It Is Real

Tuesday, October 10th, 2023

Ken Pullen

A Crooked Path

It is real. Oh, so very, very real.

Why? How? Because “Thus says the Lord.” That’s why, that’s how.

We’re not there yet. But we’re hurtling along faster than ever before and closer than ever before.

We have signs. Many signs. As the people call them everything other than they are, affix blame, responsibility every place other than where such belongs.

Anyone alive that is of the age of thirty years or older has seen many indicators, signs, samplings if you will. God’s mercy and love if you will. To show the people of the world what is coming and their need to repent. Yet they refuse and harden their hearts all the more against God, against the Lord Jesus Christ, against the Holy Spirit and the inerrant infallible living Word of God.

Anyone thirty years old and older has witnessed diseases occurring that never had before wherein men received loathsome sores. And the people cursed God and did not repent.

Signs of life in all the seas dying.

Signs of the rivers and springs of water drying up, dying.

I just read earlier today;

“… if global temperatures increase by as little as 1.5°C (2.7°F). Some 2,200,000,000 people in Pakistan and India’s Indus River Valley, 1,000,000,000 in eastern China, and 800,000,000 in sub-Saharan Africa would be among those facing heat that is beyond human tolerance, researchers say. That could extend to eastern and central parts of the U.S. if temperatures on Earth were to rise by 3°C (5.4°F) above pre-industrial levels. Residents in Florida, New York, Houston, and Chicago would all have to endure dangerous and stifling levels of humidity, while extreme heat could wreak havoc among those living in parts of South America and Australia.”

Heat maps where it is projected it will be so hot human life will be impossible to exist. Intolerable. Deadly.

Increased heat. Changes not seen in any person alive having witnessed in their lifetime. With heat intensity increasing in some places making them inhospitable, crops failing, animals, insects failing, fleeing, dying. As man blames these things on the internal combustion engine, fossil fuels, cows, steers, hogs, plastic straws, air conditioning, and the list goes on. Refusing to see the sign. Refusing to repent. Hearts only growing harder as God in His mercy is revealing the judgments to come. But men and women only curse God and enter deeper into their darkness, depravity, decadence, and despair. Increased unbearable deadly heat not due to a V-8 in a Corvette or a double cheeseburger but due to man and woman’s sin. Refusing to acknowledge God. Refusing to acknowledge the Son, the Lord Jesus Christ!

There are signs everywhere. Yet so few see them hear them, heed them, repent, and turn to the Lord.

Mocking, laughing, arrogant, ignorant, blasphemous — their wickedness increasing exponentially as they have been given over by God to their unrighteous rebellious minds turned from Him though they know better.

“You are righteous, O Lord,
The One who is and who was and who is to be,
Because You have judged these things.
For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets,
And You have given them blood to drink.
For it is their just due.”

“Behold, I am coming as a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame.”

It is real. Oh, it is so very, very real.

Unfolding right before every eye and ear with the overwhelming number of people on this fallen earth refusing to see, refusing to hear. Refusing to repent. Refusing to humble themselves and acknowledge God. Vainly, foolishly, eternally damning themselves imagining they are gods, worshipping other gods, saying, writing there is no God.

Oh, it is real, so, very, very real and evident for anyone to see or hear that will see or hear. And humble themselves repenting and submitting to God to allow the Holy Spirit to heal them, renew them from within. To change their hearts and minds. To transform them as nothing else they have been seeking or will ever seek can!

Faith and obedience in and to the Lord Jesus Christ.

Before by the Lord’s will the trumpets in heaven begin to be heard and the seven bowls, plagues poured out it might be a good idea to find a Holy Bible. Offer up a humble, sincere prayer to God asking for His help. He will hear. He will send The Comforter, The Helper, and The Holy Spirit. Be prepared. Be prepared to enter fully into the spiritual warfare finally seeing clearly, and finally knowing. Repentant. Forgiven. Justified by faith. Entering into sanctification. Faith in God. Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour and Friend. The only way to salvation, eternal life. Faith in the Holy Spirit to help always. Faith in the Word of God.

Because otherwise?

Oh, it is real, so very, very real what is and what is to come…

The Seven Bowls

Then I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, “Go and pour out the [a]bowls of the wrath of God on the earth.”

First Bowl: Loathsome Sores

So the first went and poured out his bowl upon the earth, and a [b]foul and loathsome sore came upon the men who had the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image.

Second Bowl: The Sea Turns to Blood

Then the second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it became blood as of a dead man; and every living creature in the sea died.

Third Bowl: The Waters Turn to Blood

Then the third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood. And I heard the angel of the waters saying:

And I heard [f]another from the altar saying, “Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are Your judgments.”

Fourth Bowl: Men Are Scorched

Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and power was given to him to scorch men with fire. And men were scorched with great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God who has power over these plagues; and they did not repent and give Him glory.

Fifth Bowl: Darkness and Pain

Then the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom became full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues because of the pain. They blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and did not repent of their deeds.

Sixth Bowl: Euphrates Dried Up

Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, so that the way of the kings from the east might be prepared. And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs coming out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are spirits of demons, performing signs, which go out to the kings [g]of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.

“Behold, I am coming as a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame.”

And they gathered them together to the place called in Hebrew, [h]Armageddon.

Seventh Bowl: The Earth Utterly Shaken

Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, “It is done!” And there were noises and thunderings and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such a mighty and great earthquake as had not occurred since men were on the earth. Now the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. And great Babylon was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of His wrath. Then every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. And great hail from heaven fell upon men, each hailstone about the weight of a talent. Men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, since that plague was exceedingly great.

Footnotes:

1. Revelation 16:1 NU, M seven bowls
2. Revelation 16:2 severe and malignant, lit. bad and evil
3. Revelation 16:5 NU, M omit O Lord
4. Revelation 16:5 NU, M was, the Holy One
5. Revelation 16:6 NU, M omit For
6. Revelation 16:7 NU, M omit another from
7. Revelation 16:14 NU, M omit of the earth and
8. Revelation 16:16 Lit. Mount Megiddo; M Megiddo