The Ark of the
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11. Babylon will
persecute the 144,000 and those who
embrace the gospel of Jesus. The
saints will be persecuted for
forty-two months. Persecution could
begin on the sixty-fourth day after
the censer is cast down.
12. The advance of the
gospel will stall about 890 days into
the Great Tribulation. Everyone will
have taken a position on the gospel,
but some wicked people will abandon
their position when they experience
the fifth and sixth trumpets.
13. The devil and his
angels will be released from the
spirit realm during the fifth
trumpet. They will physically appear
before the people of Earth with a
great show of glory, signs, and
wonders.
14. For five months,
the devil will masquerade, as
“Almighty God” and his
demons will torture the non-religious
wicked group into submission.
15. At the end of the
five months, the sixth trumpet will
sound and the devil will abruptly
change character. He will become a
stern-faced dictator. He will demand
that a theocracy be established and
that all religions and governments be
abolished. He will appoint ten kings
(taskmasters) to oversee his
theocracy.
16. For purposes of
rations and administration, the devil
will divide the people into groups of
1,000. Four of his angels will kill
one-third of mankind. The result will
be 666 survivors and one lieutenant
per unit of 1,000. The devil will
require all survivors to wear a
tattoo showing the number 666 on
their right hands. The devil’s
lieutenants will also wear the
devil’s name tattooed on their
foreheads, which will indicate their
high rank in the devil’s
theocracy.
17. Counting from the
day the censer is cast down; the
seventh trumpet will sound on the
1,265th day. God will
display the Ark of the Covenant from
Heaven on this day. The righteous
will be thrilled to see the Ark
because they have God’s law
written in their hearts and minds.
The wicked on the other hand, will
tremble. They have refused to honor
God’s covenant and they are
therefore subjects of its curse. They
will be condemned to death because
they have rejected love and sacrifice
and embraced selfishness and
rebellion.
18. One thing will be
come very clear after the devil
physically appears Man was created as
a lower order than the angels. We are
no match for the superior strength
and intelligence. The physical
appearing of the devil with
200,000,000 demons is designed to
awaken the wicked, if possible, to
man’s desperate need of a
Savior.
Closing Remarks
Near the beginning of
this study, I wrote that God has
several important objectives for the
seven trumpets, which I hope you now
understand. Here is a list of seven
objectives I am sure will be
achieved:
1. The Revelation of
Jesus: The whole world will be
introduced to the reality of Jesus
Christ. The world will learn that
Jesus is Sovereign. He is our
Creator, Savior, and God. All other
gods are manmade.
2. The Intercession of
Jesus: The world will discover that
God’s wrath against Adam and Eve
was suspended by Jesus’ love for
mankind. When the censer is cast
down, a great awakening will occur
because of God’s wrath.
3. The Worship of
Jesus: Babylon will attempt to
appease God through forced worship.
This endeavor on man’s part will
only make the voluntary worship of
Jesus better known and understood.
4. The Law of Jesus:
Babylon will make laws opposing the
law of God. This will make the Ten
Commandments (God’s covenant)
more widely known than ever before.
5.The Love of Jesus:
Babylon will persecute the saints and
in so doing, their love for God and
one another will show the world how
wonderful God’s love is. In
spite of persecution, God’s
people will be filled with peace and
joy.
6. The Character of
Jesus: When the devil is released
from the Abyss, the world will see
and experience what an
“omnipotent” sinner is
like. The man of lawlessness will do
as he pleases. This will give
everyone a glimpse of what Jesus is
unlike. (I used the word
“omnipotent” because no one
will be able to thwart or stop the
devil from doing as he wishes. At the
present time, many people think this
is the way that God acts.)
Eternity with
Jesus: Few people presently
understand the curse of sin. The
order of things that we face has been
in place for 6,000 years. The
destruction of Earth, beyond the
point of recovery, will force people
to seriously consider their eternal
destiny – either eternal life
with Jesus or eternal separation
(death without Jesus.)
