The Book of Revelation Volume 2

BOOK OF REVELATION

Volume 2

by

Cecil J. duCille

©1998 Cecil J. duCille

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Cover art is: Four Horsemen of Apocolypse by Viktor Vasnetsov 1887

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Table of Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Summary of Volume 1

Preface

Revelation Chapter Eleven

Revelation Chapter Twelve

Revelation Chapter Thirteen

Revelation Chapter Fourteen

Revelation Chapter Fifteen

Revelation Chapter Sixteen

Revelation Chapter Seventeen

Revelation Chapter Eighteen

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Foreword

As we have worked on this book about Revelation, we have rejoiced in the word that the Lord has brought to His church at this time. John 8:32 says, Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. Our desire is that this book and the other two volumes will bring confirmation to your heart and strength for the hour that we live in.

We are so thankful for the dedication that Brother and Sister duCille have shown. They have labored in love to bring this word to us. May the Lord bless them as they continue to serve Him.

May your Kingdom come, Lord God, and may Your will be done! Amen!

God bless you,

Tom and Carol Trotter

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Acknowledgments

We wish to take this opportunity to thank the Lord Jesus Christ in the first place and the body of Christ here and all over the world for their faithfulness and the help and the strength they give us in accomplishing this gargantuan task in writing this book.

The Lord Jesus Christ has been most gracious to us to give us workers in editing, and going through every detail, dotting the i's and crossing the t's with a fine tooth comb, dedicated and faithful brethren. Among those who gave their whole heart to this work for more than two years are Thomas and Carol Trotter, Catherine Trotter, Sidney and Sharon Kamprath, Steve and Fran Goodmon, and David Walter.

We therefore send forth these volumes as a tool into the hands of the body of Christ trusting they might accomplish, in the name of Jesus, the perfect will of God for which they were ordained.

"Write the vision, and make it plain upon

tables, that he may run that readeth it.

For the vision is yet for an appointed time

but at the end it shall speak, and not lie:

though it tarry, wait for it; because it will

come, it will not tarry." Habakkuk 2:2

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Summary of The Book of Revelation Volume One

In volume one of this series of books, the author shares his personal testimony before giving the reader the revelations that he received from Jesus Christ Himself.

The introduction covers the seven mysteries of Christ also called the seven words of grace in every believer's life.

Volume one includes the first ten chapters of the Revelation of John. The author's desire is to explain these chapters scripturally so that the reader can fully understand the prophecy that God gave to Jesus Christ who gave it to brother John. Each chapter is carefully covered, verse by verse, giving the reader the full revelation for himself.

Specifically, chapter one deals with Christ in the midst of the church. Chapters two and three reveal who the seven messengers to the church are and their message. Chapters four and five explain the four beasts and the twenty-four elders. Chapter six deals with the opening of six of the seals and explains the four horses and the four horsemen. Have you ever desired to understand who the 144,000 are? The answer, the revelation, is given in chapter seven. Chapter eight begins with the opening of the seventh seal, the seven angels and the seven trumpets. You will learn what will happen when this seal is opened and you will understand the work of the seven angels in the earth. Chapter nine connects the message of the fifth angel and World War III. Chapter ten ends volume one. This chapter tells of the eating of the little book and the effect that it has in the human realm.

The Holy Spirit was sent to lead believers into all truth. You will not be disappointed when the whole truth, as much as the author has been made known, is unveiled to you. You will be made free!

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Preface

We dedicate this book to our three sons Donovan, Lewin and Carl who spent all of their youth, from childhood to their teenage years working with us, being very involved in the gospel. Many times they would get the service started having everyone in prayer and worship before we arrived and acquired a very broad knowledge of the word. They had their share of suffering and learnt how to abase and abound. This created in them a fortitude and tenacity which has been invaluable in their endeavors.We commend them into the hand of the Lord and trust that this book will bless them as it blesses others.

The enlightenment of this word first came to my husband approximately fifty years ago. When we found this treasure, this pearl of great price, we diligently sought the Lord together and sacrificed our careers: mine as an elementary school teacher, and his as an accountant with the Agricultural Department of Jamaica, dedicating our lives to labor in the Kingdom for the glory of God and have proven and are proving that God makes us stronger and more effective in the gospel in which we continue with exceeding delight. Matt. 13:45,46, Again the Kingdom of Heaven is likened unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls; who, when he had found one pearl of great price went and sold all that he had, and bought it.

The word came piece by piece, line upon line, through days of prayer and meditation and sacrifice over these many years. We believe, according to the word, that God will reveal to the church all His mystery at this time. It is clearly stated in the Word that the Gospel of the Kingdom must be preached until Jesus comes in His fullness to His temple.

We have come to understand that the full revelation of Christ in His body comes in three levels. The book The Pattern was a revelation on the first level. These three books of the Apocalypse are on the second level, with Seven seals (Mysteries), Seven trumpets (Messages), Seven angels (Messengers), Seven vials of the wrath of God. The third level of this revelation will come within the souls of men. If at the sounding of the seventh and final trumpet all the mystery of God shall be finished, then I feel this to be very close since the sixth seal which brings wars and rumors of war is already broken and the sixth trumpet is calling us into a place of safety. God is lifting the church, the Bride to a place of making herself ready for the Groom, thus the importance of these volumes.

We commend this book to those who will be like the Berean brethren who diligently searched the Scriptures and made sure of truth, with no other intention but to bless the body of Christ. Pray for us and our family.

Colossians 3:16, Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace your hearts to the Lord, and whatever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by Him.

Mavis M. duCille

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Revelation Chapter Eleven

THE MEASURING OF THE TEMPLE

Revelation 11:1, And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.

The measuring of the temple of God is a spiritual measuring; not measuring a physical building, but measuring the people who worship there. Remember, the only proper explanation of Scripture is from Scripture.

Ezekiel 40:3 and 4,And he brought me thither, and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate. And the man said unto me, Son of man, behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears, and set thine heart upon all that I shall shew thee; for to the intent that I might shew THEM unto thee art thou brought hither: declare all that thou seest to the house of Israel. This was an angel calling Ezekiel and measuring the temple. It was actually the measuring of the human temple, the third temple which is the Body of Christ.

Another measuring occurs in Zechariah 2:1 and 2. I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand. Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof. This scripture is peculiar because he was only interested in measuring Jerusalem. The first dimension, the breadth and the length, would be the outer court. There are THREE DIMENSIONS - the outer court, holy place, and the holy of holies. The outer court would be the flat plane, breadth and length.

Revelation 11:1b,MEASURE THE TEMPLE OF GOD, and the altar, AND THEM that worship therein. Not only is the temple being measured, but the people also. This is a spiritual measurement. God's word has height and depth and length. The Word of God has dimensions. This measurement was for the first dimension. It was only the outer court that should be measured.

Verse 2,But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.

We notice in this second verse that the outer court was NOT to be measured, it was going to be destroyed. In Ezekiel and Zechariah we read of a measuring of the temple where they measured the outer court and everything. When we come to THE PERFECT CHURCH, to the time when the church is coming down to its perfection, the outer court is no longer part of the church.

The church comprises an outer court, a holy place, and a holy of holies. Under the old law the women could not go into the holy place except by special order. When Nadab and Abihu were killed by the fire of the Lord, God told Aaron to get his DAUGHTERS as well as his sons into the holy place and let them eat the sacrifice at the table of shewbread. See Leviticus 10:12-14. That was different, but the general rule was that the women could not go further than the outer court. I hope the sisters will know that this is nothing against women. God is talking about something pertaining to church, and He uses the woman as a type.

THE OUTER COURT IS GONE

The outer court in this last-day church that we are looking at here IS GONE. It is going to be gone. It will be "given unto the Gentiles" and they will tread (it down) under foot forty and two months - for three and a half years. There must be a reason, of course. The outer court is indefensible. God cannot defend the outer court. Why?

Let me explain to you what the outer court is. God told Moses to build a Tabernacle with a gate. This gate led into a big yard which was 100 cubits by 50 cubits. This yard had a fence around it and was called the outer court. In this place there was sometimes a lot of confusion with animals being killed and sacrificed, animals fighting for their lives, and men holding the animals, roping them onto the horns of the altar. Sometimes there was shouting and struggling in the outer court and a lot of blood. They would kill the animal and take out the guts and dung and wrap it into the skin of the animal and take that outside the camp to burn. It was not a nice smelling, beautiful place like a temple should be. The outer court was where all the preparation was made.

Let us now apply this to the gospel. The outer court church, therefore, is where the believer is being prepared to go into Christ. Some churches have camped in the outer court and have no intention of going any further because their doctrines say they have got it all. God is a God of progress. There was no way that God was going to give you everything at one time, and perfect you, in the outer court. When you accept Jesus Christ you are fresh from sin, A FRESH SINNER. You come right into God and God washes you with the blood of Jesus, but when He washes you with His blood, He also has to LEAVE A SPACE for you to apply what He has given you, and for you to MAINTAIN the Christian, godly cleanliness which He gave.

Many brethren, after they accept Jesus as their Saviour, relax and do any old thing and feel that Jesus Christ will take care of it. One sister told me that she would divorce her husband and then go to God and pray about it. You cannot deliberately sin and go and pray about it. That is called presumptuous sin, and there is very little leeway for you to repent. You have to go down in sackcloth and ashes and repent of that sort of behavior before you can go any further in God.

The majority of the church is in the outer court. When we talk about church, when we talk about Christianity, the majority of Christians are in the outer court. There are two works of grace in the outer court. First, accepting Jesus' blood that was shed and giving our hearts to God. The second work of grace is beginning to clean up that which we have had from the world, which God came in to clean. He calls it baptism. At baptism, we have to die a death. Only salvation (accepting Jesus) is a free gift. You were as dirty, as wretched, as awful as a human being could be, in sin, and Jesus came and He applied the blood and INSTANTANEOUSLY your sins were forgiven, but your NATURE was not completely changed. It has been arrested. The blood of Jesus Christ is a tool given to you to clean up your mind, your emotions, your will, and your desires.

Some Christians let their emotions loose in a freedom that is not Christian. Even married people sometimes do not understand that they cannot behave any old way with their partners. They need to restrain and control and train their emotions and their desires and their will. The mind is not the mind of Christ. It is still the human mind. You have the tool to work it out and make it the mind of Christ. Consecration and sanctification are part of this cleaning.

The believer in the outer court is expected of God to prepare himself or herself for going into the holy place - to prepare himself or herself for going through the door, going into Christ, becoming a part of Christ's body and a part of Christ's function in the earth. Then you are really set to go places with God. However, if you have a doctrine that you must not receive the fullness of baptism (some say water baptism is not necessary), then you cut yourself off. Not being obedient to righteousness gives you nothing. You say that there is no baptism, and therefore you cuss, drink, commit any sin, and feel that you are all right because you have no covenant with God.

THE COVENANT OF BAPTISM

Baptism is a covenant that the believer makes with God. It is permanent. It is a death, a burial, and a resurrection. The thing that dies is not the thing that rises. The thing that rises is a Christ thing. The man's heart, his mind, his soul, and his behavior must change radically. It is not Oh, I got changed yesterday. No sir, it is a continuous change, a gradual change. The ugly caterpillar goes into a chrysalis and changes, changes, changes, until he undergoes his metamorphosis and becomes a beautiful butterfly. Until that day, the change is yet continuing, or should continue.

However, this change is arrested, retarded, or stopped by some of the church doctrines that we have. The believer is no longer functioning under God, for he has not made CHRIST HIS LORD. Jesus is my Saviour, Oh yes. I did not have to do anything. All I needed to be saved by Jesus was to be a sinner which I did not do; I was born that way. Born a sinner, Jesus saves you, and now you must turn around and make a covenant with Him that you will follow Him all the way. That is baptism. Outside of this, there is no baptism. You could be wet with water until you continuously drip. You will not be baptized unless that consciousness has come to you.

Some of you have been baptized and feel if you go down in the name of Jesus (someone said Jesus over you) and come up again, you are made perfect. You are mistaken. Those of you who believe that you are baptized to become a member of a church and get the right hand of fellowship when you are baptized, YOU ARE NOT BAPTIZED. You must make the covenant with God and then go down in the water. That is baptism and you must know what you are doing. Baptism has the following three steps: Water, Holy Spirit, and Christ. Man baptizes you in water, Jesus baptizes you in the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit baptizes you into Christ. That brings you into the holy place.

There is the outer court, the holy place, and then you are still going on further. You are going into the holy of holies where the overshadowing of God will deliver you from all harm. Psalm 91:1, He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. You will go into the ark of the covenant, where you become a permanent part of God. This is the final stage and the seventh trumpet. When the seventh trumpet blows, this is the seventh seal.

WHY THE OUTER COURT WILL BE DESTROYED

The outer court has to be destroyed because the outer court, or the people who dwell in the outer court, have not learned to make Jesus their Lord. They cannot walk in holiness. They believe that they must sin every day, and one day God is going to blow a great trumpet, and there will be a lifting up, and they will be caught up and they will fly away. Most of the people in the outer court believe this. Brethren, God ordained you to reign and to rule on the earth with Him. See Revelation 3:21; 20:4, and 6. I do not know where you will be flying to if Jesus is reigning and ruling on earth. Where would you want to fly to, apart from being caught up into Christ?

I want you to understand that the outer court, therefore, are people who do not obey God. If you obey God, if you are an ardent Christian, obedient to Christ, then you are IN CHRIST. Christ is your head. You have no other bishop that is going to tell you what to do even when you know it is wrong. You have no other pope over you. You have no person, no human being, that is so much over you that he blocks Christ from your vision.

I am not saying that we must not have elders over us. GOD HAS ORDAINED ELDERS. See Acts 14:23. Elders under God function differently than elders or bishops or pastors or popes who are under a system. Please accept this as a word from the Lord. If you cannot accept it as from the Lord, you are in trouble. Go pray. Let God tell you what is right from what is wrong. My Bible tells me that if any man desires to know the truth that God will teach him the truth. He will not leave him in darkness. See John 7:17.

The angel said, measure it not; for it is given to the Gentiles to be destroyed. Let me explain why this has to be. God comes to a person, who is in the outer court, who is learning to do His business, who has a doctrine of how to do this or that, and God says to that person, I want you to go to that crossroads and begin to preach the gospel or sing a hymn or whatever. When God gives such an order, it means that at the hour that God has ordained for you to be at such a place and ANGELS will be gathered around you to do their part. You have a part. Your part is to preach the gospel, to let the sound out. God's part is to bring the right people there, to touch them, and to bring them into Christ. If you said, That corner is a bad corner. I think I had better go to another corner, and you went to the other corner, the angels of God would be at the right corner waiting to do the will of God, and God would have to take some body else to DO HIS WILL, and you would be the loser.

An outer court person cannot be controlled. In case of a crisis, God has to tell you quickly to move to the right or move to the left, and, therefore, in a battle condition, a crisis situation, God cannot defend you. So the outer court is going to perish because Satan will have the power to do anything that is not in Christ. God says the outer court will be destroyed.

The number three is the number of divine order. God ordained that the tabernacle be divided into three parts - the outer court, the holy place, and the holy of holies. We are body, soul, spirit; outer court, holy place, holy of holies. God ordained that there should be 6,000 years of man's operation. This started with the first Adam. From Adam to Noah there have been about 2,000 years. Noah died 2,006 years from Adam. This whole period of time was wiped out because of sin. It would have adversely affected the rest of the 6,000 years. God complained in Genesis 6, that man had gotten so violent, so wicked, that they had completely wiped out the holy people, the righteous generation, only leaving one family, Noah's family.

SAVED BY DROWNING

Two thousand years is a type of the outer court and it was wiped out by the flood. Lest someone misunderstand God, God wiped out mankind after the first 2,000 years of humanity because He had a plan of salvation. The strangest, most beautiful thing is that the only way God could save those people from their own wickedness and from the violence that had taken hold of the world was to kill them.

Let us look in the Scriptures. Scriptures explain Scriptures. 1 Peter 3:l9 and 20, By which also he (Jesus Christ) went and preached unto the spirits in prison; Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

God is saying here that Noah's congregation came in when Jesus went to hell. Jesus preached to them and took them out of hell. The only way that God could have saved those people from their own wickedness and from their own violence was to bring them into a point of crisis and death where they would accept Christ, or call upon God, while they were drowning. They went to hell, but Jesus went to hell to save them and to bring them up out of the grave and out of death.

Revelation 11:2b,For it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.

Let us look at why the holy city is given unto the Gentiles. Gentiles definitely means those who are not Jews. It could have been translated For it is given to the nations. It is to the nations that are not Jews. There is a message right here that we need to look into.

Luke 21:24, And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.

In this verse, we are told that there is a fulfillment of the times of the Gentiles. The Gentiles have a time. At the end of this time, there will be a time for the Jews. I want you to notice in this passage that He is referring to Jerusalem, natural Jerusalem, and yet in the passage we just read in Revelation, John is referring to a spiritual Jerusalem. I will tell you the reason why both of them seem to be carrying the same Scripture. God does everything three times. That is divine order. He will do it in the natural, in the spiritual, and in His fullness (perfection).

In Luke, Jesus is telling the Jews what is going to happen in Jerusalem as a type of what is going to happen to the church. Remember, Jerusalem is a type of the church. It, therefore, has direct meaning to the end of time, because Jesus is using it as a type of what is going to happen to the Jews and what is going to happen to the Gentiles. The Gentiles have a time. Revelation chapter 11 tells us of the perfection, the fullness of the thing. Let us read and get some more understanding from the Word of God.

THE FULLNESS OF THE GENTILES

Romans 11:13-15,For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office: If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them. For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?

Paul is talking to the natural Jew and he is talking about the natural Gentile. He is telling of the destiny of the Jew and the Gentile. The Jew was cast away by God because He wanted to bring in the harvest of the Gentile. When the harvest of the Gentile comes in, then He is going to again bring in the Jew. Let us read that in the same chapter.

Romans 11:25-31,For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery (a mystery it is indeed), lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins. As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes. For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance. For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief: Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.

God is going to use the Gentile church, THE CHURCH, to deliver the Jewish people from the sin of unbelief into which they have fallen. They are going to have some very convincing arguments from God through the church. Scripture says that through the church the manifold wisdom of God will be preached to principalities and powers, and, of course, to the Jews. See Ephesians 3:9 and 10.

Forty and two months. Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles. We are talking about the Jerusalem of God, not just the natural Jerusalem. Natural Jerusalem is going to be attacked and trodden down and spiritual Jerusalem (the outer court of the church) will be totally destroyed. Forty and two months is three and a half years. Other scriptures tell us what is going to happen in these three and a half years. Let us first look at the verse below.

Revelation 11:3,And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.

During the time when the outer court is being trampled under foot, the holy of holies is going to be riding high and really battling the enemy. I will give power unto my two witnesses... Take that picture. One part of the church is being trampled, and the other part they cannot touch, they are afraid of them. We will see also, as we go on further in the study, that there is yet another part that is going to be protected and not touched at all. THREE PARTS - one part will protect the other, and the outer court, which is indefensible, will be trodden down by the enemy.

Daniel 7:21 and 22, I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints (this horn is the antichrist), and prevailed against them; Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.

Further light comes on this subject in verse 25. And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time (until this three and a half years). This is the time when the saints will get power and begin to show forth their authority. They will not have the final victory over the enemy until the end of the three and a half years. One part of the church will be suffering during the three and a half years, the other part will be a fighting church overcoming the enemy, and the other part will be a hiding church being preserved and hidden