Rev. 16 angel: 'They want blood, they'll get it'

"There's a similarity between the forms of judgment in Israel's past and the forms of punishment at the end of the 70th Week. What happened in Egypt foreshadows what God is ultimately going to do. 

Micah 7: [15] According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt will I shew unto him marvellous things.

[16] The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.
[17] They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee.

"The passage says that just like in the days of Egypt, 'I'm going to show marvelous things,' and it's going to instill fear and dread, but yet we're going to see there are those who still blaspheme the name of God," explains Alex Kurz.

Revelation 16 begins: [1] 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.

[2] 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.

"Noisome means it's a dangerous type of infection. In the old English that word noisome also includes ill-smelling, like a gangrene. It's like a cancer that festers and eats and spreads. Grievous means it's an extremely painful form of sore. Nothing compared to the past with that botch of Egypt. They cried out and said 'STOP!' and Pharaoh lied and lied about letting the people go.

Verse 3: [3] 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.

"God does something to the Mediterranean Sea; it's turned into blood. 

Verse 4: [4] And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.

"Aren't we familiar with the number of rivers in the Promised Land, in that whole Babylonish region?

"What do you usually do to clear your wounds? The life is in the blood but what's wrong with this blood? Everything is dying. Would you take blood that had dead fish and other sea creatures and use that to cleanse your sores? You see this intensification of punishment?

"Now, we have a commentary in verse 5: [5] 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.

"When you have this angel of the waters, what did the angel just do to the waters? These angels are pouring out the concentrated wrath. Turning the water into blood is a righteous thing. As Paul says, it's a righteous thing for God to recompense wrath. Mankind has created a fictitious God that can never harm the environment or people. 

Verse 6: [6] For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.

"Remember in Psalm 79 that whole thing about the blood?

[1] O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
[2] The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.
[3] Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.

"The blood that's poured out all over Jerusalem? Listen, God's people at the hands of apostate religion, and it's the religious system that is slaughtering God's people . . . Religion is the creation, the master stroke of Satan.

"Thank God there's an angel who says, 'They want the blood of the saints, then they are left to suffer in that desert, suffering physical wounds and the trauma, and they're going to get blood.' How long has God provided this warning? It's just and that's what this angel is saying."

(new article tomorrow for certain)