THE KINGDOM OF CHRIST - From Commencement to Completion (video series)- Chapter 6, Revealing the Annointed King Part 8
by Brett Jacobsen
The focus of this teaching is to promote the biblical truth that Christ’s Kingdom is active and increasing right now on this earth, in this age. Erroneous eschatology has detracted from this truth in many circles of the Christian faith.
All of the major eschatological (study of how things end) passages are covered but the end of the world is not the important issue and true eschatology is merely a means to an end- Christ Himself as King of kings. Though we will look at the glorious end of earthly history from time to time, we will more so continually use the scriptures to interpret the scriptures and arrive at the present victorious Kingdom of Christ.
For most Christians this teaching will challenge you deeply in your understanding of the New Covenant and Christ’s Kingdom as well as liberate you greatly in the truth of His Word.
Revelation chapter 8
Below are the scriptures from this teaching so you can read along:
Chapter eight to eleven deal with the seven trumpet judgements of Jesus and other details surrounding those judgements.
Deut 27:11-26 six tribes on Gerizim representing the blessings of the covenant, six on Ebal representing the curses of the covenant. Read Deut 28:1-14, then 15-68.
* The seventh seal opens the book and the contents are enacted upon the breakers of the covenant. This is the beginning of the great tribulation.
Chapter 8:1-2
8:1 And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour [1].
2 And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets [2].
[1] Silence signifying God not acting on their behalf:
This you have seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O LORD, be not far from me. 23 Stir up yourself, and awake to my judgment, even to my cause, my God and my Lord. 24 Judge me, O LORD my God, according to your righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me. (Ps 35:22-24)
Keep not you silence, O God: hold not your peace, and be not still, O God. 2 For, lo, your enemies make a tumult: and they that hate you have lifted up the head. 3 They have taken crafty counsel against your people, and consulted against your hidden ones. 4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. (Ps 83:1-4)
[2] Jesus voice = trumpet (Rev 1:10, 4:1). Jesus, the Lamb, opens the seals and it’s His voice that heralds the covenant curses upon apostate Israel.
* Israel has become like Jericho which God brought down with the seven trumpet blasts (Josh 6:4-5).
Chapter 8:3-6
3 And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given to him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all [pas] saints [hagios] upon the golden altar which was before the throne [1].
4 And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel’s hand.
5 And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth [ge- land] [2]: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake [3].
6 And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound [4].
[1] It is the prayers of all the hagios which agree with God as He unleashes the covenant curses upon the apostates. See Matt 21:19-22, Jesus cursing the fig tree and telling the disciples to pray for the removing of the Mt (Olivet/national Israel).
[2] God’s fiery wrath is enhanced by the prayers of the holy ones and cast to the land (of Israel) for their destruction. The destruction and driving out of the wicked makes way for the blessing of the righteous:
…the LORD your God is he which goes over before you; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before your face: so shall you drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD has said to you. 4 Speak not you in your heart, after that the LORD your God has cast them out from before you, saying, For my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD does drive them out from before you. (Deut 9:1-4)
Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD your God has forbidden you. 24 For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God. 25 When you shall beget children, and children’s children, and you shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD your God, to provoke him to anger: 26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto you go over Jordan to possess it; you shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed. 27 And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and you shall be left few in number among the heathen, where the LORD shall lead you. (Deut 4:23-27)
[3] God’s terrible glory on Sinai – Ex 19-16-18 (Where He made covenant with them)
[4] Trumpets signalling war:
Therefore, behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will cause an alarm [teruw'ah- clangor of trumpets] of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel be heir to them that were his heirs, says the LORD. (Jer 49:2)
Chapter 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth [ge- land (of Israel)] [1]: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up [2].
[1] Israel has become like Egypt:
And the LORD said to Moses, Stretch forth your hand toward heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and upon every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt. 23 And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt. 24 So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation. 25 And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the field, and brake every tree of the field. 26 Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail. (Ex 9:22-26)
“Galilee was all over filled with fire and blood” (The Wars of the Jews Josephus 3:iv:1)
[2] Perhaps this means the actual trees and grass as they were devastated in the Jewish Wars (???); or it is referring to men as in 7:1-3, 9:4 and for grass, perhaps it signifies the lush adornment of the land (of Israel).
In Rev 7:1-3 the angels were ‘given to hurt the earth/land of Israel and the sea/multitude of apostate Israel, not so much the trees - the individuals, though they do get hurt’. God’s target is apostate Israel but even some of the righteous trees are afflicted.
Chapter 8:8-9
8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea [1]: and the third part of the sea became blood;
9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed [2].
[1] The sixth seal (Rev 6:12-14) signified human kingdoms being displaced during the lead up to the end of the age; the second trumpet signifies the kingdom of national Israel being displaced:
… behold, the fig tree which you cursed is withered away. And Jesus answering said to them, Have faith in God. For truly I say to you, That whosoever shall say to this mountain, Be you removed, and be you cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he says shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he says. Therefore I say to you, What things soever you desire, when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them. (Mark 11:21b-24)
(Jesus cursing the fig tree was followed by prayer for the removal of the mountain (kingdom) of Israel; here in Rev 8 the prayers of the saints (v 3-6) is followed by a great mountain.)
O Lord, according to all your righteousness, I beseech you, let your anger and your fury be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people are become a reproach to all that are about us. (Dan 9:16)
For you are not come to the mount that might be touched, […] But you are come to mount Sion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things than that of Abel. (Heb 12:18-24)
Behold, the day of the LORD comes […] And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. (Zech 14:1-4)
Which removes the mountains, and they know not: which overturns them in his anger. Which shakes the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble. Which commands the sun, and it rises not; and seals up the stars. Which alone spreads out the heavens, and treads upon the waves of the sea. (Job 9:5-8)
And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, says the LORD. 25 Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, says the LORD, which destroys all the earth: and I will stretch out my hand upon you, and roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burnt mountain…
42 The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof. (Jer 51:24-42)
[2] Egypt’s first plague:
This says the LORD, In this you shall know that I am the LORD: behold, I will smite with the rod that is in my hand upon the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood. 18 And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall loathe to drink of the water of the river. 19 And the LORD spoke to Moses, Say to Aaron, Take your rod, and stretch out your hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all their pools of water, that they may become blood; and that there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood, and in vessels of stone. 20 And Moses and Aaron did so, as the LORD commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and smote the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood. 21 And the fish that was in the river died; and the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river; and there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt. (Ex 7:17-21)
Chapter 8:10-11
10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.
Again, the first Egyptian plague:
And the fish that was in the river died; and the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river; and there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt. (Ex 7:21)
The star falling = Satan religiously ruling through apostate Israel?
The fall of Babylon prophesied in terms of the fall (and/or Lucifers fall):
…12 How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how are you cut down to the ground, which did weaken the nations! 13 For you have said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. 15 Yet you shall be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. (Is 14:1-15)
Wormwood symbolises a warning of destruction on Israel for apostasy: (Deut 29:18, Jer 23:15, Lam 3:15, 19, Amos 5:7)
And the LORD says, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein; 14 But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them: 15 Therefore this says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink. 16 I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them. (Jer 9:13-16)
Chapter 8:12
12 And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.
The ninth Egyptian plague:
And the LORD said to Moses, Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt. 22 And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days: 23 They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings. (Ex 10:21-23)
* See notes on Rev 6:12-14. Imagery signifying the fall of nations and rulers.
Chapter 8:13
13 And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth [ge- land (of Israel)] by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!
These woes are aimed at the inhabitants of the ge- land of Israel.
Remember that it’s the voice of the trumpet (Jesus decree) which is unleashing this destruction.
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