Preamble
THE VOICE OF THE 2ND ANGEL: And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. (Revelation 14:8)
This Angel’s Voice tells us the antichrist’s gospel in our churches, and within us, has fallen. As New Jerusalem is God’s Virgin Word, so Babylon the [W]hore, is those gospels born of men’s creeds mixed with God’s Word. She is that ‘seed’ in all nations which ride upon the power and authority of Moses Law, a ‘scarlet coloured beast’ with its ten horns and seven heads. As foretold by Jeremiah the Prophet, all Nations would drink from ‘Sinai’s Cup,’ the ‘Wine Cup’ of God’s fury. (Jeremiah 25:11-15)
The 5th and 6th Trumpets are likened to the seasons of sowing the Gospel and reaping life; and sowing men’s creeds and reaping death. I shared in the 5th Trumpet these seasons are the ‘dividing of time’ referred to in the Book of Daniel. Things seen in Matthew 24; Mark 13; and Luke 21, which Gospel Chapters are divided into the seasons of sowing sorrow, and reaping vengeance. Divided in their midst by the ‘Abomination of Desolation’ as seen by the Prophet Daniel. Leviticus 26 and Revelation 11, follow this same ‘dividing of time.’
This 6th Trumpet is a witness against those, who having changed God’s Word into a lie, sit in the temple of God, masquerading as God. They are ‘Beasts of the Earth’ who now appear as Christ, the Lamb of God. (Revelation 13:13) Their progeny preach grace, peace, and ‘earthly prosperity’ from the blessings contained in the Law. But they fail to grasp, the [a]dultery of their creeds in the midst of the very things they preach, bring forth the plagues and death bound in God’s Word. For Satan knows, if we eat of those blessings, we shall also partake of their curses, just as night follows day. It is the nature of Moses Law.
They look for signs of Christ’s coming but do not understand that God’s Commandments, God’s Prophets, and His Apostles are for lights, and signs, and seasons. Like the Apostle, Paul who commanded women to keep silence in the church. A Commandment of God rooted in Eve’s rebellion in the Garden of Eden, when she desired to be wise; to be as ‘God’. Disobedience that brought forth death, and lust that gave birth to Cain, who Scripture says, was of the Wicked One. Yet we allow woman to preach and teach in our churches, and so we reject God’s Commandment now, just as Eve did then. (1Corinthians 14:34-37 + 1Timothy 2:11-15)
When this Commandment is upheld, it is a sign the Church is subject to Christ. When this light is removed, it reveals ‘Eve’s rebellion’ reigns in our congregations. Such a small Commandment and yet, it sheds light on the Jezebel spirit in our Churches. It sheds light on false creeds born from God’s Testimony. This is ‘Mystery Babylon;’ Creeds of [f]ornication that corrupt and fall in time. Such a small Commandment and yet, it is God’s love in motion. Its casting down is a sign our Churches have replaced Christ’s authority. A sign, death reigns in our midst. What then will God’s lights and their signs reveal, if we have cast down God’s Great Commandment? What will happen if we have desecrated Jesus Christ’s Salvation? What will happen if we replace Jesus Testimony with creeds like the trinity? The 6th Seal in the Book of Revelation, which aligns to this 6th Trumpet says;
And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casts her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. (Revelation 6:12-13)
The 4th Trumpet revealed a third part of the Sun, the Moon and the Stars being smitten, and this spoke of the Testimony of Jesus Christ, bound in the Gospel, the Law, and the Prophets being changed by men. The 6th Seal reveals God’s Covenants are now in total darkness; that our churches and communities have utterly rejected God’s Testimonies for their own. Fifty years ago a Prophet of God, spoke of this 6th Seal, not only as it related to Jesus Gospel rejected in our Churches, but also, to Israel’s tribulation and their calling out from ‘Egypt’ in kind. He spoke too of nature being in travail and of this earth beginning to pass away. Likewise, this 6th Trumpet tells of the ‘winds’ of God’s vengeance, which have blown upon Israel in her times, and of the ‘nature and character’ of God, breathed into men falling away. It speaks of that ‘man of sin,’ the beast in you and me, being revealed.
The 6th Trumpet – The Four Winds…
[And the sixth angel 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; Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates] (Revelation 9:13-21)
When King Solomon’s brother, Adonijah failed in his bid to ascend to the throne of David, he fled to the four horned altar to plead for Solomon’s mercy and received it. The Voice from out of this same Altar in Heaven proclaims an end to the grace that we heard in the 5th Trumpet. This Voice calls for the release of the Four Angels bound in the Euphrates, which are the spirits of vengeance bound in the curses of the Law and the Gospel.
After Jeremiah had pronounced evil upon Israel he turned to Babylon; and having testified against that place he bound the book of his Testimony, and had it cast into the, ‘midst of the Euphrates;’
Then shall you say, O LORD, you have spoken against this place, (Babylon) to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever. And it shall be, when you have made an end of reading this book, that you shall bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates: (Jeremiah 51:63)
Having finished His own Testimony, the LORD Jesus bound the Gospel of His Salvation with a curse; a Gospel referred to as the ‘seven streams’ by the Prophet, Isaiah and symbolised as the River Euphrates in the Plagues of Revelation.
For I testify to every man that hears the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add to these things, God shall add to him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. (Revelation 22:18)
We see then, two witnesses; ‘Two Olive Trees’ so to speak; one on each side of the river. They witness to the religious assemblies of men through the ages who have each preached their ‘church’s salvation’, and whose descendants now say in their hearts; the LORD will accept the evil with the good, because we preach grace, prosperity and peace’. These who say we give to the poor, and do many other good works among men, and yet put Christ’s Salvation to death, every time they preach it. Daniel’s Book has been opened, and the time of the end is here. Repent! Return to ‘the virgin born word of God,’ as the LORD shall save a remnant.
Then I Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river. And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders? And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that lives for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished. (Daniel 12:5-7)
[And the four angels were loosed…] (Revelation 9:13-21)
Daniel saw, ‘Four Winds of Heaven’ that strove upon the sea, and four beasts that rose from the nations. The Beast that rises from the Sea in Revelation is a mix of the four beasts Daniel saw. They are the State and Religious systems of men, which receive their power from the Dragon. They are founded on Satan’s Seat; the ‘Seat of the Law.’ Like the Church of England established by an Act of Parliament to accommodate the [a]dultery of its king, and the 1st Amendment to the Constitution of the United States that appears to champion the rights of religious freedom, but has in reality led to the utter perversion of the gospel. Either way, we see Satan in whose hand God has placed all nations, walking in the ‘midst of men’s hearts’ intent on destroying the Gospel. (Daniel 7:2 + Revelation 13:1-2)
In the Book of Revelation,The ‘Four Winds that blow upon the Earth’ bring forth the Beast of the Earth. These ‘Four Winds’ are: (1) The Seven Church Angel Messengers; (2) The Seven Seals; (3) The Seven Trumpets and (4) The Seven Plagues. The Four Angels that hold back these ‘Winds’, are the same ‘four spirits’ bound in the Euphrates; spirits released in each Church Angels’s dispensation once those who believe have been sealed on their foreheads, and after those who have not believed, bow to men. (Revelation 7:1-3)
(1) The ‘spirit of error’ revealed in the first four Church Angel Messages are; (i) we leave our first love, our faith in Christ; (ii) the blasphemy of those who preach salvation through the ‘works of the flesh’; (iii) doctrines that cause us to stumble at Christ’s promises; and men who ‘lord’ themselves over men; and (iv) ‘a Jezebel Church gospel’ that usurps the Gospel of Jesus Christ; and whose children are killed with death.
(2) The ‘antichrist’ unfolds in the powers of the ‘four horse riders’ of the Seven Seals as; (i) a spirit within the law that seeks to conquer faith; (ii) a ‘Two Edged Sword,’ the Law, that sets brother against brother; (iii) creeds that cause a famine for the Word of God, and (iv) the fullness of the antichrist manifest as the sword, famine and death… followed by hell.
(3) The first four Trumpets declare; (i) Sinai’s Law cast to the earth, brings forth its curses; (ii) The brotherhood of Judah and Israel is broken, and having bowed to Baal they go into captivity; (iii) the ‘spirit of wormwood’ devours the love of Christ’s Gospel in our hearts, and (iv) creeds like the trinity, smite Christ’s Testimony bound in the Gospel, the Law, and the Prophets; the Trumpet of Hell follows.
(4) The plagues are the consummation of each cycle. The first four Plagues are; (i) the mark of the beast falls upon those who bow to church gospels; (ii) God’s Law in the Nations is rejected (iii) Christ’s Salvation in the Churches is rejected, and (iv) though plagued, we refuse to repent and continue to blaspheme God’s name.
As an independent witness, the four winds follow the pattern of the Old Testament Books, as it was after the Genesis of Abraham’s faith, that the tribes went down in Egypt in the seven times of famine. After this come the Books of the Law, the Judges, the Kings and the Prophets and in these we see the unfolding of the ‘antichrist spirit’ in Israel, and in the Nations. Yet,from the last ‘three parts’ of the Messengers, the Seals, the Trumpets, and the Plagues, emerge Jesus ‘Godhead Testimony,’ and the Israel of God.
[And the four angels were loosed] which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men] (Revelation 9:13-21)
The Four Angels of the Euphrates prepared for an hour, a day, a month and a year, speak of the ‘four times’ of God’s Tribulation as it unfolds in the Messengers, the Seals, the Trumpets, and Plagues. It also speaks to a cycle of increasing severity. From the Four Winds that blow upon the Earth, come the False Prophets. Remember, as the Beast of the Sea, the Dragon’s Law, rises in all nations, so the Beast of the Earth rises in the ‘many false gospels’ of churches. These appear as lambs, but speak as dragons. They appear as Christ, but preach gospels rooted in creeds that reject parts, or all of Christ’s Salvation. (Revelation 7:1-2 + Matthew 24:11)
In the Book of Leviticus, the LORD’S Sevenfold Vengeance is divided in two. The first speaks of sowing, and of sorrows, and of being overcome by our enemies. This aligns to the sorrow declared in the 5th Trumpet. It also aligns to the first parts of Matthew 24, Mark 13, and Luke 21; up to the time of the desolation spoken of by Daniel. (Matthew 24:4-15) The second part unfolds in four stages of increasingly severe vengeance and this aligns to the 6th Trumpet and the later parts of the Gospel Books mentioned above. (Luke 21:20-33) This vengeance and tribulation fell in Israel’s time and has also fallen in each of the Seven Church Ages. The portion of Leviticus below is the fourth stage of God’s Vengeance upon those who have made His Word desolate. It speaks of us devouring one another, and of our bodies being defiled by the idolatry in our hearts. Observe too how it aligns to the fourth parts of the antichrist in the ‘Four Winds’ above…
And if you will not for all this hearken to me, but walk contrary unto me; Then I will walk contrary to you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins. And you shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall you eat. And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you. And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries into desolation,… And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste. (Leviticus 26:27-33)
[And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them. And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone] (Revelation 9:13-21)
The Locust Missionaries we saw pour out of Hell in the 5th Trumpet, have sown their creeds and reaped their multitudes in every age. The Prophet Joel called them the ‘Army of the LORD’ and so they are. (Joel 2:25) From the seeds of well-intentioned converts bearing a ‘portion of truth mixed with their creeds,’ come our denominational systems, seen in the movements that organised around the message of Luther, or Wesley, and those who gathered to the opening of the Seven Seals by Branham. While the LORD’S desire is to call out His people, the ‘four stages of the Locust Armies’ seen by Joel, reveal that every religious denomination will strip Christ’s Salvation from men’s hearts and eventually trample the Word of God. The four stages of the locust armies seen by the Prophet Joel align to the ‘Four Winds’ that blow upon the earth. God’s Word bares witness of itself.
Tell your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation. What the crawling locust left, the swarming locust has eaten; and what the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten; and what the hopping locust left, the stripping locust has eaten. (Joel 1:3)
The two hundred million horses numbered in this 6th Trumpet do not refer so much, to the vast numbers that have ‘ridden out’ of the denominational church systems in their times, as to the ‘principalities and powers of the air’, that have filled their hearts. These religious hordes ride out and devour in the same pattern as the four horse riders of Revelation and the locust armies of Joel. The ‘breastplates of iron’ that speak of the hardness of men’s hearts in the 5th Trumpet, are now ‘breastplates of fire.’ It reveals religious denominations that condemn those who do not submit to their beliefs and salvation. Organisations that have risen in the nations, in the same way the Beast has risen from the Sea. False Savior’s have risen from our denominational creeds, like the theologians and politicians who forged the trinity, and so turned the hearts of the people to bow to Rome; or the writings of Joseph Smith who gave rise to Mormonism. The Beast of the Earth, the False Prophets, are ‘men’ who make us bow to their religious error, and not to Christ, and so lead our souls into captivity. (Revelation 13:12-13)
[By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths. For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt] (Revelation 9:13-21)
The fire, the smoke and the brimstone are a mix of the Law, our creeds and our ‘denominational judgement.’ This ‘judgement’ emanates from our haughty self importance. Foul things that spew from our mouths as it is from our hearts that idolatry, murder, [a]dultery, [f]ornication, theft, false witness, and blasphemy proceed. In the 5th Trumpet, Isaiah revealed the ‘prophet that teaches lies’, he is the tail. These testify to our condemning one another; of self righteousness, but not forgiveness. Of attacking the remnants of Christ’s Faith in brethren beaten down, and stripped naked, by church lies; of killing that ‘third part’ of God’s Testimony we hold dear, which speaks of Christ.
This is how the ‘little horns mouth of blasphemy’ wages war with the Saints and puts them to death. It is in the ‘doctrines of men,’ and the twisting of God’s Word that we condemn our neighbour; the very same neighbour, Jesus commanded we love. This is how we turn on one another, and cut, and destroy in God’s name, failing to understand, if we do it to each other; we do it to God. LORD Jesus, forgive us all!
[And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts] (Revelation 9:13-21)
In the seven times of the seven years of release, Israel was required to allow the poor among them, who had fallen into slavery, to return to their lands; a reminder of their exodus from Egypt’s bondage. Those that heeded the Trumpets of Release were set free and those that rejected their call, were bound into slavery forever. This portion of Scripture speaks of those that have chosen the bondage of their denominational doctrines over the ‘Gospel Release’ preached in their times. Like Martin Luther’s message of being, ‘justified by faith;’ or John Wesley’s, ‘sanctified by the Truth;’ or William Branham’s call; ‘Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever.’ Along with many other portions of ‘Gospel Truth’ by faithful men, these messages contain God’s promise to restore everything the locusts have eaten. In these things is the promise to restore God’s Truth and character in our hearts. (Deuteronomy 15)
The 6th Trumpet – The 2nd Woe
God’s testimonies raised
When the LORD showed Zechariah ‘Four Horns’ that would scatter Judah, Israel and Jerusalem, He also showed the Prophet, ‘four carpenters’ that would drive out the powers of these four horns. The message of the 6th Trumpet is blunt and direct. Our religious systems and creeds have fallen. The LORD desires we repent; “to come out of there my people.” God’s character gifted to men as seen in Daniels 1st Beast, has corrupted, and that ‘man of sin,’ is revealed in us as seen in Daniel’s 4th Beast. Our churches preach an age of grace and enlightenment but in truth we live in a time of great tribulation and darkness. Tribulation, vengeance and darkness brought forth by ‘Four Winds’ that have blown upon the earth in each of the seven Church Ages because of the error we preach. The Spirit of the Almighty is in these things, as He desires to bring us back to himself. For the seed that have not believed the messages of release in their ages, but who still hold fast to the LORD; His Prophet Ezekiel says…
And He said to me, Son of Man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, you know. Again he said to me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say to them, O you dry bones, hear the word of the LORD. Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live: …Then said he to me, Prophesy to the Wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the Wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the Four Winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army. Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole House of Israel: behold, they say, our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts. Therefore prophesy and say to them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. (Ezekiel 37:3-12)
Revelation Chapter 11, is divided by the death of the LORD’S Testimonies bound in the prophecies of Moses and Elijah in the same way Matthew Chapter 24, is divided by the ‘Abomination of Desolation’ as seen by the Prophet Daniel. The 5th Trumpet, the 1st Woe, declared God’s Testimonies put to death. This 6th Trumpet, the 2nd Woe, is seen in the portions of the resurrection of these witnesses; their ascension, and the fall of a tenth part of Babylon. The seven thousand slain, reveal an ‘Elijah Remnant’ that refused to bow to Baal and the prophets of Jezebel. The ‘seven thousand,’ identify a ‘sealed portion’ who have resisted the false-Christs’ in their generations. Like the Apostle Paul, who was put to death for Christ’s Name and Testimony; or like Luther, who stood against the gross idolatry of the Roman Church. These living sacrifices have shaken the foundations of ‘Babylon,’ the gospels of men in their times; God’s Testimonies mixed with the seed of men; ‘toes mixed with miry clay and iron,’ as seen by the Prophet Daniel.
All of these things can be seen in the season the LORD dried up the River Jordan in Joshua’s time. When Israel’s Tribal Armies went out ahead, followed by the Levites who bore the Ark. And after having circled Jericho seven times, and having blown seven trumpets as they went, they brought that city down. These things perfectly align to the 6th Plague that tells of the ‘Euphrates’ (the Gospel) drying up, and the Kings of the East as they prepare to cross over dry-shod. Things that come before the sounding of the Seven Trumpets of Revelation. (Joshua 6 + Revelation 16:12)
And when they (the two prophets) 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… And after three days and an half the spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet… And they heard a great voice from heaven saying to them, Come up here. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud;… And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven. The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly. (Revelation 11:7-14)
As the Seven Church Angel’s and their ‘Elijah Remnants’ have blown their trumpets and circled Jericho in their times, many like Rahab the [h]arlot, have chosen to fear God more than the religious systems of men. The Winds of Tribulation brought on by the ‘False-Christs’ in their generations have caused the curses and plagues to pass over them. These have been saved by the ‘sure mercies of David.’ These desolate remnants, these dry bones, have turned and will in the end be set free from their church creeds and give God the Glory. Released from bondage, they shall wash their church garments, their beliefs and creeds; white in the blood of the Lamb. These are the multitudes from all nations spoken of in Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. As Jacob crossed his hands and blessed Ephraim, the younger of Joseph’s son’s rather than the elder; so the LORD on the cross, passed the greater blessing upon those multitudes of Israel yet to be born in the Nations. In the 5th Trumpet we saw the virgin born Tribes named with the name of Jesus Christ. In this 6th Trumpet we see the whole host of Ephraim who carry the name Israel; multitudes, who have come through great tribulation in the seven times of the Nations.
I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;… And one of the elders answered, saying to me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?… And I said to him, Sir, you know; And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. (Revelation 7:9-14)
