Revelation Ch. 7-8:1

1. 7-8:1

2. Sealing 144,000 and The Martyrs
Praise
Revelation 7 – 8:1 (A break in the
action to fill in what happened up
to the end of CH. 6)

3. Command to the 4 Angels
 Rev 7:1 And after these
things I saw four angels
standing on the four
corners of the earth,
holding the four winds
of the earth, that the
wind should not blow
on the earth, nor on the
sea, nor on any tree.

4. Sealing the 144,000 Jewish
Evangelists
 Rev 7:2 And I saw
another angel ascending
from the east, having
the seal of the living
God: and he cried with
a loud voice to the four
angels, to whom it was
given to hurt the earth
and the sea,

5. Sealing the 144,000 Jewish
Evangelists
 Rev 7:3 Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither
the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the
servants of our God in their foreheads.

6. Sealing the 144,000 Jewish
Evangelists
 Rev 7:4 And I heard the number of
them which were sealed: and there were
sealed a hundred and forty and four
thousand of all the tribes of the children
of Israel.

7. Sealing the 144,000 Jewish
Evangelists
 These 144,000 evangelists reap a great harvest
of souls for God – (Rev. 7:14-17)

8. Sealing the 144,000 Jewish
Evangelists
 Judah 12,000
 Reuben 12,000
 Gad 12,000
 Asher 12,000
 Naphtali 12,000
 Manasseh 12,000
 Simeon 12,000
 Levi 12,000
 Issachar 12,000
 Zebulon 12,000
 Joseph 12,000
 Benjamin 12,000

9. Conspicuous omissions
 Dan
 Ephraim

10. Omission of Dan and Ephraim
 The omission of Dan and Ephraim has
caused some Bible students to come to the
conclusion that they are lost tribes. But
they were not really lost in the sense that
God cannot find and restore them.

11. Omission of Dan and Ephraim
 In fact, in Ezekiel 48 we find them listed
again as part of the prophesied restored
nation of Israel for the Millennium and
presumably thereafter.

12. Omission of Dan and Ephraim
 We can only guess as to why they were
omitted in this list of evangelists that
God sent out to evangelize the world.
But our guess would probably be wrong.

13. Omission of Dan and Ephraim
 The most obvious reason is that from the
time of the Judges, Dan was assimilated
into the other tribes and later Ephraim
could have become part of Manasseh.

14. Martyrs Worship
 Rev 7:9 After these things I looked, and
lo, a great multitude, which no man
could number, out of all nations and
kindreds and people and tongues, stood
before the throne and before the Lamb,
clothed with white robes, with palms in
their hands.

15. Martyrs Worship

16. Martyrs Worship
 Rev 7:10 And they cried with a loud
voice, saying, Salvation to our God
sitting on the throne, and to the Lamb.

17. These are from the Great Tribulation
 Rev 7:14…And [the angel] said to me,
“These are the ones who came out of the
great tribulation and have washed their
robes, and have whitened them in the
blood of the Lamb.”

18. These are from the Great Tribulation
 Rev 7:15 “Therefore they are before the
throne of God, and they serve Him day
and night in His temple. And He sitting
on the throne will dwell among them.”

19. These are from the Great Tribulation
 Rev 7:16 They will not hunger any
more, nor thirst any more, nor will the
sun light on them, nor any heat.

20. These are from the Great Tribulation
 Rev 7:17 For the Lamb who is in the
midst of the throne will feed them and
will lead them to the fountains of living
waters. And God will wipe away all tears
from their eyes.

21. The greatest harvest of all times
 Note: The number boggles John’s mind.
It could possibly be up to 1 BILLION
souls brought to salvation during the
time of the first 3 ½ years of the
Tribulation.

22. The Seventh Seal: The Awful
Silence (Revelation 8:1)
 “Rev 8:1 And
when he had
opened the
seventh seal,
there was silence
in heaven about
the space of half
an hour.”

23. The Seventh Seal: The Awful
Silence (Revelation 8:1)
 This is the link between the first and second
series of 7 judgments. There are to be 3 series
in all, each more severe than the one before.
 The coming judgments are so terrible that all
of heaven stands totally still and silent for half
an hour at the thought of it.