Sunday, May 22, 2016

Queen Athaliah & Glimpses of the GREAT CONTROVERSY

And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead,
she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
2 Kings 11:1
 
Q: Who else targeted the royal "seed"?
A: And the dragon was wroth with the woman,
and went to make war with the remnant of her seed,
which keep the commandments of God,
and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Revelation 12:17
 
The Escape into hiding
But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram,
 sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah,
and stole him from among the king's sons which were slain;
and they hid him, even him and his nurse,
in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.
2 Kings 11:2
.....the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying,
 Arise, and take the young child and his mother,
and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word:
Then Herod, ...sent forth, and
slew all the children that were in Bethlehem,
Matthew 2:13,16
 
 
The 144,000 symbolically?
And she looked, and, behold,
 the king stood at his pillar at the entering in,
and the princes and the trumpets by the king:
and all the people of the land rejoiced,
 and sounded with trumpets,
also the singers with instruments of musick,
and such as taught to sing praise.
Then Athaliah rent her clothes,
and said, Treason, Treason.
2 Chronicles 23:13

The 144,000
And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion,
and with him an hundred forty and four thousand,...
And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters,
and as the voice of a great thunder:
and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:
Revelation 14:1,2
 
End of Queen Athaliah/"Babylon"
So they laid hands on her;
and when she was come to the entering of the horse gate by the king's house,
they slew her there.
2 Chronicles 23:15
And the devil that deceived them
 was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone,
 Revelation 20:10
 
Aftermath of fall of Athaliah
And he set the porters at the gates of the house of the LORD,
that none which was unclean in any thing should enter in.
2 Chronicles 23:19
Aftermath of fall of "Babylon"
And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain,
and shewed me that great city,
 the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,...
...And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing
that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie:
Revelation 21:11,27