04/25/2026
The Seven Last Plagues and the Battle of Armageddon focus on the end of human history and the coming of Christ.
God has released the winds of strife, and His judgments are poured out on the wicked. This is a time of trouble such as man has never seen. Yet, His followers will be protected. Learn the promise of God to those who follow Him in this presentation of Revelation 16.
15:5-8 John saw the temple in Heaven open and seven angels came out "having the seven plagues.” Jesus leaves the temple preparatory to his return to deliver his people at the second advent. God’s glory and power filled the temple and “no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues…were fulfilled.”
The heavenly temple was most recently opened in Revelation 11:19 at the sounding of the seventh trumpet which coincided with the start of the anti-typical Day of Atonement on October 22, 1844. That's when our High Priest Jesus entered the most holy place of the temple to minister there before the ark of the testimony. The testimony refers to the Ten Commandments - including the 4th commandment which enjoins observance of the seventh-day sabbath of creation - which were inside the ark and which God's people will faithfully keep. Exodus 32:15-16; 25:16, 22.
The messages of mercy borne by the three angels of Revelation 14 have done their work. The judgment, which began in 1844, is finished and all the saints are sealed. A final and permanent decision has been made by every person. All have either accepted Christ or rejected Him and chosen Satan as lord instead. Probation for mankind has closed. Jesus says, “he that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he who is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.” Revelation 22:11.
16:1 The Seven Last Plagues: These seven angels are messengers of wrath bringing pain and destruction. Like the plagues God loosed on ancient Egypt (Exodus 7:19-12:30) when they persecuted His people, so these seven last plagues are poured out upon those who seek to harm the Lord’s faithful saints at the end of time. These plagues are not universal, or man would perish from the earth. They will, however, be the worst disasters this world has ever known as God’s wrath is poured out unmixed with mercy.
Bible Prophecy - Revelation 16 - The Seven Last Plagues (Part 1)