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Part Five concludes the discussion on the possible seven thunders judgments.  Be advised all of this is absolute speculation.  You may have noticed I listed more than seven possibilities.  A great deal of God’s wrath is planned on the unrepentant sinner.

The following is another detailed summary on what will happen on the Day of the Lord and at the Seventh Trumpet:

Zephaniah 1:14-18 – “Near is the great day of the Lord, near and coming very quickly; listen, the day of the Lord!  In it the warrior cries out bitterly.  A day of wrath is that day, a day of trouble and distress, a day of destruction and desolation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness, a day of trumpet and battle cry against the fortified cities and the high corner towers.  I will bring distress on men so that they will walk like the blind, because they have sinned against the Lord; and their blood will be poured out like dust and their flesh like dung.  Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them on the day of the Lord’s wrath; and all the earth will be devoured in the fire of His jealousy, for He will make a complete end, indeed a terrifying one, of all the inhabitants of the earth.”

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Joshua’s Long Day:

There is an account written in the Book of a great battle between the Israelites and their enemy, the pagan Amorites.  In the course of that conflict, the Lord intervened and sent great hail from heaven, killing many of the enemy.  As the battle progressed and prolonged daylight was required to complete the battle, Joshua prayed and the Lord answered him by extending the daylight by almost a full day.

Joshua 10:10-12 – “And the Lord confounded them before Israel, and He slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon…the Lord threw large stones from heaven on them…and they died, there were more who died from the hailstones than those whom the sons of Israel killed with the sword.  Then Joshua spoke to the Lord…”.  And Joshua said in the sight of Israel – Joshua 10:12-14 – “ ‘O sun, stand still at Gibeon, and O moon in the valley of Aijlon.’  So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, until the nation avenged themselves of their enemies…and the sun stopped in the middle of the sky and did not hasten to go down for about a whole day.  There was no day like that before it or after it, when the Lord listened to the voice of a man; for the Lord fought for Israel.”

Joshua’s long day was recorded around the world in various annals, historical documents and legends.  It is indeed fact.  A long day was reported in Africa and China.  A long night was reported in the North-Central-South Americas.  A long sunset was reported in the Fiji Islands, etc.

That event was during Israel’s conquest of the Promised Land, lead by Joshua, placing it somewhere between 1451-1425 B.C.

The Lord stretched out His day to complete His work.  He did it once, the Old Testament prophets write He will do it again.

Isaiah 28:21-22 – “For the Lord will rise up as at Mount Perazim, He will be stirred up  as in the valley of Gibeon, to do His task, His unusual task, and to work His work, His extraordinary work…for I have heard from the Lord God of hosts of decisive destruction on all the earth.”

‘The valley of Gibeon’ is referring to Joshua’s long day, Gibeon, as detailed above.

‘Mount Perazim’ is referring to 2 Samuel 5:17-21 – when David fought and won against the Philistines, because the Lord gave them into David’s hand.

Habakkuk also received a prophetic vision of time standing still.  Habakkuk 3:11 – “Sun and moon stood in their places…”.  This is concerning a future event.

Habakkuk is alluding to a long day, not as yet realized.  However Habakkuk’s prophecy may happen on the Day of the Lord – at the seventh trumpet.  A long day for the Lord to complete His work.

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What Scripture prophecies write about will happen at the Seventh Trumpet:

• Zechariah 9:14 – “Then the Lord will appear over them, and His arrow will go forth like lightning; and the Lord God will blow the trumpet…”
• Isaiah 18:3 – “All you inhabitants of the world and dwellers on earth, as soon as a standard is raised on the mountains, you will see it, and as soon as the trumpet is blow, you will hear it.”
• Zephaniah 1:14-16 – “Near is the great day of the Lord…a day of wrath is that day, a day of trouble and distress, a day of destruction and desolation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness, a day of trumpet and battle cry…”
• Isaiah 27:13 – “It will come about also in that day that a great trumpet will be blown, and those who were perishing in the land of Assyria and who were scattered in the land of Egypt will come and worship the Lord in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.”
• Matthew 24:31 – “ ‘And He will send forth His angels with a great trumpet and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.’ ”
• 1 Corinthians 15:51-52 – “Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.”
• 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 – “For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.  Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord.”
• Revelation 11:15-16 – “Then the seventh angel sounded; and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, ‘The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ; and He will reign forever and ever.’ ”

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The Seven Thunders (Revelation 10:3-4) occur near the end of the seven year tribulation.  The utterance of the seven thunders appear to prophesy of more dreadful, ominous woes on the world.  The Seventh Trumpet, the Day of the Lord, the Rapture and Armageddon are right ahead.

Previously I’ve suggested possible woes of: terror; world-wide calamities including storms, violent winds, hurricanes, tempests; massive flooding; hail; earthquakes and volcanic eruptions; darkness; death by various means: plagues of flesh rotting, humans and animals; death by sword; death by all the previously mentioned woes, including death by fire.

This is total speculation, however in reading the Old Testament prophecies, FIRE may perhaps be a thunder judgment.

“…for our God is a consuming fire.” – Hebrews 12:29

“His throne was ablaze with flames, its wheels were a burning fire.” – Daniel 7:9

Global fires are on the increase.

In 2019 Australia experienced devastating fires which consumed approximately 10% of the entire country before it was all over.

Many other countries are also enduring disastrous fires: the USA, Canada, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, Greece, Russia and the list goes on.

The Book of Revelation is actually already full of fire judgments. They start with the trumpet woes, where a third of the earth is burned up (Revelation 8:7).  Then there’s the 6th trumpet of the two hundred million horsemen with fire, smoke and brimstone spewing from the horses’ mouths.  A third of mankind is killed by these three plagues (Revelation 9:18).  The 4th bowl judgment has the sun scorching people with fire (Revelation 16:8).  The fall of Babylon is likened to what happened to Sodom and Gomorrah – destroyed with fire and brimstone (Isaiah 13:19).  The great whore of Babylon will be burned up with fire (Revelation 17:16).  An angel hurls the golden censer, filled with the fire of the altar, to the earth at the commencement of the Seventh Trumpet sequence (Revelation 8:5).

Although fire is already a major judgment in the Book of Revelation, there is too much written throughout the Bible to ignore the possibility of further fire judgments.  Peter wrote: “But by His word the present heavens and earth are being reserved for fire, kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.” – 2 Peter 3:7. He didn’t stop there and Peter went on to write: “But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up.” – 2 Peter 3:10.

And, a third time: “…looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be destroyed by burning, and the elements will melt with intense heat!” – 2 Peter 3:12.

The Great Flood was God’s judgment against the wicked in the days of Noah.

Fire will be God’s final judgment against the wicked in the last days – on the Day of the Lord.

The following describes God’s divine fire judgments in Scripture:

• Deuteronomy 32:22 – “For a fire is kindled in My anger, and burns to the lowest part of Sheol, and consumes the earth with its yield, and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.”
• Psalm 11:6-7 – “Upon the wicked He will rain snares; fire and brimstone and burning wind will be the portion of their cup.  For the Lord is righteous…”
• Psalm 29:7-8 – “The voice of the Lord hews out flames of fire.  The voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness…”
• Isaiah 13:9 – “Behold, the day of the Lord is coming, cruel, with fury and burning anger…and He will exterminate its sinners from it.”
• Isaiah 13:13 – “Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken from its place at the fury of the Lord of hosts in the day of His burning anger.”
• Isaiah 24:1-6 – Judgment on the Earth: “Behold, the Lord lays the earth waste, devastates it, distorts its surface…the earth will be completely laid waste and completed despoiled, for the Lord has spoken this word…the earth mourns and withers, the world fades and withers…the earth is also polluted by its inhabitants, for they transgressed laws, violated statutes, broke the everlasting covenant. Therefore, a curse devours the earth, and those who live in it are held guilty.  Therefore, the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men are left.”
• Isaiah 29:6 – “From the Lord of hosts you will be punished with thunder and earthquake and loud noise, with whirlwind and tempest and the flame of a consuming fire.”
• Isaiah 30:27-28 – “Behold, the name of the Lord comes from a remote place; burning is His anger and dense is His smoke; His lips are filled with indignation and His tongue is like a consuming fire; His breath is like an overflowing torrent, which reaches to the neck, to shake the nations back and forth in a sieve…” – note the burning anger/consuming fire, dense clouds of smoke, full of indignation/wrath, rushing torrent/floods, earthquakes
• Isaiah 30:30 – “The Lord will cause His voice of authority to be heard, and the descending of His arm to be seen in fierce anger, and in the flame of a consuming fire, in cloudburst, downpour and hailstones.”
• Isaiah 33:10-14 – The Judgment of God: “ ‘Now I will arise,’ says the Lord…‘My breath will consume you like a fire.  The peoples will be burned to lime…you who are far away, hear what I have done; and you who are near, acknowledge My might.’  Sinners in Zion are terrified; trembling has seized the godless. ‘Who among us can live with the consuming fire?Who among us can live with continual burning?’ ”
• Isaiah 47:14 – “Behold, they have become like stubble, fire burns them; they cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame…”
• Isaiah 66:15-16 – “For behold, the Lord will come in fire and His chariots like the whirlwind, to render His anger with fury, and His rebuke with flames of fire.  For the Lord will execute judgment by fire and by His sword on all flesh, and those slain by the Lord will be many.”
• Ezekiel 38:18-19 – “ ‘It will come about on that day, when Gog comes against the land of Israel,’ declares the Lord God, ‘that My fury will mount up in My anger.  In My zeal and in My blazing wrath I declare that on that day there will surely be a great earthquake…’ ”
• Ezekiel 38:22-23 – “With pestilence and with blood I will enter into judgment with him; and I will rain on him and on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him, a torrential rain, with hailstones, fire and brimstone.  I will magnify Myself, sanctify Myself and make Myself known in the sight of many nations; and they will know that I am the Lord.”
• Ezekiel 39:6 – “I will send fire upon Magog and those who inhabit the coastlands in safety; and they will know that I am the Lord.”
• Joel 2:30-32 – The Day of the Lord: “I will display wonders in the sky and on the earth, blood, fire, and columns of smoke.  The sun will be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes.  And it will come about that whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be delivered…”
• Amos 9:5 – God’s Judgment Unavoidable: “The Lord God of hosts, the One who touches the land so that it melts, and all those who dwell in it mourn…”
• Micah 1:4 – “The mountains will melt under Him and the valleys will be split, like wax before the fire…”
• Nahum 1:6 – “Who can stand before His indignation?  Who can endure the burning of His anger?  His wrath is poured out like fire…”
• Nahum 3:15 – “There fire will consume you, the sword will cut you down…”
• Zephaniah 1:18 – “…on the day of the Lord’s wrath; and all the earth will be devoured in the fire of His jealousy, for He will make a complete end, indeed a terrifying one, of all the inhabitants of the earth.”
• Zephaniah 3:8 – “for the day…to gather nations…to pour out on them My indignation, all My burning anger; for all the earth will be devoured by the fire of My zeal.”
• Zechariah 5:1-4 – “I looked again – and there before me was a flying scroll…thirty feet long and fifteen feet wide…’this is the curse…for according to what it says on one side, every thief will be banished, and according to what it says on the other, everyone who swears falsely will be banished…it will enter the house of the thief and the house of him who swears falsely by my name.  It will remain in his house and destroy it, both its timbers and its stones.’ ”
• Malachi 3:2 -“But who can endure the day of His coming?  And who can stand when He appears?  For He is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap.”
• Malachi 4:1 – “ ‘For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and every evildoer will be chaff; and the day that is coming will set them ablaze,’ says the Lord of hosts.”
• Luke 17:24-30 – “ ‘For just like the lightning, when it flashes out of one part of the sky, shines to the other part of the sky, so will the Son of Man be in His day…and just as it happened in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: they were eating, they were drinking…until…the flood came and destroyed them all.  It was the same as happened…on the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.  It will be just the same on the day that the Son of Man is revealed.’ ”
• Revelation 8:5 – “Then the angel took the censer and filled it with the fire of the altar, and threw it to the earth; and there followed peals of thunder and sounds and flashes of lightning and an earthquake.”

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“For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a terrifying expectation of judgment and the fury of a fire which will consume the adversaries.” – Hebrews 10:26-27

Click here for the article: God is a Consuming Fire

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Here is another summary of the Day of the Lord:

Psalm 18:7-15 – “Then the earth shook and quaked; and the foundations of the mountains were trembling and were shaken, because He was angry.  Smoke went up out of His nostrils, and fire from His mouth devoured; coals were kindled by it.  He bowed the heavens also, and came down with thick darkness under His feet.  He rode upon a cherub and flew; and He sped upon the wings of the wind.  He made darkness His hiding place, His canopy around Him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.  From the brightness before Him passed His thick clouds, hailstones and coals of fire.  The Lord also thundered in the heavens, and the Most High uttered His voice, hailstones and coals of fire.  He sent out His arrows, and scattered them, and lightning flashes in abundance, and routed them.  Then the channels of water appeared, and the foundations of the world were laid bare, at Your rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.”

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The Ancient of Days Reigns: “His throne was ablaze with flames, its wheels were a burning fire.  A river of fire was flowing and coming out from before Him…and the books were opened.” – Daniel 7:9-10

“ ‘If anyone does not abide in Me,

he is thrown away as a branch and dries up; and they gather them,

and cast them into the fire and they are burned.’ ” – John 15:6

Fire – a precursor of Hades and 1,000 years later, eternal hell – “the lake of fire which burns with fire and brimstone,” Revelation 19:20; 21:8.

Click here for: Speculations on the Seven Thunders – Part Four

Salvation Call:

Repent, confess your sins, turn from your sins and accept Jesus Christ as your lord and saviour and be saved.  Today is the day of salvation.

Romans 10:9-10 says, “…if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.”

The Bible says we’ve been separated from God because of sin – there is a chasm between us and God – but the Cross bridges the gap between us and God.  God became a man.  He died on the cross to pay for our sins.  The payment of death that we all deserve because of our sins, Jesus took upon Himself and paid the penalty for us.  He rose again and conquered the grave, conquered Satan, so that if we repent, if we confess our sins and have a sincere change of heart and mind concerning our living in rebellion to God, and we turn to Him and we put our faith in Jesus Christ and confess Him as our Lord, the Bible says: “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved” – Acts 2:21.
If you believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead and you confess with your mouth that Jesus is your Lord, and you obey His commandments, you will be saved.