Revelation 15:7 – Revelation 16:21

The Seven Last Plagues
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As the 4^th bowl comes to a close, so does the 42 months of persecution. The wicked finally give up trying to destroy the saints. The wicked have no strength, but God’s people have no boils, they have food and drinking water and they are protected from the searing heat.

 

Plague #5.   “The fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was plunged into darkness. Men gnawed their tongues in agony and cursed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, but they refused to repent of what they had done.” (Revelation 16:10,11)

 

 The fifth bowl is directed at Lucifer’s government. Darkness and sores fall upon the throne and kingdomof Lucifer. The fifth bowl serves two purposes.

 

First, Jesus unmasks the devil with this plague. In this message, the beast is a reference to the beast from the abyss, also the lamblike beast. At the time of the fifth bowl, the devil will have been masquerading as Almighty God for little more than a year (since the beginning of the fifth trumpet). His masquerade is now over. Everyone will see who he really is.

 

Second, Jesus imposes painful and agonizing sores on those who have inflicted great suffering upon the saints. (Same/Same Rule.) These painful sores will suddenly “pop out” on everyone who serves in Lucifer’s global government.

 

From the lowest paid clerk to the ten kings, everyone will be afflicted. Evan though they’re suffering will be off the chart; the wicked will refuse to repent of their evil deeds and will remain loyal to the devil to the bitter end.

 

(This proves that loyalty can be totally blinding, loyalty even transcends intelligence.)

 

Here’s a scenario: When the fifth bowl is poured out, Jesus silently but suddenly turns everything upside down within Lucifer’s government. One night the devil and his angels, those glorious beings who deceived the whole world with dazzling glory will suddenly lose their glory and they will appear in their natural state before mankind as grotesque demons of darkness.

 

The devil who was thought to be Almighty God is no longer the glorious being that he once was. His brilliant glory is gone, his throne room is dark and everyone who serves in his evil government will be scared to death when they see Lucifer and his demons as they really are. On top of this, Lucifer’s global government will be afflicted with horrible and painful sores.

 

Those having the mark of the beast (excluding the employees of the devil’s government) will behold these mind-boggling phenomena. 

 

They will ask each other, “Why would the glory of God suddenly go dark? Why would God curse everyone who works for Him with more of these horrible boils?”

 

An involuntary answer will form on their lips. “Un-oh. . . .  The 144,000 were right! Our god is the devil!”

 

This dark is not God at all! We were deceived! But, wait! We can’t call him “the devil” or we will be killed just like the saints and the 144,000 were killed! What should we do now! Oh, no….”

 

This is one of those rare moments in Earth’s history when darkness causes the truth to shine brightly and nothing can be done to hide it. The wicked inhabitants of Earth are forced to recognize the deception of Lucifer and even more, their cowardice and willingnessto go along with him.

 

Plague #6.   The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the East.

 

Then I saw three evil spirits that looked like frogs; they came out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet.  

 

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.

 

[A comment by Jesus to the saints:] 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.’ [In other words, don’t despair, I shall return!]

 

Then they gathered the kings together to the place in Hebrew is called Armageddon.” (Revelation 16:12-16)

 

The meaning of this bowl is not too difficult if one understands the context and setting of this future event. The drying up of the great river Euphrates  [the northern most boundary in ancient Israel] is a phrase meaning that the arrival of the two kings coming down from the North (the Father and the Son) is unstoppable. Destruction always comes from the north!

 

In ancient times, enemy kings could not cross through the Euphrates because the great river itself was a barrier. But, the river is now dried up, and there is nothing to stop destruction from the North. I believe the sign of the Father and Son will first appear in the sky during this time. This sign will be a small cloud drawing near to Earth.

(Matthew 24:30)

 

Remember, divine destruction in ancient times came out of the North (Jeremiah 51:48, Job 37:22), but physically, because of the rotation of Earth on its axis, the Father and Son (the two kings) will appear from the East. (Matthew 26:64)

 

Daniel 11:44   But reports from the east and the north will alarm him, and he will set out in a great rage to destroy and annihilate many.

 

By the time the sixth bowl is poured out, the wicked will be suffering in the extreme. Every wicked person will be wearing the devil’s inescapable tattoo. Even more, the wicked now know that the devil and his demons are not Almighty God and His angels as they claimed.

 

The wicked will realize they are looking at the embodiment of evil. Emotionally speaking, the wicked will be at a point of utter discouragement. Everything they wanted to avoid during the Great Tribulation has befallen them.

 

Now that his incredible deceptions have been exposed and the wicked know who he really is, the devil plays his final card. It’s a pathetic situation because the devil already knows the outcome of this battle (he knows what the Bible predicts).

 

Nevertheless, he incites the kings of the Earth to make war on Jesus in an attempt to kill Him as He nears Earth. (Remember, Lucifer did the same through Herod.)

 

So, three miracle-working demons are sent to the ten kings of Earth bearing a grim message. These powerful demons are sent out by Lucifer, who has three identities in Revelation’s story: the dragon, the lamblike beast and the false prophet.

 

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