Revelation Study Series 21 - God’s Mysterious Plan Fulfilled (Chapter 16) Series

Revelation Study Series 21 - God’s Mysterious Plan Fulfilled (Chapter 16)

04.24.22

Message…

Last week we celebrated Easter…Russia & Ukraine celebrate that this weekend. Putin rejected a 4 day ceasefire requested by Zelensky.

https://www.yahoo.com/now/zelenskyy-says-russia-rejected-easter-083256286.html

So, a Jewish leader wanted his people to be able to have time to worship God…while an evil ruler hardened his heart against the worship of God! Sounds like that has happened before! Some people just don’t learn! Some people don’t know their Bible!

Revelation 16:1

1 Then I heard a mighty voice from the Temple say to the seven angels, “Go your ways and pour out on the earth the seven bowls containing God’s wrath.”

God’s full/complete wrath will be poured out during the last half of the Tribulation period.

Forty-two months, three-and-a-half years, unrepentant mankind on earth will experience God’s righteous, perfect judgment for his/her choosing to worship the antichrist, rather than Jesus Christ. It will be a time unlike any before it.

The apostle John saw seven angels with seven bowls. These seven bowl judgments reveal the wrath of God poured out upon the earth, and all unbelievers.

The Lord makes plain in His Word what He will do during the last half of the Tribulation.

Revelation 16:2

2 So the first angel left the Temple and poured out his bowl on the earth, and horrible, malignant sores broke out on everyone who had the mark of the beast and who worshiped his statue.

This first bowl judgment will be one of boils/sores upon man.

“The first bowl of wrath compares to the sixth plague in Egypt and is the same type of sore or “boil” (see Exod. 9:8–12). It is interesting to note that Moses predicted coming judgment upon Israel similar to this. It has not as yet been fulfilled.”

“This prediction is found in the Book of Deuteronomy: “But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all His commandments and His statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee” (Deut. 28:15).” McGee, J. Vernon, Thru the Bible with J. Vernon McGee, (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 2000, c1981.

Also, notice that this only afflicts those who have taken the mark of the beast/who worship his statue.

Revelation 16:3

3 Then the second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it became like the blood of a corpse. And everything in the sea died.

97.3% of all of the world’s water is salt…oceans and seas, which covers 71% of the earth’s surface.

Revelation 16:4

4 Then the third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and springs, and they became blood.

This would be a judgment on the fresh water as well.

Revelation 16:5-7

5 And I heard the angel who had authority over all water saying, “You are just, O Holy One, who is and who always was, because You have sent these judgments.

6 Since they shed the blood

of Your holy people and Your prophets,

You have given them blood to drink.

It is their just reward.”

7 And I heard a voice from the altar, saying,

“Yes, O Lord God, the Almighty,

Your judgments are true and just.”

The angels declare the judgments of God are just. They agree. “Amen”… “so be it” to what God has done.

“...God sets His own standard of justice. He uses His power according to His own moral perfection. Thus, whatever He chooses or decrees is fair, even if we don't understand it or like it. Those who rebel and reject God are not rejecting a "lifestyle option"; they are rejecting truth and justice itself.” -Life Application Notes

Revelation 16:8-9

8 Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, causing it to scorch everyone with its fire.

9 Everyone was burned by this blast of heat, and they cursed the name of God, who had control over all these plagues. They did not repent of their sins and turn to God and give Him glory.

Your worst sunburn will not come close to comparing what they will feel.

“The scorching heat will melt the polar ice caps, which some estimated would raise the level of the world’s oceans by 200’ inundating many of the world’s major cities and producing further catastrophic loss of life.” -JMSB

Interesting verses in the OT… (prophetic)

Amos 9:5-6

5 And the Lord GOD of hosts is He that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.

6 It is He that buildeth His stories in the heaven, and hath founded His troop in the earth; He that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is His name.