Nations in the Millennium (Part 1)

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The Lord led me to review the predicted conditions across Earth at the end of the apocalypse. This is what I ‘saw’, based on Scripture:

•  People are super rare on Earth.
•  Those who remain are utterly filthy, famished and flat out EXHAUSTED.
•  The stench and mental stains of cannibalism linger.
•  Trust among people is very thin in response to fears of theft and cannibalism.
•  Trees and grass are also very rare, and severely stressed.
•  Animals may be rare and stressed from the shortage of water and grass .
•  Every constructed shelter is destroyed by a GLOBAL earthquake.
•  No mountains or islands are insight anywhere, as they were destroyed in the GLOBAL earthquake, possibly triggering massive tsunamis across the Earth, and creating new lands where oceans, rivers and lakes previously appeared.
•  No major bodies of waters are in view.
•  All lands are a relatively flat plain, possibly except Jerusalem.
•  No prior geographic reference points remain.
•. No sense of national or political groupings anywhere.
•. No governments at any level remains.

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Our 'Longevity Itch'

 

We have a ‘persistent itch’ that just won’t go away! It is our abiding concern about how long we’ll live, and how we can prolong our time in this earthly life. That ‘itch’ gets stronger with each passing, senior birthday. And it’s ‘off the scale’ with any senior illness. In response, ‘longevity’ has become BIG BUSINESS, producing many meds, health preps and tools, counseling, apps, etc. Science has made great strides in understanding and learning how to tweak the bio mechanics of life. Yet, there are a few critical aspects of longevity that we ignore, sidestep or about which we are largely unaware.

The 7th Seal (Part 1)

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Before discussing the 7^th, final seal opening on The Lord’s scroll, predicted in Revelation chapter 8, following is a review of what I have shared about the first 4 and the 6th seals events. NB: The 5th seal event (the predicted ‘cry of the martyrs’ from in Heaven), may have no discernible impacts on Earth.  

 

1. The post, He Twice Said, ‘Shortly’, reminds us that, in His Revelation vision to Apostle John, circa AD 95, The Lord twice said described would begin to happen shortly on Earth. The most relevant of those events are judgment impacts on Earth that would occur when He opened several seals on a scroll. Ancient and recent history, and even current events, reveal impacts from opening the first 4 seals began and then significantly scaled up  during the mid-to-end of the Roman Empire. Yet many Bible scholars intuit the first 7 of those events—Him opening the 7 seals on a scroll—will only begin thousands of years later, during the tribulation age, possibly as part of the predicted ~3.5 year apocalypse. I cannot imagine discounting His ‘shortly’ point to that extent.  

The 7th Seal (Part 2)

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Revelation 8:1 predicts silence in heaven for about half an hour, when The Lord will open the 7th, final seal on His scroll. There are no direct references to any impacts on Earth. But since the very next verse references preparations for the 7 trumpets judgments on Earth, Bible scholars generally conclude (a) the half hour of silence is merely a brief prelude to the trumpets judgments; and (b) the reference to heaven is the realm of God. Those perspectives appear to miss some key strategic insights. 

The 7th Seal (Part 3)

 

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Biblical Silences

 

To understand the silence in Revelation 8:1, it is helpful to recall The Bible has a few explicit references, and many inferred references to silent periods in or from Heaven. Moreover, it is critical to perceive the most important period of silence from Heaven that will be relevant to the 4th age of our history—the tribulation age!

 

The books of Daniel and Revelation explicitly predict the rise of a global leader and system that will severely stress both Jews and Christians alike. Revelation calls him ‘the beast’. 1st and 2nd John indicate he will be the tail end of an exceptionally long parade of people who will deny Jesus/The Messiah has already come in the flesh—was born as a human. Daniel 7 and 12 signal the tribulation age—the Biblical 4th age of human history—will last about 7 years, or 2 halves of about 42 months each. The prophetic timeline reveals there are a series of things he must do during his roughly 42 month global reign of deception and death. Here’s the key point: 

Post 6th Seal Reactions

  

We have generally become so predictable in how we explain away natural and cosmic events, and repetitive patterns across history as anything but God-caused. That’s just one way we have increasingly diminished, and later, effectively deleted Him from having any agency in our lives, national/global affairs, and creation. Yet The Bible predicts we will have the opposite reaction to His next, scheduled global, cosmic disruption to our lives—the impacts of His opening the 6th seal on a scroll. (See: Revelation 6:12-17) It predicts people across the world will know He is the source! In Apocalypse Preview, I review this strange flip, and conclude our general unfamiliarity with The Book of Revelation, might automatically lead people to think, erroneously, that event will be the apocalypse. 

 

Ignorance-based Deception

best explains that likely reaction.

 

That led me to ponder:

 

What might be their reactions,

 after the world recovers from that event?

 

Context

 

Though The Bible is silent on this point, here are a few contextual markers that might guide us to perceive how people might react.

 

Duration of the 4th age. The Bible indicates the 4th age of human history—the tribulation age—will comprise two halves of 3.5 years each—a total of 7 years.

(See: References to ‘times, time, and half a time’ in Daniel 7 and 12).

 

Possible 3rd age closing event. The 6th seal event might mark the end of this current 3rd age and trigger the predicted resurrection/rapture (harvest-like) event for The Lord’s bona fide saints from across this age--including all faithful saints since The Day of Pentecost. (See: The 6th Seal, Civilization’s Reset? (Series))

 

Rise of ‘the beast’. The Bible predicts a highly-deceptive, global leader (called ‘the beast’ in Revelation), will arise during that age. It is silent on what might trigger his rise. It might be the 6th seal event, especially if many/most governments become dysfunctional, and desperate people across the world demand somebody/ANYBODY to take charge and lead a massive recovery project. (See: Like Parent, Like Child (Series)), my imaginary scenario of how a 7-nation coalition might form, with him as leader.)

 

Apocalypse timing. The Bible signals, midway into that short age, this leader will enter into a (not-yet-constructed) 3rd Jewish Temple, defile it, declare himself to be The Almighty, and by those acts, trigger the start of the predicted, 42-month long apocalypse. (See: Daniel 7 and 2 Thessalonians 2:1-4)

 

Plausible Post-recovery/Pre-apocalypse Reactions 

 

Given the above context, I intuit some post-recovery reactions to the 6th seal event might be people thinking or saying:

1. If that event WAS the apocalypse, then Christian’s warnings were over blown, exaggerated! So the whole Bible must be WRONG! Bah, humbug! 

2. We actually survived, and now we thrive after the worst ever cosmic event! We should be proud of what we can do when we have the right leader, and diligently work together! 

3. See how resilient we humans are?! Let’s celebrate and honor/worship the leader we selected! He and his team did an outstanding, miraculous job! 

4. If that wasn’t the apocalypse, then the real apocalypse might not be as long or as bad. We proved we can handle and survive that, too! Whatever!

5. Life is just cycles, crises, and recoveries. Nothing’s changed. Same as always. 

6. Let’s build a planetary meteorite shield, so we’ll be ready the NEXT time!

7. Let’s create a special organization, with expert leadership to scope out our vulnerabilities, and prepare for possible similar events in the future! 

 

Effects of Such Reactions

 

  • Hardened disbelief; reduced fear of God; increased confidence/pride in human systems.

  • A false sense of security.

  • Willingness to embrace global governance.

  • Misplaced trust, maximized misinterpretation and ignorance-based deception

  • Perfect physical and spiritual setup for maximum impacts from the pending, ‘real deal’.

  • Objects/people of trust revealed, which the apocalypse will collapse! 

 

Heaven knows very well how to allow, or to draw us onto paths of false security, to teach us its lessons we otherwise, refuse to learn. The apocalypse will be ‘the mother’ of such lessons it has been trying to teach us… since Adam! With it, The Lord won’t just greatly shake the Earth. He will shake everything and every system in which we trust, to teach us He and His system of righteousness are the ONLY trustworthy things in His creation!

 

If only more of us today, would

believe, and embrace His lesson.

Our BIGGEST Problem! (poem)

Asking a few people, ‘What might be the single, BIGGEST problem of humanity?’, might trigger a wide variety of responses. It’s not national leaders, some ethnic groups, or a set of global problems like nuclear annihilation, global warming/climate change, or another global pandemic. Asking what it might be from Heaven’s perspective, the scope might be narrowed considerably, but might not get to the seed problem I perceive:

Our likely BIGGEST core problem is our

genuine failure to understand

Heaven’s GRACE.

 

We may love to sing, ‘Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound’. But whoever stops to  think, ask, and search for answers to these questions?

 

•  What IS the sound of Grace—just verbalizing the word?

•  What makes GRACE so amazing?!

Asking a few people, ‘What might be the single, BIGGEST problem of humanity?’ might trigger a wide variety of responses. It’s not national leaders, some ethnic groups, or a set of global problems like nuclear annihilation, global warming/climate change, or another global pandemic. Asking what it might be from Heaven’s perspective, the scope might be narrowed considerably, but might not get to the seed problem I perceive:

Asking a few people, ‘What might be the single, BIGGEST problem of humanity?’ might trigger a wide variety of responses. It’s not national leaders, some ethnic groups, or a set of global problems like nuclear annihilation, global warming/climate change, or another global pandemic. Asking what it might be from Heaven’s perspective, the scope might be narrowed considerably, but might not get to the seed problem I perceive:

Just knowing some definitions or examples of GRACE, does not necessarily equate to understanding it—especially from Heaven’s perspective—which none of us can do fully. The Bible is the best source for that insight. From Genesis-to-Revelation, it is essentially a host of didactic examples from which Heaven intends us to:

 

Read, study, meditate, re-read, learn and finally,

UNDERSTAND what it is, what is its core intent, and

its respective and ultimate benefits, durations, and consequences.

 

The Bible is essentially a book of Lessons About Grace. As such, our failure to embrace and learn these lessons is very likely…

 

The single, BIGGEST PROBLEM of humanity?’

 

Why? From and because of The Lord’s Heart of Grace, everything from which we benefit flows, without exception. Revelation 22 reveals His Grace is our personal, time-bound opportunity to escape His promised, and our well-deserved, eternal judgment.

YES, Our BIGGEST Problem!

 

Most of us won’t learn to connect,

The Lord’s Grace-to-His lake of fire place!

Warnings He gave us, most reject.

Uninformed, they just abuse His Grace.

 

Some love to sing, ‘Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound’,

Yet ignore its purpose—what its sound says is true!

They stubbornly refuse to turn their lives around,

And ‘shut internal eyes’ to their eternal view. ¹

For their choice, those folks will pay a major price,

When before Him, one day, they each will stand.

Because in life they, rejected His advice,

From more of His Grace, they then will be banned.

 

In life, they won’t perceive the place un-paralleled,

Where, as sentient immortals, they’ll be cast.

In the company of all devils, death and hell,

In sulfur-lit fire, in a dry lake that’s VAST!

 

Oh, if only in this life, our ‘testing ground’,

More of us would learn, indeed, Grace has a sound,

A clear purpose and time limit that’s life-bound,

Unless we embrace what it offers—a crown! ²

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¹ Spiritual eyes

² An eternal crown for life lived according to The Lord’s righteous standards.