“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.”
A: My Thoughts
B: Are not
Your thoughts
B: Neither are
Your ways
A: My ways Sayeth the Lord.
Mark 5:3-5 "Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains: Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him. And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones."
A Who had his dwelling among the tombs;
B and no man could bind him,
C no, not with chains:
C he had been bound with chains,
B neither could any man tame him.
A And always he was in the tombs...
Acts 17:24-25 "God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things."
A God that made the world and all things therein,
B He is Lord of heaven and earth,
C Dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
C Neither is worshipped with men's hands,
B He giveth to all life, and breath,
A And all things.
The 1st and 2nd half of Revelation are the same type of srtructures in that both are chiasmic, however the 2nd Chiaasm is a bit more complex than the first . . .
1ST Chiasm
A
ch. 2-3 The Seven Churches, The Church
B ch. 6 The Seven Seals, Christian era trials
C ch. 7:4-8 The 144,000, 12 Tribes of Israel
C ch. 7:9-14 A Great Multitude ,The Gentile Church
B ch. 8-9 The Seven Trumpets, Christian Era trials
A ch. 11 The Two Witnesses, The Church
2ND Chiasm
A ch.12 Woman with 12 Stars, Jews during this Era
B ch.13 Leopard, Lion, Bear Beast Satanic Kingdom
ba ch.14 144,000 & The Gospel, All the Redeemed
C ch.15 Song of Moses and Lamb, Jew & Gentile Redeemed
C ch.16 Bowls of Wrath, Wrath for the Wicked
B ch.17 Seven Headed Beast, Satanic Kingdoms
ba ch.18 Babylon, All the Lost
A ch.20 The Thousand Years, Gentile Church Era
But if you'd rather not accept the validity of the 1st chiasm, you are even less likely to accept the validity of the 2nd. <wry smile> The proof of the repatitive bifidic (split in two halves) form of Revelation is actually found in Chs. 5 and 10.
Revelation 5:7 “And he (Jesus) came
and took the book out of the right
hand of him that sat upon the
throne.”
God the Father gives the “little
book” of Revelation to Jesus, who
then reads about the Seven seals, the
Seven Trumpets the 144 Thousand,
and the Two Witnesses.
Revelation 10:10-11 “And I (John) took
the little book out of the angel's (Jesus’)