We had expected terrible things for this High Sabbath of the true Yom Kippur on October 20, 2018, God’s Judgement Day after Michael stood up, but things got far worse than we could have imagined. The world, however, remains in darkness, and what I have to report today irreversibly seals its fate.

The black blood of a dead man, Jamal Khashoggi, still dominates the headlines of the “World” and “International” sections, and while Saudi Arabia now admits the murder, it describes such an unbelievable version of the crime that even Angela Merkel had to label it “insufficient”, even though she certainly doesn’t want to provoke a new oil crisis.

Trump, on the other hand, seems to have no problem swallowing the Saudis’ “fistfight” lie, and describes the unfortunate outcome of the consulate’s daily boxing match with its visitors as completely credible. Not without reason, some colleagues of Khashoggi in turn chose an ambiguous headline for the US president’s assessment of the situation: Trump believes fistfight version in break with U.S. intelligence. The term “U.S. intelligence” refers to the intelligence agency of the United States, which did not believe this version of the Saudis, but one can assume that “in break with U.S. intelligence” should also draw attention to the fact that, between the lines, U.S. President Trump is now certified “insane” by his compatriots—and many other nations as well!

It is telling that now, in full view of the international community, greed leads a 72-year-old “Persian king” to believe the tales of One Thousand and One Nights from “Scheherazade” more than his own spies. But it doesn’t seem that “MbS,” or “Mister Bone Saw” or, as I would say, “Ali Baba and his 15 thieves” will get away with it completely unscathed. An ocean of blood is already on the horizon.

So how are we, as the remnant, to position ourselves against such statements of the world leaders? We fight against spiritual powers and should not view things carnally, but spiritually.^[1] Trump’s such blatant “break with intelligence” and any sound common sense—to wit, his gall to sell fairy tales as truth against any logic and all evidence, can only have one dreadful reason: the Spirit of God must now have completely withdrawn from him and many other national leaders. About 100 years ago, when the Spirit of God was still to be found, someone wrote:

We are living in the time of the end. The fast-fulfilling signs of the times declare that the coming of Christ is near at hand. The days in which we live are solemn and important. The Spirit of God is gradually but surely being withdrawn from the earth. Plagues and judgments are already falling upon the despisers of the grace of God. The calamities by land and sea, the unsettled state of society, the alarms of war, are portentous. They forecast approaching events of the greatest magnitude.

The agencies of evil are combining their forces and consolidating. They are strengthening for the last great crisis. Great changes are soon to take place in our world, and the final movements will be rapid ones. {3TT 280.1-280.2}

What is the consequence of that?

Hearts that respond to the influence of the Holy Spirit are the channels through which God’s blessing flows. Were those who served God removed from the earth, and His Spirit withdrawn from among men, this world would be left to desolation and destruction, the fruit of Satan’s dominion. Though the wicked know it not, they owe even the blessings of this life to the presence, in the world, of God’s people whom they despise and oppress. But if Christians are such in name only, they are like the salt that has lost its savor. They have no influence for good in the world. Through their misrepresentation of God they are worse than unbelievers.—The Desire of Ages, 306. {ChS 22.3}

The consequence is a devastating nuclear world war:

The restraining Spirit of God is even now being withdrawn from the world. Hurricanes, storms, tempests, fire and flood, disasters by sea and land, follow each other in quick succession. Science seeks to explain all these. The signs thickening around us, telling of the near approach of the Son of God, are attributed to any other than the true cause. Men cannot discern the sentinel angels restraining the four winds that they shall not blow until the servants of God are sealed; but when God shall bid His angels loose the winds, there shall be such a scene of strife as no pen can picture.—Testimonies for the Church 6:408. {ChS 52.1}

For a long time we knew that the Spirit of God would completely withdraw from the earth at the beginning of the second plague, because precisely this is described in the pattern of the prophecy of Ezekiel 9. There, the man with the writer’s inkhorn is the Holy Spirit, who finishes His sealing work in the first plague according to the clock in Orion. Then follow the five angels with the slaughter weapons in plagues 2 through 6. The great hail stones in the seventh plague^[2] are then the atomic missiles that fall down upon the cities of men and usher in the return of Jesus.

Look at the plague clock! The sixth plague begins with a throne line, and the Jewish New Year for 2019 falls within it on April 6/7. It is a special New Year, because the heavenly jubilee year begins shortly before the appearance of Jesus in the cloud:

In the time of trouble we all fled from the cities and villages, but were pursued by the wicked, who entered the houses of the saints with a sword. They raised the sword to kill us, but it broke, and fell as powerless as a straw. Then we all cried day and night for deliverance, and the cry came up before God. The sun came up, and the moon stood still. The streams ceased to flow. Dark, heavy clouds came up and clashed against each other. But there was one clear place of settled glory, whence came the voice of God like many waters, which shook the heavens and the earth. The sky opened and shut and was in commotion. The mountains shook like a reed in the wind, and cast out ragged rocks all around. The sea boiled like a pot and cast out stones upon the land. And as God spoke the day and the hour of Jesus’ coming and delivered the everlasting covenant to His people, He spoke one sentence, and then paused, while the words were rolling through the earth. The Israel of God stood with their eyes fixed upward, listening to the words as they came from the mouth of Jehovah, and rolled through the earth like peals of loudest thunder. It was awfully solemn. And at the end of every sentence the saints shouted, “Glory! Alleluia!” Their countenances were lighted up with the glory of God; and they shone with the glory, as did the face of Moses when he came down from Sinai. The wicked could not look on them for the glory. And when the never-ending blessing was pronounced on those who had honored God in keeping His Sabbath holy, there was a mighty shout of victory over the beast and over his image.

Then commenced the jubilee, when the land should rest. I saw the pious slave rise in triumph and victory and shake off the chains that bound him, while his wicked master was in confusion and knew not what to do; for the wicked could not understand the words of the voice of God. Soon appeared the great white cloud. It looked more lovely than ever before. On it sat the Son of man. At first we did not see Jesus on the cloud, but as it drew near the earth we could behold His lovely person. This cloud, when it first appeared, was the sign of the Son of man in heaven. The voice of the Son of God called forth the sleeping saints, clothed with glorious immortality. The living saints were changed in a moment and were caught up with them into the cloudy chariot. It looked all over glorious as it rolled upward. On either side of the chariot were wings, and beneath it wheels. And as the chariot rolled upward, the wheels cried, “Holy,” and the wings, as they moved, cried, “Holy,” and the retinue of holy angels around the cloud cried, “Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty!” And the saints in the cloud cried, “Glory! Alleluia!” And the chariot rolled upward to the Holy City. Jesus threw open the gates of the golden city and led us in. Here we were made welcome, for we had kept the “commandments of God,” and had a “right to the tree of life.” {EW 34.1-35.1}

Many believe that the Jubilee Year begins with Christ’s coming, but that is not true. It begins shortly before—exactly as on the Orion plague clock. The seventh plague, the nuclear war, begins soon thereafter (exactly one month later) on May 6, 2019 and again shortly thereafter on May 21, 2019 Jesus returns to save His own from the fire.

Moses received special instructions from God for the Yom Kippur that preceded a Jubilee year:

And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years. Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family. (Leviticus 25:8-10)

One more time, plain and simple: on the Yom Kippur of the 49th year, the trumpet was blown warning that the 50th year was approaching as a jubilee year! Everyone could therefore be prepared for it. The time difference between the warning and the beginning of the Jubilee Year was therefore about 6 months.

That is why we expected a warning “trumpet call” on Yom Kippur of this year, 2018, since in the coming year, we will take possession of our property in the heavenly Canaan:

In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession. (Leviticus 25:13)

The Spirit-abandoned president of what was not long ago the largest nuclear power on earth was recently given the “honor” of sounding this special trumpet. On the High Sabbath of October 20, 2018, the press announced worldwide that the big mouth of the Second Beast of Revelation 13 had signaled the termination of the INF Nuclear Middle-Range Missile Agreement with Russia, which had been preventing a war that would destroy Europe, and thus the Third World War, for 31 years.

Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin only missed the chance by one or two days, to prove on the “Day of Atonement” that he had been abandoned by the Spirit too. He announced the collective suicide of the Caucasian race in front of the respected Valdai Club, claiming that his new supersonic nuclear missiles could not be intercepted, that all attackers would be “annihilated” and that the Russians would go to heaven as martyrs. I’m sorry, it can’t get any dumber than that!

And as if that weren’t enough, some press reports mention that the disarmament treaty provides for a withdrawal period of exactly six months. This made Trumpet Trump’s announcement the jubilee year warning for Suicide Putin, which could not have been more terrible. Will all living souls in the sea of Europe perhaps lose their lives after all? I am no longer so sure that this couldn’t happen in the second plague, especially when I look at the dates of the Trident Military Exercise directly on the border with Russia, which begins on the first day of the Feast of Tabernacles in 2018. Yet, per God’s announcement, the great hail—which can be anything but real hail—isn’t due till May 6, 2019. Everybody, relax!

One must be aware of the fact, however, that the prophecy of the dying living souls^[3] can also be broadly connected with the withdrawal of the Holy Spirit from humanity, because God’s breath, which once brought Adam to life, is none other than His Spirit. The nations of the “sea of the world”^[4] have now been forsaken by the Spirit of God and have thus died in the eyes of God.

Finally, it strikes me that the first plague clearly revealed the stinking wounds of the Catholic Church and its leader (and, of course, of all those who lie in bed with him^[5]). Now it seems that in the first plague, the first beast was exposed, whereas the second plague places President Trump, “deserted by all good spirits,” and the second beast in the limelight of the global community.

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light. (Ephesians 5:11-13)

Certain Adventist preachers, who consider themselves to be the fourth angel messenger, do not seem to know this verse, and precisely on the Great Yom Kippur 2018 taught that we should not point to others and judge them while we ourselves still insist on our sins (of time-setting). They consider themselves spiritually rich and do not even understand what the “Sunday law” was,^[6] that should come before the plagues. Their problem is that they do not know the clocks of God and thus, do not know that His judgments have begun and that the apostate people are already suffering the second plague along with their equally Spirit-forsaken leaders. Did I say earlier, in connection with Putin, “it can’t get any dumber”? It is not we who point and judge; rather, it is God Himself, and He uses those in whom His Spirit still dwells as His instruments of light.

And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. (Revelation 18:1)

Nevertheless, every case has been decided already, and we write these articles only as a testimony^[7] to God’s bygone grace for all those who did not want to repent:

The plagues were falling upon the inhabitants of the earth. Some were denouncing God and cursing Him. Others rushed to the people of God and begged to be taught how they might escape His judgments. But the saints had nothing for them. The last tear for sinners had been shed, the last agonizing prayer offered, the last burden borne, the last warning given.—Early Writings, 281 (1858). {LDE 244.2}