“And after these things [6th seal extinction event] I [John] saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth.” (Revelation 7:1)
In a similar situation described by Daniel, four winds are spirit beings, established by the clue given that they are “of the heaven” and “being caused to fly swiftly“, and confirmed by the account that two of them are Gabriel and Michael who strive with two of the four evil beasts.
“Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold,
- the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea.
- And four great beasts came up from the sea” (Daniel 7)
In contrast, the four angels in Revelation are on earth, party to the extinction event of the 6th seal and therefore members of the adversary’s army.
“And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads. And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.
The post on Jeshurun details the hidden identity of the northern ten tribes of Israel as Gentiles. Only God knows their heritage.
The biblical report of the blurring of Jewish ancestry into non-Jewish ethnicities has been validated by recent genetic studies showing that contemporary Jews are not a genetically “pure” ethnic group, but are descendants of globally dispersed Diaspora communities.
Jewish family trees have clearly discernible European/Syrian/North African and Middle Eastern branches, while Turkish, Greek, and Italian Jews shared a common branch. The North African populations added a sub-branch which bifurcated into Moroccan, Algerian and Tunisian, Djerban, Libyan sub-branches.
We can extrapolate from this data that many descendants of these dispersed Jews who lost their Jewish identity in the Diaspora are still genetically as “Jewish” as those who maintained their Jewish faith and practice.
- Of the tribe of Juda were sealed twelve thousand.
- Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand.
- Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand.
- Of the tribe of Aser were sealed twelve thousand.
- Of the tribe of Nephthalim were sealed twelve thousand.
- Of the tribe of Manasses were sealed twelve thousand.
- Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve thousand.
- Of the tribe of Levi were sealed twelve thousand.
- Of the tribe of Issachar were sealed twelve thousand.
- Of the tribe of Zabulon were sealed twelve thousand.
- Of the tribe of Joseph / Ephraim were sealed twelve thousand.
- Of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand.
Consistent with the function of sealing, these individuals are protected from the wrath that is to come via the outpouring of the vials.
“After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes.”
The imagery clearly indicates that these Gentiles are dead. They are the lucky ones, not having to experience the post-atomic world.
“And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they? [He’s playing with John.] And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest [because from my 1st century perspective I have no idea]. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.” (Revelation 7)
In the context of this passage of great tribulation already having occurred prior to the devastating after-effects of a nuclear bomb described in the trumpet blasts, it is reasonable to conclude that these are the Muslim victims described in the posts on the unsealing of the signs.
And now, the four winds are released.
While many of us believe the earth is flattish and not a round ball, I don’t know anyone who thinks it is square. It’s a manner of speaking (like flat as in flattish surface vs round ball) – all four cardinal directions by which even in our current day the winds are named.
These winds are the aftermath of a nuclear blast.
Physically, wind is caused by the uneven temperatures of sections of the atmosphere. An event such as an asteroid hit, a volcanic explosion or a nuclear explosion results in
- a physical shock wave that can level skyscrapers, then
- a searing blast of heat that can vaporize material, then
- a momentary vacuum resulting from the outward expulsion of all air,
- followed by a reactive inward rush of air creating a vast firestorm exceeding the most powerful hurricane winds.
Jack London was on site as a newspaper journalist to describe the winds that followed the 1906 San Francisco great fire, caused when thousands of gas appliances were upturned by a massive earthquake. At the time, San Francisco was the 9th largest city in the United States.
The earthquake shook down in San Francisco hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of walls and chimneys. But the conflagration that followed burned up hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of property. Not in history has a modern imperial city [note the allusion to Rome] been so completely destroyed…
Within an hour after the earthquake shock the smoke of San Francisco’s burning was a lurid tower visible a hundred miles away. And for three days and nights this lurid tower swayed in the sky, reddening the sun, darkening the day, and filling the land with smoke…
I watched the vast conflagration from out on the bay. It was dead calm. Not a flicker of wind stirred. Yet from every side wind was pouring in upon the city. East, west, north, and south, strong winds were blowing upon the doomed city. The heated air rising made an enormous suck. Thus did the fire of itself build its own colossal chimney through the atmosphere. Day and night this dead calm continued, and yet, near to the flames, the wind was often half a gale, so mighty was the suck.
Once this is set loose, the account proceeds.
“The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth:
“Hail” describes an uncountable number of projectiles “raining” down from the sky, not just objects composed of frozen water. A “hail” of weapons instead of ice is consistent with the description of accompanying fire from the rockets propelling the missiles and/or impact with blood spray.
“A hail of bullets” has often used to describe a battle scenario, as in D-day. Much larger long-range missiles are more likely in our day, as in the battle for Baghdad.
The United States unleashed a withering air assault on Iraq yesterday, striking Baghdad and targets throughout the country with 1,500 precision-guided bombs and cruise missiles in an escalating campaign to drive Saddam Hussein from power…
Hundreds of cruise missiles and high-tech “smart” bombs rained down on dozens of structures that house various government ministries, military and intelligence centers and the headquarters of Hussein’s Baath Party…
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld boasted that there was “no comparison” between the U.S. bombing of Baghdad and the saturation air campaigns of European cities during World War II.
The moment the button is pushed on either side of a nuclear bomb, a lightning speed chain reaction begins. “The way it begins, interestingly, is in space,” Annie Jacobson explains.
“That is because the US has spent trillions of dollars in the past few decades to be aware of when anyone launches a missile. These satellite systems in space can park above an enemy nation and watch for the hot rocket exhaust on a ballistic missile launch, which it can see in less than a fraction of a second.”
“It takes 30 minutes in three phases,” Jacobsen explains. “That’s from a launch pad in Russia, 26 minutes and 40 seconds.
She explains there are systems interpreting the data at lightning speed. “Within 150 seconds, the systems know whether the missile is directed at us or not.
“It becomes simply a matter of minutes before the President is notified about this,” she continued.
“We don’t wait to absorb a nuclear blow. We launch. The theory is that whoever is launching at the US will try and take out the nuclear silos so we can’t respond, ’so therefore we must respond’.”
Decades of the Arms Race has resulted in stockpiles of weapons that fit this description, especially America’s Star Wars program, supporting the hypothesis that judgment begins at the house of God, and America experiences the first strike (sixth seal event), returns fire with the 1st trumpet event, is hit with the 2nd trumpet event, and once again returns fire with the 3rd trumpet event.
Thirty-three years ago [this was published April 2021] the Star Wars program was easily the most elaborate and complex defense system ever conceived. when on March 23, 1983, President Ronald Reagan announced the creation of a new missile defense called the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), which quickly became known as Star Wars.
It envisaged a vast network of laser-armed satellites, air-based missiles, and ground-based interceptors missiles and electromagnetic railguns. These would be used to intercept incoming nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles from the Soviet Union and other enemies, all coordinated through advanced sensors linked to supercomputers, and protect the United States from direct nuclear attack. By being able to neutralize at least most of the incoming nuclear warheads, the U.S. hoped to show the Soviet Union that any potential nuclear confrontation was hopeless.
Besides the clear violations of the ABM treaty such a system would represent, it would also extend the arms race even deeper into space. The projected costs of the system ran into the hundreds of billions of dollars, and the inevitable cost overruns would balloon the Star Wars program to a huge percentage of the U.S. military budget, severely damaging the American economy.
Nevertheless, by 1987 more than $3 billion was being appropriated annually by Congress to start developing the technology, roughly $6.5 billion in today’s dollars.
The simple fact was that the program was never going to be feasible against as many weapons as an opponent like the Soviet Union could put into play.
By 1986 the Soviets had over 40,000 nuclear warheads stockpiled, including nearly a thousand ICBM’s with up to 10 warheads a piece that could shower and overwhelm any target within 30 minutes of launch. Soviet submarines armed with nuclear missiles could get close enough to U.S. coasts that their payloads could strike hundreds of targets faster than any conceivable system could detect and intercept them. Even if SDI could stop 90 percent of the Soviet’s warheads, the 10 percent that made it through would leave the United States in radioactive ruin.
Though scaled back, development on weapons envisaged in Star Wars continued throughout the 1990s. Its legacy can be seen in today’s Missile Defense Agency. The MDA has cost more than $100 billion since 2002, and the test results of its missile interceptors have been decidedly mixed.
So the best defense is a good offense.
The Tomahawk has emerged as one of the Pentagon’s most favored airstrike weapons. It can deliver a 1,000-pound bomb as far as 1,000 miles away, with a high degree of accuracy and without putting a pilot and aircrew at risk.
More than 725 Tomahawk missiles had been fired into Iraq during Desert Storm, according to Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. On one night – the “shock and awe” air attack of March 21 – the Navy launched 320 Tomahawks from 30 ships and submarines.
American and British forces, both Navy and Air Force, dropped more than 12,000 precision-guided bombs since the war began, according to the Pentagon.
Carl Sagan, astronomer, in his book A Path Where No Man Thought – Nuclear Winter and the End of the Arms Race, and other investigators determined that the atmospheric aftereffects of nuclear war would parallel and exceed those of Mount Tambora’s eruption, placed among the greatest environmental disasters ever to befall mankind.
Largest volcanic eruption in human history changed the 19th century as much as Napoleon
The bizarre weather of 1816-17 triggered by Tambora’s eruption – first drought, then late, unseasonal flooding – altered the microbial ecology of the Bay of Bengal. The cholera bacterium, which has an unusually adaptive genetic structure highly sensitive to changes in its aquatic environment, mutated into a new strain. This met with no resistance among the local population, and it spread across Asia and eventually the globe. By century’s end, the death toll from Bengal cholera stood in the tens of millions.
In southwest China, the outlying mountainous province of Yunnan suffered terribly from the cold volcanic weather, losing crop after crop of rice to bitter winds and flooding rains. The situation was so extreme that desperate Yunnanese resorted to eating white clay, while parents sold their children in the town markets, or killed them out of mercy…
In America 1816 was called the “Year Without a Summer.” In the most notorious and best chronicled extreme weather event of that century snowstorms swept the east coast in June. Crowds of desperate and hungry rural folk from Maine and Vermont fled snowfalls of up to 18 inches to the western frontier, which had been spared the worst of Tambora’s weather.
Here grain harvests were fetching sky-high prices on the famine-struck Atlantic market, but after the boom came a shattering bust – the so-called Panic of 1819 – which triggered the first sustained economic depression in US history. “Never were such hard times,” wrote Thomas Jefferson of ordinary Americans who, across the country, found themselves “in a condition of unparalleled distress,” persisting well into the 1820s.
The implications for the realization of the bizarre prophecies in Revelation are enormous.
A recent scientific paper estimates that in the aftermath of a nuclear exchange over 5 billion people could starve to death, including around 99% of those in the US, Europe, Russia, and China. This is because most black carbon smoke stays in the Northern hemisphere where it’s produced, and because temperature drops harm agriculture more at high latitudes.
The floods, droughts, starvation, and disease in the three years following the eruption stem from the volcano’s enormous cloud of sulfate gases ejected into the atmosphere.
The “third part” of trees and “all” green grass does not need to refer to the entire earth to be an accurate statement reporting damage against the field of attack. When Gideon requested “all the earth” be dry, he included only the vicinity of the event.
More than 60,000 types of trees cover 31% of the planet, but we’re losing tree coverage at an alarming rate for the sake of agriculture.
Trees play a key role in combating climate change because they absorb carbon from the atmosphere…
Trees act as buffers for extreme weather events…Tree leaves also prevent harsh wind and rain from eroding the soil, while tree roots hold soil in place.
The Europeans killed so many indigenous South Americans during the 16th century — through warfare and by causing disease and famine…these tens of millions of people…could no longer farm. The forest then crept in, taking over farmland and doing what plants and trees do best: breathe in carbon dioxide (CO2). This process decreased the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, leading to widespread cooling…during the Little Ice Age, a new study suggests.
Therefore the loss of so many trees would trigger the reverse – warming, with northward shifts in climate zones suitable for agricultural production to the unsuitably heavily urbanized northeast corridor and Midwest. The United States would no longer be able to sustain its own food production needs, let alone garner alliances through supplying other nations’ needs. All nations would be experiencing the same crash in food production.
The loss of “all green grass” also indicates devastated food production in loss of grains as well as grazing areas for livestock supplying meat and dairy products. This would result from burning up in the initial event, as well climate change affecting regrowth.
The reference to trees being destroyed is a clue to the location of the 1st trumpet counter-attack. I don’t envision a massive counter-strike being launched against an aggressor from Amazonia, Canada, the Congo, or Southeast Asian Islands.
Therefore is also the identity of the initiator of the first strike of the 6th seal.
Russia.
As detailed in a previous post, Turkey pushes the button that sends the missile, but as an agent of Russia.
Due to Turkey’s comprehensive relationship with both Russia and Ukraine, Turkey has served as the primary mediator between the two countries. Turkey is in the midst of a major economic crisis and does not want to completely alienate Russia, as this would exacerbate its current economic problems. Turkey is reliant on Russia as a crucial trading partner and largest source of tourists, making Turkey more dependent on Russia financially – translate “diplomatically”.
In 2020, Turkey purchased the Russian S-400 surface-to-air missile system, spending an estimated $2.5 billion. This Russian weapon system posed a direct threat to NATO, specifically to U.S. F-35 jets.
Kingdom Come 