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Revelation chapter 8 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Revelation chapter 8. Let us pray.
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  Father, here we are again. Lord, we come, we sit at your
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  feet. Father, I pray that you'll teach
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  us your eternal paths. Help us to know that you're
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  near. Help us to know that you're
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  fighting our battles. Help us to know, God, that you
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  are well pleased with the reading of your text, the
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  Raymond, the Logos. God, I pray that we will set our
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  faces like a Flint towards Zion, towards Jerusalem.
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  God, I pray that shall eat us up with zeal today.
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  Father, for your house, let this be a House of prayer.
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  God, I pray that we will be yours that will be marked by
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  your goodness and your grace and your love and your mercy.
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  Father, I pray that we will be the ekklesi of the called out
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  ones that are chosen to take the whole word to the whole world.
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  Father, we love you form a hedge of protection around us.
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  Lord, I pray for marriages. God, I pray that you'll heal our
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  bodies. God, I pray for the prodigals to
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  come home. Lord, I pray that you'll
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  continue to speak truth and love over this wicked and perverse
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  and dying generation. God, I pray that we'll look up
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  and see our redemption drawing near.
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  I pray that we'll wait expectantly, impatiently, for
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  the rewards that are with you. God, we love you.
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  And it's in King Jesus's holy and mighty and precious name
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  that I pray. Amen.
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  Well, let's start in verse one. And when he had opened the 7th
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  seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half
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  an hour. So here John is, and he's
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  watching Jesus Christ open up all of the seals, and here he
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  has gotten to the 7th seal and everything grows silent.
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  There is great gravity at all of the pain and the destruction and
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  the woe that is coming to the earth, and it'll be unlike
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  anything that this earth has ever experienced, and it
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  justifies this moment of silence. 2 And I saw the seven
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  angels which stood before God, and to them were given 7
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  trumpets. So here we're going to move in
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  from the seals into the trumpets, and these 7 angels are
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  responsible for blowing the trumpets.
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  And this is an escalation, friends, in the severity that is
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  described. And you can see here that God's
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  great patience with mankind during this seven-year time and
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  he starts ramping it all up and it's going to culminate in all
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  of the bowls here. And you can see that God is
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  long-suffering with mankind, but he deeply desires for all the
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  wrong things to be made right, which is the purpose of this
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  tribulation time. The Jews are going to realize
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  that Jesus Christ is the Messiah.
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  There's going to be a great multitude of Gentiles who come
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  to the saving faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, but ultimately
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  it's going to bring the bride in to the bride chamber with the
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  groom. Three.
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  And another Angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden
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  censor, and there was given unto him much incense that he should
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  offer it with the prayers of all the Saints upon the golden altar
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  which was before the throne. So our prayers are the incense
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  unto the nostrils of a holy God. And that is the beauty of your
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  prayer life, and God desires it. God wants your prayers.
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  He desires communication with you.
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  We should not just go about our day prayerless.
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  We need to be offering up prayers unto God continuously.
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  Do not worry about anything, but pray about everything.
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  Take every thought captive and make it obedient unto Christ.
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  Rejoice always and pray without ceasing friends.
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  It is a beautiful smelling aroma unto God.
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  For and the smoke of the incense which came with the prayers of
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  the Saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.
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  So these are all the prayers that are getting prayed by the
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  Saints during this tribulation time. 5 And the Angel took the
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  censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into
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  the earth, and there were voices, and thunderings, and
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  lightnings, and an earthquake. So here comes God's judgment
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  upon the earth. Six And the seven angels, which
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  had the seven trumpets, prepared themselves to sound.
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  They are obedient to God. 7 And the first Angel sounded, and
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  there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they
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  were cast upon the earth. And the third part of the trees
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  was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
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  So you can see here this judgment, this coming upon the
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  earth, and it'll be worse than it's ever been.
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  And perhaps this is natural disasters and atomic bombs,
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  nuclear warfare. You see it burning everything
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  up. 8 And the second Angel sounded, and as it were, a great
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  mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea, and the third
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  part of the sea became blood. Perhaps this is a asteroid or
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  comet that hits the earth, and it turns everything into this
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  blood, and you can see the judgment of God coming. 9 And
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  the third part of the creatures, which were in the sea and had
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  life, died, and the third part of the ships were destroyed
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  through verse 10. And the third Angel sounded, and
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  there fell a great star from heaven, burning, as it were, a
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  lamp, and it fell upon the third parts of the rivers and upon the
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  fountains of waters. 11 And the name of the star is called
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  Wormwood, And the third part of the waters became Wormwood, and
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  many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.
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  So you can see here that the fresh water in the earth is
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  undrinkable, and people are perishing because they cannot
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  find fresh drinking water to sustain life. 12 And the fourth
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  Angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was struck at
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  the third part of the moon and the third part of the stars.
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  So as the third part of them were darkened, and the day shone
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  not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.
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  So even the sun and the moon and the stars are affected by this
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  judgment, and all of the earth will know that the judgment of
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  God has come. We'll end on 13.
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  And I beheld and heard an Angel flying through the midst of
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  heaven, saying with a loud voice, woe, woe, woe to the
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  inhabitants of the earth by reason of the other voices in
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  the trumpet of the three angels which are yet to sound.
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  So you can see this escalation, friends.
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  We saw it with the seals, and now we're seeing it with the
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  trumpets. God's long-suffering with
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  humanity, giving them time to repent, giving them time to give
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  their life over to Him. And you will never regret it.
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  I pray that that is your story. I pray that you have counted the
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  cost and that you have found Jesus to be worthy and you have
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  placed your full faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and you will
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  escape all of this judgement that is to come.
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  I hope you've been blessed by this chapter.
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  I know I sure have. I'm praying for every single one
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  of you. I love you.
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  We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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  God bless you.