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"The Book of Revelation: Its Astounding Relevance
for the 20th and 21st Centuries."

About 50% of the Book is for Modern Times.

Section 2 Part 2 of the REVELATION Commentary

The DEMISE of all the UNBELIEVING, WORST HUMANS on EARTH and of the PLANET ITSELF. IMMINENT?

"And EVERY MOUNTAIN and ISLAND WERE MOVED out of their PLACES." Revelation 6:14 

The Unbelieving Rulers of the Nations, the Great Ones, the Rich, and Powerful try to FLEE. 
Revelation 6:15-17; 19:17-19

Chain 1 of the series of Seven Chains is IDENTIFIED and STUDIED. It is composed of the Sixth and Seventh Seals of the Book of Revelation.

Document 4. Events 9, 10, and 11 prophesied in Chain 1.

WALKING through the FUTURE by means of SEVEN CHAINS of PROPHECIES validated as WORTHY to BE BELIEVED by previous ones already fulfilled. 

EVENT 9. “…and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.” Revelation 6:14.

Not, at that instant, destroyed entirely but “moved out of their places.” How much is not stated. Not one mountain and two or three islands but “every mountain and island” around the globe of Earth.

What city, what structure made by man -skyscraper, bridge, expressway, dam, fortified depository of valuables, secure place for the most powerful, etc.- could withstand the

tectonic movements of land masses ten times greater than any ever registered? Do you perhaps think it absurd that “every mountain and island” could ever be “moved out of their places?” Consider, then, what has already happened on our planet.

A man in Africa takes a selfie while standing before a long, deep, zigzagging crevice behind created by moving tectonic plates.

Question to AI Gemini 3.1. What was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded? Reply. Resume. The 1960 Valdivia, Chile earthquake, May 22, 1960. Magnitude 9.5. The fault line ruptured along approximately 800 kilometers (500 miles) of the coast of Chile. The shaking lasted about 10 minutes. A tsunami produced waves up to 25 meters (82 feet) high. “These waves raced across the Pacific Ocean, causing significant damage and loss of life as far away as Hawaii, Japan, the Philippines, and New Zealand.” Information obtained in part from www.wikipedia.org.

Question to AI Gemini 3.1. How wide and long is the greatest fissure in Earth's crust caused by an earthquake? Reply.

The longest fault rupture ever recorded, though it occurred primarily underwater on the ocean floor, was 1,500 kilometers long (930 miles) and 20 meters wide (65 feet). In the Indian Ocean, Sumatra, in 2004.

The second-longest rupture, the longest in North America, was 477 kilometers long (296 miles) and 8.5 meters wide (28 feet). San Francisco, California, USA, in 1906.

Question to AI Gemini 3.1. Has tectonic plate movement actually been measured, and if so, what are the two largest movements? Reply.

Thousands of high-precision GPS stations are anchored directly into deep bedrock around the world. By constantly communicating with satellites, these stations track changes in

the Earth's crust down to a fraction of a millimeter per year.

​While continuous creeping is normal, tectonic plates often get stuck. When the immense built-up pressure finally breaks, the plates snap forward in massive, sudden movements known as megathrust earthquakes.

2011. Tōhoku Earthquake (Japan). In one of the most violent sudden movements ever recorded, the tectonic plates slipped by as much as 50 meters (164 feet) at the trench. The force was so immense that it physically moved the entire Japanese main island of Honshu about 2.4 meters (8 feet) to the east in a matter of minutes.

Honshu Island, Japan. 1,300 km (810 miles) long by 50 to 230 km (31 to 143 miles) wide. The seventh-largest island in the world. With a population of 100.7 million in 2025.

After the 2011 earthquake, Japan built a sea wall 400 kilometers (250) miles long and up to 15.5 meters (50 feet) high, at a cost of 12.5 billion dollars. Despite the staggering size of the wall, engineers acknowledge that it cannot completely stop a massive, worst-case-scenario tsunami. Instead, the wall is designed as a delay mechanism, by absorbing the initial impact and slowing the inundation of coastal towns…” AI Gemini 3.1

The tsunamis created by the “GREAT EARTHQUAKE… SO MIGHTY” of the “CATASTROPHIC INTERACTING COMBINATION of EVENTS” of the Sixth Seal will be massive, worst-worst-case-scenarios of the greatest magnitude, and the “Great Japan Sea Wall” will be no more

2004. Indian Ocean Earthquake (Sumatra). The fault line unzipped for 1,448 kilometers (900 miles), and the tectonic plates snapped back upward and to the west by about 20 meters (65 feet). The displacement was so violent and sudden that it literally lifted new islands out of the sea and permanently altered the region's coastline. www.tectonics.caltech.edu

Dear Ones, our present-day planet Earth, for all its beautiful places and attractions, is, very often, a very dangerous place for us who live on its surface, its “Crust.” Why should we, as such an intelligent race in so many ways, not greatly rejoice at the prospect of living eternally on a much more beautiful and perfectly safe “NEW EARTH” with “NEW HEAVENS” (2 Peter 3:13; Revelation,

chapters 21 and 22) totally free of such dangers and beautiful beyond mortal description? That is what the Creator God offers to all humans who will “believe that he is, and that he is a REWARDER of them that seek after him.” Hebrews 11:6. And believing, “repent and be baptized for the forgiveness of sins” (Acts 2:38-47), becoming loyal citizens of his eternal “Kingdom of Peace and Justice.” Colossians 1:13; Philippians 3:20-21.

A globe of planet Earth with a quarter cutaway of it showing the crust, upper and lower mantles, and outer and inner cores.

Dear Ones, do you not know that the Crust of the Earth on which we live is only 30,000 to 50,000 meters thick on average (98,400 to 164,000 feet, about 19 to 31 miles) and that the temperature at the base of the Crust is 204 to 399 degrees Celsius (400 to 750 Fahrenheit)? Below the Crust is the Upper Mantle at 1,800 degrees (1,255 Celius), the Lower Mantle at 6,800 degrees (4,033 Celius) the Outer Core at 7,200 to 9,800 degrees (4,255 to 5,700 Celius), and, in the very center, the Inner Core at 9800 to 13,000 degrees (5,700 to 7,478 Celius)!

What, then, is our Earth but fundamentally a sphere of mantles and core as hot as Metallurgical Blast Furnaces (1,000°C to 1,650°C (1,832°F to 3,000°F), and hotter still, with a relatively thin outer layer of land and water, racing around the Sun at an average speed of 107,208 km/hour (66,616 mph), while it leans at an angle of 23.44° relative to its orbital path and revolves completely every 24 hours?

You know, beloved, if these CONSTANTS (invariable, unchanging parameters and realities) should be altered ever so little, our planet that multitudes love so much, wishing never to leave, and not a few actually worship, would probably EXPODE or just burn away quickly, don’t you think?

I, then, strongly suggest, urge, and beseech you to GET READY TO LEAVE IT! You will, anyway, ready or not, believe it or not, when your physical body dies, be that before the arrival of the “CATASTROPHIC INTERACTING COMBINATION of END-TIME EVENTS” or as a most dramatic and stressful consequence of it. For “it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this comes judgment.” Hebrews 9:27

EVENT 10 of the “CATASTROPHIC INTERACTING COMBINATION of EVENTS of the SIXTH and SEVENTH SEALS.” The Unbelieving Rulers of the Nations, the Great Ones, the Rich, and Powerful try to FLEE.

The “GREAT ONES DRAMA” of the vision-prophecy of the “SIXTH SEAL” in Revelation 6:15-17.

“15Then the KINGS of the
EARTH and the GREAT ONES and the GENERALS and the RICH and the POWERFUL, and EVERYONE, SLAVE and FREE, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains, 16 calling to the mountains and rocks, ‘Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, 17 for the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?’” Revelation 6:15-17

This same, basic vision-prophecy in the “MIGHTY MEN DRAMA” of Revelation 19:17-19.

17 “And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in mid heaven, Come and be gathered together unto the great supper of God; 18 that ye may eat the flesh of KINGS, and the flesh CAPTAINS, and the flesh of MIGHTY MEN, and the flesh of horses and of them that sit thereon, and the flesh of ALL MEN, both FREE and BOND, and SMALL and GREAT." Revelation 19:17-18. "And the REST WERE KILLED with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, even the sword which came forth out of his mouth: and all the birds were filled with their flesh.” Revelation 19:21

​All the identified in both vision-prophecies are the ones who survived the “seven last plagues” (Revelation, chapters 15 and 16) and thought that they had it made. No just, good, and righteous people among them. None whatsoever. No innocent infants and children. All of these will have been transformed and removed from the earthly realm at the beginning of the “Great Day” of the “wrath” of God and Jesus Christ. 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; 5:1-7

Then those unbelieving, mighty rulers of the earth, the rich and the strong, CEOs, industry tycoons, digital and Internet lords, etc., jump in their Mercedes-Benz-S-Class’s, Lexus LS’s, Cadillacs, Audis, Maserati Quattroportes, etc. and tear out full throttle down streets that begin to break up under them and the high-class stores, office, and apartment buildings of their beloved city shake and start to crumble.  PURE PANIC fills them. Others remain in their offices, in the stores, bars, gambling halls, brothels, on the sidewalks, frozen in petrifying FEAR. Perhaps some, in AWE and AMAZEMENT, turning to God, too late.

The less rich and powerful hurriedly take to their less prestigious cars, motorcycles, bicycles, scooters, roller blades, and head headlong for the countryside. Others take to their feet, running madly.

The most powerful people in the world, such as heads of state, cabinet secretaries, key agency administrators, chief security personnel, the highest-ranking

military leaders, and executives of the most important corporations, manufacturing facilities, etc., might rush to hardened “safe rooms,” but if they belong to the aforementioned categories of the unbelieving enemies of God and his Son, Jesus Christ, they will NOT ESCAPE the “wrath” of that “Great Day.” They will not be “able to stand.” Revelation 6:17. All bunker doors will be opened. All security measures, breached.

Dear Ones, I sincerely hope that YOU are not among them, and that you will BELIEVE, his fulfilled prophecies being a major reason, “a lamp shining in a dark place” (2 Peter 1:19), that the Master Teacher Jesus is “the SAVIOR of the WORLD” (1 John 4:14), “REPENT, and BE BAPTIZED (immersed in water) for the FORGIVENESS of YOUR SINS” so that you will not be among them and suffer their heart-rending fate.

I personally have taken those steps and don’t expect to be among them, for I am striving to be counted among the “good, just, and righteous” believers, to whom the Creator God of Love and Justice shows mercy. Mark 16:16; Acts 2:36-47; 1 Timothy 1:12-17; 2;4, plus a host of similar texts. That is just what true believers among the “Powerful people in the World” have also done, and for that reason they are not present on planet Earth when the “SIXTH SEAL DRAMA” is enacted.

Remember, Dear Ones, when you are thinking and saying, as you might be, that “ALL IS WELL. Everybody is OK. We have PEACE, SAFETY, and PROSPERITY,” SURPRISE! SURPRISE! That is just when the EVENTS of the “SIXTH SEAL DRAMA” are programmed to begin.  “When people say, ‘There is peace and security, then sudden destruction will come upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and there will be no escape.” 1 Thessalonians 5:1-7 RSV. A prophecy clearly stated almost 2,000 years ago. What do you think about that?

Now you may think it exceedingly strange that the hardened, intransigent, cursing, and blaspheming Unbelieving would call “to the mountains and rocks: ‘Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, for the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?’”

To be sure, they have no power whatsoever over the “mountains and rocks” to make them move an inch. And what do they know about the One who is seated on the throne, the wrath of the Lamb, and the Great Day of Wrath?

Oh, just ask AI, and you will learn, if you do not already know it, that all the major civilizations and religions of the world project the end of Earth in one way or another. And great multitudes of the Unbelieving have seen it portrayed with astonishing visual effects in movies, videos, etc. So, when it does, to their chagrin and heart-rending surprise, begin to happen, they quickly put two and two together and know WHO is really on the “THRONE” of absolute authority and power, and that he is in the act of fulfilling his prophecies about the end of the material Earth and Time. But, TOO, TOO LATE for them!

EVENT 11. “And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.” Revelation 16:20. I list this Event as separate from Event 9, which says “…and every mountain and island were moved out of their places” (Revelation 6:14), because I think that the mountains and islands are first “moved out of their places,” THEN flee away completely, “and there was found no place for them.” Revelation 20:11. “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth are passed away; and the sea is no more.” Revelation 21:1

Additional orientations on the Sequence of the
Seven Chains of Prophecies in Revelation

The Sixth Seal contains two more Vision-Prophecies portrayed in detail in Chapter 7 of the Book of Revelation.

Revelation 7:1-8 contains the Vision of the Sealing of the 144,000 of the children of Israel.

Revelation 7:9-17 relates the Vision of a “great multitude… standing before the throne of God… arrayed in while robes… that come out of the great tribulation,” the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures present. A scene similar to the one in Revelation 4.

​Logically, these two scenes take place before the very last moment of the “great day” of the “wrath of the Lamb” and of God the Father, when “the earth and the heaven” flee “away; and there was found no place for them.” Revelation 20:11. Many tremendous events quickly lead up to that “great day,” and more take place on that “great day” before the last second of material time is registered and “there is no more time.”  Revelation 10:5-7. No very exact sequence is published in any one particular text of the Book of Revelation.

We should also keep in mind that, while that “great day” may be 24 hours long, no more, it is also true that “one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” 2 Peter 3:8. Therefore, we may assume that “the day of the Lord…the day of God” that “comes as a thief in the night” (2 Peter 3:10 and 12; 1 Thessalonians 5:2) will be as long or short as he determines.

Now, after the two scenes in Revelation, Chapter 7, comes Revelation 8:1, and it contains the message of the Seventh Seal, which reads: “When the Lamb opened the SEVENTH SEAL, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.”

​At this critical point in our studies, let us take due notice. Revelation 8:1 DOES NOT CONTAIN a link to the First Trumpet, but rather marks the end of time, with the "silence in heaven for about half an hour" being the last event revealed through the series of the Seven Seals.

Revelation 8:2 begins a NEW CHAIN of Prophecies and Visions with the words: “And I saw the seven angels that stand before God; and there were given unto them SEVEN TRUMPETS.”

The division of the Sacred Scriptures of the New Testament into chapters and verses was not done by God but by fallible human beings. Into “chapters” by Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury, around 1205 CE. Into “verses,” by Robert Estienne, a French printer, in 1551, for the New Testament, and in 1555, for the full Latin Bible.

​Plainly, in a strictly logical division, Revelation 8:1 should have been Revelation 7:18, completing, thus, in that chapter the Chain of the Seven Seals.

Text and layout by the author Homer Dewayne Shappley. All rights reserved. Not to be sold in any format. The source should be properly identified in any published citation of the content.

A LIST of the CONTENT, with links, of the commentary "Revelation: Its Astounding Relevance for the 20th and 21st Centuries."

This is the title image for the 21st century Commentary on the Book of Revelation by Dewayne Shappley, composed of a horizon background in shades of blue with an explosion of red and white celestial forms on the horizon.
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Steps to take to be saved eternally according to the New Testament of Jesus Christ. And be blessed with the imperishable reward of living forever on "the New Earth with New Heavens." "Approaching God in Search of Pardon, Honor, and Eternal Life." Hear the true gospel. Believe that Jesus of Nazareth is the promised Messiah. Repent of sins. Publicly confess that Jesus is the Son of God. Be baptized (immersed in water) "for the forgiveness of sins." Concise text. 33 Bible texts cited. 2 video clips. 6 images. 4-minute read. Este mensaje en ESPAÑOL

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