WE CONTINUE WITH THE BOOK OF REVELATION SERIES WITH THE ONGOING VISION OF JOHN THE APOSTLE.
AGAIN, KEEP IN MIND THAT THE PROPHECIES OF EVENTS IN REVELATION ARE NOT IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER.
THUS FAR THE LAMB OF GOD EVEN JESUS CHRIST, HAS INTRODUCED US TO THE JUDGMENTS BEHIND THE OPENING OF THE SIX SEALS. WE NOW MOVE TO THE OPENING OF THE SEVENTH SEAL!
REVELATION CHAPTER 8 SYNOPSIS
JOHN SEES THE LAMB OF GOD (JESUS) OPEN THE SEVENTH SEAL, AND THERE IS SILENCE IN HEAVEN FOR 30 MINUTES.
“AND I (JOHN) SAW THE SEVEN ANGELS WHICH STOOD BEFORE GOD: AND TO THEM WERE GIVEN SEVEN TRUMPETS”.
ANOTHER ANGEL STANDS AT THE ALTAR OFFERING INCENSE WITH THE PRAYERS OF ALL THE SAINTS (COMMENTARY: ALL THE PRAYERS OF THE RIGHTEOUS MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH THROUGHOUT TIME).
THE SMOKE OF THE INCENSE ALONG WITH THESE PRAYERS ASCENDS BEFORE GOD.
THE ANGEL TAKES THE CENSER (INCENSE CONTAINER FOR OFFERING) AND FILLS IT WITH FIRE FROM THE ALTAR AND CASTS IT INTO THE EARTH.
THERE ARE ENSUING VOICES, THUNDERINGS, LIGHTNINGS, AND AN EARTHQUAKE.
THE SEVEN ANGELS PREPARE TO SOUND THE SEVEN TRUMPETS.
“THE FIRST ANGEL SOUNDED, AND THERE FOLLOWED HAIL AND FIRE MINGLED WITH BLOOD, AND THEY WERE CAST UPON THE EARTH: AND THE THIRD PART OF TREES WAS BURNT UP, AND ALL GREEN GRASS WAS BURNT UP.”
“AND THE SECOND ANGEL SOUNDED, AND AS IT WERE A GREAT MOUNTAIN BURNING WITH FIRE WAS CAST INTO THE SEA: AND THE THIRD PART OF THE SEA BECAME BLOOD”.
(COMMENTARY: “AS IT WERE” DENOTES “LIKE” A MOUNTAIN, SO SOME BIBLE PROPHECY SCHOLARS SAY WE LOOK FOR A COMET OR ASTEROID COLLISION INTO THE OCEAN. MANY PEOPLE CITE THE EFFECTS OF THE MARCH 11, 2011 FUKISHIMA EARTHQUAKE/TSUNAMI/NUCLEAR DISASTER AS A HARBINGER OF THE END TIMES IN THE WAY IT SUBVERTED THE JET STREAM AND POISONED THE PACIFIC OCEAN. THERE WERE 18,500 PEOPLE THAT DIED IN THE EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI, AND ANOTHER 1800 THAT DIED FROM THE REACTOR MELTDOWN, AS WELL TRILLIONS OF MARINE LIFE DEATHS, AND THIS CONTINUES TO THIS DAY. HOWEVER, FUKISHIMA IS A SMALL DISASTER COMPARED TO THIS COMING EVENT).
AND THE THIRD ANGEL SOUNDED, AND THERE FELL A GREAT STAR FROM HEAVEN, BURNING AS IT WERE A LAMP, AND IT FELL UPON THE THIRD PART OF THE RIVERS, AND UPON THE FOUNTAINS OF WATERS. AND THE NAME OF THE STAR IS CALLED WORMWOOD: AND THE THIRD PART OF THE WATERS BECAME WORMWOOD; AND MANY MEN DIED OF THE WATERS, BECAUSE THEY WERE MADE BITTER.”
(COMMENTARY: WORMWOOD! DID YOU KNOW THAT THE RUSSIAN WORD “CHERNOBYL” MEANS “WORMWOOD”? A MERE COINCIDENCE? I THINK NOT! THE CHERNOBYL DISASTER HAPPENED APRIL 26, 1986 AND WAS A HARBINGER OF THE END TIMES WITH 5000 CANCER CLUSTER DEATHS BY 2006 AND TENS OF THOUSANDS OF ACRES POISONED FOREVER. BUT WORMWOOD IN THIS PASSAGE IN REVELATION REFERS TO A FORCE EQUAL TO NUCLEAR DEVASTATION THAT FALLS FROM OUTER SPACE TO EARTH.)
“AND THE FOURTH ANGEL SOUNDED, AND THE THIRD PART OF THE SUN WAS SMITTEN, AND THE THIRD PART OF THE MOON, AND THE THIRD PART OF THE STARS: SO AS THE THIRD PART OF THEM WAS DARKENED, AND THE DAY SHONE NOT FOR A THIRD PART OF IT, AND THE NIGHT LIKEWISE”.
(COMMENTARY: JUST IMAGINE THE MINI ICE AGE THAT WOULD COME FROM THIS, SPARKING CROP FAILURES WORLDWIDE).
JOHN HEARS ANOTHER ANGEL FLYING THROUGH HEAVEN, SAYING WITH A LOUD VOICE, “WOE, WOE, WOE, TO THE INHABITANTS OF THE EARTH BY REASON OF THE OTHER VOICES OF THE TRUMPET OF THE THREE ANGELS, WHICH ARE YET TO SOUND”.
REVELATION CHAPTER 9 SYNOPSIS
“AND THE FIFTH ANGEL SOUNDED, AND I (JOHN) SAW A STAR FALL FROM HEAVEN TO THE EARTH: AND TO HIM WAS GIVEN THE KEY OF THE BOTTOMLESS PIT; AND HE OPENED THE BOTTOMLESS PIT; AND THERE AROSE A SMOKE OUT OF THE PIT, AS THE SMOKE OF A GREAT FURNACE: AND THE SUN AND THE AIR WERE DARKENED BY REASON OF THE SMOKE OF THE PIT”.
(COMMENTARY: SATAN IS THE “STAR FALLING FROM HEAVEN TO THE EARTH”. GOD WILL LOOSE SATAN IN THE FORM OF THE ANTICHRIST UPON THE WORLD TO PURIFY THOSE REMAINING ON EARTH AFTER THE RAPTURE OF MILLIONS. BILLIONS OF HUMANITY ARE LEFT BEHIND TO FACE THESE JUDGMENTS.)
OUT OF THE SMOKE COME THE LOCUSTS UPON EARTH, AND TO THEM WAS GIVEN POWER LIKE SCORPIONS. THEY ARE COMMANDED NOT TO HARM GRASS, PLANTS OR TREES, “BUT ONLY THOSE MEN WHICH HAVE NOT THE SEAL OF GOD IN THEIR FOREHEADS”.
(COMMENTARY: THE LOCUSTS WOULD NOT KILL THE WICKED MEN OF EARTH BUT TORMENT THEM FOR FIVE MONTHS LIKE SCORPIONS.)
“AND IN THOSE DAYS SHALL MEN SEEK DEATH, AND SHALL NOT FIND IT; AND SHALL DESIRE TO DIE, AND DEATH SHALL FLEE FROM THEM”.
JOHN TELLS US THE SHAPES OF THE LOCUSTS WERE LIKE—
1. HORSES PREPARED FOR BATTLE.
2. THERE WAS A CROWN OF GOLD ON THEIR HEADS.
3. THEY HAD FACES LIKE MEN.
4. THEY HAD HAIR LIKE A WOMAN’S.
5. THEY HAD TEETH LIKE A LION’S.
6. THEY WORE BREASTPLATES OF IRON.
7. THE SOUND OF THEIR WINGS WAS LIKE THE SOUND OF CHARIOTS AND MANY HORSES RUNNING TO BATTLE.
8. THEY HAD TAILS LIKE SCORPIONS.
9. THERE WERE STINGERS IN THEIR TAILS.
(COMMENTARY: SOME BIBLE SCHOLARS SEE THESE STRANGE LOCUSTS AS DEMONS LET LOOSE FROM HELL IN THE LITERAL SENSE. JOHN MAKES IT CLEAR THAT THESE LOCUSTS HAD A KING OVER THEM, WHICH IS THE ANGEL OF THE BOTTOMLESS PIT, WHOSE NAME IN HEBREW IS ABADDON, BUT IN GREEK IS APOLLYON, OR IN ENGLISH “THE DESTROYER” AKA SATAN).
NOW “ONE WOE IS PAST; AND BEHOLD, THERE COME TWO WOES MORE HEREAFTER”.
“AND THE SIXTH ANGEL SOUNDED, AND I (JOHN) HEARD A VOICE FROM THE FOUR HORNS OF THE GOLDEN ALTAR WHICH IS BEFORE GOD, SAYING TO THE SIXTH ANGEL WHICH HAD THE TRUMPET, LOOSE THE FOUR ANGELS IN THE GREAT RIVER EUPHRATES. AND THE FOUR ANGELS WERE LOOSED, WHICH WERE PREPARED FOR AN HOUR, AND A DAY, AND A MONTH, AND A YEAR, FOR TO SLAY THE THIRD PART OF MEN”.
(COMMENTARY: OK, THE BOOK OF REVELATION TALKS A LOT ABOUT THINGS BEING LOOSED AND THINGS BEING SEALED. IN THE FRAMEWORK OF THIS COLLECTIVE 22 CHAPTER BOOK, WHEN THINGS ARE “LOOSED” OBVIOUSLY THIS IS NOT GOOD NEWS.
BIBLE SCHOLARS SAY THIS PASSAGE REFERS TO DESTROYING ANGELS BEING LOOSED OUT OF TURKEY.
WE ARE TOLD BY PROPHECY MINISTERS (FOR DECADES) TO WATCH FOR TURKEY ENTERING THE COMING WORLD CONFLICTS. IN THE LAST TWO YEARS TURKISH LEADER ERDOGAN HAS SHOW A SHIFT FROM NATO COMPLIANCE TO A HARD-LINE FUNDAMENTALIST MUSLIM REPOSE. PAY ATTENTION PEOPLE OF EARTH!
BEAR THIS IN MIND, WITH THE ANATOLI DAM COMPLETION OF 1990, AND ALL THE OTHER DAMS RELATED HAVING BEEN COMPLETED BY 2013, THE TURKS NOW HAVE THE POWER TO DRY UP THE EUPHRATES RIVER TO ALLOW THE 200 MILLION MAN CHINESE ARMY TO PASS OVER ON THE WAY TO ARMAGEDDON.)
“AND THE NUMBER OF THE ARMY OF THE HORSEMEN WERE TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND THOUSAND…”
(COMMENTARY: WHEN JOHN WROTE DOWN THIS VISION 2000 YEARS AGO, THERE WAS NO TERM FOR “MILLIONS”. THE MODERN CHINESE ARMY IS THE ONLY MILITARY MACHINE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING THIS MAJORITY NUMBER OF SOLDIERS FOR WARFARE. IN FACT IT WAS REPORTED BY THE CHINESE IN 2004 THAT THEY HAD A 200 MILLION MAN ARMY FINALLY ESTABLISHED.
UNDERSTAND THAT THE CHINESE ARE “THE KINGS OF THE EAST” MENTIONED SO MANY TIMES IN BIBLE PROPHECY).
JOHN SEES THE CHINESE WEAPONRY—
“BY THESE WAS THE THIRD PART OF MEN KILLED, BY THE FIRE, AND BY THE SMOKE, AND BY THE BRIMSTONE, WHICH ISSUED OUT OF THEIR MOUTHS.” (COMMENTARY: OR OUT OF THE MOUTH OR BARRELS OF THEIR WEAPONS).
“AND THE REST OF THE MEN WHICH WERE NOT KILLED BY THESE PLAGUES YET REPENTED NOT OF THE WORKS OF THEIR HANDS, THAT THEY SHOULD NOT WORSHIP DEVILS, AND IDOLS OF GOLD, AND SILVER, AND BRASS, AND STONE, AND OF WOOD…”
“NEITHER REPENTED THEY OF THEIR MURDERS, NOR OF THEIR SORCERIES, NOR OF THEIR FORNICATION, NOR OF THEIR THEFTS.”
(COMMENTARY: JUST IMAGINE, ONE THIRD OF THE WORLD LAY DEAD FROM WARS AND YET MOST OF THE HUMANITY STILL ALIVE WILL BE SO SPIRITUALLY ROTTEN TO THE CORE OF THEIR BEING, THAT THEY WILL NOT CHANGE THEIR WAYS).
BY THE WAY, THE ENGLISH TO GREEK TRANSLATION OF “SORCERIES” IS “PHARMAKEIA” WHICH MEANS TO ADMINISTER DRUGS; THE USE OF DRUGS OR SPELLS. ANY ONE NOW ABUSING DRUGS HAD BETTER RETURN TO THE MEDICINAL USE OF SUCH THINGS FOR HEALING PURPOSES ONLY OR FACE THE COMING JUDGEMENTS.)
REVELATION CHAPTER 10 SYNOPSIS
JOHN SEES ANOTHER ANGEL COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN WITH A LITTLE BOOK OPEN.
THE ANGEL CRIES WITH A LOUD VOICE AND THE SEVEN THUNDERS UTTER THEIR VOICES.
A VOICE FROM HEAVEN TELLS JOHN TO SEAL UP THOSE THINGS WHICH THE SEVEN THUNDERS UTTERED, AND WRITE THEM NOT.
AN ANGEL LIFTS UP HIS HAND TO HEAVEN AND SWEARS BY HIM THAT LIVES FOREVER AND EVER, “THAT THERE SHOULD BE TIME NO LONGER…IN THE DAYS OF THE VOICE OF THE SEVENTH ANGEL, WHEN HE SHALL BEGIN TO SOUND, THE MYSTERY OF GOD SHOULD BE FINISHED, AS HE HAS DECLARED TO HIS SERVANTS THE PROPHETS.”
JOHN IS TOLD TO TAKE THE LITTLE BOOK FROM THE ANGEL AND EAT IT, THAT IT SHALL MAKE HIS BELLY BITTER, BUT IT WOULD BE SWEET AS HONEY. MOREOVER, JOHN DID SO.
THE ANGEL TELLS JOHN, “YOU MUST PROPHESY AGAIN BEFORE MANY PEOPLES, AND NATIONS, AND TONGUES, AND KINGS.”
REVELATION CHAPTER 11 SYNOPSIS
JOHN STATES THAT THE ANGEL SAID THAT DURING THE TRIBULATION PERIOD THE GENTILES (ARMIES) WILL SACK AND OCCUPY JERUSALEM FOR 42 MONTHS = 3 1/2 YEARS.
JOHN ALSO STATES THAT POWER WILL BE GIVEN TO TWO WITNESSES (PROPHETS) AND THEY WILL STAND AND PROPHESY FOR 3 1/2 YEARS IN JERUSALEM.
“AND IF ANY MAN WILL HURT THEM, FIRE PROCEEDS OUT OF THEIR MOUTH, AND DEVOURS THEIR ENEMIES”.
THESE TWO WITNESSES FOR CHRIST WILL HAVE POWER TO BRING DROUGHT, TURN WATERS TO BLOOD, AND SMITE THE EARTH WITH PLAGUES AS OFTEN AS THEY NEED.
WHEN THEY FINISH THEIR TESTIMONY, THE BEAST FROM THE BOTTOMLESS PIT SHALL MAKE WAR WITH THEM AND KILL THEM.
(COMMENTARY: SATAN IN THE FORM OF THE POSSESSED ANTICHRIST IS THIS BEAST).
THEIR DEAD BODIES SHALL LIE IN THE STREET IN JERUSALEM FOR 3 1/2 DAYS.
THE PEOPLES OF MANY NATIONS SHALL SEE THIS AND NOT BURY THEM.
THE PEOPLE WILL REJOICE OVER THEIR DEATHS AND PARTY OVER THEM, BECAUSE THESE 2 PROPHETS TORMENTED THEM WITH THEIR WORDS.
AFTER 3 1/2 DAYS THE SPIRIT FROM GOD SHALL ENTER INTO THEM AND THEY WILL STAND UPON THEIR FEET, AND GREAT FEAR WILL FALL UPON THE PEOPLE.
THEY WILL HEAR A GREAT VOICE FROM HEAVEN SAY TO THEM, “COME UP HITHER.” THE TWO WITNESSES WILL ASCEND TO HEAVEN IN A CLOUD, WHILE THEIR ENEMIES WATCH.
(COMMENTARY: WHO ARE THE TWO WITNESSES? A MAJORITY OF PROPHECY SCHOLARS SAY ELIJAH AND MOSES.)
THAT SAME HOUR A GREAT EARTHQUAKE DESTROYS A TENTH PART OF JERUSALEM AND 7000 DIE. THE REST OF THE PEOPLE ARE FRIGHTENED.
“THE SECOND WOE IS PAST; AND BEHOLD, THE THIRD WOE COMES…”
“THE SEVENTH ANGEL SOUNDED; AND THERE WERE GREAT VOICES IN HEAVEN, SAYING, THE KINGDOMS OF THIS WORLD ARE BECOME THE KINGDOM’S OF OUR LORD, AND OF HIS CHRIST; AND HE SHALL REIGN FOR EVER AND EVER”.
“AND THE NATIONS WERE ANGRY, AND YOUR (CHRIST’S) WRATH IS COME, AND THE TIME OF THE DEAD TO BE JUDGED… AND IT HAD COME THE TIME TO DESTROY THEM WHICH DESTROY THE EARTH”.
JOHN LOOKS INTO THE TEMPLE OF GOD IN HEAVEN AND SEES THE ARK OF THE COVENANT, AND THERE WERE LIGHTNINGS, AND VOICES, AND THUNDERINGS, AND AN EARTHQUAKE, AND GREAT HAIL.
NEXT: REVELATION CHAPTER 12 AND ONWARD— SATAN AND THE NATURE OF THE ANTICHRIST