John sees Jesus open the forth seal of the book and the forth beast takes John and points to a prophetical time window, so that John can see the events that will take place next. Just as the other beasts did.
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Rev 6:7 KJV) And when he had
opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and
see.
John sees Jesus open the forth seal of the book and the forth beast takes John and points to a prophetical time window, so that John can see the events that will take place next. Just as the other beasts did. |
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Rev 6:8 KJV) And I looked,
and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell
followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of
the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with
the beasts of the earth.
Now we see our fourth horse. I would imagine with what is riding this horse, the color pale is probably a puss green, like an infection would produce. It represents death. We are told death is riding the horse. The White horse had set the stage, the Red horse came challenging him, then the black horse famine ensues and war finally breaks out bringing the Rider of Death. The result of famine and war leaves a fourth of mankind destroyed. Based on current world population, the death total would be about one billion, five hundred thousand people. |
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We have never seen a war that comes close to this carnage. Can you imagine one and half billion people dead? Just a few months down the road we are going to see the Kings of the East going to war using the same kind of weaponry and another third of humanity will be destroyed. The entire human race is reduced by half under the most terrible circumstance (you do the math 1/4 then 1/3of what is left = 50%). The half that didn't die are not the lucky half. If that kind of weapon system is used, what do you think the resulting radioactive fallout is going to do the rest of the living population? What is it going to do to the water, the food supply? When you have a time of total chaos, absolute wicked beings are going to grab control of the world. |
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The Antichrist will try to turn the rest of the living population into slaves to Satan. We are told that "Hell" follows the pale horse rider, indicating that most of the people dying during this time have not yet turned to Christ and that they are unsaved. They go straight to hell. The living have literally hell on earth and then hell for eternity. It is important to understand that everything we have seen to this point has been God allowing man’s hand being allowed to do whatever he desires. It gets far worse than this. God is yet to pour out his wrath. |
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(Rev 6:9 KJV) And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
The souls under the Altar are the martyred tribulation saints. When the fifth seal is broken, there will be a great slaughter on the earth. These are the people that have turned to God during this crisis. You might ask who are these people? The Church was Raptured, so they are not the true church. We know who some of the people are. Some are the sleeping ones of Sardis. It is most certain that the Laodiceans who had their prosperity thing, who replaced the old fashion faith, will get a wake up call. They had been deceived, they hadn't listened, the Lord warned them over and over with the parables like the five foolish virgins (Mathew 25:1-13). Jesus warned of people who perform signs, miracles, and wonders (Mathew 7:21-23). Jesus tells them I didn't call you to do that. Jesus warned that Laodicea would be spewed out into the Tribulation. He warned us about a good servant turning evil (Mathew 24:45-57), and he being cast out into outer darkness, where there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Now Laodicea believers would be beat with many stripes. What did Jesus say to Laodicea? As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Chastening is punishment and I can't think of anything worse than to leave Laodicea behind to face the Tribulation. God doesn't take the Laodicean believers in the Rapture, unless repentance takes place before the Rapture. Jesus promises to spew Laodicea out. Jesus declared his love for Laodicea, and he is standing at the door knocking. They are left for the Tribulation and they are going to suffer through all that you have read and more. Some of them are going to wake up and realize that their preachers that have been hypnotizing them, charming them, doing little tricks on them, lying to them and have caused them to miss the most important event of their life. They will realize that they have wasted everything.
Some of the Laodiceans will finally turn their backs on all of the foolishness and go back to the old-fashioned faith. They will turn to Christ as a result of being chastened. Anyone that turns to the Lord during the Tribulation period will be hunted down and killed.
The second half of the Tribulation will show a second kind of killing machine called the Mark of the Beast. This happens in the middle of the seven years. It will be Satan’s grand effort to weed out the rest of the Christian believers. Believers of the Tribulation are going to die for their faith, just like the Christian of old that had to give their lives in places like the Coliseum of Rome.
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This is Philip in France, I am told that France has more than 32,000 guillotines in storage, and the thing about guillotines they age well. All that is needed is new ropes and your neck, they are in business. |
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One day that is what is going to happen to the tribulation saints, they will lose their heads. If you are have trouble serving the Lord now, what are you going to do after the Rapture? Your neighbors tell the police that you’re a believer, accuse you of being a "hater," you are arrested. This is the easiest time you are ever going to have. Can you imagine standing in line waiting to die? |
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This is a wax dummy in the picture. You are going to see real people that you love die that way if you stay behind. The people in our test "love not their lives unto death" and when they die their souls go into heaven. |
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(Rev 6:10 KJV) And they
cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou
not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
The voices crying are not from the Raptured church. These are the people dying in the Tribulation. They ask the question of God, "How long are you going to let them kill us?" God tells them to rest a little while until the rest of their brethren are killed so that the plan is fulfilled. |
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(Rev 6:11 KJV) And white
robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that
they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also
and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be
fulfilled.
The church is a unit, it has a start and an ending, Jesus takes the church as a unit. They, the tribulation saints are also a unit group and they will be added to day by day until the end of the tribulation period went the last of their number will be slain. We will see them in Revelation 15 when their final member is added to them. They will stand on a sea of glass and be evidence that God is righteous in pouring out absolute judgment on this earth. Mankind has destroyed everything that is righteous and holy, deserving everything it gets. You can be saved after the Rapture but it will cost you your life. But if you can't even give up your football game, I don't know how you are going to make it. |
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(Rev 6:12 KJV) And I beheld
when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake;
and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as
blood;
So what do we have here? This is what I think we have. When I read these passages, I try to see how that might be reasonably done today with the technology existing. When I see that with the existing technology, the human race has the power to do all that is revealed here, I have no trouble believing it is going to happen. It may happen a little bit differently then I have figured it out. If I can show you a logical way it could happen, you will not have a hard time believing it will happen. This is the culmination of the first four seals, this is actual weapons’ exchange, this is nuclear war, And I will explain it with smaller points below. This sixth seal is broken and there is a great earthquake. So as I understand how this thing works is this way. |
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The Russians will want to have the first strike, and it takes them roughly a half hour to send their missiles to our soil. The Americans will detect the Russian strike and launch their own arsenal. You have to launch or you will lose your missiles in the ground. There will be an overlapping period of about a half hour of missiles passing each other in the air. Within one hour every one of those missiles will hit the ground. If every one of the missiles were landing on the ground about the same time period what would that create? An earthquake like the earth has never felt before. |
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"And
the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as
blood"
Suddenly the sun is black and the moon is red, what would cause that? Do you think something happens to the moon or sun itself? No, nothing happens to the sun. If you turn the sun off, we would instantaneously freeze to death. Not only that, imagine the change in gravitational pulls, the effects of tides, winds, water, and temperature. We would all die immediately. We will see that doesn't happen. Nothing happened to the moon either. What did happen? Remember all of those nuclear bombs going off?
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What are they going to do to the sky? A big cloud, of dust, ash, debris, and fire will fill the sky. If you are knocking down mountains, some of the mountains are volcanoes and one of the violent pressure they will be under could reactivate them resulting in dust and ash covering the sky. If that happens, it will block the sunlight out and it will look like a black ball up there. The moon has no light of it's own, it has only reflective light from the sun, and its light has lesser intensity so it might shine through without the mirror effect causing it to be red. Does it sound reasonable? |
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(Rev 6:13 KJV) And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. Next we are told that stars fall from heaven as if knocked down by a mighty wind. Now understand that John is a first century Christian writing down what he thinks he sees. He just has something backwards, he thinks the wind is causing the stars to fall, he doesn't realize that the falling stars are what is causing the mighty winds. We need to establish that what John sees are not stars and here is my proof. |
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The sun is the closest star to us. About six-trillion earth size planets could fit inside the sun. Any time a thing is six trillion times bigger than something, only one of that "thing" could fall upon it. So it has to be something different because if the sun fell on us we wouldn't even see the second half of the Tribulation period, the Millennial kingdom or anything else. So it is something else, what do you think it is? When those missiles are going back and forth, Star Wars type systems shooting down missiles, it will take on the appearance of stars falling. Do you remember watching any of the recent wars on TV, what did it look like at night as the missiles were being exchanged? Doesn't it look like stars falling? The nuclear missiles will produce mighty winds. |
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When just a small nuclear bomb goes off at ground zero, it sends out a wind in a perfect vacuum. The wind is about 200 miles per hour, larger bombs can register wind around 700 miles an hour, but it does it in such a perfect vacuum that it pulls the wind right back, and when it pulls the wind back, it spirals, scrolling up rising high into the upper atmosphere. The moist atmosphere just rolls back away from the nuclear cloud causing it to evaporate. How many of you have seen a nuclear explosion on television? The cloud rises up like a perfect scroll, it rolls up like a mushroom. It is the pillar of clouds that we see in the second chapter of Joel. |
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(Rev 6:14 KJV) And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. This is an interesting thing to talk about. We saw in Ezekiel that some mountains are going to fall down. One of the reasons for that could have to do with the fact that a lot of military installations are hidden under mountains to protect them. As a result there are nuclear missiles created to drive down into that mountain and destroy that installation. That could take care of some of those mountains all by itself, but there is another interesting prospect. Isaiah says the world is turned upside down and empties out the population. The Prophet Amos tells of an event that happens on a clear day, the sun goes down at noon, and the only way for the sun to go down at noon would be for the earth to move. It must turn upside down. |
Einstein had an interesting theory, actually it was more of a fear then a theory. He suggested that one nuclear bomb aimed at the right trajectory could cause the earth to reverse its poles. Stop and think about it, you have the earth just hanging on nothing, no hoops, no magic tricks, no wires, God just set it there in a delicate orbital balance. When the space shuttle is in outer space, it just sits there in its orbit. In order for the ship to move, it has to fire its thrusters. It doesn’t have to keep them firing, just fire them sufficiently to give you the speed and course desired, when the thrusters are shut down the vehicle continues to move in that course and speed. What if you had all of those nuclear bombs, understanding that most of those missiles are going to strike the Northern hemisphere, since all the combatants are in the Northern hemisphere, placing this lopsided thrusting on the earth, couldn’t that cause the world to turn upside down? It could hit the earth with such an angle of impact that it could reverse its axis and turn the world upside down. The scripture does say every island and mountains are moved out of its place, and it says the world is turned upside down. It does say the earth is burned and few men are left. Jeremiah says in a single day the slain of the earth will be from one end of the earth to the other. He also ties it with a great evil going from land to land, and great whirlwinds shall rise up on the coast of the earth (Jer. 25:31-33).
(Rev 6:15 KJV) And the kings of
the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the
mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens
and in the rocks of the mountains;
So every man is going to try to hide from this
terror.
(Rev 6:16 KJV) And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
It is no wonder that these men are crawling into caves and saying who will be able to stand! The rich of the world have engineered this thing, and they did not understand how bad it would be. Wouldn't you be afraid of God's wrath is you had brought such evil upon the earth?
(Rev 6:17 KJV) For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
God's wrath has peaked and who will be able to stand against it. Believe it or not the Antichrist is going to give it a try, with many foolish followers.
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