[THE FINISHED MYSTERY,
CONT.]
[the fifth trumpet*]
[Ed Note: this trumpet is detailed
further in the prophecy “The Fifth
Trumpet” published earlier in the third
volume of Prepare
Ye the Way
and was reproduced at the
end of this booklet as well. It is attached at
the end of this segment]
Now hear, says the Lord. The scripture
says that following the blowing of the fourth
trumpet, an angel flies through the midst of heaven,
saying with a loud voice 'woe, woe, woe, to the
inhabitants of the earth by reason of the other voices
of the trumpet of the three angels which are yet to
sound.' (8:13). This is because of the intensity of
turmoil and conflict which comes with the blowing of
each succeeding trumpet. The intensity of the developing
world crises is a result of that which is unleashed
under the fifth trumpet. Have I not spoken to you concerning this before?
(Note: see the separate prophecy in this booklet
entitled ‘The Fifth Trumpet’). Therefore hear that which
I have spoken and consider, for I need not repeat
that which has already been made known to you. But I
shall now give additional details of that which
transpires as a result of the blowing of the fifth
trumpet. You shall notice, says the Lord, that the forces
unleashed from the pit, even the forces of Satan,
arise as smoke to darken the sun and pollute the air
(9:2). Does not this show that Satan and his hosts will
work through human agencies to corrupt the truth of
Christianity, represented by the sun, by all kinds of
error and deceivable doctrines of devils in this day? Is
not this now being fulfilled in the apostasy of
liberalism and modernism which has completely destroyed
the true gospel in vast segments of the so-called
Christian populace? And is not the pollution of the air
a type of the contamination of people's thoughts with
all kinds of filth and perversion? Even so are the
forces of the nether world bringing great darkness
upon the earth as they work to subvert the Christian
message, and also to pervert the thinking of people into
ways of godlessness and unbridled pleasure.
You will also notice, says the Lord, that the forces
of the nether world are pictured as locusts with the
sting of scorpions, and they were commanded not to hurt
the grass or any green thing, neither any tree, but only
those men who have not the seal of God in their
foreheads (9:3-4). Now what does this mean? There is a
difference between being subverted by these evil spirits
and being 'hurt' by them. The 'hurt' refers to actual
physical harm or destruction which will come later
(9:10) as the spirits are given the authority and the
means to precipitate vast numbers into physical
conflict. But first there will be subversion, and
the grass and trees, which are a type of peoples of
various classes (Judges 9:7-15, Isa. 40:6-8) will not be
'hurt' or destroyed in great numbers. Also the people
will not be immediately hurt, in their own thinking,
because they will not be able to see the ultimate
consequences of coming under the influence of these evil
spirits. For the people will be deceived, believing a
lie instead of the truth (II Thess. 2:10-11). They will
believe that the doctrines of devils being taught
them through a perverted clergy and church systems, and
the so-called new liberties which they are experiencing
In godless pleasure-living, are to their benefit, and
are a part of the glorious new way of life which man is
achieving. Thus the goal of the Satanic spirits is to
enmesh the inhabitants of the world in delusion; a sort
of intoxication of pleasure-madness and libertine
conduct which gives vent to perverted desires and ways.
Thus, in the minds of the people, what they are
experiencing is not to them a 'hurt' but rather a
new-found way of life. It is only what this delusion
eventuates in that will bring to an abrupt end the
pleasure-mad ways of the people. This is symbolized by
the scourge of the locust and the sting of the scorpion.
(9:3). People will be tormented, as by a scorpion's
sting, not because they love righteousness and deplore
the wickedness which is coming on the earth, but because
the conditions in the world will become so desperate and
critical that they will not be able to give full vent to
their pleasure-seeking ways and their covetous
desires. Thus they will want to escape, not from
the wicked delusions of the times, but from the chaotic
conditions which will be the inevitable result of
unbridled license and lawless living.
The evil spirits will not be able
to touch those who have the seal of the living God on their foreheads (9:4). For I
will protect my own that they be not subverted by the
devices of the enemy. But they shall 'hurt' certain men
who do not have this seal of protection. (9:4). This is
because these certain men are being prepared to
precipitate the nations into war; they are men in
high positions whose minds have been completely taken
captive by the power of Satan. Through these men shall
the evil spirits eventually be able to hurt the masses
through destructive warfare (9:10). This is evident in
the fact that the evil spirits are seen as both locusts
and as horses prepared to battle. (9:7). The locust
was always one of the most terrible of the scourges on
the nations of ancient times, bringing great
devastation; and the horse has always been a symbol of
the power to war. So even though the evil
spirits do not immediately 'hurt’' the masses of people,
but bring them into delusive intoxication unto
pleasure-seeking, the people will eventually feel the
impact of the 'hurt' which is precipitated by evil men
in high places, who are used by these same spirits to
prepare the intoxicated people for slaughter.
Conditions on earth will get so desperate that many
people will seek escape through death, but because of
the fear that has gripped them, even death shall flee
away from them (9:6). Therefore, the torment which is
inflicted by the scorpion's sting is primarily that of
fear; a fear so great that men will even fear to take
their own lives, even though they will wish that they
were dead. This will come as a result of the chaotic
conditions on the earth and the ugly specter of atomic
war which will hang heavily over the inhabitants of the
earth.
After the men in high places have
been thoroughly prepared by their subverted ambitions
for world conquest, then shall the horse, or war aspect,
of the symbolism fulfill unto great destruction. Then
shall they be 'crowned' to go forth unto battle (9:7),
for the faces of the locusts are the faces of men (9:7);
the very men who have been prepared to 'hurt' the
inhabitants of the world by their mad conquest for
power. The locusts which had faces of men, had also the
hair of women and the teeth of lions (9:8). The hair
indicates their complete captivity to their evil
desires, for woman is a type of the soul which is the
seat of desire; and the teeth of lions indicate their
absolute determination to gnash and devour until
they have completely conquered the world. Their
breastplates of iron indicate that they shall not be
turned back from their destructive designs but will
persevere to the end (9:9). In that they
make a sound with their wings as the sound of chariots
of many horses running to battle, it indicates that
they shall engulf the world in destructive
slaughter. This shall the evil spirits do through
those men who have not the seal of God on their
foreheads, but whose minds are completely taken captive
by Satanic devices. After the symbolism has progressed
to that of horses prepared for battle, you will notice
that it is given to the locusts to 'hurt' men
for five months, whereas previously it was given to them to 'torment' for five
months (9:5 & 9:10). The torment is primarily
through fear of what might come, but the hurt is actual
destruction in warfare. The five months in each case are
not literal, but symbolic of the freedom of action
allowed the evil spirits to subvert and lead to eventual
conflict. Once the conflict unto the 'hurting' of the
inhabitants of the earth has begun on a global scale, it
will not let up until the consummation of all things and
the return of the Lord In power and great glory.
At the close of the narrative
concerning the fifth trumpet, the scripture says
that one woe is past and two are yet to come (9:12).
This does not mean that the events visualized under the
fifth trumpet have completely run their course. It means
that the forces unleashed by the trumpets sounding are
past recall; what is set in motion is as good as
accomplished; the results are inevitable. Along
with the two woes yet to come, the fifth trumpet or
first woe continues to mount in intensity until the
end.
THE FIFTH TRUMPET
[from
Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord, Vol.
III
-
1966]
"Where does the world stand now, says the Lord? Is there no one
who can reveal that which the Lord would make known to His people concerning those
events which are about to break upon the earth? Is there
no one to proclaim that the time has come for the hosts
of Satan to come swarming out of the pit where they have
been confined? (Rev. 9:1-3). Do you not know that I have
limited the activity of the nether world lest man would
be corrupted beyond measure? But do you not realize
that I am now going to unleash the forces of the pit in
order that man may be tested in a way that has never
happened before? Even now the way is being prepared for
the final stages of that which I have purposed to
do. Even now I am making ready my heavenly armada to
contend with the forces of Satan which are going to be
allowed free access to mankind to bring about the final
scenes of the age-long battle which has been raging
since the time of the fall.
Where in my Word do you find a
picture of this unleashing of the Satanic hosts of
wickedness which have been restrained heretofore? For I
say, I have limited the number and activity of the evil
spirits in times past lest my plan would be subverted.
But I am now ready to allow the full number of Satan's
legions to be given full reign on the earth to bring to pass
the fullness of iniquity in this day. And much fear
shall grip the inhabitants of the earth as they see the
results of this unleashing. For out of the bottomless
pit I will allow the hosts of the nether world to come
and prey on the inhabitants of the
earth. The wickedness of man shall become great as he
succumbs to the subtleties of the enemy, and great shall
be the perversions of truth and distortions of
righteousness as the nether world makes its final impact
on an unsuspecting and
unreadied mankind.
Do you not read in my Word that
when the fifth trumpet sounds the pit is opened and the
invisible hosts of darkness are given freedom to attack
the inhabitants of the earth? (Rev. 9:1-11). And do they
not have a king over them who is called Abaddon? (Rev.
9:11), And is not this king a type of Satan who is
leading the evil spirits in their warfare? And do you
not read that the likeness of those creatures who were
released was as the likeness of locusts? (Rev. 9:3). And
do not locusts devastate everything in their path? And
shall not the unleashing of these Satanic hosts bring a
great scourge on mankind until there is
nothing left of value? (from the strictly human
perspective). I say to you, hear that which I speak
to you, for even now is the
fifth trumpet blowing, and even now the evil spirits are
being released from the pit. They are being released
gradually lest that which I purpose be precipitated too
soon. And they shall continue to be released throughout
the blowing of the fifth trumpet. For the number five is
the number of liberty and freedom. Even so am I giving
increased liberty to the forces of Satan to subvert the
masses of the world that my plan shall reach its
consummation in this time.
Now consider the effects of these
tormenting spirits on the inhabitants of the
earth. Does the scripture not say that they were
tormented five months? (Rev. 9:5). And is this not again
a picture of the liberty of access which the evil
spirits shall have over a period of time? And does not
the Word say that those tormented would seek death and
not be able to find it? (Rev. 9:6). Is this not a
picture of the great fear which shall grip the
inhabitants of the earth, and is not their seeking death
symbolic of their desiring to escape these thing but
being unable to so? I say to you, death does not always
mean a cessation of physical life, but rather an escape
to a realm where the torments of life cannot reach. Even
so shall many try to escape in this day from the
tormenting effects of the activity of the evil spirits
but shall not be able to find a place of hiding, for all
the earth shall feel the impact of the unleashing of the
Satanic hordes.
Hear my voice, my people. Do you
think that you will escape the onslaught of these evil
spirits? Do you think that you will be able to stand
without my help? Therefore you must look to me and trust
in me. You must spend much time seeking my face and
studying my Word. For I will uphold you only
insofar as you trust me to do so, and as you reach out to
receive my strength. For these are fearful times my
people, and only those who look to me will be able to
keep themselves from falling into the morass of
wickedness and ungodliness which will engulf all
mankind.
And now what further would I have
you know concerning this day? It is even that the
evil hordes of the nether world will whip the masses of
the pagan lands into an orgy of bloodshed unprecedented
inhuman history. For great shall be the slaughter of
human lives as the masses rise up to clamor for
their rights and seek to take things into their own
hands. And frenzied mobs will rule many lands and cause
all who oppose them to be killed. And many shall perish
in riots and revolutions as men seek to demand that
which has been withheld from them. None shall be able to
stop the surge of the masses as they rise up in this
day. And great shall be the fear that shall grip the
hearts of the people as they see the chaos and ruin that
shall sweep across many lands.
Hear my word my people. Shall not
these evil spirits prey on every human weakness and
bring out every base instinct in the human race. For the
lust and greed of man shall reach a degree to which it
has never been before. Perversion shall be great in
the earth as the spirits of the nether world torment men
with unholy desires and cravings, and as they prod them
into avarice and grasping, and as they stir their
emotions to fever pitch with envy, hatred, malice and
every other sinister feeling.
And now consider the fifth
trumpet as it relates to succeeding events. That
which is unleashed under the fifth trumpet brings such a
spirit of unrest in the earth as multitudes are
tormented by every unholy desire and craving, and the
resultant chaos will drive men to seek alliances with
some kind of all powerful government which will be able
to keep order and peace in the earth. Thus will the
groundwork be laid for an all powerful government to
emerge which will promise peace and security to all
nations coming under its domination. And thus shall the
beast powers of Revelation 13 emerge to control the
inhabitants of the earth and to make them give
allegiance to the god of materialistic force. For there
shall be two beasts arise. The first has already had its
inception in the Communistic combine of nations. The
second is to emerge as a coalition of Communist and
non-Communist nations who will seek to force a
world socialist rule upon the nations, enforced by a
world police force. They will try to make all men
worship and bow down to that image which they will
create, which is in actuality the image of the first
beast or world socialism. Taking advantage of the chaos
of the times, the second beast arises to clamp a world
socialist dictatorship upon the nations of the earth,
holding out before them the image of a planned order and
economy which will provide peace and plenty for all.
Because of the desperation of the
times, the people will be ready to receive this promise
of Utopia and will receive the mark of the beast in
their foreheads and in their hands. And thus will they
give mental assent to its image or idealism, believing a
lie instead of the truth, and they will be forced to
work for its realization by giving the power of their
hand to it. After it is too late the nations shall find
that they have surrendered their rights and their
freedom for something that is but an illusion. But they
will be hopelessly trapped in a web of their own
making, and they will be unable to extricate themselves.
For the beast powers will have the means of enforcing
their rule upon all.
Only when conditions reach the
point that the land of Palestine is
threatened in such a way that world Jewry is alarmed
will the yoke begin to be broken. When those
western nations which have become a part of the
coalition of the second beast find that their interests
in the Middle East are being threatened, then shall
world Jewry, into whose power the western nations have
largely been delivered, begin to resist the
advances of the first beast into the Middle East and
Palestine. Then shall
the coalition begin to break up, and the second beast
will lose his power to make all men worship the image of
the first beast. The nations will be divided, and
conflict shall begin to rage as the western nations, led
by the financial powers of world Jewry, begin to fight
the communist invasion of Palestine. Then shall a
spark of renewed patriotism begin to be fanned in the
western nations, and the Spirit of God shall begin to
quicken within the hearts of those who have seen the
folly of the image of world socialism based on
monolithic rule. The fires of revival which will be
burning within the western nations of Christendom will
begin to influence those in high places, and the will to
resist will rise quickly. The means of stemming the tide
of Communist expansion into Palestine will be
quickly mustered, and the hearts of the people will be
stirred as never before. The battle of the ages will be
on. For is it not written that all nations will be
gathered to Jerusalem to battle?
(Zechariah 14:2). Even so shall Palestine be the match
which will ignite the flame of conflagration that will
envelop the whole world, and there shall be no let up
until the final climax when the Lord Himself will be
revealed in flaming fire. (II Thess. 1:7-8). Then shall
all that which has been unleashed in Satanic fury reach
its consummation and the battle of the ages find its
completion. Then shall those hosts which have come from
the bottomless pit return to their own realm to
torment no more until a thousand years of
righteousness has made its impress on the inhabitants of the
earth.
So my people, even now are the
agencies of the pit beginning to multiply on the earth,
and the die is cast for the inhabitants of the earth.
None shall be able to stay the hand of the Almighty
until the foment of evil has run its course and the
fester of iniquity has finished its work. Then shall
come deliverance from on high as the hosts of the
Almighty come to put down the forces of Satan and
cast them into the bottomless pit from whence they
came.
And now consider the final picture
of that which you read about in my Word. It is even that
many months transpire while the forces of the
nether world are carrying out their tormenting
activities. Even so shall I move by my Spirit
during those many months to bring a revival and
deliverance in the earth for those who hunger for
their God. And mighty shall be the spiritual power which
will be in the earth as my specially prepared servants
go forth to confront the enemy with the power of their
God. While the world is seething with unrest under
the tormenting influence of Satan's hordes, those who
turn to me shall find a great
deliverance and a mighty victory in that day. Therefore
rejoice that you can know the truth which will set you
free from all fear, and give you great confidence and
assurance for the days that are ahead. And now fret not
[ ] because of that which has been revealed, for I am
with you to keep you and to protect you from all harm, says the Lord."
(end of prophecy.)
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