3. The time of the last plagues. Revelation 15
The first plagues. Revelation 16:1-11
The sixth plague
River Euphrates is dried up. Revelation 16:12
The triple satanic message. Revelation 16:13-14
The battle of Armageddon. Revelation 16:15-16
“You, Yourself, are to be feared; and who
may stand in Your presence when once You
are angry? You caused judgment to be
heard from heaven; the earth feared and
was still, when God arose to judgment, to
deliver all the oppressed of the earth.”
(Psalm 76:7-9)
Like an echo of the psalmist, Revelation 15
shows those who will remain standing when
the judgment of God is spilled on the
inveterate earth, and the Lord comes to save
His people (Revelation 16).
4. Each person on Earth has had the
opportunity to choose between
worshipping God or the beast. John
sees the victorious, those who have
accepted God. But they are not
going to receive their reward yet.
The scene changes to heaven (v. 5). The tabernacle is emitting smoke (Ex. 40:34-
35; 1K. 8:10-11). The intermediary work in the Heavenly Sanctuary is finished. The
time of grace has come to an end.
As the third angel had
announced, now is the time
for everyone to face the
consequences of their
decision.
5. These plagues are similar to those
that took place in Egypt. They reveal
the hardened heart of those who
have decided to worship the beast (v.
2 y 9), and the impotence of the devil
who cannot protect his worshippers
(v. 10-11).
After the devastating consequences
of the first four plagues, the world
turns to the beast and asks her for
help. But the beast cannot help them
(her throne is filled with darkness in
a symbolic way).
Nevertheless, the people don’t want
to accept their mistakes and
blaspheme against God.
v. 2 v. 3
v. 4-7 v. 8-9
v. 10 v. 11
6. v. 2
2 The first angel went and
poured out his bowl on the
land, and ugly and painful
sores broke out on the people
who had the mark of the beast
and worshiped his image
7. v. 3
3The second angel poured
out his bowl on the sea,
and it turned into blood
like that of a dead man,
and every living
thing in the sea died.
8. v. 4-7
4 The third angel poured out his bowl on
the rivers and springs of water, and they
became blood.
5 Then I heard the angel in charge of the
waters say: "You are just in these
judgments, you who are and who were,
the Holy One, because you have so
judged;
6 for they have shed the blood of your
saints and prophets, and you have given
them blood to drink as they deserve."
7 And I heard the altar respond: "Yes,
Lord God Almighty, true and just are
your judgments."
9. v. 8-9
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, but they refused to repent
and glorify him.
10. v. 10 - 11
v. 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, but they refused to repent
of what they had done.
11. 12 The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great
river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to
prepare the way for the kings from the East.
13 Then I saw three evil spirits that looked like frogs;
they came out of the mouth of the dragon, out of
the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the
false prophet.
14 They are spirits of demons performing
miraculous signs, and they go out to the kings of the
whole world, to gather them for the battle on the
great day of God Almighty.
15 "Behold, I come like a thief! Blessed is he who
stays awake and keeps his clothes with him, so that
he may not go naked and be shamefully exposed."
16Then they gathered the kings together to the
place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon.
12. 17 The seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and out of the
temple came a loud voice from the throne, saying, "It is done!“
18 Then there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder
and a severe earthquake. No earthquake like it has ever occurred
since man has been on earth, so tremendous was the quake.
19 The great city split into three parts, and the
cities of the nations collapsed. God remembered
Babylon the Great and gave her the cup filled with
the wine of the fury of his wrath.
20 Every island fled away and the mountains could
not be found.
21 From the sky huge hailstones of about a
hundred pounds each fell upon men. And they
cursed God on account of the plague of hail,
because the plague was so terrible.
13. The sixth plague begins with the fall of
Babylon that will be explained in more
detail in the next chapters. The river
Euphrates was dried up literally when
the old Babylon fell into the hands of
Cyrus.
The Papacy cannot help the people, so
it turns to the apostate Protestantism.
Finally, both lose all the support from
the people and it’s time for Jesus to
come back to take what it’s His (v. 15).
However, the devil doesn’t want to lose
his domain and prepares a last and
desperate attack.
14. Satan sends a triple message as a counterfeit
of the triple angelic message in Revelation
14. In order to do so, he uses spiritualism
(the dragon), the papacy (the beast) and
apostate Protestantism (the false prophet).
At that moment, God has already removed His
Holy Spirit from those who didn’t accept Him.
They will be easily deceived by the devil’s signs
and miracles, and they will turn to him again
(see 1 Thessalonians 2:11-12).
The end is imminent: “Behold, I am coming as
a thief” (v. 15). Satan attacks for the last time.
15. “And they gathered them together to the
place called in Hebrew, Armageddon.”
(Revelation 16:16)
Armageddon means “mount of Megiddo” in Hebrew.
There’s no place with that name, but there’s an area
in Palestine called “Megiddo.”
That was a strategic area where many battles were fought. Apostate and
faithful kings died there (Ahaziah, 2K. 9:27; Josiah, 2K. 23:29).
With that last attack, Satan tries to destroy the people who still remain
faithful to God. We are getting ready to remain faithful in that last battle as
we decide to remain faithful in our temptations today.
That attack will be interrupted by the seventh plague (v. 17-21). That will
happen just before “the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great
God and Savior Jesus Christ.” (Titus 2:13)
16. “While Jesus had been standing between God and
guilty man, a restraint was upon the people; but
when He stepped out from between man and the
Father, the restraint was removed and Satan had
entire control of the finally impenitent. It was
impossible for the plagues to be poured out while
Jesus officiated in the sanctuary; but as His work
there is finished, and His intercession closes, there
is nothing to stay the wrath of God, and it breaks
with fury upon the shelterless head of the guilty
sinner, who has slighted salvation and hated
reproof. In that fearful time, after the close of
Jesus’ mediation, the saints were living in the
sight of a holy God without an intercessor. Every
case was decided, every jewel numbered.”
E.G.W. (Early Writings, p. 280)
17. “The people of God will not be free from suffering; but
while persecuted and distressed, while they endure
privation and suffer for want of food they will not be
left to perish. That God who cared for Elijah will not
pass by one of His self-sacrificing children. He who
numbers the hairs of their head will care for them, and
in time of famine they shall be satisfied. While the
wicked are dying from hunger and pestilence, angels
will shield the righteous and supply their wants. To
him that ‘walketh righteously’ is the promise: ‘Bread
shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.’ ‘When the
poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their
tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will hear them, I
the God of Israel will not forsake them.’ Isaiah 33:15,
16; 41:17” E.G.W. (The Great Controversy, cp. 39, p. 629)
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