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God’s Army and the Devil’s Army in Revelation
Revelation is the work of war between God and the devil (dragon), and it is a work of re-creation.
The appearance of God’s army (the four living creatures) is like a lion, an ox, a man, and an eagle (Rv 4:7). They are all spiritual beings. If you look at the appearance of the horses (flesh) that work at the command of the spiritual beings, they are white horses, red horses, black horses, and dappled (pale) horses. The spirits do their work by riding on top of them (Zec 6:1-5, Rv 6:1-8). The appearance of the dragon, who is the beast with seven heads and ten horns, resembles a leopard, with feet like those of a bear and a mouth like that of a lion (Rv 13:1-2). The heads of the dragon’s horses resemble the heads of lions, and their riders have on breastplates that are fiery red, dark blue, and yellow as sulfur (Rv 9:16-17).
The number of God’s army is thousands upon thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand (Rv 5:11), and the number of the devil’s army is two hundred million (Rv 9:16). Riders are spirits, and horses are flesh (Is 31:3). The spiritual world creates the physical world (Gn 1), and through this, the spiritual entities and physical entities came to be.
There are two types of gods (spirits), and there are spirits and flesh who belong to these two types of gods (spirits). These spirits have been at war using the flesh [to fight]. The war in Revelation is also like this. The war in Rv 12 is also a war [that is fought] with the spirit and flesh, and so is the war in Rv 16.
The devil has numerous flesh (horses), but the number of his spirits is small. The number of God’s spirits is many, but the number of the flesh is small. The last war between God and the devil takes place in Rv 19. God’s soldiers at this time are the white horses and their riders. They are those who fight the last war with the remnants of the defeated soldiers of Rv 18, that are, the chiefs of Babylon. Needless to say, it ends with the victory of God’s army, the unit of white horses.
“Have you seen this?” “Yes, I’ve seen it.”
“What happens?” “God is victorious. The devil’s denomination, Babylon, is destroyed and the dragon is captured and locked up.”
“Then what happens?” “Why? Are you disappointed?” “No, that’s not it.” “It seems like you are….”
“From now on, God who is victorious, will rule. Don’t worry, you won’t be able to enter that place. You want to enter, right? To the paradise of heaven that God rules over!” “Yes, I want to go there.”
It is the world that God recovered after fighting the devil for 6,000 years and defeating him (overcoming him). A great amount of righteous blood has soaked this land. Why didn’t you cooperate at this time? You didn’t know? Now that you know, will you cooperate? How is it that you can cooperate? You must be born again. What should you do to be born again? You must be born again of God’s seed and His holy spirit to become God’s family and live together in the kingdom of heaven. Will you do so?
There is a great war that comes with sacrifice from both God and the devil. Why wouldn’t there be sacrifices made during such great wars that are fought so fiercely? How many sacrifices have been made since the creation of the world until today?
People who say “heaven, heaven,” heaven doesn’t just get fulfilled [without work]. Rv 7 must be fulfilled, and not without reason. The work of persecuting and the work of receiving persecution must not be thought of as just human affairs (work of man).
For this work of God, how much work did I myself do being obedient to God’s will? People who say “grace, grace,” throw away your immature thoughts. And if you truly know God and His circumstances, you must work with the heart and mindset that says, “God is working, so I must also do that work.”
Those who persecute are diligently doing the devil’s work well. Have we worked in such a way within God? In order to work, we must know God’s will, and we must know who the devil is. [Our] war is a war between good and evil. If I, who belong to God, know what I must do during this fierce war of Revelation, then I would do that work.
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