Christian Churches of God No. 141

The Seven Trumpets

(Edition 4.0 19951109-20000902-20071106-20130128)

The seven trumpets of Revelation lead up to Messiah. The wars of the end are part of this sequence. The actual sequence is detailed with a flow chart of the seals and trumpets.

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The structure of the Seventh Seal Matthew 10:17-24 Beware of men; for they will deliver you up to councils, and flog you in their The Seventh Seal was opened at the beginning synagogues, 18 and you will be dragged before of the Wars of the End. (See the paper The governors and kings for my sake, to bear testimony Seven Seals (No. 140).) before them and the Gentiles. 19 When they deliver you up, do not be anxious how you are to speak or what you are to say; for what you are to say will be Previously we went through the concepts of the given to you in that hour; Great Tribulation and the heavenly signs and Frequently we must pray for the inspiration the sealing of the 144,000. We then went to the that the Lord and the Holy Spirit will give us concept of silence in Heaven for half an hour. the things to say. The Lord gives us what we This silence is a watershed. We are sealed. It need. Normally, preparation is essential to any introduces the activities or processes leading good work. The Lord, however, gives us the up to the coming of the Messiah. Through the words to say under duress and trial. He heavenly signs, everyone on the earth knows provides what we need and He does things to that the Messiah is coming. Once the heavenly teach us lessons as well. It becomes evident signs occur people are made aware of the that there is a lesson in the way with which we heavenly activity. These kings and generals are are dealt. There are very few accidents in our then all saying: “hide us from the wrath of the lives. We know that the Lord is dealing with us one who is to come”. Messiah is to come, but because we get too many coincidences. Things he is not there yet. It is obvious from the just fall into place and we know that’s what is heavenly signs that most people, including the happening. This whole concept of the Spirit leaders of the planet, know that Messiah is speaking through us occurs throughout this coming. They all know something is going to tribulation right to the end. happen. The Spirit convicts us of what we are to say We will go through Matthew 10 and deal with and do in given situations. what Christ said. 20 for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Matthew 10:16 "Behold, I send you out as sheep in Father speaking through you. 21 Brother will deliver the midst of wolves; up brother to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put We are all there as sheep in the midst of to death; wolves. We are not there with power. This has been happening to the elect on this Normally, when a sheep is sent into a wolf planet over this century, and it certainly pack it becomes lunch. So we don’t go there happened under the communist system, and it with our own power to deal with these people; will continue worldwide under the Beast power we go with the power of the Holy Spirit. – which is an extension of the state system.

… so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves. 22 and you will be hated by all for my name's sake. (RSV) But he who endures to the end will be saved. 23 This means that we have to use these When they persecute you in one town, flee to the concepts and the power of the Holy Spirit so next; for truly, I say to you, you will not have gone through all the towns of Israel, before the Son of that we cause no offence. However, we man comes. stand for the Lord and we nevertheless Now that is a key Scripture. We will be on the become a witness even though we haven’t move. Israel will be under attack and will be got physical strength in the same way they invaded. All Israel will be extant, and we are have. The power of the Holy Spirit can not talking about the Israelis in Jerusalem and bring down strongholds. It is not weakness the State of Israel. We are talking about the in terms of the Holy Spirit that we go out nations of Israel. They will be invaded and we amongst them. It is not by might or power will be going from city to city. That is not very but by My Spirit says the Lord of Hosts far off. This whole process of war is an (Zech. 4:6). unfashionable one. A lot of people glamorise The Seven Trumpets Page 3 it, especially Hollywood, but be assured that it Everything is done for a reason and everything is not a pleasant exercise, and keeping people is done in spiritual symbolism. alive is the biggest problem we face. After this silence we are given the seventh trumpet. Revelation 8:7-13 The first angel blew his trumpet, and there followed hail and fire, mixed with blood, Revelation 10:1-7 Then I saw another mighty angel which fell on the earth; and a third of the earth was coming down from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, burnt up, and a third of the trees were burnt up, and with a rainbow over his head, and his face was like all green grass was burnt up. the sun, and his legs like pillars of fire. 2 He had a Note the sequence of the damage to the earth in little scroll open in his hand. And he set his right fire and hail and the contamination we see as foot on the sea, and his left foot on the land, 3 and blood. This is happening now also in the called out with a loud voice, like a lion roaring; droughts and the fires and the algal blooms and when he called out, the seven thunders sounded. 4 And when the seven thunders had sounded, I was the contamination of drinking water. This about to write, but I heard a voice from heaven contamination is then followed by the saying, "Seal up what the seven thunders have said, contamination of the seas to a third of their and do not write it down." 5 And the angel whom I extent. saw standing on sea and land lifted up his right hand to heaven 6 and swore by him who lives for ever and We are looking at the destruction by heavenly ever, who created heaven and what is in it, the earth means; this could be meteors etc., and all sorts and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it, that there should be no more delay, 7 but that in the days of other things such as physical catastrophes of the trumpet call to be sounded by the seventh that burn up a third of the planet, trees and all angel, the mystery of God, as he announced to his the grass. We are looking, then, at general servants the prophets, should be fulfilled. famine arising from drought. This sequence The seven thunders have a portion of a then goes on. message, which will occur in the days of the 8 The second angel blew his trumpet, and something Witnesses, i.e. in the Last Days. At the end of like a great mountain, burning with fire, was thrown this time the final Mystery of God will be into the sea; 9 and a third of the sea became blood, a revealed. The 1,260 days finish, and the third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed. droughts and plagues are temporarily at an end. Note that these contaminations are also The Mystery of God is only fulfilled, destroying the ships, and they also are completed and understood in the seventh contaminated by radioactivity and tsunamis trumpet. When the sealing of the 144,000 is and that will continue and increase. The solar completed this mystery is revealed. When that activity will increase temperatures over and takes place and God pours out His Holy Spirit above their normal thousand year cycles. (See on the elect, we reveal the Mysteries of God, the paper Global Warming-Historical Cycles and then they will be fulfilled. That is what is (No. 218B).) happening at the moment. The structure has to be removed and dealt with because the The mountain falling into the sea presents a Trinitarian and modern paradigms are wrong. number of options in terms of this second The traditional ministry don’t understand the trumpet. We are probably dealing with each of Mysteries because they are all blind guides. In these things by doing the same thing that order to get the Mysteries of God out to all Moses did in Egypt. Moses rammed the gods people we have to bypass or remove the blind of Egypt back down the throats of the guides. We are seeing this happen now (see the Egyptians. In the same way, all of these things paper Measuring the Temple (No. 137)). ram the gods of this planet back down the necks of the people we are dealing with, as We have to look at the whole process of each well as the religious structure and concepts and of the trumpets. We go through a sequence of values of this planet. This whole structure of actions that cripple part of the earth. When we the trees, grass and the first trumpet will deal look at the trumpets they deal generally with in part with the New Age movement and the thirds. There is a third sequence taken because preoccupation with animism – the concepts of the rebellion involved a third of the Host. worshipping trees and spirits. The religion of the New Age is becoming a monist structure, Page 4 The Seven Trumpets which is essentially animist. They believe there the world has ever seen. This triggers the are spirits in everything. following sequences within the prophecy. That will have something to do with the movement It is an obscenity to say God is in everything. and destabilising of the mountains; but also the God is not a monist structure. God is not tectonic plates on the planet cannot stand that immanent – He is transcendent, but with the sort of destabilisation, and the San Andreas capacity to enter anything. God created Fault is ready to go. everything but He is not in everything, in terms of animism. That process develops. We will There are earthquakes all over the planet, but see a New Age movement take over with a the biggest one we have ever seen will occur in concept called process theology. This is where this heavenly sign and will destroy vast they attempt to make God immanent. That is numbers of living organisms, people and the Babylonian system. It will take over again animals and destabilise the seas. The last with more force akin to Buddhism. It is aligned earthquake will be even greater. with Buddhism and the Eastern liberation theologies. That earthquake activity will also release heavy metals into the seas from the mantle. The concept of the seas struck then follows the Those heavy metals will be taken up into the mountain being thrown into the sea. Animism food chain, into the dino flagellates, and there extends into Shintoism, which is from Japan. will be great red tides. The great red tide Their most sacred mountain is Fujiama, a problem will be exacerbated also by the fact volcano. The earthquake activity that throws a that massive quantities of nuclear waste are mountain – for example, Fujiama – into the sea being dumped into the Artic and Japanese seas appears to be God dealing with the concept of and in the north-eastern seas by the Russians Shintoism and other Eastern religions. By en masse. The nuclear waste put out there is literally picking up volcanos and throwing frightening. Much of the northern hemisphere them into the sea, and destroying islands, we will die. have massive movements of the earth’s crust. Part of these massive movements was We can say: “Are these people mad; can they engendered by Russians, Chinese and not see what they are doing?” Yes, they can Americans conducting underground nuclear see what they are doing. However, they are explosions on a systematic basis and locked into paradigms and thought processes, destabilising the earth’s crust. Subsequent and they will not alter their way of life. earthquakes were part of deliberate trigger mechanisms fired underground. The Chinese America (and the West generally) consumes set the last lot in motion because their bid for enormous quantities of the world’s energy. In the 2000 Olympic Games wasn’t successful. order to lift India up to the standard of living of The nuclear explosions in 1995 caused a furore America, it would need to consume 110% of over France, but China is hardly mentioned. the total world energy production. So, clearly, Why? Because nobody can influence China. the American way of life is unsustainable. China is more dangerous than France. They have to modify their behaviour, but they However, both will participate in the violence will not repent and they will not modify their of the wars of the end. behaviour; and their religious leaders in fact encourage them in this form of living. The people are perverted with mindsets that are open to Satan. All we can do is be aware of Before the Feast of Tabernacles in 1994, the what is happening. These people are being Sydney Morning Herald said that the Russians used to destroy this planet. The trigger cased a sunken Russian submarine in super mechanisms being deployed are destabilising glue, which was going to last 500 years. They the crust and there will be a series of can push it off for 500 years; however, the earthquakes that will be of great significance. radioactive half-life of the plutonium is 25,000 The great earthquake that occurs in the years. This plutonium was due to leak in to the heavenly signs will be the greatest earthquake northern oceans in 1995, or at the very latest The Seven Trumpets Page 5 the year after. Plutonium waste from a sunken whole sun and moon darkened. The fallout submarine going into the sea will trigger off (dust etc.) covered the earth for months. It vast destruction in the oceans. The stages are went right around the earth. The explosions set. Nobody put a nuclear submarine together were heard as far away as the capital cities of and stuck it in the bottom of the sea other than Australia. It is a long way from Indonesia to through the greed, avarice and viciousness of Australia to hear an explosion. This will be a the people who built the thing. They are similar thing. destroying their own environment. The Olivet prophesies talk about the roaring 10 The third angel blew his trumpet, and a great star seas terrifying people. Tsunamis travel at fell from heaven, blazing like a torch, and it fell on a nearly the speed of sound: about 700 mph. The third of the rivers and on the fountains of water. 11 The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waves reach hundreds of feet in height. With waters became wormwood, and many men died of the massive earthquake activity they are going the water, because it was made bitter. to be up to 1,000 feet high. So, we can expect The name wormwood in Russian is Chernobyl. to get waves 1,000 feet high travelling at 700 They built nuclear reactors out of substandard mph. Imagine the sheer volume and force that materials and they didn’t police them because will deal with these nations. This is how a third there were no controls and no people to tell of the ships are going to be destroyed. The them what to do because they were dictators. people will be absolutely terrified. Unless we They have their own wormwood. The star does know it’s going to happen and what is behind it not need to fall for them; it is already there. all, we would be terrified too. Our problem is That has been encased in concrete and the not being afraid. Fear is not our problem concrete is breaking down. So they don’t know because we know what is going to happen. what to do. The concrete is now radioactive so they are going to get a bigger concrete block to These processes occur because people are encase it. destroying the planet on a systematic basis. This will be accelerated in order to deal with The activities of stars are in nuclear activities, them. and the nuclear facilities around the world will continue now to deteriorate and be misused 12 The fourth angel blew his trumpet, and a third of and progressively destroy the drinking water of the sun was struck, and a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of their light was the world. It will be by stages into a third as we darkened; a third of the day was kept from shining, see here; and then totally under the vials of the and likewise a third of the night. wrath of God. We are now looking at the explosions causing a general darkening of the earth. There will Whether it is an actual star that pollutes the probably be a secondary factor that is not planet or just nuclear fallout is difficult to mentioned here. That is, these activities will know. It says a star, so we will take it as accelerate the warming processes on the planet. meaning this. Certainly it pollutes a third of the The earth’s sea levels will rise and islands will waters. The structure of the planet is then be inundated. The concept of the islands diminished and made uninhabitable. fleeing away involves two things: 1. the earth mantle problem. Where do we stop? The system is 2. the earth warming process. unsustainable. The sites are unsustainable; but they have to be changed. A third of these seas Let us look at the levels involved with the seas. are going to die. It is not just a slow death. A The West Antarctic basin has water as ice third of the ships are destroyed because of below sea level. According to the scientists, something else that happens. There are there is enough to raise sea levels about 15 feet tsunamis associated with this death, and this if that ice melts. This will accelerate the mountain that is thrown into the sea. Krakatoa process. Once the Antarctic and the Greenland is an island in Indonesia. On the island was a ice caps go and the oceans increase in volcano that blew up last century with the temperature, the potential lift is 200 feet – with strength of a number of nuclear weapons. The a possible further 100 feet. People below this Page 6 The Seven Trumpets height have a very good chance of being under process of the measuring of the elect. That water. process will take a while. The elect are given over to deal with each other and that is part of The final heavenly signs under the fourth the way we are measured. trumpet will see the earth warned as we then progress to the war of the fifth trumpet. The After the commencement of that measurement, conditions for the war of the fifth trumpet were the Two Witnesses stand in Jerusalem clothed laid in place when the chemical and biological in sackcloth. These people will stand for three- weapons of the Cold War were developed from and-one-half years (see also the paper The WWII and distributed to the various countries Witnesses (including the Two Witnesses) (No. depending on their allegiances. This develops 135)). into the great and terrible wars which are the 4 These are the two olive trees and the two woes of the earth. lampstands which stand before the Lord of the earth. 5 And if any one would harm them, fire pours out from their mouth and consumes their foes; if any What happens then is that a third of the rivers one would harm them, thus he is doomed to be are destroyed as the rivers are inundated. The killed. 6 They have power to shut the sky, that no Mississippi basin, North-west Europe, rain may fall during the days of their prophesying, Thailand, all lowland China, all the Chinese and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood, and to smite the earth with every plague, food bowls will be gone. We then put complete as often as they desire. 7 And when they have pressure on the planet to sustain life. Then vast finished their testimony, the beast that ascends from wars become necessary to relocate peoples in the bottomless pit will make war upon them and order to get to the remaining food bowls, conquer them and kill them, 8 and their dead bodies because the major food bowls will be gone. We will lie in the street of the great city which is see then why we go into the next phase, which allegorically called Sodom and Egypt, where their is Revelation 8:13. This is the start of the woes. Lord was crucified. 13 Then I looked, and I heard an eagle crying with a loud voice, as it flew in midheaven, "Woe, woe, Christ was crucified on Golgotha outside of woe to those who dwell on the earth, at the blasts of Jerusalem. The Witnesses are calling the other trumpets which the three angels are about Jerusalem Sodom and Egypt due to the to blow!" (RSV) apostasy in it. The concept here is that they will stand to deal with the power of God. They There are three woes. We will go back for the will speak and people will try to kill them, but next sequence. We have got the Time of those people are dealt with in the same way Jacob’s Troubles, and Israel is being dealt they deal with the Witnesses. Anyone who with. We have had the great tribulation, and tries to shoot them will be shot. The Witnesses we’ve also got the Witnesses of the Last Days. are protected, and nobody can kill them for At this point we turn to Revelation 11:1. three-and-one-half years; they are indestructible. They can call down fire from There are two processes.

Revelation 11:1-8 Then I was given a measuring rod Heaven and will do so. They will shut up the like a staff, and I was told: "Rise and measure the heavens and no rain will fall on this planet for temple of God and the altar and those who worship three-and-one-half years, except as they there, 2 but do not measure the court outside the dictate. They are at this point turning the seas temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the to blood. nations, and they will trample over the holy city for forty-two months. 3 And I will grant my two witnesses power to prophesy for one thousand two These things are a direct result of these two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth." officers of God thrusting down the throats of the people the entire idolatrous process of this The Temple is measured from the top (see the planet. We have already been sealed at this paper Measuring the Temple (No. 137)). This point. We are coming out of the Great is happening and has happened. The ministries Tribulation. Our robes have been made white are measured. This also has happened. In the in the blood of the Lamb, and we will see this time of the 42 months, the elect as the nation happen. During this three-and-one-half-year are purified. We are now going through the period we will watch these people and see The Seven Trumpets Page 7 these things being inflicted on this planet. and in Greek he is called Apol'lyon. [Apollyon There is only one thing given to us, and that is means destroyer.] that our bread and water will be sure. That is the only thing of which we can be sure. God Note that the entire earth is not to be harmed will feed us with manna. We can ask: “How yet but only those who do not have the seal of will we get our bread?” When we fall short of God on their foreheads. The armies that have bread, remember God’s promise. Our bread these weapons use tanks and helicopter and water will be sure. We will be fed in the gunships and they use chemical weapons. The same way the Israelites were fed in the angel of the bottomless pit is in command of wilderness. It is a question of faith. We have to them and the area they operate from is the be so sure of what we are doing and what we Middle East. It is for this reason that the world are talking about because we have to get our is concerned that Syria, being governed by the people and ourselves through this problem. Allowite minority and in alliance with Russia, is quite capable of using these weapons against Following the Two Witnesses we go on to the its own people. The Russian Foreign officials fifth trumpet. are in Egypt and the US president is making noises about the NATO forces and Turkey not The First Woe tolerating the use of these bio-chemical Revelation 9:1-21 And the fifth angel blew his weapons. Syria has Sarin and if they mix it trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from heaven to they intend to use it. The Serbian officials went earth, and he was given the key of the shaft of the to Brussels in 2012 for a NATO conference bottomless pit; 2 he opened the shaft of the and the Serbian ambassador to NATO met the bottomless pit, and from the shaft rose smoke like Serbian Senior foreign officials at the airport the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft. 3 Then and then simply walked to the parapet of the from the smoke came locusts on the earth, and they top level car park and threw himself off. He were given power like the power of scorpions of the obviously could not tolerate what he knew to earth; 4 they were told not to harm the grass of the be developing. He was married with children. earth or any green growth or any tree, but only those This bio-chemical war originating from the of mankind who have not the seal of God upon their foreheads; 5 they were allowed to torture them for Middle East will commence the woes of the five months, but not to kill them, and their torture planet. This is the first Woe. was like the torture of a scorpion, when it stings a man. 6 And in those days men will seek death and The notation to the Annotated RSV says that will not find it; they will long to die, and death will the plague of demonic locusts – which fly from them. combine the terrors of evil spirits and invading A lot of people will want to die over this horsemen – are (they say) probably Parthians period but they won’t be able to die. The who come from Iran. There may be some, but bottomless pit of locusts relates also to the four overall this is a wrong assertion. The reference angels of the bottomless pit who are bound at is also to a star falling from Heaven, one of the the Euphrates. Those four angels were there to fallen angels, perhaps Satan himself, and then kill a third of mankind. Here we are dealing in reference to verse 3 they talk about locusts with war, aerial operations and chemical etc. weapons. They are dealt with under direction from the demons. These people see that there is a connection 7 In appearance the locusts were like horses arrayed between the fallen Angel and the battle of for battle; on their heads were what looked like Satan. The demonic Host is not just going to crowns of gold; their faces were like human faces, 8 give up. This earth will be taken by force. their hair like women's hair, and their teeth like When Christ comes here it’s going to be by lions' teeth; 9 they had scales like iron breastplates, and the noise of their wings was like the noise of force with armies of angels. They are not going many chariots with horses rushing into battle. 10 to simply say: “Get out, it’s my turn”. We are They have tails like scorpions, and stings, and their then going to see Satan thrown down to the power of hurting men for five months lies in their earth and confined in the bottomless pit. The 11 tails. They have as king over them the angel of the story is reflected in the story “Star Wars”. The bottomless pit; his name in Hebrew is Abad'don, Return of the Jedi has Ewoks, and Darth Vader Page 8 The Seven Trumpets is being repelled and destroyed by Luke which looks like a snake with a head. Seeing Skywalker et al. We are the Ewoks. The story this in vision in the first century, John is trying deals with the process of stopping Jesus Christ. to describe helicopters and tanks. John had See the paper The Other Side of Starwars (No. never seen a weapon of this sort. The biggest 181). thing he would have seen was a ballista, which is a Roman catapult. To them these whole In the film they even have Darth Vader concepts were unbelievable or incredible. repenting in the end. His countenance is marred beyond resemblance. If we read Isaiah So we have the war of the sixth trumpet 53 we know who Darth Vader is. They have develop into a conflict of 200,000,000 soldiers. simply reversed the story plan. Jesus is now the It will extend to kill a third of mankind. That is bad guy working for the supreme baddy. All 2.3 billion people minimum. This conflict the rebel alliance is in fact the good guys. They expands from the Middle East and goes North are even named with names of demons, e.g. and East to the Yemen and then into Iran and Obe-one-Kenobi. Obe is the Hebrew for Iraq and Kurdistan and then into Afghanistan familiar spirit. Obe-1 is the first familiar spirit. and Kazakhstan and the other Soviet Republics It comes from mumbling in a bottle. It’s used to the Caucasus. NATO will go into these for a ventriloquist also. It was an Obe at the countries and they will be under command of cave at Endor. Luke Skywalker is a shamanic the four great Morning Stars of the Fallen Host name. He who walks in the sky is from a that were confined in the Bottomless Pit for shamanistic system. All of these things are to this very time. implant a reversal of the truth in our children’s minds. This is how they condition the planet to The Sixth Trumpet march against Jesus Christ when he comes to We then see that the rest of mankind does not Jerusalem, because they see all this and have repent and is faced with the Advent of the been conditioned to see him as the enemy. It is Messiah and the vials of the wrath of God. a masterpiece of propaganda. Nothing but false 20 The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these messages and false prophecy has been issued plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands and to this time we have exposed nothing. nor give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which 21 After this five-month period the first woe is cannot either see or hear or walk; nor did they repent of their murders or their sorceries or their over. There are two more to come. immorality or their thefts. (RSV) 12 The first woe has passed; behold, two woes are This process is to bring them to repentance. still to come. 13 Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar before God, 14 saying to the sixth That is what the Witnesses are saying: angel who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels “Repent! If you do not we will destroy you”. who are bound at the great river Euphra'tes." 15 So They do not repent; so they were hit with one the four angels were released, who had been held trumpet then the second etc. and finally the ready for the hour, the day, the month, and the year, planet groans and they go to war. A third of the to kill a third of mankind. 16 The number of the troops of cavalry was twice ten thousand times ten world is killed in this war because they do not thousand; I heard their number. 17 And this was how repent. We have to make sure that people know I saw the horses in my vision: the riders wore they can repent. We have to tell them why they breastplates the color of fire and of sapphire and of have to repent. There won’t be any negotiation sulphur, and the heads of the horses were like lions' with the Witnesses. This is not happening heads, and fire and smoke and sulphur issued from their mouths. 18 By these three plagues a third of outside of the control of God; it is happening mankind was killed, by the fire and smoke and under direction from Jesus Christ through the sulphur issuing from their mouths. 19 For the power Two Witnesses. We will be in control of this of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails; process, and we have nothing to fear. their tails are like serpents, with heads, and by means of them they wound. The planet groans under this process, and the Tanks travel in trail with the guns behind. The war kills a third of mankind. We had the Great barrel of the gun has a muzzle brake on it War for Civilisation in 1914-18 and it did not kill a third of mankind. That was supposedly The Seven Trumpets Page 9 the war to end all wars. Yet we were back into it again within 25 years. All this was nothing The Advent of the Messiah compared to these wars of the end. Following At the ascent of the Witnesses we know it is this the seven thunders sound which is a the end of the second woe. The war of the sixth process of prophecy. trumpet occurs and then is finished. The Two Witnesses finish off at the end of the war of the

Revelation 10:8-11 Then the voice which I had sixth trumpet and then are sent into Heaven. heard from heaven spoke to me again, saying, "Go, take the scroll which is open in the hand of the angel This is end of the sixth trumpet and the second who is standing on the sea and on the land." 9 So I woe. There is the clear dividing line. The will went to the angel and told him to give me the little of God is done; the witness is done. Everybody scroll; and he said to me, "Take it and eat; it will be hates them. We know this because they all give bitter to your stomach, but sweet as honey in your presents to one another when the Witnesses mouth." 10 And I took the little scroll from the hand of the angel and ate it; it was sweet as honey in my die. There is no repentance. They return to the mouth, but when I had eaten it my stomach was lifestyles they practised before the Witnesses. made bitter. 11 And I was told, "You must again prophesy about many peoples and nations and Revelation chapters 12 and 13 deal with the tongues and kings." (RSV) Church. The elect are integral to this process This sequence deals with the The Warning of and are dealt with in this section of the Bible. the Last Days (No. 44) that was foretold by the The whole process of dealing with the earth is prophet Jeremiah (Jer. 4:15) and that prophet conditional on the selection and handling of the who comes out of Ephraim and Dan and warns elect. So the elect are dealt with first of all. the nation of the coming of the Messiah and They are sealed, and the Great Tribulation what is to come to pass. seals the Multitude and our fate is set. We are judged. Then the earth is dealt with, but does The text then regresses again to the year 1987 not repent. The sequence then goes on to when the Measuring of the Temple is begun in Revelation 11:15, the Advent of the Messiah. the last forty years of the Six Thousand years of the rule of Satan and the demons and the We then look at Jesus returning to Zion. In rebellious earth. Revelation 13 we look at the Beast dealing with men. Revelation 12 deals with Christ’s Then comes the Third Woe system. Revelation 13 deals with the Beast Revelation 11:11-14 But after the three and a half system. They are both contemporaneous. It days a breath of life from God entered them, and does not happen after the second woe and they stood up on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them. 12 Then they heard a loud between the time of the coming of the Messiah. voice from heaven saying to them, "Come up These two systems operate contemporaneously hither!" And in the sight of their foes they went up prior to and during all the woes. to heaven in a cloud. 13 And at that hour there was a Revelation 14:1-20 Then I looked, and lo, on Mount great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell; seven Zion stood the Lamb, and with him a hundred and thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and forty-four thousand who had his name and his the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of Father's name written on their foreheads. 2 And I heaven. 14 The second woe has passed; behold, the heard a voice from heaven like the sound of many third woe is soon to come. waters and like the sound of loud thunder; the voice I heard was like the sound of harpers playing on The Witnesses appear for 1260 days and then their harps, 3 and they sing a new song before the lie dead in the streets for 3.5 days and then throne and before the four living creatures and they are resurrected by the Messiah and the before the elders. No one could learn that song except the hundred and forty-four thousand who had First Resurrection commences. Thus the First been redeemed from the earth. 4 It is these who have and Second woes must occur prior to the not defiled themselves with women, for they are Messiah and the First Resurrection. It is then chaste; it is these who follow the Lamb wherever he that we see the seventh trumpet blown which is goes; these have been redeemed from mankind as 5 the Seven vials of the wrath of God which the first fruits for God and the Lamb, and in their mouth no lie was found, for they are spotless. Host pours out on mankind. See also the paper Wars of the Last Days and the Vials of the Wrath of God (No. 141B). Page 10 The Seven Trumpets

The concept of not being defiled with women 144,000 if we are committed to and prepared to means that they are spiritual virgins. The die for the truth. women are the concept of the churches of the 6 Then I saw another angel flying in midheaven, earth. It is also a possibility that these people with an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on earth, to every nation and tribe and tongue are the tribes. The 144,000 are taken out over a and people; 7 and he said with a loud voice, "Fear period of time. The selection of the 144,000 is God and give him glory, for the hour of his by process of the churches over the two judgment has come; and worship him who made millennia (see also the papers The Harvests of heaven and earth, the sea and the fountains of God, the New Moon Sacrifices, and the water." 8 Another angel, a second, followed, saying, 144,000 (No. 120); The New Moons (No. 125); "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, she who made all nations drink the wine of her impure passion." 9 and The New Moons of Israel (No. 132)). An And another angel, a third, followed them, saying argument might be advanced that we are with a loud voice, "If any one worships the beast dealing with two lots of 144,000. This matter and its image, and receives a mark on his forehead will be addressed elsewhere. or on his hand, 10 he also shall drink the wine of God's wrath, poured unmixed into the cup of his anger, and he shall be tormented with fire and The sequence of the 144,000 is still attendant sulphur in the presence of the holy angels and in the to or in conjunction with the Great Multitude. presence of the Lamb. 11 And the smoke of their Our job is to help the whole nation and planet. torment goes up for ever and ever; and they have no We are not to worry whether we are in one rest, day or night, these worshipers of the beast and group or another. To say who the nations are is its image, and whoever receives the mark of its name." 12 Here is a call for the endurance of the being speculative. The identity of the nations saints, those who keep the commandments of God needs to be developed more. However, and the faith of Jesus. 13 And I heard a voice from everybody is going to be in Israel in the end. heaven saying, "Write this: Blessed are the dead Everybody is going to be a spiritual Israelite who die in the Lord henceforth." "Blessed indeed," over the Millennium, or they will be dead. says the Spirit, "that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them!" 14 Then I looked, and lo, a white cloud, and seated on the cloud one like a At his coming Messiah slays the Lawless One, son of man, with a golden crown on his head, and a as we know from Thessalonians. The entire sharp sickle in his hand. 15 And another angel came planet is placed under Messiah from this act, in out of the temple, calling with a loud voice to him sequence, commencing from the 144,000 who sat upon the cloud, "Put in your sickle, and reap, for the hour to reap has come, for the harvest through the Great Multitude and on into the of the earth is fully ripe." 16 So he who sat upon the Millennium. cloud swung his sickle on the earth, and the earth 3 and they sing a new song before the throne and was reaped. 17 And another angel came out of the before the four living creatures and before the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle. 18 elders. No one could learn that song except the Then another angel came out from the altar, the hundred and forty-four thousand who had been angel who has power over fire, and he called with a redeemed from the earth. 4 It is these who have not loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle, "Put in defiled themselves with women, for they are chaste; your sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the it is these who follow the Lamb wherever he goes; earth, for its grapes are ripe." 19 So the angel swung these have been redeemed from mankind as first his sickle on the earth and gathered the vintage of fruits for God and the Lamb, 5 and in their mouth no the earth, and threw it into the great wine press of lie was found, for they are spotless. the wrath of God; 20 and the wine press was trodden outside the city, and blood flowed from the wine Until we know the song given to the 144,000 press, as high as a horse's bridle, for one thousand we don’t know if we are in the 144,000. six hundred stadia. (RSV) That is a lot of blood – a lot of dead people. No lie was found in their mouths. This is the 1,600 stadia is approximately 5 miles. We are key, for they are spotless. The concept is of dealing with Christ taking over the planet and adoration for God and His truth – and we are to we are dealing with him then forcing these be totally committed to the truth. Sometimes people to repent. When Messiah returns to the truth is very unpalatable. We are Zion we are with him (see the paper Trumpets committed to the truth and the truth sets us (No. 136) for more information on the return of free. This is the real issue. We will be in the the Messiah). The Day of Atonement deals with the reconciliation of the planet – the bringing of the planet into repentance and The Seven Trumpets Page 11 setting it up for the Millennium. There is a associated with that fact. The implant codes are whole sequence of time between the Advent of perhaps on the hands and the forehead for Christ and the start of the Millennium, and that crowd control etc. The very fact of the comes out in the vials of the wrath of God. existence of these earthly systems will cause Revelation 16:1-21 Then I heard a loud voice from these sores. These things are not God inflicting the temple telling the seven angels, "Go and pour punishments on them, but are direct out on the earth the seven bowls of the wrath of God." 2 So the first angel went and poured his bowl debilitating problems that arise from their on the earth, and foul and evil sores came upon the actions. Everything we do has a consequence. men who bore the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. In wartime the security requirements will be increased and hence also the problems like These people persecute the elect. They are this. judged by that but it’s only a short-lived period 3 The second angel poured his bowl into the sea, and as Christ will deal with this earthly system of it became like the blood of a dead man, and every idolatry. He will tear it down. It is not a living thing died that was in the sea. question of simply punishing these people. It is Every living thing dies. They were called to a matter of bringing people to the point where repentance under the Witnesses where a third God can alter their minds to go into the die but in this case they destroy the seas – they Millennium. Some people at this point in time destroy everything. cannot be dealt with in their present state. The 4 The third angel poured his bowl into the rivers and example of the end days is shown in the story the fountains of water, and they became blood. of Sodom and Gomorrah, where their mindset 5 And I heard the angel of water say, "Just art thou in was such that God had to kill them. The these thy judgments, thou who art and wast, O Holy 6 destruction of Sodom was done by angels One. For men have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink. It under instruction from Christ at the time, and is their due!" Lot was taken out. There will be no fresh water on the planet. The reason why Lot’s wife was turned into a Under the fourth seal a quarter die from famine pillar of salt was that she longed to be back and pestilence. Under the war of the sixth into the system from which God brought her trumpet a third of the earth is killed. We are out. It was done as an example to us. Lot’s now down to the point where over half the wife was destroyed so that we might planet is dead before we start this sequence. understand that we cannot take anything from Two billion dead before we get into the wrath this system into the Millennium. The reason is of God. We are looking at the destruction of that every sub-system and every part of the the earth. sub-systems of this system we are in now is 7 And I heard the altar cry, "Yea, Lord God the inherently evil, in every aspect of it. Almighty, true and just are thy judgments!" 8 The fourth angel poured his bowl on the sun, and it was 9 That is why the new millennial system will be allowed to scorch men with fire; men were scorched by the fierce heat, and they cursed the set up under the exact Law of Moses. The Law name of God who had power over these plagues, of Moses (i.e. God’s Law) was given to Moses and they did not repent and give him glory. and us together by Christ. We are going to make the system given to Moses work. God has power over the plagues. He can stop it in a minute. Why have we let half the planet 2 So the first angel went and poured his bowl on the die? All we had to do is repent. Nobody says: earth, and foul and evil sores came upon the men “I got it wrong, Lord, please show me the who bore the mark of the beast and worshiped its way”. We did not need to see half the planet image. die before we repented. We can see the Lord The foul and evil sores are both a physical and dealing with us now. Why can’t they see it spiritual concept. If we adopt ungodly systems, then? These people after all this still think they can dictate terms to God. we adopt a series of problems. The physical 10 aspect could be related to the reading of The fifth angel poured his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was in darkness; men implant codes and the radiation problems Page 12 The Seven Trumpets

gnawed their tongues in anguish 11 and cursed the seal. The problem compounds as the seals God of heaven for their pain and sores, and did not develop. The sixth seal warned the earth of the repent of their deeds. Advent of Messiah and the wrath of God, yet they did not repent. This last action destroys We are in Jerusalem as spirit beings under the the entire system of false religion and Satan’s protection of Christ, dealing with this while it activities on the planet. is happening. We are dealing with the planet hand in hand with Christ. There is a recapitulation theory put forward by 12 The sixth angel poured his bowl on the great river medieval Catholic monks (supposedly from Euphra'tes, and its water was dried up, to prepare Ticonius, an alleged Donatist, who influenced the way for the kings from the east. Augustine). The theory states that the trumpets and vials are restatements of a single position. The planet is breaking down. The Kings of the It is highly unlikely, although there is some East are the Anotoli Heliou, or the Kings of the basis to the contention in that Christ states both rising sun, who will come in over the at the sixth seal and the sixth trumpet: “Lo, I Euphrates. Vast eastern armies will enter Israel am coming”. It is put in brackets at the end of towards Jerusalem. chapter 15. The concept is probably that these 13 And I saw, issuing from the mouth of the dragon things are developed and set up on a and from the mouth of the beast and from the mouth continuing basis so that the rivers turn to of the false prophet, three foul spirits like frogs; 14 for they are demonic spirits, performing signs, who blood, and then simply get worse as it go abroad to the kings of the whole world, to proceeds, until finally Christ is dealing with assemble them for battle on the great day of God the the whole planet. This is complex and will not Almighty. 15 ("Lo, I am coming like a thief! Blessed be addressed fully in this paper. There are is he who is awake, keeping his garments that he objections to it. What is probable is that there may not go naked and be seen exposed!") 16 And they assembled them at the place which is called in is an advent and then the people are brought Hebrew Armaged'don. down to fight against him at Jerusalem, thus increasing the effects. This sixth angel’s trumpet seems to indicate that the coming of the Messiah is related to the The sequences of the trumpets and seals in drying up of the Euphrates, and that the terms of turning the rivers to blood are already Messiah does not come until this time. It set in motion. The red tides etc. are already in appears that the Messiah comes to Jerusalem the seas – they are already starting. They have and then deals with the planet. The general not killed a third of the rivers and a third of the populace at this time is given greater revelation fish life but they have started. The point the and understanding and is then dealt with during Bible is making is that the process is ongoing the time of the sixth angel. and that each trumpet is a result of the previous activity. The Seventh Trumpet 17 The seventh angel poured his bowl into the air, The culmination is that Christ deals with and a loud voice came out of the temple, from the everybody. After Christ has taken the planet throne, saying, "It is done!" 18 And there were through the trumpets and vials he is then ready flashes of lightning, voices, peals of thunder, and a for the great battle of God Almighty. This is great earthquake such as had never been since men were on the earth, so great was that earthquake. 19 the war of Ezekiel in the sixth seal. We will not The great city was split into three parts, and the deal with Ezekiel’s prophecy here. cities of the nations fell, and God remembered great Babylon, to make her drain the cup of the fury of his Revelation 16:12-16 deals with the battle of 20 wrath. And every island fled away, and no Armageddon or the war of Ezekiel. There is mountains were to be found; 21 and great hailstones, also a cross-reference to Luke 19:27. heavy as a hundred-weight, dropped on men from heaven, till men cursed God for the plague of the Luke 19:27 But as for these enemies of mine, who hail, so fearful was that plague. (RSV) did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slay them before me.'" (RSV) This earthquake is even greater than the earthquake of the heavenly signs in the sixth The Seven Trumpets Page 13

This is not an off-hand remark. This one line is The religious structure of the world is then the entire battle of Armageddon. The nations destroyed; the mainstream Christian Churches are brought down and slain before Christ at are destroyed by the Beast. That is what this battle. chapters 17 and 18 are talking about. This is complex and will be explained at a later date. q