Matthew 24
and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 31 And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
the only tribes I've ever heard of in the Bible is the twelve tribes of Israel, do you know of any other?
After the saints died for their witness to the Gospel, Jesus sent His angels to collect them and their spirits so that they might testify and cast out Satan and his angels/stars from heaven.
thus the connection with
Revelation 12
10 Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, “Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down. 11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.
sorry I forgot to do the colors on the previous post and the time limit wouldn't let me edit it.
this is after the fifth seal was open:
Revelations 6
9 When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held. 10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?” 11 Then a white robe was given to each of them; and it was said to them that they should rest a little while longer, until both the number of their fellow servants and their brethren, who would be killed as they were, was completed.
what you probably don't know is I believe that the Beast, the Whore, the False prohet have all been defeated and is not future prophecy but prophecy that has already been fulfilled.
I believe that Satan was bound, is now released and is sending Gog and Magog to gather the nations to fight God and His people and he is still sending his flood of lies.It is not the beast of the sea or the land that is spoken of in 2 Thessalonians but another of Satan messangers, another of his false apostles.
2 Thessalonians 2:7
For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way.
9 The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, 10 and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, 12 that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Anyone notice that Jesus does not come down to Earth until Revelations 21 but appears in Heaven in Revelations 19 on a white horse and does battle from Heaven. He judges people on the White Throne in Heaven in Chapter 20 and does not descend to Earth until the NEW Earth and NEW Heaven are created and New Jereuselum comes down from Heaven to Earth? which does not happen until Satan is released and sends out Gog and Magog to deceive the nations and gather them for battle...
Yes Satan is gathering people to do battle but why do people think it is the battle in Revelation 19 and not Revelation 20?
Revelations 21
22 But I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. 23 The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it,[j] for the glory[k] of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light. 24 And the nations of those who are saved[l] shall walk in its light, and the kings of the earth bring their glory and honor into it.[m] 25 Its gates shall not be shut at all by day (there shall be no night there). 26 And they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it.[n] 27 But there shall by no means enter it anything that defiles, or causes[o] an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
anyways i don't know how long this is but i'll just post it. lol.