Greetings, peace to you (and to your dear households), and THANK you, dear sisters HTBO, Zoe, and Tec! Gonna try again, but first:
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Is Revelations 9: 17-19 the same across all bibles or are there different renderings? Are we referring to the new world translation of the holy scripture?
They seem to be relatively the same, dear C&DL (peace you, luv!). And I don't think it matters which Bible, including the NWT (but not necessarily referring to that version. I tend to use the NIV most, then the NWT (especially if I want to cross-reference and find a similar or related verses).
Okay, so somewhat of what I wrote yesterday (wait, let me save a draft right now - LOL!) was:
I wasn't able to post right away because I was preparing to eat and drink with daughter and hubbs before I took daughter her back home (2 hours away). While I was preparing the "meal", hubbs called out, "OMG, Shel, come listen to this!!" So, I go to listen - it was a "Breaking News" broadcast on ABC News. Mr. Trump was in the Oval Office sitting at the Resolute Desk with about 10 other men standing to the left and right of him. TV screen had ribbon "Israel and UAE Sign Peace Treaty" and Mr. Trump was concluding his usual "Look what I did!" monologue. He then asked the men around him if they "want(ed) to say some words," and several did (with him interjecting). They said a lot, including, in essence:
1. Now that UAE was at peace with Israel (which is not actually new, dear ones, but just is now public - they've been unofficially cozy for years but now it's public - this is big because only 2 other Muslim countries, Egypt and Jordan, have open relations with Israel)...
2. This now opens the way for other Arab countries to come out (as to their relationships with Israel, if they have them).
Hmm. Maybe. But my ears really began to perk up when Mr. Trump said that this was "the beginning of the end for Iran." Okay, NOW you have my attention. Between him and the men with him, the following statements were made:
Trump: "Now the Strait of Hormuz can open" (the Strait is not closed... yet);
Trump"[/] "The capital of Israel is now Jerusalem" (he was instrumental in having it moved there from Tel Aviv last year);
[b]The West Bank will not be annexed" (ummm... Netanyahu has said he agreed to delay annexation but the plans remain "on the table");
[b]Man: (In response to Trump's thumping himself on the back)
"This is a historic time, Mr. President. You're the only one who can ensure that Iran NEVER has a nuclear weapon." (Really. Now why am I thinking about that verse where it states that he who exalts himself will be humbled?).
Why were these statements important? Well, for one, we know the second can't be true. The first, though, is directly related. If you recall, I shared with you what the Master revealed to me was the main "issue" in the region: the Shaat al-Arab (I'll get to that in a bit). Currently, in order for UAE, Iraqi, and Kuwaiti oil to leave the Persian Gulf it must navigate through the Strait of Hormuz. The Strait, the western-side land of which is UAE and the eastern-side land of which Oman, however, isn't owned and controlled by the UAE and Oman - It is owned and controlled by IRAN and Oman. This is because these two countries have the WATER RIGHTS as the Strait leads from the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman into the Arabian Sea (not sure why the UAE doesn't export oil directly to the Arabian Sea at some point south of the Strait... or perhaps they do).
Last year, Iran threatened to "close" the Strait. That would mean that Iraq and Kuwait couldn't export oil given that 25% of the world's crude oil comes through the Strait, that would be a big deal. But there's more. There is the Shaat al-Arab, which is a 124-mile stretch of the confluence of the Tigris... and Euphrates... Rivers that makes up the border between Iraq
and Iran. It is thought that
this river (the Shaat al-Arab or Arvand Rud, as it's called by the Iranians) formed relatively recently in geologic time, with the Tigris and Euphrates
originally emptying into the Persian Gulf via a channel further to the west. But rivers change course over time and so NOW the Iraq-Iran border consists of these 124 miles of the Euphrates before it empties into the Persian Gulf (which is also theirs)!
And from where do the four winds come?
".. I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, on the sea, or on any tree. Then I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God. And he cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was granted to harm the earth and the sea, saying, 'Do not harm the earth, the sea, or the trees till we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.'” Revelation 7:1-3[/b]
“Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.” Revelation 9:14
Now, many are looking for something to occur in Iraq, Syria, or even TURKEY, because the lion's share of the Euphrates runs through those countries. But they forget about the 124-mile stretch that is the Shaat al-Arab! True, it's called the Swift River/Arvard Rud TODAY, but it was the "Euphrates" when John wrote the Revelation (
and Iran is actually "Persia" and although it was the Persians who delivered Judah from Babylonian exile early in Daniel's day(
2 Chronicles 36:23), at some point Persia stood
in opposition to the Master (
Daniel 10:13, 20).
But here's the thing: the all-wise and knowing Mr. Trump (who OH SO often gets things wrong) not only misspoke when he said that the Strait of Hormuz "can open" (it's not closed, per se) but he and those who have their faith in his ability to ensure that Iran "NEVER" has a nuclear weapon are entirely overlooking the area of the Shaat al-Arab. Now, of course, some would say, "They checked all over Iran and there's no nuclear weapons (being built)." Really?
On July 5, 2020, Alireza Tangsiri, a Navy Commander for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a branch of the Iranian Armed Forces, maintained that:
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“the IRGC Navy is present everywhere in the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman, in every place that the enemy would not even think about… All of our coasts are armed and
the underground [missile] cities of the Army and the IRGC with various defense utilities have scattered over the entire southern coasts”.
https://www.crisisgroup.org/trigger-lis ... nts/hormuz So, okay, what about
Revelation 9:17? Well, as I was writing this, I saw what John saw but as it really will be (but he didn't have the words to properly explain). Let me explain. You know how I've shared with you as to what the Ark was, why the gold, what the Father's "chariot" really is? But Moses and people of those times couldn't explain it properly because words didn't exist to do so at that time. Or, like, when I shared that when the Master's eyes are described as "fiery-colored", the writer actually meant orange but "orange" wasn't a
color then but only a fruit? How about the "scarlet" wild beast... and the image I was given to share of the oh so red College of Cardinals?
Okay, so let's look at what John says he saw:
"And thus I saw the horses in the vision: those who sat on them had breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow; and the heads of the horses were like the heads of lions; and out of their mouths came fire, smoke, and brimstone. By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed—by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone which came out of their mouths. For their power is in their mouth and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents, having heads; and with them they do harm."1. Horses with heads like lions, fire, smoke, and brimstone coming out of their mouths, and power in their mouths and tails; and
2. Fiery red, hyacinth) blue, and sulfur yellow breast-plated "riders"
For the "horses," I saw an image of something like a cross between this:
and maybe this:
But not cartoon-y (sorry, all I could find that was close) and with different "heads" on them. Anyone wanna guess what the official animal of Iran/Persia is... and until 1979 was the symbol on the Iranian flag? Yep:
The "power" in the heads was more about how scary and intimidating they looked (the menacing expression, teeth and jaws), but I saw this kind of "power" in the "tails":
What, though, of the riders? I didn't see riders. But just as I was about to ask about them (well, about their "breastplates"), heard "What color is a nuclear event, child?" Ummmm... er? And then I saw something like this:
Fiery red and sulfur yellow. One expert, Kiyoshi Shizuma, 58, a professor of Hiroshima University's Graduate School of Engineering and an expert on nuclear engineering, explained:
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"As the fireball expands, the temperature at its center falls so
the color of the fireball gradually changes to red and yellow, colors that appear through the cloud produced around the ball."
http://www.hiroshimapeacemedia.jp/hiros ... 80128.html John, though, also saw "hyacinth blue"? Are blue hyacinths really blue?
Or do we have another color to describe them? Professor Shizuma also pointed out that gamma rays contacting the air
could have produced a violet-colored light.
And what might bring this all on? If not some conflict regarding the Strait of Hormuz... then perhaps Netanyahu returning to annexing the West Bank (after he gets what all HE wants)? Who knows? I get it, this might all seem far-fetched because I didn't see exactly what John saw. Or... did I... but am just able to articulate it
today's wording...
and in English)?
We will have to see.
In the meantime, may the undeserved kindness and mercy of our God and Father, JaH Who Breathes (VeH)... and love and peace of His Son, Way Truth, Life, Light, and Wisdom, who is our dear, dear Lord, Master, Savior, King, Leader, Teacher, Instruction, and Bridegroom, JaH'eShua, the Holy One of Israel and Holy Spirit, be upon you all and upon your dear households... to time indefinite.
If you don't already have them, may you be given ears to hear... and if you DO have them... hear... when that (Holy) Spirit and his Bride say to YOU:
"COME! Take his (
Life's) '
water'... holy spirit... which is the breath, blood, and seed of the Father, poured out upon and put into the Son, who dispenses such to ALL who are wishing and ALL who are thirsting...
FREE!"
Your servant, sister, and a slave of Christ,
Shel
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