The 7 Trumpets Bible
Understanding the Endtime Lesson 12
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Part 1
OUR LESSON TODAY IS THE SEVEN TRUMPETS OF THE BOOK OF REVELATION.
THERE ARE THREE GROUPS OF SEVEN FOUND IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION: SEVEN SEALS, SEVEN TRUMPETS AND SEVEN VIALS.
THESE MAKE UP THE SKELETAL STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK OF REVELATION.
THE SEVEN SEALS ARE THE LONG STORY ENDING AT ARMAGEDDON.
THE SEVEN TRUMPETS ARE THE SHORTER STORY ALSO ENDING AT ARMAGEDDON.
AND THE SEVEN VIALS ARE THE REAL SHORT STORY ENDING AT ARMAGEDDON.
NOW, WE KNOW THE SEVEN VIALS DO NOT ACTUALLY TAKE PLACE UNTIL AFTER THE MARK OF THE BEAST IS ADMINISTERED.
WE KNOW THIS BECAUSE WHEN THE FIRST VIAL IS UNLEASHED, THE BIBLE TELLS US VERY CLEARLY THAT IT WILL BE UNLEASHED UPON THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE TAKEN THE MARK OF THE BEAST.
SO, FROM THAT WE KNOW THAT IT WILL ALL BE ENACTED AT THE TIME OF THE VERY END.
NOW, NOT ONLY ARE THERE SKELETAL STRUCTURES IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION OF THREE SEVENS: SEVEN SEALS, SEVEN TRUMPETS, SEVEN VIALS, BUT IN ADDITION TO THAT THE BOOK OF REVELATION HAS WHAT WE CALL PARENTHETICAL CHAPTERS.
THIS IS SORT OF LIKE COLOR COMMENTARY.
IN ADDITION TO THE MAIN OVERVIEW OF REVELATION, SOMETIMES THERE'RE ADDITIONAL CHAPTERS INCLUDED. FOR EXAMPLE, CHAPTER 12 TELLS ABOUT A WAR IN HEAVEN WHEN SATAN IS CAST DOWN AND CONFINED TO THE EARTH FOR THE FINAL THREE AND A HALF YEARS.
REVELATION 13 GIVES US A VIEW OF THE: ONE-WORLD GOVERNMENT AND THE ANTICHRIST, THE ONE-WORLD RELIGION AND THE FALSE PROPHET, WHO WILL BE THE LEADER OF THAT ONE-WORLD RELIGION, AND ALSO THE MARK OF THE BEAST, THE ECONOMIC SYSTEM OF THE ENDTIME ONE-WORLD GOVERNMENTAL SYSTEM.
SO, THAT'S WHEN WE REALLY UNDERSTAND THE BOOK OF REVELATION, THAT REALLY HELPS IN OUR UNDERSTANDING OF REVELATION.
IF WE UNDERSTAND THE SKELETAL STRUCTURE OF REVELATION WITH THE SEVEN SEALS, SEVEN TRUMPETS AND SEVEN VIALS.
AND THEN WE ALSO UNDERSTAND THAT OTHER CHAPTERS ARE INCLUDED TO GIVE US A FULLER UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT ALL OF THIS REALLY IS ABOUT.
WE'RE FOCUSING TODAY ON THE SEVEN TRUMPETS.
IT BEGINS IN REVELATION CHAPTER 8, VERSE 6.
LISTEN TO IT.
"AND THE SEVEN ANGELS WHICH HAD THE SEVEN TRUMPETS PREPARED THEMSELVES TO SOUND."
NOW, WHEN WE DEAL WITH THESE SEVEN TRUMPETS, WE'RE NOT GOING TO START FROM ONE THROUGH SEVEN BECAUSE FIRST GOD HELPED ME TO UNDERSTAND TRUMPET NUMBER THREE.
AND I FEEL LIKE THAT IF THAT'S THE WAY GOD HELPED ME TO UNDERSTAND, THAT'S PROBABLY THE BEST WAY FOR ME TO TRY TO HELP YOU UNDERSTAND.
SO, LET'S LOOK AT THE THIRD TRUMPET FIRST.
IT'S REVELATION CHAPTER 8, VERSE 10 THROUGH 11.
"AND THE THIRD ANGEL SOUNDED, AND THERE FELL A GREAT STAR FROM HEAVEN, BURNING AS IT WERE A LAMP, AND IT FELL UPON THE THIRD PART OF THE RIVERS, AND UPON THE FOUNTAINS OF WATERS; AND THE NAME OF THE STAR IS CALLED WORMWOOD: AND THE THIRD PART OF THE WATERS BECAME WORMWOOD; AND MANY MEN DIED BECAUSE OF THE WATERS."
DON'T FORGET WORMWOOD AND DON'T FORGET THAT MANY MEN DIED BECAUSE OF THE WATERS.
I'LL NEVER FORGET HOW THIS ALL CAME TO ME.
WHAT HAPPENED WAS, IT WAS BACK IN 1995 AND I WAS WORKING ON THE MANUAL FOR OUR COURSE CALLED UNDERSTANDING THE ENDTIME.
IT WAS THE FIRST EDITION OF THAT COURSE AND I HAD HEARD A RUMOR THAT WORMWOOD MEANT CHERNOBYL.
THAT THE WORD CHERNOBYL WAS THE RUSSIAN WORD FOR WORMWOOD.
WHEN YOU DEAL WITH BIBLE PROPHECY, YOU HEAR ALL KINDS OF THEORIES.
AND I HAD LEARNED NOT JUST TO ACCEPT EVERYTHING THAT CAME MY WAY.
I MEAN, I'VE GOT 75 ANTICHRISTS IN MY FILING CABINET RIGHT NOW.
A LOT OF PEOPLE CONTACTED ME AND SAID, "OH, I KNOW RONALD REAGAN IS THE ANTICHRIST BECAUSE HIS NAME IS RONALD WILSON REAGAN.
RONALD HAS SIX LETTERS, WILSON HAS SIX LETTERS, REAGAN HAS SIX LETTERS, THEREFORE HIS NAME IS 666 AND THAT'S THE NAME OF THE - THE NUMBER OF THE NAME OF THE ANTICHRIST."
WELL, OBVIOUSLY HE WAS NOT THE ANTICHRIST, BUT I GET ALL KINDS OF THEORIES.
SO, WHEN I HEAR SOMETHING, A POSSIBLE EXPLANATION OF ONE OF THE PROPHECIES OF THE BIBLE, I LISTEN, BUT I DON'T SWALLOW IT HOOK, LINE AND SINKER BECAUSE I FOUND OUT OVER TIME THAT THAT'S NOT THE BEST THING TO DO.
SO, I WAS WORKING ON MY MANUAL FOR THE FIRST UNDERSTANDING THE ENDTIME PRODUCTION AND EVERYTHING WAS FLOWING THAT DAY.
I WAS TYPING AND EVERYTHING WAS REALLY GOING GREAT.
AND YOU KNOW, WHEN WRITERS ARE WRITING, SOMETIMES IT FLOWS AND SOMETIMES IT DOESN'T.
WELL, THIS PARTICULAR DAY, IT WAS FLOWING.
MY DOOR WAS SHUT TO MY OFFICE, I WAS ALL ALONE.
I WAS EXCITED.
I WAS BEHIND ON MY DEADLINES, BUT I WAS CATCHING UP, SO I WAS REALLY FEELING GOOD.
AND AS I WAS WRITING, NOTHING ABOUT WORMWOOD, NOTHING ABOUT CHERNOBYL, NOTHING ABOUT THE THIRD TRUMPET, IT WAS LIKE SOMETHING SPOKE TO ME.
I THOUGHT IT WAS GOD, ACTUALLY.
HE JUST SPOKE TO ME AND SAID, "YOU KNOW THAT RUMOR YOU HEARD ABOUT WORMWOOD BEING CHERNOBYL, I WANT YOU TO CHECK THAT OUT."
I REMEMBER THINKING IN MY MIND, NOW I'M ALL BY MYSELF IN MY OFFICE.
I REMEMBER THINKING IN MY MIND, "UH, WAIT A MINUTE, I'M BUSY, I'M DOING GOOD.
EVERYTHING IS FLOWING.
I DON'T WANT TO STOP AND DO THAT RIGHT NOW.
AND FURTHERMORE, YOU KNOW, THREE WEEKS AT THE LIBRARY TRYING TO DIG OUT THIS PIECE OF INFORMATION, I JUST DON'T HAVE TIME FOR IT RIGHT NOW, I HAVE TO GET THIS MANUAL FINISHED."
AND IT'S LIKE GOD SPOKE TO ME AND SAID, "IT WON'T TAKE YOU ANY TIME, JUST PICK UP THE PHONE, CALL THE LIBRARY, THEY'LL DO THE RESEARCH FOR YOU."
WELL, AS I THOUGHT ABOUT THIS, I WAS REALLY A LITTLE BIT FRUSTRATED, TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH.
BUT SINCE I THOUGHT IT MIGHT BE THE VOICE OF GOD, I THOUGHT, WELL, I PROBABLY SHOULD DO THIS.
SO, I OPENED THE DRAWER TO MY DESK, PULLED OUT THE PHONEBOOK AND LOOKED UP THE NUMBER, CALLED THE LIBRARY AND ASKED FOR THE REFERENCE LIBRARIAN AND I SAID, "MA'AM, THIS IS PASTOR IRVIN BAXTER AND I HEARD A RUMOR THAT THE RUSSIAN WORD FOR WORMWOOD IS CHERNOBYL.
IS THERE ANY WAY YOU COULD CHECK THAT OUT FOR ME AND LET ME KNOW IF THAT'S TRUE OR NOT?"
SHE SAID, "OH, IT IS TRUE BECAUSE, YOU SEE, THE RUSSIANS USED WORMWOOD FOR MEDICINAL PURPOSES.
IT TURNED THEIR TONGUES BLACK AND THE RUSSIAN WORD FOR BLACK IS "CHERNI."
CONSEQUENTLY, THEY BEGAN TO CALL WORMWOOD CHERNOBYL.
AND SHE RATTLED OFF THE MOST AWFUL BUNCH OF INFORMATION YOU'VE EVER SEEN IN YOUR LIFE.
SO, I WAS TAKEN ABACK BY THIS.
I WAS NOT PREPARED FOR HER JUST TO ANSWER ME OFF THE CUFF LIKE THAT.
AND I SAID, "WELL, MA'AM, I'M GOING TO BE WRITING AN ARTICLE ABOUT THIS.
COULD I GET SOME DOCUMENTATION AND SOME BOOKS AND PAGE NUMBERS?"
SHE SAID, "I'LL CALL YOU BACK."
SHE CALLED ME BACK 20 MINUTES LATER.
SHE HAD THE BOOKS, SHE HAD THE PAGE NUMBERS AND I WAS REALLY WOWED BY THIS TIME.
ONE REFERENCE SHE HAD WAS THE DICTIONARY OF THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE.
AND IT HAD, AS A DEFINITION, "CHERNOBYLNIK."
AND IT SAID, "A VARIETY OF ABSINTHE," WHICH WAS IN PARENTHESIS, "WORMWOOD, WITH A RED-BROWN OR DEEP PURPLE STEM."
THERE IT WAS IN A RUSSIAN DICTIONARY AND IT REFERRED TO WORMWOOD UNDER THE HEADING CHERNOBYLNIK.
I WAS REALLY IMPRESSED.
SHE TALKED TO ME PROBABLY TEN MINUTES.
AND FINALLY IT WAS TIME TO GO AND I THANKED HER VERY MUCH.
I SAID, "BUT BEFORE I LET YOU GO, I HAVE TO KNOW SOMETHING.
IT'S NOT NORMAL THAT YOU WOULD HAVE KNOWN THIS ALL OFF THE TOP OF YOUR HEAD.
HOW DID YOU KNOW ALL THIS?"
SHE SAID, "OH, I'M WORKING ON MY DOCTORATE IN RUSSIAN RIGHT NOW AND I'VE BEEN STUDYING THESE THINGS."
WELL, NEEDLESS TO SAY, I WAS IN AWE BECAUSE I FELT LIKE GOD TOLD ME TO CALL THE LIBRARY, THAT THEY WOULD DO THE RESEARCH FOR ME.
AND IN 30 MINUTES TIME OR SO, I HAD THE INFORMATION I NEEDED.
WELL, WHAT HAPPENED WAS FROM THERE ON I BEGAN TO DO MORE RESEARCH.
I FOUND A BOOK CALLED, "THE TRUTH ABOUT CHERNOBYL" AND I READ THAT BOOK.
IT WAS WRITTEN BY ONE OF THE SCIENTISTS THAT WERE THERE.
IT WAS VERY INTERESTING.
BUT LET'S TAKE A LOOK QUICKLY AT THE ACTUAL NUCLEAR POWER PLANT OF CHERNOBYL.
IT'S LOCATED IN THE UKRAINE, ACTUALLY.
THIS IS WHEN THE UKRAINE WAS PART OF THE SOVIET UNION.
AND THE TOWN WHERE MOST OF THE WORKERS LIVED WAS A TOWN CALLED PRIPYAT.
THERE WAS ABOUT 40,000 PEOPLE WHO LIVED THERE.
NOW, YOU'RE SEEING A PICTURE OF THE POWER PLANT BEFORE THE EXPLOSION.
WHAT HAPPENED WAS WHEN - WELL, LET ME SEE IF I CAN GO THROUGH THIS WITH YOU VERY CAREFULLY BECAUSE IT'S IMPORTANT.
IT WAS ON APRIL 26, 1986 AT 1:26 A.M. IN THE MORNING.
A RUSSIAN SCIENTIST WAS IN CHARGE OF THE CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER PLANT AT THE TIME.
AND HE DECIDED TO CONDUCT SOME EXPERIMENTS.
IN ORDER TO DO THIS PARTICULAR EXPERIMENT, HE HAD TO DISABLE SOME OF THE SAFETY FEATURES.
BUT HE THOUGHT IT WAS OKAY.
AND SO, HE DID.
HE DISABLED THE SAFETY FEATURES AND THEN HE GAVE THE COMMAND TO RAISE THE RODS, WHICH ALLOWED THE NUCLEAR PROCESS TO BEGIN.
WELL, HE WAS WATCHING HIS METERS, BUT HE DIDN'T CATCH IT IN TIME.
WITHIN ABOUT 30 SECONDS OR SO, THE POWER PLANT BEGIN TO HEAT, THE REACTOR BEGAN TO OVERHEAT.
AND SUDDENLY THERE WAS THIS POWERFUL EXPLOSION THAT TOOK PLACE.
YOU'RE GOING TO ACTUALLY SEE PART OF THE EXPLOSION.
THE FIRST EXPLOSION KNOCKED THE CONCRETE LID OFF THE POWER PLANT.
IT WEIGHED ABOUT TWO MILLION POUNDS.
IT KNOCKED IT DOWN OFF THE POWER PLANT AND IT CAME BACK COCKED.
AND THEN, THE SECOND EXPLOSION DROVE A NUCLEAR CLOUD ONE MILE INTO THE AIR.
AND LEAVING THE LID COCKED, IT LEFT THE ATMOSPHERE OPEN TO A FULL NUCLEAR FIRE.
THEY WERE NOT AWARE THAT THEY HAD JUST WITNESSED THE WORST NUCLEAR DISASTER IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD.
BEFORE IT WAS OVER, THERE WOULD BE TEN TIMES AS MUCH NUCLEAR RADIATION RELEASED AT CHERNOBYL AS WAS RELEASED AT THE BOMBING OF HIROSHIMA IN WORLD WAR II.
OK, HERE'S WHAT HAPPENED NEXT.
THE WORKERS DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON.
THEY HEARD THIS BIG EXPLOSION.
THEY RAN DOWN TO THE SOURCE OF THE SOUND.
TWO OF THE WORKERS PULLED THE DOOR OPEN AND FOUND THEMSELVES STARING DIRECTLY INTO A NUCLEAR FIRE.
IT WAS SO INCREDIBLY HOT WHEN THEY OPENED THAT DOOR THAT IT THRUST THEM BACK, AND THEY FELL TO THE FLOOR WHERE THEY KNEW THE COOLEST AIR WOULD BE AND THEY LAID THERE UNTIL THE HEAT SOMEWHAT DISSIPATED BECAUSE NOW THE LID IS OFF OF THE NUCLEAR REACTOR AND ALL THE HEAT IS GOING UP.
THEY WERE FINALLY ABLE TO GET UP AND MADE IT TO THE NURSE'S STATION.
THEY HAD TO WALK ABOUT A BLOCK.
BY THE TIME THEY ARRIVED THEIR SKIN WAS HANGING OFF OF THEIR ARMS IN RIBBONS.
BOTH OF THOSE TECHNICIANS DIED WITHIN A VERY SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME.
THAT'S NOT ALL THAT HAPPENED.
IMMEDIATELY BECAUSE OF THE LEVEL OF THIS EMERGENCY, FIRE TRUCKS IMMEDIATELY CAME FROM EVERYWHERE.
MANY OF THE FIREMEN DID NOT REALIZE THAT THEY WERE ACTUALLY SIGNING THEIR OWN DEATH WARRANT BY BEING THERE.
THEY WERE FIGHTING A FULL NUCLEAR FIRE.
FIRE TRUCKS AND HELICOPTERS CAME IN TO HELP. YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THE MONUMENTS HERE, BUILT TO THE PEOPLE WHO BRAVELY FOUGHT THAT FIRE, EVEN THOUGH MANY OF THEM DIED WITHIN 30 DAYS OR SO.
AND THE ONES WHO DID SURVIVE SUFFERED ALL KINDS OF RAMIFICATIONS OF THEIR EXPOSURE TO THIS HIGH LEVEL OF RADIATION.
AS TIME WENT ALONG, ALL OF THE EQUIPMENT WAS BROUGHT IN.
THE FIRE TRUCKS THAT WERE BROUGHT IN TO FIGHT THE NUCLEAR FIRE BECAME SO CONTAMINATED WITH RADIATION THAT THEY HAD TO BRING IN BULLDOZERS AND BURY THEM.
AND THEN, IN THE PROCESS, THE BULLDOZERS ABSORBED SO MUCH RADIATION, THAT THEY HAD TO BRING IN MORE BULLDOZERS TO BURY THE BULLDOZERS.
IT WAS A HORRIFIC THING.
AND FURTHERMORE, THEY'RE FIGHTING THE FIRE WITH HELICOPTERS.
YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THE HELICOPTERS THAT ARE STILL IN THE AREA.
THEY ARE DUMPING WATER ONTO THE CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER PLANT IN AN ATTEMPT TO PUT OUT THE FIRE.
AND YOU CAN SEE ANOTHER PICTURE HERE.
LOOK AT THIS, IT'S A GRAVEYARD OF RADIOACTIVE VEHICLES.
AND THEN, AT CHERNOBYL, IT BECAME A GHOST TOWN.
PRIPYAT WAS A TOWN OF ABOUT 40,000 PEOPLE WHERE MOST OF THE WORKERS LIVED.
WELL, IT'S A NO MAN'S LAND TODAY.
IT HAS BEEN DECLARED OFF LIMITS BECAUSE NO ONE CAN LIVE THERE.
EVERYTHING IS CONTAMINATED.
MUCH OF THE VEGETATION DOES NOT GROW THERE ANYMORE.
TO LIVE THERE WOULD BE TO LIVE AT RISK OF YOUR OWN LIFE.
WILD ANIMALS COME THERE, BUT THAT'S ABOUT IT.
ABOUT THIS TIME I WAS WRITING AN ARTICLE ON THIS SUBJECT SO I WENT TO THE LIBRARY SO I COULD HAVE SOLITUDE, GET AWAY FROM MY OFFICE.
AND THE PLACE I WAS GOING TO WRITE WAS BEHIND THE VIDEO DESK.
AS I WENT BEHIND THIS VIDEO DESK I PASSED THE VIDEO CLERK AND I SAID TO HIM, "DO YOU HAVE ANY VIDEOS ABOUT CHERNOBYL," BECAUSE I WAS STILL IN THE LEARNING PROCESS.
HE SAID, "YOU KNOW, I THINK I HAVE ONE."
HE BROUGHT IT TO ME AND IT WAS PUT OUT BY THE HUMANITIES.
AND THEY HAD A MACHINE THERE WHERE I COULD LOOK AT IT ON THE SPOT.
I WAS SO CURIOUS ABOUT THIS BECAUSE I WAS WRITING ABOUT IT AT THE TIME.
SO, WENT OVER THERE AND I PUSHED IN THE VIDEO AND BEGAN TO WATCH.
IT'S AMAZING WHAT I SAW WHEN I PUSHED IN THIS VIDEO BECAUSE RIGHT ON THE FRONT CAME UP, "CHERNOBYL, THE BITTER TASTE OF WORMWOOD."
THIS WAS NOT PUT OUT BY A RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATION, IT WAS NOT PUT OUT BY A PROPHECY MINISTRY.
BUT SOMEHOW HAD ASSOCIATED CHERNOBYL WITH WORMWOOD AND THE PROPHECY SAID THAT A STAR BY THE NAME OF WORMWOOD WAS CAST INTO THE EARTH.
THAT'S NOT ALL IT SAID; BECAUSE IT HAD MANY OTHER THINGS TO TELL ME IN THIS VIDEO.
THE MAIN MESSAGE OF THIS VIDEO WAS THAT THE WATERS MADE THE CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT SO DEADLY.
HERE'S WHAT HAPPENED.
LET ME SEE IF I CAN TELL YOU THE STORY.
WHEN THE NUCLEAR CLOUD WAS DRIVEN ONE MILE INTO THE AIR THE WINDS CAUGHT THE CLOUD AND THEY CARRIED IT, FIRST OF ALL, INTO SWEDEN, THEN INTO ITALY, THEN INTO GERMANY, THEN INTO GREAT BRITAIN.
DURING THIS TIME IT RAINED INCESSANTLY.
I DO NOT KNOW WHETHER THE NUCLEAR EXPLOSION HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE RAIN OR NOT, BUT IT RAINED FOR ABOUT FOUR OR FIVE DAYS.
THE RESULT WAS,IT BROUGHT ALL OF THE NUCLIDE CESIUM-137 DOWN TO THE EARTH.
AND EVERYWHERE THE RAINS HIT, IT CREATED WHAT'S CALLED BROWNOUTS.
THERE'S MANY PLACES IN EUROPE WHERE NOTHING WILL GROW FOR 100 YEARS.
FURTHERMORE, THE RIVERS FILLED UP WITH THIS NUCLIDE CESIUM-137 AND ANYBODY THAT DRANK THIS WATER, THEY INGESTED THIS NUCLIDE.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN CESIUM-137 IS INGESTED, IT GOES TO YOUR BONE MARROW.
THE INTERESTING THING IS, IT HAS A HALF-LIFE OF 30 YEARS.
NOW, WATCH THIS, THE RAIN CAME DOWN, FILLED THE WATERS OF EUROPE AND IT WAS RADIOACTIVE.
AND EVERYTHING IT TOUCHED BECAME RADIOACTIVE.
THERE WERE REINDEER BEING RAISED FOR CONSUMPTION IN EUROPE, ABOUT 100,000 OF THEM AND ALL OF THEM HAD TO BE KILLED.
AND YOU CAN EVEN SEE THE WORKERS AS THEY WERE TRYING TO CONTROL THIS UNPRECEDENTED DISASTER.
THEY ACTUALLY HAD GEIGER COUNTERS MEASURING THE LEVEL OF RADIOACTIVITY.
IT GOES WAY BEYOND THE SAFE ZONE HERE.
IT WAS AN ACCIDENT THAT WAS UNPRECEDENTED.
THERE'S NEVER BEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD.
SO WHY SHOULD WE BE SURPRISED THAT IT'S LOCATED IN THE PROPHECY OF THE BIBLE?
NOW, CESIUM-137 HAS A HALF-LIFE OF ABOUT 30 YEARS.
AND MANY OF THE CHILDREN, ESPECIALLY, WERE INFECTED BECAUSE THEY INGESTED THIS.
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT CESIUM-137 DOES, IT ATTACKS YOUR THYROID GLAND.
IN THE AREA OF PRIPYAT, THAT AREA AROUND THE UKRAINE, THE THYROID CANCER IS ABOUT 248 TIMES THE NORMAL THYROID CANCER RATE AND MANY PEOPLE ARE STILL SUFFERING, ALL TOGETHER, AS A RESULT OF THE CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT OF APRIL 26, 1986.
ABOUT 125,000 PEOPLE HAVE DIED.
THE SCIENTIST AND THE DOCTORS ESTIMATE THAT AROUND TWO MILLION PEOPLE ARE INFECTED.
AND EVENTUALLY WHAT HAPPENS IS, CESIUM-137 LAYS IN YOUR BONE MARROW BUT IT WILL EVENTUALLY CAUSE A PERSON TO HAVE CANCER.
SO, IT'S VERY INTERESTING TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS.
SO THE THIRD TRUMPET SOUNDED ON APRIL 26, 1986.
THIS BEING TRUE, WHEN DID THE FIRST TRUMPET SOUND?
WHEN DID THE SECOND TRUMPET SOUND?
OBVIOUSLY THEY WOULD BE BEFORE THE THIRD TRUMPET.
AND I ASKED MYSELF THAT QUESTION.
LET'S LOOK NOW AT THE SOUNDING OF THE SECOND TRUMPET.
IT'S FOUND IN REVELATION CHAPTER 8, VERSE 8 AND 9.
"AND THE SECOND ANGEL SOUNDED, AND AS IT WERE A GREAT MOUNTAIN BURNING WITH FIRE WAS CAST INTO THE SEAS: AND THE THIRD PART OF THE SEA BECAME BLOOD; AND THE THIRD PART OF THE CREATURES WHICH WERE IN THE SEA, AND HAD LIFE, DIED; AND THE THIRD PART OF THE SHIPS WERE DESTROYED."
AFTER I FELT LIKE I UNDERSTOOD THE THIRD TRUMPET, THE CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT, WHEN I WENT BACK TO STUDY THESE OTHERS, I SAID, "A THIRD PART OF THE SHIPS WERE DESTROYED?
THAT'S NEVER HAPPENED, I WOULD SURELY KNOW ABOUT THAT."
SO, I THOUGHT, "WELL, MAYBE I'M OFF.
MAYBE I'M MISUNDERSTANDING SOMETHING HERE."
HOWEVER, ABOUT A YEAR LATER I WAS THINKING ABOUT EVERYTHING AND MY MIND WENT TO WORLD WAR II.
WORLD WAR II IS THE GREATEST DISASTER THE WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN.
52 MILLION PEOPLE DIED.
AND I THOUGHT, "I WONDER HOW MANY SHIPS PARTICIPATED IN WORLD WAR II AND HOW MANY OF THEM WERE SUNK?"
SO, I ASKED MY RESEARCH ASSISTANT, KATHY.
I SAID, "KATHY, GO TO THE LIBRARY, SEE IF YOU CAN FIND OUT HOW MANY SHIPS PARTICIPATED IN WORLD WAR II AND HOW MANY WERE SUNK."
SHE CAME BACK ABOUT THREE DAYS LATER AND LAID ON MY DESK THE STATISTICS SHE HAD DUG UP AND I LOOKED AT THEM.
I LOOKED AT KATHY AND SAID, "THIS LOOKS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE..
I WANT THE TRUTH."
WELL, WHAT SHE SHOWED ME WAS THAT THERE WERE 105,127 SHIPS THAT PARTICIPATED IN WORLD WAR II AND 36,387 OF THEM WERE SUNK.
WELL, I QUICKLY DID THE CALCULATION.
IT'S ABOUT ONE-THIRD ON THE MONEY.
AND I SAID, "KATHY, ARE YOU SURE."
SHE SAID, "THE LIBRARIAN HELPED ME.
THIS IS THE WAY IT WAS."
ONE-THIRD OF THE SHIPS WERE DESTROYED.
WELL, THE REST OF THE PROPHECY SAYS THAT, "THERE WOULD BE A GREAT MOUNTAIN BURNING WITH FIRE CAST INTO THE SEAS."
I HAD SEEN PICTURES OF NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS AND THEY LOOKED LIKE A HUGE MOUNTAIN ON FIRE.
AND I THOUGHT, "WHY SHOULDN'T IT BE INCREDIBLE THAT THE FIRST NUCLEAR BOMB DROPPED ON THE HUMAN RACE SHOULD BE IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION?
AND WHY SHOULD I THINK THAT IT'S INCREDIBLE THAT WORLD WAR II, THE GREATEST WAR THE WORLD'S EVER KNOWN, BY FAR, 52 MILLION DEAD?"
AND THAT'S WHEN I REALIZED THAT IN THIS SECOND TRUMPET PROPHECY, I WAS SEEING HERE THE NUCLEAR EXPLOSION AT HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI.
AND ALSO, ONE-THIRD OF THE SHIPS WERE DESTROYED.
I BECAME QUICKLY CONVINCED THAT THE SECOND TRUMPET WAS WORLD WAR II.
MY NEXT QUESTION WAS, "WELL, WHAT'S WORLD WAR I THEN?"
SO, BACK TO THE BIBLE.
REVELATION 8, VERSE 7.
"THE FIRST ANGEL SOUNDED, AND THERE FOLLOWED HAIL AND FIRE MINGLED WITH BLOOD, AND THEY WERE CAST UPON THE EARTH: AND THE THIRD PART OF THE TREES WAS BURNT UP, AND ALL GREEN GRASS WAS BURNT UP."
I THOUGHT, "OKAY, IF THE SECOND TRUMPET IS WORLD WAR II, THE FIRST TRUMPET, COULD IT BE WORLD WAR I?"
BECAUSE UP UNTIL THE 20TH CENTURY WE NEVER HAD A WAR WITH ONE MILLION FATALITIES AND WORLD WAR I COMES ALONG AND THEY CALLED IT THE GREAT WAR AND THERE WERE 8.2 MILLION DEAD.
IT WAS TOTALLY UNPRECEDENTED.
SO, COULD THAT POSSIBLY BE THE FIRST TRUMPET?
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN, "HAIL AND FIRE MINGLED WITH BLOOD?"
AND I THOUGHT ABOUT THE NEW IMPLEMENTS OF WARFARE, THE BOMBS, THE HUGE GUNS, AND ALSO IT SAYS, "ALL GREEN GRASS WAS BURNT UP."
AND I THOUGHT I REMEMBERED IN SCHOOL STUDYING ABOUT A THING CALLED THE SCORCHED EARTH POLICY.
WHAT HAPPENED WAS MOST OF THE BATTLE OCCURRING IN WORLD WAR I WAS BETWEEN FRANCE AND GERMANY.
AND THERE WAS AN AREA IN THERE WHERE THE POLICY WAS DON'T LEAVE ANYTHING, BURN EVERYTHING UP, THAT WAY IF YOU LOSE THE TERRITORY, YOU LEAVE NO RESOURCES FOR THE ENEMY TO LIVE OFF OF THE GROUND.
SO, DON'T LEAVE THE CROPS, DON'T LEAVE ANY GREEN THING.
THEY CALLED IT THE SCORCHED EARTH POLICY.
WELL, AFTER I STUDIED FOR A WHILE I CAME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT THE FIRST TRUMPET WAS PROBABLY WORLD WAR I.
AND OF COURSE, THAT'S WHEN BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS WERE FIRST USED.
IT WAS HORRENDOUS.
OUR MEN AND THE ALLIED TROOPS AND THE GERMAN TROOPS ALL ENGAGING IN UNPRECEDENTED WARFARE.
IT WAS ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE WHAT THEY WENT THROUGH AS THEY FOUGHT THIS HORRIBLE BATTLE.
SO, WHEN I LOOKED AT THE PROPHECY AND I LOOKED AT WHAT HAPPENED IN WORLD WAR I, IT MADE SENSE TO ME THAT WORLD WAR I WOULD BE THE SOUNDING OF THE FIRST TRUMPET.
OK, LET'S SUMMARIZE EVERYTHING NOW.
SO, THIS IS THE OVERVIEW OF THE FIRST THREE TRUMPETS.
FIRST TRUMPET, WORLD WAR I, 8.2 MILLION DEAD.
PRIOR TO THIS THERE HAD NEVER BEEN ONE WAR WITH ONE MILLION DEAD.
IN 6000 YEARS OF RECORDED HUMAN HISTORY, NOT ONE WAR WITH ONE MILLION DEAD.
ALL OF A SUDDEN WE HAVE THIS GREAT WAR, 8.2 MILLION DEAD.
THEN, SECOND TRUMPET, WORLD WAR II, 52 MILLION DEAD, ONE-THIRD OF THE SHIPS DESTROYED, A GREAT MOUNTAIN BURNING WITH FIRE.
EVERYTHING SEEMED TO FIT.
AND THEN OF COURSE, THE THIRD TRUMPET, CHERNOBYL.
THIS IS WHERE GOD OPENED MY UNDERSTANDING FIRST.
I HAD ALWAYS BEEN TAUGHT THAT ALL THE TRUMPETS WOULD EXIST IN A FINAL SEVEN-YEAR PERIOD.
BUT BY THAT TIME GOD HAD CHANGED MY MIND BECAUSE THERE'S REALLY NO PROOF OF THAT.
THAT'S A THEORY THAT'S EMBRACED, BUT IT'S NOT TRUE.
SO, WHEN I SAW THIS THIRD TRUMPET, CHERNOBYL, THAT HAPPENED ON APRIL 26, 1986.
AND THE WORD CHERNOBYL MEANS WORMWOOD.
IF YOU WERE READING A UKRAINIAN BIBLE, YOU WOULD ACTUALLY READ, "A STAR BY THE NAME OF CHERNOBYL WAS CAST INTO THE EARTH."
I'VE ACTUALLY HAD UKRAINIAN PEOPLE COME TO ME SINCE I BEGAN TO TEACH THIS AND OPEN THEIR BIBLES AND SAY, "LOOK, RIGHT HERE IT IS, IT SAYS CHERNOBYL."
WELL, THAT'S PRETTY ASTOUNDING.
SO, HERE WE HAVE THE THIRD TRUMPET AND THE CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT WHICH WAS THE WORLD'S WORST NUCLEAR ACCIDENT, TEN TIMES AS MUCH RADIATION RELEASED AT CHERNOBYL AS WAS RELEASED AT ANY OTHER - BY HIROSHIMA OR BY NAGASAKI.
ONCE I SAW ALL OF THIS I REALIZED I WAS LOOKING AT SOMETHING AMAZING.
IN OUR NEXT SEGMENT WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT TRUMPETS FOUR, FIVE, SIX AND SEVEN.
DON'T MISS IT.
PART 2
IN OUR LAST SEGMENT OF END OF THE AGE, WE BEGAN OUR STUDY OF THE SEVEN TRUMPETS.
WE LEARNED THAT THE FIRST TRUMPET WAS WORLD WAR I, THE SECOND TRUMPET WAS WORLD WAR II AND THE THIRD TRUMPET WAS THE NUCLEAR ACCIDENT AT CHERNOBYL IN 1986 WHEN TEN TIMES AS MUCH RADIATION WAS UNLEASHED INTO THE AIR THAN WAS UNLEASHED AT THE BOMBING OF HIROSHIMA.
TODAY WE WILL LEARN ABOUT TRUMPETS FOUR, FIVE, SIX AND SEVEN.
I'M TAKING A LITTLE BIT OF LIBERTY HERE AGAIN IN ORDER TO EFFECTIVELY COMMUNICATE WITH YOU BECAUSE THE FIFTH TRUMPET HELPS US TO UNDERSTAND THE FOURTH TRUMPET.
SO, WE'RE GOING TO GO TO THE FIFTH TRUMPET FIRST.
THE ACCOUNT IS REVELATION 9, VERSE 1 AND 2.
IT STATES THERE, "AND THE FIFTH ANGEL SOUNDED, AND I SAW A STAR FALL FROM HEAVEN UNTO THE EARTH: AND TO HIM WAS GIVEN THE KEY OF THE BOTTOMLESS PIT.
AND HE OPENED THE BOTTOMLESS PIT; AND THERE AROSE A SMOKE OUT OF THE PIT, AS THE SMOKE OF A GREAT FURNACE; AND THE SUN AND THE AIR WERE DARKENED BY THE REASON OF THE SMOKE OF THE PIT."
NOW, I'LL NEVER FORGET BACK IN 1990, 1991, SADDAM HUSSEIN, WHO WAS, OF COURSE, THE PRESIDENT OF IRAQ.
HE DECIDED HE WANTED TO INVADE KUWAIT.
HE WANTED TO TAKE CONTROL OF THE OIL RICHES OF KUWAIT.
ALREADY IRAQ WAS VERY RICH IN OIL.
BUT NOW THEN, IF HE WAS ABLE TO TAKE KUWAIT HE WOULD BE THAT MUCH RICHER BECAUSE HE HAD DREAMS OF REBUILDING BABYLON.
HE ACTUALLY HAD LAUNCHED AN EFFORT TO REBUILD THE CITY OF BABYLON.
HE ACTUALLY HAD PICTURES OF HIMSELF TAKEN.
HE HAD A UNIFORM MADE TO LOOK LIKE NEBUCHADNEZZAR WAY BACK IN THE OLD TESTAMENT IN 586 B.C., WHEN HE DESTROYED JERUSALEM.
SADDAM HUSSEIN HAD DREAMS OF DESTROYING JERUSALEM AGAIN AND GETTING RID OF THE NATION OF ISRAEL.
SO, HE ACTUALLY HAD A UNIFORM MADE FOR HIMSELF THAT LOOKED LIKE NEBUCHADNEZZAR AND HE ACTUALLY STOOD IN A CHARIOT AND HAS HIS PICTURE TAKEN.
SO, HE THOUGHT THAT IF HE COULD TAKE CONTROL OF THE OIL RICHES OF KUWAIT ADD IT TO WHAT HE NOW CONTROLLED, THAT IT WOULD ENABLE HIM TO HAVE POWER AND HE WOULD BECOME THE PREMIER POWER OF THE MIDDLE EAST.
SO, WHEN HE INVADED KUWAIT IN THE FALL OF 1990, WHEN THAT HAPPENED, IMMEDIATELY PRESIDENT GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH, OUR PRESIDENT AT THE TIME, WENT TO THE UNITED NATIONS, AND ASKED FOR A RESOLUTION AGAINST SADDAM HUSSEIN.
THE U.N. PASSED THE RESOLUTION AND 29 MEMBER NATIONS DEVOTED EITHER TROOPS OR MILITARY SUPPLIES TO THE BATTLE AGAINST SADDAM HUSSEIN.
SO, THE COALITION FORCES, THE WORLD COMMUNITY, WENT AGAINST SADDAM HUSSEIN, AND THEY BEGAN TO DRIVE HIM OUT OF KUWAIT.
NOW, HUSSEIN THOUGHT HE HAD A GREEN LIGHT FROM THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO TAKE THIS ACTION.
NOW, THEN, HE'S VERY ANGRY.
HE KNOWS HE'S GOING TO BE FORCED OUT OF KUWAIT.
HE CANNOT STAND BEFORE THE FIRE POWER OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND ALL OF HER ALLIES.
HE KNOWS HE'S GOING TO HAVE TO LEAVE, BUT HE'S NOT GOING TO GO EASY.
HE DECIDES THAT HE WILL SET 700 OF THE WORLD'S RICHEST OIL WELLS ABLAZE.
THE OIL WELLS OF KUWAIT ARE VERY PRODUCTIVE.
AND SO, HE DECIDED TO SET 700 OIL WELLS ABLAZE.
AND HE DID.
NOW, WHEN THEY BEGAN TO BURN, THEY ACTUALLY BLOCKED THE SUN AND THE SKY FOR OVER THREE MONTHS.
I WANT YOU TO SEE.
WE HAVE A CLIP FROM THE VIDEO "THE FIRES OF KUWAIT."
AND I ACTUALLY WANT YOU TO TAKE A LOOK AT SOME OF THIS FOOTAGE RIGHT NOW.
WATCH THIS.
NOW, YOU'RE LOOKING AT PICTURES IN THE DAYTIME, BUT IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S MIDNIGHT.
NOTICE THAT THEY BROUGHT FIRE FIGHTERS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD.
THE FIRES WERE SO HOT THAT THEY WOULD ACTUALLY REACH 2000 DEGREES AND IT WAS VERY DIFFICULT FOR THE FIRE FIGHTERS TO FIGHT THESE FIRES.
THEY EVEN HAD TO SPRAY WATER ON THEIR FIRE TRUCKS CONTINUALLY TO KEEP THE METAL OF THE FIRE TRUCKS FROM MELTING.
AND SO, FOR THREE LONG MONTHS THESE FIRES BELCHED SMOKE INTO THE ATMOSPHERE.
I HAVE ANOTHER SHOT FOR YOU TO SEE OF KUWAIT AT NOON TIME.
THIS IS ANOTHER PICTURE.
I THINK THIS APPEARED IN ONE OF THE MAGAZINES.
AND YOU'RE SEEING THAT THE SKY AND THE SUN WAS BLOCKED OUT BY REASON OF THE SMOKE.
NOW, WHY IS THIS SO IMPORTANT.
BECAUSE THE PROPHECY SAYS THIS AND I DON'T KNOW OF ANY INCIDENT IN ALL HUMAN HISTORY THAT COULD FULFILL THIS PARTICULAR PROPHECY.
THE BIBLE SPECIFICALLY SAYS THAT, "THE SUN AND THE SKY WERE DARKENED BY REASON OF THE SMOKE OF THE PIT."
NOW, IF OIL IS COMING OUT OF THE EARTH THEN MAYBE THAT TEACHES US THE BOTTOMLESS PIT IS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE EARTH.
LET'S LOOK AT THE REST OF THE PASSAGE.
REVELATION 9, VERSE 3.
"AND THERE CAME OUT OF THE SMOKE LOCUSTS UPON THE EARTH; AND UNTO THEM WAS GIVEN POWER, AS THE SCORPIONS OF THE EARTH HAVE POWER.
AND THE SHAPE OF THE LOCUSTS WERE LIKE UNTO HORSES PREPARED UNTO BATTLE; AND ON THEIR HEADS WERE AS IT WERE CROWNS LIKE GOLD, AND THEIR FACES WERE AS THE FACES OF MEN.
AND THEY HAD HAIR AS THE HAIR OF WOMEN, AND THEIR TEETH WERE AS THE TEETH OF LIONS.
AND THEY HAD BREASTPLATES, AS IT WERE BREASTPLATES OF IRON; AND THE SOUND OF THEIR WINGS WAS AS THE SOUND OF CHARIOTS OF MANY HORSES RUNNING TO BATTLE."
OKAY, WHAT IS JOHN SAYING HERE?
REMEMBER, THIS IS 2000 YEARS AGO.
BUT HE'S SEEING LOCUSTS WITH BREASTPLATES OF IRON, WITH FACES OF MEN, THE SOUND OF THEIR WINGS WAS THE SOUND OF MANY CHARIOTS, OR MANY HORSES RUNNING TO BATTLE.
WHAT DO YOU THINK JOHN WAS SEEING?
WAS HE SEEING HELICOPTERS?
WAS HE SEEING JET AIRPLANES?
ALL OF THIS IS WRITTEN IN SYMBOLS.
HE'D NEVER SEEN A HELICOPTER.
HE'D NEVER SEEN A JET AIRPLANE.
HE HAD NO CLUE WHAT THEY WERE.
BUT HE SAID, "THESE ARE LOCUSTS AND THEY GOT BREASTPLATES OF IRON, BUT THEY HAVE FACES OF MEN AND THE SOUND OF THEIR WINGS IS THE SOUND OF MANY CHARIOTS GOING TO BATTLE."
TAKE A LOOK HERE AT WHAT HE MAY HAVE SEEN IN HIS VISION.
I DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS WHAT HE SAW.
THIS IS ONE HELICOPTER AND HOW IT APPEARED IN ONE PARTICULAR SHOT.
TAKE A LOOK AT THESE HELICOPTERS.
YOU KNOW, WHEN BOYS OR GIRLS ARE IN THE SERVICE AND THEY ARE PILOTS OF HELICOPTERS, SOMETIMES THEY PAINT UP THEIR HELICOPTERS TO MAKE THEM INTERESTING.
LOOK AT THIS.
MOUTH OF LIONS.
DOES THIS LOOK LIKE LOCUSTS TO YOU?
YOU MUST ADMIT, THESE LOOK A LOT LIKE LOCUSTS.
TAKE A LOOK AT THIS NEXT SHOT BECAUSE HERE YOU SEE A HELICOPTER'S BREASTPLATES OF IRON, AND FACES OF MEN.
IT APPEARS TO ME THAT THAT'S WHAT JOHN WAS SEEING AND HE WAS TALKING ABOUT WARFARE IN THE 20TH CENTURY.
NOW, THAT'S NOT ALL THE PROPHECY, HOWEVER, LET'S GO A LITTLE FURTHER.
IN VERSE 11 IT CONTINUES THE PROPHECY AND IT SAYS, "AND THEY HAD A KING OVER THEM," THESE WARRIORS, THESE ARMIES, "WHICH IS THE ANGEL OF THE BOTTOMLESS PIT, WHOSE NAME IN THE HEBREW TONGUE IS ABADDON, BUT IN THE GREEK TONGUE HATH HIS NAME APOLLYON."
IF YOU'LL LOOK UP IN A DICTIONARY IT DEFINES BOTH THE HEBREW "ABADDON" AS THE DESTROYER AND THE GREEK "APOLLYON" MEANS THE DESTROYER.
SOME TRANSLATIONS IN THE BIBLE ACTUALLY SAY, "THEY HAD A KING OVER THEM NAMED THE DESTROYER."
NOW, BACK IN 1991 WHEN ALL THIS WAS TAKING PLACE, I WAS A SUBSCRIBER TO THE GERMAN TRIBUNE AT THE TIME AND I'LL NEVER FORGET RECEIVING MY GERMAN TRIBUNE.
IT WAS THE MARCH 10, 1991 EDITION AND I WAS READING AN ARTICLE ABOUT SADDAM HUSSEIN AND ABOUT ALL THAT WAS HAPPENING IN THE GULF AT THE TIME.
AND THE REPORTER CALLED HIM SADDAM "THE DESTROYER" HUSSEIN.
WELL, I'D ALREADY BEEN WONDERING ABOUT THESE FIRES AND ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF THIS PROPHECY.
AND I KNEW THAT ABADDON AND APOLLYON MEANT THE DESTROYER AND HERE THEY CALLED SADDAM, SADDAM "THE DESTROYER" HUSSEIN.
NOW, I HAD REACHED NO CONCLUSIONS AT THE TIME.
BUT I WAS WONDERING -I MUST CONFESS TO YOU-, IT WAS QUITE ABOUT A LITTLE WHILE LATER.
ACTUALLY, SIX YEARS LATER, IN 1997, I STILL WAS NOT CERTAIN ABOUT ALL THIS, BUT I WAS A SUBSCRIBER TO THE INTERNATIONAL EDITION OF THE JERUSALEM POST AT THE TIME.
I WAS SCHEDULED TO PREACH OUT OF TOWN ONE EVENING AND MY WIFE WAS GOING TO DRIVE ME.
AS WE WERE GETTING READY TO LEAVE MY JERUSALEM POST HAD JUST ARRIVED.
SHE SAID TO ME, "DO YOU WANT TO TAKE YOUR POST ALONG?
YOU MIGHT WANT TO READ IT ON THE WAY."
"SURE," I SAID, "LET'S DO THAT."
SO, SHE'S DRIVING AND I'M SITTING THERE READING THE JERUSALEM POST.
AND THERE WAS A PARTICULAR STORY, IT WAS A HUMAN INTEREST STORY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE JERUSALEM POST.
AND I WAS READING THIS STORY.
IT WAS ABOUT THE LAST FAMILY OUT OF BAGHDAD, THE LAST JEWISH FAMILY OUT OF BAGHDAD.
AND THE JERUSALEM POST WAS DOING AN INTERVIEW WITH THIS FAMILY THAT HAD JUST ARRIVED IN JERUSALEM.
BUT WHAT I FOUND SO INTERESTING WAS THE LADY RELATING THE STORY WAS TELLING ABOUT HOW WHEN SADDAM'S MOTHER WAS PREGNANT WITH SADDAM, THAT SHE WAS HAVING A HORRIBLE PREGNANCY.
AND THE IRAQI DOCTORS RECOMMENDED AN ABORTION.
HOWEVER, SHE DIDN'T WANT TO GET AN ABORTION.
SO, SHE MOVED TO THE SECTION OF BAGHDAD WHERE THE FINEST DOCTORS WERE AVAILABLE.
THEY WERE THE JEWISH DOCTORS.
AND THE JEWISH DOCTORS NURSED HER THROUGH HER PREGNANCY WITH SADDAM HUSSEIN.
AND IN THE JERUSALEM POST IT SAID WHEN HE WAS BORN SHE DECIDED TO NAME HIM SADDAM BECAUSE SADDAM MEANS DESTROYER, AND HE ALMOST DESTROYED HER.
I LOOKED AT THAT ABSOLUTELY STUNNED.
I KNEW THIS WAS NOT JUST A COINCIDENCE PARTICULARLY WHEN, I FOUND OUT THAT THE ARABIC WORD FOR SADDAM ACTUALLY MEANS DESTROYER.
NOW, DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M SAYING TO YOU?
I'M SAYING TO YOU IN THE BIBLE IT SAID, "A MAN BY THE NAME OF DESTROYER IS GOING TO UNLEASH THE OIL FIELDS, THE BOTTOMLESS PIT, AND THE SUN AND THE AIR WILL BE DARKENED BY THE REASON OF SMOKE."
I DON'T KNOW.
THERE ARE A COUPLE OF THINGS IN THE PROPHECY I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND YET, BUT THERE WAS TOO MUCH HERE FOR ME TO DENY.
AND THAT'S WHEN I REACHED THE CONCLUSIONS THAT ACTUALLY THE FIFTH TRUMPET SOUNDED IN 1990, 1991.
OKAY, NOW WE'VE GOT TO GET BACK TO THE FOURTH TRUMPET.
LET'S GO NOW TO REVELATION CHAPTER 8, VERSE 12.
IT STATES THERE, "AND THE FOURTH ANGEL SOUNDED, AND THE THIRD PART OF THE SUN WAS SMITTEN, AND THE THIRD PART OF THE MOON, AND THE THIRD PART OF THE STARS; SO AS THE THIRD PART OF THEM WAS DARKENED, AND THE DAY SHONE NOT FOR A THIRD PART OF IT, AND THE NIGHT LIKEWISE."
OKAY, WHAT CAN THIS BE?
THIS IS ALL THAT'S GIVEN TO US FOR THE FOURTH TRUMPET.
A THIRD PART OF THE STARS, THE SUN, AND THE MOON WAS SMITTEN AND THE SUN DIDN'T SHINE FOR THE THIRD PART OF THE DAY, THE MOON DID NOT SHINE FOR ONE-THIRD PART OF THE NIGHT.
I CAN TELL YOU THAT I WAS PUZZLED BY THIS ONE.
I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT THIS MEANT.
NOW, I DID KNOW, HOWEVER, THAT THERE WAS ANOTHER PROPHECY IN THE BIBLE GIVEN BY JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF.
THIS IS MATTHEW CHAPTER 24, VERSE 22.
AND IT SAYS THERE, "AND EXCEPT THOSE DAYS SHOULD BE SHORTENED, THERE SHOULD NO FLESH BE SAVED: BUT FOR THE ELECT'S SAKE THOSE DAYS SHALL BE SHORTENED."
SO, WHAT DO I MAKE OF ALL OF THIS?
I DIDN'T KNOW THE ANSWER.
WHEN I WOULD TEACH THE THIRD TRUMPET, THE SECOND TRUMPET, THE FIRST TRUMPET AND THE FIFTH TRUMPET, EVERYBODY SAID, "YEAH, BUT WHAT ABOUT THE FOURTH?"
I HAD TO SAY, "I DON'T KNOW," BECAUSE I DIDN'T KNOW.
WELL, MY WIFE IS ONE OF MY BEST FANS, AND ALSO SHE IS ONE OF MY BIGGEST CRITICS.
SO, CONSEQUENTLY SHE WAS DRIVING ALONG ONE DAY AND SHE WAS THINKING ABOUT THE FACT THAT I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND THE FOURTH TRUMPET AND SHE WANTED ME TO UNDERSTAND THESE THINGS TO BE ABLE TO DEAL WITH ALL THESE ISSUES.
AND SO, SHE SAID TO GOD AS SHE WAS DRIVING ALONE IN THE CAR, "GOD, HOW ARE YOU GOING TO SHORTEN THE DAYS?"
WELL, LET ME BACK UP JUST A MOMENT.
SHE CAME HOME THAT DAY AND SAID, "GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY."
I SAID, "HE DID?"
WELL, I THOUGHT SHE WAS SETTING ME UP, BECAUSE SHE'D BEEN OUT SHOPPING, THAT GOD SPOKE TO HER TO BUY A NEW DRESS.
SO, MAYBE SHE WAS JUST KIDDING ME.
BUT I SAW SHE WAS SERIOUS.
AND SINCE WE'D BEEN MARRIED ABOUT 30 YEARS AT THE TIME, SHE HAD NEVER SAID THAT BEFORE, AND IN ALL OF OUR YEARS MARRIED SHE NEVER LOOKED AT ME AND SAID, "GOD SPOKE TO ME."
SO, I SOBERED UP AND I TOOK IT SERIOUS.
AND I SAID TO HER, "WHAT DID HE SAY?"
SHE SAID, "WELL I ASKED HIM, 'GOD HOW ARE YOU GOING TO SHORTEN THE DAYS,' AND HE SAID, 'I ALREADY HAVE.'"
AND SHE SAID, "I SAID BACK TO GOD AS I'M DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD, 'WELL HOW, LORD?'"
AND HE SPOKE BACK TO HER IN HER MIND, "I'VE SPEEDED EVERYTHING UP, BUT MEN DON'T REALIZE IT.
IT'S ALREADY A DONE DEAL."
WELL, I THOUGHT ABOUT THAT FOR A WHILE.
AND I STARTED STUDYING SOME MORE AND THOUGHT, WELL, GOD, IF YOU'RE GOING TO SHORTEN THE DAYS, ARE YOU GOING TO SHORTEN THE NUMBER OF DAYS, WHICH SOME PEOPLE THINK, OR ARE YOU GOING TO SHORTEN THE LENGTH OF EACH DAY?
WELL, I DECIDED HE HAD TO SHORTEN THE LENGTH OF EACH DAY BECAUSE IF HE SHORTENED THE NUMBER OF DAYS IT WOULD MESS THE BIBLE UP BECAUSE IN DANIEL CHAPTER 12, VERSE 11 AND 12, IT SAYS, "AND FROM THE TIME THAT THE DAILY SACRIFICE SHALL BE TAKEN AWAY, AND THE ABOMINATION THAT MAKETH DESOLATE SET UP, THERE SHALL BE A THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND NINETY DAYS."
SO, FROM THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION TILL THE CULMINATION OF EVERYTHING, TILL THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON, IS GOING TO BE A THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND NINETY DAYS.
AND THEN IT SAYS, "BLESSED IS HE THAT WAITETH AND COMETH TO THE THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FIFTH DAY."
SO, IF GOD WOULD SHORTEN THE NUMBER OF DAYS, THEN THIS SCRIPTURE WOULD HAVE TO BE CHANGED.
AND THE BIBLE SAYS, "THY WORD, OH LORD, IS FOREVER SETTLED IN HEAVEN."
SO, I WAS CONVINCED FROM MY KNOWLEDGE OF THE BIBLE AND FROM MY KNOWLEDGE OF GOD THAT HE WAS NOT GOING TO CHANGE THE NUMBER OF DAYS.
SO, THE ANSWER OBVIOUSLY WAS THAT HE MUST BE GOING TO SHORTEN THE LENGTH OF EACH DAY.
AND REALLY, THE PROPHECY OF REVELATION SAYS THAT, THE SUN WOULD NOT SHINE FOR ONE-THIRD PART OF THE DAY, THE MOON WOULD NOT SHINE FOR ONE-THIRD PART OF THE NIGHT.
SO, I THOUGHT, OKAY, WELL THEN I SAID TO MY WIFE, JUDY, "BABE, BUT THIS CAN'T BE BECAUSE IF THE DAYS ARE SHORTER AND THE CLOCKS ARE MOVING FASTER, MEN ARE STILL ABLE TO RUN THE FOUR-MINUTE MILE.
NOW, THIS WAS MY ENGINEERING BACKGROUND SETTING IN HERE, MY MATHEMATICAL BACKGROUND.
AND I SAID, YOU KNOW, IF THE CLOCKS ARE MOVING FASTER THE MILE IS STILL AS LONG AS IT WAS AND MEN CAN'T RUN ANY FASTER.
SO THAT MEANS IT SHOULD BE TAKING THEM FIVE MINUTES, AT LEAST, TO RUN A FOUR-MINUTE MILE.
AND SHE LOOKED AT ME AS ONLY SHE CAN, AS ONLY A WOMAN CAN, AND SAID, "I CAN'T ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, BUT I STILL KNOW GOD SPOKE TO ME," AS THOUGH THAT SETTLES IT.
WELL, ABOUT A WEEK OR SO LATER, SHE AND I WERE IN A RESTAURANT AND THERE WAS A PROFESSOR FROM RICHMOND, INDIANA THERE THAT FOLLOWED A LOT OF OUR TEACHINGS, AND HE HAPPENED TO BE AT THE RESTAURANT.
AND SO, JUDY WENT UP TO HIM AND SAID, "HEY," SHE BEGAN TO TELL HIM WHAT SHE FELT LIKE GOD HAD SPOKEN TO HER.
BUT SHE SAID, "IRVIN SAYS THAT IT WON'T WORK BECAUSE MEN COULDN'T RUN THE FOUR-MINUTE MILE ANYMORE AND THEY STILL ARE."
WELL, THE PROFESSOR LOOKED AT BOTH OF US AND SAID, "OH, THAT'S NO PROBLEM.
DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND EINSTEIN'S THEORY OF RELATIVITY?"
UH, WELL SURE, I READ ALL THAT FOR BREAKFAST EVERY MORNING, RIGHT?
WELL, HE SAID, "DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND THAT TIME AND SPEED ARE RELATIVE ONE TO ANOTHER?"
SO, WHEN ONE SPEEDS UP, THE OTHER SPEEDS UP.
SO, I'M STANDING THERE TRYING TO ABSORB ALL OF THIS AND MY WIFE IS LOOKING WITH A SMILE, SAYING, "I TOLD YOU.
HERE'S A COLLEGE PROFESSOR.
HE'S BACKING ME UP."
WELL, ABOUT A WEEK OR SO LATER I WAS ON THE PHONE WITH ANOTHER FRIEND WHO WAS A PRETTY INTELLIGENT GUY.
I WAS TALKING TO HIM ABOUT IT.
HE SAID, "WELL, THAT'S NO PROBLEM."
I WAS TALKING ABOUT THE FOUR-MINUTE MILE AGAIN.
HE SAID, "THAT'S NO PROBLEM, DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND EINSTEIN'S THEORY OF RELATIVITY?"
SO, WHAT DO I DO?
I'M OFF TO THE BOOKSTORE AND I BUY TWO OR THREE BOOKS ON EINSTEIN'S THEORY OF RELATIVITY.
HAVEN'T READ THEM YET, BUT I'M GOING TO GET AROUND TO IT ONE OF THESE DAYS.
BUT SINCE I WAS CONVINCED THE THIRD TRUMPET SOUNDED AND THE FIFTH TRUMPET SOUNDED, IT SEEMED LIKE, TO ME, THAT MAYBE MY WIFE, IN FACT, WAS RIGHT, AS MUCH AS I HATED TO ADMIT IT.
OKAY, SO WHEN DID THE FOURTH TRUMPET SOUND, IF IT DID SOUND?
WHEN DID IT SOUND?
WELL, WE KNOW THE THIRD TRUMPET SOUNDED IN 1986 AND WE KNOW THE FIFTH TRUMPET SOUNDED IN 1991, SO IS THERE ANY MAJOR EVENT BETWEEN 1986 AND 1991 THAT COULD MAYBE BE RELATED TO THE SHORTENING OF THE DAYS?
WELL, BACK IN 1968 GOD ALLOWED ME TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE BERLIN WALL WAS GOING TO COME DOWN AND THE TWO GERMANYS WOULD BE REUNITED.
I ACTUALLY PUT IT IN A BOOK IN 1986.
I STATED THAT THE BERLIN WALL WAS COMING DOWN, THE TWO GERMANYS WOULD BE REUNITED AND THAT WOULD BE THE BEGINNING OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER.
WELL, THAT WAS GOING TO BE A TURNING POINT.
AS A MATTER OF FACT, THAT'S WHAT PROMPTED ME TO START ENDTIME MAGAZINE, BECAUSE I FELT LIKE THAT WAS REALLY THE BEGINNING OF THE END TIME.
WELL, FURTHERMORE, TEN YEARS AFTER 1989, MERRILL LYNCH ACTUALLY PUT OUT A FULL PAGE ADD IN USA TODAY AND THE TITLE SAID, "THE WORLD IS TEN YEARS OLD TODAY, CONGRATULATIONS, HAPPY BIRTHDAY."
AND THEY WERE ACTUALLY STATING THAT THE NEW WORLD BEGAN WHEN THE BERLIN WALL FELL ON NOVEMBER 9, 1989.
WELL, RECENTLY I WAS LISTENING TO A SPEECH BY MR. TONY BLAIR.
HE HAS A NEW FOUNDATION CALLED THE TONY BLAIR FOUNDATION.
IT'S THE COMBINATION OF FAITH AND GLOBALIZATION AND HE SAID THAT "GLOBALIZATION BEGAN WITH THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL."
SO, IT'S VERY MUCH A PIVOTAL EVENT.
AND I SAID, GOD, MAYBE THAT'S WHEN YOU SPEEDED EVERYTHING UP.
AND I THINK THAT PROBABLY IS CORRECT.
OKAY, WELL, LET'S LOOK AT THE SIXTH TRUMPET NOW.
REVELATION 9, VERSE 13.
"AND THE SIXTH ANGEL SOUNDED AND I HEARD A VOICE SAYING, LOOSE THE FOUR ANGELS WHICH ARE BOUND IN THE GREAT RIVER EUPHRATES.
AND THE FOUR ANGELS WERE LOOSED, WHICH WERE PREPARED FOR AN HOUR, AND A DAY, AND A MONTH, AND A YEAR, FOR TO SLAY THE THIRD PART OF MEN.
AND THE NUMBER OF THE ARMY OF THE HORSEMEN WERE TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND THOUSAND: AND I HEARD THE NUMBER OF THEM."
OKAY, THIS PROPHECY TELLS US THREE THINGS.
THERE'S GOING TO BE A WAR THAT WILL KILL ONE-THIRD OF MANKIND.
THAT'S VERSE 15.
ONE-THIRD OF MANKIND, THAT'S 2.3 BILLION PEOPLE, BIG PROPHECY.
AND THE WAR'S GOING TO START FROM THE EUPHRATES RIVER.
AND THE EUPHRATES RIVER IS IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
AND THE NUMBER OF ONE OF THE ARMIES THAT WILL PARTICIPATE WILL BE TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND THOUSAND, THAT'S AN ARMY OF 200,000,000.
OKAY, NOW LET'S MAKE SURE THAT WE UNDERSTAND ABOUT THIS WAR.
IT STARTS FROM THE EUPHRATES RIVER, THERE ARE FOUR ANGELS BOUND IN THE GREAT RIVER EUPHRATES AND WHEN THEY'RE LOOSED IT TRIGGERS THIS WAR THAT WILL KILL ONE-THIRD OF MANKIND, THERE WILL BE A 200,000,000 MEN ARMY INVOLVED.
LET'S TAKE A QUICK LOOK AT THE EUPHRATES RIVER.
NOTICE HERE, IT STARTS IN TURKEY, DOWN THROUGH SYRIA, DOWN ALL THE WAY THROUGH IRAQ, EMPTYING OUT IN THE PERSIAN GULF WHERE THE BORDER OF IRAN AND IRAQ MEET TOGETHER.
NOW, THIS IS WHERE THIS WAR WILL BEGIN FROM.
I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE NOTICED OR NOT, BUT THERE'S A LOT OF TURMOIL IN THE MIDDLE EAST RIGHT NOW AS I SPEAK TO YOU.
AND IT'S BEEN THAT WAY FOR A LONG TIME, AND UNDOUBTEDLY WILL CONTINUE.
SO, THE BIBLE SAYS THAT THIS WAR THAT KILLS ONE-THIRD OF MANKIND IS GOING TO START RIGHT HERE IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
NOW, WHAT ELSE DO WE KNOW?
WE KNOW IT STARTS FROM THE EUPHRATES RIVER AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA HAS 50,000 TROOPS STATIONED THERE RIGHT NOW.
NOW, WE'RE MAKING THIS VIDEO, HERE WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF 2011, WE'VE GOT 50,000 TROOPS THERE RIGHT NOW.
YOU CAN SEE THE AMERICAN TROOPS THERE.
THE OTHER THING WE KNOW ABOUT THIS EUPHRATES RIVER IS THAT IT'S A 100% ISLAMIC RIVER.
NOW, WHAT DOES THAT TELL US?
IF THE EUPHRATES RIVER IS GOING TO EMANATE FROM THERE, IT'S OBVIOUS THAT ISLAM, WITH ITS 1.5, 1.6 BILLION PEOPLE, WILL BE INVOLVED IN THIS WAR.
SO, THIS IS A PREDICTION OF A WAR THAT'S GOING TO KILL ONE-THIRD OF MANKIND.
NOW, WHAT DO WE KNOW FOR SURE?
WE KNOW THAT CHINA HAS A POPULATION, SHE COULD FIELD 200,000,000 SOLDIERS.
ISLAM HAS A BIGGER POPULATION; THEY ALSO COULD WELL FIELD 200,000,000 SOLDIERS.
THEY HAVE ENOUGH POPULATION THAT THEY COULD FIELD 200,000,000 SOLDIERS.
SO, WILL THE ARMY OF 200,000,000 SOLDIERS BE ISLAM OR CHINA?
PROBABLY BOTH BECAUSE IF YOU'RE GOING TO KILL ONE-THIRD OF MANKIND, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO KILL A LOT OF PEOPLE.
SO, ANYWAY, THAT'S THE SIXTH TRUMPET PROPHECY OF THIS WAR THAT'S COMING, AND IT COULD HAPPEN, REALLY, AT ANY MOMENT.
BY THE TIME THAT YOU'RE WATCHING THIS DVD, WE MAY BE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT, I DON'T KNOW FOR SURE.
I KNOW FOR POSITIVE THOUGH, THIS WAR HAS TO HAPPEN BEFORE THE GREAT TRIBULATION BEGINS, SO THAT GIVES US A LITTLE BIT OF GUIDE OF WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS IS GOING TO HAPPEN.
OKAY, NOW TO THE SEVENTH TRUMPET, REVELATION 11, VERSE 15 THROUGH 18.
"AND THE SEVENTH ANGEL SOUNDED; AND THERE WERE GREAT VOICES IN HEAVEN, SAYING, THE KINGDOMS OF THIS WORLD ARE BECOME THE KINGDOMS OF OUR LORD, AND OF HIS CHRIST; AND HE SHALL REIGN FOR EVER AND EVER.
AND THE NATIONS WERE ANGRY, AND THY WRATH IS COME, AND THE TIME OF THE DEAD, THAT THEY SHOULD BE JUDGED, AND THAT THOU SHOULDEST GIVE REWARD UNTO THY SERVANTS THE PROPHETS, AND TO THE SAINTS, AND THEM THAT FEAR THY NAME, SMALL AND GREAT; AND SHOULDEST DESTROY THEM WHICH DESTROY THE EARTH."
SO, WHAT HAPPENS UNDER THE SEVENTH TRUMPET?
THE KINGDOMS OF THIS WORLD BECOME THE KINGDOMS OF OUR LORD AND HIS CHRIST.
HIS WRATH IS COME.
REWARDS GIVEN TO THE SAINTS, THIS IS THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS CHRIST.
THE APOSTLE PAUL TAUGHT US ABOUT THE LAST TRUMPET IN I CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 15, VERSE 51 THROUGH 53, "BEHOLD, I SHEW YOU A MYSTERY, WE SHALL NOT ALL SLEEP," THAT MEANS WE'LL NOT ALL DIE, "BUT WE SHALL ALL BE CHANGED, IN A MOMENT, IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE, AT THE LAST TRUMP," THERE IT IS, "FOR THE TRUMP SHALL SOUND, AND THE DEAD SHALL BE RAISED INCORRUPTIBLE, AND WE SHALL BE CHANGED.
FOR THIS CORRUPTIBLE MUST PUT ON INCORRUPTION, AND THIS MORTAL MUST PUT ON IMMORTALITY."
SO, WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN IS, THE PEOPLE WHO ARE DEAD WHO HAVE BEEN BORN AGAIN WILL BE RAISED FROM THE DEAD.
AND WHEN ALL OF US THAT ARE STILL ON THE EARTH SERVING GOD, WE WILL BE CHANGED FROM MORTAL TO IMMORTALITY IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE.
THEN WE WILL BE CAUGHT UP TOGETHER WITH THE DEAD WHO WERE RAISED.
TOGETHER WE WILL MEET THE LORD IN THE AIR AND SO SHALL WE EVER BE WITH THE LORD.
NOW, IN I THESSALONIANS CHAPTER 4, VERSE 16, WE HAVE ANOTHER ACCOUNT OF THE LAST TRUMP.
"FOR THE LORD HIMSELF SHALL DESCEND FROM HEAVEN WITH A SHOUT, WITH THE VOICE OF THE ARCHANGEL, AND WITH THE TRUMP OF GOD: AND THE DEAD IN CHRIST SHALL RISE FIRST THEN WE WHICH ARE ALIVE AND REMAIN SHALL BE CAUGHT UP TOGETHER WITH THEM IN THE CLOUDS, TO MEET THE LORD IN THE AIR: AND SO SHALL WE EVER BE WITH THE LORD."
NOW, THE MOST CRITICAL THING THAT WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT AS WE CLOSE TODAY IS THE RAPTURE.
ROMANS 8:11 TELL US, IF YOU WANT TO BE A PART OF THE RAPTURE,
IT SAYS, "BUT IF THE SPIRIT OF HIM THAT RAISED UP JESUS FROM THE DEAD DWELL IN YOU, HE THAT RAISED UP CHRIST FROM THE DEAD SHALL ALSO QUICKEN YOUR MORTAL BODIES BY HIS SPIRIT THAT DWELLETH IN YOU."
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