Part II ~ Lesson 1 of 6 – Seals, Trumpets and Vials

The Sequence of Endtime Events

Equipping God's Saints (Followers of Christ) through the prophecies of the End Times …

This is liable to turn your theological structure upside-down. It may give you a whole new way of looking at things. You are going to get a fresh look at the scriptures.

Something that has been taught, prominently, yet there are no scriptures to support it, is that the Seals, the Trumpets and the Vials have to happen within a 7-year time frame. You are going to be able to prove conclusively that some of these Seals and Trumpets have been opened for a long time.

Now we are going to go into detail concerning the identity of the Seals, the Trumpets and the Vials. Using the scriptures, we will put them onto one harmonized timeline so we can see exactly how these events are going to or have already unfolded. Remember:

• The Seals are the Long Story ending at Armageddon.
• The Trumpets are the Shorter Story ending at Armageddon.
• The Vials are the Really Short Story ending at Armageddon.

Beginning with the Seals, we have determined that the 7 Seals are:

1. The White Horse = Catholicism
2. The Red Horse =Communism
3. The Black Horse = Capitalism
4. The Pale Horse = Islam
5. Souls under alter: “Avenge!”
6. Wrath of God
7. Silence in heaven ½ hour

Since we have gone over them in detail in a previous posting, we are not going to take time here to prove how we know what each of the 4 Horsemen are. If you would like to learn the full details of how these Seals are conclusively arrived at, please read my postings titled “Islam in Bible Propecy ~ The 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse”.

The 5^th Seal will be discussed at length, coming up.

The 6^th Seal we just learned about.

The 7^th Seal is going to be Silence for ½ Hour. The best I can do is speculate on this Seal because it is one of the 7 Seals. I don't know that I'm right, but the idea is that it may be the Marriage and the Coronation of Jesus Christ as King of kings and Lord of lords. It's the awe of watching the culmination of everything, which Almighty God designed from the beginning. Now the mystery of God is to be finished. The kingdoms of this world become the Kingdoms of our Lord. All of heaven is watching the realization of all that God wanted to do.

We have already learned that the Book of Revelation is not in chronological order from front to back, however, it is in an order, though. When we get inside the structure of the 7 Seals / 7 Trumpets / 7 Vials, then we are working in chronological order within these structures. The 2^nd Seal follows the 1^st Seal, etc.

Now let's look at the 7 Trumpets. Since we have gone over them in detail in previous postings, we are not going to take time here to prove how we know what each of the 7 Trumpets are. If you would like to learn the full details of how these Trumpets are conclusively arrived at, please read my postings titled “The 7 Trumpets”

1. World War I (?)
2. World War II
3. Chernobyl
4. Shortening of Days
5. Gulf War: Saddam Hussein
6. War that kills “third part of men”
7. Wrath of God

The 3^rd Trumpet specifically names the star that will fall from heaven, Wormwood. Chernobyl translated to English is Wormwood. The Chernobyl nuclear accident of 1986 has been the worst accident in the history of mankind with 125,000 dead / 2 million infected.

The Bible says when the 2^nd Trumpet sounds, 1/3 of the ships will be destroyed. After checking history and doing some calculations, of all the ships that participated in World War II, 1/3 of them were sunk. Why shouldn't we believe that a war that killed 52 million would be in the prophecies of the Bible?

Not being as strong on the 1^st Trumpet, it is believed it is World War I.

The 4^th Trumpet talks about a shortening of the days. The prophecy is that the moon shall not shine for 1/3 part of the night and the sun shall not shine for 1/3 part of the day. Jesus also spoke about this prophecy in Matthew 24 when he said that except the days are shortened, there will be no flesh saved. It appears to us that God has speeded up time. This is the Trumpet that can be proved the least, yet people believe it the most.

The 5^th Trumpet in Revelation 9 specifically names the king they have over them. In the Hebrew tongue ~ Abaddon / in the Greek tongue ~ Apollyon. In English it means the Destroyer. You will see in the postings titled “The 7 Trumpets” that from two reliable documentations, “Saddam” literally means “Destroyer”. With that being said, it is believed to be the Gulf War of 1991.

Once you see the 7 prophecies of the Trumpets, and 2 of them are actually naming names (Wormwood means Chernobyl and Saddam means Destroyer), it makes you realize how incredibly relevant the teachings of the 7 Trumpets is.

It is amazing how it seems God has tipped us off in the prophecies so that we can make the connection. In 4 of the 7 prophecies of the Trumpets, He named names or gave exact numbers.

The next major event on God's Timeclock: The 6^th Trumpet ~ the war of an army of 200 million soldiers that kills 1/3 of the world's population. This is not a prophecy that MIGHT happen. This is a prophecy that WILL happen. This war will happen in the very near future; maybe within months from where we are right now.

Who will be involved in this war? It looks like China who boasts an army of 200,000, but we don't know for sure. What we do know for sure, though, is that this war is coming.

The only real defense to this war is to be ready. With 2 billion people being killed, none of us can insure that we won't be one of the victims. We have 1 chance in 3 of being a victim.

But there is one thing we can know for sure. We can know we are saved. We can know we are born again. So when this happens, scripture says, “If we live, we live unto the Lord; if we die, we die unto the Lord. Whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's.”

That's where you should be standing right now. If you are not born again; if you don't know you are ready for the Lord to call you home either by death or by the Rapture, then you have got to do something about it right now.

Resources: The anointing of the Holy Spirit and God Almighty, of whom I am accountable to. I have prayed diligently and am led to follow and support the teachings of Pastor Irvin Baxter from Endtime Ministries and his teachings of Understanding the End Times. I encourage you to visit his website at endtime.com.