Sermon Tone Analysis

Introduction

Revelation’s introduction and outline

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The things that you have seen (Revelation 1)

The things which are (Revelation 2, 3)

The things which are to come (Revelation 4-22)

Herbert Washington, whom co-workers at Significant Plastics Inc. say was unduly concerned with the rapture and the second coming of Christ, suffered a serious heart attack when co-workers pretended they’d been caught away without him.

"We didn’t mean to scare him to death," said one woman.

"He’s just always talking about it, so today we decided to turn the tables on him."

Washington underwent bypass surgery and is recovering well and "digging into the Bible like never before," says his wife.

Biblical prophesy more than a series of predictive events through Scripture.

Hebrew prophecy always uses patterns to establish what is happening.

Why we must study and study to understand.

Revelation is heavily connected to the Old Testament, especially the Book of Daniel.

The Mount Olive Discourse

Luke 21

Speaking to a Gentile Audience

These things must take place before

Describing the fall of Jerusalem

False Christs, Wars, Famines, Death, Martyrs Global Chaos

Man’s Wrath to God

Matthew 24

Speaking to a Jewish Audience

These things take place after

Abomination of desolation

The Time of Jacob’s Trouble (The Great Tribulation)

False Christs, Wars, Famines, Death, Martyrs Global Chaos

God’s wrath being poured out on man

The fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Temple took place in 70AD

The Book of Revelation was written around 96 AD

John’s Rapture

This is a significant transition in the Book of Revelation

No mention of the church “after this”

Showing John the things that are going to take place after the rapture of the church

70 times, John writes “I looked and behold...”

This time there is an open door into Heaven and a voice says, “Come up here...” (Rev 4:1) This is a clear transition from the things which are (the 7 Churches) to the things which “must take place after this” (Rev 4:1).

“A door was opened...”

Transition from one place to the next

Mental event happens when you walk through a door

Heaven is a real place

God opens doors for us

The Thessalonian Church

Concerned

What about those who died?

Rapture vs. Second Coming

Jesus returns for his church (1 Cor 15:51-52) vs. Returns with the Church (Rev 19:11-16)

Translation of Believers (1 Thess 4:16-17) vs.

No Translation (Rev 19:14)

Saints go to Heaven vs. Saints Return to Earth

Jesus Appears in the Air vs. Jesus Physical Return

Saints are Delivered (1 Thess 4:13-17) vs. Earth is Judged (1 Thess 5:9)

Imminent (Titus 2:13, 1 Thess 4:14-18) vs. at a designated time (2 Thess 2:4, Matt 24:15-30)

Believers Only (1 Cor 15:50) vs. for All People (Matt 24:29-30, Rev 1:7)

Before God’s Wrath (1 Thes 5:9) vs. the Conclusion of God’s Wrath (Rev 3:10)

Referred to the Day of Christ (1 Cor 1:8, 2 Cor 1:14, Phil 1:6,10) vs. Referred to the Day of the Lord (Joel 1:15; 2:1-2, 2:11,30-31; Zech 14:1-5; Isa 13:6,9; Ezek 30:2-3; Amos 5:18,20; Obad 15; Zeph 1:14-15; Acts 2:19 -20)

Do Not Be Troubled - Believe in God!

Encourage with what?

These things that are about to take place....

Believe in God

I go and prepare a place

Come and receive you...

The Church is Appointed Deliverence

If the Tribulation, even the first half, preceded the Rapture, we would be under the wrath of God

The church is promised to escape WRATH (Rom 5:9; 1 Thess 1:9-10; 5:9)

We cannot enter the TRIBULATION which is "the great day of His wrath" (Rev 6:16-17; 11:18; 14:10,19; 15:1,7;16:1,19; 19:15).

Old Testament Warning for Preparation of Escape

Zephaniah 2:3 (ESV)

3 Seek the Lord, all you humble of the land, who do his just commands; seek righteousness; seek humility; perhaps you may be hidden on the day of the anger of the Lord.

Psalm 27:5 (ESV)

5 For he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble; he will conceal me under the cover of his tent; he will lift me high upon a rock.

Isaiah 26:20–21 (ESV)

20 Come, my people, enter your chambers, and shut your doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until the fury has passed by.

21 For behold, the Lord is coming out from his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity, and the earth will disclose the blood shed on it, and will no more cover its slain.

Examples & Typologies

God’s warning and preparation to the righteous.

Their trust and faith in God

The world’s unbelieving response (and even mocking)

The Sheltering from

The restoration and elevation

Noah & the Flood (Genesis 6:9-22, Matt 24:37-39)

Gen 7:16 “16 And those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him.

And the Lord shut him in.”

Rev 3:7 “7 “And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: ‘The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens.”

Joseph in Egypt (Genesis 41-50)

Genesis 41:25, 36: “25 Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dreams of Pharaoh are one; God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do.” 36 “36 That food shall be a reserve for the land against the seven years of famine that are to occur in the land of Egypt, so that the land may not perish through the famine.””

Lot Escapes Sodom (Gen 19:1-29)

Genesis 19:15 “15 As morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Up!

Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be swept away in the punishment of the city.””

Genesis 19:29 “29 So it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the valley, God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow when he overthrew the cities in which Lot had lived.”

Luke 17:28-30 “28 Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot—they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building, 29 but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all— 30 so will it be on the day when the Son of Man is revealed.”

2 Peter 2:6-9 “6 if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; 7 and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked 8 (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); 9 then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,”

The Passover

Exodus 12:22-23 “22 Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and touch the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin.

None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.

23 For the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians, and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you.”

Rahab & the Spies

Joshua 6:22-24 “22 But to the two men who had spied out the land, Joshua said, “Go into the prostitute’s house and bring out from there the woman and all who belong to her, as you swore to her.” 23 So the young men who had been spies went in and brought out Rahab and her father and mother and brothers and all who belonged to her.

And they brought all her relatives and put them outside the camp of Israel.

24 And they burned the city with fire, and everything in it.

Only the silver and gold, and the vessels of bronze and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the Lord.”