The Seven Seals
Jesus,
the Lamb of God opened the seven
seals to those who have the Holy Spirit by explaining their meaning
in Matthew 24.
And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who
is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?
And no man in heaven, nor in earth,
neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to
look thereon.
And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book,
neither to look thereon.
And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat
upon the throne.
And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty
elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and
golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints. And they
sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to
take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and
hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue,
and people, and nation;
Revelation 5.1-10
These are the signs of the end of the age (Matthew 24.3):
And
I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard,
as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see. Revelation 6.1
1st
Seal -
And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer. Revelation 6.2
And
Jesus said:
And
Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive
many. Matthew 24.4-5
[The first seal is the spiritual confusion and deception that is every where you look – a counterfeit gospel masquerading as the truth, there are many preachers who say that Jesus is the Christ and deceive the people into paganism (Sunday, Xmas, Easter) and a long list of false teachings.]
2nd
Seal –
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. Rev.6.4
And Jesus said:
And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. Matt.24.6
3rd
Seal -
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.
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. Rev.
6.5-6
And Jesus said -
For
nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there
shall be famines, and pestilences, and
earthquakes, in divers places.
All these are the beginning of sorrows.
Matthew 24.7-8
4th
Seal -
And
when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth
beast say, Come and see.
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. Rev. 6.7-8
All these are the beginning of sorrows.
Matthew 24.7-8
And
when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the
souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for
the testimony which they held:
And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and
true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on
the earth?
And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto
them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should
be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
Rev. 6.9-11
And Jesus said -
Then
shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and
ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.
And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall
hate one another.
And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all
the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the
end come. Matthew 24.9-14
[this
is the "tribulation" or "the time of Jacob's Trouble"
(Jeremiah 30) when the LORD allows the Beast (guided by the Harlot)
to destroy the Lost Tribes of Israel and the gentiles who have been
grafted in (whoever they may be? *see
below ).
Revelation 12.9-17
6th
seal -
13. And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth,
even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of
a mighty wind.
14. And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together;
and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
16. And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall
on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne,
and from the wrath of the Lamb:
17. For the great day of his wrath is
come; and who shall be able to stand? Rev 6:12-17
And Jesus said:
Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken. Matthew 24.29
[This
is the start of the last 3 1/2 years - The
Day of the LORD - when the punishment
comes on to the gentiles and the Beast betrays the "The State of
Israel" – Judah, and sets up the abomination of desolation (Daniel
9.25-27) and starts with the trumpet plagues and ends with the bowl
judgments are poured out upon the Earth in Rev. 16.]
The
great day of the Lord is near,
it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day
of the Lord: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.
That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a
day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a
day of clouds and thick darkness,
A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against
the high towers.
And I will bring distress upon men, that they
shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the Lord:
and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the
dung. Zephaniah 1.14-17
Gather
yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired;
Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before
the fierce anger of the Lord come upon you, before the day of the Lord's anger come upon you.
Seek ye the Lord, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment;
seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the
day of the Lord's anger. Zephaniah
2.1-3
The
word of the Lord came again unto me, saying,
Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Howl ye, Woe
worth the day!
For the day is near, even the day
of the Lord is near, a cloudy day; it shall
be the time of the heathen. Ezekiel
30.1-3
For yourselves know perfectly that the
day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
Seeing then that all these things shall
be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation
and godliness,
They are protected from the trumpet plagues by the LORD.
The
First Trumpet plague is:
Revelation 8.12+13
2. And he opened the bottomless pit; and there
arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the
sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
3. And there came out of the smoke locusts upon
the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth
have power.
4. And it was commanded them that they should not
hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree;
but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.
5. And to them it was given that they should not
kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their
torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.
6. And in those days shall men seek death, and
shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from
them.
7. And the shapes of the locusts were like unto
horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns
like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.
8. And they had hair as the hair of women, and
their teeth were as the teeth of lions.
9. And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates
of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of
many horses running to battle.
10. And they had tails like unto scorpions, and
there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five
months.
11. And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew
tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
12. One
woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
Revelation 9.1-12
Neither repented they of their murders, nor
of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
Revelation 9.13-21
The
Last (seventh) Trumpet is the Third “Woe”
Painful
sores on on those who have the mark of the beast and have worshiped
it’s image.
Rev. 16.2
The
sea turns to blood and all sea life dies. Rev.
16.3
The
fresh waters turn to blood. Rev.16.4-7
People
are scorched by the Sun. Rev. 16.8+9
Darkness
on the Earth. Rev. 16.10+11
The
Rev. 16.12-16
IT
IS DONE! Rev. 16.17-21
And
the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a
great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done.
And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a
great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth,
so mighty an earthquake, and so great.
And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the
nations fell: and great
And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about
the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague
of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.
Revelation 16.17-21
And
his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is
before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst
thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall
be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward
the north, and half of it toward the south.
Zechariah 14.3+4
And Jesus said:
And
then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall
all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man
coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet,
and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one
end of heaven to the other.
Matt 24.30-31
This
is when first resurrection takes place (Revelation 20.4-6) - this is
when the catching up occurs (1 Corinthians 15.52; 1 Thessalonians 4.16)
- this is when the LORD takes over the Throne of Israel and goes to
