"And the nations were angry, and Thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that Thou shouldest give reward unto Thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear Thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth." (Rev. 11:18).
Another prophecy, that of Daniel 7 sheds light on this one, "The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces." (Dan. 7:23).
This fourth kingdom was Rome, the fourth great empire that ruled the ancient world. But different from the previous three empires, it would reign until the end of time. Under many guises, through many schemes, professing both of the basic life philosophies, spiritual power and temporal power, it's tyranny over humanity would be complete.
Through its self-assumed role as spiritual leader, this unique political power would, as God's special representative, dominate every facet of human existence. Never-theless, Daniel chapters 7, 8, 11, and Revelation chapters 8-18 showcase this power actually as God's primary nemesis, and His enemy #1. Rather than being God's channel for blessing humanity, it would be Satan's medium for destroying the Earth.
"They that see thee [Lucifer] shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; that made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?" (Isa. 14:16,17).
But, Satan has an accomplice for destroying the world--that accomplice is us. God would never allow the devils to destroy His people unless they chose to put their most implicit trust in Satan instead of in their holy Redeemer. But, perpetual idolatry and worshiping Satan have made the human race complicit in its own destruction. "The inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication." (Rev. 17:2).
And if the world wants to be drunken, then it cannot serve Jehovah in holiness and sobriety. "But," Peter's injunction to the church since its beginning has been, "the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer." (1Pet. 4:7).
If their prayers to the Holy One come from the deranged, self-indulged spirit of them who knew better, then He will not listen.
"And the Lord spake unto Aaron, saying, Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations: and that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean." (Lev. 10:8-10).
This pronouncent resulted from Aaron's two eldest sons dying from the Lord's wrath because they experimented with worship in conjunction with a mind-altering drug, in this case, alcohol. They knew better than to approach God with irreverent derangement and foolish play.
The condemnation of the world at the end is that the "peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues" (Rev. 17:15) of lost humanity are drunken with Magna Mater, the Queen of heaven. In ancient Rome Magna Mater was Diana, the multitudinous breasted goddess "whom all Asia and the world worshippeth". (Acts 19:27). Today Mary gets the title, Queen of heaven. As with the nations around the world ever since Nimrod instituted paganism, Mary (Magna Mater), the goddess of Catholicism, and God the Holy Spirit, the Magna Mater goddess of Protestantism, both goddesses being one and the same only gracious and adored Magna Mater mother of God, offer a doctrinal intoxication that goes deeper, and is longer lasting, than any chemical intoxication.
Beliefs create their own chemical in the brain. Truth re-engineers the mind with chemicals that create the fruits of the Spirit, hope, love, joy, peace, patience, meekness, etc. Pagan doctrines produce lawless chemicals, animosity, arrogance, distrust, unrest, etc. False hope, which is based on promises of God's grace while denying the fulfillment of the condition of heeding His condemnation of sin, receives no comforting reconciled Spirit from God. The grace of God comes only through the narrow gate of condemnation of sins.
"For whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth.
If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the Father chasteneth not?
But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons." (Heb. 12:6-8).
Yet, the whole religious world follows the universally held lawless and pernicious tradition of demon invention.
It was for worshiping the Trinity god and it's pleasing doctrines of grace without truth, that Jehovah pronounced the following curses that would end in His wrath.
"The Lord shall thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart:
And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.
Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.
Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue them.
Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long; and there shall be no might in thine hand.
The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:
So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see...." (Deut. 28:28-34).
"The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.
He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail." (Vs. 43,44).
"Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded thee:
And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever.
Because thou servedst not the Lord thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;
Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the Lord shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and He shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until He have destroyed thee." (Vs. 45-48).
The third angel's message of the Old Testament shows God's wrath upon ancient Israel for getting drawn into the intoxication of serving lawless, celebrating worship to devils.
"Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;
And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:
The Lord will not spare him, but then the anger of the Lord and His jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven...." (Deut. 29:18-20).
Such a reckless person or people would reap more than an earful of divine anger, they would reap endless Sodom-like destruction by Jehovah departing from them, and demons taking up residence in their souls, as we still learn of today at the Dead Sea, almost four thousand years after wicked Sodom's destruction.
And all the passersby exclaim concerning that individual or family or tribe, "The whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger, and in His wrath." (Vs. 23).
"When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.
Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.
Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be unto this perverse generation." (Matt. 12:43-44).
In the end, souls will be dominated by a spiritual legion that won't let go or let up its hold on them. The honeymoon of sweet nothings is over. The intoxicating lawless grace ends in a most horrific nightmarish hangover, the world over. Tiny in comparison to today's billions was divine wrath upon the post-flood generation that began paganism at Babel. Gigantic will be the wrath upon the coming worldwide drunken deep dive into the most extreme, yearned for lawlessness.
Now, on a much grander scale, a similar discomfiting and confusion of faces will create a delerium and wretchedness, that no one beforehand can comprehend or fathom. Enabling, lawless Ashtoreth will turn into a tyrannical Baal. The voice of gracious, lawless Mary paves the way for a furious, abusive Ba-Allah Jesus.
Because Jehovah has been written off and kicked out of the soul, wrath from the demons, will then dominate humanity's thoughts without reprieve. And they will have no rest. Jehovah claims responsibility for the demonic takeover only because He controls the liberties conferred to the devils and He retains ultimately responsibility for anything that happens in the universe.
"And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of His indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name." (Rev. 14:9-11).
In total disavowal of God's claims on His children, they will be at war with Him in their conscience. His words, His presence will receive the same disconserted exasperation that demoniacs had whenever Jesus came near.
The New Testament third angel's message, like its Old Testament version, shows the same "fire and brimstone", smoke and burning. But it's jealousy; it's the righteous outrage of a huge Father of love whose children were abducted and re-educated to distrust and hate Him. How can He let those propagandized agents of His arch enemy enter eternal life? Those workers of iniquity would forever harrass, terrorize, and assassinate the children who love Him.
Thus, the first world nations, at the end will see all the good life disappear, and the easy times from enslaving the third world masses, ease and convenience which they hoped would continue for many millennia, will turn into oppression. All the curses of Deuteronomy 28, which will flow from the goodness of the God of unchanging love, will not lead them to repent. He will give them only the oppression that He allowed them to give His children for their purification. "He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger" (Isa. 14:6), will turn on his taskmasters.
But, as the last plagues fall, this generation will become increasingly determinedly resistant to God.
"And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.... And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain, and blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds." (Rev. 16:1,2,10,11).
"And the nations were angry, and Thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that Thou shouldest give reward unto Thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear Thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in His temple the ark of His testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail." (Rev. 11:18,19).
