seekeroftruth
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Revelation 16:17 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 mankind 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, each weighing about a hundred pounds, fell on people. And they cursed God on account of the plague of hail, because the plague was so terrible.
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Here's a link to the commentary I read.
It is done: This announcement, coming from the throne itself tells us that there will be no more delay. In mercy, God has stretched out this scene as much has He possibly could. The seals were followed by trumpets; the trumpets were followed by bowls; but there will be no more judgments upon the earth after this — it is done.
Poured out his bowl into the air: The fact that the bowl is poured into the air may show judgment against the prince of the power of the air (Ephesians 2:2) and his allies.
There was a great earthquake, such a mighty and great earthquake as had not occurred since men were on the earth: In these final judgments, God shakes the earth with a tremendous earthquake. The same is promised in Hebrews 12:26: Now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven.” Yet, what cannot be shaken will remain.
Great Babylon was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of His wrath: The fall of Babylon (the great city) is more explicitly described in Revelation 17 and 18. Here, it is enough to say that God gives her the cup of the wine of the fierceness (the ancient Greek word thymos, describing a passionate outburst of anger) of His wrath (the ancient Greek word orge, describing a standing state of anger).
“The combination of thymos and orge connotes the strongest kind of outpouring of divine judgment.” (Walvoord)
Great hail from heaven fell upon men, each hailstone about the weight of a talent: Giant hailstones fall, weighing up to 100 pounds (45 kilograms). Men responded in utter, unrepentant depravity (men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail).
Hail is frequently a tool of judgment against God’s enemies, as seen against Egypt (Exodus 9:24), the Canaanites (Joshua 10:11), apostate Israel (Isaiah 28:2), and Gog and Magog (Ezekiel 38:22).
In each of these instances, hail rained down from heaven as a tool of judgment, not as a corrective chastisement of God’s own children.
Despite all their suffering, many still will not repent. “I have known people say, ‘Well, if I were afflicted I might be converted. If I lay sick I might be saved.’ Oh, do not think so. Sickness and sorrow of themselves are no helps to salvation. Pain and poverty are not evangelists; disease and despair are not apostles. Look at the lost in hell. Suffering has effected no good in them. He that was filthy here is filthy there. He that was unjust in this life is unjust in the life to come. There is nothing in pain and suffering that, by their own natural operation, will tend to purification.” (Spurgeon)
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This is the end of the blowing of the trumpets and the pouring of the bowls.
I've seen hail.... a little. I've only had to worry about hail stones getting my car once in my life. That was in Lusby when that tornado went through LaPlata. Anyone that was affected by that storm will admit; the hail stones were only tiny little things compared to what is described by John. The hailstones in Lusby would have weighed ounces but they could leave a nasty dent in the hood, top, and trunk of a car or truck.
Compare the hail from that storm to the storm John described in these verses and you could easily label one hailstone tiny and little while the other hailstone would be huge.
How big would a hailstone have to measure if it weighs 100 pounds?
According to verse 19 "the great city split into three parts and the cities of the nations collapsed." I did a google search on "the great city in Revelation". According to the search the great city is Babylon... full of pagans, evangelicals, and anti-Christians. Of course, the other cities of the nations that collapsed could be Rome and Jerusalem, the way humans are acting. Almost all the Christians will be gone before this happens. Only the stragglers will be left to witness this.
Warning.... if huge hailstones start falling... don't hide in a building. Those hailstones are going to be the precursor to more shape-shifting on earth. God isn't messing around when He uses the 100-pound hailstones.
Regretfully, I know a wonderful woman who is being spoon-fed a bunch of political bullpoop by her church. She thinks she's learning what the Bible says. She trusts the church. She quotes her preacher, not the Gospel. I bet when the time comes, her preacher would take a few words from Scripture and twist it to get her to accept the mark of the beast. That preacher of hers could say something like "look at verse 16, 'the poor, slave, or free people could buy and sell! It's your duty to get this mark and save the economy of the nation".
She really thinks she's a Christian learning the Gospel from a preacher, called by God. When in reality, she's just becoming a Pew Warmer. It's not her fault but she's been taught to be doggedly religious rather than a Child of God. She has not been taught the Gospel. She really has no clue what "Christian Values" really are.
Some of the Pew Warmers are really going to be surprised! I bet the Pew Warmers think they will go to Heaven for Judgement like the rest of the people in the church where their comfy pew resides. I bet they think they have fooled God, as well as the people, by being religiously dependable. I bet they think they have fooled God by going to church religiously.
Couldn't your dad pick you out from the crowd? Pew Warmers should repent now, because getting a wider fanny won't get you adopted into the family of God!
Now all I can see is fat fannied Pew Warmers running from 100-pound hailstones as the earth quakes bring buildings down on the pagans, evangelists, and anti-Christians.
That makes a good title.
Fat fannied Pew Warmers and 100-pound hailstones!
