Chapter 16

Book of Revelation

 

1

KJV:  And 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.

2

KJV:  And 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.

noi·some  (noism)

adj.

1. Offensive to the point of arousing disgust; foul: a noisome odor.

2. Harmful or dangerous: noisome fumes.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/noisome

griev·ous  (grvs)

adj.

1. Causing grief, pain, or anguish: a grievous loss.

2. Serious or dire; grave: a grievous crime.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/grievous

sore  (sôr, sr)

adj. sor·er, sor·est

1. Painful to the touch; tender.

2. Feeling physical pain; hurting: sore all over.

3. Causing misery, sorrow, or distress; grievous: in sore need.

4. Causing embarrassment or irritation: a sore subject.

5. Full of distress; sorrowful.

6. Informal Angry; offended.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/sore

“noisome and grievous sore” are open credit card bills. Make a minimum payment then charge more and you develop a festering open sore called a credit card statement and it visits you every month.  Balances in the thousands compounded by late fees, over the limit fees, and higher interest rates because you were late.  Ouch!

May include other types of installment lending that also cause misery.

3

KJV:  And 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.

The “blood of a dead man” does not flow, it stops running through his veins or may pool around him like an oil slick in the sea.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Oil-spill.jpg

“every living soul died in the sea” means we are selling our souls in the pursuit of materialism.  We are polluting the earth to no end to obtain this manufactured “junk” we buy that ends up in garage sales or landfills. 

In this verse, the “sea” means abyss.

abyss (plural abysses)

1.      A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable, and, specifically, hell, or the bottomless pit.

2.      Infinite time; a vast intellectual or moral depth.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/abyss

The abyss is a place of moral ruin where the spiritually dead are.

4

KJV:  And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.

Because we are buying so many gadgets on credit and new cars, there is more industrial waste and pollution including Acid Rain.  Pollution can also come from chemicals disposed of in the local dumps, which leak into the ground water causing unforeseen illness, like cancers.

http://www.umich.edu/~gs265/society/waterpollution.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_pollution

5

KJV:  And 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.

David, the flying eagle that is the 4^th living beast is an Aquarius, whose symbol is the “waterbearer.”  eDa

Aquarius, or the "Water-Bearer", is a star constellation in the zodiac between Pisces and Capricornus. See: Aquarius (constellation).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquarius

6

KJV:  For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.

 (NIV)

7

KJV:  And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.

Debra is the angel coming out of the altar (see Revelation chapter 8).

 (NIV)

8

KJV:  And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.

Skin cancer due to the depletion of the ozone layer from chlorofluorocarbons (CFC’s). 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone_depletion

http://www.epa.gov/ozone/

Skin cancers are the fastest growing type of cancer in the United States. Skin cancer represents the most commonly diagnosed malignancy, surpassing lung, breast, colorectal and prostate cancer. More than 1 million Americans will be diagnosed with skin cancer in 2007.^[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_cancer

9

KJV:  And 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.

“scorched with great heat” is a reference to Global Warming.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Warming

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=global+warming

Have you seen the movie “An Inconvenient Truth” yet?  If not, I urge you to watch it.

http://www.climatecrisis.net/

People wonder why the world is the way it is (freewill) and wonder where God is.  They blaspheme God.  And still, they do not repent or worship Him. He is going to make all things new :

2Pet.3

[13] Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

Rev.21

[1] And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

10

KJV:  And 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,

People have fallen away from God and retreated from the Light.

Learn about how God describes “darkness” here:

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kjv/simple.html

“gnawed their tongues for pain” means there is much anxiety causing physical pain.  Probably includes emotional eating of comfort food, dental disorders, TMJ, grinding of the teeth and the like.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=muscle+tension+in+the+face+and+jaw

http://www.erowid.org/psychoactives/health/health_jaw-tension.shtml

 (NIV)

11

KJV:  And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.

12

KJV:  And 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.

Kings of the east (Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda) are preparing to strike America.   They are from the Middle East.  They come from an area by the Euphrates where the water is dried up like the desert.

The Euphrates is in the Middle East and runs through Iraq, which is mostly desert and rocks. 

http://web.bryant.edu/~langlois/ecology/history.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Queda

13

KJV:  And 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.

“frogs” was the 2^nd of 10 plagues God brought upon Egypt for enslaving His people.

http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/judaism/f/10plagues.htm

“like frogs” Imagery: frogs leap and jump and land clumsily like the planes with their amateur pilots did on September 11.

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.marvinmarshall.us/TowersB.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.marvinmarshall.us/&h=364&w=387&sz=35&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=ZHyzualXpgDbkM:&tbnh=116&tbnw=123&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dtwin%2Btowers%2Bburning%26gbv%3D2%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ie%3DUTF-8

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d4/Story.crash.sequence.jpg

The three airplanes that struck on 911 are a result of the works of a human plan laid out by an oratory leader (Osama bin Laden).  Here, the dragon, the beast and the false prophet are to blame.

1.      “Dragon” or Satan

2.  The beast -- see chapter 13.

3.  The false prophet is a prophet who is “false.” 
            a.  Jesus is not the Son of God  -- False!
            b.  Jesus was not killed – False!
            c.  Jesus was not crucified – False!

14

KJV:  For 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.

15

KJV:  Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.

16

KJV:  And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.

The symbolic Armageddon is Manhattan.  Like the city of Megiddo, it sits on a hill and is a trade route.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/armageddon

http://www.bibleplaces.com/megiddo.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Megiddo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Manhattan_from_helicopter.jpg

17

KJV:  And 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.

18

KJV:  And 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.

19

KJV:  And 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.

“great city” see Revelation 17:18

“divided into three parts” the two twin towers and the one building of the Pentagon.

“and the cities of the nations fell”  The twin towers did literally fall as well as our economic growth.

“great Babylon” is the United States of America because it is like the ancient city of Babylon.

http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/archaeology/sites/middle_east/babylon.html

This is God’s judgment.

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/k/kjv/kjv-idx?restrict=All&format=Long&type=simple&q1=Babylon&q2=&q3=&amt=0&size=more

20

KJV:  And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.

Separate companies (islands in themselves) fled from the towers. 

“the mountains were not found” means the towers are mountains and they completely crumbled.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/mountain

http://911research.com/wtc/history/docs/wtc12_new.jpg

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://911research.com/wtc/history/docs/wtc12_new.jpg&imgrefurl=http://911research.com/wtc/history/index.html&h=345&w=354&sz=13&hl=en&start=7&tbnid=-nSxOw3yYk0n8M:&tbnh=118&tbnw=121&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dtwin

21

KJV:  And 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.

“every stone about the weight of a talent” means the hailstones had monetary value like the bricks and mortar of the twin towers.  The World Trade Center was synonymous with money.

http://www.skyscraper.org/TALLEST_TOWERS/t_wtc.htm

http://www.wtc-terrorattack.com/wtc039.JPG