It is very important that we know correctly the time when "The Revelation to John" has really suggested. First, I will clarify this in Chapter 2, and will prove that the present age called "the end of the 20th century" is just "the time" of God having suggested.

　And, the beginning first, I will explain the contents of the suggestion about the Leading Industrialized Seven Nations, Russia, and the appearance of Japan, and the contents of very many suggestions about the United States of America and New York, and in continuing Chapter 3, Chapter 4, and Chapter 5, I will explain about the prophecies in some dozens of years from now on, in other words, it is the crisis of humankind's fate and means the great trial.

　The result of the verification in this chapter, will give the very big reality to these prophecies. Very many suggestions coincide with the serious incidents which have already occurred actually, you the readers will surely be surprised at this fact.

◆　The Vietnam War
　　　　　
　When Jesus Christ finished opening all seals of "the scroll with seven seals," seven angels appeared and seven trumpets were given to them.

　Hail is lumps of ice, which fall from a cumulonimbus cloud, is to things of fist size, and is well known to bring often serious damages. Many cruel lumps like ice fall from the sky, and it is simultaneously accompanied by blood and fire together, namely, in the image projected on "the sea of glass like crystal" as the screen, John watched the spectacle, in which "black Lumps" fall like hail, people run about trying to escape and flames attack people. What does it suggest?

　Supposing John is a man of today, probably he understood easily the meaning, which the image shown. In the massive air raid to Tokyo at the time of World War 2, or the Vietnam War, we could remember the spectacle, in which bombs poured on earth like hail, people were wounded indiscriminately and killed mercilessly. Such scene is after World War 2, and is not found in the history before then.

　Although the expression "a third of the earth" is in the text, probably this does not mean a third of all the world, since John was watching the screen "the sea of glass like crystal," it is thought that this was one third of the area projected there, namely, one third of a certain district, country, or whole neighborhood.

　What can you imagine from the expression ".... a third of the earth was burnt up, and a third of the trees were burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up"? I remember that in the Vietnam War, the U.S. Forces dropped a lot of napalm bombs (a bomb aiming at all burning) on the jungles, and the purpose of this strategy was making the jungle zone in North Vietnam into the burnt-out field. (The start of bombing to North Vietnam was A.D. 1965 years).

　Although John who was alive in the time about 2000 years ago, was not able to understand the meaning of this scene, he wrote correctly as he watched the scene projected on the screen "the sea of glass like crystal."