Preamble
THE VOICE OF THE 1ST ANGEL: And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, Saying with a loud voice; Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters. (Revelation 14:6-7)
This Scripture speaks of sowing the Salvation of Jesus into every nation, and of the ‘hour of His Judgment.’ The 5th and 6th Trumpets divide this ‘Judgment Hour,’ into the seasons of sowing and reaping; of sowing ‘good and bad’ seeds, and reaping the ‘Wheat and Tares.’ The next two Trumpets are the ‘dividing of time’ seen in the Book of Daniel. (Daniel 12:5-9 + Revelation 10:5-6)
The first four Trumpets align to Daniel’s Beasts, which reveal the fall of the Law and the Gospel as it putrifies in four stages in the nations and our religious assemblies. The four winds Daniel saw strive upon the nations, are four spirits, which bring forth this desolation; four powers that give rise to our political and religious systems. The Dragon, the Beast of the Sea, and the Beast of the Earth, are God’s Testimonies, now desecrated by men in the times allotted to Israel. In the first three Trumpets, these Beasts personify God’s profaned Covenants: (1) Sinai’s Law cast down by Israel; (2) Sinai’s Law and Christ’s Gospel sown into the nations; the rise of Governments and the Religious systems of men and; (3) the ‘False-Christs’ and their hybrid gospels, which come out of our Churches. Signs shown to Abraham as a smoking furnace and a burning lamp, which passed through three beasts, divided in their midst.
Like the ‘Tares’; the ‘Wheat’ is revealed by the Spirit of the LORD, in the pattern of the first days of Creation, and in the Testimony of Jesus, bound in Sinai’s first three Commandments. These declare Christ’s Godhead ministries of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Testimonies sealed within the Ark of the Covenant as the Tables of the Law, the Pot of Manna, and the Rod of Aaron. Our Churches have ‘beheaded’ these witnesses, by ripping out the root of Israel’s Faith bound in these Commandments. In these three Godhead dispensations, Jesus has drawn Israel to himself. As the Book of Revelation opens, we hear the LORD Jesus declare;
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty. (Revelation 1:8)
The 5th Trumpet: The Key of Hell…
[And the Fifth Angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit] (Revelation 9:1-12)
As I shared in the 3rd Trumpet, this ‘star’ is Wormwood; the spirit of the antichrist that has fallen upon the Message of each Church Angel, in all Seven Church Ages. The 5th Trumpet is the 1st Woe, which reveals how the Gospel Message has been corrupted in each Church Angel’s Age. As the Book of Revelation opens, we hear the LORD God Almighty declare that He holds the Keys to Hell and Death. Jesus passes these keys to ‘the king of the bottomless pit’ in each Age, as the message of each Angel is rejected. The 5th Trumpet Woe is the opening of Hell. The spirit of ‘Wormwood’ is released by the LORD, when we turn from Christ’s Salvation to the erroneous ‘life’ promised by the churches with their leprous gospels, from leprous hearts.
The 5th Trumpet follows this seasonal pattern. A message will sound in each Church Age, just as the Trumpet of Release sounded every seventh year in Israel. Nations and peoples will gather to the message of their time, in the same way the congregation of Israel would gather at the Door of the Tabernacle when the trumpets sounded. But only a few will believe the message of the day. As Joshua and Caleb believed the LORD’S promise to Abraham; a portion, like the ‘ten spies’ who lacked faith, will fall short of the promises through unbelief. These seeds of faith and unbelief, can be seen in the dividing of the House of Judah from the House of Israel after Solomon’s death. This 5th Trumpet sounds when people have determined their position in the Gospel. It is an interlude proceeding God’s wrath; the quiet before the storm. It is a period of grace, and a time to repent.
[And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit] (Revelation 9:1-12)
The ‘great mountain burning with fire and cast into the sea’ in the 2nd Trumpet, is Sinai’s Law being sown into the nations. The ‘great furnace’ speaks of the curses and vengeance bound in this Law. Jeremiah, prophesied ‘Sinai’s Cup’ would pass into the nations, and all would drink from the ‘wine cup’ of the LORD’S fury.
And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years… And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations… For thus saith the Lord God of Israel to me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it. (Jeremiah 25:11-15)
The LORD’S anger ‘smokes’ against those who bless themselves in the imaginings of their own heart; who have turned from Christ’s Salvation and created their own salvation, in their own image, in creeds like the trinity. The ‘smoke’ of this great furnace, which ‘darkens the sun and the air,’ is the delusion that exists in our minds that blinds us to the truth of who Christ is. When this delusion is expressed in the gospels we preach, and as our word ascends above God’s Word; we become as ‘God.’ When you read the following Scripture, you will recognise the essence of the Trumpets thus far.
For you know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which you passed by; And you have seen their abominations, and their idols of wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them. Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood; And it come to pass, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst: The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven. (Deuteronomy 29:16-20)
[And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the Seal of God in their foreheads] (Revelation 9:1-12)
Our missionary hordes come out of the ‘smoke,’ the delusion of our creeds, which are rooted in unbelief. Having forged creeds, like the trinity, ‘missionary locusts’ begin to sow the seeds of their [f]ornication; the seeds of their unbelief, into the nations. Their power rests in the Law and not the Gospel. But the antichrist spirit found in these missionaries is commanded not to hurt any ‘green thing’ or anyone who carries the ‘Seal of God’ on their foreheads. The LORD’S command binds, like a chain, ‘the antichrist spirit’ in men, and so protects those ‘sealed’ in the Name and Faith of Jesus.
In this Scripture we glimpse the Twelve Tribes born of the virgin Word of God, and it is here we begin to see the emergence of a Kingdom of Priests. In the Book of Revelation, they are the ‘seed’ of the Woman, who keep the Commandments of God and the Faith of Jesus. Unlike Jacob’s children conceived in the flesh, these Tribes are no longer known by the name ‘Israel.’ They have instead the seal of the ‘Father’s Name’ on their foreheads, which is the name of the Everlasting Father; the LORD Jesus Christ. (Revelation 14)
The ‘green things’ relate to ‘Faith’ and to the Feast of the First Fruits. In times of old, the people having kept the Passover brought the green shoots of their harvest to the High Priest. The ‘green things, and those sealed’ pertain to those who have believed the message of their age and have come before Christ with the first-fruits of their faith. These descend from the Lion of the Tribe of Judah; the line of kings as promised to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. In every generation these tribes stand apart from the multitudes gathered from the nations. Multitudes foretold in Ephraim; a tribe which does not appear in the virgin born tribes, but who are nevertheless, nations and peoples who shall bow, and worship, before the LORD. (Revelation 7 Genesis 48:14-19)
[And to them, (those not sealed) it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he strikes a man. And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them] (Revelation 9:1-12)
The ‘five months’ of the 5th Trumpet speak both of grace and impending woe. A time when the first parts of God’s vengeance are released from the Gospel and the Law; a time also, when people who have not believed might repent. It is a season of sorrow as our creeds and traditions war against Jesus Gospel; to put it to death and silence Jesus Voice. A pause, between the desecration of Christ’s Salvation by False-Christ’s in each age, and the Plagues of the 6th Trumpet being released in earnest. It is seen in the seasons of sorrow and vengeance that divide Gospel Chapters like Mark 13.
It is also a time when men shall seek death but not find it, because our creeds have shut up the Kingdom of God, and cut off the revelation of baptism into Jesus Christ’s Death and Name. As the waters in the time of Noah covered the earth, so baptism in water is where our ‘old man’ is buried in Christ. For to be born again we must first die in Christ, and having been born again, we receive our Father’s Name. The Keys to the Kingdom of Heaven, given to the Apostle Peter, have been exchanged for the Keys of Hell and Death by generations of blind theologians. In their iniquity, they have added to, and taken away from Jesus Christ’s Salvation, because they have not rested in His Word.
Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? … For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: … For he that is dead is freed from sin. (Acts 2:38 + Romans 6:3-7)
[And the shapes of the locusts were like horses prepared for battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men. And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle] (Revelation 9:1-12)
Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD comes… A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness… A great people and a strong; there has not been ever the like,… A fire devours before them; and behind them a flame burns: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness;… The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run. Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array. (Joel 2:1-5)
This portion of the 5th Trumpet and Joel’s Locust Armies, embody the legions of False Prophets and False Christs’ that have sown their church doctrines through the nations in each Church Age. Zealous missionaries whose creeds strip the truth and salvation from Jesus Gospel in the same way the Prophet Joel saw these locusts would leave the Garden of Eden a desolate wilderness. Their Breastplates of iron, unlike those of God’s High Priest, do not speak of God’s righteous judgement, but instead reveal the hardness of mens hearts. They desire to return to a manner of priesthood subject to a Covenant of fire, and smoke, and hail; reminiscent of the Levites of old, where men ruled over God’s heritage and men bowed to men.
[And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months. And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue has his name Apollyon] (Revelation 9:1-12)
In the Book of Jesus Revelation we see the Dragon’s tail cast down a third of the stars to the ground, and this reveals the antichrist spirit in our pastors and priests who reject the Testimony of Jesus Christ. The Prophet Isaiah best reveals this portion of the 5th Trumpet when he stated;
The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teaches lies, he is the tail.
Apollyon, Abaddon, and the ‘king of the pit’ are all names for Satan. He is the antichrist spirit in all False Prophets who preach dead creeds and false doctrines, which is the stings in their tail. These imitation doctrines and creeds are the ‘False Christs’ that accuse and hurt our faith during this period of sorrow and grace. In the next Trumpet, the sting of hell becomes the sting of death.
The 5th Trumpet – the 1st Woe
God’s testimonies overcome
The 1st Woe is heard in the testimonies of the two witnesses described in Scripture as, ‘the two candlesticks standing before the God of the Earth.’ While these candlesticks speak of the lights of the Law and Gospel, I agree with those who say Moses and Elijah must come, and have done so previously. But, to align with Scripture these testimonies must sound in each dispensation of Israel from receiving the Law on Sinai to their times in the Seven Church Ages. They must follow the pattern of the two Silver Trumpets blown by the Sons of the High Priest every seventh year; the ‘year of release’ leading to the Jubilee. They sounded to gather the mulitudes of Israel to the Tabernacle door to hear the reading of the Law. The LORD does not change; He is: ‘Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever’. (Malachi 3:6 + Hebrews 13:8)
…the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given to the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months. And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth… And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them. (Revelation 11:1-8)
The witnesses of the Law and the Gospel, is that ‘good seed’ who have taken their ‘Church Angel’ message to the nations in their time. Martin Luther preached; ‘the just shall live by faith,’ and gathered people to him; but he also carried with him the Trinitarian creed. Bound in the Testimonies of the Law, and the Gospel preached by men like Luther, and found in every church, are the curses and plagues that smite the earth whenever men add to, and take away from, the LORD’S Word. The seeds of unbelief sown in our hearts, overcome God’s Testimony in us. Here we see the 5th Trumpet and the 1st Woe agree. The ‘Beast’ that ascends out of hell are the missionaries and pastors, which preach their denominational Church gospels; gospels that rage against God’s Witness and put His Truth to death. In the same way, the Pharisees murdered Christ. This is not only about Catholic’s or Baptists, Mormons and others; but, as ‘Man was created from the Earth,’ so ‘Man’ is the Beast of the Earth. The spirit of the antichrist is resident in the hearts of all men.
And one shall say to him; What are these wounds in your hands? Then he shall answer; Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends… (Zechariah 13:6)
These testimonies, now put to death, overlap the end of this 5th Trumpet and the start of the 6th. The next Trumpet is the ‘key of death.’
One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter. (Revelation 9:1-12)
