Part 8B

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The Hebraic Book of Revelation – Part 8B

5 And the heavenly angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it onto the earth: and there were voices and thundering and lightning and an earthquake.

John’s vision is reminiscent of the rebellion by Korah. Korah, a non-priest Levite, this resembles the rebellion against the priestly status of Aaron and his line.

Numbers 16 defined is: people refuse to heed Moses and submit to the ordained priesthood are in rebellion against YHWH – they’ve rejected YHWH. 

These first set of angels are Ezekiel’S angels from his first scroll; six go to slay all those ‘believers’ who had been part of the rebellion regarding the altar and the priesthood and one throws the censor. 9:1 Then he cried in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause ye them that have charge over the city to draw near, every man with his destroying weapon in his hand.

6 And the seven heavenly angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound. 7 The first heavenly angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and a third part of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.

The plagues of the trumpets are in two groups; the first four involve natural catastrophes; that last three plagues fall directly upon men. 

With each trumpet and each bowl a plague is poured out on the world. 

Don’t worry about the prohibition against hurting the grass in 9:4 when here in 8:7 it’s already burned up. 

Don’t worry how a great star could come from heaven in 8:10 when the stars had already fallen in 6:12 is to get caught in a trap of logic and reason and miss the apocalyptic visionary genre in which the book is written. 

8 And the second heavenly angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood; 9 And a third part of the creatures that were in the sea that had life, died; and a third part of the ships were destroyed.

Jer 51:25 Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith יהוה , which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.

10 And the third heavenly angel sounded, and there fell a great star from the heaven, burning as if it were a lamp, and it fell upon a third of the rivers, and upon the fountains of water.

11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and a third part of the water became wormwood; and many men died from the water, because they were made bitter.

Wormwood is a symbol of divine judgment, or Chernobyl! 

Jer 9:15 Therefore because you have forsaken my commandments,  thus saith יהוה Tzevot, the Elohim of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

Jer 23:15 Therefore thus saith יהוה Tzevoth,  concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.

This is certainly reminiscent of the bitter waters judgment of Mara: Exo. 15:22 but in reverse.  This judgment is due to יהוה casting four things upon humanity:  

1. He deals bitterly with mankind
2. He empties mankind; their possessions and their persons
3. He testifies against mankind
4. He afflicts mankind

‘testi-fy’…you have to dig deep down to your אשׁך eshek, Aleph-Shin-Chaf Sofit.

or  kilyâh-כּליה – Kaf-Lamed-Yod-Heh, reigns, testicles, kidneys…

it’s your deep parts bunched together – you’re gonna need strong-deep-inner parts to get through these next months…

Rth 1:20 And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me. 21 I went out full, and יהוה hath brought me home again empty: why then call ye me Naomi, seeing יהוה  hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?

So Mara is prophetically about the last great barley harvest at the end of the age – where they go out full but return empty! 

12 And the fourth heavenly angel sounded, and a third part of the sun was smitten, and a third part of the moon, and a third part of the stars; so that a third of them were darkened, and a third part of both day and night did not shine.

Decrease in the intensity of available light. Project Blue Beam whilst we’re in quarantine. 

The fourth plague falls upon the heavenly bodies, the sun, moon and stars. At this point we’ll be all in alignment through misalignment.

he forces of nature have fallen under divine judgment as a warning to sinful men – the pagan world in hostility to יהוה. 

13 And I looked, and listened to a heavenly angel/eagle/messenger flying through the midst of the heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, (5th, 6th and 7th trumpet which are about to blast the remaining judgments) to the inhabitants of the earth because of the other voices of the trumpet of the three heavenly angel, which are yet to sound!

When the birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, Abram drove them away, as we should also! (Gen. 15:11).

Hab 1:8 His horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. And their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from afar. They shall fly like the eagle hurrying to eat.