Apocalyptic Visions

Last January I wrote about Satan's last stand, his Alamo if you will, on earth in the great war between the Angels. The Book of Revelation was written for the Church. It was given to us to understand the future as a reminder to the Church of who will ultimately prevail. This is a great position of understanding as it should comfort all Christians especially since the Church Age is a very long dispensation and some might fall away in unbelief because God has remained silent for so long. Jesus Christ is the God of History and we who are his beneficiaries will soon be its historians, among other things. Therefore, I would like to touch on the major events in the Book of Revelation and let you decide on the veracity of its report.


A Dividing Line

The Book of Revelation is the grand central station of prophecy. Just as all roads lead to Rome, so all prophetic roads in the Old Testament lead to Revelation. The New Testament was written after the resurrection of Christ and as such because the Jews as a whole rejected their Messiah, their dispensation was placed in a static mode. Forty years after they betrayed Christ to the Romans the Israelites were destroyed by those very Romans and scattered to the four winds of the Earth. A new dispensation replaced theirs called the Church Age. This Age has now lasted nearly 2000 years but this Church Age will come to a close sometime in the future and the Age of Israel shall resume with the Jew featuring prominently on the world stage. Just as God has remained silent all these hundreds and thousands of years so the Church, who has represented the absent Christ, will suddenly and silently vanish before your eyes before you can blink twice.

51Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed 52in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. 1 Corr 15:51-53

The Omega signal will be sounded as a trumpet call and the Church will exit the earth leaving behind an unbelieving world. The Omega signal ends the Church Age. In the book of Revelation, the first 3 chapters deal exclusively with the Church Age then in Chapter 4 John is a witness to the Omega Signal:

1After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, "Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this." 2At once I was in the Spirit, and there before me was a throne in heaven with someone sitting on it. Rev 4: 1-2

This is the Rapture event. The "door standing open in heaven" is the portico by which theresurrectedd Church passes through into the throne-room of God. After this, John is a witness to events transpiring in the throne-room of Heaven and sees Christ himself breaks the seals of the Doomsday Book ushering in the last 7 years of the Age of Israel, which so happen to be the most terrible and destructive time on earth that man has and will ever endure.

Judgments of God

There are three sets of judgments of God against mankind as a result of their anti-semitism. These judgments are recorded in Revelation beginning with a strategic overview of the entire period of tribulation (scroll judgments) to a closer look at the celestial catastrophes that afflict earth, demonic invasions and second advent of Christ (trumpet judgments) and finally to a tactical view of the kingdom of the King of the West (bowl judgments). The scroll, trumpet and bowl judgments form the backbone of the book of Revelation as mankind descends into a quaqmire of anti-semitism never seen before in the history of Israel. Other forces are at work as well during this time both on a human and angelic scale and between these three forces God, Angel and Man, earth and its inhabitants endure the worst travails known in the annuals of human history.

Scroll Judgments

In Revelation 6 the seals of the scrolls are broken revealing the trends of the tribulation. War, famine, plague, economic ruin, and genocide become the operational standard for governments all around the world as nations begin to maneuver for positions of power in the vacuum created by the absence of the Church and Holy Spirit at Rapture. Of particular note is the fifth seal which reveals that they who believe in Christ on earth during this period will be hunted down and destroyed. The genocide of the Saints will be a global operation carried out in a systematic way not seen since the NAZI holocaust:

9When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained. 10They called out in a loud voice, "How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?" 11Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and brothers who were to be killed as they had been was completed. Rev 6: 9-11

God allows free-will to run its course even if it entails murder on a grand scale. However, rest assured, God does hold everyone accountable for their actions. Many will have believed in the Lord after the Rapture and will know what is to come. Others will believe because a remanent from Israel will go forth to proclaim the Kingdom Of God. However, the vast majority of mankind will refuse the saving work of Christ.

Trumpet Judgments - Part 1

In Revelation 8 the trumpet judgments are sounded and there is a very distinctive sub-division with the last three trumpet judgments classified as the "three woes". The reason for this sub-division becomes clearer when we realize that these last trumpet signals involve non-human actors and these trumpets are blown towards the end of tribulation as the grand finale. The first four trumpets involve celestial events that I believe will destroy the Western Hemisphere. I can't be dogmatic about this of course but the lack of references to the "New World" may be explained as the result of its complete destruction by celestial events and hence its absense on the world stage.

7The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down upon the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.
8The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain, all ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned into blood, 9a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.
10The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water— 11the name of the star is Wormwood.[a] A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.
12The fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them turned dark. A third of the day was without light, and also a third of the night.

The first trumpet sounds and huge meteors impact the earth destroying a third of the earth, a third of the trees and all of the green grass which I believe may be the North American Continent. The second trumpet brings an asteroid the size of a "mountain" and it impacts what I believe to be the Pacific Ocean also killing a "third" of the sea- life and ships and no doubt brings tsunami waves crashing with devastating effect upon the shores of the Pacific rim. The third trumpet sounds and we see a comet disintegrating in the atmosphere above North America and perhaps even South America. The comet's poisonous tail pollutes the fresh waters of the Western Hemisphere killing untold millions. The fourth trumpet is the after effect of this celestial calamity from the point of view of the American. The incredible destruction and fires wrought by the meteors, asteroid and comet strikes darken the skies over the Americas thus blocking our view of the sun, moon, and stars as well as plunging this continent into darkness regardless if its day or night.

Why I believe these judgments afflict the Americas is due to the fraction of the "third" given in each trumpet sounding. The Western Hemisphere takes up approximately a third of the world's landmass with the Eurasian and African continents taking up the other two thirds. The has seen these events in the past and these other worldly strikes must hit somewhere on earth as witnessed by John. All of the major players in Revelation are located in the Eurasian and African landmasses and are not affected by the calamities in a direct way. We will see how the next set of judgments therefore affect the European continent thus fixing the locale of these celestial strikes in the vicinity of the Western Hemisphere. I believe the asteroid that hits the sea is actually the Pacific Ocean because the tsunami- like tidal waves are not recorded to afflict the King of the West (who is a major player in Revelation) which he is located on the European Continent and no doubt this would occur if an asteroid hit the Atlantic side of the United States.

Bowl Judgments

In Revelation 16 the bowl judgments are executed against the anti-Christ who is esconced in Europe as the King of the West. For his allegiance to Satan and for his anti-semitic policies God "gifts" him with plagues that I believe are the direct result of the destruction of the Western Hemisphere. As the devastation has engulfed that region, Europe feels the brunt of the concomitant terrestrial shockwave:

1Then I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, "Go, pour out the seven bowls of God's wrath on the earth." 2The first angel went and poured out his bowl on the land, and ugly and painful sores broke out on the people who had the mark of the beast and worshiped his image.
3The second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it turned into blood like that of a dead man, and every living thing in the sea died.
4The third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood. 5Then I heard the angel in charge of the waters say: "You are just in these judgments, you who are and who were, the Holy One, because you have so judged; 6for they have shed the blood of your saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink as they deserve."
7And I heard the altar respond:"Yes, Lord God Almighty, true and just are your judgments."
8The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and the sun was given power to scorch people with fire. 9They were seared by the intense heat and they cursed the name of God, who had control over these plagues, but they refused to repent and glorify him.
10The fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was plunged into darkness. Men gnawed their tongues in agony 11and cursed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, but they refused to repent of what they had done.
12The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the East. 13Then I saw three evil[a] spirits that looked like frogs; they came out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet. 14They are spirits of demons performing miraculous signs, and they go out to the kings of the whole world, to gather them for the battle on the great day of God Almighty.
15"Behold, I come like a thief! Blessed is he who stays awake and keeps his clothes with him, so that he may not go naked and be shamefully exposed."
16Then they gathered the kings together to the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon.
17The seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and out of the temple came a loud voice from the throne, saying, "It is done!" 18Then there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder and a severe earthquake. No earthquake like it has ever occurred since man has been on earth, so tremendous was the quake. 19The great city split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. God remembered Babylon the Great and gave her the cup filled with the wine of the fury of his wrath. 20Every island fled away and the mountains could not be found. 21From the sky huge hailstones of about a hundred pounds each fell upon men. And they cursed God on account of the plague of hail, because the plague was so terrible. Rev 16: 1-20

The first bowl brings ugly and painful sores upon those who have taken "the mark, 666" which I believe pinpoints the exact location of these plagues as Europa. The sores may be related to the impact matter that is thrown up into the atmosphere from the celestial strikes in America and comes falling down on the inhabitants of Old Europe thus injuring them from this debris.

The second bowl is the death of the Mediterraneann sea as the impact of the asteroid hit in the Pacific becomes global in scale. Really, our ocean systems are a single unit of sea life and thus the Med is also affected with sea life perishing. Here the sea turns red as blood which may result in a heating up of the oceans suffocating all sea-life.

The third bowl afflicts the rivers and streams of fresh water in Europe. They too turn to a dark red in an undrinkable mess.

The fourth bowl shows that the atmosphere has been stripped away from the previous celestial strikes resulting in the destruction of the ozone layer. Thus, Europa is scorched from an unforgiving sun as they are exposed to intense heat.

The fifth bowl then brings pitch-black darkness to the King of the West and his people. As the smoke from the destruction of the Western Hemisphere make its way over to Europe, it too envelopes them in darkness.

The sixth bowl thus shows us that as the ozone layer has been stripped away the surrounding mountains no longer contain their ice caps. Thus, the Euphrates river dries up as well as other river systems in Europe and Asia as well. The Euphrates is mentioned here due to its strategic importance in the coming Human and Angelic battles in the "grand finale". You will note that here an interesting call goes out to the entire world from Satan, the European anti-Christ and the Jewish False Prophet. I believe this is mentioned in this bowl judgment because it is directly related to the drying up of the Euphrates river which allows Satan to maneuver both his human and angelic forces for the greatest battle the earth will ever witness.

The seventh bowl of God's judgment is poured out into the air and the earth shudders with massive earthquakes and additional meteor impacts that afflict mankind on the Eurasian continent this time.

Trumpet Judgments - Part 2 : The Three Woes

If you thought all of this was bad enough, it actually gets worse. Hence, the announcement of the "woes". We return to these last trumpet judgments as each trumpet blast calls up armies ready for battle. The first two woes involve Satan's pre-positioned forces esconced below the Euphrates river and the last woe involves Jesus Christ at the Second Advent with his "great white calvary" engaging the demonic forces unleashed upon mankind in their effort to completely wipe out all humanity.

Operation Scorpio

1The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss. 2When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss. 3And out of the smoke locusts came down upon the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth. 4They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads. 5They were not given power to kill them, but only to torture them for five months. And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes a man. 6During those days men will seek death, but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.
7The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces. 8Their hair was like women's hair, and their teeth were like lions' teeth. 9They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle. 10They had tails and stings like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months. 11They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon. [a] Rev 9:1-11

The first woe is past; two other woes are yet to come. Rev 9:12

As previously written, these forces are organic in nature and are bred for reconnaissance to show the way for the other demonic army that will actually do the killing. These "scorpion" troops apparently can fly or jump short distances thus are highly maneuverable. They are humanoid in appearance but are hideous to look at as they sport large teeth as "lions" and have tails to sting their opponents much like a scorpion. Could these creatures resemble "gargoyles" or something like it? Humanoid appareance but with wings to fly and tails to sting? They are however led by a fallen Angel known as Apollyon or Abaddon. Even though this angel is considered "fallen" from God he is still an angel of light. All angels are made up of light both fallen(with Satan) and elect(with God) and are considered non-organic but are able to phase in or out of the visual spectrum. God allows them 5 months to carry out their operation.

Operation Draco

13The sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the horns[b] of the golden altar that is before God. 14It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates." 15And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind. 16The number of the mounted troops was two hundred million. I heard their number.
17The horses and riders I saw in my vision looked like this: Their breastplates were fiery red, dark blue, and yellow as sulfur. The heads of the horses resembled the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire, smoke and sulfur. 18A third of mankind was killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke and sulfur that came out of their mouths. 19The power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails were like snakes, having heads with which they inflict injury. Rev 9:13-19

As previously written these forces ascend from deep caverns within the earth and exit out of the dried bed of the Euphrates river. Thier sole purpose is the annihilation of mankind. Here they are given power to kill unlike the "scorpion" troops which I believe are used for scouting purposes.

I wish at this point to entertain an idea that this second demon army which is led by four fallen angels may be an army composed of dragons. Once again I can't be dogmatic about this but considering the description of their "power" it is becoming more and more convincing to me at least that what John may have witnessed was indeed the use of dragons bred for the sole purpose of total destruction of all earthly organic life. These dragons have the power to spew forth "fire, smoke and sulfur" from their mouths. Their tails have the appearance of snake like heads which have scales with a bulbous tail which apparently is used for clubbing. These dragons are ridden upon by "riders" which John does not describe. Curiously, all human cultures from Europe to Asia to North and South America including Africa record the existence of dragons as legends. However could there be more here than mere metaphor? So destructive are these demonically led forces that even Christ mentions in the book of Mark that those last terrible days are kept "short" otherwise all of mankind would in fact be entirely destroyed:

19because those will be days of distress unequaled from the beginning, when God created the world, until now—and never to be equaled again. 20If the Lord had not cut short those days, no one would survive. But for the sake of the elect, whom he has chosen, he has shortened them. Mark 13:19-20

Which is why I believe these forces are unleashed towards the end of the 7 year tribulation period. The "days of distress unequaled" is a clue to us that these creatures have never been seen by man but men having been influenced by fallen angels on all continents of the world for millennia have written about dragons as if they are real. We also have the fact of the dinosaurs. Clearly, these creatures roamed the earth in times past before mankind was created by God. The archeological evidence cannot be denied. But how did they arrive and why were they destroyed? Clearly, I do not believe in evolution. DNA is a written code that any sentient-being could manipulate to his own ends. Humans are just now breaching the DNA barrier and are "manufacturing" organs and other body parts from this code in both animals and humans. Could Satan have gone down this path tens of thousands of years ago thus creating dinosaurs for his own "pet" projects? Did John of Revelation witness the emergence of dinosaur/dragon-like armies bred and trained for total war ridden upon by riders and led in the glory of their own light by fallen Angelic generals?

Operation Pegasus

The third and final woe is called as such because it indeed will be woeful to fallen man who have sworn their allegiance to Satan and his proxies in the form of the anti-Christ and False Prophet. Not to mention it spells the doom of the fallen angels as well as their organic scorpion and dragon armies with the Second Advent of Christ. You may have wondered why the Church Age has lasted as long as it has for 2000 years now. Why the wait? Why doesn't God just do a smack-down of Satan and his cronies and it get it over with? Well, Jesus Christ is creating his own "organic" army based on an equestrian order. This army is being formed even now and with each human who accepts Christ as his savior in this dispensation (Church Age) the army of Christ grows. Each Christian from 30 AD to the present is being prepped and groomed for the great crusade that the 7th Trumpet will herald. This is a massive army and completely indestructible. I suspect the length of time it has taken to build this army is a direct response to the time it has taken Satan to breed his Scorpion and Dragon armies. Each army is bred for total war. The Church indeed is the calvary come to save the day for tiny Israel as well as mankind in general.

15The seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, which said: "The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he will reign for ever and ever." 16And the twenty-four elders, who were seated on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and worshiped God, 17saying: "We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty, the One who is and who was, because you have taken your great power and have begun to reign. 18The nations were angry; and your wrath has come. The time has come for judging the dead, and for rewarding your servants the prophets and your saints and those who reverence your name, both small and great— and for destroying those who destroy the earth."

The reason I highlight these certain passages is to show you why the 7th Trumpet is so important. "The time has come" says the elect Angel of God to a) judge the dead, b) reward your servants and most interestingly c) destroy those who are destroying the earth. Part-C really stands out to me that the Church which has received their ressurrection bodies and are completely arrayed in battle dress and riding white horses which themselves are capable of flight. The Great White Calvary return to earth with Jesus Christ who is at the head of the Pegasus Force and are clearly created to stop the demonic forces destroying earth and its inhabitants after they exit their underground abyss for Satan's grand finale.

11I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and makes war. 12His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself. 13He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. 14The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. 15Out of his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. "He will rule them with an iron scepter."[a] He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty. 16On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS. Rev 19:11-16

Christ returns triumphant at the head of the greatest calvary force ever assembled and defeats the combined scorpion and dragon troops unleashed by Satan. Christ personally defeats the human armies encamped around Israel and takes control of Jerusalem. This event is the Armageddon campaign from which so many have miscontrued as the "end of the world". Life indeed does go on.

Never again will earth experience such a time as this and we who have lived and died in Christ will be veterans of Armageddon campaign. Perhaps we will receive the "VAC" (Veterans of the Armageddon Campaign) medal as proof that in generations to come in the 1000 year reign of Christ we will be able to say "we were there".

Now all this is yet future and we Christians must continue to grow in the grace and knowledge of Christ not forgeting the foundation doctrines that have made the Church strong and elastic over all these hundreds of years. As amazing as this sounds we must remember this prophecy is a one time event and we therefore must not lose sight of the here and now. It could be another thousand years before any of these events take place. So please, be ever watchful and on guard.