Revelation 15:7 – Revelation 16:21

The Seven Last Plagues
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First, the oceans produce Earth’s fresh water. The Sun evaporates millions of square miles of ocean water each day. This sterile vapor rises and becomes clouds. Winds move the clouds over mountains and valleys and this distilled water falls in the form of snow or rain as condensation occurs.

 

By turning the sea into a substance like the clotted blood of a dead man, there will be no more rain.Zero. The whole Earth will quickly die without cycles of refreshing water. The point here is that the Earth itself is cursed – doomed for destruction, the stench of death and decay will be everywhere.

 

Second, because a third of the trees and all of the green grass (including crops) were burned up during the first trumpet, seafood will likely become an important source of food during the Great Tribulation. If so, the destruction of everything that lives in the oceans means worldwide famine has come.

 

Last, two-thirds of the world’s population lives within 100 miles of an ocean. When the wicked behold this awesome judgment, you would think that some would question their choices? You would think they might reconsider their actions, but they don’t.

 

This “silent plague” speaks with deafening authority. It says, “The glorious and majestic being which you worship is not God. He cannot protect you or save you. He cannot prevent a higher power from destroying you or the Earth.”

 

Plague #3.   Revelation 16:4   “The third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and spring of water, and they became blood.

 

Then I heard the angel in charge of the waters say: You are just in these judgments, you who are and who were, the Holy One, because you have so judged; for they have shed the blood of your saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink as they deserve.’

 

And I heard the [angel at the] altar respond: yes, Lord God Almighty, true and just are your judgments.’”

 

The third bowl will force the wicked into a sickly spiral of thirst that ultimately leads to an agonizing death. There will be no recovery from this plague. Human beings cannot live very long without water. Everywhere the wicked will search for water, they find blood. Picture this if you can. Millions of bloodthirsty people drinking blood in order to survive!

 

It’s a repugnant scene, but it is a true picture. Helpless, the wicked will turn to their God, the Antichrist, for miraculous help, but there will be none.

 

The devil cannot undo these judgments! Lucifer will be powerless to turn the blood into water and Jesus will have no mercy upon the wicked.

 

Every wicked person was given 1,260 days to hear and understand the gospel of Jesus. They were informed of Christ’s sovereignty and they willfully aligned themselves with the evil forces because there was no love for truth and righteousness within them, therefore, they have to suffer the consequences of their choices.

 

The angel that turns the drinking water into blood declares God to be “true and just.”In other words, he says that Jesus is consistent and fair using the Same/Same Law. These people thirsted for the blood of the saints and prophets and God gives them blood to drink!

 

Even the martyred souls under the altar speak out saying, “true and just are your judgments” upon the wicked.

 

(Of course, those martyred under the fifth seal don’t actually talk, but personification allows their innocent blood to cry out for justice as did Abel’s blood. See Genesis 4:10.)

 

1.   Sores / boils

2.   Oceans have turned to blood

3.   Drinking water to blood

4.   Searing heat 

 

God puts “the heat” on the enemies of His people.

 

Plague #4.   Revelation 16:8,9   “The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the Sun, and the Sun was given power to scorch people with fire. They were seared by the intense heat and they cursed the name of God, who had control over these plagues, but they refused to repent and glorify him.” 

 

At this point, thirty days have passed since the seven bowls began. The misery index is off the chart and the wicked people of Earth are struggling in a great quandary. Why doesn’t God (actually, the Antichrist) stop these plagues?

 

They reason, “Our God can do anything, he even called fire down from the sky, therefore, he must immediately stop these awful judgments or we shall all perish!”

 

The fourth bowl could be caused by a catastrophic solar flare from the Sun or perhaps it could be a very brilliant gamma-ray burst coming from the direction of the Sun. Either way, the net effect is intense, oppressive, searing heat.Think about this plague for a moment.

 

What would happen if you climbed into the attic of your house on a hot day? What would happen if the ambient temperature of Earth stayed around 140 degrees for several days?

 

Remember, there will be little or no electricity on Earth at this time. The earth was badly broken up when the second global earthquake occurred at the seventh trumpet. (Revelation 11:19)

 

So, there will be no mechanical relief from the heat. Furthermore, all of the oceans and rivers will smell awful. Billions of dead sea creatures have washed up on the shores. There is no water to drink; only blood that tastes and smells so badly it causes people to vomit.

 

In this setting the Bible predicts two interesting things. First, the wicked will curse the God of Heaven. They will do this because their minds are twisted. Lucifer (masquerading as Almighty God) will tell the wicked people of Earth that these plagues are coming from the devil!

 

Second, even though the wicked will be suffering in the extreme, the Bible says they refused to change or repent. This is an important point. No one can change their ways or repent of their sinful ways unless the Holy Spirit brings this change about. The wicked can’t change because there is no desire within them to change. They have committed the unpardonable sin. The Holy Spirit refuses to speak to them. Even torture cannot change the carnal heart! Wow.

 

This brings us face to face with a profound truth: Unless we give the Holy Spirit an opportunity to change us, a human being cannot come to repentance of reformation on his own. The carnal nature will not permit it.

 

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