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(From radio broadcast of Bro. Julius Adewumi)
Revelation
chapter 8
We are going through the revelation series. I pray that the Lord give us understanding.
You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. Chapter 8 is the
beginning of the apocalypse.
Chapter 7 shows how some people will be protected
from destruction.
(Rev.8:1) “When he had opened the 7th
seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour”.
In the mind of apostle John it seemed like a half an
hour silence. Whatever was going on in the silence, God himself is doing
something in the silence.
“And I saw the seven angels which stood before
God. And to them were given seven
trumpets. 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. And the smoke of the incense,
which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up to God out of the
angel’s hand.
And the angel took the censer, and filled it
with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and
thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.”
What we are seeing here in the first few
verses: God was doing something in the
silence. Then apostle John saw the
seven angels who had the seven trumpets.
Before they could go and do their job, prayer was being offered, the
prayer of the saints. Who are the
saints? Holy people, Christians. Those who had been redeemed by the blood of
Jesus Christ. Every prayer you have
prayed concerning the kingdom of God earnestly to God is actually stored up in
heaven. When prayers reach up to a
point, God will move in his promise. As
people are praying for revival, the prayers are stored up. When the prayers has tipped the scale so to
speak, that is when God will begin to move.
The prayers of the saints were mixed with incense
and offered before God.
Who are
the saints? The Christians, the
believers! Those who had been
redeemed! Every prayer that the saints
have prayed about the kingdom of God is stored up in golden vials in
heaven.
V.7:
The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with
blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt
up, and all green grass was burnt up”.
You might
say what is the purpose of burning up the trees and the green grass? Many scholars might give symbolic meaning to
all the writings in the book of revelations.
They may try to say it’s not the physical grass that is burnt up, and
that it means something else. That can
also be correct. I will not try to give
meaning whatsoever to any of the trees or green grass used here. Every thing described here, whether physical
grass or symbolic grass, they all symbolize judgment and punishment upon the
dwellers of the earth. Whether a symbol of sinful nature or the
physical green grass and trees, God is dealing with the world of the
ungodly. In the physical man, our body
needs to be redeemed from all the curse of sin, from all the rudiments of
sin. Therefore it is okay to say the
trees or grass symbolize sinful nature in man, but that will be to make
believers get closer to perfection if God is symbolically judging the
trees. However it is easily explainable
to say they are the physical trees and green grasses.
For example, when God wanted to destroy the
world in the days of Noah, it was the sin of man that caused it. What else died because of mankind? Animals died because of mankind! Birds died because of mankind! Vegetations
died because of mankind! When the
floods of Noah came upon the earth because of man, all those animals, which you
may say didn’t do anything wrong, also suffered because of man.
It
should not be a surprise therefore to see that God was destroying the physical
green grass and physical trees, all because of the sin of man. When Adam sinned, instead of putting a
curse on Adam, God only cursed the ground because of Adam, which curse was to
affect trees, and grasses producing thorns and thistles.
“The
second angel sounded and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast
into the sea, and the sea became blood, and the third part of the creature
which were in the sea and had life died, and the third part of the ships were
destroyed.”
Why will this be a judgment? Is there anything in the sea that needs to
be judged? If you are not aware of
this, the maritime life is a blossoming place.
The harbors, and the inter-continental shipping lines, are like a world to
themselves. It’s like the activities in
the airports. In all those international
airports, activities are going on 24 hours like a world of its own. The same
with the sea travelers, submarines, ocean-liners going back and forth in the
world. If you go into any of the
submarines, it’s like a small town under the sea, and there are many of them
from big nations.
“And the third part of the sea turned to
blood.” This is still third part. The next phase of the 7 vials will cover all
the sea. V.10: “The third angel
sounded and there fell a star from heaven burning as it were a lamp, and it
fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; And
the name of the star is called wormwood; And the third part of the waters
became wormwood; And many men died of
the water because they were made bitter.”
There
had been a prophecy, which said when the Antichrist rules the world, he might
poison the drinking waters of the world to make the people obey him. When God writes prophecies like this in the
book of revelation, we may think the judgment will be supernatural, whereas
when it is fulfilled it could be using the natural occurrence. For instance, the terrorism in this
generation against the world may not be realized nor believed as judgment from
God, whereas God may be using those fingers of men to judge the world. It is very likely weapon of men was what
God was revealing thousands of years ahead.
A
third part of the water system of the world was poisoned. That can really be caused by terrorist
act. When the bible says a “star” fell
from heaven, it could also be a satanic spirit. Now, all those terrorist acts are also directed by satanic
spirits. They may think they are
fighting for some political issues.
However those political issues are being spear-headed by satanic forces
to create wars and evil. Terrorist
activities may be planned to poison the waters in some nations. The Arab-terrorists have been reported to
be looking for water-treatment stations of some countries, which they plan to
poison.
v.12
“And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten
, and the third part of the moon, and
the third part of the stars; so that the third part of them was darkened, and
the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise. ”
We can see that the blocking of the sun,
can be implemented by God moving a huge asteroid object to block the sun from
shinning to the earth. Only the finger
of God can make that happen.
Take
note of something: In the scientific
world, astronomers can now calculate the nearest date when some heavenly bodies
will pass by the earth, and where they will be at a particular time. If any particular object will block the sun,
God will have known it 2000 years ahead, long before the scientists can see it.
God
can tell you what will transpire 10000 years ahead, or 2000 years ahead. His finger is moving all the planets and
they do his bidding. When God judged
the world in the days of Noah, the bible said the “fountains of the deep were
broken”. Scientists said it is
possible some asteroid bodies fell from the sky into the sea that created a
gigantic flood from the ocean. If that
was what happened, God would have to be the one that pulled those asteroid
bodies from the sky into the earth.
That is what I want you to know so that you may fear God. We are dealing with a bigger person than
us! God is greater than man! “It is he that seated upon the circles
of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are like grasshoppers.”
God’s
finger is controlling the universe.
There is an asteroid belt that is orbiting the sun not too far from
earth according to the scientists, where huge, huge stones are floating
around. God can pull any of those
stones out of its orbit to hit the earth anytime he wants, for judgment. Now, you can see in the book of revelation
when a mountain burning with fire came down upon the earth into the sea? Let’s fear God and obey him! God will only call for it when he wants it
to happen. God is to be feared in the
assembly of the saints. Nothing will
happen on this planet unless God calls for it.
No star or asteroid body will hit the earth unless God calls for
it. Christ said, not even a sparrow
will fall to the ground without our father in heaven. All those terrorist activities are occurring only because God has
allowed it. A satanic spirit has been
unleashed upon earth causing those men to think and do those wicked
things. But if men will turn to God and
repent, God will call for those spirits to be withdrawn from the earth and lock
them up in the pit of hell. When God
judges the earth, those satanic spirits are also judged. God is calling man back to himself. Repent o man, and God will save you. Only God can save us!
In
this chapter, God is revealing what is to transpire. People may think it is by chance that these things happen to man,
but God is saying he is responsible for them, and calling people’s
attention. These are still warning.
God is calling people’s attention.
These are not universal punishment yet.
In Verse 13, The angel said, “woe , woe, woe unto the inhabitants
of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels,
which are yet to sound.” That
will be in the next chapter.
Accept the Lord Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, so that you can be a partaker of the world to come, after this present world is destroyed, Christ’s kingdom will begin. I pray that you may repent and be one of the saints in glory. Amen!
Bro. Julius Adewumi
Excerpt From Jane Lead’s
Signs of the times
(published 1699)
Talking
about the perfect church Christ wants to bring out in you and me --- Yea, do
not hinder Christ’s work in you!
(Begin
Quote)
As it is thus Invisibly made manifest, so it will dilate it self also
and spread into a Visible Kingdom. And there are seven Visible signs
that will make out the Dominion and Kingdom, in it’s first Appearance, in what
Persons soever it shall open. The First is the Dying Marks.
Whereby they are throughly Slain and Crucified, to the Love of all Inferior
things, appertaining to this Earthly Principle and Kingdom.
§ XVII. The Second Sign is, that as there has been a sowing into
the Death and perfect Crucifixion: so it Rises and becomes a
Resurrection-Plant in the Love-Principle and Light-Kingdom: where is all
Liberty, Power and Might to act and do Visibly, according to the Property of
Christ’s Resurrection-Life. There is nothing of the Worldly Principle can any
more touch, or bind them down, being Translated from out of the Power and
Dominion of the Satanical Kingdom.
§ XVIII. The Third Sign that does follow is the Marks of the Ascension
into those goodly Tents, which Christ the Kingly Shepherd has pitched for them
near himself: where they may have free, and immediate recourse to him, and he
to them: receiving the Impression and Similitude of their Lord, as having such
Relation to him, by standing so near his Glorified Figure.
§ XIX. The Fourth Sign is their being constituted and deputed,
by virtue of the Mission and Gift of the Holy Ghost, to bear Rule and
Government over the Starry Constellations, and Earthly Elements, as to their
Malignant hurtfulness: so as that no Destruction or wounding Weapons can here
enter; because they are encircled with the Eternal burning Element of God
himself, that will devour all pricking Thorns and Briars, that shall spring up,
and set themselves against them: but must turn to Dust and Ashes before them.
§ XX. The Fifth Sign is the opening the mighty Spring of the Spirit
of Faith that shall Rise, and Conquer all self-reasoning, so as not to
admit of any Doubt or Staggering, but make its pass in a strait line up to the
Glorified Jesus, as he is invested with all Power, as well in the lower
Regions as in the upper: And so unite with that powerful Name Alpha and Omega.
Which Faith in this great Name must produce those mighty Works and Deeds,
mentioned by our Lord after his Resurrection, as the Signs that shall follow
them that believe. In my Name shall they cast out Devils, they shall speak
with new Tongues, they shall take up Serpents, and if they drink any deadly
thing, it shall not hurt them. They shall lay their Hands on the Sick, and they
shall recover. Now by virtue of these mighty acting Powers, Redemption will be
wrought out; setting free from the Burdens and Oppressions, Penuries, Maladies,
and other Miseries that the whole Creation for so many Ages hath groaned under.
From whence no deliverance can be till these Resurrection-Powers can come down,
to rest upon those who are to be the first risen Witnesses hereof.
§ XXI. The Sixth Sign will be the great amazing Wonder of all
appearances that yet have been. Which is that a New Paradise shall again
spring in the midst of this worldly Babylonish Principle. The Rosie and Lilly
Plants will here lift up their Heads, as being installed again in their own
native Kingdom: which it is the good Will and Pleasure of their Father, to
restore to them, the rich Dowries out of Wisdom’s Bank and Store-house, which
never was opened before. Commanders they shall be, both of what in the Upper
World and in this Nether needful is. No need of taking thought for this or
that, that belongs to the outward bodily State: For it will be given them
as they stand united with Christ their Head to possess the Earth, and to
inherit all things.
§ XXII. The Seventh Sign is putting on Transfiguration, which
will be accompanied with the Descent and Appearance of Christ in them, in his
glorified Figure. By the glance of which Glory transformed they are into the
express Image of his bright Body. To this prepared Spouse a Voice was heard,
saying, Arise: Shine; for thy Light is come, and the Glory of thy Bridegroom
is now become thy Covering. The Marriage here will consummated be from the
High-Throne Majesty, who giveth his full concurrence hereunto. Now what may
less expected be from this Matrimonial Unity, but such an Offspring and
new Creation of Spirits that may be all pure and perfect, as was designed by
the Father of Eternity, to bring forth after his own Similitude before Adams
fall. Which purpose of God could never be made void: though a stop was
permitted to be put to it for a while, for the bringing forth the manifold
Wisdom, and Wonders of God, transcendently by him, who was from Eternal
Generation the Son of God. By whom all that was lapsed was to be repaired again
to far greater advantage; which in the concluding part of all Secrets will be
made manifest. For admiration and astonishment to all throughout the whole
Universe of God’s Creation.
§XXIII. It remains now to observe what from the Redoubled seven Eyes
have been truly discerned: The signs forerunning, and those that
follow, as evidences when the Kingdom is truly come. And it will begin, as
it was in the First Paradise, in Male and Female, through the
restoration of the lost Eternal Virgin-Nature. And as Eve did suck in
the Serpently Venom, and introduced it into the First Adam, and thereby
corrupted and involved him in the same transgression, whereby there was a going
out, and dividing from God the Eternal Root; whence the Banishment out of Paradise
was pronounced, and an exclusion and loss of the Kingdom and Dominion: so the
Virgin rises in her Room to draw and feed upon that Tree of Life, and
having tasted of the Virtue thereof, gives to her chosen and elected Mate, so
known and assigned to stand in the Room of him that brought in Sorrow and the
Curse. That must Die and be extinguished as this Tree of Life, by this true
eternal Marriage of the Male and Female, shall come to spring up in Fruitful
Powers. Then comes forth the renewing of that Blessed Word, that God spake in
the Beginning. Gen. 1.28. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, be
Fruitful and Multiply and replenish the Earth, and subdue it. And have Dominion
over the Fish of the Sea, and over the Fowl of the Air, over every Living thing that
moveth upon the Earth. Now
this has been obliterated and lost out of Possession in that lapsed Generation,
that proceeded from the first Adam, for these many Ages of time that
have past over. But the grace and purpose of God cannot be Nullified; but must
be made good: The pure Eternal
Virgin-Nativity will recover it self, and stand over all this Apostatized
State: whereby an end may be put to the Sinful Progeny of the Old World. But
this great Renovation and Change, will rise and come on Gradually. So from
hence a New Generation shall spread and multiply here upon the Earth, as a
deified Leaven, that shall eat out the bitter and sour Leaven, that had got
into depraved Nature.
§ XXIV. After this manner the Kingdom of God and his Christ, shall come
to be made manifest. Blessed are those that shall stand in the Lot of this Age
and Time, worthily taking notice how the fore-mentioned Signs do go forward on,
as a sure Prelude how near the Kingdom of God is: Which will run parallel,
according to the Type of the first Creation: Now it may be considered what is
required and may be incumbent on this latter Age, chiefly those that are in a
hopeful way of possessing and entering into the Reign of this blessed Day,
looking forth when and where the eternal Virgin will appear to cloth any with
her bright Clarity. From whence the Kingly Births and Powers shall multiply
into Pluralities, abundantly to replenish the new Paradise. This will be
a wonderful time: who among Mortals shall it live to see, but such as have
reached up to the Faith of a Christ-like Unity, to them this new Kingdom shall
stand open and free, to possess in a joyful Triumph and Victory.
§ XXV. I must not omit here, to give the Reader caution to avoid a
mistake, concerning the two Representative Figures made mention of. As to the
manner of Generation, it is all Purely Spiritual as the Holy Ghost, shall go
forth from them, to overshadow and give a conception in such as are
Predestinate to bring forth Christ, numerously through corporeal Forms, in his
various Spiritual Stature, as from an infant of Days, to the full grown Age.
When this Blessed Day shall from on high, spring for the bringing down this
Kingdom of Heaven, there will be Marriages of another kind than what has been,
all Spiritual, Angelical and Divine: From whence a pure and holy Progeny shall
stand in this latter Day upon the Earth; Born as Princely Heirs to Reign with
Christ in these lower Regions.
(End Quote)
Bro.
Julius Adewumi
Gospel
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offering to this ministry. Your
investment and mine send the literature to believers and send the word on
radio. That is one sure way we can send
our money ahead of us to heaven. The
Lord said: "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and
rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in
heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not
break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be
also." (Mat. 6: 19-21). "For
we brought nothing into this world and it is certain we can carry nothing
out." (1Tim. 6: 7).
