is before God, saying to the sixth angel who had one trumpet, "Free the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates!" The four angels were freed who had been prepared for that hour and day and month and year, so that they might kill one third of mankind. The number of the armies of the horsemen was two hundred million. I heard the number of them. Thus I saw the horses in the vision, and those who sat on them, having breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow; and the heads of lions. Out of their mouths proceed fire, smoke, and sulfur. By these three plagues were one third of mankind killed: by the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur, which proceeded out of their mouths. For the power of the horses is in their mouths, and in their tails. For their tails are like serpents, and have heads, and with them they harm. The rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, didn't repent of the works of their hands, that they wouldn't worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood; which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk. They didn't repent of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their sexual immorality, nor of their thefts.
Fifth trumpet – is airplanes.
The first woe is past. Behold, there are still two woes coming after this – the First World War passed, followed by the Second and Third World Wars.
Sixth trumpet – is tanks.
Good Warning for the Wife (ch. 10)
Chapter 10
I saw a mighty angel coming down out of the sky, clothed with a cloud. A rainbow was on his head. His face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire. He had in his hand a little open book. He set his right foot on the sea, and his left on the land. He cried with a loud voice, as a lion roars. When he cried, the seven thunders uttered their voices. When the seven thunders sounded, I was about to write; but I heard a voice from the sky saying, "Seal up the things which the seven thunders said, and don't write them."
The angel who I saw standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his right hand to the sky, and swore by him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and the things that are in it, the earth and the things that are in it, and the sea and the things that are in it, that there will no longer be delay, but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, then the mystery of God is finished, as he declared to his servants, the prophets. The voice which I heard from heaven, again speaking with me, said, "Go, take the book which is open in the hand of the angel who stands on the sea and on the land."
I went to the angel, telling him to give me the little book. He said to me, "Take it, and eat it up. It will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey."
I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up. It was as sweet as honey in my mouth. When I had eaten it, my stomach was made bitter. They told me, "You must prophesy again over many peoples, nations, languages, and kings."
A rainbow was on his head – a favorable sign.
An angel with a book descending from heaven – is a warning and emphasizing the importance of the seventh trumpet. That the seventh trumpet is the beginning of what has long been promised to everyone.
I was about to write; but I heard a voice from the sky saying, "Seal up the things which the seven thunders said, and don't write them." – Words that everyone knows, and which will automatically cause rejection, avoidance, peremptory censorship in any person. And so these words could not be written. And I had to hide them. It's something like: "AUM Shinrikyo", "Egil", "Satanism", "fascism", "Nazism", "sectarianism" or the like, words that involuntarily give one the creeps.
But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, then the mystery of God is finished, as he declared to his servants, the prophets. – All this is very important.
God's temple that is in heaven was opened, and the ark of the Lord's covenant was seen in his temple. Lightnings, sounds, thunders, an earthquake, and great hail followed. – The ark is a very valuable thing. However, the people have already missed the appearance of the ark in the temple of the Lord, this has already happened, and it is not known whether it will happen again. … I mean … How did everyone miss it? … Not so that they completely missed it. Seen and heard almost everything. But only a few have realized the cherished essence of what is happening.
It was as sweet as honey in my mouth. When I had eaten it, my stomach was made bitter. – The practice of eradicating worldly desires. In words, everything looks very simple, easy and wonderful: you will become a buddha, you will become an arhat, you will become a saint, you will gain supernatural powers, accumulate a lot of merit, you will get everything you want. However, when it comes down to it, it turns out that the renunciation of worldly desire in itself is comparable to a surgical operation without anesthesia.
The Buddhist sutras say that at the beginning of a kalpa, a person's life span was 80,000 years. “That was when you had just fallen into the Human World from Light and Sound Heaven, Holy Heaven, and Wish Fulfillment Heaven. At that time,
