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The sixth seal is the same event as Matthew 24:29-31. The earthquake that happens at the beginning of the sixth seal is the rapture of the Church. After this large earthquake the sun will be darkened the moon will turn to blood and the stars will fall from heaven. Other events will happen as well, such as hailstones weighing as much as 100lbs, according to the seventh trumpet and vial of wrath. The marriage supper of the Lamb will take place during this time. This will be followed by the actual coming of Christ at the end for the battle of Armageddon. Every eye shall see him then. Let's compare the scriptures in Matthew with the sixth seal in Revelation.

Now let's compare these scriptures with the ones containing the sixth seal in Revelation 6:12-17.

Now let us compare these scriptures piece by piece. Matthew 24:29 said the sun would be darkened. It's the same as Revelation 6:12, which says that the sun would become black as sackcloth of hair. It's the same thing.

It says in Matthew 24:29 that the moon would not give her light. In Revelation 6:12 it says that the moon would become as blood. This is why the moon can not give her light. It has become as blood. Once again it is the same thing.

It says in Matthew 24:29 that "the stars would fall from heaven." In Revelation 6:13 it says, "the stars fell from heaven" like a fig tree. One verse says that the stars would fall from heaven the other the stars fell from heaven, but it means the same thing.

In Matthew 24:29-30 tells us that the powers of Heaven would be shaken and that the sign of the coming of the Son of Man would appear in the heavens. Revelation 6:14 says that heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together. The power of heaven being shaken and heaven rolling up like a scroll together make up the sign of the coming of the Son of Man.

Matthew 24:30 says that all the tribes of the earth would mourn, and they would see the son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. Revelation 6:15-16 shows the kings of the earth, the great men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hide themselves in dens and in the rocks of the mountains. This shows all the tribes of the earth in mourning. They are mourning all right but it is for their own selves. They are asking the mountains and rocks to fall on them, and to hide them from the face of him that is sitting on the throne. Why are they so afraid? It because they see the Son of Man coming in the clouds with power and great glory. Once again you can clearly see that these scriptures are the same events.

The Seventh Seal is found in Revelation 8:1 where in the first verse we see John describe a thirty minute period of silence in heaven. The thirty minutes of silence describes the gravity that heaven feels as God pours out his wrath on his enemies. All three sevens: the seals, trumpets and vials of wrath end in the same time frame. All include the end of the tribulation. The trumpets in this seal are a one-sided look at the seven times that God pours out his wrath on the nations of the Antichrist. The only part of the seventh seal that actually follows the events in the sixth seal is the seventh trumpet itself. All of the rest happen over a period of the last 3 and ½ years.

The Seven Trumpets and Vials of Wrath are the same events. Looking at them from two different perspectives give us a better picture of what is taking place. These events will begin after the Antichrist begins to murder Christians and Jews at the beginning of the fourth seal. This is God’s response to the evil people who are willing to follow the Antichrist and to take his mark. The fourth seal is the seal that he begins to enforce the mark of the beast.

The reason these judgments of wrath are called Trumpets and vials is because of the way God will use them. His reason for this is because these events are acts of wrath on the Antichrist and his people just as God did with Pharaoh in Egypt. And because these events will act as a trumpet to warn the rest of the world that Christ will be coming soon.

These two scriptures are the same event. It is God's wrath on the anti-Christ for killing Christians and Jews. This hail and fire mingled with blood falls on the nations of the Antichrist, not the whole world. It will destroy a third part of his trees and green grass. All that falls is hail and fire. But, it becomes mingled with the blood of the people who take the mark of the beast. It causes very grievous sores on their bodies.

It says A noisome and grievous sore. The burns that they receive from this burning hail cause these sores. This event warns the rest of the world to repent it will become a warning like a trumpet to declare that the end is near.

The number one question is what sea? It will be one of the seas around the Middle East. It also says that it would be as it were a great mountain burning with fire cast into the sea. Once again, God pours out His wrath on the anti-Christ.

I believe that this event occurs during a battle at sea. Two-thirds of the ships that are in this sea belong to the people of Chittim (the United States and her allies). The third part of the ships that are destroyed in this sea belongs to the anti-Christ and his nations. The Bible says that it is like a great mountain burning with fire being cast into the sea. This sounds like a small nuclear blast to me. It will destroy every ship, and every person in those ships, who belong to the Antichrist.

It is possible that they, themselves, try to use a nuclear missile on the ships of Chittim, but it backfires. At any rate, the blood in the sea is from these people whom God destroys. This event becomes the second trumpet of God, to warn the lost in the world to repent, and turn to God. Preachers will be using these events to sound a warning of evidence that Jesus is coming soon. The Gospel is being preached all over the world. Israel is being saved, and is in the land that God prepared for her, out of harm's way.

This great star from heaven is an angel, the one with the third vial of wrath. He is full of indignation and wrath, symbolized by the fire. The name wormwood means God's bitter wrath.

This event is probably brought on by the two witnesses of Revelation 11:6. These two witnesses have power with God, to turn water into blood. God gives the Antichrist and his people blood to drink, because they have been killing His people. Many of the people of the Antichrist die because of this. Blood will cause the waters to become bitter and poison. If you drink it, you will die. You might be able to drink blood and live, but this blood is out in the heat of the sun, and becomes rancid. A stench of blood! The angel says that these people deserve it. Another thought to consider is that where will they get drinking water? You must have water in order to live you cannot substitute water with blood. This event is the third trumpet, or warning, from God. God is merciful to give mankind so many signs of His coming. In these same scriptures, it shows us that the rapture has not taken place yet.

The Gospel is being preached all over the world. Three more to go!

This seems to be contradictory, but if we stop and think for a minute, we will see that this is very possible. The trumpets show this as a curse of darkness, and the vials of wrath as a curse of daylight. This seems to be impossible, but if the earth was to stop moving, or rotating, it is very possible.

In the Old Testament, God caused this to happen in two different instances. And, this is what occurs. God stops the earth for a period of time. The sun will be shining over the Antichrist and his people. The night is what cools the day, but without any darkness in that part of the world, it will become increasingly hot!

In the western part of the world, it will be dark for as long as this period lasts. This will cause this part of the world to become extremely cool; causing clouds that blot out the stars and the moon. Part of the earth will experience twilight, neither day nor night, for this period of time. This event will scare people out of their wits! The newscasters will be going wild trying to explain why the earth isn't turning; weather forecasting will be chaotic.

It is a good thing we have a lot of empty churches in America, because the following Sunday morning, every; church in America is going to be packed! This event becomes the fourth warning to the world to repent, but the people of the Antichrist will not. God is saving a multitude of nations, just as He promised Abraham! The wisdom of God goes beyond our wildest imaginations!

The angel in Revelation 9:1 that falls from heaven unto the earth is shown as a star that falls to the earth. This angel opens the bottomless pit, releasing a horrible smoke. This smoke fills the land of the Antichrist, causing a plague of darkness.

The locusts that come out of this pit are not helicopters, as many would suppose. If they were, they would kill people, but they do not kill anyone. They only torment. They cause great pain and sores from their stings on the people of the Antichrist; they do not harm anyone else.

This is the fifth trumpet, and warning, to the rest of the world to repent, and accept Jesus as their Savior. The Gospel is being preached in frenzy, and millions of people are being saved! Two more to go!

Revelation 16:12-16:
And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared. And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.

This is the sixth trumpet. If you do not accept Jesus at this trumpet, you will not be taken in the rapture of the Church. If you wait for the seventh trumpet, and are not killed, you will not receive a new body until after the thousand-year reign of Christ. This seal is the gathering of the nations to Armageddon. There will be fierce fighting among the good nations and the bad nations. A third of the people of the Antichrist will be killed in this struggle. A horrible loss of life will be on both sides.

Four angels are released from the river Euphrates, and cause the river to dry up. This makes way for the Chinese army, who comes to help the anti-Christ destroy the United States and her allies, who have been pushed back into southern Israel, by the Antichrist nations.

Two hundred million people from the Far East come to help the Antichrist fight his enemies. The situation looks desperate! The three spirits, like frogs, that come out of the mouth of the anti-Christ, the dragon, and the false prophet, are the lies they tell to the other nations that they are hoping will come to their support. The situation looks bad, but God is getting ready to do something that will change it!

I want you to notice in Revelation 16:15:

This is the sixth warning from God. There will be no more.

The next events to happen will be the coming of the lord to rapture the church, the marriage supper of the Lamb followed immediately with the Battle of Armageddon. All three of these events will happen in a very short time frame.

Revelation 11:14-19:
The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly. 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. And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God, Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned. 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. And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.

If, now, you are having a problem believing that the trumpets and vials of wrath are the same events, then we need to pray. There is no way in the world, that all of these events could be coincidental. The Church is raptured at this point!

The vials of wrath are the same events as the trumpets. It is just the purpose for which it happens that makes the difference. The beginning of the sounding of the seventh trumpet is actually the rapture itself. God lifts the Church off the earth while the seventh vial of wrath is poured out.

At that moment the Church is raptured.

This is the same event as Revelation 14:14-16:
And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle. And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe. And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.

God lifts the Church off the earth so that they will not be here when the next events take place.

Many people die in this earthquake, but not everyone, because there will be millions gathered at this time in the valley of Megido to fight. But, this will be the first time wrath falls on all the nations of the world, upon the very wicked. Many of the wicked die from the earthquake and hail that falls on the earth.

The city we are looking at in this scripture is Jerusalem. We know this because Revelation 11:8 says that this is the place where our Lord was crucified.

This is the same earthquake and city as Revelation 16:19:
and the great city was divided in three parts.

The earthquake divides the city and a tenth of the city falls, killing seven thousand people. The remnant or the people who survive this earthquake are Gentiles, who will probably get saved during this event. But sadly they missed the rapture of the Church. But, at least they will be spared at the judgment seat of Christ. These people will probably be allied soldiers fighting for Israel.

In Revelation 11:2, it says that the Gentiles will occupy Jerusalem during the last three and one half years. Remember where the Jews are? They went to America to be fed for three and one half years away from the face of the Antichrist. They have just been raptured with the rest of the Church. They have also just completed their calling and that was to preach the Gospel to the world.

The rapture causes this earthquake. This will happen at the same moment the two witnesses are raptured after being killed by the Antichrist. There is only one first resurrection

Paul also told us in I Corinthians 15:52:
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

This last trumpet that Paul is talking about is the seventh trumpet of the seventh seal. I can see why a lot of people believe that the rapture takes place before the seven years tribulation. But knowing the trumpets and vials of wrath are one and the same sets this in order.

The great quake (Isaiah 13:13) happens at the moment of the rapture, and while we (the Church) are eating the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven, hail stones weighing one hundred pounds each begin to fall on the wicked nations, and the wicked in the other nations. God is purifying the earth of His enemies!

Listen to this real carefully because this should open a lot of eyes to the truth. In speaking more about the great earthquake that happens at the time of the Rapture of the Church. We see this earthquake in the Sixth Seal found in Rev. 6^th chapter. The 12^th verse speaks of this same great earthquake. In verse 14 it says this: and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. In the Seventh vial of wrath found in Rev. 16^th chapter we see it this earthquake again in verse 18 described as the worst earthquake that has ever occurred on earth. In verse 20 of this chapter says this: And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. In both places we see every mountain and island in the world being destroyed. Question? If these two earthquakes are not the same earthquake, how many times is God going to destroy the mountains and islands during the last seven years? Is He going to rebuild them and then destroy them again?

The next thing to occur after the Rapture and marriage supper is the Battle of Armageddon. Which will happen very quickly from the time the Church is raptured.

This is the battle of Armageddon. The winepress and the battle of Armageddon are the same thing. I think that it is interesting to know that Goliath, in the Old Testament, was a shadow of this. His name meant exile, and the place he was from, Gath, meant winepress.

After eating the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, we will come back, with Jesus, to fight the Antichrist and his armies.

Another thing to consider concerning the rapture of the Church is this.

Revelation 20:
4: And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and 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, and which had not worshipped 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.
5: But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.

Notice that those who were beheaded during the tribulation are included in the first resurrection. Paul said that the dead in Christ would rise first and we which, are alive and remain, shall be caught up together with them. The Rapture is the resurrection of the dead. If this occurred before the tribulation how did those saints who refused to take the mark during the tribulation end up in the first resurrection. The answer is that the Rapture occurs at the end of the tribulation instead of at the beginning.

Yours in Christ,
Tommie Spurgeon

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