| After I read Revelation 4-19 I was amazed at what | | | | these judgments because if He prolonged them, no |
| the Lord showed the apostle Paul of the things to | | | | one would be left alive. |
| come. It reminded me of the Exodus and how the | | | | God said that he would harden the hearts of many |
| Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart when he would not let | | | | during this time because of their disbelief and they |
| the Israelites go out of Egypt. John was so blessed | | | | would believe the lie of the Antichrist who came to |
| to see the things that would take place in the future | | | | setup his new world order and to rule in God's temple |
| reign of our Lord Jesus Christ. He was told to write | | | | in Jerusalem. The Antichrist setup a new law that |
| everything down so those who read the scriptures in | | | | required the people to have the mark of the beast |
| Revelation would be blessed. And blessed we are | | | | 666 put on their foreheads or hands. Anyone who |
| because we know as Christians the things that will | | | | resisted the number of the beast would be arrested, |
| come after the rapture. I am glad I won't be here | | | | imprisoned, or beheaded for their disobedience. |
| for the seven-year Tribulation because all the earth | | | | Everyone was to worship the Antichrist and to follow |
| will be destroyed like nothing no one has seen or will | | | | the False Prophet and the new world religion. |
| ever see again. | | | | Then came the fall of Babylon, the great city of |
| After the rapture took place, the seven-year | | | | splendor. This city was the epic center of the world |
| Tribulation began with the seven seals of judgment, | | | | in that everything was bought and sold through it. |
| which wreaked havoc on the earth and then the | | | | Seamen gained wealth through their sales and |
| seven trumpets that followed literally destroyed the | | | | merchants were great men. But of all who drank the |
| earth. But that wasn't the end of God's wrath | | | | maddening wine of her adulteries, the kings of the |
| because the seven bowls came next. There were | | | | earth, the merchants will all stop and mourn her |
| many killed by earthquakes, plagues, famine, war, and | | | | devastation. For the great city of Babylon will stand |
| pestilence. Yet still many people did not repent of | | | | no more. Every one in heaven rejoiced at the fall of |
| their sins and continued to worship idols made of | | | | this great city because of the evil it produced and |
| gold, silver, and wood. God shortened the time of | | | | the seductions it proclaimed. |