Alumbrados – The Illuminated

So many sins are committed against God. The Spirit of the Lord in every believer cries out from within – How Long, Oh Lord, till you take vengeance on them that dwell on the earth?

It is a feeling that only the Holy Spirit can give. We have mixed feelings of compassion and vengeance. Compassion, and pity for the lost of the world. But then also vengeance that God’s great name will be made worthy.

There is also a great feeling to worship God. This is all the work of the Holy Spirit.

Sometimes we just want to sacrifice everything to just be with the fellowship of the believers. People who cry out day and night with the same feelings that the Holy Spirit gives to us.

Do you long for fellowship with people who have sacrificed to find God? Do you seek and yearn for spiritual company? Do you feel like you do not want the worldliness?

Well in Revelation Chapter 8 of the Christian Bible we can be satisfied. Here God shows his vengeance on the world. On those who worship the beast.

If you are truly filled with the Spirit of God, you will rejoice that vengeance is done on those who WORSHIP THE BEAST. Revelation 18 says, Rejoice! What for? For this very reason. Holy Vengeance -

Revelation 18:

20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.    

21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.  

Halellujah! Do you cry… let the angel thrust her down? Deep into hell? Yes there is such a thing as holy vengeance, in the heart of God’s people. This is what we are talking about. The prayers of the saints are these feelings of Holy vengeance:

Revelation 8:

3 And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.    

4 And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel’s hand.    

It’s smoke – the prayers on fire for vengeance!

Sinners begin to tremble -

“Wouldn’t my holy mother let me into heaven?”

Do you then expect that your mother would be glad to see you — that she would spread her mantle over you and take you up to heaven? Oh, if she were told that you were at the gate, she would hasten down to say, O my sinning child! you cannot enter heaven. Into this holy place nothing can by any means enter that “worketh abomination or maketh a lie.” You cannot — no, you cannot come!    

If it were left to your own mother to decide the question of your admission, you could not come in. She would not open heaven’s gate for your admission. She knows you would disturb the bliss of heaven. She knows you would mar its purity and be an element of discord in its sympathies and in its songs.

- Charles Finney

So here we have Revelation Chapter 8, the same thing also revealed in Revelation Chapter 16. Notice how in both Revelation 8 and Revelation 16 there are first FOUR plagues which affect the environment, and then a FIFTH hurts the people, then the SIXTH is the river Euphrates, then the SEVENTH is the Judgment Day:

Revelation 8:

7 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.    

Revelation 16:2 And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.    

8 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;    

9 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.    

Revelation 16:3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man; and every living soul died in the sea.  

10 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;    

11 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.    

Revelation 16:

4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.    

5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.    

6 For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.    

7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.    

12 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.    

Revelation 16:

8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.    

9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.

Notice this feeling I have been describing is highlighted in RED above. In both Chapters we see the same thing revealed. It is the VENGEANCE of God taking place on mankind for TAKING THE MARK OF THE BEAST.