Truth Matters 010622: More on the Angels of God, the Judgments, and the Plagues

This is Truth Matters! Daily devotion with Dr. Cheryl Davis. Truth Matters is a ministry of The Truth Project whose mission is to empower men and women in the Christian faith to teach Biblical truth in the culture and the marketplace of ideas, using the Bible as a sacred trust of truth in sharing the message of Jesus.

Learn more about the ministry of The Truth Project at www.projecttruthmatters.com. We continue today with more about the angels of God, the judgments, and the plagues. Which go out to the kings of the earth and of the whole world to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.

Here, this is a key river. The Euphrates dries up. The sixth bowl is very similar to the sixth trumpet of Revelation Chapter 9, 13-21, as it is affecting the river Euphrates.

This judgment is in preparatory for the battle of Armageddon. The river Euphrates is dried up, and you'll learn more about this in Chapter 19, but God has twice dried up large bodies of water to accomplish his purpose. First, he pushed back the waters of the Red Sea, and that was allowed to Israelites to cross over. Second, 40 years later, he pushed back the waters of the Jordan so that the Israelites could cross over.

Here, he dries up the river Euphrates so that all the kings from the earth can come to the plain of Megiddo in preparation for the battle of Armageddon. All of the bowl judgments do not have parentheses in the middle. There's no break in between them.

They come very rapidly behind each other. But in verses 15-16, there is a parenthetical warning between the sixth bowl and the seventh bowl. Let's read verses 15-16. It says, And really, that is the theme of the tribulation, is that there's going to be a choice whether we worship the Antichrist or worship God. Worshipping God will come at a tremendous cost, but those that worship God will be redeemed and will be blessed. But the invitation is accompanied by a warning by those who do not watch. And it's interesting that the Lord has a parenthetical warning, even though through all these bowl judgments, they still continue to blaspheme his name and they do not repent. This just shows the never-ending mercy of God as even though he sees the condition of her heart, even though they seem to be going deeper and deeper into darkness with each bowl judgment.

So let's move on to the seventh bowl judgment in verses 17-21. You've been listening to Truth Matters with Dr. Cheryl Davis. Truth Matters is a ministry of The Truth Project, a North Carolina-based ministry dedicated to teaching biblical truth and sound theology to those inside and outside of the church. If you'd like to listen to these messages on demand, go to ProjectTruthMatters.com and click on the podcast link. Dr. Davis is also available to speak to your ministry group or church function. She can be reached by email at CherylDavis at ProjectTruthMatters.com. Or if you'd like to send a letter, the address is Project Truth Matters, Post Office Box 159, St. Paul's, North Carolina, 28384. You can hear Truth Matters weekdays on this radio station at 8.20 a.m. and 5.20 p.m. for the full-length teaching program on Saturday afternoon at 12.30. Until next time, let's all work together to teach a biblical truth to assist, equip, edify, and encourage one another and bring the gospel to the world because truth matters.