Weekly Sermons

God’s Wrath Intensifies on Earth

People often don’t think about changing their sinful ways until they face their own mortality!

Time to repent is running out!

The Trumpet judgments are more intense than the seal judgments, less intense then the bowl judgments to come.

Read Revelation chapters 8 and 9

The Calm Before the Storm 8:1

Time to repent is running out!

The Prayers of the Saints Precede the Trumpet Judgments 8:2-6

Time to repent is running out!

God’s wrath in the time of Tribulation must be understood in terms of His strategy to save the world!

“For I take no pleasure in anyone’s death.” This is the declaration of the Lord God. So repent and live!” -Ezekiel 18:32

“The Lord does not delay His promise, but is patient with you, not wanting any to perish, but all to come to repentance.” -2 Peter 3:9

The First Four Trumpets: The Physical Elements begin to fail 8:7-13

Time to repent is running out!

And so a third of the vegetation burns up at the first trumpet…

Time to repent is running out!

A third of the sea is messed up at the second trumpet…

Time to repent is running out!

A third of the drinking water becomes wormwood, or bitter and poisonous at the third trumpet…

Time to repent is running out!

And then in the fourth trumpet the heavenly lights begin to flicker…

What’s happening in these first four trumpets?

God is taking away the things the sinful world system has relied on, gifts from Him that they have taken for granted.

It is love to say “When you are ready, you can always come home!”

It is not love to fund a sinful lifestyle!

“It was really pathetic to hear my father praying pointedly for me today at family worship, and to think the poor man’s supplications were addressed to nothing better able to hear than the chandelier.”

-Robert Louis Stephenson, quoted in The Undercover Revolution, Iain Murray, p 13

Time to repent is running out!

Fifth and Sixth Trumpets: Hell on earth 9:1-19

As John struggles to relay what he saw this chapter has more occurrences of the words ‘as’ and ‘like’ than any in the Bible.

There is one thing worse than experiencing 5 months of Hell on earth – and that’s experiencing eternity in Hell.

Time to repent is running out!

Time to repent is running out!

Many people still did not repent! 9:20-21

My greater concern right now: why won’t you repent?

Time to repent is running out!