Revelation 16:12-16<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates,\u00a0and its water was dried up to prepare the way\u00a0for the kings from the East.13\u00a0Then I saw three impure spirits\u00a0that looked like frogs;\u00a0they came out of the mouth of the dragon,\u00a0out of the mouth of the beast\u00a0and out of the mouth of the false prophet.\u00a014\u00a0They are demonic spirits\u00a0that perform signs,\u00a0and they go out to the kings of the whole world,\u00a0to gather them for the battle\u00a0on the great day\u00a0of God Almighty. 15\u00a0\u201cLook, I come like a thief!\u00a0Blessed is the one who stays awake\u00a0and remains clothed, so as not to go naked and be shamefully exposed.\u201d 16\u00a0Then they gathered the kings together\u00a0to the place that in Hebrew\u00a0is called Armageddon.<\/i><\/p>\n
\u201cThen I saw three impure spirits\u00a0that looked like frogs;\u00a0they came out of the mouth of the dragon,\u00a0out of the mouth of the beast\u00a0and out of the mouth of the false prophet.\u201d<\/i>\u00a0 John describes what he saw as \u201cimpure.\u201d\u00a0 He is describing three spirits that are not cleansed, that are ceremonially and morally dirty.\u00a0 We know that such things the Jews were not to touch, not to be around, and to just stay away from (Isaiah 52:11<\/b>).\u00a0 They eschewed such things or people, giving them a wide berth.\u00a0 As a person would circle way around a mean dog to avoid danger and possible harm, or as a person with leprosy must not be allowed in the common camp lest others be infected, the impure must be avoided at all costs.<\/p>\n
The evil of the world does not rise from an inanimate world but from evil spirits.\u00a0 Of course\u00a01 John 2:16<\/b>\u00a0is truth as the three sins noted there are within this same subject.\u00a0 All people are born with original sin (John 3<\/b>:18) and that will not be what is being referred to.\u00a0 People become what even most unredeemed can recognize as \u201cevil\u201d because they have evil spirits influencing them, or they have aligned and attached themselves to the practices that originate from evil spirits and, doing that, they are enslaved to such evil.\u00a0 Like those around pagan campfires dancing and worshipping that which cannot give life and in fact kills by the worship of it, they are drawn from Truth and worship what is not what they defend it to be.\u00a0 They will fight, hate and kill for the evil that they cling to, and that is what the evil spirits call forth.\u00a0 Overwhelmingly most of the people living during this time have taken the mark of the beast.\u00a0 They have crossed the line of no return.\u00a0 That mark is a mark of the devil and is a tattoo of ownership. This stamp simultaneously tattoos the skin and the soul. \u00a0\u00a0Regardless of what man may think is possible, after having received the mark, there is no coming back, no outsmarting the devil, thinking themselves smart they have outsmarted themselves.\u00a0 So Family we see that what is seen, the Antichrist and the False Prophet are not merely physical beings but have specific evil spirits behind and within them.\u00a0 These three evil spirits are vulgar and hateful, that they are causes of evil acts is revealed.\u00a0 John is noting that what is behind the evil men, and the devil, is revealed.\u00a0 Obviously the devil is not occupied by an evil spirit, he is the evil spirit. What is within the Beast and the False Prophet is the same spirit, it is the devil because the devil is their god. That is what is being shown.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are demonic spirits\u00a0that perform signs,\u00a0and they go out to the kings of the whole world,\u00a0to gather them for the battle\u00a0on the great day\u00a0of God Almighty.\u201d<\/i>\u00a0 Power from the devil, pure evil, his hate and wrath, is unleashed on the world.\u00a0 What is beneath his hatred of men is revealed.\u00a0 Men are hated because they were created by and loved by God.\u00a0 The enemy can see, even if men cannot, that their common original father (Adam) were created in the image of God.\u00a0 Though man sinned, though the image was dirtied up, he still bore image of God. Even unredeemed man still bears the image of God, though very sullied and malformed. \u00a0The devil hates these images of God.\u00a0 Yes, he hates and hurts man (as he is able) but his unwavering focus of hate remains on God and God is who He desires most to hurt.\u00a0 He would kill God if he could, but of course he cannot.\u00a0 When he sees mankind he wants to utterly destroy anything that bears the image of God, even if defiled, and more so if the image of God is being restored to represent in ever greater measure (through the shed blood of Jesus and His resurrection) the beauty of God (John 10:10, 2 Corinthians 3:18, Romans 12:2<\/b>).<\/p>\n
The evil spirits leap upon the earth and bring tremendous and overwhelming signs to draw men to fight Jesus upon His return.\u00a0 Yes, the devil knows Jesus is coming.\u00a0 He knows his time is short (Revelation 12:12<\/b>).\u00a0 The miraculous signs, perhaps even miracles of false compassion, are all meant to convince mankind that the he, the devil, is god and that Jesus is not the Holy Son.\u00a0 He must pull out all the stops to convince the nations of the world to join him to fight God.\u00a0 Unless the nations believe that he is god, or a more powerful god, than it would be insanity fight against God!\u00a0 Who would do such an inane thing?\u00a0 So the devil and his progeny the Antichrist and the False Prophet will be doing mighty miracles (allowed by God) that will fool those who want to be fooled because they do not want to worship God (2 Thessalonians 2:9-12<\/b>).<\/p>\n
We are left aghast at what is coming and, also, we look with great anticipation for the victorious return of Savior and Lord.\u00a0 You may have noticed that, with rare exception, I always put the title of Jesus as Savior before His title of Lord.\u00a0 The reason for that is if He is not our Savior first, then He is not the Lord of our lives.\u00a0 Though every knee, even the unredeemed, will bow before Him and confess what we all know (Yes all!), that He alone is King and Master of all.\u00a0 Yet, only the redeemed in Christ shall know Him as the Loving Lord that He is.\u00a0 Those who reject Him will know Him as the righteous and just Judge who will be the adjudicator who gave them what they lived for, separation from Him.\u00a0 Those who live for eternity separated from God will not be able to contest that they lived a life desiring to be separate from Him and that they knew that they life they lived would lead to a life of eternal torment.\u00a0 For the redeemed of the Lord, they live forever in the completion of being saved from an eternal life of being separate from God.\u00a0 All who love and serve God through Jesus our Savior and Lord will live with Him in peace and joy forever<\/span><\/p>\n Psalm 150:6<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!<\/i><\/p>\n Micah 7:7<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0But as for me, I watch\u00a0in hope\u00a0for the\u00a0Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear\u00a0me.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n Micah 6:8<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0He has shown You, O man, what\u00a0is\u00a0good; And what does the\u00a0Lord\u00a0require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Revelation 16:12-16\u00a0–\u00a0The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates,\u00a0and its water was dried up to prepare the way\u00a0for the kings from the East.13\u00a0Then I saw three impure spirits\u00a0that looked like frogs;\u00a0they came out of the mouth of the dragon,\u00a0out of the mouth of the beast\u00a0and out of the mouth of the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192],"tags":[129,100,94,17,2485,10,757],"class_list":["post-979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotion","tag-corinthians","tag-john","tag-micah","tag-psalm","tag-revelation-isaiah","tag-romans","tag-thessalonians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":980,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions\/980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}