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LESSON 3 * PART 3 * BOOK 62
ISAIAH 62:1 - 64:6
I think that’s just God’s way of preparing the world’s population for what’s coming.
2. Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him who treadeth in the winefat?" Now, this is symbolic language of course, but what’s the picture? I’m sure that that’s involved here, but what we’ve really got is a symbolic picture of Christ as He’s ready to return and finalize the wrath and vexation.
Come back to Psalms chapter 2 verse 5. Be able to show people, hey, this is what’s coming! Today we’re not in the wrath and vexation. We’re in the Grace of God. God is permitting these things, but his Grace is still abundant. "Then (in other words at that point in time) shall he (God) speak unto them (Who? The population of the world) in his wrath, (Not mercy, not love, not Grace, that has ended. In His wrath and vexation He’s going to pour out torment and death and destruction and misery like the world has never known.
Again, like I said in the last program, "is God being unfair?" NO! He’s given the human race 2000 years of Grace. All of these people that will be involved in these final years of judgment will have lived during all this time of preaching and proclaiming the Gospel of the Grace of God and have walked it underfoot. Verse 2:
Paul Bunyan. What’s the legend of Paul Bunyan? This humongous woodsman who stepped from place to place across Minnesota and every place he stepped was left a what? It is death and destruction, His wrath! Consequently, in verse 2, what has happened to His apparel? Now, we don’t like to think in terms of that with God, but this isn’t the God that we’re dealing with today. God today is the God of love, mercy, and Grace, absolutely! But when this day comes, it’s going to be the God of wrath and judgment. Jesus, in His earthly ministry, warned Israel of it. Paul speaks of it in just one place. This terrible time is coming, Beloved!
This wrath is going to be poured out from God and God alone.) There is nothing with reference to God’s Word. When you look at the world in general, spiritually and morally speaking, we Americans are still head and shoulders above the rest of the world. It’s the prostitution capital of the world. Then reading on, let’s finish verse 3.
Now, this is the coming Christ alone who is pouring out wrath and judgment.
the Son of man," (The word Son is capitalized. It’s Christ.) To harvest.
Revelation 14:15
It is ripe for judgment.
Why does God pour out such horrible judgment on one generation of people? I think I read one time that at the time of Christ the total population was only like 500,000,000.
Revelation 14:17-18
Well, the grape juice or the wine. Revelation 14:19
"And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress, of the wrath of God." What was a wine vat? The valleys, especially of Israel. The Valley of Megiddo. The Valley of Sharon. The Jericho Valley. Little Israel is divided into all these separate valleys. Why pack all your troops into those valleys? Christ at His Second Coming.
The hundred pound hail stones! Now, I do take the liberty here, the Bible doesn’t explicitly say this, but I feel that once these armies of the world are packed into the valleys of Israel, the hundred pound hail stones will be God’s treader of the grapes. All right, read on. You’ll get the picture. Verse 20:
Revelation 14:20a
You’ve got the Hula Valley up north of Galilee. I’ve already mentioned the Valley of Sharon along the Mediterranean Sea. You’ve got the Jordan Valley coming down from Galilee to the Dead Sea - all those valleys, packed full of the world’s troops.
Revelation 14:20
"And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, (Not grape juice, blood. So, who are the grapes? Yeah, chapter 16 verse 21. If God is putting His wrath upon a grape vat, then that means it has to be within an enclosure. What better way to picture an enclosure than a valley? Revelation 16:21a
"And there fell upon men (not grapes) a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent:…" Hundred pound hail stones. All right, one hundred pound hailstones will fall upon these multitudes of men gathered, now, in the valley of Israel, but does it change their thinking? Revelation 16:21b
"…and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great." Is it a great revival? Revelation 9:21
All right, I think I’ve got time to show this. Now, come back with me to chapter 7 and verse 9. In the midst of all of this wrath and outpouring, God’s 144,000 Jews are going to be proclaiming salvation. Revelation 7:9-10
Now, that may be a great number. If I haven’t made any other point today, I hope I make this – don’t blame God.

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