The Fall of Satan

From Heaven is the Rise of Satan on Earth.
June 11 - August 22, 2011
Post 214

(February 10, 2013: I enhanced the links of this post and somehow it lost its original order and I can't put it back, sorry.)

Directly following post 202 fifth dimension, we now understand the several temporal events of the Seven Trumpets is the single *1 heavenly 5th-dimensional perspective of the Devil being cast to earth, and the cause of the subsequent Three Woes is the resulting increase of Satanic infliction upon humanity once he and his kingdom finish falling to earth *2, we now understand how the Beast got into the bottomless pit and where he came from.
The beast of Revelation 17:8 that ascends out of the bottomless pit is the actual temporal kingdom of Satan on earth with Satan as its king in the form of the 12th Imam; the Caliph beast of the Islamic Caliphate beast; The beast of Revelation 17:8 is both Satan and his earthly kingdom as one single *1 authority; It is Satan as the falling star of Revelation 8:10 and the dragon of Revelation 12:3,9 with the 7 heads and 10 horns and 7 crowns as the submissive Islamic kingdoms and three too many kings of which only seven have crowns of authority (Daniel 7:8,24). And now you remember that identifying this beast is why we are covering these three woes.

Understanding the spiritual meaning of these three events in Revelation 8 of:
Hail, Fire and Blood, (v.7)
and a burning mountain which is a meteor, (v.8)
and finally an actual falling star, (v.10)
I was curious to consider the physical event of each spiritual application.
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Hail and Fire and Blood:
It is not hard to accept that the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD that fell upon Roman Pompeii for her specific crimes against Jerusalem may have been a fulfillment of the hail and fire and blood prophecy of Revelation 8:7, but such theories are hard to prove at this later point and are of course just wild speculative hypotheses.
But if this hypothesis concept of a physical event for the rise of each part of the Iron beast kingdom is true for the hail and fire and blood over the Empire of Rome, then when did a mountain-sized rock fall to earth presumably in the Middle East during the 1st Islamic Caliphate (661 BC to 1924 AD) as representing the second part of the Iron beast?

Falling mountain on fire:
Through researching the question, I stumbled across the knowledge that in Mecca, at the southeast corner of the big black Kaaba (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaaba), which is the central focal point of Islamic worship and the destination of the required Hajj pilgrimage of every Muslim, is indeed a sizeable Black Stone (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Stone) *3 that reportedly fell to earth from space and therefore necessarily was mountain sized as it burned down while falling through earth’s atmosphere. (Due to its sacred status it has not been tested to verify its declared cosmic origin). This curious bit of information sure adds a lot of strength to my interpretation of this prophecy especially because I did not find the evidence until after coming to the interpretation of what the scripture is saying.

Falling star:
Should we not then expect a small star to fall to earth as the 3rd temporal event more than just representing the second Islamic Caliphate rising in the near future? I suggest we should. But don’t get too hasty; there are significant things that must occur before the Caliphate can rise to unite the fractured kingdoms of Islam now rising themselves.
Therefore lets take a closer look at the burning mountain that has already fallen.
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The Black Stone:
This present Islamic “meteor” called the Black Stone is of an unknown source and of unknown time and is unknown if it fell into any sea of water even if it is discovered it actually can float (which is theorized by some Muslims), but has anyone simply explored the significance of this Black Stone in Islam?
I find it curious that this stone has no definite origin and no discernible purpose and no distinguished prominence in the faith of Islam, yet still plays a significant premiere part in the worship.
“A well-known hadith records that, when 2nd Caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab (580-644) came to kiss the Stone, he said in front of all assembled: ‘No doubt, I know that you are a stone and can neither harm anyone nor benefit anyone. Had I not seen Allah's Messenger [Muhammad] kissing you, I would not have kissed you’”- (from the wikipedia Black Stone link above). Yet still the worshipers have a significant focus on this stone during their required lifetime achievement of their required pilgrimage;
“The Black Stone plays an important role in the central ritual of the Hajj, when pilgrims must walk seven times around the Kaaba in a counter-clockwise direction. They attempt to kiss the Black Stone seven times, once for each circumambulation of the Kaaba, emulating the actions of Muhammad. In modern times, large crowds make it practically impossible for everyone to kiss the stone, so it is currently acceptable for pilgrims to simply point in the direction of the Stone on each of their circuits around the building” - (from the same link).
So has anyone asked why Muhammad kissed the stone in the first place? Beyond speculative traditional explanation does anyone know why it is even located in the wall of the Kabba? What is the reason it is a part of the worship? Can anyone explain why if it has no power it is such a powerful element of the expression of faith? Why is it said the stone was once white but became black as it took upon itself the sins of those who kiss it? If it is not a god, how can it take away sins? *4 (read it now)

Is it possible that the “seven or eight” broken pieces that make up the glued stone are representational prophecy of the seven remaining kingdoms of the Islamic Empire that while still ten, kills the woman riding on the ten before three of the original ten are uprooted leaving seven to rule with the Caliph in a fractured Islamic state recombined into the powerful Caliphate? (Daniel 7:24+Revelation 17:11+12+Revelation 17:16-17+Daniel 7:8) Is there any significance that this worshiped but not worshiped stone fractured into pieces but “glued” back together might represent “And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of iron mixed with miry clay.” As described in Daniel 2:41 after three toes are lopped off?

Though this can be little more than theoretical at this time, there is far too much “coincidence” here not to have significance in the prophecy of scripture. I propose that this Black Stone from space is at least the first layer of the physical fulfillment of Revelation 8:8 spiritually cast into the sea of humanity that began the Islamic violence on the earth in 590+ AD by Mohammed as the second event following the hail and fire and blood that came with Rome representing the era of violence beginning in the day of John the Baptist (Matthew 11:12+ Revelation 8:5+12:12-13).

These three symbolic physical events noted in Revelation 8:7-11 are clearly a prophetic representation of the greater spiritual events showing the physical arrival of the last three Gentile GDEs as the singular Satanic kingdom of Iron and the violence they bring on this world. This part is not speculation. So for the sake of complete exploration lets take a look at some detail of the parts:
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Parts of the Iron Beast:
Note how Revelation 8:8 defines the event: “And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea…” If the event was simply physical in one layer there would be no need and in fact would be inappropriate to include the phrase “as it were” which means “something like but not the actual thing described”.
Since the whole passage is describing the three phases of the kingdom of Satan cast to earth (Revelation 8:5), it is the kingdom that is like but not actually a great mountain. Yet this understanding does not mean the described physical event of an asteroid would not happen just as a representation of the physical Islamic kingdom is the manifestation of the spiritual event of Satan's fall, much as the horses represent the spirits of the winds in our earlier studies; Three layers of the same thing as sure as Revelation 12:1 described the physical stars in the sky in a point in time declaring the actual birth of the Messiah as a human boy who was the manifestation of the Son of God himself come to earth to be our saving sacrifice. Three descriptive layers of the same thing.

We see this representation and manifestation combination concept again in Revelation 8:10 but this time the star seems to actually fall while only the way it burns is given an “as it were” likeness. In this way we need not “interpret” the word star to mean actually something else like a star. This physical item will actually be a self-luminating cosmic body. There is no legitimate reason but doubt itself that should cause us to now doubt the physical element of this scriptural prophecy. We have seen enough fulfilled prophecy now to have the faith to believe those yet to be fulfilled. This is of course open to interpretation at this time but I believe my 5th dimensional perspective of this passage explains the timeline questions quite well.
Though the multiple events with multiple layers of each event is indeed confusing, this interpretation is revealed as the correct pattern by the first three chapters of Revelation itself:
“…what thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.” Revelation 1:11
This is clearly a single point in time as John was directed to send seven copies to seven specific places in time.
But we easily understand a second layer of application that covers seven messages to all churches through all time. We read the book of all seven churches here in Revelation to see which message might fit our specific situation in our specific congregation at this specific time.
But we can also see a third layer to the message in that these are seven stages of the singular church of Christ through time. Since the day John first wrote the letters, the church as a whole has progressed through these seven phases until today we find ourselves in the condition of the seventh church of Laodicea here in the last days.
And so we see again the message in three layers through the 5th dimensional application of the single *1 message given in our 4 dimensional time line, all along the way from John till now. We apply concept outside of a defined point in time to many points throughout time. Each point in our timeline becoming ever increasing in intensity and full fulfillment. This is how I propose the revelation is to be understood. I have shown that we are now entering the final layer of fulfillment and therefore will be the most intense and most accurately fulfilled.

Layers:
Because of this concept of layers I would not be surprised to see an additional layer of Hail fire and blood, and an asteroid, before the falling star, but neither would I be surprised to understand the first two have already been fulfilled and need not be repeated in the future before the star falls. This is simply a question of how many layers to the prophecy much as the Abomination of Desolation by Antiochus Epiphanies (Daniel 11:31) was only a foreshadow of the greater event of the Antichrist (Matthew 24:15, Daniel 12:11) which were both foreshadowed by that of the Jews themselves (Jeremiah 44:22). Three layers of the same thing.
My only hesitation of leaning toward a three layer fulfillment of these specific falling events are that they are only shown once in scripture as the events of the trumpets. Therefore I tentatively suggest they are actually only a single *1 representation of the thing they represent and not the thing itself which actually does come in three phases (Revelation 8:7-10 as the falling kingdom representation discussed, Revelation 12:3 as the sign of the falling kingdom of Satan, and Luke 10:18 Satan himself falling).

In our next post we will continue our study with the second woe as we learn about the kingdom of the beast of Revelation 17 and an exciting revelation of interpretation.
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*1 Single 573 haplous; probably from 1 (as a particle of union) and the base of 4120; properly folded together, i.e. single (figuratively clear).
[Meaning more than one part woven together to create one; such as a three-cord rope.
From Matthew 6:22, see post 208 Two Masters (http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2011/07/two-masters.html)].

*2 The Three Woes: Revelation 8:13- the declaration. 9:12- the 1st, 11:14- the 2nd, 12:12- the 3rd.

*3 The Black Stone: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Stone). It is well worth a short internet search to read about this icon of Islamic worship that has every evidence of being worshiped though carefully declared not to be worshiped. This dead rock as the worshiped but not worshiped icon of Islam One, is but the predecessor image of the living falling star that will lead the Caliphate of Islam Two. These are the two falling objects of the 2nd and 3rd trumpets we now know to be the last two of the three-part 4th kingdom of Iron shown in Daniel 2:33, 40-43, 7:7-8,23, Matthew 11:12.

*4 The Brass Serpent of Numbers 21:7-9: The command of God clearly stated that there should be no graven (6459 a formed idol) image set up (Exodus 20:4, Leviticus 26:1,) and no god’s other than God should be worshiped (Exodus 20:3). Yet God himself command the creation of the brass serpent to be placed upon a pole (of a standard), that would heal the people (take away the sins) if they looked upon it for that reason. Later we see that Hezekiah had to destroy the brass serpent because the people were worshiping it (II Kings 18:4). Without the New Testament this mystery remains a confusion without explanation.
So why did God command the presentation of the brass serpent?
We see in the New Testament the Brass Serpent was the image of the Messiah yet to come, who himself must also be lifted up upon a pole of a standard i.e. a cross (John 3:14-15).
Now we see that the brass serpent was but the image of the Messiah and not the messiah himself but was looked upon for "salvation" from the snake bite, as the representation of the one that would come after to provide salvation simply by turning towards him (looking upon him).
and so as Satan’s perverted imitation of God’s idea, The Black Stone is the image of the falling Star yet to come; that dragon who will be worshiped. The parallel is startling! Until the arrival of the one who will be worshiped the image of that one is looked upon for their salvation while not actually a god to them but perhaps confusing to them today. Hezekiah was wise enough to destroy our version after it's use was corrupted in confusion.
I am not saying this stone is the image of Revelation 13:14-15 but a 1st layer of that fulfillment abusing God’s previous pattern. The Black Stone is the image of the Falling Star; Satan himself (Luke 10:18) as the brass serpent was the image of Christ.
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