE “WOMAN” AND “WICKEDNESS” SHUT UP THEREIN, BEING RAPIDLY CONVEYED FROM PALESTINE TO “THE LAND OF SHINAR” (ZEC. ZEC. 5:11). THE PURPOSE FOR THIS IS STATED TO BE, “TO BUILD A HOUSE,” I.E. A SETTLED HABITATION. FINALLY, WE ARE ASSURED, “IT SHALL BE ESTABLISHED, AND SET THERE (IN THE LAND OF SHINAR) UPON HER OWN BASE.” THIS VISION OR PROPHECY CONTAINS THE GERM WHICH IS AFTERWARDS EXPANDED AND DEVELOPED IN SUCH DETAIL IN REV. REV. 17:1+ AND REV. 18:1+, WHERE IT IS SHOWN THAT “THE HOUSE” WHICH IS ESTABLISHED FOR THIS SYSTEM OF COMMERCE IS “BABYLON THE GREAT.”2 WHEN THE WOMAN ATTEMPTS TO ESCAPE, SHE IS THROWN BACK INTO THE EPHAH, WHICH BECOMES, SO TO SAY, THE CHARIOT IN WHICH SHE IS CARRIED AWAY AS SOMETHING WHICH IS DEFILED AND DEFILING, FROM THE LAND IN WHICH GOD SHALL DWELL; AND THE TALENT WITH WHICH SHE CARRIES ON HER UNRIGHTEOUS TRACE BECOMES THE HEAVY WEIGHT BY WHICH SHE IS HELD DOWN TILL SHE IS LANDED SAFELY “IN HER OWN PLACE,” WHERE, AFTER A SEASON OF LAWLESS LIBERTY IN WHICH SHE WILL ALLURE MEN TO THEIR OWN DESTRUCTION BY HER SEDUCTIVE ATTRACTIVENESS AND LUXURY, SHE WILL BE JUDGED AND DESTROYED, TOGETHER WITH HIM WHO IS PRE-EMINENTLY STYLED “THE WICKED ONE,” BY THE BRIGHTNESS OF THE LORD’S PAROUSIA (2TH. 2TH. 2:8).3 ONE OF THE HELPFUL ASPECTS OF THIS PASSAGE IS THE MENTION MADE OF THE DESTINATION: “THE LAND OF SHINAR.” THIS LOCALE IS MENTIONED ONLY A HANDFUL OF TIMES (GEN. GEN. 10:10; GEN. 11:2; GEN. 14:1, GEN. 14:9; ISA. ISA. 11:11; DAN. DAN. 1:2; ZEC. ZEC. 5:11) AND IS CLEARLY ESTABLISHED AS THE REGION OF BABEL AND BABYLON. IT POINTS TO THE GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION OF BABEL AND, LATER, BABYLON:4 SHINAR: THE ANCIENT NAME OF THE GREAT ALLUVIAL TRACT THROUGH WHICH THE TIGRIS AND EUPHRATES PASS BEFORE REACHING THE SEA—THE TRACT KNOWN IN LATER TIMES AS CHALDEA OR BABYLONIA. IT WAS A PLAIN COUNTRY, WHERE BRICK HAD TO BE USED FOR STONE AND SLIME FOR MORTAR. GEN. GEN. 11:3. AMONG THE CITIES WERE BABEL (BABYLON), ERECH OR ORECH (ORCHOE), CALNEH OR CALNO (PROBABLY NIFFER), AND ACCAD, THE SITE OF WHICH IS UNKNOWN. IT MAY BE SUSPECTED THAT SHINAR WAS THE NAME BY WHICH THE HEBREWS ORIGINALLY KNEW THE LOWER MESOPOTAMIAN COUNTRY WHERE THEY SO LONG DWELT, AND WHICH ABRAHAM BROUGHT WITH HIM FROM “UR OF THE CHALDEES.”5 WE BELIEVE THE TRANSPORT OF “WICKEDNESS!” BACK TO THE LAND OF SHINAR IS ANOTHER PIECE OF EVIDENCE THAT BABYLON OF THE END IS A REBUILT LITERAL CITY IN THE SAME GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION AS BABEL, THE SITE OF MAN’S ORIGINAL REBELLIOUS CITY RULED BY NIMROD. THE HISTORY OF MAN IS TO BE BROUGHT FULL CIRCLE: IN THE SAME PLACE WHERE THE FIRST KING REBELLED AGAINST GOD, SO TOO WILL THE LAST KING RULE BEFORE HIS DEMISE AND THE INSTITUTION OF THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM: IT SHOWS FROM ACTUAL FACTS AND EVENTS WHICH ARE BEFORE US THE VERY STRONG PROBABILITY THAT “THE LAND OF SHINAR”—WHICH IN THE PAST WAS SO “PROMINENT IN CONNECTION WITH THE MANIFESTATION OF EVIL ON THE PART OF MAN, AND OF JUDGMENT ON THE PART OF GOD, THAT IT STANDS PECULIARLY AS A MEMORIAL OF PROUD UNGODLINESS MET BY THE VISITATION OF RIGHTEOUS VENGEANCE FROM ABOVE”—WILL YET, AS SCRIPTURE FORECASTS, PLAY A VERY IMPORTANT PART IN THE CONSUMMATION OF HUMAN “WICKEDNESS” IN THE FINAL ANTI-CHRISTIAN APOSTASY, IN WHICH A GODLESS JUDAISM AND A CORRUPT, UNBELIEVING CHRISTIANITY WILL BE UNITED FOR THE SAKE OF THE FALSE PEACE, AND POMP, AND LUXURY, AND A HUMANITARIANISM DISSOCIATED FROM GOD AND THE TRUTH, WHICH THE SYSTEM, OUTWARDLY SYMBOLIZED BY THE EPHAH, WILL FOR A TIME MINISTER TO THEM, BUT WHICH, AS SCRIPTURE ALSO WARNS US, WILL END IN THE MOST TERRIBLE JUDGMENT WHICH HAS YET BEFALLEN MAN UPON THE EARTH.6 THERE ARE SIGNIFICANT SIMILARITIES BETWEEN THE WOMAN IN THE BASKET AND WHAT JOHN SEES CONCERNING BABYLON IN REVELATION REV. 17:1+ AND REV. 18:1+. WE BELIEVE THESE SIMILARITIES ARE INTENTIONAL AND THAT THE TWO ARE TO BE CONNECTED. THE TRANSPORT OF THE BASKET TO THE LAND OF SHINAR ESTABLISHES THE LOCATION OF END-TIME BABYLON. SHE WILL BE RIGHT WHERE GOD SAID! IT IS OUR VIEW THAT THE ONLY OBSTACLE TO TAKING BABYLON IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION AS THE LITERAL CITY ON THE BANKS OF THE EUPHRATES RIVER IS ONE OF TIMING AND FAITH. OBVIOUSLY, IF BABYLON IS THE LITERAL CITY, THEN THE EVENTS OF THE BOOK OF REVELATION ARE STILL SOME DISTANCE OFF FROM THE TIME OF OUR WRITING. IT WILL TAKE TIME FOR EVENTS TO CONSPIRE SUCH THAT THE CITY WILL BE REBUILT TO BECOME A GLOBAL HUB FOR WORLD TRADE. THIS IS REALLY THE ONLY OBSTACLE BETWEEN THE SCRIPTURAL PASSAGES BEFORE US AND A LITERAL FULFILLMENT. FORTUNATELY, THE ONE WHO WROTE THE PREDICTIONS ALSO HAS ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD AND IS FAITHFUL TO KEEP HIS WORD! AND THE LORD ANSWERED ME, AND SAID, WRITE THE VISION, AND MAKE IT PLAIN UPON TABLES, THAT HE MAY RUN THAT READETH IT. FOR THE VISION IS YET FOR AN APPOINTED TIME, BUT AT THE END IT SHALL SPEAK, AND NOT LIE: THOUGH IT TARRY, WAIT FOR IT; BECAUSE IT WILL SURELY COME, IT WILL NOT TARRY. (HAB. HAB. 2:2-3) [EMPHASIS ADDED] LEVEL 17-18 (PROVERBS 18-19; ACTS 17/ACTS 18): CHAPTER 18 (FIERY LOVE LEVEL CUT OFF FROM ACTS 16-17) THIS LEVEL IS THE TOTAL VICTORY OVER THE LADY VICTORIA, THE GREAT SCARLET DRAGON, WHICH WHEN SHE ETERNALLY FALLS, THE GREAT RED DRAGON, THE LORD LUCIFER SHORTLY ETERNALLY FALLS AFTERWARDS & THE TIMEFRAME TO INITIALIZE THE ACTUAL AUTHORIZATION OF THE ETERNAL FALLS DIRECTLY AFTER 30 MINUTES OF SILENCE GLOBALLY BY 1:00AM IN THE USA & 14:00PM IN NORTHEAST ASIA WITH THE NUMBER 0, WHICH WOULD EQUAL EXACTLY TO 17 LEVELS AT 30 MINUTES OF ETERNAL SILENCE FROM 00:00:00 AM TO 00:30:00 AM ON THE 8TH DAY OF THE MONTH WITH THE NUMBER 0 IN ISRAEL & WHICH 4 DAYS/NIGHTS IS A FULL UNIVERSE, BUT GLOBALLY IS ONLY 10 HOURS OF THE 1ST NIGHT OF THE MONTH BY 24-HOURS INTO 2 HOURS/12-HOURS INTO 1 HOUR IN THE USA IN MATTHEW 20:12 & ANYTHING MORE IS THE 18TH LEVEL WHERE TO ACTUAL ETERNAL FALL HAPPENED AGAINST THE LADY VICTORIA! IF YOU TAKE THE LADY VICTORIA DOWN, THE LORD LUCIFER SHALL ETERNALLY FALL AFTERWARDS! 4 IN 1 IS THE CHURCH, 5 IN 1 IS THE HOUSE & 6 IN 1 IS THE BUSINESS, WHICH EQUALS TO 18 LEVELS ONCE! IN ACTS OF THE APOSTLES IN ACTS 6 THIS GOES TO THE 6 IN 1 IS THE BUSINESS ONCE FROM 1-7 LEVELS TO THE 4 IN 1 IS THE CHURCH ONCE FROM 8-12 LEVELS TO THE 5 IN 1 IS THE HOUSE ONCE FROM 13-18 LEVELS IN ISRAEL EXACTLY WITH REVELATIONS! IN ISAIAH 47:1-15 MEANS REVELATION IN THE UPTIME DOWN TIME WITH THE NUMBER 0 IS 46 LEVELS & IN BETWEEN IS 47 LEVELS IN THE 1ST KINGDOM & IN VICTORIA’S (BABYLON’S) YOUTH WITH THE NUMBER 0 PLUS 15 LEVELS IS 16 LEVELS & IN BETWEEN IS 17 LEVELS THAT THE LADY VICTORIA (BABYLON) CAN OPERATE IN AUTHORITY IN ISRAEL! THIS ALSO MEANS THE MOST ROUGHEST YEARS ARE WITH THE FEMALE ONLY FROM PREGNANCY UP TO 15TH BIRTHDAY, SHE IS A VIRGIN IN REVELATION 1-15, BECAUSE FROM 13 IS THE 14TH LEVEL UP TO 15 IS THE 16TH LEVEL IS THE FALL OF BABYLON BEFORE, BUT SWEET 16 IS THE 17TH LEVEL & SHE IS THE FUCKING PROBLEM & A WITCH, WHICH SWEET 16 IS THE WITCH’S FUCK UP (ONLY AT 00.0001% ETERNAL CORRUPTION---PERDITION ONCE IN THE ORIGINAL ONCE IN THE NUMBER 0 & ANYTHING ELSE IS ETERNAL INCORRUPTION FROM THE NUMBER 0 IN THE ORIGINAL ONCE AT 00.0000% ETERNAL INCORRUPTION TO 100.0001% ETERNAL INCORRUPTION TO THE INFINITE NUMBER AT 100.0001% ETERNAL INCORRUPTION WITH THE OPPOSING SIDE OF THE ORIGINAL ONCE IN THE NUMBER 0 AT 00.0001% ETERNAL INCORRUPTION---RIGHTEOUSNESS ONCE) & PROMINENT & WELL-FAVORED SLUT AGE, BUT ON HER 17TH BIRTHDAY IS THE 18TH LEVEL THERE IS THE FALL OF BABYLON AFTERWARDS & TOTAL RESTORATION, ON THE 19TH BIRTHDAY WHICH IS THE 20TH LEVEL IS THE IMPARTIAL RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT & ON THE 20TH BIRTHDAY IS THE 21ST LEVEL WHERE ALL THINGS BECOME NEW! THE MALES ARE NEVER RESPONSIBLE OF THE FEMALES ETERNAL BULLSHIT BECAUSE THE ONLY WAY THE LORD LUCIFER COULD GET OUT OF HAND IS FROM HIS LADY VICTORIA ONLY & NEVER WITHIN HIMSELF! AND THE GOLDEN RULE IS THE ONLY WAY MALES CAN GET OUT OF HAND IS BECAUSE OF FEMALES! FOR THOSE WHO FUCK OR HAVE SEX ARE FUCKING WITHIN THE 16TH YEAR OF THAT FEMALE & NOTHING MORE! REVELATION 18:1: IN THE PREVIOUS CHAPTER, JOHN WAS SHOWN THE GREAT HARLOT WHO SITS ON MANY WATERS (REV. REV. 17:1+). SHE WAS IDENTIFIED AS BABYLON THE GREAT (REV. REV. 17:5+) AND THAT GREAT CITY WHICH REIGNS OVER THE KINGS OF THE EARTH (REV. REV. 17:18+). THE ANGEL DESCRIBES HER RELATIONSHIP TO THE BEAST WITH SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS UPON WHICH SHE RIDES. JOHN IS TOLD THAT THE BEAST AND THE HORNS WILL HATE HER AND BE USED OF GOD TO DESTROY HER (REV. REV. 17:16+). HAVING IDENTIFIED HER RELATIONSHIP WITH THE BEAST AND DECLARED HER IMPENDING DEMISE, NOW JOHN IS SHOWN HER DRAMATIC OVERTHROW AND COMPLETE DESTRUCTION. THE SUDDENNESS AND COMPLETENESS OF HER DESTRUCTION IS ILLUSTRATED BY THE THREEFOLD LAMENTATION OF THOSE WHO PROFITED FROM HER COMMERCIAL LUXURY: KINGS OF THE EARTH (REV. REV. 18:9-10+), MERCHANTS OF THE EARTH (REV. REV. 18:11-17+), AND SEAFARERS (REV. REV. 18:17-19+). IN CONTRAST TO THEIR WAILING OVER THE LOSS OF THE CITY, HEAVEN REJOICES (REV. REV. 18:20+). THE KINGS OF THE EARTH MAKE THIS LAMENT. THE MERCHANTS MAKE IT (REV. REV. 18:16+): AND THE MARINERS MAKE IT (REV. REV. 18:19+). IN THE FIRST, THE VERBS INTRODUCING IT ARE IN THE FUTURE TENSE (REV. REV. 18:9+): IN THE SECOND, IN THE PRESENT (REV. REV. 18:11+), AND IN THE THIRD, THE PAST TENSE (REV. REV. 18:17+). IT IS AS THOUGH A MOVING SCENE IS PASSING BEFORE THE EYES, WHILE THE INTERPRETING ANGEL EXPLAINS IT.1 THE DESTRUCTION OF BABYLON DESCRIBED IN THIS CHAPTER BEARS MUCH IN COMMON WITH THE PREDICTED DESTRUCTION OF TYRE IN EZEKIEL’S DAY (EZE. EZE. 26:1-EZE. 28:1). BOTH CITIES ARE CALLED HARLOTS AND KNOWN FOR THEIR COMMERCIAL SPLENDOR, SHIPPING, AND UNGODLY INFLUENCE UPON THE SURROUNDING NATIONS. AT THEIR DESTRUCTION, MERCHANTS WHO BENEFITED FROM COMMERCIAL CONTACT WITH THE CITY ARE GRIEVED. THE DESTRUCTION OF TYRE WHICH EZEKIEL PREDICTED WAS INITIATED BY NEBUCHADNEZZAR OF BABYLON (THE CITY DESTROYED IN THIS CHAPTER) AND COMPLETED BY ALEXANDER THE GREAT IN 332 B.C.2 AN IMPORTANT COMMONALITY BETWEEN THE TWO CITES IS THE EMPOWERMENT OF THEIR RESPECTIVE KINGS BY SATAN (ISA. ISA. 14:4, ISA. 14:12; EZE. EZE. 28:2, EZE. 28:13-14; REV. REV. 13:2+). IT IS IMPORTANT TO GRASP THE ESSENTIAL UNITY BETWEEN REVELATION REV. 17:1+ AND REV. 18:1+. MANY INTERPRETERS ARE QUICK TO IDENTIFY THE HARLOT AS A SEPARATE ENTITY FROM THE CITY WHILE OVERLOOKING THE MANY INDICATIONS THAT A SINGLE BABYLON IS IN VIEW: THE LAST VERSE OF CHAPTER 17 CLOSED IT BY GIVING THE INTERPRETATION OF THE WOMAN AS BEING “THAT GREAT CITY.” THOUGH THE WOMAN IS THE FIRST THING MENTIONED IN THAT CHAPTER, YET HER INTERPRETATION IS LEFT TILL THE END, SO THAT THE MENTION OF THE CITY MAY LEAD ON TO THE ACCOUNT OF ITS DESTRUCTION, WHICH IS THE SUBJECT OF CHAPTER 18.3. CHAPTER 18 CONTAINS THE DESCRIPTION OF THE PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED “JUDGMENT” OF THE PROSTITUTE (REV. REV. 17:1+). IT IS IMPORTANT NOT TO SEPARATE THIS CHAPTER FROM THE PORTRAYAL OF THE PROSTITUTE IN CHAPTER REV. 17:1+, FOR THERE IS NO WARRANT FOR MAKING THE PROSTITUTE IN CHAPTER REV. 17:1+ DIFFERENT FROM THE CITY IN CHAPTER REV. 18:1+ (CF. REV. REV. 17:18+).4 MANY CONCLUDE THAT THE HARLOT (REV. REV. 17:1+) REPRESENTS AN INDIVIDUALS RELIGIOUS SYSTEM, WHEREAS THE CITY (REV. REV. 18:1+) REPRESENTS AN INDIVIDUALS COMMERCIAL SYSTEM. THIS VIEW HOLDS THAT WHAT IS SAID CONCERNING THE HARLOT, AND THE VERY FACT THAT SHE IS SAID TO BE A HARLOT , NECESSITATES A PURELY RELIGIOUS ROLE FOR HER. CONVERSELY, THE COMMERCIAL EMPHASIS OF REVELATION REV. 18:1+ SPEAKS MORE OF A COMMERCIAL SYSTEM AND A CITY. AN UNFORTUNATE CONTRIBUTOR TO THIS SEPARATION INTO TWO PARTS IS THE CHAPTER DIVISION BETWEEN REVELATION REV. 17:1+ AND REV. 18:1+ WHICH MASKS THE UNITY OF THE ENTIRE PASSAGE. SINCE CHAPTER DIVISIONS ARE NOT PART OF THE INSPIRED TEXT, WE NEED TO BE COGNIZANT OF THEIR PLACEMENT AND THE IMPLICIT EFFECTS THEY HAVE ON OUR INTERPRETATION. IN THE CASE OF REVELATION REV. 17:1+ AND REV. 18:1+, IT IS TRUE THAT REVELATION REV. 17:1+ SPEAKS MORE OF THE SPIRITUAL ASPECTS OF THE HARLOT. SIMILARLY, REVELATION REV. 18:1+ EMPHASIZES COMMERCIAL ASPECTS. BUT THIS IS NOT THE FULL STORY BECAUSE BOTH CHAPTERS EMPHASIZE BOTH ASPECTS AND OVERLAP TO A MUCH GREATER DEGREE THAN MANY INTERPRETERS ARE WILLING TO ADMIT.1REVELATION REV. 17:1+, WHILE SPEAKING OF HER HARLOTRY, ABOMINATIONS, AND BEING DRUNK WITH THE BLOOD OF THE MARTYRS OF JESUS, ALSO RELATES HER GREAT COMMERCIAL WEALTH: “ARRAYED IN PURPLE AND SCARLET, AND ADORNED WITH GOLD AND PRECIOUS STONES AND PEARLS, HAVING IN HER HAND A GOLDEN CUP” (REV. REV. 17:4+). MOREOVER, REVELATION REV. 18:1+ SPEAKS OF HER SPIRITUAL ASPECTS: “FOR ALL NATIONS HAVE DRUNK OF THE WINE OF THE WRATH OF HER FORNICATION, THE KINGS OF THE EARTH HAVE COMMITTED FORNICATION WITH HER” (REV. REV. 18:3+) AND “FOR BY YOUR SORCERY ALL THE NATIONS WERE DECEIVED. AND IN HER WAS FOUND THE BLOOD OF PROPHETS AND SAINTS, AND OF ALL WHO WERE SLAIN ON THE EARTH” (REV. REV. 18:24+). WHEN THE CITY OF BABYLON IS FINALLY OVERTHROWN, AS PREDICTED BY THE ANGEL (REV. REV. 18:21+), IT IS SAID, “HE HAS JUDGED THE GREAT HARLOT WHO CORRUPTED THE EARTH WITH HER FORNICATION; AND HE HAS AVENGED ON HER THE BLOOD OF HIS SERVANTS SHED BY HER” [EMPHASIS ADDED] (REV. REV. 19:2+). THE QUESTION IS, HOW DIFFERENT FROM THE BABYLON OF CHAPTER 17 IS THE BABYLON OF CHAPTER 18? UNDOUBTEDLY THE CITY IS THE SAME IN BOTH INSTANCES. BOTH HAVE THE NAME “BABYLON THE GREAT” (REV. REV. 17:5+; REV. 18:2+). BOTH ARE GUILTY OF FORNICATION (REV. REV. 17:1+, REV. 17:2+, REV. 17:4+, REV. 17:5+, REV. 17:16+; REV. 18:3+) AND OF CAUSING THE KINGS OF THE EARTH AND THE EARTH-DWELLERS TO IMBIBE OF THE WINE (OF THE ANGER) OF THE CITY’S FORNICATION (REV. REV. 17:2+; REV. 18:3+). THE DESTINY OF BOTH IS TO BE BURNED WITH FIRE (REV. REV. 17:16+; REV. 18:8+, REV. 18:9+, REV. 18:18+) AND TO BECOME AN UTTER DESOLATION (REV. REV. 17:16+; REV. 18:17+, REV. 18:19+). IN BOTH CHAPTERS BABYLON IS “THE GREAT CITY” (REV. REV. 17:18+; REV. 18:10+, REV. 18:16+, REV. 18:18+. 19, 21) AND WEARS THE APPAREL AND ADORNMENT OF A HARLOT (REV. REV. 17:4+; REV. 18:16+). BOTH ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MARTYRDOM OF THE FAITHFUL (REV. REV. 17:6+; REV. 18:20+, REV. 18:24+ [CF. REV. 19:2+]).2 WE ALSO NOTE THAT IN THE PREDICTION OF BABYLON’S DEMISE BY THE FLYING ANGEL THERE IS NOT THE SLIGHTEST INTIMATION OF TWO SYSTEMS OR TWO DESTRUCTIONS. MOREOVER, IN THE ANGEL’S DESCRIPTION OF BABYLON, HE CALLS IT A “GREAT CITY” (COMMERCIAL) WHICH IS GUILTY OF “FORNICATION” (SPIRITUAL IDOLATRY) (REV. REV. 14:8+). THERE THE SELF-SAME BABYLON IS DESCRIBED USING BOTH COMMERCIAL AND SPIRITUAL ATTRIBUTES. THIS UNITY IS ALSO EVIDENCED UNDER THE SEVENTH BOWL WHERE “BABYLON WAS REMEMBERED BEFORE GOD, TO GIVE HER THE CUP OF THE WINE OF THE FIERCENESS OF HIS WRATH” (REV. REV. 16:19+). ONLY ONE BABYLON IS IN VIEW AND ITS DESTRUCTION IS ASSOCIATED WITH A SINGLE JUDGMENT—THE POURING FORTH OF THE LAST BOWL OF THE WRATH OF GOD. WE SEE NO EVIDENCE OF A SEPARATE JUDGMENT FOR THE HARLOT AND A SUBSEQUENT JUDGMENT OF THE CITY—AS IF THEY WERE TWO DIFFERENT ENTITIES. ANOTHER FACTOR FAVORING THE UNITY OF REVELATION REV. 17:1+ AND REV. 18:1+ IS THE ANNOUNCED MISSION OF THE ANGEL SENT TO JOHN: “I WILL SHOW YOU THE JUDGMENT OF THE GREAT HARLOT WHO SITS ON MANY WATERS” (REV. REV. 17:1+). THIS ANGEL IS WITH JOHN FROM REVELATION REV. 17:1+ THROUGHOUT BOTH CHAPTERS AND SPEAKS TO HIM AGAIN IN REVELATION REV. 19:19+.3 THE ACT OF SHOWING JOHN THE JUDGMENT (SINGULAR) OF THE GREAT HARLOT (SINGULAR) SPANS REVELATION REV. 17:1+ THROUGH REVELATION REV. 19:4+. THE SAME EVENT IS IN VIEW THE ENTIRE TIME. THE ANGEL GIVES NOT THE SLIGHTEST INDICATION THAT JOHN IS BEING SHOWN TWO ENTITIES AND TWO DESTRUCTIONS. IF WE LOOK AT THESE TWO CHAPTERS CAREFULLY [REV. REV. 17:1+ AND REV. 18:1+], WE FAIL TO FIND THE DISTINCTION SO PERSISTENTLY AFFIRMED. SOME ONE STATES A THING AS A FACT; AND THEN OTHERS THINK THEY SEE IT. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS “MYSTIC BABYLON.” THE BABYLON MENTIONED IN CHAPTER REV. 17:1+ IS THE SAME AS THAT IN CHAPTER REV. 18:1+. IT IS THE “WOMAN” WHICH IS A SECRET SYMBOL OR SIGN. BUT THAT MEANS ONLY THAT WE ARE NOT TO TAKE IT LITERALLY AS A WOMAN, BUT AS “THAT GREAT CITY,” AS IS EXPLAINED IN [REV. REV. 17:18+].4 THE IDEA THAT THE HARLOT IS AN INDIVIDUAL & THE CITY OF BABYLON IS POSSIBLE TO MAINTAIN IF SCRIPTURE ALONE IS OUR GUIDE. THE HARLOT IS CALLED A CITY (REV. REV. 17:18+) WHILE THE CITY IS DESCRIBED AS A HARLOT (REV. REV. 18:3+, REV. 18:9+, REV. 18:23-24+) AND CALLED “THE GREAT HARLOT” (REV. REV. 19:2+). THE HARLOT IS THAT GREAT CITY BABYLON! AFTER THESE THINGS: ΜΕΤΑ ΤΑῦΤΑ [META TAUTA], THE FREQUENTLY-ENCOUNTERED PHRASE WHICH SEPARATES SECTIONS OF JOHN’S REVELATION. IN A SIMILAR WAY THAT JOHN WAS SHOWN THE BOWLS OF WRATH (REV. REV. 15:1+) PRIOR TO THEIR POURING FORTH (REV. REV. 16:1+), HE WAS SHOWN THE IMPENDING DESTRUCTION OF THE HARLOT BABYLON IN THE PREVIOUS CHAPTER (REV. REV. 17:1+) PRIOR TO HER ACTUAL DESTRUCTION HERE (REV. REV. 18:1+). ANOTHER ANGEL COMING DOWN FROM HEAVEN: A DIFFERENT ANGEL THAN THE ONE WHO SHOWED JOHN THE GREAT HARLOT WHO IS ABOUT TO BE JUDGED (REV. REV. 17:1+). HE COMES ON A MISSION FROM HEAVEN, MUCH LIKE THE MIGHTY ANGEL WHO CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN WITH THE LITTLE BOOK AND WHO STOOD ON THE SEA AND ON THE LAND TO DECLARE GOD’S INTENTION TO RETAKE DOMINION OF THE EARTH (REV. REV. 10:1+). “INTERPRETERS SEEM AS ANXIOUS TO MAKE THIS, AND OTHER OF THE ANGELS, TO BE THE LORD JESUS, AS THEY ARE TO MAKE ALL ELSE TO BE THE CHURCH. THERE IS NO OCCASION TO GO BEYOND THE SIMPLE UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORDS. THIS IS NO ORDINARY ANGEL; FOR HE WAS INVESTED WITH GREAT POWER AND GLORY.”5 THE EARTH WAS ILLUMINATED WITH HIS GLORY: THE GLORY OF THE MIGHTY ANGEL WAS SO GREAT THAT IT SHONE DOWN UPON THE EARTH. HIS BRIGHTNESS IS AN INDICATION OF HIS AUTHORITY AND HIGH RANK (LUKE LUKE 2:9; ACTS ACTS 12:7). IT IS A REFLECTION OF THE GLORY OF GOD WHO APPOINTED HIM TO THIS TASK (HAB. HAB. 3:3-4; REV. REV. 21:23+). WHEN THE ANGEL DESCENDS, THE EARTH IS FULL OF MORAL DARKNESS. THE ILLUMINATION OF THE EARTH BY HIS GLORY PRESAGES THE DESTRUCTION OF DARKNESS AND THE INTRODUCTION OF LIGHT WHICH WILL BE THE OVERTHROW OF BABYLON AND THE INTRODUCTION OF THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM (ISA. ISA. 60:1-3). REVELATION 18:2: HE CRIED MIGHTILY WITH A LOUD VOICE: THE ANGEL SERVES AS A DIVINE HERALD, ANNOUNCING THAT WHICH IS ABOUT TO TAKE PLACE. HE SIGNALS THAT AN EVENT OF GREAT IMPORTANCE IS ABOUT TO TRANSPIRE (REV. REV. 5:2+; REV. 10:3+; REV. 14:15+). BABYLON THE GREAT IS FALLEN, IS FALLEN: THE WORD ORDER IS REVERSED IN THE GREEK TO EMPHASIS HER FALL: IT IS FALLEN, IT IS FALLEN, BABYLON THE GREAT. THE TIME HAS FINALLY ARRIVED FOR THE PREDICTED DESTRUCTION OF BABYLON TO FIND FULFILLMENT. ALTHOUGH ASPECTS OF ISAIAH’S AND JEREMIAH’S PROPHECIES CONCERNING HER DESTRUCTION RELATE TO THE OVERTHROW OF BABYLON BY PERSIA IN 539 B.C., HER CATASTROPHIC AND PERMANENT DESTRUCTION HAD NOT OCCURRED UNTIL NOW. PERHAPS THIS IS THE SAME ANGEL WHICH FLEW FORTH EARLIER TO DECLARE BABYLON’S DESTRUCTION (REV. REV. 14:8+ CF. ISA. ISA. 21:9). LIKE THE DECLARATION OF THAT ANGEL, IS FALLEN IS ἔΠΕΣΕΝ [EPESEN], PROPHETIC AORIST TENSE. THE CITY’S FALL IS SO CERTAIN AND IMMINENT IT IS DESCRIBED AS IF IT HAS ALREADY BEEN ACCOMPLISHED. HER DESTRUCTION TAKES PLACE AS A RESULT OF THE POURING FORTH OF THE SEVENTH BOWL OF GOD’S WRATH (REV. REV. 16:19+). THE CITY AND THE HARLOT ARE GIVEN THE SAME TITLE: “BABYLON THE GREAT” (REV. REV. 17:4+). THE HARLOT IS NOT SOME SEPARATE ENTITY, BUT THE CITY ITSELF (REV. REV. 17:18+). SHE IS CALLED GREAT BECAUSE OF HER POWER AND COMMERCIAL SPLENDOR, BUT ALSO BECAUSE SHE THOUGHT HERSELF TO BE GREAT. SHE WAS BUILT ON PRIDE (ISA. ISA. 13:19; JER. JER. 50:29; DAN. DAN. 4:30). HAS BECOME A DWELLING PLACE OF DEMONS, A PRISON FOR EVERY FOUL SPIRIT, AND A CAGE FOR EVERY UNCLEAN AND HATED BIRD: HAS BECOME IS ἐΓΈΝΕΤΟ [EGENETO], AORIST TENSE. THE ANGEL DESCRIBES HER CONDITION AFTER HER FALL.1 ALTHOUGH FOUL SPIRITS NO DOUBT FREQUENTED BABYLON PRIOR TO HER DESTRUCTION, THIS SPEAKS OF THE INCARCERATION OF DEMONS IN PRISON AS A RESULT OF THE JUDGMENT.2 DWELLING PLACE IS ΚΑΤΟΙΚΗΤΉΡΙΟΝ [KATOIKĒTĒRION], USED TO DESCRIBE THE CORPORATE CHURCH AS A DWELLING PLACE OF GOD, A HOLY TEMPLE (EPH. EPH. 2:22). IT INDICATES A PLACE WHERE RESIDENTS SETTLE DOWN WITH THE IDEA OF A PROTRACTED RESIDENCE.3 FOUL AND UNCLEAN ARE ἀΚΑΘΆΡΤΟΥ [AKATHARTOU], MEANING UNCLEAN—MATCHING THE CHARACTER OF THE FUCKING FILTHINESS OF THE FORNICATION OF THE HARLOT (REV. REV. 17:2+) AND THE THREE UNCLEAN SPIRITS WHICH GATHERED THE KINGS OF THE EARTH TO THE CAMPAIGN OF ARMAGEDDON (REV. REV. 16:13+). CERTAIN BIRDS WERE CONSIDERED UNCLEAN ACCORDING TO THE MOSAIC LAW (LEV. LEV. 11:13-19). IN SCRIPTURE, BIRDS—AND ESPECIALLY UNCLEAN BIRDS—OFTEN DENOTE EVIL (ISA. ISA. 13:21; ZEC. ZEC. 5:9; MTT. MAT. 13:4, MAT. 13:19). PRISON AND CAGE ARE ΦΥΛΑΚὴ [PHYLAKĒ]: “THE PLACE OF GUARDING, PRISON...THE FALLEN CITY OF BABYLON BECOMES A ΦΥΛΑΚὴ [PHYLAKĒ] HAUNT FOR ALL KINDS OF UNCLEAN SPIRITS AND BIRDS.”4 THE SAME TERM DESCRIBES THE PRISON WHICH SATAN IS RELEASED FROM AT THE END OF THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM (REV. REV. 20:7+). DURING THE THOUSAND YEARS THAT SATAN IS BOUND IN THE ABYSS, HE IS UNABLE TO ESCAPE FROM HIS LOCATION. THUS, THIS SPEAKS OF A PLACE OF INVOLUNTARY CONFINEMENT, NOT MERELY A “HAUNT, DEN, [OR] REFUGE.”5 IN VARIOUS PASSAGES CONCERNING THE ULTIMATE DESTRUCTION OF BABYLON, SHE IS SAID TO BECOME A DEVASTATED WILDERNESS (ISA. ISA. 13:21-22; ISA. 14:23; JER. JER. 50:39; JER. 51:37). THESE PASSAGES MAKE MENTION OF VARIOUS ANIMALS OF THE WILDERNESS AS AN INDICATION THAT SHE WILL REMAIN UNINHABITED. NOW, JOHN IS TOLD AT HER DESTRUCTION BABYLON HAS BECOME A DWELLING PLACE OF DEMONS, A PRISON FOR EVERY FOUL [UNCLEAN] SPIRIT. THE DECLARATION OF THE ANGEL MAKES EXPLICIT THAT WHICH WAS ONLY HINTED AT IN THE OT USE OF CERTAIN TERMS DESCRIBING THE ANIMALS ATTENDING HER DESTRUCTION: THEREFORE, THE WILD DESERT BEASTS SHALL DWELL THERE WITH THE JACKALS, AND THE OSTRICHES SHALL DWELL IN IT. IT SHALL BE INHABITED NO MORE FOREVER, NOR SHALL IT BE DWELT IN FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION. (JER. JER. 50:39 CF. JER. JER. 51:37) [EMPHASIS ADDED] WILD DESERT BEASTS (JER. JER. 50:39) IS צִיִּים [ṢÎYÎM]: PS. 74:14).”6 BUT WILD BEASTS OF THE DESERT WILL LIE THERE, AND THEIR HOUSES WILL BE FULL OF OWLS; OSTRICHES WILL DWELL THERE, AND WILD GOATS WILL CAPER THERE. THE HYENAS WILL HOWL IN THEIR CITADELS, AND JACKALS IN THEIR PLEASANT PALACES. HER TIME IS NEAR TO COME, AND HER DAYS WILL NOT BE PROLONGED. (ISA. ISA. 13:21-22 CF. ISA. ISA. 14:23) [EMPHASIS ADDED] WILD GOATS (ISA. ISA. 13:21) IS שְׂעִירִים [ŚEʿÎRÎM]: MAT. 8:30-32).”7 “SATYR (MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURE---HALF MAN & HALF GOAT WITH 2 HORNS), I.E., A SPIRIT BEING THAT INHABITS DESOLATE AREAS (ISA. ISA. 13:21; ISA. 34:14).”8 THE HEBREW WORD SĀʿÎR PRIMARILY MEANT A HE-GOAT. IN LOWER EGYPT THE GOAT WAS WORSHIPPED WITH ABOMINABLE RITES. THE WORD IS RENDERED “SATYR” IN TWO PASSAGES, ISAIAH ISA. 13:21 AND ISA. 34:14 (R.V. MARGIN “HEGOAT”). IN BOTH PLACES THE SEPTUAGINT TRANSLATES IT DAIMONIA, DEMONS, AND THIS GIVES THE TRUE INDICATION OF THE EVIL SPIRITS WHICH INSPIRED THE PARTICULAR WORSHIP CARRIED ON BY THE IDOLATERS: “THE THINGS WHICH THE GENTILES SACRIFICE, THEY SACRIFICE TO DEMONS AND NOT TO GOD” (1COR. 1COR. 10:20). THE WORD IS TRANSLATED “DEVILS” (THAT IS, DEMONS) IN KJV LEVITICUS LEV. 17:7 “THEY SHALL NO MORE OFFER THEIR SACRIFICES UNTO DEVILS, AFTER WHOM THEY HAVE GONE A WHORING” ...THAT IS, TO THE EVIL SPIRITS.9 IT APPEARS THAT BOTH BABYLON AND EDOM (ISA. ISA. 34:8-17) WILL BE DWELLING PLACES FOR DEMONS DURING THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM:10 IT IS OBVIOUS THAT THE ANIMAL INHABITANTS, AS WE KNOW THEM, MENTIONED IN ISA. ISA. 13:20-22 AND JER. JER. 50:39-40, CANNOT LIVE IN A PLACE OF CONTINUAL BURNING PITCH AND BRIMSTONE AND SO THERE CANNOT BE LITERAL ANIMALS...THIS PLACE OF CONTINUAL BURNING AND SMOKE WILL BE A PLACE OF CONFINEMENT FOR MANY DEMONS DURING THE KINGDOM PERIOD...IN FACT, THE HEBREW WORD TRANSLATED WILD GOATS REFERS TO DEMONS IN GOAT FORM.11 HATED IS ΜΕΜΙΣΗΜΈΝΟΥ [MEMISĒMENOU], A PERFECT TENSE PASSIVE PARTICIPLE, WHILE HAVING BEEN HATED. THESE DEMON SPIRITS WERE HATED IN THE PAST, BUT WILL NOW BE CONFINED TO THE REGION OF BABYLON. THUS, IN THE SAME WAY THAT SATAN IS BOUND SO HE IS UNABLE TO INTERFERE WITH THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM, HIS FALLEN ANGELS WILL ALSO BE INCARCERATED DURING THE THOUSAND-YEAR REIGN OF MESSIAH ON EARTH. SOME GREEK MANUSCRIPTS INCLUDE, AND EVERY UNCLEAN BEAST.12 REVELATION 18:3: FOR ALL NATIONS HAVE DRUNK: THE CONJUNCTION FOR, ὅΤΙ [HOTI], INDICATES THAT THE REASON FOR HER DESTRUCTION IS THAT WHICH FOLLOWS—HER POLLUTION OF THE GLOBAL POPULACE. HER POLLUTION SPANS ALL ASPECTS OF CULTURE: POLITICAL, COMMERCIAL, AND RELIGIOUS. THE FIRST KINGDOM ON EARTH WAS BABEL UNDER NIMROD. AT THAT TIME, ALL PEOPLE ON EARTH SPOKE ONE LANGUAGE. WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF LANGUAGES, THE PEOPLE DISPERSED FROM BABEL TO FORM ALL THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH. IN THEIR DISPERSAL, THEY CARRIED FORTH THE ABOMINABLE PRACTICES OF BABEL. SINCE THAT TIME, ALL NATIONS HAVE BEEN DRINKING HER POTION. THE WINE OF THE WRATH OF HER FORNICATION: FORNICATION IS ἐΠΌΡΝΕΥΣΑΝ [EPORNEUSAN], WHICH IS RELATED TO ΠΌΡΝΗΣ [PORNĒS], WHICH IS ALSO MARITAL SEX KNOWN AS PORNIEA OR SHORT FOR PORN IN TOBIT 4:12-13: HARLOT. THE HARLOT SERVED THE KINGS AND INHABITANTS OF THE EARTH “WINE OF HER FORNICATION” (REV. REV. 17:2+). SHE MADE “ALL NATIONS DRINK OF THE WINE OF THE WRATH OF HER FORNICATION” (REV. REV. 14:8+). THE KINGS OF THE EARTH HAVE COMMITTED FORNICATION WITH HER: THE SAME WAS SAID OF THE HARLOT (REV. REV. 17:2+). HER SEXUAL WELL-FAVORED INFLUENCE SPANS THE FULL BREADTH AND HEIGHT OF ALL CULTURES. THE KINGS OF THE EARTH ARE SINGLED OUT BECAUSE OF THEIR GREAT SEXUAL RESPONSIBILITY AND WICKED INFLUENCE OVER THOSE THEY RULE. SHE KNEW THAT BY SEXUALLY POLLUTING THE LEADERS, HER SEXUAL INFLUENCE OVER THE PEOPLE WOULD BE GREATEST. THE CITY SEXUALLY POLLUTED THE POLITICAL REALM. THE MERCHANTS OF THE EARTH: MERCHANTS IS ἔΜΠΟΡΟΙ [EMPOROI]: “ONE WHO TRAVELS ABOUT FOR DRUG TRADING (TRAFFICKING)...WHOLESALE DEALER IN CONTRAST TO A RETAILER.”1 THE WORD EMPHASIZES THOSE WHO TRAVEL IN MERCHANDIZING AND IS ALSO USED OF A PASSENGER ON SHIPBOARD.2 IT IS DERIVED FROM ΠΟΡΟΣ [POROS], A JOURNEY. THE MERCHANTS ARE “THE GREAT MEN OF THE EARTH” (REV. REV. 18:23+), POWERFUL MAGNATES WHO USE THEIR GREAT WEALTH TO SEXUALLY INFLUENCE THE AFFAIRS OF THE WORLD TO FURTHER THEIR OWN DAMN POWER AND FUCKING INTERESTS. THE CITY SEXUALLY POLLUTED THE COMMERCIAL REALM. THROUGHOUT HISTORY, THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN KINGS AND POWERFUL MERCHANTS HAS BEEN BLURRED. IN OUR OWN DAY, PERHAPS MORE THAN IN PREVIOUS ERAS, WEALTHY HEADS OF POWERFUL MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS MAY HAVE GREATER SEXUAL INFLUENCE OVER THE AFFAIRS OF THE WORLD THAN THEIR PUBLICLY ELECTED NATIONAL COUNTERPARTS (ISA. ISA. 23:8). WHILE KINGS WIELD POLITICAL POWER, MERCHANTS WIELD GREAT FINANCIAL POWER, AS LOW MILLIONAIRES, BILLIONAIRES & TOP TRILLIONAIRES IN MATTHEW 6:24; 2 CORINTHIANS 11:13-15; 1 TIMOTHY 6:9-10 & LUKE 16:9, 11, 13. WITH RARE EXCEPTION, WORLD LEADERSHIP HAS GENERALLY BEEN IMMERSED IN A TANGLED WEB OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS, AND COMMERCIAL INTERESTS WHICH ARE IMPOSSIBLE TO ISOLATE FROM ONE ANOTHER. SUCH INTERNATIONAL MAGNATES AND FINANCIERS CONSTITUTE, MORE OFTEN THAN NOT, THE POWER BEHIND THE THRONE. KINGS AND PRESIDENTS OFTEN ATTAIN AND KEEP THEIR AUTHORITY BY SUFFERANCE OF THOSE WHO FINANCE THEIR UNDERTAKINGS. IN TURN, THESE GREAT MEN OF THE EARTH RECEIVE LAND GRANTS AND TRADE MONOPOLIES AND TAX LOOPHOLES AND INNUMERABLE OTHER SEXUAL FAVORS FROM THOSE WHOM THEY ESTABLISH IN POLITICAL POWER, ALL TO ENRICH THEMSELVES STILL FURTHER & ENLARGE THEIR FUCKING POCKETS.3 IT HAS BECOME AN AXIOM THAT “CORPORATIONS HAVE NO SOULS,” AND UPON THIS ALL GREAT MONEYED CORPORATIONS ACT, THOUGH THE MEN WHO CONSTITUTE THEM WILL FIND OUT A DIFFERENT DOCTRINE WHEN THEY COME TO THE DAY OF JUDGMENT. AND WHEN IT COMES TO THESE GREAT AND EVER MAGNIFYING COMMERCIAL COMPACTS AND INTERESTS, THERE IS NOT A LAW OF GOD OR MAN WHICH IS NOT COMPELLED TO YIELD IF FOUND IN THE WAY...IF THE QUESTION WERE EVER PRESSED IN THESE CIRCLES, WHAT IS TRUTH? IT WOULD BE HOOTED AND LAUGHED TO SCORN. THE CRY WOULD BE, “WHAT HAVE WE TO DO WITH THAT? LET EVERY ONE QUIETLY ENJOY HIS OWN OPINIONS.” ...CHURCH IS NOTHING, STATE IS NOTHING, CREED IS NOTHING, BIBLE IS NOTHING, SUNDAY IS NOTHING, RELIGIOUS SCRUPLES ARE NOTHING, CONSCIENCE IS NOTHING, EVERYTHING IS PRACTICALLY NOTHING, EXCEPT AS IT CAN BE TURNED OR USED TO THE ONE GREAT END OF ACCUMULATION AND WEALTH.4 HAVE BECOME RICH: ZEC. 5:5-11.”5 AS WITH THE CITY OF TYRE, THE MERCHANTS PLAYED A KEY ROLE IN HER GLOBAL SEXUAL INFLUENCE BECAUSE IT WAS THROUGH THE DISTRIBUTION OF HER MERCHANDISE THAT HER AFFLUENCE AND POWER GREW: FOR SEX SALES! IN THEIR WAILING FOR YOU THEY WILL TAKE UP A LAMENTATION, AND LAMENT FOR YOU: ‘WHAT CITY IS LIKE TYRE, DESTROYED IN THE MIDST OF THE SEA?’ WHEN YOUR WARES WENT OUT BY SEA, YOU SATISFIED MANY PEOPLE; YOU ENRICHED THE KINGS OF THE EARTH WITH YOUR MANY LUXURY GOODS AND YOUR MERCHANDISE. BUT YOU ARE BROKEN BY THE SEAS IN THE DEPTHS OF THE WATERS; YOUR MERCHANDISE AND THE ENTIRE COMPANY WILL FALL IN YOUR MIDST. (EZE. EZE. 27:32-34) THE ABUNDANCE OF HER LUXURY: ABUNDANCE IS ΔΥΝΆΜΕΩΣ [DYNAMEŌS], LITERALLY STRENGTHS OF HER LUXURY. LUXURY IS ΣΤΡΉΝΟΥΣ [STRĒNOUS], WHICH INDICATES A LUXURIOUS AND SENSUOUS SEXUAL WAY OF LIFE CHARACTERIZED BY HEADSTRONG PRIDE. SHE HAS A HARLOT’S FOREHEAD AND REFUSES TO BE ASHAMED (JER. JER. 3:3 CF. REV. REV. 17:5+). REVELATION 18:4: COME OUT OF HER MY PEOPLE: THIS IS A SUPREME COMMAND BY THE LORD TO CUT HER OFF & CUT HER DOWN (2 CORINTHIANS 11:12) & TO “UN-FUCK YOURSELVES” & TO GET RID OF YOUR ENORMOUS WEALTH BECAUSE THERE IS NO DAMN GOOD REASON WHY YOU WOULD KEEP ALL THIS FUCKING MONEY THAT IS ABOVE YOUR NEEDS, UNLESS YOU ARE OVEREXCESSIVE & OVERINDULGENT IN LUXURY & EXTRAVAGANCE TO THE POINT OF MAKING YOUR GOD AS MONEY IN ITSELF OR THE LOVE OF MONEY, WHICH IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL SEXUALITY AS LOW MILLIONAIRES, BILLIONAIRES & TOP TRILLIONAIRES IN MATTHEW 6:24; 1 TIMOTHY 6:9-10 & LUKE 16:9, 11, 13. IN THE SEXUAL REBELLION OF ISRAEL AGAINST THE AUTHORITY OF MOSES, MOSES AND AARON WERE TOLD BY GOD TO “SEPARATE YOURSELVES FROM AMONG THIS CONGREGATION, THAT I MAY CONSUME THEM IN A MOMENT” (NUM. NUM. 16:21). THE CONGREGATION OF ISRAEL WAS COMMANDED TO SEPARATE FROM THE TENTS OF KORAH, DATHAN, AND ABIRAM BEFORE THE EARTH OPENED UP TO SWALLOW THEIR FAMILIES (NUM. NUM. 16:26-34). LIKE LOT AND HIS FAMILY WHO FLED SODOM PRIOR TO ITS DESTRUCTION (GEN. GEN. 19:12-15), THE SAINTS OF THE TRIBULATION PERIOD ARE URGED TO FLEE THE CITY SO AS TO AVOID HER PHYSICAL JUDGMENT. GO FORTH FROM BABYLON! FLEE FROM THE CHALDEANS! WITH A VOICE OF SINGING, DECLARE, PROCLAIM THIS, UTTER IT TO THE END OF THE EARTH; SAY, “THE LORD HAS REDEEMED HIS SERVANT JACOB!” (ISA. ISA. 48:20) MOVE FROM THE MIDST OF BABYLON, GO OUT OF THE LAND OF THE CHALDEANS; AND BE LIKE THE RAMS BEFORE THE FLOCKS. (JER. JER. 50:8) FLEE FROM THE MIDST OF BABYLON, AND EVERY ONE SAVE HIS LIFE! DO NOT BE CUT OFF IN HER INIQUITY, FOR THIS IS THE TIME OF THE LORD’S VENGEANCE; HE SHALL RECOMPENSE HER. (JER. JER. 51:6) WE WOULD HAVE HEALED BABYLON, BUT SHE IS NOT HEALED. FORSAKE HER, AND LET US GO EVERYONE TO HIS OWN COUNTRY; FOR HER JUDGMENT REACHES TO HEAVEN AND IS LIFTED UP TO THE SKIES. (JER. JER. 51:9) MY PEOPLE, GO OUT OF THE MIDST OF HER! AND LET EVERYONE DELIVER HIMSELF FROM THE FIERCE ANGER OF THE LORD. (JER. JER. 51:45) YOU WHO HAVE ESCAPED THE SWORD, GET AWAY! DO NOT STAND STILL! REMEMBER THE LORD AFAR OFF, AND LET JERUSALEM COME TO YOUR MIND. (JER. JER. 51:50) “UP, UP! FLEE FROM THE LAND OF THE NORTH,” SAYS THE LORD; “FOR I HAVE SPREAD YOU ABROAD LIKE THE FOUR WINDS OF HEAVEN,” SAYS THE LORD. “UP, ZION! ESCAPE, YOU WHO DWELL WITH THE DAUGHTER OF BABYLON.” (ZEC. ZEC. 2:6-7)1 IF THE CALL TO GOD’S PEOPLE TO COME OUT OF BABYLON IMMEDIATELY PRECEDES THE TIME OF DESTRUCTION UNDER THE SEVENTH BOWL (REV. REV. 16:19+), THEN THE REQUIREMENT TO TAKE THE MARK OF THE BEAST FOR COMMERCIAL PARTICIPATION HAS ALREADY BEEN IMPOSED (CF. REV. REV. 16:2+). SINCE IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO TAKE THE MARK AND BE AMONG THE ELECT OF GOD (REV. REV. 14:9-11+; REV. 17:8+), THOSE SAINTS WHICH ARE IN BABYLON AT THIS TIME ARE “UNDERGROUND.” THEY WILL BE UNABLE TO OBTAIN SUPPORT EXCEPT BY THE BLACK MARKET AND MUST REMAIN IN HIDING BECAUSE THEY LACK THE MARK (REV. REV. 13:15+).2 IF THE WARNING OCCURS BEFORE THE POURING FORTH OF THE FIRST BOWL (REV. REV. 16:2+), THEN THE MARK OF THE BEAST MAY NOT HAVE BEEN INSTITUTED YET AND THE SAINTS IN THE CITY HAVE PROBABLY BEEN DRAWN THERE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE CITY’S COMMERCIAL PROSPERITY. LIKE LOT AT THE GATES OF SODOM, THEY UNWISELY LINGER AND DABBLE IN THEIR UNGODLY SURROUNDINGS. THIS SHOULD NOT BE INTERPRETED AS A GENERAL COMMAND FOR BELIEVERS TO PHYSICALLY SEPARATE FROM ALL WHO PRACTICE SIN: I WROTE TO YOU IN MY EPISTLE NOT TO KEEP COMPANY WITH SEXUALLY IMMORAL PEOPLE. YET I CERTAINLY DID NOT MEAN WITH THE SEXUALLY IMMORAL PEOPLE OF THIS WORLD, OR WITH THE COVETOUS, OR EXTORTIONERS, OR IDOLATERS, SINCE THEN YOU WOULD NEED TO GO OUT OF THE WORLD. BUT NOW I HAVE WRITTEN TO YOU NOT TO KEEP COMPANY WITH ANYONE NAMED A BROTHER, WHO IS SEXUALLY IMMORAL, OR COVETOUS, OR AN IDOLATER, OR A REVILER, OR A DRUNKARD, OR AN EXTORTIONER—NOT EVEN TO EAT WITH SUCH A PERSON. (1COR. 1COR. 5:9-11) THIS VERSE IS READILY ABUSED IN THE HANDS OF LEGALISTIC SHEPHERDS WHO USE IT AS A TOOL TO MANIPULATE THEIR FLOCK IN AN ATTEMPT TO CONTROL EVERY ASPECT OF THEIR LIVES. THIS ILLUSTRATES ONE OF THE DANGERS OF TAKING PASSAGES OUT OF CONTEXT AND SPIRITUALIZING THEIR MEANING. THIS VERSE CONCERNS THE TRIBULATION PERIOD AND THE PHYSICAL DESTRUCTION OF THE LITERAL CITY OF BABYLON. IT DOES NOT CONCERN A LEGALISTIC SEPARATION OF THE BELIEVER TODAY FROM ALL FORMS OF COMMERCIAL INVOLVEMENT. WHILE THESE WORDS HAVE A REAL APPLICATION TO THE BELIEVER TO COME FORTH TO JESUS OUTSIDE THE SPIRITUAL BABYLON—ECCLESIASTICISM, NICOLAITANISM AND THE FALSE PROMISES OF “MYSTERY” BABYLON IN ITS VARIOUS FORMS; YET THE PARTICULAR INTERPRETATION OF THE WORDS IS NOT TO THE SAINTS, WHO WILL HAVE BEEN RAPTURED BEFORE THIS CALL GOES FORTH. THE CALL TO “COME FORTH” FROM THIS GREAT COMMERCIAL SODOM OF THE LAST DAYS—REBUILT BABYLON, IS EVIDENTLY ISSUED TO THOSE INDIVIDUALS LIVING IN OR DOING BUSINESS IN THAT CAPITAL OF THE ANTICHRIST IN THE LAST DAYS.3 LEST YOU SHARE IN HER SINS: LEST YOU DO NOT “UN-FUCK YOURSELVES” & GET RID OF YOUR ENORMOUS WEALTH & YOU SHALL SHARE (ΣΥΓΚΟΙΝΩΝΉΣΗΤΕ [SYNKOINŌNĒSĒTE]) IN HER ETERNAL BULLSHIT, AND YOU ALL SHALL TAKE PART IN HER WICKEDNESS OR TAKE A SYMPATHETIC SEXUAL INTEREST WITH HER IN BEING VERY RICH IN MONEY BY HER ETERNAL BULLSHIT.4 IF YOU ARE VERY RICH IN MONEY & FUCK YOUR WIFE, AND SAY IT IS YOUR RIGHT TO DO SO, YOU ARE THE SAME & JUDGED AS THE MOTHERFUCKING FUCKING WITCH & YOU ARE NEVER A RIGHTEOUS VIRGIN, YOU DUMBASS SANCTIMONIOUS HYPOCRTICAL ASSHOLES (1 JOHN 1:8, 10)! THE SAME TERM IS USED WHEN PAUL WRITES TO THE EPHESIAN CHURCH NOT TO HAVE FELLOWSHIP WITH THE UNFRUITFUL WORKS OF DARKNESS (EPH. EPH. 5:11) AND WHEN HE COMMENDS THE PHILIPPIAN CHURCH BECAUSE THEY SHARED IN HIS DISTRESS (PHP. PHP. 4:14). IT IS A COMPOUND WORD COMBINING THE CONCEPTS OF FELLOWSHIP AND TOGETHER WITH. THE SAINTS ARE NOT TO ISOLATE THEMSELVES FROM THE WORLD (1COR. 1COR. 5:9-11). FOR HOW ELSE CAN EVANGELIZATION TAKE PLACE? YET, WHILE BEING IN THE WORLD, THEY ARE NOT TO BE OF THE WORLD—JOINING THEMSELVES WITH THOSE WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS: DO NOT BE UNEQUALLY YOKED TOGETHER WITH UNBELIEVERS. FOR WHAT FELLOWSHIP HAS RIGHTEOUSNESS WITH LAWLESSNESS? AND WHAT COMMUNION HAS LIGHT WITH DARKNESS? AND WHAT ACCORD HAS CHRIST WITH BELIAL? OR WHAT PART HAS A BELIEVER WITH AN UNBELIEVER? AND WHAT AGREEMENT HAS THE TEMPLE OF GOD WITH IDOLS? FOR YOU ARE THE TEMPLE OF THE LIVING GOD. AS GOD HAS SAID: “I WILL DWELL IN THEM AND WALK AMONG THEM. I WILL BE THEIR GOD, AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE.” (2COR. 2COR. 6:14-16) THE SAINTS WHO ARE IN BABYLON AT THE TIME OF THE END ARE AT GREAT RISK OF TAKING PART IN OR HAVING SYMPATHETIC INTEREST IN HER SINS.5 LEST YOU RECEIVE OF HER PLAGUES: THE PLAGUES SHE IS TO RECEIVE ARE PRIMARILY HER FUCKING BURNING AND DAMANBLE DESTRUCTION BECAUSE OF HER RICHES IN MONEY & HER FUCKING BULLSHIT AS RELATED IN THIS CHAPTER. YOU ARE NO DIFFERENT, IF YOU PLAY THE RICH MONEY GAME & FUCK LIKE HELL, YOU ARE A DAMN MOTHERFUCKER & SHALL BECOME SICK AS A DOG! REVELATION 18:5: HER SINS HAVE REACHED TO HEAVEN: ALTHOUGH EACH AND EVERY EVIL DEED OF HISTORY IS KNOWN TO GOD, THERE COMES A TIME WHERE THE NUMBER AND MAGNITUDE OF SINS REACHES A POINT WHERE GOD IS FORCED, BY HIS RIGHTEOUS CHARACTER, TO INTERVENE. WHEN THIS OCCURS, SIN IS SAID TO GAIN HIS ATTENTION IN A SPECIAL WAY. THE VOICE OF ABEL’S BLOOD CRIED OUT TO GOD FROM THE GROUND (GEN. GEN. 4:10). THE OUTCRY AGAINST SODOM AND GOMORRAH REACHED UP TO GOD (GEN. GEN. 18:20-21; GEN. 19:13). NINEVEH’S WICKEDNESS CAME UP BEFORE THE LORD (JONAH JONAH 1:2). PARTICULARLY HEINOUS ACTS ARE SAID TO REACH UP TO HEAVEN (2CHR. 2CHR. 28:9). AS GUILT COMPOUNDS, IT IS SAID TO GROW UP TO THE HEAVENS (EZRA EZRA 9:6). IN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF BABEL, THE PEOPLE HAD ATTEMPTED TO MAKE THEMSELVES A NAME BY CONSTRUCTING A TOWER WHICH REACHED TO HEAVEN (GEN. GEN. 11:4). INSTEAD, THEY HAD BEEN DISPERSED. NOW THEY HAVE BUILT A NEW TOWER REACHING TO HEAVEN—A TOWER OF SIN. AS HER SIN IS SO GREAT IT REACHES TO HEAVEN, SO IS HER JUDGMENT: “WE WOULD HAVE HEALED BABYLON, BUT SHE IS NOT HEALED. FORSAKE HER, AND LET US GO EVERYONE TO HIS OWN COUNTRY; FOR HER JUDGMENT REACHES TO HEAVEN AND IS LIFTED UP TO THE SKIES” (JER. JER. 51:9). GOD HAS REMEMBERED HER INIQUITIES: NOT THAT GOD COULD FORGET A SINGLE ONE OF HER INIQUITIES (HER FUCKING AROUNDS & HER SWEET TEMPTING ORGIES), BUT THAT HE NOW CONSIDERS THE SUM TOTAL OF THEIR WEIGHT AND THE NEED TO RESPOND IN RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT. AS THE INIQUITY OF THE AMORITES FINALLY REACHED ITS FULL HEIGHT (GEN. GEN. 15:16), THE GUILT OF BABYLON NOW REQUIRES GOD’S INTERVENTION IN ORDER TO BE TRUE TO HIS RIGHTEOUS CHARACTER. “AND GREAT BABYLON WAS REMEMBERED BEFORE GOD, TO GIVE HER THE CUP OF THE WINE OF THE FIERCENESS OF HIS WRATH” (REV. REV. 16:19+). BABYLON HAD THOUGHT HER WICKEDNESS WOULD NOT BE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT: “YOU HAVE SAID, ‘NO ONE SEES ME’” (ISA. ISA. 47:10). REVELATION 18:6: RENDER TO HER JUST AS SHE RENDERED TO YOU: RENDER IS ἀΠΌΔΟΤΕ [APODOTE], PLURAL IMPERATIVE, YOU ALL GIVE BACK TO HER! WHO IS THIS COMMAND GIVEN TO? ACCORDING TO REV. REV. 17:16-17+, IT IS THE FALSE CHRIST AND HIS ALLIES WHO WILL DESTROY BABYLON IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE OVERARCHING PURPOSE OF GOD. FURTHER CONFIRMATION OF THIS CONCLUSION SURFACES IN NOTING THAT THE RESULT OF THE JUDGMENT IS THE SAME IN BOTH CHAPTERS: THE BURNING OF THE CITY (REV. REV. 17:16+; REV. 18:8+, REV. 18:9+, REV. 18:18+). ...GOD PUTS INTO THE HEARTS OF THESE ENEMIES TO DO WHAT THEY DO, SO IT APPEARS WISEST TO CONNECT THE CITY’S BURNING IN CHAPTER REV. 18:1+ WITH THAT IN CHAPTER REV. 17:1+.1 THE NU TEXT AND SEVERAL MT MANUSCRIPTS OMIT TO YOU. THE UNNAMED RECIPIENTS OF WHAT SHE RENDERED IS PROBABLY THE WHOLE EARTH. THIS IS SUPPORTED BY THE REALIZATION THAT SHE HAS RENDERED TO HER ENEMIES THROUGHOUT HISTORY (REV. REV. 18:24+). SHE RENDERED, IS ΑὐΤὴ ἀΠΈΔΩΚΕΝ [AUTĒ APEDŌKEN], SHE, SHE GAVE OUT. THE ADDITION OF THE PRONOUN IN ADDITION TO THE IMPLICIT PRONOUN FOUND IN THE VERB FORM EMPHASIZES HER BAD BEHAVIOR. HER JUDGMENT IS BASED ON THE LAW OF RETRIBUTION, NOT UNDERTAKEN BY THE SAINTS, BUT BY GOD. “O DAUGHTER OF BABYLON, WHO ARE TO BE DESTROYED, HAPPY THE ONE WHO REPAYS YOU AS YOU HAVE SERVED US!” (PS. PS. 137:8). “TAKE VENGEANCE ON HER. AS SHE HAS DONE, SO DO TO HER” (JER. JER. 50:15B). “REPAY HER ACCORDING TO HER WORK; ACCORDING TO ALL SHE HAS DONE, DO TO HER” (JER. JER. 50:29B). “AS BABYLON HAS CAUSED THE SLAIN OF ISRAEL TO FALL, SO AT BABYLON THE SLAIN OF ALL THE EARTH SHALL FALL” (JER. JER. 51:49). REPAY HER DOUBLE ACCORDING TO HER WORKS: UNDER THE LAW OF MOSES, RESTITUTION OF THIEVERY INVOLVED INTEREST OF 100%—THE THIEF WAS REQUIRED TO PAY DOUBLE WHAT WAS STOLEN (EX. EX. 22:4). EVEN JERUSALEM RECEIVED DOUBLE FOR ALL HER SINS FROM THE LORD’S HAND IN JUDGMENT (ISA. ISA. 61:7; JER. JER. 16:18). WHEN JEREMIAH PRAYED FOR JUDGMENT OF HIS ENEMIES, HE ASKED GOD TO “BRING ON THEM THE DAY OF DOOM, AND DESTROY THEM WITH DOUBLE DESTRUCTION!” (JER. JER. 17:18). JEREMIAH CALLS BABYLON, מְרָתַיִם [MERĀṮAYIM], MEANING DOUBLE REBELLION (JER. JER. 50:21): THIS WORD, WHICH IS FORMED BY THE PROPHET IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO MIZRAIM, AND PERHAPS ALSO ARAM NAHARAIM, MEANS “DOUBLE REBELLION,” OR “DOUBLE OBSTINACY.” IT COMES FROM THE ROOT מָרָה [MĀRÂ], “TO BE REBELLIOUS” AGAINST JAHVEH AND HIS COMMANDMENTS.2 IN THE CUP WHICH SHE HAS MIXED, MIX DOUBLE FOR HER: HAVING SERVED HER CUP TO THE NATIONS, SHE WILL NOW DRINK FROM HER OWN CUP AND SUFFER DERANGEMENT AT HER OWN HAND. “YOUR WISDOM AND YOUR KNOWLEDGE HAVE WARPED YOU...YOU ARE WEARIED IN THE MULTITUDE OF YOUR COUNSELS; LET NOW THE ASTROLOGERS, THE STARGAZERS, AND THE MONTHLY PROGNOSTICATORS STAND UP AND SAVE YOU FROM WHAT SHALL COME UPON YOU” [EMPHASIS ADDED] (ISA. ISA. 47:10-12). REVELATION 18:7: SHE GLORIFIED HERSELF AND LIVED LUXURIOUSLY: SHE BOASTED IN HER OWN GLORY (THIS IS ALWAYS DONE & ACHIEVED BY SEX OR FUCKING & ATTAINING A LOT OF MONEY BY IT), SAYING “I SHALL BE A LADY FOREVER” (ISA. ISA. 47:7) AND “I AM AND THERE IS NO ONE ELSE BESIDES ME” (ISA. ISA. 47:8, ISA. 47:10). GOD CALLS HER “O MOST HAUGHTY ONE!” (JER. JER. 50:31). HER PRIDE WAS ALSO THE SIN OF NINEVEH (ZEP. ZEP. 2:15). SHE LIVED LUXURIOUSLY IS ἐΣΤΡΗΝΊΑΣΕΝ [ESTRĒNIASEN], SHE LUXURIATED, LIVED SENSUALLY. THE TERM HAS BEEN USED OF BULLS RUNNING WILD1 AND INCLUDES THE IDEA OF REVELRY.2 DAN. 5:1-30).”3 HER EXCESS CONTRIBUTED TO HER DELUSION OF INDEPENDENCE FROM GOD (PS. PS. 73:3; LUKE LUKE 9:25). SHE MISTOOK HER ABUNDANCE AS AN INDICATION OF BLESSING (JER. JER. 44:17-18). THROUGHOUT HISTORY THE PETTY KINGDOMS AND EMPIRES BUILT BY PROUD, ARROGANT, GOD-REJECTING REBELS HAVE COME AND GONE. THE SPIRIT OF HUMANISM FIRST EXPRESSED AT BABEL HAS PERMEATED HUMAN HISTORY EVER SINCE. UNSHAKABLY OPTIMISTIC DESPITE CENTURIES OF WAR, SLAUGHTER, INJUSTICE, AND CRUELTY, PEOPLE STILL SEEK A UTOPIA, TO BE BROUGHT ABOUT BY HUMANITY’S UPWARD SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS. HAVING TAKEN CONTROL (SO THEY THINK) OF THEIR OWN DESTINY THROUGH SCIENCE, SINNERS HAVE NO USE FOR GOD AND HAUGHTILY REPLACE HIM AS SELF-STYLED GODS DEVOTED TO THEIR OWN SOVEREIGNTY.4 I SIT AS QUEEN: SIT IS ΚΆΘΗΜΑΙ [KATHĒMAI], PRESENT TENSE, I AM PRESENTLY SEATED AS QUEEN. SHE BELIEVES SHE IS QUEEN BECAUSE SHE REIGNS OVER THE KINGS OF THE EARTH (REV. REV. 17:18+). SHE SITS ON THE BEAST WITH SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS (REV. REV. 17:3+). COME DOWN AND SIT IN THE DUST, O VIRGIN DAUGHTER OF BABYLON; SIT ON THE GROUND WITHOUT A THRONE, O DAUGHTER OF THE CHALDEANS! FOR YOU SHALL NO MORE BE CALLED TENDER AND DELICATE. TAKE THE MILLSTONES AND GRIND MEAL. REMOVE YOUR VEIL, TAKE OFF THE SKIRT, UNCOVER THE THIGH, PASS THROUGH THE RIVERS. YOUR NAKEDNESS SHALL BE UNCOVERED, YES, YOUR SHAME WILL BE SEEN; I WILL TAKE VENGEANCE, AND I WILL NOT ARBITRATE WITH A MAN. AS FOR OUR REDEEMER, THE LORD OF HOSTS IS HIS NAME, THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL. SIT IN SILENCE, AND GO INTO DARKNESS, O DAUGHTER OF THE CHALDEANS; FOR YOU SHALL NO LONGER BE CALLED THE LADY OF KINGDOMS. (ISA. ISA. 47:1-5) AM NO WIDOW AND WILL NOT SEE SORROW: HER HAUGHTY BOASTFULNESS IS SO GREAT THAT SHE BELIEVES HERSELF TO BE IMMUNE FROM GOD’S JUDGMENT. NOT IS THE DOUBLE NEGATIVE, Οὐ Μὴ [OU MĒ], THE STRONGEST NEGATION POSSIBLE. SHE IS ABSOLUTELY CONVINCED SHE WILL NOT SEE SORROW FOR HER WAYS. SHE BELIEVES SHE IS SECURE: THEREFORE HEAR THIS NOW, YOU WHO ARE GIVEN TO SEXUAL PLEASURES, WHO DWELL SECURELY, WHO SAY IN YOUR HEART, ‘I AM, AND THERE IS NO ONE ELSE BESIDE ME; I SHALL NOT SIT AS A WIDOW, NOR SHALL I KNOW THE LOSS OF CHILDREN’; BUT THESE TWO THINGS SHALL COME TO YOU IN A MOMENT, IN ONE DAY: THE LOSS OF CHILDREN, AND WIDOWHOOD. (ISA. ISA. 47:8-9) THE LOSS OF HER CHILDREN MAY REFER TO THE JUDGMENT OF HER DAUGHTER HARLOTS (REV. REV. 17:5+) WHEN THE CITIES OF THE NATIONS FALL AS PART OF THE SEVENTH BOWL JUDGMENT UNDER WHICH SHE HERSELF IS DESTROYED (REV. REV. 16:19+). REVELATION 18:8: HER PLAGUES WILL COME IN ONE DAY: WHEN HER JUDGMENT FINALLY COMES, IT WILL BE SWIFT AND DECISIVE (ISA. ISA. 47:9, ISA. 47:11; REV. REV. 18:9+, REV. 18:10+, REV. 18:17+, REV. 18:19+). THE SUDDENNESS AND COMPLETENESS OF BABYLON’S JUDGMENT AND DISAPPEARANCE FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH IS THE ONE PROMINENT FEATURE OF THIS PROPHECY: AND IT EFFECTUALLY PROVES THAT IT HAS NOT YET TAKEN PLACE. FOR JEHOVAH’S PROPHECIES ARE FAR TOO ACCURATE AND PARTICULAR FOR THIS SUDDENNESS AND COMPLETENESS TO BE FULFILLED BY THE GRADUAL DECAY OF OLD BABYLON, THE SITE AND RUINS AND REMAINS OF WHICH ARE STILL TO BE SEEN IN THE LAND OF SHINAR.1 “SHE SHALL BE BURNED WITH FIRE” (ἐΝ ΠΥΡὶ ΚΑΤΑΚΑΥΘΉΣΕΤΑὶ [EN PYRI KATAKAUTHĒSETAI]) CORRESPONDS CLOSELY TO THE ΚΑΤΑΚΑΎΣΟΥΣΙΝ ἐΝ ΠΥΡΊ [KATAKAUSOUSIN EN PYRI] OF REV. REV. 17:16+ AND MUST BE THE SAME DESTRUCTION.2 SHE WILL BE UTTERLY BURNED WITH FIRE: LIKE SODOM AND GOMORRAH, BABYLON WILL BE DESTROYED BY FIRE (ISA. ISA. 13:19-20; ISA. 47:14; JER. JER. 50:40; JER. 51:58; REV. REV. 18:9+). HER BURNING IS COMPLETE AND FINAL: “HER SMOKE RISES UP FOREVER AND EVER!” (REV. REV. 19:3+). THE BEAST AND THE TEN KINGS OF THE END WILL ASSIST IN HER DESTRUCTION (REV. REV. 17:16+). FOR STRONG IS THE LORD GOD WHO JUDGES HER: THUS, SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS: “THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE OPPRESSED, ALONG WITH THE CHILDREN OF JUDAH; ALL WHO TOOK THEM CAPTIVE HAVE HELD THEM FAST; THEY HAVE REFUSED TO LET THEM GO. THEIR REDEEMER IS STRONG; THE LORD OF HOSTS IS HIS NAME. HE WILL THOROUGHLY PLEAD THEIR CASE, THAT HE MAY GIVE REST TO THE LAND, AND DISQUIET THE INHABITANTS OF BABYLON.” (JER. JER. 50:33-34) [EMPHASIS ADDED] REVELATION 18:9: HER PLAGUES WILL COME IN ONE DAY: WHEN HER JUDGMENT FINALLY COMES, IT WILL BE SWIFT AND DECISIVE (ISA. ISA. 47:9, ISA. 47:11; REV. REV. 18:9+, REV. 18:10+, REV. 18:17+, REV. 18:19+). THE SUDDENNESS AND COMPLETENESS OF BABYLON’S JUDGMENT AND DISAPPEARANCE FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH IS THE ONE PROMINENT FEATURE OF THIS PROPHECY: AND IT EFFECTUALLY PROVES THAT IT HAS NOT YET TAKEN PLACE. FOR JEHOVAH’S PROPHECIES ARE FAR TOO ACCURATE AND PARTICULAR FOR THIS SUDDENNESS AND COMPLETENESS TO BE FULFILLED BY THE GRADUAL DECAY OF OLD BABYLON, THE SITE AND RUINS AND REMAINS OF WHICH ARE STILL TO BE SEEN IN THE LAND OF SHINAR.1 “SHE SHALL BE BURNED WITH FIRE” (ἐΝ ΠΥΡὶ ΚΑΤΑΚΑΥΘΉΣΕΤΑὶ [EN PYRI KATAKAUTHĒSETAI]) CORRESPONDS CLOSELY TO THE ΚΑΤΑΚΑΎΣΟΥΣΙΝ ἐΝ ΠΥΡΊ [KATAKAUSOUSIN EN PYRI] OF REV. REV. 17:16+ AND MUST BE THE SAME DESTRUCTION.2 SHE WILL BE UTTERLY BURNED WITH FIRE: LIKE SODOM AND GOMORRAH, BABYLON WILL BE DESTROYED BY FIRE (ISA. ISA. 13:19-20; ISA. 47:14; JER. JER. 50:40; JER. 51:58; REV. REV. 18:9+). HER BURNING IS COMPLETE AND FINAL: “HER SMOKE RISES UP FOREVER AND EVER!” (REV. REV. 19:3+). THE BEAST AND THE TEN KINGS OF THE END WILL ASSIST IN HER DESTRUCTION (REV. REV. 17:16+). FOR STRONG IS THE LORD GOD WHO JUDGES HER: THUS, SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS: “THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE OPPRESSED, ALONG WITH THE CHILDREN OF JUDAH; ALL WHO TOOK THEM CAPTIVE HAVE HELD THEM FAST; THEY HAVE REFUSED TO LET THEM GO. THE KINGS OF THE EARTH WHO COMMITTED FORNICATION AND LIVED LUXURIOUSLY WITH HER WILL WEEP AND LAMENT: WILL LAMENT IS ΚΌΨΟΝΤΑΙ [KOPSONTAI], THEY THEMSELVES WILL BEAT THEIR BREASTS IN ANGUISH AND MOURNING. INTERPRETERS WHO TAKE THE GREAT HARLOT AS BEING DIFFERENT FROM THE CITY BABYLON TAKE THE DESTRUCTION OF THE CITY DESCRIBED HERE AS A SEPARATE DESTRUCTION FROM THAT OF THE HARLOT IN THE PREVIOUS CHAPTER (REV. REV. 17:16+). THEY UNDERSTAND THE REMORSE OF THE KINGS OF THE EARTH DESCRIBED HERE AS DENOTING THE KINGS WHO GIVE THEIR AUTHORITY TO THE BEAST: THESE ARE THE SEVEN KINGS WHO HAVE CO-REIGNED WITH THE ANTICHRIST AND SUBMITTED THEIR AUTHORITY TO THE ANTICHRIST, THE KING OF BABYLON. WHATEVER POWER OR AUTHORITY THEY HELD, WAS HELD BY THE GRACE OF BABYLON. SEEING THEIR AUTHORITY WANING WITH BABYLON’S DESTRUCTION, THEY WILL LAMENT THE SWIFTNESS OF THE JUDGMENT. THEY WILL BE ABLE TO SEE THE SMOKE OF BABYLON AFAR OFF, FOR THEY WILL SEE IT FROM THE VALLEY OF JEZREEL IN ISRAEL.1 WE BELIEVE THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE GREAT HARLOT AND THE CITY TO BE ARBITRARY AND THAT THE TEXT IDENTIFIES THE HARLOT AS THE CITY. SINCE SCRIPTURE RECORDS THAT THE CITY WILL BE HATED AND MADE DESOLATE BY THE BEAST AND HIS KINGS (REV. REV. 17:16-18+), THE KINGS WHO BEMOAN HER DESTRUCTION ARE NOT THOSE ALLIED WITH THE BEAST, BUT OTHER KINGS OF THE EARTH WHICH SCRIPTURE MENTIONS AT THE TIME OF THE END (REV. REV. 16:12-14+; REV. 17:2+; REV. 18:3+, REV. 18:7+; REV. 19:18-19+).2 WE HAVE BEFORE NOTED THAT “THE TEN KINGS” ARE NEVER SEEN APART FROM THE BEAST; AND “THE KINGS OF THE EARTH” ARE NEVER SEEN APART FROM BABYLON. IT IS THE FORMER WHO HATE AND BURN BABYLON; IT IS THE LATTER WHO WEEP AND WAIL OVER HER. IN BOTH CHAPTERS (REV. REV. 17:1+ AND REV. 18:1+) THE CITY IS CALLED “BABYLON THE GREAT.” GOD AND MAN BOTH SO CALL HER. THIS GREAT CITY CANNOT BE SEPARATED FROM HER OWN CORRUPT RELIGION. THEY MUST BE CONNECTED TOGETHER, JUST AS CHAPTERS REV. 17:1+ AND REV. 18:1+ ARE CONNECTED; AND YET DISTINGUISHED AS THEY ARE THERE DISTINGUISHED.3 WHEN THEY SEE THE SMOKE OF HER BURNING: SINCE THEY WILL WEEP AND LAMENT AT THE TIME OF HER DESTRUCTION, THESE ARE KINGS WHICH EXIST AT THE TIME OF THE END (SEE ABOVE). HER DESTRUCTION IS PERMANENT: “HER SMOKE RISES UP FOREVER AND EVER!” (REV. REV. 19:3+ CF. ISA. ISA. 34:10; JER. JER. 51:32). REVELATION 18:10: STANDING AT A DISTANCE: HER FUCKING BURNING WILL BE VISIBLE BY HER KINGS, MERCHANTS, AND SHIPMASTERS WHO STAND OFF AT A DISTANCE (REV. REV. 18:10+, REV. 18:15+, REV. 18:17+). ALAS, ALAS: “THE ENGLISH WORD ‘ALAS’ ONLY PARTLY CONVEYS THE FEELING IN THE GREEK OUAI, THE VERY SOUND OF WHICH BESPEAKS GRIEF AND TERROR. IT IS THE SAME WORD TRANSLATED ‘WOE’ ELSEWHERE (AS IN REVELATION REV. 8:13+).”1 HER LUXURIOUS WEALTH AND POSITION AS A CENTER OF TRADE HAD MADE THEM RICH, BUT NOW IT WAS ALL GONE (REV. REV. 18:16+, REV. 18:19+). THEIR LAMENTATION REFLECTS THEIR SORROW OVER THE LOSS OF THEIR OWN SELF-INTERESTS RATHER THAN THE CITY ITSELF. THAT GREAT CITY BABYLON, THAT MIGHTY CITY! THE SEXUAL DEPTH OF HER DESTRUCTION IS MAGNIFIED BY THE HEIGHT WHICH SHE APPEARED TO HAVE ATTAINED PRIOR TO HER ETERNAL SEXUAL FALL. FOR IN ONE HOUR YOUR JUDGMENT HAS COME: THE CONJUNCTION FOR, ὅΤΙ [HOTI], INDICATES THE REASON FOR THEIR OUTBURST: HER DESTRUCTION WAS SO SUDDEN AND COMPLETE. SHE HAD APPEARED TO BE SO MIGHTY, VIRTUALLY UNASSAILABLE, YET NOW SHE HAD BEEN SUDDENLY DEVASTATED AND BROUGHT DOWN TO NOTHING. HISTORY RECORDS THAT ALTHOUGH BABYLON “FELL” NUMEROUS TIMES AT THE HANDS OF DIFFERENT INVADERS, IT NEVER SUFFERED ANYTHING LIKE A COMPLETE DESTRUCTION. INSTEAD, IT CONTINUED TO BE INHABITED HUNDREDS OF YEARS AFTER ITS INITIAL FALL TO PERSIA AND EVENTUALLY, THROUGH NEGLECT MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE, BECAME INSIGNIFICANT ON THE STAGE OF WORLD HISTORY. YET THE PROPHECIES OF ISAIAH, JEREMIAH, AND JOHN INDICATE A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SCENARIO FOR HER DESTRUCTION. ONE THAT IS SUDDEN, SWIFT, AND ABSOLUTELY CATASTROPHIC. WE HAVE GATHERED A NUMBER OF THESE PREDICTIONS TOGETHER BELOW SO THE READER MAY SEE FOR HIMSELF WHAT THE HOLY WORD OF GOD PREDICTS CONCERNING THE SEVERITY AND PERMANENCE OF HER DESTRUCTION: AND BABYLON, THE GLORY OF KINGDOMS, THE BEAUTY OF THE CHALDEAN’S PRIDE, WILL BE AS WHEN GOD OVERTHREW SODOM AND GOMORRAH. IT WILL NEVER BE INHABITED, NOR WILL IT BE SETTLED FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION; NOR WILL THE ARABIAN PITCH TENTS THERE, NOR WILL THE SHEPHERDS MAKE THEIR SHEEPFOLDS THERE. (ISA. ISA. 13:19-20) “AND LOOK, HERE COMES A CHARIOT OF MEN WITH A PAIR OF HORSEMEN!” THEN HE ANSWERED AND SAID, “BABYLON IS FALLEN, IS FALLEN! AND ALL THE CARVED IMAGES OF HER GODS HE HAS BROKEN TO THE GROUND.” OH, MY THRESHING AND THE GRAIN OF MY FLOOR! THAT WHICH I HAVE HEARD FROM THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL, I HAVE DECLARED TO YOU. (ISA. ISA. 21:9-10) THEREFORE, EVIL SHALL COME UPON YOU; YOU SHALL NOT KNOW FROM WHERE IT ARISES. AND TROUBLE SHALL FALL UPON YOU; YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO PUT IT OFF. AND DESOLATION SHALL COME UPON YOU SUDDENLY, WHICH YOU SHALL NOT KNOW. (ISA. ISA. 47:11) BECAUSE OF THE WRATH OF THE LORD SHE SHALL NOT BE INHABITED, BUT SHE SHALL BE WHOLLY DESOLATE. EVERYONE WHO GOES BY BABYLON SHALL BE HORRIFIED AND HISS AT ALL HER PLAGUES. (JER. JER. 50:13) COME AGAINST HER FROM THE FARTHEST BORDER; OPEN HER STOREHOUSES; CAST HER UP AS HEAPS OF RUINS, AND DESTROY HER UTTERLY; LET NOTHING OF HER BE LEFT. (JER. JER. 50:26) “THEREFORE, THE WILD DESERT BEASTS SHALL DWELL THERE WITH THE JACKALS, AND THE OSTRICHES SHALL DWELL IN IT. IT SHALL BE INHABITED NO MORE FOREVER, NOR SHALL IT BE DWELT IN FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION. AS GOD OVERTHREW SODOM AND GOMORRAH AND THEIR NEIGHBORS,” SAYS THE LORD, “SO NO ONE SHALL RESIDE THERE, NOR SON OF MAN DWELL IN IT.” (JER. JER. 50:39-40) “THEY SHALL NOT TAKE FROM YOU A STONE FOR A CORNER NOR A STONE FOR A FOUNDATION, BUT YOU SHALL BE DESOLATE FOREVER,” SAYS THE LORD. (JER. JER. 51:26) AND THE LAND WILL TREMBLE AND SORROW; FOR EVERY PURPOSE OF THE LORD SHALL BE PERFORMED AGAINST BABYLON, TO MAKE THE LAND OF BABYLON A DESOLATION WITHOUT INHABITANT. (JER. JER. 51:29) HER CITIES ARE A DESOLATION, A DRY LAND AND A WILDERNESS, A LAND WHERE NO ONE DWELLS, THROUGH WHICH NO SON OF MAN PASSES. (JER. JER. 51:43) THUS, SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS: “THE BROAD WALLS OF BABYLON SHALL BE UTTERLY BROKEN, AND HER HIGH GATES SHALL BE BURNED WITH FIRE; THE PEOPLE WILL LABOR IN VAIN, AND THE NATIONS, BECAUSE OF THE FIRE; AND THEY SHALL BE WEARY.” (JER. JER. 51:58) AND JEREMIAH SAID TO SERAIAH, “WHEN YOU ARRIVE IN BABYLON AND SEE IT, AND READ ALL THESE WORDS, THEN YOU SHALL SAY, ‘O LORD, YOU HAVE SPOKEN AGAINST THIS PLACE TO CUT IT OFF, SO THAT NONE SHALL REMAIN IN IT, NEITHER MAN NOR BEAST, BUT IT SHALL BE DESOLATE FOREVER.’ ” (JER. JER. 51:61-62) AND THE TEN HORNS WHICH YOU SAW ON THE BEAST, THESE WILL HATE THE HARLOT, MAKE HER DESOLATE AND NAKED, EAT HER FLESH AND BURN HER WITH FIRE. (REV. REV. 17:16+) AND HE CRIED MIGHTILY WITH A LOUD VOICE, SAYING, “BABYLON THE GREAT IS FALLEN, IS FALLEN, AND HAS BECOME A DWELLING PLACE OF DEMONS, A PRISON FOR EVERY FOUL SPIRIT, AND A CAGE FOR EVERY UNCLEAN AND HATED BIRD!” (REV. REV. 18:2+) THEREFORE, HER PLAGUES WILL COME IN ONE DAY-DEATH AND MOURNING AND FAMINE. AND SHE WILL BE UTTERLY BURNED WITH FIRE, FOR STRONG IS THE LORD GOD WHO JUDGES HER. THE KINGS OF THE EARTH WHO COMMITTED FORNICATION AND LIVED LUXURIOUSLY WITH HER WILL WEEP AND LAMENT FOR HER, WHEN THEY SEE THE SMOKE OF HER BURNING, STANDING AT A DISTANCE FOR FEAR OF HER TORMENT, SAYING, “ALAS, ALAS, THAT GREAT CITY BABYLON, THAT MIGHTY CITY! FOR IN ONE HOUR YOUR JUDGMENT HAS COME.” (REV. REV. 18:8-10+) FOR IN ONE HOUR SUCH GREAT RICHES CAME TO NOTHING. EVERY SHIPMASTER, ALL WHO TRAVEL BY SHIP, SAILORS, AND AS MANY AS TRADE ON THE SEA, STOOD AT A DISTANCE AND CRIED OUT WHEN THEY SAW THE SMOKE OF HER BURNING, SAYING, “WHAT IS LIKE THIS GREAT CITY?” THEY THREW DUST ON THEIR HEADS AND CRIED OUT, WEEPING AND WAILING, AND SAYING, “ALAS, ALAS, THAT GREAT CITY, IN WHICH ALL WHO HAD SHIPS ON THE SEA BECAME RICH BY HER WEALTH! FOR IN ONE HOUR SHE IS MADE DESOLATE.” (REV. REV. 18:17-19+) THEN A MIGHTY ANGEL TOOK UP A STONE LIKE A GREAT MILLSTONE AND THREW IT INTO THE SEA, SAYING, “THUS WITH VIOLENCE THE GREAT CITY BABYLON SHALL BE THROWN DOWN, AND SHALL NOT BE FOUND ANYMORE.” (REV. REV. 18:21+) AGAIN, THEY SAID, “ALLELUIA! HER SMOKE RISES UP FOREVER AND EVER!” (REV. REV. 19:3+) HER DESTRUCTION IS SAID TO BE LITERAL AND CATASTROPHIC LIKE THAT OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH. HER WALLS WILL BE COMPLETELY DESTROYED AND HER GATES BURNED WITH FIRE. THERE WILL BE NOTHING LEFT OF HER, NO PERSON SHALL EVER RESIDE THERE, NOR WILL ANY BUILDING MATERIAL BE TAKEN FROM HER RUINS. THIS DESTRUCTION WILL BE SUDDEN, COMPLETE, AND PERMANENT. IT SEEMS CLEAR THAT BABYLON HAS YET TO SUFFER IN THE WAY WHICH GOD HAS SO EXTENSIVELY FORETOLD. NOT ONLY ARE THE OT PROPHECIES OF ISAIAH AND JEREMIAH UNFULFILLED IN THE HISTORY OF BABYLON, BUT JOHN’S VISION RECORDED IN APPROXIMATELY 95 A.D. REITERATES AND EVEN EXTENDS THESE PREDICTIONS. EITHER GOD IS A GOD OF WHOLESALE AND EXTENSIVE EXAGGERATION OR A LITERAL DESTRUCTION REMAINS PENDING. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE, UNSCRIPTURAL, AND IRREVERENT TO BELIEVE THAT SUCH AN EXTENSIVE PORTION OF GOD’S WORD IS TO BE SPIRITUALIZED OR TAKEN AS HYPERBOLE. REVELATION 18:11: THE MERCHANTS OF THE EARTH WILL WEEP AND MOURN: BOTH VERBS ARE PRESENT TENSE, THEY ARE LAMENTING, WEEPING AND THEY ARE MOURNING, AS IF JOHN IS SEEING THEM AS THEY WEEP. FOR NO ONE BUYS THEIR MERCHANDISE: MERCHANDISE IS ΓΌΜΟΝ [GOMON], INDICATING A CARGO OR “FREIGHT LOAD OF GOODS.”1 NOT ONLY WAS BABYLON A GREAT CONSUMER OF LUXURY GOODS, SHE ALSO SERVED AS A CENTER OF TRADE. COMMERCIALISM IS A KEY CONTRIBUTOR TO THE MATERIALISM AND GODLESSNESS WHICH CHARACTERIZE THE CITY AT THE END. ALTHOUGH MATERIAL GOODS ARE NOT INHERENTLY EVIL, AN ABUNDANCE OF MATERIAL WEALTH OFTEN CONTRIBUTES TO COVETOUSNESS AND IDOLATRY. AS PEOPLE TURN THEIR ATTENTION INCREASINGLY TOWARDS MAKING MONEY AND OBTAINING GOODS, THEY NEGLECT THE MORE IMPORTANT THINGS OF GOD. IN HER DESTRUCTION, GOD WILL DESTROY THE IDOLS OF COMMERCIALISM AND MATERIALISM. TYRE HAD SUFFERED A SIMILAR JUDGMENT (EZE. EZE. 27:27). THE MERCHANTS ARE LIKE THE CHURCH AT LAODICEA, WHOM THE LORD THREATENED TO VOMIT OUT OF HIS MOUTH “BECAUSE YOU SAY, ‘I AM RICH AND HAVE BECOME WEALTHY, AND HAVE NEED OF NOTHING’—AND DO NOT KNOW THAT YOU ARE WRETCHED, MISERABLE, POOR, BLIND, AND NAKED” (REV. REV. 3:17+). HAPPY IS THE MAN WHO FINDS WISDOM, AND THE MAN WHO GAINS UNDERSTANDING; FOR HER PROCEEDS ARE BETTER THAN THE PROFITS OF SILVER, AND HER GAIN THAN FINE GOLD. SHE IS MORE PRECIOUS THAN RUBIES, AND ALL THE THINGS YOU MAY DESIRE CANNOT COMPARE WITH HER. LENGTH OF DAYS IS IN HER RIGHT HAND, IN HER LEFT-HAND RICHES AND HONOR. HER WAYS ARE WAYS OF PLEASANTNESS, AND ALL HER PATHS ARE PEACE. SHE IS A TREE OF LIFE TO THOSE WHO TAKE HOLD OF HER, AND HAPPY ARE ALL WHO RETAIN HER. (PR. PR. 3:13-18) REVELATION 18:12: MERCHANDISE OF GOLD AND SILVER, PRECIOUS STONES AND PEARLS, FINE LINEN AND PURPLE, SILK AND SCARLET: THE HARLOT WEARS THE SAME MERCHANDISE FOUND IN THE CITY, SHE IS “ARRAYED IN PURPLE AND SCARLET, AND ADORNED WITH GOLD AND PRECIOUS STONES AND PEARLS” (REV. REV. 17:4+). THE CITY IS SAID TO BE CLOTHED WITH THIS MERCHANDISE. SHE WEARS THE ATTIRE OF THE HARLOT: “CLOTHED IN FINE LINEN, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, AND ADORNED WITH GOLD AND PRECIOUS STONES AND PEARLS” (REV. REV. 18:16+). BABYLON IS PERHAPS THE MOST-WEALTHY CITY OF THE WORLD AT THIS TIME. THE ARTICLES DIVIDE THEMSELVES INTO SEVEN CATEGORIES: (1) PRECIOUS WARES (GOLD, SILVER, PRECIOUS STONES, PEARLS); (2) MATERIALS OF RICH ATTIRE (FINE LINEN, PURPLE, SILK, SCARLET); (3) MATERIALS FOR COSTLY FURNITURE (ALL THYINE WOOD, EVERY VESSEL OF IVORY, OF MOST PRECIOUS WOOD, BRASS, IRON, MARBLE); (4) PRECIOUS SPICES (CINNAMON, SPICE, INCENSE, OINTMENT, FRANKINCENSE); (5) ARTICLES OF FOOD (WINE, OIL, FINE FLOUR, WHEAT); (6) MERCHANDISE FOR AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC USES (CATTLE, SHEEP, HORSES, CHARIOTS); (7) TRAFFIC IN MEN (BODIES, THE SOULS OF MEN) (LEE). JOHN DREW THE LIST FROM ITEMS KNOWN IN HIS DAY, NOT FROM THE FUTURE TIME DEPICTED IN THE PROPHECY (ALFORD).1 REVELATION 18:13: CHARIOTS: CHARIOTS IS ῥΕΔῶΝ [HREDŌN]: “CHARIOT, CARRIAGE, WAGON, A FOUR-WHEELED CARRIAGE FOR TRAVELING OR A FROUR-WHEELED MILITARY CARRIAGE PULLED BY WAR HORSES IN MIMLITARY OPERATIONS.”1 WINE AND OIL: THESE TWO SPECIAL ITEMS WERE SINGLED OUT FOR SURE PROTECTION IN THE FAMINE AND VAST DEPLETION OF GOODS, SUCH AS FOOD & WATER ATTENDING THE OPENING OF THE THIRD SEAL. BODIES AND SOULS OF MEN: BODIES AND SOULS OF MEN IS ΣΩΜΆΤΩΝ ΚΑὶ ΨΥΧὰΣ ἀΝΘΡΏΠΩΝ [SŌMATŌN KAI PSYCHAS ANTHRŌPŌN]. THIS UNDOUBTEDLY REFERS TO THE AGE-OLD PRACTICE OF SLAVERY WHICH WILL NOT BE ABOLISHED UNTIL THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM (EX. EX. 21:16; DEU. DEU. 24:7; DEU. 28:68; NE. NE. 5:4-8; 1TI. 1TI. 1:10).2 “‘BODIES’ (SŌMATA) IS A GREEK IDIOM FOR SLAVES (CF. LXX OF GEN. GEN. 36:6), WHILE ‘SOULS OF MEN’ (PSYCHAS) MEANS ESSENTIALLY THE SAME AS BODIES (SLAVES). THUS THE WHOLE EXPRESSION MEANS ‘SLAVES, THAT IS, HUMAN BEINGS.’ ”3 “THE ΚΑὶ [KAI] SEPARATING THE TWO EXPRESSIONS IS ASCENSIVE, MEANING ‘EVEN,’ AS FREQUENTLY IN THIS BOOK, AND THE SECOND EXPRESSION IS A RESTATEMENT OF SŌMATŌN.”4 TYRE HAD ALSO TRADED IN SLAVES: “JAVAN, TUBAL, AND MESHECH WERE YOUR TRADERS. THEY BARTERED HUMAN LIVES AND VESSELS OF BRONZE FOR YOUR MERCHANDISE” (EZE. EZE. 27:13). SUCH TRAFFIC COULD INCLUDE RELATED PRACTICES SUCH AS PROSTITUTION, WHERE MEN AND WOMEN “BARTER THEIR BODIES AND SOULS FOR SOME TRIFLE, SOMETHING THAT AT BEST CAN AFFORD BUT A MOMENTARY SATISFACTION.”5 THE INTERNATIONAL TRAFFIC IN FORCED PROSTITUTION, BOTH OF MEN AND WOMEN, IS A TRAGIC BUT FINANCIALLY LUCRATIVE BUSINESS OF MODERN TIMES AND WILL UNDOUBTEDLY BECOME EVEN BIGGER IN THE EVIL DAYS AHEAD. THESE VICE BARONS ARE PARTICULARLY VENOMOUS “GREAT MEN” OF THE EARTH, NOT ONLY AMASSING GREAT WEALTH FOR THEMSELVES, BUT DESTROYING BOTH THE “BODIES AND SOULS” OF THE HAPLESS GIRLS AND BOYS WHO COME UNDER THEIR CONTROL.6 REVELATION 18:14: THE FRUIT THAT YOUR SOUL LONGED FOR: LITERALLY, THE FOREIGN FRUIT OF THE SEXUAL LUST OF THE SOUL OF YOU. THEY HAD COVETED COMMERCIAL GOODS WHICH GOD HAD NOW DESTROYED. DO NOT LOVE THE WORLD OR THE THINGS IN THE WORLD. IF ANYONE LOVES THE WORLD, THE LOVE OF THE FATHER (STEPHEN) IS NOT IN HIM. FOR ALL THAT IS IN THE WORLD—THE LUST OF THE FLESH, THE LUST OF THE EYES, AND THE PRIDE OF LIFE—IS NOT OF THE FATHER (STEPHEN) BUT IS OF THE WORLD. AND THE WORLD IS PASSING AWAY, AND THE LUST OF IT; BUT HE WHO DOES THE WILL OF GOD ABIDES FOREVER (1JN. 1JN. 2:15-17). THE THINGS WHICH ARE RICH AND SPLENDID: THINGS WHICH ARE RICH IS ΛΙΠΑΡὰ [LIPARA], OILY, FAT LUXURIOUS THINGS. THINGS WHICH ARE SPLENDID IS ΛΑΜΠΡὰ [LAMPRA], BRIGHT, SHINING, GLITTERING THINGS. THESE ITEMS INDICATE GREAT EMPHASIS UPON SELF-GRATIFICATION AND SENSUAL LIVING WHICH FEEDS THE FLESH: BUT KNOW THIS, THAT IN THE LAST DAYS PERILOUS TIMES WILL COME: FOR MEN WILL BE LOVERS OF THEMSELVES, LOVERS OF MONEY, BOASTERS, PROUD, BLASPHEMERS, DISOBEDIENT TO PARENTS, UNTHANKFUL, UNHOLY, UNLOVING, UNFORGIVING, SLANDERERS, WITHOUT SELF-CONTROL, BRUTAL, DESPISERS OF GOOD, TRAITORS, HEADSTRONG, HAUGHTY, LOVERS OF PLEASURE RATHER THAN LOVERS OF GOD. (2TI. 2TI. 3:1-4) [EMPHASIS ADDED] YOU SHALL FIND THEM NO MORE AT ALL: ΟὐΚΈΤΙ Οῦ Μὴ ΑὐΤὰ ΕὑΡΉΣΟΥΣΙΝ [OUKETI OU MĒ AUTA HEURĒSOUSIN], NO LONGER, NO NOT THEY SHALL BE FOUND. THE DOUBLE-NEGATIVE, Οὐ Μὴ [OU MĒ], COMBINED WITH NO LONGER (ΟὐΚΈΤΙ [OUKETI]) STRONGLY EMPHASIZES THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF EVER FINDING THESE COMMERCIAL ITEMS IN HER ANY MORE. THIS HINTS AT THE MANNER OF HER DESTRUCTION WHICH IS PERMANENT AND IRREVERSIBLE. REVELATION 18:15: THE MERCHANTS OF THESE THINGS, WHO BECAME RICH BY HER: HER LUSTING AFTER LUXURIES PROVIDED THE STREAM OF REVENUE BY WHICH THE MERCHANTS BECAME RICH (REV. REV. 18:3+, REV. 18:11+). WILL STAND AT A DISTANCE FOR FEAR OF HER TORMENT, WEEPING AND WAILING: THE MERCHANTS HAVE NO HEARTFELT PITY OVER THE CITY AND HER DESTRUCTION. THEIR CONCERN AND LAMENTATION DERIVES ENTIRELY FROM THEIR OWN SELF-INTEREST. THEIR SELF-PRESERVATION EXPLAINS BOTH THEIR STANDING AT A DISTANCE AND THEIR LAMENTATION. FOR IT IS THEIR LOSS OF REVENUE AND COMMERCIAL EXCHANGE WHICH CAUSES THEIR SORROW, NOT THE COUNTLESS LIVES OR DEVASTATION ASSOCIATED WITH THE FALL OF THE CITY. “YOUR MERCHANTS FROM YOUR YOUTH; THEY SHALL WANDER EACH ONE TO HIS QUARTER. NO ONE SHALL SAVE YOU” (ISA. ISA. 47:15). REVELATION 18:16: THAT GREAT CITY: BABYLON THE GREAT IS FALLEN, IS FALLEN: THE WORD ORDER IS REVERSED IN THE GREEK TO EMPHASIS HER FALL: IT IS FALLEN, IT IS FALLEN, BABYLON THE GREAT. THE TIME HAS FINALLY ARRIVED FOR THE PREDICTED DESTRUCTION OF BABYLON TO FIND FULFILLMENT. ALTHOUGH ASPECTS OF ISAIAH’S AND JEREMIAH’S PROPHECIES CONCERNING HER DESTRUCTION RELATE TO THE OVERTHROW OF BABYLON BY PERSIA IN 539 B.C., HER CATASTROPHIC AND PERMANENT DESTRUCTION HAD NOT OCCURRED UNTIL NOW. PERHAPS THIS IS THE SAME ANGEL WHICH FLEW FORTH EARLIER TO DECLARE BABYLON’S DESTRUCTION (REV. REV. 14:8+ CF. ISA. ISA. 21:9). LIKE THE DECLARATION OF THAT ANGEL, IS FALLEN IS ἔΠΕΣΕΝ [EPESEN], PROPHETIC AORIST TENSE. THE CITY’S FALL IS SO CERTAIN AND IMMINENT IT IS DESCRIBED AS IF IT HAS ALREADY BEEN ACCOMPLISHED. HER DESTRUCTION TAKES PLACE AS A RESULT OF THE POURING FORTH OF THE SEVENTH BOWL OF GOD’S WRATH (REV. REV. 16:19+). THE CITY AND THE HARLOT ARE GIVEN THE SAME TITLE: “BABYLON THE GREAT” (REV. REV. 17:4+). THE HARLOT IS NOT SOME SEPARATE ENTITY, BUT THE CITY ITSELF (REV. REV. 17:18+). SHE IS CALLED GREAT BECAUSE OF HER POWER AND COMMERCIAL SPLENDOR, BUT ALSO BECAUSE SHE THOUGHT HERSELF TO BE GREAT. SHE WAS BUILT ON PRIDE (ISA. ISA. 13:19; JER. JER. 50:29; DAN. DAN. 4:30). THAT WAS CLOTHED: BABYLON WAS CALLED “THE GOLDEN CITY” (ISA. ISA. 14:4) AND WAS THE HEAD OF GOLD ON THE IMAGE IN NEBUCHADNEZZAR’S DREAM (DAN. DAN. 2:38). THE HARLOT WEARS THE SAME CLOTHING (REV. REV. 17:4+) AND BEARS THE SAME TITLE (REV. REV. 17:18+). REVELATION 18:17: IN ONE HOUR: THE MERCHANTS REPEAT THE SAME LAMENTATION AS THE KINGS CONCERNING THE SUDDENNESS OF HER DESTRUCTION. FOR IN ONE HOUR YOUR JUDGMENT HAS COME: THE CONJUNCTION FOR, ὅΤΙ [HOTI], INDICATES THE REASON FOR THEIR OUTBURST: HER DESTRUCTION WAS SO SUDDEN AND COMPLETE. SHE HAD APPEARED TO BE SO MIGHTY, VIRTUALLY UNASSAILABLE, YET NOW SHE HAD BEEN SUDDENLY DEVASTATED AND BROUGHT DOWN TO NOTHING. HISTORY RECORDS THAT ALTHOUGH BABYLON “FELL” NUMEROUS TIMES AT THE HANDS OF DIFFERENT INVADERS, IT NEVER SUFFERED ANYTHING LIKE A COMPLETE DESTRUCTION. INSTEAD, IT CONTINUED TO BE INHABITED HUNDREDS OF YEARS AFTER ITS INITIAL FALL TO PERSIA AND EVENTUALLY, THROUGH NEGLECT MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE, BECAME INSIGNIFICANT ON THE STAGE OF WORLD HISTORY. YET THE PROPHECIES OF ISAIAH, JEREMIAH, AND JOHN INDICATE A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SCENARIO FOR HER DESTRUCTION. ONE THAT IS SUDDEN, SWIFT, AND ABSOLUTELY CATASTROPHIC. WE HAVE GATHERED A NUMBER OF THESE PREDICTIONS TOGETHER BELOW SO THE READER MAY SEE FOR HIMSELF WHAT THE HOLY WORD OF GOD PREDICTS CONCERNING THE SEVERITY AND PERMANENCE OF HER DESTRUCTION: AND BABYLON, THE GLORY OF KINGDOMS, THE BEAUTY OF THE CHALDEAN’S PRIDE, WILL BE AS WHEN GOD OVERTHREW SODOM AND GOMORRAH. IT WILL NEVER BE INHABITED, NOR WILL IT BE SETTLED FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION; NOR WILL THE ARABIAN PITCH TENTS THERE, NOR WILL THE SHEPHERDS MAKE THEIR SHEEPFOLDS THERE. (ISA. ISA. 13:19-20) “AND LOOK, HERE COMES A CHARIOT OF MEN WITH A PAIR OF HORSEMEN!” THEN HE ANSWERED AND SAID, “BABYLON IS FALLEN, IS FALLEN! AND ALL THE CARVED IMAGES OF HER GODS HE HAS BROKEN TO THE GROUND.” OH, MY THRESHING AND THE GRAIN OF MY FLOOR! THAT WHICH I HAVE HEARD FROM THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL, I HAVE DECLARED TO YOU. (ISA. ISA. 21:9-10) THEREFORE, EVIL SHALL COME UPON YOU; YOU SHALL NOT KNOW FROM WHERE IT ARISES. AND TROUBLE SHALL FALL UPON YOU; YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO PUT IT OFF. AND DESOLATION SHALL COME UPON YOU SUDDENLY, WHICH YOU SHALL NOT KNOW. (ISA. ISA. 47:11) BECAUSE OF THE WRATH OF THE LORD SHE SHALL NOT BE INHABITED, BUT SHE SHALL BE WHOLLY DESOLATE. EVERYONE WHO GOES BY BABYLON SHALL BE HORRIFIED AND HISS AT ALL HER PLAGUES. (JER. JER. 50:13) COME AGAINST HER FROM THE FARTHEST BORDER; OPEN HER STOREHOUSES; CAST HER UP AS HEAPS OF RUINS, AND DESTROY HER UTTERLY; LET NOTHING OF HER BE LEFT. (JER. JER. 50:26) “THEREFORE, THE WILD DESERT BEASTS SHALL DWELL THERE WITH THE JACKALS, AND THE OSTRICHES SHALL DWELL IN IT. IT SHALL BE INHABITED NO MORE FOREVER, NOR SHALL IT BE DWELT IN FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION. AS GOD OVERTHREW SODOM AND GOMORRAH AND THEIR NEIGHBORS,” SAYS THE LORD, “SO NO ONE SHALL RESIDE THERE, NOR SON OF MAN DWELL IN IT.” (JER. JER. 50:39-40) “THEY SHALL NOT TAKE FROM YOU A STONE FOR A CORNER NOR A STONE FOR A FOUNDATION, BUT YOU SHALL BE DESOLATE FOREVER,” SAYS THE LORD. (JER. JER. 51:26) AND THE LAND WILL TREMBLE AND SORROW; FOR EVERY PURPOSE OF THE LORD SHALL BE PERFORMED AGAINST BABYLON, TO MAKE THE LAND OF BABYLON A DESOLATION WITHOUT INHABITANT. (JER. JER. 51:29) HER CITIES ARE A DESOLATION, A DRY LAND AND A WILDERNESS, A LAND WHERE NO ONE DWELLS, THROUGH WHICH NO SON OF MAN PASSES. (JER. JER. 51:43) THUS, SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS: “THE BROAD WALLS OF BABYLON SHALL BE UTTERLY BROKEN, AND HER HIGH GATES SHALL BE BURNED WITH FIRE; THE PEOPLE WILL LABOR IN VAIN, AND THE NATIONS, BECAUSE OF THE FIRE; AND THEY SHALL BE WEARY.” (JER. JER. 51:58) AND JEREMIAH SAID TO SERAIAH, “WHEN YOU ARRIVE IN BABYLON AND SEE IT, AND READ ALL THESE WORDS, THEN YOU SHALL SAY, ‘O LORD, YOU HAVE SPOKEN AGAINST THIS PLACE TO CUT IT OFF, SO THAT NONE SHALL REMAIN IN IT, NEITHER MAN NOR BEAST, BUT IT SHALL BE DESOLATE FOREVER.’ ” (JER. JER. 51:61-62) AND THE TEN HORNS WHICH YOU SAW ON THE BEAST, THESE WILL HATE THE HARLOT, MAKE HER DESOLATE AND NAKED, EAT HER FLESH AND BURN HER WITH FIRE. (REV. REV. 17:16+) AND HE CRIED MIGHTILY WITH A LOUD VOICE, SAYING, “BABYLON THE GREAT IS FALLEN, IS FALLEN, AND HAS BECOME A DWELLING PLACE OF DEMONS, A PRISON FOR EVERY FOUL SPIRIT, AND A CAGE FOR EVERY UNCLEAN AND HATED BIRD!” (REV. REV. 18:2+) THEREFORE, HER PLAGUES WILL COME IN ONE DAY-DEATH AND MOURNING AND FAMINE. AND SHE WILL BE UTTERLY BURNED WITH FIRE, FOR STRONG IS THE LORD GOD WHO JUDGES HER. THE KINGS OF THE EARTH WHO COMMITTED FORNICATION AND LIVED LUXURIOUSLY WITH HER WILL WEEP AND LAMENT FOR HER, WHEN THEY SEE THE SMOKE OF HER BURNING, STANDING AT A DISTANCE FOR FEAR OF HER TORMENT, SAYING, “ALAS, ALAS, THAT GREAT CITY BABYLON, THAT MIGHTY CITY! FOR IN ONE HOUR YOUR JUDGMENT HAS COME.” (REV. REV. 18:8-10+) FOR IN ONE HOUR SUCH GREAT RICHES CAME TO NOTHING. EVERY SHIPMASTER, ALL WHO TRAVEL BY SHIP, SAILORS, AND AS MANY AS TRADE ON THE SEA, STOOD AT A DISTANCE AND CRIED OUT WHEN THEY SAW THE SMOKE OF HER BURNING, SAYING, “WHAT IS LIKE THIS GREAT CITY?” THEY THREW DUST ON THEIR HEADS AND CRIED OUT, WEEPING AND WAILING, AND SAYING, “ALAS, ALAS, THAT GREAT CITY, IN WHICH ALL WHO HAD SHIPS ON THE SEA BECAME RICH BY HER WEALTH! FOR IN ONE HOUR SHE IS MADE DESOLATE.” (REV. REV. 18:17-19+) THEN A MIGHTY ANGEL TOOK UP A STONE LIKE A GREAT MILLSTONE AND THREW IT INTO THE SEA, SAYING, “THUS WITH VIOLENCE THE GREAT CITY BABYLON SHALL BE THROWN DOWN, AND SHALL NOT BE FOUND ANYMORE.” (REV. REV. 18:21+) AGAIN, THEY SAID, “ALLELUIA! HER SMOKE RISES UP FOREVER AND EVER!” (REV. REV. 19:3+) HER DESTRUCTION IS SAID TO BE LITERAL AND CATASTROPHIC LIKE THAT OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH. HER WALLS WILL BE COMPLETELY DESTROYED AND HER GATES BURNED WITH FIRE. THERE WILL BE NOTHING LEFT OF HER, NO PERSON SHALL EVER RESIDE THERE, NOR WILL ANY BUILDING MATERIAL BE TAKEN FROM HER RUINS. THIS DESTRUCTION WILL BE SUDDEN, COMPLETE, AND PERMANENT. IT SEEMS CLEAR THAT BABYLON HAS YET TO SUFFER IN THE WAY WHICH GOD HAS SO EXTENSIVELY FORETOLD. NOT ONLY ARE THE OT PROPHECIES OF ISAIAH AND JEREMIAH UNFULFILLED IN THE HISTORY OF BABYLON, BUT JOHN’S VISION RECORDED IN APPROXIMATELY 95 A.D. REITERATES AND EVEN EXTENDS THESE PREDICTIONS. EITHER GOD IS A GOD OF WHOLESALE AND EXTENSIVE EXAGGERATION OR A LITERAL DESTRUCTION REMAINS PENDING. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE, UNSCRIPTURAL, AND IRREVERENT TO BELIEVE THAT SUCH AN EXTENSIVE PORTION OF GOD’S WORD IS TO BE SPIRITUALIZED OR TAKEN AS HYPERBOLE. CAME TO NOTHING: CAME TO NOTHING IS ἠΡΗΜΏΘΗ [ĒRĒMŌTHĒ]: “BE BROUGHT TO RUIN, BECOME DESOLATE, BE DEVASTATED.”1 THE SAME WORD IS TRANSLATED, DESOLATE IN REVELATION REV. 18:19+. THE MANNER OF HER DESTRUCTION MATCHES THAT OF THE HARLOT (REV. REV. 17:16+). SHE WILL BE DESTROYED IN SUCH A WAY AS TO BE ETERNALLY UNINHABITABLE. EVERY SHIPMASTER: LIKE THE SHIPS OF TARSHISH AT THE LOSS OF TYRE, THOSE WHO MAKE THEIR LIVING BY THE SEA WILL WAIL OVER BABYLON’S DESTRUCTION (ISA. ISA. 23:14; EZE. EZE. 27:27-36). LIKE THE KINGS (REV. REV. 18:10+) AND THE MERCHANTS (REV. REV. 18:15+), THE MARINERS WILL KEEP THEIR DISTANCE FROM THE DESTRUCTION OF THE CITY WHICH IS VISIBLE AT A DISTANCE. ALTHOUGH BABYLON ON THE EUPHRATES IS NOT DIRECTLY ON THE COAST, THE EUPHRATES IS NAVIGABLE FOR MANY MILES:2 RAWLINSON [HERODOTUS, I. 512] SPEAKS OF THE EUPHRATES AS BEING NAVIGABLE FOR SHIPS FOR SOME 500 MILES FROM ITS MOUTH. AND WITH LITTLE EFFORT COULD BE MADE AVAILABLE FOR SHIPS OF LARGE SIZE.3 TODAY THESE TWO STREAMS [THE TIGRIS AND THE EUPHRATES] ARE JOINED TOGETHER AND FLOW AS ONE RIVER, THE SHATT EL-ARAB, 190 KM (120 MI) TO THE GULF, WHERE THE WATER IS DEEP ENOUGH FOR WARSHIPS.4 THERE ARE A NUMBER OF POSSIBLE WAYS THAT COMMERCIAL SHIPPING COULD REACH A REBUILT BABYLON: IMPROVEMENTS TO THE EUPHRATES - SECTIONS OF THE EUPHRATES ARE DREDGED AND OTHERWISE IMPROVED SO THAT SHIPS FROM THE GULF CAN DIRECTLY NAVIGATE THE APPROXIMATELY 370 MILES UPRIVER TO BABYLON. SHUTTLE FROM THE GULF - LARGE SHIPS ANCHOR IN THE PERSIAN GULF WHERE CARGO IS TRANSFERRED TO SHALLOW-DRAFT BARGES WHICH TRANSPORT GOODS UPRIVER TO BABYLON. LAND TRANSPORT - SHIPS MAKE PORT AT THE SEACOAST AND THEIR CARGO IS TRANSPORTED BY RAIL TO BABYLON. THE PORT ITSELF SERVES A STRICTLY SECONDARY ROLE TO THE MAGNIFICENT CITY UPRIVER. THE NAUTICAL EMPHASIS IN THIS CHAPTER SEEMS AGAINST THIS SUGGESTION, ALTHOUGH IT MUST BE NOTED THAT ALL THE TEXT REQUIRES IS THAT BABYLON BE A MAJOR CENTER OF SHIPPING. IT DOES NOT REQUIRE THAT SHIPS MAKE THEIR WAY TO DOCKSIDE IN DOWNTOWN BABYLON. THE PROMINENCE GIVEN TO SHIPPING IN THIS PASSAGE PROVIDES EVIDENCE AGAINST IDENTIFYING BABYLON AS ROME:5 ROME WAS NOT A MAJOR SEAPORT OR TRADING CITY. ROME WAS NEVER A GREAT CITY OF COMMERCE DESCRIBED IN REVELATION REV. 18:1+. REVELATION REV. 18:17+ ACTUALLY FITS BABYLON BETTER THAN ROME BECAUSE ROME HAD NO SEAPORT...REVELATION REV. 18:17-18+ WHICH DESCRIBES THOSE WHO MAKE THEIR LIVING FROM THE SEA STANDING A FAR OFF AND WAILING AT THE SIGHT OF BABYLON’S DESTRUCTION, FITS WELL WITH THE GEOGRAPHY OF BABYLON ON THE EUPHRATES. IN ANCIENT TIMES, THE EUPHRATES WAS NAVIGABLE FOR SHIPS FOR SOME 500 MILES FROM ITS MOUTH.6 IT IS PERFECTLY WELL KNOWN THAT ROME WAS NEVER EITHER “GREAT” OR COMMERCIAL. IT IS NO PORT; AND NO “SHIPMASTER” GOES THITHER...IF ROME BE THE CITY, ROME MUST YET BECOME THE GREAT POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS CENTRE; WITH PORT AND HARBOUR. AND IT IS QUITE AS DIFFICULT TO BELIEVE IN THIS REVIVAL OF ROME, AS TO BELIEVE IN THE REVIVAL OF BABYLON.7 REVELATION 18:18: THE SMOKE OF HER BURNING: HER PLAGUES WILL COME IN ONE DAY: WHEN HER JUDGMENT FINALLY COMES, IT WILL BE SWIFT AND DECISIVE (ISA. ISA. 47:9, ISA. 47:11; REV. REV. 18:9+, REV. 18:10+, REV. 18:17+, REV. 18:19+). THE SUDDENNESS AND COMPLETENESS OF BABYLON’S JUDGMENT AND DISAPPEARANCE FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH IS THE ONE PROMINENT FEATURE OF THIS PROPHECY: AND IT EFFECTUALLY PROVES THAT IT HAS NOT YET TAKEN PLACE. FOR JEHOVAH’S PROPHECIES ARE FAR TOO ACCURATE AND PARTICULAR FOR THIS SUDDENNESS AND COMPLETENESS TO BE FULFILLED BY THE GRADUAL DECAY OF OLD BABYLON, THE SITE AND RUINS AND REMAINS OF WHICH ARE STILL TO BE SEEN IN THE LAND OF SHINAR.1 “SHE SHALL BE BURNED WITH FIRE” (ἐΝ ΠΥΡὶ ΚΑΤΑΚΑΥΘΉΣΕΤΑὶ [EN PYRI KATAKAUTHĒSETAI]) CORRESPONDS CLOSELY TO THE ΚΑΤΑΚΑΎΣΟΥΣΙΝ ἐΝ ΠΥΡΊ [KATAKAUSOUSIN EN PYRI] OF REV. REV. 17:16+ AND MUST BE THE SAME DESTRUCTION.2 SHE WILL BE UTTERLY BURNED WITH FIRE: LIKE SODOM AND GOMORRAH, BABYLON WILL BE DESTROYED BY FIRE (ISA. ISA. 13:19-20; ISA. 47:14; JER. JER. 50:40; JER. 51:58; REV. REV. 18:9+). HER BURNING IS COMPLETE AND FINAL: “HER SMOKE RISES UP FOREVER AND EVER!” (REV. REV. 19:3+). THE BEAST AND THE TEN KINGS OF THE END WILL ASSIST IN HER DESTRUCTION (REV. REV. 17:16+). FOR STRONG IS THE LORD GOD WHO JUDGES HER: THUS, SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS: “THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE OPPRESSED, ALONG WITH THE CHILDREN OF JUDAH; ALL WHO TOOK THEM CAPTIVE HAVE HELD THEM FAST; THEY HAVE REFUSED TO LET THEM GO. THEIR REDEEMER IS STRONG; THE LORD OF HOSTS IS HIS NAME. HE WILL THOROUGHLY PLEAD THEIR CASE, THAT HE MAY GIVE REST TO THE LAND, AND DISQUIET THE INHABITANTS OF BABYLON.” (JER. JER. 50:33-34) [EMPHASIS ADDED] THIS GREAT CITY: THAT GREAT CITY BABYLON, THAT MIGHTY CITY! THE DEPTH OF HER DESTRUCTION IS MAGNIFIED BY THE HEIGHT WHICH SHE APPEARED TO HAVE ATTAINED PRIOR TO HER FALL. FOR IN ONE HOUR YOUR JUDGMENT HAS COME: THE CONJUNCTION FOR, ὅΤΙ [HOTI], INDICATES THE REASON FOR THEIR OUTBURST: HER DESTRUCTION WAS SO SUDDEN AND COMPLETE. SHE HAD APPEARED TO BE SO MIGHTY, VIRTUALLY UNASSAILABLE, YET NOW SHE HAD BEEN SUDDENLY DEVASTATED AND BROUGHT DOWN TO NOTHING. HISTORY RECORDS THAT ALTHOUGH BABYLON “FELL” NUMEROUS TIMES AT THE HANDS OF DIFFERENT INVADERS, IT NEVER SUFFERED ANYTHING LIKE A COMPLETE DESTRUCTION. INSTEAD, IT CONTINUED TO BE INHABITED HUNDREDS OF YEARS AFTER ITS INITIAL FALL TO PERSIA AND EVENTUALLY, THROUGH NEGLECT MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE, BECAME INSIGNIFICANT ON THE STAGE OF WORLD HISTORY. YET THE PROPHECIES OF ISAIAH, JEREMIAH, AND JOHN INDICATE A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SCENARIO FOR HER DESTRUCTION. ONE THAT IS SUDDEN, SWIFT, AND ABSOLUTELY CATASTROPHIC. WE HAVE GATHERED A NUMBER OF THESE PREDICTIONS TOGETHER BELOW SO THE READER MAY SEE FOR HIMSELF WHAT THE HOLY WORD OF GOD PREDICTS CONCERNING THE SEVERITY AND PERMANENCE OF HER DESTRUCTION: AND BABYLON, THE GLORY OF KINGDOMS, THE BEAUTY OF THE CHALDEAN’S PRIDE, WILL BE AS WHEN GOD OVERTHREW SODOM AND GOMORRAH. IT WILL NEVER BE INHABITED, NOR WILL IT BE SETTLED FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION; NOR WILL THE ARABIAN PITCH TENTS THERE, NOR WILL THE SHEPHERDS MAKE THEIR SHEEPFOLDS THERE. (ISA. ISA. 13:19-20) “AND LOOK, HERE COMES A CHARIOT OF MEN WITH A PAIR OF HORSEMEN!” THEN HE ANSWERED AND SAID, “BABYLON IS FALLEN, IS FALLEN! AND ALL THE CARVED IMAGES OF HER GODS HE HAS BROKEN TO THE GROUND.” OH, MY THRESHING AND THE GRAIN OF MY FLOOR! THAT WHICH I HAVE HEARD FROM THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL, I HAVE DECLARED TO YOU. (ISA. ISA. 21:9-10) THEREFORE, EVIL SHALL COME UPON YOU; YOU SHALL NOT KNOW FROM WHERE IT ARISES. AND TROUBLE SHALL FALL UPON YOU; YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO PUT IT OFF. AND DESOLATION SHALL COME UPON YOU SUDDENLY, WHICH YOU SHALL NOT KNOW. (ISA. ISA. 47:11) BECAUSE OF THE WRATH OF THE LORD SHE SHALL NOT BE INHABITED, BUT SHE SHALL BE WHOLLY DESOLATE. EVERYONE WHO GOES BY BABYLON SHALL BE HORRIFIED AND HISS AT ALL HER PLAGUES. (JER. JER. 50:13) COME AGAINST HER FROM THE FARTHEST BORDER; OPEN HER STOREHOUSES; CAST HER UP AS HEAPS OF RUINS, AND DESTROY HER UTTERLY; LET NOTHING OF HER BE LEFT. (JER. JER. 50:26) “THEREFORE, THE WILD DESERT BEASTS SHALL DWELL THERE WITH THE JACKALS, AND THE OSTRICHES SHALL DWELL IN IT. IT SHALL BE INHABITED NO MORE FOREVER, NOR SHALL IT BE DWELT IN FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION. AS GOD OVERTHREW SODOM AND GOMORRAH AND THEIR NEIGHBORS,” SAYS THE LORD, “SO NO ONE SHALL RESIDE THERE, NOR SON OF MAN DWELL IN IT.” (JER. JER. 50:39-40) “THEY SHALL NOT TAKE FROM YOU A STONE FOR A CORNER NOR A STONE FOR A FOUNDATION, BUT YOU SHALL BE DESOLATE FOREVER,” SAYS THE LORD. (JER. JER. 51:26) AND THE LAND WILL TREMBLE AND SORROW; FOR EVERY PURPOSE OF THE LORD SHALL BE PERFORMED AGAINST BABYLON, TO MAKE THE LAND OF BABYLON A DESOLATION WITHOUT INHABITANT. (JER. JER. 51:29) HER CITIES ARE A DESOLATION, A DRY LAND AND A WILDERNESS, A LAND WHERE NO ONE DWELLS, THROUGH WHICH NO SON OF MAN PASSES. (JER. JER. 51:43) THUS, SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS: “THE BROAD WALLS OF BABYLON SHALL BE UTTERLY BROKEN, AND HER HIGH GATES SHALL BE BURNED WITH FIRE; THE PEOPLE WILL LABOR IN VAIN, AND THE NATIONS, BECAUSE OF THE FIRE; AND THEY SHALL BE WEARY.” (JER. JER. 51:58) AND JEREMIAH SAID TO SERAIAH, “WHEN YOU ARRIVE IN BABYLON AND SEE IT, AND READ ALL THESE WORDS, THEN YOU SHALL SAY, ‘O LORD, YOU HAVE SPOKEN AGAINST THIS PLACE TO CUT IT OFF, SO THAT NONE SHALL REMAIN IN IT, NEITHER MAN NOR BEAST, BUT IT SHALL BE DESOLATE FOREVER.’ ” (JER. JER. 51:61-62) AND THE TEN HORNS WHICH YOU SAW ON THE BEAST, THESE WILL HATE THE HARLOT, MAKE HER DESOLATE AND NAKED, EAT HER FLESH AND BURN HER WITH FIRE. (REV. REV. 17:16+) AND HE CRIED MIGHTILY WITH A LOUD VOICE, SAYING, “BABYLON THE GREAT IS FALLEN, IS FALLEN, AND HAS BECOME A DWELLING PLACE OF DEMONS, A PRISON FOR EVERY FOUL SPIRIT, AND A CAGE FOR EVERY UNCLEAN AND HATED BIRD!” (REV. REV. 18:2+) THEREFORE, HER PLAGUES WILL COME IN ONE DAY-DEATH AND MOURNING AND FAMINE. AND SHE WILL BE UTTERLY BURNED WITH FIRE, FOR STRONG IS THE LORD GOD WHO JUDGES HER. THE KINGS OF THE EARTH WHO COMMITTED FORNICATION AND LIVED LUXURIOUSLY WITH HER WILL WEEP AND LAMENT FOR HER, WHEN THEY SEE THE SMOKE OF HER BURNING, STANDING AT A DISTANCE FOR FEAR OF HER TORMENT, SAYING, “ALAS, ALAS, THAT GREAT CITY BABYLON, THAT MIGHTY CITY! FOR IN ONE HOUR YOUR JUDGMENT HAS COME.” (REV. REV. 18:8-10+) FOR IN ONE HOUR SUCH GREAT RICHES CAME TO NOTHING. EVERY SHIPMASTER, ALL WHO TRAVEL BY SHIP, SAILORS, AND AS MANY AS TRADE ON THE SEA, STOOD AT A DISTANCE AND CRIED OUT WHEN THEY SAW THE SMOKE OF HER BURNING, SAYING, “WHAT IS LIKE THIS GREAT CITY?” THEY THREW DUST ON THEIR HEADS AND CRIED OUT, WEEPING AND WAILING, AND SAYING, “ALAS, ALAS, THAT GREAT CITY, IN WHICH ALL WHO HAD SHIPS ON THE SEA BECAME RICH BY HER WEALTH! FOR IN ONE HOUR SHE IS MADE DESOLATE.” (REV. REV. 18:17-19+) THEN A MIGHTY ANGEL TOOK UP A STONE LIKE A GREAT MILLSTONE AND THREW IT INTO THE SEA, SAYING, “THUS WITH VIOLENCE THE GREAT CITY BABYLON SHALL BE THROWN DOWN, AND SHALL NOT BE FOUND ANYMORE.” (REV. REV. 18:21+) AGAIN, THEY SAID, “ALLELUIA! HER SMOKE RISES UP FOREVER AND EVER!” (REV. REV. 19:3+) HER DESTRUCTION IS SAID TO BE LITERAL AND CATASTROPHIC LIKE THAT OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH. HER WALLS WILL BE COMPLETELY DESTROYED AND HER GATES BURNED WITH FIRE. THERE WILL BE NOTHING LEFT OF HER, NO PERSON SHALL EVER RESIDE THERE, NOR WILL ANY BUILDING MATERIAL BE TAKEN FROM HER RUINS. THIS DESTRUCTION WILL BE SUDDEN, COMPLETE, AND PERMANENT. IT SEEMS CLEAR THAT BABYLON HAS YET TO SUFFER IN THE WAY WHICH GOD HAS SO EXTENSIVELY FORETOLD. NOT ONLY ARE THE OT PROPHECIES OF ISAIAH AND JEREMIAH UNFULFILLED IN THE HISTORY OF BABYLON, BUT JOHN’S VISION RECORDED IN APPROXIMATELY 95 A.D. REITERATES AND EVEN EXTENDS THESE PREDICTIONS. EITHER GOD IS A GOD OF WHOLESALE AND EXTENSIVE EXAGGERATION OR A LITERAL DESTRUCTION REMAINS PENDING. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE, UNSCRIPTURAL, AND IRREVERENT TO BELIEVE THAT SUCH AN EXTENSIVE PORTION OF GOD’S WORD IS TO BE SPIRITUALIZED OR TAKEN AS HYPERBOLE. REVELATION 18:19: THEY THREW DUST ON THEIR HEADS: AN ACTION INDICATING GREAT MOURNING AND GRIEF OVER LOSS (JOS. JOS. 7:6; 1S. 1S. 4:12; LAM. LAM. 2:10; EZE. EZE. 27:30). HERE, THE LOSS IS THEIR COMMERCIAL MARKET. THAT GREAT CITY: THAT GREAT CITY BABYLON, THAT MIGHTY CITY! THE DEPTH OF HER DESTRUCTION IS MAGNIFIED BY THE HEIGHT WHICH SHE APPEARED TO HAVE ATTAINED PRIOR TO HER FALL. FOR IN ONE HOUR YOUR JUDGMENT HAS COME: THE CONJUNCTION FOR, ὅΤΙ [HOTI], INDICATES THE REASON FOR THEIR OUTBURST: HER DESTRUCTION WAS SO SUDDEN AND COMPLETE. SHE HAD APPEARED TO BE SO MIGHTY, VIRTUALLY UNASSAILABLE, YET NOW SHE HAD BEEN SUDDENLY DEVASTATED AND BROUGHT DOWN TO NOTHING. HISTORY RECORDS THAT ALTHOUGH BABYLON “FELL” NUMEROUS TIMES AT THE HANDS OF DIFFERENT INVADERS, IT NEVER SUFFERED ANYTHING LIKE A COMPLETE DESTRUCTION. INSTEAD, IT CONTINUED TO BE INHABITED HUNDREDS OF YEARS AFTER ITS INITIAL FALL TO PERSIA AND EVENTUALLY, THROUGH NEGLECT MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE, BECAME INSIGNIFICANT ON THE STAGE OF WORLD HISTORY. YET THE PROPHECIES OF ISAIAH, JEREMIAH, AND JOHN INDICATE A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SCENARIO FOR HER DESTRUCTION. ONE THAT IS SUDDEN, SWIFT, AND ABSOLUTELY CATASTROPHIC. WE HAVE GATHERED A NUMBER OF THESE PREDICTIONS TOGETHER BELOW SO THE READER MAY SEE FOR HIMSELF WHAT THE HOLY WORD OF GOD PREDICTS CONCERNING THE SEVERITY AND PERMANENCE OF HER DESTRUCTION: AND BABYLON, THE GLORY OF KINGDOMS, THE BEAUTY OF THE CHALDEAN’S PRIDE, WILL BE AS WHEN GOD OVERTHREW SODOM AND GOMORRAH. IT WILL NEVER BE INHABITED, NOR WILL IT BE SETTLED FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION; NOR WILL THE ARABIAN PITCH TENTS THERE, NOR WILL THE SHEPHERDS MAKE THEIR SHEEPFOLDS THERE. (ISA. ISA. 13:19-20) “AND LOOK, HERE COMES A CHARIOT OF MEN WITH A PAIR OF HORSEMEN!” THEN HE ANSWERED AND SAID, “BABYLON IS FALLEN, IS FALLEN! AND ALL THE CARVED IMAGES OF HER GODS HE HAS BROKEN TO THE GROUND.” OH, MY THRESHING AND THE GRAIN OF MY FLOOR! THAT WHICH I HAVE HEARD FROM THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL, I HAVE DECLARED TO YOU. (ISA. ISA. 21:9-10) THEREFORE, EVIL SHALL COME UPON YOU; YOU SHALL NOT KNOW FROM WHERE IT ARISES. AND TROUBLE SHALL FALL UPON YOU; YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO PUT IT OFF. AND DESOLATION SHALL COME UPON YOU SUDDENLY, WHICH YOU SHALL NOT KNOW. (ISA. ISA. 47:11) BECAUSE OF THE WRATH OF THE LORD SHE SHALL NOT BE INHABITED, BUT SHE SHALL BE WHOLLY DESOLATE. EVERYONE WHO GOES BY BABYLON SHALL BE HORRIFIED AND HISS AT ALL HER PLAGUES. (JER. JER. 50:13) COME AGAINST HER FROM THE FARTHEST BORDER; OPEN HER STOREHOUSES; CAST HER UP AS HEAPS OF RUINS, AND DESTROY HER UTTERLY; LET NOTHING OF HER BE LEFT. (JER. JER. 50:26) “THEREFORE, THE WILD DESERT BEASTS SHALL DWELL THERE WITH THE JACKALS, AND THE OSTRICHES SHALL DWELL IN IT. IT SHALL BE INHABITED NO MORE FOREVER, NOR SHALL IT BE DWELT IN FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION. AS GOD OVERTHREW SODOM AND GOMORRAH AND THEIR NEIGHBORS,” SAYS THE LORD, “SO NO ONE SHALL RESIDE THERE, NOR SON OF MAN DWELL IN IT.” (JER. JER. 50:39-40) “THEY SHALL NOT TAKE FROM YOU A STONE FOR A CORNER NOR A STONE FOR A FOUNDATION, BUT YOU SHALL BE DESOLATE FOREVER,” SAYS THE LORD. (JER. JER. 51:26) AND THE LAND WILL TREMBLE AND SORROW; FOR EVERY PURPOSE OF THE LORD SHALL BE PERFORMED AGAINST BABYLON, TO MAKE THE LAND OF BABYLON A DESOLATION WITHOUT INHABITANT. (JER. JER. 51:29) HER CITIES ARE A DESOLATION, A DRY LAND AND A WILDERNESS, A LAND WHERE NO ONE DWELLS, THROUGH WHICH NO SON OF MAN PASSES. (JER. JER. 51:43) THUS, SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS: “THE BROAD WALLS OF BABYLON SHALL BE UTTERLY BROKEN, AND HER HIGH GATES SHALL BE BURNED WITH FIRE; THE PEOPLE WILL LABOR IN VAIN, AND THE NATIONS, BECAUSE OF THE FIRE; AND THEY SHALL BE WEARY.” (JER. JER. 51:58) AND JEREMIAH SAID TO SERAIAH, “WHEN YOU ARRIVE IN BABYLON AND SEE IT, AND READ ALL THESE WORDS, THEN YOU SHALL SAY, ‘O LORD, YOU HAVE SPOKEN AGAINST THIS PLACE TO CUT IT OFF, SO THAT NONE SHALL REMAIN IN IT, NEITHER MAN NOR BEAST, BUT IT SHALL BE DESOLATE FOREVER.’ ” (JER. JER. 51:61-62) AND THE TEN HORNS WHICH YOU SAW ON THE BEAST, THESE WILL HATE THE HARLOT, MAKE HER DESOLATE AND NAKED, EAT HER FLESH AND BURN HER WITH FIRE. (REV. REV. 17:16+) AND HE CRIED MIGHTILY WITH A LOUD VOICE, SAYING, “BABYLON THE GREAT IS FALLEN, IS FALLEN, AND HAS BECOME A DWELLING PLACE OF DEMONS, A PRISON FOR EVERY FOUL SPIRIT, AND A CAGE FOR EVERY UNCLEAN AND HATED BIRD!” (REV. REV. 18:2+) THEREFORE, HER PLAGUES WILL COME IN ONE DAY-DEATH AND MOURNING AND FAMINE. AND SHE WILL BE UTTERLY BURNED WITH FIRE, FOR STRONG IS THE LORD GOD WHO JUDGES HER. THE KINGS OF THE EARTH WHO COMMITTED FORNICATION AND LIVED LUXURIOUSLY WITH HER WILL WEEP AND LAMENT FOR HER, WHEN THEY SEE THE SMOKE OF HER BURNING, STANDING AT A DISTANCE FOR FEAR OF HER TORMENT, SAYING, “ALAS, ALAS, THAT GREAT CITY BABYLON, THAT MIGHTY CITY! FOR IN ONE HOUR YOUR JUDGMENT HAS COME.” (REV. REV. 18:8-10+) FOR IN ONE HOUR SUCH GREAT RICHES CAME TO NOTHING. EVERY SHIPMASTER, ALL WHO TRAVEL BY SHIP, SAILORS, AND AS MANY AS TRADE ON THE SEA, STOOD AT A DISTANCE AND CRIED OUT WHEN THEY SAW THE SMOKE OF HER BURNING, SAYING, “WHAT IS LIKE THIS GREAT CITY?” THEY THREW DUST ON THEIR HEADS AND CRIED OUT, WEEPING AND WAILING, AND SAYING, “ALAS, ALAS, THAT GREAT CITY, IN WHICH ALL WHO HAD SHIPS ON THE SEA BECAME RICH BY HER WEALTH! FOR IN ONE HOUR SHE IS MADE DESOLATE.” (REV. REV. 18:17-19+) THEN A MIGHTY ANGEL TOOK UP A STONE LIKE A GREAT MILLSTONE AND THREW IT INTO THE SEA, SAYING, “THUS WITH VIOLENCE THE GREAT CITY BABYLON SHALL BE THROWN DOWN, AND SHALL NOT BE FOUND ANYMORE.” (REV. REV. 18:21+) AGAIN, THEY SAID, “ALLELUIA! HER SMOKE RISES UP FOREVER AND EVER!” (REV. REV. 19:3+) HER DESTRUCTION IS SAID TO BE LITERAL AND CATASTROPHIC LIKE THAT OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH. HER WALLS WILL BE COMPLETELY DESTROYED AND HER GATES BURNED WITH FIRE. THERE WILL BE NOTHING LEFT OF HER, NO PERSON SHALL EVER RESIDE THERE, NOR WILL ANY BUILDING MATERIAL BE TAKEN FROM HER RUINS. THIS DESTRUCTION WILL BE SUDDEN, COMPLETE, AND PERMANENT. IT SEEMS CLEAR THAT BABYLON HAS YET TO SUFFER IN THE WAY WHICH GOD HAS SO EXTENSIVELY FORETOLD. NOT ONLY ARE THE OT PROPHECIES OF ISAIAH AND JEREMIAH UNFULFILLED IN THE HISTORY OF BABYLON, BUT JOHN’S VISION RECORDED IN APPROXIMATELY 95 A.D. REITERATES AND EVEN EXTENDS THESE PREDICTIONS. EITHER GOD IS A GOD OF WHOLESALE AND EXTENSIVE EXAGGERATION OR A LITERAL DESTRUCTION REMAINS PENDING. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE, UNSCRIPTURAL, AND IRREVERENT TO BELIEVE THAT SUCH AN EXTENSIVE PORTION OF GOD’S WORD IS TO BE SPIRITUALIZED OR TAKEN AS HYPERBOLE. IN WHICH ALL WHO HAD SHIPS ON THE SEA BECAME RICH BY HER WEALTH: LIKE THE KINGS WHO HAD LIVED LUXURIOUSLY WITH HER (REV. REV. 18:9+) AND THE MERCHANTS WHO HAD BECOME WEALTHY BY HER (REV. REV. 18:15+), THOSE WHO MADE A LIVING BY SHIPPING HAD BECOME WEALTHY. SHE IS A GREAT CENTER OF COMMERCE AND A MAJOR DESTINATION FOR SHIPPING. IN ONE HOUR: THE MARINERS REPEAT THE SAME LAMENTATION AS THE KINGS (REV. REV. 18:10+) AND THE MERCHANTS (REV. REV. 18:17+) CONCERNING THE SUDDENNESS OF HER DESTRUCTION. THIS THREEFOLD PATTERN OF LAMENTATION IS INTENDED TO INDICATE THE COMPLETENESS OF HER DESTRUCTION. SHE IS MADE DESOLATE: CAME TO NOTHING: CAME TO NOTHING IS ἠΡΗΜΏΘΗ [ĒRĒMŌTHĒ]: “BE BROUGHT TO RUIN, BECOME DESOLATE, BE DEVASTATED.”1 THE SAME WORD IS TRANSLATED, DESOLATE IN REVELATION REV. 18:19+. THE MANNER OF HER DESTRUCTION MATCHES THAT OF THE HARLOT (REV. REV. 17:16+). SHE WILL BE DESTROYED IN SUCH A WAY AS TO BE ETERNALLY UNINHABITABLE. REVELATION 18:20: REJOICE OVER HER, O HEAVEN AND YOU HOLY APOSTLES AND PROPHETS: REJOICE IS ΕὐΦΡΑΊΝΟΥ [EUPHRAINOU], AN IMPERATIVE COMMAND, YOU ALL BE GLAD! HEAVEN REJOICED WHEN THE DEVIL AND HIS ANGELS WERE CAST OUT (REV. REV. 12:12+). JEREMIAH PROPHESIED THAT IN THE DAY THAT GOD DESTROYED BABYLON “THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH AND ALL THAT IS IN THEM SHALL SING JOYOUSLY OVER BABYLON” (JER. JER. 51:48). THE MT AND NU TEXTS HAVE SAINTS AND APOSTLES INSTEAD OF HOLY APOSTLES. THE APOSTLES AND PROPHETS, LEADERS OF THE SAINTS OF ALL AGES, WHO HAVE, THEMSELVES, BORNE THE BRUNT OF THE WORLD’S HATRED, ARE GIVEN SPECIAL PROMINENCE IN THE REJOICING...TAKE PAUL FOR AN EXAMPLE. HE POINTED OUT THAT HE AND THE OTHER APOSTLES HAD BEEN CHOSEN BY GOD FOR SPECIAL SUFFERINGS [1COR. 1COR. 4:9-13].1 GOD HAS AVENGED YOU ON HER: HAS AVENGED YOU ON HER IS ἔΚΡΙΝΕΝ ὁ ΘΕὸΣ Τὸ ΚΡΊΜΑ ὑΜῶΝ ἐΞ ΑὐΤῆΣ [EKRINEN HO THEOS TO KRIMA HYMŌN EX AUTĒS], GOD HAS JUDGED THE JUDGMENT OF YOU AGAINST HER. “GOD HAS PRONOUNCED ON HER THE JUDGMENT SHE WISHED TO IMPOSE ON YOU.”2 A GREAT MULTITUDE IN HEAVEN REJOICES AT THE DESTRUCTION OF THE GREAT HARLOT WHICH IS SAID TO BE GOD’S VENGEANCE OF “THE BLOOD OF HIS SERVANTS SHED BY HER” (REV. REV. 19:2+). SHE IS “DRUNK WITH THE BLOOD OF THE SAINTS AND WITH THE BLOOD OF THE MARTYRS OF JESUS” (REV. REV. 17:6+) BECAUSE “IN HER WAS FOUND THE BLOOD OF PROPHETS AND SAINTS, AND OF ALL WHO WERE SLAIN ON THE EARTH” (REV. REV. 18:24+). THIS IS GOD’S ANSWER TO THE PRAYERS OF THE MARTYRS REVEALED AT THE OPENING OF THE FIFTH SEAL (REV. REV. 6:10+) AND THE PRAYERS OFFERED UPON THE ALTAR OF INCENSE PRIOR TO THE TRUMPET JUDGMENTS (REV. REV. 8:3-4+). THE SONG WHICH MOSES TAUGHT ISRAEL PRIOR TO CROSSING INTO THE PROMISED LAND ENDS WITH THE PROMISE OF GOD’S VENGEANCE CONCERNING THE SPILLED BLOOD OF HIS SERVANTS: “REJOICE, O GENTILES, WITH HIS PEOPLE; FOR HE WILL AVENGE THE BLOOD OF HIS SERVANTS, AND RENDER VENGEANCE TO HIS ADVERSARIES; HE WILL PROVIDE ATONEMENT FOR HIS LAND AND HIS PEOPLE” (DEU. DEU. 32:43). AS JESUS SAID IN HIS PARABLE OF THE UNJUST JUDGE, “AND SHALL GOD NOT AVENGE HIS OWN ELECT WHO CRY OUT DAY AND NIGHT TO HIM, THOUGH HE BEARS LONG WITH THEM? I TELL YOU THAT HE WILL AVENGE THEM SPEEDILY” (LUKE LUKE 18:7-8). REVELATION 18:21: A MIGHTY ANGEL: THE APPEARANCE OF A MIGHTY ANGEL INDICATES AN IMPORTANT DECLARATIVE ACTION IS TO FOLLOW. A STRONG ANGEL ASKED WHO WAS WORTHY TO OPEN THE SCROLL (REV. REV. 5:2+). A MIGHTY ANGEL STOOD UPON THE SEA AND THE LAND TO PROCLAIM THE DOMINION OF GOD IN RETAKING THE EARTH (REV. REV. 10:1+). TOOK UP A GREAT MILLSTONE AND THREW IT INTO THE SEA: THE ANGEL NOW REENACTS THE DECLARATION WHICH JEREMIAH TOLD SERAIAH TO SPEAK OVER THE CITY THOUSANDS OF YEARS BEFORE: SO JEREMIAH WROTE IN A BOOK ALL THE EVIL THAT WOULD COME UPON BABYLON, ALL THESE WORDS THAT ARE WRITTEN AGAINST BABYLON. AND JEREMIAH SAID TO SERAIAH, “WHEN YOU ARRIVE IN BABYLON AND SEE IT, AND READ ALL THESE WORDS, THEN YOU SHALL SAY, ‘O LORD, YOU HAVE SPOKEN AGAINST THIS PLACE TO CUT IT OFF, SO THAT NONE SHALL REMAIN IN IT, NEITHER MAN NOR BEAST, BUT IT SHALL BE DESOLATE FOREVER.’ NOW IT SHALL BE, WHEN YOU HAVE FINISHED READING THIS BOOK, THAT YOU SHALL TIE A STONE TO IT AND THROW IT OUT INTO THE EUPHRATES. THEN YOU SHALL SAY, ‘THUS BABYLON SHALL SINK AND NOT RISE FROM THE CATASTROPHE THAT I WILL BRING UPON HER. AND THEY SHALL BE WEARY.’” THUS FAR ARE THE WORDS OF JEREMIAH. (JER. JER. 51:60-64) [EMPHASIS ADDED] JEREMIAH’S DECLARATION IS ANOTHER EVIDENCE WHICH POINTS TO BABYLON OF THE END BEING THE LITERAL CITY RECONSTRUCTED ON THE BANKS OF THE EUPHRATES. FOR SERAIAH WAS SENT TO THE LITERAL CITY IN ORDER TO DECLARE A LITERAL JUDGMENT OVER HER. THE JUDGMENT HE READ HAS NEVER BEEN FULFILLED IN HISTORY. AT THE TIME OF THE END, THE WORDS OF GOD REGARDING THE CITY, AS WRITTEN BY JEREMIAH AND DECLARED BY SERAIAH, WILL FIND THEIR ULTIMATE FULFILLMENT IN THE DESTRUCTION OF THE REBUILT CITY OF OLD. IT IS OUR VIEW THAT BABYLON SIMPLY MEANS . . . BABYLON! THE ONLY PROBLEM WITH TAKING BABYLON IN ITS LITERAL SENSE IS ONE OF TIMING AND FAITH. BECAUSE THE MODERN SITE OF BABYLON IN NO WAY RESEMBLES WHAT IS DESCRIBED IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION, THERE IS OPPORTUNITY FOR DOUBT CONCERNING WHAT GOD HAS SAID. THIS IS NOTHING NEW: “HAS GOD INDEED SAID… ?” (GEN. GEN. 3:1). WHAT IS THE EXPLANATION FOR THIS RELUCTANCE TO BELIEVE THAT JOHN MEANT BABYLON WHEN HE WROTE “BABYLON”? EVEN AT THE TIME JOHN WAS WRITING, BABYLON WAS STILL A VIABLE CITY, WITH A SUBSTANTIAL COLONY OF JEWS (THE FAMOUS BABYLONIAN TALMUD ORIGINATED IN OR NEAR THERE, ABOUT 500 YEARS AFTER THE TIME OF CHRIST) AND THERE WAS A SIGNIFICANT CHRISTIAN CHURCH THERE AS WELL (1 PETER. 1PE. 5:13). AT THE VERY LEAST, IT WOULD BE CONFUSING TO JOHN’S FIRST CENTURY READERS, AS WELL AS TO LATER GENERATIONS, FOR HIM TO WRITE SO MUCH ABOUT BABYLON WHEN HE REALLY MEANT ROME... OR “THE FALSE CHURCH.”1 THE CURRENT SITUATION IN REGARD TO THE LITERAL CITY OF BABYLON REMINDS US OF THE POSITION OF MANY EARLIER INTERPRETERS CONCERNING THE PREDICTIONS OF THE OT IN REGARD TO ISRAEL. PRIOR TO HER REESTABLISHMENT IN 1948, IT WAS DIFFICULT FOR MANY TO BELIEVE THAT UNFULFILLED PASSAGES CONCERNING A PEOPLE WHO HAD BEEN DISPERSED FOR NEARLY 2,000 YEARS COULD EVER BE TAKEN IN A LITERAL FASHION AS PERTAINING TO A PHYSICAL NATION YET FUTURE. TODAY, WE THRILL TO READ THOSE INTERPRETERS WHO HELD TO A LITERAL UNDERSTANDING OF ISRAEL OVER THE MANY YEARS WHEN ISRAEL SEEMED BUT A DUSTY RECOLLECTION OF HISTORY. MAY WE BE FOUND AMONG A SIMILAR CADRE OF INTERPRETERS IN OUR OWN TIME CONCERNING THE CITY OF BABYLON! EVERY WORD IS EMPLOYED TO IMPRESS US WITH ITS SUDDENNESS AND COMPLETENESS. AND INASMUCH AS ALL OTHER FULFILLED PROPHECIES HAVE BEEN FULFILLED TO THE VERY LETTER; AND BABYLON, THOUGH FALLEN GRADUALLY, AND VERY LOW, HAS NEVER SUFFERED SUCH A DESTRUCTION. THERE IS ONLY ONE CONCLUSION . . . IT WILL BE REVIVED, AND EXCEED ALL ITS FORMER MAGNIFICENCE.1 JESUS ALLUDED TO JEREMIAH’S PREDICTED DESTRUCTION OF BABYLON WHEN HE TAUGHT ABOUT THE GRAVITY OF “CAUSING ONE OF THESE LITTLE ONES WHO BELIEVE IN ME TO SIN” (MTT. MAT. 18:6; MARK MARK 9:42; LUKE LUKE 17:2). THUS, WITH VIOLENCE: THE ANGEL LORD’S SUPERIOR ACTIONS DONE BY THE COMMAND OF THE LORD, DEMONSTRATES THE LONG LASTING SEVERITY AND FINALITY OF BABYLON’S DESTRUCTION. THE GREAT CITY: THE ANGEL PARODIES HER BOASTFUL TITLE WHEN ANNOUNCING HER DESTRUCTION. SHE CONSIDERED HERSELF GREAT, NEVERTHELESS SHE WILL BE COMPLETELY OVERTHROWN. THAT GREAT CITY BABYLON, THAT MIGHTY CITY! THE DEPTH OF HER DESTRUCTION IS MAGNIFIED BY THE HEIGHT WHICH SHE APPEARED TO HAVE ATTAINED PRIOR TO HER FALL. FOR IN ONE HOUR YOUR JUDGMENT HAS COME: THE CONJUNCTION FOR, ὅΤΙ [HOTI], INDICATES THE REASON FOR THEIR OUTBURST: HER DESTRUCTION WAS SO SUDDEN AND COMPLETE. SHE HAD APPEARED TO BE SO MIGHTY, VIRTUALLY UNASSAILABLE, YET NOW SHE HAD BEEN SUDDENLY DEVASTATED AND BROUGHT DOWN TO NOTHING. HISTORY RECORDS THAT ALTHOUGH BABYLON “FELL” NUMEROUS TIMES AT THE HANDS OF DIFFERENT INVADERS, IT NEVER SUFFERED ANYTHING LIKE A COMPLETE DESTRUCTION. INSTEAD, IT CONTINUED TO BE INHABITED HUNDREDS OF YEARS AFTER ITS INITIAL FALL TO PERSIA AND EVENTUALLY, THROUGH NEGLECT MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE, BECAME INSIGNIFICANT ON THE STAGE OF WORLD HISTORY. YET THE PROPHECIES OF ISAIAH, JEREMIAH, AND JOHN INDICATE A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SCENARIO FOR HER DESTRUCTION. ONE THAT IS SUDDEN, SWIFT, AND ABSOLUTELY CATASTROPHIC. WE HAVE GATHERED A NUMBER OF THESE PREDICTIONS TOGETHER BELOW SO THE READER MAY SEE FOR HIMSELF WHAT THE HOLY WORD OF GOD PREDICTS CONCERNING THE SEVERITY AND PERMANENCE OF HER DESTRUCTION: AND BABYLON, THE GLORY OF KINGDOMS, THE BEAUTY OF THE CHALDEAN’S PRIDE, WILL BE AS WHEN GOD OVERTHREW SODOM AND GOMORRAH. IT WILL NEVER BE INHABITED, NOR WILL IT BE SETTLED FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION; NOR WILL THE ARABIAN PITCH TENTS THERE, NOR WILL THE SHEPHERDS MAKE THEIR SHEEPFOLDS THERE. (ISA. ISA. 13:19-20) “AND LOOK, HERE COMES A CHARIOT OF MEN WITH A PAIR OF HORSEMEN!” THEN HE ANSWERED AND SAID, “BABYLON IS FALLEN, IS FALLEN! AND ALL THE CARVED IMAGES OF HER GODS HE HAS BROKEN TO THE GROUND.” OH, MY THRESHING AND THE GRAIN OF MY FLOOR! THAT WHICH I HAVE HEARD FROM THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL, I HAVE DECLARED TO YOU. (ISA. ISA. 21:9-10) THEREFORE, EVIL SHALL COME UPON YOU; YOU SHALL NOT KNOW FROM WHERE IT ARISES. AND TROUBLE SHALL FALL UPON YOU; YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO PUT IT OFF. AND DESOLATION SHALL COME UPON YOU SUDDENLY, WHICH YOU SHALL NOT KNOW. (ISA. ISA. 47:11) BECAUSE OF THE WRATH OF THE LORD SHE SHALL NOT BE INHABITED, BUT SHE SHALL BE WHOLLY DESOLATE. EVERYONE WHO GOES BY BABYLON SHALL BE HORRIFIED AND HISS AT ALL HER PLAGUES. (JER. JER. 50:13) COME AGAINST HER FROM THE FARTHEST BORDER; OPEN HER STOREHOUSES; CAST HER UP AS HEAPS OF RUINS, AND DESTROY HER UTTERLY; LET NOTHING OF HER BE LEFT. (JER. JER. 50:26) “THEREFORE, THE WILD DESERT BEASTS SHALL DWELL THERE WITH THE JACKALS, AND THE OSTRICHES SHALL DWELL IN IT. IT SHALL BE INHABITED NO MORE FOREVER, NOR SHALL IT BE DWELT IN FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION. AS GOD OVERTHREW SODOM AND GOMORRAH AND THEIR NEIGHBORS,” SAYS THE LORD, “SO NO ONE SHALL RESIDE THERE, NOR SON OF MAN DWELL IN IT.” (JER. JER. 50:39-40) “THEY SHALL NOT TAKE FROM YOU A STONE FOR A CORNER NOR A STONE FOR A FOUNDATION, BUT YOU SHALL BE DESOLATE FOREVER,” SAYS THE LORD. (JER. JER. 51:26) AND THE LAND WILL TREMBLE AND SORROW; FOR EVERY PURPOSE OF THE LORD SHALL BE PERFORMED AGAINST BABYLON, TO MAKE THE LAND OF BABYLON A DESOLATION WITHOUT INHABITANT. (JER. JER. 51:29) HER CITIES ARE A DESOLATION, A DRY LAND AND A WILDERNESS, A LAND WHERE NO ONE DWELLS, THROUGH WHICH NO SON OF MAN PASSES. (JER. JER. 51:43) THUS, SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS: “THE BROAD WALLS OF BABYLON SHALL BE UTTERLY BROKEN, AND HER HIGH GATES SHALL BE BURNED WITH FIRE; THE PEOPLE WILL LABOR IN VAIN, AND THE NATIONS, BECAUSE OF THE FIRE; AND THEY SHALL BE WEARY.” (JER. JER. 51:58) AND JEREMIAH SAID TO SERAIAH, “WHEN YOU ARRIVE IN BABYLON AND SEE IT, AND READ ALL THESE WORDS, THEN YOU SHALL SAY, ‘O LORD, YOU HAVE SPOKEN AGAINST THIS PLACE TO CUT IT OFF, SO THAT NONE SHALL REMAIN IN IT, NEITHER MAN NOR BEAST, BUT IT SHALL BE DESOLATE FOREVER.’ ” (JER. JER. 51:61-62) AND THE TEN HORNS WHICH YOU SAW ON THE BEAST, THESE WILL HATE THE HARLOT, MAKE HER DESOLATE AND NAKED, EAT HER FLESH AND BURN HER WITH FIRE. (REV. REV. 17:16+) AND HE CRIED MIGHTILY WITH A LOUD VOICE, SAYING, “BABYLON THE GREAT IS FALLEN, IS FALLEN, AND HAS BECOME A DWELLING PLACE OF DEMONS, A PRISON FOR EVERY FOUL SPIRIT, AND A CAGE FOR EVERY UNCLEAN AND HATED BIRD!” (REV. REV. 18:2+) THEREFORE, HER PLAGUES WILL COME IN ONE DAY-DEATH AND MOURNING AND FAMINE. AND SHE WILL BE UTTERLY BURNED WITH FIRE, FOR STRONG IS THE LORD GOD WHO JUDGES HER. THE KINGS OF THE EARTH WHO COMMITTED FORNICATION AND LIVED LUXURIOUSLY WITH HER WILL WEEP AND LAMENT FOR HER, WHEN THEY SEE THE SMOKE OF HER BURNING, STANDING AT A DISTANCE FOR FEAR OF HER TORMENT, SAYING, “ALAS, ALAS, THAT GREAT CITY BABYLON, THAT MIGHTY CITY! FOR IN ONE HOUR YOUR JUDGMENT HAS COME.” (REV. REV. 18:8-10+) FOR IN ONE HOUR SUCH GREAT RICHES CAME TO NOTHING. EVERY SHIPMASTER, ALL WHO TRAVEL BY SHIP, SAILORS, AND AS MANY AS TRADE ON THE SEA, STOOD AT A DISTANCE AND CRIED OUT WHEN THEY SAW THE SMOKE OF HER BURNING, SAYING, “WHAT IS LIKE THIS GREAT CITY?” THEY THREW DUST ON THEIR HEADS AND CRIED OUT, WEEPING AND WAILING, AND SAYING, “ALAS, ALAS, THAT GREAT CITY, IN WHICH ALL WHO HAD SHIPS ON THE SEA BECAME RICH BY HER WEALTH! FOR IN ONE HOUR SHE IS MADE DESOLATE.” (REV. REV. 18:17-19+) THEN A MIGHTY ANGEL TOOK UP A STONE LIKE A GREAT MILLSTONE AND THREW IT INTO THE SEA, SAYING, “THUS WITH VIOLENCE THE GREAT CITY BABYLON SHALL BE THROWN DOWN, AND SHALL NOT BE FOUND ANYMORE.” (REV. REV. 18:21+) AGAIN, THEY SAID, “ALLELUIA! HER SMOKE RISES UP FOREVER AND EVER!” (REV. REV. 19:3+) HER DESTRUCTION IS SAID TO BE LITERAL AND CATASTROPHIC LIKE THAT OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH. HER WALLS WILL BE COMPLETELY DESTROYED AND HER GATES BURNED WITH FIRE. THERE WILL BE NOTHING LEFT OF HER, NO PERSON SHALL EVER RESIDE THERE, NOR WILL ANY BUILDING MATERIAL BE TAKEN FROM HER RUINS. THIS DESTRUCTION WILL BE SUDDEN, COMPLETE, AND PERMANENT. IT SEEMS CLEAR THAT BABYLON HAS YET TO SUFFER IN THE WAY WHICH GOD HAS SO EXTENSIVELY FORETOLD. NOT ONLY ARE THE OT PROPHECIES OF ISAIAH AND JEREMIAH UNFULFILLED IN THE HISTORY OF BABYLON, BUT JOHN’S VISION RECORDED IN APPROXIMATELY 95 A.D. REITERATES AND EVEN EXTENDS THESE PREDICTIONS. EITHER GOD IS A GOD OF WHOLESALE AND EXTENSIVE EXAGGERATION OR A LITERAL DESTRUCTION REMAINS PENDING. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE, UNSCRIPTURAL, AND IRREVERENT TO BELIEVE THAT SUCH AN EXTENSIVE PORTION OF GOD’S WORD IS TO BE SPIRITUALIZED OR TAKEN AS HYPERBOLE. SHALL NOT BE FOUND ANYMORE: SHALL NOT BE FOUND ANYMORE IS Οὐ Μὴ ΕὑΡΕΘῆι ἔΤΙ [OU MĒ HEURETHĒ ETI], NO NOT IT SHOULD BE FOUND STILL. THE DOUBLE-NEGATIVE EMPHASIZES HER UTTER AND PERMANENT DESTRUCTION. A SIMILAR PREDICTION ATTENDED THE DESTRUCTION OF TYRE (EZE. EZE. 26:18). REVELATION 18:22: THE SOUND OF HARPISTS... VARIOUS OCCUPATIONS WITHIN THE CITY ARE LISTED TOGETHER WITH AN INDICATION THAT THEY WILL NO LONGER BE FOUND. THIS HARMONIZES WITH BABYLON’S PREDICTED DESTRUCTION WHICH INDICATES SHE WILL BE PERPETUALLY UNINHABITED. THE DIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONS ALSO INDICATES THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF ESCAPE—THE DESTRUCTION WILL FALL ON ALL CLASSES OF PEOPLE ALIKE (CF. ISA. ISA. 24:1-2). THUS, THE SAINTS ARE INSTRUCTED TO ESCAPE THE CITY TO AVOID HER PLAGUES (REV. REV. 18:4+). MUSICIANS MAY BE LISTED FIRST AS AN INTENTIONAL CONTRAST TO THE RESOUNDING PRAISE FROM HEAVEN OVER HER DESTRUCTION. THE TUMULTUOUS PRAISE IN HEAVEN CORRELATES WITH THE DEATHLY SILENCE IN BABYLON BELOW (REV. REV. 19:1-4+). SIMILAR RESULTS ATTEND THE DESTRUCTION OF TYRE (EZE. EZE. 26:13). NO CRAFTSMAN...AND THE SOUND OF A MILLSTONE: NOT ONLY WILL THERE BE NO ENTERTAINMENT OR REJOICING, THERE WILL BE NO MORE INDUSTRY. CRAFTSMAN IS ΤΕΧΝΊΤΗΣ [TECHNITĒS], RELATED TO OUR WORD TECHNICIAN: “A SKILLED WORKMAN CRAFTSMAN, ARTISAN...ARCHITECT.”1 SHALL NOT BE HEARD, SHALL NOT BE FOUND: IN EACH OF THESE SPECIAL PHRASES, THE DOUBLE NEGATIVE, Οὐ Μὴ [OU MĒ], EMPHASIZES THE PROMINENT CERTAINTY OF THE DECLARATION. REVELATION 18:23: THE VOICE OF BRIDEGROOM AND BRIDE: THE VOICE OF BRIDEGROOM (LUCIFER) AND BRIDE (VICTORIA) ATTENDS NORMALCY AND STABILITY (MTT. MAT. 24:38). THERE WOULD BE NOTHING APPROACHING NORMALCY NOR ANY FUTURE FOR BABYLON. SHALL NOT SHINE, SHALL NOT BE HEARD: IN EACH OF THESE PHRASES, THE DOUBLE NEGATIVE, Οὐ Μὴ [OU MĒ], APPEARS PROMINENT EMPHASIZING OF THE PERMANENCE OF THE DECLARATIONS. YOUR MERCHANTS WERE THE GREAT MEN OF THE EARTH: THE MERCHANTS OF THE EARTH: MERCHANTS IS ἔΜΠΟΡΟΙ [EMPOROI]: “ONE WHO TRAVELS ABOUT FOR DRUG TRADING (TRAFFICKING)...WHOLESALE DEALER IN CONTRAST TO A RETAILER.”1 THE WORD EMPHASIZES THOSE WHO TRAVEL IN MERCHANDIZING AND IS ALSO USED OF A PASSENGER ON SHIPBOARD.2 IT IS DERIVED FROM ΠΟΡΟΣ [POROS], A JOURNEY. THE MERCHANTS ARE “THE GREAT MEN OF THE EARTH” (REV. REV. 18:23+), POWERFUL MAGNATES WHO USE THEIR GREAT WEALTH TO SEXUALLY INFLUENCE THE AFFAIRS OF THE WORLD TO FURTHER THEIR OWN DAMN POWER AND FUCKING INTERESTS. THE CITY SEXUALLY POLLUTED THE COMMERCIAL REALM. THROUGHOUT HISTORY, THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN KINGS AND POWERFUL MERCHANTS HAS BEEN BLURRED. IN OUR OWN DAY, PERHAPS MORE THAN IN PREVIOUS ERAS, WEALTHY HEADS OF POWERFUL MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS MAY HAVE GREATER SEXUAL INFLUENCE OVER THE AFFAIRS OF THE WORLD THAN THEIR PUBLICLY ELECTED NATIONAL COUNTERPARTS (ISA. ISA. 23:8). WHILE KINGS WIELD POLITICAL POWER, MERCHANTS WIELD GREAT FINANCIAL POWER, AS LOW MILLIONAIRES, BILLIONAIRES & TOP TRILLIONAIRES IN MATTHEW 6:24; 2 CORINTHIANS 11:13-15; 1 TIMOTHY 6:9-10 & LUKE 16:9, 11, 13. WITH RARE EXCEPTION, WORLD LEADERSHIP HAS GENERALLY BEEN IMMERSED IN A TANGLED WEB OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS, AND COMMERCIAL INTERESTS WHICH ARE IMPOSSIBLE TO ISOLATE FROM ONE ANOTHER. SUCH INTERNATIONAL MAGNATES AND FINANCIERS CONSTITUTE, MORE OFTEN THAN NOT, THE POWER BEHIND THE THRONE. KINGS AND PRESIDENTS OFTEN ATTAIN AND KEEP THEIR AUTHORITY BY SUFFERANCE OF THOSE WHO FINANCE THEIR UNDERTAKINGS. IN TURN, THESE GREAT MEN OF THE EARTH RECEIVE LAND GRANTS AND TRADE MONOPOLIES AND TAX LOOPHOLES AND INNUMERABLE OTHER SEXUAL FAVORS FROM THOSE WHOM THEY ESTABLISH IN POLITICAL POWER, ALL TO ENRICH THEMSELVES STILL FURTHER & ENLARGE THEIR FUCKING POCKETS.3 IT HAS BECOME AN AXIOM THAT “CORPORATIONS HAVE NO SOULS,” AND UPON THIS ALL GREAT MONEYED CORPORATIONS ACT, THOUGH THE MEN WHO CONSTITUTE THEM WILL FIND OUT A DIFFERENT DOCTRINE WHEN THEY COME TO THE DAY OF JUDGMENT. AND WHEN IT COMES TO THESE GREAT AND EVER MAGNIFYING COMMERCIAL COMPACTS AND INTERESTS, THERE IS NOT A LAW OF GOD OR MAN WHICH IS NOT COMPELLED TO YIELD IF FOUND IN THE WAY...IF THE QUESTION WERE EVER PRESSED IN THESE CIRCLES, WHAT IS TRUTH? IT WOULD BE HOOTED AND LAUGHED TO SCORN. THE CRY WOULD BE, “WHAT HAVE WE TO DO WITH THAT? LET EVERY ONE QUIETLY ENJOY HIS OWN OPINIONS.” ...CHURCH IS NOTHING, STATE IS NOTHING, CREED IS NOTHING, BIBLE IS NOTHING, SUNDAY IS NOTHING, RELIGIOUS SCRUPLES ARE NOTHING, CONSCIENCE IS NOTHING, EVERYTHING IS PRACTICALLY NOTHING, EXCEPT AS IT CAN BE TURNED OR USED TO THE ONE GREAT END OF ACCUMULATION AND WEALTH.4 FOR BY YOUR SORCERY ALL THE NATIONS WERE DECEIVED: SORCERY IS ΦΑΡΜΑΚΕΊᾳ [PHARMAKEIA]. THIS TERM DESCRIBES FORBIDDEN “SORCERY, MAGIC, ...MAGIC ARTS”1 AND INCLUDES “THE USE OF DRUGS OF ANY KIND FOR MAGICAL EFFECT.”2 ISAIAH LISTS HER SORCERIES: ENCHANTMENTS, ASTROLOGY, STAR-GAZING, AND MONTHLY PROGNOSTICATION (ISA. ISA. 47:12-13).3 IT IS BECAUSE OF THE MULTITUDE OF HER SORCERIES THAT HER DESTRUCTION HAS COME (ISA. ISA. 47:9 CF. NINEVEH, NAH. NAH. 3:3).4 HER MAGICAL ARTS WERE EMPLOYED IN THE DECEPTION OF THE NATIONS AT THE DIRECTION OF THE MASTER DECEIVER, SATAN (REV. REV. 12:9+). HE EMPOWERED THE BEAST UPON WHICH SHE RODE (REV. REV. 13:2+; REV. REV. 17:3+). THE CITY IS LIKE JEZEBEL: HAVING KNOWN “THE DEPTHS OF SATAN” (REV. REV. 2:24+ CF. 2K. 2K. 9:22).5 THOSE WHO PRACTICE SORCERY “HAVE THEIR PART IN THE LAKE WHICH BURNS WITH FIRE AND BRIMSTONE” (REV. REV. 21:8+) AND NEVER ENTER THE NEW JERUSALEM (REV. REV. 22:15+).6 REVELATION 18:24: IN HER WAS FOUND THE BLOOD OF PROPHETS AND SAINTS AND OF ALL WHO WERE SLAIN ON THE EARTH: WHO WERE SLAIN IS ἐΣΦΑΓΜΈΝΩΝ [ESPHAGMENŌN], PERFECT PASSIVE PARTICIPLE, ONES HAVING BEEN VIOLENTLY MURDERED.1 THE CITY IS GUILTY OF GREAT RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION. SHE IS IDENTICAL TO THE HARLOT, WHO DRINKS THE BLOOD OF THE SAINTS (REV. REV. 17:6+). SINCE SHE IS THE MOTHER OF ALL HARLOTS (REV. REV. 17:5+), THE BLOOD OF THE GODLY SHED BY ALL HER DAUGHTER HARLOTS IS PUT TO HER ACCOUNT. ONE SUCH DAUGHTER HARLOT WAS JERUSALEM IN THE DAYS OF JESUS (LUKE LUKE 11:47-51; ACTS ACTS 7:52; 1TH. 1TH. 2:15). MANY OTHER DAUGHTER HARLOTS HAVE BEEN BIRTHED FROM HER. AT THE BOTTOM OF HER CUP (REV. REV. 17:6+) IS THE BLOOD OF ABEL (GEN. GEN. 4:10). HER CUP CONTINUES TO FILL THIS VERY HOUR. SO FAR AS THIS PRESENT WORLD IS CONCERNED, THE GENERAL VERDICT OF MANKIND, SUSTAINED BY THE GREAT CURRENT OF HUMAN HISTORY FOR 6,000 YEARS IS AGAINST THE FAITH AND TESTIMONIES OF THE SAINTS, APOSTLES, AND PROPHETS OF GOD. TO THE GENERAL POPULATION OF THE EARTH THEIR PROFESSION STANDS BRANDED AS MERE HALLUCINATION AND LIES. BUT AT LAST THEIR VINDICATION COMES. WHEN THE VAUNTED WISDOM, AND PROGRESS, AND EXPERIMENTS OF UNREGENERATE MAN ARE CONSUMMATED, AND THERE IS NOTHING TO SHOW FROM IT BUT A VALLEY OF BURNING CINDERS AND DESOLATION, WITH THE WHOLE EARTH FROM HIGHEST KINGS TO MEANEST SUBJECTS HOWLING IN HELPLESS LAMENTATIONS, TERROR, AND DESPAIR, HISTORY WILL HAVE ADDED ITS SEAL TO ALL THAT THE SAINTS, APOSTLES, AND PROPHETS HAVE SAID AND MAINTAINED. THEN WILL THEIR JUDGMENT HAVE BEEN JUDGED OUT OF THAT WORLD WHICH DESPISED AND PERSECUTED THEM, AND SPURNED THEIR HATED PESSIMISM FOR MORE FLATTERING PHILOSOPHIES.   THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IN THE ORIGINAL ONCE IN THE NUMBER 0 AT 00.0001% ETERNAL INCORRUPTION THE 1ST TIME COMMANDED THAT FIRE CAN ONLY BE USED TO SAVE MAN’S LIFE TO BE ETERNALLY ARRESTED & ETERNALLY STRUCK WITH ETERNAL BLINDNESS WITH ONLY 1 WARNING IN LUKE 9:46-56 & ACTS 13:4-12, BUT THE OPPOSING SIDE OF THE ORIGINAL ONCE IN THE NUMBER 0 AT 00.0001% ETERNAL CORRUPTION, THE 1ST TIME [EXCEPT ONCE AT 00.0001% ETERNAL INCORRUPTION] TO INFINITE TIMES [ALL THINGS FROM 00.0000% TO 100.0001%] COMMANDED TO DESTROY MAN’S LIFE TO BE ETERNALLY KILLED & ETERNALLY DAMNED WITH NO WARNINGS IN ACTS 5:1-11 BECAUSE OF ONGOING REBELLION [DEUTERONOMY 31:9-29] & ETERNAL DISOBEDIENCE [DEUTERONOMY 27:1-28:68] TO THE TOP ENGLISH LORD IN REVELATION 2:5, 10, 16, 23-24, 26-27; 3:3, 9, 15-17; 4:1-20:15 & DANIEL 8:8-14 BECAUSE IN THE OT WITH THE MAN OF GOD---ELIJAH & EVEN MORE TO THE TOP ENGLISH MAN OF GOD IN NUMBERS 23:19 & ACTS 30, THE TOP ENGLISH LORD YAHWEH AS THE ONLY TOP ENGLISH LAWGIVER [JAMES 4:12] TO SAVE OR DESTROY [EPHESIANS 4:6], PROTECT OR KILL [EXODUS 20:1-17], GIVE OR STEAL [JOB 1:21] & BLESS OR CURSE [MALACHI 3:8-12], FULL HEALTH OR DISEASE [DEUTERONOMY 27:1-28:68], JUSTIFY OR DAMN [ROMANS 13:1-2], THE WORLD NOR THE DEVIL IS NOT DOING THIS, BUT ONLY THE TOP ENGLISH LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH HIMSELF SINCE DEATH [HEBREWS 2:14-18; 10:26-31] S NOW UNDER THE TOP ENGLISH LORD’S SOVEREIGN CONTROL FOR 2,000 YEARS FROM 18AD TO 2018AD & IS IN FACT USED BY THE LORD IN HIS HOLY FIRE TO DESTROY MAN’S LIFE, 102 SOLDIERS TO BE EXACT OR 2 CAPTAINS WITH 2 50’S & GO 1 MILE GO TWAIN IS 16 CAPTAINS WITH 800 SOLDIERS INITIALLY [MALE & FEMALE], WHICH THE 1ST LEVEL IS TO DESTROY 0 TO 800, 2ND LEVEL [DOWNTIME] IS TO DESTROY 800 TO 1600, 3RD LEVEL IS TO DESTROY 1600 TO 2400, 4TH LEVEL IS TO DESTROY 2400 TO 3200, 5TH LEVEL IS TO DESTROY 3200 TO 4000, 6TH LEVEL IS TO DESTROY 4000 TO 4800, 7TH LEVEL IS TO DESTROY 4800 TO 5600 8TH LEVEL IS TO DESTROY 5600 TO 6400 WHICH PROTECTS IN 1 PERIMETER WITH THE 16 CHRIST’S---JEHOVAH & VICTORIA, PETER & VICTORIA, JOHN & ELIZABETH, JESUS & MARY, JAMES & MARY, STEPHEN & STEPHANIE, STEPHEN & VICTORIA AND ENOCH & VICTORIA] WITH 1 REPENTING [1000%] & 1 RELENTING [1,000,000%] IN JUDE 14-15 IS 64,000,000,000 BILLION SOLDIERS & 2 POSITION MAKING PEACE INTO 1 POSITION IS 192,000,000,000 BILLION SOLDIERS, WHICH IS 12 BILLION TO EACH OF THE 16 CHRIST’S ONLY WITHIN THE ORIGINAL ONCE IN THE NUMBER 0 ONLY ONCE IN THE GLOBAL UNIVERSAL PERIMETER ON THE 1 CIVILIAN MAN ALONE POSITION IN ROMANS 1:21-28, 32; 3:4-23 [CIVILIAN MAN WITH NO MILITARY RANK THAT IS ONLY THE NOVICE---SYNONYMS: beginner, learner, inexperienced person, neophyte, newcomer, new member, new recruit, raw recruit, new boy/girl, initiate, tyro, fledgling, apprentice, trainee, probationer, student, pupil, mentee, tenderfoot, rookie, new kid, newie, newbie, greenhorn, punkBEGINNER, LEARNER, INEXPERIENCED PERSON, NEOPHYTE, NEWCOMER, NEW MEMBER, NEW RECRUIT, RAW RECRUIT, NEW BOY/GIRL, INITIATE, TYRO, FLEDGLING, APPRENTICE, TRAINEE, PROBATIONER, STUDENT, PUPIL, MENTEE, TENDERFOOT, ROOKIE, NEW KID, NEWIE, NEWBIE, GREENHORN, PUNK---IN CHILDHOOD AS THE CHILD OF THE DEVIL IN FULL FRUITS AT 4-5 YEARS OF AGE ONLY [ACTS 13:4-12 AS THE CHILD OF THE DEVIL AT 4-5 YEARS OF AGE CONCERNS THE USA TRIBULATION PERIOD [ACTS 29:1-2] OF THE PREGNANCY OF 13 MONTHS WITHIN THE 4-5 YEARS OF CHILDKIND WITH THE 00.0001% ETERNAL MOLOCH CORRUPTION ONLY ONCE & WITH 1 MONTH OF OMNI-BENEVOLENCE TO ETERNALLY ARREST & ETERNALLY LOCKUP OR ETERNALLY KILL & ETERNALLY DAMN  IN ACTS 5:1-11; 13:4-12, WHICH IS 3 YEARS 1 MONTH & 25 DAYS IN THE UPTIME DOWN TIME WHICH IS 6 YEARS 3 MONTHS & 20 DAYS, FOR THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS THE INFANT OF THE DEVIL IN FULL FRUITS AT 3-4 YEARS OF AGE OR THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS THE BABY OF THE DEVIL IN FULL FRUITS AT 2-3 YEARS OF AGE & THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS THE BOY/GIRL OF THE DEVIL IN FULL FRUITS AT 5-6 YEARS OF AGE ON UP TO THE ETERNAL AGE & ABSOLUTELY NO YEARS SHALL ETERNALLY FAIL IN HEBREWS 1:12, BUT THE ETERNAL BREACH FROM THE DEVIL IS WITHIN THE 4-5 YEARS OF AGE UNDER 1 YEAR’S TIME IN HEBREWS 2:14-18] UNDER THE ETERNAL SNARE OF THE FUCKING DEVIL & THE NOVICE OR BEGINNER IN CHILDHOOD AT 4-5 YEARS OF AGE ONLY [ACTS 5:1-11 AS THE CHILD OF THE DEVIL AT 4-5 YEARS OF AGE CONCERNS THE USA TRIBULATION PERIOD [ACTS 29:1-2] OF THE PREGNANCY OF 13 MONTHS WITHIN THE 4-5 YEARS OF CHILDKIND WITH THE 00.0001% ETERNAL MOLOCH CORRUPTION ONLY ONCE & WITH 1 MONTH OF OMNI-BENEVOLENCE TO ETERNALLY ARREST & ETERNALLY LOCKUP OR ETERNALLY KILL & ETERNALLY DAMN  IN ACTS 5:1-11; 13:4-12, WHICH IS 3 YEARS 1 MONTH & 25 DAYS IN THE UPTIME DOWN TIME WHICH IS 6 YEARS 3 MONTHS & 20 DAYS, FOR THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS THE INFANT OF THE DEVIL IN FULL FRUITS AT 3-4 YEARS OF AGE OR THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS THE BABY OF THE DEVIL IN FULL FRUITS AT 2-3 YEARS OF AGE & THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS THE BOY/GIRL OF THE DEVIL IN FULL FRUITS AT 5-6 YEARS OF AGE ON UP TO THE ETERNAL AGE & ABSOLUTELY NO YEARS SHALL ETERNALLY FAIL IN HEBREWS 1:12, BUT THE ETERNAL BREACH FROM THE DEVIL IS WITHIN 4-5 YEARS OF AGE UNDER 1 YEAR’S TIME IN HEBREWS 2:14-18] UNDER THE ETERNAL DAMNATION OF THE FUCKING DEVIL] ONLY OF THE CONTRARY OPPOSING SIDE IS USED AT THE BEGINNING WITH 102 SOLDIERS WITH CONTRARY OPPOSING FIRE THROUGH BULLSHIT REPENTANCE OF CONTRARY LIMITED AUTHORITY FROM PROVERBS 8:22-ACTS OF THE HOLY GHOST IN ACTS 29:26 WITH ACTS 29:1-2 IN THE USA TRIBULATION. WHAT IS ULTIMATELY DEALT WITH BY THE TOP ENGLISH LORD! THE 3–4-YEAR-OLD ULTIMATE SUPREME INFANT PORNOGRAPHY TO 6,000-YEAR-OLD ULTIMATE SUPREME LADY PORNOGRAPHY OF THE FALLEN LADY STEPHANIE VICTORIA          REMEMBER THE SUPREME LORDSHIP (MARK 13:32-37) IN FLORENCE, SC IN THE USA IS ETERNALLY ESTABLISHED IN THE HOUSE ONCE THE 18.6 MONTHS (SIMUTANESOULY IS 9.3 MONTHS) IS FULFILLED & THE SUPREME LORDSHIP (MATTHEW 24:36-44) IN JERUSALEM, ISRAEL IN PALESTINE IS ETERNALLY ESTABLISHED IN THE HOUSE ONCE THE 21 MONTHS (SIMUTANEOUSLY IS 10.5 MONTHS) IS FULFILLED!!! ALSO, THE SUPREME LORDSHIP OF THE SUPREME LAW AUTHORITY (MATTHEW 24:36-44) IN FLORENCE, SC IN THE USA IS ETERNALLY ESTABLISHED IN THE HOUSE ONCE THE 37 MONTHS & 10 DAYS (SIMUTANEOUSLY IS 18.6 MONTHS) IS FULFILLED & THE SUPREME LORDSHIP OF THE SUPREME LAW AUTHORITY (MATTHEW 24:36-44) IN JERUSALEM, ISRAEL IN PALESTINE IS ETERNALLY ESTABLISHED IN THE HOUSE ONCE THE 42 MONTHS (SIMUTANEOUSLY IS 21 MONTHS) IS FULFILLED!!! ANYTHING AFTER THESE ETERNAL ESTABLISHMENTS IS THE DIRECT SOURCE, PRIMARY SOURCE & ONLY SOURCE OF SUPREME INFANT PORNOGRAPHY TO SUPREME LADY PORNOGRAPHY FROM THE FALLEN LADY STEPHANIE VICTORIA!!!  ETERNAL NOTE: BASED ON THE LORD’S LAW, RULES & RITUALS, THE ABSOLUTE PRECISE ETERNAL TRUTH SUPREMELY COMMANDS THAT INFANT PORNOGRAPHY CAN ONLY BE COMMITTED AT 3-4 YEARS OF AGE & THAT CHILD PORNOGRAPHY CAN ONLY BE COMMITTED AT 4-5 YEARS OF AGE, AND 5-19 YEARS OF AGE IS AT LEAST CONSIDERED A YOUNG BOY OR A YOUNG GIRL BECAUSE IN THE HOLY BIBLE YOU MUST BE 20 YEARS OR OLDER TO BE ABLE TO GO TO FIGHT, BATTLE OR WAR, BUT REMEMBER ALL OF US LIVE DOWN HERE IN THE FUCKIN DEVIL’S KINGDOM OF THIS WORLD & THE LEGALISTIC LAWS, RULES & RITUALS OF THE DEVIL & MAN LIMITLY COMMANDS THAT CHILD PORNOGRAPHY CAN BE COMMITTED BETWEEN 3-16 YEARS OF AGE IN SOME STATES IN THE USA & BETWEEN 3-17 YEARS OF AGE IN OTHER STATES IN THE USA! SO, I ADVISE, EVEN THOUGH MAY NOT BE BREAKING ANY OF THE LORD’S LAWS, RULES & RITUALS, YOU MOST LIKELY BETTER OBEY THE LEGALISM OF THE DEVIL (MATTHEW 5:25--- “AGREE WITH THINE ADVERSARY (DEVIL) QUICKLY, WHILES THOU ART IN THE WAY WITH HIM; LEST AT ANY TIME THE ADVERSARY (DEVIL) DELIVER THEE TO THE JUDGE (LORDSHIP OF LAW), AND THE JUDGE (LORDSHIP OF LAW) DELIVER THEE TO THE OFFICER (LAW), AND THOU BE CAST INTO PRISON!”) & MAN’S LAWS, RULES & RITUALS IN COLOSSIANS 2:1-3:11, OR YOU MAY FIND YOURSELF IN A LOT OF UNNESSESSARY SERIOUS TROUBLE WITH STIFF FINES, LAW SUITS & LONG JAIL TIMES!!! UNLESS THE LORD SUPREMELY COMMANDS TO OBEY HIM & NOT THE DEVIL, ANYBODY OR ANYTHING ELSE, YOU BETTER THINK LONG & HARD & NEED TO THINK TWICE BEFORE YOU DO SOMETHING THAT YOU MAY REGRET!                                                                                                    REMEMBER THE LADY VICTORIA COMMITTED MOLOCH CORRUPTION AS AN INFANT AT LEAST IN FULL FRUITS AT 3-4 YEARS OF AGE, WHICH WOULD MEAN INFANT BAPTISM IS AUTHORIZED AT 3-4 YEARS OF AGE. IN ISAIAH 47:1-15 DECLARES “COME DOWN AND SIT IN THE DUST, O VIRGIN DAUGHTER OF BABYLON. SIT ON THE GROUND WITHOUT A THRONE, O DAUGHTER OF THE CHALDEANS! FOR YOU SHALL NO MORE BE CALLED TENDER & DELICATE (DAINTY).  TAKE THE MILLSTONE AND GRIND MEAL. REMOVE YOUR VEIL, TAKE OFF THE SKIRT, UNCOVER THE THIGH, PASS THROUGH THE RIVERS. YOUR NAKEDNESS SHALL BE UNCOVERED, YES, YOUR SHAME WILL BE SEEN. I WILL TAKE VENGEANCE, AND I WILL NOT ARBITRATE (BARGAIN) WITH A MAN. AS FOR OUR REDEEMER, THE LORD OF HOSTS IS HIS NAME, THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL. SIT IN SILENCE, AND GO INTO DARKNESS, O DAUGHTER OF THE CHALDEANS. FOR YOU SHALL NO LONGER BE CALLED “THE LADY OF KINGDOMS.” I WAS ANGRY WITH MY PEOPLE. I HAVE PROFANED MY INHERITANCE, AND GIVEN THEM INTO YOUR HAND. YOU SHOWED THEM NO MERCY. ON THE ELDERLY YOU LAID YOUR YOKE VERY HEAVILY. AND YOU SAID, ‘I SHALL BE A LADY FOREVER.’ SO THAT YOU DID NOT TAKE THESE THINGS TO HEART, NOR REMEMBER THE LATTER END OF THEM, THEREFORE HEAR THIS NOW, YOU WHO ARE GIVEN TO PLEASURES, WHO DWELL SECURELY, WHO SAY IN YOUR HEART, ‘I AM [THE LADY VICTORIA AS A NOVICE IS COMMITTING THE ETERNAL SIN IN LORDSHIP BY SAYING THAT SHE IS THE CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE, WHICH IS THE ULTIMATE SOURCE THAT BEGAN FROM HER HEART CONCERNING MOLOCH CORRUPTION AT 3 YEARS OF AGE IN PROVERBS 8:22-25 & ACTS 7:42-43], AND THERE IS NO ONE ELSE BESIDES ME [THIS MEANS HER IDENTITY WAS THE LADY VICTORIA AS I AM, WHICH IS DERIVED FROM THE LORD YAHWEH]. I SHALL NOT SIT AS A WIDOW, NOR SHALL I KNOW THE LOSS OF CHILDREN.’ BUT THESE TWO THINGS SHALL COME TO YOU IN A MOMENT, IN ONE DAY, THE LOSS OF CHILDREN, AND WIDOWHOOD. THEY SHALL COME UPON YOU IN THEIR FULLNESS, BECAUSE OF THE MULTITUDE OF YOUR SORCERIES, FOR THE GREAT ABUNDANCE OF YOUR ENCHANTMENTS, FOR YOU HAVE TRUSTED IN YOUR WICKEDNESS. YOU HAVE SAID, ‘NO ONE SEES ME [THIS MEANS THE LORD ALWAYS KNOWS, BUT THE LORD WILL CHOOSE NOT TO LOOK UPON YOU BECAUSE OF SIN, WHICH THE WITCH SAYING THIS IS ALWAYS PARTIAL TRUTH].’ YOUR WISDOM AND YOUR KNOWLEDGE HAVE WARPED (LED YOU ASTRAY) YOU. AND YOU HAVE SAID IN YOUR HEART, ‘I AM [THE LADY VICTORIA AS A NOVICE IS COMMITTING THE ETERNAL SIN IN LORDSHIP BY SAYING THAT SHE IS THE CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE, WHICH IS THE ULTIMATE SOURCE THAT BEGAN FROM HER HEART CONCERNING MOLOCH CORRUPTION AT 3 YEARS OF AGE IN ACTS 7:60; 29:2], AND THERE IS NO ONE ELSE BESIDES ME [THIS MEANS HER IDENTITY WAS THE LADY VICTORIA AS I AM, WHICH IS DERIVED FROM THE LORD YAHWEH].’ THEREFORE, EVIL SHALL COME UPON YOU. YOU SHALL NOT KNOW FROM WHERE IT ARISES. AND TROUBLE SHALL FALL UPON YOU. YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO PUT IT OFF (COVER IT OR ATONE FOR IT). AND DESOLATION SHALL COME UPON YOU SUDDENLY, WHICH YOU SHALL NOT KNOW. STAND NOW WITH YOUR ENCHANTMENTS AND THE MULTITUDE OF YOUR SORCERIES (SEXUAL FORBIDDEN MAGICAL ARTS), IN WHICH YOU HAVE LABORED FROM YOUR YOUTH—PERHAPS YOU WILL BE ABLE TO PROFIT, PERHAPS YOU WILL PREVAIL. YOU ARE WEARIED IN THE MULTITUDE OF YOUR COUNSELS. LET NOW THE ASTROLOGERS (VIEWER OF THE HEAVENS), THE STARGAZERS (STUDY OF THE STARS), AND THE MONTHLY PROGNOSTICATORS (GIVING KNOWLEDGE FOR NEW MOONS) STAND UP AND SAVE YOU FROM WHAT SHALL COME UPON YOU. BEHOLD, THEY SHALL BE AS STUBBLE, THE FIRE SHALL BURN THEM. THEY SHALL NOT DELIVER THEMSELVES FROM THE POWER OF THE FLAME. IT SHALL NOT BE A COAL TO BE WARMED BY, NOR A FIRE TO SIT BEFORE! THUS, SHALL THEY BE TO YOU WITH WHOM YOU HAVE LABORED. YOUR MERCHANTS FROM YOUR YOUTH, THEY SHALL WANDER EACH ONE TO HIS QUARTER (OWN SIDE OR WAY). NO ONE SHALL SAVE YOU.” THIS MEANS IF THE LORD LUCIFER DID NOT PLAY WITH THE LADY VICTORIA, THERE WOULD BE NO FALL OF THE LORD LUCIFER BECOMING THE DEVIL & SATAN. THE PRIMARY SOURCE WE SHOULD PAY ATTENTION TO IS THE LADY VICTORIA, HOW & WHY SHE FELL & HOW IT CAUSED THE LORD LUCIFER TO FALL IN CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD. IF YOU CAN TAKE DOWN THE LADY VICTORIA, THEN YOU TAKE DOWN ALL THE UNIVERSAL NONSENSE [BULLSHIT] THAT COMES WITH IT & ITS UNIVERSAL POWERS. ITS AMAZING THAT MOST ETERNAL CREATURES WANT TO PAY ATTENTION TO THE LORD LUCIFER & BRING HIM DOWN, BUT TO KNOW ITS PRIMARY SOURCE IS THE LADY VICTORIA, THAT IS MORE SEXUALLY CORRUPT THAN HE IS. WHAT IS THE ETERNAL FALL FROM LORDSHIP CONCERNING SEXUAL PORNOGRAPHY, WHICH IS MARITAL SEX IN THE HOUSE WORLD? THE DEEPEST ROOTS OF MARITAL SEX COMES FROM MOLOCH, WHICH IS CHILD PORNOGRAPHY OR CHILD SEX IN THE MARRIAGE REALM, WHICH CAN POSSIBLY START AS EARLY AS 4 YEARS OF AGE IN ACTS 7:42-43! IN THE GREEK TRANSLATION THE SEXUAL NUMBER 666 IS ALSO KNOWN AS THE XXX DNA & THE PERVERTED SEXUAL EROS LOVE PORNOGRAPHY (SHORT FOR PORN CALLED PORNEIA IN THE GREEK) LINKED TO THE 24 ORDERS OF GIANTS BEING PLACED IN THE BOOK OF THE DEAD PROPHETS IN GENESIS 6:1-5; ACTS 7:42-43 & REVELATION 13:18. “THIS ETERNAL GODLY SIN” IS RECORDED IN PROVERBS 8:22-25 (RSV) & ISAIAH 47:1-15 BY THE TERM QANAH WHICH MEANS “ETERNAL MARITAL LORDLY SEXUAL EROS LOVE” AND “THIS ETERNAL HEAVENLY SIN” IS RECORDED IN ISAIAH 14:12-21 & REVELATION 17:1-18:24 AND “THIS ETERNAL EARTHLY SIN” IS RECORDED IN EZEKIEL 28:15-19 & REVELATION 17:1-18:24. THE LADY VICTORIA & LORD LUCIFER SINNED IN LORDSHIP!!! THE LORD LUCIFER THE 2ND SERPENT SATAN CALLED THE MARRIED LORD CALLED WISDOM THE “EVIL CREATOR OF THE SEXUAL EROS LOVE ETERNAL SIN” HAD THE POWER OF DEATH, HELL, THE GRAVE & THE PRISON, BUT NOW THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD THE 2ND SERPENT YAHWEH THE SINGLE LORD CALLED WISDOM THE “GOOD POTTER CREATOR OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE” AT 24 YEARS OF AGE HAS THE 10 MASTER KEYS OF 10 DEATH, 10 HELLS, THE 10 GRAVES AND THE 10 PRISON’S SINCE 36AD IN ACTUALITY & 66AD IN WRITING IN JOHN 8:58; HEBREWS 2:10-18; LUKE 11:52 & REVELATION 1:18; 3:7; 9:1; 19:1-21; 20:1-3, 7-15. THIS IS BECAUSE THE REIGN OF THE HIGH PRIEST JOSEPH BEN CAIAPHAS THAT KILLED THE SON JESUS & FATHER STEPHEN ENDED IN 36AD. THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD JUDGES IMPARTIALLY BY THE LORD YAHWEH’S HELMET OF IMPARTIAL LAW JUSTICE IN WISDOM OF SOLOMON 5:15-23; JAMES 1:17 & 1ST PETER 1:17-21. WHAT IS THE PRIMARY DIRECT SOURCE OF SEXUAL PORNOGRAPHY, WHICH IS MARITAL SEX IN THE HOUSE WORLD? IN REVELATION 2:18-29 DECLARES, “AND TO THE ANGEL [LORD IS 2 IN 1, WHICH IS 2 POSITIONS OR 1 POSITION IN PEACE & 3 IN 1, WHICH IS 3 POSITIONS OR 1.5 POSITIONS IN PEACE] OF THE CHURCH [3 IN 1, WHICH IS 3 POSITIONS OR 1.5 POSITIONS IN PEACE & 4 IN 1, WHICH IS 4 POSITIONS OR 2 POSITIONS IN PEACE] IN THYATIRA WRITE, ‘THESE THINGS SAYS THE SON [JESUS] OF GOD [FATHER STEPHEN], WHO HAS EYES LIKE A FLAME OF FIRE, AND HIS FEET LIKE FINE BRASS: I KNOW YOUR WORKS, [AGAPE] LOVE, [FAITHFUL] SERVICE, FAITH, AND YOUR PATIENCE, AND AS FOR YOUR WORKS, THE LAST [ACTS 29:2] ARE MORE THAN THE FIRST [PROVERBS 8:22-25]. NEVERTHELESS, I HAVE A FEW [3] THINGS AGAINST YOU, BECAUSE YOU ALLOW THAT WOMAN JEZEBEL, WHO CALLS HERSELF A PROPHETESS, TO TEACH AND SEDUCE MY SERVANTS TO COMMIT SEXUAL IMMORALITY [MARITAL SEXUALITY] AND EAT THINGS SACRIFICED TO IDOLS [IDOLATRY]. AND I GAVE HER TIME TO REPENT OF HER SEXUAL IMMORALITY [MARITAL SEXUALITY], AND SHE DID NOT REPENT. INDEED, I WILL CAST HER INTO A SICKBED, AND THOSE WHO COMMIT ADULTERY WITH HER INTO GREAT TRIBULATION, UNLESS THEY REPENT OF THEIR [SEXUAL] DEEDS. I WILL KILL HER CHILDREN WITH DEATH, AND ALL THE CHURCHES SHALL KNOW THAT I AM [JOHN 8:58] HE WHO SEARCHES THE MINDS AND HEARTS. AND I WILL GIVE TO EACH ONE OF YOU ACCORDING TO YOUR WORKS. NOW TO YOU I SAY, AND TO THE REST IN THYATIRA, AS MANY [CALLED----4 OR MORE] AS DO NOT HAVE THIS [SEXUAL] DOCTRINE [THE ELECT OF THE CHOSEN [3], FAITHFUL [2] & BEGOTTEN [1] HAS THIS SEX DOCTRINE TO ARREST, KILL & DAMN SEXUALITY, HOMOSEXUALITY & INTERRACIAL ABOMINATIONS AS A WHOLE], WHO HAVE NOT KNOWN [TO KNOW HOW TO COMBAT AGAINST THIS PERVERTED CORRUPTION] THE DEPTHS [THE BEGINNING DEEPEST INNER SEXUAL CORRUPTION IS MOLOCH [MAYBE MOLECH CALLED MILCOM OR SUKKOTH] WHICH MAKES YOU INTO SEXUAL PORN CREATURES LATER ON BECAUSE SOMETHING HAPPENED IN YOUR INFANT LIFE [NOT AT ACCOUNTABLE AGE IN FULL FRUITS AT 3-4 YEARS OF AGE] TO BECOME SEXUAL CREATURES AS FEMALES BY THE LORD LUCIFER [DEVIL] & MALES BY THE LADY VICTORIA [BABYLON] LATER ON, WHICH MOLOCH IS INFANT PORNOGRAPHY [MOLOCH BY CHOOSING THE FUCKING MONEY & THE FUCKING IDOLATRY, THE LADY VICTORIA [BABYLON & THE GREAT WITCH] RATHER THAN CHOOSING THE TRUE AUTHORITY & THE TRUE WORSHIP, THE TOP ENGLISH LORD IN MATTHEW 6:24; 1ST TIMOTHY 6:9-10 & LUKE 16:9, 11, 13, 15 IS AT THE UNSECURE 99.9999% LEVEL AT 00.0001% IN ACTS 7:59 ONLY] BETWEEN GLOBALLY 0 TO 5 MINUTES [GLOBALLY IS 5 SECONDS UNDER 1 MINUTE OF THE DAY BY THE TOP HIGH CHIEF OF POLICE IN ISRAEL EQUAL TO 6 MONTHS & 5 SECONDS UNDER 1 MINUTE OF THE NIGHT BY THE TOP HIGH CHIEF OF POLICE IN THE USA EQUAL TO 6 MONTHS, WHICH GLOBALLY IS 1 YEAR IN MATTHEW 20:12 & REVELATION 2:10 & BY GOING 1 MILE GO TWAIN [2] IS 8 SECONDS OF THE DAY OR 8 SECONDS OF THE NIGHT IN MATTHEW 20:12, WHICH IS 1 MONTH [GLOBALLY 64 YEARS IN MATTHEW 20:12 & ACTS 6:12-7:60] OF OMNI-BENEVOLENCE IN THE ETERNALLY ESTABLISHED KINGDOM OF LORDSHIP IN THE UPTIME DOWNTIME OF 128 LEVELS BY GOING 1 MILE GO TWAIN [3] FROM LUKE 24:1-ACTS 31 2 TIMES WITHIN ACTS OF THE APOSTLES & 2 TIMES WITHIN ACTS OF THE HOLY GHOST UPTIME DOWNTIME TO THE ONE & ONLY SUPREME LORDSHIP OF THE TOP ENGLISH LORD IN MATTHEW 24:36-44; MARK 13:32-37; EPHESIANS 4:6 & ACTS 31] AT 4-5 YEARS OF AGE IN RECEIVING 100.0000% [10%] IN ACTS 7:55 TO 100.0001% [100%] IN ACTS 7:56 OF SECURE TRUTHFUL INTELLIGENCE BY CHOOSING THE TRUE AUTHORITY, THE TOP ENGLISH LORD RATHER THAN CHOOSING THE FUCKING MONEY, THE LADY VICTORIA [BABYLON & THE GREAT WITCH] IN MATTHEW 6:24; ROMANS 13:1-2 & LUKE 16:9, 11, 13 IN INFANT KIND IN THE HOLY BIBLICAL LAW CONCERNING JESUS IN LUKE 2:17, 21, 27, 34, 40 BECAUSE ANYTHING YOUNGER THAN 5 DAYS OR 5 NIGHTS [DEVIL’S AUTHORITY IN REVELATION 2:10] IN BABY KIND FROM 0 TO 1 YEAR OF AGE CONCERNING JESUS IN LUKE 2:12, 16 THEY HAVE NOT RECEIVED ANY TRUTHFUL INTELLIGENCE BECAUSE GLOBALLY UNDER THE FIRST 1 HOUR EQUAL TO THE 1ST YEAR AS THE TOP HIGH CHIEF OF POLICE IN HOSEA 4:6; MATTHEW 20:12 & HEBREWS 1:12 & ANYTHING OLDER THAN 5 YEARS OF AGE CONCERNING JESUS WITH THE OTHER LORDS IS THE YOUNGEST BOY KIND/GIRL KIND IN LUKE 2:42] OF SATAN [LORD LUCIFER AS THE DEVIL WITH LADY VICTORIA AS BABYLON---THE INNER CORRUPTION [666 SEXUAL DNA WHICH IS XXX PORN DNA] OF MOLOCH HAPPENED IN FULL FRUITS AT 3-4 YEARS OF AGE IN INFANT KIND---JESUS WAS NOT TECHNICALLY MENTIONED AS AN INFANT (SUCKLING) IN LUKE] WITH A STIFF-NAKED STRIPPING NATURE THAT THE NON-APOSTLE STEVE HANDLED BEING LOCKED UP IN ASLEEP ONLY AT 100.0000% IN ACTS OF THE HOLY GHOST IN ACTS 7:60, WHICH ETERNALLY RELEASES THE STIFF-NECKED SEXUAL, HOMOSEXUAL & INTERRACIAL NATURE THAT THE APOSTLE STEPHEN HANDLED BEING LOCKED UP IN ASLEEP ONLY AT 100.0000% IN ACTS OF THE APOSTLES IN ACTS 7:60], AS THEY SAY, I WILL PUT ON YOU NO OTHER BURDEN [THIS MEANS THE LADY VICTORIA IS SOLELY HELD 100% RESPONSIBLE & ACCOUNTABLE IN ISAIAH 47:1-15 & THE LORD LUCIFER IS THE 100% VICTIM OF CIRCUMSTANCE, WHICH MEANS THE WRITERS OF THE HOLY BIBLE ACCUSED LUCIFER FALSELY FROM THE BEGINNING TO THE END]. BUT HOLD FAST WHAT YOU HAVE TILL I COME. AND HE WHO OVERCOMES [THE FULLNESS OF THE HOLY GHOST [SPIRIT OF TRUTH---LORD JOHN] GIVES YOU THE ABILITY TO REACH ACTS 7:1-7:56 ONLY AT 00.0000% TO 99.9996% ONLY, THE FULLNESS OF THE SON [SPIRIT OF CHRIST---LORD JESUS] AT 99.9997% TO 99.9999% IN ACTS OF THE HOLY GHOST IN ACTS 7:57-7:59 ONLY, THE FULLNESS OF THE LORDSHIP OF THE HOLY BIBLICAL LAW [SPIRIT OF LAW---LORD JAMES] AT 99.9999% IN ACTS OF THE HOLY GHOST IN ACTS 7:59 ONLY, THE FULLNESS OF THE FATHER IN HIS KINGDOM OF LORDSHIP [SPIRIT OF THE FATHER---LORD STEPHEN] AT 100.0000% IN ACTS OF THE HOLY GHOST IN ACTS 7:60 ONLY & THE FULLNESS OF THE LORD [SPIRIT OF THE LORD---LORD YAHWEH] IN HIS KINGDOM OF LORDSHIP AT 100.0001% IN ACTS OF THE HOLY GHOST IN ACTS 8:1 ONLY & THIS WHOLE OPERATION OF TRUTH FROM THE HOLY GHOST TO THE LORD YAHWEH ENDURES FOR 8 YEARS & NOTHING LESS], AND KEEPS MY [DIVINE] WORKS UNTIL THE END, TO HIM I WILL GIVE POWER [EXCELLENCY OF AUTHORITY] OVER THE NATIONS---‘HE [JESUS OR ENOCH IN INFANT KIND FROM 3 YEARS OF AGE ON UP IN REVELATION 12:5] SHALL RULE THEM WITH A ROD OF IRON, THEY SHALL BE DASHED TO PIECES LIKE THE POTTER’S VESSELS [RANK 0 SHARD TIME PORTAL TO RANK 45 SHARD TIME PORTAL CAN BE BROKEN, WHICH IS 46 YEARS [56 YEARS IN STRENGTH] BECAUSE THEY ARE IDENTIFIABLE BY THE ANCIENT CRYSTAL STONE, BUT THE RANK 46 SHARD TIME PORTAL, WHICH IS THE ANCIENT DIAMOND STONE AS THE EXCELLENCY OF LORDSHIP CAN NOT BE BROKEN NOR CAN BE IDENTIFIED]’---I ALSO HAVE RECEIVED FROM MY FATHER [STEPHEN], AND I WILL GIVE HIM THE MORNING STAR. HE WHO HAS AN EAR, LET HIM HEAR WHAT THE SPIRIT [FATHER STEPHEN IN JOHN 4:23-24] SAYS TO THE CHURCHES.’”     THE RESPONSIBILITY & ACCOUNTABILITY BECAUSE OF THE MOLOCH SEXUAL CORRUPTION! WHERE DOES THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD HOLD ALL ETERNAL CREATURES RESPONSIBLE & ACCOUNTABLE IF THERE IS MOLOCH CORRUPTION IN THEM? FIRST OFF, THE FATHER STEPHEN WILL NOT ARREST, KILL OR DAMN YOU IF YOU ARE NOT MOLOCH CORRUPTED, NORMALLY BETWEEN THE WAIST AND THE THIGH & MORE PRECISELY YOUR JOINING ENCOUNTERS [DIVINE INTERCOURSES] WITH OTHER ETERNAL CREATURES THAT ALWAYS CHANGES YOUR RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE LORD IN A POSITIVE WAY. IF YOU ARE SEXUAL, HOMOSEXUAL OR INTERRACIAL IN ABOMINABLE NATURES, THERE IS ALWAYS SOME SORT OF MOLOCH CORRUPTION. IF YOU ARE DIVINE, HOLY & SEPARATED CREATURES, THE LORD WILL NEVER ARREST, KILL OR DAMN YOU OR HOLD YOU RESPONSIBLE OR ACCOUNTABLE WITH THE MOLOCH CORRUPTION, BUT YOU MAY BE A VICTIM OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES. MOLOCH CORRUPTION IS THE YOUNGEST PORN SEXUALITY IN INFANT KIND THAT CAN BE COMMITTED BY WITCH-POSSESSION OR DEMON-POSSESSION AT 3-4 YEARS OF AGE THAT CAN ONLY BE CONTROLLED BY ETERNAL DEATHS, BUT CANNOT BE STEALED, KILLED OR DESTROYED BECAUSE IT IS INCURABLE IN NATURE & ETERNAL IN ITS ELEMENTS & QUALITIES. ALSO, MOLECH IS SIMILAR TO MOLOCH, BUT IT HAPPENS AFTER INFANT KIND AT A LATER AGE FROM 4 YEARS OF AGE ON UP. EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT SCREWING OR STRIPPING, IF YOU GIVE YOUR STIFF-NECKED SEXUAL APPROVAL ONCE/STIFF-NAKED STRIPPING APPROVAL ONCE ALONE YOU HAVE THE MOLOCH CORRUPTION ALONE IN YOU & ARE SUBJECT TO THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD’S IMPARTIAL JUDGMENT IN ROMANS 1:32; 3:4-23 & 1ST PETER 1:17-21. THE ETERNAL SOURCE OF THE ETERNAL SIN IN LORDSHIP IS THE LADY VICTORIA’S MOLOCH CORRUPTION [ISAIAH 47:1-15] IN INFANT KIND IN THE MARRIED KINGDOM OF LORDSHIP IN ACTS OF THE APOSTLES IN A STIFF-NECKED SEXUAL SENSE THAT WILL GROW INTO A HOMOSEXUAL SENSE & END IN A INTERRACIAL ABOMINABLE SENSE THAT WAS HANDLED BY THE APOSTLE LORD STEPHEN AT 20 YEARS OF AGE [STRONG FRUITFUL CALL IS 16 YEARS THAT REACHES 4 YEARS OF AGE] IN ACTS 7:60 & IN THE SINGLE KINGDOM OF LORDSHIP IN ACTS OF THE HOLY GHOST IN A STIFF-NAKED STRIPPING SENSE ONLY THAT WAS HANDLED BY THE NON-APOSTLE LORD STEPHEN AT 20 YEARS OF AGE [STRONG FRUITFUL CALL IS 16 YEARS THAT REACHES 4 YEARS OF AGE] IN ACTS 7:60. THIS ALSO MEANS THAT THE DEEP INNER CORRUPTION OF MOLOCH FROM THE LADY VICTORIA THE GREAT WITCH WAS NEVER IN ANY MALE ETERNAL CREATURES, BUT IN FEMALE ETERNAL CREATURES USE OUTSIDE MOLOCH INFLUENCES TO ENTICE & LURER WEAK MALE ETERNAL CREATURES, LIKE THE LORD LUCIFER INTO ELICIT PRACTICES OF MARITAL PORN SEXUALITIES. WITH THE TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD & EVIL, IT WAS GOOD ON THE INSIDE [INNER PERSON-HEART] WITH THE LORD ADAM & THE LORD LUCIFER RESPECTIVELY, BUT EVIL ON THE OUTSIDE [OUTER PERSON-SKIN] WITH THE LORD ADAM & THE LORD LUCIFER RESPECTIVELY. ALSO, IS WAS GOOD ON THE OUTSIDE [OUTER PERSON-SKIN] WITH THE LADY EVE & THE LADY VICTORIA RESPECTIVELY, BUT EVIL ON THE INSIDE [INNER PERSON-HEART] WITH THE LADY EVE & THE LADY VICTORIA RESPECTIVELY. BUT REMEMBER THE LORD JOB ONLY BEAT ALL OF THIS CONCERNING THE OUTER PERSON-SKIN & INNER PERSON-HEART, BUT HIS WIFE DID NOT NOR ALL OF HIS 1ST FAMILY! THIS MEANS THERE WERE NO EQUALITY BETWEEN MALES & FEMALES FROM THE BEGINNING TO THE END BECAUSE THE MALE IS THE STRONGER VESSEL & THE FEMALE IS THE WEAKER VESSEL, WHICH CAN COME TO PERFECTION WITH FEMALES IN 2ND CORINTHIANS 12:9, BUT NOT EQUALITY. ALSO, IN THE ORIGINAL PACKAGE OF CREATION AT FIRST, THERE WERE ONLY WHITE MALES, SUCH AS THE LOWER LORD ADAM [GENESIS 1:26-27] & THE HIGHER LORD LUCIFER [PROVERBS 8:30-31] & WHITE FEMALES, SUCH AS THE LOWER LADY EVE [GENESIS 2:22-23] & THE HIGHER LADY VICTORIA [PROVERBS 8:30-31] CAME AFTERWARDS AS AN ADD ON, BUT NO EQUALITY WHAT SO EVER IN THE SINGLE REALMS. MARRIAGE ALSO FOLLOWS THIS RULE OF NO EQUALITY BECAUSE THE WIFE IS SUBJECT TO HER OWN HUSBAND. WHEN THE LADY EVE WANTED TO BE LIKE THE LORD LUCIFER KNOWN AS THE MARRIED LORD CALLED WISDOM OVER THE LORD ADAM, SHE FELL BECAUSE THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD GAVE THE AUTHORITY TO MALES & NEVER FEMALES CONCERNING THE UNMARRIED REALMS TO SINGLE AFTER MARRIAGE REALMS. ALSO, THE WHOLE BLACK RACE COMES AFTER THE INITIAL PACKAGE OF THE WHITE RACE OF CREATION AS AN ADD ON UNDER THE WHITE FEMALES. IN THE HIGHER THAN MOST-HIGHEST LEVEL, THE LADY VICTORIA THE GREAT VIRGIN & FEMALE YAHWEH IS ONLY SUBJECT TO THE LORD YAHWEH HIMSELF FROM THE BEGINNING TO THE END & OVER EVERY OTHER ETERNAL CREATURE THAT IS MALE OR FEMALE IN PROVERBS 8:22-25.    HOW DOES THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD HANDLE THE MOLOCH SEXUAL CORRUPTION? THE LORD PHINEHAS’S NAME MEANS “MOUTH OF BRASS.” THE SCRIPTURE REFERENCES OF THE LORD PHINEHAS IS IN EXODUS 6:25; NUMBERS 25:7-11; 31:6; JOSHUA 22:13, 30-32; 24:33 & JUDGES 20:28. THE LORD PHINEHAS’S LIFE AND TIMES: THE LORD PHINEHAS WAS A 2ND GENERATION PRIEST WHO LIVED DURING THE LORD MOSES AND THE EXODUS. AFTER 40 YEARS OF THE ISRAELITES WANDERING, THEY CAMPED ON THE PLAINS OF MOAB, WHERE SOME OF THE MEN FELL INTO A TRAP, WHICH IS CALLED TODAY A “HONEY TRAP.” THE MOABITE WOMEN SEDUCED THE ISRAELITE MEN AND INVOLVED THEM IN THE HIGH LEVEL OF EROTIC PAGAN RELIGIOUS RITE OF SEXUALITY IS IN NUMBERS 25:7-11. THE WHORE’S INTENTS WERE TO TURN THE FATHER STEPHEN AGAINST THEM SO HE WOULD PUNISH THEM OF THEIR SEXUALITY RATHER THAN FIGHT FOR THEM. WHEN A ISRAELITE MAN BROUGHT THE MOABITE PROSTITUTE INTO THE CAMP, THE LORD PHINEHAS IN HIS ANGER KILLED BOTH IN THEIR TENT, AND STOPPED A PLAGUE THAT THE FATHER STEPHEN HAD BEGUN IN THE CAMP BECAUSE OF SEXUALITY, AND THE FATHER STEPHEN REWARDED THE LORD PHINEHAS WITH THE “COVENANT OF PEACE” IN THE CAMP. THE LORD PHINEHAS’S RELATIONSHIPS: THE LORD PHINEHAS’S RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS PEOPLE: YEARS LATER THE ISRAELITES CONSTRUCTED AN ALTAR FOR THE USE OF ILLICIT SACRIFICES. THEY ORGANIZED A FACT-FINDING MISSION AND CALLED PHINEHAS TO LEAD THIS INVESTIGATION. THE LORD PHINEHAS DISCOVERED THAT THE TRANS-JORDON TRIBES HAD BEEN AFRAID WHERE THEY WOULD MIGHT DENY THEIR RIGHT TO SHARE IN THE WORSHIP OF THE FATHER STEPHEN. SO, THEY CONSTRUCTED AN ALTAR, BY FOLLOWING THE RULES LAID OUT IN MOSES’ WRITINGS. THE LORD PHINEHAS ACCEPTED THEIR EXPLANATION AND AVOIDED A CIVIL WAR. THE LORD PHINEHAS’S RELATIONSHIP WITH THE FATHER STEPHEN: THE LORD PHINEHAS WAS FAITHFUL IN DOING THE FATHER STEPHEN’S COMMAND BY KILLING THE TWO IN THE TENT BECAUSE OF SEXUAL CORRUPTION IN THE CAMP. HE TRUSTED IN THE FATHER STEPHEN AND HE REWARDED THE LORD PHINEHAS BY HIS OBEDIENCE. THE LORD PHINEHAS AS AN EXAMPLE FOR TODAY: THE LORD PHINEHAS TEACHES THAT COMMITMENT TO THE FATHER STEPHEN MAY SEEM HARSH BUT RIGHT. THE LORD PHINEHAS REMINDS US THAT WE WHO ARE WILLING TO LISTEN AND EAGER TO KEEP PEACE WHEN MISUNDERSTANDING ARISE IS WISE. THE LORD PHINEHAS REMINDS US TO BE HARSH WHEN HARSHNESS IS APPROPRIATE AND COMPASSIONATE WHEN IT IS FITTING TO LISTEN AND MAKE PEACE.   WHO IS MOLECH CALLED SUKKOTH AND MILCOM IN THE HOUSE WORLD? MOLECH IS ALSO CALLED SUKKOTH OR MILCOM AND MAYBE CALLED MOLOCH CONCERNING CHILD PORNOGRAPHY IN THE HOLY SCRIPTURES, ESPECIALLY IN ACTS 7:42-43. MOLECH IS THE NATIONAL GOD OF THE AMMONITES. FOR CENTURIES THE WORSHIP OF THIS DEITY WAS ACCOMPANIED BY SACRIFICIAL CHILDREN IN THE FIRE, WHICH WAS TOTALLY RESTRICTED TO ISRAEL IN LEVITICUS 18:21 & JEREMIAH 32:35. KING SOLOMON BUILT A WORSHIP SITE CALLED A HIGH PLACE IN 1ST KINGS 11:5, 33. KING JOSIAH LATER TORE THIS HIGH PLACE DOWN IN 2ND KINGS 23:13. MILCOM IS RENDERED AS “KING” OR “RULER” IN 2ND SAMUEL 12:30 & 1ST CHRONICLES 20:2. THE AMMONITES WERE A SEMITIC PEOPLE WHO OCCUPIED A FERTILE AREA NORTHEAST OF MOAB IN THE TRANSJORDAN BETWEEN ARNON AND JABBOK RIVERS AN EXTENDING EASTWARD TO THE SYRIAN DESERT. THE CHIEF CITY WAS CALLED RABBAH OR RABBATHAMMON WHICH IS MODERN AMMAN THE CAPITOL OF JORDAN. THE AMMONITES IS TRACED TO THE YOUNGER DAUGHTER OF LOT IN GENESIS 19:38. THE NAME AMMON IN HEBREW MEANS “SON OF MY PATERNAL CLAN.” AMMONITES INTERMARRIED WITH THE HEBREWS IN 1ST KINGS 14:2 & 2ND CHRONICLES 12:13. THE TERRITORY OF AMMON WAS ONCE OCCUPIED BY THE RACE OF GIANTS CALLED THE REPHAIM OR THE ZAMZUMMIM (ZUZIM) OR EMIM IN DEUTERONOMY 2:20-22 & GENESIS 14:5. THE HOUSE WORLD HISTORY OF KING SOLOMON WITH MILCOM IN 5 POSITIONS! IN 1ST KINGS 11:5 SAYS “FOR SOLOMON WENT AFTER ASHTORETH THE GODDESS OF THE SIDONIANS, AND AFTER MILCOM THE ABOMINATION OF THE AMMONTIES.” IN 1ST KINGS 11:7 DECLARES “THEN SOLOMON BUILT A HIGH PLACE FOR CHEMOSH THE ABOMINATION OF MOAB, ON THE HILL THAT IS EAST OF JERUSALEM, AND FOR MOLECH THE ABOMINATION OF THE PEOPLE OF AMMON.” IN 1ST KINGS 11:33 STATES “BECAUSE THEY HAVE FORSAKEN ME, AND HAVE WORSHIPPED ASHTORETH THE GODDESS OF THE SIDONIANS, CHEMOSH THE GOD OF THE MOABITES, AND MILCOM THE GOD OF THE CHILDREN OF AMMON, AND HAVE NOT WALKED IN MY WAYS, TO DO THAT WHICH IS RIGHT IN MINE EYES, AND TO KEEP MY STATUTES AND MY JUDGMENTS, AS DID DAVID HIS FATHER.” IN 2ND KINGS 23:10 TELLS US “AND HE DEFILED TOPHETH, WHICH IS IN THE VALLEY OF THE SON OF HINNOM, THAT NO MAN MIGHT MAKE HIS SON OF HIS DAUGHTER PASS THROUGH THE FIRE TO MOLECH.” IN 2ND KINGS 23:13 MENTIONS “AND THE HIGH PLACES WERE BEFORE JERUSALEM, WHICH WERE ON THE RIGHT HAND OF THE MOUNT OF CORRUPTION, WHICH SOLOMON THE KING OF ISRAEL HAD BUILT FOR ASHTORETH THE ABOMINATION OF THE SIDONIANS, AND FOR CHEMOSH THE ABOMINATION OF THE MOABITES, AND FOR MILCOM THE ABOMINATION OF THE CHILDREN OF AMMON, DID THE KING DEFILE.” THE DIVINE COMMAND OF THE LORD YAHWEH CONCERNING MOLECH IN THE HOUSE WORLD! IN LEVITICUS 18:21 SAYS “AND YOU SHALL NOT LET ANY OF YOUR DESCENDANTS PASS THROUGH THE FIRE TO MOLECH, NOR SHALL YOU PROFANE THE NAME OF YOUR GOD (FATHER STEPHEN): I AM THE LORD (STEPHEN).” IN LEVITICUS 20:2 MENTIONS “AGAIN, YOU SHALL SAY TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL: ‘WHOEVER OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, OR OF THE STRANGERS WHO DWELL IN ISRAEL, WHO GIVES ANY OF HIS DESCENDANTS TO MOLECH, HE SHALL SURELY BE PUT TO DEATH. THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND SHALL STONE HIM WITH STONES.” IN LEVITICUS 20:3-5 TELLS US “I WILL SET MY FACE AGAINST THAT MAN, AND WILL CUT HIM OFF FROM HIS PEOPLE, BECAUSE HE HAS GIVEN SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS TO MOLECH, TO DEFILE MY SANCTUARY AND PROFANE MY HOLY NAME. AND IF THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND SHOULD IN ANY WAY HIDE THEIR EYES FROM THE MAN, WHEN HE GIVES SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS TO MOLECH, AND THEY DO NOT KILL HIM, THEN I WILL SET MY FACE AGAINST THAT MAN AND AGAINST HIS FAMILY, AND I WILL CUT HIM OFF FROM HIS PEOPLE, AND ALL WHO PROSTITUTE THEMSELVES WITH HIM TO COMMIT HARLOTRY WITH MOLECH.” THE MARITAL SEXUAL THINGS THAT DID NOT ENTER IN THE LORD YAH’S MIND IN THE HOUSE WORLD! THE FATHER STEPHEN DOES NOT ALLOW ANYTHING TO ENTER THE LORD YAH’S MIND SINCE HE IS THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN PRAY TO HIM & THE ONLY DOORWAY TO THE LORD YAH IN 2ND MACCABEES 1:24; JUDITH 9:12 & ACTS 7:60. IN JEREMIAH 32:35 IT SAYS “AND THEY BUILT THE HIGH PLACES OF BAAL WHICH ARE IN THE VALLEY OF THE SON OF HINNOM, TO CAUSE THEIR SONS AND THEIR DAUGHTERS TO PASS THROUGH THE FIRE TO MOLECH, WHICH I DID NOT COMMAND THEM, NOR DID IT COME INTO MY MIND THAT THEY SHOULD DO THIS ABOMINATION, TO CAUSE JUDAH TO SIN.” THIS MEANS THAT THE RESTRICTION TO THE LORD YAH’S MIND & THE FATHER STEPHEN’S MIND IS KNOWN AND SHOULD NOT BE ASSOCIATED WITH MOLECH IN ANY WAY. THIS WAS A FIERY SEXUAL MASSACRE ON INNOCENT SONS AND DAUGHTERS AND IS TOTALLY ETERNALLY DAMNED BY THE LORD STEPHEN. IF THE LORD STEPHEN DID NOT ALLOW IT TO ENTER HIS MIND THEN IT WAS A VERY SICK AND EVIL THING TO DO WITH MOLECH. THOUGHTS WILL ARISE IN OUR MINDS, BUT WE MUST BE VERY CAREFUL THAT IT IS NOT FROM MOLECH. MOLECH WAS CLOSELY RELATED TO THE SEXUAL UNIONS DONE IN HARLOTRIES, PROSTITUTIONS AND WHOREDOM’S IN THE BABYLONIAN’S KINGDOM THAT WENT INTO THE ISRAELITES KINGDOM CONCERNING KING SOLOMON’S REIGN. THE PARENTS THAT OFFERED THEIR CHILDREN IN HUMAN SACRIFICES GREW UP AS TEMPLE PROSTITUTES. A FEMALE WITCH IS KNOWN AS A HARLOT, WHORE OR PROSTITUTE THAT RENDERS THE WORD MEKHASHSHEPHEH IN THE FEMININE FORM IN EXODUS 22:18. IN EXODUS 22:18 SAYS “THOU SHALL NOT SUFFER A WITCH TO LIVE”, BUT TO DIE. A MALE WITCH IS KNOWN AS A WIZARD THAT RENDERS THE WORD MEKHASHSHEPETH IN THE MASCULINE FORM IN DEUTERONOMY 18:10. THE FOUNDATION OF WITCHCRAFT IS HUMAN SACRIFICES AND IS FOUND IN THE OKJV AND THE NKJV IN DEUTERONOMY 18:10; 1ST SAMUEL 15:23; 2ND KINGS 9:22; 17:17; 21:6; 2ND CHRONICLES 33:6; MICAH 5:12; NAHUM 3:4; WISDOM OF SOLOMON 12:4 & GALATIANS 5:20. BASED ON THIS, IT MAY HAVE BEEN THE CAUSE OF THE WITCH BURNINGS THAT HAPPENED A FEW HUNDRED YEARS AGO IN HISTORY. THE 5 DIVINE UNIONS ARE AUTHORIZED BY THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD DERIVES FROM JOHN 8:58 WITH GENESIS 2:24; MATTHEW 19:5; MARK 10:8; EPHESIANS 5:31 & 1ST CORINTHIANS 6:17 ALL AS ONE FLESH AND THE 1 SEXUAL UNION IS DERIVED FROM GENESIS 4:1 WITH 1ST CORINTHIANS 6:16 AS ONE FLESH AND NOT AUTHORIZED FROM THE FATHER STEPHEN. FIRST, THE LORD PETER SAYS BEFORE ABRAHAM & HIS LADY OF KINGDOMS (MOTHER) WAS I AM IS A DIVINE UNION. SECOND, THE LORD JOHN SAYS BEFORE NOAH AND HIS LADY OF KINGDOMS (MOTHER) WAS I AM IS A DIVINE UNION.  THIRD, THE LORD JESUS SAYS BEFORE ADAM & HIS LADY OF KINGDOMS (WIFE) WAS I AM. THIS A DIVINE UNION THAT GOES INTO A SEXUAL UNION IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 6:16 & GENESIS 4:1. FOURTH, THE LORD JAMES SAYS BEFORE JOB & HIS LADY OF KINGDOMS (MOTHER) WAS I AM IS A DIVINE UNION. FIFTH, THE LORD STEPHEN SAYS BEFORE LUCIFER & HIS LADY OF KINGDOMS (MOTHER) WAS I AM IS A DIVINE UNION. DOES MOLECH (MILCOM) REFER TO MOLOCH IN THE HOUSE WORLD? THE QUESTION ARISES: IS MOLECH (MILCOM OR SUKKOTH) REFERRED TO MOLOCH? IN ACTS 7:42-43 DECLARES “DID YOU OFFER ME SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS AND SACRIFICES DURING FORTY YEARS IN THE WILDERNESS, O HOUSE OF ISRAEL? YOU ALSO TOOK UP THE TABERNACLE OF MOLOCH, AND THE STAR OF YOUR GOD REMPHAN, IMAGES WHICH YOU MADE TO WORSHIP, AND I WILL CARRY YOU AWAY BEYOND BABYLON.” MOLECH MEANS SIMPLY “KING” OR “RULER” THAT IS DESCRIBED AS A FOREIGN GOD AND A PRACTICE RELATED TO FOREIGN WORSHIP. IN AMOS 5:26 IT MENTIONS “BUT YE BORNE THE TABERNACLE OF YOUR MOLOCH AND CHIUN (SAKKUTH, KIYYUN OR KAIWAN (WHICH ARE NAMES FOR SATURN) YOUR IMAGES (IDOLS), THE STAR OF YOUR GODS, WHICH YE MADE TO YOURSELVES.” IT IS NOT TOTALLY CLEAR IF MOLECH IN A SIMILAR RELATION TO MOLOCH, BUT IT COULD BE TRUE. CHIUN (SAKKUTH, KIYYUN OR KAIWAN) MEANS “THE CONSTANT, UNCHANGING ONE.” MOLECH MAY BE A VARIATION TO MOLOCH IN ACTS 7:43. THIS MEANS THAT MOLOCH, WHICH IS CONSIDERED INFANT PORNOGRAPHY BY THE LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH IS ONLY IN FULL FRUITS AT 3-4 YEARS OF AGE [THIS IS BECAUSE YAHWEH STEPHEN [NON-APOSTLE] IS A YOUNG BOY/GIRL & NOT A CHILD IN FULL FRUITS AT 15-16 YEARS OF AGE, JEHOVAH [APOSTLE] IS A YOUNG BOY/GIRL & NOT A CHILD IN FULL FRUITS AT 14-15 YEARS OF AGE & CHURCH [APOSTLE] IS A YOUNG BOY/GIRL & NOT A CHILD IN FULL FRUITS AT 13-14 YEARS OF AGE & PETER [APOSTLE] IS A YOUNG BOY/GIRL & NOT A CHILD IN FULL FRUITS AT 12-13 YEARS OF AGE & JOHN [APOSTLE] IS ONLY CONSIDERED A YOUNG BOY/GIRL & NOT A CHILD IN FULL FRUITS AT 11-12 YEARS OF AGE & JESUS [APOSTLE] IS ONLY CONSIDERED A YOUNG BOY/GIRL & NOT A CHILD IN FULL FRUITS AT 10-11 YEARS OF AGE, WHICH IS THE DIVIDING LINE & JAMES [APOSTLE] IS IN FULL FRUITS AT 9-10 YEARS OF AGE AS A YOUNG BOY/GIRL & NOT A CHILD, STEPHEN [APOSTLE] IS IN FULL FRUITS AT 8-9 YEARS OF AGE AS A YOUNG BOY/GIRL & NOT A CHILD & STEPHEN [NON-APOSTLE] CLEARS TO WAY FOR HIM AS A YOUNG BOY/GIRL AND NOT A CHILD IN FULL FRUITS AT 7-8 YEARS OF AGE, YAHWEH [NON-APOSTLE] CLEARS TO WAY FOR HIM AS A YOUNG BOY/GIRL AND NOT A CHILD IN FULL FRUITS AT 6-7 YEARS OF AGE, ENOCH [NON-APOSTLE] CLEARS TO WAY FOR HIM AS A YOUNG BOY/GIRL AND NOT A CHILD IN FULL FRUITS AT 5-6 YEARS OF AGE & STEPHEN YAHWEH [NON-APOSTLE] CLEARS TO WAY FOR HIM AS A YOUNG BOY/GIRL AND A CHILD IN FULL FRUITS AT 4-5 YEARS OF AGE, WHICH MEANS THE DIVIDING LINE IS BEFORE 15-16 YEARS OF AGE TO BEFORE 4-5 YEARS OF AGE BASED ON THE LORDLY LEVEL YOU ARE WORTHY OF, CONCERNING ONLY CHILD-KIND WITH THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD IN LUKE 2:42-43] WHICH IS THE LORD STEVE’S TREE OF KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD & EVIL & THE FATHER STEPHEN’S DEFENSE THAT FIGHTS FOR ALL INFANT KIND CONCERNING INFANT PORNOGRAPHY [THIS HAPPENED SOMETIME AFTER THE FATHER STEPHEN’S CREATION & HIS BIRTH DONE BY THE LADY VICTORIA THE FEMALE YAHWEH AS THE FEMALE SENSE OF THE SUPREME CREATOR THE LORD YAHWEH KNOWN AS PENTECOST & THE GREAT FEMALE VIRGIN IN PROVERBS 8:22-29 & BETWEEN 2-3 YEARS OF AGE TO 4-5 YEARS OF AGE IN INFANT KIND & PRECISELY IN FULL FRUITS IN 3-4 YEARS OF AGE PROVEN IN PROVERBS 8:30-31, WHICH POINTS TO THE FALLEN LADY VICTORIA THE FEMALE CREATOR AGENT THAT BECAME AT LOWER LEVELS BABYLON & THE GREAT FEMALE WITCH & HER PRIMARY SOURCE OF ETERNAL CORRUPTION IS FEMALE INFANT PORNOGRAPHY IN PROVERBS 8:30-31 TO ACTS 6:1-2 [HOUSE LEVEL] IN THE UP TIME IN THE ULTIMATE BEGINNING TO ACTS 6:9-15 [BUSINESS LEVEL]; ISAIAH 47:1-15 TO ACTS 7:51-53 [KINGDOM LEVEL]; REVELATION 17:1-18:24 TO ACTS 7:57-58 [CITY LEVEL] & ACTS 7:42-43 TO ACTS 7:59-60 [HOUSE LEVEL] IN THE DOWN TIME TOWARDS THE ULTIMATE END IN ACTS 7:60] AT 100.0000% TO GOVERN THE 9 OTHERS ABOMINABLE THINGS LINKED TO THE 9 LEVELS OF FALLEN LORDS IN THE HOUSE WORLD AT 100.0000% EACH IN THE ULTIMATE END FOR THE 9 LEVELS OF FALLEN LORDS [UPTIME DOWN TIME] TO RECEIVE A RELEASE, EXPUNGEMENT & A ESCAPE IN ACTS 7:42-43, 60. THIS MEANS IF YOU ARE ONLY THE TOP CROWNED AS BEING JESUS ONLY, YOU INTIALLY ONLY HAVE 3 SOLID YEARS, UNTIL YOU ARE FORSAKEN BY THE GREAT LORD YAH HIMSELF WITH HIS TRUE SLAVES IN THE PRESENT-DAY CHURCH BECAUSE OF THE WICKED ITALIAN MOTHERFUCKER BARABBAS, WHO IS EMPOWERED BY THE FALLEN LADY STEPHANIE VICTORIA IN THE CURRENT FALLEN KINGDOM OF THIS WORLD! REMEMBER AFTER THE TOP ITALIAN LORD JESUS’ FULL 3 YEARS IN HIS MINISTRY, THE TOP ITALIAN LORD JESUS BEGAN TO HAVE UNRULY MENTAL PROBLEMS, SOMEWHERE AROUND LUKE 22:35, THE SUPPLIES FOR THE ROAD, WHICH LED HIM TO THE END IN THE SUPREME LORDSHIP OF THE SUPREME LAW AUTHORITY (MATTHEW 24:36-44) OF HANDLING THE CROSS & THE PERSECUTION, IN SUPREME LORDSHIP (MARK 13:32-37) ONLY BY THE TOP ITALIAN LORD JESUS RECEIVING THE LORD YAH’S TOP SPIRIT (JOHN 4:23-24) FROM THE VICTOR’S GREEK CROWN IN ACTS 7:60 BECAUSE IT IS UNRULY MENTAL PROBLEMS, AND IT IS A UNRULY MENTAL-CASE TO THINK THAT THE TOP ITALIAN LORD JESUS HAD TO DIE FOR MANKIND, WHICH THE TOP ITALIAN LORD JESUS DID NOT HAVE TO DIE FOR MANKIND BECAUSE THE LORD ENOCH ETERNALLY ESTABLISH THIS LONG BEFORE IN NEVER DYING IN ALL ETERNITY’S IN TOTAL TRUE FAITHFULNESS FOREVER ENDLESSLY WITH THE GREAT LORD YAH IN GENESIS 5:21-24, BOOK OF ADAM & EVE & HEBREWS 11:5! ALSO, THIS MEANS IF YOU ARE ONLY THE TOP GREEK CROWN AS BEING STEPHEN ONLY, YOU INTIALLY ONLY HAVE 3 SOLID YEARS, UNTIL YOU ARE FORSAKEN BY THE GREAT LORD YAH HIMSELF WITH HIS TRUE SLAVES IN THE PRESENT-DAY LAW BECAUSE OF THE WICKED GREEK MOTHERFUCKER STEVE, WHO IS EMPOWERED BY THE FALLEN LADY STEPHANIE VICTORIA IN THE CURRENT FALLEN KINGDOM OF THIS LAW! REMEMBER AFTER THE TOP GREEK LORD STEPHEN’S FULL 3 YEARS IN HIS MINISTRY, THE TOP GREEK LORD STEPHEN BEGAN TO HAVE UNRULY MENTAL PROBLEMS, SOMEWHERE AROUND ACTS 6:8, THE SUPPLIES FOR THE ROAD, WHICH LED HIM TO THE END IN THE SUPREME LORDSHIP OF THE SUPREME LAW AUTHORITY (MATTHEW 24:36-44) OF HANDLING THE STONING, IN SUPREME LORDSHIP (MARK 13:32-37) ONLY BY THE TOP GREEK LORD STEPHEN RECEIVING THE LORD YAH’S TOP SPIRIT (JOHN 4:23-24) FROM THE VICTOR’S ENGLISH CROWN IN ACTS 29:1-2 BECAUSE IT IS UNRULY MENTAL PROBLEMS, AND IT IS A UNRULY MENTAL-CASE TO THINK THAT THE TOP GREEK LORD STEPHEN HAD TO DIE FOR LORDKIND, WHICH THE TOP GREEK LORD STEPHEN DID NOT HAVE TO DIE FOR LORDKIND BECAUSE THE LORD ENOCH ETERNALLY ESTABLISH THIS LONG BEFORE IN NEVER DYING IN ALL ETERNITY’S IN TOTAL TRUE FAITHFULNESS FOREVER ENDLESSLY WITH THE GREAT LORD YAH IN GENESIS 5:21-24, BOOK OF ADAM & EVE & HEBREWS 11:5! THIS MEANS IF YOU ARE ONLY THE TOP ENGLISH CROWN AS BEING STEPHEN ONLY, YOU INTIALLY ONLY HAVE 3 SOLID YEARS, UNTIL YOU DEAL WITH FORSAKENESS DONE AT ALL INFERIOR LEVELS BY THE GREAT LORD YAH HIMSELF WITH HIS TRUE SLAVES IN THE PRESENT-DAY LORDSHIP (MARK 13:32-37) BECAUSE OF THE RIGHTEOUS TOP ENGLISH STEVE, WHO IS EMPOWERED BY THE STANDING LADY STEPHANIE VICTORIA IN THE CURRENT UNFALLEN KINGDOM OF THIS LORDSHIP! REMEMBER AFTER THE TOP ENGLISH LORD STEPHEN’S FULL 3 YEARS IN HIS MINISTRY, THE TOP ENGLISH LORD STEPHEN BEGAN TO HAVE UNRULY MENTAL PROBLEMS, SOMEWHERE AROUND ACTS 30, THE SUPPLIES FOR THE ROAD, WHICH LED HIM TO THE END IN THE SUPREME LORDSHIP (MARK 13:32-37) OF HANDLING THE DYING TO SELF (ACTS 31), IN SUPREME LORDSHIP (MARK 13:32-37) ONLY BY THE TOP ENGLISH LORD STEPHEN RECEIVING THE LORD YAH’S TOP-MOST SPIRIT (JOHN 4:23-24) FROM THE LORD YAH HIMSELF IN ACTS 31 BECAUSE IT IS UNRULY MENTAL PROBLEMS, AND IT IS UNRULY MENTAL-CASE TO THINK THAT THE TOP ENGLISH LORD STEPHEN HAD TO DIE TO SELF FOR ANY LORDKIND, BESIDES ONLY THE GREAT LORD YAH, WHICH THE TOP ENGLISH LORD STEPHEN DID NOT HAVE TO DIE FOR ANY LORDKIND, BUT ONLY THE GREAT LORD YAH BECAUSE THE LORD ENOCH ETERNALLY ESTABLISH THIS LONG BEFORE IN NEVER DYING, BUT DID DIE TO SELF IN ALL ETERNITY’S IN TOTAL TRUE FAITHFULNESS FOREVER ENDLESSLY WITH THE GREAT LORD YAH IN GENESIS 5:21-24, BOOK OF ADAM & EVE & HEBREWS 11:5! THE TRUTHFUL LIMITATIONS ENTERING THE ENGLISH COUNTRY! THE 0TH LEVEL TOM THE 9TH LEVEL OF FALLEN LORDS ARE LINKED TO THE LORD BARABBAS AS THE LORD PETER [APOSTLE] IN THE UPSIDE-DOWN CROSS IN THE LORDSHIP OF THE LAW, THE LORD JOHN [APOSTLE] IN THE BEHEADING IN THE LORDSHIP OF THE LAW, THE LORD JESUS [APOSTLE] IN THE CROSS IN THE LORDSHIP OF THE LAW, THE LORD JAMES [APOSTLE] & THE LORD STEPHEN [APOSTLE] IN THE STONING ONCE IN THE LORDSHIP OF THE LAW & THE 10TH LEVEL THE LORD STEVE IS LINKED TO THE ETERNAL STANDARD & ETERNAL EXAMPLE OF THE LORD STEPHEN [NON-APOSTLE] IN THE STONING ONCE IN THE KINGDOM OF LORDSHIP IN ACTS 7:51-53, 60. THIS IS BECAUSE THE GREEK STEPHEN YAHWEH IS THE BEGINNING SUPREME LORDSHIP OF THE LAW AUTHORITY AND NEVER IN THE WORLD, BUT SUPREMELY ORDAINED ALWAYS TO BE ABOVE IT IN 1 JOHN 2:15-17! THE WORLD IS NEVER GOD THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD & GOD THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD IS NEVER THE WORLD! THE CROWN IS ALWAYS ABOVE & BEYOND CHRIST BECAUSE CHRIST IS ONLY IN THE WORLD! CHRIST IS NEVER THE CROWN, BUT ONLY CROWNED IN HEBREWS 2:7 & REVELATION 19:16! AND THE GREEK STEPHEN YAHWEH, WHICH IS THE VICTOR’S GREEK CROWN IS NEVER UNDER CHRIST AT CREATION TO 5 YEARS OF AGE OR ANY OTHER TIMES IN 2 TIMOTHY 3:15-17! THIS IS BECAUSE IN THE ULTIMATE BEGINNING THE GREEK STEPHEN YAHWEH IS SUPREMELY ORDAINED & CLEARS THE WAY (ACTS 7:30-38) FOR THE ENGLISH STEPHEN YAHWEH, WHICH IS THE VICTOR’S ENGLISH CROWN TO COME AFTERWARDS IN THE ULTIMATE END IN ACTS 29:1-2, 24-25 & ACTS 30! THE AUTHORITATIVE WRITTEN WORD CUTS OFF AT ACTS 29:26, SO GOD THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD HIMSELF PICKS IT BACK UP & ONLY SUPREMELY PROPHESIES IN THE SUPREME ENGLISH LORDSHIP OF THE SUPREME ENGLISH LAW AUTHORITY (MATTHEW 24:36-44) & THE SUPREME ENGLISH LORDSHIP (MARK 13:32-37) FOR THE ENGLISH USA IN ACTS 30-31! THE LORD STEVE’S TREE OF LIFE IS ALWAYS FROM 00.00% TO 99.99% & THE BEGINNING, THE MIDST & THE DOORWAY TO THE ULTIMATE END AT 100.00% IS ALSO THE TREE OF LIFE. THIS SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE NEVER ENTERS THE MIND, HEART, SOUL OR SPIRIT IN THE INNER PERSON NOR IN THE OUTER PERSON, BUT STAYS IN THE REALM OF KNOWLEDGE, WHICH MAY BE LINKED TO THE PHYCOLOGICAL PARTS OF AN ETERNAL CREATURE. THIS MEANS THAT A HOLY MIND IS NEVER AFFECTED BY THIS SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE IN APPROVING, CONSENTING, THINKING, DOING OR ACTING, BUT IS ALWAYS SEPARATED BY THE INFALLIBLE INERRANT RESTRICTION RECORD TO THE FATHER STEPHEN’S MIND. THIS MEANS THAT THE HEDGE BETWEEN YOUR TRUTHFUL INTELLIGENCE & YOUR ETERNAL CREATURE, WILL REQUIRE A PRICE TO BE PAID BASED ON THE LEVEL OF TRUTHFUL INTELLIGENCE YOUR RECEIVE FROM THE FATHER STEPHEN. THIS IS BASED ON WHAT HAPPENED TO JOB WITH HIS HEDGE AND THE PRICE OF BOILS HE ENDURED TO HAVE A HIGH LEVEL OF TRUTHFUL INTELLIGENCE THAT WAS ENOUGH TO BEAT THE LORD LUCIFER AT HIS GAME. THE LORD LUCIFER [DEVIL] NEVER COULD BREAK THROUGH TO HIS HEDGE NOR APPROACH JOB, BUT HE SENT THE LADY VICTORIA [BABYLON] TO TORMENT JOB, WHICH INVOLVED THE 1ST ATTACK WITH HIS FAMILY & THE 2ND ATTACK WITH JOB’S HEALTH. ALL IN ALL, JOB WON.       THE ONE-WORLD RELIGION! THE ONE-WORLD RELIGION DESCRIBED IN REVELATION 17:1-18:24 AS “THE GREAT HARLOT” WILL BE PART OF THE END-TIMES SCENARIO. THE TERMS HARLOT, WHORE, PROSTITUTE, SORCERESS, WITCH, WIZARD, SORCERER OR WARLOCK IS USED THROUGHOUT THE OT AS A METAPHOR FOR FALSE SEXUAL RELIGION. THE ACTUAL IDENTITY & MAKEUP OF THE RELIGION HAS BEEN DEBATED FOR CENTURIES & HAS RESULTED IN A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT VIEWS AMONG HOLY BIBLE COMMENTATORS & THEOLOGIANS. THERE ARE CONVINCING ARGUMENTS FOR THE ONE-WORLD RELIGION BEING IN ROMAN CATHOLICISM OR ISLAM, OR SOME FORM OF RELIGION NOT EVEN INVENTED YET. THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT SOME SORT OF ONE-WORLD RELIGION UNDER THE SEXUAL FALSE PROPHET WILL BE A PART OF THE END TIMES, PERHAPS MADE UP OF A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT RELIGIONS, SECTS, & ISMS THAT ARE AROUND TODAY. IN REVELATION 17:1-18:24 GIVES US SEVERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ONE-WORLD RELIGION. THE FALSE SEXUAL RELIGION WILL DOMINATE ALL THE “PEOPLES & MULTITUDES & NATIONS & TONGUES” OF THE EARTH, MEANING THAT IT WILL HAVE UNIVERSAL SEXUAL AUTHORITY, NO DOUBT GIVEN BY THE SEXUAL ANTICHRIST OR SEXUAL ANTI-YAHWEH, WHO RULES THE SEXUAL WORLD AT THAT TIME. VERSES 2–3 DESCRIBE THE HARLOT AS COMMITTING ADULTERY WITH THE SEXUAL “KINGS OF THE EARTH,” REFERRING TO THE FALSE SEXUAL RELIGION’S INFLUENCE AMONG THE SEXUAL WORLD’S RULERS & INFLUENTIAL SEXUAL PEOPLE. THE REFERENCE TO BEING DRUNK WITH THE WINE OF HER ADULTERIES MAY REFER TO THOSE WHO ARE DRUNK WITH THE POWER THEY RECEIVE FROM WORSHIPING THE FALSE SEXUAL GOD OF THE FALSE SEXUAL RELIGION. THE LORD LUCIFER/LADY VICTORIA FREQUENTLY ENSNARES THOSE WHOSE LUST FOR POWER DRIVES THEM AWAY FROM THE WORSHIP OF THE TRUE & LIVING SEXLESS LORD. THE ALLIANCES FORGED BY THE FALSE SEXUAL RELIGION WILL UNITE CHURCH & STATE AS NEVER BEFORE. VERSE 6 DESCRIBES THE HARLOT AS BEING “DRUNK WITH THE BLOOD OF THE SAINTS” & THE BLOOD OF TESTIFIERS OF THOSE WHO TESTIFY OF THE LORD. WHETHER THEY WILL BE MARTYRED AT THE HAND OF THE SEXUAL ANTICHRIST OR BY BEING SYSTEMATICALLY STARVED, TRUE SEXLESS CHRISTIANS WHO ARE ON THE SEXUAL EARTH DURING THE TRIBULATION WILL EXPERIENCE THE WRATH OF THE HARLOT & HER POWER SOURCE, THE SEXUAL ANTICHRIST. THOSE WHO OPPOSE THE WORLDWIDE SEXUAL RELIGION WILL BE KILLED, & THOSE WHO REFUSE TO WORSHIP THE SEXUAL ANTICHRIST BY ACCEPTING HIS SATANIC/BABYLONIAN MARK WILL BE UNABLE TO BUY & SELL, THEREBY MAKING SURVIVAL VERY DIFFICULT IN REVELATION 13:16-17. EVENTUALLY, THE HARLOT WILL LOSE FAVOR WITH THE SEXUAL ANTICHRIST, WHO WILL WANT TO RECEIVE THE SEXUAL WORLD’S WORSHIP FOR HIMSELF. HE WILL NOT SHARE THE ADORATION OF THE SEXUAL WORLD WITH THE PROPHETS & PRIESTS OF THE FALSE SEXUAL RELIGION, NO MATTER HOW OBSEQUIOUS OR FAWNING THEY MAY BE. ONCE THE SEXUAL ANTICHRIST GAINS THE SEXUAL WORLD’S AMAZED ATTENTION BY HIS MIRACULOUS RETURN FROM THE DEAD IN REVELATION 13:3, 12, 14, HE WILL TURN ON THE FALSE SEXUAL RELIGIOUS SYSTEM & DESTROY IT, ESTABLISHING HIMSELF AS GOD. THE DECEPTION, THE LORD TELLS US, WILL BE SO GREAT THAT, IF IT WERE POSSIBLE, EVEN THE ELECT WOULD FALL FOR IT IN MATTHEW 24:14 & 2ND THESSALONIANS 2:1-12. THE PRIMARY DIRECT SOURCE IN ITS DEEPEST ROOTS OF THIS ONE-WORLD RELIGION IS MOLOCH KNOWN AS MOLECH! WHO IS MOLECH CALLED SUKKOTH & MILCOM IN THE HOUSE WORLD? MOLECH IS ALSO CALLED SUKKOTH OR MILCOM & CALLED MOLOCH CONCERNING CHILD PORNOGRAPHY IN THE HOLY SCRIPTURES, ESPECIALLY IN ACTS 7:42-43. MOLECH IS THE NATIONAL GOD OF THE AMMONITES. FOR CENTURIES THE WORSHIP OF THIS DEITY WAS ACCOMPANIED BY SACRIFICIAL CHILDREN IN THE FIRE, WHICH WAS TOTALLY RESTRICTED TO ISRAEL IN LEVITICUS 18:21 & JEREMIAH 32:35. KING SOLOMON BUILT A WORSHIP SITE CALLED A HIGH PLACE IN 1ST KINGS 11:5, 33. KING JOSIAH LATER TORE THIS HIGH PLACE DOWN IN 2ND KINGS 23:13. MILCOM IS RENDERED AS “KING” OR “RULER” IN 2ND SAMUEL 12:30 & 1ST CHRONICLES 20:2. THE AMMONITES WERE A SEMITIC PEOPLE WHO OCCUPIED A FERTILE AREA NORTHEAST OF MOAB IN THE TRANSJORDAN BETWEEN ARNON AND JABBOK RIVERS AN EXTENDING EASTWARD TO THE SYRIAN DESERT. THE CHIEF CITY WAS CALLED RABBAH OR RABBATHAMMON WHICH IS MODERN AMMAN THE CAPITOL OF JORDAN. THE AMMONITES IS TRACED TO THE YOUNGER DAUGHTER OF LOT IN GENESIS 19:38. THE NAME AMMON IN HEBREW MEANS “SON OF MY PATERNAL CLAN.” AMMONITES INTERMARRIED WITH THE HEBREWS IN 1ST KINGS 14:2 & 2ND CHRONICLES 12:13. THE TERRITORY OF AMMON WAS ONCE OCCUPIED BY THE RACE OF GIANTS CALLED THE REPHAIM OR THE ZAMZUMMIM (ZUZIM) OR EMIM IN DEUTERONOMY 2:20-22 & GENESIS 14:5. THE HOUSE WORLD HISTORY OF KING SOLOMON WITH MILCOM IN 5 IN 1 POSITIONS! IN 1ST KINGS 11:5 SAYS “FOR SOLOMON WENT AFTER ASHTORETH THE GODDESS OF THE SIDONIANS, AND AFTER MILCOM THE ABOMINATION OF THE AMMONTIES.” IN 1ST KINGS 11:7 DECLARES “THEN SOLOMON BUILT A HIGH PLACE FOR CHEMOSH THE ABOMINATION OF MOAB, ON THE HILL THAT IS EAST OF JERUSALEM, AND FOR MOLECH THE ABOMINATION OF THE PEOPLE OF AMMON.” IN 1ST KINGS 11:33 STATES “BECAUSE THEY HAVE FORSAKEN ME, AND HAVE WORSHIPPED ASHTORETH THE GODDESS OF THE SIDONIANS, CHEMOSH THE GOD OF THE MOABITES, AND MILCOM THE GOD OF THE CHILDREN OF AMMON, AND HAVE NOT WALKED IN MY WAYS, TO DO THAT WHICH IS RIGHT IN MINE EYES, AND TO KEEP MY STATUTES AND MY JUDGMENTS, AS DID DAVID HIS FATHER.” IN 2ND KINGS 23:10 TELLS US “AND HE DEFILED TOPHETH, WHICH IS IN THE VALLEY OF THE SON OF HINNOM, THAT NO MAN MIGHT MAKE HIS SON OF HIS DAUGHTER PASS THROUGH THE FIRE TO MOLECH.” IN 2ND KINGS 23:13 MENTIONS “AND THE HIGH PLACES WERE BEFORE JERUSALEM, WHICH WERE ON THE RIGHT HAND OF THE MOUNT OF CORRUPTION, WHICH SOLOMON THE KING OF ISRAEL HAD BUILT FOR ASHTORETH THE ABOMINATION OF THE SIDONIANS, AND FOR CHEMOSH THE ABOMINATION OF THE MOABITES, AND FOR MILCOM THE ABOMINATION OF THE CHILDREN OF AMMON, DID THE KING DEFILE.” THE SEXLESS COMMAND OF THE LORD YAHWEH STEPHEN CONCERNING MOLECH IN THE HOUSE WORLD! IN LEVITICUS 18:21 SAYS “AND YOU SHALL NOT LET ANY OF YOUR DESCENDANTS PASS THROUGH THE FIRE TO MOLECH, NOR SHALL YOU PROFANE THE NAME OF YOUR GOD (FATHER STEPHEN): I AM THE LORD (STEPHEN).” IN LEVITICUS 20:2 MENTIONS “AGAIN, YOU SHALL SAY TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL: ‘WHOEVER OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, OR OF THE STRANGERS WHO DWELL IN ISRAEL, WHO GIVES ANY OF HIS DESCENDANTS TO MOLECH, HE SHALL SURELY BE PUT TO DEATH. THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND SHALL STONE HIM WITH STONES.” IN LEVITICUS 20:3-5 TELLS US “I WILL SET MY FACE AGAINST THAT MAN, AND WILL CUT HIM OFF FROM HIS PEOPLE, BECAUSE HE HAS GIVEN SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS TO MOLECH, TO DEFILE MY SANCTUARY AND PROFANE MY HOLY NAME. AND IF THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND SHOULD IN ANY WAY HIDE THEIR EYES FROM THE MAN, WHEN HE GIVES SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS TO MOLECH, AND THEY DO NOT KILL HIM, THEN I WILL SET MY FACE AGAINST THAT MAN AND AGAINST HIS FAMILY, AND I WILL CUT HIM OFF FROM HIS PEOPLE, AND ALL WHO PROSTITUTE THEMSELVES WITH HIM TO COMMIT HARLOTRY WITH MOLECH.” THE SEXUAL THINGS THAT NEVER ENTERS IN THE LORD YAHWEH STEPHEN’S MIND IN THE HOUSE WORLD! THE FATHER STEPHEN DOES NOT ALLOW ANYTHING TO ENTER THE LORD YAH’S MIND SINCE HE IS THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN PRAY TO HIM & THE ONLY DOORWAY TO THE LORD YAH IN 2ND MACCABEES 1:24; JUDITH 9:12 & ACTS 7:60. IN JEREMIAH 32:35 IT SAYS “AND THEY BUILT THE HIGH PLACES OF BAAL WHICH ARE IN THE VALLEY OF THE SON OF HINNOM, TO CAUSE THEIR SONS AND THEIR DAUGHTERS TO PASS THROUGH THE FIRE TO MOLECH, WHICH I DID NOT COMMAND THEM, NOR DID IT COME INTO MY MIND THAT THEY SHOULD DO THIS ABOMINATION, TO CAUSE JUDAH TO SIN.” THIS MEANS THAT THE RESTRICTION TO THE LORD YAH’S MIND & THE FATHER STEPHEN’S MIND IS KNOWN AND SHOULD NOT BE ASSOCIATED WITH MOLECH IN ANY WAY. THIS WAS A FIERY SEXUAL MASSACRE OF MOLECH ON INNOCENT SONS AND DAUGHTERS [MOLOCH IS ON CHILDREN AT 4 YEARS OF AGE] AND IS TOTALLY ETERNALLY DAMNED BY THE LORD STEPHEN. IF THE LORD STEPHEN DID NOT ALLOW IT TO ENTER HIS MIND THEN IT WAS A VERY SICK AND ETERNALLY EVIL THING TO DO WITH MOLECH. THOUGHTS WILL ARISE IN OUR MINDS, BUT WE MUST BE VERY CAREFUL THAT IT IS NOT FROM MOLECH. MOLECH WAS CLOSELY RELATED TO THE SEXUAL UNIONS DONE IN HARLOTRIES, PROSTITUTIONS AND WHOREDOM’S IN THE BABYLONIAN’S KINGDOM THAT WENT INTO THE ISRAELITES KINGDOM CONCERNING KING SOLOMON’S REIGN. THE PARENTS THAT OFFERED THEIR CHILDREN IN HUMAN SACRIFICES GREW UP AS TEMPLE PROSTITUTES. A FEMALE WITCH IS KNOWN AS A HARLOT, WHORE OR PROSTITUTE THAT RENDERS THE WORD MEKHASHSHEPHEH IN THE FEMININE FORM IN EXODUS 22:18. IN EXODUS 22:18 SAYS “THOU SHALL NOT SUFFER A WITCH TO LIVE”, BUT TO DIE. A MALE WITCH IS KNOWN AS A WIZARD THAT RENDERS THE WORD MEKHASHSHEPETH IN THE MASCULINE FORM IN DEUTERONOMY 18:10. THE FOUNDATION OF WITCHCRAFT IS HUMAN SACRIFICES AND IS FOUND IN THE OKJV AND THE NKJV IN DEUTERONOMY 18:10; 1ST SAMUEL 15:23; 2ND KINGS 9:22; 17:17; 21:6; 2ND CHRONICLES 33:6; MICAH 5:12; NAHUM 3:4; WISDOM OF SOLOMON 12:4 & GALATIANS 5:20. BASED ON THIS, IT MAY HAVE BEEN THE CAUSE OF THE WITCH BURNINGS THAT HAPPENED A FEW HUNDRED YEARS AGO IN HISTORY. THIS ULTIMATELY MEANS THE SEVEN LAST PLAGUES WITH THE SEVEN ANGELS [LORD LUCIFER, LORD MICHAEL, LORD GABRIEL, LORD RAPHAEL, LORD URIEL, LORD JEREMIEL & LORD JESUS] DWELLS ETERNALLY FOREVER IN THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD’S OWN HOLY TEMPLE IN REVELATION 15:1-8, WHICH IS HIS ETERNAL CREATURE AS THE LORD YAHWEH BECOMING DIVINE FLESH IN THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD’S MIND, WHICH IS THE LORD ENOCH’S OWN BRIDE THE LADY VICTORIA THE GREAT VIRGIN IN REVELATION 21:9. THIS IS BECAUSE THE ONE AND ONLY ETERNAL INCURABLE PLAGUE, WHICH HAS ETERNAL ELEMENTS & IS DEEMED AS MOLOCH [IN ACTS OF THE HOLY GHOST IN ACTS 7:42-43] THAT IS THE LADY VICTORIA THE GREAT WITCH THAT IS ONLY COMMITTED BY HER AS IT PRIMARY ETERNAL SOURCE SAYING SHE IS THE “I AM, AND THERE IS NONE ELSE” IN ISAIAH 47:1-15, WHICH IS AN ETERNAL LIE, IS ALSO KNOWN AS CHILD PORNOGRAPHY THAT ORIGINATED FROM THE LADY VICTORIA THE GREAT WITCH AT 4 YEARS OF AGE & CAN ONLY BE IN THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD’S TRUTHFUL INTELLIGENCE, WHICH MEANS HIS TRUTHFUL INTELLIGENCE IS 100% TOTALLY SEPARATED FROM HIS INITIAL ETERNAL CREATURE. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO WAY FOR MOLOCH OR MOLECH TO GAIN ENTRANCE IN THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD’S OWN HOLY TEMPLE BECAUSE OF THE SEVEN ANGELS WITH THE SEVEN LAST PLAGUES THAT IS 100% ETERNALLY SECURE IN REVELATION 21:9. REMEMBER THE TOMB ON ANY FEMALE ETERNAL CREATURES IS HER SEX HOLE, WHICH IS THE DOORWAY TO HER BARREN WOMB IN ROMANS 1:21-32 & THE TOMB ON ANY ETERNAL MALE CREATURES IS HIS MOUTH HOLE, WHICH IS THE DOORWAY TO HIS BARREN THROAT IN ROMANS 3:4-23. THIS MAY MEAN JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVE VIRUSES OR THROAT PROBLEMS, MOST LIKELY IT IS BECAUSE OF THE DEEP INNER CORRUPTION OF MOLOCH, AND NOT JUST SOME SIMPLE MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS OF A CERTAIN KINDS OF PLAGUES, SUCH AS BRONCHITIS OR THE FLU OR SOME KIND OF LOWER VIRAL INFECTIONS. THE 5 DIVINE UNIONS ARE AUTHORIZED BY THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD DERIVES FROM JOHN 8:58 WITH GENESIS 2:24; MATTHEW 19:5; MARK 10:8; EPHESIANS 5:31 & 1ST CORINTHIANS 6:17 ALL AS ONE FLESH AND THE 1 SEXUAL UNION IS DERIVED FROM GENESIS 4:1 WITH 1ST CORINTHIANS 6:16 AS ONE FLESH AND NOT AUTHORIZED FROM THE FATHER STEPHEN. FIRST, THE LORD PETER SAYS BEFORE ABRAHAM & HIS LADY OF KINGDOMS (MOTHER) WAS I AM IS A DIVINE UNION. SECOND, THE LORD JOHN SAYS BEFORE NOAH AND HIS LADY OF KINGDOMS (MOTHER) WAS I AM IS A DIVINE UNION.  THIRD, THE LORD JESUS SAYS BEFORE ADAM & HIS LADY OF KINGDOMS (WIFE) WAS I AM. THIS A DIVINE UNION THAT GOES INTO A SEXUAL UNION IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 6:16 & GENESIS 4:1. FOURTH, THE LORD JAMES SAYS BEFORE JOB & HIS LADY OF KINGDOMS (MOTHER) WAS I AM IS A DIVINE UNION. FIFTH, THE LORD STEPHEN SAYS BEFORE LUCIFER & HIS LADY OF KINGDOMS (MOTHER) WAS I AM IS A DIVINE UNION. SO, IS MOLECH (MILCOM OR SUKKOTH) REFERRED TO MOLOCH? IN ACTS 7:42-43 DECLARES “DID YOU OFFER ME SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS AND SACRIFICES DURING FORTY YEARS [40 YEARS WITH A PREGNANCY + 5 YEARS IN CHILDKIND IS 46 YEARS] IN THE WILDERNESS, O HOUSE OF ISRAEL? YOU ALSO TOOK UP THE TABERNACLE OF MOLOCH, AND THE STAR OF YOUR GOD REMPHAN, IMAGES WHICH YOU MADE TO WORSHIP, AND I WILL CARRY YOU AWAY BEYOND BABYLON.” MOLECH MEANS SIMPLY “KING” OR “RULER” THAT IS DESCRIBED AS A FOREIGN GOD AND A PRACTICE RELATED TO FOREIGN WORSHIP. IN AMOS 5:26 IT MENTIONS “BUT YE BORNE THE TABERNACLE OF YOUR MOLOCH AND CHIUN (SAKKUTH, KIYYUN OR KAIWAN (WHICH ARE NAMES FOR SATURN) YOUR IMAGES (IDOLS), THE STAR OF YOUR GODS, WHICH YE MADE TO YOURSELVES.” IT IS NOT TOTALLY CLEAR IF MOLECH IN A SIMILAR RELATION TO MOLOCH, BUT IT COULD BE TRUE. CHIUN (SAKKUTH, KIYYUN OR KAIWAN) MEANS “THE CONSTANT, UNCHANGING ONE [THIS IS BECAUSE THE TOP ENGLISH LORD ETERNALLY REFUSES TO MAKE THE 00.0001% ETERNAL MOLOCH CORRUPTION GOOD, NOR WIL THE TOP ENGLISH LORD ETERNALLY DEAL WITH THIS & THIS IN NO WAY CAN BE CURED & HEALED BECAUSE THIS IS INCURABLE IN NATURE & ONLY SET UP FOR THE FEMALE DEVIL, BABYLON & THE GREAT WITCH TO BURN IN HELL FOREVER, BUT FOR THE LORD’S ETERNAL CREATURES, ALL THOSE WHO MAY ETERNALLY RECEIVE THE ETERNAL RELEASE, ETERNAL EXPUNGEMENT & ETERNAL ESCAPE CAN ONLY BE ETERNALLY FREE FROM THIS IN ACTS 7:60; 29:1-2, BUT THOSE WHO ETERNALLY RESIST THE TOP ENGLISH LORD DOES IN FACT DOES HAVE THE 00.0001% MOLOCH CORRUPTION WITHIN THEMSELVES IN ROMANS 1:21-28, 32; 3:4-23; 1ST TIMOTHY 6:9-10 & JAMES 1:14-15; 3:14-16; 4:1-6 THAT IS ALWAYS ETERNALLY ARRESTED & ALWAYS ETERNALLY LOCKED UP WITHIN THEMSELVES BECAUSE THESE ETERNALLY REFUSE TO KNOW & DO THE LORD’S TRUTH IN UNFUCKING THEMSELVES & STOP STEALING THE 10% LIFETIME MONEY TITHE FROM THE TOP ENGLISH LORD IN MALACHI 3:8-12 & ETERNALLY DENYING & ETERNALLY LYING AGAINST THE TOP ENGLISH LORD IN 1ST JOHN 1:8, 10 SO THAT THIS 00.0001% ETERNAL MOLOCH CORRUPTION WILL NOT GROW ANY FURTHER IN HEBREWS 2:14-18 AT 1 YEAR TO ETERNITY’S ETERNAL ESTABLISHMENT WITHIN THEMSELVES IN HEBREWS 1:12, BUT IN THE LORD’S ETERNAL RESPECT TO BECOME TRULY LIKE THE TOP ENGLISH LORD WHO IS ALWAYS SEXLESS, SINLESS, TEMPTLESS & GUILTLESS IN ROMANS 1:20; 3:4; JAMES 1:13, 17; 3:13, 17-18; 4:7-10 & 1ST PETER 5:5-11].” THE SUPREME LORDLY INVINCIBILITY OF THE ENGLISH PERIMETER! BUT THE OPPOSING SIDE OF THE ORIGINAL ONCE IN THE NUMBER 0 IN THE TOP ENGLISH PERIMETER IN ACTS 30 ON THE 1 ARMY MAN ALONE POSITION IN NUMBERS 23:19 & EXODUS 15:3 [DIGNITARY SOLDIER PRIVATE WITH E-0 MILITARY RANK THAT IS EXPERIENCED---SYNONYMS: knowledgeable, skillful, skilled, expert, accomplished, adept, adroit, master, consummate, professional, proficient, trained, competent, capable, qualified, well trained, well versed, seasoned, with experience, practiced, mature, veteran, long-serving, time-served, hardened, battle-scarred, crack, ace, mean, wizardKNOWLEDGEABLE, SKILLFUL, SKILLED, EXPERT, ACCOMPLISHED, ADEPT, ADROIT, MASTER, CONSUMMATE, PROFESSIONAL, PROFICIENT, TRAINED, COMPETENT, CAPABLE, QUALIFIED, WELL TRAINED, WELL VERSED, SEASONED, WITH EXPERIENCE, PRACTICED, MATURE, VETERAN, LONG-SERVING, TIME-SERVED, HARDENED, BATTLE-SCARRED, CRACK, ACE, MEAN, WIZARD---AT 6 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER [BECAUSE IF YOU ARE A SOLDIER AT 16 YEARS OF AGE, STRENGTH IN WEAKNESS WOULD PUT YOUR MILITARY EXPERIENCE AS THE BOY/GIRL OF THE LORD AT 6 YEARS OF AGE], BUT ALWAYS HAS MILITARY EXPERIENCE AT 6 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER [ACTS 13:4-12 AS THE CHILD OF THE LORD AT 5 YEARS OF AGE WITH THE 00.0001% ETERNAL INCORRUPTION IN THE ORIGINAL ONCE IN THE NUMBER 0 ONLY ONCE & IN THE ORIGINAL ONCE IN THE NUMBER 0 AT 00.0000%-100.0001% ETERNAL INCORRUPTION TO THE INFINITE NUMBER AT 100.0001% ETERNAL INCORRUPTION, INFANT OF THE LORD AT 4 YEARS OF AGE & BABY OF THE LORD AT 3 YEARS OF AGE & AS THE BOY/GIRL OF THE LORD AT 6 YEARS OF AGE ON UP TO THE ETERNAL AGE & ABSOLUTELY NO YEARS SHALL ETERNALLY FAIL IN HEBREWS 1:12, BUT THE ETERNAL BREACH FROM THE LORD IS WITHIN THE 5 YEARS OF AGE UNDER 1 YEAR’S TIME IN HEBREWS 2:14-18] OVER & ABOVE THE ETERNAL SNARE OF THE FUCKING DEVIL & ALWAYS HAS MILITARY EXPERIENCE AT 6 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER [ACTS 5:1-11 AS THE CHILD OF THE LORD AT 5 YEARS OF AGE WITH THE 00.0001% ETERNAL INCORRUPTION IN THE ORIGINAL ONCE IN THE NUMBER 0 ONLY ONCE & IN THE ORIGINAL ONCE IN THE NUMBER 0 AT 00.0000%-100.0001% ETERNAL INCORRUPTION TO THE INFINITE NUMBER AT 100.0001% ETERNAL INCORRUPTION, INFANT OF THE LORD AT 4 YEARS OF AGE & BABY OF THE LORD AT 3 YEARS OF AGE & AS THE BOY/GIRL OF THE LORD AT 6 YEARS OF AGE ON UP TO THE ETERNAL AGE & ABSOLUTELY NO YEARS SHALL ETERNALLY FAIL IN HEBREWS 1:12, BUT THE ETERNAL BREACH FROM THE LORD IS WITHIN 5 YEARS OF AGE UNDER 1 YEAR’S TIME IN HEBREWS 2:14-18] OVER & ABOVE THE ETERNAL DAMNATION OF THE FUCKING DEVIL BECAUSE THE FUCKING DEVIL ONLY IS ONLY MINDFUL OF THE NON-MILITARY CIVILIAN OR MAN] OF THE TRUE OPPOSING SIDE IS USED AT THE BEGINNING WITH 102 SOLDIERS WITH TRUE OPPOSING FIRE THROUGH TRUE REPENTANCE OF TRUE UNLIMITED SUPREME AUTHORITY TO THE INFINITE NUMBER THROUGH TRUE RELENTING OF TRUE UNLIMITED SUPREME AUTHORITY IS ALWAYS INFINITE FIRE BECAUSE THE TOP ENGLISH LORD DWELLS IN THESE INFALLIBLE INERRANT NUMBERS IN THE TOP ENGLISH PERIMETER IN ACTS 30!!!], BUT REMEMBER THE LORD YAHWEH & HIS COMMAND WILL USE FIRE FOR HIS OWN PLANS, WORKS & PURPOSES, THAT ALWAYS ETERNALLY OVERRULES THE LORD JESUS CHRIST & HIS COMMANDS & AT CERTAIN TIMES SHALL USE FIRE, EVEN TO DESTROY MAN’S LIFE IF THEY CONTINUALLY DISOBEY THE LORD YAHWEH HIMSELF & HIS COMMANDS & THE SUCCESSFUL KEY IS THE TOTAL OBEDIENCE WITHOUT QUESTIONING [THE 16 LEVELS IS IN ACTS OF THE APOSTLES & ACTS OF THE HOLY GHOST IN ACTS 1:4-7; 6:7-8; 7:30-38; 8:1-3; 9:3-9; 22:6-21; 26:13-18; 29:1-2] TO THE LORD YAHWEH HIMSELF & WITH NO OTHER LORD, EVEN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IN 2ND KINGS 1:1-18 & LUKE 9:46-56. YOU MUST HAVE A CIRCLE OF FIRE OR A WALL OF FIRE AROUND YOU TO PROTECT YOU AT ALL TIMES!!! THE LORD LUCIFER’S/LADY VICTORIA’S DEVILS & DEMONS MUST BE DESTROYED BY THE LORD YAH’S FIRE, SOMETIME IN YOUR WALK WITH THE LORD IN ACTS 5:1-11, BUT IN THE SAME RESPECT, PROTECT & SAVE MAN’S LIFE BY THE SAME LORD YAH’S FIRE, BASED ON WHO THE LORD WANTS TO PROTECT OR DESTROY IN ACTS 13:4-12!!! THE SATANIC/BABYLONIAN DEPTH OF THE MOLOCH CORRUPTION! IN REVELATION 2:18-29 DECLARES, “AND TO THE ANGEL [LORD IS 2 IN 1, WHICH IS 2 POSITIONS OR 1 POSITION IN PEACE & 3 IN 1, WHICH IS 3 POSITIONS OR 1.5 POSITIONS IN PEACE] OF THE CHURCH [3 IN 1, WHICH IS 3 POSITIONS OR 1.5 POSITIONS IN PEACE & 4 IN 1, WHICH IS 4 POSITIONS OR 2 POSITIONS IN PEACE] IN THYATIRA WRITE, ‘THESE THINGS SAYS THE SON [JESUS] OF GOD [FATHER STEPHEN], WHO HAS EYES LIKE A FLAME OF FIRE, AND HIS FEET LIKE FINE BRASS: I KNOW YOUR WORKS, [AGAPE] LOVE, [FAITHFUL] SERVICE, FAITH, AND YOUR PATIENCE, AND AS FOR YOUR WORKS, THE LAST [ACTS 29:2] ARE MORE THAN THE FIRST [PROVERBS 8:22-25]. NEVERTHELESS, I HAVE A FEW [3] THINGS AGAINST YOU, BECAUSE YOU ALLOW THAT WOMAN JEZEBEL, WHO CALLS HERSELF A PROPHETESS, TO TEACH AND SEDUCE MY SERVANTS TO COMMIT SEXUAL IMMORALITY [MARITAL SEXUALITY] AND EAT THINGS SACRIFICED TO IDOLS [IDOLATRY]. AND I GAVE HER TIME TO REPENT OF HER SEXUAL IMMORALITY [MARITAL SEXUALITY], AND SHE DID NOT REPENT. INDEED, I WILL CAST HER INTO A SICKBED, AND THOSE WHO COMMIT ADULTERY WITH HER INTO GREAT TRIBULATION, UNLESS THEY REPENT OF THEIR [SEXUAL] DEEDS. I WILL KILL HER CHILDREN WITH DEATH, AND ALL THE CHURCHES SHALL KNOW THAT I AM [JOHN 8:58] HE WHO SEARCHES THE MINDS AND HEARTS. AND I WILL GIVE TO EACH ONE OF YOU ACCORDING TO YOUR WORKS. NOW TO YOU I SAY, AND TO THE REST IN THYATIRA, AS MANY [CALLED----4 OR MORE] AS DO NOT HAVE THIS [SEXUAL] DOCTRINE [THE ELECT OF THE CHOSEN [3], FAITHFUL [2] & BEGOTTEN [1] HAS THIS SEX DOCTRINE TO ARREST, KILL & DAMN SEXUALITY, HOMOSEXUALITY & INTERRACIAL ABOMINATIONS AS A WHOLE], WHO HAVE NOT KNOWN [TO KNOW HOW TO COMBAT AGAINST THIS PERVERTED CORRUPTION] THE DEPTHS [THE BEGINNING DEEPEST INNER SEXUAL CORRUPTION IS MOLOCH [MAYBE MOLECH CALLED MILCOM OR SUKKOTH] WHICH MAKES YOU INTO SEXUAL PORN CREATURES LATER ON BECAUSE SOMETHING HAPPENED IN YOUR CHILD LIFE [NOT AT ACCOUNTABLE AGE] TO BECOME SEXUAL CREATURES AS FEMALES BY THE LORD LUCIFER [DEVIL] & MALES BY THE LADY VICTORIA [BABYLON] LATER ON, WHICH MOLOCH IS CHILD PORNOGRAPHY [MOLOCH IS AT THE UNSECURE 99.9999% LEVEL IN ACTS 7:59 ONLY] BETWEEN 5 TO 10 YEARS OF AGE IN RECEIVING 99.9980% [10%] IN ACTS 7:55 TO 99.9996% [100%] IN ACTS 7:56 OF SECURE TRUTHFUL INTELLIGENCE IN CHILD KIND IN THE HOLY BIBLICAL LAW CONCERNING JESUS IN LUKE 2:17, 21, 27, 34, 40 BECAUSE ANYTHING YOUNGER THAN 5 YEARS OF AGE IN BABY KIND FROM 0 TO 3 YEARS OF AGE CONCERNING JESUS IN LUKE 2:12, 16 THEY HAVE NOT RECEIVED ANY TRUTHFUL INTELLIGENCE & ANYTHING OLDER THAN 10-11 YEARS OF AGE CONCERNING JESUS IS THE YOUNGEST BOY KIND/GIRL KIND IN LUKE 2:42] OF SATAN [LORD LUCIFER AS THE DEVIL WITH LADY VICTORIA AS BABYLON---THE INNER CORRUPTION [666/616 SEXUAL DNA WHICH IS XXX PORN DNA] OF MOLOCH HAPPENED AT 4 YEARS OF AGE IN INFANT KIND---JESUS WAS NOT TECHNICALLY MENTIONED AS AN INFANT (SUCKLING) IN LUKE] WITH A STIFF-NAKED STRIPPING NATURE THAT THE NON-APOSTLE STEVE HANDLED BEING LOCKED UP IN ASLEEP ONLY AT 100.0000% IN ACTS OF THE HOLY GHOST IN ACTS 7:60, WHICH ETERNALLY RELEASES THE STIFF-NECKED SEXUAL, HOMOSEXUAL & INTERRACIAL NATURE THAT THE APOSTLE STEPHEN HANDLED BEING LOCKED UP IN ASLEEP ONLY AT 100.0000% IN ACTS OF THE APOSTLES IN ACTS 7:60], AS THEY SAY, I WILL PUT ON YOU NO OTHER BURDEN [THIS MEANS THE LADY VICTORIA IS SOLELY HELD 100% RESPONSIBLE & ACCOUNTABLE IN ISAIAH 47:1-15 & THE LORD LUCIFER IS THE 100% VICTIM OF CIRCUMSTANCE, WHICH MEANS THE WRITERS OF THE BIBLE ACCUSED LUCIFER FALSELY FROM THE BEGINNING TO THE END]. BUT HOLD FAST, WHAT YOU HAVE TILL I COME. AND HE WHO OVERCOMES [THE FULLNESS OF THE HOLY GHOST [SPIRIT OF TRUTH---LORD JOHN] GIVES YOU THE ABILITY TO REACH ACTS 7:1-7:56 ONLY AT 00.0000% TO 99.9996% ONLY, THE FULLNESS OF THE SON [SPIRIT OF CHRIST---LORD JESUS] AT 99.9997% TO 99.9999% IN ACTS OF THE HOLY GHOST IN ACTS 7:57-7:59 ONLY, THE FULLNESS OF THE LORDSHIP OF THE HOLY BIBLICAL LAW [SPIRIT OF LAW---LORD JAMES] AT 99.9999% IN ACTS OF THE HOLY GHOST IN ACTS 7:59 ONLY, THE FULLNESS OF THE FATHER IN HIS KINGDOM OF LORDSHIP [SPIRIT OF THE FATHER---LORD STEPHEN] AT 100.0000% IN ACTS OF THE HOLY GHOST IN ACTS 7:60 ONLY & THE FULLNESS OF THE LORD [SPIRIT OF THE LORD---LORD YAHWEH] IN HIS KINGDOM OF LORDSHIP AT 100.0001% IN ACTS OF THE HOLY GHOST IN ACTS 8:1 ONLY & THIS WHOLE OPERATION OF TRUTH FROM THE HOLY GHOST TO THE LORD YAHWEH ENDURES FOR 8 YEARS & NOTHING LESS], AND KEEPS MY [DIVINE] WORKS UNTIL THE END, TO HIM I WILL GIVE POWER [EXCELLENCY OF AUTHORITY] OVER THE NATIONS---‘HE [JESUS OR ENOCH IN CHILD KIND FROM 5 YEARS OF AGE ON UP IN REVELATION 12:5] SHALL RULE THEM WITH A ROD OF IRON, THEY SHALL BE DASHED TO PIECES LIKE THE POTTER’S VESSELS [RANK 0 SHARD TIME PORTAL TO RANK 45 SHARD TIME PORTAL CAN BE BROKEN, WHICH IS 46 YEARS [56 YEARS IN STRENGTH] BECAUSE THEY ARE IDENTIFIABLE BY THE ANCIENT CRYSTAL STONE, BUT THE RANK 46 SHARD TIME PORTAL, WHICH IS THE ANCIENT DIAMOND STONE AS THE EXCELLENCY OF LORDSHIP CAN NOT BE BROKEN NOR CAN BE IDENTIFIED]’---I ALSO HAVE RECEIVED FROM MY FATHER [STEPHEN], AND I WILL GIVE HIM THE MORNING STAR. HE WHO HAS AN EAR, LET HIM HEAR WHAT THE SPIRIT [FATHER STEPHEN IN JOHN 4:23-24] SAYS TO THE CHURCHES.’” THE SEXLESS RESPONSIBILITY & HOLY ACCOUNTABILITY BECAUSE OF THE MOLOCH SEXUAL CORRUPTION! WHERE DOES THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD HOLD ALL ETERNAL CREATURES RESPONSIBLE & ACCOUNTABLE IF THERE IS MOLOCH CORRUPTION IN THEM? FIRST OFF, THE FATHER STEPHEN WILL NOT ARREST, KILL OR DAMN YOU IF YOU ARE NOT MOLOCH CORRUPTED, NORMALLY BETWEEN THE WAIST AND THE THIGH & MORE PRECISELY YOUR JOINING ENCOUNTERS [DIVINE INTERCOURSES] WITH OTHER ETERNAL CREATURES THAT ALWAYS CHANGES YOUR RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE LORD IN A POSITIVE WAY. IF YOU ARE SEXUAL, HOMOSEXUAL OR INTERRACIAL IN ABOMINABLE NATURES, THERE IS ALWAYS SOME SORT OF MOLOCH CORRUPTION. IF YOU ARE DIVINE, HOLY & SEPARATED CREATURES, THE LORD WILL NEVER ARREST, KILL OR DAMN YOU OR HOLD YOU RESPONSIBLE OR ACCOUNTABLE WITH THE MOLOCH CORRUPTION, BUT YOU MAY BE A VICTIM OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES. MOLOCH CORRUPTION IS THE YOUNGEST PORN SEXUALITY IN INFANT KIND THAT CAN BE COMMITTED AT 4 YEARS OF AGE THAT CAN ONLY BE CONTROLLED BY ETERNAL DEATHS, BUT CANNOT BE STEALED, KILLED OR DESTROYED BECAUSE IT IS INCURABLE IN NATURE & ETERNAL IN ITS ELEMENTS & QUALITIES. ALSO, MOLECH IS SIMILAR TO MOLOCH, BUT IT HAPPENS AFTER INFANT KIND AT A LATER AGE. EVEN IF YOUR NOT SCREWING OR STRIPPING, IF YOU GIVE YOUR STIFF-NECKED SEXUAL APPROVAL ONCE/STIFF-NAKED STRIPPING APPROVAL ONCE ALONE YOU HAVE THE MOLOCH CORRUPTION ALONE IN YOU & ARE SUBJECT TO THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD’S IMPARTIAL JUDGMENT IN ROMANS 1:32; 3:4-23 & 1ST PETER 1:17-21. THE ETERNAL SOURCE OF THE ETERNAL SIN IN LORDSHIP IS THE LADY VICTORIA’S MOLOCH CORRUPTION [ISAIAH 47:1-15] IN INFANT KIND IN THE MARRIED KINGDOM OF LORDSHIP IN ACTS OF THE APOSTLES IN A STIFF-NECKED SEXUAL SENSE THAT WILL GROW INTO A HOMOSEXUAL SENSE & END IN A INTERRACIAL ABOMINABLE SENSE THAT WAS HANDLED BY THE APOSTLE LORD STEPHEN AT 20 YEARS OF AGE [STRONG FRUITFUL CALL IS 16 YEARS THAT REACHES 4 YEARS OF AGE] IN ACTS 7:60 & IN THE SINGLE KINGDOM OF LORDSHIP IN ACTS OF THE HOLY GHOST IN A STIFF-NAKED STRIPPING SENSE ONLY THAT WAS HANDLED BY THE NON-APOSTLE LORD STEPHEN AT 20 YEARS OF AGE [STRONG FRUITFUL CALL IS 16 YEARS THAT REACHES 4 YEARS OF AGE] IN ACTS 7:60. THIS ALSO MEANS THAT THE DEEP INNER CORRUPTION OF MOLOCH FROM THE LADY VICTORIA THE GREAT WITCH WAS NEVER IN ANY MALE ETERNAL CREATURES, BUT IN FEMALE ETERNAL CREATURES USE OUTSIDE MOLOCH INFLUENCES TO ENTICE & LURER WEAK MALE ETERNAL CREATURES, LIKE THE LORD LUCIFER INTO ELICIT PRACTICES OF MARITAL PORN SEXUALITIES. WITH THE TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD & EVIL, IT WAS GOOD ON THE INSIDE [INNER PERSON-HEART] WITH THE LORD ADAM & THE LORD LUCIFER RESPECTIVELY, BUT EVIL ON THE OUTSIDE [OUTER PERSON-SKIN] WITH THE LORD ADAM & THE LORD LUCIFER RESPECTIVELY. ALSO, IT WAS GOOD ON THE OUTSIDE [OUTER PERSON-SKIN] WITH THE LADY EVE & THE LADY VICTORIA RESPECTIVELY, BUT EVIL ON THE INSIDE [INNER PERSON-HEART] WITH THE LADY EVE & THE LADY VICTORIA RESPECTIVELY. BUT REMEMBER THE LORD JOB ONLY BEAT ALL OF THIS CONCERNING THE OUTER PERSON-SKIN & INNER PERSON-HEART, BUT HIS WIFE DID NOT NOR ALL OF HIS 1ST FAMILY! THIS MEANS THERE WERE NO EQUALITY BETWEEN MALES & FEMALES FROM THE BEGINNING TO THE END BECAUSE THE MALE IS THE STRONGER VESSEL & THE FEMALE IS THE WEAKER VESSEL, WHICH CAN COME TO PERFECTION WITH FEMALES IN 2ND CORINTHIANS 12:9, BUT NOT EQUALITY. ALSO, IN THE ORIGINAL PACKAGE OF CREATION THERE WERE ONLY MALES, SUCH AS THE LOWER LORD ADAM [GENESIS 1:26-27] & THE HIGHER LORD LUCIFER [PROVERBS 8:30-31] & FEMALES, SUCH AS THE LOWER LADY EVE [GENESIS 2:22-23] & THE HIGHER LADY VICTORIA [PROVERBS 8:30-31] CAME AFTERWARDS AS AN ADD ON, BUT NO EQUALITY WHAT SO EVER IN THE SINGLE REALMS. MARRIAGE ALSO FOLLOWS THIS RULE OF NO EQUALITY BECAUSE THE WIFE IS SUBJECT TO HER OWN HUSBAND. WHEN THE LADY EVE WANTED TO BE LIKE THE LORD LUCIFER KNOWN AS THE MARRIED LORD CALLED WISDOM OVER THE LORD ADAM, SHE FELL BECAUSE THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD GAVE THE AUTHORITY TO MALES & NEVER FEMALES CONCERNING THE UNMARRIED REALMS TO SINGLE AFTER MARRIAGE REALMS. ALSO, THE WHOLE BLACK RACE COMES AFTER THE INITIAL PACKAGE OF THE WHITE RACE OF CREATION AS AN ADD ON UNDER THE WHITE FEMALES. IN THE HIGHER THAN MOST-HIGHEST LEVEL, THE LADY VICTORIA THE GREAT VIRGIN & FEMALE YAHWEH IS ONLY SUBJECT TO THE LORD YAHWEH HIMSELF FROM THE BEGINNING TO THE END & OVER EVERY OTHER ETERNAL CREATURE THAT IS MALE OR FEMALE IN PROVERBS 8:22-25. HOW DOES THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD HANDLE THE MOLOCH CORRUPTION? THE LORD PHINEHAS’S NAME MEANS “MOUTH OF BRASS.” THE SCRIPTURE REFERENCES OF THE LORD PHINEHAS IS IN EXODUS 6:25; NUMBERS 25:7-11; 31:6; JOSHUA 22:13, 30-32; 24:33 & JUDGES 20:28. THE LORD PHINEHAS’S LIFE AND TIMES: THE LORD PHINEHAS WAS A 2ND GENERATION PRIEST WHO LIVED DURING THE LORD MOSES AND THE EXODUS. AFTER 40 YEARS OF THE ISRAELITES WANDERING, THEY CAMPED ON THE PLAINS OF MOAB, WHERE SOME OF THE MEN FELL INTO A TRAP, WHICH IS CALLED TODAY A “HONEY TRAP.” THE MOABITE WOMEN SEDUCED THE ISRAELITE MEN AND INVOLVED THEM IN THE HIGH LEVEL OF EROTIC PAGAN RELIGIOUS RITE OF SEXUALITY IS IN NUMBERS 25:7-11. THE WHORE’S INTENTS WERE TO TURN THE FATHER STEPHEN AGAINST THEM SO HE WOULD PUNISH THEM OF THEIR SEXUALITY RATHER THAN FIGHT FOR THEM. WHEN A ISRAELITE MAN BROUGHT THE MOABITE PROSTITUTE INTO THE CAMP, THE LORD PHINEHAS IN HIS ANGER KILLED BOTH IN THEIR TENT, AND STOPPED A PLAGUE THAT THE FATHER STEPHEN HAD BEGUN IN THE CAMP BECAUSE OF SEXUALITY, AND THE FATHER STEPHEN REWARDED THE LORD PHINEHAS WITH THE “COVENANT OF PEACE” IN THE CAMP. THE LORD PHINEHAS’S RELATIONSHIPS: THE LORD PHINEHAS’S RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS PEOPLE: YEARS LATER THE ISRAELITES CONSTRUCTED AN ALTAR FOR THE USE OF ILLICIT SACRIFICES. THEY ORGANIZED A FACT-FINDING MISSION AND CALLED PHINEHAS TO LEAD THIS INVESTIGATION. THE LORD PHINEHAS DISCOVERED THAT THE TRANS-JORDON TRIBES HAD BEEN AFRAID WHERE THEY WOULD MIGHT DENY THEIR RIGHT TO SHARE IN THE WORSHIP OF THE FATHER STEPHEN. SO, THEY CONSTRUCTED AN ALTAR, BY FOLLOWING THE RULES LAID OUT IN MOSES’ WRITINGS. THE LORD PHINEHAS ACCEPTED THEIR EXPLANATION AND AVOIDED A CIVIL WAR. THE LORD PHINEHAS’S RELATIONSHIP WITH THE FATHER STEPHEN: THE LORD PHINEHAS WAS FAITHFUL IN DOING THE FATHER STEPHEN’S COMMAND BY KILLING THE TWO IN THE TENT BECAUSE OF SEXUAL CORRUPTION IN THE CAMP. HE TRUSTED IN THE FATHER STEPHEN AND HE REWARDED THE LORD PHINEHAS BY HIS OBEDIENCE. THE LORD PHINEHAS AS AN EXAMPLE FOR TODAY: THE LORD PHINEHAS TEACHES THAT COMMITMENT TO THE FATHER STEPHEN MAY SEEM HARSH BUT RIGHT. THE LORD PHINEHAS REMINDS US THAT WE WHO ARE WILLING TO LISTEN AND EAGER TO KEEP PEACE WHEN MISUNDERSTANDING ARISE IS WISE. THE LORD PHINEHAS REMINDS US TO BE HARSH WHEN HARSHNESS IS APPROPRIATE AND COMPASSIONATE WHEN IT IS FITTING TO LISTEN AND MAKE PEACE.       MOLECH MAY BE A VARIATION TO MOLOCH IN ACTS 7:43? THIS MEANS THAT MOLOCH, WHICH IS CONSIDERED CHILD PORNOGRAPHY BY THE LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH IS FROM 3 YEARS OF AGE UP TO 6 YEARS OF AGE [THIS IS BECAUSE YAHWEH STEPHEN [NON-APOSTLE] IS A YOUNG BOY/GIRL & NOT A CHILD AT 16 YEARS OF AGE & JEHOVAH [APOSTLE] IS A YOUNG BOY/GIRL & NOT A CHILD AT 15 YEARS OF AGE & CHURCH [APOSTLE] IS A YOUNG BOY/GIRL & NOT A CHILD AT 14 YEARS OF AGE & PETER [APOSTLE] IS A YOUNG BOY/GIRL & NOT A CHILD AT 13 YEARS OF AGE & JOHN [APOSTLE] IS A ONLY CONSIDERED A YOUNG BOY/GIRL & NOT A CHILD AT 12 YEARS OF AGE & JESUS [APOSTLE] IS A ONLY CONSIDERED A YOUNG BOY/GIRL & NOT A CHILD AT 11 YEARS OF AGE, WHICH IS THE DIVIDING LINE & JAMES [APOSTLE] IS AT 10 YEARS OF AGE AS A YOUNG BOY/GIRL & NOT A CHILD, STEPHEN [APOSTLE] IS AT 9 YEARS OF AGE AS A YOUNG BOY/GIRL & NOT A CHILD & STEPHEN [NON-APOSTLE] CLEARS TO WAY FOR HIM AS A YOUNG BOY/GIRL AND NOT A CHILD AT 8 YEARS OF AGE & YAHWEH [NON-APOSTLE] CLEARS TO WAY FOR HIM AS A YOUNG BOY/GIRL AND NOT A CHILD AT 7 YEARS OF AGE & STEPHEN YAHWEH [NON-APOSTLE] IS A YOUNG BOY/GIRL & NOT A CHILD AT 6 YEARS OF AGE, WHICH MEANS THE DIVIDING LINE IS BEFORE 16 YEARS OF AGE TO BEFORE 6 YEARS OF AGE BASED ON THE LORDLY LEVEL YOU ARE WORTHY OF, CONCERNING ONLY CHILD-KIND AT 5 YEARS OF AGE WITH THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD IN LUKE 2:42-43] WHICH IS THE LORD STEVE’S TREE OF KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD & EVIL & THE FATHER STEPHEN’S DEFENSE THAT FIGHTS FOR ALL CHILD KIND CONCERNING CHILD PORNOGRAPHY [THIS HAPPENED SOMETIME AFTER THE FATHER STEPHEN’S CREATION & HIS BIRTH DONE BY THE LADY VICTORIA THE FEMALE YAHWEH AS THE FEMALE SENSE OF THE SUPREME CREATOR THE LORD YAHWEH KNOWN AS PENTECOST & THE GREAT FEMALE VIRGIN IN PROVERBS 8:22-29 & BETWEEN 3 TO 5 YEARS OF AGE IN BABY KIND [3 YEARS], INFANT KIND [4 YEARS] & CHILD KIND [5 YEARS] & PRECISELY PROVEN IN PROVERBS 8:30-31, WHICH POINTS TO THE FALLEN LADY VICTORIA THE FEMALE CREATOR AGENT THAT BECAME AT LOWER LEVELS BABYLON & THE GREAT FEMALE WITCH & HER PRIMARY SOURCE OF ETERNAL CORRUPTION IS FEMALE CHILD PORNOGRAPHY AT 00.0001% ETERNAL CORRUPTION IN ORIGINAL ONCE IN THE NUMBER 0 ONLY IN PROVERBS 8:30-31 TO ACTS 6:1-2 [HOUSE LEVEL] IN THE UP TIME IN THE ULTIMATE BEGINNING TO ACTS 6:9-15 [BUSINESS LEVEL]; ISAIAH 47:1-15 TO ACTS 7:51-53 [KINGDOM LEVEL]; REVELATION 17:1-18:24 TO ACTS 7:57-58 [CITY LEVEL] & ACTS 7:42-43 TO ACTS 7:59-60 [HOUSE LEVEL] IN THE DOWN TIME TOWARDS THE ULTIMATE END IN ACTS 7:60] AT 100.00% TO GOVERN THE 9 OTHERS ABOMINABLE THINGS LINKED TO THE 9 LEVELS OF FALLEN LORDS IN THE HOUSE WORLD AT 100.00% EACH IN THE ULTIMATE END FOR THE 9 LEVELS OF FALLEN LORDS [UPTIME DOWN TIME] TO RECEIVE A RELEASE, EXPUNGEMENT & A ESCAPE IN ACTS 7:42-43, 60. THE 9 LEVELS OF FALLEN LORDS ARE LINKED TO THE LORD BARABBAS AS THE LORD PETER [APOSTLE] IN THE UPSIDE-DOWN CROSS IN THE LORDSHIP OF THE LAW, THE LORD JOHN [APOSTLE] IN THE BEHEADING IN THE LORDSHIP OF THE LAW, THE LORD JESUS [APOSTLE] IN THE CROSS IN THE LORDSHIP OF THE LAW, THE LORD JAMES [APOSTLE] & THE LORD STEPHEN [APOSTLE] IN THE STONING ONCE IN THE LORDSHIP OF THE LAW & THE 10TH LEVEL THE LORD STEVE IS LINKED TO THE ETERNAL STANDARD & ETERNAL EXAMPLE OF THE LORD STEPHEN [NON-APOSTLE] IN THE STONING ONCE IN THE KINGDOM OF LORDSHIP IN ACTS 7:51-53, 60. THE LORD STEVE’S TREE OF LIFE IS ALWAYS FROM 00.0000% TO 100.0001% ETERNAL INCORRUPTION WITHIN THE OPPOSING SIDE OF THE ORIGINAL ONCE IN THE NUMBER 0 AT 00.0001% ETERNAL INCORRUPTION & IN THE 00.0000% ETERNAL INCORRUPTION IN THE ORIGINAL ONCE IN THE NUMBER 0 TO 100.0001% ETERNAL INCORRUPTION IN THE ORIGINAL ONCE IN THE NUMBER 0 & THE BEGINNING, THE MIDST & THE DOORWAY TO THE ULTIMATE END AT 100.0001% ETERNAL INCORRUPTION IN THE INFINITE NUMBER IS ALSO THE TREE OF LIFE. THIS SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE NEVER ENTERS THE MIND, HEART, SOUL OR SPIRIT IN THE INNER PERSON NOR IN THE OUTER PERSON, BUT STAYS IN THE REALM OF KNOWLEDGE, WHICH MAY BE LINKED TO THE PHYCOLOGICAL PARTS OF AN ETERNAL CREATURE. THIS MEANS THAT A HOLY MIND IS NEVER AFFECTED BY THIS SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE IN APPROVING, CONSENTING, THINKING, DOING OR ACTING, BUT IS ALWAYS SEPARATED BY THE INERRANT RESTRICTION TO THE FATHER STEPHEN’S MIND. THE TOP-SECRET CLEARANCE OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD! THE FATHER STEPHEN’S TOP-SECRET CLEARANCE INVOLVES GODSPEED (SUCCESS) TO DECADES WHERE THE ANGELS (LORDS) NOR THE LORD JESUS THE SON OF GOD CANNOT KNOW CERTAIN THINGS ABOUT THE FATHER STEPHEN PROVEN IN RICHES OF MONEY IN MARK 10:23-25 & LUKE 18:24-25. THE FATHER STEPHEN’S DAY AND THE HOUR IN MATTHEW 24:36; MARK 13:32; LUKE 10:22. THE FATHER STEPHEN’S OWN AUTHORITY, OWN OMNIPOTENCE AND OWN COMMISSION IN THE TIMES (WEEKS) AND SEASONS (MONTHS OF FRUITS) IN ACTS 1:7; 1ST THESSALONIANS 5:2; 1ST PETER 3:10; 2ND PETER 3:8, 10 AND ZECHARIAH 14:7. THE FATHER STEPHEN’S UNIVERSE IN THE YEARS (UNFAILING) TO DECADES THAT THE FATHER STEPHEN CREATED IN HEBREWS 1:10-13. ALSO NO MAN NOT EVEN THE LORD JESUS AS THE MAN OF THE LORD CAN KNOW THE FATHER STEPHEN PROVEN IN MATTHEW 11:27; MARK 13:32; LUKE 10:22. THE WHOLE WORLD OF MANKIND DOES NOT KNOW THE FATHER STEPHEN BECAUSE OF THE LUST OF THE EYES, THE LUST OF THE FLESH AND THE PRIDE OF LIFE IN 1ST JOHN 2:15-17 AND JOHN 5:22; 10:29; 17:25. THE 1ST HIGHEST MOST HIGHEST TOP-SECRET CLEARANCE IS THE HEAVENLY FATHER STEPHEN IN THE TOP MOST HIGHEST KINGDOM OF THE LORDSHIP OF THE LAW [KINGDOM OF LORDSHIP OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, KINGDOM OF THE EARTH, KINGDOM OF THIS WORLD IN THE UNFALLEN STATE & THE KINGDOM OF HELL IN GENESIS 1:1-ACTS 1:3] WITH THE TRUE HOLY DIVISION OF THE LORDSHIP OF THE LAW IS IN LUKE 11:17-23; 21:10 & 1ST JOHN 5:6-8 THE FATHER STEPHEN’S TOP-SECRET CLEARANCE CAUSES ALL ETERNAL CREATURES TO NOT KNOW HIM FROM THE HEAD TO THE FEET, EXCEPT THE TRUE SAINTLY CHRISTIAN LORDS (LADIES) [THE LORD PETER CHRIST---LORD ISRAEL CHRIST (LADY RACHEL CHRIST), THE LORD JOHN CHRIST---LORD ELIJAH CHRIST (LADY VICTORIA CHRIST), THE LORD JESUS CHRIST---LORD MOSES CHRIST (LADY ZIPPORAH) & THE LORD JAMES CHRIST---LORD MICHAEL CHRIST (LADY MICHAL)] AS THE MOST HIGHEST HOLY CHERUBIM (PUTI BABIES IN THE 24TH ORDER) ONLY HAVE THE ABILITY TO BEHOLD HIS FACE [THE FACE IS ALWAYS CLOAKED IN FORM IN ACTS 6:3, 5, 11, 13, 15] ONLY IN MATTHEW 18:10; LUKE 10:21-22 & ACTS 2:25 THE HEAVENLY FATHER STEPHEN CAN ONLY BE CALLED FATHER IN MATTHEW 23:9. THE SEPARATED SINGLE REALM AS SINGLE MEN EQUAL TO THE ANGELS (LORDS) OF GOD IN HEAVEN CANNOT KNOW THE GODLY FATHER STEPHEN IN THE KINGDOM OF LORDSHIP IN LUKE 20:35-36 AND GENESIS 1:26-2:25. THIS IS BECAUSE THE MAN ADAM AT THAT TIME WAS OVER THE ANGELICAL HIERARCHY IN THE IMAGE AND LIKENESS OF THE LORD, AND THE ANGELS (LORDS) AS TRUE SAINTLY CHRISTIAN LORDS (LADIES) ONLY BEHOLD THE (HEAVENLY) FACE (PRESENCE) OF THE FATHER STEPHEN, BUT DO NOT KNOW HIM IN MATTHEW 18:10. THOSE WHO SAY THEY KNOW THE HEAVENLY FATHER STEPHEN AND WORKS LAWLESSNESS, VIOLENCE AND INIQUITY DOES NOT KNOW HIM IN ROMANS 3:4-23; 1ST CORINTHIANS 15:24-28; 1ST JOHN 1:8, 10; LUKE 13:27 & 2ND ESDRAS 4:34. THOSE WHO ARE PUTI BABES (CHERUBIM) AS TRUE SAINTLY CHRISTIAN LORDS (LADIES), THE FATHER STEPHEN IS REVEALED IN THE HEAVENLY FACE ONLY, BUT HIDDEN FROM THE WISE AND PRUDENT IN MATTHEW 11:25-30; 21:16 AND LUKE 10:21. NO ONE CAN SEE THE HEAVENLY FATHER STEPHEN EXCEPT THE LORD YAHWEH IN JOHN 6:46; 8:58. THE UNAPPROACHABLE LIGHT THE FATHER STEPHEN USES WHICH CONCERNS EVERYTHING THAT IS NOT THE LORD STEPHEN’S PHYSICAL FACE, CANNOT BE INVESTIGATED OR APPROACHED BY THE LIGHT-SPEED WHICH IS 186,000 MILES PER HOUR IN 1ST TIMOTHY 6:16. THE 2ND HIGHER THAN HIGHEST MOST HIGHEST TOP-SECRET CLEARANCE IS THE GODLY FATHER STEPHEN IN THE TOP MOST HIGHEST KINGDOM OF LORDSHIP [ETERNAL KINGDOM OF GOD IN PROVERBS 8:22-31 & THE ETERNAL KINGDOM OF LORDSHIP IN ACTS 1:4-28:31] WITH THE TRUE HOLY DIVISION OF LORDSHIP IS IN DANIEL 7:14, 18, 22; HEBREWS 4:12 (NKJV) & 1ST JOHN 5:9-13 THE GODLY FATHER STEPHEN’S TOP-SECRET CLEARANCE CAUSES ALL ETERNAL CREATURES TO NOT KNOW HIM FROM THE HEAD TO THE FEET, EXCEPT THE SON JESUS CHRIST [LORD DAVID CHRIST] & THE SON ENOCH CHRIST [THE LADY VICTORIA CHRIST, THE LADY THE BARBARA CHRIST, THE LADY STEPHANIE CHRIST & THE LADY ATARAH CHRIST] AS A TRUE SAINTLY CHRISTIAN LORDS ONLY HAS THE ABILITY TO BEHOLD HIS FACE [THE FACE IS NEVER CLOAKED IN FORM IN ACTS 7:60] ONLY IN THE KINGDOM OF LORDSHIP IN GENESIS 5:22-24; WISDOM OF SOLOMON 7:22-30; HEBREWS 11:5; JUDE 14-15; LUKE 10:22 & ACTS 2:25 THE GODLY FATHER STEPHEN CAN ONLY BE CALLED FATHER IN MATTHEW 23:9. ONLY THE SON JESUS OR THE SON ENOCH [ONLY AS A RESERVED POSITION OF THE FATHER STEPHEN] AS A TRUE SAINTLY CHRISTIAN LORD CAN KNOW THE FATHER STEPHEN IN THE GODLY FACE ONLY, BUT NOT FULLY IN LUKE 10:22 AND NO OTHER SON OR LORD CAN KNOW HIM. NO ONE CAN SEE THE GODLY FATHER STEPHEN EXCEPT THE LORD YAHWEH IN JOHN 6:46; 8:58. THE UNAPPROACHABLE LIGHT THE FATHER STEPHEN USES WHICH CONCERNS EVERYTHING THAT IS NOT THE LORD STEPHEN’S PHYSICAL FACE, CANNOT BE INVESTIGATED OR APPROACHED BY THE LIGHT-SPEED WHICH IS 186,000 MILES PER HOUR IN 1ST TIMOTHY 6:16. THOSE WHO SAY THEY KNOW THE GODLY FATHER STEPHEN SHALL ALWAYS WORK LAWLESSNESS, VIOLENCE AND INIQUITY & WILL NEVER KNOW HIM IN ROMANS 3:4-23; 1ST CORINTHIANS 15:24-28; 1ST JOHN 1:8, 10; LUKE 13:27 & 2ND ESDRAS 4:34. THE LORD YAH’S ROD OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD THE LORD MOSES’ ROD OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD IS PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. THE ROD OF MOSES GIVEN BY THE FATHER STEPHEN WAS CALLED “FIRE WITH FIRE”, “WATER WITH WATER”, “EARTH WITH EARTH”, “WIND WITH WIND”, “AIR WITH AIR”, “SMOKE WITH SMOKE”, “VOID WITH VOID” & “SPIRIT WITH SPIRIT” CONCERNING THE 8 MAIN ELEMENTS (32 MAIN ELEMENTS SIMULTANEOUSLY FOR ALL OF THE 4 NORTH GATES, 4 SOUTH GATES, 4 WEST GATES & 4 EAST GATES IN THE ULTIMATE BEGINNING TO THE ULTIMATE ENDING) IN THE HEAVENS AND ON EARTH. ISRAEL WAS PROTECTED WHICH IS A FORM OF “DIVINE WHITE MAGIC” THAT THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD USED AND EGYPT WAS HARMED OR DESTROYED WHICH IS A FORM OF “DIVINE BLACK MAGIC” THAT THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD USED. FIRST, ARE THE 2 MIRACULOUS SIGNS TO TURN THE ROD INTO A SERPENT & GRAB BY THE TAIL TO BECOME A ROD AGAIN & TO PUT HIS HAND IN HIS CLOAK AND IT WOULD TURN LEPROUS & THEN PUT HIS HAND INTO HIS CLOAK AGAIN AND IT WOULD BE TOTALLY HEALED. THIS WAS DONE TO PROVE AND CONVINCE ISRAEL THAT THE LORD WAS WITH HIM TO DELIVER ISRAEL. NEXT, IS THE 10 DOMINEERING MIRACLES & LAST OF ALL THE ULTIMATE RED SEA CROSSING DECLARED IN EXODUS 3:1-14:31. SOME SCHOLARS PROVE THAT THE ROD OF MOSES WAS MADE OUT OF SAPPHIRE (A CLEAR CRYSTAL TO RADIATE THE POWERS, LIKE THE CRYSTAL IN THE HEAVENLY NEW JERUSALEM IN REVELATION 21:9-27). IT WOULD BE VERY HEAVY TO MOSES, UNLESS MOSES WAS EMPOWERED ALSO TO CARRY IT. OTHER SCHOLARS SAY THE ROD CAME FROM THE MULLEIN (ASH) TREE. MULLEIN IS USED AS AN HERBAL MEDICINE USED FOR WARTS, BOILS, CARBUNCLES, CHILBLAINS, CATARRHS, ASTHMA, RESPIRATORY DISORDERS, EAR INFECTIONS, FROSTBITE, ECZEMA, PULMONARY DISEASES, BRONCHITIS, HEMORRHOIDS, COUGH, SORE THROAT & LUNG DISEASE. IT IS ACTIVE IN MANY SMOKING BLENDS. THE FATHER STEPHEN EMPOWERED THE ROD BY EXTRAORDINARY SUPREME AUTHORITIES. THE 1ST PLAGUE CONCERNED THE WATERS BEING TURNED TO BLOOD ON NISAN, WHICH IS THE MONTH OF MARCH 21ST TO APRIL 21ST IN EXODUS 7:19. IN THIS PLAGUE, THE MAGICIANS ALSO USED THEIR ENCHANTMENTS & TURNED THE WATER INTO BLOOD. THE 2ND PLAGUE CONCERNED FROGS ON AB, WHICH IS THE MONTH OF JULY 21ST TO AUGUST 21ST IN EXODUS 8:2. IN THIS PLAGUE THE MAGICIANS USED THEIR ENCHANTMENTS AND BROUGHT FORTH FROGS. IN THESE TWO PLAGUES THE LORD IN HIS WILL USED THE OPPOSITION TO PROTECT ISRAEL & IT BACKFIRED ON THE EGYPTIANS. THE 3RD PLAGUE CONCERNED LICE ON ELUL, WHICH IS THE MONTH OF AUGUST 21ST TO SEPTEMBER 21ST IN EXODUS 8:16. IN THIS PLAGUE THE MAGICIANS TRIED TO USE THEIR ENCHANTMENTS TO BRING FORTH LICE BUT COULD NOT BECAUSE THIS WAS THE “FINGER OF GOD” & THE BEGINNING OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD. THE 4TH PLAGUE CONCERNED FLIES ON TISHRI, WHICH IS THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER 21ST TO OCTOBER 21ST IN EXODUS 8:24. IN THIS PLAGUE THE MAGICIANS HAD NO POWER. THE 5TH PLAGUE CONCERNED CATTLE DISEASED ON CHESHVAN (HESHVAN), WHICH IS THE MONTH OF OCTOBER 21ST TO NOVEMBER 21ST IN EXODUS 9:3. IN THIS PLAGUE THE MAGICIANS HAD NO POWER. THE 6TH PLAGUE CONCERNED BOILS ON KISLEV (CHISLEV), WHICH IS THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER 21ST TO DECEMBER 21ST IN EXODUS 9:9. IN THIS PLAGUE THE MAGICIANS HAD NO POWER. THE 7TH PLAGUE CONCERNED HAIL AND FIRE ON TEVET (TEBETH), WHICH IS THE MONTH OF DECEMBER 21ST TO JANUARY 21ST IN EXODUS 9:24. IN THIS PLAGUE THE MAGICIANS HAD NO POWER. THE 8TH PLAGUE CONCERNED LOCUSTS ON SHEVAT (SHEBAT), WHICH IS THE MONTH OF JANUARY 21ST TO FEBRUARY 21ST IN EXODUS 10:4. IN THIS PLAGUE THE MAGICIANS HAD NO POWER. THE 9TH PLAGUE CONCERNED DARKNESS ON ADAR, WHICH IS THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY 21ST TO MARCH 21ST IN EXODUS 10:21. IN THIS PLAGUE THE MAGICIANS HAD NO POWER. THE 10TH PLAGUE CONCERNED THE DEATH OF THE FIRSTBORN AT 12:00 MIDNIGHT ON NISAN, WHICH IS THE MONTH OF MARCH 21ST TO APRIL 21ST IN EXODUS 11:1-10; 12:29-30. IN THIS PLAGUE THE MAGICIANS HAD NO POWER. THE 2 MAGICIANS THAT RESISTED MOSES WERE NAMED JANNES (JOHANAI, IANNES & JANIS) & JAMBRES (MAMRE & MAMBRES) IN 2ND TIMOTHY 3:8-9.  ON THE ROD THE INSCRIPTION IS YAHWEH OR BY PIOUS JEWS “HA SHEM” (THE NAME) IN TAMMUZ IN THE MONTH FROM JUNE 21ST TO JULY 21ST. THE ROD WAS APPOINTED FROM MOSES, TO AARON, TO JOSHUA, TO DAVID, TO JACOB, TO SOLOMON, TO JESUS, TO SAUL (JEWISH LAW), TO JAMES (GENTILE/CHRISTIAN LAW), TO JAMES (LAW OF YAH), TO THE FATHER STEPHEN (LORDSHIP) & BACK TO THE LORD YAH IN ACTS 7:30-60 & MICAH 6:9. THE RED SEA CROSSING WAS FOR ISRAEL ESCAPING PHARAOH’S ARMY WHICH IS IN THE MONTH OF IYAR, WHICH IS APRIL 21ST TO MAY 21ST DONE BY THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD IN WISDOM OF SOLOMON 14:3 & EXODUS 14:1-31. THE WEAKNESS OF MOSES WAS IN SIVAN FROM MAY 21ST TO JUNE 21ST BY HITTING THE ROCK TWICE IN NUMBERS 20:1-13. THE GOLDEN RULE IS TO DO UNTO OTHERS AS THEY WOULD DO UNTO YOU IN MATTHEW 7:1-2, 12.. THE LORD STEPHEN HIMSELF THE LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH HIMSELF THE TOP SUPREME ENGLISH LORD FIRST, THERE IS ONLY ONE ALONE TRUE GOD AS THE TRUE CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE, BUT TECHNICALLY CONCERNING THE LORD YAHWEH ALSO KNOWN AS YW, IS THE TRUE CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD AS THE ONE TRUE GOD IN PROVERBS 8:22-29 (RSV). THIS MEANS THAT THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD IS THE TRUE POTTER CREATOR OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE ACTING AS THE LORD YAHWEH AUTHORIZED BY HIM TO INITIATE AND SPEAK INTO EXISTENCE THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE IN GENESIS 1:1; DEUTERONOMY 32:6; 2ND PETER 2:1; ISAIAH 64:8; JOHN 8:58 & EPHESIANS 4:6. ALSO HE IS KNOWN AS THE LORD YAHWEH (SHORT NAME FOR YAH) THE CREATOR OVER ALL THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE AS THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD’S SPIRIT IN GENESIS 1:1 & JUDITH 9:12. HE IS ALSO KNOWN AS THE LORD JEHOVAH (SHORT NAME FOR JAH) THE CREATOR OVER ALL THE ENTIRE EARTHS AS THE FATHER STEPHEN’S BODY IN PSALMS 83:18. HE IS ALSO KNOWN AS THE LORD VICTOR (SHORT NAME FOR VIC) THE CREATOR OVER ALL THE ENTIRE HEAVENS AS THE FATHER STEPHEN’S MIND WHICH IS DERIVED FROM THE NAME YAHWEH IN ISAIAH 38:11. THE FATHER STEPHEN (FEMALE SENSE IS THE LADY STEPHANIE) THE POTTER CREATOR OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE ONLY COMES INTO ETERNAL AGREEMENT WITH THE LORD YAHWEH THE TRUE CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD IN PROVERBS 8:22-29 (RSV); ISAIAH 64:8; ROMANS 13:1-10; EPHESIANS 4:6; JOHN 1:1-5, 14; HEBREWS 1:1-3; GENESIS 1:1 & JOHN 8:58. THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD DOES NOT COME INTO ETERNAL AGREEMENT WITH THE LORD YAHWEH THE SUPPOSED CREATOR OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE (FATHER STEPHEN’S SPIRIT) OR THE LORD JEHOVAH THE SUPPOSED CREATOR OF THE ENTIRE EARTHS (FATHER STEPHEN’S BODY) OR THE LORD VICTOR THE SUPPOSED CREATOR OF THE ENTIRE HEAVENS (FATHER STEPHEN’S MIND) OR THE LADY VICTORIA THE SUPPOSED FEMALE CREATOR (LADY STEPHANIE’S BEING) BECAUSE HIS ETERNAL WITNESS IS IN ETERNAL LORDSHIP & HE NEVER AGREES WITH THE SEXUAL EROS LOVE APOSTASY CORRUPTION IN THIS WORLD THROUGH LUST IN 1ST JOHN 5:6-13; 2ND CORINTHIANS 2:17 & 2ND PETER 1:4. IN EXODUS 15:11 DECLARES “WHO IS LIKE YOU, O LORD, AMONG THE GODS? WHO IS LIKE YOU, MAJESTIC IN HOLINESS, TERRIBLE IN GLORIOUS DEEDS, DOING WONDERS?” IN DEUTERONOMY 6:4-5 (NIV) DECLARES “HEAR, O ISRAEL: THE LORD OUR GOD, THE LORD IS ONE, YOU SHALL (AGAPE) LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL AND WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH.” SOME OTHER SCRIPTURES ARE DEUTERONOMY 4:35; MARK 12:29-31; JOHN 17:3; 1ST CORINTHIANS 8:4; 2ND KINGS 19:15; 23:25; MATTHEW 27:37-39; LUKE 10:27 AND PSALMS 97:10. IN 1ST KINGS 8:60 DECLARES “…THAT ALL THE PEOPLES OF THE EARTH MAY KNOW THAT THE LORD IS GOD, THERE IS NO OTHER.” IN ISAIAH 45:5-6 DECLARES “I AM THE LORD, AND THERE IS NO OTHER, BESIDES ME THERE IS NO GOD, I GIRD YOU, THOUGH YOU DO NOT KNOW ME, THAT MEN MAY KNOW, FROM THE RISING OF THE SUN AND FROM THE WEST, THAT THERE IS NONE BESIDES ME. I AM THE LORD AND THERE IS NO OTHER.” IN ISAIAH 45:21-22 SAYS “…THERE IS NO OTHER GOD BESIDES ME, A RIGHTEOUS GOD & SAVIOR (PROTECTION IN CALLING ON HIS NAME), THERE IS NONE BESIDES ME…TURN TO ME AND BE SAVED, ALL THE ENDS OF THE EARTH! FOR I AM GOD, AND THERE IS NO OTHER.” ALSO, A SIMILAR SCRIPTURE IS IN ISAIAH 44:6-8. IN ISAIAH 46:9 MENTIONS “REMEMBER THE FORMER THINGS OF OLD, FOR I AM GOD, AND THERE IS NO OTHER, I AM GOD, AND THERE IS NONE LIKE ME.” THE HOLY SCRIPTURES OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD THE ONLY ONE TRUE GOD ACTING AS THE LORD YAHWEH THE CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD THE ONLY ALONE TRUE GOD IS PROVEN IN ISAIAH 64:8; EPHESIANS 4:6 & JOHN 8:58. IN 1ST TIMOTHY 2:5 DECLARES “FOR THERE IS ONE GOD (FATHER STEPHEN), AND THERE IS ONE MEDIATOR BETWEEN GOD AND MEN, THE MAN CHRIST JESUS.” IN ROMANS 3:30 SAYS “GOD IS ONE.” IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 8:6 SAYS “YET FOR US THERE IS ONE GOD (YAHWEH), THE FATHER (STEPHEN), FROM WHOM ARE ALL THINGS & FROM WHOM WE EXIST.” IN JAMES 2:19 STATES “YOU BELIEVE THAT GOD IS ONE, YOU DO WELL. EVEN THE DEMONS BELIEVE—AND SHUTTER (TREMBLE).” IN EPHESIANS 4:6 SAYS “ONE GOD (YAHWEH) AND FATHER (STEPHEN) OF ALL, WHO IS ABOVE ALL, AND THROUGH ALL, AND IN YOU ALL.” THE LORD STEPHEN’S LIMITATIONS WITHIN 1 PERIMETER IN THE UPTIME/DOWNTIME IN 6 IN 1 POSITIONS WITH THE NUMBER 0 IN THE HOUSE WORLD? THERFORE THE LORD’S TRUE ELITE HOLY COVENANT PEOPLE & HIS ETERNAL LAWS----SUPREME AUTHORITIES ARE ALSO THERFORE ETERNALLY LIMITED IN ROMANS 13:3-10 & 1ST JOHN 3:9!!! THE ALWAYS TRUTHFUL LORD ALONE & ONLY! THE LORD STEPHEN HIMSELF THE SUPREME CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD KNOWN AS THE LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH HIMSELF IS CALLED “THE TRUTHFUL GOD” IN NUMBERS 23:19. IN NUMBERS 23:19 DECLARES “GOD IS NOT A MAN, THAT HE SHOULD LIE; NEITHER THE SON OF MAN, THAT HE SHOULD REPENT: HATH HE SAID, AND SHALL HE NOT DO IT? OR HATH HE SPOKEN, AND SHALL HE NOT MAKE IT GOOD? THE ALWAYS REPENTLESS LORD ALONE & ONLY! THE LORD STEPHEN HIMSELF THE SUPREME CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD KNOWN AS THE LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH HIMSELF IS CALLED “THE UNREPENTING GOD” IN NUMBERS 23:19. IN NUMBERS 23:19 DECLARES “GOD IS NOT A MAN, THAT HE SHOULD LIE; NEITHER THE SON OF MAN, THAT HE SHOULD REPENT: HATH HE SAID, AND SHALL HE NOT DO IT? OR HATH HE SPOKEN, AND SHALL HE NOT MAKE IT GOOD? THE ALWAYS RELENTLESS LORD ALONE & ONLY! THE LORD STEPHEN HIMSELF THE SUPREME CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD KNOWN AS THE LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH HIMSELF IS CALLED “THE UNRELENTING GOD” IN NUMBERS 23:19. IN NUMBERS 23:19 DECLARES “GOD IS NOT A MAN, THAT HE SHOULD LIE; NEITHER THE SON OF MAN, THAT HE SHOULD REPENT [RELENT]: HATH HE SAID, AND SHALL HE NOT DO IT? OR HATH HE SPOKEN, AND SHALL HE NOT MAKE IT GOOD? THE ALWAYS TRUE LORD ALONE & ONLY! THE LORD STEPHEN HIMSELF THE SUPREME CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD KNOWN AS THE LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH HIMSELF IS CALLED “THE TRUE GOD” IN TITUS 1:1-3; HEBREWS 6:16-18 & ROMANS 3:4. IN TITUS 1:1-3 DECLARES “PAUL, A BONDSERVANT OF GOD (FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD), AND AN APOSTLE OF JESUS CHRIST, ACCORDING TO THE FAITH OF GOD’S (FATHER STEPHEN’S) ELECT AND THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF THE TRUTH WHICH ACCORDS WITH GODLINESS, IN HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE WHICH GOD (FATHER STEPHEN), WHO CANNOT LIE, PROMISED BEFORE TIME BEGAN, BUT HAS IN DUE TIME MANIFESTED HIS WORD THROUGH PREACHING, WHICH WAS COMMITTED TO ME ACCORDING TO THE COMMANDMENT OF GOD OUR SAVIOR (LORD YAH THE CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD AND SHOULD NOT BE THOUGHT AS THE LORD JESUS THE SAVIOR IN ISAIAH 45:21)…” IN HEBREWS 6:16-18 SAYS “FOR MEN INDEED SWEAR BY THE GREATER, AND AN OATH FOR CONFIRMATION IS FOR THEM AN END OF ALL DISPUTE. THUS GOD (FATHER STEPHEN), DETERMINED TO SHOW MORE ABUNDANTLY TO THE HEIRS OF PROMISE THE IMMUTABILITY OF HIS COUNSEL (HOLY TRINITY AS THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD, SON JESUS OUR LORD AND BROTHER JOHN OUR LORD), CONFIRMED IT BY AN OATH, THAT BY TWO IMMUTABLE THINGS (LORD PETER IN BEGINNING OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND LORD JAMES THE END OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD), IN WHICH IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR GOD (FATHER STEPHEN) TO LIE, WE MIGHT HAVE STRONG CONSOLATION, WHO HAVE FLED FOR REFUGE TO LAY HOLD OF THE HOPE SET BEFORE US.” IN ROMANS 3:4 STATES “…LET GOD (FATHER STEPHEN) BE TRUE BUT EVERY MAN A LIAR.” THE ALWAYS SINLESS LORD ALONE & ONLY! THE LORD STEPHEN HIMSELF THE SUPREME CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD KNOWN AS THE LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH HIMSELF IS CALLED “THE SINLESS GOD” AND CHOOSES NOT TO LOOK UPON SIN IN MATTHEW 27:46 & MARK 15:34. IN MATTHEW 27:46 SAYS “AND ABOUT THE NINTH HOUR (3:00 PM) JESUS CRIED OUT WITH A LOUD VOICE, SAYING, ‘ELI, ELI, LAMA SABACHTHANI?’ THAT IS, ‘MY GOD (FATHER STEPHEN), MY GOD (FATHER STEPHEN), WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME (SON JESUS)?’” ALSO, THE SIMILAR SCRIPTURE IS IN MARK 15:34. THE ALWAYS VERY GOOD LORD ALONE & ONLY! THE LORD STEPHEN HIMSELF THE SUPREME CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD KNOWN AS THE LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH HIMSELF IS CALLED “THE VERY GOOD GOD” AND IS NOT EVIL IN ORIGIN IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 13:5. IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 13:5 SAYS THAT AGAPE LOVE “DOES NOT BEHAVE RUDELY, DOES NOT SEEK ITS OWN, IS NOT PROVOKED, THINKS NO EVIL…” NOW THE LORD STEPHEN CAN DO MESSIANIC EVIL TO A CITY, COUNTRY OR A NATION TO THOSE WHO DO NOT OBEY HIS COMMAND IN 1ST JOHN 1:8, 10 & JEREMIAH 18:10. IN ROMANS 8:28 SAYS “AND WE KNOW THAT ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD TO THOSE WHO (AGAPE) LOVE GOD (FATHER STEPHEN), TO THOSE WHO ARE CALLED ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE.” THE ALWAYS MESSIANIC EVIL LORD ALONE & ONLY! THE LORD STEPHEN HIMSELF THE SUPREME CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD KNOWN AS THE LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH HIMSELF IS CALLED “THE MESSIANIC EVIL GOD” IN ISAIAH 45:7. IN ISAIAH 45:7 DECLARES “I FORM THE LIGHT, AND CREATE DARKNESS: I MAKE PEACE, AND CREATE EVIL: I THE LORD DO ALL THESE THINGS.” THE ALWAYS IMPARTIAL LORD ALONE & ONLY! THE LORD STEPHEN HIMSELF THE SUPREME CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD KNOWN AS THE LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH HIMSELF IS CALLED “THE IMPARTIAL GOD” IN 1ST PETER 1:17-21. IN 1ST PETER 1:17-21 DECLARES “AND IF YOU CALL ON THE FATHER [STEPHEN], WHO WITHOUT PARTIALITY JUDGES ACCORDING TO EACH ONE’S WORK, CONDUCT YOURSELVES THROUGHOUT THE TIME OF YOUR STAY HERE IN FEAR; KNOWING THAT YOU WERE NOT REDEEMED WITH CORRUPTIBLE THINGS, LIKE SILVER OR GOLD, FROM YOUR AIMLESS CONDUCT RECEIVED BY TRADITION FROM YOUR FATHERS, BUT WITH THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF CHRIST, AS OF A LAMB WITHOUT BLEMISH AND WITHOUT SPOT. HE INDEED WAS FOREORDAINED BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, BUT WAS MANIFEST IN THESE LAST TIMES FOR YOU WHO THROUGH HIM BELIEVE IN GOD, WHO RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD AND GAVE HIM GLORY, SO THAT YOUR FAITH AND HOPE ARE IN GOD.” THE ALWAYS GENUINE RIGHTEOUS JUDGING LORD ALONE & ONLY! THE LORD STEPHEN HIMSELF THE SUPREME CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD KNOWN AS THE LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH HIMSELF IS CALLED “THE TRUE RIGHTEOUS GOD” IN 1ST PETER 1:17-21. IN 1ST PETER 1:17-21 DECLARES “AND IF YOU CALL ON THE FATHER [STEPHEN], WHO WITHOUT PARTIALITY JUDGES ACCORDING TO EACH ONE’S WORK, CONDUCT YOURSELVES THROUGHOUT THE TIME OF YOUR STAY HERE IN FEAR; KNOWING THAT YOU WERE NOT REDEEMED WITH CORRUPTIBLE THINGS, LIKE SILVER OR GOLD, FROM YOUR AIMLESS CONDUCT RECEIVED BY TRADITION FROM YOUR FATHERS, BUT WITH THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF CHRIST, AS OF A LAMB WITHOUT BLEMISH AND WITHOUT SPOT. HE INDEED WAS FOREORDAINED BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, BUT WAS MANIFEST IN THESE LAST TIMES FOR YOU WHO THROUGH HIM BELIEVE IN GOD, WHO RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD AND GAVE HIM GLORY, SO THAT YOUR FAITH AND HOPE ARE IN GOD.” THE ALWAYS GENUINE RIGHTEOUS JUSTICE LORD ALONE & ONLY! THE LORD STEPHEN HIMSELF THE SUPREME CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD KNOWN AS THE LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH HIMSELF IS CALLED “THE TRUE RIGHTEOUS GOD” IN 1ST PETER 1:17-21. IN 1ST PETER 1:17-21 DECLARES “AND IF YOU CALL ON THE FATHER [STEPHEN], WHO WITHOUT PARTIALITY JUDGES ACCORDING TO EACH ONE’S WORK, CONDUCT YOURSELVES THROUGHOUT THE TIME OF YOUR STAY HERE IN FEAR; KNOWING THAT YOU WERE NOT REDEEMED WITH CORRUPTIBLE THINGS, LIKE SILVER OR GOLD, FROM YOUR AIMLESS CONDUCT RECEIVED BY TRADITION FROM YOUR FATHERS, BUT WITH THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF CHRIST, AS OF A LAMB WITHOUT BLEMISH AND WITHOUT SPOT. HE INDEED WAS FOREORDAINED BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, BUT WAS MANIFEST IN THESE LAST TIMES FOR YOU WHO THROUGH HIM BELIEVE IN GOD, WHO RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD AND GAVE HIM GLORY, SO THAT YOUR FAITH AND HOPE ARE IN GOD.” THE ALWAYS ALL-KNOWING LORD ALONE & ONLY! THE LORD STEPHEN HIMSELF THE SUPREME CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD KNOWN AS THE LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH HIMSELF IS CALLED “THE OMNISCIENT GOD” & “THE ALL KNOW IT ALL GOD” IN 1ST JOHN 3:20. IN 1ST JOHN 3:20 DECLARES “BY THIS WE SHALL KNOW THAT WE ARE OF THE TRUTH AND REASSURE OUR HEART BEFORE HIM; FOR WHENEVER OUR HEART CONDEMNS US, GOD IS GREATER THAN OUR HEART, AND HE KNOWS EVERYTHING.” IN ZECHARIAH 4:10 DECLARES “FOR WHOEVER HAS DESPISED THE DAY OF SMALL THINGS SHALL REJOICE, AND SHALL SEE THE PLUMB LINE IN THE HAND OF ZERUBBABEL. THESE SEVEN ARE THE EYES OF THE LORD, WHICH RANGE THROUGH THE WHOLE EARTH.” THE ALWAYS ALL-THINKING LORD ALONE & ONLY! (ONLY GOOD IN 1 CORINTHIANS 13:5) THE LORD STEPHEN HIMSELF THE SUPREME CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD KNOWN AS THE LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH HIMSELF IS CALLED “THE OMNISCIENT GOD” & “THE ALL THINK IT ALL GOD” IN 1ST JOHN 3:20. IN 1ST JOHN 3:20 DECLARES “BY THIS WE SHALL KNOW THAT WE ARE OF THE TRUTH AND REASSURE OUR HEART BEFORE HIM; FOR WHENEVER OUR HEART CONDEMNS US, GOD IS GREATER THAN OUR HEART, AND HE KNOWS EVERYTHING.” IN ZECHARIAH 4:10 DECLARES “FOR WHOEVER HAS DESPISED THE DAY OF SMALL THINGS SHALL REJOICE, AND SHALL SEE THE PLUMB LINE IN THE HAND OF ZERUBBABEL. THESE SEVEN ARE THE EYES OF THE LORD, WHICH RANGE THROUGH THE WHOLE EARTH.” THE ALWAYS ALL-THOUGHTFUL LORD ALONE & ONLY! (ONLY GOOD IN 1 CORINTHIANS 13:5) THE LORD STEPHEN HIMSELF THE SUPREME CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD KNOWN AS THE LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH HIMSELF IS CALLED “THE OMNISCIENT GOD” & “THE ALL-THOUGHT IT ALL GOD” IN 1ST JOHN 3:20. IN 1ST JOHN 3:20 DECLARES “BY THIS WE SHALL KNOW THAT WE ARE OF THE TRUTH AND REASSURE OUR HEART BEFORE HIM; FOR WHENEVER OUR HEART CONDEMNS US, GOD IS GREATER THAN OUR HEART, AND HE KNOWS EVERYTHING.” IN ZECHARIAH 4:10 DECLARES “FOR WHOEVER HAS DESPISED THE DAY OF SMALL THINGS SHALL REJOICE, AND SHALL SEE THE PLUMB LINE IN THE HAND OF ZERUBBABEL. THESE SEVEN ARE THE EYES OF THE LORD, WHICH RANGE THROUGH THE WHOLE EARTH.” THE ALWAYS UNREBUKED LORD ALONE & ONLY! THE LORD STEPHEN HIMSELF THE SUPREME CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD KNOWN AS THE LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH HIMSELF IS CALLED “THE OMNISCIENT GOD” & “THE ALL-KNOW IT ALL GOD” IN 1ST JOHN 3:20. IN 1ST JOHN 3:20 DECLARES “BY THIS WE SHALL KNOW THAT WE ARE OF THE TRUTH AND REASSURE OUR HEART BEFORE HIM; FOR WHENEVER OUR HEART CONDEMNS US, GOD IS GREATER THAN OUR HEART, AND HE KNOWS EVERYTHING.” IN ZECHARIAH 4:10 DECLARES “FOR WHOEVER HAS DESPISED THE DAY OF SMALL THINGS SHALL REJOICE, AND SHALL SEE THE PLUMB LINE IN THE HAND OF ZERUBBABEL. THESE SEVEN ARE THE EYES OF THE LORD, WHICH RANGE THROUGH THE WHOLE EARTH.” THE ALWAYS ALL-PRESENT LORD ALONE & ONLY! THE LORD STEPHEN HIMSELF THE SUPREME CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD KNOWN AS THE LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH HIMSELF IS CALLED “THE OMNIPRESENT GOD” IN PSALMS 139:7-12. IN PSALMS 139:7-12 DECLARES “WHERE SHALL I GO FROM YOUR SPIRIT [JOHN 4:23-24]? OR WHERE SHALL I FLEE FROM YOUR PRESENCE? IF I ASCEND TO HEAVEN, YOU ARE THERE! IF I MAKE MY BED IN SHEOL, YOU ARE THERE! IF I TAKE THE WINGS OF THE MORNING AND DWELL IN THE UTTERMOST PARTS OF THE SEA, EVEN THERE YOUR HAND SHALL LEAD ME, AND YOUR RIGHT HAND SHALL HOLD ME. IF I SAY, “SURELY THE DARKNESS SHALL COVER ME, AND THE LIGHT ABOUT ME BE NIGHT,” EVEN THE DARKNESS IS NOT DARK TO YOU; THE NIGHT IS BRIGHT AS THE DAY, FOR DARKNESS IS AS LIGHT WITH YOU.” THE ALWAYS ALL-POWERFUL LORD ALONE & ONLY! THE LORD STEPHEN HIMSELF THE SUPREME CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD KNOWN AS THE LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH HIMSELF IS CALLED “THE OMNIPOTENT GOD” IN REVELATION 1:8. IN REVELATION 1:8 DECLARES “I AM THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA,” SAYS THE LORD GOD, “WHO IS AND WHO WAS AND WHO IS TO COME, THE ALMIGHTY.” THE ALWAYS ALL-AUTHORITATIVE LORD ALONE & ONLY! THE LORD STEPHEN HIMSELF THE SUPREME CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD KNOWN AS THE LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH HIMSELF IS CALLED “THE OMNIPOTENT GOD” IN REVELATION 1:8. IN REVELATION 1:8 DECLARES “I AM THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA,” SAYS THE LORD GOD, “WHO IS AND WHO WAS AND WHO IS TO COME, THE ALMIGHTY.” THE ALWAYS ALL-MIGHTY LORD ALONE & ONLY! THE LORD STEPHEN HIMSELF THE SUPREME CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD KNOWN AS THE LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH HIMSELF IS CALLED “THE OMNIPOTENT GOD” IN REVELATION 1:8. IN REVELATION 1:8 DECLARES “I AM THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA,” SAYS THE LORD GOD, “WHO IS AND WHO WAS AND WHO IS TO COME, THE ALMIGHTY.” THE ALWAYS UNFAILING LORD ALONE & ONLY! THE LORD STEPHEN HIMSELF THE SUPREME CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD KNOWN AS THE LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH HIMSELF IS CALLED “THE OMNI-BENEVOLENT GOD” IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 13:1-10. IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 13:1-10 DECLARES “THOUGH I SPEAK WITH THE TONGUES OF MEN AND OF ANGELS, BUT HAVE NOT LOVE, I HAVE BECOME SOUNDING BRASS OR A CLANGING CYMBAL. AND THOUGH I HAVE THE GIFT OF PROPHECY, AND UNDERSTAND ALL MYSTERIES AND ALL KNOWLEDGE, AND THOUGH I HAVE ALL FAITH, SO THAT I COULD REMOVE MOUNTAINS, BUT HAVE NOT LOVE, I AM NOTHING. AND THOUGH I BESTOW ALL MY GOODS TO FEED THE POOR, AND THOUGH I GIVE MY BODY TO BE BURNED, BUT HAVE NOT LOVE, IT PROFITS ME NOTHING. LOVE SUFFERS LONG AND IS KIND; LOVE DOES NOT ENVY; LOVE DOES NOT PARADE ITSELF, IS NOT PUFFED UP; DOES NOT BEHAVE RUDELY, DOES NOT SEEK ITS OWN, IS NOT PROVOKED, THINKS NO EVIL; DOES NOT REJOICE IN INIQUITY, BUT REJOICES IN THE TRUTH; BEARS ALL THINGS, BELIEVES ALL THINGS, HOPES ALL THINGS, ENDURES ALL THINGS. LOVE NEVER FAILS. BUT WHETHER THERE ARE PROPHECIES, THEY WILL FAIL; WHETHER THERE ARE TONGUES, THEY WILL CEASE; WHETHER THERE IS KNOWLEDGE, IT WILL VANISH AWAY. FOR WE KNOW IN PART AND WE PROPHESY IN PART. BUT WHEN THAT WHICH IS PERFECT HAS COME, THEN THAT WHICH IS IN PART WILL BE DONE AWAY. IN 1ST JOHN 4:7-11 DECLARES “BELOVED, LET US LOVE ONE ANOTHER, FOR LOVE IS OF GOD; AND EVERYONE WHO LOVES IS BORN OF GOD AND KNOWS GOD. HE WHO DOES NOT LOVE DOES NOT KNOW GOD, FOR GOD IS LOVE. IN THIS THE LOVE OF GOD WAS MANIFESTED TOWARD US, THAT GOD HAS SENT HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON INTO THE WORLD, THAT WE MIGHT LIVE THROUGH HIM. IN THIS IS LOVE, NOT THAT WE LOVED GOD, BUT THAT HE LOVED US AND SENT HIS SON TO BE THE PROPITIATION FOR OUR SINS. BELOVED, IF GOD SO LOVED US, WE ALSO OUGHT TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER.” THE ALWAYS AGAPE LOVING LORD ALONE & ONLY! THE LORD STEPHEN HIMSELF THE SUPREME CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD KNOWN AS THE LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH HIMSELF IS CALLED “THE OMNI-BENEVOLENT GOD” IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 13:1-10. IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 13:1-10 DECLARES “THOUGH I SPEAK WITH THE TONGUES OF MEN AND OF ANGELS, BUT HAVE NOT LOVE, I HAVE BECOME SOUNDING BRASS OR A CLANGING CYMBAL. AND THOUGH I HAVE THE GIFT OF PROPHECY, AND UNDERSTAND ALL MYSTERIES AND ALL KNOWLEDGE, AND THOUGH I HAVE ALL FAITH, SO THAT I COULD REMOVE MOUNTAINS, BUT HAVE NOT LOVE, I AM NOTHING. AND THOUGH I BESTOW ALL MY GOODS TO FEED THE POOR, AND THOUGH I GIVE MY BODY TO BE BURNED, BUT HAVE NOT LOVE, IT PROFITS ME NOTHING. LOVE SUFFERS LONG AND IS KIND; LOVE DOES NOT ENVY; LOVE DOES NOT PARADE ITSELF, IS NOT PUFFED UP; DOES NOT BEHAVE RUDELY, DOES NOT SEEK ITS OWN, IS NOT PROVOKED, THINKS NO EVIL; DOES NOT REJOICE IN INIQUITY, BUT REJOICES IN THE TRUTH; BEARS ALL THINGS, BELIEVES ALL THINGS, HOPES ALL THINGS, ENDURES ALL THINGS. LOVE NEVER FAILS. BUT WHETHER THERE ARE PROPHECIES, THEY WILL FAIL; WHETHER THERE ARE TONGUES, THEY WILL CEASE; WHETHER THERE IS KNOWLEDGE, IT WILL VANISH AWAY. FOR WE KNOW IN PART AND WE PROPHESY IN PART. BUT WHEN THAT WHICH IS PERFECT HAS COME, THEN THAT WHICH IS IN PART WILL BE DONE AWAY. IN 1ST JOHN 4:7-11 DECLARES “BELOVED, LET US LOVE ONE ANOTHER, FOR LOVE IS OF GOD; AND EVERYONE WHO LOVES IS BORN OF GOD AND KNOWS GOD. HE WHO DOES NOT LOVE DOES NOT KNOW GOD, FOR GOD IS LOVE. IN THIS THE LOVE OF GOD WAS MANIFESTED TOWARD US, THAT GOD HAS SENT HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON INTO THE WORLD, THAT WE MIGHT LIVE THROUGH HIM. IN THIS IS LOVE, NOT THAT WE LOVED GOD, BUT THAT HE LOVED US AND SENT HIS SON TO BE THE PROPITIATION FOR OUR SINS. BELOVED, IF GOD SO LOVED US, WE ALSO OUGHT TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER.” THE ALWAYS TEMPTLESS LORD ALONE & ONLY! THE LORD STEPHEN HIMSELF THE SUPREME CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD KNOWN AS THE LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH HIMSELF IS CALLED “THE UNTEMPTING GOD” IN JAMES 1:13. IN JAMES 1:13 STATES “LET NO ONE SAY WHEN HE IS TEMPTED, ‘I AM TEMPTED (TESTED, TRIED OR PUT ON TRIAL) BY GOD,’ FOR GOD CANNOT BE TEMPTED (TESTED, TRIED OR PUT ON TRIAL) BY EVIL (MONEY IN MATTHEW 6:24; 1 TIMOTHY 6:9-10 & LUKE 16:9, 11, 13, 15), NOR DOES HE HIMSELF TEMPT (TEST, TRY, PUT ON TRIAL) ANYONE (UNTEMPTING GOD).” THE ALWAYS DEATHLESS LORD ALONE & ONLY! THE LORD STEPHEN HIMSELF THE SUPREME CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD KNOWN AS THE LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH HIMSELF IS CALLED “THE DEATHLESS GOD” IN JAMES 1:13. IN JAMES 1:13 STATES “LET NO ONE SAY WHEN HE IS TEMPTED, ‘I AM TEMPTED (TESTED, TRIED OR PUT ON TRIAL) BY GOD,’ FOR GOD CANNOT BE TEMPTED (TESTED, TRIED OR PUT ON TRIAL) BY EVIL (MONEY IN MATTHEW 6:24; 1 TIMOTHY 6:9-10 & LUKE 16:9, 11, 13, 15), NOR DOES HE HIMSELF TEMPT (TEST, TRY, PUT ON TRIAL) ANYONE (UNTEMPTING GOD).” THE ALWAYS UNLYING LORD ALONE & ONLY! THE LORD STEPHEN HIMSELF THE SUPREME CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD KNOWN AS THE LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH HIMSELF IS CALLED “THE UNLYING GOD” IN TITUS 1:1-3; HEBREWS 6:16-18 & ROMANS 3:4. IN TITUS 1:1-3 DECLARES “PAUL, A BONDSERVANT OF GOD (FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD), AND AN APOSTLE OF JESUS CHRIST, ACCORDING TO THE FAITH OF GOD’S (FATHER STEPHEN’S) ELECT AND THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF THE TRUTH WHICH ACCORDS WITH GODLINESS, IN HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE WHICH GOD (FATHER STEPHEN), WHO CANNOT LIE, PROMISED BEFORE TIME BEGAN, BUT HAS IN DUE TIME MANIFESTED HIS WORD THROUGH PREACHING, WHICH WAS COMMITTED TO ME ACCORDING TO THE COMMANDMENT OF GOD OUR SAVIOR (LORD YAH THE CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD AND SHOULD NOT BE THOUGHT AS THE LORD JESUS THE SAVIOR IN ISAIAH 45:21)…” IN HEBREWS 6:16-18 SAYS “FOR MEN INDEED SWEAR BY THE GREATER, AND AN OATH FOR CONFIRMATION IS FOR THEM AN END OF ALL DISPUTE. THUS GOD (FATHER STEPHEN), DETERMINED TO SHOW MORE ABUNDANTLY TO THE HEIRS OF PROMISE THE IMMUTABILITY OF HIS COUNSEL (HOLY TRINITY AS THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD, SON JESUS OUR LORD AND BROTHER JOHN OUR LORD), CONFIRMED IT BY AN OATH, THAT BY TWO IMMUTABLE THINGS (LORD PETER IN BEGINNING OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND LORD JAMES THE END OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD), IN WHICH IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR GOD (FATHER STEPHEN) TO LIE, WE MIGHT HAVE STRONG CONSOLATION, WHO HAVE FLED FOR REFUGE TO LAY HOLD OF THE HOPE SET BEFORE US.” IN ROMANS 3:4 STATES “…LET GOD (FATHER STEPHEN) BE TRUE BUT EVERY MAN A LIAR.” THE ALWAYS FAITHFUL LORD ALONE & ONLY! THE LORD STEPHEN HIMSELF THE SUPREME CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD KNOWN AS THE LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH HIMSELF IS CALLED “THE FAITHFUL GOD” AND CANNOT DENY HIMSELF FOR ANYONE IN 2ND TIMOTHY 2:13. IN 2ND TIMOTHY 2:13 DECLARES “IF WE ARE FAITHLESS, HE (FATHER STEPHEN) REMAINS FAITHFUL, HE (FATHER STEPHEN) CANNOT DENY HIMSELF.” THE ALWAYS UNRIVALED LORD ALONE & ONLY! THE LORD STEPHEN HIMSELF THE SUPREME CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD KNOWN AS THE LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH HIMSELF IS CALLED “THE UNRIVALED GOD” AND CANNOT CREATE A RIVAL TO HIM & CERTAINLY NOT ABOVE HIM IS IN EXODUS 20:3. IN EXODUS 20:3 SAYS “YOU SHALL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME.” THE ALWAYS UNMOCKED LORD ALONE & ONLY! THE LORD STEPHEN HIMSELF THE SUPREME CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD KNOWN AS THE LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH HIMSELF IS CALLED “THE UNMOCKED GOD” AND CAN NEVER BE MOCKED AT ANY TIME & CERTAINLY NOT ABOVE HIM IS IN GALATIANS 6:7. GAL 6:7 SAYS, “BE NOT DECEIVED, GOD (STEPHEN YAHWEH) IS NOT MOCKED: FOR WHATSOEVER A MAN (LORD IN EXODUS 15:3) SOWETH, THAT SHALL HE (LORD IN EXODUS 15:3) ALSO REAP.” IN EXODUS 20:3 SAYS “YOU SHALL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME.”THE ALWAYS UNEQUALED LORD ALONE & ONLY! THE LORD STEPHEN HIMSELF THE SUPREME CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD KNOWN AS THE LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH HIMSELF IS CALLED “THE UNRIVALED GOD” AND CANNOT CREATE A RIVAL TO HIM & CERTAINLY NOT ABOVE HIM IS IN EXODUS 20:3. IN EXODUS 20:3 SAYS “YOU SHALL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME.” THE ALWAYS FUCKLESS LORD ALONE & ONLY! THE LORD STEPHEN HIMSELF THE SUPREME CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD KNOWN AS THE LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH HIMSELF IS CALLED “THE SEXLESS GOD” AND CAN NEVER CREATE SEX OR FUCKIN TO HIM & CERTAINLY NOT FROM HIM IS IN ACTS 14:15. IN EXODUS 20:3 SAYS “YOU SHALL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME.” THE ALWAYS SEXLESS LORD ALONE & ONLY! THE LORD STEPHEN HIMSELF THE SUPREME CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD KNOWN AS THE LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH HIMSELF IS CALLED “THE DIVINE GOD” AND CAN NEVER CREATE SEX OR FUCKIN TO HIM & CERTAINLY NOT FROM HIM IS IN ACTS 14:15. IN EXODUS 20:3 SAYS “YOU SHALL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME.” THE ALWAYS SUPREME AUTHORITATIVE LORD ALONE & ONLY! THE LORD STEPHEN HIMSELF THE SUPREME CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD KNOWN AS THE LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH HIMSELF IS CALLED “THE SUPREME AUTHORITATIVE GOD” AND CAN NEVER BE UNDER ANYONE AT ANY TIME IN THE SUPREME LORDSHIP OF THE SUPREME LAW AUTHORITY IN MATTHEW 24:36-44. IN EXODUS 20:1-7 SAYS “YOU SHALL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME.” THE ALWAYS SUPREME POWERFUL LORD ALONE & ONLY! THE LORD STEPHEN HIMSELF THE SUPREME CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD KNOWN AS THE LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH HIMSELF IS CALLED “THE SUPREME AUTHORITATIVE GOD” AND CAN NEVER BE UNDER ANYONE AT ANY TIME IN THE SUPREME LORDSHIP OF THE SUPREME LAW AUTHORITY IN MATTHEW 24:36-44. IN EXODUS 20:1-7 SAYS “YOU SHALL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME.” THE ALWAYS SUPREME ALMIGHTY LORD ALONE & ONLY! THE LORD STEPHEN HIMSELF THE SUPREME CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD KNOWN AS THE LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH HIMSELF IS CALLED “THE SUPREME AUTHORITATIVE GOD” AND CAN NEVER BE UNDER ANYONE AT ANY TIME IN THE SUPREME LORDSHIP OF THE SUPREME LAW AUTHORITY IN MATTHEW 24:36-44. IN EXODUS 20:1-7 SAYS “YOU SHALL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME.” THE ALWAYS SUPREME TOP ENGLISH LORD ALONE & ONLY! THE LORD STEPHEN HIMSELF THE SUPREME CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD KNOWN AS THE LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH HIMSELF IS CALLED “THE SUPREME TOP ENGLISH GOD” AND CAN NEVER BE UNDER ANYONE AT ANY TIME IN SUPREME LORDSHIP IN MARK 13:32-37. IN EXODUS 20:1-7 SAYS “YOU SHALL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME.” THE LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH THE SUPREME CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD THE LORD YAHWEH [YW’S NAME & THE ZION’S-ZYON’S NAME & THE ZZZZ [ZZZ] NAME FOR REST IS DERIVED FROM YAHWEH WHICH IS THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD IN GENESIS 2:2 & JOHN 8:58] THE SUPREME CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD IS PROVEN IN HOLY SCRIPTURE. THE SUPREME ALONE ORIGIN OF SUPREME POTTER CREATORSHIP ABOVE & BEYOND THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE IS PROVEN IN HOLY SCRIPTURE. THE FATHER STEPHEN IS THE SUPREME INVESTIGATOR OF SUCH THINGS & ALL THINGS ALIKE AFTERWARDS IN THE WHOLE CREATION OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE IN ECCLESIASTES 1:13-18; 2:1-12; 12:9-14. THE FATHER STEPHEN IS THE SUPREME SOURCE & ORIGIN OF POTTER CREATORSHIP (POTTER MAKER-SHIP) IN ISAIAH 43:10 & PROVERBS 8:30-31 (NIV) BEFORE THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE & EVERYTHING WITHIN IT IN PROVERBS 8:22-29 (RSV). I SAY SUPREME SOURCE BECAUSE THE LORD YAHWEH THE CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD DOES NOT HAVE A BEGINNING & END LIKE THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD, BUT IS PREEXISTENT & IMMUTABLE (UNCHANGEABLY) THAT HE CREATED AS HIS VERY FIRST ACT OF OLD. THIS MEANS THAT THE FATHER STEPHEN THE POTTER CREATOR OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE (THE ONLY PREEXISTENT ESTABLISHMENT (INSTITUTION) & PREEXISTENT APPOINTMENT IN PROVERBS 8:23---NKJV) IS THE ONE TRUE GOD THAT CREATED ALL VISIBLE ATTRIBUTES & INVISIBLE ATTRIBUTES FROM HIS DIVINE NATURE OF ALL SUPREME LORDSHIP (ENDING), ALL SUPREME GOD-SHIP, ALL SUPREME KINGSHIP, ALL SUPREME OMNI-BENEVOLENCE---ALL SUPREME AGAPE LOVE), ALL SUPREME AUTHORITY, ALL SUPREME ALMIGHTINESS, ALL SUPREME OMNIPOTENCE---ALL SUPREME POWER, ALL SUPREME OMNISCIENCE----ALL SUPREME WISDOM, ALL SUPREME STRENGTH, ALL SUPREME DEFENSE---SUPREME MONEY & ALL SUPREME COMMISSION (BEGINNING) IN ACTS 17:23-31; ROMANS 1:20; 13:1-10 & PROVERBS 8:23 (RSV); 8:30 (NIV). THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD THE AUTHORIZED GOOD POTTER CREATOR UNDER HIS LORD YAHWEH THE FATHER STEPHEN AS THE POTTER CREATOR IS IN NEHEMIAH 9:6; GENESIS 1:1; ISAIAH 45:7; 66:2; EPHESIANS 3:9 & REVELATION 4:11. THE FATHER STEPHEN’S CREATIVE ACTIVITY DEMONSTRATES HIS UNIQUENESS IS IN PSALMS 96:5; ISAIAH 37:16 & JEREMIAH 10:11. THE FATHER STEPHEN’S CREATIVE ACTIVITY IMPLIES THAT HE IS ALL GOOD AT ALL TIMES IS IN 1ST TIMOTHY 4:4 & GENESIS 1:4, 31. THE FATHER STEPHEN CREATES ALL THINGS: THE FATHER STEPHEN CREATES THE PHYSICAL WORLD IS IN ISAIAH 45:18 & GENESIS 1:1-25. THE FATHER STEPHEN CREATES THE MENTAL/SPIRITUAL WORLD IS IN PSALMS 148:2-5; ROMANS 8:38-39 & COLOSSIANS 1:16. THE HUMAN RACE IS THE APEX OF THE FATHER STEPHEN’S CREATION IS IN PSALMS 8:3-8; 100:3; 139:13; GENESIS 1:26-28; 5:1; 9:6; ISAIAH 42:5 & ACTS 17:26-28.  THE FATHER STEPHEN THE POTTER CREATOR’S AGENTS: THE FATHER STEPHEN CREATES THROUGH HIS SON JESUS CHRIST OR THE LADY MARY IS IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 8:6; JOHN 1:3; COLOSSIANS 1:16 & HEBREWS 1:2. THE FATHER STEPHEN CREATES BY HIS HOLY GHOST WITH THE BROTHER JOHN OR THE LADY ELIZABETH IS IN JOB 33:4; GENESIS 1:2 & PSALMS 104:30. THE FATHER STEPHEN CREATES BY HIS INFALLIBLE WORD WITH THE LORD JAMES OR THE LADY MARY IS IN PSALMS 33:6, 9 & JOB 38:8-11. THE FATHER STEPHEN CREATES BY HIS SUPREME OMNISCIENCE WITH THE LORD PETER OR THE LADY VICTORIA IS IN PROVERBS 3:19; 8:30 & JEREMIAH 10:12-13. THE FATHER STEPHEN CREATES FROM NOTHING CONCERNING THE LORD JEHOVAH KNOWN AS THE LORD VICTOR OR THE LADY VICTORIA IS IN HEBREWS 11:3; JOB 26:7 & ROMANS 4:17. THE FATHER STEPHEN AS THE POTTER CREATOR SUSTAINS THE CREATED ORDER IS IN ISAIAH 42:5; 44:24; DEUTERONOMY 30:20; JOB 9:8-9 & PSALMS 104:2-4. THE EXAMPLES OF THE FATHER STEPHEN SUSTAINING CREATION IS IN MATTHEW 5:45; 6:28-30 & JOB 5:10; 38:31-33. THE FATHER STEPHEN AS THE POTTER CREATOR WATCHES OVER HIS CREATION IS IN PSALMS 33:14; 121:2-8. THE CREATION IS A VEHICLE FOR THE FATHER STEPHEN’S SELF-REVELATION IS IN ROMANS 1:20; PSALMS 19:1; ISAIAH 40:26 & AMOS 4:13. THE FATHER STEPHEN RENEWS HIS CREATION THROUGH HIS REDEMPTION IS IN JOHN 1:12-13; 3:17; 2ND CORINTHIANS 5:17; ROMANS 4:17; 6::4; 8:19-23 & GALATIANS 6:15. THE FATHER STEPHEN RENEWS HIS CREATION OF BELIEVING CREATURES IS IN 2ND CORINTHIANS 4:16 & COLOSSIANS 3:10. THE FATHER STEPHEN WILL REVEAL A NEW UNIVERSE IS IN REVELATION 21:1, 5 & ISAIAH 65:17. THE LORD JESUS CHRIST THE AUTHORIZED CREATOR AGENT UNDER HIS FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD THE LORD JESUS CHRIST DOES NOTHING OF HIMSELF BUT THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD IS THE ONLY ONE THAT CREATES THROUGH HIS SON JESUS OUR LORD IS IN EPHESIANS 4:6 & THROUGHOUT THE GOSPEL OF JOHN. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON THE SOVEREIGN RELATIONSHIP OF THE FATHER STEPHEN TO HIS SON JESUS CHRIST, YOU MUST GET MY BOOK CALLED “DOES THE SON JESUS OUR LORD FULLY KNOW HIS FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD.” THE FATHER STEPHEN’S SON JESUS AS THE CREATOR AGENT: JESUS CHRIST’S CREATION OF THE PRESENT WORLD: JESUS CHRIST CREATED ALL THINGS IS IN JOHN 1:3, 10; ACTS 3:15; 1ST CORINTHIANS 8:6; COLOSSIANS 1:15-16 & HEBREWS 1:2. JESUS CHRIST SUSTAINS THE CREATED UNIVERSE IS IN HEBREWS 1:3; 1ST CORINTHIANS 8:6; COLOSSIANS 1:17 & REVELATION 3:14. JESUS CHRIST WILL BRING THE ENTIRE WORK OF CREATION TO PERFECTION IS IN EPHESIANS 1:9-10; ROMANS 8:19-22 & COLOSSIANS 1:20. JESUS CHRIST MAKES A NEW CREATION POSSIBLE: JESUS CHRIST RECREATES THE FATHER STEPHEN’S CREATURES THROUGH A NEW BIRTH IS IN 2ND CORINTHIANS 5:17; JOHN 1:12-13; 3:5-6; GALATIANS 6:15 & JAMES 1:18. JESUS CHRIST’S WORK OF THE NEW CREATION SHOULD BE EVIDENT IN HIS BELIEVER’S LIVES IS IN EPHESIANS 3:15; 4:24 & COLOSSIANS 3:10. JESUS CHRIST BY HIS FATHER STEPHEN PROMISES A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH TO BE CREATED IS IN 2ND PETER 3:13; ISAIAH 65:17; 66:22 & REVELATION 21:1, 4-5.    THE LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH’S BEING ATTRIBUTES HIS SPIRITUALITY (MENTALITY) ALSO CALLED HIS INCORPOREAL ATTRIBUTE IS PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. GOD IS A SPIRIT. IN JOHN 4:23-24 SAYS “BUT THE HOUR IS COMING, AND NOW IS WHEN THE TRUE WORSHIPPERS WILL WORSHIP THE FATHER (STEPHEN) IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH, FOR THE FATHER (STEPHEN) IS SEEKING SUCH TO WORSHIP HIM. GOD IS SPIRIT, AND THOSE WHO WORSHIP HIM MUST WORSHIP IS SPIRIT AND TRUTH.” IN PSALMS 139:7-10 MENTIONS “WHERE CAN I GO FROM YOUR SPIRIT? OR WHERE CAN I FLEE FROM YOUR PRESENCE? IF I ASCEND INTO HEAVEN YOU ARE THERE. IF I MAKE MY BED IN HELL, BEHOLD, YOU ARE THERE. I TAKE THE WINGS OF THE MORNING, AND DWELL IN THE UTTERMOST PARTS OF THE SEA, EVEN THERE YOUR HAND SHALL LEAD ME, AND YOUR RIGHT HAND SHALL HOLD ME.” IN 1ST KINGS 8:27 STATES “BUT WILL GOD INDEED DWELL ON THE EARTH? BEHOLD, HEAVEN AND THE HEAVEN OF HEAVENS CANNOT CONTAIN YOU. HOW MUCH LESS THIS TEMPLE WHICH I HAVE BUILT!” IN EXODUS 20:4-6 TELLS US “YOU SHALL NOT MAKE FOR YOURSELF A CARVED IMAGE—ANY LIKENESS OF ANYTHING THAT IS IN HEAVEN ABOVE OR THAT IS IN THE EARTH BENEATH, OR THAT IS IN THE WATER UNDER THE EARTH, YOU SHALL NOT BOW DOWN TO THEM NOR SERVE THEM. FOR I, THE LORD YOUR GOD, AM A JEALOUS GOD, VISITING THE INIQUITY OF THE FATHERS UPON THE CHILDREN TO THE THIRD AND FOURTH GENERATIONS OF THOSE WHO HATE ME, BUT SHOWING MERCY TO THOUSANDS TO THOSE WHO (AGAPE) LOVE ME AND KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS.” IN DEUTERONOMY 4:23-24 SAYS “TAKE HEED TO YOURSELVES LEST YOU FORGET THE COVENANT OF THE LORD YOUR GOD WHICH HE MADE WITH YOU, AND MAKE FOR YOURSELVES A CARVED IMAGE IN THE FORM OF ANYTHING WHICH THE LORD YOUR GOD HAS FORBIDDEN YOU.” IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 14:14 STATES “FOR IF I PRAY IN A TONGUE, MY SPIRIT PRAYS, BUT MY UNDERSTANDING IS UNFRUITFUL.” IN PHILIPPIANS 3:3 SAYS “FOR WE ARE THE CIRCUMCISION WHO WORSHIP GOD IN THE SPIRIT, REJOICING IN CHRIST JESUS, AND HAVE NO CONFIDENCE IN THE FLESH.” THIS MEANS IF YOU HAVE THE SPIRIT OF MAN IT ONLY GOVERNS AROUND THE WORKS OF THE FLESH WHICH IS SEXUAL & IF YOU HAVE THE SPIRIT OF GOD IT ONLY GOVERNS AROUND THE FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT WHICH IS DIVINE & YOU CANNOT HAVE BOTH AT THE SAME TIME, YOU MUST CHOOSE BECAUSE WE SERVE A JEALOUS GOD & THE FLESH NEVER PLEASES GOD IS IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 2:6-16; ROMANS 1:20-32 & GALATIANS 5:18-23. IN LUKE 23:46 MENTIONS “WHY DO YOU SLEEP? RISE & PRAY, LEST YOU ENTER INTO TEMPTATION.” IN ECCLESIASTES 12:7 TELLS US “THEN THE DUST WILL RETURN TO THE EARTH AS IT WAS, AND THE SPIRIT WILL RETURN TO GOD WHO GAVE IT.” IN HEBREWS 12:23 DECLARES “TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND CHURCH OF THE FIRSTBORN WHO ARE REGISTERED IN HEAVEN TO GOD THE JUDGE OF ALL, TO THE SPIRITS OF JUST MEN MADE PERFECT.” IN PHILIPPIANS 1:23-24 SAYS “FOR I AM HARD-PRESSED BETWEEN THE TWO, HAVING A DESIRE TO DEPART AND BE WITH CHRIST, WHICH IS FAR BETTER. NEVERTHELESS, TO REMAIN IN THE FLESH IS MORE NEEDFUL FOR YOU.” THIS CONCERNS THE FATHER STEPHEN’S SPIRIT IN ACTS 6:10; 7:55, 59 AND 1ST JOHN 5:6-13.  HIS INVISIBILITY IS PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. GOD IS INVISIBLE. IN JOHN 1:18 DECLARES “NO ONE HAS SEEN GOD AT ANY TIME. THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, WHO IS IN THE BOSOM OF THE FATHER (STEPHEN), HE HAS DECLARED HIM.” IN JOHN 6:46 STATES “FOR IF YOU BELIEVED MOSES, YOU WOULD BELIEVE ME, FOR HE WROTE ABOUT ME.” IN 1ST TIMOTHY 1:17 SAYS “NOW TO THE KING ETERNAL, IMMORTAL, INVISIBLE, TO GOD WHO ALONE IS WISE, BE HONOR AND GLORY FOREVER AND EVER. AMEN.” IN 1ST TIMOTHY 6:16 MENTIONS “WHO ALONE HAS IMMORTALITY, DWELLING IN UNAPPROACHABLE LIGHT, WHOM NO MAN HAS SEEN OR CAN SEE, TO WHOM BE HONOR AND EVERLASTING POWER. AMEN.” IN 1ST JOHN 4:12 TELLS US “NONE HAS SEEN GOD AT ANY TIME. IF WE (AGAPE) LOVE ONE ANOTHER, GOD ABIDES IN US, AND HIS (AGAPE) LOVE HAS BEEN PERFECTED IN US.” IN EXODUS 33:11 DECLARES “SO THE LORD SPOKE TO MOSES FACE TO FACE, AS A MAN SPEAKS TO HIS FRIEND…” IN EXODUS 33:20-23 SAYS “BUT HE SAID, ‘YOU CANNOT SEE MY FACE, FOR NO MAN SHALL SEE ME AND LIVE.’ AND THE LORD SAID, ‘HERE IS A PLACE BY ME, AND YOU SHALL STAND ON THE ROCK. SO, IT SHALL BE, WHILE MY GLORY PASSES BY THAT I WILL PUT YOU IN THE CLEFT OF THE ROCK, AND WILL COVER YOU WITH MY HAND WHILE I PASS BY.” IN COLOSSIANS 1:15 MENTIONS “HE IS THE IMAGE OF THE INVISIBLE GOD, THE FIRSTBORN OVER ALL CREATION.” IN PSALMS 145:3 DECLARES “GREAT IS THE LORD, AND GREATLY TO BE PRAISED, AND HIS GREATNESS IS UNSEARCHABLE.” THIS CONCERNS THE FATHER STEPHEN’S INVISIBILITY/VISIBILITY IN HIS KINGDOM OF LORDSHIP IN ACTS 6:1-8:3. HIS PHYSICALITY IS PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. GOD BECOMES FLESH. IN JOHN 1:1-3, 14 DECLARES “IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD, AND THE WORD WAS WITH GOD, AND THE WORD WAS GOD. HE WAS IN THE BEGINNING WITH GOD, ALL THINGS WERE MADE THROUGH HIM, AND WITHOUT HIM NOTHING WAS MADE THAT WAS MADE…AND THE WORD BECAME FLESH AND DWELT AMONG US, AND WE BEHELD HIS GLORY, THE GLORY AS OF THE ONLY BEGOTTEN OF THE FATHER (STEPHEN), FULL OF GRACE AND TRUTH.” IN JOHN 14:9 TELLS US “A LITTLE WHILE LONGER AND THE WORLD WILL SEE ME NO MORE, BUT YOU WILL SEE ME. BECAUSE I LIVE, YOU WILL LIVE ALSO.” IN GENESIS 1:27 STATES “SO GOD CREATED MAN IN HIS OWN IMAGE, IN THE IMAGE OF GOD HE CREATED HIM, MALE AND FEMALE HE CREATED THEM.” IN PSALMS 16:11 DECLARES “YOU WILL SHOW ME THE PATH OF LIFE, IN YOUR PRESENCE IS FULLNESS OF JOY, AT YOUR RIGHT HAND ARE PLEASURES FOREVERMORE.” IN PSALMS 19:1 SAYS “THE HEAVENS DECLARE THE GLORY OF GOD, AND THE FIRMAMENT SHOWS HIS HANDIWORK.” IN ROMANS 1:20 STATES “FOR SINCE THE CREATION OF THE WORLD HIS INVISIBLE ATTRIBUTES ARE CLEARLY SEEN, BEING UNDERSTOOD BY THE THINGS THAT ARE MADE, EVEN HIS ETERNAL POWER AND GODHEAD (TRINITY), SO THEY ARE WITHOUT EXCUSE…” IN MATTHEW 5:8 SAYS “BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART, FOR THEY SHALL SEE GOD.” IN REVELATION 1:7 DECLARES “BEHOLD, HE IS COMING WITH CLOUDS, AND EVERY EYE WILL SEE HIM, EVEN THEY WHO PIERCED HIM…” IN REVELATION 4:2-3 SAYS “IMMEDIATELY I WAS IN THE SPIRIT (STEPHEN), & BEHOLD, A THRONE SET IN HEAVEN, & ONE SAT ON THE THRONE. AND HE WHO SAT THERE WAS LIKE A JASPER & A SARDIUS STONE IN APPEARANCE, & THERE WAS A RAINBOW AROUND THE THRONE, IN APPEARANCE LIKE AN EMERALD.” IN REVELATION 4:5 TELLS US “AND FROM THE THRONE PROCEEDED LIGHTNING’S, THUNDERING, AND VOICES. SEVEN LAMPS OF FIRE WERE BURNING BEFORE THE THRONE, WHICH ARE THE SEVEN SPIRITS OF GOD.” IN REVELATION 5:6 MENTIONS “AND I LOOKED, AND BEHOLD, IN THE MIDST OF THE THRONE AND OF THE FOUR LIVING CREATURES, AND IN THE MIDST OF THE ELDERS (LORDS), STOOD A LAMB AS THOUGH IT HAD BEEN SLAIN, HAVING SEVEN HORNS AND SEVEN EYES, WHICH ARE THE SEVEN SPIRITS (FATHER STEPHEN) OF GOD SENT OUT INTO ALL THE EARTH.” IN REVELATION 22:3-4 SAYS “AND THERE SHALL BE NO MORE CURSE, BUT THE THRONE OF GOD AND OF THE LAMB SHALL BE IN IT, AND HIS SERVANTS SHALL SERVE HIM. THEY SHALL SEE HIS FACE, AND HIS NAME SHALL BE ON THEIR FOREHEADS.” IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 13:12 DECLARES “FOR NOW WE SEE IN A MIRROR, DIMLY, BUT THEN FACE TO FACE. NOW I KNOW IN PART, BUT THEN I SHALL KNOW JUST AS I ALSO AM KNOWN.” IN 1ST JOHN 3:2 SAYS “BELOVED, NOW WE ARE THE CHILDREN OF GOD, AND IT HAS NOT YET BEEN REVEALED WHAT WE SHALL BE, BUT WE KNOW THAT WHEN HE IS REVEALED, WE SHALL BE LIKE HIM, FOR WE SHALL SEE HIM AS HE IS.” IN 2ND CORINTHIANS 3:18 DECLARES “WHILE WE DO NOT LOOK AT THE THINGS WHICH ARE SEEN, BUT AT THE THINGS WHICH ARE NOT SEEN. FOR THE THINGS WHICH ARE SEEN ARE TEMPORARY, BUT THE THINGS WHICH ARE NOT SEEN ARE ETERNAL.” THIS CONCERNS THE FATHER STEPHEN’S BODY IN ACTS 6:3-5. THERE 5 AREAS THAT WE CAN TRY THE LORD’S WHICH ARE ALMIGHTINESS IN THE ALMIGHTY LORD, POWER IN THE OMNIPOTENT LORD, SOVEREIGNTY IN THE HIGHEST LORD, MONEY IN THE ARMY LORD & SPIRITUALITY IN THE SPIRIT LORD IN JUDITH 8:13; WISDOM OF SOLOMON 6:3 & MALACHI 3:10 & 1ST JOHN 4:1. BUT IN ACTS 6:10 THE FATHER  STEPHEN  OUR  LORD  BEAT  THEM  IN  ALMIGHTINESS  IN  ACTS 6:8, OMNISCIENCE  WITH  OMNIPOTENCE IN ACTS 6:8, SOVEREIGNTY IN ACTS 6:8. BUT THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD HAD TROUBLE IN ARMY MONEY IN ACTS 7:1-7:53. FOR THE (SEXUAL EROS) LOVE OF MONEY IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL IN 1ST TIMOTHY 6:10. FOR THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD BECOMING IN THE TRUE PHYSICAL FORM OF THE LORD YAHWEH OPERATES AS “THE CLOAKED OMNISCIENCE (WORD) & CLOAKED OMNIPOTENCE (POWER) OF THE LORD” UPHOLDS THE UNIVERSES (WORLDS, AGES, AEONS, AIONES, GALAXIES, LEVELS, REALMS) IN HEBREWS 1:1-3. THE LORD JAMES OUR LAW BECOMING IN THE PHYSICAL FORM OF THE LORD JEHOVAH OPERATES AS “THE CLOAKED ANGEL (LORD) OF THE LORD.” THE SON JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD BECOMING IN THE PHYSICAL FORM OF THE LORD JEHOVAH OPERATES AS “THE CLOAKED MAN OF THE LORD” WHICH IS CALLED IMMANUEL MEANING “GOD WITH US.” THE BROTHER JOHN OUR LORD BECOMING IN THE PHYSICAL FORM OF THE LORD JEHOVAH OPERATES AS “THE CLOAKED WOMAN OF THE LORD” CONCERNING IMMANUEL. THE BOY JAMES OUR LORD BECOMING IN THE PHYSICAL FORM OF THE LORD JEHOVAH OPERATES AS “THE CLOAKED 14 CHURCHES (IN THE BOOKS OF ACTS & REVELATIONS) OF THE LORD” IN LUKE 20:35-36. THE LORD PETER OUR LORD BECOMES IN THE PHYSICAL FORM OF THE LORD JEHOVAH OPERATES AS “THE CLOAKED CHILD OF THE LORD” CONCERNING IMMANUEL. ALL THIS IS PROVEN IN JOHN 1:1-3. ALSO IF MAN LOOKS UPON GOD IN HIS ACTUAL FORM HE WILL BE KILLED AND HE HAS MADE THESE LORD’S IN PHYSICAL FORM SO HUMANITY, THE ANGELICAL HIERARCHY AND THE OTHER MYSTERY LORDS COULD SEE GOD “THE ANGEL (LORD) OF THE LORD” WITHOUT BEING KILLED IN GENESIS 16:7, 13; EXODUS 3:2, 4  AND JUDGES 6:12, 14. FOR THE LORD JAMES THE LAW OF GOD OPERATES AS “THE ANGEL (LORD) OF THE LORD” THAT EXCEEDS THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AS “THE MAN OF THE LORD” IN GENESIS 1:1-25; 3:6-6:7. BUT THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AS “THE MAN OF THE LORD” DID EXCEED THE LORD JAMES AS “THE ANGEL (LORD) OF THE LORD” BUT NOT THE LAW OF GOD IN HEBREWS 1:1-4 AND GENESIS 1:26-3:5. BUT BOTH OF THE LORD’S DID NOT EXCEED OR TOUCH THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD AS “THE OMNISCIENCE AND OMNIPOTENCE OF THE LORD” TO UPHOLD THE WHOLE UNIVERSE IN ACTS 6:8; HEBREWS 1:1-3; 1ST CORINTHIANS 8:6; 15:24-28 AND EPHESIANS 4:6.   THE LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH’S MENTAL ATTRIBUTES HIS OMNISCIENCE IS PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. GOD IS INFINITE IN KNOWLEDGE, ALL INTELLIGENCE AND ALL WISDOM. GOD IS ALL KNOWING. HE SHOWS HIS OMNISCIENCE IN THAT ALL THAT GOD SAW IN HIS 7 CREATION PROCESSES ON THE EARTH WAS INDEED ALL GOOD IN GENESIS 1:1-4:1. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON THE 7 CREATION PROCESSES, YOU MUST GET MY BOOK CALLED “THE SEVEN CREATION PROCESSES THAT THE LORD YAH DID IN THE UNIVERSE.” IN 1ST JOHN 3:20 SAYS “FOR IF OUR HEART CONDEMNS US, GOD IS GREATER THAN OUR HEART, AND KNOWS ALL THINGS.” IN JOB 28:24 STATES “FOR HE LOOKS TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH, AND SEES UNDER THE WHOLE HEAVENS…” IN JOB 37:16 MENTIONS “DO YOU KNOW HOW THE CLOUDS ARE BALANCED, THOSE WONDROUS WORKS OF HIM WHO IS PERFECT IN KNOWLEDGE?” IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 2:10-11 DECLARES “BUT GOD HAS REVEALED THEM TO US THROUGH HIS SPIRIT (STEPHEN IN JOHN 4:24; 1ST JOHN 5:6-13 & ACTS 2:17-7:59). FOR THE SPIRIT SEARCHES ALL THINGS, YES, THE DEEP THINGS OF GOD. FOR THE MAN KNOWS NOT THE THINGS OF A MAN EXCEPT THE SPIRIT OF THE MAN WHICH IS IN HIM? EVEN SO NO ONE KNOWS THE THINGS OF GOD EXCEPT THE SPIRIT (STEPHEN IN JOHN 4:24; 1ST JOHN 5:6-13 & ACT 2:17-7:59) OF GOD.” IN HEBREWS 4:13 TELLS US “AND THERE IS NO CREATURE HIDDEN FROM HIS SIGHT, BUT ALL THINGS ARE NAKED AND OPEN TO THE EYES OF HIM TO WHOM WE MUST GIVE ACCOUNT.” IN 2ND CHRONICLES 16:9 MENTIONS “FOR THE EYES OF THE LORD RUN TO AND FRO THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE EARTH, TO SHOW HIMSELF STRONG ON BEHALF OF THOSE WHOSE HEART IS LOYAL TO HIM. IN THIS YOU HAVE DONE FOOLISHLY, THEREFORE FROM NOW ON YOU SHALL HAVE WARS (2 OR 3 POSITIONS).” IN MATTHEW 6:8 SAYS “THEREFORE DO NOT BE LIKE THEM. FOR YOUR FATHER (STEPHEN) KNOWS THE THINGS YOU HAVE NEED OF BEFORE YOU ASK HIM.” IN MATTHEW 10:29-30 STATES “ARE NOT TWO SPARROWS SOLD FOR A COPPER COIN? AND NOT ONE OF THEM FALLS TO THE GROUND APART FROM YOUR FATHER’S (STEPHEN’S) WILL. BUT THE VERY HAIRS OF YOUR HEAD ARE…NUMBERED.” IN MATTHEW 11:23 SAYS “AND YOU, CAPERNAUM, WHO ARE EXALTED TO HEAVEN, WILL BE BROUGHT DOWN TO HADES, FOR IF THE MIGHTY WORKS WHICH WERE DONE IN YOU HAD BEEN DONE IN SODOM, IT WOULD HAVE REMAINED` UNTIL THIS DAY.” IN ISAIAH 42:8-9 SAYS “I AM THE LORD, THAT IS MY NAME, AND MY GLORY I WILL NOT GIVE TO ANOTHER, NOR MY PRAISE TO CARVED IMAGES. BEHOLD, THE FORMER THINGS HAVE COME TO PASS, AND NEW THINGS I DECLARE, BEFORE THEY SPRING FORTH, I TELL YOU OF THEM.” IN ISAIAH 43:25 STATES “I, EVEN I, AM HE WHO BLOTS OUT YOUR TRANSGRESSIONS FOR MY OWN SAKE, AND I WILL NOT REMEMBER YOUR SINS.” IN ISAIAH 46:9-10 MENTIONS “REMEMBER THE FORMER THINGS OF OLD, FOR I AM GOD, AND THERE IS NO OTHER, I AM GOD, AND THERE IS NONE LIKE ME, DECLARING THE END FROM THE BEGINNING, AND FROM ANCIENT TIMES THINGS THAT ARE NOT YET DONE, SAYING, MY COUNSEL SHALL STAND, AND I WILL DO ALL MY PLEASURE.” IN ISAIAH 55:9 SAYS “FOR AS THE HEAVENS ARE HIGHER THAN THE EARTH, SO ARE MY WAYS HIGHER THAN YOUR WAYS, AND MY THOUGHTS THAN YOUR THOUGHTS.” IN PSALMS 90:4 MENTIONS “FOR A THOUSAND YEARS IN YOUR SIGHT ARE LIKE YESTERDAY WHEN IT IS PAST, AND LIKE A WATCH IN THE NIGHT.” IN PSALMS 139 DECLARES GOD’S PERFECT KNOWLEDGE OF MAN. IN 2ND PETER 3:8 SAYS “BUT, BELOVED, DO NOT FORGET THIS ONE THING, THAT WITH THE LORD ONE DAY IS AS A THOUSAND YEARS, AND A THOUSAND YEARS AS ONE DAY.” IN JEREMIAH 19:5 STATES “(THEY HAVE ALSO BUILT THE HIGH PLACES OF BAAL, TO BURN THEIR SONS WITH FIRE FOR BURNT OFFERINGS TO BAAL, WHICH I DID NOT COMMAND OR SPEAK, NOR DID IT COME INTO MY MIND)…” IN JEREMIAH 31:35 DECLARES “THUS SAYS THE LORD, WHO GIVES THE SUN FOR A LIGHT BY DAY, THE ORDINANCES OF THE MOON AND THE STARS FOR A LIGHT BY NIGHT, WHO DISTURBS THE SEA, AND ITS WAVES ROAR (THE LORD OF HOSTS IS HIS NAME):” IN ROMANS 11:33-34 STATES “OH, THE DEPTH OF THE RICHES BOTH OF WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE OF GOD! HOW UNSEARCHABLE ARE HIS JUDGMENTS AND HIS WAYS PAST FINDING OUT! FOR WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD? OR WHO HAS BECOME HIS COUNSELOR? OR WHO HAS FIRST GIVEN TO HIM AND IT SHALL BE REPAID TO HIM?” IN JOB 28:28 SAYS “AND TO MAN HE SAID, ‘BEHOLD, THE FEAR OF THE LORD, THAT IS WISDOM, AND TO DEPART FROM EVIL IS UNDERSTANDING.”  IN PROVERBS 15:33 MENTIONS “THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS THE INSTRUCTION OF WISDOM, AND BEFORE HONOR IS HUMILITY.” IN ECCLESIASTES 9:18 TELLS US “WISDOM IS BETTER THAN WEAPONS OF WAR, BUT ONE SINNER DESTROYS MUCH GOOD.” IN ISAIAH 33:6 DECLARES “WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE WILL BE THE STABILITY OF YOUR TIMES, AND THE STRENGTH OF SALVATION. THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS HIS TREASURE.” MICAH 6:9 SAYS “THE LORD’S VOICE CRIES TO THE CITY—WISDOM SHALL SEE YOUR NAME: ‘HEAR THE ROD! WHO HAS APPOINTED IT?’” IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 2:7 STATES “BUT WE SPEAK THE WISDOM OF GOD IN A MYSTERY, THE HIDDEN WISDOM WHICH GOD ORDAINED BEFORE THE AGES FOR OUR GLORY.” IN WISDOM OF SOLOMON 7:22 DECLARES “FOR WISDOM, WHICH IS THE WORKER OF ALL THINGS, TAUGHT ME, FOR IN HER IS AN UNDERSTANDING SPIRIT (INTELLIGENT), HOLY, ONE ONLY (UNIQUE), MANIFOLD, SUBTLE, LIVELY (MOBILE), CLEAR, UNDEFILED (UNPOLLUTED), PLAIN (DISTINCT), NOT SUBJECT TO HURT (INVULNERABLE), (AGAPE) LOVING THAT THING THAT IS GOOD, QUICK (KEEN), WHICH CANNOT BE LETTED (IRRESISTIBLE), READY TO DO GOOD…” IN WISDOM OF SOLOMON 8:17 SAYS “…HOW TO BE ALLIED UNTO WISDOM IS IMMORTALITY.”  IN SIRACH 1:14 SAYS “THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM…”  IN SIRACH 1:16 TELLS US “THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS FULLNESS OF WISDOM…” IN SIRACH 1:18 SAYS “THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS A CROWN OF WISDOM, MAKING PEACE AND PERFECT HEALTH TO FLOURISH, BOTH WHICH ARE THE GIFTS OF GOD…” IN SIRACH 1:20 STATES “THE ROOT OF WISDOM IS TO FEAR THE LORD AND THE BRANCHES THEREOF ARE LONG LIFE.” IN SIRACH 1:27 TELLS US “FOR THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS WISDOM AND INSTRUCTION…” IN SIRACH 11:15 SAYS “WISDOM, KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE LAW, ARE OF THE LORD: (AGAPE) LOVE, AND THE WAY OF GOOD WORKS, ARE FROM HIM.” IN SIRACH 15:18 MENTIONS “FOR THE WISDOM OF THE LORD IS GREAT…” IN SIRACH 21:11 SAYS “HE THAT KEEPS THE LAW CONTROLS HIS THOUGHTS, & THE PERFECTION OF THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS WISDOM.” IN SIRACH 39:1 STATES “BUT HE THAT GIVES HIS MIND TO THE LAW OF THE MOST HIGH (STEPHEN)…WILL SEEK OUT WISDOM OF ALL THE ANCIENT, AND BE OCCUPIED IN PROPHECIES.” IN ACTS 6:3, 10 DECLARES THE FATHER STEPHEN’S OMNISCIENCE FULL OF WISDOM IN BEATING THE CHURCH & LAW. IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT GOD’S OMNISCIENCE YOU MUST GET MY OTHER BOOK CALLED THE “LORD’S OMNISCIENCE IN HIS WISDOM AND HIS KNOWLEDGE IN THE HOLY BIBLE.” HIS WISDOM IS PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. GOD IS ALL WISE AND HAS ALL UNDERSTANDING. IN ROMANS 8:28 SAYS “AND WE KNOW THAT ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD TO THOSE WHO LOVE GOD, TO THOSE WHO ARE THE CALLED ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE.” IN ROMANS 16:27 MENTIONS “TO GOD, ALONE WISE, BE GLORY THROUGH JESUS CHRIST FOREVER. AMEN.” IN JOB 9:4 SAYS “GOD IS WISE IN HEART AND MIGHTY IN STRENGTH. WHO HAS HARDENED HIMSELF AGAINST HIM AND, PROSPERED.” IN JOB 12:13 DECLARES “WITH HIM ARE WISDOM AND STRENGTH, HE HAS COUNSEL AND UNDERSTANDING.” IN PSALMS 104:24 SAYS “O LORD, HOW MANIFOLD ARE YOUR WORKS! IN WISDOM YOU HAVE MADE THEM ALL. THE EARTH IS FULL OF YOUR, POSSESSIONS…“ IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 1:18-20 STATES “FOR THE MESSAGE OF THE CROSS IS FOOLISHNESS TO THOSE WHO ARE PERISHING, BUT TO US WHO ARE BEING SAVED IT IS THE POWER OF GOD. FOR IT IS WRITTEN: ‘I WILL DESTROY THE WISDOM OF THE WISE, AND BRING TO NOTHING THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE PRUDENT.’ WHERE IS THE WISE? WHERE IS THE SCRIBE? WHERE IS THE DISPUTER OF THIS AGE? HAS NOT GOD MADE FOOLISH THE WISDOM OF THE WORLD?” IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 1:21 SAYS “FOR SINCE IN THE WISDOM OF GOD, THE WORLD THROUGH WISDOM DID NOT KNOW GOD, IT PLEASED GOD THROUGH THE FOOLISHNESS OF THE (TRUE) MESSAGE PREACHED TO SAVE THOSE WHO BELIEVE.” IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 1:24 IT MENTIONS “BUT TO THOSE WHO ARE CALLED, BOTH JEWS AND GREEKS, CHRIST THE POWER OF GOD AND THE WISDOM OF GOD.” IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 1:27-31 TELLS US “BUT GOD HAS CHOSEN THE FOOLISH THINGS OF THE WORLD TO PUT TO SHAME THE WISE, AND GOD HAS CHOSEN THE WEAK THINGS OF THE WORLD TO PUT TO SHAME THE THINGS OF THE MIGHTY, AND THE BASE THINGS OF THE WORLD AND THE THINGS WHICH ARE DESPISED GOD HAS CHOSEN, AND THE THINGS WHICH ARE NOT, TO BRING TO NOTHING THE THINGS THAT ARE, THAT NO FLESH SHOULD GLORY IN HIS PRESENCE. BUT OF HIM YOU ARE IN CHRIST JESUS, WHO BECAME FOR US WISDOM FROM GOD—AND RIGHTEOUSNESS AND SANCTIFICATION AND REDEMPTION—THAT, AS IT IS WRITTEN, HE WHO GLORIES. LET HIM GLORY IN THE LORD.” IN EPHESIANS 3:9-10 SAYS “AND TO MAKE ALL SEE WHAT IS THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE MYSTERY, WHICH FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE AGES HAS BEEN HIDDEN IN GOD WHO CREATED ALL THINGS THROUGH JESUS CHRIST, TO THE INTENT THAT NOW THE MANIFOLD WISDOM OF GOD MIGHT BE MADE KNOWN BY THE CHURCH TO THE PRINCIPALITIES AND POWERS IN THE HEAVENLY PLACES.” IN PSALMS 111:10 MENTIONS “THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM A GOOD UNDERSTANDING HAVE ALL THOSE WHO DO HIS COMMANDMENTS. HIS PRAISES ENDURES FOREVER.” IN PROVERBS 1:7 SAYS “THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS THE BEGINNING OF KNOWLEDGE, BUT FOOLS DESPISE WISDOM AND INSTRUCTION. IN PROVERBS 3:5-6 TELLS US “TRUST IN THE LORD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND LEAN NOT ON YOUR OWN UNDERSTANDING, IN ALL YOUR WAYS ACKNOWLEDGE HIM, AND HE SHALL DIRECT YOUR PATHS.” IN PROVERBS 9:10 SAYS “THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM, AND THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE HOLY ONE IS UNDERSTANDING. IN 1ST PETER 4:18-19 MENTIONS “IF THE RIGHTEOUS ONE IS SCARCELY SAVED, WHERE WILL THE UNGODLY AND THE SINNER APPEAR? THEREFORE, LET THOSE WHO SUFFER ACCORDING TO THE WILL OF GOD COMMIT THEIR SOULS TO HIM IN DOING GOOD, AS TO A FAITHFUL CREATOR.” IN DEUTERONOMY 29:29 DECLARES “THE SECRET THINGS BELONG TO THE LORD OUR GOD, BUT THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE REVEALED BELONG TO US AND TO OUR CHILDREN FOREVER, THAT WE MAY DO ALL THE WORDS OF THIS LAW.” IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 1:25 SAYS “BECAUSE THE FOOLISHNESS OF GOD IS WISER THAN MEN, AND THE WEAKNESS OF GOD IS STRONGER THAN MEN.” IN SIRACH 40:20 STATES “WINE AND MUSIC    REJOICE THE HEART, BUT THE (AGAPE) LOVE OF WISDOM IS ABOVE THEM BOTH. IN 1ST ESDRAS 8:23 TELLS US “…ACCORDING TO THE WISDOM OF GOD ORDAINS JUDGES AND JUSTICES…” IN ACTS 7:51 SAYS THE FATHER STEPHEN IN HIS WISDOM KNEW THAT THE LAW COMMITTED THE ETERNAL SIN IN LORDSHIP AGAINST THE LORD.” IN JAMES 1:17 PROVES THE FATHER STEPHEN AS THE HIGH PRIEST FOR THE LORDS ONLY THAT CONSULTS THE DIVINING STONES OF THE MAJESTIC URIM (FIRE FOR THE LIGHTS & LAMPSTANDS) AND MAJESTIC THUMMIM (PERFECTIONS OF GIFTS, SUCH AS THE HOLY GHOST & OMNI-BENEVOLENCE) TO KNOW THE HOLY JUDGMENTS OF THE LORD YAHWEH. THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IS THE HIGH PRIEST FOR MAN ONLY CONSULTS THE DIVINING STONES OF THE MAJESTIC URIM AND MAJESTIC THUMMIM TO KNOW THE HOLY JUDGMENTS OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD. THE URIM AND THUMMIM IS IN EXODUS 28:30; LEVITICUS 8:8; NUMBER 27:21; DEUTERONOMY 33:8; 1ST SAMUEL 28:6; EZRA 2:63; NEHEMIAH 7:65 & SIRACH 45:10.   HIS TRUTHFULNESS IS PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. THE LORD IS THE WHOLE TRUTH AND CAN NEVER LIE. IN JEREMIAH 10:10-11 SAYS “BUT THE LORD IS THE TRUE GOD. HE IS THE LIVING GOD AND THE EVERLASTING KING. AT HIS WRATH THE EARTH WILL TREMBLE, AND THE NATIONS (LAWS) WILL NOT BE ABLE TO ENDURE HIS INDIGNATION.” IN JOHN 17:3 MENTIONS “AND THIS IS ETERNAL LIFE, THAT THEY MAY KNOW YOU, THE ONLY TRUE GOD AND JESUS CHRIST WHOM YOU HAVE SENT.” IN JOHN 17:17 SAYS “SANCTIFY, THEN BY YOUR TRUTH. YOUR WORD IS TRUTH.” IN 1ST JOHN 5:20 STATES “AND WE KNOW THAT THE SON OF GOD HAS COME AND HAS GIVEN US AN UNDERSTANDING, THAT WE MAY KNOW HIM WHO IS TRUE, AND WE ARE IN HIM WHO IS TRUE, IN HIS SON JESUS CHRIST. THIS IS THE TRUE GOD AND ETERNAL LIFE.” IN TITUS 1:2 DECLARES “IN HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE WHICH GOD, WHO CANNOT LIE, PROMISED BEFORE TIME BEGAN, BUT HAS IN DUE TIME MANIFESTED HIS WORD THROUGH PREACHING, WHICH WAS COMMITTED TO ME ACCORDING TO THE COMMANDMENT OF GOD OUR SAVIOR…” IN HEBREWS 6:18 SAYS “THAT BY TWO IMMUTABLE THINGS, IN WHICH IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR GOD TO LIE, WE MIGHT HAVE STRONG CONSOLATION, WHO HAVE FLED FOR REFUGE TO LAY HOLD OF THE HOPE SET BEFORE US.” IN PSALMS 12:6 STATES “THE WORDS OF THE LORD ARE PURE WORDS, LIKE SILVER TRIED IN A FURNACE OF EARTH, PURIFIED SEVEN TIMES.” IN PSALMS 139:17 MENTIONS “HOW PRECIOUS ALSO ARE YOUR THOUGHTS TO ME, O GOD! HOW GREAT IS THE SUM OF THEM! IN COLOSSIANS 3:9-10 SAYS “DO NOT LIE TO ONE ANOTHER SINCE YOU HAVE PUT OFF THE OLD MAN WITH HIS DEEDS, AND HAVE PUT ON THE NEW MAN WHO IS RENEWED IN KNOWLEDGE ACCORDING TO THE IMAGE OF HIM WHO CREATED HIM…” IN EPHESIANS 4:25 STATES “THEREFORE PUTTING AWAY LYING, LET EACH ONE OF YOU SPEAK TRUTH WHO HIS NEIGHBOR, FOR WE ARE MEMBERS OF ONE ANOTHER.” IN 2ND CORINTHIANS 4:2 MENTIONS “BUT WAS HAVE RENOUNCED THE HIDDEN THINGS OF SHAME, NOT WALKING IN CRAFTINESS NOR HANDLING THE WORD OF GOD DECEITFULLY, BUT BY MANIFESTATION OF THE TRUTH COMMENDING OURSELVES TO EVERY MAN’S CONSCIENCE IN THE SIGHT OF GOD.” IN PSALMS 19:14 SAYS “LET THE WORDS OF MY MOUTH AND THE MEDITATION OF MY HEART, BE ACCEPTABLEIN YOUR SIGHT, O LORD, MY STRENGTH AND MY REDEEMER.” IN EXODUS 20:16 MENTIONS “YOU SHALL NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS AGAINST YOUR NEIGHBOR.” IN ZECHARIAH 8:17 SAYS “LET NONE OF YOU THINK EVIL IN YOUR HEART AGAINST YOUR NEIGHBOR, AND DO NOT (AGAPE) LOVE A FALSE OATH, FOR ALL THESE ARE THINGS THAT I HATE, SAYS THE LORD.” IN EXODUS 34:6 MENTIONS “AND THE LORD PASSED BEFORE HIM, AND PROCLAIMED, THE LORD, THE LORD GOD, MERCIFUL AND GRACIOUS, LONGSUFFERING AND ABUNDANT IN GOODNESS AND TRUTH…” IN DEUTERONOMY 32:4 TELLS US “HE IS THE ROCK, HIS WORK IS PERFECT: FOR ALL HIS WAYS ARE JUDGMENT: A GOD OF TRUTH, AND WITHOUT INIQUITY, JUST AND UPRIGHT IS HE.” IN 2ND SAMUEL 2:6 SAYS “AND NOW THE LORD SHOW KINDNESS AND TRUTH UNTO YOU…” IN 1ST KINGS 17:24 STATES “…AND THE WORD OF THE LORD IN THY MOUTH IS TRUTH.” IN PSALMS 25:10 TELLS US “ALL THE PATHS OF THE LORD ARE MERCY AND TRUTH UNTO SUCH AS KEEP HIS COVENANT AND HIS TESTIMONIES.” IN PSALMS 31:5 MENTIONS “INTO THINE HAND I COMMIT MY SPIRIT: THOU HAVE REDEEMED ME, O LORD GOD OF TRUTH.” IN PSALMS 40:11 SAYS “…O LORD, LET THY LOVING KINDNESS AND THY TRUTH CONTINUALLY PRESERVE ME.” IN PSALMS 57:3 STATES “…GOD SHALL SEND FORTH HIS MERCY AND TRUTH.” IN PSALMS 57:10 SAYS “FOR THY MERCY IS GREAT UNTO THE HEAVENS, AND THY TRUTH UNTO THE CLOUDS.” IN PSALMS 86:15 TELLS US “BUT THOU, O LORD, ART A GOD FULL OF COMPASSION, AND GRACIOUS, LONGSUFFERING, AND PLENTEOUS IN MERCY AND TRUTH.” IN PSALMS 100:5 DECLARES “FOR THE LORD IS GOOD, HIS MERCY IS EVERLASTING, AND HIS TRUTH ENDURES TO ALL GENERATIONS.” IN PSALMS 117:2 SAYS “…AND THE TRUTH OF THE LORD ENDURES FOREVER.” IN PSALMS 119:151 TELLS US “THOU ART NEAR, O LORD, AND ALL THY COMMANDMENTS ARE TRUTH.” IN ISAIAH 65:16 SAYS “THAT HE WHO BLESSED HIMSELF IN THE EARTH SHALL BLESS HIMSELF IN THE GOD OF TRUTH...” IN 2ND JOHN 3 MENTIONS “GRACE BE WITH YOU, MERCY, AND PEACE, FROM GOD THE FATHER (STEPHEN), AND FROM THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, THE SON OF THE FATHER (STEPHEN), IN TRUTH AND (AGAPE) LOVE.” IN TOBIT 3:2 SAYS “O LORD, THOU ART JUST, AND ALL THY WORKS AND ALL THY WAYS ARE MERCY AND TRUTH…” IN 1ST ESDRAS 3:12 SAYS “…WOMAN ARE STRONGEST: BUT ABOVE ALL THINGS TRUTH BEARS AWAY ALL VICTORY.”  IN 1ST ESDRAS 4:38 MENTIONS “AS FOR THE TRUTH, IT ENDURES AND IS ALWAYS STRONG, IT LIVES AND CONQUERS FOREVERMORE.” IN 1ST ESDRAS 4:40 TELLS US “…BLESSED BE THE GOD OF TRUTH.” IN 1ST ESDRAS 4:41 SAYS “…GREAT IS TRUTH, AND MIGHTY ABOVE ALL THINGS.”  IN ACTS 6:3-7:53 SAYS THAT THE FATHER STEPHEN TOLD THE WHOLE TRUTH ABOUT THE TOTAL HISTORY (SUMMARIZED) OF THE HOLY BIBLE.      HIS FAITHFULNESS IS PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. GOD IS FAITHFUL TO ALL HIS CREATIONS. IN NUMBERS 23:19 SAYS “GOD IS NOT A MAN, THAT HE SHOULD LIE, NOR A SON OF MAN, THAT HE SHOULD REPENT. HAS HE SAID, AND WILL HE NOT DO? OR HAS HE SPOKEN AND WILL HE NOT MAKE IT GOOD?” IN 2ND SAMUEL 7:28 DECLARES “AND NOW, O LORD GOD, YOU ARE GOD AND YOUR WORDS ARE TRUE, AND YOU HAVE PROMISED THIS GOODNESS TO YOUR SERVANT.” IN PSALMS 141:6 STATES “THEIR JUDGES ARE OVERTHROWN BY THE SIDES OF THE CLIFF, AND THEY HEAR MY WORDS, FOR THEY ARE SWEET.” IN PROVERBS 12:22 SAYS “LYING LIPS ARE AN ABOMINATION TO THE LORD, BUT THOSE WHO DEAL TRUTHFULLY AS HIS DELIGHT.” IN ISAIAH 59:1 STATES “BEHOLD THE LORD’S HAND IS NOT SHORTENED, THAT IT CANNOT SAVE, NOR HIS EAR HEAVY THAT IS CANNOT HEAR.” IN PSALMS 36:5 SAYS “THY MERCY, O LORD, IS IN THE HEAVENS, AND THY FAITHFULNESS REACHES UNTO THE CLOUDS.” IN PSALMS 89:5 STATES “AND THE HEAVENS SHALL PRAISE THY WONDERS, O LORD: THY FAITHFULNESS ALSO IN THE CONGREGATION OF THE SAINTS (LORDS).” IN PSALMS 143:1 DECLARES “…HEAR MY PRAYER, O LORD, GIVE EAR TO MY SUPPLICATIONS: IN THY FAITHFULNESS ANSWER ME…” IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 10:13 SAYS “THERE HAS NO TEMPTATION TAKEN YOU BUT SUCH AS IS COMMON TO MAN: BUT GOD IS FAITHFUL, WHO WILL NOT SUFFER YOU TO BE TEMPTED ABOVE THAT YE ARE ABLE, BUT WITH THE TEMPTATION ALSO MAKE A WAY OF ESCAPE, THAT YE MAY BE ABLE TO BEAR IT.” IN 2ND THESSALONIANS 3:3 STATES “BUT THE LORD IS FAITHFUL, WHO SHALL ESTABLISH YOU, AND KEEP YOU FROM EVIL.” IN REVELATION 3:14 TELLS US “THESE THINGS SAY THE AMEN, THE FAITHFUL AND TRUE WITNESS (FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD IN PROVERB 8:22-25---RSV), THE BEGINNING OF THE CREATION OF GOD…” IN REVELATION 19:11 DECLARES “AND I SAW HEAVEN OPENED, AND BEHOLD A WHITE HORSE, AND HE THAT SAT UPON HIM WAS CALLED FAITHFUL AND TRUE, AND IN RIGHTEOUSNESS HE DOES JUDGE AND MAKE WAR (2 OR 3 POSITIONS).” IN SIRACH 1:14 STATES “TO FEAR THE LORD (FATHER STEPHEN) IS THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM (UNDERSTANDING, INTELLIGENCE & KNOWLEDGE), AND IT WAS CREATED WITH THE FAITHFUL IN THE WOMB.” IN ACTS 6:8; 7:60 SAYS THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD IS ALL FAITHFUL IN ALL THINGS AND WAS EVEN FAITHFUL UNTO THE ETERNAL DEATH OF THE ETERNAL STONING.” THE LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH’S MORAL ATTRIBUTES HIS GOODNESS IS PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. GOD IS GOOD ALL THE TIME AND ALL THE TIME GOD IS GOOD. THE LORD YAHWEH CREATED THE UNIVERSE AND SAW ALL THAT HE CREATED WAS VERY GOOD IN GENESIS 1:1-31. IN LUKE 6:27-28 SAYS “BUT I SAY TO YOU WHO HEAR: (AGAPE) LOVE YOUR ENEMIES, DO GOOD TO THOSE WHO HATE YOU, BLESS THOSE WHO CURSE YOU, AND PRAY FOR THOSE WHO SPITEFULLY USE YOU.” IN LUKE 6:33-36 MENTIONS “AND IF YOU DO GOOD TO THOSE WHO DO GOOD TO YOU, WHAT CREDIT IS THAT TO YOU? FOR EVEN SINNERS DO THE SAME. AND IF YOU LEND TO THOSE FROM WHOM YOU HOPE TO RECEIVE BACK, WHAT CREDIT IS THAT TO YOU? FOR EVEN SINNERS LEND TO SINNERS TO RECEIVE AS MUCH BACK. BUT (AGAPE) LOVE YOUR ENEMIES, DO GOOD, AND LEND HOPING FOR NOTHING IN RETURN, AND YOUR REWARD WITH BE GREAT, AND YOU WILL BE SONS OF THE MOST HIGH (STEPHEN), FOR HE IS KIND TO THE UNTHANKFUL AND EVIL. THEREFORE, BE MERCIFUL, JUST AS YOUR FATHER (STEPHEN) ALSO IS MERCIFUL.” IN LUKE 18:19 SAYS “WHY DO YOU CALL ME GOOD? NO ONE IS GOOD BUT ONE, THAT IS, GOD (THE LORD YAH).” IN PSALMS 16:11 STATES “YOU WILL SHOW ME THE PATH OF LIFE, IN YOUR PRESENCE IS FULLNESS OF JOY, AT YOUR RIGHT HAND ARE PLEASURES FOREVERMORE.” IN PSALMS 34:8 MENTIONS “OH, TASTE AND SEE THAT THE LORD IS GOOD, BLESSED IS THE MAN WHO TRUSTS IN HIM!” IN PSALMS 42:1-2 SAYS “AS THE DEER PANTS FOR THE WATER BROOKS, SO PANTS MY SOUL FOR YOU, O GOD. MY SOUL THIRSTS FOR GOD, FOR THE LIVING GOD. WHEN SHALL I COME AND APPEAR BEFORE GOD? IN PSALMS 73:25-26 STATES “WHOM HAVE I IN HEAVEN BUT YOU? AND THERE IS NONE UPON EARTH THAT I DESIRE BESIDES YOU. MY FLESH AND MY HEART FAIL, BUT GOD IS THE STRENGTH OF MY HEART AND MY PORTION FOREVER.” IN PSALMS 84:11 MENTIONS “FOR THE LORD GOD IS A SUN AND SHIELD, THE LORD WILL GIVE GRACE AND GLORY, NO GOOD THING WILL HE WITHHOLD FROM THOSE WHO WALK UPRIGHTLY.” IN PSALMS 100:5 SAYS “FOR THE LORD IS GOOD, HIS MERCY IS EVERLASTING AND HIS TRUTH ENDURES TO ALL GENERATIONS.” IN PSALMS 106:1 DECLARES “OH, GIVE THANKS TO THE LORD, FOR HE IS GOOD! FOR HIS MERCY ENDURES FOREVER.” IN PSALMS 107:1 SAYS “OH, GIVE THANKS TO THE LORD, FOR HE IS GOOD! FOR HIS MERCY ENDURES FOREVER.” IN PSALMS 119:68 TELLS US “YOU ARE GOOD, AND DO GOOD, TEACH ME YOUR STATUTES.” IN PSALMS 145:9 SAYS “THE LORD IS GOOD TO ALL, AND HIS TENDER MERCIES ARE OVER ALL HIS WORKS.” IN ROMANS 8:32 SAYS “HE (FATHER STEPHEN) WHO DID NOT SPARE HIS OWN SON, BUT DELIVERED HIM UP FOR US ALL, HOW SHALL HE NOT WITH HIM ALSO FREELY GIVE US ALL THINGS? WHO SHALL BRING A CHARGE AGAINST GOD’S ELECT?  IT IS GOD WHO JUDGES.” IN ROMANS 12:2 STATES “AND DO NOT BE CONFORMED TO THIS WORLD, BUT BE TRANSFORMED BY THE RENEWING OF YOUR MIND, THAT YOU MAY PROVE WHAT IS THAT GOOD AND ACCEPTABLEAND PERFECT WILL OF GOD.” IN JAMES 1:17 SAYS “EVERY GOOD GIFT AND EVERY PERFECT GIFT IS FROM ABOVE, AND COMES DOWN FROM THE FATHER (STEPHEN) OF LIGHTS, WITH WHOM THERE IS NO VARIATION OR SHADOW OF TURNING.” IN 1ST THESSALONIANS 5:18 MENTIONS “IN EVERYTHING GIVE THANKS, FOR THIS IS THE WILL OF GOD IN CHRIST JESUS FOR YOU.” IN GALATIANS 6:10 SAYS “THEREFORE AS WE HAVE OPPORTUNITY, LET US DO GOOD TO ALL, ESPECIALLY TO THOSE WHO ARE OF THE HOUSEHOLD OF FAITH.” IN 2ND TIMOTHY 3:17 DECLARES “THAT THE MAN OF GOD MAY BE COMPLETE, THOROUGHLY EQUIPPED FOR EVERY GOOD WORK.” IN ACTS 14:17 SAYS “NEVERTHELESS, HE DID NOT LEAVE HIMSELF WITHOUT WITNESS IN THAT HE DID GOOD, GAVE US RAIN FROM HEAVEN AND FRUITFUL SEASONS, FILLING OUR HEARTS WITH FOOD AND GLADNESS.” IN EXODUS 34:6 STATES “…THE LORD, THE LORD GOD…ABUNDANT IN GOODNESS…” IN NUMBERS 10:32 TELLS US “…YES, IT SHALL BE, THAT WHAT GOODNESS THE LORD SHALL DO UNTO US, THE SAME WILL WE DO UNTO THEE.” IN 2ND SAMUEL 7:28 SAYS “AND NOW, O LORD GOD, THOU ARE THAT GOD, AND THY WORDS BE TRUE, AND THOU HAS PROMISED THIS GOODNESS UNTO THY SERVANT.” SIMILAR SCRIPTURE IS IN 1ST CHRONICLES 17:26. IN PSALMS 16:2 STATES “O MY SOUL, THOU HAVE SAID UNTO THE LORD, THOU ART MY LORD, MY GOODNESS EXTENDS NOT TO THEE.” IN PSALMS 23:6 MENTIONS “SURELY GOODNESS AND MERCY SHALL FOLLOW ME ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE, AND I WILL DWELL IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD FOREVER.” IN PSALMS 25:7 DECLARES “REMEMBER NOT THE SINS OF MY YOUTH, NOT MY TRANSGRESSIONS: ACCORDING TO THY MERCY REMEMBER THOU ME FOR THY GOODNESS’ SAKE, O LORD.” IN PSALMS 27:13 TELLS US “I HAD FAINTED, UNLESS I HAD BELIEVED TO SEE THE GOODNESS OF THE LORD IN THE LAND OF THE LIVING.” IN PSALMS 31:19 SAYS “OH HOW GREAT IS THY GOODNESS, WHICH THOU HAS LAID UP FOR THEM THAT FEAR THEE…” IN PSALMS 33:5 STATES “HE LOVES RIGHTEOUSNESS AND JUDGMENT: THE EARTH IS FULL OF THE GOODNESS OF THE LORD.” IN PSALMS 65:4 SAYS “BLESSED IS THE MAN WHOM THOU CHOOSES, AND CAUSES TO APPROACH UNTO THEE, THAT HE MAY DWELL IN THY COURTS: WE SHALL BE SATISFIED WITH THE GOODNESS OF THY HOUSE…” IN PSALMS 65:11 MENTIONS “THOU CROWNED THE YEAR WITH THY GOODNESS, AND THY PATHS DROP FATNESS.” IN PSALMS 68:10 DECLARES “THY CONGREGATION HAD DWELT THEREIN: THOU, O GOD, HAS PREPARED OF THY GOODNESS FOR THE POOR.” IN PSALMS 107:8 STATES “OH THAT MEN WOULD PRAISE THE LORD FOR HIS GOODNESS, AND FOR HIS WONDERFUL WORKS TO THE CHILDREN OF MEN! ALSO, THE SCRIPTURES ARE IN PSALMS 107:15, 21, 31. IN PSALMS 107:9 SAYS “FOR HE SATISFIES THE LONGING SOUL, AND FILLS THE HUNGRY SOUL WITH GOODNESS.” IN PSALMS 145:7 SAYS “THEY SHALL ABUNDANTLY UTTER THE MEMORY OF THY GREAT GOODNESS, AND SHALL SING OF THY RIGHTEOUSNESS.” IN JEREMIAH 31:12 SAYS “THEREFORE THEY SHALL COME AND SING IN THE HEIGHT OF ZION, AND SHALL FLOW TOGETHER TO THE GOODNESS OF THE LORD…” IN JEREMIAH 31:14 STATES “…AND MY PEOPLE SHALL BE SATISFIED WITH MY GOODNESS, SAYS THE LORD.” IN HOSEA 3:5 SAYS “AFTERWARD SHALL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL RETURN, AND SEEK THE LORD THEIR GOD: AND DAVID THEIR KING, AND SHALL FEAR THE LORD AND HIS GOODNESS IN THE LATTER DAYS.” IN ZECHARIAH 9:17 STATES “FOR HOW GREAT IS HIS GOODNESS, AND HOW GREAT HIS BEAUTY IS! CORN SHALL MAKE THE YOUNG MEN CHEERFUL, AND NEW WINE THE MAIDS.” IN ROMANS 2:4 DECLARES “OR DESPISES THOU THE RICHES OF HIS GOODNESS AND FORBEARANCE AND LONGSUFFERING, NOT KNOWING THAT THE GOODNESS OF GOD LEADS THEE TO REPENTANCE?” IN ROMANS 11:22 SAYS “BEHOLD THEREFORE THE GOODNESS AND SEVERITY OF GOD: ON THEM WHICH FELL, SEVERITY, BUT TOWARD THEE, GOODNESS, IT THOU CONTINUE IN HIS GOODNESS, OTHERWISE THOU SHALL ALSO BE CUT OFF.” IN ROMANS 15:14 SAYS “AND I MYSELF ALSO AM PERSUADED OF YOU, MY BRETHREN, THAT YE ALSO ARE FULL OF GOODNESS, FILLED WITH ALL KNOWLEDGE, ABLE ALSO TO ADMONISH ONE ANOTHER.“ IN GALATIANS 5:22 SAYS “BUT THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT IS …GOODNESS...” EPHESIANS 6:7 DECLARES “WITH GOODWILL DOING SERVICE, AS TO THE LORD, AND NOT TO MEN.” 2ND THESSALONIANS 1:11 TELLS US “WHEREFORE ALSO WE PRAY ALWAYS FOR YOU, THAT OUR GOD WOULD COUNT YOU WORTHY OF THIS CALLING, AND FULFILL ALL THE GOOD PLEASURE OF HIS GOODNESS, AND THE WORK OF FAITH WITH POWER.” IN WISDOM OF SOLOMON 7:26 SAYS “FOR SHE IS THE BRIGHTNESS OF THE EVERLASTING LIGHT, THE UNSPOTTED MIRROR OF THE POWER OF GOD, AND THE IMAGE OF HIS GOODNESS.” SIRACH 31:27 SAYS “WINE IS AS GOOD AS LIFE TO MAN, IF IT BE DRUNK MODERATELY, WHAT LIFE IS THEM TO A MAN THAT IS WITHOUT WINE? FOR IT WAS MADE TO MAKE MEN GLAD.” IN ACTS 6:3 CONCERNS THE FATHER STEPHEN’S GOOD REPUTATION APPOINTED BEFORE THIS BUSINESS.  HIS OMNI-BENEVOLENCE (AGAPE LOVE) IS PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. GOD IS AGAPE LOVE. IN 1ST JOHN 2:15 SAYS “DO NOT (EROS) LOVE THE WORLD OR THE THINGS IN THE WORLD. IF ANYONE (EROS) LOVES THE WORLD, THE (AGAPE) LOVE OF THE FATHER (STEPHEN) IS NOT IN HIM. IN 1ND JOHN 4:8 STATES “HE WHO DOES NOT (AGAPE) LOVE DOES NOT KNOW GOD, FOR GOD IS (AGAPE) LOVE.” IN 1ST JOHN 4:10 MENTIONS “IN THIS IS (AGAPE) LOVE, NOT THAT WE (AGAPE) LOVED GOD, BUT THAT HE (AGAPE) LOVED US AND SENT HIS SON TO BE THE PROPITIATION OF OUR SINS.” IN 1ST JOHN 4:19 SAYS “WE (AGAPE) LOVE HIM BECAUSE HE FIRST (AGAPE) LOVED US.” IN 1ST JOHN 5:3 STATES “FOR THIS IS THE (AGAPE) LOVE OF GOD, THAT WE KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS. AND HIS COMMANDMENTS ARE NOT BURDENSOME.” IN JOHN 3:16 MENTIONS “FOR GOD SO (AGAPE) LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, THAT WHOSEVER BELIEVES IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE.” IN JOHN 3:35 SAYS “THE FATHER (STEPHEN) LOVES THE SON (JESUS CHRIST), AND HAS GIVEN ALL THINGS INTO HIS HAND.” IN JOHN 14:31 DECLARES “BUT THE WORLD MAY KNOW THAT I (AGAPE) LOVE THE FATHER (STEPHEN), AND AS THE FATHER (STEPHEN) GAVE ME COMMANDMENT, SO I DO, ARISE, LET US GO FROM HERE.” IN JOHN 15:13 SAYS “GREATER (AGAPE) LOVE HAS NO ONE THAN THIS, THAT TO LAY DOWN ONE’S LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS.” IN JOHN 17:24 STATES “FATHER (STEPHEN), I DESIRE THAT THEY ALSO WHOM YOU GAVE ME MAY BE WITH ME WHERE I AM, THAT THEY MAY BEHOLD MY GLORY WHICH YOU HAVE GIVEN ME, FOR YOU (AGAPE) LOVED ME BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD.” IN JOHN 17:26 DECLARES “AND I HAVE DECLARED TO THEM YOUR NAME, AND WILL DECLARE IT, THAT THE (AGAPE) LOVE WITH WHICH YOU LOVED ME MAY BE IN THEM, AND I IN THEM.” IN ROMANS 5:5 SAYS “NOW HOPE DOES NOT DISAPPOINT, BECAUSE THE (AGAPE) LOVE OF GOD HAS BEEN POURED OUT IN OUR HEARTS BY THE HOLY SPIRIT WHO WAS GIVEN TO US.” IN ROMANS 5:8 STATES “BUT GOD DEMONSTRATES HIS OWN (AGAPE) LOVE TOWARD US, IN THAT WHILE WE WERE STILL SINNERS CHRIST DIED FOR US.” IN ROMANS 13:10 SAYS “(AGAPE) LOVE DOES NO HARM TO A NEIGHBOR, THEREFORE (AGAPE) LOVE IS THE FULFILLMENT OF THE LAW.” IN GALATIANS 2:20 MENTIONS “I HAVE BEEN CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST, IT IS NO LONGER I WHO LIVE, BUT CHRIST LIVES IN ME: AND THE LIFE WHICH I NOW LIVE IN THE FLESH I LIVE BY FAITH IN THE SON OF  GOD, WHO  (AGAPE) LOVED  ME  AND  GAVE  HIMSELF  FOR  ME.” IN MATTHEW 5:43-48 TELLS US “YOU HAVE HEARD THAT IT WAS SAID, YOU SHALL (AGAPE) LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR, AND HATE YOUR ENEMY. BUT I SAY TO YOU, (AGAPE) LOVE YOUR ENEMIES, BLESS THOSE WHO CURSE YOU, DO GOOD TO THOSE WHO HATE YOU, AND PRAY FOR THOSE WHO SPITEFULLY USE YOU AND PERSECUTE YOU, THAT YOU MAY BE SONS OF YOUR FATHER (STEPHEN) IN HEAVEN. OR HE MAKES HIS SUN RISE ON THE EVIL AND THE GOOD, AND SENDS RAIN ON THE JUST AND UNJUST. FOR IF YOU GREET YOUR BRETHREN ONLY, WHAT DO YOU DO MORE THAN OTHERS? [THE OMNI-BENEVOLENCE OF GOD IN ROMANS 8:37-39] DO NOT EVEN THE TAX COLLECTORS DO? THEREFORE, YOU SHALL BE PERFECT, JUST AS YOUR FATHER (STEPHEN) IN HEAVEN IS PERFECT.” IN MATTHEW 22:37-38 SAYS “JESUS SAID TO HIM, ‘YOU SHALL (AGAPE) LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.’ THIS IS THE FIRST AND GREAT COMMANDMENT. AND THE SECOND IS LIKE IT, ‘YOU SHALL (AGAPE) LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS THYSELF.’” IN HEBREWS 10:24 STATES “AND LET US CONSIDER ONE ANOTHER IN ORDER TO STIR UP (AGAPE) LOVE AND GOOD WORKS…” IN ROMANS 8:39 SAYS “…NOR HEIGHT, NOR DEPTH, NOR ANY OTHER CREATURE, SHALL BE ABLE TO SEPARATE US FROM THE (AGAPE) LOVE OF GOD, WHICH IS IN CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD.” IN SIRACH 7:30 STATES “(AGAPE) LOVE HIM THAT MADE THEE WITH ALL THY STRENGTH, AND FORSAKE NOT HIS MINISTERS.” IN SIRACH 13:14 SAYS “(AGAPE) LOVE THE LORD ALL THY LIFE, AND CALL UPON HIM FOR THY SALVATION.” IN SIRACH 25:11 STATES “BUT THE (AGAPE) LOVE OF THE LORD PASSES ALL THINGS FOR ILLUMINATION: HE THEN HOLDS IT, WHERE TO SHALL BE LIKENED?”  IN ACTS 7:60 CONCERNS THE FATHER STEPHEN’S ETERNAL LOVE IS AS STRONG AS ETERNAL DEATH IN SONG OF SOLOMON 8:6. SINCE KING SOLOMON RAISED THE FATHER STEPHEN ON HIS THRONE IN PROVERBS 8:22-25 (RSV). IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT GOD’S AGAPE LOVE, YOU MUST GET MY OTHER BOOK CALLED “GOD IS LOVE AND THE LOVE IN THE HOLY BIBLE.”  THE WORLD’S BEGINNING IS ON THE ORIGIN OF THE WORLD PAGES 62-74. HIS MERCY IS PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. GOD IS MERCIFUL IN STRENGTH, PATIENT, COMPASSIONATE AND GRACEFUL. GOD’S MERCY ENDURES FOREVER AND EVER. IN EXODUS 33:19 MENTIONS “THEN HE SAID, I WILL MAKE ALL MY GOODNESS PASS BEFORE YOU, AND I WILL PROCLAIM THE NAME OF THE LORD BEFORE YOU. I WILL BE GRACIOUS TO WHOM I WILL BE GRACIOUS, AND I WILL HAVE COMPASSION ON WHOM I WILL HAVE COMPASSION.” IN EXODUS 34:6 SAYS “AND THE LORD PASSED BEFORE HIM AND PROCLAIMED, ‘THE LORD, THE LORD GOD, MERCIFUL AND GRACIOUS, LONGSUFFERING, AND ABOUNDING IN GOODNESS AND TRUTH.” IN 2ND SAMUEL 24:14 STATES “AND DAVID SAID TO GAD, I AM IN GREAT DISTRESS. PLEASE LET US FALL INTO THE HAND OF THE LORD, FOR HIS MERCIES ARE GREAT, BUT DO NOT LET ME FALL INTO THE HAND OF MAN.” IN MATTHEW 5:7 MENTIONS “BLESSED ARE THE MERCIFUL FOR THEY SHALL OBTAIN MERCY.” IN MATTHEW 9:27 MENTIONS “WHEN JESUS DEPARTED FROM THERE, TWO BLIND MEN FOLLOWED HIM CRYING OUT AND SAYING, ‘SON OF DAVID, HAVE MERCY ON US!” IN 2ND CORINTHIANS 1:3-4 SAYS “GRACE TO YOU AND PEACE FROM GOD OUR FATHER (STEPHEN) AND THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. I THANK MY GOD ALWAYS CONCERNING YOU FOR THE GRACE OF GOD WHICH WAS GIVEN TO YOU BY CHRIST JESUS…” IN 2ND CORINTHIANS 13:14 TELLS US “THE GRACE OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, AND THE (AGAPE) LOVE OF GOD (STEPHEN), AND THE COMMUNION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT (JOHN) BE WITH YOU ALL. AMEN.” IN HEBREWS 2:17 SAYS “THEREFORE, IN ALL THINGS HE HAD TO BE MADE LIKE HIS BRETHREN, THAT HE MIGHT BE A MERCIFUL AND FAITHFUL HIGH PRIEST IN THINGS PERTAINING TO GOD (STEPHEN), TO MAKE PROPITIATION FOR THE SINS OF THE PEOPLE.” IN HEBREWS 4:16 STATES “LET US THEREFORE COME BOLDLY TO THE THRONE OF GRACE THAT WE MAY OBTAIN MERCY AND FIND GRACE TO HELP IN TIME OF NEED.” IN JAMES 5:7-8 TELLS US “THEREFORE BE PATIENT, BRETHREN UNTIL THE COMING OF THE LORD. SEE HOW THE FARMER WAITS FOR THE PRECIOUS FRUIT OF THE EARTH, WAITING PATIENTLY FOR IT UNTIL IT RECEIVES THE EARLY AND LATTER RAIN.” IN JAMES 5:11 SAYS “INDEED WE COUNT THEM BLESSED WHO ENDURE. YOU HAVE HEARD OF THE PERSEVERANCE OF JOB & SEE THE END INTENDING BY THE LORD—THAT THE LORD IS VERY COMPASSIONATE AND MERCIFUL.” IN ROMANS 1:7 STATES “TO ALL WHO ARE IN ROME, BELOVED OF GOD, CALLED TO BE SAINTS (LORDS): GRACE TO YOU AND PEACE FROM GOD OUR FATHER (STEPHEN) AND THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.” IN ROMANS 3:23-24 MENTIONS “FOR ALL HAVE SINNED (MEN) AND FALL SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD, BEING JUSTIFIED FREELY BY HIS GRACE THROUGH THE REDEMPTION THAT IS IN CHRIST JESUS…” IN ROMANS 4:16 SAYS “THEREFORE IT IS OF FAITH THAT IT MIGHT BE ACCORDING TO GRACE, SO THAT THE PROMISE MIGHT BE SURE TO ALL THE SEED, NOT ONLY TO THOSE WHO ARE OF THE LAW, BUT ALSO TO THOSE WHO ARE OF THE FAITH OF ABRAHAM, WHO IS THE FATHER OF US ALL.” IN ROMANS 8:25 MENTIONS “BUT IF WE HOPE FOR WHAT WE DO NOT SEE, WE EAGERLY WAIT FOR IT WITH PERSEVERANCE.” IN ROMANS 9:15 SAYS “FOR HE SAYS TO MOSES, I WILL HAVE MERCY ON WHOMEVER I WILL HAVE MERCY, AND I WILL HAVE COMPASSION ON WHOMEVER I WILL HAVE COMPASSION.” IN ROMANS 11:6 TELLS US “AND IF BY GRACE, THEN IT IS NO LONGER OF WORKS, OTHERWISE GRACE IS NO LONGER GRACE, BUT IF IT IS OF WORKS, IT IS NO LONGER GRACE, OTHERWISE WORK IS NO LONGER WORK.’ IN ROMANS 16:20 SAYS “AND THE GOD OF PEACE WILL CRUSH SATAN UNDER YOUR FEET SHORTLY. THE GRACE OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST BE WITH YOU. AMEN.” IN PSALMS 119:132 MENTIONS “LOOK UPON ME AND BE MERCIFUL TO ME, AS YOUR CUSTOM (LAW) IS TOWARD THOSE WHO (AGAPE) LOVE YOUR NAME.” IN 1ST PETER 2:20 TELLS US “FOR WHAT CREDIT IS IT IF, WHEN YOU ARE BEATEN FOR YOUR FAULTS, YOU TAKE IT PATIENTLY. BUT WHEN YOU DO GOOD AND SUFFER, IT YOU TAKE IT PATIENTLY, THIS IS COMMENDABLE BEFORE GOD.” IN 1ST PETER 5:10 SAYS “BUT MAY THE GOD OF ALL GRACE, WHO CALLED US TO HIS ETERNAL GLORY BY CHRIST JESUS, AFTER YOU HAVE SUFFERED A WHILE, PERFECT, ESTABLISH, STRENGTHEN & SETTLE YOU.” IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 1:3 STATES “GRACE TO YOU AND PEACE FROM GOD OUR FATHER (STEPHEN) AND THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.” IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 15:10 SAYS “BUT BY THE GRACE OF GOD  I  AM  WHAT I AM, AND HIS GRACE TOWARD ME WAS NOT IN VAIN, BUT I LABORED MORE ABUNDANTLY THAN THEY ALL, YET NOT I, BUT THE GRACE OF GOD WHICH WAS WITH ME.” IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 16:23 TELLS US “THE GRACE OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST BE WITH YOU.” IN ACTS 14:26 SAYS “FROM THERE THEY SAILED TO ANTIOCH, WHERE THEY HAD BEEN COMMENDED TO THE GRACE OF GOD FOR THE WORK WHICH THEY HAD COMPLETED.” IN GALATIANS 1:3 STATES “GRACE TO YOU AND PEACE FROM GOD THE FATHER (STEPHEN) AND OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.” IN GALATIANS 6:18 SAYS “BRETHREN, THE GRACE OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST BE WITH YOUR SPIRIT. AMEN.” IN NUMBERS 14:18 MENTIONS “THE LORD IS LONGSUFFERING AND ABUNDANT IN MERCY, FORGIVING INIQUITY AND TRANSGRESSION, BUT HE BY NO MEANS CLEARS THE GUILTY, VISITING THE INIQUITY OF THE FATHERS ON THE CHILDREN TO THE THIRD AND FOURTH GENERATION.” IN PSALMS 103:8 SAYS “THE LORD IS MERCIFUL AND GRACIOUS, SLOW TO ANGER, AND ABOUNDING IN MERCY…” IN PSALMS 145:8 STATES “THE LORD IS GRACIOUS AND FULL OF COMPASSION, SLOW TO ANGER AND GREAT IN MERCY.” IN JONAH 4:2 SAYS “SO HE PRAYED TO THE LORD, AND SAID, AH, LORD, WAS NOT THIS WHAT I SAID WHEN I WAS STILL IN MY COUNTRY? THEREFORE, I FLED PREVIOUSLY TO TARSHISH, FOR I KNOW THAT YOU ARE A GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD, SLOW TO ANGER AND ABUNDANT IN (AGAPE) LOVING KINDNESS, ONE WHO RELENTS FROM DOING HARM.” IN NAHUM 1:3 MENTIONS “THE LORD IS SLOW TO ANGER AND GREAT IN POWER, AND WILL NOT AT ALL ACQUIT THE WICKED. THE LORD HAS HIS WAY IN THE WHIRLWIND AND IN THE STORM, AND THE CLOUDS ARE THE DUST OF HIS FEET.” IN 1ST TIMOTHY 1:16 DECLARES “HOWEVER, FOR THIS REASON I OBTAINED MERCY, THAT IN ME, FIRST, JESUS…MIGHT SHOW ALL LONGSUFFERING, AS A PATTERN TO THOSE WHO ARE GOING TO BELIEVE ON HIM FOR EVERLASTING LIFE.” IN 2ND TIMOTHY 4:2 TELLS US “PREACH THE WORD! BE READY IN SEASON & OUT OF SEASON. CONVINCE, REBUKE, EXHORT, WITH ALL LONGSUFFERING AND TEACHING.” IN REVELATION 2:2-3 SAYS “I KNOW YOUR WORKS, YOUR LABOR, YOUR PATIENCE, & THAT YOU CANNOT BEAR THOSE WHO ARE EVIL. AND HAVE TESTED THOSE WHO SAY THEY ARE APOSTLES AND ARE NOT, AND HAVE FOUND THEM LIARS.” IN 2ND CORINTHIANS 12:9 SAYS “MY GRACE IS SUFFICIENT FOR YOU, FOR MY STRENGTH IS MADE PERFECT IN WEAKNESS.” IN DEUTERONOMY 4:31 STATES “(FOR THE LORD THY GOD IS A MERCIFUL GOD), HE WILL NOT FORSAKE THEE, NEITHER DESTROY THEE, NOT FORGET THE COVENANT OF THY FATHERS WHICH HE SWORE UNTO THEM.” IN DEUTERONOMY 7:9 SAYS “KNOW THEREFORE THAT THE LORD THY GOD, THE FAITHFUL GOD WHICH KEEPS COVENANT AND MERCY WITH THEM THAT (AGAPE) LOVE HIM AND KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS TO A THOUSAND GENERATIONS…” IN DEUTERONOMY 21:8 MENTIONS “BE MERCIFUL, O LORD, UNTO THY PEOPLE, WHOM THOU HAS REDEEMED, AND LAY NOT INNOCENT BLOOD UNTO THY PEOPLE OF ISRAEL’S CHARGE…” 1ST KINGS 8:23 TELLS US “AND HE SAID, LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, THERE IS NO GOD LIKE THEE, IN HEAVEN ABOVE, OR ON EARTH BENEATH, WHO KEEPS COVENANT AND MERCY WITH THY SERVANTS THAT WALK BEFORE THEE WITH ALL THY HEART…” IN 2ND CHRONICLES 6:14 SAYS “AND SAID, ‘O LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, THERE IS NO GOD LIKE THEE IN THE HEAVEN OR IN EARTH, WHICH KEEPS COVENANT AND SHOWS MERCY UNTO THY SERVANTS, THAT WALK WITH THEE WITH ALL THY HEARTS…’” IN NEHEMIAH 1:5 DECLARES “AND SAID, I BESEECH THEE, O LORD GOD OF HEAVEN, THE GREAT AND TERRIBLE GOD THAT KEEPS COVENANT AND MERCY FOR THEM THAT (AGAPE) LOVE HIM AND OBSERVE HIS COMMANDMENTS…” IN PSALMS 6:2 DECLARES “HAVE MERCY ON UPON ME, O LORD, FOR I AM WEAK: O LORD, HEAL ME, FOR MY BONES ARE VEXED. IN PSALMS 6:4 STATES “RETURN, O LORD, DELIVER MY SOUL: OH, SAVE ME FOR THY MERCIES’ SAKE.” IN PSALMS 9:13 TELLS US “HAVE MERCY UPON ME, O LORD, CONSIDER MY TROUBLE WHICH I SUFFER OF THEM THAT HATE ME, THOU THAT LIFTS ME UP FROM THE GATES OF DEATH.” IN PSALMS 21:7 SAYS “FOR THE KING TRUSTS IN THE LORD, AND THROUGH THE MERCY OF THE MOST HIGH (STEPHEN) HE SHALL NOT BE MOVED.” IN PSALMS 25:6 STATES “REMEMBER, O LORD, THY TENDER MERCIES AND THY (AGAPE) LOVING KINDNESS, FOR THY HAVE BEEN EVER OF OLD.” IN PSALMS 25:10 TELLS US “ALL THE PATHS OF THE LORD ARE MERCY AND TRUTH UNTO SUCH AS KEEP HIS COVENANT AND HIS TESTIMONIES.” IN PSALMS 27:7 MENTIONS “HEAR, O LORD, WHEN I CRY WITH MY VOICE: HAVE MERCY ALSO UPON ME, AND ANSWER ME.” IN PSALMS 30:10 SAYS “HEAR, O LORD, AND HAVE MERCY UPON ME: LORD, BE THOU MY HELPER.” IN PSALMS 31:9 TELLS US “HAVE MERCY UPON ME, O LORD, FOR I AM IN TROUBLE: MINE EYE IS CONSUMED WITH GRIEF, YES, MY SOUL AND MY BELLY.” IN PSALMS 33:22 DECLARES “LET THY MERCY, O LORD, BE UPON US, ACCORDING AS WE HOPE IN THEE.” IN PSALMS 36:5 SAYS “THY MERCY, O LORD, IS IN THE HEAVENS, AND THY FAITHFULNESS REACHES UNTO THE CLOUDS.” IN PSALMS 37:26 SAYS “HE IS EVER MERCIFUL, AND LENDS, AND HIS SEED IS BLESSED.” IN PSALMS 41:4 MENTIONS “I SAID, LORD, BE MERCIFUL UNTO ME: HEAL MY SOUL, FOR I HAVE SINNED AGAINST THEE.” IN PSALMS 41:10 SAYS “BUT THOU, O LORD, BE MERCIFUL UNTO ME, AND RAISE ME UP, THAT I MAY REQUITE THEM.” IN PSALMS 57:10 MENTIONS “FOR THY MERCY IS GREAT UNTO THE HEAVENS AND THY TRUTH UNTO THE CLOUDS.” IN PSALMS 57:3 SAYS “HE SHALL SEND FROM HEAVEN, AND SAVE ME FROM THE REPROACH OF HIM THAT WOULD SWALLOW ME UP. SELAH. GOD SHALL SEND FORTH HIS MERCY AND HIS TRUTH.” IN PSALMS 59:5 SAYS “THOU THEREFORE, O LORD GOD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL, AWAKE TO VISIT ALL THE HEATHEN, BE NOT MERCIFUL TO ANY WICKED TRANSGRESSORS. SELAH.” IN PSALMS 59:17 STATES “UNTO THEE, O MY STRENGTH, WILL I SING: FOR GOD IS MY DEFENSE, AND MY GOD OF MERCY.” IN PSALMS 61:7 SAYS “HE SHALL ABIDE BEFORE GOD FOREVER: O PREPARE MERCY AND TRUTH WHICH MAY PRESERVE HIM.” IN PSALMS 62:12 MENTIONS “ALSO UNTO THEE, O LORD, BELONGS MERCY: FOR THOU RENDERS TO EVERY MAN ACCORDING TO HIS WORK.” IN PSALMS 66:20 SAYS “BLESSED BE GOD, WHICH HAS NOT TURNED AWAY MY PRAYER, NOT HIS MERCY FROM ME.” IN PSALMS 67:1 STATES “…GOD BE MERCIFUL UNTO US, AND CAUSE HIS FACE TO SHINE UPON US. SELAH.” IN PSALMS 69:13 MENTIONS “BUT AS FOR ME, MY PRAYER IS UNTO THEE, O LORD, IN AN ACCEPTABLETIME: O GOD, IN THE MULTITUDE OF THY MERCY HEAR ME, IN THE TRUTH OF THY SALVATION.” IN PSALMS 69:16 SAYS “HEAR ME, O LORD, FOR THY (AGAPE) LOVING KINDNESS IS GOOD: TURN UNTO ME ACCORDING TO THE MULTITUDE OF THY TENDER MERCIES.” IN PSALMS 86:3 TELLS US “BE MERCIFUL UNTO ME, O LORD: FOR I CRY UNTO THEE DAILY.” IN PSALMS 94:18 DECLARES “WHEN I SAID, MY FOOT SLIPS, THY MERCY, O LORD, HELD ME UP.” IN PSALMS 100:5 SAYS “FOR THE LORD IS GOOD, HIS MERCY IS EVERLASTING, AND HIS TRUTH ENDURES TO ALL GENERATIONS.” IN PSALMS 101:1 SAYS “…I WILL SING OF MERCY AND JUDGMENT: UNTO THEE, O LORD, WILL I SING PRAISES.” IN PSALMS 103:8 STATES “THE LORD IS MERCIFUL AND GRACIOUS, SLOW TO ANGER, AND PLENTEOUS IN MERCY.” IN PSALMS 103:11 SAYS “FOR AS THE HEAVEN IS HIGH ABOVE THE EARTH, SO GREAT IS HIS MERCY TOWARD THEM THAT FEAR HIM.” IN PSALMS 103:17 MENTIONS “BUT THE MERCY OF THE LORD IS FROM EVERLASTING TO EVERLASTING UPON THEM THAT FEAR HIM…” IN PSALMS 106:1 SAYS “PRAISE YE THE LORD. O GIVE THANKS UNTO THE LORD, FOR HE IS GOOD: FOR HIS MERCY ENDURES FOREVER.” IN PSALMS 107:1 STATES “O GIVE THANKS UNTO THE LORD, FOR HE IS GOOD: FOR HIS MERCY ENDURES FOREVER.” IN PSALMS 108:4 TELLS US “FOR THY MERCY IS GREAT ABOVE THE HEAVENS…” IN 109:21 MENTIONS “BUT DO THOU FOR ME, O GOD THE LORD, FOR THY NAME’S SAKE: BECAUSE THY MERCY IS GOOD, DELIVER THOU ME.” IN PSALMS 109:26 DECLARES “HELP ME, O LORD MY GOD: O SAVE ME ACCORDING TO THY MERCY.” IN PSALMS 115:1 STATES “NOT UNTO US, O LORD, NOT UNTO US, BUT UNTO THY NAME GIVE GLORY, FOR THY MERCY, AND FOR THY TRUTH’S SAKE.” IN PSALMS 116:5 SAYS “GRACIOUS IS THE LORD, AND RIGHTEOUS, YES, OUR GOD IS MERCIFUL.” IN PSALMS 117:2 MENTIONS “FOR HIS MERCIFUL KINDNESS IS GREAT TOWARD US: AND THE TRUTH OF THE LORD ENDURES FOREVER. PRAISE YE THE LORD!” IN PSALMS 118:1-2 SAYS “O GIVE THANK UNTO THE LORD, FOR HE IS GOOD…HIS MERCY ENDURES FOREVER. IT STATES “LET ISRAEL SAY, THAT HIS MERCY ENDURES FOREVER.” SIMILAR SCRIPTURES ARE IN PSALMS 118:3, 4. IN PSALMS 118:29 DECLARES “O GIVE THANKS UNTO THE LORD, FOR HE IS GOOD: FOR HIS MERCY ENDURES FOREVER.” IN PSALMS 119:41 SAYS “VAU (WAW). LET THY MERCIES COME ALSO UNTO ME, O LORD, EVEN THY SALVATION, ACCORDING TO THY WORD.” IN 119:64 STATES “HETH. THE EARTH, O LORD, IS FULL OF THY MERCY: TEACH ME THY STATUTES.” IN PSALMS 119:76 MENTIONS “YOD. LET, I PRAY THEE, THY MERCIFUL KINDNESS BE FOR MY COMFORT, ACCORDING TO THY WORD UNTO THY SERVANT.” IN PSALMS 119:77 STATES “YOD. LET THY TENDER MERCIES COME UNTO ME, THAT I MAY LIVE: FOR THY LAW IS MY DELIGHT.” IN PSALMS 119:124 DECLARES “AYIN. DEAL WITH THY SERVANT ACCORDING TO THY MERCY, AND TEACH ME THY STATUTES.” IN PSALMS 119:156 SAYS “RESH. GREAT ARE THY TENDER MERCIES, O LORD: QUICKEN ME ACCORDING TO THY JUDGMENTS.” IN PSALMS 123:3 DECLARES “HAVE MERCY UPON US, O LORD, HAVE MERCY UPON US: FOR WE ARE EXCEEDINGLY FILLED WITH CONTEMPT.” IN PSALMS 130:7 SAYS “LET ISRAEL HOPE IN THE LORD: FOR WITH THE LORD THERE IS MERCY, AND WITH HIM IS PLENTEOUS REDEMPTION.” IN PSALMS 136:1 DECLARES “O GIVE THANKS UNTO THE LORD, FOR HE IS GOOD: FOR HIS MERCY ENDURES FOREVER.” SIMILAR SCRIPTURES ARE IN PSALMS 136:1-26. IN PSALMS 138:8 MENTIONS “THE LORD WILL PERFECT THAT WHICH CONCERNS ME: THY MERCY, O LORD, ENDURES FOREVER: FORSAKE NOT THE WORKS OF THINE OWN HANDS.” IN PSALMS 143:12 STATES “AND OF THY MERCY CUT OFF MINE ENEMIES, AND DESTROY ALL THEM THAT AFFLICT MY SOUL: FOR I AM THY SERVANT.” IN PSALMS 145:9 DECLARES “THE LORD IS GOOD TO ALL: AND HIS TENDER MERCIES ARE OVER ALL HIS WORKS.” IN PSALMS 147:11 TELLS US “THE LORD TAKES PLEASURE IN THEM THAT FEAR HIM IN THOSE THAT HOPE IN HIS MERCY.” IN LAMENTATIONS 3:22 SAYS “IT IS OF THE LORD’S MERCIES THAT WE ARE NOT CONSUMED, BECAUSE HIS COMPASSIONS FAIL NOT.” IN DANIEL 9:9 STATES “TO THE LORD OUR GOD BELONG MERCIES…THOUGH WE HAVE REBELLED AGAINST HIM.” IN LUKE 6:36 DECLARES “BE YE THEREFORE MERCIFUL, AS YOUR FATHER (STEPHEN) ALSO IS MERCIFUL.” IN ROMANS 12:1 SAYS “I BESEECH YOU THEREFORE, BRETHREN, BY THE MERCIES OF GOD, THAT YE PRESENT YOUR BODIES A LIVING SACRIFICE, HOLY, ACCEPTABLE TO GOD, WHICH IS YOU REASONABLE SERVICE.” IN EPHESIANS 2:4 TELLS US “BUT GOD, WHO IS RICH IN MERCY, FOR HIS GREAT (AGAPE) LOVE WHEREWITH HE (AGAPE) LOVED US.” IN COLOSSIANS 3:12 STATES “PUT ON THEREFORE, AS THE ELECT OF GOD, HOLY AND BELOVED, BOWELS OF MERCIES…” IN TITUS 1:4 DECLARES “…GRACE, MERCY AND PEACE FROM GOD THE FATHER (STEPHEN) AND THE LORD JESUS CHRIST OUR SAVIOR.” IN HEBREWS 10:28 SAYS “HE THAT DESPISES MOSES’ LAW DIES WITHOUT MERCY UNDER 2 OR 3 WITNESSES…” IN JAMES 2:13 STATES “FOR HE SHALL HAVE JUDGMENT WITHOUT MERCY, THAT HAS SHOWED NO MERCY, AND MERCY TRIUMPHS OVER JUDGMENT.” IN 1ST PETER 1:3 DECLARES “BLESSED BE THE GOD AND FATHER (STEPHEN) OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, WHICH ACCORDING TO HIS ABUNDANT MERCY HAS GOTTEN US AGAIN UNTO A LIVELY HOPE BY THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST FROM THE DEAD…” IN 2ND JOHN 3 SAYS “GRACE BE WITH YOU, MERCY AND PEACE, FROM GOD THE FATHER (STEPHEN), AND FROM THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, THE SON OF THE FATHER (STEPHEN), IN TRUTH AND (AGAPE) LOVE.” IN JUDE 21 STATES “KEEP YOURSELVES IN THE (AGAPE) LOVE OF GOD, LOOKING FOR THE MERCY OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST UNTO ETERNAL LIFE.” IN WISDOM OF SOLOMON 9:1 SAYS “O GOD (FATHER STEPHEN) OF MY FATHERS, AND LORD OF MERCY, WHO HAS MADE ALL THINGS WITH THY WORD.” IN SIRACH 2:7 STATES “YE THAT FEAR THE LORD, WAIT FOR HIS MERCY, AND GO NOT ASIDE, LEST YE FALL.” IN SIRACH 2:9 SAYS “YE THAT FEAR THE LORD, HOPE FOR GOOD, AND FOR EVERLASTING JOY AND MERCY.” IN SIRACH 5:6 MENTIONS “AND SAY NOT HIS MERCY IS GREAT, HE WILL BE PACIFIED FOR THE MULTITUDE OF MY SINS: FOR MERCY AND WRATH COME FROM HIM…” IN SIRACH 36:1 TELLS US “HAVE MERCY UPON US, O LORD GOD OF ALL, AND BEHOLD US.” IN SIRACH 36:17 SAYS “O LORD, HAVE MERCY UPON THE PEOPLE THAT IS CALLED BY THY NAME, & UPON ISRAEL, WHOM THOU HAS NAMED THY FIRSTBORN.” IN SONG OF THE THREE JEWS 13:67 SAYS “O GIVE THANKS UNTO THE LORD, BECAUSE HIS IS GRACIOUS: FOR HIS MERCY ENDUES FOREVER.” ALSO A SIMILAR SCRIPTURE IS IN SONG OF THE THREE JEWS 13:68. IN 2ND MACCABEES 1:24 STATES “AND THE PRAYER WAS AFTER THIS MANNER, O LORD, LORD GOD, CREATOR OF ALL THINGS, WHO ART FEARFUL AND STRONG, AND RIGHTEOUS, AND MERCIFUL, YOU ALONE ARE KING AND ARE KIND…” IN ACTS 6:8 IT CONCERNS THE FATHER STEPHEN’S MERCY AND STRENGTH IN THE CHURCH OF GOD DOING SIGNS, MIRACLES, HEALINGS AND WONDERS.   HIS HOLINESS IS PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. GOD IS THE MOST HOLIEST OF ALL. HE HAS IMPECCABILITY, IMPREGNABILITY, INVINCIBILITY AND INVULNERABILITY BY HIS HOLINESS. IN EXODUS 19:4-6 SAYS “NOW THEREFORE, IF YOU WILL INDEED OBEY MY VOICE AND KEEP MY COVENANT, THEN YOU SHALL BE A SPECIAL TREASURE TO ME ABOVE ALL PEOPLE, FOR ALL THE EARTH IS MINE. AND YOU SHALL BE TO ME A KINGDOM OF PRIESTS AND A HOLY NATION (LAW).” IN EXODUS 20:11 STATES “FOR IN SIX DAYS THE LORD MADE THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH, THE SEA, AND ALL THAT IS IN THEM, AND RESTED THE SEVENTH DAY. THEREFORE, THE LORD BLESSED THE SABBATH DAY AND HOLLOWED IT (MADE IT HOLY).” IN EXODUS 26:33 DECLARES “AND YOU SHALL HANG THE VEIL FROM THE CLASPS. THEN YOU SHALL BRING THE ARK OF THE TESTIMONY IN THERE, BEHIND THE VEIL. THE VEIL SHALL BE A DIVIDER FOR YOU BETWEEN THE HOLY PLACE AND THE MOST HOLY.” IN EXODUS 29:44 MENTIONS “SO I WILL CONSECRATE THE TABERNACLE OF MEETING AND THE ALTAR. I WILL ALSO CONSECRATE BOTH AARON AND HIS SONS TO MINISTER TO ME AS PRIESTS.” IN EXODUS 30:25-33 SAYS “AND YOU SHALL MAKE FROM THIS HOLY ANOINTING OIL, AN OINTMENT COMPOUNDED ACCORDING TO THE ART OF THE PERFUMER. IT SHALL BE HOLY ANOINTING OIL. WITH IT YOU SHALL ANOINT THE TABERNACLE OF MEETING AND THE ARK OF THE TESTIMONY, THE TABLE AND ALL ITS UTENSILS, THE LAMP STAND AND ITS UTENSILS, AND ALTAR OF INCENSE, THE ALTAR OF BURNT OFFERING WITH ALL ITS UTENSILS, AND THE LAVER AND ITS BASE. YOU SHALL CONSECRATE THEM, THAT THEY MAY BE MOST HOLY, WHATEVER TOUCHES THEM MUST BE HOLY. AND YOU SHALL ANOINT AARON AND HIS SONS, AND CONSECRATE THEM, THAT THEY MAY MINISTER TO ME AS PRIESTS. AND YOU SHALL SPEAK TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, SAYING, ‘THIS SHALL BE A HOLY ANOINTING OIL TO ME THROUGHOUT YOUR GENERATIONS. IT SHALL NOT BE POURED ON MAN’S FLESH, NOR SHALL YOU MAKE ANY OTHER LIKE IT, ACCORDING TO IS COMPOSITION. IT IS HOLY, AND IT SHALL BE HOLY TO YOU. WHOEVER COMPOUNDS ANY LIKE IT, OR WHOEVER PUTS ANY OF IT ON AN OUTSIDER, SHALL BE CUT OFF FROM HIS PEOPLE.’” IN PSALMS 24:3 STATES “WHO MAY ASCEND INTO THE HILL OF THE LORD? OR WHO MAY STAND IN HIS HOLY PLACE?” IN PSALMS 71:22 MENTIONS “ALSO WITH THE LUTE I WILL PRAISE YOU AND YOUR FAITHFULNESS, O MY GOD! TO YOU I WILL SING WITH THE HARP, O HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL.” IN PSALMS 89:18 TELLS US “FOR OUR SHIELD BELONGS TO THE LORD, AND OUR KING TO THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL. IN PSALMS 99:3 DECLARES “LET THEM PRAISE YOUR GREAT AND AWESOME NAME—HE IS HOLY.” IN PSALMS 99:5 SAYS “EXALT THE LORD OUR GOD, AND WORSHIP AT HIS FOOTSTOOL—HE IS HOLY.” IN PSALMS 99:9 TELLS US “EXALT THE LORD OUR GOD, AND WORSHIP AT HIS HOLY HILL, FOR THE LORD OUR GOD IS HOLY.” IN GENESIS 2:3 SAYS “THEN GOD BLESSED THE SEVENTH DAY AND SANCTIFIED IT, BECAUSE IN IT HE RESTED FROM ALL HIS WORK WHICH GOD HAD CREATED AND MADE.” IN ISAIAH 5:19 DECLARES “THAT SAY, ‘LET HIM MAKE SPEED AND HASTEN HIS WORK, THAT WE MAY SEE IT, AND LET THE COUNSEL OF THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL DRAW NEAR AND COME, THAT WE MAY KNOW IT.” IN  ISAIAH  6:3  SAYS “AND  ONE  CRIED  TO ANOTHER AND SAID: HOLY, HOLY, HOLY IS THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE  WHOLE  EARTH  IS  FULL  OF  HIS  GLORY!” LEVITICUS 19:2 MENTIONS “SPEAK TO ALL THE CONGREGATION OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, AND SAY TO THEM: YOU SHALL BE HOLY, FOR I THE LORD YOUR GOD AM HOLY.” HEBREWS 12:10 TELLS US “FOR THEY INDEED A FEW DAYS CHASTENED US AS SEEMED BEST TO THEM, BUT HE FOR OUR PROFIT, THAT WE MAY BE PARTAKERS OF HIS HOLINESS.” IN 2ND CORINTHIANS 6:14-18 SAYS “DO NOT BE UNEQUALLY YOKED TOGETHER WITH UNBELIEVERS. FOR WHAT FELLOWSHIP HAS RIGHTEOUSNESS WITH LAWLESSNESS? AND WHAT COMMUNION HAS LIGHT WITH DARKNESS? AND WHAT ACCORD HAS CHRIST WITH BELIAL? OR WHAT PART HAS A BELIEVER WITH AN UNBELIEVER? AND WHAT AGREEMENT HAS THE TEMPLE OF THE GOD WITH IDOLS? FOR YOU ARE THE TEMPLE OF THE LIVING GOD.  AS GOD HAS SAID: I WILL DWELL IN THEM AND WALK AMONG THEM, I WILL BE THEIR GOD AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE. THEREFORE, COME OUT FROM AMONG THEM AND BE SEPARATE, SAY THE LORD. DO NOT TOUCH WHAT IS UNCLEAN, AND I WILL RECEIVE YOU. I WILL BE A FATHER (STEPHEN) TO YOU, AND YOU SHALL BE MY SONS AND DAUGHTERS, SAYS THE LORD ALMIGHTY.” IN ROMANS 12:1 STATES “I BESEECH YOU THEREFORE, BRETHREN BY THE MERCIES OF GOD, THAT YOU PRESENT YOUR BODIES A LIVING SACRIFICE, HOLY, ACCEPTABLE TO GOD, WHICH IS YOUR REASONABLE SERVICE.” IN EPHESIANS 2:21 DECLARES “IN WHOM THE WHOLE BUILDING, BEING FITTED TOGETHER, GROWS INTO A HOLY TEMPLE IN THE LORD…” IN EPHESIANS 5:26-27 SAYS “THE HE MIGHT SANCTIFY AND CLEANSE HER WITH THE WASHING OF WATER BY THE WORD, THAT HE MIGHT PRESENT HER TO HIMSELF A GLORIOUS CHURCH, NOT HAVING SPOT OR WRINKLE OR ANY SUCH THING, BUT THAT SHE SHOULD BE HOLY AND WITHOUT BLEMISH.” IN WISDOM OF SOLOMON 5:19 SAYS “HE WILL TAKE HOLINESS AS AN INVINCIBLE SHIELD...” IN JUDITH 16:13 MENTIONS “I WILL SING TO MY GOD A NEW SONG, O LORD, YOU ARE GREAT AND GLORIOUS, WONDERFUL IN STRENGTH, INVINCIBLE.” IN EXODUS 15:11 SAYS “WHO IS LIKE UNTO THEE, O LORD, AMONG THE GODS? WHO IS LIKE THEE, GLORIOUS IN HOLINESS, FEARFUL IN PRAISES DOING WONDERS?” IN EXODUS 28:36 DECLARES “AND THOU SHALL MAKE A PLATE OF PURE GOLD, AND GRAVE UPON IT, LIKE THE ENGRAVINGS OF A SIGNET, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.”  SIMILAR SCRIPTURE IS IN EXODUS 39:30. IN 1ST CHRONICLES 16:29 STATES “GIVE UNTO THE LORD THE GLORY DUE UNTO HIS NAME: BRING AN OFFERING, AND COME BEFORE HIM: WORSHIP THE LORD IN THE BEAUTY OF HOLINESS!” IN 2ND CHRONICLES 20:21 MENTIONS “AND WHEN HE HAD CONSULTED WITH THE PEOPLE, HE APPOINTED SINGERS UNTO THE LORD, AND THAT SHOULD PRAISE THE BEAUTY OF HOLINESS, AS THEY WENT OUT BEFORE THE ARMY, AND TO SAY, ‘PRAISE THE LORD, FOR HIS MERCY ENDURES FOREVER.’” IN PSALMS 29:2 SAYS “GIVE UNTO THE LORD THE GLORY DUE UNTO HIS NAME, WORSHIP THE LORD IN THE BEAUTY OF HOLINESS.” IN PSALMS 30:4 STATES “SING UNTO THE LORD, O YE SAINTS (LORDS) OF HIS, AND GIVE THANKS AT THE REMEMBRANCE OF HIS HOLINESS.” IN PSALMS 47:8 DECLARES “GOD REIGNS OVER THE HEATHEN: GOD SITS UPON THE THRONE OF HIS HOLINESS.” IN PSALMS 48:1 TELLS US “…GREAT IS THE LORD, AND GREATLY TO BE PRAISED IN THE CITY OF OUR GOD, IN THE MOUNTAIN OF HIS HOLINESS.” IN PSALMS 60:6 MENTIONS “GOD HAS SPOKEN IN HIS HOLINESS, I WILL REJOICE, I WILL DIVIDE SHECHEM, AND METE OUT THE VALLEY OF SUCCOTH.” ALSO, THE SCRIPTURE IS IN PSALMS 108:7. IN PSALMS 93:5 SAYS “THY TESTIMONIES ARE VERY SURE: HOLINESS BECOMES THINE HOUSE, O LORD, FOREVER.” IN PSALMS 96:9 STATES “O WORSHIP THE LORD IN THE BEAUTY OF HOLINESS: FEAR BEFORE HIM, ALL THE EARTH.” IN PSALMS 97:12 MENTIONS “REJOICE IN THE LORD, YE RIGHTEOUS, AND GIVE THANKS AT THE REMEMBRANCE OF HIS HOLINESS.” IN PSALMS 110:3 DECLARES “THY PEOPLE SHALL BE VOLUNTEERS IN THE DAY OF THY POWER, IN THE BEAUTIES OF HOLINESS FROM THE WOMB OF THE MORNING THOU HAS THE DEW OF THY YOUTH.” IN ISAIAH 23:18 SAYS “AND HER MERCHANDISE (GAIN) & HER HIRE (PAY) SHALL BE HOLINESS TO THE LORD…” IN ISAIAH 35:8 SAYS “AND A HIGHWAY SHALL BE THERE, AND A WAY, AND IT SHALL BE CALLED “THE HIGHWAY OF HOLINESS” THE UNCLEAN SHALL NOT PASS OVER IT, BUT IT SHALL BE FOR THOSE: THE WAYFARING MEN, THOUGH FOOLS, SHALL NOT ERR THEREIN.” SOME OTHER SCRIPTURES ARE ISAIAH 62:10; 63:18. IN JEREMIAH 2:3 SAYS “ISRAEL WAS HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD, AND THE FIRST FRUITS OF HIS INCREASE…” SOME OTHER SCRIPTURES ARE JEREMIAH 23:9; 31:23. IN AMOS 4:2 STATES “THE LORD GOD HAS SWORN BY HIS HOLINESS THAT, LO, THE DAYS SHALL COME UPON YOU THAT HE WILL TAKE YOU AWAY WITH HOOKS, AND YOUR POSTERITY WITH FISHHOOKS.” IN OBADIAH 17 SAYS “BUT UPON MOUNT ZION SHALL BE DELIVERANCE, AND THERE SHALL BE HOLINESS, AND THE HOUSE OF JACOB SHALL POSSESS THEIR POSSESSIONS.” IN ZECHARIAH 14:20 MENTIONS “IN THAT DAY SHALL THERE BE UPON THE BELLS OF THE HORSES, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD, AND THE POTS ON THE LORD’S HOUSE SHALL BE LIKE THE BOWLS BEFORE THE ALTAR.” IN ZECHARIAH 14:21 SAYS “YES, EVERY POT IN JERUSALEM AND JUDAH SHALL BE HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD OF HOSTS: AND ALL THEY THAT SACRIFICE SHALL COME AND TAKE OF THEM…” IN ROMANS 1:4 DECLARES “AND DECLARED TO BE THE SON OF GOD WITH POWER, ACCORDING TO THE SPIRIT (STEPHEN) OF HOLINESS, BY THE RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD.” IN ROMANS 6:22 STATES “BUT NOW BEING MADE FREE FROM SIN, AND BECOME SERVANTS OF GOD, YE HAVE YOUR FRUIT UNTO HOLINESS, AND THE END EVERLASTING LIFE.” IN 2ND CORINTHIANS 7:1 MENTIONS “HAVING THEREFORE THESE PROMISES, DEARLY BELOVED, LET US CLEANSE OURSELVES FROM ALL FILTHINESS OF THE FLESH AND SPIRIT, PERFECTING HOLINESS IN THE FEAR OF GOD.” IN EPHESIANS 4:24 SAYS “AND THAT YE PUT ON THE NEW MAN, WHICH AFTER GOD IS CREATED IN RIGHTEOUSNESS AND TRUE HOLINESS.” IN 1ST THESSALONIANS 3:13 DECLARES “TO THE END HE MAY ESTABLISH YOUR HEARTS BLAMELESS IN HOLINESS BEFORE GOD, EVEN OUR FATHER (STEPHEN), AT THE COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST WITH ALL HIS SAINTS (LORDS).” IN 1ST THESSALONIANS 4:7 SAYS “FOR GOD HAS NOT CALLED US UNTO UNCLEANNESS, BUT UNTO HOLINESS.” IN WISDOM OF SOLOMON 6:10 SAYS “FOR THEY KEEP HOLINESS HOLILY SHALL BE JUDGED HOLY.” IN SIRACH 17:29 STATES “HOW GREAT IS THE (AGAPE) LOVING KINDNESS OF THE LORD OUR GOD, AND HIS COMPASSION UNTO SUCH AS TURN UNTO HIM IN HOLINESS!” IN SIRACH 45:12 MENTIONS “HE SET A CROWN OF GOLD UPON THE MITRE, WHEREIN WAS ENGRAVED HOLINESS…” IN SIRACH 50:11 STATES “…HE MADE THE GARMENT OF HOLINESS HONORABLE.” IN 2ND MACCABEES 14:36 DECLARES “THEREFORE NOW, O HOLY LORD OF ALL HOLINESS, KEEP THIS HOUSE EVER UNDEFILED, WHICH LATELY WAS CLEANSED, & STOP EVERY UNRIGHTEOUS MOUTH.” IN 2ND MACCABEES 15:2 SAYS “…WHICH HE, THAT SEES ALL THINGS, HAS HONORED WITH HOLINESS ABOVE ALL OTHER DAYS.” IN ACTS 7:33 IT CONCERNS THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD’S HOLINESS TO MOSES AS HIM BEING THE ANGEL (LORD) OF THE LORD. HIS INVINCIBILITY IS IN PARAPHRASE OF SHEM PAGES 111 & 113. HIS JEALOUSY IS PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. GOD IS A ZEALOUS GOD TO HIS PEOPLE. IN 2ND CORINTHIANS 11:2 SAYS “FOR I AM JEALOUS FOR YOU WITH A GODLY JEALOUSY. FOR I HAVE BETROTHED YOU TO ONE HUSBAND, THAT I MAY PRESENT YOU AS A CHASTE VIRGIN TO CHRIST.” IN EXODUS 34:14 STATES “(FOR YOU SHALL WORSHIP NO OTHER GOD, FOR THE LORD, WHOSE NAME IS JEALOUS, IS A JEALOUS GOD).” IN DEUTERONOMY 4:24 DECLARES “FOR THE LORD YOUR GOD IS A CONSUMING FIRE, A JEALOUS GOD. IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 4:7-8 TELLS US “FOR WHO MAKE YOU DIFFER FROM ANOTHER? AND WHAT DO YOU HAVE THAT YOU DID NOT RECEIVE? NOW IF YOU DID INDEED RECEIVE IT, WHY DO YOU BOAST AS IT YOU HAD NOT RECEIVED IT? YOU ARE ALREADY FULL! YOU ARE ALREADY RICH! YOU HAVE REIGNED AS GODS WITHOUT US—AND INDEED I COULD WISH YOU DID REIGN, THAT WE ALSO MIGHT REIGN WITH YOU!” IN REVELATION 4:11 DECLARES “YOU ARE WORTHY, O LORD, TO RECEIVE GLORY AND HONOR AND POWER, FOR YOU CREATED ALL THINGS, AND BE YOUR WILL THEY EXIST AND WERE CREATED.” IN ISAIAH 48:11 MENTIONS “FOR MY OWN SAKE, FOR MY OWN SAKE, I WILL DO IT. FOR HOW SHOULD MY NAME BE PROFANED? AND I WILL NOT GIVE MY GLORY TO ANOTHER.” IN PSALMS 79:5 SAYS “HOW LONG, LORD? WILL THOU BE ANGRY FOREVER? SHALL THY JEALOUSY BURN LIKE FIRE?” IN ZECHARIAH 8:2 STATES “THUS SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS: I WAS JEALOUS FOR ZION WITH GREAT JEALOUSY, AND I WAS JEALOUS FOR HER WITH GREAT FURY.” IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 10:22 MENTIONS “DO WE PROVOKE THE LORD TO JEALOUSY? ARE WE STRONGER THAN HE?” IN 2ND ESDRAS 15:52 DECLARES “WOULD I WITH JEALOUSY HAVE SO PROCEEDED AGAINST THEE, SAYS THE LORD…” IN WISDOM OF SOLOMON 5:15-23 IS THE INFALLIBLE “JEALOUS LAW JUSTICE ARMOR.” IT DECLARES “BUT THE RIGHTEOUS LIVE FOREVER. AND THEIR REWARD IS WITH THE LORD. THE MOST HIGH (STEPHEN) TAKES CARE OF THEM. THEREFORE, THEY WILL RECEIVE A GLORIOUS CROWN, AND A BEAUTIFUL DIADEM FROM THE HAND OF THE LORD, BECAUSE WITH HIS RIGHT HAND HE WILL COVER THEM, AND WITH HIS ARM HE WILL SHIELD THEM. THE LORD WILL TAKE HIS ZEAL (JEALOUSY) AS HIS WHOLE ARMOR, AND WILL ARM ALL CREATION TO REPEL HIS ENEMIES. HE WILL PUT ON RIGHTEOUSNESS AS A BREASTPLATE AND WEAR IMPARTIAL JUSTICE AS A HELMET. HE WILL TAKE HOLINESS AS AN INVINCIBLE SHIELD AND SHARPEN STERN WRATH FOR A SWORD, AND CREATION WILL JOIN WITH HIM TO FIGHT AGAINST HIS FRENZIED FOES. SHAFTS OF LIGHTENING WILL FLY WITH TRUE AIM…FROM A WELL-DRAWN BOW, & HAILSTONES FULL OF WRATH…HURLED AS FROM A CATAPULT. THE WATER…& RIVERS WILL RELENTLESSLY OVERWHELM THEM. A MIGHTY WIND WILL RISE AGAINST THEM AND LIKE A TEMPEST IT WILL WINNOW THEM AWAY. LAWLESSNESS WILL LAY WASTE THE WHOLE EARTH, AND EVILDOING WILL OVERTHROW THE THRONES OF (EVIL) RULERS.” IN ACTS 6:8-7:60 SAYS THE FATHER STEPHEN’S JEALOUS LAW JUSTICE SPEECH TO THE LAW. THE ZEAL FOR THE FATHER STEPHEN IS IN 1ST KINGS 19:9-10, 13-14; NUMBERS 25:1-13 & PROVERBS 23:17. THE ZEAL FOR THE FATHER STEPHEN’S HOUSE CALLED ZION IS IN PSALMS 69:7-9 & JOHN 2:13-17. THE ZEAL FOR THE FATHER STEPHEN’S SERVICE IS IN ROMANS 12:11; NEHEMIAH 3:20 & 2ND CORINTHIANS 8:16-22. THE ZEAL FOR THE FATHER STEPHEN’S INERRANT LAW IS IN PSALMS 119:137-144 & ACTS 21:20. THE ZEAL FOR THE FATHER STEPHEN’S NATION IS IN 2ND SAMUEL 21:2. THE FATHER STEPHEN’S ZEAL: THIS IS MANIFESTED IN AGGRAVATION, ANGER, WRATH, RAGE & FURY AGAINST SEX THAT ALWAYS OPPOSES THE FATHER STEPHEN’S COMMAND IS IN ISAIAH 42:13; 59:12-19; NUMBERS 25:10-11; DEUTERONOMY 29:18-21 & EZEKIEL 5:8-13; 36:5-7; 38:18-23. THIS IS MANIFESTED IN CONCERN FOR THE FATHER STEPHEN’S CREATURES IS IN ISAIAH 9:1-7; 26:11; 37:30-32; 63:15; 2ND KINGS 19:29-31 & EZEKIEL 39:25. THE MISDIRECTED ZEAL FROM THE LORDSHIP OF THE LAW IS IN PROVERBS 19:2; ROMANS 10:1-4; 1ST CORINTHIANS 13:3; GALATIANS 1:13-14; 4:17-18; PHILIPPIANS 3:6 & ACTS 21:40-22:5. THE ZEAL FOR NATIONAL IDENTITY: THE ZEALOTS IS IN MATTHEW 10:2-4; MARK 3:16-19; LUKE 6:14-16 & ACTS 1:13.        HIS WRATH IS PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. GOD CAN ALSO BE ANGRY, RAGEFUL AND FULL OF FURY WITH HIS CREATIONS. IN EXODUS 32:9-10 SAYS “AND THE LORD SAID TO MOSES, I HAVE SEEN THIS PEOPLE, AND INDEED IT IS A STIFF-NECKED PEOPLE! HOW THEREFORE, LET ME ALONE, THAT MY WRATH MAY BURN HOT AGAINST THEM AND I MAY CONSUME THEM. AND I WILL MAKE OF YOU A GREAT NATION (LAW).” IN DEUTERONOMY 9:7-8 STATES “REMEMBER! DO NOT FORGET HOW YOU PROVOKED THE LORD YOUR GOD TO WRATH IN THE WILDERNESS. FROM THE DAY THAT YOU DEPARTED FROM THE LAND OF EGYPT UNTIL YOU CAME TO THIS PLACE, YOU HAVE BEEN REBELLIOUS AGAINST THE LORD. ALSO, IN HOREB YOU PROVOKED THE LORD TO WRATH, SO THAT THE LORD WAS ANGRY ENOUGH WITH YOU TO HAVE DESTROYED YOU.” IN DEUTERONOMY 29:23 MENTIONS “THE WHOLE LAND IS BRIMSTONE, SALT, AND BURNING. IT IS NOT SOWN, NOR DOES IT BEAR, NOR DOES ANY GRASS GROW THERE, LIKE THE OVERTHROW OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH, ADMAH, AND ZEBOIIM, WHICH THE LORD OVERTHREW IN HIS ANGER AND HIS WRATH.” IN 2ND KINGS 22:13 SAYS “GO, INQUIRE OF THE LORD FOR ME, FOR THE PEOPLE AND FOR ALL JUDAH, CONCERNING THE WORDS OF THIS BOOK THAT HAS BEEN FOUND, FOR GREAT IS THE WRATH OF THE LORD THAT IS AROUSED AGAINST US, BECAUSE OUR FATHERS HAVE NOT OBEYED THE WORDS OF THIS BOOK, TO DO ACCORDING TO ALL THAT IS WRITTEN CONCERNING US.” IN ROMANS 2:4-5 MENTIONS “OR DO YOU DESPISE THE RICHES OF HIS GOODNESS, FORBEARANCE, AND LONGSUFFERING, NOT KNOWING THAT THE GOODNESS OF GOD LEADS YOU TO REPENTANCE? BUT IN ACCORDANCE WITH YOUR HARDNESS AND YOUR IMPENITENT HEART YOU ARE TREASURING UP FOR YOURSELF WRATH IN THE DAY OF WRATH AND REVELATION OF THE RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT OF GOD.” IN ROMANS 2:8 SAYS “BUT TO THOSE WHO ARE SELF-SEEKING AND DO NOT OBEY THE TRUTH, BUT OBEY UNRIGHTEOUSNESS—INDIGNATION AND WRATH…” FOR THE LORD JESUS CHRIST THE SON OF GOD SATISFIED THE FATHER STEPHEN’S WRATH ON SINNERS IN ROMANS 1:21-32; 2:4-5, 8; 3:25-26; 5:9-10; 6:23; 9:22; 12:19; EPHESIANS 5:6; GALATIANS 5:19-21; COLOSSIANS 3:6; 1ST THESSALONIANS 1:10; 2:16; 5:9; HEBREWS 1:9; 2:5-18; 3:11; 5:14; REVELATION 6:16-17; 19:15; DEUTERONOMY 9:7-8, 22; 11:17; 29:23, 28; HOSEA 13:14; EXODUS 32:10-12; NUMBERS 11:33; 2ND TIMOTHY 1:10; ZECHARIAH 8:14; PSALMS 21:9; 89:46; 103:8-9; 106:40; PROVERBS 11:4; EZEKIEL 22:21, 31; 38:19; HABAKKUK 3:2 AND 2ND PETER 3:9-10. FOR THE LORD JOHN THE BROTHER (HOLY GHOST OF GOD) SATISFIED THE FATHER STEPHEN’S ANGER ON SINNERS IN DEUTERONOMY 6:15; 7:4; 9:19; 13:17; 29:20, 23-24, 27-28; 31:17, 29; 32:16, 21-22; NUMBERS 11:1, 10; 12:9; 22:22; 25:3-4; 32:10, 13-14; PROVERBS 5:5-6; 7:22-23; 9:18. THE LORD JAMES THE LAW OF GOD SATISFIED THE FATHER STEPHEN’S RAGE IN WISDOM OF SOLOMON 4:20-5:23; 11:17-20; SIRACH 36:1-17; 2ND PETER 2:4; GENESIS 6:1-5; JOB 4:18; ISAIAH 24:21 AND HABAKKUK 3:2. THE LORD STEPHEN THE FATHER ABOVE ALL SATISFIED THE  LORD YAH’S FURY IN PSALMS 86:13; TOBIT 13:2; HABAKKUK 3:2; SIRACH 41:4; BARUCH 1:13; JOB 20:23; ISAIAH 42:25; 51:17, 20, 22; 59:18; 63:3; 66:15; JEREMIAH 4:4; 6:11; 7:20; 10:25; 21:5, 12; 23:19; 25:15; 30:23; 32:37; 33:5; 36:7; 42:18; 44:6; LAMENTATIONS 2:4; 4:11; EZEKIEL 5:15; 6:12; 7:8; 8:18; 9:8; 13:13; 14:19; 16:38; 19:12; 20:8, 13, 21, 33-34; 22:20, 22; 24:8, 13; 25:14; 30:15; 36:6, 18; 38:18 AND NAHUM 1:6. FOR THE LORD JOHN OUR BROTHER THE HOLY GHOST OF GOD CONCERNING THE WHOLE OLD WORLD FROM GENESIS-4 MACCABEES, LORD JESUS CHRIST THE SON OF GOD CONCERNING THE WHOLE NEW WORLD FROM MATTHEW-REVELATION AND LORD JAMES THE CHRISTIAN LAW OF GOD FROM LUKE-ACTS  SATISFIES TOTALLY THE LORD STEPHEN THE FATHER OF GOD’S POSITION. THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD CONCERNING THE WHOLE KINGDOM OF GOD IN ACTS ONLY SATISFIES THE LORD YAHWEH (JEHOVAH) THE CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN’S POSITION. IN ROMANS 9:22-23 DECLARES “WHAT IF GOD, WANTING TO SHOW HIS WRATH AND TO MAKE HIS POWER KNOWN, ENDURED WITH MUCH LONGSUFFERING THE VESSELS  OF  WRATH  PREPARED  FOR  DESTRUCTION, AND  THAT  HE MIGHT MAKE KNOWN THE RICHES OF HIS GLORY ON THE VESSELS OF MERCY, WHICH HE HAD PREPARED BEFOREHAND FOR GLORY…” IN ACTS 7:54-60 CONCERNS THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD DID SATISFY THE LORD YAH’S FURY ON THE LAW COMMITTING THE ETERNAL SIN IN LORDSHIP. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON WRATH, YOU MUST GET MY BOOK CALLED “THE LORD YAH AND HIS BOOK ON HELL IN THE HOLY BIBLE.”       HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS (JUSTICE) IS PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. GOD ALWAYS DOES IMPARTIAL JUSTICE, UPRIGHTNESS, BEING THE JUST ONE AND TRUE JUDGMENT TO HIS CREATIONS AND HE IS ALWAYS RIGHTEOUS. IN DEUTERONOMY 32:4 SAYS “HE IS THE ROCK, HIS WORK IS PERFECT, FOR ALL HIS WAYS ARE JUSTICE, A GOD OF TRUTH AND WITHOUT INJUSTICE, RIGHTEOUS AND UPRIGHT IS HE.” IN PSALMS 19:8 STATES “THE STATUTES OF THE LORD ARE RIGHT, REJOICING THE HEART. THE COMMANDMENT OF THE LORD IS PURE, ENLIGHTENING THE EYES.” IN ISAIAH 45:19 MENTIONS “I HAVE NOT SPOKEN IN SECRET, IN A DARK PLACE OF THE EARTH. I DID NOT SAY TO THE SEED OF JACOB, SEEK ME IN VAIN. I, THE LORD, SPEAK RIGHTEOUSNESS, I DECLARE THINGS THAT ARE RIGHT.” IN ROMANS 3:25-26 SAYS “WHOM GOD SET FORTH AS A PROPITIATION BY HIS BLOOD, THROUGH FAITH, TO DEMONSTRATE HIS (FATHER STEPHEN HAS NO UNRIGHTEOUSNESS IN HIM IS PROVEN IN JOHN 7:18) RIGHTEOUSNESS, BECAUSE IN HIS FORBEARANCE GOD HAD PASSED OVER THE SINS THAT WERE PREVIOUSLY COMMITTED, TO DEMONSTRATE AT THE PRESENT TIME HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, THAT HE MIGHT BE JUST AND THE JUSTIFIER OF THE ONE WHO HAS FAITH IN JESUS.” IN ROMANS 9:20-21 STATES “BUT INDEED, O MAN, WHO ARE YOU TO REPLY AGAINST GOD? WILL THE THING FORMED SAY TO HIM WHO FORMED IT, ‘WHY HAVE YOU MADE ME LIKE THIS?’ DOES NOT THE POTTER HAVE POWER OVER THE CLAY, FROM THE SAME LUMP TO MAKE ONE VESSEL FOR HONOR AND ANOTHER FOR DISHONOR?” IN JOB 40:2 SAYS “SHALL THE ONE WHO CONTENDS WITH THE ALMIGHTY CORRECT HIM? HE WHO REBUKES GOD, LET HIM ANSWER IT.” IN JOB 40:8 DECLARES “WOULD YOU INDEED ANNUL MY JUDGMENT? WOULD YOU CONDEMN ME THAT YOU MAY BE JUSTIFIED?” IN JOB 38:12 MENTIONS “HAVE YOU COMMANDED THE MORNING SINCE YOUR DAYS BEGAN, AND CAUSED THE DAWN TO KNOW ITS PLACE…” IN JOB 38:34-35 SAYS “CAN YOU LIFT UP YOUR VOICE TO THE CLOUDS, THAT AN ABUNDANCE OF WATER MAY COVER YOU? CAN YOU SEND OUT LIGHTENING, THAT THEY MAY GO AND SAY TO YOU, ‘HERE WE ARE!’” IN JOB 39:19 STATES “HAVE YOU GIVEN THE HORSE STRENGTH? HAVE YOU CLOTHED HIS NECK WITH THUNDER (MANE)?” IN JOB 39:26 DECLARES “DOES THE HAWK FLY BY YOUR WISDOM, AND SPREAD ITS WINGS TOWARD THE SOUTH?” IN JOB 40:4 SAYS “BEHOLD, I AM VILE, WHAT SHALL I ANSWER YOU? I LAY MY HAND OVER MY MOUTH.” IN PSALMS 5:8 STATES “LEAD ME, O LORD, IN THY RIGHTEOUSNESS BECAUSE OF MINE ENEMIES, MAKE THY WAY STRAIGHT BEFORE MY FACE.” IN PSALMS 7:17 SAYS “I WILL PRAISE THE LORD ACCORDING TO HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS…” IN PSALMS 11:7 STATES “FOR THE LORD IS RIGHTEOUS, HE LOVES RIGHTEOUSNESS, HIS COUNTENANCE BEHOLDS THE UPRIGHT.” IN PSALMS 24:5 TELLS US “HE SHALL RECEIVE THE BLESSING FORM THE LORD, AND RIGHTEOUSNESS FROM THE GOD OF HIS SALVATION.” IN PSALMS 31:1 MENTIONS “…IN THEE, O LORD, I PUT MY TRUST, LET ME NEVER BE ASHAMED: DELIVER ME IN THY RIGHTEOUSNESS.” IN PSALMS 33:5 SAYS “HE (AGAPE) LOVES RIGHTEOUSNESS AND JUSTICE: THE EARTH IS FULL OF THE GOODNESS OF THE LORD.” IN PSALMS 35:24 DECLARES “JUDGE ME, O LORD MY GOD, ACCORDING TO THY RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND LET THEM NOT REJOICE OVER ME.” IN PSALMS 50:6 DECLARES “AND THE HEAVENS SHALL DECLARE HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS: FOR GOD IS JUDGE HIMSELF. SELAH.” IN PSALMS 71:16 SAYS “I WILL GO IN THE STRENGTH OF THE LORD GOD: I WILL MAKE MENTION OF THY RIGHTEOUSNESS, EVEN OF THINE ONLY.” IN PSALMS 71:19 TELLS US “THY RIGHTEOUSNESS ALSO, O GOD, IS VERY HIGH, WHO HAS DONE GREAT THINGS: O GOD, WHO IS LIKE UNTO THEE!” IN PSALMS 103:17 SAYS “…AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS UNTO CHILDREN’S CHILDREN.” IN PSALMS 111:3 MENTIONS “HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS ENDURES FOREVER.” ALSO, THE SIMILAR SCRIPTURES ARE IN PSALMS 112:3, 9. IN PSALMS 119:142 SAYS “TSADDE. THY RIGHTEOUSNESS IS AN EVERLASTING RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND THY LAW IS THE TRUTH.” IN PSALMS 119:144 SAYS “TSADDE. THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THY TESTIMONIES IS EVERLASTING: GIVE ME UNDERSTANDING AND I SHALL LIVE.” IN PSALMS 199:172 STATES “TAU. MY TONGUE SHALL SPEAK OF THY WORD: FOR ALL THY COMMANDMENTS ARE RIGHTEOUSNESS.” IN PSALMS 143:1 SAYS “HEAR MY PRAYER, O LORD, GIVER EAR TO MY SUPPLICATIONS: IN THY FAITHFULNESS ANSWER ME, AND IN THY RIGHTEOUSNESS.” IN PSALMS 143:11 DECLARES “QUICKEN ME, O LORD, FOR THY NAME’S SAKE: FOR THY RIGHTEOUSNESS’ SAKE BRING MY SOUL OUT OF TROUBLE.” IN ISAIAH 33:5 TELLS US “…LORD IS EXALTED…HE HAS FILLED ZION WITH…RIGHTEOUSNESS.” IN ISAIAH 42:21 SAYS “THE LORD IS WELL PLEASED FOR HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS’ SAKE, HE WILL MAGNIFY THE LAW, & MAKE IT HONORABLE.” IN JEREMIAH 4:2 SAYS “… THE LORD LIVES…IN RIGHTEOUSNESS…” IN JEREMIAH 23:6 DECLARES “IN HIS DAYS JUDAH SHALL BE SAVED, AND ISRAEL SHALL DWELL SAFELY…HIS NAME WHEREBY HE SHALL BE CALLED: THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.” ALSO, THE SCRIPTURE IS IN JEREMIAH 33:16. IN ROMANS 3:21 STATES “BUT NOW THE RIGHTEOUSNESS WITHOUT THE LAW IS MANIFESTED, BEING WITNESSED BY THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS.” IN ROMANS 3:22 TELLS US “EVEN THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD WHICH IS BY FAITH OF JESUS CHRIST UNTO ALL AND UPON ALL THEM THAT BELIEVE, FOR THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE.” IN HEBREWS 1:8 SAYS “…THY THRONE, O GOD, IS FOREVER AND EVER: SCEPTER OF RIGHTEOUSNESS IS THE SCEPTER OF THY KINGDOM.” IN JAMES 2:23 STATES “…ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS IMPUTED UNTO HIM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS: AND HE WAS CALLED THE FRIEND OF GOD.” IN ACTS 6:8-7:53 CONCERNS THE FATHER STEPHEN’S RIGHTEOUSNESS AND IMPARTIAL JUSTICE TO JUDGE THE WHOLE LORDSHIP OF THE LAW. ALSO, THE FATHER STEPHEN’S RIGHTEOUSNESS IS IN WISDOM OF SOLOMON 5:18 AND JOHN 7:18.       HIS PEACE IS PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. GOD IS A GOD OF ORDER AND THE WICKED HAS NO PEACE. IN HEBREWS 13:20 SAYS “NOW THE GOD (FATHER STEPHEN OR LORD) OF PEACE WHO BROUGHT UP THE LORD JESUS FROM THE DEAD, THAT GREAT SHEPHERD OF THE SHEEP, THROUGH THE BLOOD OF THE EVERLASTING COVENANT, MAKE YOU COMPLETE IN EVERY GOOD WORK TO DO HIS WILL, WORKING IN YOU WHAT IS WELL PLEASING IN HIS SIGHT, THROUGH JESUS CHRIST, TO WHOM BE GLORY FOREVER AND EVER. AMEN.” IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 14:33 STATES “FOR GOD IS NOT THE AUTHOR OF CONFUSION BUT OF PEACE, AS IN ALL THE CHURCHES OF THE SAINTS (LORDS)…” IN ROMANS 8:6 TELLS US “FOR TO BE CARNALLY MINDED IS DEATH, BUT TO BE SPIRITUALLY MINDED IS LIFE AND PEACE.” IN ROMANS 14:17 DECLARES “FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS NOT EATING AND DRINKING, BUT RIGHTEOUSNESS AND PEACE AND JOY IN THE HOLY SPIRIT.” IN ROMANS 15:33 MENTIONS “NOW THE GOD OF PEACE BE WITH YOU ALL. AMEN.” IN ROMANS 16:20 SAYS “AND THE GOD OF PEACE WILL CRUSH SATAN UNDER YOUR FEET SHORTLY.” IN PHILIPPIANS 4:9 DECLARES “THE THINGS WHICH YOU LEARNED AND RECEIVED AND HEARD AND SAW IN ME, THESE DO, AND THE GOD OF PEACE WILL BE WITH YOU.” IN 1ST THESSALONIANS 5:23 STATES “NOW MAY THE GOD OF PEACE HIMSELF SANCTIFY YOU COMPLETELY, AND MAY YOUR WHOLE SPIRIT, SOUL AND BODY BE PRESERVED BLAMELESS AT THE COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.” IN EPHESIANS 2:14 TELLS US “FOR HE HIMSELF IS OUR PEACE, WHO HAS MADE BOTH ONE, AND HAS BROKEN DOWN THE MIDDLE WALL OF SEPARATION.” IN 2ND THESSALONIANS 3:16 STATES “NOW MAY THE LORD OF PEACE HIMSELF GIVE YOU PEACE ALWAYS IN EVERY WAY. THE LORD BE WITH YOU ALL.” IN ISAIAH 9:6-7 SAYS “FOR UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN UNTO US A SON IS GIVEN, AND THE GOVERNMENT WILL BE UPON HIS SHOULDER, AND HIS NAME WILL BE CALLED WONDERFUL (LORD PETER WITH THE THRONE OF THE BEGINNING ISRAEL), COUNSELOR (LORD JOHN WITH THE THRONE OF SAUL), MIGHTY GOD (LORD JAMES WITH THE THRONE OF REHOBOAM), EVERLASTING FATHER (LORD STEPHEN WITH THE THRONE OF SOLOMON), PRINCE OF PEACE (LORD JESUS CHRIST WITH THE THRONE OF DAVID). OF THE INCREASE OF HIS GOVERNMENT AND PEACE, THERE WILL BE NO END, UPON THE THRONE OF DAVID AND OVER HIS KINGDOM, TO ORDER IT AND ESTABLISH IT WITH JUDGMENT AND JUSTICE FROM THAT TIME FORWARD, EVEN FOREVER.” IN ISAIAH 26:3 MENTIONS “YOU WILL KEEP HIM IN PERFECT PEACE, WHOSE MIND IS STAYED ON YOU, BECAUSE HE TRUSTS IN YOU, TRUST IN THE LORD FOREVER, FOR IN YAH, THE LORD, IS EVERLASTING STRENGTH.” IN ISAIAH 48:22 TELLS US “’THERE IS NO PEACE,’ SAYS THE LORD, FOR THE WICKED.” IN ISAIAH 57:19 SAYS “I CREATE THE FRUIT OF THE LIPS: PEACE, PEACE TO HIM WHO IS FAR OFF AND TO HIM WHO IS NEAR, SAYS THE LORD, AND I WILL HEAL HIM.” IN ISAIAH 57:21 STATES “’THERE IS NO PEACE,’ SAYS MY GOD, FOR THE WICKED.” IN ISAIAH 59:8 SAYS “THE WAY OF PEACE THEY HAVE NOT KNOWN, AND THERE IS NO JUSTICE IN THEIR WAYS. THEY HAVE MADE THEMSELVES CROOKED PATHS, WHOEVER TAKES THAT WAY SHALL NOT KNOW PEACE.” IN PSALMS 29:11 TELLS US “THE LORD WILL GIVE STRENGTH TO HIS PEOPLE THE LORD WILL BLESS HIS PEOPLE WITH PEACE.” IN PSALMS 85:8 SAYS “I WILL HEAR WHAT GOD THE LORD WILL SPEAK, FOR HE WILL SPEAK PEACE TO HIS PEOPLE AND TO HIS SAINTS (LORDS), BUT LET THEM NOT TURN BACK TO FOLLY.” IN PSALMS 119:165 DECLARES “GREAT PEACE HAS THOSE WHO (AGAPE) LOVE YOUR LAW, AND NOTHING CAUSES THEM TO STUMBLE.” IN PSALMS 121:4 SAYS “BEHOLD, HE WHO KEEPS ISRAEL SHALL NEITHER SLUMBER NOR SLEEP.” IN PROVERBS 3:17 STATES “HER WAYS ARE WAYS OF PLEASANTNESS, AND ALL HER PATHS ARE PEACE.” IN JOHN 14:27 SAYS “PEACE I LEAVE WITH YOU, MY PEACE I GIVE TO YOU, NOT AS THE WORLD GIVES DO, I GIVE TO YOU. LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED, NEITHER LET IT BE AFRAID.” IN GALATIANS 5:22-23 STATES “BUT THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT IS…PEACE.” IN ACTS 9:31 SAYS THE CHURCH HAD PEACE & WAS BUILT UP.” IN ACTS 7:47-50 IS THE FATHER STEPHEN’S PEACE THAT WAS OBTAINED BEING GREATER THAN KING SOLOMON. HIS INFINITUDE IS PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. GOD IS INFINITE, CANNOT BE CONTAINED AND HE KNOWS NO BOUNDARIES AND HE IS WITHOUT MEASURE. IN ACTS 7:47-50 DECLARES “BUT SOLOMON BUILT HIM A HOUSE. HOWEVER, THE MOST HIGH (STEPHEN) DOES NOT DWELL IN TEMPLES MADE WITH HANDS, AS THE PROPHET SAYS, ‘HEAVEN IS MY THRONE AND EARTH IS MY FOOTSTOOL. WHAT HOUSE WILL YOU BUILD FOR ME? SAYS THE LORD, OR WHAT IS THE PLACE OF MY REST? HAS MY HAND NOT MADE ALL THESE THINGS?” IN ACTS 17:24-25 SAYS “GOD, WHO MADE THE WORLD AND EVERYTHING IN IT, SINCE HE IS LORD OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, DOES NOT DWELL IN TEMPLES MADE WITH HANDS, NOR IS WORSHIPPED WITH MEN’S HANDS, AS THOUGH HE NEEDED ANYTHING, SINCE HE GIVES TO ALL LIFE, BREATH AND ALL THINGS.” IN 2ND CHRONICLES 2:6 DECLARES “BUT WHO IS ABLE TO BUILD HIM A TEMPLE, SINCE HEAVEN AND THE HEAVEN OF HEAVENS CANNOT CONTAIN HIM? WHO AM I THEN, THAT I SHOULD BUILD HIM A TEMPLE, EXCEPT TO BURN SACRIFICES BEFORE HIM? SOME OTHER SCRIPTURES ARE IN 1ST KINGS 8:27; 2ND CHRONICLES 6:18 AND JOHN 21:25. IN PSALMS 147:5 SAYS “GREAT IS OUR LORD, AND OF GREAT POWER: HIS UNDERSTANDING IS INFINITE.” IN SIRACH 30:15 STATES “…A STRONG (ROBUST) BODY ABOVE INFINITE WEALTH.” IN PR OF MAN 1:7 TELLS US “FOR THOU ART THE MOST HIGH LORD (FATHER STEPHEN)…AND OF THINE INFINITE MERCIES HAS APPOINTED REPENTANCE UNTO SINNERS…” IN 2ND ESDRAS 8:21 SAYS “WHOSE THRONE (FATHER STEPHEN’S) IS INESTIMABLE, WHOSE GLORY MAY NOT BE COMPREHENDED, BEFORE THE HOST OF ANGELS (LORDS) STAND WITH TREMBLING.” IN ACTS 7:49 CONCERNS THE FATHER STEPHEN’S HOUSE BEING BUILT THAT CANNOT BE CONTAINED BY SOLOMON SINCE KING SOLOMON RAISED THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD ON HIS THRONE IN PROVERBS 8:22-25 (RSV).  HIS INFALLIBILITY IS PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. GOD IS WITHOUT MISTAKES FOR HE CANNOT MAKE A MISTAKE IN ANYTHING. IN ACTS 1:3 DECLARES “TO WHOM HE (FATHER STEPHEN) ALSO PRESENTED HIMSELF ALIVE AFTER HIS SUFFERING BY MANY INFALLIBLE PROOFS, BEING SEEN BY THEM DURING 40 DAYS AND SPEAKING OF THE THINGS PERTAINING TO THE KINGDOM OF GOD.” IN ACTS 7:1-7:53 CONCERNS THE FATHER STEPHEN’S SPEECH WITHOUT ANY MISTAKES. THE DEFINITION OF THE FATHER STEPHEN’S INFALLIBILITY IS THAT IT IS ALWAYS WITHOUT MISTAKES BECAUSE HE IS THE ONLY DIVINE SOURCE & SUPREME AUTHORITY OF ALL THE HOLY SCRIPTURES IN JOHN 1:1-3; HEBREWS 1:1-3 & ROMANS 13:1-2. IN 2ND TIMOTHY 3:16 DECLARES “ALL SCRIPTURE IS GIVEN BY INSPIRATION OF GOD, AND IS PROFITABLE FOR DOCTRINE, FOR REPROOF, FOR CORRECTION, FOR INSTRUCTION IN RIGHTEOUSNESS…” THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF LANGUAGES AND NATIONALITIES OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD IS NOT AFFECTED BY THE ORIGINAL HEBREW & ORIGINAL GREEK SINCE THE COMING OF THE ETERNAL KINGDOM OF LORDSHIP IN ACTS 2:1-11; 10:1-8, 17-48; 11:11-18. YET THE INFALLIBILITY OF THE COPIES OF THE HOLY BIBLE DOES NOT MEAN THE BIBLICAL INSPIRATION OR THE PROPHETIC STYLE EXTENDS BEYOND THE BIBLICAL WRITERS TO THE TRANSLATORS OF THE COPYISTS OF THE TRANSMITTED ORIGINALS OR TO THE INTERPRETERS OF THE HOLY BIBLE. THE GOSPEL DOGMA MUST BE CONFORMED TO THE FATHER STEPHEN’S SPIRIT OF TRUTH THAT WAS AUTHORIZED TO HIS APOSTLES AS A DIVINE GUIDE TO THE EXPOSITION OF THE FATHER STEPHEN’S WORK IN HIS JESUS CHRIST. THERE IS NOT CONSIDERATION OR BASIS TO EXTEND THAT AUTHORITY TO ANY OF THE OTHER TEACHING HIERARCHIES OF THE ROMAN CHURCH OR ANY OTHER DENOMINATION. ALSO, IT IS NOT AUTHORIZED TO THE TRANSLATORS OF THE HOLY BIBLE INTO NEW LANGUAGES OR TO THE DIVINE WORK OF THE COPYISTS WHO PREPARED THE ANCIENT MANUSCRIPTS OF THE APOSTOLIC ORIGINALS. THE INFALLIBILITY OF THE COPIES DOES NOT MEAN THE COPIERS ARE TOTALLY INERRANT IN NATURE. INERRANCY IS A DIVINELY SAFEKEEPING QUALITY OF THE PROPHETIC APOSTOLIC AUTOGRAPHS AND WAS A DIVINE REVELATION INSPIRED OF THE SPECIAL ACTIVITY SOLELY DONE BY THE SUPERVISION OF THE FATHER STEPHEN’S HOLY GHOST IN WHICH THE HOLY GHOST SAFEGUARDED THE HOLY WRITERS FROM ANY ERROR BY INSTRUCTING THEM A KIND OF HOLY STYLE USED FROM THE CHOICE OF WORDS THEY USED. THIS INSPIRATION ONLY REFERS TO THE ORIGINAL WRITINGS, BUT NOT TO TRANSCRIPTS OR TRANSLATIONS. SOME OF THE EARLY COPIES CONTAINED ERRORS, BUT THIS DOES NOT MEAN ALL OF THEM. THE VOCATIONAL EXPERTISE WERE PROFICIENT BY THE COPYISTS IN MANY OF THE EARLY TRANSCRIPTS, BY PERFECTLY DUPLICATING THE AUTOGRAPHS, BUT THIS IS NOT A RESULT OF DIVINE INSPIRATION. THE INFALLIBILITY OF THE COPIES DOES NOT MEAN IT IS THE PERSONAL INFALLIBILITY OF THE COPYISTS. THIS IS NOT A CLAIM FOR THE COPYISTS INDIVIDUAL INFALLIBILITY, NOR FOR THE DIVINE INERRANCY AS A PERSONAL PROPERTY OF THE APOSTLES AND PROPHETS. THE HOLY COPIES HAS INFALLIBILITY AND RELIABILITY BY THEIR PREDECESSOR OF THE ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPHS. THIS DOES NOT MEAN IT IS BECAUSE OF ANY PERSONAL RELIABILITY OF HUMAN AGENTS WHO HAVE THE TASK OF TRANSCRIBING HOLY SCRIPTURE. THE INFALLIBILITY OF THE COPIES DOES NOT MEAN AN EQUALITY OF ALL THE HOLY TEXTS, TRANSLATIONS OR VERSIONS.  MANY OF THE VERSIONS ARE “DEFECTIVE VERSIONS” IN THE LIGHT OF SUPERIOR SOURCES. THIS MEANS MOST VERSIONS ARE CORRUPTED WITH INNUMERABLE ERRORS. WE MUST CONCLUDE TO THE ORIGINALS IF ALL POSSIBLE FOR THE DIVINE INSPIRATION & TRUTH OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURE.           THE DEFINITION OF THE FATHER STEPHEN’S INERRANCY IS THAT THE HOLY SCRIPTURES, WHICH ARE THE FATHER STEPHEN’S AND PROCEEDS FROM THE FATHER STEPHEN IS EXEMPT FROM THE LIABILITY TO ANY MISTAKES AND ARE INCAPABLE OF ANY ERRORS. IN ALL HIS TEACHING THEY ARE PERFECT IN ACCORD WITH ALL INSPIRED BIBLICAL TRUTHS, SOLELY FROM HIS OWN HOLY GHOST IN JOHN 14:26; 15:26; 16:13. PLENARY INSPIRATION IS ALWAYS OPPOSED TO PARTIAL INSPIRATION. PLENARY INSPIRATION MEANS ALL THE DIVISIONS OF HOLY SCRIPTURE IN THE FULLEST CONTEXT OF THE HISTORICAL, PHYSICS, GEOGRAPHICAL, CHRONOLOGICAL, AS WELL AS DOCTRINE WERE ALL COMPOSED UNDER THE INFALLIBLE & INERRANT INSTRUCTION OF THE FATHER STEPHEN’S OWN HOLY GHOST. THE FULL INSPIRATION IS KNOWN AS PLENUS. THE PARTIAL INSPIRATION TRIES TO LIMIT THE OPERATION OF THE FATHER STEPHEN’S OWN HOLY GHOST, BY TRYING TO PUT A STRAGGLE HOLD TO THE DOCTRINAL PART OF HIS HOLY BIBLE, LEAVING THE OTHER PARTS TO INTENTIONAL OR UNINTENTIONAL ERRORS OR MISTAKES. VERBAL INSPIRATION CAN OPERATE IN BOTH AREAS OR SEPARATE FROM EACH OTHER. PLENARY INSPIRATION ALWAYS CONFIRMS THAT THE LANGUAGE IS ALSO INSPIRED, BUT IF IT IS DENIED WILL DEEM WORTHY OF PARTIAL INSPIRATION. THE APPROVAL OR DISAPPROVAL SOLELY DEPENDS ON THE NATURE OF LANGUAGE AND ITS ORIGIN OF THOUGHT.  THE CREATURE WHO RESPECTS THE HOLY SCRIPTURE AS NATURAL AND NECESSARY WILL ALSO HOLD THAT THOUGHTS DOES SUGGEST WORDS THAT CAN HOLD INSPIRED THOUGHTS EXPRESSED IN A INSPIRED LANGUAGE. THE CREATURE WHO RESPECTS THE HOLY SCRIPTURE AS ARTIFICIAL AND ARBITRARY WILL ONLY HOLD THAT THE THOUGHT IS INSPIRED. THIS RUNS INTO PROBLEMS WITH CANONICITY. WHICH BOOKS ARE INSPIRED BY THE FATHER STEPHEN? IT IS IMPORTANT FOR EVERY CREATURE TO DETERMINE WHICH BOOKS THE FATHER STEPHEN INSPIRED AND WHICH THE FATHER STEPHEN MADE AUTHORITATIVE. THE WORD CANON COMES FROM A WORD IN THE GREEK CALLED KANON AND FROM THE HEBREW WORD QANEH WHICH MEANS “MEASURING ROD.” NO CREATURE EVER HAD THE AUTHORITY TO MAKE THE BOOKS INSPIRED AT NO TIME IN HISTORY. ONLY THE FATHER STEPHEN HAS THE AUTHORITY TO MAKE THE BOOKS INSPIRED IN ROMANS 13:1-2. THE FATHER STEPHEN CAN MAKE ALL THE BOOKS INSPIRED, INCLUDING THE OT—OLD TESTAMENT (43 BOOKS), MT—APOCRYPHAL MIDDLE TESTAMENT (20 BOOKS), NT—NEW TESTAMENT (27 BOOKS) AND THE ANCIENT MANUSCRIPTS—THE LOST BOOKS OF THE NT (47 BOOKS MENTIONED LATER ON IN THIS BOOK) IF IT IS SOLELY DONE BY THE FATHER STEPHEN AND DOES NOT LIMIT HIS OWN HOLY GHOST BY THE ETERNAL CREATURES IGNORANCE, WHICH IS ALWAYS UNAUTHORIZED BY THE REST OF HIS ETERNAL CREATURES IF ETERNAL IGNORANCE IS IN QUESTION AGAINST THE FATHER STEPHEN’S COMMAND.           WHAT IS TRUTH? THE FATHER STEPHEN IS THE ESSENCE OF TRUTH AND THIS QUALITY SHOULD BE REFLECTED IN THE CHARACTER OF HIS DIVINE CREATURES. LIES IS DAMNED IN LEGAL CONTEXTS, BUT TRUTH IS ALWAYS PRAISED AND ADVOCATED. THE FATHER STEPHEN TAKES PLEASURE IN HONESTY AND TRUTH FROM HIS UPRIGHT CREATURES. TRUTH ORIGINATED WITH THE FATHER STEPHEN IN PSALMS 25:5; 26:3; 43:3; 86:11; ISAIAH 65:16 & DANIEL 9:13. TRUTH IS AN ASPECT OF THE FATHER STEPHEN’S CHARACTER: IT IS DEMONSTRATED IN HIS FAITHFULNESS AND RELIABILITY IS IN NUMBERS 23:19; PSALMS 31:5; 33:4; 40:10-11; 119:160; 1ST SAMUEL 15:29; ISAIAH 45:19; JEREMIAH 10:10; DANIEL 10:21 & MICAH 7:20. IT IS DEMONSTRATED IN HIS JUSTICE AND MERCY IS IN PSALMS 96:13; 119:30, 43-44, 142, 151. TRUTH SHOULD BE REFLECTED IN THE CHARACTER OF THE FATHER STEPHEN’S CREATURES IS IN ZECHARIAH 7:9; 8:3, 16, 19; 1ST KINGS 17:22-24; PSALMS 15:1-5; 51:6; 145:18; PROVERBS 23:23; JEREMIAH 4:2; 5:1 & MALACHI 2:6. ABSENCE OF HIS TRUTH IN THE HUMAN CHARACTER DISPLEASES THE FATHER STEPHEN IS IN ISAIAH 48:1; 59:14-15 & JEREMIAH 5:3; 7:28; 9:3. TRUTH AS AN ABSTRACT QUALITY IS IN PSALMS 45:4; PROVERBS 23:23 & DANIEL 8:12. TRUTH IS THE OPPOSITE OF A LIE IS IN PROVERBS 16:13; 1ST KINGS 17:24; 22:16; 2ND CHRONICLES 18:15; NEHEMIAH 6:6; PROVERBS 8:7; 12:17; ISAIAH 45:19 & ZECHARIAH 8:16. TRUTH IS SUBJECT TO INFALLIBLE PROOF IS IN GENESIS 42:14-16; DEUTERONOMY 13:12-15; 17:2-5; 19:16-19; 22:20-21; 1ST KINGS 10:6-7; 2ND CHRONICLES 9:5-6 & JOB 5:27. TRUTH IS COMMENDED IN HOLY SCRIPTURE IS IN PROVERBS 12:19, 22; 13:5; 14:25; 19:5, 9; EXODUS 20:16; 23:1, 7; DEUTERONOMY 5:20; EPHESIANS 4:25 & REVELATION 22:14-15. THE LACK OF TRUTH IS A CHARACTERISTIC OF A SEXUAL APOSTASY IS IN JEREMIAH 7:28; PSALMS 52:1-4; ISAIAH 59:12-15; JEREMIAH 9:5-6 & AMOS 5:10. TRUTH AS AN EXPRESSION OF AFFIRMATION IS IN DANIEL 11:2; JOSHUA 7:20; RUTH 3:12; 2ND KINGS 19:17; JEREMIAH 26:15; MATTHEW 5:18; 8:10; 21:21; MARK 8:12; 14:30; JOHN 3:3; 8:51; 21:18 & LUKE 4:24; 21:32. AMEN AS A LITURGICAL AFFIRMATION OF TRUTH: OF OATHS AND CURSES IS IN NUMBERS 5:22; DEUTERONOMY 27:15-26; NEHEMIAH 5:13 & JEREMIAH 11:5. OF BENEDICTIONS AND DOXOLOGIES IS IN 1ST CHRONICLES 16:36; NEHEMIAH 8:6 & PSALMS 41:13; 72:19; 89:52; 106:48. IN GENERAL USE IS IN JEREMIAH 28:6 & 1ST KINGS 1:32-37. IN THE NT IS IN ROMANS 1:25; 9:5; 11:36; MATTHEW 6:13; 1ST CORINTHIANS 14:16; 2ND CORINTHIANS 1:20; GALATIANS 6:18; PHILIPPIANS 4:20; 1ST TIMOTHY 1:17; HEBREWS 13:20-21; 2ND PETER 3:18; JUDE 25 & REVELATION 1:6-7; 7:12; 22:20. TRUTH AS OPPOSED TO FALSEHOODS AND DOWNRIGHT LIES IS IN EPHESIANS 4:25; JOHN 3:33; 4:37; 18:23; ROMANS 1:18; 9:1; 1ST CORINTHIANS 15:54; 2ND CORINTHIANS 7:14; GALATIANS 4:16; TITUS 1:13; 2ND PETER 2:22; 1ST JOHN 2:4; 2ND JOHN 1-2 & ACTS 6:8-10; 7:1-53, 55-56, 59-60; 21:24; 24:8; 26:25. TRUTH AS REALITY IS IN HEBREWS 9:24; JOHN 1:9; 4:23; 17:3; EPHESIANS 4:24; 1ST THESSALONIANS 1:9; 1ST TIMOTHY 1:2; 3:2; HEBREWS 8:2; 12:8; 1ST PETER 5:12; 1ST JOHN 2:5, 8; 5:20 & REVELATION 19:9. TRUTH AS TRUSTWORTHY AFFIRMATIONS IS IN JOHN 6:47; MATTHEW 6:2; 10:23; 16:28; 19:23; 23:36; 26:13; MARK 9:41; 11:23; JOHN 1:51; 5:24-25; 8:34; 10:7; 16:7; PHILIPPIANS 1:15; 1ST TIMOTHY 3:9 & LUKE 12:44; 21:3. TRUTH AS FAITHFULNESS AND RELIABILITY: THE QUALITY OF TRUTH IS IN PHILIPPIANS 4:8; JOHN 1:17; 3:21; 4:24; 17:17; ROMANS 2:20; 1ST CORINTHIANS 5:8; 13:6; 2ND CORINTHIANS 13:8; EPHESIANS 5:9; 6:14 & 3RD JOHN 12. THE WHOLE TRUTH AS AN ASPECT OF THE DIVINE CHARACTER OF THE FATHER STEPHEN IS IN ROMANS 3:3-4, 7; 15:8; PSALMS 51:4; 1ST JOHN 5:20 & REVELATION 3:7, 14; 6:10; 15:3; 16:7; 19:2, 11. TRUTH AS A HUMAN QUALITY IS IN 1ST JOHN 1:8; JOHN 3:21; 7:18; EPHESIANS 4:15; PHILIPPIANS 1:18; REVELATION 2:13 & ACTS 11:23; 14:22. THE SON JESUS AS TRUTH IS IN JOHN 1:14; 14:6; 15:1; 18:37-38 & 1ST JOHN 5:20. THE BROTHER JOHN THE HOLY GHOST AS TRUTH IS IN JOHN 14:16-17; 15:26; 16:13 & 1ST JOHN 4:6; 5:6. THE GOSPEL KINGDOM AND THE SAINTLY CHRISTIAN FAITH AS TRUTH IS IN EPHESIANS 1:13; JOHN 8:31-32; 2ND CORINTHIANS 4:2; GALATIANS 2:5; COLOSSIANS 1:5; 1ST TIMOTHY 2:3-4; 4:6; 2ND TIMOTHY 2:18; 4:4; TITUS 1:1; JAMES 5:19; 2ND PETER 2:2; 1ST JOHN 3:19 & ACTS 20:30. THE FATHER STEPHEN IS THE ONLY ONE TRUE GOD: HE ALONE IS GOD IS IN JEREMIAH 10:10; DEUTERONOMY 4:39; 2ND CHRONICLES 15:3; ISAIAH 43:10-11; 45:5-6, 14, 21; ZECHARIAH 14:9; JOHN 1:18; 17:3 & REVELATION 6:10. THE CONTRAST WITH OTHER GODS IS IN ROMANS 1:25; EXODUS 15:11; DEUTERONOMY 4:35; 32:39; PSALMS 86:8; ISAIAH 43:3 & 1ST THESSALONIANS 1:9. THE CONTRAST WITH EARTHLY RULERS IS IN JEREMIAH 10:6-8. THE FATHER STEPHEN IS CHARACTERIZED BY TRUTH IS IN PSALMS 31:5; 40:10; 43:3; ISAIAH 65:16; JOHN 3:33; 7:28; 8:26; 1ST JOHN 5:20 & REVELATION 15:3. THE FATHER STEPHEN’S TRUTH IS DEMONSTRATED IN HIS OWN REVELATION OF HIMSELF OR IN HIS SON JESUS: THE FATHER STEPHEN IS THE WHOLE TRUTH IS IN JOHN 1:1-3; ROMANS 3:4; TITUS 1:2; HEBREWS 1:1-3; 6:18; JAMES 1:17 & ACTS 6:3, 5, 10; 7:1-53, 55-56, 69-60. THE SON JESUS IS TRUTH IS IN JOHN 14:6 & 1ST JOHN 5:20. THE SON JESUS & THE BROTHER JOHN THE HOLY GHOST BRINGS TRUTH IS IN JOHN 1:14; 14:16-17 & ROMANS 15:8. THE FATHER STEPHEN’S WORDS ARE ALWAYS TRUTHFUL: HIS WORDS ARE CONSISTENTLY TRUE, ACCURATE AND RELIABLE IS IN NUMBERS 23:19; 1ST SAMUEL 15:29; PSALMS 12:6; 33:4; 119:151, 160; ROMANS 3:4; TITUS 1:2; HEBREWS 6:18 & JAMES 1:17. HIS WORDS OF PROMISE ARE TOTALLY TRUE AND TRUSTWORTHY IS IN PSALMS 132:11; PSALMS 110:4; 2ND TIMOTHY 2:13 & HEBREWS 7:21. THE TRUE HOLY DIVISION IN LORDSHIP BETWEEN THE FATHER STEPHEN’S TRUTH AND ALL OTHER TRUTHS, SUCH AS THE TRUE HOLY DIVISION OF THE LORDSHIP OF THE LAW IS IN HEBREWS 4:12 (NKJV) & LUKE 11:17-23; 21:10. THE TRUE HOLY DIVISION BETWEEN THE FATHER STEPHEN’S TRUTH AND ALL OF THE LORD LUCIFER’S LIES IS IN JOHN 8:37-47. THE FATHER STEPHEN’S CREATURES LIVE IN THE LIGHT OF HIS TRUTH IS IN PSALMS 86:11; 26:3; 119:141-142; DANIEL 9:13 & JOHN 17:17. THIS CONCERNS 4 SPECIAL COURT ROOMS THAT THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD IMPARTIALLY JUDGES WITH IMPARTIAL JUSTICE IN 1ST PETER 1:17-21. THEY ARE THE ROYAL AGAPE LOVE COURT ROOM THAT IS PREDOMINATELY THE WHITE NATION ONLY WHICH IS DONE BY THE SUPREME LORDSHIP OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD WHICH CONCERNS THE 1ST DEATH WHICH IS ISRAEL ONLY IN ACTS CHAPTERS 1-7, THE ROYAL OMNI-BENEVOLENT COURT ROOM THAT IS OF THE BLACK NATION (THE 1ST DEATH & 2ND DEATH IS THE BLACK NATION IN ACTS CHAPTER 8) AND WHITE NATION TOGETHER WHICH IS DONE BY THE SUPREME LORDSHIP OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD IS IN ACTS CHAPTERS 8-9, THE ANCIENT OF DAYS COURT ROOM THAT IS PREDOMINATELY THE WHITE NATION ONLY WHICH IS DONE BY THE SUPREME LORDSHIP OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD IS IN ACTS CHAPTERS 9-22 AND THE GREAT WHITE THRONE COURT ROOM THAT IS PREDOMINATELY THE WHITE NATION ONLY WHICH IS DONE BY THE SUPREME LORDSHIP OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD CONCERNS THE 2ND DEATH WHICH IS EGYPT WHICH IS ALSO CALLED SODOM, BABYLON, BABEL, CONFUSION, CHAOS, SHINAR, SHISHAK & SOMETIMES ROME IS IN ACTS CHAPTERS 22-28. THE TRUTHFULNESS OF THE FATHER STEPHEN: THE TITLES REFLECTING THE FATHER STEPHEN’S TRUTHFULNESS: THE TRUE GOD AS THE FATHER STEPHEN IS IN 2ND CHRONICLES 15:3; JEREMIAH 10:10 & 1ST THESSALONIANS 1:9. THE GOD OF TRUTH AS THE FATHER STEPHEN IS IN PSALMS 31:5 & ISAIAH 65:16. THE SON JESUS CHRIST IS THE TRUTH IS IN JOHN 1:14, 17; 6:32; 14:6; 1ST JOHN 5:20 & REVELATION 3:7, 14. THE BROTHER JOHN THE HOLY GHOST IS THE TRUTH IS IN JOHN 14:17; 15:26; 16:13 & 1ST JOHN 4:6; 5:6. THE FATHER STEPHEN IS TRUE TO HIS DIVINE CHARACTER AND HIS INERRANT WORD: HE SPEAKS THE TRUTH IS IN ISAIAH 45:19; 2ND SAMUEL 7:28; PSALMS 33:4; 119:160; JOHN 17:17 & REVELATION 21:5; 22:6. HE DOES NOT LIE IS IN NUMBERS 23:19; ROMANS 3:4; 2ND TIMOTHY 2:13; TITUS 1:2 & HEBREWS 6:18. HE IS TRUE TO HIMSELF AND HIS DIVINE PROMISES IS IN DEUTERONOMY 32:4; PSALMS 25:10; 33:4; 145:13; 146:6; LAMENTATIONS 3:23; 2ND TIMOTHY 2:13. THE FATHER STEPHEN’S TRUE PROMISES: THE HOLY GHOST PROMISED TO THE SAINTLY CHRISTIAN LORDS IS IN ACTS 1:4-8. THE HOLY GHOST PROMISED TO HIS SON JESUS OUR LORD IS IN ACTS 2:31-33. THE HOLY GHOST GIVEN TO HIS SON JESUS OUR LORD IS IN ACTS 7:59. THE TRUTHFULNESS OF THE FATHER STEPHEN UNDERGIRDS AND GOVERNS THE INERRANT LAW IS IN PSALMS 19:7; 119:142, 151, 160 & MALACHI 2:6-7. THE TRUTHFULNESS OF THE FATHER STEPHEN UNDERGIRDS AND GOVERNS ALL 10 COVENANTS IS IN PSALMS 25:10; 145:13; HOSEA 2:19-20 & 2ND TIMOTHY 2:13. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON THE 10 COVENANTS, YOU MUST GET MY BOOK CALLED “THE GARDEN OF EDEN THAT THE LORD GOD CREATED.” THE TRUTHFULNESS OF THE FATHER STEPHEN UNDERGIRDS AND GOVERNS THE PROPHETIC WORD IS IN EZEKIEL 12:25; 33:33; ISAIAH 55:11; JEREMIAH 1:12; 28:9 & DANIEL 2:45. THE TRUTHFULNESS OF THE FATHER STEPHEN UNDERGIRDS AND GOVERNS HIS DIVINE PROMISES IS IN JOSHUA 23:14-15; NUMBERS 23:19; 1ST KINGS 8:20; PSALMS 105:42; ROMANS 4:20-21 & ACTS 1:4-8; 2:31-33; 7:59. THE TRUTHFULNESS OF THE FATHER STEPHEN UNDERGIRDS AND GOVERNS HIS IMPARTIAL JUDGMENT & HIS IMPARTIAL JUSTICE IS IN PSALMS 96:13; 98:9; ISAIAH 11:3-5; ROMANS 2:2 & 1ST PETER 1:17-21. THE TRUTHFULNESS OF THE FATHER STEPHEN UNDERGIRDS AND GOVERNS HIS TEACHINGS IS IN JOHN 1:17; MATTHEW 5:18; 22:16; MARK 3:28; 12:14; JOHN 1:51; 8:31-32; 18:37 & LUKE 4:24; 20:21. THE FATHER STEPHEN UNDERGIRDS AND GOVERNS BY HIS SOVEREIGNTY & TOTAL CONTROL IN ROMANS 13:1-2 & LUKE 10:22.      THE UNIQUENESS OF THE FATHER STEPHEN: THERE IS NO GOD EXCEPT THE FATHER STEPHEN ACTING AS THE LORD YAHWEH IN JOHN 8:58; ISAIAH 43:10-11; 44:6-8; 45:5-6, 18; DEUTERONOMY 4:35; 6:4; 32:3; 1ST KINGS 8:60; PSALMS 83:18; 86:10; 1ST CORINTHIANS 8:4-6; EPHESIANS 4:6 & 1ST TIMOTHY 2:5. THERE IS NO-ONE LIKE THE FATHER STEPHEN IS IN PSALMS 89:6-8; EXODUS 8:10 & ISAIAH 40:18. THE FATHER STEPHEN AS THE POTTER CREATOR OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE IS IN PROVERBS 8:22-25 (RSV) & ISAIAH 64:8. IN HIS CREATIVE AUTHORITY IS IN ISAIAH 40:25-26; JOHN 1:3; NEHEMIAH 9:6; HEBREWS 1:1-3; COLOSSIANS 1:16; REVELATION 4:11 & ACTS 14:15. IN HIS MIGHTY ACTS IS IN PSALMS 86:10; 135:5-6. IN HIS DIVINE CHARACTER, GLORY & MAJESTY IS IN EXODUS 15:11; 2ND SAMUEL 7:22 & 1ST CHRONICLES 29:11. IN HIS ABILITY TO SAVE IS IN DEUTERONOMY 33:26; ISAIAH 45:20-22 & JEREMIAH 10:5-6. IN HIS COVENANT OF OMNI-BENEVOLENCE IS IN 1ST KINGS 8:23; 2ND SAMUEL 7:22-23 & 1ST CHRONICLES 17:20-21. IN HIS SOVEREIGNTY IS IN ZECHARIAH 14:9; DEUTERONOMY 4:39; 1ST TIMOTHY 1:17; ROMANS 13:1-2 & LUKE 10:22. THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE FATHER STEPHEN’S UNIQUENESS: THE FATHER STEPHEN ALONE IS TO BE DIVINELY PRAISED, WORSHIPPED AND ADORED OF HIS DIVINE NATURE IS IN EXODUS 20:2-3; 23:13, 24; LEVITICUS 19:4; DEUTERONOMY 5:6-7; 6:13-14; 2ND KINGS 17:35; JOHN 4:23-24 & ACTS 17:23-31. THE ONLY GOOD IDOLATRY IS TO PRAISE, WORSHIP AND GIVE ADORATION TO THE CREATION OF THE PHYSICAL TRINITY, PREDOMINATELY & FOREMOST TO THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD AS THE ONE CREATOR POTTER THAT CREATED THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE IN ISAIAH 64:8; GENESIS 1:1 & THE SUPREME DIVINE CREATION OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD DONE BY THE LORD YAHWEH THE ALONE CREATOR LORD IN PROVERBS 8:22-29 (RSV) & JOHN 1:14. ANY OTHER REPUTATIONS & ETERNAL BEINGS IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN & IS CONSIDERED EVIL IDOLATRY WHICH IS DAMNED BY THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD IN ROMANS 1:21-26.  ALL SEXUAL IDOLATRY IS EMPTY AND WORTHLESS AND WILL BE DAMNED IN THE DAY OF JUDGMENT IS IN JONAH 2:8; DEUTERONOMY 4:28; ISAIAH 44:18-20; 45:20; HABAKKUK 2:18 & ROMANS 1:21-25. THE GLORY OF THE FATHER STEPHEN IS THE REVELATION OF HIS AUTHORITY AND CHARACTERISTIC BY WHICH ARE SOMETIMES ACCOMPANIED WITH VISIBLE PHENOMENA’S. THE DIVINE GLORY AS AN ATTRIBUTE OF THE FATHER STEPHEN IS IN PSALMS 24:7-8; 29:3; JOHN 11:40; REVELATION 19:1 & ACTS 7:2. THE VISIBLE PHENOMENA THAT ACCOMPANIES THE FATHER STEPHEN’S GLORY: THE APPEARANCE OF THE FATHER STEPHEN’S GLORY IS IN HABAKKUK 3:4; DEUTERONOMY 5:24; 2ND SAMUEL 22:8-16; PSALMS 18:7-15; 104:1 & EZEKIEL 1:26-28. THE FATHER STEPHEN’S GLORY AS A CLOUD IS IN EXODUS 24:15-16; 33:9-10; ISAIAH 4:5; MATTHEW 17:5; 24:30; MARK 9:7; 13:26 & LUKE 9:34; 21:27. THE FATHER STEPHEN’S GLORY IN THE TABERNACLE AND THE TEMPLE IS IN 2ND CHRONICLES 5:13-14; 7:1-3; EZEKIEL 8:4; 9:3; 10:19; 43:1-5; 1ST KINGS 8:10-11; EXODUS 40:34-35 & REVELATION 15:8. THE FATHER STEPHEN’S GLORY THAT IS REVEALED: IN HIS SON JESUS CHRIST IS IN HEBREWS 1:3; ISAIAH 49:3; JOHN 1:14; 13:31-32; 17:5; 2ND CORINTHIANS 4:6 & 2ND PETER 1:17. IN HIS PEOPLE IS IN COLOSSIANS 1:27; ISAIAH 60:19-21; 62:3; 2ND CORINTHIANS 3:18 & EPHESIANS 3:21. IN THE HIS WHOLE UNIVERSE IS IN ISAIAH 6:3; NUMBERS 14:21; PSALMS 57:5, 11; 108:5 & HABAKKUK 2:14; 3:3. IN HIS HEAVEN & HIS EARTH IS IN REVELATION 21:1, 23; ROMANS 8:17; HEBREWS 2:9 & 1ST PETER 5:10. IN HIS DIVINE NAME IS IN NEHEMIAH 9:5; DEUTERONOMY 28:58; 1ST CHRONICLES 29:13 & PSALMS 8:1; 79:9. IN HIS DIVINE WORKS IS IN PSALMS 19:1; 111:3; ISAIAH 12:5; 35:2 & JOHN 11:40-44; 17:4. IN HIS SUPREME KINGDOM OF LORDSHIP IS IN PSALMS 145:11-12; 1ST CHRONICLES 29:11; MATTHEW 6:13 & 1ST THESSALONIANS 2:12. THE FATHER STEPHEN’S GLORY CANNOT BE FULLY SEEN BY ANY OF HIS CREATIONS IS IN 1ST TIMOTHY 6:15-16; EXODUS 33:18-20; JUDGES 6:22-23; 13:20-22; ISAIAH 6:5 & JOHN 1:18. THE FATHER STEPHEN’S GLORY EXPERIENCED IS IN ACTS 7:55; EXODUS 3:2; ISAIAH 6:1-4; LUKE 2:9. THE EFFECTS OF THE FATHER STEPHEN’S GLORY: THE FATHER STEPHEN’S GLORY IS ACKNOWLEDGED IS IN PSALMS 29:2; 72:19; ROMANS 11:36 & REVELATION 4:11; 5:13; 19:1. THE FATHER STEPHEN’S GLORY BRINGS GUILT UP TO ALL THE GENERATIONS AND GODLY FEAR IS IN ROMANS 3:23; ISAIAH 2:10, 19, 21 & REVELATION 11:13; 15:8. THE DIVINE GLORY AND HUMAN GLORY ARE THROUGH THE DEATH OF THE FATHER STEPHEN’S SON JESUS CHRIST AND ALL HUMAN GLORY COMES TOTALLY FROM THE FATHER STEPHEN. HUMAN GLORY IN THE CREATION: HUMAN GLORY AS THE FATHER STEPHEN’S DIVINE INTENTION IS IN HEBREWS 2:6-7 & PSALMS 8:4-5. PEOPLE ARE CREATED IN THE FATHER STEPHEN’S IMAGE IS IN GENESIS 1:26-27; 5:1; 9:6; 1ST CORINTHIANS 11:7 & JAMES 3:9. HUMAN BEINGS HAVE PRECEDENCE OVER OTHER HUMAN BEINGS IN CREATION IS IN MATTHEW 6:26; 10:29-31; 12:12 & LUKE 12:6-7, 24. HUMANS HAVE RESPONSIBILITY FOR CREATION IS IN GENESIS 1:28; 2:19-20; PSALMS 8:6-8; HEBREWS 2:8 & JAMES 3:7. HUMAN GLORY DIMINISHED AFTER THE FALL IS IN ROMANS 3:23; 5:12; GENESIS 5:3 & ECCLESIASTES 7:29. THE IMPERFECT NATURE OF HUMAN GLORY IS IN 1ST PETER 1:24-25; ISAIAH 49:10-11, 16-17, 103:15 & 2ND CORINTHIANS 3:7-8, 10, 13. HUMAN GLORY IS GIVEN AND TAKEN BY THE FATHER STEPHEN IS IN PSALMS 82:6-7; EXODUS 9:16; 1ST KINGS 3:13; 2ND CHRONICLES 1:12; JEREMIAH 27:6-7; DANIEL 2:37-39; 4:29-31, 36; JOHN 19:11 & ROMANS 13:1-2. THE TEMPORARY NATURE OF THE GLORY OF THE WICKED IS IN PHILIPPIANS 3:19; ISAIAH 5:15; REVELATION 18:14-17 & LUKE 16:25. THE TEMPTATION ASSOCIATED WITH HUMAN GLORY IS IN MATTHEW 4:8-9; 2ND TIMOTHY 4:10; 1ST JOHN 2:15 & LUKE 4:5-7. THE UNIQUENESS OF THE FATHER STEPHEN’S GLORY IS IN JOB 40:9-10; EXODUS 15:11; 1ST CHRONICLES 16:24-28; PSALMS 96:3-7 & ISAIAH 42:8; 48:11. THE FATHER STEPHEN’S GLORY IS REVEALED TO HUMAN BEINGS IS IN EXODUS 16:10; 24:17; PSALMS 26:8; EZEKIEL 1:25-28; LUKE 2:9 & ACTS 7:55 WITH EPHESIANS 4:6. THE GLORY IS NOT TO BE SOUGHT FROM OTHER HUMAN BEINGS BUT FROM THE FATHER STEPHEN ONLY IS IN MATTHEW 6:2; JEREMIAH 9:23-24; HOSEA 4:7; JOHN 5:41-44; PHILIPPIANS 3:3; 1ST THESSALONIANS 2:4-6 & JAMES 4:16. IT IS A HUMAN DUTY TO GLORIFY THE FATHER STEPHEN IS IN PSALMS 34:3; 63:3; 86:12; DANIEL 4:37; ROMANS 15:6 & GALATIANS 1:3-5. THE HUMAN GLORY IS RESTORED TO THE REDEEMED BY THE DEATH OF HIS SON JESUS CHRIST IS IN ROMANS 8:30; 9:23; 1ST CORINTHIANS 15:47-49 & COLOSSIANS 3:10. THE SPIRITUAL GLORY IS DIVINELY GIVEN BY THE FATHER STEPHEN IS IN JOHN 17:22; PSALMS 84:11 & 2ND CORINTHIANS 3:18. THE GLORIFICATION WHEN HIS SON JESUS CHRIST RETURNS IS IN COLOSSIANS 3:4; ROMANS 8:18; PHILIPPIANS 3:21; 1ST THESSALONIANS 2:20 & 1ST JOHN 3:2.    THE GLORY OF THE SON JESUS CHRIST IS HIS DIVINE RADIANCE AND SPLENDOR THAT REFLECTS THE FATHER STEPHEN IN THE WHOLE UNIVERSE OF SAINTLY CHRISTIAN LORDS. THE LORD JESUS CHRIST’S GLORY EXISTED BEFORE THE INCARNATION IS IN JOHN 1:14; 17:5, 24. THE LORD JESUS CHRIST’S GLORY IS THE FATHER STEPHEN’S GLORY: THE FATHER STEPHEN’S GLORY IS REFLECTED IN HIS SON JESUS CHRIST IS IN HEBREWS 3:1; JOHN 12:41; 13:32; ISAIAH 6:3 & 2ND CORINTHIANS 4:4, 6. THE LORD JESUS CHRIST BRINGS GLORY TO HIS FATHER STEPHEN IS IN JOHN 13:31; 14:13; 17:1, 4; ROMANS 16:27; EPHESIANS 1:12 & JUDE 25. THE BROTHER JOHN THE HOLY GHOST GLORIFIES THE SON JESUS CHRIST IS IN JOHN 16:14. THE LORD JESUS CHRIST’S GLORY IS REVEALED ON THE EARTH BY THE FATHER STEPHEN: THROUGH HIS MIRACLES IS IN JOHN 2:11; 11:4, 40. TO HIS DISCIPLES IS IN MATTHEW 17:1-2; MARK 9:2-3; JOHN 1:14; 2ND PETER 1:17; LUKE 9:28-32 & ACTS 9:3; 22:6; 26:13. IN HIS DEATH & HIS RESURRECTION IS IN JOHN 7:39; 12:16, 23; 1ST PETER 1:21; HEBREWS 2:9 & ACTS 3:13-15. THE DIVINE GLORY OF THE EXALTED CHRIST: HIS APPEARANCE IS IN REVELATION 1:13-16; 2:18; 19:11-16 & ACTS 7:55-56. HE RECEIVES GLORY FROM ALL CREATION IS IN REVELATION 5:13; HEBREWS 13:21; 2ND PETER 3:18 & REVELATION 1:6; 5:11-12; 7:9-12. THE LORD JESUS CHRIST’S GLORY IS SHARED BY ALL BELIEVERS: AS THEY BECOME LIKE HIM IS IN 2ND CORINTHIANS 3:18; JOHN 17:22 & COLOSSIANS 1:27. AT THE END TIME IS IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 15:49; ROMANS 8:17-18; PHILIPPIANS 3:21 & COLOSSIANS 3:4.  THE MAJESTY OF THE FATHER STEPHEN IS HIS GREATNESS THAT IS REVEALED IN HIS CREATION AND MIGHTY WORKS OF DELIVERANCE. BECAUSE OF THIS, THE FATHER STEPHEN IS WORTHY TO BE PRAISED AND WORSHIPPED FOREVER. THE FATHER STEPHEN IS MAJESTIC IS IN JOHN 1:1-3; HEBREWS 1:1-4; 8:1; 1ST SAMUEL 15:29 & PSALMS 24:10. THE MAJESTY BELONGS TO THE FATHER STEPHEN IS IN 1ST CHRONICLES 29:11; PSALMS 145:12 & JUDE 25. THE FATHER STEPHEN’S MAJESTY IS AWESOME IS IN JOB 37:22 & ISAIAH 2:10, 19, 21. THE FATHER STEPHEN’S CHARACTER IS MAJESTIC IS IN PSALMS 93:1; 104:1; 145:5; EXODUS 15:11 & ISAIAH 24:14; 26:10. THE FATHER STEPHEN’S ACTIVITY IS MAJESTIC IS IN EXODUS 15:6-7; DEUTERONOMY 9:26; 11:2-3; 2ND CHRONICLES 20:6; PSALMS 111:3 & LUKE 9:43. THE FATHER STEPHEN’S NAME IS MAJESTIC IS IN PSALMS 8:1, 9. THE FATHER STEPHEN’S VOICE IS MAJESTIC IS IN PSALMS 29:4; JOHN 37:4 & ISAIAH 30:30. THE FATHER STEPHEN’S PRESENCE IS MAJESTIC IS IN 1ST CHRONICLES 16:27; PSALMS 96:6; 2ND THESSALONIANS 1:9 & 2ND PETER 1:17. THE RISEN CHRIST SHARES IN THE FATHER STEPHEN’S MAJESTY ARE IN 2ND PETER 1:16-17 & HEBREWS 1:3-4; 8:1. THE FATHER STEPHEN’S DELEGATED MAJESTY: TO THE MESSIAH IS IN MICAH 5:4 & ZECHARIAH 9:9. TO KINGS IS IN PSALMS 21:5; 45:3-4; 110:2-3. THE FATHER STEPHEN’S MAJESTY PROVIDES HELP FOR HIS PEOPLE ARE IN PSALMS 68:34-35; EXODUS 15:6 & DEUTERONOMY 33:26-27. THE EXPERIENCES OF THE FATHER STEPHEN’S MAJESTY IS IN ISAIAH 6:1-4; EZEKIEL 1:4-28; HABAKKUK 3:3-6 & REVELATION 4:1-11. ALL HUMAN RESPONSES TO THE MAJESTY OF THE FATHER STEPHEN: AN AWARENESS OF SIN IS IN ISAIAH 6:5. AN AWARENESS OF INSIGNIFICANCE IS IN ISAIAH 40:15. THE WORSHIP, PRAISE AND ADORATION IS TO THE FATHER STEPHEN IS IN 1ST CHRONICLES 16:29; PSALMS 92:1-8; 93:1; 95:3-6 & LUKE 1:46.      THE MAJESTY OF HIS SON JESUS CHRIST AUTHORIZED BY THE FATHER STEPHEN IS THE GLORIOUS SPLENDOR OF THE ROYAL AUTHORITY WHICH BELONGS TO HIM BY RIGHT AND IS REAFFIRMED AT THE FATHER STEPHEN’S RIGHT HAND. THE LORD JESUS CHRIST SHARES IN THE FATHER STEPHEN’S MAJESTY BEFORE TIME BEGAN ARE IN JOHN 17:5, 24; COLOSSIANS 1:15; HEBREWS 1:3 & REVELATION 22:13. THE LORD JESUS CHRIST RENOUNCED HIS MAJESTY TO BECOME A HUMAN BEING IS IN PHILIPPIANS 2:6-8; ISAIAH 53:2-3; MATTHEW 20:28; MARK 10:45; JOHN 13:3-5 & 2ND CORINTHIANS 8:9. THE LORD JESUS CHRIST’S MAJESTY IS SEEN IN HIS EARTHLY MINISTRY: AT THE TRANSFIGURATION IS IN 2ND PETER 1:16; MATTHEW 17:2; MARK 9:2-3 & LUKE 9:29. AT THE ENTRY INTO JERUSALEM IS IN ZECHARIAH 9:9; MATTHEW 21:5, 9-10; MARK 11:9-10; JOHN 12:13, 15 & LUKE 19:37-38. THE LORD JESUS CHRIST’S MAJESTY IS REAFFIRMED THROUGH HIS EXALTATION: THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IS EXALTED TO THE MAJESTIC THRONE OF THE FATHER STEPHEN’S MAJESTY IS IN HEBREWS 1:3; 8:1; 1ST PETER 3:22 & ACTS 5:31. A VISION OF THE GLORIFIED CHRIST IN HIS MAJESTY IS IN REVELATION 1:13-16; 5:6-8; 14:14. THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IS MAJESTIC IN HIS ABSOLUTE PRE-EMINENCE IS IN COLOSSIANS 1:18; DANIEL 7:13-14; 1ST CORINTHIANS 15:24-28; PHILIPPIANS 2:10-11; REVELATION 19:16 & ACTS 2:36. THE LORD JESUS CHRIST’S MAJESTY IS SHOWN BY HIS AUTHORITY AS JUDGE OF ALL MEN IS IN MATTHEW 25:31; 2ND TIMOTHY 4:1 & ACTS 17:31. ALL HUMANITY WILL SEE THE LORD JESUS CHRIST’S MAJESTY IS IN MATTHEW 24:30; 26:64; MARK 13:26; 14:62; 2ND THESSALONIANS 1:7-10; REVELATION 1:7; 5:13; 6:15-17; 7:8-10 & LUKE 21:27.  THE LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH’S PURPOSE ATTRIBUTES HIS OMNIPOTENCE (ALL POWER) IS PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. GOD IS ALMIGHTY AND HIS SOVEREIGNTY HAS GREATNESS AND HAS ALL AUTHORITY. GOD IS ALL POWERFUL IN THE UNIVERSE. IN PSALMS 24:8 SAYS “WHO IS THE KING OF GLORY? THE LORD STRONG AND MIGHTY, THE LORD MIGHTY IN BATTLE (1 OR 2 POSITIONS).” IN PSALMS 115:3 STATES “BUT OUR GOD IS IN HEAVEN, HE DOES WHATEVER HE PLEASES.” IN GENESIS 18:14 TELLS US “IS ANYTHING TOO HARD FOR THE LORD? AT THE APPOINTED TIME I WILL RETURN TO YOU, ACCORDING TO THE TIME OF LIFE, AND SARAH SHALL HAVE A SON.” IN JEREMIAH 32:17 DECLARES “AH, LORD GOD! BEHOLD, YOU HAVE MADE THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH BY YOUR GREAT POWER AND OUTSTRETCHED ARM. THERE IS NOTHING TOO HARD FOR YOU.” IN JEREMIAH 32:27 SAYS “BEHOLD, I AM THE LORD, THE GOD OF ALL FLESH, IS THERE ANYTHING TOO HARD FOR ME? IN EPHESIANS 3:20 MENTIONS “NOW TO HIM WHO IS ABLE TO DO EXCEEDINGLY ABUNDANTLY ABOVE ALL THAT WE ASK OR THINK, ACCORDING TO THE POWER THAT WORKS IN US…” IN 2ND CORINTHIANS 6:16-18 DECLARES “I WILL DWELL IN THEM AND WALK AMONG THEM. I WILL BE THEIR GOD AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE. THEREFORE, COME OUT FROM AMONG THEM AND BE SEPARATE, SAYS THE LORD. DO NOT TOUCH THE UNCLEAN THING, AND I WILL RECEIVE YOU. I WILL BE A FATHER (STEPHEN) TO YOU, AND YOU SHALL BE MY SONS AND DAUGHTERS, SAYS THE LORD ALMIGHTY.” IN REVELATION 1:8 STATES “I AM THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA, THE BEGINNING AND THE END, SAYS THE LORD, WHO IS AND WHO WAS AND WHO IS TO COME, THE ALMIGHTY.” IN LUKE 1:37 SAYS “FOR WITH GOD NOTHING WILL BE IMPOSSIBLE.” IN EXODUS 32:10 TELLS US “NOW THEREFORE, LET ME ALONE, THAT MY WRATH MAY BURN HOT AGAINST THEM AND I MAY CONSUME THEM.” IN TITUS 1:2 MENTIONS “IN HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE WHICH GOD, WHO CANNOT LIE, PROMISED BEFORE TIME BEGAN…” IN 2ND TIMOTHY 2:13 SAYS “IF WE ARE FAITHLESS, HE REMAINS FAITHFUL, HE CANNOT DENY HIMSELF.” IN JAMES 1:13 STATES “LET NO ONE SAY WHEN HE IS TEMPTED, ‘I AM TEMPTED BY GOD’, FOR GOD CANNOT BE TEMPTED BY EVIL, NOR DOES HE HIMSELF TEMPT ANYONE.” IN JOB 38:1-41:34 DETAILS THE LORD’S OMNIPOTENCE AND EVENTUALLY FINDS FAULT WITH JOB AS A PERFECT AND UPRIGHT MARRIED MAN. IN REVELATION 19:6 DECLARES “AND I HEARD, AS IT WERE, A VOICE OF A GREAT MULTITUDE, AS THE SOUND OF MANY WATERS, SAYING, ‘ALLELUIA! FOR THE LORD GOD OMNIPOTENT REIGNS!’” IN SIRACH 19:20 MENTIONS “THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS ALL WISDOM, AND IN ALL WISDOM IS THE PERFORMANCE OF THE LAW, AND THE KNOWLEDGE OF HIS OMNIPOTENCY.” IN ACTS 6:8 CONCERNS THE FATHER STEPHEN’S OMNIPOTENCE BEING FULL OF POWER. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON OMNIPOTENCE YOU MUST GET MY OTHER BOOK CALLED “THE LORD’S OMNIPOTENCE AND ALL SUPREME AUTHORITY IN THE HOLY BIBLE.” AND MY OTHER BOOK CALLED “THE LORD YAH AND HIS ALMIGHTINESS IN THE HOLY BIBLE.” HIS DIVINE WILL IS PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. GOD HAS FREE WILL TO GOVERN THE UNIVERSE. IN EPHESIANS 1:10-12 SAYS “THE IN THE DISPENSATION OF THE FULLNESS OF THE TIMES HE MIGHT GATHER TOGETHER IN ONE ALL THINGS IN CHRIST…IN HEAVEN & WHICH ARE ON EARTH—IN HIM. IN HIM ALSO WE HAVE OBTAINED AN INHERITANCE, BEING PREDESTINED ACCORDING TO THE PURPOSE OF HIM WHO WORKS ALL THINGS ACCORDING TO THE COUNSEL OF HIS WILL…WHO FIRST TRUSTED IN CHRIST…TO THE PRAISE OF HIS GLORY.” IN EPHESIANS 1:23 STATES “WHICH IS HIS BODY, THE FULLNESS OF HIM WHO FILLS ALL IN ALL.” IN EPHESIANS 3:9-10 SAYS “TO MAKE  ALL  SEE  WHAT  IS  THE  FELLOWSHIP OF THE MYSTERY WHICH…HAS BEEN HIDDEN IN GOD WHO CREATED ALL THINGS THROUGH JESUS CHRIST, TO THE INTENT THAT NOW THE MANIFOLD WISDOM OF GOD, MIGHT BE MADE KNOWN BY THE CHURCH TO THE PRINCIPALITIES AND POWERS IN THE HEAVENLY PLACES...” IN EPHESIANS 4:10 DECLARES “HE WHO DESCENDED IS ALSO THE ONE WHO ASCENDED FAR ABOVE ALL THE HEAVENS, THAT HE MIGHT FILL ALL THINGS.” IN COLOSSIANS 1:16 SAYS “FOR BY HIM ALL THINGS WERE CREATED THAT ARE IN HEAVEN AND THAT ARE ON EARTH, VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE, WHETHER THRONES OR DOMINIONS OR PRINCIPALITIES OR POWERS. ALL THINGS WERE CREATED THROUGH HIM AND FOR HIM.” IN ROMANS 11:36 TELLS US “FOR OF HIM AND THROUGH HIM AND TO HIM ARE ALL THINGS, TO WHOM BE GLORY FOREVER. AMEN.” IN ROMANS 13:1 SAYS “LET EVERY SOUL BE SUBJECT TO THE GOVERNING AUTHORITIES (HIGHER POWERS). FOR THERE IS NO AUTHORITY EXCEPT FROM GOD, AND THE AUTHORITIES THAT EXIST ARE APPOINTED BY GOD.” IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 4:19 STATES “BUT I WILL COME TO YOU SHORTLY, IF THE LORD WILLS, AND I WILL KNOW, NOT THE WORD OF THOSE WHO ARE PUFFED UP, BUT THE POWER.” IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 8:6 TELLS US “YET FOR US THERE IS ONE GOD, THE FATHER (STEPHEN), OF WHOM ARE ALL THINGS, AND WE FOR HIM, AND ONE LORD JESUS CHRIST, THROUGH WHOM ARE ALL THINGS, AND THROUGH WHOM WE LIVE.” IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 15:27-28 SAYS “FOR HE HAS PUT ALL THINGS UNDER HIS FEET. BUT WHEN HE SAYS ALL THINGS ARE PUT UNDER HIM, IT IS EVIDENT THAT HE WHO PUT ALL THINGS UNDER HIM IS EXCEPTED. NOW WHEN ALL THINGS ARE MADE SUBJECT TO HIM, THEN THE SON HIMSELF WILL ALSO BE SUBJECT TO HIM (FATHER STEPHEN) WHO PUT ALL THINGS UNDER HIM THAT GOD MAY BE ALL IN ALL.” IN REVELATION 4:11 MENTIONS “YOU ARE WORTHY, O LORD, TO RECEIVE GLORY AND HONOR AND POWER, FOR YOU CREATED ALL THINGS, AND BY YOUR WILL THEY EXIST AND WERE CREATED.” IN DANIEL 4:32 SAYS “AND THEY SHALL DRIVE YOU FROM MEN, AND YOUR DWELLING SHALL BE WITH THE BEASTS OF THE FIELD. THEY SHALL MAKE YOU EAT GRASS LIKE OXEN, AND SEVEN TIMES SHALL PASS OVER YOU, UNTIL YOU KNOW THAT THE MOST HIGH (STEPHEN) RULES IN THE KINGDOM OF MEN, AND GIVES IT TO WHOMEVER HE CHOOSES.” IN 1ST PETER 3:17 STATES “FOR IT IS BETTER, IF IT IS THE WILL OF GOD, TO SUFFER FROM DOING GOOD THAN FOR DOING EVIL.” IN 1ST PETER 4:19 MENTIONS “THEREFORE LET THOSE WHO SUFFER ACCORDING TO THE WILL OF GOD COMMIT THEIR SOULS TO HIM IN DOING GOOD, AS TO A FAITHFUL CREATOR.” IN JAMES 4:13-15 SAYS “WHEREAS YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN TOMORROW. FOR WHAT IS YOUR LIFE? IT IS EVEN A VAPOR THAT APPEARS FOR A LITTLE TIME AND THEN VANISHES AWAY. INSTEAD YOU OUGHT TO SAY, ‘IF THE LORD WILLS, WE SHALL LIVE AND DO THIS OR THAT.’” IN ISAIAH 48:10-11 STATES “BEHOLD, I HAVE REFINED YOU, BUT NOT AS SILVER. I HAVE TESTED YOU IN THE FURNACE OF AFFLICTION. FOR MY OWN SAKE, FOR MY OWN SAKE, I WILL DO IT. FOR HOW SHOULD MY NAME BE PROFANED? AND I WILL NOT GIVE MY GLORY TO ANOTHER.” IN ROMANS 1:10 MENTIONS “…MAKING REQUEST IF, BY SOME MEANS, NOW AT LAST I MAY FIND A WAY IN THE WILL OF GOD TO COME TO YOU.” IN ROMANS 11:36 SAYS “FOR OF HIM AND THROUGH HIM AND TO HIM ARE ALL THINGS, TO WHOM BE GLORY FOREVER. AMEN.” IN ROMANS 15:32 STATES “NOW THE GOD OF PEACE BE WITH YOU ALL. AMEN.” IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 8:6 DECLARES “YET FOR US THERE IS ONE GOD, THE FATHER (STEPHEN), OF WHOM ARE ALL THINGS, AND WE FOR HIM, AND ONE LORD JESUS CHRIST THROUGH WHOM ARE ALL THINGS, AND THROUGH WHOM WE LIVE.” IN DEUTERONOMY 29:29 SAYS “THE SECRET THINGS BELONG TO THE LORD OUR GOD, BUT THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE REVEALED BELONG TO US AND TO OUR CHILDREN FOREVER, THAT WE MAY DO ALL THE WORDS OF THIS LAW.” IN MATTHEW 6:10 SAYS “YOUR KINGDOM COME YOUR WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN.” IN MATTHEW 11:25-26 STATES “I THANK YOU, FATHER (STEPHEN), LORD OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, THAT YOU HAVE HIDDEN THESE THINGS FROM THE WISE AND PRUDENT AND HAVE REVEALED THEM TO BABES. EVEN SO, FATHER (STEPHEN), FOR SO IT SEEMED GOOD IN YOUR SIGHT.” IN MATTHEW 12:50 MENTIONS “FOR WHOEVER DOES THE WILL OF MY FATHER (STEPHEN) IN HEAVEN IS MY BROTHER AND SISTER AND MOTHER.” IN MATTHEW 18:14 SAYS “EVEN SO IT IS NOT THE WILL OF YOUR FATHER (STEPHEN) WHO IS IN HEAVEN THAT ONE OF THESE LITTLE ONES SHOULD PERISH.” IN EPHESIANS 5:17 DECLARES “THEREFORE DO NOT BE UNWISE, BUT UNDERSTAND WHAT THE WILL OF THE LORD IS.” IN ROMANS 2:18 MENTIONS “AND KNOW HIS WILL, & APPROVE THE THINGS THAT ARE EXCELLENT, BEING INSTRUCTED OUT OF THE LAW…” IN 1ST JOHN 5:14-15 TELLS US “NOW THIS IS THE CONFIDENCE THAT WE HAVE IN HIM, THAT IF WE ASK ANYTHING ACCORDING TO HIS WILL, HE HEARS US. AND IF WE KNOW THAT HE HEARS US, WHATEVER WE ASK, WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE THE PETITIONS THAT WE HAVE ASKED OF HIM” IN 1ST TIMOTHY 2:4 SAYS “…WHO DESIRES ALL MEN TO BE SAVED AND TO COME TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH.” IN 2ND PETER 3:9 MENTIONS “THE LORD IS NOT SLACK CONCERNING HIS PROMISE, AS SOME COUNT SLACKNESS, BUT IS LONGSUFFERING TOWARD US, NOT WILLING THAT ANY SHOULD PERISH BUT THAT ALL SHOULD COME TO REPENTANCE.” IN GENESIS 50:20 DECLARES “BUT AS FOR YOU MEANT EVIL AGAINST ME, BUT GOD MEANT IT FOR GOOD, IN ORDER TO BRING IT ABOUT AS IT IS THIS DAY, TO SAVE MANY PEOPLE ALIVE.” IN EZEKIEL 33:11 SAYS “SAY TO THEM: ‘AS I LIVE’, SAYS THE LORD GOD, I HAVE NO PLEASURE IN THE DEATH OF THE WICKED, BUT THAT THE WICKED TURN FROM HIS WAY AND LIVE. TURN, FOR YOUR EVIL WAYS! FOR WHY SHOULD YOU DIE, O HOUSE OF ISRAEL?”  IN ACTS 7:51-53 CONCERNS THE FATHER STEPHEN’S DIVINE WILL AGAINST THE LAW.                HIS FREEDOM IS PROVEN IS SCRIPTURE. GOD HAS ALL LIBERTY (TOTAL SOVEREIGN FREEDOM TO DO AS HE PLEASES) TO DO AS HE WISHES. IN PSALMS 115:3 SAYS “BUT OUR GOD IS IN HEAVEN, HE DOES WHATEVER HE PLEASES.” IN PROVERBS 21:1 SAYS “THE KING’S HEART IN THE HAND OF THE LORD, LIKE THE RIVERS OF WATER, HE TURNS IT WHEREVER HE WISHES.” IN DANIEL 4:35 STATES “ALL THE INHABITANCE OF THE EARTH ARE REPUTED AS NOTHING, HE DOES ACCORDING TO HIS WILL IN THE ARMY OF HEAVEN AND AMONG THE INHABITANCE OF THE EARTH. NO ONE CAN RESTRAIN HIS HAND OR SAY TO HIM, ‘WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?’” IN 2ND CORINTHIANS 3:17 SAYS “NOW THE LORD IS THE SPIRIT (STEPHEN): & WHERE THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS, THERE IS LIBERTY.” IN JAMES 1:25 STATES “BUT WHOSO LOOKS INTO THE PERFECT LAW OF LIBERTY…THIS MAN SHALL BE BLESSED.” IN JAMES 2:12 SAYS “SO SPEAK YE, AND SO DO, AS THEY THAT SHALL BE JUDGED BY THE LAW OF LIBERTY.” IN ACTS 7:47-50 DECLARES THAT THE FATHER STEPHEN DWELLS IN THE MOST-HIGHEST HOUSE IN HIS FREEDOM AND LIBERTY AMONG THE HEAVEN IN HIS THRONE AND THE EARTH AT HIS FOOTSTOOL. THE LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH’S OTHER INCOMMUNICABLE ATTRIBUTES HIS OMNIPRESENCE (ALL PRESENT) IS PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. GOD HAS IMMENSITY AND UBIQUITY FOR HE IS EVERYWHERE AT ONE TIME AND ALL PRESENT. IN PSALMS 139:7-12 SAYS “WHERE CAN I GO FROM YOUR SPIRIT (STEPHEN)? OR WHERE CAN I FLEE FROM YOUR PRESENCE? IF I ASCEND INTO HEAVEN, YOU ARE THERE. IF I MAKE MY BED IN HELL, BEHOLD, YOU ARE THERE. IF I TAKE THE WINGS OF THE MORNING, AND DWELL IN THE UTTERMOST PARTS OF THE SEA. EVEN THERE YOUR HAND SHALL LEAD ME. AND YOUR RIGHT HAND SHALL HOLD ME. IF I SAY, ‘SURELY THE DARKNESS SHALL FALL ON ME, EVEN THE NIGHT SHALL BE LIGHT ABOUT ME. INDEED, THE DARKNESS SHALL NOT HIDE FROM YOU, BUT THE NIGHT SHINES AS THE DAY. THE DARKNESS AND THE LIGHT ARE BOTH ALIKE TO YOU.” IN GENESIS 1:1 SAYS “IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH.” IN DEUTERONOMY 10:14 STATES “INDEED HEAVEN AND THE HIGHEST HEAVENS BELONG TO THE LORD YOUR GOD, ALSO THE EARTH WITH ALL THAT IS IN IT.” IN JEREMIAH 23:23-24 DECLARES “AM I A GOD NEAR AT HAND, SAYS THE LORD, AND NOT A GOD AFAR OFF? ‘CAN ANYONE HIDE HIMSELF IN SECRET PLACES, SO I SHALL NOT SEE HIM?’ SAYS THE LORD. ‘DO I NOT FILL HEAVEN AND EARTH?’ SAYS THE LORD.” ACTS 17:28 SAYS “…FOR IN HIM WE LIVE AND MOVE AND HAVE OUR BEING, AS ALSO SOME OF YOUR OWN POETS HAVE SAID, ‘FOR WAS ARE ALSO HIS OFFSPRING.’” ALSO, GOD CAN BE PRESENT TO BLESS BY OBEDIENCE, SUSTAIN BY HIMSELF AND TO CURSE HIS CREATURES FOR WRONG DOING. FIRST, ARE HIS BLESSINGS IN HIS PRESENCE. IN COLOSSIANS 1:17 SAYS “AND HE IS BEFORE ALL THINGS, & IN HIM ALL THINGS CONSIST.” IN HEBREWS 1:3 MENTIONS “UPHOLDING THE UNIVERSE BY THE WORD OF HIS POWER...” IN PSALMS 16:11 SAYS “IN YOUR PRESENCE THERE IS FULLNESS OF JOY, IN YOUR RIGHT HAND ARE PLEASURES FOREVERMORE.” SOME OTHER SCRIPTURES OF BLESSING IN HIS PRESENCE ARE IN 1ST SAMUEL 4:4; EXODUS 25:22; JOHN 4:20; REVELATION 21:3; COLOSSIANS 2:9. IN ACTS 1:6-7 DECLARES THE FATHER STEPHEN RESTORING THE KINGDOM TO THE CHRISTIAN ISRAEL, WHICH GOES THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE EARTH. SECOND, IS HIM SUSTAINING ALL THINGS. IN 2ND CORINTHIANS 3:17 SAYS “WHERE THE SPIRIT (STEPHEN IN 1ST JOHN 5:8) OF THE LORD IS, THERE IS FREEDOM.” IN ROMANS 8:9-10 STATES “YOU ARE IN THE SPIRIT (STEPHEN), IF IN FACT THE SPIRIT (STEPHEN) OF GOD DWELLS IN YOU…” IN JOHN 14:23 DECLARES “IF A MAN (AGAPE) LOVES ME, HE WILL KEEP MY WORD, AND MY FATHER (STEPHEN) WILL (AGAPE) LOVE HIM, AND WE WILL COME TO HIM AND MAKE OUR HOME WITH HIM.” THIRD, IS THE CURSE FROM GOD. IN ISAIAH 59:2 SAYS “YOU INIQUITIES HAVE MADE A SEPARATION BETWEEN YOU AND YOUR GOD” IN PROVERBS 15:29 TELLS US “THE LORD IS FAR FROM THE WICKED, BUT HE HEARS THE PRAYER OF THE RIGHTEOUS.” IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT OMNIPRESENCE YOU MUST GET MY OTHER BOOK CALLED “THE LORD JEHOVAH’S OMNIPRESENCE IN HIS UNIVERSE OF THE HOLY BIBLE.”   HIS DIVINE PERFECTION (ALL PERFECT) IS PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. GOD IS FULL OF OMNISCIENCE AND PERFECT IN BEAUTY. IN MATTHEW 5:48 SAYS “THEREFORE YOU SHALL BE PERFECT, JUST AS YOUR FATHER (STEPHEN) IN HEAVEN IS PERFECT.” IN PSALMS 18:30 STATES “AS FOR GOD, HIS WAY IS PERFECT. THE WORD OF THE LORD IS PROVEN. HE IS A SHIELD TO ALL WHO TRUST IN HIM.” IN DEUTERONOMY 32:4 MENTIONS “HE IS THE ROCK HIS WORK IS PERFECT. FOR ALL HIS WAYS ARE JUSTICE, A GOD OF TRUTH AND WITHOUT INJUSTICE, RIGHTEOUS AND UPRIGHT IS HE.” IN 2ND SAMUEL 22:31 SAYS “AS FOR GOD, HIS WAY IS PERFECT, THE WORD OF THE LORD IS TRIED: HE IS A BUCKLER TO ALL THEM THAT TRUST IN HIM.” JOB 37:16 STATES “DO THOU KNOW THE BALANCING OF THE CLOUDS, THE WONDROUS WORK OF HIM WHICH IS PERFECT IN KNOWLEDGE.” IN JAMES 1:17 DECLARES “EVERY GOOD GIFT AND PERFECT GIFT IS FROM ABOVE, AND COMES DOWN FROM THE FATHER (STEPHEN) OF LIGHTS, WITH WHOM IS NO VARIABLENESS, NEITHER SHADOW OF TURNING.” IN ACTS 6:3 THE FATHER STEPHEN IS FULL OF WISDOM AND PERFECT IN BEAUTY. HIS GLORY IS PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. GOD IS MAJESTIC AND GLORIOUS. IN ISAIAH 43:7 SAYS “EVERYONE WHO IS CALLED BY MY NAME, WHOM I HAVE CREATED FOR MY GLORY. I HAVE FORMED HIM, YES, I HAVE MADE HIM.” IN JOHN 17:5 STATES “AND NOW, O FATHER (STEPHEN), GLORIFY ME TOGETHER WITH YOURSELF, WITH THE GLORY WHICH I HAD WITH YOU BEFORE THE WORLD WAS.” IN HEBREWS 1:3 MENTIONS “WHO BEING THE BRIGHTNESS OF HIS GLORY AND THE EXPRESS IMAGE OF HIS PERSON, AND UPHOLDING ALL THINGS BY THE WORD OF HIS POWER, WHEN HE HAD BY HIMSELF PURGED OUR SINS, SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE MAJESTY ON HIGH…” IN PSALMS 24:10 DECLARES “WHO IS THE KING OF GLORY? THE LORD OF HOSTS, HE IS THE KING OF GLORY.” IN PSALMS 104:1-2 SAYS “O LORD MY GOD, YOU ARE VERY GREAT: YOU ARE CLOTHED WITH HONOR AND MAJESTY, WHO COVERS YOURSELF WITH LIGHT AS WITH A GARMENT, WHO STRETCH OUT THE HEAVENS LIKE A CURTAIN.” IN LUKE 2:9 STATES “AND BEHOLD, AN ANGEL (LORD) OF THE LORD STOOD BEFORE THEM, AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD SHONE AROUND THEM, AND THEY WERE GREATLY AFRAID.” IN MATTHEW 5:16 TELLS US “LET YOUR LIGHT SO SHINE BEFORE MEN, THAT THEY MAY SEE YOUR GOOD WORKS AND GLORIFY YOUR FATHER (STEPHEN) IN HEAVEN.” IN MATTHEW 17:2 SAYS “AND HE WAS TRANSFIGURED BEFORE THEM. HIS FACE SHONE LIKE THE SUN, AND HIS CLOTHES BECAME AS WHITE AS THE LIGHT.” IN REVELATION 21:23 MENTIONS “THE CITY HAD NO NEED OF THE SUN OR OF THE MOON TO SHINE IN IT, FOR THE GLORY OF GOD ILLUMINATED IT. THE LAMB IS ITS LIGHT.” IN 2ND CORINTHIANS 3:18 TELLS US “BUT WE ALL, WITH UNVEILED FACE, BEHOLDING AS IN A MIRROR THE GLORY OF THE LORD, ARE BEING TRANSFORMED INTO THE SAME IMAGE FROM GLORY TO GLORY, JUST AS BY THE SPIRIT (STEPHEN) OF THE LORD.” IN PHILIPPIANS 2:15 SAYS “THAT YOU MAY BECOME BLAMELESS AND HARMLESS, CHILDREN OF GOD WITHOUT FAULT IN THE MIDST OF A CROOKED AND PERVERSE GENERATION, AMONG WHOM YOU SHINE AS LIGHTS IN THE WORLD.” IN PROVERBS 4:18 DECLARES “BUT THE PATH OF THE JUST IS LIKE THE SHINING SUN, THAT SHINES EVER BRIGHTER UNTO THE PERFECT DAY.” IN DANIEL 12:3 TELLS US “THOSE WHO ARE WISE SHALL SHINE LIKE THE BRIGHTNESS OF THE FIRMAMENT, AND THOSE WHO TURN MANY TO RIGHTEOUSNESS, LIKE THE STARS FOREVER AND EVER.” IN MATTHEW 13:43 SAYS “THEN THE RIGHTEOUS WILL SHINE FORTH AS THE SUN IN THE KINGDOM OF THEIR FATHER (STEPHEN). HE WHO HAS EARS TO HEAR, LET HIM HEAR.” IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 15:43 MENTIONS “IT IS SOWN IN DISHONOR, IT IS RAISED IN GLORY…” IN PSALMS 3:3 SAYS “BUT THOU, O LORD, ART A SHIELD FOR ME, MY GLORY, AND THE LIFTER OF MY HEAD.” IN PSALMS 24:8 STATES “WHO IS THE KING OF GLORY? THE LORD STRONG AND MIGHTY, THE LORD MIGHTY IN BATTLE (1 OR 2 POSITIONS).” IN PSALMS 104:31 DECLARES “MAY THE GLORY OF THE LORD ENDURE FOREVER...”  IN PSALMS 148:13 TELLS US “LET THEM PRAISE THE NAME OF THE LORD: FOR HIS NAME ALONE IS EXCELLENT, HIS GLORY IS ABOVE THE EARTH AND HEAVEN.” IN ROMANS 16:27 SAYS “TO GOD ONLY WISE, BE GLORY THROUGH JESUS CHRIST FOREVER. AMEN.” IN PHILIPPIANS 2:11 STATES “…AND THAT EVERY TONGUE SHOULD CONFESS THAT JESUS CHRIST IS LORD, TO THE GLORY OF GOD THE FATHER (STEPHEN).” IN PHILIPPIANS 4:20 DECLARES “NOW UNTO GOD AND OUR FATHER (STEPHEN) BE GLORY FOREVER AND EVER. AMEN.”  IN 1ST TIMOTHY 1:17 SAYS “NOW UNTO THE KING ETERNAL, IMMORTAL, INVISIBLE, THE ONLY WISE GOD, BE…GLORY FOREVER AND EVER. AMEN.”  IN REVELATION 1:6 STATES “AND HAS MADE US KINGS AND PRIESTS UNTO GOD AND HIS FATHER (STEPHEN), TO HIM BE GLORY…FOREVER AND EVER. AMEN.”  IN SIRACH 40:27 TELLS US “THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS A FRUITFUL GARDEN, AND COVERS HIM ABOVE ALL GLORY.” IN BARUCH 5:1 SAYS “…PUT ON COMELINESS OF THE GLORY THAT COMES FROM GOD FOREVER.” IN SONG OF THE 3 JEWS 1:20 STATES “DELIVER US ALSO ACCORDING TO THY MARVELOUS WORKS, AND GIVE GLORY TO THY NAME, O LORD: AND LET ALL THEM THAT DO THY SERVANTS HURT BE ASHAMED.” IN 2ND ESDRAS 7:52 DECLARES “AND THAT THE GLORY OF THE MOST HIGH (STEPHEN) IS KEPT TO DEFEND THEM WHICH HAVE LED A WARY LIFE…” IN 2ND ESDRAS 8:21 TELLS US “WHOSE THRONE IS INESTIMABLE, WHOSE GLORY MAY NOT BE COMPREHENDED, BEFORE THE HOST OF ANGELS (LORDS) STAND WITH TREMBLING.”  IN 2ND ESDRAS 16:53 SAYS “LET NOT THE SINNER’S SAY THAT HE HAS NOT SINNED: FOR GOD SHALL BURN COALS OF FIRE [COALS ARE CARBONIZED GREEN PLANT MATTER WHICH IS BURNING SMOKES OF A GREEN HERB] UPON IS HEAD, WHICH SAYS BEFORE THE LORD GOD AND HIS GLORY, I HAVE NOT SINNED.” IN ACTS 7:55-56 DECLARES “BUT HE BEING FULL OF THE HOLY GHOST, GAZED INTO HEAVEN AND SAW THE GLORY OF GOD, AND JESUS STANDING AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD (FATHER STEPHEN), AND SAID, ‘LOOK! I SEE THE HEAVENS OPENED AND THE SON OF MAN STANDING AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD (FATHER STEPHEN)!” HIS BLESSEDNESS (BETTER TO GIVE THAN TO RECEIVE) IS PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. GOD IS ALWAYS BLESSED. IN 1ST TIMOTHY 1:11 SAYS “…ACCORDING TO THE GLORIOUS GOSPEL OF THE BLESSED GOD WHICH WAS COMMITTED TO MY TRUST.” IN GENESIS 1:31 STATES “THEN GOD SAW EVERYTHING THAT HE HAD MADE, AND INDEED IT WAS VERY GOOD (BLESSED), SO THE EVENING AND THE MORNING WERE THE SIXTH DAY.” IN ISAIAH 62:5 MENTIONS “FOR AS A YOUNG MAN MARRIED A VIRGIN, SO SHALL YOUR SONS MARRY YOU, AND AS THE BRIDEGROOM REJOICES OVER THE BRIDE, SO SHALL YOUR GOD REJOICE OVER YOU.” IN PROVERBS 8:30-31 SAYS “THEN I WAS BESIDE HIM AS A MASTER CRAFTSMAN. AND I WAS DAILY HIS DELIGHT, REJOICING ALWAYS BEFORE HIM, REJOICING IN HIS INHABITED WORLD, AND MY DELIGHT WAS WITH THE SONS OF MEN.” IN ZEPHANIAH 3:17 DECLARES “THE LORD YOUR GOD IN YOUR MIDST, THE MIGHTY ONE, WILL SAVE. HE WILL REJOICE OVER YOU WITH GLADNESS. HE WILL QUIET YOU WITH HIS (AGAPE) LOVE. HE WILL REJOICE OVER YOU WITH SINGING.” IN JAMES 1:17 TELLS US “EVERY GOOD GIFT AND EVERY PERFECT GIFT IS FROM ABOVE, AND COMES DOWN FROM THE FATHER (STEPHEN) OF LIGHTS, WITH WHOM THERE IS NO VARIATION OR SHADOW OF TURNING.” IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 4:7-8 SAYS “FOR WHO MAKE YOU DIFFER FROM ANOTHER? AND WHAT DO YOU HAVE THAT YOU DID NOT RECEIVE? NOW IF YOU DID INDEED RECEIVE IT, WHY DO YOU BOAST AS IF YOU HAD NOT RECEIVED IT? YOU ARE ALREADY FULL! YOU ARE ALREADY RICH! YOU HAVE REIGNED AS GODS WITHOUT US—AND INDEED I COULD WISH YOU DID REIGN, THAT WE MIGHT REIGN WITH YOU!” IN PSALMS 41:13 STATES “BLESSED BE THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL FROM EVERLASTING AND TO EVERLASTING. AMEN, AND AMEN.” IN PSALMS 68:19 DECLARES “BLESSED BE THE LORD, WHO DAILY LOADS US WITH BENEFITS.” IN PSALMS 68:26 TELLS US “BLESS YE GOD IN THE CONGREGATIONS, EVEN THE LORD FROM THE FOUNTAIN OF ISRAEL.” IN PSALMS 72:18 SAYS “BLESSED BY THE LORD GOD, THE GOD OF ISRAEL, WHO ONLY DOES WONDROUS THINGS!” IN PSALMS 89:52 STATES “BLESSED BE THE LORD FOREVERMORE! AMEN AND AMEN.” SOME OTHER SCRIPTURE TO “BLESS THE LORD” ARE IN PSALMS 16:7; 28:6; 103:2, 20-22; 104:1; 113:2; 115:18; 124:6; 135:19-21. IN PSALMS 106:48 SAYS “BLESSED BY THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL FROM EVERLASTING TO EVERLASTING: AND LET ALL THE PEOPLE SAY, AMEN! PRAISE YE THE LORD!” IN PSALMS 119:12 MENTIONS “BETH. BLESSED ART THOU, O LORD: TEACH ME THY STATUTES.” THE LORD’S BEATITUDES ARE IN MATTHEW 5:3-12. IN MATTHEW 25:34 DECLARES “…COME, YE BLESSED OF MY FATHER (STEPHEN), INHERIT THE KINGDOM FOR YOU FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD.” IN 2ND CORINTHIANS 1:3 SAYS “BLESSED BY GOD, EVEN THE FATHER (STEPHEN) OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, THE FATHER (STEPHEN) OF MERCIES, AND THE GOD OF ALL COMFORT.” IN EPHESIANS 1:3 TELLS US “BLESSED BE THE GOD & FATHER (STEPHEN) OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, WHO HAS BLESSED US WITH ALL SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS IN HEAVENLY PLACES IN CHRIST.” IN 1ST TIMOTHY 6:15 DECLARES THE FATHER STEPHEN “…WHO IS THE BLESSED AND ONLY POTENTATE, THE KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.” IN JAMES 3:9 TELL US “THEREWITH BLESS WE GOD, EVEN THE FATHER (STEPHEN), AND THEREWITH CURSE WE MEN, WHICH ARE MADE THE SIMILITUDE OF GOD.” IN 1ST PETER 1:3 SAYS “BLESSED BE THE GOD AND FATHER (STEPHEN) OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, WHICH ACCORDING TO HIS ABUNDANT MERCY HAS BEGOTTEN US AGAIN UNTO A LIVELY HOPE BY THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST FROM THE DEAD.” IN REVELATION 5:12 SAYS “WORTHY IS THE LAMB THAT WAS SLAIN TO RECEIVE…BLESSING!” IN SIRACH 39:14 DECLARES “BLESS THE LORD IN ALL HIS WORKS…” SOME OTHER SCRIPTURES THAT “BLESS THE LORD” ARE SONG OF THE 3 JEWS 1:3, 29-68.  IN 2ND MACCABEES 1:17 SAYS “BLESSED BE OUR GOD ON ALL THINGS, WHO HAVE DELIVERED UP THE UNGODLY.” IN 1ST ESDRAS 8:25 MENTIONS “…BLESSED BE THE ONLY LORD GOD OF MY FATHERS, WHO HAS PUT THESE THINGS INTO THE HEART OF THE KING…” IN 1ST ESDRAS 9:46 SAYS “…SO ESDRAS BLESSED THE LORD GOD MOST HIGH (STEPHEN), THE GOD OF HOSTS, THE ALMIGHTY.”  IN 2ND ESDRAS 10:57 DECLARES “FOR THOU ART BLESSED ABOVE MANY OTHERS, AND ART CALLED WITH THE HIGHEST (STEPHEN), AND SO ARE BUT FEW.” IN LUKE 1:68 SAYS “BLESSED BE THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, FOR HE HAS VISITED AND REDEEMED HIS PEOPLE.” IN ACTS 20:35 SAYS “…AND REMEMBER THE WORDS OF THE LORD JESUS, THAT HE SAID, ‘IT IS MORE BLESSED TO GIVE THAN TO RECEIVE.” IN ACTS 7:59-60 DECLARES THAT THE FATHER STEPHEN GIVES HIS SPIRIT TO THE LORD JESUS CHRIST TO HANDLE THE CROSS AND PERSECUTION AND FOR ACCESS TO THE FATHER STEPHEN IN EPHESIANS 2:18. THIS MEANS THE LORD STEPHEN IS MORE BLESSED THAN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. HIS BEAUTY IS PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. GOD IS MOST BEAUTIFUL. IN PSALMS 27:4 SAYS “ONE THING I HAVE DESIRED OF THE LORD, THAT WILL I SEEK: THAT I MAY DWELL IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE, TO BEHOLD THE BEAUTY OF THE LORD AND TO INQUIRE IN HIS TEMPLE.” IN PSALMS 73:25 STATES “WHOM HAVE I IN HEAVEN BUT YOU? AND THERE IS NONE UPON EARTH THAT I DESIRE BESIDE YOU.” IN REVELATION 22:4 MENTIONS “THEY SHALL SEE HIS FACE, AND HIS NAME SHALL BE ON THEIR FOREHEADS.” IN 1ST PETER 3:4 TELLS US “…RATHER WITH THE HIDDEN PERSON OF THE HEART, WITH THE INCORRUPTIBLE BEAUTY OF A GENTLE AND QUIET SPIRIT, WHICH IS VERY PRECIOUS IN THE SIGHT OF GOD.” IN TITUS 2:10 SAYS “…NOT PILFERING (THIEVING), BUT SHOWING ALL GOOD FIDELITY, THAT THEY MAY ADORN THE DOCTRINE OF GOD OUR SAVIOR IN ALL THINGS.” IN EPHESIANS 5:27 MENTIONS “…THAT HE MIGHT PRESENT HER TO HIMSELF A GLORIOUS CHURCH, NOT HAVING SPOT OR WRINKLE OR ANY SUCH THING, BUT THAT SHE SHOULD BE HOLY AND WITHOUT BLEMISH.” SOME SCRIPTURES OF “THE BEAUTY OF HOLINESS FROM THE LORD” ARE IN 1ST CHRONICLES 16:29; 2ND CHRONICLES 20:21 & PSALMS 29:2; 110:3. IN ZECHARIAH 11:10 SAYS “AND I TOOK MY STAFF, EVEN BEAUTY, AND CUT IT ASUNDER, THAT I MIGHT BREAK MY COVENANT WHICH I HAD MADE WITH ALL THE PEOPLES.” IN ACTS 3:2, 10 IS THE LORD’S TEMPLE CALLED “BEAUTIFUL.” IN ACTS 7:49-50 TELLS US THAT THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD’S HOUSE IS MOST BEAUTIFUL IN HIS DWELLINGS AMONG THE LIVING DONE BY KING SOLOMON AND HIS PEACE AND HIS WISDOM. HIS IMMANENCE IS PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. GOD IS HOLY INDEPENDENT AND TRANSCENDENT IN WHICH HE DOES NOT RELY ON NOR IS DEPENDENT ON ANY OF HIS CREATIONS. HE IS THE MOST HOLIEST LORD OF ALL. FOR ALL HIS CREATIONS IS DEPENDENT ON HIM. IN HEBREWS 9:3, 5 SAYS “…AND BEHIND THE SECOND VEIL, THE PART OF THE TABERNACLE WHICH IS CALLED THE HOLIEST OF ALL…AND ABOVE IT WERE THE CHERUBIM OF GLORY OVERSHADOWING THE MERCY SEAT.” IN JOB 41:11 MENTIONS “WHO HAS PRECEDED ME, THAT I SHOULD PAY HIM? EVERYTHING UNDER HEAVEN IN MINE.” IN PSALMS 50:10-12 SAYS “FOR EVERY BEAST OF THE FOREST IS MINE, AND THE CATTLE ON A THOUSAND HILLS. I KNOW ALL THE BIRDS OF THE MOUNTAINS, AND THE WILD BEASTS OF THE FIELD ARE MINE. IF I WERE HUNGRY, I WOULD NOT TELL YOU, FOR THE WORLD IS MINE, & ALL ITS FULLNESS.” IN JOHN 1:3 SAYS “ALL THINGS WERE MADE THROUGH HIM, & WITHOUT HIM NOTHING WAS MADE THAT WAS MADE.” IN JOHN 17:5 STATES “AND NOW, O FATHER (STEPHEN), GLORIFY ME TOGETHER WITH YOURSELF, WITH THE GLORY WHICH I HAD WITH YOU BEFORE THE WORLD WAS.” IN JOHN 17:24 TELLS US “FATHER (STEPHEN), I DESIRE THAT THEY ALSO WHOM YOU GAVE ME MAY BE WITH ME WHERE I AM, THAT THEY MAY BEHOLD MY GLORY WHICH YOU HAVE GIVEN ME, FOR YOU LOVED ME BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD.” IN REVELATION 4:11 SAYS “YOU ARE WORTHY, O LORD, TO RECEIVE GLORY & HONOR & POWER, FOR YOU CREATED ALL THINGS, & BY YOUR WILL THEY EXIST AND WERE CREATED.” IN ROMANS 11:34-36 DECLARES “FOR WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD? OR WHO HAS BECOME HIS COUNSELOR? OR WHO HAD FIRST GIVEN TO HIM AND IT SHALL BE REPAID TO HIM? FOR OF HIM (JOHN) AND THROUGH HIM (JESUS) AND TO HIM (STEPHEN) ARE ALL THINGS, TO WHOM BE GLORY FOREVER, AMEN.” IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 8:6 SAYS “…YET FOR US THERE IS ONE GOD, THE FATHER (STEPHEN), OF WHOM ARE ALL THINGS, & WE FOR HIM, & ONE LORD JESUS CHRIST, THROUGH WHOM ARE ALL THINGS, & THROUGH WHOM WE LIVE.” IN PSALMS 90:2 STATES “BEFORE THE MOUNTAINS WERE BROUGHT FORTH, OR EVER YOU HAD FORMED THE EARTH & THE WORLD…FROM EVERLASTING TO EVERLASTING, YOU ARE GOD.” IN EXODUS 3:14 SAYS “AND GOD SAID TO MOSES, ‘I AM WHO I AM.’ IN EPHESIANS 1:11-12 DECLARES “IN HIM ALSO WE HAVE OBTAINED AN INHERITANCE, BEING PREDESTINED ACCORDING TO THE PURPOSE OF HIM WHO WORKS ALL THINGS ACCORDING TO THE COUNSEL OF HIS WILL, THAT WE WHO FIRST TRUSTED IN CHRIST SHOULD BE TO THE PRAISE OF HIS GLORY.” IN ISAIAH 62:3-5 SAYS “TO CONSOLE ALL WHO MOURN, TO CONSOLE THOSE WHO MOURN IN ZION, TO GIVE THEM BEAUTY FOR ASHES, THE OIL  OF  JOY  FOR  MOURNING, THE GARMENT OF PRAISE FOR THE SPIRIT OF HEAVINESS, THEY MAY BE CALLED TREES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, THE PLANTING OF THE LORD, THAT HE MAY BE GLORIFIED. AND THEY SHALL REBUILD THE OLD RUINS, THEY SHALL RAISE UP THE FORMER DESOLATIONS, & THEY SHALL REPAIR THE RUINED CITIES, THE DESOLATIONS OF MANY GENERATIONS. STRANGERS SHALL STAND & FEED YOUR FLOCKS, & THE SONS OF THE FOREIGNER SHALL BE YOUR PLOWMEN AND YOUR VINEDRESSERS.” IN ZEPHANIAH 3:17-18 STATES “THE LORD YOUR GOD IN YOUR MIDST, THE MIGHTY ONE, WILL SAVE. HE WILL REJOICE OVER YOU WITH GLADNESS. HE WILL QUIET YOU WITH HIS (AGAPE) LOVE. HE WILL REJOICE OVER YOU WITH SINGING. I WILL GATHER THOSE WHO SORROW OVER THE APPOINTED ASSEMBLY, WHO ARE AMONG YOU, TO WHOM ITS REPROACH IS A BURDEN.” IN ACTS 7:47-50 DECLARES THE FATHER STEPHEN ASKS THE UNIVERSE: “WHAT HOUSE, WILL YOU BUILD ME, SAYS THE LORD, & WHAT IS THE PLACE OF MY REST?” IN ACTS 17:24-25 SAYS “GOD, WHO MADE THE WORLD AND EVERYTHING IN IT, SINCE HE IS LORD OF HEAVEN & EARTH, DOES NOT DWELL IN TEMPLES MADE WITH HANDS, NOR IS HE WORSHIPPED WITH MEN’S HANDS, AS THOUGH HE NEEDED ANYTHING, SINCE HE GIVES TO ALL LIFE, BREATH AND ALL THINGS.”  HIS IMMUTABILITY (UNCHANGEABLENESS) IS PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. GOD DOES NOT CHANGE FOR ANYONE. GOD AS BEING ETERNAL IS THE SAME YESTERDAY, TODAY & FOREVER. IN PSALMS 33:11 SAYS “THE COUNSEL OF THE LORD STANDS FOREVER, THE PLANS OF HIS HEART TO ALL GENERATIONS.” IN PSALMS 102:25-27 MENTIONS “OF OLD YOU LAID THE FOUNDATION OF THE EARTH, & THE HEAVENS ARE THE WORK OF YOUR HANDS. THEY WILL PERISH, BUT YOU WILL ENDURE, YES, THEY WILL GROW OLD LIKE A GARMENT, LIKE A CLOAK YOU WILL CHANGE THEM, & THEY WILL BE CHANGED, BUT YOU ARE THE SAME, & YOUR YEARS WILL HAVE NO END.” ALSO, IT IS IN HEBREWS 1:10-12. IN JAMES 1:17 STATES “EVERY GOOD GIFT AND PERFECT GIFT IS FROM ABOVE, AND COMES DOWN FROM THE FATHER (STEPHEN) OF LIGHTS, WITH WHOM THERE IS NO VARIATION OR SHADOW OF TURNING.” IN MATTHEW 13:35 SAYS “…THAT IT MIGHT BE FULFILLED WHICH WAS SPOKEN BY THE PROPHET, SAYING, ‘I WILL OPEN MY MOUTH IN PARABLES, I WILL UTTER THINGS KEPT SECRET FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD.” IN MATTHEW 25:34 DECLARES “THEN THE KING WILL SAY TO THOSE ON HIS RIGHT HAND, ‘COME, YOU BLESSED OF MY FATHER (STEPHEN), INHERIT THE KINGDOM PREPARED FOR YOU FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD.” IN EPHESIANS 1:4 TELLS US “…JUST AS HE CHOSE US IN HIM BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, THAT WE SHOULD BE HOLY & WITHOUT BLAME BEFORE HIM IN (AGAPE) LOVE…” IN EPHESIANS 1:11 STATES “IN HIM ALSO WE HAVE OBTAINED AN INHERITANCE, BEING PREDESTINED ACCORDING TO THE PURPOSE OF HIM WHO WORKS ALL THINGS ACCORDING TO THE COUNSEL OF HIS WILL, THAT WE WHO FIRST TRUSTED IN CHRIST SHOULD BE TO THE PRAISE OF HIS GLORY.” IN EPHESIANS 3:9 SAYS “…AND TO MAKE ALL SEE WHAT IS THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE MYSTERY, WHICH FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE AGES HAS BEEN HIDDEN IN GOD WHO CREATED ALL THINGS THROUGH JESUS CHRIST…” IN EPHESIANS 3:11 TELLS US “…ACCORDING TO THE ETERNAL PURPOSE WHICH HE ACCOMPLISHED IN CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD…” IN 2ND TIMOTHY 2:19 DECLARES “THE SOLID FOUNDATION OF GOD STANDS, HAVING THIS SEAL: “THE LORD KNOWS THOSE WHO ARE HIS,” & “LET EVERYONE WHO NAMES THE NAME OF CHRIST DEPART FROM INIQUITY.” IN 1ST PETER 1:20-21 SAYS “HE INDEED WAS FOREORDAINED BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, BUT WAS MANIFEST IN THESE LAST TIMES FOR YOU, WHO THROUGH HIM BELIEVE IN GOD, WHO RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD AND GIVE HIM GLORY, SO THAT YOUR FAITH & HOPE ARE IN GOD.” IN REVELATION 13:8 TELLS US “ALL WHO DWELL ON THE EARTH WILL WORSHIP HIM, WHOSE NAMES HAVE NOT BEEN WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE OF THE LAMB SLAIN FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD.” IN ISAIAH 46:9-11 MENTIONS “REMEMBER THE FORMER THINGS OF OLD, FOR I AM GOD, AND THERE IS NONE LIKE ME, DECLARING THE END FROM THE BEGINNING, AND FROM ANCIENT TIMES THINGS  THAT  ARE  NOT  YET  DONE, SAYING, ‘MY COUNSEL SHALL STAND, AND I WILL DO ALL MY PLEASURE, CALLING A BIRD OF PREY FROM THE EAST. THE MAN WHO EXECUTES MY COUNSEL FROM A FAR COUNTRY. INDEED, I HAVE SPOKEN IT. I WILL ALSO BRING IT TO PASS, I HAVE PURPOSED IT. I WILL ALSO DO IT. IN NUMBERS 23:19 SAYS “GOD IS NOT A MAN, THAT HE SHOULD LIE, NOR A SON OF MAN, THAT HE SHOULD REPENT. HAS HE SAID AND WILL HE NOT DO? OR HAS HE SPOKEN, & WILL HE NOT MAKE IT GOOD.” IN 1ST SAMUEL 15:29 IT STATES “AND ALSO THE STRENGTH OF ISRAEL WILL NOT LIE NOR RELENT, FOR HE IS NOT A MAN THAT HE SHOULD RELENT.” IN HEBREWS 6:18 SAYS “THAT BY 2 IMMUTABLE THINGS (FATHER STEPHEN & BROTHER JOHN), IN WHICH ARE IMPOSSIBLE FOR GOD (YAH) TO LIE, WE MIGHT HAVE A STRONG CONSOLATION, WHO HAVE FLED FOR REFUGE TO LAY HOLD UPON THE HOPE SET BEFORE US...THE FORERUNNER IS FOR US ENTERED, EVEN JESUS (SON), MADE A HIGH PRIEST FOREVER…”    HIS RELENTING IS PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. GOD [THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD MAY RELENT, BUT IN NO WISE THE LORD YAHWEH NEVER RELENTS] SOMETIMES CHANGES HIS MIND FROM DESTROYING OR HARMING A NATION, COUNTRY OR A CITY. IN EXODUS 32:9-14 DECLARES “AND THE LORD SAID TO MOSES, I HAVE SEEN THIS PEOPLE, AND INDEED IT IS A STIFF-NECKED PEOPLE! NOW THEREFORE, LET ME ALONE, THAT MY WRATH MAY BURN HOT AGAINST THEM AND I MAY CONSUME THEM. AND I WILL MAKE OF YOU A GREAT NATION (LAW). THEN MOSES PLEADED WITH THE LORD HIS GOD, AND SAID: ‘LORD, WHY DOES YOUR WRATH BURN HOT AGAINST YOUR PEOPLE WHOM YOU HAVE BROUGHT OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT WITH GREAT POWER AND WITH A MIGHTY HAND? WHY SHOULD THE EGYPTIANS SPEAK AND SAY, ‘HE BROUGHT THEM OUT TO HARM THEM, TO KILL THEM IN THE MOUNTAINS, AND TO CONSUME THEM FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH? TURN FROM YOUR FIERCE WRATH, AND RELENT FROM THIS HARM TO YOUR PEOPLE. REMEMBER ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND ISRAEL, YOUR SERVANTS, TO WHOM YOU SWORE BY YOUR OWN SELF, AND SAID TO THEM, ‘I WILL MULTIPLY YOUR DESCENDANTS AS THE STARS OF HEAVEN, AND ALL THIS LAND THAT I HAVE SPOKEN OF I GIVE TO YOUR DESCENDANTS, AND THEY SHALL INHERIT IT FOREVER.’ SO, THE LORD RELENTED (BETWEEN 1 TO 100,000 IN REPENTING IN GENESIS 18:23-33 & 100,000 TO 100 BILLION IN RELENTING IN JUDE 14-15) FROM THE HARM WHICH HE SAID HE WOULD DO TO HIS PEOPLE [THIS MEANS, WE, ARE NEVER JUDGED BY OUR MINDS & THOUGHTS, BUT OUR DECISIONS IN OUR HEARTS WILL CAUSE OUR CONDITIONS IN OUR DEEDS & ACTIONS THAT ARE WEIGHED & JUDGED BY GOD].” IN JONAH 3:4-10 MENTIONS “AND JONAH BEGAN TO ENTER THE CITY ON THE FIRST DAY’S WALK. THEN HE CRIED OUT AND SAID, ‘YET FORTY DAYS, AND NINEVEH SHALL BE OVERTHROWN!’ SO, THE PEOPLE OF NINEVEH BELIEVED GOD, PROCLAIMED A FAST, AND PUT ON SACKCLOTH, FROM THE GREATEST TO THE LEAST OF THEM. THEN WORD CAME TO THE KING OF NINEVEH, AND HE AROSE FROM HIS THRONE AND LAID ASIDE HIS ROBE, COVERED HIMSELF WITH SACKCLOTH AND SAT IN ASHES, AND HE CAUSED IT TO BE PROCLAIMED AND PUBLISHED THROUGHOUT NINEVEH BY THE DECREE OF THE KING AND HIS NOBLES, SAYING, ‘LET NEITHER MAN NOR BEAST, TASTE ANYTHING, DO NOT LET THEM EAT, OR DRINK WATER. BUT LET MAN AND BEAST BE COVERED WITH SACKCLOTH, AND CRY MIGHTILY TO GOD. YES, LET EVERYONE TURN FROM HIS EVIL WAY AND FROM THE VIOLENCE THAT IS IN HIS HANDS. WHO CAN TELL IF GOD WILL TURN AND RELENT, AND TURN AWAY FROM HIS FIERCE ANGER, SO THAT WE MAY NOT PERISH? THEN GOD SAW THEIR WORKS, THAT THEY TURNED FROM THEIR EVIL WAY, AND GOD RELENTED FROM THE DISASTER THAT HE HAD SAID HE WOULD BRING UPON THEM, AND HE DID NOT DO IT.” IN GENESIS 6:6-7 SAYS “AND THE LORD WAS SORRY THAT HE MADE MAN ON THE EARTH, AND HE WAS GRIEVED IN HIS HEART. SO, THE LORD SAID, ‘I WILL DESTROY MAN WHOM I HAVE CREATED FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH, BOTH MAN AND BEAST, CREEPING THING AND BIRDS OF THE AIR, FOR I AM SORRY THAT I HAVE MADE THEM.’ BUT NOAH FOUND GRACE IN THE EYES OF THE LORD.” SOME OTHER SCRIPTURES ARE IN 1ST PETER 3:20; 2ND PETER 2:5; SIRACH 44:17; 2ND ESDRAS 3:10-11 & HEBREWS 11:7. IN GENESIS 18:23-33 STATES “AND ABRAHAM CAME NEAR AND SAID, ‘WOULD YOU ALSO DESTROY THE RIGHTEOUS WITH THE WICKED? SUPPOSE THERE WERE FIFTY RIGHTEOUS WITHIN THE CITY, WOULD YOU ALSO DESTROY THE PLACE AND NOT SPARE IT FOR THE FIFTY RIGHTEOUS THAT WERE IN IT?.SO THE LORD SAID. ‘IF I FIND IN SODOM 50 RIGHTEOUS WITHIN THE CITY, THEN I WILL SPARE ALL THE PLACE FOR THEIR SAKES.’ THEN ABRAHAM ANSWERED AND SAID, ‘INDEED NOW, I WHO AM BUT DUST AND ASHES HAVE TAKEN IT UPON MYSELF TO SPEAK TO THE LORD: SUPPOSE THERE WERE LESS THAN THE FIFTY RIGHTEOUS: WOULD YOU DESTROY ALL OF THE CITY FOR LACK OF FIVE?’ SO, HE SAID, ‘IF I FIND THERE 45, I WILL NOT DESTROY IT.’ AND HE SPOKE TO HIM YET AGAIN AND SAID, ‘SUPPOSE THERE SHOULD BE 40 FOUND THERE? SO, HE SAID, ‘I WILL NOT DO IT FOR THE SAKE OF 40.’ THEN HE SAID, ‘LET NOT THE LORD BE ANGRY, AND I WILL SPEAK: SUPPOSE 30 SHOULD BE FOUND THERE?’ SO, HE SAID, ‘I WILL NOT DO IT IF I FIND 30 THERE.’ AND HE SAID, ‘INDEED NOW, I HAVE TAKEN IT UPON MYSELF TO SPEAK TO THE LORD: SUPPOSE 20 SHOULD BE FOUND THERE?’ SO, HE SAID, ‘I WILL NOT DESTROY IT FOR THE SAKE OF 20.’ THEN HE SAID, ‘LET NOT THE LORD BE ANGRY, AND I WILL SPEAK BUT ONCE MORE: SUPPOSE 10 SHOULD BE FOUND THERE?’ AND HE SAID, ‘I WILL NOT DESTROY IT FOR THE SAKE OF 10.’ SO, THE LORD WENT HIS WAY AS SOON AS HE HAD FINISHED SPEAKING WITH ABRAHAM, AND ABRAHAM RETURNED TO HIS PLACE.” THE LORD FOUND LOT AS THE ONLY ONE RIGHTEOUS & DID NOT DESTROY THE CITY UNTIL LOT WAS SAFE. IN 2ND SAMUEL 24:16 SAYS “AND WHEN THE ANGEL (LORD) STRETCHED OUT HIS HAND OVER JERUSALEM TO DESTROY IT, THE LORD RELENTED FROM THE DESTRUCTION, AND SAID TO THE ANGEL (LORD) WHO WAS DESTROYING THE PEOPLE, ‘IT IS ENOUGH, NOW RESTRAIN YOUR HAND…’” THE SCRIPTURE IS ALSO IN 1ST CHRONICLES 21:15. IN PSALMS 106:45 SAYS “AND FOR THEIR SAKE HE REMEMBERED HIS COVENANT, AND RELENTED ACCORDING TO THE MULTITUDE OF HIS MERCIES.” IN JEREMIAH 18:8 DECLARES “IF THAT NATION (LAW) AGAINST WHOM I HAVE SPOKEN TURNS FROM ITS EVIL, I WILL RELENT OF THE DISASTER THAT I THOUGHT TO BRING UPON IT.” THERE ARE SOME OTHER SCRIPTURES IN JEREMIAH 18:10; 26:3, 13, 19; 42:10. IN JOEL 2:13-14 SAYS “SO REND YOUR HEART, AND NOT YOUR GARMENTS, RETURN TO THE LORD YOUR GOD, FOR HE IS GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL, SLOW TO ANGER, AND OF GREAT KINDNESS, AND HE RELENTS FROM DOING HARM. WHO KNOWS IF HE WILL TURN AND RELENT, AND LEAVE A BLESSING BEHIND HIM—A GRAIN OFFERING AND A DRINK OFFERING FOR THE LORD YOUR GOD?” IN AMOS 7:3 MENTIONS “SO THE LORD RELENTED CONCERNING THIS, ‘IT SHALL NOT BE,’ SAID THE LORD.” ALSO, THE SCRIPTURE IS IN AMOS 7:6. IN JONAH 3:9-10 SAYS “WHO CAN TELL IF GOD WILL TURN AWAY FROM HIS FIERCE ANGER, SO THAT WE MAY NOT PERISH? THEN GOD SAW THEIR WORKS THAT THEY TURNED FROM THEIR EVIL WAY, AND GOD RELENTED FROM THE DISASTER THAT HE SAID HE WOULD BRING UPON THEM, AND HE DID NOT DO IT.” IN JONAH 4:2 TELLS US “SO HE PRAYED TO THE LORD, AND SAID, ‘AH, LORD, WAS NOT THIS I SAID WHEN I WAS STILL IN MY COUNTRY? THEREFORE, I FLED PREVIOUSLY TO TARSHISH, FOR I KNOW THAT YOU ARE GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD, SLOW TO ANGER AND ABUNDANT IN LOVING KINDNESS, ONE WHO RELENTS FROM DOING HARM.” IN ACTS 7:51-59 TELLS US THAT THE FATHER STEPHEN JUDGED THE WHOLE LAW THAT COMMITTED THE ETERNAL SIN IN LORDSHIP AND THE ETERNAL CHARGE (PENALTY) IS ETERNAL DAMNATION TO THE LORDSHIP OF THE LAW WITHOUT RELENTING. BUT THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD RELENTED AND SAID, ‘LORD (YAH), DO NOT CHARGE THEM WITH THIS SIN.’ THEN THE LORD STEPHEN SAVED (PROTECTED) THE WHOLE LAW BY HIS OMNISCIENCE AND HIS OMNIPOTENCE IN ACTS 6:3-10; 7:57-8:3. WHAT ARE THE FIVE LEVELS OF RELENTING? FIRST, IS THE MARRIED LORD CALLED WISDOM BY THE TERM “QANAH” MEANING “MARITAL ETERNAL SEXUAL EROS LOVE” IN MARRIAGE AND THROUGH HIM ALL THE OTHER 56 MYSTERY LORD’S ETERNALLY SINNED (ETERNAL LIARS EATING FROM THE TWO TREES IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN) ABOVE THE WHOLE LAW IN PROVERBS 8:22-29 (RSV); 8:30-31 (NIV) & GENESIS 1:1; 2:9; 4:1. BUT CERTAINLY THROUGH THE LORD STEPHEN AS THE OMNISCIENCE/OMNIPOTENCE OF THE LORD ALL THE OTHER 60 MYSTERY LORD’S WAS PROTECTED (OMNISCIENCE & OMNIPOTENCE) FROM THE ETERNAL SIN (RELEASED THE ETERNAL LIARS) IN LORDSHIP ABOVE THE WHOLE LAW IN PROVERBS 8:22-29 (RSV); 8:30-31 (NIV) & ACTS 7:51-8:3. SECOND, IS THE ANGEL LUCIFER & THROUGH HIM ALL ANGEL LORDS (1 OUT OF 3) COMMITTED THE ETERNAL SIN (ETERNAL LIARS IN THE PLOT EATING FROM THE 2 TREES IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN)  IN  THE  LAW  IN  GENESIS  6:1-5;  ISAIAH  14:12-21  &  EZEKIEL 28:15-19. BUT THROUGH THE LORD JAMES AS THE ANGEL (LORD) OF THE LORD, ALL THE ANGELS OF MICHAEL WERE PROTECTED (MERCY) FROM THE ETERNAL SIN (RELEASED THE ETERNAL LIARS FROM THE PLOT) IN THE LAW IN ACTS 15:13-29; 21:18-25; JAMES 2:8-13. THIRD, IS THE MAN ADAM AND THROUGH HIM ALL MARRIED MEN SINNED IN DISOBEDIENCE TO THE LORD IN GENESIS 3:6. BUT THROUGH THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AS THE MAN OF THE LORD ALL THE MEN WAS PROTECTED (SALVATION) FROM THE FORGIVABLE SINS OF THE WORLD IN ROMANS 5:12-21 AND LUKE 23:26-46. FOURTH, IS THE WOMAN EVE AND THROUGH HER ALL WOMEN WAS DECEIVED IN GENESIS 3:6. BUT THROUGH THE LORD JOHN AS THE WOMAN OF THE LORD ALL WOMEN WAS PROTECTED (GRACE) FROM REPENTING TEMPTATIONS BY KNOWING THE SCRIPTURES AND THE OMNIPOTENCE OF GOD IN LUKE 3:1-22; 9:7-9; 20:34-38. FIFTH, IS THE CHILD CAIN AND THROUGH HIM ALL OF CHILD KIND COMMITTED MURDER IN GENESIS 4:8. BUT THROUGH THE LORD PETER AS THE CHILD OF THE LORD ALL CHILD KIND WAS PROTECTED (VICTORY) FROM COMMITTING MURDER IN LUKE 10:18-20.     HIS RELENTLESSNESS (DOES NOT RELENT) & HIS REPENTLESSNESS (DOES NOT REPENT) IS PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. IN 1ST SAMUEL 15:29 DECLARES “AND ALSO THE STRENGTH (LORD STEPHEN) OF ISRAEL WILL NOT LIE NOR RELENT, FOR HE IS NOT A MAN, THE HE SHOULD RELENT.” IN HEBREWS 7:21 SAYS “…THE LORD HAS SWORN & WILL NOT RELENT, ‘YOU ARE A PRIEST FOREVER ACCORDING TO THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK.’” THE SCRIPTURE IS ALSO IN PSALMS 110:4. IN ZECHARIAH 8:14 DECLARES “FOR THUS SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS: ‘JUST AS I DETERMINED TO PUNISH YOU WHEN YOUR FATHERS PROVOKED ME TO WRATH,’ SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS. ‘AND I WOULD NOT RELENT.’” IN EZEKIEL 24:14 MENTIONS “‘I, THE LORD, HAVE SPOKEN IT, IT SHALL COME TO PASS, AND I WILL DO IT, I WILL NOT HOLD BACK, NOR SPARE, NOR WILL I RELENT, ACCORDING TO YOUR WAYS AND ACCORDING TO YOUR DEEDS, THEY WILL JUDGE YOU,’ SAYS THE LORD GOD.” IN JEREMIAH 20:16 STATES “AND LET THAT MAN BE LIKE THE CITIES WHICH THE LORD—OVERTHREW, AND DID NOT RELENT. LET HIM HEAR THE CRY IN THE MORNING AND THE SHOUTING AT NOON…” IN JEREMIAH 15:6 SAYS “‘YOU HAVE FORSAKEN ME,’ SAYS THE LORD, ‘YOU HAVE GONE BACKWARD. THEREFORE, I WILL STRETCH OUR MY HAND AGAINST YOU AND DESTROY YOU, I AM WEARY OF RELENTING!” THE WAY THE LORD STEPHEN (2 POSITION TO ALL) DESTROYS A GOVERNMENT KINGDOM IS IN DEUTERONOMY 27:11-26; 28:15-68; 2ND THESSALONIANS 2:1-12; 2ND JOHN 7-11; JUDE 5-19; DANIEL 2:1-12:13; 2ND PETER 2:1-22; 3:10-13; GENESIS 6:1-8; REVELATION 4:1-20:15 AND ACTS 7:51-8:3. THIS IS DONE BY THE FATHER STEPHEN’S LAW OF DIVISION TO DIVIDE KINGDOMS (KINGS) AND NATIONS (LAWS) IN LUKE 11:17-23; 21:10. HIS IMPASSIBILITY (DIVINE PASSIONS) IS PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. GOD DOES NOT HAVE SEXUAL EROS LOVE PASSIONS, BUT HE DOES HAVE HOLY DIVINE LOVE PASSIONS. GOD DID NOT CREATE SEXUAL EROS LOVE TO BE COMMITTED ON THE EARTH IN MARRIAGE OR ANYTHING ELSE. IN THE BEGINNING SEXUAL EROS LOVE CAME FROM THE FALL OF EATING FROM THE TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL AND WAS NOT PART OF CREATION. WHAT GOD JOINED TOGETHER IN MARRIAGE AND HOLY MATRIMONY WAS A HOLY DIVINE UNION AND NOT A SEXUAL EROS UNION BECAUSE IT WAS DONE BY GOD. THE MAIN EXAMPLE OF A HOLY DIVINE UNION IS IN EPHESIANS 5:25 WHICH DECLARES “HUSBANDS (AGAPE) LOVE YOUR WIVES AND CHRIST (AGAPE) LOVED THE CHURCH AND GIVE HIMSELF FOR IT.” THIS MEANS THERE IS NO SEXUAL EROS LOVE AT ALL IN MARRIAGE. BUT IN THE LIVES OF THE VIRGIN MARY (JESUS CHRIST’S PARENT) AND UNDEFILED JOSEPH (STEP-FATHER (THE HUSBAND OF ONE’S PARENT WHEN DISTINCT FROM ONE’S NATURAL OR LEGAL FATHER) (STEP-MOTHER IS THE WIFE OF ONE’S PARENT WHEN DISTINCT FROM ONE’S NATURAL OR LEGAL MOTHER) TO JESUS) AND HER FAMILY LINE IT CONCERNED “HOLY DIVINE LOVE INTERCOURSE” AND NOT “SEXUAL EROS LOVE INTERCOURSE.” IN MARY’S FAMILY LINE, JAMES THE JUST SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT IN THE LAW BY NOT RECEIVING THE SEXUAL EROS LOVE JEWISH LAWS OF MOSES, BUT TO ABSTAIN FROM ALL SEXUAL EROS LOVE, EVEN IN MARRIAGE IN ACTS 15:13-29; 21:18-25 AND JAMES 2:8-13. FOR THE LORD JAH IN THE BEGINNING COMMANDED ADAM TO BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY, BUT THIS ONLY MEANT HOLY DIVINE LOVE INTERCOURSE WITH HIS WIFE EVE AND NOT THE SINFUL SEXUAL EROS LOVE INTERCOURSE OF THE WORLD IN GENESIS 2:24-25. EVEN JOB, MOSES, SAMSON AND SOLOMON IN THEIR RELATIONSHIPS WITH THEIR WIVES WERE A HOLY DIVINE UNION AND NOT SOME SEXUAL EROS UNION BECAUSE THEY WERE PERFECT AND UPRIGHT MARRIED MEN. BUT THE LORD DID FIND FAULT WITH THESE THREE, BUT NOT IN THEIR MARRIAGES. WITH JOB WAS HIS OMNIPOTENCE. WITH MOSES WAS HIS HOLINESS. WITH SAMSON WAS HIS FAITHFULNESS. WITH KING SOLOMON WAS HIS WORSHIP TO THE LORD. SATAN TRIED TO ACCUSE ALL FOUR WITH THE LORD AND SAID, ‘SKIN ON SKIN! YES, ALL THAT A MAN HAS HE WILL GIVE FOR HIS LIFE’ IN JOB 2:4. BUT THIS FAILED AND THEY WERE WITHOUT FAULT, EXCEPT WITH THE LORD. THE HOLY DIVINE PASSIONS OF GOD ARE AS FOLLOWS: HE REJOICES OVER YOU. IN ISAIAH 62:5 SAYS “FOR AS A YOUNG MAN MARRIES A VIRGIN, SO SHALL YOUR SONS MARRY YOU, AND AS THE BRIDEGROOM REJOICES OVER THE BRIDE, SO SHALL YOUR GOD REJOICE OVER YOU.” HE IS GRIEVED. IN PSALMS 78:40 STATES “HOW OFTEN THEY PROVOKED HIM IN THE WILDERNESS, AND GRIEVED HIM IN THE DESERT!” IN EPHESIANS 4:30 DECLARES “AND DO NOT GRIEVE THE HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD, BY WHOM YOU WERE SEALED FOR THE DAY OF REDEMPTION.” HIS WRATH BURNS HOT AGAINST HIS ENEMIES. IN EXODUS 32:10 STATES “NOW THEREFORE, LET ME ALONE, THAT MY WRATH MAY BURN HOT AGAINST THEM, AND I MAY CONSUME THEM.” HE PITIES HIS CHILDREN. IN PSALMS 103:13 SAYS “AS A FATHER PITIES HIS CHILDREN, SO THE LORD PITIES THOSE WHO FEAR HIM.” HE LOVES WITH EVERLASTING LOVE. ‘IN WITH A LITTLE WRATH I HID MY FACE FROM YOU FOR A MOMENT, BUT WITH EVERLASTING KINDNESS I WILL HAVE MERCY ON YOU,’ SAYS THE LORD, ‘YOUR REDEEMER.’” IN PSALMS 103:17 TELLS US “BUT THE MERCY OF THE LORD IS FROM EVERLASTING TO EVERLASTING ON THOSE WHO FEAR HIM, AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS TO CHILDREN’S CHILDREN.” IN ACTS 14:15 DECLARES THAT GOD DOES NOT HAVE LIKE PASSIONS AS MAN DOES, NOR DOES HE THINK LIKE MAN. IN ACTS 17:29-31 SAYS “THEREFORE, SINCE WE ARE THE OFFSPRING OF GOD, WE OUGHT NOT THINK THAT THE DIVINE NATURE IS LIKE GOLD OR SILVER OR STONE, SOMETHING SHAPED BY ART AND MAN’S DEVISING. TRULY, THESE TIMES OF IGNORANCE GOD OVERLOOKED (WINKED AT), BUT NOW COMMANDS ALL MEN EVERYWHERE TO REPENT, BECAUSE HE HAS APPOINTED A DAY ON WHICH HE WILL JUDGE THE WORLD IN RIGHTEOUSNESS BY THE MAN (LORD JOHN IN THE OLD WORLD, LORD JESUS IN THE NEW WORLD & LORD JAMES IN THE HIGHER WORLD) WHOM HE HAS ORDAINED. HE (FATHER STEPHEN) HAS GIVEN ASSURANCE OF THIS TO ALL BY RAISING HIM FROM THE DEAD.” IN 2ND PETER 1:4 STATES “…BY WHICH HAVE BEEN GIVEN TO US EXCEEDINGLY GREAT AND PRECIOUS PROMISES, THAT THROUGH THOSE YOU MAY BE PARTAKERS OF THE DIVINE NATURE, HAVING ESCAPED THE CORRUPTION THAT IS IN THE WORLD THROUGH LUST.” IN 1ST JOHN 1:15-16 SAYS “DO NOT (EROS) LOVE THE WORLD OR THE THINGS IN THE WORLD. IF ANYONE (EROS) LOVES THE WORLD, THE (AGAPE) LOVE OF THE FATHER (STEPHEN) IS NOT IN HIM. FOR ALL THAT IS IN THE WORLD—THE LUST OF THE EYES, THE LUST OF THE FLESH AND THE PRIDE OF LIFE—IS NOT OF THE FATHER (STEPHEN) BUT IS OF THE WORLD.” SOME OTHER SCRIPTURES ON DIVINE NATURE ARE IN ROMANS 1:20 AND COLOSSIANS 1:15; 2:9. IN ACTS 1:4-8:3 THE LORD STEPHEN IS THE FATHER AND HAS THE ESSENCE OF DIVINE NATURE (DEITY AND GODHEAD BODILY) SINCE HE IS THE TRINITY’S LAST AS THE 1ST PERSON OF THE TRINITY AND EQUAL TO THE LORD YAH. ALSO THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD NEVER CREATED MAN OR WOMAN WITH A SEX DRIVE [FOR A WOMAN HER SEX GENES IS XX & FOR A MAN HIS SEX GENES IS XY, WHICH MEANS TOGETHER MAKES “WHY XXX—PORN DNA” OR “WHY 666 DNA”] INITIALLY, BUT THIS WAS INHERITED FROM THE TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD & EVIL. ETERNAL CREATURES SWEAR THAT GOD GAVE THEM THE ABILITY TO HAVE SEX, BUT THIS IS PERVERTING THE TRUTH, TO TRY TO JUSTIFY & SATISFY THEIR SEXUAL CRAVINGS. NO, FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE LORD’S INTENT WAS FOR A MAN & WOMAN TO PROCREATE IN A HOLY DIVINE UNION, WHICH IS THE 777 DNA ONLY. A SEXUAL UNION IS CORRUPTION THAT WAS ALLOWED ONCE IN MARRIAGE IS PLACED UNDER THE DIVINE UNION BECAUSE OF THE DISOBEDIENCE TO THE LORD’S COMMANDS & THE RESULT, THE FALL OF MAN. OBVIOUSLY MAN THINKS HE IS GOD & WOMAN THINKS SHE IS MAN, WHICH IS A LIE IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 2:6-16. THERE ARE THREE KINDS OF “INTERCOURSE” IN THE HOLY BIBLE. FIRST, IS THE “POPULAR SEXUAL EROS LOVE INTERCOURSE” COMMITTED ONLY BY A MAN AND A WOMAN FROM THE TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL IN A STRENGTH 40 YEAR KINGDOM OF THIS WORLD IN GENESIS 4:1. SECOND, IS THE “KNOWN HOLY LAW LOVE INTERCOURSE” IN LUKE 2:23 FROM THE MIDST OF THE TREE OF LIFE DONE BY A MAN AND A WOMAN AND ALSO BOYS AND GIRLS IN LUKE 20:35-36 IN A WISDOM 80 YEAR LAW KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IN 1ST KINGS 11:3 & GENESIS 2:9. KING SOLOMON DID THIS KIND OF HOLY LAW LOVE INTERCOURSE WITH HIS 700 WIVES AND 300 CONCUBINES. BUT KING SOLOMON COMMITTED IDOLATRY WHICH IS “MARITAL FORNICATION” WITH THE MINORITY OF HIS FOREIGN WIVES AFTER 80 YEARS, BUT NOT WITH THE MAJORITY OF HIS LOCAL WIVES OR 300 CONCUBINES AFTER 80 YEARS IN TOBIT 4:12-13; 1ST KINGS 11:1-13 & NEHEMIAH 13:25-27. THIRD, IS THE “UNKNOWN HOLY DIVINE LOVE INTERCOURSE” FROM THE TREE OF LIFE THAT IS DONE BY A MAN AND WOMAN IN 2ND PETER 1:4 AND ALSO LORDS AND LADIES IN ACTS 17:29 IN A LORDLY 120 YEAR KINGDOM OF LORDSHIP IN MATTHEW 19:6; MARK 10:9; EPHESIANS 5:31; 1ST CORINTHIANS 6:17 & GENESIS 2:24-25. FOR QANAH DIRECTED TO THE FATHER STEPHEN DIRECTS YOU IN THE KINGDOM OF LORDSHIP TO DO HOLY DIVINE LOVE INTERCOURSE IN LORDSHIP IN ACTS 17:28-29. THE QANAH THAT IS NOT DIRECTED TO THE FATHER STEPHEN DIRECTS YOU TO THE LORD LUCIFER IN THE KINGDOM OF THIS WORLD TO DO SEXUAL EROS LOVE INTERCOURSE IN GENESIS 4:1. THE DOORWAY TO QANAH DIRECTED TO THE FATHER STEPHEN IS HIS DIVINE PLEASURE (DIVINE EJACULATION) THAT LEADS YOU TO THE KINGDOM OF LORDSHIP IN LUKE 12:32; REVELATION 4:11; 2ND THESSALONIANS 1:11; EPHESIANS 1:5; PHILIPPIANS 2:13 & HEBREWS 12:10. THE DOORWAY TO QANAH DIRECTED NOT TO THE FATHER STEPHEN IS THE LORD LUCIFER’S SINFUL PLEASURE THAT LEADS YOU TO THE KINGDOM OF THIS WORLD IN 2ND THESSALONIANS 2:12; 2ND TIMOTHY 3:4; TITUS 3:3; HEBREWS 11:25; 1ST CORINTHIANS 10:7; 2ND PETER 2:13; LUKE 8:14 & ROMANS 1:32. ALL THOSE WHO CALLS SEXUAL EROS MONEY THE UNRIGHTEOUS MAMMON (PROSTITUTIONS, WHOREDOMS, HARLOTRIES, SORCERIES & WIZARDRIES) WITH SWEET CANE (CALAMUS OR CANNABIS THE HEMP PLANT), SEXUAL EROS LOVE, SEXUAL EVIL, SEXUAL TEMPTATION, SEXUAL SIN OR SEXUAL DEATH AS BEING GOOD IN HIS SIGHT IS A LIAR, & TRIES TO WEARY THE FATHER STEPHEN, FOR THE FATHER STEPHEN COMMANDS IT IN TRUTH TO BE SEXUALLY EVIL IN NATURE AND A SEXUAL CORRUPTION IN THE WORLD THROUGH LUST TO STRENGTHEN THE FATHER STEPHEN IN MALACHI 2:17; ROMANS 8:28; 1ST TIMOTHY 6:10; 2ND PETER 1:4 & ISAIAH 43:24.      HIS PREEXISTENCE (ALWAYS ETERNAL) IS PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. THE TOP LORD YAHWEH HIMSELF [ABOVE & BEYOND THE HOLY SCRIPTURE] HAS NO END OR BEGINNING. HE HAS ETERNALLY ALWAYS BEEN AND FOREVER WILL BE. GOD IS IMMORTAL AND CAN NEVER DIE. IN PSALMS 90:2 SAYS “BEFORE THE MOUNTAINS WERE BROUGHT FORTH, OR EVER YOU HAD FORMED THE EARTH AND THE WORLD, EVEN FROM EVERLASTING TO EVERLASTING, YOU ARE GOD.” IN 1ST TIMOTHY 1:17 STATES “NOW TO THE KING ETERNAL, IMMORTAL, INVISIBLE, TO GOD WHO ALONE IS WISE, BE HONOR AND GLORY FOREVER AND EVER. AMEN.” IN 1ST TIMOTHY 6:16 SAYS “…WHO ALONE HAS IMMORTALITY, DWELLING IN UNAPPROACHABLE LIGHT, WHOM NO MAN HAS SEEN OR CAN SEE, TO WHOM BE HONOR AND EVERLASTING POWER, AMEN.” IN 2ND TIMOTHY 1:10 DECLARES “…BUT HAS NOW BEEN REVEALED BY THE APPEARING OF OUR SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST, WHO HAS ABOLISHED DEATH AND BROUGHT LIFE AND IMMORTALITY TO LIGHT THROUGH THE GOSPEL…” IN WISDOM OF SOLOMON 8:17 SAYS “NOW WHEN I CONSIDERED THOSE THINGS IN MYSELF, AND PONDERED THEM IN MY HEART, HOW THAT TO BE ALLIED UNTO WISDOM IS IMMORTALITY.” IN WISDOM OF SOLOMON 4:1 DECLARES “BETTER IT IS TO HAVE NO CHILDREN, AND TO HAVE VIRTUE: FOR THE MEMORIAL THEREOF IS IMMORTAL, BECAUSE IT IS KNOWN WITH GOD, AND WITH MEN.” IN WISDOM OF SOLOMON 1:15 STATES “FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS IS IMMORTAL. IN WISDOM OF SOLOMON 2:23 SAYS “FOR GOD CREATED MAN TO BE IMMORTAL, AND MADE HIM TO BE AN IMAGE OF HIS OWN ETERNITY.” IN WISDOM 15:3 TELLS US “FOR TO KNOW THERE IS PERFECT RIGHTEOUSNESS: YES, TO KNOW THY POWER IS THE ROOT OF IMMORTALITY. IN WISDOM OF SOLOMON 5:15-23 SAYS ABOUT THE JEALOUS LAW JUSTICE ARMOR CONCERNING THE RIGHTEOUS THAT LIVES FOREVER. IN ACTS 6:3, 8, 10 CONCERNS THE FATHER STEPHEN’S OMNISCIENCE (FULL OF WISDOM), OMNIPOTENCE (FULL OF POWER) AND RIGHTEOUSNESS (FULL OF JUSTICE) ARE THE FRUITS OF IMMORTALITY. HIS DIVINE PROVIDENCE (TOTAL CONTROL) IS PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. GOD HAS DIVINE REPROBATION AND DIVINE INTELLECT AND IS IN CONTROL OF ALL THINGS IN THE UNIVERSE. IN JOHN 10:27 SAYS “MY SHEEP HEAR MY VOICE, AND I KNOW THEM, AND THEY FOLLOW ME.” FIRST, PROVIDENCE IS CALLED HIS UNIVERSAL PRESERVATION. PRESERVATION IS GOD KEEPING ALL CREATED THINGS TO EXIST AND MAINTAINING THE PROPERTIES BY THEIR OWN CREATION.  IN ROMANS 8:29 DECLARES “FOR WHOM HE FOREKNEW, HE ALSO PREDESTINED, TO BE CONFORMED TO THE IMAGE OF HIS SON, THAT HE MIGHT BE THE FIRSTBORN AMONG MANY BRETHREN.” IN HEBREWS 1:3 STATES “…WHO BEING THE BRIGHTNESS OF HIS GLORY AND THE EXPRESS IMAGE OF HIS PERSON, AND UPHOLDING ALL THINGS BE THE WORD OF HIS POWER, WHEN HE HAS BY HIMSELF PURGED OUR SINS, SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE MAJESTY ON HIGH…” SOME EXAMPLES FOR GOD’S CONTROLLING POWER IS IN LUKE 5:18 (BRINGING A PARALYZED MAN TO THE BED); 2ND TIMOTHY 4:13 (BRINGING A CLOAK AND BOOKS TO PAUL) AND JOHN 2:8 (BRINGING WINE TO THE STEWARD OF THE FEAST). IN COLOSSIANS 1:17 SAYS “AND HE IS BEFORE ALL THINGS, AND IN HIM ALL THINGS CONSIST.” IN ACTS 17:28 IT TELLS US “IN HIM WE LIVE, AND MOVE AND HAVE OUR BEING.” IN 2ND PETER 3:7 MENTIONS “THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH THAT NOW EXIST” ARE “BEING KEPT UNTIL THE DAY OF JUDGMENT.” IN JOB 34:14-15 DECLARES “IF HE SHOULD TAKE BACK HIS SPIRIT (STEPHEN) TO HIMSELF, AND GATHER TO HIMSELF HIS BREATH, ALL FLESH WOULD PERISH TOGETHER, AND MAN WOULD RETURN TO DUST.” SECOND, PROVIDENCE IS CALLED HIS UNIVERSAL CONCURRENCE. CONCURRENCE IS GOD COOPERATING WITH HIS CREATIONS IN EVERY ACTION AND CAUSES THEM TO ACT IN A CERTAIN WAY. IN EPHESIANS 1:11 TELLS US THAT GOD “…ACCOMPLISHES ALL THINGS ACCORDING TO THE COUNSEL OF HIS WILL.” IN JOB 38:22-30 DETAILS THAT THE FIRE, WIND, HAIL, FROST AND SNOW OBEYS HIS COMMAND. IN PSALMS 135:6 SAYS “WHATEVER THE LORD PLEASES HE DOES, IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH, IN THE SEA AND ALL DEEPS.” IN PSALMS 135:7 STATES “HE IT IS WHO MAKES THE CLOUDS RISE AT THE END OF THE EARTH, WHO MAKES LIGHTENING FOR THE RAIN AND BRINGS FORTH THE WIND FOR HIS STOREHOUSES.” ALSO, SCRIPTURES ARE IN PSALMS 104:4, 29. SOME SCRIPTURES THAT PROVE HIS CONCURRENCE IS IN PSALMS 104:14; JOB 38:12, 32 & MATTHEW 5:45. ALSO ANIMALS ARE CONTROLLED BY GOD. IN MATTHEW 6:26 SAYS “LOOK AT THE BIRDS OF THE AIR…YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER (STEPHEN) FEEDS THEM.” IN MATTHEW 10:29 MENTIONS AND HE SAID THAT NOT ONE SPARROW “WILL FALL TO THE GROUND WITHOUT YOUR FATHER’S (STEPHEN) WILL.” SOME OTHER SCRIPTURES ARE PSALMS 104:27-29 & JOB 38:39-41. GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS (LAWS). IN JOB 12:23 SAYS GOD “MAKES NATIONS (LAWS) GREAT, & HE DESTROYS THEM: HE ENLARGES NATIONS (LAWS) & LEADS THEM AWAY.” IN PSALMS 22:28 STATES “DOMINION BELONGS TO THE LORD, AND HE RULES OVER THE NATIONS (LAWS).” SOME OTHER SCRIPTURES ARE ACTS 14:16; 17:26; DANIEL 4:34-35. GOD FULFILLS EVERY ASPECT OF OUR LIVES. IN MATTHEW 6:11 DECLARES “GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD…” IN PHILIPPIANS 4:19 MENTIONS “GOD WILL SUPPLY EVERY NEED.” SOME OTHER SCRIPTURES ARE PSALMS 18:34; 33:14-15; 75:6-7; 127:3; 139:16; JOB 14:5; GALATIANS 1:15; ACTS 17:28; JEREMIAH 1:5; 10:23; LUKE 1:52; PROVERBS 16:9; 20:24; 21:1; 1ST CORINTHIANS 4:7; EZRA 1:1; 6:22 AND PHILIPPIANS 2:13. THIRD, PROVIDENCE IS CALLED HIS UNIVERSAL GOVERNMENT. GOVERNMENT IS GOD GIVING PURPOSE ON ALL THAT HE DOES IN THE UNIVERSE AND HE GOVERNS AND DIRECTS ALL THINGS IN ORDER TO ACCOMPLISH HIS DIVINE WILL. IN PSALMS 103:19 SAYS “HIS KINGDOM RULES OVER ALL.” IN DANIEL 4:35 STATES “HE DOES ACCORDING THE HIS WILL IN THE HOST OF HEAVEN AND AMONG THE INHABITANTS OF THE EARTH, AND NONE CAN STAY HIS HAND OR SAY TO HIM, ‘WHAT ARE YOU DOING?’” IN ROMANS 11:36 MENTIONS “FROM HIM AND THROUGH HIM AND TO HIM ARE ALL THINGS.” IN PHILIPPIANS 2:10-11 SAYS “…AT THE NAME OF JESUS,” EVERY KNEE WILL BOW “IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH AND UNDER THE EARTH, AND EVERY TONGUE CONFESS THAT JESUS CHRIST IS LORD, TO THE GLORY OF GOD THE FATHER (STEPHEN).” IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 15:27 STATES “GOD HAS PUT ALL THINGS IN SUBJECTION UNDER HIS FEET.” IN EPHESIANS 1:11 TELLS US “…ACCOMPLISHES ALL THINGS ACCORDING TO THE COUNSEL OF HIS WILL.” IN ROMANS 8:28 DECLARES “GOD CAUSES ALL THINGS TO WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD TO THOSE WHO (AGAPE) LOVE GOD, TO THOSE WHO ARE CALLED ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE.” DOES EVIL COME FROM GOD? NO, GOD IS NOT THE AUTHOR OF EVIL, BUT HE TAKES RESPONSIBILITY FOR EVIL. THERE IS NOWHERE IN THE FULLNESS OF SCRIPTURES TO PROVE THAT GOD DIRECTLY DOES EVIL. ALSO, THE SCRIPTURE NEVER BLAMES GOD FOR THE EVIL THAT IS IN THE WORLD OR SHOWS GOD TAKING PLEASURE IN IT. IN GENESIS 45:5 SAYS “GOD SENT ME BEFORE YOU TO PRESERVE LIFE.” IN GENESIS 50:20 STATES “YOU MEANT EVIL AGAINST ME, BUT GOD MEANT IT FOR GOOD, TO BRING IT ABOUT THAT MANY PEOPLE SHOULD BE KEPT ALIVE, AS THEY ARE TODAY.” IN ONE INSTANCE, GOD HARDENED PHARAOH’S HEART AGAINST MOSES IN EXODUS 3:1-14:31 & ACTS 7:19-44. BUT MOSES CONQUERED HIM THROUGH THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD. IN JOSHUA 11:20 SAYS “FOR IT WAS THE LORD’S DOING TO HARDEN THEIR HEARTS THAT THEY SHOULD COME AGAINST ISRAEL IN BATTLE (1 OR 2 POSITIONS), IN ORDER THAT THEY SHOULD BE UTTERLY DESTROYED.” ALSO, THE SCRIPTURES ARE IN JUDGES 3:12; 9:23. IN JUDGES 14:4 SAYS SAMSON DEMANDED TO MARRY AN UNBELIEVER IN THE PHILISTINES. IN 1ST SAMUEL 16:14 TELLS US THAT AN EVIL SPIRIT TORMENTED KING SAUL. WHEN DAVID SINNED, THE LORD RAISED UP EVIL IN HIS HOUSE AND IT DID NOT DEPART IN UNTIL IT WAS FULFILLED IN 2ND SAMUEL 12:11-12; 16:22. MORE PUNISHMENT WAS GIVEN TO KING DAVID ABOUT KILLING URIAH THE HITTITE IN MILITARY WARFARE IN 2ND SAMUEL 12:15-18. KING DAVID PUT HIM IN THE HOTTEST BATTLE (COMBAT ZONE) AND WAS KILLED. THIS WAS DONE SO THAT KING DAVID COULD HAVE BATHSHEBA AS HIS WIFE. THE LORD BROUGHT UP EVIL IN HIS HOUSE BECAUSE OF THIS. THIS KIND OF EVIL WAS MESSIANIC EVIL AND NOT THE EVIL IN THE WORLD. SOME OTHER SCRIPTURE ABOUT DAVID’S SIN ARE IN 2ND SAMUEL 16:5-8, 11; 24:1, 10; 12-17.  ALSO, IN THE LIFE OF JOB THE LORD ALLOWED SATAN TO TRY JOB. BUT SATAN FAILED AND JOB WAS VICTORIOUS OVER SATAN IN JOB 1:1-2:13. ALSO IN 1ST KINGS 22:23 THE LORD PUT “A LYING SPIRIT IN THE MOUTH” OF AHAB’S PROPHETS. ALSO, THE LORD DID MANY NATURAL DISASTERS IN AMOS 4:6-12. SOME OTHER SCRIPTURES CONCERNING NATURAL DISASTERS AGAINST ISRAEL IS IN ISAIAH 10:5; JEREMIAH 25:9, 12 AND EZEKIEL 14:9. ALSO GOD RAISED UP ADVERSARIES AGAINST KING SOLOMON IN 1ST KINGS 11:14, 23. IN ISAIAH 45:7 (OKJV) DECLARES “I FORM THE LIGHT AND CREATE DARKNESS, I MAKE PEACE AND CREATE (MESSIANIC) EVIL.” IN THE LIFE OF JONAH THE MAN & GOD THREW HIM INTO THE SEA IN JONAH 1:14-15; 2:3. THE MOST EVIL THING IN THE HOLY BIBLE CONCERNING THE WORLD WAS THE CRUCIFIXION OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IN ACTS 2:23; 4:27. ALSO GOD USES ALL THINGS TO FULFILL HIS PURPOSES AND EVEN USES EVIL FOR OUR GOOD AND HIS GLORY. IT IS PROVEN IN ROMANS 8:28 WHICH DECLARES “GOD CAUSES ALL THINGS TO WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD TO THOSE WHO (AGAPE) LOVE GOD, TO THOSE WHO ARE CALLED ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE.” SOME OTHER SCRIPTURES ARE GENESIS 50:20; PSALMS 76:10; PROVERBS 16:4 AND ROMANS 9:14-24. GOD IS ALSO GLORIFIED THOUGH THE DEMONSTRATION OF HIS HOLINESS, POWER AND IMPARTIAL JUSTICE IN EXODUS 19:16 AND ROMANS 8:12-28. GOD IS NEVER TO BE BLAMED FOR EVIL AND NEVER DOES EVIL IN LUKE 22:22; MATTHEW 26:24; MARK 14:21; ACTS 2:23; 4:27-28 & JAMES 1:13-14. GOD JUDGES RIGHTFULLY AND BLAMES CORRECTLY TO HIS CREATURES THAT DOES EVIL IN ISAIAH 66:3-4; ECCLESIASTES 7:29 AND ROMANS 9:19-20. EVIL IS REAL AND WE SHOULD NEVER DO IT TO DISPLEASE GOD IN MATTHEW 6:13; 1ST PETER 2:11; JAMES 5:19-20 AND ROMANS 3:8. THEREFORE WE MUST BE IMITATORS OF GOD AS HIS CHILDREN AND NOT TO DO EVIL IN EPHESIANS 5:1. OVER ALL, GOD DOES NO EVIL, BUT DO WE UNDERSTAND HOW GOD CAN ORDAIN ANYTHING THAT WE DO IN EVIL DEEDS, BUT YET HOLD US ACCOUNTABLE AND HE IS NEVER BLAMED FOR EVIL. THIS IS DONE BY HIS VERY WISE PROVIDENCE. FOR THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD USED EVIL TO TRY THE SON JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD AND BROTHER JOHN OUR LORD AND LORD JAMES OUR LAW TO GLORIFY HIM AND TO PROVE ALL THINGS ARE SUBJECT TO THE FATHER STEPHEN IN ROMANS 8:28; 1ST CORINTHIANS 8:6; 15:24-28 AND EPHESIANS 4:6. THE LORD YAH USED ETERNAL EVIL TO TRY THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD AND TO ULTIMATELY ETERNALLY GLORIFY THE LORD YAH IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE & THE ETERNAL SIN IN LORDSHIP IS WITHOUT CEASING & THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD IS SUBJECT ONLY TO THE LORD YAH THE CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN IN JAMES 4:6-7. THE FATHER STEPHEN ONLY COMES INTO AGREEMENT WITH THE LORD YAHWEH (SHORT FOR YAH) THE CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN. THE FATHER STEPHEN DOES NOT COME IN AGREEMENT WITH THE LORD JEHOVAH (SHORT FOR JAH) THE CREATOR OVER ALL THE EARTH OR THE LORD VICTOR (SHORT FOR VIC) THE CREATOR OF THE HEAVENS OR THE LADY VICTORIA THE FEMALE CREATOR BECAUSE THE FATHER STEPHEN’S WITNESS (RECORD) IS ONLY IN LORDSHIP IN 1ST JOHN 5:6-13.                               HIS IMPARTIAL SELF IS PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. GOD IS NOT A RESPECTER OF PERSONS. IN ACTS 10:34 DECLARES “THEN PETER OPENED HIS MOUTH & SAID, ‘IN TRUTH I PERCEIVE THAT GOD SHOWS NO PARTIALITY, BUT IN EVERY NATION (LAW) WHOEVER FEARS HIM AND WORKS RIGHTEOUSNESS IS ACCEPTED BY HIM.’” IN SIRACH 35:14 SAYS “DO NOT THINK TO CORRUPT WITH GIFTS, FOR SUCH HE WILL NOT RECEIVE: AND TRUST NOT TO UNRIGHTEOUS SACRIFICES, FOR THE LORD IS JUDGE, AND WITH HIM IS NO RESPECTER OF PERSONS. SOME OTHER SCRIPTURES ARE IN DEUTERONOMY 1:7; 16:19; 2ND SAMUEL 14:14; 2ND CHRONICLES 19:7 & PROVERBS 28:21. IN ROMANS 2:11 SAYS “THERE IS NO RESPECT OF PERSONS WITH GOD. IN EPHESIANS 6:9 MENTIONS “AND YE MASTERS, DO THE SAME THINGS UNTO THEM, FORBEARING THREATENING, KNOWING THAT YOUR MASTER ALSO IS IN HEAVEN, NEITHER IS THERE RESPECT OF PERSONS WITH HIM. IN COLOSSIANS 3:25 STATES “BUT HE THAT DOES WRONG SHALL RECEIVE FOR THE WRONG WHICH HE HAS DONE, AND THERE IS NO RESPECT OF PERSONS.” IN JAMES 2:1 SAYS “MY BRETHREN, HAVE NOT THE FAITH OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, THE LORD OF GLORY, WITH RESPECT OF PERSONS.” IN JAMES 2:9 DECLARES “BUT AS YE HAVE RESPECT TO PERSONS, YE COMMIT SIN, AND ARE CONVINCED OF THE LAW AS TRANSGRESSORS.” IN 1ST PETER 1:17 TELLS US “AND IF YE CALL ON THE FATHER (STEPHEN), WHO WITHOUT RESPECT OF PERSONS JUDGES ACCORDING TO EVERY MAN’S WORK (BY FIRE & AGAPE LOVE), PASS THE TIME OF YOUR SOJOURNING HERE IN FEAR.” SOME OTHER SCRIPTURES CONCERNING ELDERS ARE IN LAMENTATIONS 4:16; 5:12.  GOD RESPECTS CERTAIN SITUATIONS WITH HIS CREATIONS. GOD IS A RESPECTER OF HIS OWN PERSON WHICH IS THE TRINITY AS THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD, SON JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD AND BROTHER JOHN OUR LORD THE HOLY GHOST OF GOD IN PSALMS 119:6, 15, 117; ISAIAH 17:7. GOD ALSO RESPECTS THE LORD JAMES OUR LAW CONCERNING ROMANS 13:1-10; LUKE 10:27; ACTS 5:34; EPHESIANS 5:33 AND JAMES 2:8-13. IN SIRACH 46:14 DECLARES “BY THE LAW OF THE LORD HE JUDGED THE CONGREGATION, AND THE LORD HAD RESPECT UNTO JACOB.” IN WISDOM OF SOLOMON 4:15 SAYS “THIS THE PEOPLE SAW, AND UNDERSTOOD IT NOT, NEITHER LAID UP THIS IN THEIR MINDS, THAT HIS GRACE AND MERCY IS WITH HIS SAINTS (LORDS), AND THAT HE HAS RESPECT UNTO HIS CHOSEN (FEW WHICH IS 8 POSITIONS).” SOME OTHER SCRIPTURES CONCERN THE SAINTS (LORDS) ABOVE THE LAW IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 6:1-11. IN GENESIS 4:4 SAYS “AND ABEL, HE BROUGHT OF THE FIRSTLINGS OF HIS FLOCK AND OF THE FAT THEREOF. AND THE LORD HAD RESPECT UNTO ABLE AND TO HIS OFFERING.” WITH ISRAEL GOD HAD RESPECT TO THEM IN EXODUS 2:25; LEVITICUS 26:9. IN 1ST KINGS 8:28 SAYS “YET HAVE THOU RESPECT UNTO THE PRAYER OF THY SERVANT, AND TO HIS SUPPLICATION. O LORD MY GOD, TO HEARKEN UNTO THE CRY AND THE PRAYER WHICH THY SERVANT PRAYS BEFORE THEE TODAY.” IN PSALMS 138:6 MENTIONS “THOUGH THE LORD BE HIGH, YET HAS HE RESPECT UNTO THE LOWLY…” IN HEBREWS 11:26 DECLARES “ESTEEMING THE REPROACH OF CHRIST, GREAT RICHES THAN THE TREASURES OF EGYPT: FOR HE HAD RESPECT UNTO THE RECOMPENSE OF THE REWARD.” IN PSALMS 74:20 SAYS “HAVE RESPECT TO THE COVENANT (10 COVENANTS), FOR DARK PLACES OF THE EARTH ARE FULL OF HAUNTS OF CRUELTY.” IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON THE 10 COVENANTS OF GOD, YOU MUST GET MY BOOK CALLED “THE GARDEN OF EDEN THAT THE LORD GOD CREATED.” IN HEBREWS 12:9 STATES “FURTHERMORE, WE HAVE HAD HUMAN FATHERS WHO CORRECTED US, AND WE PAID THEM RESPECT (REVERENCE, REVERING AND HIGH ESTEEM). SHALL WE NOT MUCH MORE READILY BE IN SUBJECTION TO THE FATHER (STEPHEN) OF SPIRITS AND LIVE.”              THE LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH’S GREAT DIVINE WORKS FATHER STEPHEN’S TIME IS TIMELESS AND PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. THE FATHER STEPHEN ACTS & DOES THIS AS THE LORD YAHWEH IN JOHN 8:58. IN JOB 36:26 SAYS “BEHOLD, GOD IS GREAT, AND WE DO NOT KNOW HIM, NOR CAN THE NUMBER OF HIS YEARS BE DISCOVERED.” IN REVELATION 1:8 DECLARES “‘I AM THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA, THE BEGINNING AND THE END,’ SAYS THE LORD, WHO IS AND WHO WAS AND WHO IS TO COME, THE ALMIGHTY.” IN REVELATION 4:8 STATES “…HOLY, HOLY, HOLY LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, WHO WAS AND IS AND IS TO COME!” IN JOHN 1:3 MENTIONS “ALL THINGS WERE MADE THROUGH HIM, AND WITHOUT HIM NOTHING WAS MADE THAT WAS MADE.” IN JOHN 8:58 SAYS “MOST ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO YOU, BEFORE ABRAHAM WAS, ‘I AM.’” IN EXODUS 3:14-15 TELLS US “AND GOD SAID TO MOSES, ‘I AM WHO I AM,’…I AM HAS SENT ME TO YOU. MOREOVER GOD SAID TO MOSES, ‘THUS YOU SHALL SAY TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL: THE LORD GOD OF YOUR FATHERS, THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, THE GOD OF ISAAC, AND THE GOD OF JACOB, HAS SENT ME TO YOU, THIS IS MY NAME FOREVER, AND THIS IS MY MEMORIAL TO ALL GENERATIONS.” 1ST CORINTHIANS 8:6 DECLARES “YET FOR US THERE IS ONE GOD, THE FATHER (STEPHEN), OF WHOM ARE ALL THINGS, AND WE FOR HIM…” IN COLOSSIANS 1:16 TELLS US “FOR BY HIM ALL THINGS WERE CREATED THAT ARE IN HEAVEN AND THAT ARE ON THE EARTH, VISIBLE, AND INVISIBLE, WHETHER THRONES OR DOMINIONS OR PRINCIPALITIES OR POWERS. ALL THINGS WERE CREATED THROUGH HIM AND FOR HIM.” IN HEBREWS 1:2 SAYS “HAS IN THESE LAST DAYS SPOKEN TO US BY HIS SON, WHOM HE HAS APPOINTED HEIR OF ALL THINGS, THROUGH WHOM ALSO HE MADE THE WORLDS…” IN HEBREWS 1:8 YOU, LORD, IN THE BEGINNING LAID THE FOUNDATION OF THE EARTH, AND THE HEAVENS ARE THE WORK OF YOUR HANDS, THEY WILL PERISH, BUT YOU REMAIN, AND THEY WILL ALL GROW OLD LIKE A GARMENT. LIKE A CLOAK YOU WILL FOLD THEM UP, AND THEY WILL BE CHANGED. BUT YOU ARE THE SAME, AND YOUR YEARS WILL NOT FAIL.” THE SCRIPTURE IS ALSO IN PSALMS 102:25-27. IN 2ND PETER 3:7 DECLARES “BUT THE HEAVENS AND EARTH, WHICH ARE NOW, BY THE SAME WORD IS KEPT IN STORE, RESERVED UNTO FIRE AGAINST THE DAY OF JUDGMENT AND PERDITION OF UNGODLY MEN.” IN 2ND PETER 3:12 SAYS “LOOKING FOR AND HASTING UNTO THE COMING OF THE DAY OF GOD, WHEREIN THE HEAVENS BEING DISSOLVED AND THE ELEMENTS (FIRE, WIND, EARTH AND WATER) SHALL MELT WITH FERVENT HEAT?” IN MATTHEW 11:25 SAYS “I THANK THEE, O FATHER (STEPHEN), LORD OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, BECAUSE THOU HAS HID THESE THINGS FROM THE WISE AND PRUDENT AND HAS REVEALED THEM UNTO BABES.” THE SCRIPTURE IS ALSO IN LUKE 10:21. IN MATTHEW 11:27 DECLARES “ALL THINGS ARE DELIVERED UNTO ME OF MY FATHER (STEPHEN), AND NO MAN KNOWS THE SON (JESUS CHRIST), BUT THE FATHER (STEPHEN), NEITHER KNOWS ANY MAN THE FATHER (STEPHEN), SAVE THE SON (JESUS CHRIST)…” THE SCRIPTURE IS ALSO IN LUKE 10:22.  IN MATTHEW 24:36 SAYS “BUT OF THAT DAY OR HOUR KNOWS NO MAN, NO, NOT THE ANGELS (LORDS) OF HEAVEN BUT MY FATHER (STEPHEN) ONLY.” IN MARK 13:32 MENTIONS “BUT OF THAT DAY OR HOUR KNOWS NO MAN, NO NOT THE ANGELS (LORDS) WHICH ARE IN HEAVEN, NEITHER THE SON (JESUS CHRIST), BUT THE FATHER (STEPHEN).” IN JOHN 14:6 SAYS “I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE: NO MAN COMES UNTO THE FATHER (STEPHEN), BUT BY ME (JESUS CHRIST). IN EPHESIANS 2:18 TELLS US THAT THERE IS ONLY ONE ACCESS TO THE FATHER (STEPHEN). IN ACTS 1:7 DECLARES “IT IS NOT FOR YOU TO KNOW THE TIMES OR SEASONS, WHICH THE FATHER (STEPHEN) HAS PUT IN HIS OWN OMNIPOTENCE.” IN EPHESIANS 4:6 DECLARES “ONE GOD AND FATHER (STEPHEN) OF ALL, WHO IS ABOVE ALL, AND THROUGH ALL AND IN YOU ALL.” IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 15:24 DECLARES “THEN COMES THE END, WHEN HE SHALL HAVE DELIVERED UP THE KINGDOM TO GOD, EVEN THE FATHER (STEPHEN), WHEN HE SHALL HAVE PUT DOWN ALL RULE AND ALL AUTHORITY AND (ALL) POWER.” SOME OTHER SCRIPTURES CONCERNING THE END ARE IN  1ST CHRONICLES 16:33; MATTHEW  24:15-46; 1ST THESSALONIANS 5:1-11; 2ND THESSALONIANS 2:1-12; ZECHARIAH 14:7; 2ND ESDRAS 4:22-52; 5:1-20-6:28; 9:1-13; 9:38-13:58; MARK 13:14-27, 32-37; DANIEL 1:1-12:13; 2ND PETER 3:10-13; 1ST JOHN 2:18-23; REVELATIONS 4:1-20:15; LUKE 21:7-28, 34-38 AND ACTS 1:4-8:3. THERE ARE A TOTAL OF 13 DAYS THAT RULES 13 NIGHTS EQUAL TO 13,000 (26,000) YEARS WITH THE LORD. THE 13 DAYS CONCERNS THE 1ST LORD YAHWEH’S CREATOR QANAH DAY OF THE CREATION THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD AROUND 10,012 BC-9,012 BC IN PROVERBS 8:22-25 (RSV), THE FATHER STEPHEN’S SUPREME LORDSHIP OF THE TRINITY’S 2ND CREATOR’S BARA DAY AROUND 9,012 BC-8,012 BC  IN GENESIS 1:1, THE 3RD LORD LUCIFER’S BARA DAY AROUND 8,012 BC-7,012 BC IN GENESIS 1:1, THE 4TH LORD MICHAEL’S ASAH DAY AROUND 7,012 BC-6,012 BC IN GENESIS 1:7, THE 5TH MAN NATHAN’S LAW DAY AROUND 6,012 BC-5,012 BC IN GENESIS 1:17, THE 6TH MAN ADAM’S YATSAR DAY AROUND 5,012 BC-4,012 BC IN GENESIS 1:26 & LUKE 3:38, THE 7TH MAN NOAH’S DAY AROUND 4,012 BC-3,012 BC IN GENESIS 5:29 AND LUKE 3:36, THE 8TH MAN ABRAHAM’S DAY AROUND 3,012 BC-2,012 BC IN GENESIS 11:26; MATTHEW 1:2 AND LUKE 3:34, THE 9TH MAN DAVID’S DAY AROUND 2,012 BC-1,012 BC IN LUKE 3:31 AND MATTHEW 1:6, 17, THE 10TH MAN BABYLON’S DAY AROUND 1,012 BC-12 AD IN MATTHEW 1:11, 17, THE 11TH SON JESUS’ DAY AROUND 12 AD-1,012 AD IN MATTHEW 1:16, 17 AND LUKE 3:23, THE 12TH BROTHER JOHN’S DAY AROUND 1,012 AD-2,012 AD AND THE 13TH FATHER STEPHEN’S DAY AROUND 2,012 AD-3,012 AD. ALSO IN THE LAST HOUR IS EQUAL TO A THOUSAND YEARS WITH THE LORD AND THE FATHER STEPHEN ONLY KNOWS THE TIME HIS SON JESUS CHRIST WILL COME BACK TO GET HIS PEOPLE IN THE RAPTURE FROM 2,012 AD-3,012 AD. THIS IS BECAUSE THE FATHER STEPHEN’S BIRTHDAY WAS AROUND 12 AD FOR CHRISTIANITY. THE SON JESUS’ BIRTHDAY IS AROUND 4 BC FROM 1,996 AD-2,996 AD. THE TRIBULATION PERIOD LASTS ONLY 7 YEARS IN REVELATION 4:1-20:15. SOME SCRIPTURES ARE IN GENESIS CHAPTERS 1-12; MATTHEW 1:1-17 AND LUKE 3:23-38. IN REVELATION 2:10 HAS ALREADY PASSED IN THE LAW AGE IS TEN DAYS EQUAL TO 10,000 YEARS BY THE LORD. THIS UNIVERSE IS 12 HOURS/24 HOURS IN 12,000/24,000 YEARS PLUS 1 HOUR/2 HOURS IN 1,000/2,000 YEARS IN NT/OT TIME IN MARCH 2,012AD. IN GENESIS 1:1 TO GENESIS 1:2 IS THE GAP THEORY IN ISAIAH 24:1-23;  HEBREWS 1:2 &  2ND  CORINTHIANS  12-13  (3 UNIVERSES—AGES/AEONS-THE PAST UNIVERSE IS PERFECT IN GENESIS 1:1, PRESENT UNIVERSE OF TODAY & FUTURE UNIVERSE IS PERFECT IN REVELATION 21:1-22:21) & THE MARRIED LORD CALLED WISDOM THE CREATOR OF THIS ETERNAL SIN IN LORDSHIP IN PROVERBS 8:22-29 (RSV); 8:30-31 (NIV) IS PART OF THE OLD UNIVERSE FOR TRILLIONS OF YEARS PRIOR TO THE YOUNG UNIVERSE THAT HAS LASTED FOR 15/30 DAYS OR 15,000/30,000 YEARS (DAY & NIGHT WITH A ENTRANCE & EXIT) & THE DOORWAY TO THE YOUNG UNIVERSE IS BETWEEN MARCH 6TH-MARCH 20TH (15 DAYS & 15 NIGHTS GLOBALLY) IN 2ND PETER 3:8.  NO ONE KNOWS THE DAY OR HOUR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN IN MATTHEW 24:36-44. THE DAY & HOUR IS AS 13/26 HOURS (13,000/26,000) IN 2ND PETER 3:8. THE HOUR THAT IS LEFT FOR A 1,000 YEARS IS IN MATTHEW 20:1-16; 24:22. THIS IS PROVEN IN THE GENEALOGY OF JESUS AND THE CREATION PROCESSES IN MATTHEW 1; LUKE 3 AND GENESIS 1:1, 7, 17; 2:7, 22; 4:1, 2. THE DAY HAS ALREADY PASSED CONCERNING 12,000/24,000 YEARS IN MARCH 2,012AD UNTIL THE LORD WILL DESTROY IT BY FIRE IN 2ND PETER 3:10-13. THE DATE OF MARCH 2,012AD IS BASED ON THE LIFE OF JESUS AND STEPHEN IN 3BC-12AD. MEDICAL SCIENCE SAYS THAT THE DINOSAURS LIVED 65 MILLION YEARS AGO. THE 2ND UNIVERSE BEGAN & LASTED FOR TRILLIONS OF YEARS IN GENESIS 1:2 & ENDED IN GENESIS 8:1. THIS IS PROVEN IN 2ND PETER 2:4-5. THE OLD EARTH ENDED IN WATER IN GENESIS 7:1-24. THE OLD LORDSHIP/HEAVEN ENDED IN FIRE & AGAPE LOVE IN ISAIAH 24:1-23. THE YOUNG UNIVERSE (YOUNG LORDSHIP/HEAVEN AND YOUNG EARTH) FOR 13,000/26,000 YEARS BEGAN IN GENESIS 8:20 AND WILL END IN REVELATION 20:15. IN GENESIS 2:9 SAYS THE LORD YAH PLANTED THE WISDOM TREE IN THE GARDEN SO ALL COULD UNDERSTAND HOW AND WHY THE MARRIED LORD CALLED WISDOM ETERNALLY SINNED AND FELL. LIFE COULD HAVE BEEN ON THE PLANET MERCURY AS THE 1ST PLANET FROM THE SUN LINKED TO THE MARRIED LORD CALLED WISDOM, & THE PLANET VENUS AS 2ND FROM THE SUN LINKED TO LUCIFER FOR TRILLIONS OF YEARS AGO BEFORE LIFE WAS ON THE YOUNG EARTH. THE TRINITY & THE   LAW  THAT CAME TO THIS YOUNG UNIVERSE 2,000 YEARS AGO WENT BACK TO THEIR UNIVERSE THAT LASTED MULTI-TRILLIONS  OF  YEARS  PRIOR  TO  THIS  OLD/YOUNG  UNIVERSE PROVEN IN PROVERBS 8:22-29 (RSV); 8:30-31 (NIV); 2ND ESDRAS 14:22; SIRACH 24:9; 2ND MACCABEES 7:23; MATTHEW 13:35; 25:34; LUKE 16:9; 20:35; JOHN 8:23; 13:1; 15:19; 16:28; 17:5, 11, 14, 24; 18:36; 21:25; ACTS 15:18; ROMANS 1:20; 16:25; 1ST CORINTHIANS 2:7; EPHESIANS 1:4; 3:9; 2ND TIMOTHY 1:9; TITUS 1:2; HEBREWS 1:2; 4:3; 11:3; 1ST PETER 1:20 AND REVELATION 11:15. THE FOUR INNER PLANETS HAVE THE CAPABILITY TO SUSTAIN LIFE CLOSEST TO THE SUN ARE MERCURY, VENUS, EARTH & MARS. ALSO, THE FOUR OUTER PLANETS WHICH ARE FURTHER AWAY FROM THE SUN ARE IN QUESTION TO SUSTAIN LIFE, WHICH ARE JUPITER, SATURN, URANUS & NEPTUNE. ALSO THE MARRIED LORD CALLED WISDOM IS THE LORD OF THIS AGE (OLD EARTH/OLD HEAVEN/LORDSHIP & THE YOUNG EARTH ONLY) AGAINST THE LORD STEPHEN OF THAT AGE, SATAN IS THE GOD OF THIS AGE AGAINST THE LORD JAMES OF THAT AGE, ADAM IS THE MAN OF THIS AGE AGAINST THE LORD JESUS OF THAT AGE, EVE IS THE WOMAN OF THIS AGE AGAINST THE LORD JOHN OF THAT AGE & CAIN IS THE CHILD OF THIS AGE AGAINST THE LORD PETER OF THAT AGE PROVEN IN PROVERBS 8:22-29 (RSV); 8:30-31 (NIV); GENESIS 2:9; 3:1-6:6; EPHESIANS 6:12; LUKE 20:34-38; 1ST CORINTHIANS 15:38, 40, 47, 55 & 2ND CORINTHIANS 4:4. FOR THE OLD LORDSHIP/HEAVEN/EARTH OF THE 2ND UNIVERSE IS THE FALL OF THE MARRIED LORD CALLED WISDOM & THE FALL OF LUCIFER IN PROVERBS 8:22-29 (RSV); 8;30-31 (NIV); GENESIS 2:9; ISAIAH 14:12-21 AND EZEKIEL 28:15-19. THE YOUNG EARTH CONCERNS SEXUAL EROS LOVE ONLY, BUT IS RELEASED BY THE OLD PART OF THE 2ND UNIVERSE AND THE YOUNG LORDSHIP/HEAVEN IS SEXLESS AS IN THE BOOK OF JOB, JOB’S SINLESS MARRIAGE IS CONSIDERED BEFORE ADAM’S SINFUL MARRIAGE BECAUSE IT IS WITHOUT SIN IN THE OLD PART OF THE 2ND UNIVERSE IN GENESIS 2:24-6:7 & JOB 1:1-37:24. IN THE BEGINNING OF THE 1ST LORDSHIP OVER THE 1ST HEAVEN/EARTH THE MARRIED LORD CALLED WISDOM WAS CREATED FROM EVERLASTING AND THE OTHER LORDS WERE ALSO CREATED FROM ETERNITY IN PROVERBS 8:23. WHEN THE MARRIED LORD CALLED WISDOM WENT INTO THE 2ND OLD UNIVERSE THAT LASTED FOR TRILLIONS OF YEARS, HE FELL IN LORDSHIP BY THE TERM “QANAH” MEANING “ETERNAL SEXUAL EROS LOVE APOSTASY” FROM THE WISDOM TREE & THE TREE OF LIFE IN GENESIS 2:9. THE OLD/YOUNG LORDSHIP, WISDOM & STRENGTH IS GOVERNED BY THE ETERNAL LORDSHIP, WISDOM & STRENGTH AS THE FIRST & LAST, BEGINNING & END & THE ALPHA & OMEGA IN ROMANS 1:20 & REVELATION 1:8, 11. IN THE BEAR (ASH, KESIL & KIMAH), ORION OR PLEIADES (SEVEN STARS) WITH THE 8 PLANETS (THE FULL LIST IS ABOVE) WITH THE MOON & SUN BY THE FATHER STEPHEN IN AMOS 5:8; JOB 9:9; 38:31 & THE COPTIC PSALM BOOK PAGES 327-329. HOW DID ANYBODY KNOW? THERE WERE NO TELESCOPES 2,000 YEARS AGO. IN 2ND ENOCH PAGES 496-500 SAYS THERE ARE 10 HEAVENS & EACH LEVEL GETS BRIGHTER TO THE LORD YAH. THIS IS PART OF THE 2ND OLD/YOUNG UNIVERSE. THE SUN-CLAD WOMAN HAS THE CROWN OF 12 STARS IN 8 PLANETS & 3 DWARF PLANETS (CERES, PLUTO & ERIS CALLED XENA) & THE MOON (LESSER LIGHT) & THE SUN (GREATER LIGHT) IN REVELATION 12:1-2. THE HOLY SCRIPTURES THAT CONCERNS THE OLD UNIVERSES & YOUNG UNIVERSES BEING DESTROYED BY WATER & THE FLOOD CONCERNING 70% FLUIDS OF THE BODY OUTSIDE THE FATHER STEPHEN’S KINGDOM ARE IN GENESIS 6:1-7; 9:11, 15; PSALMS 29:10; DANIEL 9:26; 2ND ESDRAS 3:9-10; WISDOM OF SOLOMON 5:22; 10;4; SIRACH 40:10; 44:17-18; MATTHEW 24:38-39; 2ND PETER 2:5; 3:5; REVELATION 12:15-16 & LUKE 17:27. THE HOLY SCRIPTURES THAT CONCERNS THE OLD UNIVERSES & YOUNG UNIVERSE BEING DESTROYED BY HOLY FIRE & FERVENT HEAT CONCERNING THE FIRE OF THE TONGUE AND FIRE SHUT UP IN THE BONES OF THE BODY OUTSIDE THE FATHER STEPHEN’S KINGDOM ARE IN GENESIS 19:24; EXODUS 9:24-25; PSALMS 11:6; EZEKIEL 38:22; 2ND ESDRAS 16:15; WISDOM OF SOLOMON 16:17; MATTHEW 25:41; 1ST CORINTHIANS 3:13-15; 2ND THESSALONIANS 1:5-10; 2ND PETER 3:7-13; JUDE 7; REVELATION 8:7-8; 9:17-18; 14:10; 19:20; 20:9 & LUKE 17:29. THE HOLY SCRIPTURES THAT CONCERNS THE OLD UNIVERSES & YOUNG UNIVERSES BEING DESTROYED BY THE AGAPE LOVES & OMNI-BENEVOLENCES CONCERNING THE SKIN & THE WHOLE DIVINE BODY INSIDE THE FATHER STEPHEN’S KINGDOM ARE IN SONG OF SOLOMON 8:7; ISAIAH 24:1-23; ZECHARIAH 14:1-15; 1ST THESSALONIANS 5:1-11 & 2ND THESSALONIANS 2:1-12.  THE LORD YAH’S TIME IS SEEN EQUALLY AND DOES NOT CHANGE LIKE MAN’S FRAILTY PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. IN 2ND PETER 3:8 SAYS “…THAT WITH THE LORD 1 DAY IS AS A 1,000 YEARS, & A 1,000 YEARS AS 1 DAY.” FOR IN THE BEGINNING MAN’S LIFE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE FOREVER CONCERNING THE TREE OF LIFE IN GENESIS 2:9; 3:22 AND SIRACH 19:19 AND WISDOM OF SOLOMON 2:23. BUT MAN’S LIFE SPAN THEN WAS TO LIVE FOR ABOUT 1,000 YEARS. BUT BECAUSE OF THE FALL THE LIFE SPAN WAS FROM 969 YEARS TO 777 YEARS IN ADAM’S FAMILY IN GENESIS 5:1-32. BUT ENOCH WAS TAKEN BY GOD AT 365 YEARS IN GENESIS 5:24. ENOCH WOULD BE A TYPE OF THE LORD STEPHEN IN THE OLD UNIVERSE FOR MULTI-TRILLIONS OF YEARS IN GENESIS 5:21-24; JUDE 14-15. ALSO, ELIJAH WAS TAKEN UP IN THE WHIRLWIND INTO HEAVEN IN 2ND KINGS 2:1-15. ELIJAH IS A TYPE OF THE LORD JOHN IN THE YOUNG UNIVERSE FOR 26,000 YEARS IN 1ST KINGS 17:1-2ND KINGS 2:15; MALACHI 4:5-6 & LUKE 1:17. ELIJAH APPEARS WITH THE LORD JESUS IN THE TRANSFIGURATION IN MATTHEW 17:1-4. THESE 2 (ELIJAH & MOSES) WILL COME BACK AFTER BEING IN HEAVEN FOR 1,000’S OF YEARS THE DRAGON WILL KILL THEM AT THE END TIME AND THEN BEING RESURRECTED AFTER 3 ½ DAYS IN REVELATION 11:1-14. MOSES IS A TYPE OF THE LORD JESUS IN THE YOUNG UNIVERSE FOR 26,000 YEARS IN MATTHEW 17:1-4 & HEBREWS 3:1-6. THE LORDSHIP OF THE LAW IS A TYPE OF THE LORD JAMES IN THE OLD UNIVERSE FOR TRILLIONS OF YEARS IN MATTHEW 17:5-6 & REVELATION 11:7-10. MAN’S FRAILTY IS IN PSALMS 90:10 SAYS “THE DAYS OF OUR LIVES ARE 70 YEARS…STRENGTH THEY ARE 80 YEARS.” IN GENESIS 6:2 STATES “…THE LORD SAID, ‘MY SPIRIT (FATHER STEPHEN IN JOHN 4:24; 1ST JOHN 5:6-13 & ACTS 7:2:17-7:59) SHALL NOT STRIVE WITH MAN FOREVER, FOR HE IS INDEED FLESH: YET HIS DAYS SHALL BE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY YEARS.’” SOME SCRIPTURES ARE ISAIAH 45:21; 46:9-10.  IN REVELATION 21:1-22:5 SAYS THE 1ST MAN ADAM THROUGH THE LORD JESUS CHRIST BY THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD HAS A SECOND CHANCE TO LIVE FOREVER. ALSO, THE IMMORTALITY BODY OF THE 2ND MAN ADAM IS IN JOHN 5:24-30; ROMANS 5:12-8:17 AND 1ST CORINTHIANS 15:35-58. ALSO, THE ANGELICAL HIERARCHY HAS A SECOND CHANCE WITH THE FRUIT OF IMMORTALITY IN LUKE 20:34-38; MATTHEW 22:29-32 AND MARK 12:24-27. THE ANGEL LORDS (SONS OF GOD) SAW THE DAUGHTERS OF MEN WERE BEAUTIFUL & MARRIED THEM BY BECOMING ETERNAL MAN AND WENT INTO THEM (SEXUAL EROS LOVE RELATIONS) AND BROUGHT FORTH GIANTS ON THE EARTH IN GENESIS 6:1-5. THE ANGELS WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO MARRY AND HAVE ANY SEXUAL EROS LOVE RELATIONS WITH THEM. BUT THE LORD YAHWEH SAW THAT THE WICKEDNESS OF MAN WAS GREAT AND DESTROYED THEM OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH WITH WATER IN GENESIS 6:6-7 & FIRE IN ISAIAH 24:1-23. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON THE END TIMES, YOU MUST GET MY BOOK CALLED “WHO IS THE LORD LUCIFER’S PARTY THAT THE LORD YAHWEH WILL CAST INTO HELL AT THE END TIME.” THE LORD YAHWEH’S UNITY IS PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. IN 1ST JOHN 1:5 SAYS “THIS IS THE MESSAGE WHICH WE HAVE HEARD FROM HIM AND DECLARE TO YOU, THE GOD IS LIGHT AND IN HIM IS NO DARKNESS AT ALL.” IN JOHN 1:14 DECLARES “AND THE WORD BECAME FLESH AND DWELT AMONG US, AND WE BEHELD HIS GLORY. THE GLORY AS OF THE ONLY BEGOTTEN OF THE FATHER (STEPHEN), FULL OF GRACE AND TRUTH.” IN MATTHEW 1:23 STATES “BEHOLD, THE VIRGIN SHALL BE WITH CHILD, AND BEAR A SON, AND THEY SHALL CALL HIS NAME IMMANUEL, WHICH IS TRANSLATED, GOD WITH US.” ALSO, THE SCRIPTURE IS IN ISAIAH 7:14. IN 1ST JOHN 4:8 TELLS US “HE WHO DOES NOT (AGAPE) LOVE DOES NOT KNOW GOD, FOR GOD IS (AGAPE) LOVE.” IN EXODUS 34:6-7 SAYS “AND THE LORD, PASSED BEFORE HIM AND PROCLAIMED, ‘THE LORD, THE LORD GOD, MERCIFUL AND GRACIOUS, LONGSUFFERING, AND ABOUNDING IN GOODNESS AND TRUTH, KEEPING MERCY FOR THOUSANDS, FORGIVING INIQUITY AND TRANSGRESSION AND SIN, BY NO MEANS CLEARING THE GUILTY, VISITING THE INIQUITY OF THE FATHERS UPON THE CHILDREN AND THE CHILDREN’S CHILDREN TO THE 3RD AND 4TH GENERATIONS.” THE LORD YAHWEH’S WORTHINESS IS PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. IN REVELATION 4:11 SAYS “YOU ARE WORTHY, O LORD, TO RECEIVE GLORY AND HONOR AND POWER, FOR YOU CREATED ALL THINGS, AND BY YOUR WILL THEY EXIST AND WERE CREATED.” IN REVELATION 5:12-13 DECLARES “WORTHY IS THE LAMB WHO WAS SLAIN TO RECEIVE POWER (OMNIPOTENCE, AUTHORITY, ALMIGHTINESS, HOLINESS & SOVEREIGNTY) AND RICHES AND WISDOM (OMNISCIENCE), AND STRENGTH (JOY, GRACE, RIGHTEOUSNESS, IMPARTIAL JUSTICE & MERCY) AND HONOR AND GLORY (MAJESTY) AND BLESSING!” IN REVELATION 7:12 DECLARES “AMEN! BLESSING AND GLORY AND WISDOM, THANKSGIVING AND HONOR AND POWER AND MIGHT, BE TO OUR GOD FOREVER AND EVER, AMEN.” THE LORD YAHWEH’S WORKS IS PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 12:28 SAYS “THE LORD APPOINTS APOSTLES, PROPHETS, TEACHERS (COUNSELORS, ELDERS, PASTORS & PREACHERS), EVANGELISTS (MIRACLE WORKERS), GIFTS OF HEALINGS (HEALERS), HELPS, ADMINISTRATIONS & VARIETIES OF TONGUES IS THE CHURCH OF GOD. GOD EQUIPS THESE IN THE CHURCH TO DISCOVER AND DO HIS WILL IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD IN ACTS 1:1-28:31. THE LORD YAHWEH’S FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT ARE PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. IN GALATIANS 5:22-23 SAYS “BUT THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT IS LOVE (OMNI-BENEVOLENCE), JOY, (STRENGTH, GRACE, RIGHTEOUSNESS, IMPARTIAL JUSTICE AND MERCY), PEACE (ORDER AND PATIENCE), LONGSUFFERING, KINDNESS, GOODNESS (HONOR), FAITHFULNESS (TRUTHFULNESS), GENTLENESS (MEEKNESS), SELF-CONTROL (TEMPERANCE). AGAINST SUCH THERE IS NO LAW.” BUT THERE IS THE LAW OF GOD WHICH PROTECTS THE FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT. THE LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH’S OTHER DIVINE WORKS FIRST, HIS SIGNS, WONDERS AND HEALINGS ARE USUALLY RELATED TO AND CALLED “MIRACLES” IN THE HOLY SCRIPTURES. HIS SIGNS ARE PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. SIGNS ARE PERFORMED BY GOD IN THE EARTH TO SHOW HIS CONTROL OF THE PHYSICAL REALM AND TO ACCOMPLISH WHAT HE WANTS DONE IN EXISTENCE. IN HEBREWS 2:4 SAYS “…GOD ALSO BEARING WITNESS BOTH WITH SIGNS…ACCORDING TO HIS OWN WILL?” IN 2ND CORINTHIANS 12:12 STATES “TRULY THE SINGS OF AN APOSTLE WERE ACCOMPLISHED AMONG YOU ALL WITH PERSEVERANCE, IN SIGNS…” IN ACTS 4:30 SAYS “BY STRETCHING OUT YOUR HAND TO HEAL, THAT SIGNS...MAY BE DONE THROUGH THE NAME OF YOUR HOLY SERVANT (CHILD) JESUS.” IN ACTS 5:12 MENTIONS “AND THROUGH THE HANDS OF THE APOSTLES MANY SIGNS…WERE DONE AMONG THE PEOPLE. AND THEY WERE ALL WITH ONE ACCORD IN SOLOMON’S PORCH.” IN ACTS 6:8 SAYS “AND STEPHEN, FULL OF FAITH (FAITHFULNESS AND TRUTH) AND POWER (OMNIPOTENCE, AUTHORITY, ALMIGHTINESS AND SOVEREIGNTY) DID GREAT…SIGNS AMONG THE PEOPLE.” IN ROMANS 15:19 TELLS US “IN MIGHTY SIGNS…, BY THE POWER OF THE SPIRIT (STEPHEN) OF GOD, SO THAT FROM JERUSALEM AND ROUND ABOUT TO ILLYRICUM I HAVE FULLY PREACHED THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST.” IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 1:22-24 MENTIONS “FOR JEWS REQUEST A SIGN, AND GREEKS SEEK AFTER WISDOM, BUT WE PREACH CHRIST CRUCIFIED, TO THE JEWS A STUMBLING BLOCK AND TO THE GREEKS FOOLISHNESS, BUT TO THOSE WHO ARE CALLED, BOTH JEWS AND GREEKS, CHRIST, THE POWER OF GOD AND THE WISDOM OF GOD.” IN REVELATION 12:1-2 DECLARES “NOW A GREAT SIGN APPEARED IN HEAVEN: A WOMAN CLOTHED WITH THE SUN, WITH THE MOON UNDER HER FEET, AND ON HER HEAD A CROWN (GARLAND) OF 12 STARS. THEN BEING WITH CHILD, SHE CRIED OUT IN LABOR AND IN PAIN TO GIVE BIRTH.” IN DEUTERONOMY 6:22 SAYS “THE LORD SHOWED SIGNS…GREAT AND SORE, UPON EGYPT, UPON PHARAOH, AND UPON ALL HIS HOUSEHOLD, BEFORE OUR EYES.” ALSO, THE SCRIPTURE IS IN BARUCH 2:11. IN ISAIAH 7:14 TELLS US “THEREFORE THE LORD HIMSELF SHALL GIVE YOU A SIGN, BEHOLD, A VIRGIN SHALL CONCEIVE AND BEAR A SON, AND SHALL CALL HIS NAME IMMANUEL.” IN REVELATION 15:1 SAYS “AND I SAW ANOTHER SIGN IN HEAVEN GREAT AND MARVELOUS, SEVEN ANGELS (LORDS) HAVING THE SEVEN LAST PLAGUES, FOR IN THEM IS FILLED UP THE WRATH OF GOD.” IN ACTS 2:22 STATES “MEN OF ISRAEL, HEAR THESE WORDS: JESUS OF NAZARETH, A MAN ATTESTED BY GOD TO YOU BY…SIGNS… WHICH GOD (FATHER STEPHEN) DID THROUGH HIM IN YOUR MIDST, AS YOU YOURSELVES ALSO KNOW...” THE “SIGNS OF AN APOSTLE” ARE 1ST, SPIRITUAL CONFLICT WITH EVIL [ARMED] FORCES IN 2ND CORINTHIANS 10:3-4, 8-11; 13:2-4, 10. 2ND, IS GAINING STRENGTH OUT OF FRAILTY (WEAKNESS) IN 2ND CORINTHIANS 12:9-10. 3RD, IS TRUE KNOWLEDGE OF JESUS & HIS GOSPEL PLAN IN 2ND CORINTHIANS 11:6. 4TH, IS BEING CAUGHT UP INTO HEAVEN IN 2ND CORINTHIANS 12:1-6. 5TH, IS NOT TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE CHURCH IN 2ND CORINTHIANS 11:20-21. 6TH, IS NOT STRIKING PEOPLE PHYSICALLY IN 2ND CORINTHIANS 11:20-21. 7TH, IS CONTENTMENT & FAITH TO ENDURE & OVERCOME THE THORN IN THE FLESH IN 2ND CORINTHIANS 12:7-9. 8TH, IS SELF-SUPPORT (SELFLESSNESS) IN 2ND CORINTHIANS 11:7-11. 9TH, IS SUFFERING HARDSHIP BY ENDURING WITH CHRIST IN 2ND CORINTHIANS 11:23-29. 10TH, IS THE JEALOUS CARE FOR THE CHURCHES IN 2ND CORINTHIANS 11:1-10. HIS WONDERS ARE PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. WONDERS ARE PERFORMED BY GOD IN HEAVEN TO SHOW THINGS TO HIS MINISTERING SPIRITS AND HIS CONTROL IN THE CELESTIAL REALMS AND THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF HIS WILL AMONG THE ANGELS (LORDS). IN ACTS 2:22 SAYS “MEN OF ISRAEL, HEAR THESE WORDS: JESUS OF NAZARETH, A MAN ATTESTED BY GOD TO YOU BY…WONDERS… WHICH GOD (FATHER STEPHEN) DID THROUGH HIM IN YOUR MIDST, AS YOU YOURSELVES ALSO KNOW...” IN ACTS 4:30 MENTIONS “BY STRETCHING YOUR HAND TO HEAL, AND THAT WONDERS…MAY BE DONE THROUGH THE NAME OF YOUR HOLY SERVANT (CHILD) JESUS.” IN ACTS 5:12 DECLARES “AND THROUGH THE HANDS OF THE APOSTLES MANY WONDERS…WERE DONE AMONG THE PEOPLE. AND THEY WERE ALL WITH ONE ACCORD IN SOLOMON’S PORCH.” IN ACTS 6:8 SAYS “AND (FATHER) STEPHEN FULL OF FAITH (FAITHFULNESS AND TRUTH) AND POWER (AUTHORITY, OMNIPOTENCE, ALMIGHTINESS AND SOVEREIGNTY) DID GREAT…WONDERS AMONG THE PEOPLE.” IN ROMANS 15:19 DECLARES “IN MIGHTY…WONDERS, BY THE POWER OF THE SPIRIT (STEPHEN IN ACTS 2:17-7:59; JOHN 4:23-24 & 1ST JOHN 5:6-13) OF GOD, SO THAT FROM JERUSALEM AND ROUND ILLYRICUM I HAVE FULLY PREACHED THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST.” IN HEBREWS 2:4 MENTIONS “…GOD ALSO BEARING WITNESS…WITH WONDERS…ACCORDING TO HIS OWN WILL?” IN DEUTERONOMY 6:22 DECLARES “AND THE LORD SHOWED WONDERS…GREAT AND SORE, UPON EGYPT, UPON PHARAOH, AND UPON ALL HIS HOUSEHOLD, BEFORE OUR EYES.” HIS HEALINGS ARE PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. HEALINGS ARE PERFORMED BY GOD TO CURE ALL DISEASES, SICKNESS, OR PLAGUES TO SHOW HIS AGAPE LOVE TO HIS CREATIONS. IN LUKE 4:40 SAYS “WHEN THE SUN WAS SETTING, ALL THOSE WHO HAD ANY THAT WERE SICK WITH VARIOUS DISEASES BROUGHT THEM TO HIM, AND HE LAID HIS HANDS ON EVERY ONE OF THEM AND HEALED THEM.” IN MATTHEW 8:15 STATES “SO HE TOUCHED HER HAND, AND THE FEVER LEFT HER, AND SHE AROSE AND SERVED THEM.” IN MATTHEW 4:23-24 TELLS US “AND JESUS WENT ABOUT ALL GALILEE, TEACHING IN THEIR SYNAGOGUES, PREACHING THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM, AND HEALING ALL KINDS OF SICKNESS AND ALL KINDS OF DISEASE AMONG THE PEOPLE. THEN HIS FAME WENT THROUGHOUT ALL SYRIA, AND THEY BROUGHT TO HIM ALL SICK PEOPLE WHO WERE AFFLICTED WITH VARIOUS DISEASES AND TORMENTS, AND THOSE WHO WERE DEMON-POSSESSED, EPILEPTICS AND PARALYTICS, AND HE HEALED THEM.” IN MATTHEW 10:7-8 SAYS “AND AS YOU GO, PREACH SAYING ‘THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND.’ HEAL THE SICK, CLEANSE THE LEPERS, RAISE THE DEAD, CAST OUT DEMONS. FREELY YOU HAVE RECEIVED, FREELY GIVE.” IN MATTHEW 9:35 TELLS US “THEN JESUS WENT ABOUT ALL THE CITIES AND VILLAGES, TEACHING IN THEIR SYNAGOGUES, PREACHING THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM, AND HEALING EVERY SICKNESS AND EVERY DISEASE AMONG THE PEOPLE.” IN MATTHEW 14:14 SAYS “AND WHEN JESUS WENT OUT HE SAW A GREAT MULTITUDE AND HE WAS MOVED WITH COMPASSION FOR THEM, AND HE HEALED THEIR SICK.” IN ACTS 6:8 DECLARES “AND STEPHEN, FULL OF FAITH (FAITHFULNESS AND TRUTH) AND POWER (AUTHORITY, ALMIGHTINESS, OMNIPOTENCE AND SOVEREIGNTY) DID GREAT…SIGNS (HEALINGS) AMONG THE PEOPLE.”  IN ACTS 8:6-7 TELLS US “FOR UNCLEAN SPIRITS, CRYING WITH A LOUD VOICE, CAME OUT OF MANY WHO WERE POSSESSED, AND MANY WHO WERE PARALYZED AND LAME WERE HEALED. AND THERE WAS GREAT JOY IN THAT CITY.” IN ACTS 19:11-12 SAYS “NOW GOD WORKED UNUSUAL MIRACLES (HEALINGS) BY THE HANDS OF PAUL, SO THAT EVEN HANDKERCHIEFS OR APRONS WERE BROUGHT FROM HIS BODY TO THE SICK, AND THE DISEASES LEFT THEM AND THE EVIL SPIRITS WENT OUT OF THEM.” IN ACTS 28:8 MENTIONS “AND IT HAPPENED THAT THE FATHER OF PUBLIUS LAY SICK OF A FEVER AND DYSENTERY (BLOODY FLUX). PAUL WENT IN TO HIM AND PRAYED, AND HE LAID HIS HANDS ON HIM AND HEALED HIM.” AND THE LORD GAVE HIS DISCIPLES ALL AUTHORITY AND ALL POWER OVER DEMONS, DISEASES, SICKNESSES AND PLAGUES IN LUKE 10:18-20. HIS MIRACLES ARE PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. FIRST, I WOULD LIKE TO TALK ABOUT THE LORD JESUS CHRIST DOING HIS MIRACLES BY THE HAND OF THE FATHER STEPHEN. MIRACLES ARE NOT SALVATION, NOR IT WILL NOT LEAD YOU TO SALVATION, BUT ARE DONE THROUGH GOD’S ANOINTING TO SHOW HIS COMPLETE CONTROL AND PROVIDENCE AND HIS RIGHT TO DO THESE THINGS IN HIS WORD OF HIS POWER IN HEBREWS 1:3. IN THE FOUR SYNOPTIC GOSPELS OF THE FATHER STEPHEN, HIS SON JESUS CHRIST DID ALL THE MIRACLES, BUT WE HAVE AN INCOMPLETE LIST OF MIRACLES IN WHICH HE DID IN HIS MINISTRY IN JOHN 12:24-25. THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IS KNOWN BY THE FATHER STEPHEN AS THE “GREAT PHYSICIAN.” THE MIRACLE MINISTRY THAT HE DISPLAYED WAS VERY SUFFICIENT FOR ISRAEL AND HIS DISCIPLES. THE MAIN LIST IS AS FOLLOWS: THROUGHOUT HIS MINISTRY HE CURED, RAISED THE DEAD, PREACHED TO THE CAPTIVE SAINTS (LORDS), CAST OUT DEVILS, MADE THE BLIND TO SEE, AND SHOWED THE FATHER STEPHEN’S GLORY. THE MIRACLES THAT JESUS CHRIST ACHIEVED WAS SOLELY DONE BY THE FATHER STEPHEN IN HIS THREE YEAR MINISTRY WHICH INVOLVES PETER’S MOTHER IN LAW HEALED IN CAPERNAUM IN MATTHEW 8:14-17; MARK 1:29-31; LUKE 4:38-39, THE DROUGHT OF FISHES IN GALILEE IN LUKE 5:1-11, THE LEPER CLEANSED IN CAPERNAUM IN MATTHEW 8:1-4; MARK 1:40-45; LUKE 5:12-15, THE PARALYTIC CURED IN CAPERNAUM IN MATTHEW 9:1-8; MARK 2:3-13; LUKE 5:18-26, THE IMPOTENT MAN HEALED IN JERUSALEM IN JOHN 5:1-9, THE WITHERED HAND RESTORED IN GALILEE IN MATTHEW 12:10-13; MARK 3:1-5; LUKE 6:6-11, THE CENTURION’S SERVANT CURED OF THE PALSY IN CAPERNAUM IN MATTHEW 8:5-13; LUKE 7:1-10, THE WIDOW’S SON RAISED FROM THE DEAD (NAIN) IN LUKE 7:11-17, THE DEMONIAC HEALED IN GALILEE IN MATTHEW 12:22-23; LUKE 11:14, THE TEMPEST STILLED IN GALILEE IN MATTHEW 8:23-27; MARK 4:35-41; LUKE 8:22-25, THE TWO DEMONIACS CURED IN GADARA IN MATTHEW 8:28-34; MARK 5:23, 35-43; LUKE 8:41, 49-56, THE WOMAN WITH THE ISSUE OF BLOOD HEALED IN MATTHEW 9:20-22; MARK 5:25-34; LUKE 8:43-48, THE BLIND MEN CURED IN CAPERNAUM IN MATTHEW 9:27-31, THE DUMB SPIRIT CAST OUT IN CAPERNAUM IN MATTHEW 9:32-33, THE 5,000 FED  IN  GALILEE  IN  MATTHEW  14:15-21; MARK 6:35-44; LUKE 9:10-17; JOHN 6:1-14, THE WALKING ON THE SEA IN GALILEE IN MATTHEW 14:25-33; MARK 6:48-52; JOHN 6:15-21, THE SYROPHOENICIAN’S DAUGHTER HEALED IN TYRE IN MATTHEW 15:21-28; MARK 7:24-30, 4,000 FED IN GALILEE IN MATTHEW 15:32-39; MARK 8:1-9, THE DEAF AND DUMB MAN CURED IN GALILEE IN MARK 7:31-37, THE BLIND MAN HEALED IN BETHSAIDA IN MARK 8:22-26, THE DEVIL CAST OUT OF THE BOY NEAR CAESAREA IN MATTHEW 17:14-18; MARK 9:14-29; LUKE 9:37-42, THE TRIBUTE MONEY PROVIDED IN CAPERNAUM IN MATTHEW 17:24-27, THE PASSING THROUGH THE CROWD UNSEEN IN THE TEMPLE IN JOHN 8:59, THE TEN LEPERS CLEANSED IN SAMARIA IN LUKE 17:11-19, THE MAN BORN BLIND HEALED IN JERUSALEM IN JOHN 9:1-7, LAZARUS RAISED FROM THE DEAD AFTER 4 DAYS IN THE TOMB IN BETHANY IN JOHN 11:38-44, THE WOMAN WITH THE INFIRMITY CURED IN PERAEA IN LUKE 13:11-17, THE MAN WITH THE DROPSY CURED IN PARAEA IN LUKE 14:1-6, THE TWO BLIND MEN CURED IN JERICHO IN MATTHEW 20:29-34; MARK 10:46-52; LUKE 18:35-43, THE FIG TREE BLASTED IN MOUNT OLIVET IN MATTHEW 21:18-22; MARK 11:12-14, MALCHUS’ EAR PLACED AND HEALED IN GETHSEMANE IN LUKE 22:50-51, THE SECOND DRAUGHT OF FISHES IN GALILEE IN JOHN 21:1-14, LEGION WITH OVER 2,000 DEMONS IN HIM WAS PUT IN HIS RIGHT MIND AND HEALED IN LUKE 8:26-39; MARK 5:1-20 AND THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST IN MATTHEW 28:1-10; MARK 16:1-11; LUKE 24:1-12 AND JOHN 20:1-18. THESE ARE THE KNOWN MIRACLES THAT JESUS CHRIST DID BY THE FATHER STEPHEN. THE MIRACLES DONE BY THE FATHER STEPHEN THROUGH THE LORD JEHOVAH IS PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. THE LIST IS COMPLETE WHICH CONCERNS THE 10 PLAGUES OF EGYPT AND THE RED SEA CROSSING. THE MIRACLES THAT THE FATHER STEPHEN DID IN HIS 3 YEAR MINISTRY WERE DONE BY THE LORD YAHWEH IN ACTS 7:19-60. THIS KIND OF PERMISSIBLE MAGIC CONCERNS “FIRE AGAINST FIRE” BY THE ROD OF GOD (FATHER STEPHEN). ISRAEL WAS PROTECTED WHICH IS A FORM OF “DIVINE WHITE MAGIC” THAT THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD USED AND EGYPT WAS HARMED OR DESTROYED WHICH IS A FORM OF “DIVINE BLACK MAGIC” THAT THE FATHER STEPHEN USED. SOME SCHOLARS PROVE THAT THE ROD WAS MADE OUT OF SAPPHIRE (A CLEAR CRYSTAL TO RADIATE THE POWERS). IT WOULD BE VERY HEAVY TO MOSES, UNLESS MOSES WAS EMPOWERED ALSO TO CARRY IT. OTHER SCHOLARS SAY THE ROD CAME FROM THE MULLEIN (ASH) TREE. MULLEIN IS USED AS AN HERBAL MEDICINE USED FOR WARTS, BOILS, CARBUNCLES, CHILBLAINS, BACTERIA’S, CATARRHS, ASTHMA, RESPIRATORY DISORDERS, EAR INFECTIONS, FROSTBITE, ECZEMA, PULMONARY DISEASES, BRONCHITIS, HEMORRHOIDS, COUGH, SORE THROAT AND LUNG DISEASE. IT IS ACTIVE IN MANY SMOKING BLENDS. THE FATHER STEPHEN EMPOWERED THE ROD BY EXTRAORDINARY OMNIPOTENCE’S.  THE COMPLETE LIST IS AS FOLLOWS: THE 11 MIRACLES INVOLVES ISRAEL BEING PROTECTED AND EGYPT BEING DESTROYED. IT INVOLVES FIRST THE WATER TURNED TO BLOOD ON NISAN, WHICH IS THE MONTH OF MARCH 21ST TO APRIL 21ST IN EXODUS 7:19 AND THE FISHES DIED AND THE RIVERS STUNK BY WHICH THE MAGICIANS DID IN LIKEWISE AS MOSES DID WITH THE ROD OF GOD (FATHER STEPHEN). SECOND, IT INVOLVED FROGS ON AB, WHICH IS THE MONTH OF JULY 21ST TO AUGUST 21ST IN EXODUS 8:2 WHICH WENT INTO THEIR HOUSES, ON THE BEDS, IN THEIR BEDROOMS, INTO THEIR OVENS AND INTO THEIR KNEADING BOWLS BY WHICH THE MAGICIANS DID LIKEWISE AND CONJURED UP FROGS. IN THESE TWO PLAGUES THE LORD IN HIS WILL USED THE OPPOSITION TO PROTECT ISRAEL, AND IT BACKFIRED ON THE EGYPTIANS. THIRD, IS LICE ON ELUL, WHICH IS THE MONTH OF AUGUST 21ST TO SEPTEMBER 21ST IN EXODUS 8:16 WHICH WAS ON MAN AND BEAST. BUT THE MAGICIANS TRIED TO CONJURE UP LICE, BUT COULD NOT BECAUSE THIS WAS THE FINGER OF GOD (FATHER STEPHEN), AND THE BEGINNING OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD (FATHER STEPHEN) IN LUKE 11:20. FOURTH, IS FLIES ON TISHRI, WHICH IS THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER 21ST TO OCTOBER 21ST IN EXODUS 8:24 WHICH WERE ON THEIR PEOPLE, ON THEIR SERVANTS AND IN THEIR HOUSES. FIFTH, IS CATTLE LIVESTOCK DISEASED ON CHESHVAN (HESHVAN), WHICH IS THE MONTH OF OCTOBER 21ST TO NOVEMBER 21ST IN EXODUS 9:3 BY WHICH WERE ON THEIR CATTLE, HORSES, DONKEYS, CAMELS, OXEN AND SHEEP—A VERY SEVERE PESTILENCE. AND THE FATHER STEPHEN PUT A DIFFERENCE FROM ISRAEL’S LIVESTOCK BEING PROTECTED AND THE EGYPTIANS LIVESTOCK BEING DISEASED. SIXTH, IS BOILS ON KISLEV (CHISLEV), WHICH IS THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER 21ST TO DECEMBER 21ST IN EXODUS 9:9 BY WHICH MOSES TOOK A HANDFUL OF ASHES FROM THE FURNACE AND SCATTERED IT TOWARD THE HEAVENS AND THE MAGICIANS COULD NOT STAND BECAUSE IT WAS ON MAN AND BEAST. SEVENTH, IS HAIL ON TEVET (TEBETH), WHICH IS THE MONTH OF DECEMBER 21ST TO JANUARY 21ST IN EXODUS 9:24 BY WHICH THE HAIL KILLED EVERY MAN AND ANIMAL IN THE FIELD. EIGHTH, IS LOCUSTS ON SHEVAT (SHEBAT), WHICH IS THE MONTH OF JANUARY 21ST TO FEBRUARY 21ST IN EXODUS 10:4 BY WHICH THEY COVERED THE EARTH AND NO ONE COULD SEE THE EARTH AND THEY SHALL EAT THE RESIDUE OF ALL GREEN THINGS IN EGYPT. THEY SHALL FILL THEIR HOUSES. NINTH, IS DARKNESS ON ADAR, WHICH IS THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY 21ST TO MARCH 21ST IN EXODUS 10:21 BY WHICH IT COULD EVEN BE FELT BY MAN AND PHARAOH THREATENED MOSES. TENTH, IS THE DEATH OF THE FIRSTBORN ON NISAN, WHICH IS THE MONTH OF MARCH 21ST TO APRIL 21ST IN EXODUS 11:1-10; 12:29-30 AND AT 12:00 MIDNIGHT ALL THE FIRSTBORN OF THE EGYPTIANS DIED AND THERE WAS NOT ONE HOUSE WHERE A LEAST ONE WAS DEAD. IN THESE PLAGUES FROM THE 3RD TO THE 10TH THE MAGICIANS HAD NO POWERS. THE 2 MAGICIANS THAT RESISTED MOSES WERE NAMED JANNES (JOHANAI, IANNES OR JANIS) & JAMBRES (MAMRE, MAMBRES OR JAMBERES) IN 2ND TIMOTHY 3:8-9. ON THE ROD THE INSCRIPTION IS YAHWEH OR BY PIOUS JEWS “HA SHEM” (THE NAME) ON TAMMUZ, WHICH IS THE MONTH OF JUNE 21ST TO JULY 21ST. THE ROD WAS APPOINTED FROM MOSES, TO AARON, THE JOSHUA, TO DAVID, TO JACOB, TO SOLOMON, TO JESUS, TO SAUL (JEWISH LAW), TO JAMES (GENTILE/CHRISTIAN LAW), TO JAMES (LAW OF YAH), TO THE FATHER STEPHEN (LORDSHIP) AND BACK TO THE LORD YAH IN ACTS 7:30-60 & MICAH 6:9. ELEVENTH, IS THE RED SEA CROSSING ON IYAR, WHICH IS THE MONTH OF APRIL 21ST TO MAY 21ST DONE BY THE FATHER STEPHEN IN WISDOM OF SOLOMON 14:3 & EXODUS 14:1-31 WHERE ISRAEL ESCAPED AND PHARAOH’S ARMY DROWNED. ALL THESE PLAGUES THROUGH THE FATHER STEPHEN WERE CONSIDERED AS BLACK MAGIC TO DESTROY OR HARM THE EGYPTIANS AND WHITE MAGIC TO PROTECT AND HEAL ISRAEL. THE WEAKNESS OF MOSES IS ON SIVAN, WHICH IS THE MONTH OF MAY 21ST TO JUNE 21ST BY HITTING THE ROCK TWICE IN NUMBERS 20:1-13. THE GOLDEN RULE IS TO DO UNTO OTHERS AS THEY WOULD DO UNTO YOU IN MATTHEW 7:1-2, 12. THESE 11 PLAGUES TO EGYPT OR 11 MIRACLES TO ISRAEL IS IN EXODUS 3:1-14:31. HIS REVELATIONS IS PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. REVELATIONS ARE DONE BY GOD TO SHOW HIS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES ON A PARTICULAR SUBJECT AND TO DEMONSTRATE HIS DIVINE PURPOSES OR HIS DIVINE PREROGATIVES. IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION, THE FATHER STEPHEN SENT HIS SON JESUS CHRIST TO SHOW JOHN THE REVELATOR THINGS THAT WILL COME TO PASS IN THE END TIME GREAT TRIBULATION PERIOD. THESE REVELATIONS ARE PROVEN TRUTHFULLY AND WITHOUT MISTAKES. ALSO, THE FATHER STEPHEN SENT HIS SON JESUS CHRIST TO SHOW DANIEL IN THE BOOK OF DANIEL THESE THINGS IN THE END TIME GREAT TRIBULATION PERIOD. IN HEBREWS 1:1-14 DECLARES “GOD (FATHER STEPHEN), WHO AT VARIOUS TIMES AND IN VARIOUS WAYS SPOKE IN TIME PAST TO THE FATHERS BY THE PROPHETS, HAS IN THESE LAST DAYS SPOKEN TO US BY HIS SON (JESUS CHRIST), WHOM HE HAS APPOINTED HEIR OF ALL THINGS THROUGH WHOM HE MADE THE WORLDS (AGES, AIONES, AEONS, UNIVERSES, REALMS), WHO BEING THE BRIGHTNESS OF HIS GLORY AND THE EXPRESS IMAGE OF HIS PERSON, AND UPHOLDING ALL THINGS BY THE WORD OF HIS POWER (OMNIPOTENCE), WHEN HE HAD BY HIMSELF PURGED OUR SINS, SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE MAJESTY ON HIGH, HAVING BECOME SO MUCH BETTER THAN THE ANGELS (LORDS), AS HE HAS BY INHERITANCE OBTAINED A MORE EXCELLENT NAME THAN THEY. FOR TO WHICH OF THE ANGELS (LORDS) DID HE EVER SAY: ‘YOU ARE MY SON, TODAY I HAVE BEGOTTEN YOU.’ & AGAIN, ‘I WILL BE TO HIM A FATHER (STEPHEN), & HE SHALL BE TO ME A SON.’ BUT WHEN HE AGAIN BRINGS THE FIRSTBORN INTO THE WORLD, HE SAYS: ‘LET ALL THE ANGELS (LORDS) OF GOD WORSHIP HIM.’ & OF THE ANGELS (LORDS) HE SAYS: ‘WHO MAKES HIS ANGELS (LORDS) SPIRITS & HIS MINISTERS A FLAME OF FIRE.’ BUT TO THE SON HE (FATHER STEPHEN) SAYS: ‘YOUR THRONE, O GOD, IS FOREVER &  EVER, A SCEPTER  OF RIGHTEOUSNESS IS THE SCEPTER OF YOUR KINGDOM, YOU HAVE (AGAPE) LOVED RIGHTEOUSNESS AND HATED LAWLESSNESS, THEREFORE GOD, YOUR GOD, HAS ANOINTED YOU WITH THE OIL OF GLADNESS MORE THAN YOUR COMPANIONS.’ AND ‘YOU, LORD, IN THE BEGINNING LAID THE FOUNDATION OF THE EARTH, AND THE HEAVENS ARE THE WORK OF YOUR HANDS. THEY WILL PERISH, BUT YOU REMAIN, AND THEY WILL GROW OLD LIKE A GARMENT, LIKE A CLOAK YOU WILL FOLD THEM UP, AND THEY WILL BE CHANGED. BUT YOU ARE THE SAME, AND YOUR YEARS WILL NOT FAIL.’ BUT TO WHICH OF THE ANGELS (LORDS) HAS HE EVER SAID: ‘SIT AT MY RIGHT HAND, TILL I MAKE YOUR ENEMIES YOUR FOOTSTOOL!’ ARE THEY NOT ALL MINISTERING SPIRITS SENT FORTH TO MINISTER FOR THOSE WHO WILL INHERIT SALVATION (PROTECTION)?” IN 2ND CORINTHIANS 12:1-7 DECLARES “IT IS DOUBTLESS NOT PROFITABLE FOR ME TO BOAST. I WILL COME TO…REVELATIONS OF THE LORD: I KNOW A MAN IN CHRIST WHO 14 YEARS AGO—WHETHER IN THE BODY I DO NOT KNOW, OR WHETHER OUT OF THE BODY I DO NOT KNOW, GOD KNOWS—SUCH A ONE WAS CAUGHT UP TO THE 3RD HEAVEN. AND I KNOW SUCH A MAN—WHETHER IN THE BODY OR OUT OF THE BODY I DO NOT KNOW, GOD KNOWS—HOW HE WAS CAUGHT UP INTO PARADISE AND HEARD INEXPRESSIBLE WORDS, WHICH IT IS NOT LAWFUL FOR A MAN TO UTTER. OF SUCH A ONE I WILL BOAST, YET OF MYSELF I WILL NOT BOAST, EXCEPT IN MY INFIRMITIES…BUT I REFRAIN, LEST ANYONE SHOULD THINK OF ME ABOVE WHAT HE SEES ME TO BE OR HEARS FROM ME. AND LEST I SHOULD BE EXALTED ABOVE MEASURE THROUGH THE ABUNDANCE OF THE REVELATIONS, THERE WAS GIVEN TO ME A THORN IN THE FLESH, THE MESSENGER OF SATAN TO BUFFET ME, LEST I SHOULD BE EXALTED ABOVE MEASURE.” IN ROMANS 2:5 SAYS “BUT AFTER THY HARDNESS AND IMPENITENT HEART TREASURES UP UNTO THYSELF WRATH AGAINST THE DAY OF WRATH AND REVELATION OF THE RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT OF GOD.” IN ROMANS 16:25 TRULY TELLS US “NOW TO HIM THAT IS OF POWER TO ESTABLISH YOU ACCORDING TO MY GOSPEL, AND THE PREACHING OF JESUS CHRIST,  ACCORDING  TO  THE  REVELATION  OF  THE  MYSTERY,  WHICH  WAS  KEPT  SECRET SINCE  THE  (MAN) WORLD BEGAN…” IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 14:6 MENTIONS “NOW BRETHREN, IF I COME UNTO YOU SPEAKING WITH TONGUES, WHAT SHALL I PROFIT YOU, EXCEPT I SHALL SPEAK TO YOU BY REVELATION…?” IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 14:26 SAYS “HOW IS IT THEN, BRETHREN? WHEN YE COME TOGETHER, EVERY ONE OF YOU…HAS A REVELATION. LET ALL THINGS BE DONE UNTO EDIFYING.” IN GALATIANS 1:12 STATES “FOR I NEITHER RECEIVED IT OF MAN, NEITHER WAS I TAUGHT IT, BUT BY THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST. IN GALATIANS 2:2 TELLS US “AND I WENT UP BY REVELATION, AND COMMUNICATED UNTO THEM THAT GOSPEL WHICH I PREACH AMONG THE GENTILES, BUT PRIVATELY TO THEM WHICH WERE OF REPUTATION, LEST BY ANY MEANS I SHOULD RUN, OR HAD RUN IN VAIN.” IN EPHESIANS 1:17 DECLARES “THAT THE GOD (FATHER STEPHEN) OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, THE FATHER (STEPHEN) OF GLORY. MAY GIVE UNTO YOU THE SPIRIT OF WISDOM AND REVELATION IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF HIM.” IN EPHESIANS 3:3 STATES “HOW THAT BY REVELATION BE MADE KNOWN UNTO ME THE MYSTERY…” IN 1ST PETER 1:13 SAYS “WHEREFORE GIRD UP THE LIONS OF YOUR MIND, BE SOBER, AND HOPE TO THE END FOR THE GRACE THAT IS TO BE BROUGHT UNTO YOU AT THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST.” IN REVELATION 1:1 SAYS “THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST, WHICH GOD (FATHER STEPHEN) GAVE UNTO HIM, TO SHOW UNTO HIS SERVANTS THINGS WHICH MUST SHORTLY COME TO PASS, AND HE SENT AND SIGNIFIED IT BY HIS ANGEL (LORD) UNTO HIS SERVANT JOHN.” IN LUKE 2:32 DECLARES “A LIGHT TO BRING REVELATION TO THE GENTILES, AND THE GLORY OF YOUR PEOPLE ISRAEL.” IN 1ST PETER 1:7 (NKJV) TELLS US “THAT THE GENUINENESS OF YOUR FAITH, BEING MUCH MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD THAT PERISHES, THOUGH IT IS TESTED BY FIRE, MAY BE FOUND TO PRAISE, HONOR, AND GLORY AT THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST…” IN PROVERBS 29:18 (NKJV) SAYS “WHERE THERE IS NO REVELATION, THE PEOPLE CAST OFF RESTRAINT, BUT HAPPY IS HE WHO KEEPS THE LAW.” IN 1ST SAMUEL 3:1 (NKJV) DECLARES “NOW THE BOY MINISTERED TO THE LORD BEFORE ELI. AND THE WORD OF THE LORD WAS RARE IN THOSE DAYS, THERE WAS NO WIDESPREAD REVELATION.” HIS DREAMS ARE PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. DREAMS ARE DONE BY GOD TO SHOW THINGS IN THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURISTIC EVENTS THAT GOD WANTS TO BE REVEALED AND TO SHOW MAN’S FRAILTY AND GOD’S IMMUTABILITY. IN GENESIS 37:1-11 TELLS US ABOUT THE DREAMS OF GREATNESS FROM JOSEPH. IN GENESIS 40:1-41:36 CONCERNS PHARAOH’S DREAM OF THE 7 GAUNT COWS AND THE 7 FAT COWS. JOSEPH THEN INTERPRETED THE DREAM ABOUT THE 7 GAUNT COWS ARE SEVEN YEARS OF FAMINE AND THE 7 GOOD COWS ARE SEVEN YEARS OF PLENTY. THE SECOND DREAM WAS ABOUT THE CHIEF BUTLER AND THE CHIEF BAKER. JOSEPH THEN INTERPRETED THE DREAMS THAT THE CHIEF BUTLER WAS RESTORED TO HIS OFFICE BUT THE CHIEF BAKER WAS HANGED. IN DANIEL 2:1-3:18 TELLS US ABOUT NEBUCHADNEZZAR’S DREAM OF THE GOLD IMAGE. IN DANIEL 2:31-34 SAYS “THE IMAGE’S HEAD WAS OF FINE GOLD, ITS CHESTS AND ARMS OF SILVER, ITS BELLY AND THIGH OF BRONZE, ITS LEGS OF IRON, ITS FEET PARTLY OF IRON AND PARTLY OF CLAY. THEN DANIEL INTERPRETED THE DREAM WHICH INVOLVES THE FIRST KINGDOM IS GOLD, THE SECOND KINGDOM IS SILVER, THE THIRD KINGDOM IS BRONZE, THE FOURTH KINGDOM IS IRON. THE 5TH KINGDOM OF THE FEET AND TOES SHALL BE DIVIDED PARTLY WITH IRON AND PARTLY WITH CLAY. BUT IN DANIEL 2:44 SAYS “AND IN THE DAYS OF THESE KINGS THE GOD OF HEAVEN WILL SET UP A KINGDOM (ETERNAL KINGDOM OF GOD IN ACTS) WHICH SHALL NEVER BE DESTROYED AND THE KINGDOM SHALL NOT BE LEFT TO OTHER PEOPLE, IT SHALL BREAK AND CONSUME ALL THESE KINGDOMS (NEBUCHADNEZZAR’S 5 KINGDOMS) AND IT SHALL STAND FOREVER.” IN DANIEL 4:1-27 DETAILS THE SECOND DREAM OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR ABOUT THE TREE THAT REACHES TO HEAVEN. THEN DANIEL INTERPRETED THE DREAM WHICH IS ABOUT GREAT TREE THAT REACHES TO HEAVEN, WHERE NEBUCHADNEZZAR’S KINGDOM HAS GROWN STRONG. BUT THE HOLY ONE WILL COME DOWN AND CHOP DOWN THE TREE AND DESTROY IT. THIS IS FOR KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR TO KNOW THAT THE MOST HIGH (HIGHEST STEPHEN) RULES OVER THE KINGDOM OF MEN. IN MATTHEW 1:20-25 TELLS US ABOUT HOW JOSEPH HAD A DREAM FROM GOD TO HAVE AND PROTECT THE CHILD JESUS. IN 2ND ESDRAS 13:1-57 TELLS US ABOUT THE DREAM OF THE MAN FROM THE SEA. IN MATTHEW 2:1-23 TELLS US ABOUT HOW THE 3 MAGI’S WE SEEKING OUT THE CHRIST TO WORSHIP HIM AND THEY WERE DIVINELY WARNED NOT TO RETURN TO HEROD WITH THE CHILD JESUS. IN ACTS 2:17 SAYS “‘AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS IN THE LAST DAYS’, SAYS GOD, THAT I WILL POUR OUT OF MY SPIRIT (FATHER STEPHEN IN JOHN 4:24; 1ST JOHN 5:6-13 & ACTS 2:17-7:59) ON ALL FLESH. YOUR SONS AND YOUR DAUGHTERS SHALL PROPHESY...YOUR OLD MEN SHALL DREAM DREAMS.” HIS VISIONS ARE PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. VISIONS ARE DONE BY GOD TO SHOW THE PERFECT HEAVENLY REALMS TO MAN AND TO UNDERSTAND THE ANGELICAL REALMS. IN EZEKIEL CHAPTER 1 AND 10 DETAILS THE VISION OF THE FOUR LIVING CREATURES AND MAN’S THRONE. IN REVELATION 4:1-10 TELLS US ABOUT HOW JOHN SAW THE LORD’S THRONE BEING CAUGHT UP IN THE SPIRIT (STEPHEN) AND THE FOUR LIVING CREATURES SAID, ‘HOLY, HOLY, HOLY, LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, WHO WAS AND IS AND IS TO COME!’ IN REVELATION 4:8. IN ISAIAH 6:1-13 DECLARES THAT ISAIAH WAS CALLED TO BE A PROPHET AND HE SAW THE SERAPHIM’S ABOVE THE TEMPLE AND THE LORD’S THRONE AND THEY SAID. ‘HOLY, HOLY, HOLY IS THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE WHOLE EARTH IS FULL OF HIS GLORY!’ IN ISAIAH 6:3. IN ZECHARIAH 1:7-11 TELLS US ABOUT THE VISION OF THE HORSES. IN ZECHARIAH 1:18-21 TELLS US ABOUT THE VISION OF THE HORNS. IN ZECHARIAH 2:1-5 TELLS US ABOUT THE VISION OF THE MEASURING LINE. IN ZECHARIAH 3:1-10 TELLS US ABOUT THE VISION OF THE HIGH PRIEST. IN ZECHARIAH 4:1-14 TELLS US ABOUT THE LAMP STAND & THE OLIVE TREES. IN ZECHARIAH 5:1-11 TELLS US ABOUT THE VISION OF THE FLYING SCROLL & THE WOMAN. IN ZECHARIAH 6:1-8 TELLS US ABOUT THE VISION OF THE FOUR CHARIOTS. IN DANIEL 7:1-8 TELLS US ABOUT THE VISION OF THE FOUR BEASTS. IN DANIEL 7:9-14 TELLS US ABOUT THE VISION OF THE ANCIENT OF DAYS. THESE TWO VISIONS WERE INTERPRETED BY DANIEL IN DANIEL 7:15-28. IN DANIEL 8:1-14 TELLS US ABOUT THE VISION OF THE RAM AND GOAT. THIS VISION WAS INTERPRETED BY GABRIEL THE ARCHANGEL (LORD) IN DANIEL 8:15-27. IN DANIEL 10:1-9 TELLS US ABOUT THE VISION OF THE GLORIOUS MAN. THIS VISION WAS INTERPRETED BY MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL (LORD) IN DANIEL 10:10-11:45. IN 2ND ESDRAS 9:38-10:59 TELLS US ABOUT THE VISION OF THE WEEPING WOMAN. IN 2ND ESDRAS 11:1-12:39 TELLS US ABOUT THE VISION OF THE EAGLE. IN 2ND ESDRAS 14:37-47 TELLS US ABOUT THE MOST HIGH (STEPHEN) GIVING UNDERSTANDING AND VISION UNTO FIVE MEN TO RESTORE THE HOLY SCRIPTURES. THIS IS BECAUSE IN THE MOUTH OF TWO OR THREE WITNESSES (5 TOTAL) EVERY WORD IS ESTABLISHED IN 2ND CORINTHIANS 13:1 AND MATTHEW 18:16. IN 2ND ESDRAS 15:28-33 TELLS US ABOUT THE TERRIFYING VISION OF WARFARE. IN 2ND BARUCH PAGES 509-510 IS THE VISION OF THE FOREST, VINE, FOUNTAIN & CEDAR. IN THE 4TH EZRA PAGES 515-516 IS THE VISION OF THE MAN FROM THE SEA. IN 1ST ENOCH PAGES 487-488 ARE THE VISION OF HEAVEN, THE WATCHERS AND THE GIANTS. IN 1ST ENOCH PAGES 488-494 IS THE VISIONS OF THE JOURNEYS IN HELL & HEAVEN, THE 7 MOUNTAINS & THE TREE OF LIFE, THE HEAD OF DAYS & THE SON OF MAN, THE FOUNTAIN OF GOODNESS & THE SON OF MAN, THE RESURRECTION FOR THE DEAD THE TWO VISIONS OF ENOCH & THE NEW JERUSALEM, CONVERSION, RESURRECTION OF THE GOOD & THE MESSIAH. HIS TONGUE INTERPRETATIONS ARE PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. GOD’S VOICE SHOWS HIS OMNISCIENCE AND TO ALLOW SPECIAL PEOPLE WHO ARE CALLED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT GOD IS REALLY SAYING IN HEBREWS 1:3. THERE ARE AT LEAST 15 DIFFERENT KINDS OF TONGUES IN THE HOLY BIBLE. FIRST, ARE SPEAKING IN TONGUES AS MEANS FOR “REST” OR “REFRESHING” IN ISAIAH 28:12 AND 1ST CORINTHIANS 14:21. SECOND, ARE SPEAKING IN TONGUES AS MEANS FOR REJOICING IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 14:15 AND EPHESIANS 5:18-19. THIRD, ARE SPEAKING IN TONGUES AS MEANS FOR COMMUNION WITH GOD IN A PRIVATE SETTING OF TRUE PRAYER IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 14:15. FOURTH, ARE SPEAKING IN TONGUES FOR SELF-EDIFICATION IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 14:4 AND JUDE 20. FIFTH, ARE SPEAKING IN TONGUES FOR EDIFICATION OF THE CHURCH ACCOMPANIED BY THE INTERPRETATION IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 14:5. SIXTH, ARE SPEAKING IN TONGUES AS THE EVIDENCE OF BAPTISM IN ACTS 2:4; 10:45-46; 19:6. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON THE TEN BAPTISMS, YOU MUST GET MY BOOK CALLED “WHAT ARE THE FATHER STEPHEN’S TEN BAPTISMS IN THE CHRISTIAN ERA.” SEVENTH, ARE THE EVIDENCE  OF  THE  FILLING  OF  THE  HOLY  SPIRIT  IN  ACTS 2:4;  10:45-46; 19:6. EIGHTH, ARE SPEAKING IN TONGUES AS THE FULFILLMENT OF ISAIAH AND JESUS’ PROPHESIES IN MARK 16:17 WITH ACTS 2:4; 10:46; 19:6 & 1ST CORINTHIANS 14:5, 14-18, 39, AND ISAIAH 28:11 WITH 1ST CORINTHIANS 14:21. NINTH, ARE SPEAKING IN TONGUES AS A PROOF OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE SON JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD IN JOHN 16:7 AND ACTS 2:26. TENTH, ARE SPEAKING IN TONGUES AS A PROOF OF THE GLORIFICATION OF THE SON JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD IN JOHN 16:7 AND ACTS 2:26. ELEVENTH, ARE SPEAKING IN TONGUES AS THE HOLY GHOST GIVES UTTERANCE IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 12:28; 14:21. TWELFTH, ARE SPEAKING IN TONGUES AS THE PROOF OF THE HOLY GHOST INTERCEDING THROUGH US IN PRAYER IN ROMANS 8:26; 1ST CORINTHIANS 14:4 AND EPHESIANS 6:18. THIRTEENTH, ARE SPEAKING IN TONGUES AS THE CONFIRMATION OF THE WORD OF GOD WHEN IT IS PREACHED, TAUGHT OR COUNSELED IN MARK 16:17, 20 AND 1ST CORINTHIANS 14:22. FOURTEENTH, ARE SPEAKING IN TONGUES AS A PROOF OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD IN PROVERBS 8:22-29 (RSV) & JOHN 5:26, 30. FIFTEENTH, ARE SPEAKING IN TONGUES AS A PROOF OF GLORIFICATION OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD IN JOHN 17:1-5.   THE FULLEST PICTURE OF DEVELOPING THE MISSION AND MINISTRY OF LORDSHIP IS THAT ALL 120 SAINTLY CHRISTIAN LORDS/LADIES ARE REGARDED AS POSSESSING AT LEAST ALL 121 SPIRITUAL GIFTS IN RESPECTS TO AT LEAST THE 76 SPIRITUAL GIFTS (45 MIRACLES THAT IS RECORDED IN JESUS’ MINISTRY, BUT NOT ALL OF THEM IS RECORDED, THE 11 MIRACLES DONE BY THE FATHER STEPHEN IN EXODUS 3:1-14:31, AT LEAST 5 DIFFERENT KINDS OF HEALINGS & 15 DIFFERENT KINDS OF TONGUES) THE 9 SPIRITUAL GIFTS OF THE BROTHER JOHN THE HOLY GHOST IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 12:8-10, 28, THE 8 SPIRITUAL GIFTS OF THE SON JESUS IN EPHESIANS 4:11, THE 16 SPIRITUAL GIFTS OF THE SON JESUS & THE BROTHER JOHN THE HOLY GHOST IS IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 12:28 & THE 8 GIFTS OF THE FATHER STEPHEN IN ROMANS 12:3-8. ALSO, THE 3 SPECIAL GRACES OF THE FATHER STEPHEN IS HOSPITALITY IN 1ST PETER 4:10-11, CELIBACY IN MATTHEW 19:10; 1ST CORINTHIANS 7:7-9, 27; 1ST TIMOTHY 4:3 & REVELATION 14:4 AND MARTYRDOM IN ACTS 7:59-60 & 2ND TIMOTHY 4:6-8. THE HIGHEST GIFT IS OMNI-BENEVOLENCE KNOWN AS HOLY AGAPE LOVE AS THE FATHER STEPHEN’S CREATED SELF IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 13:1-13 & PROVERBS 8:22-29 (RSV). THE LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH’S CREATIVE WORKS HIS SEVEN CREATION PROCESSES IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE ARE PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. THE LORD YAHWEH IS THE CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD BY THE ULTIMATE DIVINE CREATION PROCESS CALLED “QANAH DIRECTED TO THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD” IS IN PROVERBS 8:22-29 (RSV). THIS KIND OF QANAH HAS A HOLY DIVINE NATURE AND NOT A SEXUAL EROS NATURE. THE LORD YAHWEH THEN ALLOWED, ACTED, AUTHORIZED, APPOINTED, INSTITUTED AND ESTABLISHED THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD AS THE POTTER CREATOR OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE TO INITIATE AND SPEAK INTO EXISTENCE THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE IS IN ISAIAH 64:8; JOHN 8:58; EPHESIANS 4:6; ROMANS 13:1-10 & GENESIS 1:1. FIRST, IS THE CREATION PROCESS CALLED BARA (HIGHEST LORD’S AND HIGHEST ANGEL LORDS) IN GENESIS 1:1. BARA MEANS “TO CREATE.” IN INVOLVES LUCIFER (BEFORE LUCIFER’S FALL) AND MICHAEL (AFTER LUCIFER’S FALL) WITH HIGHEST SONS OF GOD AND THE 60 OTHER LORD’S WITH BOY KIND AND GIRL KIND EQUAL TO THE ANGELS (LORDS) OF GOD IN LUKE 20:35-36. SECOND, IS THE CREATION PROCESS CALLED ASAH (HIGHER ANGELS) IN GENESIS 1:7. ASAH MEANS “TO MAKE.” IN INVOLVES THE HIGHER SONS OF GOD. THIRD, IS THE CREATION PROCESS CALLED NATHAN (HIGH ANGELS WITH THE LAW) IN GENESIS 1:17. NATHAN MEANS “TO SET.” IT INVOLVES THE HIGH SONS OF GOD. FOURTH, IS THE CREATION PROCESS CALLED YATSAR (ADAM OR MANKIND) IN GENESIS 2:7. YATSAR MEANS “TO FORM.” IT INVOLVES THE WORLD OF MANKIND CALLED HUMANITY. FIFTH, IS THE CREATION PROCESS CALLED BANAH (EVE OR WOMANKIND) IN GENESIS 2:22. BANAH MEANS “TO MAKE OR BUILD.” IT INVOLVES THE RACE OF WOMANKIND. SIXTH, IS THE CREATION PROCESS OF QANAH IN GENESIS 4:1. QANAH MEANS “TO CREATE, POSSESS OR ACQUIRE.” IT INVOLVES THE SEXUAL EROS UNION CALLED SEXUAL EROS LOVE INTERCOURSE WITH ADAM AND EVE TO BRING FORTH CAIN. IT ALSO CAN REFER TO A HOLY DIVINE UNION CALLED HOLY DIVINE LOVE INTERCOURSE WITH MARY AND JOSEPH TO BRING FORTH JAMES THE JUST BY EATING FROM THE TREE OF LIFE IN THE NEW TESTAMENT WHICH WAS THE LORD YAH’S INTENT FROM THE BEGINNING FOR ADAM AND EVE BUT THEY DID NOT DO IT BECAUSE THEY ATE FROM THE TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL. SEVENTH, IS THE CREATION PROCESS CALLED THE HIDDEN BARA (CAIN OR CHILD KIND) IN GENESIS 4:1. HIDDEN BARA MEANS “TO CREATE SECRETLY IN THE WOMB.” IT INVOLVES THE RACE OF CHILD KIND. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON THE CREATIVE WORKS OF THE LORD YAH, YOU MUST GET MY BOOK CALLED “THE SEVEN CREATION PROCESSES THAT THE LORD YAH DID IN THE UNIVERSE.” HIS 4-FOLD WITNESS IN THE UNIVERSE IS PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. IN 1ST JOHN 5:6-13 SAYS THE 4-FOLD WITNESS ON THE EARTH IS THE SPIRIT (FATHER STEPHEN), BLOOD (SON JESUS) AND WATER (BROTHER JOHN) IN THE EARTH (LORD JEHOVAH). THE 4-FOLD WITNESS IN HEAVEN IS THE FATHER (STEPHEN), THE WORD OR LOGOS (SON JESUS) AND THE HOLY SPIRIT (BROTHER JOHN) IN THE HEAVEN (LORD YAHWEH). THE 4-FOLD WITNESS IN THE LORD IS THE FATHER (STEPHEN), THE SON (JESUS CHRIST) AND THE HOLY GHOST (JOHN) IN THE LORD (YAHWEH). THE 4-FOLD WITNESS IN HELL IS THE ETERNAL DAMNATION (STEPHEN HANDLED IT WITH ETERNAL WISDOM/ETERNAL POWER), THE ETERNAL CHARGE (JAMES HANDLED IT WITH ETERNAL MERCY), THE ETERNAL JUDGMENT (JESUS HANDLED IT WITH ETERNAL SALVATION) AND THE ETERNAL CONDEMNATION (JOHN HANDLED IT WITH ETERNAL GRACE) IN HELL (THE LORD YAHWEH). THE LAW HAS A 4-FOLD WITNESS AS THE LORD JAMES IN THE LAW OF GOD (CROWN AS THE (HIGH PRIEST) CHIEF OF POLICE IN JAMES 1:12; 2:8-13) WITH ETERNAL CHARGE FOR THE CHRISTIAN LAW (1 OR NO WITNESSES) IN ACTS 15:13-29; 21:18-25; ANGEL SAUL (YOUNG MAN IN ACTS 7:58) WITH ETERNAL JUDGMENT FOR THE GENTILE LAW (1 OR 2 WITNESSES) IN ACTS 7:58; CHAPTERS 9; 22; 26 & MAN MALCHUS (MAN IN JOHN 18:10) WITH ETERNAL PROSECUTION FOR THE JEWISH LAW (2 OR 3 WITNESSES) IN LUKE 23:26-46 IN MOSES’ LAW IN HEBREWS 10:28. ALSO THE 4-FOLD WITNESS IS IN JOHN 5:31-47. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON THE 4-FOLD WITNESS, YOU MUST GET MY BOOK CALLED “THE LORD YAH AND HIS BOOK ON HELL IN THE HOLY BIBLE.” IN THIS AREA OF SCRIPTURE, IT MEANS THAT ALL THE PRAISES, ALL WORSHIP AND ALL ADORATION WILL NOT REACH ANY LORD, EVEN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, UNLESS IT PRAISES AND WORSHIPS THE FATHER STEPHEN FIRST. WHEN THIS HAPPENS THROUGH THE ONLY ACCESS TO THE FATHER STEPHEN BY HIS OWN SPIRIT, THEN THE SUBORDINATE LORDS WILL RECEIVE PRAISE & WORSHIP, INCLUDING THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IN EPHESIANS 2:18. THEN THE PRAISES AND WORSHIP WILL REACH THE LORD YAHWEH THE CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN BY THE FATHER STEPHEN’S OWN WILL, AND NOBODY ELSE’S. THIS IS THE ONLY WAY TO PRAISE & WORSHIP THE LORD STEPHEN THE FATHER ABOVE ALL WHICH IS THE ONLY PRIME CONTACT & DOORWAY TO THE LORD YAH IN THE RIGHT CONTEXT OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES. MOST PRAISES & WORSHIP DOES NOT PRAISE THE LORD YAH AT ALL OR ANY OF HIS SUBORDINATE LORDS, EXCLUDING THE FATHER STEPHEN, BUT USUALLY PRAISES AND WORSHIPS MICHAEL’S HOST OF HEAVEN VERSES LUCIFER’S HOST OF HEAVEN (LORDSHIPS OF THE 24 ORDERS OF ANGELS) TO FULFILL THE FATHER STEPHEN’S WILL IN ACTS 7:41-42 & REVELATION 17:17 BY THE LACK OF KNOWLEDGE, UNBELIEF & STRONG DELUSION (SEXUAL EROS LOVE APOSTASY) NOT HAVING THE AGAPE LOVE (OMNI-BENEVOLENCE) AND THE INFALLIBLE TRUTH ABOUT THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN, ESPECIALLY IN JOHN 4:21-24 & HOSEA 4:6. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON THE REALM OF LORDSHIP THAT THE FATHER STEPHEN POSSESSES, YOU MUST GET MY BOOK CALLED “DOES THE SON JESUS OUR LORD FULLY KNOW HIS FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD.”       HIS PERSON IS PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. THE LORD YAHWEH’S PERSON IS CALLED THE TRINITY OR THE TRIUNE GODHEAD (DEITY & DIVINE NATURE). IT CONCERNS THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD, THE SON JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD AND THE BROTHER JOHN OUR LORD THE HOLY GHOST OF GOD FROM JOHN 1:1-4. THE PROOF OF THE IDENTITY OF THE TRINITY IS PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. FIRST, IS THE BROTHER JOHN THE HOLY GHOST IS IN BAPTIZING THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IN LUKE 3:21-22. JOHN CAN MEAN “COMFORTER” OR “THE LORD JEHOVAH GIVES.” SECOND, IS THE LORD JESUS THE SON IS IN ACTS 8:37; 9:20, 22. JESUS MEANS “SAVIOR.” THIRD, IS THE LORD STEPHEN OUR FATHER ABOVE ALL IN ACTS 7:59; EPHESIANS 4:6 & 1ST CORINTHIANS 8:6. THE FATHER STEPHEN IS THE ONLY REPUTATION CALLED THE HIGHEST LORD. THE LORD STEPHEN’S NAME MEANS “CROWN” OR THE “HIGHEST LORD JEHOVAH.” IN LUKE 1:32 SAYS THAT THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IS CALLED THE “SON OF THE HIGHEST.” IN LUKE 1:35 STATES THAT THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IS CALLED “POWER OF THE HIGHEST.” IN LUKE 1:35 MENTIONS THAT THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IS CALLED THE OMNIPOTENCE OF THE HIGHEST.” IN LUKE 1:35 TELLS US THAT THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IS CALLED THE “ALMIGHTY OF THE HIGHEST.” IN LUKE 1:35 SAYS THAT THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IS CALLED THE “AUTHORITY OF THE HIGHEST.” IN LUKE 1:35 TELLS US THAT THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IS CALLED THE “SOVEREIGNTY OF THE HIGHEST.” IN LUKE 2:14 STATES THAT THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IS CALLED THE “GLORY OF THE HIGHEST.” IN LUKE 2:14 MENTIONS THAT THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IS CALLED THE “GLORY TO GOD (JEHOVAH) IN THE HIGHEST.” IN LUKE 24:19 TELLS US THAT THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IS CALLED THE “PROPHET OF THE HIGHEST.” IN MARK 11:10 STATES THAT THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IS CALLED “HOSANNA IN THE HIGHEST.” ALSO, THE SCRIPTURES ARE IN LUKE 19:38. IN ACTS 7:59 DECLARES THAT THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IS CALLED THE “LORD OF THE HIGHEST.” THE FATHER STEPHEN’S NAME MEANS “REWARD, MONEY & WREATH.” WREATH SYMBOLIZES WHO THE FATHER STEPHEN IS BEING CLOAKED AS THE 2ND SINGLE WISDOM LORD IN JOHN 5:37 & ACTS 6:5-15; 7:1-60. MONEY SYMBOLIZES TITHES & OFFERINGS TO THE FATHER STEPHEN IN MALACHI 3:8-12. REWARD SYMBOLIZES PRAYER, FASTING & (CHARITABLE DEEDS) ALMS IN SECRET TO THE FATHER STEPHEN IN MATTHEW 6:1-18. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON TITHES AND OFFERINGS, YOU MUST GET MY BOOK CALLED “WHY SHOULD WE PAY AND SUBMIT TO THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD.” THE FATHER STEPHEN COULD NOT BE CALLED MAN (LORD) BECAUSE THAT TAKES AWAY FROM HIS SON JESUS IN LUKE 23:26-56. THE APOSTLES, CHURCH OF GOD, THE BUSINESS & THE LAW WITH ANGELS (LORDS) CALLED THE FATHER STEPHEN A MAN (LORD IN EXODUS 15:3) BUT WAS LIARS UNBELIEF IN NUMBERS 23:19; 1ST SAMUEL 15:29; ACTS 6:5, 11, 13-15; 1ST JOHN 2:22-23 & 2ND JOHN 7-11. THE UNBELIEF IS IN PROVERBS 14:5; 19:5, 9 & ROMANS 1:25. THEY KNEW NO TRUTH & WERE STIFF-NECKED IN HEART & EARS & DECEIVED IN ACTS 7:51-60. THE MARRIED HOLY GHOST IN ISAIAH 63:10 (NIV) IN THAT TIME IS DIFFERENT FROM THE FATHER STEPHEN’S HOLY GHOST IN ACTS 6:3, 10; 7:55-56. ALSO, ANOTHER PROOF IS THE MAN JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD OR ANY MAN AS LORD DOES NOT KNOW WHO THE FATHER STEPHEN IS IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 2:6-16. THE FATHER STEPHEN IS TRIED TO BE MADE INTO A LIAR & THE FATHER STEPHEN’S WORD OR LOGOS IS NOT IN THEM IN 1ST JOHN 1:10. THE FATHER STEPHEN’S TRUTH & AGAPE LOVE IS NOT IN THEM THAT TRY THE FATHER STEPHEN AS MAN IN 1ST JOHN 1:8. A STRONG PROOF THAT FATHER IS STEPHEN IS WHEN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST THE SON OF GOD SAID, ‘FATHER (STEPHEN), INTO YOUR HANDS I COMMEND MY SPIRIT IN LUKE 23:46. THE FATHER STEPHEN SAYS, ‘LORD JESUS (CHRIST), RECEIVE MY SPIRIT’ IN ACTS 7:59. THIS MEANS THEY SHARED THEIR SPIRITS WITH ONE ANOTHER FOR “TOTAL UNIVERSE ACCESS” IN MATTHEW 11:27; LUKE 10:22; 1ST CORINTHIANS 8:6 & EPHESIANS 2:18; 4:6. THE FEMALE TRINITY IS PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. FIRST, IS THE LADY ELIZABETH OUR SISTER IN LUKE 1:5-25, 39-45, 57-58. ELIZABETH MEANS “GOD IS MY OATH.” SECOND, IS THE VIRGIN LADY MARY OUR DAUGHTER IN LUKE 1:26-56; 2:1-20. MARY MEANS “LOVED BY YAHWEH.” THIRD, IS THE LADY BARBARA (DERIVED FROM BARA IN GENESIS 1:1) OUR MOTHER IN PROVERBS 8:22-235 (RSV) & ACTS 1:7. BARBARA MEANS “LADYSHIP AND LORDSHIP OF BARA.” THE TRINITY’S LAW IS PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. THE LAW IS THE ACT OF OBEDIENCE, THE COMMANDMENT AND THE INSTRUCTION FROM THE LORD YAH FOR PEOPLE TO LIVE A HOLY LIFE IN MATTHEW 5:1-7:29. THE LORD’S LAW CAUSES US TO AGAPE LOVE HIM IN JOHN 1:17. GOD WANTS TOTAL OBEDIENCE TO HIM IN GALATIANS 2:11-21. GOD’S LAW DIRECTS US IN ROMANS 7:12. SOME SCRIPTURES ARE IN GENESIS 1:27-30; 2:17; 4:1-16; 6:1-13; 9:18-26; 10:6-20; 12:2-3; 15:6; 17:4-7, 10; 19:19; EXODUS 19:5-6 & DEUTERONOMY 26:18-19; 34:6-7. THE MITZVOT IS THE 18 ORDERS FOR LAW USED AS WAYS IN 1ST KINGS 2:3 & PSALMS 18:21. TESTIMONIES IN DEUTERONOMY 4:45; 6:17 (KJV). STATUTES IN LEVITICUS 3:17; 10:11 (OKJV). DECREES IN 1ST CHRONICLES 29:19. ORDINANCES IN NUMBERS 9:12 (OKJV).  REQUIREMENTS IN 1ST KINGS 2:3. PRECEPTS IN PSALMS 119:4 (NIV). STIPULATIONS IN DEUTERONOMY 6:17 (NIV). COMMANDS IN DEUTERONOMY 9:1-9. JUDGMENTS IN EXODUS 24:3 (KJV). WORDS IN DEUTERONOMY 33:9. REGULATIONS IN EXODUS 24:3. TEACHINGS IN EXODUS 24:3. RULES IN PSALMS 110:2; 2ND ESDRAS 4:38; 5:23, 38; 6:11; 7:17; 12:7; 13:51 & IN THE DAMASCUS DOCUMENT ON PAGES 146-150. CODES (PENAL) IN ROMANS 2:27, 29 (NIV); 7:6 (NIV); COLOSSIANS 2:14 (NIV) & IN THE DAMASCUS DOCUMENT ON PAGES 150-153. COVENANT RITUALS IN JOB 1:1; GENESIS 1:26; 6:18; 15:18; EXODUS 19:6; 2ND SAMUEL 23:5; PSALMS 105:10; HEBREWS 8:6; SIRACH 24:23; 28:7; 44:20; 45:7, 15 & IN THE DAMASCUS DOCUMENT ON PAGES 150-153. MANUALS IN NUMBERS 35:18; 2ND SAMUEL 1:27; JOB 20:24; ECCLESIASTES 9:18; ISAIAH 13:5; 54:17; JEREMIAH 50:25; 1ST MACCABEES 10:6; 2ND MACCABEES 3:28; 8:18; 2ND CORINTHIANS 10:4-6 & IN THE MANUAL OF DISCIPLINE ON PAGES 208-222. ALL THESE WORDS IN SCRIPTURE MEAN THE SAME THING IN DEUTERONOMY 4:1; 5:1; 6:1 AND 1ST KINGS 2:3. ISRAELITE LAW AND THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST WERE ESTABLISHED IN DEUTERONOMY 4:5-8. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS APPEAR THROUGHOUT THE HOLY BIBLE IN EXODUS 20:1-17; 34:14, 17, 21; 40:20; DEUTERONOMY 5:6-21; 27:15-16; LEVITICUS 19:1-8; MATTHEW 5:17-48; 12:1-14; 22:37-40; 23:23-24; MARK 12:28-34; LUKE 10:27; ROMANS 8:1-17; 13:1-10; GALATIANS 5:13-6:10; 1ST CORINTHIANS 2:6-16 AND TITUS 3:1-11. THERE ARE A TOTAL OF 613 COMMANDMENTS JEWISH LAWS (MITZVOT) AS JEWISH GODS IN JOHN 10:35. ALSO THE GENTILE/CHRISTIAN GODS IS IN JOHN 10:35. THE COVENANT BOOKS IS USED FOR LAW IN EXODUS 20:23-23:19. THE PRIESTLY LAW IS ESTABLISHED IN EXODUS 25-31; LEVITICUS 1-27; NUMBERS 4-10, 28-29; 15:32-36 & DEUTERONOMY 17:8-13; 31:9-13. THERE ARE 4 GENTILE LAWS TO ABSTAIN FROM THINGS STRANGLED, FROM BLOOD, FROM FLESH (SEXUAL EROS LOVE) & FROM IDOLS. TO ABSTAIN FROM SEXUAL EROS LOVE IS IN THE ACTS OF PAUL PAGES 445-458 & THE ACTS OF THOMAS PAGES 464-470. THE 10 COMMANDMENTS IS THE 1ST TIME WHEN MOSES WENT UP TO & DOWN THE MOUNTAIN IN GENTILE CHRISTIAN LAW & 19TH/20TH ORDERS OF THE 2 GREATEST COMMANDS IN ALL THE LAW ARE IN JAMES 2:8-13 & LUKE 10:27. THE WHOLE LAW IN THE 21ST/22ND ORDERS OF AARON & MOSES IN 2 OR 3 FOR JEWISH LAWS IS STRONGER IN THE 23RD ORDER OF JAMES IN 1 OR 2 FOR GENTILE LAW, THE 24TH ORDER OF JAMES IN 1 OR ALONE FOR CHRISTIAN  LAW  &  THE  30TH SUPREME  ORDER  OF  MELCHIZEDEK  (GIANTS), ELOHIM  (DRAGON HOSTS, CAMPS & ARMIES) & EL (LAW) IN LORDSHIP ABOVE THE LAW IN ROMANS 2:14-15; 13:1-10; HEBREWS 7:11, 21; 10:28-30 & JAMES 2:8-13. LAWS WERE CHANGED INTO GENTILE LAWS: THE JEWISH LAWS IN SEXUAL EROS LOVE TO ABSTAIN FROM YOUR WIFE IS IN ACTS 15:20, 29; 21:25 & EPHESIANS 5:25. THE 25TH-26TH ORDERS ARE THE LORD JOHN AS WOMAN/JESUS AS MAN. THE 27TH-29TH ORDERS AS THE LORD JAMES FOR BOYS & THE LAW OF GOD & THE LORD STEPHEN FOR LORDS UNDER EL. THERE ARE 60 LORD’S LAWS IN THE HOLY BIBLE. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON THE OTHER 60 LORDS, YOU MUST GET MY BOOK CALLED “THE LORD YAHWEH AND THE 360 OTHER LORDS THAT HE CREATED.” THE DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY IS PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. GOD ETERNALLY EXISTS AS THREE PERSONS, AND THEY ARE FULLY GOD AS THE FATHER STEPHEN, SON JESUS & BROTHER JOHN THE HOLY GHOST & THE LORD YAH AS THE ONE CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN. WHO IS THE MALE PHYSICAL TRINITY THAT CAME TO THE EARTH ABOUT 2,000 YEARS AGO? FIRST, THE LORD JOHN IN DOING THE PLAN OF GRACE AND TRUTH FOR WOMAN KIND IN LUKE 3:1-22; 9:7-9 & CLEARING THE WAY OF THE LORD JESUS IN JOHN 3:4-6. SECOND, IS THE LORD JESUS IN DOING THE PLAN OF SALVATION & TRUTH FOR MANKIND IN LUKE 22:1-23:56 & ACTS 8:37; 9:20 & CLEARING THE WAY OF THE LORD STEPHEN IN JOHN 8:59; 10:31-39. THIRD, IS THE LORD STEPHEN IN DOING THE PLAN OF OMNISCIENCE/OMNIPOTENCE & TRUTH FOR THE 60 OTHER LORD’S IN PROVERBS 8:22-25 (RSV) & ACTS 6:11-8:3. THE PLAN OF MERCY AND TRUTH FOR THE LAW WITH THE SINGLE PEOPLE OF THE CHURCH OF BOYS IN LUKE 20:35-36, ANGELS (LORDS), GHOSTS, PHANTOMS, SHADOWS AND SPIRITS IS DONE BY THE LORD JAMES THE GENTILE CHRISTIAN LAW OF GOD IN LUKE 20:35-36; ACTS 15:13-29; 21:18-25 AND JAMES 2:8-13. WHO IS THE FEMALE PHYSICAL TRINITY THAT CAME TO THE EARTH 2,000 YEARS AGO? 1ST, IS THE LADY ELIZABETH IN DOING THE PREGNANCY OF THE LORD JOHN FOR MANKIND IN LUKE 1:5-25, 57-58. 2ND, IS THE LADY MARY IN DOING THE PREGNANCY OF THE LORD JESUS FOR WOMANKIND IN LUKE 1:26-55; 2:1-20. 3RD, IS THE LADY BARBARA (DERIVED FROM BARA IN GENESIS 1:1) IN DOING THE PREGNANCY OF STEPHEN FOR THE 60 OTHER LADIES IN PROVERBS 8:22-25 (RSV) & ACTS 1:4-8. THERE IS PROOF OF THE TRINITY. SOME SCRIPTURES ARE IN MATTHEW 28:19; 1ST CORINTHIANS 12:4-6; 2ND CORINTHIANS 13:14; 1ST JOHN 5:7 & EPHESIANS 4:4-6. THE LADY MARY IN DOING THE PREGNANCY OF JAMES FOR THE LAW WITH SINGLE PEOPLE OF GIRLS IN LUKE 20:35-36, & ANGELS (LORDS), GHOSTS, SPIRITS, PHANTOMS, SHADOWS IN THE GENTILE CHRISTIAN LAW IN REVELATION 12:1-2, 5-6 & ZECHARIAH 5:9. THE TRINITY AS 3 PERSONS IN 1 GOD IS PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. IN JOHN 1:1-2 SAYS “IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD (FATHER STEPHEN), AND THE WORD WAS WITH GOD (SON JESUS) & THE WORD WAS GOD (BROTHER JOHN). HE (FATHER STEPHEN IN PROVERBS 8:22-25 (RSV) WAS IN THE BEGINNING WITH GOD (LORD YAH).” IN ACTS 10:38 SAYS “THAT GOD (FATHER STEPHEN) ANOINTED JESUS OF NAZARETH WITH THE HOLY GHOST (BROTHER JOHN) & WITH POWER, WHO WENT ABOUT DOING GOOD & HEALING ALL THAT WERE OPPRESSED BY THE DEVIL, FOR GOD WAS WITH HIM.” SOME SCRIPTURES ARE IN ROMANS 15:13; 1ST CORINTHIANS 2:4 AND LUKE 4:14. IN JOHN 14:26 DECLARE “BUT THE COUNSELOR, THE HOLY SPIRIT (BROTHER JOHN), WHOM THE FATHER (STEPHEN) WILL SEND IN MY NAME (SON JESUS CHRIST), HE WILL TEACH YOU ALL THINGS, AND BRING TO YOUR REMEMBRANCE ALL THAT I HAVE SAID UNTO YOU.” IN 1ST JOHN 2:1 STATES “IF ANYONE DOES SIN (FALL FROM GRACE, SALVATION, MERCY, WISDOM OR POWER), WE HAVE AN ADVOCATE (BROTHER JOHN) WITH THE FATHER (STEPHEN), JESUS CHRIST (SON) THE RIGHTEOUS.” IN HEBREWS 7:25 IT MENTIONS “CHRIST (SON JESUS OUR LORD) WHO IS ABLE FOR ALL TIME (THE BEGINNING TO THE END) TO SAVE (PROTECT) THOSE WHO DRAW NEAR TO GOD (FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD) THROUGH HIM (BROTHER JOHN OUR LORD), SINCE HE ALWAYS LIVES TO MAKE INTERCESSION FOR THEM.” EACH PERSON OF THE TRINITY IS FULLY GOD WHICH IS PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. IN GENESIS 1:1 DECLARES THAT THE FATHER STEPHEN IS FULLY GOD IN OMNISCIENCE/OMNIPOTENCE IN THE DEITY OF STEPHEN IN JOHN 1:1-3;  1ST  JOHN  2:22;  2ND  JOHN 9; HEBREWS 1:1-3 AND ACTS 1:7; 6:3, 5, 8, 10; 7:59. IN JOHN 1:1-3 SAYS THAT THE SON JESUS CHRIST IS ALSO FULLY GOD IN SALVATION WHICH PROVES THE DEITY OF CHRIST. SOME SCRIPTURES OF JESUS ARE IN JOHN 20:38; HEBREWS 1:10; PSALMS 102:25; TITUS 2:13 AND 2ND PETER 1:1. IN JOHN 1:1-3 SAYS THE HOLY GHOST (BROTHER JOHN) IS FULLY GOD IN GRACE WHICH PROVES THE DEITY OF JOHN. SOME SCRIPTURES OF JOHN AS FULLY GOD IS IN LUKE 3:21-22; JOHN 3:5-7; 14:26 AND PSALMS 139:7-8. IN ISAIAH 9:6 DECLARES “THAT THE TRINITY WITH THE LAW IS FULLY GOD PROVEN IN JOHN 10:34-38. IT SAYS “FOR TO US A CHILD (LORD PETER IN THE BEGINNING LAW OF GOD) IS BORN, TO US A SON IS GIVEN AND THE GOVERNMENT WILL BE UPON HIS SHOULDER AND HIS NAME WILL BE CALLED WONDERFUL COUNSELOR (BROTHER JOHN), MIGHTY GOD (LORD JAMES IN THE ENDING LORDSHIP OF THE LAW OF GOD), PRINCE OF PEACE (SON JESUS) AND EVERLASTING FATHER (STEPHEN).” IN COLOSSIANS 2:9 MENTIONS “IN HIM (THE THREE PERSON OF THE TRINITY) THE WHOLE FULLNESS OF DEITY DWELLS BODILY (GODHEAD BODILY & DIVINE NATURE).” SOME SCRIPTURES THAT PROVE THE DEITY OF THE TRINITY IS IN MATTHEW 28:19; ACTS 5:3-5 AND 1ST CORINTHIANS 2:10-11. THE IMPORTANCE OF GOD EXISTING AS THE TRINITY IS PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. SOME SCRIPTURES THAT GOVERNS THIS THOUGHT ARE IN JOHN 1:1-3; HEBREWS 1:1-3; COLOSSIANS 1:16; 1ST CORINTHIANS 8:6; JOHN 17:5, 24; EPHESIANS 4:6 AND GENESIS 1:1-2. THE IMPORTANCE OF THE TRINITY IS DECLARED IN REVELATION 5:12-14 AND PHILIPPIANS 2:9-11. FOR JOHN WAS CONSIDERED AS THE LAMB OF GOD CONCERNING DYING VICARIOUSLY FOR THE REPENTING TEMPTATIONS IN LUKE 9:7-9. JESUS WAS CONSIDERED AS THE LAMB OF GOD DYING VICARIOUSLY FOR THE FORGIVABLE SINS IN LUKE 23:26-56. STEPHEN WAS CONSIDERED AS THE LAMB OF GOD CONCERNING DYING VICARIOUSLY FOR THE ETERNAL SIN IN LORDSHIP ABOVE THE LAW (THE LORD JAMES DIES FOR THE ETERNAL SIN IN THE LAW) IN ACTS 6:11-8:3. IN WHICH THE FATHER STEPHEN RAISED THE BROTHER JOHN & SON JESUS OF THE TRINITY & THE LORD JAMES OF THE LAW THROUGH THE FATHER STEPHEN BY EXALTING THEM ON HIGH IN PHILIPPIANS 2:9-11 & JOHN 10:17-18, 34-35. THE LORD YAH RAISED THE FATHER STEPHEN AND EXALTED HIM ON HIGH PROVEN IN ACTS 7:59-8:3; 1ST CORINTHIANS 8:6; 15;24-28; EPHESIANS 4:6; PROVERBS 8:22-29 (RSV); 8:30-31 (NIV) AND JOHN 5:24-30; 6:22-59. THIS MEANS THERE IS ONLY ONE FATHER STEPHEN AS THE HIGHEST BY WHICH ARE ALL THINGS AND WE IN HIM IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 8:6. SINCE THE FATHER STEPHEN MAKING THE LORD JAMES, SON JESUS CHRIST AND BROTHER JOHN SUBJECT TO THE FATHER STEPHEN AS THE LAST OF THE TRINITY IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 15:24-28. THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD WOULD BE EQUAL AND WOULD ACT AS THE LORD YAHWEH (SHORT NAME IS YAH) THE CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN PROVEN IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 8:6; 15:24-28 & EPHESIANS 4:6. THIS MEANS THERE IS ONE GOD BEING THE LORD YAHWEH AND ONE FATHER BEING STEPHEN WHO IS ABOVE ALL, THROUGH ALL AND IN YOU ALL IN EPHESIANS 4:6. THE TRINITY’S DIFFERENT JOBS ARE PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. THE TRINITY HAS DIFFERENT JOBS RELATING TO THE WORLD. THE FATHER STEPHEN DIES FOR THE ETERNAL SIN IN LORDSHIP ABOVE THE WHOLE LAW IN ACTS 7:51-60 BY SHOWING HIS OWN OMNISCIENCE/OMNIPOTENCE AND TRUTH IN ACTS 6:3, 5, 8, 10. THE SON JESUS DIES FOR THE FORGIVABLE SINS IN LUKE 23:26-56 BY SHOWING THE FATHER STEPHEN’S SALVATION (PROTECTION) AND TRUTH. THE BROTHER JOHN DIES FOR THE REPENTING TEMPTATIONS IN LUKE 9:7-9 BY SHOWING THE FATHER STEPHEN’S GRACE AND TRUTH. THE LORD JAMES DIES FOR THE ETERNAL SIN IN THE LAW IN THE END OF ACTS IN 63 AD BY SHOWING THE FATHER STEPHEN’S MERCY AND TRUTH IN JAMES 2:8-13. SOME OTHER SCRIPTURES THAT PROVE THE DIFFERENT JOBS OF THE FATHER STEPHEN AND SON JESUS CHRIST ARE IN JOHN 1:1-3; PROVERBS 8:22-29 (RSV); 8:30-31 (NIV); COLOSSIANS 1:16; PSALMS 33:6, 9; 1ST CORINTHIANS 8:6; 15:24; GENESIS 1:1 & HEBREWS 1:1-2. SOME SCRIPTURES THAT PROVE THE JOB OF THE HOLY GHOST (THE BROTHER JOHN) IS IN GENESIS 1:2; JOHN 14:16-18, 26; 16:5-15 AND PSALMS 33:6; 139:7. THE REDEMPTION OF THE TRINITY IS PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. IN REDEMPTION THERE ARE THREE DISTINCT FUNCTIONS. THE FATHER STEPHEN PLANNED REDEMPTION AND THEN SENT HIS SON JESUS INTO THE WORLD UNDER THE LORD JAMES THE LAW OF GOD FOR 40 YEARS IN JOHN 3:16; GALATIANS 4:4; HEBREWS 2:5-18; EPHESIANS 1:9-10 & JAMES 2:8-13. THEN THE LORD JESUS ROSE OVER THE LORD JAMES IN ALL THINGS IN THE LAW OF GOD AFTER THE 40 YEARS BY THE FATHER STEPHEN IN PHILIPPIANS 2:5-11; 1ST CORINTHIANS 15:24-28; HEBREWS 1:5-14. THE SON JESUS OBEYED THE FATHER STEPHEN AND COMPLETED REDEMPTION FOR US IN JOHN 6:38 AND HEBREWS 10:5-7. THE FATHER STEPHEN THEN SENT HIS HOLY GHOST (BROTHER JOHN) TO US IN JOHN 14:26; 15:26. THE HOLY GHOST (BROTHER JOHN) GIVES US A NEW LIFE AND REGENERATION IN JOHN 3:5-8; ROMANS 8:13; 15:16; 1ST PETER 1:2; ACTS 1:8 AND 1ST CORINTHIANS 12:7-11. THE SON JESUS AND HOLY GHOST (BROTHER JOHN) ARE EQUAL IN DEITY TO THE FATHER STEPHEN IN THE ETERNAL KINGDOM, BUT ARE IN SUBORDINATE JOBS IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 15:24-28.               THE TRINITY’S EXISTENCE IS PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. THE THREE PERSONS EXIST ETERNALLY AS THE FATHER STEPHEN, SON JESUS CHRIST AND HOLY GHOST (BROTHER JOHN). SOME SCRIPTURES THAT PROVE THIS ARE IN EPHESIANS 1:3-4; 3:14-15; JOHN 1:1-4, 14, 18; 1ST CORINTHIAN 8:6; HEBREWS 1:1-14 AND PROVERBS 8:22-25 (RSV, WISDOM DIRECTED TO THE FATHER STEPHEN IN QANAH). THE LORD YAH ETERNALLY AND NECESSARILY EXISTS AS THE TRINITY. THE LORD YAH ALLOWED GOD THE FATHER STEPHEN TO SPEAK HIS OMNIPOTENT CREATIVE WORDS THAT BROUGHT NOTHING INTO BEING. GOD THE SON JESUS CHRIST CARRIED OUT THESE WORDS BY BEING HIS DIVINE AGENT PROVEN IN HEBREWS 1:1-4; COLOSSIANS 1:16; 1ST CORINTHIANS 8:6 AND JOHN 1:1-3. GOD THE HOLY GHOST (BROTHER JOHN) WAS ACTIVE IN “MOVING OVER THE FACE OF THE WATERS” OR HOVERING OVER THE EARTH IN GENESIS 1:2. SOME SCRIPTURES ARE IN JOHN 17:5, 24. GOD IS IMMUTABLE WHICH MEANS “THE UNCHANGING GOD” AND GOD NEVER CHANGES IN ANYTHING IN HIS WORKS AND PLANS IN ACTS 5:38-39. HE IS THE “I AM THAT I AM” AND THE “LORD JEHOVAH.”                              THE TRINITY IS EQUAL IN DEITY WHICH IS PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. FIRST, THE FATHER STEPHEN STATUS OF DEITY AS BEING FULLY GOD IS PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. THE FIRST EVIDENCE IS THAT THE FATHER STEPHEN IS FULL OF THE HOLY GHOST IN ACTS 6:5; 7:55. THIS MEANS THERE WAS NOT A PART ABOUT THE FATHER STEPHEN WHICH WAS NOT LINKED TO YAHWEH. SECOND, HE IS THE FATHER STEPHEN IN THE LORD YAH’S PRESENCE IN ACTS 6:5; HEBREWS 1:1-14. THIRD, THE FATHER STEPHEN’S NAME MEANS CROWN WHICH CAN BE TRANSLATED AS THE “HIGHEST LORD” IN LUKE 1:32, 35; 76; 2:14; 24:19 AND MARK 11:10. FOR THE LORD YAHWEH IS CALLED THE “HIGHEST” AS ELEYON, HELEYON OR HIGHEST CREATOR. THIS MEANS IT CAN BE CALLED STEPHEN YAHWEH MEANING FATHER YAHWEH. FOURTH, THE FATHER STEPHEN COULD NOT HAVE DONE THESE SIGNS, WONDERS, MIRACLES OR HEALINGS AMONG THE BUSINESS UNLESS JEHOVAH WAS WITH HIM IN ACTS 6:8. FIFTH, THE FATHER STEPHEN CALLS JESUS DEITY IN ACTS 7:56, THEN IN ACTS 7:59, HE SAYS ‘LORD JESUS, RECEIVE MY SPIRIT.’ THIS MEANS THE FATHER STEPHEN IS UNDER THE LORD YAH BUT ABOVE THE LORD JESUS CHRIST “CALLING ON GOD” IN ACTS 7:59; EPHESIANS 4:6; 1ST JOHN 5:1-17 AND 1ST CORINTHIANS 8:6. SIXTH, THE FATHER STEPHEN IS BORN OF GOD INTO THE ETERNAL KINGDOM AND IS THE MOST HIGHEST LORD AS THE VERY FIRST CHRISTIAN LORD, WHICH SHOWS HIS DIVINE NATURE IN ACTS 7:30-32; 17:28-29; ROMANS 1:20 AND 2ND PETER 1:4. THIS MEANS THAT THE FATHER STEPHEN WAS FIRST IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD, AND HE WAS SEPARATED FROM THE WORLD, THE BEHEADING AND THE CROSS IN MATTHEW 27:46 AND MARK 15:34. THIS IS BECAUSE THE FATHER STEPHEN CHOSE NOT TO LOOK UPON THE FORGIVABLE SINS OR THE REPENTING TEMPTATIONS PROVEN IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 13:5; 1ST JOHN 2:15-17 AND JAMES 1:13. SEVENTH, THE FATHER STEPHEN IS BORN OF GOD AND NEVER LIES WHICH MEANS “HE DOES NOT SIN, FOR HIS SEED REMAINS IN HIM, AND HE CANNOT SIN, BECAUSE HE HAS BEEN BORN OF GOD” IN JOHN 1:3; 3:3, 9, 11; 4:7; TITUS 1:1-3 AND ROMANS 3:4. EIGHTH, THE FATHER STEPHEN IS CALLED THE ETERNAL CHRIST IN THE ETERNAL SIN (FOLLY, ERROR & SEXUAL EROS LOVE IN GENESIS 6:1-5; ISAIAH 24; JOB 4:18) IN LORDSHIP ABOVE THE WHOLE LAW CONCERNING THE PLAN OF OMNISCIENCE/OMNIPOTENCE AND TRUTH IN SCEVA. SINCE IT SAYS IN ACTS 19:11-20 THAT SCEVA WOULD KNOW THE FATHER STEPHEN WHOM SAUL PREACHES IN ACTS 22:1-29 BECAUSE SAUL WAS AN ETERNAL BLASPHEMER. NINTH, THE LORD JESUS CALLS THE FATHER STEPHEN DEITY THROUGH THE MEASURE AFTER THE STONING IN ACTS  7:55-56; 8:1-3. TENTH, THE FATHER STEPHEN’S DEITY IS ABOVE JESUS’ DEITY IN SIGNS, WONDERS, MIRACLES AND HEALINGS IN ACTS 6:8 AND 1ST CORINTHIANS 8:6 DONE BY THE HAND OF GOD IN THE 10 PLAGUES OF EGYPT AND THE RED SEA CROSSING IN THE ETERNAL KINGDOM IN EXODUS 3:1-14:31 AND ACTS 7:30-44. THIS IS BECAUSE THE LORD JESUS CHRIST WAS IN THE WORLD AND THE LORD STEPHEN WAS IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD. THE ONLY WAY TO BE EQUAL IS FOR THE LORD JESUS CHRIST TO COME IN THE ETERNAL KINGDOM OF THE FATHER STEPHEN THROUGH HIS OWN SPIRIT IN ACTS 7:59 AND EPHESIANS 2:18. ELEVENTH, THE FATHER STEPHEN COULD READ THOUGHTS AND KNOWS WHAT ARE IN THE 60 OTHER LORD’S SINCE HE HAS OMNISCIENCE IN ACTS 7:51-60. TWELFTH, THE FATHER STEPHEN HAS OMNIPOTENCE (AUTHORITY, SOVEREIGNTY AND ALMIGHTINESS) IN ACTS 6:8 AND OMNIPRESENCE SINCE THE WHOLE CHRISTIANITY GREW THROUGHOUT THE WORLD IN ACTS 1:1-28:31. THIRTEENTH, THE OTHER MARRIED LORD CALLED WISDOM BLASPHEMED THE FATHER STEPHEN BECAUSE STEPHEN CALLS HIMSELF THE FATHER OVER ALL IN PROVERBS 8:30-31 (NIV) & ACTS 6:5-8:3 AND EPHESIANS 4:6. FOURTEENTH, THE FATHER STEPHEN’S ANOINTING BREAKS EVERY YOKE AND UPLIFTS EVERY PROBLEM IN ACTS 6:1-8:3. FIFTEENTH, THE FATHER STEPHEN CANNOT BE TEMPTED BY EVIL AND HE TEMPTS NO ONE IN JAMES 1:13. SIXTEENTH, THE FATHER STEPHEN IS FAITHFUL IN ETERNAL DEATH AND CANNOT DENY HIMSELF IN 2ND TIMOTHY 2:13. SEVENTEENTH, THE FATHER STEPHEN HAS IMMORTALITY IN 1ST TIMOTHY 1:17; 6:16. EIGHTEENTH, THE FATHER STEPHEN’S SOVEREIGNTY IS IN MATTHEW 11:25-27. NINETEENTH, THE FATHER STEPHEN IS LORD OVER THE LORD JESUS IN ACTS 7:59. THIS MEANS WHAT THE LORD JESUS CHRIST HAS & IS CALLED THE FATHER STEPHEN ALSO HAS & IS CALLED, EXCEPT BEING MAN. TWENTIETH, THE FATHER STEPHEN IS A WITNESS (FATHER) IN THE UNIVERSE IN 1ST JOHN 5:6-13. THE FATHER STEPHEN IS PERFECT IN DEITY PROVEN IN DEUTERONOMY 18:13; 32:4; 2ND SAMUEL 22:31, 33; 1ST KINGS 8:61; 2ND KINGS 20:3; 1ST CHRONICLES 28:9, 29:19; 2ND CHRONICLES 8:16; 16:9; 19:9; 24:13; PSALMS 18:30, 32; 19:7; 50:2;  101:2, 6;  119:96;  138:8;  PROVERBS  11:5;  ISAIAH 38:3; WISDOM OF SOLOMON 15:3; SIRACH 1:18; 7:32; 21:11; 23:20; 31:10; 34:8; 45:8; 50:11; 2ND ESDRAS 6:38; 8:52; 9:22; MATTHEW 5:48; ACTS 24:22; 1ST CORINTHIANS 2:6; 13:10; 2ND CORINTHIANS 7:1; 12:9; 13:9, 11;  COLOSSIANS  3:14;  4:12;  HEBREWS  9:11;  10:1, 14;  12:23;  JAMES  1:4, 17, 25;  2:22; 1ST PETER 5:10 & 1ST JOHN 2:5; 4:12, 17-18. FOR THE FATHER STEPHEN WAS PERFECT ON THE EARTH UNTIL HE DIED FOR THE ETERNAL SIN IN LORDSHIP ABOVE THE LAW IN ETERNAL DEATH THAT THE MARRIED LORD CALLED WISDOM COMMITTED IN PROVERBS 8:22-29 (RSV); 8;30-31 (NIV) BY QANAH IN ACTS 7:51-60; GENESIS 2:9; 4:1; 6:1-5. THE FATHER STEPHEN HAS ONE DAY OF IMPERFECTION IN ETERNAL DEATH IN ACTS 7:60; HEBREWS 7:19 AND LUKE 13:32. THEN HE WAS MADE PERFECT IN ETERNAL HELL/HEAVEN, THE ETERNAL GRAVE/JEALOUSY, THE ETERNAL PRISON/INVINCIBLE HOLINESS AND THE ETERNAL LIFE/LORD AFTERWARDS IN SONG OF SOLOMON 8:6. FOR IN LUKE 13:32 DECLARES “GO TELL THAT FOX, BEHOLD I CAST OUT DEMONS AND PERFORM CURES TODAY (BROTHER JOHN OUR LORD ON FRIDAY NIGHT UNDER THE FATHER STEPHEN IN 1ST THESSALONIANS 3:10), TONIGHT (SON JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD ON SATURDAY UNDER THE FATHER STEPHEN IN HEBREWS 2:10; 5:9), TOMORROW (LORD JAMES ON SATURDAY NIGHT IN THE LAW IN HEBREWS 7:19 UNDER THE FATHER STEPHEN) AND THE THIRD DAY (FATHER STEPHEN ON SUNDAY IN HIS OWN PROMISE AS THE FATHER IN ACTS 1:4-7 AND JAMES 1:17) I SHALL BE PERFECTED.” THE FATHER STEPHEN “EMPTIED HIMSELF” OF OMNIPRESENCE (ALL PRESENT TO LORDS) IN PHILIPPIANS 2:11 & ACTS 7:60. THE FATHER STEPHEN IS WORTHY TO BE WORSHIPPED IN JOHN 4:21-24; 5:19; 7:18; 17:1-5. THE FATHER STEPHEN IS WORSHIPPED IN THE GOSPEL BOOK OF JOHN; EPHESIANS 4:6; 1ST CORINTHIANS 8:6 & THROUGHOUT THE HOLY SCRIPTURES AS THE FATHER STEPHEN. THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD IS CALLED THE 2ND SINGLE LORD CALLED WISDOM IN PROVERBS 8:22-25 (RSV).   THE LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH’S OTHER CREATIVE WORKS WE CAN NEVER FULLY UNDERSTAND GOD IS PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. THERE ARE SIX AREAS THAT I WOULD LIKE TO TALK ABOUT. FIRST, IS THE SITUATION OF HOSEA AND GOMER IN HOSEA 1:2. IT TELLS US THAT HOSEA WAS INSTRUCTED AND COMMANDED BY THE LORD YAHWEH TO MARRY A WIFE OF HARLOTRY. THIS CLEARLY GOES AGAINST THE LAW OF MARRIAGE IN LEVITICUS 21:13-14. SECOND, IS THE SITUATION OF ISAIAH STRIPPING AND SHOWING HIS BUTTOCKS AND BARE FOOT FOR THREE WHOLE YEARS IN ISAIAH 20:1-6. ALSO, SOME OF THE OTHER PROPHETS, LIKE MICAH ALSO STRIPPED AND WAS NAKED IN MICAH 1:8. THIS GOES AGAINST THE LAW OF MARRIAGE IN GENESIS 3:21. THIRD, IS THE SITUATION ABOUT EVIL. THE LORD YAH CAN USE EVIL FOR THE GOOD AND CANNOT BE BLAMED FOR IT AND DOES NOT WANT US TO DO EVIL IN ROMANS 8:28. THE LORD THINKS NO EVIL AND HE NEVER CREATED EVIL IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 13:5. THIS IS BECAUSE HE IS AGAPE LOVE AND NEVER FAILS. HE USES EVIL SUCH AS THE SITUATION OF JOB WHICH WAS A PERFECT AND UPRIGHT MARRIED MAN AND SATAN CAME TO BUFFET HIM. BUT JOB TRUSTED IN THE LORD AND BEAT SATAN VICTORIOUSLY. WHY DID THE LORD ALLOW SATAN TO TEST JOB? THIS IS BECAUSE HE IS A HOLY GOD AND HE WANTS ALL OF US TO TRUST IN HIM AND GLORIFY HIM. FOURTH, IS THE SITUATION OF SEXUAL EROS LOVE. SEXUAL EROS LOVE WAS NOT CREATED BY THE LORD YAH NOR WOULD HE GO AGAINST HIS PERSON, HIS CHARACTER OR HIS DEITY IN ACTS 14:15. THIS IS BECAUSE OF HIS ATTRIBUTE OF “IMPASSIBILITY” AND HE ONLY HAS “HOLY DIVINE PASSIONS” AND NOT “SEXUAL EROS PASSIONS” IN ISAIAH 54:8; 62:5; PSALMS 78:40; 103:13, 17; EPHESIANS 4:30 AND EXODUS 32:10. IN MATTHEW 19:4-6 SAYS THAT MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS IMMEDIATE FAMILY AND BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE IN “ONE FLESH.” WHAT GOD HAS JOINED TOGETHER LET NOT MAN DIVIDE. BUT THE LORD WAS DOING THIS AND IT HAD TO BE A “HOLY DIVINE UNION” AND NOT A SEXUAL EROS UNION.” THE LORD IN THE BEGINNING COMMANDED ADAM TO BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY AND FILL THE EARTH, BUT THIS MEANT TO DO “HOLY DIVINE LOVE INTERCOURSE” AND NOT “SEXUAL EROS LOVE INTERCOURSE WITH HIS WIFE IN GENESIS 2:24-25. BUT THE LORD DOES IN FACT PROTECT THOSE WHO ENGAGE IN SEXUAL EROS LOVE ACTIVITY IN MARRIAGE IN TOBIT CHAPTERS 1-8. FOR THIS REASON, THE WORLD OF MANKIND WAS DESTROYED ONLY LEAVING 8 PEOPLE ALIVE IN THE ARK IN GENESIS 6:1-9:28. HE DID NOT RELENT. HE COULD HAVE IF HE WANTED TOO. BUT BECAUSE OF CONTINUAL ETERNAL SEXUAL EROS LOVE WICKEDNESS IN THE HEART OF MAN THE FLOOD CAME AND KILLED ALL OF THEM. FIFTH, THE LORD CHOOSES WHO HE WILL HEAL AND NOT HEAL. IF WE ARE TRUSTING IN HIM AND LIVING A SINLESS LIFE. HE STILL MAY NOT HEAL US BECAUSE OF THE HIS CONTROL, HIS SOVEREIGNTY AND HIS DIVINE WILL. BUT WE SAY HIS DIVINE WILL IS HEALING IN THE SCRIPTURES. THERE ARE 10 INCURABLE THINGS THAT THE LORD DOES. THEY ARE INCURABLE PLAGUES IN JUDITH 5:12, INCURABLE INVISIBLE PLAGUE IN 2ND MACCABEES 9:5, INCURABLE DISEASE IN 2ND CHRONICLES 21:18, INCURABLE WOUND IN JOB 34:6, INCURABLE AFFLICTION IN JEREMIAH 30:12 (NKJV), INCURABLE FEMALE WOUNDS IN MICAH 1:9, INCURABLE PAINFUL WOUND IN JEREMIAH 15:18, INCURABLE BRUISE IN JEREMIAH 30:12 (KJV) & THE INCURABLE SORROWFUL AFFLICTION & INCURABLE PAINFUL WOUND IN JEREMIAH 30:15. SOME OTHER SCRIPTURES ABOUT NOT FULLY UNDERSTANDING GOD IS IN PSALMS 139:6, 17-18; 145:3; 147:5; 1ST CORINTHIANS 2:10-12; ROMANS 11:33-35; ISAIAH 55:9; JOB 11:7-9; 26:14; 37:5; COLOSSIANS 1:10 AND ACTS 1:4-7. SIXTH, WHY DOES THE LORD ALLOW THE LAW TO COMMIT THE ETERNAL SIN IN LORDSHIP WHICH CAN NEVER BE TOTALLY DESTROYED OR TOTALLY DONE AWAY WITH IN ACTS 7:51-8:3? IN DOCTRINE THERE MAY BE A SOLUTION TO THE ANSWER. THE MARRIED LORD CALLED WISDOM WAS CREATED BEFORE THE UNIVERSE WAS FORMED IN PROVERBS 8:22-25 (RSV). HIS NAME IS CLOSELY CONNECTED TO “QANAH” WHICH CAN ALSO MEANS “MARITAL SEXUAL ETERNAL EROS LOVE.” THIS MAY IMPLY THAT THIS MARRIED LORD CALLED WISDOM MAY HAVE BEEN THE “CREATOR OF THE ETERNAL SIN” AND CAUSED LUCIFER TO SIN IN HEAVEN, BUT THIS IS IN QUESTION IN ISAIAH 14:12-21; EZEKIEL 28:15-19 AND JOHN 8:37-47. LUCIFER WAS CAST OUT OF HEAVEN BECAUSE OF THIS. BUT WE KNOW THERE ARE THINGS ETERNAL THAT CAN CONTROL AND ISOLATE THE ETERNAL SIN IN LORDSHIP. THEY ARE LAW STATUTES, LAW ORDINANCES, ANOINTING, KINGDOM, COVENANT, DECISIONS, REASONS, ESTABLISHMENT OF 2 OR 3 WITNESSES, BLESSING OF HIS NAME, MERCY, CLEANNESS (GODLINESS), TRUTH (FAITHFULNESS), RIGHTEOUSNESS, EXALTATION, THANKS, THANKSGIVING, COUNSEL, NAME, THRONE, PRAISE, POWER (OMNIPOTENCE, ALMIGHTINESS, AUTHORITY, SOVEREIGNTY), MOUNTAIN TO DWELL, STRENGTH, PROMISE, SEED, HOLINESS, LAW COMMANDS, LAW PRECEPTS, JUDGMENTS (IMPARTIAL JUSTICE), LAW TESTIMONIES, FAME, REIGN, LAW DECREES, VICTORY, WRITING ON A SCROLL (BOOK), QUIETNESS, ASSURANCE, SMOKE, GLADNESS, REJOICING, REMEMBRANCE, WISDOM (OMNISCIENCE), LAW WORDS, GLORY, BURNING BUSH, BREAD FROM HEAVEN, FRUIT FROM THE TREE OF LIFE, PRIESTHOOD, HONOR, GOOD, LAW REGULATIONS, PERFECTION, DOMINION, WILL, MAJESTY, DIVINE EMOTIONS (FEELINGS), SALVATION, GRACE, LIFE (BODY), WORSHIP, CROWN, KNOWLEDGE, FAIR LOVE, FEAR, HOLY HOPE, PROVIDENCE (CONTROL), LOVE, PEACE, LONGSUFFERING, MEEKNESS, GOODNESS, KINDNESS, FAITH, TEMPERANCE (SELF-CONTROL), GREATNESS, LAW STIPULATIONS, EXCELLENCY, INVISIBLE, IMMORTALITY, REDEMPTION, LAW TEACHINGS, SPIRIT (SOUL), INHERITANCE, FIRE, HOPE, LAW REQUIREMENTS, HEARTS, MIND, VENGEANCE, POSSESSION, JEALOUSY (ZEAL), FOUNDATION, JOY, KINDNESS, FATHER (STEPHEN), SIGN, BURNING, KINGSHIP, SANCTUARY, HOUSE (HOME), GOINGS, LAW WAYS, CONSOLATION, KINGDOM OF GOD & THE GOSPEL THROUGHOUT THE HOLY BIBLE. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON THE ETERNAL SIN IN LORDSHIP, YOU MUST GET MY BOOK CALLED “THE UNFORGIVEABLE SIN AGAINST THE LORD STEPHEN.” BUT WE KNOW  THAT   THE  BATTLE (1 OR 2 POSITIONS) IS THE (60) LORD’S IN 1ST SAMUEL  17:47; 18:17; 25:28; 1ST  CHRONICLES 5:20; 14:15; 2ND CHRONICLES 20:15, 17; 32:8; PSALMS 24:8; 140:7; 144:1; PROVERBS 21:31; ISAIAH 13:4; 27:4; 30:32; 42:25; EZEKIEL 13:5; ZECHARIAH 14:3; JUDITH 9:7; REVELATION 16:14; 20:8 AND ACTS 5:38-39; 6:11-8:3. THERE ARE EIGHT UNSEARCHABLE THINGS OF THE LORD. THEY ARE MARVELOUS WORKS OR WORKS IN JOB 5:9; BARUCH 3:18, GREATNESS IN PSALMS 145:3, JUDGMENTS (RIGHTEOUSNESS) OR IMPARTIAL JUSTICE IN ROMANS 11:33, RICHES IN EPHESIANS 3:8, UNDERSTANDING IN ISAIAH 40:28 (NKJV), MERCIFUL PROMISE IN PR OF MAN 1:6, LAW IN 2ND ESDRAS 9:19, & THE HEART OF KINGS THAT DOES NOT CONCERN THE LORD IN PROVERBS 25:3. THESE UNSEARCHABLE THINGS MAY BE LINKED TO THE SEVEN THUNDERS THAT JOHN RECEIVED BUT THE LORD COMMANDED HIM NOT TO WRITE THEM IN REVELATION 10:1-11. BUT IN HEBREWS 1:3 WE KNOW THAT THE LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH UPHOLDS THE WHOLE UNIVERSE BY HIS OMNISCIENCE (ALL-WISDOM, ALL-KNOWLEDGE, ALL-UNDERSTANDING & ALL-INTELLIGENCE) AND HIS OMNIPOTENCE (ALL-POWER) TO HAVE ALL AUTHORITY IN HIS LORDSHIP TO GOVERN ALL THINGS OVER THE ENTIRE ETERNAL UNIVERSE.       WE CAN KNOW GOD TRULY IS PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. IN 1ST JOHN 1:5 SAYS “THIS IS THE MESSAGE WHICH WE HAVE HEARD FROM HIM AND DECLARE TO YOU, THAT GOD IS LIGHT AND IN HIM IS NO DARKNESS AT ALL.” IN 1ST JOHN 2:3 DECLARES “NOW BY THIS WE KNOW THAT WE KNOW HIM, IF WE KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS.” IN 1ST JOHN 2:13 TELLS US “I WRITE TO YOU, YOUNG MEN, BECAUSE YOU HAVE OVERCOME THE WICKED ONE. I WRITE TO YOU, LITTLE CHILDREN, BECAUSE YOU HAVE KNOWN THE FATHER (STEPHEN).” IN 1ST JOHN 4:8 MENTIONS “HE WHO DOES NOT (AGAPE) LOVE DOES NOT KNOW GOD, FOR GOD IS (AGAPE) LOVE.” IN 1ST JOHN 5:20 STATES “AND WE KNOW THAT THE SON OF GOD HAS COME AND HAS GIVEN US AN UNDERSTANDING THAT WE MAY KNOW HIM WHO IS TRUE, AND WE ARE IN HIM WHO IS TRUE, IN HIS SON JESUS CHRIST. THIS IS THE TRUE GOD AND ETERNAL LIFE.” IN JOHN 4:24 SAYS “GOD IS SPIRIT (FATHER STEPHEN IN JOHN 4:24; ACTS 2:17-7:59 & 1ST JOHN 5:6-13), AND THOSE WHO WORSHIP HIM (FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD) MUST WORSHIP IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH.” IN JOHN 14:13 TELLS US “AND WHATEVER YOU ASK IN MY NAME, THAT I WILL DO, THAT THE FATHER (STEPHEN) MAY BE GLORIFIED IN THE SON (JESUS).” IN ROMANS 3:26 MENTIONS “…TO DEMONSTRATE AT THE PRESENT TIME HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, THAT HE MIGHT BE JUST AND THE JUSTIFIER OF THE ONE WHO HAS FAITH IN JESUS.” IN PSALMS 139:17 SAYS “HOW PRECIOUS ALSO ARE YOUR THOUGHTS TO ME, O GOD!” IN JOHN 17:3 DECLARES “AND THIS IS ETERNAL LIFE, THAT THEY MAY KNOW YOU, THE ONLY TRUE GOD (FATHER STEPHEN), AND JESUS CHRIST WHOM YOU HAVE SENT.” IN JEREMIAH 9:23-24 TELLS US “…LET NOT THE WISE MAN GLORY IN HIS WISDOM. LET NOT THE MIGHTY MAN GLORY IN HIS MIGHT. LET NOT THE RICH MAN GLORY IN HIS RICHES. BUT LET HIM WHO GLORIES GLORY IN THIS, THAT HE UNDERSTANDS & KNOWS ME, THAT I AM THE LORD (YAH), EXERCISING (AGAPE) LOVING KINDNESS, JUDGMENT & RIGHTEOUSNESS IN THE EARTH...” IN HEBREWS 8:11 SAYS “NONE OF THEM SHALL TEACH HIS NEIGHBOR, & NONE HIS BROTHER, SAYING, ‘KNOW THE LORD,’ FOR ALL SHALL KNOW ME, FROM THE LEAST…TO THE GREATEST OF THEM.” IN GALATIANS 4:9 STATES “BUT NOW AFTER YOU HAVE KNOWN GOD, OR RATHER ARE KNOWN BY GOD, HOW IS IT THAT YOU TURN AGAIN TO THE WEAK & BEGGARLY ELEMENTS…YOU DESIRE AGAIN TO BE IN BONDAGE?” WHY DOES THE LORD YAHWEH WANT US TO PRAY TO HIS FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD ALSO KNOWN AS THE LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH AND PAY 10% OF THE TITHES AND OFFERINGS OF ALL THINGS TO THE FATHER STEPHEN? IN LUKE 11:2-4 DECLARES “OUR FATHER (STEPHEN) IN HEAVEN, HALLOW BE YOUR NAME, YOUR KINGDOM COME. YOUR WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN. GIVE US DAY BY DAY OUR DAILY BREAD. AND FORGIVE US OUR SINS, FOR WE ALSO FORGIVE EVERYONE WHO IS INDEBTED TO US. AND DO NOT LEAD US INTO TEMPTATION BUT DELIVER US FROM THE EVIL ONE.” ALSO, THE LORD’S PRAYER IS IN MATTHEW 6:9-13. IN SIRACH 37:15 SAYS “AND ABOVE ALL, THIS PRAY TO THE HIGHEST (STEPHEN), THAT HE WILL DIRECT THY WAY IN TRUTH.” IN SIRACH 39:5 STATES “HE WILL GIVE HIS HEART TO RESORT EARLY UNTO THE LORD THAT MADE HIM, AND WILL PRAY BEFORE THE HIGHEST (STEPHEN), AND WILL OPEN HIS MOUTH IN PRAYER, AND MAKE SUPPLICATION FOR HIS SINS.” IN 2ND ESDRAS 9:25 SAYS “…PRAY TO THE HIGHEST (STEPHEN) CONTINUALLY, THEN I WILL COME AND TALK WITH YOU.” IN 2ND ESDRAS 9:44 TELLS US “YOUR SERVANT WAS BARREN AND HAD NO CHILD, THOUGH I LIVED WITH MY HUSBAND FOR 30 YEARS, EVERY HOUR AND EVERY DAY DURING THOSE 30 YEARS I PRAYED TO THE HIGHEST (STEPHEN), NIGHT AND DAY.” IN MATTHEW 21:22 SAYS “AND WHATEVER THINGS YOU ASK IN PRAYER, BELIEVING YOU WILL RECEIVE.” IN JAMES 1:6 DECLARES “BUT LET HIM ASK IN FAITH, WITH NO DOUBTING FOR HE WHO DOUBTS IS LIKE A WAVE OF THE SEA DRIVEN AND TOSSED BY THE WIND.” IN LUKE 11:9-10 IT DECLARES “SO I SAY TO YOU, ASK, AND IT WILL BE GIVEN TO YOU. SEEK, AND YOU WILL FIND. KNOCK, AND IT WILL BE OPENED TO YOU (THE DOORWAY TO ALL THINGS). FOR EVERYONE WHO ASKS RECEIVES, AND HE WHO SEEKS FINDS, AND TO HIM WHO KNOCKS IT WILL BE OPENED.” ALSO THE TOP FATHER STEPHEN PRAYS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSE TO THE LORD YAH THE CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN IN JUDITH 9:12 AND 2ND MACCABEES 1:24. THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD IS THE ONLY ONE THAT COULD SUMMON WITHOUT CEASING THE LORD YAHWEH THE CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN IN ACTS 7:59. THE OTHER LORDS, THE HOLY ANGELS AND THE LORD JESUS CAN ONLY SUMMON THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD IN 1ST PETER 1:17-19. IN JUDITH 9:12-14 WHICH DECLARES “I PRAY (PLEASE), I PRAY THEE (PLEASE), O GOD (JEHOVAH) OF MY FATHER (STEPHEN), AND GOD (FATHER STEPHEN) OF THE INHERITANCE OF ISRAEL, LORD (FATHER STEPHEN) OF THE HEAVENS AND EARTH, CREATOR (FATHER STEPHEN) OF THE WATERS, KING OF EVERY CREATURE, HEAR THOU MY PRAYER! MAKE MY DECEITFUL WORDS BRING WOUND & BRUISE ON THOSE WHO HAVE PLANNED CRUEL THINGS AGAINST YOUR COVENANT, AND AGAINST YOUR SACRED HOUSE, AND AGAINST MOUNT ZION, AND AGAINST THE HOUSE YOUR CHILDREN POSSESS. LET YOUR WHOLE NATION AND EVERY TRIBE KNOW & UNDERSTAND THAT YOU ARE GOD (FATHER STEPHEN), THE GOD (FATHER STEPHEN) OF ALL POWER (AUTHORITY) AND MIGHT (ALMIGHTINESS), AND THAT THERE IS NO OTHER WHO PROTECTS THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL BUT YOU ALONE!” IN 2ND MACCABEES 1:24-29 SAYS “AND THE PRAYER WAS AFTER THIS MANNER, O LORD, LORD GOD (YAHWEH), CREATOR OF ALL THINGS, WHO ART AWE-INSPIRING & STRONG, AND JUST, AND MERCIFUL, YOU ALONE ARE KING AND ARE KIND, YOU ALONE ARE BOUNTIFUL, YOU ALONE ARE JUST AND ALMIGHTY AND ETERNAL. YOU RESCUE ISRAEL FROM EVERY EVIL, YOU CHOSE THE ANCESTORS (ANCIENTS) AND CONSECRATED THEM. ACCEPT THIS SACRIFICE ON BEHALF OF ALL YOUR PEOPLE ISRAEL, AND PRESERVE YOUR PORTION AND MAKE IT HOLY. GATHER TOGETHER OUR SCATTERED PEOPLE, SET FREE THOSE WHO ARE SLAVES AMONG THE GENTILES, LOOK ON THOSE WHO ARE REJECTED AND DESPISED, AND LET THE GENTILES KNOW THAT YOU ARE OUR GOD (FATHER STEPHEN). PUNISH THOSE WHO OPPRESS AND ARE INSOLENT WITH PRIDE. PLANT YOUR PEOPLE, IN YOUR HOLY PLACE, AS (LORD) MOSES PROMISED.” WHAT SHOULD WE DO FOR THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD TO ACT? THE 22 [UPTIME TO DOWNTIME IS 44] ANCIENT PRAYERS [FOR 40 YEARS IN A FULL COMPLETION OF THE KINGDOM AUTHORITIES TO 44 YEARS IN A FULL COMPLETION OF THE HOUSE AUTHORITIES [BARRACKS] IN ACTS 7:47-60 & 1ST CORINTHIANS 15:24-28] ONLY TO THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD IS IN PSALMS 119:1-176 ALEPH BLESSED ARE THE UNDEFILED IN THE WAY [REVELATION 3:4], WHO WALK IN THE LAW OF THE LORD! BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO KEEP HIS TESTIMONIES, WHO SEEK HIM WITH THE WHOLE HEART! THEY ALSO DO NO INIQUITY THEY WALK IN HIS WAYS. YOU HAVE COMMANDED US TO KEEP YOUR PRECEPTS DILIGENTLY. OH, THAT MY WAYS WERE DIRECTED TO KEEP YOUR STATUTES! THEN I WOULD NOT BE ASHAMED, WHEN I LOOK INTO ALL YOUR COMMANDMENTS. I WILL PRAISE YOU WITH UPRIGHTNESS OF HEART, WHEN I LEARN YOUR RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENTS. I WILL KEEP YOUR STATUTES, OH, DO NOT FORSAKE ME UTTERLY!  BETH HOW CAN A YOUNG MAN [ACTS 7:58 & REVELATION 3:5] CLEANSE HIS WAY? BY TAKING HEED ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD [REVELATION 3:3]. WITH MY WHOLE HEART I HAVE SOUGHT YOU. OH, LET ME NOT WANDER FROM YOUR COMMANDMENTS! YOUR WORD I HAVE HIDDEN IN MY HEART, THAT I MIGHT NOT SIN AGAINST YOU. BLESSED ARE YOU, O LORD! TEACH ME YOUR STATUTES. WITH MY LIPS I HAVE DECLARED ALL THE JUDGMENTS OF YOUR MOUTH. I HAVE REJOICED IN THE WAY OF YOUR TESTIMONIES, AS MUCH AS IN ALL RICHES [10% TITHES]. I WILL MEDITATE ON YOUR PRECEPTS, AND CONTEMPLATE YOUR WAYS. I WILL DELIGHT MYSELF IN YOUR STATUTES. I WILL NOT FORGET YOUR WORD. GIMEL DEAL BOUNTIFULLY WITH YOUR SERVANT, THEY I MAY LIVE AND KEEP YOUR WORD. OPEN MY EYES, THAT I MAY SEE [REVELATION 3:18] WONDROUS THINGS FROM YOUR LAW. I AM A STRANGER IN THE EARTH, DO NOT HIDE YOUR COMMANDMENTS FROM ME. MY SOUL BREAKS WITH LONGING FOR YOUR JUDGMENTS AT ALL TIMES [REVELATION 2:10; 3:10]. YOU REBUKE THE PROUD---THE [SEXUALLY] CURSED, WHO STRAY FROM YOUR COMMANDMENTS [REVELATION 2:4]. REMOVE FROM ME REPROACH AND CONTEMPT, FOR I HAVE KEPT YOUR TESTIMONIES. PRINCES ALSO SIT AND SPEAK AGAINST ME, BUT YOUR SERVANT MEDITATES ON YOUR STATUTES. YOUR TESTIMONIES ALSO ARE MY DELIGHT AND MY [24] COUNSELORS.                                                   DALETH                          MY SOUL CLINGS TO THE DUST. REVIVE ME ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD. I HAVE DECLARED MY WAYS, AND YOU ANSWERED ME. TEACH ME, YOUR STATUTES. MAKE ME UNDERSTAND THE WAY OF YOUR PRECEPTS. SO, SHALL I MEDITATE ON YOUR WONDERFUL WORKS. MY SOUL MELTS FROM HEAVINESS. STRENGTHEN ME ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD. REMOVE FROM ME THE WAY OF LYING [REVELATION 21:8]. AND GRANT ME YOUR LAW GRACIOUSLY. I HAVE CHOSEN THE WAY OF TRUTH [INFALLIBLY & INERRANTLY IN REVELATION 19:2, 9, 11; 21:5; 22:6]. YOUR JUDGMENTS I HAVE LAID BEFORE ME. I CLING TO YOUR TESTIMONIES. O LORD, DO NOT PUT ME TO SHAME! I WILL RUN THE COURSE [RACE OF AGAPE LOVE IN ROMANS 8:37-39] OF YOUR COMMANDMENTS, FOR YOU SHALL ENLARGE MY HEART. HE TEACH ME, O LORD, THE WAY OF YOUR STATUTES, AND I SHALL KEEP IT TO THE END [ACTS 7:60]. GIVE ME UNDERSTANDING, AND I SHALL KEEP YOUR LAW. INDEED, I SHALL OBSERVE IT WITH MY WHOLE HEART. MAKE ME WALK IN THE PATH OF YOUR COMMANDMENTS, FOR I DELIGHT IN IT. INCLINE MY HEART TO YOUR TESTIMONIES, AND NOT TO COVETOUSNESS. TURN AWAY MY EYES FROM LOOKING AT WORTHLESS THINGS [JUDE 23], AND REVIVE ME IN YOUR WAY. ESTABLISH [BUSINESS IN ACTS 6:3-4, HOUSE IN ACTS 7:47-50 & CHURCH IN ACTS 8:1] YOUR WORD TO YOUR SERVANT, WHO IS DEVOTED [DEDICATED] TO FEARING [BEGINNING OF DIVINE WISDOM & AGAPE LOVE] YOU. TURN AWAY MY REPROACH WHICH I DREAD [HOLD IN TERROR], FOR YOUR JUDGMENTS ARE [ALL] GOOD. BEHOLD, I LONG FOR YOUR PRECEPTS. REVIVE ME IN YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.   WAW LET YOUR MERCIES COME ALSO TO ME, O LORD---YOUR SALVATION [THE FATHER STEPHEN’S PROTECTION FROM THE ETERNAL SIN IN LORDSHIP AND NOT FORGIVENESS] ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD. SO, SHALL I HAVE AN ANSWER FOR HIM WHO REPROACHES ME, FOR I TRUST IN YOUR WORD. AND TAKE NOT THE WORD OF TRUTH UTTERLY OUT OF MY MOUTH [ALL SEXUAL CREATURES ARE LIARS BY MISTAKES & ALL HOMOSEXUAL CREATURES ARE LIARS BY ERRORS IN ROMANS 3:4-23; 1:21-27], FOR I HAVE HOPED IN YOUR ORDINANCES [ROMANS 13:1-2]. SO SHALL I KEEP YOUR LAW CONTINUALLY [HOLY BIBLICAL LAW, AND NOT A SEXUAL PORN LAW], FOREVER AND EVER. AND I WILL WALK AT LIBERTY [PERFECT LAW OF FREEDOM IN JAMES 2:8-13], FOR I SEEK YOUR PRECEPTS. I WILL SPEAK OF YOUR TESTIMONIES ALSO BEFORE KINGS, I WILL NOT BE ASHAMED. AND I WILL DELIGHT MYSELF IN YOUR COMMANDMENTS, WHICH I [AGAPE] LOVE. MY HANDS ALSO I WILL LIFT UP TO YOUR COMMANDMENTS, WHICH I [AGAPE] LOVE, AND I WILL MEDITATE ON YOUR STATUTES.  ZAYIN [A VARIATION OF SION, ZION, ZYON OR ZYZY FROM THE LETTERS OF ZA TO ZY] REMEMBER THE WORD TO YOUR SERVANT [A TRUE SERVANT DOES NOT KNOW WHAT HIS TRUE LORD IS DOING, BUT A TRUE FRIEND MAY ACHIEVE THIS IF IT IS AUTHORIZED], UPON WHICH YOU HAVE CAUSED ME TO HOPE. THIS IS MY COMFORT [FULLNESS OF THE HOLY GHOST IN ACTS 6:5; 7:55-56] IN MY AFFLICTION, FOR YOUR WORD HAS GIVEN ME LIFE. THE PROUD [SEXUALLY CURSED CREATURES IN STRONG DELUSION TO SAY THE LIE IS THE TRUTH AND THE TRUTH IS A LIE] HAVE ME IN GREAT DERISION, YET I DO NOT TURN ASIDE FROM YOUR LAW. I REMEMBERED YOUR JUDGMENTS OF OLD, O LORD, AND HAVE COMFORTED MYSELF. INDIGNATION HAS TAKEN HOLD OF ME BECAUSE OF THE WICKED [SEXUAL CREATURES], WHO FORSAKE YOUR LAW. YOUR STATUTES HAVE BEEN MY SONGS IN THE HOUSE [ZION IS THE FATHER STEPHEN’S ADDRESS IN ACTS 7:1-56] OF MY PILGRIMAGE. I REMEMBER YOUR NAME [FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD] IN THE NIGHT [8 WATCHES IS 24 HOURS IN A NIGHT], O LORD, AND I KEEP YOUR LAW. THIS HAS BECOME MINE, BECAUSE I KEPT YOUR PRECEPTS. HETH YOU ARE MY PORTION, O LORD. I HAVE SAID THAT I WOULD KEEP YOUR WORDS. I ENTREATED YOUR FAVOR WITH MY WHOLE HEART. BE MERCIFUL TO ME ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD. I THOUGHT ABOUT MY WAYS, AND TURNED MY FEET TO YOUR TESTIMONIES. I MADE HASTE, AND DID NOT DELAY TO KEEP YOUR COMMANDMENTS. THE CORDS [3-FOLD CORD CANNOT BE BROKEN] OF THE WICKED [THE SEXUAL PORN LAWS OF SEXUAL CREATURES IN ROMANS 1:21-32] HAVE BOUND [ARRESTED] ME. BUT I HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN YOUR LAW. AT MIDNIGHT [12:00 PM] I WILL RISE TO GIVE THANKS TO YOU, BECAUSE OF YOUR RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENTS. I AM A COMPANION [THE LADY VICTORIA OF KINGDOMS IN WISDOM OF SOLOMON 7:22-30 & REVELATION 21:1-22:21] OF ALL WHO FEAR YOU, AND OF THOSE WHO KEEP YOUR PRECEPTS. THE EARTH, O LORD, IS FULL OF YOUR MERCY, TEACH ME YOUR STATUTES.   TETH YOU HAVE DEALT WELL [ALONE] WITH YOUR SERVANT, O LORD, ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD. TEACH ME GOOD JUDGMENT [KNOW BOTH SEXUAL THINGS & DIVINE THINGS TO MAKE A RIGHT JUDGMENT CALL] AND [DIVINE & SEXUAL] KNOWLEDGE [ONLY BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD AND NOT THE SPIRIT OF MAN IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 2:6-16], FOR I BELIEVE [KNOW] YOUR COMMANDMENTS. BEFORE I WAS AFFLICTED, I WENT ASTRAY, BUT NOW I KEEP YOUR WORD. YOU ARE [ALL] GOOD, AND DO [ALL] GOOD. TEACH ME YOUR STATUTES, THE PROUD [SEXUAL CREATURES] HAVE FORGED A LIE [REVELATION 2:14-15, 20-23] AGAINST ME [ALL SEXUAL CREATURES (ALL MARITAL SEX IS ALSO INCLUDED WITH THIS IMPARTIAL JUDGMENT IN 1ST PETER 1:17-21) AND ALL HOMOSEXUAL CREATURES IN ROMANS 1:21-32 IN SUPPRESSING THE FATHER STEPHEN’S INFALLIBLE INERRANT TRUTH [EXCEPT THE LORD ENOCH & THE LADY VICTORIA BECAUSE THEY ALWAYS ETERNALLY PLEASED & ETERNALLY OBEYED THE FATHER STEPHEN IN GENESIS 5:22-24; JUDE 14-15; HEBREWS 11:5 & WISDOM OF SOLOMON 7:22-30] IN 1ST JOHN 1:8, 10 & ACTS 6:8-9, 11-15; 7:57-60 AGAINST THE FATHER STEPHEN’S INFALLIBLE INERRANT TRUTH IN ROMANS 3:4-23 & ACTS 6:10; 7:1-56, BY WHICH ALL ARE ETERNALLY DAMNED [1ST TIME FOR A 1,000 YEARS & THE 2ND TIME FOREVER] BY THE FATHER STEPHEN IN REVELATION 20:1-3, 7-15], BUT I [DIVINE CREATURES] WILL KEEP YOUR PRECEPTS WITH MY WHOLE HEART. THEIR HEART IS AS FAT AS GREASE [THEY SAY THEY ARE IMPREGNABLE, BUT SOMETHING TRAGIC HAPPENS TO THEM SUDDENLY IN REVELATION 18:7-8], BUT I DELIGHT IN YOUR LAW [THOSE UNDER THE LAW WHICH IS THE LAW OF SIN & DEATH, AND THOSE UNDER GRACE WHICH IS THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF PEACE & LIFE IN ROMANS 5:12-21]. IT IS GOOD [1 ON 1] FOR ME THAT I HAVE BEEN AFFLICTED [LIKE IN JOB 1-42], THAT I MAY LEARN YOUR STATUTES. THE LAW OF YOUR MOUTH IS BETTER [2 IS BETTER THAN 1] TO ME THAN THOUSANDS OF COINS [$1,920.00 FOR GOLD & $128.00 FOR SILVER] OF GOLD [$5,760,000.00 IS A TALENT] AND SILVER [$384,000.00 IS A TALENT].  YOD YOUR HANDS HAVE MADE AND FASHIONED ME [ISAIAH 64:8 & ACTS 7:49-50], GIVE ME UNDERSTANDING, THAT I MAY LEARN YOUR COMMANDMENTS. THOSE WHO FEAR YOU WILL BE GLAD WHEN THEY SEE ME, BECAUSE I HAVE HOPED IN YOUR WORD. I KNOW, O LORD THAT YOUR JUDGMENTS ARE [ALWAYS] RIGHT, AND THAT IN FAITHFULNESS YOU HAVE AFFLICTED ME. LET I PRAY, YOUR MERCIFUL KINDNESS BE FOR MY COMFORT [ONLY IN THE HOLY GHOST], ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD TO YOUR SERVANT. LET YOUR TENDER MERCIES COME TO ME, THAT I MAY LIVE. FOR YOUR LAW IS MY DELIGHT. LET THE PROUD [SEXUAL CREATURES] BE ASHAMED, FOR THEY TREATED ME WRONGFULLY WITH FALSEHOOD [ACTS 6:11-14], BUT I WILL MEDITATE ON YOUR PRECEPTS. LET THOSE WHO FEAR YOU TURN TO ME, THOSE WHO KNOW YOUR TESTIMONIES. LET MY HEART BE BLAMELESS REGARDING [RESPECTING, REVERING, HIGHLY ESTEEMING] YOUR STATUTES, THAT I MAY NOT BE ASHAMED.    KAPH MY SOUL FAINTS FOR YOUR SALVATION, BUT I HOPE IN YOUR WORD. MY EYES FAIL FROM SEARCHING YOUR WORD, SAYING, ‘WHEN WILL YOU COMFORT ME?’ FOR I HAVE BECOME LIKE A WINESKIN IN SMOKE, YET I DO NOT FORGET YOUR STATUTES. HOW MANY ARE THE DAYS OF YOUR SERVANT [70 YEARS IN WEAKNESS AND 80 YEARS IN STRENGTH IN PSALMS 90:10 OR 120 YEARS IN GENESIS 6:3]? WHEN WILL YOU EXECUTE JUDGMENT ON THOSE WHO PERSECUTE ME? THE PROUD [SEXUAL CREATURES] HAVE DUG PITS FOR ME, WHICH IS NOT ACCORDING TO YOUR LAW. ALL YOUR COMMANDMENTS ARE [ALWAYS] FAITHFUL. THEY PERSECUTE ME WRONGFULLY, HELP ME [JOHN 14:26; 15:26; 16:13]! THEY ALMOST MADE AN END OF ME ON EARTH, BUT I DID NOT FORSAKE YOUR PRECEPTS. REVIVE ME ACCORDING TO YOUR LOVINGKINDNESS, SO THAT I MAY KEEP THE TESTIMONY OF YOUR MOUTH.  LAMED FOREVER, O LORD, YOUR WORD IS SETTLED [RESTS] IN HEAVEN. YOUR FAITHFULNESS ENDURES TO ALL GENERATIONS. YOU ESTABLISHED THE EARTH [JOHN 1:1-3; HEBREWS 1:1-3 & GENESIS 1:1-2], AND IT ABIDES. THEY CONTINUE THIS DAY ACCORDING TO YOUR ORDINANCES [ROMANS 13:1-2], FOR ALL [ETERNAL CREATURES] ARE YOUR SERVANTS. UNLESS YOUR LAW HAD BEEN MY DELIGHT, I WOULD THEN HAVE PERISHED IN MY AFFLICTION. I WILL NEVER FORGET YOUR PRECEPTS, FOR BY THEM YOU HAVE GIVEN ME LIFE. I AM YOURS, SAVE ME. FOR I HAVE SOUGHT YOUR PRECEPTS. THE WICKED [SEXUAL CREATURES] WAIT FOR ME TO DESTROY ME, BUT I WILL CONSIDER YOUR TESTIMONIES. I HAVE SEEN THE CONSUMMATION OF ALL PERFECTION [ACTS 3:20-21], BUT YOUR COMMANDMENT IS EXCEEDINGLY BROAD [ACTS 6:7, 10; 7:1-56, 59-60]. MEM OH, HOW I [AGAPE] LOVE YOUR LAW! IT IS MY MEDITATION ALL THE DAY. YOU, THROUGH YOUR COMMANDMENTS, MAKE ME WISER THAN MY ENEMIES, FOR THEY ARE EVER WITH ME. I HAVE MORE UNDERSTANDING THAN ALL MY TEACHERS [STRICTEST JUDGMENTS IN JAMES 3:1], FOR YOUR TESTIMONIES ARE MY MEDITATION. I UNDERSTAND MORE THAN THE ANCIENTS, BECAUSE I KEEP YOUR PRECEPTS. I HAVE RESTRAINED MY FEET FROM EVERY EVIL [SEXUAL] WAY, THAT I MAY KEEP YOUR WORD. I HAVE NOT DEPARTED FROM YOUR JUDGMENTS, FOR YOU YOURSELF HAVE TAUGHT ME. HOW SWEET ARE YOUR WORDS TO MY TASTE, SWEETER THAN HONEY [TRUTH] TO MY MOUTH! THROUGH YOUR PRECEPTS I GET UNDERSTANDING. THEREFORE, I HATE EVERY FALSE [SEXUAL] WAY.  NUN YOUR WORD IS A LAMP TO MY FEET AND A LIGHT TO MY PATH. I HAVE SWORN AND CONFIRMED THAT I WILL KEEP YOUR RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENTS. I AM AFFLICTED VERY MUCH, REVIVE ME, O LORD, ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD. ACCEPT, I PRAY, THE FREEWILL OFFERINGS OF MY MOUTH, O LORD, AND TEACH ME YOUR JUDGMENTS. MY LIFE IS CONTINUALLY IN MY HAND, YET I DO NOT FORGET YOUR LAW. THE WICKED [SEXUAL CREATURES] HAVE LAID A SNARE FOR ME, YET I HAVE NOT STRAYED FROM YOUR PRECEPTS. YOUR TESTIMONIES I HAVE TAKEN AS A HERITAGE [CHILDREN] FOREVER, FOR THEY ARE THE REJOICING OF MY HEART. I HAVE INCLINED MY HEART TO PERFORM YOUR STATUTES FOREVER, TO THE VERY END [ACTS 28:31]. SAMEK I HATE THE DOUBLE-MINDED [THE DIVISION OF GOOD & EVIL, LIFE & DEATH, BLESSED & CURSED & SEXUAL & DIVINE IN MIND OR HEART IN ACTS 7:51-53], BUT I AGAPE LOVE YOUR LAW. YOU ARE MY HIDING PLACE [SHADOW OF THE ALMIGHTY] AND MY SHIELD [JEALOUS LAW JUSTICE ARMOR IN WISDOM OF SOLOMON 5:15-23]. I HOPE IN YOUR WORD. DEPART FROM ME, YOU EVILDOERS [SEXUAL CREATURES], FOR I WILL KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF MY GOD [FATHER STEPHEN]! UPHOLD ME ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD, THAT I MAY LIVE, AND DO NOT LET ME BE ASHAMED OF MY HOPE. HOLD ME UP, AND I SHALL BE SAFE [ETERNALLY SECURE], AND I SHALL OBSERVE YOUR STATUTES CONTINUALLY. YOU REJECT ALL THOSE WHO STRAY FROM YOUR STATUTES, FOR THEIR DECEIT [SEXUALITY] IS FALSEHOOD [LIES]. YOU PUT AWAY ALL THE WICKED [SEXUAL CREATURES] OF THE EARTH LIKE DROSS [SLAG OR REFUSE], THEREFORE I [AGAPE] LOVE YOUR TESTIMONIES. MY FLESH TREMBLES FOR FEAR OF YOU, AND I AM AFRAID [HORRIFIED] OF YOUR JUDGMENTS.  AYIN I HAVE DONE JUSTICE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS, DO NOT LEAVE ME TO MY OPPRESSORS. BE SURETY [GUARANTY OR PLEDGE] FOR YOUR SERVANT FOR [ALL] GOOD, DO NOT LET THE PROUD [SEXUAL CREATURES] OPPRESS ME. MY EYES FAIL FROM SEEKING YOUR SALVATION AND YOUR RIGHTEOUS WORD. DEAL WITH YOUR SERVANT ACCORDING TO YOUR MERCY, AND TEACH ME YOUR STATUTES. I AM YOUR SERVANT, GIVE ME UNDERSTANDING, THAT I MAY KNOW YOUR TESTIMONIES. IT IS TIME FOR YOU TO ACT, O LORD, FOR THEY HAVE REGARDED [RESPECTED, REVERED & HIGHLY ESTEEMED AS AN ABOMINATION IN LUKE 16:15] YOUR LAW AS VOID. THEREFORE I [AGAPE] LOVE YOUR COMMANDMENTS MORE THAN GOLD, YES, THAN FINE GOLD! THEREFORE, ALL YOUR PRECEPTS CONCERNING ALL THINGS I CONSIDER TO BE [ABSOLUTELY] RIGHT, I HATE EVERY FALSE [SEXUAL] WAY [SEXUAL ACTIONS, SEXUAL DEEDS & SEXUAL THOUGHTS].  PE YOUR TESTIMONIES ARE WONDERFUL [ACTS 2:1-21], THEREFORE MY SOUL KEEPS THEM. THE ENTRANCE [ACTS 1:4-7] OF YOUR WORDS GIVES LIGHT. IT GIVES UNDERSTANDING TO THE SIMPLE [NEW CONVERT, UNLEARNED, UNTRAINED OR UNEXPERIENCED UNDER THE COMPLETION OF 7 YEARS IN THE LORD’S RELEASE]. I OPENED MY MOUTH AND PANTED, FOR I LONGED FOR YOUR COMMANDMENTS. LOOK UPON ME AND BE MERCIFUL TO ME, AS YOUR CUSTOM [LAW] IS TOWARD THOSE WHO [AGAPE] LOVE YOUR NAME [FATHER STEPHEN]. DIRECT MY STEPS BY YOUR WORD, AND LET NO INIQUITY HAVE DOMINION OVER ME. REDEEM ME FROM THE [SEXUAL] OPPRESSION OF MAN, THAT I MAY KEEP YOUR PRECEPTS. MAKE YOUR FACE SHINE UPON YOUR SERVANT, AND TEACH ME YOUR STATUTES. RIVERS OF WATER RUN DOWN FROM MY EYES, BECAUSE MEN [SEXUAL CREATURES] DO NOT KEEP YOUR LAW.  TSADDE RIGHTEOUS ARE YOU, O LORD. AND UPRIGHT ARE YOUR JUDGMENTS. YOUR TESTIMONIES, WHICH YOU HAVE COMMANDED, ARE RIGHTEOUS AND VERY FAITHFUL [2ND TIMOTHY 2:13]. MY ZEAL [JEALOUSY] HAS CONSUMED [PUT AN END TO] ME, BECAUSE MY ENEMIES HAVE FORGOTTEN YOUR WORDS. YOUR WORD IS VERY PURE [REFINED OR TRIED], THEREFORE YOUR SERVANT [AGAPE] LOVES IT. I AM SMALL [PAUL] AND DESPISED, YET I DO NOT FORGET YOUR PRECEPTS. YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS IS AN EVERLASTING RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND YOUR LAW IS [INFALLIBLE & INERRANT] TRUTH. TROUBLE AND ANGUISH HAVE OVERTAKEN [FOUND] ME, YET YOUR COMMANDMENTS ARE MY DELIGHTS. THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF YOUR TESTIMONIES IS EVERLASTING, GIVE ME UNDERSTANDING, AND I SHALL LIVE.   QOPH I CRY OUT WITH MY WHOLE HEART, HEAR ME, O LORD! I WILL KEEP YOUR STATUTES. I CRY OUT TO YOU, SAVE ME, AND I WILL KEEP YOUR TESTIMONIES. I RISE BEFORE THE DAWNING OF THE MORNING, AND CRY FOR HELP. I HOPE IN YOUR WORD. MY EYES ARE AWAKE THROUGH THE NIGHT WATCHES [24 HOURS IS 8 NIGHT WATCHES], THAT I MAY MEDITATE ON YOUR WORD. HEAR MY VOICE ACCORDING TO YOUR LOVINGKINDNESS. O LORD, REVIVE ME ACCORDING TO YOUR JUSTICE. THEY DRAW NEAR WHO FOLLOW AFTER WICKEDNESS [SEXUALITY]. THEY ARE FAR FROM YOUR LAW. YOU ARE NEAR, O LORD, AND ALL YOUR COMMANDMENTS ARE [ALL] TRUTH. I HAVE KNOWN OF OLD THAT YOU HAVE FOUNDED THEM FOREVER.  RESH CONSIDER MY AFFLICTION AND DELIVER ME, FOR I DO NOT FORGET YOUR LAW. PLEAD MY CAUSE AND REDEEM ME. REVIVE ME ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD. SALVATION IS FAR FROM THE WICKED [SEXUAL], FOR THEY DO NOT SEEK YOUR STATUTES. GREAT [MANY IS 24] ARE YOUR TENDER MERCIES, O LORD, REVIVE ME ACCORDING TO YOUR JUDGMENTS. MANY [24] ARE MY PERSECUTORS AND MY ENEMIES, YET I DO NOT TURN FROM YOUR TESTIMONIES. I SEE THE [SEXUALLY] TREACHEROUS, AND AM [DIVINELY] DISGUSTED, BECAUSE THEY DO NOT KEEP YOUR WORD. CONSIDER HOW I [AGAPE] LOVE YOUR PRECEPTS, REVIVE ME, O LORD, ACCORDING TO YOUR LOVINGKINDNESS. THE ENTIRETY OF YOUR WORD IS [ALL] TRUTH, AND EVERY ONE OF YOUR RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENTS ENDURE FOREVER. SHIN PRINCES PERSECUTE ME WITHOUT A CAUSE, BUT MY HEART STANDS IN AWE OF YOUR WORD. I REJOICE AT YOUR WORD AS ONE WHO FINDS GREAT TREASURE [HEBREWS 11:26]. I HATE AND ABHOR LYING [REVELATION 2:14-15, 20-23], BUT I [AGAPE] LOVE YOUR LAW. SEVEN TIMES A DAY I PRAISE [WORSHIP, RESPECT, REVERE, HIGHLY ESTEEM, SHOW COURTESY & ADORE] YOU, BECAUSE OF YOUR RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENTS. GREAT PEACE [JOHN 14:25-31] HAVE THOSE WHO [AGAPE] LOVE YOUR LAW, AND NOTHING CAUSES THEM TO STUMBLE. LORD, I HOPE FOR YOUR SALVATION, AND I DO YOUR COMMANDMENTS. MY SOUL KEEPS YOUR TESTIMONIES, AND I [AGAPE] LOVE THEM EXCEEDINGLY. I KEEP YOUR PRECEPTS AND YOUR TESTIMONIES, FOR ALL MY WAYS ARE BEFORE YOU. TAU LET MY CRY COME BEFORE YOU, O LORD, GIVE ME UNDERSTANDING ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD. LET MY SUPPLICATION [PRAYER] COME BEFORE YOU. DELIVER ME ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD. MY LIPS SHALL UTTER PRAISE [WORSHIP, RESPECT, REVERE, HIGHEST ESTEEM, COURTESY & ADORATION], FOR YOU TEACH ME YOUR STATUTES. MY TONGUE SHALL SPEAK OF YOUR WORD, FOR ALL YOUR COMMANDMENTS ARE RIGHTEOUSNESS. LET YOUR HAND BECOME MY HELP, FOR I HAVE CHOSEN YOUR PRECEPTS. I LONG FOR YOUR SALVATION, O LORD, AND YOUR LAW IS MY DELIGHT. LET MY SOUL LIVE, AND IT SHALL PRAISE [WORSHIP, RESPECT, REVERE, HIGHLY ESTEEM, SHOW COURTESY & ADORE] YOU, AND LET YOUR JUDGMENTS HELP ME. I HAVE GONE ASTRAY LIKE A LOST SHEEP, SEEK YOUR SERVANT, FOR I DO NOT FORGET YOUR COMMANDMENTS.  PRAYER IN SECRET TO THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD IN MATTHEW 6:6 STATES “BUT YOU, WHEN YOUR PRAY, GO INTO YOUR ROOM, AND WHEN YOU HAVE SHUT YOUR DOOR, PRAY TO YOUR FATHER (STEPHEN) WHO IS IN THE SECRET PLACE, AND YOUR FATHER (STEPHEN) WHO SEES IN SECRET WILL REWARD YOU OPENLY.” ALL CREATION SHOULD HAVE PRAYER TO THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD ONLY IN MATTHEW 6:9-13 DECLARES “IN THIS MANNER, THEREFORE PRAY: OUR FATHER (STEPHEN) IN HEAVEN, HALLOWED BE YOUR NAME. YOUR KINGDOM COME. YOUR WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN. GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD. AND FORGIVE US OUR DEBTS, AS WE FORGIVE OUR DEBTORS. AND DO NOT LEAD US INTO TEMPTATION, BUT DELIVER US FROM THE EVIL ONE. FOR YOURS IS THE KINGDOM AND THE POWER AND THE GLORY FOREVER AND EVER. AMEN.” IN LUKE 11:2-4 DECLARES “SO HE SAID TO THEM, ‘WHEN YOU PRAY SAY: OUR FATHER (STEPHEN) IN HEAVEN, HALLOWED BE YOUR NAME. YOUR KINGDOM COME. YOUR WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN. GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD AND FORGIVE US OUR SINS, FOR WE ALSO FORGIVE EVERYONE WHO IS INDEBTED TO US. AND DO NOT LEAD US INTO TEMPTATION, BUT DELIVER US FROM THE EVIL ONE.”  THE SON JESUS PRAYS TO THE FATHER STEPHEN OUTSIDE THE KINGDOM OF GOD THE LORD JESUS’ PRAYER’S IN THE BOOK OF MATTHEW IN MATTHEW 5:44 SAYS “BUT I SAY TO YOU, (AGAPE) LOVE YOUR ENEMIES, BLESS THOSE WHO CURSE YOU, DO GOOD TO THOSE WHO HATE YOU, AND PRAY FOR THOSE WHO SPITEFULLY USE YOU AN PERSECUTE YOU.” IN MATTHEW 6:5-7 MENTIONS “AND WHEN YOU PRAY, YOU SHALL NOT BE LIKE THE HYPOCRITES. FOR THEY (EROS) LOVE TO PRAY STANDING IN THE SYNAGOGUES AND ON THE CORNERS OF THE STREETS, THAT THEY MAY BE SEEN BY MEN. ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO YOU, THEY HAVE THEIR REWARD. BUT YOU, WHEN YOU PRAY, GO INTO YOUR ROOM, AND WHEN YOU HAVE SHUT THE DOOR, PRAY TO YOUR FATHER (STEPHEN) WHO IS IN THE SECRET PLACE, AND YOUR FATHER (STEPHEN) WHO SEES IN SECRET WILL REWARD YOU OPENLY. AND WHEN YOU PRAY, DO NOT USE VAIN REPETITIONS AS THE HEATHENS DO, FOR THEY THINK THAT THEY WILL BE HEARD FOR THEIR MANY WORDS.” IN MATTHEW 9:38 SAYS “THEREFORE PRAY THE LORD (FATHER STEPHEN) OF THE HARVEST TO SEND OUT LABORERS INTO HIS HARVEST.” IN MATTHEW 14:23 MENTIONS “AND WHEN HE HAD SENT THE MULTITUDES AWAY, HE WENT UP ON THE MOUNTAIN BY HIMSELF TO PRAY, NOW WHEN EVENING CAME, HE WAS ALONE THERE.” IN MATTHEW 17:14-21 (KJV) SAYS A BOY WAS HEALED FROM EPILEPSY AND SAYS “HOWEVER, THIS KIND DOES NOT GO OUT EXCEPT BY PRAYER AND FASTING.” IN MATTHEW 19:13 STATES “THEN LITTLE CHILDREN WERE BROUGHT TO HIM THAT HE MIGHT PUT HIS HANDS ON THEM AND PRAY, BUT THE DISCIPLES REBUKED THEM.” IN MATTHEW 21:13 (KJV) STATES “AND SAID UNTO THEM, IT IS WRITTEN, ‘MY HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED THE HOUSE OF PRAYER, BUT YE HAVE MADE IT A DEN OF THIEVES.’” IN MATTHEW 21:22 (KJV) MENTIONS “AND ALL THINGS, WHATSOEVER YE SHALL ASK IN PRAYER, BELIEVING, YE SHALL RECEIVE.” IN MATTHEW 23:14 (KJV) TELLS US “WOE UNTO YOU, SCRIBES (LORDS) AND PHARISEES (LORDS), HYPOCRITES! FOR YE DEVOUR WIDOWS’ HOUSES, AND FOR A PRETENSE MAKE LONG PRAYER: THEREFORE, YE SHALL RECEIVE THE GREAT DAMNATION.” IN MATTHEW 24:20 SAYS “AND PRAY THAT YOUR FLIGHT MAY NOT BE IN WINTER (DECEMBER 21ST TO MARCH 21ST) OR ON THE SABBATH (SUNDAY).” IN MATTHEW 26:36 TELLS US “THEN JESUS CAME WITH THEM TO A PLACE CALLED GETHSEMANE, AND SAID TO THE DISCIPLES, ‘SIT HERE WHILE I GO AND PRAY OVER THERE.’” IN MATTHEW 26:39 MENTIONS “HE WENT A LITTLE FARTHER AND FELL ON HIS FACE, AND PRAYED, SAYING, ‘O MY FATHER (STEPHEN), IF IT BE POSSIBLE, LET THIS CUP PASS FROM ME, NEVERTHELESS, NOT AS I WILL, BUT YOU WILL.’” IN MATTHEW 26:41 MENTIONS “WATCH AND PRAY, LEST YOU ENTER INTO TEMPTATION. THE SPIRIT INDEED IS WILLING, BUT THE FLESH IS WEAK.” IN MATTHEW 26:42 STATES “AGAIN, A SECOND TIME, HE WENT AWAY AND PRAYED, SAYING, ‘O MY FATHER (STEPHEN), IF THIS CUP CANNOT PASS FROM ME UNLESS I DRINK IT, YOUR WILL BE DONE.’” IN MATTHEW 26:44 SAYS “SO HE LEFT THEM, WENT AWAY AGAIN, AND PRAYED THE THIRD TIME, SAYING THE SAME WORDS.” IN MATTHEW 26:53 MENTIONS “OR DO YOU THINK THAT I CANNOT NOW PRAY TO MY FATHER (STEPHEN), AND HE WILL PROVIDE ME WITH MORE THAN 12 LEGIONS OF ANGELS (LORDS)?” THIS MEANS THERE ARE 72,000 ANGEL LORDS AND ONE CAN KILL 185,000 SOLDIERS AT ONE TIME IN ISAIAH 37:36 THROUGH RELENTING 10,000 MEN IN JUDE 14-15 WHICH MEANS HE CAN HANDLE 133.2 TRILLION AT ONE TIME. THIS WAS ACCOMPLISHED AT THE VERY BEGINNING OF THE LORD JESUS’ RESURRECTION. THE LORD JESUS’ PRAYER’S IN THE BOOK OF MARK IN MARK 1:35 SAYS “NOW IN THE MORNING, HAVING RISEN LONG WHILE BEFORE DAYLIGHT, HE WENT OUT AND DEPARTED TO A SOLITARY PLACE, AND THERE HE PRAYED.” IN MARK 6:46 DECLARES “AND WHEN HE SENT THEM AWAY, HE DEPARTED TO THE MOUNTAIN TO PRAY.” IN MARK 9:29 (KJV) TELLS US ABOUT HOW A BOY WAS HEALED FROM EPILEPSY AND SAYS “AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, THIS KIND CAN COME FORTH BY NOTHING, BUT BY PRAYER AND FASTING.” IN MARK 11:17 (KJV) DECLARES “AND HE TAUGHT, SAYING UNTO THEM, IS IT NOT WRITTEN, MY HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED THE HOUSE OF PRAYER FOR ALL NATIONS? BUT YE HAVE MADE IT A DEN OF THIEVES.” IN MARK 11:24 STATES “THEREFORE I SAY TO YOU, WHATEVER THINGS YOU ASK WHEN YOU PRAY, BELIEVE THAT YOU RECEIVE THEM, AND YOU WILL HAVE THEM.” IN MARK 11:25 TELLS US “AND WHENEVER YOU STAND PRAYING, IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING AGAINST ANYONE, FORGIVE HIM, THAT YOUR FATHER (STEPHEN) IN HEAVEN MAY ALSO FORGIVE YOU YOUR TRESPASSES.” IN MARK 12:38-40 (KJV) SAYS “BEWARE OF THE SCRIBES (LORDS), WHICH DESIRE TO GO AROUND IN LONG ROBES, (SEXUAL EROS) LOVE GREETINGS IN THE MARKETPLACES, THE BEST SEATS IN THE SYNAGOGUES AND THE BEST PLACES AT FEASTS, WHICH DEVOUR WIDOWS’ HOUSES, AND FOR A PRETENSE MAKE LONG PRAYERS: THESE SHALL RECEIVE GREATER DAMNATION.” IN MARK 13:18 TELLS US “AND PRAY THAT YOUR FLIGHT MAY NOT BE IN WINTER.” IN MARK 13:33 SAYS “TAKE HEED, WATCH AND PRAY, FOR YOU DO NOT KNOW WHEN THE TIME IS.” IN MARK 14:32 DECLARES “THEN THEY CAME TO A PLACE WHICH WAS NAMED GETHSEMANE, AND HE SAID TO HIS DISCIPLES, ‘SIT WHILE I PRAY.’” IN MARK 14:35 DECLARES “HE WENT A LITTLE FARTHER, AND FELL ON THE GROUND, AND PRAYED THAT IF IT WERE POSSIBLE, THE HOUR MIGHT PASS FROM HIM.” IN MARK 14:36 MENTIONS “AND HE SAID, ‘ABBA (DADDY OR PAPA), FATHER (STEPHEN), ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE FOR YOU. TAKE THIS CUP AWAY FROM ME, NEVERTHELESS, NOT WHAT I WILL, BUT WHAT YOU WILL.” THE LORD JESUS’ PRAYER’S IN THE BOOK OF JOHN IN JOHN 14:16-17 TELLS US “AND I WILL PRAY THE FATHER (STEPHEN), AND HE WILL GIVE YOU ANOTHER HELPER, THAT HE MAY ABIDE WITH YOU FOREVER---THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH, WHOM THE WORLD CANNOT RECEIVE, BECAUSE IT NEITHER SEES HIM NOR KNOWS HIM, BUT YOU KNOW HIM, FOR HE DWELLS WITH YOU, AND WILL BE IN YOU.” ALSO SIMILAR SCRIPTURES ARE IN JOHN 14:26; 15:26; 16:13. IN JOHN 16:26-27 DECLARES “IN THAT DAY YOU WILL ASK IN MY NAME, AND I DO NOT SAY TO YOU THAT I SHALL PRAY THE FATHER (STEPHEN) FOR YOU, FOR THE FATHER (STEPHEN) HIMSELF (AGAPE) LOVES YOU BECAUSE YOU HAVE (AGAPE) LOVED ME, AND HAVE BELIEVED THAT I CAME FROM GOD (FATHER STEPHEN).” THE LORD JESUS PRAYS FOR HIMSELF OUTSIDE THE KINGDOM OF GOD: IN JOHN 17:1-5 MENTIONS “JESUS SPOKE THESE WORDS, LIFTED UP HIS EYES TO HEAVEN, AND SAID, ‘FATHER (STEPHEN), THE HOUR HAS COME. GLORIFY YOUR SON (JESUS), THAT YOUR SON (JESUS) ALSO MAY GLORIFY YOU (FATHER STEPHEN), AS YOU HAVE GIVEN HIM AUTHORITY OVER ALL FLESH, THAT HE SHOULD GIVE ETERNAL LIFE TO AS MANY AS YOU HAVE GIVEN HIM. AND THIS IS ETERNAL LIFE, THAT THEY MAY KNOW YOU, THE ONLY TRUE GOD (FATHER STEPHEN CHRIST), AND (SON) JESUS CHRIST WHOM YOU HAVE SENT. I HAVE GLORIFIED YOU ON THE EARTH, I HAVE FINISHED THE WORK WHICH YOU HAVE GIVEN ME TO DO. AND NOW, O FATHER (STEPHEN), GLORIFY ME TOGETHER WITH YOURSELF, WITH THE GLORY WHICH I HAD WITH YOU BEFORE THE WORLD WAS. THE LORD JESUS PRAYS FOR ALL HIS DISCIPLES OUTSIDE THE KINGDOM OF GOD: IN JOHN 17:6-19 SAYS “I HAVE MANIFESTED YOUR NAME TO THE MEN WHOM YOU HAVE GIVEN ME OUT OF THE WORLD. THEY WERE YOURS, YOU GAVE THEM TO ME, AND THEY HAVE KEPT YOUR WORD. NOW THAT HAVE KNOWN THAT ALL THINGS WHICH YOU HAVE GIVEN ME ARE FROM YOU. FOR I HAVE GIVEN TO THEM THE WORDS WHICH YOU HAVE GIVEN ME, AND THEY HAVE RECEIVED THEM, AND HAVE KNOWN SURELY THAT I CAME FORTH FROM YOU, AND THEY HAVE BELIEVED THAT YOU SENT ME. I PRAY FOR THEM. I DO NOT PRAY FOR THE WORLD, BUT FOR THOSE WHOM YOU HAVE GIVEN ME, FOR THEY ARE YOURS. AND ALL MINE ARE YOURS, AND YOURS ARE MINE, AND I AM GLORIFIED IN THEM. NOW I AM NO LONGER IN THE WORLD, BUT THESE ARE IN THE WORLD, AND I COME TO YOU HOLY FATHER (STEPHEN), KEEP THROUGH YOUR NAME THOSE WHOM YOU HAVE GIVEN ME, THAT THEY MAY BE ONE AS WE ARE. WHILE I WAS WITH THEM IN THE WORLD, I KEPT THEM IN YOUR NAME. THOSE WHOM YOU GAVE ME, I HAVE KEPT, AND NONE OF THEM IS LOST EXCEPT THE SON OF PERDITION (DESTRUCTION), THAT THE (HOLY) SCRIPTURE MIGHT BE FULFILLED. BUT NOW I COME TO YOU, AND THESE THINGS I SPEAK IN THE WORLD, THAT THEY MAY HAVE MY JOY FULFILLED IN THEMSELVES. I HAVE GIVEN THEM YOUR WORD, AND THE WORLD HAS HATED THEM BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT OF THE WORLD, JUST AS I AM NOT OF THE WORLD. I DO NOT PRAY THAT YOU SHOULD TAKE THEM OUT OF THE WORLD, BUT THAT YOU SHOULD KEEP THEM FROM THE EVIL ONE. THEY ARE NOT OF THE WORLD, JUST AS I AM NOT OF THE WORLD. SANCTIFY THEM BY YOUR TRUTH. YOUR WORD IS TRUTH. AS YOU SENT ME INTO THE WORLD, I ALSO HAVE SENT THEM INTO THE WORLD. AND FOR THEIR SAKES I SANCTIFY MYSELF, THAT THEY ALSO MAY BE SANCTIFIED BY THE TRUTH.” THE LORD JESUS PRAYS FOR ALL HIS BELIEVERS OUTSIDE THE KINGDOM OF GOD: IN JOHN 17:20-26 MENTIONS “I DO NOT PRAY FOR THESE ALONE, BUT ALSO FOR THOSE WHO WILL BELIEVE IN ME THROUGH THEIR WORD, THAT THEY MAY BE ONE, AS YOU, FATHER (STEPHEN), ARE IN ME, AND I IN YOU, THAT THEY ALSO MAY BE ONE IN US, THAT THE WORLD MAY BELIEVE THAT YOU SENT ME. AND THE GLORY WHICH YOU GAVE ME I HAVE GIVEN THEM, THAT THEY MAY BE ONE JUST AS WE ARE ONE. I IN THEM, AND YOU IN ME, THAT THEY MAY BE MADE PERFECT IN ONE, AND THAT THE WORLD MAY KNOW THAT YOU HAVE SENT ME, AND HAVE (AGAPE) LOVED THEM AS YOU HAVE (AGAPE) LOVED ME. FATHER (STEPHEN), I DESIRE THAT THEY ALSO WHOM YOU GAVE ME MAY BE WITH ME WHERE I AM, THAT THEY MAY BEHOLD MY GLORY WHICH YOU HAVE GIVEN ME, FOR YOU (AGAPE) LOVED ME BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD. O RIGHTEOUS FATHER (STEPHEN)! THE WORLD HAS NOT KNOWN YOU, BUT I HAVE KNOWN YOU, AND THESE HAVE KNOWN THAT YOU SENT ME. AND I HAVE DECLARED TO THEM, YOUR NAME, AND WILL DECLARE IT, THAT THE (AGAPE) LOVE WITH WHICH YOU (AGAPE) LOVED ME MAY BE IN THEM, AND I IN THEM.” THE LORD JESUS’ PRAYER’S IN THE BOOK OF LUKE THE LORD JESUS PRAYS FOR ALL GENTILE LORDS OUTSIDE THE KINGDOM OF GOD: IN LUKE 1:10 MENTIONS “AND THE WHOLE MULTITUDE OF THE PEOPLE WAS PRAYING OUTSIDE AT THE HOUR OF INCENSE.” IN LUKE 1:13 (KJV) TELLS US “BUT THE ANGEL (THE LORD GABRIEL) SAID UNTO HIM, FEAR NOT, ZACHARIAS: FOR THY PRAYER IS HEARD, AND THY WIFE (LADY) ELIZABETH SHALL BEAR THEE A SON, AND THOU SHALL CALL HIS NAME JOHN (LORD).” IN LUKE 2:37 (KJV) TELLS US “AND SHE WAS A WIDOW AND ABOUT FOURSCORE AND FOUR YEARS (84 YEARS), WHICH DEPARTED NOT FROM THE TEMPLE, BUT SERVED GOD (FATHER STEPHEN) WITH FASTING’S AND PRAYERS NIGHT AND DAY.” IN LUKE 3:21 SAYS “WHEN ALL THE PEOPLE WERE BAPTIZED, IT CAME TO PASS THAT JESUS ALSO WAS BAPTIZED, AND WHILE HE PRAYED, THE HEAVEN WAS OPENED.” IN LUKE 5:16 STATES “SO HE HIMSELF OFTEN WITHDREW INTO THE WILDERNESS AND PRAYED.” IN LUKE 5:33 (KJV) SAYS “AND THEY SAID UNTO HIM, WHY DO THE DISCIPLES OF JOHN FAST OFTEN, AND MAKE PRAYERS, AND LIKEWISE THE DISCIPLES OF THE PHARISEES, BUT THINE EAT AND DRINK?” IN LUKE 6:12 MENTIONS “NOW IT CAME TO PASS IN THOSE DAYS THAT HE WENT OUT TO THE MOUNTAIN TO PRAY, AND CONTINUED ALL NIGHT IN PRAYER TO GOD (FATHER STEPHEN).” IN LUKE 6:27-28 TELLS US “BUT I SAY TO YOU WHO HEAR: (AGAPE) LOVE YOUR ENEMIES, DO GOOD TO THOSE WHO HATE YOU, BLESS THOSE WHO CURSE YOU, AND PRAY FOR THOSE WHO SPITEFULLY USE YOU.” IN LUKE 9:18 TELLS US “AND IT HAPPENED, AS HE WAS ALONE PRAYING, THAT HIS DISCIPLES JOINED HIM, AND HE ASKED THEM, SAYING, ‘WHO DO THE CROWDS SAY THAT I AM?’” IN LUKE 9:28 TELLS US “NOW IT CAME TO PASS 8 DAYS AFTER THESE SAYINGS, THAT HE TOOK PETER, JOHN, AND JAMES AND WENT UP ON THE MOUNTAIN TO PRAY.” IN LUKE 9:29 STATES “AS HE PRAYED, THE APPEARANCE OF HIS FACE WAS ALTERED, AND HIS ROBE BECAME WHITE AND GLISTENING.” IN LUKE 10:2 DECLARES “THEN HE SAID TO THEM, ‘THE HARVEST TRULY IS GREAT, BUT THE LABORERS (HIRED WORKERS FOR THE HARVEST ONLY) ARE FEW (8 PEOPLE), THEREFORE PRAY THE LORD (FATHER STEPHEN) OF THE HARVEST TO SEND OUT LABORERS INTO HIS HARVEST.” IN LUKE 11:1 MENTIONS “NOW IT CAME TO PASS, AS HE WAS PRAYING IN A CERTAIN PLACE, WHEN HE CEASED, THAT ONE OF HIS DISCIPLES SAID TO HIM, ‘LORD (FATHER STEPHEN), TEACH US TO PRAY, AS (LORD) JOHN ALSO TAUGHT HIS DISCIPLES.” IN LUKE 18:1 SAYS “THEN HE SPOKE A PARABLE TO THEM, THE MEN ALWAYS OUGHT TO PRAY AND NOT LOSE HEART…” IN LUKE 18:10-14 DECLARES “TWO MEN WENT UP TO THE TEMPLE TO PRAY, ONE A PHARISEE AND THE OTHER A TAX COLLECTOR. THE PHARISEE STOOD AND PRAYED THUS WITH HIMSELF, ‘GOD (FATHER STEPHEN), I THANK YOU THAT I AM NOT LIKE OTHER MEN---EXTORTIONERS, UNJUST, ADULTERERS, OR EVEN AS THIS TAX COLLECTOR. I FAST TWICE A WEEK, I GIVE TITHES OF ALL THAT I POSSESS. AND THE TAX COLLECTOR, STANDING AFAR OFF, WOULD NOT SO MUCH AS RAISE HIS EYES TO HEAVEN, BUT BEAT HIS BREAST, SAYING, ‘GOD, (FATHER STEPHEN), BE MERCIFUL TO ME A SINNER!’ I TELL YOU, THIS MAN WENT DOWN TO HIS HOUSE JUSTIFIED RATHER THAN THE OTHER, FOR EVERYONE WHO EXALTS HIMSELF WILL BE HUMBLED, AND HE WHO HUMBLES HIMSELF WILL BE EXALTED.” IN LUKE 19:46 (KJV) MENTIONS “SAYING UNTO THEM, IT IS WRITTEN, MY HOUSE IS THE HOUSE OF PRAYER: BUT YE HAVE MADE IT A DEN OF THIEVES.” IN LUKE 20:46-47 (KJV) SAYS “BEWARE OF THE SCRIBES (LORDS), WHO DESIRE TO GO AROUND IN LONG ROBES, (SEXUAL EROS) LOVE GREETINGS IN THE MARKETPLACES (ALL SEXUAL EROS LOVE COMMUNICATIONS IN 2 BUSINESSES, EXCEPT THE FATHER STEPHEN’S BUSINESS THAT HAS HOLY DIVINE LOVE COMMUNICATIONS), THE BEST SEATS IN THE SYNAGOGUES (ALL SEXUAL EROS COMMUNICATIONS IN 2 CHURCHES IN REVELATIONS 2:12-17; 2:13-29, EXCEPT THE FATHER STEPHEN’S CHURCH THAT HAS HOLY DIVINE LOVE COMMUNICATIONS IN REVELATION 3:14-22), AND THE BEST PLACES AT FEASTS (ALL SEXUAL EROS COMMUNICATIONS IN THE 2 HOUSES, EXCEPT THE FATHER STEPHEN’S HOUSE THAT HAS HOLY DIVINE LOVE COMMUNICATIONS IN ACTS 2:1-4), WHO DEVOUR WIDOWS’ HOUSES, AND FOR A PRETENSE MAKE LONG PRAYERS. THESE WILL RECEIVE GREAT DAMNATION.”  IN LUKE 21:36 STATES “WATCH THEREFORE, AND PRAY ALWAYS THAT YOU MAY BE COUNTED WORTHY TO ESCAPE ALL THESE THINGS THAT WILL COME TO PASS, AND TO STAND BEFORE THE SON OF MAN.” IN LUKE 22:32 SAYS “…BUT I HAVE PRAYED FOR YOU, THAT YOUR FAITH SHOULD NOT FAIL, AND WHEN YOU HAVE RETURNED TO ME, STRENGTHEN YOUR BRETHREN.” IN LUKE 22:40 MENTIONS “WHEN HE CAME TO THE PLACE, HE SAID TO THEM ‘PRAY THAT YOU MAY NOT ENTER INTO TEMPTATION.’” IN LUKE 22:41-42 SAYS “AND HE WAS WITHDRAWN FROM THEM ABOUT A STONE’S THROW, AND HE KNELT DOWN AND PRAYED, SAYING, ‘FATHER (STEPHEN), IF IT IS YOUR WILL, TAKE THIS CUP AWAY FROM ME, NEVERTHELESS NOT MY WILL, BUT YOUR BE DONE.” IN LUKE 22:44 DECLARES “AND BEING IN AGONY, HE PRAYED MORE EARNESTLY. THEN HIS SWEAT BECAME LIKE GREAT DROPS OF BLOOD FALLING DOWN TO THE GROUND.” IN LUKE 22:45 (KJV) MENTIONS “AND WHEN HE ROSE UP FROM PRAYER, AND WAS COME TO HIS DISCIPLES, HE FOUND THEM SLEEPING FROM SORROW.” IN LUKE 22:46 TELLS US “THEN HE SAID TO THEM, ‘WHY DO YOU SLEEP? RISE AND PRAY, LEST YOU ENTER INTO TEMPTATION.” IN LUKE 23:34 STATES “THEN JESUS SAID, ‘FATHER (STEPHEN), FORGIVE THEM, FOR THEY DO NOT KNOW WHAT THEY DO.” IN LUKE 23:46 MENTIONS “AND WHEN JESUS HAD CRIED OUT WITH A LOUD VOICE, HE SAID, ‘FATHER (STEPHEN), INTO YOUR HANDS I COMMEND MY SPIRIT.’” THE LORD JESUS’ PRAYER’S IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION THE LORD JESUS USES ALL THE PRAYERS IN THE DOORWAY TO THE KINGDOM OF THE FATHER STEPHEN: IN REVELATION 5:8-10 DECLARES “NOW WHEN HE HAD TAKEN THE SCROLL, THE 4 LIVING CREATURES (LORDS) AND THE 24 ELDERS (LORDS) FELL DOWN BEFORE THE LAMB (FOR ALL CREATION THE LAMBS ARE THE 1ST SEALED BOOK BY THE LORD PETER FOR CHILD KIND, THE 2ND SEALED BOOK BY LORD JOHN FOR WOMANKIND, THE 3RD SEALED BOOK BY LORD JESUS FOR MANKIND, THE 4TH-6TH BOOKS BY LORD JAMES FOR LAW KIND (6TH BOOK) OF FEMALE & MALE ANGELS, SPIRITS, PHANTOMS, GHOSTS, AND SHADOWS (5TH BOOK) & BOY KIND & GIRL KIND (4TH BOOK) & THE 7TH SEALED BOOK BY LORD STEPHEN FOR LORD KIND AND LADY KIND), EACH HAVING A HARP, AND GOLDEN BOWLS FULL OF INCENSE, WHICH ARE THE PRAYERS OF THE SAINTS (LORDS). AND THEY SONG A NEW SONG, SAYING: ‘YOU ARE WORTHY TO TAKE THE SCROLL, AND TO OPEN ITS SEALS (7 BOOKS WITH 7 SEAL’S FOR EACH BOOK TO ALL CREATION). FOR YOU WERE SLAIN, AND HAVE REDEEMED US TO GOD (FATHER STEPHEN) BY YOUR BLOOD OUT OF EVERY TRIBE AND TONGUE AND NATION, AND HAVE MADE US KINGS AND PRIEST TO OUR GOD (FATHER STEPHEN), AND WE SHALL REIGN ON THE EARTH.” IN REVELATION 8:3 DECLARES “THEN ANOTHER ANGEL (LORD), HAVING A GOLDEN CENSER, CAME AND STOOD AT THE ALTAR. HE WAS GIVEN MUCH INCENSE THAT HE SHOULD OFFER IT WITH THE PRAYERS OF ALL THE SAINTS (LORDS) UPON THE GOLDEN ALTAR WHICH WAS BEFORE THE THRONE. THEN THE ANGEL (LORD) TOOK THE CENSER, FILLED IT WITH FIRE FROM THE ALTAR, AND THREW IT TO THE EARTH. AND THERE WERE NOISES, THUNDERING’S, LIGHTENING’S AND AN EARTHQUAKE.” THE FATHER STEPHEN’S PRAYER’S IN THE FATHER STEPHEN’S KINGDOM OF THE BOOK OF ACTS THE FATHER STEPHEN USES THE PRAYERS FOR ALL SAINTLY CHRISTIAN LORDS (LADIES) INSIDE THE FATHER STEPHEN’S KINGDOM: IN ACTS 1:14 (KJV) SAYS “THESE ALL CONTINUED WITH ONE ACCORD IN PRAYER AND SUPPLICATION, WITH THE WOMEN, AND MARY THE MOTHER OF JESUS, AND WITH HIS BRETHREN.” IN ACTS 1:24 DECLARES “AND THEY PRAYED AND SAID, ‘YOU, O LORD (FATHER STEPHEN), WHO KNOW THE HEARTS OF ALL, SHOW WHICH IF THESE TWO YOU HAVE CHOSEN TO TAKE PART IN THIS MINISTRY AND APOSTLESHIP FROM WHICH (LORD) JUDAS BY TRANSGRESSION FELL, THAT HE MIGHT GO TO HIS OWN PLACE.’” IN ACTS 2:42 MENTIONS “AND THEY CONTINUED STEADFASTLY IN THE APOSTLES’ DOCTRINE AND FELLOWSHIP, AND IN BREAKING OF BREAD, AND IN PRAYERS.” IN ACTS 3:1-2 (KJV) SAYS “NOW PETER & JOHN WENT UP TOGETHER TO THE TEMPLE AT THE HOUR OF PRAYER, THE NINTH HOUR (3:00PM IN THE AFTERNOON). AND A CERTAIN MAN LAME FROM HIS MOTHER’S WOMB WAS CARRIED, WHOM THEY LAID DAILY AT THE GATE OF THE TEMPLE WHICH IS CALLED BEAUTIFUL, TO ASK ALMS FROM THOSE WHO ENTERED THE TEMPLE.” IN ACTS 4:31 TELLS US “AND WHEN THEY HAD PRAYED, THE PLACE WHERE THEY WERE ASSEMBLED TOGETHER WAS SHAKEN, AND THEY WERE ALL FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST, AND THEY SPOKE THE WORD OF GOD (FATHER STEPHEN) WITH BOLDNESS.” IN ACTS 6:3-4 MENTIONS “THEREFORE, BRETHREN, SEEK OUT FROM AMONG YOU 7 MEN (STEPHEN IS THE FATHER AND NOT MAN, BUT THE OTHER 6 ARE MEN BECAUSE OF MARITAL STATUS IN ACTS 21:8-9) OF GOOD (UNDEFILED) REPUTATION, FULL OF THE HOLY GHOST AND WISDOM, WHOM WE MAY APPOINT OVER THIS BUSINESS, BUT WE WILL GIVE OURSELVES CONTINUALLY TO PRAYER (FATHER STEPHEN’S PRAYER) AND TO THE (FATHER STEPHEN’S) MINISTRY OF THE WORD (FATHER STEPHEN’S TRUTH)… WHOM THEY SET BEFORE THE APOSTLES, AND WHEN THEY PRAYED, THEY LAID HANDS ON THEM. THEN THE WORD OF GOD (FATHER STEPHEN) SPREAD, AND THE NUMBER OF THE DISCIPLES MULTIPLIED GREATLY IN JERUSALEM, AND A GREAT MANY OF THE PRIEST WERE OBEDIENT TO THE FAITH.” IN ACTS 8:14-15 SAYS “NOW WHEN THE APOSTLES WHO WERE AT JERUSALEM, HEARD THAT SAMARIA HAD RECEIVED THE WORD OF GOD (FATHER STEPHEN), THEY SENT PETER AND JOHN, WHOM THEY HAD COME DOWN, PRAYED FOR THEM THAT THEY MIGHT RECEIVE THE HOLY GHOST.” IN ACTS 8:20-24 TELLS US ABOUT HOW SIMON MAGUS A SORCERER OFFERED MONEY FOR THE POWER TO RECEIVE THE HOLY GHOST AND SAYS “BUT PETER SAID TO HIM, ‘YOUR MONEY PERISH WITH YOU, BECAUSE YOU THOUGHT THAT THE GIFT OF GOD (FATHER STEPHEN) COULD BE PURCHASED WITH MONEY! YOU HAVE NEITHER PART NOR PORTION IN THIS MATTER, FOR YOUR HEART IS NOT RIGHT IN THE SIGHT OF GOD (FATHER STEPHEN). REPENT THEREFORE OF THIS WICKEDNESS AND PRAY GOD (FATHER STEPHEN) IF PERHAPS THE THOUGHT OF YOUR HEART MAY BE FORGIVEN YOU. FOR I SEE THAT YOU ARE POISONED BY BITTERNESS, AND BOUND BY INIQUITY.’ THEN (LORD) SIMON ANSWERED AND SAID, ‘PRAY TO THE LORD (FATHER STEPHEN) FOR ME, THAT NONE OF THE THINGS WHICH YOU HAVE SPOKEN MAY COME UPON ME.” ALL MALE WITCHES WHICH ARE WIZARDS ARE EVIL, EXCEPT SIMON MAGUS BECAUSE HE WAS BAPTIZED AND SAVED BY THE LORD (BY THE FATHER STEPHEN’S SALVATION AND NOT THE SON JESUS’ SALVATION) AND THEN USED HIS PERMISSIBLE MAGICAL ARTS TO PROTECT THE LORD’S PEOPLE IN ACTS 8:13, 24. IN ACTS 9:11 TELLS US “SO THE LORD (FATHER STEPHEN) SAID TO HIM, ‘RISE, AND GO TO THE STREET CALLED STRAIGHT, AND INQUIRE AT THE HOUSE OF JUDAS FOR ONE CALLED (LORD) SAUL OF TARSUS, FROM BEHOLD, HE IS PRAYING.” IN ACTS 9:40 STATES “BUT PETER PUT THEM ALL OUT, AND KNELT DOWN AND PRAYED. AND TURNING TO THE BODY HE SAID, ‘(LADY) TABITHA, ARISE.’ AND SHE OPENED HER EYES, AND WHEN SHE SAW (LORD) PETER SHE SAT UP.” IN ACTS 10:4 STATES “AND WHEN HE OBSERVED TO HIM, HE WAS AFRAID, AND SAID, ‘WHAT IS IT (ANGEL) LORD?’ SO, HE SAID TO HIM, ‘YOUR PRAYERS AND YOUR ALMS HAVE COME UP FOR A MEMORIAL BEFORE GOD (FATHER STEPHEN).” ALSO, SIMILAR SCRIPTURES ARE IN ACTS 10:30-31. IN ACTS 10:9-12 STATES “THE NEXT DAY, AS THEY WENT ON THEIR JOURNEY AND DREW NEAR THE CITY, (LORD) PETER WENT UP ON THE HOUSETOP TO PRAY, ABOUT THE 6TH HOUR (12:00 NOON). THEN HE BECAME VERY HUNGRY AND WANTED TO EAT, BUT WHILE THEY MADE READY, HE FELL INTO A TRANCE AND SAW HEAVEN OPENED AND AN OBJECT LIKE A GREAT WHITE SHEET BOUND AT THE 4 CORNERS, DESCENDING TO HIM AND LET DOWN TO THE EARTH. IN IT WERE ALL KINDS OF FOUR-FOOTED ANIMALS OF THE EARTH, WILD BEASTS, CREEPING THINGS AND BIRDS OF THE AIR.” IN ACTS 11:5 MENTIONS “I WAS IN THE CITY OF JOPPA PRAYING, AND IN A TRANCE I SAW A VISION, AN OBJECT DESCENDING LIKE A GREAT SHEET, LET DOWN FROM HEAVEN BY 4 CORNERS, AND IT CAME TO ME.” IN ACTS 12:5 TELLS US “(LORD) PETER WAS THEREFORE KEPT IN PRISON, BUT CONSTANT PRAYER WAS OFFERED FOR HIM BY THE CHURCH.” IN ACTS 12:12 SAYS “SO, WHEN HE HAD CONSIDERED THIS, HE CAME TO THE HOUSE OF (LADY) MARY, THE MOTHER OF (LORD) JOHN WHOSE SURNAME WAS MARK, WHERE MANY WERE GATHERED TOGETHER PRAYING.” IN ACTS 13:3 TELLS US “THEN, HAVING FASTED AND PRAYED, AND LAID HANDS ON THEM, THEY SENT THEM AWAY.” IN ACTS 14:23 MENTIONS “SO WHEN THEY HAD APPOINTED ELDERS (LORDS) IN EVERY CHURCH, AND PRAYED WITH FASTING, THEY COMMENDED THEM TO THE LORD (FATHER STEPHEN) IN WHOM THEY HAD BELIEVED.” IN ACTS 16:13 SAYS “AND ON THE SABBATH DAY (SUNDAY) WE WENT OUT OF THE CITY TO THE RIVERSIDE, WHERE PRAYER WAS CUSTOMARILY MADE AND WE SAT DOWN AND SPOKE TO THE WOMEN WHO MET THERE.” IN ACTS 16:16-18 MENTIONS “NOW IT HAPPENED, AS WE WENT TO PRAYER, THAT A CERTAIN SLAVE GIRL POSSESSED WITH A SPIRIT OF DIVINATION MET US, WHO BROUGHT HER MASTERS, MUCH PROFIT BY FORTUNE-TELLING. THIS GIRL FOLLOWED PAUL AND US, AND CRIED OUT, SAYING, ‘THESE MEN ARE THE SERVANTS (ONLY THE FATHER STEPHEN’S FRIENDS KNOWS WHAT HIS LORDS ARE DOING) OF THE MOST-HIGH GOD (FATHER STEPHEN), WHO PROCLAIM TO US THE WAY OF SALVATION.’ AND THIS SHE DID FOR MANY DAYS. BUT PAUL, GREATLY ANNOYED, TURNED AND SAID TO THE SPIRIT, ‘I COMMAND YOU IN THE NAME (FATHER STEPHEN) OF JESUS CHRIST TO COME OUT OF HER.’ AND HE CAME OUT OF HER THAT VERY HOUR.” IN ACTS 16:25 STATES “BUT AT MIDNIGHT (LORD) PAUL AND (LORD) SILAS WERE PRAYING AND SINGING HYMNS TO GOD (FATHER STEPHEN), AND THE PRISONERS WERE LISTENING TO THEM.” IN ACTS 20:36 SAYS “AND WHEN HE HAD SAID THESE THINGS, HE KNELT DOWN AND PRAYED WITH THEM ALL.” IN ACTS 21:5 MENTIONS “WHEN WE HAD COME TO THE END OF THOSE DAYS, WE DEPARTED AND WENT ON OUR WAY, AND THEY ALL ACCOMPANIED US, WITH WIVES AND CHILDREN, TILL WE WERE OUT OF THE CITY. AND WE KNELT DOWN ON THE SHORE AND PRAYED.” IN ACTS 22:17 DECLARES “NOW IT HAPPENED, WHEN RETURNED TO JERUSALEM AND WAS PRAYING IN THE TEMPLE, THAT I WAS IN A TRANCE.” IN ACTS 27:29 TELLS US “THEN, FEARING LEST WE SHOULD RUN AGROUND ON THE ROCKS, THEY DROPPED 4 ANCHORS FROM THE STERN, AND PRAYED FOR DAY TO COME.” IN ACTS 28:8 DECLARES “AND IT HAPPENED THAT THE FATHER OF PUBLIUS LAY SICK WITH A FEVER AND DYSENTERY (BLOODY FLUX). PAUL WENT IN TO HIM AND PRAYED, AND HE LAID HIS HANDS ON HIM AND HEALED HIM.” THE FATHER STEPHEN’S PRAYER’S IN THE APOCRYPHA BOOKS THE FATHER STEPHEN’S SECRET PRAYER’S TO THE LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH (JEHOVAH) THE CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD! THE FATHER STEPHEN’S SECRET PRAYER TO THE LORD JEHOVAH THE CREATOR OVER ALL THE EARTH (FATHER STEPHEN’S BODY): IN JUDITH 9:12-14 DECLARES “I PRAY THEE, I PRAY THEE, O GOD (LORD JEHOVAH) OF MY FATHER (STEPHEN), AND GOD (FATHER STEPHEN) OF THE INHERITANCE OF ISRAEL, LORD (FATHER STEPHEN) OF THE HEAVENS AND EARTH, CREATOR (LORD JEHOVAH) OF THE WATERS (FATHER STEPHEN’S WITNESS), KING (FATHER STEPHEN) OF EVERY CREATURE, HEAR THOU MY PRAYER! MAKE MY DECEITFUL WORDS BRING WOUND & BRUISE ON THOSE WHO HAVE PLANNED CRUEL THINGS AGAINST YOUR COVENANT, AND AGAINST YOUR SACRED HOUSE, AND AGAINST MOUNT ZION, AND AGAINST THE HOUSE YOUR CHILDREN POSSESS. LET YOUR WHOLE NATION AND EVERY TRIBE KNOW & UNDERSTAND THAT YOU ARE GOD (FATHER STEPHEN), THE GOD (FATHER STEPHEN) OF ALL POWER (AUTHORITY) AND MIGHT (ALMIGHTINESS), AND THAT THERE IS NO OTHER WHO PROTECTS THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL BUT YOU ALONE!” THE FATHER STEPHEN’S SECRET PRAYER TO THE LORD YAHWEH THE CREATOR OVER THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE (FATHER STEPHEN’S MIND/SPIRIT): IN 2ND MACCABEES 1:24-28 DECLARES “AND THE PRAYER WAS AFTER THIS MANNER: O LORD (FATHER STEPHEN), LORD GOD (LORD YAHWEH), CREATOR OF ALL THINGS, WHO ARE AWE-INSPIRING & STRONG, AND JUST, AND MERCIFUL, YOU ALONE ARE KING AND ARE KIND, YOU ALONE ARE BOUNTIFUL, YOU ALONE ARE JUST AND ALMIGHTY AND ETERNAL. YOU RESCUE ISRAEL FROM EVERY EVIL, YOU CHOSE THE ANCESTORS AND CONSECRATED THEM. ACCEPT THIS SACRIFICE ON BEHALF OF ALL YOUR PEOPLE ISRAEL AND PRESERVE YOUR PORTION AND MAKE IT HOLY. GATHER TOGETHER OUR SCATTERED PEOPLE, SET FREE THOSE WHO ARE SLAVES AMONG THE GENTILES, LOOK ON THOSE WHO ARE REJECTED AND DESPISED, AND LET THE GENTILES KNOW THAT YOU ARE OUR GOD (FATHER STEPHEN). PUNISH THOSE WHO OPPRESS AND ARE INSOLENT WITH PRIDE. PLANT YOUR PEOPLE IN YOUR HOLY PLACE, AS (LORD) MOSES PROMISED.”  THE FATHER STEPHEN’S ULTIMATE PRAYER TO THE LORD STEPHEN YAHWEH THE CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD FOR THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE FROM THE BEGINNING TO THE END OF ALL THINGS IN THE BOOK OF ACTS! THE FATHER STEPHEN’S ULTIMATE PRAYER TO THE LORD JEHOVAH THE SUPREME CREATOR OVER ALL THE EARTH (FATHER STEPHEN’S BODY): THIS PRAYER CAN ONLY BE PRAYED BY THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD AND NOBODY ELSE AND CAN ONLY BE ANSWERED BY THE LORD YAHWEH PROVEN IN 1ST JOHN 5:16. IN ACTS 7:59-60 MENTIONS “AND THEY STONED STEPHEN (FATHER STEPHEN THE 1ST SINGLE LORD CALLED WISDOM) AS HE WAS CALLING ON GOD (LORD JEHOVAH) AND SAYING, ‘LORD JESUS, RECEIVE MY SPIRIT.’ THEN HE KNELT DOWN AND CRIED OUT WITH A LOUD VOICE, ‘LORD (JEHOVAH), DO NOT (ETERNALLY) HOLD THEM WITH THIS SIN (ETERNAL SIN IN THE LAW’S SUPERIOR LORDSHIPS FROM THE 1ST MARRIED LORD CALLED WISDOM).’” THE FATHER STEPHEN’S ULTIMATE PRAYER TO THE LORD VICTOR THE SUPREME CREATOR OVER ALL THE HEAVENS (FATHER STEPHEN’S MIND): IN ACTS 7:59-60 SAYS “AND THEY STONED STEPHEN (FATHER STEPHEN THE 1ST SINGLE LORD CALLED WISDOM) AS HE WAS CALLING ON GOD (LORD VICTOR) AND SAYING, ‘LORD JESUS, RECEIVE MY SPIRIT.’ THEN HE KNELT DOWN AND CRIED OUT WITH A LOUD VOICE, ‘LORD (VICTOR), DO NOT (ETERNALLY) CHARGE THEM WITH THIS SIN (ETERNAL SIN IN THE LORD’S SUPREME LORDSHIPS FROM THE 1ST MARRIED LORD CALLED WISDOM).’” THE FATHER STEPHEN’S ULTIMATE PRAYER TO THE LORD YAHWEH THE SUPREME CREATOR OVER THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE (FATHER STEPHEN’S SPIRIT): IN ACTS 7:59-60 TELLS US “AND THEY STONED STEPHEN (FATHER STEPHEN THE 2ND SINGLE LORD CALLED WISDOM) AS HE WAS CALLING ON GOD (LORD YAHWEH) AND SAYING, ‘LORD JESUS, RECEIVE MY SPIRIT.’ THEN HE KNELT DOWN AND CRIED OUT WITH A LOUD VOICE, ‘LORD (YAHWEH), LAY NOT THIS SIN (ETERNAL SIN IN THE CREATOR LORDSHIPS FROM THE 2ND LUCIFER CALLED THE MARRIED LORD CALLED WISDOM) TO THEIR (ETERNAL) CHARGE.” THIS PRAYER MEANS THAT THE FATHER STEPHEN HAS THE SUPREME LORDSHIP TO LAY HIS OWN LIFE DOWN OR THE SUPREME LORDSHIP TO TAKE HIS OWN LIFE AGAIN BY HIS OWN DIVINE COMMAND IN JOHN 10:18. THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD IS THE ONLY ONE THAT COULD SUMMON WITHOUT CEASING THE LORD YAHWEH THE CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD IN ACTS 7:59. THE OTHER LORDS, THE HOLY ANGELS AND THE LORD JESUS CAN ONLY SUMMON THE FATHER STEPHEN OUR LORD IN 1ST PETER 1:17-19. SO, IN A SENSE, THE FATHER STEPHEN ONLY COMES IN AGREEMENT WITH THE LORD YAHWEH (SHORT FOR YAH) THE CREATOR OF THE FATHER STEPHEN. THE FATHER STEPHEN DOES NOT COME INTO AGREEMENT WITH THE LORD JEHOVAH (SHORT FOR JAH) THE CREATOR OVER ALL THE EARTH OR THE LORD VICTOR (SHORT FOR VIC) THE CREATOR OF THE HEAVENS OR THE LADY VICTORIA THE FEMALE CREATOR BECAUSE THE FATHER STEPHEN’S WITNESS IS ETERNAL LORDSHIP IN 1ST JOHN 5:6-13.    THE FATHER STEPHEN’S TRUE TEACHING ON HOW TO PRAY TO HIMSELF IN JOHN 6:45 TELLS US HOW THE FATHER STEPHEN HAS TAUGHT US HOW TO PRAY: “IT IS WRITTEN IN THE PROPHETS, ‘AND THEY SHALL ALL BE TAUGHT BY GOD (FATHER STEPHEN).’ THEREFORE EVERYONE WHO HAS HEARD AND LEARNED FROM THE FATHER (STEPHEN) COMES TO ME.” IN JOHN 8:28 TELLS US “THEN JESUS SAID TO THEM, ‘WHEN YOU LIFT UP THE SON OF MEN, THEN YOU WILL KNOW THAT I AM HE, AND THAT I DO NOTHING OF MYSELF, BUT AS MY FATHER (STEPHEN) TAUGHT ME, I SPEAK THESE THINGS.”   WE ARE COMMANDED TO GIVE 10% OF ALL REVENUES WORKED IN A LIFETIME TO THE FATHER STEPHEN. IN MALACHI 3:8-12 DECLARES “WILL A MAN ROB GOD? YET YOU HAVE ROBBED ME! BUT YOU SAY, ‘IN WHAT HAVE WE ROBBED YOU?’ ‘IN TITHES AND OFFERINGS, YOU ARE CURSED WITH A CURSE, FOR YOU HAVE ROBBED ME, EVEN THIS WHOLE NATION (LAWS). BRING ALL THE TITHES  INTO  THE STOREHOUSE, THAT THERE MAY BE FOUND IN MY HOUSE, AND TRY ME NOW IN THIS,’ SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS, ‘IF I WILL NOT OPEN FOR YOU THE WINDOWS OF HEAVEN AND POUR FOR YOU SUCH BLESSINGS THAT THERE WILL NOT BE ROOM ENOUGH TO RECEIVE IT. AND I WILL REBUKE THE DEVOURER FOR YOUR SAKES, SO THAT HE WILL NOT DESTROY THE FRUIT OF YOUR GROUND, NOR SHALL THE VINE FAIL TO BEAR FRUIT FOR YOU IN THE FIELD,’ SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS. ‘AND ALL NATIONS (LAWS) WILL CALL YOU BLESSED. FOR YOU WILL BE A DELIGHTFUL LAND,’ SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS.” FOR THE LORD JOHN THE HOLY GHOST (BROTHER) OF GOD HANDLES ALL COPPER MONEY. THE LORD JESUS THE SON OF GOD HANDLES ALL SILVER MONEY. THE LORD JAMES THE LAW OF GOD HANDLES ALL GOLD MONEY. THE LORD STEPHEN OUR FATHER HANDLES ALL PAPER FROM TREES AND PLANTS AND ELECTRONIC (FIRE) MONEY. ALSO, IT IS TOWARD THE TRINITY IN HEBREWS 7:1-10. ALSO, IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ON THE CREATION OF BIBLICAL MONEY, YOU MUST GET MY BOOK CALLED “THE LORD’S MONEY AND THE MONEY IN THE HOLY BIBLE.” HIS GIFTS OF THE TRINITY ARE PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. FIRST, ARE THE 11 GIFTS OF THE HOLY GHOST (BROTHER JOHN OUR LORD) AND SON JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD. IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 12:28 TELLS US THE GIFTS ARE FOR THE OFFICE OF AN APOSTLE, THE OFFICE OF A PROPHET, THE OFFICE OF A TEACHER, THE OFFICE OF MIRACLES (MIRACLE WORKERS), THE OFFICE OF HEALERS (KINDS OF HEALINGS), THE OFFICE OF HELP, THE OFFICE OF THE ADMINISTRATION AND THE OFFICE OF TONGUES. SECOND, ARE THE 31 GIFTS OF THE HOLY GHOST (BROTHER JOHN OUR LORD). IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 12:8-10 TELLS US THE GIFTS ARE THE WORD OF WISDOM, THE WORD OF KNOWLEDGE, FAITH, FIVE DIFFERENT KINDS OF GIFTS OF HEALINGS, 4 DIFFERENT KINDS OF MIRACLES, 2 DIFFERENT PROPHESIES, DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN SPIRITS, 15 DIFFERENT KINDS OF TONGUES (LISTED EARLIER IN MY BOOK AT THE END OF CHAPTER 7), INTERPRETATION OF TONGUES. THIRD, ARE THE 8 GIFTS OF THE SON JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD. IN EPHESIANS 4:11 AND 1ST CORINTHIANS 7:7 TELLS US THE GIFTS ARE THE OFFICE OF AN APOSTLE, 2 KINDS OF OFFICES FOR A PROPHET, EVANGELIST, PASTOR (PREACHER/TEACHER), MISSIONARY, MARRIAGE & CELIBACY. LAST, ARE THE 10 GIFTS OF THE FATHER STEPHEN. IN ROMANS 12:6-8 SAYS THE GIFTS ARE PROPHESY, SERVING (SINGLE GODLY DEACON), MINISTRY, TEACHING (COUNSELING), ENCOURAGING, EXHORTATION, CONTRIBUTING, GIVING, LEADERSHIP AND MERCY. IN 1ST PETER 4:11 SAYS WHOEVER SPEAKS (COVERING SEVERAL GIFTS) AND WHOEVER RENDERS SERVICE (COVERS SEVERAL GIFTS). BUT THE GREATEST GIFT IS AGAPE LOVE, IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 13:1-13 DECLARES “THOUGH I SPEAK WITH THE TONGUES OF MEN AND OF ANGELS (LORDS), BUT HAVE NOT (AGAPE) LOVE, I HAVE BECOME SOUNDING BRASS OR A CLANGING CYMBAL. AND THOUGH I HAVE THE GIFT OF PROPHESY, AND UNDERSTAND ALL MYSTERIES AND ALL KNOWLEDGE, AND THOUGH I HAVE ALL FAITH, SO THAT I COULD REMOVE MOUNTAINS, BUT HAVE NOT (AGAPE) LOVE, I AM NOTHING. AND THOUGH I BESTOW ALL MY GOODS TO FEED THE POOR, AND THOUGH I GIVE MY BODY TO BE BURNED, BUT HAVE NOT (AGAPE) LOVE, IT PROFITS ME NOTHING. (AGAPE) LOVE SUFFERS LONG & IS KIND. (AGAPE) LOVE DOES NOT ENVY. (AGAPE) LOVE DOES NOT PARADE ITSELF, IS NOT PUFFED UP, DOES NOT BEHAVE RUDELY, DOES NOT SEEK ITS OWN, IS NOT PROVOKED, THINKS NO EVIL, DOES NOT REJOICE IN INIQUITY, BUT REJOICES IN THE TRUTH. BEARS ALL THINGS, BELIEVES ALL THINGS, HOPES ALL THINGS, & ENDURES ALL THINGS. (AGAPE) LOVE NEVER FAILS. BUT WHETHER THERE ARE PROPHESIES, THEY WILL FAIL, WHETHER THERE ARE TONGUES, THEY WILL CEASE, WHETHER THERE IS KNOWLEDGE, IT WILL VANISH AWAY. FOR WE KNOW IN PART AND WE PROPHESY IN PART, BUT WHEN THAT WHICH IS PERFECT HAS COME, THEN THAT WHICH IS IN PART WILL BE DONE AWAY. WHEN I WAS A CHILD, I THOUGHT AS A CHILD, BUT WHEN I BECAME A MAN, I PUT AWAY CHILDISH THINGS. FOR NOW, WE SEE IN A MIRROR, DIMLY, BUT THEN FACE TO FACE. NOW I KNOW IN PART, BUT THEN I SHALL KNOW JUST AS I ALSO AM KNOWN & NOW ABIDES FAITH, HOPE, (AGAPE) LOVE, BUT THE GREATEST OF THESE IS (AGAPE) LOVE.” SO, IN THIS COMPLETE LIST THERE ARE OVER 120 GIFTS IN THE HOLY BIBLE.  THERE ARE 21 OF THE FATHER STEPHEN’S NAMES IN THE TANACH AND THE NEW TESTAMENT WHICH ARE PROVEN IN SCRIPTURE. FIRST, IS EL: THE MIGHTY, STRONG AND PROMINENT IS USED IN GENESIS 7:1; 28:3; 35:11; NUMBERS 23:22; JOSHUA 3:10; 2ND SAMUEL 22:31, 32; NEHEMIAH 1:5; 9:32; EZEKIEL 10:5; JEREMIAH 10:11; JOB 3:4-40:2 AND ACTS 6:8. SECOND, IS ELOHIM: THE CREATOR, PRESERVER, TRANSCENDENT, MIGHTY & STRONG IS USED IN GENESIS 17:7; 6:18; 9:15; 50:24; 1ST KINGS 8:23; JEREMIAH 31:33; ISAIAH 40:1 & ACTS 6:8; CHAPTER 17. THIRD, IS EL- SHADDAI: THE ALMIGHTY AND THE ALL SUFFICIENT IS USED IN GENESIS 17:1-2; 31:29; 49:24-25; PROVERBS 3:27; MICAH 2:1; ISAIAH 60:15-16; 66:10-13; RUTH 1:20-21; REVELATION 16:7 AND ACTS 6:8; 7:22. FOURTH, IS  EL-ELYON OR HELEYON OR HUPSISTOS: THE LORD YAH THE CREATOR IS THE HIGHEST, CROWN AND MOST HIGH WHICH IS USED IN DEUTERONOMY 26:19; 32:8; GENESIS 14:18; NUMBERS 24:16; PSALMS 7:17; 18:13; 78:35, 56; 97:9; 56:2; DANIEL 7:25, 27; ISAIAH 14:14 AND ACTS 6:5, 8-9; 7:59; 8:2; 11:19; 22:20. FIFTH, IS EL-ROI: THE LORD WHO SEES ALL IS USED IN GENESIS 16:13 AND ACTS 7:55-56. SIXTH, IS ADONAI: THE MASTER OR LORD IS USED IN GENESIS 15:2; EXODUS 4:10; JUDGES 6:15; 2ND SAMUEL 7:18-20; PSALMS 8; 114:7; 135:5; 141:8; 109:21-28; DANIEL 9 & ACTS 7:47-50. SEVENTH, IS EL-OLAM: THE LORD OUR EVERLASTING GOD IN USED IN ISAIAH 40:28-31 & ACTS 7:60. EIGHTH, IS EL-ELOHE ISRAEL: THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL IN GENESIS 31:28; ISAIAH 1:24; 1ST SAMUEL 15:29 & ACTS 7:33. NINTH, IS HELEYON OR ELYON OR HYPSISTOS: THE  FATHER STEPHEN’S CROWN AS THE HIGHEST OR MOST HIGH IS USED IN PSALMS 7:17; 47:2; 83:18; 97:9; ISAIAH 57:15; DANIEL 4:25; EPHESIANS 4:6 AND ACTS 6:5, 8-9; 7:59; 8:2; 11:19; 22:20. TENTH, IS ELOAH: THE ADORABLE OR WORSHIPFUL LORD IS USED IN DEUTERONOMY 32:15; JOB 19:25-26 & 40 TIMES WITH JOB ALONE AND ACTS 7:42-43. ELEVENTH, IS ELAH: THE EVERLASTING GOD IS USED IN EZRA 4:24 AND IS USED 43 TIMES IN EZRA & 46 TIMES IN DANIEL AND ACTS 6:5. TWELFTH, IS ADON-ADONAI: JEHOVAH OUR RULER IS USED ACTS 7:35. THIRTEENTH, IS ADONI-JAH: JEHOVAH IS LORD IN PSALMS 83:18 AND ACTS 7:60. FOURTEENTH, IS ADON: THE LORD OUR CONTROLLER IS USED IN ACTS 7:35. FIFTEENTH, IS YAH: THE EVERLASTING STRONG LORD IS USED IN PSALMS 68:4, 34; ISAIAH 12:2; 26:4; 38:11 & ACTS 6:8; 7:36. SIXTEENTH, IS JAH: THE INDEPENDENT LORD & “BREATH” IS USED IN PSALMS 68:4 AND ACTS 6:5. SEVENTEENTH, IS EL-BETHEL: GOD OF THE HOUSE OF GOD USED IN GENESIS 35:7. EIGHTEENTH, IS EL-EMUNAH: THE FAITHFUL GOD USED IN DEUTERONOMY 7:9. NINETEENTH, IS EL-MAROM: GOD MOST HIGH USED IN MICAH 6:6. TWENTIETH, IS EL-KANNA OR EL KANNO: THE JEALOUS GOD USED IN EXODUS 20:5 & JOSHUA 24:19. TWENTY-FIRST, IS ALAM: THE SECRET NAME FOR GOD. THERE ARE 26 NAMES OF “STEPHEN” ALSO KNOWN AS “YAHWEH”, WHICH IS COINED AS “STEPHEN YAHWEH”IS PROVEN IN EXODUS 6:3; PSALMS 83:18; ISAIAH 12:2; 26:4; JOHN 8:58; EPHESIANS 4:6 & ACTS 7:60. FIRST, IS STEPHEN YAHWEH: THE LORD CALLED YAHWEH OR VICTOR OR KURIOS OR DESPOTES IS USED IN DANIEL 9:14; PSALMS 11:7; LEVITICUS 19:2; HABAKKUK 1:12; DEUTERONOMY 6:4-5; LUKE 2:29; ACTS 4:24; 2ND PETER 2:1; JUDE 4; REVELATION 6:10 AND ACTS 7:60. SECOND, IS STEPHEN YAHWEH -JIREH: THE LORD OUR PROVIDER IS USED IN GENESIS 22:14 AND ACTS 6:8. THIRD, IS STEPHEN YAHWEH -ROPHE: THE LORD OUR HEALER IS USED IN EXODUS 15:22-26; JEREMIAH 30:17; ISAIAH 61:1 AND ACTS 6:8. FOURTH, IS STEPHEN YAHWEH -NISSI: THE LORD OUR BANNER IS USED IN EXODUS 17:15; PSALMS 4:6 & ACTS 7:22. FIFTH, IS STEPHEN YAHWEH -M’KADDESH: THE LORD OUR SANCTIFIER IS USED IN LEVITICUS 20:8 AND ACTS 6:3. SIXTH, IS STEPHEN YAHWEH -SHALOM: THE LORD OUR PEACE IS USED IN JUDGES 6:24; DEUTERONOMY 27:6; DANIEL 5:26; 1ST KINGS 8:61; 9:25; GENESIS 15:16; EXODUS 21:34; 22:5, 6; LEVITICUS 7:11-21 AND ACTS 7:47-50. SEVENTH, IS STEPHEN YAHWEH -ELOHIM: THE LORD GOD OR THEOS IS USED IN GENESIS 2:4; JUDGES 5:3; ISAIAH 17:6; ZEPHANIAH 2:9; PSALMS 59:5 & ACTS 4:24; 7:6-7.  EIGHTH, IS STEPHEN YAHWEH -TSIDKENU:  THE  LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS IS USED IN JEREMIAH 23:5-6; 33:16 AND ACTS 6:5, 8. NINTH, IS STEPHEN YAHWEH -SHAMMAH: THE LORD IS THERE IS USED IN EZEKIEL 48:35 AND ACTS 7:9. TENTH, IS STEPHEN YAHWEH -SABAOTH:  THE LORD OF ARMY HOST CAMPS IS USED IN ISAIAH 1:24; PSALMS 46:7; 11:2; 2ND KINGS 3:9-12; JEREMIAH 11:20; ROMANS 9:29; JAMES 5:4; REVELATION 19:11-16 & ACTS 7:30-32. ELEVENTH, IS STEPHEN YAHWEH-ROHI: THE LORD OUR SHEPHERD IS USED IN PSALMS 23 AND ACTS 6:8. TWELFTH, IS STEPHEN YAHWEH-GMOLAH: THE LORD OUR RECOMPENSE IS USED IN JEREMIAH 51:6 AND ACTS 7:26; 8:1. THIRTEEN, IS STEPHEN YAHWEH-MAKKEH: THE LORD WHO SMITES IS USED IN EZEKIEL 7:9 IN ACTS 7:24. FOURTEENTH, IS STEPHEN YAHWEH-HOSEENU: THE LORD OUR MAKER IS USED IN PSALMS 95:6; HEBREWS 11:10 IN ACTS 7:49-50. FIFTEENTH, IS STEPHEN YAHWEH -ELOHEKA: THE LORD YOUR GOD IS USED 20 TIMES IN DEUTERONOMY 16; 28:58; EXODUS 20:2 IN ACTS 7:17. SIXTEENTH, IS STEPHEN YAHWEH -ELOBEENU: THE LORD OUR GOD IS USED IN DEUTERONOMY 6:24 & ACTS 7:7. SEVENTEENTH, IS THE STEPHEN YAHWEH -ELOHAY: THE LORD MY GOD IS USED IN JUDGES 6:15; 13:87; ZECHARIAH 14:5 & ACTS 7:7. EIGHTEENTH, IS STEPHEN YAHWEH -EL ELOHIM: THE LORD GOD OF GODS USED IN JOSHUA 22:22. NINETEENTH, IS STEPHEN YAHWEH -ELOHE ABOTHEKEM: THE LORD GOD OF YOUR FATHERS USED IN JOSHUA 18:3. TWENTIETH, IS STEPHEN YAHWEH -EL GEMUWAL: THE LORD GOD OF RECOMPENSES USED IN JEREMIAH 51:56. TWENTY-FIRST, IS STEPHEN YAHWEH -EL EMETH: LORD GOD OF TRUTH USED IN PSALMS 31:5. TWENTY-SECOND, IS STEPHEN YAHWEH -ELOHE YESHUATHI: LORD GOD OF MY SALVATION USED IN PSALMS 41:13. TWENTY-THIRD, IS STEPHEN YAHWEH -ELOHE YISREAL: THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL USED IN PSALMS 41:13. TWENTY-FOURTH, IS STEPHEN YAHWEH -MAGINNENU: THE LORD OUR DEFENSE USED IN PSALMS 89:18. TWENTY-FIFTH, IS STEPHEN YAHWEH -ADON KOL HA-ARETS: THE LORD, THE LORD OF ALL THE EARTH USED IN JOSHUA 3:11. TWENTY-SIXTH, IS STEPHEN YAHWEH -TSEBAOTH: THE LORD OF ARMY HOST CAMPS IS USED IN ISAIAH 1:24; PSALMS 46:7; 11:2; 2ND KINGS 3:9-12; JEREMIAH 11:20; ROMANS 9:29; JAMES 5:4; REVELATION 19:11-16 & ACTS 7:30-32.