December 24, 2014
Revelation 7-9
We’ve have entered into three waves of judgments upon the earth pictured by...
The Lamb breaking seven seals (Rev. 6-8),
Seven angels blowing seven trumpets (Rev. 8-11), and
Seven angels pouring out seven bowls of God’s wrath (Rev. 16)
By chapter seven, six of the seven seals are broken and, though people of the world cry out in fear, they do not turn back to the Lord. In Revelation 7, John is given a vision of a restored Israel of 144,000 (12,000 from each tribe) and a redeemed innumerable multitude, clothed in white and worshipping the Lamb. These are those “who have come out of the Great Tribulation” and have washed their robes in the blood of the Lamb!
In chapter 8, the Lamb opens the seventh seal and there is half an hour of silence. We wait for the next shoe to drop! When it does, we hear thunder, we see lightening, and the seven trumpets begin to sound!
By the end of chapter 9, six of the seven trumpets have sounded, with trumpets 5 and 6, described in horrifying detail in Revelation 9, the most intense thus far. Still, after all this, they did not repent of their sin (Revelation 9:21).
Tomorrow is Christmas, and, strangely enough, we will read the most unusual of all the Christmas passages in the Bible!
Your fellow traveler through the New Testament,
Pastor Gary
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