BROKEN THINGS

1) CONDEMNATION THROUGH BROKEN  LAW

Rom 2:23 “Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God.”

Matt. 5:17  “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets:: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfull.”

2) EMPTINASS THROUGH BROKEN CISTERNS

Jer. 2:13 “For my people have committed two evils, they have forsaken me the fountain of living water and have hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water.”

3) REDEMPTION THROUGH BROKEN BODY

I Kor.11:24  “And when he had given thanks he brake it and said; Take, eat, this is My body which is broken for you, this do in remembrance of  Me.”

4) RESERRECTION THROUGH BROKEN TOMB

Acts.2:24  “Whom God hath raised up having loosed the pains of death because it was not possible that he should beholding of it.”

5)VICTORY THROUGH BROKEN VESSEL

Judges 7:19  “and they blew the trumpets and brake the pitches that were in their hands.”

i.  costly – no return

ii.  Christ’s – no rival

iii.  Complete – no reserve

6)         TESTOMONY THROUGH BROKEN BOX

John 12:3  “Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.”

7)         JUGDMENT THROUGH BROKEN SEAL

Rev.6 and 8

i.  White horse- Rider who deceive’s Outside 

“And I saw, and behold a white horse:  and he that sat on him had a bow;  and a crown was given  unto him:  and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.” 6:2.

False religion Satanism. Cults half truths dubble standards.

Inside Church – Modern materialism

ii.  Red horse – Rider who makes war

“And there went out another horse that was red;  and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another;  and there was given unto him a great sword.” 6:4

iii.  Black Horse –  Rider who brings hunger

Rider who brings diseases

“And I beheld and lo a black horse;  and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.  And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny;  and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.”  6:5 and 6.

iv.  Pale horse – his name was Death

“And behold a pale horse;  And his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.  And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.” 6:8

Famine – Red and back horse ride together

Pale horse – Pestilence and death Famine

The Seventh seal reveals.  Rev.8.

7 trumpets

1)  hail and fire

 “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.” v7

2)  Great mountain cast into the sea

“And the second angel sounded, and 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 creation which were in the sea, and had life, died;  and had life, and the third part the ships were destroyed.” v8.

3)  A great star, called Wormwood fell from heaven

“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 Wormwoord:  and the third part of the waters became wormwood;  and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.”  10 & 11

4)A third part of the sun, moon and stars were darkened

“And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars;  so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.  And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound.” v12 &13.             

5)A star fall from heaven to whom was given the key of the bottomless pit

“And the fifth angel sounded and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth;  and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.  And he opened the bottomless pit;  and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace;  and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.  And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth:  and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.  And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree;  but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.  And to them it was given that they should be torment five months:  and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.  And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it;  and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from the.  And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle;  And on their heads were as if were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.  And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.  And they had breastplates, and it were breastplates of iron;  and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.  And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails;  And their power was to hurt men five months.  And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is A-bad-don, but in the Greek tongue hath his name A-pol-ly-on.  One woe is past;  and, behold there come two woes more hereafter.” v1-12

6)The sixth angel loose the four angels which were prepared for an hour, and ‘ day, and a month, and a year

“And 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 which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.  And the four angel were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for the slay the third part of men.  And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:  and I heard the number of them.  And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone:  and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions;  and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.  By these tree was the third part of men killed, by the fire and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mounts.  For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails:  for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.  And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood:  which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk;  Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.”

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