Chapter 14
Puzzle Piece 34
would like to share with you what I believe these 3 woes are and when they will take place. First let’s read from Revelation 10:5-7 - Then the angel I had seen standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven. And he swore by him who lives for ever and ever, who created the heavens and all that is in them, the earth and all that is in it, and the sea and all that is in it, and said, “There will be no more delay! But in the days when the seventh angel is about to sound his trumpet, the mystery of God will be accomplished, just as he announced to his servants the prophets.”
What we can gather from reading these passages of Scripture is that there will be a delay from when the rapture was to have taken place until it actually does take place. The angel is told that there will be no more delay. Therefore, there is a delay. Jesus also mentions this delay to us in the parable of the 10 virgins in Matthew 25, when He said that the bridegroom was delayed. “While the Bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept.” He also told us in Matthew 24 that “unless those days were shortened, no flesh would survive. But for the sake of the elect, those days will be shortened.” This delay started on May 2, 2013, when the Bride of Christ around the world approached the throne of grace on the third day of a fast, asking for mercy to be given to America. Just as Esther, the chosen virgin favored by the King who represents the Bride of Christ, saved her nation because of her boldness in approaching the throne of the king on the third day of a fast, so also the Bride of Christ has been granted her request for the Lord to withhold His judgment against America and the Great Tribulation has been delayed. The judgment was to have started on May 2, 2013, just after the rapture on May 1, 2013, 40 days after the abomination was set up on March 22, 2013. But just as the Lord delayed his judgment against Ninevah after 40 days because they repented, so also the Lord has delayed His judgment on America because of the fasting and repentance that took place between April 30 and May 2, 2013.
We see also in Revelation 10, that in the days when the 7th angel is about to sound his trumpet, the mystery of God, or the rapture of the church will take place. I believe these days mentioned here are the final days of Daniel’s 70th week. I believe that the 7th angel sounds his trumpet in December 2016 at the Second Coming of Christ to the earth and the third woe takes place at that time. The days leading up to this event are the end of the 6th day and beginning of the 7th day of Daniel’s 70th week when the first woe will happen and then again at the end of the 7th day of Daniel’s 70th woe will take place.
Matthew 24: At that time if anyone says to you, 'Look, here is the Messiah!' or, 'There he is!' do not believe it. For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.
Ahmadinejad said the coming reign of the Twelfth Imam on earth “will bring about an eternally bright future for mankind, not by force or waging wars but through thought awakening and developing kindness in everyone.” The Iranian leader did not offer a specific timetable, but he did say the “sweet scent” of the Mahdi’s global reign “will soon reach all the territories in Asia, Europe, Africa and the U.S.”
Just as Noah was taken into the ark to be protected for the year of God’s judgment on earth, so the Bride of Christ, the wise virgins who are pure in heart, will be protected for this year of God’s wrath. We see how Noah was in the ark for a total of one year and ten days. I believe that we will enter this ark at the end of the Day of Atonement on September 23rd or 24th , 2015. One year and ten days later brings us to October 3rd , 2016, the Feast of Trumpets and the end of the 1290 day count from when the abomination was set up. We also see how that the rain covered the earth in Noah’s day for 150 days, or 5 months, and we see how that with the first woe, the alien creatures torment people for 5 months also.
Let’s take a look at the first woe from Revelation 9:1-12 - The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss. When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss. And out of the smoke locusts came down on the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth. They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads. They were not allowed to kill them but only to torture them for five months. And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes. During those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them. The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces. Their hair was like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth. They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle. They had tails with stingers, like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months. They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek is Apollyon (that is, Destroyer). The first woe is past; two other woes are yet to come.
We see here how that Isaiah cries out WOE when he sees the Lord and then his sin is atoned for. I believe this is a foreshadow to us from the Old Testament of how the woe events happen when see the Lord on the Day of Atonement. I believe that these first 2 woes will both take place on the Day of Atonement. I believe the first woe will take place on the Day of Atonement in 2015 and the second woe will take place on the Day of Atonement in 2016. Both involve rapture events of the purehearted virgin Bride of Christ and an alien invasion of the earth. Those foolish virgins who have not kept oil in their lamps and who are lukewarm and worldly, will be left behind during the Day of the Lord from the fall of 2015 to the fall of 2016. They will repent and the Lord will use them to do amazing things during this terrible day of darkness on the earth.
Joel 2 is a description of the Day of the Lord that begins right after the sun is darkened and the moon turns to blood. Revelation 6 tells us that the 6th seal opens when the sun is darkened and moon turns to blood at the start of the day of the Lord. There will be a solar eclipse on the Feast of Trumpets in 2015 and the final blood moon on the start of the Feast of Tabernacles in 2015. These are the signs in the sun and moon that we are told to watch for. The fall of 2015 will begin the 7th day of Daniel’s 70th week, the Sabbath rest for the Bride of Christ, and the Year of Jubilee for those taken in the rapture. Let’s look at a few of the verses from Joel 2 and compare them with this first woe event in Revelation 9, when the Abyss is opened and some sort of evil creature comes down to the earth to torture people for 5 months.
Joel 2: Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm on my holy hill. Let all who live in the land tremble, for the day of the LORD is coming. It is close at hand— a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like dawn spreading across the mountains a large and mighty army comes, such as never was in ancient times nor ever will be in ages to come.
Before them fire devours, behind them a flame blazes. Before them the land is like the garden of Eden, behind them, a desert waste—nothing escapes them. This is describing locusts – before them the land is like the garden of Eden and behind them a desert waste, nothing escapes them.
OK, going back now to Joel 2: They have the appearance of horses; they gallop along like cavalry. With a noise like that of chariots they leap over the mountaintops, like a crackling fire consuming stubble, like a mighty army drawn up for battle.
So, Joel tells us that they have the appearance of horses. And going back to Revelation 9 again: The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces. Their hair was like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth. They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle. Joel is describing the first alien invasion of earth that happens at the first woe, or first rapture event. Let’s see what else Joel tells us about this day: At the sight of them, nations are in anguish; every face turns pale. They charge like warriors; they scale walls like soldiers. They all march in line, not swerving from their course. They do not jostle each other; each marches straight ahead. They plunge through defenses without breaking ranks. They rush upon the city; they run along the wall. They climb into the houses; like thieves they enter through the windows. Before them the earth shakes, the heavens tremble, the sun and moon are darkened, and the stars no longer shine. The LORD thunders at the head of his army; his forces are beyond number, and mighty is the army that obeys his command. The day of the LORD is great; it is dreadful. Who can endure it?
Joel tells us that they are like thieves entering houses through the windows. Jesus told us the same thing in Matthew 24: “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.
A human gestation period is 266 days from conception to birth. September 23rd is the 266th day of the year and is the due date for the labor pains to start and the baby to be born. We are not in darkness that this day will surprise us like a thief and we are keeping watch so that the thief does not come at a time we do not expect him to come.
Revelation 9:13-21 - The sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the four horns of the golden altar that is before God. It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.” And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind. The number of the mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand. I heard their number. The horses and riders I saw in my vision looked like this: Their breastplates were fiery red, dark blue, and yellow as sulfur. The heads of the horses resembled the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire, smoke and sulfur. A third of mankind was killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke and sulfur that came out of their mouths. The power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails were like snakes, having heads with which they inflict injury. The rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood—idols that cannot see or hear or walk. Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts.
The 3 ½ days represents the final 3 ½ days of Daniel’s 70th week. It was to have started on May 2, 2013, and end on the Day of Atonement in 2016, when the 2 witnesses are told to, “Come up here!” and the second woe takes place. When we count from May 2, 2013, to October 12, 2016, there are 1260 days. October 12, 2016 is the Day of Atonement. These 3 ½ years have been shortened to one year – from the Day of Atonement in 2015 to the Day of Atonement in 2016. This is the Day of the Lord, the final day of Daniel’s 70th week. This second alien invasion, or second woe that happens at the second rapture event, is far worse than the first alien invasion as it kills 1/3 of the people left on the earth.
And the twenty-four elders, who were seated on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and worshiped God, saying:
“We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty,
the One who is and who was,
because you have taken your great power
and have begun to reign.
The nations were angry,
and your wrath has come.
The time has come for judging the dead,
and for rewarding your servants the prophets
and your people who revere your name,
both great and small—
and for destroying those who destroy the earth.”
Then God’s temple in heaven was opened, and within his temple was seen the ark of his covenant. And there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake and a severe hailstorm.
At the 7th trumpet, we see that the time has finally come for the Lord to judge the dead and reward his servants and his people and to destroy those who have destroyed the earth. This takes place when Christ returns to the earth with His Bride to rule and reign for 1000 years. Daniel 12:12 says, “Blessed is the one who waits for and reaches the end of the 1335 days.” This 1335-day count started on May 1, 2013, on what was supposed to have been the first rapture event, but God’s judgment was delayed. It ends on December 25, 2016, on the first day of Hanukkah on Kislev 25, which will also be Christmas Day. Haggai 2 tells us that from the 24th day of Kislev, the Lord will bless us and Daniel tells us that those who reach the end of the 1335 days are blessed. The blessed day is Kislev 25. Judas Maccabees rode into Jerusalem on Kislev 25 and celebrated the Feast of Tabernacles for 8 days, rededicating the temple to the Lord because it had been defiled. The people waved palm branches before him as he rode into Jerusalem, crying out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!” This was a foreshadow to us of Jesus riding into Jerusalem on Kislev 25 to reclaim the earth that has been defiled and to judge the world. It is at this time that Satan is bound for 1000 years to keep him from deceiving the nations any longer. This will begin the New Millennium. We see how that the chosen virgin, Queen Esther, was crowned on the first of Tivet, which would later become the 7th day of Hanukkah. In 2016, this is December 31st , when the Bride of Christ is crowned as Queen of the Earth with King Jesus and begins to rule and reign with Him for 1000 years on the earth.
So, to recap. I believe that the first woe takes place in the fall of 2015, on the Day of Atonement, when the rapture and first alien invasion takes place. I believe that the second woe takes place in the fall of 2016, on the Day of Atonement, when the second rapture and second alien invasion takes place. I believe that the third woe takes place on Christmas Day in 2016, when Immanuel comes and ransoms captive Israel and the Jewish people finally recognize their Messiah and cry out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!” The New Millennium will start 7 days later when the Bride of Christ is crowned as Queen of the Earth to rule and reign with King Jesus for 1000 years.