23. The First Trumpet
After the holy spirit was poured out, four trumpets brought four plagues to purify the kingdom of heaven. These were described as five bowls of wrath poured out on the kingdom of the beast. The kingdom of the beast represents the lawless in the kingdom of heaven.
The first trumpet was a plague of hail and fire.Rev 8:7 This caused “sores on those who receive the mark of the beast and worship his image.”Rev 16:2 All the grass was burned because “all flesh is as grass,”1 Pet 1:24; Isa 40:6 and all received the mark of the beast. A third of the trees were burned, just as a third of the angels were found to be lawless. Jesus compared those in the kingdom of heaven to good trees and bad trees.Matt 7:18
24. The Second Trumpet
Isa 2:2, Ezek 47:1-12, Hos 6:1-3, Rev 8:8
When the second trumpet sounded, “A great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood.”Rev 8:8 This was the end-time mountain of the Lord’s House, prophesied by Isaiah,Isa 2:2 burning with the fire of the holy spirit.
Ezekiel described the holy spirit in the end-time Church as water that becomes deeper as one goes east.Ezek 47:3-5 When it enters the Dead Sea,Ezek 43:8 the previous ground of Christianity, it will be revived.
Hosea said, “After two days, He will revive us, and in the third day, He will raise us up.”Hos 6:1-3 A day with the Lord is a thousand years,2 Pet 3:8; Psa 90:4 and two thousand years brings us from the first outpouring of the holy spirit to 2031, the time of the revival of the second trumpet.
25. The Third and Fourth Trumpets
John 4:14, John 7:38-39, Rev 8:10-13, Rev 16:1-11
The angel told Daniel that after sixty-nine sevens, the Messiah would be cut off.Dan 9:26
Jesus was anointed in the fall of AD 27, 483 years, or sixty-nine sevens, after the command to restore and rebuild Jerusalem. After half a seven, after three and a half years, He was crucified.
We know that Jesus was crucified on the Passover, on Thursday, according to Luke.Luke 24:21 From the time of Moses, the Passover was celebrated on the fourteenth of Nisan. In AD 31, the fourteenth of Nisan was a Wednesday, but it was moved to Thursday in accordance with the festival rules. This fulfilled the Aramaic Targum of Hos 3:2, which said: “I redeemed them by My Word, on the fifteenth of Nisan.” God prophesied the year, month, and day of Jesus’ crucifixion!
26. The Rider on the White Horse
The final hour is the hour to reap the harvest, as described in Revelation 14. In verse 20, the rider on the white horse, the end-time Sanctified Church, treads the great winepress of God’s wrath outside the city, and the blood reaches up to the horse’s bridles. The kingdom of heaven is cleansed after 2,300 days, or years, just as Daniel prophesied.
The meaning of the great winepress is explained in verse 10, where an angel says with a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and his image … he will drink of the wine of the wrath of God.” The lawless drink the communion of Christ’s blood in an unworthy manner, as Paul described in 1 Corinthians 11.1 Cor 11:27 They drink the wine of God’s wrath.
