Praying the Book of Revelation by Elmer L. Towns

Author:Elmer L. Towns
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Bible, Christian Life, New Testament, Religion, Prayer, Biblical Studies, Personal Growth
ISBN: 9780768424201
Publisher: Destiny Image Publishers
Published: 2007-02-28T22:00:00+00:00

Section Nine

Worship at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb

Scripture: Revelation chapters 19-20

John’s tired eyes were closed. His face was bowed to the ground in worship to God—it was his only response to the last vision he had seen. He had not looked up for quite awhile. The Seer was having difficulty coming to terms with the atrocities that had been shown in his vision at the end of the Tribulation. It seemed like the wrath intensified as the end approach.

John believed in God, but he had difficulty understanding the extent of the devastation that unfolded before him. While John had not left his cave, nor had he grown any older, even so he had just experienced seven years—seven horrible years of Tribulation wrath poured out on the earth.

John saw the carnage of war with its ensuing starvation, homelessness, and inflation. He saw the pale horse bringing death to 25 percent of the world. He saw persecution spread to God’s servants—ultimately 144,000 were martyred.

Next, John saw lightning plummeting to the earth, burning almost a third of the forests in flames. Giant hail stones killed people in the open fields. Then, John witnessed a meteoric fireball plunging into the ocean, claiming approximately a third of all life in the sea. The stability of the universe came unglued, comets plunged to the earth, poison from the sky contaminated much of the drinking water. Earthquakes rumbled across the continents, creating more fires and blinding smoke that blanketed the sun, blocking out its life-giving rays. Disease and sickness spread unchecked.

John shut his eyes to the destruction caused by a herd of demonic spirits spreading out over the earth to do the work of satan and the antichrist.

With the stench of death everywhere, John wearily asked, “Is that all?” But God was not finished with judgment until every wrong had been righted and every transgression punished. poison in the atmosphere continued to produce grievous sores; rotting corpses of sea creatures in the ocean produced nauseous fumes. A foul stench turned the stomachs of even the strongest men. With no pure water to quench their thirst, and toxic poisons in the sky burning up the ozone layer, the scorching sun burned the bodies of those dying slowly from starvation and thirst.

With suffering everywhere, no one trusted another. Fathers turned against sons, and mothers against their families. Driven by excruciating thirst for fresh water and food to satisfy their hunger, the earth was filled with rioting and looting, and a once civilized people murdered one another over something as insignificant as a piece of bread.

When it seemed as though nothing worse could happen, the antichrist called for the nations to attack Israel in the Promised Land. They knew that in God’s city—Jerusalem—the city of peace, people were smiling because of the blessings of God. There was water to drink and food to eat, and the city had not been influenced by the collapse of the corrupt monetary system of the world leader. None of those who were living under God’s protection in Jerusalem had the mark of 666 upon their foreheads or hands.

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