Prophecy: Now through the End Times: Time Line to the Return

By Wayne J. Bentley

Prophecy: Now through End Times starts with the Great Apostasy (a falling away) and continues to explain the events of Revelation, in order, up to the Return of Jesus. If Jesus did not return, the events explained in this text would lead to the extinction of humanity. Jesus said, "No flesh shall be saved." Humanity ends, it is an extinction event. The events leading up to Jesus's return have the days shortened and the Earth tilting four times, killing off most of humanity. Everyone in Asia dies except the two-hundred-million-man army that is attacking Israel when Jesus returns.

Here in the United States, the coastlines will be destroyed by an object from outer space that hits the Earth and sends tidal waves around the globe. The heartland will survive with the help of the Church of Philadelphia. There is little to zero trade between the countries of the world because the object from space destroys the ships.

The Antichrist rules in the revived Holy Roman Empire and declares himself god. He kills every Catholic in his empire and attacks Israel.

Jesus said, "Watch, that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things."

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• Release date: Aug 25, 2022
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Prophecy

Now through the End Times: Time Line to the Return

Wayne J. Bentley

ISBN 979-8-88540-777-9 (paperback)

ISBN 979-8-88540-778-6 (digital)

Copyright © 2022 by Wayne J. Bentley

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Table of Contents

Dedication

Introduction

The Great Falling Away

The Coming of the Son of Man

Naming Prophetic Events

A Warning

Length of Time Between Events

The Numbers

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

The Day and the Hour

Exegesis

The Devil

The Devil's Purpose Is to Eliminate the Jews

Violence in the World

An Introduction to Revelation 7

Chapter 1

Transition

The Coming of the Son of Man

Time Line: Eleven to Ten and a Half Years before the Return

The Great Apostasy

You Should Understand

Daniel

The Beginning and Ending of the Seven-Year Period

Daniel Has No Rapture Verses

The Baptism of John

Daniel's Seventieth Week

Calculating the Seventy Weeks

The Diaspora

The Seven-Year Covenant

To Anoint the Most Holy

The Seventh Seal

The Beginning of the Seven-Year Period

A Time Gap

The Day or the Hour

The Devil's Timetable

No Time Left

We Are in the Latter Days

Seven Years Until the Return

Chapter 2

The Sixth Seal

Time Line: Ten and a Half Years until the Return

Sign of the Son of Man

The Return of Jesus

Clueless Again

Chapter 3

Thee Tribulation, the Great One

Time Line: Between Eleven and Ten and a Half Years before the Return

Current Persecution

Thee Tribulation, the Great One

The Great Apostasy

Thee Great Tribulation of Christians

Current Events

The Nonevent Rapture

Paul on When to Look for the Rapture

The Temple

Jesus on When to look for the Rapture

The Russian/Israeli War

Russia's Homeland

Chapter 4

The Flip or Tilt of the Sixth Seal and the Four Winds

The Four Winds

Till I Have Consumed Them (the Arabs)

The Four Winds Bring Back All the Israelis

Chapter 5

Isaiah 24: Devastation of the Earth

The Flip

The Political Leaders Trap Themselves

Chapter 6

The Time Frame of the Coming of the Son of Man

The Testimony of Jesus

Time Frame to the Return

Three-and-a-Half-Year Intervals

Watch

The Testimony of Jesus Is the Spirit of Prophecy (Rev. 19:10)

Chapter 7

The Six Trumpets

Time Line: Slightly Less than Seven Years before the Return (Sixteen-Hour Days)

The First Four Seals

The Fifth Seal

The First Four Trumpets

These Four Trumpets Signal an Extinction Event

The Shortened Day and Year

The Seven Trumpets

A Change in the Earth's Orbit

The First Four Trumpets

Asia Becomes Unlivable

Chapter 8

The Physics

Sixteen-Hour Days

Calculations of Earth's New Orbit

God Caused Global Warming

More Physics: Our Dance with Venus

Still More Physics: The Time Rate of Decay

The Millennial Field

No Nukes

No Nukes Again

The Powers of the Heavens are Shaken

Dispensationalists: The Hirelings

Darby and the Dispensationalists

Dispensationalists Die with No Rapture

Chapter 9

Two More Trumpets

The Fifth Trumpet: The First Woe

Demon Possession

The Sixth Trumpet: The Second Woe

The Two-Hundred-Million-Man Army

Just Deserts

Scorched Earth

The Melting Pot

The Roman Empire

Chapter 10

The Seventh Trumpet

The End of Humanity

Time Line from the Return

Prelude to the Sixth Seal

The Sixth Seal

Transition

The Seventh Seal (Just Less than Seven Years)

The Transition in the Middle of the End Times (About 1,290 days)

Three and a Half Years to the Return

Jesus Returns

360 Days in a Year

The Two Witnesses

Chapter 11

The Two Witnesses

Time Line: 1,264 Days to the Return

The Lunar Calendar

The Oath of Christ

The Withdrawing of the Holy Spirit

The End Times

No Abomination of Desolation

1,290 Minus 1,260 Equals 30

Revelation

The Lunar Month

The Seventh Trumpet Sounds

Chapter 12

Revelation 10: The Angel with the Little Book

Bitterness

Chapter 13

Revelation 12: Allegory of the Devil's Pursuit of the Jewish People

Three and a Half Years to the Return

Chapter 14

The Antichrist

The Jewish Calendar

A Scenario for the Time Line to the Return

Not Peoples

Modern Technology

Catholic Church

The Little Beast

The Number 666

Chapter 15

Revelation 14: The 144,000 and the New Song

Sealed in Their Forehead

The 144,000 Israelis and Christian Prophecy

The 144,000 Are Virgins

The Testimony of Jesus

First Fruits

Evangelists (Not)

The Everlasting Gospel

No Race of Adam in Heaven

The Middle Point of the Seven Years

Chapter 16

The Destruction of the Catholic Church

Clearly the Beginning of the End

You Are in the Second Half When…

Worship Aimed at the Antichrist as God

The Symbolism of Hell

No Universalism

Again, No Hellfire

The Testimony of Jesus

Blessed Are the Dead

Rest from their Labors

The Autonomous Choice

Historical Christianity

Chapter 17

The Harvesting of the Catholic Church

Chapter 18

Revelation 15: The Victory over the Beast

The Hirelings Mistake 1

Mistakes by Hirelings 2

The Judge of All the Earth

The Great Apostasy

The Seven Last Plagues

Chapter 19

The Seven Vials

Revelation 16: Armageddon

The First Vial

The Second Vial

The Third Vial

The Fourth Vial

The Fifth Vial

The Sixth Vial

The Armies Are at Armageddon to Fight Jesus (Not)

The Three Unclean Spirit

The Testimony of Jesus

The Love-Centered Mind

Armageddon

Chapter 20

The Planet Earth: The Four Hits

The Sixth Seal

The Seventh Seal

The End of the Last Three and a Half Years

The Seventh Vial

The Eventual, Ultimate Destruction of Man

Chapter 21

The Destruction of the Catholic Church

Introduction

Revelation 17

Revelation 18

Chapter 22

Conclusion: The Big Picture

The Sixth Seal

The End Times

The Church of Philadelphia

Chapter 23

What the 144,000 Need to Know

Without Guile

We Are the Corporeal Presence of God

The Everlasting Gospel

Chapter 24

Revelation 19 and 20

The Epithet for the Catholic Church

These Are the True Sayings of God

The Testimony of Jesus

The Symbolic Conquest of the Earth

The End of the Devil

The Incurability of Sin

The Great White Throne Judgment

The Great White Throne Judgment: Again

Post Millennium Creation

New Jerusalem

Who Enters Heaven?

Born Again

Chapter 25

The Real Sacrifice of the Cross

The Cross

Jesus Paid the Fine for the Greatest Possible Sacrilege

Crime and Punishment

The Reflection of Their Eternal Love

The Seven Mysteries of God

Introduction

The Seven Secrets of God (The Short Version)

No Conversion

The Seven Thunders

Bitterness

Mystery

The Seven Mysteries of God

Part 1: The Mystery of the False Church

Do the Impossible to Affect the Unalterable

The Progression to a False Church

The First Shall Be Last

Part 2: The Mystery of Faith

Faith Is about Love

The Freest Is the Truest

First and Last

Part 3: The Mystery of Sin

Total Depravity

A Hypothetical

Part 4: The Mystery of God's Eternal Purpose

We Share in the Eternal Love of the Trinity

Jesus Represents Us

Part 5: The Mystery of Godliness

Part 6: The Mystery of the Gospel

The Everlasting Gospel

Autonomy

The Cross

The Fine

Part 7: The Mystery of the True Church

Jesus, Our Only Leader

The Eternal Choice: I Am Right or I Love

The Love and Wisdom of Jesus Sustain Us

True Autonomy

Epilogue

No Conversion to the Body of Christ

God Causes Sin and Evil

Finite Sin Not the Rationale for the Cross

Not Law but Love

The Hirelings

The Nicolaitans

Will Worship

The Power of Prayer (Not)

The Great Apostasy

About the Author

Dedication

Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book. (Rev. 2:6)

Jesus states that you exist in a state of blessedness when you understand the book of Revelation .

For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book. And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. (Rev. 22:18−19)

I take John's (Jesus's) warning seriously. Billions of people are going to go through these plagues or be killed by them. I dedicate this book to those individuals and groups who will find comfort in the fact that the sovereign God is responsible for His creation. Jesus will make this time short on the Earth, and we will all see each other, one way or another, at the Return of Christ.

Introduction

We have a mind that is a knowledge-centered mind, and the truth is, love has no priority at all for the human race. As I watch TV, I see my mind reflected back to me as one who does not care about people. It prioritizes events to make this mind right and not love. Without the Holy Spirit reminding us that God loves us, there is no effective, operating, and altruistic affection of humanity for humanity. Man is dead to love. The Great Apostasy (The Great Falling Away) is a result of God deliberately reducing the intervention of the Holy Spirit, reminding members of the Body of Christ that God loves them. The intervention of the Holy Spirit is how God has kept life livable over the events of history. Now God is showing that humanity is not able to sustain civilization without the intervention of the love of God.

The Great Falling Away

The Great Falling Away is upon us and is the first obvious evidence we are in the Latter Days! The devil sees the Great Falling Away and knows now he can get away with telling more lies. The spinning of the fake media is evidence that the Holy Spirit is no longer hindering the continuing propaganda of the devil. This brings us to the Coming of the Son of Man.

The Coming of the Son of Man

The Coming of the Son of Man is the sequel to Russia's Evil Plan. The validity and reliability of Russia's Evil Plan will witness to and show us how these texts successfully interpret prophetic scriptures. There are several issues and events that are touched on in Russia's Evil Plan that are not causal to the Russian/Israeli war but are immediate consequences of the Sixth Seal and Russia's Evil Plan. Thee Tribulation, the Great One actually precedes the sun, moon, and stars of the Sixth Seal and Russia's Evil Plan. The Four Winds, released by the flip of the Earth, explained briefly in Russia's Evil Plan, is the first, non-man-made, major catastrophe from prophecy. I was hesitant to develop these issues that were part of the Sixth Seal on the prophetic time line because I did not know exactly where they fit. Additionally, the flip or a major tilt in the Earth's axis, producing the Four Winds, had not been completely revealed when Russia's Evil Plan went to print. I felt I would confuse the issues for those who understand the prophecies that have already been revealed. This would make me guilty of what I accuse others of doing—writing about prophecy while not knowing the conditions existing at the time of the fulfillment of the prophecy. However, as will be shown, scripture clearly teaches the time is short between the Sixth and the Seventh Seals. Scripture teaches if you survive the Sixth Seal, you see the Seventh Seal, also. Finally, the prophetic scripture for the End Times was revealed and understood. This reality forced this text upon me.

The Coming of the Son of Man is divided into two parts: The Latter Days and the End Times.

The Seventh Seal is the seven-year time frame found in the books of Revelation and Daniel. It has no obvious starting or ending point. Some events we consider transitional God may be counting as part of the seven-year period preceding the Return. The Sixth Seal, the transition period between the Sixth and Seventh Seals, the Seventh Seal and the Return are collectively referred to as the Coming of the Son of Man.

Naming Prophetic Events

I must remark on the interpretation of prophetic scripture and how to interpret names of events. Without verse-by-verse interpretations, these references are confusing. However, here is the rule: If an event has just one name and only one possible time in prophetic events foretold by scripture, then it is named in scripture or by the people observing and participating in that event at that time, not by theologians or Hirelings prior to their occurrence. Many Hirelings claim the rapture occurs before tribulation; however, the rapture is not mentioned by the name rapture in any scripture, even at the rapture itself. The Hirelings name the event the rapture even though no such name is given in scripture.

Actually, the rapture is called the Gathering at the Return of Jesus. Scripture does not call the second coming of Jesus either the Second Coming or the Return. Christians will be taken to meet Jesus at His return, but this does not take place before tribulation. In fact, prophetic scripture makes several numeric references pointing toward the Return, none of which use the words return or rapture. God is giving Himself some leeway to keep the devil from knowing when the Return, which coincides with the Gathering occurs. In this event, the Christians still alive on Earth are taken to heaven in preparation for the immediate return of Jesus. The phrase, "the anointing of the Most High," found in Daniel, is not the Return because it would not make sense to call it by that name to the people who will participate in the event. When the Hirelings name an event through their own preconceived notions, they mislead the sheep. The Hirelings give names that are not in scripture to the wrong events and in the wrong sequence. This text clears away the confusion.

A Warning

This is a warning—a warning to all those aware of the Hireling's time line. That knowledge will contradict and interfere with any subsequent knowledge to be gained from this text. The new knowledge must be placed where it will expand your understanding of God's design for the future, like placing new wine in new wine skins. God has hidden the understanding of prophetic scripture from the Hirelings because they already have their pay in this life. However, by the writing of this text, God is giving you the opportunity to be forewarned of the troubling times soon facing this Earth. Every Hireling has different points they like to emphasize. The fact they cannot agree demonstrates they are blind leaders of the blind. Jesus at the end of Revelation also warns people not to change prophetic scripture.

Length of Time Between Events

God has made the division between the Latter Days and the End Times arbitrary. The days and times run together with no clear dividing line. This is by God's design; it keeps the devil from knowing how much time he has to carry out his plans. The events breaching this gap are: Thee Tribulation, the Great One (for Christians), the acknowledgment of Jesus as the Messiah by the 144,000 Jews, the Four Winds (all found in Rev. 7), the ingathering of the Jews (the return to Israel of all the world's Jewry found in Ezek. 37) and the rebuilding of the temple. The Sixth Seal and the Russian/Israeli war are events that are within the Latter Days. Additionally, there is a different seven-year period, found in Ezekiel 39, where Israel is recycling war materials. These will be examined after a brief description of how scripture addresses these periods of prophecy.

The Numbers

I will spend considerable time on the numbers scripture provides. Both Daniel and Revelation have references to the amount of time between the events of prophecy. To give a more precise picture than previously available, I will correlate these events. The Hirelings have always included the Russian/Israeli war and the Seven Seals in the seven-year period called by the Hirelings—the End Times. The scroll that is opened in Revelation 6 has writing on both sides. The writing on the outside, covered by the seals, is read as each seal is peeled off. The writing on the inside cannot be read until the Seventh Seal is peeled off the scroll. As the seals are peeled off, the events associated with that seal are in progress as part of the Age of the Gentiles. When all Seven Seals are pulled off, the End Times, Daniel's seventieth week, begins. The seals on the outside of the scroll correspond with the events written underneath the seals. These include the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse that are going on now and are within the Age of the Gentiles (the first four seals); Christian tribulation in the Age of the Gentiles (the Fifth Seal); the sun, moon, and stars (the Sixth Seal). When all the seals are off the scroll, the writing on the inside of the scroll can then be read, thus the opening of the seventh and final seal opens the scroll. The opening of the scroll marks the beginning of the seven-year period referred to as the End Times. These events and their correlation to one another are the subject of this manuscript. The Hirelings include the events of the first six seals and the events of the Russian/Israeli war in the End Times period. This is a mistake. It greatly confuses the time line, so much so that I have not read or heard a single commentary with any semblance to the true time line.

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse can be found under the first four seals on the scroll. The Hirelings put these in the last seven years. This placement flies in the face of sound logic, making their interpretation implausible. Scripture and history clearly include kings—single heads of state (the crown)—going to war (First Seal); dictatorship and war (Second Seal); famine (Third Seal); and disease and death (Fourth Seal) all occurring during the Age of the Gentiles. The Hirelings have many inconsistencies in their time line. They mistakenly say the Antichrist initiates a seven-year peace plan and then breaks the peace in the middle of the seven years. This is wrong. They also contend the first four seals, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, are opened at the beginning of the seven years where there is supposed to be a peace treaty in effect. How can kings be let loose going to war and dictators go to war (the first two seals) during the first three and one-half years of a seven-year peace plan? They can't.

The Fifth Seal, martyrdom during the Age of the Gentiles, also makes absolutely no sense when placed in the last seven years before the Return. How do these martyrs rest for a little season? They can't if the Four Horsemen are in this time period. The Fifth Seal has already been opened. The events surrounding WWII—the Holocaust and the formation of the nation of Israel—is what caused the martyrs in heaven to ask, How long? The Sixth Seal, solar system wide events in the sun, moon, and stars, has not occurred yet, but the stage is currently being set. In the time line of prophecy, the edges of the Sixth Seal are now being peeled off. We are just at the opening of the Sixth Seal on the time line because Thee Tribulation, the Great One has just begun demonstrated by the worldwide persecution of Christians by Muslims, Hindus, Communists, Liberals, and others.

The Day and the Hour

There is one major consideration this manuscript addresses better than any other text. The Hirelings spend their time trying to devise the time of the rapture where Jesus supposedly empties the Earth of Christians prior to tribulation. The verse where Jesus says, The hour or the day knoweth no man, makes their efforts a wild goose chase. Additionally, the Hirelings spend very little time searching scripture to determine the time of the Return. Why bother as they say Christians will have vanished from the Earth by the rapture. This text develops the timing of prophetic scriptures up to the Return. The closer we get to the Hireling's timing for their long-awaited rapture, the less credibility they will have. Eventually, they will be exposed as the frauds they are.

I mention again here Jesus says, "The hour or the day knoweth no man (emphasis mine), so the search on the timing of the Return is to narrow the Return to within a period of days. The significance of the timing of the Return will not be lost on anyone alive during the End Times, especially when the Hirelings are proven wrong about rapture before tribulation."

The first six seals could not possibly be in the End Times because of their placement on the outside of the scroll. These events clearly lead up to the End Times. Jesus, in Luke 21, has a monologue that exactly parallels the events of the first six seals, and they obviously occur during the Age of the Gentiles—before the End Times. Understand the events preceding the End Times are very much like the events of the End Times but to a lesser degree in intensity. Many Christians throughout the Age of the Gentiles believed they were in the End Times because their persecution fit the descriptions. However, the persecution was not widespread. Additionally, there was no State of Israel during those times. Christians have been killed for just being Christians throughout the Age of the Gentiles (the Fifth Seal), but this does not mean it is the End Times. The reformation of the State of Israel or Israel's capture of Jerusalem are not the events triggering the End Times being at the very door. It takes the beginning of the return of the "whole house of Israel" to enter the time frame the Bible calls the Coming of the Son of Man. It is also not sufficient that all the Jews have returned to the State of Israel; the Third Temple has to be rebuilt in Jerusalem, or the End Times prophecies cannot be fulfilled. The buildup to and the resolution of the Russian/Israeli war will clear the way for the return of the whole house of Israel and the building of the Third Temple. These are all Latter-Day Events.

The Age of the Gentiles was necessary to produce generations of Christians in the Body of Christ, so they will be as the sands of the sea and stars of the sky, innumerable. Very soon, the time will be right for God to bring the evil and suffering of humanity to an end. The devil knows his time is growing short, thus he persecutes Christians and Jews. This is the catalyst for God's decision to bring about the Return. (Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.) The Return will usher in a thousand years of peace and prosperity for humanity known as the Millennium. However, the Return is preceded by ten and a half years of death and destruction on Earth.

Exegesis

My approach to scripture is to quote the section scripture in its entirety and then interpret the individual verses; a verse-by-verse approach to help the reader understand without any break or jump to other scriptures. The interpretation cannot be taken out of context and include wild claims about what these verses mean. Remember, prophetic scripture is God's way of communicating His plans to us in advance. It is not a great puzzle that only someone with some sort of crystal ball can claim divine revelation or inspiration, and therefore, irrefutability. Sometimes, but not often, scripture is so symbolic that it requires an explanation of the symbolism prior to the interpretation. It is enough to say I take the Bible as literal where it is obviously not symbolic and symbolic when it is obviously not literal. I lean toward the literal and will not be careless in my representation of the words in the prophetic scripture. Some terms are not symbols but represent a figure of speech that corresponds to the leading characteristic of the symbol. For example, the word blood in Revelation could represent a tremendous loss of life, unsuitable to drink, unclean, or poison. I will not go to great lengths to create science fiction to make a verse either literal or symbolic. Most, if not all, of the objects of biblical