Satan’s Fourteen Heads of Power
The “Head” Symbol of Satan
Obviously the head contains the brain and that is the intellectual organ of thought and design, purpose and will. So the Devil shown having the “head” symbol is that that is the source of his thinking, and from that desire a purposeful defiant challenge against God and his sovereignty, that very thinking was the first to receive the curse (Gen3:14), which leads to the “crushing” of Satan’s head, or a fatal angelic brain injury symbol, a total destruction of him and his very thinking:
(Genesis 3:14-15) . . .And Jehovah God proceeded to say to the serpent: “Because you have done this thing, you are the cursed one…15 And I shall put enmity between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed. He will bruise you in the head and you will bruise him in
the heel.”
And no wonder this Prince of Peace “Star” Jesus Christ the righteous “seed” is also prophesied to do the main cerebral damage and extermination of Satan’s “head” – his entire being:
(Numbers 24:17) 17 I shall see him, but not now; I shall behold him, but not near. A STAR* will certainly step forth out of Jacob, And a scepter will indeed rise out of Israel. And he will certainly break apart the temples of Moab’s head And the cranium (Satan’s “head”) of all the sons of tumult of war.
(Revelation 22:16) . . .“‘I, Jesus, sent my angel to bear witness to YOU people of these things for the congregations. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright morning STAR*.’”
We see in the prophecy in Numbers 24:17, that the “tumult of war” is related to this “cranium” which deploys into actions the very will of Satan, and it will be crushed. Jesus also has others who will be involved with crushing Satan and the demons.
(Romans 16:20) . . .For his part, the God who gives peace will crush Satan under YOUR feet shortly. . . .
But we don’t have to be prophets to understand Satan is not working alone, his kingdom “house” contains demon powers employed in his purposeful rebellion against God, and these are united, and in organized fashion in angelic “heavenly” realms:
United Kingdom of Satan (demon aspect):
(Matthew 12:25-26) . . .“Every kingdom divided against itself comes to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand. 26 In the same way, if Satan expels Satan, he has become divided against himself; how, then, will his kingdom stand?
Satan is the world ruler of the earth as Jesus shows us:
(John 12:30-31) . . .Jesus said: “This voice has occurred, not for my sake, but for YOUR sakes. 31 Now there is a judging of this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out.
And Satan has authority to administer world rulership under his authority, his goal being worship for himself and service to his will:
(Luke 4:5-8) . . .So he brought him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the inhabited earth in an instant of time; 6 and the Devil said to him: “I will give you all this authority and the glory of them, because it has been delivered to me, and to whomever I wish I give it. 7 You, therefore, if you do an act of worship before me, it will all be yours.” 8 In reply Jesus said to him: “It is written, ‘It is Jehovah your God you must worship, and it is to him alone you must render sacred service.’”
The cherub angel, before becoming Satan also started in an anointed position over earth before he sinned, as the anointed cherub angel in the “covering” or overseeing position in Eden:
(Ezekiel 28:12-15) . . .“‘“You are sealing up a pattern, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. 13 In E′den, the garden of God, you proved to be. Every precious stone was your covering, ruby, topaz and jasper; chrysolite, onyx and jade; sapphire, turquoise and emerald; and of gold was the workmanship of your settings and your sockets in you. In the day of your being created they were made ready. 14 You are the anointed cherub that is covering, and I have set you. On the holy mountain of God you proved to be. In the midst of fiery stones you walked about. 15 You were faultless in your ways from the day of your being created until unrighteousness was found in you.
But the main point I want to make is that Satan’s has an organized way of administering his world rulership from the top, himself, to his demons, which extend over mankind’s very same “authorities”, “governments” and “world rulers” continuing the connected hierarchy, they are mirror images in a biblical related structure of 7 heads each as I will show:
(Ephesians 6:12) . . .because we have a wrestling, not against blood and flesh, but against the governments, against the authorities, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the wicked spirit forces in the heavenly places.
So Satan has complete control of the human power systems and the influential sub-systems which are immense:
(Revelation 12:9) . . .So down the great dragon was hurled, the original serpent, the one called Devil and Satan, who is misleading the entire inhabited earth; he was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him.
(1 John 5:19) . . .the whole world is lying in the [power of the] wicked one.
This entire organization of Satan in heavens and earth, is what can be seen in reality to us as his complete “serpent’s seed” (Genesis 3:15) in both demon and human realms, these things were “planted” and developed in growth by Satan, through the demons, through humans, over mankind, by the “groundbreaking”, the willful rebellion of Adam and Eve, Satan’s primary human seed from which all other human servants of Satan have originated:
(1 John 3:12) . . .like Cain, who originated with the wicked one and slaughtered his brother. . .
The Seven Heads Symbol
For the understanding of this human system engineering project from the Satanic 7 heads into the human 7 headed wildbeast power system on earth we see this symbol of Satan and the demons:
(Revelation 12:3-4) . . .And another sign was seen in heaven, and, look! a great fiery-colored dragon, with seven heads and ten horns and upon its heads seven diadems; 4 and its tail drags a third of the stars of heaven. . .
Which clearly relates to this symbolic pattern in the wildbeast:
(Revelation 13:1) . . .And I saw a wild beast ascending out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, and upon its horns ten diadems, but upon its heads blasphemous names.
Now the dragon is a symbol of heavenly power, he is not just 7 heads, we know he has a powerful “body” and all together that symbol is yes Satan, but also his complete demonic governance power system “in the heavenly places” are employed.
The human system wildbeast is similar, it’s heads are not the only feature about it, it has shown to have a body, feet, diademed symbol authority, horns, crowns and also draws worship to itself at national and global levels. The wildbeast is a symbol of earthly power, but the dragon and the wildbeast must have a “meeting of minds”, therefore both have 7 heads symbolizing a completeness in spiritual power, in this case evil spiritual power in purposeful thinking.
Is it a coincidence that this Satan already shown to have world power and “gives it to whoever I wish” has seven heads are also present in seven heads in the wildbeast, and the wildbeast heads have “crowns” of kingly world authority and the similar horns which can symbolize “kingly authority” as well for defensive and offensive purposes?
No it is not, it shows a complete spiritual symbolic and literal 7 fold unity of completeness between Satan’s thinking and the human and human world system engineering of the wildbeast’s thinking (and structure), and the basic character of Satan and the wildbeast is the predatory nature of what a wildbeast symbolizes in basic form. Satan too is called a predatory “roaring lion seeking to devour someone”, both the dragon and the wildbeast are devourers of human beings. Satan is shown in Eden to be a liar, deceiver, and Jesus said he was a manslayer when he began, the wildbeast emulates Satan’s character in secretive and effective deception and predation, and the heads symbolize the purposeful thinking of the wildbeast power center “brains” are directly influenced by the dragon’s “brain”.
Although 666 application has varied worldly idolatrous techniques as to how the wildbeast draws worship so as to render some humans with the mark, the 666 can also denote a base predatory idolatry, where the main human “cells” of the wildbeast, like the beast itself, are predatory in nature – and promote human predatory thinking. They too make a “living” devouring other nations, groups, classes and people for power, riches, resources and control and worship by deceptions, terror and violence, matching Satan’s core character – they both sin the same sins, and 666 marks predatory and worshipful servants of these human system engineered “wildbeast” power, under Satan’s authority and “throne”:
(Revelation 13:2) . . .And the dragon gave to [the beast] its power and its throne and great authority.
Just pointing out that Satan does rule the highest power systems on earth and the subsequent effects are all kinds of other idolatrous systems of earth controlled by the wildbeast system in a replication of Satan’s core secretive deceptive character, controlled by Satan/demons – this is beyond coincidence. Satan’s defiant challenge against God which began in mankind, was already present in his thinking and desire, and man’s challenge of God’s sovereignty mirrors Satan’s challenge of God’s sovereignty as well, so this issue is about Universal Sovereignty. Though the human world and earth is caught in this controversy, the issue went clear to heaven, as we saw Satan has been cast from heaven, and that extends now to the “heavenly places” to which he is barred in earth’s vicinity, so this issue of Sovereign Rightful Domain, is universal and is settled in heaven, awaiting the final extension of authority of Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of God over earth and the “heavenly places” outside of heaven in this universe.
The issue is purged clear from heaven, but the issue must climax on earth, and in the spirit realms in the final confrontation between Christ and Satan in both realms, where Satan has engineered human systems to be defiant as well to God’s sovereignty and his anointed and appointed King Jesus Christ:
(Revelation 16:13-16) . . .And I saw three unclean inspired expressions that looked like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the wild beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet. 14 They are, in fact, expressions inspired by demons and perform signs, and they go forth to the kings of the entire inhabited earth, to gather them together to the war of the great day of God the Almighty. 15 “Look! I am coming as a thief. Happy is the one that stays awake and keeps his outer garments, that he may not walk naked and people look upon his shamefulness.” 16 And they gathered them together to the place that is called in Hebrew Har–Magedon.
Demons are involved in the dragon’s service, to mislead humans by the human powers of the wildbeast and false-prophet. The war is universal, starting at the Har-Magedon earthly situation, the “place”. The issue brought forth in Eden is more than earthly sovereignty alone though.
Mankind is shown in this divine taunt below in Joel to be readying for war, and this “place” as in “And they gathered them together to the place that is called in Hebrew Har–Magedon” is also mentioned in Joel 3:9 in connection with armaments build-up, a “collection of nations”, “crowds”, the “place”, the angelic “powerful ones” of Jehovah, and the judgment of that Armageddon war:
(Joel 3:9-16) . . .“Proclaim this, YOU people, among the nations, ‘Sanctify war! Arouse the powerful men! Let them draw near! Let them come up, all the men of war! 10 Beat YOUR plowshares into swords and YOUR pruning shears into lances. As for the weak one, let him say: “I am a powerful man.”
11 Lend YOUR aid and come, all YOU nations round about, and collect yourselves together.’” To that place, O Jehovah, bring your powerful ones down.
12 “Let the nations be aroused and come up to the low plain of Jehoshaphat; for there I shall sit in order to judge all the nations round about.
13 “Thrust in a sickle, for harvest has grown ripe. Come, descend, for [the] winepress has become full. The press vats actually overflow; for their badness has become abundant.
14 Crowds, crowds are in the low plain of the decision, for the day of Jehovah is near in the low plain of the decision. 15 Sun and moon themselves will certainly become dark, and the very stars will actually withdraw their brightness. 16 And out of Zion Jehovah himself will roar, and out of Jerusalem he will give forth his voice. And heaven and earth certainly will rock; but Jehovah will be a refuge for his people, and a fortress for the sons of Israel.
So no wonder this Satanic “head” will suffer a severe fatal crushing in Satan’s end curse of death executed upon him. It’s the source and lead design of the human engineering of greed, war and oppression systems climaxing over time on earth since after the flood.
In the end this “sword” (Michael) will destroy Satan:
(Isaiah 27:1) . . .In that day Jehovah, with his hard and great and strong sword, will turn his attention to Leviathan, the gliding serpent,
even to Leviathan, the crooked serpent, and he will certainly kill the sea monster that is in the sea.
Great Tribulation
The global Great Tribulation is a purposeful situation which the above engineering shown in demon and human systems has as an objective. This is an architected event, though it seems accidental in the “pangs” and is called “random” and appears “chaotic”, at the highest orders of the engineered demon system, it is a controlled system with a purpose – “woe to the earth” (Rev12:12). It is not just a world collapse, that is just a means to an end and one of the features that affect parts of the human system at this time – Satan’s core power system will be functional; “still alive” (Rev19:20).
Great tribulation, in the tribulation definition we find the demon and evil human counterpart’s objectives – global persecution and oppression:
Webster’s Definition
“ TRIBULATION”
” distress or suffering resulting from oppression or persecution.”
Root:
early 13c., from O.Fr. tribulacion (12c.), from L.L. tribulationem (nom. tribulatio) “distress, trouble, affliction” (c.200), from tribulatus, pp. of tribulare “to oppress, afflict,” a figurative use by Christian writers of L. tribulare “to press,” also possibly “to thresh out grain*,” from tribulum. *[Luke22:31]
So oppression and persecution is always a coercive, threatening and destructive means to control nations, groups and people, this is the climax event to attempt to break people’s integrity to and faith in God Jehovah, and to force worship of the wildbeast upon all mankind as an attempt to break the complete human race, which never has happened (Abel; Noah and the 7; Job; Jesus Christ and all people faithful to God) nor will it ever happen. Satan’s will never reach the totality of his accusation against all humanity, he influences some, but never not all, because his basis is a lie.
The Great Tribulation will have some features:
1. A progressive development;
2. A climax “birth”;
3. It will employ evil human powers leading to a manifestation in some form of the demon powers in a zenith of their earthly power (Gog phase);
So there is a prelude period, the great tribulation, and the end of it, the war of Armageddon – with a few sub-features shown later.
Progressive:
That the great tribulation is a progression Jesus likened to the progression of a woman’s birth, first the “pangs of distress”:
(Matthew 24:7-8) 7 “For nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be food shortages and earthquakes in one place after another. 8 All these things are a beginning of pangs of distress.
Now as women who have given birth may have experienced, the contractions can come and go, they do not always indicate a full birth sequence – same with the human system, there are sporadic stressors and relieved periods. Yet with a human birth, preceding the birth, the contraction will be progressively growing in frequency and strength as the birth nears.
Same with the tribulation Jesus showed the “sign” of. Events in Jesus Christ’s signal features (Matt24; Mark13; Luke21), will also be sporadic, and will intensify over time, and will eventually grow in magnitude and frequency to a full “birth” of Great Tribulation – which may very well be very quickly when reaching full blown tribulation. I point this out because Jesus also pointed out the complete end is not yet in this feature:
(Mark 13:7) . . .when YOU hear of wars and reports of wars, do not be terrified; [these things] must take place, but the end is not yet.
And though the great tribulation will be severe, it itself is not the end of Armageddon war.
As we see it becomes extreme:
(Matthew 24:21-22) . . .for then there will be great tribulation such as has not occurred since the world’s beginning until now, no, nor will occur again. 22 In fact, unless those days were cut short, no flesh would be saved; but on account of the chosen ones those days will be cut short.
And it is tied into the standing of Michael in his Rev12:7-10 Kingdom heavenly authority as well in Daniel:
(Daniel 12:1) . . .“And during that time Michael will stand up, the great prince who is standing in behalf of the sons of your people. And there will certainly occur a time of distress such as has not been made to occur since there came to be a nation until that time. . . .
Note: Jesus Christ’s heavenly rule Kingdom founding, and Satan’s progressive “woe to the earth”, for the “short period of time” of Satan anger after the casting from heaven, are CONCURRENT authorities, they happen at the same time; that is Satan’s earthly progressively intensifying “woe to the earth”, seen in the “pangs of distress” of his authority develop and mature WHILE Jesus Christ is in heavenly authority. Logically Jesus cast Satan from heaven, and he will do the same from earth as well:
(John 12:31) . . .Now there is a judging of this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out.
As we see, Jesus promises also that these days of great tribulation, will be cut short:
(Matthew 24:21-22) . . .for then there will be great tribulation such as has not occurred since the world’s beginning until now, no, nor will occur again. 22 In fact, unless those days were cut short, no flesh would be saved; but on account of the chosen ones those days will be cut short.
(Mark 13:19-20) . . .for those days will be [days of] a tribulation such as has not occurred from [the] beginning of the creation which God created until that time, and will not occur again. 20 In fact, unless Jehovah had cut short the days, no flesh would be saved. But on account of the chosen ones whom he has chosen he has cut short the days.
Now we can see also in this “cutting of the days short” that Paul makes the connection between “tribulation” being purposely brought upon God’s people, and likewise Jehovah pays the greater tribulation back, upon the “great tribulator’s” source powers, this is a preview of the end event the end at Armageddon situational war by God’s direct intervention:
(2 Thessalonians 1:6-10) 6 This takes into account that it is righteous on God’s part to repay tribulation to those who make tribulation for YOU, 7 but, to YOU who suffer tribulation, relief along with us at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his powerful angels 8 in a flaming fire, as he brings vengeance upon those who do not know God and those who do not obey the good news about our Lord Jesus. 9 These very ones will undergo the judicial punishment of everlasting destruction from before the Lord and from the glory of his strength, 10 at the time he comes to be glorified in connection with his holy ones and to be regarded in that day with wonder in connection with all those who exercised faith, because the witness we gave met with faith among YOU.
Peter speaks of this selective fire:
(2 Peter 3:11-13) 11 Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of persons ought YOU to be in holy acts of conduct and deeds of godly devotion, 12 awaiting and keeping close in mind the presence of the day of Jehovah, through which [the] heavens being on fire will be dissolved and [the] elements being intensely hot will melt! 13 But there are new heavens and a new earth that we are awaiting according to his promise, and in these righteousness is to dwell.
So the purpose is merely the removal of evil humans and their system of evil oppression in Satan’s service:
(Revelation 11:18) . . .But the nations became wrathful, and your own wrath came, and the appointed time for the dead to be judged, and to give [their] reward to your slaves the prophets and to the holy ones and to those fearing your name, the small and the great, and to bring to ruin those ruining the earth.”
The planet earth itself must actually be saved, and animals will be preserved since they are given the final sacrifice of God to them, to dispose of human remains.
A great crowd is also delivered through that period:
(Revelation 7:9-14) . . .After these things I saw, and, look! a great crowd, which no man was able to number, out of all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes; and there were palm branches in their hands. 10 And they keep on crying with a loud voice, saying: “Salvation [we owe] to our God, who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb.” 11 And all the angels were standing around the throne and the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell upon their faces before the throne and worshiped God, 12 saying: “Amen! The blessing and the glory and the wisdom and the thanksgiving and the honor and the power and the strength [be] to our God forever and ever. Amen.” 13 And in response one of the elders said to me: “These who are dressed in the white robes, who are they and where did they come from?” 14 So right away I said to him: “My lord, you are the one that knows.” And he said to me: “These are the ones that come out of the great tribulation, and they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
The blood of the Lamb is the “passover” deliverance significance in this event like the deliverance of Israel from Egypt, this deliverance is through great tribulation and Armageddon – and the forgiveness significance is illustrated as well in the “they washed their robes in the blood of the lamb”. And Jesus ties that “deliverance” event in, with the progressiveness of the great tribulation’s approaching signals, like global unrest and other signs in the system of man:
(Luke 21:25-28) . . .“Also, there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth anguish of nations, not knowing the way out because of the roaring of the sea and [its] agitation, 26 while men become faint out of fear and expectation of the things coming upon the inhabited earth; for the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 27 And then they will see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. 28 But as these things start to occur, raise yourselves erect and lift YOUR heads up, because YOUR deliverance is getting near.”
So the human collapse is just part of the great tribulation, the “tribulation” itself is s purposeful condition worldwide from the progressive effect of demon and human evil counterparts interacting to bring Satan’s “woe to the earth” to a climax of persecution, oppression and destruction upon all the humans and indeed as much life itself that they can before their abyssing.
At that point of Gog’s attack, the war of God will go universal, even the demon “heavens” and the human “heavens” of the locus of power of each in demon governments, authorities and world rulerships main control, will be “dissolved”. The human “earth”, the seemingly stable governmental, institutional and societal orders in defiance of Christ’s authority will also be “dissolved”.
Some Developmental Features Preceeding Armageddon
There are some features in the bible that also show that this progressive human catastrophe, which has the wildbeast symbol as it’s main “devourer” also has a very interesting biblical counterpart that denotes the Satanic and demon manifestations and control in this climax period.
The final war, extends to the universal symbology of Gog and Magog and the demons), the war will be earthly and in the heavenly realm.
Firstly this “Gog of Magog” does not have a typical pattern in Israel’s old days. These Ezekiel 38 and 39 progressions in prophecy never occurred in Israel of old.
This prophecy is set in the “final part of the days”, but we see that it’s symbology, and unprecedented fulfillment and other features is well understood to symbolize Satan’s manifested control of the human system to a zenith of power to be exterminated by direct divine intervention, as Satan is shown in other prophecies to be neutralized to abyss as POW of the Armageddon war.
So Gog and Magog is seen as a symbol of the full maturation of Satan and demon manifestation in human earth systems which we see they have engineered for this very purpose and climatic event. I point it out, because we see noted the human manifestation of the wildbeast, and the dragon as the heavenly places controller, and this Gog development reinforces the idea of a progressive point before or during the great tribulation when Satan and the demons reach an unprecedented level of power into the earth system for also a purposeful attempted event of global proportions. Interesting that the wildbeast symbol, and the Gog of Magog symbol are both shown in direct attack meaning heavenly and earthly orchestration comprehensive at some point before or during the tribulation.
It’s shown in the final period as a “blitzkrieg” type assault:
(Ezekiel 38:8-9) 8 “‘“After many days you will be given attention. In the final part of the years you will come to the land [of people] brought back from the sword, collected together out of many peoples, onto the mountains of Israel, that have proved to be a constantly devastated place; even [a land] that has been brought forth from the peoples, [where] they have dwelt in security, all of them. 9 And you will be bound to come up. Like a storm you will come in. Like clouds to cover the land you will become, you and all your bands and many peoples with you.”’
(Ezekiel 38:14-16) 14 “Therefore prophesy, O son of man, and you must say to Gog, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said: “Will it not be in that day when my people Israel are dwelling in security that you will know [it]? 15 And you will certainly come from your place, from the remotest parts of the north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great congregation, even a numerous military force. 16 And you will be bound to come up against my people Israel, like clouds to cover the land. In the final part of the days it will occur, and I shall certainly bring you against my land, for the purpose that the nations may know me when I sanctify myself in you before their eyes, O Gog.”’
And this attack will have divine everlasting ramifications on human system “earth” and the demon “heavens”:
(Ezekiel 38:18-20) . . .“‘And it must occur in that day, in the day when Gog comes in upon the soil of Israel,’ is the utterance of the Sovereign Lord Jehovah, ‘that my rage will come up into my nose. 19 And in my ardor, in the fire of my fury, I shall have to speak. Surely in that day a great quaking will occur in the soil of Israel. 20 And because of me the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of the heavens and the wild beasts of the field and all the creeping things that are creeping on the ground and all mankind that are upon the surface of the ground will be bound to shiver, and the mountains will actually be thrown down and the steep ways will have to fall, and to the earth even every wall will fall.’
And a feature we see not only from some of the Megiddo battles of old, hinted at in the word Armageddon, but in prophecy, is that of divine confusion put into the human enemies forces for a self-destructive objective by God:
(Ezekiel 38:21-23) . . .“‘And I will call forth against him throughout all my mountainous region a sword,’ is the utterance of the Sovereign Lord Jehovah. ‘Against his own brother the sword of each one will come to be. 22 And I will bring myself into judgment with him, with pestilence and with blood; and a flooding downpour and hailstones, fire and sulphur I shall rain down upon him and upon his bands and upon the many peoples that will be with him. 23 And I shall certainly magnify myself and sanctify myself and make myself known before the eyes of many nations; and they will have to know that I am Jehovah.’
More evidence that the earthly confrontation between the Kingdom of God and that of men will result in human armies and military powers exterminating one another:
(Zechariah 14:13) . . .“And it must occur in that day [that] confusion from Jehovah will become widespread among them; and they will actually grab hold, each one of the hand of his companion, and his hand will actually come up against the hand of his companion.
(Haggai 2:22) . . .And I shall certainly overthrow the throne of kingdoms and annihilate the strength of the kingdoms of the nations; and I will overthrow [the] chariot and its riders, and [the] horses and their riders will certainly come down, each one by the sword of his brother.. . .
This occurred as a foregleam in King Jehoshaphat’s day:
(2 Chronicles 20:23) . . .And the sons of Ammon and Moab proceeded to stand up against the inhabitants of the mountainous region of Seir to devote them to destruction and annihilate them; and as soon as they finished with the inhabitants of Seir, they helped each one to bring his own fellow to ruin.
That it will be a union, gathering, a collection of all the national significant powers is shown again:
(Zephaniah 3:8-9) 8 “‘Therefore keep yourselves in expectation of me,’ is the utterance of Jehovah, ‘till the day of my rising up to [the] booty, for my judicial decision is to gather nations, for me to collect together kingdoms, in order to pour out upon them my denunciation, all my burning anger; for by the fire of my zeal all the earth will be devoured. 9 For then I shall give to peoples the change to a pure language, in order for them all to call upon the name of Jehovah, in order to serve him shoulder to shoulder.’
Climax event:
(Revelation 19:11-21) 11 And I saw the heaven opened, and, look! a white horse. And the one seated upon it is called Faithful and True, and he judges and carries on war in righteousness…the name he is called is The Word of God. 14 Also, the armies that were in heaven were following him on white horses, and they were clothed in white, clean, fine linen.
So we see Jesus Christ and the full heavens battle entourage will arrive into this earthly event of his dominating authority and “carry on the war” of Armageddon for righteous purpose – the white garments they wear symbolize they are righteous, and Jesus names show he is Jehovah’s appointed war-king:
15 And out of his mouth there protrudes a sharp long sword, that he may strike the nations with it, and he will shepherd them with a rod of iron. He treads too the winepress of the anger of the wrath of God the Almighty. 16 And upon his outer garment, even upon his thigh, he has a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords.
The winepress is shown twice in prophecy at Joel 3:13-14, and at Rev14:19 – the “grapes” are not good people “The press vats actually overflow; for their badness has become abundant. Crowds, crowds are in the low plain of the decision”. They are exterminated by angels: “And the angel thrust his sickle into the earth and gathered the vine of the earth, and he hurled it into the great winepress of the anger of God.”; (Rev14:19)
We know this time, the global destruction is selective, animals are left remaining, and the planet is delivered from this evil devouring system:
17 I saw also an angel standing in the sun, and he cried out with a loud voice and said to all the birds that fly in midheaven: “Come here, be gathered together to the great evening meal of God, 18 that YOU may eat the fleshy parts of kings and the fleshy parts of military commanders and the fleshy parts of strong men and the fleshy parts of horses and of those seated upon them, and the fleshy parts of all, of freemen as well as of slaves and of small ones and great.”
Now we see this is a global climax of a collective of the “kings of the earth” and “their armies” to actually make a confrontation “wage the war” – that the wildbeast is caught and thrown into destruction “while still alive” shows the main power system causing and aiding the “great tribulation” is functional and actively defiant against God’s Kingdom:
19 And I saw the wild beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to wage the war with the one seated on the horse and with his army. 20 And the wild beast was caught, and along with it the false prophet that performed in front of it the signs with which he misled those who received the mark of the wild beast and those who render worship to its image. While still alive, they both were hurled into the fiery lake that burns with sulphur. 21 But the rest were killed off with the long sword of the one seated on the horse, which [sword] proceeded out of his mouth. And all the birds were filled from the fleshy parts of them.
Har-Magedon Meaning
So look at the climax symbolic description “Har Magedon” a “place”.
Magedon
The Magedon refers to Megiddo and to other meanings related to it, being “organized military assembly”, “defensive military fortifications”, a “military establishment”, “military order”, “fortified defense system”, an “organized complex of armies” and so on, so it easily applies to a super-garrison for defensive purposes, but with offensive power as well, a military fortress in character at the end “gathering of the nations” – a result of that gathering at Rev16:13-16. It’s a global super-sovereign controlled complex of all the earth’s military systems, or at least a huge majority, as Global NATO is at approximately 75% global war power potential in it’s collective parts, the US system alone is nearing 50% of the global war engine proportion. (and growing)
Har
Now the word “Har” meaning “mount”, or mountain, is also interesting. In the bible “mountains” have had interesting symbologies, as to governments, kingdoms, ruling systems, etc:
(Revelation 6:14) . . .And the heaven departed as a scroll that is being rolled up, and every mountain and [every] island were removed from their places.
(Daniel 2:35) . . .And as for the stone that struck the image, it became a large mountain and filled the whole earth.
(Isaiah 2:2) . . .And it must occur in the final part of the days [that] the mountain of the house of Jehovah will become firmly established above the top of the mountains, and it will certainly be lifted up above the hills; and to it all the nations must stream.
(Jeremiah 51:25) 25 “Here I am against you, O ruinous mountain,” is the utterance of Jehovah, “you ruiner of the whole earth; and I will stretch out my hand against you and roll you away from the crags and make you a burnt-out mountain.”
But there is another mountain symbol that may very well apply to the “place” “called in Hebrew Har-…”, a situational development upon the entire earth systems of the planet and even space, creating a fortress of defense to hold the planet earth in demon and wildbeast control. This symbol is in Ezekiel for Jehovah’s “holy mountain” described there. Satan is not in Jehovah’s Kingdom, so he being cast from the earth in the end period is described here, and his destruction, and notice “mountain” is the earth:
(Ezekiel 28:14-16) . . .On the holy mountain of God you proved to be. In the midst of fiery stones you walked about… you began to sin. And I shall put you as profane out of the mountain of God, and I shall destroy you, O cherub that is covering, from the midst of the fiery stones.
And here Jehovah notes the condition of his “holy mountain” earth under his Kingdom “mountain” sovereignty:
(Isaiah 11:9) . . .They will not do any harm or cause any ruin in all my holy mountain; because the earth will certainly be filled with the knowledge of Jehovah as the waters are covering the very sea.
So Har-Magedon is a multi-national “gathering” aided Mount Military on earth forming for a defensive position against God, and offensive use against humans. Kingdom Fortress, or Kingdom Military as well will be a condition of an opposing “kingdom” military seizure of the planet, intent on making a defensive against God’ Kingdom authority. Ultimate showdown, the earth is the battlefield “place”, as also will be the demon “heavens”.
Abyss
The finality of the heavenly realm conquest is the angel with the “great chain” that carries out the 3 fold neutralization of Satan and the demons, first bound in a depowered state, hurled into the abyss and shut in, and it is “sealed” over him.
(Revelation 20:1-3) . . .And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven with the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. 2 And he seized the dragon, the original serpent, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. 3 And he hurled him into the abyss and shut [it] and sealed [it] over him, that he might not mislead the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended. After these things he must be let loose for a little while.
Interesting here, the kings and armies are noted in both realms in that day too:
(Isaiah 24:21-22) . . .And it must occur in that day that Jehovah will turn his attention upon the army of the height in the height, and upon the kings of the ground upon the ground. 22 And they will certainly be gathered with a gathering as of prisoners into the pit, and be shut up in the dungeon; and after an abundance of days they will be given attention.
But after a period of time the execution occurs:
(Revelation 20:10) . . .And the Devil who was misleading them was hurled into the lake of fire and sulphur. . .
Interesting in the execution in Ezekiel’s foregleam is the casting and subsequent turning to “ash:
(Ezekiel 28:17-19) . . .Onto the earth I will throw you (Rev12:7-10). Before kings I will set you, [for them] to look upon you… And I shall bring forth a fire from the midst of you. It is what must devour you. And I shall make you ashes upon the earth before the eyes of all those seeing you. 19 As for all those knowing you among the peoples, they will certainly stare in amazement at you. Sudden terrors are what you must become, and you will be no more to time indefinite.”’. . .
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Consider the “Pangs” a Wakeup Call
(2 Peter 3:9-10) . . .Jehovah is not slow respecting his promise, as some people consider slowness, but he is patient with YOU because he does not desire any to be destroyed but desires all to attain to repentance. 10 Yet Jehovah’s day will come as a thief. . .
There is divine wisdom in that fact that the “last days of the last days” so to speak, of Christ’s heavenly “great sign seen in heaven” at Rev12′s prophecy are accompanied by “woe to the earth” in a progression – it is a wake up call to those who will come into the “great crowd” and the flock.
By this many recognize that this period is like Noah’s. God is giving the world a notice and invitation that is actually made more believable by this developing biblical discernment by actually trialsome global times.
That Satan would also be in his “short period of time” wreaking the cyclical mayhem, such as WW1 and WW2, is waking many people up, so this sign that Jesus spoke of has many signal features sort of slapping people to awareness of the true reality of the human situation global.
And that this period has global conditions is also significant, because some say “oh these things have always happened” – true.
But not globally, and not in the noticeable intensifying way they have in just the last decade – so pronounced that Jesus said the human “heavens” that would be “shaken” are themselves showing sings in “sun”, “moon” and “stars” (Luke21:25-28), meaning even people and groups with no biblical discernment are proclaiming ominous “signs” and even the institutional “bodies” are showing stress fractures, corruptions, legalized thefts, etc, that those paying attention, as Jesus said “taking note” are seeing are terminal symptoms in a systemic global system fashion, the whole place GLOBALLY now is showing big signals of big problems – and that is unique, the first time in history, and this is the initial period that this US war complex has also intensified in expansions global.
So yes, it is God allowing this to happen, so that the “rocking of the nations” which was foretold and begun by the preaching work, is now being reinforced by reality, some people are seeing it has all been foretold in the bible – so God is using Satanic negatives for a positive salvation benefit.
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And it will continue, as Jesus said these are pangs leading to a birth of great tribulation, so the cyclical global pangs will intensify, the preaching will be aided though not purposely by the “system signals” of ominous things – and these will keep intensifying and some people will make the strong determination to dedicate themselves to Jehovah, and serve his Kingdom objectives, and leave the world system behind in the mind and heart, and direct faith ever stronger to God and Christ who are the only ones who will be standing after the great tribulation dust settles so to speak, or maybe literal.
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And strange, though the sun, moon, and stars are symbolic, they are also appearing to also have literal features as well, as also happened as noted by Josephus when Jerusalem went into it’s tribulation by the Romans in 70CE.
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So stay solid and keep growing in faith towards Jehovah, and believe Jesus Christ words with your whole heart, because what he says about the great tribulation are guaranteed to follow his pattern that he enlightened us with. Though we do not know days and hours, we know the human system will not remain static, and the pangs will eventually lead to a full birth great tribulation, but God will warn as much as possible by opening our eyes to the significance of these things so we can “take note”, taking note of the meaning of this GLOBAL progression is important:
(Matthew 24:38-39) . . .For as they were in those days before the flood, eating and drinking, men marrying and women being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark; 39 and they TOOK NO NOTE until the flood came and swept them all away, so the presence of the Son of man will be.
So even the heavenly “arrival” has been like a thief, and so will the final events on many who have “taken no note”. So we are informed so as to take note and prepare spiritually to fight Satan by faith in Jehovah and Jesus Christ.
