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The second plague.
Rev 16:3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.
Blood.
Rev 16:4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
A double plague of blood. Now this is interesting, why double blood? Why give them blood to drink? The blood of a dead man. I understand which is a deadly poisonous. Blood, twice.
Let's notice the answer that is given there or what's said there in verses 5, 6, and 7.
Rev 16:5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, ...
Well where does the angel of the water come in before?
Rev 16:15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
Alright you have not only the angel of the water but you have an angel at the altar. Now what's the picture on the angel of the altar? Come back to the 18th verse of the 14th chapter.
Rev 14:18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
Also you have an angel of the altar in the 8th chap. of Rev. And this angel 8th chap 3rd vs.
Rev 8:3 And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.
Now the prayers are offered but what is below the altar? Or another altar I should say perhaps the 9th vs of the 6th chap.
Rev 6:9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held
The blood is given because they have slain God's people and those prayers have come up before God, isn't that the same case with Able?
'Thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground' he told Cain.
Gen 4:10 And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
God takes cognizance of the blood that is shed so in this instance blood is GIVEN because they have shed blood but interestingly there's something about this, if you'll notice the 17th chap. 17th chap 6th vs.
This woman we're going to look at probably in the next session or tomorrow.
Rev 17:6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
Now what's a martyr? When they give their life, but it's also the blood of the saints. Who's? The saints.
Now let's go back here what did we study, let us compare verses.
Who are the saints?
The remnant of her seed which keep the commandments of God the faith of Jesus and we find in the book of Rev. in the 13th chapter there's a death decree issued by what? The image to the beast.
Is that decree carried out? No.
Because God intervenes.
But God charges the accountable as if they had slain the saints.
So you have in this woman in Rev. 17 the blood of the saints and the blood of the martyrs of Jesus they have the judgment because the judgments fall ultimately on this woman and her plagues come in one day.
That's right in Matthew the 23rd chapter he charges the Pharisees of that generation with ALL the blood that was spilled from where? From Abel down to .. '
Mat 23:35 That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
Upon this generation it would fall, the accountability. Thus the victory of the final generation and the accounting of the last generation are both compounded. So the picture goes.
Alright let's continue on into the picture further Rev. the 16th chap. verses 8 and 9 we find the 4th angel.
Rev 16:8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
Rev 16:9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.
Alright, here's a plague of the sun. Scorching men with heat these men blasphemed the name of God that had power over these plagues and they repented not.
In here also is the fact that there is also ulcers in this picture - that's a little further on.
Why didn't they repent? They found no place of repentance. The plagues come at the close of probation no place of repentance. The sun that they have worshipped the sun god of heathenism now becomes a curse to them. This is in the case of Elijah. They worshipped Baal and God cursed them. And so you have the same picture, after all they tried to get out of it by bringing in a false prophet and trying to bring fire down from God out of heaven it didn't quite work and so you have this particular picture here as far as this thing is concerned.
Now I want to back up for something because something just came to my mind that I needed to point out in relationship to that first plague in the matter of the shedding of the blood. It says- in her is found the blood of martyrs and of the saints' and that is a result of the death decree the blood of the saints. But these who come under the first plague they worship the image. Now the image issues the death decree doesn't it? So they escape the death decree by compromise, by worshipping the image of the beast. In other words instead of standing as the 3 worthies stood - they bowed. And remember that chapter in Daniel the 3rd chapter there were more Jews there than just the 3 worthies. There was a delegation there from Judea the king there Zedikiah in fact Zedikiah was there himself with his chamberlain. They didn't stand up. They bowed and preserved their skins. But the 3 stood up and preserved their integrity. And God vindicated them and they didn't die even though they went into the fiery furnace. We need to study the book of Daniel too, that experience, because it's helpful.
Alright now we'll come back to the plague.
Let's notice now the tenth and the 11th verses which is the plague of darkness which is the 5th plague.
Rev 16:10 And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,
Rev 16:11 And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.
So when the 5th plague is poured out those who received the 1st plague are still suffering.
But this plague is poured out upon the kingdom of the seat of the beast his kingdom is full of darkness and they gnawed their tongues for pain.
The tongue that had spoken apostasy. That had blasphemed. That had projected error. Some how is touched that it becomes very painful.
They gnawed their tongues for pain.
Whatever the pain is, however the pain goes over the body, plus the sores. And so it says those that get the ulcerous sores are also going to be affected by the tongue pain of this plague. They too have uttered apostasy. They too have projected apostasy. My brother my sister integrity of truth is absolutely vital in this final conflict and the maintenance of that truth because it's the devil that abode not in the truth. And we've got to be able to know what is truth.
Sanctify them through thy truth. Thy word is truth.
And the only way you're going to know that word is to study and find out what it says and not what you would like to have it say and what you want to read back into the word to want it to say.
May we get out from under that curse. We're cursed by trying to read INTO the word of God. When the word of God can speak to us and tells us and warns us that if we get involved in apostasy which is a departure from the integrity of truth what are we going get?
Not only are we going to suffer under the first plague we're going to come under that plague of darkness. God's going to give us what we have propagated and set forth for others.
Isn't it time for us to just wake up? And isn't this a part of the getting ready?
How much more can I plead with you of the necessity of really knowing the word and studying it and following it?
This is the revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave unto Him to show unto His servants the things which must shortly come to pass and He sent and signified it unto His angel unto His servant John by the angel. Do we really believe it? Do we really believe it?
And how much longer are we going to go with our isogetical interpretation of Revelation? And if you think I'm wearing out a word I hope to goodness I wear a rut in your mind with that word. You won't forget it. Get out of this isogetical into the exegetical- read what the word says and see it compare scripture with scripture and find the message. And then when we have counsel and enlightenment from the testimonies let's be honest enough to accept it and see what it's saying.
Now we come to a very interesting part of the plagues starting with the 12th verse.
Rev 16:12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
And that's all there is to that plague.
The plague talks about the great river Euphrates, it talks about the waters thereof or the water thereof being dried up. And the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
Now if you recall at the very beginning of our seminar I said that we were going to use two methods of understanding the prophecy-- the historical protestant method of the historical protestant method of interpretation and typology.
Now typology is a valid method of interpreting the scriptures.
All these things happening to them types, examples, and are written for our admonition.
The sanctuary is a type- the earthly sanctuary is a type of the heavenly.
Typology is interesting and very vital to understand the scriptures.
Now here in this 12th verse what's the typology? What's the type?
The river Euphrates and the drying up of that river that the kings of the east might be prepared.
Now what sat on the river Euphrates the waters of which were dried up in its overthrow.
Ancient Babylon. Literal Babylon. Literal Babylon sat over the river Euphrates- the river went through the middle of the city and the walls were there at the side of it and there were gates across and bridges and those gates could be closed against the enemy.
Cyrus and the Medo-Persian group host came down and diverted the river Euphrates into a lake and went under the bars on a dry riverbed and found the gates (of Babylon) open and went in and that night Belshazzer was killed and Babylon came into remembrance before God.
Now it says here the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up.
Now interestingly we have used the term water and we've said that in prophecy it equals what?
People, nations, and tongues.
And is that a correct interpretation of that verse? Comparing Scripture with Scripture. Are you going to hold to that?
Compared to Rev. 17. Have you read that text and read what it says or are you reading into it? Let's notice now there's a restrictive clause in that verse.
Rev 17:5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
It's a restrictive descriptive aspect of waters - The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth-- and who is the whore? Babylon.
Alright then in the 6th plague what did John see? He saw the woman sitting on the waters and those waters dried up that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
That was the 6th plague. Now we'll probably come back to it or I'll answer it if I should forget and you ask me a question we'll discover exactly what that plague is. But let us notice now, why this plague.
Rev 16:13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
3 unclean spirits like frogs--
Rev 16:14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
Now in the book of Revelation we're told that the dragon represents the devil and satan - that's clear.
Rev. 20 ...Rev. 12.
Now the symbolism is changing. And the devil and the spirits of devils are pictured as frogs-working miracles, croaking, so forth and so on.
Now let's think a bit. And I had a thing for a number of months, years to figure out, to think through this matter of the frogs.
The frogs catch their prey with their tongues.
See God has a judgment on tongues. Also, the frogs do a lot of sounds and varied sounds and so forth and so on. And I understand that they do it during a mating season, when they're bringing everything together. Tongues. Bringing things together. Spirits of devils. A very apt picture of the modern charismatic movement that's pervaded all religious forces today all religious aspects Catholic, Protestant, even the pagans all you have to do, all you would have had done is attend the seventh assembly of the world council of churches in Canbury, Canbura Australia and the pagan spiritualist manifestations there was something else.
Alright, I want you to notice here these unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
All are religious in nature.
In other words its the intent of the combined religious world led by SATAN to gather the leadership of the world to the battle of the great day of God Almighty in his last attempt to stand against God.
This takes place in probationary time.
Because the sixth plague is God's judgment against it.
Now the question comes is where do they gather them?
Rev 16:16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
A place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon, now we're faced with a real problem. We're reading English the book of Revelation is written in the Greek, and John is writing the Greek form for a Hebrew word. So what we've got to do is go back from the English to the Greek, to the Hebrew and find out what we have.
In your King James Version you have it simply - Armageddon. In the American Revised Version following very closely the Hebrew as best as they could they said HAR mageddon. It's a compound word. As a compound word there's no question about this part of it. That means mountain- that's clear. (HAR- Mountain)
Now when we come to the second part, mountain of what? Here's where our problem is because we've got to go back into the Hebrew. And interestingly you'll note here on the paper that I've tried to give you in the English language we read this direction along with the Greek. All the letters are in this series. As far as the Hebrew is concerned you read to us as backwards. You read from this side over to this side and that's why I've had to cross arrows in order that you could follow down through.
So what do we have to do? Let's keep in mind that in the Hebrew language there were no vowels. No vowels in the Hebrew language. They had some vowel consonants. But there were no vowels so what we do then we have to cast we have to cut the vowels out of the picture in the Greek. Then we have in the Greek language we have endings the Greeks determined the case by the ending, nomative, the genitive, the dative, and the accusative all had different endings to indicate whether you were using that particular form. And so when we come here we're going to have to cut this part out because this happens to be a Greek ending. So what do we have left? Well we have left here...we have left this, this, and this. We have three Hebrew consonants. And now as we go ba...as you'll notice on your sheet, we go back and backward and we get the Hebrew word Mo-ed. Now this happens to be a vowel consonant... so that's why that's in here. You have your .......and your... but you got a gamma and here you've got an ion and naturally they're not the same letters. But in transliteration and I've got you an illustration there how do you spell Gomorrah? Sodom and Gomorrah. Well I've given you an illustration there and I've showed you the Greek spelling for Gomorrah. And if you'll notice that first Greek letter the gamma and you go over there to the Hebrew word Gomorrah and what do you have? You have an ion. In other words from here to here you have the same kind of a word from gamma to ion and then I've given you down here below this from the Hebrew and English lexicon of the Old Testament the word and the explanation. The word in the old testament which most clearly meets the requirements of the Greek translation Megedon is the Hebrew word Mo-ed.
On the surface there's one problem the middle consonant ion this does not answer to the greek gamma however ? states, 'while the Hebrew was a living language the letter ion which is peculiar to the Semitic tongue an extremely difficult for our organs to pronounce seems to have had a two-fold pronunciation, a soft and a hard sound. The harder ion which the Arabs call gian ? was a harsh sound uttered from the bottom of the throat accompanied by a certain whirring or whizzing so as to resemble the letter 'R' when uttered abruptly with a strong rolling.' Now that's a description I'm not going to give you a demonstration. This the 70 have usually represented by the letter gamma in the Greek translation of the Old Testament.
Alright now here what do we have? We have this picture of in the Hebrew tongue the mount of Mo'ed. Now we read here in Revelation that it's the Spirits of Devils going forth from the three powers that gather them together to where? A place called in the Hebrew tongue Har-Meggedon. Alright let's go back to Isaiah. Isaiah the 14th chapter. And there in the 14th chapter of Isaiah we find God telling you what's in the heart of Lucifer. Now who's Lucifer? The angelic name of him who became satan. Alright now notice now what God says is in his heart. 12th verse and onward--
Isa 14:12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
Isa 14:13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
Isa 14:14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
Satan says I'm going to sit upon the mount of the congregation the Hebrew word Har Mo-ed. And they gathered them together to a place called in the Hebrew tongue Har Mo-ed, Har Maggedon, mount of the congregation. Then the devil plans to go where?
Jerusalem.
Let me show you that let's go to the 48th Psalms. Psalms 48 what is the sides of the North?
Psa 48:2 Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
Alright what is the picture here in Revelation? The picture in Revelation is that the spirits of devils that gather the kings of the earth to the battle of the great day of God Almighty are going to attempt to set up a new Jerusalem on earth, a mount of the congregation on earth but in the plague God reveals what it is. It's Babylon the great. And thus you have the picture in Rev. 17 of the woman and that city and you have then the wife, the bride of the Lamb, the new Jerusalem which comes down from God out of Heaven at the end of the thousand years.
So you have to choose then between which city- an earthly new Jerusalem or the heavenly new Jerusalem.
Let's just take a look at the overall picture as we're seeing the situation or the general picture as far as the coming of the city is concerned.
What evidences do we have today that the whole thing is starting to center towards Jerusalem? The Lord has given us a series of signs that have taken place and moving on to the objective and the very next sign is in Daniel 11:45 -
Dan 11:45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
...and here Revelations says that just before the plagues come out I mean as the time of the plagues as a basis for God's reaction in the sixth plague, the spirits of devils are gathered the kings of the earth of the whole world to the battle of the great day of God Almighty and he gathers them to a place called in the Hebrew tongue the mount of the congregation. That's the picture.
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That isn't the end of the seminar- but he ends it shortly there after to pick it up the at the next session, so I'm going to stop here for now.
I find it incredibly fascinating to view the seven LAST plagues in a cause and effect aspect. Until I'd heard it here I didn't give it too much thought.
The first falls upon those who receive the mark of the beast and worship his image. You do not get the mark AFTER the plague, you have to have received the mark and worshipped the image of the beast prior to the plagues.
The second and third falls upon those who have shed the innocent blood of God's people in THOUGHT and in deed- something that had to be done PRIOR to the plagues.
The fourth and fifth falls upon those whose deeds are ungodly. Again, these are done prior to the punishment.
The sixth plague is set in motion for the evil forces - determined evil BEFORE the plagues- to come into play.
By the time the plagues begin every human beings fate will have been decided. This is so incredibly contrary to what many believe. They expect to bear witness to these plagues and then repent of their ungodly way of life and be saved. They'll hear about the plague of sores in one part of the world - a plague that won't discriminate but fall upon ALL who receive the MARK of the BEAST, and worship the IMAGE of the BEAST. Just imagine it for a moment… a 'a noisome and grievous sore'.
noi·some
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1.
offensive or disgusting, as an odor.
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harmful or injurious to health; noxious.
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griev·ous
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causing grief or great sorrow: grievous news.
2.
flagrant; outrageous; atrocious: a grievous offense against morality.
3.
full of or expressing grief; sorrowful: a grievous cry.
4.
burdensome or oppressive.
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causing great pain or suffering: arrested for causing grievous bodily harm to someone in a bar.
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A disgusting smelling, noxious sore that brings great pain and suffering. This isn't a little rash we're talking about. This isn't the occasional sore here and there - bug bite, infected hair, reaction to medication, so on and so forth. This is a GREAT smelly, painful sore- this is rotting flesh sore- not a tiny pimple or small or even large boil occasionally affecting people today.
So there you are let's say in Europe and you read about it a tweet, on your newsfeed, you hear it on the news that suddenly the majority of people in the United States are covered in flesh eating sores and NO medication is stopping the outbreak of this disease, no one who has this disease is dying from the disease itself, but the pain of it, the awful smell of the disease is taking its toll and many are killing themselves because they can't take it-- what would you think?
You'd be horrified and rightly so! People would make the connection- they do it even today when things happen which appear even remotely plague-like. People would be scared and they'd start praying, they'd start trying to change their ways, they'd suddenly up attendance at church a 1000, 10,000 fold. But it will be TOO late!
God is not given us the plagues to show us who is in control- remember Moses and Pharaoh?
Exo 4:8 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.
Exo 4:9 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land: and the water which thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry land.
Exo 5:1 And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.
Exo 5:2 And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go.
Exo 7:3 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.
Exo 7:4 But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I may lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth mine armies, and my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.
Exo 7:5 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch forth mine hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them.
The Egyptians would KNOW that the LORD is the true God, the Great I AM - because of all those signs and wonders and then ultimately because the children of Israel are set free.
Did those plagues change Pharaoh into worshipping God? NO. Those plagues were given as a result of Pharaoh living without God. Those plagues were NOT falling on innocent people. The plagues fell upon the professed God-less, the professed worshippers of idol, those not descendent from God's chosen people.
The plagues at the end of the world will NOT fall upon any innocent person- they will not fall upon anyone covered by the blood of Jesus and His righteousness. But the plagues WILL fall upon the deserving and it will be TOO late for them to change their minds about God, not that many would be truly inclined. Their only inclination towards repentance at that point is a false repentance- sorry they got caught, not sorry for their deeds, their Godlessness.
The time during our probation is all the time we are given to repent and accept our Savior, when that probation time is over it is over and there is NO changing, no repenting, no accepting of Jesus then.
People just do not want to believe this- it's too bitter a pill to swallow. They believe a truly compassionate God will give them mind-blowing wake up calls on the scale of the miraculous so they know it's time to give up all their sinning and leave a Godly life. It doesn't and it won't work that way and those hoping for that sort of scenario are going to be awfully disappointed. The time to be fully God's is NOW, not a second from now, but right NOW. We don't know when our individual probation is up, we know when it began, but not when it's over. Prophecy followers know that in 1980 the Times of the Gentiles was completely fulfilled. The time for the message to be spread is over- it has been spread and the time now is for individual acceptance of what has been given to us over the many, many years.
God has a prophetic time clock and that time is running out. God has given us plenty of markers of that time clock and it's up to us to pay attention to those markers and know where we stand in the prophetic timeline. THIS generation- the generation that was born in 1980 will NOT pass before Christ returns. All previous generations can pass, but this generation will NOT slip off into a long forgotten generation- Christ will come before that happens.
Luk 21:32 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.
In 1980 - 31 years ago. We are in 31 years of the generation that will NOT pass away till all be fulfilled and part of that ALL being fulfilled is the coming of our Savior!
You can scoff all you like, you can laugh it off, you can angrily dismiss everything I've written as hogwash and that's your right. We ALL have the right to choose God or not and that's a choice that can never be taken from us as long as we are living in probationary time. If you die during this time your choice is made. If you wait and probation closes, you've made your choice. The seven last plagues will NOT open your eyes to God with the opportunity to accept Him as Your Savior, the seven last plagues are given- every single one of them from first to last- to those who have made their choice- God or not God. There will be no deciding after the fact, all probation is over.
People hate thinking about stuff like that, they really, really do because it pricks their conscience and they'd rather just stay sleeping soundly in their own little worlds of deception rather than wake up to the truth in Jesus Christ, to the truth of their own accountability towards God.
By the grace of God we will be FULLY HIS and no others!
May we be found under the wing of our Savior's grace and mercy, fully in HIS righteousness, covered in HIS white raiment all through HIS love, when probation is over and the plagues descend.
In Him Always!!!!!
Amen.
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