The Bowl Judgments

To your promise? Come on? When you set it away? Every sh Go away? Healing up to that cross? You set up my sword? You tore down the veil to show me I?

You said you never.

Your promise? I keep you worried all I can trust you? Power in the name?

Yes.

Healing in the name? Breakthrough in the name? Deliverance in that name? Joy is in the name? Peace is in the name? Just call all the names? Your name is Jesus? Jesus? Your name is Jesus? Come on, just sing his name? Jesus? Your name is Jesus? Your name is G. Come on, just sing his name? Jesus? Your name is Jesus? Jesus, Jesus? He said on my sc. You tore down the.

Good morning. Good morning. What's up, guys? Happy Wednesday to y'. All. I got that y' all again, Raj. I've been using it more. Been using it more. How you doing, Rog? I'm good. Let's say they're. They're. We're getting that. That New Jersey out of you a little bit at a time. A little bit at a time? Yeah, a little bit at a time. Holding on to a little bit of it. Can't shake all of it. But little by little, all that. That ungodliness of New Jersey and the way we speak. Good stuff. Well, welcome aboard this morning. See some more folks hopping on here. I've been seeing more and more people watching, whether live or the replay of this on YouTube. And that's a blessing if you can't get onto Zoom for whatever reason. Could always watch the. The live stream on our King's Council YouTube page. And I haven't seen any nasty comments, so I don't know if people are. Are receiving what's going forth here, but at least they're not leaving nasty comments about all my crazy pre trib views and. And eschatology views. So happy for that. We are getting to the. The end, guys. We're in Revelation 16 today and we're getting to the end of Revelation. And today the entirety of Revelation 16 are these seven final bold judgments. And it's going to be a rapid succession of these final seven judgments. And it's going to be the battle of Armageddon. And ultimately in the next couple weeks, we're going to talk about the fall of Babylon and even, you know, the. The fall of Babylon and what Babylon represents, the. The current evil world system that's anti God and anti anything that. That's good and comes from the Lord essentially. And then just a few more weeks before we see Jesus crack the sky on his white horse and overthrow all the evil. So last Week we talked a little bit about the, the martyrs that were in heaven. John saw the martyrs in heaven and he heard them singing praises to the Lord and they, they praised the Lord and part of their song was their fear of God and who is, who doesn't fear the Lord, right? It's almost once you have this healthy, reverent fear of God, it's like, how can anybody not fear God? So we talked about that a bit and even how we can, because we all have stretches where perhaps we're putting God on the back burner or just not as sensitive or keen to our own sin or the sin that's around us. As we are surrounded by sin, we're surrounded by evil and sometimes it's easy to conform to that around us and maybe not even any egregious sins, but you know, those little itty bitty sins that will, will start to turn our hearts cold towards God and then will ultimately lead to bigger sins. But today's the, those seven bowl judgments and we're going to go through them and what, what's going to be pretty remarkable today that we read as God all throughout Revelation, as we've talked about all these judgments, they're righteous, they're true, they're just. And we're going to see the angels declare that as these bold judgments go forth, but God constantly through the seven year tribulation period, in particular the last three and a half years, where all hell breaks out on earth. It's not just God saying, okay, you've sinned, you've, you're, you've turned against me, you're not going to turn towards me. But he always gives opportunity to, to repent. God's desire is that every man, every woman, every single person be born on this earth, that they repent and have relationship with him. And we're going to see even today. But this is it that these final seven judgments, it's, this is the, the final judgment culminating with the battle of Armageddon, which ultimately we know it. Who comes out on top there? So I have the notes in Google Drive. Roger ready threw that here in the chat so you could pull that up, walk along with me if you want, or just keep that if you want to circle back at any point. So we'll start here at Revelation 16, starting at verse one. And it says, then I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, go and pour out the bowls of the wrath of God on the earth. So right off the bat, if we backtrack just the last verse in Revelation 15 it says the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from his power. And no one was able to enter the temple to the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed. So saying nobody is in that temple except for God. So when John hears a loud voice from the temple, who's speaking here? This is God. This is God's voice here himself. And we know that he uses his angels to go forth. Previously the, the seal judgments, the trumpet judgments, and now finally these, these bowl judgments. And the, the, the second woe has, has passed already. The, the third woe was coming quickly. We read in Revelation chapter 11 and this is now the third woe. In the midst of all these, these, these judgments, there was the first, second and now third woe. And they're described as the wrath of God, which is about to go forth. And keep in mind that the, the purpose of the, this wrath of God, this judgment, it's not just punishment. Right now God is just, he's going to dispense justice, but it's chastisements with the purpose of bringing repentance. And as we've talked about in weeks past, oftentimes it's not until God really turns up the fire in our lives that that brings us to a place where we just drop to our knees and we cry out for help, or sometimes we cry out with praise and gratitude. Because when life gets real, that's when it gets real, right? And that's when typically, you know, I don't want to say I enjoy doing funerals, but funerals like when our loved ones die or we go to a funeral, that's when we start to really reflect on our own lives and we start to really not question our own mortality. But we become aware that we're not immortal, we're going to die at some point and we kind of get a wake up call right in the midst of that mourning of whoever it is that passed. And it's a great opportunity to minister to others, was a great opportunity for ourselves in the midst of a tragedy, in the midst of mourning, to kind of get that wake up call where really the things that we normally stress out about in life we're not stressing out about because now we got real things to, to be concerned with. So God is, has been progressively turning up the fire and heating things up and now we're going to see that it's rapid fire with these last seven bowl judgments towards the end of the tribulation period. Now some people think that these judgments here that are about to go forth, because a few of them, they are similar to the plagues of Egypt back, those 10 plagues back in Exodus. So we, we take everything, even if it's symbolic, we take it literally, right? So is it symbolic? Is it not symbolic? Some of, some of these bold judgments here. One thing to keep in mind, if something is symbolic, even if we read this and everything is symbolic, it's not literally going happen. If it's symbolic when we read about it, just know that the judgment isn't going to be symbolic at all. God's judgment, God's wrath isn't going to be symbolic. And the reality behind any symbol is it's always more real than what the symbol represents. So I don't believe that these are just symbols. Some, some people do. And as we go through them, we'll kind of touch on why these will be literal things that happen. So verse two. So the first went and poured out his bowl upon the earth, and a foul and loathsome loathsome sore came upon the men who had the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. Whenever you hear about those who take the mark of the beast, right. It's not just somebody who's coerced. Oh, okay, you want to be able to buy and sell. You want to not be killed, take this mark of the beast. People are going to willfully take the mark of the beast, and it's going to identify them as somebody who is a worshiper of the beast, the Antichrist. So it's not something where, you know, the. Something that we could all relate to that that's somewhat practical is some people felt like they were forced by the government to, to take the jab, right. And you may have taken it not willfully. When somebody takes the mark of the beast, it's not going to be, yeah, yeah, you were, you were coerced to do it. You're going to be coerced, be coerced by the devil and evil, and you're going to be deceived into worshiping this beast. Now, these loathsome sores, this is very similar to the sixth plague of Egypt back in Exodus 9. So those who are marked by the beast, right, with that 666, either on their foreheads or their right hands, they're now going to be marked with these boils, with, with these sores. And it's like God is saying, okay, you want to take the mark of the beast? This is what's going to come along with it. You're going to get These boils, you're going to get these sores. And we're going to see by the time the, the fifth bowl is poured out that those who are dealing with the source are, are in pain from these source. Another indication that this is rapid fire. The, the. These bold judgments are going to come at the very end of the tribulation, and they're going to be rapid fire. Verse 3. Then the second angel poured out his bowl on the sea and it became blood as of a dead man. And every living creature in the sea died. Back In Revelation chapter 8, we saw the second trumpet judgment where a third of sea life died, right? So the sea was contaminated by one third. And now that contamination is made complete. So not only imagine the food source that the oceans provide for the world, but imagine what this will literally be if the entire ocean, the entire sea is like that of the blood of man. Imagine the stench that comes with that. I mean, if you ever go to a lake or a pond, you see a couple of dead fish floating there, you smell it, right? So imagine every creature in the earth is now dead and the ocean turns this, this blood color because of just so much death. It's not going to be a pretty sight. It's not going to be a pretty smell by any means. And remember, as these bold judgments are going forth, by now, already half of the Earth's population is gone, and that doesn't even include the, the church. That's to going.