Phoenix Journal 197 - Four Winds 10

Revelation, and he answered them in plain language. So Matthew 24 (and Luke 21, Mark 13) and
Revelation 6 are all telling about the same period in time. Notice, Matthew 24 starting with verse 3,
compared with Revelation 6: And as He sat upon the Mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him
privately, saying, “Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the
end of the world [age]?” And Jesus answered and said unto them, “Take heed that no man deceive you.
For many shall come in my name, saying I am Christ; and shall deceive many (First Seal, White Horse,
Deception). And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars; see that ye be not troubled; for all these things
must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against
kingdom (Second Seal, Red Horse, Wars); and there shall be famines (Third Seal, Black Horse, Famine
and Rationing); and pestilences, and earthquakes, in diverse places (Fourth Seal, Pale Horse, Diseases
and Earthquakes). All these are the beginning of sorrows. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted,
and shall kill you; and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake (Fifth Seal, Tribulation).... 29
Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the Sun be darkened and the Moon shall not give its
light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken. And then shall
appear the sign of the Son of man in Heaven (Sixth Seal, Heavenly Signs); 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.
And He shall send 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 (Seventh Seal, Seven Trumpets).”
Matt. 24:22: says, “And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved [alive]:
but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.” What do you think that means? I suggest it means
exactly what it says—the days will be shortened. How much will they be shortened? By one third! Rev.
8:12: “And the fourth angel sounded his trumpet. And the third part of the Sun was smitten, and the third
part of the Moon, and the third part of the stars—so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day
shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.”
The day can be shortened by lengthening the night, or the night can be shortened by lengthening the day,
but for both to happen, the Earth’s rate of rotation has to change (which would also cause a change in
orbit). Will the Earth be moved out of orbit (again) and the day be changed from 24 hours long to 16 hours
long? That is what the Bible says, and since there is evidence that things like this have happened in the
past, I hope you can more readily believe that it can happen again, perhaps in the near future!
Rev. 6: 12: “And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and
the Sun became black as sackcloth of hair [perhaps we will enter the tail of a comet again, or perhaps the
air will be darkened by volcanic ash, or perhaps something comes between Earth and the Sun?], and the
Moon became as blood [the moon will look blood red]; and the stars of heaven fell unto the Earth, even as
a fig tree castest her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind [waves of meteor showers]. And
the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together [a scroll is opened or closed by rolling; will the
Earth move and make it appear that the stars roll around the Earth to new positions? Will the Sun rise in
the west again?]; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places [the oceans bulge at the
equator, so when the Earth shifts in its orbit, huge tidal shifts take place along with great earthquakes.
Some islands may disappear while others may appear].
“And the kings of the Earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty
men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains
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