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Revelation 15 is an introduction to the Vial Plague judgments of God from Revelation 16 and the chapter also praises God.



In Revelation 15, we discover one of God’s writing styles. Many times in the Bible, we initially find general information about a topic. Then, in later chapters or books, the topic is revisited with more detail or from a different perspective. We saw at the end of Revelation 14 that God’s wrath falls on those who are left behind after the Rapture. Chapter 15 opens with some heavenly details of God’s wrath, which is administered in seven steps through seven angels like the Trumpets Plagues. The Vial Plagues, unlike the Trumpet Plagues, are poured out full strength and without mercy to destroy much of creation. There is no opportunity to repent after Christ returns at the last Trumpet Plague and before the Vial Plagues fall on the Earth.



Then, the scene switches to the Saints who will praise God for His deliverance, which are the details of Revelation 14:1-5. In Exodus 15, the Israelites praised God with the song of Moses after God miraculously delivered them through the Red Sea from Pharaoh’s army. In Revelation 15, the remnant of Israel – 144,000 elect – will sing the Song of Moses to the Father God for miraculously delivering their ancestors through the Red Sea from Pharaoh’s army. The elected 144,000 will also sing a new Song of the Lamb to King Jesus for miraculously resurrecting them from death from the Antichrist Beast at the end of the Tribulation.



Finally, the scene switches back to the seven angels who will come out of the temple prepared to execute the Seven Vial judgments of God’s Wrath. God is not trying to get revenge with His enemies at this time nor is God mad at His enemies now. However, by the end of the Tribulation, Satan and 1/3 of heaven’s angels will have rebelled and will be cast out of heaven down to earth. The devil, the Antichrist and the New World Order Government Beast will have made the world take the Mark of the Beast and worship the Image of the Beast. The Trinity Beasts will have destroyed the Holy City and desecrated the temple and will have killed the Saints and Jews for refusing to take the Mark or worship the Image of the Beast. Now, God will be furious and He will not want to be in the company of anyone until the seven judgments of His Wrath are poured out full strength and without mercy to destroy the offenders and a good deal of creation. These are the only things that will quench God’s anger.



It is sad that humanity, the world and even God have to go through difficult times before we can ultimately have peace and happiness on earth. But don’t feel too bad because this is the best possible way to achieve God’s goals. We either do this thing God’s way or we do this thing God’s way.

Revelation 14 is a chiasm of the selected 144,000, which is a story of the elect told in reverse order.



The chapter opens with the Lamb and the 144,000 ruling in the Millennial Kingdom from Mount Zion with the name of the Father written in their foreheads. Moving back in time, we see these selected Israelites in heaven praising God with harps and loud singing. The next backwards event is “Three Flying Angels” who prophesy. It is a metaphor of how the 144,000 will preach three messages along with the gospel of the return of the King and His Kingdom in every language to every nation during the Great Tribulation. 99% of these Saints will be martyred by the Trinity Beasts. Then, King Jesus will come back before they are all killed to resurrect the dead and to rapture the remnant of the elect at the “Harvest of the Saints” (Mat 16:27-28, Mat 24:20-22).



The chapter closes with the harvest of the world, which is symbolic code of how God will pour out seven Vial Plagues of His Wrath on those of the Beast. It is sad that humanity, the world and even God have to go through difficult times before we can ultimately have peace and happiness on earth. However, this is the best way to accomplish God’s purpose. So, don’t feel too bad.

Revelation 13 is about the Trinity Beasts that will rule the world during the 7-Year Tribulation of Israel and the Saints. The Trinity Beasts are Satan (the Satanic Beast from the Sea), the Antichrist or False Prophet (the Antichrist Beast from the Earth), and the revived Roman Empire (the Empire Beast whose deadly head-wound will be healed).



The United Nations’ dream of a “One World Government” will come true because it is prophesied in the Bible. This union will be the previous world-ruling government, which will come back into power. The revived Roman Empire will consist of ten geographic colonies, three of which the Antichrist Beast will overthrow to become the ruler of the Empire Beast (Dan. 7:7-8).



The Tribulation will began when the Antichrist Beast brokers a Peace Agreement with Israel and Palestine for seven years (Dan 9:27). After the first three-and-a-half years of this Peace Agreement, the Satanic Beast will be cast out of heaven, and he will cause the Antichrist Beast to break the Peace Agreement with Israel. Then the Antichrist Beast will make everyone in the world remotely worship an image of the Empire Beast in the Tribulation Temple. He will also require all to receive a chip with an unique ID number of his name in the right hand or receive his name written on their forehead to buy or sell anything.



In 2 Peter 3:3-4, the Lord is mocked by sinners for taking so long to end the world and rule on earth. As with prior generations, the Apocalypse seems imminent to believers of Jesus. Today, we can see the framework and the principles of these prophecies being established. Moreover, the last generation will be able to completely understand end-time prophecies (Dan 12:8-9).

In the first eleven chapters of the Book of Revelation, God walks us through various, prophetic events related to King Jesus, which are told from the perspective of the Apostle John. The prophetic events include Christ’s relationship with the Laodicean Church age, His Father’s throne in heaven, the Seven Seals of Christ’s Scroll, up until the return of Jesus after the 7th Trumpet Plague to gather the Saints.



During Chapters 12-19, God retells this prophetic story of Christ with a focus on the Satanic Trinity Beast and the Harlot sub-theme, up until the return of Jesus after the 7th Vial Plague to fight the battle at Armageddon against the Beast.



We pick up the story in Revelation 12 of the birth of Messiah from the Woman Israel, told in the stars, which transforms into a prophecy of war in heaven. At that time, the dragon devil and his angels’ coup détat will be defeated and they will be exiled from heaven to earth. Then, the dragon devil will avenge his defeat by persecuting the Woman Israel who gave birth to Messiah. However, God will fight for the Woman Israel through His two prophets, Moses and Elijah, by plaguing the Earth and by delivering the Woman Israel to the cave-mountain city of Petra.



It is astonishing to behold that the Tribulation and the return of King Jesus may very well happen in this age that we are living in, today.

Revelation 11 continues the interlude between the sixth and seventh trumpets. Then, the seventh angel blasts his trumpet sound followed by the return of Christ.



The chapter begins with God sanctifying the temple, the altar and the worshipers there while leaving the outer court to be desecrated by Gentiles. This is a prophecy of how the Antichrist and the Gentile nations will invade Jerusalem and defile the temple during the Great Tribulation in Daniel 9:27. God will respond by bringing back Moses and Elijah to plague the Earth and the water, to preach repentance in Jerusalem and to prophesy of the coming King and His Kingdom for three-and-a-half years.



When the seventh angel sounds his trumpet, thunder and loud voices of praise are heard in heaven. There will also be a great hailstorm accompanied by lightning. King Jesus returns after the storm by the end of the chapter. The first time King Jesus comes back will be after the Seventh Trumpet Plague (Rev 10:5-7). He will return alone, riding on clouds. Then, He will resurrect the righteous and rapture the elect to meet Him in the air (1 Thes 4:15-17) to reward us and to take us to heaven for the “Marriage Supper of the Lamb and the Church (Rev 19:7-9).” After the supper and after the Seventh Vial Plague, King Jesus will return to earth, but this time the Saints will be following close behind Christ. We will all be wearing white robes and riding white horses. Then, King Jesus will fight the battle at Armageddon and He will destroy those who destroy the Earth (Rev 19:11-21).



The Seven Seals are seven major events of the 7-Year Tribulation and they are mostly caused by the Satanic Trinity Beast. The Seven Trumpet Plagues are God’s response to the Satanic Tribulation. They are a three-and-a-half year campaign that begins in the middle of the Tribulation and ends at the last plague when Christ returns to gather the Saints. Then, God pours out Seven Vial Plagues of His Wrath, which are full strength and undiluted. The Vial Plagues will endure for a couple of weeks. After the last Vial Plague, King Jesus will return with us to fight the battle at Armageddon.

Revelation 10 is an interlude that falls in between the sixth and the seventh Trumpet Plagues. The Chapter contains a prophecy about Jesus Christ reclaiming the Earth and the Sea at His return, and a prophetic message for the elect. Just before Jesus comes back, He will unleash seven horrible Thunder Plagues on the rebellious world. In verses 5-7, Jesus swears by the Father that when the seventh angel sounds his trumpet, the mystery of the return date of King Jesus will end. The chapter finishes with a prophetic metaphor of the 144,000 studying the seven Trumpet Plagues of the Scroll and then prophesying the return of the King and His Kingdom to every race, nation, language, and political leader during the Great Tribulation, which is the three-and-a-half-year period before Christ comes back.