24 May 2020
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The Break in the Bowl Judgments, Part 3 (TMF:1380)

Friday, May 29, 2020
Peace to Live By: The Break in the Bowl Judgments, Part 3 (TMF:1380) - Daniel Litton
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       Consider the Wisdom of God, when King Solomon wrote: ““I, wisdom, dwell with prudence, and I find knowledge and discretion. The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate” (Proverbs 8:12, 13, ESV). As an aside, people have accused Christians of hate speech for agreeing with God and declaring evil what is really evil, and yet these accusers are actually the ones with the perverted speech that God hates. Satan has turned things backward, like he often does. And this time at the end will not be any different, but in fact far worse. God wants us to have prudence, knowledge, and discretion, hating evil. Back in Revelation, the angel declares that God has given the people of the world blood to drink for the evils they have accomplished, and obviously, rightfully so. The angel even says the bold statement, “It is what they deserve!”

The Break in the Bowl Judgments, Part 2 (TMF:1379)

Thursday, May 28, 2020
Peace to Live By: The Break in the Bowl Judgments, Part 2 (TMF:1379) - Daniel Litton
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       Anyway, this angel worships God, pointing out that he is holy, eternal, and responsible for these judgments which are taking place. In other words, God is just in what he is doing. Then the angel speaks of how these people, who are on the earth, are responsible for the blood they have shed, and he mentions the saints and the prophets. While this is a reference surely to the martyred saints of the Tribulation period, and the two witnesses who were slain (we didn’t go over this), it surely is also a reference to the collective sins of the human race, of unbelievers, who have, throughout time, gone against Christians by persecuting them and killing them. Remember, in Matthew 10, when Jesus sent out his twelve disciples, he said that judgment would be worst for those cities who didn’t accept the Gospel. Well, those folks haven’t accepted the Gospel. Consider the Wisdom of God, when King Solomon wrote: ““I, wisdom, dwell with prudence, and I find knowledge and discretion. The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil” (Proverbs 8:12, ESV).

The Break in the Bowl Judgments, Part 1 (TMF:1378)

Wednesday, May 27, 2020
Peace to Live By: The Break in the Bowl Judgments, Part 1 (TMF:1378) - Daniel Litton
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       God causes the waters to supernaturally become blood. We saw God do something similar to this in the third Trumpet Judgment, but at that judgment he just affected a third of the world’s fresh water supply. Now, all of it is gone. This will have a profound impact on the people who are trying to survive on the earth, and certainly forebodes what is to come—the utter destruction of everyone who is not right with God, their Creator. Then the Apostle John states the following: “And I heard the angel in charge of the waters say, “Just are you, O Holy One, who is and who was, for you brought these judgments. For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. It is what they deserve!” And I heard the altar saying, “Yes, Lord God the Almighty, true and just are your judgments!” (Revelation 16:5-7, ESV). Here, we see a break from the bowls of the wrath of God. John records that there is an angel who is in charge of the waters. So, here, we see a glimpse into the angelic world and one of the responsibilities of an angel, which is interesting.

Bowl #3- The Rivers & Springs of Water (TMF:1377)

Tuesday, May 26, 2020
Peace to Live By: Bowl #3- Bowl #3- The Rivers & Springs of Water (TMF:1377) - Daniel Litton
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       All of the oceans have this spoiled, stagnant water. And John tells us that this affect on the waters ends up killing every animal that resides within the oceans. All sea creatures become extinct. So much for the endangered species list. They all become extinct here, and God is righteous in doing that because he is the one who created these creatures in the first place. He created them, and he has the right to destroy them. Humans no longer have dominion over them. The third bowl is this: “The third angel poured out his bowl into the rivers and the springs of water, and they became blood” (Revelation 16:4, ESV). We just saw that God destroyed the oceans of the earth, making them laid waste, and now he moves to complete his destroying to the waters of the earth. This angel here is assigned the task of pouring out his bowl on the rest of the good, drinkable waters of the earth. All the rivers and other springs of water are ruined. They become unusable, and there is no more water to drink.

Bowl #2- The Life of the Oceans Die (TMF:1376)

Monday, May 25, 2020
Peace to Live By: Bowl #2- The Life of the Oceans Die (TMF:1376) - Daniel Litton
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       Next, we read: “The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became like the blood of a corpse, and every living thing died that was in the sea” (Revelation 16:3, ESV). This plague is going to affect all of the oceans of the earth. Notice that when the angel pours out his bowl, that all of the ocean waters of the world become like blood, and that like the blood of a corpse. What does John mean by the blood of a corpse? Well, let’s think about it. When a person dies, their blood certainly becomes stagnant in the body until the body is embalmed. So, the stagnant blood is the picture here. We can imagine that this blood just sitting in the body, not moving around anymore through the veins of the body, would probably become spoiled, so to speak, kind of like the spoiled, or stagnant water of a swamp. All of the oceans have this spoiled, stagnant water. And John tells us that this affect on the waters ends up killing every animal that resides within the oceans. All sea creatures become extinct. So much for the endangered species list.