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Christian Churches of God
No. 140
The Seven Seals
(Edition 4.0 19951109-20000825-20071027-20170211)
This paper deals with the seven seals of Revelation and explains their meaning. The
development of the seals over the last two thousand years is examined and the sequence
up to the return of Messiah is given. This process culminates in the seventh seal, which is
in fact the seven trumpets.
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Note: This paper should be read in conjunction
with the audio tape.
A chart showing the sequence is appended to
paper The Seven Trumpets (No. 141). The work
on the time-frames covers the Seven Seals and
the Seven Trumpets. This chart was produced
about 1985 actually, to show it was impossible
for Jesus Christ to come before 1997 and that
the structure of the three and one half years of
the place of safety was wrong. There were a
number of alternatives. His Advent could have
been 1997 or 1999 at the earliest or any time
after that. The chart shows that there are seven
seals, which are broken down to the seventh
trumpet and seven vials of the wrath of God.
They are interspersed with the Witnesses and
there are three alternatives for the take-up of the
Witnesses, interspersed with the period called
the Time of Jacob's Trouble. Many people
assume that they can ignore, condense, or put
this in a box. We cannot get to the Millennium
until we go through this sequence. This is
prophecy and will not be broken. We cannot do
away with it and we cannot hide from it.
All of the things that occur in the vials of the
wrath of God and the seventh trumpet are all
avoidable. There is nothing in Revelation in
those areas that needs to take place. We can
avoid it and the planet doesn’t avoid it because
of the first seal, which is false religion. False
religion preceded Christ. Christ is not the first
seal but he set in motion the conflict firstly
from Sinai, and secondly from his advent and
his destruction. Satan set in motion false
religion from the day that he caused the fall of
Adam by undermining the position of Eve.
Let us look at the Four Horsemen of the
Apocalypse found at Revelation Chapter 6.
Revelation 6 says:
"and I saw when the lamb opened one of the seven
seals and I heard one of the four living creatures say
as with a voice of thunder, Come, and I saw a white
horse and its rider had a bow, and a crown was given
him and he went out conquering and to conquer".
The concept is that the Lamb, Jesus Christ, is
opening the seals. The first seal was broken a
long time ago. These seals are not opened at the
time of the end. This first seal continues to
develop all the way through the 2,000 years,
and each seal is exponential. They open and
stay open and develop. Each adds to the other.
The first seal, called conquest, is actually
commenced from false religion. It commenced
from the concepts of the Church and those
organisations and institutions set up under false
religions. Because it is through the difference of
opinion that we get division, the greatest
dividing factor is the organisational structure of
the planet based upon the divisions between
Christ and the loyal Host, and Satan and the
fallen Host. That division has manifested itself
in the planet in the forms of religion – the
whole structure of the religions of this planet
reflect the wars in the heavens. Nothing is
accidental. Satan has set up a mind-set among
the people and the nations.
The concept of the replacement of Satan by
Christ is the replacement of the religious
structure of this world, its government and its
systems, by another system of government. See
the paper The Government of God (No. 174).
The Lamb is the one who sets the process in
motion by instituting on the planet the true
Faith: the word of God. It's not something that
was set and broken down. Satan was and is the
Morning Star of this planet. Christ is the one
who, having been sacrificed, qualified to
overcome and replace Satan as the Morning
Star at his second coming. He despatched the
truth into the planet through the prophets and
patriarchs and finally in person.
The true religion takes hold and people are then
marshalled against it by the fallen Host. This
will ultimately reflect itself in all the nations
marching against Jerusalem at the Advent of
Christ in the Last Days. This process of false
religion logically follows into the next or
second seal of war.
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Revelation 6:3-4 And when he had opened the
second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and
see. 4 And there went out another horse that was red:
and power was given to him that sat thereon to take
peace from the earth, and that they should kill one
another: and there was given unto him a great sword.
(KJV)
The first seal started off and Satan launched an
attack on the Church producing Gnosticism
from its Alexandrian base. He put Gnosticism
over the Mystery Cults, and the Roman Curial
system, which was a pagan system. There were
Cardinals in Rome long before Christ was born
and they were dressed in red, and they wore
hats. There were virgins in Rome long before
Christ was born, and the virgins were part of the
system at the Temple of Vesta. They had a
curial system with these Cardinals who were
the college of Pontiffs. These religious officials
ran the state. It is not a Christian system. That
structure became part of this lynch pin of
Satan’s false system.
The Greco-Roman system based on Platonism
and its doctrine of government had to adopt the
doctrines that Christ espoused in order to twist
them; so false religion then emerged. In order to
establish the Greco-Roman system they had to
produce the doctrines of the councils. The
Cappodician fathers produced a concept of God
based on the Council of Nicaea, which firstly
resulted in Binitarianism, and which is not the
doctrine of the Church. Binitarianism is a
product of the Catholic Church from the
Council of Nicaea in 325 CE. It was the
necessary step for the introduction of
Trinitarianism at Constantinople in 381 CE.
The first seal resulted in the divisions that we
saw come out of the Councils of the fourth and
fifth century. The Council of Elvira, in 300 CE,
commenced to take away the Sabbath. The
Council of Nicaea, in 325 CE, altered the
structure of the Godhead and introduced the
concepts that Jesus Christ was co-equal and coeternal with God the Father. They did not then
deal with the Holy Spirit. They were successful
for two years. However, the Emperor
Constantine realised that the Athanasians, now
called the Catholics, were only powerful when
centred on Rome and some other areas. The real
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power in the Empire was with the Unitarians
incorrectly called
Arians,
who
were
subordinationists. Other Unitarian bishops were
exiled along with Arius (Arianism was a
misnomer; see the paper Consubstantial with
the Father (No. 81)). They were Unitarian
subordinationists. There are a number of
nations who became subordinationists. These
bishops were recalled and reinstated and had
ecclesiastical power. See the papers Arianism
and Semi-Arianism (No. 167) and The
Unitarian/Trinitarian Wars (No. 268).
The difference between their administrative
structures was that one was nationally based
and the other imperially based. The Athanasians
wanted world government and are still working
towards that end.
Constantine initially thought at the time that the
one that wanted world power was the strongest
but it wasn't. The process that started the
Athanasian wars was not very well documented,
or publicised, because the Catholics write the
history books. A history of the Arian wars is
outlined in the paper Mysticism Chapter 4
Judeo-Christianity (No. B7_4).
For the process of how the Babylonian system
established itself and took over the planet as
Christ said it would see the paper Mysticism
Chapter 1 Spreading the Babylonian Mysteries
(No. B7_1).
The Just War Theory (see the paper Theory of
the Just War (No. 110)) is a process of that
Athanasian mentality. These wars became
entrenched in our society. We had, for the first
time, concepts of religious wars. The rise of
Islam under the prophet Qasim (called
Mohammed) was a direct result of
Trinitarianism. The prophet commenced to
preach purely to obviate the Athanasian
Trinitarian doctrines he saw as a heresy, and to
unify the Arab people under Monotheism. The
Koran groups Christians with two sets of names
– People of the Scripture and Christians
generally. These distinctions are now lost
because modern Christians do not understand
the distinctions extant at the time. The
distinctions involved the Trinitarians who
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fought against Islam and the persecuted
Pergamum Church which allied with Islam.
These false religious structures were all geared
at trying to undermine the expansive influence
of the original Sabbath-keeping Church. We
have had converts in the millions. The
Inquisitions were instituted solely to get rid of
the Original Church and to maintain power for
the Trinitarians. The reason they can’t is
because God will not let them do away with the
Bible. While it exists anyone who can read can
have his or her mind opened by the Holy Spirit.
These seals became exponential. The
Islamic/Christian wars developed right through
to the Ottoman Turk system. There was always
a division between Islam and Christianity, and
Islam and the eastern systems. There was a
buffer system set up in Russia under the Khazar
Jewish Empire where the tribes of the Ashkenaz
and other groups converted to Judaism in 740
CE. It was a political decision. If they became
Islamic then the border would have moved on
to their western system, and they would have
been the frontier of the war between
Christianity and Islam.
If they became Christians they would have been
the border of Islam on the eastern front. So they
would have been at war no matter what they
did. It is probable that they became Jewish
because it was a centrepiece. In the end they
were destroyed as an Empire and went into
Europe. But they were absorbed into the tribes
of Judah by rabbinical influence. They were
given rabbis and were added to the sons of
Abraham. However, these divisions and wars
continued all the way through to the present,
ending in the Holocaust. They are not just a
factor of the Last Days. These things started up
centuries ago and continued, and relate to the
persecutions. The result of war was pestilence
because of the dislocations in society; hence the
third seal was opened.
These seals are ongoing and they develop, war
to pestilence, to famine and then to death. The
fourth seal is an ongoing thing, and they
compound one another.
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The fifth seal of the Great Tribulation has two
aspects to it. It was opened when these religious
wars were started. However, when the
Athanasian system was finally entrenched it
started off a group, or sequence of tribulations
we understand from biblical prophecy as the
1,260 years. Now that 1,260 years went from
590 CE through to 1850 and marks the end of
the Holy Roman Empire, which is now
disbanded. However, that fifth seal has a latterday application.
See the paper The Pre-Advent Judgment (No.
176).
Revelation 6:5-6 And when he had opened the third
seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I
beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him
had a pair of balances in his hand. 6 And I heard a
voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure
of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley
for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the
wine. (KJV)
The end result of pestilence is famine and
shortage, and the measuring out of food
portions in scarcity. The concept of harming oil
and wine has a spiritual significance. The oil is
the Holy Spirit; the drink offerings of the Lord
are the elect. We are poured out as a drink
offering to the Lord. That has a significance of
protection of the elect during the entire phase of
the Seals. So we were to go through tribulation
and martyrdom, but as drink offerings to the
Lord for specific religious purposes.
Revelation 6:7-8 And when he had opened the fourth
seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come
and see. 8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and
his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell
followed with him. And power was given unto them
over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword,
and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts
of the earth. (KJV)
This develops as a quarter of the Earth is finally
subjected to this destruction. It is not just saying
that they engage in a war. It builds up until the
Last Days. The Trumpets and the Vials show
these things will be occurring. We know what
these sequences of events are. This planet is run
by a perverted mind, Satan. We are dealing with
demons that are trying to stop the
implementation of God’s Plan.
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We have to be aware of that and know what is
happening. Our place of safety is the faith in the
Lord and in knowing what He is doing and
knowing that God is in charge; it is happening
for the right reasons and that it is going to work
out. Scripture is unfolding before our eyes.
The Tribulation under the fifth seal has been
reorganised as at the Feast of Tabernacles 1993.
At that Feast it was effectively re-announced, or
re-opened, through the new Papal Encyclical.
The elect are facing increasing persecution. The
writer Morris West publicly exposed the whole
matter of the encyclical. He said that it reestablishes the grounds for the Inquisition.
Revelation 6:9-10 "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 witness they had borne
and they cried out with a loud voice Oh, Sovereign
Lord, Holy and True, how long before you will judge
and avenge our blood on those who dwell upon the
earth?"
This is the first of two aspects. Each were given
a white robe and told to wait a little longer until
the number of their fellow servants and brethren
should be complete, who were to be killed as
they themselves were killed. The concept is that
those people were in two lots. Some of the
brethren were slain for the word of God and the
witness they had borne and they cried out (see
above). So they are waiting. They were under
divine protection but they were allowed to die.
The fact is not that they are alive and talking to
God, but that their blood cries out while they lie
there under the altar waiting for the First
Resurrection. It is a comment to Christ as a
rhetorical question: "Surely you're in charge,
why do we have to die?"
Why did they die? It is clear. It was because of
the word of God and the witness they bore. We
are under divine protection; however, some of
the elect have to become martyrs of the Faith in
order to serve as witnesses to the world.
Already many of the elect have died and many
others have died with them. Once false religion
is set up, leaving the word of God, and things
are re-interpreted, animosities and hatreds
follow. Then repression and persecution follow.
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The last Inquisition occurred in the Papal States
between 1823 and 1846. The former Jesuit
historian Malachi Martin has written at length
on the issue in the Decline and Fall of the
Roman Church (pp. 254-255). The sequence is
that from 1823 they got to the point where they
had a gallows in every town, with 200,000
people in these Papal States sentenced to the
galleys (death), or life imprisonment. All sorts
of people were taken up in it; political
dissidents, etc. Mostly it was geared to
eliminate the people who were established there
under the Thyatiran Era who were against the
Catholic system. In the end it brought about the
destruction of the Catholic system itself under
the 1,260 years, which finished in 1850. It was
broken down because people could not bear it.
They took a plebiscite in 1850 as to who
wanted to remain in the Papal States or come
into Rome's Republic. 1,505 people wanted to
remain in the papal state system, and everyone
else (132,681) voted to get rid of them because
they wanted nothing more to do with the
Roman Catholic political system of Church
government.
That is the prophecy being fulfilled of the Beast
turning on the whore. It turns on the whore
again in the final days and destroys it
completely. However, the 1,260 years ended
with the Beast turning on the whore and
destroying its power. It was accomplished in
part by Napoleon when he came to power in
1806. He disbanded the Papal States of the
Holy Roman Empire. He was defeated at the
Battle of Waterloo and sent into exile and when
he was murdered it was re-established. In 1815
the Holy Roman Empire was re-established as a
new system, and by 1823 only eight years later,
when the Roman Catholic Church was back in
power in the areas they could physically
control, they had again set up the Inquisition.
There is a challenge for world supremacy.
There are three facets of this false religious
structure establishing. One is a European
centered system for which Rome is trying to
gain control. Another one is a secular system
which the United States thinks it can control.
From that system this internationalist economy
will seek to operate. The third system is an
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Asian system which is developing now. We will
call it in biblical terms ‘the union of the kings
of the East’. The words in Revelation are
anatoli helios, which means Kings of the Rising
Sun, not kings of the East. However, it will be
centered on the Eastern China complex with
Japan.
The Globalist system is attempting now to use
Islam as part of its Marxist elements and that
will cause major wars in the Middle East.
That was within eight years, putting 1.5 million
people under political surveillance. The
structure of the mentality of this fifth seal is all
consuming. In the Last Days, as it says:
Revelation 6:11 … "when they were each given a
white robe and told to rest a little while longer for the
number of their fellow servants and brethren should
be complete who were to be killed as they themselves
had been killed."
This white robe is of martyrdom.
Revelation 3:14-22 "And to the angel of the church
in La-odice'a write: `The words of the Amen, the
faithful and true witness, the beginning of God's
creation. 15 "`I know your works: you are neither cold
nor hot. Would that you were cold or hot! 16 So,
because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot,
I will spew you out of my mouth. 17 For you say, I am
rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing; not
knowing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind,
and naked. 18 Therefore I counsel you to buy from me
gold refined by fire, that you may be rich, and white
garments to clothe you and to keep the shame of your
nakedness from being seen, and salve to anoint your
eyes, that you may see. 19 Those whom I love, I
reprove and chasten; so be zealous and repent. 20
Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any one
hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to
him and eat with him, and he with me. 21 He who
conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my
throne, as I myself conquered and sat down with my
Father on his throne. (22 He who has an ear, let him
hear what the Spirit says to the churches.)'" (RSV)
This Laodicean system is in fact part of the
system of the Last Days. When we read the
promises to the Churches in Revelation we will
see that there are four churches extant at the
coming of the Messiah. Three are gone and
there are four in existence: Thyatiran, Sardis,
Philadelphia and Loadicean, in the order that it
is given. The white garments are the same white
garments these people were given who were
slain for the word of God and testimony they
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bore. The Laodiean Church values nothing and
thinks it’s rich. It will go through the fire of
purification so that some of its number might be
saved.
There is a promise to the Philadelphian Church
and it says,
Revelation 3:11-12 I am coming soon; hold fast
what you have, so that no one may seize your crown.
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He who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the
temple of my God. The RSV then says: Never shall
he go out of it, and I will write on him the name of
my God.
But the KJV says: he shall no more go out.
The Interlinear says: “he shall no more go out”.
Philadelphians are put into a situation where
they are forced out of congregations which hold
to be the Temple of God because they hold fast
to what they had. They don't have the weakness
that the Laodicean Church goes through. They
keep to the word of God, develop and grow in
strength. They are made pillars in the Temple of
God.
They are the central columns which hold the
Temple in place. Steel rods are put right
through the pillars, forming the basis of the
support structure of the Temple. The reason
they are pillars is because they are stronger;
they are the support. Understanding is central.
One is not Philadelphian because of the name
of one’s church but because of what one does
and says. It is the truth that protects us (see the
paper Pillars of Philadelphia (No.283)).
Revelation 3:10 says:
… because you have kept my word of patient
endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial
which is coming to the whole world to try those who
dwell upon the earth.
This has been taken to mean there is a place of
safety. This whole comment of a place of safety
does not mean people are going to be put
anywhere in one place where nobody is going to
know where they are. It is simply a fact that we
have God's hand put on us. The Laodicean
Church in the Last Days is faced with a series
of problems because it is not willing to stand
for the truth. It finally has to be spewed out into
the Second Resurrection.
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The hour of trial comes after Messiah comes.
What this means is that we will be with
Messiah at his Advent.
There is a group put out of the synagogue and
they are dealt with. They vote with their feet – a
small group. They are kept from the hour of
trial. There is no guarantee that any of these
people are not going to have to pay with their
lives for the Faith of God. Nobody is going to
give us a guarantee that we will not face
persecution. Nobody but God and Jesus Christ
knows what we are, what's inside us and what
we can sustain or bear. We are tried by fire.
What we have to do is prepare ourselves to deal
with the whole concept. There are a number of
promises to different churches. For example, if
we look at Revelation 2:24 there's a promise to
the Thyatirans. They have great works in the
beginning and end and the last works are
greater than the first. They bore the brunt of
1,260 years of persecution. A large number of
martyrs were taken out over that period. The
rest of you in Thyatira who do not hold to this
doctrine (of sacrificing food to idols) who have
not learned the deep things of Satan...only hold
fast till I come... The Thyatiran era will be alive
in the Last Days, and are our brethren over in
Europe. Christ is not laying any great burden
on them again. They've already been through
the Stalinist persecutions. They have been
through the 1,260 years and have been
persecuted for a long time. Tribulation has been
put on them for hundreds of years.
If we are not prepared to sacrifice for Jesus
Christ then we have no part in him. There was
only one Apostle who wasn't martyred, namely
John. He was the only one and that was so he
would write the Book of Revelation. It was so
that we would know what was to come upon us
in the Last Days. There are no smooth things to
hear (see the paper Fate of the 12 Apostles
(No.122B)).
We have to understand what is happening in
this sequence. Israel will go through the time of
Jacob's Trouble. We will flee, city to city, and
our people will not have completed running
through the cities of Israel till the son of man
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comes (Mat. 10:23). That's a key text. The idea
of running through the cities of Israel tells us
there is a nation on the move. There are
refugees etc. Discouragement is Satan's
weapon. He uses it against us especially when
we are given a smooth scenario like a place of
safety. When we finally endure persecution and
endure these things written for us, we become
discouraged (see the paper The Place of Safety
(No.194)).
There is no soft solution. We have a job to do
under these systems. From this follows
tribulation, when we finally get to the point.
The real aim of Satan is to do away with the
elect.
The reason the Church is fragmented is because
God has put people in different places to stop
the work being inhibited in the Last Days. Satan
wants to stop the elect because the elect are the
nucleus, the backbone, in the Millennium. The
only thing that we really know is that Christ
will protect us; for the righteous, their bread
and water will be sure.
The elect are the only reason for Christ's
intervention on the planet. The elect go beyond
the 144,000; beyond the Great Multitude to the
nation and the concepts of Israel, the physical
groups that are destined by God to form part of
His system. Note the Olivet prophecies. Except
for the elect’s sake this whole world would be
allowed to perish. Christ intervenes in order
that none of those people in the Plan of God,
even down the road to the end of the
Millennium, are prejudiced. God has already
determined who is going to be called and at
what stage. It is not God’s will that any flesh
should perish and that tells us that no flesh will
perish. Christ will intervene because of the
elect. He won't let one of the elect suffer any
harm unless it serves God’s purpose. If we
suffer any harm at all we know it is because
Christ can use us and our strengths to be
witnesses to God's system. Everyone is strong.
All do something as a witness in some way and
work through the system. The whole world is
deceived. There are a multitude of churches at
the moment, most of which have rapture
doctrines, where one gets raptured up to Heaven
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when Christ comes and everyone else is going
to be destroyed except the believer, because
they are part of the great "elect system".
We are all God’s people. The elect are a small
nucleus within God’s people who are a further
elect. Everything that happens to our people is
part of this ongoing sequence through to the end
of the seventh seal. The seventh seal ends at the
end of the seventh trumpet which is the end of
the seven vials of the wrath of God. It is a
complete sequence.
The elect do not stand apart from the nation.
The elect without the nation is an elitist
concept.
The example of Moses at Sinai is relevant. He
put himself in front of the Angel of the Lord, to
offer himself to be killed in order that his
people might be saved.
That is our example. We have to pray, fast and
work together on a continual basis to save these
people. God calls us out in order that we
prepare ourselves. We have to clean our minds
of the worldly systems. Literally tear out of our
minds the things that pollute it. We are holy to
the Lord and must not be entertained by the
world's systems of entertainment. It alters our
minds, rendering us ineffective to sacrifice to
the Lord. We cannot indiscriminately expose
ourselves to concepts, videos, etc. which attack
the very spiritual structure we are trying to build
up. View TV carefully, if that is even now
possible. If we don't, we will render ourselves
unfit to sacrifice to the Lord.
This great Tribulation will go through all of the
elect, which is all of Israel. The whole aim is to
destroy our spirituality or relationship with God
because we are all the chosen people. It is a
matter of when each is called and judged. That
nation is a holy people and we are set apart to
be priests to God. Our job is to get the nation to
the point where they understand they are a holy
people, that there is going to be trouble and that
there is no soft option. We have to humble
ourselves before God.
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A soldier relies on military force and thinks in
military terms. That is an unconverted thought
process. The natural carnal reaction is to fight
people. Moses didn't do that. Moses was a
general and he took his people into a position
no general would have ever taken his force.
Moses took them to Pi-ha-hiroth. They couldn't
cross the sea; there were no boats, no
withdrawal, no capacity to form and reorganise
an inadequate force with which to meet the
Egyptian army. No general, or even a corporal,
in the world would have done that. However, it
was done in order to show our reliance is not on
might or power, but rather on the Spirit of God.
That is why the most powerful nations of Israel
will be dealt with first. Judah, now among the
weakest of the tribes, is saved first (Zech.
12:1ff.). See also Commentary on Zechariah
(No 021K).
It seems that the Holy Spirit is going to break
the power of the nations. People are used
through the Spirit of God, to show the strong
through the weak that God is in charge.
Why do we think that Moses put the Israelites
in that position with war chariots coming down
on them? Moses didn't say: "Form three ranks,
dig a few pits, stick some stakes in the ground
and we'll get a super duper weapon and I've got
the super slingshot". No, he did not. He said:
“Be still and see the salvation of God”. Not one
person lifted up his hand. That is what is going
to happen over this period. We are going to be
required to do nothing except pray and fast and
develop, keeping the Laws of God, and organise
and talk to our people and lift them up and
encourage them.
God is going to deal with all of these people.
The texts on the Trumpets show exactly how it
is going to happen.
The problem of the world is that the people will
not repent. However, none of this is set in
concrete. This Scripture is not one that cannot
be broken in the sense that the earlier Scriptures
could not be broken, because they are built in
sections according to the word of God, which
says these people CAN repent! There are
specific phases where they are allowed to
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repent. But the Bible says: “and yet they did not
repent”. However, they can repent, and this
madness can be stopped right now if we get
people in this country to repent. We should pray
that the Lord establishes His angels around this
nation and we are allowed to call this nation to
repentance and that we become a beacon in the
Millennium to this world.
God deals with us through our weaknesses and
He shows us our own weaknesses. He pulls out
the weak and makes them strong. We are not
here because of any innate strength of our own.
We are here because of our weaknesses, and
some weaknesses are glaring. We are called to
confound the mighty and not because of our
own strength. However, with the Holy Spirit we
are strong. We will be able to endure all of this
and God will put no greater burden on us than
we can stand. Not one of us will be asked to do
anything that God cannot get us through
properly.
Our salvation will not be prejudiced by this
Tribulation. We will be brought through and
developed. We will know when this Tribulation
is over because of the heavenly signs and they
will be a blessing to us.
The sixth seal is at Revelation 6:12:
when he opened the sixth seal, I looked and behold
there was a great earthquake and the sun became
black as sackcloth and the full moon became like
blood and the stars of the sky fell to the earth, as the
figtree sheds its winter fruit, when shaken by a gale,
the sky vanished like a scroll that is rolled up and
every mountain and island was removed from its
place. Then the kings of the earth and the great men,
generals, rich and strong, and everyone slave and
free, hid in the caves in the rocks and mountains,
calling to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us and
hide us from the face of him who is seated on the
throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb for the great
day of their wrath is come. Who can stand before it?
That's a very strong process. We know that this
heralds the end of our tribulation. That is the
watershed when we see our redemption is near.
That process allows the sequence to develop.
Those heavenly signs mark the calling out of
the final elements of the 144,000.
Revelation 7:1-8 After this I saw four angels
standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back
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the four winds of the earth, that no wind might blow
on earth or sea or against any tree. 2 Then I saw
another angel ascend from the rising of the sun, with
the seal of the living God, and he called with a loud
voice to the four angels who had been given power to
harm earth and sea, 3 saying, "Do not harm the earth
or the sea or the trees, till we have sealed the servants
of our God upon their foreheads." 4 And I heard the
number of the sealed, a hundred and forty-four
thousand sealed, out of every tribe of the sons of
Israel, 5 twelve thousand sealed out of the tribe of
Judah, twelve thousand of the tribe of Reuben,
twelve thousand of the tribe of Gad, 6 twelve
thousand of the tribe of Asher, twelve thousand of
the tribe of Naph'tali, twelve thousand of the tribe of
Manas'seh, 7 twelve thousand of the tribe of Simeon,
twelve thousand of the tribe of Levi, twelve thousand
of the tribe of Is'sachar, 8 twelve thousand of the tribe
of Zeb'ulun, twelve thousand of the tribe of Joseph,
twelve thousand sealed out of the tribe of Benjamin.
(RSV)
The significance is that this does not follow the
normal tribes. One tribe is missing, and a tribe
is included. Levi is normally not numbered
among the tribes but in this passage they are
included. The tribe of Dan gives them their
inheritance. Dan is not part of the 144,000 as a
separate tribe. The tribe of Joseph normally
encompasses the tribe of Ephraim and
Manasseh. Yet, the tribe of Joseph is mentioned
together with Manasseh. Manasseh is
mentioned separately to Joseph! Yet Joseph is
only ever used as a composite group in previous
Scripture. So the tribe of Dan is incorporated
into the tribe of Ephraim to form the tribe of
Joseph for the allocation of their 12,000 in the
Last Days in the 144,000. This is significant. It
shows us also that Dan and Ephraim are
together as a people in the Last Days. They are
mixed in terms of their spiritual inheritance.
That should not be overlooked. Also the
judgment is given to Dan in accordance with its
birthright promise made in Genesis 49:16-18.
Dan was judged by its exemplary treatment of
Judah in the Second World War.
Revelation 7:9-17 After this I looked, and behold, a
great multitude which no man could number, from
every nation, from all tribes and peoples and tongues,
standing before the throne and before the Lamb,
clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their
hands, 10 and crying out with a loud voice, "Salvation
belongs to our God who sits upon the throne, and to
the Lamb!" 11 And all the angels stood round the
throne and round the elders and the four living
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creatures, and they fell on their faces before the
throne and worshiped God, 12 saying, "Amen!
Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and
honour and power and might be to our God for ever
and ever! Amen." 13 Then one of the elders addressed
me, saying, "Who are these, clothed in white robes,
and whence have they come?" 14 I said to him, "Sir,
you know." And he said to me, "These are they who
have come out of the great tribulation; they have
washed their robes and made them white in the blood
of the Lamb. 15 Therefore are they before the throne
of God, and serve him day and night within his
temple; and he who sits upon the throne will shelter
them with his presence. 16 They shall hunger no
more, neither thirst any more; the sun shall not strike
them, nor any scorching heat. 17 For the Lamb in the
midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will
guide them to springs of living water; and God will
wipe away every tear from their eyes." (RSV)
At this time the 144,000 are sealed so that a
specific number makes up the government.
Under those beings are a great number of
people who have been reached. They do not
take the mark of the Beast and are put through
the Tribulation. Christ does not want people
who are half-hearted or afraid. We fear God
more than we fear men. We are being prepared
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in order to deal with that system and sequence,
and to help these people and get this Great
Multitude through so that the organisation is
done by Christ prior to his Advent. Then when
Messiah comes, he will deal with the rest of
world who have the mark of the Beast and he
will subjugate those nations. There is a
multitude of them. We do have success in terms
of pulling people out but we don't convert
nations. There is a multitude that comes to
understand. This point marks the watershed.
Then there is silence for half an hour.
The composition of the 144,000 is made up of
the series of the sacrifices as determined on a
yearly basis over the forty Jubilees. This is
addressed separately.
Revelation 8:1 when the Lamb opened the Seventh
Seal there was silence in heaven for about half an
hour ... then I saw the seven angels who stood before
God and seven trumpets were given to them.
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