Rapture Reverberations
Jun 9, 2020 11:24:56 #
ziggy88
Loc: quincy illinois 62301
Rapture Reverberations
By Joel Joseph
Researched by Pastor Gary Boyd
Conclusion by Pastor Boyd
June 9th 2020
Introduction:
These are the words of life!
The word “reverberation” means: A persistent sound that makes things seem to shake and vibrate, or a booming repeating wave that follows the initial event.
The rapture will blow our socks off for sure. It takes place in a flash, in an “atomo” (atomic moment) It will occur mysteriously, in the air, silently and out of sight to all unbelievers left behind. (It is the Second Coming that will be seen by all).
The rapture of the true church will be the event that causes reverberation, repercussions and rumblings around the world like echoing thunder, in the hearts, minds and souls of the left behind masses, as the shock sets in and the seven-year tribulation begins.
There will be howling, yelling and shouting in disbelief. The world will be crying, “me too?” “Don’t you know, God – ‘my life matters’?”
Isaiah 13:6-8 “Wail and howl for the day of the Lord (tribulation period) is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty. Therefore all hands will be limp, everyman’s heart will melt and they will be afraid. Pangs and sorrow will take hold of them...Their faces will be like flames.”
But, as the rapture approaches, the reverberations are already starting. Just the teaching and sharing of it is causing the fists of many in opposition, to shake in reverberating anger at the teachers, the Bible, and God!
This edition is about rapture musings, meditations, appraisals and approvals, and about making the rapture opponents mad and angry.
A rapture reverberation is being seen right now in the rejection of rapture teaching by many churches. The rapture rattles their cage.
The greatest proof ever of a pre-tribulation rapture:
In plain sight, is this great and powerful fact and reason for the pre-trib rapture.
The Bible confirms in plain language in four passages that God works differently with man in the different dispensations. (Ephesians 1:10, 3:2, Hebrews 1:1, Colossians 1:25)
The dispensation of the law had specific unique characteristics. Salvation was not through the new-birth experience, but by simply believing and having salvation imputed to them. There was no indwelling Holy Spirit. They were not “new creations” as they are in the New Covenant.
Without going into all the details of Daniel’s 70 weeks prophecy, it’s well accepted common knowledge that the Old Covenant dispensation is on hold for the church age, and will resume and be completed by the seven-year tribulation.
So, here’s the big thing: If the church is to go through just one second of the tribulation period, that would mean that the church would have to become un-born-again and un-Spirit filled and un-newly created! The true church would have to be de-churched and made tribulation saints. Do you think that’s going to happen? – It never will!
The destination of the church is heaven. Ultimately it will be the New Jerusalem, heaven, earth and the entire universe. But initially the destination of the church is heaven, and the destination of the tribulation saints is the Millennial earth. There’s a big difference!
Our Lord said: “I will come to receive you to be where I am.” (John 14:3) That is in heaven.
We see here proof supreme that the church cannot be part of the tribulation dispensation at all.
The relationship between the rapture and Israel:
Isaiah 66:19 “I will set a sign amongst them (Israel)...and they shall declare My glory amongst the Gentiles.”
Israel was born in a day on the 14th May 1948. (Isaiah 66:8) This foreshadows Israel’s spiritual birth, which will also begin in a day. Bear in mind that the entire tribulation period is also called “The Day of the Lord.”
What will be the grand sudden sign causing Israel to turn to their Messiah?
Zechariah 3:9 “...I will remove the iniquity of that land (Israel) in one day.”
The church was commanded by God to “take the gospel to the Jew first.” And, to “make the Jew jealous.” The church by and large ignored this and did the opposite.
It is the rapture of the church that will have the most dramatic reverberations amongst the unsaved Jews, left behind. They will immediately become angry and jealous that God has left them, the chosen people behind! (Romans 10:19)
So, finally, in its last breath on earth, every member of the true church suddenly obeys God’s command to take the good news to the Jew and make them jealous, through the rapture!
The rapture itself becomes the great, glorious sign and message. The rapture will shock the hell of the Jews. The rapture will make them instantly angry at God and jealous of the church.
But very quickly Israel will repent and suddenly recognise who their Messiah is, turn to Him, worship Him, clean their acts up, and become the world’s greatest evangelists, in the tribulation.
Isaiah 49:6 “I also will give you (Israel) as a light to the Gentles, that you should be My salvation to the ends of the earth.”
Isaiah 55:5 “You (Israel) shall call a nation you do not know, and nations who do not know you shall run to you, because of the Lord your God, and the holy One of Israel; for He has glorified you.”
The reverberations of Israel’s very soon-coming awakening are being felt worldwide. Tragically, even many churches and teachers are coming against Israel with a new satanic passion.
By the way, you can prove a post trib rapture if you get rid of Israel!
Part of the very reason for Satan’s creation of a new world order, one world government, economy and religion is a reverberation against the coming glory of Israel and God’s triumphant plans for them, even through much tribulation.
If Satan and his people can create a new world order, reaching up to God, just like at Babel, God’s plans for a new world order called the Millennium would be defeated.
It is the satanic ‘triumph’ of globalism that will be defeated in the greatest conflicts the world has ever seen – soon!
We are about to see the annexation of Judah and Samaria. This will cause major upheavals and conflict. It may well lead to the unfulfilled wars in the Middle East. All of this is a reverberation of the coming glorification of Israel, and expansion of the land.
Rapture reasons:
A major pre-tribulation rapture confirmation is seen in the fact that book of Revelation deals chronologically, with the church in the first four chapters, and the church is not seen again except in heaven, during the tribulation chapters through the rest of the Revelation.
The absence of the church in the tribulation is a powerful reason for the rapture itself and a pre-tribulation rapture.
Interestingly, the birth of the church at Pentecost was marked by the indwelling Spirit, the placing of the law in believer’s hearts, and the giving of the language of the church – tongues.
We see that there is coming a time when “tongues will cease” and prophecy will vanish away or dissipate over time. (1 Corinthians 13:8) The original word for “cease” means to cease in an instant, while the “vanishing away” takes place over time.
It is widely believed (and by me) that the instant “ceasing” is due to the rapture. Tongues are not evident in the tribulation but are in the entire church age.
The world is going crazy:
The forerunners to the catastrophes of the tribulation are lining up right now. They are:
•Plagues (disease) •Famines (evident in many nations) •Pestilences (locust invasion striking like never before right now) • Nations (ethnic) rising against nations (r**ts and social unrest) •Lawlessness (r**ting, defunding the police) •Removal of the restrainer (increase wickedness and evil •One world currency (collapse of earnings and economic hardship) •One world religion (churches joining the agenda of the world) •Still to come are the big wars and all the natural upheavals.
All the craziness in the world currently, is a reverberation of the soon coming rapture. The world’s current upheavals and troubles are just a small glimpse of things to come under antichrist.
The world’s god is preparing his world of criminals, idols, icons and i***ts. The world is preparing for its ‘rapture’ into the tribulation with unrestrained, uncontrolled evil, wickedness and sin.
The world is trying to create peace through control. The world can’t create world peace because “there is no peace for the wicked.” (Isaiah 48:22) And “wickedness is in the heart of man.” (Jeremiah 17:9)
The world is not sustainable. Its days are numbered. The writing is on the wall!
Man as a god has failed, as in the Garden of Eden, and in the gardens of Babylon. Godless man can’t coexist with the God- filled man.
God and the Bible do not have the same agenda as the world and its word – the media.
If you are standing securely in the world, receiving its wisdom, you are about to have the carpet pulled from under you and great will be your fall – just like the tower of Babel.
Right now we are seeing the god of the world g***ming untold millions of dumb puppets, for their final act. Their terrible curtain is squealing as it winds higher. There is an ill-omen in the air for them, and their great dilemma and tragedy is that they can’t see it!!
Man in all his wisdom, without God, is an unholy, blinded fool.
►Isaiah 44:18 “They do not know nor understand; for He has shut their eyes so they cannot see, and their hearts so they cannot understand.”
►Job 18:5-7 “The light of the wicked indeed goes out, and the flame of his fire does not shine...The steps of his strength are shortened, and his own counsel casts him down.”
The problem with modern democracy is it champions human rights; but the human has become so much more a fountain of wickedness than ever before. So what we now have is open conflict between the wickedness of the human and God’s rights!
Proverbs 28:4 “If you forsake the word of God you will praise the wicked.”
My dear, beloved Christian friends, you need to sit back and take stock and be so thankful to our great God that He has saved you and given you sight, and eternal victory. Count your blessings – literally. Write then in a book of thankfulness. (Habakkuk 2:2) Thank the Lord that He has written your name into eternity.
Coming holiness:
The world h**es holiness. Holiness is of God. It is the nature and character of God. The world, the flesh-nature, the demonic realm, all h**e biblical holiness.
Worldliness normalizes sin, by removing holiness.
The world and its mouthpiece, the media has an evil agenda. It is for a new one world order, united with unrighteousness entrenched in it. Their agenda is to promote globalism. This is also the agenda of many churches today, who are in reality, cross-less counterfeits.
But the true Christian is growing in holiness right now. The word “holy” means “separate and apart.” A growing revulsion at the world is causing us to grow stronger in holiness.
Of course immediately after the rapture all true believers will be forever holy, and set apart from all forms of sin and evil. What a day that will be.
Present and coming holiness in the believer is one of the reason the spirit of the world h**es us.
For more on this article: https://garyboyd2244.blogspot.com
By Joel Joseph
Researched by Pastor Gary Boyd
Conclusion by Pastor Boyd
June 9th 2020
Introduction:
These are the words of life!
The word “reverberation” means: A persistent sound that makes things seem to shake and vibrate, or a booming repeating wave that follows the initial event.
The rapture will blow our socks off for sure. It takes place in a flash, in an “atomo” (atomic moment) It will occur mysteriously, in the air, silently and out of sight to all unbelievers left behind. (It is the Second Coming that will be seen by all).
The rapture of the true church will be the event that causes reverberation, repercussions and rumblings around the world like echoing thunder, in the hearts, minds and souls of the left behind masses, as the shock sets in and the seven-year tribulation begins.
There will be howling, yelling and shouting in disbelief. The world will be crying, “me too?” “Don’t you know, God – ‘my life matters’?”
Isaiah 13:6-8 “Wail and howl for the day of the Lord (tribulation period) is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty. Therefore all hands will be limp, everyman’s heart will melt and they will be afraid. Pangs and sorrow will take hold of them...Their faces will be like flames.”
But, as the rapture approaches, the reverberations are already starting. Just the teaching and sharing of it is causing the fists of many in opposition, to shake in reverberating anger at the teachers, the Bible, and God!
This edition is about rapture musings, meditations, appraisals and approvals, and about making the rapture opponents mad and angry.
A rapture reverberation is being seen right now in the rejection of rapture teaching by many churches. The rapture rattles their cage.
The greatest proof ever of a pre-tribulation rapture:
In plain sight, is this great and powerful fact and reason for the pre-trib rapture.
The Bible confirms in plain language in four passages that God works differently with man in the different dispensations. (Ephesians 1:10, 3:2, Hebrews 1:1, Colossians 1:25)
The dispensation of the law had specific unique characteristics. Salvation was not through the new-birth experience, but by simply believing and having salvation imputed to them. There was no indwelling Holy Spirit. They were not “new creations” as they are in the New Covenant.
Without going into all the details of Daniel’s 70 weeks prophecy, it’s well accepted common knowledge that the Old Covenant dispensation is on hold for the church age, and will resume and be completed by the seven-year tribulation.
So, here’s the big thing: If the church is to go through just one second of the tribulation period, that would mean that the church would have to become un-born-again and un-Spirit filled and un-newly created! The true church would have to be de-churched and made tribulation saints. Do you think that’s going to happen? – It never will!
The destination of the church is heaven. Ultimately it will be the New Jerusalem, heaven, earth and the entire universe. But initially the destination of the church is heaven, and the destination of the tribulation saints is the Millennial earth. There’s a big difference!
Our Lord said: “I will come to receive you to be where I am.” (John 14:3) That is in heaven.
We see here proof supreme that the church cannot be part of the tribulation dispensation at all.
The relationship between the rapture and Israel:
Isaiah 66:19 “I will set a sign amongst them (Israel)...and they shall declare My glory amongst the Gentiles.”
Israel was born in a day on the 14th May 1948. (Isaiah 66:8) This foreshadows Israel’s spiritual birth, which will also begin in a day. Bear in mind that the entire tribulation period is also called “The Day of the Lord.”
What will be the grand sudden sign causing Israel to turn to their Messiah?
Zechariah 3:9 “...I will remove the iniquity of that land (Israel) in one day.”
The church was commanded by God to “take the gospel to the Jew first.” And, to “make the Jew jealous.” The church by and large ignored this and did the opposite.
It is the rapture of the church that will have the most dramatic reverberations amongst the unsaved Jews, left behind. They will immediately become angry and jealous that God has left them, the chosen people behind! (Romans 10:19)
So, finally, in its last breath on earth, every member of the true church suddenly obeys God’s command to take the good news to the Jew and make them jealous, through the rapture!
The rapture itself becomes the great, glorious sign and message. The rapture will shock the hell of the Jews. The rapture will make them instantly angry at God and jealous of the church.
But very quickly Israel will repent and suddenly recognise who their Messiah is, turn to Him, worship Him, clean their acts up, and become the world’s greatest evangelists, in the tribulation.
Isaiah 49:6 “I also will give you (Israel) as a light to the Gentles, that you should be My salvation to the ends of the earth.”
Isaiah 55:5 “You (Israel) shall call a nation you do not know, and nations who do not know you shall run to you, because of the Lord your God, and the holy One of Israel; for He has glorified you.”
The reverberations of Israel’s very soon-coming awakening are being felt worldwide. Tragically, even many churches and teachers are coming against Israel with a new satanic passion.
By the way, you can prove a post trib rapture if you get rid of Israel!
Part of the very reason for Satan’s creation of a new world order, one world government, economy and religion is a reverberation against the coming glory of Israel and God’s triumphant plans for them, even through much tribulation.
If Satan and his people can create a new world order, reaching up to God, just like at Babel, God’s plans for a new world order called the Millennium would be defeated.
It is the satanic ‘triumph’ of globalism that will be defeated in the greatest conflicts the world has ever seen – soon!
We are about to see the annexation of Judah and Samaria. This will cause major upheavals and conflict. It may well lead to the unfulfilled wars in the Middle East. All of this is a reverberation of the coming glorification of Israel, and expansion of the land.
Rapture reasons:
A major pre-tribulation rapture confirmation is seen in the fact that book of Revelation deals chronologically, with the church in the first four chapters, and the church is not seen again except in heaven, during the tribulation chapters through the rest of the Revelation.
The absence of the church in the tribulation is a powerful reason for the rapture itself and a pre-tribulation rapture.
Interestingly, the birth of the church at Pentecost was marked by the indwelling Spirit, the placing of the law in believer’s hearts, and the giving of the language of the church – tongues.
We see that there is coming a time when “tongues will cease” and prophecy will vanish away or dissipate over time. (1 Corinthians 13:8) The original word for “cease” means to cease in an instant, while the “vanishing away” takes place over time.
It is widely believed (and by me) that the instant “ceasing” is due to the rapture. Tongues are not evident in the tribulation but are in the entire church age.
The world is going crazy:
The forerunners to the catastrophes of the tribulation are lining up right now. They are:
•Plagues (disease) •Famines (evident in many nations) •Pestilences (locust invasion striking like never before right now) • Nations (ethnic) rising against nations (r**ts and social unrest) •Lawlessness (r**ting, defunding the police) •Removal of the restrainer (increase wickedness and evil •One world currency (collapse of earnings and economic hardship) •One world religion (churches joining the agenda of the world) •Still to come are the big wars and all the natural upheavals.
All the craziness in the world currently, is a reverberation of the soon coming rapture. The world’s current upheavals and troubles are just a small glimpse of things to come under antichrist.
The world’s god is preparing his world of criminals, idols, icons and i***ts. The world is preparing for its ‘rapture’ into the tribulation with unrestrained, uncontrolled evil, wickedness and sin.
The world is trying to create peace through control. The world can’t create world peace because “there is no peace for the wicked.” (Isaiah 48:22) And “wickedness is in the heart of man.” (Jeremiah 17:9)
The world is not sustainable. Its days are numbered. The writing is on the wall!
Man as a god has failed, as in the Garden of Eden, and in the gardens of Babylon. Godless man can’t coexist with the God- filled man.
God and the Bible do not have the same agenda as the world and its word – the media.
If you are standing securely in the world, receiving its wisdom, you are about to have the carpet pulled from under you and great will be your fall – just like the tower of Babel.
Right now we are seeing the god of the world g***ming untold millions of dumb puppets, for their final act. Their terrible curtain is squealing as it winds higher. There is an ill-omen in the air for them, and their great dilemma and tragedy is that they can’t see it!!
Man in all his wisdom, without God, is an unholy, blinded fool.
►Isaiah 44:18 “They do not know nor understand; for He has shut their eyes so they cannot see, and their hearts so they cannot understand.”
►Job 18:5-7 “The light of the wicked indeed goes out, and the flame of his fire does not shine...The steps of his strength are shortened, and his own counsel casts him down.”
The problem with modern democracy is it champions human rights; but the human has become so much more a fountain of wickedness than ever before. So what we now have is open conflict between the wickedness of the human and God’s rights!
Proverbs 28:4 “If you forsake the word of God you will praise the wicked.”
My dear, beloved Christian friends, you need to sit back and take stock and be so thankful to our great God that He has saved you and given you sight, and eternal victory. Count your blessings – literally. Write then in a book of thankfulness. (Habakkuk 2:2) Thank the Lord that He has written your name into eternity.
Coming holiness:
The world h**es holiness. Holiness is of God. It is the nature and character of God. The world, the flesh-nature, the demonic realm, all h**e biblical holiness.
Worldliness normalizes sin, by removing holiness.
The world and its mouthpiece, the media has an evil agenda. It is for a new one world order, united with unrighteousness entrenched in it. Their agenda is to promote globalism. This is also the agenda of many churches today, who are in reality, cross-less counterfeits.
But the true Christian is growing in holiness right now. The word “holy” means “separate and apart.” A growing revulsion at the world is causing us to grow stronger in holiness.
Of course immediately after the rapture all true believers will be forever holy, and set apart from all forms of sin and evil. What a day that will be.
Present and coming holiness in the believer is one of the reason the spirit of the world h**es us.
For more on this article: https://garyboyd2244.blogspot.com
Jun 9, 2020 11:28:36 #
JFlorio
Loc: Seminole Florida
ziggy88 wrote:
Rapture Reverberations br By Joel Joseph br Resear... (show quote)
I am in the process of studying the end times prophesies again. I believe the 144,000 witnesses will be Evangelical converted Jews. Your thoughts?
Jun 9, 2020 11:39:55 #
ziggy88 wrote:
Rapture Reverberations br By Joel Joseph br Resear... (show quote)
Why sit around on your thumbs waiting for the rapture? After all a quick trip to Walmart will get you a bunch of balloons tank of helium and an aluminum lawn chair. Have a fat friend sit on your lap while you fill the balloons and when they stand up... off you go to heaven! God doesn’t like idle hands, so don’t sit around rapture yourselves and as you soar off you can look down your nose at all the nonbelievers stuck on earth while you sail skyward to be at the right hand of your maker!
Jun 9, 2020 12:07:15 #
Jun 9, 2020 12:12:18 #
JFlorio
Loc: Seminole Florida
Kevyn wrote:
Why sit around on your thumbs waiting for the rapture? After all a quick trip to Walmart will get you a bunch of balloons tank of helium and an aluminum lawn chair. Have a fat friend sit on your lap while you fill the balloons and when they stand up... off you go to heaven! God doesn’t like idle hands, so don’t sit around rapture yourselves and as you soar off you can look down your nose at all the nonbelievers stuck on earth while you sail skyward to be at the right hand of your maker!
You probably won't have to worry about it.
Jun 9, 2020 12:23:31 #
Peewee
Loc: San Antonio, TX
JFlorio wrote:
I am in the process of studying the end times prophesies again. I believe the 144,000 witnesses will be Evangelical converted Jews. Your thoughts?
I agree. Zev Porat is well worth watching. He is fearless in proclaiming Jesus. I believe he is a key teacher of the 144K. His testimony is worth watching, the son and grandson of Orthodox rabbi's. His family actually tried to bribe him to renounce Christ. Over a million dollars and he never caved. He also carries the gospel to China. He is meek, humble, and fearless. He and Carl Gallops have been working closely together for a few years now. They have produced many videos on YT.
Jun 9, 2020 12:25:27 #
Peewee
Loc: San Antonio, TX
Kevyn wrote:
Why sit around on your thumbs waiting for the rapture? After all a quick trip to Walmart will get you a bunch of balloons tank of helium and an aluminum lawn chair. Have a fat friend sit on your lap while you fill the balloons and when they stand up... off you go to heaven! God doesn’t like idle hands, so don’t sit around rapture yourselves and as you soar off you can look down your nose at all the nonbelievers stuck on earth while you sail skyward to be at the right hand of your maker!
Guess you don't know there are three heavens, all you see is one.
Jun 10, 2020 10:07:13 #
ziggy88
Loc: quincy illinois 62301
Revelation 7:1-8 -THE 144,000
After these things I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, on the sea, or on any tree. Then 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 granted to harm the earth and the sea, saying, ‘Do not harm the earth, the sea, or the trees till we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.’ And I heard the number of those who were sealed. One hundred and forty-four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel were sealed: of the tribe of Judah twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand [beginning with Reuben, of the tribe of Gad twelve thousand; of the tribe of Asher twelve thousand; of the tribe of Naphtali twelve thousand; of the tribe of Manasseh twelve thousand; of the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand; of the tribe of Levi twelve thousand; of the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand; of the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand; of the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand; of the tribe of Benjamin twelve thousand were sealed.
A Pause
Here, in chapter seven, we come to a pause in the action before the events of the Great Tribulation continue to be revealed to us. Specifically, this is the first of four interludes in the book of Revelation … the interlude between the sixth and the seventh Seals. In this chapter, we will be given vital and important information about two groups of people who will live during the dark days of the Great Tribulation. We will also read about the sealing of one of these groups before God allows any further judgments to proceed on the Earth. The people that are to be sealed are Jews. This is our first encounter with Israelites in the book of Revelation. Truly, God is not yet through with his people, the Jews. No, not by a long shot, as we see here and as the Apostle Paul so clearly teaches in Romans 9-11.
During the Great Tribulation, God will once again be working with and through his chosen covenant people of old. A careful study of the scriptures regarding the Jewish people reveals that the primary purpose of the Tribulation is the re-commissioning, refining, restoration and vindication of the Jews. Here are a few scriptures that prophesy to that effect.
For thus says the LORD: 'We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace. Ask now, and see, whether a man is ever in labor with child? So why do I see every man with his hands on his loins like a woman in labor, and all faces turned pale? Alas! For that day is great, so that none is like it; and it is the time of Jacob's (Israel) trouble, but he shall be saved out of it. For it shall come to pass in that day,' says the LORD of hosts, 'That I will break his yoke from your neck, and will burst your bonds; foreigners shall no more ens***e them. But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up for them. Therefore do not fear, O my servant Jacob,' says the LORD, 'Nor be dismayed, O Israel; for behold, I will save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity. Jacob (Israel) shall return, have rest and be quiet, and no one shall make him afraid. For I am with you,' says the LORD, 'to save you; though I make a full end of all nations where I have scattered you, yet I will not make a complete end of you. But I will correct you in justice, and will not let you go altogether unpunished. (Jeremiah 30:5-11)
I will bring the one-third through the fire, will refine them as silver is refined, and test them as gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will answer them. I will say, 'This is my people'; and each one will say, 'The LORD is my God.' Zechariah 13:9 If you have anymore questions please do not fail to ask - Pastor Boyd
After these things I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, on the sea, or on any tree. Then 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 granted to harm the earth and the sea, saying, ‘Do not harm the earth, the sea, or the trees till we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.’ And I heard the number of those who were sealed. One hundred and forty-four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel were sealed: of the tribe of Judah twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand [beginning with Reuben, of the tribe of Gad twelve thousand; of the tribe of Asher twelve thousand; of the tribe of Naphtali twelve thousand; of the tribe of Manasseh twelve thousand; of the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand; of the tribe of Levi twelve thousand; of the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand; of the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand; of the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand; of the tribe of Benjamin twelve thousand were sealed.
A Pause
Here, in chapter seven, we come to a pause in the action before the events of the Great Tribulation continue to be revealed to us. Specifically, this is the first of four interludes in the book of Revelation … the interlude between the sixth and the seventh Seals. In this chapter, we will be given vital and important information about two groups of people who will live during the dark days of the Great Tribulation. We will also read about the sealing of one of these groups before God allows any further judgments to proceed on the Earth. The people that are to be sealed are Jews. This is our first encounter with Israelites in the book of Revelation. Truly, God is not yet through with his people, the Jews. No, not by a long shot, as we see here and as the Apostle Paul so clearly teaches in Romans 9-11.
During the Great Tribulation, God will once again be working with and through his chosen covenant people of old. A careful study of the scriptures regarding the Jewish people reveals that the primary purpose of the Tribulation is the re-commissioning, refining, restoration and vindication of the Jews. Here are a few scriptures that prophesy to that effect.
For thus says the LORD: 'We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace. Ask now, and see, whether a man is ever in labor with child? So why do I see every man with his hands on his loins like a woman in labor, and all faces turned pale? Alas! For that day is great, so that none is like it; and it is the time of Jacob's (Israel) trouble, but he shall be saved out of it. For it shall come to pass in that day,' says the LORD of hosts, 'That I will break his yoke from your neck, and will burst your bonds; foreigners shall no more ens***e them. But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up for them. Therefore do not fear, O my servant Jacob,' says the LORD, 'Nor be dismayed, O Israel; for behold, I will save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity. Jacob (Israel) shall return, have rest and be quiet, and no one shall make him afraid. For I am with you,' says the LORD, 'to save you; though I make a full end of all nations where I have scattered you, yet I will not make a complete end of you. But I will correct you in justice, and will not let you go altogether unpunished. (Jeremiah 30:5-11)
I will bring the one-third through the fire, will refine them as silver is refined, and test them as gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will answer them. I will say, 'This is my people'; and each one will say, 'The LORD is my God.' Zechariah 13:9 If you have anymore questions please do not fail to ask - Pastor Boyd
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