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The first point is that has to be made as you read this chapters is that
The first point is that has to be made from these chapters is that
1 - God’s wrath is Painful
So, I’ve been thinking a lot about why we find these chapters in Revelation on God’s wrath and judgement so hard for us to hear.
painful to think about, The 7th bowl eternal
Painful to know about.
especially when the wrath and judgement of God are written in a way in Revelation,
that assumes we will be encouraged,
to endure in our faith, to proclaim Jesus.
and yet they seem to giv.
Do we really believe in a God who wilfully inflicts painful judgements across the world today.
A wrath that ‘may well be’ brought about by the sin and evil of those who reject God,
but which as we have seen is felt and experinecd by Christians as well.
Wars, famines, dictators, disease, economic distress.
And yes,
we have seen repeatedly how knowing that these things fall under the soverignty of God encourages us,
because we can see He is in control.
These things don’t deny the existance of God after all,
they show that he is very much present and active.
But the problem we are left with, is, do we like this God?
Do we love this God who brings pain to a fallen world.
Even if we acknowledge that we are sinful,
that we have lived life for ourselves,
well then we can see that there is cause for a rebuke from God.
But really?
15v7
Really, God is pouring out 7 bowlfuls of wrath on the earth!
Do we love and worship a God like that?
Not only is God’s wrath painful for us as Christians to comprehend in our culture today,
but God’s wrath is quite literally painful physically!
16 1-2
Those who reject the blood of the lamb,
the death and resurection of Jesus, in our place,
are those marked by default by Satan, will suffer painfully in this life.
And God wills it, it is his wrath being poured out!
We see it and feel it ourselves don’t we
- the rich never satisfied by their wealth,
The full never satisfied by food,
The addict never satisfied by more,
The educated never satisfied by intellect.
No peace, no satisfaction, to hope!
If you are a non-Christian then you will know you are never quite satisfied.
We always need just one more thing to be happy.
If only we had nicer kids,
If only we had nicer kids,
If only we had kids,
If only I had a little more money,
If only I had studied harder,
If only.
You’ll never be satisfied,
you will always have painful and ugly sores
- it is the wrath of God against you and your rejection of Him.
and because He hates all sin His anger burns against the sinner.
The commentator Brooks writes,
God’s wrath is His holiness stirred into activity against sin and it leads to His executing a sentence of judgement and punishment upon those who reject the gospel of His grace
J. I. Packer writes ‘Just as God is good to those who trust Him, so He is terrible to those who do not.’
In short, , continues Brooks, you do not have the God of the Bible if you exclude or refuse to reckon with His wrath!
What is it that we are missing that we can’t quiet compute the ‘God is Love’ side of God with the ‘God of wrath’ side!
We’re not immune to the sadness and tradgedy of God’s wrath upon the earth.
The difference is that it is no longer a wrathful punishment on us,
for Jesus made it clear as he prayed before his crucifixion - he was going to be drinking the cup of wrath on our behalf as he cries out!
Is this the God we claim to love?
Is this the God we claim to love?
Is this the God we want to patiently endure for, to maintain our testimony in, to obey?
rev 16
The bowls are escalating the wrath we saw in earlier chapters of Revelation with the 7 seals and the 7 trumpets.
Before, just a third of the sea was affected, now it’s all of it,
All the springs of water.
This wrath is becoming all consuming upon the earth.
The bowls are reminding us that time will not continue endlessly,
No, this world will stop.
The sin and evil will not continue indefinetly
God’s wrath will not dwindle along on the side lines forever,
no, it will come to a grande and terrible completion!
Rev 8a
8 The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and the sun was given power to scorch people with fire.
9 They were seared by the intense heat and they cursed the name of God, who had control over these plagues,
verse 10-11
10 The fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was plunged into darkness.
Men gnawed their tongues in agony 11 and cursed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores
then v12
The symbolism of this verse would not have been lost on the origional readers of this book
- The mighty Euphrates river stood as a natural and significant defence
against those wanting to invade from the East.
For even Babylon, the ancient enemy of God’s people - Babylon the Great
- who becomes in the next chapters of this book the symbolic nation of all things evil -
Even they fell in history to an enemy to the east that managed to cross the Euphrates rivers.
God’s wrath did that!
And God’s wrath will continue to bring those who sin and do evil across the world, to their knees in pain.
He will dry up your protection that you think you have and cause you pain.
God’s wrath is painful.
Perhaps some think they are immune
- or that they have had a good life and escaped the wrath of God.
They are what v13 and 14 call the great kings of this world.
But in reality thay are actually all being gathered together to face the great and final battle,
the ulitmate wrath of God, the 7th bowl poured out.
Final judgement into an eternity of His wrath.
It’s a symbolic reminder of , where at a place called Megiddo, which in Hebrew is called Armageddon:
kings came to fight:
You may think you have won in this life - escaped God’s wrath - but in reality - you have carried off no silver.
The 7th bowl is prepared for you:
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