Seven Last Plagues Part 1: full transcript and answers

▶ 0:01 Today we’re going to be talking about what the Bible calls the seven last plagues in the book of Revelation. That concludes the wrath of God; it finishes it, brings it to an end. It says in Revelation 15:1, “I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous: seven angels having the seven last plagues, for in them the wrath of God is complete.” So these last seven are the end of these things. Now, here’s a little picture of the seven. There is no historical Bible evidence that any of these last plagues have literally taken place, so that only leaves one conclusion: there’s something going to happen before Jesus returns that will get the world’s population’s attention and leave them with a choice to repent and serve Jesus Christ or not repent. So something very influential is going to be happening in these last days to separate the good from the bad and give people a chance to accept Christ.

▶ 1:31 So the first angel poured out his bowl upon the earth, and there were painful sores on the people with the mark of the beast and those that worship the beast. In the book of Revelation, have you seen it? It didn’t pay to worship the beast; it didn’t pay to get his mark. They’re always being tormented; something’s always bad happening to them. The second angel poured out his bowl, and the sea became dead men’s blood, and all living souls in the sea die. Now, I don’t know how humans live in the sea, unless somewhere in the future we build cities underneath the ocean, but it could be on boats, could be those beside the sea, the oceans, and it could be an allegory. But anyway, the only place where men are dying in these seven last plagues is here in the sea, or things are dying; could be just the creatures of the sea.

▶ 2:44 Then he turns all the fresh water to blood for the martyrs. You remember back in the seals, there had to be a number of martyrs, people that had died for Jesus’ name, for Jesus’ way, for his book, for his truth. They had to be a certain number that were martyred, killed because they loved Jesus and served Jesus, before Jesus would return. And here we find it again in these last plagues: he gives these people that murder God’s people the blood to drink, and the angel said, “This is just, because they shed your people’s blood, and you’ve given them blood to drink.” Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl, and he had power to scorch people on earth with severe heat, and they blasphemed God; they spoke evil of God and they blasphemed God’s name. They would not give God any glory, would not give God any honor, after all the other plagues before and now this one. So you know, there’s a hardness in people’s hearts somewhere that even these things cannot turn around.

▶ 4:13 And then the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the seat of the beast, and the kingdom was full of darkness. The people of his kingdom gnawed (they chewed their tongues for pain); they were in such pain that they bit their tongues to find relief, and they blasphemed God because of the pains and the sores. See, they still got the sores of the first plague, and they talked bad about God and evil about God for these pains and the sores, and who, recognizing that God is the one who had the authority over these plagues. And it says they repented not of their deeds. And it’s our deeds that we’re going to be judged by, not what church you go to, not your baptismal certificate. And you got to remember, people cannot repent unless the Word is preached. See, and how can they hear the Word unless there’s a preacher? So the saints are still here, preaching, both by example and by their mouth, speaking the Word of God, and they won’t repent, just like in the days of Noah, just like in the days of Lot.

▶ 5:43 Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl, and the Euphrates River became dry; the kings of the east were going to cross over the river. It made the way for the kings of the east to come, and I’m sure you know who the kings of the east are; everybody knows that Sunday school story. Huh? Yeah, you’re looking at me like, “Yeah, really?” It doesn’t tell us who the kings of the east are, but we know that kings came from the east when Jesus died. So it doesn’t have to be China, it doesn’t have to be India, as these theory people tell us, because they’re east of Jerusalem. Anyway, the kings of the east. The demons come out of Satan, the mouth of Satan, the mouth of the beast and the mouth of the false prophet, and they come out as frogs.

▶ 6:51 Now, when I traveled to third world countries and we’re ministering down there, they tell me, you know, that they cast a demon out and it came out as a spider, and it came out... I go, “Folks, that is not Bible. Demons are spirit; they don’t come out as anything. They come out the way they went in: a spirit.” You can’t take a verse in Revelation that’s metaphoric, illustrating something, and then say demons come out of us in some kind of fashion. Are you with me? But see, we have these extreme things going on all over the world in the church world because we don’t know our Bible. Now, you got to remember, this frog came out of Satan himself. Can we see Satan? No. The frog came out of the beast. It’s possible that we can’t see this beast that everybody is so sure is going to be a group of nations and a group of kings, and it came out of the false prophet. Just getting your mind to think.

▶ 8:01 You know, we read books in the Christian bookstore, and when we read the Bible we just read it right in, but if we just use a little common sense, we can get real Bible truths here. Okay, hallelujah. Does Satan need something coming out of his mouth to influence the earth with demonic power? No, because he already has an army of demon men doing that. Ain’t that right? So see, he’s illustrating. He’s illustrating now. And so they come for war; he gets all the nations to come for war at the place of Armageddon (Armageddon, as I’ll show it to you in a minute). And then he says, “Behold, I come as a thief in the night.” Now, have we heard that statement before? Yeah, Jesus said, “I come as a thief.” The apostles said it. And so, he says, you know, that’s because no one knows when the thief is coming. The thief doesn’t announce himself, because if he did, you’d be ready to blow his head off. So Jesus is coming; nobody knows when he’s coming, and this is where the [unclear] really miss it, folks. We just don’t know. Can’t we get it? But anyway, now he says this is the place where he’s coming as a thief. This is it. Are you there?

▶ 9:47 And he also says he’s going to bless those whose garments are white and righteous. He’s going to bless those that are living for him. And so, where are the saints? Still here on earth. And what’s with this rapture thing? They’re still here. These are the seven last plagues, and we’re still here; we’re preaching, and we’re walking in righteousness, and God is blessing us in the middle of all these plagues. Now that’s a God, amen. That is a God. He’s worth something; he can do things for his people, those who serve him. He can do something for them. “He that watches and keeps his garment, blessed are they,” he says, “lest you walk naked and they see his shame.” See, righteousness is our garment and unrighteousness is our shame, and that’s all through the Bible. Isn’t that right? Hallelujah.

▶ 11:10 Now, here is a picture, or map, of a map with the Euphrates River right here. As you follow it north, it goes into where the Garden of Eden used to be. How many already knew where the Garden of Eden was? All right, now the rest of you just found out where the Garden of Eden was. The Euphrates was found its head in the Garden of Eden, along with four other rivers. Okay, now let me ask you something. 150 years ago, when the rapture theory came out, we didn’t have airplanes, amphibious vehicles and so forth. So the Euphrates River drying up, yeah, we could get across the Euphrates. Well, they got to get across the Tigris first. The Tigris is another big river. Why wouldn’t it dry up? Have I got your brain thinking? But see, back then it was horses, and yeah, the river dry, man, they can come right across. Well, they got a lot of mountains and they got a lot of rivers to cross, if the Chinese and the Indians and all these eastern nations are going to come over and destroy and fight a battle at Armageddon there in Israel.

▶ 12:31 All right, are you with me? Do we need a dry river to get across today? No, we just drop them out of the air. Amphibious vehicles could land here, and our troops are just running up there with their Humvees and all these vehicles, and, man, we’re right there. We don’t need no Euphrates River dried up. But see, they didn’t know that back then. Their little human minds were trying to figure this out with the knowledge that they had then. Are you there? So obviously this dry river Euphrates has nothing to do with anything except in the spiritual. Amen. And these are spiritual illustrations, as we will see.

▶ 13:22 Now, here’s Israel, and this is where all the theory people have all the armies congregating down here at Armageddon. It’s a series of mountains in southern Israel, and this is where they have the whole big war going on. Now, folks, let’s use some common sense. The eastern kings: we are tagging China, India and all those eastern nations with a tag because they’re east of Israel. Now, do you think they’re the only nations that don’t like God? You know, south of that is Africa, and there’s a lot of nations that, you know, there they still worship the devil and demons and stuff like that in there, and Muslim has a big hold in Africa. You got Australia, farther south than that, you got South America. Now, you think all those nations are for Jesus? Come on. You know that’s not true. Ain’t that right? So see, he’s not talking about really eastern nations, China and all that. These theory people just don’t get it.

▶ 14:42 And something is a theory because what? It can’t be proven as a fact; it doesn’t work every time. That’s why, when I was witnessing to a couple of young men, I told them evolution is a theory. They said, “No, it’s a fact.” I said, “No, it’s a theory; they can’t prove it.” They teach it like it’s a fact, but it’s a theory because they have no evidence to prove what they’re saying. None. I said, “Did you know the scientific method?” “No.” I said, “Well, how can you stand on science and not know how science works?” So I told them the scientific method. It’s a good method, but scientists need to use it. Ain’t that right? They need to use it themselves. And anyway, these theories we have about the second coming is, number one, a theory, when they say they know when he’s coming and the Bible plainly says what we don’t know. We just know he’s coming, and that’s good enough for me. How about you?

▶ 15:58 Now, let’s get back to the seventh plague. He poured out his bowl, and God said, “It is done.” This is it. This is the end of the wrath, the end of the plagues. There was a great earthquake, and the great city was divided into three parts; the cities of the nations fell. New York just went down, just like that. Aren’t you glad you’re living in [unclear], not LA? How many, you know, if you’re serving God in LA, if that nation falls, God’s going to... what? He’s going to protect you. He’s God, folks. There’s no islands and no mountains; they’re gone. Now, that’s a big thing, but we already found back there at the sixth seal that the islands and mountains were gone. When did they reappear? Are you guys out there, do you ever think this way? I’m going to show you a little later, we’re going to go back to the sixth seal: the islands and the mountains were gone back then; how did they appear again? You see, in other words, this cannot be literally and in chronological order, because there’s the several clashes here, as we will see in a minute. Are you interested?

▶ 17:33 You see, these people can write books and all this, and we read their books and we get all hyped up and we don’t go check the book, and then we fight over (the Christians literally fight over) their belief in the end times, when Jesus plainly said nobody knows the day or the hour. We act like we got it down. Somebody’s predicting it to happen this month, and he’ll be wrong again. I told the church when I was in my 20s that I would not see the return of Jesus Christ. Why? Everybody just thought I was a heretic, but I’d read enough of the book to know there’s some things has to be done, and also read enough of the book to know that God wouldn’t come just because he wanted to show him wrong, even... he just, you know, like this 2012. Yeah, there’s going to be a big embarrassment next year. God’s got this stuff on his calendar anyway. Hail came down; they blaspheme God again, they speak evil of God.

▶ 18:48 Now, let’s take a look at some interesting Scriptures here. Here we go. I just listened to [unclear] Lindsay last week on TV. I was channel surfing there, and he was, and sure enough, he went here and he quoted this verse, and then talked about all the wars going on and all the rest, and I sat there and, gosh, Almighty, this guy’s making millions of bucks lying to people. Read this verse with me: “Immediately after the tribulation” (what’s this, “before tribulation” stuff?) “of those days shall the sun and moon be darkened.” Is that what we have over in Revelation, the sun and moon darkening? Isn’t that what we saw? “The stars shall fall from heaven.” Is that what Revelation said? I mean, John is just writing what was already written. “The powers of the heaven shall be shaken.” Two things here. Number one, when is he coming, before or after tribulation? After. It plainly says it, doesn’t it?

▶ 20:12 So they got to have the rapture, a “many return”: he doesn’t really come and everybody see him; he just kind of comes and we get caught up, and then everybody sees our clothes laying around and our car just drives off and hits a telephone pole, and, you know, and then they go, “What’s going on? What’s going on?” But the scripture says every eye shall what? See him. So number one, he’s coming after tribulation. Number two, all these stars, all these moon and sun being darkened, the powers of heaven shall be what? Shaken. The powers, the supernatural rulers in heaven, shall be shaken. Are you hearing me? So what’s this moon and stuff got to do with it? It’s got to do with the powers. Remember, we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers and spiritual wickedness in high places, heavenly places. See, there’s a war going on in the spirit realm, and he’s illustrating to us with natural things what’s happening in spiritual things. Now that was good, church.

▶ 21:39 “And then they shall see the sign of the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. All the earth shall mourn. Angels will gather together his elect from one end of heaven to the other.” So see, wars and rumors of wars aren’t the sign of his coming; earthquakes and famines and plagues are not the sign of his coming. His sign of his coming is him coming. Are you there? See, it’s just like Pentecostals and charismatics, of which I got saved in, said that tongues were evidence, a sign, of the baptism of the Holy Ghost. The Bible never says that. We just made a statement because that’s how we got the ghost, and so we just made a new law; we wrote our own law that you had to speak in tongues to be filled with the Holy Ghost, and the Bible doesn’t say that at all. Are you there?

▶ 22:41 And Pentecostals and charismatics just believe that without going and searching the Scriptures. Now, there’s nothing wrong with speaking in tongues; the Bible says, “Forbid not to speak in tongues.” But when you condemn somebody because they don’t speak in tongues, that’s a real problem, because if God doesn’t give them tongues, they’re never going to get it. But there’s a lot of other things that are expressions of the Holy Ghost, isn’t there? And what’s the top one? Wisdom. The nine gifts of the Spirit: what’s the first one? The word of wisdom. Where’s tongues? Way down at the bottom. Are you there? And he said, “Do all speak with tongues?” No. “Do all prophesy?” No. We just got to let God be God in us. Could that be an amen? Hallelujah. We don’t need to fight and quarrel with one another because one of us don’t have something another does. We just need to flow together to the goodness of the Lord and let God be God in us.

▶ 23:52 Anyway, let’s continue. Luke 21:25: “There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars, and on earth distress of nations and perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring.” Now, that sounds a lot more clear to me than the blood, that sea turning to blood. I can understand how people can die when the sea starts roaring: tsunamis and all that, that creates problems for us humans, doesn’t it? And, yes, our blood is shed. “Men’s hearts failing them for fear and expectation of those things which are coming on the earth.” I mean, these people are going to be shaken in their shoes and their knees are going to be knocking, and they’re still going to not repent, and they’re going to blaspheme God. This is what Revelation is trying to illustrate for the powers of heaven. What? The powers of heaven will be shaken; they will be destroyed.

▶ 25:01 So the beast, Satan and the false prophet are what? Powers in heavenly places, spiritual wickedness in spiritual places. Amen. And we try to reduce it down to some antichrist. The Bible never says that the son of perdition is the antichrist, or that the beast is the antichrist. The theorists say that; they can never find a verse that says that those three people are the same, and I can show you verses where they’re not. The powers of heaven; don’t forget that. Then they will see Jesus, what? Coming in the clouds with power.