WEBVTT 00:00:01.360 --> 00:00:03.680 Welcome to the Summit Church Podcast. 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:10.160 Thank you for joining us as we share weekly sermons and teachings from Summit Church in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. 00:00:10.400 --> 00:00:16.719 Our prayer is that today's message encourages your faith and helps you grow in your relationship with Jesus. 00:00:16.960 --> 00:00:20.559 Check out our website at summitchurchtn.com. 00:00:20.960 --> 00:00:25.039 Thanks for listening, and we pray this message encourages you today. 00:00:26.000 --> 00:00:38.240 Revelation 16 is going to record the final outpouring of God's wrath upon a rebellious world through these seven bold judgments. 00:00:38.719 --> 00:00:50.240 If we remember, the seals introduced the judgments, the trumpets would intensify judgments, and now the balls are bringing a completion in this. 00:00:50.799 --> 00:01:01.280 These judgments occur near the end of the tribulation, and part of their completion purpose is to prepare the way for Jesus Christ. 00:01:01.679 --> 00:01:09.200 This chapter is going to demonstrate both holiness of God and the hardness of sinful humanity. 00:01:10.480 --> 00:01:20.319 Despite overwhelming evidence of God's power, many still refuse to repent, and instead they continue to blaspheme Him. 00:01:21.519 --> 00:01:33.439 God's an overall theme of this chapter is God's final judgments reveal both his perfect justice and humanity's persistent rebellion. 00:01:36.079 --> 00:01:46.879 And though God's wrath is poured out upon the earth, many will continue rejecting him, proving that only God's grace can transform the human heart. 00:01:47.280 --> 00:01:50.799 Now, again, this is going to fall in one of those categories. 00:01:50.959 --> 00:01:59.840 When you get to reading this stuff, we would sit here and say, how can anyone continue to rebel or deny or just totally reject God? 00:02:00.079 --> 00:02:02.879 And the answer is, I don't know. 00:02:03.680 --> 00:02:13.759 Why does anyone, even at this point in life, without judgments or wraths being poured out right now, how does anyone reject God? 00:02:14.000 --> 00:02:23.840 I was thinking last night, there's a comedian, and I'm not saying to go watch this guy because I know he can get foul language at times, but he did have a little funny bit. 00:02:24.080 --> 00:02:31.199 Um, saying he's Pete Holmes, and he talks about atheists and how ridiculous it is to be an atheist. 00:02:31.360 --> 00:02:35.039 And his whole spill is, you believe that there's nothing. 00:02:35.439 --> 00:02:38.800 And he goes, Do you know what comes from nothing? 00:02:39.840 --> 00:02:40.800 Nothing. 00:02:41.120 --> 00:02:43.280 There has to be something. 00:02:43.599 --> 00:02:46.639 And someone, and it is one of the funniest things ever. 00:02:46.800 --> 00:02:52.479 And it's actually that little probably three-minute bit, it's probably clean, about one of the few things that's clean. 00:02:52.560 --> 00:02:55.360 So if you catch that clip, you know, but it is funny. 00:02:55.520 --> 00:02:58.879 You sit and you think of somebody like that and go, how do you believe that? 00:02:59.120 --> 00:03:06.159 And honestly, in my opinion, it takes more faith to be an atheist in that side of it. 00:03:06.319 --> 00:03:18.240 But how does anybody, with the wickedness that we see in the world, or pain or suffering, or hardships, or trials, how does anyone continue to rebel God outside of having a reprobate mind? 00:03:18.719 --> 00:03:27.360 Now, um, you know, Romans 1 gives us understanding that you can have uh get to a point to where God will turn you over to a reprobate mind. 00:03:27.439 --> 00:03:32.080 And when you're turned over to a reprobate mind, repentance is off the table. 00:03:32.319 --> 00:03:38.400 I mean, your mind is forever locked in that, and that's a dangerous place to be. 00:03:38.639 --> 00:03:46.400 I don't think it's as simply a thing to which we could say, oh, they're all reprobates. 00:03:46.560 --> 00:03:48.719 I don't know that it's that simple. 00:03:48.879 --> 00:03:59.360 Um, because I think that there's still the opportunity because we know we've seen the opportunity for people to become martyrs, so we know that people somewhere along the way receive Christ. 00:03:59.680 --> 00:04:09.360 And the fact that to believe that God would just turn over everybody to a reprobate before judgment or the wrath is poured out, that doesn't have the heart of the Father. 00:04:09.520 --> 00:04:14.000 He's always had a plan of redemption and hope and restoration and renewal. 00:04:14.080 --> 00:04:17.199 That's always been the heart, and I don't think we ever need to lose sight of that. 00:04:17.360 --> 00:04:18.319 So, verse one. 00:04:18.720 --> 00:04:27.120 And I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, Go and pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God into the earth. 00:04:27.439 --> 00:04:33.279 So the man come, the command comes directly from the temple. 00:04:34.079 --> 00:04:41.680 Now, in Revelation 15 and 8, it declared that no one could enter the temple because it was filled with God's glory. 00:04:42.079 --> 00:04:50.399 So we imagine that at this point, that command has got to be coming from God. 00:04:50.800 --> 00:04:53.839 Because if we remember, no one was allowed in. 00:04:54.000 --> 00:05:02.319 The glory filled the temple, and now we're getting this verse where there's a command that comes from the temple. 00:05:02.639 --> 00:05:07.120 So we can more than likely say that this is God. 00:05:07.279 --> 00:05:08.639 Can we say it 100%? 00:05:09.040 --> 00:05:13.199 Well, no, because it doesn't say this is God Himself. 00:05:13.519 --> 00:05:17.519 Um, but we can kind of connect the dots here. 00:05:17.839 --> 00:05:27.439 These judgments, the interesting thing about these, if you kind of remember back to some of the others, is these judgments are not initiated by angels. 00:05:27.680 --> 00:05:29.759 They're initiated from the temple. 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:32.480 We could say initiated by God. 00:05:32.720 --> 00:05:41.360 Now, these bold judgments correspond with that third woe that was introduced earlier in Revelation. 00:05:41.839 --> 00:05:52.639 The seals prepared the way, the trumpets intensify the warnings, and now the bowls is bringing this wrath. 00:05:54.000 --> 00:06:00.480 The bold judgments strongly are going to represent the plagues of Egypt. 00:06:02.319 --> 00:06:11.120 For example, we're going to see boils, blood, darkness, and there's going to be these similarities. 00:06:11.360 --> 00:06:15.759 And again, this should not be surprising to us. 00:06:15.920 --> 00:06:21.759 We've seen many similarities going back to the days of Egypt throughout the book of Revelation. 00:06:23.040 --> 00:06:32.720 Just as God judged Egypt while delivering Israel, he's now going to judge a rebellious world while preserving his people. 00:06:33.199 --> 00:06:38.480 So the God who judged Egypt is the same God who's going to judge the world. 00:06:39.040 --> 00:06:48.480 We have to remember God's final judgments proceed directly from his authority and his holiness. 00:06:49.680 --> 00:06:50.879 Verse 2. 00:06:51.279 --> 00:07:04.000 And the first angel went and poured out his bowl into the earth, and it became a loathsome and a malignant sore upon the men who had the mark of the beast and who worshipped his image. 00:07:04.480 --> 00:07:07.040 Now, there is a sheet. 00:07:07.360 --> 00:07:12.959 If you have it or you don't have it now, there's a hook there, you know, I gave you a sheet that had the seals, the trumpets. 00:07:13.040 --> 00:07:17.120 You also have one with all the bowls as well. 00:07:17.360 --> 00:07:21.920 It's uh red, black, or no, I think it's black and white for y'all, sorry. 00:07:22.240 --> 00:07:27.439 But I have another one that we can go ahead and put on the screen, just leave for the rest of the class. 00:07:27.759 --> 00:07:31.920 Because this is going to give you a breakdown of the seven bowls. 00:07:32.079 --> 00:07:45.759 So the number one bowl coming out, those with the mark of the beast who worship its image breaks out in sores, particularly what's known as boils. 00:07:46.639 --> 00:07:52.160 Now, in thinking about that, is that a mild case? 00:07:54.319 --> 00:07:56.319 More than likely not. 00:07:56.639 --> 00:08:02.000 You're going to be ate up in massive sores. 00:08:02.959 --> 00:08:06.319 And who is going to have these? 00:08:09.680 --> 00:08:12.800 Those that accepted the mark, right? 00:08:13.439 --> 00:08:17.920 And those who worship the image. 00:08:18.160 --> 00:08:20.480 Now, I want to say something here. 00:08:21.199 --> 00:08:24.959 This is more than likely the same category here. 00:08:25.120 --> 00:08:28.879 Those that accept the mark are also going to be those who worship the beast. 00:08:29.279 --> 00:08:33.440 However, there is kind of something you do have to take in consideration. 00:08:34.480 --> 00:08:42.159 There could be a people, and I don't know how this would be possible, but just you kind of have to hypothetically think some things through. 00:08:42.320 --> 00:08:46.080 There could be some people that never took the mark and yet they worship the beast. 00:08:46.159 --> 00:08:50.399 Now, why you would worship the beast and not take the mark, I don't know, or the image. 00:08:50.639 --> 00:08:51.519 I don't know. 00:08:51.679 --> 00:08:56.080 More than likely, if you took the mark, you're going to worship the image. 00:08:56.320 --> 00:09:01.360 But I don't ever want to discredit the fact because this is an and. 00:09:02.320 --> 00:09:08.159 And the reason I bring that up is it doesn't simply say those who took the mark. 00:09:09.600 --> 00:09:14.639 Because if it said those that took the mark, then that would be the only category of those that received the bowls. 00:09:14.799 --> 00:09:19.759 But it says those that took the mark and worship the image. 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:27.600 So it does give you a little bit of a possibility that there could be someone. 00:09:27.919 --> 00:09:30.639 My mind just can't fathom how. 00:11:54.879 --> 00:11:58.720 Listen, there are some things that are without a doubt predestined. 00:11:58.799 --> 00:12:03.200 It was predestined that Jesus was going to be crucified and he was going to raise from the dead. 00:12:03.360 --> 00:12:04.480 That was predestined. 00:12:04.799 --> 00:12:09.360 There's a predestined date that the tribulation period will start, Daniel 70th week. 00:12:09.440 --> 00:12:12.399 These things are going to occur, and Jesus is definitely going to come back. 00:12:12.559 --> 00:12:14.480 He's going to put his foot on the Mount of Olives. 00:12:14.639 --> 00:12:16.960 He's going to walk down, bust open the eastern gate. 00:12:17.039 --> 00:12:19.440 All that is predestined. 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:31.200 But when you read this, this does not further validate the idea that God, when you're born, God goes, okay, you go to hell, you go to heaven. 00:12:31.440 --> 00:12:33.120 That's not how that works. 00:12:33.279 --> 00:12:35.759 And this doesn't validate that at all. 00:12:36.080 --> 00:12:44.080 Number one reason it doesn't validate it is you get your prize for the mark of the beast is free boils. 00:12:45.600 --> 00:12:47.919 I mean, that's how you got it. 00:12:48.320 --> 00:12:51.919 It's not because God randomly assigned it. 00:12:52.159 --> 00:12:53.360 Verse 3. 00:12:53.679 --> 00:13:06.000 And the second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became blood like that of a dead man, and every living thing in the sea died. 00:13:07.200 --> 00:13:10.000 Everything this time is going to die. 00:13:10.159 --> 00:13:22.639 If we remember earlier, when we got into the seals and we got into the blood turning, the sea turning blood, and the rivers turning blood, we knew that at that time a third of the things. 00:13:22.960 --> 00:13:30.399 But now it's going to kill everything in the ocean. 00:13:30.639 --> 00:13:31.279 Everything. 00:13:31.519 --> 00:13:36.240 Every sea creature that you could possibly imagine is going to be dead. 00:13:36.480 --> 00:13:41.519 Which you can imagine how that smells going to be when those fish and giant whales. 00:13:42.559 --> 00:13:50.480 Now, I don't know why this is a debate, but so many people love to argue this that, oh, it's not going to be actual blood. 00:13:50.639 --> 00:13:55.679 The sea's going to have some kind of algae effect into it, and it's going to turn it red and all this. 00:13:56.000 --> 00:13:56.320 Okay. 00:13:57.360 --> 00:14:00.480 You know, it can that happen? 00:14:00.720 --> 00:14:02.240 Yes, that can happen. 00:14:02.480 --> 00:14:04.080 Matter of fact, it does happen. 00:14:04.240 --> 00:14:08.399 It happens in a lot of countries, and it has happened for centuries. 00:14:08.799 --> 00:14:18.639 You can have a type of infestation that can hit a waterway, and it actually turns the water like a blood red, and it kills wildlife. 00:14:18.879 --> 00:14:22.159 So, yes, that can happen. 00:14:22.480 --> 00:14:23.600 Is this the case? 00:14:24.639 --> 00:14:25.840 I don't know. 00:14:26.240 --> 00:14:29.039 Could it actually be blood? 00:14:29.759 --> 00:14:30.399 Yeah. 00:14:30.799 --> 00:14:32.320 It could be blood the same way. 00:14:32.480 --> 00:14:39.120 If you put blood, if you turn the sea into blood, ain't no wildlife gonna swim and make it through that either. 00:14:39.440 --> 00:14:45.919 So either way, it's not worth trying to get into a debate over what is what is it gonna be? 00:14:46.080 --> 00:14:47.759 Is it gonna be some kind of algae? 00:14:47.919 --> 00:14:49.440 Is it gonna be actual blood? 00:14:49.519 --> 00:14:50.639 You know what it's gonna be? 00:14:50.960 --> 00:14:52.399 Red and dead. 00:14:53.440 --> 00:14:55.519 That's what it's going to be. 00:14:56.240 --> 00:15:02.799 And you'd be surprised at the people I've had conversations with about this one thing, and they get hung up on it. 00:15:02.879 --> 00:15:10.480 And I'm like, of all the things to get bent out of shape over, like, God, but people are funny. 00:15:10.799 --> 00:15:16.240 So could again, it could be any of those things. 00:15:16.399 --> 00:15:23.120 Just know that it's gonna be corrupt, it's gonna be decaying, and it's gonna be a mess. 00:15:24.240 --> 00:15:29.919 You know, my idea is it gonna be some kind of algae-infested thing? 00:15:30.080 --> 00:15:35.039 Sure, that seems like the easiest thing, uh, but I don't know. 00:15:35.200 --> 00:15:37.120 I don't ever want to discredit something. 00:15:37.279 --> 00:15:40.559 Again, I never want to pigeonhole God into something. 00:15:40.720 --> 00:15:44.320 It could be, like I said, just what I know, red and dead. 00:15:44.799 --> 00:15:46.879 So, uh, verse 4. 00:15:47.200 --> 00:15:56.000 And the third angel poured out his bowl into the rivers and the springs of the water, and they became blood. 00:15:56.399 --> 00:16:00.799 Now, this one is a little more interesting to me. 00:16:01.600 --> 00:16:07.440 Because it's the sea that turns blood in the second one. 00:16:08.159 --> 00:16:12.879 But the third one is now rivers and springs. 00:16:13.279 --> 00:16:16.000 Where do rivers flow to to begin with? 00:16:17.279 --> 00:16:18.799 To the ocean, right? 00:16:19.679 --> 00:16:25.759 So it's interesting here because the sea is not going to infiltrate the land. 00:16:26.639 --> 00:16:33.600 But now we see that this is now going to infiltrate the sea from the land. 00:16:34.000 --> 00:16:35.600 But this happens afterwards. 00:16:35.840 --> 00:16:43.039 It seems like that would have been placed in the second one, as it would flow into the sea. 00:16:43.360 --> 00:16:44.879 So it doesn't, though. 00:16:45.120 --> 00:16:50.559 Now, here's the question: why would this be third and not second? 00:16:54.240 --> 00:16:55.519 I love that answer. 00:16:55.840 --> 00:16:57.039 Because he can. 00:16:57.600 --> 00:17:00.559 It's a great theological standpoint there. 00:17:02.559 --> 00:17:05.279 And it's my crutch every single time. 00:17:05.519 --> 00:17:10.400 You know, not to try to sound like a parent, but you just want to throw out because God said so. 00:17:11.519 --> 00:17:15.599 You know, that's just sometimes that's the only answer you can give. 00:17:17.279 --> 00:17:20.319 I think this is the thing that fascinates me the most. 00:17:21.920 --> 00:17:25.599 If you got boils, you're you're probably in a lot of pain, right? 00:17:26.799 --> 00:17:35.680 And interesting enough, one of the things that could potentially help boils is salt water. 00:17:36.960 --> 00:17:39.839 But now salt water is gonna become toxic. 00:17:40.400 --> 00:17:42.640 What's the most important thing to man? 00:17:43.680 --> 00:17:44.319 Water. 00:17:44.799 --> 00:17:50.799 So now the rivers, and it doesn't just say the rivers, it says the springs. 00:17:52.079 --> 00:17:57.680 So get this, out of the earth, this is gonna start coming through here. 00:17:57.920 --> 00:18:03.839 So the thing that you need the most to survive, you're not gonna have access to it. 00:18:04.880 --> 00:18:12.880 And so much for bottled water are my bougie water that everybody calls bougie, but you can buy it at Walmart. 00:18:16.799 --> 00:18:18.000 It's good water though. 00:18:18.079 --> 00:18:20.400 I mean, y'all are just jealous. 00:18:21.119 --> 00:18:22.559 That's good water. 00:18:23.359 --> 00:18:24.799 And it's clear. 00:18:27.839 --> 00:18:37.119 Here, the sea, the rivers, and the spring, every access of water is completed. 00:18:41.920 --> 00:18:48.000 Think about not only do we need it for drinking water, we need it for our crops. 00:18:50.400 --> 00:18:53.200 We need it for sanitation. 00:18:56.079 --> 00:19:00.240 Without any fresh water, how long do you think survival will be? 00:19:02.960 --> 00:19:06.079 Well, alone, I don't think it would be real long. 00:19:06.240 --> 00:19:15.359 I mean, you can go um I mean you can go 40 days without food and drink water and be for the most part pretty good. 00:19:16.079 --> 00:19:24.880 But if you're in extreme heat, I don't know that you can even get is it 10 days you can go without water in extreme heat? 00:19:24.960 --> 00:19:28.079 Is that three days? 00:19:28.559 --> 00:19:28.720 Okay. 00:19:29.680 --> 00:19:32.960 You can tell I don't do the extreme heat without water. 00:19:33.279 --> 00:19:34.640 So I don't know. 00:19:36.240 --> 00:19:37.440 Three hours, yeah. 00:19:37.680 --> 00:19:39.200 That would be for real. 00:19:40.000 --> 00:19:42.559 So let's think about this for a second. 00:19:50.880 --> 00:19:53.119 Well, we know it's not God calling. 00:19:55.680 --> 00:19:57.599 It's always the pastor. 00:19:59.039 --> 00:20:01.680 Somebody's gonna have to take her phone away from her. 00:20:02.160 --> 00:20:04.079 All right, let's think about this just for a second. 00:20:04.240 --> 00:20:13.839 If the natural body can't last very long, and then mankind goes crazy, and they find out you got water, what's gonna happen? 00:20:14.160 --> 00:20:17.039 Rioting and all this, lawlessness and all this. 00:20:17.440 --> 00:20:20.400 All this, we're only on the third bowl. 00:20:20.559 --> 00:20:22.559 What is it truly a sign of? 00:20:24.079 --> 00:20:26.319 The return is imminent. 00:20:28.000 --> 00:20:30.559 Verse five through seven. 00:20:30.960 --> 00:20:37.279 And I heard the angel of the waters saying, Righteous art thou who art and who wast. 00:20:37.680 --> 00:20:48.960 O holy one, because thou dost judge these things, for they poured out the blood of the saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink. 00:20:49.279 --> 00:20:50.640 They deserve it. 00:20:53.839 --> 00:20:55.680 What a statement. 00:20:56.400 --> 00:20:57.359 Verse 7. 00:20:57.599 --> 00:21:07.920 And I heard the altar saying, Yes, O Lord God, the Almighty, true, and righteous are thy judgments. 00:21:10.480 --> 00:21:14.000 There's this these three verses are just like loaded. 00:21:14.240 --> 00:21:16.400 First of all, angel of what? 00:21:18.880 --> 00:21:20.319 Angel of waters. 00:21:21.440 --> 00:21:26.559 Now, I bring this up again because we talked about this before in the past, but this is fascinating. 00:21:26.720 --> 00:21:31.920 Remember, Satan can't ever create anything, he can only manipulate what God has already established. 00:21:32.240 --> 00:21:37.680 So if there's an angel of waters, could Satan have water spirits? 00:21:40.960 --> 00:21:42.000 Absolutely. 00:21:42.559 --> 00:21:46.640 You know, I mean that's it for Americans that's so hard to wrap our mind around. 00:21:46.799 --> 00:21:51.920 But go to Thailand or go to Taiwan, and they're worshiping these things. 00:21:52.400 --> 00:21:55.359 Many other nations that are I'm not just picking on those. 00:21:55.680 --> 00:21:57.440 The Philippines has a lot. 00:21:57.839 --> 00:21:59.759 Um Philippines are kind of loaded with. 00:22:00.079 --> 00:22:00.799 That and stuff and everything. 00:22:00.960 --> 00:22:05.519 But anyway, the angel of the waters declares, you are righteous. 00:22:05.680 --> 00:22:06.559 For what reason? 00:22:06.799 --> 00:22:08.960 You poured out the blood. 00:22:10.000 --> 00:22:11.200 The blood of who? 00:22:11.759 --> 00:22:13.680 Saints and prophets. 00:22:13.839 --> 00:22:16.880 Now you've been given the blood to drink. 00:22:17.039 --> 00:22:18.960 And man, what a statement. 00:22:19.359 --> 00:22:22.160 They deserve it. 00:22:23.279 --> 00:22:27.599 Interesting enough, this punishment really kind of reflects the crime. 00:22:30.079 --> 00:22:33.920 Humanity has delighted in violence. 00:22:35.599 --> 00:22:45.519 For years, Christians have been martyred, and it may feel like it's slowed down some, but in a lot of foreign nations, it's not really slowed down that much. 00:22:45.680 --> 00:22:47.599 In America, obviously, it has. 00:22:48.079 --> 00:22:52.960 Well, at least in the United States, North America, too, potentially. 00:22:53.119 --> 00:22:56.799 But there's definitely some stuff happening in Central America, I would think. 00:22:57.599 --> 00:23:01.200 Just not big world reports and all that. 00:23:02.240 --> 00:23:03.440 But it's interesting. 00:23:03.519 --> 00:23:05.839 We're going to see this increase during the tribulation period. 00:23:05.920 --> 00:23:07.039 We're going to see the martyrs. 00:23:07.119 --> 00:23:08.960 We're going to see the violence ramp up. 00:23:09.119 --> 00:23:16.799 So this is not just about God's revenge or God being vindictive because people are doing this. 00:23:17.039 --> 00:23:18.880 This is about justice. 00:23:20.160 --> 00:23:22.640 Now, there's an interesting statement here. 00:23:22.799 --> 00:23:24.559 There is another voice. 00:23:24.799 --> 00:23:26.720 Where does the voice come from? 00:23:28.720 --> 00:23:29.680 The altar. 00:23:30.160 --> 00:23:36.640 And I heard the altar saying, Yes, O Lord God. 00:23:38.000 --> 00:23:39.839 Let me ask you a question. 00:23:40.480 --> 00:23:41.680 What is that? 00:23:43.039 --> 00:23:46.160 Are we talking about the furniture itself talking? 00:23:47.839 --> 00:23:52.319 Are we talking about angels at the altar? 00:23:52.400 --> 00:23:53.920 What are we talking about here? 00:24:00.640 --> 00:24:02.400 Martyrs under the altar? 00:24:02.640 --> 00:24:04.640 That's a good callback. 00:24:05.759 --> 00:24:07.599 Very good callback. 00:24:08.799 --> 00:24:11.359 Well, we know one thing. 00:24:11.519 --> 00:24:13.920 Let's go back all the way to Moses. 00:24:14.400 --> 00:24:17.279 Moses in the tabernacle is patterned after what? 00:24:18.799 --> 00:24:20.960 Heaven's tabernacle, right? 00:24:21.759 --> 00:24:27.359 Everything except the brazen altar and the wash basin. 00:24:27.680 --> 00:24:29.839 Those are earthly assignments. 00:24:30.079 --> 00:24:33.759 But everything else is a model that is in heaven. 00:24:34.160 --> 00:24:48.319 When we go into the first court, that first veil we go through, there's the table of showbread, the menorah, and then right there in the center is this altar of incense. 00:24:48.960 --> 00:24:52.319 And what is the altar of incense carrying? 00:24:53.279 --> 00:24:56.319 The prayers of the saints. 00:24:58.000 --> 00:25:03.920 Now, we remember this earlier in Revelation because this is specifically talked about. 00:25:04.079 --> 00:25:05.680 Remember the cistern? 00:25:06.400 --> 00:25:11.920 Remember them taking the prayers of the saints and the martyrs. 00:25:12.559 --> 00:25:23.200 So when this is saying here that this is the, I heard the altar saying, what he's actually saying is the artifact itself is not talking. 00:25:23.359 --> 00:25:34.960 He's saying he's hearing the voice of the saints and the martyrs that are agreeing with God's justice. 00:25:37.519 --> 00:25:42.480 It's another reminder that the prayers that we pray never cease. 00:25:43.759 --> 00:25:48.480 It's another reminder that the words that we declare never cease. 00:25:48.960 --> 00:25:53.039 It's also another reminder that how important our words are. 00:25:54.000 --> 00:25:58.960 They carry not only weight on this earth, they carry weight in eternity. 00:26:03.920 --> 00:26:05.920 Verse eight through nine. 00:26:06.400 --> 00:26:18.000 And the fourth angel poured out his bowl upon the sun, and it was given to it, scorch, given to it to scorch men with fire. 00:26:18.319 --> 00:26:29.200 And men were scorched with fierce heat, and they blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues, and they did not repent so as to give him glory. 00:26:29.680 --> 00:26:32.319 Now, couldn't I? 00:26:32.720 --> 00:26:34.799 This is the one I couldn't imagine. 00:26:35.359 --> 00:26:37.440 Verse the fourth bolt. 00:26:41.200 --> 00:26:44.799 Now this one just it this one's tough for me. 00:26:45.200 --> 00:26:56.960 We were in Texas a couple weeks ago, and one day it was 1, I can't remember if it was like 114 or something, 112, somewhere around in there. 00:26:57.279 --> 00:27:01.440 And I honestly thought I was gonna melt because sugar melts when it gets hot. 00:27:02.400 --> 00:27:10.880 And it you humidity is bad in general, but like Texas is like another another level it feels like in the dead of summer. 00:27:11.039 --> 00:27:15.759 You walk out of a house that's air conditioning, if you have glasses, it's rough. 00:27:16.000 --> 00:27:25.599 Because you walk out and it's like this wall hits you, and you can't see nothing because all of a sudden there's just a film of fog on your glasses. 00:27:26.079 --> 00:27:30.720 And it's just you're instantly sweating, and it's just miserable. 00:27:30.799 --> 00:27:36.000 So I just think about that and go, ooh, I don't want that. 00:27:36.400 --> 00:27:42.000 And we were in uh New Boston, Texas, and it was it was hot that day too. 00:27:42.160 --> 00:27:47.200 It was like, I think we were at 99, somewhere around in there, like at 4 o'clock. 00:27:47.680 --> 00:27:49.039 And I'll tell you one thing. 00:27:49.119 --> 00:27:50.079 Well, let me back up. 00:27:50.240 --> 00:27:59.200 We were in Arlington, and at 10.30 at night, it was 98 degrees at 10.30 at night. 00:27:59.359 --> 00:28:09.119 So when we were in New Boston, it was right like 4 o'clock on a Sunday evening, and it was like 99 degrees, and they go, What's the temperature back home where you live? 00:28:09.200 --> 00:28:11.599 And I pulled it up and it said 83. 00:28:11.759 --> 00:28:15.119 And I was like, Oh, this is where God lives. 00:28:15.279 --> 00:28:19.680 It's 83, and we're here licking the flames of hell. 00:28:19.920 --> 00:28:28.319 You know, but this one just really gets me so it I can't imagine this. 00:28:28.480 --> 00:28:34.880 Now, I read this though, and of course the next verse says, they blaspheme God. 00:28:35.920 --> 00:28:36.559 Right? 00:28:37.519 --> 00:28:40.960 And again, my mind goes, What in the world? 00:28:41.200 --> 00:28:45.279 How could you not at least at this point start crying out to him? 00:28:46.079 --> 00:28:48.799 But then let's go back to the plagues of Egypt. 00:28:49.839 --> 00:28:54.000 The Egyptians did the exact same thing. 00:28:54.720 --> 00:28:58.640 And Pharaoh took it even to another level in some of this. 00:28:58.960 --> 00:29:02.400 So this is not really a mystery of mankind. 00:29:02.799 --> 00:29:08.960 Mankind has a very stubborn soul in this when it comes to this stuff. 00:29:09.279 --> 00:29:12.480 Now, I don't know how this is going to work. 00:29:14.880 --> 00:29:17.599 People ask, how is this going to happen? 00:29:17.759 --> 00:29:21.279 Is the sun and the earth going to move closer to one another? 00:29:21.519 --> 00:29:24.319 Um, it could possibly be that. 00:29:24.559 --> 00:29:33.680 It doesn't feel like it would be that simply because how it would tilt the earth and cause all this stuff issues with the with the moon and all this stuff. 00:29:33.839 --> 00:29:35.759 I think there's a key in this, though. 00:29:36.000 --> 00:29:41.359 When it starts out, it says the fourth angel poured out his bowl upon the sun. 00:29:42.400 --> 00:29:46.960 He didn't pour it upon the earth and cause something, he poured it in the sun. 00:29:47.279 --> 00:29:54.400 So it makes it think in my mind, first of all, we remember the sun is one massive star, right? 00:29:54.640 --> 00:29:59.759 And if you get close to it, you can actually see like flames kind of you know shooting out. 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:09.039 My mind tells me, and I can't prove this, but my mind tells me is that is when that ball is poured out, it's like all of a sudden fire shoots out from the sun. 00:30:09.440 --> 00:30:13.440 Now, I don't know that, but that's just kind of what I think in that. 00:30:13.759 --> 00:30:16.720 Could the sun move closer to the earth or the earth closer to the sun? 00:30:17.039 --> 00:30:26.400 Sure, I guess, but I don't, it just, you know, and and there is a possibility of that, and I'll explain it here in just a moment, uh, of some things. 00:30:27.119 --> 00:30:30.000 But I don't know how this is gonna happen. 00:30:30.319 --> 00:30:36.799 What I do know is people are gonna be burned and they're still gonna blaspheme God. 00:30:38.079 --> 00:30:39.039 Hang on. 00:30:40.400 --> 00:30:41.279 All right, hold on. 00:30:41.359 --> 00:30:42.799 Let me let me all right. 00:30:43.039 --> 00:30:49.440 I saw two hands go up at the same time, so let's just all right, hold on, we're gonna get a microphone. 00:30:59.119 --> 00:31:12.559 My question is, even if they repented at this point, they've already taken the mark of the beast, if they've already gotten all this to this point, it's not gonna matter anyway. 00:31:13.119 --> 00:31:16.160 Those with the mark of the beast will not have a chance at all. 00:31:16.480 --> 00:31:19.119 So even if they repent at this point. 00:31:20.640 --> 00:31:26.319 But that is only that first bowl is only for those with the mark of the beast. 00:31:26.400 --> 00:31:32.000 We know that there will be people on the earth still at this time that have not received the mark yet. 00:31:32.480 --> 00:31:35.200 So that's how these things can affect. 00:31:35.519 --> 00:31:37.759 But only those only the bees people. 00:31:38.240 --> 00:31:40.400 The beast people hits the first. 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:43.119 This is going to hit everybody. 00:31:43.279 --> 00:31:43.599 Okay. 00:31:43.920 --> 00:31:44.400 Yeah. 00:31:44.640 --> 00:31:45.839 This is everybody. 00:31:46.000 --> 00:31:49.519 Everybody's going to be affected in two, three, four, and we'll see. 00:31:51.279 --> 00:31:51.839 They could. 00:31:52.079 --> 00:31:53.279 Those without the mark. 00:31:53.440 --> 00:31:54.319 That's a great question. 00:31:54.480 --> 00:31:55.599 Very valid point. 00:31:55.920 --> 00:31:56.720 Kyle. 00:31:56.880 --> 00:31:58.480 I love that question. 00:32:00.480 --> 00:32:07.759 So I was thinking um the sun is made up of hydrogen and helium and plasma. 00:32:08.000 --> 00:32:10.880 So it's volatile gas and plasma. 00:32:11.440 --> 00:32:17.440 Do you think it is possible that the sun actually explodes during the fourth plague? 00:32:17.680 --> 00:32:22.000 Because the fifth plague is darkness falls on the kingdom of the beast's throne. 00:32:22.160 --> 00:32:36.079 So is it do you think it's possible that the sun explodes and the plasma and gas is rained down on earth, and that's what scorches people and burns people, and why the darkness falls on the beast throne. 00:32:36.799 --> 00:32:38.079 That's what follows. 00:32:38.400 --> 00:32:43.680 I think it's a very good concept, idea, and probability. 00:32:44.079 --> 00:32:46.799 Um, it's a very, very realistic aspect. 00:32:46.960 --> 00:32:55.759 The only thing that would probably counter to that is what would be the light thereafter. 00:32:56.319 --> 00:33:01.119 Because after the sun is gone, we get no light from the moon. 00:33:01.440 --> 00:33:05.519 Because the moon doesn't have light, the moon reflects light from the sun. 00:33:05.839 --> 00:33:10.960 And if the moon is not there at that time, how does that affect gravitational pull? 00:33:11.119 --> 00:33:19.680 How does that affect um, you know, well, most of the well, all the sea life's gone by this point. 00:33:19.920 --> 00:33:22.079 But how does that affect the waters and that? 00:33:22.160 --> 00:33:23.119 I don't know. 00:33:23.359 --> 00:33:27.440 It it's a really good way to think of. 00:33:27.759 --> 00:33:39.680 The other side of it is God would have to institute some kind of light relatively quickly because we're gonna be surprised the timeline of this, by the way. 00:33:40.079 --> 00:33:44.400 Um, whereas, you know, other things have taken a progressive time. 00:33:44.640 --> 00:33:46.880 This is gonna be a shocking timeline. 00:33:47.119 --> 00:33:54.079 Now, in saying that too, we also know that God Himself is light. 00:33:54.559 --> 00:33:59.200 So does that light just emanate from him into that? 00:34:00.079 --> 00:34:01.279 I don't know. 00:34:01.519 --> 00:34:03.279 But it's a really good thought process. 00:34:03.440 --> 00:34:07.440 Those are really both of those are good questions, and I like that way of thinking. 00:34:08.800 --> 00:34:17.199 Which, by the way, there's no, when we get into this stuff, there's not really a wrong answer because this is these are the things that we can only speculate upon. 00:34:17.519 --> 00:34:22.079 We cannot give 100% guarantee of an answer on some of this stuff. 00:34:22.880 --> 00:34:25.840 How that sun scorches the earth, could it explode? 00:34:26.000 --> 00:34:28.480 Well, that's a fear of scientists right now. 00:34:29.119 --> 00:34:30.559 All the time, right? 00:34:31.280 --> 00:34:34.079 So, yeah, you could have some kind of massive. 00:34:34.239 --> 00:34:45.280 You could even, I'd say you could possibly, that thing could probably split in half and still, you know, give some light and then scorch, you know, some and the others. 00:34:45.360 --> 00:34:46.159 So I don't know. 00:34:46.400 --> 00:34:47.519 Great thought, though. 00:34:47.760 --> 00:34:48.880 Verse 10. 00:34:49.360 --> 00:35:06.880 The fifth angel poured out his bow upon the throne of the beast, and his kingdom became darkened, and they gnawed their tongues because of pain, and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and they did not repent of their deeds. 00:35:07.920 --> 00:35:10.960 Well, this one's interesting. 00:35:15.760 --> 00:35:18.320 Now darkness covers what? 00:35:22.480 --> 00:35:24.159 The beast kingdom. 00:35:24.400 --> 00:35:26.880 Where is the beast kingdom? 00:35:33.760 --> 00:35:35.039 On earth, where? 00:35:40.000 --> 00:35:42.480 I thought I heard somebody say it over here. 00:35:43.760 --> 00:35:44.400 Huh? 00:35:45.199 --> 00:35:46.159 Israel. 00:35:46.480 --> 00:35:48.639 Where does he set up his throne? 00:35:50.079 --> 00:35:51.360 In the temple. 00:35:52.719 --> 00:35:57.760 So if we're talking about a physical location, where does the darkness happen? 00:36:01.519 --> 00:36:04.400 At the temple, Jerusalem, Israel. 00:36:04.960 --> 00:36:11.119 Now, if we're talking about people, now we're talking about an expansive darkness. 00:36:11.599 --> 00:36:15.360 Because it could be a lot more than just that local region, obviously, right? 00:36:16.000 --> 00:36:21.519 Then that gives to that about could the sun explode and darkness cover the whole earth. 00:36:22.400 --> 00:36:27.199 Yeah, if we're talking about people, does Satan have a kingdom? 00:36:28.719 --> 00:36:29.360 Yeah. 00:36:29.760 --> 00:36:32.320 And it's it's it's not hell, though. 00:36:34.159 --> 00:36:37.679 Everybody thinks Satan's kingdom is hell, and it's not. 00:36:37.920 --> 00:36:43.440 Hell is Satan's punishment for until he goes into the cast into the lake of fire. 00:36:44.079 --> 00:36:49.199 It's not like he's captain of the party ship USS Hell. 00:36:49.599 --> 00:36:52.159 That's not that's not what he is in that. 00:36:53.519 --> 00:36:56.480