THE SEVEN SEALS
BIBLICALLY PRESENTED CHRONOLOGICALLY AND CUMULATIVELY
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The brightness of our
revelations depend upon the correctness of our doctrines, our building
blocks
(God is Thought, God is Love, God is a Spirit
– Eccl 12:7)
(Mat 24:1-3) And
Jesus went out, and departed from
the temple: and his disciples came to him
for to shew him the buildings of the temple. And Jesus said
unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you,
There
shall not be left here one stone [Gk:
stumbling stone] upon another, that
shall not be thrown down [Gk:
destroyed, demolished: dissolved].
And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto
him privately,
saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall
be the sign [Gk:
indicator: miracle] of thy coming,
and of the end of the world [i.e.,
the world (Gk: aion) rather than the world (Gk: kosmos; “cosmos”
(universe)]?
THE BEGINNING OF SORROWS
(tribulation)
(Mat
24:4-8) And Jesus answered and
said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive
you [1,2] [first seal]. For many
shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ [Gk:
anointed]; and shall deceive
many. And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars [second seal]: see that ye be not
troubled [Gk: (to wail); to clamor: be frightened]
[3]: for all these things
must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise
against
nation, and kingdom against kingdom [second
seal]: and there
shall be famines [third seal],
and pestilences [fourth seal],
and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are
the beginning of sorrows [Gk: pangs or throes,
esp. childbirth: pain, travail] [tribulation].
[4]
1.
deceive
= Gk: cause you to
roam (from safety, truth, or virtue): go astray, err, wander, out of
the way.
2.
Commentary:
This first
response of Jesus to this question correlates with the opening of the first seal of the Four Horsemen of
the Apocalypse (Rev 6:1,2) revealing the
white horse of “strong delusion”
(2 Thes 2:11),
i.e., strong deception.
a.
(Luke 21:19) In
your patience [Gk: cheerful (or hopeful)
endurance:
(waiting)] possess ye your souls.
3.
Commentary:
The Four
Horsemen of the Apocalypse are the
visible present that we are experiencing as is indicated by
four
repeated “Come and see” (Rev
6:1,3,5,7) commands that are
“the beginning of sorrows” i.e.,
tribulation.
a.
(Rev
1:9) I John
[from 2,000 years ago], who
also am your brother, and companion in tribulation [indicating about 2,000 years of
tribulation longevity, so far], and in the kingdom and patience
of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called
TRIBULATIONS, SORROWS STEADILY
INTENSIFYING OVER THE YEARS
(birth pangs)
(Mat 24:9-14)
Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted
[Gk: pressure: anguish, persecution,
tribulation, trouble], and shall
kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my
name's sake.
And then shall many be offended
[Gk: be entrapped, tripped up, stumble, enticed to sin],
and shall betray one another, and shall hate [Gk: detest (esp. to persecute)] one
another. And many false
prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity
[Gk: wickedness: unrighteousness] shall
abound, the love of many
shall wax cold [signaled by the
advent of dramatically decreasing church attendance].
But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be
saved. And this gospel [Gk:
a good message] [the gospel of Love]
of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness
unto all
nations; and then shall the end come.
INTENSIFYING INTO GREAT
TRIBULATION
(labor pains)
(Mat
24:15-25) When ye therefore
shall see [SEE (understand)] the
abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand
[in supreme power] in the holy place
[of
your heart, and the hearts of others; SEEING (understanding) the
on-going
process of the separation of the sheep and the goats: Mat 25:31-46)], (whoso readeth, let him understand:) Then
let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains: Let him
which is on
the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:
Neither
let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.
And woe
unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those
days! But
pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath
day: For
then shall be great tribulation [“FOR THEN SHALL BE GREAT
TRIBULATION”], such as was not since the beginning of
the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be
[i.e., world-wide nuclear warfare]. And except those
days should be shortened, there should no
flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall
be
shortened. Then if any man shall
say unto you, Lo, here is
Christ, or there; believe it
not. For there shall arise false Christs, and false
prophets,
and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive
the very elect. Behold, I have told you before.
OUR RAPTURE (RE-BIRTH) AS
THE MAN CHILD PRECEEDS HIS SECOND COMING (Rev 12:5)
(“This is the first
resurrection.” Rev 20:5)
(Mat
24:26-28) Wherefore if they
shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go
not forth: behold, he is in
the secret chambers; believe it
not [Why not? Answer: Because
when He actually appears we shall be with Him: Rom 8:18] [1]. For as the lightning cometh out of the
east [suddenly], and shineth even unto
the west; so shall
also the [second] coming
of the Son of man be. (Mat
24:28) For wheresoever the carcase is
[Gk: lifeless body: dead body,
corpse], there [i.e., above it]
will the eagles be gathered together [i.e., raptured, we shall go
up “to meet
the Lord in the air” 1 Thes 4:17, to join Jesus Christ]. [2,3]
1.
(Rom
8:18) For
I reckon that the sufferings [tribulations]
of this present time [i.e., the
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Rev
6:1-8] are not
worthy to be compared with the
glory which shall be revealed
[Gk: to take off the cover, disclosed]
in us [ref. 2 Thes 1:7,10 (2x), 12].
2.
(Psa
103:5)
Who satisfieth thy mouth with
good things [the Word of
God]; so that thy youth
is renewed [RE-NEWED] like
the
eagle's.
3.
(Isa
40:31) But
they that wait [“In your
patience possess ye your souls.” Luke 21:19] upon the
LORD shall renew
[RE-NEW] their
strength; they shall mount up [Heb:
ascend] with wings as eagles; they shall run,
and not be weary; and they shall walk,
and not faint
[and when before did we ever do the
latter? This is a metaphorical description of the “rapture” 1 Thes
4:17, i.e.,
our re-birth as good angels].
a.
Commentary:
thus we shall
become the man child,
returning to the earth with Jesus (spiritually) “as one man”
Judg 6:16 in judgment as “kings and priests” Rev 1:6;
5:10; 20:6.
b.
Commentary:
Matthew 24:28
describes an exceedingly positive joyful
happy much anticipated and waited for event. The KJV and
the NKJV
Bibles have both correctly interpreted those birds to be eagles, i.e., eagle saints. However, both the NAS and
NIV Bibles have incorrectly interpreted the “eagles”
to be “vultures.”
That erroneous spiritually opposing
interpretation (which is valid only for unsaved peoples) is not in
harmony
with the joyful biblical context (our
Lord is coming back for us) and serves
as a darkly negative frightening ominous entirely godless perception, not at all to be desired nor believed as
true, except by
unsaved peoples (ref. Joel 2:2 for an in-text comparison and
contrast of
saved and unsaved people).
THE BIRTH OF THE MAN CHILD
(the fifth seal: Rev 6:9-11;
7:1-17)
AND THE SECOND COMING OF
JESUS CHRIST
(Mat 24:29-31) Immediately after the [great] tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened,
and the
moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven,
and the
powers of the heavens shall be shaken [the
sixth seal: Rev 6:12-17]: And then
shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then
shall all
the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man
coming in
the clouds [of us: Rev 19:14] of
heaven with power and great glory.
And he shall send his angels [1]
with a great sound of a trumpet, and they
shall gather together his elect [2]from the four winds, from one end of heaven
to the other.
1.
Commentary:
“he shall send his angels” = angels who
are the restored (re-newed) angels, i.e., us, to
differentiate between the saved and the unsaved, which
requires the judgment of knowing
the difference between good and evil (Heb: 5:14). “Know ye not
that we
shall judge angels?” (1 Cor 6:3).
2.
Commentary:
“his elect” = here are those believers who
are the 9,700 support troops of God’s Gideon’s Army (sheep) that remained and were not raptured as were
the 300 combat soldiers (shepherds) in the
first resurrection, but “bowed
down upon their knees to drink
[to indiscriminately suck up the] water
[of the Holy Spirit],” i.e., they became vulnerable
and submissive,
they blinded themselves, in front of the ferocious invading Midianite
army
(Judg 7:6) standing across the
stream in the valley.
THE SEVENTH SEAL (Rev 8)
INITIATES GOD’S WRATH
(Rev 8:1) And when he
had opened the seventh seal,
there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
Amen