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1  And I heard a great voice out      Isaiah 66:6 A voice of noise from       Romans 2:2-11 But we are sure that      "a great voice"                                                                 /
of the temple saying to the              the city, a voice from the              the judgment of God is accord-           The Lord gives the command from                                             /
seven angels, Go your ways, and          temple, a voice of the Lord             ing to truth against them which         the temple to begin the final stage                                          /
pour out the vials of the wrath          that rendereth recompense to            commit such things.                     of the judgment upon the termin-                                             /
of God upon the earth.                   his enemies.                             And thinkest thou this, O man,         ally evil.  Scholars have long noted                                         /
2  And the first went, and poured     Exodus 9:10 And they took ashes            that judgest them which do such         the similarities between the vial                                            /
out his vial upon the earth; and         of the furnace, and stood               things, and doest the same, that        ( bowl ) judgments and the trumpet                                           /
there fell a noisome and grievous        before Pharaoh; and Moses               thou shalt escape the judgment          judgments and also the similarities                                          /
sore upon the men which had the          sprinkled it up toward heaven;          of God?                                 of many of them to the judgments                                             /
mark of the beast, and upon them         and it became a boil breaking            Or despiseth thou the riches of        upon Egypt.  The first four of the                                           /
which worshipped his image.              forth with blains upon man,             his goodness and forbearance and        last plagues are upon the the earth,                                         /
                                         and upon beast.                         longsuffering; not knowing that         the sea, the rivers and the sun as                                           /
3  And the second angel poured out    Exodus 7:21 And the fish that was          the goodness of God leadeth thee        were the trumpet judgments.  A major                                         /
his vial upon the sea; and it            in the river died; and the              to repentance.                          difference however, is that the                                              /
became as the blood of a dead man:       river stank, and the Egyptians           But, after thy hardness and            vial judgments are universal                                                 /
and every living soul died in the        could not drink of the water            impenitent heart, treasurest up         ("every living soul died" ).  But                                            /
sea.                                     of the river; and there was             unto thyself wrath against the          again they are selective and upon                                            /
4  And the third angel poured out        blood throughout all the land           day of wrath and revelation of          "them which had the mark of the                                              /
his vial upon the rivers and foun-       of Egypt.                               the righteous judgment of God;          beast". The first trumpet judgement                                          /
tains of waters; and they became                                                  Who will render to every man           was upon vegetation, trees and                                               /
blood.                                                                           according to his deeds:                 grass. In contrast the first vial                                            /
5  And I heard the angel of the       Psalms 119:164 Seven times a day            To them who by patience contin-        judgment is directly upon the unbel-                                         /
waters say, Thou art righteous, O        do I praise thee, because of            uance in well doing seek for            iever those, who have worshipped the                                         /
Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt     thy righteous judgments.                glory and honour and immortality,       beast. We are informed that the next                                         /
be, because thou hast judged thus.                                               eternal life:                           two judgments are judgements of ret-                                         /
6  For they have shed the blood       Psalms 79:3 Their blood have they           But unto them that are content-        ribution, blood in return for the                                            /
of saints and prophets, and thou         shed like water round about             ious, and do not obey the truth,        shedding of blood. The fourth trum-                                          /
hast given them blood to drink;          Jerusalem; and there was none           but obey unrighteousness, indig-        pet judgment darkened a third part                                           /
for they are worthy.                     to bury them.                           nation and wrath,                       of the heavenly bodies, instead the                                          /
7  And I heard another out of the     Psalms 119:137 Righteous art thou,          Tribulation and anguish, upon          fourth judgment increases the                                                /
altar say, Even so, Lord God             O Lord, and upright are thy             every soul of man that doeth            intensity of the sun's heat.  The                                            /
Almighty, true and righteous are         judgments.                              evil; of the jew first, and also        next three judgments involve the                                             /
thy judgments.                                                                   of the Gentile;                         unholy trinity directly as a                                                 /
8  And the fourth angel poured out    Joel 1:15&19-20 Alas for the day            But glory, honour, and peace,          painful darkness falls on the                                                /
his vial upon the sun; and power         of the Lord is at hand, and as          to every man that worketh good;         seat of the beast, their water                                               /
was given unto him to scorch men         a destruction from the Almighty         to the Jew first, and also to the       supply is dried up, and the city                                             /
with fire.                               shall it come.                          Gentile:                                Babylon is attacked.  The unholy                                             /
9  And men were scorched with great       O Lord, to the will I cry: for          For there is no respect of             trinity had not been mentioned as                                            /
heat, and blasphemed the name of         the fire hath devoured the              persons with God.                       being involved in the trumpet                                                /
God, which hath power over these         pastures of the wilderness, and      II Timothy 4:8 Henceforth there is         judgments.  These final judgments                                            /
plagues: and they repented not to        the flame hath burned all the           laid up for me a crown of right-        are direct attacks on the perp-                                              /
give him glory.                          trees of the field.                     eousness, which the Lord, the           etrators of evil.  The verse to                                              /
                                          The beasts of the field cry            righteous judge, shall give me          "he that watcheth" comes as a                                                /
                                         also unto thee: for the rivers          at that day: and not to me only         sudden surprise.  Can it be that                                             /
                                         waters are dried up, and the            but unto all them also that love        there still exists on the earth                                              /
                                         fire hath devoured the pastures         his appearing.                          believers that have not been                                                 /
                                         of the wilderness.                                                              slain who have resisted the                                                  /
10 And the fifth angel poured out     Exodus 10:21-22 And the Lord said       Matthew 24:29 Immediately after the        forces of evil?  Has the beast                                               /
his vial upon the seat of the            unto Moses, Stretch out thine           tribulation of those days shall         failed to locate all the believ-                                             /
beast; and his kingdom was full of       hand toward heaven, that there          the sun be darkened, and the moon       vers who have kept their garments                                            /
darkness; and they gnawed their          was a thick darkness over the           shall not give her light, and the       or covering of righteousness?  It                                            /
tongues for pain,                        land of Egypt, even darkness            stars shall fall from heaven, and       would appear so!                                                             /
                                         which may be felt.                      the powers of heaven shall be                                                                                        /
                                          And Moses stretched forth his          shaken:                              "Euphrates: and the water thereof was                                           /
                                         hand toward heaven; and there                                                   dried up"                                                                    /
                                         was a thick darkness in all the                                                  The Euphrates river is the eastern                                          /
                                         land of Egypt three days:                                                       border of the land given to the                                              /
11 And blasphemed the God of          Isaiah 57:20-21 But the wicked are      II Timothy 3:13 But evil men and           children of Israel, much of which                                            /
heaven because of their pains and        like the troubled sea, when it          seducers shall wax worse and            they never fully occupied.  It is                                            /
their sores, and repented not of         cannot rest, whose waters cast          worse, deceiving, and being             still theirs to claim, as they                                               /
their deeds.                             up mire and dirt.                       deceived.                               accept the Messiah.  Across this                                             /
                                          There is no peace, saith my                                                    dry river will come part of the                                              /
                                         Lord to the wicked.                                                             mighty army that the deceiver will                                           /
12 And the sixth angel poured out     Jeremiah 50:38 A drought is upon                                                   gather for the final attempt to                                              /
his vial upon the great river Euph-      her waters; and they shall be                                                   overcome the forces of justice.                                              /
rates; and the water thereof was         dried up: for it is the land                                                    They will gather at "Har-megiddon"                                           /
dried up, that the way of the kings      of graven images, and they are                                                  which is the mount of Megiddo".                                              /
of the east might be prepared.           mad upon their idols.                                                           Many identify this as the small                                              /
13 And I saw three unclean spirits    Zechariah 14:1-3 Behold, the day        Acts 8:7 For unclean spirits, crying       mountain near the city of Megiddo                                            /
like frogs come out of the mouth         of the Lord cometh, and thy             with loud voice, came out of many       on the plain of Esdraelon which                                              /
of the dragon, and out of the mouth      spoil shall be divided in the           that were possessed with them,...       was the sight of many Old Testa-                                             /
of the beast, and out of the mouth       midst of thee.                                                                  ment battles.  Other scholars would                                          /
of the false prophet.                     For I will gather all nations                                                  identify this as the sight of                                                /
14 For they are the spirits of           against Jerusalem to battle;                                                    Jerusalem since it will be the                                               /
devils, working miracles, which go       and the city shall be taken,                                                    sight of the final battle.                                                   /
forth unto the kings of the earth        and the houses rifled, and the                                                                                                                               /
and of the whole world, to gather        women ravished; and half the         I Thessalonians 5:2-3 For yourselves    "spirits of devils working miracles"                                            /
them to the battle of that great         city shall go forth into                know perfectly that the day of           It is difficult for us to under-                                            /
day of God Almighty.                     captivity, and the residue of           the Lord so cometh as a thief in        stand what type of miracles would                                            /
                                         the people shall not be cut off         the night.                              deceive men into forming a army                                              /
                                         from the city.                           For when they shall say, Peace         to battle the heavenly source of                                             /
                                          Then shall the Lord go forth,          and safety; then sudden destruction     so great a series of disasters                                               /
                                         and fight against those                 cometh upon them, as travail upon       upon the earth.  How could man                                               /
                                         nations, as when he fought in           a woman with child; and they shall      endure such suffering and pain and                                           /
                                         the day of battle.                      not escape.                             still repent not?  But of course                                             /
15 Behold, I come as a thief.         Isaiah 29:5-6 ...Yea, it shall be       Matthew 24:43-44 But know this, that       we need to only read the story                                               /
Blessed is he that watcheth, and         at an instant suddenly.                 if the goodman of the house had         of Pharaoh. (Exodus 14:8) "And                                               /
keepeth his garments, lest he walk        Thou shalt be visited of the           known in what watch the thief           the Lord hardened the heart of                                               /
naked, and they see his shame.           Lord of hosts with thunder, and         would come, he would have watched,      Pharoah king of Egypt, and he                                                /
                                         with earthquake, and great              and would not have suffered his         pursued after the children of                                                /
                                         noise, with storm and tempest,          house to be broken up.                  Israel."  The Lord is still in                                               /
                                         and the flame of devouring               Therefore be ye also ready; for        control!  He uses evil and un-                                               /
                                         fire.                                   in such an hour as ye think not         believing man to accomplish his                                              /
16 And he gathered them together      Zechariah 12:11 In that day shall          the Son of man cometh.                  will at his desire, even the                                                 /
into a place called in the Hebrew        there be a great mourning in         II Corinthians 5:2-3 For in this we        spirits of demons and satan his-                                             /
tongue Armageddon.                       Jerusalem, as the mourning of           groan, earnestly desiring to be         self to aid in accomplishing his                                             /
                                         Hadadrimmon in the valley of            clothed upon with our house which       will.  Those who want to be                                                  /
                                         Megiddon.                               is from heaven:                         deceived, those who are willing                                              /
17 And the seventh angel poured                                                   If so be that being clothed we         to believe anything but the truth                                            /
out his vial into the air, and                                                   shall not be found naked.               will readily follow the leading                                              /
there came a great voice out of                                                                                          of most any false prophet. And a                                             /
the temple of heaven, from the                                                                                           spirit or false prophet that does                                            /
throne, saying, It is done.                                                                                              miracles would be even more comp-                                            /
18 And there were voices, and         Isaiah 24:19 The earth is utterly       Luke 21:11 And great earthquakes           elling.  They gain pleasure from                                             /
thunders, and lightnings; and            broken down, the earth is clean         shall be in divers places, and          all forms of unrighteousness and                                             /
there was a great earthquake, such       dissolved, the earth is moved           famines, and pestilences; and           will follow willingly those that                                             /
as was not since men were upon the       exceedingly.                            fearful sights and great signs          promise such ungodly pleasure.                                               /
earth, so mighty an earthquake,           The earth shall reel to and            shall there be from heaven.             Satan will always be able to find                                            /
and so great.                            fro like a drunkard, and shall       Romans 1:18&28-32 For the wrath of         followers as long as this earth                                              /
                                         be removed like a cottage; and          God is revealed from heaven             remains in its present state of                                              /
                                         the transgression thereof shall         against all ungodliness and             sin and degradation.                                                         /
                                         be heavy upon it; and it shall          unrighteousness of men, who hold                                                                                     /
                                         fall, and not rise again.               the truth in unrighteousness;        "every island fled away, and the                                                /
                                          And it shall come to pass in            And even as they did not like        mountains were not found"                                                      /
                                         that day, that the Lord shall           to retain God in their knowle-           The result of the final plagues                                             /
                                         punish the host of the high             dge, God gave them over to a            will completely change the looks                                             /
                                         ones that are on high, and the          reprobate mind, to do those             of this abused planet.  Only the                                             /
                                         kings of the earth upon the             things which are not convenient;        the Creator as a Recreator can                                               /
                                         earth.                                   Being filled with all unright-         restore it to a condition                                                    /
19 And the great city was divided     Jeremiah 51:29 And the land shall          eousness, fornication, wickedness,      which earthly man can once again                                             /
into three parts, and the cities         tremble and sorrow: for every           covetousness, maliciousness; full       inhabit.                                                                     /
of the nations fell: and great           purpose of the Lord shall be            of envy, murder, debate, deceit,                                                                                     /
Babylon came in remembrance before       performed against Babylon, to           malignity; whisperers,               "not since men were upon the earth"                                             /
God, to give unto her the cup of         make the land of Babylon a               Backbiters, haters of God, despi-       Has man truly degraded to the                                               /
the wine of the fierceness of his        desolation without an                   teful, proud, boasters, inventors       point that so many will be term-                                             /
wrath.                                   inhabitant.                             of evil things, disobedient to          inally evil and so easily deceived?                                          /
20 And every island fled away, and    Exodus 9:23-24 ...and the Lord             parents,                                The logic of man often will say                                              /
the mountains were not found.            sent thunder and hail, and the           Without understanding, covenant-       that there is good in every man                                              /
21 And there fell upon men a great       fire ran along upon the ground;         breakers, without natural affec-        and that no "good" God could give                                            /
hail out of heaven, every stone          and the Lord rained hail upon           tion, implacable, unmerciful:           up on so many men.                                                           /
about the weight of a talent: and        the land of Egypt.                       Who, knowing the judgment of God,                                                                                   /
men blasphemed God because of the         So there was hail, and fire            that they which commit such things   "men blasphemed the name of God"                                                /
plague of the hail; for the plague       mingled with hail, very griev-          are worthy of death, not only do     "and they repented not"                                                         /
thereof was exceeding great.             ous, ....                               the same, but have pleasure in           We have our answer.  Regardless                                             /
                                                                                 them that do them.                      of what the logic of man would                                               /
                                                                                                                         tell us, there are men for which                                             /
                                                                                                                         there is no known event or torment                                           /
                                                                                                                         which will lead them to the truth.                                           /
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