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LAY; on the contrary, in the days of the sound from the seventh angel when he sounds his
shofar [trumpet], THE HIDDEN PLAN OF GOD WILL BE BROUGHT TO COMPLE-
TION, the Good News as he proclaimed it to his servants the prophets.

This passage pictures the return of Christ -- NOT Revelation 19! The book of Acts in the
New Testament verifies this, if we care to read it carefully:

And after he [Christ] said these things, while they [the apostles] were looking on, he was
lifted up and A CLOUD CAUGHT HIM UP FROM THEIR VISION. And as they were
gazing into the sky while he was on his way, also, look! two men in white garments stood
alongside them, and they said: "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky?
This Jesus who was received up from you into the sky WILL COME THUS IN THE SAME
MANNER AS YOU HAVE BEHELD HIM GOING INTO THE SKY (The Kingdom
Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures).

Now HOW did Christ go up into the sky? Was He on a white horse? No! Did He have the
armies of heaven with Him? No! Was His robe soaked in blood and was He wearing MANY
crowns? No! The simple truth is that "a cloud caught Him up from their [the Apostles] vision" as
He was lifted up into the sky, and Revelation 10:1-7 shows Him RETURNING THE EXACT
SAME WAY with one difference -- this time He is wearing the crown of rulership and bringing
the saints with Him!

Daniel 7:13 records Yeshua receiving this crown of rulership -- notice:

I was watching in the night visions, and behold, One like the Son of Man [Yeshua], coming
WITH THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN! He came to the Ancient of Days [YEHOVAH,
YHVH], and they brought Him near before Him. Then to Him [Yeshua] was given
DOMINION AND GLORY AND A KINGDOM, that all peoples, nations, and languages
should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away,
and His kingdom the one which shall not be destroyed.

This vision belongs to the period of the sixth trumpet -- as appears by two facts:

1) The ending of the period of the sixth trumpet is clearly marked by the words of Chapter 11:14,
"The second woe has passed; see, the third woe is coming quickly."

2) The Angel of this vision speaks of "the days of the sound from the seventh angel when he
sounds his shofar [trumpet]," as being future at that time, which makes it certain that this vision
was in the era of the sixth trumpet. It is important to understand this.

This mighty Angel is a symbolic representation of Yeshua the Messiah himself. For every-
thing that is said to characterize this Angel could only pertain to Yeshua. Not only that, but the very
actions of the Angel belong only to Yeshua. Notes Dr. Hengstenberg: "The planting of the right
foot on the sea, and the other on the earth, as certainly belongs to Christ alone, as it is to Him and
not to any angel that God has put in subjection the world to come (Hebrews 2:5)."

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