And So It Begins
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The church is in heaven singing a new song
And they sang a new song, saying: “You are worthy to take the scroll, And to open its seals; For You were slain, And have redeemed us to God by Your blood Out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation,
And have made us kings and priests to our God; And we shall reign on the earth.”
Here, we see again testimony is given again about the work of Christ!
Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders; and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands,
saying with a loud voice: “Worthy is the Lamb who was slain To receive power and riches and wisdom, And strength and honor and glory and blessing!”
10,000 x 10,000= 100,000,000 One hundred Million now x thousands of thousands! A great crowd of the redeemed finally one in Christ!
Chapter 6 “Now”
Now I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals; and I heard one of the four living creatures saying with a voice like thunder, “Come and see.”
And I looked, and behold, a white horse. He who sat on it had a bow; and a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and to conquer.
The White horse
The antichrist - white horse false messiah
Begins to conquer the earth - Rev 13 Satan will give him his throne and authority
He cannot succeed as long as the presence of the Holy Spirit is present - and that through His church!
For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way.
And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming.
You are the salt - preservative = the church is the preservation of the earth - an influence to keep evil in check
When the church looses its influence life dies!
The world hates the fact that we are reminders of their evil desires!
It seems that there will be a perceived freedom when we are gone as they will be able to unleash every type of evil imaginable and no one will complain!
The danger is that the church lose it’s savor!
the beginning of the 3 1/2 years of peace - new economic programs-peace programs the solution to everything! Hailed as a savior
When He opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, “Come and see.”
Another horse, fiery red, went out. And it was granted to the one who sat on it to take peace from the earth, and that people should kill one another; and there was given to him a great sword.
Great war
When He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come and see.” So I looked, and behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand.
And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine.”
Famine following the war - Quart of wheat .01 a days wage - $60 for a loaf of bread
When He opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, “Come and see.”
So I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. And power was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death, and by the beasts of the earth.
1/4 of the earth’s population eliminated could be more than 1 Billion people
When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held.
And they cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”
Then a white robe was given to each of them; and it was said to them that they should rest a little while longer, until both the number of their fellow servants and their brethren, who would be killed as they were, was completed.
A group not the church but martyred - The antichrist will prevail against them - A great revival may sweep the earth
But they will be the enemies of the antichrist - for he puts them to death for refusing to participate in his system
“Wait” - number needs to be complete - Rev 7 appear again
I looked when He opened the sixth seal, and behold, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood.
And the stars of heaven fell to the earth, as a fig tree drops its late figs when it is shaken by a mighty wind.
Then the sky receded as a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved out of its place.
Similar to the 6th vial - could be parallel?
May represent a polar axis shift
The meteor show could be the cause of the flip! “and the stars of heaven fell...”
Arizona meteor 1 Mile across and 570 feet deep was enough to tilt the earth 23 1/3 degree tilt and the freezing of the Wooly mammoths in Siberia!
And the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains,
and said to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb!
For the great day of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand?”
The wrath of the Lamb
For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.
Luke 21:Warnings
Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.”