The Woe Trumpets

The Woe Trumpets

"And I beheld, and heard an angel (in Greek, eagle) 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!" (Rev. 8:13.)

The three woe trumpets represent God's special judgments on it the mystical Babylon at the time the ingathering of the dispersed Israel is in progress, and especially while the two parts of the temple movement are developing. If not for the woe trumpets, the Babylonian authority would hinder altogether the work of the living God, using the cannon power to crush the movement of the people connected with it.

Even these woe trumpets have thrown their shadows ahead of them, as seen in the onward march of the Arabian tribes against the Constantinian kingdom, which they totally destroyed and, as a result, erected their headquarters in the very capital, Constan tinople. Mohammed himself started these peoples on the war path, and Mohammed II. and Osman, founder of the Turkish power, continued, assisted by the Ishmaelites from the deserts of Arabia, to undermine and overthrow the so much praised and to heaven exalted Constantinian kingdom of the sun.

What we now want to pay special attention to is the last or conclusive act, and for further explanation concerning the shadows we refer to the book, The Dual Plan, pages 191-194.

Ishmael, Abraham's son with the maid, was the ancestor of the Ishmaelites, and, being related to the dispersed tribes of Israel, they will come to the assistance of Israel at the time of the ingathering. For that reason they have pushed forward and established themselves in the heart of Europe. While on their march against the strongholds of Europe they threatened to undermine and destroy the European thrones, hence the whole of Christendom was in danger of overthrow. Therefore the great powers decided, at some opportune time and through a concerted action, to bind this unruly human stream under their united military power. This took place in the month of August in the year 1840. Since then the Turkish power has been suppressed, not only in Europe but in Asia and Africa as well.

Lord Salisbury, premier of England, a few years ago expressed himself as follows concerning the binding of the Turkish power:

"Turkey is in the significant position, in which it has now stood half a century, mainly because the great world powers have considered it to be necessary for the preservation of peace within Christendom. They came to this conclusion about half a century ago. Were the Ottoman power to fall, there would be danger not only for the respective lands of that power, but the principal danger would be due to the fact that the fire kindled among them, could spread itself to other nations, and involve the powerful and civilized Europe in a dangerous and disastrous conflict. This danger affected the minds of our fathers when they decided to bring the Ottoman power under the European alliance, and this is a danger which still exists."

There and then the great powers of Europe fulfilled the prophecy testifying of the binding of the four angels. The fifth trumpet work was executed by the Ishmaelitish, or Turkish, hordes until the binding power limited their war activity. There they remain standing until the voice from the horns of the golden altar says: "Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates." (Rev. 9:14.) The bound angels represent the four provinces, where the Ishmaelitish races have their principal abode. They are scattered also in other parts of the earth, but there they are subjects to alien governments.

It is at the close of the first "woe," the sixth angel sounds the trumpet, and at the sounding of this trumpet, the angels are loosened. The loosening comes as a result of the nature of the binding, namely the dissolution of the European alliance, or the tract of the great powers, in regard to Turkey. Circumstances will eventually press forth this event and the woe storm will follow.

The first and the second woe are connected with the "bottom less pit." This pit — bottomless abyss — signifies the source of war from which the martial implements originate. China is accredited to be the inventor of gun powder. The Greeks brought the knowledge to Europe during the time Eastern Rome was subject to the attacks of the Ishmaelites. The Romans learned the art from a Greek, and by making suitable arms, they made use of it in their warfare. In this manner the bottomless pit, ever since flowing, was opened, and is today the most important industry of the Christian nations, yea, the principal altar upon which they uninterruptedly sacrifice their treasures. This bottom less pit will eventually cause the ruination of Christendom.

It is seen by Rev. 7: 1, that the four angels hold back the war-storms of the earth, so that they do not break out in a general devastation of the trees and things on the earth, also of the ships on the seas. Hence it is obvious that, when they are let loose, there will at the same time be let loose war-storms from the four parts of the world. The war flame will be kindled in the whole world. The golden altar in the camp of the saints is then fully developed, and the angel with "the seal of the living God" is murdered —sacrificed on the golden altar. The kings "of the sun rising" — the 144,000 — are sealed, and the temple-movement has then separated all the people of God from the apostate nations. The hour of extermination has then arrived for the mystical Babylon and terrible will be its end.

Rev 7:1 And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.

The eagle, which John heard to cry woe, signifies the great eagle standard, waving over the armies of Rome when they sub jugated the world. Then it didn't cry woe, but under the impres sion of the imminent danger, when the judgments of the living God press on against the strongholds of the christened Babylon, he cries: "Woe! woe! woe!"

The nations, having adopted both the religious and political power of Rome, are included under the same eagle, and they are the very ones who are subject to these woe-cries. Like Rome they have clothed themselves in a military power, with which, contrary to Christ's doctrine, they have crushed beneath themselves land and people, and like Rome they have persecuted truth and justice whenever they have exposed their position and work to be at variance with the Word of God, although at the same time they profess to be Christians, as if Christ were leading them in their work.

Euphrates, at which the four angels are bound, signifies the Arabian human stream, which, like the natural River Euphrates, flowed through the typical Babylon and which became the cause of that nation's final fate, flows through the mystical or christened Babylon. When the four angels (the principal powers), that control 270 million Mohammedans, are let loose, then this human river will overflow the fields of Christendom in order to avenge themselves of the wrong they have had to suffer.

The night of the avenging angel in Egypt was only a shadow of the scene of terror that Christendom will be subject to. All the tribes of the earth who have grievances against the Chris tian nations will then make common cause in avenging them selves. In the light of the prophetic lamp, we say in the words of the poet:

"Fearful the visions, for blood-streams are running,

Women and children are slain ev'rywhere!

But there the victor a crown is attaining,

Faith must be perfect, so God does declare."