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. ‘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 passages clearly depict two significantly different events. In the first passage, Christ is unseen on Earth, but is globally seen in the second passage. The first phrase in Matthew 24:29 very clearly situates the timeframe for His third return to Earth, as post-apocalyptic, for The Lord’s 4th age saints. The event described in 1 Thessalonians will pre-apocalyptic, for The Lord’s bona fide 3rd age saints. 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. 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—3 witnesses confirmations! The Bible iteratively affirms all The Lord’s bona fide (tested and proven) saints will escape this eternal judgment.

Paul reveals a pattern that, I intuit, The Lord will apply at the end of the apocalypse. 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. Please re-read this section to understand the likely repetitive sequence for the next TWO, predicted resurrection and rapture events. The major difference will be that the rapture of all 4th age saints, will be visible, likely ongoing the CLOUDs of The Lord’s return with all of zoos 3rd age saints, Matthew 24:30-31! Their resurrection will assure their participation in His Millennisl Reign! Exciting?? 

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 error 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, 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 destroy this current version of Earth. ¹ This seems to indicate an iterative pattern of Heaven using GREAT earthquakes to facilitate its planned, global resurrection events—initially of only saints from the 1st-to the-4th ages, and finally of all saints and sinners together from the 6th 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 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 on 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 likely seat of The Lord’s GLOBAL, Millennial capital. This comparison suggests Earth will be substantially re-structured—renovated for the 5th age of human history, possibly to ‘pre-echo’ some aspects of the much larger new, eternal Earth. I will share more on this global renovation in a pending topical 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).

…Heaven or sky rolling up.

Revelation 6:14 has triggered a myriad of interpretations, some more wild than others. My wildest imagination is 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! Again, just my imagination…. 

Rather, I intuit this strange event will merely signify Heaven’s closing (as in rolling-up a scroll) this current age of FREE Grace to all peoples. Recall how this 3rd age started with the arrival of The Holy Spirit?? Well, read 2 Thessalonians 2:7 as you imagine the reverse of His arrival! The Gospel will have been made available across the entire world, as The Lord predicted in Matthew 24:14 and Mark 13:10. The end of 3rd age FREE Grace might signify the availability of only earned Grace during the final 3 of our promised 6 ages on this current version of Earth—the tribulation, Millennial Reign and post-Millennial reign ages.(NB: This event cannot signify closing the scroll with the seals, because there will be one more seal to remove before it will be opened—the 7th seal. (Revelation 8:1) For more on that event, see: The 7th Seal (Series).

Ponder this: What do you imagine might be written in that scroll, and why might it might be taking The Lord so long to open it fully? I will share my intuitions in a separate post.

…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. I can perceive no reason why The Lord would allow this critical aspect of His ‘extraction operation’ to be easily and fully visible to anyone on the Earth. Can you?? 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.

 

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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.