THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON (25 OF 33)
by Jim Perdue
Scripture: Revelation 15, Revelation 16
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The Battle of Armageddon (25 of 33)
Series: Revelation
Jim Perdue
Revelation 15-16
Intro/Attention
Open your Bibles to Revelation 15 and 16. As we round the corner and make our way down the final home stretch of the Book of Revelation, we see an important event on the prophetic calendar in Revelation 15 and 16. Tonight, I'm preaching about The Battle of Armageddon. READ 15:1-4, 16:1-4, 8, 10-11, 12, 15-16, 17-21
In Revelation 15 and 16 we come to the final series of God's judgment, the seven bowls of wrath. At this time the great cry of the oppressed of all ages of human history will finally be answered-the cry: ''How long, O Lord, how long?'' After centuries of patient waiting, of putting up with man's might-means-right arrogance, greed, and murder, God finally calls a halt to the whole horrid business of human sin. *As Eugene Peterson so eloquently puts it, ''Surely, after all these centuries it is time to...call the perpetrators of these cruelties on the carpet and wipe the condescending smiles off their faces with a once-for-all judgment.''*
*Armageddon has caught the imagination of man. Every great war or threat of war always raises the awesome image of Armageddon. Again and again that word occurs in the literature of the world. After World War I, for instance, a motion picture was made called ''The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,'' which depicted World War I as being the final war of mankind. Then, when World War II took place, the world was shocked by the blitz of Britain and then the release of the atomic bomb. Many folk said, ''This is it - this is Armageddon.'' From that day down to the present hour there has been a real uneasiness in the hearts of men about the future. A great number of books have been written by outstanding scholars in this connection. Armageddon is an event that has captured the imagination of every student of Scripture and, of course, a great many sensational things have been said about it.*
*Even to this day, an ...
Series: Revelation
Jim Perdue
Revelation 15-16
Intro/Attention
Open your Bibles to Revelation 15 and 16. As we round the corner and make our way down the final home stretch of the Book of Revelation, we see an important event on the prophetic calendar in Revelation 15 and 16. Tonight, I'm preaching about The Battle of Armageddon. READ 15:1-4, 16:1-4, 8, 10-11, 12, 15-16, 17-21
In Revelation 15 and 16 we come to the final series of God's judgment, the seven bowls of wrath. At this time the great cry of the oppressed of all ages of human history will finally be answered-the cry: ''How long, O Lord, how long?'' After centuries of patient waiting, of putting up with man's might-means-right arrogance, greed, and murder, God finally calls a halt to the whole horrid business of human sin. *As Eugene Peterson so eloquently puts it, ''Surely, after all these centuries it is time to...call the perpetrators of these cruelties on the carpet and wipe the condescending smiles off their faces with a once-for-all judgment.''*
*Armageddon has caught the imagination of man. Every great war or threat of war always raises the awesome image of Armageddon. Again and again that word occurs in the literature of the world. After World War I, for instance, a motion picture was made called ''The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,'' which depicted World War I as being the final war of mankind. Then, when World War II took place, the world was shocked by the blitz of Britain and then the release of the atomic bomb. Many folk said, ''This is it - this is Armageddon.'' From that day down to the present hour there has been a real uneasiness in the hearts of men about the future. A great number of books have been written by outstanding scholars in this connection. Armageddon is an event that has captured the imagination of every student of Scripture and, of course, a great many sensational things have been said about it.*
*Even to this day, an ...
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