Trumpets And The Coming Storm

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Hello everybody, welcome to today's episode of Walk With Me. I am your host, JJ. So good to have each and every one of you here. In love, each and every one of you. Thank you so much for liking, listening, and enjoying this podcast. Even if you don't enjoy the podcast, thank you for listening anyway. And I I say that because sometimes people see a come across a podcast, and then everything is not for everyone, and I I understand that. But for those of you who are liking and sharing and listening and even commenting and things of that nature, thank you all so much. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Uh, I thank each and every one of you who emails me at walkwithme bible study at gmail.com, walkwithme bible study at gmail. Uh, because the answering questions is uh especially about the Bible, is one of the things that I am really, really enjoying about this podcast. Um, and and that's good. And there is no such thing as a stupid question. Just make sure that um that it's not I I'm as far as useless debate though, I will tell you, useless debate is just useful. But if you have a genuine question, you don't have to even accept what I say or or accept what the Bible says, it just it is what it is. But I I thank each and every one of you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Big shout out to my sponsors, True Bras Lyricist, uh, who's doing the intro and the outro and exquisite creations, and uh, she's now making dominoes. Um, and this is the wonderful thing. She's making literal dominoes, so no, not out of ivory. Um, she has another process that she does, which made me some wonderful text and dominoes. I'm waiting for her to make you some walk with me dominoes, and uh, if you're listening, thank you for that in advance. Now we're gonna go right into our episode because we have a few things to cover today. Uh, we're still in our end time prophecy um walkthrough, and and this is because and if you notice that I I'm sort of picking up the pace on um these things, it's because now the foundation is led. Once the clock starts, it's inexorable. Um, when Jesus starts that clock, it's it's on, and it's everything's gonna happen within seven years, and everything's gonna hit right back to back. Somebody asked me um when they listened to last week's episode about the seals, could that be a nuclear war? Uh, could there be a nuclear war somewhere in that sixth seal? Now, I don't believe so, and this is just out of the book of JJ. All right, so and the reason why I say this is I I don't think it's um a nuclear war, because the nuclear war would already have destroyed the earth, and um the seals and the vials would not have happened, would have no reason to have happened. So if there is a nuclear exchange, it'll probably be like one or two, and then everybody realizes how stupid that is and then stop. So I don't I me personally, am I saying that we aren't stupid enough to start a nuclear war? Not saying that at all. But will it be an all-out nuclear war, the mutually assured destruction that we hear talking about a lot? Don't think so, because God is in control of this. All right, so let's go right into it again. When we talk about scripture in this in this Bible study, in this episode, or any episode we talk about, be sure to read a verse or two above or the verse or two below, or preferably the whole chapter, because context is key. So that being said, we're gonna get right into it. Um, we are now that we've done the seal, we're going to do we're gonna talk about the trumpets. Now, we've been reading that um heaven is has it's been resounding with praise praises and uh redeemed people and angels and everything. Now, while all these seals have been going off, we've been hearing nothing about um anybody uh saying anything or doing anything about praising the Lord, and this has been a continual non-stop thing, right? But all of a sudden, everything comes to a speeching halt in heaven, and this phrase has always sort of troubled me, not troubled me, but it's something that I've never really explained, all right? Because in Revelation Um chapter 8, it goes with for half an hour, there's silence in heaven for the space of about a half an hour. Now, why is that? Because at some point, the people who are up there, and I I really want to be up there, the people who are up there are suddenly understanding that there are terrible judgments that are about to take place. And I would say that once we realize exactly what's about to happen, because we will have a different sight than what we have now, it'll sort of stun us into silence. Um and it's kind of like um, like when you see, if you ever lived in Kansas and you see um you see a storm coming, especially when there's a tornado, everything sort of gets that weird, sort of calm, quiet thing. And it's really hard to explain if you never lived through it. Even in in hurricanes, if you lived in lived in the south, you had a hurricane come through, and you were unfortunate enough to see to be in the eye. The eye is deadly calm, deathly calm. But everything else is the everything around it is just um raging and and powerful and and you know, things like that. So I think that's what's happening here. Not that we're in the middle of the end time, but it's one of those things that we kind of realize that oh my gosh, this is gonna happen. So we gotta understand that it states all the saints are gonna be up there, and and for centuries, you know, this saints are praying, um, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth. Now these prayers are about to be answered, and this is where the silence happens. And so the first thing we get is the first trumpet, and that's in Revelation chapter 8, 6, 7. 6 and 7. So, and then so now we have this opening of this first seal. When this happens, the blowing of the seven trumpets will begin. Uh, the seven seals include the seven trumpets, that's why we only see like six, and then there's seven, and there's seven. So, in in the scripture, the blowing of the trumpets was used for a lot of different purposes. We got to kind of talk about that because it's it's used to call people to worship, it's used to call people to war. Um, priests blew the trumpets. Um, as a matter of fact, it was only priests who were even allowed to blow trumpets uh back in the old testament. So, and these trumpets also had different purposes, like they would and they would blow in a specific way, and I would just to kind of touch space with that, I would go ahead and read uh 1 Corinthians chapter 4 and 8. I'm sorry, did I say 4 and 8? I meant 14 and 8. 1 Corinthians 14 and 8. Remember, read the whole chapter, but we're just gonna focus on this verse right now. For if the trumpet gave an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to battle? So we we had a you know, these trumpets are are going to have a have to be done a certain way, and they have to be done the correct way. Okay, so that being said, uh the blowing of this trumpet is going to signify the intervention of God into men's affairs, all right. So these trumpets, these seven trumpets of Revelation are not a call to worship, these are a call to war, and it's very important that we talk about that. It is literally a call to war. Now, and the reason why you know that is because what happens after that um must be accepted as being literal, and then if you have to accept them as being literal, even in a uh metaphorical sense, then you have to understand that God is literally warring against the evil and uh that we are that we are engaged in as men, uh humankind, and that you know, by the way, of the devil. So this is a war between God and the devil and whoever's left behind. Now, this first trumpet, first trumpet is going to be fire mixed with blood. Now, I don't know how that's gonna happen, but what we do know is that um this judgment, this fire mixed with blood, is gonna destroy almost um a third of all the vegetation. We're talking about trees, we're talking about crops, we're talking about uh grass, we're talking about anything that's green. Now remember, we just if you if you listen, just a while ago in the sixth seal, we had the war, and the war had a famine. Now, a third of what's left will be destroyed by this fire coming from the sky mixed with blood. So, and we can't really be surprised at that, is because we actually remember when God rained fire and brimstone down on a certain population. Um, we call them Sodom and Gomorrah, and I believe it happened in Egypt too, right? So God turned water into blood, and you have the fire and the blood coming back to kind of remind people hey man, this is real. You know, you were upset about this. This is real. This is how God reminds you of what is going on, and there will be people still alive to repent. I don't, I mean, I wouldn't want to be here in that time. That's why it's so important to get out of here now. Well, not now, but when God calls us. So it's kind of be it's kind of makes sense to be ready as soon as we can. So now with one-third of all these trees and grass and and vegetables and all that stuff burned up, there will imagine now the famine that will ensue. One third. Because guess what? You might say, Well, you know, I don't like vegetables anyway. I'm gonna go get a beef sandwich. Well, who's gonna grow the wheat? Where's the wheat? A third of the wheat is gone, and the cows, what do you feed them? You feed them on grass, a third of that is gone. Oh, well, I'll get well, it doesn't matter, a third of it is gone, which means, in addition to the famine that we talked about in the last episode, you're going to have even worse famine now. I mean, you're talking about starvation and hunger that will make the Ethiopian thing look like a Sunday school, and so this is coming. And when we talk about these things, we we can't really gloss over a third of it's gonna be well, it's gonna be two-thirds left. No, no, we can't talk about it like that because if we talk about it like that, we are going to realize that not only does that there are always downstream effects. There's always downstream effects. And so if a third of uh a third of the the green grass and all our vegetation is uh burnt up, that means a third less of the farm animals because your chickens, your cows, your your fish, all of that is based on the availability of plant life. All of that's gone. A third of that is gone, which means it's your starvation problem from the previous seal is going to get worse, but that's not all because now we have the second trumpet, and what happens, and this is gonna be Revelation 8, 8, and 9. And for the sake of time, I'm just gonna tell you the scripture because we I I want to kind of show how fast this is going, right? So now when the second trumpet sounds, there's gonna be a um a meteor. Now, this is not the only meteor that's going to come. So, but this is the one that this could this is the first one, right? I I was remember watching Armageddon, and I was kind of like I was I was kind of like taken aback when they when they messed up, they were supposed to go back and they're supposed to um blast off and and destroy this meteor, and instead they split it into two, and the first one was was gonna be really, really, really bad, and the the second one was pretty much uh you know the end of the world. I I kind of laughed at that because I think they might have gotten that from Revelation, but in Revelation 8, there's going to be one meteor, um, and it's going to be consider it's going to resemble a blazing mountain. Now, why is it going to be resemble a blazing mountain? We have seen through any amount of um deep impact of Armageddon, uh, all these these you know uh asteroids striking the earth documentaries that when a meteor or something like that hits Earth's atmosphere, it begins to burn. The friction causes it to burn. Um, and the and in 8-9 it talks about how it was a great mountain. Now, with this judgment, a third of sea life is destroyed and a third part of the ships are destroyed. Wait a minute, JJ. You just said you just said a third of the sea life, but you also said that a third of the fish are going to be gone too. Yep. So a third of what was left from the fire and blood, a third of what is left is also going to not be destroyed by this meteor that's going to land in the ocean, and destroy a third of the ships and a third of the remaining sea life that was feeding on the smaller sea life, the plankton, the shrimp, the fish that feed on those, you know, your your bass, your your carp, then the fish that feed on those, the sharks, all a third of them are all gonna be destroyed. Alright? Now, we don't really know exactly what the mountain represents, but I believe it's an asteroid. And there's it every so often we keep hearing about an asteroid coming, an asteroid coming near Earth, and we get all scared, we start thinking about asteroids striking the planet, and this is exactly what's going to happen, and then as soon as this and what I'm telling you now, it's gonna be rapid fire, rapid fire from this point on, because immediately after this asteroid strikes the earth, immediately there's gonna be another trumpet, and this one is going to be a more widespread um meteoric situation, and and it's going to actually this one is going to affect the rivers and the springs, the well, and it's going to poison a third of the remaining water. A third of the remaining water will be poisoned. So if you you really don't have a reprieve here. If you live near the ocean, your the ocean's gonna be jacked up because of all the things that died in the ocean. If you live inland, oh well, I don't live in, I don't have a beachfront property, I'm full. And it says you cannot drink this water, and they're gonna name this star wormwood because of bitterness. And the reason why they call it bitterness is that wormwood is the most bitter herb that we know about, but it's not only just bitter, it's not like you can just um you know drink it and kind of get by with it. Wormwood is poisonous, so and it's going to be a lot of people who are going to act like God is this is not God's judgment, gonna die by drinking this water. This this waters will be poisonous, and and please understand the reason why we are talking about these things, not because it's trying I'm trying to scare anybody. That's not the point at all. The point is to make sure that we get out of here and watching this from the bleachers. We need to be watching this game from the bleachers, y'all. And I that's there's no other way to really um cut the cake and smooth the icing on this one. We need to be watching this from the bleachers. We do not be need to be at the 50-yard line taking that meteor. So you ask me, well, JJ, what does that mean? How do you do that? How do you um get yourself in the bleachers? Now, the only way to get yourself in the bleachers is to be born again. What does that mean, JJ? Repentance, baptism in Jesus' name, and get in the Holy Ghost. That's it. That's it, because that's the vibe, that's the way Jesus said it, and it doesn't matter what pastor so-and-so say, it don't, it don't matter what deacon so-and-so say, it don't even matter what JJ says. The Bible says, Acts 238, repent of your sins, be baptized in Jesus' name, get in the Holy. And then the rest of the old the rest of the New Testament is telling you how to live with the Holy Ghost so that you won't be here when that game starts. And I I feel like I we should kind of talk about these things more and more, um, because I I really it's really important um that you know, while we're talking about these things and kind of reveling in the sensationalism of them, that this is not gonna be sensational at all. It's gonna be horrific. But wait, there's more, there's more, there's more, and there's more, and we're gonna just cover this the first part of the fourth trumpet, and then we're gonna wrap it for today. Now, remember we were talking about creation in one of the uh one of the all previous episodes. The fourth day, on the fourth day of creation, God brought the sun and moon into view, and he did it in order to provide light for us. Now, God didn't need light, he said, matter of fact, he said, let there be light. He didn't need light, he he gave us light, sun and the moon. Now, then one third of the day is going to now be taken away from us in this fourth seal, and in the fourth seal being the mere fact that God has already arranged that the fourth seal is going to take away a third of the day and a third of the night light is amazing to me. Now, is it is it going to be that night is going to be what three hours longer or two hours longer, however you want to put it, or four hours longer, that'd be more that'd be more mathematically correct, considering 12 hours. But no, this is going to we're talking about an utter and complete darkness, which is not only the absence of light, but if you put someone in a dark room with absolutely zero light, over time our mental capacity, our mental acuity, our mental health seriously begins to decline. And this is going to affect a lot of people. So, with that, we are going to wrap it because I want you to think about that when we because we're just getting into the fourth trumpet. I'm going to explain what happens in the fourth trumpet, but I want you to think about that. It's not just that the day is going to be a third shorter, or the night is going to be a third shorter, is that there will be two sections of light that we will not be able to see. Lights at night and light during the day. So we're talking about an utter and complete darkness. And I also want you to think about why will God use dark um darkness on a continual basis like that? Could it be that he's warning us, or not us, because I'm again I tend to be on the bleachers. So is he warning the people who are still here? Hey man, you you feel this darkness? This is what you are going for if you don't repent of your sin right now. But with that being said, we're gonna wrap this episode. I but I want you to think about that because I I it really is amazing to me that God used the fourth seal. To do this, we're gonna talk more about, I mean, not fourth seal, fourth trumpet. I'm sorry, man, I misspoke here. God uses the fourth trumpet to deliver or to take away a third of the light from the day and a third of the light from the night, which is literally one-fourth of the entire day, completely, utter, and unfathomably dark. Matter of fact, if you really want an a uh a kind of a visualization, go into a closet. Well, the closet would have to be empty. Go into if you can get into a room that is completely, completely empty and dark, close it and stand there and see how long you can take. I'm telling you, it's it's not a pleasant experience. So, and that's how we're going to begin the fourth trump. All right. I love each and every one of you. If you have any questions or comments, send them to walkwithme Bible study at gmail.com. Walk with me bible study at gmail. Um, we are getting into the thick of it, and I but I love each and every one of you. Thank you for liking, sharing, commenting, uh, watching, listening. I appreciate all of your time. Love you. See you on the next one. Bye bye.