What do we know about the Time of Trouble soon
to start?
Revelation 7:1
Μετὰ
τοῦτο
εἶδον
τέσσαρας
ἀγγέλους
ἑστῶτας
ἐπὶ
τὰς
τέσσαρας
γωνίας
τῆς
γῆς,
κρατοῦντας
τοὺς
τέσσαρας
ἀνέμους
τῆς
γῆς,
ἵνα
μὴ
πνέῃ ἄνεμος
ἐπὶ
τῆς
γῆς
μήτε ἐπὶ
τῆς
θαλάσσης
μήτε ἐπὶ
πᾶν
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 (κρατοῦντας)
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 ἄνεμος,
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then repealed this week with severing ties between Australia and China.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 καὶ
εἶδον
ἄλλον
ἄγγελον
ἀναβαίνοντα
ἀπὸ
ἀνατολῆς
ἡλίου,
ἔχοντα
σφραγῖδα
θεοῦ
ζῶντος,
καὶ
ἔκραξεν
φωνῇ
μεγάλῃ
τοῖς
τέσσαρσιν ἀγγέλοις
οἷς
ἐδόθη
αὐτοῖς
ἀδικῆσαι
τὴν
γῆν
καὶ
τὴν
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 ἀδικῆσαι
is mentioned here. 3 λέγων
· Μὴ
ἀδικήσητε
τὴν
γῆν
μήτε τὴν
θάλασσαν μήτε
τὰ
δένδρα, ἄχρι
σφραγίσωμεν τοὺς
δούλους
τοῦ
θεοῦ
ἡμῶν
ἐπὶ
τῶν
μετώπων αὐτῶν.
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:
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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:
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