LISTEN! Revelation 8 Complete Jewish Bible 8 When the Lamb broke the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for what seemed like half an hour. 2 Then I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and they were given seven shofars.
The Seven Trumpets
You weren’t expecting it…
never-the-less, the sound of the coming Wrath of the LORD is come!
OR
You listened to those who predicted it, yet the Wrath of the LORD was not revealed.
So since it’s been millennia and the END has not come, it will not …
or so you thought.
Apocalypse of the END
“Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away. But of that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone.
Take heed, watch and pray; for you do not know when the time is.
Mark 13:33 – Caution of the Messiah Jesus to followers
We needn’t attempt to measure the devastation of nuclear holocausts beyond that of just two cities in 1945 Japan to realize that when a time of the wrath of God is to come upon the world at the end of these last days its terrorized creatures, men of dust and ashes, will hope to hide from Almighty God.
12 I watched as the Lamb broke the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake. The sun became as dark as black cloth, and the moon became as red as blood.
Would a nuclear blast above your city or an even more powerful manifestation of the Lord God not do the same in an instant? It would blacken the sun, cloud the moon and choke God’s breath of life from the atmosphere!
13 Then the stars of the sky fell to the earth like green figs falling from a tree shaken by a strong wind.
The Apostle John sees them as stars, but the science of these last days tell us that even an asteroid (let alone many meteors striking the earth) would destroy life as we know it. And ‘mother nature’ never caused it, nor could sinful scientists prevent it.Just imagine the force of a hurricane throwing the hard surfaces of space onto the homes and workplaces of your existence.
14 The sky was rolled up like a scroll, and all of the mountains and islands were moved from their places.
It is a hail storm, a tornado; the eruption of a volcano swallowing up the earth and pouring fire into the cities; a hurricane and tsunami billowing waves of destruction into the unsuspecting great cities by the sea.
Terror at the Wrath of the Lord!
Then everyone—the kings of the earth, the rulers, the generals, the wealthy, the powerful, and every slave and free person—all hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.
NO, it will not be only on earth — but from beneath it and into the depths of the seas the vengeance of Almighty God will finally punish the wicked and sinners..
Deaths of 25% of Mankind; >1 BILLION, 961 MILLION
> the TOTAL POPULATIONS of Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, Northern America, (including the U.S.) and Oceania.
AWE of things unseen uncovered, creatures of Heaven hardly imagined and devastations of earth unimaginable! This is what the Lord Jesus Christ reveals [ἀποκάλυψις – apokalypsis] to the Apostle John.
.. The first voice that I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, “Come up here …
.. and behold, a throne set in heaven, and One sat on the throne.
.. Around the throne were twenty-four thrones..
And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices:
Revelation 4:5a KJV
6 and before the throne there was something like a sea of glass, like crystal; and in the center and around the throne, four living creatures full of eyes in front and behind.
! ! ! ! Living Creatures
The first living creature was like a lion.. each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within..
“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come.”
Revelation 4:8b NASB
And when the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to Him who sits on the throne, to Him who lives forever and ever,
the twenty-four elders will fall down before Him who sits on the throne, and they will worship Him who lives forever and ever..
5:2 And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the scroll and to break its seals?”
.. 6 And I saw between the throne (with the four living creatures) and the elders a Lamb standing, as if slaughtered..
8 When He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb..
“Worthy are You to take the scroll and to break its seals; for You were slaughtered, and You purchased people for God with Your blood from every tribe, language, people, and nation.
Revelation 5:9b NASB
.. 11 Then I looked, and I heard the voices of many angels around the throne and the living creatures and the elders..
“Worthy is the Lamb that was slaughtered to receive power, wealth, wisdom, might, honor, glory, and blessing.”
Revelation 5:12 NASB – the loud praise of thousands of angels
.. 14 And the four living creatures were saying, “Amen.” And the elders fell down and worshiped.
With inescapable arrows from the string of his bow
The Face of the Lion whose wrath did slay them
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The Second Seal:
War on Earth
Have you fully fallen in fear and awe before the One on the Throne as the Lamb opened the scroll?
Did the ἀποκάλυψις
‘disclosure of truth concerning things before unknown’
convict your sinful soul as if you were dead before Him?
Could you face any of the four living creatures ever-vigilant in holiness surrounding the Throne of the One Creator and eternal LORD?
Before we observe the opening of the second seal, returning to The Throne Room of Heaven, let’s look once more upon this scene with the second living creature.
Revelation 4-5 excerpt:
.. And there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne..
.. and in the center and around the throne, four living creatures full of eyes in front and behind..
.. the second living creature was like an ox..
.. Each of the four living creatures had six wings; they were covered with eyes around and inside..
I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders..
saying with a loud voice:
“Worthy is the Lamb who was slain To receive power…
3 When He broke the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, “Come!”
Notice that the second living creature, which the KJV translates, ‘beast‘also speaks with authority; for these four are nearest worshipers of the Lord God!
The four living beasts serve the Throne of the LORD — they are His messengers, all similar in power and fearful appearance, and yet different as personalities of man are both alike yet individual. The four horsemen also sent (by the living messengers of the Throne) also differ in appearance as do their horses and the judgments for which each is sent out to all the earth.
4 Another horse, fiery red, went out.
And it was granted to the one who sat on it to take peace from the earth, and that people should kill one another;
and there was given to him a great sword.
From the unsealed judgment read from the scroll, two have gone out
– one with a bow to conquer from afar and now
a rider who will spill the blood of war by the hand of a mighty rider of the horse red as fire!
