From the Book of Revelation    163 

generations. When they thought to kill the babes of the just, one son having 

been exposed and set free, to their disgrace, you took away a multitude of 

their sons and destroyed them all together in a mighty water. For that night 

was known beforehand by our fathers, so that, knowing the truth of the 

oaths in which they had trusted, they might be more peaceful in their souls. 

Yet your people received not only the salvation of the just, but also the 

destruction of the unjust.  (Wisdom 18:1 7) 

    After the three days of darkness, the Church will be a spiritual light to the 

whole world. The faithful will have great success in preaching the Gospel. 

Those few impious persons who remain will have no influence over politics 

or society or religion. A time of relative peace and holiness is given to the 

world, beginning after the three days of darkness. This is the time of the 

reign of the great monarch and the angelic shepherd (a holy pope). 

Mankind Remains Unrepentant (Rev 9:20 21) 

     The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not 

repent of the works of their hands nor give up worshiping demons and idols 

of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot either see 

or hear or walk; nor did they repent of their murders or their sorceries or 

their immorality or their thefts.  (Rev 9:20 21). 

    Even after such severe punishments from God, some of which are clearly 

supernatural,  some  people refuse to repent. Yet there will be also many 

faithful servants of God who have no need of repentance, or who have 

already repented of their sins. These include persons with the seal of God on 

their foreheads. Notice that not every unrepentant sinner is killed at this 

time, since many who survive remain unrepentant. 

A Respite Between the Sixth and Seventh Trumpets 

    The events of the first six trumpets, which are all part of the seventh seal, 

occur in about the same time frame. These events begin during or at the end 

of the war of the great monarch against the Arab occupation of Europe. The 

worst of these events occurs from about A.D. 2038 to 2039. The end of these 

punishments comes in  late  A.D. 2039  or  early 2040. There may be short 

spaces of time separating the events of the first six trumpets days, weeks, 

or even months, but the space of time between the sixth and seventh 

trumpets is much longer (about four centuries). This break in the series of 

events is indicated in Holy Scripture by the description in chapter 10 of the 

angel with the seven thunders.