Take Heart | Week Eleven | Understand the fullness of God’s wrath to come on the wicked
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I am with you
I will win
Chapter 15 - A heavenly vision introducing a new theme.
The wrath of God to come on the wicked.
Chapter 16 - The seven bowls of God’s wrath.
“Look, I come like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake and remains clothed, so as not to go naked and be shamefully exposed.” Revelation 16:15 (NIV)
Chapter 17 - The heavenly vision of the opposition.
Babylon the Great.
One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits by many waters. 2 With her the kings of the earth committed adultery, and the inhabitants of the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her adulteries.” Revelation 17:1-2 (NIV)
Chapter 18 - Promise to the faithful of Babylon’s fall.
4 Then I heard another voice from heaven say: “ ‘Come out of her, my people,’ so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not receive any of her plagues; 5 for her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her crimes. 6 Give back to her as she has given; pay her back double for what she has done. Pour her a double portion from her own cup. 7 Give her as much torment and grief as the glory and luxury she gave herself. In her heart she boasts, ‘I sit enthroned as queen. I am not a widow; I will never mourn.’ 8 Therefore in one day her plagues will overtake her: death, mourning and famine. She will be consumed by fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her. Revelation 18:4-8 (NIV)
If you were to be put on trial for being a Jesus follower, would there be enough evidence to convict you?