3. Romans 10:19
Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but
leave it to the wrath of God, for it is
written, “Vengeance is mine, I will
repay, says the Lord.”
4. The Day of the Lord!
Joel 2:15
Alas for the day! For the day of the
LORD is at hand; It shall come as
destruction from the Almighty.
2 Peter 3:10
But the day of the Lord will come as a
thief in the night.
5. “The Beginning of the End!”
Rev. 6: Six seals removed
from the scroll
#1 – False Messiah
#2 – War
#3 – Famine
#4 – Death
#5 – Cry of Martyrs
#6 – Comsic Disturbances
#7 – ???
6. Revelation 7: A Pause in
the Action
Revelation 7:1
After this I saw four angels standing at
the four corners of the earth, holding
back the four winds of the earth, that
no wind might blow on earth or sea or
against any tree.
8. Revelation 7: God is SEALING!
Revelation 7:2-3
Then I saw another angel ascending 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, saying, “Do
not harm the earth or the sea or the trees,
until we have sealed the servants of our
God on their foreheads.”
9. Revelation 7: God is SEALING!
Revelation 7:4
And I heard the number of the sealed,
144,000, sealed from every tribe of the
sons of Israel.
10. Revelation 7: God is SEALING!
Two realities about this 144,000
1. They are believing Jews!
*These sealed are “from every tribe
of the sons of Israel.”
11. Revelation 7: God is SEALING!
Romans 11:25-26
Lest you be wise in your own sight, I do not
want you to be unaware of this mystery,
brothers: a partial hardening has come
upon Israel, until the fullness of the
Gentiles has come in. And in this way all
Israel will be saved, as it is written, “The
Deliverer will come from Zion, he will
banish ungodliness from Jacob.”
12. Revelation 7: God is SEALING!
Two realities about this 144,000
1. They are believing Jews!
2. The number 144,000 is most likely
symbolic
13. Revelation 7: A Pause in
the Action
John sees God SEALING - The 144,000
(vv. 1-8)
John sees God SAVING - The Great
Multitude (vv. 9-17)
14. Revelation 7: God is SAVING!
Revelation 7:9
After this I looked, and behold, a great
multitude that no one could
number, from every nation, from all
tribes and peoples and languages,
standing before the throne and before
the Lamb, clothed in white robes,
with palm branches in their hands,
15. Revelation 7: God is SAVING!
Revelation 7:10-11
And crying out with a loud
voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who
sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!” And
all the angels were standing around the
throne and around the elders and the four
living creatures, and they fell on their
faces before the throne and worshiped
God,
16. Revelation 7: God is SAVING!
Revelation 7:12
Saying, “Amen! Blessing and glory and
wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and
power and might be to our God forever
and ever! Amen.”
17. Revelation 7: God is SAVING!
Revelation 7:13-14
Then one of the elders addressed me,
saying, “Who are these, clothed in white
robes, and from where have they
come?” I said to him, “Sir, you know.”
And he said to me, “These are the ones
coming out of the great tribulation. They
have washed their robes and made them
white in the blood of the Lamb.”
18. Revelation 7: God is SAVING!
Revelation 7:15-16
Therefore they are before the throne of
God, and serve him day and night in his
temple; and he who sits on the throne will
shelter them with his presence. They shall
hunger no more, neither thirst
anymore; the sun shall not strike them,
nor any scorching heat.
19. Revelation 7: God is SAVING!
Revelation 7:17
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.
20. Remind yourself that salvation is not
something you achieve; rather it is
something that God gives – freely to
you but at a great cost to Himself!
Revelation 7:10
Salvation belongs to our God who sits
on the throne, and to the Lamb!
21. Revelation 8
Revelation 8:1
When the Lamb opened the seventh
seal, there was silence in heaven for
about half an hour.
Zephaniah 2:7a
Be silent before the Lord God! For the
day of the Lord is near.
23. Revelation 8
Revelation 7:2-4
Then I saw the seven angels who stand before
God, and seven trumpets were given to
them. And another angel came and stood at
the altar with a golden censer, and he was
given much incense to offer with the prayers
of all the saints on the golden altar before the
throne, and the smoke of the incense, with
the prayers of the saints, rose before God
from the hand of the angel.
24. Revelation 8
Revelation 7:5
Then the angel took the censer and filled
it with fire from the altar and threw it on
the earth, and there were peals of
thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning,
and an earthquake.
25. Revelation 8
Silence in heaven (v. 1)
Angels, trumpets and a golden censer
(vv. 2-5)
The first four trumpet blasts (vv. 6-13)
∙ Seal judgments (7), trumpet judgments (7),
bowl judgments (7)
26. Revelation 8
Revelation 8:6-7
Now the seven angels who had the seven
trumpets prepared to blow them. The
first angel blew his trumpet, and there
followed hail and fire, mixed with blood,
and these were thrown upon the earth.
And a third of the earth was burned up,
and a third of the trees were burned up,
and all green grass was burned up.
27. Revelation 8
Revelation 8:8-9
The second angel blew his trumpet, and
something like a great mountain, burning
with fire, was thrown into the sea, and a
third of the sea became blood. A third of
the living creatures in the sea died, and a
third of the ships were destroyed.
28. Revelation 8
Revelation 8:10-11
The third angel blew his trumpet, and a
great star fell from heaven, blazing like a
torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and
on the springs of water. The name of the
star is Wormwood. A third of the
waters became wormwood, and many
people died from the water, because it had
been made bitter.
29. Revelation 8
Revelation 8:12
The fourth angel blew his trumpet, and a
third of the sun was struck, and a third of
the moon, and a third of the stars, so that
a third of their light might be darkened,
and a third of the day might be kept from
shining, and likewise a third of the night.
30. Revelation 8
Revelation 8:13
Then I looked, and I heard an eagle crying
with a loud voice as it flew directly
overhead, “Woe, woe, woe to those who
dwell on the earth, at the blasts of the
other trumpets that the three angels are
about to blow!”
31. 1. The prayers of our mouth move the
hand of our God!
(Where our prayers focus, God’s
power falls!)
2. We must consider both the severity
and the kindness of our God!
32. Hebrews 12:28-29
Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a
kingdom that cannot be shaken, and
thus let us offer to God acceptable
worship, with reverence and awe,for our
God is a consuming fire!