The Reliance-Vengeance Trap

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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 (at the end of the 1st century of this current 3rd age of our history), 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 were not ‘one-off’ events! They amplify a clear pattern The Lord had revealed to the prophet, Ezekiel during the mid-2nd (BC) age. They precede a final, 7th seal (a period of silence in Heaven) after which Heaven will unleash its full set of apocalyptic judgments (Revelation 8–16), culminating in Christ’s return to rule the Earth, as depicted in Revelation 19:11–21. That will be His THIRD, not second coming to Earth. 

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. ‘Quasi-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) UPDATED!

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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. ‘Quasi-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!

Reflecting on those operations, and on Biblical predictions about the pending resurrection and rapture of us 3rd-age saints at the end of this age, I wondered whether and how the predicted impacts of The Lord opening the 6th seal on His scroll, might serve as ‘Heaven’s quasi-cover’ for our global extraction from Earth! So I asked ChatGPT and Gemini AI models to draft two scenarios each: 

 

>> One depicting a fictional, joint Delta Force and Seal Team 6 extraction of a large group of prisoners from a massive prison compound in a foreign country; and 

 

>> Another on how their depictions might be GREATLY expanded to facilitate a global extraction of all 3rd age saints! Vivid imagination? Indeed! Their responses seriously stirred my imaginations!

 

Let’s consider some hidden contextual points re. the 6th seal events.

 

…Distinguishing the 3rd and 4th age resurrection/rapture events. 

Some traditional teachings anticipate one joint resurrection/rapture event for 3rd and 4th age saints. An informed reading of 1 Thessalonians 4:15-18, and Matthew 24:29-31 should put this issue to rest. These predictions clearly depict two significantly different events. In the first, Christ is will not be ON the Earth. But if that event occurs after He opens the 6th seal on His scroll, as I intuit it might, Revelation 6:12-17 clearly indicate HE WILL BE SEEN, sitting on His Throne, likely on the cloud above the Earth, possibly supervising the resurrection/rapture of all bona fide 3rd age saints--His pre-apocalyptic, 3rd age elect. Bible students will recall that, in Ezekiel 1, the prophet described a similar scene. Paul did not mention whether The Lord would be seen above the Earth. This may be another aspect of The Lord's repetitive pattern of releasing progressive revelations over time. 

The Lord will be seen globally returning onto the Earth, per the Matthew 24 event--His third return ONTO the Earth. The first phrase in Matthew 24:29 very clearly signals this will be His post-apocalyptic return for all of His bona fide 4th age saints--His post-apocalyptic, 4th age elect. It will obviously include some people who were BORN during the last few decades of the 2nd age, and who became saints in the 3rd age. Re-read that point and consider The Lord’s disciples, apostles, late 2nd age prophets and many other 1st AD century saints--all who will have died in this current post-cross, 3rd age. While their immortal twins (spirit and soul) ‘are with The Lord’, their physical bodies, for now, remain in the dust of the Earth.

 

…The twins spirit and souls of deceased saints will accompany The Lord.

In 1 Thessalonians 4:13-14, Apostle Paul affirms The Lord will bring with Him from Heaven, what I call the immortal twins (spirit and soul) of each deceased 3rd age saint, to rejoin their resurrected physical body, made immortal. Recall, Adam and Eve were created in His image as tripartite immortal—spirit, soul and body. When they sinned, their bodies became subject to physical death, and their immortal parts became subject to what Revelation calls ‘the second death’. The Bible defines the second death, NOT as death that we now experience, but as eternal torment in The Lord’s brimstone-lit lake of fire, as a tripartite, immortal human—spirit, soul and body. That place was created for satan’s kingdom. See: Revelation 2:11, 20:14 and 21:8—a 3 witness confirmation! The Bible iteratively affirms all The Lord’s bona fide (tested and proven) saints will escape this eternal judgment.

I intuit The Lord may repeat this pattern when He returns for His 4th age saints and His Millennial Reign. He will very likely bring with Him from Heaven, the immortal twins (souls and spirits) of all deceased, 4th age saints, to reunite with their resurrected, immortal bodies, made immortal.

A BIG point of confusion in traditional teachings may be WHO is ‘The Lord’s elect?’ Scripture iteratively reveals His elect are His bona fide (not fake, lukewarm, backslidden, apostate) saints IN EACH AGE OF HUMAN HISTORY. It is a serious short-sightedness to assign that term only to one group of saints, in only one age! Only our spiritual enemy would benefit from such gross confusion! Yet…

…The 6th seal global GREAT earthquake.

What follows is not an attempt to describe the mechanics of our resurrection, but to illustrate how the scale of the Revelation 6 earthquake will align with what Scripture already affirms about The Lord’s creative and restorative power.

 

This might be a global quake for Heaven’s global harvest of all 3rd age saints. If so/as such, it will exclude all former Christians who will have become ‘Christianesque’, lukewarm, backslidden and apostate during the 3rd age. Earthquakes don’t only break open Earth’s crust. To varying degrees, they also stir and reorganize the dust of the Earth, even at the most minute levels. Since, thus far in human history, no one has died away from planet Earth, The Lord knows the Earth coordinates of every molecule of every deceased body He created. Recall how He created Adam! Thus, I imagine He might ‘rock, rattle and reconstitute’ every dust molecule of His deceased saints’ bodies, made immortal, to rejoin their immortal twins—and once again, become tripartite, immortal beings, just as Adam and Eve were before they sinned. Sounds exciting??

 

As noted in Part 2, point 2 (re. 2nd and 6th ages saints), it seems safe to correlate the Revelation 6:12 GREAT quake, with (a) the GREAT quake mentioned in Matthew 28:2, that occurred when Jesus and ALL saints from the 1st and 2nd ages were resurrected; and (b) the planet busting GREAT quake that will end the 6th age, and totally destroy this current version of Earth. ¹ This seems to indicate a repetitive pattern of Heaven to use GREAT earthquakes to facilitate its planned, global resurrection events—initially of only saints from the 1st-to the-4th ages, and finally of all remaining saints and sinners together from the 6th age--the post-Millennial Reign age. ²

 

…Mountains and islands moved—a strategic down payment.

Revelation 6:14 predicts every mountain and island will move out of its place. Yet they will still persist AS mountains and islands! If that statement sounds odd, consider mountains and islands moving from their current places, as possibly Heaven’s ‘strategic down payment’ for what will occur after the 7th, final bowl judgment of the apocalypse is released on Earth (Revelation 16:17-22), about 7 years after The Lord will have opened the 6th seal on His scroll: ‘Then every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.’ This will be one of several impacts of the final apocalyptic judgment on humanity and Earth. ³ But why??

 

In Revelation 21, Apostle John was given a visionary tour of the new, eternal Jerusalem on the new, MASSIVE, eternal Earth The Lord, in Isaiah 65:17 and 66:22, promised to create. In that vision, Jerusalem was a MASSIVE global, capital city, possibly the highest point, maybe on the north pole of that planet. Zechariah 14:10 predicts that, during the Millennial Reign age on this current Earth, Jerusalem will be raised up, and lands around it will be a plain. The Bible is not clear whether all the Earth, except Jerusalem, will be a plain, but I intuit…no place on Earth will be exalted above Jerusalem—the seat of The Lord’s GLOBAL, Millennial capital. Thus, with no mountains or islands, and Jerusalem raised up is a clear signal that our current Earth will be totally renovated for the 5th age of human history, possibly to ‘pre-echo’ some aspects of the promised, much larger new, eternal Earth. (See: Earth's Next Versions (Series)).

 

…Real-bodied extractions.

Paul attests the transformation of all resurrected and alive saints, from mortal-to-immortal, will happen ‘in the twinkling of an eye’. I don’t recall Him saying the process by which our tripartite, immortal bodies (with physical mass) will be caught-up on the cloud with The Lord, would also happen ‘in the twinkling of an eye’. Thus, I wonder whether the ‘beam me up, Scottie-type’ process of the rapture event, might potentially take longer than a nano second to complete, especially considering we will be coming from across Earth’s 4 hemispheres—east, west, north and south! Just my imagination…

In other words, for both the 3rd and 4th ages saints, the resurrection/rapture events will be bifurcated processes: resurrection—immortal spirit and soul twins reunite with their physical body, made immortal; and rapture—corporeal bodies ‘caught up’ on clouds. (See: 1 Corinthians 15:51-52, 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17, and Matthew 24:30-31). How those processes may unfold is left to us to imagine. 

…Heaven or sky rolling up.

Revelation 6:14 has triggered a myriad of interpretations, some more wild than others. This event cannot signify closing the scroll with the seals, because there will be one more seal to be opened—the 7th seal.

My initial imagination was whether it might signify completion of the ‘caught up’ extraction of all 3rd age saints from Earth, after which the cloud on which we will join The Lord, ‘takes off’ like a rocket! However, The Lord showed me a perspective that somewhat repeats a prior pattern:

Ezekiel 1:26-28 may best set the stage for understanding Revelation 6:14-17. In the former, only Ezekiel saw the vision. The latter indicates The Lord might 'pull back the cloak' that separates the physical and spiritual worlds, to allow people to see Him on His Throne, possibly with His face shinning like the sun. The sky does not necessarily disappear; rather, what ordinarily conceals the spiritual realm may be pulled aside—like a huge stage curtain opening—allowing humanity a brief glimpse of The Lord sitting on His Throne. That will cause them across the world to respond as vv. 14-17 predict--preferring to be crushed by mountains rather than to face His wrath!!

…Cosmic disturbances.

The predicted strange colors of the sun and moon might be triggered by the combined effects of a global earthquake, volcanoes it might trigger, meteoroids slamming into the Earth, and the tremendous amounts of dust that will become airborne across the planet, possibly including from the resurrection of all 3rd age saints! Large amounts of airborne dust affect the light of the sun and moon differently. (Ask GPT) In my imagination, I equate meteoroids slamming into the Earth, with the bombs the U.S. military fired across the capital of Venezuela during its mission to extract President Maduro. Those bombs took-out anti-aircraft batteries, and provided ‘cover’ as the helicopters invaded the airspace. 

 

Similarly, I intuit these predicted disturbances might possibly serve as ‘Heaven’s cover’ for the extraction of its resurrected and alive 3rd age saints who will have just been instantaneously made immortal. Consider this: He disallowed visibility of His extractions of saints from the first two ages of our history. (Matthew 28:2) Only His extraction of 4th age saints onto the cloud of His coming might be fully visible. But re. the extraction of His 3rd age saints, the text signals He might actually make HIMSELF spectacularly visible, and peoples’ reactions to seeing Him might simultaneously preventing sinners from watching the extraction. Making Himself visible might be a temporary distraction to achieve a private extraction! 

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Ponder this…

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¹ See: Missed Insights from Matthew 27 (Series) and also 2 Peter 3:12, Revelation 20:11, 21:1. I don’t mean to suggest there might be no visibility of ALIVE saints being raptured. Matthew 24:40 suggests there will be proximity-related, visible raptures. 
² See: Revelation 20:12-15. 

³ See: Revelation 16.

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, and an understanding of the …apocalypse of Biblical proportions’. Otherwise, like the story character who continually insisted ‘the sky is falling’, overuse of this word and phrase might effectively dilute or prevent them from seeking a real understanding. See: Post 6th Seal Reactions.

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…