The Book of Revelation: The True Interpretation According to the Scriptures

By S. Carl Binion

With God’s help, I hope to convince many of you about the great salvation in understanding the book of Revelation. From the very outset, John the Apostle wrote that these things must soon come to pass (Rev. 1:1–3). This message is from Jesus Christ himself, a message of God’s power and authority, of his judgment upon evil mankind, and most importantly, the redemption and ultimate salvation of all those who trust in Jesus for their salvation.

Revelation is the climax of a six-thousand-year adventure, part of the story of God’s great love for us who believe and of salvation that leads to eternal life for all who “keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus” (Rev. 12:17 and 14:12).

Revelation is the last part of the greatest book ever written, the Holy Bible. However, the majority of ministers have misinterpreted its contents.

With the entire Bible as our backdrop, Jesus’s angel, whom he sent to John, brought a message about our future to the apostle John (apostle is Greek for “sent one”). John didn’t read these words, but like a hologram right out of Star Wars, John witnesses future events that surround Jesus’s second coming. He sees them in 3D realism, being right there to witness and write down what he saw for our sakes.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Jan 25, 2022
• ISBN: 9781662465390

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The Book of Revelation

The True Interpretation According to the Scriptures

S. Carl Binion

Copyright © 2021 S. Carl Binion

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First Edition

PAGE PUBLISHING

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First originally published by Page Publishing 2021

ISBN 978-1-6624-6538-3 (pbk)

ISBN 978-1-6624-6539-0 (digital)

Printed in the United States of America

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Christ Gives John a Mission

2 and 3 Jesus's Letters to Seven Churches

4. God's Throne Room

5. Only the Lamb Is Worthy

6. The Lamb Opens the Seven Seals

7. The Hebrew Church on Earth

8. Mankind Faces Trumpets of God

9. Trumpets 5 and 6

10. Prophesy Again, John!

11. The First Resurrection (The Seventh Trumpet)

12. Satan Finally Cast Out!

13. The Rise of the Antichrist

14. The Everlasting Gospel

15. Saints Stand Before the Son of Man

16. The Day of the Lord

17. Mystery, Babylon the Great

18. Babylon Is Fallen, Is Fallen

19. The Return of Jesus Christ

20. The 1,000-Year Reign of Christ

21. The New Jerusalem

22. God's Eternal Kingdom

Epilogue

Bibliography

About the Author

And I heard another voice from heaven saying, Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues. For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

—Rev. 18:4–5 NKJV

All honor to God and His Holy Son, our Savior and Almighty Creator, Jesus Christ. Not enough people give Jesus the credit He deserves for leaving His heavenly glory, coming to this earth in the form of mortal men to die for us, then rising from the dead to save us from our sins (Rom. 5:10).

Salvation is the greatest gift anyone can receive.

Next comes a man who put me on the right track in my formative years, the pastor where my family attended church who taught the truth—Bishop Harvey Ward Jr. This man taught God's commandments, obeyed them, and kept God's seven yearly feasts or festivals according to Leviticus 23.

Bishop Ward clung to God's commandments, and those who obeyed his teachings obeyed Jesus Christ. He did not add anything to the Bible, nor did he diminish anything from the Bible. We met every Sabbath (Saturday) in an upper flat on Detroit's west side in obedience to the fourth commandment.

My parents, Lawrence and Vernise, who were associated with Bishop Ward, were responsible for putting me on the right track in life. They also guided my siblings onto a righteous footing before God.

Collectively, all these people influenced my view of God and put me on the path of holiness. Without having God's Holy Spirit, they could never have done so.

All of them kept the commandments of God and had the testimony of Jesus Christ (Rev. 12:17 and 14:12). They did their best, and that is all God or anyone can expect of us. Without Him, we can do nothing (John 15:5).

Robert Murphy, James Harris, James Rollins, David Gregory, Ollie Fraser, Israel Willingham, and a special honor goes to Mother Lula Mae Radley, a faithful saint and woman of God, who stood firm for Christ and God's Ten Commandments.

These people fulfilled Daniel's prophecy and were wise in the Lord.

Of these people, I can truly say that they were

Those who are wise shall shine Like the brightness of the firmament, And those who turn many to righteousness Like the stars forever and ever. (Daniel 12:3 KJV)

Introduction

And I heard another voice from heaven saying, Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues. For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

—Rev. 18:4–5 NKJV

Jesus Christ, the Only Path to God

The above passage indicates God's displeasure with His people being members of a church that does not obey His word. Our Creator calls this church, or more appropriately this worldwide church system that many perceive as Christian.

And on her forehead a name was written:

MYSTERY,

BABYLON THE GREAT,

THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS

AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS

OF THE EARTH. (Rev. 17:5 NKJV)

When one sincerely seeks the interpretation of the above verse, the only organization that fits its definition is the Roman Catholic Church, which I call the RCC. The RCC is headquartered in a city that has seven hills (Rev. 17:9). Now any good history student knows that the city of seven hills is Rome, Italy, specifically Vatican City inside the city of Rome. This impersonator of true Christianity has taken undue authority over others and ruled religion with an iron hand. Religion is the traditional Romanized Christianity that observes Good Friday, Easter, and Christmas; believes God is a trinity; and includes all Protestant (Sunday) churches.

We know this because the writer of Revelation, the Apostle John, envisions her as a woman with a golden cup in her hand and she is drunk with the blood of the saints (Rev. 17:4–6). That's another proof she is Rome.

God is calling His people to come out of her. This particular church has so many sins that they pile up enough to reach heaven, and God remembers her lawlessness, her iniquities (Rev. 18:4–5).

Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God, is the only way to salvation, and He proves this is so in the pages of the Holy Bible (Acts 4:12 and John 14:6). Now either Jesus lied when He made that claim, or those who claim there are many ways to the Father are liars. I prefer to believe Jesus (Rom. 3:4). Humans lie; God doesn't.

Time Is Running Out

The first three verses of Revelation tell us in plain language that we are very close to the birth of God's kingdom right here on earth. (Rev. 5:10 and Dan. 2:35)

Concerning the birth of that eternal kingdom, God inspired John to write the following:

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants—things which must shortly take place. And He sent and signified it by His angel to His servant John. Who bore witness to the word of God, and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, to all things that he saw. Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it; for the time is near. (Rev. 1:1–3 NKJV)

Revelation simply means to reveal, to peel back the covers and show something plainly. There is nothing scary, dreadful, or horrible about this prophecy. Most ministers don't teach it simply because they don't understand it.

Contradicting God

Most ministers don't understand Revelation because they have thrown away the code book for all prophecy, the Old Testament. They erroneously teach that the Torah, God's law, has been done away. They persist in contradicting Jesus Christ also.

Jesus said,

Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will be no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled. (Matt. 5:17–18 NKJV).

Like Satan, our enemy and God's, the majority of ministers today boldly and rebelliously contradict Jesus's words to His disciples in the Sermon on the Mount (Matt. 5, 6, and 7). Satan contradicted God's word when he tempted Eve in the garden of Eden right after the Creation. God told Adam that he could eat of every tree in the garden, except for the tree of the knowledge of good and evil of which he could not eat (Gen. 2:16–17). The reason God (Jesus before His human birth) said this was that the day he ate of it, he would surely die (Gen. 2:17).

There is proof that Adam told all these things to his wife, Eve. He made her aware of the fact that they had rules, commandments if you will, concerning their diet, what they could eat and what was forbidden. Eve proved this in her response to the serpent that they were not supposed to eat of that tree.

Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden'? And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden; but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat of it, nor shall you touch it lest you die.' (Gen. 3:1–3 NKJV)

By Eve's own words here, she had knowledge of God's command to not eat the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Look at what the serpent (the devil or Satan) says to her next.

Then the serpent said to the woman, YOU WILL NOT SURELY DIE, For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."

Boldly, Satan contradicts God's words, His direct orders not to eat of the tree in the middle of the garden, which just happens to be the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The devil does that to everyone on earth daily. He contradicts what God says and wants full disobedience to God because he wants God's position, His authority, and God's power, but he has been unable to do this. God has him under complete control, my friends.

The primary reason I am saying all this is because not only does Satan contradict God, but preachers contradict God also. When they bring a message of there is no law or the law has been done away, they follow Satan in his rebellion against God.

Revelation 12:9 says something that we all need to pay close attention to.

So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth and his angels were cast out with him. (Rev. 12:9 NKJV)

Satan's entire goal is our deception. In his efforts to show us the fleshly benefits of disobedience to God and seeking the pleasures of this life, he deceives the majority of those who claim Christianity as their faith. Most so-called churches have absolutely nothing to do with the truth of Jesus Christ and salvation. Most churches today just go through the motions and are completely devoid of salvation. Their faith is an empty faith, without power, hope, or truth (Jude 12–13).

Angels of Light

Paul the Apostle wrote about the false ministers of his day and said the following:

For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. (2 Cor. 11:13–14)

There are so many preachers on TV, over the radio, on the internet, and even in megachurches who claim to teach the truth, but most of them teach lies. Satan is their shepherd instead of Jesus Christ. They preach health, wealth, and name it and claim it, and by faith, it'll be yours. By your faith you will bring it to pass. They teach doctrine that pictures God as your genie in a bottle and not the truth of the Holy Bible. God is not our Santa Claus but a loving Father.

Signs of Jesus's Return

Jesus gave a list of signs for us to expect when His return is imminent (Matt. 24, Mark 13, and Luke 21). Bible scholars refer to this as the Olivet discourse. (In this book, we are primarily using the New King James Version of the Holy Bible.)

Then Jesus went out and departed from the temple, and His disciples came up to show Him the buildings of the temple. And Jesus said to them, Do you not see all these things? Assuredly, I say to you, not one stone shall be left upon another, that shall not be thrown down. (Matt. 24:1–2 NKJV)

According to the writings of Josephus, a Jewish historian, in AD 70, the Roman general Titus leveled the second temple along with most of Jerusalem. This brought Jesus's prophecy to pass concerning this second temple in the time of Herod.

Let us continue starting with verse 3 of Matthew 24.

Now as He sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?

And Jesus answered and said to them: Take heed that no one deceives you. For many shall come in My name saying, ‘I am the Christ,' and will deceive many. And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of sorrows".

Notice that Jesus first warns us about false prophets claiming to bring His message or to at least represent Him. When I first read that passage years ago, I used to believe many would claim to be Jesus, but that's too obvious. It's much more deceptive to claim to represent Jesus than for anyone to claim to be Him. If I tell you that I'm Jesus, you might laugh, but if I say I bring the truth, you might listen.

Jesus Is a Post-Tribulationist

Another prime example of lies from those Sunday pulpits is the so-called pretribulational rapture theory. It's not even qualified to be a theory because it contradicts what Jesus actually said in Matt 24:29–31. At least when scientists come up with a theory, it has some basis in actual fact. The rapture's just a plain boldfaced lie.

Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

As I said, Jesus Himself is a post-tribulationist. He makes it clear that He will gather His elect, which men call the rapture, AFTER the tribulation of those days. Jesus makes it crystal clear that the gathering of His elect, the so-called rapture, doesn't occur until after the Great Tribulation.

My People Are Destroyed for Lack of Bible Knowledge

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge, Because you have rejected knowledge, I will reject you from being priest for Me; Because you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children." (Hosea 4:6 NKJV)

The anti-law messages that are coming out of those Sunday pulpits today are openly rejecting God's truth. The first point is that they are worshipping on Sunday, the wrong day. God recognizes the Sabbath, the seventh day, which He instituted at the creation of all things. The Sabbath, Saturday, is the Lord's day (Matt. 12:8 and Mark 2:28). Jesus is the Lord of the Sabbath, not the Lord of Sunday.

How can we expect God to bless us when we actually live in rebellion against His holy word? Sabbath-breaking is a sin because it's commandment number 4. Sin is the breaking of God's law (1 John 3:4).

If we are Christians, we must read our Bibles daily. Otherwise, the devil, your enemy and mine, can trick us into believing just any old doctrine that comes our way.

Signs of the Times

Look at the recent violence at the nation's capital. Look at the juries who refuse to issue guilty verdicts in cases where police have actually murdered black people. Then one black senator from North Carolina said foolishly that America is not a racist country! Can America truly call itself a Christian nation as many claims?

Abortion, the LGBT groups, racism, murder, hatred, and wars that are coming are all prophesied in the pages of your Holy Bible. Mass shootings, rapes, home invasions, and recently COVID-19 are all prophesied in the Bible, in many places, but even more specifically in the book of Revelation.

Days of Noah Warning

Jesus Himself predicted that just before His return, this earth would be like it was in the days of Noah.

But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.

For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. (Matt. 24:37–29 NKJV)

Turning to Genesis 6:11, the Bible records this fact.

The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. (NKJV)

Now ask yourself, is the earth filled with violence today?

The Good News!

Gospel comes from an Old English word that means good news. It's good news that there is a new, glorious, peaceful, and loving world coming right here on earth. Since Christ came, we all now know the path to eternal life, if we only take time to read our Bibles and not let someone else tell us secondhand.

Together, we're going to explore what Revelation actually says about that and the eternal life Jesus spoke of. Revelation can be the sum of everything the Bible promises to those who are called, true, and faithful.

Jesus says to all, even today, "REPENT, FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS NEAR [at hand]" (Matt. 4:17 and Mark 1:15). Jesus truly loves you.

After you read this book, I pray you will have a clearer understanding of Revelation.

May His kingdom come very soon!

I love you all.

S. Carl Binion

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1. Christ Gives John a Mission

Surely the Lord GOD does nothing, Unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets.

—Amos 3:7 NKJV

Verify My Words

Have your Holy Bible (preferably King James or New King James) and a Strong's Exhaustive Concordance handy so you may look up everything I'm saying and prove the truth to yourself. Always verify what any minister says in your Holy Bible. "Check up on me," as a minister named Roderick C. Meredith used to say!

Be like the Bereans, who studied the scriptures daily to see if Paul and Silas had told them the truth (Acts 17:10–12).

Then the brethren immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea. When they arrived, they went into the synagogue of the Jews. These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so. Therefore many of them believed, and also not a few of the Greeks, prominent women as well as men. (NKJV)

The Bible has to be our authority for the truth. This is why preachers and writers of books about the Bible are held to a higher standard (James 3:1). God requires it, for He always tells the truth and requires the same from us. No place in the scriptures has God ever asked His servants to do something beyond their capabilities. If God commands us to do anything, He gives us the ability and the wherewithal to accomplish what He tells us to do.

Also understand that when those Berean Jews studied the scriptures, they studied the Old Testament. The Bible, as we know it, wasn't canonized (organized and put into order) until the fourth century, AD 325, at the Council of Nicaea.

According to my Schofield King James Bible, the page indicates this incident around AD 53. Christ had ascended back to heaven only twenty-two years earlier (circa AD 31), and the only scriptures they had were the Old Testament. These were the books known as the Writings (Psalm, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes), the Prophets (Isaiah, Joel, Daniel, Jeremiah, and others), and the Torah (the first five books of the Bible written by Moses, God's law). The New Testament did not come into being until the fifth century and was not made available to the masses until 1554.

Our generation has no excuse for being so biblically illiterate as many are today.

Christ's Purpose for Revelation

THE Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants—things which must shortly take place. And He sent and signified it by His angel to His servant John, who bore witness to the word of God, and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, to all things that he saw. Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it; for the time is near. (Rev. 1:1–3)

The end of verse 3 proclaims clearly the reason why those who read, keep, and hear Revelation are blessed; the time is near. We won't be caught off guard when Jesus returns if we read Revelation. Jesus will return just like He said He would (Matt. 24:29–31, Mark 14:60–62). Only the Father knows exactly when Jesus will return, so let no false prophet or self-proclaimed apostle lie to you (Matt. 24:36, Mark 13:32).

By the way, the word hear is the Greek word akouo (ak-oo-o) number G191 in the Greek section of your Strong's Exhaustive Concordance. It means to hear with the ears, but it also means to understand. When one truly understands, they obey.

Grace and Peace from God: Father, Son, and Seven Spirits

John, to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne, and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen." (Rev. 1:4–6)

The Seven Spirits

Who are these seven spirits? Let's look within the pages of the Bible and allow the Bible to do its own interpretation. We know about the Holy Spirit, but who are these seven? Let's examine the whole Bible to see if we can discover the seven spirits of God. Isaiah 4:3–4 and Isaiah 11:1–2 read accordingly.

And it shall come to pass that he who is left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be called holy—everyone who is recorded among the living in Jerusalem. When the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and purged the blood of Jerusalem from her midst, by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of burning. (Isa. 4:3–4 NKJV)

The spirit of judgment and the spirit of burning are two spirits.

Then Isaiah 11:1–2 says,

There shall come forth a Rod from the stem of Jesse, And a Branch shall grow out of his roots. The Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon Him, The Spirit of wisdom and understanding, The Spirit of counsel and might, The Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD." (Isaiah 11:1–2)

That's five, but we still need two more spirits. The Branch is Jesus Christ.

The only other spirits of God I can think of are the Spirit of Truth, which Jesus mentions in John 14:17 and 15:26. Then there is the Spirit of Prophecy, which is the testimony of Jesus found in Revelation 19:10. Let's add them up.

The Spirit of Judgment in Isaiah 4:4

The Spirit of Burning is found in that same verse (Isa. 4:4)

The Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding (Isa. 11:2)

The Spirit of Counsel and Might (Isa. 11:2)

The Spirit of Knowledge and of the fear of the LORD (Isa. 11:2)

The Spirit of Truth (John 14:17 and 15:26)

The Spirit of Prophecy (same as the testimony of Jesus Christ in Rev. 19:10)

These Bible verses are still more evidence proving that the Trinity doctrine is not sufficient to describe God. There are seven spirits of God plus Father and Son, which makes nine. To learn more about why the modern church believes in a trinity, please read The Two Babylons by Alexander Hislop. Mr. Hislop explains how so much paganism has infiltrated the church over the centuries. Many ancient pagan religions ascribed a triune or three-part nature to their pagan gods. Christ and the original twelve apostles had no such belief because it isn't found in their writings.

The Holy Spirit: Much More Than Just a Force

The Holy Spirit is more than just God's active force as the Jehovah's Witnesses erroneously teach. They claim the Holy Spirit is like electricity, but I have never heard of electricity being able to send a greeting of grace and peace (verse 4). God's Holy Spirit, the Helper or Comforter, reminds us of