From the French Revolution to World War Three

At Passover the Jews recite the ten plagues while dropping ten drops of wine onto their seder plates from the second "cup of freedom" (a.k.a. "cup of wrath" -- Rev. 14:10; 16:19; 17:4; 18:6). All of these seven cups are symbolically that second "cup of freedom" pouring out the Egyptian plagues. "For in the hand of the Eternal there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is fully mixed, and he poureth out of the same; but the dregs thereof all the wicked of the earth shall drain them, and drink them" (Ps. 75:8; Ps. 11:6). The first four Vials (Cups) here judge PAPAL Rome (16:2-8) like the first four Trumpets of chapter 8 that judged PAGAN Rome. Both are poured out respectively on 1. the "earth" 2. "sea" 3. "rivers" and 4. the "sun." The sixth Trumpet and sixth Vial (Cup) both concern the "EUPHRATES."

"And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials (cups) of the wrath of God upon the earth. And the first went, and poured out his vial (cup) upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image" (Rev. 16:1-2).

Astronomically, the Moon, Sun, Jupiter, Venus, Mars, Saturn and Mercury each rotate to a specified place where they are poured out . They even look like bowls or cups when at or close to their half-illuminated phase. There are seven main stars (angels) in Crater (the Cup of Wrath). The cup is turned upside down as the earth rotates on its axis causing the sun and/or moon to "drop out." The stars also drop out of the cup and cover or dot the bodies of the celestial constellations giving the appearance of "sores." Historically, from 1758 to 1770, infidel, atheistic literature flooded France. The "voices" (Rev. 11:19) of Voltaire, Diderot, Boyle and Rousseau originated and led a school of ATHEISTIC philosophers who waged a literary war agitating for APOSTASY against Roman Catholicism leading to massacres and confiscations against Catholics as well as the aristocrats and Royalty that supported them -- and later against eachother. Why? Divine retribution for two past crimes.

The first occurred about 200 years before in France. Catholics had massacred innocent Protestants in the St. Bartholemew Massacre. It is estimated that 100 thousand Huguenots were murdered. Rome was filled with great joy and a Te Deum was sung. Pope Gregory XIII called it a "glorious and joyful victory." Rome taught the people that they had the right to depose or murder Protestant rulers, close Protestant churches, and kill and confiscate their property. Papal clergy seized Protestant property and thus held one fifth of the land of France prior to the Revolution. The industry and skill of the Huguenots had contributed to the greatness of France. Without these who were the "salt of the earth," Roman Catholic France went "putrid" in infidelity and immorality. At least one million Huguenots fled France and took their skills with them. Nobody was left to restrain the people or check the faults in government.

The second occurred about 100 years before the French Revolution in 1685, Louis XIV, the Sun King, revoked the Edict of Nantes and trampled under foot civil and religious liberty of his Huguenot subjects. Their children were kidnapped. Their property confiscated. Their churches demolished and their ministers banished. The King's soldiers were billeted in their houses and used those houses as horse stables and raped their wives and daughters. Huguenot men were made galley slaves. The women imprisoned in Rome's convents. Bibles were burned. Libraries closed. Protestant universities suppressed. Rome celebrated, sang Te Deums, and a special Papal medal was struck celebrating the Revocation. The martyrs had asked, "How long, O Lord ... do you not ... avenge our blood?" (Rev. 6:10). The French Revolution was the reply.

What was the "noisome and grievous SORE"? The sixth plague against Egypt was literal "BOILS ... upon the magicians and upon all the house of Pharaoh" (Ex. 9:10) and from 1770 to 1800, a literal plague of SMALLPOX afflicted the French Royal Family. Louis XV died from the disease, while Louis XVI caught the malady on ascending the throne, and it spread to and affected many other members of the Royal Family and the Court of Versailles. The Revolutionary leader, Marat, had "open sores, often running" that pitted his countenance because he was in the last stages of Syphilis. Danton's face was "pockmarked, hideous, his mouth distorted by a scar" and Robespierre was shot in the jaw while being arrested, so had a wound. Since the Papacy is called "spiritual Egypt" (Rev. 11:8), there is also a spiritual symbolic SORE. Isaiah likens a variety of SINS to "wounds, and bruises, and putrefying SORES: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment" (Isaiah 1:6). Then he specifically defines the SORES as a "country ... desolate ... cities ... burned with fire ... land ... overthrown by strangers ... a besieged city ... like Sodom and ... Gomorrah ... incense is an abomination ... your appointed feasts my soul hateth ... your hands are full of blood.... How is the faithful city become an harlot ... murderers ... Thy silver has become dross ... Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one loveth bribes" (Isa. 1:7-23), etcetera. This is a description of the French Revolution (1789-1793) which began within the French political body and spread to all other Roman Catholic nations by means of the printing press and revolutionary agents. In 529 A.D. Justinian's Imperial Code confirmed Papal supremacy. Adding 1260 years (Dan. 7:25; Rev. 11:2-3; 13:5-7) we come to 1789 A.D. when the French Revolution occurred. In 533 A.D. a Decretal letter recognized the Pope as "Head of all the Churches." Adding 1260 years to this date we come to 1793 A.D. when the Reign of Terror occurred in France. Roman Catholic Churches were burned and thousands of priests, monks and nuns were slain. It was the plague of INFIDELS. In other words, general LAWLESSNESS which ran wild and unrestrained into APOSTASY. The Sunday-Sabbath was abolished. Scriptures were trampled under foot. God and Christianity renounced publicly. A donkey was made to drink the wine out of the Communion Cup. A prostitute was worshiped as the Goddess of Reason, with all its subsequent orgies. King Louis XVI (of the French Royalty who had initiated the Bartholemew Massacre and Revocation of the Edict of Nantes and Dragonnades against Protestants) and Queen Marie Antoinette (of the Hapsburgs who had persecuted Bohemian and Netherlands Protestants) were guillotined. It is estimated by historians that in five years 2,000,000 people were roasted alive, drowned, guillotined or shot; that 24,000 priests (like the magicians of Egypt who were afflicted) were murdered, and 40,000 churches turned into stables and 4,000 monasteries and nunneries were suppressed. Church and State were separated and the Pope stripped of his temporal sovereignty. The atheistic Revolutionaries cried "Ecrasez l'infame" or "Crush the Wretch" (Roman Catholicism). The purchasing power of the money in circulation was diluted by printing unlimited amounts of currency known as "assignats" causing inflation. Many contemporary historians likened the French Revolution to a DISEASE. Edmunde Burke described it as "An infectious PLAGUE requiring the most severe quarantine." Sir Walter Scott in his "Life of Napoleon" described French affairs during this time as "wasting SORES." Lambert, the French Dominican monk, described it as "A sick man covered with ULCERS." The great historian Niebuhr, who was ambassador at one time to the Papal Church, said, "The Revolution of 1789 was the breaking out of a local DISEASE peculiar to the Roman Catholic nations and governments of southern Europe.... owing to the despair created by an effete aristocracy and a hypocritical priesthood." Britain, like ancient Israel, was spared this plague of Egypt because of the open Bible as antidote. Voltaire once boasted that "It took twelve ignorant fishermen to establish Christianity, I will show the world how one Frenchman can destroy it." But within thirty years of his death, his home was purchased by the Geneva Bible Society and became a Bible storage building, while his infidel printing press was used to print an entire edition of the Bible.

"And the second angel poured out his vial (cup) upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea" (Rev. 16:3).

How does the sea become like the "BLOOD of a DEAD man"? We know that the sea would have to CONGEAL and STOP CIRCULATING. Britain STOPPED all TRADE by SEA. The first plague against Egypt was also "waters ... turned to blood" (Ex. 7:20). In 1793 France declared war on Great Britain, the strongest naval power in history. Truly the years 1793-1813 saw terrible naval warfare in which hundreds of ships and their crews, belonging to France and Spain, were destroyed. To mention a few of the sea battles, in 1793 almost the whole of the French Fleet at Toulon was destroyed by Lord Hood. In 1794, Lord Howe defeated the French off Ushant. In 1797 the Spanish Fleet was beaten by the British off Cape Saint Vincent. Then came Lord Nelson's mighty victories such as the Nile (1798) and Trafalgar (1805), against Spain and France. At Trafalgar the French fleet was nearly annihilated, and England was rescued from all chance of invasion. It was a period of naval warfare and bloodshed unique in history. The maritime powers of the Papal nations were SWEPT OFF the seas by the British victories. This was God's retribution. Huguenots were persecuted as galley-slaves in these Papal ships. Therefore, these Papal fleets were "persecuted" by the British. Also the spirit of the French Revolution spread to the Latin colonies overseas resulting in Spain and Portugal LOSING their South American possessions which REVOLTED and finally became INDEPENDENT. For instance, the island of San Domingo experienced a bloody civil war from 1792-1804 where 60,000 blacks were killed and all white French colonials were exterminated. Then it became lost to France and was known as the Republic of Haiti. This, coupled with Britain's victories in the colonial warfare, is probably the meaning of the symbolism in the prophecy that "every living soul died in the sea" -- it was the death of the sea-power and overseas colonies of Papal Europe. This is when Britannia began to rule the waves.

"And the third angel poured out his vial (cup) upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood. And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus. For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy. And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments" (Rev. 16:4-7).

Just as the third trumpet was Attila the Hun, so the third vial was Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon, who was unaware of this type and anti-type, exclaimed, "I will prove to be an Attila to Venice." In 1795 France declared war against the ruling classes of the other nations. The revolutionary armies carried the revolution everywhere by military force. Europe was then plunged into the bloodiest war history records since the fall of Rome. The Revolutionary Wars merged into the Napoleonic Wars. From 1796-1799, the revolutionary armies invaded and fought Germany, Piedmont, Sardinia, Lombardy and Austria -- all persecutors of Waldensians. The rivers separating these countries became the natural positions around which the battles raged. In the whole history of Papal Europe there has never been any one war in which the valleys of the Rhine, Danube and the Poe were so filled with bloodshed. These same lands which witnessed such carnage were also the "fountains" or sources of the rivers of Europe. John heard two angels testify that these disastrous battles were the judgments of a righteous God on these Papal nations because they had shed the blood of his saints.

The children deserved the penalty for their parents' sin because they supported their parents' deeds. God visits "the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me" (Ex. 20:5). In the same way, Jesus told the Jews of his generation that upon them would come all the righteous blood shed upon earth from "the blood of righteous Abel" to that day (Matt. 23:35), because "ye allow the deeds of your fathers" (Luke 11:48). Therefore "The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge" (Jer. 31:29) when they approve. "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap" (Gal.6:7) immediately individually (Judges 1:6-7; Job 15:31; Matt.10:10) and delayed nationally as here shown.

"The waters ("peoples" -- Rev. 17:15) became blood." Truly the valleys of the Rhine, Danube and Alpine streams of Italy had witnessed the martyrdom of hundreds of thousands of Waldensians, Albigenses, Vaudois, Hussites, Moravians, Lutherans, Reformers and Hugenots. Thus the "altar" of martyrs sacrificed under the fifth Seal (Rev. 6:10) is now mentioned again as being satisfied with the vengeance. An estimated ten million men fell on all sides or died of wounds or disease between 1792 and 1815.

"And the fourth angel poured out his vial (cup) upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire. And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory" (Rev. 16:8-9).

Who is the "SUN"? The SUN represents the head of the family (Gen. 37:9-10) or Byzantine ruler (Rev. 9:2) or Holy Roman Emperor (Rev. 8:12) and this imagery was commonly used in the Middle Ages. A halo behind the head of these leaders emphasized this point. Those who REIGN "SHINE as the brightness of the firmament" (Dan. 12:3). After the tribulation "shall the sun be darkened" (Matt. 24:29) as all human government collapses. In 1799 a young artillery officer named Napoleon, already famous as a military leader, overthrew the revolutionary government and established himself as a military DICTATOR or "SUN." Thenceforth the French "liberating" armies became, under Napoleon, the scourge of Europe. In 1801 his armies defeated the imperial armies in Germany and northern Italy. Napoleon then replaced the Imperial Code of Justinian, which had given legal recognition to the Papal supremacy of Christendom with his own Code. In 1804 Napoleon was crowned EMPEROR of the Holy Roman Empire, and was "sanctified" by the presence of the Pope. During his Egyptian campaign, Napoleon earned the title "Sultan of Fire" due to his aggressive use of artillery in warfare.Within the space of eight years, the Napoleonic "SUN" SCORCHED every kingdom in Europe, from Naples to Berlin, and from Lisbon to Moscow by means of oppressive wars and grinding taxation. Ancient kingdoms withered before the intense BLAZE of his power. Plagues accompanied his progress. He established a system of spoilation, extortion and oppression to enslave subjected nations to the will of one man. Like the sun, there was nothing hidden from his great HEAT; and the exercise of his power caused misery to millions (Keith's Signs of the Times p.191).

Great Britain, as Protestant Israel, was never invaded. She alone feared God. Norway, Sweden, Holland and Denmark were all either allies or part of Napoleon's Empire. Moreover, Britain's navies helped in this judgment on the Papal nations by blockading Europe's trade. Britain's armies under the Duke of Wellington finally defeated Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815. In spite of all these judgments, the hearts of the Latin-German nations were only further hardened and they refused to repent of the Papal sorceries and infidelity. At the Congress of Vienna the Papal kingdom was restored, the Church of Rome reinstated, and the wicked Roman Catholic kings of France, Spain and Naples returned to their thrones. The Papacy continued to boast that it was "Semper Eadem" or never changes.

"And the fifth angel poured out his vial (cup) upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain, And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds" (Rev. 16:10-11).

Where was the "SEAT of the BEAST"? The VATICAN in ROME. The Pope's "kingdom" consisted of the Papal States. Progressive disintegration began in 1789 when all Church property was confiscated in defiance of its legal guardian, the Pope. The tithes due to the Pope were seized by the State, and the clergy, appointed by and subject to the Pope, were popularly elected, and made pensioners and servants of the State. In 1793, the Roman Catholic religion was officially abolished in France. In 1797 Napoleon defeated Austria, the chief supporter of the Papal "THRONE," defeated the Papal army in Italy and by the Treaty of Tolentino the Pope surrendered almost all his political SOVEREIGNTY, paid heavy tribute to Napoleon, and handed over most of the art treasures of the Vatican to enrich Paris. This was retribution for the Papal robberies over the centuries. In 1798 the French Revolutionary army invaded the Papal States, captured ROME February 10th, and on February 15th, General Haller, a Swiss Calvinist, with a band of French soldiers, broke down the doors of the Sistine Chapel with axes and proclaimed the Pope's reign to be at an end. On the 18th, Haller took the Pope's so-called "Ring of the Fisherman" from his finger. As the Vatican was being stripped to the bare walls, the actual Chair of St. Peter was found by the French to bear the Arabic inscription, "There is no God but Allah and Mohammed is his prophet." February 20th, Pope Pius VI was arrested and escorted out of Rome by French soldiers. He was taken first to an Augustinian Convent at Sienna, but this was damaged by an earthquake during his stay and he was taken to Florence. Finally he was escorted to the French fortress of Valence where he died July 28th, 1798. The regalia robes of the Pope and his Cardinals were burnt to melt down the gold in them. Gold, precious stones, silver and valuable relics were taken from the VATICAN palaces. The new Pope was forced to watch while Napoleon took the crown from his hands and crowned himself Emperor in Notre Dame Cathedral in 1804. Then in 1809 the new Pope Pius VII rebelled. Napoleon launched against him the Decrees of Schonbrunn and Vienna. These revoked the Donations of Charlemagne to the Papacy, annexed the Papal States to Italy, abolished the Pope's temporal POWER and reduced the Pope to a salaried official of the State. At the same time he removed the Pope and the Papal Offices to Paris where the Pope remained a prisoner of Napoleon till 1814. The Congress of Vienna in 1815 restored the status quo of the Papacy and the Papal States. In the next European Revolution in 1848, the French overthrew King Louis Philippe and the ruling House of Orleans and Pope Pius IX was divested of all his temporal authority and forced to flee from ROME, but restored by Napoleon III. In 1854 the Pope taught the doctrine of Immaculate Conception, that Mary the mother of Jesus was born without sin (cp. Rom. 3:23). In 1860 the Sardinians under Victor Emmanuel invaded the Papal States and defeated the Papal troops. By 1861 the Papal territory had been reduced to the city of Rome and the surrounding area known as the Patrimony of Saint Peter. In 1870 the Pope assembled the Vatican Council to declare him "infallible" when seated on the "chair of St. Peter." A contrivance was set up in the Church of St. Peter to surround the Pope with dazzling light, so that the assembled crowd would see the Pope in a blaze of glory. But it depended on the sunshine which never came. Instead "his kingdom was full of DARKNESS" just as the ninth plague of Egypt was "thick DARKNESS" (Ex. 10:22). A terrible, DARK storm broke over Rome -- the thunder roared, the lightning flashed and terrified them all. Loud thunder frequently interrupted the voting. Including the Pope (Pius IX), there were 754 present. Of them, 533 voted for Infallibility; 62 were for it with reservations; 71 were neutral (including Pius IX) and 88 voted against this blasphemy. Thus, 754 - 88 = 666. Then the next day war was declared between France and Germany. All the French troops who had defended the Pope had to leave Rome to join the war. So the Pope was left DEFENSELESS and 60,000 Italian soldiers marched to ROME. When they had made a hole in the wall surrounding the city, one of the first to enter was a dog named "Pius" pulling a cart full of Bibles that England had sent over. It was the first time the Bible -- burned and hated by Catholics -- could be publicly carried into ROME. In October 1870 the people of ROME were asked if they would have the Pope or the King of Italy as their ruler. They almost unanimously (133,681 vs.1,507) replied they preferred the king. ROME was incorporated into the Kingdom of Italy, thus ENDING the rule of the Pope as a temporal POWER. During all those years of decline, the Papal powers "gnawed their tongues for pain," and hurled anathemas and curses at those forces instrumental in their decline. Instead of repenting of their idolatry which had brought this plague, the Popes continued to blaspheme God just as "Pharaoh's heart was hardened" (Ex. 7:22).

In 533 A.D. Justinian's Imperial decree recognized the Pope as the only head of Christendom. Then in 606 A.D. Phocas also recognized the Pope as the only head of Christendom. In 610 A.D. he was "taken out of the way." Then 1260 years from these dates (Rev. 13:5) we reach 1793, 1848 (using 360-day years) and 1866-1870, all of which witnessed the overthrow of the Papal States and Rome. The 1335 years (Dan. 12:12) from 1870 bring us to 1945 -- the end of World War Two -- Rome's latest attempt to create a Holy Roman Empire.

"And the sixth angel poured out his vial (cup) upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared" (Rev. 16:12).

Astronomically, the kings east of the Eridanus (Euphrates) are Cepheus and Bootes. Historically, the Sixth Trumpet or Second Woe (Rev. 9:13-21) was the rise and growth of the Turkish empire beginning in 1062 A.D. when the Turks crossed the Euphrates symbolized by conquering horsemen from the Euphrates Valley, as if the river itself had overflowed its banks and flooded Asia Minor and S.E. Europe. This sixth vial (cup) now reverses that process by the destruction and "drying up" of the Turkish Empire and Islam. In 1683 the Turkish army was defeated at the unsuccessful siege of Vienna and the final end of Turkish aggression westward was marked by the Treaty of Passarowitz in 1718 which removed the Turks from Hungary. In 1826 the Sultan massacred the flower of his army -- the Janizaries -- because of their complaining, dictatorial attitude. The Janissaries were the children of slaughtered Christian parents, brought up to renounce their faith and to work for the advance of Islam. Bureaucrats replaced them leading to internal decay. In 1829 Greece obtained independence from Turkish rule with help from both Britain and Russia. In 1844 Great Britain compelled Turkey to grant religious rights to minorities. The Crimean War (1853-1856) resulted in Moldavia and Wallachia becoming independent. The Turkish Empire was now known as the "sick man of Europe." In the Russo-Turkish War of 1878, England took Cyprus, Russia claimed parts of Asia, Greece took Thessaly, France grasped Algiers and Tunis, and Austria annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina. Serbia, Montenegro, Romania and part of Bulgaria were made independent. Just four years later in 1882, Egypt became a British Protectorate and in 1896 the followers of the Islamic prophet, the Mahdi, were defeated by Kitchener and the Sudan came under British control. Both had been Turkish provinces. In 1911 Italy declared war on the Turks and by the peace treaty of October 1912 modern Libya and some of the Aegean Islands passed into Italian control. Then the Balkan War of 1912-1913 resulted in an independent Albania and caused Turkey to shrink almost out of Europe with the spoils divided by Greece, Serbia and Bulgaria. In 1914-1918, British Imperial troops completed the drying-up process by driving the Turks out of Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Mesopotamia which included the actual valley of the Euphrates itself. On December 11th, 1917 Jerusalem was liberated by British General Allenby. "The mighty men of Edom shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs" (Jer. 49:22). "I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel" (Ez. 25:14). These Turkish losses were formalized at the Treaty of Sevres (August 10, 1920). In November 1922 the Sultan of Turkey abdicated and fled his empire. In October 1923, Mustapha Kemal became president of the Turkish Republic. On March 6, 1924, the expulsion of the whole House of Ottoman occurred and the Turkish Caliphate was abolished. By constitutional amendment in 1928, Turkey ceased to have a state religion. Modern Turkey, a small republic in Asia Minor, possesses only the source of the Euphrates.

This cleared the way for certain "kings of the east" to move across and then destroy "Babylonian" civilization under the final seventh vial (cup). Ancient Babylon fell when the Medo-Persian "kings of the east," Cyrus and Darius, diverted the Euphrates River from its course "by a canal into the basin ... a marsh" (Her. 1:191). As Jeremiah 50:38 says, "They must be dried up." Then Cyrus entered underneath Babylon's walls along its dried-up river-bed and conquered the city. In the anti-type, the way has been prepared for the advance of modern "kings of the east," Soviet Russia (the Medes) into Papal Europe (Babylon) to destroy its civilization (Jer. 50--51). October 1917 Communism appeared in Russia just after Turkey receded from eastern Europe. We await their full invasion. Perhaps the United States will be defeated by cheap labor costs in China drying up our lifeblood economy of debt and usury.

"And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon (pagan Roman Empire), and out of the mouth of the beast (Papal Roman Empire), and out of the mouth of the false prophet (Papacy). For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth (Roman Catholic Europe) and of the whole world (worldwide), to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty (1945). Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. And he (lit. "they") gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon" (Rev. 16:13-16).

Who are the three "FROGS"? Astronomically, Khan Cer (Arabic "Place of Holding") was interpreted as a "Crab" because "Cancer" is Latin for Crab. Better ancient choices have been a Cattlefold (Denderah, Egypt) or Frog (Tibetan). This Constellation hops out of Hydra's mouth (dragon) and Leo's mouth (beast) and Capricorn's mouth (false prophet). Biologically frogs are camoflaged, carnivorous PREDATORS with very big mouths (appetites) who haunt stagnant pools. Therefore the "drying up" of the Euphrates is appropriate imagery for frogs to start appearing. Historically, the second plague against Egypt was frogs (Ex. 8:3) so Pharaoh, the god-king, would "Let my people go." In the same way, the SECOND World War against Europe was NAZI-FASCISM which gobbled up and devastated all Europe, particularly the ROMAN CATHOLIC nations of Poland, Austria, Hungary, Germany, France and Italy, whose cities were bombed and their lands turned into battlegrounds. The slaughter of millions upon millions of both civilians and soldiers, the millions of homeless and refugees, the disintegration of the nations was so the Pope, the god-king, would "Let my people go" across the Red Sea (English Channel) to obey God. The frogs could swim under water (submarines), on the surface (ships), walk on land (tanks) or hop through the air (planes) -- just like the armies of Hitler and Mussolini. The frog SWELLS while it croaks. Therefore, its a familiar symbol of ARROGANT claims put forth with NOISY PERSISTENCY. EVIL PROPAGANDA is therefore the persistent croakings of frogs all night long. It is what comes "out of the mouth." "FALSE teachers ... speak great SWELLING words of vanity ... they promise ... liberty" but they themselves "are the servants of CORRUPTION" (2 Pet. 2:1-19). The three demon-inspired ideologies were represented by frogs.

The first frog came from the "dragon" of Satanic PAGANISM -- German NAZISM -- which began in 1923 represented by the swastika. In Egypt, Tibet, China, India and Japan the OCCULT swastika was used as a MAGIC charm to protect from harm. Hitler's NAZISM advocated restoring the worship of ancient gods and the destruction of Christianity. After Chamberlain appeased Hitler's desire for Czech territory, Hitler said, "Ich bin von himmel gefallen" meaning "I have fallen from heaven." Christ said, "I beheld SATAN as lightning FALL from HEAVEN" (Luke 10:18). "How art thou FALLEN from HEAVEN, O LUCIFER" (Isa. 14:12-15). This indicates Hitler may have been demon-possessed. Hitler, Goering, Himmler, Goebbels and others were attached to black magic and the occult. Several authors testify that Hitler was a "medium" and "possessed" (Ascent to Greatness by McNair, p.351; Hitler and the New Age by Rosio, p.66). Hitler probably borrowed from the German philosopher Nietzsche (born 1844), who, after writing several books, became mad. He called Christianity "the one great curse," taught that "might is right" and declared himself "God." He claimed "Odin is greater than Jehovah." German "Higher Criticism" of the Bible also PAGANIZED Germany. In fact DEUTSCHLAND adds up to 666 if A=6, B=12, C=18, etcetera. The aim of Hitler and the Nazis was to restore the Holy Roman Empire. Franz von Papen, co-signer with Pope Pius XII of the Vatican's Concordat with Hitler's Reich said, "The Third Reich is the first power which not only recognizes, but puts into practice, the high principles of the Papacy." (Jan.14, 1934) Hitler's name "Schicklegruber" actually adds up to 667 in the following manner: S=100, C=3, H=8, I=9, C=3, K=20, L=30, G=7, R=90, U=300, B=2, E=5, R=90. The second frog came from the beast or Roman Empire -- Italian FASCISM -- which began in 1922. Mussolini's Italian FASCES symbol was identical with the Imperial Roman Fasces (sticks bound around an axe), the symbol of power in the ancient Roman Empire that Mussolini was trying to restore. A common poster in Italy in World War Two was "VV IL DVCE" or "Viva Il Duce" which adds up to 666 in Latin. (5 + 5 + 1 + 50 + 500 + 5 + 100 = 666) The third frog came from the "false prophet" of Roman CATHOLICISM -- the Pope -- whose temporal power was partially restored by the Lateran Treaty or Concordat of February 1929 with Mussolini through the creation of the Vatican City within Rome. The Pope gave his blessing to Fascism whose aim was the revival of the Papal Roman Empire in Europe. The Pope's official title is "Vicarius Filii Dei" meaning "Vicar of the Son of God." This title adds up to 666. V=5, i=1, c=100, a=0, r=0, i=1, v=5, s=0, F=0, i=1, l=50, i=1, i=1, D=500, e=0, i=1. These three frogs gathered the armies of the world to "Armageddon" where they met their doom. In World War Two, France was conquered by all three frogs and was the location of "Armageddon." In southwestern France we find the province of "Armagnac." Ancient coins and banners of France show three frogs. Three frogs are the old arms of France from the wars of Clovis in the tapestry of Rheims. In A.D. 496, Clovis, King of the Franks, was styled by the Pope, "the eldest son of the Church." Franks came from Phrygians or Fraggoi, hence the nickname "frogs."Even the name "Charles DeGaulle" adds up to 666 in Hebrew. Ch (s) 300 + a (a) 1 + r (r) 200 + le (l)30 + s (o) 60 + D (d) 4 + e (a) 1 + G (g) 3 + a (a) 1 + u (w) 6 + l (l) 30 + le (l) 30 = 666. Their propaganda went forth by radio, printing press, mass meetings and parades. In 1 Kings 22:20-38 a "lying spirit" was sent by God to convince King Ahab to go to war and meet his doom also.

Where was "ARMAGEDDON"? World War Two was not fought in Megiddo, but in western Europe. That is the prophetic location of "Armageddon" just as the prophetic location of "Babylon" is western Europe -- not a city in the Middleast. Not ancient literal Babylon, but "The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor; it is time to thresh her" (Jer. 51:33). Two of Israel's greatest victories were at Megiddo: Barak defeated the Canaanites there and Gideon defeated the Midianites there, so "Megiddo" is any "theater of battle" where Israel defeats her enemies. These verses also refer to Temple watchmen not knowing at what hour their overseer would come. If he found any watchman sleeping at his post, the penalty was that the offender should be stripped of his garments and turned out, to his shame. "And if he come in the second watch (midnight: 9-12 p.m.), or come in the third watch (cock-crow:12-3 a.m.), and find them so (watching), blessed are those servants" (Luke 12:37-38). Jews were stripped at"Auschwitz" which adds up to 666 if A=6, B=12, C=18, etcetera.

"And the seventh angel poured out his vial (cup) into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done. And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great. And the great city was divided into three parts (atheistic Communists; Protestant Anglo-Americans; Catholic Europeans), and the cities of the nations fell (Vienna, Prague, Budapest, Warsaw, Rome, Paris, Brussels, Berlin): and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. And every island fled away, and the mountains (nations) were not found. And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven (allied bombing of Europe), every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great" (Rev. 16:17-21).

The "voices, thunders and great earthquake" are a repetition of Rev. 11:19 and show that the 7th vial is the final phase of the 7th trumpet woe. The 1st and 2nd World Wars began the 7th vial (cup) of wrath. This is the first time God's wrath falls on the "AIR" because ZEPPELINS, AIRPLANES, and MISSILES (Hitler's V-2 rockets) have now been invented. In 1917, Germany, Austro-Hungary, Italy, Bulgaria, Turkey and Czarist Russia suffered devastation and revolutions proving they were the 2520-year gentile succession that had ended -- not Israelite nations. World War 2 has indeed proven to be the greatest "earthquake" the civilized world has ever experienced. The War ravaged all Europe, particularly the Roman Catholic nations of Poland, Austria, Hungary, Germany, France and Italy, whose cities were bombed and their lands turned into battlegrounds. The slaughter of millions of both civilians and soldiers, of homeless and refugees, the disintegration of the nations all became a "great earthquake."

August 23, 1939 a Nazi-Soviet nonaggression pact was signed. Then in June 22, 1941 "Operation Barbarossa" began exactly 666 days later. (See Their Days Are Numbered by Nicklin for many more Divine timetables in recent history.) But just as ancient Babylon was conquered by Medo-Persia symbolized by a "BEAR," so also western Nazi Europe (Papal Babylon) was conquered by Russia (the Medes -- Ukraine; the Persians -- East and West Prussia) whose national emblem is a BEAR. Stalin ordered Russian troops to move into the territory of the former "Euphrates" power called Turkey in order to defeat the Nazi-Fascist "Babylon." Then Romania, Yugoslavia, Albania, Bulgaria and Hungary were made atheistic and Communist, preparatory to the final onslaught on western Europe when "Babylon comes to remembrance before God." The "cities" of the "nations" fell both literally by being bombed, and, in the Baltic States, the Balkan States and Eastern Europe, by forsaking Roman Catholic civilization and accepting atheistic Soviet Communism. The fall of China with its 450,000,000 to Communism and the millions who have followed suit in south-east Asia since 1945, all helped to make "a great and mighty earthquake, such as never was."

Verse 19 may refer to World War 3 against western Europe. The following is one possible scenario: When Russians sweep across Europe, the "islands and mountains" (nations and kingdoms) will "not be found" rather than just be "moved" as in the fall of Pagan Rome (6th Seal). Modern planes and missiles have put an end to such barriers. The "hail" of Rev. 16:21 or "great hail" of Rev. 11:19, may be Russian missiles just as natural hail storms sweep over Europe from the north. Each "stone" or missile weighs about a "talent." That is 158 pounds 10 ounces Troy Weight or 130 pounds Avoirdupois Weight. But the Latin-German nations will not repent of their idolatries by recognizing God's Russian punishment. Instead they will blaspheme. The walls of Jericho-Egypt-Babylon will "fall" flat and the "city" will be burnt with fire by "the kings of the east" -- Russia. Just as ancient Babylon was conquered by Medo-Persia symbolized by a "bear," so also western Europe (Papal Babylon) will be conquered by the Russian bear (the Medes -- Ukraine) as well as other Eastern European countries (the Persians -- East and West Prussia). Russia in World War Two only partially conquered Europe. It will finish the job in the future.

But where does Imperial Japan fit into prophecy? Japan was also one of the "kings of the east" (literally "rising sun") (Rev. 16:12) even though on the opposite side in the war and on the opposite side of the globe (nowhere near the Turkish Empire) because unintentionally Japan really did wake up the United States by means of Pearl Harbor so that Catholic Europe could be punished by America. Also Japan did punish the Roman Catholic Philippines -- a similar "Babylon" to Europe but on a smaller scale. Indonesia and Malaysia were the "Euphrates" that dried up in this case since they are 90% Moslem. Another way of looking at Japan's role is to say that she also punished North American's for our toleration of Roman Catholics just as Russia punished European Catholics. But Japan also got punished for her sins.

The part played by the British Empire and the United States in defeating FASCISM and NAZISM (the PAPAL "Babylon"), identifies these nations as ISRAEL just as the ancient defeat of Babylon involved the active participation of the "MEDES" who were partly composed of the lost ten tribes of ISRAEL who had been taken captive to "the cities of the MEDES" (2 Ki. 17:6). Thus Churchill and Roosevelt and others were used by God to fulfill prophecy. A sobering thought is that in World War Two both the British (at Singapore) and the Americans (at Pearl Harbor and the Philippines) suffered serious losses and defeats at the hands of the "kings of the east" or rising sun. If World War Three is merely a repeat of World War Two with slight changes (as we think will be the case since the prophecy hasn't been completely fulfilled yet) then we could expect North Korea or Communist China (both "kings of the east") to launch missiles at us this time (the "hail" -- Rev. 11:19; 16:21) causing serious losses or even worse.