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God’s Wrath Comes to Earth

In contrast to so many gloomy predictions of the coming destruction of earth, Revelation succinctly presents the last 7 years of earth as we know it, where the end is really the beginning of a renewed and renovated earth.    

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When sinners persist in their sinful lifestyle and refuse to repent, what is the judgment of God? 

 

Letting them continue in that sinful lifestyle and reap the consequences that inevitably come by refusing to live by the Designer’s plan.

During the tribulation, God will give the world what it says it wants: life without God.

 

What the world doesn’t understand now is how much it benefits from two things it will not have during the tribulation: the difference the church makes in the world as salt and light, and how active the Holy Spirit is in restraining evil in the world.

The first seal/ white horse: The rise of the Antichrist                               V. 1-2     

In Revelation we see that Satan loves to imitate God; the rider on the white horse may be God’s way of mocking him. What Satan’s man the antichrist promises earth but can’t deliver, Jesus will deliver when He comes!

“We do not need another committee. We have too many already. What we want is a man of sufficient stature to hold the allegiance of all people, and to lift us out of the economic morass into which we are sinking. Send us such a man and be he god or devil, we will receive him.”    -Paul-Henri Spaak

The second seal/ red horse: War                                                          V. 3-4

But we do know that at some point whatever peace the Antichrist has promised will crumble into people slaughtering one another. 

The third seal/ black horse: Famine                                                    V. 5-6

The fourth seal/ pale green horse: Death                                         V. 7-8

During this time of the tribulation, a godless approach to life will cause the death of over a billion people. That’s what I call the dark ages. 

The fifth seal: The martyr’s prayer for justice                                  V. 9-11

I think from this we clearly get that people in Heaven know both the good things and bad things happening on earth, and pray to God about them! 

 

“I tell you, in the same way, there is joy in the presence of God’s angels over one sinner who repents.”                                                             -Luke 15:10

The sixth seal: Asteroids and earthquake                                          V. 12-17

God normally not only protects us from doing all the harm we could do to each other, but also sustains us from space debris hitting us.

Well, in verse 17 these events are so severe that men who have wanted to be free from God now acknowledge that what has happened is His wrath.

Surely the Lord God does nothing, unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets.                                                                 -Amos 3:7