[Below is a brief excerpt from the upcoming 2nd Edition of my 601-page commentary on the Book of Revelation, “The Essential Apocalypse: Making Sense of the Book of Revelation”, which will be available in paperback in November. It is a postscript to a section about interpreting the seals, trumpets and bowls. I hope that you will find it helpful]

HERE IS THE KEY to understanding the seals, trumpets and bowls: Essentially, throughout the age, judgement is being progressively revealed to the world. All the while that the seven seals and the six trumpets have been working their way through history during the last couple of millennia, most people have not even cottoned-on to the fact that they are witnessing portents and warnings of the final judgements. Every earthquake, every volcanic eruption, every natural disaster, every famine, every plague, every war, every revolution and political upheaval, every threatening meteorite or comet flashing by, every geomagnetic Coronal Mass Ejection storm from the sun (and every ‘beautiful’ Aurora Borealis generated by them), every flash of lightning, every hurricane, every tornado, every supercell storm, every so-called ET or UFO sighting (which are all counterfeits generated by the demonic realm which I suspect will play a major part in the deception leading to the Endtimes), every persecution or extermination of the disciples of Christ, every religious cult, every pretender to messianic status, every dictator — they are all stark aspects of the fallenness of this creation which direct our attention towards the intensifying of these elements, which will build to a climax at the time of the end.

The Christ plainly pointed to them as happening throughout this age, intensifying towards the end when, in answer to what will be the signs of His coming and of the end of the age, He specifically referred to widespread religious deception, counterfeit global saviours (false ‘christs’), wars, rumours of wars, posturing by nations against each other, famines, earthquakes, widespread political instability (Greek: ἀκαταστασίας, akatastasias), plagues and pandemics, the love of most growing cold (psychopathy), terror-inducing sights and events (Greek: φόβητρον, phobetron), and astronomical disturbances. (Matthew 24:3-8; Luke 21:8-10).

He was careful to say that all the above are not the end itself but are “the beginning of birth-pains” (Matthew 24:8), which one dynamic equivalence translation from the Greek rightly rendered as “birth-pains of the new age”. Theosophists such as Alice Bailey stole this idea of a “new age” straight from the pages of the Bible, giving birth to the counterfeit ‘New Age of Aquarius’ claims of today. That biblical concept of the new aeon began to ‘gestate’ right in the womb of the present evil age immediately at the ascension of Christ (which is the great axis upon which the whole creation hinges) and has been doing so since then, with the birth-pains of the new aeon to come building up across the world until the actual climactic birth of it as the aftermath of the cataclysmic return of the Christ. Thus, the seals and first four trumpets are part of the gestation process in the twinges of birth-pains climaxing as the gestation period goes on. The last three trumpets and, therefore, the seven bowls represent the full-scale, heavy-duty birth-pains right before the birth of that new aeon to come.

Faithless people regard all the above world phenomena and cosmic disturbances as somehow being natural, or they explain them away by citing “global warming” or “manmade climate change” or by blaming a ‘HAARP’ research installation (the latest trendy ‘conspiracy’ distraction). But they are not at all natural in terms of the original creation and they are not the result of ‘carbon footprints’. For they are all stark evidence of the Fall of humanity spawned by the fallen archangel, Satan, when death and corruption of all kinds, disease, disasters, pain, division, conflict, shortages — even the atrophic Second Law of Thermodynamics — came into the then pristine creation and skewed it completely, reducing it to the spiritually-crude limitations of three-dimensionality and base matter. They are, therefore, evidence of the judgement of God.

The proliferation of these global phenomena and cosmic disturbances are also outright portents and forewarnings of the end of this age and of the cataclysmic return of the Christ. This is not fantasy or mythology but the terrible reality of uncleanness hitting the fan of purity way back when our first parents followed the siren suggestions of Satan rather than remaining faithful to their Creator. When the ‘cosmic vortex’ of God is at work (of which I will speak more fully in an excursus on the ‘wrath of God’ or ‘Divine fury’ in §10 of chapter 6), one can only stand aside in awe and watch.

In the western world and the more technologically advanced nations, people can generally ignore it all, until some geological or meteorological catastrophe happens. Then they will, as said above, most likely blame it on ‘manmade climate change’. Let me tell you that all the elements which people currently (and mistakenly) regard as being merely indicative of ‘manmade climate change’ or ‘government experiments’ — whether record heatwaves, deadly flooding, hugely high temperatures leading to tropical heat in northern territories, record-making droughts, geomagnetic or supercell storms, and so on — are simply a built-in part of the age-long intensification process of Divine judgement wrapped up in both the Fall of humanity and the seals and trumpets in the Book of Revelation. These are all birth-pains of the new aeon yet to come.

Let me tell you that you have hardly even seen a part of it yet, for they are surely going to severely worsen, ultimately beyond even what you may have seen in the most intense disaster movies. Their intensification as the end of the age draws near will become increasingly hard to ignore as catastrophe after catastrophe rolls in. Yet almost the whole world will be in denial — no doubt, along with the globalists’ unfortunate pawn, Greta Thunberg, blaming it all on those who “resisted action on climate change”! They always have been in denial, as they will be even as catastrophe envelops the world and they will be shaking their fists at God (examples of which we can see in Revelation 9:20-21; 16:9 & 11), instead of finally realising that all those ‘nutty’ disciples of Christ were right after all, then submitting to Him in discipleship themselves.

This wilful obstinacy and hard-heartedness, which will intensify even more as the end of the age draws near, is a recurring feature in the Book of Revelation: That the mass of people would rather believe or do anything, no matter how heinous, than acknowledge the messiahship of the Christ. This is the ‘spirit of the Antichrist’ which has undergirded this evil age and which will climax in ways that you can barely begin to imagine.

However, there will be some, when they sense this intensification of catastrophic phenomena coming to pass just as had been prophesied, whose hearts will melt, whose scoffing will be stopped, and they will fall on their faces at the realization of what is coming on the earth and turn to the Christ while there is still time to do so (for there will come a time when that possibility will be past). I do not mean the bowls, for they are plainly on another level altogether.

I know that many will have a hard time accepting all that I am writing here and will be incensed that it is being written at all, and they may even want to have it censored! These are the strong feelings which the notion of Divine judgement generates. If you are among them, then I doubt that anything I say will convince you, outside of Divine intervention. But in the years to come, when you see this intensification process hugely hotting-up and you see a monstrous character masquerading as a Christ-figure and heading up a one-world government, you will hopefully remember reading the words in this book. That is a big part of why I am writing it!

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