TRUMPETS, TROUBLES AND TRIBULATIONS (18 OF 39)
Scripture: REVELATION 8
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Trumpets, troubles and tribulations (18 of 39)
Dr. James Merritt
Revelation 8:1-13
Introduction
1. One of my most memorable christmases came a couple of years ago when we were all gathered around the tree and waiting for teresa to open her gift. She had seen a ring that she really liked several months back and had mentioned it to me. I went and bought it without her knowledge and put the ring in a little box, and then put that box in another box, and that box in another box, and that box in another box etc. Until there were about seven or eight boxes that concealed that ring. The boys and i, all during this time, were telling her what a tremendous gift it was and how she was going to love it, which only intensified the anticipation that she felt. By the time she finally got down to the last box she was ready to put me in a box! Now i was not trying to postpone the joy, i was simply trying to prolong the suspense.
2. We have seen how god's judgment has been wrapped up in a seven-sealed scroll. The first six seals have been broken and with their breaking we have seen war, death, destruction and calamity on an unprecedented scale. Those on the earth during this time will think surely the end has come. But with the opening of the seventh seal, rather than finally experiencing the end) we are simply ushered into another period of judgment introduced by the blowing of the seven trumpets that is even more terrible and more horrible than that experienced by the opening of the seven seals. When the seventh trumpet is blown there follows seven bowls of even greater judgment poured out upon this earth. Each series of judgment become intensified.
3. Now why? Why does not god get it over with quickly? Well it is not to prolong the agony, but rather it is to postpone judgment. Ezekiel 33:11 gives us the answer, "say to them: 'as i live,' says the lord god, 'i have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn f ...
Dr. James Merritt
Revelation 8:1-13
Introduction
1. One of my most memorable christmases came a couple of years ago when we were all gathered around the tree and waiting for teresa to open her gift. She had seen a ring that she really liked several months back and had mentioned it to me. I went and bought it without her knowledge and put the ring in a little box, and then put that box in another box, and that box in another box, and that box in another box etc. Until there were about seven or eight boxes that concealed that ring. The boys and i, all during this time, were telling her what a tremendous gift it was and how she was going to love it, which only intensified the anticipation that she felt. By the time she finally got down to the last box she was ready to put me in a box! Now i was not trying to postpone the joy, i was simply trying to prolong the suspense.
2. We have seen how god's judgment has been wrapped up in a seven-sealed scroll. The first six seals have been broken and with their breaking we have seen war, death, destruction and calamity on an unprecedented scale. Those on the earth during this time will think surely the end has come. But with the opening of the seventh seal, rather than finally experiencing the end) we are simply ushered into another period of judgment introduced by the blowing of the seven trumpets that is even more terrible and more horrible than that experienced by the opening of the seven seals. When the seventh trumpet is blown there follows seven bowls of even greater judgment poured out upon this earth. Each series of judgment become intensified.
3. Now why? Why does not god get it over with quickly? Well it is not to prolong the agony, but rather it is to postpone judgment. Ezekiel 33:11 gives us the answer, "say to them: 'as i live,' says the lord god, 'i have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn f ...
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