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| The Sixth Vial Issue #197
February 2005 The last four bowls poured out in Rev. 16 are upon:
These four are patterned historically after the original history of the Persian conquest of Babylon. First, Cyrus came to power in 550 B.C., as the rising of “The Sun.” Next, he overthrew the thrones of Medea and Lydia (546 B.C.). Next, his army diverted the river Euphrates in order to enter the city of Babylon through the river (537 B.C.) Last, this led to the conquest of Babylon, ruled spiritually by “the prince of the power of the air” (Eph. 2:2). Diverting the River Euphrates Queen Nitocris was the mother of the biblical Belshazzar (Dan. 5:1). On the night Babylon fell, when the hand wrote on the palace wall, it was this queen who remembered Daniel and pulled him out of retirement to interpret the dream (Dan. 5:10-12). Years earlier, Queen Nitocris wanted to build a bridge over the Euphrates to connect the two halves of Babylon. Up to that time, the people had to use boats to ferry the people across the river. So first she had her workmen dig a huge basin 47 miles in circumference just north of the city. At the same time she prepared large stones for the bridge. When all was ready, a canal was dug from the river to the basin, and the water was diverted. This allowed them to set the stones in the dry river bed to build the bridge over the Euphrates. Babylon itself was a city foursquare with each side nearly 14 miles in length and a total circumference of 56 miles. The wall itself was 85 feet thick and 300 feet high. Herodotus tells us in Book 1 of The Histories,
When Cyrus and Darius came to conquer Babylon, they met with little success at first. Herodotus tells us,
The Babylonians themselves say that owing to the great size of the city the outskirts were captured without the people in the centre knowing anything about it; there was a festival going on, and they continued to dance and enjoy themselves, until they learned the news the hard way. That, then, is the story of the first capture of Babylon.” But the fall of Babylon itself is the subject of the seventh bowl, so for now, we must confine our remarks to the sixth bowl upon the Euphrates—the prelude to the fall of Babylon. Comparing the Trumpets and the Bowls Up to now we have not really shown the parallel between the trumpets and the bowls. They are similar in principle, and the main difference is in their application. Essentially, the seven trumpets dealt with more of a long-term prophetic fulfillment from the first century to the end of the Pentecostal Age (1993). We then saw a short-term prophetic fulfillment of these trumpets from 1993 to 2000. Then the seven vials began to be poured out, one each year. These vials in some ways were like short-term fulfillments of the long-term trumpet blasts. First Trumpet and First Bowl 8:7. And the first sounded, and there came hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were thrown to the EARTH. 16:2. And the first angel went and poured out his bowl into the EARTH. Second Trumpet and Second Bowl 8:8. And the second angel sounded, and something like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the SEA. 16:3. And the second angel poured out his bowl into the SEA. Third Trumpet and Third Bowl 8:10. And the third angel sounded, and a great star fell from heaven, burning like a torch, and it fell on a third of the RIVERS and on the SPRINGS OF WATERS. 16:4. And the third angel poured out his bowl into the RIVERS and the SPRINGS OF WATERS. Fourth Trumpet and Fourth Bowl 8:12. And the fourth angel sounded, and a third of the SUN and a third of the moon and a third of the stars were smitten. 16:8. And the fourth angel poured out his bowl upon the SUN. Fifth Trumpet and Fifth Bowl 9:1, 2, 12. And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from heaven which had fallen to the earth; and the key of the bottomless pit [“the abyss”] was given to him. And the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke of the pit … The first woe is past; behold, two woes are still coming after these things. 16:10. And the fifth angel poured out his bowl upon the throne of the beast; and his kingdom became darkened. Sixth Trumpet and Sixth Bowl 9:13. And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, one saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river EUPHRATES.” 16:12. And the sixth angel poured out his bowl upon the great river, the EUPHRATES … And I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs. Seventh Trumpet and Seventh Bowl 10:7. But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, then the mystery of God is FINISHED. (11:19) And the TEMPLE of God which is in heaven was opened … and there were flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder and an EARTHQUAKE and a great HAILSTORM. 16:17. And the seventh angel poured out his bowl upon the air; and a loud voice came out of the TEMPLE from the throne, saying, “IT IS FINISHED.” (16:21) And huge HAILSTONES, about one hundred pounds each, came down from heaven upon men. The similarity of these trumpets and bowls have caused some to believe that they are speaking of the same thing or the same event. However, this is actually an example of how history is prophecy. These repetitions are never precisely the same, because they always take a modified FORM. But the SPIRIT is the same. For that reason, we may reapply elements of a trumpet to the events of the corresponding bowl. The last three trumpets are three woes. Likewise, the last three bowls are like three woes in our own day being visited upon the Throne of the Beast, the Euphrates, and the Air. Since the fifth bowl upon the Throne of the Beast was poured out at Tabernacles of 2004, we ought now to expect to see evidence of these things shortly. The Three Frogs In comparing the sixth trumpet with the sixth bowl, we also should be aware of another parallel. During the time of the sixth trumpet, the Mighty Angel of Rev. 10 was presented to the world, and with it the “little book” (due to the printing press), the Reformation, and the “everlasting gospel” being preached in the great missionary movement of the 1800’s. But in the sixth bowl we have a similar but opposite counterpart in the three frogs sent to gather the nations to Armageddon. These frogs come out of the mouths of the dragon, beast, and false prophet. The frogs should be seen as the unclean counterpart to the sword that comes from the mouth of the Lamb (Rev. 19:15). The frogs essentially represent unclean words—a false and violent gospel—that convince nations to go to their destruction.
The dragon [Dragon Court, FFI #181] represents the highest power on earth that is hidden behind the scenes—Witchcraft with all its occult manifestations—who teach “order from chaos.” They are the planners, who create chaos and destruction in order to build upon its ruins their New World Order. They call themselves Luciferians. The beast represents the power of the organizational Christian Church System that allowed men to usurp the rule of Christ. This in turn allowed violent men to take control of the Church System in order to lead them into chaos, disillusionment, and finally into destruction. The false prophet represents the power behind Islam. The powers of the “dragon” knew that they could easily motivate many Muslims into angry and violent reaction by creating a Zionist “State of Israel” and then demanding justice for the theft of their land. The powers behind all of these religious movements induce their sincere followers to fight over the city of Jerusalem. Their purpose and goal is to destroy Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in one final blow and to replace them with Luciferianism as the one-world religion. Luciferianism Moves to America: 1801 A.D. The Bible makes no real distinction between Satanism, Luciferianism, Wicca, and other forms of the occult, but lumps them all together under the name “Witchcraft.” So for our purposes, this is how we will define Witchcraft. A Luciferian group known as the Order of the Palladium (or Sovereign Council of Wisdom) was founded in Paris in 1737. Palladism had been brought to Greece from Egypt by Pythagoras in the fifth century before Christ. This cult was introduced to the inner circle of the Masonic lodges. It was aligned with the Palladium of the Templars, who brought it into Masonry. In 1801, Isaac Long, a Jew, is said to have brought a statue of Baphomet to Charleston, South Carolina, where he helped to establish the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. Recall from FFI #195 that Baphomet represents Masonic wisdom and is, in effect, their god, whether recognized as such or not. Isaac Long apparently chose Charleston because it was geographically located on the 33rd parallel of latitude. There are many low-level Freemasons who think that their Order is or was closed to both Jews and Roman Catholics. This misconception probably arose after 1869 when Grand Commander Albert Pike became the head of the Ku Klux Klan. However, out of the original eleven founders of the Lodge in Charleston, S.C., no less than four were Jews: Israel de Lieben, Abraham Alexander, Emanuel de la Motta, and Moses Clava Levy. At least four more were Roman Catholics from Ireland and France: Thomas Bartholomew Bowen, John Mitchell, Jean Baptiste Delahogue, and Comte de Grasse. There were at least two Protestants: Isaac Auld and Frederick Dalcho (1770-1836) The final one, James Moultrie, was a member of St. Philip’s Church in Charleston and was buried there, but I do not know if this was a Catholic or Protestant Church. All of this information was published in 1964 by the Supreme Council, 33°, in Washington D.C. under the title: History of the Supreme Council, 33°, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Southern Jurisdiction, U.S.A. 1801-1861, by Ray Baker Harris, 33°. Albert Pike was Isaac Long’s successor, and he changed the name of the Order to the New and Reformed Palladian Rite (or Reformed Palladium). Albert Pike: The Illuminist Luciferian Pike also worked closely with Giusseppe Mazzini of Italy (1805-1872) who was a 33° Mason, who became head of the Illuminati in 1834, and who founded the Mafia in 1860. Mazzini was a high-level planner for the Italian revolution in 1848. Together with Mazzini, Lord Henry Palmerston of England (1784-1865), and Otto von Bismarck of Germany (1815-1898)—all 33° Masons—Albert Pike used the Palladian Rite to bind all Masonic groups under one umbrella. Mazzini recruited Pike into the Illuminati in order to create an American branch of Illuminists that would operate inside American Freemasonry as a most secret society within a secret society. Mazzini wrote a letter to Pike dated January 22, 1870, instructing him on how use Freemasonry as an instrument of Luciferian Illuminism:
This explains Pike’s meteoric rise in Masonry. Until 1853 he had never even heard of the Scottish Rite (p. 244 of Ray Harris’ book, History of the Supreme Council). On page 254 Harris says that Pike was elected to receive the 33° on April 25, 1857. Pike became an “active member” of the Supreme Council on March 20, 1858 (p. 257). He was elected Grand Commander on Jan. 2, 1859. Pike’s Plan for the New World Order Canadian Naval Commander William Guy Carr (1895-1959) wrote on page 224-225 of his book, The Red Fog Over America,
Albert Pike’s 1871 letter to Mazzini proposed three world wars needed to accomplish their purposes:
The frog of Freemasonry is Witchcraft (Luciferianism). The frog of Judaism and evangelical Christianity is militant Zionism. Islam’s frog is militant Islam fighting Zionists and Christians. Few sincere followers of these frogs know that they are being used for a sinister purpose and will ultimately be betrayed by their unknown leaders. On the other hand, these Luciferians are also blinded by their own pride and do not realize that the God of Heaven is using them to destroy all of man’s religious systems on earth to prepare the way for the Kingdom of God. That peaceable Kingdom will not be ruled by violent men God’s
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