King James Version, with Nii Okai's journal notes · 7 notes
1And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.
2And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.
3And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.
4And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
5And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
6For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
Hm...
The judgement of the Lord, his justice system, is right.
7And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
8And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
9And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.
10And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,
11And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.
How did darkness cause the people pain?
We see in the next verse that their pain was related to the sores.
It could even be possible that the darkness worsened their pain from the sores, or maybe it was solely in reference to the sores and the darkness did not directly cause the pain.
12And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
13And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
Three frogs, one from each mouth 👄 of the three persons.
14For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
Was this literal, or did these spirits possess ambassadors for the dragon 🐲 who then did work miracles?
It could be literal spirits who took on bodies. At this point in time there was no doubt 🤷♂️ of the existence of the supernatural and of God and godlike beings.
Such spirits made literal would not be unusual.
The nations of the earth 🌎 are gathered to battle the coming invasion of the sky people;
Of the aliens from the sky, whom some earthlings have defected to, much to their shame.
So now all earth 🌎 needs to unite for that great battle.
Such a narrative as above is very likely the alibi 🙆.
Earth 🌎 and men at war to save the earth 🌎. Whiles the truth is that it is the antichrist who is the enemy of man and the earth 🌎.
Such deception and wickedness from the devil 👿. Turning men against their own salvation and making them fight in a war against their own side.
He is indeed the father of lies 🤥.
15Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
Even as close to the end of time as this period in time is, Jesus yet comes as a thief, because his coming is in a few years — maximum three and a half — yet the exact time is not known.
Believers must be on the watch to the end. Unto his appearing.
16And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
17And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done.
18And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.
These earthquakes and the words 'It is done' came to finalize all things.
Meanwhile, there were earlier great earthquakes which men might assume was the earthquake to end all things... Just like we have been expecting the end and the coming of the Lord, and there have been many points in history that some of these end-time events happened and men were quick to jump at it and assume the end.
So also with these revelations we must constantly watch, so we keep in pace with God and His promptings through his Spirit, lest we jump ahead of ourselves.
19And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
20And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.
21And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.