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TRIBULATION IN DETAIL
THE BROADCAST PART 9

THE DESTRUCTION OF THE COUNTRIES OF RUSSIA
AND THE UNITED STATES
WITH A BIBLICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE USA.

(The second part of World War 3)

     If you’ve just tuned in, you are gleaning over a special UNIVERSAL NEWS BROADCAST. We are recapping the major past events from Israel’s rebirth through the Tribulation and destruction of the world during the Battle of Armageddon.

     As result of Russia’s military being destroyed, people knew that what had happened to Russia had been by the hand of God.
     The first part of World War 3 with Russia and its allies attacking Jordan and Saudi Arabia was over.
     The second part of World War 3 with Russia and its allies was over. Only one in 6 soldiers were left alive from Russia’s military.
     However, what followed was far, far worse. Peace was taken from the earth. Men killed each other. The largest death toll as a result of a war on the earth, came to pass.

     After the destruction of the armies of Russia, and its allies in Israel, God determined to destroy the land of Russia and also those that dwelt carelessly in the isles—mainly the U.S. As a result of this also, the surviving people of the world would know that Jesus Christ is Lord and there is a price to pay for sin.

     God had alluded to the United States in the Bible in several places. It was called an isle of the sea. But much more than that this was described also in Isa chapter 18. Here is the Word of the Lord on this subject.

     v1‐WOE (or we may say a message of warning) TO THE LAND SHADOWING WITH WINGS. What is the emblem of the United States? It is the eagle with its wings outstretched. Thus a land shadowing with wings.
     WHICH IS BEYOND THE RIVERS OF ETHIOPIA. The rivers of Ethiopia include the Nile which extends all the way to the Mediterranean sea. This places the direction of the country west of Israel and beyond the rivers.
     v2‐THAT SENDS ENVOYS (or ambassadors) EVEN IN VESSELS OF BULRUSHES OVER THE WATER (or sea). Since these are latter day verses, this shows that this country had diplomatic relations with Israel in the latter days. That excluded many countries of the world.
     Note the verse does not say its ambassadors came to Israel by the way of chariots or land vehicles, neither does it say they came to Israel by a boat. It uses the term vessels. Now how could someone 2600 years ago describe a vessel that was made of a lightweight metal or aluminum. And how could someone that translated what Isaiah said into English understand what term to use as no such thing existed when the king James Bible was translated. Neither did such a thing exist like an airplane.
     SAYING, GO, SWIFT MESSENGERS. Thus we now have the information that the vessel used by the ambassador went swiftly or fast. Also it went "over" the water, not on the water.
     So, thus far we have a country to the west of Israel.
     This country had diplomatic relations with Israel in the latter days. Many countries did not.
     Its ambassador went to Israel from the west, over the waters in a vessel or vehicle that went fast, and the vehicle was not a boat or a chariot.
     The people of the country that was over the waters and west of Israel were tall and smooth skinned in the eyes of God. They were a people that had been feared far and wide. They were a people that had been terrible (or strong) from their beginnings. In other words they were a people like Japan talked of in fear during WW2.
     Indeed, there are only two countries that are feared in these latter days. They are Russia, and the United States. Both are feared far and wide. They are also a nation that has been mapped out. The nation of the US is also trodden down coast to coast. Any one not believing this‐all they have to do is go and look at the highways during the summer vacation time. And then there is another key verse: WHOSE LAND IS DIVIDED BY RIVERS. That is a perfect description of the U.S. The land is indeed divided by the Mississippi river and others joining it. This verse alone eliminates most countries of the world.
     v3‐Then the Scriptures say (remember this is the latter times)‐ALL YE INHABITANTS OF THE WORLD AND DWELLERS ON THE EARTH, SEE YE, WHEN HE LIFTETH UP AN ENSIGN (or banner) ON THE MOUNTAINS; AND WHEN HE BLOWETH A TRUMPET, HEAR YE.
     When the chief executive of the US speaks, does the world listen, or does it ignore the U.S. as it would some little nation in some far off part of the world?. Not only does the world listen, what the US says and does is usually reported all over the world in the news.
     There is no doubt that Isa 18 is the United States in the latter days. There is no other nation in the world in these latter days that can even “begin” to fulfill God’s description of the USA. Neither was there any in the past.

     Can you think of a better way to describe the U.S. than the way God did it about 717 BC or about 2700 years ago?
     Lk 24:25‐O FOOLS, AND SLOW OF HEART TO BELIEVE ALL THAT THE PROPHETS HAVE SPOKEN:

RUSSIA AND THE UNITED STATES

     Russia had become very upset with the United States because of various difficulties that had happened to them. Their vast military had been destroyed in Israel, with only a sixth of the soldiers being left. They had dared to attack God’s land to take a spoil and prey, but they became a spoil and a prey for the birds and animals of Israel. God’s wrath was against Russia.

     God’s mercy was originally upon the U.S. They prospered.
     God’s church had been a church of repentance, fearing God, and obeying God’s Word.
     But then little by little God’s church had become lukewarm, and even worse. Repentance, fearing God, and obedience to God’s Word had become a thing of the past.
     In addition, the U.S. had turned to sin as never before in its history. From drugs, to sex outside of marriage, to alternate life styles, to steeling, murders, lying and deceitfulness—all were increasing rapidly. Violence filled the streets of some cities. Marriages between men, and also between women were common place. Professing Christians that loved God, were no longer welcomed in the military. Some churches and ministries found themselves being greatly persecuted by those in high places yet those in high places should have been protecting them.
     The churches understanding of some of the bible had become blindness. Case in point was Isa 18. The church did not even recognize this told of the judgment of God against the United States in the latter days as did other scriptures. They were blind as to how God seen their condition in the Revelation chapter 3 beginning at verse 14.

     All this was before the Rapture. Following the Rapture everything seemed to get much worse. God’s mercy had turned to wrath regarding the U.S.

     God considered the land shadowing with wings—that is the United States. He remained quiet and looked to consider from His dwelling place.

     God determined that before the harvest, when the sour grape becomes a ripening grape, he would greatly cut the United States.
     It happened in early fall,
     not long after the saints had been removed,
     the Antichrist had come forth,
     and God had destroyed those that invaded Israel
     which was in the latter part of summer.

     God’s Word in this verse also gave us the approximate month of the Rapture as the translation preceded this event by a short time. The feast of trumpets preceded World War 3 by just a small amount. Thus these two totally independent verses of two different events were in perfect harmony regarding the times.

     To put it simply, Russia was used to destroy the United States. The U.S. was used to destroy Russia.
     The destruction that came upon the earth as a result of WW3 caused much suffering throughout the world for all those that had rejected Christ. Many suffered greatly.

THE DESTRUCTION OF THE LAND OF RUSSIA AND THE USA CAME ABOUT IN THIS MANNER.

     The Russian military had suffered a great defeat in Israel as God intervened. However, the Russian homeland was still intact with its satellites and weapons of mass destruction.

     Russia heard something which troubled him.
     Their eyes now turned to an isle of the sea that lived in safety, and was dwelling carelessly—the U.S.

RUSSIA WAS PREPARED, BUT SO WAS THE U.S.

     Although Russia’s military had been destroyed in Israel, yet their country with its huge armament of hydrogen bombs, poison gas, long range missiles, and some well armed satellites were still in tact.
     Russia had specially equipped missiles over the U.S. to neutralize the U.S. satellites. Aboard some satellites, other specialized weapons had been placed.
     Both Russia and the U.S. had developed bombs that were up to 2500 times bigger than was used on Japan.
     The total power of the two countries combined was such that, all life on earth could be killed 6 times over.
     Many of the missiles that both countries used could carry many of these huge bombs (that is many warheads). Also as they neared their primary targets, the war heads could split and travel in different directions to various targets. Just one missile could destroy many cities and areas in a country. Indeed, both the U.S. and Russia had a great sword, a very, very great sword.

     In addition, it had been reported that just one huge bomb dropped in the Atlantic ocean at a certain point could send a 300 foot tidal wave that would finally dissipate as it reached Pittsburgh, Pa. A good part of the eastern seaboard would be underwater.

     The speed these missiles could travel was incredible. In as little as 8 minutes both the U.S. and Russian missiles could reach the other from submarines, while others fired from their individual countries might take 15 minutes to reach the other country.

     There were various countermeasures that each country could take to try and divert or destroy the incoming missiles.
     Also each country had many kinds of satellites in space.
     Some were defensive in nature. Some were anti‐satellites.
     Some were spying and warning satellites which could intercept all sorts of communications.
     Some had cameras on board that were so sensitive, they could take close up pictures of very small objects from hundreds of miles away.
     Some could disrupt the communications of the other country, as well as the electrical grids.
     Some had huge explosive capabilities.
     Some could unleash unspeakable destruction of a nature that most people had no knowledge of.
     Each country had countermeasures to try and counteract even the other countries countermeasures.

     The radioactive fallout of just 1 missile with multiple hydrogen bombs was enormous.

THE ATTACK THE UNTHINKABLE HAPPENED. THE WAR THAT NO ONE EVER BELIEVED COULD HAPPEN, DID HAPPEN. THE WAR THAT COULD DESTROY MUCH OF THE WORLD CAME TO PASS RUSSIA UNLEASHED A SUDDEN ATTACK ON THE U.S. THE US DID LIKEWISE TO RUSSIA.

     Russia believed they could wipe out the U.S. with a swift, and unexpected attack. They believed they could do it so no counter‐attack could be mounted.

     Russia attacked suddenly.
     Russia had done all possible to keep all chatter down as to their intentions.
     They unleashed a blistering arsenal of both missiles from submarines, land based missiles and weapons in space from satellites. Their nearest missiles reached the US in less than 8 minutes.

     As the U.S. detected the attack coming, shock ensued. Air raid warnings barely sounded, and then it was too late.

     As the huge bombs reached their targets, even aircraft in the nearby skies were destroyed by the shock waves. Electric grids became toast. There was no where to run. Communications were compromised.
     The horrendousnoise, the blinding light, the shock waves of the megaton bombs going off could not be described.
     Peoples eyes instantly were blinded from the flash of the light.
     The shock waves from the blast—that traveled at the speed of sound flattened everything in their path for miles around, and then the implosion. The shock wave reversed and returned to the center point also at the speed of sound.
     The prevailing winds distributed the radioactive poisoning destroying everything from creeping things to animals.
     As the countless megaton bombs exploded all over the United States, so they did over Russia as well. The countermeasures both countries had employed were only marginally successful for either. But then there were some surprises.
     There was no where to run. There was no time or way to call anyone. Most communications were almost instantly silenced. The parents, their teenaged children, even nearly all people were screaming in disbelief, but the screaming was brief, and then the people were silent. Buildings, bridges, and all structures were had collapsed or were collapsing, and fire was everywhere.

     In space the Russian satellites began destroying U.S. satellites. There were surprises on both sides. There were some weapons that neither side had expected the other had.

     Their idea of catching the U.S. off guard did not work. Both the U.S. and Russia had systems that would automatically retaliate even if their electrical grids and command centers had been disabled, and even if some of their satellites had been compromised or destroyed.

     Fire came upon both the U.S. and Russia from each other.
     The fiery red horse had been unleashed.

     What was it like in those last few seconds?
     First there is the light—a flash of light that was so intense that it instantly fries anything it touches.
     People’s eyes are instantly gone if their eyes are facing the light.
     Eye lids do little to protect the eyes because of the lights intensity.
     People may be standing on a sidewalk—Then when the blinding, hot light hits the sidewalk it will turn it a darker color, but the imprint of the person that was standing there will leave a permanent scorched shadow.
     The heat from the flash was intense. Many died instantly.
     This is followed by the ear piercing noise with the ground shaking and collapsing.
     The blast rushes out from the center at the speed of sound—slightly over 700 miles an hour which is about 2 to 3 times more powerful than the worst tornado and thousands of times more powerful.
     Everything in its path is flattened instantly.
     But then the blast with all its debris reverses direction and is sucked inward at the same speed. Anything that survived the first blast is usually destroyed by the implosion at over 700 miles an hour. Then there is the radioactive dust raining down like rain.
     When the smoke clears there is a crater. Depending on the size of the hydrogen bomb, where there once was a city, there is a hole, that is a huge crater.
     Then there is the aftermath. The radioactive cloud begins to travel as the wind directs it. As it travels the grass is destroyed. It can be said, it burns up. Trees also die depending on how high the amount of fallout is. Many people die a slow, painful, sickening, agonizing death. Some may survive the radiation depending on how much they were infected, but sickness and misery lies ahead. Other diseases may come forth like cancer.

     After the bombs had ceased there were no doctors to turn to. There were no hospitals. There were no vehicles to take a person anywhere. Many roads were nothing but piles of blown up cement or asphalt. There were no more communications. There were only cries for help from those that remained alive and were in agony, but there was none to help.

     Both the U.S. and Russia had terrifying weapons in space which were also unleashed.
     As they hurled down, there was a fiery trail that could be seen. Then their cargos were unleashed and many people died.

     The attacks were not confined to the land areas only, but also the oceans.
The tidal waves were beyond descriptions in both height and intensity.

     A third of the earth was burned and suffered radioactive poisoning.
     One third of all the trees on the earth died from the radioactive poisoning.
     Also all the green vegetation on the planet earth was destroyed from the fallout.
     All farm crops all over the earth were destroyed. As a result there was massive starvation afterwards. If food could be found, it took a days wages to buy a days food. Much of the food could not be eaten, as it had become poisoned. Some that ate the food later died.

     Both Russia and the U.S. had partly became a pile of radioactive trash. God had sent fire upon them both, using the other.

     During this very brief USA verses Russian war, there was a huge object (like a mountain), all ablaze, burning with fire which came down. It came down into the sea.
     Throughout an area of one third of the sea, many were died.

     Mankind knew that the US and Russia had developed awesome weapons, but few ever realized the enormous power they really had. Few ever believed that they would be used.

     As a result of the huge object, a third of the ships were destroyed, and a third of the living creatures which were in the sea also died.

     Then what looked like a great star, blazing like a torch, came from the sky. It fell upon on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water of the world. And the name of this was called Wormwood (which may be interpreted radioactive or bitter). It was an object that caused great radiation poisoning. As a result a third of the waters of the earth became radioactive (or became wormwood) and many people died from the waters that had become poisoned.

     As a result of the weapons used by both the US and Russia, the clouds were very thick for 4 hours of the day and 4 hours of the night.
     These thick clouds covered one third of the earth. The light from the stars, the moon, and the sun did not appear for 8 hours.

     This was the length of the war between Russia and the USA. The war lasted 8 hours and killed nearly two billion people worldwide. One in every 4 people in the world—were dead.

     So little of the U.S. was left, and so few of its people were left alive, that they were no longer mentioned in the Scriptures till after the Millennium had already begun.
     Much of the U.S. and Russia—their people were dead. There were so few left alive, that there was none to bury the dead in both the USA and Russia.

     The destruction was so bad in the U.S., that the dead bodies would be left to the birds of pray and to the wild animals. There would be so many dead that the birds would feed on the dead all summer, and the wild animals all winter.

     The destruction of the United States was as if a farmer had cut off the shoots with pruning knives and cut down and took away the spreading branches.
     What would remain of a once great nation that was founded with Christian principles and religious freedom, would be a stump. It was once a large beautiful tree. It was now a stump with no branches.
     The nation had become an abomination in the eyes of the holy God and it had paid the price. It was destroyed with only a few people left.
     God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints.
     Regretfully the lukewarm church before the Rapture mostly taught that a Christian was only to reverence God—God forbid. By the fear of God men depart from evil. Does anyone depart from evil because they reverence Him?

     So little of Russia was left the Scriptures did not mention Russia again until after the Millennium was all over.

     God had said in His Word regarding these things: BEHOLD, IT IS COME, AND IT IS DONE, SAITH THE LORD GOD: THIS IS THE DAY WHEREOF I HAVE SPOKEN‐ref Ezek 39:8.

     As a result of the U.S. and Russia inflicting great destruction on each other, starvation filled the earth.
     Food was scarce. The price of a day’s food was a day’s wages if a person could find food. Banks and financial institutions had been destroyed. The monies of those located in the countries affected by the 8 hour war between the USA and Russia was null and void. But even more so, both the American dollar and the Russia ruble were useless. There was no more USA or Russia as there once was. As already stated, the USA was only a stump compared to the great, beautiful, prosperous and fruit bearing tree it had once been.

     The war had resulted in the death of 1 of every 4 people on planet earth—nearly two billion.

     The black horse of starvation had been released.

EVEN MORE TERRIFYING

     But what was even more terrifying than all this was the fact that 100 percent of the nearly 2 billion that died—
they ALL perished to HELL.
     This was the hell that few, if any, ever believed they would be there.
     They perished for eternity. How is this possible?

Many lukewarm teachers before the Rapture had told people they would have a second chance to get saved during the tribulation. Then the Rapture came. They were left behind. Then the war came, and many were killed. Many had no second chance.

Let us recap what had happened so we can understand how all that died (nearly 2 billion people) went to hell.

The Rapture had just happened not long before World War 3. Every saved person was taken to be with the Lord in the Rapture. Every person left behind was not worthy to be taken.

Those left behind, their faith and obedience to God’s Word had failed the test they went through. Life was the test but virtually no ministers or their followers understood this until it was too late. They did not understand that once a person said yes to Jesus and began to obey the Gospel—their faith was going to be tested or proved to be either false or genuine. Satan, which deceives the whole world would do everything possible to try and cause a person to turn back from following Christ. This test would come through many trials, tribulations, persecutions, sufferings, hardships, and many, many temptations of all sorts. Few people’s faith and obedience to God survived this time of testing or being proved. Few esteemed the Word of God more necessary than their necessary food. Many resisted fasting, tithing, studying and obeying the Bible, and obeying God’s commandments. Many were never saved in the first place, while others never grew beyond being a baby, or lukewarm Christian. The kind of faith that saves will stand the test of dying for Christ by having their head chopped off. Would a person die for Christ if they have not died to themselves?

Once the Rapture had taken all that were worthy, no saved person was left on earth. In addition, at that time, there was no way for a person to become saved. It was a time of spiritual darkness on the earth.

The Antichrist had come forth. A covenant with Israel and others had taken place. Russia and its allies had invaded Israel, but they were destroyed by the hand of God. Then there was a spiritual awakening in Israel, and also around the world, but no one was yet saved.

Then came the last part of WW3. Russia and the U.S. unleashed unthinkable destruction on each other. One of every 4 people on the earth died as a result. Not one person had been saved up to this point. All the people went to hell, which is a place of torment, and a waiting place where they will remain until they appear at the Great White Throne Judgment for the final judgment and then they are cast into the lake of fire for eternity.

Nearly two billion people that died as a result of this war. They died as a result of terrifying weapons like the world had never seen. They died as a result of starvation, and from plagues or diseases which included radioactive poisoning. They died as a result of the wild animals of the earth.

The first two months of the Tribulation had passed. There remained several more years. The Tribulation was the worst time that this planet had ever seen since man had existed. It was so bad, that if Jesus had not returned at the time he did, no life of any kind on the planet would exist.

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