What do we know about the Time of Trouble soon to start?

 

Revelation 7:1 Μετ τοτο εδον τέσσαρας γγέλους σττας π τς τέσσαρας γωνίας τς γς, κρατοντας τος τέσσαρας νέμους τς γς, να μ πνέ νεμος π τς γς μήτε π τς θαλάσσης μήτε π πν δένδρον.

 

After these things I saw four angels standing upon the four corners of the earth. Earth is not square, as Dough Batchelor indicated. It refers to the four wind-directions. North, South, East and West.

The angels were holding very strongly (κρατοντας) the four winds of the earth sothat the wind does not blow upon the earth. Notice that it is just one wind. Not many winds. Not even two are mentioned. One wind will develop the imperial disease psycho-pathically as a nation, the wish to be the greatest on earth, the wish to colonialize the whole world, the wish to control everyone and everybody, the wish to military be everywhere, the wish to move over the earth and grab for their own people, the wish to stay in power “forever”, the wish to create a status quo their way.

But who is the empire now in 2021? As decadent and weak it is this year since the taken-over by the dementia ridden old Biden, the USA is still called the strongest power or leader on earth. Woken-ness in the military is weakening the alertness and perspectives of the Pentagon. All that time, China is increasing their might and where the USA pulls out, China moves in. Russia and China is like two pistons to move in when the USA moves out.

This wind νεμος, will not blow upon the earth, nor upon the sea nor upon all the trees. What will China do to all the trees worldwide when they begin to blow?

When Trump came to his end, it was the fulfillment of Daniel 11:45 “and he shall come to his end and no one for him”. Sky news from Australia and Fox news in the USA have been screaming about this weakening process of the USA the whole year so far since Biden took over. The South-China sea and other objectives to make harbors at other countries for their submarines, like in Australia a year or two ago and then repealed this week with severing ties between Australia and China. Fact is, the possibility is there that China will be the wind blowing during the Time of Trouble.

I have to correct myself here. It does not read that the wind will blow upon all trees. That is a wrong translation. It mentions one tree δένδρον and a better rendering will be “blow upon all of the tree”. Which tree? What is the symbol of the tree? Let us use Psalm 1 “the righteous shall be as a tree planted by waters that gives it fruits at the right time”.

Persecution. Or seeking to persecute. The wind will blow over Christianity in general and over Seventh-day Adventists in particular since they cannot work on Sabbath. If China controls the work there is no Sabbath and all will be required to work on Sabbath. It is no problem to the other Christians since they are already working on Sabbath. Sabbath does not mean anything to them and beside Sunday is only “Sabbath” for an hour.

Already China are burning churches left right and center in the country as we have evidence of very expensive churches demolished. Also, the Ughurs were put in a huge jail, one million of them and prohibited to think of Islam their way. They could only think of Islam in a contracted Chinese way. The USA blames them for persecution of these Ughurs Islam religion but China denies. This is a small window of what is to come.

Can it be prevented? No. The winds are controlled by the angels from above and right now they are still holding the winds.

As Charles Bradford preached in his sermon “I want a praying church” that we are screaming daily “hold the winds, hold the winds, don’t let it blow, until all the saints are sealed”.

John saw this vision of these angels in future after our time. But they existed already in 1844, these holding angels. Because in the next verse 1844 starts.

2 κα εδον λλον γγελον ναβαίνοντα π νατολς λίου, χοντα σφραγδα θεο ζντος, κα κραξεν φων μεγάλ τος τέσσαρσιν γγέλοις ος δόθη ατος δικσαι τν γν κα τν θάλασσαν,

And I saw another angel flying from the going down of the sun [west thus from the USA] having the seal of the living God and crying in a loud voice to the four angels whom it was given to destroy the earth and the sea.

This power to be are going to destroy the earth and the sea. It will be a naval power and an earth combat power. How and what are going to be destroyed? The neo-fascist Kremlin philosopher Alexandr Dugin said that in order to reach the EuroAsia “heaven” there need to be a destruction of the old so that the new can take the place. It will go bad before it will become better, he said. All powers will work together in this: Harry Potterism, superstition, Catholicism, Protestantism, Islam and Judaism, other religions, atheism, agnosticism, anarchism, anti-technologists, all are melted together to create this chaos then in their view the “conversion” taking place towards a new Euro-Asia Utopia. The word destruction δικσαι is mentioned here.

3 λέγων · Μ δικήσητε τν γν μήτε τν θάλασσαν μήτε τ δένδρα, χρι σφραγίσωμεν τος δούλους το θεο μν π τν μετώπων ατν.

Saying, do not destroy the earth nor the sea nor the trees [now the plural are used] until we have sealed the servants of our God upon their foreheads. Now the singular tree of the verse above became the plural trees. Is it the righteous corporately [one tree] to the righteous individually [trees] here?

This angel is the angel of Revelation 14:6-12 in 1844 announcing that the time of the Judgment has come. That Judgment was to start in 1844 and 1 Peter 4:17 give us the detail that it will start with the house of God first. The saints or trees or tree of the righteous will be judged first from 1844. That tree or trees are not to be bothered or attempted to be destroyed, only attempted, for Isaiah says the Lord is going to protect them in the Time of Trouble.

The sealing itself is another topic and who they are is also presented with a somewhat elusive answer. Why are the specific tribes of Judah and Reuben and Gad etc. mentioned? And this since 1844?

But there is another group out of all the nations of the earth so that one can assume that the 144000 selection is from the Jews in the past but elected since 1844? Wondering here? Point is that there must a specific reason why these tribes are spelled out like this.

So what is going to happen during the time since 1844 but close to the end?

Isaiah listed for us what is going to happen at the End of Times, maybe shortly before the Time of Trouble officially called so:

Isaiah 24 and plaques and devastating phenomena

Isaiah came to chapter 24 and his description is all out the End of Times. A number of things are going to happen consecutively and Isaiah vividly outlines them. Plaques and devastating phenomena is going to happen because of the plan of the Lord (Isaiah 24:1; also mentioned by Joel 1:15). Great migrations will take place and those in the east want to stay in the west and those on the west in the east (Isaiah 24:1) “and scatters its inhabitants”. Lay ministries will be popular “the people will be like the priest” (Isaiah 24:2). Land-grabbing will happen on a massive scale so that “servant [will be] like his master, the maid like her mistress”. Countries will lend their money to other countries and then will borrow it back again. The buyer will be like the seller. The country who borrowed money to another country to built factories and sell the goods back in the lender’s country, had to supply also money back that was borrowed back and the goods that are sold to the original lending country is owed sales. The buyer has to buy it since they owed it for borrowing it back. “The creditor is like the debtor” ‘unwanted bedmates’. Land-grabbing and despoliation will take place “and completely despoiled” (Isaiah 24:3) a theme that also other prophets mentioned as a sign of the End Time (Obadiah 1:11, 13; Amos 1:13; 2:6; Micah 2:2; 2:4; Zephaniah 1:9; 1:13). There is a worldwide leadership drain (Isaiah 24:4) “the exalted of the people of the earth fade away”. Spiritual pollution exists all over the globe

 “for the transgressed laws, violated statutes” (Isaiah 24:5). Because of spiritual pollution of the earth those who live in it are considered guilty and the “earth are burned and few men are left” (Isaiah 24:6). Global warming will take its toll. Harvests will suffer (Isaiah 24:7). Musical performances will cease (Isaiah 24:8) similarly to Ezechiel 26:13 with Tyre. The city of chaos is broken down (Isaiah 23:10). Joy turned to gloom (Isaiah 24:11). Desolation are in the city (Isaiah 24:12). This is not just one city that Isaiah is describing here, “thus it will be in the midst of the earth” (Isaiah 24:13).

(Source: Van Wyk Christ’s Actions in History Prophetically 85)

When will the Time of Trouble take place?

We already see that it must be after Trump comes to his end according to Daniel 11:45. The decadence of the USA similarly to that of 538 A.D. with Justinian cannot be missed: softer approach to aliens running over the empire, migrations, accommodation to these immigrants. Justinian did the same in 538 A.D. and it was the weakest year of the classical Roman Empire, see his biography Procopius in the last parts of his history.

Joel 3 and Cataclysmic events after Latter Rain

According to Joel 3:3, at the time of the Latter Rain, at the time before the sealing takes place, at the time all flesh receives the Spirit of God, the final chance will be upon all. Then God will perform signs in heaven and earth. See the book of Revelation. Cataclysmic events will be after the Latter Rain and before the Door of Mercy closes. According to Joel 3:4 this happens before the coming of the Lord “prior to the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord”. It happens before the Parousia. Redak understood Joel 3:4 to mean that prior to the coming of the Messiah, Israel will suffer from the war of the God and the Magog.

Joel 4 and War preparations

Joel 4:9 “Announce this among the nations, prepare war” is not a preparation of making weapons (Joel 4:10) by God’s soldiers as Rashi misunderstood, but God’s enemies. “Beat your plowshares” and Rashi read “God’s team” but it should be “God’s enemies”. Verse 11 makes it clear that the Lord shall break “your mighty men” who are gathered. Nations “shall be aroused and shall go up to the valley of Jehoshaphat” and God will “sit” and judge all nations of the world (Joel 4:12). A. Terrian asked whether Christ is a gladiator or warrior. The answer is, Christ is a Gladiator as Michael against Lucifer in the Rebellion in Heaven Motif but Christ becomes a Warrior in the apocalyptic eschatological war against Evil and its nations as an army. This is a divine war and also understood like that by Ibn Ezra and Redak and Rashi mentioned “angels of the Lord”. The final battle is described in vivid “bloody scenes”. The reason is that Hebrews did not draw pictures but written metaphoric iconographic representations which is different that Assyrian, Hittite, Sumerian, Egyptian artists who used pictorial metaphoric iconographic representations. The Assyrian, Egyptian, Hittites, Sumerians, Greeks, Persians, Romans were known to present pictorially “bloody scenes” of the destruction of their enemies. Hebrews were forbidden to draw pictures but could use written descriptive language.

 

Isaiah 19 and Egypt in the last days [Drying up of the Nile? The Ethiopian-Egyptian ongoing conflict of the Dam building project predicted?]

Isaiah probably received all these oracles the year Ahaz died, 719 BCE. This chapter Isaiah saw events related to Egypt. These events cannot find a historical pretext nor are related to anything that happened in the Libyan and Nubian dynasties of Egypt and in fact nowhere down the line of history. There is no point in time where God came “riding on a swift cloud” dealing with Egypt. Even Moses never said the dark cloud between them and the pursuing Egyptians was God riding the cloud. Cloud riding is the Second Coming of Christ (Isaiah 19:1b). The original reads that it “comes to Egypt” (Isaiah 19:1b). There is no “about to come”. It is an oracle and vision and Isaiah describes what he saw. At and near the Second Coming of Christ, the Lord is going to do a number of things and Isaiah listed the Lord’s actions with “I [Lord]will” (Isaiah 19:4a); “the Lord purposed” (Isaiah 19:12c, 17); “the Lord mixed” (Isaiah 19:14a); “waving of the Hand of the Lord” (Isaiah 19:16); “altar of the Lord” (Isaiah 19:19); “witness to the Lord of Hosts” (Isaiah 19:20); “Lord will make Himself known” (Isaiah 19:21); “Lord will strike with healing” (Isaiah 19:22); “whom the Lord has blessed” (Isaiah 19:25). The events take us into the Eschaton to the Latter Rain period, the plagues, the Time of Jacob’s Trouble and then the Second Coming. In the time of the end there will be a kind of Egyptian “Spring” where “Egyptians against Egyptians” (Isaiah 19:2a), “city against city” (Isaiah 19:2c). The result is that their spirit will demoralized their strategy (Isaiah 19:3a-b). Division among the ranks of power confuses its ability for strategies, says Isaiah. They resort to spiritism (Isaiah 19:3c-d). God will deliver the Egyptians into the hands of Satan “a cruel/hard master” (Isaiah 19:4) which is a “strong king” (Isaiah 19:4b). People may think that it is Tirhaka the Nubian who was a strong king that drove away the Assyrians at one time in Isaiah’s distant future, but there is no evidence that God came with a cloud. Also the next dry period or famine takes on environmental disastrous proportions of a warming climate in distant future. The waters of the sea dry up (Isaiah 19:5a) [Suez canal?]; the river is dry (Isaiah 19:5b); canals have a stench (Isaiah 19:6a); streams of Egypt thin out (Isaiah 19:6b); fishermen will lament (v. 8a-c); textile industry laments (Isaiah 19:9a-b); the pillars of past historical monuments will crush (Isaiah 19:10a); hired laborers are in agony (Isaiah 19:10b). Isaiah also saw that the glorious historical “princes of Zoan = Thebes” are “utterly fools” (Isaiah 19:11a) meaning that all the Wisdom of Egypt, Wisdom of Ptahotep; Wisdom of Amenemope, “I am a son of the wise” (Isaiah 19:11d) all are in the Eschaton of no avail “where are your wise men?” (v. Isaiah 19:12a). This is not a turnout of historical events on a horizontal human level and imperialistic clashes. This is the purpose of the Lord of Hosts (Isaiah 19:12c). “Hosts” because His angels forms the cloud for Him to ride on when He comes. It is not one ruler in history that is in trouble here, Zoan = Thebes and Memphis, two different capitals in history are listed. Satan has been all along civilizations “led Egypt astray” with his proxies (Isaiah 19:13d; 14a-c). Satan is the “spirit of distortion/confusion” that led them astray (Isaiah 19:14a). Near the Second Coming “In that day” (Isaiah 19:16a) “Egyptians will become like women” because the Lord will wave a Hand over them (Isaiah 19:16).

Source: Van Wyk Christ’s Actions in History Prophetically 103-104

Daniel 11 and the Time of Trouble starting

When the First-World Order "comes to his end" (Daniel 11:45), by the seemingly Third-World Order taking a stronger leading global role, Christ our High-priest/Michael has concluded His Investigative Judgment as "Prince Who protects your [faithful to whom Daniel also belongs] people" (Daniel 12:1). Some commentators are not sure whether it is simultaneously that 11:45 and 12:1 will be. Near enough is probably the best answer. Judaism also understood Daniel 12:1-4 to be the conclusion of chapter 11. Christ or Michael will stand-up from sitting together with His Father on the throne. Christ sometimes stands before the Ancient of Days but here He will stand-up during the Time of Tribulation "such as has not happened from the beginning of nations until then". The Door of Mercy closes when He stands-up. The reason is that before Michael was described as "your prince" but here in His status of glorification after completion of the process of atonement of stigma-removal in the minds of the heavenly audiences, He is "the great prince". The Time of Jacob's Trouble kicked in. However, the Second Coming will happen "at that time your people, everyone whose name is found written in the book [of Life], will be delivered". Judaism understood it as the advent of the Messianic era. They will be delivered from the Time of Jacob's Trouble or global persecution and chaos. These are the faithful remnant people who will be alive then. Those who are asleep will be resurrected (Daniel 12:2) "shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some [those who pierced Christ] to reproaches and everlasting destruction. The word appears only two times in the Old Testament and is coming from the Late Egyptian form dr = destruction, make an end. The meaning shame or confusion or contempt of the Greek and Old Latin, Old Spanish, Old Portuguese, translations are experimentations with the meaning and even so is also the reliance on the Arabic for the meaning repel. They will not continue to exist and be ended. All who accept Christ as Savior will be wise and all those who actively were involved in the most important business of God, soul-winning, will shine like stars forever (Daniel 12:3). The Book of Daniel was to be sealed for the time of the end (Daniel 12:4). After 1798 = the time of the end (11:35), fuller understanding of it was to be obtained. Knowledge also increased rapidly as we speak (Daniel 12:4). We know it is 1798 for in Daniel 12:5-6 a conversation was between an angel on this side of the river Tigris in front of Daniel speaking to an elevated one in linen, who answered his question: How long? as "time, times and half a time" which Daniel understood as the year of the hemerological cuneiform texts as 360 days = time; 360 + 360 days = times; and 180 days = half a time, totaling 1260 days-years. "When the power of the holy ones [faithful remnant] has been finally broken, all these things will be completed" (Daniel 12:7). The power of the holy ones [faithful remnant] was not broken in 1798, and there still remains a shock of the Great Shaking ahead followed by the Latter Rain of filling-up the empty seats. Daniel heard but did not understand, because the persecution was to be from 538-1798 for 1260 years, but when will the power of the holy ones be completely destroyed? He wanted to know when is the end of the end "what will be the outcome of all this?" What will happen then? The message came that Daniel had to go his way because the words are closed up and sealed up until the end (Daniel 12:9). It appears as if the one speaking to Daniel is from here on providing information after the 1798 period. The faithful will be triumphant and be purified and made spotless through sanctification and testing of their faith in Christ daily Righteousness available to their lives, and they will stop their wicked ways (Daniel 12:10). But, the wicked will continue their bad habits, their cover-up of continual sins, their half-hearted participation in God's true worship, lip-service instead of heart surrendering. However, those who are wise in God's word and walking with Christ and His Spirit, "will understand".

Source: Van Wyk Christ’s Actions in History Prophetically 105-106

Micah 4 and the Time of Jacob’s Trouble

“Now (attah) why do you seek friends at this time since the King is King of Kings when He finished his Investigative Judgment as soon as the Mercy Door shuts. Thus, although he did not come yet, slight confusion will exist among the remnant [“why do you seek friends (reah)] and they will be without a Mediator or Counsellor [yoazek] perished?” In essence the Meditorial work of Christ is done and thus no more is the Holy Spirit needed. Agony will enwrap the remnant at this period like a “woman in confinement” (Micah 4:9). It is an expression to indicate that the time the Time of Trouble will last is 9 and a half months. Are you like one without the Spirit of God that you are in the Time of Jacob’s trouble for 9 months very scared?

Leaving cities to fields: The daughter of Zion or remnant that will be in the time of Jacob’s Trouble “like a woman in confinement” [thus for a total period of 9 and a half months] will go forth during this time from the cities and flee to the fields. They will dwell there. Then they shall come up to the World Empire or Babylon of that time [now it is the USA] and there the Lord shall redeem them at the Second Coming (Micah 4:10).

Babylon is the vehicle of Satan among humans. It means “city of the portal of the gods”. Every empire since the beginning of time was given by Satan a “city of the portal of the gods”. A cuneiformist from England showed that even in the late 8th century BCE, Niniveh was known as Babylon. The article was “Babylon as a Name for Niniveh and Other Cities”. Thus, all empires with the “city of the portal of the gods” fell in ancient times: Ur III; Cassite Babylon; Egypt; Damascus; Tirus; Niniveh; neo-Babylon; Shushan; Athens; Rome; Vatican; and currently the empire to be is the USA.

Micah 4 and the Nature of Trouble during Time of Trouble

A worldwide persecution will exist at that time [now = attah, the processional now, not the time of Micah but the now at the point in the prophetic chart continuum]. Many nations shall be against the remnant and wants “her to be guilty” and they want to gaze on Zion (Micah 4:11). Nations shall be against spiritual Israel. Zion will come out of Heaven at the Second Coming. It will come to the rescue of the remnant according to Daniel 12:1. With a rod the evil strike spiritual Israel on the cheek in the time of Trouble (see the processional atah in Micah 4:14 since the whole context is the Time of Trouble with a little excursus to the Hell in vv. 12-13).

Micah 5 and the Time of Trouble

Because of Christ’s first Advent in Micah 5:1 therefore [laken] He shall deliver them [the Time of Trouble sufferers] in nine and a half months (Micah 5:2).

 

Isaiah 8 and the remnant weed during the Time of Trouble

Isaiah says that the remnant weed will have hard times in the Time of Trouble “they will pass through the land “hard-pressed and famished” and when they are hungry they will curse their rulers and also God “as they face upward” (Isaiah 8:21) since God is going to send plaques during this time to fall on the remnant weed and evil ones but not the remnant seed. They will look to the earth at the Second Coming of Christ at the end of the Time of Trouble “and behold distress and darkness the gloom of anguish and driven away into darkness” the fatal result (Isaiah 8:22).

Source: Van Wyk Christ’s Actions in History Prophetically 131

Isaiah 9 and the Remnant Seed in the Time of Trouble

Isaiah describes the Second Coming of Christ when “there will be no gloom for her who was in anguish” (Isaiah 9:1). The remnant seed “He treated with contempt in earlier times” but it is said “later on [at the Second Coming of Christ] He shall make glorious” (Isaiah 9:1c). The faithful ones who “walk in darkness [of global persecution] will see a great light” (Isaiah 9:2a). The remnant seed “shall multiply” and “You shall increase their gladness, they will be glad in Your [Christ’s] presence” (Isaiah 9:3a-c). The yoke and staff on their shoulders, the Lord shall break and during the Time of Trouble at the End-time the Lord shall break “the rod of their oppressor” (Isaiah 9:4b). Every soldier “the booted warrior” and cloak rolled in blood [of violence] “will be for the burning, fuel for the fire” (Isaiah 9:5a-b).

 

Psalm 24:3  Perfection during the Time of Trouble by the Saints

Who will go up on the mountain of the Lord?

Who will stand in His holy place?

The Zion theology of the Old Testament is a concept that God has a stronghold (see Psalm 46) and in the day of the eschatological battle (see Joel 2 and 3) God will fight all the enemies and the faithful will be safe inside the city of God, the New Jerusalem of Revelation 20.

The psalmist here is asking, who will that day when God is going out to fight Satan, who will be in the city? Who will be on high?

Some translations have translated the Imperfect of the verbal form in the Hebrew as "Who may go up" and "who may stand" but they have translated with a presentistic or preteristic consideration and brushed aside the true force of the verbal form. The verbal form is focusing on the future and an event or events in the future.

Psalm 24: 4

(those who are) clean of hands

and (those who are) pure of heart

who does not lift up his soul to nothingness

and he does not sworn to falsehood

The kind of person that will be there, will then already be made perfect. All faithful people, says the Bible, who will be resurrected, will be resurrected with immortality and perfect bodies. They will be pure and clean and with no falsehood whatsoever. It is biblical theology throughout the Old and New Testaments.

Psalm 24:5

He will receive a blessing from what is in the Lord

and righteousness from the God of his salvation.

Perfect bodies at the Advent will also be totally righteous in flesh. Salvation will be realistically and bodily experienced.

Psalm 24: 6

This is the generation of those who seek Him

Who seek your [Yahweh] face, Jacob, Selah.

The time of trouble that will come over the world shortly before the Advent of the Messiah, or Advent of Jesus, is called the Time of Jacob's Trouble. This verse makes reference of those who will be going through that trouble times but still seek the face of the Lord. They are the generation of those who seek Him. It will be a short time of trouble and taking Micah 5:2 seriously, it may not extend longer than 9 months. The time of Jacob's Trouble which is the

trouble described in Daniel 12:1-2 will be followed with the Second Advent of Christ

Source: Van Wyk Christ’s Actions in History Prophetically 132-133

City desolation in Syria and Global Spoilation predicted before and during the Time of Trouble

Isaiah 17 and Damascus in eschatology

In the Second Coming, Isaiah says about Damascus that strong cities will be forsaken and the land will be a desolation (Isaiah 17:9). At the time of the End, says Isaiah in Isaiah 17:12-14 the nations will be in uproar like the roaring of the seas or a period of global migration and confusion. Then during this Time of Jacob’s Trouble, Christ will come and “He will rebuke them and they will flee far away” (Isaiah 17:13b) and they will be chased as chaff in the wind

 (Isaiah 17:13c). This imagery was used by Christ to describe the condition of the evil at the Second Coming and they will pray for mountains to fall on them to hide them from the glory of God. The events of the Second Coming will be quickly over like terror arriving in the evening and before morning “they are no more” (Isaiah 17:14b).

This elimination mentioned by Isaiah in chapter 17 is important since Satan is going to have to stay alone on this desolate earth. Isaiah ended his description to say that this will be the situation of the evil, of which Damascus as a city served Satan’s ploys as an instrument, namely “those who plunder us” and “those who pillage us”. Global spoliation is one of the events that are going to take place during the Time of Jacob’s Trouble shortly before Christ comes and for this reason we need to be not so tied to our earthly property that we will experience a heart-failure.

Source: Van Wyk Christ’s Actions in History Prophetically 135

Remnant hiding for a short time during the Time of Trouble

It is during this time of global Trouble that Isaiah wishes the Remnant will hide for a short while (maybe the similar impression by Ellen White that people will leave the cities to the country-side) (Isaiah 26:20a-c). Indignation is to run its course (Isaiah 26:20d). It is definitely the Time of Trouble Isaiah saw here since he says “for look the Lord will come out from His place to visit the evil inhabitants of the earth upon it” (Isaiah 26:21). The earth will reveal her bloodshed and no longer [od] will her slain be covered (Isaiah 26:21c-d). The Second Coming is a time of Resurrection and those who died violently will be brought alive and those killed and hidden will be resurrected. No secrets will be kept in the earth’s dust.

Isaiah 29 and the Time of Trouble

In Isaiah 29 Isaiah starts off with a probable name of the Temple Mound in David’s days: Ariel. Scholars are confused about this word and translated it as “lion of God” or “hearth of God”. In Solomon’s days it was built in 970 BCE after David’s death and Isaiah acknowledge the temple by saying “add year to year feasts he let run their round” (Isaiah 29:1b). A synonym for Ariel is given in an identical sentence in both Isaiah 29:7 and Isaiah 29:8i, namely “Mount Zion”. In prophetic language there were two Mount Zions, an earthly one and a heavenly one. The earthly one is in earthly Jerusalem and the heavenly one is in the New Jerusalem in heaven. Isaiah then let Satan speaks seemingly in Isaiah 29:2-3. Satan explains his agenda with the “lion of God” temple or sanctuary of God on earth: he will bring distress there and there shall be lamenting and mourning (Isaiah 29:2a-b). We know it is Satan because he says “she shall be like an Ariel [lion of God] to me” (Isaiah 29:2c). For the suffering city to switch around and become a lion to the afflicter means that God took control to punish Satan and his proxies. This phrase is the reason for identifying Satan here. It is not God who will wage war against Ariel and Satan says that he will “camp against” the city and encircles it with the Assyrian armies in Sennacherib’s day in 701 BCE and again in 689 BCE. Siege-works and battle towers Satan will be placed against Jerusalem in the days of Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BCE (Isaiah 29:3b-c). The remnant of God shall be brought low (Isaiah 29:4a). From earth they will speak to God (Isaiah 29:4b). From the dust shall come low their words. And it shall be like a ghost from the earth will their voice speak out of the dust, their speech shall whisper (Isaiah 29:4a-f). Spiritism is a reality of the bad and not the good. It is connected to Satan. But when the remnant speaks in the dust, it will be at the Resurrection at the Second Coming of Christ (Daniel 12:1-2). Isaiah says that though they died and were brought low, yet will they awaken from their sleep and speak from the dust where the Creative God will recreate them according to a sanctified and perfect DNA. The multitude of enemies of the remnant, shall become like dust at the Second Coming (Isaiah 29:5a). The ruthless ones shall become like chaff that the wind blows (Isaiah 29:5b). “And it shall happen instantly, suddenly” (Isaiah 29:5c). The New Testament says also that it will be suddenly. Satan and his proxies will be punished “from the Lord of hosts” “with thunder and earthquake and loud noise” (Isaiah 29:6a) as is also portrayed in Habakkuk 3 at the Second Coming of Christ. With a whirlwind and storm and flame of a consuming fire, the Second Coming will take place (Isaiah 29:6b).

Source: Van Wyk Christ’s Actions in History Prophetically 137-138

Isaiah 40 and the Time of Trouble

In Isaiah 40 Isaiah changed the panel to address a problem that especially the Time of Jacob’s Trouble Spiritual Israel shall experience: “My way is hidden from the Lord and the justice due me escapes the notice of my God” (Isaiah 40:27). He answers this claim by the post-Latter Rain remnant as follows: “Do you not know? Have you not heard” in Isaiah 40:21 and repeated in Isaiah 40:28. Each panel of Isaiah throughout the chapter wishes to describe an aspect of God not to be overlooked by the remnant. Isaiah opened a panel of the wonder of God as Creator: He measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, He marked off the heavens by the span, He calculated the dust of the earth by the measure, and weighed the mountains in a balance, and the hills in a pair of scales (Isaiah 40:12).

What will happen to the afflicted and the needy in the Time of Trouble?

(Isaiah 29:18). The afflicted and needy of the Time of Jacob’s Trouble shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel (Isaiah 29:19) Isaiah sees Satan destroyed before this event in the Hell for the ruthless one (Isaiah 29:20a) shall come to an end ””. Total eradication of all evil. And the scorner will be finished and Isaiah continued indeed all who are intent on doing evil will be cut off (Isaiah 29:20b). It is the absolute finality of evil in the Hell event of the Book of Revelation The identity of these evil ones together with Satan is that they cause people to be indicted by a word, they ensnare the remnant in the Time of Trouble , they turn aside the one in the right with an empty plea (Isaiah 29:21a c). Thus the Lord says of his remnant, who like Abraham are full of faith and being helped by the Lord, Jacob [ Time of Jacob s Trouble remnant faithful ] shall not now be ashamed, nor shall his face now turn pale” (Isaiah 29:22). Even though a Time of Trouble but nothing to fear with the Lord on their side. When the remnant shall see his children, the work of the evangelizing hand of the Lord by the Latter Rain Spirit filling event in their midst, all will sanctify My name the Holy One of Jacob and will stand in awe of the God of Israel (Isaiah 29:23a c). And will know those who err of spirit, understanding (Isaiah 29:24a). It is a case of how much light you have. Know little and err great spiritually. See more and know the truth. They will see more in the Latter Rain Spirit filling event and know the truth. And those who murmur will accept instruction (Isaiah 29:24b).

 

Isaiah 41 and the Time of Trouble

During the Time of Jacob’s Trouble God is serious about the condition of the remnant, His servant here. What God did on His side is a long list of kindness: He is with them (Isaiah 41:10a); He will strengthen the remnant and help them (Isaiah 41:10b); who angered the remnant will be ashamed (Isaiah 41:11a); those contending will perish (Isaiah 41:11b); quarrelsome ones and warmongers will become nothing (Isaiah 41:12a-b). God promise to be with the remnant and hold their hand. Interestingly, God’s right Hand holds the remnant right hand which means that either God is standing in front of the remnant slightly on the right side and looking back or God is standing on the right side of the remnant bringing His hand over Himself to hold the hand of the remnant (Isaiah 41:10c and 13). With God on the right side of the remnant, the chosen Jacob (Isaiah 41:8b); the worm Jacob [during the Time of Jacob’s Trouble] (Isaiah 41:14a); the King [Christ] of Jacob [at the Second Coming] (Isaiah 41:21c), God is the “Holy One of [spiritual] Israel” “your Redeemer” (Isaiah 41:14b). Isaiah mentions that God invented a new threshing sledge for spiritual Israel and they will harvest the righteous on the mountains (Isaiah 41:15b) and hills (v. 15c) and they will rejoice in the Lord (Isaiah 41:16c) but [the evil] “the storm will scatter them” (Isaiah 41:16b). Those who enter the plaques of God during the Time of Jacob’s Trouble will afflicted and in need of water for there is none (Isaiah 41:17a) but the outcome is God’s promised provision for the remnant and Isaiah is using a Thesaurus again to collect the synonyms from a Synonym Dictionary about water: rivers; springs; pool of water; fountains of water. The result is green in the desert and Isaiah used his Thesaurus of trees: cedar (Isaiah 41:19a); acacia (Isaiah 41:19b); myrtle (Isaiah 41:19b); olive tree (Isaiah 41:19b); juniper (Isaiah 41:19c); box tree (v. 19d); cypress (v. 19d). The remnant will learn through this that God creates things for them (Isaiah 41:20).

 

Isaiah 35 and the Time of Trouble

In Isaiah 35:3 Isaiah moves back to the panel of the Time of Trouble and this worldliness of which we also have a part right now: “encourage the exhausted [tired of the delay of the Lord] and strengthen the feeble (Isaiah 35:3); say to the anxious of heart [the Endtime people who will suffer from heart attacks as Jesus pointed out] (Isaiah 35:4a); “take courage and fear not” (Isaiah 35:4b which is words Jesus often used for His disciples). The messages for these End-time remnant living in a world of chaos are twofold: “behold your God,” and “vengeance will come” (Isaiah 35:4c).

Amos 5 and the Great Apostacy

A great apostacy is predicted here in Amos 5. The faithful remnant of Israel is compared to a virgin (Amos 5:2). Amos saw that the remnant fell from truth and they "shall not continue to rise" (Amos 5:2). We know it is future and eschatological since Israel ethnic was resestablished a number of times in history and since Amos is living and prophesying circa 782 BCE, God is not speaking only in his time since what of 536 BCE (Cyrus) or 518 BCE (Darius the Persian), 457 BCE (Artaxerxes)? The fatality of the fall must be spiritual and thus the Great Apostacy of the true Church in the end-time is envisioned here. Only 10% shall remain in each city and 90% shall be apostate (Amos 5:3) "and the one that gives forth a hundred shall remain with ten, of the house of Israel". To the remnant is God's message: "Seek Me and live" (Amos 5:4). Seek not Bethel or Gilgal nor Beersheba (to Kuntillet 'Ajrud) (Amos 5:5). Bethel and Gilgal shall be cancelled (Amos 5:5). The reason they need to seek the Lord and live is "lest He break out like fire [Hell] in the house of Joseph" and this fire is again not a local fire or human fire but a divine fire for "it consume with none to quench it for Bethel" (Amos 5:6). The ones participating in the Great Apostacy "turn justice to wormwood" and "leave righteousness on the ground" (Amos 5:7). The Creator God is the One Who made Pleiades and Orion and turns darkness in to morning since He placed the sun for the earth to orbit around (Amos 5:8). God darkens as night when He want to signal the end; He calls the water of the sea with Tsunamis in Indonesia and Japan and pours it upon the face of the earth (Amos 5:8). God is the one who allows Robin Hoodism when the Third World Order robs from the First World Order under the sentiment of anti-Colonialism "[God] Who strengthens the robbed [Third World Order] upon the strong [First World Order] and the robbed shall come upon a fortress". They hated law and order and "hated him who reproves them" since they do not want to admit their wrong of stealing which is unlawful "and they despise him who speaks uprightly" according to the law or legally (Amos 5:11). They have trodden on the poor, the burden of grain was taken from the poor, they built houses of hewn stone but they will not dwell in it. These actions are expected to happen during the Time of Jacob's Trouble. They will not live in it for Christ will come. They planted precious vineyards but they shall not see the harvest nor drink wine from it (Amos 5:11). Their transgressions are many, their sins mighty, they oppress the just, taking ransom, turning aside the needy at the gate (Amos 5:12). The prudent at that time shall keep silent (Amos 5:13) "for it is a time of evil" and that is what the Time of Trouble is. God wants people to seek good and not evil in order that they may live. That is when the Lord God shall be with them (Amos 5:14). They are to hate evil and love good and establish justice in the gate and to such the Lord will be gracious, especially to the remnant of Joseph (Amos 5:15). At the Eschaton "in all the city squares lamentation and in all streets they shall say, 'Alas! Alas!'" (Amos 5:16).

Source: Van Wyk Christ’s Actions in History Prophetically 192

 

Daniel 11:43-12:1

Are they today following the USA as Daniel 11:43 expects? East of Daniel is Iran and North of Daniel is Syria or Russia for Daniel 11:44 and in Daniel 11:45 the USA will move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem "pitch the tents of his country seat" between the Dead Sea and the Temple Mound. “Coming to his [USA] end” may mean a new World-order, switching from First World-Order to Third World-Order with much Tribulation starting in Daniel 12:1 when Jesus comes. A note of caution. Daniel 11:36-45 is not the official view of the editors of this volume or online presentation, or our denomination but the private research of this commentator only, just as all other SDA commentators had their own private views on these verses and many "gave-up".

 

Daniel 11:36-45 events in Micah 7:12-13:

During the time that Christ is High-Priest in Heaven since 1844, “It is a day and it shall come up unto you” Micah 7:12. A hint is given that it will be “from Assyria and the fortified cities” (Micah 7:12). A worldwide approach is depicted and not the Ottoman Turkish empire in the Victorian period. The fortified mazor, could be a reference to the USA and Pentagon since the same symbol is used in Daniel 11:36-39 which has been interpreted by us chronologically as the USA and Pentagon. “Unto the river” is unto the Euphrates or unto modern Iraq, as the USA did since 1990 – 2012ff. (Micah 7:12). The “sea from the west” is from the USA. The “mountain of the mountain” in Micah 7:12 may be Russia or Syria. In the prophecy against Satan in Ezechiel 28, Tirus is indicated with a problem at the mountain. Targum Jonathan to the prophets also tried to be literal but interpreted Assyria as Armenia (hurmini) and the river as the Euphrates (parat). Middle Age Jewish commentator Rashi sees the west as “the Mediteranean Sea which is in the west”. Targum Jonathan translated the “mountain of the mountain” as “mountains [plural] of the mountain” (wethuray thura). Daniel 11:40-44 outlined the role of the USA in the last days and Daniel 11:45 outlined the role of the USA regarding the Temple mount. If this mount is the “mount of the mount” then one can understand this as the last event to happen before the USA or Pentagon will be neutralized or slip into passiveness “he will come to his end and no one for him” and thus the Third World Order may take over to inaugurate the Time of Trouble below? The Middle East shall be in chaos in this time (Micah 7:13). The Arab spring in 2011-2012 has so far made the land desolate with civil war in Syria “from the fruit from their deeds” (Micah 7:13).

Source: Van Wyk Christ’s Actions in History Prophetically 82