Indeed, thank you. I'll study into that some more with the verses you have posted. I see the theme running all the way through.
I would add and ask people to consider that the outlook of Bible prophecy is from The Middle East.
I don't mean merely that the focus is ON that region but the OUTLOOK is FROM the Middle East, not Europe or America.
Imagine yourself sitting in a chair in the centre of Jerusalem facing north. That is your point of view. What is happening around you? That is how the world looks FROM the eyes of the Prophets. If you read the books of prophecy including Revelation from that point of view it opens up some understanding that may not be there otherwise.
It helps if you study the history of the Middle East and unfortunately books written after 1950 by Americans aren't always the best sources of information. If you overlook what life for Christians and Jews is like there you are missing some important fulfilments of prophecy. Not all prophecy is fulfilled only once in our distant future. Some things repeat like a pattern and are fulfilled over several time periods.
everything is a pattern, but the thing is they explain each other. not only a pattern, but a puzzle with all the peices to make a clear picture, another example from revelation
the law... a pattern saw through a dark veil
numbers 16:46 " And
Moses said unto Aaron,
Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun."
the prophets then begin revealing that this is a figure for something more that God is doing in the big picture
ezekeil 1 " 5Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of
four living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man. ...v 10As for the likeness of their faces, they four had
the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had
the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had
the face of an eagle. ...... v13As for
the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and
the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning. "
ezekeil 10:2 " Then I looked, and, behold,
in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne. 2And
he spake unto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in between the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill thine hand with coals of fire from between the cherubims, and scatter them over the city. And he went in in my sight.
3Now the cherubims stood on the right side of the house,
when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court. 4Then
the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub, and
stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD'S glory. 5And
the sound of the cherubims' wings was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God when he speaketh.
6And it came to pass, that when
he had commanded the man clothed with linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels, from between the cherubims; then he went in, and stood beside the wheels. 7And one cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubims unto the fire that was between the cherubims, and took thereof, and put it into the hands of him that was clothed with linen:<<<< who took it, and went out. 8>>>>And
there appeared in the cherubims the form of a man's hand under their wings."
then ( there are many more scriptures pertaining to this) but then when we see this in revelation ....it makes sense in the light of the 4 gospels and what Jesus has done for us in Heaven,
revelation 8 "And another angel came and
stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. 4And
the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand. 5And the angel
took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.6And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound."
the Bible has been saying the same things from the beginning, man could not grasp the things in the end of the Bible, without being taught the things in the beginning that happened to cause everything. we couldnt understand the things shown in Heaven if we didnt first understand the law and the duties of the priesthood. all of the things dealing with the sanctuary are the priests duties. the preists on earth were only a way to begin teaching man of God, at that time revelation would have made no sense to anyone. but because we have the record of the law and prophets, it makes perfect sense knowing this is an image of atoement for mankind, by our High priest Jesus Christ. aarons atonement with animals vlood was only to teach us so we would understand what Jesus did.....its a pattern and repetetive, but it also leads somewhere it progresses from mans fall, to mans sentance, to Gods Mercy and mans redemption from our fall and ultimate glory being given eternal Life, who were dead. and all praise to Jesus we are alive again. the end was always being spoken, even the law was speaking of the things in the end, but e can only see it from the gospel its truly all about Jesus either before peaking of His coming, or after witnessing to His coming