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Revelation has been an encouragement to Christians ever since John wrote this vision while he was exiled on the island of Patmos.
The church was suffering terribly. Believers had already been persecuted heavily under the Roman Emperor Nero, and under Emperor Domitian, the church was about to suffer again.
In that day, Rome ruled with an iron fist. They were an invincible and immovable power. Jerusalem was in ruins, the temple destroyed, Jews and Christians alike were taken by the thousands to Rome to be killed in the coliseum.
This book strengthened their faith. They were reminded that God was sovereign and reigned over all nations, even the ironfisted Rome.
This book strengthens faith of believers today. This world is in trouble. The storm clouds we have seen on the horizon are raining trouble on the earth. But storm clouds that are greater still are forming; these are just the beginning of birth pangs.
Faith is strengthened when you see how all this ends. We are now living in what could be called the trouble before the trouble. These birth pangs will grow greater in intensity and closer together as the time of the end draws near. The Antichrist will arise who will bring peace and safety. But then, while they are saying “peace and safety” terror will come upon them suddenly like a thief in the night. That’s what we are seeing now in Revelation. It’s the revealing of Jesus Christ through the events that take place when the wrath of God is poured out on the earth.
In his vision given to him by God, John is taken by the Spirit into heaven. He saw a sea of glass like crystal upon which he saw a great throne. He who sat upon it had a scroll in His right hand with writing on the inside and the back. It was sealed with seven seals.
No one was found worthy to open the book and break the seals. At first this causes John to weep, but one of the elders said, “Stop weeping, the Lion from the tribe of Judah has overcome so as to open the book and break the seven seals.” But when John looked, he saw not a Lion, but a Lamb as though slain.
As the Lamb breaks each of the seven seals of the scroll of the book, each one unleashes an event of the coming seven-year Tribulation which is the wrath of God poured out on the world.
The first four seals reveal the four horsemen of the Apocalypse that brought first the deceiver, the Antichrist, then people slaying one another and war, then economic collapse and finally death and Hades.
When the Lamb breaks the seventh seal of the scroll, it will set forth seven trumpets, each of each of those 7 trumpets will declare more apocalyptic events of the wrath of God during the Tribulation.
However, after the sixth seal of the scroll is broken, the bondservants of God living on the earth at the time receive a seal on their foreheads. We are then given the actual number…144,000 who receive this mark on their forehead. These are 144,000 Jewish believers in Jesus Christ who become witnesses of the gospel.
After this, John sees a great multitude, which no one could count, from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and palm branches in their hands; and they cry out with a loud voice, saying, “Salvation to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb.”
Then there is worship in heaven as all the angels standing around the throne and the elders and the four living creatures fall on their faces before the throne and worship God, saying, “Amen, blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might, be unto our God forever and ever. Amen.”
Then, in Revelation chapter 8, Jesus, the Lamb, breaks the 7th seal, the last of the seals that sealed the scroll that was in the hand of the Almighty who sat on the throne.
When the 7th seal is broken there is silence in heaven for half an hour. The sound of this silence is powerful.
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