Bowl seven: Who said the earth wasn’t flat?
17 The seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple, from the throne, saying, “It is done!” 18 And there were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, and a great earthquake such as there had never been since man was on the earth, so great was that earthquake. 19 The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell, and God remembered Babylon the great, to make her drain the cup of the wine of the fury of his wrath. 20 And every island fled away, and no mountains were to be found. 21 And great hailstones, about one hundred pounds each, fell from heaven on people; and they cursed God for the plague of the hail, because the plague was so severe. (Revelation 16:17-21–ESV)
The mountains came down and the floods came up. That sounds a bit like a song I would sing in grade school about Noah and the Ark. Let us see what the John records in the scriptures about this event.
Lightning, thunder, rumblings and a shaking earth. “Ok,” you say, “that sounds like something we are familiar with.” Look to the second half of the sentence though where we are told more of the quality of this earthquake. This 7th bowl judgment-quake is like none that has happened since mankind was on the earth.
…the mountains came down and the floods came up…
The seventh bowl produced an earthquake of prehistoric dimension wrecking cities and mountains, burying islands and coastlines beneath the rising seas and smashing wide swaths of the remaining earth with large hailstones. It seems that the earth will be flattened in some manner.
If it was flattened it must have been lifted up at some point. Look at the images below.
This is beside a lake near our house. I took pictures of these rocks because it is always interesting to me to see vertical rock formations. This type of rock is sedimentary; it was flat when formed and there are many, many layers of these flat formed layers. Look, though, at how they are lying in this photo: VERTICAL….They did not form that way. Some event pushed them that way…after they were formed.
It seems that before mankind was on the earth there must have been earthquakes of tremendous proportion. It would take tremendous quakes to shift large swaths of the ground from horizontal to vertical orientations. Those events were not Savannah River Basin only, but global. Mountains and islands rose up.
Here in Revelation 16 the mountains are taken back down. Some islands would thus disappear beneath the seas. Probably the world temperature level is also rising, melting the polar ice caps with the fouled, dead seas inundating wider and wider territories. Perhaps this also worked to gather the people at Armageddon also for even the lower animals go to high ground in a flood.
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