FIRST EDITION APRIL - 2006

THE WHOLE WILL OF GOD

For I have not hesitated to proclaim to you the whole will of God (Acts 20:27)

History says: the Bible presents the whole will of God

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Descrierea CIP a Bibliotecii Naionale a Romniei: BABLIUC, CONSTANTIN Tot planul lui Dumnezeu / Constantin Babliuc. Ia i: Samia, 2006 Bibliogr. Index ISBN (10) 973-7783-00-X; ISBN (13) 978-973-7783-99-4 659.1

Mr Babliuc Constantin

I confirm this way that I received your book THE WHOLE WILL OF GOD which I thank you for. Sincerely,

I have read Constantin Babliucs book The whole will of God. All I can say is the fact that the author knows the biblical text very well, he has got a surprisingly reasoning and that I reflected a lot at the end of reading. So, we have to admit that its not less. March 10, 2006 Acad. Rzvan Teodorescu

Contents

I.THE WILL OF GOD ............................................................................8

1. THE DISCOVERY OF THE PLAN (January 2002) ...................................................................................... 8 2. ONLY BY THE WILL OF GOD ................................................................................................................... 9 3. THE DISCOVERY OF THE PLAN TO SENNACHERIB ............................................................... 10 4. THE COMPUTER PROGRAMMER ANALYST AND THE COMPUTER ...................................................... 10 5. THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS ABOUT THE PLAN ..................................................................................... 11 6. THE WORD - THE SOLUTION FOR THE DISCOVERY OF THE PLAN ....................................................... 12 7. PEOPLE ARE IN THE CENTER OF THE PLAN ......................................................................................... 12 8. ESTHER THE BOOK THAT TALKS ABOUT THE WILL OF GOD ............................................................. 13 9. DANIEL - THE PROPHET TO WHOM GOD HAS REVEALED HIS PLAN ................................................... 14 10. JEREMIAH WAS BEFORE BEING ......................................................................................................... 14 11. THE SOVEREIGN CHOICE OF GOD THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF THE PLAN ............................ 16 12. PHARAOH - THE MAN WHO WORKS BY THE PLAN OF GOD ............................................................. 16 13. LORD JESUS CHRIST AND HIS SUFFERING BEING PART OF THE PLAN............................................... 17 14. HISTORY OF ISRAEL CONFIRM THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PLAN .............................................. 18 15. THE LAST TAB OF THE PLAN .............................................................................................................. 18 16. THE PLAN OF GOD IS UNCHANGEABLE, CONCRETE AND COMPLETE .............................................. 18

II. TOTAL GRACE ............................................................................... 20

1.GRACE IS THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST ...................................................................................... 20 2. CLOSING IN DISOBEDIENCE -THE SOLUTION OF GOD......................................................................... 20 3. THE 21ST CENTURY GENERATION HAS ACCESS TO THE WHOLE WILL OF GOD.................................. 21 4. REPENTANCE THE FIRST GIFT OF GRACE.......................................................................................... 22 4.1 REPENTANCE THE FIRST GIFT OF GRACE.................................................................................... 22 4.2 SAUL'S REPENTANCE-THE EXCLUSIVE WORK OF JESUS ................................................................ 23 4.3 ON THE WAY TO EMMAUS............................................................................................................ 24

4.4 THE ETHIOPIAN EUNUCH BORN AGAIN ........................................................................................ 25 5. THE DISCOVERY OF GODS PLAN BY TOTAL GRACE ............................................................................ 27 5.1 THE TESTING.................................................................................................................................. 27 5.2 JOB - THE MAN AND THE BOOK THAT LOOSED FOR ME THE MYSTERY OF SUFFERING............... 28 5.3 LUCIFER FAILED THE TEST ............................................................................................................. 30 5.4 GOD WORKS ON EARTH ................................................................................................................ 30 5.5 THE ABSOLUTION OF THE MYSTERY OF SUFFERING ..................................................................... 32 5.6 GOD LOVES, HE DOESN'T JUDGE................................................................................................... 34 5.7 THE MYSTERY OF THE FOUR LIVING CREATURES.......................................................................... 35 5.8 GLORIFICATION-THE GRACE OF GOD............................................................................................ 37

III. THE SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE ........................................................... 39

1. THE BIBLE-THE MANUAL OF GOD ....................................................................................................... 39 2. JUDGMENT THE INDICATOR OF THE WAY TO GLORIFICATION ....................................................... 40 3.THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH............................................................................................................... 40 4. THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD .................................................................................................................. 43 4.1 LOVE - THE FIRST MEANS OF KNOWLEDGE .................................................................................. 43 4.2 GOD SEES HIMSELF IN HUMAN'S CREATION ................................................................................ 43 5. WHAT FATHER TELLS US ABOUT FUTURE ABOUT THE FULFILLMENT OF TIMES ............................. 44 6. THE VISION WITH TWO THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED EVENINGS AND MORNINGS ......................... 45 6.1 PRESENTATION OF THE VISIONS FROM DANIEL 2,7 AND 8 .......................................................... 45 6.2 HISTORY TELLS ITS WORD ............................................................................................................. 48 6.3 THE SKELETON SPEAKS .................................................................................................................. 50 7. THE SEVENTY WEEKS (SEVENTY SEVENS)............................................................................................ 54 7.1 THE DESCRIPTION OF THE CONTEXT OF VISION OF THE WEEKS .................................................. 54 7.2 DANIEL 9 IS NOT CONNECTED WITH DANIEL 8 ............................................................................. 54 7.3 THE MYSTERY OF THE CHURCH..................................................................................................... 55 7.4 THE FULFILLMENT OF THE SIXTY NINE WEEKS.............................................................................. 56 7.5 ABOUT THE SEVENTIETH WEEK .................................................................................................... 57

IV. REVELATION - THE BOOK THAT PRESENTS THE WHOLE PLAN OF GOD................................................................................................. 58
1. THE SIGNIFICANCE AND THE CONTENT OF THE BOOK ....................................................................... 58 5

2. THE TIME THAT REVELATION REFERS ................................................................................................. 60 3.THE KEY CHARACTERS OF THE REVELATION ........................................................................................ 61 4. THE STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK - REVELATION EXPLAINED FOR EVERYONE ....................................... 61 4.1 SECTION I....................................................................................................................................... 61 4.2 SECTION II...................................................................................................................................... 63 5. THE LETTERS TO THE SEVEN CHURCHES ............................................................................................. 65 6. THE GREATNESS IN HEAVEN - FROM THE THRONE OF GOD .............................................................. 66 Ch. 4 and 5 revised in March 2006 ...................................................................................................... 66 7. OPENING THE FIRST SIX SEALS ............................................................................................................ 67 8. THE GREAT DAY ............................................................................................................................... 69

9. CHAPTER SEVEN THE FIRST KEY FOR UNDERSTANDING THE PROPHECY REGARDING THE GREAT DAY .......................................................................................................................................................... 70 10. OPENING THE SEVENTH SEAL ........................................................................................................... 70 10.1 THE SILENCE FOR ABOUT HALF AN HOUR .................................................................................. 70 10.2 THE FIRST FOUR TRUMPETS ........................................................................................................ 72 10.3 THE FIFTH TRUMPET (9: 1-12)..................................................................................................... 73 10.4 THE SIXTH TRUMPET - CH. 9: 13-21 ............................................................................................ 74 10.5 THE ANGEL WITH THE LITTLE SCROLL ......................................................................................... 75 10.6 THE TWO WITNESSES .................................................................................................................. 76 10.7 THE SEVENTH TRUMPET ............................................................................................................. 77 11. THE WOMAN AND THE DRAGON ...................................................................................................... 79 12. THE BEAST FROM THE ABYSS ............................................................................................................ 80 13. THE MYSTERY OF THE BEASTS NUMBER - 666................................................................................. 82 14. THE BEAST WHICH COMES UP FROM THE GROUND ........................................................................ 85 15. THE MARK OF THE BEAST.................................................................................................................. 86 16. THE ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOUR THOUSAND THE HARVEST AND TREADING WINEPRESS (CH. 14) ................................................................................................................................................... 87 17. THE SEVEN BOWLS - CH. 15-16 ......................................................................................................... 91 18. BABYLON - CH. 17 AND 18 ................................................................................................................ 96 19. THE WEDDING OF THE LAMB AND THE KINGDOM OF ONE THOUSAND YEARS (CH. 19-20) ........... 97 20. THE LAST JUDGMENT (Revelation chapter 20) ................................................................................. 98 -revised in 2005- ..................................................................................................................................... 98 6

21. NEW HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH (Revelation ch. 21 and 22) ..................................................... 104 - revised in 2005- .................................................................................................................................. 104

V. ABRAHAM A GREAT LANDMARK IN THE PLAN OF GOD ............ 120

1. YEAR 1948 AFTER THE FIRST AND THE SECOND ADAM .................................................................... 120 2. YEAR 3040 AFTER THE FIRST AND THE SECOND ADAM .................................................................... 120 3.FROM ABRAHAM TO THE TEMPLE ..................................................................................................... 122

VI. THE LAST AND THE GREATEST DISCOVERY ................................. 127 -revised in 2005- ............................................................................ 127 VII. THE DATE OF ENTRY INTO THE KINGDOM OF A THOUSAND YEARS AND THE PLACE WHERE PEOPLE WILL SPEND THEIR ETERNITY (Constantin Babliuc 2009-2012) ...................................................... 131
1.THE DATE OF ENTRY INTO THE KINGDOM OF A THOUSAND YEARS ................................................. 131 2. NEW JERUSALEM AND THE DARKNESS FROM OUTSIDE ................................................................... 133

I.THE WILL OF GOD

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away Matthew 24:35 1. THE DISCOVERY OF THE PLAN (January 2002) Where did it start and what purpose has this work? Obviously this is the first question that a man of good faith asks and also A group of Epicurean and Stoic philosophers....What is this babbler trying to say?(Acts 17:18) Today, when in the world there are million of tons of Christian literature, written by great theologians and reformers over the twenty centuries, is it possible to exist new revelations regarding the will of God? Is it possible that an anonymous (Babliuc Constantin) from Dorohoi (Corjaui) - Romania is the beneficiary of some great revelations from God on which it is worth to stop a little bit to analyze them? Unbelievable, but true: it's possible. I asked myself the same question, indeed: God, who am I to have gained from You so much grace? Where did this work start from? When I got unemployed, by the end of the theological training, I thought that the first thing I have to do is to do my thesis, and then... During this period, while I was looking for a subject for my work, I realized that God is concerned about my work more than me: in my ear began to vibrate continuously the farewell words that apostle Paul told the Ephesians: For I have not hesitated to proclaim to you the whole will of God(Acts 20:27). This was the beginning. About how God worked further to carry out this work, the reader could know if he reads, rereads and studies the following lines. What is the purpose and the importance of this work? What is the reward that the reader receives for his trouble? Although it's not an evangelistic work, it is to note that the paper has the gift of opening the reader's eyes on his way to the height - GOOD FOR GLORIFICATION - height that can be reached only after you have journeyed to the: Your will be done. The reader will be blessed to understand that in the center of the universe is placed the Throne of God, that God is love and light (other things said about God must be analyzed with attention and responsibility) and that all the things are going just after the plan that God has made Himself from the foundation of the world, detailed down to the smallest detail.

2. ONLY BY THE WILL OF GOD

If there is an eternal glorification, then the problem of the acquisition of this glorification is the first problem that people need to understand. We need to understand very well to what extent man is responsible for his glorifying or unglorifying. Saying on the one hand that glorifying is the work of God's grace and on the other hand to blame on people for their lack of repentance is a problem that doesn't sound good. So, is there any measure where the glorifying depends on who wants or who runs? It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on Gods mercy (Romans 9:16). So it depends on God; for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose(Philippians 2:13). Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden(Romans 9:18). At this point, there are, however, two questions: on the one hand, Then why does God still blame us?(Romans 9:19a), and on the other hand, what does it mean, or how do we interpret: and whoever comes to me I will never drive away(John 6:37b)? Doesn't have a role the human will as well? What is the apostle's answer to the first question? But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, Why did you make me like this?(Romans 9:20). What about the answer to the second question? First, we have to say that the context is king; it clarifies things: No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day(John 6:44). So it is very clear which is the reason why the one who comes is not driven: because, virtually, no one can come without an attraction of the Father. Secondly, it should be understood very well that, otherwise it can't be, because Christ is the solution that God the Father chose, decided by His plan to carry out all His will: For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will (Ephesians 1:4-5). For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross(Colossians 1:19-20). So, for anyone who gets the grace to understand, we see very clearly that God is working according to His purpose, that has in its center the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Saying in such circumstances that God saw Himself before fait accompli, the disobedience of Adam and Eve, and that only because the great love towards them He sent His Son to bear the sins, it already seems to me something that ignores the perfect revelation of God.
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If someone could think that the plan which God made Himself, according to the purpose of His will (Ephesians 1:9 and 11), is just a general plan in which one can enter only because he wants it, then ... then please have the willingness to also review the following texts: I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say, My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please.(Isaiah 46:10), in perfect faithfulness you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago. (Isaiah 25:1b). What is the meaning of the two texts cited above? It means that the will of God includes not only salvation issues, but also includes absolutely all issues related to human actions. Here there are some examples showing that the will of God has fulfilled to the smallest detail. 3. THE DISCOVERY OF THE PLAN TO SENNACHERIB What a great eye opening God does to Sennacherib, king of Assyria, when he believed that all his achievements are due to his will and his power: Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it. In days of old I planned it; now I have brought it to pass, that you have turned fortified cities into piles of stone (Isaiah 37:26). In this context it should be stressed that, in general, most people, until they know God, they live with the impression that all their achievements are due to their will, power or intelligence. Or, as we can see in the text quoted above, things are not really like that; there is actually only one will - the will of God. All those who have understood this, including the Son of God, humbly prostrated themselves and said: Your will be done!. Moreover, the basic but crucial question is: Did God create human beings on earth for them to learn to exercise their will, or to learn the obedience of God?

4. THE COMPUTER PROGRAMMER ANALYST AND THE COMPUTER

A particular depth is the discovery that God makes in the book of Hebrews 4: 3: Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said, So I declared on oath in my anger, They shall never enter my rest. And yet his works have been finished since the creation of the world. How can I illustrate this? I mean, what is the relationship between our faith and the fact that, his works have been finished already since the creation of the world? It's simple: it is similar to the relationship that exists between a computer programmer analyst and his computer. The computer is connected to a power source, without which it can't work, and it works exactly

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as scheduled. It works on the basis of the program that contains it, so long as it is connected to the power source or until the material of your computer gives signs of ageing. God is the great developer, whose computer is the Earth with everything it has in it and on it. He supplies the computer with His own energy and look upon it, until He replaces it with a new one: See, I will create new heavens and a new earth...(Isaiah 65:17a). What is meant in this illustration? First, it is underlined that this illustration does not mean that God treats people as some robots. So you need to understand that God treats people like some children, He keeps them from birth and up to the glorification - until the sealing with an eternal state.

5. THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS ABOUT THE PLAN

The fact that Jesus used parables in preaching the Kingdom of God is known to largescale. However, the reason why the Savior has used this procedure is less well known; it is less discussed. Why? Because people at the time of the end of generation (2 Timothy 3: 2) can't understand that the will of God controls sovereign and absolute the humans will. Are people guilty by this condition? No way: people, or simply think they were created with a will they may exercise freely, or believe that their will is one that dictates the functioning of this world; in this way, they ignore God who did His work, through His plan, in His creation. It should be recognized that even the early disciples had problems in terms of understanding how God works with people: Why do you speak to the people in parables? (Matthew 13:10). Even so: What, don't they have all equal opportunities? The response of Jesus is a clear and emphatic NO: He told them, The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven! (Mark 4:11,12). Can it be more clearly? May it be tougher? Does the human will have any role? But what is the testimony of Jesus about the blind from birth? His disciples asked him, Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind? Neither this man nor his parents sinned, said Jesus, but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him. (John 9:2,3). What does it mean? It means that Jesus confesses that God works only after the plan of His free will.

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But does God have for the time of the end another way of working regarding people? Does Revelation show us a special message from the one shown above? Let the one who does wrong continue to do wrong; let the vile person continue to be vile; let the one who does right continue to do right; and let the holy person continue to be holy. (Revelation 22:11). Does anyone have any doubt that these words do not apply to our generation? 6. THE WORD - THE SOLUTION FOR THE DISCOVERY OF THE PLAN But someone will say: Okay, well, if God is sovereign and does what He wants, then why is there so much teaching in His Word? And why so many exhortations to repentance and faith? As I already pointed out, the teaching is addressed to those whom God predestined to inherit eternal life in His Son Jesus. So, the teaching is the solution of God in order to make known His free will. On the one hand, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe (1 Cor. 1:21b), and on the other hand we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose (Romans 8:28). All this things include the teaching, too. And it is still in the front place. So life is carried out with the utmost precision, just as God's plan: For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified(Romans 8:29,30). So, has the man any contribution in this whole work? Definitely not: God is everything from the beginning to the end. The set of examples that can be given to show how God supervises the compliance plan, is very high. Moreover, without fail at all, it can be said that the eyes enlightened by the Holy Spirit, from Genesis to Revelation, see everywhere the discovery and the fulfillment of God's plan. Everything that must be noted is that For God does speak now one way, now another though no one perceives it (Job 33:14).

7. PEOPLE ARE IN THE CENTER OF THE PLAN So let's take the first major discovery of God's plan: And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel(Genesis 3:15). Does anyone else have any doubt on the interpretation of this discovery?
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Even though, by the resurrection of Jesus, the number of those who understood the prophecy was very small, today this is understandable to all Christianity. What is to note, however, is that the Serpent understood since then, but not used to anything. On the other hand, I want very much you to understand that, vague as it seems at first the discovery, so clearly it is that God had in mind a Person very well defined His Son. In other words, it can be said without a doubt that God has in His plan, first, people well defined, well known. That we don't know them or we don't usually understand how it comes, this is a different problem. But let's take a look to Abraham, a character linked with a lot of discovery of God's plan: Know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there (Genesis 15:13). Has the discovery of the plan of God been fulfilled? Just like that; but the question is: do you think at the time of the discovery, God didnt know Isaac, Jacob, Joseph and Moses? Can you believe that just by chance the man Moses was biologically born, and so by chance he became the son of Pharaoh's daughter? I will make the son of the slave into a nation also, because he is your offspring (Genesis 21:13) Doesn't God have in His mind people? Does the One who controls the number of hairs of your heads (Matthew 10: 30), which made the universe at His command, of things not visible (Hebrews 11: 3), control the lives of mortals only after their biological birth? Doesn't He control both biological birth and regeneration? So Ishmael is a people, which represents the second monotheistic religion of the world. God's plan was fulfilled.

8. ESTHER THE BOOK THAT TALKS ABOUT THE WILL OF GOD

Look at the book of Esther: this is the book that does not contain the name of God, but which shows in an exceptional way how God has worked to accomplish His plan, while/during the King Ahasuerus. If this book would only treat the disobedience of the Queen Vashti , you have indeed every reason to believe that the human will, which leads to disobedience, is the one that influences Gods judgment. But things are not like that at all: first, an Empress who ignores her husband and Emperor, then a Jewish Empress who hides her origins, then a Mordecai who discovers the plan to assassinate Ahasuerus and later a Haman who doesn't only please with Mordecai's death, but he wants the death of all Jews.

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But God opens Mordecai's eyes, who tells the Queen Esther: And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this? (Esther 4:14), and gives Ahasuerus insomnia, causing him to read the book of reminders, and see just what made Mordecai for him. Anyway, too many coincidences to be able to believe that things are controlled by human will, by blind story or that God makes the plan on one day to the other. What should be noted in this whole episode is that God's will includes the completion of suffering: For it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ not only to believe in him, but also to suffer for him (Philippians 1:29). This is so that the suffering is offered with faith, as part of the grace. That's right, at first glance, most do not understand how suffering can be classified as part of grace, and just as this statement to come from God, who is love. 9. DANIEL - THE PROPHET TO WHOM GOD HAS REVEALED HIS PLAN But let's go to Daniel. Here we'll find the discovery of God's plan for Israel and the Gentiles, beginning with Nebuchadnezzar, until the second coming of Jesus. History has confirmed that the succession of the kingdoms of nations, took place exactly as God discovered before to Daniel. Once again, please note that the whole book is only about people: the Emperor of Greece, the Emperor of Media and Persia, the Emperor of South, etc. Could these emperors do anything more or less than God established through His plan?

10. JEREMIAH WAS BEFORE BEING But what can we say about Prophet Jeremiah? Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations (Jeremiah 1:5). Hallelujah! This is God! The text is very clear, extremely important, and it harmonises with other discoveries from the Word of God. Because the text discovers a fundamental issue in the plan of God, I will give a few indications that I consider necessary and useful. What does it mean actually: Before I formed you in the womb I knew you? It means nothing else than the fact that Jeremiah, before being born, existed like spirit.

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So he was a spirit that was to be in the flesh, and to go through a whole way - set by God to achieve the level GOOD FOR GLORIFICATION. The second question which arises is: in God's plan, Jeremiah's case represents an exception or a rule? I will quote below a few texts that will show Jeremiah is not an exception; God knows the way that each individual has to go, because He set this way. Here it is the first text: And yet his works have been finished since the creation of the world (Hebrews 4:3b). Here it is the second text: And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified (Romans 8:28-30). And here it is the third one: and the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it (Ecclesiastes 12:7). So does God make spirits every day? No, because as we have seen from Hebrews 4: 3b, quoted above, His work was finished from the foundation of the world. But what does God do? He watches over His plan to make up in the smallest details. What do all these texts say? Nothing but the fact that, since the foundation of the world, God has created the spirits of the people and has established each one a trail to follow, as He wanted, and that cannot be changed. Perhaps an illustration, which has in its center the car, will make us have a clearer image of things. For example: a manufacturer of machines makes more cars in one day, but sells them to customers on different markets, different times, and each will run on a different road. What is to note as a very important aspect, is that the car does not make its way, it doesn't choose it, but it goes exactly where it's driven. In a similar manner it happens with people as well: they do not choose neither parents nor the time of their birth, nor the colour of the diaper, nor the hour of their death, absolutely nothing. It's very interesting: even those who think they are doing their will, they are only doing the will of God.

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A full understanding of the presented above, it is possible if the reader will read also the chapter: The mystery of the four living creatures.

11. THE SOVEREIGN CHOICE OF GOD THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF THE PLAN
The text that I will quote below doesn't need my interpretation, because it is itself an interpretation of texts about the plan and the will of God: It is not as though Gods word had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.(6) Nor because they are his descendants are they all Abrahams children. On the contrary, It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.(7) In other words, it is not the children by physical descent who are Gods children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham s offspring.(8) For this was how the promise was stated: At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son. (9) Not only that, but Rebekahs children were conceived at the same time by our father Isaac.(10) Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad in order that Gods purpose in election might stand:(11) not by works but by him who calls she was told, The older will serve the younger.(12) Just as it is written: Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated. (13) What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all!(14) For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion. (15) It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on Gods mercy. (16) For Scripture says to Pharaoh: I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.(17)Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden. (18) One of you will say to me: Then why does God still blame us? For who is able to resist his will? (19) But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, Why did you make me like this? (20) Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?(21) What if God, although choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrathprepared for destruction?(22) What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory(23) (Romans 9:6-23). And here it is, in this context, the highest example of behavior of the One who has complied with the will and the plan of God: I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this is what you were pleased to do. (Matthew 11:25,26).

12. PHARAOH - THE MAN WHO WORKS BY THE PLAN OF GOD

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What is that human will? Could Pharaoh do something against the plan of God, when God said: I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you an d that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth (Romans 9:17)? Here's what God says to his servant Moses regarding Pharaoh: ...I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go (Exodus 4:21b) and Pharaohs heart is unyielding; he refuses to let the people go (Exodus 7:14). It is obvious that Pharaoh had no choice. The question that arises is: what is the correct interpretation of the expression: he refuses to let the people go? There is only one correct interpretation, and this is similar to that one Joseph gives regarding the blame on his brothers for his sale. Here's what Joseph says about his sale: I am your brother Joseph, the one you sold into Egypt (Genesis 45:4)... So then, it was not you who sent me here, but God (Genesis 45:8a). What does this mean? It means that, on the surface, when you look through the eyes of flesh, you see everywhere just the human will, but in the background when you look through the eyes of God (that is, by the light of the Word, by the Holy Spirit), you see and understand that, basically, there is only the will of God working only after His plan. Actually, what is happening? It's only one thing: whether it is about a good human being, whether it's about a bad human being, basically, we have to understand very well that behind the human will is actually God, who runs things just after the purpose of His will. But what is actually the human will? Nothing but expressing feelings and reason. We need to understand very well that, as the soul is a result of merger between body and spirit, so the will is the result of merger between feelings and reason. 13. LORD JESUS CHRIST AND HIS SUFFERING BEING PART OF THE PLAN The plan of God regarding the life and sufferings of Jesus, discovered to His prophets slaves, has been fulfilled to the smallest detail. Starting from the incarnation through the virgin: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel (God with us)(Isaiah 7:14), to the price of the sale, the drawee lots for the shirt, and the fact that none of His bones would be broken (John 19: 36,37), everything was fulfilled exactly. The question that arises is: do you think that God revealed these things to his prophesy and slaves (see Amos 3: 7) without knowing the people who would fulfill them? Here's what Jesus says: Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil! (John 6:70). But this was something normal and correct for the One who knew the plan of God, for the One who came to fulfill the will of God: Here I am, I have come it is written about me in the scroll. I desire to do your will, my God; (Psalms 40:7,8a).
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14. HISTORY OF ISRAEL CONFIRM THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PLAN Can it be differently? Absolutely not. Look at Israel: this is about the chosen people of God, and it is the question of Salvation: ...Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in (Romans 11:25b). Can someone do something, or could do, to change this plan of God?

15. THE LAST TAB OF THE PLAN I appreciate that we are already at that time when the last chapter of the plan of God is ready to be fulfilled, regarding the fate of the Earth and people: The nations were angry, and your wrath has come. The time has come for judging the dead, and for rewarding your servants the prophets and your people who revere your name, both great and small and for destroying those who destroy the earth (Revelation 11:18). If about two thousand years ago, no one could imagine how the man could have the ability to destroy the Earth, today, on the contrary, no one would any longer believe there is any solution in order to avoid the destruction of the Earth. It is perhaps superfluous to make a description of the manner in which the man destroys the Earth. The man can no longer be stopped in his race to destroy the planet. However, is the man guilty? I am convinced that the man just conforms to the plan of God. And God has prepared in His plan to achieve a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells (2 Peter 3:13).

16. THE PLAN OF GOD IS UNCHANGEABLE, CONCRETE AND COMPLETE When it comes to the fulfilling of His plan, it is obvious that, even the prayer, no matter who does it, has no significance; it's not counted. Moreover, it's clear that both in the "Our Father" prayer and in the prayer in Gethsemane, Your will be done is the most important sentence . Seems maybe even strange, but keep in mind that there are cases when God says: So do not pray for this people nor offer any plea or petition for them; do not plead with me, for I will not listen to you(Jeremiah 7:16).

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Furthermore, it is noted that neither Lord Jesus in the prayer recorded by the apostle and evangelist John, doesn't pray for everyone: I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours (John 17:9). Then, what about the text: I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth (1 Timothy 2:1-4)? At first glance, it would seem that this text is in total contradiction to those shown earlier. But this happens only on condition that we don't take into account the context and don't take good account of the reason for the request, for the prayer. So, on the one hand we must pray for authority to lead a peaceful life, in other words, pray for us, and on the other hand: who wants all people to be saved, refers to the extension of the grace to the Nations - to all people (consider the case of the centurion Corneliu and the position that Apostle Peter himself had towards the salvation of the Gentiles - Acts Chapter 10 and 11). To believe and say that God wants all the people to be saved, but if they don't want it ... God can't do anything for them, it means practically to believe that God sacrificed His only Son just to create conditions for salvation. However, the question of good sense is: who, honestly and seriously thinking, any longer believe that God gave His only Son to be spit and crucified, just so, to create conditions for the redemption of any willing of salvation? To be very clear: God gave His only Son not only to create the conditions necessary for salvation, but He gave Him to save effectively and accurately. In the interest of not being misunderstood on my point of view about the importance of prayer, I consider that it is necessary to make some clarifications. So the prayer is crucial, it is in fact the believer's oxygen, it is the key of access to the plan of God, but it never has the power to change the plan of God. The central phrase in the prayer of Jesus, Your will be done, is the argument which should persuade all men well intentioned, that it practically can not be otherwise. My friend, I appreciate that those shown up here are enough to convince you that God, in all the work that He has done and accomplished on Earth, used the purpose of His will. As it concerns you, it is obvious that you can do only one thing: to try just to understand the purpose of His will for you, and to comply with it; there is no better solution.

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So do not deter, God truly loved and loves people: This is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance. That is why we labor and strive, because we have put our hope in the living God, who is the Savior of all people, and especially of those who believe(1 Timothy 4:9,10) (see also John 3: 16). The fact that you think you could be a vessel/article for ignoble purposes, is not a thing that can bother you ; you are, however, a vase, about which you can say certainly that is not unimportant, nor neglected by its master, and don't forget that you have the chance to be cleaned (2Timothy 2: 20,21). So enjoy yourself because, anyway, you were caught up in the plan of God as a person, and today you have the opportunity to know the One who is light and love! If you go further, you will get acquainted with the grace of God, and you will understand that, the depiction of God as being anything else than light and love, is something of the past, at least for you, should end right now.

II. TOTAL

GRACE

1.GRACE IS THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST

The solution that God has for salvation is Total Grace. How is that? Nothing human in achieving the salvation of man: For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God (Ephesians 2:8). What is grace? In brief: the revelation of Jesus Christ. If we develop the definition, then: grace is the exclusive, discriminating work of God, by which, after the pleasure of His will, made in Jesus Christ, the Salvation; operating through the Gospel, through the gift of faith, through the gift of forgiveness and the gift of repentance (regeneration). The grace is the awareness that you are part of God's creation. 2. CLOSING IN DISOBEDIENCE -THE SOLUTION OF GOD It may seem slightly shocking, but I have no choice: the disobedience of Adam and Eve was caught in the plan of God for the work which He accomplished on Earth: For God has bound everyone over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all (Romans 11:32); see also Galatians 3: 22. Like it or not, it doesn't have importance anymore: closure of disobedience was the work of God to Earth, in order to carry out His work through total grace.

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A boy or a girl, more funny, might say that God found Himself some work; and somehow I could say that they are right, but as the Romanian people say, only in one hand, which is not enough. God is the Great Creator, who chose the solution that He wanted. Do you have something against that? Did you offer Him something first, as you can receive something back?(Romans 11: 35). If not, then take my advice and look carefully at the Apostle Paul's reaction, when he had contact with the mystery of disobedience: Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out! (Romans 11:33). For from him and through him and for him are all things (Romans 11:36a). Anyway, God works in a perfect way so that no one can straighten what He has made crooked (Ecclesiastes 7: 13), and no one will make any achievement if they ask: Why did you make me like this? (Romans 9:20b).

3. THE 21ST CENTURY GENERATION HAS ACCESS TO THE WHOLE WILL OF GOD
The great Grace that the 21st century generation enjoys of is that they enjoy of the discovery of the plan of God, which is christocentric: The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross (Colossians 1:15-20). The fact that the entire work of God is christocentric, is seen very clearly, both in the introduction of the Gospel of John and the introduction in the Epistle to the Ephesians: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made(John 1:1-3); For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of Gods grace that he lavished on us. With all wisdom and understanding, he made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, to be put into effect when the times reach their fulfillment to bring unity to all things in heaven and on earth under Christ. In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will (Ephesians 1:4-11).
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So what does it mean to know the plan and the grace of God? It means, basically, knowing His Son Jesus Christ. (Hallelujah!) Do you have any merit, or can you do something about this? Nothing and no way. Can you think that choosing/picking and predestinating let people some room for their salvation? The importance of the two verses regarding the implementation of God's plan of grace, forces me to quote: He has saved us and called us to a holy lifenot because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time, but it has now been revealed through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has destroyed death and has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel (2 Timothy 1:9,10). We must remember two things that give their competition to our salvation: God's judgment, that is the law, and the grace in Jesus Christ, that existed practically before eternity, but made known through the Gospel. Is anywhere written that He somehow saved us for our deeds/acts, I mean for any human action that does not fit in His judgment? Absolutely not.

4. REPENTANCE THE FIRST GIFT OF GRACE 4.1 REPENTANCE THE FIRST GIFT OF GRACE
But what does it mean, do you have to decide or must you repent? Nothing more and nothing less than the general frame of preaching the Gospel. But beware, this message can have effect only as it is shown in the parable of the sower. Unless God performed the miracle of birth again/regeneration..., the man could do absolutely nothing. Is this still the man's responsibility? I think we don't have to blame people anymore for their lack of repentance. And this is because all theologians admit that metanoia (repentance) is basically a change of mind. Can anyone think that the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is the supplier of repentance? But isn't repentance the work of God, as it is faith and forgiveness? (see Matthew 11: 25,26, quoted in the chapter Sovereign choice ...). At the present time all people get to salvation through the Gospel, through faith, but what is very important is that: and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God (Ephesians 2:8b).
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So we, as biological human beings, can make absolutely nothing for our salvation. On the contrary, I could dare to say that we don't need to do anything, because it certainly would be bad. Let's take a look at Galatians 2: 20; I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. Do you somehow understand that the Apostle has suggested that he participated to his crucifixion? Or do you understand that he assumes any role in the new life after crucifixion? But please look at the infamous event that took place at the Calvary that Gospel presents. What are the thieves doing? But beware, those on authentic crosses , those who have near them the Son of God, who came to do the Atonement. I tell you, nothing good, but absolutely nothing: In the same way the rebels who were crucified with him also heaped insults on him (Matthew 27:44). What happened though? Jesus turned His face toward one of them, and look at him being turned, he doesn't mock anymore, he changes his words, and he sees; he sees the Son of God. But the other one ... why is he like that? Because that is the plan of God! Does regeneration (repentance) still depends on you? If you say yes, then I'm forced to clear things up, but till then remember: regeneration depends on a man/human, as much as the biological birth depends on him. Is this ok? You need to understand very clearly that God is the One who controls the entire process of salvation the glorification of man. So, He controls both biological birth - incarnation and the regeneration that is repentance. What does this mean, however: you need to repent or You must be born again. (John 3:7b)? It means nothing else but the fact that we cannot speak of glorification, without realizing the birth of the Spirit at first. What does "repent (yourselves)" actually mean? It means, actually, the first gift of grace. We have to understand that this word is similar to: let there be light or pick up your mat and walk. It is basically the power of the creator word that is working, which gives us a new dimension the spiritual dimension.

4.2 SAUL'S REPENTANCE-THE EXCLUSIVE WORK OF JESUS

So let's say something about the Apostle Paul's repentance. Isn't it worthy of analyzing the way of conversion that the one after whose Gospel the world will be judged experimented? Where was he when he met up with his Lord? He was on his way to Damascus, not Jerusalem, and was engaged in a work of persecution of his Lord: Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?(Acts 9:4b). How did Jesus introduce Himself? What was the impact of the meeting? He introduces to Saul as light, which blinded him and made him a Paul.
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Saul was slammed to the ground and his light became darkness, and just then he understood the risk of kicking in a thorn, and he was forced to ask: God, what do You want me to do?(romanian version of Bible) I see myself obliged to mention that if you have never experienced something like this, then you really have every reason to believe that repentance is an act that belongs to people, but at the same time, you also have every reason to ask yourself the question about your repentance. Those who aren't born again don't have any power, since they are earthly and they are all born in sin and lawlessness (Psalm 51: 5), and have nothing good in their sinful nature (Romans 7: 18a).

4.3 ON THE WAY TO EMMAUS Let's look carefully over a case where it is presented the meeting and the discovery of Jesus to two of His disciples: It's the Resurrection Sunday; to Emmaus they have gone/left About crucifixion they were talking and (thus) Jesus approached. "What's this talk that you are saying?" But they look at Him surprised Thinking He's the only stranger who does not know what happened.

"Don't you know? Haven't you heard of/about Jesus, who was crucified? Today is the third day since this happened. Women told us amazed, saying that He has risen And those who saw the tomb, they said that's true ".

"You fools, you're slow when it comes to believe Shouldn't it happen, as the prophets said? " And then He started with Moses, the Scripture He explained to them Near Emmaus, when they have begged Him:

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"Stay with us, it's nearly evening and the day has almost passed". They were pierced in their hearts when they have known the Scripture. But nothing happened until Jesus broke the bread And when He'd given them to eat it, only then they knew Him.

See how it happens, friends? See how God is working? You can't make any move, if you're not touched by His grace. If not touching with His blood, if not showing you His broken body You can't go to Him; you can't say even a word.

But when His love is touching you, when it wraps you in His grace Only one thing you can say: God has found me! And without wanting it, you start to say: Christ Jesus has risen! Through repentance and forgiveness, forever you are reconciled with Him.

At this point it is important to note that people, in general, until the regeneration (to repentance) have a veil on their eyes, which can be removed only in Christ through the Holy Spirit: But their minds were made dull, for to this day the same veil remains when the old covenant is read. It has not been removed, because only in Christ is it taken away (2 Corinthians 3:14). If you still believe in the biological human's power of will for repentance, please take a look on the following text: He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husbands will, but born of God (John 1:11-13).

4.4 THE ETHIOPIAN EUNUCH BORN AGAIN

What is the solution, in Christ, that God uses to realize/do the regeneration? It is that presented in John 1: 13: born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husbands will, but born of God.
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You must be born again (John 3:7b), it's not a human responsibility: how could you actually be born of God? True, regeneration is like the wind, which blows where it wants, and you can not influence its direction, but you can only hear its noise/roar and feel the effect. It is obvious that the wind slams you to the ground, it ruins the old things, just to rise other durable and better things in their place. How is done all the work of regeneration? By the word of God, which is alive: For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God (1 Peter 1:23). Here's another example that shows how God works on regeneration, and this is the case of the Ethiopian eunuch. What's the eunuch doing on his way home, and what's he reading in his cart? He's not even dreaming of what he does, but he reads about grace. (Hallelujah) But Philip's coming from behind, driven, sent by Holy Spirit: "Reach the chariot up front!", and thus Philip rushed up.

Then he heard how the honourable eunuch was reading on Isaiah And was convinced he did not know who was the One he was reading about. "Please come here with me, and make me understand Does he speak about himself, because this thing I cannot get it?"

And look that Philip understands, why he was guided, He starts to explain/figure out the Scripture, to show/portray Jesus. And suddenly the eunuch has round his eyes as you can see When arriving near water, he said: "you know that I believed.

What prevents me now not to be baptized?" "Nothing", told the envoy Philippe, and he dived him in the water. How wonderful, what a great thing! A man has been born again
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When he wasn't dreaming of a change, when he was going on his way. Here you are with the direction changed because of the wind of God! God slammed you to the ground, so that you can't do anything anymore, but to ask: God, what do You want me to do?. And once you begin to understand the mystery of crucifixion and life in Christ, and you start witnessing: I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me (Galatians 2:20). Does it need any comments? The only one comment that I consider to be useful is that, in a translation of the Greek "Im crucified" appears, which speaks of a present status of the crucifixion, which basically makes it easier to understand how is that Christ lives in me. So here's how, thanks to regeneration, you make the leap, otherwise impossible, from the facts of the flesh to the fruit of the Spirit: The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and selfcontrol. Against such things there is no law (Galatians 5:19-23).

5. THE DISCOVERY OF GODS PLAN BY TOTAL GRACE 5.1 THE TESTING

Well, well, someone will say: I really understood that God is all in all, that everything is in Him and for Him, that He loved me in a perfect way, that He has a working plan ... The question that arises is: why has God based His plan on the principle of closure all people in disobedience and suffering? Didn't He have another better solution? Certainly not! If there was a better solution, be convinced that God would have used it. If you are well-intentioned, I am absolutely convinced that, analyzing the following things, you will understand that, basically, it couldn't be otherwise. Firstly, as I already think you understood very well, God created all things by Jesus Christ, through whom, as it is natural, He decided to reconcile everything with Himself (see Colossians 1: 15-20). Secondly, please look at any authorized maker/creator that makes different works: doesn't he check them to see if their quality is good? This is very important. Furthermore, this checking (verification, testing) confirms the validity of the work. In such circumstances, can you say that God is not supposed to check the quality of His works before glorifying them? Thirdly, another very important thing: who does usually repair the vices of any work? Doesn't its creator do it? Who is the master of God? JESUS CHRIST! Therefore, God decided to make peace through the blood of His cross (Colossians 1: 20b).
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But to understand how God has made all of His work, we have only one solution, and this is HIS WORD. So today, in general, we can no longer speak of a partial knowledge because God discovered to us all His plan through the Word. If you read the Word and you reread it, you will need to get to the same conclusion: all the books were opened. For a proper understanding it is necessary just to be careful and to keep in mind one thing: what we see, at first glance, it's just the effect of some causes that are usually hidden, and therefore must be carefully searched. So, as I might already been understood, the effect is the man with all his condition, and the cause is only God. To put further the blame on Satan does not mean anything but to continue with the groping, which basically means to practice the ignorance - the only sin that God doesn't treat. But beware, I didn't say that someone is guilty.

5.2 JOB - THE MAN AND THE BOOK THAT LOOSED FOR ME THE MYSTERY OF SUFFERING
Although we can give many examples of the manner in which the decisions of God dictate the actions of humans on Earth, for instance, I prefer to present some aspects of the case Job, because on the one hand, this case is in the oldest book of the Bible, written before the law of Moses, and on the other hand, very clearly, here it talks about the status of a man, to whom God said: This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil (Job 1:1). Why does God stir Satan drawing his attention, asking him about His servant Job? Even more: why does God give Job to Satan? There is only one explanation: although He knows very well His work, due to His plan, God practices with Job just the testing that I talked about earlier. Why did He use Satan and not another Angel? Because here's a very special case, comparable to the case of Adam or the Saviour Himself. The angels of the Lord were used to destroy entire people, but even they were full of sins. Here is a special case, whose settlement could be entrusted only to the one who has been preserved to realize the suffering through which God checks His work, before glorifying it. In this field, the Devil is the best performer; he has no mercy. Look at how fast he works, and how he does his duty so that the only thing that remains to Job is his life: What is Job doing? He's ripping his mantle/coat And his hair, he snatched it from his head. "I'll return into the ground, as my mom has brought me

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The Lord gave and the Lord has taken ".(Hallelujah)

I am astounded by the depth of vision of the tormented one He doesn't see Satan, he hasn't even mentioned his name. Didn't he know about Satan? It's hard to believe... He properly understood, that God has allowed. But why has suffering been chosen as a mean of checking, testing? How?! Is that it cannot be without suffering? Obviously, it can't be. Why? Do you see how eager of knowledge is the man? It can't be, because it was already checked when the work has been done in heaven. It really looks very interesting: how is that it has been verified? To understand how the things are, it is necessary to make a few clarifications: on the one hand, we have to keep in mind that we are dealing with two kinds of creation: God created in heavens a full army of angels, with a perfect stature, and on Earth God created Adam, who was to populate the Earth. We must consider that the Bible reveals about creating and glorification of man: You made them a little lower than the angels; you crowned them with glory and honor (Hebrews 2:7) and At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven (Matthew 22:30). What does this mean? It means that, for humans, God has decided to reach glorification gradually, which culminates with the glorification acquired, in and through Jesus Christ, at the resurrection of the dead, when it gets to a stature similar to the angels. In this context, it should be mentioned that God created first the things in heaven. But isn't Satan part of the work made in heaven? Isn't he even a powerful chief, who drew in his rebellion against God a lot of angels? Isn't he, as the emperor of this world, personified in Isaiah 14: 4-20, as King of Babylon? And in Ezekiel 28: 12-19, isn't he personified as the Emperor of Tyre? So Satan has its genesis in the indefinite past, and clearly, before the human being was created. What are his skills? To deceive everyone. Why didn't God exiled him in another Galaxy? Because He had in mind to give him some work to do, as I pointed out in the previous paragraph.
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5.3 LUCIFER FAILED THE TEST

But let's come back to Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28, just in order to understand very well why God did so and not otherwise, and how it happened: You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty (Ezekiel 28:12b). You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created till wickedness was found in you (Ezekiel 28:15). Your heart became proud on account of your beauty, and you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor. So I threw you to the earth; I made a spectacle of you before kings (Ezekiel 28:17).I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High(Isaiah 14:14). For those who have the revelation of this episode in the history of the creation, the fall of Lucifer from heaven, just at the time that he reached the highest perfection, and was full of wisdom, it is really a shattering fact. Just the glow he reached ruined his wisdom, and because of the beauty he reached to conceit (pride), and thus when he thought in his heart: ...I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High, Lucifer was basically facing the problem, the fact of not being passed the test decided by God; he didn't get to know about the Lord Jesus Christ, the One who has been used by God to make the ages, Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage (Philippians 2:6). Didn't Lucifer know all these things? Didn't he know his creator? Obviously, he knew it too well, because, as we have seen, God testifies that he was full of wisdom. What didn't Lucifer know, however? He didn't know that Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall (Proverbs 16:18); he didn't know the price of disobedience. But didn't pride and haughty spirit represent basic features of egocentrism, which actually represents the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, which has the mission to lead people through the Gospel, to faith in Jesus Christ? That seems really incredible, but no matter what we believe or not believe, those related above represent a tragic episode which occurred in heaven in the undefined past.

5.4 GOD WORKS ON EARTH

What did God do? The second plan: And God said, Let there be light, and there was light (Genesis 1:3), and he separated the light from the darkness (Genesis 1:4b). Any careful reader enlightened by the Holy Spirit, will recognize right from the first act of creation, accomplished at the level of the ground, that this time, from the start, we are dealing
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with a particularly creation different from that existing in heaven. The day, practically divided in two, is governed by both light and dark. That's it: suddenly, I don't see anything but the preparation of a parcel of land where the parable of the weeds will be preached through the ages, when the Devil in the dark, while people sleep, will sow the seed and will succeed very easy to deceive the whole world. If I hadn't already have in my head the discovery of the mystery of suffering, that God is love (1 John 4: 8), and that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us (Romans 8:18), then I would definitely have closed the Bible and I would have said that not even the polytheist barbarians had a God like Him. But thank goodness that things are as they are, or as we have already shown above. The fourth day, God prepares to man the means required to count the days and years, to see how short life is, where God placed him to prepare himself; to learn the obedience of God. My friend, by reduction to the absurd, suppose you've never read the Bible only until the creation of the world the fourth day, and that you dont know about the man's fall. The question is: do you think that man created from dust, on the principle of meat and blood, will inherit the land for ever? But let's look towards the sixth day: why was created the man alone? But for Adam no suitable helper was found (Genesis 2:20b). And why did God create Adam after His image (Genesis 1: 27), and Eve from a rib of Adam, and obviously she was made as a weaker vessel (partner)? In such circumstances, could they be able to resist in front of the Father of Lies? The answer is clear: the questions are rhetorical. After all presented above, in the most honest way of thinking and speaking, may anyone think that the man was created with a will that he can exercise freely? Don't you have the feeling that God put the sheep into the wolf's mouth? If you do, don't be anxious, it's true. God has done this thing, but remember, only with a very precise purpose: the fulfilling of His plan to perfect a people which is going to be glorified only through the mystery of suffering. But my friends, don't be sad: the truth and the message of God, is that He is light and love. This is the essence of God! The philosophizing on God's attributes or on knowledge about God (I told about, not His) and some positions adopted , on God's side, like: "what God has to do with them if they don't want to repent ... than to torment them forever ..." no longer represents anything but spiritual childhood and a mean of suffering for those who are enlightened by God and also hear such things about God.
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My friend, what is this life? It's the solution through which, in Christ and through Christ, God, according to His plan, total grace and suffering, prepares a people for Himself, to the stature of the great man in Christ, good for glorification, at the resurrection. What can I do or what can you do? Nothing else but to do good works which God has prepared in advance (Ephesians 2: 10). So you can enjoy a little more time that you have a God that is light and love, who opened your eyes to see His plan, to know the total grace, and who helps you experience suffering, who gives you the certainty that you will be glorified. You can enjoy that you are part of those who were crucified with Christ and they're living, and this feeling is no longer an egocentric feeling, but christocentric; the Spirit of Christ merging through regeneration with your spirit, taking on the entire leadership.

5.5 THE ABSOLUTION OF THE MYSTERY OF SUFFERING

It's time to stop talking about suffering as a secret, just like an unexplained will of God. I believe that, through those recorded up here, the preparation has already been made and thus, until the elucidation of the sense of suffering in the grace of God, we are split by just a few words. So let's come back to the Job's case. If we look more careful we will notice that Job, without having at first the hope of eternal life, even though only for this world, he preferred to lead an exemplary life with God: If someone dies, will they live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait for my renewal to come (Job 14:14). Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face (Job 13:15). How many wrongs and sins have I committed? Show me my offense and my sin (Job 13:23). Why do you hide your face and consider me your enemy? (Job 13:24). As we can see very well, Job is suffering, first of all, not because of physical suffering, but because he can't find the explanation of his suffering ; he doesn't understand why God is like that. But beware! When God has done in Job the purpose of His will regarding the school of suffering, required to be graduated from those who are caught up in the plan of God to be glorified, He did one more special thing: He has opened his eyes to see the hope of redemption. The impact of this discovery was so great that Job exclaimed and said: Oh, that my words were recorded, that they were written on a scroll, that they were inscribed with an iron tool on lead, or engraved in rock forever! I know that my redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand on the earth. And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God; I myself will

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see him with my own eyes I, and not another. How my heart yearns within me! (Job 19:2327). (Hallelujah!) And now, here's Job, the one who graduated the school of suffering ordained by God. So here's the one that reached the level good for glorification, who had his eyes opened to see the plan of God, who made the leap from the knowledge about God to the knowledge of God, and who understood the mystery of suffering, that mean that God uses to reveal the humility and to seal the glorification through a final solution. Watch in the quote below how Job sees the things after graduating the school of suffering: Then Job replied to the LORD: I know that you can do all things; no purpose of yours can be thwarted. You asked, Who is this that obscures my plans without knowledge? Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know. You said, Listen now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you shall answer me. My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you. Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes (Job 42:1-6). And here we are already at the time when the discovery of mystery of suffering is revealed! GLORIFICATION of man, before graduating from the school of suffering would mean nothing more but bringing him to a stature, most similar to Lucifer's, BEFORE FALLING; that is the condition that may still make you fall. Living the experience of what it means that God turns His face from you, because of disobedience (Romans 11: 32), is truly a great grace, which will never allow you to have a/an shameful/unworthy thought. From now on we will no longer see the suffering as a secret, but we will see it as a means and as a grace that God uses only for the glorification of those who are caught up in His plan. So, the suffering has become a means of joy, it has become the main indication that you are caught in the plan of God. So its action of supplier of pain was transformed into an action of supplier of happiness. This is why the saints from Thessalonica have understood their predestination for suffering: so that no one would be unsettled by these trials. For you know quite well that we are destined for them (1 Thessalonians 3:3). And that is why God has divided people some against others: Before that time there were no wages for people or hire for animals. No one could go about their business safely because of their enemies, since I had turned everyone against their neighbor (Zechariah 8:10). Suffering is the key to access the glorification, and that is why Jesus, in the sermon on the mountain, called blessed those who were worthy to suffer in His Name: Blessed are you
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when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven (Matthew 5:11,12a). That's why you have no reason anymore to be surprised by the test of fire that comes in the midst of the children of God: Dear friends, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that has come on you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice inasmuch as you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed(1 Peter 4:12,13). Incredible, but true: without doing the slightest mistake, we can say that the purpose of birth is right in order to achieve the process of suffering: Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward(Job 5:7). What is very important, however, is that by His plan, God controls in detail this process, preparing not only the suffering but also the way to get out of it: No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it (1 Corinthians 10:13). Don't forget: God assumes all His work and makes a big promise to you: Has not my hand made all these things, and so they came into being? declares the LORD. These are the ones I look on with favor: those who are humble and contrite in spirit, and who tremble at my word (Isaiah 66:2). So do you understand why God closed all people in disobedience? Only with one purpose, and that very precisely: for people to realise what is the price of disobedience to God, and thus, through this awareness to achieve eternal consciousness, which will prevent them to do any act of disobedience to God.

5.6 GOD LOVES, HE DOESN'T JUDGE

Before I show the discovery regarding the judgement that God gave me by His grace, I will introduce some of the texts that I consider edifying in this aspect: That is why we labor and strive, because we have put our hope in the living God, who is the Savior of all people, and especially of those who believe(1 Timothy 4:10). Your righteousness is like the highest mountains, your justice like the great deep. You, LORD, preserve both people and animals. (Psalms 36:6). Who knows if the human spirit rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth? (Ecclesiastes 3:21). If it is burned up, the builder will suffer loss but yet will be savedeven though only as one escaping through the flames. ( 1 Corinthians 3:15).
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Here's what Elihu, the man who has seen the love and care of God towards people and beast, says: People cry out under a load of oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the powerful(9). But no one says, Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night(10), who teaches us more than he teaches the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds in the sky?(11) (Job 35:9-11).

Given the importance of the problem, I have to quote the first part of the verse in Zechariah 8:10 : Before that time there were no wages for people or hire for animals. Here's the shout of Moses and Aaron in front of the judgment of God: But Moses and Aaron fell facedown and cried out, O God, the God who gives breath to all living things (Numbers 16:22a). And don't forget Ecclesiastes 12: 7: and the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it. Obviously, I could comment on all these texts, but I appreciate that these words have their own force to explain. Anyway, you can see very clearly that God takes care of all His creation on Earth. However, it is necessary to emphasize that: For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him (John 3:17). Why? For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life (John 3:16). After all the presentation that I made regarding the position of God to man and beast, I think all we still have to understand is where are the spirits created from the foundation of the world and what is their destiny. And this can be seen through the absolution of the mystery of the four living creatures, by the grace of God.

5.7 THE MYSTERY OF THE FOUR LIVING CREATURES

The number of works of God and their greatness cannot be counted. The fact that me or you don't see or understand some of the works of God, doesn't mean that those works do not exist, but only that God hasn't shown us yet. Both Joseph in front of Pharaoh and Daniel in front of Nebuchadnezzar recognized with humility that the answer to the deep things belongs to the One who is their author: I cannot do it, Joseph replied to Pharaoh, but God will give Pharaoh the answer he desires.(Genesis 41:16). but there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries... (Daniel 2:28).
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Thus, the discovery of the mystery of the four living creatures, presented by the book of Revelation, belongs only to God. What I can say, is that, while I was reading this book, all of a sudden, the living creatures full of eyes grabbed my attention (Revelation 4: 6-8): In the center, around the throne, were four living creatures, and they were covered with eyes, in front and in back(6). The first living creature was like a lion, the second was like an ox, the third had a face like a man, the fourth was like a flying eagle(7). Each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around, even under its wings (they were full of eyes within) (8a). If reading the verse six, I kept in mind that these living creatures have eyes in the front and in the back too, reading the verse eight, I saw that it's not a joke and it's practically a very important issue: was covered with eyes all around, even under its wings(they were full of eyes within). This under its wings( within) caught my attention so much, that I tried to make a mental picture, concluding that these living creatures consist only of eyes, that are similar with a swarm of bees. As we can see, we passed only the first obstacle. I have to resolve, however, a very important issue: what do the eyes represent? I couldn't specify exactly how I struggled in search of explanations, but what I retain is that, knowing that the Revelation is, how full of metaphors, so neglected in the reading, I thought that I must reread it, because this is the only chance to understand it better. However, during this time, my eyes were fixed to all the texts where the word "eye" appears. And here I am again with the Revelation: Then I saw a Lamb, looking as if it had been slain, standing at the center of the throne, encircled by the four living creatures and the elders. The Lamb had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth (Revelation 5:6).What did it have? Seven horns and seven eyes ... and what do the eyes represent? Which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth. Hallelujah! Here's what the eyes are! Practically, the eyes mean spirits. Truly, the context is king! - it clarifies. The joy was indeed justified because I realized that these living creatures are basically I don't know if it's the best expression THE DEPOSITS OF SPIRITS CREATED SINCE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD. The last clarification popped when I saw the verse 8: 13: As I watched, I heard an eagle that was flying in midair.... Just then I realized that the order in which John sees and mentions the living creatures, is just with the Eagle (Revelation 4: 7). What does it mean? It means that John sees and enumerates the beings at the throne of God in order of their importance and glory: he sees God the Father and the Lamb in the highest glory, then, on the same line, he sees the twenty-four glorified elders
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and the living creatures, which are basically four groups of spirits, where can be distinguished a special positioning: was covered with eyes all around (on the front, on the outside), even under its wings (on the strait). From the fact that John sees the eyes which are inside, results that these eyes have some angle of view on the Throne of God. The only one thing I have to add is that I tried to understand better this mystery, and that is why I prefaced this chapter by citing several texts that support this discovery (see: God loves, he doesn't judge). Yes, God is the Saviour of all people, He is the Father of the spirits of all flesh, and He teaches people more than beasts. Do not forget! People and beasts' spirits have been created since the foundation of the world; they are sent to be incarnated for their preparation, in order to reach a state that God will seal for eternity.

5.8 GLORIFICATION-THE GRACE OF GOD

It just came to my mind a special illustration of the glorification. This illustration has in center a familiy of bees. So, the queen puts eggs of the same type in the cells, but some of them become worker bees, other become drones and other queens. What category is glorified? But doesn't have its role the unglorified category as well? If unfortunately the queen dies, then the bees, the eggs deposited to raise bees or drones, following a special care, manage to make a jelly/rescue queen. The question is: but that egg that is to become a worker bee, and by a special care has become a queen, hasn't it been glorified with none of its contribution? As regards the process of glorification, for a good understanding, first of all, it must be clear that, in the plan of God, reported to humans, there are three periods: 1. The past Eternity, confirmed by John 1: 1 and Genesis 1: 1, which is the period when the heavens and the earth have been created, when the angels have been tested and the spirits of people and beasts have been created. 2. An intermediate period, when God worked and works on Earth, making the process of preparation of man for glorification, and of reconciliation with Himself of things in heaven and on Earth, through His Son Jesus: For God was pleased
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to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross (Colossians 1:19,20). 3. The future eternity, where the works will be tested and glorified, which begins with the creation of the new heaven and the new earth (Revelation 20: 15 21: 1). It's very important to understand that, as regards the process of glorification, God has never omitted anyone from testing; the master of God Himself - the Son of God, has been tested. He has complied with the plan of God, and He was obedient until death on the cross: Here I am, I have come it is written about me in the scroll. I desire to do your will, my God (Psalms 40:7,8). In the same way, Christ did not take on himself t he glory of becoming a high priest. But God said to him,You are my Son; today I have become your Father. (Hebrews 5:5) Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered (Hebrews 5:8). In Hebrews 2: 9-12, which I will quote below, you can see very clearly that, on the one hand, God perfected the chief of our salvation through suffering(10), and on the other hand, he tasted death for everyone: But we do see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone(9). In bringing many sons and daughters to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through what he suffered(10). Both the one who makes people holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters(11). He says,I will declare your name to my brothers and sisters; in the assembly I will sing your praises(12). Therefore, glorification is done by God, in His Son and through His Son. Because I want to show more explicitly the way that God has established to be completed in the process of glorification, I will make another illustration, which this time will have in center the spark. Therefore, the living creature filled with eyes that has the image of a man can be resembled with a bunch of sparks that, as I already pointed out, represent a bunch of spirits. What is actually happening? By its nature, as we have seen, the spark is born to fly. Every spark has its time to fly, going on the way that has been established for it. What is important to note in this process? It's good to notice that basically we are dealing with two types of flying sparks: some that fly for a short time and they come back to where they left, and others who, by the wind of God (to be understood - the Holy Spirit), have the chance to light and to become a living fire. This transition from spark to living fire is glorification.

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Reflecting on this illustration, we realize that the baptism with the Holy Spirit and with fire, which the Savior talks about in the Gospel of John, is basically the transition from the spark that is the spirit of life, to the living fire - which represents the merge of the spirit of life with the Holy Spirit. How is this merger done? Simple: the One who has solutions to do the merger between body and spirit has the solution to do the merger between the spirit of life and the Holy Spirit. This fusion of spirits is known as the regeneration.

III. THE

SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE

Fumbling/Groping as the chicken in its egg..., that is the life right from the beginning The great grace you see it when you grow up wings, when you can fly driven by Holy Spirit. But until then, it's a lot of running, an entire road you have to cross It's not easy to tear away from the world; so you can get up from the ground.

1. THE BIBLE-THE MANUAL OF GOD

What is the Bible? The Bible is the manual of God, that helps Him to discover and to implement His plan, to prepare His people for glorification. The Bible is the perfect revelation of God that Apostle Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians 13:10: but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. About the origin and the significance of the Scripture, the same Apostle said: All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work (2 Timothy 3:16,17). I am convinced that these few words are enough to convince you about the importance of the Scripture, to convince yourself that it is worthwhile to invest in reading and researching the Scripture.

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2. JUDGMENT THE INDICATOR OF THE WAY TO GLORIFICATION Although some people see the judgment as the big hop/obstacle, I am convinced that you, if you don't read this truncatedI mean skipping lines or with preconceived ideas, you have no longer any problems. You just have to see how the judgement is presented in the plan of God; what the judgment means for the One who is love and light. What does judgement mean, and why judgement? These are probably the most important questions from the start. For anyone with elementary knowledge of law, to judge practically means to determine the manner in which, in their actions, some people fit in the law or laws governing these actions that is the developement of life. So what is the purpose of teachings about judgment? The teachings about judgment represent the solution of God of awareness of those written in the Book of Life in relation with the principles by which God proceeds regarding the glorification of people. So you can see very clearly that the judgment is a continuous process that is already running. In fact, The sins of some are obvious, reaching the place of judgment ahead of them; the sins of others trail behind them (1 Timothy 5:24). So that is the plan of God; you cannot do anything more but to judge yourself, beeing convinced that you did this with all seriousness and responsibility. What does actually mean the future judgment, the final judgment? It means basically the separation of the glorified works from those unglorified, and within those groups, a settlement of them. So, the existence Lucifers sin, on the one hand, and the closure of people in disobedience, on the other hand, dictate practically the chapter JUDGMENT in the plan of God. The validation of a work, by checking it, and its inclusion in the heritage of God assume a judgement process/lawsuit.

3.THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH

The first commandment and the first judgement that Adam and Eve were aware of are: but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die (Genesis 2:17). What does it mean to die? It can't mean but two things: either it is the first death, which is compared with a sleep from which God will wake you up when the final or the permanet
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judgment will be made, or the second death, which is basically the final solution, given after the last judgment. However, it can't mean an eternal torture, as most people imagine. What tells the New Testament about the payment of sin? the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23a). Did you find any difference between the solution communicated to Adam and Eve and that communicated to the nations, in the dispensation of grace? I don't see any difference. God has never changed this sentence; the only thing He did was to do clarifications and to make known clearly His love (John 3: 16). That the whole Middle Ages there was a God that forgived people for their sins through papal indulgences, and a God that, otherwise torments you for the eternity, this is something else. But beware, this happened in the Middle Ages. However, today, when God perfectly showed His love, is it possible that among the Christians there could be beliefs or faiths like those in the Middle Ages? Unfortunately, yes. But it doesn't mean that those who have had access to the discovery of the grace of God must stand with hands crossed. It is true, as I have already said, that the Bible uses many metaphors when presenting the judgment of God, but those were explained through the word of God. Let's take just one example which I think is actually enlightening: But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death (Revelation 21:8). Obviously, if God doesn't reveal this key for you, then even in the 21st century you continue to live spiritually exactly like in the Middle Ages. But let's see what the Bible says about what is the man; how has he been made and what happens after the first death: Then the LORD God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being (Genesis 2:7). What happens basically at death? and the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it (Ecclesiastes 12:7). Beware! Judgment is done for each human being, it is basically result of the reaction of a quantity of dust (body) and the breath of life (spirit of life) from God. What happens at death? The reaction simply loosen and thus the structural elements return to their place. It is absurd to think that God creates life, to have something to torture. Do you think that He spared Noah's family just to have something to be tortured?
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The fact that God did not intend any sort of torment is seen in the second epistle of Apostle Peter: But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells (2 Peter 3:13). If righteousness is in the new heavens and on the new earth, then where might any place of punishment be located? But the question is unnecessary because in 1 Corinthians 15:26 it's said: The last enemy to be destroyed is death, and in Revelation 20:14, we see: Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death.

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4. THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD 4.1 LOVE - THE FIRST MEANS OF KNOWLEDGE If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing (1 Corinthians 13:1-3). To give your body to be burned and to not have love it's one thing to be analyzed; that captures your attention. Why? Because the level you can reach without having love is very high; I could even say incredibly great. So love certainly confirms the knowledge of God: We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love each other. Anyone who does not love remains in death (1 John 3:14). The measure of love that you have is just how much you know God. It (love) doesn't come from you, but it is the gift of God; He is the One that says: "Here I am". He is the one who overwhelms you with love and no one can take you out of its chain: Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? (Romans 8:35); For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 8:38,39). When you get to this level you don't ask anymore questions like: Where is God? Who is God? How is God? It is important for you to know one thing: the initiative in the knowledge of God belongs to God Himself; yes, to the One who said: Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness... (Genesis 1:26).

4.2 GOD SEES HIMSELF IN HUMAN'S CREATION While I was thinking how I can help people to know God or how to respond to those who haven't known God, it suddenly came to my mind the verse quoted below: Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness. Aha! God sees Himself through all His works, but He sees Himself the best in His creation of human.
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What is meant in the text quoted above? Nothing else but a great resemblance between God and people. Analyzing the greatness of the works made by people and the means by which God has shown these achievements, you have the chance to form a good image regarding the Person of the Great Creator. In this circumstance, I remembered Solomon's assertion regarding the greatness of God: The heavens, even the highest heaven, cannot contain you (1 Kings 8:27), and I realized that the best mental representation of this statement regarding the immanent and the transcendence of God is provided by Nebuchadnezzar's dream of the great tree that was seen from the ends of the earth and whose peak reached the heavens (see Dan. 4: 1-22). Obviously, this representation clears a lot of things about the immanent and the transcendence of God and unravels how can be explained the fact that God may allow the evil and, however, He Himself is not affected at all by evil. What did I mean by the statement above? On the one hand, I wanted to show you that a tree has fruits but also leaves, and on the other hand, anyone can see that the tree allows certain worms to destroy certain fruits, without being affected. Regarding the ability of God to control things, it is good to understand that if a man is able to control the properties spread all over the world and has the ability to preserve the reproductive biological material for several years, then you can be sure that God is able to control all of His works and to keep the life forever. From those reported above (4.1, 4.2), it's very clearly that, in general, people can have a knowledge of God and a knowledge about God. We can say about the knowledge of God that it is a feeling governed by love, which begins at the regeneration and which is carried out at the level of emotion and reason, while knowing about God is a partial knowledge carried out only at the level of reason, being a theoretical knowledge, which is often unuseful. Who can be said to have experienced the knowledge of God? Obviously, only those who have piety. But those who have only one type of godliness, what kind of knowledge have they? They have at most one knowledge about God.

5. WHAT FATHER TELLS US ABOUT FUTURE ABOUT THE FULFILLMENT OF

TIMES
Then I heard a holy one speaking, and another holy one said to him, How long will it take for the vision to be fulfilled the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, the rebellion that causes desolation, the surrender of the sanctuary and the trampling underfoot of the LORDs

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people? He said to me, It will take 2,300 evenings and mornings; then the sanctuary will be reconsecrated. (Daniel 8:13,14). Before moving on to the explanation of the prophecy with those two thousand and three hundred evenings and mornings, let's see first what Jesus and Apostle Paul say about the time of the end: But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left (Matthew 24:36-41). It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all (Luke 17:28,29). But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God having a form of godliness but denying its power(2 Timothy 3:1-5). The description of the way in which those reserved since before the foundation of the world will be taken is shown through the Word of the Lord: we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever (1 Thessalonians 4:15-17).

6. THE VISION WITH TWO THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED EVENINGS AND

MORNINGS
6.1 PRESENTATION OF THE VISIONS FROM DANIEL 2,7 AND 8 Prophet Daniel is the one who had the grace to receive revelations from God regarding the succession of the Kings of the nations, starting with NEBUCHADNEZZAR until the last monarch of the nations.

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It is extremely important to note that God revealed to His servant Daniel the succession of the empires of the nations by three different visions, so by three different points of view, and that these discoveries were received on three different dates: The vision in Chapter 2 (see verse 19) of the very large and wonderful glowing image was received at the time of King Nebuchadnezzar; In Chapter 7, the vision of the four beasts was received in the first year of Belshazzar; And the vision in Chapter 8 with the ram, the goat and the small horn, in the third year of Belshazzar. The repetition of the discovery, by showing three angles of view, demonstrates the importance that God has granted to this discovery. So, naturally, this has to make us give the due importance to this discovery. The importance of the discovery consists not only in the fact that God sees the succession of the Empires in three angles of view, offering additional information, but consists in the fact that it makes concrete references to the time of the end; that is the date until which the last Kingdom will cover, signified by the feet of the bright (Daniel 2: 33) by the fourth beast shown in Daniel 7: 7.8 and by the small horn, whose actions are described in Daniel 8: 9-14. The importance of the discovery received by Daniel is emphasized by Jesus Himself, when it refers to the time of the end: And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come. So when you see standing in the holy place the abomination that causes desolation, spoken of through the prophet Daniellet the reader understand (Matthew 24:14,15). What is the text that Jesus talks about? It can't be other than Daniel 8: 13,14: Then I heard a holy one speaking, and another holy one said to him, How long will it take for the vision to be fulfilled the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, the rebellion that causes desolation, the surrender of the sanctuary and the trampling underfoot of the LORDs people? He said to me, It will take 2,300 evenings and mornings; then the sanctuary will be reconsecrated. It is also very important to understand that the fourth beast with ten horns, that Prophet Daniel talks about in the ch. 7: 24,25, is just the beast that Revelation talks about in ch. 13: 1-10. This shows that between the revelation that Daniel received and that received by Apostle John in Patmos Island, there is a close connection. Furthermore, in this context, I think it is good to note that the open little scroll (booklet) in/from the angel's hand, that Revelation 10:2 talks about, is no other than the book of Prophet
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Daniel regarding the vision with the evenings and the mornings that was sealed by the prophet, but at the time of the end it was opened by God: The vision of the evenings and mornings that has been given you is true, but seal up the vision, for it concerns the distant future (Daniel 8:26). What is the date when the two thousand three hundred evenings and mornings start to be counted? (Daniel 8: 13,14). Based on what is established this date? To answer the first question, the answer to the second question has to be very clear and very sure. The text already cited earlier (Daniel 8: 13,14) shows us very clearly that the date when the two thousand three hundred evenings and mornings end represents the date when the daily sacrifice is dissolved. But the daily sacrifice is broken by someone else: who is that? -Let's see the text: The goat became very great, but at the height of its power the large horn was broken off, and in its place four prominent horns grew up toward the four winds of heaven. Out of one of them came another horn, which started small but grew in power to the south and to the east and toward the Beautiful Land. It grew until it reached the host of the heavens, and it threw some of the starry host down to the earth and trampled on them. It set itself up to be as great as the commander of the army of the LORD; it took away the daily sacrifice from the LORD, and his sanctuary was thrown down (Daniel 8:8-11). Who is the goat? The shaggy goat is the king of Greece, and the large horn between its eyes is the first king. The four horns that replaced the one that was broken off represent four kingdoms that will emerge from his nation but will not have the same power (Daniel 8:21,22). Who is the small horn? When is this small horn starting to grow up? Considering the very clear explanation of the vision regarding the goat and considering the existence and the action of the small horn covers a period of time and a region that Greeks controlled, until the abolishment of the daily sacrifice (until the time of the end), then it is very clear that the small horn is basically the fourth kingdom, represented by the fourth beast (Daniel 7: 7,8) and by feet of the image in Daniel 2: 33. Since the prophecy is dated as we'll see, with approximately 275 years before the birth of the fourth kingdom, then it is very clear that the counting of the two thousand three hundred evenings and mornings can begin just when the small horn rises.
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6.2 HISTORY TELLS ITS WORD For a proper understanding of how the four empires succeeded and to reveal the date of birth of the fourth kingdom, first of all, I looked at the maps at the end of the Bible, but I didn't see anything, because these maps don't highlight the fact before the roman empire was born, the southern part of Italy was heavily graecized. Bible maps show that the boundaries of the Greek Empire have been extended from Greece to the East up to the Indus. Thus, Italy appears as if it has never been touched by the Greeks. The second step that I've done to see if the small horn is the roman empire was to check what history says about the formation of this empire. I had a great surprise when, on the map which shows conquest of Italy, I saw that the bottom of Italy was named "Great Greece" and that the most powerful Greek colony, which was the Tarent, was conquered quite hard. So history confirms that in the year 275 BC, Rome had already conquered Italy, including the Greek cities, that area named "Great Greece" (see the map below). The conquests continued to the South (Sicily and Carthage - through the Punic Wars) and then to the East and to the wonderful country; I mean the East and South-East, as it is in Daniel 8: 9: Out of one of them came another horn, which started small but grew in power to the south and to the east and toward the Beautiful Land .

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After the first punic war (264-241 B.C.) Rome conquers Sicily and thus, we can say that it can already be seen the rising of the small horn. It is very important to note that the conquest of Sicily, which mostly belonged to Carthage (a great power at that time), was made only after the southern Italy was conquered, which was an area heavily grecized, as I pointed out above. The ancient history - 1968 edition - tells about the presence of Greeks in Italy:"the Greeks founded in the VIII and VII centuries B.C. numerous colonies in Italy and Sicily. Most important were the Paestum, Tarent (in southern Italy) and Syracuse (in Sicily). The big number of Greek colonies in southern Italy have made this part of the peninsula to be called "Great Greece"( Grecia Mare). Greek cities were rich and powerful." It should be noted that Carthage suffered a defeat by losing Sicily during the first punic war. The second punic war resulted in the victory of the Romans in the battle of Zama (South of Carthage, Africa) in 202 B.C. History says: "The second punic war demonstrated, along with the defeat of Carthage, the lost of its economic and political power." From this date, it is unquestionable that Rome can be seen from far. I showed what history confirms about the birth of the roman empire because the counting of the two thousand three hundred evenings and mornings (or years) can begin only when history confirms that the first punic war started, according to Daniel 8: 9; that is 264 B.C. The supremacy of Rome after the conquests of south (Daniel 8: 9) shows that in 202 BC that small horn had already grown pretty much. As regards the Greek influence in the area where the small horn arose, we still need to remember that the Etruscans lived in the North of Rome and dominated it. This nation has borrowed from Greeks the alphabet and then submitted it to the Romans. So we can say that the Greek culture was spreaded in the whole Italy. We can say, therefore, that history confirms the birth of the Roman Empire on an area heavily populated by Greeks, at the time when Greek culture was prevalent in that area.

6.3 THE SKELETON SPEAKS

Concluding that the year 264 B.C. is the year indicated by prophecy, wasn't done in one day. If the fall of the Babylonian Empire in 539 B.C. is easy to locate (see Daniel Ch. 5), if the
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fall of the Empire of the Medes and Persians in 334-323 BC through the fast conquests of Alexandru Macedon is easy to locate (see Daniel 8: 5-7), then we can't say the same thing about the fall of the Greek Empire. Openning the eyes through the Holy Spirit illumination was the solution of God to show me how the Roman Empire conquered the Greek Empire. Thus, the full revelation of the year 264 B.C. was done when I realized that I need to study the human skeleton, because those reported in Daniel 8 talk about the succession of some empires that are described in Daniel 2 as a big image. The verse that caught my attention and edified me was: its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of baked clay (Daniel 2:33). This verse has made me realize that Prophet Daniel saw the great image not only on the outside, but also inside and that the skeleton provides information to clarify the discovery it speaks. Obviously, I looked quickly for a sketch of the human skeleton and so, I realized that whistles of the feet are phyla in the sacred which has four peaks (the superior ones being bigger) and which are at the level of the hips, that represent the third Kingdom (see Daniel 2: 32,33). So, in this moment I realized that the interdependency between the femur and the sacred is just the point of rising of the small horn and I couldn't explain how the small horn rises from one of the four horns (Daniel 7: 9). For a better clarification I attach an outline of a human skeleton where is figured the demarcation of the Greek Empire and the other one described in Daniel 2: 32 and 33. We can see very clearly on that skeleton the period of overlap in the existence of the two empires. At this point, the following questions are coming: 1.When is the end of the period of reign of the four horns? 2. Does the skeleton confirm this period or not?

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The logic is: the end of the reign of the four horns coincides with the date when the first horn or the first Greek Kingdom fell, and on the skeleton it is located at the bottom of thighs. What does history say about the fall of the first Greek Kingdom? "Rome has now become the greatest power in the western basin of the Mediterranean. But watching over the entire Mediterranean basin dominance, Roman leaders look to the East. The Romans conquered Macedonia (148 BC), Greece (146 BC), and then Minor Asia, where they defeated the King of Syria, who invaded Greece "(cited in ancient history manual for class V p. 242 - Edition 1968). The conclusion is: history confirms that the reign of the four horns, that is the four kingdoms that succeeded the Alexander the Great's Empire, is between 323-146 B.C. and is thus a period of 177 years. What does it mean? It means that between 323 and 264 B.C. are 59 years and between 264 and 146 BC there are 118 years, which represent the period of overlapping of the third and fourth emperors reigns. How much is the period of overlap relative to the entire period of the reign of the four horns; I mean how is 118 years to 177 years? Exactly 66,66%. What does the skeleton say about this period? As it is shown on the sketch of the skeleton, on an A4 sheet, the entire period of reign of the four horns bounded by the upper part of the sacred and the lower part of the thigh is 45 mm; see the sketch. On the same sketch we can see very clearly that the place of phylum of the femur in sacred divides the thighs into two parts; the bottom part extends over a length of 30 mm, representing the period of overlap of the third and fourth emperors. So how much represents the period of overlap revealed to Prophet Daniel, that is 30 of 45? Exactly 66,66% as history confirms. From those reported above (6.2 and 6.3) we can see very clearly that 264 BC is the year when the birth of the Roman Empire took place, symbolized by the small horn. The fulfillment of the 2300 evenings and mornings will be in the year 2036 (2300-264). Until the time of the end that Daniel 12: 7-12 talks about will be added 1335 days, that is almost four years. This means that the Kingdom of peace will be instated in 2040.

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7. THE SEVENTY WEEKS (SEVENTY SEVENS)

7.1 THE DESCRIPTION OF THE CONTEXT OF VISION OF THE WEEKS Daniel 9 deals with the discovery of the seventy weeks, prescribed in the plan of God for Israel. The first thing that needs to be clarified is that the vision in this chapter is received in the first year of Darius, so it's not connected to that described above in Chapter 8, which was received in the third year of Belshazzar. Daniel receives the vision when he prays for his people Israel and Jerusalem. The status of Jerusalem is described as an unprecedented in history: bringing on us great disaster. Under the whole heaven nothing has ever been done like what has been done to Jerusalem (Daniel 9:12). If we think that it is the first destruction of Jerusalem, of the temple and the first deportation of Judah, then it is clear that the prophet expresses himself in realistic spirit; Jerusalem is the city of the Great King. So, while the prophet was interceding/mediating in prayer and petition, in fasting, and in sackcloth and ashes(Daniel 9:3b), while I was still in prayer, Gabriel, the man I had seen in the earlier vision, came to me in swift flight about the time of the evening sacrifice(Daniel 9:21). What does the prophet say about the purpose of Angel Gabriel's coming? He instructed me and said to me, (...)As soon as you began to pray, a word went out, which I have come to tell you(Daniel 9:22,23).

7.2 DANIEL 9 IS NOT CONNECTED WITH DANIEL 8 So what is it meant in the accounts given above? We understand very clearly that the vision in Chapter 9 is not connected with that of the eighth chapter: As soon as you began to pray, a word went out. So the vision is directly related to the date when the Prophet began the prayer for his people and that regards his people. In fact, in the eighth chapter its shown a vision relating to the reign of the people, to their role in the leadership of the planet, and in Chapter 9 is given a vision regarding the role and the importance of Israel in the future of the planet.
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In a brief review, we can see that the reporting data for the time of the discovery are different from those addressed in the previous section regarding the two thousand three hundred evenings and mornings. In chapter 9: 24 is shown the discovery synthesis concerning seventy weeks: Seventy sevens (weeks) are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the Most Holy Place. Due to the special importance that the vision has, I will quote the verses 25 to 27, through whith the verse 24 develops (explains). Know and understand this: From the time the word goes out to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, the ruler, comes, there will be seven sevens, and sixty-two sevens. It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble(25). After the sixty-two sevens, the Anointed One will be put to death and will have nothing. The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed(26). He will confirm a covenant with many for one seven. In the middle of the seven he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And at the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him(27). To give another clue and to be very clear which is the reason why the prophecies shouldn't be linked, as a common time of start or end of a period of time, I have to say: the vision with two thousand three hundred evenings and mornings ends at the dissolution of the daily sacrifice and the installation of the ugliness idols, and the vision with the seventy weeks ends after the period when the destroyer will have done his job have passed: until the end that is decreed is poured out on him; that is, when the last half of the week will end. In other words, the vision with the seventy weeks refers to a period of time which will end with a half of a prophetic week, later than the vision with those two thousand three hundred evenings and mornings.

7.3 THE MYSTERY OF THE CHURCH It's interesting to note that both visions hide a period in which God has prepared His Church. This was indeed a secret hidden from the prophets' eyes for centuries. Due to the importance of this revelation of the mystery, I will quote below the text in Colossians 1: 24-27 which clarifies, at least for me, what the mystery was due to which in the Messianic prophecies(see Isaiah and Zechariah) it crossed directly from aspects of the sufferings of Jesus (which took place in the sixty-ninth week) to aspects regarding the troubles and the misfortunes which will take place in the seventieth week, and to aspects of the Kingdom of a thousand years:
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Now I rejoice in what I am suffering for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christs afflictions, for the sake of his body, which is the church. (24) I have become its servant by the commission God gave me to present to you the word of God in its fullness(25) the mystery that has been kept hidden for ages and generations, but is now disclosed to the Lords people. (26) To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory(27). I can say a lot about the quoted text, but I just want to emphasize only the second part of the verse 25: to present to you the word of God in its fullness, because I have suffered many times when I didn't find the explanation of that transition/passing reported above, when I didn't understand how it is possible that the prophets didn't say anything about the Church. To all those presented above, I think we still need to add only one thing: Israel should understand, in the break of the weeks, that God, through His plan, keeps hidden from him a part of His plan - that one when Israel will be nonexistent as a state; and on the other hand, today, both the Church and Israel should understand that, in fact, together, they constitute the herd of the Lamb of God and that the separation wall has been crumbled (see Romans 11: 25-36 and John 10: 16).

7.4 THE FULFILLMENT OF THE SIXTY NINE WEEKS Considering the special role that prophet Daniel had in the discovery of the plan of God, I appreciate that we can't go on without emphasizing some things regarding the fulfillment of the prophecy concerning the sixty nine weeks at the end of which, as it relates in Daniel 9:26, the Anointed One will be put to death and will have nothing. So the prophecy is very important because it refers to the date when Messiah was crucified. Has it or not been fulfilled this prophecy? To see if the prophecy has been fulfilled or not, first we must see what it means - what (how to interpret) the sixty-nine weeks represent, and when the command was given to ...restore and rebuild Jerusalem...(Daniel 9:25); date that coincides with the date when the counting weeks begins. First, it should be noted that the weeks covered by the Prophet aren't literal, but represent basically seventy groups of seven prophetic years; that is four hundred and ninety prophetic years of three hundred sixty days. What is the argument for this interpretation? As we can see in Daniel 9: 24, the prophecy stretches ...to bring in everlasting righteousness,..., that will take place only at the time of the end. But who is going to rule at the
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time of the end? Isn't it the fourth beast that is King in whose hands will be the saints of the Most High for a time, times and half a time (Daniel 7:25b)? But doesn't this beast represent the same emperor that the beast from the Abyss of Revelation 11: 7 represents, during which the two witnesses will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth (Revelation 11:3)? Obviously yes. Thus, the half-week (of the seventieth week) that Daniel 9: 27 refers is basically a thousand two hundred and sixty days, which means three years and a half of three hundred and sixty days each. As regards the date when it was given the command to rebuild Jerusalem, it is to note that, on this date according to Nehemiah 2: 1-8, results that Nehemiah is the man who has received from the emperor Artaxerxes the letters necessary to rebuild Jerusalem, in the month of Nisan in the twentieth year... (Nehemiah 2:1). When did Artaxerxes I rule? - As we can see in the Bible Dictionary p. 94, Artaxerxes I reigned in 424 456 BC. So what is the twentieth year? Its 445 BC. How many years the four hundred and eighty-three prophetic years represent? They represent exactly 476 - four hundred and seventy-six years (483 x 360: 365,25). From those given above, it results that the date when the anointed was extirpated is 32 AD - the month of Nisan. In this context, it is very important to note that the month of Nisan is the month when Jews celebrate Easter and the month when Messiah was crucified. The fact that the prophecy has fulfilled exactly is confirmed by the report of the evangelist Luke: Now Jesus himself was about thirty years old when he began his ministry (Luke 3:23a).

7.5 ABOUT THE SEVENTIETH WEEK More texts in the Bible talk about the seventieth week including: Daniel 9: 27, Daniel ch. 12 and Revelation 11: 3 and 7. It results from the texts mentioned above that this week is divided into two parts; the last part, which precedes the eternal Kingdom of the saints of the Most High, which is an unprecedented period in history, When the power of the holy people has been finally broken (Daniel 12:7).
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Obviously, we can say a lot of things about this time, but I think that it is enough to give a few edifying facts that will clear a lot of problems. First, we should note that this period includes the hour of the great day of judgment, when the Grand Armageddon that Revelation says in ch.16, will be prepared. Therefore, it is a tough time for the whole world. As regards the saints of the Most High (the Church and Israel), whose capacity will be crushed, it is to remember and to understand that the crushing of the power that the text quoted above speaks (Daniel 12: 7) is not related to some people's obedience to some material problems bigger than other's, but refers to spiritual matters. We have to understand very well that the power of the holy people is not in the wealth and well being of this world, but it's in the ability of worship of the believer in front of God. The crushing of the power of the Holy people consists in pulling out the daily sacrifice that Daniel 8: 11 talks about, which represents the destruction of the power of worship and in reaching a spiritual level where people will have only a form of piety (2 Timothy 3: 5). It is very important to note that, referring to the times of the end, Apostle Paul says that there will be hard (terrible) times, People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God having a form of godliness but denying its power... (2 Timothy 3:2-5). But, referring to the Church of Laodicea, doesn't Jesus say the same things? (Revelation 3: 14-19).

IV. REVELATION

- THE BOOK THAT PRESENTS THE WHOLE PLAN OF GOD

1. THE SIGNIFICANCE AND THE CONTENT OF THE BOOK

What is Revelation ? It is the revelation of Jesus Christ about the time of the end received from God and submitted to the Church through His Angel and His servant John (1: 1, 2, and 22: 16). Does this book have a special promise? It promises happiness to those who read the prophecy, to those who listen to it and to those who keep those written in this prophecy (1: 3).
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To whom is addressed the book? First, it adresses to the seven Churches of Minor Asia which also symbolizes the Church (l:4 and 2: 16): I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches (22:16a). Does the book show the circumstance in which this discovery (prophecy) was received? Yes, John was on the island of Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus (1:9b). On the day of the Lord, he is kidnapped in a vision and receives, from the One who is "Alpha and Omega" the command to write what he sees (1: 11) (that is the vision of the Son of God in the midst of the seven lampstands, who was holding in His right hand seven stars) and what will happen: Write, therefore, what you have seen, what is now and what will take place later (1:19). We can see very clearly from the first five chapters that the vision reveals the things on earth and in heaven regarding the present and the future existence of the Church. It must be noted that the book is full of symbols, but also the key to interpret them: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches(1:20b), etc. I tell you from the start that it's necessary to do some clarifications to ease the understanding of the book. First, the first issue to be considered is the one that saint Paul points out to Timothy: Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to preaching and to teaching (1 Timothy 4:13). It is obvious that this aspect is crucial to understand and make yourself understood. To not understand what you read can mean even worse than if you don't read not understanding is basically a curse for the one who reads and for those around him, those who listen to him. Secondly, it should be noted that the book of Revelation refers to a period of time when we have a herd and a Shepherd: I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd (John 10:16) - See also 1 Corinthians 12: 13. It is very important to consider that, as I pointed out at the beginning, the book is a revelation of God the Father regarding His Word and the testimony of Jesus Christ. The book reveals basically two things which at that time were sealed. It is about the absolution of the mystery with the two thousand and three hundred evenings and mornings prophesied by Daniel 8: 26:The vision of the evenings and mornings that has been given you is true, but seal up the vision, for it concerns the distant future (see also Daniel 12: 9), and it is also about the clarification of the mystery regarding the day and hour for the return of Lord Jesus that He testified: But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father (Mark 13:32).
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The book also clarifies many prophecies relating to the great day, the hour of judgment and the Kingdom of a thousand years (see Zechariah, Isaiah, Ezekiel) and it says also very clearly some things about the new heavens and the new earth. I consider the understanding of this fact extremely important because only in this way you can open the perspective of understanding Revelation, otherwise it will still remain a closed book for many people. But glory to God! See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals (Revelation 5:5) so, it is very clear that it is about the discovery of some things hidden up till that time. Because I want to be well understood, I tell you that I have no restraints in saying that the things that Revelation deals with from ch. 6 to ch. 22 represent the discovery of several mysteries concerning the evolution of the Church and of the world since 96 AD, including the visions (signs) in ch. 12 that talk about things located after year 96. To clarify the things, I'll repeat that John has received a command to write just about the times when the Church was going to live: Write, therefore, what you have seen, what is now and what will take place later(Revelation 1:19). The signs that John saw beginning with ch. 6, as things that took place before 96, means basically not being careful at reading, and treating lightly the responsibility you have for theaching the others (1 Timothy 4: 13). Before moving on to the presentation of the contents of the sealed book, I think it's good to prove once again that I wish very much that these rows would be very well understood, so as to make an effective service to all those who are caught up in the plan of God. I want to say that Revelation will not be understood: by those to whom "no one knows" means past, present and future; by those who do not understand that the sealings have their time that is "until the time of the end", when "many will go here and there to increase knowledge" (Daniel 12: 4), and by those who still do not believe that we are in the time of the end which is confirmed by Revelation 15: 1- time limited by the action of the seven bowls. For those who have already understood very well how history and anatomy attest the fulfillment of the plan of God, it is obvious that there are no problems.

2. THE TIME THAT REVELATION REFERS

As regards the time when the events presented in the book developped and will develop, we have to note that their beginning, as I have already shown, is in about 96 AD, and the end (I
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3.THE KEY CHARACTERS OF THE REVELATION

For an easier understanding is absolutely necessary to present a few things regarding the characters of Revelation which, appart from "the Faithful and True" and the Lamb, are mysterious and some of them even sinister-horrible. We have to analyze the great Dragon, the beast that comes up from the Abyss, the beast that comes out of the earth, the woman on the scarlet beast, some angels with trumpets, bowls, tied(bounded), untied(released), lots of saints sealed, and not at least the woman struggling with giving birth and the angel with the little scroll. Today it has been fulfilled the time when the characters listed above are no longer mysterious and this happens only because it has come the time that refers to the angel with the little scroll who says: You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, languages and kings(Revelation 10:11). The discovery of God is already very clear! But why has God preferred to use such a symbolism to show His discovery? To time the prophecy and to understand the Father's love, made me realize that God has made the clearest statement of His discovery, and the symbology does not reflect anything but the fact that Father recognizes that He used very harsh means for the glorification of His slaves God sees them very harsh, and that's only due to His great love.

4. THE STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK - REVELATION EXPLAINED FOR EVERYONE 4.1 SECTION I

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Before moving to some issues concerning the structure of the book - REVELATION, I wish to mention that, while I was watching the way in which the Plan of God has beed fulfilled, I realized that in the work that He accomplished on Earth, God has structured the entire plan on the principle of dividing the total into seven parts and one part into two. Edifying is the example of the seven days of creation, which are divided in two: daynight. This is the principle by which God structured the book of Revelation. First of all, it is to note and to understand that Revelation is the seventh section of the Bible: Law (1); Prophets (2); Psalms (3); Writings (4); Gospel and Acts (5); Epistle (6); Revelation (7). To continue the principle of division, the book of Revelation the seventh section of the Bible, has a division into two. It is interesting to note that, based on its structuring by chapters, the division of chapters into two, is exactly into two: chapters 1-11 constitute the first section, and chapters 12-22 constitute the second section. Anyone who has seriously studied Revelation and realized that practically, into the sea, up to chapter 11 inclusive, has been showed the evolution of the Church and of the world until the time of judgment. It is true that we can't say the same thing about the understanding of section II. The interpretation of this section was hampered by a veil similar to that which I confided in chapter "The Mystery Of The Church". Analyzing the structure of the two sections of Revelation, we see that each section is structured in seven parts. So the first section - chapters 1-11- is structured as follows: 1. Ch. 1 describes the general framework in which the discovery is received. 2. Ch. 2-3 show the seven letters to the Churches. 3. Ch. 4-5 show a scene from the sky with two mysteries: the four living creatures and the book/scroll with the seven seals. 4. Ch. 6 presents the opening of the six seals, which is a very short description of things which are hidden under the six seals, ending with the announcement of the great day: For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can withstand it?(6:17). 5. Ch. 7, in the first three verses, presents the first key to understanding the great day, then it presents the sealing of those 144.000 from all the tribes of the sons of Israel, which is the creation of Israel in 1948, and presents the glorification of the
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great crowd that came from the great tribulation. Chapter 7 is thus a synthesis of the great day and it is the key of structuring of the great day. The next chapters present other aspects of the great day, which cannot be understood without the discovery of the key of structuring the great day that I reported above. 6. Ch. 8-9 and 11 describe briefly the events of the great day, hidden under the seventh seal. 7. Ch. 10, the Angel with the little scroll, falls between ch. 9-11 because TODAY has been fulfilled the time described by the message of this angel and the role of understanding his message was fantastic. Without making any mistake, I say with all my belief that the angel has done his duty bringing the key to open the book of Revelation.

4.2 SECTION II
The things discovered by God in ch. 12-22 are designed to make possible the best understanding of what Revelation shows in ch. 7-11 in connection with "the great day". The discoveries from section II are structured in seven parts: 1. ch. 12 provides aspects regarding the angel from the Abyss from ch. 9: 11 and additional issues regarding the sealing of those 144.000 in ch. 7, which refers to the birth of the State of Israel in 1948. 2. ch. 13 presents the beast from the Abyss which is mentioned in ch. 11: 7 and make notes about its prophet, who is another beast. 3. ch. 14 is a summary of the judgment hour of the great day. 4. ch. 15-16 show aspects of the judgment of the great day, grouped under the symbol of the seven bowls. 5. ch. 17-18 show the connection between the beast and Babylon, clarifying the aspects presented in ch. 11: 8 regarding the great city, and describes the judgment of Babylon. 6. ch. 19-20 present the aspects of the great day war, the establishment of the Kingdom of a thousand years and the last judgment. 7. ch. 21-22 show the eternal Kingdom in a new heaven and a new earth.

4.3 THE STRUCTURE OF THE TEMPLE The structuring of the two sections described above and the fact that God looked upon the Church from seven parts, made me see and understand very well how the structure of the book can be seen in the best way.
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The most ideal structure was given to me when I realized that the discovery may be put in scene on the skeleton of a House of prayer. You can watch it from seven different parts, as follows: 1. you have the best picture on a house when you have a look at the front, with the main door. What does it mean? It means to see section I, which has two key chapters, 7 and 10, to get to understand the book. 2. If we look at the house on the opposite side, obviously, we have another image (without door and sometimes without windows), this means to see the following structure: ch. 1-5 followed by 12. 3. If we look at the House on the left side, we have the following image: ch. 1-5, continued by ch. 13. 4. If we look at the house on the right side, we have the following image: ch. 1-5, continued by ch. 14. 5. If we look at the house from the inside with the eyes to the floor, we will have the following image: ch. 1-5, continued by ch. 15-16. 6. watching the house, with the eyes to the ceiling, means basically to have the following image: ch. 1-5, continued by ch. 17-18. 7. watching the house to the level of the roof, we have the following image: ch. 1-5, continued by ch. 19-20; 21-22. Chapters 21 and 22 talk about another creation Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth(21:1). What does the repetition of ch. 1-5 mean? It means the foundation of the house; from either side you look, either directly or indirectly, you see the foundation.

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5. THE LETTERS TO THE SEVEN CHURCHES

What is very important to note from the contents of the seven letters showed in ch. 2 and 3? It's the fact that the letters are, in addition to the condition in which the seven Churches were, the evolution of the Church in the future; therefore, having a prophetic character, showing the evolution of the Church until the second coming of Jesus. Concerning the content of the message of the seven letters, it is essential to retain the following aspects: To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life(2:7) - for the Church in Ephesus; The one who is victorious will not be hurt at all by the second death(2:11) - for the Church in Smyrna; I know where you livewhere Satan has his
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throne(2:13a) - to Pergam; I will repay each of you according to your deeds(2:23) - to Thyatira; To the one who is victorious and does my will to the end, I will give authority over the nations that one will rule them with an iron scepter and will dash them to pieces like potteryjust as I have received authority from my Father(2:26,27) - to Thyatira; I know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead(3:1b) - for Sardes; The one who is victorious will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out the name of that person from the book of life(3:5a) - for Sardes; Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come on the whole world to test the inhabitants of the earth(3:10) - for Philadelphia; Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches(3:13) - for Philadelphia; So, because you are lukewarmneither hot nor coldI am about to spit you out of my mouth(3:16) - to Laodicea; Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent(3:19) - to Laodicea; Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me(3:20) and To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I was victorious and sat down with my Father on his throne (3:21) - to Laodicea.

6. THE GREATNESS IN HEAVEN - FROM THE THRONE OF GOD

Ch. 4 and 5 revised in March 2006 After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this (Revelation 4:1). After this ... after what? When we read the text quoted above we note that John has finished seeing the first vision that has in its center the Son of God in the midst of the seven churches, and received an invitation to go in heaven in order to see what must take place after this. I have to admit that I initially passed very superficially over ch. 4 and 5. Why? Probably because at the time I got to dwell on the book of Revelation, God had already given to me the key to unlink/untie the mystery of the four living creatures presented in these chapters, mystery that has particularly caught my attention and that I have referred to in the section Total Grace. Noticed of the regrettable superficiality, when I open again the Revelation to see which are the important things that I should never omit, I was surprised by " the voice I had first heard speaking" that called John in heaven in order to show him the things that were going to take place afterwards; that is after the year 96 AD. Under these circumstances, I've realized that, basically, through ch. 4 and 5 ends the presentation of the general framework in which the Revelation (the introduction of the book) was received and that the most important aspect in these chapters is not the one regarding the
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atmosphere of glory and worship at the throne of God, nor the one regarding the mystery of the four living creatures, nor the one regarding those twenty-four elders and the billion of angels, but it is that one regarding the book sealed with seven seals, which lies in the hand of God. Suddenly I realized that I have in front of me the most significant and glorious vision of the Revelation. Why important? Because if no one was worthy to take the book from the God's hand and to open the seals, then all God's plan regarding the things that followed and will follow after the year 96 would remain sealed; so John was very motivated to cry a lot. Why glorious? Because the entire macrocosm participated, directly or indirectly, to the great solemnity of handing the sealed book, as it is shown in ch. 5: 8-14. I would like to be very well understood: the great solemnity hasn't just the following participants: the four living creatures, the twenty-four elders and more than one hundred billion of angels from the Throne of God, but basically " every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all that is in them"(5:13) participate at this solemnity. As for the participation of John ... I have no words; the one who cried a lot at this glorious solemnity could just enjoy himself, participating with the twenty four elders to their and the whole macrocosm worship for/to the One who is alive forever and to the Lamb stabbed which was found worthy to take the book and to open the seals. I'm really fascinated when I think that John was the only person on Earth who was found worthy to be invited to participate in the heaven at this glorious solemnity! And I am convinced that you will remain fascinated when you realize that John is not only the man who has enjoyed the privilege to go in heaven, to participate at the glorious ceremony of handing over the sealed book/scroll, he's not just the man who attended to the opening of the seven seals, he's not just the man who saw the New Jerusalem in all its glory and its actual dimensions, but he is also the man who has descended from heaven and testified to all mortals which are the things that God has prepared for those who will enjoy the grace of being worthy to make their way to glorification to the end.

7. OPENING THE FIRST SIX SEALS It is important to note that, for the things presented under six seals, God has allocated only one chapter in the book (Chapter 6). It is interesting to note that, through His plan, God has decided to keep hidden the things following to take place in the period between the Ascension of Jesus into heaven and "the great day". Basically, we can say that, compared to Israel, God has hidden the things between the first and the second coming of Jesus, and to the Church He kept hidden the things that took place between the year 96 and the great day.
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Even if they are presented very synthetic, opening the first six seals provides us enough information to convince us that history confirms that the evolution and the life of the Church in the period described by the six seals took place exactly as God established. The first seal hides the life of the Church between 96-313, date when Constantine the Great was enthroned, date when the edict of Milan was given, which provided for christians the freedom of worship. Without being wrong, we can say that indeed, during this period the Church was triumphant. The period between 150-300 is known as the period of the Christians apologists. This period is represented by the white horse (Revelation 6: 1, 2). The red horse, shown by opening the second seal, represents the evolution and the life of the Church between 313 and approximately 590 (Revelation 6: 3, 4). This period of time was really bloody literally and figuratively. In this period began in the Church the religious controversies and heresies: the Arianism, which claimed that Jesus Christ is not God, but simply a being created, and the Pelagianism, which claimed that man can save himself by living in righteousness, obviating thus the sacrifice of the Saviour. At this point, it is very important to note that although the revelation of God - through the Word - regarding His Son was very clear, however the great leaders of the Church were spritually in the darkness, not understanding what " In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God" (John 1:1) means. Around this time there appeared theologians; moving practically from living the Christian life to the theoretical approach to Christianity. We should have in mind that during this period there were fights inside the Roman Empire and the most bloody conquests made by barbarians. The division of the Roman Empire in 395 and the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 are well known evidence. The third seal - the black horse (Revelation 6: 5, 6); I think it refers to the life of the Church in the early part of the middle ages located approximately between 590 and 1054. What happened? The institutionalization of the Church and its passage under the control of the state brought it in a period "of hunger and thirst after hearing the word of God". It is obvious that, in the early part of this period (590-800), Christianity has received a heavy blow from Mohammedanism by putting it in hard balance, and in 1054 was the first major
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schism, when the Church was broken in two; it was created thus the Roman Catholic Church in the West and the Greek Orthodox Church in the East. The fourth seal the pale horse (Revelation 6: 7,8); perhaps the period designated by this seal is located approximately between 1054 and 1517. This period is characterized by a total spiritual decline, demonstrated by the Papal power at its peak, between 1054 and 1305 and by practicing the sale of indulgences for the forgiveness of sins. Immorality and corruption of the Church's leaders have reached their height; I almost could say that I can't believe what they say about Luther's testimony about how is life at the papal court. The fifth seal - the martyrs under the altar (Revelation 6: 9-11); I think this seal concerns the life of the Church between about 1517-1914. During this period the German religious wars between Catholics and Protestants were triggered (1531-1595). It is obvious that these wars culminated with victims - the martyrs. It should be noted that from that date and until 1914 we can speak of a continuing fight done in order to promote the spiritual rebirth. The sixth seal - the great Earthquake (Revelation 6: 12-16); this seal refers to the tragedies suffered as a result of the start of World War I (1914-1918). What happened? The reason was darkened and the borders were moved, changing the power relationships existing at that date.

8. THE GREAT DAY

Proper understanding of what "the great day" (6: 17) means depends on the proper understanding of what Revelation ch. 7-19 presents. Thus, in chapter 7, under the seventh seal (ch. 8-11) and in ch. 12-19 there are presented the things regarding "the great day", which extends from the end of World War I to the second coming of Lord Jesus Christ (1918-2040).

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9. CHAPTER SEVEN THE FIRST KEY FOR UNDERSTANDING THE PROPHECY REGARDING THE GREAT DAY

I have to confess that here, in ch. 7: 1-3, God revealed to me the key that shows how the events that will take place on the great day are structured:After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth to prevent any wind from blowing on the land or on the sea or on any tree. Then I saw another angel coming up from the east, having the seal of the living God. He called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea: Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God. While I was thinking what is the date when the angels sound the trumpet in ch. 8-9 and when it begins the fulfillment of the prophecy provided by the fifth angel's trumpet, I suddenly saw in front of my eyes the second part of the verse two, cited above: ...He called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea, and then I realized that basically the angels with the trumpets are grouped into two groups: the first four operate in the first part of the reign of the beast with ten horns and the next three in the second. So, from the text quoted (Revelation 7: 1-3), it is very important to understand and to note that the triggering of the first four trumpets sound is preceded by the sealing of the 144.000 of all the tribes of the sons of Israel. In conclusion, we can say that chapter seven shows three particularly important issues relating to the great day: the first is the structuring of the great day according to the seven trumpets, about which I reported above; the second relates to the sealing of the 144.000 of all the tribes of the sons of Israel, and it represents the creation of Israel on the 14th of May 1948; the third is the presentation of those glorified of all Nations, wearing white robes and holding palm branches in their hands.

10. OPENING THE SEVENTH SEAL 10.1 THE SILENCE FOR ABOUT HALF AN HOUR
The extraordinary description in verses 8: 1-5 made to the events that took place at the opening of the seventh seal, makes me quote all of it: When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour. And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them. Another angel, who had a golden censer, came and
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stood at the altar. He was given much incense to offer, with the prayers of all Gods people, on the golden altar in front of the throne. The smoke of the incense, together with the prayers of Gods people, went up before God from the angels hand. Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it on the earth; and there came peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning and an earthquake. The description of the first events hidden under the seventh seal has an amazing precision and because of that I just have to emphasize a few points which I consider important. When I cited before the urge of Apostle Paul: pay attention at reading..., I also had in mind the absolution of the silence aspect: about half an hour. John describes the things with an amazing precision: there was silence in heaven.... Therefore, we should note that we have two types of watches/clocks or ways that highlight the events: a clock reported to the sky, and another one reported to the Earth; the clock reported to the sky, representing the prophetic hour, or the clock in the interpretation of God. The mystery of the interpretation of the clock from heaven is unbind in a similar way to the interpretation of verse 12 in chapter 17: The ten horns you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but who for one hour will receive authority as kings along with the beast. What does it mean an hour along with the beast? It means that the whole reign of the beast (the beast of Daniel 7: 7) is considered as a day. Otherwise, for those who may still have doubts about the interpretation of some big periods of time as representing a day in the eyes of God, I'll add the following: The seven days of creation described by Genesis represent actually large periods of time and it can be seen from the fact that even until the fourth day, when the luminaries were made, with the task to show: sacred times, and days and years (Genesis 1:14), God called the first three periods as three days. Here's what Apostle Peter says: But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day (2 Peter 3:8). And what can we say about the statement of Jesus: Go tell that fox, I will keep on driving out demons and healing people today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will reach my goal?(Luke 13:32). Didn't Jesus have in mind just the first day, which extends to 1918, the great day (Revelation 6: 17), which extends from 1918 to 2040, and the third day, when the Devil will be bound? Therefore, the time that refers to the silence for about half an hour is determined according to the period source from 96 - the date of the prophecy, to 1918 - the date when the events hidden under the seventh seal begin: it is, therefore, 1822 years, considered as one day.
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Reported to the clock on earth, this means that an hour is 76 years and half an hour is 38 years. Regarding the events beginning with the opening of the seventh seal, it should be noted that although John sees first the seven angels with trumpets, however they're not the first who act, but another one, whose action ends with the beginning of the second earthquake (World War- 1 Sept. 1939). So after the end of World War I, until the onset of World War II are 22 years, that is more than 19 years which represents the quarter of an hour, and so the Apostle saw very well, both time and the order in which the angels made their work. The silence for about half an hour has been confirmed by the period of silence and prayer between the two world wars.

10.2 THE FIRST FOUR TRUMPETS

As I already said when I reported about the importance of chapter seven (7: 2), the first four trumpets show aspects of injury of the earth and sea (so they have planetary sphere of action), and the beginning of the action provided by them was held immediately after the sealing of 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel (7:4). So, if World War II ended in 1945 and the sealing of the one hundred and forty-four thousand ended on the 14th of May 1948 date on which the State of Israel has been constituted, then the first four trumpets would have their sound applicability on the 15th of May 1948. The effects of the first four trumpets were devastating and the expression in which it is showed this devastation of Earth and sea with all that comprise them, "the third part of ..." is not at all an exaggeration. Without making any mistakes, we can say that anyone recognizes the devastating effects of the physical and moral pollution that occurred during this period. I think it is enough to mention just one example: our grandparents had on average seven children (before 1948) and our parents had on average two children and at present (2002) I am convinced that this average population per family hasn't increased. For a better understanding of the things described by the four trumpets, it is necessary to keep in mind that God compares people with some trees planted next to a source of water: That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not witherwhatever they do prospers (Psalms 1:3). So, we have both the tree and the source of his power (spring-water).
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What happens at the first trumpet? there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down on the earth...(8:7). What does it mean? It means that after 1948, it rained with learning, let's say like that, inedible (blood being banned as food in both the Old Testament and New Testament), that affected adults in proportion of one-third and all the children. The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain, all ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned into blood(8:8). What does it mean? I think it is the great destructive force of the unhealthy teaching which destroyed the morality in areas where the first beast reigns. Very important is the effect of the third trumpet sound, which caused the fall from the sky over water springs and rivers of the great Star "Wormwood" ... When this trumpet sounds, it's going to take place the throwing of the Devil from heaven, which is spoken in ch. 12: 9. It is very clear that this trumpet affects the entire feeding (it affects the sources at their root), so people are poisoned by a bitter learning. It is obvious that it is only about promoting the atheism after 1948. The fourth angel, through the sound of his trumpet, affected the spirit of mind and the light by one-third, and thus people couldn't test and approve what Gods will is his good, pleasing and perfect will (Romans 12:2b).

10.3 THE FIFTH TRUMPET (9: 1-12)

THE FIRST WOE (MISFORTUNE) (1989) Before any comment, I have to quote four verses and parts of verses that I consider important and significant: The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth (see also Revelation 8:10). The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss. When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it...And out of the smoke locusts came down on the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth. They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads. They were not allowed to kill them but only to torture them for five months. ...They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss. The important issues are related to the star which had fallen earlier from heaven (Revelation 8: 10) over rivers and springs of water, and made them bitter, causing the death of many people, which now receives the key of the " the shaft of the Abyss", whose opening reveals some locusts that will terrorize people for five months.

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In order to understand the things better, it should be noted what part of the world is "the Abyss" (clarified in 8: 17), who is the star that fell from the sky (clarified in 12: 9 approx. 1948) and what represents the five months which we shall deal hereafter. As I have already pointed out, we are in "the great day" which is from 1918 until around 2040. We have therefore about 122 years. How is five months in a year? - 41,7% reported at 122 years is 51 years. From the analysis of data from the previous paragraph, it appears that the great day is regarded as a year and that the fifth trumpet begins in 1989; those fifty-one years are located in the period between 1989 and 2040. What did the year 1989 mean? It meant healing the death wound of the hurt head that Revelation 13: 3 talks about and the removal of the communism in Europe which has unleashed different kinds of movements in Europe and the world. The fact that the locusts were not allowed to kill them but only to torture them for five months (9:5a) shows, firstly, that this period will be known as being characterized by terrorism. What are locusts? As the text says (9: 12), they represent the first woe (misfortune) when people will have an active role (see their description). Who will be affected by this woe? but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads (9:4). Who are actually these people? They're people who aren't born again because, as it appears very clearly in Ephesians 4: 30, God makes the sealing of His slaves through the Holy Spirit: do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Does anyone have any doubt that today we don't have enough people who live under the motto: "here and now", living a life as the one that locusts do?

10.4 THE SIXTH TRUMPET - CH. 9: 13-21

THE FOUR ANGELS' ABSOLUTION FROM THE EUPHRATES RIVER And this is a trumpet with very large depths. In order to disentangle its sound , I was guided to look closely at the first verse which announce it (13) and then, I saw that things do not come directly on the scene (I mean they don't have a reference to the great day), but they come in the scene through a voice coming from the four horns of the golden altar that is before God. So, they have a basis in the year 96 - date when John saw that altar.
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I have to admit though, that I was tempted to quit searching for the meaning of the mystery of what lies behind the expression: who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year(15), being satisfied with the idea that it's still about a time very precisely located between 1989 and 2040. What made me come back to the thought showed above was the fact that the precisely number of the army/officers caught my attention (two hundred million). And thus, I noticed that the phrase " hour and day and month and year " is something the opposite, in the sense that its interpretation cannot be done in a manner similar to the previous cases. And while I was in this trouble, not knowing how to determine " hour and day and month and year ", I got a guidance that told me: didn't you have determined in the previous calculations representations of hour, day, month and year? Collect them! I have reviewed the data and I saw that the first time I determined just the hour and day (76 + 1822), and the second time the month and year (10 + 1); total = 2030. I think the determination and the interpretation are correct, and that's why I appreciate that 2030 is the approximate date of fulfillment of the prophecy regarding the absolution of the four angels from "the great river Euphrates" which, as the text says, will destroy a third of the people by fire, smoke and sulfur. Obviously, it is about a war that will take place in the Euphrates area.

10.5 THE ANGEL WITH THE LITTLE SCROLL

Today - year 2002, I am confident that I was holding myself face to face with the Angel with the little scroll. In a particularly way I saw myself attracted to the book of Prophet Daniel and I realized that it has the key to unravel the prophecies from the book of Revelation. The importance that I gave to the book of Daniel is seen from the stories that I've told regarding the two thousand three hundred evenings and mornings. I'm convinced that today is the time of the angel with the little scroll and I confess with humility that I am glad of the grace which God gave me to understand the message of the angel with the little scroll. What lies behind the verse 10: 10? I took the little scroll from the angels hand and ate it. It tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it, my stomach turned sour.

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There are two things: on the one hand, it is obvious that to eat the little scroll means actually to research it in its depth, and on the other hand, it is to understand and to remember that John is the man who had access to all of God's plan. In this condition it's easy to understand that the time of contact with the plan of God caused him softness his joy was very high, especially if we keep in mind the fact that he is the apostle of love; he was the man to whom it was showed very clear that God is love and light. But afterward, after he saw through the eyes of God (see the visions with the beasts, bowls, Babylon), which is the test that God subjects the people in the process of glorification, he felt that pain of sorrow caused by knowledge: For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief (Ecclesiastes 1:18). The only thing that I still have to say it's concerning the special warning that the angel gives regarding the seventh sound of the trumpet: And he swore by him who lives for ever and ever, who created the heavens and all that is in them, the earth and all that is in it, and the sea and all that is in it, and said, There will be no more delay! But in the days when the seventh angel is about to sound his trumpet, the mystery of God will be accomplished, just as he announced to his servants the prophets. (Revelation 10:6,7). Under the inspiration of verse 10: 11, I see myself forced to confess that they are called upon to take note on the discovery of God from Revelation many peoples, nations, languages and kings. I'm urged to confess that Revelation is addressed first to the Church, but at the same time it is addressed to the Jews, Muslims, atheists, businessmen, politicians, kings, theologians, clergy, and last but not least, to those written in the Lamb's book of life. Today, more than ever, it's valid the written blessing from ch. 3: 1: Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near.

10.6 THE TWO WITNESSES

And you also must testify, for you have been with me from the beginning (John 15:27). But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth (Acts 1:8). Is Israel a witness? Is the Church a witness? Here are the two witnesses that prophet Daniel says they'll be crushed in the last days: The man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, lifted his right hand and his left hand toward heaven, and I heard him swear
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by him who lives forever, saying, It will be for a time, times and half a time. When the power of the holy people has been finally broken, all these things will be completed (Daniel 12:7). Chapter 11 discusses the situation of the two witnesses during the reign of three years and a half of the beast which comes up from the Abyss (11: 7). The presentation targets first the Jerusalem, which will be trampled by Gentiles for three years and a half (11: 2). This period is difficult for both Israel and the Church, being symbolized by the sackcloth (mourning bag) (11: 3). The two witnesses will still have the power to make the prophecies that will tantalize the inhabitants of the Earth (see Hosea 6: 5). When the three years and a half will end, the beast which comes up from the Abyss will kill (will prohibit their activity) throughout the great City. It should be noted that the great City that is also called Babylon, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt (11: 8). As we will see below, it is closely related to the beast that comes up from the Abyss (see Revelation 17: 18), so it is an area where the beast reigns. The event that is described below, as the resurrection of the two witnesses and the invitation: "Come up here!" is the rapture in a cloud, as was prophesied by Saint Paul in 1 Thessalonians 4: 17. The verse 11: 13 describes the great war that will be on the territory of Israel, that prophets talked about; basically, it is about the war of the great day. It is very important to emphasize that this war begins "immediately", that is the date when the two witnesses "went up to heaven in a cloud" (11: 12). It is very important to note that, from this time, those remaining in Jerusalem gave glory to the God of heaven (11:13). What does it mean? It means that, as the powerful voices of heaven confess (11: 15), the Great King is already recognised in Jerusalem.

10.7 THE SEVENTH TRUMPET

The seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, which said: The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Messiah, and he will reign for ever and ever (Revelation 11:15).

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What does this text say? It says that it's the end of time that God had reserved through His plan for the kingdom of this world; that is, for the governance of human under the influence of this world's ruler (the Devil). The fact that The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Messiah means nothing else than the fact that we passed to the Kingdom of one thousand years, which will be continued by the eternal Kingdom. About the state in which the world will be at the time of change of governance and about how we will pass to the eternal Kingdom, we find out from the last two verses of the first section (Revelation 11: 18 and 19): The nations were angry, and your wrath has come. The time has come for judging the dead, and for rewarding your servants the prophets and your people who revere your name, both great and small and for destroying those who destroy the earth.(18)... And there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake and a severe hailstorm(19). The verses cited above show that, at the time of the end, people will end up in a state in which, they practically will no longer be able to govern the Earth; their actions are basically not of government but of destruction. How will the transition be made from one system of governance to another? Through a great world war which, as results from Daniel 12: 11 and 12, will be very short: From the time that the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination that causes desolation is set up, there will be 1,290 days(11). Blessed is the one who waits for and reaches the end of the 1,335 days (12). These two verses show that the Great Armageddon will last thirty days (from 1260 to 1290 days) at the end of which the Great King will be recognized at Jerusalem, and after fortyfive days of world war, the Great King will be recognized throughout the world, thus establishing definitively the Kingdom of peace. At this point, after I have already completed the first section of the book of Revelation which, as I pointed out, presents in synthesis the evolution of the world since 96 to the establishment of the Kingdom of one thousand years, before moving on to the next-analysis section that provides additional information about the great day, that the first section in the ch. 711 deals with, I feel that it is necessary to emphasize that Revelation is addressed primarily to the Church, but at the same time it discovers very important issues that concern Israel, that concern the people under the reign of the beast from the Abyss (that is on the site of the former Roman Empire), which relate to the people of the Euphrates area, and last but not least, regarding the nations: Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies...(Revelation 19:19).

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At this point it is important and necessary to mention that showing the actions of the beast from the Abyss have as the main aim showing the time on the clock of God.

11. THE WOMAN AND THE DRAGON A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth (12:1,2). This section provides additional information regarding the sealing of those 144 000 in chapter 7. Here's the mystery of this woman: Before she goes into labor, she gives birth; before the pains come upon her, she delivers a son. Who has ever heard of such things? Who has ever seen things like this? Can a country be born in a day or a nation be brought forth in a moment? Yet no sooner is Zion in labor than she gives birth to her children (Isaiah 66:7,8). Before making any comments I have to quote Zechariah 2: 8: Come, Zion! Escape, you who live in Daughter Babylon! To those who want to have a better understanding, I strongly recommend to read also chapter 37 in Ezekiel concerning the resurrection of the bones that is at the return of the Jewish people in Palestine. For anyone familiar with the prophecies of the Bible, we no longer have any comment: the woman is, therefore, the daughter of Zion; that is the Zionist Movement which began with the first congress in 1897 and which, in the total light of God (sun, moon), born Israel on the 14th of May 1948. As for the Dragon and his action, anyone looking carefully will see that the Dragon has as many heads and horns as the beast from the Abyss, and so it has direct connection with the beast and his throwing (12: 7) takes place at the third sound of trumpet, that is in 1948 and thus, on May 15, 1948 (that is the day after the birth of the state of Israel) starts the war against the woman. Verses 13-16 of Chapter 12 describe basically the fight of Israel with the dragon, which took place after the 14th of May 1948. The fact that the verses mentioned above refer to the fight between the dragon and the woman and not the fight between the dragon and the man child, shows us that it is about the fight of the Devil against the consolidation of Israel. In verse 17 we see very clearly that the prophecy goes up to the time of the end: Then the dragon was enraged at the woman and went off to wage war against the rest of her offspring those who keep Gods commands and hold fast their testimony about Jesus.

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What does it mean that this son is going to herd all the nations with an iron scepter? This is basically a prophecy concerning the role that Israel will have in the Kingdom of a thousand years that prophet Zechariah talks about: Then the survivors from all the nations that have attacked Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD Almighty, and to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles. If any of the peoples of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD Almighty, they will have no rain (Zechariah 14:16,17). Concerning the mystery with the run of the woman in the desert (wilderness) (12: 6), please consider that on her return from the daughter of Babylon, the daughter of Zion found the country desert: ...were gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate (Ezekiel 38:8); The desolate land will be cultivated instead of lying desolate in the sight of all who pass through it( Ezekiel 36:34); I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations, where they were strangers. The land they left behind them was so desolate that no one traveled through it. This is how they made the pleasant land desolate (Zechariah 7:14).

12. THE BEAST FROM THE ABYSS

Before the presentation of the absolution of the mystery with the beast coming up from the Abyss, because I will inevitably make references to the names of certain powers, for those who read skipping some lines, I do the following mention: As it follows from the title of the work and of the chapter GOD LOVES, HE DOESN'T JUDGE the revelation that I received regarding the way in which God works with people has an essential feature. I mean God convinced myself that the full responsibility concerning the manner in which life evolves on earth belongs to God, who made the human after an eternal plan, who ordained principalities (see Romans 13: 1-7), who closely watches that every letter in His plan and His Word to be fulfilled. As I think I have already been understood, this doesn't mean that everyone do what they want; this means that only God does what He wants; people have the obligation to obey the Word of God, having basically no solution to do otherwise. Please understand very well: neither governments nor the Devil are guilty for the evolution of things on Earth. The texts that speak about Satan's fault or people's fault are like: I regret that I have made them(Genesis 6:7). However, it is downright wrong to think that this short sentence should be read as it seems at first glance; believing that God really is sorry means basically believing that God didn't know what He created. As you saw in all those depicted here, this thing is not true at all. Indeed, if we look at the descriptions that Daniel does in ch. 7: 7 in his book, we can only frighten/be frightened: ...and there before me was a fourth beastterrifying and frightening
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and very powerful. It had large iron teeth; it crushed and devoured its victims and trampled underfoot whatever was left... If we also read the discoveries made in Revelation ch. 13 and ch. 17, it cannot be otherwise than to frighten you: The dragon stood on the shore of the sea. And I saw a beast coming out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on its horns, and on each head a blasphemous name. The beast I saw resembled a leopard, but had feet like those of a bear and a mouth like that of a lion. The dragon gave the beast his power and his throne and great authority (13:1,2). Then the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns (17:3). I have to admit that only the total grace and the guidance of the Holy Spirit made me to get rid of the terror produced by the description of this beast. However, I cannot overlook that this beast has truly great ferocity and power: It was given power to wage war against Gods holy people and to conquer them. And it was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation (13:7). While I was trying to understand how ten horns might be placed on seven heads, I remembered that the first who has the revelation regarding the last kingdom was the emperor Nebuchadnezzar and so, I realized that there is a correlation between the number of horns that John saw and the toes of the feet of the image seen by Nebuchadnezzar (Daniel 2: 40-43). In this circumstance, I realized that the period of reign of the beast with ten horns is exactly that one represented by the toes from the image's feet that Nebuchadnezzar had seen. Whatever someone might think, I must still confess that when I realized that the toes are exactly the reign of the beast with ten horns, the first thought that came to my mind was to measure the length of my toes and the length of the feet in overall and make the report to see what emerges. The result was incredible: the length of the thumb - 5 (five) cm and the total length of the leg - 1150 (one thousand one hundred and fifty) cm; 4,35% ratio. What does it mean? I have already known from the vision with the two thousand three hundred evenings and mornings that the entire period of reign of the last beast is two thousand three hundred years plus those three years and a half. So, how much is 4,35% of 2304 years? It's exactly one hundred years (a century). But in that moment, I remembered that I actually have the exact information about the time of reign of the beast with ten horns, this being provided by Revelation 17: 12, 13: The ten horns you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but who for one hour will receive authority as kings along with the beast. They have one purpose and will give their power and authority to the beast.
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The fact that at the end of their rule, the ten horns will agree and will give their rule to the beast, it appears from the verse 17 of the same chapter 17: For God has put it into their hearts to accomplish his purpose by agreeing to hand over to the beast their royal authority, until Gods words are fulfilled. How much represent an hour of twenty four? Exactly 4,17%, which means that the period of reign of the ten horns represent 96 years (2303,5 x 4,17%) plus three years and a half; the period when the ten horns will agree to give their royal power to the beast. So, in total, exactly one hundred years. From all those given above it results that the period of reign of the beast with ten horns extends approximately between 1940 and 2040. So, the reign of the beast starts soon after the silence of almost half an hour and it fits in "the great day" (Revelation 17: 6). I think that the disproportion between the number of heads and horns is justified as follows: three of the ten powers are over the ocean and they come from populations emigrated from the area of mastery of the former Roman Empire. I think we are already very close to the date on which it will be seen clearly the fulfillment of the prophecy from Daniel 7: 8: ...three of the first horns were uprooted before it.... One very important thing not to be missed is that even after the first occurrence, the beast that comes up from the Abyss was seen with a head injured. Who does not know what is the power which in 1989 has healed the wound of death?: One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed. The whole world was filled with wonder and followed the beast (Revelation 13:3).

13. THE MYSTERY OF THE BEASTS NUMBER - 666 Yes, all the revelation presented in this work is granted to God I am just the first beneficiary of His discovery. We live in a time when people put it like this: "what do I gain?" or "what this or that help me for?" Obviously, from/to the counting of number of the beast, many people put the problem in a similar manner: "what do I use it for?" For those who ask the question truthfully, the answer is: the correct counting of the number of the beast is particularly important because it provides additional information regarding the time of the end. It is therefore worthwhile to work a little bit in order to have another verification key regarding the time of the end.

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To be specific, the number 666 refers to the last ruler of a great power that will rise at the time of the end on the territory of the former Roman Empire, which will be overcome by the Lamb of God. The presentation made in the preceding chapter "THE BEAST FROM THE ABYSS" already provided some important information on how to reach the receiving power by this leader and so, there remains only to see who provides information on what it represents and how this number is counted. So, while I was trying to find how to count the number of the beast, I realized that God does not challenge His children to make calculations without providing them clear information regarding the reporting that should be taken into account. It is clear that, if the reporting is wrong, the result can only be wrong. So, who provides the information needed to the counting of the number of the beast? Revelation 17: 7-13 (all verses of this passage provide information regarding the counting of the number of the beast) and the Prophet Daniel. Here's what verse 7 says: I will explain to you the mystery of the woman and of the beast she rides, which has the seven heads and ten horns. The text is very clear; in other words we would say: I will unravel to you the things regarding ... Verse 8 says: The beast, which you saw, once was, now is not, and yet will come up out of the Abyss and go to its destruction...(8a). What does it mean? It means the presentation of the beast's evolution; it means that it has a past and, as I have already pointed out, prophet Daniel talks about this past. Verse 9: This calls for a mind with wisdom. The seven heads are seven hills on which the woman sits. What does this mean? Or rather, what are the hills? Revelation 6: 14 makes me think that the hills don't represent anything than seven world powers on the territory of the former Roman Empire, who have claimed since World War II. So, if we pay attention, we observe that in the first sentence in verse nine we are informed that it follows the interpretation key of the number of the beast: This calls for a mind with wisdom. I am convinced that verses 10 and 11 which I will quote below and whose content appears as a riddle, provide the necessary elements to unravel what represents and how to count the number of the beast: They are also seven kings. Five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come; but when he does come, he must remain for only a little while (10). The beast who once was, and now is not, is an eighth king. He belongs to the seven and is going to his destruction (11). Here are a few things that verse 10 clears.
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First, we can say that this verse is the interpretation of verse eight, quoted above, and it shows actually who is the first and the last emperor of the fourth beast that Revelation deals with. So, it is very important to note that the first emperor of the beast which Revelation takes account of is just the emperor of the beast who was at the time the Church was born. I referred to this aspect, first, when I said above that God does not challenge His children to make calculations without providing them clear information. This is deduced from the fact that, on the date when John received the revelation, there was the sixth emperor. Let's see now what verse 11 clears. How is that is an eighth king and also belongs to the seven? First, it belongs to the seven because it represents the emperor who has not yet come and who must remain for only a little while; that is the last one of the seven listed in verse 10. But if it is from the number of those seven, how is, however, the eighth? Verses 12 and 13 clarify this mystery. As I have already shown, the Revelation has its own angle of view of the beast; it sees the beast from an angle that is important for the Church - not to forget the fact that Revelation was written for the Church. At the same time, however, it should not be forgotten that Prophet Daniel is the first who has revelations of the fourth beast which basically, as I pointed out, is the fourth Kingdom that extends to a period of 2303,5 years. So, it is important to understand that: The fourth beast is a fourth kingdom that will appear on earth... (Daniel 7:23). The ten horns are ten kings who will come from this kingdom. After them another king will arise, different from the earlier ones; he will subdue three kings (Daniel 7:24). The verses cited above show very clearly that the revelations about the fourth beast which Daniel and John have received are complementary. They basically provide different information relating to the succession of emperors in the fourth Kingdom which, we should not forgot, that is symbolized by the feet of the image that Nebuchadnezzar had seen. So, what does it mean that, the beast itself, although it is from the number of those seven, is still the eighth emperor? It means nothing else but the absolution of a very important issue concerning the mystery of the beast with ten heads (see Revelation 17: 7) that Revelation 17: 713 refers, as I pointed out above. If we analyze the text mentioned above, we'll notice that in this text, the book of Revelation does not refer only to seven kings, but extends to a period (an hour) when, at the same time, the power will be held by ten kings; the reign of those ten kings, as it results from Revelation 17: 12, 13, precedes the reign of the seventh emperor.

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In such circumstances, we note that practically Revelation refers to eight kings or eight times/periods of the Kingdom. The question is: if, as I pointed out above, the beast is the eighth emperor, then which one emperor is the beast if we take into account the period that Daniel and Revelation don't make references ("was and is no longer") and if we keep in mind that, during the reign of an hour of the ten horns, basically many emperors have succeeded? It's just only one answer: the beast is the six hundred sixty-sixth emperor. How do we get to that number? Taking account of Nebuchadnezzar's first vision, the big image, and those reported in Revelation 17: 10. So, until the discovery on the island of Patmos (the year 96 AD) we have six emperors. From the year 96 until the division of the Roman Empire (395 AD) there was one emperor each to the leadership of the Kingdom. From 395 until the reign of the beast with ten horns (around 1940), at the leadership of the fourth Kingdom two emperors succeded, depending on the two branches of the Eastern and the Western Roman Empire (it should be kept in mind that both the Eastern and the Western Roman Empire had successors). From 1940 to 2036, they succeded and will succed ten emperors each at the leadership of the kingdom (the only important thing is to identify the ten powers representing the beast with ten horns). From 2036 to 2040, for three years and a half, it's the reign of the six hundred and sixty-sixth Emperor. Regarding the number of the beast, I think it can be one more question: why has God established that the existence of the Church to be held for a period of people's reign, under six hundred sixty-six emperors? What does this mean? I think it may only mean that, through His plan, God reserved a full period of time needed by His Church to prepare for the glorification.

14. THE BEAST WHICH COMES UP FROM THE GROUND

The fact that the high power over the ocean, in an area with a rare population, whose Constitution provides for the exercise of civil and religious power is the second beast, which comes up from the ground, it's not novelty; so, in that sense there is a conviction on a fairly large scale. The launch of the atomic bomb at the end of World War II, which I think is the descent of the fire from heaven (Revelation 13: 13), and the position that the power overseas played in healing the wound of death of the first beast and in strengthening a superpower on the area of the former Roman Empire demonstrates very clearly that the power over the ocean is the second beast. The fact that this power is seen as the false prophet (Revelation 19: 20) demonstrates that this beast is also seen as being integral part of the structure of power of the first beast.

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...It ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived (14). The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed (15). It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads (16), so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name (17) (Revelation 13). The enigma of the image of the beast that tormented through the ages many people, and I could say that the terror which the image and the mark of the beast stirred made many people run of the discovery of God and thus, Revelation remained a closed book. I have to admit that in my head, until receiving the great grace of having access to the discovery of God, there took place similar things; all the trumpets and all the bowls sounded or were paid almost at the same time. Anyway, I didn't understand anything about the mark and the image of the beast. But it came a period of great grace, when I saw how the hand of God is upon me, to discover for me many hidden things, including those concerning the icon and the mark of the beast. So, while I was trying to understand what the image and the mark of the beast mean, I was enlightened by the whisper of two texts which have clarified all of a sudden: No immoral, impure or greedy personsuch a person is an idolater has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God (Ephesians 5:5); Show me the coin used for paying the tax...Whose image is this? And whose inscription?(Matthew 22:19,20). I suddenly remembered 2 Timothy 3: 1,2: But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy. Aha! The bowls don't fall in bunch ... So the image of the beast is nothing but the beast currency (that is money). Does this image speak? I believe that the well known expression "money talk" constitutes an answer that does not support comments. And yet, I have to say something: we reached the time when God makes the judgment based on the attitude of the people towards the image of the beast (see "The seven bowls"). That's why I have to note, in this context, the urge of Apostle John: Dear children, keep yourselves from idols (1 John 5:21).

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But let's come back to the interpretation of the verses cited (Revelation 13: 16-17). So, what does it mean and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed? But first, who are those all? Yes, as verse 16 describes them, those all leave no room for exceptions. For a good understanding, you need to keep in mind that no great monarch has direct links with a particular subject; he has a relationship with the authority designated authority over the subjects. We have to understand from here that the decision of death does not refer, first, to individuals, but it refers to large groups of individuals who are represented as I have already pointed out. What does it mean to kill them? It means to isolate them economic - administrative. Not receiving the sign on the forehead or on the hand is just that thing. Therefore, there will be isolated small and large states, rich or poor, free or not free. How to apply the award of the mark on the forehead or on the hand? It's simple, because the sign, just as verse 17 shows, is basically the name of the beast or the number of its name. Receiving the sign on your forehead means basically to be part of the administrative organisation of this power (the forehead is part of the head, which is the ability of administration). Receiving the sign on your hand means the freedom to do business (sales/sale-purchase) with this power; it means basically resorting to its currency, which obviously has the name of the beast. As for the meaning of the expression "the number of its name", I believe that this is about the economic transactions made in the currency of the beast without using cash.

16. THE ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOUR THOUSAND THE HARVEST AND TREADING WINEPRESS (CH. 14)
Chapter 14 is a condensed overview of the main events during the time of judgment: the hour of his judgment has come (7). First, there are presented the one hundred forty four thousand standing on Mount Zion, along with Lamb (1)- who were purchased from among mankind and offered as firstfruits to God and the Lamb (4). In this context it is necessary to emphasize that these one hundred and forty-four thousand from ch. 14 is a full number of glorified people from all the tribes: "of the people", and should not be confused with the one hundred and forty-four thousand from ch. 7 about which I have already reported.
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Then, there are presented three angels: the first one announces the time of judgement, as I pointed out above (7), time which is 5 years (122 years the great day x 4,17%); the second one announces the fall of Babylon, and the third angel announces the judgement of those who worship the beast and its image. The period is seen as a very hard one and it is given a message of encouragement: This calls for patient endurance on the part of the people of God who keep his commands and remain faithful to Jesus.... Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on (14:12,13), those dead having the first resurrection. Beginning with verse 14 till the end, it is shown a summary of the great day's war which will take place on the territory of Israel. It is actually the war described in ch. 16: 18 and ch. 19: 19,20, with the command center of the beast and the Kings of the Earth from Armageddon. I find it very important to consider that this war is waged not only by the beast but also by the Kings of the Earth; Gog of the land of Magog is playing a very important role. In this context, I want to emphasize that the Bible does not accuse anybody for this war; the text of Ezekiel in ch. 38 and 39 is very clear in this regard: I will turn you around, put hooks in your jaws and bring you out with your whole armyyour horses, your horsemen fully armed, and a great horde with large and small shields, all of them brandishing their swords. Persia, Cush and Put will be with them, all with shields and helmets, also Gomer with all its troops, and Beth Togarmah from the far north with all its troopsthe many nations with you (38:4-6) and I will turn you around and drag you along. I will bring you from the far north and send you against the mountains of Israel (39:2). On the mountains of Israel you will fall, you and all your troops and the nations with you. I will give you as food to all kinds of carrion birds and to the wild animals (39:4). You will advance against my people Israel like a cloud that covers the land. In days to come, Gog, I will bring you against my land, so that the nations may know me when I am proved holy through you before their eyes (38:16) - (see also the description of Prophet Zechariah in chapter 14 of his book). The description made by Revelation 14: 20 confirms that wringing winepress figures speaks precisely about this war: They were trampled in the winepress outside the city, and blood flowed out of the press, rising as high as the horses bridles for a distance of 1,600 stadia. It is interesting to note that Jerusalem, even though it won't be free of problems, will still be protected to a large extent: On that day the LORD will shield those who live in Jerusalem, so that the feeblest among them will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of the LORD going before them (Zechariah 12:8). The fact that the winepress will be trampled out of the city speaks of the same thing. Today, the 26th of April 2002, I can say that I have clarified some of the mysteries under the seventh seal. For example, if yesterday I didn't understand what the one thousand six hundred
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As you have already seen on the previous pages, especially in chapter " THE STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK - REVELATION EXPLAINED FOR EVERYONE, God paid special attention to the great day when He discovered it to His slave John on the Patmos island; He paid special attention on it from several angles. Therefore, it seems correct to insist on the clarification on the structure of the book, this time based on the seals, the trumpets and the bowls, taking into account all the aspects clarified to this point regarding the time that Revelation refers. So, the entire period referred to in Revelation (until the end of the great day) is located between the years 96 and 2040 and is divided by the seven seals, as follows: the first six seals cover the period of time between the years 96 and 1918 and the seventh seal covers the period of time between the years 1918 and 2040, which represents the great day. Because the great day has a special importance in the context of discovery, it was structured through the sound of seven trumpets, as follows: the first four trumpets talk about the problems that the world will face since 1948; the fifth trumpet presents information about the state of the world between 1989 and 2040; the sixth trumpet presents the disaster caused by a war in the Euphrates area around 2030; and the seventh trumpet announces the entry into the Kingdom of peace and it describes the war of the great day through which the Kingdom of God is set up.

Although, as we can see from the seven seals and seven trumpets in the first section, it's covered the entire period of time. However, as I pointed out, given the importance of the great day, God, in the second section of the book ch. 12-20, presents additional issues relating to the great day using seven bowls among other symbols. We are on the great day, the fifth trumpet, and we got so at the time of the end, as we are told in the book of Prophet Daniel (12: 4), knowledge will increase. The question is: if, through the decoding of the seals and the trumpets I clarified the things till the time of the end, then what are the additional issues that the seven bowls clarify?

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Though at first glance it would seem that the bowls don't provide many additional aspects, however, if we look a little closer (illuminated by the Holy Spirit), we see that, on the contrary, the additional aspects clarified are not just a few. Firstly, it is noteworthy that God reveals first aspects concerning the glorification of those who graduated the school of suffering and after that, He shows how the testing is for those who are going to be glorified. Secondly, it is to note that both the trumpets and the bowls provide information concerning the geographical areas of the planet symbolized by earth and deep (waters) which are governed by the two beasts and represent the area where the Church was born and grew. Thirdly, it should be noted that, even if there are strong similarities between the last two trumpets and the last two bowls, however, we will see that the last two bowls provide much additional information. Fourthly, it is noted that the first bowl unbind the date from which we can speak about the existence of the mark and the image of the beast, which is extremely important because, as we see in Revelation 20: 4, those who will not worship the beast and his image receive the special prize which consists of the Kingdom with Christ a thousand years. I mean, it is worthwhile to pay a small price to get a big prize (see Romans 8: 18: I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us). The first angel went and poured out his bowl on the land, and ugly, festering sores broke out on the people who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image (Revelation 16:2). Has the first bowl been paid or not? Does the text cited above provide us sufficient elements to be able to rule on this? From the accounts given above, it follows that, if the last two bowls virtually overlap with the last two trumpets, then the date when the first five bowls are paid can be located only between the date when the fifth trumpet took place (1989) and the date when the sixth trumpet will take place (2030). Regarding the date when the sixth trumpet will be held, I must confess that I was wondering if an error occurred in my revelation. What makes me think that I don't have any errors? Just one thing: Father is not a terrorist to destroy the humans and the Earth by concentrating the trumpets and the bowls in a short period of five years (as it is the time of judgement) because He has in His plan the Kingdom of peace of a thousand years and, at the same time, we should not forget that God is love and He doesn't give to His children tasks that cannot be taken.
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So, the first five bowls may be paid but only between 1989 and 2030. Does history record a "bad and painful wound" between 1989 and 2030 over the area that the second beast has raised? I say yes, even more, I can say that the wound recorded on the 11th of September 2001 was so bad and painful that I don't allow myself to talk about it. The only question that we have is whether at that time or not the beast have had a sign and a image of it, and if the people who were affected by this bowl had any connection with the mark and the image of the beast or not. Because we already know what the mark and the image of the beast mean, the answer is a categorical yes. From the 1st of January 1999 financial transactions are made with the last coin that belongs to a number of 12 states on the territory of the former Roman Empire; on the 31st of December 2001, the volume of liquidity weighed as much as 24 Eifel Towers. It is clear that on the coin are found both the name and the power sign that it holds. In conclusion, we can say that the year 2001 marks the beginning of the period bounded by the seven bowls, period between 2001 and 2040. The second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it turned into blood like that of a dead person, and every living thing in the sea died (Revelation 16:3). First, we should note that the bowls' flowing respects the order in which the angels trumpet; I mean, first the land is affected. The land, as I have shown, is an area where the second beast has risen. And then, the sea was affected; that is the area from where the first beast came (from the Abyss). At this point it is worth noting that the Revelation, from the beginning to the end, makes discoveries primarily for the Church; the two areas of the world mentioned above are areas where the Church was born and developed. The only region of the world apart from those two governed by the two beasts, that Revelation refers directly and specifically, is the Euphrates area. This demonstrates that in the second part of the great day, marked by the seven bowls (2001-2040), the events in the Euphrates area will have special importance for the Church. Arguably, these events represent a great hint of the fact that the coming of Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ is very close. Returning to the direct effect of the second bowl's payment, it is to note that, unlike the second trumpet, which spiritually affected one third of the people, the second bowl is detrimental to all people. More explicitly and for everyone to understand, it can be said that, from the effect of the second trumpet (1948 2001) escaped two-thirds of "old-fashioned Christians", but after over
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fifty years this category of christians disappeared, remaining practically only those who were part of the third affected (children). You realize the moral disaster brought by the second and the third bowl only when you realize that, basically, it is no longer water, everything has become blood; everything that is spirit has been affected, everything that is alive. The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and the sun was allowed to scorch people with fire (Revelation 16:8). So, the fourth bowl affects the whole world. You see the drama/thrill of this bowl only when you realize that, after being morraly affected, people will be affected also physically, of biological life. I am convinced that "intense heat" may symbolize only the drought, which obviously brings famine (see Matthew 24: 4). Whatever some critics might say, me, as an optimistic person, I'll emphasize the good side of this bowl. As I have already said, God is not going to destroy the Earth, nor the humans; our life comes from Him and returns to Him. So, in all His work, even through the toughest actions, God is doing nothing else but His plan for people's preparation for glorification (see ABSOLUTION OF THE MYSTERY OF SUFFERING). So, what does God tell us through/by this bowl? Attention to the irrigation system! The fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was plunged into darkness. People gnawed their tongues in agony (Revelation 16:10). What does this mean?! It probably means only the effect of the terrorist attack on the headquarters of the beast which will precede the sixth bowl paid over the Euphrates. I think the effect of this war will be the reason of the war in the Euphrates area announced by the sixth trumpet and the sixth bowl. The seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and out of the temple came a loud voice from the throne, saying, It is done!(17) Then there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder and a severe earthquake. No earthquake like it has ever occurred since mankind has been on earth, so tremendous was the quake (18) (Revelation 16:17,18). Do we need more comments? Obviously not. However, which is the new information presented by the last two bowls? First, we see that behind the World War II there will be three unclean spirits representing the satanic trinity. These spirits will be able to rounding the "Kings of the whole Earth", to
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participate to the war of the great day. It should be noted and emphasised that otherwise it would be impossible to achieve a mobilization that great. Where will be the place of assembly? Armageddon. In such circumstances, I don't have anything left to do than to bow my head: "O Lord, God of Abraham, I know that Your plan may not be changed, therefore I can not beg You to cancel the Armageddon, but please, when Your Son, the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ will descend on the clouds to take over His Kingdom, remember also the prayer of Thy servant and be mercy toward people and their kings because they are Your handiwork and they have a test over their powers. Thank you. I think this is a prayer after the purpose of Your will and therefore I put it today, the 18th of February 2003, at your feet, in the name of Your Son - Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen ".

18. BABYLON - CH. 17 AND 18

Chapters 17 and 18 are a description of Babylon and its judgment. The most important thing is that the great city Babylon is in close connection with the beast. In fact, in chapter 17 we see that the beast - political power has behind it the Babylon, which is the economical power with all its implications; basically, the economic leads (money). Obviously, economic abundance produces lust, pride and everything 2Timothy 3: 1-5 says. The expression: " In one hour such great wealth has been brought to ruin! (Revelation 18:17a)", shows the swiftness with which God will judge Babylon (Revelation 18: 21b) and it unravel the mystery of the seventy-five days to come after the period of three years and a half prophesied by Daniel 12: 11, 12. It can be said that this hour is an hour of the judgement time which I pointed out that it is/takes five years (5 years x 360 days x 4,17% = 75 days). These seventy-five days represent the period between the rapture/capture of the Church (Revelation 11: 12) and the date when it will be finalized the establishment of the Kingdom of one thousand years and these seventy-five days include the great Armageddon and the judgment of Babylon. The fact that it is about a very short period of time is shown also in the expression: In one hour she has been brought to ruin! (Revelation 18:19b). The most important thing that must be pointed out is that God runs the whole process of judgement of Babylon and that all of the actions are carried out only after His plan: The beast and the ten horns you saw will hate the prostitute. They will bring her to ruin and leave her naked; they will eat her flesh and burn her with fire. For God has put it into their hearts to

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accomplish his purpose by agreeing to hand over to the beast their royal authority, until Gods words are fulfilled (17:16,17). What is meant in the text above? It is meant that the last King of the Gentiles will shake and will throw down the great Babylon (the economic power) that he keeps on his back/behind him. Regarding the judgment and the fall of Babylon, described dramatically in chapter 18, I think it is a similar situation to that which Nebuchadnezzar 's Babylon had. In this context, I see myself obliged to alert the reader of the voice from heaven saying: Come out of her, my people, so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not receive any of her plagues (4). let the reader understand.

19. THE WEDDING OF THE LAMB AND THE KINGDOM OF ONE THOUSAND YEARS (CH. 19-20)
Chapter 19 presents a glorious scene in which it is shown the great joy of a big crowd for the coming of the Kingdom of one thousand years: Let us rejoice and be glad and give him glory! For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready (19:7). The second part of this chapter shows a scene of war in the great day in which the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to wage war against the rider on the horse and his army (Revelation 19:19). The fact that the beast and the false prophet were thrown alive into the fiery lake (19: 20) means nothing but the fact that the Kingdom passed into the hands of the Lamb without any pastime and that the beast and the false prophet had their judgment. So, we need to understand that God, through His plan, has provided that the period of a thousand years which will precede the creation of the new heaven and the new earth to represent a Kingdom of peace, when The wolf and the lamb will feed together... (Isaiah 65:25a) and the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea (Isaiah 11:9b). This period of the Kingdom of a thousand years represents the time when God will perform several prophecies which have not been understood so far for many people: Instead, they will serve the LORD their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them (Jeremiah 30:9). It is very clear that the role of leader at Jerusalem in the Kingdom of a thousand years will be David's. How God will proceed in order to achieve this, we must not make any sort of problems. The One who knew to send Elijah before His first coming (Matthew 11: 14) and the One who put words in the mouth of the Balaam's donkey (Numbers 22: 28-30) has solutions to

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wake David to lead His people a thousand years. By the way, do not forget that the Kingdom of a thousand years will be preceded by the first resurrection. David's role in the Kingdom of a thousand years is shown by other prophecies, too: I will place over them one shepherd, my servant David, and he will tend them; he will tend them and be their shepherd. I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David will be prince among them. I the LORD have spoken (Ezekiel 34:23,24). So, this is the time when the prophecy made by Hosea will be fulfilled: For the Israelites will live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred stones, without ephod or household gods. Afterward the Israelites will return and seek the LORD their God and David their king. They will come trembling to the LORD and to his blessings in the last days (3:4,5). It is important to note that the peace from the Kingdom of a thousand years is due to the binding of Satan for a thousand years (Revelation 20: 1-3). It should be noted that with the establishment of the Kingdom of one thousand years on Earth takes place also the first resurrection of those who have been martyred: because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or its image... (Revelation 20:4), who will reign with Christ for a thousand years. So, the Kingdom of a thousand years is taking place on two plans: on the one hand we have the Kingdom of peace on Earth in which Israel and Jerusalem will hold the lead, and on the other hand, the wedding of the Lamb will take place in heaven (Revelation 19:7). Regarding the role of Jerusalem in the Kingdom of a thousand years, please see also Zechariah 14: 16,17 - quoted at page 98. Once past those one thousand years, Satan will be loosed to deceive the Nations, whose number will be reached as the sand of the sea (20: 7.8). The Kingdom of a thousand years will end by the judgment of Satan and by devouring those who will encircle the camp of Gods people, the city he loves (20:9).

20. THE LAST JUDGMENT (Revelation chapter 20) -revised in 2005-

Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. The earth and the heavens fled from his presence, and there was no place for them (11).
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Concerning the conduct of the judgment, however, it is to note that this is done, firstly, in this world. Here are two texts that confirm and clarify this: But if we were more discerning with regard to ourselves, we would not come under such judgment 1 Corinthians 11:31 and The sins of some are obvious, reaching the place of judgment ahead of them; the sins of others trail behind them 1 Timothy 5:24. Understanding that the judgment takes place on this world is a special problem, because your way of life is directly influenced by the extent in which you realize this. In other words, it can be said that your relationship with God and with your peers is dictated by the extent to which you understand that conducting the trial/judgment takes place in this world. How is "conducting the judgment"? Simple: in His plan God uses angels, authorities and, last but not least, the judgment itself. About how God accomplishes the judgment through angels and authority, I think there is no need for any comments; but it is worth it to make a short comment on the self judgement. So, I wish from all of my heart to be understood that the self judgment has the power to unharden the heart, to change minds and make flexible the head and the knees before God. This judgment will discover God's will and paves the way to be able to receive His grace; it takes you up to the knowledge of the essence of God, making you understand what is the reason why you are nothing without love (1Corintians 13: 2-8). You can also say that the self judgement leads you to understand what is the meaning of life; to realize that life it's only a short period of preparation for the inheritance of eternal life or the sealing with an eternal status. If you judge yourself truthfully, it is impossible to remain with your mouth closed: discovering the benefits/blessings of God, the sins and all sorts of needs, will make you prostrate, run unceasingly to the One who is love and who has solutions to all problems. The effectiveness of this judgment is directly proportional to the extent to which the believer realizes that he has daily hearings permanently. Looking deeper to see how "conducting of the trial" is done, we will notice that basically this phase of the process is included in the process of preparation for the glorification of man or eternal sealing status which, in its turn, falls within the plan of God. And here we are at the last judgment - the last phase of the process. It remained basically clarified how to interpret texts like: They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever Revelation 20:10b or But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liarsthey will be consigned to the

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fiery lake of burning sulfur Revelation 21:8 - describing the punishment and, obviously, I still have to clear up the rewards issue. Regarding the texts describing the punishment, we have basically cleared up two issues: on the one hand, what is the meaning of the expression the fiery lake of burning sulfur, and on the other hand, what is the meaning of the expression day and night for ever and ever. As we have seen on the previous pages, the problem of the fiery lake of burning sulfur is half-cleared up: Revelation 20: 14b and Revelation 21: 8 explain the problem: the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death. As we can see, the real problem is to clarify the meaning of the expression "the second death", that we'll continue to talk about, but first let's see what is the meaning of the expression "day and night for ever and ever". We need to note that, from the context, the term "day and night for ever and ever" is in addition to "the fiery lake of burning sulfur". It's obvious that, in such circumstances, we quickly realize that the text shouldn't be literally interpreted, but it is interpreted in a similar way to that given for "the fiery lake of burning sulfur". Furthermore, it is noted that "day and night", literally interpreted, makes no sense in addition to "for ever and ever", since day and night are specific to the present world, which will pass just before the last judgment - Revelation 20: 11 and 12. But, after all, isn't Revelation just a discovery achieved with the help of several symbols and metaphors that were interpreted and must be interpreted? Therefore, as regards the interpretation of the expression "day and night for ever and ever" we can say that we find the key of interpreting just when we realize that the assertion is made at the last judgment. At that point we realise that "day and night for ever and ever" refers to the character of the decision given by the last judgment. Therefore, you need to understand very well that, practically, the decision given at the last judgment in the last term, is structured in two parts: "the fiery lake of burning sulfur" which refers to the punishment imposed and "day and night for ever and ever", indicating the finality and irrevocability of judgment. So, "day and night for ever and ever" can mean only the fact that the decision given, that is "the second death", is irrevocable; no one and never can occur to change it. Recalling that at the last judgment will be communicated a decision of blessing and a conviction: Come, you who are blessed by my Father... - Matthew 25: 34 and Depart from me... - Matthew 25: 41, let's continue with the clarification of the expression "the second death".

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First, we have to note that we'll understand what is the second death, at most to the extent that we understand what the first death means - things in present time being the shadow of the things that are coming (Colossians 2: 17, Hebrews 10: 1). What do we know about the first death, or rather, what do we know about death? First of all, we know that death is the separation of the spirit from the body, as it is shown in Ecclesiastes 12: 7; then we know that death is similar to sleeping, as it is shown in 1Thessalonians 4: 14 those who have fallen asleep in him and thirdly, last but not least, in Genesis 2: 17 we note that death signifies basically losing the body able to stand in God's presence. Is death something good? Is death something nice? The answer is an emphatic no; death is a separation a final parting/separation. Analyzing the three texts mentioned above, we realize that Genesis 2: 17 provides us the best and the most clear information as regards the second death: we observe that, for Adam, death was almost losing his body able to stand in the presence of God; it should be noted, however, that after death Adam remained weak, with a body that wasn't able to stand in God's presence anymore. In order to have a clear understanding on how the second death will operate, we must remind ourselves of the accounts given by Revelation 20: 11-15 quoted at the beginning and the fact that the sealing of man with an eternal state is basically the last phase of the process of judgement; so, you need to understand very well that the disclosure of the judgment of God from His Great White Throne on the eternal destiny of man is preceded by the general resurrection during which all the dead shall rise with bodies able to stand in the presence of God. The dramatic moment that will mark the second death will be the one when the Great Shepherd will say: ...Depart from me... (Matthew 25:41b); that will be the time when those subdued to the second death will lose their bodies able to stand in the presence of God. At that time, from the Great White Throne , they'll come out in a similar way to that in which Adam came from the garden of Eden. The drama of losing the body able to stand in the presence of God, you realize it when you know that the loss of this body occurs after the glorification of those blessed: Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world (Matthew 25:34) and after, first, you had such a body. In conclusion, it can be said that the second death is the permanent loss of the body able to stand in the presence of God; so it comes as a result of finding the lack of regeneration and the defeat of the spirit by the flesh. Obviously, we can say a lot of things about the last judgment and there might be a lot of problems about it. I must admit that in my head, until very recently, there were many things
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unclear: ...judging the twelve tribes of Israel (Matthew 19: 28) or Or do you not know that the Lords people will judge the world?... Do you not know that we will judge angels? (1Corinthians 6: 2,3). The clarification of these issues occurred when I realized that I was confusing a judge with a magistrate; I didn't take into account neither the context nor the fact that when the Jewish people leaved Egypt, people's leaders were named judges, the judge having primarily attributes as a leader. In order to understand better how it will be accomplished the last judgment, we mustn't forget that the last judgment will be preceded by the judgment that will take place after the entry into the Kingdom of a thousand years - at the first resurrection. Here's the text that describes very clearly how it will be done the judgment at the first resurrection: But the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who had performed the signs on its behalf. With these signs he had deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. The two of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur (Revelation 19:20). The rest were killed with the sword coming out of the mouth of the rider on the horse, and all the birds gorged themselves on their flesh (19:21). I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years (20:4). (The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended.) This is the first resurrection (20:5). Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection. The second death has no power ... (20:6). For a full understanding of the last judgment, I appreciate that we must linger a little bit on Revelation 20: 14: Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death and 1Corinthians 15:26: The last enemy to be destroyed is death. What is meant in these texts? First of all, it's meant that death is part of the first things and, within the plan of God, I could tell that it can be called The Death Institution which has, let's say, two wards: the first death and the second death. In other words, it can be said that after He will have done the whole work, before moving to the new heaven and the new earth, God will proceed to the dissolution of this institution; then the word of Revelation 21: 4 will fulfill: He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away. If after reading these lines you will find that, up to the present time, you had a different representation of the last judgment, then please don't worry: that was the will of God, since God has assigned as humanity reaches its full proficiency in the Kingdom of a thousand years,
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when the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea (Isaiah 11:9). But henceforth, your understanding must have a new dimension because, as we have seen, we have reached the threshold of the Kingdom of a thousand years. Judge yourself! - this is the only thing that you can do and should do; by that judgment you will find the solution for a behavior after the will of God: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the duty of all mankind (Ecclesiastes 12:13). Although during these times I clarified a lot of things concerning the last judgment, I have to admit there are still a lot of things that remained to be clarified. Why? Because the last judgment is related to the eternal destiny of man/human. So, if you want to understand more things related to the last judgment and its implications, then you have to study the following title: NEW HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH.

21. NEW HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH (Revelation ch. 21 and 22) - revised in 2005-

For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears (1 Corinthians 13:9,10). Has it come "completeness " or do we know "in part" yet? For me, at present, I can say that the question is rhetorical: it came ... it came almost two thousand years ago, and for those who haven't understood yet, this "completeness " is the book of Revelation - revelation of Jesus Christ; the Word of God - the BIBLE was perfected through Him. So, it is very important to observe, understand and remember that Revelation is the book that refers to several things of the plan of God which are located between the year 96 AD and the future eternity, that chapters 21 and 22 deal with. Regarding the things that precede the future eternity, located between 96 AD and 3040, I think those were pretty well specified on the previous pages and a summary of them is found at page 112 in THE CHRONOLOGY OF REVELATION. However, looking back, I have to admit that any careful reader could refer to the absence of any comments on the presence of the twenty-four elders from the Throne of God. Why didn't I make any comment on their presence when I referred to chapter 5? Simple: at that time I didn't have any discoveries about them.

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The fact that the twenty-four elders appear at the Throne of God, which is of eternal essence, makes me think that here is the most appropriate place to explain their mystery. On the other hand, I also think it is important to point out that I received the discovery regarding the elders just when I got the revision of this title - NEW HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH: At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split and the tombs broke open. The bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life. They came out of the tombs after Jesus resurrection and went into the holy city and appeared to many people - Matthew 27: 51-53. Without making many comments, I believe that the group of the twenty-four elders is constituted of the saints that Matthew the Evangelist speaks about which constitutes the first outgrowth of the Lamb, plus Enoch and Elijah, whom the Bible testifies that were captured from God. Before moving on to the presentation and analysis of the structure of chapters 21 and 22, I should mention that in the interpreting of these chapters the great key to unlock the lake of fire had an important role: the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death. The location of the key to decode the lake of fire at the end of the last Judgment - Revelation 20: 14b and at the beginning of the description of new Heavens and the new Earth - Revelation 21: 8b, made me realize that the text concerning the eternal Kingdom must be interpreted as that one concerning the Kingdom of a thousand years, literally. For example, when we read "a thousand years" we must understand that it is a period of time that includes exactly one thousand years. Concerning the structure of chapters 21 and 22, I must point out that this was clarified to me when I remembered how the creation of man is told in Genesis. Then I realized that the section for new heavens and a new earth begins practically with a summary given in ch. 21: 1-8, which is developed in the following ranks, continued by a brief conclusion of the discovery, which also covers aspects of the eternal destiny of man (22: 6-21). Regarding the contents of this section, I have to mention that, while I was thinking about the important matters which shouldn't escape , I realized that all the verses have a weight which requires me, first, to quote the whole text. The fact that this thing is required I realized it at the time when I knew that basically, I'm not only in front of the last section of Revelation, but the final section in front of the Word of God - section that deals with the fundamental problem of humanity: the eternal destiny of human in the new heaven and the new earth. Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea (21:1). I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband (2).

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And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, Look! Gods dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God (3). He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.(4). He who was seated on the throne said, I am making everything new! Then he said, Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.(5). He said to me: It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life (6). Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children (7). But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liarsthey will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.(8). One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and said to me, Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb. (9). And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God (10). It shone with the glory of God, and its brilliance was like that of a very precious jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal (11). It had a great, high wall with twelve gates, and with twelve angels at the gates. On the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of Israel (12). There were three gates on the east, three on the north, three on the south and three on the west (13). The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb (14). The angel who talked with me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city, its gates and its walls (15). The city was laid out like a square, as long as it was wide. He measured the city with the rod and found it to be 12,000 stadia in length, and as wide and high as it is long (16). The angel measured the wall using human measurement, and it was 144 cubits thick (17).
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The wall was made of jasper, and the city of pure gold, as pure as glass (18). The foundations of the city walls were decorated with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald (19), the fifth onyx, the sixth ruby, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth turquoise, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst (20). The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of gold, as pure as transparent glass (21). I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple (22). The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp (23). The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it (24). On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there (25). The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it (26). Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lambs book of life (27). Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb (22:1) down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations (2). No longer will there be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will serve him (3). They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads (4). There will be no more night. They will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, for the Lord God will give them light. And they will reign for ever and ever (5). The angel said to me, These words are trustworthy and true. The Lord, the God who inspires the prophets, sent his angel to show his servants the things that must soon take place.(6).

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Look, I am coming soon! Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy written in this scroll.(7) I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. And when I had heard and seen them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who had been showing them to me (8). But he said to me, Dont do that! I am a fellow servant with you and with your fellow prophets and with all who keep the words of this scroll. Worship God!(9) Then he told me, Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this scroll, because the time is near (10). Let the one who does wrong continue to do wrong; let the vile person continue to be vile; let the one who does right continue to do right; and let the holy person continue to be holy. (11) Look, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to each person according to what they have done (12). I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End (13). Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city (14). Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood (15). I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches . I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star. (16). The Spirit and the bride say, Come! And let the one who hears say, Come! Let the one who is thirsty come; and let the one who wishes take the free gift of the water of life (17). I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this scroll: If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to that person the plagues described in this scroll (18). And if anyone takes words away from this scroll of prophecy, God will take away from that person any share in the tree of life and in the Holy City, which are described in this scroll (19). He who testifies to these things says, Yes, I am coming soon. Amen. Come, Lord Jesus (20). The grace of the Lord Jesus be with Gods people. Amen.(21)

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And now, after seeing how the last section of the book of Revelation is structured and after citing this whole section, let's move on to a short review of the text: Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea - Revelation 21: 1. About this verse, we can say that is basically the gist of the presentation of the new heaven and the new Earth. In other words, we can say that, if the last judgment had followed only this verse, then Revelation would have had, however, a good ending; the problems related to the eternal destiny of man in the new heaven and the new earth remain, obviously, hidden. For a better understanding of the way in which the transition to the new heaven and the new earth will be, I think the diagram from page 52 provides us an important image. Thus, analysing this chart, we realize first that at the present time, macrocosm has its existence and order due to the gravitational attraction exercised by the Throne of God on it, and secondly, it is to note that, at the conclusion of the present system of things, God's Throne will travel to Earth and thus, thanks to this movement, The Earth and the Heaven will run before Him (see Revelation 20: 11). The two issues presented above show that, in all that we see and all that exists at present, only the Throne of God is of eternal essence. In order to have a clearer picture on how will be the transition to the new heaven and the new earth, I feel that it is necessary to say and to point out that the transition to the new heaven and the new earth is preceded by a general resurrection concerning the last judgment. Saying that "The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them" (Revelation 20:13) is made to emphasize that no one will escape the judgment because of the destruction of the current system of things. Regarding the analytical presentation of the new heaven and the new earth showed in Revelation 21: 9-22: 5, we have to understand and to note the following issues: First, we note that the whole description emphasises the presentation of New Jerusalem; Secondly, we need to understand very well that New Jerusalem is not new at all because it is just the House of God where there are many residences (John 14: 2a); it represents something new just for humans; Thirdly, although it appears in a veiled presentation, it's to note that the text also refers to an area near the city, called "outside" (Revelation 22: 14); this area is intended for Gentiles who will walk in the light of New Jerusalem and who will be the attendants of the leaves of the tree of life (Revelation 22: 24,26 and 22:2b).

Here's the love of God! ... and in hell is well, too ...; this was the reaction I had when I realized that the leaves of the tree of life intended for Gentiles are basically the broken pieces that were left over from the table of God.
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Moreover, if we analyze Revelation 21:24,26 we notice that between those in the fortress and those from the outside there is however a link which is done by the Kings of the Gentiles; those glorified saints who will administer the kingdoms of the Gentiles and who will take into the city "the glory and honour of the nations" (Revelation 21: 26), obviously, will not go emptyhanded to the Gentiles ... I wish to be understood very well: in the new heaven and new earth we will have, on the one hand, the Kingdom of God in the New Jerusalem, consisting of the glorified saints from Israel, the Church and the saints who will live in the Kingdom of a thousand years and, on the other hand, out of the city walls will extend the kingdoms of the Nations which will also include animals that will be sealed with an eternal status "Outside are the dogs ..." (Revelation 22: 15). About how things will be in the new heaven and the new earth, I knew at the time when I realized that things in the present time are the shadow of the things that are coming (Colossians 2: 17; Hebrews 8: 5, 9: 9 and 10:1). We have, therefore, to understand that the notion of new heavens and new earth itself shows us that the present heaven and earth are the shadow of the future ones. Without analyzing things too much, we note also that at the present time we have two categories of people: on the one hand, we see God's children or those enrolled in the race for the glorification and, on the other hand, we see those who still weren't attracted to the Father (John 6: 44). As regards the description of the glory of New Jerusalem, because I cited the entire text, I think any comment would be superfluous; if the reader doesn't retain anything reading the text, how could he retain something from my comment? I'll try to get something else to the surface the size of the city: are there or not many residences in the House of God? The text that made me stop on this aspect is Revelation 21: 17 The angel measured the wall using human measurement. This text made me to get closer to the city, understanding that this is possible thanks to the clarification given above, understanding that it is a literally interpreting of the text: it's written cubit, so it is cubit. Although one could say that it was a relatively simple matter, I must admit, however, that for the beginning I got hit by a little problem: using until this title a translation of the Bible by D. Cornilescu, when I reached to the text regarding the dimension of the city (Revelation 22: 16) I had to found that something's wrong; D. Cornilescu or his publisher, for reasons that only God knows, confused the measurement units using the word rod instead of stadium. However, I got out quickly of this trouble because I had at hand three translations of the New Testament: after the original in Greek, after the translation from Latin and the Orthodox translation. This made me use a more recent version of the Bible for this title.
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After clarifying this issue, the first problem has been solved: the House of God - New Jerusalem is a skyscraper of cubic shape with sides of 2220km (12000 stadia 185 m/stadium). My Fathers house has many rooms ... (John 14: 2a). But are there enough residences in the House of God? It was the thought that followed after I convinced myself about the dimensions of the city. Realizing that it is a skyscraper with several floors which was built after a measure known to man and that includes also residences for those glorified, for the beginning, the first problem that I checked out was the height of my apartment: about three metres; so a reed. But did God work with approximate measurement units for such a construction? And then, after several verifications on the measurement units in the Bible, I realized that a reed has exactly three meters. But the House of God has inside residences for the people who will be glorified ... How many floors should the House of God have if the floors had three meters height? Exactly 740 000. I didn't do anything, I said to myself. Otherwise, how could the house of God have floors of three meters height? But people who will be glorified have lived on the entire surface of the Earth ... The House of God, what is its surface? Exactly 4.9284 millions km2 (2220km x 2220km). But how much is this surface related to the Earth's surface? Exactly 0.9659; the Earth's surface being 510.2 millions km2. And again I said to myself: what a pity that the city does not represent 1% of the surface of the Earth ... I should have done of/from it a hundred smaller cities because the man has been living the whole earth; even the sea is considered to be inhabited (Revelation 20: 13a) ... If I had been able to unfold it all over the earth, maybe I could have seen something more .... Under these circumstances, I realized that the city is basically just 1% of the Earth's surface, as the dimensions given for the city don't include the space from the fortress to its wall. So, if we unfolded this city structured in 740 000 floors, in accordance to the hypothesis I have referred above, then the entire surface of the Earth would be covered by a hundred fortresses with a structure of 7,400 floors. When I saw that these hypothetical cities would have 7400 floors each, I quickly thought of an issue of time: "... but the period for preparation for the glorification of the human isn't it 7040 years? So 7040 can be composed of 7400 plus 360...". Then I realized that I have a new confirmation of the fact that the period of preparation for the glorification of man is 7040 years. Because I wanted to be very well understood on the 7040 years to which I have referred above, I want to say that this period begins from the time of Adam's expulsion of Eden and it
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ends at the last judgment. So, this period does not include the first biblical era; this era extends from the creation of man to the banishment from the Garden of Eden. What lies below the 360 floors of three metres high, I have to say that explanation came quickly: First, you need to understand that 1080 meters (3x360) represent the height of the floor which obviously should be the height of a skyscraper with 7040 floors. Secondly, thinking if the numbers 360 and 1080 still have any correspondent in the Bible, I realized that 360 is the number of days of the Jewish year and 1080 represents the exact distance travelled by a Jew on the Sabbath; on this distance, it is noted that Acts 1: 12 makes some remarks regarding this distance; in the Bible from which I quote in this title, at the footer, for the verse 12 it says: " that is 1100m".

Turning now to the New Jerusalem saw by John, based on those shown above, I am convinced that the fortress is a skyscraper of cubic shape with sides of 2220 km which has a ground floor representing the Throne Room with a height of 108 km and a number of floors of 7040 with a floor height of 300 meters. As we can see, for now, I just got out of the structure of the New Jerusalem ... but how many residences are still prepared for those who will be glorified? To form an idea in relation to this issue, I started from the following considerations: Firstly, because the surface of the city represents 0.9659% of the surface of the Earth, I considered that inside the city, on each floor, just an area of approximately 0.9659% is intended for the residences of the glorified people; Secondly, regarding the area that a residence can occupy in Father's House, I have appreciated that, if the height of a floor is one hundred times bigger than the height of a room from a block of flats, then logically, the surface of a residence must be one hundred times larger than the surface of a living room in a classic flat; in New Jerusalem will no longer be night.

Before submitting the conclusions regarding the number of homes prepared for those who will be glorified, I find it important to mention that while I was looking at the numbers concerning the House of God, I remembered the basic knowledge of numerology. That occurred while I was analysing the number 1080, which refers to the length of the road of the Sabbath: "What is the significance of 1080 in the plan of God?" Then I remembered the numerology: one plus eight is just nine...and nine is the number of love - the number of grace, and then I realized that God who is love, couldn't choose a better height for the Throne Room. But six, which is the number of harmony and which signifies the interest in art, doesn't it come from reducing the number 2220? But three, which comes from 300, doesn't it represent
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community/sociability? Could God choose a better size for the height of the floor of the House which will shelter the family of God? But, one plus four plus four is also nine... How wonderful! But eleven from 7040, which refers to a mystery of the structure of the House of God, as an intimate number, doesn't it represent just the inspiration ...? I want to emphasize that this discovery helped me very much to find quickly the numbers concerning the surface of the residences in the House of God. For anyone to understand, it is to retain that first, I have checked the numbers decreased to nine in order to figure out the diameter of the residences. Another very important thing which helped me to get out of my approximate calculations was the light that I received about the structure of the number of those who will be glorified. What do I mean? I mean that in the first phase, I've realized that the number of those to be glorified is 144 billion, but I couldn't justify my intuition because 144 billion don't divide to 7040. And then I remembered those 144,000 from Revelation 14: 1,4, redeemed from all nations who will attend the wedding of the Lamb, and thus I realized that the 144 billions are structured into two groups: 144,000 who will spend the eternity in the Throne Room and the rest of them will spend their eternity in the 7040 floors; that is 20,454,525 on each floor. As regards the area occupied with the residences prepared for those who will be glorified, I must mention that if God hadn't opened my mind, I wouldn't have reached to an end; If I hadn't remembered Revelation 3: 12a: The one who is victorious I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will they leave it, then I would have because I was seeing the residences of a cuboid shape, not a cylinder-shape - a column shape. After reading also Jeremiah 52: 21 about the columns of the Temple of Jerusalem: Each pillar was eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits in circumference; each was four fingers thick, and hollow, I have left only a matter of Numerology and arithmetic. The residences in New Jerusalem named columns and having the role of columns are basically skyscrapers of 300 meters height that occupy an area of a circle shape with a radius of 25 meters. Based on those specified above, it is noted that the total area that the residences occupy on each floor is 0.95% of the surface of the city. Assuming the above, it is to observe and to note that the surface of a residence is exactly a hundred times larger than the surface occupied by a living room in a classic flat; this is verified based on the surface occupied by my living room. As regards the area occupied by the pillars of the 144,000 in the Throne Room, I believe that this is four times larger than the surface of the columns of the floors; that is the area occupied by a circle with a radius of 54 meters. Regarding the number of those who will be glorified, reported to the ground level and to the time of preparation for the glorification, it can be said that the number of 144 billion results
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from an annual average of population of approximately one billion people good for glorification with a mortality rate of approximately 20. But what is the surface of the court of New Jerusalem? How much is the difference between 1% and 0.9659%? These questions, that we could say they're not so important, led me to understand an issue I thought many times about and I didn't have a pretty clear picture. What were the conclusions after these questions? First, I realized that the distance from the fortress to its wall is 19 km and the width of the wall is 360 meters; the height of the wall, according to the Revelation 21: 17, being 72 meters. After I realized how much space exists between the city and its wall, the first thought that came to my mind was to see how much of it would belong to each glorified person. The result was surprising: 1.2 m2 per person, that is the area that a person lying down occupies. But if the people stood up, wouldn't they fit four times more? And then I remembered the last judgment, illustrated with the help of sheep and goats, which has been noted by evangelist Matthew: 25: 31-46. The illustration with the sheep and goats is unique because the fact that these animals are glued to each other makes us understand that the existing space in the yard of New Jerusalem is sufficient to ensure the necessary conditions for the last judgment. Moreover, it is very important to note that the identification of this place clears the meaning of the expressions entered by the same evangelist: Come, you who are blessed by my Father... and Depart from me... It means get in and get out of the city .... Discovering this place also clears the meaning of the text recorded by the evangelist Luke 13: 28: There will be weeping there, and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves thrown out; the people mentioned above, making part of those 144 000, at the time of the last judgment, they will already be in the Throne Room. In the conclusion of this presentation, I think it is good to stop also on the conditions in which the residences will be divided into New Jerusalem: does this depend on people or not? My answer remains the already known: It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on Gods mercy - Romans 9: 16. You might have a question too: a sincere one and apparently logical: If God divides the residences as He wants, then what is the purpose of the judgment over the facts? My answer is surprisingly simple: the knowledge that you received makes the judgment of God over the facts to make sense.

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How do you know that God doesn't have you in His plan for glorification? Doesn't the knowledge that you received teach you to check this? How can we check this? Simple: Lord, did you prepare for me as well a pillar in New Jerusalem? If you got to ask truthfully this question, be sure that you will get the answer you expect. You might even get the answer: I judge and reward after facts! Do you know what it means? It means a very clear message to register in the race for glorification: how could you be glorified if you don't register first in the race for glorification? If you enter the race for the glorification, you get a chance. But if you ignore the call of the Spirit, what chance would you have? If you don't enroll in the race for the glorification, nobody will beat you... but neither you'll be glorified. It is true that the living God is the saviour of all people and especially of those believers (1 Timothy 4:10); as we have seen, outside is fine too, because Gentiles are the attendants of the leaves of the tree of life and of the light reflected by New Jerusalem and we mustn't forget that they will also bring glory to God. Suppose, however, that you have entered the race for the glorification, but you didn't manage to pass the finish line: don't you think that in such terms you are closer to those glorified? Don't you think that joining the race for the glorification, you have the chance to be closer to New Jerusalem? We are on the threshold of the Kingdom of a thousand years; the man reached an incredible knowledge ... the question is the following: does this knowledge help you to check if you are caught in the glorification plan and to make the decision to register in the race for the glorification? In hell, I mean outside, is fine ... Why? Because God is love! But in heaven, that is New Jerusalem, isn't it better? To be the beneficiary of the leaves of the tree of life, it is good ... but to eat fruit from the tree of life, isn't it better? Staying outside with the dogs and having the light reflected by New Jerusalem is fine ... but having a pillar of clean gold in New Jerusalem, a skyscraper decorated with a white stone (Revelation 2: 17) lighted by the glory of God, isn't it better? We can say a lot of things about New Jerusalem and the residences prepared for those who will be glorified, but many things remain hidden. Who will have access to the hidden things? Only those who will lead the race of glorification to the end: they will see how it's
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worked out the gold of New Jerusalem... they will see how is that white stone that decorates the homes (Revelation 2: 17) they will see how homes are arranged and how the light of the glory of God gets inside... they will see the communication system between floors etc., etc, etc. Do you feel that you are interested in these things? Do you want a home in Father's House? Do you want to eat the fruit of the tree of life? If you feel that you are interested in these things, it means that you have a chance - you have the chance to register in the race for the glorification and to be among those who will receive the crown of life. How narrow is the gateway to New Jerusalem, I don't know ... but you have to admit that I told you something about the large number of residences and about their greatness. Moreover: although this work doesn't have an evangelistic character, however, due to the clear message of Revelation 22: 17, quoted above, I have to raise a little bit joining the call of the Spirit and the Bride: "Come!" In a very clear way, I do my duty and I tell you: do not refuse the call of the Spirit, listen to It and join the race for the glorification; go to the water source of life that springs from the Throne of God! As an encouragement, I suggest you to follow the story of the merchant seeking fine pearls: Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it Matthew 13: 45.46. Make a smart move... As you have seen, as we live in the period when all sources of water were affected by the bowls of God, you must understand that the call of the Spirit and the Bride and this call are really a big grace... And yet, three things may prevent you from being the eternal beneficiary of a skyscraper in New Jerusalem; to acquire an essence similar to the essence of God, to eternally wander on the streets of pure gold: YOUR EAR ... YOUR EYES ... YOUR WALK ... Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about Christ (Romans 10:17). What are you listening to? You will go in the direction that your ear is directed! That's why I dare you to listen to the Gospel of Christ; did anyone give you any tempting offer more important?

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Haven't you understood the offer of God yet? Eternal life, the love of the Father and a skyscraper in New Jerusalem; these are things prepared for those who will lead the race for the glorification until the end. Are you thinking about the small chances of being on the podium? No problem ... Wouldn't it be better to think that all those who pass the finish line are nominated? My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you (Job 42: 5). Job saw God! When did he see Him? When he looked at the works of God; when he graduated the suffering school ... What do you see? You will see just what you're looking at ... That's why I dare you to look at the work of God; only in this way you have the chance to see God: since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them (Romans 1:19). For since the creation of the world Gods invisible qualitieshis eternal power and divine naturehave been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse (Romans 1:20). How important it is to look with unbiased mind... The last great experience I lived while I was thinking about the residences prepared for those glorified. What is it about? It's about the way in which God has granted to clear for me the meaning of verse 29 of chapter 19 of the Gospel of Matthew; And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life. It is therefore to note and to retain that after I received the discovery regarding the greatness of the residences that God prepared for those glorified, I quickly figured out that "will receive a hundred times as much", from the text quoted above, show that this discovery is confirmed by the statement and the promise of the Savior. Okay, okay ... but what does it mean to receive a hundred times as much brothers, sisters, father ... And I looked once, I looked twice ... and all of a sudden I realized that God has determined me to look carefully over this text, just to discover the one thing that had been hidden for me until then. At that time I realized that to receive a hundred times as much brothers, sisters, father, ... it also refers to realities concerning the new heavens and the new earth and that God cleared up a few things for me which at that time I wasn't seeing clearly. Why didn't I understand the promise of the Savior at first? Just because God sends His discovery only after He determines the man to look carefully - to find it. I want to point out that receiving the ability to look carefully is a great grace it's the grace by which God provides you details about His love, His plan, about His work ...

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If you analyse carefully this work, you will notice that from the beginning to the end, God has guided and determined me to look carefully in order to give me details about His work. So, at this point, I realized that God has given me the discovery progressively, taking into account the right time and the importance of things. Even the revelation of Matthew 19: 29, as we will see below, respects the principle to which I have referred above. Returning to Matthew 19: 29, I have to confess that the first reaction I had when I realized that "brothers, sisters, father ..." refers to the realities of the new heaven and new earth was like this: Ah... that's why I felt that it was too big a skyscraper for one glorified person... because God will give the hundredfold to those glorified not only houses but also He will give hundredfold brothers, sisters, father... But who are although those who will be hosted for the eternity by those glorified? And then I remembered very quickly of 1 Corinthians 3: 12-15: If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw (12), their work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each persons work (13). If what has been built survives, the builder will receive a reward (14). If it is burned up, the builder will suffer loss but yet will be savedeven though only as one escaping through the flames (15). So, "brothers, sisters, father ..." are just those escaped through the flames: those who have built wood, hay, straw.. How big is the number of those escaped through the flames? It is impressively high. I think the crowd "that nobody can count" in Revelation 7: 9 consists primarily of those escaped through the flames: After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. What is the difference between those glorified and those escaped through the flames? Those glorified will receive a skyscraper, which will have their new name and the others will be hosted by the first ones because of the love that will have reached. How important it is to look carefully ... Because I want to know that has been fully understood, I see myself forced to dare you to look again at New Jerusalem. Where does the River of Life come from? From the Throne of God and the Lamb. How is that? Here's the problem: take another look. Where are you saying that New Jerusalem is located? On a big and high mountain. Have you ever thought how great is this mountain, on the top of which you can build a fortress whose sides have a length of 2220 km? If you look carefully you will notice that this mountain is basically the garden of the house of God New Jerusalem. Do I still have to tell something about the beauty of this garden? I don't think so, because you know too well where the holiday homes of those rich are built in the mountains.

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But let's come back to the source of the River of Life: look once again. Where are you saying that the River of Life comes from? Er... sir, you know I understood: basically, River of Life springs from the mountain of God, and God's Throne is built right on its source. Do you think somehow that the atmosphere full of songs and worship in New Jerusalem is boring? No problem: look again. In this world, is there any person that doesn't like at least one genre of music? As for worship, things are just as clear: what reaction do you think a public servant has against his benefactor who promoted him in a good position without claiming a significant amount? Sir, he kisses his hand, he particularly thanks him and promises that he will remember this all his life. But what do you think: is it hard for him to do so? No, Sir. .. it's a spontaneous matter; the gratitude is so great that the man basically can't have another attitude. ... Sir, I understand: the love of God and the glory of New Jerusalem are so great that they make you sing and worship. If you open the Word of God and you look over and over again, then you will see a lot of details of the plan of God, of the love of God, and of New Jerusalem and you get to understand that ignoring the call of the Spirit and God's offer is the capital mistake that God will punish with the second death at the ressurection and the last judgement. I've enjoyed the grace of being able to watch once and once again, and once again ... and I ended up understanding that the discovery concerning the date of entry into the Kingdom of a thousand years, as presented in this book, it is absolutely safe: see THE SKELETON SPEAKS; ABRAHAM A GREAT LANDMARK IN THE PLAN OF GOD and the last confirmation from this capter: NEW HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH. Anyway, who is God? Who is the One who works after the purpose of His will? Yes, that is the question of Toma the unbeliever; of the one who wants to touch and to put his hand in the coast of Jesus Christ. We see that neighter faith nor the view have managed to help you to know God. "I AM WHO I AM" said God in Exodus 3: 14. How is that? Simple: what is around you? Substance ... Very good ... and the substance, where does it come from? I do not know at present about the existence of the material world, they're just assumptions. And the fact that you don't know where the substance comes from makes you have even the slightest doubt regarding its existence? Look again: what do you think that surrounds you? Sir, I see a herd of sheep and one of goats ... You saw well... Obviously those animals are made of substance, too... but why do they move? Because they have life, sir. So, as we can see, you don't even think that life could be challenged. Therefore, life is also an undisputed reality. "I AM WHO I AM" refers just to this reality: I am the way and the truth and the life (John 14:6).
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Why haven't you still managed to know God? Because you walk on the "highway" ... (Matthew 7: 13). If you really want to know God, then first, you have to go on the right, to get on the narrow road that leads to life; this is the solution that will get you to the truth. And if you find that you don't see very clear the entry on the narrow road, don't worry, because all things have their time and you can have the full view of God only if you lead your race for glorification until the end; when you cross the finish line in New Jerusalem and you wake up just in front of the One who sits on His Throne (Revelation 4).

V. ABRAHAM

A GREAT LANDMARK IN THE PLAN OF GOD

1. YEAR 1948 AFTER THE FIRST AND THE SECOND ADAM

God has discovered His plan, indeed. When I determined the year 2040 as the approximate date of the establishment of the Kingdom of a thousand years, without having any intention to verify any timeline, while I was browsing the Bible, "Comparative chronology from Adam to Abraham" caught my attention (see the annex). So, it quickly came in my mind the year 1948 - the year of Abraham's birth ... Why? The only explanation is that I had already identified in Revelation the year 1948 as the date of birth of the male child. At that moment I realized that God has structured His plan based on the birth date of the first Adam and the second Adam; the first Adam was made of a living soul and the second Adam being a life-giving spirit (1 Corinthians 15: 45).

2. YEAR 3040 AFTER THE FIRST AND THE SECOND ADAM The fact that Abraham's birth in 1948 after the first Adam has as correspondent the birth of Israel in 1948 after the second Adam made me think that also the year 2040 after the second Adam might have a correspondent in the period of the Old Testament.

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At a summary verification of the chronologies that I knew and that I had I realized that for the event which will take place in the year 2040, there is no correspondent in the Old Testament. In this circumstance I started to check whether there is any correlation in the Old Testament for the year 3040, date when God will descend into the New Jerusalem (Revelation 20: 11-21: 1). I have to admit that the first time I thought that the corresponding date locates at the end of David's reign, but I was quickly disappointed when I saw that David's Kingdom extends to the year 971 B.C., because, as the Bible Dictionary and other timelines show, the reign of the king Solomon is located between 971-931 BC. I got out quickly from disappointment when I realized that I don't have to report to David, because he was a Warrior King, but to Solomon, who was a King of peace. But Solomon began his rule in 971 BC, so 3029 years after the first Adam; up to 3040 there are still 11 years... and then I remembered quickly of Solomon's Temple - actually the Temple of God. Hallelujah! I'm closer: In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites came out of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomons reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, the second month, he began to build the temple of the LORD (1 Kings 6:1). Well, I got closer with four years, so I'm in 3033, but what about the other seven? And then I realized that even if he had the materials prepared by his father David, Solomon's temple, however, has not been able to be built in a year. 2 Chronicles 3: 2 got me out of this trouble: He began building on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign. But what is the completion date? Here it is: The foundation of the temple of the LORD was laid in the fourth year, in the month of Ziv. In the eleventh year in the month of Bul, the eighth month, the temple was finished in all its details according to its specifications. He had spent seven years building it (1 Kings 6:37,38). The fact that year 3040 after the first Adam was marked by the presence of the glory of God who has descended into the Temple is confirmed by the book of Chronicles: When Solomon finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple. The priests could not enter the temple of the LORD because the glory of the LORD filled it (2 Chronicles 7:1,2). The event is so utterly special and it is indeed the correspondent of the Old Testament for the event which will take place in the year 3040.
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3.FROM ABRAHAM TO THE TEMPLE

Although I have not had any doubts about the location of the sanctification of the Temple 3040 years after Adam, however I appreciated that it is normal to make a very clear timeline between the date of birth of Abraham - 1948 and the date of the sanctification of the temple 3040. In other words, to work with two reporting bases showing the same period is not good because it would enable the infidels to formulate free critiques. That was the hardest problem because, on the one hand, until the birth of Abraham in 1948, the chronologies report to the first Adam and, on the other hand, history confirms the reign of King Solomon, based on the second Adam; that is 971-931 BC. And then began the research to identify exactly the period of slavery and the period of judges; and it wasn't that simple. But finally, the One Faithful and real gave me the key to understand the seemingly divergent texts. The inspiration that enlightened me and made to raise the veil sounded like this: you saw yourself that Abraham is the reporting base... And from that moment, being attentive to reading, I saw clearly the whole plan. The key that God has used to enlighten me and to figure out the texts that were seemingly divergent was Galatians 3: 17: What I mean is this: The law, introduced 430 years later, does not set aside the covenant previously established by God and thus do away with the promise. What does this mean? It means that the covenant is valid on the date of someone's death; in our case Abrahams, and the Law is given exactly at the date of removal of Israel from Egypt (Exodus 19: 1). So from Abraham's death until the exit of slavery are exactly 430 (four hundred thirty) years. When did Abraham die? Exactly after 175 (one hundred seventy-five) years since his birth (Genesis 25:7). So, the date when the covenant is valid is the year 2123 (two thousand one hundred and twenty-three), plus 430 (four hundred thirty) years before coming out of Egypt and thus, the year of getting out of/from Egypt is 2553(two thousand and five hundred and fifty-three) after A. I. (First Adam). As I said earlier in 1 Kings 6: 1 it follows that the beginning of the creation of the Temple took place in the year four hundred eighty after the children of Israel came out of Egypt; and that was the fourth year of Solomon's reign. So if we collect 480 (four hundred eighty) years from the
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date of removal from Egypt, which is 2553 (two thousand and five hundred and fifty three after A.I.), then we come to the year 3033 (three thousand three hundred and thirty-three) to which is added the seven years the time of building of the temple and so. we reached to 3040 A. A. I. (After the First Adam). But how do we locate and interpret the four hundred years that God talks about to Abraham? - Know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there (Genesis 15:13). But who was taken into slavery? Isn't it Jacob? But Joseph, the forerunner in slavery, isn't he the one that "the sun and the moon" worship to? But if the one who receives worship is a slave, then those who paid homage to him aren't slaves, too? (see Hebrews 7: 9,10). But what is the period while Jacob stayed at Laban? Isn't it also a period of slavery? It was like this for the twenty years I was in your household. I worked for you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, and you changed my wages ten times (Genesis 31:41). How old was Jacob when Abraham died? He was exactly fifteen years old; grandfather lived a hundred and seventy-five years, his father Isaac was born when Abraham was a hundred years, and he, Jacob, was born when Isaac was sixty years old. But hasn't Jacob gone to Laban exactly thirty years after Abraham's death? If we consider that Esau married for the first time when he was forty years (Genesis 26: 34), then the difference of five years, up to forty-five - the age at which Jacob flees to Laban is precisely the period when Jacob stole Esau's blessing. So, the four hundred years of slavery that Genesis 15: 13 speaks of begin exactly at the time when Jacob fled to Laban, whom he served for twenty years; that is the year 2153 (two thousand one hundred and fifty-three). Regarding the period of nine hundred sixty years, inside the two timelines, compared with the first and the second Adam, it is interesting to note that this time period is the average age lived by Metusala and Noah (969 + 950) and it suggests that this life on Earth, no matter how long it is, it's however bounded and represents a short period of time in which the man, coming from the past eternity, where he was as a spirit of life, incarnates to complete a process of preparation for the inheritance of eternal life in the future eternity. The fact that the glorification of man is done by completing an entire process, set out in the plan of God, it's seen in the first lines of Genesis, when you read carefully the history of the creation of the heavens and the earth (Genesis 2: 4).
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What do I mean? I mean that when you look superficially in the synthesis process of creation presented in chapter 1 you get the impression from the beginning, that is from the first act of creation, man was both the image and likeness of God (Genesis 1: 27). However, during the reading of the history of heaven and earth, you realize that the man came to the likeness to God only when he ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Here's the text: And the LORD God said, The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever(Genesis 3:22). To present an overview of the plan of God, I attach "The synthetic chronology of the plan of God" which is structured in seven parts, covering a period of 7040 years (seven thousand forty years) and "The comparative chronology from Adam to Abraham". Concerning all the data presented in this paper, in conclusion, it can be said without any fear to mistake that history has confirmed that all the discoveries that God made before were fulfilled exactly. In such circumstances, is it possible that the other discoveries regarding the future from the plan of God not to be fulfilled? I confess that this discovery of the plan of God is due to God to the total Spirit and to the guidance of Holy Spirit and that is why I am convinced that it will be helpful to many souls that are written in the book of life of the Lamb of God, who is waiting for our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen.

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VI. THE LAST AND THE GREATEST DISCOVERY -revised in 2005If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal(1). If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing (2). If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing (3). Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud (4). It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs (5). Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth (6). It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres (7). Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away (8). For we know in part and we prophesy in part, (9) but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears (10). When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me (11). For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known (12). And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love (13) 1 Corinthians 13. I must admit that the findings relating to the work and the plan of God impressed me; to get to understand the plan of God in order to have an idea about how the residences for those who will lead the race for the glorification to the end look like is not an insignificant thing. But, while I was thinking about the grace I enjoyed, I was awakened from my meditation by 1Corinthians 13: 2: If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. Because love is the number one issue, that God Himself is love and that the measure of love that you have shows to what extent you know God; I knew it long ago. The shock of
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awakening, to which I have referred above, I felt it when my eyes remained on the sentence "I am nothing". At that time the reason in my head forced me to look more closely at the feelings of my heart ... How much love is inside of me? A first answer came quickly: If the size of the discoveries and the magnitude of love might measure then, of course, the size of my love is much smaller than the size of the discoveries that I have received. But how low is still love inside of me? The question continued to persist ... Even a measure of love as a grain of mustard is important ... that was the answer. In this circumstance, unexpectedly, I was surprised by the response that I received to an older question - question concerning the dimension of the Great Creator, or rather, on the ability to understand and to present this size. Again, the answer received amazed me by its simplicity: If you are not able to determine the extent of love that is inside of you, then how could you address the problems regarding the scale of the Great Creator who, in His essence, is love? So, understanding that getting to know or not to know love is the same as to be or not to be and knowing love means getting to know God, I ended up having understood that possessing love is the most important issue. Looking back to see how God has done to lead me to the conclusion drawn above, I realized that, in fact, God used again a very simple solution: I opened my eyes to see that "I am nothing" must be interpreted literally. On the other hand, looking at the text to see how the apostle received this discovery, I noticed that Paul has realized the importance of love when he addressed the issue of love referring to himself: "... I have ... I do not have ... I am nothing". Also, it is to note that between having and being there is a link that requires a little analysis and reflection. To be more directly, we can say that, in life, to know that you did well, you should report to being, not having; focusing on having, you'll end up actually finding that you put the cart before the horse or, in other words, running just for the sake of getting, you will end up knowing that this thing made you, in the end, to be nothing. What does actually "I am nothing" mean? I'm nothing means, as I think it was already understood, not being good for glorification; it means to be in the camp of the outsiders; it means to be an anonymous within the Kingdom of the nations that will extend outside of the mountain where New Jerusalem is located. But if God hadn't closed people in disobey, how would He have been able to show love? ... This was the question that startled me just when I thought I had almost finished my work.

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That God would not have been able to show His love if He hadn't closed people in disobedience is indeed a special issue ... For me however, the value of this issue came to the surface when I realized that in the plan of God, closing people in disobedience intended, first, to create conditions in which God was able to show His love and only secondly it intended testing by suffering, needed by human to be aware of the consequences of disobedience. Even if the discovery made in the two paragraphs above is significant by itself, however, I find it very important to note that, in general, God created things so that they can be approached from at least two angles of view. Therefore we can say that no one would judge you if you weren't able to determine the extent of love that you received... but if in life, while tackling issues, you didn't see the things from at least two angles of view, then I cannot say the same thing. What did I want to say? I wanted to say: pay attention to the race for the glorification; life is practically part of the race for the glorification and in this race, you are not alone. If you want to finish your race for glorification without finding out, too late, that you were disqualified, then you must be careful to both those enrolled in this race and those on the sidelines. Don't forget! The auto traffic is a good illustration for those enrolled in the race for the glorification, and Paul's urge given to the Philippians is mandatory: not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others (Philippians 2:4). However, what is love, that is so important? And what can people do to acquire or cultivate it? I feel that if I didn't answer in a satisfactory manner to these questions, then I have done nothing; as we have seen, without having love, knowing all the mysteries and all the science means nothing. It should be noted first that we will not achieve a good definition of love and we will not understand what can people do in order to get it until we aren't, first, convinced of its importance and nature. Why is love so important? Because God Himself is love (1 John 4: 8) and, in such circumstances, it is easy to understand that man can get to sit in the presence of God only when he first acquired an essence similar to His. As for the nature of love, in/from 1 John 4: 9, we should note that love is something that is shown - that is seen: This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him . In other words, it can be said that God demonstrated His love and this demonstration, in John's eyes, had a so great impact that it led him to say "God is love", identifying God with love.

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What is love? Which is the best definition of it? I believe that Galatians 5: 22 provides us the best definition: Love is the first fruit of the Spirit; it practically represents the demonstration of regeneration. So, as we can see, the acquisition of love reduces basically to getting the Spirit and the question: what can man do to gain love, reduces to: what can man do to acquire the Spirit. What is my answer to the question above? In principle, it is that one known on the front pages: the acquisition of the Spirit or the new birth/regeneration is the work of God's grace. Does this mean that man should not do anything? No way: understanding the fact that in the plan of God the demonstration of His love, done for regeneration - to acquire the Spirit is the most important problem, it makes me pay attention and importance due to a single text by its contents: If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him ! (Luke 11: 13). As you can see, the text speaks with utmost clarity about the solution to acquire the Holy Spirit and his first fruit love. But is it as far as clear easy to implement? No way: first, we must observe and recognize that, for many, the actual text is God's solution to close the mouths of those who will not benefit of regeneration and secondly, in Romans 7 we note that, as regards the fruit of the Spirit, even those who have the Spirit have problems due to the resistence that the flesh opposes: So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me (21). For in my inner being I delight in Gods law (22); but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me (23). What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death (24)? Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to Gods law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin (25). What can I say about the third category about those and for those who receive the Spirit based on the speech of Luke 11: 13? Believe the Word of God! To get access to the promise of God you need only a moment of sincerity in weighing things in self judgment of self and a spark of faith which will help you to use the key through which you do link with God. Understand and don't forget! As to become the beneficiary of grace the beneficiary of the Holy Spirit the beneficiary of love, you don't have anything but one solution: the PRAYER - using the key through which you are linked with God. ACQUIRING LOVE SHOWS THAT YOU ACHIEVED AN ESSENCE SIMILAR TO THE ESSENCE OF GOD IT SHOWS THAT YOU HAVE PASSED FROM DEATH TO LIFE (1 John 3: 14).

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VII. THE DATE OF ENTRY INTO THE KINGDOM OF A THOUSAND YEARS AND THE PLACE WHERE PEOPLE WILL SPEND THEIR ETERNITY (Constantin Babliuc 2009-2012)
At the end of the year 2001, as you can see on the first page of the book THE WHOLE WILL OF GOD, I thought that it's possible to have access to the whole plan of God; during this time I felt a great attraction for researching the books of Daniel and Revelation, understanding that in these books I'll find the passkey to the plan of God. What was the access door in the book of Daniel? Any careful reader who ended up at this page might answer very quickly: "Great Greece" by raising the seal on this door, the book of Daniel was opened (see HISTORY TELLS ITS WORD p. 59). I pointed out the importance of this great discovery by the fact that on the cover of the book I displayed in the foreground a map of ancient Italy where "Great Greece" appears. Why did I need a further review of the book in 2009? To make a synthesis of the angles of view concerning the date of entry into the Kingdom of a thousand years and to bring additional insight into New Jerusalem. I felt the need to shout: here are four angles of view concerning the date of entry into the Kingdom of a thousand years and here's a clear view of New Jerusalem and the Darkness from Outside!

1.THE DATE OF ENTRY INTO THE KINGDOM OF A THOUSAND YEARS

If the access door in the book of Daniel is "Great Greece", then the discovery of the date when the 2300 evenings and mornings start counting is the key of access to the end of time - of the entry into the Kingdom of a thousand years. I am convinced that any reader of good faith after reading the chapter THE VISION OF TWO THOUSAND AND THREE HUNDRED EVENINGS AND MORNINGS is forced to admit that the date of entry into the Kingdom of a thousand years is determined with great accuracy; the confirmation by the history of the prophecy of Daniel is an amazing accuracy. Therefore, it can be said that decoding the vision with the two thousands three hundred evenings and mornings represents the first angle of view on the date of entry into the Kingdom of a thousand years, that is the angle of view of Prophet Daniel. Although the angle of view of Prophet Daniel is shown quite well, someone might say that for an event of so great importance, a single angle of view is not sufficient. And I think that someone is right because God has shown me another three angles of view of the date of entry into the Kingdom of a thousand years.

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About the second angle of view on the date of entry into the Kingdom of a thousand years, the reader became aware when he read Chapter ABRAHAM A GREAT LANDMARK IN THE PLAN OF GOD. The reader who is familiar with the biblical text could easily understand how God has structured His plan based on the first Adam and the second Adam and that this discovery confirms the same date to establish the Kingdom of a thousand years. The third angle of view of the date of entry into the Kingdom of a thousand years was discovered by decoding the structure of New Jerusalem, which I have reported about on pages 135-137. Comparing the number of floors of New Jerusalem with the number of years of the Synthetic Chronology of the Plan of God (p. 153) we can see that the number of floors is the same as the number of years that God has planned for people to be glorified. Sensational! For each floor, one year of preparation for human's glorification... The structure of New Jerusalem confirms the Synthetic Chronology of the Plan of God and the date of entry into the Kingdom of a thousand years. And here we are at the fourth angle of view: the angle of view of Revelation . Keeping in mind that in ch.17-THE SEVEN BOWLS and ch. 18-BABYLON I made a pretty good description about the discoveries of Revelation concerning the date of entry into the Kingdom of a thousand years, I could say that the two chapters present sufficient evidence to conclude that the book of Revelation talks about the same time of establishment of the Kingdom of a thousand years. However, I must admit that on the 15th of November 2009, while I was formulating my point of view of Revelation concerning the date of entry into the Kingdom of a thousand years, I remembered the length of the Great Day, located between 1918 and 2040. Why is the Great Day 122 years and not 120 years? This is the question that followed me up to the date mentioned above because my belief that the Great Day is 120 years was contradicted by history, which confirms it's 122 years. Followed by this question, I took the history book in my hands to read it once again to see what history says about the end of World War I and so, I realized that legally the World War I ended in 1920 by the Peace Conference in Paris, which took place between 1919 and 1920. So, the Great Day extends from 1920 to 2040 and has 120 years. What about the length of the Great Day, which is 122 years, about which I spoke up here? On February 20, 2012 I received the last clarification on the size of the Great Day: When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour (Revelation 8:1). When I remembered the text quoted above (Revelation 8: 1) which refers to the beginning of the Great Day, I realized quickly that the starting date of the Great Day is
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presented aproximately. What does this mean? It means that in the interpretation of Revelation, for the starting date of the Great Day, we can report to both 1918 and 1920. The fact that the discovery of Revelation concerning the date of entry into the Kingdom of a thousand years is certain is confirmed by the identification of the 75 days from the end of time, that Prophet Daniel speaks of (see Revelation 11: 3 and Daniel 12: 6,7 in conjunction with Daniel 12: 11, 12): the Great Day (Revelation 6: 17) is a period of 120 years; " the hour of His judgment " (Revelation 14: 7) is 5 years (120 years x 4,17%) and an hour in the hour of his judgement that Revelation 18: 17 refers to " In one hour such great wealth has been brought to ruin!" is 75 days (5 years X 360 days X 4,17%).

2. NEW JERUSALEM AND THE DARKNESS FROM OUTSIDE

These words are trustworthy and true (Revelation 22:6a). If we also consider Revelation 21: 17 "The angel measured the wall using human measurement, and it was 144 cubits thick", then we note that the words of Revelation regarding New Jerusalem are trustworthy, true and clear. God giving the size of New Jerusalem in a measurement unit known for people is an incredible issue! It can't be more clearly. As I think it was noticed, I have believed in the precision and clarity of the description of New Jerusalem and so, I came to see that between the number of floors of New Jerusalem and the number of years reserved for people for preparing for the glorification is a close connection. The question is: from everything I have written, can the reader form a clear idea about New Jerusalem and the Darkness from Outside? If I think about the saying "a picture is worth a thousand words" and the fact that I too have had difficulty in seeing the place where people will spend their eternity, then it can be said that the answer is simple: to make things clear, the reader needs an overview, where he can see clearly the difference between New Jerusalem and the Darkness from Outside. Reader, you are asked to look at the last page to see the overview which I have referred above. Is it clear? Do you still have questions without an answer? It would be a serious question: How does God's love reconcile with the Darkness from Outside? Very well! Exactly how the mole reconciles with the darkness in which it lives. Have you ever seen a mole? Do you know where it lives and what it deals with? If you've ever seen it and if you do not know, then I'll tell you. The mole lives only inside the ground and it digs galleries... Even more, I could tell you that I have had the opportunity to see the reaction of a mole when it was removed from its

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environment: the mole automatically tried to enter again in its gallery and when it was removed from the gallery the mole started to dig very quickly a new gallery, seeking to hide in the dark. What's the mole attitude towards the light? We see that there is a category of creation who loves the darkness and not the light and obviously, it explains us how God's love reconciles with the darkness from outside. In the illustration above, you need to understand very well that for those nominated in Revelation 22:15 it would be a torture to stand in the presence of God; they will feel good away from God Outside in the Darkness. Looking at the overview of New Jerusalem and the Darkness from Outside on the last page, we can find the following conclusions: - in the Throne Room, 144 000 saints of exception will live eternally with God and with Saviour Jesus Christ; - in the 7040 floors will inhabit those who have accepted the call of God and received the regeneration; -from the walls of New Jerusalem to the Darkness from Outside the kingdoms of the nations will extend and, - into the Darkness from Outside will live eternally those who had turned their back to the Saviour Jesus Christ, ignoring His call and love.

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