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34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.

In keeping with Jesus' Rules of parable understandings from Mark 4:13-15, we should be able to see that there are 3 partys involved with every parable. God, mankind and the devil (and his messenger-devils).

Are they also a generation, singular? Indeed:

Matthew 12:34

O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

Matthew 23:33

Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

Easy to see in the above that the serpents, the vipers, which are terms for DEVILS, have "a generation" singular tense. Why is it singular tense. Because none of them have yet passed away.

So what generation, singular, shall not pass away until all things are fulfilled? The generation of the devil and his messengers. The study of the singular term, generation in the scriptures will hold to the above principle.

This same principle is also applied to these scriptures:

Matthew 16:28

Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.

Luke 9:27

But I tell you of a truth, there be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God.

Many have mangled the above scriptures when they FAIL to see that Jesus often addresses the DEVIL or DEVILS in mankind. They end up tagging Jews of that time and end up in partial or full preterism trying to make the verses "fit" what they think, but they MISS the obvious.

When this party the devil and his own, that are not mankind is void from parable dissections, the understandings of parables are likewise VOID of the obvious.

So, when Jesus Returns, this is what happens:

Rev 1:

7 Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, >>>and they also which pierced him:<<< and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.

IF we think it's just mankind that will be seeing Jesus' return, think again. There are also entities unseen, the devil and his messengers IN MANKIND that will also SEE this return. Even those who pierced him were what? That's right. Blinded slaves of the DEVIL. Those "devils" are still here. Still standing in some people. When their "flesh host" man dies, they just hop on another flesh slave. And on this has transpired, from the beginning.

No believer "wakes up" all at once. Just like physical sleep, we all tend to slowly absorb the light. Just as the sun rises, first dimly, then progressively brighter, so do we also find light in the spiritual senses.

Sometimes the light we think we have is false. There isn't a Christian who has not questioned their faith. Faith without having it put to the test is meaningless, and not from God in Christ.

A point of more light arrived for me, when I saw how dark my supposed light was. On one hand, I knew I was supposed to love my neighbors as myself. But on the other hand, I condemned others who did not believe like "me" to be fried alive forever.

Was that loving them as myself? Uh, no. It was the exact opposite of love, condemning others in the supposed "name of God" to be burned alive forever. The worst form of hatred one could have in their heart toward others.

How did I find myself in this condition? It was by outright flat out lies taught by the churches, by authorities, by false teachings of Gods Words. By my own evil internal predilections.

These kinds of darkness are also realities. We just don't care to look at them honestly.

What if people who do not believe are actually blinded internally by the god of this world so they can't believe? 2 Cor. 4:4

What if people are in darkness because of the adversary, Satan and his own? Acts 28:10

What if God allows them to be thusly blinded and in darkness? After all we were all in the same shape prior to belief.

What if our own theological understandings are so utterly blind, that we miss the unseen but entirely OBVIOUS culprit, Satan and his messengers and we leave them out of the pictures of understandings and only blame the person? This is the typical blinded sight.

Gods Word is a tough gig to understand. Why? Because we are not alone internally when we try to read it. Mark 4:15. We have to fight our way through this attacker and his deceptions.

When God in Christ looks at any of us, He doesn't see "just me or you." He sees me, you and our internal attackers that are not us.

In light of this scriptural fact I learned to see people the same way, as not "just them." I see myself the same way, as not just me.

And in this light, I came to see how I can love ALL my neighbors as myself. God in Christ will save them all.

And God in Christ will also condemn all devils to hell.

In the end, this was the only solution to understand. To open BOTH EYES and see BOTH FATES upon what we falsely see and perceive as only an individual.

Divide and Conquer.

Today, when anyone asks me about my Christian faith, I simply tell them I believe that Jesus saves them, whether they believe or not. It puts animosity and resistance off the table.

Is that the WHOLE truth? No, not at all. I also understand I'm not just engaging them as an individual. The adversary will show up every time to hold that captive.

Then we have some fun on our hands.

The Spirit has already told us everything in the scriptures. So what is the problem?

A somewhat underground understanding that I employed for many years in my business life helped me in scripture studies:

An accurate accounting and assessment of the problem contains 90% of the solution.

Reasoning is not our enemy when it comes to understandings. Every believer should know that the problems of the world are defined and accounted in scriptures as sin, evil and death. We can see these things with our own eyes, but that sight doesn't reach to the root cause, which is internal and within ALL. If someone denies this is their "own" state, they are blinded in the scriptural sense of the term blind.

Jesus told us the internal reality. Satan does enter the hearts of all to blind, to steal, to destroy and to kill. We see the external effects, but do not consider the problem is internal and via a spirit of disobedience that the flesh is "subject and subjected to." By GOD no less.

The Spirit conveys these internal issues via allegory, parable, similitude because the cause is unseen. We are given external to perceive associations for internal conditions.

The flesh is inclined to want to see only the external and operate with the external (5) senses, see, hear, feel, smell, touch. However the Spirit operates internally, unseen, with entirely different senses that are spiritually sensed and derived. Honesty, faith, hope, mercy, forgiveness, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, righteousness, meekness, temperance, love.

The human condition then, internally, is quite a stew. We hold the things of the Spirit in darkness, within, coupled with the presence of sin, evil and death. If we try to lean entirely in the Spirit, ignoring the bad internal realities, we only deceive ourselves. The evil, the sin, the death, also have their functions. These conditions are also real, internally.

The reality is that we all walk in the shoes of both good and evil, by Gods Designs.

Paul tells us Gods Ways in 1 Cor. 15 as first the natural, then the spiritual. We all are in the natural set of shoes currently. We are planted in weakness, corruption, dishonor and in a natural body that is subject to sin, evil and eventually death. That is the first state, present, current reality. 1 Cor. 15: 41-45 and others.

The Spirit describes these harsh internal conditions as caused by the spirit of disobedience. These spirits also have their side of the ledgers that they operate under. By coming to grips via HONEST internal sight, we begin to see Spiritually.

Revelation 18:2

And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, BABYLON the great is fallen, is fallen, and IS become THE HABITATION OF DEVILS, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.

Jesus showed the seat of devils to be IN MAN, in our own flesh. We all have sin, have sinned. Sin is of the devil. 1 John 1:8, 1 John 3:8, etc. The internal math is quite obvious.

So the Spirit shows us thusly, the "first man, collectively:"

Revelation 17:15

And he saith unto me, THE WATERS which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, ARE PEOPLES, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.

And the Spirit shows us the LAST MAN, collectively:

Revelation 22:1

And he shewed me A PURE RIVER OF WATER of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.

Watch the WATER.

People read Revelation and derive all kinds of utter nonsense.

The "END TIMES" is about "THE END" of the devil and his messengers, plain and simple.

The TABLES are TURNED upon our (internal) adversaries by the revealing of Christ in us. This is what we watch and pray for. This is what we are advised to wait for.

In the messages to the churches Satan and his works in the churches are addressed to ALL of us. But we are so blind, so deaf BY THEM we do not hear and instead we pass these Words off, and try to lay them on other people.

Revelation 5 provides the kickoff point of Revelation and it's actually GOOD NEWS:

13 And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.

Does that sound like doom and gloom to you? Does that sound like blood and guts, misery and wanton destruction?

When the seals of the book are opened, EVERYONE will HEAR and KNOW. That's Rev. 5:13

Isaiah 11:9

They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as THE WATERS cover the sea.

Habakkuk 2:14

For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the THE WATERS cover the sea.

Revelation IS GLORIOUS. Overwhelming GLORY.

And yes, we are seeing EXTERNAL PICTURES now, of this forthcoming reality, by the exposures of the EVILS of this world in associations with our flesh leaders.

Messages GALORE.