Heaven’s Key Sheltering Strategies (Part 1)

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A casual reading of Bible stories will reveal what might appear to us to be inconsistencies in whether, when and how The Lord shelters His saints from judgments upon others. Sometimes, He allows us to be exposed to, and even to become collateral damage of those judgments. Other times, in unlimited creative ways, He totally shelters from His judgments on others. Because of His boundless creativity, His ‘sheltering repertoire’ is limitless! So when I perceive repetitive uses of some strategies, my strategic mind perks up and ponders, ‘What’s going on?’ Two seemingly repetitive strategies are the ‘Goshen-effect’ (my term) protective sheltering, and raptures.

The ‘Goshen-Effect’

As expressions of The Lord’s Grace and Mercy, He sometimes extends protections to certain individuals and groups in order to shield them/us from His pending judgments on others. The Goshen Effect (Series) examines how He tailors special protections for those He intends to shelter from judgments on others. The most popular one is how He sheltered the Hebrews slaves from the impacts of the last 7 (of 10) plagues He rained down on ancient Egypt, before the exodus. Part 2 of that series explains why He likely did not shelter them during the initial 3 plagues: They were largely scattered across Egypt searching for hay to make bricks, after Pharaoh (in response to Moses’ initial ‘Let My people go!’ command) refused to let the Egyptians deliver hay to them in Goshen. (See: Exodus 5) They might have returned home, to the land of Goshen, after the national impacts of the first 3 plagues. The series also notes several subsequent ‘Goshen-effect’-type protections across The Bible, including some pending ones. 

The Reliance-Vengeance Trap

How nations walk themselves into Judgment

Alliance→Reliance→Defiance→Vengeance→Compliance! or Extinction!

 

My spirit cringes when I hear national leaders, including my own, boast about their economies, their militaries, and especially their alliances. That kind of boasting consistently reveals a dangerous ignorance of history, and of Heaven. Scripture and history testify to a pattern that has repeated across centuries, cultures, and empires. Nations are allowed to rise, prosper, arm themselves, and form alliances, but never for the reasons they assume.

The 6th Seal, Civilization’s Reset? (Part 1)

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NB: This series lays out an integrated conceptual framework: the context and implications of The Lord opening the 6th seal on His scroll, triggering a series of global judgments that may end this current 3rd age of our history—the post-cross age of free Grace to all peoples—and may also create conditions that lead to a one world government. This series is best read as a whole, pausing as needed to digest and reflect. I seek no agreement with my perceptions and intuitions. I encourage you to your own in-depth study of Scripture, and allow The Holy Spirit to shape your understanding of these predicted events.

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I looked when He opened the sixth seal, and behold, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood. And the stars of heaven fell to the earth, as a fig tree drops its late figs when it is shaken by a mighty wind. Then the sky receded as a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved out of its place. And the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains, and said to the mountains and rocks, ‘Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! For the great day of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand?’ (Revelation 6:12-17)

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Background

 

During Apostle John’s Revelation vision on Patmos Island, circa AD 95, The Lord twice promised to show him ‘things which must shortly take place’ on Earth, so John could inform The Lord’s servants—presumably the early Christians. History reveals how, shortly after John’s vision, some of the early predictions in Revelation 6, began to unfold across the Earth. Notably, Chapter 6 is the first chapter in Revelation that describes judgments with direct, observable impacts on the Earth; earlier chapters are largely contextual. Chapter 6 lists 6 unique sets of increasingly severe judgments against humanity—each released as The Lord opens a seal on His scroll. These six seals, however, do not exhaust Heaven’s judgments. They precede a final, 7th seal that will later unleash Heaven’s full set of apocalyptic judgments (Revelation 8–16), culminating in Christ’s return to rule the Earth, as depicted in Revelation 19:11–21.

The 6th Seal, Civilization’s Reset? (Part 2)

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Part 2 examines the context and implications of opening the 6th seal on The Lord’s scroll, as Heaven’s possible, pre-written verdict against this 3rd age. Let’s proceed to consider some relevant factors, namely:

 

1.     Genesis 6 ‘Age Verdict’ Sample

2.     Age-ending Earthquakes

3.     ‘Cover’ for the Next Resurrection/Rapture Event?

 

1. Genesis 6 ‘Age Verdict’ Sample

 

Genesis 6 summarizes Heaven’s review of, and verdict against the 1st age of our history. The Lord gave that summary to Moses early in the 2nd age, a few centuries after the global flood. It is a biting verdict that substantiates Heaven’s decision to send a global flood to kill ALL BUT 8 humans, and re-start the human population through Noah’s family. Today, we are the population that family sired.

The 6th Seal, Civilization’s Reset? (Part 3)

 

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Let’s conclude our examination of the context and implications of The Lord opening the 6th seal on His scroll—possibly as Heaven’s pre-written verdict against this 3rd age—in the ‘same spirit’ as Genesis 6, His biting verdict against the 1st age of human history. What follows is not a comparison between Genesis 6 and the 6th seal. Rather, I perceive certain aspects of Genesis 6, and the subsequent impacts described in Genesis 7, serve as an indicative template for several of Heaven’s later age-transition patterns.

 

3. ‘Cover’ for the Next Resurrection/Rapture Event?

 

The U.S. military gave the world two extraordinary examples of how it extracts international fugitives from their safe houses—namely Osama bin Laden and Nicolas Maduro! Irrespective of what we may think of these men, or the U.S. military operations against them, the detailed level of planning, practice, stealth, and cross-agency coordination required to accomplish their lightning extraction strikes, was extremely impressive!

The 6th Seal, Civilization’s Reset? (Part 4)

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Ponder this…

 

I trust this review of the context and implications of The Lord opening the 6th seal on His scroll is insightful to you. The judgments released on Earth will be like nothing experienced since the global flood that ended the 1st age of our history. Following are some points to ponder as you continue to digest this review, and progress in your preparations for this inevitable event..

 

1. In just 6 short verses, Revelation 6:12-17 summarize how Heaven will shockingly close this 3rd age of human history! While people at that time might think, ‘apocalyptic!’, these judgments won’t be the apocalypse! BUT, it might be good for people to think such! Why? By the time the world finds its footing after this attack, it will be struck by the REAL apocalypse that will last 42 months—much longer than the Revelation 6:12-17 impacts!

I find it curious how people (possibly saints and sinners alike) are quick to think and shout, ‘APOCALYPTIC!!’ and ‘Biblical proportions!’, when shocking events occur. It seems that such would only be good, IF they actually lived lives that demonstrate belief in the …apocalypse of Biblical proportions’. 

What Kind of Europe?

 

Traditional Christian thought is that the final anti-Christ man will hail from Europe. This is likely based on interpretations of prophecies of the rise of the remnants of a 4th kingdom, possibly a derivative from the fallen Roman Empire. While I don’t have a solid opinion on this point, it’s worth examining this interpretation in light of clear Bible prophecies and current global events.

 

In several 2025 posts, including Demonstration Effects, I shared what The Lord inspired me to perceive re. the return of Donald Trump to the American presidency, and to global influence and power. Since his return, the world has witnessed a steady stream of chaos on just about every front of life, both nationally and internationally. The Lord presented this to me as glimpse of what His strategic plan calls for the final anti-Christ regime to be and do during the 4th age of our history—the short (7-year) tribulation age. If Trump’s regime is a forerunner of that predicted, global regime, here are some factors we might keep in mind.

Is America, An S-hole Nation? (Poem)

 

Our words rehearse futures, that may become ‘our case’.

Thus, how we label others, we risk becoming.

Contemptuous words we speak, seek a dwelling place.

And in the speaker’s heart, find their best homecoming.

 

We mocked the poor, then learned to prize that which is crude.

We scorned ALL restraint, then crowned excess as king.

As quaint, we sneered at Truth, and over facts we feud,

Till it felt like, in a sea of lies, we’re sinking.

Double-O-Heaven (Poem)

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Psst…

There they are, spread all across the world, living secret lives,

Snug in their faith that, between them and The Lord, ‘all is well’.

They’ve designed lifestyles that keep their Christian faith fully cloaked,

On both sides of their ‘life’s equation’, they are living lies:

Before the world, they do or say nothing that will impel.

Before The Lord, they avoid thinking of what He invoked.

Shh…

Yet secure in their thoughts, they secretly clutch their Christian badge,

While, in their hearts, they condemn the evil that’s all around,

Except that, on some of it, they will feed, selectively…

Though they know much of it will become ‘excess heart baggage.

Knowing that, to what our ‘spirit digests’, we become bound!

Tell me, what does that suggest about their sagacity??

My Prayer Lessons Treadmill (Poem)

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‘Your will be done’, we are taught to pray.

The FIRST request in The Lord’s prayer template,

Before other requests we relay.

To Him, this gives our prayers merit.

 

But in my life, and perhaps in yours,

From this order I have often slipped,

Forgetting what The Lord underscored.

From my prayers, this FIRST part, I stripped!

Then…