The Four Winds

of the Heavens
Part 2 ( part 1 The Great Whore)
post 175

I beg you to read this short section of Zechariah 6:1-8 before continuing, because pre-reading it has profound impact on your later understanding that you will not get if I just give you the answers first.

I realize you will not yet see how this post relates to the Last World Empire, but I encourage you to read it on its own merit, to be amazed at this secret science from the Creator, and discover later how it ties in to prophecy!

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Identifying the Four Spirits:

Zechariah 6:5 “And the angel answered and said unto me, These are the four spirits of the heavens, (8064) which go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth.”

Quick overview:

In verse 1 we have two brass mountains from between which come 4 chariots (with 5 various colored horses): Red, black, white, grisled, and bay.

The brass mountains are an identifier for when and how in the events these spirits come, but lets ignore those for the time to look at the chariots.

Verse 5 tells us plainly that these chariots are the 4 spirits of the heavens.

Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance;

Heavens 8064 shamayim; dual of an unused singular shameh; from an unused root meaning to be lofty; the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve.

Clearly meaning at least; the atmosphere, troposphere, and stratosphere.

Troposphere: “(from Greek: tropein - to change, circulate or mix) is the lowermost layer of the Earth's atmosphere. Most of the weather phenomena, systems, convection, turbulence and clouds occur in this layer, although some may extend into the lower portion of the stratosphere.”

(http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/reports/wxfacts/Troposphere.htm)

Stratosphere: “Little moisture enters the stratosphere, so clouds are rare. Even though the stratosphere has complex wind systems, violent storms don't occur there. Because the air temperature in the stratosphere slowly increases with altitude, it does not cause convection and has a stabilizing effect on atmospheric conditions in the region. Stability generally limits vertical extensions of cloud and leads to the lateral spreading of high cumulonimbus cloud with characteristic anvil heads. This means that weather (in the form of clouds) is almost entirely confined to the troposphere below. That's why airline pilots prefer to fly in the stratosphere.”  (http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/reports/wxfacts/Stratosphere.htm)

So by identifying these same four spirits elsewhere in scripture we can learn more about when they play their part, and just what they do;

“And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree” Revelation 7:1

Interestingly these 4 angels hold the four winds of the earth, not of the heavens. So are they different?

We already know by science that the global winds of the earth, are found in the heavens as the word is defined in the original text.

Mark 13:27 also confirms they are the same; “And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.”

Clearly both the heaven and the earth are identified under the scope of the four angels of the winds.

By definition of the regions of their responsibility, we see these are the same spirits as identified in the Zechariah 6:5, Daniel 7:2 and Revelation 7:1.

Clearly the winds of the heavens are global. Zechariah 6:5 identifies these spirits as going forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth, therefore proclaiming that the winds of the earth are controlled by spirits, which are directed by God.

It is here we should note that although there are 4 chariots representing 4 spirits, the horses of these chariots defined by color represent 5 winds, and there are yet unknown numbers of horses for each chariot, but at least 2 of each color due to the plural form of the word horses.

All that to say, one spirit can have dominion over more than one wind within his scope of authority, but all the winds (horses) of each chariot (authority) can be scientifically categorized under one controlling force.

This is prophetically important.

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Identifying Their Job:

We learn in the following verse the purpose of the four angels holding the four winds;

“…and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,” Revelation 7:2.

It is indisputable that these angels use the winds to hurt the planet, but for some reason the earth and sea are separated as different. I suggest that we might discover although this global weather "hurt" will actually occur, the hidden prophecy means the earth as the planet, and the sea as the humanity (Isaiah 17:12).

But there are two ways in which this hurt might be accomplished:
(I have since figured out theory 2 is correct. See post 200 The First Woe 
http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2011/06/first-woe.html)

“And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree” Revelation 7:1.

Theory 1- Let loose the winds:

"And after" follows the incredible events of the previous chapter which have yet to happen.

These four angels are described as holding the four winds from blowing "after that". They then might unloose the wind to do great damage to the earth and sea and trees. Immediately we think of hurricanes and tornadoes, unleashed with God’s great fury.

The wording describes the angels successfully holding the winds so that they do not blow anywhere, not even on any tree, presumably in this theory  “before they let them loose”.

Though this holding back has never yet been accomplished, might it one day come to pass? Scripture says it will.

But is the holding back a reprieve from the blowing damage?

Zechariah 1:11 describes a time when by search the earth is found to be “sitting still and at rest.” Could this also mean the winds themselves are still?

Perhaps.

But the question must be asked; Can the earth be at rest if the winds do not blow?

This thought extends into theory 2;

Theory 2- Hold the winds:

This verse can also be interpreted to mean that the damage done will be as a result of the angels holding back the wind from blowing at all.

How might this damage the earth?

If the main four winds of the earth we now know in science, do not blow, the damage done will be unimaginable! The rains will not come, the currents of the seas will be affected, the temperature of the air and the sea will dramatically change, there will be much sea life die from temperature change alone, not to mention the nutrients stop coming in the currents. The ability of these spirits to hurt the trees by not blowing, can mean nothing less that a lack of rain, which besides drought, results in fire.

Such a lack of blowing would be catastrophic to the sea, the earth and the trees.

But so would extreme blowing such as the earth has never seen.

I am leaning with uncertainty to the not blowing theory, but either way the earth is damaged.

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Investigating the earth’s winds:

Just Google “global winds” for lots of information.

I am no scientist, but I find it curious that the non-religious scientific community recognizes 3 global wind cells; The Polar, the Ferrel, and the Hadley.

I find it curious that 3 of the 4 chariots in Zechariah 6 are described as going to specific locations (part of no. 4 wanders “to and fro” but not up and down).

Considering that Israel is always the central focus of scripture, lets examine these 3 winds of the earth related to the geographic location of Israel:

(Look at the below map and find Israel located just above the Horse latitude.)

Zechariah 6:6-7:

“The black horses which are therein (chariot #2) go forth into the north country; (Polar)

and the white (chariot #3) go forth after them; (Ferrel)

and the grisled (½ chariot #4) go forth toward the south country. (Hadley)

And the bay (½ chariot #4) went forth, and sought to go that they might walk to and fro through the earth: …” (random).

Note: the red horses of chariot #1 are missing entirely. (Scripture is as amazingly complex as is the temporal reality which it explains, this adds to the thrill of figuring it out.)

According to the location of Israel on the globe, what we know of this description fits amazingly accurate! Since Israel is the focus location, it is neither north or south, and the description of the white horse (cell) over the region of Israel is simply; “they follow after those going north”.

How else would you put it?

The passage speaks of “countries” as geographic regions related to Israel, but also fits the global cycles of the earth’s winds perfectly.

Science today refers to them globally as 3 cells, though they are mirrored in the other hemisphere.

Likewise the biblical plural of horses representing the winds, implies at least two of each color, suggesting a further scriptural accuracy related to the redundant winds of both hemispheres.

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Regarding the Mysterious Winds of the Missing Red horses:

Zechariah 6:2 "In the first chariot were red horses..."

and then we never hear of them again for the remainder of the narration.

Jetstream: “A river of fast flowing air at high altitudes above the earth that generally flows from west to east over the mid-latitudes. The jet stream separates cold polar air from warmer air to the south and generally "steers" surface features such as fronts and low pressure systems."

(http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/oakfield/keyterms.htm).

FYI: I have learned that each hemisphere has two jet streams; one between each weather cell, not that it matters much here except when counting horses, but has significant meaning prophetically.

A great curious read: NOAA on Jetstream - (http://www.srh.noaa.gov/jetstream//global/jet.htm)

So while Jetstreams are the high altitude winds that have a stabilizing affect on the cells beneath them, they are scientifically independent from the 3 weather cells.

I am convinced that the winds of the Red horses are the Jetstreams, and because of their extreme altitude, are generally viewed as disconnected to events on the surface though very much influential. Therefore they are identified in scripture as present but curiously left out in the Zechariah narrative showing their location in reality as sort of secret.

For the hidden prophecy, the declaration of their presence while missing in the narrative is significant. By leaving their location out of the prophecy, it confirms them to be unique from the other 3 related cells, and suggests their actual location/relation as sort of mysterious (Revelation 17:5).

This fits the intriguing description of these four spirits in scripture very well.

The only remaining question is the identity of the Bay Horse winds controlled by the angel also controlling the Hadley winds.

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Regarding the Wandering Winds of the Bay Horses:

Why are the winds of the 4th chariot divided in destination and shown by two different colors of horses? Some, the grisled horses, going south as the Hadley cell, and some wandering “to and fro through the earth” as the yet unknown winds of the bay horses.

Are the storm winds such as hurricanes, typhoons and tornadoes all related to the Hadley cell of the south country? (equator) and therefore are the Bay horses?

Zechariah 6:7 is almost comical in its repeating that these winds wanted to walk back and forth, asked to walk back and forth, got permission to walk back and forth, and so they walked back and forth.

Therefore there must be a significance causing this to be included here with such diligence!

Storm Cells: "A storm cell is an air mass that contains up and down drafts in convective loops, moves and reacts as a single entity, and functions as the smallest unit of a storm-producing system." - (storm cells: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_cell)

That is a pretty good description to fit our analogy!

Though storms seem independent, my limited research suggests storms are produced by interaction between each of the three related cells, But only in the region of the Hadley cells do we get such independent storm cells “wandering to and fro through the earth” to the extent that we keep a fearful eye on their wandering by actually tracking them! We even name them!

This is good enough for me to accept that these storm cells are significant enough to be the bay horses, under the fourth angel, that ask and get permission to wander back and forth unpredictably doing great violence.

It should be noted that these Bay Horse winds are not a 5th chariot of the 4 winds, but are a significant portion of the 4th one though kind of going to a 5th location. Shouldn't then the Bay Horse winds be a group of their own with a chariot of their own? I will show in time that this specific number and type is a prophecy which we will cover in the next post.

Remember too, the angels are not the winds, they just control them. This is why the prophetic description shows chariots and horses = controllers and winds.

In this way the angel of the last chariot can manage 2 different kinds of winds within his “scope of authority” and so we see confirmed the storm winds are directly related to the Hadley cell’s activities.

So in this discovery of just what the horses are, and the science of what we know about global winds, I have come up with an actual count of the horses in each chariot:

1st   Chariot,  4 Red horses,    Jet streams,  both Hemispheres

2nd  Chariot,  2 Black horses,  Polar cells,  both Hemispheres

3rd   Chariot,  2 White horses, Ferrel cells, both Hemispheres

4th   Chariot,  2 Grizled horses, Hadley cells, both Hemispheres

4th   Chariot  has unknown Bay horses,  Independent Storm cells

Am I suggesting I have some great wisdom to uncover this long hidden truth?

Hardly.

Although I have not been able to find this information taught anywhere, and had to “figure” this out on my own, I do find it curious why the latitudes, between the weather circulation cells, are called “Horse Latitudes”.

Google “horse latitudes etymology” for a whole string of very weak theories as to how the name came about.

I am suggesting that when the brilliant minds discovered these wind patterns “for the first time” they were men quite familiar with scripture, and saw as I do, the incredible truth of reality the ancient scriptures have been faithfully telling us! Perhaps those men actually used the information here in scripture to discover the cells and patterns in the first place.

I suggest that they named these latitudes in honor of this ancient biblical truth, knowing that one day their faith would be scrubbed from history but their hidden clues would remain, leading us back to the knowledge of how they learned what they did! This is a Jordan Stone (I will explain later).

What a thrilling study it has been to uncover like an archeologist the secrets once known but now long buried. To find such wisdom in the strange telling of Zechariah 6.

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The point of the confusion:

This was all unarguably just a bunch of Nostradamus-like mumbo-jumbo that could almost mean anything you wanted it to when you pre-read it. But we have seen unfold a fascinating pre-written accurate science of the weather systems of the Earth by the Creator himself long before our science caught up, and this discovery is so accurate that the mystery of the correct interpretation is finally revealed. Nostradamus cannot do that!

Now if you pre-read it and found yourself utterly confused, and then a great light of recognition came on by the interpretation; that was the point of the pre-reading!

Jesus spoke in Parables because he wouldn't force the people to understand.

"Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand" Matthew 13:13.

Jesus is not saying; "They want to know, but I'm not going to tell them."

He is saying; "They don't want to know, therefore I speak truth in parables to help them not know while still giving the truth to those who do. The truth is there if they want it."

This is nothing new to Jesus and the New Testament, Jesus himself only quoted the same idea from Isaiah;

"And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias; which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: FOR (because) this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes THEY have closed; LEST at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them" Matthew 13:14-15 (all cap emphasis added).

Notice: It is the people who have closed their own eyes for the purpose of not seeing. They are hiding intentionally from being converted!

Let’s read that original passage in Isaiah because it is alarming to me and should be alarming to the reader who, looking for easy answers, gives up in confusion;

"Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?

Then said I, Here am I; send me.

And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.

Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes;... Isaiah 6:8-10a.

Why is that?! The verse tells us as it continues:

Lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed"

Isaiah 6:10b.

This Isaiah passage continues on to explain God is speaking of the Jews who have been blinded and cut off from the LORD, and we know elsewhere this was so that us Gentiles could be grafted in.

But here is the scary part.

Suddenly with this knowledge the reader sighs with big relief because for a moment he thought perhaps this passage was speaking about him!

And that IS THE BLINDNESS!

Jesus in Matthew WAS speaking about us.

God blinded the Jews, but we blind ourselves!

We are told that if we the unnatural branches fall to the same dullness of the natural branches who were cut off, how much quicker shall we be cut off too! (Romans 11:21) But Why!?

God is not interested in us having the right answer with a wicked heart, for the very reason why we just want the right answer so that we can retain our wicked heart!

Rather God is interested in our regeneration that happens through searching until we find the right answer. The right answer becomes the end of the mission, the mission is where the actual change takes place!

If winning the winter Olympics is the goal, then there is a huge loss experienced when the award is won; The goal is accomplished and now I am lost. This is the same condition as those who have said the magic words and "accepted Jesus into their heart" but find they are still lost and confused.

But if the activity is the love, then the gold at the Olympics is just a nice landmark in the adventure.

We are so goal oriented that we just want someone to fast track the struggle and tell us the answer so we can comply without the change.

This is the Lottery mentality that brings destruction not success.

Jesus does indeed want us to arrive at the right answer, but only by the correct process of restructuring our very minds and hearts and eyes and ear of understanding (Romans 12:2).

It took me several weeks of earnest searching with God to come to my understanding of this post passage, and that came after years of preparation to be able to succeed at this study. Therefore I received a great amount of growth by the effort that you did not get from me just telling you the answer.

So if the answer is what you are seeking, you got it now, and can go back to your ball game. The answer was anti-climactic.

But if finding that secret place in God is what you are seeking, then my study will only be an exciting assist in your own searching process already in progress.

This is one reason why this mystery is hidden in this very strange way.

But so far, we have only revealed the secret science of global weather.

There is also an entirely different secret prophecy hidden here as well that directly relates to the last day Empire we are watching rise today!

But I can't just tell it to you because there is far too much understanding we still need to cover before it can make sense.

Another reason why this scientific information is given to us in this strange way is because after learning the truth of all the confusion, we can see how very accurate it is.

With this mental transition of understanding from mumbo-jumbo to accurate message, we now have a sample of how other confusing prophesies actually have very accurate messages as well.

This is like a cipher solved which we now have as a tool to figure out the others!

Oh, I almost forgot:

I believe the two brass mountains are the sun and the moon... in the context of the weather meaning, but this goes way beyond that!

But that is for another book.

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