Apocalypic Visions - Part III
In The Beginning
As an Ambassador in Christ and citizen of Heaven it gives me the greatest pleasure to inform you that in the end the government of my Lord and Master will prevail against the greatest antagonist known to both man and angel, the revolutionary and outlaw, Satan the Devil. Unlike the Hollywood depictions of "the Devil", Lucifer as he was originally known before his heavenly coup, remains an angel of light and still retains all the glory of his person in that form. He was able to convince a third of the angelic civilization to join his rebellion against the third person of the Trinity, the one who is the express image of God, Jesus Christ. The only person of the Trinity that can be seen and subsequently is the "face" of God as far as intelligent life is concerned.
We are told that Lucifer held a position in Heaven and the government of my Lord similar to that of House Speaker in the United States House of Representatives and being very close to all the vestiges and accoutrement's of power was seduced by the glory and majesty of the Realm of Christ. In Lucifer's vanity and arrogance, by the light of his own genius and personage led a revolution to unseat my Lord and install himself as the Ruler of all Angels. Naturally, all revolutions are violent and thus a civil war ensued in Heaven and throughout the universe by those angels who sided with Christ and those angels who sided with Lucifer. Sometime during this conflict my Lord established three initiatives by executive order to bring an end to the Angelic Conflict.
First, He demanded a new oath of loyalty throughout the angelic civilization and those angels that swore their fealty to him would be known as "elect angels". Second, a new penal colony was established to house the seditious angels allied with Satan once they were defeated, which has not yet occurred, and incarcerated in a location simply known by its most famous geologic moniker as the "Lake of Fire". Third, My Lord created a new species of intelligent life that would exhibit all the same attributes of free will and dare I say, objective reasoning as God and the angels. This new species was created in a vacuum to prevent a prejudicial outcome in favor of either my Lord or Satan himself. A completely neutral ground upon which either side will make his case before the angels, fallen and elect. As a result, the Angelic Conflict has expanded downward straight from the throne room of God to the dust of the earth with Satan as prosecutor and Christ as advocate. Thus, earth was restored to its pristine environment and mankind, both man and woman, created out of necessity by God and placed in its domicile would decide by humanity's actions or inactions the fate of angels.
With the creation of man we have the beginning of human history and its fallout as described in the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. As I wrote before regarding the second advent of Christ there are numerous players in the future that will enter the stage of man directly to influence and change events to their advantage. These players include God himself, angels, man and angelic created creatures that will all collide at one point in the future to prevent Christ from solidifying his victory on the earth and throughout the universe. They will not succeed despite the carnage they inflict upon mankind and the earth itself.
Aftermath
Just as we see in human history, defeated armies leave behind their implements of war as well as their dead and this last world war will be no different. The destroyed and broken human armies surrounding Israel as well as the destroyed Scorpion and Dragon armies that will litter the battlefields of the Eurasian-African continent will fill the air with the stench and detritus of ancient creatures and past civilizations whose abode was in the earth.
Operation Banquet Garden
The complete destruction of Satan's human and demon armies becomes the carrion for the scavengers of the air:
17And I saw an angel standing in the sun, who cried in a loud voice to all the birds flying in midair, "Come, gather together for the great supper of God, 18so that you may eat the flesh of kings, generals, and mighty men, of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all people, free and slave, small and great." Rev 19:17-18
I highlight this certain passage to draw your attention to it as I believe this relates to the troops of Satan's Operation Scorpio as well as to the "horses and their riders" of Satan's Operation Draco. When we consider that when certain fallen angels had carnal relations with mankind before the flood of Noah's time the offspring of this unholy union were known as Nephilim and they were called "heroes of old, mighty men of renown". The similarities should not be so hastily dismissed as the Scorpion troops will no doubt be "mighty men" when compared to your average human. Nevertheless, the corpses of Satan's armies will be devoured by earth's carrion eaters after this great war has concluded.
17 "Son of man, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Call out to every kind of bird and all the wild animals: 'Assemble and come together from all around to the sacrifice I am preparing for you, the great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel. There you will eat flesh and drink blood. 18 You will eat the flesh of mighty men and drink the blood of the princes of the earth as if they were rams and lambs, goats and bulls—all of them fattened animals from Bashan. 19 At the sacrifice I am preparing for you, you will eat fat till you are glutted and drink blood till you are drunk. 20 At my table you will eat your fill of horses and riders, mighty men and soldiers of every kind,' declares the Sovereign LORD. Ezek 39: 17-20
As highlighted above we have a delineation between both human and angelic created creatures that will both be utilized by Satan to defeat Christ and his cavalry forces of Operation Pegasus at the Second Advent. However, Satan's plans fall apart and his once great armies will be outflanked and struck down on the battlefields of earth by the Resurrected Church. Its quite possible the battles will be decided in the air when the two opposing forces engage in mortal combat on and above the ground. Certainly the demonic forces of Operation Scorpio will meet us in open air combat as John records in Revelation that they can fly but possibly even the demonic forces of Operation Draco may also confront the Great White Calvary in the air if they are able to fly as well. I suspect both planes of the air and ground will be utilized for full effect in defeating this great inhuman enemy.
Blast Furnaces and Boneyards
After Christ personally saves Israel from destruction by the earthly armies of anti-Christ (Satan indwelled human) at Armageddon they too will litter the battleground in and around Israel. The heavily mechanized forces as deployed by mankind (King of the North and his allies plus the King of the West and Kings of the East) will naturally not be consumed by carrion eaters although the bodies of dead soldiers will be, but the human machines of war will be collected and dumped by Israel in vast junk yards for recycling. This is in contrast to the Scorpion and Dragon troops deployed elsewhere in which their corpses will be consumed by the buzzards and vultures and other scavenging animals in the Eurasian-African continent in a thanksgiving-day orgy of blood and flesh.
9 " 'Then those who live in the towns of Israel will go out and use the weapons for fuel and burn them up—the small and large shields, the bows and arrows, the war clubs and spears. For seven years they will use them for fuel. 10 They will not need to gather wood from the fields or cut it from the forests, because they will use the weapons for fuel. And they will plunder those who plundered them and loot those who looted them, declares the Sovereign LORD.
11 " 'On that day I will give Gog a burial place in Israel, in the valley of those who travel east toward [b] the Sea. [c] It will block the way of travelers, because Gog and all his hordes will be buried there. So it will be called the Valley of Hamon Gog. [d]
12 " 'For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them in order to cleanse the land. 13 All the people of the land will bury them, and the day I am glorified will be a memorable day for them, declares the Sovereign LORD.
14 " 'Men will be regularly employed to cleanse the land. Some will go throughout the land and, in addition to them, others will bury those that remain on the ground. At the end of the seven months they will begin their search. 15 As they go through the land and one of them sees a human bone, he will set up a marker beside it until the gravediggers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon Gog. 16 (Also a town called Hamonah [e] will be there.) And so they will cleanse the land.' Ezek 39: 9-16
Thus Satan's human armies having been smashed and their tools of war scattered about along with their corpses that lay slain in the open will force Israelis to clean up and tow away the mass carnage left behind in order to clear the land for reconstruction. Human weapons are smelted down and used as a primary source of fuel for cooking and heating and other basic necessities with enough fodder to last as long as seven years. The time it takes to bury the dead will last seven months. After this, on occasion, human remains will be located and marked for identification to be buried later. A mass grave will be dug and so large it will be that it will alter the landscape for future generations to see. In fact, a town by the name of Hamonah will be made famous by this mass grave.
25 "Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will now bring Jacob back from captivity [f] and will have compassion on all the people of Israel, and I will be zealous for my holy name. 26 They will forget their shame and all the unfaithfulness they showed toward me when they lived in safety in their land with no one to make them afraid. 27 When I have brought them back from the nations and have gathered them from the countries of their enemies, I will show myself holy through them in the sight of many nations. 28 Then they will know that I am the LORD their God, for though I sent them into exile among the nations, I will gather them to their own land, not leaving any behind. 29 I will no longer hide my face from them, for I will pour out my Spirit on the house of Israel, declares the Sovereign LORD." Ezek 39: 25-29
Rules of Engagement
You will note that all professional armies operate by "rules of engagement". Even Satan's armies have their limitations imposed upon them by God as the more advanced and powerful shock troops of Operation Scorpio and Draco are not allowed to attack Israel. Hence, Satan must rely upon his human armies to dispense with this tiny nation once and for all. Even when the "Angel of the Abyss" who is the commander of Operation Scorpio engages with the two Jewish witnesses of Revelation, the angel violates the rules of engagement by killing them in a direct contest between angel and man. God overrules this breach of conduct by allowing the two witnesses to be resurrected three and half days later and bodily depart the earth in a sonic boom and vapor cloud much to the astonished and frightened crowds in their wake.
The Abyss
With the Second Advent of Christ completed and Satan's human and angelic armies defeated in the heavens and on Earth the only thing left to do is to place his diabolical majesty under arrest.
1And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key to the Abyss and holding in his hand a great chain. 2He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. 3He threw him into the Abyss, and locked and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended. After that, he must be set free for a short time. Rev 20: 1-3
You will note that it is an elect angel that places Satan under arrest and not an elect human. The long and personal conflict between the Angels that began so many millenia ago that divided a civilization of light against each other comes down to an angel incarcerating an angel. Adding a bit of irony here God allows this angel to place Satan in the same rat hole from whence his Scorpion and Dragon armies had bivouaced for thousands of years before they were released by Satan for the grand finale. The Abyss is resealed and locked again with the same key utilized by Satan himself to open the door to this underground vault found in Revelation 9 and his millenia long incarceration gives this evil genius time to "mull it over" and to contemplate what he has wrought. After the thousand years are complete the door to the Abyss will be unlocked and Satan will be paroled and the rest will be history.
As an Ambassador in Christ and citizen of Heaven it gives me the greatest pleasure to inform you that in the end the government of my Lord and Master will prevail against the greatest antagonist known to both man and angel, the revolutionary and outlaw, Satan the Devil. Unlike the Hollywood depictions of "the Devil", Lucifer as he was originally known before his heavenly coup, remains an angel of light and still retains all the glory of his person in that form. He was able to convince a third of the angelic civilization to join his rebellion against the third person of the Trinity, the one who is the express image of God, Jesus Christ. The only person of the Trinity that can be seen and subsequently is the "face" of God as far as intelligent life is concerned.
We are told that Lucifer held a position in Heaven and the government of my Lord similar to that of House Speaker in the United States House of Representatives and being very close to all the vestiges and accoutrement's of power was seduced by the glory and majesty of the Realm of Christ. In Lucifer's vanity and arrogance, by the light of his own genius and personage led a revolution to unseat my Lord and install himself as the Ruler of all Angels. Naturally, all revolutions are violent and thus a civil war ensued in Heaven and throughout the universe by those angels who sided with Christ and those angels who sided with Lucifer. Sometime during this conflict my Lord established three initiatives by executive order to bring an end to the Angelic Conflict.
First, He demanded a new oath of loyalty throughout the angelic civilization and those angels that swore their fealty to him would be known as "elect angels". Second, a new penal colony was established to house the seditious angels allied with Satan once they were defeated, which has not yet occurred, and incarcerated in a location simply known by its most famous geologic moniker as the "Lake of Fire". Third, My Lord created a new species of intelligent life that would exhibit all the same attributes of free will and dare I say, objective reasoning as God and the angels. This new species was created in a vacuum to prevent a prejudicial outcome in favor of either my Lord or Satan himself. A completely neutral ground upon which either side will make his case before the angels, fallen and elect. As a result, the Angelic Conflict has expanded downward straight from the throne room of God to the dust of the earth with Satan as prosecutor and Christ as advocate. Thus, earth was restored to its pristine environment and mankind, both man and woman, created out of necessity by God and placed in its domicile would decide by humanity's actions or inactions the fate of angels.
With the creation of man we have the beginning of human history and its fallout as described in the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. As I wrote before regarding the second advent of Christ there are numerous players in the future that will enter the stage of man directly to influence and change events to their advantage. These players include God himself, angels, man and angelic created creatures that will all collide at one point in the future to prevent Christ from solidifying his victory on the earth and throughout the universe. They will not succeed despite the carnage they inflict upon mankind and the earth itself.
Aftermath
Just as we see in human history, defeated armies leave behind their implements of war as well as their dead and this last world war will be no different. The destroyed and broken human armies surrounding Israel as well as the destroyed Scorpion and Dragon armies that will litter the battlefields of the Eurasian-African continent will fill the air with the stench and detritus of ancient creatures and past civilizations whose abode was in the earth.
Operation Banquet Garden
The complete destruction of Satan's human and demon armies becomes the carrion for the scavengers of the air:
17And I saw an angel standing in the sun, who cried in a loud voice to all the birds flying in midair, "Come, gather together for the great supper of God, 18so that you may eat the flesh of kings, generals, and mighty men, of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all people, free and slave, small and great." Rev 19:17-18
I highlight this certain passage to draw your attention to it as I believe this relates to the troops of Satan's Operation Scorpio as well as to the "horses and their riders" of Satan's Operation Draco. When we consider that when certain fallen angels had carnal relations with mankind before the flood of Noah's time the offspring of this unholy union were known as Nephilim and they were called "heroes of old, mighty men of renown". The similarities should not be so hastily dismissed as the Scorpion troops will no doubt be "mighty men" when compared to your average human. Nevertheless, the corpses of Satan's armies will be devoured by earth's carrion eaters after this great war has concluded.
17 "Son of man, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Call out to every kind of bird and all the wild animals: 'Assemble and come together from all around to the sacrifice I am preparing for you, the great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel. There you will eat flesh and drink blood. 18 You will eat the flesh of mighty men and drink the blood of the princes of the earth as if they were rams and lambs, goats and bulls—all of them fattened animals from Bashan. 19 At the sacrifice I am preparing for you, you will eat fat till you are glutted and drink blood till you are drunk. 20 At my table you will eat your fill of horses and riders, mighty men and soldiers of every kind,' declares the Sovereign LORD. Ezek 39: 17-20
As highlighted above we have a delineation between both human and angelic created creatures that will both be utilized by Satan to defeat Christ and his cavalry forces of Operation Pegasus at the Second Advent. However, Satan's plans fall apart and his once great armies will be outflanked and struck down on the battlefields of earth by the Resurrected Church. Its quite possible the battles will be decided in the air when the two opposing forces engage in mortal combat on and above the ground. Certainly the demonic forces of Operation Scorpio will meet us in open air combat as John records in Revelation that they can fly but possibly even the demonic forces of Operation Draco may also confront the Great White Calvary in the air if they are able to fly as well. I suspect both planes of the air and ground will be utilized for full effect in defeating this great inhuman enemy.
Blast Furnaces and Boneyards
After Christ personally saves Israel from destruction by the earthly armies of anti-Christ (Satan indwelled human) at Armageddon they too will litter the battleground in and around Israel. The heavily mechanized forces as deployed by mankind (King of the North and his allies plus the King of the West and Kings of the East) will naturally not be consumed by carrion eaters although the bodies of dead soldiers will be, but the human machines of war will be collected and dumped by Israel in vast junk yards for recycling. This is in contrast to the Scorpion and Dragon troops deployed elsewhere in which their corpses will be consumed by the buzzards and vultures and other scavenging animals in the Eurasian-African continent in a thanksgiving-day orgy of blood and flesh.
9 " 'Then those who live in the towns of Israel will go out and use the weapons for fuel and burn them up—the small and large shields, the bows and arrows, the war clubs and spears. For seven years they will use them for fuel. 10 They will not need to gather wood from the fields or cut it from the forests, because they will use the weapons for fuel. And they will plunder those who plundered them and loot those who looted them, declares the Sovereign LORD.
11 " 'On that day I will give Gog a burial place in Israel, in the valley of those who travel east toward [b] the Sea. [c] It will block the way of travelers, because Gog and all his hordes will be buried there. So it will be called the Valley of Hamon Gog. [d]
12 " 'For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them in order to cleanse the land. 13 All the people of the land will bury them, and the day I am glorified will be a memorable day for them, declares the Sovereign LORD.
14 " 'Men will be regularly employed to cleanse the land. Some will go throughout the land and, in addition to them, others will bury those that remain on the ground. At the end of the seven months they will begin their search. 15 As they go through the land and one of them sees a human bone, he will set up a marker beside it until the gravediggers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon Gog. 16 (Also a town called Hamonah [e] will be there.) And so they will cleanse the land.' Ezek 39: 9-16
Thus Satan's human armies having been smashed and their tools of war scattered about along with their corpses that lay slain in the open will force Israelis to clean up and tow away the mass carnage left behind in order to clear the land for reconstruction. Human weapons are smelted down and used as a primary source of fuel for cooking and heating and other basic necessities with enough fodder to last as long as seven years. The time it takes to bury the dead will last seven months. After this, on occasion, human remains will be located and marked for identification to be buried later. A mass grave will be dug and so large it will be that it will alter the landscape for future generations to see. In fact, a town by the name of Hamonah will be made famous by this mass grave.
25 "Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will now bring Jacob back from captivity [f] and will have compassion on all the people of Israel, and I will be zealous for my holy name. 26 They will forget their shame and all the unfaithfulness they showed toward me when they lived in safety in their land with no one to make them afraid. 27 When I have brought them back from the nations and have gathered them from the countries of their enemies, I will show myself holy through them in the sight of many nations. 28 Then they will know that I am the LORD their God, for though I sent them into exile among the nations, I will gather them to their own land, not leaving any behind. 29 I will no longer hide my face from them, for I will pour out my Spirit on the house of Israel, declares the Sovereign LORD." Ezek 39: 25-29
Rules of Engagement
You will note that all professional armies operate by "rules of engagement". Even Satan's armies have their limitations imposed upon them by God as the more advanced and powerful shock troops of Operation Scorpio and Draco are not allowed to attack Israel. Hence, Satan must rely upon his human armies to dispense with this tiny nation once and for all. Even when the "Angel of the Abyss" who is the commander of Operation Scorpio engages with the two Jewish witnesses of Revelation, the angel violates the rules of engagement by killing them in a direct contest between angel and man. God overrules this breach of conduct by allowing the two witnesses to be resurrected three and half days later and bodily depart the earth in a sonic boom and vapor cloud much to the astonished and frightened crowds in their wake.
The Abyss
With the Second Advent of Christ completed and Satan's human and angelic armies defeated in the heavens and on Earth the only thing left to do is to place his diabolical majesty under arrest.
1And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key to the Abyss and holding in his hand a great chain. 2He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. 3He threw him into the Abyss, and locked and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended. After that, he must be set free for a short time. Rev 20: 1-3
You will note that it is an elect angel that places Satan under arrest and not an elect human. The long and personal conflict between the Angels that began so many millenia ago that divided a civilization of light against each other comes down to an angel incarcerating an angel. Adding a bit of irony here God allows this angel to place Satan in the same rat hole from whence his Scorpion and Dragon armies had bivouaced for thousands of years before they were released by Satan for the grand finale. The Abyss is resealed and locked again with the same key utilized by Satan himself to open the door to this underground vault found in Revelation 9 and his millenia long incarceration gives this evil genius time to "mull it over" and to contemplate what he has wrought. After the thousand years are complete the door to the Abyss will be unlocked and Satan will be paroled and the rest will be history.
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