Jesus, Core of Endtime
The core of the Endtime is not ‘the beast’ or ‘the image of the beast’ or ‘the mark of the beast’. Neither does it consist of the apocalyptic phenomena like earthquakes, eclipses, a blood moon, the impact of a comet and the effects of volcanism. However impressing they will be, all Endtime phenomena, from Apocalyptic horsemen to the last quake of the complete planet, are nothing but the stage for Him who once testified: 'I am the Way, the Truth and the Life, no one comes to the Father except through Me'.
The heart of the Endtime is one Person, Jesus Christ. He is adored by his followers for ages as God, the God Who came in the flesh in order to save humanity. He is neglected, denied in rejected by the rest of the world.
While the influence of his followers has diminished, mostly due to their own failure to spread his light, the authority of the non-believing part of the world has greatly increased, to the point where the outward professors of Christianity have become instrumental in camouflaging the atrocities by the world empire. It will be in this setting of a ‘wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked’ Christianity that Christ Himself will take affairs into His hands and confront humanity with Himself, the One that has been neglected by the world from the moment He started his ministry, 2000 years ago.
Therefore Jesus is central in the Endtime. He was despised and rejected by the nation of Israel and brutally crucified by the Roman empire and these two powers will continue to vigorously oppose Him in the Endtime. And however much attention the book of Revelation gives to the empire with its vassals, it is not the empire that is at the center. The Essence of Revelation is Christ, the Lamb of God. The empire and its vassals will wage war against Him with all weaponry that has been developed through the ages. The reason for this monstrous ‘beast’ to be part of the Revelation of Christ is to show to what depths the world has sunk and how mighty a Savior Jesus Christ is, that He will be able to set humanity free and to bring her to heights that were never reached before.
The God Who came to us in the person of Jesus, is the same God Who created the universe with all its stars, planets, moons and orbiting rocks. On multiple occasions, God, in his word, directs our attention to these heavenly bodies and their significance. Especially toward the end of the age, there would be signs in the sun, the moon and the stars. That is why this website pays much attention to the universe and its meaning for the Endtime. The program Stellarium makes it possible to follow the heavenly bodies against the background of the constellations. In the category Endtime Stars we show the close correlation between the book of Revelation and the movements in the sky.
This is the way the chapters of Revelation are divided into the buttons of this website:
(1) 'Essence of Endtime' - Revelation 1
a. Revelation 1 - Jesus
b. Layout of Revelation - The structure of Revelation
c. Endtime Definition - How we define 'the Endtime'
d. Endtime Visions - Discussion of differing views on Revelation
e. Endtime Discourse - Explanation of Mathew 24 and 25
f. Endtime Chart - Blueprint of the Endtime
g. Endtime Persons and Groups - Outline of participants of Revelation
h. Where are we now? - Past-Present-Future, related to Bible texts
i. Misinterpretations of Revelation - External reasons for false explanations
(2) 'Prelude to Endtime' - Revelation 2 - 5
a. Revelation 2 - 3 - Church History -
b. Revelation 4:1 - Rapture -
c. Revelation 4, 5 - Heaven -
d. Parts of Revelation 12, 13 - Israel -
e. Parts of Revelation 13, 17 - World Empire
(3) 'Endtime' - Revelation 6-18
a. Revelation 6 - Start of Apocalypse -
b. Revelation 7 - Survivors
c. Revelation 8, 9 Darkest Years
d. Revelation 10, 11 - True Witnesses
e. Parts of Revelation 12, 13, 17 - Fierce enemies
f. Revelation 14 - Redemption -
g. Revelation 16 - Chastisement of Empire
h. Revelation 18 - End of World Empire
(4) 'Salvation after Endtime' - Revelation 19 - 22
a. Revelation 19 - Eternal Victory
b. Revelation 20 - Righteous Judgment
c. Revelation 21 - Millennial Kingdom
d. Revelation 22 - Amen, come!
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