Last Days Timeline, A literal interpretation of biblical prophecy, second edition by Gregory Supina - HTML preview

Third Seal Prophecies

 

Throughout the history of the world, false religions could take captive the mind of flesh and force it to succumb to its demands. And elect spirits often cowered within them, not daring to oppose the dark forces holding its mind of flesh captive. But, although all false religions wormed their way into human lives through minds and lusts of flesh, they were all essentially spiritual, albeit in a demonic way. So the spiritual power of all those earlier false religions remained very limited, since all of their spiritual power was forced to work solely through the flesh. But, if a non-elect spirit was freed to access and employ the spiritual lies and delusions of Satan more directly, a false religion could be far more powerful. So that is exactly what God allowed Satan to do during the Renaissance. During the Middle Ages and in former times, an elect spirit could find some freedom, at times, by escaping from the flesh of those who ruled over false religions, especially since so few elite rulers and priests of those false religions existed. An elect soul could hide in one’s own home or out in the fields, since there were very few to physically restrain the expression of an elect spirit through their flesh. There were huge holes in the prison walls of past false religions, even older forms of humanism, through which the elect might temporarily escape. But this new kind of humanism in the Renaissance, where even commoners could learn to read, began to close those gaps, imprisoning both the flesh and spirit.

During the Renaissance, and to this day, both one’s spiritual and physical survival began to require submission to human gods, and there were many more human gods that one had to appease. Even equals and inferiors were gods of a sort, with far more direct access to both religious and secular masters. For both the false church and the secular governments had gained power, as well as a great number of faithful non-elect supporters and slaves, who were all eager to serve as the eyes and ears of their bribing owners. So now the spirits and flesh of the elect were forced to bow in complete submission to elite human gods in Satan’s world order, and ultimately to the spirit of Satan himself.

This ability to exert both spiritual and physical control over all the people was not entirely achieved during the Renaissance, but its methods were developed back then, and now those skills have almost been honed to perfection. However, to gain this demonic spiritual power, Satan’s world order also had to provide the means for God’s spiritual power to escape into the world. For Satan’s spiritual power for his non-elect employs exactly the same mode of enabling as God’s spiritual power for His elect. That is, the environment which increased the number of taught and trained priests of Satan’s humanism also increased the number of taught and trained priests of biblical religions. During the Renaissance, God did not allow Satan to raise up an exponentially larger educated priesthood teaching the lies of humanism unless He could also raise up an exponentially larger educated priesthood teaching biblical truths. So the Renaissance not only began to enhance the spiritual power of humanism, but also began to enhance the spiritual power of biblical Christianity at the same time.

During the Renaissance, if a commoner was willing to offer one’s whole body and spirit to Satan, that one could succeed in the world order, that is, until a new and greater favorite of Satan usurped one’s position. Therefore, noble-born men were no longer the only ones allowed to become human gods. Of course, this was nothing like the just and equitable societies that God and His Law teaches us to create, since all successful souls in the Satan’s world order had to be willing to exploit, enslave and commit extreme injustice in a totally ruthless competition with others. In fact, colonialism and new methods of exploiting the poor in one’s own lands actually increased the number of lies and murders committed by Roman humanists. However, many more souls from the common masses were becoming educated in the ways of darkness and joining the elite. So the ruling class grew much larger. The former nobility, established by the psychopathic use of the sword, then perpetuated through biological heirs, was now supplemented by Satan’s captive souls in a ruthless merchant class, who grew rich and powerful through cruel exploitation and the church’s theistic humanism.

 

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In spite of the increasing prosperity of the ruling class, the Revelation characterizes this era as a time of great poverty and famine throughout the world. For even more commoners suffered and died than ever before, especially in the “new world” (Africa, India, the Americas and other exploited nations), but also throughout the humanistic “civilized world” as well. For the humanists defined civilization as the class of people who were able to exploit others for their own profit and carnal pleasures. And notice how the Revelation describes this era of the third seal as an artificial famine, as a famine that is caused by very cruel lords who exploit an impoverished people, by selling food at greatly inflated prices and by threatening them whenever they dared to look at anything those lords wanted to keep for themselves. By its nature, this kind of exploitation requires the complete subjugation of a weaker population. And, the only way these human gods could gain the power to exploit the people in this way, those lords had to put them all in a place where they could watch them and also prevent them from growing their own food. Therefore, the Renaissance began to gather the people into cities which were ruled entirely by Satan’s chosen psychopathic children. Then those people became subject to the manipulations of those whom that devil awarded control over his invention of money.

Once everyone lived in cities where they needed money to purchase food and all they required to live, the elite could completely enslave them. For, if the people did not cater to the whims of those who controlled the distribution of money, those human gods could simply refuse to pay them any money. Anyone who questioned the master who held the money purse, would starve to death or die homeless in the winter streets. To the Satanic humanists, the power to withhold necessities from a subjugated population amassed in central locations seemed to be a brilliant idea. And, as Roman humanism spread throughout the world, urbanization was quickly embraced by more and more lands on earth. Every human god in Satan’s world order worked feverishly to find new ways of removing people from rural areas, where they could grow their own food, and transplanting those people into their cities, where those dupes could be virtually enslaved through threats of withholding money.

This world-wide urbanization or “urban revolution” very effectively underpinned the power of the elite. For the majority no longer saw how they relied on God to provide the rain and sunshine needed grow and raise food. All they saw were those human gods standing over them, forcing them to bow before them, to worship them with their service and esteem, lest those gods might withhold food and the basic necessities of life from them. Of course, with the increased populations, not every child of a farmer could remain on the land, to farm it. Thus, most farm children were forced to become slaves in the city. And human gods also claimed to own most of the agricultural land anyway. Thus, most children born on the farms had no choice about seeking enslavement in the city. Later, as farming equipment improved, even fewer souls were required on the farms, so even more went to the cities.

Now I know that there were also many cities existing before the Renaissance, and many of the human gods in those humanistic cities also exploited and enslaved their siblings in the family of humankind. But this kind of urbanization and the forced slavery of the people coerced into those cities was a trend that began during the Renaissance, not before then. And that new kind of ruthless exploitation has continued to this day. Of course, when many think of the Renaissance, they imagine a romanticized and unreal “golden” version of those days. They picture themselves as “enlightened” and wealthy elite, as prosperous members of the growing middle class. They completely forget about the reality of those times, how the vast majority starved in artificial famines produced by greedy price-gouging human gods. Nor do they consider all their siblings exploited in the colonized lands.

In fact, a ruthless exploitation of the vast majority of the people on earth, by elite humanists, was one of the major attributes of the Renaissance. It was not just about the revival of classical doctrines of pagan humanism and an increase in education. It involved intense colonialism, with the severe

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oppression, displacement, upheaval, disenfranchisement, enslaving, murder, torture, starvation and other forms of extreme injustice directed against countless ordinary people in their homelands and around the world. People today seldom think about how bad it was for the “common folk.” But there were no real laws to protect the average person from being exploited. And the humanistic church also joined in this vile exploitation, and sometimes were worse than the secular humanists. The fake humanistic church offered little or no relief or protection for the people. In fact, humanistic churches often offered darker lies than those of the secular world, and certainly were not a light in the world.

Most lived horrible lives in dire poverty, terribly abused and subject to ruthlessly unjust and totally unreasonable demands from the ruling classes and business owners. If they even dared to look at a member of the elite ruling class in the wrong way, they could be summarily beaten, imprisoned or executed. The law was executed according to the whims of the elite, and there were no real laws that could provide any genuine justice for the majority. Roman laws and ways, designed solely to guard the pride and incomes of the elite, dominated both the secular courts of the land and the church. The just laws of God, fulfilled in Jesus, were never even allowed to be whispered, much less used to bring justice to any land on the face of the earth. God and His just law were outlawed during this era.

Revelation 6:5-6: “When He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say,

'Come!' And I looked, and behold, a black horse! And its rider had a pair of scales in his

hand. [Remember, this rider of the ‘black horse’ came to cause destruction. And, in John’s day, scales were

used for trade, for buying and selling. So the ‘pair of scales’ in the hands of this rider, instead of a sword,

implies an unjust economic power ruling over the people, exploiting them.] And I heard what seemed to

be a voice in the midst of the four living creatures, saying, 'A quart of wheat for a denarius,

and three quarts of barley for a denarius, and do not harm the oil and wine!'” (ESV).

Here it said that foods like “oil and wine” would exist during this era of the third seal, and would even be found in the marketplace, within plain sight of the common people. Yet the sellers basically told the buyers that, since they could not afford those luxuries, they should not even touch them. But oil and wine were not extreme luxuries. Back then, oil was required for most of the recipes and most of the cooking they did. And wine was considered to be an absolute necessity for heath reasons, because a little wine in their contaminated water killed the bacteria and parasites. So, when John prophesied that most people during the third seal’s era would not even dare to touch the oil and wine, because they common grocery items were too expensive, it implies price gouging. This brief description of the third seal’s era was not about a famine caused by droughts, floods or other natural disasters, especially since the context defines this as a world-wide famine, and it is not likely that there could be a world-wide famine caused by natural disasters everywhere on earth. Rather, this is about sellers causing the people to starve because they are charging too much for the food they sell.

If this was a famine caused by natural disasters which was so severe that it destroyed the olive and grape harvest, then no “oil and wine” would not be found in the market places. Rather, the very scarce “oil and wine” would be guarded the vaults of the most powerful elite, by those who could afford to hire mercenary soldiers to travel far and wide in search of such items, then bring them back safely into their fortresses. This kind of famine, with the oil and wine in a public marketplace, where the third seal’s rider is carrying a “pair of scales,” clearly suggests an artificial famine. It also implies that the common people in the marketplace are divided into two or more classes, but where the vast majority are in the poorer classes, and cannot even afford common oil and wine. Only a few common people in the market place are wealthy enough to afford common items like oil and wine.

 

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During the eras of the first and second seals, there was a great disparity between the impoverished common people and the extremely wealthy elite. So the elite did not shop in the pubic marketplace, but had their slaves grow their food on their extensive land holdings. Then oil and wine were sold to even the poorest commoners in that marketplace. Very few could not afford oil and wine. Yet, in this prophecy about the the third seal’s era, it suggests that the sellers told most of their customers not to even touch the oil and wine. On the other hand, there must have been some who could afford that oil and wine, or it would not be displayed there, in the public marketplace. Naturally, even in the third seal’s era, the extremely rich still would not be shopping in the public marketplace. Thus, there must have been a new minority middle or upper-middle class who did shop there and could afford to buy that oil and wine. There must be classes of semi-wealthy people who did not exist in previous times.

So this short prophecy about the third seal’s era suggests that the whole of society will have changed significantly since the days of John. The extremely wealthy elite would still consist of less than one percent, as in former times. But, by the third era, a new kind of elite are formed, the kind that go to the public marketplace to buy their groceries, just like the poor. But only that new elite class can afford some common groceries like oil and wine, but most of the other common people cannot. For there is a new kind of poverty in the lands of the world, where most of the poor become even poorer, so poor that they cannot afford to even touch some common grocery items, and are starving. Yet a new and more privileged class of commoners will be able to afford those common grocery items. And those more privileged commoners must be a fairly significant number, if oil and wine are still offered for sale in the public marketplace. Those more privileged commoners must be something like twenty percent of the entire population of commoners by this time. If those who could afford “oil and wine” were much less than about twenty percent, then oil and wine would not even be offered for sale in the public marketplace. This is actually a fascinating scenario which John describes here.

When John wrote this prophecy, a denarius was a whole day's wage for a common laborer. So we must interpret it with that in mind, since this world-wide prophecy is comparing all currencies in all lands of that future third seal’s era to the money, marketplaces and common people of his own day. And in that era of the third seal, the people would pay a whole day’s wage to purchase one day’s food for one person. Also, the merchants in the third seal’s marketplace sold and distributed the food, but did not necessarily grow, transport or set the prices of the goods they sold. And John seems to suggest that those sellers in the marketplace were not local farmers selling the produce they grew with their own hands, at whatever prices they could get. Rather, John suggests that the prices were set by some kind of authority, because the people did not seem to be able to simply go to another merchant’s booth to by oil and wine at a lower price. And, as mentioned, the people also had no means to grow their own olives and grapes, so they could make their own oil and wine. Thus, this prophecy suggests that most of the common people in the marketplace are city dwellers who are forced to purchase their groceries at highly inflated prices set by authorities who regulate all sales.

Someone sets the prices in all the booths at the public marketplace where all the common people must purchase all their food. And those who set the prices are severely exploiting the people, even to the point of starving them to death. This prophecy implies an elite merchant class catering to the rest of the elite in their society, but acting in a totally heartless manner towards the common people. And the common laborer is being robed of his daily wage. If he needs a whole day's wage to pay for the grain required to marginally feed only himself for one day, without any money left over to purchase food for the rest of his family, without any money left for rent, clothing or any other necessities, then the laborer is being exploited to death. Therefore, this era of the third seal is characterized by an elite

 

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merchant class and their lords exploiting the vast majority, by causing a profitable artificial famine. And this is done throughout the world. So this third era would definitely refer to Renaissance times.

God’s purpose for the third seal’s era is obviously to generally expose the ruthless inhumanity of the beast’s religious kingdom of humanism, with its hierarchies and financial systems, for the education of His elect children. When humans, with their infantile spirits, think they are gods, so that each one strives to rule his own destiny instead of focusing on letting God teach wisdom to one’s spirit, then creates foolish laws in one’s own self-serving mind instead of seeking to understand and apply God’s wise laws, then nothing good or glorious will come of that, only loss and death. When Jesus returns, a history of the beast’s fourth kingdom will be preserved for all to see, as an example demonstrating how Satanic a man can actually become after rejecting God and God’s just, loving ways revealed in His Word. In fact, it is difficult to believe that anyone could read an honest history of the church and the secular world without being horrified by the ruthlessness of all the heroes of Roman humanism. For almost every actual fact recorded in history books is primarily about vain humanistic siblings being glorified for slandering and murdering their siblings. But there is no real glory in being a liar and murder like Satan was from the beginning. The real glory or good opinion from God goes to those who love in a just, equitable and wise way, with the same kind of love inside God Himself.

 

Fourth Seal Prophecies

The modern era, beginning in about the 16th century

Actually, God’s wrath does not always strike against the flesh alone, with physical pain. Nor does God punish the body of flesh first, when He rebukes sins that a soul refuses to repent away from. It is true that God will not hesitate to hurt or even destroy the flesh when a spirit inside that flesh will insist on pursuing lies and sins. But, even for the non-elect, God always begins his judgments by informing the human spirit that their motives and intentions are wrong. Then, if they do not heed God’s warning, God will hand their minds over to Satan, and that devil will enslave and delude that unrepentant soul. Finally, if that enslaved, deluded spirit does not turn to God in the abject misery, fears and wretchedness of being trapped in self-destructive delusions, God may even kill the flesh.

And God is particularly swift and strong at performing every step of this kind of judgment process when it comes to His beloved elect children. And the more awake their elect spirits might be, the less time God wastes in turning them away from lies and sins. But, for those who refuse to repent after God’s disciplinary actions, God is willing to turn His back on them, even His awakened elect. God will indeed allows their spirits to be satiated with their own beloved dark, irrational, vain delusions and lies. This is God’s first and worst punishment for unrepentant spirits of sinners, while they live in flesh on earth. God will abandon stubborn, ignorant, unrepentant souls to their own delusions, to the self-destructive lies they use to justify their sins (II Thes. 2:9-12; Amos 8:10-12; Is. 41:27-29; Jer. 10:14-15 & 51:17-18; Ps. 62:9). God will let the unrepentant sinners drink in their own lies and sins until they either turn to Him for relief, or else fall down spiritually drunk, in a blind stupor (Jer. 25:15-16; 25:27-29; Rev. 14:9-10). If a sinner does not return to God, after God abandons that one to one’s own delusions (if one loves the darkness of his own lies more than the light of God’s truth), then God will let one destroy oneself in one’s drunken spiritual state. And God will finish off the last of the unrepentant rebels with His own sword. But this will only be the fate of the loveless non-elect.

By the era of the fourth seal, God had illustrated all the ruthless, unjust, self-destructive ways of the religion of humanism. Their insatiable ambitions, the deaths caused by senseless conquering, and

 

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their willingness to steal the life from their precious siblings in the family of humankind, had all been blatantly exposed. Yet even most of the elect in the world refused to repent into the truth after all His previous disciplinary actions during the previous centuries, after the physical troubles of wars and plagues which He sent them during the eras of the first three seals. So God then handed the world over to even greater delusions, to even more self-destructive lies of Satan, which killed many.

At the present time, all the riders of the four seals still thunder across the lands of every nation on this earth, and we are also nearing the end of the fifth seal’s plague, which occurs simultaneously with the previous four. Yet we still see so little repentance into the immutable truths of God. Of course, this was prophesied. The elect will not repent until the disasters of the sixth seal suddenly fall against the earth, to begin the revival of the one true visible church, which will see a calm period lasting about twenty years. But surely there will be a few who can see what God has been showing us for the last two millenniums, so they will be able to help the elect of God during the era of the sixth seal. For knowledge must increase, and true servants of God, who are skilled in every area of service for His priesthood, will need to be called, taught, trained and sent before the revival begins.

The delusions and lies of apostasy have always been the first and principal causes of all the worst losses, pains and deaths experienced by humankind throughout history. Mind distorting lusts for power and wealth inspire the slander of sinners’ propaganda against the innocent, which stirs up their own blind hatred until it breaks out into senseless wars, followed by the effects of destroyed people and lands, where children starve in the cold as the psychopathic warmongers sit in their palaces. But, if the elect will not learn from all this suffering, if they still refuse to repent into the truth and remain unwilling to nullify those works of Satan, so they can build up God’s just, loving kingdom together, in the power of our God Jesus, then God must punish their unruly flesh and infantile spirits even more. God had to hand the world over to even greater delusions and more penetrating lies, which have been causing the worst troubles this earth has ever seen. And even greater trials are yet to come, although most elect will repent into the truth soon, just before all the non-elect are utterly destroyed.

Not only is the fourth seal’s era characterized by the hellish apostasy of man’s deluded thoughts, but it is also defined by all the plagues seen during the eras of the first three seals, and more. Since we are still living in the days of this fourth rider’s darkness and wrath, with apostasy everywhere and the widely varied deadly effects of those delusions, it now seems impossible to escape the intensely strong lies of Satan, which God allows for the unrepentant. Of course, only the mind of flesh can be deluded in that way, but the mind of an elect spirit is always free to repent and gain power over one’s own flesh. But elect spirits refuse to do this. No amount of reasoning can open their eyes. Both the secular humanists and theistic humanists simply laugh at truths, and the elect follow them. But the elect will not forever let their minds of flesh be ruled by the lies, delusions and chaos of those humanists. The elect will repent into the truth during the sixth seal’s era. After a great, world-wide earthquake, the delusional power of humanism’s coercive economic systems will fail, as well as the power of their indoctrinating educational systems. All the world shall be silenced, and God’s wrath will temporarily cease, so He can build up His true church on this earth. Then He will return to crush the principal source of all those lies and delusions. He will finally cast Satan into hell and annihilate the four deceiving religious kingdoms of the beast, so the Roman Empire will be dust under our feet.

Revelation 6:7-8: “When He opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living

creature say, 'Come!' And I looked, and behold, a pale horse! And its rider's name was Death,

and Hades followed him. And they were given authority over a fourth of the earth, to kill

with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by wild beasts of the earth” (ESV).

 

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From the beginning of the fourth seal’s era, “Death” has ridden on a pale horse, which is the symbolic color of a dying flesh. And this is not a localized plague, not something which was to occur only in one nation, empire or continent. Rather, this is an expression of God’s wrath throughout the world, although it will mercifully cause deaths in only about a quarter of the earth at a time. Then notice that “Death” does not ride out into the earth alone, like the riders of the previous three seals. Rather, this era is granted two beings, “Death” and an entity called “Hades.” Now, by personifying “Death” as a rider, it means that God will send a real spiritual being to the earth, an “angel” with a thinking and planning mind, with a will and intelligence of its own. And this spirit will be granted God’s authority to cause deaths on earth, as a direct manifestation of God’s wrath and God’s mercy. This spirit will kill the wicked to stop their evil. Yet he will also take the flesh of some elect, so He might send their spirits home, if those elect grow too weary and must flee from troubles on earth.

But who or what is this entity called “Hades,” since he or it was not personified as a rider, although it too was granted God’s authority on earth? And why does he or it follow after Death? Well, in the first place, Hades is a dark place where spirits go after the death of their flesh. So this Hades bears dark spiritual qualities. Thus, the most simple and direct explanation of this second entity is that, after witnessing many deaths through violence and horrible plagues, most people become bitter and many abandon God. This Hades seems to be a spirit causing a Hades-like mode of thought, with a state of apostasy. It makes deadened souls turn away from God through bitterness and fear. Since Hades follows Death everywhere on earth, it must cause some kind of negative spiritual reaction in the hearts of those whom Death leaves alive after killing the others. And this negative spiritual state from Hades is a subsequent punishment of God, following after the deaths that God will also cause.

Now look at how some Scriptures seem to differentiate between Hell and Hades. Some appear to describe Hades as a temporary spiritual state, where all disobedient spirits, both the non-elect and the elect, will go to wait for the judgment day. But Hell was portrayed as a permanent place, where all the unrepentant evil spirits are condemned to dwell eternally. Note also how the Old Testament will, at times, call “Sheol” a temporary holding place of the wicked—although, at other times, it seemed to use the word “Sheol” to describe a permanent place too, which must be hell. So “Sheol” was related to permanent hell only because many souls within it were destined for hell, if their spirits were born of Satan. And the same principles apply to Hades. The word Hades may be synonym of Sheol. For the Scriptures imply that, like Sheol, some in Hades might repent on the judgment day (I Pet. 4:5-6). Hades apparently is a temporary place where all the elect spirits who were not awakened by God while they lived on earth shall be stored in a state that resembles sleep, beside the non-elect.

In Hades, all spirits will remain in a silent stupor after the death of their bodies, although they might become semi-conscious for short periods of time, just enough to peer up into heaven (see Job 7:9; Ps. 49:14-15; Eccl. 9:10; Is. 38:18-20; Mat. 11:23-24; Rev. 20:13-14). Some Scriptures seem to say that souls in Hades remain in a dull, static, spiritual state, unable to learn anything new, unable to repent, unless our God Jesus visits them there and awakens them. But Scriptures clearly state that literally all souls, all the non-elect and all the elect, will stand before Jesus on the judgment day, on the last day that all will exist outside of their eternal homes in either heaven or hell. And literally all human spirits and souls will be resurrected for that judgment day, where the fully awakened elect will repent to Jesus and enter heaven, while the non-elect will prefer to cling to their darkness and will be cast into hell. Therefore, “Sheol” and “Hades” both seem to indicate a place where many are temporarily held until judgment day, to a temporary holding place. Only some of the most awake, loving and just elect on earth will go directly to the gates of heaven after their flesh dies, to wait for the judgment day in that place. And only one non-elect soul, the beast, will be cast directly into hell,

 

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without going to the judgment day. The Scriptures do not always equate Hell directly with “Sheol” or “Hades,” as some say. Sometimes Sheol or Hades does refer to a temporary place for the dead.

Yet we know that the Bible always portrays Hell as a permanent place, as an eternal home for non-elect human spirits and demonic spirits, but where the non-elect human spirits will go only after the judgment day. Hell is an everlasting torment for loveless spirits. And its torment will be spiritual, not physical. Since those spirits love only their dark delusions, which can never be actually gratified, the frustration of their spirits’ continuous lack of gratification will be their everlasting torment. Yet the spirits in Hades (sometimes called Sheol) seem to merely remain in a waiting state, which Scriptures liken to a “sleep.” None of these unawakened spirits shall be cast into hell immediately after death. Many are destined to simply drift asleep in a darkness, likely in the “gulf” existing between heaven and hell, not far from the gates into heaven. Then, later, all will be gathered out of Sheol, also called Hades, and briefly resurrected from the dead, so they can be sent to heaven’s gates for the judgment.

But, after death, all fully awakened elect spirits seem to go directly to the gates of heaven. And all these seem to wait for judgment day to begin, before they all will enter heaven’s mainland and New Jerusalem at the same time, together, as the whole family priesthood of God. It is at those gates of heaven that the most awakened elect will meet Jesus immediately after their flesh dies, while many other elect remain asleep in the “skies” of heaven, which seems to be what is also called Sheol or Hades. When we harmonize the teachings of Scriptures, we conclude that some elect will stand near to Jesus to be taught by Him, individually and collectively, while they wait for the judgment day. Some elect will remain cognizant of Jesus, and fully aware of all who are sent there to be with Him. And those awakened elect, such as the 24 elders taken from the earth, will even able to see what is currently happening upon the earth, so they can pray to Jesus about their loved ones. Then Jesus also makes some of the elect on earth aware of those awake elect now existing in heaven, and aware of their prayers. Although we cannot speak directly to the deceased elect, Jesus lets them see our love for them and tells them what we say to them. Several Scriptures imply all this regarding some elect.

We know God is “the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob,” and “He is not God of the dead, but of the living” (Mat. 22:32, ESV). When Jesus stated this, He indicated that these three physically dead men, at that time, long before the judgment day, remained alive. These deceased patriarchs were awake, thinking, active and cognizant of their surroundings, just like we are. Then look at one of the parables of Jesus about an elect man, Lazarus, who was spiritually awake during his life on earth, but was extremely poor and dwelt beside a loveless rich man who was spiritually dead. After the flesh of both men died, but before the judgment day, one could speak to the other, although neither was able to speak directly to the living on the earth (e.g., Luke 16:19-31). Now, if the wicked rich man could be heard by the poor man in heaven (or actually at heaven’s gates before the judgment day), then that rich man could not have been in hell yet. For none in hell will be able to speak to anyone in heaven, since the gulf between heaven and hell is impassible, and neither sight nor sound can penetrate that boundary. Also look at how Moses and Elijah spoke with Jesus at His transfiguration (Mat. 17:3). The flesh of both had died a very long time before then. Yet, at that time, thousands of years before the judgment day, both stood there fully awake, fully aware of their surroundings, but in new bodies made of heavenly substances. Then we should realize what Jesus meant when He told a repentant thief on the cross: “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise” (Luke 23:43, ESV). That very day, immediately after the death of his flesh, that thief would be in Paradise, at heaven’s gates, not in Hades like the wicked rich man in the parable of Lazarus. So no human spirits, nor any other spirits, cease to exist after the death of the flesh. But

 

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some elect human spirits go directly to the gates of heaven, while all others go to Hades, which seems to be the same place called Sheol. And most sleep in Hades, although they can wake at times.

Since the Scriptures are clear that no human spirits will enter heaven’s mainland or hell until after the judgment day, all the Scriptures about the deceased existing in two places, one like hell and one like heaven, suggest that there are two temporary places where the spirits of the deceased are sent to await judgment. Both the elect who act wickedly and all the non-elect children of Satan will go to a dark place to await judgment. And it seems that most of those sent to that place, called Hades, will remain in an unconscious state like sleep. Yet some in Hades will be awake for a time, or will be awakened for a time, or remain in a merely semi-conscious state. For some in Hades can still look up into heaven, even the wicked who are reaping what they sowed on the earth. Then, on the final day, literally all human souls will be wakened and gathered at heaven’s gate. At the beginning of that day, all the non-elect will refuse to hear the teachings of Jesus, flee from Him, then will be herded into hell. But all the elect, even the most wicked, will be drawn to Jesus, longing to hear His wise words.

Therefore, literally all the elect will hear the teachings of Christ’s judgment, and repent into all those truths. In this way, all will be purified and enter heaven at the end of that day. Both the elect whose souls went straight to the gates of heaven after the death of their flesh, and the elect who were sent to Hades, will enter New Jerusalem together, as one family. And, yes, “Paradise” can refer to both the gates of heaven, where the judgment occurs, as well as heaven’s mainland, where New Jerusalem stands waiting for all the elect. But the “Paradise” which the elect thief on the cross went to on the day his flesh died, where all the truly loving awakened elect will go after their flesh dies, will be the gates of heaven. There those elect will see and personally discuss all matters of life and faith with Jesus, while they wait to enter heaven’s mainland. And all the dead will also receive new bodies made of spiritual substances, whether they are sent to Hades or to Paradise. But those Paradise will walk with Jesus in God’s light from heaven. And there will be a vast distance separating them from those in Hades, but it is likened to the sky above the gates of heaven, where the angels will be sent to gather them. So Hades will be a temporary place for the wicked, for both the elect and non-elect awaiting judgment. And none will enter heaven or hell until after the judgment. And Hades will not be Purgatory, merely a place for wicked souls to wait and sleep until Jesus is ready to judge them.

Therefore, since Hades follows Death on the earth, it implies that a Hades-like state will exist on earth. It would indicate that, after countless deaths on earth, the spirits of both the non-elect and elect will become dull, unthinking and unable to hear the Holy Spirit of Jesus. Their spirits fall into the same kind of stupor that the spirits of the wicked deceased experience in Hades. In other words, their spirits will not be loving and awake, walking beside Jesus as some elect will at the gates of heaven. Many will lack any light from God in them, and will not actively see, learn, grow or develop any kind of abundant life. They will not walk according to the spirit, in faith. A great apostasy or turning away from God will occur, following the works of Death. When it tells us Hades follows Death, it seems to mean that many spirits on earth will grow too empty and lethargic to thrive, and their minds of flesh will no longer accept any thoughts from the minds of their spirits. Most will begin to live entirely through the thoughts of their minds of flesh, suppressing any input from the minds of their spirits. And, if they do this, they will ignore or directly oppose God’s Word and God’s will, since God’s Word and His will can only be heard and understood by a spirit. If these ones make all their decisions in life through fleshy impulses and instincts, through the emotions and intellects of their flesh, Satan can make them do just about anything he wants them to do, for Satan easily manipulates the minds of human flesh. Very many souls on earth will become like the dead cast into Hades, with spirits sitting in a dark and empty place of bitterness and regret, semi-conscious until the last day.

 

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This state of the earth, where Hades follows Death, lulling souls into a carnal spiritual slumber, has surely already arrived. Even churches feel Hades. It is as Paul prophesied in his letter to Timothy:

“But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will

be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents,

ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not

loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers

of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.

For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened

with sins and led astray by various passions, always learning and never able to arrive at a

knowledge of the truth. Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses [Jannes and Jambres are the

traditional names of the sorcerers whom the Pharaoh summoned to reproduce and oppose the signs and

miracles which God performed through Moses (Ex. 7:11-12).], so these men also oppose the truth, men

corrupted in mind and disqualified regarding the faith. But they will not get very far, for their

folly will be plain to all, as was that of those two men” (II Tim. 3:1-9, ESV).

Here Paul was writing to a pastor in another church and described the state of the church in the end times, just before the prophesied revival of the true church. Thus, here Paul is describing what the church will be like during the fifth seal’s era, which is the current time. Some say that these terrible people cannot possibly be a church. However, Paul declared that thes monstrous, evil souls will be those “having an appearance of godliness, but denying its power.” And secular people do not even try to appear “godly.” Only fake churchians do that. So, considering the context about fakes entering Timothy’s church, and about those trying to appear “godly,” Paul definitely is prophesying about false churches in the last days, but before a prophesied true church is made ready for Jesus to return.

Most fake churches and their members like to utter the words “God” and “Jesus,” as they “humbly” boast about how good and “godly” they are. Yet those fakes all live selfish and carnal lives, just like the other citizens of Satan’s world order. All those churchians have thoroughly bought into Satan’s world order. Yet most of them also claim to have recreated themselves into good people through their own “free will” and the power of their own flesh, which they blasphemously call “the saving power of God.” But none of their sleeping spirits know the waking, teaching and training power of the real Jesus. So none experience God-like love and pure joy of the spirit, which is real “godliness,” the kind that comes from God as God’s own power work inside them. In fact, with their “free will” doctrine that defines them as human gods creating their own eternal destinies, they vehemently deny the truly saving power of God. They deny that God alone is able to create true “godliness” in us.

And notice how the disciples in false churches are “always learning.” False churches are always creating new lies and delusions, since their old lies and delusions are constantly dissolving into dust in the light God shines upon the earth. Then those fake churches also need to invent new ways of defending their new lies and delusions. And all this requires them to continually inform and update their members. They not only need to preach those new fictions every week at their church services, but must also provide fake “Bible studies,” seminars and other functions which spread the “truth” of their lies. It is absolutely necessary for cults and fake churches to repeat their lies frequently enough for their people to believe them. Only if their lies are voiced loudly and often enough, will their dupes assume that, since everyone knows them and recites, they must be true, even if the evidence they see and hear proves otherwise. And this is why those fakes are always learning but never arriving at any understanding or even any awareness of the real truth God reveals to all the world.

 

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Logically, the number of lies and delusions can be infinite, since the number of locations which are not at the point where the one, real truth sits are infinite, and the number of directions which depart away from that one point of truth are also infinite. Thus, learning the infinite number of lies taught by false teachers and prophets never ends. And those deceivers can just keep on inventing new lies every day of their lives. But, of course, learning lies is an exercise in futility. For lies are incapable of providing real solutions to real problems. The best that a lie can do is maintain the status quo of a bad situation, although lies usually make the bad much worse. So it is utterly useless to learn lies.

Also, logically, if two views of one reality contradict each other in a way where both simply cannot be true, then we must conclude that one or both must be false. And if each view is zealously defended by someone claiming to have personally witnessed one of those views, then one or both of those persons must be false witnesses and liars. Now consider how every denomination and every local church presents witnesses who claim that they have seen the attributes of God, and that God has taught them His own right interpretation of His words. Then consider how all those testimonies about God’s attributes and God’s interpretations of His own words entirely contradict one another in irreconcilable ways. In fact, each of those witnesses also contradicts his or her own words. Thus, logically, we are forced to conclude that either only one of all those witnesses is not a liar, or all of them are liars. Even if we only listen to the witnesses with double doctorate degrees in theology, all that we can find from each denomination or local church, we still find that they blatantly contradict one another in their descriptions of God’s attributes and in their interpretations of God’s words. So all of their most qualified teachers must be liars too, unless only one of them is teaching real truth.

Learning is not always a virtue, and can be a sin, if one is only learning worthless lies. And teaching false doctrines about God and His Word is a third-order sin, which God considers to be worse than murder, because it can cause murder, and every other kind of sin. Having a double doctorate from a seminary or university of a false church, or a double doctorate in the various fields of study related to the religion of secular humanism from a secular institution, is less valuable than a certificate from a one-hour seminar about the game of Tiddlywinks. For learning those lies, so one can then go out and teach those lies, is a great sin, but learning about Tiddlywinks is not a sin. Learning a lie or delusion is absolutely worthless. But learning about God’s created realities, verities and truths can be very valuable, especially if you also learn to apply them effectively. Also, when you learn truths, you are able to expose lies and delusions. Then, if God’s power makes those truths and wisdom effective, even the most destructive lies and delusions can be nullified, in ways that may even save many lives.

All false teachers and all false churches oppose at least some of the truths in God’s Word, then often even oppose some of the truths revealed in God’s spiritual and physical creations. And many of those liars learn to be very effective in convincing others that their lies are true, or that God’s truths are lies. And it is very difficult to escape from those liars, without the teachings of God’s honest and holy Spirit. For instance, in the days of Moses, the Pharaoh’s heart was deceived by men called Jannes and Jambres. But the Spirit of God warned the spirits of elect Jews and elect Gentiles about those deceivers, and openly proved them to be liars. So those elect, who were willing to learn the truth from God, began to follow Moses instead. But notice that those wiser elect Jews and elect Gentiles were almost all slaves, although a few might have been free Egyptian citizens. So the education of the great Egyptian teachers did not help anyone escape from those deceiving sorcerers. All those who were educated by the Egyptian doctors, even the Pharaoh himself, all became mere foolish little dupes manipulated by those liars, and virtual slaves of those sorcerers. Only those with spirits willing to be taught and trained by God Himself followed Moses into the freedom of the

 

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promised land. Only those who had spirits that were humble enough to admit when God proved the great men and great teachers of this world to be liars, were set free from lies by the truths of God.

Likewise, in our day, we have countless deceivers in countless churches. And, outside the churches, fake scientists have become the new sorcerers, who like to invent myths for their religion, like the irrational, unscientific, completely religious “Big Bang” myth, and the carefully crafted fiction about rocks creating life through a process they like to call “Evolution.” And, although they mix their lies with some truths, those lies have been used by monsters like Hitler to ruthlessly dehumanize and murder millions of siblings in the family of humankind. Then, by boldly and confidently repeating their lies everywhere and as often as they can, the people believe they are true. But the effects of those lies, along with empirical observations and rightly handled inductive reasoning, have proved them to wrong. Both physical and spiritual realities, including all that we now know about time, space and energy, nullify all their speculations and self-serving conclusions, which they use to justify their sins of racism, sexual immorality, psychopathic cruelty and other crimes. God’s created truths have proved immutable throughout history, all that God did actually reveal through His Holy Spirit.

Now let us focus on learning both spiritual and physical realities, verities and truths, as well as the right and skillful applications of those truths. The laws of nature and the spiritual laws of effective, beneficial, just, equitable love cannot change. As we all know, humanists in previous centuries also frequently repeated and forced their theories about the earth being the center of the universe down the throats of the people. And both the theistic and secular humanists did the same with many of their other lies. Eventually, those lies were exposed through overwhelming and indisputable amounts of logically interpreted empirical evidence, and by God’s Word. We must be aware of this, since the lies of both theistic and secular humanists will suffer the same fate. We must not blindly accept those lies and delusions, which have caused incredible destruction and death. For all lies will be exposed in the end, and become distant memories, ridiculed forever. Soon “their folly will be plain to all.” In the meantime, we can find spiritual truths which will set us free, into a truly loving abundant lives.

Also look at how the fourth seal’s prophecy (Rev. 6:7-8) listed various kinds of death. “To kill with the sword” indicates violence, not only by foreign and domestic ruling authorities, but also by rebels, criminals and so on. For this prophecy uses the word ῥομφαία, “all kinds of weapons.” It did not use the word μάχαιρα (“sword”), which was the weapon of the rider during the second seal, and implied wars between the armies of kingdoms. So, after the fourth seal was opened, the world was to be plagued by all kinds of violence. Then the first and foremost identifying characteristic of the fourth era of the last days was to be violence. But, from those days on, the world would also suffer from famines and pestilence (deadly epidemics), since these, incidentally, are caused when lands are thrown into chaos through violence. For crops cannot be grown or distributed, which causes famine. And hungry people have compromised immune systems, which makes them far more susceptible to diseases. Then, as they flee from violence, they spread those diseases, causing epidemics as well.

The fourth seal’s era will also begin to see more people killed “by wild beasts of the earth.” And, in places plagued by war and violence, where dead human bodies are left on ground for animals to consume, large predators discover that humans are good to eat. Then, as more humans flee into a predator’s territory, and hunt his prey, those predators get hungry and hunt humans. Yet we also need to remember that, in John’s day, “wild beasts” did not only refer to large predators. It referred to all kinds of wild creatures, including insects. A first-century man like John did not distinguish between mammals, reptiles, amphibians, insects and so on, as we do today. Nor would these deaths by “wild beasts” always be as a result of attacks by large predators. This prophecy could include attacks by snakes, insects and other wild creatures who killed with venom, toxins or infections. Or they might

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kill humans indirectly, by consuming crops, by contaminating food and water supplies with diseases, and in many other ways. After the fourth seal opens, we are to see Death and Hades coming “to kill … through the agency of dangerous [wild] creatures of the earth” (ἀποκτεῖναι ... ὑπὸ τῶν θηρίων τῆς γῆς). And this killing could be done in a myriad of different ways by many kinds of wild creatures.

Now look at how Death and Hades were “given authority over a fourth of the earth,” not the whole earth. And, since it did not specify any particular quarter of the earth, this suggesting that their plagues of death and psychosocial effects will be limited to only a quarter of the earth at one time, but can shift from one quarter to another during the last days. It means that God wanted them to leave the other three quarters to carry on normally, perhaps so that the people in the plagued quarter would have safe lands to go to whenever Death and Hades visited them. This did not say that an entire “fourth” of the earth's population, in one contiguous area, would all be killed at one time by wars, famines, epidemics and wild creatures, and then the killing would end. Like the other eras before it, the plagues of this fourth seal would more clearly manifest at a certain time in the last days, but never really end, not until Jesus returns. So will will not see one quarter plagued, while three quarters are left untouched. Rather, we were to see the entire earth suffer these plagues, but only one quarter of the earth populations or lands at a time, until all the earth suffers those plagues.

Nor did this prophecy say that a quarter of the earth's entire population would die, or that a quarter would perish during each generation. And it also was not implying that the four plagues (the sword, famines, pestilences and beasts) would each separately plague one quarter, so that the whole earth would suffer. What John seemed to be saying was just what we have actually been seeing for the last 500 years or so. Only about a quarter of the earth has been directly affected by these plagues at any one time. For instance, all four of these plagues killed the vast majority of indigenous people in the Americas at the very beginning of this fourth era, literally tens of millions in that quarter of the earth.

Then the sword, famines, pestilences and beasts moved to other quarters of the earth, killing more people than we could even begin to count, while instilling a spiritual state of Hades in the affected populations. And those plagues were not confined to contiguous quarters of the earth. For instance, the French Revolution and Napoleonic wars in Europe affected North America and the Middle East too, as well as other lands. More recently, the world has been plagued by two World Wars, a world-wide epidemic after the first world war, the famine of the Great Depression, as well as plagues of locusts and other wild creatures. However, all these world-wide events only directly killed souls in about a quarter of the earth at a time. The other three quarters of the earth lived normally during each of those plagues, and did not directly experience deaths from those plagues in their own homelands.

Also, as one part of the earth was affected by one plague, another part often had its own plague to deal with. When the World Wars were being fought, most nations did not directly involve themselves or were minimally involved. So the people in those other nations held a completely different perspective on the World Wars. Also, some nations involved in these wars did not fight on their own soil, but in foreign lands. So the people in their homelands lived normally, and were far more concerned about other troubles in their own places on the earth than they were about the lands where the wars were actually fought. Then, when their soldiers came home from the wars in foreign lands, many of those soldiers had been changed. Hades had taken them. So, during these plagues, “a fourth of the earth” is not a contiguous area of land, nor do all die in each affected quarter of the earth. But the spirits sent by God do indeed have the authority to kill very many souls in each affected quarter.

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century. Preachers like Wycliffe, in the 14th century, along with the Lollards, Hussites and others following his example, began to see the church as an “invisible body of those who are predestined to salvation” (Gonzalez, ibid, p. 413). They started to make the Bible available to the common people again, in their own vernacular, just as it was during apostolic times. Therefore, some of the people saw, for the first time since the era of the first seal, how God promised that His Spirit would save His predestined children through unmerited grace alone. They also realized that both the church and the state were duty-bound to function as God’s servants, and were called to guard His laws and ways. More began to realize that God forbade men to be gods, as the Roman religion of humanism taught, in vain attempts to rule their own destinies, and the lives others. The elite were not to invent their own self-serving laws and ways which exploited their siblings in the family of humankind. Since that time, God loving laws and ways began to nullify some Roman laws, even in the Great Prostitute.

Still, although the true Gospel began to escape from the deep pit of theistic humanism in the 14 th century, then began to more openly and freely be revealed in the 16th century, this was a slow and unsteady process, which has not nearly been completed in our day. God simultaneously raised up a number of very fallible and weak men to proclaim an essential part of the genuine Gospel message during the Reformation. This hard-won freedom to proclaim and disseminate the true Gospel was aided by a number of almost miraculously timed technological advances and political events: by God manipulating or stirring up the inner consciences of certain key rulers so they would help His true servants, and through the use of Gutenberg’s recently invented printing press with movable type. Of course, Gutenburg made his press for only one purpose, to get rich. Yet, despite his greedy motives, his invention served God in a way he could have never imagined. Then, although the Roman popes and powerful European rulers desperately wanted to crush the the Gospel, as well as murder all its proclaimers and believers, God repeatedly distracted them at the most opportune times, by intrigues and wars among one another, as well as by the threats of like-minded Islamic invaders from the east.

Since the fourth seal’s era began, the humanistic church has been divided into basically two camps, the Protestants and the Roman Catholics. The 16th century was when the first daughters of the Great Prostitute were born. But, until the 20th century, the Roman Catholics had stubbornly clung to a lust for both religious and political power, and remained firmly entrenched in their Medieval ways, still proclaiming their familiar Neoplatonic and Aristotelian forms of theistic humanism. So they were called “conservatives.” Meanwhile, almost all Protestants had abandoned those earlier types of humanism, since their people were growing more savvy and required new lies to keep them happily enslaved. Nevertheless, as daughters of Rome, the Protestants also resisted the biblical Gospel from their very beginnings, and those churches were immediately taken captive by willful humanists, so they could be used for the financial and political purposes of those human gods. So, every since the days of the Reformation, Protestant churches have been falling ever deeper into the convoluted darkness of delusions from the new humanism they sold. Each year, more empty rhetoric and vain lies are zealously preached in those churches, and more worthless philosophical and theological books fill the shelves of their libraries. So many of these daughters were called “liberals.” Still, in preparation for the eras of the sixth and seventh seals, the true Gospel did indeed escape the bondage which prevented its proclamation in the previous eras, and that Gospel could never be bound again.

Yet, as God’s truths were proclaimed more openly and disseminated throughout the world, God also increased and more openly revealed His wrath, since the world became more culpable for rejecting His words. In previous times, while none preached the true Word, most could not be blamed as much for not accepting God’s truths in their hearts. But now His truths were freed. Now the elect could choose to accept it, nullify the works of Satan and build up God’s just, equitable, loving kingdom

 

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through the counsel and power of Jesus’ Holy Spirit. However, most chose to live by the fears and folly which their false churches poured into their minds of flesh and served Satan’s world order. So God’s power could not justly help most of the elect, and most of His works were not done in most lands. Since most elect refused to serve and God’s body on earth, they could not suppress the power of Satan and Satan’s servants in their lands. But, whenever elect spirits did turn to God, whenever any elect spirits worshiped God in even one aspect of His truth, His power employed their weak lives to build up justice, equity and love in their lands. So God’s truths, all His principals of justice and love which He teaches to His elect for their salvation, have now spread throughout the earth. On the other hand, God’s wrath is also increasing everywhere, and is poured out in direct proportion to the rejection of His truths. And His greatest plague is handing those truth haters over to delusions.

When the plagues of the fourth seal began, the plagues of the first three seals began to dwindle, although they still struck the entire earth, as they do to this day. Conquering continued, along with its tortuous effects. But conquerors gained fewer lands as modern times approached, and held their conquests for shorter periods of time. Peace was removed and anxiety filled every soul. But this state of anxiety was tempered and some stability could be restored at times. Then the artificial famines caused by exploiters also became more limited, as nations believed God and shared their wealth.

One thing most noticed in modern times was the erosion of humanistic influences, which has also resulted in a furious backlash from Satan’s Roman Empire, and will soon incite that devil to walk upon the earth in the human body of the beast. Still, look at how that humanistic arrogance, which became most widespread and powerful during the third seal’s era, has lost its power. For we can plainly see how the Renaissance man, who could supposedly do all things as his own god through his own unlimited “free will,” has been increasingly exposed as a foolish myth. All human beings are beginning to see that their great human gods are merely fallible, weak, biased, ignorant, selfish, weak-willed, lost and powerless creatures. In fact, this lowly perception of man has even begun to fall too far in the other direction, where some no longer respect or value any human life, and do not know the meaning of love. Some have become just as deluded as those with the perceptions of the Renaissance. Nevertheless, the delusions of humanism are falling, and humanists are getting far more desperate. And now humanism is taking the form of the beast’s faith, a fascist expression.

After the 16th century Reformation, and especially after the 18th century Great Awakening, a growing awareness of God’s teachings about justice, equity and love spread out into all the world. These truths included democratic principles and justice systems endorsed by God’s Law and exemplified by servants of God. Now the people wanted to choose governing authorities whom God had chosen, men who served the people, instead of demanding to be served. The people desired justice systems which judged the rich and the poor under equal standards, based on adequate evidence alone, with mercy and parole for those able to repent into the truth. Many biblical insights began to expose the Renaissance man as a myth, and human gods as villains. Of course, the humanists began to counter those truths with more lies. Humanists had to now deny the existence of God, spirits and any moral restraints, so they could lessen the effects of biblical truths. Thus, they started to teach that man is a material thing created from rocks by accident, with no ability to even find any objective truth or reason. They no longer acknowledged the spirits of God, angels, demons, men and angels as real.

But humanists defended this lie as an objective truth which they found through the reasoning of their rational minds. So they defended it morally and in spiritual ways, through irrational a priori assumptions from the spirits in their hearts. They employed circular reasoning, thinking: “Because there is no God, there is no God. Because there is no such thing as a spirit, there is no such thing as a spirit.” In other words, their spirits did not want God to exist because He interfered with their self-

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rule as as their own gods. Then the humanists taught that “freedom” was earned by the “free will” choosing to become a brain-washed slave of another human god, as they forced their spirits to deny the existence of spirits. If their spirits did this, they could also deny the existence of a non-material Creator, of the Spirit called God. Thus, all kinds of humanistic hybrid political and economic systems were born, such as capitalism, communism and ultimately the beast’s favorite, fascism. All were basically the same as the Roman hierarchical system of demanding the worship of elite human gods, who could then ruthlessly exploit the people for their own profit and pleasure. But all of these new humanistic systems had to dupe the people in far more sophisticated ways than old Rome did.

Of course, the mind of flesh is utterly incapable of true love, or even true hate, and is therefore also not able to comprehend any moral principles whatsoever. Love, hate and moral principles can only originate in the spirit’s mind and can only be applied by the will of the spirit. And, since the only power of life in any creature is the spirit, which wills to live only through spiritual motives, the mind of flesh cannot possibly find any logical reason to live. And life’s only real purpose is to teach and train the spirit. Furthermore, the spirit’s moral indignation is the only thing that causes men to make laws which distinguish between good and evil, since there is absolutely no other logical reason to preserve life, nor even to preserve the earth itself. Thus, one must necessarily come to the conclusion that an intelligent and non-material Creator (an uncreated Spirit) must have designed and created the irreducible and extreme complexity of all that exists, and for His own personal purposes, where His purposes were to teach and train the eternal spirits He created. Then, since His material creations are temporary, then His taught and trained eternal spirits must have a permanent home to go to after their spirits have been taught and trained by God throughout their short lives on the earth in temporary bodies of flesh. And that home must be where their Creator lives, since He would not have done all the work of creating a place to teach and train their eternal spirits if He did not love them and if He did not intend for them to live beside Him. Man innately knew all this. But he could never justify or explain much of this through physical languages. So humanists found they could use the inherent weakness of languages to confuse and corrupt these concepts, to turn them upside down. With false logic, they began to justify their invented and ever-changing philosophies, pseudo-scientific theories and other lies, to maintain the faith of their dupe in their materialistic delusions and the ruling elite.

Of course, with any level of honest, logical and objective scrutiny at all, all their vain rhetoric and theories instantly fall apart. But very few people of this era have begun to realize this, since most want to believe those humanistic lies. They actually work hard to make their lives meaningless and futile, and love how their humanistic materialism invalidates the need for any morals or laws. For, to them, a lack of laws leaves them “free” to do whatever their flesh desires, without any culpability to the real God. Of course, lawlessness also means that no one needs to act justly towards anyone else either. And they certainly do not like that, not when they are the victims of the “freedoms” of others.

If there is no God, everyone can have a totally moral-free, self-defined life, and do whatever one can get away with, even murder. Absolutely nothing can be called “true” or “false,” “right” or “wrong.” Since humanists do not believe in God or God’s laws, they believe that the biggest, strongest and most cunning psychopathic bully should always win. To them, the only way to be free is to be more ruthless, dangerous and cunning than the others, then gather as many duped slaves as one needs to maintain and defend the kingdom which one has conquered, while prudently terrorizing those slaves into worshiping oneself with all their esteem and all their strength. And these were actually the same principles applied by all societies in Satan’s world order from its beginning, ever since the day God first gave human beings the ability to discern between good and evil. All criminal gangs function under these parameters, and so did the Roman Empire from its beginning, since Rome has always

 

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been just another very big criminal gang. But the people loved their slavery to these psychopaths, especially after the more modern Roman humanists convinced each dupe that he was also a human god, that he too had a chance to become an elite psychopath himself, if he applied his “free will” to recreate himself into one. However, in reality, the elite humanists prevented slaves from usurping their power and becoming like them. Their elite only promoted slaves who benefited themselves.

So the people under the rule of elite humanists forget that those systems mean that the elite and other preferred psychopaths can harm them anytime they desire, with complete impunity. Only the most cunning and powerful psychopaths gain the freedom to oppress and enslave their own siblings in the family of humankind, while the vast majority must serve as their slaves. And the elite have no moral obligation to do what is “right” for them, since nothing must be called “right” or “wrong” any longer. Then, as enslaved “free” inferiors obligated to worship the elite, their slavish service to their masters leave them with no spare energy or free time to do much of anything they want to do. And, since their elite owners charge such high prices for the best freedoms, yet never give their slaves much expendable income, those slaves never receive the right to any of the same freedoms that their owners enjoy. Also, since the slaves expend so much of their physical lives in the physical worship of their elite human gods, they completely ignore their spirits, and love becomes a “waste” of time.

But living a loveless life solely to profit the flesh of their elite owners, as slaves with a bare minimum for their own flesh, becomes very meaningless very fast. Thus, to motivate their slaves, the elite invented the lie that their slaves are actually working for one another, not for them. They are working for their nation, through their love for the people in their land. Then their fake humanistic churches, who are also working for those elite, add the lie that those slaves are working for God when they work for the good of their nation. Of course, this kind of nationalism is just a fabricated delusion, since those slaves are actually working exclusively for their elite human gods, to the detriment of everyone in their land, including themselves. And God owns all of the earth, not any particular nation, then calls His church of Israel to serve all His creations. Still, the people are kept stupid, and actually believe those lies. So those enslaved dupes are inspired by this quasi-spiritual meaning given to their enslaved lives, and sacrificially worship their elite owners with a new zeal.

But, aside from a few rewards for their flesh, humanistic societies cause the enslaved elect to continuously suffer the pains of internal conflict, as their spirits war against their flesh. So those humanistic governments and churches vex their souls night and day, without end, because those humanistic governments and churches make their lives futile and empty. Only the non-elect can remain satisfied in humanistic systems, and only if they are able to carve out some kind of little kingdoms for themselves. For non-elect spirits are never able to love, not even their own children. And, in a society without love or true justice, non-elect spirits are free to do whatever their spirits desire, as long as they can do those things without physical consequences. Only elect spirits are continuously suppressed by slavery to lies and sins. For only elect spirits long to truly love in a just way, and strongly desire the true freedom of God from deceptions and being forced to aid and abet the sins of elite psychopaths. Only the elect actually take responsibility for the welfare of others through their love for those others. Only elect spirits feel joyfully compelled to wisely apply God’s moral principals and truths which produce good for all. So the elect suffer most in humanistic systems, but all the non-elect, including the elite, also destroy themselves in humanistic systems.

Still, Satan’s religion of Roman humanism has now conquered every nation on earth, although far more thoroughly in some places than in others. For most souls on earth are stupid enough to believe their lies, because they think only with their minds of flesh. They pant after the “freedom” to fornicate as much as each dares, not realizing that their slavery to their elite means that their sex is

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being monitored and controlled by those elite, for the purposes and pleasures of those elite. For it is the elite who lie about how wonderful their fornication will be, who manipulate their minds of flesh through money paid to influencing propagandists, the media, advertisers and so on. Then children of unwed parents, and the children of married slaves, also become the properties of those elite. Yet those elite care nothing about the needs of single or married parents, nor about sexually transmitted diseases, substance abuse, violence, rape or other tragedies associated with this sexual immorality.

Now, since there must be some semblance of order for the masses, but humanists want nothing to do with the just, loving, simple, free and loving abundant life designed by God, they decide to trick the people into mutually agreeing to uphold an irrational delusion that freedom must have limits set by the self-serving laws invented by them. Humanistic elite invent laws designed to fulfill their own purposes, to provide for the maximum power and profit of themselves, through the exploitation of all others. Then they tell the people that these inventions are for their own good. And, to prevent the people from discovering that they are being duped, those humanists also invent countless mindless distractions which make the flesh of the masses feel good for few moments at a time, and help them forget that they are being manipulated and abused for the benefit of a few useless elite parasites. But all these deceptions are very effective, and they keep the common, ignorant masses orderly, complying to all demands of the elite. However, those laws are only for their “inferiors,” since the elite remain free from all those laws, free to exploit as much as they desire. For their fake “justice systems” grant impunity to the powerful, and elite lawyers can justify any sins of the wealthy elite.

After Jesus opened the fourth seal, lawlessness began to abound and love grew cold as a result. For the injustice of the world did not allow the trust necessary for love. And people were forced to work longer hours for their elite owners, so they had no time for love. In fact, almost everyone became virtual slaves in the fourth era began, although the elite fooled most into thinking they were free. It could be argued that almost everyone in the world today, even the elite, are terrorized, monitored slaves coerced into working long hours with no ability to escape from their masters. Some may be treated a little better than others, but cold, hard cash chains the majority to their futile occupations.

The masses are taught to believe in either a materialistic God or no God. Most live only for the flesh and have no concept of any higher spiritual purposes. And the elite act as though the only purpose for the survival of living beings is to serve them. Otherwise, living is senseless and the life of anyone who does not worship the elite is worthy of death. Therefore, all God’s laws to preserve and benefit life are considered to be worthless and senseless. If the elite refused to accept God’s just ways, then the masses must also confess that all God’s ways are wrong. Everyone must agree that, even if the self-serving ways of the elite always result in chaos, injustice and destruction, they must be right. All assumptions of secular and theistic human gods must be true, simply because they declare them to be true. And, since all the secular gods conclude that there is no such thing as a human spirit which is answerable to a personal God, then all the secular people must believe this too, then silence their own spirits and think only with their minds of flesh, in subjection to whatever laws those human gods will invent, as the most elite human gods are granted total immunity from all their own laws.

It is impossible to write a comprehensive description of all the truths and countering lies which have battled against one another in the modern era of the fourth seal. But, for now, let me repeat these essential truths which every elect soul must know. The biblical definition of a “law” refers to any guiding principle which limits or directs behaviors, and each law must harmoniously build upon the principles behind literally all other laws, because there must not be any contradictions between any of the principles used to derive all laws in the whole body of laws. For all judgments are based upon the interconnection of principles within the entire body of laws, and it is impossible to justly judge

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anyone or anything if one applicable principle contradicts the other. But creating such a body of law is extremely difficult, and no mind or minds in heaven or on earth have ever been able to create a body of laws based on entirely harmonious principles which effectively benefit all life on earth. Yet such a body of laws exists, and has been found in existing spiritual and physical creations all around us. Furthermore, that same body of laws is also found in one book, and only one book, on earth. We find a summary of all those harmonious laws in the Bible, in a fully exemplified and explained form.

Any attempt to make any law must ensure that whatever that law justifies must be a behavior which is intrinsically, morally and, therefore, spiritually right, that those actions will be beneficial to all over the long term and preserve trust which enable just, equitable love. Likewise, whatever a law condemns must be a behavior which is intrinsically, morally and spiritually destructive, to counter lies and all that causes distrust, which nullifies or inhibits just, equitable love. And, since love can only be found in the mind of the spirit, never in the mind of flesh, every law is ultimately spiritual, and must be based on spiritual principles. For a law may govern physical actions, but it always judges according to spiritual motives and intentions. So a good legal system finds a law-breaker non-culpable when that one’s motives are not selfish and that one’s intentions are not evil. And a bad legal system judges people to be either innocent or guilty based solely on the selfish motives and evil intentions of the judge himself, or those of the elite governing authorities who coerce the judge into making decisions. Unjust and inequitable legal systems do not care about guilt or innocence, and do not judge the motives and intentions of each individual law breaker, but sacrifice individual lives for the benefit of the elite ruling over hierarchies which are designed solely to serve that elite minority.

Since, from the beginning of time, in various degrees, all human spirits have been aware of this kind of true justice which judges the motives and intentions of each individual spirit, and all these human spirits have found various parts of exactly the same laws in the spiritual and physical creations existing all around them, this actually precludes the existence of a very wise, consistent, just, equitable Lawmaker, a very personal God who created all spiritual and physical existence. Thus, every truly good law assumes that God created all realities, that God defined right and wrong, good and evil, and that He did all this purposefully. God planned and ordained the most effective ways for His human representatives on earth, for His caretakers of the earth, to behave for the good of all.

Thus, only those very specific spiritual concepts and behaviors which God defined in His spiritual creations, and only the way in which God Himself interprets His own words in His own book, can be called true and right. Only those spiritual, moral and legal concepts accurately describe how to most effectively care for God’s planned, created and existing realities. The only immutably designated precepts which can ever produce the best effects for the good of all are written in God’s spiritual and physical creations and in His book. In the very end, literally every principle behind every law and every concepts of “right” or “wrong” precludes that a just and personal God has created all things to function in certain specific ways. And all that deviates from those harmonious and effective ways is not good and not right, will not be effective in producing good results for all, and may unjustly cause harm or death if it strays too far from God’s ways. Bad laws will destroy the people and their lands.

Every honest and rational person looking into these matters will realize that they have eternal spirits which seek an eternal kind of love, the kind which does not die when the flesh dies. And, in their spirits, they also have a knowledge of good and evil. Everyone’s spirit, whether one likes it or not, is able to recognize blatant and extreme manifestations of good or evil. But non-elect spirits care very little about good, then rejoice in evil when it benefits or gratifies their lusts of the flesh, and will only hate evil if it harms themselves. Meanwhile, the elect consistently admire and often rejoice in good, and cannot help but hate evil, even when it benefits their flesh. Then some elect have more awake

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spirits, which do not allow the emotions of their flesh to interfere with the thoughts of their spirits, who become more skilled clearly and rightly discerning between the more subtle instances of right and wrong. Then both the dishonest non-elect and the honest elect realize that absolutely none of their perceptions of good and evil, that not one of their moral judgments, has anything to do with the temporary configuration of the physical molecules and energy in their bodies and brains of flesh.

So, with these empirical observations of literally everyone’s awareness of their own spirits, whether they consciously admit it in their minds of flesh or not, as well as our empirical observations of exactly the same consistently manifested kinds of love and hate in all spirits, as well as the empirical observations of the way in which all recognize exactly the same principles of right and wrong, we then forced to logically conclude: (1) eternal spirits exist; (2) a very wise Creator of all spiritual and physical realities also exists; and (3) that Creator designed and established all of the principles that can be useful in forming good laws. All laws are spiritual, and all good laws are made on the assumption that there must be a personal God who designed the principles behind all good laws. Thus, every single law that humanistic materialists make for the good of their elite alone is bad, and made through spiritual hypocrisy or through totally irrational decisions from their hearts and minds.

Even the least of our laws are spiritual and bear spiritual effects. For instance, bad bylaws and traffic regulations are based on the carnal desires of a few deluded wealthy and powerful elites, then cause needless and futile losses, anxieties, fears and even deaths. But good bylaws and traffic regulations benefit the physical health and well-being of whole communities, as well as promote trust, freedom from fear and the growth of love between the members of the community. Good bylaws and traffic regulations not only save and enhance human lives, but also the lives of wildlife and the whole of the natural environment surrounding the community. So even the least of our laws are based on the spiritual principle of respecting human and non-human life, because all life is the property of God.

During the last few centuries of this fourth seal’s era, we have seen how Hades, which causes the apostasy of man, has followed Death everywhere on this planet. Unlike the third seal’s era, during the Renaissance, a new class of exploiting elite has used this bitterness towards a false image of God to justify all their evil laws and deeds through a hybrid form of secular humanism. And this new hybrid secular humanism is founded upon a slight variation of Neoplatonism, which has developed the pseudo-scientific doctrines of evolution. In this kind of Platonism, they still worship a totally impassive and impersonal creator. But they have reduced their creator to the size of a subatomic particle, and made it completely mindless, in order to allow the human gods to rule with even more impunity over their subjugated and terrorized “inferiors” enslaved within their hierarchies. And they even refuse to call their creator a god, but claim that there is no God, and deny that there is any kind of rational principle exists to condemn any of their unjust and sinful behaviors. Then, following every war and plague listed in Revelation’s description of this fourth seal’s era, which all expose the evil motives and intentions of the elite, which prove their godless greed and lust for power, those elite blame all the suffering of the masses on God, and deny their own culpability. So they have also caused their people to turn away from God and enter a perpetual state of internal deadness, which is what their spirits will also experience in Hades. And this is one of the reasons why I firmly believe that we are indeed living within the era of the fourth seal, which overlaps the era of the fifth seal too.

This fourth seal’s era will only start to fade when the sixth seal’s begins, and cannot end entirely until Jesus returns to destroy Satan’s fourth kingdom of the Roman Empire. For God must continue to expose the lies and sins of Roman humanism until they cease, for the education of His elect. It cannot end within the era of the fifth seal, because the persecutions of believers during the fifth

 

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seal’s era will be the direct consequence of the works by Death and Hades during the fourth seal’s era. The persecutions of the saints in the fifth era must be fed with the apostasy of the fourth era.

Only while the fourth era’s events are occurring, can the fifth era’s events take place. Then both the fourth and fifth eras will be abruptly interrupted as the world order is silenced by the world-wide earthquakes and bombing meteors which signal the beginning of the sixth seal’s short era. For it will be difficult to persecute the elect when the economic, political, military and other systems of Satan’s entire world order are partially destroyed and their hierarchies fall into chaos. Then the great revival, with its sealing and awakening of most of God’s elect on earth will further weaken the humanists for a time. Only after the elite Roman humanists in certain parts of the world recover their ability to terrorize the masses into submission, will God need to continue His exposing and punishing plagues.

The era of the fifth seal must simultaneously occur within the last part of the fourth seal’s era. For it is a signal to mankind, that God is reaching His limit of tolerance and will soon save His elect out of Satan’s Roman kingdom, then begin the total destruction of the wicked upon the earth. And the final wrath of God against that devil’s Roman humanism will occur during the era of the seventh seal, as He commands His seven angels to blow their trumpets of war against Rome, then ends that war with His seven bowls of wrath. But the gathering of His elect into His true and visible church must be completed before He destroys all the wicked. For must first separate His elect from the non-elect.

So we are still experiencing the fourth seal’s era, even as we are still experiencing the fifth seal’s era. We can see with our own eyes how Hades follow Death, how a multitude of wars, famines and other kinds of deaths produce the spiritual effects of apostasy. And, after a a few hundred years of those deaths, the apostasy caused by Hades has flared up into an irrational rage, producing exponentially increased violence from secular and theistic humanists, with senseless persecutions against any of the elect who have dared to testify about God’s truths. So, for more than a century, we have also experienced the era of the fifth seal. The increasing frustration and hatred of the exposed non-elect persecutors and the growing love of the elect for their unjustly persecuted siblings, is strengthening the dichotomy between the elect and non-elect. Then this increased division is preparing the elect for their revival and the non-elect for their final demise. A world-wide earthquake will soon bring the fourth and fifth eras to a sudden halt and signal the beginning of the sixth era, with its true, biblical revival promised in God’s Word, the formation of His visible true church. When His church is strong enough, He will begin to war against Satan’s fourth kingdom, then kill it as He returns to His church.

 

Fifth Seal Prophecies

The persecution of God's people, beginning in the 18th or 19th century

Unlike the first four seals, the fifth seal’s era has somewhat more of a clearly delineated time frame, since it begins with a noticeably greater increase in the persecution of God's elect, both true Jews and true Christians, as well as elect from any other religions, any elect whose spirits are partially awake, able to love and willing to rebuke evil with the truth spoken through love. Then it never really ends until Jesus returns, but sees a short hiatus during the era of the sixth seal. From the words of Jesus and the other Scriptures, we were to expect that both false Christians and false Jews would partake in this persecution, together with Satan’s fourth Roman kingdom, but the bulk of the slaughtering and dehumanization was to be done by that devil’s secular minions and his other humanistic religions.

 

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As Satan’s lies of his Roman religion are exposed by God’s growing truths on earth, and as that devil’s kingdom of the world order is losing it deluding, enslaving power, it fights back against all who stand upon biblical truths. It seeks to silence or kill anyone associated with God and His Word, all sealed with the name of Jesus, all existing or potential true priests of Israel. Whether one’s faith is pure or polluted by the world order, non-elect humanists will seek to destroy it. If one’s spirit looks to the real God, trusts in His truth and serves Him through just, pure, God-like love, they will try to kill that one. Of course, we are now living in this fifth era. A great increase in the persecution of Jews and Christians began long ago, and grew very intense by the end of the nineteenth century. The murdering of the elect reached insane proportions by the twentieth century, and has not really slowed much since then. Since the apostasy of Hades still follows Death and takes the hearts of men captive, blood has followed blood, and now there is very little that remains to guide man in the ways of life.

Revelation 6:9-11: “When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those

who had been slain for the Word of God and for the witness they had borne. They cried

out with a loud voice, 'O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before You will judge and

avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?' Then they [the slain elect] were each given

a white robe and told to rest a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their

brothers should be complete, who were to be killed as they themselves had been” (ESV).

Notice this does not say that this specified group will all be the loyal, tithing members of a specific denomination of a humanistic church, nor that that they should wear white robes on earth to pretend that they are the people whom God is speaking about here. In fact, the careful wording here does not even indicate that greatly rewarded people of God were completely faithful servants during their lives on earth, or that all these who have been slain in this persecution spoke eloquently, lived as perfect examples of godliness all their lives, and never lied or sinned during their spirits’ appointed teaching and training time in a body of flesh. Rather, this Scripture defined them and those who strove to advance God’s Word or testified about the real God of the Bible. And it did not mean that these taught every aspect of His Word perfectly, but would include all who merely testified about one or a few aspects relatively honestly and rightly, whether or not as a teacher or in a formal way.

An altar is a place of prayer, and these slain elect testifiers are under the roof of an altar in heaven. The fact that these slain elect will include both Jews and Christians, as well as all the elect of other religions who speak the truth in love, is partially evidenced by the wording by the Jewish apostle to the true Christian church. For he deliberately does not mention that they worshiped Jesus while they lived on earth. Instead, he uses two phrases that describe either Old Covenant Jews or New Covenant believers, or any other elect standing up for biblical truths and the teachings of Jesus. In the name and authority of God, John calls them “slain for the Word of God” and “for the witness/testimony they had borne.” Clearly, this encompasses all true Christians or true Jews, and does not distinguish between any other the heretical or truly biblical sects of either, and does not even atheists or people from other religions. It simply describes all who testify about real truths found in the Scriptures and testify about its truths, whether or not they personally found them in the Bible, even if their spirits merely found those truths in God’s spiritual and physical creations, then believed and acted on them.

The prophecies also say that many of the elect will be deceived by all kinds of deceptions during this time, throughout the last days before Jesus returns. But the spirits of these slain ones are gathered under the holy altar of prayer in heaven, as corrected, taught and trained priests of God, as sanctified children of God. Thus, many will be killed for their faith in some biblically taught truths, although not all those truths, perhaps not even most of those truths, during this era, But all will be the elect and possess at least some inherent faithfulness to God in their infantile spirits, causing them to cling

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to His just, loving ways. Many will have elect spirits taught directly by Jesus, and learn at least some real truths, making them able to begin to love with a little genuine, just, equitable and God-like love.

We also know that these slain souls in heaven will include Jews as well as Christians because, in other prophecies about the last days (like Rev. 12:17), it states that a persecution of Israel, the Jews, will be followed by a persecution of the rest of Israel’s offspring, which refers to the elect Gentiles whom God brings into His priestly family of Israel, so they too might represent the people of the entire world before the face of God in prayer, and proclaim God’s responses to all who live on earth.

These elect in heaven, who were killed during this persecution in the era of the fifth seal, are all seen praying for God’s judgment of the earth. But, in heaven, they are praying for a biblical judgment, the kind that God spoke about in His law, a just judgment, with forgiveness for all whose motives and intentions were either clean or made clean through repentance into the truth, the kind of judgment with a focus on redemptive teaching. Justice never has anything whatsoever to do with revenge, as humanists seem to think. And, by the time these elect reach heaven’s gate, where all of them shall begin their completion and perfection, they will all realize that revenge belongs to the merciful and wise God alone, who even grants His worst enemies exactly what they desire, but in a way where they cannot continue to exploit and harm His people or any of His other good creations. And God alone bears the right to judge all, because He alone owns all. Therefore, all who harm any persons, animals or things has personally offended only Him, the Creator and Owner. He alone holds the final authority to determine the extent of guilt or innocence in the spirits of human beings, to forgive all repented sins and proclaim atonement through His blood for all their unintentional sins of ignorance and carnal weaknesses. Our God Jesus alone will justly punish the lies and sins of the unrepentant non-elect and their demon lords, because all those lies and sins are ultimately attacks against Him.

Thus, human beings never bear any right to judge who will or will not be forgiven, nor seek revenge, and must only loosen a soul from guilt or bind a soul to condemnation (either forgive not forgive the lies and sins of a soul), then demand the payment of a penalty. Rather, all of us are lying sinners and must only judge others according to what God reveals to our spirits about His decisions in heaven, since only God can see true repentance in a spirit, or a lack of it. And, if God does not reveal this, then we can judge actions according to what He has revealed about good and evil in His Word and in His creations. Then we must take the time to teach sinners about God’s wise, just and loving ways, so we judges by their responses, because God wants us to observe the evidence for all that He will reveal to our spirits, before we condemn any liar or sinner. Then, if the Holy Spirit of Jesus causes a repentance of the sinner’s spirit into truth, in a true way which bears real fruits of repentance, our own spirits will hear God tell us that this sinner has been forgiven in heaven. Then God’s true justice will restore all the losses caused by lies and sins among His elect, with many restorations on this earth and a hundredfold times more at the gates of heaven after our deaths. God’s heavy hand of wrath falls only upon the non-elect, whose spirits never truly repent. For nothing that even God Himself can say to them is able to make them love the light of truth more than their beloved darkness of lies and delusions. No teaching can ever nullify their innate love for injustice and lies.

The attributes Satan created in the spirits of his non-elect children, their inherent natures, will never change. And God ultimately caused their creations through Satan. Thus, our God Jesus is only able to cause His elect to repent into His truth, not the non-elect, since His choices made for the creations of all human spirits were for His plan to teach and train His infantile elect spirits on earth, and those plans are immutable. So the inherent natures He created in the elect will always tend to choose the real truth, once those spirits overcome the lusts and fears of their flesh. But the non-elect will always tend to choose the darkness of lies and delusions. And Jesus often causes many elect to repent while

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they live on this earth. Then He will causes most of the elect to repent into more truths in the future, after the sixth seal’s revival. Finally, on the last day, literally all the elect will repent into literally all truths and realities. Yet the non-elect will always grow worse, for all eternity. So, after the sixth seal’s revival of the elect, almost all those non-elect will admire the beast, and many will worship that demon-possessed man. All those non-elect will follow the beast into the greatest evil and injustice this earth has ever known, including the ruthless murdering of every elect soul they can find and take captive. This is why Jesus will destroy them all when He comes to rule over all of the earth.

Of course, we saw both Jewish and Christian believers persecuted throughout history, as well as a host of other elect captives from other faith systems, including secular humanism, countless elect souls proclaiming truths found in God’s Word through loving motives and just intentions, against all forms of injustice, inequity, exploitation and murder. But now this era of the fifth seal definitely has seen an exponential increase in those kinds of persecutions. Even so, the number of elect who will be murdered through those kinds of persecutions shall not “be complete” until the persecutions by the beast during the last half of his seven-year reign in the era of the seventh seal. Then, after the beast’s persecutions, Jesus will return to stop all the persecutions of the elect. And Jesus will also bring back many of those murdered elect to the earth when He returns, in the first resurrection of the dead. All the elect who previously died for their spirits’ faith in God’s truths, whose spirits have also been taught and trained to some level of loving maturity, will return with Jesus, to labor on earth with Him, to help in His works of restoring abundant life throughout the earth during the millennium.

While John is standing in heaven, Jesus tells him all these things about the elect who were killed during the era of the fifth seal, exhorting the elect under the altar to wait until the full number of brothers and sisters have been killed through persecutions. For the teaching illustrations of good and evil for all the infantile elect spirits who have ever lived on earth will not be completed until then. But, when our God Jesus has finished producing all the examples of deviations from His truths cause harm and death, He will come to judge and rule the earth. Then His accurate histories of all past events on earth will serve in His education of His elect everywhere on earth, so all might see how even the most inoculate sounding lies and supposedly “non-essential” doctrines are sometimes the very foundations of the lies and delusions which cause the worst of errors, sins and crimes on earth.

Just before Jesus sets His foot upon the Mount of Olives on the day of His arrival, He will avenge the unjust deaths, but justly, not through a mindless, carnal bitterness and rage, but through a just requirement of an eye for an eye and a life for a life. And, by that time, Jesus will have first entirely separated the elect from the non-elect. Through His sealing of His elect, which comes with the teaching and training of their spirits by His own Holy Spirit, most of the elect will then be able to see through the lies of artificially “friendly” psychopaths, who “love” in false and conditional ways. By the time Jesus judges the non-elect in Satan’s Roman world order, the revived elect will have also proclaimed the true Gospel in all the earth, and Jesus’ Holy Spirit will prompt or even compel the elect everywhere to confess and agree with the truth in repentance. And when those elect can clearly delineate between God’s ways and the ways of Satan’s world order, they will no longer allow the non-elect to enslave them in Satan’s Roman world order. The whole world will be dichotomized, with the elect firmly standing on one side and the non-elect radically committed to very many other opposing sides. Only after this internally separating process is completed, will Jesus be able to judge and slaughter the wicked upon the earth, without causing any collateral damage to His elect siblings.

Before our wise and careful God Jesus can declare the wicked to be without excuse, and punish them, He must first give them enough clear illustrations to prove how their deviations from His revealed will always cause unjust loss, pain and death, and also prove how His ways always provide

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benefits for all His creations. On top of this, He must then grant them adequate time to repent. But, after God has done this, He can punish them. And, after about 2,000 years of these proofs, God has indeed met these requirements. Thus, it is time for God to justly punish the wicked upon the earth, which He will do in the days of the seventh seal and on the judgment day. Also, this means that, by the era of the sixth seal, which is coming soon, the elect will also have enough information and time to repent into God’s truths. And they will, since all elect spirits are innately attracted to His truths.

During the sixth seal’s era, the elect will be granted freedom from the influences of false religion, political deceivers, Satan’s economic coercions, corrupt legal systems and so on. Not only that, but the elect already possess an exponentially greater ability to accurately translate both the Old and New Covenant Scriptures from their original languages, as well as the historical and archaeological data which helps them interpret those Scriptures rightly. Then, ever since the day of the Pentecost in AD 28, all elect spirits have received unlimited access to the personal teaching of Jesus’ Holy Spirit, who freely and willingly explains His perfect interpretations of His own words in the Bible. Thus, the conditions for the revival of God’s one true priesthood of Israel will be perfect during the era of the sixth seal, and most elect on earth will repent into the truth, receiving His work on the cross for the forgiveness of their intentional sins through the reversal of those intentions in repentance, as well as the forgiveness of all their unintentional sins done in ignorance or through coercion. And, with this plenary forgiveness, our God Jesus will also grant full atonement to restore their relationships with Him, which results in the outpouring of His Holy Spirit into all of their fully sanctified hearts.

So, after the revival of the true church during the sixth seal’s era, all the world will have access to the truth through those elect in the true church. But the non-elect will reject the light of those truths about love and justice, because they will love the darkness of their lies and delusions far more. Then those non-elect will even more overtly embrace Satan’s ways of the world order, and many of them will eventually and literally worship the demon-possessed beast of the Roman Empire, although the humanistic non-elect of the north (Russia) and far east (China) will merely side with the motives and intentions of the demon-possessed beast, but not worship him, and will even war against him for a brief time, until they join him in the end. The point is that, after the era of the sixth seal, there will be a clear dichotomy of all human souls on earth, an irreconcilable fracture between the elect and the non-elect. Almost all the elect will abandon Satan’s Roman world order, to create their own visible true church and even some just, equitable, loving Christian nations in places far from Israel, in many parts of the world. Then God will be free to justly destroy Satan’s world order and all who embrace it, without destroying His elect, since almost none of His elect will bind themselves to the non-elect, by aiding and abetting the lies and sins of the non-elect, but will come out from the non-elect to be separate from them. The destruction of those non-elect murderers and liars will only take about 20 years, and will be totally complete by the time Jesus returns to set His feet upon the earth. Jesus will rule the surviving elect on earth, and will also bring many deceased elect souls to the earth during the first resurrection. Through the works of those elect, and through His miraculous powers, He will then restore the earth to a state of beauty and justice which has never been seen since its beginning.

We also find the reasons for the great tribulations of the fifth, sixth and seventh seals in other places:

Matthew 24:8-13: “All these [i.e., the plagues associated with the first four seals in Revelation] are but

the beginning of the birth pains. Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and put you to

death [i.e., this is the persecution associate with the fifth seal in the Revelation.], and you will be hated by

all nations for My name's sake. And then many will fall away and betray one another and

hate one another. And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray. And because

 

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lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold. But the one who endures to

the end will be saved” (ESV).

As previously mentioned, Jesus first gave a general description of what the Revelation portrays as the plagues of the first four seals. Then, here, Jesus called those four plagues “the beginning of the birth pains,” implying that many more pains will follow. The worst pains will be the great tribulation during the eras of the sixth and seventh seals. But here Jesus seems to include the persecutions of the saints during the fifth seal’s era, as one of the latter and worse “birth pains,” perhaps as the first pain of the great tribulation, and therefore also lasting a somewhat longer period of time than the last “birth pains” of the sixth and seventh eras (since birth pains increase in frequency and pain as the time of birth draws nearer, and the figurative “birth” that Jesus referred to here is His return to earth).

The next clause (v. 9) begins with the adverb τότε, to indicate the next event in a sequence. So, at some time during the era of the fourth seal, the fifth seal’s era will begin. And remember, these are God’s judgments which build up over time. So, when each seal’s era begins, it does not mean that the plagues of the previous seal will stop. Rather, all the plagues of the previous seals will continue as the era of each subsequent seal is added to it. Thus, as the wars and rumors of wars continue, and all kinds of other troubles plague the world order, Satan’s kingdom, including his false churches, will greatly increase the persecution of God’s elect, as the elect begin to elucidate more of God’s Word.

Jesus prophesied that this hatred of believers will be world-wide and promoted by governments. For He defined it as the hatred of “all nations,” or “all kinds of nations.” And this implies that it would be world-wide and that secular governments would promote or at least partake in this kind of hatred. And this is exactly what we have seen in fascist, communist, capitalist and Muslim nations. During the last century or so, the very last hold-outs against Satan’s kingdom have fallen to the guile of Roman humanism, with its hierarchical worship of “superior” human gods, its economic systems and so on. Now there are no more holdouts against the beast’s Roman religion of humanism in the world, and that religion hates God and His just ways more than all the other religions which have ever existed on earth. So literally all nations now hate God and His most loving, just, equitable elect. The non-elect in Satan’s world order will never stop hating the elect who defend the principles taught in God’s Word, especially the awakened elect who bear the name of the real Jesus, whose spirits seek genuine, God-like justice and love, who consciously trust in Jesus and all He represents.

Mark also recorded similar teachings from Jesus: “But be on your guard. For they will deliver you over to councils, and you will be beaten in synagogues, and you will stand before governors and kings for My sake, to bear witness before them. And the Gospel must first be proclaimed to all nations’ (Mark 13:9-10, ESV). Here we also discover that the true Gospel will not be “proclaimed to all nations” until after Jesus’ disciples experience this world-wide persecution. And that persecution can only become world-wide after Satan’s fourth Roman kingdom spreads it humanistic lies and delusions into all the world, which has only occurred within the last hundred years or so. But, now that this persecution is truly world-wide, we will soon see the sealing of the servants of God during the sixth seal’s era, along with a revival of God’s visible true church. And it will be during that revival that the true and full Gospel “will be proclaimed to all nations,” although not believed by all.

God’s servants will not be able to adequately proclaim the Gospel in all nations until the revival of the sixth seal’s era, when they finally learn the real Gospel and the receive the power to proclaim it through God’s sealing by His power. Mark quoted Jesus’ teaching about the increased persecution of the elect precipitating the world-wide preaching of the Gospel. The increased persecution will occur before the true, full Gospel is proclaimed in all the world, which would be during the sixth seal’s era,

 

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which immediately follows after the fifth seal’s era. At the present time, virtually no church preaches the genuine Gospel of salvation through the Holy Spirit’s personal teaching and training of the spirit, although Jesus Himself has been working this salvation quietly and almost “secretly” in myriads of elect spirits without those elect actually realizing it. Nevertheless, almost all churches since the second century have been humanistic and preach a false Gospel. It is hard to even find one church on the earth that does not proclaim a false, humanistic gospel, worked by the wills of men through works of magic sacraments or magic form prayers. But all this is about to change in the next era.

One of the signs that the revival of the sixth seal’s era is coming soon is the fact that countless elect are beginning to reject false churches and their false Gospels, as Jesus teaches their spirits to love in a far more just, pure and God-like way. And these billions of true elect may not all know it, but their spirits love the real God, in spite of all the false gods that the false churches pretend to call by the real God’s name, and regardless of all the unjust false doctrines those false churches teach in the name of the real God. Because these true elect hate the lies, stupidity and cruelty of those fake churches, they often clash with those false churches, and secular governments which have been influenced by those fake churches, or vice versa. Consequently, these true elect are often persecuted for the name of Jesus, even when those true elect do not consciously realize (in their minds of flesh) that it is actually Jesus who is teaching their spirits to love justly. And note how Jesus said these elect would be delivered over to “councils,” that is, to the governing bodies of the local churches, (called “synagogues” by both the Jews and Christians in Mark’s day). Both the local churches and secular governments wanted to forcibly silence the elect, or kill them, for exposing their folly and injustice.

Just like the humanists of the ancient Roman government, together with the Jewish churches and pagan cults, periodically persecuted true Christians in Mark’s day, so do humanists in governments, false churches and cults continue to periodically persecute true Christians in our day. The only real difference is that all the governments, cults and false religions of today have now been conquered by either secular or theistic forms of Roman humanism. Then they use the delusions and lies of that Satanic religion to more effectively rally their people against us. Thus, Jesus told us to be on our guard, to watch out for the traps and snares they lay for us, to enslave or destroy us. We must be careful, thoughtful, aware, rational and able to remain grounded in the spiritual and physical realities and truths God created, so we can nullify the false logic that applies false premises so craftily. Then we overcome their evil through loving good, not with the weapons of the world used by them. To speak the real truths that Jesus teaches to our spirits, and to reason through those truths in love, in the times we have any opportunities, will undo the lies and other works of Satan’s humanistic religion, as it builds up God’s just, equitable, loving kingdom on earth, with non-discriminatory tolerance.

All the persecutions of Satan’s fourth Roman kingdom against all who speak the truths of God’s Word will lead to the true Gospel being proclaimed during the sixth seal’s era. For Jesus said this persecution would serve that purpose, “to bear witness before them.” This hopeful remark implies that some of those who hear our testimonies during the persecuting era of the fifth seal will actually understand and repent into the Messiah’s truths presented during our persecutions. Many lost elect individuals will eventually become truly Christian, with spirits taught and trained by the Holy Spirit of Jesus for their salvation, according the genuine, biblical, Gospel of the Messiah’s New Covenant. According to the prophecies, whole nations shall form just governments based on the Gospel truth. Many lands in the Middle East and some “islands” (including land-locked nations in far-off places), will repent during or shortly after the revival of the sixth seal’s era, and will be fully established as stable and united societies before the Roman beast comes to power in his seven European nations.

 

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During this current era of the fifth seal, which is embedded within the latter half of this fourth seal’s era, persecution have become very personal—meaning the reasons for persecuting others are deeply and firmly internalized in the deluded non-elect, then manifested either subtly or overtly through every aspect of life, by members of governments, local communities, schools, work places, false churches, humanistic cults and religions, as well as in nuclear and extented families. We have seen the heads of Nazi Germany, communist nations, white supremacists, Muslim extremist groups and other humanistic institutions of Satan’s world order become highly trusted human gods of their people. And those human gods have lured their people into binding blinding delusions and lies which have inwardly consumed them with irrational hated for all who do not worship their human gods together with them. So now these non-elect are beyond reason, and no amount of evidence will sway them to save themselves from their own self-destructive delusions, from their own beloved darkness.

In modern times, non-elect humanists have been especially threatened by the increasingly well-developed, empirically evidenced biblical principles presented during this fifth-seal’s era, and have even had to contend with solid archaeological evidence confirming biblical history, which they thought they had slandered and mocked to death by the beginning of the 20th century. But, most of all, those humanists hate the “natural laws” which God expects all secular governments to uphold, in order to receive His blessings and protection for their lands. The non-elect have always despised the loving and humbling biblical principles, the honesty of God’s Word and the demands that the God of the Bible has put on governing authorities. But now that empirical data is reinforcing and proving the effectiveness of biblical principles for the well-being of the people, the honesty of the lessons in biblical history, and the immutability of God’s natural laws more than ever. So this has infuriated the recent non-elect humanists to the point where they have exponentially increased the persecution and murdering the elect whose demands have become more clear, more solid and more evidence based.

Actually, the true elect have been demanding that secular authorities uphold God’s natural laws since the beginning of time, from the days of Adam and Eve. And they have been persecuted for that since the beginning of time. For the non-elect wanna-be gods have always, disregarded and disobeyed those natural laws, then brought destruction on themselves. However, instead of admitting their own culpability for causing their own destruction, they have always transferred their own blame to the innocent elect. The lying non-elect will say something like, “It is because those guys said we would be destroyed if we continued to murder, sexually exploit, steal, slander and live for greed. But it is because they said this that we were destroyed. If they were silent, the we would all be thriving now. So everyone gather around us, your great human gods, and let us murder those destroyers.” Of course, those lies which get their dupes to murder the elect may help those human gods maintain their illicit power for a little while. Yet the persecution of the elect actually hastens the destruction of themselves and everyone else in their land. For, after they murder and drive out the elect, their land is depleted of its most useful people. So there is no one left to bring blessings to their land, once those dupes have empowered their parasitic human gods to consume everyone and everything in it.

Let the elect remember that the only way the people of a land can possibly thrive is by submitting to God’s immutable natural laws, which He wrote in all His spiritual and physical creations. All that is perceived by us, in His creations, proves that those natural laws are effective for the well-being of the people. And nature also provides evidence of all the bad effects produced through disobedience to those laws. In recent times, more and more of the elect are remembering God’s natural laws, and working hard to prove their effectiveness. So, as the non-elect listen to the better, clearer, more evidence based reasoning from the elect, they grow even angrier, and are raging more than they were in previous generations. Thus, they have lied, persecuted and killed more of the elect in these recent

 

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times. But, since this great increase in the persecution of the innocent is also against God’s natural laws, it has resulted in more of God’s wrath, with even more of His punishments falling upon them.

It is clear that, during the past couple of centuries, more elect have been rejecting the devil’s religion of Roman humanism, and are increasingly adopting biblical principles, while demanding that their governing authorities submit to God’s natural laws. Most of these elect remain in false churches and other false religions, and some even walk among atheistic secular humanists. But the elect spirits in those loving and just souls are becoming better informed and less willing to back down. So the hate from the non-elect will not cease, only increase, until the plague of the sixth seal radically disables the power of the Roman world order for a “half and hour” in heaven, which is figuratively about 20 years of earthly time. Then God’s Holy Spirit will compel the spirits of the elect to learn the truth more directly from Himself, gathering them into an ever-increasing agreement upon all matters of life and faith. He will “seal” those elect for their sanctification, setting them apart for His purposes at that time. The elect will learn purer, greater, more whole and fleshed-out truths from God, speak with more of His power, which shall quicken those truths in the hearts of other elect. To prepare for God’s wrath against Satan’s Roman world order, God will use His elect as His agents to convict all souls of the sins they committed, of the righteousness they failed to do, and the judgments about to fall on all.

Once God revives and unites His true New Covenant church, they will begin to nullify even more works of Satan all over the world, as they labor beside the almighty Jesus. At the same time, they will build up God’s kingdom on earth, the systems and structures required to replace what needed to be torn down, such as true visible churches which express God’s love through sacrificial good works and merciful miracles with God’s supernatural gifts. Some will create truly Christian nations governed according to biblical principles and God’ s natural laws, with the following attributes:

• democratically elected and vetted authorities who serve rather than demand to be served;

• justly administered principles of equity, regarding the bodily needs of all, trustworthy justice

for all, freedom from fear, freedom of conscience, and every other aspect of life;

• an honest, gentle, firm and carefully administered commitment to teach and train all citizens

to to take loving responsibility for all the rights and freedoms granted to them;