Post-6th Seal - Initial Reactions? (Pic updated)

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As I studied the global event depicted in Revelation 6:12-17, I pondered how people might react:

  A. In the immediate aftermath of the global destruction, and

  B. After the relief, recovery and rehabilitation phases will have been completed, likely under the anti-Christ’s global regime.

 

In the immediate aftermath, I imagine:

  •  People across the world will emerge from their predicted hiding places and may be totally shocked at the extent of the damages, and may wonder how in the world will they recover. 

  •  If that event will have been ‘cover’ for the predicted resurrection/rapture of all bona fide 3rd age saints, people will gradually realize many people are missing, and possibly, many graves have been burst open! 

  •  Fake, secret agent, Christianesque, and apostate Christians might be freaking out that they were ‘left behind!’ Having some clues of what that signifies, many of them will likely return to exceptionally strong Christian faith, even preparing themselves to ‘go through’ the pending great tribulation—the apocalypse and/or be beheaded for their faith. (See: Revelation 7:9-17)

  •  Not long after that, I imagine everybody will begin to cry out for somebody—ANYBODY to take charge and lead the relief, recovery and rehabilitation work that most certainly will be desperately needed!

Post-6th Seal - Later Reactions?

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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 His own 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 SEE Him on His Throne, and therefore will know He is the source of the global mayhem! 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, His 6th seal event will be the apocalypse and His so-called 'second return or coming'. It will be neither. They and most Christians don't realize The Bible confirms His 2nd return already happened over 2,000 years ago! 

 

Ignorance-based deception

best explains that likely reaction.

Apocalypse Missed Insights! (Poem)

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BAM!!!

The FIRST blow of major renovations,

That’ve been ordered on your place!

But for you, there’s no planned relocation!

And it’s one that will be …slow-paced!!

 

The advanced notice, you left un-opened.

In shock, there’s no one to blame.

With such matters, you would not be burdened!

Others also share your shame. ¹ 

Bifurcated 'Ranks-Thinning'

Ranks-thinning or thinning out the ranks is a formal or informal process in which large organizations reduce specific people or numbers of people or things engaging in an organized activity. It is typically a practice of any significantly large enterprise—an army, large corporation, governmental agency, etc. Reductions-in-Force (RIFs) are more formal, less personal ways such organizations reduce and restructure themselves by focusing more on positions than specific people or things. Other such terms include right-sizing or down-sizing, organizational trimming, trimming the fat, etc. 

 

But what might ‘bifurcated ranks-thinning’ signify?? Moreover, what place might it have in a blog that accentuates and promotes patterned analysis of Biblical strategies?! It is my label for what I perceive The Lord may have done during the winding-down of the pre-flood age—the 1st Biblical age of human history, and possibly during the winding down of the pre-cross age—the 2nd Biblical age. Let’s try to define ‘bifurcated ranks-thinning’, then consider whether this scenario might be yet another repetitive pattern revealed and/or hinted across the pages of The Bible.

Progressive Performance Probation Plan? (Part 1)

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In Salvation, an Internship (Poem), I posit that Christianity is effectively Heaven’s internship for The Lord’s would-be eternal saints. Revelation 3:14-22 give us the clearest evidence of this concept that is also evident across The Bible. While The Lord’s Grace is extended to all who will believe and receive Him as Lord, the persistent storyline, from Genesis-to-Revelation, is that His eternal Grace is only guaranteed to those of us who pass His tests until death in this earthly life. So the ‘touchstone’ notion of Christianity (i.e., confess Christ, get baptized, go to church, get on with life) is a false version of Christianity that satan and his crew would ABSOLUTELY LOVE for more of us to embrace, rather than a ‘good works, performance-based’ version of the Christian life. Apostle Paul iteratively attests we are created in Christ FOR GOOD WORKS that, in various ways, promote His kingdom on this version of Earth. Revelation 19:6-8 give us the clearest explanation of the eternal objective of our good works—to adorn The Lord’s Bride which is apparently NOT the 3rd age church, as most of us have likely been taught. (See: The Bride of Christ (Series))

Progressive Performance Probation Plan? (Part 2)

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The Lord is THE most STRATEGIC being in existence! The breadth and depths of His various strategies are unknowable to us. BUT, The Bible gives us more than adequate repetitive patterns and insights into His thoughts, ways and preferences for us. He must intend us to study them diligently, and to perceive well beyond the written texts with the aid of His Holy Spirit. Apostle Paul’s writings collectively signal to all bona fide saints that the mysteries of God are hidden FROM sinners, but FOR us believers. But their availability does not mean they are automatically known by all of us. That requires diligent, Holy Spirit-guided study and meditation, followed by diligent Spirit-led efforts to share with interested others what we have perceived, just as Jesus, the prophets and the apostles did. 

Progressive Performance Probation Plan? (Part 3)

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Who Will Judge Whom?

 

While The Bible iteratively affirms Father God has delegated ALL judgments to Jesus, The Lord God, Paul indicates Jesus will delegate judgment of angels to His tested/proven saints. Are you ready for that?! Paul does not reveal which angels we will judge, or when that judgment will occur. This is what I intuit: 

 

The Bible attests that human saints will stand before The Lord’s judgment seat for our performance/good works to be scrutinized. This might either occur sequentially when the various ‘first resurrection’ groups will enter into Heaven, or possibly when all of His saints will be together in Heaven. (See: Biblical Raptures – Types and Timings (Series)) Paul signals that we immortal saints ‘will judge angels’. It is unclear which group of angels we will judge. Here’s what I intuit:

This Scene Will Never Happen! (Poem)

The Bible says the 'FIRST’ resurrection/rapture,

Is for God’s saints who, in life, will have sacrificed,

By transforming our lifestyles, His heart to capture,

Since for us, He sacrificed, and paid our sin price. ¹

The Lord and AI (Part 1)

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Jesus, The Lord God, is The Quintessential lesson planner! He patiently prepared a wide range of lessons to capture our attention in order to warn and teach us about His ways and expectations of us in order to attract His boundless blessings. Reflecting on this pattern across The Bible, I pondered why has AI manifested on the scene, especially in such a speedy manner, during what may be the late stage of the 3rd Biblical age of our history? While pondering, I quickly perceived The Lord and AI have several things in common, but in uniquely different ways. So let’s explore whether AI might in some way be or become His latest lesson for us, and if so, what might that lesson be.

The Lord and AI (Part 2)

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AI, Heaven’s Possible Lesson Plan?

 

Part 1 posits whether the development of agentic AI might possibly be or become an instrument The Lord has allowed to develop at this stage in the 3rd Biblical age, to teach us some pivotal lesson(s). If/IF this is possible, the natural question is:

 

What lesson(s) might The Lord intend for us to learn from agentic AI,

lessons we very likely will deny, ignore and refuse to learn,

then pay high costs because we didn’t,

like we did with all of His prior lessons?

 

Of course, no one knows, but here are a few good, Bible-based clues:

Late-age Lessons (Part 1)

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Over the last few years, The Lord inspired me to perceive and ponder persistent patterns in His multi-millennial, Genesis-to-Revelation strategy for humanity, including observing when some of those patterns appear to be disrupted. Reviewing what I learned and shared, I pondered what repetitive patterns I might have missed? Recent events in mid-2026 triggered me to search for a new one: 

 

The repetitive pattern of a final lesson for humanity,

manifested in or as totally unusual events

prior to the global, age-ending judgment.

Late-age Lessons (Part 2)

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As noted in Part 1, I currently know of no clear, Biblical predictions of TOTALLY unusual developments and lessons people should learn several years prior to the ends of the 3rd, 5th and 6th Biblical ages. But I perceive of a few possibilities. 

 

Ponder Some Possibilities

 

3rd age (Church/Grace): Thus far in this age, the invention, rapid scaling and globalized use of agentic AI has been the most TOTALLY unusual development. In The Lord and AI (Series), I noted 7 points The Lord and AI may have in common, though on significantly different scales. I also pose the question:

What lesson(s) might The Lord intend for us to learn from agentic AI—

lessons we will very likely deny, ignore and refuse to learn,

then pay high costs because we didn’t,

like most of us did with His prior lessons?

Better Melt Now than LATER! (Part 2)

 

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Preparing to Reshape Earth

 

On August 15, 2026, as I prayed about and pondered the dramatic increase in glacier melt over the past few decades, I asked The Lord whether/how that development might relate to the GREAT earthquakes predicted in Revelation 6:12-17 and 16:17-21. Eleven days later, on August 26, a catastrophic slope failure involving a glacier along Nepal’s border with China triggered a massive debris flow and flood that traveled nearly 62 miles down the mountain, swelling into a tsunami-like wave as it swept through riverside villages in both countries. Sadly, many people were caught in the flow, and broad areas were destroyed.

 

Only after I recovered from the shocking news did I remember the question I had asked The Lord 11 days earlier. Mind you, I am not inferring that crisis was His answer to my question! Rather, as I continue to study The Book of Revelation in context of the entire Bible, I regarded that crisis as an opportunity and challenge to explore my question more deeply.

 

The Bible affirms The Lord’s plan for a substantial reshaping of Earth for His Millennial Reign age—the 5th of 6 Biblical ages of our history, after which He promised to destroy this current Earth and universe, and reveal a MASSIVE, new, eternal Earth. (See: Earth’s Next Versions (Series), and Ephemeral then Eternal Earth (Series)) As we transit what I understand is this 3rd Biblical age, my studies lead me to conclude the following:

• Ages-wise, our history very likely pivots on the mid-point of the number of ages He has planned for us; BUT

• Years-wise, according to the relatively few yet-fulfilled Bible prophecies, we may have passed the mid-point of the number of years He has planned for us! (See: Mid-ages Musings (Part 1))

 

This has peaked my interest to understand, according to The Bible:

 

1. What will lie ahead during the relatively short remaining 3 ages, 

2. What current and future developments might indicate the successive arrival of the last 3 ages, and

3. What role(s) I might play in encouraging The Lord’s saints to prepare for what lies ahead for us.

 

As Apostle Paul’s writings serve as a quasi-roadmap through the end of this 3rd age, Apostle John’s Book of Revelation serves as a quasi-road map through the last 3 ages—the indicated 7-year tribulation age, the Millennial Reign age, and the ‘little while’ post-Millennial Reign age. In Daniel 7:25, an angel revealed to the prophet that what we now understand will be the tribulation age, will be divided in half of 42 months each. It will end with the apocalypse erupting during the second half. It will end with this awful scenario:

 

Earth Utterly Shaken

Then the 7th angel poured out his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, “It is done!” And there were noises and thunderings and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such a mighty and great earthquake as had not occurred since men were on the Earth. Now the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. And great Babylon was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of His wrath. Then every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. And great hail from heaven fell upon men, each hailstone about the weight of a talent. Men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, since that plague was exceedingly great.

 

This scenario strongly indicates Earth’s surface might become a global plain. Moreover, since other prophecies across The Bible indicate life on Earth will return to conditions before the global flood that ended the first age, I ponder whether Earth’s surface back then was a plain; and whether mountains may have been created during the flood, to open spaces for flood waters to drain—creating the surface we have today? If so, that presents a massive problem lying ahead for humanity. During the flood, there were no people on the surface, but there will be a relatively few people on Earth when all mountains and islands COLLAPSE!!

 

I originally imagined that awful scene with the highest snow-capped mountains, and glaciers in their full strength. BUT climate change is gradually melting both the glaciers and that snow! Thus, if my scenario about draining the flood waters may be right, then The Lord perfectly knows how to undo what He did during the flood! Thus I ponder whether allowing some snow-caps and glaciers to melt BEFORE that future event, might, in His Grace, account for the fact that, this time, there will be people on the surface of Earth. Of course no one knows. Thus, I intuit allowing some or all melting now, might attenuate the impacts of the collapse then. 

Unfolding Phase Transitions

Our world is increasingly fraught with intensifying climate changes, declining regional birth rates, exponential changes in industrial systems and capacities, revolutions in weapons development and warfare strategies, unimaginable depths of corruption and criminal cruelty, and the resulting shifts in global migration patterns, etc. These compounding global pressures are not merely isolated disruptions. They depict the internal stresses of a world system nearing a critical threshold. Observing unimaginable climate crises, we increasingly hear/read the exclamation, ‘APOCALYPTIC!!’ Many Bible scholars have developed differing perspectives of the apocalypse, and frameworks in which it might fit. Into this mix, I offer the following perspective, based on a fundamental concept used across many areas of physics: the approaching, literal apocalypse may constitute a critical threshold.

Better Melt NOW than LATER! (Part 1)

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In Is Climate Change Biblical?, I explained:

…everything directly and indirectly related to Earth’s climate and environment, is well within the purview and agency of Jesus, The Lord God of all creation… He articulated and activated His post-crucifixion plan for us—summarized in chapters 6-to-22 of The Book of Revelation. Every day is a step in the direction of achieving His stated, multi-millennial objectives. Increasing climate and environmental changes are just one among many signals that His strategic plan is …unfolding apace.

 

On August 15, 2026, I asked The Lord, whether/how the dramatic increase in glacier melt over the past few decades might relate to the GREAT earthquakes predicted in Revelation 6:12-17 and 16:17-21. I intuit those earthquakes might effectively ‘sandwich’ the pending ends of this current 3rd Biblical age—the church age or age of Grace to all peoples—and also of the predicted, short 4th Biblical age—the tribulation age—of our history! ¹

Is Climate Change Biblical?

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How would you answer that question? 

 

I asked Gemini and ChatGPT AIs. Gemini answered  ‘NO’. GPT answered ‘YES’. I then asked them to substantiate their replies. Gemini essentially changed the question, and answered the question, ‘Is industrialization-caused climate change in The Bible?’ The clear answer is, NO! It then set about to prove its correct reply to the wrong question. 

 

Answering the right question, ChatGPT noted, Scripture does not present a modern scientific theory called ‘climate change’, but it repeatedly describes large-scale, often divinely driven changes in Earth’s environment, weather, atmosphere, seas, and habitability. It provided a list of Scriptures that demonstrate and predict even more MAJOR climate changes from Genesis-to-Revelation, starting with (1) how The Lord rescued Earth from its watery grave (Genesis 1), (2) the Global Flood (Genesis 7, 8), and (3) the predicted global environmental changes during and after the apocalypse—changes that will culminate in a brand new Earth, with a brand new environment, in a brand new ‘heavens’! Though many of us might not be aware of them, those points are Biblically unarguable!