Genesis 3. The fall

Serpent - God describe them as crafty. Chinese got a good word 狡猾. Aldo notice here the serpent spoken to the woman  but not Adam. Why?  Woman are easily been tricked with food?

Genesis 3:1 NIV
Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”

創世記 3:1 耶和華神所造的，惟有蛇比田野一切的活物更狡猾。蛇對女人說：神豈是真說：不許你們吃園中所有樹上的果子嗎？ (分享自Android快速聖經)

When God put them in the garden He already warn them not to eat the forbidden fruit. 

Genesis 2:17 NIV
but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”

Genesis 3:6 NIV
When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.

4 things attract woman :-
1,  good for food
2, pleasing eyes
3,  gaining wisdom
4,  share with husband

Adam  trusted the wife just like that - he ate it  - without questioning?

Adam  blame God  put the woman there and cause him to be  sinned.

Genesis 3:12 NIV
The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

Woman blame the serpent.

Genesis 3:13 NIV
Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

God punish or cursed the serpent  together with the woman.

Genesis 3:15 NIV
And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”

Enmity  - hostility.

創世記 3:15 我又要叫你和女人彼此為仇，你的後裔和女人的後裔，也彼此為仇，女人的後裔要傷你的頭，你要傷他的腳跟。 (分享自Android快速聖經)

Any research said snake like to bite woman? Read again realize that it is - he will crush your head not she.

Genesis 2. Woman was created

Genesis 2:18 NIV
The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”

God actually don't want Adam to be alone. Here very interesting God actually look for helper  for Adam. So woman is the helper to man.

Genesis 2:20 NIV
So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals. But for Adam no suitable helper was found.

God get all the animals to the Eden thought that they could be the helper  to Adam. But later discover it is not.

Genesis 2:21 NIV
So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh.

Genesis 2:22 NIV
Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

Genesis 2:23 NIV
The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”

Genesis 2:25 NIV
Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.

創世記 2:25 當時夫妻二人，赤身露體，並不羞恥。 (分享自Android快速聖經)

Here God call the woman the wife to  Adam.

Genesis 2. Garden of Eden

Where is farden of Eden

Genesis 2:8 NIV
Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed.

Genesis 2:10 NIV
A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters.

Genesis 2. Four rivers

Genesis 2:11 NIV
The name of the first is the Pishon; it winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.

Genesis 2:13 NIV
The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the entire land of Cush.

Genesis 2:14 NIV
The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the east side of Ashur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

Matthew 25. Watch

Matthew 25:13 NIV
“Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.

After Jesus talking about the end time in Matthew 24,  he gave this parable  about the vurgin and brudgeroom and the message is watch.

Genesis 2. God created man

Genesis 2:7 NIV
Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

創世記 2:7 耶和華神用地上的塵土造人，將生氣吹在他鼻孔裡，他就成了有靈的活人，名叫亞當。 (分享自Android快速聖經)

Genesis 1. Heaven and earth

Day 1. Light

Genesis 1:3 NIV
And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

Day 2. Water

Genesis 1:6 NIV
And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.”

Day 3. Land

Genesis 1:9 NIV
And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so.

Day 4. Sun, moon  and stars

Genesis 1:16 NIV
God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars.

Day 5. Creatures

Genesis 1:20 NIV
And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.”

Day  6. Man

Genesis 1:26 NIV
Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

Day 7. Rest

Genesis 2:2 NIV
By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.

Discerning beyond here and now

Psalm 119:28 NIV
My soul is weary with sorrow; strengthen me according to your word.

Psalm 119:33 NIV
Teach me, Lord , the way of your decrees, that I may follow it to the end.

Discerning. Distinguished

Numbers 13:17-18 NIV
When Moses sent them to explore Canaan, he said, “Go up through the Negev and on into the hill country. See what the land is like and whether the people who live there are strong or weak, few or many.

Numbers 13:33 NIV
We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.”

Genesis 6:4 NIV
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.

1,  should not be fear

Numbers 13:33 NIV
We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.”

What if. Irrational fear. Not trusting God.

Here and now.

2,  fear is ordinary but faith is extraordinary

Numbers 13:31 NIV
But the men who had gone up with him said, “We can’t attack those people; they are stronger than we are.”

Irrational fear.
We have God who is awesome.
God divine destiny  in your life.

Cindy Jacob.
http://soaringeagleglobalmissions.org/2014/03/20/prophecies-about-malaysia-by-cindy-jacob/

Luke 21 and Matt. 24

1. False prophet

Luke 21:8 NIV
He replied: “Watch out that you are not deceived. For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am he,’ and, ‘The time is near.’ Do not follow them.

Matthew 24:5 NIV
For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and will deceive many.

2. Wars

Luke 21:9 NIV
When you hear of wars and uprisings, do not be frightened. These things must happen first, but the end will not come right away.”

Matthew 24:6 NIV
You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come.

3. Earthquake

Luke 21:11 NIV
There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven.

Matthew 24:7 NIV
Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.

4. Persecution

Luke 21:12 NIV
“But before all this, they will seize you and persecute you. They will hand you over to synagogues and put you in prison, and you will be brought before kings and governors, and all on account of my name.

Matthew 24:9 NIV
“Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me.

Matthew 24 and Revelation 6

1. False Messiah

Matthew 24:4-5 NIV
Jesus answered: “Watch out that no one deceives you.  For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and will deceive many.

Revelation 6:2 NIV
White horse and crown
I looked, and there before me was a white horse! Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest.

2. Wars

Matthew 24:6 NIV
You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come.

Revelation 6:4 NIV
Red horse
Then another horse came out, a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to take peace from the earth and to make people kill each other. To him was given a large sword.

3. Famine and earthquake - inflation

Matthew 24:7 NIV
Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.

Revelation 6:6 NIV
Black Horse.  Inflation
Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, “Two pounds of wheat for a day’s wages, and six pounds of barley for a day’s wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine!”

Pretribulation
Matthew 24:8 NIV
All these are the beginning of birth pains.

4. Famine and earthquake
Matthew 24:7 NIV
Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.

Revelation 6:8 NIV
Pale horse. Death
I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.

5. Persecution
Matthew 24:9 NIV
“Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me.

Revelation 6:9 NIV
Persecution
When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained.

6. Black sun and stars fall

Matthew 24:29 NIV
“Immediately after the distress of those days    “ ‘the sun will be darkened,    and the moon will not give its light;    the stars will fall from the sky,    and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.’

Revelation 6:12 NIV
6th seal. Black sun
I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red,

Revelation 6:13 NIV
Stars fell
and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind.

7. Heaven. Rapture

Matthew 24:40-41 NIV
Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left.  Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.

Revelation 8:1 NIV
When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.

Revelation 21. New heaven and new earth

Revelation 21:1 NIV
Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.

Revelation 20. Judgement day

Satan locked for1000 years
Revelation 20:1-3 NIV
And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key to the Abyss and holding in his hand a great chain. He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. He threw him into the Abyss, and locked and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended. After that, he must be set free for a short time.

Revelation 20:5 NIV
(The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended.) This is the first resurrection.

Satan release after 1000 years
Revelation 20:7 NIV
When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison

Satan put in hell forever
Revelation 20:10 NIV
And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

Book of life
Revelation 20:12 NIV
And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books.

Revelation 20:14-15 NIV
Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.

Revelation 19. Great tribulation. White horse

Revelation 19:11 NIV
I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and wages war.

Revelation 18. Great tribulation. Fall of Babylon

Revelation 18:21 NIV
Then a mighty angel picked up a boulder the size of a large millstone and threw it into the sea, and said: “With such violence the great city of Babylon will be thrown down, never to be found again.

Midnight of our soul

5Acts 16:25 NIV
About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.

Psalm 119:62 NIV
At midnight I rise to give you thanks for your righteous laws.

Midnight.
Dark night of our soul.
Lonelyness

Isaiah 30:29 NIV
And you will sing as on the night you celebrate a holy festival; your hearts will rejoice as when people playing pipes go up to the mountain of the Lord , to the Rock of Israel.

Acts 16:26 NIV
Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken. At once all the prison doors flew open, and everyone’s chains came loose.

Acts 16:27 NIV
The jailer woke up, and when he saw the prison doors open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself because he thought the prisoners had escaped.

Acts 16:28 NIV
But Paul shouted, “Don’t harm yourself! We are all here!”

Acts 16:29-30 NIV
The jailer called for lights, rushed in and fell trembling before Paul and Silas. He then brought them out and asked, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”

Acts 16:31 NIV
They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—you and your household.”

Acts 16:33 NIV
At that hour of the night the jailer took them and washed their wounds; then immediately he and all his household were baptized.

Process of journey. From point A to point B.

Paul were serving God but still have to suffer the beaten up and jail. IT take faith for Paul to proceed.

With faith dominating,  fear and doubt will be subsided. Faith come by hearing.   God word.

Philippians 4:6 NIV
Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.

Revelation 17. Great tribulation. Prostitute

World prostitute

Revelation 17:1 NIV
One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits by many waters.

Revelation 17:3-4 NIV
Then the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns. The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and was glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls. She held a golden cup in her hand, filled with abominable things and the filth of her adulteries.

Seven heads. Seven kings

Revelation 17:9-10 NIV
“This calls for a mind with wisdom. The seven heads are seven hills on which the woman sits. They are also seven kings. Five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come; but when he does come, he must remain for only a little while.

Ten horns. Ten kings

Revelation 17:12 NIV
“The ten horns you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but who for one hour will receive authority as kings along with the beast.

Waters. Worlds

Revelation 17:15 NIV
Then the angel said to me, “The waters you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations and languages.

Woman. City

Revelation 17:18 NIV
The woman you saw is the great city that rules over the kings of the earth.”

Revelation 6. Four horses

1. White Horse  - peace. world keader

Revelation 6:2 NIV
I looked, and there before me was a white horse! Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest.

2, red horse. War

Revelation 6:4 NIV
Then another horse came out, a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to take peace from the earth and to make people kill each other. To him was given a large sword.

3,  black horse. Inflation

Revelation 6:5 NIV
When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” I looked, and there before me was a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand.

4,  pale horse. Dealth

Revelation 6:8 NIV
I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.

Revelation. 16. Great tribulation. Seven bowls

1st Bowl. Sores

Revelation 16:2 NIV
The first angel went and poured out his bowl on the land, and ugly, festering sores broke out on the people who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image.

2nd bowl. Sea blood

Revelation 16:3 NIV
The second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it turned into blood like that of a dead person, and every living thing in the sea died.

3rd bowl. River blood

Revelation 16:3 NIV
The second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it turned into blood like that of a dead person, and every living thing in the sea died.

4th bowl. Sun scorch

Revelation 16:8 NIV
The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and the sun was allowed to scorch people with fire.

5th bowl. Beast kingdom plunged

Revelation 16:10 NIV
The fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was plunged into darkness. People gnawed their tongues in agony

6th bowl. Ephrata river dried up

Revelation 16:12 NIV
The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the East.

Revelation 16:16 NIV
Then they gathered the kings together to the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon.

7th bowl. Done

Revelation 16:17 NIV
The seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and out of the temple came a loud voice from the throne, saying, “It is done!”

Revelation .8, 9, 10 seven trumpet

1st trumpet. Hail, fire and blood = meteorite on green

Revelation 8:7 NIV
The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down on the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.

2nd trumpet. Mountain ablaze = meteorite in sea

Revelation 8:8 NIV
The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain, all ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned into blood,

3rd trumpet.   meteorite on river

Revelation 8:10 NIV
The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water—

4th trumpet. Sun,  moon,  star were strike

Revelation 8:12 NIV
The fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them turned dark. A third of the day was without light, and also a third of the night.

5th trumpet. Abyss. Locust.

Revelation 9:1-5 NIV
The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss. When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss. And out of the smoke locusts came down on the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth. They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads. They were not allowed to kill them but only to torture them for five months. And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes.

6th trumpet. Ephrata angel kind 1/3 mankind

Revelation 9:13-15 NIV
The sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the four horns of the golden altar that is before God. It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.” And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind.

7th trumpet. Not available

Revelation 10:4 NIV
And when the seven thunders spoke, I was about to write; but I heard a voice from heaven say, “Seal up what the seven thunders have said and do not write it down.”

Revelation 6. Seven seals

1st seal - white horse,  bow and crown

Revelation 6:2 NIV
I looked, and there before me was a white horse! Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest.

2nd seal - red horse,  make people kill each other

Revelation 6:4 NIV
Then another horse came out, a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to take peace from the earth and to make people kill each other. To him was given a large sword.

3rd seal - inflation

Revelation 6:6 NIV
Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, “Two pounds of wheat for a day’s wages, and six pounds of barley for a day’s wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine!”

4th seal - pale horse,  Death

Revelation 6:8 NIV
I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.

5th seal - Man killed of Word of God

Revelation 6:9 NIV
When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained.

6th seal - earthquake.  Black sun and red moon

Revelation 6:12 NIV
I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red,

Revelation 6:13 NIV
and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind.

Revelation 6:14 NIV
The heavens receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.

Revelation 6:15 NIV
Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and everyone else, both slave and free, hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains.

Chapter 6 stop at 6th seal.

7th seal - heaven

Revelation 8:1 NIV
When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.