Revelation - Between the 4th and 6th Seals (Poem, Part 4)

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Though there’s plenty of proof, before Christianity,

That conquests, killings and economic destress happened,

History across this third age of humanity,

Is adequate proof that the first four seals have been opened. ¹

Since Christ’s return to Heaven, acclaimed,

The population of sinners on Earth has exploded!!!

In response, The Lord has ‘upped His game,’

By opening the 4^th seal as righteousness eroded. ²

Since much evidence appears to correlate the 6^th seal,

With The Lord ending the first invasion on Israel, ³

I ask all strategic-thinking minds, ‘What does this reveal??

Between the 4^th and the 6^th seal, what’s the time interval?’

(I call it 'now'.)

History gives us no time clues for the 5th seal, per se.

Heaven's response at its opening, hints this:

The 4^th age, when Christians and Jews are the anti-Christ’s prey!

His ‘mark of the beast’ offer, they will dismiss! ⁴

After what has long been, and that which currently is --

(Wars, famines, pestilences and beast attacks),

Will be the time of this man, who will be satan’s wiz.

With him in charge, righteousness will then be sacked!

Heads-up… 

The response to opening the 5^th seal on the scroll,

Is The Lord’s clear, strategic signal to us who will hear,

That when, across the world, these four things are ‘on a roll’, 

Heads-up! The transition to the next age is very near!  ⁵

 Seal    Previews

  #4      Spirits released for wars, famines, pestilences & beast attacks (happening now!) 

  #5      Spirits of martyred saints are told to be patient

  #6      Quakes across the Earth and cosmos; the sky is ‘rolled up’; the sun darkens, moon turns bloodish color, stars fall, etc., etc.

For more, see: Israel. A Model (Part 3), The 6th Seal , Civilization’s Reset? (Series), and The 7th Seal (Series).

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¹ The Lord’s multi-millennial strategy for humanity comprises 7 ages: (1) pre-flood, (2) post-flood/pre-cross, (3) post-cross (Church Age), (4) tribulation/great tribulation, (5) Millennial Reign, (6) post-Millennial Reign, and (7) eternity.

² See: Ezekiel 14:12-23 and also Four Henchmen, Explained

³ See: Part 3 of this series, and also Revelation - Future Attacks in Israel

⁴ See: Anti-Christ (Series). These are people who will have missed the rapture of the Church, and who will embrace Jesus as Lord and Savior during the tribulation age. See: Audacious Christians (Poem, Part 2)

⁵ If the 4^th seal correlates with now (closing of the 3^rd age), and if the 6^th seal likely corresponds with ending the Ezekiel 38 attack on Israel (the 1st War of Gog and Magog), then it stands to reason the 5^th seal might correlate with the tribulation age when the anti-Christ man will slaughter folks who will refuse his mark of the beast, and will not worship him as God. Most, or possibly all of them will be new Christians. 

Revelation - Future Attacks in Israel

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The Bible asserts there will be three major attacks in Israel during the 4th and 6th ages of history -- two in the tribulation age (Ezekiel 38 and Revelation 19), and one in the post-Millennial Reign age (Revelation 20). It provides a variety of signals about the timing and purposes of each attack. Historically, past attacks on Jerusalem were motivated by the immense wealth with which it was blessed. The Lord strategically used such wealth to attract invading armies to judge Israel, in the north, and Judah and Jerusalem, in the south. But in the future attacks, His strategic rationales will be redirected to judge the three attacking army coalitions!  

1.1st War of Gog and Magog (Ezekiel 38 and Zechariah 14)

This attack will be on ‘the mountains of Israel’. The invaders will be five national armies: Persia (Iran), Sudan, Libya, plus Gomer and Togarmah from the far north (of Israel). It appears the plan will be instigated by demon spirits, Gog and Magog, then assigned over the (current) Russian territory. This attack will likely be triggered by the narrow, but critical needs for basic necessities of life during the predicted, 42-month-long apocalypse across the plague-smitten world: ‘silver, gold, livestock, goods, and great plunder.’ This attack might occur when the ‘plagues-stressed’ world realizes Israel will have been relatively protected from the plagues, e.g., similar to how the land of Goshen was protected from the last 7 of The Lord’s 10 pre-exodus plagues on Egypt. (See: First Ukraine; Next Israel's Terrain, Why Would Russia Invade Israel? (Q&A), and The Goshen Effect (Series). Zechariah 14:12 may be how The Lord will dramatically end this attack.)

 

2. Armageddon War (Revelation 19:17-21)

This attempted attack will be ‘in the place called in Hebrew, Armageddon’, also referred to as the valley of Mount Megiddo. Some time after (perhaps in response to) the 1st War of Gog and Magog, the remaining armies across the world will gather to attack The Lord and His massive army of immortal saints, glowing like aliens. The attack will be futile from the start, as The Lord will speak a word that will instantly consume/dissolve this massive army, perhaps also as gruesomely predicted in Zechariah 14:12. His response will signal the end of the apocalypse and of the 4th short age of human history (the tribulation age), and the start of His Millennial Reign, as Earth's Global King.

 

3. 2nd War of Gog and Magog (Revelation 20:7-10)

This attack will occur some time after The Lord's Millennial Reign, what I refer to as the short post-Millennial Reign age. It might likely be an attempt to seize the tremendous amount of wealth that will have accumulated in Jerusalem during Christ’s Millennial Reign, the results of people the world over trying to curry favor from/with Jesus, global King. (See: Isaiah 60) People alive then might likely have forgotten about, or will ignore the history of how the above-two attacks in Israel ended! This failed attempt will signal the end of the post-Millennial Reign age, the end of human history on this current version of Earth, and the start of The Lord's Great White Throne Judgment process. (See: Revelation 20) The Bible is clear this event, mankind's final rebellion against The Lord God, will end human history on this current version on Earth, and will start our two vastly different experiences on His long-promised, and likely already created new, eternal Earth. (See: Earth’s Next Versions (Series))

Revelation - Seven Trumpets Sound (Poem, Part 2)

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Bible students might recognize the correlations,

Between the 6^th seal and Ezekiel 38.

This helps to track events of the great tribulation,

And know the trumpets judgments are next on Heaven’s plate. ¹

 

After destroying Gog and Magog armies in Israel,

The Lord will pare down satan’s kingdom’s subjects and resources,

Thus making life anywhere on Earth increasingly dismal.

‘I’ll make people more rare than fine gold!’ That’s what He promises. ²

 

With emphasis on destroying ‘a third’ of X, Y and Z,

The Lord and His army will garner global attention.

As more people ‘get wind of’ His Gog and Magog victory,

Armies of the world will plan their ‘counter-coup’ intention.

 

His initial focus on ‘a third’ of X, Y and Z,

May send and unspoken signal to all devils around,

The third of angels who joined Lucifer’s insurgency!

‘Your time’s now shorter-than-short! In the pit, you’ll soon be bound!’ ³

 

In this manner, The Lord will achieve His global dominion,

A prerequisite for His Millennial Reign, and saints’ assignments.

But how long might this take after ending the first invasion?!

That’s based on whether all judgments will be

sequential or concurrent! ⁴

 

Because the vision was given to John sequentially,

We might presume that is how all the judgments will unfold.

Hey, cascading impacts of 14 judgments, globally,

Could mean quickly crossing The Millennial Reign’s threshold!!

 

Trumpet    Judgments (Revelation 8 and 9)

   #1           A third of the trees and all green grass are burned up 

   #2           A third of the seas become blood, killing a third of the sea 

                  creatures, and destroying a third of the ships

   #3           A falling star embitters a third of the rivers and the spring

                  waters, killing many 

   #4           A third of the sun moon and stars are darkened, and a third 

                  of the day and night do not shine

   #5           Horse-shaped locusts with human-like faces, teeth like

                  lions, and scorpion-like tails and stingers, torment people

                  5-months, causing them to seek, but not find death

   #6           A massive, great army kills a third of remaining people

   #7           With lightnings, noises, thunderings, an earthquake, 

                  and great hail, an angel declares The Lord’s victory. 

                  The ark of the covenant is revealed in Heaven’s temple.

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¹ See: Part 1 and also: Revelation - Future Attacks in Israel. Also, compare Matthew 24:29 with Revelation 6:12-17. There appears to be no other section of Revelation that correlates so closely with this verse in Matthew, especially regarding cosmic events. With this insight, I conclude Jesus will end the 1^st War of Gog and Magog (Ezekiel 38 and Zechariah 14:12), involving 5 desperate, hungry armies, then He will proceed to gain global dominion via the succeeding trumpets and bowls judgments, and concluding in the global Armageddon War. Undoubtedly, these are two, unique wars with two unique purposes! (The 2nd War of Gog and Magog will be at the end of the short post-Millennial Reign age. It will signal the end of human history on this current version of Earth. See: Revelation 20:7-10.)

² See: Isaiah 13:12

³ See: Revelation 20:1-3

⁴ Historically, we know judgments promised in Ezekiel 14:12-23 have never been sequential. Moreover, these four judgment henchmen are steadily at work all across the world TODAY, all in response to the unbearable sin load Earth is carrying! Given this, I do not perceive any reason to think the trumpets and bowls judgments in Revelation will be sequential. Just because John saw them sequentially in no way signifies they will be thus administered. If you disagree, ponder this: How in the world could The Lord have shared this intensive and extensive vision to John …concurrently?!?! Of course, no mortal on Earth knows the answer to this point. 

Revelation - Seven Trumpets Sound (Poem, Part 1)

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To The Lord Jesus, Who dwells in eternity,

A thousand years is ‘as a day’, reportedly. ¹

Perhaps that is why there are often significant delays,

Between when He pronounces things,

and when, on Earth, they’re displayed.

Thus, we’re inclined to discount, then disregard what’s in His Book.

When our desire to read it wanes, it seems like …gobbledygook!

To enhance your understanding, here are some key points I’ve learned:

When fallen angels and humans decided The Lord to spurn,

His multi-millennial strategy was His response,

Comprising seven ages, leading to a 'renaissance'. ²

His global judgments trigger transitions between these ages.

All this is cloaked in, and between The Bible’s books and pages.

Like a wise General commanding a powerful army,

The Lord devised a multi-faceted attack strategy,

To reclaim, then re-assert His ‘Lordship authority’,

Given to Adam, who gave it to The Lord’s enemy.

Revelation depicts the final parts of this strategy,

In such a drastic manner that manifests His sovereignty.

The Book of Revelation, so unique in The Bible,

Accents the last four-of-seven ages, transitional.

From the Church age-to-eternity, scenes predictive,

Depict highlights of each age from Heaven’s perspective,

Scenes that stretch and challenge our wildest imaginations,

And that trigger a myriad of interpretations.

Written not long after Jesus’ ascension in victory, 

It’s based on a vision that reveals His God-ship, vividly.

This signals the significance of His cross in history.

His cross and this book are the fulcrums that harmoniously,

Shift Heaven’s focus to how this third age will close-out, ³

Then to what from it, in Heaven and on Earth, will sprout.

First…

Opening seals on a scroll previews 5 focused offensives.

Four are both historical, and increasingly intensive!

These initial attacks are people-focused and land-based.

Of what’s to come, for centuries, these serve as mere foretastes.

Yet people don’t perceive any connections to sinfulness,

Hence, the increasing intensity of attacks’ frightfulness! ⁴

Opening the seals pictures His attack strategy,

Covering the third and fourth ages of history.

History reveals the first four seals have been opened.

The sixth ‘previews’ the war Ezekiel envisioned.

The fifth and seventh seals are not Earth-centric.

To understand what’s next, those points are basic. 

Next…

The fully opened scroll sparks attacks diversification,

The Lord expediting His ‘Earth sin de-contamination’.

Seven angels with trumpets sound judgments apocalyptic,

Gruesome attacks, all because of our sin nature, adamic.

These judgments signal the start of global domination,

Preparing Earth for Christ's Millennial dispensation. 

Curiously…

They emphasize destroying ‘a third’ of X, Y and Z, ⁵

Disrupting Earth’s environment, systematically.

For five months, by strange insects, people are tormented,

To the point that attempted suicides are thwarted. 

Afterward, massive, 200 million strong army,

Slaughters a third of all remaining people, brutally.

Trumpet    Judgments (Revelation 8 and 9)

   #1           A third of the trees and all green grass are burned up 

   #2           A third of the seas become blood, killing a third of the sea 

                  creatures, and destroying a third of the ships

   #3           A falling star embitters a third of the rivers and the spring

                  waters, killing many 

   #4           A third of the sun moon and stars are darkened, and a third 

                  of the day and night do not shine

   #5           Horse-shaped locusts with human-like faces, teeth like

                  lions, and scorpion-like tails and stingers, torment people

                  5-months, causing them to seek, but not find death

   #6           A massive, great army kills a third of remaining people

   #7           With lightnings, noises, thunderings, an earthquake, 

                  and great hail, an angel declares The Lord’s victory. 

                  The ark of the covenant is revealed in Heaven’s temple.

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¹ See: 2 Peter 3:8 and Psalm 90:4 

² The Lord’s multi-millennial strategy for humanity comprises 7 ages: (1) pre-flood, (2) post-flood/pre-cross, (3) post-cross (Church Age), (4) tribulation/great tribulation, (5) Millennial Reign, (6) post-Millennial Reign, and (7) eternity. His ‘renaissance’ begins with re-creating repentant humans, made in His tripartite image (spirit, soul, body). First, the human spirit is re-created via His born-again salvation experience, expressing faith in His sacrificial death that atones for one’s sins. It continues with His command for us to renew our soul through diligent Bible study and practice of Christian principles to develop The Mind of Christ within us. Then, in the resurrection, we will receive a new, eternal, glorified body just like His. These are His initial steps to re-creating ALL of creation, in reverse, concluding with a brand new, eternal Earth and cosmos. See: Creation, Reversed (Poem)

³ The Book of Revelation was written near the end of AD 100. The cross signaled the predicted turning of Heaven’s focus away from Jews and Israel, to Gentiles across the whole world. This is commonly referred to as the Church age in which His salvation is offered to ALL peoples. In prophetic books of The Old Testament, The Lord explained how, why and when this change of focus would occur, and also how, why and when His focus would return to Jews and Israel. Revelation explains how the Church age will close-out, and Heaven’s focus will then be on this greatly expanded Israel during His Millennial Reign when He will rule the world through ‘spiritual (grafted-in) Jews’, namely resurrected, immortal, born-again Christians. I am one! Are you??

⁴ See: Revelation - Unsealing the Scroll (Series)

⁵ See: Lost Angels Not for Like-Angels

Revelation - The 6th Seal (Poem, Part 3)

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Psst…

Have you noticed what opening the seals trigger?

There is a pattern that is strange and quite unique,

The first 5 spotlight spirits as the main actors.

The 6^th seal event spotlights a ‘cosmic mystique’,

Namely, ‘the sky is rolled up.’ Now that’s peculiar!!!

Unimaginable! Is your interest piqued?? ¹

This is the aspect of that seal that'll makes all sinners quake!

So I asked, ‘Lord, of this event, what are the inferences?

What, in our imaginations, do You intend to shape?’

His reply turned my thoughts to two ages-ending promises:

Earth’s skies to ‘reshape’, then all the cosmos to re-create.

One’s spiritual, one’s physical. That’s His assurances.

‘Fasten your Bible seat belts’ as into this study we dive.

While the basic points of this study are not at all new,

Their links to the 6^th seal must be spiritually derived.

Connecting the dots, it’s The Lord’s strategy we’ll pursue,

And then The Mind of Christ in us we’ll activate or revive.

The magnanimity of His wisdom, we’ll then accrue.

The transition from the 4^th-to-5^th ages will feature,

The Lord rearranging Earth and its atmosphere.

With Jerusalem a ‘high place’, seat of her Redeemer,

Other land(s) might be plains, across both hemispheres.

Earth with one mountain and no islands. That’s not conjecture!

The Lord will also rearrange …Earth’s exosphere! ²

Forty-two months before the great tribulation,

For a few, fleeting moments, Earth’s sky will host,

Third-age saints in our rapture and resurrection,

In glorified, immortal bodies then cloaked.

Like Christ, revealed on a cloud for our ascension,

We’ll trespass satan’s ‘sky dominion’, utmost! ³

‘Sky dominion?! What’s that?!’, I know you are likely asking.

satan dominates Earth and us in a continuum,

That’s geographic and exospheric, devils tasking.

his geographic base shifts. It’s ‘the seat’ of his kingdom.

For 5 ages, his exospheric base will be lasting,

It’ll all suspend when, back to Earth, Jesus and we saints come. ⁴

When into the sky we mortals peer, we can’t see,

What’s going on up there in the second heaven.

Therein spirits dwell to influence you and me,

Good and evil angels, serving their two captains.

Imagine putting devils …under lock and key!!! ⁵

Will you be part of Earth’s …alien invasion??  (I will!) 

For a thousand years of His 5^th age reign,

That’s exactly what The Lord promises to do.

‘Every eye will see when I come again.’ ⁶

That’s what He said one day to His disciple crew.

So might folks see devils being detained??

(If so...)

Imagine the scene when, to them, Earth bids adieu!!! ⁷

To these two ‘sky events’, Scripture predicts a third.

Imagine the impact of this scenario on the sky:

When on Earth, Jesus and all His saints are gathered,

And We jointly decide Our combined GLORY to amplify!

The moon will be disgraced and the sun dishonored,

According to what the prophet, Isaiah, did prophesy. ⁸

But wait…

To these three ‘sky events’, Scripture predicts one more:

Transition from the 6^th-to the-7^th age of history!

That will be after The Lord has ‘settled all scores’. ⁹

He’ll roll-up the cosmos like a scroll, then start eternity.

Please click here to see what, for us, is next in store.

In new bodies, we will know JOY or ANGUISH, exceedingly!

I offer these four, strange sky events for you to consider,

As you ponder possible meanings of the 6^th seal.

From the physical to the spiritual realm, crossover!

Let The Mind of Christ within you, The Lord’s Truth reveal.

I’ll share my perspective as a strategic thinker.

Recall, ‘for us’ in Christ, Truth is hidden, not concealed!

Seal #6 Preview

A GREAT quakes across the Earth and cosmos; the sky is ‘rolled up’; the sun darkens, moon turns bloodish color, stars fall, etc. In Revelation 6:12-17, John signals The Lord might pull back the cloak or curtain that separates the physical and spiritual realms. Allowing all people on Earth to SEE HIM on His Throne might be akin to how He allowed Ezekiel to see Him, as described in Ezekiel 1. John reveals this image will TERRIFY folks across the Earth--most likely sinners who will seek mountain-crushing death as they FLEE that terror! But for us 3rd age saints, I intuit sinners hiding in caves, wishing to die horrible deaths, might allow for our private resurrection/rapture event. The 6th seal judgment might be THE global judgment that (1) closes this current, 3rd age of human history, and (2) how The Lord will 'harvest' His 3rd age elect.

For more, see: Israel. A Model (Part 3), The 6th Seal , Civilization’s Reset? (Series), and The 7th Seal (Series).

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¹ See these confirming verses: Isaiah 34:4, Hebrews 1:12 and Revelation 6:14

² See: Isaiah 40:4-9, Ezekiel 38:18-20, Revelation 6:14 and 16:20. These are all Millennial Reign prophecies. Exosphere is the outermost region of a planet's atmosphere. See Part 1 of this series for the The Lord’s 7 strategic ages of humanity.

³ See: The 6th Seal, Civilization's Reset? (Series), Earth’s Cloaked Satellites (Poem), and Revelation - Future Attacks in Israel 

⁴ See: The Seat of Wickedness (Series). Recall, Jesus will return to Earth with ALL His saints, and ALL His angels -- Heaven emptied onto Earth?? We saints will very likely replace satan's invisible devils on Earth, and angels might replace his invisible devils in the exosphere.

⁵ See: Revelation 20:1-3 and 7-8. For proof that spirits dwell in the heavens, see Revelation 12:7-12 and Daniel 10.

⁶ See: Matthew 24:30, Mark 13:26, Luke 21:27 and  Revelation 1:7, confirmed in the mouths of, not just 2 or 3, but 4 witnesses’! That signals …pay ATTENTION to this!!!!

⁷ Adieu for only for a thousand years. Of course, I do not assert this will be visible to mortals on Earth. But I wonder if ‘the sky receding/being rolled up like a scroll’ might spiritually signify the rolling up of satan’s kingdom in Earth’s exosphere. It most certainly would be awesome if it will be ‘audio-visual’ to mortals on Earth. But guess what? All resurrected/raptured/immortal saints returning with Jesus WILL SEE IT!!! How cool is that?!

⁸ See: Imminent Eminence (Poem). In Matthew 17, Jesus (one man!)  transfigured Himself, at will, on a high mountain, literally GLOWING before three of His disciples. Now imagine this scenario, Jesus PLUS countless millions of His GLOWING saints from across the first four ages of humanity! wOw!! Recall, John affirmed we saints will be like Him! (1 John 3:2)

⁹ In the Great White Throne Judgment process. The prediction that The Lord will consult His Book of [Eternal] Life means not all who rise for The Great White Throne Judgement will be cast into the lake of fire. See: Why the Millennial Reign Age (Part 3) and Still, I’ll Rise (Poem)