We are looking at the seventh Bowl Judgment that is found in Revelation 16:17, and this is the final judgment to be poured out on the earth before the Lord comes back.
It says in Revelation 16:17, “Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl upon the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple from the throne, saying, ‘It is done.’” Here are the final judgments. It is done. All that the Lord had planned to do has now been completed and He is in preparation to return to the earth and claim the earth as His own.
It says in Revelation 16:18, “And there were flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder; and there was a great earthquake, such as there had not been since man came to be upon the earth, so great an earthquake was it, and so mighty.” So, we have this powerful earthquake, a real movement of the ground and movement of the earth. Nothing has ever happened like this before.
As we move into Revelation 16:19, we see the effects on the earth and the cities from this great earthquake. It says, “The great city was split into three parts,” the great city here would be the city of Jerusalem, “and the cities of the nations fell.” Babylon is the other great nation found in the book of Revelation, which is a picture of fallen humanity: the business, the economics, the worldview, the lifestyle, and the spirit of the antichrist are all depicted in the city of Babylon. So, we have the great city Jerusalem split into three parts and the verse continues and says, “Babylon the great was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of His fierce wrath.” While we are thinking about these cities, we once again want to go back to Zechariah 14:4, and here we see something happening in this area very similar to what is happening in the book of Revelation. It says, “In that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives,” this is the return of Christ, and Christ physically returns and stands on the Mount of Olives outside of Jerusalem, “which is in front of Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in its middle from east to west by a very large valley, so that half of the mountain will move toward the north and the other half toward the south.” . . .
