The Opening of the Sixth Seal – Part II of III

Omega Message – December 2001

Cecil duCille

(Message given December 1990)

“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 9:16)

Let us continue. We were discussing the reason for the destruction, and we had cited the situation with Abraham, when the angels had come and were about to destroy Sodom. Abraham asked and the angels agreed that if they found ten righteous people they would save the city. Well, apparently they could not find ten, and so the cities were destroyed. It was because of the sin, but on the other hand, the cities could have been saved if there were ten righteous people. So, therefore, when we are talking about the sin of the people as being the cause of the destruction of the Twin Towers in New York on the 11th day of September, 2001, we need to consider also that part of the reason for the destruction was because there was no righteousness found among those who were supposed to be righteous.

Now, a nagging question remains concerning the date. Why then? Disasters have happened before. There was the destruction in the embassies in Nairobi and in other places. There has been the blowing up of the USS Cole a year ago killing 17 men, and terrorists have been attacking us for quite a while. Why now? The answer I gave, which is what I will repeat, is that the American people have the greatest military in the world. It is the strongest nation on the earth. It is the world’s only super power at this time; a nation that has the ability to destroy the whole world, if necessary. This nation, however, has never had the spirit or the emotional desire to destroy mankind. So then, that being lacking, the atom bomb and all the other destructive elements would have remained there for time immemorial, it would never be used.

You ask the question then, why is it? The scriptures said that the four spirits in the Euphrates were to be loosed and that it is in our day; and with the loosing of these four spirits, that they were going to destroy human flesh, and that there would be no restraint upon the destruction. So, we see then that the devil had to do something to America to get America to rise up and to really use its great destructive power.

Now, where did this spirit come from? We believe (from Revelation 9:14) that this spirit came from the Euphrates River basin-from the Moslems, and from those who are misguided in believing that they have a right to destroy.

Now, what was it that misguided them? How could so many people, all of a sudden, get the misguided idea that they should destroy the United States and the Western Civilization? First of all, it is because the United States is joined with Israel, and they want to destroy Israel. Of course, you wonder why they want to destroy Israel, because it is not really the land that they want. There is enough land in the Middle East to house all the Arabs and the Palestinians that there are. As a matter of fact, the United Nations and America and all the other nations of the world would be all too happy to build them houses and give them free, if they would only stop fighting. There is, however, a spirit in them to fight; and as we have seen before, this spirit comes right up, coming through Ishmael. (Note: We did not mention “Esau,” but it was the same thing with Esau, that there is this spirit of Esau today, and it is the spirit to destroy and to fight and to kill.)

Now, the devil had to do something to create a situation where America would be so emotionally stirred up and incensed that she would rise up and destroy; and I have seen a spirit rise up now in the people of America that never was there before, and never could have been. These spirits entered the people of the United States because of the World Trade Center destruction. The ruins are there smoldering for over two months now. The fires down in the deeper parts of the rubble still have not gone out, and I am telling you, even though they continue working on a twenty-four hour shift, it will take at least a year for them to clear that rubble out of there. Several buildings were destroyed and came crashing down, and many people have been killed. The people of the United States are united as never before. I have never seen this happen before. The Democrats and the Republicans were bickering, and no sooner did the World Trade Center get hit, than we find that the American people are all together, and they are together with one desire-to catch the people who did this dastardly deed, and to punish them.

So, we find that now America has declared war against “terrorism.” Not against Islam, but against terrorism. Some of the terrorists are Saudi Arabians, and they have declared a holy war (Jihad), and unfortunately, some of the other Islamic peoples are joining together with them. Before this is all over, all the nations of the Euphrates River basin will be fighting against the United States; and the truth is, I think Satan has set a trap, and he has gotten the people of the world to be very, very angry at this time.

So then, we see the anger of the people, but also the wrath of God; for this is the time when God is going to pour out His wrath upon mankind, to bring everything to a head. The Scriptures tell us that there are two things that God is going to do in the seventh millennium.

Let us read from Genesis, Chapter 2, and Verse 2,

“And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.”

Today, we are in the seventh millennium, and so this is the time when God will end His work, and rest. Now, this is God’s rest today, and it is not that He was tired, and now He rested; but that the seventh millennium is a time when the world must come to rest, and that the warring factions will cease, and that God Almighty will reign on the earth; and for this, we rejoice. However, before this, we must go through the “midnight” of destruction. The beast must have his way, and we must go through the darkness before we come to the light.

We are going to continue on, and show you where the beast will rise up in the human realm, but let us continue here with the four angels.

Now, you are asking yourself the question, “Where are these four angels, and what are they about to do?” The Scriptures say that they are loosed. Were they bound? Yes! They were bound, and the reason that they were bound is because they are so wicked and so vicious, that if they were loosed before, it says that no flesh would be saved. God had to wait until His people came to a point where they could speak the Word, and where they could hide under the blood. The Scriptures tell us that there is a period of time when mankind would hide; and we find it in Isaiah 26, and in Verses 20-21, “Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. 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.”

Here, we see God telling us that there is a period of time, which is now, when mankind must hide in God. This then, is the very important part of this message, wherein we will come to the point of telling you how to hide in God, and what we should do in this time. Let me repeat this point, for emphasis, that from the beginning of time these four angels have been working in the people of the Euphrates River basin area and its tributaries, and they have caused war to be the chief production of this people. We find that they are always fighting somebody, and fighting among themselves. The Palestinians have a cause against Israel, and the cause is that Israel took their land. Well, from the Bible, if they were “People of the Book,” as they say, they should realize that the Word of God says that God gave the land of Palestine to Isaac. It was not given to the Palestinians. Let us read from Deuteronomy, Chapter 32, and from Verses 7-8.

“Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee. When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.”

We see that God is saying here that each nation had their boundaries.

We will read also from Joshua, Chapter 1; and starting from Verse 2,

“Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel. Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses. From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.”

I will read one more scripture here for you. Exodus, Chapter 32, and Verse 13, where Moses is speaking to the Lord God,

“Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.”

From these scriptures, we can clearly see that God did not just cast humanity on the earth, as seed that fell where they may, but that He did deliberately make boundaries for each nation; and that each nation had a place; and that He did put Israel into that small place, that small proportion of the land that was given to Abraham. It was given to Israel and to Isaac.

Now, I want to read one more scripture, and that is from Acts, Chapter 17; and as the Spirit gave this to Paul, I know that he was speaking out of the Holy Ghost, because he was going right along with what the Word of God said. In Verse 26, he said,

“And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation.”

We see that not only the boundaries were set for each nation, but that there was a time appointed.

Let us look further into the Word of God concerning these four angels, which had been bound but are now loosed. We do believe that they were loosed on September 11, 2001 because on that day they were allowed to be loosed upon the whole earth. For, we can see that the spirit of the destroyers (this spirit that is in the terrorist)-it has taken hold of the people of the United States of America and it has taken hold of the European people; and the whole world is now kind of being indoctrinated by this spirit. Now, what I mean by being indoctrinated, is that the spirit of the “beast” has been rising up in a people, and they keep on attacking and attacking the people of the West and the rest of the world. They blew up the embassies. They destroyed airplanes. They have been hijacking and they have been doing a lot of wicked things. They took a cruise ship and they killed some of the people, and it has been going on like this for many, many years. Nevertheless, there was no definite policy, or even the will in the nations of the West (America and the other Western nations) to deal with this thing in as savage a way as they are now, having been turned to it by the recent slaying of many innocent people by the terrorists. For terrorism today has come to be the attacking of innocent people, of civilians, by other people who are doing it for the purpose of getting world attention. So, this spirit that has been ruling in them for years, and apparently has been inhibited and has been bound, has now been let loose; and it has been let loose in that the people of America now are determined to see this thing come to an end; and according to the Word of God here, it is actually going to cause a great, terrible war.

You know, I must have told the story before, I can tell it again. I was coming out of my sleep one night recently (about four or five months ago), and the Spirit of God came to me and showed me that there would be a great atomic war in the year 2008. Yet, the way it is looking now, it looks like it will be before that. I know, however, that what God says must be so; and I am not speaking what I think. I am speaking what I heard.

Now, if it is not so, then I will come back and apologize to you all, and say it did not seem that I heard from God. But, as it is now, I definitely believe that it is God that I was speaking to. I believe that it is God that showed me this; and at the same time, I also believe that it is God that showed me that the word “Euphrates” means the whole Euphrates valley and these nations that live in this area. All these nations, starting from Armenia and Azerbaijan (which is part of Russia), and coming down through Iran, Iraq, Syria, and down into the Shat-el-Aram and all of the river basin that feeds these people with water and with life-this is what the Lord is speaking about.

Now, we see that the war today is in Afghanistan, because the Taliban have encouraged and have been a shelter for terrorists, and they have built camps for terrorists and trained them to go all over the world; and now to make this recent strike against America with the destruction of the Trade Center in New York, and the killing of more than 3,000 people. The smoke from the rubble there is still going up, and this is the situation today.

So, I do believe that today we are now hearing the voice of the sixth angel blowing the sixth trumpet. Now, you ask the question, what is the trumpet saying? I will repeat it. THE MESSAGE OF THE SIXTH ANGEL IS THAT WE SHOULD HIDE-HIDE UNDER THE SHADOW OF THE ALMIGHTY. The question then is, “How do I hide under the shadow of the Almighty?” I can hide under the shadow of the Almighty only by believing Him, having faith in Him, trusting Him to protect me.

The sixth seal, then, is now opened, and the sixth trumpet (message) is blowing. Let us read about it further in Revelation 9:16, where it says,

“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. And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.”

In other words, this is going to develop into a full-fledged war where two hundred million men will be going into battle at the same time. Of course, the Scriptures say that they will be coming from the “east.” In Revelation 16:12, it says,

“And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.”

I will not deal with that right now, but what I want to tell you is that this war is going to escalate. I had a word from the Lord on the 6th of June, 2001, and what I heard (the Lord) say to me was,

“Two hundred days after ‘masscar,’ there will be blood and fire on the earth.”

This is the word that was dropped in my heart and in my ears, and I said, “Two hundred days after masscar?” I wondered, “What is ‘masscar’?” So, praise God, as I was telling my wife, she realized that I was saying, “massacre.” Now, that was before September 11, and I had also called a sister in Oklahoma, and I was telling her, and I said, “masscar,” and she said, “That is the word ‘massacre.’ ” So then, I believe what the Lord is saying, is that two hundred days after the massacre of the Twin Towers (with the killing of over 3,000 people) that there will be “blood and fire on the earth.” Now, if my calculation is not wrong, that would bring us to the 30th of March, 2002. So then, this is saying that another phase will begin on the 30th of March.

Let me just look with you at this “blood and fire” business. Let us look into Joel, Chapter 2, and the 30th Verse,

“And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.”

Some of the guided missiles that are being used in Afghanistan to try to root the Taliban out of these rocks where they are hiding, they are being directed from satellites out in space. The satellite sends a beam, and directs the missile right into the very spot that is determined for it to go. I am saying that in the heavens (in the sky), there is all this wonder. All these wondrous things are going on in the sky, and I am not excluding the fact that there might be yet some celestial display we will see up there, but what we are seeing right now is that the fire that is being directed from the sky is hitting its target down here, and there is a lot of blood that is being ushered up into the atmosphere.

“And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.”

The “pillars of smoke” are, at the least, the mushroom cloud. Today in the news coverage of the war in Afghanistan there was a mushroom cloud after one of the great mighty explosions, and I think that we really are going to see those pillars of cloud rising up again from the earth; but it touched my imagination as the Spirit of God said to me, “blood and fire on the earth.” He did not say to me “pillars of smoke,” but He said, “blood and fire on the earth.” So, I can imagine that the pillars of smoke will come later on.

You know, there is a thought that I would like to put to your mind concerning these prophecies, and that is that sometimes only a part of a prophecy comes to pass, and the other part is remaining and does not come to pass. For example, this same prophecy in Joel, I am going to show it to you in the New Testament, where Peter, referring to it many years later at Pentecost, applied it to their time, whereas actually only a part of it had come to pass at that time. It is in Chapter 2 of Acts, and beginning at Verse 14,

“But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words: For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day. But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel (Joel 2:28-32); And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy: And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”

Some of these things are still yet to come, for when Peter spoke this the “sun” wasn’t turning to darkness and the moon wasn’t turning to blood, and there was not the “blood” and “fire” and “pillars of smoke.” There was no blood, and there was no fire (well, at Pentecost the fire was on their head), but there was not the vapors of smoke and the pillars of smoke. So, if you understand, it was only a part of the prophecy that came to pass then, and that the rest of the prophecy will continue and maximize and maximize until the whole of it comes to pass. So, what I am saying is that in our time we are going to see this prophecy come to pass in its entirety.

It says in Verse 17,

“And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.”

Well, this old man is both seeing visions and dreaming dreams, so you know, it is the Spirit of God that is moving upon people making them see visions and dream dreams. We then, should at least realize it and recognize it, that it is the Spirit of God upon people that makes them see visions and dream dreams, especially those who see visions of God and dream dreams of God. For you know that dreams and visions can come from somewhere else besides God. There are at least three points from which the dreams can enter into a person’s soul: (a) from his own mind, (b) from Satan, and (c) from God. So, we see three agents there, and it seems to me that we should submit to God so that our dreams come from God.

So, since I have that latitude, let me tell you another recent dream that I had since this war against the terrorists began. I had this dream that I went out on my porch, and looked up into the sky, into the heavens, and out in space there was a great surge of something like a black (not a real black, but a grayish black) muddy looking cloud. Then it kind of wore off; and then it surged again, and it came nearer, as if it came down to where our clouds are. Then, as I watched, it made another surge, like a boiling motion, and it came right down to me. It was coming to my porch, and I reached out my hand and guided it unto the floor of the porch. Sometimes we have dreams and visions and we do not know what the meanings of them are, but sometimes God puts in our hearts a little thought, because as soon as it came down onto my porch, the Spirit of the Lord spoke, and He said, “Graves from outer space.” He said, “Graves from outer space.” What I felt about it and saw in it was that death and destruction will be coming into our homes. The graves-it was like they were ground up, and they came in a muddy form; and they landed on my porch. I do believe then, that the Lord is speaking about the many deaths and the destruction that is going to come from space and from the weaponry that we are using, not only upon this land but upon other lands.

Before we move from this, let us look at these four angels again, and see what they do and what is their thing, and what is the nature that they give into the human realm. Let us turn again to Chapter 9 of Revelation; and beginning with Verse 20, we read,

“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: Neither repented they of their

(1) murders, nor of their

(2) sorceries, nor of their

(3) fornication, nor of their

(4) thefts.”

Now, we see here four angels. It says, “murder… sorceries… fornication… thefts.” These are the things that mark their nature and what they feed into the people who live in this valley. But, it is all starting with the false worship. He said here that they worshipped “devils.” When a man says that God speaks to him, and we see it making him into a fanatic and a person who is willing to go out and kill any amount of people because he believes that this is what God is telling him to do, then we know that he is not talking to the right God.

Although he might think it is God, it is the devil.

Now, the scriptures here tell us that they did not repent of their worshipping of devils, because the thing is, when you start worshipping devils, you will get the nature of devils. We are going to talk here then about what the Scriptures say about men receiving the mark of the beast upon the forehead,” where something of a nature that is very alien is coming into the human realm. We have the Word of God speaking to us that there are four angels that would be loosed in the Euphrates, and that these angels have a job to do. They want to be loosed into the whole world. They want to take over the world. They want everybody to have the same kind of spirit that they have.

Now, it is not the first that we see evil angels let loose among humanity, and bringing out doctrines. They always hide under some worship. They always hide under some religion; and I am telling you that any religion without Salvation-without godliness, love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith in God, and all the attributes of God) coming forth in people-it is not of God! A religion that tells you to go out and kill in the name of God-this is not Almighty God. It is not the Yahweh of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, and Israel. For the seventh Commandment (in Exodus 20:5) says, “Thou shalt not kill (murder).” Many translations translate it “kill,” but the meaning of what God said here is “murder.” Let us look at how this has worked in humanity. We will look at the Christian first. Let us look at ourselves first.

Jesus Christ came and said that He had the true religion, the truth of God’s Word. He had the whole thing for He was the Living Word, and He gave the Word of God to His disciples. They then went out and preached the Word of God, and the Spirit of God moved through Jerusalem and through the whole world, because at Pentecost there were all the nations present among those who were saved, and the Word of God was scattered over the whole earth. Then men began to add their words to it, and began to change it; and as they continued, we find all manner of monstrosities coming out and calling itself by the name of “Christian.” So that, to this day, the average man does not know what a Christian is, because it is so mixed up and so hidden under lies that it is very difficult to find the truth.

Because, you see, a truth with just a little lie in it, is a lie; and a lie with a lot of truth in it, is still a lie. So, the point I am driving at is that it came up to the time when we had what we call “The Inquisition.” Men were going around and killing in the name of God; we also had the crusaders who went down to Palestine, and they killed both Jews and Arabs alike in the name of God and Christianity! So then, both the Jews and the Arabs developed a very bad impression of what Christianity is. Christianity, however, is love, joy, peace, and all godliness-this is Christianity!

We find also that men began to write books, and they began to disfigure the Gospel; and from some of the different churches we had coming from them what they called catechisms; and the things that they taught in these catechisms definitely were not from God, but they were dogmas added on to the Word of God, such as the saying, “Every heretic is worthy of death!” This is something contrary to what the Scripture says, because Jesus says in Matthew 5:44-45,

“…pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven…” Contrasting with this, when we look into the Qur’an (Koran), which is the holy book of the Moslem religion, we find that it says this in Surah 9, and Verse 123,

“O ye who believe! Fight those of the disbelievers who are near to you, and let them find harshness in you, and know that Allah is with those who keep their duty (unto him).”

In 2 Corinthians 3:6, the apostle Paul said that, “…the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.” We find that there is no life for anyone in following a religion, doing according to religious practices what the religion says to do, and expecting then that he has eternal life because of his own doings (how many times he repeats a prayer, or how many times he bows before the Lord, or whatever else it is). All religious practices are in vain, and so we see that Satan has found here a very, very fertile ground.

I would like to speak to you about the mark of the beast as mentioned in the Bible, which is a mark in the mind-something that takes hold of a human mind and makes him less than human. We will go into this at this time. In order to fully understand the scriptures that relate to the beast and his mark, we need to look in Revelation, Chapter 13. To get the gist of the understanding of what we are reading, let me just skim through the chapter, beginning at Verse 1.

“And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.”

Right there, we see different kingdoms: one represented by a lion, one represented by a bear, and one represented by a leopard. These are certain kingdoms in the world that are shown here coming together to form a “beast” government that is going to rule over the whole world. We need to explain what is meant by a “beast,” or a “beast” government, but let us go on here to Verse 4, where it says that they worshipped the dragon.

“And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast….”

We remember that when we went into the Word concerning the loosing of the four spirits in the River Euphrates, we saw that these four devils were leading people to worship devils (Ref. Revelation 9:20-21). The four angels that had been bound were leading people into the wrong worship, and we find today all kinds of people doing it. We find it in the Christian realm, we find it in the Moslem realm, we find it among the Jews. We find it then, in the world’s three main religions, so that everywhere you go you will find people worshipping the wrong God, thinking that they are worshipping the true God, who is Yahweh.

So, we look at this in Revelation 13, and we see the description of the beasts and all that, going down to Verse 16,

“And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.”

In reading the Chapter, you see that it started out with a kingdom (He saw, “…a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns”), then it referred to a man (“Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.”), and then it referred to a mark, or a nature coming into man. In other words, it is like it is maximizing. When you receive the “mark” of the beast in your forehead, it is the “nature” of this thing that you are receiving in your mind.

Now, remember that we were looking at four angels being loosed. They were loosed in the world, but they were specifically loosed from the river Euphrates. That means that the people who were in the Euphrates region, who were in the very cradle of humanity-they began to submit to the devil first. This is, of course, because they were the first people. The devil then, has built mansions in their hearts and in their lineage, so that now they have become marked by this nature to worship the wrong God and to be of a “beast” nature. In other words, it has become a nature within the people, where they do not allow reason or intellect to disturb their bent towards a religious position. It started in Nimrod. He was the first man to create an army; the first antichrist; an incestuous dictator; religious; a builder of cities; and a worshipper of the devil.

We find in this day, that this religious position has led people into mindless things like the recent attack against the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York. When human beings can hijack a plane with human beings aboard, and drive it at five hundred miles an hour into a tower, bringing down the tower and killing many innocent people, then we can see that they have lost every human quality and have become beasts. By the mercy of God, they only killed somewhere like three or four thousand people, as actually they could have easily killed twenty thousand. It was God’s mercy that He made certain circumstances, which caused a lot of people to escape.

We are talking about the “mark of the beast,” where something has been happening to the human mind. Now, let me explain the position for you, that you might understand. I will go into Scripture and show you some of the many, many scriptures that refer to men as beasts.

A man becomes a beast when he no longer allows his spirit to control his mind. We are made by God to be spirit, soul, and body; and when a man allows another spirit to come in between his soul and his spirit, it will lead him to do things which no human would ever do to another human. A nature is formed in him, and he gets a “beast” nature. Nevertheless, there is one good thing that God has promised-that if any man desires to know the truth, the responsibility is upon God to give him truth. So that, there is no man who is taught as a Moslem or as anything else, who will be able to say to God that he never had an opportunity for truth.

I know a man who was taken as a child, as a babe, and handed to the devil. He grew up to be a Satanist of great proportions, yet God had the responsibility one-day to appear to him. The day came, and God came to him and said, “I am Jesus Christ,” and all this man’s power of sorcery fell from him and he had to bow before God. So, God has a time when every man must come to that knowledge. I will give you a scripture for that. In John, Chapter 1, and in Verse 9, the scripture says,

“That was (is) the true Light (Speaking of Jesus Christ) that lighteth every man that cometh into the world.”

So, it means that for every human being-no matter what you are, no matter what religion your people have and no matter what they teach you-that there is a moment of truth and reality that is going to come to you when God appears to you personally.

We have been looking into what the word “beast” means. Let me elaborate a little bit now by going into Scripture to show you where many men have been called beasts. I am looking first at Daniel, Chapter 4, and beginning at Verse 10, where Nebuchadnezzar began to tell his dream to Daniel.

“Thus were the visions of mine head in my bed; I saw, and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof was great. The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth: The leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all: the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the boughs thereof, and all flesh was fed of it.

I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a watcher and an holy one came down from heaven; He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches: Nevertheless leave the stump of his roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth: Let his heart be changed from man’s, and let a beast’s heart be given unto him; and let seven times pass over him. This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men.

This dream I king Nebuchadnezzar have seen. Now thou, O Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation thereof, forasmuch as all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known unto me the interpretation: but thou art able; for the spirit of the holy gods is in thee.

Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar… answered and said, My lord, the dream be to them that hate thee, and the interpretation thereof to thine enemies.

The tree that thou sawest… It is thou, O king, that art grown and become strong: for thy greatness is grown, and reacheth unto heaven, and thy dominion to the end of the earth. And whereas the king saw a watcher and an holy one coming down from heaven, and saying, Hew the tree down, and destroy it; yet leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till seven times pass over him;

This is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree of the most High, which is come upon my lord the king: That they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and they shall wet thee with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over thee, till thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will. And whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the tree roots; thy kingdom shall be sure unto thee, after that thou shalt have known that the heavens do rule. Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquility.

All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty? While the word was in the king’s mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; The kingdom is departed from thee. And they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will. The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar…”

So, what happened is that the man lost the mind of a man and he immediately got the mind of a beast. I believe that God recorded this in the Bible to show us a lesson that man can depart from God until he loses the quality of humanity and becomes a beast. Now, the worst beast you could find is an intelligent intellectual beast, one who can plan to kill and to destroy. You see, most animals in the wild, they will kill and eat; but a man kills without wanting to eat.

We have found the spirit of the “beast” in many men. We have heard about Genghis Khan, and then coming down to Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin. These men killed millions of their own people, sometimes just to purge and to frighten the others. We have on our hands now a man called Osama bin Laden, who has organized and orchestrated much of the terrorism in the world today with a group of his own men.

These are men who are all beastlike in their nature, because they say that God is telling them to do this and to kill Americans, and we find this same beast spirit going in them.

An amazing thing that I want you to see is that the story in Daniel that we just read, of King Nebuchadnezzar becoming a beast-it happened in the land of “Babylon.” It happened in this very same area of the Euphrates River that we are talking about. God did this to show us what is going to happen to some of the people in this area that they are going to become beasts.

There also is a peculiar thing concerning this that I want to show you. The mark of the beast is to make men, who are not beasts, to become beasts. In other words, to take away their intellect and their ability to reason or to submit to God, and to get them to submit to a spirit that is alien to man.

I do not know how much I can impress it, but, you know, there is a reverse psychology deeply embedded in all this. I was watching the situation that these people wanted to kill us, and even at this moment as I am speaking to you, more and more people are turning up infected from this anthrax attack. It means that they have attacked us with germ warfare, and that they are intent upon killing Americans. They want to kill Americans, a people that have not bothered them. The Americans are a people that they have not known; they are total strangers. However, the demon, the spirit that is in them, is doing this. Why? I can tell you why. It is like reverse psychology. They are attacking us so that we might become beasts in attacking them. In the last few weeks, I have heard many people in America say, “Kill them!” “Kill them! Just wipe them out! I do not know why America doesn’t just wipe out the whole of Afghanistan.”

They want to wipe them out, to kill them! We need, however, to consider that there are many poor innocent Afghans involved and even some of our own people there, and we should pray for them, especially since God has some of His people there also.

This is what has been happening in this country since the attack in September. Do you know what that means? It means that the nature of the beast is multiplying, and that it is coming into the people who he attacks. In other words, when a devil attacks you, he wants you to get mad; and when you get mad you also accept the devil, in order to deal with the other devil out there.

Therefore, I want you to understand what the Word of God is saying here. We are not pinpointing one people, and saying, “These are the people with the beast.” We are pointing at whomever the enemy has been able to work through, by false religion and by the worship of devils, murder, sorcery, and fornication. You know, you talk about sorcery, when Hussein, the leader of Iraq, was about to attack his neighbors (Kuwait and Saudi Arabia), he said that the “Spirit of the Lord” came to him (Of course, he said it was “Allah” who came to him) and told him that it will be the “mother of battles,” and that he would win. How else could the devil get him to fight America, if the devil did not promise him victory. Therefore, he said that he would win. This same spirit of divination is speaking to many in the churches, and many are saying that God says this and God says that, when God did not say it. A false word is coming to the people.

Now, this thing of false religion-it is the worship of devils. It is sorcery; and it is murder. It is murder, because when you attack innocent people, it is murder! It is definitely murder! When it is a people who are at peace with you, and you attack them-it is nothing but murder. We call it terrorism, and some people call it by other names, but it is murder and sorcery. All prophecy that is not of God is sorcery.

Divination of any kind is sorcery.

Now, as to “fornication,” it seems to me that it is one very, very peculiar thing about these people in that they feel that they have the authority (maybe from their own idea of what righteousness is) that they can marry any amount of women that they want, and that they can even take little girls and marry them, and disfigure them; and then divorce them. I have a friend who is a doctor. As a doctor, she used to work in a hospital in a Moslem city, in a Moslem area. She said that the Moslem men (mostly the leaders and the affluent men) used to take children, even to twelve years of age, and marry them; and then mutilate them and sexually abuse them; and then divorce them and just dump them in the hospital. She said it was just horrible to see the condition of these children; and she had to operate on them to try to help them.

The thing is that when these people do these things, they do it in the name of religion; and I was shocked, in reading the Koran, to see that it gave the right to them to do it. You would never believe it, but I had better read that Surah for you. It is Surah 4, and Verse 127,

“They consult thee concerning women. Say: Allah giveth you decree concerning them, and the Scripture which hath been recited unto you (giveth decree), concerning female orphans unto whom ye give not that which is ordained for them though ye desire to marry them, and (concerning) the weak among children, and that ye should deal justly with orphans. Whatever good ye do, lo! Allah is ever aware of it.”

It seems to me, that the right is given here for them to marry children. Anyhow, this is part of the legalized fornication that they have, where also some of these men have so many wives, and then they say that they are godly men. In the Old Testament, while it is true that men, (because they were not saved) they would sometimes have many wives, but they did not marry children. They were not saved, and we do thank God, that in Christianity we have a Savior.

We go back to Chapter 13 of Revelation, and we continue to look at Verse 16, which says that they will receive a mark in their right hand, or in their forehead.

“And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads.”

Of course, your “right hand” is your hand of labor, so you are either going to be working the work of the “beast,” or you will be marked in your “forehead,” to where your mind is completely taken over by an alien creature. The thought of a man being taken over by the nature of a beast has been well documented in scripture. We have already read of the situation with Nebuchadnezzar, and now let us look at what the apostles said about it.

Paul, in 1 Corinthians 15, clearly states that this sort of thing is possible. Not only that it is possible, but that he himself wrestled with men who were “beasts.” In Verse 32, he said,

“If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.”

So, he said here that he had clashed with men who had the nature of a beast. That is, their reasoning was not human, and there were things about them that showed that they were closed from human reason.

Then we read from Peter, an apostle, and he is going to say the same thing here in 2 Peter 2:12.

“But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption.”

Here we see that he is telling us that the mark of the beast is a thing that condemns the soul of the man. There is no way such a person can be saved. That is, when the deed is done, the human mind is completely obliterated and a demon takes over in the place where the human being should be. He said that they are to be taken and destroyed.

We see the same thought expressed by the apostle Jude here in Verse 10 of Jude.

“But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.”

Jesus spoke of this phenomenon, that it would come to pass in the end of time. In Matthew 24, and in Verses 15-16, He said,

“When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains.”

Now, what this is saying to us is that this abomination is going to come into the “holy place” of the temple of God. As you know, the temple has three parts: an “outer court,” a “holy place,” and a “holy of holies”; and each section, in the spiritual realm, is a higher spiritual section than the other; and of course the highest spiritual section is the “holy of holies.” The Scriptures say that we are the temple of the Living God (Refs. 1 Corinthians 3:16, 2 Corinthians 6:16). The “outer court,” therefore, would refer to the “body”; the “holy place” would refer to the “soul”; and the “holy of holies” would refer to the “spirit.” Now, we want to apply this spiritual dimension to the scripture that we just read in Matthew 24,

It says, “When ye therefore shall see….” That means, when the thing becomes apparent-when you can observe and see the abomination which Daniel spoke about get into the soul of man (into the mind, into the will, into the emotions, into the desires of man) then it is time for you to get out of the soulish realm and to look towards the spiritual realm. It is time to “… flee into the mountains.” For that is the only place of hiding. Psalm 27:5 says,

“For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.”

It is all talking about Jesus Christ-the “rock”; “the mountain of His holiness”; and the only place of hiding at this specific time. Let us read from Daniel 9, Verses 26-27,

“And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.

And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week (Daniel’s seventieth week): and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.”

Now, we see then that Jesus was slain after Daniel’s time, in what we call “Daniel’s missing week,” or “Daniel’s seventieth week.” Now, in the “midst” (middle) of that week, Jesus was slain. So, it was 3 1/2 years into that week of 7 years that Jesus was slain, and the whole prophecy had to be suspended until the time came when the sons of God would come to inherit the next 3 1/2 years. We cannot go into the details of this, but this teaching can be found in many other places of our writings. But, let me continue with these Verses. Verse 26,

“And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary….”

This identifies the Roman Government or the Roman people as the ones who would destroy the city and the sanctuary. That means that

“antichrist” would be coming out of this people.”

“…and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.”

So, you notice that the “flood” here is called a “war” in another place in this verse. We see then that what God is talking about is the third world war. We, therefore, are seeing the third world war as having started on the 11th of September, in the year 2001. That is what we are saying, that the third world war started then. Verse 27,

“And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he (Jesus Christ) shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease…”

Now, this is Jesus that is spoken of here as being cut off in the midst of the week. He became the Passover lamb, and thus the sacrifice and oblation ceased. From then on, the Jews lost their sacrificial ceremony. They have not been sacrificing animals anymore, and the whole Levitical priesthood seems to have passed away; because Jesus stopped it by offering Himself as the sacrifice. On the exact day for atonement (at Passover) when the sacrifice should be offered, Jesus was offered instead. So then, it just stopped all sacrifice and offering, in the midst of the week.

“And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.”

This is where we are heading.

Now, we are talking about “the abomination of desolation.” There shall be “abomination.” What is abomination? An “abomination” is a heinous sin. In other words, God does not call ordinary sins “abominations,” but when sin has reached to a certain proportion, God calls it an “abomination.” For instance, He spoke of homosexuality as an abomination, also bestiality. God said that these things are “abominable” (Ref. Leviticus 18:22-23, 30). They are things that are repulsive to God and to those who love righteousness.

So then, God says that this “abomination of desolation” spoken of by Daniel the prophet will be “standing in the holy place.” This refers to an abomination that causes destruction. I think that these words were carefully chosen, because it says here that it would be “standing (not ‘sitting’) in the holy place,” which means to say, “taking authority over the holy place.” Taking authority, not just over the “holy place” of the church-because, as you know, there is an “outer court” church, there is a “holy place” church, and there is a “holy of holies” church-but over the soul. We are talking about the “holy place,” not only of the church, but also of the mind, the thinking of men. I can tell you that this is being done right now. Many, many of our holy place churches (churches that believe in holiness; churches that believe in salvation by the blood of Jesus Christ)-they are handing over their power to an ecumenical coming together with the Roman Catholic Church, and with all these different organizations that are not in the right sense of what God calls “church.” “Church” is man having accepted Jesus as his Savior, then being sanctified by the blood of Jesus Christ and receiving of the Spirit of the Living God (the Holy Ghost) in him. It is man going towards giving over all that he is (all that he has and all his ambition) into the hand of God.

Today, we are seeing this take a turn for the worse. Why? It is, first of all, because the divine order which God set up in the church has been broken. God’s divine order is for the church to function under the Holy Ghost, where the elders, the people, and everyone are all functioning under Christ, and this order has been broken! In the order that has been put in its place, we now find pastors, and these pastors have bishops, and these bishops have headquarters and overlords. So we have this kind of hierarchy in the church, and this bad thing is something that has been set up by Rome. For Rome has a pope, and under the pope you have cardinals, and under the cardinals you have bishops; and you have several different categories of hierarchical rulers in the church, and these all feel that they are ordained of God. This, however, is the thing that has caused the church to turn from God, and to turn to man; to turn to the institutions; to turn to “the mountains.” God speaks of the “mountains” and the “islands” fleeing away (Refs. Revelation 6:14, 16:20). We are talking, not about natural mountains here, but “mountains” that are big organizations; big powerful organizations firmly rooted in “earth.” This is what God is talking about when He speaks of mountains fleeing away and moving out of their place.

The church has departed so far from God, that they deny prophecies. They do not want to hear prophecies in the church. The Lord God set the church with apostles, prophets, evangelists, shepherds, and teachers-but today it is, “We don’t want that anymore.” “We want to have our own bishops and our own headquarters, and they will be our apostles, prophets, and evangelists; and no prophet is going to come and tell a bishop that he is sinning!” Because of this kind of thing, we are seeing today some great falling away. God said the stars would fall from heaven (Ref. Revelation 6:12-14). We see great falling, and we are going to see more falling away in the time ahead. The churches, which are built upon financial foundations, and have their strength in Wall Street and the various places of investment-they are going to fall. When this economy falls, they will fall. We see a great destruction coming very close, very near. As a matter of fact, the thing has already started.

Nevertheless, let us stick to the subject; and let us turn to 2 Thessalonians, and see what Paul says here about this abomination. He pinpoints where the abomination will be. The Lord Jesus said that when it comes into the “holy place,” that we should, “flee to the mountains.”

However, there is somebody who disputes this, because a lot of us dispute everything that God says. We do not understand it, because our minds are blinded; for the first thing the enemy does is that he blinds the mind, and then he preaches you a false doctrine. We look at all the false doctrines that have come forth in the church, and which are destroying the whole church. We are in the midst of tribulation, we are going down towards the end of the tribulation, yet these people are still preaching that you will not see tribulation, but that you will fly away; that you will go away in the skies while God deals with the people of the earth and allows His judgment to fall upon them. But, I tell you, we are hearing the trumpets, and the next thing we are going to hear of is the “vials,” where “the vials of the wrath of God” are poured out (Ref. Revelation 16:1). Now, so far it is natural circumstances and men that are affecting us, but when God pours out His vials upon the world, it will be judgment time. Many are still waiting for the rapture, but I am telling you that it will not be long now before the churches will see clearly that they have greatly erred. They have been putting people to sleep by telling them to wait to be lifted out of here by the supernatural power of God, telling them that they are going to be “raptured.” Telling them that even though they are sinners, they are going to be raptured; while, as far as righteousness is concerned, the sinners of the church are worse than the sinners that are out in the world.

Let us go to 2 Thessalonians, Chapter 2, and we will read from the third verse,

“Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away (apostasy) first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition.”

Now, what are we talking about? We see here the Word of God saying that the day of the coming of the Lord will not appear until we see the church turning against God (because Jesus said in Matthew 24:15-16 that we would see it)!

Now, let us look at it. I mean, we are ready to blame the sinners. These men flew into the Towers in New York killing over 3000 people, and we the church people jump up with our righteous fingers, pointing at the sinners, “Oh, it happened because of your sin!” What about our righteousness stopping the judgment? If there had been present the righteousness required to stop the judgment, the judgment would not have fallen. Just like in Sodom and Gomorrah, where it says there in Genesis, Chapter 18, that if there were ten righteous, God would not have destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. We are saying that the people of the church should repent to see such a thing as happened in September come to pass, and that we were not able to stop this destruction. For we have been preaching, but they did not believe it that these things would come to pass. Furthermore, I can tell you now, that there is worse that is going to come to pass. It is going to come to pass very soon-much, much, much, much worse than this! So bad that we will not be able to remedy it-something like an atomic bomb blowing up in a city.