Please read
this post...
I don't have a problem with anything you said in the post you sent me to. I do think Revelation is written a lot like a parable. It contains both literal and spiritual meanings.
Consider this, you have both literal and imagery here much as in Rev.
Mat 24:
15 "Therefore when you see the 'abomination of desolation,' spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place" (whoever reads, let him understand),
16 then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
17 Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take anything out of his house.
18 And let him who is in the field not go back to get his clothes.
19 But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!
20 And pray that your flight may not be in winter or on the Sabbath.
21 For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect's sake those days will be shortened.
The moon is symbolic of Satan. Lunar = Lunatic. 42 months is the amount of time the Anti Christ will rule. Days are of God, 1260 days the 2 witnesses will prophesy.
The person on the house top is the
watchman. When he sees the Abomination in the holy place he is to flee.
"Woe to the pregnant and those nursing in those days" has nothing to do with women who are literally pregnant although I'm sure it will be harder on them. When Christ returns, he expect to see His faithful, those who are virgins spiritually, like the 144,000. The Great Harlot is the false religion - we know that.
"Those who are pregnant" symbolize those who have been following false religions and doctrines, they are pregnant with the lies of the Beast - so Woe to them when Christ returns!!!
"Flight in Winter" has a literal and figurative meaning. You don't want to be harvested out of season - winter. You want to be in season - Wheat and Tares. Gather the wheat when fully harvested.
The 2 witnesses, NOT JESUS, pour out the Bowls of Wrath on the Beast's kingdom, at least the first 4 or 5 bowls. At first I was going with the 7 angels but look at what the witnesses are able to do:
3 And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth."
4 These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands standing before the God of the earth.
5 And if anyone wants to harm them, fire proceeds from their mouth and devours their enemies. And if anyone wants to harm them, he must be killed in this manner.
6 These have power to shut heaven, so that no rain falls in the days of their prophecy; and they have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to strike the earth with all plagues, as often as they desire.
Compare to the Bowls:
1. a
foul and loathsome sore came upon the men who had the mark of the beast.
2. on the
sea, and it became
blood as of a dead man; and every living creature in the sea died.
3. on the
rivers and springs of water, and they became
blood.
4. on the sun, and power was given to him to scorch men with
fire.
5. his kingdom became full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues because of the pain.
6. river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, so that the way of the kings from the east might be prepared
I want you to notice another piece of symbolism. What are the worst of the Seals, trumpets and Bowls?
6th Seal:
12 I looked when He opened the sixth seal, and behold, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood.
13 And the stars of heaven fell to the earth, as a fig tree drops its late figs when it is shaken by a mighty wind.
6th Trumpet:
13 Then the sixth angel sounded: And I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates."
15 So the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, were released to kill a third of mankind.
16 Now the number of the army of the horsemen was two hundred million; I heard the number of them.
6th Bowl:
12 Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, so that the way of the kings from the east might be prepared.
13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs coming out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
14 For they are spirits of demons, performing signs, which go out to the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
The worst of each is of Satan 6 - 6 - 6.
Then the 7th of each if of God. 7 symbolizes completeness. The Beast appears at the 6th Trumpet. The first 6 Bowls are poured out on him.