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  • Bennymkje - 1 year ago
    Q&A "Waters/fire"

    Q:In Re.14:10 we read that wine of wrath is poured out from heaven while in mid-air is cup of indignation. But the torment is felt on the earth with fire and brimstone. What does this signify"

    A:The three divisions set forth in the covenant follow the will of God. " For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness"(Ro.1:18). According to the command,"Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth." These vials are seven in number, so the wrath of indignations cover up down and across. It just shows the cup of indignation is not severally administered to the disobedience but his entire volume, where instead of blessings he shall be tormented. The blessed are the first fruits following wherever the Lamb goes. They are with on mount Sion.(Re.14:1-4) Like Lazarus signifying "presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb" we have the rich man in the Parable of Jesus in direct line of vision. "between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence."( Luke 16:26) This is the mid-air.

    As with fowls in air and beasts of the field each division has its own motif. The last twoverses, "and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God./And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs."(14:19-20) The command number Four tells the wine press has been trodden according to the word so 4x4x1000 gives it as the just desserts for the blood spilled by Israel since Abel. ("That upon you may come all the righteous blood"-Matt.23:35)



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