Three Easy Questions

Three Questions when you read the chapter you wish to study:

1. What does the chapter say?

2. What does that mean – specifically – to me?

3. What am I going to do about it?

Some add an optional memory verse as a part of the process to

help them retain what God has said to them.

KV 2: Those who stand in God's Triumph

1 - 4: Victory over the darkness

5 - 8: God's glory is overwhelming

Seven Angels with Seven Bowls

Who are these angels?

• v.1 tells us – the last 7 plagues that finish

the wrath of God on sin and those who will

not turn to Him

With the advent of this group of Angels, the

Glory of God fills the Temple in Heaven and

no one is able to enter until the 7 bowls are

empty and that wrath is completed (v.8)

Overwhelming smoke and power fill the

heavenly sanctuary until the end of the

pouring out of God’s wrath.

The Overcomers

v.2 tells us that they are standing on a sea of glass mixed with

fire, with harps (Lyres? Guitars?), singing the Song of Moses

from Deuteronomy 32 (which is quoted here).

And do you think I could find a good picture of this?

NO WAY!

The Heavenly Temple

After the seven angels with the seven bowls emerge, the

temple is filled with “smoke and power.” Because of this,

no one may enter until the wrath of Almighty God is poured

out on those that will not choose to obey Him.

The AWESOME power displayed here is in part because of

the holiness of God – and how no one can approach Him

until sin is dealt with once and for all.

So what does this

mean?

God is HOLY!

God will NOT look on SIN (any violation of His holy standard)!

Before anyone can enter into the presence of God, their sin MUST

be dealt with appropriately!

But how do we DO that?

There are two ways to attempt to deal with your sinfulness:

1. Your way

2. HIS way

Let’s look at both ways and compare!

YOUR way:

Ritual and Rite of Religion

Good behaviour, thinking, or deeds (good works)

What does the Bible say about these methods?

“6 For all of us have become like one who is unclean, And all our

righteous deeds are like a filthy garment; And all of us wither like a

leaf, And our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.”

--Isaiah 64:6

HIS way:

Become human and pay the price to redeem you to Himself

That’s what Jesus did on the cross on a hill named “The Skull.”

Romans 6:23 – “The WAGES of sin is death, but the FREE GIFT

of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

2 Corinthians 5:21 – “He made Him who knew no sin to be sin

on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of

God in Him.”

Jesus said this:

“I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the

Father but through Me.” (John 14:6)

The only way to approach God is His way – Jesus. Call that

closed-minded if you like, but the Book says “whoever will may

come,” and that is as open as it gets.