This episode of ‘Discovering the Jewish Jesus’ provides an eye-opening exploration of God’s double-edged nature, showcasing both His mercy and justice through the lens of Revelation’s plagues. Rabbi Schneider helps listeners comprehend the escalating severity of the judgments from seals to bowls, emphasizing the necessity of returning to Christ before it’s too late. Dive into a study of deep theological significance and understand your place in the prophetic timeline.
Hello and welcome to Discovering the Jewish Jesus. I’m Dustin Roberts, your host today as Rabbi Schneider shed some light on the 21 judgments of Revelation, helping us understand our future today. The seals, the trumpets, the bowls, these are the judgments that will be released upon the world in the last days. But instead of letting these judgments instill fear in us, Jesus wants us to rest in his peace. So today, Rabbi Schneider is going to look at these judgments and explain why it’s important for us to keep our hearts and our minds focused on the Lord. He’ll also encourage us to help people around us repent, to be prepared for what’s to come. There’s lots to discuss, and if you’ve got your Bible handy, our primary text can be found in Revelation chapter 8. Rabbi?
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Jesus told us in both the first and last chapter of the book of Revelation, blessed is he who heeds and studies the words of this book. A very important word that Jesus needs to deposit in all his children’s life. If it wasn’t important for us to receive the book of Revelation, Yeshua, beloved ones, would not have given it to us. We need to eat this word. We are right now in the midst of a series of God’s judgments that will fall upon the earth during the Great Tribulation. I don’t have time to go back and review today. We are in the midst of a scene that began in Revelation chapter five, where Jesus opened up a scroll. And when he opened the scroll, the final plagues of the Lord began to fall upon the earth. As I’ve been saying, as we’re reading about these plagues, it sometimes confuses us because we’re so used to hearing about the loving Jesus, the Jesus that blessed the children. We’re so used to hearing about the meek Jesus that it’s difficult for us to embrace this side of Jesus where we see all these really hard judgments coming upon mankind, sores coming upon mankind. Mankind hiding in caves to escape the judgments. People in agony. I mean, tremendous judgment falling upon the world. In fact, the last time that we saw anything even close to this was when the Lord destroyed the world with the flood during the time of Noah. This will be even worse. Men will be being tormented. What we need to understand is this, beloved ones. is that the nature of the Lord is double-sided. I’m gonna show you this later in today’s message, but I want you to hear me. God is, first of all, merciful. but He is also just. When these plagues begin to fall, it’s because of the fact that those that are remaining on planet Earth have not responded to His mercy. And because they’ve rejected His mercy, God has no other alternatives but to bring forth His justice and to rid the world of sin. I’m gonna talk more about that at the end of the broadcast. Right now, what I want to do is I want to bring you right back into the midst of the plagues. And then once again, when we get to the end of this discussion, I’m going to put it all together by helping you to understand these plagues as a result to the nature of God, his purpose and his person. I left off last time with the six of the plagues in Revelation chapter six, verse 12 through 17. It is when the sixth seal is broken and the result of that is that there’ll be cosmic and ecological disaster. The natural forces that are holding the world and our planet in harmony will break down. In other words, the sun and the moon and the stars will begin to not give their light. The moon will be turned to blood. Things are gonna begin to happen in the universe that are gonna bring plagues and hardship upon the planet. This is talked about in the book of Joel, where he said in the last days, the sun will refuse to give its light. The moon will be turned to blood. Forces like gravity and other, again, natural forces that keep shalom, harmony in the universe will break down, resulting in great destruction. ecological disturbances. I’m going to be moving quickly today because in my previous broadcast on the subject, you began to get the feel. There’ll be wars and rumors of wars. There’ll be plagues. There’ll be disease. There’ll be earthquakes. All these things are going to be escalating as we move through the seven seals, the seven trumpets, and the seven bulls. Why did I say seven seals, seven trumpets, and seven bowls? Because in the book of Revelation, there are 21 judgments that fall upon the world during the tribulation. And these 21 judgments, as I’ve been teaching, are broken down into the three categories of seven seals, seven trumpets, and seven bowls. The seals escalate into trumpets and the trumpets escalate into seven bowls. In other words, as these plagues begin to fall upon the planet, they intensify, they get worse. The trumpets are worse than the seals and the bowls of wrath are worse than the trumpets. It gets increasingly worse. I believe that perhaps the reason that the plagues get worse is because God is actually hoping that when these plagues begin to fall, it will cause mankind to repent. But by the time we get to the last of these seven plagues, the last seven of the 21, which are called the bowls of wrath, by the time we get to the final seven plagues, the seven bowls of wrath, it’s too late. Mankind is being judged and God’s final wrath is being poured out upon the earth in the same way, beloved ones, that he drowned the Egyptians in the sea. He caused the plagues to fall upon ancient Egypt, right? And he told Pharaoh that you need to let my people go. When Pharaoh didn’t let the people go, God would pour out a worse plague. And finally, when Pharaoh hardened his heart for the last time, God drowned them all in the sea. In the same way, these plagues will come. People will have an opportunity to return to the Lord. But by the time the seven final plagues come, the seven bowls of wrath, man will be so far gone There’ll be no other alternative but for God to destroy sin and eradicate sinners from the earth. We’re moving now into these deeper plagues. We’ve already gone through now the first six seals. At the seventh seal, the seven trumpets are released. Let’s read now Revelation chapter 8. I’ll be reading verses 1 and 6. When the lamb broke the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour. And the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound them. So what’s happening? At the seventh seal, we are getting ready now to release the next phase of judgments that will begin with, listen now, the seven trumpets beginning to sound. As we move into the next verse, we’re going to see the first of these trumpets sound and the plagues will escalate. So we’ve escalated from the seals to into a more powerful demonstration of God’s judgment falling upon the earth as we enter in now to the seven trumpets. Let’s look now, beloved ones, at the first trumpet as it sounds. Verse number seven. The first sounded, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and they were thrown to the earth. And so as the first trumpet sounds, we have hail and fire and blood hitting the earth. You know, I’m thinking about a fire that took place in 1871 in Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. And listen to this. It burned up this fire that hit the earth, burned up a staggering 3.8 percent. million acres of land on the earth. There is going to be natural disaster, beloved, hitting the world like we’ve never heard before. We hear about raging fires that hit California, wiping out thousands and thousands of acres of land. Beloved, during the Great Tribulation, this type of epidemic is going to be all over the world. It’s going to be terrible. The judgment of God The one that holds the earth in his hands is going to reveal, beloved, his judgment against sin and sinners upon the world. Listen, think about it. Does it make any logical sense that God is going to allow mankind to rebel against him forever? Does it make any sense that God is going to allow forever mankind to put his foot up in God’s face, rebelling against him, saying that there is no God? No, beloved. Eventually, the judgment of God is going to fall and all mankind will bow to him. Every knee will bow. And every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. God’s power is going to be revealed. He’s been patient for all these years. Eventually, beloved, his patience will stop and his glory will be revealed through these judgments.
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Let’s look at the next trumpet. The next trumpet sounds in the book of Revelation, and we read here that in chapter 8, verse 8 and 9, there’ll be oceanic disaster. You know, almost two-thirds of the world is covered by the ocean. When you and I think of the world, we oftentimes don’t see the world as being mostly water. Because we live on the land. It just goes to show us how our perception of reality is often not reality at all. Because again, when we think of the world, we think about it as landmass. But two-thirds of the world is actually the ocean. God is going to cause great oceanic disaster to take place. It’s going to be unlike anything we’ve ever seen before. In fact, over and over in the book of Revelation, I’m going to show you John in describing these judgments and what is happening on the earth uses the word something like or like. In other words, there’s nothing in the world that he’s ever seen before that can be exactly compared to it. All he can say it was, it’s something like this. He can’t say it’s exactly this because he never saw anything like it before. So he says it’s gonna be something like this, oceanic disaster, tremendous problem, marine life dying. Can you imagine oceans? filled with dead fish so that the stench of it, it just completely covers the world with the foul, polluted smell of rotten, dead fish. That’s what’s going to be happening, beloved ones, during the Great Tribulation. As we continue to read, we read in Revelation 8, verse 10 and 11, about toxic water. that the world’s water supply is gonna become toxic. So many ways it could happen. We don’t know how it’s gonna happen, whether it’s gonna be through some type of bacteria, whether it’s gonna be through oil spills. All we know, beloved, is that the world’s water supply is gonna become toxic. It’s not that hard to imagine something like this. There are so many ways it could happen. And I wanna tell you, beloved, as a representative of the Lord, it’s gonna happen. The good news is as a child of God, God is going to be your sustenance. Even as he fed Elijah during the famine, he’s going to take care of his people. Even as he caused water to come out of the rock for the ancient Israelites, he’ll be sufficient for his people. He’s Yahweh your wrath. He’s the Lord, our sufficiency, the Lord, our provider. But these things are going to be happening on the world. Listen, the sun is not going to come out upon the world and shine every day since it has been since the creation of the world. God is calling mankind to repent. He’s calling mankind to himself. He’s calling mankind to Jesus. And eventually he’s going to stop calling and his judgment is going to fall. I’m going to get to that as we continue. We see that there’s going to be a darkening of the planetary lights. In other words, we read in Joel and other portions of scripture that the sun will stop giving us light. Things are going to be happening in the planets. God holds the solar system together. He holds the entire universe together. Eventually, he’s going to let go. Everything’s going to begin to go haywire. Darkness will cover the earth. We see, by the way, these same types of things happen in ancient Egypt where it became dark. I want to go on here to the next one. In the fifth trumpet, we see demonic locusts, chapter 9 of Revelation, verse 1 through 11. John said he saw something like. He kept on saying here, it was something like this. It was something like the head of a man. It was something like he said this. So a couple examples were. He said in verse number five, their torment was like the torment of a scorpion, describing these demonic locusts biting people. In verse number eight of Revelation 9, he says, and they had hair, he said, like, there’s that word like the hair of women, and their teeth were like the teeth of lions. He couldn’t say they were lion’s teeth because they weren’t lion’s teeth. They were something like what he had never seen before. So we could only use the word like to describe them. I want you to understand, beloved ones, that These phenomenon that John is describing, they seem hard to imagine, but let me ask you this. If God created you, you and me, and there’s no question that he created you, right? You know you’re alive. You have consciousness. You can walk over to your mirror right now and see your reflection. If God created humanity, should we limit him in thinking he can create other orders of created beings, including these demonic locusts to torment men? No, he can just as easily create anything else as he created mankind. Don’t limit God. Don’t let yourself say, well, that’s not possible just because you’ve never seen it before. If you exist, then it should be hard for you to believe in any other miracle because you’re the greatest miracle of all. The fact that you exist and have consciousness. Then the sixth trumpet sounds and a deadly army is released. This other worldly type of army. And then the seventh trumpet sounds. And beloved, when the seventh trumpet sounds, something incredible happens. God is going to deliver his people from the next storm. set of plagues that are about to be unleashed upon the earth. This final set of plagues are called, listen now, the seven bowls of wrath. Listen, seven seals have taken place. Seven trumpets have sounded. The plagues have got increasingly worse. Now at the seven trumpet, listen, God’s people are taken out of the world safely. Then what happens is God’s final wrath is poured out upon the earth. And these final seven judgments are known as the seven bowls of wrath. It’s too late for man to repent. It’s all over. The judgment of God has come. But beloved. I’m preaching today and you’re listening because the wrath of God has not come yet. There won’t be evangelists like me preaching on television when the seven bowls of wrath are poured out. The scripture says, if today. today you hear His voice, do not harden your heart.” You know, the Scripture says that the Lord’s Spirit will not strive with man forever. If today you hear His voice, I want you to know that what happens is the Holy Spirit will come to you. He’ll come to me. He’ll give us an opportunity to respond. But if we don’t respond when he comes, beloved, he backs off. See, the scripture says that when God’s final wrath is poured out upon the earth, he that restrains, speaking of the Holy Spirit, will no longer be restraining, meaning that when the seven bowls of wrath are being poured out upon the earth at the end of the tribulation, the Holy Spirit’s gonna be removed from the world. I want you to hear me. If you’re just feeling even subtly right now, the voice of the Lord calling you to himself, maybe you’re living in a lifestyle right now and you know that the lifestyle that you’re leading is absolutely not God’s will for your life. And you hear the truth that’s coming, you believe it’s true, but you’re not sure if you’re ready to give your life to Jesus. I’m here to tell you right now, my friend, that if you don’t obey him now while you sense him speaking to you, you may not have the grace to obey him later. Meaning this, that we can’t just choose to give our life to Jesus whenever we want to. but rather we have to have the grace to give our life to Him. So if God is dealing with you right now, He’s giving you grace to turn to Him. You can’t say, you know what, I want to lead my life another two years this way, and then I’m going to give my life to Him. Because in two years, your heart may be so hard, you’re not going to have it within you to give your heart to Him. So I want to say to you right now, if you’re sensing Jesus calling you to Himself, If you’re not fully living for them, I want you to know you can’t wait. If you’re not doing it yet, you may not have an opportunity to do it later. I want to pray for you right now. Father God, I believe that you’re speaking to people that are listening to the sound of my voice that have not yet come into a salvation experience with you. They’ve heard about the book of Revelation. Some of them were raised in church. It puts the fear of God in them. And yet, Father God, they’re on the fence right now. They’re on the one hand feeling like they need to yield to you. Yet on the other hand, they’re feeling, I don’t know if I’m ready. Father, right now, in Jesus’ name, I call them in. As an ambassador of Christ, Father God, right now, I call in the harvest. Holy Spirit, I ask that you’ll knock louder right now on the hearts of those that are listening. Right now, my friends, some of you just felt it. I’m asking you to get on your knees with me. Get on your knee and just say, Jesus, forgive me. I surrender to you. I give you my life. I pledge my life to you right now. I ask you, King Jesus, to come into my heart. Forgive me for my sins. And Jesus, help me find the resolve to follow you. Jesus, I repent. I turn to you. Jesus, forgive me. I ask you to help me right now to lay my life down to obey you. Beloved, I love you. This is the most important decision that you’ll ever make in your entire life. In 1 Samuel 2, verse 30, we read this. The Lord says, those that honor me, I will honor. You see, beloved, we receive from that which is on a person when we honor who that person is. The Lord says, those that honor me, I will honor. This is true of the Jewish people as well. The Lord said to Abraham, I will bless those that bless thee. Beloved, I believe there’s a supernatural call upon my life and upon this ministry. 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Amen. Thank you, Rabbi Schneider. And you know, Rabbi’s passion is to explain how the Old and New Testaments are connected, to share that knowledge with the entire world. And so if God is calling you to stand with Him this year, to help Him keep doing that, I want to encourage you, support Discovering the Jewish Jesus with the gift of any amount. Call us at 800-777-7835, or you can visit our website at discoveringthejewishjesus.com. And you can also send your donation in the mail. Our address is Discovering the Jewish Jesus, P.O. Box 777, Blissfield, Michigan, 49228. Once again, that’s P.O. Box 777, Blissfield, Michigan, 49228. And you know, many find the book of Revelation intimidating and sometimes confusing, but it doesn’t have to be that way. So Rabbi has recently revised his book, The Book of Revelation Decoded, and it’s a clear and accessible guide where he helps you understand what Scripture says about the end times and how it applies to our world today. Not just reading the mysteries of Revelation, but explaining them. And this revised edition addresses the recent world-shaking events like the October 7th attack on Israel. He and I were in Israel when this event happened. He’s got some exciting insights to share. And he’ll also use the Hebrew prophets from the Old Testament to help explain how they provide a roadmap for understanding these challenging times ahead for the body of Christ and the world. And if you’d like to get a copy of the book of Revelation Decoded, then just go to our website, discoveringthejewishjesus.com. That’s discoveringthejewishjesus.com. You can also call to purchase a copy, 800-777-7835. And friends, now here’s Rabbi again to send us off with God’s sacred and special blessing.
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In the Old Testament book of Numbers, we find a blessing God speaks over his children through Moses and Aaron. It carries the idea of favor and expression. Open your heart to the Spirit and the Word today, and receive Father’s goodness into your life with confidence.
The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you. The Lord lift you up with his countenance. And the Lord give you, beloved one, his peace. God bless you and shalom.
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I’m your host, Dustin Roberts, and this program is produced and sponsored by Discovering the Jewish Jesus. Join us again next time when Rabbi Schneider discusses the seven bowls of wrath and how this is going to impact your faith. Find out Tuesday on Discovering the Jewish Jesus.
