THE "GREAT EARTHQUAKE" OF REVELATION 16:17-21. On Wednesday December 7th 1988, three cities in Armenia fell by an earthquake so great that around 25,000 people were killed and an estimated 700,000 lost their homes. The city of Spitak was flattened. Leninakan, Stepanavan, and Kirovakan were also badly damaged.
Although at first sight this event would seem to
fulfil Revelation 16:17-21, on closer examination it can be proven that this was
not the case. When the seventh "trumpet" is blown,
not only will it herald that "The kingdom of the world [has] become the
Kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ", but it will also herald the
outpouring of the seventh "bowl". (11:15-19. 16:17). Only when the
seventh "bowl" is poured out will a
"great earthquake"
occur, one "such as had not occurred since men came to be on the earth, so
extensive an earthquake, so great. And the great city split into three parts,
and the cities of the nations fell; and Babylon the great was remembered in the
sight of God to give her the cup of the wine of the anger of His wrath."
(16:18,19). This scripture is a description of the spiritual
"earthquake" that is appointed to take place by the Spirit of the Lord's Judgement within the spirits of mankind. In this coming
"great
earthquake" at Har
THE FINAL ANGER OF GOD IS "UPON THE AIR"
(16:17). In accordance with the Judgement principle of God, there can be no faithful anointed sons of God living in locations subject to a calamity from God through fire, storm, sword, deluge, plague, drought, famine and earthquake. (See Gen 18:20-33). All counter-activity against the God-given Spirit work of anointed sons and witnesses of God on earth, including persecution of these members of the Spirit "body" of The Christ, is held to account as bloodguilt. Such guilt has both a literal and a spiritual connotation. An example of this is the 2,300 evenings and mornings during which the "disgusting thing" of unsealed JW 'elders' "standing in a holy place" supplanted faithful anointed sons of God in the spiritual "land" of Christ's congregations and spiritually "killed" them. (11:7-10). It was a progressive guilt leading up to open rebellion and apostasy, and merits only disgust. (17:5,6) (Matt 24:15. Dan 8:13,14).
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