From this new image, I believe we get a picture of what might have happened. When Christ arrived at Tartarus and proclaimed to them that He had conquered death, hell and the grave, they fell down and cried out, ‘you are the son of God’ “ (Mark 3:14).

The final two chapters of Revelation, chapters 21 & 22, reveal to us a time that none of us have ever known at this point. I think of the many wonders of the world as it presently exists, all of the breath-taking beauty existing in many places of the world; and yet you and I live in a world still tainted by the affects of original sin. Because of this fact, despite all of the grandeur, the ugliness and scars of the curse are also present. 

Israel National News reported on July 21, 2007 that a group of Kabbalists (Jewish mystic Rabbis) in Israel had made the startling statement that a major war would take place in Israel very soon. They apparently received their information from a variety of mystical sources including "communicating with autistic children." They also said that Iran would be involved but that great miracles of Hashem (God) would take place which would be recognizable to all even non Kabbalists.

In one of the most imponderable statements of scripture we read that after the 1,000 years are fulfilled, he must be loosed a little season. Why, given all of the murder, mayhem, sickness, pain, and misery caused for some 6,000 years of human history by this dragon, this serpent, the devil, and Satan; would you want to let him go once you had him bound and locked away?

I lectured at the University of Arizona for years on anti Semitism and the role of the Church in the Crusades, Inquisition and the Holocaust. I too sought solace in the apparently peaceful Eastern Religions like Taoism, Buddhism and in the I-Ching. I mediated and contemplated my navel and flew in my times of lucid dreaming. It all came to a crashing halt, however, one evening when a grad student of mine killed himself because of his own character flaws.

We return this time to Revelation chapter 19. We looked at the first ten verses last time and discovered five reasons for Heaven's song of rejoicing. Satan and his man the Antichrist have had their day and their time of judgment will have arrived. This will cause great rejoicing in Heaven as the great plan of God for the ages comes to fruition when the kingdoms of this world become the kingdoms of our God and of His Christ and He reigns on the Earth. Despite Satan's, and in some cases man's best efforts, the great plan of God for man and the Earth will be realized.