Prophecy
8
The Six
Trumpets –
Revelation 8:2 – 9:21
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Revelation
9:16
And
hast made us unto our God kings and
priests: and we shall reign on the
earth.{16} Four
of Lucifer’s mighty demons went
throughout the world and raised an
army of two hundred million troops to
conduct holy jihad against all
unbelievers.
(Note:
For the sake of comparison, in
2006 (the most recent year records
were available), the number of active
military personnel for all nations
was about thirteen million.)
Remember,
Lucifer will appear to be a
wonderful, benevolent, and gracious
God during the fifth trumpet.
Billions of people will see him and
marvel at his signs and wonders. He
will imitate Jesus’ miracles and
it is reasonable to assume that
millions of starving people will eat
“loaves and fishes” from
his hands.[61] When
the sixth trumpet sounds, Lucifer
will suddenly assert authority as
Almighty God. He will suddenly speak
as a ruthless dictator. The devil
will make painful demands that people
cannot escape. For example, Lucifer
will declare that the time has come
to establish the kingdom of God on
Earth. There has to be one God, one
faith, and one church on Earth –
all others will be deemed false and
forbidden. Think about Lucifer’s
clever logic. If “God”
dwells among men, religious diversity
is impossible. When “God”
lives among mankind, every religious
system must be abandoned because
there is no room for divergent
opinions on or about God’s will
or laws. Lucifer, masquerading as
Almighty God, will impose himself on
all mankind. He will declare his laws
to be “the laws of Almighty
God” and everyone will either
obey them or be killed. (This will be
an interesting implementation of
“the sudden death law”
which Lucifer originally used to
mislead a third of God’s angels.
See Prophecy 12.)
Lucifer will
abolish the governments of the world
and declare that all governments
other than his will be considered
adversaries to “the kingdom of
God.” Think about this: When
“God” (e.g., Lucifer
masquerading as God) establishes his
kingdom on Earth, he will establish a
new order on Earth. The devil will
create a counterfeit theocracy and
consolidate the religious powers and
civil powers of Earth into this
theocracy. (Lucifer’s theocracy
is described as “the image to
the beast” in Revelation
13 and “the great
whore” in Revelation 17.)
Lucifer will rule over the whole
world as king of kings (the state)
and lord of lords (the church). After
he has abolished the religions and
governments of the world, the devil
will divide the world into ten
sectors and appoint ten “puppet
kings” to oversee the
purification of these sectors. These
ten kings will report directly to
Lucifer. Anyone caught refusing to
obey his laws will be killed
immediately.[62]
Jesus will
permit the devil to torment the
non-religious wicked during the fifth
trumpet so that He can save those few
people who will repent and be saved.
Jesus has the same objective during
the sixth trumpet. He will allow the
devil to abolish the religions and
governments of the world during the
sixth trumpet to save a few more
people. Take a moment to consider the
problem and the solution. Religion
always exerts compelling power over
people. Because of this fact, very
few people (less than 5% of the
world’s population) actually
transition from one religious system
to another. (This transition is not
Christians changing churches. The
transition refers to people moving
from one religious system to another,
such as a Muslim becoming a Catholic
or a Catholic becoming a Hindu. Can
you imagine a Jew becoming a Muslim
or vice versa?) Many of the religious
wicked will reject the true gospel of
Jesus because they simply cannot
bring themselves to abandon their
religious heritage (the religious
system into which they were born). It
will come as a tremendous shock when
the religious wicked are forced to
abandon their religious heritage
during the sixth trumpet. Jesus
permits Lucifer to eliminate the
religious systems of the world so
that all people have to abandon their
religious system prior to the Second
Coming!
When
confronted with Lucifer’s demand
that everyone worship and join his
theocracy and when forced to abandon
their lifelong religious system,
heritage and training, the religious
wicked will have a critical decision
to make. Will they grudgingly obey
the laws of the devil and receive his
mark to save themselves or will they
embrace the two laws of love, embrace
the gospel of Jesus and be saved from
the curse of sin? Hopefully, more
than a few of the religious wicked
will come to their senses and embrace
the gospel of Jesus during the sixth
trumpet! Of course, there will be a
great deal of opposition to
Lucifer’s outrageous demands,
but for now, can you imagine the
impact on loyal Catholics when the
Catholic faith is declared illegal?
Can you imagine the impact on loyal
Muslims when the Muslim faith is
declared illegal? Can you imagine the
impact on Jews, Hindus, Protestants,
and Atheists when their faith is
declared illegal? The devil knows
that his demands will create strong
opposition. The devil also knows that
the only way to eliminate opposition
is to kill everyone who will not obey
his demands.
During the
sixth trumpet, the devil will assert
himself over all that is called God
or that is worshiped as God.[63] I
believe the devil will declare that
the kingdom of God is among men and
Lucifer will impose, for logistical
purposes, the ancient practice of
dividing and organizing large numbers
of people into groups of a thousand.[64] By the
time the sixth trumpet occurs, life
on Earth will be primitive.
Electricity, communication, banking,
transportation, and healthcare will
be largely non-existent. After the
first four trumpets, the world will
be in survival mode (extreme problems
demand extreme solutions), and taking
advantage of this desperate
situation, the devil and his demons
will quickly reorganize the whole
world. He will use the justification
that food rations and the necessities
of life are best distributed when
there is a high level of organization
and control.
Working
through his ten kings, the devil will
follow Moses’ example and
appoint one captain over each group
of 1,000 people.[65] This
will leave 999 people in each group.
When the devil announces the demise
of all religions and governments,
people and nations will rebel against
Lucifer’s authority, but he will
be prepared. The devil will issue a
death decree that will put everyone
in shock.[66] The
devil will demand that the
“kingdom of God” must be
purified. Therefore, one-third of
each group of 1,000 people must be
put to death.[67] The ten
kings will praise the devil for
generously sparing two-thirds of
mankind![68]
I believe
Lucifer’s sixth trumpet death
decree will include this
announcement: The first 666 people in
each group who are willing to receive
a tattoo on the right hand showing
the number, 666, will live. The
remaining one-third, 333 people, must
be killed, even if they are willing
to wear the mark! This announcement
will cause the wicked to move quickly
to receive the mark of the beast. The
devil will claim his decree is
justified because there will be
insufficient rations for everyone.
Therefore, it is better to feed
two-thirds of the people than have
everyone die from starvation. By
limiting survival to the first 666
people willing to receive the tattoo,
the devil will eliminate the weak,
the old, the sick, and all of the
rebellious (including the saints and
anyone else opposed to his
authority). I am sure the devil will
promise that the world will be a
better place once all of the rebels
are killed.
When 666
people in each group receive the mark
of the beast, Lucifer’s demons
will motivate many people within each
group of 666 to hunt down the
remaining 333 people who remain in
opposition. Lucifer will be able to
create a great army of two hundred
million troops and only those people
who wear the number 666 on their
right hand will be spared from death.
Everyone wearing the number 666 on
their right hand will be permitted to
buy and sell (to survive), but the
rest of mankind (1.75 billion people)
will be hunted and slaughtered like
animals.
The sixth trumpet war will not be a
war of one country against another.
This war will occur within each group
of 1,000 people.
Since 333
people within each group must be
destroyed, the race to be among the
first 666 will mean the difference
between life and death. The wicked
will be caught in a struggle against
each other. The devil will be
delighted because he knows that
wicked people are selfish and they
will do whatever it takes to survive.
The saints, on the other hand, will
be caught in a very different
struggle. Their struggle will be to
maintain patient endurance and
faithfulness[69] to the
very end. The wicked will be focused
on the “here and now,” but
the saints will be focused on the
hereafter; endless joy and eternal
life with Jesus. The devil is cruel
and heartless and his character will
be clearly revealed during the sixth
trumpet. He would kill 100% of the
world’s population in an instant
(even his own followers) if Jesus
permitted it. However, Jesus limits
the powers of the devil and his
angels to 33% of the world’s
population because there are several
object lessons in the concluding
drama of sin which the universe will
observe and study throughout
eternity.
When Lucifer
issues his first death decree (there
will be two death decrees, one during
the sixth trumpet and one directed at
the saints on the 1,290th day), he
will boast that this holy war (jihad)
will be the war that ends all wars.
Of course, he will be lying because
this war will neither be
“holy” nor will it end all
wars, for Armageddon still remains to
be fought. Those who join with
Lucifer in killing a third of mankind
will think they are doing
“God” a service.[70] Murderers
will be promised high positions in
Lucifer’s government and the
carnage that follows this death
decree will be like the carnage that
occurred in 1994 when Hutu militia in
Rwanda slaughtered 800,000 Tutsies
during a period of one hundred days.
There was no compassion or justice
– only the madness and insanity
of demonic possession. Similarly,
during the sixth trumpet, individuals
possessed by demons will slaughter
333 people in their own group!
However, Jesus will not allow the
devil or his angels to directly
murder a single human being. Instead,
demon possessed people (like King
Herod and Hitler) will carry out
these atrocities. This scenario will
prove that given enough time and
power, all sinners will eventually
mirror Lucifer’s behavior.
Revelation
9:17-19
And
thus I saw the horses in the vision,
and them that sat on them, having
breastplates of fire, and of jacinth,
and brimstone: and the heads of the
horses were as the heads of lions;
and out of their mouths issued fire
and smoke and brimstone. By these
three was the third part of men
killed, by the fire, and by the
smoke, and by the brimstone, which
issued out of their mouths. For their
power is in their mouth, and in their
tails: for their tails were like unto
serpents, and had heads, and with
them they do hurt.{17}
The horses and riders in the sixth
trumpet were different from the
creatures that I saw in the fifth
trumpet. The locusts described in the
fifth trumpet consisted of demons
released from the Abyss, but the army
in the sixth trumpet is made up of
human beings armed with weapons of
war. This army wore colored
breastplates which indicated their
particular division. The colors were
fiery red, dark blue, and yellow like
sulfur.[71] The
heads of their horses (war machines)
resembled the heads of lions, and out
of their mouths came fire, smoke, and
sulfur.
{18} A third of
mankind was killed by the plagues of
fire, smoke, and sulfur that came out
of their war machines.
{19} The riders
could shoot from the front or from
the tails of their war horses. This
was the bloodiest war ever fought on
Earth. The cruelty that people
inflicted on each other was
unbelievable.
John’s
report is not a description of modern
weapons, it is a caricature of modern
devices that will be used to kill a
third of mankind. The wicked will use
explosives to shoot each other (fire
and smoke) and poisonous gas (clouds
of sulfur) to kill millions of
people. Lucifer will exalt these
murderers. Everyone found not having
the tattoo on his right hand is to be
killed. This is the tragic end of a
story that began 6,000 years ago, a
story of one brother killing his
brother over the issue of worship.
This civil war will last several
months.[72]During this
war, Jesus will send 144,000 prophets
to the front lines. They will boldly
deliver the fourth angel’s
message without dilution.[73] The
144,000 will proclaim the gospel of
Jesus Christ. This will infuriate the
wicked and they will kill most, if
not all, of the 144,000.[74] Jesus
said His gospel will go to every
nation, kindred, tongue, and people
and then the end would come.[75] During
the sixth trumpet, Lucifer intends to
kill his opposition and be worshiped
and revered as Almighty God. To
achieve this goal, he will subjugate
the wicked to his evil desires. When
Lucifer’s objective is reached,
Jesus will close the door to
redemption because by this time,
everyone will have finalized their
choice and the seven bowls will
begin.
Revelation
9:20-21
And
the rest of the men which were not
killed by these plagues yet repented
not of the works of their hands, that
they should not worship devils, and
idols of gold, and silver, and brass,
and stone, and of wood: which neither
can see, nor hear, nor walk: Neither
repented they of their murders, nor
of their sorceries, nor of their
fornication, nor of their thefts.{20} I
was amazed at the behavior of those
who received the mark of the beast.
Lucifer’s actions were
disgusting and vile, but his
followers would not repent of the
work of their hands; they would not
stop worshiping demons and idols of
gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood
that could not see, hear, or walk.
{21} The
devil’s followers would not
repent of their murders, magic arts,
sexual immorality, or thievery. They
were a defiant and incorrigible body
of people. They hated the 144,000,
the saints, and the gospel of Christ!
The curse of
sin is a dominating power that few
people understand. It causes rational
people to do stupid and irrational
things. The curse of sin can be
defined as “passion overpowering
wisdom.” This explains why God
will not allow sin to ever flourish
again. During the sixth trumpet, all
of the wicked will pass the point of
return and commit the unpardonable
sin.[76] Every
wicked person will become demon
possessed. Passion will overpower
wisdom and the wicked will behave
much like the pigs that rushed into
the water and drowned.[77] When a
person commits the unpardonable sin,
he cannot change himself or be
transformed into a better person
because he has shut the door on the
Holy Spirit. So, the wicked must be
destroyed to remove the vestiges of
sin.
In review,
the first two woes will accomplish
two great objectives: First, the
non-religious wicked group will
disappear and the religious wicked
group will be purged when all people
will have to abandon their religious
heritage. Second, the gospel will be
preached to every person on Earth.
The people of Earth will be squeezed
by circumstances to make a choice. At
the end of the sixth trumpet, each
person will have either the seal of
God (and his carnal nature removed)
or he will have committed the
unpardonable sin and received the
mark of the beast.
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