Woes and Trumpets, Trumpets and Woes...

Transcript

Welcome And How To Reach JJ

Avoid End-Time Hype And Date-Setting

The School Bus Lesson On Readiness

Be Ready Before The Door Closes

Transition And Sponsor Thanks

Setting The Stage: Trumpets Overview

The Three Woes Announced

Context Matters: Read Scripture Well

Fifth Trumpet: The Locust Torment

SPEAKER_00 0:22

Hello, everybody. Welcome to today's episode of Walk With Me. I am your host, JJ. It is so good to have each and every one of you here. Thank you all so much for liking, sharing, and the comments that you're sending me through the DM or on the platforms. We are on a lot of different platforms. You might be listening to us through iHeart. If you want to, uh some people are hitting me up on the sidebar. What if we want to interact with you on iHeart? Um, would that you have because this is not a big podcast yet, so I don't have that kind of sway on iHeart, but uh eventually we will be going live. Um, I just I I just I don't ask me why we haven't gone live yet. Uh but right now you can interact with me through Walk With Me Bible Study at Gmail. That's where everybody's sending their questions to. Uh, if you're on YouTube, just leave a comment in the in the uh video or the post, or if you're on Facebook, same thing. And I I do respond, even if I respond with a different episode. So uh that's where a lot of your questions are coming from. And as a matter of fact, we are almost through the revelation. Um, and this is because this was a question based on the end times, and and it's always good to not be deceived by the latest thing. For instance, some of my YouTube algorithms now are posting this thing about this blood moon that's supposed to happen next week. Um, and this is the same sort of um, this is the same sort of um, I guess you want to call it um hypolism. I'm I'm just gonna make that word up. That it actually has it kind of causes what happened last October where people thought the rapture was gonna happen on a certain day, and then they started selling everything and quitting their jobs, and when a couple of people even gave away their kids, which really made no sense to me, because if you were giving away your kids, you probably one of y'all ain't gonna make it. I'm I that's all I'm gonna say. So, um, but and this is the thing that we really have to be very careful of um when we talk about the end time because it's prophecy, and when these things start, it's going to start suddenly without warning, and there will be signs, but there will not be a warning as far as okay, this is the countdown to the end. The only countdown you will have until the end, uh countdown to the end you will have is when the rapture happens, and that's supposed to be suddenly, okay, because Jesus said, No man knows the day or the hour, and so that's where the countdown starts. So, yeah, I I like it as a form of entertainment, uh, listening to people come up with all these different things. But I what I care about here on this podcast and this show is what does the word of God say? God tells us to be ready at all times, get our hearts and our minds ready, uh, get born again, get baptized in Jesus' name, repent of our sins and get the Holy Ghost, and then live a holy life. Um, and that's how you are ready for when the rapture comes, and then that starts the real countdown. Everything there will be prophecies leading us up to sort of like sort of warnings, or or there are a lot of prophecies that have to be fulfilled still, and but then this is that's the most important thing. It really doesn't make a difference, and I'm just gonna say this. We're gonna get into today's episode. I'm gonna say this. Um, this is let me back up. When I was a kid, one of the one of the things I really love to do when I got out of uh school was try to run to catch my school bus, which I know that sounds crazy, but sometimes I would walk, I would sit and I would um uh I would stand inside the door, and there's about a about a 400-yard run, right? 500 yard run from the door to the school bus, right? And you had to get to the school bus, and then you would have to bang on the door, and then they would have to stop and it would open the door. It was a big challenge for me. And this was that this wasn't just um every week or every month. I'd try to do this every single day, all right. And sometimes, if we had a new um, well, let me let me back up just a little bit more. I don't want to get ahead of myself. So, what we would do, what I would do is I would wait for the first bus in the line to close the door, and then the brake lights to come on because all the buses would line up in the line and they would all take off. So, and then when the first bus would close the door and the brake lights would come on, and my bus was the fourth bus, I would run. I mean, book bag, and oh, just run, take off. That was my that was my exercise. I would take off running, and then I would get to the object was to get to the bus just as they were starting to pull off and make her open the door and let me in, and I would find a seat. That was my that was my thrill. I I know I realize now that that's trolling, but but then it was very exciting. So um sometimes though it would be a different bus driver, or I would miss the first bus closing the door. Now, if that's the case, I would not make it to the bus. I would get there just in the nick of time, I would get just after the nick of time where the bus was pulling off, and I would have to face that about that six and a half mile walk home. This is kind of what people are doing when they're when they're kind of um in time watching, so to speak, they're they're kind of waiting for some sort of warning, or or they're waiting for that that that first that very last warning, which is actually the first warning in their minds, but they're waiting for that very last moment to try to run and catch the bus. And and then like my example showed every so often, there's some people that ain't gonna make that. You are some of you are not gonna make that. If I try to wait till the very last moment to try to uh live for God, I I may not make that, and then I'll be left behind and have to face a very long walk home. And that long walk is really, really, really bad. Okay, so especially when it's I mean it it's it's all fun and games when it's sunny and 73 degrees, but it in Indiana it it would get in the uh dream chills to be in the teens and and single digits and negative uh single digits, and and you'd have to and have to walk home in that because back then there was no call a cab or get an Uber or make your parents come get you. No, you'd have to face the consequences of that, and you'd have to walk home. So um there this is what people are doing when they're trying to like end time watch and they're they're trying to wait, have just that last bit of fun, and then think they're gonna try to get in the bus at the last second. Now, some people will, some people will actually, you know, repent of their sins in time and get baptized in Jesus' name. But how do you know that you will? So this is um this is the whole purpose of this here um Bible study, going in depth the way I'm going into it. Uh, because we got to make sure that we are ready when the before the bus takes off, like everybody else on that bus. Uh, it was like 70 or 80 kids on that bus. They were all sitting there and they were all waiting and patient. And guess what? They got home, they were worn, it was dry, they got home in 30 minutes, and then I it took me four and a half hours or three and a half hours to get home, and I was tired and wet, and then I would get in trouble for coming in late. So I I said all that to say we have to make sure that we are ready to uh ready to go when the trumpet sounds. When that door closes, we need to be inside the bus. Just like no one in the arc. When that arc closed, whoever was getting in that arc was getting in that arc, and no one else was getting in that art. I don't care how much they paint or they they whatever they tried to do, because you know, people are people. So, that being said, I know I kind of ran it a little bit. Thank God for our sponsors, uh, True Boss Lyricist and the Squizzle Creations. Thank you all so much for your love and support. Uh, we're gonna get right into it now. I've kind of ranted off a little bit, but I I just want you all to know how serious this is. So, uh last uh episode we were talking about the four trumpets, right? And what was coming after that. Now, it's important to understand that the four trumpets, as bad as they were, as bad as they were, what comes next is a whole lot worse. Because we're we're in the um, we're in the the trumpets now. You had the vials and the trumpets, the seals and the trumpets and the vials. We've had the seals. Now we're halfway through the trumpets. We've done four trumpets, and there's seven to do it. And only here, only here does the Bible and John talk about how there are three more trumpets to sound, and they are announced by a very specific thing that no one else at no other point was announced. It was an angel that flew through the sky and and says, Whoa, whoa, whoa, which is three woes, there's three trumpets, and these trumpets are commonly, I will refer to them as the woe trumpets, which is the fifth trumpet, the sixth trumpet, and the seventh trumpet. This is the only warning that you're gonna get that things are gonna get really bad. Everything else just kind of came out of the blue, right? Now, the fact that there is a warning here after you have the seals and after you have the first three trumpets, shows that it tells me that we just we as momankind we still ain't listening, and this is why things are gonna get so bad, even though you're seeing these judgments of God, these woe trumpets are telling us that the the severity of these uh these next three judgments are just going to be ridiculously bad. There's no there's no word for how bad these trumpets are going to get. As a matter of fact, the the angel says the inhabitors of the earth, which means um not only um animals and all that, everyone's going to feel that everyone's going to suffer this. And I like how um John is referring to what John says the angel says the inhabitors of the earth. This is not just people who are just living physically on the planet. That's that's not exactly what we're talking about here, but it's sort of a reference back to Philippians 3:19, and that is also what people who have their minds set on things of the earth. Oh, by the way, thanks for reminding me, God. Um, if you follow along, sometimes I might just throw a scripture out there. Don't just take my word for it. Please go put your eyes on it, read it, but read the verse or two above, verse or two below, but preferably the whole chapter, because context is key. Context is key to everything. One thing that really aggravates me when people take a verse here and a verse there and out of context, and then build a whole doctrine on it, and it sounds real nice until you try to live it, and then it's terrible. Alright, so this verse well, which is uh the fifth trumpet, is gonna cover a period of five months. Now, it's possible because the way math works, it's possible that the second uh trumpet is going to cover a similar period, and the third trumpet is going to introduce the latter three and a half years, it introduced the latter of the three and a half years. So you have the first three and a half years, they call it the tribulation, and then the second three and a half years people call the great tribulation. This this seventh trumpet is going to announce the start of the great tribulation. So let's talk about the fifth trumpet. Now, when that um fifth trumpet sounds, another a star is going to fall from the earth. Now, this is different from the blazing mountain that we talked about before. Um, now what the reason why this is different is because when we all of a sudden you see pronouns in here. John is using no pronouns, and don't start with me on pronouns, but let's let's not get off into that today. But so John is using pronouns he, him, and this lets me know that this star was an entity. I don't want to use the word person, but it was an entity. So a lot of people will teach that this star is Satan, but Satan was never given keys to anything in the Bible. So being that this star fell to earth, it tells me that this is not Satan, but the devil will be locked up in this bottomless pit uh for 1,000 years. Now that's Revelation 20 and 1 and 2. Now the writer believes that this star is the same angel that has the keys to the bottomless pit that you will see in Revelation 20. But what happens, what's important is what happens when that star falls to earth. This this bottomless pit, let me just stop right here. It's it's literally a kind of uh this bottomless pit is not just a hole in the ground, right? It's it's like a um it's not Hades, it's not hell, it's not the lake of fire. It's a place where evil spirits can actually be in prison. And this is where fallen angels are held, they're bound up, they're waiting their judgment. And this angel is going to open the pit, and these demons resembling locusts are going to come forward, uh, come out of this uh bottomless pit and going to torment men for guess what? Five months. This is why I've started. I this is why I believe that this is gonna be a periodical thing. Now they're not going to be able to kill people, um, but they're gonna be in so much pain and so much misery that they're going to seek death. In other words, they're going to try to harm themselves to death, or um, the injuries are going to be so severe that they're going people are gonna want to die, but yet they're not gonna be able to die. Could you just imagine how much pain you could be in? Um that you cannot even die, but you're gonna wish you were dead. And I'm not just talking about like something like a toothache, or oh, you broke a bone, and oh my god, I hurt so bad. You at this point you're seeking help. At this point, you you you don't want the pain anymore, but you're seeking help. You want somebody to help you. These people are not not seeking help, they're seeking death. So multiply whatever pain, the worst pain you've ever felt, times an exponent of a thousand million, like a like whatever that infinity, but you're not going to be able to die. Now, these locusts are described as kind of looking like horses with crowns on their heads, faces like a man, hair like a woman, teeth of a lion, and making a sound of horses and chariots. Now, these are undoubtedly, undoubtedly evil spirits, and just the sheer number of them shows that it kind of gives us a sort of an insight into the spiritual realm that I don't really want to go into, but it's just interesting to mention that there's so many of these orchids that they're going to have no problem, no problem overwhelming mankind. And these demons are going to have a king, and in the Hebrew term, you're going to hear the word apollyon or abaddon. In the Greek, it's called Apollyon. Um, and these words, both of these words, mean to destroy or destroyer. And if this king is not Satan, then he would have to be one of Satan's more powerful uh fallen angels, you know, like we we talk about Michael and Gabriel and how powerful they are, but then we have like unnamed angels that can kill 185,000 men in a single night. So this Apollyon is somewhere in the league of you know angels that are just below Satan, and so as power level is concerned. Yeah, I like to use the word power level. Yes, I'm an anime person, but this is what we're talking about here just the scale, the king of these locusts. Now, some people I I read somewhere that uh some people think that these locusts are like jet fighters, and and okay, if you want to say that, then that's fine because it the description kind of fits. But I I would suggest you not look lock this in yet because jet fighters don't have spirits. But I mean, if you want to research it out, you can. I I just stay away from that kind of thing. Um, but we do know that John saw what he saw, and some of the things he was not able to describe because he had no words for it. You know, if like say, for example, if they invented a new color tomorrow, we wouldn't know how to describe that color today. So this is why um, like, I don't know, say like 50 years ago, they wouldn't know how to determine what AI is. So they would just say, oh, well, they wouldn't know how to describe what AI is doing today. We know it because we've lived through it. And the same thing John is describing things that he's sort of using terms that he knows, and we have to sort of piece together what he's talking about. These are actually things that he is seeing that God is showing him that will happen. So we're moving on to the sixth trumpet, and I'm I know I'm picking up the pace a little bit, um, but the sixth trumpet is also important. Now you're gonna see this in Revelation 9, uh, 13 to 21. And now you this is gonna take place somewhere around the Euphrates River, and the Euphrates River is gonna be mentioned here, and it's this is important because the Euphrates River um is very important in biblical history. It's they uh when you look at where the Garden of Eden is reportedly to be, it's gonna be somewhere near the mouth of the Euphrates River, and this is where we actually committed our very first sin. So it makes sense that we will sort of end up back here. Um it also mentioned that if you kind of uh map out where the Tower of Babylon was, it's gonna be very near where this Euphrates River is, and this is where Nimrod himself uh built the city of Babylon and became the seat of idolatry. So this Euphrates River is kind of seemed like a boundary uh for the land also that was promised to Abraham. Now, four fallen angels have been kept bound, even with all the the uh locust angels, the locust demons running around and all that stuff. Four angels are kept bound up when this six trumpet sounds, these four demonic uh entities are going to be released, and they are going to kill another one-third of the human race. It doesn't matter if you're black, white, uh, Asian, uh Arab, or or I say Middle Eastern, or what doesn't matter. One-third of the human race is going to die. Now remember, a quarter of them, a quarter of us, have already been killed by the fourth horseman in Revelation 6. So that means the same number would also lose their lives when the sixth trumpet is blown. So now, at this point, the world has lost half of the pop the human population, and and any animals too, because we their animals generally suffer because of us. Let's keep it real here. So now let's just say um latest estimates is that somewhere the human population is somewhere around 8 billion people, and let's just say, and just for giggles, because I have no idea what that number would be, but let's just say a hundred million um saints get taken out in a rapture, so you still have 7.9 billion people. So you have about 3.8 billion people who are dead at this point, okay, gone. And I mean, not just can you imagine just the amount of sorrow of all these people who are. And the remainder of the population is going to have to deal with this estimated, and I'm only estimating because I've, you know, I just this is the numbers work it this way. Is 200 million horse-like army of creep, you know, these creatures, horse-like creatures that are breathing fire, smoke, and are killing one-third of the people who are left. Now, the Bible says one-third of men, but some there are times when the Bible refers to man as mankind. So as men and women. So women, you're not going to be um, you're not going to be immune from what's going to happen. Even if you were, would you be okay with what? I mean, it's just crazy. It's just crazy what's going to happen. Now, listen, there's no, I don't have any desire to take away from the the way John is literally interpreting these things. Um, without a doubt, there is a this will be a supernatural army that you won't be able to kill, I won't be able to kill. Um, and you can't pray away because the spirit of God is lifted. God is not listening to prayer at this point. Well, at no point, at no point in anything we've we've said up to this point, you hear anybody being able to pray and reach out to God. So that tells us that God is not listening at this point. It's kind of like it's kind of like you're if you have uh uh parents, and you know you've been messing up and messing up and messing up and messing up, and now it's time for discipline, and now you run around like that. Mean, let me tell you something, let me tell you something. No, time is over for that. Time is over for that. So God ain't listening, so you're not playing them away, you can't kill them. Uh, and this is going to be how bad life is going to be. This is why we're still talking about these are the woe trumpets. So, um, and here's another thing, too, it's just still really wild, and I'm gonna wrap it up after this. Revelation 9 20 and 9 or chapter 9 2021 says something really amazing at this point. You would think that um with all these things going on, people would want to pray, people would want God, would say, God, I'm sorry, I'm I'm God, please help me. You would think that these judges would bring us to our knees as mankind, but that's not gonna happen. It's just not going to happen. They're not gonna repent of their idolatry, they're not gonna repent of their murder and their fornication and sorcery, especially sorcery. We we have so much sorcery going on now these days that are packaged as other things. We don't even realize that we're not gonna repent of that. We have people in church right now using crystals and sage in church, so they're not gonna repent of that. They literally think that they're doing the right thing, and um, we realize that it's these designers are not going to wake people up to say, Oh my god, I've been doing the wrong thing. They're not going to repent. So, with that being said, we're gonna wrap today's episode. We are way over time. Um, but I love each and every one of you. Uh, but listen, I told you things are gonna get bad, and we just did the first whoa already. We haven't even done the other two, and then we have other judges. So remember, I said once things things kicked off, it was gonna kick off pretty fast. All right, if you have any questions, um address them to either in the YouTube post or the Facebook post or Instagram or Rumble. We have we're still transferring episodes over to Rumble. I'll give you the page name when all that's complete. Um, but uh please understand. Please understand if you have any questions or comments, email me. Um hit me up. I I do respond to emails, even if I I'm trying to come up with sort of a canned email response. Please don't take it personally. If you get a canned email response saying that your your question is more involved than one or two verses, then I'll like to make an episode of it. So uh I love each and every one of you. I I do this podcast for you, so because God told me to. So I I love each and every one of you. I hope to see you in the next one. God bless you all. Bye bye.