7 Seals and 7 Trumpets

Daniel 9:24-27, Daniel 12:4-13, & Revelation 7-9

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Hey, welcome to Soldier for Christ Podcast. I am Chapman Boyles. Thank you for listening today. So we are on episode 22. Oh man, this is awesome. 22. And we are going to go back now into the book of Revelation and the Book of Daniel. So I know I took a little hiatus going into the Gospels again, into the Holy Week and Easter and everything, which was great. But I want to go back now into the end times because we are in the end times. This is no doubt about it in my mind that we are here. So it is best to prepare you listening today for what is going to transpire, what is going to happen, right? And why do I, by first of all, why do I believe we are in the end times? What do I absolutely believe that is true? Well, there's many reasons. One, the world right now, as we know, is moving at such a fast pace of what I call globalism, where everything is coming together, right? All of this technology, governments, economics is all merging, right? And that's all part of God's amazing plan. Why that's important is that we're going to talk about this guy, unfortunately, called the Antichrist. And it's important you understand him and what's going to happen. In the last days, in the end times, the year of tribulation, as I mentioned before, is only seven years. That's it. Just seven years, the number of completion. How do we know it's seven years? Well, we really understand seven years from Revelation and, of course, the book of Daniel. As I mentioned before, when we move back to Daniel, we were talking that Daniel was speaking with the archangel uh Gabriel. And that's a big deal, by the way. Whenever God sends his chief messenger angel, there is archangels, by the way, are sort of like captains or officers, high-ranking officers of angels. Whenever God sends Gabriel, in particular, the highest ranking of his messenger angels, that means, excuse me, he has a very important message to give that man or woman. So Gabriel himself, of course, told Daniel, I mean, he told Daniel exactly how many years it would be from Daniel's day, okay, when he was exiled through the Babylonian Persian times, uh, all the way up to the year of Jesus Christ, okay, to his death. So Daniel uh was told that there was a period of 70 times seven, or 490 years altogether. Now he said that the archangel said that there will be a time where there's 62 sets of seven that uh the hundred and eighty-three years will pass altogether. I'm sorry, four hundred and eighty-three years will pass altogether between his day and the day of Christ. The reason that many Jews actually right now are coming back to the faith uh and coming to Jesus is because they're reading the reading the prophets, especially the prophet Daniel. So Daniel was told that there is exactly 483 years, 62 sets of seven altogether. So 62 sets times seven is 483 years. The last seven point of the last period of seven years, the archangel explained to him that the end would come like a flood, and there would be war and there'd be miseries, and the ruler, a particular evil ruler, will make a treaty with the people, his people, the Jewish people, for a period of one seven. Okay, so a set of seven years, which is the time of the of the tribulation. And there'll be a half a time, uh, and a time and a time, times, and half a time, or three and a half years. So time in the Bible is one year, times is two years, and half a time is is a or half of the time is a half of a year. So what he is telling him is he's saying that there's gonna be a period of seven years where the Antichrist is gonna have complete control of pretty much the entire earth, and for three and a half years, he will make a treaty with the Jewish people. Okay, and of course, he's going to violate that treaty and he's going to turn on the Jewish people, and he's gonna turn on the whole, well, all the world, the Christians, Jews, and everybody that's that doesn't worship him, and essentially kill anybody that that does not praise and worship him. So you have to understand, and we're gonna talk about today, that the devil tries to always manipulate and, in a sense, copycat what God has created, what he has ordained. So Jesus is the Son of God. Okay, there is no other Son of God, there is no other way to heaven, as we've made that explicitly clear, other than the blood of Jesus Christ, the gospel, which we call the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ. And it comes by believing in him, having genuine faith, being born again from the Holy Spirit, and then living a life when you are constantly walking with God, right? And then we call that sometimes repentance. Uh repentance is being the evidence of your faith, okay? That where you change your mind is beginning to, your mind is changing, which happens when your faith, when your faith is real, your mind changes. So always think of that like what it what you believe in first and your heart will essentially also change your mind with the power of the Holy Spirit. Now, what the enemy does is that he likes to manipulate everything that God has made perfect and holy. So he will des he will basically design his own sort of fake Jesus, right? Fake Christ. That will just, I mean, will be a master liar and manipulator and will deceive a lot of people on this earth. Um, what's interesting with all the events going on in the world today, and we're going to talk about this especially in revelation with Iran and uh with Russia and China and so forth, all the Middle East, if you've noticed that Israel right now, once again, is the focal point of the entire world, and that's for a reason. And right now, the Jews are trying desperately hard to rebuild the third temple on the Temple Mount. And that is part of the end times and part of Revelation as well. Uh, all of that has to happen actually before the revelation. Now, the reason that the whole world is focused on the Jews right now is because God has blessed that nation. He is making that nation strong and prosperous again, and he's using other nations like the United States to protect that nation from all the enemies of the Jews as well. There will be a day when when the Antichrist comes and he will make that peace treaty with Israel and then try to destroy the entire nation. So we're going to talk about that. But let's move back. Um, well, let me let me let me start with a word of prayer. And as as I was just mentioning with Daniel, let me reiterate again that it's not it's not something when I talk about the end times, I don't want you to feel afraid or live with trepidation and fear and anxiety, because we know that the victory already belongs to the Lord. The victory already belongs to Jesus. No matter what time or age any of the saints or anyone has ever lived in, God just wants us to be faithful in our age, in our time, okay? To be bright lights now. And the world is moving at such a fast pace where many people are falling away, going into perversion and lawlessness, and many people are scoffing and laughing at God. And that's just part of the there's a lot of mockers and scoffers. There's a lot of sexual perversion everywhere in the world, which is just becoming the norm now. Um, there is a lot of the love of many are going cold. There's a lot of what we call self-righteousness and self-love, and just just love so much natural affection is dying. Why is that happening? Well, there's a lot of reasons why, but the big reason is that the devil is working overtime. Okay, he is throwing everything he can because he knows his time is very, very short. So we're seeing a lot of people go into, I mean, which would be we would consider just abnormal perversion. Um, when I grew up, a marriage was always just considered between one man and one woman. That was it, right? It was, it was never, it was never even really a thought that it could be something different. Uh now it's almost radical to say that a marriage is between a man and a woman. Why? Because we have, we the pendulum has shifted so far where we think that anything and everything can go. But what this does is this creates an incredible polarization between people who are genuine believers, genuine Christians, and the wicked people of the world that have that just absolutely hate everything to do with the truth of God. But this is all part of God's plan in the end times. That means that as a Christian man and woman, you have to stand firm. Okay. Um it's very common, like if you are around a bad smell all the time, right? Uh, you will get, you know, your body, you're you're no, you'll you'll get used to the the smell, the bad smell if you're around it constantly. And what I mean is if if you're if we're in a culture that is constantly stinking it up, you get used to it. You get desensitized to it. But I want to encourage you today, don't become desensitized and don't acquiesce and don't conform to the patterns of this world. Keep your heart connected to Christ by faith, trusting him, by living a life of repentance, by believing and obeying him, and then he will bless you and he will see you all the way through to the end. Okay, Christ never promises an easy life, but he does promise us a life of salvation and blessing and all of his promises. So Daniel says, and I'll I'll start, I'll end this with Daniel and I'll go into Revelation. He says that says, there will be a time here, here this is I'm I'm reading actually from chapter uh 12, okay, where um again, Gabe, the Archangel Michael now is is which who is talking about um, I'm sorry, Archangel Gabriel's talking about he's saying the Archangel Michael who stands guard over the Jewish nation. But Archangel Gabriel is saying that, he's saying, This is chapter four, verse, chapter 12, verse 4. He says, But you, Daniel, you must keep this prophecy a secret. Seal up the book until the end, until the time of the end, when many will rush here and there. Okay, there'll be a lot of moving around, and knowledge will increase. It's amazing today how the internet and everything else has created. I mean, this podcast has gone out to the to the world. It's incredible to me. Um, so the knowledge of Jesus in the gospel is is everywhere. You cannot find anybody hardly that has never heard of the gospel or heard of Jesus Christ. So we know that's all part of God's plan right there. Um but he also says in nine, he says, he says, Go now, Daniel, for what I have said is kept secret and seal it until the time of the end. Well, this is the time of the end. Many will be purified, cleansed, and refined by these trials. What trials is he talking about? There will be more and more trials at the end. Um, being a Christian in our culture is a radical thing. It's a radical statement. Um, it may cost you your job, it may cost you a lot of ostrization, it may cost you your friends, it may cost you even uh family members that turn against you. Um you're going, if you're gonna be a Christian in our culture today, you're gonna have to stand up for Jesus, and it's gonna be challenging, to say the least. So that's what he's talking about. You're gonna be going through, and then for some that live in the world, not America is an easier country, but for many that live in the world, especially in the Middle East and 1040 window in Southeast Asia, which I'm getting a lot of people listening to right now, uh, it's it's to take up the cross and literally face death every day, okay? But nothing can stop the gospel and the truth of Jesus Christ. So he says here that wicked will the wicked will continue in their wickedness, okay? None of them will understand, only the wise will know what it means. Wisdom comes from the Lord, the ape being able to discern what is fact and fiction, okay? That is wisdom, and making the right choice. That is literally the fear of the Lord, understanding that God is God and you are you, and you cannot be better than God. That is just basic wisdom 101. Um, from the time of the daily sacrifice is stopped, and the sacrilegious orders that causes desecration is to be set up in worship will be 1,290 days, or roughly three and a half years, which we'll talk about, which the Antichrist will set up his statute to himself. And blessed are those who were who wait and remain until the end of the 1,335 days of the rest of the tribulation. Um so he says, as for you go on your way, you will rest, and then the end of the day and then at the end of the days you will rise again to receive the inheritance set aside for you. We're gonna talk about that, which of course is the rapture. I have mentioned it before. Let me get into a word of prayer. We're gonna get into the book of back into the book of Revelation. Um, I'm gonna start again, I believe why I left off at chapter six. I'm gonna recap chapter six, go into chapter seven, uh, and chapter, or it's hopefully chapter eight today. So stay with me. Uh pray with me here, and let's go. So thank you so much, Christ, for a wonderful day. Thank you for opening up our hearts and minds and help us, Lord, to understand your word. Uh, we know, Lord, that the end is coming soon. Help us remain vigilant, faithful, steadfast, obedient, to not conform to the things of the world, to not be desensitized, Lord, through all the evil going on, but to remain, Lord, faithful and grounded in your truth. Fill us with your Holy Spirit, anoint our minds and our bodies. Help us, Lord, resist sin and evil and temptation. Especially, Lord, help us to produce your kind of love and grace and kindness and mercy and self-control. Help us to always bear the fruits of the Spirit, Lord, which you have put in our hearts. We pray all this in your holy name in Christ we pray. Amen. Okay, back in Revelation, chapter six. Now, as I mentioned, Revelation, written by the Apostle John, is a whole book about one of the first three chapters, the church age. Okay, the fourth chapter, that's what I call sometimes the rapture chapter, and the and where John sees the throne of God, um, is is the chapter it starts, what er what John is going to see at the end, okay, the whole the end times. Um, and then I call it the rapture chapter because the because the word church, ecclesia, is not mentioned again through the entire book, which many Christians believe that the rapture event, where Christ will take up his church altogether, all the Christians and the babies and so forth, and the dead in Christ, will happen in a single moment before the first seal is open. So John sees Christ, he sees the throne, he sees the father of the 24 elders, he sees um angels and everything. It's incredible. He's blown away. And then he sees, remember, as we talked about with chapter five, the scroll, which is very large, that the father holds on the throne, and he hands it to his son, and there are seven seals, seven, the number of completion. And Christ alone is the only one worthy to open the seals. Because once Christ opens the seals, that is the beginning of the end time events. Okay, so there are seven everything in Revelation. There's seven seals, okay? There's going to be seven um trumpets, there's going to be seven thunders, there's going to be seven bulls. These are all parts of God's judgment that He's well. So we have never really, in modern day history, have seen the wrath of God, the judgment, the justice of God. In Old Testament times, they did. Um, but when God gets angry, it is beyond terrifying, okay? It's not, it's not just like a hurricane or a tornado or or a really bad or uh, I don't know, a bad economics or um a war simply. It's it's uh a global catastrophe where every single human being, even if they're living in a cave, will be incredibly affected when God gets angry. So God is is, I'm gonna be honest, he's gonna be pretty angry in the rev in the revelation. Why? Because the wickedness is so out of control that God says, that's enough. I'm going to handle this event myself, I'm gonna bring the whole thing to a conclusion, and my son is gonna come back and reign. So the seals. Now, Christ is the one that opens the seals. And I'm gonna start with verse chapter, uh, this is chapter six again, and I'm gonna recap this, and I'm gonna go back and I'm gonna go down to chapter seven. Now, the so when Christ takes the seal, the first seal that he opens, okay, the very first seal is the white horse, which what John sees is he sees a white horse, and the rider carries a bow. And a crown is given on his head, and he rides out to many many victories and gains the gains battles and wins the war. So what he's seeing, the very first seal is the antichrist. He he is a fake imitation. How do I know he's the antichrist? Because he's he's given a throne. Give me a crown, and he carries a bow. The enemy always is an archer. Okay, Christ has the sword, the enemy has the bow. Because he likes to shoot arrows at your heart and your mind to get you to doubt or quit or get, you know, get you to run away from the faith, get you to fear him and so forth. Um, and he is a master archer. He is his aim is is perfect. Um, so he is given, he is given victory. Why is he given victory? Part of this is because of the judgment of God. God allows the enemy to have victory right here, just kind of like he allowed the enemy to attack Job right here, to test his faith. He's doing this for two reasons. One is to test the Christians that will be on this earth. And then he's going to do this to judge the wicked, okay? The Antichrist is a friend of nobody. The devil hates all of mankind, everybody, um Muslim, Jew, Christian, it doesn't matter. Whether you believe in him or not, it doesn't matter. His only objective is to destroy you and send you to hell. That is it, because you're made in the image of God. So he is allowing the enemy to have a lot of power with the first seal. The second seal, what he opens up, is the red horse. Okay, John says the red horse, which is the rider is literally a war. Okay, the rider has a mighty sword, he takes the peace, and there is war everywhere. So the Antichrist comes first, and then there is a massive war, which is very appropriate. Okay, Antichrist equals war. The third seal, okay, it was the black horse. The black horse has the scales in his hand, which means incredible inflation, which we're seeing going up all the time. Incredible scarcity, it will cost an entire, your whole day's wage will cost, will cost you a single meal. A single meal. Okay, because and only the rich will be able to have the finer things like oil and wine and so forth, okay, because of now, war does a lot of things. Uh, it will drive inflation to such insane levels that like gap, just basic things, gas and food and electricity will be astronomically expensive. Um, the fourth seal is the pale green horse, his rider's death, and his companion is the great. This horse here takes a fourth of the earth. Now, with all the the ant with the Antichrist, with the war, scarcity, with starvation, and so forth, one-fourth of the whole world's population will be taken off the earth just in these four seals. These four seals sometimes are called the four horses of the apocalypse. Okay, so this is really bad. Um, we have never seen a war and all these things that have taken a fourth of the whole world's population, but this will. The fifth seal, as I mentioned, was persecution. So the ones who are left behind, should the rapture happen before this, um, they will be persecuted. So if you are a if you are unfortunately left behind and you're not taking your relationship seriously with Jesus, um your faith will be illegal, being a Christian will be illegal. It is in many parts of the world, but it will be true for the entire earth. It doesn't matter what country you live in. And if you were going to be a genuine Christian, I pray you will, because it's better to be a genuine Christian and go to heaven than to have a have a year or two on this horrible earth and go to hell, um, you will be persecuted and martyred for your faith. Get the fifth seal. The sixth seal was a great earthquake that was so bad that the whole earth shook. Every mountain moved, every island moved, every so we believe that that was a whole entire global shift where the poles, the north and south pole, just flipped, and all the stars and everything, everything got discombobulated, and everybody was beyond panicked. The greatest rulers and generals and so forth were hiding in caves because everybody knew that God's wrath has come. Now, again, this is the seals. Now, after the sixth seal, chapter 7, we're going to go into is kind of what I call an interlude. So the book of Revelation, when you read it, you're reading it through an order of events. But then John takes sort of like a flashback or an intro or a point where he kind of explains something that's going to happen so you can better understand the rest of the seals and the continuation of the story. So this is chapter seven, and I'm going to read into this now. So, chapter seven, it says here, then I saw the four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds, so they did not blow on the earth or the sea or on any tree. Then I saw another angel coming from the east carrying the seal of the living God, and he shouted to these four angels, had been given power to harm the land and the sea. He said, Wait, don't harm the land or the sea of the trees until we have placed the seal of God on the foreheads of all his servants. Okay. Now this is important to remember that when you are saved, you have been sealed by the Holy Spirit. Okay, He is the down payment of Your salvation. Now, so again, you cannot be saved without God's Holy Spirit. In fact, you cannot be saved at all unless the Holy Spirit convicts you of sin and brings you to Christ. Once you are saved, he seals your heart or your spirit, which says that you belong to Jesus and you belong to God. And once you're sealed, you cannot be unsealed, because he makes a covenant, I remember that covenant relationship with you. Now, in the end times, there are these are going to be sealed on their foreheads, and they're going to be what I would like to call like the super Christians, these super evangelical Christians that are actually Jews, 144,000 Jews. So the sense so when we talk about the end times, we have to understand that the focus of God, the attention of God, I'll say, it moves from the Gentile nations, which has been on for a long time, and it moves back to the nation of Israel, the Jewish nation. Why? Because God wants to open the eyes of his people and restore them. And that is why now many, many, many, many Jews are coming back to Jesus. I listened to my good friend and Messianic, uh Jewish brother all the time, uh Jonathan Kahn, who talks a lot about the end times. And he talks a lot about how the Jews are coming back to Jesus. So he says here, verse 4, and I heard that there were many marked with the seal of God. 144,000 were sealed from every, from all tribes of Israel. So all of the from from Judah to Benjamin, from verses 5 to 8, there, 12,000 per tribe. So what John is saying is that these Jews who have been predestined to follow God's evangelical will will be sealed by God Himself, the Holy Spirit, and they are going to preach radically. And they're going to bring a, I mean, a vast number of people, both the Jewish nation and the Gentiles, they're going to be left behind to Jesus. Okay? Now they're going to be martyred and persecuted as well, but they're going to be so on fire for Jesus, they're going to turn the whole earth upside down. Um, this is verse 9. And I saw a vast crowd, too great, too great to count, from every nation and tribe and people and language, standing in front of the throne and before the land. And they were clothed in white, and they were clothed in white garments, standing before the throne, uh, and they held palm branches in their hands, and they were shouting with the great war, and they were saying, Salvation comes from our God who sits on the throne and from the Lamb. And all the angels were surrounding the throne, and around the elders and the four living beings, and they fell before the throne with their faces to the ground and worshiped God, and they saying, Amen, blessing and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honor, and power and strength belong to our God for ever and ever, amen. And one of the twenty-four elders asked me, Who are these who are clothed in white, and where do they come from? And I said to him, Sir, you are the one who knows. He said to me, These are the ones who died in the great tribulation. They have washed their robes in the blood of the Lamb and made them wipe. That is why they stand before the front of God's throne and serve him day and night in his temple, and he who sits on the throne will give him shelter. They will never again be thirsty or hungry, they will never be scorched by the heat of the sun. For the lamb uh for the lamb on the throne will be their shepherd, and he will lead them the springs of life-giving water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes. So what John is seeing here, and he's conversing with one of the twenty-four elders, is that, of course, Indian times, these so these radical 144,000 Christians are going to lead a great multitude. Them and the two witnesses, which we'll talk about. A great, great, great multitude of every people, tribe, and every nation, everybody, all these people will be able to hear and see these amazing Christians. And there will be a persecution so great that John says the crowd that was too great to the number was too great to even count. Because again, if you're going to be a Christian at the end of times, you will have to die for your faith. I'm not going to sugarcoat it. Um, but these saints, these martyrs here have a special place before God. They have a special robe before God. They have a special song that only they can sing to God. Uh, they are right at the throne. And John makes a point that they were very they were probably starving and thirsty on the earth and they were scorched by the heat of the sun because it's going to be incredibly hot in the last time. Um, but Jesus himself will give them refreshment and water and wipe away their tears from their eyes. What that means is that Jesus will wipe away their very memory of all the wickedness and evil and all their persecution, won't even remember their pain and suffering. By the way, when we come to heaven and see Christ face to face, he will remove the memory, he will, what is the Bible says wipe away the tears. That means he removes the memory of all the evil that we've had. Even the people we we will remember on this earth will be removed from us, right? From our minds. We will remember some things and we'll be able to recognize saints and so forth in heaven. Our mind will be perfect, but all the memory of evil will be erased entirely, like it never happened at all. Let's go on to chapter 8. When the Lamb broke the seventh seal on the scroll, there was silence through the heaven for about half an hour. Now that is very significant. There has never been silence in heaven ever. Ever. Except for this point right here. This is the only point. There's always singing and praising and worshiping constantly, never stops, never ceases, except for when the seventh seal is broken. Why? Because when the seventh seal is broken, this is I want you to understand the seventh seal is leading to what's called the seven trumpets, which is the worst. I would say I believe the trumpets are the worst of God's judgments altogether. So the seventh always leads into the next main line of events. And these events are so bad that everybody has to have a moment of silence because God's wrath is going to be so terrible. Okay. They've never, we've never seen God's wrath quite this bad. It says, I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and they were given seven trumpets. Okay. And another angel with a gold incense burner came and stood before the altar, and a great amount of incense was given to him to mix with the prayers of God's people as an offering on the gold altar before the throne. The smoke of the incense, mixed with the prayers of God's holy people, ascended up to God from the altar where the angel had poured them out. Then the angel filled the incense burner with fire from the altar and threw it upon the earth, and thunder crashed and lightning flashed, and there was a terrible earthquake. Now, what's going on here is that the angel, this but there's a particular angel here that has a gold incense burner. Now, when as I mentioned, when you pray, a prayer of a powerful righteous man is like a beautiful incense to God, a beautiful smell to God. Okay, a worthless prayer is a stench. A prayer of genuine faith and humility is a beautiful smell to God. And this smell is to remind the Lord here of all the prayers of God's saints who have prayed for his justice and his return and to bring the end, like I pray every day, uh to bring the whole thing into a climax, a conclusion, and to and to come back and reign forever, and to remove the devil and all the wickedness from the earth. This is God remembering the prayers, smelling those prayers, and then acting, okay? Because he's allowing the angel now to throw down, according on this earth here the incense burner with those fires. So the prayers are being brought down. This is the this is the this is the real moment of God's wrath, let's just say. Um six, it says, and the seven angels with the seven trumpets prepared to blow their mighty blast. The first angel blew his trumpet, and hail mixed with fire and blood were thrown down on the earth. One third of the earth was set on fire. One third of the trees were burned, and all of the green grass was burnt. So the first trumpet is some kind of incredible hail. I've never seen hail mixed with fire and blood. It's some kind of I you know, I've never, you know, I've never seen like blood, fire, hail coming down, and it sets the world on fire. Um, the third of the whole earth is burned up. Imagine if the third of the whole earth is burned up and there's no green grass and trees, I mean, imagine what that will do to agriculture and crops and food. Okay. And just to the the air you breathe. Uh the second angel blew his trumpet, and a great mountain of fire was thrown down into the sea. One third of the water became like became blood. One third of all living things in the sea died, and one third of all the ships in the sea were destroyed. So something, some huge meteor or comet, or something like was like like a mountain of fire was thrown into the sea, uh the sea becomes blood. And the living things in the sea, of course, die. And everything, all the all the shipping, all this all the whether it's navy ships or battleships or or regular cargo ships, were all a third of them were all destroyed. Devastating. Okay, when the ocean is the ocean is the greatest power of life on earth, when the oceans are being destroyed, uh life is coming to an end. The third angel blew his trumpet and a great star fell from the sky, burning like a torch. It fell on one third of the rivers and the springs of water. The name of the star was wormwood or bitterness, and it made one third of the water bitter, and many people died just from drinking the bitter water. So this particular nasty star or calometer, whatever this is, literally has a name wormwood or bitterness or poison. So this is a this this thing, this star hits the water the fresh water, all the good water, and it contaminates, it poisons it all. And this is the kind of thing where it doesn't kill you right away, but if you drink enough of it, it'll burn your stomach and it will eventually just kill you. Unless you have really good water for I mean, the best water purification system in the world, people are going to die everywhere just from drinking what they even think is a fresh water supply. Um, the fourth angel blew his trumpet, and one third of the sun was struck, and one third of the moon, and one third of the stars, and they all became dark, and one third of the day was dark, and one and also one third of the of the night. Now, this fourth star is God cutting just just the the amount of daylight we have down, cuts it down, cuts it by a third. Um even even so it the world is gonna what is what John is saying is the world becomes so dark, black, terrible. Pollution, fire, poison, um, thing, everything is just destroyed. The earth is destroyed. Uh, it and this is so bad. You can imagine the the the kind of um effect, how many people would die from something like this? 13. It says, Then I looked and I heard a single eagle crying loudly as a flute of the air, tear, tear, tear to all those who belong on the earth, because it will happen. The last three angels blow their trumpets. Let's let's let's finish on. Then the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen to the earth from the sky, and it was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit. That is another word for hell, and he opened it, and smoke poured out as through a huge furnace, and the sunlight, and the air turned black and dark from the smoke. So, what he's saying here is that there's a this star, which is an angel, goes down into the sh the the bottom, goes down into the pits of hell, opens it up, and allows these demonic locusts. We're gonna talk about this, let's talk about this, and then it says three, then locusts came up from the smoke and descended on the earth, and they were given power to sting like scorpions, and they were told not to harm the grass, the plants, or trees, but only to harm the people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads, or all the people who are not believers, not Christians. They were told not to kill them, but to torture them for five months. Five months is the lifespan of locusts altogether, the five months before they shed their skin. With pain, they have they sting with pain like the pain of a scorpion sting. In those days, people will seek death, but they will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them. Now it says here the locusts had they the locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. They had what looked like gold crowns on their heads, their faces looked like human faces, they had uh hair like a woman's hair, and teeth like the teeth of a lion, then they wore armor made of iron, and their wings roared like an army of chariots rushing to battle. They had tails that stung like scorpions, and for five months they had the power to torment people. Their king is the angel from the bottomless pit, and his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek is Apollyon, the destroyer. That is, of course, Satan. Satan is his name, is both Abaddon and Apollyon, or he is destroyer. The first hair is passed, but look through two more coming. So what the heck is going on here? John is saying that there is going to be for five months these dem, I mean, these are demons, these are demon locusts that are going to be released, and they're just released to the power to torture people for five months straight. Torture unchristian believers. That's so bad that they will want to die every day. Now, this is truly what I would call hell on earth. This is when the supernatural and the natural are literally coming together. Okay, we can't when the supernatural and the natural are coming are together now. We can't see everything that's necessarily going on in this in the spiritual world, in the supernatural world, but it's certainly happening. Here you will both see and experience, especially if you're if you're not a believer, um, these demon, I mean, these are demon locusts, literally. This is hell because imagine, this is why I wish no one to go to hell. Imagine being locked up in a place where you are tortured by, let's just say, these just these demon locusts that sting you with scorpions. I've never been stung by a scorpion, but I can only imagine how painful or bitten by the teeth of a lion and something that looks so terrifying with a human face and all that stuff. Just imagine being stuck in a cell, let's say, a dark cell, and being tortured day and night for eternity by that right there, and having no power and no control over it. That's bad. That is why if you hear this message here, this is this is God's revelation is God's warning to us that you don't want it, you don't even want to experience it for five months. You don't want it, you don't want to be around for this. You do not want to be there. Okay. Um, I hope that holy fear is driving you, listen to this message today, to repent. Stop your wickedness, stop sinning, stop messing around. Come to Jesus, trust in him, ask him to save your life, ask him to spare you. Uh 13, it says there in the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice speaking from the four horns of the gold altar that stands in the presence of God. The voice of the sixth angel who held the trumpet, release the four angels who are bound at the great Euphrates River. The four angels who have been prepared for this hour and day and month and year were turned loose to kill one third of all the people on earth. And I heard the size of their army, which was 200 million mounted troops. Now, what's going on here? John is saying here that these angels here, God's angels, are releasing from the Euphrates whatever this demonic army. Now, this is again, we're seeing demonic locusts. This is a demon army. There's a lot, and this is a big number of demons as well. 200 million men. Now, there are 200 million um demons here. This this is this is not a normal army. Um there's no army on this earth, of course, that is bigger, uh anywhere near this size. 200 million. They're going to wipe off a third. Now, we've already lost a fourth of the population of the earth. God knows how much, I mean, so a third and a fourth. We're probably around like 55 to 60 percent of the earth is is wiped out. Just from what's going on. And 17 says, in my vision I saw the horses and riders sitting on the riders wore armor that was fiery red and dark blue and yellow, and the horses had heads like lions, and fire and smoke, and burning sulfur build from their mouths. One third of all the people on the earth were killed by these plagues, by fire and smoke and burning sulfur that came from the mouths of these horses. Their power was in their mouths, and their tails, and their tails had heads like snakes, and power to injure people. But notice this twenty but the people who did not die in these plagues still refused to repent of their evil deeds and turn to God. They continued to worship demons and idols made of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, idols that can neither see nor hear nor walk, and they did not repent of their murders or their witchcraft or their sexual immorality or their thefts. John puts this in here because this is just showing how bad that the people of this earth have become. All of this, literally seeing hell on earth, people would rather still live an evil life, worship demons and gods that have no power, live with sexual morality and murder and witchcraft and everything else, then repent and turn to Jesus. You see, there is a point where our hearts, if we allow our hearts to become so bitter and evil and broken and hard, that even if even if Jesus comes and personally says, I want you, you know, people will still reject it because their heart is so calloused. You become so desensitized. That's what that's what culture is doing right now, trying to desensitize you to God. God is the same today, yesterday, and forevermore. He is telling us in his word that these things will, I mean, it's not it might happen, these things will happen. And you have to get your relationship right. You have to foreknow right now. Um, the Antichrist is coming. I'm gonna I'm gonna talk about more about that with Iran and everything else going. Um the plagues are coming, the seals coming, the the trumpets coming. Um, I pray that you will not be here. I pray that you will be raptured. I pray that we will we will all be raptured. I pray that you come to your repentance and faith in Jesus today, not tomorrow. Not even when you hear this sermon, not even the next hour, like right now. Because we do not know the day, we do not know the hour, but we do know that Christ, we do know we're in the end times. Not gonna sugarcoat that. Um, we don't know when all these things are going to take place, but we know because of all the things going on on the earth right now, uh exactly 2,000 years after Christ and everything going on, that we are at the precipice. Okay, it's just a matter of time, and time is running out. So, let me pray with you. I I pray you feel the Holy Spirit's conviction today. If you are in sin, stop sinning. If you are running away from God, stop running. If you're if you're on the fence, stop, stop your disbelief and put your faith, trust the Lord, believe in Christ, give him your heart, give him your life, uh, surrender everything to him and let him save you, let him bless you, let him remove you from this justice and judgment coming. Let me pray with you. Pray with me. Christ's name. Lord Jesus, we pray today that for everyone listening to this uh episode and this podcast today, Lord, understanding that you are coming very, very, very soon. Knowing, Lord, that your judgment is also coming very soon. Knowing, Lord, that you love us so much that you died on the cross for our sins, I pray every hearing this message would repent and would understand and trust you and believe in you as their Savior and their Lord. Lord, they would surrender their life, they would rem they would stop their their ways of sin and stop living in a life of sin or double life or being manipulated or lied to by the devil. And I pray that you would break every chain, every addiction, every curse, every stronghold on their life, that they can completely surrender themselves to you. And for anyone hearing this message that wants to belong to Jesus Christ and his family forever and have that covenant be born again, I pray that you would say, you just say, Dear Jesus, I surrender myself to you. I have sinned, I have broken your laws, I have I have broken all your commandments, Lord, but I ask for your forgiveness, for your mercy, for your grace. I know that you love me. I know that you died on the cross for my sins, and I know that you resurrected on the third day because you alone are the Son of God. I ask you to forgive all my sins. Bring your Holy Spirit in my heart and wash me free of all my sins. Control my mind, Lord. Help me to repent and obey you from this day forward. I give you my life and I surrender myself to you, Jesus. I love you. You are my Savior, you are my Lord, you are my God. And I pray all this in your holy, precious name. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen. I hope this was a powerful message. I hope you all enjoyed it. I will continue on Revelation next time. God bless you. Please like this, please send this to someone, and we'll hear we'll talk to you next time. Bye bye.