The Seven
Seals
Seals 4,5,6,7
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Seal 5 – When
the fifth seal is broken, millions of
people will die as martyrs for
Christ. Why does God permit so many
of His people to die as martyrs? The
blood of martyrs can speak more
clearly than words. In other words,
during the time of the fifth seal,
most everyone will have taken a
position on whom they will worship:
The Lamb (Jesus) or the lamb-like
beast (Lucifer). A few people will be
in the valley of decision. In order
to get these few people to consider
the importance of worshiping Jesus,
Jesus will sacrifice millions of His
children. The blood of martyrs is a
testimony that cannot be silenced.
This drama that will unfold during
the Great Tribulation…
Listen carefully: A
martyr’s faith will be given
when a martyr’s faith is needed.
The bottom line in the fifth seal is
that the love of Jesus will be
powerfully demonstrated through the
faithfulness of His saints.
Seal 6 – The
sixth revelation of Jesus occurs
at the Second Coming. When
Jesus appears with the Father at the
Second Coming, the whole universe
will behold the awesome glory of
Jesus that has been hidden from view
since the dawn of time. Words
cannot describe the amazing glory
that will attend Jesus on that day.
Matthew
26:63 “But Jesus
remained silent. The high priest said
to him, ‘I charge you under oath
by the living God: Tell us if you are
the Christ, the Son of God.’
Matthew
26:64 “Yes, it is as
you say,” Jesus replied.
‘But I say to all of you: In the
future you will see the Son of Man
sitting at the right hand of the
Mighty One and coming on the clouds
of heaven.’”
The Father will come
with the Son at the Second Coming and
the Holy Spirit will be here too,
sealed within the hearts and minds of
the saints!
Seal 7 – The
seventh revelation of Jesus occurs at
the end of the 1,000 years. At that
time, everyone who has ever lived on
Earth will be alive and summoned to
appear before the great white throne
to behold the full and complete
divinity of Jesus --- that Jesus is
fully God and that Jesus was willing
to cease to exist so that every
sinner might have access to eternal
life.
Everyone will behold
that Jesus is from everlasting to
everlasting, the Alpha and the Omega.
The universe will behold the love,
the character and faithful work of
Jesus --- how He rescued repentant
sinners from the penalty of sin and
how He exonerated the Father’s
government from Lucifer’s lies.
After showing the
world the story of sin and salvation
on a giant panoramic screen in the
sky, all of God’s children will
kneel before Jesus confessing that he
is fully God – equal in every
way with the Most High Father –
and the ways of the Godhead are
eternal, righteous and true.
After watching the
Plan of Salvation story, everyone
will marvel at the love of the
Godhead. They will bow before a Jesus
who willingly submitted His divine
“rights” to the Father for
the sake of having a large family. (We
examined the Trinity and their
subjugation of powers to each other
in our last study.) The point here is
that at the end of sin’s drama
the whole story cannot be summed up!
The love and heart of the Godhead is
just too big!
The best the angels
and the redeemed can do is sing
endless praises to the Father, Son
and the Holy Spirit.
Ok, the breaking of
each seal chronologically moves
everyone in the universe toward a
brighter and bigger understanding of
who Jesus really is. Now you know why
the last book in the Bible is called
“The Revelation of Jesus
Christ!”
Here’s a thought
that I want you to carefully
consider: Most people think the book
of Revelation is scary and foreboding
--- they have heard
about the beast that has seven heads
and the mark of the beast
--- they have heard
about persecution and Armageddon
--- they have heard
about Babylon and the great harlot
--- but what they
haven’t heard about is the
Revelation of Jesus Christ!
Here’s why: The
intended meaning of Revelation cannot
be determined without the four rules
that come from the book of Daniel
– the book of Daniel was sealed
up until the appointed time of the
end. This means the intended meaning
of Daniel and Revelation could not be
known until the appointed time of the
end!
After addressing the
seven churches of Revelation that
confront all Christians, the
apocalyptic portion of the book of
Revelation begins with the seven
seals because the seven seals are the
first thing a person needs to
understand about the end-time story!
The seven seals explain the
revelation of Jesus!
If the seven seals are
not properly understood, there is no
revelation of Jesus! If the revealing
of Jesus (all that he is) isn’t first
understood, the rest of
Revelation’s story becomes scary
and foreboding – a depressing
and scary scenario about the
end-times.
But…. When the
revealing of Jesus is properly
understood in the seven seals, the
rest of Revelation’s story
becomes a powerful drama revealing
how wonderful Jesus is and how
horrible sin really is.
Man’s greatest
problem is sin.
God’s greatest
problem is sin.
And only Jesus can
resolve both problems!
Revelation’s
story was written in advance because
God wants the final generation to
understand how Jesus is going to
bring an end to the sin problem! The
father predetermined long ago that at
the end of sin’s drama, during
the judgment of the living, Jesus
would bring about a certain sequence
of events that will cause every
honest person on Earth to consider
the curse of sin and need of a
Savior.
This is a truth that
the world will soon experience.
The book of
Revelation explains the revelation of
Jesus because mankind desperately
needs a Savior – but most of the
world’s population does not
understand their need of a Savior!
And, to make matters worse, you
can’t convince most people of
their need of a Savior because of
arrogance and ignorance.
So, Jesus will impose
His wrath on mankind (when He breaks
the fourth seal) and His 144,000
servants will inform the world of His
truth. And, one of the most
interesting developments in
Revelation’s story is that Jesus
will use the opposing efforts and
forces of evil men and Lucifer to
press home man’s need of a
Savior! This explains why the
behavior of the wicked is given so
much attention in the book of
Revelation.
Let me say this again:
Jesus will use the behavior of
wicked man and angels to bring about
such desperate circumstances that
every honest person will realize His
need of Jesus and His Savior!
The point here is that
Jesus will deliberately impose His
wrath on the whole Earth to get a
global response from the leaders of
the world. The 144,000 will be
empowered at this point in time to
present the everlasting gospel and
the opposing efforts and forces of
wicked people and Lucifer will put
honest hearted people in a situation
where they will be able to realize
their need of a Savior! How clever!
God News! A
numberless multitude will discover
their need for Jesus, and they
will accept his generous terms and
conditions for salvation, and they
will rejoice to know and receive
Jesus as their Savior –
persecution notwithstanding.
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