Who is running the world?

We all know that money doesn’t make the world go around. Love does. The two polar opposite ideologies are competing for total human supremacy. It’s the New World Order of a resurrected Cain and Nimrod, and the burgeoning Jesuit Vatican power versus the Old World Order established by the God of Noah and Abraham, Moses and David, Paul and John. But who is behind the NWO? BlackRock and Vanguard? And who is behind the OWO? God and nature? And how will the war finish? In favor of the NWO or the OWO? The following is my response to a friend who sent me a link to an article, “Who owns the world?”

In the last email to explain the power that the Bible says is over the centralization of such tremendous wealth today, and why, I quoted from Revelation 9, which was the 5th and 6th trumpets. So I would like to explain myself concerning all the scripture text that I used, and some of the prophetic symbology.

The way my study, and the Lord’s leading, has taught me to understand the trumpets is that they began when the Advent movement started. All the trumpets happen during the 7th seal. Really they constitute almost the whole of the 7th seal events, the last of which are coming to a close today.

  The 6th seal (not the 6th trumpet) is seen in Revelation 6:12-17, and the 7th seal is seen in Revelation 8, with an intermission between of Revelation 7 to introduce an important preparation for Christ’s return—a permanent seal that would necessitate a long process and several generations before being able to receive it. The sealing would require a time period during which the trumpet’s locusts would seek to wear out the faith of the saints of the Most High.

  The 6th seal was composed of the early Adventist signs, the first three of which occurred just prior to the Millerite movement, and the fourth during that movement. The 6th seal signs were the Lisbon earthquake in 1755, the Dark Day and the moon turned scarlet in 1780, and the falling of the stars in 1833. Then the 6th seal shows Jesus returning in power and glory. 

  But, Jesus didn’t come. He tarried because no one was able to endure His powerful glory. A time of sealing and marking must take place, which we call the Investigative Judgment. In order to know who was who in the book of life, an angelic investigation of books was needed for the dead saints, but more than that was necessary for the living saints. A test must be brought to truly reveal the hearts and consciences of the living saints before He could return with His eternal reward.

During this last time when Satan would be enraged because only a short time would be left for his frustrated total subjugation of humanity, and he would make his deceptions the greatest against mankind, a test for the 7th seal’s sealing or marking would cull out the professing 99 sheep who needed no repentance from the real born-again repentant sheep. And, of course for that, the Law, with its reproof, correction, and instruction in righteousness, must be exalted to make sin appear exceedingly sinful. Simultaneously, Satan would be loosed to exalt his lawlessness to extinguish the conviction of exceeding sinfulness. Those who would be attracted to Christ’s divine influences for good or Satan’s demonic influences for evil would compose the sealed and marked.

  What we see in the 7th seal by its 7 trumpets is all about this most solemn testing time that would come to the world. Satan’s final push with all of his atheistic theories and poisonous psychologies would take the Protestant Americans far, far, very far away from their Reformation beginnings. Satan would remove Protestantism so far away that they would cease to remember anything about the Reformation or their duty and accountability to the God of the Reformation. They would even forget the covenant that the Protestant church made with their fathers’ God. Over and over again in The Great Controversy the Lord’s messenger addressed the United States and Americans as Protestant America. She would distinguish the modern secular, atheistic America with its humbler, holier past, as having descended from, and still connected to, the Reformation. Our country has done no differently than the ancient northern kingom of Israel. Even though they bore the original name of the nation that Jesus delivered from Egypt, the ten tribes of Israel had completely divorced themselves from their past as a holy nation and kingdom of priests under Moses and Joshua. The many denominations of the investigative judgment Protestant America have done identically to its ancient counterpart in sacred history.

  So the 7th seal’s first three trumpets show the denominations being sent a series of tests: the test of the Millerite message, the seventh day Sabbath test, and the test of the Law’s immutability requiring obedience to the whole Law. Because they would not repent of their failure of the first of these three tests, they were likely to fail the next, and then the next, until their candlestick would be taken away. But, before these tests would be sent the 7th seal first gives us a picture of the heavenly sanctuary to be cleansed. Jesus is the Angel with an abundance of incense like Aaron in Leviticus 16 preparing to go into the Most Holy Place with two heaping hands full of incense (verse 12).

Likewise, the Angel in the 7th seal puts an abundance of incense in the censor and puts fire to it from the golden altar of incense that was before the throne of God, and a cloud of incense goes up before God. But prior to going in to cleanse the Most Holy sanctuary of the Most High, Jesus appears to break from the type in Leviticus 16:8, with which Adventists are all familiar. Rather, though in keeping with verse 6, Jesus first must cleanse Himself and His house (His priestly family and the Levites, which are His Seventh-day Adventist pastors and people), “And Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make an atonement for himself, and for his house.” Later, once the 144,000 remnant Adventists are sealed, Jesus will go in to atone for the great multitude which no man can number that are sprinkled around the world, and cleanse their sinful record from the sanctuary.

So to start the symbolic first trumpet Jesus throws the censor to earth. He casts it down onto the heavenly floor, and out of the sky on earth fall the ultra-purified coals from God’s altar of incense and its fire, along with His sweet incense and His Son’s own blood. Paul refers to the first symbolic trumpet’s Old Testament type in his letter to the Jewish Christians. “But into the second [veil] went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people.” (Heb. 9:7).

The first trumpet blows and (the symbolic third part of trees), that is, the worst of the pastors, the most rebellious mockers of William Miller’s message , were burned up, and all their flocks (the symbolic grain) were burned up too, as they followed their blind leaders over the cliff. But the rest of the leadership, the strong Adventists who remained faithful during the Great Disappointment, were anointed by the same incense and fire. They were chosen out of apostatized Protestantism. A new church was born that would replace the Protestants as stewards of divine light to the world.

Next the second trumpet blows and a burning mountain representing Mount Sinai is thrown into the sea, the whole picture representing the Sabbath commandment rejected and then the whole Law of God abrogated by the Protestant denominational leadership.

Having rejected the whole Law and its condemnation of sin, they rejected God the Lawmaker and Christ the Law enforcer. Therefore they would be beholden to reject the new testimony of Jesus given to the newly anointed church. And therefore their new lawless gospel would be transformed into a spiritualistic gospel, as Ellen White later wrote concerning the final crisis in our near future,

“As spiritualism more closely imitates the nominal Christianity of the day, it has greater power to deceive and ensnare. Satan himself is converted, after the modern order of things. He will appear in the character of an angel of light. Through the agency of spiritualism, miracles will be wrought, the sick will be healed, and many undeniable wonders will be performed. And as the spirits will profess faith in the Bible, and manifest respect for the institutions of the church, their work will be accepted as a manifestation of divine power.” Great Controversy, p. 588.

This angel of light’s spiritualistic, greater power to deceive and ensnare does not refer to the denominations’ insistence on the doctrine of the immortality of the soul, and the immediate reward to saints and sinners at death. The spiritualism she speaks of refers to the new “Do as thou wilt” rule of Satan, which abrogates the fear of God and His right to condemn sin, which was adopted by the free-loving, lawless daughters of the imperious Whore of Babylon the Great.

So, the third trumpet blew and a star called Wormwood poisoned all the springs of the abandoned Protestant hearts. When any mind imbibes the lie that there exists no greater authority to condemn sin, then satanic hosts gain immediate control. Wormwood often referred to the occult in the Old Testament scriptures. Such as,

“Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods [the devils] of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood; 

And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst: 

The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and His jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven….

For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them: 

And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book: 

And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.” (Deut. 29:18-20,26-28).

“I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah. Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.” (Jer. 23:14,15).

“Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.” (Jer. 9:15).

“Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel. Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth.” (Amos 5:6 ,7).

“They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not…. For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter: their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.” (Deut. 32:17,32,33).

Once the churches rejected condemnation and conviction of sin for the smoother lawless gospel, Satan entered their minds and hearts. They were now worshiping and serving him in the name of worshiping and serving Jesus. The third trumpet signaled their transfer from Christ’s church into Satan’s. They forced Christ’s hand to give them over to the devil and his hosts. This is what we saw in Early Writings. “I turned to look at the company who were still bowed before the throne; they did not know that Jesus had left it. Satan appeared to be by the throne, trying to carry on the work of God. I saw them look up to the throne, and pray, ‘Father, give us Thy Spirit.’ Satan would then breathe upon them an unholy influence; in it there was light and much power, but no sweet love, joy, and peace. Satan’s object was to keep them deceived and to draw back and deceive God’s children.” Early Writings , p. 56.

Now that they were disqualified, their light went out. The fourth trumpet blew and the worst part of the Sun, Moon, and stars were darkened. The denominations were set aside and no longer the recipient of heaven’s dew of grace. And the time had arrived for the investigative judgment and for heaven’s final work to end the long controversy of sin and Satan. So, John is shown an angel flying in the sky crying, Woe, Woe, Woe to the inhabiters of the earth for the next three trumpets that are about to sound!

By this time the sabbatarian Adventists, in barns and livingrooms, were making serious study together to know what 1844 was about, since the Spirit of the Son had certainly been very close to them during the Millerite experience. The 1848-1850 Sabbath Conferences was the name given to those study groups. In the middle of that study a great event took place revealing the real character of the fallen denominations—the 1849 California Gold Rush. During that mad rush for riches, the debauchery, hustling, murders, and greed showed the real character brewing in our righteous nation. It was time for the ominous fifth trumpet to sound.

For the next five prophetic months—or the next 150 literal years—the fifth trumpet bottomless pit would open and remain so until 1999 and beyond in the sixth trumpet, while the hosts of darkness and their earthly workers of iniquity would corrupt Protestant America, and eventually the world it was shepherding. They would be corrupted by being separated from their Reformation God and His justification gifts of freedom and joy and peace. That separation would create a horrific emotional torment, the chastisement of our peace that Jesus took upon Himself in Gethsemane until Golgotha. Increasingly the divide between them and their God would become a vast chasm during the fifth trumpet, until the great gulf would be fixed during the sixth. The unstoppable locust army would sweep over the Protestant minds, conquering and enslaving and poisoning them. Their spiritual torment and anxiety would drive them to deaden it all by the consumption of every kind of substance. To escape their torments they would also resort to human theories and religious doctrines, secular entertainment and pastimes. Their prosperity would only enhance their galling yoke of mental pain and death.

Adding to their torments is the redirection of political and economic power into the hands of the devouring locusts. “He [the vile king of the north, which is the same beast locusts that ascend out of the bottomless pit and go into perdition (see Revelation 11:3 and 17:8,11)] shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.” (Dan. 11:43). There will be a total economic, Constitution, and spiritual besiegement. Everything spiritual and temporal, religious or secular, God will do to His beloved Protestant church what He had done many times to His beloved children of Israel. He will give back to Satan and his favorite earthly organization all the power that His children took from him. This transfer of power signifies the great finale of the setting up of the abomination of desolation, the transformation of apostate Protestantism into a likeness of the Dark Ages corruption and ignorance, its spiritual enslavement and demonic willingness to persecute all who are faithful to the truth of God.

Later the sixth trumpet locusts would finish off the Protestants by the transformation of the locusts to increased devouring torment acheiving a most horrific separation from God that would be final and permanent. Finally cut off from the life of God, faith atrophied and consciences killed, now Satan could delude them to serve his wicked ends and worship him as god. Fully inebriated with lawless grace from below, and cut off from their Creator, now Satan would have complete control of their lives. The destruction of faith, or the terrible battle to keep it, is what the fifth and sixth trumpets are all about.

The 144,000 at that time will be in total, helpless dismay and struggling for victory over their sinful natures. It will be the scene of agonizing cries and strong faith for the ability to get another view of Jesus for strength to overcome the beast and his image. Then, as seen in Revelation 11, just before the sixth trumpet closes, the 144,000 family of the great High Priest Jesus are finally cleansed, sealed, and ready to give the fourth angel’s message.

“And when they [the early protesters and later Reformers and Counter-Reformation Puritans] shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.  [This prophecy refers to the post-Puritan Seventh-day Adventists as heaven’s channels of light and it sheds light on the Revelation chapter 9 people of God during the 7^th seal’s fifth and sixth trumpets when the angel Wormwood opened the bottomless pit and Satan and his demon and human hosts desolate Protestantism until just before the Latter Rain revivals. Although the war was in full force against Christ’s priestly family, while Ellen White lived and wrote Satan’s hosts must remain at bay. But after her death we fall into Baal and Ashtoreth worship. The descendants of the victorious church of the wilderness are finally overcome by their previously defeated foe.]

“And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. 

And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves. [This symbolism is modeled after Jeremiah 16:4;25:33 and verse 11 after Ezekiel 37:1-10.]

And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth. 

And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them. 

And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them. 

And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven. 

The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly.” (Rev. 11:7-14).

“Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings” (Rev. 10:11) was the call that woke up the 144,000 from their spiritual sleep. The Adventist remnant are humbled and their uncircumcised hearts have accepted the punishment for their iniquities. Their agonizing is finished.

Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD's hand double for all her sins.” (Isa 40:1,2).

Their strong faith, agonizing cries, and diligent effort won the battle in the darkness. They have obtained the victory over the beast and his image, over their own defects and deficiencies, and are sealed in perfect obedience to the Law of God. Now they can preach the gospel to the whole world for a witness to every nation. Although dangers surround them yet they remain unafraid because they are approved of God.

“Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. 

They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish. 

The portion of Jacob is not like them; for he is the former of all things: and Israel is the rod of His inheritance: the LORD of hosts is His name.” (Jer 51:17-19).