Pastor Mike Impact Ministries

There is probably nothing that gets all our attention like an earthquake. In the book of Revelation there are at least three great earthquakes. We read about one right here in chapter 11. Just before this earthquake happens the two witnesses miraculously come back to life as the whole world is watching. For three and a half days the enemies of God, and a demon possessed world, has been having a Sa...

Today, we are repeating ourselves once again, but I believe it is important to get the events of Revelation 10-14 in order, to help us understand the timetable of the Tribulation. The scene here is the “great” city of Jerusalem in the middle of the Tribulation. The time clock for the Seven-year Tribulation begins to tick when Antichrist makes a peace treaty with Israel (Daniel 9:27). I’m pretty co...

Today, we are talking about what will happen in the city of Jerusalem in the middle of the Tribulation as we look at the middle chapter of the Book of Revelation. Up to this point the seven seals have been opened and six trumpets have sounded, and one woe has taken place. We believe that these two witnesses are miraculously sent by God at the very beginning of the first half of the Tribulation to...

Up to this point in Revelation the seven seals have been opened and six trumpets have sounded, and two woes have taken place. Now we are looking at the middle of the Seven-year Tribulation which begins with giving us more detail about the first three and half years of it. As we have already noted, we believe that these two witnesses minister during the first half of the Tribulation (Rev. 11:3; 1,2...

I want to remind us that God always keeps His Word! Jesus Himself said, “Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away” (Matthew 24:35). Most of the prophesies in the Old Testament concern the second coming of Jesus Christ! Jesus promised His disciples in John 14:3, “…I will come again…”. At His ascension the two angels said, “This same Jesus will so come in like manner...

“ Then I was given a reed like a measuring rod. And the angel stood, saying, "Rise and measure the temple of God, the altar, and those who worship there. But leave out the court which is outside the temple, and do not measure it, for it has been given to the Gentiles. And they will tread the holy city underfoot for forty-two months." Today we begin our study in the middle chapter of the Book of Re...

Today we want to think about three things we see in this passage in Revelation 10 – The voice from heaven, the mystery of God and the little book. The phrase, “voice from heaven” is used numerous times in the Book of Revelation. Twice in this chapter John says he heard a voice from heaven (vv. 4 & 8). Of course, this is the voice of God. The first verses of the Bible in Genesis 1, remind us th...

Proverbs 31:28-31 “Her children rise up and call her blessed; Her husband also, and he praises her: "Many daughters have done well, But you excel them all." Charm is deceitful and beauty is passing, But a woman who fears the LORD, she shall be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands, And let her own works praise her in the gates.” Happy Mother’s Day! In my Pastor’s Chat video today, I discuss...

“I saw still another mighty angel coming down from heaven, clothed with a cloud. And a rainbow was on his head, his face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire.” Yesterday in our Pastor’s Chat we did a brief review of the first three and a half years of the Tribulation in preparation for studying this chapter. If you missed it, please go back and listen to it, or read the blog that go...

Today we begin our study on Revelation 10-11. These two chapters somewhat go together as we will see later. The Book of Revelation has 22 chapters, so when we get here, we are almost in the in the middle of the book. Interesting these chapters (10-11) are like an interlude explaining to us some of the details of the events that take place in the first three and half years of the Tribulation. For m...

“But the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and idols of gold, silver, brass, stone, and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk. And they did not repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.” Today we will finish up our study in Revelation 9. We beli...

“Then the sixth angel sounded: And I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates." So the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, were released to kill a third of mankind...." Each of the first four trumpet judgments i...

In the future, Satan will serve God's purpose by being permitted to launch another deadly assault against the human race. That attack will come at the sounding of the fifth trumpet, during the time of God's judgment in the Great Tribulation (7:14). For millennia the heavens have declared God's glory (cf. Ps. 19:1-2), but in the future they will declare His wrath. The first four trumpet judgments w...

In Revelation we are looking at a period of time to come on planet earth that is called the Seven-year Tribulation. Chapter 6 gives us a preview of what will take place in the first three-and-a-half years as six seals on the seven-sealed book are opened. Chapter 7 tells us about the 144,000 Jews that are marked so that they can’t be hurt as they share the gospel. It also gives a description of the...

“Then the fifth angel sounded: And I saw a star fallen from heaven to the earth. To him was given the key to the bottomless pit. And he opened the bottomless pit, and smoke arose out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace. So the sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke of the pit. Then out of the smoke locusts came upon the earth. And to them was given power, as the scorpions of t...

“Then the fifth angel sounded: And I saw a star fallen from heaven to the earth. To him was given the key to the bottomless pit. And he opened the bottomless pit, and smoke arose out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace." In Revelation 8, the seven angels with seven trumpets begin to sound.  I believe these seven trumpets begin to sound at the beginning of the second half of the tribu...

Today, I thought you might find this interesting that this chat is the 777th consecutive one that I have posted since we begin doing them back in March 2020, (except for one day when I was in the hospital earlier this year). I started these daily chats to stay in contact with our congregation at Rainbow when were forced into social isolation. I never knew that they would continue in this way and t...

As the seven seals are opened by the Lamb of God (Rev. 6), they give us a preview of the first three and a half years of the Tribulation. The seventh seal is followed by silence for thirty minutes and then the seven angels with seven trumpets begin to sound. I believe the seven trumpets begin to sound at the beginning of the second half of the tribulation. When the first trumpet sounds in verse 7,...

"Then the second angel sounded: And something like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood. And a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.” Revelation 6 marks the beginning of the Seven-year Tribulation on the earth that begins after the Antichrist is revealed when he makes a peace treaty with Is...

“ So the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.  The first angel sounded: And hail and fire followed, mingled with blood, and they were thrown to the earth. And a third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up." The Book of Revelation mainly describes the seven-year period of time on the earth shortly after the rapture of the church takes p...

“ So the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.  The first angel sounded: And hail and fire followed, mingled with blood, and they were thrown to the earth. And a third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up. Then the second angel sounded: And something like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea, and a third of the se...

He was given much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, ascended before God from the angel's hand. I will never forget something I heard Dr. Jerry Falwell say often when I was a student at Lynchburg Baptist College fifty years ago. He said, “Nothing of eter...

"He was given much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, ascended before God from the angel's hand." When the seventh seal is open in heaven three things happen almost immediately. There is silence in heaven for half an hour. An angel gives seven trumpets t...

When the seventh seal was open in heaven there was silence for about half an hour. We are not told exactly why this silence happens but for sure it signaled the seven angels with seven trumpets that are about to sound. I personally believe that the opening of the seventh seal and the judgments that were about to be released were so awesome and terrible that it caught everyone’s attention and took...

“When He opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour. And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and to them were given seven trumpets." Have you ever noticed that silence can get your attention better than the noise of people talking and someone speaking in front of the class? I’ll never forget my first year in Bible College at LBC. I was sitting in a Bible s...