SAFE FROM THE FOUR WINDS

MF Blume
May 21, 2000 pm

Daniel 7:1-7  In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters. Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea. And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another. The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it. And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh. After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it. After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.


Four WInds of the Heaven strove or stirred up the sea.

Zechariah also heard about the FOUR WINDS.
Zechariah 6:1-5  And I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came four chariots out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass. In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot black horses; And in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot grisled and bay horses. Then I answered and said unto the angel that talked with me, What are these, my lord? And the angel answered and said unto me, These are the four spirits of the heavens, which go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth. {spirits: or, winds}
The white, red, black and grisled and bay horses were the FOUR SPIRITS OF THE HEAVENS. Where else do we read of these FOUR winds, or these four horses?
Revelation 6:1-8  And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see. And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer. And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see. And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword. And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine. And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
So, Four BEASTS rose up from the sea, as a result of the FOUR WINDS of hell.

There were four world powers to rise up.

DANIEL FORETOLD THEY WOULD RISE AFTER BABYLON, BEFORE BABYLON EVER FELL!

The FOURTH BEAST was not identified by name like the first three were.

It was FOUR WINDS that rose up. And by the time the NEW TESTAMENT times started, ROME, THAT FOURTH BEAST, was in power and had control over Israel. And Jesus warned JERUSALEM of her wickedness.

After Jesus rode into Jerusalem in Matthew 21, He was rejected by the people, and all He spoke about were parables of how God's Kingdom would turn to Gentiles instead of Israel.

He said that a cup was filled up by Jerusalem of His day. A generation in the Bible is 40 years. FOUR WINDS STIRRED UP THE FOUR BEASTS. The four winds were ready to blow on the earth and sea and HURT THEM. The SAME FOUR WINDS THAT STIRRED UP THE FOUR BEASTS TO RISE. John saw the FOURTH BEAST RISE with all the marks of the first three, from Daniel 7. This woman SAT ON A BEAST with seven heads and ten horns. This WOMAN is drunk with the blood of saints and the martyrs of Jesus, just like Jesus told Jerusalem that they filled the CUP of all the shed blood first shed since Abel was killed, when they were ready to crucify Jesus, Himself, in Matthew 23:.

But in 70 AD, ROME turned against Jerusalem and destroyed Jerusalem later on.

Revelation 17:16  And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
BACK TO REVELATION 13.

When Jerusalem was destroyed in THAT generation, IN THOSE 40 YEARS after Jesus prophesied to them about it, it was in 70 AD when the siege began.

The devil gave power to ROME for 3.5 years to DESTROY JERUSALEM. And the BEAST was given power to DESTROY THE CHURCH.
Revelation 13:5-7  And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.  And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
But those four WINDS might have been used to stir up a BEAST called ROME to destroy God's CHURCH, but after all this BEAST'S MARKS and blasphemies and persecutions, we read in chapter 14....
Revelation 14:1-3  And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads. And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps: And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.
A group is STANDING and they are STANDING ON A ROCK SO HUGE IT IS A MOUNTAIN CALLED ZION. Back in Revelation 7, before the four winds even blew on the sea to raise ROME up, an angel cried to the four angels holding the four winds to wait and not release the winds until the people of God were sealed in their foreheads IN PROTECTION. Instead of the CHURCH destroyed, Jerusalem alone was destroyed. Revelation 11 says that the holy city was to be trodden by gentiles for 42 months. Daniel said the fourth beast, after Greece, would rise and stamp the residue with his feet.
Daniel 7:7  After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.
This is the TREADING UNDER FOOT of Revelation 11:2.

And two witnesses prophesy and are slain and lay in Jerusalem.

Revelation 11:8  And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
Jerusalem is called "THE GREAT CITY." What great city? And that is written in the same chapter where we read that 144,000 stood on MOUNT ZION, with the Father's NAME in their foreheads. The winds may blow upon you, but if you do the will of the Father, you will enter the safety of His Kingdom, and be alright. Their Father's name was on their foreheads. They were on a  ROCK, standing. The forehead represents the WILL.
Ezekiel 3:7-9  But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted. {impudent...: Heb. stiff of forehead, and hard of heart} Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads.  As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.
IMPUDENT actually means STIFF OF FOREHEAD. To have the NAME OF THE FATHER on the forehead is to be a person that does the WILL of the FATHER and not one's own will.
Matthew 23:37  O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
Jesus would have GATHERED JERUSALEM TOGETHER into protection. But we read this about the CHURCH.
Matthew 24:31  And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other
The angels GATHER his elect from the FOUR WINDS. This was fulfilled in 70 AD, and the Christians all fled Jerusalem, and not a one of them were killed! Jesus said to rebellious Jerusalem that all the wrath poured out upon them, due to their filling of the cup of blood, would be fulfilled in THAT generation.
Matthew 23:35  That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.
And He repeated that in Matthew 24.
Matthew 24:34  Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
That is not talking about a future generation. Jesus carried His cross up Golgotha, and women wept for him.  Read what he said.
Luke 23:27-30  And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him. But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children. For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck. Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us.
Weep for yourselves and you children. They would see Rome come to conquer, and would cry for the mountains and hills to fall on them. This sixth seal, where the sun is said to turn black and the moon to blood is also noted in Matthew 24, where prophesied of Jerusalem's destruction in 70 AD.
Matthew 24:29-31  Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Jesus said this in reference to PROTECTING THE CHURCH by gathering them from the four winds, when He would not GATHER TOGETHER Jerusalem and protect them, due to their rejection of HIm. The four winds cannot hurt you if you stand on the rock!


The angels gathered the elect from the FOUR WINDS.


WHITE HORSE - FALSE PROPHETS (There were more false Prophets in Jesus' day because Daniel 9 prophesied the time when Messiah would come.  False Prophets knew of that, and masqueraded as Christ).

Matthew 24:4-6 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

Revelation 6:2 And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.

 RED HORSE - WARS
Matthew 24:7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: ...

Revelation 6:4 And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.

BLACK HORSE - FAMINE
Matthew 24:7-8  ...and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.

Revelation 6:5-6 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.

PALE HORSE - DEATH
Matthew 24:9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.

Revelation 6:8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

And Jesus later referred to delivering His elect from the FOUR WINDS in Matthew 24:31. Some ask why this PAST AND HISTORICAL REFERENCE is in the book of Revelation if it is not future. Do not fret about troubles that you think you cannot endure.
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