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Timothy’s sight. As it begins to dissipate, the angel picks up the censor once again and dips it into the burning coals within the altar. The angel then vanishes from before God, and then Tim sees movement below him. There in the space between the moon and the earth he sees the angel as he pours out the coals as they fall to the earth.

  As this takes place, the silence that had been present from the moment Tim first looked upon this scene before him is broken. He hears a massive explosion of sound as all about give praises to the Lord. Lightning and thunder flash and reverberate from the throne itself, as Timothy senses a rumbling of an earthquake from the earth itself.

  During the clamoring onslaught the seven angels before God turn and look out at the people. They all lift their trumpets in unison and the sound dissipates.

  The first angel to receive a horn then blows the instrument that is at his lips in a long and constant note. As this takes place, Tim no longer finds himself in heaven, but upon the earth. Here he still hears the sound of the trumpet, but nothing else. He looks upon the land before him and the dark clouds above it. Hail begins to fall on the shaking ground as it is accompanied by a red rain. A rain, which he notes, as it hits the ground appears to be blood. He also sees as the frozen hail strikes the surface that it automatically is set aflame, burning the ground as some of the trees near him also becomes a massive blaze.

  Suddenly Timothy finds himself near a sea, but no longer is it storming, but a clear day is present. He then hears the call of the second horn, and so he looks up into the sky to see if he can make out its origin again. What he sees though is a huge meteor plunging into the atmosphere above. He watches as the burning rock falls into the sea, causing a massive tidal wave. As the wave spreads, it destroys all the ships that he sees before him. The wave dissipates in the area where the meteor hit and becomes red. Tim knows without anyone telling him that it is blood as it begins to spread throughout the water.

  For the third time Tim hears a different note. In response he sees a large glowing orb with a long trail of smoking debris behind it.

  “This is Wormwood; the substance that forms it shall poison a third of the water and kill a third of mankind,” Tim hears a voice say.

  Then just before Wormwood crashes into the earth, the fourth horn is heard. The orb smashes into the ground with a massive explosion that blackens the sky with a dust cloud, which cuts off one third of the sun’s light.

  As Tim looks up at the darkened sky, he sees the light of an object flying through the sky. He watches this light as it comes closer and closer to him. Soon he realizes that it is an angel as he begins to hear the words he is saying.

  “Woe, woe, woe to the inhibitors of the earth because the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels are yet to sound!”

  When Timothy hears this, he finds himself in the middle of a desert. In the distance he thinks he can see camels on this gray cloudy day. He looks up to see the clouds but is surprised to see that the sky is perfectly clear. As he sees this once again, he hears the sound of a trumpet as a brilliantly shining object falls to the ground before him. Tim squints as he awaits the explosion of the impact, but it never comes. The sparkling light begins to fade, and he sees yet another angel with shining white hair. He removes from his white robes a key, which he then pushes into the desert sand. As it stops, he turns it, causing the very ground he stands upon to fall away.

  As the angel floats in the same place a massive amount of smoke billows out of the hole like a building ablaze. Smoke is so thick that it almost hides his glowing form, and again the sky grows even darker. Tim looks down into the glowing pit, and it appears that it has no bottom. What he sees down there scares him more than he has ever been frightened before. Flying around the pit are creatures he has never seen before. They appear to be centaurs with dragon wings upon their horse-like torso. Their hair is long and flows in the wind as they fly. They use their scorpion like tails as a balance as they turn to and fro within the smoking abyss. As one of them passes close to him, he sees its animalistic teeth and its claw like hands. He also notes that the breast-plate it wears appears to be made of iron, and upon its head are several golden horns that appear to look like a crown. Then the largest of these creatures approaches the angel still hovering near the top of the pit.

  “Destroyer! You and your army are to hunt down those of the earth, but not those with the seal of God upon their heads. You are to sting them for five months. You will give them pain, but you are not to kill them. None shall die, even though they seek death,” the angel says as Timothy finds himself in the ruins of a building.

  Here he sees a man trying to fight off one of these demons as he uses a part of a door as a shield. The creature turns slightly as it hurls the end of its tail through the door breaking it in half as the stinger buries into the man’s stomach. Tim watches as the man begins to scream in agonizing pain, and he is thankful he cannot hear it.

  He then sees a woman in the corner of the ruins. Tears cover her agonized face as she takes a knife and cuts her wrist. As the blood begins to flow, it stops and the wounds quickly heal. Again she cuts, only to see the same happen again, and so she screams in painful frustration.

  Timothy suddenly finds himself before the throne of God. Here he looks on the sixth angel as he raises the trumpet to his lips and blows.

  “Go!” comes a voice from the four horns of the altar.

  “Go, and release the four angels that are kept bound beneath the Euphrates River,” The voice finishes, and the angel vanishes from the presence of God.

  Timothy finds himself also departed from heaven as he looks upon the sixth angel again. He watches as the angel parts the water, and there at the bottom of the river is a door. The angel unlocks this door that bursts open as four large beings explode out of it upon their steeds. They only go a short distance from the opening as four huge chains hold them fast.

  “You are to hunt down the people of earth for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year; and you are to kill one third of the people that walk the earth,” the angel orders the four and then begins to unlock their bindings.

  As he does this, Tim looks at the animals the angels ride and is shocked by what he sees. They have the body of a horse but the head of a lion as smoke issues from their mouths. Occasionally the smoke is accompanied by fire and glowing rocks that are so hot that they are yellow as they shoot from the bizarre creatures’ mouths. As he sees this he notices the head of a serpent near the face of one animal. He follows the twisting body of the snake to the rear of the animal and notices that it along with several other vipers is the animal’s tail.

  “Now take your two hundred million followers and do as you are commanded,” the angel says as he drops the last chain.

  The four angels then signal their followers to come after as they charge up the dry banks of the river. Their horde, dressed in breastplates that look like fire with a dark blue and yellow mix throughout it, comply by following close behind the larger leaders.

  “Timothy!” a mighty voice booms forth, and Tim kneels as he hears it. “Please understand. Even though the people of earth are hunted like the animals they will become and are killed, still they will continue killing and taking drugs. Still will the men lie with men, and women with women, and they shall continue to steal and lie.”

  :2:55 p.m.

  “We’ve got to go home now,” she says. They both get up and begin to pack up their picnic, as he thinks about the dream he just had.

  “What is it, Tim?” his wife asks, and so he tells her his dream.

  The Witnesses

  :September 29

  :9:57 p.m.

  Tim and Christa, along with the help of their children, have worked hard in grooming their yard again for the upcoming videotaping of their house for the real estate company. As they lie down this night they fall quickly into a deep sleep.

  Timothy walks down the street of a city with the usual buildings on each side of it. These buildings are di
fferent though. Each is in some way damaged and broken, as wind blows paper around in a swirling funnel.

  Abruptly the sound of a trumpet blasts into his ears, and he knows it is the last of the seven trumpets. Before him two men suddenly appear dressed in brownish cloth robes that looked as if they were made of twine. Their faces show that they are old men, along with the fact that their hair is white and they walk with staffs.

  Suddenly out of the buildings on both sides of the street, several men run out with knives and clubs. They charge the two men as they raise their weapons to attack. Hatred is written upon their faces as they close in upon the men.

  Each of the two turns and face opposite sides of the street. They open their mouths, from which flame erupts and burns their attackers to death. Tim looks on in horror when a familiar voice speaks behind him.

  “Fear not, Timothy,” the voice says and Tim turns to look at the tall form of his angelic guide.

  “Gabriel, I am so glad to see you. These last two dreams have been hard to handle.”

  “I know. That is why the Lord has sent me here. You see, these two men are Enoch and Elijah. By your terms they are very old. Enoch was born before the great flood while Elijah is nearly three thousand years old. They have witnessed all that mankind has done, and so God