The Revelation of Christ – Part 27:
The Seventh Trumpet (The Third Woe)
Pastor Bruce A. Shields
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SERMON
INTRODUCTION
The
Book of Revelation, or the Revelation of Christ, is the most challenging book
in the bible.
Because
of this fact, many avoid it or ignore it altogether. Some fear lack of
understanding; others afraid to misinterpret, which I guess it is better to
avoid than dive in and get it completely wrong.
Many
times, when a new believer comes to me for direction, they want to jump right
into Revelation and find out what’s to come.
This
is equivalent to deciding one day to learn Mandarin and sitting down to author
a novel in Chinese that very same day.
Or,
a kindergartener learning how to count, and then trying to calculate quantum
mechanics calculations.
The
words in Revelation have caused much debate on rapture, judgment, even some who
claim John was writing about the events in his day in code rather than Jesus
Christ revealing to him about the coming events and Judgment.
A
special blessing is promised to those who read Revelation.
Although
it may be a difficult book, we could all use a special blessing, reading this
is good for us all, and with the help of the Holy Spirit, we will take the
Revelation of Christ in small portions and gain understanding, little by
little.
SERMON SERIES
THE THINGS WHICH
ARE – The Church Age (Age of Grace)
Part 3 – Ephesus The
Backsliding Church
Part 4 – Smyrna The
Steadfast Church
Part 5 – Pergamos The Immoral Church
Part 6 – Thyatira The Careless Pagan Church
Part 7 – Sardis The Spiritless Church
Part 8 – Philadelphia The Favored Church
Part 9 – Laodicea The Church God Hates
THE THINGS WHICH
SHALL BE – The Coming Judgment
Part 10 – The Throne of God
Part 11 – The Scroll and Seven Seals
Part 12 – The Lamb is Worthy
Part 13 –
The First Seal
Part 14 – The Second Seal
Part 15 – The Third Seal
Part 16 – The Fourth Seal
Part 17 – The Fifth Seal
Part 18 – The Sixth Seal
Part 19 – The 144,000 Sealed
Part 20 – The Great Multitude
Part 21 – The Seventh Seal
Part 22 – Trumpets 1-4
Part 23 – The 5th Trumpet (1st woe)
Part 24 – The 6th Trumpet (2nd woe)
Part 25 – The Mighty Angel
Part 26 – The Two Witnesses
TODAY’S SERMON -
THE THINGS WHICH SHALL BE – The Coming Judgment
Part 27 – The 7th Trumpet and 3rd Woe
SCRIPTURE READING
Revelation
11:15-19
The
seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, which
said:
“The
kingdom of the world has become
the kingdom of our Lord and of his Messiah,
and he will reign for ever and ever.”
16
And the twenty-four elders, who were seated on their thrones before God, fell
on their faces and worshiped God, 17 saying:
“We
give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty,
the One who is and who was,
because
you have taken your great power
and have begun to reign.
18
The
nations were angry,
and your wrath has come.
The
time has come for judging the dead,
and for rewarding your servants the
prophets
and
your people who revere your name,
both great and small—
and
for destroying those who destroy the earth.”
19
Then God’s temple in heaven was opened, and within his temple was seen the ark
of his covenant. And there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of
thunder, an earthquake and a severe hailstorm.
I.
THY KINGDOM COME
a.
The Seventh Angel sounds his trumpet
i. Loud voices in heaven say; “The
kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and
His Messiah, and He will reign forever and ever.”
1. The Lord’s prayer in Matthew 6, “Your Kingdom come, your
will be done on earth as it is in heaven”
ii. Isn’t the earth already the
Lord’s?
1. Ephesians
6:11-12
“Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the
devil’s schemes. 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against
the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and
against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms”
2. 1 Peter
5:8 “Be alert and of
sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for
someone to devour.”
3. Ephesians
2:2 “Wherein in time past
you walked according to the course of this world, according to the
prince of the power of the air (spirit realm), the spirit that now works in the children of
disobedience:”
4. Because of sin, Satan rules
the spiritual realm of earth, and is allowed to influence through deception and
temptation because man is powerless if they do not have the Spirit of God.
5. When Jesus returns, He
judges and destroys “all those who destroy the earth” and reclaims what is
rightfully His.
iii. The problem some see with
this part of revelation is the timing of judgments and rewards.
1. However, I do not see a
problem with this for the following reasons;
a. “the world HAS BECOME the
Kingdom of our Lord”
b. Now that the Lord has
reclaimed the world from Satan, it is once again His, and NOW it is time for
the cleansing, the judgment, the punishment of those who destroyed the earth
with sin. In comes the remaining wrath of God poured out upon the face of the
earth, before the final judgments where eternal punishments and rewards are
doled out.
b. The 24 Elders who were
seated fell on their faces worshiping God
i. The 24 Elders
1. Represent the Old Covenant,
and the New Covenant for God’s people
ii. They were seated
1. In scripture, this is a sign
of “completion”, a signal of being “finished”
2. What is completed? What is
finished?
3. The Old Covenant, and the
New Covenant…both were created by God to be “finished” when He returned as Lord
and set His Kingdom upon Earth.
4. That time has arrived!
c.
They (the 24 Elders) Fell on their faces worshiping
God saying;
i. We give thanks to you, Lord
God Almighty
ii. The One who is, and who was
iii. Because you have taken your
great power and have begun to reign
1. This represents ALL of God’s
people (Old and New Covenant) first giving thanks to Lord God Almighty and
acknowledging His reign over all at the same time.
2. Then they all acknowledge He
is, was and always will be, eternal
3. Then announcing that God is
coming to the table to begin His reign on earth with all His great power, who
could stand against Him? No one!
II.
THE TIME OF JUDGING IS HERE
a.
The nations were angry, and now your wrath has come
i. The time has come for
judging the dead
ii. And rewarding you servants
the prophets
iii. And your people who revere
your name
iv. This will take place after
the Lord completes His reclaiming of the earth, which is happening before
john’s eyes. This is the midpoint of Tribulation, and the Bowl Judgments are
being poured out.
v. This pouring out of the Bowl
Judgments completes the cleansing of the earth of those who refused the Old
Covenant, refused the new Covenant, refused to repent and confess Christ during
the remainder of Tribulation.
vi. When these Bowl Judgments
are complete, The judging of the dead will commence, the rewarding of the
prophets, and the rewarding of the people who revere the Lord’s name.
b.
Both great and small
i. ALL will be judged
ii. They will either receive
punishment, or reward, either way, ALL will be judged.
c.
And the time has come for destroying those who destroy
the earth
i. At this point (mid-point of
Tribulation) those who have destroyed the earth with sin are going to be
destroyed. This may be a reference to all the “powers” and “principalities” of
the air (spirit)
III.
GOD’S TEMPLE IN HEAVEN OPENS
a.
The temple in heaven opens
i. The tabernacle on earth was
the portable dwelling place of God.
ii. Tabernacle meaning
“residence” or “dwelling place”
iii. The construction described
in Exodus, it was the Tent of Congregation, or the tent of Meeting with God.
iv. Later, the First Temple was built (Solomon’s
Temple)
v. The Second Temple (Zerubabbel's temple)
vi. The Third will be the Tribulation
temple, which the antichrist will desecrate claiming to be God.
vii. All of these temples are
symbolic of God’s Heavenly Temple where He dwells. (Hebrews 9:23; Hebrews 8:5)
viii. Here we see the TRUE Temple
in heaven, the one these other’s “represented”, opens.
b.
Within His temple was the Ark of His Covenant
i. The Ark
of the Covenant represents the Old Covenant
1. It contained the 10 commands
(The Word of God)
2. Aaron’s rod (The miraculous
flowering of the rod represents the resurrection of Christ)
3. And a pot of manna (Bread of
Life, Bread from heaven, a symbol of Christ)
ii. The New
Covenant Ark was Jesus!
1. The Word made flesh
2. Resurrected
3. Manna from heaven
iii. The Ark of the Covenant
represents the Messiah
iv. How did it get into God’s
Temple in heaven?
1. Currently, no one knows
where Jeremiah hid the Ark. People have
made claims and written books purporting to know the location of the Ark.
However, no one has revealed the Ark or its location. This is because the Ark
of the Covenant is not on Earth. Instead, I believe God took the Ark to Heaven
after Jesus was crucified.
a. The Ark being the Old
Covenant, Resurrected Jesus being the Ark of the New Covenant
2. If Israel had accepted Jesus
as the Savior, He would have remained on Earth after His resurrection and ruled
from David’s throne (Isaiah 9:7) until God destroyed the Earth (“Plan A”)
3. As Ezekiel
40-44 predicted, the Ark
would have been placed in a temple on Earth and Jesus would have served in it
as our high priest. When Israel rejected and crucified Jesus, the Father
implemented an alternative plan (“Plan B”) and Jesus returned to Heaven. God
took the Ark to Heaven about the time Jesus ascended because the new plan
requires the Ark to be in Heaven’s temple.
c.
And there came flashes of lightning, peals of thunder,
an earthquake and a severe storm
CONCLUSION
–
The Seventh trumpet sounds,
and the Lord reclaims the earth
The next sermon: The Woman and the
Dragon
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