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Revelation 7-9
…the seventh seal…
…σφραγῖδα
τὴν ἑβδόµην…
Chapter 7 Outline:
I.
THE SEALING OF THE 144,000, VV. 1-8
II.
THE TRIBULATION SAINTS WORSHIP BEFORE THE
THRONE, VV 9-17
Chapter 8 Outline:
I.
THE OPENING OF THE SEVENTH SEAL, V. 1
II.
THE SEVEN ANGLES AND SEVEN TRUMPETS
INTRODUCED, VV 2-6
III.
THE FIRST TRUMPET, V. 7
IV.
THE SECOND TRUMPET, V. 8
V.
THE THIRD TRUMPET, VV. 9-11
VI.
THE FOURTH TRUMPET, V.12
VII.
INTERLUDE, V.13
Chapter 9 Outline:
I.
THE FIFTH TRUMPET, VV. 1-12
II.
THE SIXTH TRUMPET, VV. 13-21
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Chapter 7:
In Chapter six we saw the beginning of Godʼs judgement on the earth and the tribulation
period.
We have looked at six of the seven seal judgments which are to come upon the
earth.
I.
THE SEALING OF THE 144,000, vv.
1-8
A. Brief Intro:
1.
This chapter is a parenthesis in-between the 6th seal and the 7th seal.
It really
answers the question that has been asked in chapter 6 verse 17, “who shall
be able to stand?”
2. This chapter is a very important chapter to understand because it deals with
the 144,000 Jews, twelve-thousand from each of the twelve tribes of Israel
which will be sealed and protected as Godʼs ministers during the tribulation
period.
What is here should be seen as something to be literally fulfilled in the
future.
3. God has always had a plan for His people Israel, and He has not cast them
off entirely.
Godʼs plan, in short, for the people of Israel goes as follows…
a) God choose the people of Israel to be the people through whom would
come the Messiah.
This was their primary purpose.
b) When the Messiah came (who was their own Messiah) they rejected Him
and for doing so God temporarily set the Jews aside as His special nation
to then work out His divine purposes with the rest of the nations of the
world.
c) Because of Israelʼs stubbornness and rebelliousness they have been
blinded to see their very own Messiah and the Bible tells us that this
blindness would be a “blindness in part… until the fulness of the Gentiles
be come in.
(Romans 11:25)”
d) It is important to see that, God, in setting His chosen people aside, has not
completely cast off Israel but promised that He would one day work among
them again as His special and peculiar people.
He would bring them back
into the covenant which he originally made with their forefathers Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob.
e) In Revelation the seventieth week of Danielʼs prophecy which was to be
accomplished on the people of Israel is being fulfilled.
So Godʼs
involvement with the people of Israel plays a huge role in the purpose of
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the tribulation period happening on earth.
f) Here in chapter seven the people of Israel are brought back into focus
when God seals (before any cataclysmic judgment is poured out) 144,000
Jews to be His ministers on earth during this time of tribulation.
g) These are Jews, natural descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob!
Not
people that represent the church.
144,000 means 144,000 and 12,000
from each of the twelve tribes means 12,000 from each of the twelve
tribes and the phrase “of the children of Israel” mean the children of Israel.
People that see the 144,000 as the church also put the church in the
middle of the tribulation period.
But there is no good reason to think that
out of the 29 times the tribes of Israel are listed through the Bible that this
time in Revelation the list would refer to someone other than the children
of Israel.
No where in the Bible does the phrase “the children of Israel”
refer to anyone else other than the children of Israel.
Therefore we should
by no means think any different here.
B. “…the four corners of the earth…” v.1
1.
This is not saying that the earth is square.
The four points of the compass is
being referred to here.
2. “This verse has long been derided as reflecting a naive “pre-scientific”
concept of earth structure, one that supposedly viewed the earth as flat with
four corners.
However it is the same word (Greek gonia) which is translated
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