Is Not This Great Babylon?

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Revelation Introduction Part One Introduction Seven Spirits Of God Walking Amidst The Candlesticks The Seven Angels - A Mystery A Sharp Two Edged Sword The Little Horn And The Synagogue Of Satan The Throne Of God The Lamb Of God Part Two Introduction The Seals - Shifting Identity The Tail Of The Dragon Is Constructed The Removal Of The Restrainer Behold A Pale Horse Last Three Seals - Alignment The Last Three Seals - The Resurrection The Last Three Seals - Triune Part Three Introduction The Trumpets - Shifting Octal Subgroups The First Trumpet The Second Trumpet The Third Trumpet The Fourth Trumpet Wormwood = 'Death' Part Four Introduction The Fifth Tumpet The Sixth Trumpet. Why Serpents, Why Not Just Scorpions? Seven Angels And Seven Candlesticks The Angel Of The Church On The Earth And Sea Witnesses To Left And Right The Two Witnesses The Trumpets Rest Part Five Introduction The Woman Clothed With The Sun The Dragon War In Heaven The Angel's Mechanism To Salvation God's Sovereignty Questioned Michael Fights Back With His Angels Time No Longer The Dragon Defeated Jesus' Epistle To Satan The Flood From The Dragon The Beast From The Sea The First Beast Explained The Beast Come Up From The Earth Part Six Introduction Life To The Image I Life To The Image II Life To The Image III Life To The Image IV Life To The Image V The Three Angels To The Right And Left The Wrath Is Come Part Seven Introduction The Wrath Poured Out - Part I The Wrath Poured Out - Part II The Wrath Poured Out - Part III Three Unclean Spirits Like Frogs I Come As A Thief Mystery, Babylon The Great The Woman Riding The Beast Explained The Angel Of The Church Overcomes Laodicea The Smoke Of Her Burning Part Eight Introduction The Victor The Spoils The Lake Of Fire Does Not Equal Reign One Thousand Years The Millennial Reign? A Caveat The Second Coming Is When? The Judgement The More Sure Word Of Prophecy Part Nine Introduction A New Earth The River Of Life The Final Promises Redux Introduction Section One Static Subgroups Spirits, Candlesticks And Stars A Sharp And Two-Edged Sword The Lord's Bow, The Elders, The Four Beasts The Book, The Lamb, The Right Octal Reversals, Alignments Horses, Bows, Crowns, Swords And Balances Death, Hell And The Earth Section Two The Altar - Two Parts Cut Off The Sun, Moon And Stars Of Heaven Mountains, Islands, Blood And Trees The Four Winds Of The Earth The Blood Of The Lamb The Censer And Prayers Of The Saints Hail And Fire Mingled With Blood Section Three The Third Part Of... Voices, Thunderings, Lightnings And Earthquakes Flying Through The Midst Of Heaven The Bottomless Pit Smoke, Locusts, Green Things Tormented Five Months The Appearance Of Locusts Section Four The Great River Euphrates The Army Of The Horsemen And The Rest Of The Men The Little Book Power To Tread On Serpents And Scorpions The Reed, Rod and Temple Witnesses And Olive Trees Rain, Waters Into Blood, Plagues On The Earth Section Five The Beast That Ascendeth Overcome -The Great City The Spirit of Life, Clouds And An Earthquake The Tenth Part The Kingdoms Of Our Lord Wonders In Heaven The Beast Risen Up From The Sea Section Six Worshipping The Dragon The Beast Coming Up Out Of The Earth The Last Trumpet Six Hundred Threescore And Six The Mark, Number And Name Of The Beast Stood On Mount Zion The Harvest Of Sharp Sickles The Temple Filled With Smoke Section Seven The First Vial Of Wrath The Second Vial Of Wrath The Third Vial Of Wrath The Fourth Vial Of Wrath The Fifth Vial Of Wrath The Sixth Vial Of Wrath The Rest Of The Wrath Section Eight Divided Into Three Parts The Judgement Of Babylon The Beast That Was, And Is Not The Beast Dissected The Beast Rebooted Babylon The Great Is Fallen Death, Mourning And Famine Section Nine It Is Done The Sabbath Continues After The Wrath The Word Of God Predestination And Deliverance The Last Day Burn In Hell? The Tabernacle Of God With Men The City Descends The Final Word Sayings Faithful And True Structure, Sequence and Segue Introduction The Seven Letters In Ephesus In Smyrna In Pergamos In Thyatira In Sardis In Philadelphia Of Laodicea Seven Thunders Uttered The Seven Trumpets The Seals - Loosed Restraint The Seals Opened On The Earth The Seals Opened In Heaven What Or Whom Is Being Restrained? The Seventh Seal Of Rest The Trumpets And Viols The Trumpets - In Or Out? Overcoming In Stages - Treading The Winepress The Alignment Of Trumpets To Viols The Completion Of The Viols Is The Wrath In Reversal? The Scope Of Wrath The Peculiar Structure Of The Viols. Sequence Within Segue Wonders In Heaven The Burning Of Babylon The Descent Of New Jerusalem Gathered Together To Armageddon Alignments In The Sequence Sequence Completed Babylon Fallen No Millenium Those That Have The Victory The Book Of Daniel I Introduction An Opening The Statue Dream The Matter Gone A God That Reveals Secrets The Dream And It's Interpretation The Dragons Tail Revealed The Image And The Fiery Furnace Imitating The Kingdom Of God Falling Down - Instruments Of Ishtar That God That Shall Deliver The Tree Dream Nebuchadnezzar's Dream Daniel's Interpretation Is Not This Great Babylon? Babylon The Great Is Fallen The Party To End All Parties Daniel Interprets The Writing The Kingdom Is Taken Daniel In The Lion's Den Working In The World Daniel Breaks The King's Decree Interred To Be Devoured Delivered From Evil The Four Beasts Racing The Restrainer The Four Beasts The Ancient Of Days Did Sit The Fourth Beast Explained The Book Of Daniel II Introduction The Ram And He-Goat Greece Subdues The Medes And Persians The Little Horn The Interpretation In Summation Daniel's Seventy Weeks Daniel's Prayer Seventy Weeks Determined Skill And Understanding A Matter Of Timing? The Kings Of The North And South I Daniel's Revelation Of Christ To The End Of Persian Rule The 1335 Days - The Power Of The Arm The 1290 days - The Abomination Identifiers In The Text The Abstraction Of Daniel's Vision The Kings Of The North And South II The South Establishes His Kingdom His Sons Stirred Up Casting Up A Mount The Strength Of The Kingdom A Raiser Of Taxes The Kings Of The North And South III A Vile Person Stands Up Stirring Up His Power And Courage Lies At One Table The Kings Of The North And South IV The Restrainer Removed The Ships Of Chittim The Abomination - A Little Help Given That That Is Determined Shall Be Done At The Time Of The End The Final Clash Made Succinct The Conclusion - The People Are Tried	Is Not This Great Babylon? The chapter closes Nebuchadnezzars account with the result of the king's pride, it comes "before his fall". -- Click To Expand/Collapse Bible Verses -- Dan ch4:v29-37 Dan 4:29 At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. Dan 4:30 The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty? Dan 4:31 While the word was in the king’s mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; The kingdom is departed from thee. Dan 4:32 And they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will. Dan 4:33 The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws. Dan 4:34 And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation: Dan 4:35 And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou? Dan 4:36 At the same time my reason returned unto me; and for the glory of my kingdom, mine honour and brightness returned unto me; and my counsellers and my lords sought unto me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent majesty was added unto me. Dan 4:37 Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase. (KJV) Nebuchadnezzar whilst walking in the palace pridefully states that the glory of the kingdom is all due himself, not leaving place for the God that warned him in the dream some twelve months earlier. (As perhaps an allusion to the stewardship he had over the "twelve" tribes of Israel?) God is swift to answer, to fulfil his judgement as in the dream, and we see it immediately came to pass, (that all the king dreamed) all that Daniel had shown in interpretation to be true occurred as Daniel stated. There are three hours in the text corresponding to the elements of the static subgroup under the frobenius map. One hour within which the people were to bow down to the image set up by the king, the second hour in which Daniel was astonished and this third hour within which the king's judgement by God occurs. These are analogous to the dead under the altar, (slain for the word of God as in the fiery furnace) the sealing of the faithful in the book of life (their salvation, c.f. Daniel having the "holy gods" in him) and the express person of God and His coming. (With the judgement.) The one God that preserved alive Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego (Christ) has replied in trinity to the king, in that truly the king had been part of a "set-up" (if you like) in these three hours forming the K4 group as of the last three seals. God had indeed set the king up as he was, in order to shoot him right back down again - to show His sovereignty over all men as recorded in the accounts in the book of Daniel's first chapters. The King had raised the image above all "Peoples, nations and languages" and God has shown the king that God raised the king above his people. In the kings act of making his idol as high as God, God replied and showed the kingdom there is one God and God is far above man. In the eyes of all "People, nations and languages" God has indeed shown the living that there is one God who rules over all. (And not least having shown the king himself his "instrument".) When the king acknowledges the sovereignty and eternity of God - (that as above when the king stated "What doest thou?") in the set-up of the king and his own pride before his fall, his own reason returned and he was restored to his kingdom, and "excellent majesty" was once again his. The king it seems was in no doubt as to the result of his own fall - and neither should by inference should any saved christian consider himself as equal to Jesus Christ though they be heirs with Him. We are heirs with Him in God's promises to us, and not equal to Him - as he was humbled and abased to become as we are, yet Christ is the alpha and omega - the first and the last. We will never be His equals! Christ came as a man to fulfil the law required of men - we are not saved to fulfil the converse, that we may be "as God". Continue To Next Page Return To Section Start Return To Previous Page