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Now, totally “enraged,” Satan readies his fourth and goal play against God’s faithful who overcome him in spite of death (Romans 8:18, 31-39; Revelation 12:11, 17, NKJV). Calling forth a global government made up of and blending together a greatest hits traits list of human kingdoms from the past, Satan takes advantage of mortal Antichrist’s assassination as a ruler from among them when he with God’s permission resurrects immortal (Revelation 13:1-3). “The beast” proves his immortality to the world by killing God’s two, heretofore, unstoppable witnesses (Revelation 11:7-8, NKJV).12 God immediately calls His final timeout for the magnitude of the moment and what is to follow.
Out of total contempt for God’s two witnesses the unsaved world will not even allow them to have a proper burial; letting their dead bodies lay in the Jerusalem street where they were slain for three and one half days. As it turns out prophetically, those hours shortened days symbolically show the time in years the world has left! A world-wide celebration like festive Mardi Gras and secular gift giving Christmas fills the days (Revelation 11:9-10). To the absolute terror of all the celebrants when the days end, God resurrects His two witnesses immortal and they ascend to Heaven “in a cloud” at the command of a “loud voice” from there as their enemies watch (Revelation 11:11-12, NKJV).
While the terrified unsaved world is briefly muted, God’s faithful rejoice in and glorify Him for His display of the power that fulfills in micro with the two witnesses--and later, the 144,000 celibates after the false prophet, what He has promised to do widely for all His saints (John 11:21-27, 38-44; 1 Corinthians 6:14, 15:20-23; Revelation 13:11-12, 14:1-5)! Truly, this preview of their future renews and energizes their faith and hope in Christ since they also know with the foretold immortal Antichrist on scene, their lives are in certain peril. Within the hour God’s two witnesses ascend to Heaven a “great earthquake” occurs in Jerusalem. “A tenth” of the city collapses and seven thousand people are killed. Awestruck survivors give glory to Heaven’s God (Revelation 11:13, NKJV)!
The judgments of the sixth trumpet and second woe are now concluded as is timeout on the field. The third and final woe is “coming quickly” with the sounding of the seventh trumpet (Revelation 11:14, NKJV). Before the Antichrist can move to consolidate his grip on world power, in a classic divine act of “declaring the end from the beginning” so His faithful are encouraged from Scripture, the seventh angel sounds his trumpet (Isaiah 46:8-11; Revelation 11:15-19, NKJV)! This seventh trumpet and third woe announce in advance the eternal triumph of God and Christ’s Kingdom over this world’s kingdoms through all that is about to unfold in the dawning Day of the Lord!
All that is written in the Bible concerning the Antichrist--his supernatural support from Satan, breaking of the covenant with the Jews that allowed their Temple sacrifice to God, his self-exaltation to deity, blasphemy against the true God of Heaven in His Temple, military and destructive exploits--come to pass over the foretold three and a half year period called “Jacob’s trouble” and the “great tribulation” (Jeremiah 30:7; Matthew 24:15-25, NKJV).13 This includes his persecution sweep across the earth in Satan’s fourth and goal play warring against the saints martyring millions standing faithful and that scores giving his team the lead (Daniel 7:19-25, 8:23-25, 11:36-39; 2 Thessalonians 2:3-8; Revelation 13:4-10). The world is now very dark spiritually and teems with angry demons.
The demons openly display their supernatural power as delusion toward the end of upholding Antichrist’s lie of being God (2 Thessalonians 2:9-12). While the Kingdom cause labor of the faithful to restore men openly has ended, God out of His amazing grace sends an angel to deliver the Gospel globally one more time (John 9:4; Revelation 14:6-7). Of joyful note during this time is God’s judgment of Christianity the religion of men; that great harlot of confusion formerly inspired of Satan and destroyed by Antichrist seeking to obliterate all things Christian and any other rivals to his worship (Revelation 14:8, 17:1-19:4).14 Near the end of his reign of desolation, Heaven readies to catch up the saints and God to express His millennia long held wrath (Revelation 14:14-15:8).
Suddenly, in rapid succession four of seven angels pour out their bowls of God’s wrath at the end of Antichrist’s reign directly on those with his mark and the earth he controls. They stubbornly refuse to repent here or after; blaspheming when the fifth bowl brings universal darkness (Exodus 9:8-10, 10:21-23; Revelation 16:1-11). The sixth angel pours out his bowl on the Euphrates river to dry it up for armies from the east to cross as God assembles all the nation’s armies to Israel’s Armageddon (Psalm 2:4-12; Joel 3:1-17; Revelation 16:12-14). To this point, His scattered faithful remnant has been impacted only by a temporary lack of food, fresh water and the sun’s heat. With only seconds left in the game, the tiny team on the field waits on Christ to come praying (Psalm 143).
They are encouraged by Him to keep faithfully watching lest they give up and be put to shame by their unbelief as the armies of the world finish gathering at Armageddon (Revelation 16:15-16). Then suddenly, as the Lord foretold, His sign appears in the darkened sky and He gloriously descends with an audible shout, voice of an archangel and trumpet of God calling for all His saints to join Him in the clouds by resurrection, translation and ascension (Matthew 24:29-31; 1 Corinthians 15:50-52; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17, 5:9-10)! His elect Jews safe (Isaiah 26:20-21), the seventh angel pours out the final bowl of God’s wrath (Exodus 9:18-26; Isaiah 13:6-13, 30:30, 42:14-15; Revelation 16:17-21). The game ends in Kingdom victory when the feet of Jesus touchdown on the Mount of Olives (Ezekiel 38:1-39:8; Zechariah 9:11-17, 14:1-7, 12-15; Revelation 19:11-20:3).
(This Labor Day I salute God’s faithful men that understand our Kingdom cause labor in the Gospel to restore men is not in vain-1 Corinthians 15:57-58!)
12 See the August 7, 2016, blog, Wicked Immortals And Their Bodies, under the categories, God’s Creatures and Bible Prophecy for informative background instruction about the Antichrist’s immortal body.
13 Read the February 23, 2014 blog, The Man Of Sin, under the category, Bible Prophecy for additional details about the Antichrist.
14 Destruction of the outward forms of Christianity the religion of men is foretold in Bible prophecy as the Lord leads me to write about in an August 23, 2015 blog entitled, Babylon Is Falling! under the category, Bible Prophecy.
Shortly after the greatest of all revivals commences, while earth’s inhabitants are going about their noisy routines, Heaven briefly goes quiet from its normally thunderous worshipful activities. As reported by the apostle John, the solemn silence in Heaven is a prelude to the divine warning judgments about to be unleashed on earth that lead finally to wrath. This time has come urged by the prayers of all the saints in both locales that are fragrant to God. In dramatic fashion, seven trumpets are given to seven angels that blown in Heaven, signal God’s actions to take place and countdown His coming Day of the Lord on the earth (Psalm 34:15, 119:126, 141:1-2; Revelation 6:9-11, 8:1-4).
The angel that had ministered the prayers of His saints before God, now, fills his censer with fire and throws it to the earth. Suddenly, there is a global wonder in the sky of loud noises, booming thunder, fierce lightning and a quake that rattles the entire planet at once! In an instant, God’s response to the prayers of His saints who have waited millennia for Him to act occurs and creates the fitting fear and alarm among humanity very clear “acts of God” should elicit (Revelation 8:5). Quickly recovering from the suddenness of this terrifying event and emboldened all the more, the faithful ratchet up their Kingdom work and warfare and stiffen their resolve to stand on the Lord’s side!
The seven angels prepare to blow (Revelation 8:6). The question of whether there is a God for all but the most cynical in denial is answered after the first four angels sound their trumpets of judgment (Revelation 8:7-12)! These “third” judgments fully demonstrate God’s control over nature and the cosmos as well as His ability to destroy all when and should He desire.9 Thus, as with the plagues upon Egypt, God’s first four judgments are meant to awaken unsaved mankind and their rulers to His superior reality. After graciously giving the unsaved an opportunity to repent and believe the Gospel to be saved (Ezekiel 33:11; 2 Peter 3:9), timeout on the field ends.
With the atmosphere still filled with smoke and the stench of death from decaying sea life, many will be those including non-remnant Jews and professed Christian religionists that willfully harden their hearts against the Gospel like Pharaoh who was not impressed with God’s display of power and resisted Him (Exodus 5:1-2).10 So, in support of His two-fold elect God will repeat another thing He did in Egypt: make a distinction between His people with the mark of the Holy Spirit and those without Him in the first of three woes an angel has warned about (Revelation 8:13). The game resumes with the first and goal attempt by Satan’s team to run its favorite persecution play against God’s faithful and Jews when immediately the fifth trumpet sounds.
Confusion ensues and the play is stopped dead in the backfield as God’s judgment summons Satan to release demonically controlled creatures that painfully sting only those without the mark of the Holy Spirit for five months; members of his own team of deceived mortals (Exodus 8:20-24; Revelation 9:1-12)!11 The pain is so great the unsaved want to die, but cannot do so. The temporary nature of this judgment and woe once more shows God’s grace and willingness to save. Though the faithful continue laboring to restore men, the results are negligible because instead of being humbled by their pain, the unsaved persist in their sins. The sixth trumpet sounds (Revelation 9:13-15).
Knowing plainly who God’s faithful are, Satan’s team is about to blast up the middle on its second and goal murderous play to steam roll into the end zone when reinforcements foretold from ancient times suddenly take the field (Joel 2:1-11; Revelation 9:16-19). The play is turned back by God’s army with a major loss of yards as one third of unsaved mankind then on earth is killed and eternally condemned! Humiliated, nevertheless, the now fully heart hardened remainder of unsaved mankind defiantly refuse to repent from their sins (Revelation 9:20-21). However, they are weary of God’s judgments and are reluctantly ready to concede to another of His demands through the Jews.
In echo of His demand of Pharaoh by way of Moses, God declares to the world rulers of the day as spoken to me and through the passionate insistence of Jews, “Let My people go worship Me at the Temple built on Zion’s hill for that purpose,” (Exodus 8:25-32)! God then calls His second timeout to allow the necessary details of His demand to unfold. Those details include the successful negotiation efforts of the still mortal Antichrist that result in Daniel’s seventieth week and the Temple worship covenant (Daniel 9:24-27). John is told by an angel there will be no more delays in the days just before the seventh trumpet sounds (Revelation 10-11:2). The game resumes with Satan carrying out a third and goal persecution screen pass play intended to harm the Jews in particular.
However, two men suddenly appear in the defense; God’s foretold two witnesses His faithful and worldwide Jewry recognize in the familiar plagues they freely bring on the earth to validate their prophetic utterances, glorify God and take out enemy blockers coming against them and Israel. They serve the first half of the seven year Temple worship covenant (Malachi 4:4-6; Revelation 11:3-6). During this period, Satan has trouble in Heaven too since the holy angels have made war against and defeat him and the heavenly hosts of his team; casting them to the earth. In “great wrath,” he presses the screen pass play that is stopped short of the original line of scrimmage by another divine miracle reprise from the days of Moses (Numbers 16:23-33; Revelation 12:1-16, NKJV).
9 I have referenced the judgment of Revelation 8:12 in a number of blogs over the years mostly noting the chaos it will cause when for His two-fold elect’s sake as foretold, God shortens the end time days (Matthew 24:22; Mark 13:20) by making a day sixteen instead of the twenty-four hours humanity has known from creation. Read the July 27, 2014 blog, God Of Order under the category, Instruction, to learn that while this judgment is a blessing to God’s two-fold elect and all mankind because mortal life will be preserved, in the immediate face of its jarring suddenness, the world is thrown into debilitating fear, stress-filled be- wilderment and disorder (Luke 21:25-26).
10 God’s 144,000 elect Jewish remnant will not accept the Gospel either because their repentance and complete conversion by His will awaits Christ’s Second Com- ing (Zechariah 12:10-13:1) lest they lose their mortality required for their promised experience of David’s kingdom restored (Jeremiah 23:5-6). However, they will not be hostile to the Gospel or its messengers who they understand like them, enjoy the Holy Spirit! By the way, this all being true, the teaching that the 144,000 are Gospel evangelists cannot be equally true.
11 The world’s love of fictional horror and hideous monsters to scare themselves is surely behind this judgment too which in perfect and real divine justice, painfully terrifies the unsaved!
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