The
Saved in the Great Tribulation
Book
of Revelation Chapter 7
As
we move on into Chapter 7 we find answers to a lot of questions for
those who have been taught some things that are not true. The one
most important thing is that there will be many saved during the
Tribulation period and most of those during the time called the
"Great Tribulation" as this chapter makes us aware of.
In
fact, I do not believe God will reject anyone at any time if they
call upon the Lord with a pure and honest heart!
I
personally believe that not any who have rejected the Lord during the
Church Age will be saved during any part of the Tribulations years.
2Th
2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that
perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they
might be saved.
2Th
2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that
they should believe a lie:
2Th
2:12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but
had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Today
in many areas of America there are many who have not ever heard of
Jesus Christ and the Gospel, and America has become a great mission
field and it is the same in many other nations and it is a sad thing.
This
shows just how weak the Church has become in doing the one thing the
Lord ask us to do.
Mat
28:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given
unto me in heaven and in earth.
Mat
28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the
name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Mat
28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have
commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the
world. Amen.
Though
these future saints will suffer through much of the Seven Years of
the Tribulation they will also be saved because no one at the White
Throne Judgment will be able to stand before the Lord Jesus Christ
and say, "I never got the opportunity".
Mat
24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the
world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
There
is not one prophesy in the true Scriptures that will go unfulfilled
by the end of Armageddon!
Many
today just do not have all the truth!
In
reality, Chapter 7 of the Book of Revelation is a break between the
things of the sixth seal and the things of the seventh seal, and John
gets a full view of this picture so we will all be able to
understand.
One
of the greatest problems in the modern Church is that those who are
saved or think they are saved, do not have that same desire for all
others to be saved.
Remember
the Laodicean Church Age ended with the Church never returning to be
on fire for Christ and the ministries of the Church just about
stopped.
The
Lord will remind us of these things at the Judgment Seat of Christ.
We
had forgotten why the Lord left us here upon this earth and even
today before these things come to past, we are living in the "Days
of Sorrows".
Joh
16:20 Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament,
but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your
sorrow shall be turned into joy.
Joh
16:21 A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is
come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth
no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
Joh
16:22 And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and
your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.
Isa
25:8 He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe
away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he
take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.
Isa
25:9 And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have
waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited
for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
Let
us just see what John saw.
*****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.
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,
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.
If
we know one thing about our Savior, it is that He is never caught off
guard. He never sits and thinks about what He is going to do next.
No
matter what the world thinks and no matter what the Church thinks,
the Lord God Jehovah always has His true believers.
By
this time we already know the Church is in Heaven and the Judgment
Seat of Christ has already taken place. The Lord has presented His
Church to His Father, but someone is missing.
There
are promises that have not been yet fulfilled.
We
have an example in the Scriptures.
God
is speaking to Elijah:
1Ki
19:1 And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how
he had slain all the prophets with the sword.
1Ki
19:2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the
gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of
one of them by tomorrow about this time.
1Ki
19:3 And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came
to Beersheba, which be-longeth to Judah, and left his servant there.
1Ki
19:4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and
came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself
that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my
life; for I am not better than my fathers.
1Ki
19:5 And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an
angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat
1Ki
19:18 Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees
which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed
him.
Remember
the Prophesy of Elijah?
Rom
11:1 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I
also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of
Benjamin.
Rom
11:2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not
what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God
against Israel, saying,
Rom
11:3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine
altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
Rom
11:4 But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to
myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image
of Baal.
Rom
11:5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant
according to the election of grace.
And
Malachi:
Mal
4:5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of
the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
Mal
4:6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and
the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the
earth with a curse.
John
saw four Angels standing on the four corners of the earth, which
would be North, South, East, and West and no, this does not mean the
earth is square.
These
Angels would bring about the most devastating "Climate Change"
this world will have ever seen. These things will be added to all the
other things that are already going on in those seven years of
Tribulation, and will be in fact the last years of those seven years
called the "The Great Tribulation".
By
the way it is only the Lord who can cause “climate change” and
not people!
Before
these Angels unleash this devastation those servants of God must be
sealed. Not by the Holy Spirit but by this Angel which means they
cannot be harmed by the Antichrist and his followers during this time
of their great work.
The
Lord says the servants of God must be sealed. These servants of God
are His secret weapon that no one upon the earth knew about, not even
Satan!
The
Lord Jesus explained this to the Apostles.
Mat
24:31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet,
and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from
one end of heaven to the other.
Mat
24:32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet
tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:
The
fig tree is about to bloom in Israel. It will not bloom during the
Church Age!
We
should understand that until the Angels seal these 144,000 no one
knew who they were and at the same time once they are sealed,
everyone will know who they are. Jehovah will not hide this fact for
the Hebrew Children. They will be sealed in their forehead only, not
upon their hands.
Rev
14:1 And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with
him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name
written in their foreheads.
We
should also understand in the same manner the disciples of the
Antichrist will be sealed either in the forehead or their right hand.
Rev
13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free
and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their
foreheads:
Rev
13:17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark,
or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Rev
13:18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the
number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is
Six hundred threescore and six.
*****Rev
7:4 And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were
sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of
the children of Israel.
Rev
7:5 Of the tribe of Juda were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe
of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were
sealed twelve thousand.
Rev
7:6 Of the tribe of Aser were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe
of Nepthalim were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Manasses
were sealed twelve thousand.
Rev
7:7 Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe
of Levi were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Issachar were
sealed twelve thousand. Rev 7:8 Of the tribe of Zabulon were sealed
twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Joseph were sealed twelve thousand.
Of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand.
These
12,000 of each tribe will be the literal seed of Abraham through
Isaac, through Jacob.
Again
there are no lost tribes of Israel and though they remain are
scattered, Jehovah knows the whereabouts of each and every one of
them!
Notice
the Angel in charge of this whole thing does ascend from the east.
The "Day Star".
2Pe_1:19
We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that
ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the
day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
The
Sun of Righteousness:
Mal
4:1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all
the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the
day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it
shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Mal
4:2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness
arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up
as calves of the stall.
Mal
4:3 And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes
under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith
the LORD of hosts.
They
will realize the Coming of the Messiah, they had been looking for all
these years!
Of
all the lists of the tribes in the Scriptures since the time of the
Exodus from Egypt, this one is different as are many others, but here
the Tribe of Dan is omitted and also the tribe of Ephraim.
The
names of Joseph and the name of Levi are substituted. We can
understand this by understanding the truth of God.
Deu
29:18 Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or
tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go
and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a
root that beareth gall and wormwood;
Deu
29:19 And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse,
that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace,
though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to
thirst:
Deu
29:20 The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD
and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses
that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall
blot out his name from under heaven.
Deu
29:21 And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the
tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that
are written in this book of the law:
These
are things that Dan and Ephraim are guilty of, and when the Holy
Spirit gave these words to Moses, He meant what He said.
God
will never repent from the things He has written down in the
Scriptures which means all translations must be very careful not to
change what the Holy Spirit has said, or they are no more than
perversions much like the Codex Sinaiticus that was altered by the
Jesuits while it was not even an old Scripture but the writings of
some Greek, who was hired to make a personal copy of the Scriptures
for some Russian. This is the truth!
These
tribes allowed Jeroboam to set up those golden calves to be
worshipped.
1Ki
12:26 And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return
to the house of David:
1Ki
12:27 If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the LORD
at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto
their lord, even unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me,
and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah.
1Ki
12:28 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold,
and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem:
behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of
Egypt.
1Ki
12:29 And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan.
1Ki
12:30 And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship
before the one, even unto Dan.
Note,
these tribes are also in the list that will be in the Holy Land in
the Millennial Kingdom.
The
sealing of these 12,000 from each tribe has its own purpose in the
plan of God during the Great Tribulation years.
So
after this sealing, we see the purpose of this sealing.
*****Rev
7:9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man
could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues,
stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white
robes, and palms in their hands;
Rev
7:10 And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which
sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.
Rev
7:11 And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the
elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their
faces, and worshipped God,
Rev
7:12 Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and
thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for
ever and ever. Amen.
Will
they be those that are saved during the Great Tribulation when the
Antichrist is so brutal along with those that follow him. You bet
there will be!
Notice
that are not just Jews or Hebrews. They are from all nations, all
kindreds, all peoples, all tongues and they are standing before the
throne of the Lamb of God.
They
had palms in their hands as in the as in the "Feast of the
Trumpets".
In a
sense, the purpose of the "Feast of the Trumpets" was to
awaken these people from their "spiritual slumber" and
prepare them for the solemn humiliation of the "Day of
Atonement"!
Joe
2:15 Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn
assembly:
Joe
2:16 Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the
elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the
bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.
Joe
2:17 Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the
porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and
give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule
over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their
God?
Joe
2:18 Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his
people.
This
day had finally come.
Salvation
to "Our God" and unto "The Lamb". Jesus, Jesus,
Jesus, sweetest name I know!
What
do the Angels do? They do what they always do.
Luk
15:10 Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the
angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.
Of
course the Church did join in, and the Beasts, as we all fell on our
faces to worship our God Jehovah, and the Lamb, the Lord Jesus
Christ.
All
the Church had made it to Heaven.
There
is no God except Jehovah God and there is no salvation but by the
Lamb of God!
John
was watching all these things so he could write it all down that we
might have this wonderful Book of the Reveling of the Lamb!
John
asked and one of the Elders answered.
Where
did all those Saints of God come from? Here is our answer.
*****Rev
7:13 And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these
which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?
Rev
7:14 And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me,
These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed
their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
To
understand the Great Tribulation we have to go back to the missing
week from the Prophet Daniel.
Dan
9:26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off,
but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come
shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall
be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are
determined.
Dan
9:27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and
in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the
oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall
make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined
shall be poured upon the desolate.
When
we total the weeks from the Prophet Daniel, we can account for the
time till the first coming of the Messiah. From the time of Christ's
First Coming and until Chapter 4 of the Book of Revelation we have
the Church Age which ends at the "Rapture of the Church".
It
is then we begin the missing week of the Prophet Daniel which are the
years called Tribulation or the time of Jacob's Trouble.
Jer
30:7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is
even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
Jer
30:8 For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts,
that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy
bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:
Jer
30:9 But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king,
whom I will raise up unto them.
When
the Church has been called out (Revelation Chapter 4) then the
Antichrist will begin his rule upon this earth. The first three and a
half years will be terrible to many, but the Jews will live in
relative peace and actually be able to use the rebuilt Temple for the
old practices that ended with the destruction of Herod's Temple.
But
then comes the remaining three and a half years which will be called
the "Great Tribulation".
The
Antichrist will become a terror to the Jews and most all of the world
at that time. Destruction and murder will be the daily theme of his
government.
Mat
24:21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the
beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
Mat
24:22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no
flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be
shortened.
This
Great Tribulation would have brought the end of life upon this world
if the Lord Jesus does not step in to put a stop to it.
Finally
after spending all these years people will begin to realize that
maybe there is a God who cares.
Those
144,000 Jewish preachers will be spreading the "Gospel of Jesus
Christ" all over the world and remember they are sealed and
under the protection of the Angels.
Dan_12:1
And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which
standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of
trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same
time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that
shall be found written in the book.
They
will begin to believe.
Heb
11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that
cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of
them that diligently seek him.
And
they will be saved.
Those
that are saved will also die and this is that group of Saints that
John is now seeing in Heaven's Throne Room where they will be
comforted.
Their
robes made white by the Blood of the Lamb!
Most
of these are Jews and they will now do what Jehovah ask of them since
the time of Abraham.
*****Rev
7:15 Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day
and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall
dwell among them.
We
know that the Holy Spirit took the Church home to Heaven at the sound
of the Trumpet, because He lives within each of us.
This
does not mean the Holy Spirit did not go back to do the work as He
did in the Old Testament.
These
that were saved were still under Holy Ghost conviction when they
accepted that Jesus is the true Messiah.
These
were all saved because they believed the "Gospel" of the
Lord Jesus Christ!
We
can see that most of these are Jews and the Lord will fulfill His
promise to them.
Exo
29:45 And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be
their God.
Exo
29:46 And they shall know that I am the LORD their God, that brought
them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them: I
am the LORD their God.
Are
they any more special than the other Saints of God? No they are blood
bought children of God just as the rest of the Saints in Heaven.
Some
believe that this is the Millennial Kingdom, but this is just Heaven
and what are some of the great things about Heaven?
*****Rev
7:16 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither
shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.
Rev
7:17 For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed
them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God
shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
The
fulfillment of another promise.
2Co
4:14 Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up
us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.
2Co
4:15 For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace
might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.
2Co
4:16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man
perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
2Co
4:17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh
for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
2Co
4:18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the
things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are
temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
It
is not always easy to be a Christian and it is also true it is not
easy to be a Jew in many places and it been that way for them for
thousands of years.
We
all know that sin has interfered with our relationship with our
Heavenly Father, but the benefits of Heaven make it all worth the
choice of choosing Jesus before it was too late.
Psa
103:1 Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless
his holy name.
Psa
103:2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
Psa
103:3 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy
diseases;
Psa
103:4 Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee
with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
Psa
103:5 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth
is renewed like the eagle's.
Psa
103:6 The LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are
oppressed.
The
"benefits" of choosing Jesus Christ are just too wonderful
to describe after a life upon this small planet, the only place life
thrives but even this life on this planet will not always continue.
Choose
Jesus before it is too late to choose!
Hell
is a real place!
Heaven
is a real place!
Choose
Heaven!
Joh
14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no
man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Joh
14:7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and
from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
Amen
