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Revelation 13:10
Here is the patience and the faith of the Saints!
10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints .
INTRODUCTION
Today, we will be looking deeper into Revelation 13:10. Last time, we looked at verse 9, which read, If anyone is having an ear, let him [or her] hear, and we found this not only meant that what is in this context of the Great Tribulation is important for God's true people to know, and these things of the Great Tribulation have a deeper spiritual meaning than what just appears on the surface, which the Christian churches of today cannot see for several reasons, but only God's true Elect can see. And, since verse 10 of today's study comes directly after that verse, we can expect this verse to be very important with a deeper spiritual meaning for God's true people consistent with all of Revelation Chapter 13 about the Great Tribulation period.
We will first look at the first two sentences of Revelation 13:10, which say, He that leads into captivity shall go into captivity: he that kills with the sword must be killed with the sword
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their way out for having been cast out of heaven at the cross and then for having been spiritually dethroned by Christ at the beginning of Judgment Day on May 21, 2011 from their Great Rule over the whole Church and the whole world during the Great Tribulation. This explains why evil and demonic activity in the world has been quickly multiplying.
Woe to the whole Church and the world, for Satan has been forever dethroned, and he is so mad or crazy to destroy all the good things of God. Indeed, the entire beast was cast into the spiritual fire when Judgment Day began on May 21, 2011, and it is now being burned up by the spiritual fire and brimstone from the Word of God being declared by the Elect: that no one else can any longer be granted eternal life and salvation, and Satan, his demons, and all his billions of unsaved people now filling the Christian churches worldwide and the world are being spiritually burned up until when on the Last Day of Judgment Day that we are now in, they will all be literally burned up and annihilated forevermore. Then God will create a new incorruptible and eternal heaven and earth from what remains of this earth where His Elect, the Saints, will dwell forever in their new incorruptible and eternal bodies to serve, worship, and enjoy Christ, their king, in glory with Him, forever. There shall no longer be any sorrows, sufferings, pains, or deaths, and all the former of these awful things shall no longer be remembered, but saved loved ones will all be reunited in joy unspeakable. As we read in 1Thessalonians 4,
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But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep
[those beloved ones who have already passed on]
, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope
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For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him
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For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep
. {prevent: or, come before, or, anticipate, or, precede }
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For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ
[those believers who have already passed on]
shall rise first
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Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord
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Wherefore comfort one another with these words
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CONCLUSION
But now, to bring this study toward its end, strangely, after having gotten a better idea of what our verse, Revelation 13:10, is saying when it declares, If anyone [the beast] is [ongoingly] leading into captivity, it [the beast] is [ongoingly] going into captivity: If anyone [the beast] is [ongoingly] killing with the sword,
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of God beginning on May 21, 1988 and has continued to this very day until the Last Day of the Day of Justice is fully meted out by Satan and all his gang being completely annihilated forever
. This has always been taught in God s Holy Word, and so as this Justice has actually been taking place during the Great Tribulation on into and through the many days of Judgment Day that we are now in, God says, Here is the faith of the Saints!
But God did not just say, Here is the faith of the Saints, but He said, Here is the patience and faith of the Saints. So, what does He mean by here is the patience of the Saints? Certainly, one thing that it means is the patience of the Saints is tied into the Justice of God. Because God's true people have faith that God is fulfilling His plan of Justice during the Great Tribulation and on into Judgment Day because God's Holy Word teaches this, they can also have great patience, knowing that God is working out perfect Justice in His Judgment Plan for the end of the world. This does not mean that the patience of the Saints has been easy, for we, the Saints and Elect of God, know it has been very difficult and will likely become even more difficult as we get closer to the end. We would have liked for this world to have ended many years ago, and the trials and tribulations that we have had and continue to endure have been great. And unfortunately, many who once stood steadfast in patience with us have denied the faith and either returned
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to the Church or the world to reveal that they were not really of us. There has been a lot of pain, sorrow, sadness, and death. But because we know by faith in what His Word teaches that God is working all things out with perfect Justice, and we know by faith in what His Word teaches that God is in perfect control: that nothing takes place without His permission, and He eternally loves us like His own body that we are, we have been being patient through the Great Tribulation, and now through Judgment Day itself as well. And we will be patient right up to the very end because our God s Judgment Plan for Justice is perfect, not only for Satan and his gang, but for us as well. Here is the patience and faith of the Saints.
Now,
until the next time, may
Yahweh bless thee, and keep thee: Yahweh make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: Yahweh lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace
(Numbers 6:24-26).
1994 of the Great Tribulation to completely rule over them in deception as the counterfeit Christ,
THE ANTICHRIST
So now, when we return to our verse, which states, If anyone [and this anyone could be a he, she, or it] is leading into captivity, he, she, or it is going into captivity, and we ask the question, who is the anyone that was leading into captivity during the Great Tribulation as described in
But how can the beast that had been leading the Church into captivity during the Great Tribulation and continues to do so even to this day, also itself have had been going into captivity during the Great Tribulation and continues to do so even to this day? Well, as the beast (Satan, his demons, and counterfeit Christians) were conquering the Church and taking it into captivity, it [the beast] was going into captivity because God's Judgment came upon the beast by His having removed His Holy Spirit from the beast in the Church so none of the beast's
Clearly, the sharp two-edged sword that went out of Christ's mouth are the words which come from his mouth, namely the Word of God. And when Christ says to the Church,
Re 2:16
Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth
,
He obviously means that He will fight against the Church with the words which come from His mouth, namely the very Word of God (see
Revelation 2:16
Re 19:15
And out of his [Christ's] mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite [or strike, afflict, or visit with evils] 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
(see
Revelation 19:15
And again, we read about the sword that proceeded out of Christ's mouth (the Word of God declared by the Elect) by which all the unsaved people in the world and the
get a deeper understanding of what is being said to God's true people, then we will discover how this is all summed up in the last sentence of our verse, which says, Here is the patience and the faith of the Saints, the very title of this study.
O God of this Universe and all creations, shine forth the message you want us to hear through verse 10 of our study. We pray through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, amen.
Revelation 13:10:
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He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints
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Let's first more fully consider the first sentence, He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity. More literally, it reads, If anyone [and this anyone could be a he, she, or it, depending on the context] is leading into captivity, he, she, or it is going into captivity. Now just who he, she, or it is depends upon the context of our verse, and the context of our verse is Revelation Chapter 13 wherein we had learned that the beast was released from the bottomless pit on May 21, 1988 to begin the Great Tribulation and to bring God's Judgment first against His own Church, and it made war against the Saints (the Elect) who were then still in the Church and overcame them (see
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Revelation Chapter 13, we know that the anyone was the beast. Therefore, when our verse says, If anyone is leading into captivity, he, she, or it is going into captivity, we know the anyone is the beast and so our verse now more accurately reads, If anyone [the beast] is leading into captivity, it [the beast] is going into captivity. The beast is not he or she but an it because remember, the beast consists of Satan who has no gender, his demons who have no gender, and both his unsaved male and female counterfeit Christians and other unsaved male and female people as well, so only the pronoun it can work to describe the beast as a whole: that is, you can't call the beast, he, because neither Satan, his demons, nor his unsaved female people are hes. And you can't call the beast, she, because neither Satan, his demons, nor his unsaved male people are shes. But you can call the beast an it because an it gives no reference to gender.
Well, there are a couple more things to say about this first sentence of our verse, namely If anyone [the beast] is leading into captivity, it [the beast] is going into captivity. Both the verb translated is leading in the first part of the sentence, If anyone [the beast] is leading into captivity, and the verb is going in the second part of the sentence, it is going into captivity, which are actually the exact same verb in the Greek, are in the Present Tense and Active Voice of the Indicative Mood. In the Greek, this means that the action of the verbs is continuous or ongoing (see
Present Tense
counterfeit Christians could ever be eternally granted eternal life and salvation in or thru any church. Thus, at the same time that the removal of the Holy Spirit in the Church permitted the beast to take captive the whole Church beginning at the start of the Great Tribulation on May 21, 1988 and having completed taking over the Church by September 7, 1994 of the Great Tribulation, it also brought the beast into captivity in that the counterfeit Christians of the beast were made captive to having no possibility for eternal life and salvation in or thru any church, and Satan and his demons of the beast were also made captive in that they likely knew, as each day of the Great Tribulation went by, their great reign over the Church and the world was coming closer and closer to when it would end on May 21, 2011, the beginning of Judgment Day, when also they would be dethroned from any longer ruling over the world and the Church, and Christ would begin to reign over Satan and his demons but with a rod of iron to use them to bring continued Judgment against the Church that they once ruled over and also against the whole world. So, in this way, as Satan, his demons, and counterfeit Christians (the beast) led all the Christian churches worldwide into captivity during the Great Tribulation, they themselves went into captivity. And now, ever since the beast was dethroned by Christ on May 21, 2011, Christ is ruling with a rod of iron to continue bringing Judgment against all the Christian churches worldwide, and now also against the whole world as well, by permitting the beast to continue for a season and time (see
Daniel 7:12
until the Last Day of Judgment Day that we are now in when the beast (Satan, his fallen angels, and all his billions of unsaved peoples in the churches and the world) is destroyed forever. So, as the beast led the whole Church into captivity, it also, at the same time, was being brought into captivity and will finally be utterly destroyed on the Last Day of Judgment Day that we are now in in a just response to the beast having utterly and spiritually destroyed the whole Christian Church. Yes, there will be complete and perfect Justice carried out against the beast who has taken over God's Church to make it Babylon the Great, the Great Whore and Abominations of the earth. And, this Justice is what God's true people, the Elect, have been patiently waiting for, and what they believe is now taking place.
Now, let's look at the next sentence of our verse. It reads,
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he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword
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More literally, it reads similar to our previous verse: If anyone kills with the sword, it must be killed with the sword, and because the verb kills is in the Present Tense and Indicative Mood of the Greek, it reveals continuous or ongoing action (see
Present Tense
verse, the word anyone must refer to the beast in this context. Therefore, the 2nd sentence of our verse now reads, If anyone [the beast] is [ongoingly] killing with the sword, it [the beast] must be killed with the sword.
Now, how did this 2nd sentence of Revelation 13:10 work out during the Great Tribulation from May 21, 1988 to May 21, 2011 when Judgment Day began? Indeed, the beast was ongoingly killing the Church with the sword during the Great Tribulation, but what was its sword? Well, the Holy Scriptures are clear that the sword is the Word of God itself. For instance, we read,
Heb 4:12
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged 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
(see
ristians claimed to be receiving direct messages from God apart from Holy Scripture in dreams, visions, tongues, voices, words of knowledge, or prophesies; and some of them were even making people fall backwards by apparently slaying them in the Spirit like Jesus did to those who came to take Him from the Garden of Gethsemane to have Him judged and then crucified. As we read,
John 18:1
When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden
[the garden of Gethsemane]
, into the which he entered, and his disciples
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And Judas also, which betrayed him, knew the place: for Jesus ofttimes resorted thither with his disciples
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Judas then, having received a band of men and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons
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