The book of Revelation gives a delineation of events from the time after Christ to the end of Time. These events were sealed up in a scroll only Christ was able unsealed and open up to us due to his overcoming power on earth and His victory at the cross Rev 5:9..
Now these events range from 1 to 7.
• Seven Candlesticks.
• Seven Churches.
• Seven Seals.
• Seven Trumpets.
For instance the seven churches are the History of the Spiritual state of the churches from Christ time to the end.
The Seals are the events persecution towards the church from Christ till the end.
The Trumpets are the judgments that falls on Rome from after Christ time to the end.
I want to pay particular attention to a pattern in the 6th and 7th seal and the 6th and 7th trumpets.
We know from previous studies that we are living in the period of the sounding of the 7th trumpet. We have established clearly that the last three trumpet powers that brings judgment on Rome is Islamic in Nature. Follow the count.
• 1st Trumpet Visigoths under Alaric 395
• 2nd Trumpet The Vandals under Genseric 428 AD
• 3rd Trumpet The Huns under Attila 429 AD
• 4th Trumpet Odoacer 476 AD
• 5th Trumpet is Arabic Islam under Mohamed 628 AD (1st woe says Rev9:12) (1st Great Jihad According Mohamed).
• 6th Trumpet Islam under Abu Becker and the Ottomans 1449-1840AD (2nd Woe says Rev 11:14) (2nd Great Jihad according to Abu Becker).
• 7th Trumpets Islam under Bin Laden Sep 11th 2001 (3rd Woe =1st Woe+2nd Woe) (3rd and “Final great Jihad” Bin Ladens words exact. This 7th Trumpet is still sounding at this time.
The seals, what are they briefly?
From studies on the seals it speaks of the same history but from the angle of persecution on the churches coming forward from Christ to the end of the world.
• 1st Seal 31-100 AD (White with Bow – church pure and conquering wining quickly many souls.
• 2nd Seal 100-313 AD (Red- peace taken – Blood of the church flowed Persecution starts.
• 3rd Seal 313-538 AD (Black- Papacy takes charge of the church with errors.2Thes 2:4, Isa 14:13,14.
• 4th Seal 538- The beginning of the persecution in full by the Papacy ( the papal inquisition etc this is the 1260 which lands you in 1798 but this was cut short for the elect sake in the 1498.
• 5th Seal 1498-1750 AD – White robes given to those who suffered under this seal these are the martyrs slain in the reformations (Huss Jerome, Ridley, Cramer, and Latimer. Those who died on fire stake etc.
• 6th Seal from 1750-1833 AD- Rev 6:12 Great Earthquake(Lisbon Earthquake in the year 1755), Sun and Moon Black (Dark Day the year1780), Stars fall (Great Meteoric Shower) in the year 1833
Patterns in the Seals and the Trumpets
Notice the 4-3 combinations
• 1st 4 seals are colored horses the last 3 are not.
• 1st 4 trumpets are barbarian tribes attacking Rome the last 3 are Islamic attacks on armies of Rome ( US is run by Rome this is the lamb like beast).
• The final pattern I want to discuss is has to do with the 6th and 7th Seal and the 6th and 7th Trumpet or what we know as the 2nd and 3rd Woe.
The pattern goes like this:
Rev 6 shows the 1-6 Seals
Rev 7 shows Interlude (a break)
Rev 8 shows the 7th and final seal
Rev 8,9 shows the 1-6 trumpets
Rev 10 shows an Interlude (a break)
Rev 11 tells about the end of 7th and final trumpet.
Now, the break in the Rev chapters 7 for the seals and 10 for the trumpets describes the characteristics of God’s people in both scenarios. Is this coincidental or is God showing how orderly he is or is God Speaking of the same people and a similar specific period of time?
Lets examine these Interludes and what is being said at these breaks in which the Bible seems to go of the topic to discuss a people and their experience then comes back on topic the following chapters.
Interlude #1, ( Rev 7) The description of the 144,000 and the great multitude.
• Winds of strife are being held back. Rev 7:2
• Servants are sealed in forehead. Rev 7:3,
• Praise and Glory is given to our God
• Hunger and thirst no more. Rev 7:16
• The Lamb (Christ) feeds. Rev 7:16
• The Lamb (Christ) leads them to LIVING WATERS. Rev 7:17
Now is this future in heaven? Now we know that Revelation 8:1 Says REVELATION 8
1 And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. This time has not yet come.
When there is silence in heaven it is because all the heavenly hosts have left on the way with Christ to save his people and every eye would see him. Mark 13:26, Matthew 24:30.
The 7th Seal is the ending of Christ heavenly priestly ministry .Atoning for sins etc. So we are living presently in the interlude because the 6th seal as we saw above was the great events of Earthquake in 1755 , falling dark day in 1780 and stars in 1833 . We are living in the interlude where Christ is leading his people to LIVING WATERS 7:17
Interlude #2 in Rev chapters 9 and 11 is chapter 10.
Rev 8 gives us the beginning of the trumpets. The last three which are call Woe trumpets are Islamic in nature. We have proven from the Bible when we add the woe 1 (trumpet 5) and woe2 (trumpet 6) we have the exact events of 911 which according to The Bible and Islam is Woe 3 (trumpet7), the final Great Jihad. This trumpet 7 has begun sounding and has not finished sounding yet. Islam is still doing and is due to do even greater damage. links on Islam
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But notice the interlude in the period of the trumpets in Revelation chapter 10 .Its start describing Gods people and the experience they should be having.
• The Little book is open (Spirit of Prophecy tells us this is Daniel 11:40-45 )
• The mystery is to be completed in the people Rev 10:7, Col 1:25-27(which is Christ in us, this is completion of sanctification, this is equal to a sealing just as the interlude in the seals Rev 7
• The people take the little book and eat it. (The study the prophecies with diligence)
• It will be a sweet and bitter experience Rev 10:10 the same as the Millerite experience. Why a great slaughter of Gods people will occur. Daniel 11:45 and we will know its coming.
• Thou must prophesy again meaning like the message of the 2300 days, we must tell the world of the end time events in Daniel 11:40-45.With the same loud voice that was used in the loud cry of 1844.
So these two INTERLUDES in the Seal and in the Trumpets are the same identical BREAK PERIODS seen from different perspective . But they both describe in detail the work that should be going on in this break of seemingly peace and safety in “Gods Remnant People”.
Lets zero in on the interlude in the seals in particular the Lamb (Christ) leads them to FOUNTAINS LIVING WATERS. Rev 7:17.Again this is not a future event but an experience, a process that should be going on with Gods people at this time in the interlude, the break period.
Where have you seen the expression “FOUNTAINS LIVING WATERS” ?
How about the “WOMAN AT THE WELL” John 4.
Now you know the story if not you can read it in John 4, but let us parallel this to what Laodicea should be experiencing at this time in the interludes between the Seal and the trumpets that is in Rev 7 and Rev 10 as shown above.
• John 4:10 Is not Christ offering us via Bible prophecy and Spirit of Prophecy LIVING WATERS ?
• John 4:13,14 Does not the study of Bible prophecy which contains the power of the gospel ,which is the gospel in verity promise be a well of living waters springing up to everlasting life? See Rev 1:3.
• John 4:15 Should not the people of God be calling for (prophetic studies) this living water as the woman asked for it. Note Revelation is the Revelation of Jesus Christ. Blessing is promised Rev 3:1, Rev 22:16,17,18.
• John 4:16 Via the study of Bible prophecy as it shows the end of probation in Adventism approaching does not our sins come to mind .The same way Chris with tact points out the sin of the woman (the church) at the well.
• John 4:16 When our sins are found out even within our hearts are we not as a people to humble ourselves now that the Word (Christ) has pointed our sins out? Acts 3:19.
• John 4:17,18 Should we not fess up admitting the truth of our current condition as Laodicea ?
• John 4:18 Are we not to perceive that it is Christ himself that brings message after message after message as he pursues us via the preaching of present truth.
• John 4:20-22 Do we not as a people say we are Jerusalem the capital of the Truth therefore we are saved so the gentiles must come into the truth when we ourselves need saving ?
• John 4:23 Has not the hour come where we as a people and individually need to worship God in Spirit and in truth. Are we still in the Holy place and not in the Most Holy place. Are we worshiping at Satan throne who now assumes the position Christ who left that apartment since 1844 and have entered into the Most Holy? Do we pretend to worship in Spirit (via our new worship styles of drum and guitar dominated repetitions and chants with praise teams). Is this the true worship that Christ requires at this urgent time the interlude before the final rapid events here at the close of probation ?Isa 1:11,12,13,14,16,17,18.
• John 4:24 Is the worship motivated and driven by truth. Are we studying biblical truth that moves us to solemnly say “Praise to my God? Is the same God Lord of my life?
• John 4:25 Are we not to live, work build as though we are looking for Messiah to come which is called Christ? Has he come to your heart?
• John 4:39 Are we driven by the discovery of this man in our own life that the joy of doing so compels us to share the pearl of great price we have found? Christ and even the sure word of prophecy that we have discovered as Adventists?
• John 4:40 Are people seeking us daily because of what we have found and shown to them to be true?
• John 4:42 Are people testifying and saying its not only what you have shown me some time ago of Christ, but Christ now living in me. We have see and tasted the sweetness for ourselves what salvation is all about.
So we see in that break period, that period of seemingly peace and safety, that interlude in Rev 7 and Rev 10,The “FOUNTAIN OF LIVING WATER” and also the “CHRIST IN YOU THE HOPE OF GLORY” is the experience that God’s remnant should be going through at this time. May we not repeat the history of Old Israel in Isa 8:6-8
We are living in the INTERLUDES. Are you daily advancing in these areas? We are on the verge of the closing moments of Human probation.
Total surrender is what is required at this time.
Let Christ begin and finish a good work in you.
This is a call for righteousness. It is urgent.
Amen.