The Seven
Seals
Seals 4,5,6,7
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Look also at this
text:
Revelation 18:24
“In her [the great whore] was
found the blood of prophets and of
the saints, and of all who have
been killed on the earth.”
The point here is
twofold. First, a Great Injustice is
coming upon the saints and the
144,000 will be killed because of the
Word of God and the testimony they
maintain.
The maddening wine [the
intoxicating doctrines] of false
religion will cause the leaders of
the world to act irrationally after
the fourth seal is broken.
Insanity will rule the
day. A spirit of confusion and
anxiety will overtake the world. When
religious and political leaders
behold the sudden destruction of 25%
of mankind, they will go bezerk in
their efforts to appease God because
they do not know God nor His plans.
In their misguided
efforts to appease God, the 144,000
and the saints will become objects of
hatred because they will refuse to
obey the decrees and laws of Babylon.
Religious and political leaders
will arrogantly and ignorantly
interpret this defiance as behavior
offensive to God.
The defiance of the
144,000 and the saints will perplex
world leaders because they ignorantly
think that God’s wrath will
return unless everyone obeys the laws
of Babylon. Therefore, they will
persecute the people of God and think
they are doing God a service! How
twisted is this?
Jesus said:
John 16:1 “All
this I have told you so that you will
not go astray.
John 16:2 They
will put you out of the synagogue; in
fact, a time is coming when anyone
who kills you will think he is
offering a service to God.
John 16:3 They
will do such things because they have
not known the Father or me.”
Remember this, God has
already determined the number of
souls that he will permit to die as sacrifices
for the gospel of Jesus.
Revelation 13:10
If anyone is to go into captivity,
into captivity he will go. If anyone
is to be killed with the sword, with
the sword he will be killed. This
calls for patent endurance and faithfulness
on the part of the saints.”
Finally, what are the
primary purposes for human sacrifices
during the fifth seal? I can think of
two:
1. The
death of a martyr is a matter of
choice – the martyr chooses to
die rather than to submit. This
defiance is the most powerful
testimony that a person can offer.
Jesus will enable a
large number of His people to die as
martyrs because their humble but
powerful testimony will influence the
hearts and minds of those few people
who haven’t made up their minds.
If Paul’s heart
was touched by Stephen’s
martyrdom, we don’t know.
However, we do know that Paul was
converted on the road to Damascus. He
later wrote:
1 Timothy 1:13
“Even though I was once a
blasphemer and a persecutor and a
violet man, I was shown mercy because
I acted in ignorance and
unbelief.”
The point here is that
many will persecute God’s people
out of ignorance and unbelief. But,
participating in the death of a good
and honest person will be a point of
torment through which the Holy Spirit
can do some work.
We haven’t
studied the Two Witnesses at this
point, but I just want to say that
the Holy Spirit will be tormenting
people to receive Jesus as their
Savior!
Revelation 14:11
“…. There is no rest day
or night for those who worship
the beast and his image, or for
anyone who receives the mark of the
beast.”
Eventually, the Holy
Spirit will conclude His work. Every
decision will have been made.
Revelation 11:10
”The inhabitants of the earth
will gloat over them [the death of
the Two Witnesses] and will celebrate
by sending each other gifts, because
these two prophets had tormented
those who live on the earth.”
The Holy Spirit is
going to torment everyone with
“a whole lot of trouble”
until they either accept Jesus or the
Two Witnesses are killed. Jesus can
read our hearts and minds and He
knows how to judge. This is how Jesus
could pray for those who crucified
Him: “Father forgive them, for
they don’t know what they are
doing…”
When the Great
Tribulation begins and religious and
political leaders set up a crisis
government to appease God, the
persecution of the saints will begin.
Later on, the persecution will become
deadly. A time is coming when
millions of innocent saints will be
killed in the name of God because
they defiled the laws of Babylon. In
other words, wicked people will
kill innocent people just like Cain
killed Abel and they will think that
they are doing God a service!
The ultimate deception
occurs when right becomes wrong and
wrong becomes right.
Sixth
Seal
The sixth seal is the
Second Coming. When this seal is
broken, a glorious revelation of
Jesus breaks out over the whole
Earth! Let’s examine the Second
Coming from three points of view:
1. Revelation
6: 6th
seal – The glory of Jesus
revealed
2. Revelation
19: 144,000 – Victory over the
enemies of love and truth
3. Revelation
16: 7th Bowl –
Restitution extracted from the wicked
1. The
Glory of Jesus Revealed
Revelation 6:12
I watched as he opened the sixth
seal. There was a great earthquake.
The sun turned black like sackcloth
made of goat hair, the whole moon
turned blood red,
Revelation 6:13
and the stars in the sky [meteorites]
fell to earth, as late figs drop form
a fig tree when shaken by a strong
wind.
Revelation 6:14
The sky receded like a scroll,
rolling up, and every mountain and
island was removed from its place.
Revelation 6:15
The kings of the earth, the princes,
the generals, the rich, the mighty,
and every slave and every free man
hid in caves among the rocks of the
mountains.
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