Revelation 15 & 16, The Bowl Judgments

 

Revelation 15 & 16 The Bowl Judgments

Satan, the Antichrist, the false prophet and all those who deny or reject Christ will get their come-uppance. Because of God's infinite grace and mercy God's children will be removed from this part of the tribulation. These judgments that are about to happen are the worse yet. Knowing what the unsaved people will be going through should make us want to be more zealous witnesses for Christ. This is God's final judgment that puts an end to the tribulation. The 144,000 and the saved Gentiles will be the ones with the harps singing the song of Moses. It can be found in exodus 15: 1-21. After this John looked up and saw 7 angels with seven bowls proceed from the temple of the Tabernacle which opened in heaven. Then John heard a voice come from the temple telling the seven angels to pour out their bowls of wrath. The voice was Christ who was in charge. The first angels bowl is the same as the 6th plague of Egypt and had the same type of boils. This sore appears on everyone who took the mark of the beast. This sore can be described as worse than cancer and is incurable. The second angels bowl is like the first plague in Egypt only it is not limited to one area or 1/3 of the land but is of the total seas. The third Angel bowl turns the drinking and all fresh water into blood. He declares that God is righteous in His judgments. God is righteous and holy in all that He does. Those who are being judged made martyrs of God's people and now God is making them drink the blood for the blood they spilled. Those that cried out from the altar in revelation 6: 9-11 are now getting their prayers answered. The 4th angels bowl poured out and scorched men with fire and still no one repented of their sins The 5th Angel bowl is like the 9th plague of Egypt only this heat is hotter, and the light will turn Into darkness. This will happen to the anti-Christ and his Kingdom. Joel 2:1-2. this will be so painful they will chew their tongues. The 6th angel bowl dried up the river Euphrates. This erases the border between the east and the West. Between the Hebrew nation and the Roman Empire. Then John sees unclean spirits come from satan, the anti-Christ, and the false prophet. They are there to attempt to abolish God from the earth. This is the Armageddon. We all know how that turns out. Christ does not come as a thief to His people but as a thief to the wicked. They're not clothed in righteousness. The 7th angels bowl produced a great voice announcing the end of the Armageddon war and the tribulation. It is finished with our great greatest earthquake ever that shakes the entire world. It splits Jerusalem into three parts and moves the islands. The hailstorms come larger than baseballs. As Christ did on the cross he does now. He announces it is done.

 

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Revelation, Jesus is King

 

Revelation 14 – Jesus is King.

The Lamb is Jesus Christ. He is going to have the final word. Babylon the great political, commercial and religious capital of the world will fall, and the followers of the beast will be judged. It Starts out with John seeing Jesus on Mount Zion which is at Jerusalem. 144,000 are the elect who went through the tribulation. Then John hears the 144,000 singing on earth and the Harpers are playing in heaven. They are in tune with each other. These 144,000 are not going to heaven. They will live on earth in New Jerusalem. The unsaved will no longer live on earth once the judgment is made. The 144,000 are virgins. Israel is described as the first fruits. The 144,000 will play a vital part in Israel when Jesus returns to set up his Kingdom. These do not fall for the lies of the beast. They're without blemish because they're clothed in the righteousness of Christ. Another Angel means it is a different Angel than the ones we studied so far. This Angel will be a messenger to the world. He will be bringing the eternal gospel, which is “fear God.” It is God's final call before His return. Another Angel comes and announces the fall of Babylon, it is an upcoming event. A third angel passes judgment on those that worship the beast and takes the mark on the forehead. In those days there will only be two choices. Either take the mark of the beast and face starvation and God's wrath of eternity in hell or choose to stand in faith and put all their trust in God for an eternal life in heaven. There will be no riding the fence here. Live for God or live without God. Only God and His angels will see what is going on down on earth, those who are in heaven already will not be able to see. The 144,000 and the untold number of Gentiles will have to be patient and wait out the tribulation. This is how they will endure to the end. Some of them will give up their lives for Christ. Those will have rest from their sorrows and their works will be remembered and rewarded. Then John sees a cloud with Jesus Christ sitting on it. Matthew 24:30. He is king and is wearing His crown. The sickle in his hand is judgment of the wicked. Then another Angel tells Jesus to send forth his sickle on earth. Matthew 13:40-43. We are the Sowers of His Word. Christ is the reaper of the harvest. He will weed out the bad from the good. Another Angel comes from the temple in heaven with the sickle and now Armageddon begins. All the wicked will have their blood spilled all over the earth. All of this happens outside of Jerusalem. The blood is 4 feet deep. That is the distance up to a horse's bridle. 1,600 furlongs is about 185 miles. During this time Christ will not lose even one of the 144,000 and the Gentiles. They will be saved.

 

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Revelation 13, The Two Beasts

 

Revelation13 – The Two Beasts

The first beast is the Anti-Christ. The second beast is the false prophet. Both are against Christ, and both try to imitate Christ. In today's world there are many anti-Christs. They all deny the deity of Christ and is the enemy of Christ on earth. The first beast is political, and the 2nd is religious. Satan brings the first beast out of the sea, which means he brings him out of mankind. He is the person who heads up the old Roman Empire. This Rome has fallen apart, and he is the only one that can put it back together again. God has taken his hands off the earth for a while and is giving Satan free reign. Now Satan can never say “that God never gave him a chance.” The little horn here is the fulfillment of the little horn in Daniel 7. The 10 horns with 10 diadems are the 10 divisions of the Roman Empire. The little horn destroys the 3 of the 10 rulers. After he dominates the seven remaining rulers, he becomes a world dictator. All 7 rulers are guilty of blasphemy. The Anti-Christ being like the leopard is astute in the culture of the Greek empire. The foot like a bear is the wealth of the Medes. The wounded beast is the Roman Empire that fell apart. During the tribulation the Anti-Christ will fake a resurrection that all but the elect will believe. They didn't believe in Christ’s resurrection, but they will believe in this one. Everyone but the elect will be fooled into worshipping the Anti-Christ. He is going to be a smooth talker with charisma. He will talk himself into the good graces of a Christ rejecting world. He will make war with the elect and many believers, Jew and gentile alike will be martyred. God is telling the elect to listen with their ears and have faith. To fight against Satan will be futile, and the weapons of today will not do anyone any good.

The false prophet comes from Israel. He is the Messiah that the Israelites will accept. The false prophet poses as Christ and imitates Christ as the forgiver of sins. Only he does not take away their sins but multiplies sin in the world. He exalts the Anti-Christ as the one to worship. Both the Antichrist and the false prophet are miracle workers. The false prophet plays with fire until he is cast into the lake of fire. The elect are the only ones not deceived by this false prophet. He produces an image of the Antichrist that speaks. Those who do not worship this image will be killed. The people will receive the mark of the beast so that they can buy and sell. The number of the beast is 666. No one knows what this is or who it is. The important thing here is not to trust man but trust fully in the Lord Jesus.

 

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Revelation 12, Israel and Christ

 

Revelation 12, Israel and Christ

Who is the woman, the manchild and the dragon? Many have argued that the woman is the Virgin Mary. Because John said it was a great sign, we know it is not a literal woman but a symbol. This symbol is of the Israelites. Israel is where Christ was born. Romans 9:4-5 and Micah 5:2-3. Christ is the man child. The dragon is satan. He is red because he was a murderer from the beginning. Is called a dragon because he is the most dangerous being in all of God's creation. He is our enemy. The seven heads represent his intelligence. 10 horns suggest the final division of the Roman Empire ruled by satan. The crowns are on the thorns, not the heads so that means satan has delegated his authority to his followers. The third of the stars are satan and his followers who followed him to their own destruction. In Job we are reminded that satan still had access to heaven and occasionally met face to face with God. This was after he became a fallen Angel. We also know that satan cannot do anything to mankind without God's express permission. Now at the end of the tribulation satan and his angels have a great rebellion that leads to a war. Michael the Archangel fights against satan's army. Once defeated satan and his followers are cast down to earth. Once satan lands on earth, he goes after Israel to persecute them. This is the remnant 144,000 of the elect that lived through the suffering of the tribulation. All of those who think they're returning to Israel today for the Millennium is sadly mistaken. They are heading toward the great tribulation. The wing of an eagle is God's grace. He saved the Israelites from the Egyptians on the wings of an eagle, and he will deliver them in the same manner by His grace. 42 months into the wilderness is a time, and times and a time and a half. God will nourish the Israelites with food and water just as he did in times past. As violent as the spiritual and physical battles may be, the outcome of the war has already been decided. The victory was decided at the cross. Always in war, even the winning side suffers casualties. History is filled with examples of Christians who have laid down their lives or been martyred for Christ. These are believers who, in the very act of dying, have won the battle. They understand that believers who have a firm hold on the reality of eternal life will not hold to their physical life at all costs. We as Christians are to be called faithful and we are instructed to live the life of one who serves the Lord Jesus Christ. We are invited to place our lives at His disposal, available to be used anytime, anywhere, to encourage each other along the way and to pray always for our fellow soldiers in Christ.

 

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Revelation 11, Continued

 

Revelation 11, Continued

Killing the two witnesses reveals how crude life will be during that time and how hated these two witnesses will be. They will be treated like dead animals. The death of these two men will serve as an occasion to celebrate and give gifts to each other. It will be like another Christmas that lasts for 3 ½ days. This is the Devil’s Christmas. While everyone is partying, the two witnesses will stand up and will be caught up into heaven. Then a great earthquake will occur and a tenth of the city of Jerusalem will fall and 7,000 people will die. The 7,000 men are followers of the anti-Christ. Then the 7^th angel will blow the 7^th trumpet. The Great voices in heaven are voicing the end of time and it will be a time of joy for all God’s people. The kingdom of earth that is under satan’s rule and will be replaced by the Kingdom of the Lord. All the church in heaven will celebrate and worship God and the coming of Christ. All the nations that follow satan will become angry because God’s wrath will testify against them. All those who say sin is good will find out how wrong they were. All of those who are raptured up before the tribulation period will already have their crowns. Now the elect who suffered through this time and stays faithful to the end will be rewarded as Christ’s kingdom begins. When we see the church again, it will be in the New Jerusalem. The ark of His covenant deals with a covenant-making and covenant-keeping God. He will keep His old covenant with Israel and will make a new covenant with them at this time.

 

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Revelation 11, The Two Witnesses

 

Revelation 11 – The Two Witnesses.                                              

The Gentiles will tread the roads of Jerusalem for 31/2 years and then no more after that. Luke 21:24. Every time you see the beginning of measurements, it means that God is about to deal with the Israelites. Here we are dealing with a measurement of time for the Gentiles, after which judgment will come upon them. The rod is also for comfort. The temple of God is limited to the Holy Place. This places us back on Old Testament ground. The temple of today is our body where the Holy Spirit dwells. John is told to rise and measure not only the Holy place and the altar where the prayers are, but also, them that worship inside. God does number the ones who worship Him. The altar of the burnt offering is outside the temple. Since this altar was a picture of the cross of Christ, the implication is that the Word of God is still available during the tribulation period. It is not to be measured. The two witnesses are two human beings that we can only speculate who they might be. According to Jewish law it was required to have two witnesses. Deut. 17:6 and Mt. 18:16. When we search the scriptures we might assume that one of these witnesses is Elijah because in Malachi 4:5 it says, “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.” So, if we assume that, then we might also assume the other witness is Moses because of the appearance of Elijah and Moses on the Mount of transfiguration. It is not so much as who they will be that’s important, rather it is the time that they will appear. These two men will testify until the Beast appears, then they will be martyred. They are lights before the power of darkness. They have miraculous powers to bring fire down from heaven. They are immortal and immune to all attacks until their mission is completed. We are all immortal until God is through with us, then He will remove us from this earth to live with Him in heaven. These two witnesses can control the rainfall on the earth and turn water into blood. They will be able to smite the earth with every plague as often as they wish. Once they finish their testimony the beast that came from the bottomless pit will make war against them and kill them. Their bodies will lie in the street of Jerusalem for 3 days.

 

To be continued….

 

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Revelation 10, Strong Angel with Little Book

 

Revelation 10 – Strong Angel with Little Book

This is an Angel clothed with a cloud. This Angel announces that Christ is coming soon. This angel's headgear is a rainbow. This is to reiterate that God is not going to destroy the earth by flood again. His face was shining like the sun. When Moses came from the presence of God his face shone. This angel's face is shining because he has come from the presence of God. His feet were as pillars of fire. This was to signify that judgment is coming. The open book he has in his hands is the same book that was sealed with seven seals. God held this book and handed it off to Jesus because He was the only one that was worthy enough to open it. After He opened it, He handed it off to this Angel who will later give it to John to eat. It contains the judgments we have already studied. It is the angel's authority to claim both sea and the earth for Christ. You may have at one time owned land on this earth, but the ultimate owner is God himself. Now at the end of the tribulation period He is claiming it all back. The book was called “little” because the tribulation period will not last long. It lasts for seven years and Christ says it is for a brief time. The seven thunders are God saying Amen to the angels claim. Psalm 29:3; Job 37:5. John was about to write down what the 7 thunders said but he was instructed not to write it down but to seal it. To this day no one knows what the thunders spoke. This Angel is telling the elect in the tribulation that it won't last much longer. Now we know that they are still on earth Matthew 24:22 says “Don't worry, he that endures to the end will be saved. The 7th trumpet brings us to the end of this. It is at this time the mystery of God will be made clear. God's going to answer all our questions. All the ones we think we know the answers to and those we hadn't thought of. Then Jesus tells John to take the book from the Angel. John is now back to earth in his vision. He takes the book and is instructed to eat it which means to receive God's word with faith. The word of God to the believer is as honey. Psalm 119:103. The bitterness is in knowing that judgment is coming. Many people love to hear the word of God but when it comes to them having to be obedient to it, then they lose interest in it. After this, John was told to go out and prophecy, to warn people that judgment is coming.

 

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