141 - Les Feldick Bible Study Lesson 3 - Part 1 - Book 12 - Trumpet & Bowl Judgments

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 3 * PART 1 * BOOK 12 TRUMPET & BOWL JUDGMENTS: BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON Revelation 9 & 16 A new heaven and a new earth. It began back here in the Book of Acts, especially as Paul, the apostle of the Gentiles, began preaching the Gospel of the Grace of God, and calling out what he refers to as the Body of Christ. I'm sure he was wondering if the Church going to go into the Tribulation. It is strictly a Pauline revelation. Now the mystery is the revelation that God is now doing something different in these last 1900 + years of time, after the revelation of these mysteries. He is calling out the Body of Christ, not under Law, not associated with the Nation of Israel, not associated with Judaism, or the Temple. It is totally the operation of the Grace of God, based upon the finished work of the Cross, His death, burial and Resurrection. We couldn't mix it during the Church Age and it won't mix in the Tribulation. The Church would be as out of place as a fish out of water in the Tribulation. It is completely insulated from all of God's dealing with Israel. Whereas in the Tribulation, God is primarily dealing with Israel. Why is it that the world is always so concerned about peace in the Middle East? Then as we noticed in previous lessons, we have the introduction of the two witnesses who will proclaim the Word of God again to the Nation of Israel. Out of them will come the 144,000 young Jews who will be sealed and commissioned of God. We have also discussed the Great Russian invasion of Israel sometime after the Tribulation has begun. And then we have the various judgments of God begin to fall. When we get to the mid-point of the Tribulation, the Anti-christ at that time will go in and defile the temple, and immediately stop temple worship. He will demand that He himself be worshiped as God. In our last lesson we finished Revelation Chapter 8 with the end of the fourth trumpet judgment. Now let's go into Chapter 9, where we come to the 5th trumpet judgment. These trumpets are merely God's way of indicating that it is now time for the next judgment to fall. This won't be isolated to the Middle East, but will be world-wide. Many of the plagues that will take place in the Tribulation are a repetition of what took place in Egypt under Moses. Revelation 9:1 "And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth (now here is how you learn to study your Bible. It is a unique place that God has reserved. Revelation 9:2,3 "And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power." Revelation 9:4 "And it was commanded them (notice God has complete control of them. This is God's wrath being poured out on God rejecting mankind. Remember back in Chapter 7, verse 3, where the angel is instructed: Revelation 7:3 "Saying, hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads." Now verse 5 of Revelation 9: Revelation 9:5 For thousands of years God has been nothing but gracious, kind, loving, and patient. Revelation 9:5-7 "...and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man. Because a Sovereign God is going to take even that from them. Then verse 7: "And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle;..." A horse's head. It will also attack the human race mentally. Revelation 9:8,9 Revelation 9:10 "And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails, and their power was to hurt men five months." Revelation 9:11 Revelation 9:12 Revelation 9:13,14 "And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God. Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, `Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.'" Why the Euphrates? If you remember back in Genesis Chapter 11, what took place on the Euphrates River? Every pagan, mystical religion that you read about or research has its roots at the Tower of Babel on the Euphrates River. Now evidently at the time that God scattered the human race or even later after Babylon fell to the Medes and Persians, and some of the high priests of these pagan religions fled - I think somewhere back there God confined four of these powerful demonic beings who had been under Satan's rule, and they were bound in the area of the Euphrates River. East of the Euphrates has always been predominantly your pagan, idolatrous religion. Revelation 9:15 #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible