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God Overturns Nature
And the demonic spirits gathered all the rulers and their armies to a place with the Hebrew name Armageddon.
Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air. And a mighty shout came from the throne in the Temple, saying, “It is finished!”
Then the thunder crashed and rolled, and lightning flashed. And a great earthquake struck—the worst since people were placed on the earth.
Revelation 16:16-18 New Living Translation
We need to study the pouring out of the seventh vial.
The Powers of evil will not yield up the conflict without a struggle.
In the midst of the angry heavens is one clear space of indescriable glory, whence comes the voice of God like the sound of many waters, saying: "It is done." Revelation 16:17
That voice shakes the heavens and the earth. There is a mighty earthquake, since men were upon the earth.
Verse 17,18. The firmaments (heaven) appear to open and shut. The glory from the throne of God seems flashing through. The mountains shake like a reed in the wind and ragged rocks are scattered on every side. There is a roar as of a coming tempest. The sea is lashing into fury. There is heard the shriek of a hurricane like the voice of demons upon a mission of destruction. The whole earth heaves and swells like the waves of the sea. Its surface is breaking up. Its foundations seem to be giving way. Mountain chains are sinking. Inhabited islands disappear. The seaports that have become like Sodom for wickedness are swallowed up by the angry waters. Babylon the great has come in remembrance before God "to give unto her the cup of the wind of the fierceness of his wrath." Great hailstones, every one "about the weight of a talent" are doing their work of destruction. Verses 18,21. The proudest cities of the earth are laid low. The lordly palaces, upon which the world's great men have lavished their wealth in order to glorify themselves, are crumbling to ruin before their eyes. Prison walls are rent asunder, and God's people, who have been held in bondage for their faith, are set free.
Source: Maranatha The Lord Is Coming, page 280, by Ellen White, Review and Herald Publishing Association, Washington, DC, USA 20012
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