Do you have chapter and verse for your nonsense?
Revelation 6:8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Revelation 9:15 And the
four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for
to slay the third part of men.
So, for those who are mathematically challenged, a fourth of 8 Billion is 2 Billion. Then, a third of the remaining 6 Billion is another 2 Billion. So, 2 Billion plus 2 Billion is 4 Billion, which is half of the original 8 Billion.
So, half of mankind will be killed during that 7 years of Jacob's 70th heptad.
No nonsense to any of that at all.
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Are you aware that the Gr. term
gees (Strong's 1093) is the
same term that is also often translated "land", "ground", etc.? (See Mat 2:6, 20-21; 4:15; Mk 9:20; 14: 35; Lk 4:25; Jude 1:5, etc.) You're obviously
assuming, along with KJV translators (and other translators for other versions) that that is the correct rendering. But the YLT, as another example, renders the phrase "over the fourth part of the land". You obviously have never performed a word usage study on "gees". Of course, what largely determines correct usage would the context of scripture. The rendering "land" would fit much better with the opening chapter of Revelation, as well as the larger context of the bible such as Dan 9, Mat 24, etc.. The YLT renders Rev 1:7 as follows:
Rev 1:7
7 Lo, he doth come with the clouds, and see him shall every eye, even those who did pierce him, and wail because of him shall all the tribes of the land. Yes! Amen!
YLT
And the Darby, another literal translation reads:
Rev 1:7
7 Behold, he comes with the clouds, and every eye shall see him, and they which have pierced him, and all the tribes of the land shall wail because of him. Yea. Amen.
Darby
"Tribes of the earth" simply doesn't fit the context here since the tribes of the earth did not "pierce him", so why would they "wail"? Rather, the [Jewish] tribes of the Land did! The Jews (especially believers) living during the during the Jewish Wars (67-70 A.D. ), they would have understood what was going on because Jesus
told the Jews that they would "see" him coming on the clouds in judgment (Mat 24:30; 26:64, etc.). Again, the "tribes of the earth" would not have witnessed the Great Tribulation of 70 A.D. Jesus came in judgment in 70 A.D. but not visibly. He came in judgment the same way God came in judgment against Egypt (Isa 19:1).
Another huge clue that "land" is the correct rendering are all the instances where John writes basically that things he's writing "must shortly take place" (or equivalent phrases) (Rev 1:1. He was telling his audience what they were going to witness very soon -- the same audience that would have been included in Jesus' "this generation" prophecy in Mat 24, etc.
Your vaunted Great Tribulation ship sailed long ago and left you stranded at port; for most of Revelation has already been fulfilled in 70 A.D.
Of course, if you apply your math to the land of Palestine, then you could begin to understand why it's called the "great tribulation".
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