THE DAY OF THE LORD

The first six seals constitute the time of Jacobs trouble. The seventh seal, which consists of seven trumps, is the Day of the Lord.

This is a cruel time of God the Father’s wrath and fierce anger..

Isa 13:9  Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it. 

It is not a time to look forward to.

Amo 5:18  Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.

It is the time of Gods vengeance on the heathen nations.

Eze 30:3  For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen. 

Isa 26:21  For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain. 

The first four trumps are bad enough

Rev 8:6  And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound. 
Rev 8:7  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. 

Ezekiel chapter 38 tells of the Nations, which attack the Israelites who are being protected by God

The Israelites, who have come out of captivity, together with some nations who had joined with them; had been located by God in the waste places of Israel. They seem an easy target for heathen nations.

Eze 38:8  After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them. 

Eze 38:11  And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates, 
Eze 38:12  To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land. 

Ezekiel chapter 38 gives the events that take place. God protects Israel. The first trump is Gods punishment on the nations that attack the unarmed Israelites. Compare the following verse with the first trump.

Eze 38:22  And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone. 

Rev 8:7  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. 

The second trump creates havoc in the oceans.

Rev 8:8  And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood; 
Rev 8:9  And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed. 

The third trump poisons a third of fresh water.

Rev 8:10  And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great 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; 
Rev 8:11  And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter. 

The fourth trump shows great signs in the heavens.

Rev 8:12  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 as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise. 

The last three trumps are called woes.

Rev 8:13  And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound! 

The fifth angel sounds and the bottomless pit is opened. The locusts that come out of the pit; have not been seen by mankind; they have a king who is the angel of the bottomless pit. Joel ch. 2 also mentions this time. The locusts are the first woe.

Rev 9:1  And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.

Rev 9:2  And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.

Joe 2:10  The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining: 

Rev 9:3  And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. 
Rev 9:4  And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads. 
Rev 9:5  And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man. 

Joe 2:6  Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness. 

Rev 9:6  And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. 
Rev 9:7  And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.

Joe 2:4  The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run. 

Rev 9:8  And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. 
Rev 9:9  And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle. 

Joe 2:5  Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array. 

Rev 9:10  And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months. 
Rev 9:11  And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon. 

God has unknown surprises in his armory.

Jer 50:25  The LORD hath opened his armory, and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation: for this is the work of the Lord GOD of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans. 

God creates new things for the end time which no one has seen.

Isa 48:6  Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare it? I have showed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them. 
Isa 48:7  They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them. 

A third of mankind gets killed with the sounding of the sixth angel. The sixth trump is the second woe. 

The fifth angel brought forth unknown locusts, which hurt, but do not kill. The sixth angel brings forth previously unknown horses with riders. These are described in Rev. ch. 9. They kill a third of mankind. 

Rev 9:13  And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, 
Rev 9:14  Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. 
Rev 9:15  And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men. 

Revelation ch. 9 describes the horses and riders who kill a third of mankind. There are 200 million of them. The people who are not killed still do not turn to God. God calls the sixth trump a plague. The fifth and sixth trump are part of Gods armory, which mankind has never before seen. The heathen still do not repent.

Rev 9:20  And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: 
Rev 9:21  Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

An angel comes with a little book at the end of the second woe.

Rev 10:1  And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire: 
Rev 10:2  And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth, 

An angel had given a book to the Ezekiel watchman, prior to the time of Jacobs trouble. This book contained lamentations, mourning, and woe.

Eze 2:7  And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear: for they are most rebellious. 
Eze 2:8  But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat that I give thee. 
Eze 2:9  And when I looked, behold, a hand was sent unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book was therein; 
Eze 2:10  And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe. 

The first book contained the end time prophecies up to the end of the second woe. The prophecies of the first book are finished at the second woe.

Rev 10:7  But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets. 

The watchman, once again receives a book which contains understanding of the last woe. The first book contained bad news, the little book will contain bad news and then the good news of the Kingdom of God.

Rev 10:2  And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth, 

This is what it means to eat the words of God.

Jer 15:16  Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts. 

The first book was to Israel: the second book is to the whole world. 

Rev 10:11  And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings. 

Gods two witnesses eat the little book.

Rev 11:3  And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.

Gods two witnesses are prophets, who prophesy for three and a half years, they are killed at the end of the second woe.

The two witnesses are killed by the beast and resurrected three and a half days later. Seven thousand people die in an earthquake: at the end of their prophecy. 

Rev 11:7  And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them. 
Rev 11:12  And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them. 
Rev 11:13  And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven. 
Rev 11:14  The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly. 

The third woe includes the gathering of all nations to the great battle of god Almighty, and the return of Jesus Christ. The proper understanding will be given by the two witnesses when the little book is eaten. 

Mat 24:21  For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. 
Mat 24:22  And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened. 

The seventh angel sounds.

Rev 11:15  And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign forever and ever. 
Rev 10:7  But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets. 

The prophecies of the book which Ezekiel had to eat, will be clearly understood. They give end time knowledge up until the sounding of the seventh angel.