God's Anger Brought to a Finish - "It Has Come to Pass

 "And the seventh one poured out his bowl upon the air.. At his a loud voice issued out of the sactuary from the throne, saying: 'It has come to pass!'" - REVELATION 16:17.

"The air" is the final life-sustaining medium to be plagued. But this is not the literal air.  There is nothing about the literal  air that makes it deserving of Jehovah's adverse judgments,  any more than the literal earth, sea, freshwater sources, or sun deserve to suffer judgments at Jehovah's hand.  Rather, this is "the air" Paul ws discussing when he called Satam  'the ruler of the authority of the air." (Ephesians 2:2)  It is the satanic "air" breathed by the world today, the spirirt, or general mental inclination, that characterizes his whole wicked system of thing, the satanicc thinking that permeates  every aspect  of life outside of Jehovah's organization. So in pouring  out his bown upon the air, the seventh angel expresses God's wrath against Satan, his organization, and everything that motivates mankind to support Satan in defying  Jehovah's sovereignty.

This and the previous six plagues give the sum total of Jehovah's judgments against Satan and his system. They are a declaration of doom for Satan and his seed. When this final bowl is  poured out, Jehovah himself proclaims: "It has come to pass!" There is nothing else to say.  When the contents of the bowls of God's anger  have publicized to Jehovah's satisfaction there will be no delay in his executing  the judgments by these messages. 

Next time:  God's Anger Brought to a Finish  "It Has Come to Pass!" -Concluson

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