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By John Michael Nugent
“Wherefore the scribe, who is trained for the Kingdom Of Heaven, is like the householder, who goes into his treasury, and brings forth, what is new, and what is old.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter I
... 7777—Warning Milestones
Chapter I
Maybe I am not too bright. For nearly forty years I have been wandering in a spiritual wilderness. Books upon books, history ancient and modern, art, politics, philosophy, oh yes, lots of philosophy, religions, pre-religion, new religion, biography and autobiography, on race and creed, fact and deed, fiction and fantasy, theology and micro-biology, the gobbledygook of every book leaves me student of all and master of none, bewildered, confused and nowhere nearer the truth, I thought that I would find in youth.
I realize that every thinking person at some time, must ask themselves “Why am I here?” I decided therefore, to give it one last try; to go through the vast storehouse of remembered and half remembered useless information hidden in the tiny recesses at the back of my head, otherwise known as a brain.
“Back to the drawing board”, I’ve heard other failures say. Taking their advice that’s exactly where I went. Back to the beginning, all the way to creation. The authorative book on this subject of creation is the Bible; never be without an authorative book, scholarly authors use them all the time and quote from them endlessly.
Now it seems that at the time of creation there were two great forces in power in the void. One is God the master of Light and Truth and the other is Satan or Devil, master of Evil and deceit. Like all good deceivers, Satan has many names and it is hard to know which one applies at any one time.
I have it on good authority that the Bible, sometimes known as the Holy Bible, was written and inspired by the first named, God. If that is true, where then is the book of the Devil? A reasonable question, I thought, from a person of my messy education. Wrong again. It seems that part of the design or skill of the devil is that of usurping the labor of others to his own credit and glory. Fiendish in fact. To prove what I say, just take a few minutes and read some of the Bible. Don’t try to take it all in now, just fast read some of it. You will notice a common theme or thread running all through it from start to finish. Although this book is inspired and written by God and of God, it is full of the works of the Devil. Now these two are either very good friends or extreme enemies. I think it is the latter; I have an instinct for these things. They seem to be engaged in a long battle of wits which is not resolved until the end. And even then when God has won, and you are planning to back the winner you will get cold feet because you begin to wonder if the devil has pulled another con trick and is the real winner after all. There is an answer to that, which we will come to later.
The big preoccupation with most present day commentators of the end times, is with the last book in the Bible known as the Revelation of God, to his Son Jesus Christ, to give to His servants. That’s understandable; it’s the book that tells us how we shall be saved or how we shall die. It is said the choice is ours, we will just not be told when it will happen. Sounds reasonable to me, so long as we have all the facts before we make our choice, and I am assured that all the facts we need are right there in the books in between. It strikes me that the book that is most neglected and overlooked by commentators in all this “latter day” analysis, is the first one, the first book of Moses, better known perhaps as Genesis. It has all the characteristics of the last book, an unreal quality, and it’s prophesies are almost totally ignored. Let’s take a careful look at Genesis, if for no other reason than that no one else seems to have lingered here with much perception.
The First Milestone—Gen. Ch. 1 The first five days, God is busy creating a wonderful environment. I don’t think He intended it to be spoiled, but with the Devil’s help, we have done a pretty good job. I’m beginning to like God already. However, the next day is the interesting bit. On the sixth day, along with all animals and things that creep on the earth, God created man in his own image, male and female. Be fruitful and increase in numbers; fill the earth and subdue it. (Must have seemed like a good idea at the time.) Rule over the fish of the sea, birds of the air and every living creature that moves on the earth. (Does that include power over Satan when he’s home? He is a living creature.) He gave all seed bearing plants on earth and all plants that bear fruit for man to eat. He supplied all green plants for creatures to eat. God took a good look at all this and decided it was good.
On the seventh day (now this is not just interesting like creation, this is important) He rested from all his work and He BLESSED the seventh day and made it HOLY. I hear you, nothing new in that. We already know, that number seven means perfection completion. All right, so you know. That saves me from having to tell you. But what is more important is that made it Holy. Do you know what Holy means? From the loud silence, I take it the answer is you are not really sure. Well I’ll tell you: dedicated to religious use; consecrated; sacred; spiritually pure; sinless; saintly; regarded with, or deserving deep respect. Did you get all that? No, nor did I, until I looked it up in the dictionary. Can you pick out the important one? There it is, right between spiritually, pure and saintly. “Sinless.” That’s it, that’s the important one. We have not seen Satan yet, but God knows he is there, hovering, scheming and waiting. So he has put up the stop sign for he knows sin is coming. Go no further, keep off the grass! This is marked number seven. BE WARNED! This is the meaning of number seven throughout the Bible, BE WARNED, sinners walk this way only. Now Satan knows, God will not attack him directly, or he does not think so because the ways of God are Holy. But then Satan is not going to push his luck either, because powerful as he is, he does not know all the ways of holiness, and I suspect that on a one to one basis with God, Satan did not give much for his own chances. No, it’s better to be subtle and cunning and wait his time. That’s his strength. Work from the inside. Satan the original insider; there is a few more of them walking the earth now.
The altruistic (those who do not wish others to be deceived) among you may say, “but all this does not qualify number 7 to be unique, if Moses wrote Genesis, he just arrived at number 7 naturally with the seven steps of creation, or he divided the story of creation into seven parts and called them days”. Well if you are not sure Moses wrote this on God’s authority, let us look at what ‘man’ says about seven days in a week. The Encyclopedia Britannica states, “the week of seven days is an entirely artificial division of time and cannot be correlated with any astronomical or natural phenomena”. In other words nothing in the universe visible to man, can account for the choice of seven for the number of days in the week. Like most of God’s more obedient servants throughout the ages, Moses was a simple, almost timid man. On his own admission, a poor speaker, afraid to talk to large crowds, he was not pushy or a lover of the limelight. But he was obedient to God. He could never have dreamed up number seven. If left to choose the number of days for a week, he would have chosen a more natural division of time. The divisions of time in those days were governed by the seasons, the sun, moon and stars, even the comings and goings of animals. The Assyrians “chose” 6 days for their week, the Incas 10 days, the Romans 8 days, but Israel was “given” 7 days by God for very good reasons. This “un-natural” number of seven is chosen by the Creator, it has great significance throughout the Bible and consequently for us. It marks the path of faith from beginning to end. Jesus Christ made no bones about how difficult and narrow the path is. Like any road it is signposted through the dark valleys and stony mountains with God’s number 7. He that has eyes to see … let him see.
The story of the serpent and the fall from grace of Adam and Eve is well known and easy to understand, except for these points that I would make. God said to the serpent “cursed are you above all the livestock, for all the days of your life.”
Notice that God did not curse the serpent, the serpent had cursed himself by his own action. God goes on to say “And I will put enmity between you and the woman and her offspring” … God here is clearly stating His own action in the affair.
To Adam He said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat from it all the days of your life”.
God here has not cursed Adam, but Adam, by his action has cursed the ground; he has accepted responsibility for it by his disobedience, and God’s future help to him must now be got under different conditions, God can no longer take the toil out of it for him, Adam now has knowledge (without full understanding) and the toil will wear him out and he will die.
Satan has pulled off a master stroke, in one move has cursed the snake, and made it an enemy of Eve’s offspring; he has cursed the earth, brought toil and death into man’s life and started to open a gap between man and his God, the Creator. Not a bad day’s work from Satan’s point of view. The only thing God would do, because of His wisdom, was to cause woman to suffer pain in childbirth thereby causing her to cleave to her husband and be ruled by him. In other words a woman would obey her husband without question as Adam obeyed God before the fall from grace. As long as there is love between them this will remain true. A union between man and woman without love cannot be made (recognized) in heaven.
This is probably much easier for a woman to understand, than a man. In any ease, a woman’s pain in childbirth is a blessing for man.
If this was a sporting contest, the judges would have to award the first round to Satan.
Eve conceived Cain and later, Abel. How many times have I read this story and never understood its far reaching significance? If you are not familiar with the story, I would suggest you read it without delay, carefully, Gen. Ch. 4 vs.1 - 16. Do not read what you think it says, do not read what you want it to say, read only what it says. Vs. 10, The Lord said to Cain “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground. Now you are under a curse, and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood (from your hand). When you work the ground it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.”
Again, as with Adam, God did not curse Cain. He tells him he is under a curse. (from his own hand by his own action). When Cain complains to God that, “it is too much to bear ... I will be driven from your presence ... and whoever finds me will kill me .... Cain, the murderer of his brother, realizes that he can no longer talk with God face to face. He can no longer farm, which is his love, and is afraid he will be slain. God in His great love for Cain (mankind), does not kill Cain, does not curse Cain, but does protect him. God curses any one who slays Cain with a punishment Seven times greater than Cain’s. The magnitude and implications of such a curse are beyond my imagination. The meaning it has for me is clear, the path of the sin of murder takes man away from God and endangers his soul, makes him a wanderer in the (spiritual) wilderness and all its dangers (demons). Only Cain had Devine protection, but a man who kills for VENGEANCE, is under God’s curse. It does not bear thinking about. God’s curse is a Holy statement, a warning, and He marks it with the number 7.
The Third Milestone and a Horrific Prophesy The seventh male from Adam, the firstborn of man, is one by the name of Lamech. The sixth son of sin. He had two wives Adah and Zillah.
Gen. Ch. 4 vs. 23 Lamech said to his wives “Adah and Zillah, listen to me; wives of Lamech, hear my words, I will kill a man for wounding me, a young man for injuring me. If Cain is avenged seven times, then Lamech seventy-seven times.”
Suddenly, out of the dull lines of genealogy comes this startling and at first glance, useless piece of information. Look closer and understand its real meaning.
God’s new Jerusalem is referred to in the bible as the bride or wife of God.
Rev. Ch. 21 vs. 9 “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.” And God’s people are referred to as a bride.
Isa. Ch. 62 vs. 5 “...as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so the Lord rejoices over you”.
Hosea Ch. 2 vs. 16 “...you will call me “my husband...””.
God also declares “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end”.
Here Lamech is calling on God’s chosen people— Adah arid Zillah, A to Z, Alpha and Omega, “listen to me” he calls. Wives of Lamech, he repeats. Is he God now, to call in this way on God’s chosen people? Has he married God’s bride?
“I will kill a man for wounding me.” Did Christ’s ministry wound him? He is prophesying the death of Jesus Christ, he promises to kill Him. In some translations he says “I have killed...” in the past tense.
“a young man for injuring me.” Christ was only 33. We are not told much of what Christ had to suffer during His short time in Hell, except that, “He overcame the devil”. Did he then have to fight the Beast, and win by dealing the Beast a mortal blow from which he was/is miraculously healed? The wound could not be allowed to kill the beast on earth, or the Son of God would be guilty and subject to God’s curse turned on Him in the last two lines of this satanic prophesy;
If Cain is avenged seven times, then Lamech seventy-seven times.
But Christ killed the beast in Hell, his curse cannot work there. The Lamb after he himself had been killed on earth, overcame Lamech with a deadly wound, which God allowed to be miraculously healed. God instructed Moses to write this down in the book of Genesis so that we might know and understand how the Beast, the Anti-Christ, got his wound and Who gave it to him and when, and also the name of the beast, Lamech. And He marked it with the number seven, that we might be warned and know the way.
God turns the tables on Lamech the Beast, later on, when we read in Daniel Ch. 9 vs. 24. Seventy weeks of years are decreed (Daniel is talking to the devil here) for your people and your holy city to finish your transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophesy and to anoint the most Holy.
In the last days, Lamech the beast, alias the chosen gone astray, will be slain, not by God, from Whom he sought to defend himself by threatening God with the curse of Cain, seventy-seven times, but will be slain by his own followers, the chosen gone astray, who will turn on him in the last days, after the abomination has been set up in the temple.
But we jump too far ahead, I apologize for my impatience. Let us return to the path of the milestones of God and find the next one along the way.
The Fourth Milestone and the Flood Eve conceived again and bore a son and called him Seth. The seventh from Adam in this line, the sixth born, was Enoch, cousin to Lamech, the prophet of Satan. As Lamech was evil, so Enoch was Holy. Enoch’s son was Methuselah, famous as the oldest man who ever lived; after his birth, Enoch lived for 300 years and all those years he walked with God. He did not die; he was not, for God took him. As Lamech was the voice of darkness so Enoch was light. There could have been as much as 200 years between them, but by generations they were cousins. One wonders if they ever met. See FIGURE 1
Methuselah’s first born was Lamech. Is this a rare touch of humor from God or may be Methuselah, to give him the same name as his great uncle? This Lamech, was a God fearing man but he was aptly named for the part he had to play in God’s scheme. Gen. Ch. 5 vs. 28, When Lamech had lived 182 years, he became the father of a son, and he called his name Noah, saying, “Out of the ground which the Lord has cursed, this one shall bring us relief from our work and the toil of our hands”.
Maybe this old man fancied himself as a prophet, or perhaps it was wishful thinking or perhaps he just had the wrong name, but he was wrong on two counts. God did not curse the earth and Noah would not bring them relief from the toil of their hands, unless you call total extinction relief. No the really important fact about this Lamech, was the age at which he died, 777 years, as Lamech the anti-Christ will die at the time of God’s great number.
In those days, men reckoned the ages by the age of man. At important occasions like births and deaths there was always one who could memorize and recite the names and ages and deeds of the ancestry of the person concerned, with great accuracy and order. So it is in this division of time, or calendar, that we find God’s warning milestone, “in all the years of Lamech, 777”. The warning of the most traumatic event in the history of the world.
The perceptive people of that time must have recognized the significance of this, versed in the names and numbers of the generations as they were. God’s chosen people had incurred his wrath. Instead of keeping to their own tribes of God’s chosen, they were marrying and being given away in marriage to these other people (a case here for the Darwinist?). “...some of their daughters were fair...”. With this “inter-marrying” the chosen were being led away from God, and the violence and evil were increasing with the population explosion. (Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?) Giants were being born, both physically and intellectually. These were the great leaders and warriors of ancient legend. At least they were still legend in the days of Moses. God decided there was no saving them, they would not listen. All except Noah, for Noah pleased God. God gave Noah his instructions concerning the Ark. Five years after the death of Noah’s father, Lamech, at the age of 777 years, when Noah was 600 years old, the rain started to fall and God shut the door of the Ark. The people, enjoying their lives of peace and plenty and evil behavior, were swept away.
I am not going through the whole Bible as a commentary of the number 7. That is not my purpose. The aim is to establish the vital importance of its use, wisdom, and guidance. It is enough to say that the most important occurrence in the Old Testament as I have pointed out on page 6, the prophecy of Daniel Ch. 9 vs. 24, where it takes the 7 times curse of God on any would-be slayer of Cain, added 70 times by Lamech the antichrist, to defend himself against Christ, God tells us through Daniel that this will be the division of time to bring the chosen people of God to redemption and the new Jerusalem, and to the Anointed One. Seventy- weeks of years. This is so well known and so much has been written on it, that it needs no further comment from me. It is another milestone on the path of light and truth.
The more I follow this trail of milestones, the more insights and perceptions are thrown up, the more profound become the simple statements of truth in Christ’s teachings. They take on a greater depth and clarity of meaning than I ever saw before. I sometimes feel I could write whole books on any single one of them.
As I searched the book of Revelations, for some of a warning of its time, I found many sevens, each one a warning of the horrors they announce, but nothing to indicate a warning of the time itself. As Christ said “...no one knows but the father...”. But it is not the hour, the day or the year that I seek, but that period when I could tell people, “this is definitely the dying years of the world, this is the last chance to come to terms with God”. Most of today’s commentators of the Revelations say this is so. Their faith tells them it is so, their reading of the world’s condition tells them so. People listen, then find arguments to convince themselves that it is “over reaction”, “things are not as bad as they seem.” “These commentators are just Jesus freaks.” The more people they can get to agree with them the safer they feel. The scoffers will increase as more and more people read about and talk about the end times.
A warning milestone of the end times will give comfort and support to the believers against this rising tide of disbelief. Something of solid logic, not vision, not prophesy, not some anonymous writing on the wall, not black magic mumbo-jumbo, but clean simple logic and simple arithmetic.
The nearest we can get to the end times is today, because we live in the present, not the past or the future. So I started today, October 8, 1983. You may have noticed that each milestone warns of a change in the times of man. In ancient times there were no calendars so we must look in the generations and the divisions of man. Today we have calendars.
According to the bible’s teaching the end will come when the chosen are returned to God in the last, as yet, unfulfilled 7 years of Daniel’s prophecy. This will not happen until the “times of the Gentiles have been fulfilled”. Therefore we must look for a place where three things meet,
The time of the chosen in the Jewish calendar. The time of the Christians in the Christian calendar. And God’s number 7.
Where all three meet, is the milestone, if there is such a point. I started with 1983, and placed it at the end of a horizontal line. Above it I wrote 5744, the Jewish year. At the other end of the scale I wrote 2033, the anniversary of the resurrection of our Lord. I added a Jewish date 5744 (this year) to a Christian date 2033. It equals “7777”. I wish I could put that up in big neon lights. A number fit to make Satan tremble. I don’t think Satan likes me anymore. Of course the span of years on my scale is 50 years, so the rest is easy See FIGURE 2. Add 1983 to 5794 and you get 7777. Go halfway along the scale to the 25 year mark and you get 5769 + 2008 = 7777.
There is our final milestone, the year 2008. Do not ask me if this is the end or the beginning of the Tribulation. You heard Jesus, “only the Father knows”. The actual day could be in three hundred years time, but this is definitely the last milestone, there cannot be another one until the #77,777, could on the scale of years.
We do not know when Noah began to build the Ark, but we do know that the Flood started when Noah was 600 years old, 5 years after his father died the age of 777. They that could “see” had 5 years warning, they took no notice and died.
Mathew Ch. 24 vs. 36 Jesus said; “But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
But as the days of Noah were, so shall also be the coming of the Son of man.
For as in the days of Noah before the Flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the Ark.
And knew not until the flood took them all away; so also shall the coming of the Son of man be.
It is written that the anti-Christ will gain control through peace, by bringing order in a time of peace as in the days of Noah....
I beg you not to wait until the door of the Ark shut.
CHRISTIAN CALENDAR
FINAL WARNING MINESTONE
One of the things about the book of revelations that surprised and impressed me, was the factual unemotional way in which John reports every he sees. But to think that John is unemotional and untouched by it all is wrong. The lie to it is shown in his only outburst when he weeps when no one worthy comes forward to open the seals of the scroll.
To discover something enlightening, concerning God is a very uplifting experience to say the least. I would have understood if John’s account of the Revelations had been embellished with his own emotion and joy of the experience he went through. It was with this in mind that I wrote the first chapter of this book, and tried to remain factual and objective as was John, in Revelations. Please do not misunderstand me, I do not wish to imply that what I have written is remotely in the same league as the prophet John. Although a nominal Christian all my life, it is only in the last few months that I have begun to find out what Christianity is all about. To be able to pray to God and have a reply every time, some almost immediately, some answered even before they are properly formed in my mind, is an extraordinary and indescribable experience. Every time my path ran into a dead end, a prayer opened the way again. To say that what I have written in the first chapter of this book, has never been thought of, seen or understood by anyone else before, is naive. The first ten wheels were probably all invented at the same time. But the conclusions that I have come to, are my own, my only help coming from prayer. Now if what I have just said is true, then someone up there has taken an awful lot of trouble to make sure I understood, and if that is true, what I have written is meant to have meaning for others. The discovery of the last milestone came so easily at the end, I literally jumped for joy. I was like a dog with two tails. I laughed and cried as if I had just given birth The last milestone is the only one that is not written in the Bible. Then how can I be sure it is true?
I can be sure because the Jewish calendar does exist, and the Christian calendar does exist, and the figures do add up, and equal the mighty number 7777 of God. All this is reality. Unarguable, logic and simple arithmetic. It exists, it is. And everything that ‘is’ is God’s and created by Him. For me personally the most convincing argument is that as I prayed at each step along the way, the answers flowed back free and clear. The spiritual uplift of such and experience cannot be described, it has to be experienced.
If a sinner of long standing such as I can do it, anybody can. It’s much easier than giving up smoking, that’s for sure.
I have prayed to God, that if what I write is not the truth, then it must not be published. So if you are reading this now from a published book, you can be sure and believe. Wait a minute, what if your publisher is an unscrupulous servant of Satan, and prints your book to fool people into believing it is true? The answer to that is simple, faith. If I pray to God and ask for His control of this, there is no way that Satan or anybody is going to change it. I am not making a very good job of describing my experience here, its in danger of becoming a confession. Perhaps this is not the place for it. If any reader wants to know more of my experience then write to me, because now I want to talk about something else.
This chapter is the most difficult to write and the most difficult to understand. You can believe me when I say it took a great deal of prayer and more than one answer before the light went on and the truth sank in.
I will try to keep it simple without losing the subtlety and the thread.
To understand the end times and Revelations you must first understand the message of Genesis. God did not write it as a piece of light entertainment to get you started on the bible. Its simplicity belies its deep and far reaching meanings. I have read most of the popular and current books on this subject, with avid interest I might add, and yet almost to a man, or woman, they totally ignore Genesis; except for a passing mention of the flood. They naturally concentrate on the prophets, apparently ignorant of the fact that some of the greatest prophecies are in Genesis.
I should not be so hard on them; their books have inspired and informed me and helped to lead me to this effort, and I hope it is worthy of them.
Step By Step Establishment of the SEVENTH day, a short period of time that was ordered by God and made ‘sinless’, a time in which Satan could not act effectively.
Adam, the first man on earth, created by God, not born. In about 5 minutes flat, Satan was under his skin. Poor Adam had no chance. It’s at about this point that I begin to suspect that God has an ulterior motive in putting man on earth. Could he be ‘sucker bait’ to lure Satan into a trap. If that is true then I am all for it. Satan may be a wily old bird but he just cannot pass up an opportunity to destroy something God has created. You can almost hear him saying, “you set ‘em up and I’ll knock ‘em down”. Perhaps what he did not realise for a split second, and then it was too late, that he had just bought a one way ticket to perdition on a non stop train. Now that there is no going back he is really going to cause trouble. His power is awesome and he knows how to use it.
God’s Move God does two things. No, three. He sends the snake off with a promise of “no legs forever”, and a warning to watch out for Eve’s offspring because they are not going to like you. “They...crush your head...” (Mortal wound of the anti-Christ).
He tells Adam and Eve they have got to move house out of the garden, because they have stolen knowledge, and because of this the ground has gone sour on them, and their nakedness makes them ashamed of themselves.
The third thing is that Eve will suffer pain in childbirth, which will cause her to be loyal to her husband. These may appear to be small everyday things to us now, but I get the distinct feeling that God is thinking way ahead, I am almost beginning to feel sorry for Satan. The bait is now out in the big wide world and I can almost hear the slobber dripping from the jaws of that big bad wolf. Adam and Eve, with their new found knowledge, overcome their new found shyness, and produce Cain, the first man ever to be born on earth. Soon another son is born and they name him Abel. We all know the story.
Satan’s Move He does not waste any time, this game is limited and he wants to make as many moves as he can before he goes under. He still nurses a foolish idea that he might possibly win; if he can just get God to lose his patience; fat chance. Anyway he sows the seed of jealousy in Cain, Cain reacts as predicted and becomes the first murderer as well as the firstborn. Abel could not be tempted, he had that sickeningly childish loyalty to God. Not Cain, though, he was just right, fierce, independent, demanding the top spot. He would have trod on his Grandmother if he had had one. Serves him right, he’s all mine now. Four down, none to go. Your move.
God Gets Tough God takes Cain aside, and pretends not to notice that Satan is listening. As much as I love you, you Cannot stand in My Presence again, you know that, and you also know that like your father you have turned the earth sour, and you are not designed for eating thistles. You know what violent death means and you are afraid someone will do it to you. Well at least you can be protected; I put this mark on you so that people will know who you are, and any man that kills you will suffer 7 times the punishment that you bear. Off you go and wander round the land of Nod and try and stay out of trouble.
Of course God knows that Satan will be off after Cain waiting to have fun with his offspring, and anyway there is the germ of a very nasty idea beginning to take shape in the mind of Satan.
Satan’s Move Not so quick off the mark this time. There’s that hated number 7 again. Damned perfection. The seventh generation could be an impossible barrier. I think I will leave this game for a while and concentrate on the land of Nod. I need a prophet to counter the Messiah that I know is coming.
And as Satan worked deeper into the growing of Cain, Adam and Eve had another son named Seth. The line of Seth flourished with long life. Enoch was the sixth son of Seth and God loved him because he walked with God, and while the six generations before him including Adam and Seth still lived in great age, Enoch left this earth. He did not die, for God took him.
Meanwhile somewhere in the wilderness to the east of Eden, Enoch’s cousin, of the line of Cain, one named Lamech, the sixth son of sin, was prophesying for the devil, for he is the chosen one of Satan.
As it is written by God’s servant Moses, to expose the evil cunning of Satan, Lamech addressed his wives.
“Adah and Zillah, listen to me”, (as in Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, but A to Z, places it in the latter days; those of God) “wives of Lamech, hear my words” (Israel, the bride of God, God’s unfaithful wife is now the wives of Lamech and will listen to his words.) “I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man for injuring me” (with the help of the unfaithful wife, Lamech will cause her to crucify her own son). He implies that his action was self defense but we know that he received his wound in hell when he was overcome by the Messiah, our Lord Jesus Christ. This is how the anti-Christ got his wound, this was when he got his wound, and this was why he got his wound. Who else could have the power to inflict a mortal blow on evil, on the false and deceiving evil of Satan’s weapon against Israel and mankind, but our Redeemer and Saviour, Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God. His curse of 70 times, the curse of God on Cain’s would be slayer, was null and void for he had already killed our Lord. The anti-Christ was not slain on earth but in hell, therefore his curse has no value, but he murdered Christ on earth, and must pay the price in full to God. Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord. Amen. The mortal wound of the anti-Christ is miraculously healed, though he is dead, yet he shall live until the will of the Lord God Almighty is fulfilled, and his chosen people are redeemed and made holy in the very last days. As Christ said to his disciples “the first shall be last and the last shall be first”.
In spite of all the words we write and all the argument we use Satan will still come forward with his beast and false prophet, and such is the fickleness of people that they will forget all they have learned. They will push God aside and follow the beast and his prophet and even worship him. The beast is dead, even though he walks, he is dead. Would you worship a corpse? There will be people who will see his flesh rot before their eyes, and then they will know that only God is the Truth. But then it will be too late, the door of the Ark will be shut, the door to heavens closed.
The Battle Goes On It may seem a little confusing to you that I skip from Genesis to the end times and back again, but it will help you to understand better if you remember that in the nether world of Satan and in the heavens of the angels time is not the same restraining factor as it is in this physically restricted world of ours. It is restrained by power rather than by the clock.
To get back to our game of move and counter move, we left Satan in the land of Nod, he has successfully appointed himself a false Christ and kept fairly clear of the line of Seth. Now before Enoch was taken by God, he had a son named Methuselah. The oldest man who ever lived and is ever likely to, the way the world is going. He died about the time of the flood, I would like to think it was the week before, I could not imagine the poor old chap being drowned. However, he also had a son, first of many, I should imagine, and whether it was a whimsical sense of humor on Methuselah’s part or an inspiration of God the boy’s name was Lamech. I feel sure it was God cocking a snook at Satan. Be that as it may, Lamech was to play a vital role in God’s scheme. On second thoughts I do not think it was humor on God’s part because He was not very happy with the way things were going in the world. Satan was having a field day. He had the Sons of God marrying all sorts of no good people and giving their daughters away in such marriages too. Violence and evil were everywhere even though it was a basically peaceful and prosperous time. Satan was getting too much of an upper hand and God decided to put a stop to it. He told Noah, who pleased God, to build the Ark and you know the rest of the story better than I do. But do not forget Lamech died aged 777. That put the chains on Satan. He usually enjoyed a good piece of destruction, but most of what was being destroyed was his kingdom of evil and that would take time to replace. He could not do much to stop it, the perfection of God’s 777 was on it, giving 5 years warning. As in the days of Noah so shall the coming of the Son of Man be.
Summary of the Game 1. God chooses 7 as a barrier to Satan. 2. Satan counters, with an anti-Christ named Lamech and 77 to defend himself against God. 3. God wipes evil from the earth by using the name of Lamech and 777, to bring the Flood and destroy all Satan’s works. 4. Lamech fulfills his prophesy and slays Christ on earth, but Christ slays Lamech in hell. Lamech’s curse of 77 is wiped out. 5. As in the days of Noah, God will use Lamech again, with his wound miraculously healed, to come to the final 7 years of the prophecy of Daniel, the trial of Israel, until that day when the warning time of God’s mighty number 7777, warns of the glorious day of completion and control of evil.
GAME, SET AND MATCH TO GOD.
Chapter IV Understanding the Effect of Prayer
I prayed to God through Jesus Christ and asked to be shown the truth concerning the seals, Revs Chapters 6 & 8, a light so that I might see and recognize the times for what they are. I told the Lord that I am confused.
As I finished praying, I opened my eyes and saw a man’s arm reaching into the charred timbers. His hand withdrew a Bible; the paper marker in its pages was charred and still smoking. The man opened the Bible at the marker and I was able to read over his shoulder; and I read,
“I looked, and behold a pale horse...”
It is Revs chapters. 6 vs. 8 .... The opening of the fourth seal by the Lamb of God.
To explain this; when I opened my eyes, I was looking directly at the television which was on, but the sound turned off, and the scene described above was taking place in the film. It seemed too much of a “co-incidence” that my eyes should open at jus that moment, especially when I tell you that finished my prayer by repeating the Lord’s prayer As I said, “amen,” I realized that I could no remember having said any of the prayer after the words “Give us this day...” So I went back and repeated the prayer carefully from “give us this day...”. If I had not done this I would not have opened my eyes at precisely the right time to catch the scene. I have wondered since, why my mind went blank for half of the Lord’s prayer. A “co-incidence’is the answer that usually explains away these happenings, but I dearly wanted it to be my prayer answered; even so quickly; even if I did not as yet understand the answer.
The usual definition of co-incidence is two or more “incidences”, “things”, or “happenings” that meet or occur at the same time in some remarkable way, no apparent reason. Now without a logical explanation they are listed as accident or co-incident. The trouble with this is that if you must have a logical reason for everything before going further, life becomes very dull. With such an attitude, man would still be living in caves. The cause of remarkable, but unexplainable, occurrences can be debated forever in order to deny belief, but a heartfelt instinct, a recognition should never be denied.
Edison once said, that a man who would declare his conviction, and as his listeners laughed, would loudly restate his conviction, even though he had no proof, but later is proved to be correct, is of the stuff that genius is made. What he was saying was that intuitive knowledge must come first, then the courage, then the theory, then proof, then advancement.
The one ingredient that makes our man of conviction different from his fellows is “faith”, in himself, and in this case, his intuitive instinct. Without this faith, each one of us is a semi vegetable. It does not matter what we are or how important we might consider ourselves, whether dustman, lawyer, housewife, gardener, scientist, or whatever, we must have faith to do our chosen task well. A man whose occupation takes him to the limits of his physical or mental (or both) abilities is not a vegetable. All his senses are alert, his adrenalin is flowing, his awareness is heightened way above normal. He is “living”. This applies equally to an astronaut or gardener, a soldier in battle or a truck driver; if he is operating at his utmost concentration.
The vital ingredient, of course, is faith in ones own ability to do the best, to do it a little better than you have done before. If someone does it better than you without really trying, it does not matter. You know you did the best you could, therefore you have kept faith with yourself, the other fellow did not because he was not “really trying”.
If faith is the important ingredient in everyday life, then how much more is it in your religious belief. Anyone who has had a prayer answered (and that is meant literally) will know what I mean by faith. Those who have never had a prayer answered, just do not have the needed faith in God’s will. How often have you been deeply troubled and prayed and the prayer has not been answered? You only prayed because you were troubled, you would not have bothered otherwise. I know this is true because I have done it myself. The Christian way is simple and uncomplicated. Millions of words have been written on the teachings of Christianity, and what should be simple becomes more and more complex. Christ teaches an “attitude” to life, adopt that attitude, live it in your everyday life, quietly without fuss, and your prayers will always be answered. The prayer and answer already mentioned at the beginning of this chapter is not unusual, fast certainly, I have sometimes had to wait as much as three or four days. As Christ said, “...ask, and it shall be given to you...”, He also said that sometimes we must be patient, for a prayer will be answered in God’s time. Try it, you have every thing to gain. If you do not, you have everything to lose. God wants to answer your prayer, he is waiting for you to ask. Talk to others about it. You can talk about God in a casual everyday way. Its not some big ceremonial thing that can only be done in church. Christ’s church is ultimately in the hearts of men.
Try to keep God in the back of your consciousness all the time. Pray that if you should forget Him, He will not forget you.
I have not reached the top of the mountain yet, I am still in the foot hills. Martin Luther King, in his now famous speech, said he had reached the top and seen over the other side. You could hear the joy in his voice. He could not wait to tell you about it. He knew the bullet was coming and it held no fears for him. The early Christians, fed to the lions, in the Roman arena, felt no pain. They died quietly praying. Christ took them out of their tribulation. Those that lost their faith at the last moment, and ran screaming, trying to escape, died screaming. Many of the spectators noticed this phenomena, but did not understand. Today the Gospels are written, and available, we have modern communications. We have no excuse not to understand.
Chapter V Revelations Up To The Last 7 Years
The answer to my prayer, indicated the fourth seal. (See Rev. chapter 6.) “And I saw, and behold, a pale horse, and its riders name was Death, and Hades followed him; and they were given power over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by wild beasts of the earth.”
To understand this better, perhaps we should start at the beginning of Revelations. God already knows if we shall succeed or fail to understand this message, but like children we must learn, succeed or fail by our own efforts.
What John is describing in Revelations is what he saw, in his own words, with the knowledge available to him at the time. God is satisfied with that description, knowing that it will be understood by each generation according to their own times. You may he sure that God did not intend for it to be a riddle. It is a communication to Christ’s church, and meant to be understood. Therefore we should not concern our selves with what it might have meant to a reader 1,000 years ago. What it interprets today, is what it means today, and is how it is meant to be understood today, its essence is the truth we must understand.
Revelations begins with John’s statement that, Revelations is a description of what is to take place in heaven and earth in the future. It is the Revelation of Jesus Christ given to him by God to “show His servants what must soon take place”.
The first part consists of a letter to each of the seven churches of Christ, charging them to correct their mistakes and to follow Christ’s teachings faithfully. The seven churches are Christ on earth, they represent His completeness in the number seven. Therefore the charge is to prepare themselves, each individual member, to prepare themselves to meet God. Whether you die before the end times or not, does not matter, the same rules apply. It is the final examination which you are taking in this life. God will take care of the children: if you are not a child, then become one before God. Pride in your own importance and cleverness, is pathetic in the eyes of God. Be wise, for wisdom will make you humble.
Many people are put off by the ravings of the hellfire Evangelist. His methods smack of sensationalism. Rather like modern television advertising. We know that adverts stretch the truth and if God’s message is presented it the same way, in our minds it implies that the speaker is misinterpreting God's message and distorting the truth. So we tend to back off and not to pay too much attention; our belief in God turns inward and becomes a private thing not to be talked about in public. I beg you to look for other Christians and talk to them. The true Christian has dignity and peace, he is not a ranting salesman Christ is not an exaggerated, hysterical idea, but a cold hard statement of the pure truth of God. Acceptance of it brings the warm welcome of love and forgiveness. These are the simple requirements of you, to be received into heaven – As Jesus put it, “Accept, be patient, be faithful.” It costs you nothing except some small changes in your attitude to everyday life, which will enhance your life and well being, and for those around you.
If you wish to become an active evangelist you may suffer persecution and even death, such martyrs are promised a crown in heaven. Many people have given their whole life to the church and never saved a soul. Others have had congregations of millions. But if one simple soul, one humble person, turns one other soul towards God, then his reward in heaven will be as great or even greater than the one who preaches to thousands.
A prince of the church here on earth has to achieve so much more than the humble believer. As Christ said, it is easier for the poor and humble to the Kingdom of Heaven than for the rich powerful.
So Christ’s message to the churches (that’s you), is to ask God for forgiveness, walk in His ways keep faith with Him. Simple. When your time comes to leave this earth, whether in the fullness of years or before, there is only One, who can bring you Comfort in the loneliness of that moment. Be sure He will be with you.
The Four Living Creatures After the messages to the churches, John describes what he was shown. He was shown the throne He who sat on it, and all the glory of it, and the praise to Him on the throne by the four living creatures which stood around the throne, and by the 24 elders that wore crowns and sat on thrones around God’s throne, and bowed down to God and cast their crowns at God’s feet as they praised Him. (Rev. chapter 5)
The 24 elders are not hard to understand. They are kings who will reign with God’s authority. Their crowns are that authority, and belong to God. The glory of God on His throne is beyond description John does his best. The four living creatures are different. John’s description of them is detailed and quite specific. Their unusual appearance does not make them so readily understood, therein, I believe lies their importance.
What John is describing sounds like something out of science fiction. Remember though, that he describing faithfully what he sees in his own words He has no reason to exaggerate or to lie, quite the contrary. God chose John for his honesty and faithfulness. The first living creature he describe has “...eyes all round...and a face like a lion...”. What he saw was not a machine, but a living existence. With eyes all round simply means, “all seeing” and a face like a lion implies that the being has the aspect or qualities of a lion. To man, a lion is as the king of beasts, feared and respected. He seldom hunts, the lioness brings in the food, but he first (first fruits are his due) then the lioness, then the cubs. It may seem a bit selfish, laying all day, then taking the best of the food. But it is his territory, his domain, nothing moves in it without his forbearance. He is a loving father and for all his voice like thunder and ferocious aspect, his patience and tolerance of his children is endless. So the first living being shows us an aspect of God He wishes us to see. If you understand the nature lion, you know this aspect of God.
What I am about to say, most of you have experienced or have seen. You are driving your car a certain street, past a certain spot, when a dog runs at you barking ferociously as if to bite the tires off your car. What is your reaction? “That dog should be put down, or chained up, its dangerous.” Take the time to observe him. You will it that sometimes he totally ignores the traffic, it roars past unmolested. Watch again closely the next time he attacks a passing vehicle, if you look carefully you will invariably find children playing nearby. The dog instinctively feels that it is his duty to protect them. Your roaring, fast moving car, he sees as danger to them. He is not so dumb. You are. You would have him destroyed because he imitates the lion. Would you destroy the lion, for the same reason? The lion personifies one aspect of God, would you chain up God or destroy him? If the answer is en I am talking to the devil. God gave man dominion over the animals, but he expects you to do more than just “know” them. Knowledge on its own is a useless commodity, but tempered with understanding in the Spirit of God, it becomes “wisdom”. Be wise, if children are near, drive past slowly, the dog will still watch you with suspicion but he knows the difference between a fast moving dangerous car, and a slow moving one. You will have acted with wisdom and understanding and God will know. Instead of calling for the destruction of dog, you will know its value; one of those children might be yours.
So the first living being communicates the idea of God as an all seeing King, a loving and protective Father, who requires his just deference paid him (first to eat), and his terrible power strength respected by all.
The second living being, is again described a “eyes all round”, “with a face like an ox...”. The ox is an animal of great patience, and great strength it works quietly and steadily, slow, very slow to anger.
That’s simple enough to understand, but keep in mind for it has importance when it comes to opening of the seals.
The third living being is not “LIKE a man” but “HAS THE FACE OF A MAN”. In other words God is part of man and man is part of God. Man has the aspect of God, man is like God (and God created man in His own image).
So the third living being is that aspect of God which is man.
The fourth living being is all seeing, as the other three, and is “like an eagle”. To mankind the eagle is the king of birds. His domain is the breadth the heavens, he moves swiftly, with majestic power and grace. He is the emblem of nations. He lives inaccessible places, his “eagle eye” sees everything that moves, and he is king of all he surveys. We know that the eagle himself is not quite that great but the poetic inference can be readily accepted These are part of God’s nature which he wants us to recognize.
The four living beings then, represent the part of God’s nature that he wishes us to keep in mind when reading the Revelation of Jesus Christ.
King of the earth…like a lion. Endless patience…like an ox. His spirit in man…face of a man. King of the heavens…like an eagle.
Chapter 5 Revs, is the prelude to the seven seals. Read it and you will understand what I say. John sees a scroll or book in the hand of the one who sits on the throne. There is a call for someone who is worthy to undo the seven seals and open the scroll. John knows that this must be done before God’s will can be done on earth. It is what he is longing for. When no one answers he begins to weep. The awful thought that God’s will cannot be done because no one is worthy to undo the seals is too much for him. An Elder speaks to John and tells him not to weep for there is One who is worthy. And John sees a lamb standing by the throne, a Lamb that has been slain but lives, with seven horns and seven eyes. The Lamb is Christ, the seven horns are His churches established on earth and the seven eyes are the Spirit of God in those seven churches sent out through all the earth.
In the next part John sees the Lamb take the scroll the seven seals and a countless number of angels, the four living creatures, and the 24 elders, all bow before the throne and praise with a loud voice, “Worthy is the Lamb”.
The 24 elders carry harps which represent the praise of those saints awaiting resurrection and golden censors which represent the prayers of all those saints still living, you and me. “How can this be?”, you might ask, “I only found out about it a minutes ago”. “How could my prayers have been offered too”. Do you think God is limited by time? He knows who’s names are written in the book of life; your name is in the Book of Life, you only have to make sure it stays there, make sure the letters of your name do not begin to fade, as they fade from the mind of God. Mine must have been getting very faint, but now they get stronger every day. “You know me”, the man said to Jesus on judgment day. “I spoke to you when you were alive on earth”. “Your name is not here in the book, I don’t know you”, said Jesus. And the man went with the goats into the eternal fire. Be sure that God remembers you.
And the four living creatures said “Amen” and the elders fell down and worshipped.
The four living creatures are the voice of God, saying “so be it”.
Chapter 6 Revs. I have read this chapter over and over because to me this is the most important chapter in Christ’s revelations for Christians. I have prayed for the understanding of it, and for guidance in writing about it. As I already said at the beginning of this chapter, my most crucial prayer concerning the seals has been answered. I did not have to wait, it was answered immediately.
Now it is very important that you understand what I am about to write. I will write it as simply as I know how.
1st Four Seals The first four seals deal with conditions on the earth. Conditions that begin as the first seal is opened. Why should they be delayed? To be opened in the future from now would not make them new. This world since the time of Christ’s resurrection is a continuous story described in the first three seals. I do not believe John saw all this in some visionary dream, what he was being shown was far too important for that. He said he was carried up to heaven in the spirit, and I believe that that is exactly what happened to him. He was invited to a meeting of the board, if you like, with orders to write down what saw and report to the churches, clearly and in detail. The first four seals concern the Christians not the Jews. The Jews have not ruled anything since the last captivity until 1948. Since Titus destroyed the temple, about 70 A.D. There is God’s number of completion again, completion and therefore beginning. I believe it was about this time that the first seal was opened.
John saw the Lamb open the First seal. Then the first of the four living creatures spoke. This you will remember is the one “like a lion”. With a voice like thunder, (the voice of God) “come” and there came one riding on a white horse with a bow, and a crown given to him; and he went out conquering and conquer.
Now some commentators say he is Christ. Christ has already conquered. He overcame Satan in hell. No this is an earthly king, His crown is his authority or ‘let’ by God. By that I mean that God “allows him”. to exercise his earthly power as an earthly king. He represents all the earthly kings (minor anti-christs), that have taken up arms for whatever reason. They all have one thing in common they all cause blood to be shed, the blood of life that is Holy to god. Even the blood of the meanest person on earth, is God’s ‘first fruits’ and not to be taken by man. It is not the anti-christ as other commentators have it. The anti-christ is also a man, but his time not yet.
The second seal is opened. The second living creature says “come”. This living creature you will remember is that which is “like an ox”. Strength and patience. The voice of that aspect of God.
Out came another horse which was red, bright red; its rider was permitted to take peace from earth so men would slay one another; and he was given a great sword. To tolerate him, God needed great patience.
Think of all the Nations, dictatorships, regimes that have ruled by force and fit this description. However much you search, you can only come up with one Russian communism, which fits in every respect. Their flag is red, they are past masters at stirring the pot, supplying the arms, then sitting back and watching two sides destroy each other, to expend their strength and wealth and youth in a pointless conflict. Mother Russia will sit back and pretend her hands are clean. She does not understand the meaning of lies, because any words that support her cause cannot be lies. She is guilty of everything she accuses others of. I am talking of the fanatics and their ideology that rule in Russia, who talk peace and believe in world domination by violent revolution. (There are also many Christians in Russia and the countries they persecute.) Their days are numbered, their end is prophesied. But at this time they are a reality, and are ‘let’ by God, according to the second seal, and God’s patience.
The third seal Is opened. And John heard the third living creature say “come”. You will remember that this living creature has the face of a man. I said that this was the voice and aspect of God in man?
And I saw, and behold, a black horse and its rider had a balance in his hand. A voice was heard seemingly from the midst of the four living creatures, saying, “a quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius, but do not harm the oil and the wine”. The unusual thing about this one is that the voice does not come from the living creature but seems to come direct from God himself. Its almost as if the command concerning the oil and the wine is an after thought and God wanted John to be sure to note it down. Or it is a prophesy of God, through man?
This seal describes exactly what we have today in some parts of the world. Ask anyone in Mexico, including those in government and they will tell you. It is inflation. A loaf of bread for a day’s wages. In U.S.A. and Europe at this time there is a glut in wine. Not to mention Europe’s perpetual butter mountain. You cannot feed children with wine, but adult cannot afford bread for his children he can still buy wine and drown his sorrows, don’t tell me these seals are in the future, they are here NOW.
When I prayed for the wisdom to see, and to ask if my interpretation was right, and was another seal about to be opened, my prayer was answered clear-the fourth seal. This is today, November, 1983.
When he opened the fourth seal I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say “come”. And I saw, behold, a pale horse, and his name was Death, he was followed by Hell; and they were given power over one fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, and with famine, with pestilence and by wild beasts of the earth.
Add to the inflation so prevalent throughout the world today, the drought and poor harvest throughout the third world and you have a short fuse to disaster. 22 sub-Saharan countries of the African continent are on the point of starvation TODAY. (See page 4 Herald Tribune Nov. 9, 1983.) People have already started to die of starvation in Mozambique. This is only the thin end of the wedge, one fourth of the world already faces starvation. Starvation means death on a large scale, and plague and pestilence follow naturally. Hell follows Death. The breast of the earth we have not seen yet, at least not enough to cause a stir in affluent societies. Last week‘s report on the earthquake in Turkey is significant. “To the general misery of the survivors living in temporary shelters in freezing weather is added the threat of packs of hungry wolves coming down from the mountains.” An isolated incident? The fourth seal has only just been opened. In the last nine days there has been an earthquake in Turkey, China, Belgium, and Italy. Add these to the death and misery being caused by war and conflict around the world, and the picture is already pretty grim. The horrors of Biafra will look like small change to what is on the way, and is already coming into sight. You will remember that the living creature that introduced this fourth seal was the one “like an eagle”. “… and the birds of the air will feast on the carcasses of the dead...” This is prophesied for the very end, but it fits very aptly here. I hope I have painted a horrific picture here, because it will be far worse than I can describe. There will be confusion around the world and among nations. Civilization will just not be able to cope with it all. This sets the stage for the anti-christ. Sword, famine and pestilence hand in hand and are not strange occurrences on this earth, but watch the news media for reports of the strange, the deaths of people from attacks by wild beasts of the earth. Not just feeding on carcasses, but actually killing people.
The FIFTH seal, is not introduced by a living creature and takes place in heaven. It is the saints already dead, who are begging the Sovereign Lord to judge and avenge their blood on those who dwell on earth. Then each was given a white robe and told to wait a little longer until those saints who were still to come, were killed, as they had been. That will be at the end of the seventh year (I will come as a thief, at the 6th seal of scroll. Revs. chapter 16 vs. 15 (see figure 4)). Great Tribulation period, for these saints are Jews who accept Christ and die in his name during the tribulation. (The first shall be last and the last shall be first.)
There is only one more seal for Christians, the SIXTH.
“When He opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood, and the stars fell from the sky like the fig tree sheds its winter fruit when shaken by a gale; sky vanished like a scroll that is rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.”
This is the sign in the heavens spoken of by Christ to his disciples.
Mathew 24 vs. 29; “Immediately after the distress of those days (the 1st four seals) the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.”
At the same time the Son of man will appear in the sky (not on the earth) and all the nations will mourn.
They will see the Son of man coming on the clouds of the sky, with power and glory. And He will send angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end the heavens to the other.
This is the RAPTURE. This is the beginning of seven year period of great tribulation.
With the removal of Christ’s church from the earth is also the removal of the Holy Spirit with them. This leaves the way clear and unrestrained for the anti-christ to move in. God has gathered up his nuggets of pure gold, now he will cast the impure ore into the furnace to extract the last drops of precious metal. Most of it will be dust and dirt but those last few drops will be the most precious and pure the earth has ever produced and will be set up high in God’s kingdom. They are the last and they shall be the first. They are God’s chosen. To them return the Spirit of God.
Chapter VI
Safety The drowning rat, in the flood, will cling to floating log. He can see safety, solid land just a few yards away; so near and yet so far. He looks with longing and hope at the solid land, and then with terror at the boiling water around him. “Hang on” he tells himself, “hang onto what you have”. So He hangs on, is carried over the rapids and drowns.
The moral of that is obvious enough. But we never apply it to ourselves somehow, its always someone else. When a baby feels insecure, it cries. A dummy tit in its mouth pacifies, gives it a feeling of security, all is peace again for a while. We all have our dummy tits, the drunkard when he can no longer face the world or cope with it, sucks on a bottle, it’s the same thing. “But I’m not a drunkard”, you say, “never had a drink in my life”. Well good for you, but you still have a dummy tit; take a close look your self, see if you can find your dummy tit. Where do you run when you are worried, when your peace is threatened? Do you polish your car? Go fishing? Smoke pot? Run off for a chat with your friends? Clean the ashtrays for the third time this morning? Get your hair done when it doesn’t need it? Visit your Doctor and blame your back? I could go on forever but I think you get the idea. The log we cling to, our safety in troubled waters, is the thing that we associate our own personal security with, it’s our own personal dummy tit. Now, you might say, if that’s true, then we are in fact the rat clinging to the log, and the log goes over the.... Right first time. But that is life, isn’t it? From the wino with his bottle to the rich man with his banks and factories; if we are all going over the rapids, what’s the point? Let me tell you a little story to illustrate it better.
An important young lady, who lived in a beautiful apartment in the smart end of town, received notice from her landlord to quit. The shock was terrible, panic fear, anger, what would her friends think? Where would she find another place like this? Her world was falling apart. Her friends, that’s it, they will help, they will find me a new place. Dummy tit, suck, suck, suck.
Later that week the same young lady was appearing as guest on a TV talk show. Two men who had worked together and been friends for years happened to be watching the show after a long hard day. You see, they were ideas men, they kept the nation supplied with ideas and often watched their ideas taking shape around the world through the television media.
George was sifting comfortably and Jack was getting a fresh drink for them both. “Hey Jack, take a look at this, I’ve not seen this show before, it must a new one.
Interviewer: Welcome young lady to the show. I understand that you were recently evicted from your beautiful apartment at the smart end of town. What was your reaction to that?
Young Lady: Well, my God, it was terrible, I was so put out.
Interviewer: I notice you use the expression ‘my God’; what does that mean?
Young Lady: Well its a phrase we use sometimes, when we are shocked or frightened or something like that.
Interviewer: You mean like a swear word?
Young Lady: Well no, not exactly. (Worry is beginning to show on the face of the young lady. “What is this creep driving at, is he trying to threaten me, my friends or my new home?” Dummy tit, suck, suck, suck.)
Interviewer: Then you are really calling on this person God to help you?
Young Lady: Well no, not exactly. You see in olden times (my God, this creep is dumb) people would ask God to help them because they were not too bright, an they didn’t have nice homes and nice friends like we have now, and I guess it just stuck like an old habit. (Dummy tit, suck, suck, suck.)
Interviewer: So what you are saying, in fact, is t] it really is a swear word.
Young Lady: What is with you? I don’t have to sit here and take this crap. I’m leaving.
Interviewer: Indeed you are. Goodnight. And the rat, clinging to its log sailed over the rapids to its doom. God stood up, switched off the lights and closed the studio door behind him.
Ideas You have already met me, my name is Jack. You remember me and George were watching television? Okay, well what I want to tell you is that me and George are ideas men, I think I already told you that. The problem is, we’ve not been having too many good ideas lately. I don’t really understand it because I am a confirmed dummy tit man, suck suck, suck, I live right, you know what I mean? But right now we need ideas badly. The ideas of yesterday are the realities of today. Today’s ideas are the future, and unless George and I come up with an idea there won’t be any future. You see, we had a good thing going, everyone had their own personal dummy tit. It was great. Everybody was happy. But it seems there were a lot of people over that other side of the world somewhere who didn’t have enough dummy tits to go round. Well we tried to send them some but you know how it is, we did not really send in the first place and then some got stolen on the way, in fact a lot got stolen when they arrived. Can you believe that? Well it seems one of their ideas men got into a pretty powerful position and decided they would build tanks and warships and guns go and get some of those dummy tits. So we built our own armor and fought back and when smoke cleared and it was all finished there were not too many dummy tits to be found anywhere. Well, we seem to have got over that but we don’t want it to start all over again. How to stop it, that’s the trick. What we need are new ideas, or old ones revived, anything so long as its an idea. I don’t mind telling you I’m worried. Here’s George now, he’s a confirmed dummy tit man like myself, did I tell you? Maybe he can come up with some original idea.
Me: You got any ideas to get us out of this mess George?
George: I think I have a long shot, Jack, a very long shot, but we have nothing else so we had better follow it up.
Me: Tell me, George, tell me.
George: Do you remember that interview we watched on the television, you know the one where that young lady walked out and the interviewer gut up and switched off the light? Well that young lady may have been a dummy tit person, but I get the distinct feeling she blew it, but there was definitely something odd about the interviewer. He knew more than he was saying; than strange question he kept asking. He seemed so supremely confident and knowing. And the way he put out the light and shut the door, it was so, somehow, final. I would sure like to talk to him, I feel he may have a few good ideas.
Me: Lets go and find him then George, it should not be too difficult.
LATER…
Me: Here we are George, this is the place, this is the interview room alright. See, there’s the cameras and equipment, the chairs they were sitting on. Where is the door George? No, not the one we came in by, the one he went out by. It should be just about here; that’s strange.
George: There is no sign of a door there, Jack I told you there was something different about that man.
A Voice: Good Morning Gentlemen.
We both turn, startled. I recovered first, George is getting a bit old. This fellow came in so quietly and was standing right up close.
Me: Good morning, we didn’t hear you come in. I’m Jack and this is may colleague, George.
Man: I’m pleased to meet you, though you are a little late.
George: A little late? You were expecting us? I know there was something odd here. What is your name, I don’t think we have met before?
Man: I don’t really have one, but you can call me Angel.
George starts to giggle, he’s getting nervous. I tell him to get a grip on himself.
Me: We would like to have a few words with that interviewer who was on the show the other night. You see we are ideas men and we fell he may have some ideas we could use. We have a few problems. |
