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… woe judgments, beginning with verse 20. And the rest of mankind, those who survived, who were not killed by these plagues, they did not repent of the works of their hands so as not to worship demons in the aisles of gold and silver, and they did not repent of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their immorality, nor of their thefts. They not only didn't repent, they continued to sin, and they sinned even more frequently and intensely. You know, you see that happening today. None of this is hard to believe. worshiping demons. We see the worship of Satan and demons at an all-time high right now. I just read this week of a case of a group involved in satanic worship. A pregnant woman was killed along with her six children. You read of horrific things happening in the name of Satan. That will happen then. Idolatry. It's not just wood statues, but gold and silver and stone and would. Today, materialism is an idol to so many people. They worship money. They worship their possessions instead of the God who gives them those possessions. And they did not repent of their murders. How can that be? How would people murder and not repent of their murders? …
… and of stone and of wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk. They did not repent of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their immorality, nor of their theft. The first unleashing of bound demons came in the first half of chapter 9. The second half of chapter 9, two hundred million more demons are released, two hundred million. So let's look at this text, and we'll start with the release of demons in verse 13. Then the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God. Five have already sounded, and the judgments are inconceivable, devastating everything in earth and sky, land, plants, animals, sea, fresh water, sky, heavenly bodies, sun, moon, And man is tormented by the unleashing of demons, and he seeks death but can't find it as that first barrage of demons brings pain but not death. Hell has spewed out millions of captive demons, and here come even more in the sixth trumpet. …
… brass and stone and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk. They did not repent of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their immorality, nor of their thefts." In spite of all this massive cataclysmic judgment and the gospel being preached, people's hearts get harder and harder and harder. So when we come to chapter 8, we see the seventh seal. The seventh seal then encompasses all the trumpet judgments and all the bowl judgments, so this really takes us to the end of the great tribulation, the day of the Lord, right up to the return of our Lord Jesus Christ. By the way, the angels have been waiting for this, not just for a half an hour, although Although John said there was half an hour of silence as they anticipated the horrors of it, they've been waiting for this for years, for centuries, for millennia. And they are, according to verse 6, prepared now to sound the trumpets. This is the moment when the angels, the seven of them, verse 2 says, who stand before God, Sometimes called the presence angels, they have a unique role to play standing in the presence of God, worshiping God, obeying His commands, serving His purposes and His will. …