The time of
the
end 2 THE DAY OF
THE
LORD The first six
seals constitute the time of Jacob’s trouble. The
seventh seal, which consists
of seven trumps, is the Day of the Lord. This is a
cruel
time of God the Father’s wrath and fierce anger. Isa
13:9 Behold,
the day of the LORD comes,
Cruel, with both wrath and fierce anger, To lay
the land desolate; And He will
destroy its sinners from it. It is not a
time
to look forward to. Amo
5:18 Woe
to you who desire the day of the
LORD! For what good is
the day
of the LORD to you? It will be
darkness, and not light. It is the
time of
God’s vengeance on the heathen nations. Eze
30:3 For
the day is near, Even the day of the
LORD is near; It will be a day of
clouds, the time of the Gentiles. Isa
26:21 For
behold, the LORD comes out of
His place To punish the inhabitants of the earth
for their iniquity; The earth
will also disclose her blood, And will no more
cover her slain. The first
four
trumps are bad enough. Rev
8:6 So
the seven angels who had the
seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound. Rev
8:7 The
first angel sounded: And hail
and fire followed, mingled with blood, and they
were thrown to the earth. And a
third of the trees were burned up, and all green
grass was burned up. Ezekiel
chapter
38 tells of the Nations, which attack the Israelites
who
are being protected by God. The
Israelites,
who have come out of captivity, together with some
nations who had joined with
them; had been located by God in the waste places
of Israel. They seem an easy
target for heathen nations. Eze
38:8 After
many days you will be
visited. In the latter years you will come into
the land of those brought back
from the sword and
gathered
from many people on the mountains of Israel,
which had long been desolate; they
were brought out of the nations, and now all of
them dwell safely. Eze
38:11 You
will say, 'I will go up
against a land of unwalled villages; I will go
to a peaceful people, who dwell
safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and
having neither bars nor gates' Eze
38:12 to
take plunder and to take booty,
to stretch out your hand against the waste
places that are again inhabited, and
against a people gathered from the
nations, who have acquired livestock and goods,
who dwell in the midst of the
land. Ezekiel
chapter
38 gives the events that take place. God protects
Eze
38:22 And
I will bring him to judgment
with pestilence and bloodshed; I will rain down
on him, on his troops, and on
the many peoples who are
with
him, flooding rain, great hailstones, fire, and
brimstone. Rev
8:7 The
first angel sounded: And hail
and fire followed, mingled with blood, and they
were thrown to the earth. And a
third of the trees were burned up, and all green
grass was burned up. The second
trump
creates havoc in the oceans. Rev
8:8 Then
the second angel sounded: And something
like a great mountain
burning with fire was thrown into the sea, and a
third of the sea became blood.
Rev
8:9 And
a third of the living creatures
in the sea died, and a third of the ships were
destroyed. The third
trump
poisons a third of fresh water. Rev
8:10 Then
the third angel sounded: And a
great star fell from heaven, burning like a
torch, and it fell on a third of
the rivers and on the springs of water. Rev
8:11 The
name of the star is Wormwood. A
third of the waters became wormwood, and many
men died from the water, because
it was made bitter. The fourth
trump
shows great signs in the heavens. Rev
8:12 Then
the fourth angel sounded: And
a third of the sun was struck, a third of the
moon, and a third of the stars,
so that a third of them were darkened. A third
of the day did not shine, and
likewise the night. The last
three
trumps are called woes. Rev
8:13 And
I looked, and I heard an angel
flying through the midst of heaven, saying with
a loud voice, "Woe, woe,
woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because of
the remaining blasts of the
trumpet of the three angels who are about to
sound!" The fifth
angel
sounds and the bottomless pit is opened. The
locusts that come out of the pit
have not been seen by mankind; they have a king
who is the angel of the
bottomless pit. Joel chapter 2 also mentions this
time. The locusts are the
first woe. Rev 9:1 Then
the fifth angel sounded: And I saw a
star fallen from heaven to the earth. To him was
given the key to the
bottomless pit. Rev
9:2 And
he opened the bottomless pit,
and smoke arose out of the pit like the smoke of
a great furnace. So the sun
and the air were darkened because of the smoke
of the pit. Joe
2:10 The
earth quakes before them, The
heavens tremble; The sun and moon grow dark, And
the stars diminish their
brightness. Rev
9:3 Then
out of the smoke locusts came
upon the earth. And to them was given power, as
the scorpions of the earth have
power. Rev
9:4 They
were commanded not to harm the
grass of the earth, or any green thing, or any
tree, but only those men who do
not have the seal of God on their foreheads. Rev
9:5 And
they were not given authority
to kill them, but to
torment them for
five months.
Their torment was
like the
torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man. Joe
2:6 Before
them the people writhe in
pain; All faces are drained of color. Rev
9:6 In
those days men will seek death
and will not find it; they will desire to die,
and death will flee from them. Rev
9:7 The
shape of the locusts was like
horses prepared for battle. On their heads were
crowns of something like gold,
and their faces were
like the
faces of men. Joe
2:4 Their
appearance is like the
appearance of horses; And like swift steeds, so
they run. Rev
9:8 They
had hair like women's hair, and
their teeth were like lions' teeth.
Rev
9:9 And
they had breastplates like
breastplates of iron, and the sound of their
wings was like the sound of chariots
with many horses running into
battle. Joe
2:5 With
a noise like chariots Over
mountaintops they leap, Like the noise of a
flaming fire that devours the
stubble, Like a strong people set in battle
array. Rev
9:10 They
had tails like scorpions, and
there were stings in their tails. Their power was to hurt men five months. Rev
9:11 And
they had as king over them the
angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in
Hebrew is Abaddon, but in Greek he has
the name Apollyon. God has
unknown
surprises in His armoury. Jer
50:25 The
LORD has opened His armory,
And has brought out the weapons of His
indignation; For this is
the work of the Lord GOD of hosts
In the land of the Chaldeans. God creates new things for the end time
which no one has seen. Isa
48:6 "You
have heard; See all this.
And will you not declare it?
I
have made you hear new things from this time,
Even hidden things, and you did
not know them. Isa
48:7 They
are created now and not from
the beginning; And before this day you have not
heard them, Lest you should
say, 'Of course I knew them.' A third of
mankind gets killed with the sounding of the sixth
angel. The sixth trump is
the second woe. The fifth
angel
brought forth unknown locusts, which hurt, but do
not kill. The sixth angel
brings forth previously unknown horses with
riders. These are described in Rev.
chapter 9. They kill a third of mankind. Rev
9:13 Then
the sixth angel sounded: And I
heard a voice from the four horns of the golden
altar which is before God, Rev
9:14 saying
to the sixth angel who had
the trumpet, "Release the four angels who are
bound at the great river Rev
9:15 So
the four angels, who had been
prepared for the hour and day and month and
year, were released to kill a third
of mankind. Revelation
Chapter
9 describes the horses and riders who kill a third
of mankind. There are 200 million
of them. The people who are not killed still do
not turn to God. God calls the
sixth trump a plague. The fifth and sixth trumps
are part of God’s armoury,
which mankind has never before seen. The heathen
still do not repent. Rev
9:20 But
the rest of mankind, who were
not killed by these plagues, did not repent of
the works of their hands, that
they should not worship demons, and idols of
gold, silver, brass, stone, and
wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk. Rev
9:21 And
they did not repent of their
murders or their sorceries or their sexual
immorality or their thefts. An angel
comes
with a little book at the end of the second woe. Rev 10:1 I saw
still another mighty angel coming down
from heaven, clothed with a cloud. And a rainbow
was on his head, his face was
like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire.
Rev
10:2 He
had a little book open in his
hand. And he set his right foot on the sea and his left foot
on
the land, An angel had
given a book to the Ezekiel watchman, prior to the
time of Jacob’s trouble.
This book contained lamentations, mourning, and
woe. Eze
2:7 You
shall speak My words to them,
whether they hear or whether they refuse, for
they are rebellious. Eze
2:8 But
you, son of man, hear what I say
to you. Do not be rebellious like that
rebellious house; open your mouth and
eat what I give you." Eze
2:9 Now
when I looked, there was a hand
stretched out to me; and behold, a scroll of a
book was in it. Eze
2:10 Then
He spread it before me; and there was
writing on the inside and
on the outside, and written on it were
lamentations and mourning and woe. The first
book
contained the end time prophecies up to the end of
the second woe. The
prophecies of the first book are finished at the
second woe. Rev
10:7 but
in the days of the sounding of
the seventh angel, when he is about to sound,
the mystery of God would be
finished, as He declared to His servants the
prophets. The watchman,
once again receives a book which contains
understanding of the last woe. The first
book contained bad news, the little book will
contain bad news and then the
good news of the Rev
10:2 He
had a little book open in his
hand. And he set his right foot on the sea and his left foot
on
the land, This is what
it
means to eat the words of God. Jer
15:16 Your
words were found, and I ate
them, And Your word was to me the joy and
rejoicing of my heart; For I am
called by Your name, O LORD God of hosts. The first
book
was to Rev
10:11 And
he said to me, "You must
prophesy again about many peoples, nations,
tongues, and kings." God’s two
witnesses eat the little book. Rev
11:3 And
I will give power
to my two witnesses, and they
will prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty
days, clothed in
sackcloth." God’s two
witnesses are prophets, who prophesy for three and
a half years, they are
killed at the end of the second woe. The two
witnesses
are killed by the beast and resurrected three and
a half days later. Seven
thousand people die in an earthquake at the end of
their prophecy. Rev
11:7 When
they finish their testimony,
the beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit
will make war against them,
overcome them, and kill them. Rev
11:12 And
they heard a loud voice from
heaven saying to them, "Come up here." And they
ascended to heaven in
a cloud, and their enemies saw them. Rev
11:13 In
the same hour there was a great
earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. In the
earthquake seven thousand
people were killed, and the rest were afraid and
gave glory to the God of
heaven. Rev
11:14 The
second woe is past. Behold,
the third woe is coming quickly. The third woe
includes the gathering of all nations to the great
battle of god Almighty, and
the return of Jesus Christ. The proper
understanding will be given by the two
witnesses when the little book is eaten. Mat
24:21 For
then there will be great tribulation, such as
has not been since the beginning
of the world until this time, no, nor ever
shall be. Mat
24:22 And
unless those days were shortened, no flesh
would be saved; but for the elect's
sake those days will be shortened. The seventh
angel
sounds. Rev
11:15 Then
the seventh angel sounded:
And there were loud voices in heaven, saying,
"The kingdoms of this world
have become the
kingdoms of our
Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign
forever and ever!" Rev
10:7 but
in the days of the sounding of
the seventh angel, when he is about to sound,
the mystery of God would be
finished, as He declared to His servants the
prophets. The
prophecies of
the book which Ezekiel had to eat, will be clearly
understood. They give end
time knowledge up until the sounding of the
seventh angel.
