Revelation chapter 16, and I'd
like to read and make a few comments on verses 12 through 16. We have
spent this chapter in looking at these angels. or pastors,
they have been brought out and shared with us in the early chapters,
the seven angels of the seven churches of Asia. And we just
need to be reminded, I need to remind myself that those churches
represented all the churches, all of God's churches that have
ever been. And they were during an era of great persecution.
There were people in those churches that had fled great persecution. They had been persecuted after
they got there, and they're in a terrible, terrible time. It's
a time of great persecution. And when John was used to write
this book, those people that received this book, received
those letters and this book, they were comforted. Now, if
I keep that in mind, it's going to help me a lot when it comes
to looking at what this book has to say. They were comforted. They were not scared to death.
They were not preparing themselves for the lack of food. They're not preparing themselves
for the Holocaust or the Armageddon as it is termed today. They looked
at this message as a message of hope. Their hope is in the
Lord. And as we go through this book,
we see time and time again as the great effects of sin, and
of Satan, and the beast, and false prophet, and all of these
ways of describing religion, and all the things that man has
come up with, we find again, and again, and again, the Lord
declares His sovereignty over all things, and that He is Lord
of lords, and King of kings, and He puts down all of this,
and I know As much as I can know that when that message reached
those saints in those seven churches, they were thrilled to death that
the God that they worshipped would overcome all these enemies. Now some of them would go through
death and meet the Lord that way. They would be persecuted
to death and some would reach old age and still meet the Lord
and rejoice in his great salvation. Here in the sixth pastor in chapter
16 and verse 12, he pours out his vial. And I can't help but
think, as we've gone through here, that as they pour out their
vial, what we really hear is them preaching the gospel. They're
preaching the gospel. They're preaching the gospel
of God's grace. They're preaching the gospel
of salvation through the Lord Jesus Christ. They're preaching
what we read in Acts chapter 4. There's no other name, none
other name under heaven whereby we must be saved. They're preaching
him from the Old Testament as they declare the glory of God
in the Messiah. the promised one that was mentioned
there in Adam and Eve's hearing just after the fall and declared
to them by the clothing that they received and the blood that
was shed that they might go on without having any more physical
harm imposed upon them by God. He could have purpose to destroy
them at that time, but a purpose to preserve them and cause them
to have children because he had already ordained that the Messiah
would come right down through this line and it would be preserved. Not through Cain's line, but
through Seth's line. And Seth and Cain had a lot of
things in common. They had the gospel in common.
Now, this sixth pastry declares the gospel, and these verses
declare how the gospel affects the running of religion. Now,
I think that that Euphrates River I've heard all kinds of things
about it with very little proof, but I just can't help but think
that this Euphrates River represents to us religion as the world offers
it. It's a running river of religion. Now, I say that, turn with me
over to the same book, chapter 17, and in verse 14. Chapter 17 and verse 14. We're
going to come here again, but I just want to read some of these
things that the Apostle John was used to write by inspiration
of the Holy Spirit with regard to what he was seeing and how
it was interpreted. Most of what we have here is
spiritual application. We're not looking at literal
things. We're looking at spiritual things. And in chapter 17 and
verse 14, it says, thee shall make war with the lamb and the
lamb shall overcome them for he is Lord of lords and king
of kings. And they that are with them are called and chosen and
faithful. And he said to me, the waters
which thou sawest where the horse sitteth are peoples and multitudes
and nations and tongues. The waters, which you saw, are
this. We're not talking about oceans.
We're not talking about ponds. We're not talking about lakes.
This word, waters, represents peoples. It says it represents
peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues. That's what these
waters here. Now over here is the Euphrates
River, a great river of the east. And it tells us there he poured
out the sixth vial. the great river Euphrates and
the water thereof was dried up. Now there is an effect that the
gospel has on religion. It will cause people to be silent
before God. The water will cease. People
will be caused to stand in front of God alone. Turn with me to
the book of Romans chapter three. Romans chapter three, as we think
about this, that the gospel shuts people up. Shuts people up to
God. Shuts people up to themselves.
shuts people up, and there are people that will argue about
what the gospel is. When the gospel is preached,
God will use it to shut their mouths. He's done it in the past. He's done it in the Bible. He'll
continue to do it. And when this preacher preached,
it's an illustration of what the gospel does on these running
waters of religion. It can be and often is used to
shut them down, to cease the flow. And he does that. I have
yet to meet a person that's been saved that was not religious
in some capacity. Now, some are religious in accepted
religions, and some are religious in unaccepted religions, but
we're all religious. And God shuts us down. He just stops us. The gospel
stopped the flow of our religion. The book of Romans, Romans chapter
three. Romans chapter three. Now, the
Apostle Paul spends quite a bit of time here early on in the
book of Romans going over passages of scripture from the Old Testament
that demonstrates to us that we're sinners. There's one thing
Paul is good at through the Holy Spirit. It is pointing people
to the fact of our fall. Our fallen Adam and our own Sinfulness. He does that well. And particularly
here in Romans chapter 3 beginning with verse 9. What then, are
we better than they? No, in no wise. For we have before
proved both Jews and Gentiles that they are all under seen.
As it is written, there is none righteous, no not one. There
is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
And these are direct quotes out of the Psalms. They are all gone
out of the way. They are together become unprofitable. There is none that doeth good,
no, not one. Their throat is an open sepulcher.
With their tongues they have used deceit. The poison of snakes
is under their lips. And all of these are, these are
interesting ways to explain the problem. I've yet to meet a man
that was a literal snake. But he's using this as an illustration.
If we'd remember these kind of words, we would have a lot of
easier time in going through the scriptures, particularly
in the book of Revelation, because he's just using words to describe
the problem. And most people knew about what
a snake was like. And the throat, they knew what
a sepulcher was. Now, he's calling them a grave
throat. filled with dead men's bones.
Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. Their feet are
swift to shed blood. Destruction and misery are in
their ways. In the way of peace have they not known. There is
no fear of God before their eyes." I hear this sixth pastor reading
this passage of scripture. He is reading this. He's pouring
out his vial. He is reading the Word of God. And he's reading the Word of
God at a meeting. He's just reading the word of
God, just plain and simple. Now there's a reason that he's
going to do this as we get down through here in just a moment.
It says, there's no fear of God before their eyes. Now we know
that whatsoever things the law saith, it saith to them who are
under the law, that every mouth may be stopped. Now why did Paul
quote these scriptures? Why was he led by the Holy Spirit?
That every mouth may be stopped. Now that's God's good grace when
he does that, when he causes us to stop. with our religion
and causes us to stop with our position and excuses and everything
else. As Paul goes on to say here,
as he's directed by the Holy Spirit, that, now we know that
whatsoever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the
law, that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may
become guilty before God. Therefore, by the deeds of the
law, there shall no flesh be justified in his sight. For by
the law is the knowledge of sin. So Paul was reading this, quoting
this, and presented it to the Romans as he's pulling from the
Old Testament, pulling from the Psalms by and large, and sharing
with them the condition that we are and have been in since
the fall. Why? That the whole world, mouths
may be stopped. This sixth preacher is standing
up and preaching, reading the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. What happened? The waters of
the Euphrates River stopped. They ceased from flowing. Religion
was stopped, and that's what God does in the preaching of
the gospel. He causes our religion to stop dead still. We're stripped before him. We
have nothing to depend on. When Brother Mahan came out,
I was already in dire straits because I'd found out my religion
was not what it was supposed to be. It is not what I had been
taught. It was not what it was cracked
up to be. I couldn't prove it from the Bible nor from history.
And it was the exact right time for the gospel to come along.
It couldn't have hit me at a better moment. I was in the depths of
despair when he came and preached the gospel. Now, it doesn't mean
that I felt any better, because you've all heard me say, I hate
that man. He brought me the gospel. I was
stopped in my tracks. I hate that man. But because
of the Holy Spirit, he continued to take me back under it. And
by the time it was all over with, I really was in a state of despair. But the Lord spoke peace to me
after he'd gone home. Now this sick preacher is preaching
to the river Euphrates, poured out his vial on the Euphrates
River, on religion as it is in this world. Flowing down through
time and flowing down through the banks. And it is just a putrefying
mess until the gospel strikes. The gospel produces the worst
in men. Even these evils come out of
the mouth of the dragon and the beast and the false prophet.
We're going to read here, three frogs come up. Now, I remember
that if I could just get someone to wash that out of my mind,
the charts that I had to endure. the charts that I went through,
the charts, then it would be so much easier because you got
this frame of mind already. Thank God he's removing some
of it. But here, as it drops down here, it says, and I saw
three unclean spirits like frogs. Now on the day of Pentecost,
it says there was like a dove. Doesn't say it was a dove, it
had the appearance of. Here, three unclean spirits,
like frogs, came out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the
mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
Not one system this world has since the fall, not one natural
system since the fall this world has ever, praises God, This frog
doesn't, this frog doesn't, and this frog doesn't. Not one system,
not one religious system has ever praised God. Not one political
system. And when you combine politics
and religion, you get it worse. They all are the worst of the
worst. Not one system this world has
had since the fall, natural system, ever praises God. We need to
have grace given to us from out of the system. It needs to be
from above the system. It needs to be out of the system.
It can't be in a natural system. We have people, and I had to
tell my granddaughter today, or talk to her a little bit,
she's going down to a camp, and they're gonna make every effort
they can to get her to pray the little prayer. She says, I already
know it. I've already had to go through that. The religious
system is trying to convert people by staying in the system. And
politics never can get any higher than politics. And politics and
religion mixed can't get any higher than this natural system. The frogs from the beast. There's
nothing good about the dragon, and there's nothing good about
the beast, and there's nothing good about the false prophet.
And these spirits that come out of them, even though they're
they're painted up, and they're made to look attractive to some
people, they still don't have any benefit, any spiritual benefit. And for they are the spirits
of devils, working miracles which go forth unto the kings of the
earth and the whole world to gather them to the battle of
the great day of God Almighty. Now turn with me back to the
book of the Psalms, Psalm 2. Psalm 2, we read these words
that are brought out about kings, political systems, and their
statement about God, their statement about the Lord. Psalm 2, why
do the heathen rage? and the people imagine a vain
thing. The kings of the earth set themselves
and rulers take counsel together against the Lord. Now this is
not a new thing. This has been an age-old thing. The kings of the earth, the religious
leaders of the earth, take counsel together against the Lord, against
God. Their stand is He is not enough. The kings of the earth set themselves
and rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against
his anointed, against Christ. Let us break their bands asunder
and cast away their cords from us. Now there's some understanding
by these that God has some rule, but we have the ability of throwing
it off. We can do that. And then it tells
us in verse four, he that sitteth in the heaven shall laugh. He
is having a field day with religion and with politics and with religious
politics. They attempt all the time to
throw off the Lord, to throw off the Lord's anointed, to break
their bands asunder, and the Lord is sitting on his throne
laughing. Goes on to tell us here, verse
five, then shall he speak unto them in wrath and vex them in
sore displeasure. Yet have I set my king upon my
holy hill of Zion. Now what is he talking about
there? He's talking about the redemption that we have in Christ.
Holy Hill of Zion, he didn't need that. Not in his glory,
but in redemption, he needs that. He has a holy hill, and this
holy hill is where the king sits. And the holy hill where the king
sits is the Savior sitting and receiving his saints into his
presence. This is all due to the fall. This is all due to what Jesus
Christ has done for his people. He has a hill, a holy hill, and
he's meeting his people there. And this is good and natural
man, natural, and we're all kind of kings by nature. It doesn't
have to be some king over some land. We're all kings by nature,
raising our fist towards God, and thank God he has a holy hill
where he sits, and he brings us into subjection unto him.
What do we do when we come into his presence? Our mouth is open. He brings us into his presence.
He tightens our lips, bolts them down, and causes us to hear him. This six pastor, as he preaches,
shares with us an aspect about the word of God, about the gospel
of the Lord Jesus Christ, that it has the ability of shutting
down, shutting mouths, shutting hearts, causing us to stop. Some will be shut. and look to
him as savior, and some will be shut, and look to him as judge,
but he still will cause the mouths to be shut. We have, as it goes
on there in the book of Revelation, this is preparing a time. Now,
I think there have been a number of Armageddons. I'm not looking
at Armageddon as the last nuclear blast. If God wants to destroy
this world with a nuclear blast, that's fine. He may do that,
but that's not Armageddon. Armageddon is where God gets
the victory. And if we look through the scriptures,
we find there's a number of Armageddons that have already taken place
where God got his victory. The gospel has never been in
jeopardy. It's been guarded. It is the
sweet possession of the Godhead. The gospel is guarded by God. It has been so guarded that throughout
all ages, It has never been destroyed. It's been under assault, and
people have tried to change it, but it doesn't mean that it was
destroyed. It means that it was carried
on. People may take it off and divert this over here, and change
this aspect about Christ, and change this aspect about the
gospel, and this is what you have to do, and this is how you
have to do it, but the gospel just runs straight ahead, full
force, never hindered, never in jeopardy. People may make
all kinds of comments about what the gospel is, but it doesn't
change the gospel one whit. It will continue on. It is not
in jeopardy. It is of great value to God. It is his prized possession,
the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, and he will make sure
it flows continuously till the end under every assault. And we find here in that verse
15 and 16, Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watches
and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his
shame. Now, how do we prepare for the
coming of the Lord? Doing what you're doing. Well,
if you have to change, there's a problem. You've all heard about
the guy that had to give me a hat. He had run a shop downtown and
he built me a hat. I never wore it once. Jesus is
Lord or something like that. And he says, now you're really
gonna have to toe the mark. And I says, why would I have
to change with a hat on me? Now I've got a hat, that makes
me change? Oh my goodness, how little people think of God at
times. Now I have a hat, now I have
to change. Now I don't have a hat, so I don't have to change. Oh
my goodness. Pretty soon you wonder what hat
you're wearing. Well, I come as a thief in the night. How
are we prepared for the coming of the Lord? Just loving Him
and serving Him. Just going on with everyday life,
serving the Lord. Then it tells us there, and he
gathered them together in a place called in the Hebrew tongue,
Armageddon. Now, as I mentioned, there are
a number of Armageddons, I think, mentioned in the scriptures.
Some are in the Old Testament as types and shadows. The battle
over Ai, that's in Armageddon. Great day of victory for God.
He said, I'll give you the city. And they marched around it, didn't
have to raise a hand to win the victory. Many Armageddons in
the Old Testament. There's an Armageddon on Mount
Moriah when Abraham took his son up there and God gave him
the victory. There was a ram caught by his
horns. There's an Armageddon when Joshua
led the children of Israel into the promised land and not Moses. A great day of victory. If we
go down through time, there is a hallmark Armageddon, day of
victory for God on the cross. All of those Old Testament scriptures
came up to the cross and Jesus Christ, and it's just been amazing
to me again to see how many times the Old Testament prophesied,
didn't predict a thing, prophesied and declared what would happen
on those days just leading up to the crucifixion. To the point
of identifying there would be a man, kiss him. My own familiar friend would
betray him, betray me. This minute details that the
Lord ordained before the world began would take place in time,
and here is the prophet declaring it, and here is the results of
it, and here is the result of that great day when Christ went
to the cross. It is an established victory
for God. The gospel's never been in jeopardy.
Never was the Lord afraid to move on. Never was he ever thought
that he would not accomplish his task by the covenant of grace. We see that our Lord is not afraid
of battle. And he shall have and has conquest
over all enemies. He will conquest. He will be
the conqueror. He has, in fact, made us more
than conquerors. This great day of battle, it
rages every day. He's still winning the victory
for us. He's overcoming for us. He is pleading our case even
now. He is our advocate. We have an advocate with a father.
We sin, we have an advocate with a father. Jesus Christ the righteous. Now, there may be a time coming
when there's going to be a wholehearted attack against this by, I don't
understand all I know about the actual end of the end, but I
know that the Lord Jesus Christ has been in battle in the past,
He is in battle now, and He is in battle in the future, and
all of the time, He is coming out victorious. Every time, He's
victorious. He has been victorious in every
Onslaught in against every enemy now turn with me if you would
to the book of Hebrews Hebrews chapter 2 Hebrews chapter 2 Hebrews chapter 2 and verse 14 Here's an Armageddon a great
victory for God and The Lord Jesus Christ won this victory
and we enjoy it and appreciate it. A lady down at the conference
and rescue, she attends a church in Los Angeles and she was talking
about something about the devil doing something and I said, I
just got to stop you for a moment. I says, I just, I just, I cannot
believe that the devil does all the things that he's given credit
for. I believe that we're talking about the effects of the fall
in natural man's heart right here. This is not the devil,
this is natural man's heart. And I am convinced that most
of the time when people are talking about what Satan does, what the
devil does, it is natural man's heart exposed. And the devil
gets a credit for it because we can't blame ourself or anybody
else for what's going on. But the truth about it is, read
with me here in Hebrews chapter 2 verse 14. For as much then
as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, Christ is
going to win the victory. He also himself likewise took
part of the same that through death he might destroy him that
had the power of death, that is the devil. I guess the only time we have
difficulty with the word destroy is in religious terms. But it
says, I will destroy him who hath power over death, that is,
the devil. I just have a belief that that
verse of scripture came true in the great Armageddon of the
cross, and Jesus Christ won the victory. He hogtied him. He put
him in chains. He no longer has the ability
that he once had, even by permission. There may be a time when he's
released. That's what we find in the book of Revelation. There
may be a time of release, but right now he is bound. And what
the devil gets blamed for is natural man's heart. That's why
people do what they do. That's not because Satan made
them do it, it's because they're natural heart. And the heart
is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. It's
the worst part of man. And it's the most hidden part
of man, but it's the worst part of man. And it says right there,
going on in that verse of scripture, verse 15, and deliver them who
through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. For verily he took not on him
the nature of angels, but took on him the seed of Abraham. Wherefore,
in all things, it behooved him to be made like unto his brethren,
that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things
pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. Now
this, what a victory. What a time of great defense
God went against our enemies. The gospel has never been in
jeopardy. God has watched out for it, cared
for it, overshadowed it. It has always been declared somewhere
in this world and oftentimes many places in this world in
the simplicity that it was intended to be declared. We need a substitute. That substitute is Jesus. Why
do we need a substitute? We're sinners. We are a demonstration
of the fall and we need a substitute to stand before us to take our
punishment. That substitute is Christ and
nothing else. Not by works of righteousness,
which we have done. All of this, the gospel in its
simplicity and its purity has been declared from Abel forward
to this day and it's never been in jeopardy. People may say it's
in jeopardy, but it's not. Even though it may not be written
about, it's still not in jeopardy because the gospel is spiritual.
It's not book learning, it's spiritual. The gospel is spiritual. The Lord Jesus has won over every,
the conquest over every one of his enemies, and every one that
appears to come out in the future. He won it over Satan, he won
it over sin, he's won it over death, he's won it over hell,
and how did he do that? By the covenant of grace. In
Christ's incarnation, he won the victory. When he came, now
I cannot understand the condescension of God to come to the sin-cursed
earth in flesh. I still can't understand it.
But when he came, he came in victory. He came victorious because
he was not born of natural man. He was born of a virgin. He came
victorious. Even in his infancy, he was victorious. He came, Christ's great victorious
death. To the world, they thought they
were getting rid of the problem, and it was all in God's plan.
Every time they seemed to have assaulted him and beat him and
took his clothes and crowned him with a crown of thorns, it
was all in the script. Read about it in the Old Testament.
They put nails through his hands. And I, you know, I just, I can't
think about that. But Jesus Christ did not resist
him. He was in victory. It didn't, he did that. Not that
he didn't feel the pain, but he, this is my goal, this is
why I came. He was in victory there in his
death. He was in victory in his great
victorious resurrection. Death came upon him. like no
other person. And for three days and three
nights, he was in the very pains of death, just as he said with
regard to Jonah, as Jonah was three days and three nights in
a quail's belly. Now, I don't know about you,
but I'm not looking forward to that kind of event in my life. I could go through life without
it, still be quite happy. But used as an example, so shall
the son of man be three days and three nights in the heart
of the earth. He shall be dead. He wasn't asleep, he was dead.
Breath had passed from him, he gave it up. It is finished. One place it mentions it's perfect. It's perfect. Another place it
says it's consummated. It's finished. Every bit of redemption
is completed and finished. Talk about a victorious Armageddon. All that the world could throw
against him, he came out victorious. And then on that day, that first
day of the week, while I was in California, I read on a bumper
sticker. Nancy read it for me. The Sunday is the mark of the
beast. Oh, now I got that explained. Sunday is the mark of the beast.
Well, you know what they believe. It's the radio. Sunday is the
mark of the beast. Well, Son, he's not the mark
of the beast. Sin is the mark of the beast.
Religion is the mark of the beast. We have carried it around all
our life, and he's victorious. And then, his glorious appearing. He shall appear the second time
without sin unto salvation. He'll never come to do what he
did over. He'll never appear the second
time with sin or for sin, but without sin, great and glorious
shall be that victory. And the only thing that prevents
it, not a building of a temple. Now a temple may be built over
there, but it's not gonna tell the time when the Lord comes
back. Someone told me the other day when I was in Tennessee,
they thought they found the red heifer. Whoa, they're looking
for a heifer without one black or white hair on it. It has to
be perfectly red. And they said they're almost,
they think they may have found it. So what? What's necessary
is the last lost sheep. That's it. That's it. So the
preaching of the gospel is going to stop religion, stop the flow,
stop the flow of the water, Turn over with me. I just read part
of that, but I want to read a little more in the 17th chapter and
then we'll close 17th chapter of the book of Revelation it
shares a whole lot here about how to look at this book spiritually
Don't look at it. Literally. I Don't look at Jesus
as a lamb in the sense of a Critter I look at me as the pleasant
and pleasing sacrifice And he was so condescending that he
gave up the glory that he had with the father before the world
was and took upon himself the relationship of a lamb. And guess
what? All of his people are called
his sheep. There's some identity here that
we have with the lamb. All right, 17th chapter of the
book of Revelation. It says there in verse 14, These shall make war with the
Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them. That could be written a
thousand times. These shall make war with the
Lamb, the Lamb shall overcome them. Some of the worst battles
the Lord has ever had is with people like us, chiefists of
sinners. Chiefists of sinners, that's
His battles. We've raised our fist. We've
got religion. We've done all these things.
We've got our righteousness. We've had an experience. We've
had a religious experience. And the God Almighty has to overcome
all that to give us salvation. Shall overcome them for he is
the Lord of lords and king of kings. no greater, and they that
are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful. That's
the church. And he said unto me, the waters
which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and
multitudes, and nations, and tongues. Now, this is called
Mystery Babylon. This is a city. Well, it's interesting
to go back just a little bit and we find out that Jerusalem
was called, the place where Jesus was crucified was called Sodom
in Egypt. It just struck me as I'm going
through it. I just don't think that this
is the Roman Catholic Church like a lot of people do. I think
that this is just religion. Religion. The religion like the
Jews had. Religion that Jesus had to deal
with, with the Pharisees. Sodom and Egypt, which is the
place where Jesus was crucified. Now that's not very comely names
to call Jerusalem. No Jew would be happy with that.
But he's just calling the place where we live by the worst connotation
that he can. to cause us to stop and think
about where we are. We're in Sodom and Egypt and
Babylon, and he shall win the victory. All right, it goes on
to say here, the waters which thou sawest, where the horse
hitteth, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues, and
the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast. These shall hate
the whore, and shall make her desolate, and naked, and shall
eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. For the Lord hath put in
their hearts to fulfill his will. Now I thought that was pretty
interesting. The Lord hath put in their hearts all of this religion
to fulfill his will. to agree and to give their kingdom
unto the beast until the words of God shall be fulfilled. And
the woman which thou sawest is that great city which reigneth
over the kings of the earth." Well, God shall get the victory. There
will be Armageddons and there is going to be, there was an
Armageddon at the cross. There's Armageddons going on.
Every time God wins a victory over one of his lost sheep, we
have another victory that God has won. His covenant of grace,
his incarnation, his victorious death, his victorious resurrection,
and his soon glorious appearing are all statements about his
great victory over all things. And so this last, this preacher,
the sixth preacher, pours out his vial upon religion. And verse
17, the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air. And there came a great voice
out of the temple of heaven from the throne saying, it is done.