THE SEVEN PLAGUES

 

The time of trouble and the last plagues described in the afternoon, but this is not a literal term  ( 2 Pet 3.8 ).

That day will come, "like a thief at night"  ( 2 Pet 1.10, 1 Thess 5.2-4 ).  It begins at the end of the period of grace       (  Sof 2.2, Rev 22.11-12, Luke 13.24-25  )  and would end, when at the end of the 1000 years of the wicked will be destroyed  ( 2 Pet 3.10-13, Rev 20.9-15 ) and created the new heavens and the new Earth.

 

Seven plagues  (the winepress of the fury of God)  will begin to flow when closed the door of grace. During the rupture of repentance  ( Luke 13.24-25, Is 59.16-18, Am 8.11-13 ).

The Saints during the plagues will be safeguarded  ( Ps 90.1-16 ; Ps 45.1-4 ; Is 4.5-6, 26.20-21, 33.13-16 ).

 

Ulcers are following one after another and are not more than 1 year  ( Rev 16.1-10, 18.8; Is 34.8-9 ) :

1. Cruel festering wounds on those who worshipped the beast and his mark  ( Rev 14.9-11; 16.1-2,11 ).

2. Oceans and seas turn into blood, go to the sea will become impossible and stop shipping  ( Rev 16.3 ).

3. River, source of drinking water, will turn into blood  ( v.4 ).

4. Strong scorching heat  ( v.8-9 ; Joel 1.15,19-20 ).

5. The great darkness, the split and collapse of the "Triple Alliance". All see bankruptcy Babylon and its exercise  ( v. 10-11 ;  Joel 3.14-15, S. 18-20 ).

6. "Drying up of the river Euphrates."

Euphrates - what is spiritual Babylon.  King of the East - the coming of Christ. Trying to save a perishing world, the wicked go against the people of God to its destruction - Armageddon  ( v.12-16 )

7. Strong earthquake and hail, the release of God's people  ( Rev 16.17-21, Joel 3.16, Ezek 38.22 ).

 

During the seventh sores happen the partial resurrection of the dead  ( Dan 12.1-3 ) and then falling hail, destroying the great army  ( Rev 16.21, Job 38.22-23, Is 28.17 ; Ezek 13.5, 10.15, 38.22 ).

 

Jesus is coming after the plagues  ( Rev 16.15, 19.11,19-21 ).