KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS —Revelation 19:16 The President of the United States has been considered a powerful leader. Other nations have powerful leaders as well, but to a large degree nations of the world have looked to the United States to give leadership. Not that the U.S. is a perfect nation, but it has done some good. It has done evil as well. Jesus it the “KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS” and He is totally and completely good all the time. He is perfect and does all things perfectly. It is so unfortunately that so many people in this world see Him as a permissive…

In one hour she has been brought to ruin! —Revelation 18:19 “A long time ago, there was an ancient city-state on the coast of Turkey, across the sea from Sparta. This city-state was named Troy. At one time, Troy and the other Greek city-states were pretty good friends. But times had changed. The city of Troy was protected by a high wall built around the city. Some parts of the wall were 20 feet high! There were gates in the wall to let people in and out but it provided great defense for the people of Troy. It gave the Trojan warriors a relatively safe place to stand, while they…

I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of God’s holy people, the blood of those who bore testimony to Jesus. —Revelation 17:6 Drunks don’t think they are drunk and want more and more to drink. An intoxicated person turns into another person. They are uninhibited, saying and doing things they might not be normal for them. According to the verse above, the coming world system will be drunk with the blood of God’s holy people. The wicked world can’t stand people who are righteously following Jesus and bearing testimony to him. This attitude has been around since Jesus came to the planet and paid the penalty for…

…they cursed the name of God, who had control over these plagues, but they refused to repent and glorify him. —Revelation 16:9 People… cursed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, but they refused to repent of what they had done. —Revelation 16:11 …they cursed God on account of the plague of hail, because the plague was so terrible. —Revelation 16:21 “You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name” (Exodus 20:7). I have heard people take the Lord’s Name in vain on the basketball court, in the workplace, in the neighborhood,…

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 of its name.” This calls…

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… The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number…

Then the dragon was enraged at the woman and went off to wage war against the rest of her offspring—those who keep God’s commands and hold fast their testimony about Jesus. —Revelation 12:17 Sports teams are easy to recognize by uniforms. Their colors and logos make for quick identification. Players are known by the numbers they wear and statistics in a multitude of areas are kept to track of their performance. Those who trust in the Lord Jesus Christ can be easily identified as well as they “keep God’s commands and hold fast their testimony about Jesus.” There will be a 3 ½ month period where Satan will be enraged…

And I will appoint my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” They are “the two olive trees” and the two lampstands, and “they stand before the Lord of the earth.” If anyone tries to harm them, fire comes from their mouths and devours their enemies. This is how anyone who wants to harm them must die. They have power to shut up the heavens so that it will not rain during the time they are prophesying; and they have power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they want. —Revelation 11:3-6 Hollywood…

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. —Revelations 8:5 The rolling thunder was loud and the ground shook from its rumblings. Bolts of lightning pierced the trees and ground with mighty cracking reverberations. This was not a time to be outside in the open, but to be inside and sheltered. According to the verse above there will be a future judgment on this earth which the “peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning and an earthquake” indicate. These will be cataclysmic judgments. These judgments, preceded…

After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands…. Then one of the elders asked me, “These in white robes—who are they, and where did they come from?” I answered, “Sir, you know.” And he said, “These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. —Revelations 7:9, 13-14 People are people regardless of what country they come…