Seven Bowl Judgments - Part 4

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So today were going to pick up with Revelation chapter 16 verse 17 so please turn your Bibles there with me to see what the Lord has to say to us concerning the seventh bowl judgment. Heavenly father, we thank you Lord for this time together. We thank you Lord for your holy word is my prayer, Lord, that all things are spoken that to be nothing but sound doctrine, and may you be honored and glorified in all things in your name Jesus. Amen.

Revelation chapter 16 verse 17 reads then the seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air in a loud voice came out of the temple of heaven, from the throne saying it is done. What a welcoming message. This is that comes out from the temple of heaven, the message it is done. As it declares the consummation of the seven year tribulation is the end of God's wrath on the ungodly world on those who have rejected the gifts the sacrifice of the shed blood of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is the end of the time of Jacob's trouble in the Scripture calls the seven year. That is yet to come in the future the time of Jacob's trouble because it is a. That will focus primarily on the nation of Israel to bring them to repentance as they collectively rejected Jesus Christ as the Messiah. Now, again, that is not to say he is upset so many times in the past that is not to say that there are no Jews who have not recognize and accept Jesus Christ as the Messiah you because we know the early church we look at Pentecost when we receive. There were 3000 Jews that receive Jesus in the early church and we see people throughout the world today who are of Jewish descent that do receive and accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, but for the most part, collectively speaking, they did not receive him. When we talk about the nation of Israel.

So the primary purpose of this seven-year period is again call the time of Jacob's trouble.

That is the time of Israel's trouble because he to be a time that the Bible says our Lord declared in the book of Matthew that he will be the worst time that the earth has ever seen or ever will see and that is why errors people received Jesus Christ today so you don't have to be here because the church by definition, has received Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior so there's no purpose of the church being here during this time, we are rafted away before this time begins where in heaven with our Lord as he pours out his wrath.

So I cried out to the unsaved receive him today so you don't have to be here, but even if not referred to the tribulation. You could die at any moment that you should always come to Christ on today while you have breast in your body, but this is again the time that will be the worst that has ever seen. We deftly seen that in going through these judgments of the seven year tribulation and we see this message here that comes out again from the temple and it says it is done. This is very similar language that our Lord Jesus stated when he was on the cross at his death he said it is finished and bowing his head he gave up his spirit. But you see the difference is the sacrifice of Jesus was finished on the cross, the paying the price for CN was finish on the cross that was nothing else that needed to be done in order to atone for the sins of mankind, but God's wrath. God's judgment was yet to come. Because we are living today in the age of grace were God has given us time to repentance come back to him but to take the day is going to come when that grace is going to run out and during the seven year tribulation. You have to make a decision.

Either you for Christ or you will for antichrist and so once God finishes poured out his judgment poured out his wrath.

We hear the declaration that it is done in a very welcome message comes out of heaven from God's completion of his wrath.

And as we continue with verse 18 of Revelation chapter 16, there were noises and thunderings and lightnings, and that was a great earthquake, such a mighty and great earthquake as has not occurred since men were on the earth again God's judgment is going to conclude with the greatest earthquake. The world has ever experience since the creation of man and boggles the mind. When we continue to look at these judgments as God pours out his wrath and we see these the this judgment is accompanied by noises and and thunderings and lightnings. These are all signs of judgments.

We look at our history of the world for the greatest earthquakes that have ever taken place in terms of death in China 1556, 830,000 people were killed. Then we found in Haiti in the year 2010 in the lifetime of many of us that was 316,000 that were killed and then in Turkey in the year 115 260,000 were killed, so also to put that in perspective when you think about how bad those earthquakes were and how many people were killed and yet the Bible says that this one that is coming at the end of the seven-year tribulation is the greatest earthquake that the world has ever experienced since the creation of man, that God pours out his wrath for the unbelieving world. Verse 19 now the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fatal and great Babylon was remembered before God to give her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. Babylon the capital city of the world during the tribulation.

The Scripture says is going to be divided into three parts.

Due to the magnitude of this earthquake is going to bring about such devastation in this calamity upon Babylon is referred to as the. The cup of the wine of the fierceness of God's wrath is cities all around the world will be devastated because of this great earthquake is great earthquake that is going to take place. God is judging and folks again the swipe lead come to Christ today. We are living in this age of grace. The time is going to come when God says is time up.

If you have not made your decision, you are going to suffer under his wrath. So come to Jesus today, repent, turn away from sin. We serve a loving God, a merciful God who wants us all to come to him. But if you refuse to accept the free gift of Jesus Christ in dying for our sins. Then you have to die for your own sins because the price has to be paid. The Bible says that the wages of sin is death. Someone must die. But Jesus already died for all of us. So if you would just accept his payment. Then he stood in our place. But you have to accept it is not going to force it upon you. So if you accepted today you can have eternal life. But if you reject it, then you will have to pay the price with your old life and that is judgments that is going to lead to eternal damnation in the lake of fire to come to Jesus Christ on today. Verse 20 then every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. Again, knowing boggles the mind. When I when I read this that is earthquake is going to be so powerful that the Earth's landscape is going to be transformed into Flatland says that every mountain is going to be flattened says that every island is going to disappear. Jerusalem will become the highest point on the earth. In this day it was prophesied in the book of Isaiah chapter 2 verse two. Now it shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be establish on top of the mountain and shall be exalted above the heels and all nations shall flow to its what an amazing time. This will be when again God pours out his wrath there will be no doubt as to where this judgment is coming from. As we will see in the coming verse, but we've already seen did in prior judgments, in which the people know that this is judgment is coming from God. We saw way back in the seal judgments.

We sorted the trumpet judgments were the people were crying out to the mountains to fall on us and hide us from whose the wrath of the land. They know that this is coming from our great Lord, our Savior Jesus Christ as his porno judgment for those who have rejected him, and this should be a reminder for us in our society today to look around in the world and we see how many are rejecting our Lord Jesus Christ. How many are rejecting his ways a day of reckoning is coming.

We we can sit back today and enfold our arms across our laser think that yes everything is okay everything is going to be just fine that those in Scripture even says that there are those who say will all things continue as it always has. Since the beginning of creation date, they deny the flood of Noah's day and they deny the coming wrath in the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ to this earth to set up his earthly kingdom.

The Bible prophesies that would be the nature of society in the last days, we see that we see the mocking, but Jesus Christ is coming back again is coming back to rule and reign is coming back to bring judgment upon those who have rejected him.

So what is your stance today. Are you on the Lord side are you going to be on the side of the devil are you going to be on the side that is going to face his wrath come to our Lord Jesus today. You're listening to Brian on God for more wine please visit God not orbit around the library. There you will find articles and messages available as MP3 downloads on various topics such as salvation, Bible, and the significance of lesson is just to name a few.

Also, sign up for our monthly newsletter and visit our web store visit God.now let's return this 16 chapter 16 verse 21 of Revelation says, and great hail sailed from heaven upon men, each hailstone about the weight of the talents men blaspheme God because of the plague of hail, since that plague was exceeding lead grades as bad as these are from this earthquake that we've already looked at. Then the Bible says hailstones will begin to rain down upon the earth, turn over to the book of Job, chapter 38 and we want to see in verses 22 and 23.

This was prophesied from days old as to what would come says there have entered the treasury of snow have you seen the treasury of hail which I have reserved for the time of trouble for the day of battle and war God has reserved this judgment for this day for this time of trouble for the time of what trouble it is the time of Jacob's trouble. The time of Israel's trouble when God is calling his people's chosen nation to repentance, to receive him as Lord and Savior. But not only dad and I don't want those of you who were not Jewish.

To think you just get a pass because yes, this is the time of Jacob's trouble, but it is a time in which everybody not just Israel who rejects Jesus Christ as Savior you to will face the wrath of Almighty God now is estimated that a talents is between 75 and 135 pounds, so the Scripture tells us here that is great hail that is going to fall. The hailstones are about the weight of the talents. The phones were talking about the weight of hundred plus possible pounds now I have two children. My children are each in this weight range there both within that ± hundred pounds and and my kids are 11 and 13 years old so you imagine the size of a 11 and €13 year old and there also some adults that also fall into this weight category. But imagine anyone that you know that is of this week's and hailstones falling out of the sky that is equal to their weights is going to devastate everything that he hits eyewitness where were hailstones the size of golf balls and see the damage that he can do. The way it can can tear the siding off of houses and shatter windshields and then I'll see baseball sizing and grapefruit size hail them and just see the utter destruction that it can do to vehicles into houses and and certainly if a person is out of their kids in the head with the hailstone. The size of a grapefruit. Most likely you're going to die if not die you will be majorly injured seriously injured but here we have hailstones that want to be nothing like the earth has ever seen is going to annihilate anything that it touches. If this sounds familiar to you. We did see similar judgment from God in Egypt when the Hebrews were coming out as we were seeing these parallels between the judgments of the seven-year tribulation, and the judgments that God poured out on Egypt when they refused to let the Israelites go, as well as Egyptian plague number seven from the book of Exodus chapter 9 will read through it all, the just make a note to look at it on your own time. Exodus chapter 9 verses 13 through 35 in which God poured out this this plague of hail and fire that fell upon the Egyptians, but the Israelites in Goshen were not touched, but the difference is, this judgment is going to be of much greater magnitude this judgment again is going to be hailstones, so grades they were way the equivalent of a human being is going to be something that the world has never said that is why Jesus said is going to be the worst time that the earth has ever seen or ever will see come to our little today but what we see from our text is that rather than repentance. Most of the people. During this time will curse God because of this play says they blaspheme God because of the plague of hail began the hardness of hearts is on full display.

Instead of turning to the one who has the power of the plague, the one who can give mercy and stop the suffering. Instead, they they curse God. They sink their fist at God is a God, is because of you that we are going through this. It just boggles the mind.

But folks, we see that hardness of heart, even in our day-to-day those who were rejecting the ways of our great Lord now find it interesting that during the tribulation that will be great sin. There is going to be sin, unlike anything that we've ever seen, and during this time.

Those who take the mark of the beast will violate the first floor of the 10 Commandments Exodus Exodus chapter 20 verse three says you shall have no other gods before me. And they will violate that by accepting and worshiping antichrist is God.

Exodus 24 through six. You shall not make for yourself a carved image, any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water. All of the earth shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love me and keep my commandments. They will make an image for the antichrist to worship phones on submits when I read scriptures like this where the Lord says those who hate me. It breaks my heart to imagine that there are people who actually hate God. It it really brings sorrow to me to think that our creator and the way that he loves us because I think about my love for my children and how it would be if my children were to hate me, and in God's love goes beyond any love that I get over display as much as I love my children. The Bible says that Jesus's love. He's perfect so there's no amount of love that we as human beings can can can express or convey to anyone we cannot feel the magnitude of love toward anyone that God has for us and he loved us to the points that he came out of heaven because CN had to be accounted for in the only way that could be done was through a perfect sacrifice and perfect sacrifice of a human being because no human being is perfect has ever been or ever will be.

Then God said the only way that they can be saved from going to eternal damnation is I have to go down and become one of them. He did just that in our Lord Jesus Christ, and then he allowed himself to be tormented to be bruise.

Bible says he, he was bruised for our transgressions. The iniquity that was upon him. The suffering that our Lord went through and get to think he did all of that and for now, thousands of years, he still extending grace and mercy to come to him to repent. And yet, our Lord has to declare that there are those who hate him boggles the mind. Exodus chapter 20 verse seven should not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain. We same time of the time to the text where they will blaspheme God during the seven-year tribulation and then end Exodus chapter 20 verse eight it says remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. So we see all of these commandments from God being violated during the seven-year tribulation from those who take the mark of the beast.

So as we wrap this series up looking at these judgments from God as we conclude the seven bowl judgments, and as we conclude the total wrath of God be poured out with these 21 judgments that the question is why will God do all of this will.

God is just, and he must judge sin. And I've heard people say will. How can a loving God seeing people to heal, but it is not God listens anyone to heal because of his just nature. God says that CN has to be accounted for and again he chose himself to be that sacrifice, but you have to make a choice. If you would make the choice to receive him. Then your sins are accounted for.

You can live in his presence for eternity. But if you reject him, then you have to pay with your own life and so God doesn't send anyone to hail. He created hail for the Angels, the fallen angels, the ones who fail with with Lucifer. He did not created for man, but for man who decides to go the way of Lucifer, then you two must go to the same destination as the fallen angels, which is again the lake of fire. Jesus is the payment but for all who refuse him, you must pay with your own life. Someone asked the question of the church will be in heaven. Why we need to study this why we need to know all this just because we love others.

We don't want anyone to be lost. We want all to be saved. Just as God says it is not his will that any should perish, that is our will and desires will and you know it baffles me when I look around the world today is we've just celebrated this overturning of Roe versus Wade and and I were thought to myself that all churches throughout our land would be celebrating would be joyous would be just open arms over this this great events this monumental thing in which babies in the womb now are being saved, not in all states.

Of course, but in some space is being banned so that is a step in the right direction. A major step, but the battle is not over yet but yet I hear account after account of churches in which their silence, not a single word was stated and it boggles my mind how you cannot rejoice in the goodness of God. The Bible says there's going to be apostasy in the last days. The Bible says there will be those who have a form of godliness but denying the power thereof we see that plan out right in our life and our lives. But Jesus Christ is going to bring judgment for those who have not truly received him in the book of Ezekiel 33 verse six warns us that if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not warn the people. The Lord will hold the watchman responsible and so that is why we are here as watchman to warn the world that a day of judgment is coming to the indifferent church to the apostate churches I'm begging you today to repent and come back to Jesus Christ. Stop accepting the ways of the world stop being indifferent to see ends of the world and going along to get along.

Stop being afraid to stand for the truth of our God's word because Jesus died for our sins and the least we can do is stand for him stand for the truth of his holy word. So I'm calling on the church today calling on all of those out there in the world who have not received him as Lord and Savior come to Jesus Christ on today while you have breath in your body.

Let us pray.

Heavenly father, we thank you Lord for your word. We think you know that in your lovingkindness, your love and grace, your mercy Lord that you gave us his word as a warning of what's to come. You have to do it. You could've just said obey and for all who do not. What happens is what happens but Junior great love and mercy. You warned us, what would be the. The consequence of of not obeying you, and not receiving you slowly think you forwarded Lord is just my prayer, Lord, that this word will go out for those who are rejecting you to realize, to become sober minded and to realize that a day of judgment is coming and it is my desire just like your desire Lord that none should perish but that all should come to you and receive everlasting life. We look forward to that day, Lord Jesus, when you will come back to the circle. You will rule and reign over live in your kingdom where you will have full authority and every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that you Jesus Christ is Lord. Look forward to that day, Lord.

And we just thank you Lord again for your word of grace in your mercy as we depart from here today. Remember to pray for the peace of Jerusalem.

Blessings to the great nation of Israel and unto you, the only wise God be glory through Jesus Christ, forever.

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