What are tribulation events like according to this teaching?
Tribulation events are described as catastrophes beyond human understanding: retaliatory strikes between America and the Russian homeland leave both largely annihilated, followed by wars, famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in diverse places. Revelation's third seal depicts a black horse with balances, paralleling Matthew 24.
Les explains that the tribulation is already underway and that events will take place so beyond human understanding that they defy ordinary comprehension. He offers a logical sequence: when America retaliates and knocks out the whole Russian homeland, the two annihilations leave North America mostly out of the picture and the Russian homeland out of the picture. Les then ties Matthew 24 directly to Revelation 6. In Matthew 24:7, after wars, there come famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in diverse places. In Revelation 6:5, at the third seal, John writes of a black horse whose rider holds a pair of balances.