Sunday Service (2)

Sunday Service: The Finale (Part 2)

(11-27-2022) Ptr. Lynard Molo

=The Finale (Part 2)=

Seven Seals
1. Anti-Christ
2. War
3. Famine
4. Death
5. Persecutions
6. Cosmic Chaos

144,000 and Great Multitude

*Revelation 8:1-2
"1 When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.
2 And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and to them were given seven trumpets.

+They are waiting for God's commands.

Seven Trumpets
1. Green grass and 1/3 of the trees are burned up.
2. 1/3 of sea becomes blood; 1/3 of ships and seal life destroyed.
3. 1/3 of freshwater became bitter.
4. 1/3 of sun, moon and stars do not shine.

*Revelation 9:1-21
"1 The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss.

*It's is not a non-living object, but a person.

*Isaiah 14:12
"12 How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations!

NKJV --> "Lucifer" ; Satan

+Abyss: bottomless pit
> Designated place for Satan and the fallen angels.

*Jude 6
"6 And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their own home--these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day.

+The key to the Abyss doesn't belong to Satan.

"God gave Satan a 'key' to allow demons in the Abyss  to come out and torment the people on earth."

2 When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss.
3 And out of the smoke locusts came down upon the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth.

+Scripture connects locusts with judgement (Ex. 10:12-14)

4 They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads.

+God's people are protected by the seal of God.

5 They were not given power to kill them, but only to torture them for five months. And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes a man.

+God places certain restrictions to them.

6 During those days men will seek death, but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.

+Men will seek to commit suicide, but they will not be able to die.

7 The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces.
8 Their hair was like women's hair, and their teeth were like lions' teeth.
9 They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle.
10 They had tails and stings like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months.
11 They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon.

+Satan is a destroyer.

Fifth Trumpet
Locusts tortured the sinners.

12 The first woe is past; two other woes are yet to come.

+It is a great calamity.
+Refers to the fifth trumpet.

13 The sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the horns of the golden altar that is before God.
14 It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates."

+These angels are fallen angels-- demons can only act with God's permission, even to the exact hour of a given day.

15 And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind.

+Nothing can change God's timing.

16 The number of the mounted troops was two hundred million. I heard their number.
17 The horses and riders I saw in my vision looked like this: Their breastplates were fiery red, dark blue, and yellow as sulfur. The heads of the horses resembled the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire, smoke and sulfur.

+This is not literal horses, this is mechanized army.

18 A third of mankind was killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke and sulfur that came out of their mouths.

+Fire: Burning
+Smoke: Suffocation, Lack of Oxygen
+Sulfur: Suffocation of breath, coughing chest tightness, cracking and redness of skin

19 The power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails were like snakes, having heads with which they inflict injury.
20 The rest of mankind that were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood--idols that cannot see or hear or walk.

1. God requires TRUE repentance.
2. God requires TRUE worship, ONLY GOD, not idols.

21 Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts.

3. God requires holy living.

*James 4:8
"8 Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded."

+Come near to God: Requires humility.

+Wash your hands: Purify your actions and change your external behavior.

+Purify your hearts: Purify of thoughts and motives