TODAY'S TECHNOLOGY IN BIBLE PROPHECY
Lesson 17: A review of how the United States will use satellite
technology to fulfill the role of the "watchman" for
the nations in the post-AWWI period.
I A look at how flying, speaking eagle imagery represents the
United States use of modern communications satellites to
evangelize the world in the post-AWWI period.
13 And I saw, and I heard one eagle flying in mid-heaven
saying with a great(loud) voice, woe, woe, woe to the ones
dwelling on the earth from the remaining voices of the
trumpet of the three angels being about to trumpet
(Rev. 8:13, IGENT).
A This eagle is the same symbol used to represent the
United States in Daniel's vision of the four beasts.
B The flying eagle's position in "mid-heaven," coupled
with its ability to voice a verbal warning "to the
ones dwelling on the earth," symbolically depicts a
U.S.-built communications satellite.
C The flying eagle's reported location, "in mid-heaven," is
in keeping with where modern communications satellites
are placed in the heavens, 22,300 miles beyond the
surface of the earth.
D The flying eagle's ability to speak "with a great (loud)
voice to the ones dwelling on the earth," refers to the
routine use of America's communications satellites to
broadcast TV programs to millions of people around the
world.
E By the early 1970's, one Intelsat IV satellite could
broadcast 12 color TV programs among 25 countries,
simultaneously.
F The flying, speaking eagle imagery, therefore, is a
picture of the United States using its global
communications satellites to broadcast the Bible's
prophetic forewarnings of what the last three trumpet
events will bring upon the Earth in the post-AWWI
period.
G Why is the American satellite's message cryptically
described as "woe, woe, woe?"
1 Each woe represents a period of great trouble on the
earth.
2 Each individual period of woe will begin with the
consecutive sounding of one of the last three trumpets.
H How do we know from this prophetic description of the
flying, speaking eagle "saying woe, woe, woe to the ones
dwelling on the earth," that the United States will lead
the effort to evangelize the world in the post-AWWI
period?
1 The last three trumpet's describe the final three
periods of woe that will befall the world in the days
leading up to Christ's Return.
2 Embedded throughout that Revelation message is the
central theme that Jesus Christ is the Savior of the
world.
3 Therefore, if U.S. broadcasters are preaching the
Revelation three woe text, then they would have to
include that text's main message--the gospel of
salvation through Jesus Christ.
I How successful will the U.S. evangelistic outreach be?
1 According to the sixth seal prophecy, "a great
multitude, which no one could count, from every nation
and all tribes and peoples and tongues" (Rev. 7:9, NASB)
will respond to the U.S. satellite broadcasts during the
Great Tribulation.
2 The awesome destruction wrought by the first four
trumpet events will convince people that the last three
trumpet events will shortly come to pass.
3 They will also be convinced that the Revelation three
woe text's main message--the gospel of salvation
through Jesus Christ--is true.
J Does the Bible give any indication as to how soon after
the atomic war the U.S. warning broadcasts will begin?
1 Yes, U.S. satellite broadcasts will begin within a
few days or less. This can be determined from the
following facts:
a The fifth trumpet begins with a description of the
nations activating martial law troops to quell
famine-driven anarchy that will erupt after the
nuclear war.
b John's observation that the troops will come "out
of the smoke" makes it clear that the nations will
declare martial law immediately, before the worst
of the atomic smoke and dust even has a chance to
settle.
2 The flying eagle, therefore, was placed right before
the fifth trumpet prophecy to show that the United
States will launch its international evangelistic
broadcasts before the nations even have time to
activate martial law troops.
3 This will have to be the case, otherwise the Americans
would fail to fulfill their first prophetic mission
assignment, which is to warn the world of the events
that will take place during the fifth trumpet woe time
period.
K Does the presence of the U.S. eagle's evangelistic
outreach, immediately following the fourth trumpet
prophecy, indicate that the United States will come
through AWWI in surprisingly good shape?
1 Yes, it takes a number of things to run a satellite
broadcasting network--satellite ground stations,
program studios and people to run them, power plants
to supply needed electricity, and millions of fed and
sheltered people to pay for everything.
2 In short, the prophecy describes a living American
society, not a bombed out, radioactive dead one.
3 Note further that the drifting radioactive clouds
from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear-power-plant disaster,
proved that normal winds can carry radiation half way
around the world in ten days.
4 The sixth seal prophecy's prediction that the planet's
winds will come to a complete stop after AWWI, there-
fore, must be in place close to the scientifically
predicted 48 to 72 hours, otherwise U.S. airspace
would be laced with deadly radiation and Americans
would be dying, instead of warning the world about the
fifth trumpet post-AWWI events that will begin
immediately after the atomic guns fall silent.
L Does the presence of the U.S. eagle's evangelistic
efforts, immediately following the fourth trumpet
prophecy, provide some insight into how soon the atomic
smoke will decrease daylight hours by one-third?
1 Yes again, in order for one-third of the light from
the sun, moon, and stars to be blocked out and "the
four winds of the earth" to be "held back" to the
extent that no "harm" will come to "the earth or the
sea or the trees" (Rev. 7:3), the post-AWWI smoke must
do its blocking quickly, and at high altitudes, and
within the same time parameters that low altitude
winds are coming to a complete stop.
2 If this were not the case then low altitude winds
would mix with high altitude contaminated air and the
second half of the prophecy would not be fulfilled.
3 That is, "harm" would come to the earth, the sea, and
the trees.
M In summary, if the planet's winds were not stopped and
the days shortened almost immediately after AWWI,
according to Jesus Christ, "no one would survive"
(Matt. 24:22, NIV), and the prophesied U.S. flying
eagle satellite broadcasts would not occur.
N Although the mechanism that will bring these climatic
disruptions about can not be positively determined from
Bible prophecy or current scientific studies, both
strongly suggest that high altitude atomic smoke will
block out enough sunlight to stop normal low altitude
wind currents and shorten daylight hours by one-third.
O One should not conclude that the United States will not
suffer any AWWI damage, but the flying eagle prophecy
does make it clear that a substantial portion of the
United States will survive the war and carry the gospel
of Christ to the four corners of the earth in the
post-AWWI period.
II The United States will fill the role of the "watchman"
among the nations during the closing days of the age.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
A In the days of walled cities it was a custom to set a
watchman on the city wall in times of danger to look for the
approach of the enemy.
B Ezekiel explained the importance of the watchman's duties.
1 And the word of the Lord came to me saying,
2 "Son of man, speak to the sons of your people, and say to
them, 'If I bring a sword upon a land, and the people of
the land take one man from among them and make him their
watchman;
3 and he sees the sword coming upon the land, and he blows
on the trumpet and warns the people,
4 then he who hears the sound of the trumpet and does not
take warning, and a sword comes and takes him away, his
blood will be on his own head.
5 'He heard the sound of the trumpet, but did not take
warning; his blood will be on himself. But had he taken
warning, he would have delivered his life.
6 'But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not
blow the trumpet, and the people are not warned, and a
sword comes and takes a person from them, he is taken away
in his iniquity; but his blood I will require from the
watchman's hand' (Ezek. 33:1-6, NASB).
A Even as the watchman of old blew the trumpet, and warned
the people when he saw the sword coming upon the land;
so also will the people of the United States see the
final three trumpet events coming and likewise sound the
alarm to all the people of the Earth.
B The text teaches the following lessons on responsibility.
1 The watchman has the responsibility to sound the alarm.
2 The people who hear the warning have a duty to respond.
3 U.S. Chirstians need to step up to the "watchman" of
the nations task, prophetically assigned to them in
ancient times.
a They also need to ask God for the direction and power
to accomplish this task.
b By the same token, it is imperative for the nations
that will hear the U.S. broadcasts, to turn from their
evil and heed God's message.
4 In both cases, the responsibility of the U.S. as the
watchman nation and the responsibility of the
listening nations, comes down to personal decisions
on the part of individuals.
C The next three verses clarify the matter further.
7 "Now as for you, son of man, I have appointed you a
watchman for the house of Israel; so you will hear a
message from My mouth, and give them warning from Me.
8 "When I say to the wicked, 'O wicked man, you shall
surely die,' and you do not speak to warn the wicked from
his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his
blood I will require from your hand.
9 "But if you on your part warn a wicked man to turn from
his way, and he does not turn from his way, he will die in
his iniquity; but you have delivered your life
(Ezek. 33:7-9, NASB).
A The unlocking of the time of the end prophecies are even
now originating in the U.S. and will become commonly
known before AWWI breaks forth.
B What prophetic evidence supports this statement?
1 The post-AWWI flying eagle evangelistic satellite
broadcasts could not be warning the world of the last
three trumpet woe events, within 48 to 72 hours after
the war, if American Christians had not studied and
learned the end-times prophecies before AWWI errupted.
2 Clearly, there is simply too much prophetic material
to grasp in a short time frame.
C Ezekiel's text teaches that U.S. citizens who will hear
God's message of the hour concerning the last days,
will answer to God if they refuse to warn others about
the Great Tribulation that will come upon the world
in their time.
D America's Christians need to realize that when Jesus
said that "this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached
in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and
then shall the end come" (Matt. 24:14), that U.S.
Christians are the people who will carry out the bulk
of this major task by utilizing their abundant wealth
and freedom to spread God's final warning messages "as
good stewards of the manifold grace of God"
(I Peter 4:10).