When Daily Life Becomes Like Hell--The Global Horror Movie Of Revelation 6-19

We begin in chapter 6 with the Lord beginning to unroll the seven seals. As each one breaks open it reveals another event that's going to happen on the earth. By the sixth seal in Revelation 6:12-17, we have an earthquake.

When God makes the earth shake, it is a big one. The sun becomes as black as sackcloth of hair and the moon becomes like blood. The stars of heaven fell to the earth. Imagine a day when the sun goes black, the moon goes blood-red, and the stars all fall out of heaven as the sky departs like a scroll. As those scenes flash by above, every mountain and island gets shaken out of their places below. This is like a:

Global Horror Movie

Can you imagine that? These will be scary times in verses 15 to 17. The shaken inhabitants of Earth scream for the rocks and the mountains to fall, to hide them from the face of him that sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb. For the great day of His wrath has come and who shall be able to stand?

That was only the first of the 14 chapters of tribulation horrors. Next, jump to the last seal in Revelation 8:1. This seal unleashes the seven trumpet judgments, another way to signify terrifying, wide-spread judgment.

Revelation 8:7 gives us just a little taste of what is going on as the judgments roll across the land, seas, and skies: "The first angel sounded: And hail and fire followed, mingled with blood, and they were thrown to the earth. And a third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up".

Like in one of the countless computer-generated science–fiction movies: a huge, huge ball of fire falls from the sky and hits the seas, destroying a third of the oceans.

Only it isn't a computer-g