May,02, 2026 Sabbath-School Review

  Derek West

Source material: Seven Trumpet Luminescence, Book, 5.2; Dec, 2019

This week we covered pages 172 to 186 inclusive.  In those pages the Sixth Trumpet finishes and the period called the “Interim” begins.  That period shall be unraveled next week.  Yet, I must with added profusion, begin this blog by re-exclaiming the marvelous and genius wisdom hidden —not only in all the Trumpets but— especially in this the sixth one.  I do not think that more can be added to the book’s explanations; however, more intensity of focus can be cast upon it.  I encourage those who have not yet read the book at least once to do so now; after all, it is called the Book of Remembrance by the Lord.  He says,

“  ¹⁶ Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name. ¹⁷ And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.” —Mal 3: 16-17

Are you a Jewel?  Do you fear Christ; do you think upon His name?  If so, He, with the Lord of Hosts or Jesus’ affirmation, claims you to be His own:  He has exaltation, honor and glory for you that converts you into a special saint in His kingdom.  That is to say, you become one of the jewels designed to be set in His kingdom crown.  Notice the special adverb of the Text, “before”.  It reveals that this book, Seven Trumpet Luminescence, was written —not by Him, Christ, but— before Him, for them.  Therefore, it was written to include you in the day of His direct re-involvement in man’s salvation; that is, if you have been taught about His name.  Only in being taught can you thusly think on His name.  To amplify this point all the more, I prepare this blog to give special commentary to three themes: The valor of the horses and their riders, the mercy of the Father, and the defeat of Satan’s lies. 

 A brief recap is in order: Locusts emerge from the bottomless pit as expressed in the Fifth Trumpet.  Then they morph into horses; then, in the Sixth Trumpet the horses receive angelic horsemen.  But more than that, the horsemen —not the horses— receive breastplates of fire and brimstone.  Such is the same substance that is breathed out of the mouth of —not the horsemen but another facet of this symbolism— the heads of the horses. Allow me to quote it exactly:

“  ⁷ And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men. ⁸ And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. ⁹ And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron… ¹⁶And the number of the army of the horsemen (not the horses but the horsemen) were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them. ¹⁷ And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone. ¹⁸ By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.” —Rev 9: 16-18 

It is the fire and brimstone that kill the third part of men.  This means that the leaders of the Enochians, aka the head of the horses, now define the terms of salvation by their ministry; thus, fire and brimstone, the punishment of Satan and his angels, comes out of their gospel declarations, their mouths.  One third, the “third part of men” ignore their warnings.  You do well to wonder then, why do the horsemen who symbolize angelic hosts need breastplates of fire and brimstone?  Because, as shown more fully below, they are no longer susceptible to Satan’s lies, and also, they are protected from the penalty heaped upon Satan and his angels.  Of this fiery penalty, Jesus warned the saints, when He said,

“ ⁴¹ Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:” —Matt 25: 41

A breastplate of fire signifies a protection in warfare from that very penalty.  The horsemen are heavenly angels who, since the beginning of the Great Controversy (GC), did not follow Satan; thus, they are now rewarded for their loyalty and find the joy and relief in their protection from the flames of hell; in other words, they jubilate in the fact that they made the right decision to honor Christ over Lucifer.  It should also be noted: The fire and brimstone come out of the mouth —not of the horsemen but— of the horses.  This deserves emphasis because their gospel precisely defines the penalty to be exacted upon men should they continue in their rejection of Christ.  As we saw, two thirds comply, one third do not and become de facto agents of Satan, his angels: those to whom Jesus’s above quote refers.  As such, they receive with Satan, his same penalty.   

But notice: the locusts who morph into horses have breastplates of iron and teeth of lions.  This means that, to decipher the iron, they have been made impervious to the weaponry launched at them by all their enemies, humans or devils.  But more than that, their human enemies seek to deny or escape their evangelical decrees: They, being unable to kill them, do seek to defeat them by human sophistry, i.e. Masonry.  But the gospel doctrine is made inescapable and irrefutable —ergo the metaphor, teeth of lions.  The bottom line is that the antagonists of the horses cannot escape the force of their bite by counter verbal articulations or theological argument.  We should emphasize a distinction: Their angelic horsemen, as symbolic breastplates, protect them, but they, the horsemen, do not teach the gospel.  That is the mission of the horses; thereby, they are given irrefutable doctrine or the teeth of lions.  These doctrines they, the horses, have mastered by their reception of the ministerial teachings of the Three Angels, the very meat that those same angels delivered to the Lord’s house from the SDA storehouse, meat that was eventually augmented or boosted by the work of the mustard seed, the fourth angel.   But please note the substance of their Christian acuity began with the history of Adventism in 1844.  They mastered it while hidden in Christ’s abode having been extricated, in their day of human history, extricated to His pavilion on the red cloud of Jupiter.

The utter and complete mercy of this gospel purveyance, that which the mustard seed has resoundingly declared throughout its ministry, is made manifest by the closing words of this Sixth Trumpet.  To the shock of all other teachers, it says,

“ ²⁰ And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: ²¹ Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.” —Rev 9: 20-21

Here we have the clinching evidence of God’s mercy.  The totality of the work of the locust ministry to include the horses, their heads of the horses or their captains, and their angelic host, et al, I say, the totality of their work is summarized by this above Bible pronouncement.  Let us assimilate that which is said here to close the Sixth Trumpet: If any are worthy of death it should be the Masons, the witches or those who worship devils, the murderers and the thieves, et al.  Rather than a determination of condemnation by the Lord, all are extended an opportunity of mercy.  As shown above from Mal three, the point becomes even more magnified and jolting: Some even had opportunity of graduation to become members of the Lord’s exclusive class called His jewels.  Shockingly, some among the third part of men, having the opportunity, even refuse this extension of divine grace.  They too then are grouped with those who bear the brunt of hell’s curse: the penalty of the flames of hell.  This is instore for them simply because of their refusal to confess and repent of their crimes. 

But why with the Sixth Trumpet?  Why was not this decree made in any of the prior trumpets?  The answer underpins the mustard seed’s thesis about them: The trumpets are magnified amplifications and broadcasts of doctrinal light.  They contain messages that are not necessarily chronological.  A trumpet expresses a higher vociferation of the broadcast of truth, and it just so happens that all arguments against Bible righteousness are rendered, with the Sixth Trumpet blast, to be false: this by the four angels who are freed from the river Euphrates.  Therefore, with the broadcast of the Sixth Trumpet, Satan can no longer use artifice and deception to impeach Christ and to discredit the disciples who honor Christ’s mission on earth; in other words, the Great Controversy (GC) is finalized. 

The manifestation of the end of the GC is defined to come to its fruition with the Sixth Trumpet by virtue of the resurrection because that event, as proven by the MSC, magnifies to the universe the crescendo of Christ’s righteousness.  Beforehand, Satan deceptively argued that human sacrifice was not murderous or offensive but that it was merely a method of human graduation to a higher plain of existence.  This is much akin to what we see today with the US Military: They do not broadcast to the world the men who have fallen in their ill-conceived and mindless battles.  Like so, heavenly angels beforehand found the Immortality of the Soul Doctrine to be a challenge to refute being that they themselves have never witnessed death except on our planet. Death was to them a novel experience that exceeded their capacity to compute, that is, unless they were gripped with faith and honor for the expressed themes of God’s word: Such themes, after all were, even on earth, matters of human debate.  Thus, apart from the Bible and the SDA evangelism, how could they refute hell’s claim which argued an after-life transition of dying souls?  Also, we must remember, the precision of the Gospel was targeted to fallen men —those who actually have a need for graveyard exculpation— and not targeted to heavenly beings.  So if we humans, in our fallen history, had customary facility to offer human blood sacrifice, who’s to say among the heavenly angels, especially those who were not studious in the Three Angels’ Message, that such was a fallacy?  What motive was there among them to argue against Satan’s claim, that it was not a medium to yield a higher and more noble ascension, that which he originally used to deceive Mother Eve? 

Yet still, you would think that by their abidance in heaven, angels would know better having never witnessed among themselves the spirits of men whom Satan sacrificed for such a transition.  To this I say, we have no concept to the levels of angelic intelligence —especially since such acuity-versus-obtusity levels also vary amongst humans as well.  In fact, the Bible shows that angels also can be dumb spirits (see Mark 9:25).  Knowing this I add, the universe is big, and to explain their lack of familiarity with such spirits of fallen men who afterwards abide with them, may have induced the assumption that such “divested human souls” have ascended or floated off to some other heavenly quadrant.  Also, Remember, Satan, on his own merit, formerly had credibility.  We can only guess how much of that was eroded in the years of the GC.  Thus, when he argues that Christ Himself has orchestrated the death of humans, they are morally challenged by ponderment: Why is Christ’s judgment superior to that of Satan?  We now have the answer —because He always does Father’s will— but they may not have had that answer before the MSC. 

The Sixth Trumpet resolves these and all other duplicitous arguments.  And the angelic hosts, the horsemen, have become immune to Satan’s sophistry: That immunity to his lies is their breastplates of fire.  They are made to see the clinching evidence: The resurrected come forth and recognize their former homeland neighbors, friends, and leaders and rulers who speak their language and share their customs.  They remember all those things and more; however, they have no memory of any excursion as a spirit to an alternate universe.  Like, Damar Hamlin, the Football player who, in front of the world, collapsed in death in 2023: This fact adds clinching evidence to make the Sixth-Trumpet’s refutational claim real.  After three days, Damar was awakened, and his first question was, “Did we win the football game?”  A conscious spirit would have known, else, what would be the purpose of his continued awareness as a spirit?  Evidently, Damar’s passion, his dying hope was left unanswered when his life was cut short in that football game.  Was not this the very reason for Christ’s warning to Adam?  He predicted that humanity would die —they did— and, as cited above, He promised that they would be resurrected again.  His word in the Sixth Trumpet will have been validated with the resurrection of both good and evil people.  Likewise, we must never forget that Christ’s orchestration of death was done in fruition of Adam’s choice —not that of His own expressed prompting.  Even still, because of His ordained austerity, Christ afterward grew the planet to more than eight billion, perhaps even 21 billion, people, many of whom are prospects to receive eternal life.  None can disparage His work because He laid them down in the grave and picked them back up in the Sixth Trumpet.  Satan has no comparable valor.

Where are the souls whom Satan claimed to have transported to heaven?  They are nowhere to be found except in the now open graves of their homeland burial sites.  In this fact, Satan is proven to be the father of lies and of murder.  The saints of the Lord’s highest honor, His jewels, then are those who embraced this truth purely by faith: It is the standard to become attached to His kingdom crown.  But, with regards to every unfallen angel, they, with this Trumpet, lose all sympathy for hell-bound agents of Satan’s, be they spirits or flesh.  Their sympathy lies with Christ for having to endure their falsehood all these 6000 years.  But that which is equally noteworthy is the fact that —not the devils but— the human agents who perpetrated these crimes under the whisperings of demons are offered executive clemency under David’s rule, forgiveness guaranteed by the Father.  Who then dare to accuse God of brutal vindictiveness; who dare declare the Book of Revelation to be a book of bludgeoning brutality?  How could it be when the three voices of evangelism invited the worse of criminals to come?  It says,

  “ ¹⁷ And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.”—Rev 22: 17

Also, as quoted above, the closing words of the Sixth Trumpet says,

“ ²⁰ And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: ²¹ Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.” —Rev 9: 20-21

Much more evidence of these themes, and of others, is recorded in book 5.2.  I hope that this blog wins for all the added appreciation that the mustard seed has for these, the Seven Trumpets.

Derek