We live now in a day of grace – but there is coming a day when the man that spits in the face of God shall meet His judgment.
Dr. W. A. Criswell on Revelation 1:19
Disaster on the Whole Earth
Perhaps you remember recent disasters or recall the terror of some singular event of history.
20th c. Disasters TERROR! of 9-11-2001
Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter
The Revelation of Jesus Christ to John 1:19 KJV
In the opening of the sixth seal Jesus Christ reveals to John an apocalypse of terror, which we might pray will not occur in our brief mortal days.
The Seven Seals
In case you joined our series late:
OR the intro:
where I first quoted from the Sixth Seal Rev. 6:16-17.
The Sixth Seal
Terror! – Cowering in the Wrath of the Lamb
You can hardly image the devastations, the losses of so many lives, the traumatic terror of the sole survivors of unspoken disaster.
- August 1931, Yangtze River, China #1 20th c. natural disaster
- 30,000 sq. mi. flooded, 40 million homes destroyed, 15% of crops destroyed
- > 3 million, 700 thousand deaths, many from starvation & disease.
Do you recall from Apocalypse 7 – Death & Hell follows him the fourth seal deaths of 25% in China would be a hundred times that?
- > 360.7 MILLION souls!
We needn’t attempt to measure the devastation of nuclear holocausts beyond that of just two cities in 1945 Japan to realize that when a time of the wrath of God is to come upon the world at the end of these last days its terrorized creatures, men of dust and ashes, will hope to hide from Almighty God.
Revelation 6:
12 I watched as the Lamb broke the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake. The sun became as dark as black cloth, and the moon became as red as blood.
Would a nuclear blast above your city or an even more powerful manifestation of the Lord God not do the same in an instant? It would blacken the sun, cloud the moon and choke God’s breath of life from the atmosphere!
13 Then the stars of the sky fell to the earth like green figs falling from a tree shaken by a strong wind.
The Apostle John sees them as stars, but the science of these last days tell us that even an asteroid (let alone many meteors striking the earth) would destroy life as we know it. And ‘mother nature’ never caused it, nor could sinful scientists prevent it. Just imagine the force of a hurricane throwing the hard surfaces of space onto the homes and workplaces of your existence.
14 The sky was rolled up like a scroll, and all of the mountains and islands were moved from their places.
It is a hail storm, a tornado; the eruption of a volcano swallowing up the earth and pouring fire into the cities; a hurricane and tsunami billowing waves of destruction into the unsuspecting great cities by the sea.
Terror at the Wrath of the Lord!
Then everyone—the kings of the earth, the rulers, the generals, the wealthy, the powerful, and every slave and free person—all hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.
Revelation 6:15 NLT
NO, it will not be only on earth — but from beneath it and into the depths of the seas the vengeance of Almighty God will finally punish the wicked and sinners..
- Deaths of 25% of Mankind; >1 BILLION, 961 MILLION
- > the TOTAL POPULATIONS of Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, Northern America, (including the U.S.) and Oceania.
16 and they said to the mountains and to the rocks, “Fall on us..
and hide us
from the presence of Him who sits on the throne,
and from the wrath of the Lamb;
for the great day of their wrath has come,
and who is able to stand?”
Revelation 6:16b-17 NASB
..Then a white robe was given to each of them..
Revelation 6:11 – to the saints from Martyrs + the saints cry out
Can you stand for the opening of the seventh seal?
WAIT for a time; for first these must be sealed.
Revelation 7 | iiiiiii |Complete Jewish Bible
To be continued...
