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And we pray when we pray, come to us your kingdom. when we pray, we are including this in our prayer, asking the Lord to fulfill His purpose at the end of times. Let's go to Revelation 6, verses 12 to 17. Today, if God wills it, we will finish chapter 6. I saw when He opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as silica cloth, and the moon became all as blood. Las estrellas del cielo cayeron sobre la tierra y como la higuera deja caer sus hijos cuando es sacudida por un fuerte viento. Y el cielo se desvaneció como un pergamino que se enrolla y todo monte y toda isla se removió de su lugar. Y los reyes de la tierra y los grandes, los ricos, los capitanes, los poderosos y todo siervo y todo libre se escondieron en las cuevas y entre las peñas de los montes. y decían a los montes y a las peñas, caed sobre nosotros y escondednos del rostro de aquel que está sentado sobre el trono y de la ira del cordero, porque el gran día de su ira ha llegado y ¿quién podrá sostenerse en pie? Señor, ayúdanos a entender de lo que está hablando Juan aquí en esta profecía. Ayúdanos a entenderlo y a guardar en nuestro corazón esta verdad. and continue to prepare us for your coming, Lord. Help us today, Lord, with this text. In the name of Jesus Christ, we ask this of you. Amen. Amen. Juan has been describing in the previous verses how the lamb opens the first five seals, in verses 1 to 11. With the first four seals, the Lord allows the forces of the Antichrist, those are the four horsemen, of the Apocalypse. These forces bring first an apparent peace on earth, the first seal. Then it sends war and destruction, the second seal. Then comes hunger and scarcity, the third seal. And then in the fourth seal, the fourth rider brings pestilence and death. y vimos que muere en la tierra el equivalente a todos los habitantes de Centroamérica y Suramérica, todos los habitantes de África y la mitad de los habitantes de Estados Unidos. Ese es el equivalente a lo que está describiendo ese cuarto sello. Then we come to the fifth seal, where there is a pause in the tragedies. And the fifth seal describes the souls of the martyrs who are under the altar of gold or the altar of incense, which is a sample of what we learn in the study of the tabernacle. The tabernacle presents us with what is in heaven. 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We have to ask a question when facing this text. How do we interpret it? Is he speaking figuratively? Or is he speaking in a literal way? The prophet John, here, in what he is speaking. And in Matthew 24, the Lord Jesus Christ speaks, makes a description very similar to what Juan is saying there. We are not going to go to Timothy right now. And the question is, how do we interpret it and when do these events happen? Okay, the way we are going to interpret it is literally. It is said that the stars fall, it is because the stars fall. Right now we are going to see the Greek to understand what this means. Or that if the sky is like this, what is happening? We can't go ahead and symbolize something when the way everything is described is literal. And when does this happen? Is it at the end of the Great Tribulation? Or is it immediately after the intermediate of the fifth seal? The fifth seal is what we saw of the martyrs. Matthew 24, 29, Jesus describes a similar event, as I said a second ago, of the Great Tribulation. But we have to see that this is the sixth seal that we are seeing. How many seals are there? Seven. And in the seventh seal, when the seventh seal is opened, there are seven trumpets. And when the trumpets are played, in the last trumpet, there are seven cups of anger. So there are still many events to go, and we cannot say that this is the end. That Jesus is talking to us here, in what John reveals to him, something that is out of chronological order, is not in order. The text tells us, what follows later tells us. So we have to look, then, what is happening here. The conclusion, a conclusion that we can draw easily, is that what he is describing here is a shadow, or a projection, a sample of what comes later. Right now we are going to see why. What Jesus describes in Matthew is the end of the Great Tribulation, just before his return to earth. And what John describes here is not the end yet. It is only the beginning of the end of times. What I am going to read is happening during the first three and a half years of the Great Tribulation. The Great Tribulation lasts seven years. The Great Tribulation is known as the Last Week of Daniel, or the Great Tribulation, or the Day of the Lord, the Great Day of the Lord. And when I refer to the Last Week of Daniel, half of the Last Week of Daniel is three and a half years. That week refers to seven years. And the first thing Juan sees with the opening of this seal, of this sixth seal, is that there was a great earthquake, is what it says there. In Greek, it is said seismos megas, and a transliteration, that is, to take those words and put them almost without changing, would be a mega seism, a seism, a seismic movement, that's where it originates, a mega seism, and this is very common in the language that the prophets use in the Old Testament. when it refers to God's judgment on earth. And a more appropriate translation of a great earthquake would be great convulsions. The reason is this, because when we read the text, not only is the earth shaken, but it says that the sky is shaken. So it's talking more than an earthquake, it's talking about a catastrophic event on earth and also in the sky. And Jesus describes these events in his Discourse of the Mount of Olives, there in Matthew 24, 7. Matthew 24 and the Apocalypse have a lot in common, and also Daniel, in chapter 9. So, Matthew 24, verse 7, the Lord says, Why shall nation rise against nation? We already saw that part, kingdom against kingdom. There will be plagues, we already saw it, famines too, and he says, and earthquakes in different places. It's like what Juan is describing in the book of Apocalypse. And this happens before the desolating abomination of verse 15 of Matthew 24, which is in the first half of Daniel's last week, where these events are happening. So, what Juan is describing with this sixth seal is only the beginning of birth pains, as Jesus Christ described it in Matthew 24, chapter 8, talking about the suffering that comes, nothing more than the beginning of pain. And Juan says, going back to the Apocalypse, and the sun turned black like a silica cloth. It is common to find this type of description Again, in the apocalyptic prophecies, in the Old Testament, like in Isaiah 13.10. Let's go to Isaiah 13.10 to see what these prophets said about the Lord's Day. Isaiah 13.10. It says like this, So the stars of the heavens and their lights will not give their light. And here comes the sun, and the sun will darken at birth, and the moon will not give its radiance. Joel 2.10, one of the minor prophets, also speaks of the Lord's Day and gives a very similar description. If he goes forward, after Daniel, the minor prophets begin. Chapter 2, verse 10, it says, en el sol y en la luna. Verso 11, el mismo capítulo. Y Jehová dará su orden delante de su ejército, porque muy grande es su campamento, fuerte es el que ejecuta su orden, porque grande es el día de Jehová y muy terrible. ¿Quién podrá soportarlo? Verso 31, de Joel 2. El sol se convertirá en tinieblas y la luna en sangre. antes que venga el día grande y espantoso de Jehová. And this darkness of the sun, that Juan is describing, is described as a silica fabric. Silica was a rough fabric that was used to make bags or bags where they carried fruits or objects. And they did that with goat hair. But it's the pigs... Pigs have very rough hair. And that's what they put on in the Old Testament, en señal de luto, en señal de lamento. Su uso era en señal de humildad, su fealdad y lo incómodo que resultaba tener esta piel, esta tela, mostraba humillación, luto y arrepentimiento. En muchos lugares del Antiguo Testamento es usado que se vistieron de silicio. Eso quiere decir que se ponían esos sacos, esa ropa fea que tocaba la piel y representaba humillación. And Juan says that the moon turned into blood. And the redness of the moon is another description, as we saw in the scriptures I read in the Old Testament, where the prophets use this language to refer to God's judgment on earth. So what Juan is talking about is the coming of God's judgment on earth. In the darkness of the sun, in the redness of the moon, the moon may be an eclipse. and the sun may be like an eclipse, but the way he describes it, these are events that haven't happened yet. In verse 13, going back to Revelation 6, it says, The stars in the sky fell on the earth, as the eagle lets its children fall when shaken by a strong wind. And the question is, what can arise here? The stars. Where did they fall? On the earth. But the closest star we have is the Sun. The Sun is I don't know how many times bigger than the Earth. How could it fall on Earth? So we have to look at the word in Greek for stars, which Juan is using, asteris. And its meaning is very broad. It can refer to stars, as it can refer to meteorites as well. There are meteorites and meteoroids. There are different sizes. in those rocks that fall from space, which are generally metallic. So, surely he is referring to meteorites and comets. Some meteorites are fragments of comets that pass near the Earth. So, Juan can't be referring to the stars, because they are still in their place when the fourth trumpet is played, and there's more to go until we get there. But what happens, what he is saying, is so extraordinary. What is happening is so phenomenal, that from the perspective of a man here on Earth, seeing this event is like seeing almost as if the sky is falling on us. That is the way Juan is giving us to understand with the description he gives. Nowadays, if we know that there is a rain of meteorites, what do we do? We go to the mountains, we go to a place where there is no light because we want to see it as a show, to be able to see that. But then it will not be a show, because these meteorites will not be passing near the Earth, they will be falling on the Earth. I was looking, looking for the impact that a meteorite can make. I found that if a meteorite of 10 kilometers hits the Earth, the impact unleashes the force of what is an atomic bomb, like the ones that were dropped in Nagasaki, in Hiroshima, in Japan, in the Second World War. Just one. And what Juan is describing here is that it is a rain of meteorites. He says that the stars in the sky fell on the earth, like the fig tree drops its figs when shaken by a strong wind. The fig tree, when shaken, drops all its fruit. That's what it's referring to. I think that a crater of a meteorite can be up to one mile. de diámetro o más, depende. Hay gente que está poniendo en la internet simulaciones en computadora de lo que es el próximo meteorito que esperan que golpee la Tierra en el 2012, en el día no sé qué de diciembre, lo cual es, para mí, están inventando nada más, es puro cuento. Porque lo que describe aquí Juan no es un meteorito que va a golpear la Tierra, son muchos. And it's not the size they are showing there to scare people. They are other sizes and they are more. Yes, they are more. And the Earth is not going to be destroyed with these that are going to fall. It's going to be very affected, a lot. Surely, yes. Because they are going to hit a lot on Earth. Lucas describes something similar. In Lucas 21.11, look at what it says. Lucas 21-11. There will be great earthquakes and in different places hunger and pestilence. This is very important, what he describes here. And there will be terror and great signs from heaven. People will be terrified. People will be in anguish like never before. The terror, the horror that the inhabitants of the Earth will feel is something unique because the events of the apocalypse have never happened on Earth. There are stories out there that the Earth was hit by a meteorite billions and billions of years ago. It's just a story because there is no proof of that. And that the cloud that created covered the Earth and changed the climate and the animals died. They forgot to check the evidence of the flood. God was the one who killed the billions of people on earth in the book of Genesis. And God was the one who changed the earth. What we have of the earth are the remains of the earth. This earth doesn't look like the one God created before the flood. It's a very different earth. It's an earth that has been cursed since the sin of Adam and Eve. And eventually it will come to an end. And that's what the scripture is telling us here. It's so severe, what's happening, in what Juan is describing, that he compares it. And this verse can literally be translated as, the sky was split in parts, like a scroll is rolled up, like the sky was broken. Isaiah 34, verses 1 to 6, prophesies about the anger of the Lord against the nations, and uses a language very similar to the one that John is using in the Apocalypse. Look, Isaiah 34, verses 1 to 6, as it does not see on this one calls for you it was so close when this is which are we going to be a red equal employee in a year and more and more people are looking for the same working here why is that IE double contract or unless you're missing the model contract or the history of the U.S. last this three down the last thing that I am up a bit y los muertos de ellas serán arrojados y de sus cadáveres se levantará edor y los montes se disolverán por la sangre de ellos y todo el ejército de los cielos se disolverá y se enrollarán los cielos como un libro y caerá todo su ejército como se cae la hoja de la parra y como se cae la de la higuera porque en los cielos se embriagará mi espada, he aquí que descenderá sobre Edom, en juicio y sobre el pueblo de mi Anatema, Anatema es maldición, llena está de sangre la espada de Jehová, engrasada está de grosura de sangre de corderos y de machos cabridos, de grosura de riñones de carneros, porque Jehová tiene sacrificios en Borsa, Bosra, and great slaughter in the land of Edom. Those who are studying the tabernacle understand part of the language there, which has to do with sacrifices. But what Isaiah is talking about is the wrath of the Lord, the anger of the Lord over the inhabitants of the land and its manifestation, which was prophesied hundreds of years before the Lord Jesus Christ came. And there is the magnitude of what will be happening that from the earth, this is how they will see it. But it is not the final destruction of the heavens, because the total destruction of the heavens happens in chapter 20 of the Apocalypse. It is later. Psalm 102, we read it today, verses 25 and 26, speaks of the future of the heavens. Look. We read it when opening the message. Psalm 102, verses 25 and 26 says, Desde el principio tú fundaste la tierra y los cielos son obra de tus manos. Ellos, quienes, los cielos y la tierra, perecerán, mas tú permanecerás y todos ellos, como una vestidura, se envejecerán, serán acabando, como un vestido los mudarás y serán mudados. Va a haber un cambio. It has to change. The sky and the earth that exist, that happens. Later on, we will see it in the apocalypse. And when this event is happening here, it is so horrible, it is so horrible what is happening, that people will have the impression that the universe is falling apart. And it says, Juan, continuing in verse 14, and all the mountains and all the islands were removed from their place. Again, No pueden ser todas las montañas, porque más adelante dice que la gente se refugió en las montañas cuando esto pasaba. Pero muchas montañas van a ser afectadas, muchas islas van a ser afectadas. I imagine that if a meteorite hits the water, the sea, and it's a good size, it's going to make huge waves. We've already seen what a tsunami can do, and it has nothing to do with a meteorite, only with an earthquake. Here it says that the earthquake is going to be a mega-earthquake, so what I'm describing, brothers, is true. We have seen small samples of what can happen, and what will happen there is in a magnitude that has never been seen before. It says, every mountain and every island moved from their place. Here Juan changes from the sky and begins to describe what happens on earth. And this connects us to the great earthquake that he mentions at the beginning, the opening of the sixth seal. The crust of the earth, that is, what can be seen from the earth, is so seriously affected by this earthquake that many islands will disappear from the face of the earth and many mountains will be transformed in this process. It is possible that there will be volcanic eruptions through the seismic movement that will occur on the earth and there will be a lot of change in the geography of the earth. Pero no todas las montañas y las islas desaparecerán, pues esto sucederá más adelante, con el derramamiento de la séptima copa de la ira de Dios en el capítulo 16. Esto es nada más el comienzo de dolores. Esto es solamente el comienzo del fin de los tiempos. Verso 15. Dice, los reyes de la tierra y los grandes, los ricos, los capitanes, los poderosos, y todo siervo y todo libre, se escondieron en las cuevas y entre las peñas de los montes. Y hace un énfasis aquí, en las clases sociales. Y Juan comienza con los reyes, se persigue con los grandes, los ricos, los capitanes, los poderosos. Our five categories of people who have more influence, more power, more money. In one of the previous signs, we saw that in times of hunger, there were still rich people who could buy that kind of food. There were parts of the earth that had not been affected here. But with this event, no one is going to escape being affected. Everyone is going to be terrorized. Everyone, without exception. The impact of what happens with the earthquake, the sun, the moon, the stars, the sky, the mountains and the islands is catastrophic. And this time, the effect is not on a part of humanity, as in the time of hunger and scarcity, where the rich can still buy, this time everything will be achieved. All social strata, all people of authority, all magnates, millionaires, military chiefs, all the poor, all the slaves, all the free, there is no distinction. en cuanto al alcance que tendrán los eventos del sexto sello. No hay distinción como que los pobres no van a ser juzgados por Dios, solamente los ricos, todos van a ser juzgados por Dios. Romanos 3.23 dice, por cuanto todos pecaron. Y un buen énfasis lo hace Juan en lo de influencia, alto rango y autoridad. There is so much terror in people that they will run to hide, they will look for caves and they will look for shelters. And do you know that there are people who are already afraid of this? And they are already building places, according to them, where they can resist what is going to come upon the earth. But they have no idea of what is coming upon the earth. They have no idea. because they are calculating according to what man already knows, according to what man has experienced in the catastrophes of the Earth. But nothing we have experienced is similar to what Juan is describing in the Apocalypse. It's like when in a region you are being hit by a hurricane. I have not been in a hurricane, I have been in storms, but not in a hurricane. But what I've seen in videos, in the news, gives the impression of those who are suffering that moment, that event, as if the sky was falling on them. That's the impression I get when I read the news about what's happening, what they feel. That's what Juan is expressing. It's like the sky is falling all over the earth and everything is ending here. That's the impression he has. So, what we know now as storms and hurricanes, compared to what Juan is describing, is like a drizzle in the morning, compared to what Juan is saying here. There is no comparison in reality. Usually, when strong earthquakes occur, it is when people, They believe there is a God. They believe there is a Creator. They believe there is one who dominates and governs and has control over the whole universe. And they bend and cry and scream. And they see that death is near and they start to cry and repent. They are filled with fear. But the earthquake that Juan is describing is not similar to what has happened in the history of humanity. And the text tells us, for a recognition that they make in the end, The meteor shower is a spectacle now, and if it's possible, we're going to see them. But as I said before, a 10-kilometer-diameter meteor that hits the Earth releases energy like an atomic bomb. What Juan describes is a meteor shower falling on Earth. He doesn't say what size, but it's a meteor shower. It's a combination of catastrophes, of the earthquake, what happens with the stars, with the sun, with the moon, what is happening with the mountains, what is happening with the islands, and obviously what is happening in the sea, because the islands have to do with the sea. Everything at that moment is happening at the same time. And everyone on Earth, of all kinds of social classes, will be terrified. Verse 16. y decían a los montes y a las peñas caer sobre nosotros y escondernos del rostro de aquel que está sentado sobre el trono y de la ira del cordero impresionante esta declaración para un mundo que es fuertísimo en lo que es ser anticristo las fuerzas anticristo que están sobre la tierra en ese tiempo del apocalipsis son como nunca la ha habido la intolerancia contra el cristianismo es absoluta es total no se tolera nada que tenga que ver con el cristianismo The clamor and anguish they live in leads them to call to the mountains and to the plains. They will take refuge in the mountains and they will prefer that those mountains bury them before having to see the face of God and confront the wrath of the Lamb. Such is their agony that they prefer to be buried before meeting the Lord. And there are three times where the same is prophesied in relation to the time of anguish for the people of Israel. Let us not lose sight. In the time of the great tribulation, the last week of Daniel, God is dealing with the people of Israel. The reason for the judgment, for what God brings upon the earth, will call the Israelites to repentance, and that nation will be saved. Those who believe in the Lord, the majority, will be saved in the time of the great tribulation. Everything in the history of humanity revolves around those who are of the Lord. Those who are of the Lord, those who belong to Him, are the most undervalued by the earth, by humanity, but not by God. And the whole history of humanity revolves around the people of God. When you read the whole history in the Old Testament, it has to do with Israel. When you read history, one of the great wars in the world has to do with Israel, like the Second World War, for example. When you see the tense situation in the world today, it has to do with Israel. Everyone is waiting to see what happens to Israel. That's when everything is decided, because that's the people of God. And these catastrophes are happening because God brings justice to the earth, but He's dealing with His people and He's saving them. Now, those who do not have Christ will cry out for the mountains to bury them. They will be distressed, they will be terrified, they will be confused, they will not know what to do. But those who are there, who are of the Lord, will declare, as the Psalm 91 declares, the one who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will dwell under the shadow of the Omnipotent. I will say to Jehovah, my hope and my castle, my God in whom I will trust. El te librará del lazo del cazador, de la peste destructora. Con sus plumas te cubrirá, y debajo de sus alas estarás seguro. Escudo y alarga, es su verdad. No temeras al terror nocturno, ni saeta que vuele de día, ni pestilencia que anda en la oscuridad. Caerán a tu lado mil y diez mil a tu diestra, mas a ti no llegarán. Y sigue hablando el salmista en el Salmo 91. ¿Ellos tendrán temor de la muerte? Yo no creo. They will say, as Paul says, for me, living is Christ, and dying is gain. Let's not lose sight of the fact that there is always a remnant in all of the history of humanity. And the Lord is always glorified. And these people claim to be covered in their agony by the wrath of the Lamb. ¿Es necesario que sean engañados con una paz falsa? ¿Es necesario que se desate guerra sobre la tierra? ¿Haya mucha muerte y violencia? ¿Es necesario que venga hambre y escasez? ¿Es necesario que se desaten pestilencia, muerte, fieras sobre la tierra? Antes que el hombre reconozca que el cordero es el que está airado contra ellos. And it is even the sixth seal when they recognize that it is the wrath of the Lamb that has come against them. Isaiah 2.10. We are going to look at these prophecies that speak to us in relation to the time of anguish that comes upon the earth. Verse 11. The pride of man's eyes will be cast down, and the pride of men will be humiliated, and Jehovah alone will be exalted on that day. That is the ultimate purpose of the suffering that comes upon the earth, which is that the Lord will be exalted. This is how it is in everything that God does. Verse 19. Pues el resplandor es su majestad cuando se levante para castigar la tierra. Oseas, 10.8. Miren el libro de Oseas. Avance allí y pasa a todos los profetas mayores y llega a Oseas. Está después de Daniel. Oseas, 10.8. Los lugares altos de Aven serán destruidos. El pecado de Israel crecerá sobre sus altares, Espino y Cardo. Y dirán a los montes, cubridnos y a los collados caed sobre nosotros. Isaías, Oseas, profetizan lo mismo. Y miren lo que dice Lucas en el Nuevo Testamento, Lucas 23, 30. Entonces comenzarán a decir a los montes, caed sobre nosotros, y a los collados, cubrirnos. Todos estos apuntan a lo que Juan está describiendo aquí en el sexto sello. En todos se ve la misma expresión de terror y desesperación en la tierra, como dice también Apocalipsis 1.7. Miren lo que dice Apocalipsis 1.7. He is here who comes with the clouds, speaking of the coming of the Lord, and everyone will see him, and those who have transgressed him, and all the nations of the earth will do what? Lamentation for him. Only those who love the Lord and obey his gospel will be happy with the coming of the Lord, of the time of judgment on earth, but not those who do not love him. The greatest fear that the inconverses have en su vida es enfrentar a un Dios justo, que lo va a juzgar con justicia, y que es capaz de castigar su maldad por la eternidad. El Señor Jesucristo dice, no temas a lo que el hombre puede hacer, pero teme a aquel que puede destruir tu alma en el infierno. Está hablando del juicio de Dios. El verdadero temor debe ser el Señor. But the one who is in Christ fears the Lord out of reverence, because he loves him. The one who is not in Christ fears the Lord, because he knows what judgment is coming on him. And that's why they shout, hide us from the face of God, and specifically they say, hide us from the wrath of the Lamb. That's why I have a problem in saying that Jesus is my friend. Because what the text shows me is someone very different than a friend. Very, very different. En Apocalipsis 5 y 5, en Apocalipsis 5 y 6, el cordero es descrito, veámoslo allí, y uno de los ancianos me dijo, no llores, es aquí que el león de la tribu de Judá es descrito como un león fuerte, con autoridad. en el verso seis, y miré y vi en medio del trono de los cuatro seres vivientes, en medio de los ancianos, estaba en pie un cordero como inmolado, que tenía siete cuernos. Los cuernos en la Biblia simbólicamente representan autoridad y poderío, eso es lo que representan, y fuerza. So the Lord Jesus Christ is strong, is powerful. The Lord Jesus Christ is the perfect example of what a man is. The Lord Jesus Christ never turned his back on his enemies. On the contrary, he voluntarily went to die on the cross of Calvary, lean as a lamb, obedient to the Father until the death and the death of the cross. But he was already exalted by the Lord to the utmost. We're almost done. Because the great day of their wrath has come, and who will be able to stand up? Interesting. The level of understanding of humanity about who is doing all this. They understand very well, of course, who is against them. And they recognize the precariousness of their situation. They themselves declare, ¿Quién podrá sostenerse en pie? Ellos mismos declaran porque el gran día de su ira ha llegado. Esta declaración no es de Juan. Juan está narrando lo que él oyó, lo que él vio en la visión. Acuérdense, Juan vio lo que va a suceder, ya es un hecho que esto es verdad. Eso es lo que Dios está revelando aquí, eso es lo que el Señor está mostrando aquí. Surely, with the death of the fourth part of the population, in verses 7 and 8, the hunger and scarcity of verses 5 and 6, the global war of verses 3 and 4, there will be a greater awareness of why the Earth is in this condition. All these events are happening in a period of less than three and a half years on Earth. They are part of the first half of the last week of Daniel, the Great Tribulation, And it is even the opening of the sixth seal that openly comes to recognize the lamb. This great day of the day of God is the point where all the prophecies of the Old Testament converge. Everything that the prophets said, hundreds of years, everything they were saying about the day of the Lord, all this begins to come together here, all this time begins to be fulfilled here. It is described in many passages as the time in which the Lord will put an impressive pressure on his enemies on earth. Look at Isaiah, let's see the description of the Lord's Day in Isaiah 3, from 16 to 24. God is fearful. and there is no one who can stand before him unless he has redeemed him by the blood of his son Jesus Christ. Isaiah 3, 16-24 Asimismo, dice Jehová, por cuanto las hijas de Sion se ensobervecen y andan con cuello erguido y con ojos desvergonzados, cuando andan, van danzando y haciendo son con los pies, por tanto el Señor raerá la cabeza de las hijas de Sion, y Jehová descubrirá sus vergüenzas. Aquel día quitará el señor el atavío del calzado, las redesillas, las lunetas, los collares, los pendientes y los brazaletes, las cofias, los atavíos de las piernas, los partidores de pelo, los pomitos de olor y los arcillos, los anillos y los joyeres de las narices, las ropas de gala, los mantoncillos, los velos, las bolsas, los espejos, el lino fino, las gasas y los tocados, y en lugar de los perfumes aromáticos vendrá hediondez y cuerda en lugar de cinturón y cabeza rapada en lugar de la compostura del cabello en lugar de ropa de gala ceñimiento de silicio y quemadura en vez de hermosura. Este es el gran día del Señor que está describiendo Isaías en estos versos. Miremos ahí mismo, Isaías 13, del 9 al 11. Here the day of Jehovah comes, terrible and of indignation and ardor of anger, to turn the earth into solitude and take from it, who? His sinners. Therefore the stars of the heavens and their lights will not give their light, and the sun will darken at birth, and the moon will not give its radiance. y castigaré al mundo por su maldad, y a los impíos por su iniquidad, y haré que cese la arrogancia de los soberbios, y abatiré la altivez de los fuertes. Dios, estos profetas están predicando profecías que son a tiempo corto y a tiempo largo. Mucho de esto que yo le hice, cumplió con Israel. Así como dice, así Dios hizo con ellos. But a lot of this is pointing to the great day, to the great day of Jehovah, the great day of the Lord, the great day of the wrath of the Lord, the wrath of the Lamb that we are seeing in the description of John. Jeremiah 37, there close, the next book after Isaiah is Jeremiah. Jeremiah 37, 30 verses 7. Oh, how great is that day, so great that there is no other like it. A time of anguish for Jacob, but he will be delivered from it. A time of anguish for Jacob. Who is Jacob? It is Israel. And who will be delivered in the time of the great tribulation? It is Israel, the people of God. The most underpriced people on earth. For men, but not for God. Ezekiel, the whole chapter 38 and the whole chapter 39. Let's go there. Let's read the whole chapter. I don't think we have enough time, but let's read chapter 38, verses 18 to 23. In that time, when Gog came against the land of Israel, the Lord Jehovah said, My wrath and my anger will rise, because I have spoken in my zeal and in the fire of my wrath, that in that time there will be great tremors over the land of Israel, that the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the beasts of the field, and every snake that crawls upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, temblarán ante mi presencia, y se desmoronarán, los montes y los vallados caerán, y todo muro caerá a tierra. Y en todos mis montes llamaré contra él la espada, dice Jehová el Señor, la espada de cada cual será contra su hermano, y yo litigaré contra él con pestilencia y con sangre, y haré llover sobre él, sobre sus tropas y sobre los muchos pueblos que están con él, impetuosa lluvia y piedra del granizo y fuego y azufre, y seré engrandecido, aquí está la clave, y santificado, y seré conocido ante los ojos de muchas naciones, y sabrán que yo soy Jehová. Quiero que ellos están declarando allí. Ellos están reconociendo quién es Dios. ¿Y saben qué es lo cruel de las personas que van al infierno? that they will know who the lamb is. They will prostrate themselves, as Paul describes it in the book of Philippians, they will bend their knees and confess that Jesus Christ is the Lord, the owner, and even so, they will go to hell, because they perished without having confessed it in life. And that's the horrible thing, because they will know all the truth, and for eternity they will know that for their sin they will be there, without end, in their suffering. That's what happens in the Great Tribulation. Look at the book of Amos. It goes a little further there. It goes to Daniel, Oseas, Joel, Amos. After Joel comes Amos, chapter 5, verses 18 to 19. I know you read a lot of the Bible, so finding these little books is easy. Some minor prophets. Psalm 5, 18, 19. There are those who desire the day of Jehovah. What do you want this day of Jehovah for? It will be of darkness and not of light. Like the one who flees from the lion and meets the bear. Or as if he enters the house and puts his hand on the wall and a snake bites him. This is the day of the Lord. No hay salida. No hay escapatoria. Como que usted sale huyendo, como dice ahí de un león, y se escapa para encontrarse con un oso. No hay salida. La humanidad no tiene salida de esta. Sofonías 1, 14 al 18. Avance allí donde está. Cerca de allí. Siga avanzando. Va a encontrar Sofonías. Es otro de los profetas menores. Capítulo 1, versos 14 al 18. Cercano está el día grande de Jehová. said, cannot be more proximal is a mark on the walls than the idea of a great idea money and the idea that he had the idea that was the idea that the ability of a little bit as a member of the idea that the name of the U.S. community at the end of the other thing that is meaningful data from data in the eye of the sun so that I see that for the because it's a bit less for us the fact that stories it will not be an assembly's young that I'm Aquí está el porqué. Porque pecaron contra Jehová y la sangre de ellos será derramada como polvo y su carne como estiércol. Ni su plata ni su oro podrá librarlos en el día de la ira de Jehová, pues toda la tierra será consumida con el fuego de su celo, porque ciertamente destrucción apresurada hará de todos los habitantes de la tierra. That is the great day of Jehovah. The great day of Jehovah is described not as a day of 24 hours, it is talking about a period of time that we know as the great tribulation, like 7 years, like the last week of Daniel, of the 70 weeks that Daniel predicts in the book of Daniel. And the Lord will be afflicting. It is a period of affliction, of terror, of suffering. will only increase until the judgment is completed with the coming of Christ in chapter 19 of Revelation, where he will come to kill his enemies and establish his millennial reign on earth, restoring Israel as the nation that will rule all nations on earth. And together with his redeemed, he will be ruling the earth, sitting on the throne of David. All this is the day of the Lord. It is not an event, but a period where the Lord's intervention on humanity is severe and is recognized by all. But what John writes in the sixth seal is only the beginning of birth pains. It is nothing more than the beginning of the end of times. It is only an anticipation of what will be unleashed from the Lord on earth with the opening of the next seal that we start the coming week, which is the seventh seal. And the part at the end of chapter 6 says,