Revelation

Chapter 8 cont..

2 And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets.
3 And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. 
4 And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel’s hand.
5 And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it in to the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake. 
6 And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.

The half hour of silence is over. During the beginning of the Tribulation and the first half hour of the antichrists reign, the Saints will be persecuted.  We can see today, even here in America, not only a turning away from God, but an all out assault on God and His people.  God and Jesus cannot be said in TV shows, (except for evangleical shows), and there is currently an ongoing attempt to remove the words God and Jesus from broadcasting all together.  In Iowa a judge has declared the Prison fellowship program to be unconstitutional, and has ordered the program stopped and payment to the state for funds used to support this evangelical mission.  By all means, lets not try to teach criminals values of morality and a purpose for living.  The National Endowments for the Arts has funded art displays which include a crucifix in a glass of urine and calls it art.  The assault continues to grow, and little has been done to reclaim lost ground.

I've stated this in a few other places, but it needs to be stated here again.  People assume because of past beliefs and perpetuated teachings of the four horsemen of the apocalypse, that the tribulation period will be a time of poverty for the masses, but Satan knows the scripture, you cannot serve both God and Mammon, therefore his best weapon against Christianity will be economic success!.  Babylon gets destroyed near the end of the tribulation, and the worlds merchant ships sit afar off a morn her destruction because they have become rich through her desire for luxuries and trinkets.  This is not an indication of an impoverished world, but rather a world of splendor.

Think of it this way, the world will stand against Christians who are trying to proclaim the deadly truth, because look at the world now, at peace, everyone has work, everyone can enjoy the fruits of their labors, and not just struggle to get by, you would have to be crazy to stand against this man and what he stands for in this world, because he has brought comfort to the world where Christianity and religions have brought war, death, and destruction.  We will be reminded of the crusades, the battle for Irelands freedom has long been called the battle of the Protestants against the Catholics, the Islamic religeon wants to irradicate the Jewish and the Christian alike, Jesus and God will be taboo words in public as well as in the work place, this battle is already well in progress and the event of a major war and the turmoil that follows will solidify this assault to Christianity.

Now, during the first half hour the saints have been oppressed, arrested, killed, and hated by the nations.  Now is the time for God to declare His vengance for His own children.

In verse 3 above, the prayers of all the Saints were offered with the incense upon the Golden Alter before the throne of God.  Remember part of their prayer was, how long oh Lord before you avenge our blood on those who persecuted us, and the time was to wait until the rest of those who would be killed as they were was fulfilled.  The time has come, and the Angel took the censer, with fire from the alter and cast it to the earth and the Angels begin to sound their trumps'

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