Rev CH 8-11
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I. INTRO
A. Recap:
a. the Seals
1. The Point: It’s the end of the world as we know it…who can stand?? God’s people!!
B. Video
a. what stuck out to u?
a. who’s the slain lamb that is alive?
C. Video
II. The 7 trumpets
A. background:
a. the format o the trumpets vision is very similar 2 the seals
1. 4…then 2…interlude…7th
2. This time the imagery is very similar 2 the exodus out o Egypt
i. Seals: 1-4 horsemen; 5 martyrs; 6 end o the world; 7 judgement and the end (which is surprisingly missing any detail
ii. Let’s look @the trumpets
B. 1st trumpet: hail, fire, blood: destroys 1/3rd o vegetation
C. 2nd trumpet: fiery mountainous thing hurled in2 the sea: 1/3rd o all sea red; destroys 1/3rd o sea critters & ships
D. 3rd trumpet: star hit’s the earth and poisons 1/3rd o fresh water
a. star called wormwood (what’s in a name?)
15 Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will feed this people with bitter food, and give them poisonous water to drink.
7 O you who turn justice to wormwood and cast down righteousness to the earth!
Amos
Amos 6:
12 Do horses run on rocks? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—
wormwood is a plant that is bitter tasting
sum suggest that this seal pre-
E. 4th trumpet: 1/3rd o light is burned out
a. sum suggest that this trumpet predates the 6th seal since the world hasn’t ended yet…
i. I lean 2ward this view that we r recapping frm a diff vantage point
b. Then 3fold woes from an eagle (y’all thought this was bad, u ain’t seen anything yet”
F. 5th Trumpet: Locusts
Rev 9:3-
3 Then from the smoke came locusts on the earth, and they were given power like the power of scorpions of the earth.
4 They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any green plant or any tree, but only those people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
5 They were allowed to torment them for five months, but not to kill them, and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings someone.
6 And in those days people will seek death and will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them.
a. what kind a pwr did the locusts have?
b. what job were they given 2 do?
1. torment those who r not God’s people…how bad is it?
c. who gave ‘em that pwr?
1. notice everything they’ve been given was limited:
i. limited in scope (no plants, & not god’s people)
ii. limited in time (5mnths)
-literal 5mnths? probably not…just to show that it’s a limited time
iii. limited severity (no killin)
d. what r the locusts?
1. demonic forces!
7 In appearance the locusts were like horses prepared for battle: on their heads were what looked like crowns of gold; their faces were like human faces,
8 their hair like women’s hair, and their teeth like lions’ teeth;
9 they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the noise of their wings was like the noise of many chariots with horses rushing into battle.
10 They have tails and stings like scorpions, and their power to hurt people for five months is in their tails.
11 They have as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon.
Rev
2. They have a king…who is he?
i. Abaddon: destruction; Apollyon: destroyer
ii. Is this so called king really in charge? -nope, who’s lrg & in charge?
3. Is the demonic angel king the same angel who released ‘em in the 1st place?
G. 6th Trumpet: 4 bound…angels??
a. who r these guys???
1. Four horsemen?
2. angels blocking the 4 winds?
3. They came frm Euphrates river (boundary o Roman influence)
i. Who’s on the other side? Parthians (remember the white horse w/a bow)??
-who came w/the angels?? army o horsemen
b. What’d they look like?
17 And this is how I saw the horses in my vision and those who rode them: they wore breastplates the color of fire and of sapphire and of sulfur, and the heads of the horses were like lions’ heads, and fire and smoke and sulfur came out of their mouths.
Rev 9:17
1. Sounds a bit demonic huh?
c. What was their purpose?
Rev 9:18
18 By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed, by the fire and smoke and sulfur coming out of their mouths.
d. Why would God send this?
Rev 9:20
20 The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands nor give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk,
21 nor did they repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.
1. the goal is repentance
i. like Pharo o exodus, hard hearts!!
III. Interlude
A. Has all o God’s plan been revealed?
3 and called out with a loud voice, like a lion roaring. When he called out, the seven thunders sounded.
4 And when the seven thunders had sounded, I was about to write, but I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Seal up what the seven thunders have said, and do not write it down.”
Rev 10:
a. There’s part o the story left on the editors floors!! -what’s up w/that??
1. not all the counsel o God is open 2 every1 - Gotta trust God knows what he’s doing
B. John’s re-commissioning: the little scroll
a. Jn is told to eat it - what’s that experience like?
10 And I took the little scroll from the hand of the angel and ate it. It was sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it my stomach was made bitter.
11 And I was told, “You must again prophesy about many peoples and nations and languages and kings.”
Rev 10:10
1. tastes sweet (A word frm God is soooo sweet)
2. upsets the stomach (made bitter) - why?
i. Sometimes prophecy is a hard word, makes u sick 2 have to deliver…but it’s a necessary word
C. Two Witnesses
a. John is given a part 2 play in this vision: measuring
1. What’s jn called to measure - temple
2. Wait, by this time the temple has already been destroyed…what’s he measuring?
i. If the Temple o the Old Covenant is a place
ii. the Temple o the New Covenant is a who (The Church!!)
-Jesus & the Apostles regularly referred to God’s temple as the church
b. Then we get the picture o 2 witnesses
1. What r they supposed 2 do? - prophecy
2. What happens 2 folks who appose ‘em while the job is still 2 b done? - “Can’t touch this”
3. What happens 2 ‘em once their job is complete? - Beast kills ‘em
4. Who r the witnesses? clues:
i. Olive trees rep oil (anointing)
ii. lampstands (talk about that in a min.)
iii. waters 2 blood/pwr 2 do all kinds o plagues
iv. shut the sky w/no rain
-what 2 OT figures had the pwr 2 do that? - Moses Elijah
-What r these figures known for? - Law & prophet
-Who is the fulfillment o the Law/prophets??
*Who is seen w/these 2 figures in the Gospels?
*suddenly the 2 figures disappear & who’s standing there?? - Jesus!
v. Then the witness is killed
-What happens: every1 rejoices cause they think they’ve won
but then they resurrect turning what is preseaved as a total loss in2 a complete victory
ascends 2 heaven
who does this sound like?
-Result:
Rev 11:13
13 And at that hour there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.
*Repentance
-I don’t believe this is Jesus, I believe that when we, who represent Jesus live, serve & die like Jesus…when we conquer by dying for our enemies rather than killing our enemies coupled w/God manifesting his power, that leads to repentance.
*Non o the plagues, trumpets, seals etc. ended in repentance. only living, serving, & dying like Jesus does.
IV. 7th Trumpet:
A. what’s the 7th trumpet??
Rev 11:
19 Then God’s temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple. There were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail.
a. God’s Kingdom come, will done on earth like heaven
b. notice how this vision ended? “There were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail.”
1. do u remember this b4?
Rev 8:
5 Then the angel took the censer and filled it with fire from the altar and threw it on the earth, and there were peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.
i. What’s w/ the“flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail.”?
-possibly signals end o the vision??
-We see it again:
18 And there were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, and a great earthquake such as there had never been since man was on the earth, so great was that earthquake.
-We saw it b4 the end o the seals 2...
5 From the throne came flashes of lightning, and rumblings and peals of thunder, and before the throne were burning seven torches of fire, which are the seven spirits of God,
-Where did the "flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail,” come frm? - the throne
*maybe represents God’s presence in the midst o the chaos
*every aspect o this letter seems to point back 2 God’s sovereignty - God is LRG & in CHARGE
c. What’s strikingly missing frm the end?? detailed end!!
1. b4 Jn describes the end…we get another cut scene!!!