22)And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:
23)And I say unto thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me: and if thou refuse to him go, behold, I will slay thy son, even thy firstborn.
Jeremiah 2:3
Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD.
Hebrews 12 (ESV)
23)And to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righeous made perfect,
24)And to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
25)See that you do not refuse him who is speaking. For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we (believers) escape if we reject him who warns from heaven.
26)At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, "Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens."
27)This phrase, "Yet once more," indicates the removal of things that are shaken-that is, things that have been made-in order that the things that cannot be shaken may remain (Kingdom of God).
28)Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken(※), and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe,
29)For our God is a consuming fire.
※)A kingdom that cannot be shaken
Daniel 2:44
And in the days of those kings (probably during the Great Tribulation)the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, nor shall the kingdom be left to another people. It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand forever.
James 1:18
Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
Those who will be the firstfruits of redemption from among the people of the earth (144,000)
Revelation
14:1)Then I looked, and behold, on Mount Zion stood the Lamb, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads.
2)And I heard a voice from heaven like the roar of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder. The voice I heard was like the sound of harpists playing on their harps.
3)And they were singing a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and before the elders.No one could learn that song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth.
4)It is these who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins. It is these who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. Therse have been redeemed from mankindas firstfruitsfor God and the Lamb.
5:9)And they sang a new song, saying, "Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and languate and people and nation,
10)And you have made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they shall reign on the earth."
6:9)These are the gesrations of Noah. Noah wasa righteous man, blamelessin his generation. Noah walked with God.
7:1)Then the LORD said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before mein this generation.
2Peter 3
6)And that by means of these the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished.
7)But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and desruction of the ungodly.
1Peter 3:20
Because they formerly did not obey, when God's patience waited in the days of Noar, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water.
2Peter 2
5)If he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;
6)If by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
7)And if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked
8)(For asthat righteous manlived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and head);
9)Then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,
10)And especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority. Bold and wilful, they do not tremble as they blaspheme the glorious ones.
Hebrews 11:7
By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
Eaekiel 14
14)Even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness, declares the LORD GOD.
20)Even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, they would deliver neither son nor daughter. They would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness.
Romans 4:13
For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.
Galatians 2
16)Yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
17)But if, in our endeavor to be justified in Christ, we too were found to be sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Certainly not!
18)For if I rebuild what I tore down (If a person is saved and then falls back into the ways of sin), I prove myself to be a transgressor.
9:6)For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the goverment shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
7)Of the increase of his goverment and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
41:14)Fear not, thou worm jacob, and ye men of Israel; I wil help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
63:16)Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer, thy name is from everlasting.
8)And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
9)And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
10)And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
11)And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Has thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
12)and the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she me of the tree, and I did eat.
13)And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
14)And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shall thow go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
15)And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall breise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
13)And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.
14)And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wildeness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
15)And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
16)And the earth the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
17)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.
― 蛇(サタン)の頭を踏み砕く女の子孫 ―
Descendant of the woman who crushes the head of
the serpent (Satan)
ローマ16章20節
平和の神は、すみやかに、あなたがたの足でサタンを踏み砕いてくださいます。
Romans 16:20
And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
10)For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
11)For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of once: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,
12)Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee.(Psalms 22:22)
13)And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God hath given me.(Isaiah 8:18)
14)Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destory him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
15)And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
16)For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham.
17)Wherefore in all things it beloved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.
18)For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.
1)Behole, what manner of love the father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
2)Behold, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
3)And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
4)Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
5)And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.
6)Whosoever abidenth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.
2)And you, O son of man, thus says the Lord GOD to the land of Israel: An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.
3)Now the end is upon you, and I will send my anger upon you; I will judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations.
4)And my eye will not spare you, nor will I have pity, but I will punish you for your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
14)They have blown the trumpet(※) and made everything ready, but none goes to battle, for my wrath is upon all their multitude.
15)The sword is withour; pestilence and famine are within. He who is in the field dies by the sword, and him who is in the city famine and pestilance devour.
16)And if any survivors escape, they will be on the mountains, like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, each one over his iniquity.
17)All hands are feeble, and all knees turn to water.
18)They put on sackloth, and horror covers them. Shaml ornament e is on all faces, and baldness on all their heads.
19)They cast their silver into the streets, and their gold is like an unclean thing. Their silver and gold are not able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD.
20)His beautiful ornament they used for pride, and they made their abominable images and their detestable things of it. Therefore I make it an unclean thing to them.
21)And I will give it into the hands of foreigners for prey, and to the wicked of the earth for spoil, and they shall profane it.
22)I will turn my face from them, and they shall profane my treasured place. Robbers shall enter and profane it.
23)Forge a chain! For the land is full of bloody crimes and the city is full of violence.
24)I will bring the worst of the nations to take possession of their houses. I will put an end to the pride of the strong, and their holy places shall be profaned.
25)When anguish comes, they will seek peace, but there shall be none.
26)Disaster comes upon disaster; rumor follows rumor. They seek a vision from the prophet, while the law perishes from the priest and cunsel from the elders.
27)The king mourns, the prince is wrapped in despair, and the hands of the people of the land are paralyzed by terror. According to their way I will do to them, and accordint to their judgments I will judge them, and they shall know that I am the LORD.
※)Numbers 10:9
And when you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets, that you may be remembered before the LORD your God, and you shall be saved from your enemies.
Joel 2:1
Blow a trumpet in Zion; sound an alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the LORD is coming; it is near.
1Corrintians 15
51)Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52)In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet, for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.
1Thessalonians 4
16)For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.
17)Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.
1)Ah, Ariel (Jerusalem), Ariel (Jerusalem), the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts run their round.
2)Yet I will distress Ariel (Jerusalem), and there shall be moaning and lamentation, and she shall be to me like an Ariel.
3)And I will encamp against you all around, and will besiege you with towers and I will raise siegeworks against you.
4)And you will be broutht low; from the earth you shall speak, and from the dust your speech will be bowed down; your voive shall come from the ground like the voice of a ghost, and from the dust your speech shall whisper.
5)But the multitude of yourforeign foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the ruthless like passing chaff. And in an instant, suddenly,
6)You will be visited by the LORD of hosts with thunder and with earthquake and great noise, with whirlwind and tempest, and the flame of a devouring fire.
7)And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel (Jerusalem), all that fight against her and her stronghold and distress her, shall be like a dream, a vision of the night.
8)As when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he is eating, and awakes with his hunger not satisfied, or as when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he is drinking, and awakes faint, with his thirst not quenched, so shall the multitude of all the nations be that fight against Mount Zion.
Matthew 24
29)Immediately after the tribulation of those daysthe sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
30)Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
31)And he will send out his angels of heaven with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Luke
18:7)And will not God give justice to his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them?
8)I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily. Neverthless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?
21:25)And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves,
26)People fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world. For the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
27)And then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
28)Now when these things begin to take place, straighten up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.
Revelation
14:14)Then I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and seated on the cloud one like a son of man, with a golden crown on his head, and a sharp sickle in his hand.
15)And another angel came out of the temple, calling with a loud voice to him who sat on the cloud, "Put in your sickle, and reap, for the hour to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is fully ripe."
16)So he who sat on the cloud swung his sickle across the earth, and the earth was reaped.
17)Then another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle.
18)And another angel came out from the altar, the angel who has authority over the fire, and he called with a loud voice to the one who had the sharp sickle, "Put in your sickle and gather the clusters from the vine of the earth, for its grapes are ripe."
19)So the angel swung his sickle across the earth and gathered the grape harvest of the earth and threw it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20)And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and blood flowed from the winepress, as high as a horse's bridle, for 1,600 stadia.
6:12)When he opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthqake, and the sun became black as sackloth, the full moon became like blood,
13)And the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree sheds its winter fruit when shaken by a gale.
14)The sky vanished like a scroll that is being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.
15)Then the kings of the earth and the great ones and the generals and the rich and the powerful, and everyone,slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains,
16)Calling to the mountains and rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,
17)For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?
11:2)but do not measure the court out side the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months.
3)And I will grant authority to my two witness, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackloth."
4)These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth.
5)And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes.(※1) If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed.
6)They have the power to shut the sky, that no rain may fall during the days of their prophesying, and they have power over the waiers ti turn them into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague, as often as they desire.
7)And when they have finished their testimony, the beast that rises from the bottemless pit will make war on them and conquer them and kill them,
8)And their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city that symbolically is called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was crucified.
9)For three and a half days some from the people and tribes and languages and nations will gaze at their dead bodies and refuse to let them be placed in a tomb,
10)And those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and make merry and exchange presents, because these two prophets had been a torment to those who dwell on the earth.
11)But after the three and a half days a breath of life from God entered them, and they stood up on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them.
12)Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, "Come up here!" And they went up to heaven in a cloud(※2), and their enemies watched them.
13)And at that hour there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.
14)The second woe has passed; behold, the third woe is soon to come.
15)Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voice in heaven, saying, "The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever."
16)And the twenty-four elders who sit on their thrones before God fell on their faces and worshiped God.
17)Saying, "We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty, who is and who was, for you have taken your great power and begun to reign.
18)The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great,and for destroying the destroyers of the earth."
19)Then God's temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple. There were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail.
※1)Isaiah 30
27)Behold, the name of the LORD comes from afar, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke; his lips are full of fury,
28)His breath is like an overflowing stream that reaches up to the neck; to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction, and to place on the jaws of the peoples a bridle that leads astrsy.
Jeremiah 5:14
Therefore thus says the LORD, the God of hosts: "Because you have spoken this word, behold, I am making my words in you mouth a fire, and this people wood, and the fire shall consume them.
※2)Genesis 5:24
Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.
2 Kings 2:11
And as they still went on and talked, behold, chariots of fire and horses of fire separated the two of them. And Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
Acts 1:9
And when he had said these things, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight.
We can read from the Word of God that the events of the Two Witnesses, the Two Olive Trees (the House of Israel and the House of Judah) and the Two Candlestands (the Two Churches), would take place simultaneously during the first half of the Tribulation Period (three and a half years).
However, I don't think these two witnesses walking around blowing fire like monsters during this period time. Rather, I guess this means that they will keep speaking the fiery Word of truth to the people of this world for three and a half years.