Re: Dianne Talsma-Concerning the last half of Daniel’s 70th Week It is my understanding that the first 3 Seals represent the first half of Daniel’s 70th Week. The Fourth Seal represents the middle of Daniel’s 70th Week. While Seals 5-7 represent the end of Daniel’s 70th Week. So, the 4th Seal starts the second half of this prophetic week. Note that the when this seal is opened, great turmoil is depicted. In other words, at this point is when I believe WW3 will occur. There will also be great disasters-earthquakes and hurricanes. The world economy will crumble. But, this is why the Anti-Christ will rise up to call for world peace and security. This turmoil and uncertainty sets-up his allotted reign of 42 months. When he declares to be God, actually many will believe him and choose to follow him. Shortly, thereafter, he institutes the mark of the beast, because he will also control the economic system, which at this point is in total disarray. Now, let me say something about WW3. I believe that the United States first gets hit with a multi-terrorist attack (nuclear) in the near future. Many will surely die from this horrible attack. And, our economy will crash. Then, after this (months later), we will be at war with China (abroad and here), over Taiwan. Then, suddenly Russia will strike our land with nuclear missiles from their submarines. Our missile defense system, which is not up to par, will fail. China will invade the U. S. through the West Coast and Russia will come in through Canada and the East Coast as many have prophesied. Florida will experience a mega-hurricane and southern California will experience a mega-earthquake. Now, at this same time, Arab countries like Egypt and Syria will attack Israel. This is when Israel retaliates against Syria and turns Damascus into a ruinous heap. This is precisely why all this time is called THE GREAT TRIBULATION. But, going back to the middle of this "Week", when the A/C commits the abomination of desolation; this is also the time when the two witnesses start their ministry which runs concurrently for 3 ½ years. At the end of their ministry is when the beast kills them; but after 3 days they resurrect and are then raptured or redeemed from this earth. Now, in the midst of all this, the Church will boldly go forth as many will finally be ready to accept Christ. In other words, it will be a great time of harvesting souls for the kingdom and at the same time the Church will finally become without spot or wrinkle. This is what we have been prepared for. This will certainly be the most glorious time for the Church, even though it will be in the midst of this great turmoil. Then after Seal 5 is opened, many Christians will suffer persecution and some will even be martyred for the cause of Christ. Then, after the Church has fully completed her work and service to the Lord, the sixth Seal will be opened and we will see the celestial sign of the sun, moon, and stars. Matthew 24 clearly states that this sign occurs after the tribulation of those days. Then, immediately after this, the Rapture of the Church takes place, for the Day of the Lord has come. It is also at this time that the Day of His Wrath has come for the unsaved and this is why they mourn. The 7th Seal contains the 7 Trumpet and 7 Bowl Judgments that will be poured upon the inhabitants of the earth. And, the scriptures clearly state that the Day of the Lord, which is also known as the Day of His Wrath, lasts one year, not 3 ½ years nor one 24-hour day. But this is our blessed hope- that we will be raptured out of this time of Wrath, which is only meant for the unbelievers. I want to include the following prophecy, which I believe confirms what I have just described above.
[For the sake of brevity, I did not include the whole prophecy, but have been careful not to change its message]
Tommy Hicks (July 25, 1961) …The greatest thing that the church of Jesus Christ has ever been given lies straight ahead. …God is going to take the do-nothings, the nobodies, the unheard-of, and the no-accounts. He is going to take every man and every woman and he is going to give to them this outpouring of the Spirit of God. … It is not only going to be the rain, the former rain and the latter rain, but he is going to give to his people in these last days a double portion of the power of God! … I saw a figure in white, in glistening white - the most glorious thing that I have ever seen in my entire life. I did not see the face, but somehow I knew it was the Lord Jesus Christ, and he stretched forth his hand, and as he did, he would stretch it forth to one, and to another, and to another. And as he stretched forth his hand upon the nations and the people of the world - men and women - as he pointed toward them, this liquid light seemed to flow from his hands into them, and a mighty anointing of God came upon them, and those people began to go forth in the name of the Lord. … I do not know how long I watched it. It seemed it went into days and weeks and months. And I beheld our Lord as he continued to stretch forth his hand; but there was a tragedy. There were many people as he stretched forth his hand that refused the anointing of God and the call of God. I saw men and women that I knew. People that I felt would certainly receive the call of God. But as he stretched forth his hand toward this one and toward that one, they simply bowed their head and began to back away. And each of those that seemed to bow down and back away seemed to go into darkness. Blackness seemed to swallow them everywhere. …I was bewildered as I watched it, but these people that he had anointed, hundreds of thousands of people all over the world, in Africa, England, Russia, China, America, all over the world, the anointing of God was upon these people as they went forward in the name of the Lord. … And this is the miracle of it - this is the glorious miracle of it - those people would stretch forth their hands exactly as the Lord did, and it seemed as if there was this same liquid fire in their hands. As they stretched forth their hands they said, "According to His Word, be thou made whole." As these people continued in this mighty end-time ministry, I did not fully realize what it was, and I looked to the Lord and said, "What is the meaning of this?" And He said, "This is that which I will do in the last days. I will restore all that the cankerworm, the palmerworm, the caterpillar - I will restore all that they have destroyed. This, my people, in the end times will go forth. As a mighty army shall they sweep over the face of the earth. …All over the world these people went, and they came through fire, and through pestilence, and through famine [Great Tribulation-4th seal of Revelation]. Neither fire nor persecution, nothing seemed to stop them. Angry mobs came to them with swords and with guns. And like Jesus, they passed through the multitudes and they could not find them, but they went forth in the name of the Lord, and everywhere they stretched forth their hands, the sick were healed, the blind eyes were opened. There was not a long prayer, and after I had reviewed the vision many times in my mind, and I thought about it many times, I realized that I never saw a church, and I never saw or heard a denomination, but these people were going in the name of the Lord of Hosts. Hallelujah! As they marched forth in everything they did as the ministry of Christ in the end times, these people were ministering to the multitudes over the face of the earth. Tens of thousands, even millions seemed to come to the Lord Jesus Christ as these people stood forth and gave the message of the coming kingdom, in this last hour. It was so glorious, but it seems as though there were those that rebelled, and they would become angry and they tried to attack those workers that were giving the message. God is going to give the world a demonstration in this last hour that the world has never known. These men and women are of all walks of life, degrees will mean nothing. I saw these workers as they were going over the face of the earth. When one would stumble and fall, another would come and pick him up. There were no "big I" and "little you," but every mountain was brought low and every valley was exalted, and they seemed to have one thing in common - there was a divine love, a divine love that seemed to flow forth from these people as they worked together, and as they lived together. It was the most glorious sight that I have ever known. Jesus Christ was the theme of their life. They continued and it seemed that days went by as I stood and beheld this sight. I could only cry, and sometimes I laughed. It was so wonderful as these people went throughout the face of the whole earth, bringing forth in this last end time. As I watched from the very heaven itself, there were times when great deluges of this liquid light seemed to fall upon great congregations, and that congregation would lift up their hands and seemingly praise God for hours and even days as the Spirit of God came upon them. God said, "I will pour my Spirit upon all flesh," and that is exactly this thing. And to every man and every woman that received this power, and the anointing of God, the miracles of God, there was no ending to it. …I dropped to my knees and began to pray again, and I said, "Lord, I know that this time is coming soon!" And then again, as these people were going about the face of the earth, a great persecution (the 5th seal) seemed to come from every angle. Suddenly there was another great clap of thunder, that seemed to resound around the world, and I heard again the voice, the voice that seemed to speak, "Now this is my people. This is my beloved bride." And when the voice spoke, I looked upon the earth and I could see the lakes and the mountains. The graves were opened and people from all over the world, the saints of all ages, seemed to be rising. And as they rose from the grave, suddenly all these people came from every direction, from the east and the west, from the north and the south. As the dead in Christ seemed to be rising first [the Rapture-after the 6th seal is opened], I could hardly comprehend it. It was so marvelous. It was so far beyond anything I could ever dream or think of. But as this body suddenly began to form, it took shape in the form of this mighty giant. It was arrayed in the most beautiful gorgeous white. Its garments were without spot or wrinkle as its body began to form, and the people of all ages seemed to be gathered into this body, and slowly, slowly, as it began to form up into the very heavens, suddenly from the heavens above, the Lord Jesus came, and became the head, and I heard another clap of thunder that said, "This is My beloved bride for whom I have waited. She will come forth even tried by fire. This is she that I have loved from the beginning of time." As I watched, my eyes suddenly turned to the far north, and I saw seemingly destruction: men and women in anguish and crying out, and buildings in destruction. Then I heard again, the fourth voice that said, "Now is My wrath (starts after the 6th seal is opened and is contained in the 7th seal) being poured out upon the face of the earth." From the ends of the whole world, the wrath of God seemed to be poured out and it seemed that there were great vials of God's wrath being poured out upon the face of the earth. I can remember it as though it happened a moment ago. I shook and trembled as I beheld the awful sight of seeing the cities, and whole nations going down into destruction. I could hear the weeping and wailing. I could hear people crying. They seemed to cry as they went into caves, but the caves in the mountains opened up. They leaped into water, but the water would not drown them. There was nothing that could destroy them. They wanted to take their lives, but they could not. Then again I turned my eyes to this glorious sight, this body arrayed in beautiful white, shining garments. Slowly, slowly, it began to lift from the earth, and as it did, I awoke. What a sight I had beheld! I had seen the end-time ministries - the last hour…