The Final Gentile Age Israel-Islam War is forming in North Korea,
A Worldwide Conventional War Under Multiple Nuclear Umbrellas
“WRATH” in Revelation 6.17 & 16:1 is NOT the Same Greek Word
Final War of the Age of the Gentiles will be a conventional war twixt Islam and Israel in the Middle East under different nation’s protective Nuclear Umbrellas! It will NOT be a nuclear war.
But there is no type of protective umbrella made by man that can protect the lost souls during the wrath of God poured on the earth out of seven vials AFTER the sounding of the seventh trumpet.
But the saved souls under the protective covering of the blood of Christ will not be here when the seven vials of God’s wrath are poured on the earth.
April 8, 2013
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
The world is heading into a situation where individual nations are being forced into a dilemma where their national survival must be the prime interest in their decisions. This is causing nations to adopt a big brother who can provide them with a reliable nuclear protective umbrella from those nations who might threaten their existence. Even those nations that are attempting to develop their own nuclear weapons, will realize they need a big brother nation until they are successful enough to defend themselves on their own. The 7 Seals, 7 Trumpets, and 7 Vials of God’s judgment, using his own creation to fulfill his own prophecies by his own power, will be far more horrific than a release of nuclear weapons power from man’s created arsenal.
The world will be in a defensive mode until after Obama leaves office, and a worldwide pattern of defensive nuclear umbrellas will have moved into place. Then, under a sense of security under all the nuclear umbrellas, an event will occur along Israel’s northern border, and the final conventional war will begin along Israel’s northern border, and Israel will be pushed into the Negev Wilderness, where she will remain for some 3 and ½ years.
I do not know PRECISELY the times in the tribulation period when the final war of this age will begin, the 7th trumpet rapture will occur, or the 2nd Advent will occur, but I am of the OPINION that the Archive Prophecy Update Number 320 has tribulation period events in the proper chronological order.
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June 19, 2005
When Does the Wrath of God on the Earth Begin?
From the 2nd book I wrote in the late seventies, I offer the following lengthy quote concerning the sequence of events associated with the seals, trumpets, and vials in the book of Revelation. I covered the fifth seal event in Special Prophecy Update 227B. I will now discuss the sixth seal by quoting directly from “Tribulation Triad,” pages 144 and 145.
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Revelation 6:12-17 – And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; [13] And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. [14] And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. [15] And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; [16] And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: [17] For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
The great earthquake of verse 12 represents the initial worldwide shifting motion of the tectonic plates. The resulting crustal ruptures along the plate boundaries will allow volcanic ash injection into the stratosphere to darken the sun to a black outline, while shading the moon a deep blood red.
I have titled this chapter as 777 because I am convinced that the seven seals, seven trumpets, and 7 vials are all interwoven in both time and place of occurrence. I believe the first five seals are a chain of events that are already in motion. The last of the first five seals will be opened before the rapture.
The sixth seal gives John a preview of what will happen when the seventh seal is opened and the seven trumpets begin to sound. I believe that the sixth seal contains an outline of the events that will occur when the trumpets are blown and the vials are emptied. The opening of the sixth seal sets the stage for the blowing of the first trumpet, and then remains unsealed and active through the pouring out of the seventh vial.
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When God showed John the events of the end times, he first showed him a generalized picture of what would be happening on the earth and in heaven during the period that precedes and follows the first resurrection rapture. This period begins by the opening of the first five seals. When the sixth seal is opened, God gives John a preview of what will happen on the earth during the last three and one-half years of the tribulation period.
The opening of the sixth seal announces the beginning of further judgments of God coming on the earth and, thereafter, gives an overview, if you will, a preview of coming attractions in it, which will be occurring during the rest of the tribulation period in chronological and continuous order.
Revelation 6:12 – And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
Revelation 6:15-17 previews the time of God’s wrath on all the lost that will begin on the pouring out of the first vial in Revelation 16:1, which follows the rapture on the sounding of the seventh trump in Revelation 11:15.
Revelation 6:15-17 – And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; [16] And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from THE WRATH of the Lamb: [17] For the great day of HIS WRATH IS COME; and who shall be able to stand?
Revelation 6:17 is the preview of what is coming after the rapture of the saved in Revelation 11:18.
Revelation 11:15 – And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever. [18] And the nations were angry, and thy WRATH IS COME, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
The lost are destroyed by God’s 7 “THUMOS” vials.
Revelation 16:1 – And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath (THUMOS) of God upon the earth.
It is interesting that two different Greek words are used for wrath in Revelation 16:1 and Revelation 6:17, being THUMOS and ORGE.
Revelation 6:17 – For the great day of his wrath (ORGE) is come; and who shall be able to stand?
ORGE means “a stretching forth to fulfill one’s desire by a justifiable abhorrent punishment.” (Strong’s)
THUMOS means a passionate “hard breathing” fierce wrath. (Strong’s)
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Bullinger says that ORGE is the “heat of the fire,” but he says that “THUMOS” is the actual “bursting forth of the flame.”
If a word distinction is allowed in drawing a difference in interpreting Revelation 6:17 and 16:1, I suggest that the seals and trumpets are a judgment of God on the unfaithful saved and the lost by feeling the heat of the fire, while the vials are the bursting forth of flame on the lost by the seven vials of wrath. However, I will admit that such a sharp distinction may not have been intended by the Spirit, so I rest by case without trying to add the word differences as a form of proof.
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Is North Korea really looking to start a war?
As the US and China grow increasingly involved, Kim Jong-un must be brought into line if war is not to be triggered by an act of recklessness
Ready for war? Any sign of weakness might be politically fatal for North Korean leader Kim Jong-un
US taking ‘all necessary precautions’ on North Korea
By Shashank Joshi
7:55PM BST 04 Apr 2013
There are two schools of thought about what lies behind North Korea’s increasingly frenzied posturing. The first goes like this: the rhetoric emanating from Pyongyang – including calls to “break the waists of the crazy enemies [and] totally cut their windpipes” – is no worse than their decades-old ritualistic promises to turn South Korea into a “sea of fire”.
What we are witnessing, according to this theory, is nothing more than an inexperienced leader (Kim Jong-un has only just turned 30) shoring up his power base at home, testing the resolve of a newly elected South Korean president, and lashing out at the latest round of US sanctions and joint US-South Korean military exercises.
The second approach is to caution that this time, it’s different: North Korea has carried out a third nuclear test, formally repudiated its armistice with the South, cut a military hotline, restarted the plutonium-producing Yongbyon reactor, and stopped access to the joint North-South Kaesong industrial zone – which had been allowed to operate through even the worst crises in recent years. What is more, we have little understanding of how the relationship between the leader and his generals has changed since the opaque transition from Kim Jong-il – someone who knew the tacit rules of a showdown with Seoul – and his son.
How should we arbitrate between these two views? We could start by distinguishing between fantasy and fiction. The Prime Minister warned yesterday, in an article for The Daily Telegraph, that North Korea was “a continuing, and growing, nuclear threat”. But he picked his words carefully, aware that this was not yet “a reality”.
Simply put, North Korea cannot mount a nuclear warhead on a ballistic missile and then deliver it to the US mainland. When Kim Jong-un posed last week with missile strike plans displayed in the background, arrows streaking across the Pacific to American cities, those might as well have been lines daubed on a game of Risk. Pyongyang might be able to hit Japan, South Korea, or some nearby US bases, but even this veers to the implausible, given the plethora of land-based and ship-borne missile defence platforms that the United States has deployed in recent days and years.
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We should also remember that North Korea’s fury is born of fear. It may have got itself into this mess by conducting a missile test last year and a nuclear test in February but, having done so, it is sincerely afraid of the continuing US-South Korean military exercises, and may even view them as a precursor to an attack.
In 1950, North Korea used military manoeuvres as a front for its own invasion of the South. But now its baroque, frequently absurd threats are more likely intended as conscious efforts at deterrence rather than indicators of imminent war. This dynamic is especially important for a young leader whose standing with his armed forces is questionable, and for whom any sign of weakness might be politically fatal. There is method in Kim’s madness.
The line between the defensive and the offensive is often slender, though: wars can begin even when neither side wants one. North Korea will not hurl missiles at Washington, nor even Seoul or Tokyo, but in recent years we have seen a range of disturbing possibilities below that threshold, any one of which might have spiralled out of control. Even if this is the North Korea of old, as optimists suggest, that is hardly a comforting thought.
In March 2010, a North Korean submarine allegedly fired a torpedo at a South Korean warship, killing 46 seamen. Later that year, North Korea attempted a more overt approach, lobbing 170 artillery shells and rockets at South Korea’s Yeonpyeong Island. This was probably the peninsula’s gravest crisis since the Korean War, but South Korea was once more constrained in how it could hit back.
There is a policy dilemma here. The solution is not to give in to blackmail. Talking is fine, but it would be foolish to lavish aid and diplomatic attention on a regime that has developed a Pavlovian association between nuclear brinkmanship and winning concessions at the negotiating table. North Korea wants attention, and it should not be allowed to have it.
North Korea’s nuclear weapons are not going to disappear, and so a multilateral diplomatic track, such as the moribund Six Party talks that collapsed in 2009, will have to be resumed eventually. But not yet. Remember, it was North Korea that violated last year’s Leap Day agreement – which provided food aid in return for a moratorium on uranium enrichment and missile testing – by testing a rocket. It is easy to call for diplomacy, but harder to explain why it should work today when it failed yesterday.
Moreover, North Korea should not be allowed to lash out, as it did three years ago, without material consequences. If we focus only on deterring a nuclear attack, we risk giving the impression that smaller acts of state terror are permissible. At the same time, Washington must remember, as Europeans surely do, that writing blank cheques to allies is the truest path to inadvertent escalation. Any retaliation should be within the narrowest of boundaries, and paired with clear signals to the North that invasion is off the cards.
In fact, South Korea has moved in the opposite direction. Last month, it said it would strike not just attacking North Korean units, but also their “commanding post”, something that might be interpreted in the North as the first step in a bigger offensive. Then, the South Korean president told her military that they were to “respond strongly at the first contact with them without any political consideration”. It should be obvious that entrusting local units with the authority to kick off a second Korean War is less than sensible.
The United States should also be able to temper the current joint exercises, perhaps quietly shelving the most provocative parts, without diminishing its commitment to South Korea in the slightest. Humiliating North Korea is not conducive to deterring it – in fact, it makes that task harder. The US has flaunted its big sticks; now it should speak softly.
This is also an important opportunity to cajole, embarrass and put pressure on China to show better faith in dealing with its wayward ally. If Beijing does not step up, it will have only itself to blame for upgraded US missile defence (something it opposes on the basis that it might weaken China’s capacity for nuclear retaliation), an enlarged US military presence in the region, and the mounting perception within Asia that China is failing to wield its growing power with the requisite responsibility.
Privately, Chinese officials worry that putting pressure on North Korea might lead to regime collapse, a mass influx of refugees into China and a unified Korea that would leave US troops sitting on China’s doorstep (a prospect that spurred Beijing’s intervention in the Korean War). These are not unreasonable concerns, but China’s kid-gloves approach is making Pyongyang more reckless, and therefore increasing the risk of a catastrophic outcome for China.
China has yet to clamp down on the transfer of military and dual-use goods, such as transport and launch vehicles for ballistic missiles. Nor has it used its economic leverage: China supplies 90 per cent of North Korea’s energy, 80 per cent of its consumer goods, and just under half of its food. Beijing has condemned the nuclear tests and, this week, issued the usual platitudes urging restraint. But words will no longer cut it.
Once the joint exercises finish, at the end of this month, there are two possibilities. We might witness another missile or nuclear test, perhaps on the April 15 birthday of Kim Il-sung, North Korea’s venerated first leader and the incumbent’s grandfather. That would renew the crisis, probably forcing Washington to keep its forces on the Korean peninsula and pushing North Korea to find new and inventive ways of eking out the brinkmanship.
Alternatively, tensions might subside if Kim feels he has satisfied his domestic constituencies. The priority will then be to restore the thicket of agreements and institutions that North Korea has shredded in the past few weeks, such as the armistice. If Kim Jong-un did not previously know the rules of this game, he will be learning them fast.
Shashank Joshi is a research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute
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