Revelation - Seven Bowls Poured (Poem, Part 2)

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The last phase of Heaven’s ‘planet Earth invasion’,

Will feature the worst ever judgments dispersion. ¹

By then, the anti-Christ’s will have branded all people alive,

So of the remaining comforts of life, they’ll all be deprived.

Imagine the scene when all waters are turned to blood,

Only what’s stored can folks drink, no matter where they trudge.

All sea creatures are dead (a horrible smell), scorching heat,

Foul, loathsome sores, folks gnawing their tongues,

nowhere to retreat.

These finishing judgments will trigger,

MASSIVE PROTESTS the whole world over.

How will the anti-Christ and his prophet respond??

Will all of the remaining world leaders abscond??

 

Just like in movies that depict alien invasions, ²

How The Lord will end the 1st Gog and Magog aggression,

Will attract a massive, global, ‘counter coup’ response. ³

Remaining armies from across the whole world will launch,

The awesome Armageddon attack in Israel.

This time, they won’t come for life’s basics, 'material'.

 

Knowing how the first attack in Israel ended,

It’ll ‘take some nerves’ to launch the massive one intended!!! ⁴

They’ll attack an army of glowing, humanoid aliens!!!

With no other choice, they will ‘throw every caution to the winds’.

You see, The Lord says His Words will accomplish what He intends.

This tells me His ‘future history’ for us is …‘around the bend!’ ⁵

 

By the time of their attack, Armageddon's purview,

There may likely be no Christians to blame or pursue.

The anti-Christ will have beheaded most post-rapture converts,

So people may only have The Lord to blame for all their hurts.

And in their writhing pains, and unquenchable thirst,

They will gnaw their tongues, and Him they’ll blaspheme and curse. ⁶

 

Revelation predicts 5 HUGE earthquakes, Earth to deface.

It may be the last one that will shake Earth …‘out of her place’. ⁷

From Heaven will fall GREAT HAILSTONES, each hitting its mark!

For all islands and mountains, there’ll be …no more landmarks!!!

By this, might continents be joined, and all lands become a plain???

If so, Earth will be re-designed for The Millennial Reign! 

 

To signal that, with Armageddon, He is through,

The Lord will deal with satan’s …‘magnificent two’. ⁸

Into the lake of fire, ALIVE, they both will be cast,

The anti-Christ and his prophet, good riddance at last!

Among all of satan’s fans, they may be the most deceived.

It will be The Lord’s plans, there, all others they will precede! ⁹

 

What a unique distinction that, to them, will someday transpire,

To be the first residents in the eternal lake of fire,

Somewhere on the new Earth The Lord promised to create.

Their timing means the new Earth will exist by that date!!!

Hey, somewhere in the universe, it may already exist!

Why??…

This promise is 3 millennia old in Isaiah’s list! ¹⁰

Bowls poured       Judgment
#1 on Earth            A foul and loathsome sore comes upon the men who
                               had the mark of the beast and those who worshiped
                               his image.
#2 on the sea         The bowl's contents become blood as of a dead
                               person; and every living creature in the sea dies 
#3 on rivers            Rivers and water springs become blood 
& springs 
#4 on the sun         An angel is given power to scorch people with
                               fiery heat. They blaspheme the Name of God
                               Who has power over the plagues, and they refused
                               to repent and give Him glory. 
#5 on the beast's   The kingdom of the beast becomes full of darkness; 
throne                     and beast’s [people] gnawed their tongues 
                               because of the pain, blaspheming the God of     
                               Heaven because of their pains and their sores. 
                               Yet they refused to repent. 
#6 on the                The Euphrates River dries up. satan, the anti-Christ 
Euphrates               and his prophet release evil, frog-like spirits from
                               their mouths, demonic spirits that work         
                               wonders to deceive the whole world, 
                               especially national leaders and those 
                               from the East, to gather them for the  
                             Armageddon War against The Lord and His saints.
#7 into the air         A loud voice from The Throne declares, 
                               'It is done!', followed by noises, thunderings, 
                               lightnings and an un-precendented, great  
                               earthquake. All mountains and islands 
                               disappear, and giant hailstones fall on 
                               people, yet they continue to revile and  
                               blaspheme The Lord.

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¹ See: Revelation 16

² Ponder this: The Lord’s predicted return to Earth with all His saints and angels literally depicts an alien invasion of Earth! Ever thought of that?!

³ See: Revelation - Future Attacks in Israel.

⁴ See: Zechariah 14:12

⁵ See: Isaiah 55:11

⁶ See: Audacious Christians (Series), especially Part 2. If there were any remaining Christians still on Earth at this time, as some Bible teachers teach, they would be severely, negatively impacted by these worst ever judgments, with no Goshen Effect protection. That totally goes against The Lord's nature, practice and promises across the pages of His Word! So here’s a question to ponder: To whom might Revelation 16:15 be addressed??

⁷ See: Isaiah 13:13. See also: Global Earthquake (Series). Does this infer a new orbit, or what??

⁸ The anti-Christ and his prophet, two men who will possess the fullness of satanic deceiving powers in the tribulation age

⁹ See: Revelation 19:20.  See also: Anti-Christ (Series). The anti-Christ might be the MOST DECEIVED man who will have ever lived! And the reward for is service?? It seems he and his prophet will be the FIRST residents in the eternal lake of fire that burns with brimstone (sulfur). They will be transformed into their immortal/eternal bodies that will forever feel and know anguish. The Lord will cast them into it at the end of the 7 bowl plagues, which correspond with the Armageddon War at the end of the tribulation age. They will be there over a thousand years before satan, his remaining devilish crew, and ALL unrepentant, deceived humans who will have ever lived! This thousand-year delay will be because The Lord will have a strategic, post-Millennial Reign job for satan and his crew to accomplish. Revelation 20:10 reveals the anti-Christ and his prophet will even be in the lake of fire long before death and hades are cast into it! Imagine the greeting when they encounter satan and his devils, then possibly also in an immortal human form. See: Anti-Christ: Not Who? What? (Poem, Part 2) and also: Hell: Is THIS the Man? (Poem).

NB: Hades is the place on Earth where the conscious spirits and souls of dead sinners (who were not born again in Christ, before they died) are held, pending their resurrection in time for The Great White Throne judgment. Hades is noted 11 times in The New Testament.

¹⁰ See: Isaiah 65:17-18. Here’s a Bible study strategic tip: Pay attention to verb tenses The Lord uses. Written some 30 centuries ago, in these verses, The Lord uses the present tense of the verb, ‘to create’. To you, what does that signify?!

Revelation - Future Attacks in Israel

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The Bible asserts there will be three major attacks in Israel during the 4th and 6th ages of history -- two in the tribulation age (Ezekiel 38 and Revelation 19), and one in the post-Millennial Reign age (Revelation 20). It provides a variety of signals about the timing and purposes of each attack. Historically, past attacks on Jerusalem were motivated by the immense wealth with which it was blessed. The Lord strategically used such wealth to attract invading armies to judge Israel, in the north, and Judah and Jerusalem, in the south. But in the future attacks, His strategic rationales will be redirected to judge the three attacking army coalitions!  

1.1st War of Gog and Magog (Ezekiel 38 and Zechariah 14)

This attack will be on ‘the mountains of Israel’. The invaders will be five national armies: Persia (Iran), Sudan, Libya, plus Gomer and Togarmah from the far north (of Israel). It appears the plan will be instigated by demon spirits, Gog and Magog, then assigned over the (current) Russian territory. This attack will likely be triggered by the narrow, but critical needs for basic necessities of life during the predicted, 42-month-long apocalypse across the plague-smitten world: ‘silver, gold, livestock, goods, and great plunder.’ This attack might occur when the ‘plagues-stressed’ world realizes Israel will have been relatively protected from the plagues, e.g., similar to how the land of Goshen was protected from the last 7 of The Lord’s 10 pre-exodus plagues on Egypt. (See: First Ukraine; Next Israel's Terrain, Why Would Russia Invade Israel? (Q&A), and The Goshen Effect (Series). Zechariah 14:12 may be how The Lord will dramatically end this attack.)

 

2. Armageddon War (Revelation 19:17-21)

This attempted attack will be ‘in the place called in Hebrew, Armageddon’, also referred to as the valley of Mount Megiddo. Some time after (perhaps in response to) the 1st War of Gog and Magog, the remaining armies across the world will gather to attack The Lord and His massive army of immortal saints, glowing like aliens. The attack will be futile from the start, as The Lord will speak a word that will instantly consume/dissolve this massive army, perhaps also as gruesomely predicted in Zechariah 14:12. His response will signal the end of the apocalypse and of the 4th short age of human history (the tribulation age), and the start of His Millennial Reign, as Earth's Global King.

 

3. 2nd War of Gog and Magog (Revelation 20:7-10)

This attack will occur some time after The Lord's Millennial Reign, what I refer to as the short post-Millennial Reign age. It might likely be an attempt to seize the tremendous amount of wealth that will have accumulated in Jerusalem during Christ’s Millennial Reign, the results of people the world over trying to curry favor from/with Jesus, global King. (See: Isaiah 60) People alive then might likely have forgotten about, or will ignore the history of how the above-two attacks in Israel ended! This failed attempt will signal the end of the post-Millennial Reign age, the end of human history on this current version of Earth, and the start of The Lord's Great White Throne Judgment process. (See: Revelation 20) The Bible is clear this event, mankind's final rebellion against The Lord God, will end human history on this current version on Earth, and will start our two vastly different experiences on His long-promised, and likely already created new, eternal Earth. (See: Earth’s Next Versions (Series))

Revelation - Seven Trumpets Sound (Poem, Part 2)

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Bible students might recognize the correlations,

Between the 6^th seal and Ezekiel 38.

This helps to track events of the great tribulation,

And know the trumpets judgments are next on Heaven’s plate. ¹

 

After destroying Gog and Magog armies in Israel,

The Lord will pare down satan’s kingdom’s subjects and resources,

Thus making life anywhere on Earth increasingly dismal.

‘I’ll make people more rare than fine gold!’ That’s what He promises. ²

 

With emphasis on destroying ‘a third’ of X, Y and Z,

The Lord and His army will garner global attention.

As more people ‘get wind of’ His Gog and Magog victory,

Armies of the world will plan their ‘counter-coup’ intention.

 

His initial focus on ‘a third’ of X, Y and Z,

May send and unspoken signal to all devils around,

The third of angels who joined Lucifer’s insurgency!

‘Your time’s now shorter-than-short! In the pit, you’ll soon be bound!’ ³

 

In this manner, The Lord will achieve His global dominion,

A prerequisite for His Millennial Reign, and saints’ assignments.

But how long might this take after ending the first invasion?!

That’s based on whether all judgments will be

sequential or concurrent! ⁴

 

Because the vision was given to John sequentially,

We might presume that is how all the judgments will unfold.

Hey, cascading impacts of 14 judgments, globally,

Could mean quickly crossing The Millennial Reign’s threshold!!

 

Trumpet    Judgments (Revelation 8 and 9)

   #1           A third of the trees and all green grass are burned up 

   #2           A third of the seas become blood, killing a third of the sea 

                  creatures, and destroying a third of the ships

   #3           A falling star embitters a third of the rivers and the spring

                  waters, killing many 

   #4           A third of the sun moon and stars are darkened, and a third 

                  of the day and night do not shine

   #5           Horse-shaped locusts with human-like faces, teeth like

                  lions, and scorpion-like tails and stingers, torment people

                  5-months, causing them to seek, but not find death

   #6           A massive, great army kills a third of remaining people

   #7           With lightnings, noises, thunderings, an earthquake, 

                  and great hail, an angel declares The Lord’s victory. 

                  The ark of the covenant is revealed in Heaven’s temple.

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¹ See: Part 1 and also: Revelation - Future Attacks in Israel. Also, compare Matthew 24:29 with Revelation 6:12-17. There appears to be no other section of Revelation that correlates so closely with this verse in Matthew, especially regarding cosmic events. With this insight, I conclude Jesus will end the 1^st War of Gog and Magog (Ezekiel 38 and Zechariah 14:12), involving 5 desperate, hungry armies, then He will proceed to gain global dominion via the succeeding trumpets and bowls judgments, and concluding in the global Armageddon War. Undoubtedly, these are two, unique wars with two unique purposes! (The 2nd War of Gog and Magog will be at the end of the short post-Millennial Reign age. It will signal the end of human history on this current version of Earth. See: Revelation 20:7-10.)

² See: Isaiah 13:12

³ See: Revelation 20:1-3

⁴ Historically, we know judgments promised in Ezekiel 14:12-23 have never been sequential. Moreover, these four judgment henchmen are steadily at work all across the world TODAY, all in response to the unbearable sin load Earth is carrying! Given this, I do not perceive any reason to think the trumpets and bowls judgments in Revelation will be sequential. Just because John saw them sequentially in no way signifies they will be thus administered. If you disagree, ponder this: How in the world could The Lord have shared this intensive and extensive vision to John …concurrently?!?! Of course, no mortal on Earth knows the answer to this point. 

Revelation - Seven Trumpets Sound (Poem, Part 1)

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To The Lord Jesus, Who dwells in eternity,

A thousand years is ‘as a day’, reportedly. ¹

Perhaps that is why there are often significant delays,

Between when He pronounces things,

and when, on Earth, they’re displayed.

Thus, we’re inclined to discount, then disregard what’s in His Book.

When our desire to read it wanes, it seems like …gobbledygook!

To enhance your understanding, here are some key points I’ve learned:

When fallen angels and humans decided The Lord to spurn,

His multi-millennial strategy was His response,

Comprising seven ages, leading to a 'renaissance'. ²

His global judgments trigger transitions between these ages.

All this is cloaked in, and between The Bible’s books and pages.

Like a wise General commanding a powerful army,

The Lord devised a multi-faceted attack strategy,

To reclaim, then re-assert His ‘Lordship authority’,

Given to Adam, who gave it to The Lord’s enemy.

Revelation depicts the final parts of this strategy,

In such a drastic manner that manifests His sovereignty.

The Book of Revelation, so unique in The Bible,

Accents the last four-of-seven ages, transitional.

From the Church age-to-eternity, scenes predictive,

Depict highlights of each age from Heaven’s perspective,

Scenes that stretch and challenge our wildest imaginations,

And that trigger a myriad of interpretations.

Written not long after Jesus’ ascension in victory, 

It’s based on a vision that reveals His God-ship, vividly.

This signals the significance of His cross in history.

His cross and this book are the fulcrums that harmoniously,

Shift Heaven’s focus to how this third age will close-out, ³

Then to what from it, in Heaven and on Earth, will sprout.

First…

Opening seals on a scroll previews 5 focused offensives.

Four are both historical, and increasingly intensive!

These initial attacks are people-focused and land-based.

Of what’s to come, for centuries, these serve as mere foretastes.

Yet people don’t perceive any connections to sinfulness,

Hence, the increasing intensity of attacks’ frightfulness! ⁴

Opening the seals pictures His attack strategy,

Covering the third and fourth ages of history.

History reveals the first four seals have been opened.

The sixth ‘previews’ the war Ezekiel envisioned.

The fifth and seventh seals are not Earth-centric.

To understand what’s next, those points are basic. 

Next…

The fully opened scroll sparks attacks diversification,

The Lord expediting His ‘Earth sin de-contamination’.

Seven angels with trumpets sound judgments apocalyptic,

Gruesome attacks, all because of our sin nature, adamic.

These judgments signal the start of global domination,

Preparing Earth for Christ's Millennial dispensation. 

Curiously…

They emphasize destroying ‘a third’ of X, Y and Z, ⁵

Disrupting Earth’s environment, systematically.

For five months, by strange insects, people are tormented,

To the point that attempted suicides are thwarted. 

Afterward, massive, 200 million strong army,

Slaughters a third of all remaining people, brutally.

Trumpet    Judgments (Revelation 8 and 9)

   #1           A third of the trees and all green grass are burned up 

   #2           A third of the seas become blood, killing a third of the sea 

                  creatures, and destroying a third of the ships

   #3           A falling star embitters a third of the rivers and the spring

                  waters, killing many 

   #4           A third of the sun moon and stars are darkened, and a third 

                  of the day and night do not shine

   #5           Horse-shaped locusts with human-like faces, teeth like

                  lions, and scorpion-like tails and stingers, torment people

                  5-months, causing them to seek, but not find death

   #6           A massive, great army kills a third of remaining people

   #7           With lightnings, noises, thunderings, an earthquake, 

                  and great hail, an angel declares The Lord’s victory. 

                  The ark of the covenant is revealed in Heaven’s temple.

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¹ See: 2 Peter 3:8 and Psalm 90:4 

² The Lord’s multi-millennial strategy for humanity comprises 7 ages: (1) pre-flood, (2) post-flood/pre-cross, (3) post-cross (Church Age), (4) tribulation/great tribulation, (5) Millennial Reign, (6) post-Millennial Reign, and (7) eternity. His ‘renaissance’ begins with re-creating repentant humans, made in His tripartite image (spirit, soul, body). First, the human spirit is re-created via His born-again salvation experience, expressing faith in His sacrificial death that atones for one’s sins. It continues with His command for us to renew our soul through diligent Bible study and practice of Christian principles to develop The Mind of Christ within us. Then, in the resurrection, we will receive a new, eternal, glorified body just like His. These are His initial steps to re-creating ALL of creation, in reverse, concluding with a brand new, eternal Earth and cosmos. See: Creation, Reversed (Poem)

³ The Book of Revelation was written near the end of AD 100. The cross signaled the predicted turning of Heaven’s focus away from Jews and Israel, to Gentiles across the whole world. This is commonly referred to as the Church age in which His salvation is offered to ALL peoples. In prophetic books of The Old Testament, The Lord explained how, why and when this change of focus would occur, and also how, why and when His focus would return to Jews and Israel. Revelation explains how the Church age will close-out, and Heaven’s focus will then be on this greatly expanded Israel during His Millennial Reign when He will rule the world through ‘spiritual (grafted-in) Jews’, namely resurrected, immortal, born-again Christians. I am one! Are you??

⁴ See: Revelation - Unsealing the Scroll (Series)

⁵ See: Lost Angels Not for Like-Angels