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All right, good morning, everyone. We welcome our Iron Grace School of Ministry students this morning, those of you here, those out there watching, those who will watch. This is our eschatology class, and today we're gonna look at the seven seals of Revelation. I know last week I had you watch the video from Skyfall, the seven trumpets, so I know we kinda jumped ahead, but that's okay because they're kind of their own story. Each tells the story of the end times, all ending at the same time, but not all starting at the same time. So we're gonna look at the seven seals of Revelation this morning, and of course I've added some. So if you have seen in the past, I think our conference from 2012, End Times Revealed, I did do the seals and trumpets together. I have also, well, I guess in recent years, I've repeated it a couple of times for different audiences, but again, this is for the school, and it does have some updated information. So pay close attention, take notes. You will be tested on this information. So let's get into this right here. The book of Revelation contains, among other things, not just these three things, but it contains the seven seals, the seven trumpets, and the seven vials of wrath. And actually, I think we've already had class, had you guys watch the post-tribulation rapture and the vials of wrath. We may touch on that again, but today we're getting into the seals and really just kind of repeating and re-establishing the key to understanding the book of Revelation, all right? So you have those right there. Now, here's the timeline that we put together. Nancy made this for me, but this right here kind of helps you to understand. What we believe here, what I believe, what our church ministry believes we teach, is that you have the seven seals, and as we'll see today, when you get to the sixth seal, the sun goes dark, the stars fall, and that is the second coming of Jesus Christ, the wrath of the lamp. That right there in itself shows that it's not the traditional view that we've been taught by so many churches and ministry schools and prophecy teachers that you have the seven seals, then you have the seven trumpets, then you have the seven vials. That's what we've been taught, but that's not what the Bible says. This is not Pastor Dean's opinion because the Bible says that the seven seals, that this is the end. How do we know it's the end? And I'll show you, we'll get to this in a minute, but we're gonna go full circle here. But the six seals, as the sun goes dark, the moon does not give its light, the stars fall from heaven, the powers of heaven are shaken. That's the firmament that it says we see
the tribes of the earth and all of them, the rich men, the captains, so forth, they're gonna see the son of man coming in the clouds. This coincides, the sixth seal is Matthew 24, 29 through 31. This is the same event, where every mountain is moved, every island is moved. So if the sixth seal is the end and the second coming of Jesus, how do we have seven trumpets after that? How do we have the seven vials after that? It's impossibility, it's not logical, does it make sense? But what does make sense? What makes sense is that these different, the seals, the trumpets, the vials of wrath, they don't start at the same time. They're not the same length of time as they're developing, but they all end at the same time. That's very important to understand. So the seals are the long story leading up to the second coming of Jesus Christ. The trumpets are the shorter story, a little bit shorter, but still longer than the vials. The vials are the shortest story, but still ending at the second coming. They all end at the second coming of Jesus Christ. And when you understand this and you read the book of Revelation, it will make sense to you that you're reading three different stories of things that are gonna happen, like three different accounts leading up to the same event, the end, Armageddon, the wrath of God, the wrath of the lamb, the second coming of Jesus, they all end there. Now the only one of these, and this is very important truth to understand, out of the seven seals, seven trumpets, seven vials of wrath, the only set of these in which we're told a timeframe in which they happen, where we're actually given the exact timeframe when they have to happen is the seven vials of wrath. We are told that they start, what, with sores on men who have the mark of the beast. Well, the mark of the beast is not instituted until the middle, sometime around the middle of the tribulation, the seven year tribulation period. So we know that the vials of wrath happen in the last three and a half years. But as for the trumpets, we are not told when they start in the Bible. We are told when they finish. We are not told when the seals start and when they finish. So anything, if you try to say the seals happen when the seven years start, that is an assumption. That is really just based on the traditions and doctrines of men. It's not based on the Bible. You cannot show me a verse that says that the seven seals of revelation start in the last seven years or when the last seven years begin. Any teaching that says that is simply man's opinion. It's simply an assumption because the Bible does not say when the seals started to be open.
They do say when they come to full fruition and manifestation and when they end, but they don't say when they start. That is so very important. Too many times we create doctrines based on assumptions and not what the Bible actually says. We just say, oh, here's what we think and then it gets taught. It goes from this is what I think to this is the way it is as these doctrines get passed down, okay? And that's something, I mean, I was taught that way and I had to break free from that mindset because I had heard it so much from everybody around me when I was a young man starting out in the ministry. So this is our timeline here. I think it's pretty accurate and pretty helpful. All of you out there, students and our ministers to be, you're welcome to use it if you like. Now, let's look at this. I love this verse, these two verses here because this is a principle about the end because a lot of people say, well, Pastor Dean, how do you know or why do you think that you have the correct interpretation of this? Well, I believe it because number one, I think that I spent a lot of time studying this. This has actually been end time Bible prophecy in the book of Revelation and Daniel and so forth. Matthew 24 has been something that I've really studied a lot in depth for the last 32 years. So I think I have a pretty good grip. I've heard just about every teaching there is on it from the pre-trib view to the pre-wrath view to I've heard everything. And I didn't jump on one particular thing. I just kept over the years, I just kept growing and learning. But I think the Bible is very clear that number one, it's the glory of God. This is Proverbs 25, too. It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but is the honor of Kings to search out the matter. According to Revelation chapter one, we are Kings and priests through the blood of Jesus now. We're born again, we're Kings and priests. So God likes to conceal things in his word until, and then he has a point where he begins to reveal them. All right, now particularly concerning end time Bible prophecy, Daniel 12.9, he told Daniel, and Daniel is the Revelation, the book of Revelation for the Old Testament. He says here that he told Daniel and said, go thy way, Daniel, for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end, or until the time of the end. Now, what does that mean? There's gonna come a point in the end times when these things are happening and beginning to happen that these things are going to be unsealed, meaning they're not gonna be hidden from our view, our understanding, or our ability to interpret them anymore, okay? Again, this is not my opinion.
This is what the Bible says. So we had reached a point where God had concealed these things in mystery and symbolic language, and that he would reveal what those things were, that it would become, basically it would become to those who were studying, praying, seeking God, Kings and priests of the Lord through the blood of Jesus, it would become obvious what these things are. Number one, by comparing scripture with scripture, letting scripture interpret scripture, and then looking at what was happening in the world, and did we see anything that had the identifying marks of this? Now, for anybody, if anybody at this point in the end times scenario where we are says that you can't understand these things, no, they should rephrase that. They don't understand. Not we can anymore, all right? But it's just they don't. So let's keep going here. Of course, we start out with Revelation five, and it says that there's this scroll that's sealed with seven seals, and that no one was found worthy in heaven, or in earth, or under the earth to open the seals. No man found worthy, but the lamb was worthy. Who is the lamb? The Lord Jesus. He's the only one worthy to open this book, to unseal it, to begin to crack it open, right? By removing the seals. Well, that's what this is all about. The seals begin to show us what's gonna transpire in the last days. Now, let's remember something that Paul and Peter and James and John, all of them called, even in the first century, the beginning of the last days. Now, to us, that sounds strange because we're so geared toward our natural understanding, but the Bible says a thousand years as a day with the Lord and a days as a thousand years. So as the Holy Spirit was speaking through them, it was like this, the last days have begun. Now, what I believe is that what he was talking about is the things, the spirits, the evil spirits and their plan, Satan's plan started very early on and that it would take time for it to unfold, all right? But we are there. So let's look at this because we're gonna look at the four horsemen first. The first four seals are called four horsemen of the apocalypse. That's just a phrase for them. You have in the four horsemen, you have a white horse, a red horse, a black horse. King James calls the pale horses. We're gonna see that the word is really green, but basically you have four horses of different colors. Now, how do we interpret what these things are? Well, we compare scripture with scripture. So here's the scripture we're gonna compare it with. This is a vision of Zechariah, Zechariah six, one through five.
He says, and I turn and I lifted up my eyes and looked and behold, there came four chariots out from between two mountains. And the mountains were mountains of brass. And then the first chariot were red horses and then the second chariot black horses and then the third chariot white horses and then the fourth chariot grizzled and bay horses. Then I answered and said unto the angel that talked with me, what are these, my Lord? And the angel answered and said unto me, these are four spirits of the heavens, which go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth. So these are four spirits of the heavens that go forth from standing before the Lord. Now, don't we see in the book of Job that even Satan went and stood before the Lord at times. It doesn't mean that these are spirits, good spirits. All right, Satan went in the book of Job, it says the angels were presenting themselves before the Lord and Satan also came among them and presented himself. So these are four, I believe, evil spirits, powerful principalities that are going to go forth in the earth who carry ideologies. All right, so let's look at this right here. It says the first four seals are the four horsemen and I believe they are evil spirits that were released. Remember, when John saw Jesus opening the seals, that was in the first century, right? So I believe these things were released then to go forth and to, because it was gonna take them quite a long time to begin to unfold their plan, all right? Now, the first one we have here is the white horse. All right, let's go to Revelation six and I'll just read this, you guys can look it up later. In Revelation six, verse one it says, and I saw when the lamb opened one of the seals and I heard, as it were, the noise of thunder and one of the four bees saying, come and see. And I saw and behold a white horse and he that sat on him had a bow and a crown was given unto him and he went forth conquering and to conquer. Now that's the first seal. So he's on a white horse, the rider has a crown, he has a bow and he's going forth to conquer. The crown represents authority. All right, and I'm gonna tell you, I believe political authority, okay? Crown represents authority, the bow represents a weapon, but the weapon, but it's missing its arrow, right? But it has a bow, okay? And, but the key thing about this is that it's going forth, political authority, going forth to conquer, all right? So what is this spirit wanting to do? I believe it is the satanic spirit
and ideology to conquer the world, to create a world government, to get control of the entire world. And that the missing arrow represents that they're gonna claim to do it or try to do it claiming its peace, all right? When we're gonna find out in reality, they'll do whatever's necessary to get it, including starting wars, but they claim that they're all about peace. So let's look at some entities and some people and some institutions that are wanting to conquer the world, create a global government or what they call global governance now, but it used to just be called, you know, world government. You know, if you say global governance, global means world and governance means government, right? But they love to change these words because world government got a bad rap, right? Because Christians exposed it as we began to see this plan unfold. But notice the color, everything in the Bible is significant. So the color being white, we look at here and we look at the Pope and we just, we're just really looking at the office of the Pope and the Vatican. We know the Vatican is evil. We addressed that, I think last semester. The Vatican is the horror of Babylon, mystery Babylon. All the clues are clearly pointing to the Roman Catholic Church, the Vatican and the Pope. And I've said ever since I was a young man, I believe this from study and just from seeking the Lord that whoever the last Pope would be, would be the false prophet to work with Antichrist. We're gonna talk more about that probably next week. But it's interesting, right? So we could ask the question. So if the Pope had a horse, what color do you think he would be? Let's see, the little Pope mobiles white, his little helicopters white. He loves to wear white. Even the plane he borrows from the Italian government's mostly white, right? And the Popes, also back in the 1500s, before that they used to wear red because they were Cardinals who became Popes and the Cardinals would wear red, the bishops wore purple, you know, the scarlet in purple, another identifying factor of the mystery Babylon. But in the 1500s, around the time of the Reformation, they started wearing white. So I believe this is a clear manifestation. And this entity, the Vatican, the Jesuits, the Office of the Pope, they've always been about world conquest, conquering the world, trying to control the world by any means necessary. So they're one entity behind this. Of course, there's other institutions and entities. Here's the Council on Foreign Relations. This is their logo. The Council on Foreign Relations is a group of political people. Remember, I said the crown. I believe the crown represents political authority.
In America here, it's the, and there's different branches of this in different parts of the world. They have their own version of this in the UK, but they're together. They're all one in the same, run by the same people. But the Council on Foreign Relations has people from the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. They've pretty much been in the cabinets of every president. And their goal as an institution is to create a one world government. This has been well known for a long time, but isn't it interesting that that's their logo, is a rider on a white horse. You can't make this up. Maybe the Lord made the devil make them do that. So has the Lord wanted us to be able to identify when the spirit was working. Now, the entity that they're gonna push and wanna push through as a world government, we've already talked about that in this class, but that would be the United Nations. Now, isn't it interesting that the United Nations, even though their flag is light blue and white, that their vehicles, both their military armor vehicles, that's the, you see the UN Learjet for the Secretary General. You see their vehicles, they're always white with a black UN on them. Everywhere you go. Of course, these things have been found here in the United States as well, being shipped here, especially during the Obama years. Wonder why. All right. Now, I think, of course, one of the reasons I'm sure they would justify, well, white so we can be identified on the battlefield and not be attacked by other armies. But, isn't it interesting, they're driving tanks, white tanks with UN on them, right? Yeah, peace, right? There's that, we're gonna do it by peace, but we have tanks. But anyway, I don't think it, for me, I don't think it's any coincidence you see the primary color of the Pope, who tries to be both a political and religious authority, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the United Nations, all about this world government, global governance, as they call it, they're little code words, but that's their goal, to conquer or control the whole world, to morph the world into a world government. I mean, as you see here, I looked up current global governance system, and it's talking about what? United Nations, all right? And the world is divided geographically and demographically into mutually exclusive territories and political structures called states and independent and sovereign in most cases. And of course, they want to circumvent that
through international law, the United Nations, the World Health Organization, the UN peacekeeping troops, international criminal police organization. Trust me, they are planning a world government. This is very recent news right here. This is May 6th. What's today, May 1th? May 8th. So this is CBN News here, and I've found it all over the place and went to CBN News, but May 6th, 2019, Pope rejects excessive, quote, this is a quote from him, excessive demand for sovereignty pushes idea of global authority. This is that white horse. This is that evil spirit's idolatry of that white horse and its rider working through the Pope. This is pushing for a global authority. The Pope before this did the very same thing. Benedict said, we need a global authority. We need a global political authority with real teeth to control, he said, the global economy. Now, of course, they're all about the globe. I'm not saying that because I believe that we are a globe. Just saying this is what they say. All right, let's look at this. Pope Francis is pushing for steps toward global authority that supersedes the rights of individual countries, all with the goal of pursuing, quote, the common good. See, sounds, oh, we're gonna do it for the common good of people on issues like climate change and immigration. He says, when a supranational common good is clearly identified, it is necessary to have a special authority legally and concordantly constituted capable of facilitating its implementation, meaning we need a government, a world government that actually can enforce this, right? Enforce these things that we wanna enforce. We think of the great contemporary challenges of climate change, new forms of slavery and peace. He told members of the Pontifical Academy. See, it's not just me making this up. Here's the Catholic News Agency saying, Pope Francis, the common good has become global, right? All right, so they reword it. Isn't that interesting? But here's Charisma Magazine. I gotta give them props because they usually got a bunch of fruit cakes and nuts on. But here they said, did Pope Francis just call for a one world government? Yes, he did, you dingbats. It's not, every Pope's been doing it for since about the 1950s and 60s. All you gotta do is read their encyclicals. Pope Francis is pushing for steps toward global authority that supersedes the rights of individual countries, all with the goal of pursuing the common good on issues like climate change. While addressing the conference,
Francis rebuked the trend of nationalism among individual countries and the many tensions that come from an excessive demand for sovereignty and part of the states. That was a direct assault toward President Trump, especially President Trump's most recent address to the United Nations where he said, all states had right to their own sovereignty and that the United States would never, ever yield to this. That was President Trump taking a stand there. And then of course the Pope goes on with his obligate, but I thought it was interesting. I wanted to read this here because he went on to talk about the United Nations. All right, so it says here, the church observes, and of course he's talking about the Roman Catholic false church, observes with concern the reemergence in many parts of the world of currents that are aggressive towards foreigners, especially immigrants, as well as a growing nationalism that neglects the common good, he told the conference. This in turn, quote, threatens to jeopardize consolidated forms of international cooperation, undermines the aims of international organizations as a space for dialogue and meeting for all countries in a spirit of mutual respect, and hinders the attainment of the sustainable development goals approved unanimously by the United Nations, the Pope said. So we see the Pope and the United Nations are gonna work together to push for this conquering. It's a conquering spirit. We're gonna conquer the world. We're gonna gain total control, and they're gonna ultimately do that through instituting a world government through the United Nations and mandatory things like the mark of the beast for buying and selling, okay? So just so you know, that's what's working there. Now let's look at the red horse of Revelation. I'm gonna read the verse here first. This is Revelation six, verse two, I'm sorry, verse three. Speaking about Jesus, when he opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, come and see. And there went out another horse that was red and power was given to him that sat there on to take peace from the earth and that they should kill one another. And there was given unto him a great sword. Let's remember that. So the red horse has power given to it to take peace from the earth and to kill one another with a great sword. So this is really the horse of war, but it wants to conquer the world. And all of these spirits you're gonna see have in mind to conquer or control the world, but they just have a different way they're going about it. Now this red horse, this evil spirit that works through and its identifying factor is red, war, killing, and has a great sword. And a great sword is just a great weapon.
How would we see it being manifested in the world? Remember the Roman Catholic Church and this idea of bringing the world under a one world government's been around a long time. Roman Catholic Church came into being, what, 313 AD? So long time. Well, this one hadn't been around as long in that same sense, but it's been around a long time. But how is that spirit manifesting now? Well, it's pretty obvious. The red horse is manifesting itself through communism. Communism, you could say, socialism, fascism, but using sword by the government and their ideology or their form of government to take over the world. Flags there, China and former Soviet Union, North Korea. You see anything consistent there? The color red maybe? And it's well known, I mean, that the Soviet Union has been involved in, once it starts, once the communist revolution, the red revolution took over in 1917, it has been, this spirit has been the spirit operating to take peace from the earth, to try to go forth. And I mean, what they did in the Eastern Europe countries when they conquered them and brought them under the Soviet Union, what they did in trying to spread communism into Asia, China, we're done millions. So most of the wars that we have dealt with has become, a lot of it was fighting against communism, all right? To try to stop the spread of it, because at one point it had gotten, I think, close to half the world taken over. So this spirit's been working, there you go. That's an old poster from Chinese communist, Mao Zedong, 78 million dead. So this spirit's been operating, but it's not done. It's China and Russia are becoming allies again. China's become economically strong, militarily stronger than they've ever been. Nine ways China and Russia are partnering to undermine the US. Oh, this spirit's working, the red spirit's at work. Now let's read about the black horse. This morning, the black horse, let's go down to verse, Revelation six verse number five. And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third bee say, come and see. And I beheld an old black horse, and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four bees say, a measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny, or a denari,
and see that thou hurt not the oil and the wine. Now this horse, the black horse, I believe has to do with the pair of balances. They're talking about food and money. I believe it has to do, a lot of people say it just has to do with global or worldwide famine coming. I think it's much, much more than that. I think the black horse has to do with those forces in the international banking industry that wanna control the world through the manipulation of money, oil, resources, and food. They wanna control things materialistically, and we would know them as what? The international banking elite, right? The Illuminati families, the ones who run all the world banks. And it's interesting because there's so many ways, there's so many interesting aspects to this because it does say that wheat, basically when he says a measure of wheat for a penny or a denari, back then in the first century, a denari was a day's wages for your average person. So they're saying a day's wages for just a measure of wheat just basically for your some daily food. Work all day just so you can eat. So they're saying there that things are gonna get, economically it's gonna get bad, especially, and two, it's funny, it mentions barley and wheat, we'll talk about that. But when he says hurt not the oil and wine, isn't it interesting? I was thinking about this on the way here. Oil and wine is a luxury, right? And especially back then, it was looked at as a luxury of the rich. Basically the rich are like, no, you're not gonna touch and hurt our stuff because we'll make sure we have a lot stocked in the bunkers and the rich can pay for it too. But I just thought that was interesting. Kind of shows that the control of the wealthy elite, satanic, Luciferian, Illuminati families, and how they manipulate currencies and the economic part of the world. And you know, the big part of Satan's takeover of the world, he's gonna use, like he's gonna use the red horse, China and Russia, maybe North Korea, some of these other communist entities, and that spirit, he's gonna use that as the muscle, right, to try to conquer the world. He's using the UN and the Vatican and the Council on Foreign Relations and entities like that. He's using them to try to do it through, you know, political deception and maneuvering and claims of peace and all this stuff and the common good. And then this one is primarily financially, but it's interesting when you realize the mark of the beast
is about controlling what people buy itself, controlling the world economy, right? And who gets to do what? So this horse will manifest itself all the way into the mark of the beast, all right? Remember, these are spirits, they were released, they are working and they have been working for a long time and they will bring everything, everything that they have planned to do, they're gonna bring to full fruition, all right? And they're gonna be allowed to do that. The specifics of Bible prophecy, I think this black horse is showing you, you know, food shortages, soaring wheat prices, inflation, economic upheaval, manipulation, control. Of course, oil pretty much runs the whole thing. Oil and gold, right? Precious metals, black crude oil controls the global economy, they admit that right there, right? And interesting, it's black. Don't miss that little factor. Then as when I was studying this a number of years back, I just realized that there's this thing called, I came across this UG99 stem rust. Well, it's an interesting little fungus that specifically it can be airborne, fly in the wind and attack wheat crops and destroys wheat. And they discovered this in 1999 and they have been worrying ever since then. I mean, 1999, this is Los Angeles Times 2009. They've been worrying about this UG99 fungus called stem rust. They said, could wipe out more than 80% of the world's wheat crops as it spreads from Africa, scientist fear. The race is on to breed resistant plants before it reaches the US. Think about what happened if 80% of the wheat crops in the world were destroyed by this stem rust. What would happen to the 20%? It would cost a whole lot more. And when you go and look, you'll be surprised at how many things in the grocery store contain wheat. Be shocked, right? But if this happens, bad, bad. But we're not only seeing this attacking the wheat crop of the world, but we've seen floods and other things destroy a lot of wheat crop. So we eventually will get to the point. But isn't it interesting? The Bible was very specific. You're gonna have economic upheaval. You're gonna have shortages of wheat to the point that wheat will cost the day's wages, a measure of wheat. So the Bible is very specific and we see it being fulfilled very specifically. And that's what makes it different than any other religious book ever written.
And that's why it is, I believe, the inspired, infallible word of the creator, our Lord Jesus. And then this is another little update. This was after that in 2010, a bunch of scientists got together in St. Petersburg to discuss this problem. And what they found was four new mutations of UG99. So not only do you have UG99, they're trying to figure out how to stop it, but then it mutates, the fungus changes, but it's still destructive. Meaning I don't believe that they're gonna be able to stop it, all right? Now let's get to the pale horse. And let's read this from Revelation here. Revelation, go down to verse number seven. Of course, the King James translates this pale horse. We're gonna find out why that wasn't the best word to pick. But here we have it. He says, and when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, come and see. And I looked to behold a pale horse and his name that sat on him was death and hell followed out with him and power or authority, the Greek word there is exucius. So authority was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth to kill with the sword and with hunger and with death and with the beast of the earth. This one right here, very interesting because the King James translators translated this pale. Now that's not technically wrong. There's a reason why they did this because they thought in their minds, well, we've never seen this other color that we're gonna see that it is. We've never seen this other color type horse. So, you know, part of the definition leans toward pale. So they just lean to that part of the definition. But here's the Greek definition of the word here. Translated pale in the King James, it is the Greek word chloros and it means greenish. That is verdant, which is green, done color green or pale or pale green, right? So they just lean toward the pale side. But what we discover when you look through the Bible to see how this word is used, you find out that this is the word used for green grass, green trees, chloros is used for green. It's translated green everywhere else but here. So this fourth horse, horseman of the apocalypse, this fourth seal is a green horse. And the rider on this horse is different than the others. Death, that's not a good rider at all, right? Granted, the red horse wasn't very good either. None of them are good. But this one says death on it, right? And hell's right behind it. Let's look at this. So I've shared many times.
I think it was, I first heard this in 2010 from, I give honor to whom the honors do and credit to whom credit do, though I disagree with him on many points. But Erwin Baxter's the one that brought this to my attention. He's a prophecy teacher. But I did check him out to make sure. And sure enough, it is true that the sacred color of Islam is green. And it's known now that the reason for that is because it said, and I don't know if it's legend or what, but it is, I mean, it's a fact in Islam. You see it here in all these different pictures, flags and bandanas and mosque tops and the coffins of their holy mystic men called Sufis. And I don't think any Muslim would disagree. They actually too, Muslims believe that when they go to paradise, that they're gonna wear green robes and not white like Christians are gonna wear white and have white robes, the Bible tells us. They believe they're gonna wear green. So that's why green is prominent in Islam. And of course, up there in the top left corner is the flag of Saudi Arabia that is green and has a sword on it. Because if you steal something, they cut your hand off with a sword and they love cutting people's heads off. All right, so this is a fact here. So when you know that, do we see this ideology in the world influencing a big or great number of people? Yeah, we do. Well, let's get some more confirmation. There's a guy, Daniel Pipes. Oh, is he a PhD? I think he's a PhD in political science. But he wrote this book, "'Militant Islam Reaches America.'" And though I agree with who did September 11th, he made this statement in his book. And he said here, "'The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 prompted loose talk about Islam replacing Marxism, Leninism, as the West's necessary enemy. In symbolic terms, it was said that the green Islam's color had replaced red communism's color.'" So you see, they even, this guy, as far as I know, I don't believe he's a Christian at all. He worked for the Bush administration at one point. But even they recognize that red is communism's color promoted mainly by Russia, China, but they are very clear that green is Islam's color. That's a direct quote, all of that. Even what's in parentheses, I didn't add anything to that as a direct quote from this, "'Militant Islam Reaches America,'" by Daniel Pipes, just so you saw another reference. Now, remember it says that this green spirit has authority.
Authority is power, influence, over one-quarter of the earth. Right now, it's estimated that the world population is around seven billion. The best estimate I could find concerning the number of Muslims in the world was 1.8 billion. That comes to exactly 0.25, one-quarter. Now, is that a coincidence? No, but if you think it's just me coming up with this, this was a 2009 article in CNN World. Nearly one in four people worldwide is Muslim report says. Now, this was in 2009, but we know Islam's been a growing religion in the world, but at that time, it says nearly one in four. That's one-quarter of the world, one-fourth of the world. Just like Revelation 6 says that they will have authority over one-quarter. Now, remember, Islam is all about, I mean, having power and authority. They claim great authority over their Muslim believers and adherents, followers, however you wanna say it. To the point is, if a Muslim converts, that converts from Islam to Christianity, that's your immediate death sentence. You're marked for death, okay? And it's interesting because when we moved into the house we're in now, we had them come out and put in the cable, internet, phone, that whole thing. The guy that came, the cable guy, was an Iraqi Kurd. He was not a Muslim, but he lived among them. Sad, sad story, I mean, he told me about that Saddam Hussein killed his whole family. And that's why he said he helped the Americans as a translator because he so hated Saddam. Saddam had gassed the Kurds. He had tried to completely wipe out, just committed genocide, really, against the Kurdish people. And this is what he told me. He said the Arab Muslims, he said, in Iraq. Now, this is him living there his entire life. He said they love death, they love it. And he said they don't love anyone. There's no real love. He said the only thing they love, they don't love their family, they don't love their children, they don't love their neighbor. He said they love death, is what they love. And there was a famous quote from the Palestinians and this was in the news for some time, but I remember it well, but there was a quote from the Palestinians to the Israelis saying,
you will never win, you will never beat us because we love death like you love life. Now, think about that. That's why they blow themselves up. They go walk into a church or a restaurant with bombs strapped to them and blow themselves up. This is a psychotic religion that loves death. Loves death. I mean, they relish it. They're taught too, they're taught that if they kill themselves trying to kill the infidels, the Jews or the Christians, or other unbelievers, that they immediately go to paradise if they're a martyr in Islam. Tell me that's not loving death, right? Christians, we know it's an honor to be a martyr for our faith, but we're not going out trying to get it done by strapping bombs to us and blowing up innocent people. We're not going out, I'm not going out, let me go out and find a mosque and do that. No, we're not doing that kind of thing. But that's why the writer is death. And if you look, wherever true Islam, I don't even say militant Islam, whenever true Islam that goes according to the Quran and the Hadiths and the example of Muhammad, wherever they put that into practice, they create hell on earth. They really do. They destroy a society of culture. I mean, isn't it interesting though that the Bible foretold this 2,000 years ago? You know, Islam didn't come around until the sixth century, A.D., and yet the Bible foretold a green spirit. Now see, do you see how God concealed it though? As a green horse, but he gave the hints, it will have authority in the end, in the very end, it's gonna have authority over one quarter of the earth to kill with the sword. And boy, do they still love the real sword. I mean, Saudi Arabia right now, where Mecca and Medina is, the two holy places of Islam, they cutting people's heads off right now, in the street, beheading people. This is, you think about that being practiced right now in the 21st century, Bible is exactly right that this would be happening. Look at the, they run, they get in the street with signs, behead those who insult Islam, behead. If anybody has doubts about the Bible, we're gonna look, I mean, if you have doubts about the Bible, here's all these Islamic flags. Now, isn't it interesting, look at this, that the four horsemen of the apocalypse, white, red, black, and green, look at all the flags, you think the spirit of Antichrist is in Islam? I do, it's all there. But let's look at this.
Isn't it interesting that we have this green horse, right, whose rider is death, who has authority over one quarter of the earth, and that immediately, that's the foreseal, the fifth seal is a revelation of Christian martyrs following the fourth seal. So what follows Islam, death, hell, and Christian martyrs? There's no coincidence. Let's look at this, Matthew 24, nine, then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you, and you shall be hated of all nations for my namesake. Revelation 6, nine, the fifth seal. Begin of Jesus, when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and the testimony which they held. And they cried with a loud voice, saying, how long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? And white robes were given unto every one of them, and it was said unto them that they should rest for yet a little season until their fellow servants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they wore, should be fulfilled. Everybody see that. Now that's the fifth seal. Now two, what this fifth seal is showing is, what, two waves of martyrs, right? But again, I ask you, is it any coincidence that what follows the fourth seal, the green horse that I believe is Islam, is Christian martyrs who were killed for the word of God for their testimony of Jesus? And as we're gonna find out, many of them beheaded. No, it's not coincidence. Now, when he says here, listen to this, these martyrs that were dead said, how long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? Think about, these are martyrs crying out about people who had killed them who were still alive on the earth. And then it says that they should rest for just a little season, rest, what is he talking about, rest from what? Rest from their desire for vengeance. He says, you rest for a little season. What's a little season? Short time period. Here's what I believe. I believe we saw the first wave
of end time Christian martyrs. Now we've always had Christian martyrs from the first century until now, and Roman Catholicism has been guilty of killing a lot of Christians. But I'm talking about end time, the end of the end time. There would be two big waves of Christian martyrdom. And I believe that that started around 2013 and 14 with the rise of ISIS, militant Islam, and what happened in Syria and Iraq and really started happening all over the world. There was this, you could tell, it's like something kicked into overdrive. That's a picture there of Christians in Libya, all who will be headed on the beach by Islam. There it talks about a rare glimpse inside ISIS. Model city is hell on earth. Syrians in Raqqa reveal how jihadists use Heaven Square to display heads on spikes and leave crucified bodies for days. This was, I believe, perpetrated and allowed by Obama administration and Hillary and even no name himself, McCain. But I believe these are the martyrs that are now crying out saying, Lord, how long before you judge and avenge our blood on those who are the ones who killed them would still be alive now? This is just a few years ago. How long, Lord, before you judge them? And they say, just wait a little while because there's gonna be another wave of persecution. I believe that's gonna be centered around the mark of the beast, another mass. That's why he said, just wait. I'm gonna allow this thing to go for a little while longer. There's gonna be more of your brothers and sisters martyred and then I will avenge you. Pretty much gives us a timeframe, doesn't it, of where we are. And that's why I believe we're in the fifth seal, that we're in the middle of it. That's where we are, time-wise. Because the next seal to be open, oh yeah, yeah, Kevin, for those of you who can't hear Kevin saying that even recently the Muslims been wiping out Christian villages all over Africa, particularly Nigeria, where I've been twice. Yeah, very, very, very bad stuff going on. Boko Haram and then, I mean, it's not gonna stop. I mean, there was the big bombing, where was that, in India or Indonesia? I can't remember now. Recently, right at Easter time and hundreds and hundreds of Christians killed just because Islam loves death and hates Christianity and hates Israel. Here's the verse, Revelation 20, before we go any further,
before we get into the sixth seal. Revelation 20, I saw thrones and they that sat upon them, judgment was given unto them, and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus and for the word of God, which had not worshiped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads or in their hands, and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. Again, this is the Bible, this is the book of Revelation. We have historic evidence, we have documented manuscript evidence, we have the testimony of early church fathers like Polycarp who was discipled by John and then later Irenaeus, discipled by them, and clearly saying that the book of Revelation was written by the Apostle John while he was exiled on the Isle of Patmos in A.D. 95, right before the end of Emperor Domitian's reign and then distributed to the churches then. Now this is A.D. 95, 95 A.D. We're now in 2019 and we were told prophetically John was told by the Holy Spirit, when he was caught up in the heaven, talking to Jesus face to face, the risen Lord Jesus, that in the end time, many Christian martyrs would be martyred by beheading, I mean, can we even fathom that, that someone could predict something like that 2,000 years away? I mean, think about if we had 2,000 years more, could we predict what would be happening 2,000 years from now accurately to the detail? Not without God, not without the Creator, the true God, the one true God. See, no other, this is why I know this book is true and real, why I know it's inspired by the true Creator, Elohim, Yahweh, Jehovah, the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. This is why I know this is the book, because there's no way you get these specific prophecies. And there's so many hundreds about Jesus first coming and even hundreds more. I think there's 300 and something that foretold Jesus first coming, sometimes thousands and even hundreds of years before He came to die for our sins and rise from the dead, God in the flesh, that mystery of the Trinity, but that God would come in the flesh to die for our sins and be resurrected and how all of that would transpire where He'd be born, how He'd be born of a virgin, that He'd be born in Bethlehem, where He would start His ministry in Galilee, how He would grow up in Nazareth and be called the Nazarene, and that His hands and feet would be pierced. That was foretold.
1,000 years by the King David, anointed by the Spirit of God, speaking through Him, 1,000 years before it happened, He said, they're gonna nail my hands and feet. They're gonna cast lots for my garments. Listen, when you're hanging on a cross, you can't fulfill a prophecy and cause the soldiers to cast lots for your garments. That's why I believe this book is truly the inspired word of God, that God moved, the Holy Spirit moved upon holy men, and He led them what to write down. It's not just a book of men, from the minds of men, from natural men, man just guessing what might happen hundreds of years and thousands of years in the future and getting it right. No, God put His stamp, His DNA, His fingerprints all over this by telling you what was gonna happen thousands of years. He foretold the rise of Islam, the rise of communism, what would happen in the end, and that Christians would be being beheaded in the end. We've watched it on YouTube, and there's more to come, mind-blowing. How can you doubt this? How can anybody doubt the Bible? You just look at the Bible, not just manuscript evidence, not just historical facts, but you look at, or archeological discoveries that's confirmed it over and over and over again, but you look at the fulfilled prophecies. No book, not the Hindu Vedas, not the Quran, not any religious writings foretold things like this to the letter about the end because God wanted us to know that we would have something that we could trust in the last days of deception and confusion and satanic takeover of the world, that there is hope Jesus is going to return. But these things are going to happen first. Now, let's continue. Look at that. This is recent article. This is Fox News. Look at what it said. I pulled this up this morning, published one day ago. So yesterday. And it says here, Christian persecution close to genocide levels largely ignored due to political correctness. Why? Because the spirit of this world is the spirit of antichrist. The world hates Christians. They don't want anybody knowing how bad it really is for Christians right now because then that might garner some sympathy and some support from the world.
They don't want that. The powers that control this world and that want that world government. Here's the Pakistan Christian Post. Pakistan is a communist country. Look what it says right here. 80% of worlds persecuted are Christian. But they're not going to tell you about that. Let's now look at the sixth seal. We got to finish this more. The sixth seal revelation. Chapter 6, 12, verses 12 through 17. Let's read it. We get to this sixth seal and we see this. And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal and lo, there was a great earthquake and the sun became black as sap cloth of hair and the moon became his blood and the stars of heaven fell into the earth even as a fig tree fell into the earth. And the sun became black as sap cloth of hair and the moon became his blood as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs when she is shaken of a mighty wind. And the heaven, talking about the firmament, remember there are three heavens, our atmosphere, the solid firmament and then the third heaven. So the only heaven that's gonna be able to shake and depart like a scroll will be the solid firmament. And God's gonna begin to roll it, crack it up and roll it back, move it out of the way. So this is the very end. And every mountain and island were moved out of their places. This is the judgment of the earth right here, folks. And the kings of the earth and the great men and the rich men and the chief captains and the mighty men and every bond man and every free man hid themselves and the dens and the rocks and the mountains and said to the mountains, rocks following us and hide us from the face of him that sitteth upon the throne and from the wrath of lamb for the great day of his wrath is come. So the sixth seal is the end. And let's go ahead and flip to Matthew 24 to show you. I mentioned this, I said we'd come full circle back to the sixth seal. Matthew 24, they'd ask him, they'd ask Jesus, what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age? Jesus tells them here, for then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time known or ever shall be. He says, except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved, but for the elect's sake, those days shall be shortened. Verse 23, then if any man shall say unto you, lo here is Christ or there, believe it not, for there shall arise false Christ and false prophets and shall show great signs and wonders in so much that if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Jesus said, behold, I have told you before, I've warned you. He says, wherefore if they shall say unto you, behold, he is in the desert, go not forth, behold, he is in secret chambers, believe it not. For as lightning cometh out of the east and shineth even unto the west, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be. Now let's read verse 29. Immediately after the tribulation of those days, not before, after. Here we go, the sixth seal, same things.
The sun darkened, does that sound like the sixth seal? Then the sixth seal say, the sun will be darkened, right? The next thing says, the moon shall not give her light. The moon's light will be affected. The stars shall fall from heaven, that's the firmament. The stars shall fall, didn't we just read? The sixth seal said that the stars will fall like fig trees, like figs from a fig tree that's being shaken of a mighty wind. The powers of heaven, of the heaven shall be shaken. That is the firmament, will be shaken as it will be cracked up and rolled back, moved out of the way. That's when they will see. It says, and then shall they shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. And then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. So they mourn. What did we see in Revelation 6, the sixth seal? What did he say? The rich men, the chief men and the captains, what do they, they begin to mourn. They say to the mountains, fall on us, hide us from the wrath of the Lamb. Matthew 24, 29 through 31 is the sixth seal. It's the end, it's the second coming of Jesus. The heavens open, it's cracked, it's rolled back, the firmaments roll back. They see Jesus, he begins to come. They begin to mourn, they begin to cry out. The wrath of the Lamb has come. That's the day, every mountain is moved, every island is moved. That's the day all the cities of the nations fall. That's the seventh vial of wrath. That's the seventh trumpet day. That's when, and then the next thing we see says the trumpet, this is the last trump, the seventh trump. He says, and then shall send forth his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds from one end of heaven to the other. That's the rapture of the church, the resurrection of the righteous, the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up in the moment, in the twinkling of an eye, the last trumpet. This is how it unfolds. I don't care what anybody else says. I don't care, well, Pastor Dean, that's your opinion. No, that's what the Bible says. It's what the Bible teaches. It's clear. There is no pre-tribulation rapture taught in this book. You have to create, you have to manufacture it. Now I just read a minute ago when he said Revelation 20, he said there are gonna be people who don't, who resist the mark of the beast. He says they're gonna be headed because they resist, they won't worship the beast. And take his image and his mark. And it says that they will be in the first resurrection if you keep reading Revelation 20. Well, how can you have a pre-tribulation rapture? How can you have that before the mark of the beast that doesn't come to the middle of the tribulation period? When he says those are gonna be in the first resurrection who are beheaded for resisting the mark. I'm just saying, look folks, it's not my opinion. It's just fact.
This is as much fact that there's no pre-tribulation rapture. That's a false doctrine. And that's as much a fact that Jesus died on the cross and rose from the dead. It's that plain in scripture. I'm sick of the doctrines of men and the traditions of men and theologians that make up stuff built on assumptions. No, that's what's happened. The sixth seal is Matthew 24, 29 through 31. The sun goes dark. The moon doesn't give its light. The stars fall. The heaven, the firmament is cracked open and rolled back. The world sees Jesus sitting upon his throne and beginning to come. They begin to mourn and cry out. And then according to Revelation 6, according to, you go to Revelation 16 about the final vial of wrath. Same event, it says the mountains move. All the mountains are brought down. All the islands move. All the cities of the nations fall. This is the great day of God's wrath. This is the great day. And right before all the mountains fall down and all the islands are moved and all the cities of the nations are brought to the ground by the wrath of the lamb, we are pulled out in the moment of the twinkling of an eye to meet him in the air as he comes. It's not the third coming we join him. We join him in the air at the second coming. That's what the Bible teaches. And I don't care if it chaps you behind or it makes you upset or it makes you nervous and scared. It's what the Bible teaches. We don't get to make up our own doctrines and create our own false security blankets when it comes to any of these things. Guess what? You might have your head chopped off by a Muslim. Stop being a little wimpy, whiny Christian. I'm gonna get out of here because I'm an American Christian. I'm gonna get out before it all happens here. What about these poor? Christianity is nearly completely wiped out in the Middle East by ISIS. The pre-tribulation rapture is a Western fantasy. Just not gonna be that light. So we see, I'm gonna repeat it again. The seven seals told a story of the end time and took us all the way to the second coming. The seventh seal, the reason I'm not gonna spend a lot of time on that, because all it says is what? The seventh seal is open and there's 30 minutes of silence in heaven. You know why there's 30 minutes of silence in heaven? Because when the crap goes down, you know, when the old proverbial saying, when the crap hits the fan at the sixth seal
and then we are raptured and taken up and meet the Lord in the air, the dead in Christ and then we which are alive at that moment, there's gonna be silence for 30 minutes at the destruction that's happening upon the earth. When the mountains are going down, when the islands are moving, when all the cities are brought down, when mystery Babylon, the Vatican is being judged and destroyed, we're gonna stand there in awe at the wrath of almighty God, the lamb, the Lord Jesus Christ, against the wicked, against the forces of the antichrist gathered at Armageddon. We're going to behold that and nobody's gonna be talking. That's the seventh seal. Your mouth will be shut because we will all even, think about this, even the glorified saints who just went from mortal to immortal, that just went from corruptible to incorruptible, the wrath of the lamb is gonna be so overwhelming. It's gonna be so vast, so powerful, so scary, that nobody's gonna say a word in heaven for 30 minutes. You know how it gets, you know, when dad's dad in the house finally gets mad and somebody's about to get the spanking of their life, everybody else gets real quiet. Right? Why? Don't want it to be me. I'm not saying a word. He's focused on somebody else. I'm good right now. That's what's happening. 30 minutes of silence, that's the seventh seal. Now remember, right after that, you see in Revelation 7, you see Revelation 7 talks about the seventh seal and then it says, there's 30 minutes of silence and it talks about then, we have what's called a parenthetical statement. And then he starts talking about the 144,000 being sealed. Has nothing to do with the story he just told of the seals. He's moved on to something else. Now we're in the new, there's a new thing. Then he comes back, after he talks about seeing that, he comes back and says, you know what? I see this multitude, this great multitude in heaven. Now remember, he's already been in heaven. And he says, I see this great multitude in heaven. I said, Lord, where did these come from? He said, these are they that came out of the great tribulation. Meaning they were in it. They didn't get out before it. Oh, come on, don't shout me down when we're preaching good. Fear and emotions do not rule doctrine. Well, let that sink in for a minute. Fear and emotions, false security, little lioness blankets.
Nothing bad's gonna happen to me. I'm not gonna have to suffer any persecution. Toughen up buttercup, because it's gonna get real. And we're not leaving here before these things happen. It's that the last Trump. I love how the pre-trib rapture people teach. We're gonna have these seven seals, and then there's these seven trumpets. Well, yeah, yeah, the rapture happens at the last trumpet, but we're gonna get out of here and then there's gonna be seven trumpets blocked. That's what they teach. Does that even make any sense? Doesn't even make any sense. Paul said the last trumpet. In the last days, there's only revealed in scripture one series of trumpets, and we covered them last week. At the last Trump, the dead in Christ will rise. Then we which are alive and remain. That's the way it happens. Anything else is heresy. Anything else is false teaching, assumption, and giving people false security, which is exactly what Jesus and the prophets, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Isaiah, always identified the false prophets as saying, you're gonna have peace, peace. Nothing bad's gonna happen to you. Anybody telling you that? You ought to be like, oh, but somebody telling you, you know, in this world, you're gonna have tribulation. I remember someone saying that sometimes at one point in here, right? In this world, you'll have tribulation. Oh, how about the Lord's prayer in John 17? Father, I pray not that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from evil. Don't take them out. Just protect them. Say, well, what is it? What about martyrdom? What about Christians suffer? Well, yeah, he didn't say that we would never be persecuted, suffer, or even die for our faith. That promise has never been in the scriptures. He will protect us until it is our day. And we all have a day. The apostle Peter was crucified. The apostle Paul was beheaded. And we think we should just get out on easy street, right? Some of us may. Hey, if you do, praise God. I just wouldn't count on it. Especially if you're gonna be a real Christian in the last of the last days. You need to prepare yourself
for persecution and possibly martyrdom. So I'm gonna end with that today. Pastor Dean, that wasn't very edifying. It's all according to how you look at it. Let me tell you something. If it ever comes to the point where they roll out the guillotines and the New World Order is working with the Muslims and beheading everybody just to keep the Muslims happy. And it's my day. And they laid me my head down in that guillotine. All I'm gonna tell you right now is there's gonna be one big fat smile on my face. And if I can speak with my last moments, I'm gonna tell them, Jesus is coming. It won't be long now. You might wanna ask him to forgive you. You might wanna ask him to be your Lord and Savior before it's too late. You know what I'm saying? I'm gonna be talking about Jesus. And if there are people that are already taking the mark, I'm gonna be like, you're in so much trouble. Because guess what? You're gonna see me again here shortly. Because I'm gonna be riding with the one that's about, that's gonna take you out. So you enjoy your moment here, because it won't be long. You know what I'm saying? Why do we count our lives so dear? Are we prepared to say? You know, I saw this, I'll say this. I saw this when ISIS was on that tear. And I watched some videos that probably most people couldn't stomach. And I wouldn't even recommend. But there was one video where ISIS was preparing to hang, I don't know if it was a pastor in Syria or Iraq, one of those places. But he was a pastor of a church. And they had a little crane, and they had it set up to hang this guy. And they had to rope around his neck. They were about to hang him, all right, to kill him. And he was smiling. I'll never forget that. And they hung him right then and there, killed him. He was smiling. See, that's a Christian who knew the Lord. Can you imagine that smiling at your, people who are about to kill you because you're a Christian, and you're smiling at them? That's got to be unnerving, didn't it? You know, let's pray. Father in heaven, we thank you, Lord, for your mercy and your grace. We thank you that we live in this country here in America that's free. And that we haven't had to live in the fear
or the danger that many of our brothers and sisters have had to live in in other parts of the world and in other times. Lord, I pray today in Jesus' name that you would just make this scripture, this truth, and these truths that we've covered today real in every heart, especially of our students as they prepare to preach and teach to those who are going to face these days that are very close. Give them your strength, your boldness, and that we fear no man, that we fear none that can kill the body. Lord, we thank you for that, and it's in Jesus' name we pray. Amen. All right. Class dismissed. Study for your tests. The tests are coming.