REVELATION CHAPTER 16

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• REVELATION CHAPTER 16

The 7 BOWLS OF
GODS WRATH!
ARMAGEDDON!
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• Chapter 15 - is the INTRODUCTION to Chapters
  16-19
• Chapter 16 THE 7 BOWLS of WRATH The Great
  Day of The Lord
• Chapters 17 18 Back up and more focused on
  the (The Great Prostitute or The Great City or
  Babylon) and her SPECIFIC punishment under the
  Wrath of God!
• Chapter 19 Even MORE FOCUSED look at - Gods
  people protected, raptured and worshipping during
  the WRATH DAYS, More information about Bowl
  number 6 Armageddon
• READ CHAPTER 16

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• Exodus 7-11
  Revelation 15-16
• The 10 Plagues on Egypt
  The 7 Bowls of Wrath
• 1. Water to blood
  1. Boils
• 2. Frogs
  2. Sea - blood
• 3. Gnats
  3. Rivers - blood
• 4. Flies
  4. Sun - scorching
• 5. Livestock
  5. Darkness
• 6. Boils
  6. Armageddon - Frogs
• 7. Hail
  7. Hail - Earthquake
• 8. Locusts
• 9. Darkness
• 10. Death 1st Born
• 10 is the number of accountability or
  responsibility like the 10 Commandments. 7
  is the number of completion

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THE FOCAL
TEXT LAST WEEK Rev 1614-17 (NIV) 14 They are
spirits of demons performing miraculous signs,
and they go out to the kings of the whole world,
to gather them for the battle on the great day of
God Almighty. 15 "Behold, I come like a thief!
Blessed is he who stays awake and keeps his
clothes with him, so that he may not go naked and
be shamefully exposed." 16 Then they gathered the
kings together to the place that in Hebrew is
called Armageddon. 17 The seventh angel poured
out his bowl into the air, and out of the temple
came a loud voice from the throne, saying, "It is
done!"
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Example of interpretation confusion over
this verse
Revelation 1612-16 (from Seiss' Apocalypse
Commentaries on Revelation) This passage is
like that so often given to the Church with
reference to His coming again but how does it
apply here, after so many classes, including the
great body of the saved, are already in heaven,
with all their anxious watching past?
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ation 1612-16 (from Matthew Henry's
Commentary) The warning which God gives of this
great and decisive trial, to engage his people to
prepare for it, v. 15. It would be sudden and
unexpected, and therefore Christians should be
clothed, and armed, and ready for it, that they
might not be surprised and ashamed.
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• THE WORD thief is used
  only 12 times in the New Testament.
• Luke 1233 Where the thief doesnt steal
• John 101 He who enters the sheep pen any other
  way is a thief
• John 1010 - The thief comes only to steal and
  kill and destroy
• John 126 - but because he was a thief as keeper
  of the money bag
• 1 Pet 415 - If you suffer, it should not be as
  a murderer or thief
• THIS LEAVES (SEVEN!) TIMES the word THIEF
  is used to describe something concerning Jesus
  and either the rapture or the wrath.
• 1. Matt 2441-46 But understand this If the
  owner of the house had known at what time of
  night the thief was coming, he would have been
  prepared, so you also must be ready, because the
  Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not
  expect him.
• 2. Luke 1239 The same as the previous one in
  Matthew 24
• 3. 1Thessalonians 51-9 -for you know very well
  that the DAY OF THE LORD will come like a thief
  in the night.
• 4. (same text as above) But you, brothers, are
  not in darkness so that THIS DAY should surprise
  you like a thief.
• 5. 2 Pet 39-13 -But the DAY OF THE LORD will
  come like a thief.
• 6. Rev. 31-3 -Remember, therefore, what you have
  received and heard obey it, and repent. But if
  you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and
  you will not know at what time I will come to
  you.
• 7. Rev 1615 Our text! - THE DAY OF THE LORD

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Isaiah 133-13 (NIV) THE DAY OF THE
LORD THE DAY OF WRATH! 3 I have commanded my
holy ones (angels?) I have summoned my warriors
to carry out my wrath-- those who rejoice in my
triumph. 4 Listen, a noise on the mountains, like
that of a great multitude! Listen, an uproar
among the kingdoms, like nations massing
together! The LORD Almighty is mustering an army
for war. 5 They come from faraway lands, from the
ends of the heavens-- the LORD and the weapons of
his wrath-- to destroy the whole country.
(Armageddon?) 6 Wail, for the day of the LORD is
near it will come like destruction from the
Almighty. 7 Because of this, all hands will go
limp, every man's heart will melt. 8 Terror will
seize them, pain and anguish will grip them they
will writhe like a woman in labor. They will look
aghast at each other, their faces aflame. 9 See,
the day of the LORD is coming a cruel day, with
wrath and fierce anger-- to make the land
desolate and destroy the sinners within
it. 10 The stars of heaven and their
constellations will not show their light. The
rising sun will be darkened and the moon will not
give its light. 11 I will punish the world for
its evil, the wicked for their sins. I will put
an end to the arrogance of the haughty and will
humble the pride of the ruthless. 12 I will make
man scarcer than pure gold, more rare than the
gold of Ophir. 13 Therefore I will make the
heavens tremble and the earth will shake from
its place at the wrath of the LORD Almighty, in
the day of his burning anger.
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Rev 1614-16 (NIV) TODAYS FOCUS -
ARMEGEDDON 14 They are spirits of demons
performing miraculous signs, and they go out to
the kings of the whole world, to gather them for
the battle on the great day of God Almighty.
(They gather the nations against GOD!?
Remember Isaiah 133-13?) 15 "Behold, I come like
a thief! (unwanted and unexpected!) Blessed is he
who stays awake and keeps his clothes with him,
so that he may not go naked and be shamefully
exposed." 16 Then they gathered the kings
together to the place that in Hebrew is called
Armageddon.
Armageddon From two words Har
(mountains) Megiddo (The plains of Megiddo)
The mountains of or near the plains of
Megiddo.
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Revelation 1616 It is not easy to identify the
place, but recent searches have made it probable
that the vale or plain of Megiddo was made up of
the plains toward Mount Carmel that the ancient
city of Megiddo was situated there (Robinson's
Biblical Researches, vol. 3, pp. 177-180 and The
Biblical Repository, vol. 1, pp. 602,603 )
(from Barnes' Notes)
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THE VALLEY OF MEGIDDO
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I Kings 1816-21 (NIV) ELIJAH
AND THE PROPHETS OF BAAL 16 So Obadiah (Governor
of Ahabs Palace) went to meet Ahab and told him,
and Ahab went to meet Elijah. 17 When he saw
Elijah, he said to him, "Is that you, you
troubler of Israel?" 18 "I have not made trouble
for Israel," Elijah replied. "But you and your
father's family have. You have abandoned the
LORD's commands and have followed the
Baals. 19 Now summon the people from all over
Israel to meet me on Mount Carmel. And bring the
four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal and the
four hundred prophets of Asherah, who eat at
Jezebel's table." 20 So Ahab sent word throughout
all Israel and assembled the prophets on Mount
Carmel. 21 Elijah went before the people and
said, "How long will you waver between two
opinions? If the LORD is God, follow him but if
Baal is God, follow him." But the people said
nothing. 36 At the time of sacrifice, the prophet
Elijah stepped forward and prayed "O LORD, God
of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, let it be known
today that you are God in Israel and that I am
your servant and have done all these things at
your command. 37 Answer me, O LORD, answer me, so
these people will know that you, O LORD, are God,
and that you are turning their hearts back
again." 38 Then the fire of the LORD fell and
burned up the sacrifice, the wood, the stones and
the soil, and also licked up the water in the
trench. 39 When all the people saw this, they
fell prostrate and cried, "The LORD-- he is God!
The LORD-- he is God!"
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READ REVELATION 1911-21
The 6th Trumpet The battle of Har- Megiddo
- (The Mountains near the Plain of Megiddo) -
At LEAST brings forward the symbolism associated
with Elijah and the Prophets of Baal - All
serving the wicked King Ahab and the wicked Queen
Jezebel. It was a time when all the POWERS that
BE of a GODLESS leader and his GODLESS
prophets went to battle against the God of
Heaven! They were mad at Gods Man, Gods People
and Gods Wrath (the drought) - Fire came down
from Heaven and the WRATH of God consumed the
altar and the Prophets of Baal were slaughtered.
So it will be in the end time! The wicked
Anti-Christ and his False Prophet who have led
the people astray are now MAD! Gods people are
gone, the plagues of Wrath are coming down upon
them they neither repent or relent! Instead
they shake their fist one final time in the Face
of Heaven itselfonly to be consumed by the FIERY
WRATH OF GOD and the armies of Heaven returning
with Jesus Christ!