They would rather be slain than have to face the Lord.

So the first part of the sixth seal is directed toward the unbelievers.

The second part is introduced by the question at the very end of chapter 6.

who can stand and is directed toward the believers.

This question is answered with Revelation 7.

The 144,000 probably identical with the great multitude is able to stand.

Why? First, they are sealed.

They reflect God’s thinking and his ideas since they distance themselves from sin.

Ezekiel 9:4.

God regards them as his property.

Second, they have come out of the great tribulation and remained faithful to God.

Third, they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the lamb.

They have accepted salvation as a gift, and they have allowed Jesus to cleanse them from sin and guilt.

When, as a consequence, they serve God in his sanctuary, live in close fellowship with God, and are cared for by Jesus the shepherd, whatever was negative is removed.

The seventh seal refers to a silence in heaven.

This may point to the final judgment in a new creation.

Both depend on the second coming.

Two, the seventh trumpet.

11:15 to18.

The last trumpet is called the completion or the fulfillment of the mystery of God.

When this trumpet is sounded, we hear that the kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he will reign forever and ever.

11:15 verse 18 is quite interesting.

This verse summarizes the remainder of the book of Revelation.

1 the nations were angry.

12-42 God’s time has come.

A for judging 15-18 B for rewarding his people 21-22 C for destroying those who destroy the earth.

19 to20 when those who have destroyed the earth are not people who pollute the environment.

Ecology is not the issue.

The expression refers to the satanic trinity forming the great harlot Babylon 192.

The idea of reward is again mentioned in this passage.

The second coming allows for rewarding humanity with salvation or final eradication.

From our modern perspective and from a first world country, this may sound cruel.

It is quite different when God’s people are suffering, persecuted, and killed and when God then intervenes.

Three, the harvest of the world.

14:14-20.

The next major vision in Revelation is the center of the book, the vision of the satanic trinity, which ends with a double harvest.

A person like a son of man comes seated on the cloud.

The harvest is gathered.

It is a double harvest.

harvest of wheat and harvest of grapes while the gathering of the elect and the destruction of the wicked who had made a decision against God and who tried to annihilate God’s people.

Again, Revelation talks about a two-fold effect of Jesus’ second coming.

Four, the sixth and the seventh plague 16:12-21.

With the sixth and seventh plague, the battle of Armageddon has come.

Evil powers are gathered and the waters on which the harlot Babylon is seated are drying up.

The day of the Lord has finally come.

The kings from the east are coming.

Jesus with his heavenly army.

Babylon breaks apart and is judge.

Revelation 17 and 18 describe the fall of Babylon in greater detail.

In the same way, Revelation 19 depicts the intervention of the kings from the east.

As old Babylon in the 6th century BC was defeated by Cyrus, the king and anointed one from the east.

So his anti-ype Jesus the Lord wack the real Messiah and King will bring an end to Babylon by his second coming.

In the middle of this passage, a direct word of our Lord is found.

16:15 Behold, I am coming like a thief.

In spite of all signs, Jesus return will be surprising.

The precise date of his second coming cannot be calculated.

More important than all calculations is therefore to be constantly ready.

In Out of Africa, Isaac Dennis tells a story about her Kenyon cookante.

One night after midnight, Kamante suddenly walked into my bedroom with a hurricane lamp in his hand, silent as if on duty.

He spoke to me very solemnly.

I think that you had better get up.

I think that God is coming.

When I heard this, I did get up and ask why he thought so.

He gravely led me into the dining room, which looked west toward the hills.

Well, from the door windows, I now saw a strange phenomenon.

There was a big grass fire going on out in the hills, and the grass was burning all the way from the hilltop to the plane.

When scene formed the house, it was nearly a vertical line.

It did indeed look as if some gigantic figure was moving and coming toward us.

I stood for some time and looked at it with Kamante watching by my side.

Then I began to explain the thing to him.

But the explanation did not seem to make much impression on him one way or the other.

He clearly took his mission to have been fulfilled when he had called me.

Well, yes, he said, “It may be so, but I thought that you had better get up in case it was God coming.

Just in case, be ready.

Just in case, be awake.

” People have been wrong in the past about when he would come, but make no mistake, one day he is coming.

Jesus pronounces a blessing on those who watch and keep their garments, who stay in the right relationship with the Lord and remain dependent on him.

Watching does not mean to be frightful or to castigate oneself.

It is a joyful waiting for the one whom we love and with whom we spiritually live from day to day, even if we do not see him right now face to face.

Five, the marriage supper and the rider on the white horse.

191-21.

At the end of Revelation 14, we found a two-fold harvest.

In Revelation 19, there is a two-fold meal.

The redeemed are invited to the marriage supper of the lamb.

The enemies of God and his people become a meal for the birds.

Jesus returns as the rider on the white horse.

His heavenly army follows him.

Armageddon takes place.

The evil powers are judged.

God’s people are liberated and are able to participate in the marriage supper.

Wu Jesus is called the word of God and he fights with a sharp sword that comes out of his mouth.

The divine word.

This word is powerful and has created the earth.

This word destroys the enemies.

Indeed, Jesus is the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.

 

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