Welcome here to our morning service at Calvary Baptist Church of Trehearne. Also, once again, welcome to those in tune with us via internet and FM signal here in town. Welcome. Please open your hymnals on number 57. Five, seven. Jesus, I am resting. Number 57. Jesus, I am resting, resting in the joy of what the world I am finding of the greatness of thy love Thou hast made me gaze upon Thee, and Thy beauty fills my soul. Formed by Thy transforming power, Thou hast made me whole. Jesus, I am resting, resting in the joy of Finding out the greatness of thy loving heart Simply trusting thee, Lord Jesus, I behold thee as the Word And a love so pure, so gentle, satisfies my heart ♪ Satisfy its deepest longing ♪ ♪ Be supplies its every need ♪ ♪ Compass it me round with blessing ♪ ♪ That is love in Thee ♪ ♪ Jesus, I am resting, resting ♪ in the joy of the world, I am finding all the greatness of the loving heart. Ever lift thy face upon me, as I work and wait for thee, Pristine in thy smile, Lord Jesus, where dark shadows flee. Bright is of my Father's glory, sun shines of my Father's face. keep me ever trusting resting fill me with thy grace jesus i am resting resting in the joy of Let's go for it Bristow. Our Heavenly Father, we are thankful that we can rest in Thee. We don't have to be troubled. We don't have to be worried about what's going on around us. We can trust in Thee and we can rest in Thee, knowing that we have a God who knows the beginning from the end. We have a God who is able to keep us safe in His hand. And we have a God who is able to bring us safely into our heavenly home if we're saved. So we pray for each one that's listening today. Thou knowest each heart and pray for anyone that's not saved, that they might see their need to humble themselves and to turn to Thee in repentance, to know Thy forgiveness and peace in these days of grace. We continue to pray for the peace of Jerusalem, pray for the soldiers that are out there seeking to hunt down the terrorists, pray for many of those soldiers that they would get saved, and we do pray even for some of those terrorists that they would get saved as well and realize the wickedness that's in their hearts. They might desire Thy forgiveness and blessing. We pray for The countries that claim to be allies of the nation of Israel, pray for the salvation of many in Canada, United States, and France, and England. Countries that are saying, yes, we support Israel, we back them, and yet most of them are lost, and most of them have stood back and allowed Israel to fend for themselves in the past. And we pray that many would get saved in these days of grace that we have yet. And we look forward to the soon return of Thy Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. And we pray that Thy will would even be today. But we do want many more to be saved as well. So may Thy will be accomplished. And may we be faithful here. And may we have the boldness that we need to honor Thee and to proclaim Thy name to all that come. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen. And over to 456. 456. He is precious to me. 456. So precious is Jesus, my Savior, my King His praise all the day long with rapture I sing To Him in my weakness for strength I can cling For He is so precious to me For He is so precious to me For He is so precious to me T'es heaven below My Redeemer to know For He is so precious to me He stood at my heart's door with sunshine and rain, And patiently waited an entrance to gain. What shame that so long he entreated in vain, For he is so precious to me. For He is so precious to me For He is so precious to me Says heaven below My Redeemer to know For He is so precious to me I stand on the mountain of blessing at last No cloud in the heavens are shadowed to cast His smile is upon me, the valley is vast For He is so precious to me For He is so precious to me For He is so precious to me T'est heaven below, my Redeemer to know For He is so precious to me I praise Him because He appointed a place Where someday true faith in His wonderful grace I know I shall see Him, shall look on His face For He is so precious to me For He is so precious to me For He is so precious to me There's heaven below My Redeemer to know For He is so precious to me Over to 459. 459. He lefted me. 459. In loving kindness Jesus came My soul in mercy to reclaim And from the depths of sin and shame Through grace He lifted me A seeking Son, He lifted me A tender hand, He lifted me From shades of night to glens of light, O praise His name, He lifted me. He called me long before I heard, Before my sinful heart was free. But when I took him at his word, forgive he lifted me. From sinking sun he lifted me, with tender hand he lifted me. O praise His name, He lifted me. His brow was pursed with vain a turn, His hands like over hills were turned. Went from my guilt and prayed for Lord, In love He lifted me. From sinking sun, He lifted me With tender hand, He lifted me From shades of night to plains of light O praise His name, He lifted me In the higher glade I dwell And with my soul I know this well Yet how or why I cannot tell He should have lifted me From sinking sun He lifted me With tender hand He lifted me ♪ From seeds of night to plants of light ♪ ♪ O praise his name, he lifted me ♪ Take your Bibles and turn to the book of Revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ, chapter 16. Revelation chapter 16, we're going to read the first seven verses there. Stand please for the reading of God's word. Revelation chapter 16, beginning there at verse one, it says, and I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, go your ways and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth. And the first went and poured out his vial upon the earth, and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image. And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea, and it became as the blood of a dead man, and every living soul died in the sea. And a third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters, and they became blood. 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. For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink, for they are worthy. And I heard another out of the altar say, even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments. Our Heavenly Father, we're thankful again that we have thy word, thankful again for this warning that was given by the Apostle John almost 2,000 years ago now, given to the people of his time and every generation since then, where we have been given this warning of what's coming, a very dangerous time upon this earth, a time that no one will really look forward to except for the Antichrist. But he will be deceived and he will be struggling to try to keep some semblance of sanity during his short reign. We pray, Father, today that anybody listening to me that is not saved, that they might see the time of salvation is now. No one should be sitting and saying, well, I'll wait until this time comes because that will be too late. The need to turn to Thee now. We pray that Thy will be accomplished. We pray for clarity of mind and for boldness to proclaim Thy word faithfully. Help us to set aside the distractions that would hinder us from hearing what is being said. so that we can receive the blessing that thou wouldst have for us. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen. You may be seated. So if we go back to our chart here on the wall, we have come through the last interval that there is, which is the 14th chapter here, and now we're in chapter 16. Chapter 15 gives a summary of what we're looking at now. Chapter 16, is giving us the breakdown of the seven vials that are coming, that are going to be opened now by God, by the angels in heaven. And here in the description of the things that the seven vials pertain to. So that's where we are in the charge here. And keep in mind again that everything that we're looking at right now is still in the future. It's being prophesied from the time of John. It has not happened. There are different religious organizations that some of them believe it has happened. Some of them believe we're living in the tribulation. They don't believe in a literal seven-year tribulation period, which the Bible clearly teaches. They believe in an open-ended tribulation time frame. And then there are those who believe that we're living in the time of the millennium. So there's all kinds of false teaching out there, but the Bible is the word of God, and we need to take what the word of God says and believe that. So the Bible tells us, the title, by the way, this morning is God's judgments are righteous. God's judgments are righteous. Peter warns in 2 Peter chapter 3 that in the last days there will be scoffers. And the Bible tells us that we are living in the last days. And we know that there are many scoffers today, many people who do not believe what the Bible says. It's very interesting talking with a man this week who believes in evolution and it's very interesting how many people have bought the lie of evolution when there's no evidence at all for evolution but there is abundance of evidence for creation. everything that we see. People have to have a split mind to believe in evolution because in evolution everything happened by chance. And yet they go into their car, they stick the key in the ignition, a vehicle that was designed by somebody or some people that was built in a factory that they have to stick a key in to start and drive that thing. They go into a house that was built by contractors. They have the plumbing that was put in by plumbers. They have the electrician that come in and hook up the electrical. and so on and all of that is by design but somehow they believe that they happen to be here by accident. It doesn't make sense. It's not rational thinking. It's not science. It's what the Bible calls science falsely so called. The Bible says that. It warns of people who develop their own philosophy of life and call it science, just like our Prime Minister did for the last three years. We're following the science. And even now, anybody that denies the lies of the last three years He says, you're science deniers. No, science does not support what he's been lying to us about. It doesn't support it at all. And there's lots of evidence out there to refute what they have been trying to cram down our throats. So as we look at the many scoffers that are out there today, even when we look at the passage that we're looking at here, and people say, well, yeah, that's just mythology, that's not gonna happen, there's no way that that's going to happen. Well, just if you wanna be a scoffer, go ahead, but you will find out that everything that God says is true, and it is going to happen just as he says it will. So the first thing that we see in this passage is the command to pour out the vials. Now in chapter 15, which we looked at last week, you see there in verse 1 it says, and I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous, seven angels having seven last plagues, for in them is filled up the wrath of God. Now we go to chapter 16 and verse one. And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, go your ways and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth. So chapter 16 is going back to the summary statement of chapter 15, and now it is putting more meat on that skeleton of chapter 15. So that's what we have in chapter 16 and following. So that's a way to understand the Bible. There's no repetition. There's no contradiction. It's just that sometimes God gives us a summary statement, like when in Bible school, the school that I went to, we wrote a lot of papers, but we never had to write a thesis. So one of the courses that I took I took my correspondence from a different Bible school because it wasn't being offered in the one I was at, and they expected me to write a thesis. Well, at that time, I had no idea what is a thesis. What am I supposed to be writing here? And so I went to the dean of students in the school that I was at and asked him, what is this here? We don't do that here. What are they asking me to do here? And he says, well, I'll talk to them and tell them to just skip that and just write the paper. And so that's what I did. But a thesis, from my understanding, is an overview of what you're going to be presenting in your paper. So it's a summary of what you're going to now flesh out. So chapter 15 here gives us a summary of what we have in chapter 16 and on. So it's a command here in verse, it says again in verse one of chapter 69, I heard a great voice. One of the things that we understand from God and from his word is God is not working in a secretive manner. He's not trying to hide what he's doing. If you go back in your Bibles to Psalm 19, Psalm 19. As I mentioned already in the introduction, the evolutionist who believes in chance over billions of years, and the Bible says in Psalm 19 and verse 1, the heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament showeth his handiwork. So anybody, anybody, young person, Jeremy, can look up into the sky and he can see the clouds. He can see the stars. He can see the birds flying there. And he can see all of that. And he can, at his age, start to wonder, what is that and how did that get there? Children think. They're given brains by God. They don't know how to express what they're thinking so much, but they have... That's why when the child becomes two or three years old, one of the questions that they have is, why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? They want to know. They have a curiosity that's built into them by God. They want to know. And the wise parent is the parent who can sell them, tell them, you can relate everything back to God. Because that's what everything comes from that we have that is good. It's from God. The evil in our world that we see is because man rejects God. So it's all directed to God, either following God or rejecting God. So as we look at the sky, and again, that's speaking loudly. There's nowhere in our world you can go where you don't see the sky, unless you're a miner going down into the earth to mine gold or coal or something like that. But everywhere you go, you see the sky. And I remember the first time I was in a jet, and we got up above the clouds. And first of all, when we left the ground, and I'm looking out the window, and I see the cars, and they're looking like dinky toys. And that to me was, you know, I'd never seen that before, but they were so small as we're going up. And then we got up above the clouds, and it looked so wonderful to me. And I took a picture of it to send to give to my wife, couldn't send it back then and didn't know such a thing as a cell phone. But I took pictures out the window of these clouds, I wanted her to see what I was seeing. And of course, the pictures didn't do justice to what I had seen. I'm not a good photographer anyway. So, but it was just amazing to me to see that and to think that this all just happened by accident. That's just that you have to put your brain in neutral in order to believe that. But here we see that God, or this voice, it doesn't say God, but it says this great voice from heaven. It's talking, it's a great voice. God wants us to know what's coming. And so here this voice, when this time comes, John heard it in prophetic fashion, but when this time comes, that great voice is going to declare to the seven angels, Go your ways and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth. Now, many people don't want to believe that God can be a God of wrath, but He is. He's a God of love, there's no doubt about that. He loves man. He loves us more than we'll ever understand on this earth. That's why he sent the Lord Jesus Christ to die on the cross of Calvary for our sins, because he knew there was no way for us to save ourselves. There was no way for us to change the path that we were on by ourselves. We have AA and all kinds of different kinds of reforms going on in our world, but none of them can change the heart of man. They're unable to do that. Only God can change the heart of man. And that's what we need. We need to have our hearts changed. And then from that, our lives will be changed. So God is a God of love, but he's also a God of wrath. He has every right. He's the only one that has a right to be jealous in this sense. He's a jealous God. Exodus chapter 20 tells us that as well as a few other places. He's a jealous God. Why is he jealous? Because he made man for a specific purpose. He made man to glorify him. And so when man chooses to scoff at God and to blaspheme his holy name and to make fun of him and to reject him and to make up their own God, he has every right to be jealous because that's not how he designed man. It's not the purpose he had for man. So he has every right to be jealous, and he has every right to be full of wrath towards those who constantly say, no, I'm not interested in you, get out of my life, I don't want anything to do with you. When he gives man his very breath, nobody would be breathing if God didn't give us breath. Nobody would be eating if God didn't set the conditions for us to be able to eat, to grow the crops to eat them. And so rather than believing the lies of our Prime Minister and others that climate change is a problem and we need to stop raising cows and we need to eat crickets instead and all that kind of garbage, instead of believing that, we need to turn to God. The climates have been changing since the time of the flood. Prior to the flood, the Bible says the earth was watered by a mist. It was like a greenhouse. But since the flood, we've had rain. And the results of the flood is what caused the so-called ice age. But we have glaciers and so on. That was not there prior to the flood. That's the result of the flood and the changes that took place in the world because of the flood. That's what made the changes. And so that's important for us to understand these things. And so when people develop a philosophy that's anti-God, He has every right to have wrath towards them. And the Bible says that the time is coming, and keep in mind this is after the midpoint of the tribulation, so we're three and a half years plus into the time of the tribulation. Again, no Christian that's alive on earth at the time of the rapture will go into the tribulation. Everybody that enters into the tribulation is lost. That's what the Bible says. And then God will raise up 144,000 Jewish virgin men. who will be saved during the time of the tribulation, and they will be preachers, evangelists in that time, and others will get saved through their preaching. There will also be two witnesses in Jerusalem that will be saved during that time, and they will be witnesses for God, and they will be able to do miracles, and they will be such bold witnesses for God that the world will hate them. And they will be happy when they are murdered and they will lay in the streets of Jerusalem for three days and three nights and the world will be throwing a party. It'll be similar to what if you were able to see on the news what was going on with Hamas since yesterday. They were rejoicing. Iran, the president of Iran, congratulated the president of Hamas, the leader of Hamas, for the invasion of Israel. And they were showing off the dead bodies that they had shot. Old people, young people, didn't matter. They had killed them. And other ones that they were torturing. The Hamas is celebrating their wicked ways right now. Well, when the two witnesses are killed in the streets of Jerusalem, the world is going to see that. The world that's around at that time. And there's going to be a massive party that the world is going to throw because they're going to be so happy that these two witnesses are out of the way. They're not going to realize it's not a good thing that those witnesses have been killed. but they're too hardened in their sin to recognize the danger that they're in. So the Bible says that at this point here, these last seven judgments that are coming, these vials of the wrath of God are about to be poured out upon the earth. So let's look then, secondly, at the first vial. The first vial, it tells us in verse two, and the first went, its first angel, and poured out his vial upon the earth, and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon men, which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image." Now on the chart over there, it says that these noisome and grievous sores are like boils. And that's true. They're a very ugly sore that is going to be on all the people. It's like a sore that's going to be oozing pus. So you won't be able to wear clothing properly because the pus is going to come out and it's going to soak into your clothing and then it's going to dry onto your clothing and then if you take your clothing off you're going to open those wounds up again. It's going to be a mess on everybody. And keep in mind that this particular vial is going to affect those who took the mark of the beast and those who worshipped his image. So as I mentioned, there will be people that will get saved during the time of the tribulation. This noisome, grievous sore will not affect them. So we know that God is able to separate the good from the bad. We know that from the time when the nation of Israel was in Egypt and God sent Pharaoh to warn, sent Moses, sorry, to warn Pharaoh and tell him to let the nation of Israel leave Egypt. And the Pharaoh didn't believe in God. He didn't want to listen to what Moses had to say. And after the first couple of plagues, the Bible says that God separated the land of Goshen, which is in Egypt, But God separated the land of Goshen from the rest of Egypt and the plagues that came upon the rest of Egypt did not affect the children of Israel who were living in Goshen. And so this plague that we have here, these sores, is similar to the sixth plague that was in effect in the time of the Pharaoh when Moses was warning him to let the nation of Israel go. So this is similar to that. So we've seen in the Bible something similar to this before in the Old Testament. So it tells us here again that this first plague is going to affect those that take the mark and worship the beast. So it reminds me, again, there are many things. When you look at our world, as I was mentioning to someone this week, that history, if we don't wanna learn from history, we're gonna repeat it. That's a fact. If we can't learn from previous mistakes, we're gonna repeat them. And that's evidenced all around us. And so yes, as we look at our world today, we see that while we fly in jets today and they used camels in the past, but the basic nature of man has not changed. And in every generation you have the same kind of problems. You have prostitution, you have all kinds of immorality, you have murder, you have stealing going on, you have lots of different kinds of corruption taking place, you have governments that are like dictators and so on. History repeats itself. We have a man in power in Canada right now that is, he must have studied the life of Hitler. because he is a dictator. He came into power very much like Hitler did, and he has slowly been clamping down, and his goons that are working around him are all very much like the Gestapo. Nobody, except for this week, one liberal politician finally stood up and said, no, we should not be using the carbon tax the way that we are. He's realizing that it's hurting the whole country. But the majority are just, what do you want me to do next, Mr. Trudeau? What do you want me to do next, Mr. Trudeau? They're just so hungry for their money and power that they refuse to think. And in the last three years, we have seen that many people, just as it talks here about those that take his mark, Many people across the world, but in Canada also, have taken the shot, which is not the mark of the beast, but it's a poison shot. Many people have died as a result of the shot, and many people are facing adverse effects as a result of the shot, and that's in the news, not the mainstream media. They're hiding it, they're lying about it, but it's out there. There are doctors that are speaking out. Our government is trying to silence them, but they're still speaking out. They're still able to get their message out, and they're not liars. They're doctors. They're well-trained. They know what they're talking about. And they're trying to warn people. But most people don't want to hear it. But that's a picture. What we have seen in the last three years is a picture of what is going to be happening here in these seven vials. It's a picture. Making sure you understand that. I'm not saying this is one of the seven vials. It's a picture. It's a type. It's a forerunner to what is coming. So that's the second vial here that is going to be a very destructive. Sorry, first vial is going to be very destructive on humanity that's on this earth at that time. who has rejected God. And keep in mind that anybody that takes the mark of the beast cannot be saved. They have signed their death warrant. It's too late for them. Anybody that will take the mark of the beast is finished. And they will be at the battle of Armageddon, they will be slaughtered and cast into hell and then later into the lake of fire. It's too late. We're not living at that time today, but there is a point when God says to a person, you're done. The person's still alive, but they've hardened themselves to the place where they won't get saved. You and I don't know when that point comes, but God warns about that in the Bible. He gives every individual the opportunity to be saved. But a person that continues to say no to God hardens himself over and over again. Eventually God says, okay, that's how you want it. Go for it. Have it your way. God doesn't give in and say, okay, okay, you can have it your way and you can still go to heaven. No, he just says you can have it your way, but the result of your way is going to be hell. So there's many warnings that the Bible gives that people need to pay attention to. So the second point that we have here, or the third point that we have here, sorry, I got a typo in my notes. is the second and third vials. In verse three it says there, And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea, and it became as the blood of a dead man, and every living soul died in the sea. Now it's interesting in this second vial that God deliberately describes the blood here as the blood of a dead man. Now when you cut yourself, if you're a normal human being, your blood is red. It's red, and it runs. It'll drip. If you have a bloody nose, you cut your finger or whatever, if it bleeds enough, it will drip. It's a fluid. But when a person dies, or when anything dies, their blood changes color. And it's not as liquidy as it was when the person's alive. So that's what it's talking about here. It says it's as the blood of a dead man. That's what the sea is going to be like. So when the blood is thickened like that, and there's going to be enough of it, it tells us that it's going to kill all the living creatures that are in the sea. Because there's no oxygen. So they can't breathe. So the fish and every living creature that's in the sea is going to die. So that's going to be quite the shock for those who are alive at that time. Now that plague is similar to the third plague of the time of Moses, when the Nile River was turned to blood. And everything that the people had, as it goes on here to the third plague as well, everything is going to be turned to blood. So the Antichrist may have been able to set up something for himself to shelter himself somewhat from these vials, but not really. He's going to have the grievous sores too, just like everybody else. He's not going to be able to stand in front of the cameras with a big smirk on his face and talking to the people, talking down to the people. He's going to be full of sores himself. So he may have to take a picture from the archives to present himself as someone who's above these plagues, but he's going to be suffering just as well as everybody else. He's going to have to scramble to try to find some water to drink, just like everybody else, because the water in the sea, according to the second vial, the water in the sea is going to be turned to blood. But then the third vial, it tells us in verse four, it says there that the fountains of the waters and the rivers as well, they became blood. So there's not going to be any clean drinking water for anyone. That includes the Antichrist. So we see here that God is going to be punishing the Antichrist. He can't get saved. Neither can all those people that have the mark. They have made their bed. They've chosen the wrong path. But God is going to punish them prior to sending them to hell. In fact, the Antichrist isn't even going to go to hell. He's going to go straight to the lake of fire, the Bible says. So God is going to show them the foolishness of their rejection of him. It's very serious. As the broadcasts were coming out about what was happening with Hamas there in Israel, one of the people that I was watching, he says, I'm not going to show you the video because it's too gruesome. That's fine. I don't need to see that. But God says here that these people are going to suffer greatly for rejecting him. And he tells us this because he wants people to wake up today and get saved. You know, God gives many invitations. If you go in your Bibles to Matthew chapter 11. Matthew chapter 11, verse 28. And you notice the invitation here that Jesus gives to man. He says, come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest unto your souls, for my yoke is easy and my burden is light. So this is an invitation that Jesus gave while he was on this earth, inviting people to come to him. And he's offering rest. And in the Old Testament, the book of Isaiah, God says through Isaiah to the nation of Israel, he says, come and let us reason together. So again, it's an invitation, come and let's talk about it. Let me show you why I'm the one you should follow. And so there are many invitations that are given in the Bible where God is pleading with man and saying, come. But in the book of the Revelation, that's not an invitation. God's passed that now. The invitation's been given many times. Every person alive today has had the invitation given to him, come. Many people say, no, don't talk to me about that. Not interested. But the invitation is there. It's being given. So when these vials are going to be poured out, it's going to be at that time when God says, enough of the invitations. Now you're going to feel what I warned you about. You're going to experience what I warned you about. It's too late. And so in verse five, it tells us there, and I heard the angel of the waters. So that tells us that there's an angel that God has assigned to look after the waters. We don't see that angel, but there's an angel that's assigned to look over the waters. And this angel here in verse five, it says, this angel is going to say, thou art righteous, O Lord. So this angel is obviously a good angel. It's not one of Satan's angels. This is a good angel. And this angel recognizes that this wrath that God is pouring upon man is part of God's righteousness. You see, God never acts in a knee-jerk fashion. He doesn't get angry without justification. God is very long-suffering, and this angel knows that. And so this angel says, Thou art worthy, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because Thou hast judged thus. So this angel is reminding us today and reminding the people of that day that's coming that the God who is in charge is the eternal, the everlasting God. There's never been a time when there has not been the true God. Not a true God, but the true God. There's only one true God. He never gets old. He never gets tired. He doesn't need to be replaced. He's the same today, yesterday, and forever. Same God. Same Savior. And this angel is proclaiming that here in the presence of John, and will be proclaiming it as these vials are poured out upon the earth. Because thou hast judged thus. God has looked at what's going on on the earth, and he says, it's time. It's time to take care of business. to clean things up, to help people to see, this is what you've been asking for, now you're gonna get the brunt of it. And then in verse six, why? Verse six, for they have shed the blood of saints and prophets. Now, during the tribulation, there are going to be many Christians that are going to be killed. Keep in mind, no Christian is going to enter the tribulation, but there are going to be Christians that are going to get saved in the tribulation. And many of those are going to be killed for their faith. And they, we've already looked at that, they're sitting around the throne in heaven, their souls are there, their bodies are in the ground, but their souls are in heaven. And they're asking God, how long? When are you gonna take vengeance upon those that murdered us? And here this angel is saying, look, we're doing it now. They have shed the blood of saints and prophets and thou has given them blood to drink for they are worthy. It's time. It's time for them, you see the Bible says, vengeance is mine, saith the Lord, I will repay. So as we look at our world today and we can certainly see a lot of injustice in Canada today, a lot of injustice. And we can become bitter and we can become anxious and we can become frustrated and say, when is there going to be justice? And we can try to take justice into our own hands. But that's a wrong thing to do. We need to be patient, we need to trust God, because his justice is gonna be 100% right. And so when these vials are opened, and there's no water to drink, and people won't last long drinking blood, but it's time. They deserve this. They're going to get it. And then it says in verse seven, and I heard another doesn't say what the another is, whether it's an angel. But I heard another out of the altar say, even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments. So heaven understands that what God does is always right. From time to time, I hear people on this earth questioning why God does what he does. It's really a statement of arrogance. Anytime any one of us questions what God is doing, we're really suggesting that we know better than God. But here, this angel is not questing, but this angel is saying, even so, Lord God Almighty. This voice, I should say, it's not described as an angel. It probably is an angel. But it's saying, even so, Lord God Almighty, the all-powerful God. The God that these people on earth had many opportunities to turn to and believe in. But keep in mind that the Antichrist has already, by this point, he has declared himself to be God. And yet he's going to be this wimpy man that can't stop the sores from breaking out on his own body. He can't find a doctor to give him any kind of medicine to fix the sores. He can't do anything of any value. And he's the one that is declaring himself to be God. But this voice from heaven is saying, even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments. Everything that God does is right. Everything that God does. So that young child that is born and then is diagnosed with cancer. And the parents say, why? Why is this child, why does it have to suffer with cancer? How come this child can't live and grow up and be a normal person and live to be an old person? Why? God knows what he's doing. We don't understand it all. We don't understand it all. But God knows what he's doing. And so the wise parent, instead of asking God, why are you doing this? The wise parent looks at God through his word and says, Lord, what do you want to teach me through this? And if the parent isn't saved, rather than setting up a GoFundMe page, they find a good church and they ask, how can I be saved? How can I have God's peace in my life? That's what people should be doing today. That's of much more value than whatever they can collect from that GoFundMe page. But most people aren't interested. It's a sad state of affairs where we are at today. I've mentioned it before when I was a young person. When there was any kind of a sudden tragedy that took place, they would always talk about, they would have pastors there to counsel the people. Now, when you hear of any kind of a tragedy, they don't talk about pastors. They now have grief counselors. They don't want pastors. And of course, most pastors today aren't pastors anyway. They just have that title, but they're not pastors. But the world has moved on. They don't want anything to do with God. They just want some soothsayer to come along and make them feel good in the midst of their grief. And the only way to feel good is when you are good, when you're right with God. Then you can have his peace in your heart in the midst of the difficulties. that this world has in it. There are many difficulties, many things that happen in our lives that can be quite a surprise to us. But when we know the Lord, we can weather the storms and we can come out stronger. And that's why it's so important to know the Lord, to be spending time in his word. Because if we just have this world, there are many things that can depress. Many things that can put a load of stress on people that they just can't handle. And they have to go for the alcohol, they have to go for drugs, they have to go to the doctor and get a sleeping pill. All kinds of things that people need just to try to survive. But the Christian can go to God in prayer, can have a hymn that they can hum in their minds and hearts, can have a Bible verse that they memorize and quote back to themselves and remind them of God's goodness. Many different ways that God works to comfort our hearts in the midst of a troubled world. So it's very important to know the true God. And of course, John, in the book of the Revelation, he knew the true God. Keep in mind he's on the Isle of Patmos. He's not there for a vacation. He's been exiled there by the Roman government because they couldn't shut him up. He was a bold preacher of righteousness and they couldn't shut him up. And so the last resort, instead of killing him like they did with Paul and Peter and others, they figured, well, we'll send him off to the Isle of Patmos. He can preach to the birds. But they didn't know. that he could also write and that God would preserve his writing and it would become part of the word of God for all generations to read and to learn from. And so God is in charge and he supersedes anything that man dreams up. And that's why it's so important for us to know the true God and to follow Him. We're gonna see more of that this afternoon in our study of the book of Daniel. But it's very important for us to know the true God and to follow Him and to glorify Him in our lives. Let's pray together. Heavenly Father, we are thankful that we have Thy word. We're thankful that we can study Thy word. Thankful again for the warnings that are given here. The trouble that is going to come, these sores that people are going to have at that time, there's not going to be any doctor, no salve, nothing that's going to take them away, nothing to relieve the pain of these sores. And also this bloody water that no one can drink. How are they going to survive? But we understand from thy word, that those who are gonna face these judgments are facing them because they have insisted that they want nothing to do with the true God. Father, we pray today there are many people today who don't want anything to do with Thee. And they are in trouble just as these people will be here. They may not end up drinking blood, But unless they get saved, they will go to hell and to the lake of fire and face torment for all of eternity. And thy word warns us about that and tells us that there's a way out. A person can get saved. They can listen to the truth and be forgiven and be saved and have thy peace in their hearts. So we pray for anyone that's listening today that they might see their need to humble themselves, to listen to the Word of God, and to repent towards Thee and to trust in Thy Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, alone for their salvation, that they could have Thy peace and blessing in their hearts and lives. May Thy will be accomplished, we pray in Jesus' name. Amen.