Sermon Transcript Tone Analysis

Chapters 4 through 22.

And I'd like to start today by making some observations of patterns that are appearing.

I think if we keep our eyes peeled for the patterns in the Book of Revelation, they will be a hint in the direction of understanding.

What the, the big message of the Book of Revelation is about.

So, we're in the middle of ways.

Now, let me talk, let me point out to recurring patterns, one, is that events in the Book of Revelation?

Come in groups of 7. So, last week, we saw the scroll That Jesus the lamb took from the father and he opens the seals I'm picturing that he's like peeling.

Yeah.

He's peeling seals on this scroll and when he opened a seal something happened and there are seven of those.

And today we're going to move on to a different picture this time trumpet.

And there are seven trumpets.

It's also true.

That last fall when we started chapters, 1 through 3, that the Book of Revelation is written to the seven churches in the province of Asia.

So, the numbers 7, groupings of 7 is a theme in the Book of Revelation inside the seven, we're seeing now that there's kind of a groupings inside the seven.

So the seals what started with a group of the first four?

And then there were two that group together, five and six and we're not going to read until today.

Actually number 7, so 7 to stand alone and we're going to read about these trumpets and they're going to have the same kind of breakdown four of them one through four or a group.

And then there's five and six, they go together and we're not going to get to trumpet number 7 today that will be next week.

So groups of 7 and it seems like there was some breaking down within those.

I don't really know that that answers a lot of questions for us, but it's good for us to be observing package.

The second pattern is that these events don't seem so much to be the kind of thing you would put on a timeline one after the other across that say, history from the time of the first century, a d up till now, or into the future, it seems rather that the events described things that have been going on all along.

Let's take the last week.

For example, the four seals, the first seal seems to have pictured Nation vs Nation confrontation, the second seal picture citizen vs. Citizen violence, the third seal picture, economic hardship, the 4cyl picture the presence of death, Well, if you were to ask when in history have those things happen?

You would answer, they've been happening, they were happening in the first century ad when John wrote this and they're continuing to happen to this day.

So what we're going to begin to see and now this is one way of interpreting The Book of Revelation, it's the way that makes the most sense to me.

We're going to begin to see that in the Book of Revelation, we keep coming back to the beach to the first coming of Jesus and moving across time to the second coming of Jesus and then we go back there again.

So the seals were really about the first coming of Jesus to the end because remember, the end of what we read was a great crowd that.

Nobody could number wearing their white robes in heaven worshiping.

So that was the seals.

Now we're going to look at trumpets and it seems like we're going to do the same thing.

Go back to the first coming of Jesus and by the time we get done with the trumpets will be at the second coming of Jesus and this is going to happen.

Some more after trumpets, there are going to come Bull and and we'll see the same sort of thing.

So I think from these beginning patterns, we can get at least this theory that the Book of Revelation is talking about things that are happening all the time in the world and which God wants us to be aware of so that they point us toward him.

The point of the Book of Revelation isn't really complicated or hard to understand the point of the Book of Revelation is God, God is in charge of everything and he wants you to come into fellowship with him.

That's the longing of God's heart.

He's the Lord and he's going to maybe they're one other piece would be, there will be Justice against Satan and everything that has come from Satan.

But in the end it's people with God uninterrupted that's what God wants.

All right.

Today, it's trumpets and trumpets are warning instruments.

So there's something today about God, warning, humanity and up.

Cindy Martini is our reader today, and she's going to live in the past couple weeks.

We've had our reader separate the reading in the two parts.

Not today and he's going to read all of chapter 8 in all chapter 9. Thank you.

When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about a half an hour.

And I saw the seven angels who stand before God and seven trumpets were given to them.

Another Angel who had a golden censer came and stood at the altar.

together with went off.

Let me angel.

Fire from the off.

flashes of lightning, and Then the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared to sound them.

the first Angel sounded his trumpet, and there came High hail and fire mixed with

and all the green.

The second Angel, sounded his trumpet and something like a huge mountain.

All Ablaze was thrown into the sea, a third of the sea turned into blood, a third of the living creatures in the sea and a third of the ships were destroyed.

The third Angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star.

the name of the

and many people.

The fourth, Angel sounded his trumpet.

third of the so that so that a third of them turned dark, Third of the day was without light.

As I watched I heard an eagle that was flying in midair call out in a loud voice.

Woe woe woe to the inhabitants of the Earth because of the trumpet blast about to be sounded by the other three angels Angel sounded his trumpet.

And I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the Earth, the star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss, when he open the abyss smoke Rose from it, like the smoke from a giant furnace,

Out of the smoke locusts came down on the earth and were given.

They were told not to harm the grass of the Earth or any plant or tree but only those p.

they were not allowed to kill them but only to torture them for 5 months, and the agony, they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes during those

not find it.

But definitely.

The locusts look like horses.

Prepared for battle on their head.

They were something like crowns of gold and their faces resembled human faces.

Their hair was like women's hair and their teeth were like lions teeth.

They had breastplates like breastplate of iron and the sound of their wings was like the Thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle, they had tails with stingers, like scorpions and in their tails, they had power to torment.

They had as king over them.

Name in Hebrew.

First one.

Two other walls are yet to?

Angel sounded his trumpet.

And the Four Angels, who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind.

The number of mounted troops was twice ten thousand times.

the horses and Riders, I saw in my their breastplates were fiery red, dark, blue, and yellow as sulfur the heads of the horses.

Remember, resembled the heads of lions and out of their mouths, came fire smoke and sulfur.

A third of mankind was killed by.

The three plagues of fire, smoke and sulfur that came out of their mouth.

The power of the horses was in their mouth and in their tails, for their tails were like snakes, having heads with which they inflict injury.

the rest of mankind who are not killed by these plagues, still did not read

They did not stop worshipping demons and Idols of gold, silver, bronze Stone and wood.

Idols, that cannot

Nor did they repent of their MO?

Pickle Arts, their sexual.

Thank you very much.

So I'm going to start with this question in terms of taking a look at it, how do you respond to correction or warning?

Do you Rage or do you repent?

A couple of winters ago I was driving on young Avenue.

After 8, it was bitter cold outside.

I was driving 45 miles an hour in some wooded area, but I came out of the woods to this open area and I was on glare ice 45 miles an hour.

My steering wheel is worthless.

My brakes are worthless.

I'm sliding to the left.

Toward a house.

And I think this is going to hurt.