Glory Message for February 19, 2014 - Revelation 15 & 16 from The Chronological Gospels
The Sea of Fire and Glass
15:1 I saw another great and awesome sign in heaven – seven angels who had the seven last plagues, which fulfilled the wrath of YHWH. 2Then I saw what appeared to be a sea of fire and glass. I saw those who had attained victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of YHWH. 3They sang the song of Moshe, the servant of YHWH, and the song of the Lamb, singing, “Great and marvelous are your works, YHWH – Elohim – El Shaddai! Just and true are your ways, O King of saints! 4Who shall not fear you, O YHWH, and glorify your holy name? You alone are holy, and all nations shall come and bow down before you because your judgments are now being openly declared!
Saved from the Wrath to come
Tishri 1 - 10 – The Ten Days of Awe
The Ark of the Covenant is revealed
The Temple in Heaven Is Opened
The Temple in Heaven Is Opened – the parenthesis is closed and the story line continued from Revelation 11:19
15:5 After this I looked, and again I saw that the Temple in heaven was open, and I saw the Ark of the Covenant!{1}
{15:5.1} The Ark of the Covenant represents the throne of the Almighty. The restrictions concerning approaching the Ark were such that any who trifled were struck dead. According to the book of Maccabees (which was removed from the original 1611 KJV in 1880 by the American Bible Society) during the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem, Jeremiah received Divine revelation to hide the Ark in “a secret place until the end of the age.” One of the priests began to mark the passageway but was abruptly halted by Jeremiah (II Maccabees 2:2ff). A partially chiseled “guarding cherub” was found in a passageway under the Temple mount in the late 1800 by archaeologist Charles Clermont-Ganneau. Extensive excavations in the cave system and the Garden Tomb area were conducted in the 1980’s. The chief rabbi of Israel at that time, rabbi Shlomo Goren, confessed that he had seen the Ark of the Covenant in a chamber in Mount Moriah. (The location and significance of the Ark is explored fully in The Great Secret of Solomon’s Temple cited in the resources page.)
Jeremiah stated that at the time that the Messiah rules from his throne in Jerusalem (appropriately seated upon the Ark) that the Ark will no longer come to mind (Jeremiah 3:14-18). With the presence of the King, it is understandable that the throne upon which he sits will not be the focal point of our reverence. But, here in the throne room of Heaven, after the last trumpet and the gathering of the righteous to the sea of fire and glass, we see that the unapproachable Ark is present – and still commands the awe, respect, and reverence of John, Yochanan.”
The Seven Bowls of Wrath
Seven Bowls of Wrath are Carried from the Throne Room
15:6 Then seven angels who had the seven plagues came out of the Temple. They were clothed in pure and white linen, and they were girded about the waist with golden sashes. 7One of the four beasts gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of YHWH, the one who lives forever and ever.”
The Declaration: No One Enters Until the Wrath Is Poured Out
8The Temple was filled with the smoke from the power and the glory of YHWH, and no man was able to enter into the Temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.
16:1 I heard a great voice out of the Temple crying to the seven angels, “Go your ways! Pour out the bowls of the wrath of YHWH upon the earth!”
First Bowl
2The first angel went out and poured his bowl out upon the earth.
There fell a devastating and grievous infection upon the men who had the mark of the beast and upon those who worshipped his image.
Second Bowl
3The second angel poured out his bowl upon the sea, and it became like the blood of the dead. Every living creature in the sea died.
Third Bowl
4The third angel poured out his bowl upon the rivers and springs of water, and they also became blood. 5Then I heard the angel of the waters say, “You are righteous, O YHWH, who is, and was, and shall be, because you have righteously judged in this manner.
6They have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. Of this judgment they are truly deserving!
7Then I heard the other angel, who attended the fire on the Altar, say, “It is so, O YHWH – El Shaddai! Righteous and true are your judgments!
Fourth Bowl
8The fourth angel poured out his bowl upon the sun, and the authority to scorch men with fire was given to him.
9So men were scorched with intense heat, and they blasphemed the name of YHWH, who had authority over these plagues, and they refused to repent and give him glory.
Fifth Bowl
10The fifth angel poured out his bowl upon the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was overcome with darkness, and they gnawed their tongues in agony.
11They blasphemed the Elohim of heaven because of their pain and their lesions, and they refused to repent of their deeds.
Sixth Bowl
12The sixth angel poured out his bowl upon the great river Euphrates, and the water dried up to prepare the way for the kings of the east.
The Wrath Concludes
Earth Prepares for Armageddon –Tishri 10 – 23
(hasatan’s last effort to destroy the Earth)
Parenthetic pause between the sixth and seventh bowls of wrath to show what is transpiring on Earth while we prepare for the marriage supper
(Hasatan and His Minions Prepare for Armageddon)
16:13 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. 14They are the spirits of miracle-working demons{1} which go forth to the kings of the earth and out to the whole world to gather them to the battle on the Great Day of YHWH – El Shaddai.{2} 16Then the three unclean spirits gathered them all together to the place called in Hebrew Har Meggido.
15(“Watch! I will come like a thief! Blessed is he who watches and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.”){1}
{16:14.1} Deuteronomy 13:1-18;
{16:14.2} Zechariah 14:1-9
{16:15.1} Again, we are warned of the dire circumstances of those who are left behind to endure the wrath of the Almighty and the outcome of those who are deceived by the dragon, beast, and false prophet into fighting against the Messiah at his return.
Excerpt From: Michael John Rood. “The Chronological Gospels.” iBooks.