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SERIES: THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST, WEEK 64

TITLE: IT IS DONE!

TEXT: REVELATION 16:17-21

INTRODUCTION: (1) THE SEVENTH BOWL JUDGMENT BRINGS UTTER DESTRUCTION.

* FOR IN THIS JUDGMENT GOD WILL LITERALLY SHAKE THE EARTH.

** THE SEVENTH BOWL IS THE FINAL OUTPOURING OF GOD’S WRATH IN THE TRIBULATION BEFORE CHRIST COMES TO THIS EARTH TO SET UP HIS KINGDOM.

*** THE SEVENTH BOWL IS THE WORST JUDGMENT OF THE SEVEN SEALS, THE SEVEN TRUMPETS AND THE SEVEN BOWLS.

**** IT IS WITHOUT PRECEDENT OR PARALLEL AS THIS FINAL PLAGUE WILL BE CATACLYSMIC.

(2) THE 7TH BOWL WILL BE THE WORST CALAMITY IN THE WORLD’S HISTORY, THE MOST DEVASTATING AND COMPLETE CATASTROPHE OUR PLANET WILL EXPERIENCE OF ALL THE JUDGMENTS OF THE WRATH OF GOD.

* AND OUR HOLY ALMIGHTY GOD WILL LIT. SHAKE THE EARTH, THE EARTH CONVULSES AND IS FLATTENED AS THE TOPOGRAPHY OF THE EARTH WILL CHANGE DRAMATICALLY.

** AND SEISMOLOGISTS AND VOLCANOLOGISTS WILL WATCH IN HORROR AS THEIR RECORDING INSTRUMENTS MOVE RIGHT OFF THE RICHTER SCALE – AS GOD WILL SHAKE THE EARTH.

*** THE PROPHET HAGGAI FORSAKE IT AND SPOKE: “FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, ONCE MORE IN A LITTLE WHILE, I AM GOING TO SHAKE THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH, THE SEA ALSO AND THE DRY LAND,” HAGGAI 2:6.

**** THE PROPHET JOEL HAD THIS TO SAY ABOUT THIS FUTURE TIME IN JOEL 3:12-17 –

V. 12 – LET THE NATIONS BE AROUSED AND COME UP TO THE VALLEY OF JEHOSHAPHAT, FOR THERE I WILL SIT TO JUDGE ALL THE SURROUNDING NATIONS.

V. 13 – PUT IN THE SICKLE, FOR THE HARVEST IS RIPE. COME, TREAD, FOR THE WINE PRESS IS FULL; THE VATS OVERFLOW, FOR THEIR WICKEDNESS IS GREAT.

V. 14 – MULTITUDES, MULTITUDES IN THE VALLEY OF DECISION! FOR THE DAY OF THE LORD IS NEAR IN THE VALLEY OF DECISION!

V. 15 – THE SUN AND MOON GROW DARK AND THE STARS LOSE THEIR BRIGHTNESS.

V. 16 – THE LORD ROARS FROM ZION AND UTTERS HIS VOICE FROM JERUSALEM, AND THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH TREMBLE. BUT THE LORD IS A REFUGE FOR HIS PEOPLE AND A STRONGHOLD TO THE SONS OF ISRAEL.

V. 17 – THEN YOU WILL KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD, DWELLING IN ZION, MY HOLY MOUNTAIN. SO JERUSALEM WILL BE HOLY, AND STRANGERS WILL PASS THROUGH IT NO MORE.

****THEN ISAIAH HAD THIS TO SAY IN ISAIAH 24:19-23–

V. 19 – THE EARTH IS BROKEN ASUNDER, THE EARTH IS SPLIT THROUGH, THE EARTH IS SHAKEN VIOLENTLY.

V. 20 – THE EARTH REELS TO AND FRO LIKE A DRUNKARD AND IT TOTTERS LIKE A SHACK, FOR ITS TRANSGRESSION IS HEAVY UPON IT, AND IT WILL FALL, NEVER TO RISE AGAIN.

V. 21 – SO IT WILL HAPPEN IN THAT DAY, THAT THE LORD WILL PUNISH THE HOST OF HEAVEN ON HIGH, AND THE KINGS OF THE EARTH ON EARTH.

V. 22 – THEY WILL BE GATHERED TOGETHER LIKE PRISONERS IN THE DUNGEON, AND WILL BE CONFINED IN PRISON; AND AFTER MANY DAYS THEY WILL BE PUNISHED.

V. 23 – THEN THE MOON WILL BE ABASHED AND THE SUN ASHAMED, FOR THE LORD OF HOSTS WILL REIGN ON MOUNT ZION AND IN JERUSALEM, AND HIS GLORY WILL BE BEFORE HIS ELDERS.

(3) AND THEN JESUS HAD THIS TO SAY ABOUT THIS END TIME GREAT TRIBULATION IN MATTHEW 24:21&22

V. 21 – FOR THEN THERE WILL BE A GREAT TRIBULATION, SUCH AS HAS NOT OCCURRED SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD UNTIL NOW, NOR EVER WILL.

V. 22 – UNLESS THOSE DAYS HAD BEEN CUT SHORT, NO LIFE WOULD HAVE BEEN SAVED; BUT FOR THE SAKE OF THE ELECT THOSE DAYS WILL BE CUT SHORT.

* NOW AS WE PUT ALL THESE PASSAGES OF SCRIPTURE TOGETHER, WE SEE CLEARLY THE WORST IS YET TO COME, AND THE WORST OF THE WORST WILL HAPPEN UNDER THE SEVENTH BOWL.

** AND WITH THAT SAID, I’VE TITLED MY SERMON TODAY, “IT IS DONE!”

*** AS WE COME TO THIS SEVENTH AND FINAL BOWL GOD ALMIGHTY WILL MAKE A SOLEMN DECLARATION, “IT IS DONE” THE JUDGMENTS OF THE WRATH OF GOD ARE FINISHED AS PLANET EARTH WILL BE PREPARED FOR THE RETURN OF ITS CREATOR AND KING.

**** AND WE’LL LOOK AT 3 MAIN POINTS IN OUR STUDY OF THIS FINAL BOWL JUDGMENT TODAY, NO. 1 THE PRONOUNCEMENT BY GOD ALMIGHTY THAT IT IS DONE, V. 17; NO. 2 THE PHENOMENA OF THIS JUDGMENT, AS THIS JUDGMENT IS REMARKABLE AND EXTRAORDINARY, VV. 18-21A; AND NO. 3 THE PROFANITY OF UNBELIEVERS WHO LIVE THROUGH THIS JUDGMENT AS THEY BLASPHEME GOD, V. 21B.

(4) SO WE’LL LOOK AT THE PRONOUNCEMENT, THE PHENOMENA AND THE PROFANITY UNDER THE TITLE OF “IT IS DONE.”

* AND WITH THOSE 3 POINTS TO HANG YOUR THOUGHTS ON LOOK AT V. 17 PLEASE WHERE WE’LL SEE OUR FIRST POINT, THE PRONOUNCEMENT.

I. THE PRONOUNCEMENT, (READ V. 17)

A. NOW THE PREVIOUS 6 JUDGMENTS ANGELS HAVE POURED OUT THEIR BOWLS OF THE WRATH OF GOD ON THE EARTH – THE SEA OR OCEANS, THE RIVERS AND SPRINGS OF WATER – THE FRESH WATER, UPON THE SUN, ON THE THRONE OF THE BEAST AND THE RIVER EUPHRATES.

* NOW THIS SEVENTH ANGEL POURS OUT HIS BOWL UPON OR INTO THE AIR.

** AND MOST LIKELY THIS MAKES REFERENCE TO THE FINAL STORM THAT FOLLOWS, REPRESENTED BY LIGHTNING AND THUNDER IN V. 18 AND GIGANTIC HAIL IN V. 21.

*** ALSO WE ARE REMINDED THAT THE TOUCHING OF THE ATMOSPHERE – THE AIR, MEANS THE STORM IS WORLDWIDE, FOR AN ATMOSPHERE OF AIR SURROUNDS OUR PLANET.

**** BELOVED, WE HAVE A TERRIBLE STORM COMING HERE THAT WILL AFFECT ALL THE EARTH, IT WILL SWEEP OVER THE WHOLE EARTH.

1. NOW AFTER THIS 7TH ANGEL POURS OUT HIS BOWL INTO THE AIR A LOUD VOICE, A GREAT VOICE THAT COMES OUT OF THE TEMPLE AND FROM THE THRONE SAYS: “IT IS DONE.”

* AND OBVIOUSLY THIS VOICE IS GOD’S, THE CREATOR AND POSSESSOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, THE ONE WHO IS SEATED ON HIS THRONE AND IN HIS HOLY HEAVENLY TEMPLE.

** AND JOHN RITCHIE IN HIS COMMENTARY ON REVELATION HAD THIS TO SAY AT THIS POINT AND I QUOTE:

*** “BOTH THE HOLINESS OF GOD (THE TEMPLE) AND THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD (THE THRONE) HAVE BEEN VINDICATED BY DIVINE JUDGMENTS ON EARTH. SO NOW GOD ANNOUNCES IT IS DONE.” (END QUOTE)

**** SO THE HOLY RIGHTEOUS GOD ANNOUNCES IT IS DONE.

2. WE NOW HAVE THE COMPLETION OF THE DIVINE PURPOSE THROUGH THE WHOLE SERIES OF JUDGMENTS, AS THIS 7TH BOWL IS THE FINAL JUDGMENT BEFORE THE COMING OF THE LORD TO THE EARTH.

* THIS IS THE LAST JUDGMENT OF THE TRIBULATION, WE HAVE COMPLETED ACTION OF GOD’S HOLY PURPOSES, HIS DIVINE DECREE.

** AND THE PHRASE “IT IS DONE” IS SIMILAR TO CHRIST’S FINAL WORDS ON THE CROSS IN JOHN 19:30, “IT IS FINISHED.”

*** FOR ON THE CROSS WE SEE GOD’S FINAL JUDGMENT UPON CHRIST CROSS FOR SIN PURCHASING SALVATION FOR HIS ELECT, FOR HIS PEOPLE, SINNERS HE WILL SAVE.

**** WHEREAS THE SEVENTH BOWL BRINGS DOOM TO UNREPENTANT SINNERS.

3. SO IT IS DONE INDICATES ACTION ACCOMPLISHED, THE FINAL ACT OF JUDGMENT UPON THE EARTH AND THE BEAST WORSHIPPERS PRECEDING THE 2’D COMING OF CHRIST TO THE EARTH.

* AND THAT’S THE PRONOUNCEMENT BY GOD ALMIGHTY WHICH LEADS US TO OUR 2’D POINT TODAY AS WE SEE THE ACTUAL JUDGMENTS UPON THE EARTH, WHICH I’VE COINED, THE PHENOMENA. LOOK AT V. 18 PLEASE.

II. THE PHENOMENA, (READ V. 18)

A. NOW REMEMBER THE SEVEN BOWL WAS POURED OUT INTO THE AIR IN V. 17 AND DRAMATICALLY AFFECTS THE ATMOSPHERE, SO WHAT DO WE SEE?

* WE SEE THE PICTURE HERE OF A HUGE THUNDERSTORM.

** IN FACT, LIKE THE SEVENTH SEAL IN REVELATION 8:5 AND THE SEVENTH TRUMPET IN REVELATION 11:19, THE 7TH BOWL IS INTRODUCED WITH THE SAME IMAGERY OF A VIOLENT THUNDERSTORM, WITH FLASHES OF LIGHTNING AND SOUNDS OF THUNDER.

*** BUT THOSE EARLIER STORMS WERE MERE PREVIEWS OF THIS MIGHTY HURRICANE LIKE STORM.

**** FOR IN THIS STORM FROM HEAVEN, THERE WILL BE A GREAT EARTHQUAKE ON EARTH, A MEGA EARTHQUAKE.

1. FOR THIS EARTHQUAKE WILL BE THE MOTHER OF ALL EARTHQUAKES.

* FOR ITS DESCRIPTION IS COMMUNICATED AS “SUCH AS THERE HAD NOT BEEN SINCE MAN CAME UPON EARTH.”

** SO THIS EARTHQUAKE WILL BE THE MOST POWERFUL ONE EVER TO STRIKE THE EARTH SINCE CREATION.

*** AND THAT IS A BIG TIME STATEMENT. FOR MILLIONS OF PEOPLE HAVE DIED FROM EARTHQUAKES IN THE HISTORY OF MAN, IN FACT THE DEADLIEST OCCURRED IN CHINA IN 1512 AND TOOK THE LIVES OF AN ESTIMATED 830,000 PEOPLE.

**** AND CAN YOU IMAGINE WHAT THE DEATH TOLL WOULD HAVE BEEN IF THAT SAME EARTHQUAKE OCCURRED TODAY WITH CHINA’S HUGE POPULATION?

2. BUT THE DESCRIPTION OF THIS COMING GIGANTIC EARTHQUAKE EXPANDS FOR IT SAYS IN THE REST OF V. 18, “SO GREAT AN EARTHQUAKE WAS IT AND SO MIGHTY.”

* THE ADJECTIVES “GREAT” AND “MIGHTY” ARE USED, SPECIFICALLY “SO GREAT” AND “SO MIGHTY.”

** AND THIS KIND OF LANGUAGE COMMUNICATES ITS MAGNITUDE, IT WILL BE OFF THE RICHTER SCALE AS GOD VIOLENTLY SHAKES THE EARTH IN HIS SOVEREIGN ALL POWERFUL HAND.

*** AND BELOVED THE CALAMITY FROM THIS WILL BE UNPRECEDENTED. AND THE RESULTS OF THE GREAT EARTHQUAKE FOLLOW. LOOK AT V. 19 PLEASE.

B. READ V. 19. NOW THE FIRST RESULT FROM THIS EARTHQUAKE PHENOMENA IS THE GREAT CITY WAS SPLIT INTO 3 PARTS.

* AND THE QUESTION COMES UP AT THIS POINT, WHAT IS THE GREAT CITY?

** AND MY ANSWER IS JERUSALEM. FOR EARLIER IN REVELATION 11:8 “THE GREAT CITY” IS IDENTIFIED.

*** FOR REVELATION 11:8 SAYS: “AND THEIR DEAD BODIES WILL LIE IN THE STREET OF THE GREAT CITY WHICH MYSTICALLY IS CALLED SODOM AND EGYPT, WHERE ALSO THEIR LORD WAS CRUCIFIED.”

**** NOW CLEARLY THE GREAT CITY IS JERUSALEM, THE RELIGIOUS SEAT OF THE BEAST AT THIS TIME, BOTH JUDGING IT AND PREPARING IT FOR THE MILLENNIAL RULE OF CHRIST, AS JERUSALEM WILL BE THE CAPITAL CITY FROM WHICH CHRIST RULES.

- FOR ISAIAH 2:3&4 SAYS:

V. 3 – AND MANY PEOPLES WILL COME AND SAY, “COME, LET US GO UP TO THE MOUNTAIN OF THE LORD, TO THE HOUSE OF THE GOD OF JACOB; THAT HE MAY TEACH US CONCERNING HIS WAYS AND THAT WE MAY WALK IN HIS PATHS.” FOR THE LAW WILL GO FORTH FROM ZION AND THE WORD OF THE LORD FROM JERUSALEM.

V. 4 – AND HE WILL JUDGE BETWEEN THE NATIONS, AND WILL RENDER DECISIONS FOR MANY PEOPLES; AND THEY WILL HAMMER THEIR SWORDS INTO PLOWSHARES AND THEIR SPEARS INTO PRUNING HOOKS. NATION WILL NOT LIFT UP SWORD AGAINST NATION, AND NEVER AGAIN WILL THEY LEARN WAR.

- AND THEN MICAH 4:7 SAYS: I WILL MAKE THE LAME A REMNANT AND THE OUTCASTS A STRONG NATION AND THE LORD WILL REIGN OVER THEM IN MOUNT ZION FROM NOW ON AND FOREVER.

SO JESUS WILL RULE FROM JERUSALEM.

1. AND THIS MASSIVE EARTHQUAKE WILL DIVIDE, SPLIT JERUSALEM INTO 3 PARTS.

* AND THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF A SERIES OF GEOPHYSICAL CHANGES TO THE CITY OF JERUSALEM AND ITS OUTSKIRTS THAT WILL CONCLUDE WHEN JESUS RETURNS.

** AND ZECHARIAH 14:4-10 DESCRIBES THESE CHANGES IN A DETAILED WAY.

*** AND FIRST OF ALL THE MOUNT OF OLIVES WILL SPLIT IN TWO AND A NEW VALLEY RUNNING EAST AND WEST WILL BE CREATED IN ZECHARIAH 14:4.

**** IN ZECHARIAH 14:8, A SPRING OF WATER WILL FLOW YEAR ROUND FROM JERUSALEM TO MOST LIKELY THE DEAD AND MEDITERRANEAN SEAS.

2. BEYOND THAT, JERUSALEM WILL BE ELEVATED AND THE SURROUNDING REGION FLATTENED INTO A PLAIN IN ZECHARIAH 14:10.

* NOW WITH THAT SAID, LET’S QUICKLY LOOK AT ZECHARIAH 14:4-11:

V. 4 – IN THAT DAY HIS FEET WILL STAND ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, WHICH IS IN FRONT OF JERUSALEM ON THE EAST; AND THE MOUNT OF OLIVES WILL BE SPLIT IN ITS MIDDLE FROM EAST TO WEST BY A VERY LARGE VALLEY, SO THAT HALF OF THE MOUNTAIN WILL MOVE TOWARD THE NORTH AND THE OTHER HALF TOWARD THE SOUTH.

V. 5 – YOU WILL FLEE BY THE VALLEY OF MY MOUNTAINS, FOR THE VALLEY OF THE MOUNTAINS WILL REACH TO AZEL; YES, YOU WILL FLEE JUST AS YOU FLED BEFORE THE EARTHQUAKE IN THE DAYS OF UZZIAH KING OF JUDAH. THEN THE LORD, MY GOD, WILL COME, AND ALL THE HOLY ONES WITH HIM!

V. 6 – IN THAT DAY THERE WILL BE NO LIGHT; THE LUMINARIES WILL DWINDLE.

V. 7 – FOR IT WILL BE A UNIQUE DAY WHICH IS KNOWN TO THE LORD, NEITHER DAY NOR NIGHT, BUT IT WILL COME ABOUT THAT AT EVENING TIME THERE WILL BE LIGHT.

V. 8 – AND IN THAT DAY LIVING WATERS WILL FLOW OUT OF JERUSALEM, HALF OF THEM TOWARD THE EASTERN SEA AND THE OTHER HALF TOWARD THE WESTERN SEA; IT WILL BE IN SUMMER AS WELL AS IN WINTER.

V. 9 – AND THE LORD WILL BE KING OVER ALL THE EARTH; IN THAT DAY THE LORD WILL BE THE ONLY ONE, AND HIS NAME THE ONLY ONE.

V. 10 – ALL THE LAND WILL BE CHANGED INTO A PLAIN FROM GEBA TO RIMMON SOUTH OF JERUSALEM; BUT JERUSALEM WILL RISE AND REMAIN ON ITS SITE FROM BENJAMIN’S GATE AS FAR AS THE PLACE OF THE FIRST GATE TO THE CORNER GATE, AND FROM THE TOWER OF HANANEL TO THE KING’S WINE PRESSES.

V. 11 – PEOPLE WILL LIVE IN IT, AND THERE WILL NO LONGER BE A CURSE, FOR JERUSALEM WILL DWELL IN SECURITY.

** NOW THE LORD JESUS IS THAT DAY WILL BE KING OVER ALL THE EARTH, RULING FROM A JERUSALEM THAT HAS BEEN DIVIDED INTO 3 PARTS FOR THIS MASSIVE EARTHQUAKE IN REVELATION 16 AND THE RETURN OF CHRIST. THERE WILL BE GEOPHYSICAL ALTERATIONS MADE TO JERUSALEM TO PREPARE IT FOR ITS KING.

*** BUT UNLIKE JERUSALEM, AS WE CONTINUE TO LOOK AT THE RESULTS OF THIS MASSIVE EARTHQUAKE IN REVELATION 16:19, “THE CITIES OF THE NATION FELL.”

**** AND THIS MEANS THEY WERE LEVELED, TO FALL INTO RUIN, TO BE WIPED OUT, AS ALL THE MONUMENTS OF MAN’S INGENUITY AND ENGINEERING FALL. THE CITIES ARE IN SHAMBLES.

3. THINK OF IT, CHICAGO, LA, NEW YORK, MOSCOW, TOKYO, TORONTO, MEXICO CITY, SAN PAULO, BERLIN, LONDON AND PARIS ARE FLATTENED, SOME OF THEM ALREADY AFFECTED BY A RISING SEA FROM THE 4TH BOWL AS THE POLAR ICE CAPS MELT.

* BUT NOT ONLY IS JERUSALEM AFFECTED AND THE CITIES OF THE WORLD, BUT ALSO ANOTHER CITY IS JUDGED, BABYLON.

** FOR THE REST OF V. 19 SAYS: “BABYLON THE GREAT WAS REMEMBERED BEFORE GOD, TO GIVE HER THE CUP OF THE WINE OF HIS FIERCE WRATH.”

*** AND IT APPEARS TO ME THAT THE CITY OF BABYLON ON THE EUPHRATES RIVER IS REBUILT AT SOME POINT, AND WILL BE THE CAPITAL OF ANTICHRIST’S POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC OR COMMERCIAL KINGDOM AND IT WILL BE JUDGED.

**** IN FACT, IT SAYS: “BABYLON THE GREAT WAS REMEMBERED BEFORE GOD.”

4. NOW THE VERB, WAS REMEMBERED DOES NOT MEAN THAT GOD HAD FORGOTTEN BABYLON, BUT RATHER THAT HE WAS NOW READY TO TAKE ACTION ABOUT IT.

* TO ILLUSTRATE WHAT I MEAN, WHEN “GOD REMEMBERED NOAH” IN GENESIS 8:1 THERE IS NO IDEA OR THOUGHT THAT GOD FORGOT ABOUT NOAH, NO THOUGHT OF GOD’S FORGETFULNESS, BUT THAT, WITH HIS PURPOSE ACHIEVED THROUGH NOAH, GOD TOOK ACTION ON BEHALF OF NOAH. THE RAIN STOPS, THE FLOODGATES OF THE DEEP ARE CLOSED AND THE WATER SUBSIDED.

** WELL, LIKEWISE THE WICKED CITY OF BABYLON THAT SHARES HER SIN WITH THE WORLD IS REMEMBERED.

*** FOR BABYLON THE GREAT IS ADDRESSED IN REVELATION 18:5&6 WHERE IT SAYS:

V. 5 – FOR HER SINS HAVE PILED UP AS HIGH AS HEAVEN, AND GOD HAS REMEMBERED HER INIQUITIES.

V. 6 – PAY HER BACK EVEN AS SHE HAS PAID, AND GIVE BACK TO HER DOUBLE ACCORDING TO HER DEEDS; IN THE CUP WHICH SHE HAS MIXED, MIX TWICE AS MUCH FOR HER.

5. WELL, GOD IN DIVINE RETRIBUTION AND VENGEANCE PAYS HER BACK IN REVELATION 16:19, HE REMEMBERS HER, HE TAKES DIVINE ACTION UPON HER FOR HER SIN UNDER THE 7TH BOWL.

* FOR GIVES HER “THE CUP OF THE WINE OF HIS FIERCE WRATH.”

** LITERALLY GOD MAKES HER DRINK THE WINE FROM THE TRAMPLED GRAPES OF HIS WRATH.

*** FOR WHAT IS IN THIS CUP? THE ANGER OF HIS WRATH, THE WINE THAT IS HOT WITH WRATH. AND IT’S GOING TO BE A BIG CUP POURED OUT ON THEM.

**** AND THIS BABYLON THE GREAT REMEMBERED HERE IS THE POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL HEADQUARTERS OF THE BEAST, HIS CAPITAL CITY AND IT WILL BE JUDGED MORE SEVERELY THAN THE REST OF THE CITIES ALREADY JUDGED.

1. AND LET ME SAY THE DOWNFALL OF THIS BABYLON MENTIONED HERE BRIEFLY WILL BE DESCRIBED IN DETAIL IN REVELATION CHAPTERS 17&18.

* BUT MOVING ON THE RESULTS OF THIS MIGHTY EARTHQUAKE UNDER THE 7TH BOWL CONTINUES IN V. 20. LOOK AT V. 20 PLEASE.

C. READ V. 20. NOW THE EARTH’S TOPOGRAPHY WILL BE DRASTICALLY ALTERED BY THIS MASSIVE EARTHQUAKE IN PREPARATION FOR THE MILLENNIUM.

* FOR “EVERY ISLAND FLED AWAY” AND THIS MEANS EVERY ISLAND VANISHED, THEY SINK INTO THE SEA, WERE NOT FOUND.

** AND WHAT IS AN ISLAND? THEY ARE UNDERSEA MOUNTAINS THAT RISE OUT OF THE OCEANS AND SEAS.

*** AND FROM THE CATASTROPHIC FORCE OF THE GREATEST AND MOST DEADLIEST EARTHQUAKE OF ALL TIME, THE SEA MOUNTAINS ARE FLATTENED ALONG WITH THE MOUNTAINS ON LAND. THE MOUNTAINS WILL NOT BE FOUND – THE HIMALAYAS, THE ROCKIES, THE ANDES.

**** NO MORE MOUNT EVEREST OR MT. MCKINLEY OR MOUNT KILLIMAJARO.

1. NO MORE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS, THE PHILIPPINES, THE BAHAMAS, JAMAICA, ALL GONE.

* BELOVED, THE EARTH IS LEVELED OUT AND BACK TO ITS TOPOGRAPHY BEFORE THE FLOOD.

** IN FACT DR. HENRY MORRIS HAD THIS TO SAY IN HIS COMMENTARY ON REVELATION AT THIS POINT OF STUDY AND I QUOTE.

*** “THE GENTLE ROLLING TOPOGRAPHY OF THE WORLD AS ORIGINALLY CREATED WILL BE RESTORED. NO MORE WILL THERE BE GREAT INACCESSIBLE, UNINHABITABLE MOUNTAIN RANGES OR DESERTS OR ICE CAPS. THE PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE MILLENNIUM WILL BE, IN LARGE MEASURE, A RESTORATION OF THE ANTEDILUVIAN ENVIRONMENT.”

**** SO THIS EARTHQUAKE LIT. LEVELS OUT THE EARTH.

2. BUT NOT ONLY IS THE EARTH LEVELED BY THIS EARTHQUAKE, MOST STRUCTURES LEFT STANDING WILL BE WIPED OUT BY HAIL. LOOK AT V. 21A PLEASE.

D. READ V. 21A. NOW GIGANTIC HAILSTORMS ARE FORMED AND FALL FROM HEAVEN FROM EITHER THE 7TH BOWL BEING POURED OUT INTO THE ATMOSPHERE OR FROM VOLCANIC ASH THAT IS THROWN INTO THE ATMOSPHERE AS A RESULT OF THIS MASSIVE EARTHQUAKE.

* FOR VOLCANIC EXPLOSIONS AROUND THE WORLD WOULD BE A NORMAL CONSEQUENCE OF A WORLDWIDE EARTHQUAKE.

** AND INTENSE UPDRAFTS INTO THE ATMOSPHERE MAY CAUSE THESE GIGANTIC HAILSTORMS TO FORM.

*** BUT REGARDLESS WHAT CAUSES THEM TO FORM, 100 LB. HAILSTONES OR HAIL THAT WEIGHS A TALENT, A TALENT RANGING FROM 90-135 LBS. WILL FALL UPON MANKIND.

**** AND THE FORCE OF SUCH HUGE HAILSTORMS IS UNIMAGINABLE.

1. FOR THE FORCE OF GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL CAUSES A LOT OF DAMAGE. AND JOHN MACARTHUR IN HIS COMMENTARY ON REVELATION 12-22 SAID THE HEAVIEST HAILSTONES EVER RECORDED WEIGHTED ABOUT 2 LBS.

* NOW MULTIPLY THAT BY 50-60 TIMES AND YOU START TO GET A GLIMPSE OF THE CRUSH ON HUMANITY, WITH NOT A WHOLE LOT OF SHELTER LEFT FROM THE MASSIVE EARTHQUAKE.

** HENRY MORRIS SAID THIS ABOUT THE HAILSTONES AT THIS POINT IN HIS COMMENTARY ON REVELATION AND I QUOTE:

*** “WE ARE TO VISUALIZE, THEREFORE, A RAIN OF 100-POUND BOULDERS PELTING DOWN FROM THE SKY, ALONG WITH THE GREATEST EARTHQUAKE OF ALL TIME – MOUNTAINS FALLING, GREAT FISSURES OPENING, STRUCTURES CRUMBLING, TSUNAMIS ATTACKING THE COASTS, DEVASTATIONS EVERYWHERE. THIS PLAGUE, INDEED, IS “EXCEEDING GREAT!”

**** NOW WHAT WE HAVE HERE IS BOMBS FROM HEAVEN ON THE EARTH.

2. AND THIS IS THE FINAL RESULT OF BOWL #7, WHICH LEADS US TO OUR LAST POINT TODAY, THE RESPONSE OF PEOPLE WHO LIVE, THE PROFANITY. LOOK BACK AT V. 21 PLEASE.

III. THE PROFANITY, (READ V. 21)

A. NOW THE DEFINITION OF PROFANITY FROM THE WEBSTER’S DICTIONARY IS “THE QUALITY OF BEING PROFANE; IRREVERENCE; IRREVERENT OR BLASPHEMOUS SPEECH; A BLASPHEMOUS ACT OR UTTERANCE.

* SO PROFANITY PERFECTLY DEFINES THE RESPONSE OF THE SURVIVORS.

** THEY BLASPHEME GOD BECAUSE OF THE PLAGUE OF THE HAIL BECAUSE IT’S PLAGUE, IT’S CALAMITY, IT’S BLOW, IT’S AFFLICTION WAS NOT JUST SEVERE, BUT EXTREMELY SEVERE, EXCEEDINGLY GREAT.

*** AND THESE SURVIVORS DEFIANTLY RAISE THEIR FIST TO GOD, KNOWING THAT HE IS THE SOURCE AND BLASPHEME HIM.

**** BELOVED THEIR HEARTS ARE HARD AND LIKE PHARAOH, THEIR HEARTS ARE HARDENED MORE. RATHER THAN REPENT, THEY BLASPHEME.

1. AND THE WORD BLASPHEME HERE LIT. MEANS TO SPEAK REPROACHFULLY, TO RAIL AT, TO REVILE, AND SO TO PROFANE.

* AND THESE GREAT SIGNS AND WONDERS DO NOT CAUSE PEOPLE TO REPENT AND BELIEVE BUT TO RAIL, TO BLASPHEME, AGAIN REMINDING US OF THE TRUTH OF TOTAL DEPRAVITY.

** AND THESE MEN, MANKIND, FOLLOWERS OF THE BEAST WILL BE JUDGED SOON ETERNALLY AS JESUS RETURNS.

*** FOR CHRONOLOGICALLY, THE NEXT EVENT AFTER THIS IS THE RETURN OF CHRIST IN REVELATION 19:11 AFTER ANOTHER PARENTHESIS IN REVELATION 17-19:10. JESUS IS CLOSE TO RETURNING.

IN WRAP UP: TWO APPLICATIONS. YOU MAY FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE ABOUT THE RESULTS OF BOWL #7 AND GOD’S WRATH BEING POURED OUT IN THE BOWLS.

* AND A REASON FOR THAT IS MAYBE THOSE VERSES SHATTER YOUR WRONG IMAGE OF GOD ALMIGHTY.

** AND THERE MAY BE A LACK OF UNDERSTANDING OF HOW TRULY HOLY GOD IS, HOW PURE HE IS IN HIS PERFECTIONS, AND HOW VENGEANCE IS HIS IN HIS DIVINE JUSTICE.

*** AND GOD IS ABSOLUTELY AND PERFECTLY JUST. HE DOLES OUT THE PROPER PUNISHMENT FOR THE CRIME, NO ONE GETS AWAY WITH SIN ULTIMATELY.

**** AND AS I SAID BACK IN REVELATION 14, ONE TINY SIN OFFENDS GOD FOR IT IS AN AFFRONT TO HIS BEING AND HOLY CHARACTER.

**** AND SO HE WILL CRUSH SIN ONE DAY AND STOMP IT OUT, WHAT ULTIMATELY CAUSE HEARTACHE, WAR, DESTRUCTION AND MISERY IN OUR WORLD.

(2) BUT UNDERSTAND THIS, IF YOU ARE IN CHRIST, KNOW CHRIST, HAVE REPENTED AND RECEIVED CHRIST, YOU HAVE BEEN RESCUED FROM GOD’S WRATH.

* FOR GOD IN HIS LOVE AND MERCY DECIDED TO SAVE SOME PEOPLE FROM HIS HOLY WRATH THAT JUDGES SIN.

**AND FOR THOSE OF US IN CHRIST, OUR SIN WAS JUDGED IN CHRIST, FOR OUR SIN WAS CRUSHED IN CHRIST AS CHRIST WAS CRUSHED FOR US, FOR ISAIAH 52:14 AND ISAIAH 53:5 & 10 SAYS: READ THEM.

*** SO HOW GREAT IS OUR GOD? WELL, HE IS SO GREAT BECAUSE HE PURCHASED SO GREAT A SALVATION FOR SINNERS LIKE YOU AND ME WHEN WE DESERVE HIS WRATH.

**** SO TODAY AND THIS WEEK AS YOU ARE TEMPTED TO SIN, THINK OF THE HIGH COST OF YOUR SALVATION, AND WHEN YOU DON’T WANT TO READ YOUR BIBLE, LOVE YOUR ENEMIES, WITNESS TO THE LOST, FORGIVE, PRAY, COME TO CHURCH NEXT SUNDAY, SERVE, GIVE AND WHATEVER, THINK ABOUT GOD’S MERCY AND HOW YOU HAVE BEEN RESCUED FROM THE WINEPRESS OF GOD’S WRATH AND OUT OF LOVE AND GRATEFULNESS, OBEY! SERVE – LOVE HIM!!!

(3) BUT LASTLY, IF YOU ARE HERE TODAY WITHOUT THE RISEN SAVIOR, THE LORD JESUS, BE FOREWARNED THERE IS A FRIGHTENING FUTURE AHEAD AS THIS INCREDIBLE SCENE INDICATES.

** AND THOSE WHO REFUSE TO REPENT AND TURN TO JESUS CHRIST, THE ONLY SAVIOR, WILL FACE POTENTIAL JUDGMENT IN THIS LIFE. IF YOU LIVE UP TO THIS TIME, BUT FOR SURE IN THE PLACE OF EVERLASTING JUDGMENT, EVERLASTING WRATH IN HELL FOREVER.

** AND IN HELL THE WINE PRESS OF GOD’S WRATH WILL GO ON FOREVER. AND ONE DAY YOU WILL WAKE UP AND REALIZE THE REALITIES OF HEBREWS 10:31 AND HEBREWS 12:29. (READ THEM)

*** MY PRAYER AND BURDEN FOR ANY OF YOU WITHOUT CHRIST WOULD BE FOR YOU TO YIELD TO THE PSALMIST’S ADMONITION TODAY AND WHAT JESUS SAID.

**** PSALM 2:12 SAYS: “DO HOMAGE TO THE SON, THAT HE NOT BECOME ANGRY, AND YOU PERISH IN THE WAY, FOR HIS WRATH MAY SOON BE KINDLED. HOW BLESSED ARE ALL WHO TAKE REFUGE IN HIM!” REVELATION 14:13.

(4) AND THEN JESUS SAID IN LUKE 13:3 (READ IT).

* TURN TO JESUS CHRIST TODAY AND FLEE FROM THE WRATH TO COME!