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The ‘east wind’ is the time of the great tribulation that occurs during Revelation 9:13-21 (the winter, sabbath great tribulation of Matt 24:15-16), at the start of the 6th Trumpet. But to start with, let’s look at Deuteronomy 28 for a moment.
In the context of Deuteronomy and the Mosaic covenant blessings and curses, at the 6th Trumpet, the enemies of Jerusalem have assembled for the winter, Sabbath great tribulation coming at Israel from ‘one direction’, the east.
The ‘four angels bound at the Euphrates River’ (Rev 9:14) are the four beasts of Daniel 7: the Lion, Bear, Leopard with four heads, and 4th Beast with 10 horns (Dan 7:4-8).
These four enemies are marching toward Israel from Deuteronomy 28:7’s ‘one direction’ – the due east where the Euphrates River lies. They are the ‘east wind’ of many passages of scripture.
At the end of this battle when they are defeated by God and his army of 200 million troops which is a reference to Psalm 68.
For the faithful, God is going out to conquer their enemies (Deut 28:7) – hence the reference at Rev 9:16 to the twice ten thousand times ten thousand mounted troops (often translated as ‘200 million mounted troops’) – this is a reference is to Psalm 68’s ‘twice ten thousand times ten thousand chariots of God’ (20,000 times 10,000 equals 200 million).
At Revelation 9:21, these four beasts will be scattered into seven directions per Deuteronomy 28:7. These seven directions are the 7 heads of the 7 heads, 10 horned beast of Revelation 12, 13, and 17. The Lion has one head, the Bear has one head, the Leopard comes at Jerusalem with one head and is split into 4 heads at the conclusion of the war taking place at Rev 9:13-21 (the first phase of the 2nd woe), and the 4th Beast has one head thus giving us a new total 7 heads at the conclusion.
These four animals describe vicious and deadly beasts which are symbolic of the destruction to be wreaked upon Israel during the great tribulation (because they are unfaithful and worshiping the abomination idol).
These four angels of the Euphrates/ animals of Daniel 7 (the Lion, Bear, Leopard, unnamed wild beast) will be united to ‘kill with the sword’ (Hos 13:16) in a war which also results in the death of children (the curse in Deut 28:18).
The ‘wind’ here is the Hebrew word, ‘ruach’ which also means ‘breath’ and ‘spirit’ – thus we have the ‘angels’ (‘spirits’) who are a ‘wind from the Lord’ (Hos 13:15 above).
The idea of the east wind being ‘breath’ should remind us of the ‘breath of God’ and the ‘breath of His coming’.
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In Isaiah 27, we see that the ‘east wind’ is God’s ‘fierce breath’.
In Jeremiah 18, we see that the ‘east wind’ will scatter Israel. This is important to note because after they are scattered then they will be gathered by the ‘Branch’.
During this time of the ‘east wind’, Tyre is destroyed – and in Revelation 17 we have verse 16 And the ten horns that you saw, they and the beast will hate the prostitute. They will make her desolate and naked, and devour her flesh and burn her up with fire.
Below, in Exodus, we see that the east wind brings with it locusts – just like it does at the 1st woe/ 5th Trumpet.
When this time of the ‘east wind’ is finished (at Rev 10:1, the 'rainbow' symbolizes the end of the 'flood' of war in Dan 9:26), the Daniel 9:27 covenant will ‘banish the wild beasts from the land’.
Deut 28:7 The LORD will cause the enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you. They will march out against you in one direction but flee from you in seven.
In the context of Deuteronomy and the Mosaic covenant blessings and curses, at the 6th Trumpet, the enemies of Jerusalem have assembled for the winter, Sabbath great tribulation coming at Israel from ‘one direction’, the east.
Rev 9:13 Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar before God, 14 saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.” 15 So the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour, the day, the month, and the year, were released to kill a third of mankind. 16 The number of mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand; I heard their number.
The ‘four angels bound at the Euphrates River’ (Rev 9:14) are the four beasts of Daniel 7: the Lion, Bear, Leopard with four heads, and 4th Beast with 10 horns (Dan 7:4-8).
(If this idea of animals being angels seems strange, remember that at Revelation 4:6-8, we see four angels described in animal terms: a lion, an ox, a man, and an eagle.
Rev 4:6 and before the throne there was as it were a sea of glass, like crystal. And around the throne, on each side of the throne, are four living creatures, full of eyes in front and behind: 7 the first living creature like a lion, the second living creature like an ox, the third living creature with the face of a man, and the fourth living creature like an eagle in flight. 8 And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say, “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”)
These four enemies are marching toward Israel from Deuteronomy 28:7’s ‘one direction’ – the due east where the Euphrates River lies. They are the ‘east wind’ of many passages of scripture.
At the end of this battle when they are defeated by God and his army of 200 million troops which is a reference to Psalm 68.
Psalm 68:17 The chariots of God are tens of thousands— thousands of thousands are they; the Lord is in His sanctuary as He was at Sinai. 18 You have ascended on high; You have led captives away. You have received gifts from men, even from the rebellious, that the LORD God may dwell there. 19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burden, the God of our salvation. Selah 20 Our God is a God of deliverance; the Lord GOD is our rescuer from death. 21 Surely God will crush the head of His enemies, the hairy crown of those who persist in guilty ways.
For the faithful, God is going out to conquer their enemies (Deut 28:7) – hence the reference at Rev 9:16 to the twice ten thousand times ten thousand mounted troops (often translated as ‘200 million mounted troops’) – this is a reference is to Psalm 68’s ‘twice ten thousand times ten thousand chariots of God’ (20,000 times 10,000 equals 200 million).
At Revelation 9:21, these four beasts will be scattered into seven directions per Deuteronomy 28:7. These seven directions are the 7 heads of the 7 heads, 10 horned beast of Revelation 12, 13, and 17. The Lion has one head, the Bear has one head, the Leopard comes at Jerusalem with one head and is split into 4 heads at the conclusion of the war taking place at Rev 9:13-21 (the first phase of the 2nd woe), and the 4th Beast has one head thus giving us a new total 7 heads at the conclusion.
These four animals describe vicious and deadly beasts which are symbolic of the destruction to be wreaked upon Israel during the great tribulation (because they are unfaithful and worshiping the abomination idol).
Hosea 12:1 Ephraim chases the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; he multiplies lies and violence; he makes a covenant with Assyria and sends olive oil to Egypt.
Hosea 13:7 So like a lion I will pounce on them; like a leopard I will lurk by the path. 8 Like a bear robbed of her cubs I will attack them, and I will tear open their chests. There I will devour them like a lion, like a wild beast would tear them apart. 9 You are destroyed, O Israel, because you are against Me— against your helper. 10 Where is your king now to save you in all your cities, and the rulers to whom you said, “Give me a king and princes”? 11 So in My anger I gave you a king, and in My wrath I took him away. 12 The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is stored up. 13 Labor pains come upon him, but he is an unwise son. When the time arrives, he fails to present himself at the opening of the womb. 14 I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from Death. Where, O Death, are your plagues? Where, O Sheol, is your sting? Compassion is hidden from My eyes. 15 Although he flourishes among his brothers, an east wind will come— a wind from the LORD rising up from the desert. His fountain will fail, and his spring will run dry. The wind will plunder his treasury of every precious article. 16 Samaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.
These four angels of the Euphrates/ animals of Daniel 7 (the Lion, Bear, Leopard, unnamed wild beast) will be united to ‘kill with the sword’ (Hos 13:16) in a war which also results in the death of children (the curse in Deut 28:18).
The ‘wind’ here is the Hebrew word, ‘ruach’ which also means ‘breath’ and ‘spirit’ – thus we have the ‘angels’ (‘spirits’) who are a ‘wind from the Lord’ (Hos 13:15 above).
The idea of the east wind being ‘breath’ should remind us of the ‘breath of God’ and the ‘breath of His coming’.
Job 4:9 By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed. 10 The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken. 11 The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
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2 Thess 2:7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work, but the one who now restrains it will continue until he is taken out of the way. 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will slay with the breath of His mouth and annihilate by the majesty of His arrival.
9 The coming of the lawless one will be accompanied by the working of Satan, with every kind of power, sign, and false wonder, 10 and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them. 11 For this reason God will send them a powerful delusion so that they believe the lie, 12 in order that judgment may come upon all who have disbelieved the truth and delighted in wickedness.
In Isaiah 27, we see that the ‘east wind’ is God’s ‘fierce breath’.
Isaiah 27:6 In days to come Jacob shall take root, Israel shall blossom and put forth shoots and fill the whole world with fruit. 7 Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them? Or have they been slain as their slayers were slain? 8 Measure by measure, by exile you contended with them; he removed them with his fierce breath in the day of the east wind. 9 Therefore by this the guilt of Jacob will be atoned for, and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: when he makes all the stones of the altars like chalkstones crushed to pieces, no Asherim or incense altars will remain standing.
In Jeremiah 18, we see that the ‘east wind’ will scatter Israel. This is important to note because after they are scattered then they will be gathered by the ‘Branch’.
Jeremiah 18:15 Yet My people have forgotten Me. They burn incense to worthless idols that make them stumble in their ways, leaving the ancient roads to walk on rutted bypaths instead of on the highway. 16 They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads. 17 I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind. I will show them My back and not My face in the day of their calamity.”
During this time of the ‘east wind’, Tyre is destroyed – and in Revelation 17 we have verse 16 And the ten horns that you saw, they and the beast will hate the prostitute. They will make her desolate and naked, and devour her flesh and burn her up with fire.
Ezekiel 27:24 In your market these traded with you in choice garments, in clothes of blue and embroidered work, and in carpets of colored material, bound with cords and made secure. 25The ships of Tarshish traveled for you with your merchandise. So you were filled and heavily laden in the heart of the seas. 26 “Your rowers have brought you out into the high seas. The east wind has wrecked you in the heart of the seas. 27 Your riches, your wares, your merchandise, your mariners and your pilots, your caulkers, your dealers in merchandise, and all your men of war who are in you, with all your crew that is in your midst, sink into the heart of the seas on the day of your fall.
Ezekiel 28: 1 The word of the Lord came to me: 2 “Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord God: “Because your heart is proud, and you have said, ‘I am a god, I sit in the seat of the gods, in the heart of the seas,’ yet you are but a man, and no god, though you make your heart like the heart of a god—
11 Moreover, the word of the Lord came to me: 12 “Son of man, raise a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and say to him, Thus says the Lord God: “You were the signet of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. 13 You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering, sardius, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, emerald, and carbuncle; and crafted in gold were your settings and your engravings. On the day that you were created they were prepared. 14 You were an anointed guardian cherub. I placed you; you were on the holy mountain of God; in the midst of the stones of fire you walked. 15 You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created, till unrighteousness was found in you. 16 In the abundance of your trade you were filled with violence in your midst, and you sinned; so I cast you as a profane thing from the mountain of God, and I destroyed you, O guardian cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
Below, in Exodus, we see that the east wind brings with it locusts – just like it does at the 1st woe/ 5th Trumpet.
Exodus 10:13 So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day and all that night. When it was morning, the east wind had brought the locusts.
Ezekiel 17:9 “Say, Thus says the Lord God: Will it thrive? Will he not pull up its roots and cut off its fruit, so that it withers, so that all its fresh sprouting leaves wither? It will not take a strong arm or many people to pull it from its roots. 10 Behold, it is planted; will it thrive? Will it not utterly wither when the east wind strikes it—wither away on the bed where it sprouted?” 11 Then the word of the Lord came to me: 12 “Say now to the rebellious house, Do you not know what these things mean? Tell them, behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took her king and her princes and brought them to him to Babylon. 13 And he took one of the royal offspring and made a covenant with him, putting him under oath (the chief men of the land he had taken away), 14 that the kingdom might be humble and not lift itself up, and keep his covenant that it might stand. 15 But he rebelled against him by sending his ambassadors to Egypt, that they might give him horses and a large army. Will he thrive? Can one escape who does such things? Can he break the covenant and yet escape?
16 “As I live, declares the Lord God, surely in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant with him he broke, in Babylon he shall die. 17 Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company will not help him in war, when mounds are cast up and siege walls built to cut off many lives. 18 He despised the oath in breaking the covenant, and behold, he gave his hand and did all these things; he shall not escape. 19 Therefore thus says the Lord God: As I live, surely it is my oath that he despised, and my covenant that he broke. I will return it upon his head. 20 I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon and enter into judgment with him there for the treachery he has committed against me. 21 And all the pick of his troops shall fall by the sword, and the survivors shall be scattered to every wind, and you shall know that I am the Lord; I have spoken.”
22 Thus says the Lord God: “I myself will take a sprig from the lofty top of the cedar and will set it out. I will break off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I myself will plant it on a high and lofty mountain. 23 On the mountain height of Israel will I plant it, that it may bear branches and produce fruit and become a noble cedar. And under it will dwell every kind of bird; in the shade of its branches birds of every sort will nest. 24 And all the trees of the field shall know that I am the Lord; I bring low the high tree, and make high the low tree, dry up the green tree, and make the dry tree flourish. I am the Lord; I have spoken, and I will do it.”
When this time of the ‘east wind’ is finished (at Rev 10:1, the 'rainbow' symbolizes the end of the 'flood' of war in Dan 9:26), the Daniel 9:27 covenant will ‘banish the wild beasts from the land’.
Ezek 34:25 “I will make with them a covenant of peace and banish wild beasts from the land, so that they may dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.
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