WARNING: GOD’S WRATH IS COMING! A third angel followed them and said in a loud voice: “If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives its mark on their forehead or on their hand, they, too, will drink the wine of God’s fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath. They will be tormented with burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment will rise for ever and ever. There will be no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and its image, or for anyone who receives the mark…

SATAN’S SCHEMES The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise its authority for forty-two months. It opened its mouth to blaspheme God, and to slander his name and his dwelling place and those who live in heaven. It was given power to wage war against God’s holy people and to conquer them. And it was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation. All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written in the Lamb’s book of life, the Lamb who was slain from the creation of the world. —Revelation 13:5-8             What or who do…

HE HAS SHOWN US WHAT IS GOOD He has shown you, O mortal, what is good.  And what does the Lord require of you?  To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.  —Micah 6:8             Are you just- right and fair?  “Will not the Judge of all the earth do right?” (Genesis 18:25).  Of course He will and He desires us to be like Him and do right as well.  Indeed this is what the Lord requires of those who follow Him.  Not only are we “to act justly” but this also includes loving mercy— “Who is a God like you, who pardons sin…

JUDGMENT & REWARD The seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, which said: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Messiah, and he will reign for ever and ever.”  And the twenty-four elders, who were seated on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and worshiped God, saying: “We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty, the One who is and who was, because you have taken your great power and have begun to reign.  The nations were angry, and your wrath has come.  The time has come for judging the dead, and for rewarding your…

OBEDIENCE TO HIS COMMANDS Then the Lord sent a great wind on the sea, and such a violent storm arose that the ship threatened to break up.— Jonah 1:4 Now the Lord provided a huge fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.— Jonah 1:17 And the Lord commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.—Jonah 2:19 Then the Lord God provided a leafy plant and made it grow up over Jonah to give shade for his head to ease his discomfort, and Jonah was very happy about the plant. But at dawn the next day God provided…

JUDGMENT WILL COME… Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it on the earth; and there came peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning and an earthquake. —Revelation 8:5 What are to follow the above verse are judgments from God upon the earth. These judgments come after the “great tribulation” mentioned in chapter 7 that took place in chapter 6. Of this “great tribulation” Jesus said that “there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be” (Matthew 24:21). That great tribulation includes war, famine, destruction of one-fourth of…

ANGELS After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth to prevent any wind from blowing on the land or on the sea or on any tree. Then I saw another angel coming up from the east, having the seal of the living God. He called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea: “Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.” Then I heard the number…

HATE EVIL, LOVE GOOD Hate evil, and love good… —Amos 5:15 You love righteousness and hate wickedness… Psalm 45:7 Let those who love the LORD hate evil…— Psalm 97:10 I will not look with approval on anything that is vile. I hate what faithless people do; I will have no part in it.— Psalm 101:3 To fear the LORD is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior and perverse speech. —Proverbs 8:13 Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.— Romans 12:9 If we truly love the Lord we will hate evil and seek to cling to what is good. But in…

CREATOR “You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being.” —Revelation 4:11 And God said, “Let there be…” and there was… —Genesis 1:3, 6, 9, 14, 20, 24 For this is what the LORD says– he who created the heavens, he is God; he who fashioned and made the earth, he founded it; he did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited– he says: “I am the LORD, and there is no other. —Isaiah 45:18 Through him all things were made; without him nothing…

HE OPENS & CLOSES! These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open. I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name. —Revelation 3:7-8 When God opens a door no man can close it and when God shuts a door no man can open it. He had set before the church of Philadelphia an open door and no one…