Jesus is coming. . .soon! Are you ready?

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Jesus is coming. . .soon! Are you ready?
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In the seven trumpets we have history unfolded
revealing the principle POLITICAL and WARLIKE
events during the same period as the churches
and seals.
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Review of Revelation Prophecy
Trumpets in the Bible Symbolize war
Announce judgment against enemies Call Gods
people to prepare spiritually for His final day
of reckoning
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Review of Revelation Prophecy
Pergamos Church (A.D. 313-538) Compromise with
paganism Great falling away 2 Thess. 21-12
Gnostic philosophy exalted Traditions
replace the Bible
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Review of Revelation Prophecy
Thyatira Church (538-1789) Papacy
established Doctrines were developed contrary
to Bible truth Persecution of Gods people by
the church
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The seven trumpets can be divided into three
groups
1. The first four trumpets tell of the fall
of WESTERN Rome.
2. The fifth and sixth depict the overthrow
of EASTERN Rome.
3. The seventh reveals the collapse of all
human GOVERNMENT.
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Review of the Trumpets
First trumpet Alaric and the Goths (395 to
410 A.D.) Second trumpet Genseric and the
Vandals (440 455 A.D.) Third trumpet
Attila and the Huns (434 452 A.D.) Fourth
trumpet Odoacer and fall of the Western Roman
empire (476 A.D.)
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Review of the Trumpets
Darkness in the religious and political
worlds (A.D. 538 - 1798) Fifth trumpet
rise of Islam (first woe A.D. 622 to 732)
Sixth trumpet spread and collapse of Islam
(second woe, 1299 to 1840)
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Gods Word is Sure!
Gods contention that He alone is GOD is partly
based on His power to tell the end from the
beginning.
I have declared the former things from the
beginning and they went forth out of My mouth,
and I shewed them I did them suddenly, and they
came to pass. Isa. 483
I have even from the beginning declared it to
thee before it came to pass I shewed it thee.
Isa. 485
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Fifth Trumpet Sounds
And now I have told you before it come to pass,
that, when it is come to pass, ye might
believe. John 1429
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The prophecy of the trumpets played a major role
in the great religious awakening of the 19th
century in that it established the absolute
correctness of prophetic interpretations and
renewed and strengthened the FAITH of people from
all denominations.
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Fifth Trumpet Sounds
And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star
fall from heaven unto the earth and to him was
given the key of the bottomless pit. And he
opened the bottomless pit and there arose a
smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great
furnace and the sun and the air were darkened by
reason of the smoke of the pit. . . .
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Fifth Trumpet Sounds
. . . And there came out of the smoke locusts
upon the earth and unto them was given power, as
the scorpions of the earth have power. And it was
commanded them that they should not hurt the
grass of the earth, neither any green thing,
neither any tree but only those men which have
not the seal of God in their foreheads.
Revelation 91-4
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Fifth Trumpet Sounds
And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star
fall from heaven unto the earth and to him was
given the key of the bottomless pit. And he
opened the bottomless pit and there arose a
smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great
furnace and the sun and the air were
darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
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Fifth Trumpet Sounds
And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star
fall from heaven unto the earth
How thou art fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son
of the morning! How thou art cut down to the
ground, which didst weaken the nations. Isaiah
1412
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Fifth Trumpet Sounds
And to him was given the key of the
bottomless pit.
KEY literally means power to open and shut or
power and authority of various kinds
BOTTOMLESS PIT immeasurable depth vast
wasteland or the abode of demons
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Fifth Trumpet Sounds
And he opened the bottomless pit and there
arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a
great furnace
OPENED had the power to let loose what was in
the bottomless pit
SMOKE vapor also something that obscures
light or vision
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Fifth Trumpet Sounds
The sun and the air were darkened by reason
of the smoke of the pit.
SUN literally means light
AIR atmosphere, or that which is breathed in
DARKENED obscured, shrouded or hidden from view
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Fifth Trumpet Sounds
And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star
fall from heaven unto the earth and to him was
given the key of the bottomless pit. And he
opened the bottomless pit and there arose a
smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great
furnace and the sun and the air were
darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
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Fifth Trumpet Sounds
Most historians comment on the totally unforeseen
nature of the rise of Islam. Without warning,
without apprehension, and without prediction, the
Arab broke from the south and covered all of the
Roman Empire south of the Taurus and extended
from the Indus to the Atlantic. Talcott
Williams, Turkey, A World Problem, p. 54
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Near the end of the sixth century, there was born
in Arabia and man who claimed direct descent from
Ishmael, the son of Abraham. His name was
Mohammed and he is the founder of a religion that
today has more than a BILLION adherents
world-wide.
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Over the last half-century, the Muslim
population in the United States has risen
significantly. Immigrants from the Middle East,
South Asia and Africa have settled across the
country, establishing mosques from Boston to Los
Angeles, and turning Islam into one of the
nation's fastest growing religions. By some
estimates, as many as six million Muslims now
live in America. NY Times, March 5, 2006
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Muslims worshipping before the Black Stone in
Mecca
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One month a year, Mohammed would retire to a cave
a few miles from Mecca where he gave himself to
fasting and prayer. While in this cave he
received visions and when he returned to the
town, he told his visions and had them written
down (Mohammed could not read or write). Thus
Mohammed called himself a prophet of God.
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1. A true prophet never consults any occult source
   when seeking the will of God (Deuteronomy
   1819 occult source fortune teller,
   astrologer, clairvoyant or psychic)
2. A true prophet always recognizes Jesus Christ as
   the divine Son of God who was incarnated into
   human flesh to die for the sins of the world (1
   John 41-3)
3. A true prophets words will always be in perfect
   harmony with the words of the prophets who have
   preceded him (i.e. will have complete harmony
   with the Bible Isaiah 820)

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• A true prophet never consults any occult source
  when seeking the will of God (Deuteronomy
  1819 occult source fortune teller,
  astrologer, clairvoyant or psychic)
• We are not told the source of Mohammeds visions
  which he had while in the cave. He claimed that
  they were given by the angel Gabriel the same
  angel who spoke to Daniel
• But the fact that his visions and the book which
  resulted from these visions (the Quran) are NOT
  in harmony with the rest of the Bible would
  indicate that his source was not the God of the
  Bible

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• A true prophet always recognizes Jesus Christ as
  the divine Son of God who was incarnated into
  human flesh to die for the sins of the world (1
  John 41-3)
• Mohammed never recognized Jesus Christ as the
  divine Son of God. He did call him one of the
  greatest prophets that had ever been.
• BUT, Mohammed claimed that he was a GREATER
  prophet than Jesus Christ
• And Mohammed does not recognize Jesus as the
  Saviour of the world

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• A true prophets words will always be in perfect
  harmony with the words of the prophets who have
  preceded him (i.e. will have complete harmony
  with the Bible Isaiah 820)
• Mohammeds words are NOT in perfect harmony with
  the Bible. They contradict the Bible in most
  places, principally by denying that Jesus is the
  Saviour of the world that Jesus death was the
  eternal atonement for sin.
• And Mohammed CHANGED the day of worship from the
  seventh-day Sabbath to the sixth day (Friday)

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From the beginning Mohammed had asked his
followers to do three things pray, fast, and
give alms. He used one rule of action in
spreading his new religion. He said Confess
there is only one God, and that Mohammed is His
prophet pay tribute or choose death.
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The simple faith and morally strict practices of
Islam outwardly appear to be an improvement over
the apostasy of the Christian church, then and
now.
But by rejecting Christ as Saviour, Mohammed had
nothing in which to place his faith except his
own ability to obtain righteousness by his own
works.
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It was his mission and the commission of every
Moslem male to propagate the dominion of Islam by
the sword. The duty of all Mussulmans was to
destroy the temples of the infidels (apostate
Christians), to overthrow to the remotest
quarters of the world, with the ultimate goal of
converting the entire world to Islam.
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The rapid progress of Islam was due to the strife
between the Byzantine empire based in
Constantinople, and the modern Persian empire
headed by a man named Chosroes. When Rome finally
defeated Persia in A.D. 628, it opened the door
for the swarms of Arabs to pour out of the
bottomless pit. Persia had stood as a gate,
keeping in check the advance of the power of
Mohammed.
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Fifth Trumpet Sounds
. . . And there came out of the smoke locusts
upon the earth and unto them was given power, as
the scorpions of the earth have power. And it was
commanded them that they should not hurt the
grass of the earth, neither any green thing,
neither any tree but only those men which have
not the seal of God in their foreheads.
Revelation 91-4
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Fifth Trumpet Sounds
And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the
earth
Smoke weve already defined this symbol as
something that obscures
Locusts the locust is known as a destroyer
of every green thing that it finds in its
path however in this prophecy John was told
that these locusts would NOT eat or hurt any
grass, tree, or any green thing
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Fifth Trumpet Sounds
As the scorpions of the earth have power
Scorpions root Greek word literally means to
pierce or sting
The tail, therefore, of a scorpion, with the
sting, denotes the propagation of the diabolical
false prophecy of Mohammed . . . no nation before
them relying on a similar imposture in religion,
and under the pretext of destroying the worship
of idols, ever contended for the empire of the
world. from the Clavius Apocalyptica
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Fifth Trumpet Sounds
As the scorpions of the earth have power and
there were stings in their tails
Isaiah said The ancient and honourable, he is
the head and the prophet that teacheth lies, he
is the tail Isaiah 915
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Fifth Trumpet Sounds
Fruitlessly the Arabs assailed the Byzantine
capital by land and sea for five whole years
(A.D. 673 to 678) they did not succeed in taking
it. Charles Diehl, History of the
Byzantine Empire, p. 44
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Fifth Trumpet Sounds
. . . And there came out of the smoke locusts
upon the earth and unto them was given power, as
the scorpions of the earth have power. And it was
commanded them that they should not hurt the
grass of the earth, neither any green thing,
neither any tree but only those men which have
not the seal of God in their foreheads.
Revelation 91-4
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We find a striking fulfillment of the prophecy of
Revelation 94 in the command of ABU BEKR,who
was Mohammeds uncle
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When you fight your battles of the Lord, acquit
yourselves like men, without turning your backs
let not your victory be stained with the blood of
women or children. Destroy no palm trees, nor
burn any fields of corn. Cut down no fruit trees,
nor do any mischief to cattle, only such as you
kill to eat. Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall
of the Roman Empire
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Fifth Trumpet Sounds
. . . And there came out of the smoke locusts
upon the earth and unto them was given power, as
the scorpions of the earth have power. And it was
commanded them that they should not hurt the
grass of the earth, neither any green thing,
neither any tree but only those men which have
not the seal of God in their foreheads.
Revelation 91-4
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As you advance into the enemys country, you
will find a sort of men who belong to the
synagogue of Satan, and who have shaven crowns.
Cleave their skulls. Give them no quarter till
they embrace our faith or pay tribute. Israel
Smith Clare, The Standard History of the World ,
vol. 4, p. 1814
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As you advance into the enemys country, you
will find a sort of men who belong to the
synagogue of Satan, and who have shaven crowns.
Cleave their skulls. Give them no quarter till
they embrace our faith or pay tribute. Israel
Smith Clare, The Standard History of the World ,
vol. 4, p. 1814
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Fifth Trumpet Sounds
. . . And there came out of the smoke locusts
upon the earth and unto them was given power, as
the scorpions of the earth have power. And it was
commanded them that they should not hurt the
grass of the earth, neither any green thing,
neither any tree but only those men which have
not the seal of God in their foreheads.
Revelation 91-4
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Fifth Trumpet Sounds
locusts . . . like unto horses faces of
men but like hair of women crowns like
gold teeth like lions locusts like
horses prepared for battle Revelation 97-9
In Revelation 97-11 we find a COMPARATIVE
description and not a POSITIVE identification of
what John saw passing before him. Therefore, he
uses the qualifying statements, LIKE UNTO, AS
IT WERE, and LIKE.
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Fifth Trumpet Sounds
Had a king whos name was Abaddon (in Hebrew)
and Apollyon (in Greek) Both of these names
literally mean destroyer Mohammeds name does
not mean destroyer, but his work was
destructive to the Byzantine Empire
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Remarkable Time Prophecy
And to them it was given that they should not
kill them, but that they should be tormented five
months and their torment was as the torment of a
scorpion, when he striketh a man . . . their
power was to hurt men five months.
Revelation 95, 10
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Remarkable Time Prophecy
And thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of
Judah forty days I have appointed thee each day
for a year . Ezekiel 46
After the number of the days in which ye
searched the land, even forty days, each day for
a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty
years, and ye shall know My breach of
promise. Numbers 1434
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Remarkable Time Prophecy
Prophetic year 360 days or 360 literal
years Prophetic month 30 days or 30 literal
calendar years Day literal calendar year Hour
1/24 part of a day, or 15 literal days (360/24
15)
Five months 5x30 150 literal years
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Remarkable Time Prophecy
This is one of the most remarkable prophecies in
the entire Bible, it is so exact in its
fulfillment. The prophecy was fulfilled beginning
on July 27, 1299.
Starting on this date and for the next 150
literal years, Islam tormented the Byzantine
capital at Constantinople, but were not able to
capture the city.
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Remarkable Time Prophecy
It was on the twenty-seventh of July, in the
year twelve hundred and ninety-nine of the
Christian era, that Othman first invaded the
territory of Nicomedia and the singular accuracy
of the dates seems to disclose some foresight of
the rapid and destructive growth of the monster
Islam. Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the
Roman Empire
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Remarkable Time Prophecy
John Palaeologus emperor of the Byzantine Empire
died in 1448, and left behind him a throne that
was weakened by the continual threats from Islam.
With limited support from his European neighbors,
it did not appear that the Byzantine empire would
long survive his death.
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Remarkable Time Prophecy
When John died a dispute erupted between
Constantine and Demetrios over the throne of the
Byzantine Empire. Demetrios drew support through
his opposition to the union between the Orthodox
and Catholic churches. An appeal was made to the
Ottoman Sultan Murad II to arbitrate the
disagreement.
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Remarkable Time Prophecy
Murad chose Constantine, who was crowned at
Mistra on January 6, 1449. It was unusual to
crown an emperor outside of Constantinople (and
without a Patriarch of the Orthodox Church), and
no ecclesiastical coronation was ever performed.
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The providence of God was so remarkable in
delivering these people from the plague of the
Saracens, that in 726 A.D., when they attempted
these southern parts of France, they were so
terribly destroyed, and with so little slaughter
on the other side, that history can scarce afford
a parallel. Essay on the Revelation of St.
John, 1744
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Next lesson well look the second woe, also
called the sixth trumpet