Revelation, Lesson Forty-fourDay 2 of Week SevenScripture for today 11:18-19 18The nations were angry; and your wrath has come. The time has come for judging the dead, and for rewarding your servants the prophets and your saints and those who reverence your name, both small and great-- and for destroying those who destroy the earth." 19Then God's temple in heaven was opened, and within his temple was seen the ark of his covenant. And there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake and a great hailstorm.
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1. For what does God’s punishment come to vindicate?
2. What is meant by saying that the temple in heaven was open and that the ark of the covenant was in the temple? 3. To what extent have human beings, and mainly modern civilization, destroyed the earth?
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