3 Sep 2013
Revelation 8:13
Revelation 8:13: “And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!”
This verse is staggering. As bad as the past four judgments have been, they pale in comparison to what is coming next. Just think about that! One-third of the world’s forests have been burned to the ground. One-third of all sea life has died. One-third of the oceans have literally been turned into blood. One-third of the world’s freshwater supply has been poisoned. On top of that, one-third of all light that the Earth is receiving has been taken away. Many millions of people were killed in these cataclysmic events – and that is on top of a war that just killed a quarter of the earth’s population. Yet there are still three more trumpets to sound. There is still more woe to come.
People think that the earthquake that hit Japan was a major disaster, that Katrina was a major disaster, and that the BP oil spill was a major disaster. Mankind simply has no idea what a truly major disaster looks like. What we are seeing described in Revelation 8 are epic global disasters – disasters on a scale so horrifying that they are making the Earth itself uninhabitable. Jesus warned that if these days were not cut short all life would die – and He was not kidding.