Revelation 20:1-3 And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. [2] And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Shatan, and bound (Hebrew: asar אסר H631 Greek G1210 edesen from deo: to tie/bind) him a thousand years, [3] And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations/guym no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
The binding of Shatan has been a debatable issue today among most Messianics. While some look at Shatan's binding to mean will happen in a so-called Millennial period of 1000 years, others believe this already happened at the stake spiritually and hence Shatan can no longer deceive the nations/guym. We must compare spiritual things with spiritual to understand what this binding is and how it affects the world and Alahym's people.
Firstly, we must realize that if Shatan is literally bound why is there sin, rebellion & deception in this world. Scriptures show that he is very much active in this world.
Eph 2:2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience:
Secondly, if his binding means he no longer can deceive then we must look at scriptures which teach that he is a deceiver and one who distorts the pattern just as he tempted Adam and Chauah/Eve
Eze 28:12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus/Tsor צור H6865, and say unto him, Thus saith Yahuah Alahym; You sealest up the sum (chatham חותם H2856 tokniyth תכנית H8508), full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
The Hebrew word for 'seal' used is 'chatham' which means to close up and the Hebrew word for 'sum' used is 'tokniyth' which means 'Pattern/Measure'. Shatan distorted Alahym's pattern through the flesh of Adam and Chauah and in this way he leads multitudes in rebellion against Alahym. It's interesting to see Hiram the king of Tyrus provided Shelemoh with all the wood and gold to build the house of Yahuah.
1Ki9:11 (Chiram king of Tsor/Tyrus had supplied Shelomoh with cedar trees and with fir trees
and with gold according to all his desire), then King Shelomoh gave Chiram twenty cities
in the land of Galilee.
2Chr2:7 Now send me a skilled man to work in gold, in silver, in brass and in iron,
and in purple, crimson and violet, and who knows how to make engravings, to work
with the skilled men that are with me in Yahudah and in Yerushalam,
whom Dawid my father provided.
2Chr2:8 And send me cedar trees, fir trees and algum trees from Lebanon,
for I know that your servants know how to cut down the trees of Lebanon;
and behold, my servants shall be with your servants,
2Chr2:9 to prepare timber in abundance for me, for the house
which I am building shall be great and wonderful.
2Chr2:10 Now behold, I shall give to your servants, the hewers that cut the timber,
twenty thousand measures of crushed wheat and twenty thousand measures of barley,
and twenty thousand baths of wine and twenty thousand baths of oil.
The name Chiram in Hebrew means 'noble born'. While the language of Ezekiel is parabolic, we understand why Yahuah is using king of Tsor/Tyrus as an example of 'sealing the measure' is because it was, he who sent the wood required for furnishing the house of Yahuah and the skilled men to work in gold, silver, brass, iron, in purple, crimson, violet, engravings etc. The physical house with the elements in their patterns built stood measuring the spiritual temple and Yahuah says He doesn't dwell in temples as "Heaven is His throne & earth is His footstool, what house can you build for me to dwell in?"
Isa66:1 Thus says Yahuah, the heavens is My throne and the earth is My footstool.
Where then is a house that you could build for Me?
And where then is a place that I may rest?
Hence, the picture is of Yahuah moving away from the physical temple to the place of His rest. The book of Ezekiel describes this as the esteem of Yahuah who dwells between the cherubim leaving the temple and goes in a direction and the cherubims hear the voice 'WHEEL/GALGAL' (Ezekiel 10:13) which is significant of 'Galgalath' where our Adon Yahusha was impaled on the stake.
The Apostle Yahuchanan/John says that there are many deceivers in the world who do not confess 'Yahusha' is come in the flesh (Mortal) and this is a clear indication that even after the stake Shatan works as a DECEIVER.
2Jo 1:7 ¶ For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Yahusha Messiah is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an Anti-messiah.
2Co 11:14 And no marvel; for Shatan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
Now that it is clear that Shatan is still the deceiver and still is very active in this world deceiving multitudes against Alahym taking them back to old pattern which is forsaken by Yahuah. So, what does this binding in the bottomless pit mean? The word of Alahym is full of imagery, symbolism and parabolic language and hence must be understood spiritually comparing scriptures with scripture.
Bottomless pit: Bottomless pit is a poor English translation and is actually the Hebrew word 'baar thahum/ באר תהום' & Greek word ' abussos' G12 where we get our English word 'abyss'. Both these words mean 'deep'? Look up verses Luke 8:31 & Romans 10:7 where this word is translated as 'deep' for both 'depths' and 'depths of Sheol'.
For Bottomless pit the Greek mentions 'tou phrear tes abyssou' which means 'the well of the deep'
Hebrew mentions 'baar thahum באר תהום' which also means 'well of the deep' where Baar באר H875 means 'a well/a spring'.
The Hebrew word 'thahum/תהום' can be seen in Gen 1:2
Gen1:2 And the earth was without form/thahu תהו and void,
and darkness was over the surface of the deep תהום,
and the Spirit of Elohim was moving/rachapah רחפה over the surface of the waters.
Both 'thahu תהו' & 'thahum תהום' are related to the depths of Sheol like a formlessness/wasteland. And the Ruach Alahym was rachapah רחפה /paving the way into the deep. It was necessary that Alahym transition in the form of Yahusha to descend into Sheol to bring out His sons confined/bound in the depths of its waste/formlessness. The picture in Gen 1:2-3 is, Alahym in the person of Yahusha immersed into the depths of the deep & we can see Yahusha telling Yahuchanan to allow Him to fulfill all righteousness.
Peter speaks of this immersion as a fulfillment of the type of immersion which saves us in the pledge of a complete spirit towards Alahym through the resurrection of Yahusha Ha Mashiyach. Hence, He entering into the deep/thahum or abussos and ascending from it is for US as we are complete in Him.
Matt3:13 Then Yahusha came from the Galil at the Yarden to Yahuchanan,
to be immersed by his hand.
Matt3:14 But Yahuchanan was hindering Him, saying,
“I need to be immersed by Your hand, and You come to me?”
Matt3:15 But Yahusha answering said to him, “Permit it now,
for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he permitted Him.
Matt3:16 And it came to pass, after being immerseded, Yahusha came up immediately
from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened,
and he saw the Spirit of Elohim descending as a dove and lighting on Him,
In Gen 1:2 we saw the Spirit of Alahym was rachapah/paving the way into the deep, its a picture of the dove with the olive leaf in her beak fluttering over the waters as seen in the Noach flood.
1Pe3:21 and He (Yahusha) is the fulfillment of the type of immersion who now also saves you,
not to put away of the filth of the flesh, but a pledge of a complete spirit
toward Elohim through the resurrection of Yahusha the Mashiyach,
Gen8:11 The dove came to him toward evening,
and behold, in her beak was a freshly picked olive leaf.
So, Noach knew that the water was abated from the earth.
Eph4:10 He (Yahusha) who descended is the same also that ascended up far above all the heavens,
so that He might fill all things.
Luke8:31 They (The Legion of demons) begged Him not to command them to go down into the abyss (Hebrew: thahum Greek: abusson)
Shaul the emissary speaking of the righteousness of belief doesn't have a doubt of the ascension and descension of Mashiyach Yahusha, uses the same word abyss to show us where He descended to.
Rom10:6 But the righteousness, which is from within, the belief speaks in this way,
Do not say in your heart, Who shall ascend into the heavens?
That is, to bring the Mashiyach down;
Rom10:7 or who shall descend into the abyss (Hebrew: thahum, Greek: abusson)? That is, to bring the Mashiyach up from the dead.
The demons begging Yahusha not to send them into the abyss (translated as bottomless pit in other places in the book of Revelation) shows that the binding of Shatan and his loosing with his hordes is figurative. It needs to be understood that He has no power over Yahusha's elect who are into the transition of the New Creation Order in an ascension mode in Mashiyach! Only those occupied in the old letter and elements of the Torah of sin and death are in the chaos of the depths of Sheol as they are reserved for the second death.
This deception is shown as gathering of Gomer and Magog against the camp of the saints as written with his loosing after 1000 years.
Re 20:8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gomer and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
The word translated as beast is the Hebrew word 'chayah' which means 'living creature'. This living creature will rise up from 'deep well' is mentioned to be the 8th of the 7.
Re 17:8 The living creature that thou sawest was and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition....
Re 17:11 And the living creature that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
Compare the above passages to what we read at the beginning of this study.
Revelation 20:1-3 It was Satan who was put in the deep well though John doesn't metion 'well' (Hebrew: baar and Greek: phrear) in the Rev 20 text. We can see the usage of this in Rev 9 where the locusts are let loose from the 'well of the deep' translated as 'bottomless pit'.
Rev20:1 Then I saw a messenger coming down from the heavens,
having the key of the abyss and a great (Hebrew: גדול gadol Greek: megas G3173) chain (Hebrew: kebel כבל H3525, Greek: halusis G254) in his hand.
Hebrew word 'gadol' H1419 means 'great/large/loud/exceeding/do great things.'
Greek word 'megas' G3173 means 'great/loud/high/large/exceeding/mighty/strong'
Hebrew word 'kebel' H3525 means 'fetters'
Greek word 'halusis' G254 means 'chain'
Hence, the imagery is of Shatan bound with a great chain/fetter is figurative & the word bound 'Greek: deo' means 'tied' but doesn't describe what he is tied to. The Hebrew: 'asar' means 'decree'. The Abary word used for bind in Revelation 20:2 is 'yasaru' & translated as 'bound'. It actually shows he is tied to a decree i.e. the old letter leading to death, and the elect are freed from the letter by the Ruach of Mashiyach.
The Greek word used is 'deo' G1210 and translated as 'bound/tied/knit/wrap' & has root words 'dei' G1163 which means 'must/ought/should/need & 'deo' is rooted in 'deomai' G1189 which means 'beseech/pray/request.'
The binding is as per Torah of the law of the husband as long as He lives as translated in Romans 7:2 & the root words show that ' it was a must petition'. It shows that Shatan is classified as being bound to the 'Torah of the husband alive' principle which we now realize is the 'Yahuah only' doctrine and obscures people in deception in not seeing how Yahuah transitioned to being the husband Yahusha who died for His wife in freeing her from this 'Torah of the living husband' as she was divorced. He is restricted from deceiving the elect as only the elect understands the mystery of the Torah of the living husband who died and remarried her in the new creation order.
Rom7:2 For the married woman has bound/G1210 'deo' by the Torah to her husband while he is living,
but if her husband dies, she is released/G2673 katargeo: ceased from the Torah of her husband.
Without a permission being given he is restrained/confined by decree/asar to not harm. It was a must petition as per decree which Yahusha prayed for His elect, that none should be lost. He is unrestrained to go to the four corners of the earth to gather Gomer and Magog. Gomer and Magog are seed of Yapeth.
The words 'deep well' give us a picture of shatan being at the source of the spring water which comes into the well, he is at the roots.
Rev 20: 1-3 And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless תְּהוֹם and a great chain in his hand. [2] And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Shatan, and bound him a thousand years,
What happens in Rev 17 and Rev 20 is the final outcome and if we can see and understand this, we are very close to the end.
Re 17:9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
The seven mountains are the 'shemitah' i.e. seven feasts/shabbat/seven assemblies where the whore sits profaning his feasts, shabbats and his assemblies as a kingdom sitting within.
Shatan has a motive, and his motive is to rule and get all people in rebellion against Alahym and he displayed his motive when he influenced people on earth to build Mystery Babylon. Shatan's motive of Mystery Babylon was confined or restrained by Alahym when Alahym dispersed them by confusing their language.
Ge 11:6 And YAHUAH said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained (Greek Septuagint: katechon) from them, which they have imagined to do.
7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
8 So YAHUAH scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
Shaul (Paul) speaks about this withholding in 2 Thess 2. He speaks of the mystery of iniquity which was already at work but confined/withheld. The Greek word translated as 'restrained' in Greek Septuagint in Gen 11:6 and 2Th 2:6 is the same.
2Th 2:6 And now ye know what withholdeth (Greek: G2722 katecho means hold back) that he might be revealed in his time.
7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
The deceiving is related to the guym/gentiles i.e. the 12 tribes who are scattered to the ends of the earth. The pagan guym are already in the deep darkness. His kingdom of Mystery Babylon is to make the whore sit within the kingdom of the hashamayam/heaven and be confined to a little season.
In a vision ZecharYah sees the 'Spiritual wickedness' sent to Shinar (Babylon) where there is a place prepared for her. This woman which he saw in the ephah (offering) was shut up/withheld with a weight of lead on the mouth of the flying roll. The ephah was an OT measure used in OT flour and manchah offerings. This shows the whore sits within the carnal pattern which Yahuah has forsaken and Shatan tied to it, Yahuah is giving us the eyes to see within as Mystery Babylon relates to Yasharal and not pagan gentiles who were never in the covenant with Yahuah in the first place.
Zechariah 5:8 And he said, this is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.
Zec 5:11 And he said unto me, To build it a house in the land of Shinar (Shinar is in Babylon): and it shall be established and set there upon her own base.
The bottom less pit/Deep Well, chains of darkness is imagery of this confinement. This confinement was until the 7 times i.e. the times of transition to the completeness of Mashiyach from carnal Torah through the judgments that came on the people of Yahuah for their disobedience.
The Alaph shanah/Thousand years:
It says Shatan was tied to the decree for 1,000 years.
Alaph Shanah in Abary means thousand years. If you see none of our fathers of faith lived upto 1,000 years. The longest to live was Methuselah for 969 years, still falling short of the alaph shanah i.e. thousand years. Mashiyach is the only one who lives in the power of an endless life.
Methuselah means: His death will bring.
Lamech: From (1) the particle ל (le), to or towards, and (2) the verb מוך (muk), be low. Hence, 'in Humiliation'
Noach means: Rest.
Towards the flood we see the basharah of Yahusha as "His death will bring, In humiliation, Rest!'
2Pe3:5 And they were hidden from their knowledge for their willingness that the heavens
existed by the Word of Elohim and the earth standing out of water and by water,
2Pe3:6 by His hands the world was destroyed,
which has since that been deluged with water of the flood.
2Pe3:7 Even the heavens and the earth, which are before us,
are treasured up by the Word and they are kept for fire, to the day of judgment
and destruction of wicked men.
Rev 1:17 And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead, and He placed His right hand on me, saying, “Do not be afraid, I am the First and the Last,
Rev 1:18 and the living One. And I became dead, and see, I am living forever and ever. Aman. And I possess the keys of Sheol and of death.
Yahusha is the only one to be raised to immortality and attain the alaph shanah... Hence, in Him all elect rule and reign for thousand years/alaph shanah. This is the first resurrection on which the second death has no power.
Revelation 20: 4 - 15:
4. And I saw thrones – and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them – and the lives of those who had been beheaded because of the witness they bore to יהושע and because of the Word of Aluahym, and who did not worship the beast, nor his image, and did not receive his mark upon their foreheads or upon their hands. And they lived and reigned with Mashyach for a thousand years.
5. (And the rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended.) – this is the First Resurrection.
6. Baruk and set-apart is the one having part in the first resurrection. The second death possesses no authority over these, but they shall be priests of Aluahym and of Mashaych, and shall reign with Him a thousand years/alaph shanah.
Col 1:18 says he is the first born from the dead... He brough immortality to light. We are all in hope of the alaph shanah. Shatan was restrained/tied to the old letter for those marked for the alaph shanah/thousand years.
The numbers 10,100 & 1000 speak of completeness. Alaph shanah points to the eternal life in Mashiyach.
Gen 10:2 The sons of Yepheth: Gomer, and Maḡoḡ, and Maḏai, and Yawan, and Tuḇal, and Mesheḵ, and Tiras.
Noach had prophesied that Yapeth would come into the tents of Shem
Gen 9:27 “Let Elohim enlarge Yepheth and let him dwell in the tents of Shĕm. And let Kenaʽan become his servant.”
YashaYahu 66:19-21 speaks of the lost sheep of the house of Yasharal coming back from the lands of the seed of Yapeth. Tubal, Yawan etc. Along with these will come Gomer and Magog who are the fleshly seed encamping against the spiritual seed of Abraham. The qodesh city is not the earthly Yerushalam but the one from above.
Hence, the remainder of the mortals who lived not again until the completion of the alaph shanah has to be understood in the context of Torah.
Rev 20:5 (and the rest of the mortals/(Hebrew: hamathyam, Greek: nekros G3498 and also means mortal) did not come to life until the thousand years/alaph shanah were ended) – this is the first resurrection.
Just as emissary Shaul says, I was alive once without Torah, but when the commandment came, sin became alive, and I died.
Rom 7:9 I was once alive apart from the Turah; but when the commandment came, sin became alive and I died;
The remainder of the mortals/hamathyam or nekros lived not again until the completion of the alaph shanah... Not that they would live but that they would eventually die as the Torah of sin and death would make them fall short of the alaph shanah in Mashiyach. They would come to a realization of life and death. After all they have to also bow the knee to Yahusha ha Mashiyach and confess that Yahusha is Yahuah. Every knee will bow in heaven, on earth and underneath the earth. Yahusha spoke of the outer darkness where people will gnash their teeth when they see Abraham, Yitshaq, Yaaqob in the kingdom while they themselves thrust out.
The First resurrection:
Eph 2:5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Messiah – by favor you have been saved –
6 and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenlies in Messiah יהושע,
Col 1:18 says he is the firstborn from the dead.
18 And He is the Head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that He might become the One who is first in all.
We who are in Mashiyach are partakers of his resurrection and this is the first resurrection on which the second death has no power. In Rom 7:9 the emissary Shaul gives us his description of a prior state of being without Mashiyach. The realization of the danger of second death came from the Torah of sin and death.
Ayob 14:12 and man shall lie down and not rise. Till the heavens are no more, they awake not, nor are aroused from their sleep.
When Yahusha was to raise Alazar from the dead, his sister Martha told Yahusha "I know he shall rise again at the resurrection on the last day".
John 11:23 יהושע said to her, “Your brother shall rise again.”
24 Martha said to Him, “I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”
This is evidence that even Yahudites believed in a single last day resurrection, not two as the Millennium believers believe.
Rev 20:8 and shall come out to deceive the nations/guym which are in the four corners of the earth, Gomer and Magog, to gather them together for the war; of whom the number is like the sand of the sea.
Rev 20:9 And they came up on the wide place of the land/arets and surrounded the camp/machanah of the qodesh people and the beloved city, and fire came down from heaven and devoured them.
When all the elect reserved for alaph shanah /thousand years (symbolic for eternal life in Mashiyach) will be saved, shatan will use those who are 'bound to old decrees' to come against the elect.
Shatan uses the physical seed symbolized by Gomer and Magog who were sons of Yapeth (Gen 10:2). The four corners of the earth are where Yasharal was scattered to be called guym. Along with the elect the tares symbolized by Gomer and Magog come into the broad place (the ends of the land) and surround the elect. It also says their number was as the sand of the sea. This reminds me of Abraham who was shown his seed to be as the sand of the sea and stars of the sky.
The sand of the sea stands symbolic of carnal seed whereas the stars the spiritual seed. There are many parables showing the tares sit within the kingdom... Parable of wheat and tares, parable of the mustard seed which grew up to be a huge tree in which the fowls made its nests in it. The fowls being unclean creatures, the woman who mixed leaven in three measures of meal until all was leavened, leaven stands for sin, parable of wise and foolish virgins etc all show Shatan sowing the carnal seed within the kingdom. He is restrained from deceiving the elect. We already see these signs as many are falling for fleshly things (elements of Torah) as seen on social media. They sacrifice goats on Pesach, build sukkahs in their backyard during feasts of Tabernacles, there are also those who rent out sukkahs, yet there are those who only see Yahusha as a sacrificial Lamb & don't believe in His Divinity, celebrate feasts in pagan lands etc. These are signs of the spiritual warfare we are in as we try to expose dark things. There are also scriptures showing the child playing besides the cobra's hole, the lion and the lamb sitting beside each other etc. and in all the qodesh mountain they will not harm.
These scriptures are tied to Millennium rule by a carnal mind, whereas these scriptures show us exactly as the parables show us of Shatan's unclean people seated within the kingdom Symbolized by Gomer and Magog /Mystery Babylon and with Mashiyach as the Rod coming forth from the stump of Yishai where his people are protected at the root, because that's where he comes from.
Isa 11:1 And a Rod shall come forth from the stump of Yishai, and a Sprout from his roots shall bear fruit.
Isa 11:2 The Ruach of יהוה shall rest upon Him – the Ruach of wisdom and understanding, the Ruach of counsel and might, the Ruach of knowledge and of the fear of יהוה,
Isa 11:3 and shall make Him breathe in the fear of יהוה. And He shall not judge by the sight of His eyes, nor decide by the hearing of His ears.
Isa 11:4 But with righteousness He shall judge the poor and shall decide with straightness for the meek ones of the earth and shall smite the earth with the rod of His mouth and slay the wrong with the breath of His lips.
Isa 11:5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of His loins, and trustworthiness the girdle of His waist.
Isa 11:6 And a wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and a leopard lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together, and a little child leads them.
Isa 11:7 And cow and bear shall feed, their young ones lie down together, and a lion eat straw like an ox.
Isa 11:8 And the nursing child shall play by the cobra’s hole, and the weaned child shall put his hand in the adder’s den.
Isa 11:9 They do no evil nor destroy in all My set-apart mountain, for the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of יהוה as the waters cover the sea.
Isa 11:10 And in that day there shall be a Root of Yishai, standing as a banner to the people. Unto Him the gentiles shall seek, and His rest shall be esteem.
Isa 11:11 And it shall be in that day that יהוה sets His hand again a second time to recover the remnant of His people who are left, from Ashshur and from Mitsrayim, from Pathros and from Kush, from Ěylam and from Shinʽar, from Ḥamath and from the islands of the sea.
Isa 11:12 And He shall raise a banner for the nations, and gather the outcasts of Yisra’ĕl, and assemble the dispersed of Yahuḏah from the four corners of the earth.
Now to understand the spiritual imagery of the kingdom of Babylon we must see when the kingdom of MYSTERY BABYLON actually sprang up and how Alahym suppressed the head of the kingdom to be revealed in its spiritual significance.
Ge 10:9 He was a mighty hunter before YAHUAH: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before YAHUAH.
10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Ge 11:2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
5 ¶ And YAHUAH came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
6 And YAHUAH said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
8 So YAHUAH scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
When man's wickedness increased once again after Alahym destroyed the whole earth in the days of Noah, the depraved man (the fathers who journeyed from the east of Eden) under the influence of Shatan planned to build the BABYLONIAN kingdom so that the city would reach heaven, Alahym confused the language of men and scattered them because the transgressors were not come to the full, the kingdom would be manifest towards the end when Yahuah would separate the wheat from the tares, the wise virgins from the foolish, the sheep from the goats.
Da 8:23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.
The transgressors were not come to the full yet because Alahym would determine when this would be and it's only known to him, but he has not left us in a vacuum but has given us signs of the times to realize when this happens. The same language is used in Gen 15:16 when Abaraham's seed would inherit the promised land.
Gen15:16 Then in the fourth generation they shall return here,
for the iniquity of the Emorite is not yet complete until now.
The vision of Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel 4-let's look at this part of the verse closely:
Da 4:23 And whereas the king saw a watcher and a qodesh one coming down from heaven, and saying, Hew the tree down, and destroy it; yet leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the living ones/חֵיוָא H2423 of the field, till seven times pass over him;
MYSTERY BABYLON manifested after the flood but was suppressed/restrained/confined, for the time of the transgressors was not come to the full yet.
Re 17:11 And the living creature that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
Re 17:2 With whom (Mystery Babylon) the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
It's the wise virgins whom Alahym calls out of MYSTERY BABYLON while the foolish continue to buy and sell her merchandise.
Re 18:4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
Mt 25:10 And while they (foolish virgins) went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.
Re 18:9 ¶ And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
The wise virgins hear the midnight cry and come out of their slumber as Alahym works it for their good in separating the wheat and the tares and they realize their state of fornicating with Mystery Babylon.
Now when we look at the part of the verse of Daniel 4:23 '.....and let his portion be with the living ones/chayua חֵיוָא H2423 of the field.'
The word chayua חֵיוָא H2423 comes from the root word H2418 חֲיָה chayah which means living. This same word we find in the book of Revelation which they translated it as 'beast'. In Abary the word for beast is 'bahamah' בְּהֵמָה H929. The word 'chayah' which means 'living' is used as an imagery for the one claiming they are alive to the Torah but are actually part of the Mystery Babylonian kingdom as they have gone back to the fleshly elements of Torah of sin and death. They are living with the Torah of the living husband (the Yahuah only doctrine) without realizing that they are divorced and that Yahuah has moved on in transition to become Yahusha & so did the carnal commands transition to the spiritual. The place He left behind i.e. the physical temple, its altar, its sacrifices, its priesthood, its elements, its shemitah, its feasts, shabbaths, its ordinances & commands etc was handed over to Shatan to occupy.
We understand that Mystery Babylon was suppressed/restrained/confined but its portion was with all the living ones on earth signifying the ones claiming they are alive to Yahuah by observing the Torah of sin and death in its physical ordinances.
Rev17:10 and they are seven kings; five of them have fallen, there is one,
the other has not yet come (Greek erchomai G2064); and it comes to pass when he arrives (Greek: erchomai G2064 Hebrew: yabo), needs (Greek: dei) to remain.
Re 17:11 And the living creature (Greek: therion G2342) WHICH WAS (ho en kai) AND IS NOT (ouk estin), even he is the eighth/ שְׁמִינִי shamaynay, and is kind of/man H4480 of the seven/שִׁבְעָה shabah, and goeth into perdition/ (Hebrew: abadun, Greek: apoleian).
Four times in the book of Revelation i.e. Rev 1:4, Rev 1:8, Rev 4:8 & Rev 11:17 Alahym is magnified with the term in English translated as “who is, who was and who has arrived (Hebrew: yabo, Greek: erchomai)”
‘Ho own kai ho en kai ho erchomenos ‘should be correctly translated as ‘Which is, which was and where he arrives to.’
It shows the body movement to the arrival destination which acknowledges His former estate as 'Yahuah'
The 7 kings mentioned are related to the kingdoms of Shatan within Yasharal to persecute him and bring him to captivity while Yasharal was in the sacrificial system. When Yahuchanan/John was alive Rome ruled which was the 6th kingdom it was time for a manifestation again of the carnal system because he says and is not (because the temple was brought down by Romans when John wrote Revelation). The living creature (Greek; therion G2342) which is also translated as 'beast' in Heb 12:20 referring to a living beast as in herds shepherded by Yasharal. The context being, if any of even their sacrificial animal touches mount Sinai should be killed.
Heb12:20 For they could not bear what is commanded, if even a beast (Greek; therion G2342) touches
the mountain, it shall be stoned with a stone or shot through with an arrow.
The picture is of the living creature which was (ho en kai) of the seven who had not yet arrived (Greek: erchomai) is the eighth of the seven, showing us that it is part of the carnal system though it comes as the eighth. The number eight in Hebrew comes from the root word 'shemen' which means 'oil' as in anointing. Also, he comes imitating Yahusha because those in 'Yahuah only' doctrine acknowledge Yahusha to be the Lamb & see Him distinct being who is created but not Yahuah who has transitioned in the new creation order. In simple words, they arrived (erchomai) with the living creature who is of the seventh i.e. the living creature of a sacrificial animal and that's what they see Yahusha as only. It is very important to introspect as to where you have arrived at. If you have arrived at the 'Yahuah only' doctrine, you are tied to hashatan and lost because Yahusha said "Unless you believe I am He, you will die in your sins". (John 8:24).
Even when they were about to go into captivity there are those who still kept these elements of the old letter without realizing their desolation as the false prophets preached to them Shalum, Shalum when there was no Shalum.
Jer 6:14 “And they heal the breach of My people slightly, saying, ‘Peace/shalum, peace/shalum,’ when there is no peace/shalum.
Jer 6:15 Were they ashamed when they had done abomination? No! They were not at all ashamed, nor did they know how to blush. Therefore, they shall fall among those who fall. They shall stumble at the time I visit them,” said יהוה.
The prophet YarmaYahu was sent to Yahudah just before the captivity of Babylon, to warn them of their abominations. But the king, the nobles and the people did not heed the warnings he gave them through the dabar of Yahuah but heeded the false prophets who tried to heal the breach of the people by preaching shalum when there was no shalum.
Coming back to the living creature remained dormant within the kingdom of the hashamayam as the tares, wolves, lion, wolf doing no harm and hence HE WAS but now HE IS NOT. Yahuchanan further gives us information that he is the eighth and is kind of the seven and goes into abadun/perdition.
The word for eight in Abary is שְׁמֹנָה 'shamanah' and eighth is שְׁמִינִי shmaynay and comes from the word שֶׁמֶן H8081 shaman which means 'oil/anointing/fat'. The living creature who was and is not kind of the seven/שִׁבְעָה shabah i.e. he comes in the likeness of the seven showing a false obedience to Yahuah's Torah but is actually going into perdition/abadun or .
Yahudah Iscariot a disciple of Yahusha who betrayed him sat within the 12 emissaries, Yahusha called him Son of Perdition (Ban ha Abadun).
Before we see the 'Ban ha abadun' i.e. the son of perdition let's look up John 4. The same word is used for Yaaqob's well where the word 'well' is from the Hebrew 'baar' and Greek 'phrear'.
John4:11 The woman said to Him, “My master, You do not have a vessel
in which to draw it, and the well (Hebrew :baar באר Greek: phrear G5421) is deep. So where shall You get living water?”
John4:12 “Are You greater than our father Yaaqob who gave us this well,
and from which he and his sons and his cattle drank?”
The Samaritan woman was an outcast of Yasharal as Samaritans were looked down upon by the Yahudim. They did not associate with the Yerushalayim worship principle model and worshipped on mount Gerazim. Here was Yahusha encountering the woman at Yaaqob's well and offered her the living waters to drink. This woman had 5 husbands where number 5 speaks of Torah and the one she was living with (6th) was not her husband.
John4:16 Yahusha said to her, “Go, call your husband and come back here.”
John4:17 The woman answered and said, “I have no husband.”
Yahusha said to her, “You have rightly spoken, ‘I have no husband.’”
John4:18 “For you have had five husbands, and the one
whom you have now is not your husband. Thus, the statement that you spoke is true.”
A deep well of life (baar/phrear) was waiting for her while she was looking at ancestral hertigae carnal well to quench her thirst. Compare this womans find of the True Messiah with John speaking of carnal Yasharal where he speaks of 7 kings where 5 have fallen, the one is (6th), and the other one is yet to come (7th) and he is eighth of the seven. (Rev 17:10-11).
This woman had 5 husbands and the sixth one she was living with was not her husband and here she meets the true husband and maker who is the 7th one who TRANSITIONED IN THE NEW CREATION ORDER and He represents the true OIL/SHEMEN i.e. the 8th. She arrived safely into Yahusha being the true husband and maker. The same language in contrast is seen showing us which side we need to be on.
Joh 17:12 “When I was with them in the world, I was guarding them in Your Name which You have given Me, and I watched over them, and not one of them perished except the son of perdition (Hebrew: abadun, Greek: G684 apoleia), that the Scripture might be filled.
Rev9:11 And they have a king over them, the messenger of the abyss, whose name
in Ibrith (Hebrew) is Abaddon, and in Yuanith (Greek) he has the name Apolluon G623
G684 'apoleia' is a derivative of 'Apolluon' G623 where 'apoleia' means 'perdition/destruction' whereas 'Apolluon' means 'a destroyer.'
Shaul the emissary speaks of the falling away and the Man of sin who will be revealed, who is the ban ha abadun/son of perdition who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called Alahym so that he sits as Alahym in the Dwelling Place of Alahym. People interpret these passages fleshly speaking of an anti mashiyach coming with a new world order (one world government) and will sit in Yarashalam as Alahym in the temple.
2Th 2:3 Let no one deceive you in any way, because the falling away is to come first, and the man of sin/khatah is to be revealed, the son of perdition (Hebrew: abadun, Greek: apoleia G684)
2Th 2:4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called Elohim or that is worshipped, so that he sits as Elohim in the Dwelling Place of Elohim, showing himself that he is Elohim.
When Yahusha said not one stone will be left upon another, and scripture teaches the stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone, we see that the body of Mashiyach is spiritual and we are the temple of the Ruach ha Qodesh, there is no way that there could be a physical temple in Yerushalayim which would be called the temple of Yahuah where the anti mashiyach would sit on a throne.
1Co 3:16 Do you not know that you are a Dwelling Place of Elohim and that the Spirit/Ruach of Elohim dwells in you?
1Co 3:17 If anyone destroys the Dwelling Place of Elohim, Elohim shall destroy him. For the Dwelling Place of Elohim is set-apart, which you are.
2Co 6:16 And what union has the Dwelling Place of Elohim with idols? For you are a Dwelling Place of the living Elohim, as Elohim has said, “I shall dwell in them and walk among them, and I shall be their Elohim, and they shall be My people.”
The falling away happens within the body of Mashiyach as we see in the parables that the wheat come in with the tares, the wise virgins come along with the foolish, the fowls make their nests in the huge tree which grew off a mustard seed etc.
Shaul further tells us of the restraining/confinement and the revealing of this son of perdition/ban ha abadun or apoleia in his time. Scriptures are harmonious as Shaul the emissary further tells us that the mystery of lawlessness is already at work i.e. indicating the tares are already within and are restrained/remain dormant until hashatan takes over completely and that is the picture we see in Rev 20.
2Th 2:6 And you know what restrains him now, so that he shall be revealed in his time.
2Th 2:7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work;
only he who now restrains shall do so until he is taken out of the way
The dabar of Alahym is written line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little and hence, when a singular 'MAN OF SIN' is used it doesn't mean it's one man but a category/man H4880 or kind of or species that they are all lumped to, as in the previous captivities, for their ruler is one and he is shatan who is confined by decree for 1,000 years i.e. the alaph shanah which the elect rule with Mashiyach and the rest of the mortals/hamathayam live not until the 1,000 years i.e. all those not marked for the eternal rest in Mashiyach don't arrive in Yahusha.
Alahym allowed MYSTERY BABYLON to remain confined within His kingdom until it will be revealed at the end. If you are able to understand this, this shows we are at the very end as many have risen up taking the name of Yahuah and Yahusha but are drinking the wine of Yahudism by going back to the old letter. This is what Nebuchadnezzar's dream meant when it says 'leave the stump of his roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass' because Alahym allowed Mystery Babylon to continue spiritually within
Da 4:15 Nevertheless leave the stump of his roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth:
'IRON AND BRASS' is symbolic of STRENGTH. Here are a few examples from Alahym's word:
De 33:24 And of Asher he said, Let Asher be blessed with children; let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil. 25 Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.
De 8:9 A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
Job 40:18 His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.
Ps 107:16 For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.
Jer 6:28 They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.
MYSTERY BABYLON was allowed as a stump in the earth with a band of iron and brass which shows that the strength of Satan's rule is within but bound until the end. After all he desired to rule above the stars of AL.
Isa 14:12 “How you have fallen from the heavens, O Hĕlĕl, son of the morning! You have been cut down to the ground, you who laid low the gentiles/guy H1471!
Isa 14:13 “For you have said in your heart, ‘Let me go up to the heavens, let me raise my throne above the stars of Ěl, and let me sit in the mount of meeting on the sides of the north;
Isa 14:14 let me go up above the heights of the clouds, let me be like the Most High.’
The stars of AL/Alahym are the elect and what is on the sides of the north as stated in YashaYahu/Isaiah 14:13?
Psa 48:2 Pretty on high, The joy of all the earth, Is Mount Tsiyon on the sides of the north, The city of the great Sovereign.
Psa 48:3 Elohim is in her citadels; He is known as her refuge.
The gentiles shatan lays low are the lost sheep of the house of Yasharal who are scattered to the ends of the earth. Some translations say YashaYahu 14:12 '.... you who weakened the nations (tribes of Yasharal in dispersion)'
The dispersion of Yasharal and Yahudah was because of their rebellion towards Yahuah and day and night Yahuah sent our fathers nebim/prophets but they would not heed the voice of Yahuah. Hence, by driving them into captivity with a certificate of divorce, He caused their new moons, appointed times and shabbats to cease.
2Ch 36:20 And those who escaped from the sword he exiled to Baḇel, where they became servants to him and his sons until the reign of the reign of Persia,
2Ch 36:21 in order to fill the word of יהוה by the mouth of Yirmeyahu, until the land had enjoyed her Sabbaths. As long as she lay waste she kept Sabbath, until seventy years were completed.
Pslams 137 is a beautiful depiction of the captivity in Babylon where the captors asked Yahudites to sing one of the songs of Tsyion. The Psalmist records ''How could we sing the song of Yahuah on foreign soil?''
Psa 137:1 By the rivers of Baḇel, there we sat down, and we wept as we remembered Tsiyon.
Psa 137:2 We hung our lyres Upon the willows in the midst of it.
Psa 137:3 For there our captors Asked us for the words of a song, And our plunderers for rejoicing, saying, “Sing to us a song of Tsiyon!”
Psa 137:4 How could we sing the song of יהוה On foreign soil?
Rev 9:
Rev 9:2 And he opened the deep well (Greek: to phrear tes abyssou), and smoke went up out of the well, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke of the well.
Rev 9:3 And out of the smoke came locusts (Hebrew: arbah H687) upon the earth, and power was given them, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
Rev 9:4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but only the men who do not have the seal of the Elohim on their foreheads.
The messenger opened the 'deep well' and there came smoke which obscured the sun and the air, and out of this smoke came the arbah/locusts afflicting those not sealed with the seal of Aluahym.
The arbah H697 locusts have the root word 'arab' which means ambush/lie in wait H693/H695/H696.
And their affliction is for those not having the seal of Alahym (Rev 9:4)
They were given power to torment 5 months (Rev 9:5). This won't make sense unless we understand the Hebrew concept of a 'new moon' which is the word 'chadash' When the moon has made a complete cycle as the Yahudim believe, the first silver of the moon is considered as a 'new month' for which the word is 'Chadash'.
The same word is translated many times as 'New'. The Hebrew roots movement only sees this word to mean 'renew' because the 'Old letter' is defined by them as a 'Renewed covenant'.
When it comes to following Mashiyach we see that He is the One who takes us into the 'Day of Yahuah' as He has many title names as 'Star of Yaaqob, Bright and Morning Star, Day Star' and we are termed as 'children of the Day' by Shaul in 1 Thess 5:5
1Th5:5 For you are all of them, sons of light and sons of day.
We are not of the sons of night nor of darkness;
Remember 'arbah/locusts' are clean creatures and we have Matt 3:4 recording Yahuchanan the Immerser eating locusts as food. The same terminology is used in Rev 9, that these 'ambushers/arab' i.e. the root word for 'locusts' H693/H695/H696 coming as 'clean' in Torah & tormenting those not having the seal of Alahym for 5 chadash/renewals where they are in a progression of a carnal Shemitah in a repetitive cycle, number 5 speaks of Torah.
Rev9:10 And they have tails (Hebrew: zanab זנב, Greek: oura G3769) like the tails (Hebrew: zanab זנב, Greek: oura G3769) of scorpions, and stings.
And in their tails (Hebrew: zanab זנב, Greek: oura G3769) is their authority to harm the sons of men for five months.
Isa9:14 Therefore Yahuah cuts off from Yisra’El head and tail (Hebrew: zanab זנב H2150, Greek Septuagint: oura) , branch
and rush in one day.
Isa9:15 The elder and the lifted of faces is the head,
and the prophet who teaches falsehood is the tail (Hebrew: zanab זנב H2150, Greek Septuagint: oura) .
The false prophets are the 'tail' and the same can be seen in Shatan drawing the stars down with his tail.
Rev12:4 And his (dragon's) tail (Hebrew: zanab זנב, Greek: oura G3769) dragged a third of the stars of the heavens and threw them
to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth,
so that when she gave birth he might devour her child.
The ban Abaddon is the man of sin (2 Thess 2) like Yahudah Aysh-Qariyuth comes as one of the twelve apostles & from a tribe i.e. Yahudah from where our Master Yahusha sprang forth and this son of perdition sits in the temple of Aluahym deceiving people. Our Master Yahusha sprang (tsemach) forth from the DOOR and is Yahu D ( ד ) ah –Yahuah come in the flesh. Anyone who denies that Yahusha is come in the flesh is anti-mashiyach.
Acts 1:16 Men and brethren, this Scripture must be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit foretold by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Yahusha.
Acts 1:17 For he was counted among us and received his share in this ministry.
Acts 1:18 Now this man acquired a field with the price of his wickedness, and falling headlong, he burst open in the middle and all his intestines gushed out.
Acts 1:19 And it became known to all who were living in Yerushalam; so that in their own language that field was called chaqal dam, that is, Field of Blood.
Matt 27:5 And he threw the pieces of silver into the temple sanctuary and departed; and he went away and hanged himself.
Yahudah (hung himself) and whilst he hung himself his bowels burst open and his intestines gushed forth. The opening in the middle cannot be a coincidence can it? Where did our Master spring forth from Yahu D ( ד ) ah and the judgment of the counterfeit Yahudah posing as one of the twelve fell head long and BURST OPEN IN THE MIDDLE. The ban ha abadon will be judged in the doorway and will never get to Yahusha's true identity as the elect see Him as Yahuah transitioned to the new creation order.
Re 9:7 And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.
8 And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.
We see Paul saying in 1Corin 11:14-15 that if a man has long hair, it is a shame unto him, and the hair is given to the WOMAN AS A COVERING.
1Co 11:14 Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man has long hair, it is a shame unto him?
15 But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.
Here we see these locusts having face of man and long hair of woman. What does this show us? In spiritual comparison it shows that the WOMAN INSTEAD OF BEING UNDER THE COVERING OF HER HUSBAND IS TRYING TO BE THE MAN and this is exactly what Satan and his evil spirits are doing by distorting the 'HEADSHIP' of Mashiyach.
Isa 4:1 ¶ And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.
Satan is causing the woman to do harlotry by making her take the name of her 'ISHI' (husband) in vain but eating her own bread (gospel). This Woman outside of Messiah is 'MYSTERY BABYLON THE MOTHER OF ALL HARLOTS'. The Woman was designed by Alahym to be hid in her Man Messiah Yahusha, to be his help meet but Satan has been working in deceiving her to find her identity outside of Messiah resulting in her being identified as the 'WHORE'
My prayer is that all readers understand this and flee Mystery Babylon and turn to the living Alahym so that none of you partake of the plagues of Mystery Babylon. The time is short and we are very close to the coming of Messiah.
