Repetitive Patterns vs. Pre-Echoes

 

There should be NO DOUBT that The Bible is totally unique among all the books ever written! It is the only book that has reportedly ‘birthed’ multiple world religions—the initial two of which—Judaism and Christianity, are essentially ONE integrated religion, though the obvious integration is denied by those for, and about whom The Bible was originally written. The third religion is based on a totally different book that was written subsequently, based on a few key excerpts from The Bible. Uniquely, each of those religions is based on the recorded, unique relationship Jesus, The Lord God, had in the early 2nd (post-flood) age, with Abram, who demonstrated exceptional faith in the un-seen God a few centuries after the global flood judgment that ended the first age of our history. The Lord subsequently changed His name to Abraham. From him, all of the peoples of Jewish and Arab descent were derived. Moreover, The Bible predicted a unique, mixed group of peoples—bona fide Christians, would be ‘spiritually derived’ from Abraham’s seed—we who would, by Abraham’s kind of faith, be ‘grafted into spiritual Israel’—not into secular Jews. Spiritual Israel will be all Jews who will have eventually lived lives that demonstrated ‘Abraham’s kind of faith’.

 

Uniquely, The Bible does something no other book has ever been able to replicate. It UNIQUELY and ACCURATELY predicts/demonstrates:

 

1. The immaculate conception via a virgin birth of Jesus, The Lord God and Creator;

2. Key details of the rejection He would experience from His own kinfolk, and the cruel manner of His unjust death;

3. 6 ages of human history over several millennia, culminating in a 7th, eternal age;

4. How each age would begin, mature, decline, and end, spiritually, and then a transition.

5. A clear set of judgment patterns that will selectively repeat across the world, in response to persistent, unrepented sins during the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th ages;

6. Selective ‘seeds’ in some ages, unique traceable events that ‘pre-echo’ much more substantial, related events that will unfold in one or more subsequent ages ¹, and

7. A MASSIVE, new, eternal Earth, in a universe with no suns or moons!

 

Key Repetitive Patterns 

 

The Bible indicates, and secular history confirms each age of our history unfolds according to a discernible pattern in which Godly spirituality begins small, grows to a peak, declines, then rapidly decays. Beginning in the 2nd age, The Lord iteratively promised, then activated a repetitive pattern of judgments against persistent, unrepentant sinfulness of any peoples. These judgments would apparently trigger cascading collateral effects, including across broader areas and impacting others as well as the world became more inter-connected. In our relative spiritual ignorance or denials, we have gotten pretty good at ‘explaining away’ His predicted judgments as ‘nothing cosmic’, and ‘having nothing to do about an all-loving God!’ With such, devils must be having a laughing fit!

 

Since we are only in the 3rd of 6 predicted ages on this current version of Earth (pending the unveiling of the promised, new, eternal Earth), secular history cannot yet confirm this pattern will repeat. BUT The Bible has uniquely predicted it will! 

 

There are other in-age patterns, the most stark one of which is that each age will end with some type of a global judgment from Heaven. The global flood ended the 1st age; Christ’s crucifixion ended the 2nd age. It was God’s global judgment of every past, present and future human sin of us who would, by faith, embrace His death as on our behalf, and would subsequently live lives that honor/glorify Him as Lord. I intuit the predicted 6th seal, global judgement event will likely end this current age, triggering the predicted rise of the first-ever truly global leader. The apocalypse will end the 4th age; and a universal collapse will end the 6th age. Based on history and human nature, we can intuit how the 5th age might end. ²

 

The Bible reveals, at the ends of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th ages, The Lord pre-planned unique resurrection/rapture events for His ‘elect’ (i.e., bona fide saints) who will have successfully completed what I call His ‘Salvation Internship Program’. This will ensure all of His then immortal saints from the first 4 ages of our history (in Revelation 20:5-6, collectively called ‘the First Resurrection’), will return with Him to serve as kingdom administrators during His long-predicted reign as Earth’s Global King in the Millennial Reign age. 

 

Key Pre-Echoes

 

The most apparent pre-echoes include:

 

1.  At the end of the 1st age, the global flood, Heaven’s first planetary scale judgment, pre-echoed its next TWO predicted, planetary scale judgments—

 

   o The predicted global earthquake at the end of the 4th age that will totally reshape and ‘move Earth out of her place’, and

   o The predicted universal collapse at the end of the 6th age, before the new, eternal Earth in a new, eternal universe are revealed. (2 Peter 3:10-12, Revelation 20:11, 21:1, Isaiah 65:17 and 66:22)

 

2.  In the early-2nd age, The Lord’s testing of Abraham to sacrifice his son, Isaac, on Mt. Moriah--which became Jerusalem (Genesis 22), pre-echoed God’s sacrifice of His Son, Jesus, The Lord God, on the outskirts of Jerusalem, on the cusp of the 3rd age.

 

3.  In the mid-2nd age, the extremely pompous acts of Antiochus IV Epiphanes’ (a late leader of the divided Grecian empire) against The Lord Almighty, Jews, and the 2nd Jewish temple, pre-echoed predicted similar and worse acts of the final anti-Christ global leader during the 4th age. (Click here for a short summary of Antiochus IV.)

 

4.  On the cusp of the 3rd age, the resurrection of all 1st and 2nd ages saints with Jesus, pre-echoed predicted bodily resurrections of all 3rd and 4th ages saints, as described in 1 Thessalonians 4:17 and Matthew 24:29-31. ³ 

 

5.  In the early-2nd age, the manner in which Joseph (Jacob’s favorite son, who had risen from a slave, to become the #2 authority in ancient Egypt), revealed himself to his brothers from Canaan, (Genesis 45), pre-echoed The Lord’s predicted revealing of Himself as The Messiah to the GLOBAL Jewish remnant of the apocalypse! (Zechariah 12:10). Zechariah 13:8-9 predict only a third of that remnant will embrace Him as such, and the rest will be destroyed. ⁴

 

6.  In the late-3rd age, Donald Trump’s shocking, sudden rise to substantial global influence and power in 2025—as the most powerful U.S. president, ever, may well pre-echo the predicted, similar rise of:

 

  o  The final anti-Christ man, who The Bible predicts will GLOBALLY dominate the 7-year, 4th age—the age of tribulation ⁵, and 

  o  Jesus, The Lord God, Who The Bible predicts will GLOBALLY dominate the thousand-year, 5th age—The Millennial Reign age, as Earth’s Global King.

 

7.  In the late-3rd age, Trump’s sudden, shocking abandonment of many of his strongest campaign promises, might pre-echo Biblical predictions that the final anti-Christ global leader will break a negotiated agreement with Israel midway through the 4th age, and will then commit acts much worse than those committed by Antiochus IV (see above), acts that will trigger the ~42 month-long apocalypse. (Daniel 9:27)

 

Conclusion

 

As you study The Bible and history, perhaps you may perceive many more repetitive Bible patterns and pre-echoes. As you ponder the above insights, consider these possible, key distinctions:

 

    •  Biblical repetitive patterns are usually PRINCIPLE-driven—perhaps driven by the extent to which we abuse Heaven’s Grace, and its priority principles for peace and prosperity on Earth. 

 

    •  Biblical pre-echoes are usually EVENT-driven—perhaps driven by Heaven’s Grace to plant markers of major events across history for its attentive and intuitive saints to perceive and study, and use as tools to build our faith that Jesus is ALL that He declares HE IS and …WILL DO! 

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¹ Pre-echo, pre-figure, foreshadow, pre-signify.

² See: Mid-ages Musings (Series), and Age-ending Stock-taking (Series).

³ See: Missed Insights from Matthew 27 (Series), and Bible Raptures – Types and Timings (Series).

⁴ See: Pre-entry Purging Patterns (Series), and Salvation in the Millennium (Part 3).

⁵ See: anti-Christ (Series), Heads-up, World! Power Concentration), and Power and Wealth, Consolidating (Part 1). In Revelation, the final anti-Christ man is called ‘the beast’, possibly for the beastly manner in which he will govern the world, and behead many saints. Revelation 19:19-21 reveals he and his so-called ‘prophet’, may be the first humans who will be cast into The Lord’s brimstone-lit, eternal lake of fire, well over a thousand years before all future occupants that are listed in Revelation 20:11-15. 

Make sure YOU won’t be among them!

Salvation in the Millennium? (Part 3)

See the series here

See the Salvation series here

In Part 2, I posited, ‘If the Bible’s clear definition of ‘salvation and spiritual rebirth in Christ’ remains unchanged as we know it today, then people born during the Millennial Reign can only be saved once they have been directly exposed to satanic ownership, deceptions and temptations, and have rejected it all in response to God’s offer of saving Grace in Christ.’ I stand by this intuition. 

 

There may well be a scenario in which salvation as we currently understand and experience it might plausibly be modified during The Millennial Reign age. It is based on the amazing Grace of Jesus, The Lord God, and what might be signified in Revelation 14:9-11. Let’s unpack this possibility.

 

Administrations of Salvation

 

The current, ‘church age’ administration of salvation generally follows this sequence:

 

•  Pre-salvation, sinners cave in to satanic oppression!

•  Post-salvation, saints learn to resist/overcome satanic oppression,    aided by The Holy Spirit, and maturing, Word-based faith! 

 

The administration of salvation to people who became saints during the first 2 ages of our history, was obviously quite different because (a) Jesus had not yet sacrificed Himself, (b) The Holy Spirit and The Word of God were not broadly available to people, but were only sporadically available through prophets and various covenants with Jacob’s descendants.

 

How might the administration of salvation

once again change,

during the Millennial Reign age??

 

In Part 2, I posit that most (not all) of the apocalypse survivors will likely have willingly received the mark of the beast during the tribulation age. Revelation 14:9-11 and Zechariah 13:8-9 may provide a rationale for my 'most' qualification. The 4th age--the tribulation age, will begin after the 3rd age saints will have been resurrected/raptured into Heaven. ¹ The Bible predicts saints in that age will experience extreme persecution, many to the point of being beheaded. The Lord will spiritually anoint 144,000 Jewish witnesses, and dispatch an angel to strengthen the saints, and warn sinners. ² We cannot imagine how the angel will essentially be ‘preaching the ‘Gravity of The Gospel’ to people across the world before they make their decision about receiving or rejecting the mark of the beast—the body-branding mark of the anti-Christ’s financial system.

 

People who will have rejected that brand mark, but who will not have become 4th age Christians, and who will survive the apocalypse to enter into the Millennial Reign (MR) age, MIGHT embrace Christ as Savior, then later die during that age! If so, that signals a possible modification in the administration of salvation discussed above:

 

The names of tribulation age sinners may well be written in The Lord’s Book of Life IF they:

 

  (a) will have resisted/overcome satanic oppression to receive the   mark of the beast,

  (b) will survive the apocalypse, 

  (c)  then embrace salvation early in the Millennial Reign age, and

  (d) later die before satan’s kingdom is released back onto Earth at   the start of the post-MR age.

 

This unique scenario could possibly ‘flip the script’ of what salvation might mean, and how it might be administered during The Millennial Reign age, from resisting satanic oppression AFTER salvation (as we must do during this 3rd age), to resisting it BEFORE salvation! In a rather strange way, Zechariah 13:8-9 and Zephaniah 3:11-12 may actually hint proof of this plausible option. Here’s how:

...The Lord promises to reveal Himself as The Messiah, to all Jewish survivors of the apocalypse. This act will be the FULL FRUIT of the 'pre-echo seed’ of this promise, sown in the early 2nd age, when Joseph (Jacob’s favorite son, whose brothers had jealously sold him into slavery, but who was later promoted to the 2nd highest authority in ancient Egypt) shockingly revealed himself to his brothers. (Genesis 45)

...Zephaniah predicts, after The Lord reveals Himself as The Messiah, He will remove a significant proportion of the Jewish apocalypse survivors, possibly preventing them from entering into and enjoying the benefits of The Millennial Reign age.

 

...Zechariah sharpens this point by predicting, after The Lord reveals Himself, two thirds of Jewish apocalypse survivors will be slain, and only a third will be accepted to enter into the glorious blessings of The Millennial Reign age, with Jesus as their Messiah and Global King! The remaining two-thirds will be slain. (How’s that for progressive revelation, per Isaiah 28:10 &13?)

 

...Revelation 14:9-11 answers the question that neither Zephaniah or Zechariah answer—WHY won’t two-thirds of Jewish apocalypse survivors be allowed to enter into the MR age?? ANYBODY (Jew or Gentile) who will have received the mark of the beast during the tribulation age, will forever be the property of the kingdom of satan, and therefore could never, after that decision, qualify for salvation by Grace! Those people will eventually join every other lost sinner in history, in the AWFUL scene described in Revelation 20:11-15! ³ 

 

While these passages tightly focus on Jewish apocalypse survivors, the same administration or refusal of Grace will also apply to all Gentile apocalypse survivors, but with a major flip! The above passages clearly indicate there will be no use in The Lord’s Millennial kingdom for any Jews who will have survived the apocalypse, and will have received the mark of the beast during the tribulation age!! Period!! It seems that, ‘out of the gate’, The Lord intends to begin His Millennial kingdom with a clean slate of Jews who will embrace Him as The Lord God, Messiah. Some of their OFFSPRING over the ensuing years might later reject Him, however. This exact scenario will parallel one that was pre-echoed sometime after the exodus, when EVERY Hebrew  in the camp was convinced to believe and obey The Lord~ Centuries later, that story seriously flipped!!!

 

Here's the major flip re. Gentiles: The Bible never says or hints that ALL Gentile apocalypse survivors who will have received the mark of the beast will be slain, and not allowed to enter into the Millennial Reign age! (Let me know if you can prove otherwise.) Rather, it seems all Gentile survivors of the apocalypse, those with and without the mark of the beast, may be useful to repopulate the Gentile world during the 5th and the short 6th ages of our history. 

Key relevant point: Gentiles who will have rejected the mark of the beast during the tribulation age, might be qualified for salvation by Grace...if-IF The Lord decides their successful resistance to satanic oppression to receive the mark of the beast, qualifies as a positive response to His Gospel, even though they did not embrace Him as Savior during the tribulation age. In His Grace, He may welcome them into His Millennial Kingdom as saints, and possibly into His eternal Kingdom on the new, eternal Earth, if they prove faithful until death. 

 

The Lord personally chose Jacob's descendants as the human lineage through which He would become a human to sacrifice Himself for all peoples who would embrace Him. Thus, as His human kinfolk, Jews have always been at the core of His plans for humanity. This includes a special role for those who will have embraced Him as The Lord God and Messiah over the ages of history. I intuit that special role might be for every Jewish saint  from across all the ages of history, to fulfill His prophecy in Exodus 19:6, in the MASSIVE New Jerusalem, the capital city of the MASSIVE new, eternal Earth Apostle John describes in Revelation 21 and 20. Recall, John saw nations of the righteous saints surrounding that capital city. I intuit this might signify Jewish saints might serve The Lord in the new Jerusalem, and Gentile saints might serve Him in all the surrounding nations, with complete freedom to enter into Jerusalem, per Revelation 22:14. If you might believe otherwise, pray tell, when and how was or will Exodus 19:6 be fulfilled? If you say, 'During the Millennial Reign age', then consider this. During the MR age:

• If, during the MR age, all Jews (mortals and immortals alike) might be assigned to various administrative roles across the greatly expanded Israel, ⁴ and 
• All Gentile immortal saints might be assigned to administer new Gentiles nations across the world, then
• The MR Kingdom might possibly serve as a prelude, a preview, a pre-echo of the distinct roles of immortal Jewish and Gentile saints during the 7th, eternal age.

From my study of Scripture, I conclude The Lord apparently REALLY loves strategic, repetitive patterns, and pre-echoes of unique, forthcoming events. Stay tuned for much more on the latter.

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¹ See: Bible Raptures - Types and Timings (Series), and also The 6th Seal, Civilization's Reset? (Series).
² See: Revelation 7:1-8 and Revelation 14:9-11. 

³ See: The Lake of Fire: A Preview (Series), and especially, Lake of Fire: Where? When? (Poem).

⁴ See: IsraRan (Series), which explores the predicted size of a GREATER Israel; and also The Millennial Reign (Series), my most extensive topical series project.

For the Likes of You and Me! (Poem)

This is what Isaiah 53:5 and 1 Peter 2:25 mean!

 

Friends, for the likes of you and me,

Jesus sacrificed Himself, selflessly.

From sin, no way we could be freed,

Sentenced to a horrible destiny!

Thus, He paid our sin price in full,

By dying a death that was horrible!

He desires us to be thankful,

And in life, to sin, not be GULLIBLE.

 

After, from the grave, He was raised,

He dispatched His Spirit to be our aid,

To live lives He would not upbraid,

But that would honor His sacrifice made.

 

May this poem and picture remind us,

Of the horrible death He died for us.

It’s only by His Grace given to us,

That we can live lives pleasing to Jesus.

~0~

 

The historical reality of the cross reveals a Savior who did not remain distant from human pain, but physically entered into the absolute depths of it. When Isaiah predicted, and Peter later confirmed, 'by His stripes we are/were healed’, they anchored our faith in a profound truth: Jesus intimately understands the reality of a broken body.

 

Click here for a summary of what ‘crucifixion’

really meant in the brutal Roman Empire.