No 100 lb hail stones, no super earthquakes flattening all the mountains, no islands vanishing, no historic recording of 2 supernatural witnesses that for 3.5 years defy the Satanically super empowered beast and his world wide control system, no system of marking denoting who could buy or sell. These things have not happened yet...nor has the third temple been rebuilt.
You twist scripture...even the parts which are clearly understood and need no high powered “intepretations” of symbolic imagery. You build your house on sand not on the rock of scripture!
LOL! Don't forget these passages:
"The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up." (Rev 8:7 KJV)
There goes all our livestock and other grass eaters, and everything that feeds on them.
"And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood; And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed." (Rev 8:8-9 KJV)
Be certain you move far inland before that happens. A great mountain falling into the sea would cause an unbelievable, world-wide tidal wave.
"And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter." (Rev 8:10-11 KJV)
How could anyone survive a star hitting the earth? How could the earth survive? The earth would be obliterated like the planet in the old Star Wars movie.
Recall that all you need is faith as a grain of mustard seed and you can say unto a mountain:
"… Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you." (Matt 17:20.)
You haven't seen anyone move any mountains lately, have you? Therefore, using your "literal" interpretive method, I would be forced to assume that no one on earth has any faith.
This is one of the verses you mentioned from the Revelation:
"And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great." (Revelation 16:21)
There was a Jewish priest and historian named Flavius Josephus, who was captured by the Roman armies early in the Jewish-Roman war; and he was allowed to stay with the army leadership during the war. As an eyewitness to many events, he has become one of the most read historians for information from that era. Now read this from Josephus in reference to the Roman siege of Jerusalem and compare it to the verse above:
"The [catapult] engines, that all the [Roman] legions had ready prepared for them, were admirably contrived; but still more extraordinary ones belonged to the tenth legion: those that threw darts and those that threw stones were more forcible and larger than the rest, by which they not only repelled the excursions of the Jews, but drove those away that were upon the walls also. Now the stones that were cast were of the weight of a talent, and were carried two furlongs [1/4 mile] and further. The blow they gave was no way to be sustained, not only by those that stood first in the way, but by those that were beyond them for a great space." [War of Jews V:6:3]
Is that a coincidence, or what?
By the way, there is absolutely no evidence of a rebuilt third temple in the bible.
Philip