Hi John and doves,

who controls the world?

God or Satan?

comparing 2 verses

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer.
Romans 13:1‭-‬4 ESV


So our authorities are put there by God? Even the ones we struggle to trust?

compare


And the beast that I saw was like a leopard; its feet were like a bear's, and its mouth was like a lion's mouth. And to it the dragon gave his power and his throne and great authority.
Revelation 13:2 ESV

and


And the beast was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months. It opened its mouth to utter blasphemies against God, blaspheming his name and his dwelling, that is, those who dwell in heaven. Also it was allowed to make war on the saints and to conquer them. And authority was given it over every tribe and people and language and nation,
Revelation 13:5‭-‬7 ESV


although the beast "was allowed"
so God is still in control.

maybe another question is better.
is the beast after the rapture like we all hope?

rev 13 is after rev 12.

is this passage which has the word harpazzo in it referring to the rapture, so is before the beast?

She gave birth to a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne,
Revelation 12:5 ESV


harpazzo
word link

https://biblehub.com/interlinear/revelation/12.htm


◄ 726. harpazó ►
Strong's Concordance
harpazó: to seize, catch up, snatch away

same word in this passage.

1 Thessalonians 4:17
NAS: and remain will be caught up together

if 6th seal wrath starts?
rev 6:17 for the great day of their wrath has come.

is rapture within 5 seals?

i have written before about an idea that the rapture may be hidden in the 3rd seal.
It is in the 4th seal that things get worse. Not just a rider, but the rider is specifically death with hades. and specifically given authority over a fourth of the earth.

within the previous seal, maybe the voice in the midst of the 4 living creatures is God.
maybe he is dropping a hint.
oil and wine or vine maybe by the vine of believers grafted in with the oil of the holy spirit.

maybe the quart of wheat denarius is pointing to the story in 2 kings 6 with almost the same phrase. and just after this phrase in 2kings 6 is what? a seven year famine in 2 kings 7.
and just before the phrase is the rapture of Elijah to heaven.

so maybe the 3rd seal points to a rapture and start of a seven year period.

and if the first 2 seals are covid and the vaccine.
and if the 3rd seal pair of scales actually means yoke as per the word.


Usage: a yoke; hence met: (a Jewish idea) of a heavy burden, comparable to the heavy yokes resting on the bullocks' necks; a balance, pair of scales.

1. a yoke;

a. properly, such as is put on draught-cattle.

b. metaphorically, used of any burden or bondage: as that of slavery


then could this yoke be the vax passport?

hence our leaving very soon..!?