Revelation Pt 3 — Billy Strachan

The Revelation of Jesus Christ and the Seven Churches

At the first chapter, it's John. He's writing down the revelation, not the mystery, but the revelation of Jesus Christ, the last will and testament of the risen Christ sealing the book that is geared to bringing people to himself.

And then we saw that he gets the words direct from Christ, and he has to write the things that are past, present, and future. And in the seven letters to the churches, he deals with the past and present state of those churches with a future warning that they have to adjust or else.

And all of those remarks in those first three chapters are to the churches. Chapter four and verse one, we saw last week where John is now caught up into heaven and going to view the things that shall be here after, as and from, and when the church is removed that avoids the wrath to come.

From there on in, it is the wrath of the lamb. We have nothing to do with the wrath of the lamb. We are delivered from the wrath to come. We are under the great, wonderful panoply of the church and under the love and care and attention and preservation of Jesus Christ.

And all the scriptures attest to the fact that we are a called people, a preserved people, a people to whom God multiplies his mercy, love, and grace so that nothing can take us away from him or separate us from him.

The Opening of the Seven Seals

And so from four one, it's what's happening on the earth. And we saw that there was that view of what was taking place in heaven, showing us that Christ was the one that had the sole rights to open the seals, the seven seals.

And the first of those seals in chapter six was revealing Christ himself now, not as the one that died and rose again and just belongs to the church, but as the one that's now got the right to come and justly have his vengeance upon all that rejected him all down those centuries.

And we saw clearly in that chapter all the evidences for his being justified in taking the action that he's taking. And he comes forth to conquer and to conquering and to conquer. And we saw that there was the second seal, third seal, fourth seal, fifth seal, sixth seal, showing us some of the early signs of events taking place on the earth on the godless that were there.

And we finished in chapter six at the very tail end there last week, where who's going to be able to stand against the day of his wrath that is to come. Now, the seventh chapter opens up by taking us into heaven to see some other work that's being done.

And before we have in chapter eight, the opening of that seventh seal. And when the seventh seal is opened, it reveals seven trumpets that are to sound, bringing forth seven more judgments upon the people on the earth.

And after these things, chapter seven, verse one, 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.

And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God. And he cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, saying, hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.

The Sealing of the 144,000 from Israel

Now you're going to see the sealing of these people from Israel. The nation of Israel. And they are the ones that are now going to go through this tremendous period of tribulation, but protected by the seal of God, and in effect will become the evangelists of their day because the church has been withdrawn.

And I have the number of them which were sealed, and there were sealed 144 ,000 of all the tribes of the children of Israel. Now that's exactly what it means. Out of that nation there is going to be a great turning back to God, and out of it there will be sealed at that time 144 ,000 of those people.

Now in reading the list of the tribes you will notice that Dan is not mentioned there, neither is Ephraim, but remember that Manassas and Joseph there are replacing the two tribes that are no longer being mentioned.

And Jacob, if you go back to Genesis, was the one that said that he was going to give portions to Ephraim and Manasseh to Joseph for all that he'd gone through in being estranged from his family and from his relatives, and he gave them a portion in Israel.

And although Ephraim is not mentioned here, Joseph is, and therefore Joseph is another term used in referring to the forefather of the Ephraimites. And so that's where they are inclusive in there, Ephraim and Manasseh.

And God alone has the main real reason and answer why there is the disappearance of Dan, and that's his business. One day you can ask him what happened to Dan and he'll tell you. And it's amazing down the years how people have loved to go into this seventh chapter, and instead of just reading what is being stated that God is sealing and putting a special mark on people in Israel to protect them through that period, they've tried to make out that the British Israelitist movement have tried to make out that Britain and America are the two lost tribes, and you have all sorts of other religions.

Your Jehovah's Witnesses at one time believed that there was only going to be 144 ,000 Jehovah's Witnesses that were the ones marked out to get to heaven, but on recent mathematical calculations they've discovered they've gone so far over that number they've had to adjust their theology because it means that some of the number might not get in after all.

They should have stopped at 144 ,000 and not bothered expanding. And that's one of the biggest arguments you can have against them when they start talking to you about the value of their faith. You can say to them, well, isn't it true that only 144 ,000 are going to get there?

Well, why don't you worry about getting yourself there instead of getting me there and adding me to the number that might not get in? But all of it, if you just compare scripture with scripture, turns out to be absolute nonsense.

Of course, they have produced now their own theory as to help to get around the problem. That's always one thing you can do. If you have your mind made up of what you want it to say and want it to mean, and it looks like it's collapsed, then just build a new theology around it and devise a new translation of scripture that translates the scriptures the way you want them to be read so that it proves your point.

That's the easiest way to get around theological difficulties. Just always go and write a new translation and make it say what you want it to say. But we have been cautioned this week by this book to read what's there, to take nothing from it, add nothing to it, just to see what the elephant is that's on the page in front of your nose.

And don't start digging under the text looking for mysteries because it's not a mystery. It's an open declaration, and those who have the Spirit of God will be able to receive the confirmation from the Spirit as to whether or not what's there is what is being said.

But for the simple believer all down the years and simply reading, I heard the number of them that were sealed of Israel have read it to be that, those of Israel at that time that were sealed. Of the tribe of Judah, sealed 12 ,000.

Of the tribe of Reuben, sealed 12 ,000. Of the tribe of Gad, sealed 12 ,000. Of the tribe of Asa, was sealed 12 ,000. Of the tribe of Nephilim, was sealed 12 ,000. Of the tribe of Manasseh, was sealed 12 ,000.

Of the tribe of Simeon, was sealed 12 ,000. Of the tribe of Levi, was sealed 12 ,000. Of the tribe of Issachar, was sealed 12 ,000. Of the tribe of Zabalon, was sealed 12 ,000. Of the tribe of Joseph was sealed 12 ,000.

Of the tribe of Benjamin was sealed 12 ,000. I think it's pretty indicative that they're sealed. God doesn't send down a ballpoint pen to underline a point. He just keeps saying it until you get the message.

The Meaning of the Seal and the Multitude in Heaven

They're sealed now remember that the seal signifies various things it signifies identification. If you want to seal something and put it in a bank vault. You will lick it seal it and then scribble your name right across The envelope lip so that you would be able to tell if somebody ever opened that it's security its identification.

Not only that it is a sign of value if you have a Ming vase. You don't put it in the front room. Not these days. You keep it in a vault and go and see it once a year. Because you didn't have it out. That's why it's dangerous to have Christians to perfect it like Ming vases.

They're only worth looking at once a year. It's better being one of the cheaper variety that can be used by the Lord all year round. And it doesn't matter if you knock it about a bit. Some Christians are so pure that they're like Ming vases.

They're only worth looking at once a year. But here you have the seal the seal not only signifying identification. Signifying ownership signifying security. It means that that's it, but it also signifies unchangeableness.

You will find in your Bible that when a has you Harris? Marta law of the Medes and Persians with his ring sealed with the king's ring. It made it unchangeable. So much so that when he had made the law that Haman could slaughter all the Israelites.

He could not alter that law. So he ended up allowing them to create a new one and that was that the Jews might defend themselves on the same day and Sealed that with his ring and that helped to combat the two and therefore they were able to defend themselves because you could never Alter the law the Medes and the Persians once it was sealed and that's why even in the church if you move around church people Regularly, you will find they still use that statement and they'll say well Why don't you try something new in the church and say oh well the old deacons made that law 90 years ago.

And it's like the law of the Medes and the Persians you can't adjust it. You know it's fixed and that's it and so the church still tends to use that knowing that once it's sealed. That's it it is unchangeable and The seal also signifies an impression if you have hot wax and put a sealing ring in it.

You leave an impression of what was on the ring and if you're sealed with Christ You have an impression of Christ left on your life. And so the seal signifies many of these things and all of those things will take place in the lives of those people.

They will be here on the earth as his witnesses secure Identified an impression left that they know Christ they are going to be his living witnesses. And after this I beheld and Low a great multitude which no man could number of all nations kindreds people tongues Stood before the throne and before the Lamb Clothed with white robes and palms in their hands and cried with a loud voice saying salvation To our God that sitteth upon the throne and unto the Lamb.

And all the angels stood round about the throne and about the elders and the four beasts and fell before the throne in their faces and worshipped God saying amen blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and Might be unto our God forever and ever.

Amen, and one of the elders answered saying unto me. What are these which are arrayed in white robes? And whence came they. And I said unto himself you know. And He said to me these are they which came out of great tribulation and Have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

Therefore are they before the throne of God and serve him day and night in his temple. And He that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. They shall hunger no more. Neither thirst anymore. Neither shall the Sun light on them nor any heat.

For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne Shall feed them and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. So on the earth there are sealed 144 ,000 of Israel.

Then John is being shown something else. Up there in heaven around the throne at that time that there is the sealing of those on the earth. About to move into the great tribulation are all of those saints that have gone before.

Who came out of? Tribulation. Who came out of? Tribulation not the great tribulation, but they have come out of great tribulation. And there's a difference between the specific last week of great tribulation for the people of Israel when God starts the pendulum again the end of the time of the Gentiles and starts that great last week of tribulation on the nation of Israel, but all that were Martyred everybody that's gone before that has suffered for the sake of their faith in the gospel.

They're already up there. It's a confirmation. They've gone and When he had opened the seventh seal there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. One smart Alec said that must indicate that there are no ladies in heaven.

Because how else could you have half an hour with absolute silence? But that's not what it means. You will find that just before any great Disaster there is an awful hush. Even in natural life. It has been known For people to be observant of the fact that birds have stopped chirping.

Suddenly there's a hush from nature. It was observed before the great earthquake of San Francisco later reported by many people that it was as if Everything was holding its breath and the only Folks that didn't know something was coming with the people going about their daily business.

But the whole of creation knew. Something was about to take place and it took place people are very much aware of that and Even after some of the Civil War battles in America or the War of Independence.

There was just that lull before the storm that silence before the guns started firing and when the battle finally ceased and Men lay there both dead and wounded within minutes was the first chirp recorded of a bird Who lived through all flew to its nest and went on?

Yes, it's amazing how nature itself knows That there's storms coming. It's only mankind and his arrogance that can't even read the signs of the times and Christ himself said Oh you people you can look at the sky and say if it's a red sky at night.

It's a shepherds delight. It's going to be a nice day tomorrow. If it's a red sky in the morning, that's the warning. It's going to be a bad day says. Yes. You're pretty good at telling the weather, but you can't even tell when I'm coming.

Because you don't want to believe I'm coming but the whole of nature the whole of heaven. Everything in heaven will hold its breath angels. Everything will be silent. All those seraphim read about earlier that were constantly day and night praising God before the throne.

Suddenly in the whole of heaven It's about to happen that which has been waiting and pending since all eternity the Vengeance of our God upon the planet earth and all the godless that refused to believe the truth.

The Seven Trumpets and the Prayers of the Saints

And I saw the seven angels which stood before God and to them were given seven trumpets and Another angel came and stood at the altar having a golden sensor and there was given unto him much Incense that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar, which was before the throne and Here is that memorial?

Going up of all the prayers of all those who came out of great Tribulation all down the years even of the Old Testament Patriarchal time and prophet time and New Testament time whose prayers went up to God Because of what they were being put through for their faith now It's going to be remembered in the smoke of the incense which came with the prayers of the Saints Ascended up before God out of the angels hand and the angel took the sensor and filled it with fire of the altar and cast it into the earth or upon the earth.

John is seeing this from heaven that now here is the answer to their prayers. The fire going down is the answer of their prayers. God. We obeyed your word. Because some don't obey it. We are told in Romans avenge not yourself.

Vengeance is mine said the Lord. Leave that to me. Bless those that persecute you. Be good to them those that do evil. For I will repay said the Lord vengeance is mine. Bless them. And heap coals of fire upon their head.

Because one day I will chuck another kind of fire upon the earth. The one they did not want the fire of my judgment in reply to your prayers in Taking that vengeance, but I'm not willing that any should perish.

I've waited all these centuries hoping upon hope that the world would repent. But now I have no alternative. I have to do it. And he cast the fire to of the altar unto the earth and there were voices and Thundering's and lightning's and an earthquake and the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.

The First Four Trumpets: Judgment on Earth, Sea, and Sky

The first angel sounded and They're followed and now you're going to see through John's eyes what happens on the earth again. We're leaving that heavenly scene. Now they're about to let this be eked out on the earth.

So we're back down below seeing what's happening there. And the angel sounded and they're followed hail and fire mingled with blood and there were cast upon the earth and The third part of the trees was burned up and all the green grass was burned up so it's going to be a tremendous cataclysm on the very planet itself and You're going to find a third part of the forestry of the entire planet is going to be burned up with this awful event out of the heavens.

And the second angel sounded and As it were a great mountain as it were he's having a difficulty describing it. It's what he's seeing and vision of something that's going to take place in the future. A Great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea a planet a meteorite.

Something passed out of the heavens. You see at one time if you go into Folklore and history prior to the exodus You'll find that men were always writing about things that were taking place in the heavens.

There was always great movements in the heavens when they wrote things about Jupiter's daughter Fighting with Venus and all of that and their folklore. It just wasn't somebody sitting down writing a Jackanory For the children of that day.

Are you sitting comfortably? Well, here is my little story. No, they were they were trying to put into Some sort of language something that was happening in the heavens and there was always great signs in the heavens.

Even David when the earth was being plagued saw the sword of the Lord bathed in the sky and a plague upon the earth. Well, if you have ever seen a comet It looks all for the world like a sword you have the central star Part at the top almost like a cross to the naked eye.

And then if you just look away from it never look straight at it. But to the side you will see that the tail of the comet forms almost the rapier blade of the sword. So that with your cross and the tail, it just looks like a sword and so there was every likelihood that what David was seeing that was bringing about a plague in his day was the near passing to the planet earth of a comet and We know that anything passing very close that tail of a comet is spewing out all sorts of ash and Debris from the burning up of that which is coming through the heavens and atmosphere near to the earth there would be ionized red ash and So they have everything that would look like the color of blood and if you remember in the exodus When the waters were divided and pulled up into heaps the scripture in in exodus is that they The waters were a right hand in their left hand as they went through the registry piled up in heaps.

Well, of course the effect of the close passing of a comet to the surface of the earth Would be such that it would draw a huge tidal wave up off the earth. The moon does it as it is as The moon goes around the earth.

We find that it's drawing the water as our world spins and the moon is there. It's that your tide is your waters have been drawn towards the pool of the moon and your high tides are at the full moon. Well, if there is any comet comes nearer than that and anything bigger and Gets nearer it's going to draw water off and you'll remember that the land the rivers the first plague in Egypt Became like blood of all of that ash.

Red ash fell on the ground and red ash fell on the in the rivers it would put a skin as it were on top of it that looked like blood and Of course the tail of a comet is spewing out all such a radiation radioactive material and of course The first thing that would be affected would be the genes of insects then to animals then to man.

And if you look at the plagues of Egypt, they increased from lice to frogs to Plaguing the cattle and to eventually killing the firstborn in the land and there is all of those things can be Almost reckoned to be the side effects of the a close Approachment of a planet.

And if God used a planet to draw the waters off to let them go through the Red Sea and then as It went off into the distance or past the planet those waters would come back over and drown all your Egyptians.

It's a thing that the past attests to that has happened but from the day of Christ During this day of grace there has been no activity in the heavens of that nature none and Yet we're told in the epistle of Peter We're told in Isaiah that in the latter days of this world's history Once again men are going to look up because they're going to be observing things taking place in the heavens.

All sorts of things happening in the heavens. The earth will be reeling and tottering like a drunken man. The system will be moving stars will be shifting and once again The heavens declare the glory of God.

The firmament declares his handiwork. They are going to be his instruments for bringing about part of that judgment on the earth. And here in this section The mountain burning with fire cast into the sea and the third part of the sea became blood.

It could well be some vast comet coming through the atmosphere landing in the notion and polluting it with its radioactivity and its ash and Everything in it the third part of the creatures which were in the sea and had life Died and the third part of the ships were destroyed.

There's going to be awful cataclysm at that event on the earth and shipping will be destroyed all over the ocean. And the third angel sounded and there fell a great star from heaven. Here's more coming in our direction.

Burning as it were a lamp and it fell upon the third part of the rivers and upon the fountains of waters and so even the the the streams from which we get our water are going to be affected by Radiation and pollution.

I'm glad I'm not going to be there. That's why I said in the opening of the the week That we started this if there's anything Revelation does for me. It makes me want to go out and tell more men to come to Christ before it starts.

So that none have to go through all of this and the name of the star is called wormwood. And the third part of the waters became wormwood. Many men died of the waters because they were made bitter. Yes, the effects of radiation and water.

We don't know if the star that fell from heaven could be part of a localized nuclear conflagration. We don't know. We certainly know in one of the prophets. He saw a disease men while they stood he said.

We're plagued with an unusual plague where the skin rolled up and rolled off their body and their eyes Disappeared in their sockets while they were still standing on their feet. Well, there's nothing more descriptive of what happens when there's a nuclear blast than that and.

So there may well be at that time as God's instrument something of nuclear devastation. It may not necessarily be bomb. It could be some of the things that we have set up that are because of the movements of those earthquakes and everything that could be releasing and Destroying nuclear power stations things of that nature releasing some of that radiation.

That would affect all the water streams and things in life. We don't know. We're just we're just Talking but it's very evident that there is Bitter waters incidentally the Russian word for wormwood is Chernobyl and it's interesting that a thing like that took place there with a nuclear station and How that as it took place in the Soviet Union we couldn't sell the sheep in Cumbria.

Because of radiation no man is an island anymore. It just happens in one spot and it affects what you thought was too far away to be affected. But now we know that that's far from being the truth. And the fourth angel sounded and the third part of the Sun was smitten which means there is a Somehow or other now whether that third part of the Sun whether something leapt out of the Sun and hurtled itself through space.

And and was part of the Sun falling on the earth, but it would appear that it's either Darkened or it's lost Portion of its molten Mass that's hurtled through space. We don't know. And a third part of the moon.

Was that part of what fell to the earth first the Sun and then dragged a piece of the moon with it as it fell And passed it. We don't know and the third part of the stars. So as the third part of them was darkened and the day shone not for a third part of it in the night.

Likewise, and I beheld and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven saying with a loud voice Whoa, whoa, whoa, you thought that was bad hold on to the inhabitants of the earth. Not those that are around the throne Worshipping the lamb.

Having washed their clothes in the blood of the lamb and arrayed in white. This is to the inhabitants of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels which are yet to sound and The fifth angel sounded and I saw a star fall from heaven Unto the earth and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.

The Fifth and Sixth Trumpets: Demonic Torment and Global Judgment

And remember that in Thessalonians were told that once the church is taken out of the way then The evil has got to be released into this world To vent its fury upon the people that it deluded. But remember their delusion was by choice because God made man in his own image and that meant God gave him the Mind and the ability and the choice to be responsible for his actions and Men loved not the truth.

Now the enemy of their souls is going to reveal himself in all his fury upon those That are still upon the earth that are not sealed. And he opened the bottomless pit and there arose a smoke out of the pit as the smoke of a great furnace.

And the Sun and the air were darkened by the reason of the smoke of the pit and there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth and Unto them was given power as the scorpions of the earth have power.

And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth. Neither any green thing neither any tree but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads not the Israelites that are sealed and To them it was given that they should not kill them.

But that they should be tormented five months and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion when he strikes a man. Scorpions don't kill you. But my there is no pain like the pain you get from a scorpion sting.

I've talked to many a missionary who's trodden on one and they tell me that if it strikes your foot or your ankle The poison seems to go straight to the groin and It's in the groin that you roll in agony.

And they say there is no pain like it you don't die and after days it subsides but apparently it attacks the groin of man and This torment is going to be theirs. You know, you're apt to think that surely.

If things let that happen to men on the earth surely they're going to say oh This must be the judgment of God. Now we better do something about it. Don't you believe it? This shows you the true nature of why this judgment is just because men will not adjust and In those days shall men seek death they want to die and shall not find it and Shall desire to die and death shall flee from them.

God is going to see to it that they stay alive and well and tormenting. And we seem to think that health is always an indication of the blessing of our God. Not necessarily. So It certainly would put a cap on man's idea all down history that he can determine when it's time for a person to die.

God has the power of life over death and He can stave off a death until his right time. That's why I've always said it we Christians die on time and learn to die on time. Don't hang around if you shouldn't be here and create lots of problems for other people and for the church if it's time to go go.

You're going somewhere better. Don't be a nuisance. Sometimes I think medicine today has done us a disservice. I was talking to a surgeon just a few weeks ago, and he said yes. Medicine is doing a disservice where in past generations the population of the world.

Just eeked out nicely because people just get elderly and in the right time they would go to bed and have pneumonia. They would just slip away in the night. But now the hardest thing to do is to die. Because they keep them alive With all their cleverness and think that that is a gift.

My own mother-in-law who's 93 in a few days time. Who's just been like sleeping beauty for several years now? We lift the body daily. We toilet it wash it dress it sit it in its chair. Feed it off a spoon tell it to open the mouth put the food in and sometimes it swallows sometimes it doesn't.

Blind death. Parkinson's disease. No conversation just a heap of flesh and yet We stopped the pills for a month and suppose that mother would slip away, but would they had up for euthanasia? So we have to keep administering the pills, but it was amazing that a week ago.

Just for it's almost like sleeping beauty waking it up suddenly. She'll have a day when she can remember things back to childhood and want a pencil to write a recipe. Billy and Grace and the children might be here this afternoon and there she is wanting to write a recipe to her daughter.

Who's retired to bake a cake and telling her how to bake it and halfway through she's gone again. Maybe months before she comes out again, but this last time she came out just a few days ago She said to my sister-in-law.

I'm hearing a song. I Don't know where I ever heard it into our knowledge mother has never professed to her faith. But she says and it's a song about Oh Lord, why do I keep knocking the door and you won't let me in.

Now there isn't even a hymn by that. But what's being expressed is no doubt what's going on inside the shut inside person. She's tired. She's locked up in a body and Would love to be out of it in a way Rather than be a held inside it.

But we think it's clever To keep them going. Yes as a family. We are asking God to show his mercy on mother. And the condition she was in she is and I wouldn't like to think she's going to go on till well over a hundred.

It's a living death to just sit there like that. But you see even here in this section you're finding God is The one that determines when men die and when they don't and we should be leaving him to that and not taking that Responsibility on and thinking we are the ones that can determine when.

In the shapes There are seven of the locusts were like unto horses prepared to battle. He doesn't know what is he seen? And on their heads were as it were crowns like gold and their faces were as the faces of men its vision and They had hair as the hair of women and their teeth were as the teeth of lions and they had breast plates as it were Breast plates of iron and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.

Did he see a an airplane? Don't know and they had tails like unto scorpions and there were stings in the tails and Their power was to hurt men five months. Well instead of getting bogged down and what are these creatures just notice the elephant what they're doing.

The elephant is they're punishing. Irrespective of we can decide what they are and what they are not we can see what they're doing and what they've been given power to do. And They had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit Whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon but in Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon the destroyer.

One woe is past and behold there come two woes more. Hereafter you think that would be bad enough? And the sixth angel sounded and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar Which is before God saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet loose the four angels Which are bound in the great river of Euphrates and the four angels were loose Which were prepared for an hour and a day and a month and a year For to slay the third part of men.

There's going to be a such a global catastrophe a third of the population remaining at that time Excluding those sealed are going to be destroyed. And the number of the army of the horsemen were 200 ,000 thousand and I had the number of them and Thus I saw the horses in the vision and then that sat on them having breastplates of fire and of Yassin and Brimstone and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions and out of the mouth issued fire and smoke and brimstone.

By these three were the third part of men killed. By the fire by the smoke by the brimstone which were issued out of the mouth. Could have been a great battle. Was it gunnery and tanks he saw with shells coming out of the guns and firing across the terrain?

I mean if it was he still had an awful job finding words in his day to describe that. But all we know is that there's a massive battle and a great amount of death. For their power is in their mouth and in their tails.