Unveiling Jesus Christ

This podcast explains the transitional verse of scripture between the First Woe and the Second Woe found in Revelation 9:12. The transitional verse delineates a clear distinction and separation between the First and Second Woes, even though there will be a natural progression between the spiritual darkness of the First Woe and the deadly physical death and carnage of Armageddon during the Second W...

This podcast explains the meaning and identity of the king of the Bottomless pit in Revelation 9:11, whom John identifies as Abaddon in Hebrew and Apollyon in Greek. John's description of this "king" as the "angel of the bottomless pit" could refer to either, or both, the unembodied spirit of Satan or the disembodied spirit of Cain, who succeeded to the power of Satan when he became perdition in m...

This podcast explains the meaning of the symbols of the locusts seen by John in Revelation 9 as he describes the First Woe. In this podcast, the seven characteristics of the locusts are examined from Revelation 9:7-10. These various characteristics help to explain the spiritual darkness of the First Woe and the conditions of torment that rapidly occur during the five-month period of this woe.

This podcast explains the meaning of the symbols and images used by John in Revelation 9:5-6 to explain what happens during the future First Woe when the bottomless pit opens and symbolic locusts emerge with power on earth like scorpions that have power to torment mankind for a period of five months. The locusts represent evil spirits that will be loosed from the bottomless pit at a time of great...

This podcast explains the meaning of the symbols and images used by John in Revelation 9:2-4 to explain what happens during the First Woe when the bottomless pit is opened and black smoke billows forth together with locusts that have the sting of a scorpion. The locusts represent the evil spirits that will be loosed from the bottomless pit at a time of great spiritual darkness symbolized by the bl...

This podcast explains the meaning of the key used by the fifth trumpet angel in Revelation 9:1 to open the bottomless pit at the start of the First Woe to release evil spirits on the earth. The identity of the fifth angel is discussed, with Michael the archangel as the most likely identity for this angel. Chist is the ultimate keyholder over the bottomless pit and evil spirits are unleashed on ear...

This podcast explains the role of disembodied spirit sons of perdition on the earth as distinct from the unembodied spirit sons of perdition that rebelled with Lucifer in the premortal existence and were cast down with him when the earth was physically created. Disembodied spirit sons of perdition are those that were born into this life with a mortal body and then committed the unpardonable sin wh...

This podcast explains and interprets the meaning of John the Revelator's statements and images from Revelation 9:1 in the Book of Revelation. The start of the First Woe begins in this verse when the fifth trumpet angel of the seventh seal sounds his trumpet to open the bottomless pit. Much of this podcast is devoted to a discussion of the fallen star in this verse that is Lucifer or Satan, as he w...

This podcast explains and interprets the meaning of John the Revelator's statements and images from Revelation 8:13 in the Book of Revelation. This is a transition verse between the first four trumpet plagues of the seventh seal and the three woes that follow, starting with the First Woe in Revelation 9. The inhabitants of the earth, who have been encouraged to repent by the first four trumpet pla...

This podcast explains and interprets the meaning of John the Revelator's statements and images from Revelation 8:12 in the Book of Revelation. This verse describes the fourth trumpet plague that will be unleashed by God after Christ opens the seventh seal. In this verse, darkness afflicts the sun moon and stars for a third part of a day and night. Thie ninth Egyptian plague that caused three days...

This podcast explains and interprets the meaning of John the Revelator's statements and images from Revelation 8:10-11 in the Book of Revelation. These verses describe the third trumpet plague that will be unleashed by God after Christ opens the seventh seal. These verses describe a meteorite that burns like a lamp as it enters the earth's atmosphere and then falls on the earth. This will be a wor...

This podcast explains and interprets the meaning of John the Revelator's statements and images from Revelation 8:8-9 in the Book of Revelation. These verses describe the second trumpet plague that will be unleashed by God after the Opening of the seventh seal. These verses describe a great and fiery mountain that is cast down from the sky and strikes the ocean. This refers to a worldwide judgment...

This podcast explains and interprets the meaning of John the Revelator's statements and images from Revelation 8:7 in the Book of Revelation. This verse describes the first trumpet plague that will be unleashed by God after the Opening of the seventh seal. This plague is of fire, burning, and hail mingled with blood, will be directed primarily at the earth, trees, and grass. This refers to a world...

This podcast is an explanatory overview of the first four trumpet plagues to be poured out on the earth after the opening of the seventh seal in the Book of Revelation, chapter 8. The distinction is shown between these first four plagues from the last three trumpet plagues referred to as the Three Woes. The first four plagues are eschatological judgments that come from God. They are directed prima...

This podcast provides an overview of the blood (both literal and symbolic) associated with the plagues of the seventh seal in the Book of Revelation beginning with chapter 8. There are symbolic images of blood, such as a red moon that appears to be as blood, but also literal scenes of blood that describe the destruction of the wicked at the Second Coming. The scenes of bloodshed are often dualisti...

This podcast explains generally the fire and burning that will accompany the plagues of the seventh seal as described in the Book of Revelation, including the intense physical and spiritual heat that will accompany the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. The heat will be literal and will cause mountains to flow down like hot wax and valleys to be filled in so that the earth will be relatively flat as i...

This podcast is an overview of the Seven Trumpet plagues described by John in Revelation 8 through 19. These trumpet plagues are poured out as the Judgments of God on the earth after the Opening of the Seventh Seal. They are sequential plagues that occur rapidly within months and a few years of each other. The last three trumpet plagues include the Three Woes that bring great tribulation and suffe...

This podcast describes and interprets the meaning of John's vision of the angel in Revelation 8:5-6, who takes a golden censer and casts down fire on earth in the midst of voices, thundering, lightning, and an earthquake. The imagery comes from the book of Ezekiel and is foreshadowed by the plague in Egypt when Moses cast ashes in the air and they caused boils then they fell to earth. The imagery...

This podcast interprets and explains the imagery used by John to describe events in heaven in Revelation 8:3-4. These verses correspond to the half-hour of silence that begins in Revelation 8:1. In this half-hour of symbolically measured time, Jesus Christ will perform his intercessory role as the mediator by offering incense on the golden altar of the heavenly temple. The incense will produce an...

This podcast explains this symbolism found in Revelation 8:2 that talks about seven angels that were given seven trumpets during the half hour of silence in heaven at the opening of the seventh seal. There is a high likelihood that the seven angels are the seven archangels who stand in the presence of God and receive their trumpets from him to herald in the seven plagues that will follow the half...

This podcast interprets and explains the meaning of the half hour of silence in heaven mentioned in Revelation 8:1. This brief period of silence will occur when Christ opens the seventh seal in our near future. The half hour of silence is a somber and sacred time that comes after the worldwide calamities at the end of the sixth seal and before the judgments of God are poured out during the seven t...

This podcast provides an overview of the Seventh Seal from the Book of Revelation that John begins to describe in Revelation 8:1. When the sixth seal (that we now live in) ends with a great earthquake and other worldwide cataclycisms, Christ will open the seventh seal and there will be a silence in heaven for a symbolic half hour. This podcast quotes from the talk of President Russell M. Nelson du...

This podcast describes the symbolism and meaning of the images seen and heard by John the Revelator in Revelation 7:15-17. In these verses John continues to describe the appearance of the Great Multitude that he saw in paradise. They are surround the throne of God in heaven where they serve and worship God day and night, which means continually. The Father dwells among them. He protects and preser...

This podcast explains the symbolism found in Revelation 7:13-14, including the meaning of the Great Multitude that John saw in paradise in Revelation 7:9, and the meaning of the Great Tribulation as a description of the last 3½ years before the Second Coming of Christ. The Great Multitude wore robes of white that were made clean and purified by the atoning sacrifice of Christ as the Lamb of God. O...

This podcast explains and interprets the words of John the Revelator in Revelation 7:10-12. The context for these verses is John's second vision of celestial paradise and he is here describing the great multitude that he was surprised to see in Revelation 7:9. As exaltation-worthy spirits in paradise, they are praising God and the Lamb in the form of a seven-fold doxology that is similar to a seve...