† Matching Up Matthew and Revelation †

 Matthew 12:1-24 and Revelation 9 match up. The conceptual match is that Jesus is opposed by the religious leaders and in Revelation evil creatures attack and kill humans. There is a two part structural match.  Matthew 12:1-14 & Revelation 9:1-11 Matthew 12:15-24 & Revelation 9:12-21  firstly: Matthew starts with the disciples eating wheat in a field. Revelation starts with locusts being released. Locusts destroy crops by eating them in the field. In Matthew Jesus gives an example of a sheep falling in a pit and being lifted out. In Revelation the locusts are released out of a bottomless pit. The first structure ends with the religious leaders seeking to destroy Jesus. And in Revelation it ends with the word Apollyon. In Greek the word destroy and Apollyon are the same word. Second structure: Jesus heals all that come to him, but in Revelation four horses are released to slay a third of men. In Matthew Jesus doesn't quench a smoking flax, but in Revelation people are killed

  You don't have to pull your parables God, give it to me straight. Softening the blow just makes it confusing.

 America should stop dropping care packages to Hamas in northern Palestine. 

 Matthew 13:[ 34 ] All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them: [ 35 ] That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world. _____________ Matthew5:2 And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying,... Revelation 5:[ 4 ] And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon. [ 5 ] And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof. Somebody,  pick up. Answer the call.

 Jeremiah 32 [4] And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes; [5] And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon , and there shall he be until I visit him, saith the LORD: Jeremiah 37 [ 2 ] Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire: [ 3 ] And thou shalt not escape out of his hand, but shalt surely be taken, and delivered into his hand; and thine eyes shall behold the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with thee mouth to mouth, and thou shalt go to Babylon. [ 4 ] Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah; Thus saith the LORD of thee, Thou shalt not die by the sword: [5 ] But thou shalt die in peace: and with the burnin

 It isn't clear why God would do this. God is probably infinite, so this could be a little Bible Easter egg. Surprise. God doesn't explain why very often, and even then the explanation sounds like a flimsy excuse. The matchup does not seem to add anything to theology or the return of Christ. It is obvious to the casual observer that they match up, but why is a mystery.