Just a Thought on Revelation 16! Part 4

Revelation 16:17-21

Just a Thought on Revelation

Part 4

Revelation 16:17-21

Introduction: As we have said before, in our study on Just a Thought on Revelation, it seems we are taken through the Tribulation 4 times (like the 4 Gospels).

1. Here destruction of Babylon (Revelation 16:19 cp. Revelation 18:2; 14:8)
   1. 3 simultaneous accounts (not chronological). (under antichrist Revelation 12-14; under vials 16:19; details of the event 17-18)
2. Second coming of Christ not yet occurred.
   1. Gathering the troops of the nations (Revelation 16:13-16)
   1. Post Tribulation Rapture (Revelation 16:15)
   1. Destruction of Babylon (Revelation 16:19)
      1. Revelation 17-18 description of Revelation 16:19.
   1. Post-Tribulation rapture (Revelation 16:15)
   1. Destruction of Babylon (Revelation 16:19)
   1. Then 2nd Advent occurs (Revelation 19:11)
   1. Revelation 17-18 describes Revelation 16:19
3. “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. 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.” (Revelation 16:17-18)
   1. Note: At the pouring out of the 7th vial, the breaking of the 7th seal, the sounding of the 7th trumpet the same things occur.
      1. Voices, thunderings, great lightenings, great earthquake
   1. Note: At the pouring of the 7th vial, sounding of the 7th trumpet: Great hail storm
      1. Shows what happens at the 7th seal, trumpet, vial same period pf time
      1. 7th seal reveals, 7th trumpets announces event to come, 7th vial executes them.
      1. 7th seal broken “silence in heave; 7th trumpet and 7th vial “Great voices”
   1.  “it is done”
      1. Christ declares from the cross “it is finished” (Finished salvation)
      1. Could be Christ declaring that the wrath of God is finished.
         1. End of Jacob’s trouble (70^th week)
   1. Greatest earthquake this world has ever seen (Revelation 16:18)7t
4. “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.” (Revelation 16:19)
   1. 2^nd Advent not occurred yet.
      1. Gathering the troops of the nations (Revelation 16:13-16)
      1. Post Tribulation Rapture (Revelation 16:15)
   1. “that great city” Possibly Jerusalem
      1. Some believe it is Babylon
   1. “the cities of the nations”
      1. Capitals of the 10 kingdoms confederate with the antichrist.
   1. “great Babylon came in remembrance before God”
      1. God has not forgotten
      1. Destruction of Babylon (Revelation 16:19)
         1. Revelation 17-18 description of Revelation 16:19.
         1. Post-Tribulation rapture (Revelation 16:15)
         1. Then 2nd Advent occurs (Revelation 19:11)
      1. God pays Babylon what she is owed. (Described in Revelation 18).
5. “And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. 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.” (Revelation 16:20-21)
   1. “islands…mountains…”
      1. Mountains leveled, islands destroyed.
         1. Change the contour and shape of Land of Palestine and surrounding changed
      1. Raise the Dead Sea so that it flows into the Red Sea (Ezekiel 47:1-12)
   1. “great hail”
      1. Repetition of 7th Egyptian plague (Exodus 9:13-35)
      1. God uses His creation as weapons of warfare.
         1. For Joshua (Joshua 10:11)
      1. Note: Law required the blasphemer be stoned to death (Leviticus 24:16)
         1. Here blasphemers are stoned to death by hail stones
         1. Probably occurs at the crisis in the Battle of Armageddon
         1. God’s missiles (cf. Job 38:22-23)
   1. “about the weight of a talent”
      1. 100-114 lbs. each.

Conclusion:

• Seventh vial covers the whole period from the pouring out to the Christ’s return to the Mount of Olives.
• Understand the purpose of all of this God is going to give man what he has earned by choosing the antichrist and rejecting the Savior.
• Next, we will consider the Seven Dooms that shall fall following this event.