If you poison the sea water you haven’t poisoned all the
water yet, so in verse four now you’ve got it all:
[4] And the third angel poured out his vial upon the
rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
Now you don’t just have the sea and the creatures in the sea
dying and, by the way, when he says every living soul died in the sea, that
demonstrates to you that animals, even fish life, have souls. But those living souls
die when the animal dies.
Verse four is saying there’s no drinking water left at all.
All the drinking water has become blood and you know what they’re going to do? They’re
going to say, “Agh, those Israelites; they did it! They dropped a pill in the
water system and polluted it and poisoned it and turned it to blood!”
You’ve got to notice the progression that’s going on here? If a man’s going to take a drink, it’s going to be blood.
Three times in your Bible—Genesis 9 before the law, God told
man, “Don’t drink blood.” Under the law, in Leviticus 17, blood is forbidden to
be drunk. Ater the law, over in Acts 15, blood was forbidden.
So before the law, under the law and under grace, you’re
instructed in the Word of God not to drink blood. What does God do at this
point in the tribulation? He fixes it so that all they’ve got to drink is
blood.
You want to go take a bath; it’s like the blood of a dead
man. You want to go down to the beach and take a sunbath and have a little dip?
It’s the blood of a dead man. You want to go to the refrigerator and get you a
cool glass of water? What are you going to get? Blood of a dead man. Blood,
blood, everywhere you go, blood to drink.
You know how much drinking people are going to do? Not much.
Can you imagine what it would take to purify that stuff and make it drinkable
and usable?
You talk about inflation and you talk about skyrocketing
prices and you talk about the “haves” and the “have nots,” brother. Just a
canteen of something to drink and you can’t get it.
Notice verse 5 and the response that we get from the first
three of these things and notice the interesting expression “the angels of the
waters”:
[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.
That means angels have spheres of responsibility. Here’s an
angel responsible for the water territory. Just like I’ve been teaching you for
years about the government of the universe in the hands of angelic creatures.
The angel says, “Lord, you’re doing what’s right and what’s
just. They’ve slain the blood of the saints and of the prophets,” and you can’t
go through Revelation and miss what he’s talking about.
Revelation 17:6: [6] And I saw the woman drunken with
the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I
saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
In the worship services that that great whore, that
religious prostitute religion called Baal worship in this Bible, the standard
worship service in a Baalite operation, in a Baalite church, is to drink blood.
They were drunken with the blood of the saints. You know
what they did? They go out there and their drink offerings of blood--they
actually took the saints of God and offered them as sacrifices and take their
blood and consume their blood.
You can say, “Well, that’s figurative and just means He
spilled it and killed them,” or you can take it like it says it and say they
took it and , “Glug, glug, drank it down,” and what God says is, “You want blood?
You got to have blood? You going to pollute the land with blood? I’ll give you
some blood!”
And the angel says, “Lord, you’re righteous in what you’re
doing.” Back in Matthew 23, He says: [35] That upon you may come all the
righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the
blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the
altar.
You remember what Israel said when Pilate washed his hands? Matthew
27: [24] When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather
a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude,
saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.
[25] Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on
our children.
You know what’s happening? It’s catching up to them. They’re
worthy. They’re in absolute, total rebellion against God and there isn’t anything
in this passage for them but wrath and judgment, and it’s being meted out in a
way that gets right to the heart of their problem.
God puts His finger right on where their rebellion is and
presses and turns.
*****
Note:
I was curious about something related to my post last night and after typing in something into Google this article from Britain's The Mirror, posted just yesterday, popped up:
North Korean soldiers guarding the country ’s nuclear programme are dying of agonising diseases with horrifying oozing sores, according to a defector.
Kim Jeong-ae lived close to the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Centre before escaping to the south. She claimed her brother, Kim Jong-chul, spent 13 years guarding the facility after getting conscripted, and banned from visiting his family . . .
“We thought it was all because of the hardship he had faced in the army, but we never thought he had been exposed to radiation. His legs were thin and infected with open wounds, so bad that I could not even look at them. It was an appalling sight - a mixture of pus and blood was dried on one side, and on the other side there were still oozing wounds."
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