The first vial will cause everybody who received the Mark of the Beast to get a single sore. This is what I think will happen, this sore is going to affect the person that has the mark, wherever the mark is that is where the sore will be. I think that this sore will be caused by the electronic device that will be planted under the skin. The forerunner’s technology uses a lithium battery. From studies that have been done it has been found that the lithium batteries can rupture under your skin. When that happens, a really nasty sore develops that does not heal.

Here is how I think God can do that. When these plagues are poured out, God is preparing to invade the earth. Jesus Christ is getting ready to come back with his troops. Before you invade someone you want to interrupt their communications, you want to disturb their command center, you want to mix them up so that they do not know what is about to happen. Isn't that how we fight modern war? Do you think that we are smarter than God? All He has to do is cause a high frequency sound to travel through the air breaking the little glass casing on the embedded chip under your skin to rupture. The skin will react to battery there will be a sore. This will affect the computer system, it will no longer be able to keep track of its assets or people. What is left of the economy will suffer, people will not be able to buy and sell. Taking the Mark of the Beast will not improve your situation in the long run. It will only cause you more problems.

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This vial causes all of the oceans to turn to blood, when they turn to blood everything in them dies. Many today are worshiping the creation instead of the Creator. God often pours out his judgment on whatever is being worshipped over Him. It may not be wrong to care about something, but if you put it before God you have made it an idol. Now the oceans are dead and everything in them is dead.

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The third vial is poured all upon the rivers and fountains of water. This turns them into blood. This is a terrible judgment because this means there is nothing left to drink on the earth. It is the natural judgment that follows after you turn the source of the rivers to blood which is the ocean, then naturally all of the water supply will be turned to blood. Imagine turning on your tap in your sink and all that dripped out was blood. When all of the water has turned to blood, there is a response that comes from under the altar 5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus. 6 For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy. 7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments. Whom is the response coming from? Who is under the altar? The tribulation martyrs, these are those that have been killed during the Seven Year Tribulation period. Remember earlier when they had asked God how long must they wait until they are avenged, and God told them to wait a little season until the rest of their brethren joined them. The number of martyred saints is complete and a cry comes out saying "God you are righteous, they liked to shed blood now you have given them only blood to drink." Can you imagine by this time how much blood has soaked the soil of the earth?

It is said that the life of the flesh is blood. Blood vibrates and it makes a sound, and God who has a very good hearing, heard righteous Abel's blood when his brother slew him. The fact is God had Israel make special sacrifices just in case somebody's blood was shed on the earth. Someone who has spilled another's blood and has caused them to die, may they have no idea what a terrible situation they have placed themselves in

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The forth vial produces a terrible oppressive heat. The sun is smitten in such a way that it scorches the earth. There are also Old Testament prophesies that tell us the same thing. What we are told in the Old Testament is that the sun will burn seven times hotter than it normally does. Isa 30:26 "Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound." It also says that the moon will be like the Sun, it will shine as if it is the Sun. You will only be able to move around at night, because that scorching sun of the day will kill you. That is seemed to be a natural consequence of the first and second vials. If you look at the ecology that has already been destroyed, then you know that the vapor canopy that used to be over us regulating the sun’s effect upon the earth is now gone. Nothing I read here sounds unreasonable, it seems to me like the natural order of disasters that would follow one upon another. That being said, the vials are ordered by God and not nature. We see the men who are being scorched blaspheming God, and continue to rebel against God. Notice here that God has power over the plagues, which means that he could stop them. Notice that these men never repent, never give God any glory, they keep right on blaming God for their troubles

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Art used by permission by Pat Marvenko Smith, copyright 1992.
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The Earth is plunged into absolute darkness. Notice what people are doing, they are gnawing their tongues in pain, because that sore didn't heal too well, they only have blood to drink, the sun is scorching them, and there is total darkness. Yet they still will not repent of their deeds. We are at a point where all modern convenience is gone and man is returned to a primitive state. This is the wrath of God. The plague would naturally follow once the sun probably burned hot enough to evaporate that blood then the clouds that would form over the earth would probably be very dark and ominous, until they just envelopes the whole earth.

The river is dried up, and the Kings of the East, and northern tribes, which is probably the remnant of Russia will come to fight against the Antichrist. While they are on their way, something happens. Three demonic spirits come forth out of the mouth of Satan, the Antichrist, and the False Prophet, they go and convince the kings of the world to go to Armageddon, to submit themselves to the authority of the Antichrist for a battle. Now why would these people who are opposed to the Antichrist put themselves under his rule and reign? They wanted the world for themselves, what has changed their mind. I think it is because there is something that they are afraid of more then the Antichrist, and they believe he is the only one that can lead them. What is it that they fear? It is New Jerusalem coming down from heaven. Christ and His armies are coming.

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There is something that I don't want you to miss before we move into the next vial. In verse 15 it says "Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame." I have to ask you some questions here. Read verse 14 and 16 and leave 15 out and see if that doesn't make a complete thought.

14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. 15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. 16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.

Doesn't 15 seem to be an interruption or an insert? It breaks the thought. This is what I think. I see Christ seeing this battle and this army, he knows this battle will be terrible. He is not writing to the world he is writing to the church. He wants us to understand what is going to happen, and why is He doing that? So that you and I will make the right choices about our spirituality, make the right choices about our lives. He is saying my coming will be sudden, and quick. It seems that the only ones that are going to make it to heaven are those that are watching and keeping their garments clean. Isn't it implied here, that if you are not watching, and you do not keep your garments, then at the coming of Christ is something that you will miss? Do you see it, why would he even put this verse here if there wasn't a possibility that you could miss the Rapture of the church?

There are a lot of people and preachers that tell you that you don't need to repent. One particular preacher in town where I Pastor was overheard saying when he heard a certain individual had gotten saved, "That is great, now that he is saved, he doesn't have to worry about living with his girlfriend any more." The person asked why, and the preacher replied, "because Jesus died for your sins that you did, the ones you are doing, and the sins that you will commit in the future, so you never have to repent again because they are all covered." They have kind of a twisted sense of what repentance is, it isn't just saying I am sorry I got caught. Repentance means to stop doing what is wrong, to turn around and get as far away from that sin as you can. Jesus is warning them please you are going to have to keep your life, doesn't it imply personal responsibility for how you live? He is saying be careful. What I have always felt when I have read this verse is that Jesus really cares about us, and this whole book is to get us ready and to make sure that we stay ready for the Rapture of the church.

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Now we have our seventh vial, it causes a mighty earthquake like has never been on this earth, mountains disappear, islands disappear, the earth is shaking and 100 pound hailstones are pounding the earth. When I see stuff like that I always try to tie into a natural way that this thing could happen, something reasonable and plausible. 

Here is my outlandish idea. New Jerusalem is coming down out of space, and that makes it a spaceship. People are on board. If New Jerusalem were placed inside of a crystal ball, it would be roughly the size of the moon. You already know that the earth and its tides are affected by the gravity of the moon. New Jerusalem will get into orbit around this earth. The gravitational pull of New Jerusalem will affect everything on this earth all at once. With that kind of gravity change you will get tidal waves that will wipe out the islands, the earth will shake greatly. It will no doubt shake the earth so hard that it will topple every mountain and city to the ground. It will also cause such a turbulence in the atmosphere, which it will pull what is left of the earths moisture high up into the atmosphere and the higher you pull that moisture up, and the colder it is up there, the bigger the ice that is going to form huge hailstones the size of a talent which is 100 pounds.