The King Comes!

A study in the book of Revelation

by

Richard Wayne Fry, Overseer

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CHAPTER 8

In chronological order, we go from chapter 6 to chapter 8; chapter 7 being a parenthetical insertion.

Chapters 8 & 16 are more difficult to teach than any of the other chapters of this book.

• It is always easier and more joyful to teach about the love and grace of God than it is to teach about his wrath and judgment. But the fullness of God's love is found in his judgment and justice.

It is to be remembered that God's wrath is as perfect as his love.

God does not accidentally or nonchalantly deliver his judgments, neither does he take pleasure in war, famine, pain, bloodshed, and death. These are deliberate acts of a just God on a sinful and rebellious world.

V. 1-5
These verses suggest that wee are still in the first 3.5 years of the tribulation.

V. 1
The plagues which are about to ensue are so terrible, all of heaven is silent and somber.

1. This is one of the very few places where time is mentioned with regard to heaven. Also, the time period is approximate; everything else is so precise.

The time spent in silent prayer in the temple during the burning of incense was about half an hour.

V. 3
This angel is JESUS!

The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth. Genesis 48:16

1. Only the priest could be at the altar with the incense and censer.

He was the only one who could offer the sacrifice.

V. 7
The first trumpet is the harbinger of a substantial nuclear exchange that encompasses the entire globe.

Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come. Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God? The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered. How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate. O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field. The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness. Joel 1:15-20

It is a fact (though not well documented) that hail falls from atomic clouds. This takes place because enormous amounts of water from the lower atmosphere (as over bodies of water) are carried quickly into the air.

1. As the water reaches the extreme low temperatures of the upper atmosphere, it freezes and falls as huge hailstones.

Even if we determine that the judgments of Revelation 8 are originated by man upon himself, it does not negate the Bible as God's inspired word, nor does it decrease God's power to rule over men and nations.

And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt. Exodus 7:3

G. Hort has posited that the plagues of Egypt were a sequence of unusually severe natural events, exhibiting a cause-and-effect relationship between them (with the exception of the hail) in the exact order in which they are related in scripture.

1. Even if the plagues were natural in origin, they were supernatural in design.
• Scripture clearly and emphatically states these plagues were the direct result of the words of Moses and Aaron, who had complete foreknowledge of each disaster, and named them by name.

Grass here also means wheat & crops; i.e. PRODUCE.

V. 8-9
Scripture says something like (as it were; similar to) a great mountain of fire (not a literal mountain) was cast into the sea. This is possibly a hydrogen bomb that is detonated over the ocean.

V. 10-11
Only within the last 30 years has man developed the weaponry to literally fulfill these awesome prophecies.

It is very evident from the given description that fallout material falls on fresh water sources.

1. Literal stars are thousands of times larger than earth.

• If our sun (a star) were hollow, one million, three hundred thousand earths would fit inside it.
• A star named Antares (if it were hollow) would hold sixty-four million of our suns.
• In the constellation of Hercules, there is a star which would contain 100 million of Antares.
• The largest known star, Epsilon, could easily swallow up several million stars the size of Hercules. (From Willmington's guide to the Bible; Dr. H.L.Willmington, Tyndale House, Wheaton, IL, 1981, pg. 13)

V. 12
This loss of natural light could be the result of radio active fallout.

V. 13
Someone is actually going to warn the people of earth about what is going to happen next.

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