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[00:00:40] Hello everyone and welcome to an amazing Thing. Thank you for joining me today. This is our early week show where we cover Bible prophecy, current events, things happening around the world, special lessons.
[00:00:51] Today we're going to continue with our series from now to to eternity. This is our second lesson. It's entitled the War of a Third. And I'm going to put my overlay up here with the chart of where we are. If you are viewing me through a video source, YouTube, Spotify video, then you can see this. If you're listening to me through an audio outlet, then I'll try to describe it as best we can. Right now we're on number four on our graft.
[00:01:22] And then the fifth thing, according to our estimations from the Word of God says that the war of a Third is going to be the next event on God's prophetic time clock.
[00:01:34] So and also too we would we note from this chart that the confirmation of the covenant is shortly thereafter. Now these things are so close together in Bible prophecy until one could come slightly before the other. But they're not so far apart until we would be way off in our calculations there.
[00:01:52] Okay, well we're going to start with the war of a Third and that is found under the trumpets. Now we have to remember that the book of Revelation is broken down into four series of seven. The seven seals, the seven trumpets, the seven vials.
[00:02:10] The seven seals is a long story beginning about 1700 years ago, continuing through time, ending at the battle of Armageddon and the return of Jesus Christ.
[00:02:20] The shorter story begins in early of 20th century from the time of World War I and continues and will end at that same time which is the battle of Armageddon and the return of Jesus Christ. And then there is a shorter story that are the vials that began shortly after the Great Tribulation. We will show you these things in scripture will end at the battle of Armageddon, the return of Jesus Christ. And there's also a fourth series of seven. But John was asked by the Lord not to record that. So we don't have any, any way of knowing what that is at the beginning or the end.
[00:02:59] So that's where we are here. The War of a Third is found under the sixth trump. And we'll cover all of the trumpets so you'll know what they are. And you can look through time and see the different things that are mentioned in the Bible so that you can know where we are in time, approximately. And also we can know where we are going from here in the time that's just ahead of us. A lot of times people look and then they say things like, well, things have been happening for thousands of years. How do we know where we are? But there are ways we can know. And we're going to stick with our chart for now in this series, but later on we'll add to them different aspects of what these different things tell us so that we can fill in the blanks. And I know this is the beginning. I've only been on in this show for a short period of time. Continue to subscribe to the show, continue to watch the show and, and listen to the show. However, you receive a podcast, and I promise you, you will understand it as well.
[00:03:59] Okay, we're going to. Again with the. We begin with the first trumpet, and that is found in Revelation, chapter 8, verses 6 and 7. And I'll read that there. And the angels which have the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.
[00:04:14] 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 were burned up, and all green grass was burned up.
[00:04:29] Well, that is a prophecy of the first trumpet.
[00:04:33] And that happened around 1914 to 1918. That was the First World War. And we'll cover these clues that the Bible give us so that we can know that the First World War in history was more than 8 million fatalities. I think they estimated about 8.2 million fatalities.
[00:04:55] And for us to not think that that should be mentioned in the word of God would be ludicrous, in my opinion. Something with that significant of death. And we have to remember until the 20th century, there never been a war in history that had more than a million fatalities. Now we have this war at the beginning of the 20th century with 8.2 to 8.5 billion million deaths.
[00:05:22] And so that is an amazing thing to consider there one of clues too.
[00:05:29] We know that in the crude weapons of that era, you know, they had weapons of mass destruction, they had mustard gas and different kinds of anthrax and different things that they would use that were outlawed after this because they were so terrible weapons to be used. And they also used flamethrowers and different things like that. And manpower was limited at that time in that particular war.
[00:05:55] So when they came across stashes of weapons and they would hope they would Take a hill or take a territory. They couldn't leave people there to watch that. They would just kind of just destroy everything. They would say, burn the. Blow the weapons in place, destroy everything so the enemy doesn't have anything to come back to. And that was the scorched earth policy of World War I. When we look at these sorts of things, fire mingled with blood, they use flamethrowers to burn up everything. And they use those, those terrible chemical weapons mingled with blood as well as fire and those sorts of things.
[00:06:30] Now, we could look at this and say, well, that's kind of vague here, but we're going to continue.
[00:06:35] And I think as we go through these different trumpets, I think you will start to see here.
[00:06:41] Okay, now let's go to the second trumpet here. And that's found in Revelation, chapter 8, verses 8 and 9.
[00:06:48] And the second angel sounded, and as it were, a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea. And the third part of the sea became blood.
[00:06:58] And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea that had life died. And the third part of ships were destroyed.
[00:07:07] Well, this is quite a lot of things that's happening in the second trumpet here.
[00:07:12] And so let's look at the clues that the Bible gives us. A great mountain burning with fire is something that John saw and is writing down in the book of Revelation. Now, he'd never seen a mushroom cloud. But at the time, in our time that we're talking about this, we've all seen a mushroom cloud. We've all seen pictures of the first atomic bomb being dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
[00:07:36] So that looks like a mountain. It is on fire.
[00:07:40] Japan is an island in the middle of the sea. So I don't think that that would be a far stretch to see that in that prophecy there. It looks like a mountain is on fire.
[00:07:50] And so we know that a huge part of World War II was fought in the sea. In the sea in the Pacific and in Europe. In the European countries, we know they had diesel engines. And some of those engines and things that they use weren't as sophisticated as what we have today.
[00:08:06] We had all kinds of explosions and warfare on those ships and submarines and whatnot. And so a third part of the sea life were destroyed. I would. I wouldn't think that that much destruction in those bombs, whether they hit their targets or not, wouldn't kill a great deal of the sea life. So I think that would come into. Into play here too.
[00:08:28] And it said a third of the ships were destroyed. When you, when we research all the ships that participated In World War II, merchant ships, supply ships, and armament ships. And where war was fought, there you come up with a number, about 106,000 of them. And when we research how many ships were destroyed that participated In World War II, you'll get a number around 36,000, which is just about exactly a third, the Lord says, is a third. And that's how many it was. And so the number of deaths that died in World War II was anywhere from 52 million, some calculate all the way to 60 million.
[00:09:07] And we would note as well that God would consider a war that killed 60 million people. Certainly God would think that's important enough to mention in His Word. And so that was the second trumpet there.
[00:09:23] Okay, now we're going to move on to the third trumpet. And the third trumpet was the Chernobyl accident that happened in the Ukraine in 1986. Now that the prophecy for this is found in Revelation, chapter 8, verses 9 and 10. I'm going to read that. And the third angel sounded.
[00:09:43] There fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and fell unto the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of the water, verse 11. And the name of the star was wormwood.
[00:09:57] And the third part of waters became wormwood. Many men died because of the waters, because they were made bitter.
[00:10:05] We know that the accident, the terrible nuclear accident of 1986 in Chernobyl and Pripyat is where it was in the Ukraine.
[00:10:15] While conducting an experiment of the fissile material. They. They somehow something was misplaced.
[00:10:24] The rods that, that caused that fissile material to mix became warped because they became so hot. When they tried to stop the experiment, the experiment would not stop. And next thing you know, we have a nuclear explosion that blows the top off of the facility and we got a nuclear fire where smoke is running rampant throughout Europe.
[00:10:44] And so we know that it started to rain after that, washing that nucleotide into the watering sources in the rivers and streams throughout Europe. And many, many people were contaminated because of that. And wormwood is a bitter plant that grows in the Ukraine.
[00:11:03] It, the people who use it, use it. It turns your tongue black, but it does treat in a medicinal way home remedies that these people would do, much like we used in around the world. Grapeseed oil, echinacea, ginger, and different things like that for medicinal purposes. And this is what they used it for. And I would imagine this plant probably grows quite rapidly in the Ukraine. So that's what they used it for. And it's A bitter plant, because it's known as a bitter root. And so, like I said before, when wormwood is taken as a medicinal. Medicinal kind of a thing, it turns your tongue black.
[00:11:46] The Russian or the Ukrainian word for black is chernin.
[00:11:50] So Chernobyl is derived from that wormwood turning your tongue black. All those things are connected there. And so the Ukrainian word for wormwood is Chernobyl. So if I was reading a Ukrainian Bible, it would say a star fell from heaven by the name of Chernobyl. That's what it would say. And so that happened around 1886, and many people died because of the water. This nuclear accident, the ramifications are still unknown because it has a half life of 30 to 40 years.
[00:12:21] So 1986 is about 40 years ago.
[00:12:25] So we still don't know the devastation and the effects of this because people are walking around still contaminated in their bone marrow is contaminated, and it could become active at any time. So we know that the grandchildren of those people are now infected and birthed defects are.
[00:12:43] Are happening among those people who are the descendants of the people who saw that happen there.
[00:12:48] And so I think that we could conclude that that would be something that would certainly be something that would be recorded in our Bible. And you got to think, too, when you have, at that particular time that this happened, you have hundreds, hundreds of thousands of people contaminated. Some of them died, and they're continuing to die.
[00:13:12] And so we certainly know that this is something that is a very devastating thing.
[00:13:19] HBO did a series on the Chernobyl accident.
[00:13:24] It was eight, I think eight episodes. It was done very, very well. And it answered a lot of questions that we have about that event.
[00:13:32] And it's worth, if you want to go on HBO Max or something and watch that, it would be fantastic to watch, and it'll answer a lot of questions. I think you'll come to the same conclusion that I've come to in this lesson here.
[00:13:45] We're gonna move on now to the fourth trumpet. The fourth trumpet is the shortening of the days.
[00:13:51] Now, that was prophesied in Revelation, chapter 8, verse 12. And this is what it says. And the fourth angel sounded, and a third part of the sun was smitten, and a third part of the moon, and a third part of the stars, so that as a third part of them were darkened the day shown, not for a third part of it. And likewise the night.
[00:14:14] This scripture specifically denotes that the length of each day would be shortened because of how is written. The sun and the moon and the stars would not be shown a third part of it.
[00:14:28] And so Jesus prophesied in Matthew 24:22 that those days, that the days that we live in now would be shortened. And except those days be shortened, there would be no flesh that would survive it. So for the elect sake, those days would be shortened. And so we would have to know, it would have to be the shorting of each day, because there are other scriptures in the Bible that gives us the specific number of days of the great tribulation, 12, 60 days and such.
[00:14:59] So we know that the word of God is forever settled in heaven. So if the days would be shortened for the elect's sake, it would have to be the length of each day that was shortened.
[00:15:11] So we. I think we can know that and. And understand that. Scientists also agree with this because the crux of Einstein's theory of relativity, it's also known as time dilation, essentially says that speed and time are interconnected.
[00:15:27] So one thing speeds up, the other one reacts to it. And so we don't perceive the speeding up of time like we would think we would.
[00:15:35] And so certainly that fits this scripture as well.
[00:15:38] So from the time the scriptures began to sound, the world has had the ability to almost instantaneously get the news. With the first trumpet sounded In World War I, we had newsreels, shortwave radio, certainly telephones and telegraph and those things. So when I think when it talks about these trumpets, that is a. An event that the world could see.
[00:16:04] And so I think that's what they're saying. All these cataclysmic events since the sounding of them, we've all had the ability to know about it. Even if you were in the darkest regions of the world, the most primitive places, you wouldn't know that was going on. And some of those places was a theater of these things being fought here.
[00:16:25] Okay, we're gonna move on now to the fifth trumpet. The fifth trumpet was the Gulf War of 1991.
[00:16:33] That's getting to be quite a ways away now because it's, you know, that's been, you know, 1981 has been quite a long time ago.
[00:16:41] And that prophecy is found in Revelation, chapter 9, verse 1 through 11. We're gonna read that. We had. This is quite a lengthy reading, but we're going to read that and we're going to discuss it. And I think you'll agree as well.
[00:16:54] Revelation 9, verse 1.
[00:16:56] And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star. From heaven unto the earth, 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 smoke out of the pit.
[00:17:12] And the smoke was a great fire furnace. And the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth. And unto them were given power as scorpions of the earth have power.
[00:17:30] And it is commanded them that they should not hurt the green grass of the earth. Neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those men who. Which have not the seal of God upon their foreheads. And them to them was given that they should not kill them, but they should be tormented for five months. And their torment was as the torment of a scorpion when he strikes a man. And in those days men will seek death and shall not find it, and shall desire to die and death shall flee from them.
[00:18:06] And the shapes of the locusts were like horses prepared unto battle. And on their heads were crowns like gold. And their faces were the faces of men.
[00:18:16] And they were. They had on their hair of women, and the teeth were as teeth of lions and had breastplates and were breastplates of iron. And the sound of their wings were sounds of many chariots and many horses running to battle. And they had tails like unto scorpions, and their stings were in their tails. And there.
[00:18:41] And there was power was to hurt men for five months. And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name is in the Hebrew tongue Abaddon, but the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
[00:18:58] Now, that's quite a lot that we should cover here. And this, the Bible says, is the first of the three road woes. Now we know the woes are.
[00:19:09] Are devastating events that the world would surely see.
[00:19:13] Let's begin by talking about the star that fell from the heaven. Obviously describes a noteworthy event. A star fear from heaven. We all saw it. So we know that that is something of note that the Bible is trying to show us there.
[00:19:27] This tells us out of the smoke was not seen by reason of the smoke.
[00:19:35] Saddam Hussein. We know that we couldn't see the sun in the. In the daylight for so many months because Saddam Hussein, being driven out of Kuwait by the world allied armies, set 750 of the world's richest oils on fire, angry because he was run out.
[00:19:53] And so we know the skies were turned black even at midday, looked like midnight.
[00:19:59] And so we know that that happened. So the smoke from the bottom of this pit, which, you know, the belching out that smoke from those oil wells certainly was there and we all saw it. It was pitch black for so long.
[00:20:11] Another thing the Bible says, out of the smoke came locusts, and they were given the power as of locust.
[00:20:18] You got to think 2,000 years ago, John, writing this down, had never seen a helicopter.
[00:20:24] He had never seen missiles launched from underneath a helicopter certainly would fit the description that he saw.
[00:20:31] You know, a helicopter sort of looks like a locus. A local sort of looks like a grasshopper. And you got those Chinook helicopters and they had those Apache helicopters that were very, very, quite devastating in war.
[00:20:45] And so that's what it looked like to John and that, you know, that's what he would say. It looked like him living 2,000 years ago.
[00:20:52] From, from this time, the prophecy says it was commanded them not to hurt any green grass or any green thing.
[00:21:01] So we know this entire war was fought in the desert. There's nothing green out there.
[00:21:06] So this certainly would fit that clue.
[00:21:09] No green grass was damaged, no green trees. There's nothing green out there. Just saying.
[00:21:14] And I remember seeing the first time they changed the uniforms of the American soldiers from that camouflage green to that sandy clamp camouflage. And it was quite interesting to see that because up until that time, the warfare was conducted mostly in green jungle type terrain. And so they had to give them new uniforms and that sort of thing.
[00:21:39] So that certainly fits there. Also, this prophecy gives us, it says not to kill men, but to torment them for five months. They shall seek death and not find it, and shall desire to die, but death shall flee from them.
[00:21:56] We know Islam glorifies death, and that's the only way that they can certify that they will be, say, from a salvation point of view. And you know, there's many ways in their religion that the teaching we say, but you can be assured if you die fighting the enemies of Islam, then your salvation will be assured and you go into paradise here. And so these people were fighting, hoping to die. If they died, that would be something that they would consider a good thing, but that we didn't. And I remember when the war was over, I think they had captured nine or ten of the allied soldiers and General Schwarzkopf was there and they were saying, we have nine of your soldiers. How many of ours do you have? And General Schwarzkopf said 50,000.
[00:22:49] So that means all those people that were seeking death and couldn't find it were prevented from being killed in war because they were so overwhelmed with the sophistication that they were facing until war. I mean, death eluded them and certainly Some of those people, they call that being a shaheed. That is when you die persecuting your enemy in war, fighting them, killing them and that sort of thing. There it was said they had crowns of gold and their faces were on the faces of men.
[00:23:22] We know that 2,000 years ago, John had never seen a man sitting in a cockpit of a helicopter or a plane.
[00:23:29] You know, those soldiers had those polarized face shields that certainly looked gold and you know, so that they could see that bright desert sun there. And that certainly would look like a crown to John.
[00:23:42] And so that would be something that certainly would fit that clue there. It goes on describes saying they had hair of women and the teeth were as teeth of lions. Well, we know since the days of World War II, it's a tradition for the pilots to paint scary faces on the airplanes. They'll paint teeth and all these kinds of things. So when the enemy sees them, that'll add an additional element of terror. And we also remember that back in the days of World War II, and maybe slightly before that, the pilots would paint their planes with beautiful women. You know, Betty Grable was the pin up queen of that era. And so Betty Gravel and other women were painted on the planes and the helicopters and things that these men flew. And that very well could be what John was seeing there.
[00:24:30] So I think that's what that was. And, and I think that's something that we can relate to. In the reading of this.
[00:24:37] It says they had breastplates of iron and the sound of the horses were the sound of the words many horses and chariots going to battle.
[00:24:47] Now certainly 2,000 years ago, John had never heard a helicopter before.
[00:24:51] You know, helicopters. If you live in a city where they're using helicopter for traffic reports and things like that, even we.
[00:24:58] That's a common place to the people of today.
[00:25:01] And if he heard that sound years ago, he's trying to think of something that it reminds him of.
[00:25:07] And certainly many horses and chariots going to battle would be something that sounded that way to him.
[00:25:15] So that's what I believe that that is here that he's is conveying to us in his writings. Last but not least, they would have a king over them. In the Hebrew tongue is pronounced Abaddon. In the Greek tongue it's pronounced Apollyon.
[00:25:31] Well, these two names in Arabic literally means the destroyer, which is what Saddam means.
[00:25:39] So this really says us in the Hebrew tongue, the destroyer. In the Greek tongue the destroyer. And in the Arabic tongue the destroyer. Saddam literally means destroyer. So that certainly fits. And Even if we have 10 clues and we can only solve seven of them, that's certainly not a reason to throw the whole conclusion out with. With it, because we can't solve them all. And I think this certainly would come under the category of solving what that means there.
[00:26:10] I believe that. I question. This certainly describes the fifth trumpet, the Gulf War of 1991, which the Bible calls the first of the three woes.
[00:26:20] And that is something that everybody saw all over the world. And I think the terror of how this could.
[00:26:26] That war could have escalated because Saddam Hussein was shooting Scud missiles into Israel, trying to get Israel to draw them into the fire so that all of Islam would join him. That's what he was trying to do. And the world, you know, breathes a sigh of relief when we get through that period without that happening. So that's certainly a war. And I think a woe would be something that is anticipated. That is a great thing. Oh, my God kind of a thing. So I think that's what the Bible is referring to.
[00:26:58] Now, our next trumpet that we're going to get to is the War of a Third.
[00:27:03] That's where this very, very devastating prophecy is found, the War of a Third. And this is going to be quite a lengthy reading here. So we're going to read through this and forgive me if I don't do justice to it, but that's found in Revelation, chapter 9, verse 13 through 21.
[00:27:22] And it says, and the six angels sounded. And I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet loosed, the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. And the four angels were loosed, which prepared for an hour and a day and a month and a year to slay the third part of men.
[00:27:45] And the number of the army of The Horsemen were 200,000 thousand, which, which is 200 million. And I heard the number of them.
[00:27:54] And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and they that sat on them, having breastplates of fire and of hyacinth and brimstone, and the heads of the horses were as heads of lions. Out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone. And by these three, the third of man were killed by the fire and by the smoke and by the brimstone which issued out of their mouths. For their power is in their mouths and in their tails. And their tails were likened to serpents, and their heads, and with them they do hurt. And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues, repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils and the idols of gold and silver and brass, and of stone and of wood, neither can that they can see, hear, nor walk.
[00:28:51] Neither repented of their murders, nor their sorceries, nor their fornications, nor their thefts. That's quite a lengthy reading, as I said before. And I'm going to try to cover the different aspects of what this is saying to us here.
[00:29:08] Let's first address the four angels that are bound in the great river Euphrates.
[00:29:13] We know that, that a certain time is designated by God that they would be released. Now these angels are bound. So we know that they are evil, malevolent angels. And so they're bound because of what they're capable of doing before. You know, God didn't want them to do this before the time.
[00:29:33] Hebrews 1:14 says that angels are ministering spirits sent forth to minister to those who are the heirs of salvation.
[00:29:44] That describes good angels and what their jobs are to do. Well, demonic angels are ministering spirits that to those who are not the heirs of salvation.
[00:29:53] So we can gather from this scripture that these angels are here to persuade people to do things that are of a devastation dating nature, to take peace away from the earth that starts there bound in the great river Euphrates. So we know that this Bible teaches.
[00:30:12] The Bible teaches that unrepentant sin always brings judgment. And so these angels being released is the tipping point that judgment has to be loose upon the men and women of the earth. And the Bible gives us the things that we have done here that are things that we need to repent. Oh, of worshiping idols of gold and different things like that. And you know, we say that people say, I'm not worshiping in as a go. Well, God says we are.
[00:30:47] And a lot of times we are.
[00:30:51] Our biblical knowledge is not that, that he would give us a full.
[00:30:55] We would know a full description of these things. That would mean without someone helping us to understand that.
[00:31:01] The Bible teaches that unrepentant skin always brings judgment. So sins get to. That gets to that tipping point. It's poured out. And the Bible shows us that this is poured out at a specific time when that bucket starts running over. Look, God has to move.
[00:31:17] God is subject to his own words, so he has to bring judgment for the sins of this earth. And that certainly would be one of them that this war is going to produce just ahead of us.
[00:31:30] The beginning of this war starts in the Great river Euphrates.
[00:31:33] Well, the angels are bound there.
[00:31:36] The Euphrates river is a completely Islamic river. So it runs through the Arabic countries, beginning at Turkey, down through Syria, the entirety of Iraq, going down to the border of Iran, emptying off into the Persian Gulf. So it's in the entire trek of this river is an Islamic river. So we know that this has to start in the Middle east somewhere and is going to spiral out of control. So evil ministering spirits in the past have caused World War I before. We know that World War I, we know that 8 million people died. And at 8 point some million people, the total number 8.2 to 8.6 is what they say.
[00:32:20] We know that World War II from 52 million to 60 million dead. And all these were started by ministering spirits to the unbelievers of the earth to, to cause this kind of thing to happen.
[00:32:31] But these evil spirits that's loose in the great review of fate is we never seen nuns like these ones, these real killers here. And so they're going to be loosed and it's going to be devastation like we have never seen before.
[00:32:44] And when you start talking about a third of mankind being killed, you know, you're burying people with bulldozers and that's going to take quite a lot of time to, you know, you got people dead in places, water sources being contaminated and you know, underground streams and things. We can't, we won't be able to drink that water unless we can clean up the carnage of what this is.
[00:33:07] Some of those places we won't get to. Obviously this is going to be a nuclear situation because you can't kill that many with conventional warfare.
[00:33:22] And so this is going to be something that we've never seen before, nor can we prepare for that type of thing. We weren't prepared for World War II. Well, this is, you know, 50 or 60 times that.
[00:33:34] The Bible says the one of the participating armies is an army of 200 million soldiers.
[00:33:39] In the prophecy, John couldn't count the soldiers, so he heard the number of them. God had to tell him how many it was. So we know that one of the participating armies will be an army of 200 million soldiers.
[00:33:53] We know that the late leader of China, Mao Zedong, boasted in his diary that he could field the army of 200 million soldiers. Now he wrote this in his diary in the mid-70s and in that time, you know, warfare was still thought of in a conventional way. And so he thought manpower of 200 million soldiers. And we know that Mao Zedong was an atheist. He didn't read that number in the Bible. That was something that he knew he could do. And China is one of the great population centers of the world, so they certainly could do it.
[00:34:26] We know that there are other.
[00:34:28] Islam probably could, but they would have to unite from every part of the world in order to be able to field that many soldiers.
[00:34:35] So I don't see them being it. India probably could, but we don't see them being influenced so much by this to where they would start. They may be in it and you know, because we know that they are enemies with Pakistan, that they both are nuclear powers. And when you get into a world war like this, that's when people settle scores.
[00:35:01] A lot of people say armies can't fight on anymore. No matter how great the army is, you can't fight on any more than two fronts at the same time.
[00:35:09] And so someone gets bogged down on two or three fronts, then I can do what I want to do without opposition.
[00:35:16] So those are the kind of things that we'll see doing this kind of thing that's coming here.
[00:35:21] Atomic weapons certainly will be used in this because to kill 2.8 to 2.9 billion people, that would be a third of our prison population.
[00:35:32] Some estimate our population of today is approximately from 8.1 billion to 8.3 billion.
[00:35:37] And so a third of that would be about 2.8 billion. And so there's no way you can shoot, shoot that many people and kill that many. If they gave a rifle to every man, woman and child in America and we shot folks 24 hours a day, it would still take 150 years to do that. So we know that is going to be a nuclear war. And, you know, when you start thinking about the destruction of a population of that size, only a few countries possess that type of power, that type of nuclear firepower that would be necessary for this. Well, we know America has that. We know Russia has that. China has that. The European Union has that. I believe two of the powers mentioned here will perpetrate this war. And we'll talk about this in future lessons as we cover those nations specifically here.
[00:36:34] So we'll describe those in, in a future lesson. So don't, don't not subscribe to the show. Make sure you subscribe, ring the bell so that you can hear every episode. Because we're going to cover these things in detail and, you know, starting out, teaching things that maybe you've never heard before.
[00:36:52] We have to kind of see that these things are things that we can mentally come to a conclusion in our minds looking at before we can add a lot of other aspects of these things to it. So continue to listen to us and we will cover it all. I believe the United States will be involved in this, and I also believe that China will be one of the participants.
[00:37:13] And I believe that Islam will participate in the world. So some of the Arabic nations will participate in this.
[00:37:19] But we know that the Bible says the end result of that will be one third of the population of the earth destroyed.
[00:37:26] In different translations of the Bible, sometimes it says a third of mankind, the third of the people on the face of the earth. And so every translation denotes that is the population, one third of the world that's going to be destroyed in this.
[00:37:42] And I believe that this war is on the horizon.
[00:37:46] We are seeing things happen around the world that are perpetuating these things that will bring it out of control. I believe that President Trump will be the American president that presides over this war.
[00:37:58] And I believe that China, the present leader, Xi Jinping, will be the other leader that will participate in this, among others.
[00:38:09] And so. And we'll talk about why. I believe that in future lessons, because those are lessons of their own that we can look at, because it's to be so much on the table here that we wouldn't be able to digest it all. So keep listening and we'll certainly cover it all. The Bible says that the people of the world after this war still would not repent.
[00:38:29] So we know that the sins of this earth is what causes this judgment. Obviously, this is a judgment, the destruction of the loss of life, one third of mankind destroyed, is certainly a judgment of what we've done here.
[00:38:48] The Bible says also in the last days, which is where we're living, men's hearts will wax cold.
[00:38:54] You know, we hear things in the news every day.
[00:38:58] There are things that happen as the. At the time of this recording, people being killed, people celebrating, and people saying things like that person deserved it because of his. What he was teaching or whatever.
[00:39:12] You know, anytime we justify death of others and see that type of thing, then men's hearts truly are waxing cold. There's no love for human life and that sort of thing. And that's certainly what the Bible shows us that is here and the aftermath of this terrible war, still, we didn't correct that.
[00:39:37] So we probably won't see that. Most of the world won't see that as a judgment for the sake of sins of the world.
[00:39:44] But I'll continue here. And that is what happens during the sixth trumpet, which is the war of a third.
[00:39:49] And that is an amazing thing. The seventh trumpet is the return of Jesus Christ. That's found in Revelations. One of the places is found is Revelation chapter 11, verse 15.
[00:40:01] And the seventh angel sounded and there were great voices in heaven saying the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms our Lord and his Christ and he shall reign forever and ever.
[00:40:16] That is an amazing thing for us to contemplate. So there is good news at the end of this. After these things happen here, surely we, we when we talk about the kingdoms of this world, we're talking about the Lord coming back and taking over the kingdoms of this world. And it will be run correctly. I don't believe in a one world government unless Jesus Christ is the one in charge of it. And this certainly what this is saying to us here and the Christ and the return of Jesus Christ, certainly we should cover that. Quite a lot of material is written about that and that is something that is fantastic for us to cover.
[00:40:53] And so that is the seven trumpets. So since the subject matter here was of the seven trumpets and that's why we, we put that on in. But that was certainly it's on our chart and we will certainly cover that in future lessons here.
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