Hi Patti C....It does my heart so much good to hear that someone is "digging" into the truth of what the Bible says and not just what "man" says it proclaims.  Man is fallible, but God is forever Truth.  I have the whole book, The Bible Wheel, and it is extremely challenging because it has totally destroyed the errors that I have heard in the past when I used to go to church.

What I have learned recently is what is most important to God (other than His Son, Jesus Christ, taking our punishment for sin), is absolutely CORRECT doctrine.  Revelation 3:10 explains, in Jesus' own words (red letters), that the reason the Philadelphia church will be kept from the "hour of temptation" which will come upon the rest of the whole world is that they "kept the word of my patience."  The MOST important thing to God is doctrine.  Wrong doctrine produces false beliefs.

You wondered if what you read concerning the trut! hs of the "Bible Wheel" concerns the Book of Revelation.  Indeed, it does.  I am firmly convinced that the "two olive trees and the two candlesticks" that are "standing before the God of the earth" have absolutely nothing do do with any man such as Elijah, Enoch, or Moses.  We have, right now, what the "two witnesses" are...the Holy Bible (Old and New Testament) and the Holy Spirit dwelling in believers.  This is what Zechariah chapter 4 talks about.  "Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts."

What God will accomplish through the 144,000 (which I believe is a symbolic number of all those who are "spiritual Jews" through belief in our Lord Jesus Christ) will be the absolute Truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ given through the Holy Spirit.  It will be as it was with Moses and Aaron when they confronted Pharoah and were able to produce miracles....see Exodus 7:8-12.  God told them that He would spe! ak for them and through them.  It will be the same during the 1260 days of their "witness" all over the world.  The "144,000" will not have to think of what to say because they will be "sealed" and the Holy Spirit will speak through them.  See Matthew 10:19...

I told this to a dear friend of mine, and she asked "How can you kill the Bible and the Holy Spirit?"  Just the same way you can "kill a friendship" or "kill a bill" in Congress.  But the ones proclaiming the truth of the Gospel will also be literally killed at the end of their testimony, but they will be taken up after the 3 1/2 days.

And why does the whole world rejoice when they are gone?  Because they are ANGRY at someone who is telling them something other than what they have learned to believe.  Look how angry people get even here at the Doves site when someone says something they don't want to hear.  How is it going to be with all people of every religion an! d denomination all over the world, when God sends someone with the abso! lute truth....and they can't be stopped or killed during this time?  There is going to be absolute mayhem.....but there will also be millions who will be saved by believing  the witnesses.

Once all the saved, through the witnesses to the truth, has come to completion, and they are taken up to God's throne...Rev.14, God gives the world one last chance to repent before His wrath comes upon the earth......

I do go on, don't I?  But this is the ONLY scenario that fits the whole picture.  The Philadelphia church is taken out before this all begins because God promised this, and He cannot break what He has written.  I believe that the "man child" (Philadelphia church) is that time seen in Rev. 12, and I believe the 144,000 (symbolic of spiritual Israel) are the "woman" fleeing into the wilderness."  Whether this is "gospel truth" remains to be seen.

Before anyone goes on about the 12 Tribes who are sealed.....look in the mirror!!!   Can you say for absolutely positive, and without a doubt, that you are NOT one of the "lost 10 tribes"??  It doesn't matter if you are in America, Japan, Germany, or on an island in the Bahamas.....you, yourself could be one of the 144,000.  So could I.  So, that is no argument that can be made.

What I have said is my opinion on what I have learned from ONLY the bible.  I read the KJV.  I don't know what the other versions say.  So if one compares what the NIV says with what the KJV says, that's comparing things that are very different....like apples and oranges.

We should see, not too long from now, if my theory is totally wrong...or right.  And Patty C, I am so glad you brought this up!  It's very exciting to see truths exposed...

Agape love,

Arlene