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| OUR LORD JESUS' RETURN TO ESTABLISH JUSTICE AND
RIGHTEOUSNESS SEVEN TRUMPET JUDGMENTS, REVELATION 8: 7 - 11: 19 OUR LORD JESUS' WRATH ON UNBELIEVERS UNRIGHTEOUSNESS AND REBELLION, THE LAST THREE AND HALF YEARS OF THE SEVEN YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD Revelation 8: 7 (First Trumpet - "earth") The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down upon the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, and all the green grass was burned up. Revelation 8: 8, 9 (Second Trumpet "seas") The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain, all ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned into blood, a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed. Revelation 8: 10, 11 (Third Trumpet "rivers") The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water-the name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people die from the waters that had become bitter. Revelation 8: 12 (Fourth Trumpet "darkness") The fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them turned dark. A third of the day was without light, and also a third of the night. Revelation 9: 1 - 12 (Fifth Trumpet "locust torment") The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss, (Subterranean abode of the demoniac hordes) smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. Revelation 9: 3 (Demoniac locusts) And out of the smoke locusts came down upon the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth. OUR LORD JESUS PROTECTS, AFFIRMS, AND PROVIDES FOR HIS FAITHFUL SAINTS Revelation 9: 4 They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads. Revelation 7: 3 (Angels) "Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of God." Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel. (144,000 converted Jews to our Lord Jesus, and their converts through their witness in the Seven Year Tribulation Period). Revelation 9: 5 (Mission of the demoniac locusts) They were not given power to kill them, (Unsaved) but only to torture them for five months. And the agony they suffered was like that of a scorpion when it strikes a man. Revelation 9: 6 (Rebellious unsaved will not repent and turn to our Lord Jesus) During those days men will seek death, but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them. SATAN, DEMONS, AND UNSAVED ON EARTH TAKE THEIR STAND AGAINST CHRIST Revelation 9: 11 They (Demoniac like locusts) had as king (Commander of the destroying demons) over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon. (Means, "destroyer") John 8: 44 (Jesus our Lord speaking) "You (Pharisees) belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father's desire. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. Revelation 9: 14, 15 (Sixth Trumpet) It (Voice) said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates." And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released to KILL a THIRD of mankind. Revelation 9: 16 - 19 The number of the mounted troops was two hundred million. I (John) heard their number. The horses and riders I saw in my vision looked like this: Their breastplates were fiery red, dark blue, and yellow as sulfur. The heads of the horses resembled the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire, smoke and sulfur. A third of mankind was killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke and sulfur that come out of their mouths. The power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails were like snakes, having heads with which they inflict injury. (These two hundred million troops are the destroying demons, or the armies of the kings of the east.) Revelation 16: 12 The sixth angel poured out his bowl (Bowl Judgments) on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the East. Daniel 11: 44 ("Reports from the east" (Armies from the Far East nations) and the north will alarm him ( King of the north, Russia, Ezekiel 38, 39) THE LIVING UNSAVED STILL WILL NOT REPENT AND TURN TO OUR LORD JESUS Revelation 9: 20 The rest of mankind that were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshipping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze. stone and wood-idols that cannot see or hear or walk. Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, (Demonism) their sexual immorality or their thefts. OUR LORD JESUS TRIUMPHS OVER ALL EVIL FORCES OF THE EARTH, AND IS WORSHIPED MIGHTILY BY HIS TWENTY-FOUR HEAVENLY ELDERS, THE FAITHFUL, SERVANT SAINTS, AND THE PROPHETS. Revelation 11: 15 - 18A (Seventh Trumpet "end of the Seven Year Tribulation") The seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, which said: "The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he will reign for ever and ever." And the twenty-four elders, who were seated on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and worshiped God, saying: "We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty, the One who is and who was, because you have taken your great power and have begun to reign." The nations were angry; and your wrath has come. The time has come for judging the dead." (Unsaved at the Great White Throne Judgment, Revelation 20: 12 - 15) OUR LORD JESUS AFFIRMS AND REWARDS HIS FAITHFUL SERVANTS AND PROPHETS Revelation 11: 18B ... "for rewarding your servants and prophets and your saints and those who reverence your name, both small and great-and for destroying those who destroy the earth." (Rewards: II Corinthians 5: 10, I Corinthians 3: 11 - 15) Revelation 22: 12 "Behold, I (Our Lord Jesus) am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, (First and last letter of the Greek alphabet) the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. Blessed are those who wash their robes, ...do His commandments New King James Version) that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city." HEAVEN REJOICES AT OUR LORD JESUS' VICTORY OVER ALL EVIL FORCES AND MEN ON EARTH, AND OUR LORD JESUS ASSUMES SOVEREIGNTY OVER ALL RULERSHIP ON EARTH, REVELATION 11: 15 Revelation 11: 19 Then God's temple in heaven was opened, and within His temple was seen the ark of His covenant. And there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, and earthquake and a great hailstorm. (Our Lord Jesus is faithful to His Covenant with us, His saints) Revelation 5: 11, 12 Then I (John) looked, and I heard the voices of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders; and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, saying with a LOUD voice: `"Worthy is the Lamb who was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom, and strength and honor and glory and blessing!" |
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