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SERIES: THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST, WEEK 37

TITLE: ECOLOGICAL DISASTER UPON THE EARTH, PART II

TEXT: REVELATION 8:10-13

INTRODUCTION: (1) THE WORD “WOE” IS USED 111 TIMES IN MY BIBLE.

* IT’S MEANING COMMUNICATES GREAT CALAMITY, IT IS AN EXPRESSION OF GRIEF, A PASSIONATE CRY OF GRIEF OR DESPAIR.

** SYNONYMS WOULD BE ALAS! OH! LITERALLY CRYING OUT THOSE WORDS.

*** PUT TOGETHER IN SCRIPTURE, THE WORD “WOE” IS AN EXPRESSION OF JUDGMENT, DESTRUCTION AND CONDEMNATION.

**** AND THIS MEANING IS COMMUNICATED IN BOTH THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS.

(2) FOR EXAMPLE IN ISAIAH 3:11, ISAIAH THE PROPHET WAS INSPIRED TO SAY: “WOE TO THE WICKED! IT WILL GO BADLY WITH HIM, FOR WHAT HE DESERVES WILL BE DONE TO HIM.”

* ISAIAH 5:11 SAYS: “WOE TO THOSE WHO RISE EARLY IN THE MORNING THAT THEY MAY PURSUE STRONG DRINK, WHO STAY UP LATE IN THE EVENING THAT WINE MAY INFLAME THEM!”

** THEN A FEW VERSES DOWN IN ISAIAH, IN ISAIAH 5:20-22 IT SAYS:

V. 20 - “WOE TO THOSE WHO CALL EVIL GOOD, AND GOOD EVIL; WHO SUBSTITUTE DARKNESS FOR LIGHT AND LIGHT FOR DARKNESS; WHO SUBSTITUTE BITTER FOR SWEET AND SWEET FOR BITTER!”

V. 21 – “WOE TO THOSE WHO ARE WISE IN THEIR OWN EYES AND CLEVER IN THEIR OWN SIGHT!”

V. 22 – “WOE TO THOSE WHO ARE HEROES IN DRINKING WINE AND VALIANT MEN IN MIXING STRONG DRINK.”

*** AND THEN HABAKKUK 2:15 SAYS: (READ IT)

*** AND THEN ONE LAST O.T. REFERENCE IN PROVERBS 23:29-33 (READ THEM).

(3) NOW MOVING OVER INTO THE N.T., JESUS USED THE WORD “WOE” 14 TIMES IN THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW ALONE.

* MANY TIMES PRONOUNCING WOE ON THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES, RELIGIOUS HYPOCRITES WHO EXTERNALLY CLEANED UP THE OUTSIDE OF THEIR LIVES AND LOOKED HOLY, BUT ON THE INSIDE WERE CORRUPT AND DEFILED.

** AND THEN AS WE CONTINUE TO TRACK THE WORD IN THE N.T., THIS WORD IS USED 13 TIMES IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION, 4 TIMES USING DOUBLE WOES IN THE SAME VERSE.

*** AND ONE TIME IN OUR TEXT TODAY IN V. 13, USING A TRIPLE WOE.

**** AND DOUBLE WOES ARE FOR EMPHASIS, BUT A TRIPLE WOE REFERS TO GREATER CALAMITY THAT IS ABOUT TO COME TO THE INHABITANTS OF THE EARTH IN THE 5TH, 6TH AND 7TH TRUMPET JUDGMENTS.

**** AND WHAT WE WILL SEE OUT OF OUR STUDY TODAY IS A SHIFT, A TRANSITION, FROM JUDGMENT AND ECOLOGICAL DISASTER UPON THE EARTH ITSELF, THROUGH WHICH UNSAVED PEOPLE ARE BEING JUDGED.

(4) TO, DIRECT JUDGMENT UPON THOSE WHO DWELL ON THE EARTH AS THEY ARE AFFECTED PERSONALLY AND INDIVIDUALLY.

* AND WHAT WE LITERALLY SEE IN OUR STUDY TODAY AND IN OUR COMING STUDIES IN REVELATION IS SINNERS IN THE HANDS OF AN ANGRY GOD!

** PSALM 7:11 SAYS: (READ IT).

**** AND BELOVED, GOD HAS A HOLY RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION AND ANGER THAT LEADS TO A HOLY FURY IN RESPONSE TO SIN.

**** GOD IS A GOD OF WRATH!

(5) AND PEOPLE DON’T WANT TO BELIEVE THAT OR HEAR THAT, EVEN PROFESSING CHRISTIANS.

* TO ILLUSTRATION THAT, AS I WAS MEETING A NEW BELIEVER IN OUR CHURCH AND GOING THROUGH FUNDAMENTALS OF THE FAITH WITH HIM, HE TOLD ME THAT HE WAS TALKING WITH ANOTHER BELIEVER FROM ANOTHER CHURCH THAT FLAT OUT TOLD HIM, GOD IS NOT A GOD OF WRATH.

** NOW THAT KIND OF THINKING IS NOT UNCOMMON IN OUR DAY.

*** THE EMPHASIS OF GOD’S LOVE, WHICH SHOULD BE EMPHASIZED FOR I JOHN 4:8 SAYS: “GOD IS LOVE.”

**** BUT NOT TO NEGLECT THAT GOD IS HOLY HOLY HOLY, THAT GOD IS JUST, THAT GOD IS RIGHTEOUS AND THAT GOD JUDGES SIN BOTH NOW AND FOREVER AND WILL JUDGE IT IN A CLEAR DECISIVE WAY IN THE TRIBULATION, THE 7 YEAR PERIOD THAT GOD POURS OUT HIS WRATH ON THE EARTH.

(6) AND WE SEE THIS IN OUR TEXT TODAY.

* GOD IS SO HOLY AND FILLED WITH RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION, HEAVEN HAS TO PAUSE FOR HALF AN HOUR AS WE COME TO THE TRUMPET JUDGMENTS.

** AS JOHN TUCKER AND I WERE TALKING ABOUT THIS SUBJECT ON TUESDAY, EVEN THE GREEN GRASS IS NOT SPARED.

*** THE EARTH IS BEING JUDGED FOR MAN’S SIN. GOD’S JUDGMENT MAKES YOU SILENT. GOD HATES, ABHORS, ESCHEWS, DESPISES, DETESTS SIN AND IS INTENSE IN DEALING WITH IT.

**** AND THE REASON MANY BRISTLE AT THAT TRUTH IS THEY’VE NOT BEEN TAUGHT IT, HAVE NOT MEDITATED UPON IT AND DO NOT UNDERSTAND HOW ABSOLUTELY HOLY GOD IS!

(7) I MEAN IF YOU WANT A PICTURE OF HOW HOLY GOD IS AND THAT HE MUST DEAL WITH SIN, THEN LOOK AT THE CROSS WHERE HIS PERFECT SPOTLESS SINLESS SON DIED AND BORE THE MARK OF SIN FOR THOSE HE WOULD SAVE FROM HIS HOLY WRATH.

* ON THE CROSS LOVE AND JUSTICE, MERCY AND WRATH MEET! (READ JOHN 3:36; READ ISAIAH 53:5&10-12 AND II CORINTHIANS 5:21.)

** AND TODAY IN OUR STUDY OF REVELATION 8:10-13, WE WILL CONTINUE TO SEE GOD POUR OUT HIS WRATH ON THOSE WHO HAVE REJECTED HIS SON’S SACRIFICE ON THE CROSS, CALLED THE EARTH DWELLERS.

*** AND WE WILL CONTINUE TO SEE ECOLOGICAL DISASTER UPON THE EARTH BY SUPERNATURAL MEANS WHICH WILL LEAD TO GREATER JUDGMENT OF THE 3 WOES IN V. 13 OF OUR TEXT.

**** AND WITH THAT IN MIND, THE TITLE OF OUR STUDY TODAY IS ECOLOGICAL DISASTER UPON THE EARTH, PART II.

(8) AND UNDER THAT TITLE WE’LL LOOK AT JUST TWO MAIN POINTS, THE THIRD TRUMPET JUDGMENT FOUND IN VV. 10&11 AND THE FOURTH TRUMPET JUDGMENT FOUND IN VV. 12&13.

* AND WITH THOSE POINTS AS A PATH TO FOLLOW IN OUR STUDY, LOOK AT V. 10 PLEASE WHERE WE’LL START TO SEE OUR FIRST POINT, THE THIRD TRUMPET.

I. THE THIRD TRUMPET, (READ V. 10)

A. NOW THE THIRD TRUMPET BLAST HERALDS THE FALL OF “A GREAT STAR FROM HEAVEN.”

* AND NOTE THAT THE WORD STAR HERE CAN REFER TO ANY HEAVENLY BODY, TO ANY CELESTIAL BODY OTHER THAN THE SUN AND MOON, A LUMINOUS BODY.

** AND THE FACT THAT THIS GREAT STAR HERE IS DESCRIBED AS BURNING LIKE A TORCH SUGGESTS THAT THIS CELESTIAL OBJECT MIGHT BE A LARGE METEOR OR COMET.

*** AND I SAY THAT BECAUSE THE WORD TORCH OR LAMP DEPENDING ON WHICH TRANSLATION YOU HAVE IS A GREEK WORD THAT WAS USED IN ANCIENT TIMES TO DESCRIBE METEORS AND COMETS.

*** AND THAT IT IS BURNING SUGGESTS THAT THIS HEAVENLY MASS OF WHATEVER IS FROM OUTER SPACE, IS BURNING AS IT HITS THE EARTH’S ATMOSPHERE AND IS BURNING BRIGHTLY, AS A TORCH, AS A LAMP, LIGHTING UP THINGS.

1. AND UNDERSTAND THAT WHAT WE CALL “FALLING STARS” ARE FREQUENTLY NOTHING MORE THAN A PIECE OF ROCK THE SIZE OF AN ACORN CAUGHT IN THE EARTH’S GRAVITATIONAL FIELD THAT BECOMES WHITE HOT AS IT FALLS THROUGH THE ATMOSPHERE, IT IS LIGHT WE CAN SEE.

* NOW MAGNIFY THAT DRAMATICALLY TO A GREAT STAR, A MEGA STAR, A BIG STAR, A BIG HUGE METEOR OR COMET THAT LIGHTS THE SKY AND YOU START TO GET A PICTURE OF WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE.

** BUT AS YOU DO THAT, CONSIDER THAT THIS BIG STAR STARTS TO BREAK UP AS IT HIT OUR ATMOSPHERE, SCATTERING ALL OVER THE EARTH, FALLING APART AND AFFECTING A GOOD PERCENTAGE OF THE EARTH.

*** FOR NOTICE THAT THIS GREAT STAR AS IT BREAKS UP FALLS ON A THIRD OF THE RIVERS AND ON THE SPRINGS OF THE WATER.

**** LIT. AFFECTING 1/3 OF OUR FRESH WATER SUPPLY.

2. FOR AS YOU GO BACK TO THE 2’D TRUMPET, ONE THIRD OF SALT WATER BODIES ARE AFFECTED, THE SEA IN GENERAL, AND AS THIS GREAT MOUNTAIN BURNING WITH FIRE HITS, A THIRD OF SEA CREATURES DIE AND IT CREATES A TSUNAMI THAT DESTROYS 1/3 OF THE SHIPS.

* BUT IN CONTRAST TO THE 2’D TRUMPET, THE 3’D TRUMPET AFFECTS THE WORLD’S DRINKING WATER, THE FRESH WATER SUPPLY, FOR THE WORDS RIVERS AND SPRINGS OF WATER ARE USED.

** AND SPRINGS OF WATER MAKE REFERENCE TO FOUNTAINS OF FRESH WATER WHICH LIT. MAKES REFERENCE TO A WELL FED BY A SPRING, OUR UNDERGROUND WATER SUPPLY.

*** SO AS THIS STAR DISINTEGRATES, IT GOES INTO RIVERS AND HITS THE GROUND WHICH IT POISONS AND SEEPS INTO THE FRESH WATER SUPPLY.

**** AND ONE THIRD OF THE EARTH’S FRESH WATER SUPPLY IS AFFECTED.

3. NOW THE NAME OF THIS STAR IS IDENTIFIED IN V. 11 AND IT’S DISASTROUS RESULTS ARE TALKED ABOUT. LOOK AT V. 11 PLEASE.

B. READ V. 11. NOW THE NAME OF THIS STAR IS CALLED WORMWOOD. AND THE GREEK WORD IT’S TRANSLATED FROM, WHICH YOU CAN SEE ON THE SCREEN, IS USED ONLY ON THIS OCCASION IN THE ENTIRE N.T.

* NOW IN THE O.T. THE ENGLISH WORD WORMWOOD IS USED 8 TIMES WHERE IT IS ASSOCIATED WITH BITTERNESS, POISON AND DEATH.

** AND WITH 2 OF ITS USES IN THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH, WORMWOOD IS CONNECTED WITH POISONED WATER.

*** FOR EXAMPLE IN JEREMIAH 9:15 IT SAYS: THEREFORE THUS SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL, “BEHOLD, I WILL FEED THEM, THIS PEOPLE, WITH WORMWOOD AND GIVE THEM POISONED WATER TO DRINK.”

**** AND THEN IN JEREMIAH 23:15 IT SAYS: THEREFORE THUS SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS CONCERNING THE PROPHETS, “BEHOLD, I AM GOING TO FEED THEM WORMWOOD AND MAKE THEM DRINK POISONOUS WATER, FOR FROM THE PROPHETS OF JERUSALEM POLLUTION HAS GONE FORTH INTO ALL THE LAND.”

1. NOW WHATEVER THE POISON THAT IS COMMUNICATED BY THE NAME WORMWOOD IS, IT IS LETHAL ENOUGH TO KILL PEOPLE.

* FOR WE SEE HERE IN THE LAST PART OF V. 11 THAT MANY MEN DIED AS A RESULT OF 1/3 OF THE FRESH WATER BECOMING BITTER, LIT. BEING POISONED.

** NOW 4 QUICK FOOTNOTES HERE. NO. 1 UNDER THE FIRST EGYPTIAN PLAGUE UNDER MOSES IN EXODUS 7:20, ALL THE WATER THAT WAS IN THE NILE RIVER WAS TURNED INTO BLOOD AND BECAME UNFIT TO DRINK.

*** NO. 2 THE RESULT OF THE 3’D TRUMPET JUDGMENT HERE, HAPPENS IN REVERSE IN THE O.T. WITH MOSES AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL.

**** FOR AT MARAH IN EXODUS 15:23-25, MOSES THREW A TREE INTO BITTER WATER THAT WAS SWEET OR PURE.

2. NO. 3 NO HUMAN DEATHS WERE MENTIONED WITH THE FIRST TWO TRUMPET JUDGMENTS, ALTHOUGH WE KNOW THE RESULT OF THOSE JUDGMENTS WILL CAUSE MANY TO DIE.

* BUT WITH THE 3’D TRUMPET BLAST, MANY MEN WILL DIE DIRECTLY FROM THIS EVENT. WE CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT WATER FOR VERY LONG.

** AND NO. 4 THE REPETITION OF ONE-THIRD IN THESE JUDGMENTS DEMONSTRATES CLEARLY THAT THESE ARE NOT RANDOM NATURAL EVENTS BUT DISTINCT DIVINE JUDGMENTS FROM THE HAND OF GOD.

**** THESE ARE NOT RANDOM ACTS OF NATURE, BUT CONTROLLED DIVINE JUDGMENTS.

**** AND MANY DIE UNDER THE SOUND OF THE 3’D TRUMPET, WHICH LEADS US TO THE 4TH TRUMPET JUDGMENT. LOOK AT V. 12 PLEASE.

II. THE 4TH TRUMPET, (READ V. 12)

A. NOW AS THE 4TH ANGEL BLOWS HIS TRUMPET, JUDGMENT MOVES FROM THE EARTH TO THE HEAVENS, TO THE HEAVENLY BODIES THAT WILL AFFECT THE EARTH’S CLIMATE. THERE WILL BE GREAT CLIMALOGICAL CHANGES.

* AND THE CREATOR WHO SPOKE THE SUN, MOON AND STARS INTO EXISTENCE ON THE 4TH DAY OF CREATION NOW STRIKES THEM.

** FOR ONE THIRD OF THE SUN, A THIRD OF THE MOON AND A THIRD OF THE STARS WERE STRUCK.

*** AND THE VERB “STRUCK” OR “SMITTEN” DEPENDING ON WHICH TRANSLATION YOU HAVE, IS THE VERB FORM FROM WHICH THE NOUN “PLAGUE” DERIVES.

**** AND THIS “ACT OF GOD” THIS PLAGUE IS SIMILAR TO THE NINTH EGYPTIAN PLAGUE IN EGYPT WHERE GOD BROUGHT DARKNESS FOR 3 DAYS IN EXODUS 10:21&22.

1. NOW SPECIFICALLY HOW THIS COMES ABOUT OR WHAT MEANS GOD USES TO BRING ABOUT MORE DARKNESS FOR A PORTION OF EACH DAY IS NOT DECLARED.

* IN OTHER WORDS, WE ARE NOT TOLD HOW GOD WILL ECLIPSE THESE HEAVENLY BODIES THAT HE HAS CREATED.

** BUT THE CREATOR HAS NO POWER LIMITATIONS, AND TO BELIEVE THIS IS NOT GULLIBILITY, BUT FAITH IN A MIGHTY GOD!

*** THIS WILL BE A VISIBLE DIVINE DISPLAY OF GOD’S POWER OUTSIDE THE RANGE OF NORMAL EXPERIENCE.

**** AND WHETHER IT IS A PROVIDENTIAL MIRACLE THAT CHANGES NATURAL PHENOMENA TO PRODUCE THESE RESULTS.

2. OR THIS IS A CREATIVE MIRACLE WHERE GOD DIRECTLY CREATES SOMETHING NEW FOR THIS TO HAPPEN, WE DO NOT KNOW.

* AND I’M NOT GOING TO SPECULATE AND HYPOTHESIZE HOW THIS WILL HAPPEN, BUT THE ALL-MIGHTY WHO SPOKE THE WORLDS INTO EXISTENCE WILL HAVE NO PROBLEM.

** NOW THE RESULTS WILL BE DEVASTATING. FOR A THIRD OF THE SUN, MOON AND STARS ARE DARKENED, SO ONE THIRD OF THE DAYLIGHT IS EFFECTED AND ONE THIRD OF THE NIGHT IN THE SAME WAY.

*** SO A THIRD OF THE DAY WOULD LACK NORMAL LIGHT AND A THIRD OF THE NIGHT WOULD BE WITHOUT THE MOON’S REFLECTION OF THE SUN AND ONE THIRD OF THE STAR’S LIGHT AT NIGHT WOULD BE AFFECTED.

**** AND IT APPEARS THAT THERE WILL BE A SHORTENING OF DAYLIGHT BY 4 HOURS AND NO LIGHT FROM THE MOON AND STARS FOR 4 HOURS.

3. IF DAY AND NIGHT WE DIVIDED INTO TWO 12 HOUR PERIODS, WHICH IS NOT THE CASE IN MOST PLACES DEPENDING ON THE SEASON, BUT FOR ILLUSTRATION’S SAKE, ONE THIRD OF 12 WOULD BE FOUR HOURS THAT ARE AFFECTED DURING THE DAY AND 4 HOURS AT NIGHT.

* OR 1/3 OF THE LIGHT DURING THE DAY IS ECLIPSED SO YOU ONLY HAVE TWO THIRDS OF THE STRENGTH OF THE SUN DURING THE DAY, AND TWO THIRDS OF NIGHT LIGHTS ARE ECLIPSED ALSO.

** BUT REGARDLESS OF WHICH ONE IT IS, THE LOSS OF LIGHT AND HEAT FROM THE SUN WILL CAUSE TEMPERATURES TO PLUNGE DRAMATICALLY ON THE WORLD.

*** AND CERTAINLY THIS WILL DISRUPT THE EARTH’S WEATHER PATTERNS AND THE SEA TIDES, LEADING TO VIOLENT UNPREDICTABLE STORMS, TIDES AND OTHER CLIMALOGICAL CHANGES AFFECTING OUR FOOD SUPPLY AND BRINGING ABOUT DESTRUCTIVE STORMS.

**** BELOVED, EARTH’S ECOSYSTEM IS GOING TO BE ALL MESSED UP.

4. NOW BEFORE I GO ON TO V. 13, NOTE THAT IT APPEARS THIS JUDGMENT WILL ONLY BE TEMPORARY.

* FOR IN REVELATION 16:8&9 THE SUN’S HEAT AND LIGHT INTENSIFY FAR BEYOND IT’S NORMAL ENERGY OUTPUT.

** REVELATION 16:8&9 –

V. 8 - THE FOURTH ANGEL POURED OUT HIS BOWL UPON THE SUN, AND IT WAS GIVEN TO IT TO SCORCH MEN WITH FIRE.

V. 9 – MEN WERE SCORCHED WITH FIERCE HEAT; AND THEY BLASPHEMED THE NAME OF GOD WHO HAS THE POWER OVER THESE PLAGUES, AND THEY DID NOT REPENT SO AS TO GIVE HIM GLORY.

*** SO AGAIN THE BURNING AND HEAT FROM THE SUN WILL BE AFFECTED AT A LATER TIME SO THIS JUDGMENT IS TEMPORARY, LIKE THE 9TH PLAGUE OF DARKNESS IN EGYPT WAS.

**** AND WE ARE NOT TOLD HOW LONG EACH TRUMPET LASTS WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE 5TH TRUMPET WHICH LASTS FOR 5 MONTHS.

5. BUT THEY APPEAR TO BE RAPID-FIRE, ONE AFTER EACH OTHER WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE 5TH TRUMPET.

* NOW WITH THAT IN MIND, LOOK AT V. 13 PLEASE.

B. READ V. 13. NOW AFTER THE 4TH TRUMPET JUDGMENT, JOHN THE BELOVED, THE HUMAN AUTHOR OF THE BOOK OF REVELATION SEES AND HEARS SOMETHING, HE “LOOKED” AND “HEARD.”

* AND WHAT HE SEES AND HEARS IS A STARTLING AND OMINOUS ANNOUNCEMENT MADE BY AN EAGLE OR AN ANGEL.

** NOW THE OLDER MANUSCRIPT FAMILIES USE THE WORD EAGLE WHEREAS THE RECEIVED TEXT, WHICH IS USED TO TRANSLATE THE KJV AND NKJV USES THE WORD ANGEL.

*** NOW IT COULD BE AN ANGEL THAT HAS THE APPEARANCE OF AN EAGLE FLYING AROUND OR AN ANGEL OR AN EAGLE IS FLYING AROUND.

**** FOR THE ARGUMENT IS AN EAGLE CAN’T SPEAK SO IT MUST BE AN ANGEL. WELL IN GENESIS 3:1-5, THE SERPENT TALKED AND IN NUMBERS 22:28-30 BALAAM’S DONKEY TALKED.

1. AND IT WOULD NOT BE A BIG DEAL FOR GOD TO HAVE AN EAGLE SPEAK.

* BUT IT DOESN’T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE TO ME, AN ANGEL OR EAGLE FLYING IN MIDHEAVEN, PROBABLY THE PLACE WHERE THE SUN WOULD NORMALLY BE AT NOON TIME – DIRECTLY OVER US.

** THIS ANGEL OR EAGLE OR ANGEL THAT HAS AN APPEARANCE OF AN EAGLE THAT IS VERY VISIBLE SO ALL CAN SEE, SPEAKS WITH A LOUD VOICE.

*** AND YOU CAN IMAGINE THAT EVERY T.V. STATION IN THE WORLD WOULD HAVE THIS ON THE NEWS, AN ANGEL OR EAGLE SPEAKING.

**** BUT WITH A LOUD VOICE IS MADE TO THOSE WHO DWELL ON THE EARTH.

2. THE TRIPLE WOE OF GOD’S JUDGMENT IS STILL AHEAD.

* FOR THE TRIPLE PRONOUNCEMENT OF WOE, WOE, WOE INTRODUCES ONE THREAT FOR EACH OF THE REMAINING TRUMPETS ABOUT TO SOUND.

** EACH OF THE LAST 3 TRUMPET JUDGMENTS WILL BRING A WOE WITH THE SEVERITY OF THE JUDGMENT UPON UNSAVED MANKIND.

*** FOR THE EXPRESSION, “THOSE WHO DWELL ON THE EARTH” IS A PHRASE USED 8 TIMES IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION AS A TECHNICAL TERM FOR THOSE WHO REJECT THE GOSPEL.

**** IT TALKS ABOUT THE EARTH LOVERS AND THE GOD HATERS, THOSE WHO REJECT CHRIST.

3. AND FOR THEM THAT SURVIVE PHYSICALLY, THE WORST IS YET TO COME. 3 MORE WOES REMAIN, WOE BEING AN EXPRESSION OF JUDGMENT, DESTRUCTION AND JUDGMENT.

* JUDGMENT WILL CONTINUE TO INTENSIFY.

IN WRAP UP: (1) WE OFTEN HEAR AN EXPRESSION USED BY EARTH DWELLERS TODAY AT TIMES OF BEREAVEMENT, “MY LOVED ONE IS BETTER OFF.”

* IN OTHER WORDS, THROUGH DEATH THEIR LOVED ONE HAS BEEN RELEASED FROM THEIR SUFFERING AND SORROW.

** AND I HEAR THIS EXPRESSION USED BY PEOPLE THAT DON’T KNOW CHRIST IN SPEAKING ABOUT LOVED ONES WHO NEVER PROFESSED CHRIST.

*** NOW THAT EXPRESSION IS TRUE FOR A TRUE BELIEVER IN CHRIST. HEAVEN IS AHEAD, GLORY AWAITS US. THE BEST IS YET TO COME.

**** BUT FOR THOSE WHO DON’T KNOW CHRIST THAT STATEMENT IS FAR FROM THE TRUTH.

(2) AND I SAID A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO BUT WANT TO REPEAT IT, FOR THOSE WHO LIVE INTO THE TRIBULATION, IT WILL BE A TIME THAT IT WILL BE SO BAD THAT PEOPLE WILL WANT TO DIE.

* BUT AT CERTAIN POINTS, THEY WILL NOT BE ABLE TO, READ REVELATION 9:6.

** BUT WHEN THEY DO GET THEIR WISH, THEY WILL BE SHOCKED TO FIND OUT THAT HELL WILL BE A MILLION TIMES WORSE THAN ANY JUDGMENT THEY HAVE EXPERIENCED.

*** AND IF YOU DON’T KNOW CHRIST AS YOUR LORD AND SAVIOR, REPENT OF YOUR SIN AND RUN TO THE SAVING ARMS OF JESUS CHRIST.

**** THE WORST IS YET TO COME FOR YOU IF YOU DON’T REPENT AND TURN TO THE SAVIOR.

(3) AND LASTLY IN APPLICATION TO CHRISTIANS, TRUE FOLLOWERS OF CHRIST.

* AT THIS POINT OF HISTORY IN THE FUTURE, LIT. OUR WORLD WILL CONTAIN SINNERS IN THE HAND OF AN ANGRY GOD.

** AND WE NEED TO BE IMMERSED INTO AN UNDERSTANDING OR RE-UNDERSTANDING OF GOD’S ABSOLUTE HOLINESS.

*** I MEAN TO SEE EACH SIN WE COMMIT AS A HEINOUS ACT OF REBELLION, AS A HOLY OFFENSE, AS COSMIC TREASON AGAINST OUR HOLY HEAVENLY FATHER.

**** BELOVED, SIN MUST BE A PRETTY SEVERE ACT IF GOD JUDGED HIS SON ON THE CROSS THE WAY HE DID AND WILL JUDGE THE EARTH THE WAY HE WILL.

(4) SO LOOK BACK AND FORWARD WITH ME AS A HOLY REMINDER OF THE HEINOUSNESS OF SIN.

* OF OUR LUST, OF GREED, OF COVETOUSNESS, OF LYING, OF NOT LOVING OUR MATES, OF NOT LOVING OUR CHILDREN, OF NOT FORGIVING OTHERS AND BEING BITTER, OF IMMORALITY, OF SELFISHNESS OF TIME AND NOT LOVING CHRIST FIRST.

** AND CRY OUT TO OUR HOLY GOD AND CONFESS AND FORSAKE SIN AND CRY OUT:

*** I’M FORGIVEN BUT CHRIST WAS FORSAKEN

I’M ACCEPTED BECAUSE CHRIST WAS CONDEMNED,

I’M ALIVE AND WELL AND YOUR SPIRIT IS WITHIN ME

BECAUSE YOU DIED AND ROSE AGAIN AND SAVED ME.

**** AND THANK GOD FOR HIS AMAZING LOVE. HOW CAN IT BE, THAT YOU MY KING SHOULD DIE FOR ME.

(5) AMAZING LOVE, I KNOW IT’S TRUE, FOR I’M NOT IN HELL RIGHT NOW, SO IT’S NOW MY JOY TO HONOR YOU IN ALL I DO, IN ALL I DO, I HONOR YOU.