We are in the last week of the year 2020! For the entire year, we have focused on JESUS in the 4 Gospels and in various books throughout the New Testament. We have intently looked at names HE is called, along with descriptions of HIM given by HIMSELF and by others. As of yesterday, we have over 800 names/descriptions. We are finishing up our 2020 look at JESUS, via the book of Revelation, in the last 4 days of this year. I will choose to highlight names/descriptions, except for those that may be apocalyptic or those names that refer singularly to GOD THE FATHER or to THE HOLY SPIRIT.
Hopefully, as of January 1, we will be able to change the name of this blog to "2020 for Jesus and beyond". Then, we can continue looking at other things the Bible has to say about HIM.
Revelation 6
The
Seals
“I watched as THE LAMB opened
the first of the seven seals. Then I heard one of the four living
creatures say in a voice like thunder, ‘Come!’
2 I looked, and there before me was a white horse! Its rider
held a bow, and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent
on conquest.
3 When THE
LAMB opened the second seal, I heard the second living
creature say, ‘Come!’
4 Then another
horse came out, a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to take peace
from the earth and to make people kill each other. To him was given a
large sword.
5 When THE
LAMB opened the third seal, I heard the third living
creature say, ‘Come!’ I looked, and there before me was a black
horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand.
6 Then I heard what sounded like a
voice among the four living creatures, saying, ‘Two pounds
of wheat for a day’s wages,
and six pounds
of barley for a day’s wages,
and do not damage the oil and
the wine!’
7 When THE
LAMB opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living
creature say, ‘Come!’
8 I looked, and there before me was
a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following
close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by
sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.
9 When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the
souls of those who had been slain because of THE WORD OF GOD and the testimony
they had maintained.
10 They called out in a loud voice, ‘How
long, SOVEREIGN
LORD, HOLY AND TRUE, until you judge the inhabitants of the
earth and avenge our blood?’
11 Then each of them was given a
white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the full
number of their fellow servants, their brothers and sisters, were killed just
as they had been.
12 I watched as HE opened the sixth seal. There was a great
earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat
hair, the whole moon turned blood red,
13 and the stars in the sky fell to
earth, as figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind.
14 The heavens receded like a scroll
being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.
15 Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich,
the mighty, and everyone else, both slave and free, hid in caves and among
the rocks of the mountains.
16 They called to the mountains and
the rocks, ‘Fall on us and hide us
from the face of HIM who sits on the throne and from the wrath of THE LAMB!
17 For the great day of THEIR wrath
has come, and who can withstand it?’
Revelation 7
144,000
Sealed
“After this I saw four angels
standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four
winds of the earth to prevent any wind from blowing on the land or on
the sea or on any tree.
2 Then I saw another angel coming up from the east, having the
seal of THE LIVING
GOD. He called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had
been given power to harm the land and the sea:
3 ‘Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a
seal on the foreheads of the servants of OUR GOD.’
4 Then I heard the number of those who were sealed:
144,000 from all the tribes of Israel.
5 From the tribe of Judah 12,000 were sealed,
from the tribe of Reuben 12,000,
from the tribe of Gad 12,000,
6 from the tribe of Asher 12,000,
from the tribe of Naphtali 12,000,
from the tribe of Manasseh 12,000,
7 from the tribe of Simeon 12,000,
from the tribe of Levi 12,000,
from the tribe of Issachar 12,000,
8 from the tribe of Zebulun 12,000,
from the tribe of Joseph 12,000,
from the tribe of Benjamin 12,000.
The
Great Multitude in White Robes
9 After this I looked, and there
before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation,
tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before THE LAMB. They were
wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands.
10 And they cried out in a loud voice:
‘Salvation belongs to OUR GOD,
who sits on the throne,
and to THE
LAMB.’
11 All the angels were standing
around the throne and around the elders and the four living
creatures. They fell down on their faces before the throne and
worshiped GOD, 12 saying:
‘Amen!
Praise and glory
and wisdom and thanks and honor
and power and strength
be to OUR GOD for ever and ever.
Amen!’
13 Then one of the elders asked me,
‘These in white robes—who are they, and where did they come from?’
14 I answered, ‘Sir, you know.’
And he said, ‘These are they who
have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and
made them white in the blood of THE LAMB.
15 Therefore,
‘they are before the throne of GOD
and serve HIM day and night
in HIS temple;
and HE WHO sits on the throne
will shelter them with HIS
presence.
16 ‘Never
again will they hunger;
never again will they thirst.
The sun will not beat down on them,’
nor any scorching heat.
17 For
THE LAMB at
the center of the throne
will be their SHEPHERD;
‘HE
WILL LEAD THEM TO SPRINGS OF LIVING WATER.’
‘And GOD will wipe away
every tear from their eyes.’”
Revelation 8
The
Seventh Seal and the Golden Censer
“When HE opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven
for about half an hour.
2 And I saw the seven angels who stand before GOD, and
seven trumpets were given to them.
3 Another angel, who had a golden censer, came and stood at the
altar. He was given much incense to offer, with the prayers of all GOD’s
people, on the golden altar in front of the throne.
4 The smoke of the incense, together
with the prayers of GOD’s people, went up before GOD from
the angel’s hand.
5 Then the angel took the censer,
filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it on the earth; and there
came peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning and an earthquake.
The
Trumpets
6 Then the seven angels who had the
seven trumpets prepared to sound them.
7 The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and
fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down on the earth. A
third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and
all the green grass was burned up.
8 The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge
mountain, all ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea
turned into blood,
9 a third of the living
creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.
10 The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing
like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the
springs of water—
11 the name of the star is Wormwood
A third of the waters turned bitter, and
many people died from the waters that had become bitter.
12 The fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun was
struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of
them turned dark. A third of the day was without light, and also a third
of the night.
13 As I watched, I heard an eagle that was flying in midair call out in a loud voice: ‘Woe! Woe! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the trumpet blasts about to be sounded by the other three angels!’”
Revelation 9
“The
fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky
to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss.
2 When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a
gigantic furnace. The sun and sky were darkened by the smoke from the
Abyss.
3 And out of the smoke locusts came down on the earth and were
given power like that of scorpions of the earth.
4 They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any
plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of GOD
on their foreheads.
5 They were not allowed to kill them but only to torture them for
five months. And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a
scorpion when it strikes.
6 During those days people will seek death but will not find it;
they will long to die, but death will elude them.
7 The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their
heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human
faces.
8 Their hair was like women’s hair,
and their teeth were like lions’ teeth.
9 They had breastplates like
breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of
many horses and chariots rushing into battle.
10 They had tails with stingers, like
scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months.
11 They had as king over them the
angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek
is Apollyon (that is, Destroyer).
12 The first woe is past; two other woes are yet to come.
13 The sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming
from the four horns of the golden altar that is before GOD.
14 It said to the sixth angel who had
the trumpet,
‘Release
the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.’
15 And the four angels who had been
kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released to
kill a third of mankind.
16 The number of the mounted troops
was twice ten thousand times ten thousand. I heard their number.
17 The horses and riders I saw in my vision looked like this:
Their
breastplates were fiery red, dark blue, and yellow as sulfur. The heads of the
horses resembled the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire,
smoke and sulfur.
18 A third of mankind was
killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke and sulfur that came out
of their mouths.
19 The power of the horses was in
their mouths and in their tails; for their tails were like snakes, having heads
with which they inflict injury.
20 The rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did
not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping
demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood—idols that
cannot see or hear or walk.
21 Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts.”
Revelation 10
“Then I
saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven. He was robed in a
cloud, with a rainbow above his head; his face was like the sun, and
his legs were like fiery pillars.
2 He was holding a little scroll, which lay open in his hand.
He planted his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land,
3 and he gave a loud shout like the roar of a lion. When he
shouted, the voices of the seven thunders spoke.
4 And when the seven thunders spoke, I was about to write; but
I heard a voice from heaven say,
‘Seal up what the seven thunders have said and do not write it
down.’
5 Then the angel I had seen standing on the sea and on the
land raised his right hand to heaven.
6 And he swore by HIM
WHO LIVES FOR EVER AND
EVER,
WHO CREATED THE HEAVENS AND ALL THAT IS IN
THEM, THE EARTH AND ALL THAT IS IN
IT,
AND THE SEA AND ALL THAT IS
IN IT,
and said,
‘There will be no more delay!
7 But in the days when the seventh angel is about to sound his
trumpet, the mystery of GOD will be accomplished, just as HE
announced to HIS servants the prophets.’
8 Then the voice that I had heard from heaven spoke to me once
more: ‘Go, take the scroll that lies open in the hand of the angel who is
standing on the sea and on the land.’
9 So I went to the angel and asked him to give me the little scroll.
He said to me,
‘Take
it and eat it. It will turn your stomach sour, but ‘in your mouth it will be as
sweet as honey.’
10 I took the little scroll from the
angel’s hand and ate it. It tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth, but when
I had eaten it, my stomach turned sour.
11 Then I was told, ‘You must
prophesy again about many peoples, nations, languages and kings.’
Revelation 11
The
Two Witnesses
“I was given a reed like a
measuring rod and was told, ‘Go and measure the temple of GOD and the altar,
with its worshipers.
2 But exclude the outer court; do not measure it, because it
has been given to the Gentiles. They will trample on the holy
city for 42 months.
3 And I will appoint my two witnesses, and they will prophesy
for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.’
4 They
are ‘the two olive trees’ and the two lampstands, and ‘they stand before THE LORD OF THE EARTH.’
5 If
anyone tries to harm them, fire comes from their mouths and devours their
enemies. This is how anyone who wants to harm them must die.
6 They have power to shut up the heavens so that it will not
rain during the time they are prophesying; and they have power to turn the
waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as
often as they want.
7 Now when they have finished their testimony, the beast that
comes up from the Abyss will attack them, and overpower and kill them.
8 Their bodies will lie in the
public square of the great city—which is figuratively called Sodom and
Egypt—where also THEIR
LORD was crucified.
9 For three and a half days some
from every people, tribe, language and nation will gaze on their bodies
and refuse them burial.
10 The inhabitants of the
earth will gloat over them and will celebrate by sending each other
gifts, because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the
earth.
11 But after the three and a half days the breath of life from GOD
entered them, and they stood on their feet, and terror struck those
who saw them.
12 Then they heard a loud voice from
heaven saying to them,
‘Come
up here.’ And they went up to heaven in a cloud, while their enemies
looked on.
13 At that very hour there was a severe earthquake and a tenth
of the city collapsed. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and
the survivors were terrified and gave glory to THE GOD OF HEAVEN.
14 The second woe has passed; the third woe is coming soon.
The
Seventh Trumpet
15 The seventh angel sounded his
trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, which said:
“The kingdom of the world has become
the kingdom of OUR LORD and
of HIS MESSIAH,
and HE will reign for ever and
ever.”
16 And the twenty-four elders, who
were seated on their thrones before GOD, fell on their faces and
worshiped GOD, 17 saying:
“We give thanks to you, LORD GOD ALMIGHTY,
THE ONE WHO IS AND WHO WAS,
because you have taken your great
power
and have begun to reign.
18 The
nations were angry,
and YOUR wrath has come.
The time has come for judging the dead,
and for rewarding YOUR servants
the prophets
and YOUR people who revere your name,
both great and small—
and for destroying those who destroy the earth.’
19 Then GOD’s temple in
heaven was opened, and within HIS temple was seen the ark of HIS
covenant. And there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of
thunder, an earthquake and a severe hailstorm.”
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