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(Rev 8:7)
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Warnings are given to anointed ones in the form of denunciations ("hail") from heaven. These prophetic warnings of imminent "plagues" are to gather people of the nations to repentance, before God's wrath is poured out upon them. Thermonuclear explosion was the "mountain burning with fire" hurled into the sea. It exposed the death-dealing aspect of mankind. Nuclear explosions have caused countless deaths among civilians and servicemen by blood and organ cancers, and the deaths of many sea creatures. But the One who creates the man for wrecking work is described in Isaiah 54:16. The Christ is the "star burning as a lamp" giving spiritual illumination to prophecies of God and revealing His denunciations by means of the "Little Scroll". In it are corrections of those spiritual "waters" made bitter by apostates, whose teachings were crafted to kill holy ones. In fact, they apostatized in a third of God's Word for man. By restoring all spiritual teachings ("waters") of the Word of God, the "star" becomes as "wormwood" to apostates. In this way apostates are given "blood" to drink (leading to their deaths). The Christ Michael is as a "star" to his people, but "wormwood" to apostates. He praises God at His altar for His just decisions. Spiritual illumination among mankind is diminished by apostasy. Instead of brightness in their lives, they are "scorched" in spirit as further punishment for their refusal to repent of their sins and cursing God rather than give glory to Him. The fifth, sixth and seventh judgement "bowls" from God described as "woe, woe, woe" are next poured out. Sense of political direction among world rulers fails. They behave as though plunged in darkness. As they suffer great anguish for having dismissed the opportunity of repentance, divisions become rife among them, causing great agitation among their demons and demonstrations among the people. The "star" that descended from heaven to earth is The Christ Michael, who has the key to the past origins of demonic works among mankind (the "abyss"). These evil works are "remembered" for judgement by God among mankind as far back as the idol worship of ancient Babylon. (16:19). The apostasy of unsealed ones is also "remembered". They are tormented by their knowledge of, and are "stung" in the spirit by, faithful anointed heavenly "locusts". The "four angels" are bound by God to wait until a specific moment and period of time designated by Him to carry out their commission: To kill a third of mankind in the region of the great river Euphrates (a river flowing through Turkey, Syria, and Iraq). The water of the Euphrates will be dried up by the outpouring of the sixth "bowl" and will cause a physical drought in that region in preparation for the "four angels" "the kings from the rising of the sun" (from the east) to kill a third of mankind there. |
