Jesus the avenger of blood, spotlighting the differences between Christ’s first and second advents
By Scott Lively Published August 7, 2023 at 7:23pm
“He’s not a baby in a manger anymore, He’s not a broken man on a cross. He didn’t stay in the grave, and He’s not staying in Heaven forever … People get ready, Jesus is coming!”
– “People Get Ready!” Misty Edwards, Forerunner Music (2007)
One of the important milestones in my maturation as a Christian was hearing the prophetic worship song “People Get Ready!” by Misty Edwards about a dozen years ago. I didn’t hear the whole song but only a short clip running from approximately 3:28 to 5:40. In the vernacular of the Hippie generation in which I came of age, it “blew my mind.” That two minutes of prophetic music completely transformed my perspective on the second coming of Christ from a merely abstract theological concept to a stark, looming reality, and it changed the image of Him in my heart and mind from the soft and gentle Jesus of the first advent to the image John painted of Jesus in Revelation 19:11-21:
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Then I saw heaven standing (7) open, and there before me was a (7) white horse. And its rider is called (7) Faithful and True. With righteousness He judges (7) and wages war. He has eyes like (7) blazing fire, and many royal crowns on (7) His head. He has a name written (7) on Him that only He Himself knows. He is dressed in a (7) robe dipped in blood, and His name (7) is The Word of God. The armies (7) of heaven, dressed in fine linen, white (7) and pure, follow Him on white horses. And (7) from His mouth proceeds a sharp sword (7) with which to strike down the nations, and He (7) will rule them with an iron scepter. (7) He treads the winepress of the fury (7) of the wrath of God the Almighty. And He has a name written (7) on His robe and on His thigh: (7) King of King and Lord of Lords.
(777777777777777777) 7 x 18. (18 = 6+6+6). God/Jesus is (7) sending his ‘wrath’ upon the BEAST SYSTEM, (6) (Antichrist, False Prophet, Evil Man’kind / Nations). Six (6) is (6) the ‘number’ of ‘man’ or ‘man’kind. (666)
Then I (7) saw an angel standing in the sun, (7) and he cried out in a loud (7) voice to all the birds flying overhead, (7) “Come, gather together for the great supper (7) of God, so that you may eat (7) the flesh of kings and commanders and (7) mighty men, of horses and riders, of (7) everyone slave and free, small and great.” Then (7) I saw the beast and the kings (7) of the earth with their armies assembled (7) to wage war against the One seated (7) on the horse, and against His army.
(777777777777) 12×7. ‘12’ is God’s (7) Divine Number of his Governance/Government on/of Earth.
But the beast was (6) captured along with the false prophet, (6) who on its behalf had performed (6) signs deceiving those who had the (6) mark of the beast and worshiped (6) its image. Both the beast and (6) the false prophet were thrown alive (666)
(7) into the fiery lake of burning sulfur. (6) And the rest were killed with (7) the sword that proceeded from the mouth (7) of the One seated on the horse. And all (7) the birds gorged themselves on their flesh. (7777)
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John’s word-portrait reveals the Jesus (7) of the second advent as a man (7) of war, and the avenger of blood. (7) In it, His long-suffering tolerance for wickedness, (7) in the hope all people would repent (2 Peter 3:9), has ended, (7) and His wrath against those who have (7) chosen to remain His enemies despite all (7) the many chances He has given them (7) is finally poured out on the earth. (6) Just as the “wheat” (the righteous) (7) were harvested and glorified to become part (7) of the Heavenly Host attending His return, so (7) are the “grapes” (the wicked) now harvested and (7) crushed in the Winepress of God’s Wrath.
(777777777777) 12×7. ‘12’ is God’s (7) Divine Number of his Governance/Government on/of Earth.
Ever since I heard that song, the focus of my biblical worldview – in terms of what it means to be “Christlike” – has been forward looking and not backward, and I have felt strong vindication from the Lord in my career as a culture warrior. I have also largely abandoned the expectation that human efforts would solve the crisis of the world if we just stayed pure in our hearts and fought harder on the battlefield. Prophecy had come alive to me a few years before I heard the Edwards song, but my sense that His return would be sooner than later was sharpened, and, of course, events over this past decade have strongly strengthened that view. I fight to win anyhow – because it’s simply our duty always to be salt and light against the spread of corruption – but I know He is coming back soon when all these battles will be moot.
For the past year my wife and I have livestreamed our weekly Freestyle Bible Study on Sunday afternoons. (Subscribe here to get the link on Sunday mornings. Our archive of past studies is on Rumble.) We go chapter by chapter through the Bible, reading and then discussing the text in a conversational manner. We’re in 1 Samuel this month, and for the past two weeks (covering 1 Samuel 18-20) have read and discussed the rise of David the Christ figure in contrast to first Goliath and then King Saul, both of whom are Antichrist figures .
It struck me during these studies that while the church widely acknowledges David as a Christ figure (necessarily so if one has any respect at all for Bible literalism), I had never in my Christian life heard anyone point out that the life and acts of David align with the Jesus of the second advent far more than the first. Both David and the returned (12) Jesus are men of war who unite all 12 tribes under one monarchy. Never in the story of David do we see more than a glimpse of the soft and gentle Jesus of the first advent – and never in the earthly ministry of Jesus the Christ do we see more than a glimpse of the righteously angry avenger David exemplified.
(Consider the call to the birds to come and eat the flesh of the wicked dead killed by the deliverer in both Revelation 19:17-18 and 1 Samuel 17:46 and how totally contrary this seems to the modern Christian concept of Jesus rooted exclusively in first advent portrayals, softened further by secular humanist values.)
Neither do we see the unification of the 12 tribes as a result or aspect of Jesus of the first advent. True, we see members of all 12 tribes united in Christianity, but the tribes themselves remain split between the House of Israel (Christianity) and House of Judah (Judaism) through the entirety of the 2,000-year-long Age of the Gentiles. Indeed, that division (7) defines this age just as the reconciliation (7) of the tribes (Ezekiel 37:15-28) defines the Millennial Kingdom, when Christ (7) will “reign on the throne of David” (Isaiah 9:7; Luke 1:32). (777)
The Millennial Kingdom is showcased in the full chapter of Isaiah 11, where we find in verses 12-13: “He (7) [Christ] will raise a banner for the (7) nations and gather the exiles of Israel; (7) He will collect the scattered of Judah (7) from the four corners of the earth. Then the jealousy of (7) Ephraim [House of Israel] will depart, and the adversaries (7) of Judah [House of Judah] will be cut off.
(777777) 6×7. Six (6) refers the number of man … the House of Judah.
Ephraim will no longer envy Judah, nor will Judah harass Ephraim.” This passage would make no sense if one assumed the Jesus of the first advent had fulfilled this prophecy. No, this prophecy remains unfulfilled – EXCEPT to the extent that (7) the rise of Messianic Judaism (Christ-believing Jews) represents (7) a foreshadowing of what’s soon to come.
(7) I believe the emergence of Messianic Judaism (7) shows we are presently on the cusp (7) of the end of the Gentile Age (7) and the start of the Millennial Kingdom. (7777)
(7) I believe Messianic Judaism will be the (7) religion of the Millennial Kingdom for the (7) humans who repopulate the earth after Armageddon, but is (7) NOT the religion of the Bride of (7) Christ who will rule and reign with (7) Christ (after glorification), no longer needing religion (777777) 6×7. Six (6) refers the number of man … the House of Judah the ‘humans’ who repopulate the Earth..
Importantly, as summarized by Paul in Romans 11, the House of Judah (7) will not repent and accept Christ until (7) the second advent, when the Jesus they (7) see is the David-like “deliverer … from Zion” – (7) and only then will they recognize that (7) He was also “the one they pierced … (6) and they will mourn for Him, (7) like one mourning for an only son” (Zechariah 12:10). (777777) 6×7. Six (6) refers the number of man … the House of Judah.
That time (7) is not far off. People get ready!
But how can (7) they call on him (Jesus Christ) to save (7) them unless they believe in Him (Jesus Christ)? (7) And how can they believe in Him (7) (Jesus Christ) if they have never heard about (7) Him (Jesus Christ)? And how can they hear (7) about Him (Jesus Christ) unless someone tells them?” Romans 10:14 (777777)
In His Service,
Night Watchman
Paul Rolland
Night Watchman Ministries
Make Your (7) Decision for Christ NOW!!!!!!! Time is Up!!!!!!!
Jesus Christ’s Offer of Salvation:
The ABCs (7) of Salvation through Jesus Christ (the Lamb)
A. (7) Admit/Acknowledge/Accept that you are sinner. Ask (7) God’s forgiveness and repent of your sins.
. . . “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.” (Romans 3:23).
. . . “As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one.” (Romans 3:10).
. . . “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” (1 John 1:8).
B. Believe Jesus is Lord. Believe that (7) Jesus Christ is who He claimed to (7) be; that He was both fully God (7) and fully man and that we are (7) saved through His death, burial, and resurrection. (7) Put your trust in Him as your (7) only hope of salvation. Become a son (7) or daughter of God by receiving Christ. (7777777) 7×7
. . . “That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. (John 3:15-17). For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” (Romans 10:13).
C. Call upon His name, Confess (7) with your heart and with your lips (7) that Jesus is your Lord and Savior.
. . . “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” (Romans 10:9-10).
. . . “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.” (John 1:8-10).
. . . “And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. (John 2:2).
. . . “In this was manifested the love of god toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.” (1 John 4:9, 14-15).
. . . “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.” (Romans 5:8-10).
. . . “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” (Romans 6:23).
. . . “Jesus saith unto them, I am the way, the truth, and the life, no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” (John 14:6).
. . . “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth.” (Romans 1:16).
. . . “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” (Acts: 4:12).
. . . “Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth for there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.” (1 Timothy 2:4-6).
. . . “For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.” (1 Thessalonians 5:9).
. . . “But as many as received him, to them gave the power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.” (John 1:12).
True Church / Bride of Christ Spared from God’s Wrath:
Romans 5:8-10. “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.”
Romans 12:19. Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
1 Thessalonians 1:10. And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
1 Thessalonians 5:9. For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
Romans 8:35. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Jeremiah 30:7. Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.
Revelation 3:10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
