Revelation 16 Pouring out the Judgements

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The Rights of Man now face the Righteousness of God

The 7 vials of judgement reflect the seven church ages. In each church age, God was trying to get people to believe the truths of the Scriptures. In each church age, the people preferred to oppose the truth or corrupt the truth and persecute those who wanted to believe the truth.

After seven church ages, God had given an unbelieving mankind enough chances. Sin and unbelief had grown to their fullness.

REVELATION 16:1   And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.

This will be a sad moment for mankind. God’s patience with sin and sinners had finally ended. The day of man was over. People had done as they wished for seven church ages; now, the Day of the Lord will be starting. An angry God will do as He wishes. His wish will be to wipe out sin and cleanse the Earth.

The last church age is called Laodicea. That means "People's rights".

Everyone demands their own rights. Everyone demands to do what they want to do..Same sex marriage. Gender change. Marry, divorce, and remarry. Politicians loot the country for their own greedy selfishness. Damaging the climate patterns by  burning fossil fuels that unfortunately are essential for fertilizers (that feed half the world) and plastics that pollute the environment. Fossil fuels are used in huge quantities to produce steel and concrete that provide the infrastructure for our civilization. We demand the right to live our way but are destroying the earth in the process.

REVELATION 11:18   And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great;

and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.

God reserves the right to destroy those who destroy the world.

Church leaders have demanded the right to ignore, and reject, and condemn the revelation of the Bible's mysteries that brother Branham explained to us. They continue to preach unscriptural doctrines like Trinity, Christmas, Good Friday, and a seven-year tribulation.

The followers of brother Branham insist on the right to corrupt his teachings by claiming that the Seven Seals have opened, the Angel of Revelation 10 has come down, and William Branham is the infallible Voice of God.

REVELATION 16:2   And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.

This reminds us of Job’s boils. Satan plagued Job with boils to try to get him to curse God. Physical pain and discomfort can easily persuade us to blame God and stop serving Him. Unbelieving humanity wants to blame God anyway, so God will smite them with painful boils to give them an excuse to oppose God. Boils are terribly painful and give a person no rest.

The medical world will be baffled as human intelligence and research cannot cope with this new problem. Those who prefer not to believe and obey the King James Bible will realize that they have reached the limits of human wisdom. God will inflict a physical pestilence on them for which they have no answer.

REVELATION 16:3   And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.

We have no real revelation of the events in the 3½ years of great tribulation.

This time is dedicated to the 144000 Jews being brought to Christ by the two prophets Moses and Elijah.

We do not really know how much of these symbols are literal or else have a spiritual meaning.

The waters of the sea represent the restless masses of humanity in their nations and peoples. Each nation has its own culture, religion, and lifestyle.

The gathering together of the waters is called the seas. This symbolizes the uniting of people into power groups and the uniting of the churches at the end.

GENESIS 1:10   And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas:

By this time the foolish virgins and the unbelievers will realize that believing differently to the Bible is simply death, even though they have combined together into impressive power groups.

REVELATION 17:15   And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.

Water shortages have become a global problem due to climate change. Water is symbolic of Scripture.

We use water to wash ourselves clean. We should understand the King James Bible and live by the Scriptures to keep our souls clean from sin and unbelief.

EPHESIANS 5:26   That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

REVELATION 16:4   And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.

The fountains of truth are the Old Testament and the New Testament.

This may be literal. A severe drought will smite the world for the 3½ years, with natural disasters caused by the Jewish prophets Moses and Elijah.

REVELATION 11:6   These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.

Thus, any interference in the fresh water supply will be a disaster.

Humanity rejected the fountains of truth from Scripture. Bible Truth revolves around the Blood of Jesus.

They have sinned away their day of grace. Now they will pay with their own blood.

The final tragedy of sinful humanity.

That spirit of antichrist that opposed God during the seven church ages is revealed during the 3½ years of great tribulation to be Death. One-quarter of the world’s 8 billion people will be killed. Two billion will be destroyed as Hell is unleashed on planet Earth.

REVELATION 6:7   And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.

:8   And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

REVELATION 16:5   And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.

Nobody can appeal against the wisdom of God’s angry judgements. We deserve what we get.

REVELATION 16:6   For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.

When we reject the Blood of the Saviour and His mercy, then we get a cruel judgement. Especially those who foolishly chose to persecute God’s people.

REVELATION 16:7   And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.

Sinners hate God and refuse to believe His Word. But they will pay a frightful price. God’s righteous judgements will destroy the sinners who forsook righteousness.

The Earth is shoved off orbit closer to the Sun

REVELATION 16:8   And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.

REVELATION 16:9   And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.

Sinners blaspheme in the name of God. They curse in the name of Jesus Christ.

No sinner has ever cursed in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.

The ultimate irony is that sinners know the name of God and use the name of Jesus Christ as a swear word. Trinity has three Persons. You cannot find one name for three Persons. Thus, Trinitarians say, “In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost” but they have no clue what that name is. In other words, Trinitarians serve a nameless God. Yet sinners know that the name of God is Jesus Christ.

Read the following extracts from scientists concerning the last ice age.

It is obvious that they cannot explain why the last ice age started and what reversed the freezing to end the ice age.

“No one has ever satisfactorily explained

how the Beresovka woolly mammoth, in Russia, and other animals found frozen in the subarctic could have been frozen before being consumed by predators of the time. The remains of its stomach were intact and there were grasses and buttercups lodged between its teeth.”

(Being able to recognize the grasses and flowers in its mouth and stomach, means that the huge mammoth was deep frozen within minutes. There is no scientific explanation for that.)

“Scientists are still working to understand what causes ice ages.”

“However, the exact mechanism linking Milankovitch cycles, based on earth’s orbits and tilts and wobbles, to ice ace transitions remains a mystery”

“As a result—and for reasons that remain unexplained

—the waters of the Southern Ocean may have begun to release carbon dioxide, which caused warming.”

“Just where the extra carbon dioxide came from remains unclear as well.”

“Testing air bubbles trapped in ice around the world, it seems that carbon dioxide levels went up first, followed by a heating effect. In the South Pole (Antarctica), the reverse happened: the heating effect happened first, and then the carbon dioxide increased.”

“The reason for the retreat of the ice sheets remains elusive, however. Whereas there was a change in the relative strength of the sun roughly 20,000 years ago thanks to variations in the planet's orbit, it was smaller than changes that preceded it and failed to trigger a melt. In fact, ice cores from Greenland suggest there was an even larger warming event in the north roughly 60,000 years ago, notes climate scientist Eric Wolff of the British Antarctic Survey.”

But the bigger warming effect did not cause the ice to melt. Nobody knows why.

Scientists leave out the intervention of a supernatural God and prefer to say, “It remains a mystery” and “it is unexplained” and “ evidence in one place can contradict evidence in a different place” and “the evidence remains elusive”. Sadly, people really believe that the scientists have the answers concerning the last ice age. Unfortunately, people only believe what they want to believe.

In the days of Noah, God simply moved the Earth a little further away from the Sun. The Earth was struck by the intense cold of deep space and the freezing was instantaneous on the north pole and the south pole areas.

God is going to reverse that freezing effect during the 3½ years of great tribulation. God will move the Earth closer to the Sun and the Sun’s heat will scorch the ice caps and melt them. That will raise the sea level by about 67 metres. The surface of the sea will increase from 71% to 75%. The land surface on Earth will decrease from 29% to 25%. One-sixth of our land surface will disappear under water. Imagine the massive inland migration problem when huge crowds are forced to suddenly leave the coastal cities that are being flooded. Many of the world’s biggest cities are on the coast.

Darkness smites the Earth

REVELATION 16:10   And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,

The next crippling judgement will be darkness. They rejected the light of God’s Word, so they will have to live in darkness. Crops will not grow in darkness. Crime will run rampant. All man’s learning and knowledge will become a source of feeling lost and uncertain as they realize their confusion and folly in the face of these unexplainable disasters in Nature.

REVELATION 16:11   And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.

“Their sores”.  A grievous sore was the first judgement vial. This shows that the vials are not a temporary judgement poured out for a while. They are poured out and remain a grievous judgement even as the later judgements are added. This is going to be the most terrible of times as the judgements accumulate.

Darkness is the absence of light.

Darkness is the abode of evil and sin. Mankind rejected the light and guidance of God’s Word and now the whole world gets plunged into darkness.

Darkness hates light because light destroys darkness.

Sinful mankind now curses and blasphemes against God as the darkness reveals their true spiritual state. Satan hates being exposed. Sinners make every excuse to justify their sin.

REVELATION 16:12   And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.

The king of the North is Russia. The kings of the East are demonology or devils. This merges with the sixth Trumpet where two hundred million devils . All those devilish hordes are unleashed.

REVELATION 9:14   Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet,

Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.

:15   And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.

:16   And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.

Four angels of destruction

Natural horsemen could easily cross a river. This verse speaks of spiritual horsemen who are devils.

The Euphrates River ran through Eden and is the border of the Promised Land. Thus the Euphrates has a spiritual meaning. This water represents the water of the Word that binds the devils and stops them harming those who are Spirit-filled. The Devil can get right up to the border of a Christian and threaten him or her, but the Devil cannot cross over the water of the Word to harm the Christian. Only when the Word dries up because It is no longer believed, then the protection of the Word disappears and the devils run rampant. This will be the most awful of times.

When all of Pharaoh's chariot drivers drowned in the Red Sea, Moses sang about the antichrist spirit that inspired them.

EXODUS 15:1   Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously:

the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.

Moses saw the real evil as the satanic horse and his antichist rider.

REVELATION 6:2   And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.

A bow without an arrow is a bluffer. The spirit of religious deception that rceived a triple crown by 1315.

3 spirits is an evil idea as each Person has a Spirit

REVELATION 16:13   And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.

The dragon is the Devil. The beast is the spirit of organized denominational religion. The false prophet is the spirit in the current pope that makes him the prophet of  a false religion. This spirit has jumped from pope to pope during the long succession of popes that has lasted almost 2000 years.

Now we come to the real enemy of the church during its 2000-year history. The doctrine of the unscriptural word Trinity. Three evil spirits have protected and spread the pagan Greek philosophic idea of one-God-in-three-Persons.

“Father and Son are of the same substance” is Greek philosophy.

So is “Father and Son are of the same Essence”, whatever that means.

Very importantly, the Trinity robs God of His name. You cannot find one name for three Persons. The Triune God is nameless.

As long as there is a Trinity, then Jesus cannot be Lord God Almighty.

The three evil spirits of Trinity have run through the 2000 years of church history to gather the world together for its judgement and destruction at Armageddon.

The amazing power that Jesus will display when He destroys all the armies at Armageddon will convince everyone that He is Lord God Almighty.

There is no “God the Son” in the Bible. God is not a man.

The Son of God has the fulness of the Godhead, all of God, dwelling in Him.

COLOSSIANS 2:9   For in him [Jesus] dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

The Son of God is not a separate Person beside God the Father.

ISAIAH 44:6   Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.

REVELATION 16:14   For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.

Crafty religious devils have developed and refined the deception of the Trinity doctrine. All the great church leaders are being dragged into a confederation of churches and Trinity is one of the very few doctrines that they agree on. Thus, Trinity is the major glue that holds the churches together. Consequently, anyone who is not a Trinitarian gets rejected and persecuted.

The miracle today is that the churches are keen to gather together despite their differences.

REVELATION 16:15   Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.

To avoid Armageddon we need to dress properly, both physically and spiritually.

A thief comes unexpectedly from outside the house. Nobody who is in the church can see the Coming of the Lord because the Lord is no longer in the church. In Revelation Chapter 3 Jesus said that he was outside the church. Thus, Jesus comes outside the church for those who come from the highways and hedges.

LUKE 14:23   And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.

These are the bad people who are not in the churches. They will be forced to get ready for the catching up of the church to meet the Lord in the air. (I was shot three times by the police to force me to change my way of thinking).

LUKE 14:24   For I say unto you, That none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper.

These are the good, saved people in the churches who are invited to the Marriage Supper. But they all excused themselves as they were more interested in their own possessions and ideas. None of them will make it to the Coming of the Lord.

We must watch to see if a preacher speaks from Scripture or not.

The open mouth of a preacher with an unscriptural doctrine is simply one of the gates of hell.

Only those who have a revelation of the King James Bible being the absolute truth are safe because they can have an understanding of the Scriptures.

Our only garment is to be wrapped in the clothes of His Word.

JOB 29:14   I put on righteousness, and it clothed me:

ZEPHANIAH 1:8   And it shall come to pass in the day of the LORD'S sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the king's children, and all such as are clothed with strange apparel.

Strange apparel is immodest and flesh-revealing. Another aspect of strange apparel is women wearing long pants as if they are men. Cross-dressing is men dressing as women and women dressing as men.

Spiritually, strange apparel is when people dress up their beliefs in man-made ideas and church traditions.

Any unscriptural idea is equivalent to being naked, as only Bible truths can clothe us.

One day, all these non-Biblical church ideas will be exposed as errors to the shame of the church preachers.

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… hope He will crown my ministry of this,

of letting me take the clothes of the Word, and dress His Bride in the clothes of the Word,

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And I remember in my vision when I seen the Presence of the Lord, or His people in that glorious Land yonder, I looked around, I told them... And they told me He would judge me first by the Gospel that I preach.

I said, "Just exactly the way Paul preached It!"

And them millions of people screamed out, "We're resting on that!" See? See.

The Catholic church takes the world to Armageddon

REVELATION 16:16    And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.

Armageddon is also called Har Megiddo.

Har means a mountain or range of hills.

(This is the judgement of the Roman Catholic church that was based on the seven hills of Rome. Then Christ sets up the mountain of His Millennium Kingdom of 1000 years according to what Daniel saw).

The seven hills of Rome. The Capitoline Hill was the headquarters of the pagan Roman Empire. That collapsed and the Lateran Palace on the Caelian Hill became the headquarters of the Roman Catholic church.

The seven hills are symbolized by the seven heads on the beast. The woman is the Roman Catholic church, whose nerve centre is Vatican City.

The woman sits next to the seven heads. The Vatican City sits next to the seven original hills of Rome.

Megiddo means “place of crowds”.   (Satan relies on a majority, the host)

Iscariot means “a man of cities”. Crowds in the city influenced Judas the wrong way.

Desiring popularity, agreeing with the crowd, and bowing to peer pressure are basic human weaknesses.

We easily decide to go with the flow, but the flow is always downhill. Standards and beliefs erode.

REVELATION 16:17   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.

This will be the final judgement.

A great voice. There will only be one voice. The voice of God is the King James Bible.

REVELATION 16:18   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.

Now, are pouring out great judgments at the end of great tribulation because Message-churches that claim to follow Brother Branham also used voices, thunders, and lightning to destroy many of the Bible truths that Brother Branham tried to reveal before great tribulation began. Thus Message-churches that began as the Bride soon elevated Nicolaitan pastors to be the head of each church. Each became the voice of his own opinions as each pastor tried to be regarded as cleverer than the others. These conflicting and unscriptural voices modified and misinterpreted the only true voice, the voice of the seventh angel. Pastors have no gift for understanding Scripture as that is the calling of Bible teachers, whom the pastors regard as their enemies. Thus, saved Message people quit being the Bride when they absorbed unscriptural ideas, and they joined the ranks of the unscriptural foolish virgins who had been fooled by their trying-to-be-clever pastors whose main concern was the unscriptural idea that all the tithes belonged to the pastor. And the love of power that made the pastor the unscriptural head of the church. They loved the adulation of the Bible-illiterate members. (In the land of the blind, one eye is king).

The seven Thunders, which are unwritten, became a magnet for pastors who became unscriptural as they interpreted ideas that are not written in the Bible. The Pope also interprets ideas that are not written in the Bible. So, the pastors dragged their Message churches into the Roman Catholic camp and even declared Brother Branham to be infallible. In 1870, the Pope declared himself to be infallible.

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…       and they're preaching that men should leave their wives and hunt for their spiritual mate, and that I am perfectly infallible. That there's nothing... And, oh, some of the awfullest things you ever heard.

Making brother Branham infallible just makes him another Pope. The Protestants are being fooled back into believing Roman Catholic ideas.

The Gospel moved from East to West

Lightning is the spreading of God’s Word after Bible truth was killed at the Council of Nicaea in AD 325  Reformation

MATTHEW 24:27   For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

After truth died in the Dark Ages, the 5th church age saaw the Gospel spread from Martin Luther’s getting saved by grace through faith in Germany to England’s John Wesley’s holiness and outreach that led to the glorious missionary age of the 6th church age. Then, in the 7th church age, the Pentecostal gifts were restored in America and William Branham revealed the mysteries of God’s written Word. That enabled the true Bride to be restored back to the beliefs of the first church age of the apostles.

The Gospel light moved from Germany in the East to England and then to America in the West. At each stage, more truth was revealed, and the Light became brighter. Jesus is the Word of God. He can be seen more and more clearly as He walks through the pages of the King James Bible.

The message believers who claim to follow brother Branham then produced many varieties of the unwritten and thus unknown seven Thunders. Their dismal and vain attempts to prove how clever they are just sowed further confusion.

But then came many voices and lightnings as about 45000 different churches produced competitive Christianity and the church world became a swamp. Each preacher gave voice to his own opinions producing flashes of light that were different to Scripture.

Finally, a big earthquake will end our seventh church age so that the three-and-a-half-years of great tribulation can start.

Voices, lightnings, thunders, and an earthquake will cause the seventh age to be thrown into great Tribulation. Thus a similar scenario will see the end of this confused and horrible time.

REVELATION 16:19   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.

Rome is Mystery Babylon because she absorbed the mysteries of Babylon. Rome will be destroyed by nuclear bombs.

God hates what the Roman Caholic church is doing.

REVELATION 18:8   Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.

:9  And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,

The fire burns but nobody rushes in to put it out because nuclear bombs emit intense radiation that can last for a day or a week.

REVELATION 18:10   Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.

A wise person will never go near a nuclear bomb site for at least a week, just to be safe. Radiation sickness can be deadly.

REVELATION 16:20   And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.

Islands are obliterated. Volcanic mountains explode and disappear.

The Castle Bravo thermonuclear hydrogen bomb test in 1954 vaporized three islands in the Bikini Atoll of the Marshall Islands. This was a sign of things to come as mankind has developed weapons that are far too powerful for human wisdom to conrol. Human scientists have been educated above their level of intelligence.

REVELATION 16:21   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.

A talent is the largest weight in the Bible, about 75 pounds or 35 kilograms.

In the Old Testament,  they stoned a prostitute. God ends up dealing with the world that has been influenced by the prostitute Roman Catholic church. One blasphemy is the removal of God’s name. The Roman Catholic church removed the name of the Lord Jesus Christ as being the name of Almighty God. They replaced His name with three titles by saying that “the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost” is the name of God. This is senseless.

The world that is influenced by the prostitute Roman Catholic church will take a severe hammering. The hail will knock them senseless and kill them.