17 - HOUR, DAY, MONTH & YEAR

BEHOLD THE BEAST

The False Prophet

17 - HOUR, DAY, MONTH & YEAR

To every thing there is a season.

A time to be born, and a time to die;

A time to kill, and a time to heal ,

a time to keep silence, and a time to speak.

ECCLESIASTES 3:1-3 (excerpts)

There are Seven Trumpets in Revelation and four different angels

appear within the 6th Trumpet. Those angels can now be

positively identified. Three of those angels have already been

released and their messages were delivered between 688 and

Revelation 9:13-16 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a

voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before

God, one saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet,

"Release the four angels who are bound at the great river

Euphrates." And the four angels, who had been prepared for

the hour and day and month and year, were released, so

that they might kill a third of mankind. And the number of

the armies of the horsemen was two hundred million; I

heard the number of them.

The Euphrates River area is the Middle East and the location

of the Leopard-Bear-Lion. From other Scripture we recognize LBL

to be the Islamic world! So these four angels were to be released

from within the Islamic states.

That's not a whole lot to go on, so from what scriptures can

we get further insight into these angels? Why, from somewhere

between where this prophecy is given (Rev 9:14) and where the

Lord sets up His eternal kingdom (Rev 11:15). These four angels

appear after the 6th Trumpet blows, but before the Last Trumpet,

(Rev 11:15). And since we go directly into the eternal Kingdom of

God at the last trumpet ...

The only place to find out more about these angels would be

between Rev 9:14 and Rev 11:14!

Now four angels don't appear between Rev 9:14 and Rev

11:14, but there is another clue to follow - TIME! Those four

angels or messengers were prepared for four different time

periods - an Hour, Day, Month, and Year. Guess what? The hour,

day, and month each appear, once, in three different verses in Rev

11, all within the account of the Two Witnesses:

MONTH Rev 11:2 "And leave out the court which is outside the

temple, and do not measure it, for it has been given to

the nations; and they will tread under foot the holy city

for forty-two months"

DAY Rev 11:3 "And I will grant authority to my two witnesses,

and they will prophesy for twelve hundred and sixty

days, clothed in sackcloth."

HOUR Rev 11:13 And in that hour there was a great earthquake,

and a tenth of the city fell; and seven thousand people

were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified

and gave glory to the God of heaven.

The above is no coincidence. Those "month" and "day" angels

were the Islamic scourge on the Holy Land from 688 to 1967.

From context, it's obvious that the final "hour' angel is future, but

where is the year angel?

W<4"LJ`l (eniautos, Strong's No. G2094), usually translated

year, does not appear between Rev 9:14 and Rev 11:14, but since

all things are fulfilled by Rev 11:15, that "year" has to be in there

somewhere. Let's examine the passage carefully to see if there are

any other time designations that could be understood as "years."

Revelation 11:8-9 And their dead bodies will lie in the street of the

great city which mystically is called Sodom and Egypt, where

also their Lord was crucified. And those from the peoples

and tribes and tongues and nations will look at their dead

bodies for three and a half days, and will not permit their

dead bodies to be laid in a tomb.

Revelation 11:11 And after the three and a half days the breath of

life from God came into them, and they stood on their feet;

and great fear fell upon those who were beholding them.

The Greek word (hemera), translated "days" in the above is

ambiguous.1 Since the above 3? days are the only other time

frame within the passage that could be possibly translated years,

then maybe the correct translation for the above is years. Let's

look at that possibility:

Revelation 11:9 And those from the peoples and tribes and tongues

and nations will look at their dead bodies for three and a

half YEARS, and will not permit their dead bodies to be laid

Revelation 11:11 And after the three and a half YEARS the breath of

life from God came into them, and they stood on their feet;

and great fear fell upon those who were beholding them.

We are in the New Testament era, using the Roman calendar,

so if YEAR is the correct translation, using "I give you a day for a

year" to interpret this prophecy, look at when we get to:

3.5 x 365.24 = 1278.34 Years

1967 (Jerusalem free) - 1278.34 = 688

The Dome of the Rock once again!

So the 3 "days" of Rev 11:9-11 appear to be a repetitive

prophecy about the Moslem domination of Jerusalem and the

temple mount. If this is the correct way to view the passage, here

is how the passage may be understood. To keep it simple, italic

comments are inserted within the Bible text:

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1 The Greek 0:XD" (hemera, Strong's No. 2250g) found in vs. 9 and 11 is an

ambiguous word, variously translated as day, moment, midday, time, and year, the

correct translation depending upon context. In Rev 11:9 and 11:11 there are no

contextual guidelines to determine the correct translation, so translators went with

the most common usage, rendering hemera day. But twelve times, the translators

of the NAS understood hemera to be year, Luk 1:7, 1:18, and 2:36 etc., so year is

a perfectly acceptable translation.

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Revelation 11:8-15, NASB (Excerpts) And their dead bodies (the

empty churches) will lie in the street of the great city

(Jerusalem) which mystically is called Sodom and Egypt,

where also their Lord was crucified. And those from the

peoples and tribes and tongues and nations (the Moslems in

the surrounding lands) will look at their dead bodies (the

empty churches) for three and a half days (Years of

day=years, i.e., from 688AD to 1967AD) and will not permit

their dead bodies (the empty churches) to be laid in a tomb

(to be torn down). And those who dwell on the earth will

rejoice over them and make merry; and they will send gifts

to one another, because these two prophets (the Christians

and the Jews) tormented those who dwell on the earth (it is

torment for the lost when the gospel is preached and they do

not repent). And after the three and a half days (after

Jerusalem was freed) the breath of life from God came into

them, and they stood on their feet; (After 1967, God's people

returned to Jerusalem's churches and synagogues) and great

fear fell upon those (the Palestinians and Moslems) who were

beholding them. And they heard a loud voice from heaven

saying to them, "Come up here." (Saints, both Jew and

Gentile, taken to be with the Lord. Still in the future. Compare

with REV 4:1) And they went up into heaven in the cloud,

and their enemies beheld them...and the rest were terrified

and gave glory to the God of heaven. And the seventh angel

sounded; (the Last Trumpet) and there arose loud voices in

heaven, saying, "The kingdom of the world has become the

kingdom of our Lord, and of His Christ; and He will reign

forever and ever."

The above interpretation is in keeping with both Scripture and

history. Now lets look at the 6th Trumpet (the 2nd Woe) again:

Revelation 9:13-15 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a

voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before

God, one saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet,

"Release the four angels who are bound at the great river

Euphrates." And the four angels, who had been prepared for

the hour and day and month and year, were released, so

that they might kill a third of mankind.

Those four angels were released during the 6th Trumpet!

From the prophecy of the Two Witnesses, we can see that three of

those angels were freed from 688 to 1967. Remembering that

"angel" really means messenger, look at what those messengers

1. For 42 Months Gentiles to dominated Jerusalem.

A 1st "messenger" from the Middle East!

2. For 1260 Days the Two Witnesses were driven out

A 2nd "messenger" from the Middle East!

3. For 3 "Hemera" (Years) the Lord permitted the Moslem to

A 3rd "messenger" from the Middle East!

4. That Hour, the hour of trial, Armageddon.

A 4th "messenger" from the Middle East!

Those angels were messages to the Church; and three of them

have already been delivered to us, with malice, by the bloody

swords of a fundamental Islam. But has the West been able to

hear God's messengers from the Middle East, trumpeting to us

down through the ages? It doesn't seem so, and it looks like the 4th

messenger from the Middle-East, "the hour of trial," is just about

to begin. Only a handful seem to notice, but this battle, too, will

be fought against Islam. Fought by Israel and by what's left in the

church who have ears to hear.

The above is separated by light-years from the prophetic

superstitions of today's church, but few question our end-time

traditions. If God were not in control, I would despair. Unless

church leaders start doing their homework in the Bible instead of

relying upon their dusty commentaries, I fear the church at large

is doomed to remain in a spiritual darkness that will trigger the

final holocaust. It's a tragedy too, because it doesn't have to be

that way. But, as the Lord said through His prophets:

Isaiah 5:13 ...My people go into exile for their lack of knowl-

edge; And their honorable men are famished (for the Word

of God), And their multitude is parched with (a spiritual)

Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.

Within the Dome of the Rock is a large inscription in Arabic

that reads: "God forbid that He should have a son." That and

many other teachings of Muhammad have turned 1/5th of the

world's population away from the Savior of mankind:

. . . .The Christians call Christ the Son of God. That is a

saying from their mouth. [In this] they but imitate what the

unbelievers of old used to say. God's curse be upon them . ..

(Surat at-taubah, 30).

So was Muhammad the false prophet of Revelation 16:13? Of

course. This isn't just a little "clash of cultures" over the words of

some minor figure in world history. It is God and His Word on one

side and Satan and his lies on the other, in a war that began in the

garden of Eden. The declarations of Muhammad stand directly

against what the God of Heaven says in the Bible:

John 3:36 &16 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting

life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but

the wrath of God abideth on him ... For God so loved the

world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever

believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Despite all claims to the contrary, during this Christian Era, all

authority has been given into Jesus. hands!

Philippians 2:8-11 And being found in fashion as a man, he [Jesus]

humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the


	BEHOLD THE BEAST home \| The False Prophet DEN FALSKE PROFETEN - EL FALSO PROFITA - LE FAUX PROPHETE - DER FALSCHE PROPHET - 17 - HOUR, DAY, MONTH & YEAR Prior Chapter - Contents - Next Chapter CHAPTER 17 To every thing there is a season. A time to be born, and a time to die; A time to kill, and a time to heal , a time to keep silence, and a time to speak. ECCLESIASTES 3:1-3 (excerpts) There are Seven Trumpets in Revelation and four different angels appear within the 6th Trumpet. Those angels can now be positively identified. Three of those angels have already been released and their messages were delivered between 688 and 1967! Revelation 9:13-16 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, one saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates." And the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, were released, so that they might kill a third of mankind. And the number of the armies of the horsemen was two hundred million; I heard the number of them. The Euphrates River area is the Middle East and the location of the Leopard-Bear-Lion. From other Scripture we recognize LBL to be the Islamic world! So these four angels were to be released from within the Islamic states. That's not a whole lot to go on, so from what scriptures can we get further insight into these angels? Why, from somewhere between where this prophecy is given (Rev 9:14) and where the Lord sets up His eternal kingdom (Rev 11:15). These four angels appear after the 6th Trumpet blows, but before the Last Trumpet, Hour, Day, Month & Year 187 (Rev 11:15). And since we go directly into the eternal Kingdom of God at the last trumpet ... The only place to find out more about these angels would be between Rev 9:14 and Rev 11:14! Now four angels don't appear between Rev 9:14 and Rev 11:14, but there is another clue to follow - TIME! Those four angels or messengers were prepared for four different time periods - an Hour, Day, Month, and Year. Guess what? The hour, day, and month each appear, once, in three different verses in Rev 11, all within the account of the Two Witnesses: MONTH Rev 11:2 "And leave out the court which is outside the temple, and do not measure it, for it has been given to the nations; and they will tread under foot the holy city for forty-two months" DAY Rev 11:3 "And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for twelve hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth." HOUR Rev 11:13 And in that hour there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell; and seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven. The above is no coincidence. Those "month" and "day" angels were the Islamic scourge on the Holy Land from 688 to 1967. From context, it's obvious that the final "hour' angel is future, but where is the year angel? W<4"LJ`l (eniautos, Strong's No. G2094), usually translated year, does not appear between Rev 9:14 and Rev 11:14, but since all things are fulfilled by Rev 11:15, that "year" has to be in there somewhere. Let's examine the passage carefully to see if there are any other time designations that could be understood as "years." Revelation 11:8-9 And their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city which mystically is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified. And those from the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will look at their dead 188 The False Prophet bodies for three and a half days, and will not permit their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb. Revelation 11:11 And after the three and a half days the breath of life from God came into them, and they stood on their feet; and great fear fell upon those who were beholding them. The Greek word (hemera), translated "days" in the above is ambiguous.1 Since the above 3? days are the only other time frame within the passage that could be possibly translated years, then maybe the correct translation for the above is years. Let's look at that possibility: Revelation 11:9 And those from the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will look at their dead bodies for three and a half YEARS, and will not permit their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb. Revelation 11:11 And after the three and a half YEARS the breath of life from God came into them, and they stood on their feet; and great fear fell upon those who were beholding them. We are in the New Testament era, using the Roman calendar, so if YEAR is the correct translation, using "I give you a day for a year" to interpret this prophecy, look at when we get to: 3.5 x 365.24 = 1278.34 Years 1967 (Jerusalem free) - 1278.34 = 688 The Dome of the Rock once again! So the 3 "days" of Rev 11:9-11 appear to be a repetitive prophecy about the Moslem domination of Jerusalem and the temple mount. If this is the correct way to view the passage, here is how the passage may be understood. To keep it simple, italic comments are inserted within the Bible text: __________________________________ 1 The Greek 0:XD" (hemera, Strong's No. 2250g) found in vs. 9 and 11 is an ambiguous word, variously translated as day, moment, midday, time, and year, the correct translation depending upon context. In Rev 11:9 and 11:11 there are no contextual guidelines to determine the correct translation, so translators went with the most common usage, rendering hemera day. But twelve times, the translators of the NAS understood hemera to be year, Luk 1:7, 1:18, and 2:36 etc., so year is a perfectly acceptable translation. _________________________________ Hour, Day, Month & Year 189 Revelation 11:8-15, NASB (Excerpts) And their dead bodies (the empty churches) will lie in the street of the great city (Jerusalem) which mystically is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified. And those from the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations (the Moslems in the surrounding lands) will look at their dead bodies (the empty churches) for three and a half days (Years of day=years, i.e., from 688AD to 1967AD) and will not permit their dead bodies (the empty churches) to be laid in a tomb (to be torn down). And those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and make merry; and they will send gifts to one another, because these two prophets (the Christians and the Jews) tormented those who dwell on the earth (it is torment for the lost when the gospel is preached and they do not repent). And after the three and a half days (after Jerusalem was freed) the breath of life from God came into them, and they stood on their feet; (After 1967, God's people returned to Jerusalem's churches and synagogues) and great fear fell upon those (the Palestinians and Moslems) who were beholding them. And they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, "Come up here." (Saints, both Jew and Gentile, taken to be with the Lord. Still in the future. Compare with REV 4:1) And they went up into heaven in the cloud, and their enemies beheld them...and the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven. And the seventh angel sounded; (the Last Trumpet) and there arose loud voices in heaven, saying, "The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord, and of His Christ; and He will reign forever and ever." The above interpretation is in keeping with both Scripture and history. Now lets look at the 6th Trumpet (the 2nd Woe) again: Revelation 9:13-15 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, one saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates." And the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, were released, so that they might kill a third of mankind. Those four angels were released during the 6th Trumpet! From the prophecy of the Two Witnesses, we can see that three of 190 The False Prophet those angels were freed from 688 to 1967. Remembering that "angel" really means messenger, look at what those messengers can now show us: 1. For 42 Months Gentiles to dominated Jerusalem. A 1st "messenger" from the Middle East! 2. For 1260 Days the Two Witnesses were driven out of the Holy Land. A 2nd "messenger" from the Middle East! 3. For 3 "Hemera" (Years) the Lord permitted the Moslem to control Jerusalem. A 3rd "messenger" from the Middle East! 4. That Hour, the hour of trial, Armageddon. A 4th "messenger" from the Middle East! Those angels were messages to the Church; and three of them have already been delivered to us, with malice, by the bloody swords of a fundamental Islam. But has the West been able to hear God's messengers from the Middle East, trumpeting to us down through the ages? It doesn't seem so, and it looks like the 4th messenger from the Middle-East, "the hour of trial," is just about to begin. Only a handful seem to notice, but this battle, too, will be fought against Islam. Fought by Israel and by what's left in the church who have ears to hear. The above is separated by light-years from the prophetic superstitions of today's church, but few question our end-time traditions. If God were not in control, I would despair. Unless church leaders start doing their homework in the Bible instead of relying upon their dusty commentaries, I fear the church at large is doomed to remain in a spiritual darkness that will trigger the final holocaust. It's a tragedy too, because it doesn't have to be that way. But, as the Lord said through His prophets: Isaiah 5:13 ...My people go into exile for their lack of knowl- edge; And their honorable men are famished (for the Word of God), And their multitude is parched with (a spiritual) thirst. Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Hour, Day, Month & Year 191 A FINAL WORD Within the Dome of the Rock is a large inscription in Arabic that reads: "God forbid that He should have a son." That and many other teachings of Muhammad have turned 1/5th of the world's population away from the Savior of mankind: . . . .The Christians call Christ the Son of God. That is a saying from their mouth. [In this] they but imitate what the unbelievers of old used to say. God's curse be upon them . .. (Surat at-taubah, 30). So was Muhammad the false prophet of Revelation 16:13? Of course. This isn't just a little "clash of cultures" over the words of some minor figure in world history. It is God and His Word on one side and Satan and his lies on the other, in a war that began in the garden of Eden. The declarations of Muhammad stand directly against what the God of Heaven says in the Bible: John 3:36 &16 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him ... For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Despite all claims to the contrary, during this Christian Era, all authority has been given into Jesus. hands! Philippians 2:8-11 And being found in fashion as a man, he [Jesus] humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Islam stands directly against those Bible truths. Understanding the Leopard-Bear-Lion beast as the Middle Eastern nations leads irrevocably to the conclusion that Islam and the fundamental Moslems are the final enemies of Almighty God. The day=year prophecies also show that we are in the last generation of the 192 The False Prophet Christian Era. God knew the future of Islam and the Holy Land, right to the year, and God told us about it six hundred years before Muhammad was born. There is nothing like those prophecies in the Koran. The Holy Land and Jerusalem being under Jewish control again is something Allah could not foresee. It is a fulfillment of Bible prophecy, not of Koranic prophecy. The comparison would be comic were it not so tragic. Many will stand before the Great White Throne in horror as their rejection of the truth is brought to a light from which they cannot flee. "It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God" (Heb 10:31). There is one thought that should be repeated: Worldwide, there are about 1.4 billion people in Islam. Present estimates are that 10-15% of all Moslems are fundamental extremists. In other words, right now there are about 140 to 190 million people actively involved in the world's most dangerous splinter group and their numbers are rapidly increasing, particularly among the younger generation. Now here's the point: Today there are an estimated three to six million Moslems in the United States. If that 10-15% statistic holds true for us, then from 300,000 to 750,000 of our American Moslems could be terrorist supporting Islamic fundamentalists. So are terrorists hiding in American mosques? The answer is obvious. If we don't root them out, our nation will never again be free of the threat of Islamic terrorism. Not since the war of 1812 have enemy soldiers been allowed on United States soil. But liberal rhetoric and political correctness being what they are, we'll ignore God's warning about those who have rejected His Son. Instead, we'll march blithely on, to an Armageddon we'll have brought upon ourselves. 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