"Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number." Numbering stars as with names being written in the book of life are not to be taken literally but owes to His holiness. "To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One." (Is.40: 25-26). Compare this with another passage in the same chapter, "Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?" The Kingdom of God and of his dear Son are set in numbers, quantities,- linear or volumetric measurements are determined by the Law or the Word. So this single standard can be determined by the Man, the Word become flesh.
In the Vision the v.5 divides the narrative,- and rapture serves as the turning point for the church. "Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them" (v.12) The cloud of witnesses have reason to rejoice. They are reconciled with saints redeemed from the earth. On the other hand it is woe to ye for the left out church, "inhabitants" as in the verse, "Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time."
v.13 marks the great tribulation, of which Jesus also corroborates,"And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened."(Matt.24:22). "But for the elect's sake" tells us that rapture comes in series. This has to do with the woman for whom God has prepared a place, And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent."(v.14)
"Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number." Numbering stars as with names being written in the book of life are not to be taken literally but owes to His holiness. "To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One." (Is.40: 25-26). Compare this with another passage in the same chapter, "Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?" The Kingdom of God and of his dear Son are set in numbers, quantities,- linear or volumetric measurements are determined by the Law or the Word. So this single standard can be determined by the Man, the Word become flesh.
In the Vision the v.5 divides the narrative,- and rapture serves as the turning point for the church. "Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them" (v.12) The cloud of witnesses have reason to rejoice. They are reconciled with saints redeemed from the earth. On the other hand it is woe to ye for the left out church, "inhabitants" as in the verse, "Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time."
v.13 marks the great tribulation, of which Jesus also corroborates,"And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened."(Matt.24:22). "But for the elect's sake" tells us that rapture comes in series. This has to do with the woman for whom God has prepared a place, And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent."(v.14)
"Two wings of a great eagle" Ps.91:1;Ex.19:4
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