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Christ in the heavenly Sanctuary | Fifth Trumpet
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Hebrews 9:11-12 But Christ became an high priest of good things to come, in a greater and more perfect tabernacle. Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
Rev. 5:12 Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing. (9) for you were slain, and have redeemed us to God by thy blood.
Col. 1:14 In whom we have redemption through his blood,[even the forgiveness of sins: | Rev. 9:1 And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven unto the earth: |
That star had already fallen in the third trumpet.
As noted the fallen star is a church leader.
Revelation 1:20; stars are seven angels or leaders of the churches, through whom (in chapter 2 and 3) God sent letters to the church members. But this is a fallen star sitting in the seat of Satan in Rome, having received his power from the dragon. (Rev. 13:4) | We?ve reached the 13th Century. In the papal chair is Pope Innocent III, pope from 1198 to 1216. He was one of most powerful popes in the entire history of the Church.
The Catholic Church had reached its high point of power.
He launched the 4th crusade, supposedly against the Muslims, (instead they turned on Constantinople, conquering and looting it in 1206). He launched terrible, deadly crusades against the Albigenses. |
Jesus, our high Priest ministers in the Holy Place.
Rev. 8:3 (He) stood at the altar, (of incense) 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. |
?and to him was given the key? | Rev. 3:7: he that is true, has the key of David, it is he that opens, and no man shuts; and shuts, and no man opens?
The key belongs to Jesus!
Isaiah. 22:21-22:
the key of the ?house of David? a key of great authority.
In Luke 11:52: the Jewish leaders took the keys to lock people out the kingdom. | The keys were claimed by the papacy.
In Matt. 16:19 is a verse the papacy, firmly claims for themselves.
?I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.? |
Revelation1:18
Jesus states, ?I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and I have the keys of hell and of death.?
John 11:25 I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: |
the key of the bottomless pit | The passage focusses on the Key of the ?pit? or the grave and of ?hell? or eternal damnation.
The key that releases people from damnation which their sins have bound them.
This pit is bottomless, with no limit. (See Psalm 88:6, Pr. 1:12, Pr. 30:16) | Papal dogma claims the authority to determine whose sins are forgiven and will escape ?hell?. And God Himself must honor their choice.
??. The disclosure or confession of sins to a priest is an essential element of this sacrament...It is called the sacrament of forgiveness, since by the priest?s sacramental absolution God grants the penitent ?pardon and peace.? Catechism of the Catholic Church |
Acts 13:38-39
Be it known unto you brethren, that through this man (Jesus) is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:
And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
Hebrews 7:25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. | 9:2 And he opened the bottomless pit; | Made the sacrament of confession to a human priest mandatory. | In 1214 Innocent III called the fourth Lateran Council, which passed 70 decrees.
One introduced a significant change by requiring all Catholics to come to personal confession before a priest, on an annual basis. Those who failed to comply lost rights many considered essential to salvation, as well as burial rights.
Additionally, Pope Innocent III utilized "tribunals of inquisition" to root out heretics, further enforcing regular confession. He also elevated the Eucharist in terms of transubstantiation |
Rev. 8:4 And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand. | Revelation 9:2
and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. |
The smoke of incense in the hands of Jesus, brings forgiveness, light and life.
The smoke from strange fire, from a strange altar ? from the pit is darkness, a suffocating smoke, deadly.
(compare with Lev. 10) | In 1215 the papacy made annual, one-on-one confession obligatory for the first time. In the era that followed, confession was a source of spiritual manipulation as well as sexual and mercenary scandal.
Things were dark before, but now they became suffocatingly so. |
Jesus was still interceding at the golden altar in the heavenly Holy Place. | Rev. 9:3
And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth:. |
In prophecy locusts become a symbol of divine intervention in human affairs.
Their sudden appearance, vast numbers, and devastating impact are symbolic of God?s judgement. | All through Biblical history we see God ?giving? his people who have turned away from Him, into the hands of raiders and enemies, in the hopes they would repent and turn back to Him.
It was no different in the 13th and14th century. |
Jesus was still interceded, the door is open.
Luke 3:5 I tell you, but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
Acts 3:19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, |
and unto them (the locusts) was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. |
God is still in control as the phrase, ?power was given them? is an oft repeated phrase. God does give the rebellious over to the consequences of their departure from Him.
Scorpions have a very painful and potential deadly sting.
In Christ, protection is offered against scorpions (Luke 10:19)
But here the
scorpions are given power to cause distress. | From the point of its rise to power in 1299, the Ottoman empire, under its leader, chieftain, Osman Ghazi (1299-1324), rapidly expanded, greatly harassing European powers.
One point often ignored. Had not the fourth crusade of Pope Innocence III (and other crusades who supposedly went to fight the Muslims) harassed and even conquered and pillaged Constantinople in 1206; had the Christian church, west and east worked together instead of being rather bitter rivals, history could have been quite different. But as it was the eastern Roman Empire was greatly weakened, and didn?t have the strength to stop the invaders.
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