Numbers by the Book

The 7th trumpet

Revelation 11:15 And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

16 And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God,

17 Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned.

18 And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.

19 And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.

The 7th vial

Revelation 16:17 And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, “It is done”.

18 And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.

19 And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.

20 And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.

21 And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.

In the book of Revelation I have been showing the connections I see between each letter, trumpet and vial.

The letters were given by Jesus to John and then from John to a messenger/angel of a church. There are 7 churches so there are 7 messengers/ angels.

When the 7th seal is opened, there is a half a period of time. This is the second half of Daniel’s 70th week and the Church age. 7 messengers sound 7 trumpets. These IMHO are the same seven messengers that just received the 7 messages from John. They are trumpeting to the Church the message he just gave them from Jesus, that is why there is the connection.

Further, there are 7 messengers that pour out the vials. Right now my guess is that they are the same seven messengers.

Who are these seven messengers? My guess is that they represent key leaders of the Church through the ages who have not wavered from the never changing truth of the Bible.

Anyway, the 7th letter is unique in that there is no commendation of their works. There is nothing positive to say about this church. Even in Sardis, the dead church, there were some who didn’t defile their garments. Laodicea is wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked.

Because it is the 7th letter, 7th trumpet, and 7th vial it carries a finality with it. This is the end of something and something new is coming. It is the reign of Christ.

I believe the church of Laodicea symbolizes the harlot church, Mystery Babylon.

I have posted on the whore of Revelation 17 and Korah. I believe mystery Babylon is the “false church”. Korah was a levite-set apart for service to God, much like what the Church is supposed to be. Please read the post if you want to see the connection.

The opening verse of Revelation 17 shows one of the seven angels which had the seven vials showing John the judgement of the whore. So chapter 17 and the judgement of the whore church is connected to chapter 16 and the 7 vial judgements by the 7 messengers. My guess is that the 7 vials are the judgements on the great whore, Mystery Babylon.

Revelation 17:1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:

Peter says judgement begins with the house of God:

1 Peter 4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

Just as the first two temples were destroyed because of the sin of His people, the third spiritual temple/ the false church/mystery Babylon will also be destroyed.

Babylon and Rome destroyed the first two temples with fire. Mystery Babylon is to be burned with fire by the 10 horns of the beast:

Revelation 17:16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.

The daughter of a priest was to be burned with fire if she commits whoredom. The church/temple is like a daughter of a priest.

Leviticus 21:9 And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.

I did a number of posts on the 22 books of Revelation and the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet. If the 16th and 17th chapters of the book of Revelation refer to the same thing, the judgement of the whore Babylon/false church/3rd temple, then the 16th and 17 letters are the ayin and pey respectively.

The book of Lamentations is a mourning or lament of the destruction of Jerusalem and the first temple. The book of Lamentations is written as an acrostic much like the chapters of the book of Revelation.

The first chapter of Lamentations has 22 verses in perfect acrostic order. However, chapters 2-4 are written in perfect order with the exception of the 16th and 17th Hebrew letters, the ayin and pey in reverse of each other. No one knows for sure why the Holy Spirit did this. The ayin represents the eye and perception. The pey represents the mouth and what we speak. We speak what is in our heart. It is theorized by some that the temple was destroyed because the leaders spoke with their mouths what was in their heart without the correct perception from God. They led by their own strength and perception rather than God’s. They put the peh before the ayin.

So the Holy Spirit in writing the Bible connected the 16th and 17th letters to the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple. In the book of Revelation the 16th and 17th chapters tied to the ayin and peh are about the destruction of the 3rd spiritual temple.

Interesting then that both temples were destroyed on the 9th of AV, the 127th day of the year. I did post on Methuselah and the number 127. Methuselah is the “man on a mission” or missionary man sent with the Word of God. He is tied to the trumpets and repentance. Verse 127 Methuselah is born. The 127th chapter of the Bible is Numbers 10 and the silver trumpets. The Harlot church does not listen to the trumpets and the number 127 and just as the temples were destroyed on day 127, verse 127 from the end of the Bible is the final destruction of the harlot church IMHO in the 7th vial.

Revelation 16:21 And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.

The above is my thinking going into the 7th letter/trumpet/vial.

In the letter Jesus calls Himself the “Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God”.

This is the same language used with Jesus at His second coming. He is called “Faithful and True”:

Revelation 19:11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.

The Harlot is judged right before His second coming.

Revelation 19:2 For true and righteous are His judgments: for He hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of His servants at her hand.

The 24 elders and 4 living creatures fall down and say “Amen”:

Revelation 19:4 And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped God that sat on the throne, saying, Amen; Alleluia.

The first time “Amen” is found in Scripture it is used with the adultery test.

Numbers 5:22 And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.

He that overcomes will sit on the throne with Jesus. This seems to be a hint again of His second coming when He returns to sit on His throne. It also would seem to indicate that there is a final call to repent right before He returns.

The 7th trumpet speaks of His reign twice and that the kingdoms of this world are now His.

The 7th vial says “it is done”.

They all allude to the imminent return of Christ.

Earthquakes are mentioned in the 7th trumpet and 7th vial. Laodicea had just experienced an earthquake in 60 ad that destroyed the city. Mystery Babylon will be judged/destroyed.

The vial judgement is the result of not repenting at the trumpet judgements. The trumpets come in 1/3rds. It is sanctification, warning to prepare for the spiritual warfare we are in, and God’s gentle hand of correction to His children to follow Him during this time of tribulation. The vials are God’s wrath being poured out.

Both the 7th trumpet and the 7th vial speak of a great hail.

The interesting thing about the 7th letter is that Jesus says He stands at the door and knocks and anyone can let Him in still. This would seem to me that there is this one last chance at the sounding of the 7th trumpet that there is a final call before the 7th trumpet ends to repent since I believe the 7th trumpet is the “reading” of the 7th letter.

In the 7th letter there is a reference to the 16th and 17th Hebrew letters, the letter ayin meaning eye and the letter peh meaning mouth. They are also out of order, the mouth is mentioned before the eye and sandwiched between there respective mentions is the judgement that Laodicea is wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked:

16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.

17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

The Old Testament has 5 major prophets and 12 minor prophets for a total of 17. The prophets were the mouth/pey of God. Pey is the 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.

The letter commands the Laodicean to be zealous.

The first person in the Bible to be zealous was Phineas. His name means “mouth/peh of brass”.

He was zealous because he put a javelin through an Israelite playing the whore with a midianite:

Numbers 25:11 Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.

Phineas stopped a “plague”.

Numbers 25:8 And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.

The 7 messengers have 7 vials full of “plagues”

I used to think of my heart in my chest and see this as the seat of my emotions and this is where God was writing His laws. But what is the Hebraic understanding of the heart in the Bible? According to Jeff Benner (and others), the heart to the Hebrews was the mind and the thoughts, while the kidneys are the seat of emotions.

From Jeff Benner on what the “heart” actually means:

While we, in our modern Western world, associate this word with “emotions,” in the Ancient Hebrew world this word is associated with “thought,” the “mind,” and we can see this in the following passages.

The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. (Genesis 6:5, ESV)

Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end, and may you establish the righteous— you who test the minds and hearts, O righteous God! (Psalm 7:9, ESV)

In this last verse, the Hebrew word לב (lev, Strong’s #H3820) is translated as “minds.” The word “hearts” in this same verse is the Hebrew word כליה (kilyah, Strong’s #H3629), which means “kidneys,” not “heart.” While the “heart” is seen as the seat of thought in Hebrew philosophy, the “kidneys” are seen as the seat of emotion."

When I understood that the heart is actually the mind and the thoughts which originate from the brain in our head it makes perfect sense that the Holy Spirit rested on the top or heads of the believers in Acts 2 and that we/the 144,000 are sealed on our foreheads.

Acts 2:3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.

Revelation 14:1 And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads.

And again the pillars standing in front of the temple with pomegranates on their heads is a picture of the God’s laws on our heads through the Holy Spirit. Zechariah 4 which is a type of Revelation 11 and the two witnesses also reinforces this:

Zechariah 4:6 Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.

I look at numbers in the Bible and see their root meaning in how they correspond to the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet and their positioning and gematria.

They have a circumference of 12 cubits:

1 Kings 7:15 For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about.

The 12th letter of the Hebrew alphabet is the letter “lamed”. It’s pictograph is a shepherd staff symbolizing authority. The word “lamed” means to teach. There were 12 tribes of Israel and 12 disciples and apostles. Jachin and Boaz as a type of the 2 witnesses and Spirit filled church are God’s authority on earth to be His witnesses and teach His commandments and one day we will reign with Him.

Matthew 28:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. 19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: 20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

Acts 1:8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

The 18th letter of the Hebrew alphabet is “tsade”. From Hebrew for Christians, its pictograph is a fish hook. The word tsud means to “hunt or fish”. We are to be fishers of men. A tzaddik is a “righteous one” and the letter “tsade” is said to symbolize the righteous.

So Jachin and Boaz stand 18 cubits tall or “righteous” and their circumference is 12 cubits/ they are God’s authority and teachers.

On the heads of Jachin and Boaz are the chapiters containing the pomegranates. The chapiters are 5 cubits:

1 Kings 7:16 And he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter was five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was five cubits:

Brass symbolizes judgement. The word of God judges.

The word for “top” in the above verse is Strong’s H7218. It also means “head”. These chapiters are the heads of the pillars wrapped in pomegranates.

The 5th letter of the Hebrew alphabet is the letter “hey”. It means “behold” or “to reveal”. Torah in its narrowest sense refers to the 5 books of Moses. More than likely the 5 stones David used to defeat Goliath symbolized the torah or 5 books of Moses. When Jesus was tempted by the devil He quoted from the book of Deuteronomy, the 5th book, exclusively.

So Jachin and Boaz have a head tied to the number 5, the torah, wrapped in pomegranates, tied to the number 613 and the number of commands in the torah. They are sealed with the Holy Spirit and the Laws of God are written on their heads/hearts in Hebraic understanding.

Jachin and Boaz standing 18 cubits refer to them being righteous.

In Matthew 28:18 Jesus says He has power over heaven and earth. We are to be His witnesses with this power. This is verse 24214.

Matthew 28:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.

The 2 witnesses are given power by Jesus in verse 30876:

Revelation 11:3 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.

The verse jump is 6662. Strong’s H6662 = righteous.

Jachin has a gematria of 90. Tsade, the 18th letter, has a gematria of 90.

Boaz has a gematria of 79. Together their gematria totals 169 which is the cube of 13.

Betemunah.org has an interesting take on the number 13. There were 12 tribes with God as the head so a total of 13. There were 12 disciples with Jesus as the head so 13. Deuteronomy 6:4, the lead of the Shema, saying “God is one” has a gematria of 13 x 86. 86 is the gematria of God.

13 pictures oneness. The 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabet is the letter “mem”. It is linked to water. Water is one.

1 Kings 7:18 And he made the pillars, and two rows round about upon the one network, to cover the chapiters that were upon the top, with pomegranates: and so did he for the other chapiter.

I recall posting about pomegranates in the past. Pomegranates are connected to God’s laws by the Jewish people. They say there a 613 pomegranate seeds just as there are 613 laws. The seeds look like jewels. God’s laws are considered jewels. Below is part of a post where I made the connection between the trumpets, God’s law, and pomegranates.

Strong’s G3341 = repentance. This verse about trumpets has a matching gematria of 3341:

Numbers 10:8 And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets; and they shall be to you for an ordinance for ever throughout your generations

This is Bible verse 3341. Yes, once we are saved we should love to obey God’s law:

Leviticus 20:22 Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out.

Numbers 10:8 with a gematria of 3341 is verse number 3997.

This verse has a gematria of 3997 and speaks of a watchman (which is the Church) blowing a trumpet to warn the sinner to repent:

Ezekiel 33:4 Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.

The trumpet that is being blown in Numbers 10:8 is one of the silver trumpets. Silver is a picture of redemption. The Church has been redeemed. We are a silver trumpet in God’s hand.

Strong’s H2689 = trumpet

This familiar verse has a gematria of 2689. Once God saves us, we should desire to follow His Law:

Proverbs 6:23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

This is verse 2689. The high priest, a type of Christ, wore a robe with pomegranites on it:

Exodus 39:24 And they made upon the hems of the robe pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet and twined linen.

In jewish tradition, the pomegranate is said to have 613 seeds in it matching the 613 laws of God or written Torah.

The Bride has temples like a pomegranate.

Song of Solomon 4:3 Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks.

The temple is the side of the forehead. We are to bind God’s laws to our foreheads:

Deuteronomy 6:8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.

In Revelation the 144,000 are sealed on their foreheads with the Holy Spirit who teaches us God’s laws.

Revelation 7:3 Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.

So if we are the trumpets of God what are we saying?

The 5th and 6th trumpest are about the battle with “scorpions and serpents” which I have posted about a few times recently. This is the spiritual war we face daily against our enemy. We must be daily prepared for it and we must be edifying others to be prepared for it. When we fall we must pick each other up.

In light of the war we are in as God’s people notice verse 3998:

Numbers 10:9 And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.

This verse has a gematria of 3998:

Deuteronomy 6:7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

So Jachin and Boaz have pomegranates wrapped around their top/head symbolizing God’ laws on their heads. The 2 witnesses and the 144,000 sealed on their foreheads with Gods’ laws/pomegranates are one and the same.

Further there are a total of 400 pomegranates on Jacin and Boaz combined.

1 Kings 7:42 And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, even two rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that were upon the pillars;

400 is the gematria of the 22nd letter of the Hebrew alphabet, the letter Tav. Tav is considered the covenant letter. The word “tav” is Strong’s H8420 and means “mark”.

Ezekiel 9:4 And the Lord said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.

So Jachin and Boaz are “marked/sealed” by the pomegranates/laws/covenant of God.

14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.

15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.

16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.

17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.

18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.

19 For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.

20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:

21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

The 6th vial

Revelation 16:12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.

13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.

14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.

15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.

16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.

The 6th letter, trumpet, and vial are about staying true to God’s word in a world of lies and false prophets.

The 6th trumpet repeats the word “mouth” 3 times. Fire, smoke, and brimstone comes from their mouth in verses 17 and 18. Verse 19 says their power is in their mouth.

The 6th trumpet is the false prophet/ beast from the land of Rev 13. This is spiritual warfare again just like the 5th trumpet. They have a lying or false mouth. Their tails are like a serpent. Genesis 3 and the fall of man is about the serpent lying/deceiving man to sin. Jesus called the Jewish leaders/false prophets of His days serpents in Matt 23. They were leading astray the people of Israel with their hypocrisy and false understanding of true worship and discipleship in following God.

Matthew 23:33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

The 6th vial directly says John sees “3 unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, beast, and false prophet”.

In the 6th letter Jesus calls Himself “true”. He is not false. Jesus speaks of an open door that only he can open and shut. We know from John chapter 10, He is the door. While He is speaking of Himself as the door and the Good Shepherd in this chapter He also speaks of the wolf and thief trying to steal or lead astray His sheep, but His sheep do not follow because they know the voice/mouth of the Good Shepherd.

John 10:5 And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers

In the letter Jesus also speaks of the “synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie”. Again, they are false prophets.

The letter to Philadelphia also repeatedly uses the phrase “new name” or “name of God”. In the Hebrew mindset someone’s name represents their character. So if we get a new name we are getting a new character. God’s name is His character, it is who He is. If we will get God’s name written upon us we will get His character. He is a God of truth.

Deuteronomy 32:4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.

The overcomer will also be given the name of New Jerusalem. The character of New Jerusalem is that she is a virgin bride. The high priest could only marry a virgin. She is in contrast in revelation to the harlot church mystery Babylon.

The river Euphrates is mentioned in both the 6th trumpet and 6th vial. The ancient city of Babylon was located on the Euphrates. God is connecting the false prophet/beast from the land/mystery Babylon.

He that overcometh will also be made a pillar in the temple.

In our English language a pillar is something that supports or signifies strength. The Hebrew word for “truth” comes from the Hebrew word for “faith” which also means “to support”. So there is a similarity between being a pillar and being true.

Further there were two pillars “standing” in the entrance to Solomons temple. Their names were Boaz meaning “In strength” and Jachin meaning “He will establish”.

1 Kings 7:21 And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin: and he set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof Boaz.

Strong’s H5982=”pillar”. It’s root is Strong’s H5975=”stand”

You could say there are “2 witnesses standing” at the entrance/door to the temple, the door way to God, which the church is a type of.

Ephesians 2:20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; 21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: 22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

Revelation 11 says there are also “2 witnesses standing before God”.

Rev 11:3 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. 4 These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.

The 2 witnesses are likened to trees. The 2 pillars of the temple are also like trees. They had pomegranates at the top mimicking a pomegranate tree.

1 Kings 7:20 And the chapiters upon the two pillars had pomegranates also above, over against the belly which was by the network: and the pomegranates were two hundred in rows round about upon the other chapiter.

The false prophets of the 6th trumpet produce “fire, smoke, and brimstone out of their mouths.”

Revelation 9:18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.

The 2 witnesses standing before God also produce fire out of their mouths.

The fire that the 2 witnesses produce is the Word of God.

In context Jeremiah is speaking about the false prophets who are telling the people the exact opposite of what Jeremiah is saying.

Jeremiah 5:12 They have belied the Lord, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine: 13 And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.

Jeremiah prophesied to his fellow brothers Judah. There was impending destruction coming from Babylon and the city and temple would be destroyed. The false prophets were his fellow brothers, jews, who were saying peace and safety, God will not destroy us.

In each letter so far there appears to be a link to the city the church is located in and the theme running between the letter, trumpet and vial. Philadelphia means “brotherly love”. The link I believe is that we love our brother by being true. Jesus was crucified by His brothers, the jews. He was betrayed by His brother Judah Iscariot. The only people Jesus lashed out at were His brothers, the Jewish leaders, who were leading the people astray with their false worship. We are repeatedly told in scripture to love our brother and lift him up in his time in need.

Armageddon is mentioned in the 6th vial. This is translated as “hill of Megiddo”. The number “666” is Strong’s G5516. It is synonymous with Revelation 13 and the beast from the land and sea. Strong’s H5516 = Sisera. Deborah and Barak defeated Sisera at Megiddo.

Judges 5:19 The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money. 20 They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.

From prior posts Deborah =Word. She is synonymous with the Word of God, which we know is truth.

The 5th trumpet:

And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.

2 And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.

3 And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.

5 And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.

6 And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

7 And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.

8 And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.

9 And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.

10 And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.

11 And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.

The 5th vial

Revelation 16:10 And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,

11 And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.

The fifth, sixth and seventh trumpets are set apart by calling them the three woes.

Revelation 8:13 And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!

The fifth trumpet is also unique since it is not on 1/3 of something but only on “only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.”

Those who have the seal of God on their foreheads are the church/bride. In Christ, this world can not take away our citizenship in heaven.

The 5th trumpet refers twice to “five months” twice. The flood was 150 days or five months. Noah and his family were safe in the ark/Christ for those 5 months.

Genesis 8:3 And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.

The fifth letter, trumpet, and vial seem to pull out different ideas from the first four but seems to be centered on our love, hope, and faith in God or have we given our love to the world.

At Sardis the minting of standardized gold and silver coins was invented. The Croeseid was minted in Sardis, named after King Croesus. It was the world’s first true monetary system.

This fact leads me to think of Jesus statement on mammon/money/treasure. Who are we serving? Have we left our first love and turned our love to worldy things?

Matthew 6:19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: 21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. 22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. 23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! 24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Sardis was surrounded by steep cliffs and considered almost impenetrable because of its position yet was taken by both Cyrus and Alexander the Great. Much like how Jesus said they were dead and they thought they were alive, Sardis thought they were impenetrable but they found out twice they were not.

The church in Sardis thinks it is alive but is “dead”. They are to strengthen the things which remain that are ready “to die”.

Have we put our faith in Jesus and then went off to attend to other worldly things and forgotten to daily put on the full armour of God?

Ephesians 6:11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

If anyone overcomes he will not be blotted out of the book of life. We overcome by daily walking with Christ. Faith is not a one time decision but a life habit.

The 5th trumpet is about spiritual warfare against the beast from the sea/this worldly Babylon system we live in. This is the fiery furnace we walk through with Jesus at our side.

Just as Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out of the fiery furnace without “their coats changed” those in Sardis who don’t defile their garments will walk in white and shall be clothed in white raiment.

Daniel 3:27 And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king's counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them.

This section below was from a post in 2020 connecting Numbers 21 and Revelation 9:

I watched a video on AlephBeta about the fiery serpents in the wilderness.

In Numbers 21 we read that God “sent” fiery serpents.

Numbers 21:6 And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died

Aleph Beta quotes a Rabbi commenting on the Hebrew word for “sent”. The rabbi says the way it is written in hebrew is special and should rather mean “let go” or “release” and not “send”. So God released the fiery serpents. They were always there in the wilderness but God had beforehand protected the Israelites from them.

The video goes on to the connection to Deuteronomy 8 where God says there were serpents and scorpions in the wilderness where they traveled before they entered the promised land.

Deuteronomy 8:15 Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;

In this same chapter God warns the people not to forget Him:

Deuteronomy 8:12 Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;

Deu 8:13 And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;

Deu 8:14 Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;

So the video says the serpents and scorpions were always there in the wilderness with Israel but God protected His people from the serpents and scorpions. The people complained against God because they were forgetting Him and not seeing His protection. It wasn’t about the food. God saw the best way to show the people how much He was protecting them, was to take away His protection and release the serpents and scorpions and let them come near His people so they would realize His goodness. God then provided a way of “salvation” for His people by looking at the serpent of brass raised up by Moses.

Numbers 21:9 And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.

Christ was the serpent of brass.

John 3:14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:

So if you looked upon Christ, or trusted in Him for your salvation, you were healed and the serpents could not hurt you anymore. Serpents and scorpions are interchangeable definitions of the enemy of God.

The scorpion-like figures in Revelation 9 who are released just like God released the serpents in Numbers 21 can not hurt the believer sealed by God just like the serpents in Num 21 can not hurt the person who looked upon the serpent of brass lifted up-a picture of Christ taking on our sin on the cross.

Revelation 9:4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.

Both the scorpions and serpents of Revelation 9 are prepared for war.

v 9:7 And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men

Rev 9:9 And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.

Rev 9:16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.

They both have breastplates on them in this war.

Rev 9:9 And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.

Rev 9:17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.

When I read the above post from 2020 I thought it matched the church at Sardis. God warns His people not to become complacent when life is good. Sardis became complacent and became a “dead” church.

Revelation 9 gets some of its language from the book of Joel if you care to compare. They are both about warfare, both physical and spiritual.

The 5th vial is poured onto the seat of the beast. The “seat of the beast” is from the wording of the beast from the sea who got his seat from the dragon.

The 4th trumpet -

Revelation 8:12 And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.

The 4th vial -

Revelation 16:8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire. 9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.

The 4th letter, trumpet, and vial are about rulership.

Thyatira was known for its purple dye. Purple is the color of royalty in the Bible. Kings and queens rule over their people.

Jesus is called the Son of God in the letter. God is the ruler, not us.

Jesus searches the hearts. In the Bible the heart is the center of everything we do and think and therefore the “ruler” of the body.

Jezebel is mentioned in the letter. She was a queen of Israel.

He that overcometh will have power over nations-rulership.

He will rule with a rod of iron-rulership.

I will give him the morning star. Venus is the morning star and is known as the queen of the skies, again rulership.

The 4th trumpet is on the sun, moon, and stars, and the 4th vial is on the sun.

In the Bible the sun, moon and stars rule the skies.

Genesis 1:16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

In Joseph’s dream his father and mother, the rulers over him were depicted as the sun and moon and his brothers as the stars.

Genesis 37: 9 And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.

10 And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?

Jezebel is mentioned in the letter. As I said she was a foreign queen of Israel. One of the biggest stories within her story in the bible is about Elijah and the question of “Who is God-the God of the bible or the false gods she serves”. Elijah’s name means “God is the Lord”.

If you recall from the story it is about rulership,Who is God and therefore who is in charge.

1 Kings 18:21 And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.

The people will know who is the true God and who is in charge because the answer will be by fire.

1 Kings 18:24 And call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the Lord: and the God that answereth by fire, let him be God. And all the people answered and said, It is well spoken.

In the 4th vial the men were scorched with fire. They repented not. They didn’t recognize God is in charge and it explicitly says God is in charge of this plague.

Revelation 16:8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire. 9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.

In the 4th letter unless they repent they will have great tribulation.

In the story of Elijah when God answered in fire the people repented.

1 Kings 18:36 And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word.

37 Hear me, O Lord, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the Lord God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.

38 Then the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.

39 And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The Lord, he is the God; the Lord, he is the God.

Last, Jesus describes Himself two ways. One is with “eyes like a flame of fire” and the other as “with feet like fine brass”. “Feet like fine brass” is from Revelation 1:15 where it is expanded to say “as if they burned in a furnace”.

Revelation 1:15 And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.

Strong’s G4448 =”burned”. It also can mean “to be on fire”.

So Revelation 1:15 could read “as if they were on fire in a furnace”.

Jesus walked in a fiery furnace in 1 story in the Bible and He is called the “Son of God” in it just as He called Himself in the 4th letter.

Daniel 3:25 He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.

Of course this is Jesus walking with Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the fiery furnace.

Daniel 3:23 And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.

They were there because of rulership. They would only bow down and worship the one true God. And after Nebuchadnezzar saw the three men saved he repented and said there is only one God.

Daniel 3:29 Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort.

I have posted on this in the past. The fiery furnace that Jesus walks with His servants in is a type of the “great tribulation” that we walk in now. It is the trials of this life. Notice that in the letter to the 4th church those who follow Jezebel and don’t repent will also be cast into great tribulation.

16 Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.

17 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.

The third trumpet:

Revelation 8:10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;

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

The third vial:

Revelation 16:4-7 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood. 5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus. 6 For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy. 7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.

The underlying theme of the third letter, third trumpet, and third vial is the Word of God.

At Pergamus parchment was invented. Parchment was a much more durable use for ancient writings like the word of God. Paul asked for the parchments, the word of God, when he was imprisoned:

2 Timothy 4:14 The cloke that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comest, bring with thee, and the books, but especially the parchments.

Jesus describes Himself as having “the sharp sword with 2 edges”. This sword is the word of God. He will fight them with the “sword of His mouth” which is the word of God. To him the overcometh, he will eat of “hidden manna”. Manna was the bread from heaven which was Jesus who is called the Word of God who taught and embodied the word of God. Manna/bread is highly symbolic of the Word of God and the daily feeding we need form it.

Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Revelation 1:16 And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.

The third trumpet is a great star from heaven “burning as it were a lamp”. The first burning lamp in the bible made a one sided covenant with Abram back in Genesis 15.

Genesis 15:17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.

Genesis 15 is also the first time the Word of the Lord appears in the Bible, and it does twice:

Genesis 15:1 After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.

Genesis 15:4 And, behold, the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.

It is also interesting that the 4 living creatures/cherubim who I have posted on in the past as the Spirit filled Word of God are described the same way as the burning lamp in Genesis 15:17.

Ezekiel 1:13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.

Jesus also has eyes that burn like lamps, the same as the burning lamp of Genesis 15:17.

Daniel 10:6 His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.

Revelation 1:14 His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;

The Holy Spirit is also like a “burning lamp” in the NT.

Revelation 4:5 And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.

Genesis 15 is also the first time God compared the seed of Abram to the stars:

Genesis 15:5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.

The “great star from heaven” in the third trumpet that is likened to the burning lamp that passed through the pieces of Genesis 15 fell on the “rivers and fountains of water”.

The word of God in the Bible is compared to water. Fresh water is essential to life. The Word of God powered by the Spirit is like fountains of living water:

Isaiah 55:10-11 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: 11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

John 4:14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

Ephesians 5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

The name of the star is Wormwood which is a bitter plant. Wormwood is synonymous with judgement in the Bible .

Wormwood is used first in the Bible with a person who turns from the Lord:

Deuteronomy 29:18 Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;

Notice this passage using wormwood and a strange/adulterous woman.

Proverbs 5:3-5 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: 4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. 5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

The lips of the strange/adulterous woman are like honeycomb. The word of God is like honeycomb.

Psalm 19:10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

Her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. The word of God is like a sharp two-edged sword:

Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

The waters were made bitter by the star called wormwood. The adultery test of Numbers 5 used bitter water.

Numbers 5:27 And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.

The word of God is also called sweet and bitter:

Revelation 10:9 And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.

Just as the bitter water of the adultery test of Numbers 5 can judge us so can the word of God be bitter and judge our sin. It is also sweet to those who love Him and life giving just as the adultery test of Numbers 5 allowed the woman to be free and “conceive seed”/bring forth life.

Twice in the letter to Pergamos it is said that “where satan dwelleth” and where “satan’s seat is”.

Just as the star is burning like a lamp, satan is described as being an impostor as a messenger of light.

2 Corinthians 11:13-14 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. 14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

In the third vial, the phrase “true and righteous are thy judgements” is used. This phrase is from Psalm 19:9. -

Psalm 19:9 The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.

Notice the next verse comparing God’s Word to honey and fine gold.

Psalm 19:10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

Again notice God’s Word is true and His judgements righteous -

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

The second vial:

Revelation 16:3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.

The reoccurring theme of the second letter, the second trumpet, and the second vial is “life and death”. In the trumpet judgement the 1/3 part of the creatures in the sea which had life died. In the vial judgement “every living soul which had life died”. In the letter to Smyrna Jesus describes Himself as “was dead and is alive”. The church is commanded to be faithful unto death and they will get a crown of life. He that overcometh won’t be hurt by the second death.

It’s all about life and death. What is the “great mountain burning with fire”. It is a reference to Mt Sinai.

Exodus 19:18 And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.

Hebrews 12:18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,

God gave Israel His laws at Sinai. They are a guide of how to live this life for Him. They are an expression of God Himself. Love thy God and love thy neighbor just as God loves us.

God’s laws are “life and death”.

Deuteronomy 30:15 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; 16 In that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it. 17 But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; 18 I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it. 19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: 20 That thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

We obey God’s laws not to receive salvation but as evidence of it.

James says Faith without works is dead:

James 2:17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.

James says these tribulations increase our faith.

James 1:2-3 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; 3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

James also talks of the crown of life to those who endure tribulation of this age.

James 1:12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

How do we show God that we love Him? By following his commands/laws.

John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.

Why are 1/3 part of the ships destroyed? In the Bible there are two major stories about ships. The first is Noah’s ark. It is a means of salvation. The second is found in Acts 27. There were 276 souls saved as long as they remained on the ship. Again it is a means of salvation.

Acts 27:31 Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, Except these abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved.

Ships are for safe passage over the seas. The seas symbolize peoples and nations. Ships symbolize methods of safe passage or salvation.

Isaiah 17:12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!

Revelation 17:15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.

Matthew 2:11 And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense and myrrh.

Revelation 8:7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

Here is the first vial:

Revelation 16:2 And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.

The first connection between the first letter and the first trumpet is about trees. The first trumpet burns up 1/3 of the trees. In the first letter the promise Jesus gives is that the overcomer will eat of the tree of life. Jesus also describes Himself as walking in the midst of seven golden lampstands or menorahs. A menorah built like and described like a tree.

A menorah has branches, flowers and fruit like a tree.

Exodus 25: 31 And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same. 32 And six branches shall come out of the sides of it; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side: 33 Three bowls made like unto almonds, with a knop and a flower in one branch; and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch, with a knop and a flower: so in the six branches that come out of the candlestick. 34 And in the candlesticks shall be four bowls made like unto almonds, with their knops and their flowers.

So Jesus walks among the trees/candlesticks and gives the overcomers the tree of life and 1/3 of the trees are burned up.

In the Bible people are likened to trees. We produce fruit. We are either a good tree producing good fruit or a bad tree producing bad fruit.

Psalm 1:3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

Matthew 7:17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.

Mark 8:23 And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought. 24 And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking.

The Hebrew word for tree is Strong’s H6086. It is a parent root spelled ayin-tsadi. The word for bones as in the bones of our body is derived from the parent root for tree. It is Strongs H6106 spelled ayin-tsadi-mem. Jeff Benner has an article on this.

So in Hebrew our bones are structurally like trees. Our works are the fruit and flowers. The letter to the Ephesian church emphasizes our works or fruit. Jesus knows their works and tells them to return to their first works.

We should understand the “1/3 of trees burnt up” as referring to people. The 3rd letter of the Hebrew alphabet is the letter gimel. It means “reward” and “recompence”. One third is a fraction based on the number 3. We should understand that 1/3 means “partial reward or recompense” or “partial judgement”. The trumpets are the church age. The church age is about separating those that are His and those that are not and sanctification. The Father is lovingly calling His bride and correcting and guiding us to become like Him. We are sanctified through the work of the Holy Spirit and the tribulation of this world.

The second connection between the first letter and the first trumpet is the phrase “thou hast left thy first love”.

God Himself says He is married to Israel. Israel’s first love was God.

Jeremiah 3:14 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:

God married Israel at Sinai in a blood covenant.

Exodus 24: 6-8 And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the Lord hath said will we do, and be obedient. And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words.

The people said “I do” and Moses cast blood on the people as the “blood of the covenant”.

We have been covered/sprinkled in the blood covenant of Jesus.

Hebrews 12:24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.

Revelation 1:5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,

At the first trumpet blood is cast on the earth/land, hearkening back to the marriage covenant at Sinai which is repeated in the marriage covenant of Christ. It is mingled with hail and fire signaling a Father’s correction to their children for forgetting their first love.

Trumpets were used in the old testament to call to war or danger, to assemble, and call to repentance.

When God marries Israel at Sinai and sprinkles the blood of the covenant on them and He then shows Himself to the leaders of Israel and they eat and drink together.

Exodus 24:8 And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words. 9 Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel: 10 And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness. 11 And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.

It is almost like a return to the Garden of Eden. God fellowships/walks with His people face to face again as He did with Adam. The reference to the tree of life in the letter to the Ephesian church should make us think about the Garden of Eden. The Garden of Eden is the first story of trees (the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil) and of marriage.

You could also say Adam and Eve’s first love was God and they ate of the tree of knowledge of good and evil and left their first love.

Marriage between the man and woman was introduced in the garden of Eden. The book of Ephesians lets us know that we are spiritually in a covenant of marriage with Christ. Marriage between man and woman here on earth is symbolic of the marriage between Christ and His bride.

Ephesians as 5:23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. 25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

We ultimately return to Garden of Eden and the church as the woman marries the man Christ.

Revelation 19:7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.

The first trumpet and first vial affects the earth or land. In the Jewish mindset the land represents Israel/God’s people while the seas represent the nations. This makes sense since only Israel/church are married to Him.

God married Israel at Sinai on Shavuout/Pentecost. The Holy Spirit came to dwell in the bride in the new testament on Shavuout/Pentecost.

Shavuout is also known as the day of the judgement of the trees. It therefore makes sense that the first letter and trumpet refer to marriage and trees, since shavuout is related to both.

Strong’s H7620 = shavuout.

The first verse in the NT with a gematria of 7620 is verse number 23215. (I don’t fully see a connection to shavuout in the verse other than maybe it’s the first use of temple in the NT?).

Matthew 4:5 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,

But if you were to add 7620 verses to the above verse you get the first trumpet judgement of the trees. SO there is some connection.

Revelation 8:7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

Further John the Baptist refers to this judgement of the trees.

Matthew 3:10 And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

The verse jump from Matthew 3:10 to and the judgement of the trees to Revelation 8:7 is 7632.

There is one verse in the old testament with a gematria of 7632:

Judges 1:15 And she said unto him, Give me a blessing: for thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the nether springs.

This is about Caleb and his daughter Achsah. Notice the three prior verses of what Caleb just did.

Judges 1:11 And from thence he went against the inhabitants of Debir: and the name of Debir before was Kirjathsepher:

12 And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjathsepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.

13 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.

14 And it came to pass, when she came to him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted from off her ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wilt thou?

Caleb promised Debir which is also called Kirjathsepher and his daughter to whoever took it. Othniel takes it. Othniel is the Lion, Jesus who takes Kirjathsepher=”city of the books” and marries Achsah. This is portrayed in Revelation 5 where Jesus takes the book of life/city of books and thus His bride. Debir also means “word”. As in “word of God”.

Here is the first and only verse in the old testament with a gematria of 7620 matching shavuout. Again it is about Debir.

Joshua 10:39 And he took it, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof; and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining: as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to the king thereof; as he had done also to Libnah, and to her king.

Shavuout is about the marriage covenant. Debir/Kirjathsepher is the book of life/the bride.

Matthew 3:10 has a gematria of 7852.

Matthew 3:10 And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

If you were to add 7852 inclusive verses to Matthew 3:10 you find all the people/trees not written in the book of life are thrown into the lake of fire.

I find that extremely fascinating.

This “half an hour” of Rev 8:1 or “half a time period” is the second half of Daniel’s 70th week. It is the Church Age. The 7th seal is the 7 trumpets. Trumpets are an instrument that makes noise due to wind being blown through them. We are supposed to be vessels of the Holy Spirit/wind blowing through us and speaking through us. Strong’s H7307 = Spirit or wind.

Daniel 9:24-27 is written as a chiasm.

Daniel 9:24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.

A) Daniel 9:25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem (REBUILD JERUSALEM)

B)-unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks (MESSIAH)

C)-the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.(REBUILD JERUSALEM)

D) Daniel 9:26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself (MESSIAH)

C)-and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(DESTROY JERUSALEM)

B)-Daniel 9:27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease (MESSIAH)

A)-and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate. (DESTROY JERUSALEM)

Christ confirms/strengthens the covenant for the final 70th week. His first coming marked the beginning of the 70th week. His second coming will mark the end of the 70th week. The first half of the 70th week ended with His death, resurrection, ascension to the Father, giving of the Spirit to the jew and gentile, and the destruction of the temple. The second half of the 70th week is this Church age of the Spirit building His spiritual temple in the “wilderness” during a time of tribulation.

Strong’s H7666 =”buy” or “sell” grain. It is used 21 times in the Bible and 14 times in the story of Joseph and the 7 years of plenty and 7 years of famine.

Genesis 41:56 And the famine was over all the face of the earth: and Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.

The 7 years of plenty and 7 years of famine I believe parallel the 2 halves of the 70th week.

Joseph as a type of Christ is put in charge at the beginning of the 7 years of plenty at the age of 30. Jesus began His ministry at the age of 30. Manasseh was born first, this is the Jewish church. Ephraim was born second, this is the gentile church. It is a time of plenty, miracles were being performed left and right. The power and glory of God were on full display for all to see and witness, both jew and gentile.

Then great persecution arose, the temple was destroyed and there was a splitting of the jew and gentile church. Israel’s eyes were blinded. This is the 7 years of famine. Famine in the Bible typically symbolizes a spiritual famine.

Grain is used to make bread and Jesus is the bread of life. If we want spiritual food we must come to Joseph/Jesus to buy. Salvation is found in no other.

At the beginning of the famine the sons of Israel go to buy food and they did not recognize Joseph/Jesus. He takes away Simeon, meaning “hearing”. After 2 years/2000 years Joseph/Jesus restores Simeon/their hearing and reveals Himself to them. At the end of the 70th week Jesus will restore Israel’s hearing and reveal Himself as their Messiah.

2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

Strong’s 4245 =”elders”. It is used for the first time 7466 verses from the end of the Bible (not the 7466th but from the end) matching Reu’s Strong’s number.

Matthew 15:2 Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.

Peleg is the Holy Spirit filled Word of God that comes from the region beyond (Eber) and makes a new creation in Christ (Reu).

So what I see is at 239 both Peleg and Reu die, meaning that when the Holy Spirit leaves so do we. This begins the fall of Babylon/Mystery Babylon which is concluded with Christ’s return and His completion of judgement.

Strong’s G239 =”alleluia” is only used in chapter 19 of the book of Revelation with the fall of the whore, Mystery Babylon and the return of Christ.

Revelation 19:1 And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God:

Revelation 19:2 For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.

Revelation 19:3 And again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever.

Revelation 19:4 And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped God that sat on the throne, saying, Amen; Alleluia.

Revelation 19:5 And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great.

Revelation 19:6 And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.

In Chapter 239 of the Bible God calls Samuel and reveals that He will judge the House of Eli the high priest of Israel, because his sons were evil. They are a type of the religious whore, Mystery Babylon.

1 Samuel 3:13 For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.

Peleg is tied to the Word of God which is sweet and bitter. It is bitter to the sinful/Mystery Babylon, but sweet to the Bride of Christ who is taken before the wrath of God comes on the sinful.

So if my theory is correct on Peleg and Reu I had wondered about the verse jump to 2 Thessalonians 2:7 that seems to indicate that something will be taken out of the way and when the wicked or lawless ones will be revealed.

2 Thessalonians 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

2 Thessalonians 2:8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

The verse jump from the only mention of Peleg in the NT to 2 Thess 2:7 is 4608 (29669 - 25061 = 4608).

Strong’s G4608 =”strong drink” is used one time in the NT.

Luke 1:15 For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb.

The above verse is about John the Baptist filled with the Spirit. He is the forerunner to the first coming of Christ. The Church filled with the Spirit is the forerunner to the second coming of Christ. The Holy Spirit is commonly used in reference to wine and strong drink. The Spirit is a power that overtakes you just like wine and strong drink. Strong’s G4608 is derived from Strong’s H7941 meaning “strong drink”.

This verse begins Acts 2 and the coming of the Spirit on Pentecost which is tied to the fall of Babel which I explained in post 3.

Acts 2:1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.

I find that fascinating. I believe the rapture/resurrection also happens on Pentecost.

Strong’s 7943 is also part of the same root verb group of Strong’s H7941. This resurrection/rapture verse has a gematria of 7943:

Strong’s G3359 = forehead.

Revelation 7:3 Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.

The sealing of the servants in their foreheads is another way of saying we have been sealed by the Holy Spirit which began at Pentecost which the Bible parallels to the separating of tongues at Babel which happened when Peleg died.

SO, to me I always felt verse 28420 is somehow tied to Peleg. Here is another confirmation:

Verse 28420 is verse 2683 from the end of the Bible.

Strong’s G2683 is only used 1 time in the NT with the only time Strong’s G5502 =”cherubim” is used in the NT:

Hebrews 9:5 And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.

The verse jump from the only mention of Peleg to the only mention of the cherubim in the NT is 5050 (30111 - 25061).

Strong’s H5050 =”shine” or “lighten”

It is used for the first time in this verse. This is a form of Hebrew poetry restating the same thing twice:

2 Samuel 22:29 For thou art my lamp, O Lord: and the Lord will lighten my darkness.

The gematria of the above verse is 1130. Peleg’s gematria is 113.

The Word of God is also a lamp.

Psa 119:105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

Verse 5050 from the end of the Bible is also about Light. Jesus is the Light:

John 1:8 He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.

Jesus is the Light of the World as the Word of God.

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Peleg is Strong’s G5317. If you were to see the Bible as a continual circle (the Jewish people do. They read the torah in a continual cycle/circle) and add 5317 inclusive verses to John 1:1 you get the first mention of Peleg in the Bible:

Genesis 10:25 And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.

John 1:1 in which Jesus is called the Word has a gematria of 3627.

Strong’s H3627 =”jewels”, the first time it is used in the Bible:

Genesis 24:53 And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave them to Rebekah: he gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things.

This is of course about the servant/Holy Spirit giving Rebekah/the bride “jewels” of silver and gold. Silver and gold are compared to the Word of God repeatedly in the Bible.

Psalm 19:10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. (Peleg verse, verse 239, Strong’s H5317 = honeycomb)

Psa 119:72 The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.

Proverbs 3:14 For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.

I believe the “jewels” of silver and gold the Holy Spirit gives the bride is the Word of God/wisdom/redemption/eternal life/ all that is contained within it.

The gematria of Genesis 24:53 is 2501. This is verse 2501 with a gematria of 5317 matching Peleg’s NT Strong’s number:

Exodus 34:4 And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone

The first commandments were written on tables of stone. Our hearts are like stone without the Spirit. The Spirit came to write the Word of God on our new hearts:

Ezekiel 36:26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

2 Corinthians 3:3 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.

This is the last verse with a gematria of 2501. Ezekiel sees the cherubim and is given a roll to eat that is sweet as honey but bitter to the stomach and then God tells him He is sending Ezekiel to Israel and his forehead will be like flint. He is to receive the Word of God in his heart:

Revelation 19:1 And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God:

Revelation 19:2 For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.

Revelation 19:3 And again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever.

Revelation 19:4 And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped God that sat on the throne, saying, Amen; Alleluia.

Revelation 19:5 And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great.

Revelation 19:6 And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.

How does the Bible say Jesus is returning? He is called the Word of God and He has a sword in His mouth which we know is the Word of God.

Revelation 19:13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and His name is called The Word of God.

Revelation 19:15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.

Ephesians 6:17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: