| THE SEVEN SEALS OF THE REVELATION |
| Seal |
Text |
WHAT THE PROPHET JOHN SAW |
THE MEANING |
Related Texts |
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1 |
Rev. 6:2 |
A WHITE HORSE |
Its rider carried a bow and went forth conquering and to conquer. |
This seal portrays the going forth of Yahweh's Warning Truth concerning
COUNTERFEIT: Baptisms, Sabbath Days, Messiahs and Bibles. Beware!
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Jer. 29:17-18
Matt. 24:4-5
Luke 21:8 |
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2 |
Rev. 6:3-4 |
A RED HORSE |
Its rider was given a great sword and proceeded to take peace from the
earth. |
This seal tells of wars, revolutions and bloodshed on an
unparalleled scale. The great sword symbolizes world wars involving many
nations. |
Matt. 24:6
Luke 21:9-10
Jer. 25:27-38 |
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3 |
Rev. 6:5-6 |
A BLACK HORSE |
Its rider held a pair of scales and weighed out food at extremely high
prices. (e.g. a whole day's wages for two measures of wheat). |
This seal brings to view world-wide famines when prices for even
the barest of life's necessities will spiral out of control. (A whole day's
wages for two measures of wheat). |
Matt. 24:7
Luke 21:11 |
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4 |
Rev. 6:7-8 |
A PALE, SICKLY HORSE |
Its rider's name was Death and Hell followed him. |
This seal symbolizes pestilence and disease epidemics of
various kinds which will lay low millions of people. |
Matt. 24:7
Luke 21:11 |
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5 |
Rev. 6:9-11 |
SOULS UNDER THE ALTAR |
Souls were heard crying for justice. They were told to wait for a while
till a further martyrdom took place. |
This seal reveals a further persecution of God's people, a persecution
as intense as any which occurred in the past. |
Matt. 24:9-10
Luke 21:12-19 |
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6 |
Rev. 6:12-17 |
CELESTIAL SIGNS |
- A great earthquake.
- The sun turned black.
- The moon turned blood-red.
- The stars (meteorites) fell.
- The sky was rolled back as a scroll.
- Earth's population was terrified.
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These are literal signs in the physical universe. When they occur blind
panic will overtake the inhabitants of the world.
Note: The Messiah does not return to earth during this seal. |
Matt. 24:29
Luke 21:25-26
Jer. 4:23-28 |
| Revelation chapter 7 is inserted between Seals 6 & 7 |
THE SEALING OF YAHWEH'S SERVANTS |
By divine authority the devastation of the earth, the sea
and the trees was delayed till the servants of God were sealed in
their foreheads and right hands. 144,000 Israelites were sealed. |
The Signature of Yahweh the God of Israel is the Sabbath days in the
sacred calendar. These are the seventh day of the week (Saturday) and the
seven annual Sabbaths as specified in Lev. chapter 23. Each one is a sacred
memorial of a divine achievement in the plan of Salvation. In short, Yahweh
seals his people with obedience. |
Eze. 20:12&20
Exodus 13:9
Exodus 31:13- 17
Ezekiel 9 |
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7 |
Rev. 8:7 |
Trumpet
1 |
A third of the earth, a third of the trees and all the green grass were
burned. |
This damaging of the earth, the sea and the trees will only
take place after the sealing work is completed (Rev. 7:3). The Trumpets, in
other words, cannot even commence their destruction till all 144,000
Israelites are sealed.
When the Trumpets eventually do sound, a time of great devastation will
begin on earth.
The terms earth, sea, trees, grass, fish, ships etc. may have symbolic as
well as literal meanings. But it must be remembered that ONE THIRD OF
MANKIND are slain at Trumpet No. 6, so it is most unlikely that these terms
also represent mankind. |
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| Rev. 8:8-9 |
Trumpet
2 |
A third of the sea became like the blood of a dead man. A third of the
fish perished and a third of the ships sank. |
| Rev. 8:10-11 |
Trumpet
3 |
A third of the rivers of water were made bitter and many people died.
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| Rev. 8:12 |
Trumpet
4 |
The sun, moon and the stars were then darkened by a third. |
| Rev. 9:1-12 |
Trumpet
5
FIRST WOE! |
The Bottomless Pit (Abyss) was then opened and an evil host led by
Abaddon the King of the Abyss came forth. They proceeded to torture all
mankind for five months - all except those who had received Yahweh's Seal at
the time of the sealing. These believers were supernaturally protected from
Abaddon's power. |
The Abyss is a place - or condition - in which God has imprisoned a host
of evil angels. Abaddon, the King of the Abyss, is a demon of great
depravity. At this Trumpet, he is given leave to torture and brutalise
mankind for 5 months: that is, all except the servants of the Most High who
accepted the Seal of God in their foreheads and right hands (minds and
actions) at the time of the sealing. |
Luke 8:30-33
2 Peter 2:4
Jude 6 |
Rev. 9:13
to
Rev. 11:14 |
Trumpet
6
SECOND WOE! |
Four mighty angels were then loosed from the Great River Euphrates.
Aided by a force of 200,000,000 they killed ONE THIRD OF MANKIND. At this
time the holy city is trampled under foot for a period of 42 months (3½
years).
Yahweh's Two Witnesses also preach to the world during this 42 month period.
At the end of this woe the Beast who ascends from out of the Abyss will kill
the Two Witnesses; but after 3½ days they are resurrected and carried to
heaven in great glory. |
During this seal, ONE THIRD OF MANKIND will be slain.
The Beast, who we are told also rises from the Abyss, could well be Abaddon
the Destroyer, the Lawless One, the Son of Hell, the Exterminator from Sheol.
His Mark is the age-old counterfeit of Yahweh's Signature and will again
manifest itself when the bogus sabbaths of Christendom (Sunday, Christmas,
Easter etc.) are enforced by law throughout the world. |
Daniel 7:25
Daniel 12
Rev. 12:6-14
Rev. 13
Zech. 14:1-2
2 Thess. 2:1-17
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| Rev. 11:15 |
Trumpet
7
THIRD WOE! |
This is a time for God's anger, his judgement of the nations and the
rewarding of his saints. At this Trumpet the kingdoms of this world will
pass to their rightful ruler, the Messiah of Israel. |
Yahshua, the Son of God, will return to earth at this Last Trumpet.
The Beast will vainly attempt to make war with the returning Christ, but he
will perish in the attempt. The Messiah's millennial reign of peace will
then begin. |
Matt. 24:30
Rev. 19:11-21
1 Thess. 4:14-17 |
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will save)
would
affirm today; it's the same truth He
attested to as he walked this earth
some 2000 years ago - an exclusive way to the Father
(John 14:6) and that man,
as a sinful creature, is in need of a
Saviour.(John
3:16-21).
