Revelation Chapter 16
Introduction:
Chapter 16 is the seven bowl judgments poured out. In
chapter 11:1-14 and chapter 13 we had the last three and a half years of the
Great Tribulation. In chapter 11:14-19 we have the sounding of the seventh
trumpet – the last trumpet (1 Corinthians 15:50-58; 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11). In
Revelation 14:14-20 we see the Rapture (Catching Away) of The Church and the harvest
of the earth’s vine for judgment. In chapter 15 we see more worship of GOD and
The Heavenly Tabernacle revealed.
Isaiah 34
1: Then I heard a loud voice from The Temple say to the
seven angels, “Go and pour out the bowls of the Wrath of GOD on the earth.”
2: So the first went and poured out his bowl upon the earth
and a foul and loathsome (severe and malignant) sore came upon the people who
had the mark of the beast (anti-christ)* and those who worshipped his image.
3: Then the second angel poured out his bowl on the sea and
it became blood as of the dead; and every living creature in the sea died
(Revelation 8:8-9 the second trumpet).
:4-6 Then the third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers
and springs of water and they became blood (Exodus 7:14-24; Revelation 8:10-11
the third trumpet – bitter waters).** I heard the angel of the waters saying:
“You are righteous JEHOVAH, The One Who is and Who was and Who is to be,
because You have Judged these things. For they have shed the blood of saints
and prophets and You have given them blood to drink; for it is their due!”
:7 I heard another from The altar saying, “Even so JEHOVAH,
El Shaddai, True and Righteous are Your Judgments.”
:8-9 Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun
and power was given to him to scorch people with fire. People were scorched
with great heat and they blasphemed The Name of GOD Who has Power over these
plagues and they did not repent and give Him Glory (Revelation 8:12 the fourth
trumpet, GOD reduced the light of the sun now He has increased its heat to burn).
:10 Then the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne
of the beast (anti-christ) and his kingdom became full of darkness;*** and they
gnawed their tongues because of the pain.
:11 They blaspheme The GOD of Heaven because of their pains
and their sores and do not repent of their deeds. (They have loathsome sores
all over their bodies, they are thirsty, and now they have burning heat sores!
Yet they will not repent.)
:12 Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great
river Euphrates and its water was dried up, so that the way of the kings from
the east might be prepared.****
:13-14 I saw three unclean spirits like frogs coming out of
the mouth of the dragon (satan), out of the mouth of the beast (anti-christ)
and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are spirits of demons,
preforming signs (2 Thessalonians 2:8-12), which go out to the kings of the
earth (Revelation 17:12-14) and of the whole world, to gather them to the
battle of that Great Day of JEHOVAH El Shaddai (Revelation 19:17-21).
:15 “Pay attention: I Am coming as a thief; Blessed is he
who watches and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame.*****”
(This is not part of the sixth bowl, this is a warning to the Church, this is
one of the things that JESUS emphasized in His earthly ministry – watch and be
ready for His Return, Matthew 24:45-51, 25:11-13; Philippians 3:9-10;
Revelation 3:3)
:16 And they gathered them together to the place called in
Hebrew, Armageddon (Lit. Mount Megiddo).
:17 Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air
and a loud voice came out of the Temple of Heaven from The Throne, saying, “It
is done (John 19:30)!”
:18-19 There were noises and thunderings and lightnings (Revelation
8:5 – seventh seal, 11:15, 19 – seventh trumpet); and there was a great
earthquake as had not occurred since men were on the earth (Revelation 6:12 – sixth
seal, 8:5 – seventh seal, 11:19 – seventh trumpet). Now the great city was
divided into three parts (Revelation 11:13 – resurrection of the two witnesses),
and the cities of the nations fell; and great Babylon was remembered before
GOD, to give her The cup of the wine of the fierceness of His (GOD’s) Wrath
(Revelation 17 and 18)!
:20 Then every island fled away and the mountains were not
found (Revelation 6:14 – the sixth seal).
:21 Great hail from Heaven fell upon men, each hailstone
about the weight of a talent (Revelation 8:7 – the first trumpet, 11:19 – the
seventh trumpet). Men blasphemed GOD because of the plague of the hail, since
the plague was exceedingly great (a talent is equal to 100 pounds of silver or
200 pounds of gold – The Defined King James Bible).
* Not everyone who rejected GOD and CHRIST worship and
serve the antichrist, there will be those other religious people and anarchist
who reject GOD and the anti-christ that will still be on the earth after the
Church is raptured.
** This is why I believe the bowl judgments only last one
day, with the judgments that are to come there is no water on the planet to
drink! Though Egypt’s judgment lasted one week (Exodus 7:24).
*** “Became full of darkness” this is not just so dark you
cannot see but a darkness that you can feel!
**** The river Euphrates is very involved with the return
of JESUS and GOD’s Judgments on the nations. (Revelation 9:13-21 the sixth
trumpet.)
***** “lest he walk naked and they see his shame.” Those
who are not clothed in GOD’s righteousness are naked in their sin and will be
ashamed in GOD’s Presence (2 Corinthians 5:1-11; 1 Peter 5:5; Revelation 3:5).
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