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3. 97,000 Jews got away scot free from Revelation 19: 21.

“And the rest were killed with the sword which proceeded from the mouth of Him who sat on the horse. And all the birds were filled with their flesh.”

The sword is the gospel. This is not entirely positive. All Covenants contain blessings and curses. As mentioned earlier, every “stanza” in the Revelation follows the expanded Covenant pattern. See Totus Christus for how this works. The final point concerns Covenant succession. Its motifs are the four rivers of Eden, godly offspring and the Feast of Tabernacles. The unbelieving Jew and Gentile “bodies” were denied Covenant succession. Now there is only a believer/unbeliever distinction. The Jew/Gentile division is gone forever in God’s economy.

See also Menu for the Dirty Birds and Lambs in Limbo.

Jesus said He wouldn’t judge the Jews, but that the words He had spoken would judge them instead. This pattern goes right back to Eden. God gives an Adam his Word, leaves him alone to obey or disobey, and then returns on the respective ‘Day of the Lord’. On that day, the words given to Adam are what judge him. AD70 was the Day of the Lord for the Jewish Adams. They had broken the Restoration Covenant, and then they had rejected the warnings of Christ as Jeremiah and Ezekiel.

Remember, Revelation concerns the decommission of God’s old heaven-and-earth government and the commission of a new one. The issue here is the Covenant and this context must be observed or we just won’t get what’s going on.

4. Paul didn’t remain alive until Christ’s coming. 1 Thess. 4: 15-17. (Notice he says “We,” including himself).

That’s a good point. Fortunately the Revelation gives us the history of what actually happened in Tabernacle symbols. The Old Covenant saints awaited vengeance but were told to wait a little longer. A New Covenant contingent of martyrs was also required — two witnesses. Once the NC saints were sealed with the Spirit and then massacred (the subject of Rev. 14), the saints finally entered heaven as a human government, replacing the Old Testament angelic government. The Law had been ministered by angels in our “childhood.”

The first century history follows the Feasts. After Jesus’ Passover and the disciples’ Pentecost came the Trumpets. At the final trumpet, the saints were received into heaven, from the bosom of Abraham to the bosom of Christ (gems on His breastplate).

The transformation of the saints was prefigured in the transformation of animal sacrifices from flesh into glorious flame and ascending as smoke. Paul communicates this in 1 Corinthians 15, again using the Tabernacle/Feasts pattern. See The First Resurrection. Don’t panic. The second resurrection will be just like it. See Three Resurrections – 1.

5. The saints never received “power over the nations” in A.D. 70 (Rev. 2: 26-27).

This is a quote from Psalm 2. Christ fulfilled it at His ascension in AD30. In Revelation 2, what He promises to do is give the same power to the saints. Christ is the head, the saints were the body: Totus Christus. Revelation is about the firstfruits body and its satanic Herodian counterfeit. See The Two Witnesses.

Christ died and was given authority. The firstfruits saints would also die and be given authority. See Twelve Thrones.

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