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Prophecy: Revelation Puzzle-Part 2 (Papacy As Mystery Babylon-Mohammedan Rise-Turkish Woe-2 Witnesses Slain)
September 10, 2017 Ellul (Mo 6) 19, 5777


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 PROVING THE CHRONOLOGICAL TIME-FLOW ASSUMPTION

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Link to Horae Apocalypticae by E.B. Elliott



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

I made the plea in part 1 of this series for each of you to adopt the chronologically consecutive assumption for the time flow found in the fulfillments of seals, trumpets and vials. With that plea, I made a couple of arguments that, for me, were weak: not sufficiently persuasive to convince me to adopt that view. Certainly, I began this course of study almost seventeen years ago and was immediately convinced that the arguments concerning the identity of the Roman Catholic Church and the Papacy were clearly prefigured in Revelation 17. Indeed, your first and perhaps foremost clue of the true identity of the Papacy and the Roman Catholic Church he heads is that it is that an institution that has martyred an estimated 50 million believers in Jesus Christ, calling them heretics. That same Papacy is now called by the name of "Holy Father" by the world and their media. The world did not so reverently receive Jesus of Nazareth, yet the "Papa" is revered. The world loves the Pope but hates Jesus, as it hates and reviles me, His servant.

I was convinced years ago that the first five vials of wrath probably began to pour in the events preceding, concurrent with and immediately following the French Revolution. I was not persuaded regarding the rest of the historicist view until now. Only one reader challenged me on that point of chronological flow, saying, in essence, that he had long believed that the Papacy in every generation is anti-Christ, but he was still not persuaded to view the time flow as being chronologically consecutive. He still favored a view that I would describe as the triplicate nesting theory, which, in short, supposes that each trumpet and vial is just a further worsening of that which is released in the seven seals. So, I am going to skip over, for now, all of the extremely convincing arguments I have read regarding this single, divinely identified signification. After all, I have written about these things before at The 1,260 Day Prophecy, Last Things and at Single Antichrist?. So, let us continue on to review the discoveries I made that convinced me only recently that the chronological time flow assumption is the correct way to view the Book of Revelation and, in particular, the historical events that are described symbolically in the seals, trumpets and vials.

Consider a chronological flow timeline from John's time to today:
90AD------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2017AD
Now, place the fall of the Papacy, beginning at -------------------------1793AD
That event represents---------------------------------------------------Vial 1-Vial 5

What would be the next puzzle piece among all of the apocalyptic symbols that is the most easily identifiable? The answer is, I believe, the Fifth Trumpet, as it was fulfilled between 612AD and 762AD by the Islamic armies under Mohamed and successors. The time period of 150 years corresponds, a day for a year, to the prefiguration of the "five months" as it is given in Revelation 9:10. For brevity sake here, I will direct you to the link below. Proceed to Revelation chapter 9:1-11 and read my arguments in favor of this position. You will either journey there to study just a little bit, or you will never know the truth. You will never read this article if I make it too long. So, there you see the conundrum I face. The proof is there in Revelation Chapter 9 on the Revelation Spreadsheet Analysis Tool. Additionally, please consider these points:
  • Naturalists regard Arabia as the original country of the horse.
  • Jews considered the native locality of the scorpion to be the Arabian desert.
  • Historically, the Arabs were rebuffed in battle whenever they attempted to annihilate the political state of Christendom.

    The next most identifiable puzzle piece is........drumroll please..........the Sixth Trumpet, fulfilled between 1300 AD and 1699 AD by the Turks, hence the Historicists call this the “Turkish Woe”, Guinness reckons from the rise of Othman (1300) to Peace of Carlowitz (1699)(Victory at Vienna); Elliott reckons it from Jan 18, 1057 (Loosing of the Turko-Moslem power from Baghdad) to May 29, 1453 (Fall of Constantinople). Either period fairly well fulfills the calculation of elapsed time, in years, that would be prefigured by the statement "hour, and a day, and a month, and a year" that we find in Revelation 9:15. Elliot's time frame fits it more exactly at slightly more than 396 years, so I will utilize 1057AD to 1453AD. Proceed to Revelation chapter 9:12-21 and read my arguments in favor of this position. The proof is there in Revelation Chapter 9 on the Revelation Spreadsheet Analysis Tool. Please consider these additional points:
  • The Moslem Turks were distinguished by their large numbers of horse cavalry.
  • The invention of gunpowder only recently preceded the Moslem Turk invasion and victory at Constaninople, which was accomplished through artillery bombardment.
  • The horse tails as a battle ensign was unique to the Turks.
  • Please recognize that the Turkish-Moslem horde were bound at Baghdad, on the Euphrates River, for several hundred years before they managed to advance toward the West.

    Next, identify the time when the two witnesses give their testimony unto martyrdom. The destruction of the Vaudois Valley Protestants in France, began October 17, 1685 (Edict of Nantes), restored to their lands April, 1689-interval 3.5 years. Proceed to Revelation chapter 15:2 and read my arguments in favor of this position. The proof is there on the Revelation Spreadsheet Analysis Tool. I ask you to place it there, on the timeline. I will defend and support the argument with respect to the Vaudois witnesses in my next article for the sake of brevity. Alternately, Robert Fleming in his "Rise And Fall Of The Papacy", 1701, p52-56, makes a strong argument the period of witnesses probably commences earlier, with the martyrdom of John Huss in 1416 and runs through at least 1689. He quotes Comenius who tells us that "about the year 1467, the Taborites were so destroyed...and so low was the Church of Christ then, that when the hidden remains of the Taborites (who were called Speclani, from their lurking in dens and caves) sent out four men to travel, one through Greece and the East and another to Russia and the North, and a third to Thrace, Bulgaria and the neighbouring places and a fourth to Asia, Palestine and Egypt, they did safely return to their seventy brethren, but with sorrowful news---that they found no Church of Christ that was pure or free from the grossest errors, superstition and idolatry. This was in the the year 1497."

    Let us reconsider a chronological flow timeline from John's time to today, filling in the additional "knowns":
    90AD------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2017AD
    Mohammedan Rise----------612AD to 762AD
    That event represents-------Trumpet 5

    Turkish Woe---------------------------------1057AD to 1453AD
    That event represents---------------------------Trumpet 6

    Two Witnesses Testify--------------------------------------------1685AD to 1689AD
    That event represents-----------------------------------Last Biblical Event Before Vial 1

    Fall of Papacy---------------------------------------------------------------1793AD to 1866AD
    That event represents----------------------------------------------------Vial 1-Vial 5

    So, to conclude, I have identified and supported three events. There are several others to add, but I will end here, once again, for brevity sake, in keeping with my Lord's instructions to me regarding the Revelation Puzzle series. I ask you to consider, however, the consecutive flow of these three events and allow me to place the Vaudois Martyrs in their proper time frame. Does it not rather strongly argue on its' face that the events prior to the fifth trumpet all commenced before 612AD?

    Future articles in this series will examine history alongside of the scripture to see if any other historical events perfectly fulfill the signification they have been given in the pages of the Apocalypse of John. I agree with H Grattan Guinness: 1)First, identify the Divinely interpreted Papal Roman Empire of Revelation 17. 2)Then, identify the 5th trumpet as prefiguring Mohammed and his successors for 150 years of advancement, until they were stopped. 3) Next, identify the French Revolution as representing the Seventh trumpet and five of the vials. 4) Identify the Turkish woe of the 6th trumpet as the fourth most certain, 5) Next, identify the two witnesses, which I will support in the next article. 6) Identify the going forth of the angel with the everlasting gospel, which we will discuss in the next part and 7) Identify that it was the Turkish-Moslem horde that were bound at the Euphrates at Baghdad for several hundred years prior to the Turkish woe, matching the signification of the four angels who were said to be bound there. Once you have placed these seven identified symbolic events in the Chronology, the rest are much more readily identifiable and you will be moving in the direction of agreeing with me that the chronological time flow is the proper way to interpret the events of the Apocalypse of John.

    I have now placed the goal of the entire Revelation Puzzle series before you: to completely convince you as to the identity and time frame of seven major Apocalyptic events. Three are behind us and four will be dealt with in future articles. I pray that the Lord may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him so that you may see and understand that which has been hidden by our Lord in the things that were signified to John while he was exiled on the Isle of Patmos. The Divine source of this Book has been almost universally agreed to by Christian writers for more than 1900 years. May we reach unto the day where the meaning of this Divinely authored book and its' many signs may be as universally accepted and understood by all who constitute the bride of Jesus Christ.



    Stephen L. Bening


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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