Two Words In Prayer Series

We are also told that the stars of Heaven will fall down to the earth like the fruit of a fig tree that is shaken by a violent wind.

This verse is telling us that there will be tremendous meteor showers that will fall upon the earth in those days. These meteor showers will cause tremendous death and devastation.

Whole cities and countries may be destroyed as the heavens come crashing down to the earth.

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In Winslow, AZ there is a meteor crater called the Barringer Crater.

It was formed when a meteor between 90 and 150 feet in diameter slammed into the earth.

That single impact left a crater 4,000 feet across, 2.5 miles in circumference and over 550 feet deep.

Another meteor fell to the earth in 1908 in Siberia. This one was estimated to be about 180 feet in diameter.

When it hit, it flattened trees in a 25-mile radius and the explosion caused by its impact was heard half way around the world in London, England.

There is no stability as the heavens above appear to roll up like a book and as the mountains and islands are moved out of their places by the devastating geological occurrences that are unleashed upon the earth in those tragic days.

B. The Unconverted In Terror Revelation 7:15-17

We are told that men of all ranks are overcome with fear. Kings are the rulers.

Great men are the governmental leaders and men of power.

Rich men are those who control the wealth of the world.

Chief Captains are the military leaders.

Mighty men are the celebrities and those with influence and power.

Bondmen and free men alike are affected.

When God’s wrath is finally poured out upon this world, men will be reduced to the same level.

Fear in the face of wrath will be the rule of the day.

Let’s examine these verses for a few minutes.

1. What They See Revelation 7:12-14

As the universe convulses in geological and astronomical upheaval, men will see everything they have ever considered stable and permanent taken away from them.

The earth is always there and it is always stable.

It will be shaken.

The sun, moon and stars are always there.

They too will be taken away.

For millennia, men have worshiped this natural world and staked their hope and futures upon the stability of the universe.

They will suddenly find themselves in a world where nothing is stable.

Their world is literally coming apart at the seams and they are terrified!

2. What They Say Revelation 7:15-16

In their terror, they cry out for the mountains to fall on them and hide them from the terrible gaze of God on His throne and from the wrath of the Lamb of God.

Here is a world that has rejected God at every turn.

They have denied Him and His Son while they have embraced Satan and His false Christ.

Now, they must face His judgment and they are filled with fear.

3. What They Seek Revelation 7:16

They run to the “caves and dens of the earth” to find a refuge from the presence of God.

Folks, the evolutionists have sold this world a bill of goods!

Cavemen are not in our past, they are in our future!

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You do your children a grave disservice when you trust them to a godless school system and never check up on what they are learning!