Tribulation after The Rapture (5)

4 Judgement Trumpets Blown

I. Plagues of Egypt

see Ex. 7 thru 12

Convince Pharoah to set God’s people free.

A. Opportunity to repent.

Breaking of the 7th seal - calm before the storm - silence in heaven.

7 Archangels named Uriel, Raphael, Michael, Saraqael, Gabriel, and Remiel.

Luke 1:19 ESV

And the angel answered him, “I am Gabriel. I stand in the presence of God, and I was sent to speak to you and to bring you this good news.

Jude 9 ESV

But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.”

see Ezek. 10:2-7

Ezekiel 10:2–7 ESV

And he said to the man clothed in linen, “Go in among the whirling wheels underneath the cherubim. Fill your hands with burning coals from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city.” And he went in before my eyes. Now the cherubim were standing on the south side of the house, when the man went in, and a cloud filled the inner court. And the glory of the Lord went up from the cherub to the threshold of the house, and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was filled with the brightness of the glory of the Lord. And the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard as far as the outer court, like the voice of God Almighty when he speaks. And when he commanded the man clothed in linen, “Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim,” he went in and stood beside a wheel. And a cherub stretched out his hand from between the cherubim to the fire that was between the cherubim, and took some of it and put it into the hands of the man clothed in linen, who took it and went out.

Exodus 19:16–19 ESV

On the morning of the third day there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud on the mountain and a very loud trumpet blast, so that all the people in the camp trembled. Then Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they took their stand at the foot of the mountain. Now Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke because the Lord had descended on it in fire. The smoke of it went up like the smoke of a kiln, and the whole mountain trembled greatly. And as the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him in thunder.

Outpouring of God’s Wrath is severe.

Joel 2:30 ESV

“And I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke.

1/3 of earth burned up

Modern enviromental scientists (tree huggers) theorize a few degrees in global warming will kill humans.

How alarmed will they be when God destroys a third of earth’s vegetation.

Wormwood is a bitter plant that contaminates 1/3 of the world fresh water.

God struck the Nile River Ex. 7:14-24

Exodus 7:14–24 ESV

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is hardened; he refuses to let the people go. Go to Pharaoh in the morning, as he is going out to the water. Stand on the bank of the Nile to meet him, and take in your hand the staff that turned into a serpent. And you shall say to him, ‘The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, sent me to you, saying, “Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness.” But so far, you have not obeyed. Thus says the Lord, “By this you shall know that I am the Lord: behold, with the staff that is in my hand I will strike the water that is in the Nile, and it shall turn into blood. The fish in the Nile shall die, and the Nile will stink, and the Egyptians will grow weary of drinking water from the Nile.” ’ ” And the Lord said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, their canals, and their ponds, and all their pools of water, so that they may become blood, and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, even in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.’ ” Moses and Aaron did as the Lord commanded. In the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants he lifted up the staff and struck the water in the Nile, and all the water in the Nile turned into blood. And the fish in the Nile died, and the Nile stank, so that the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile. There was blood throughout all the land of Egypt. But the magicians of Egypt did the same by their secret arts. So Pharaoh’s heart remained hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the Lord had said. Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and he did not take even this to heart. And all the Egyptians dug along the Nile for water to drink, for they could not drink the water of the Nile.

Revelation 8:12 ESV

The fourth angel blew his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, and a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of their light might be darkened, and a third of the day might be kept from shining, and likewise a third of the night.

God promises to keep night and day.

Genesis 8:22 ESV

While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.”

John describes as the beginning of the end.

Revelation 8:13 ESV

Then I looked, and I heard an eagle crying with a loud voice as it flew directly overhead, “Woe, woe, woe to those who dwell on the earth, at the blasts of the other trumpets that the three angels are about to blow!”

God attacks the people.

Revelation 7:3 ESV

saying, “Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees, until we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.”

The sight of angels and blazing objects.

The sound of trumpets and thunder

The smell of incense and smoke

The taste of bitter wormwood.

The feel of earthquake.

Plague 7: hail

Plague 1: blood in fresh waters.

Plague 8: locusts

Plague 10: Firstborn killed.

God uses natural disasters to accomplish His purposes.

God’s Judgments are designed to bring people to repent.

Great Tribulation will be the worst event ever to occur on earth.

Sin & Evil will be judged by God.

God’s people will be victorious.

See the Hymn: It is Well with my Soul