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Advent HOPE Sabbath School

Alistair Huong and Norman McNulty: The Book Of Revelation

Alistair Huong

An Overview on The Book of Revelation

Revelation Chapter 1

Ephesus

Smyrna and Pergamos

Thyatira

Norman McNulty

Sardis And Philadelphia

Laodicea

The Book With Seven Seals

The Seven Seals

The 144,000

The Seven Trumpets, Part 1

The Seven Trumpets, Part 2

Revelation 10: The Second Advent Movement

Revelation 11:1-14 The Two Witnesses and The French Revolution

The Seven Trumpets, The Woman And The Dragon

Revelation 12: The Accuser of The Brethren

Revelation 13: Big Picture of The Beast

Revelation 13: The Image To The Beast

Revelation 14:1-5: The Characteristics of the 144,000

Revelation 14:6-8: The 1st and 2nd Angels’ Messages

The Third Angel’s Message

Revelation 14 and 15: The Harvest

Revelation 15: The Close of Probation and the Fit Man

Revelation 16: 1-13: The Seven Last Plagues

Revelation 16: 16-21: Armageddon in Jacob’s Time of Trouble

Revelation 17:1-7: The Judgment of the Great Whore

Revelation 17: The Seven Heads

Revelation 17:8-18: The 7 Heads: 7 Popes or 7 Kingdoms?

Revelation 18:1-4: The Loud Cry

Revelation 18:4-24: The Fall Of Babylon

Revelation 19&20 - Marriage of the Lamb and the 1000 Years

Revelation Final Class: Our Prophetic Identity and Mission

All right, good morning everyone and happy Sabbath.

Just a brief reminder of how our class works.

If you have a question or a comment, I ask that you raise your hand so we can get you the microphone.

So for the sake of the recording, I ask that you wait for the microphone if possible.

And now let's go ahead and open up with a word of prayer and we'll get right into it.

So let's go ahead and bow our heads for a word of prayer.

Father in heaven we thank you for the Sabbath day we pray that you would be with us as we study Revelation chapter 7 and the 144, 000.

Give us deeper insight into these things.

Okay, well it's good to see all of you here again.

We're in Revelation chapter 7 and if you were here last week we covered Revelation chapter 6 which is the beginning of the 7 seals and Revelation chapter 6 takes us through the first 6 seals and Then the seventh seal is not so revelation chapter 8 verse 1 And we saw that the sequence of the seals chronologically, beginning with the sixth seal, you have the great earthquake, that's the Lisbon earthquake, 1755.

Then you have the dark day, that's May 19th, 1780.

Then you have the stars falling from heaven, that's 1833.

And then you have the second coming so we're in between the stars falling and the second coming so sometime between 1833 and the second coming of Christ and then when this the seventh seal is open We see that there's silence in heaven for half an hour That's about 7 and a half literal days So we believe that that's during the time of the Second Coming so in between the sixth and the seventh seal we have Revelation chapter 7 and this gives us an idea of why we are still here, why the second coming has not taken place.

And so we are going to get right into Revelation chapter 7 and if I could have a volunteer read Revelation chapter 7 verses 1 through 3.

So if someone would raise your hand and read Revelation 7 verses 1 through 3.

And after these things I saw 4 angels standing...

And if you could speak up because the microphone is just for the recording just so you know.

After these things I saw 4 angels standing at the 4 corners of the earth, holding the 4 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 4 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." Okay, so the first 3 verses we just read, and thank you for reading that, we see 4 angels holding the 4 winds, and we see, or, that, okay, well then the question is when will the 4 winds be released?

Now, based on our understanding of chronology, are God's servants sealed before or after the second coming?

So in other words, we're in between the sixth and the seventh seal, and until the servants of God are sealed, We are not going to see Jesus come.

So we have these 4 angels holding the 4 winds.

Now I want to point out something very interesting.

Here she says, I saw 4 angels who had a work to do on the earth and were on their way to accomplish it.

Jesus was clothed with priestly garments.

He gazed in pity on the remnant, then raised his hands and with a voice of deep pity cried, My blood, Father, my blood, my blood, my blood.

Then I saw an exceeding bright light come from God who sat upon the great white throne and was shed all about Jesus.

19 Then I saw an angel with a commission from Jesus swiftly flying to the 4 angels, who had a work to do on the earth, and waving something up and holding in his hand, and crying with a loud voice, hold, hold, hold, hold, until the servants of God are sealed in their foreheads.

I asked my accompanying angel the meaning of what I heard and what the 4 angels were about to do.

He said to me that it was God that restrained the powers and that he gave his angels charge over the things on the earth that the 4 angels had power from God to hold the 4 winds and that they were about to let them go but while their hands were loosening and the 4 winds were about to blow, the merciful eye of Jesus gazed on the remnant that were not sealed, and he raised his hands to the Father and pleaded with him that he had spilled his blood for them.

So the point of this passage is that over 100 years ago, shortly after 1844, the 4 angels were about to unloose, or they were about to loose these 4 winds, and Jesus looked at his remnant church and said, they're not ready to be sealed yet, let's hold the winds a little bit longer.

And so here we still are in 2008 164 years after 1844 and That passage was nearly fulfilled this passage here in in Revelation 7 was nearly fulfilled 160 years ago So keep that in mind that The the 4 winds will not be released until the servants are sealed in their foreheads.

Now notice verse 2, as we're going through this chapter, we see another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God.

Now, and he cried with a loud voice to the 4 angels to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea.

Now notice at some point in earth's history, you're going to have an angel coming from the east with a seal of the living God.

And when that happens, God's people are going to be sealed.

So we haven't, as far as we know, that point in time has not happened yet, but at some point you will have an angel coming from the east having the seal of the Living God.

Well first of all let's talk about the seal of the Living God.

I think most of you if I asked you, okay what's the seal of the living God, I'm pretty sure I know what you would say.

So let me ask you, what is our understanding, our biblical understanding of the seal of God?

Okay, here's some people saying it's the Sabbath.

Now, if someone comes up to you off the street and you tell them that the seal of God is the Sabbath, how are you going to prove that to them from the Bible?

I mean, it's a good answer, but we need to have a solid biblical way to prove that and show from the Bible that yes, the Sabbath indeed is the seal of the living God.

So in the interest of time, we're just going to go to a couple of verses.

The first verse we're going to go to is a verse that talks about what a seal is and it's Romans chapter 4 verse 11.

And some of you are probably familiar with this idea.

Romans chapter 4 is talking about Abraham, talking about the faith of Abraham.

And here we have an idea of what the seal of God or How the the word seal is used in Scripture Romans chapter 4 verse 11 if I could have a volunteer read Romans 4 11 Raja has her hand up.

So Romans 4 11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised, That he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised, that righteousness might be imputed unto them also.

Now, we're not going to get into a breakdown of Romans Chapter 4, it's a powerful chapter, but what we're specifically looking at is the word seal here in Romans 4, 11.

And is there another word in verse 11 that is a synonym or essentially identical to the word seal in Romans 4, verse 11?

So the word sign is synonymous with seal.

And I encourage you to study Romans 4, 11 later.

Now is there anywhere in scripture that the word sign is connected with the Sabbath?

So Ezekiel chapter 20 is the verse I was thinking of, and there's maybe some other verses, but for the interest of time we're just going to look at this 1 passage.

So if I could have a volunteer to read Ezekiel chapter 20 verses 12 and 20.

Someone raise their hand or I'll pick a volunteer.

Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths to be a sign between me and them that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them and hallow my Sabbaths and they shall be a sign between me and you that ye may know that I am the Lord your God.

Okay, so what is the sign that we are following God?

Furthermore, it's a sign that God is the 1 who sanctifies us.

So Remember from Romans 4 that seal and sign are used interchangeably.

And in Revelation chapter 7 we have an angel ascending from the east having the seal of the living God.

Remember the sixth seal sort of ends as far as we can tell.

The last thing that we see that we can identify is 1833 with the falling of the stars, but clearly then 1844 happened.

We see Revelation 11, 19, you go into the most holy place, there's the Ark of the Testament with the law of God, and of course with the law of God, you have the fourth commandment.

So, after, or during the time of the sixth seal, I should say, there would be a rediscovery of the Sabbath or the Sabbath message.

And God's last day remnant church discovered the Sabbath message.

And obviously we understand that that's going to be a major testing issue at the end of time, the true worship of God, Sabbath versus Sunday.

Now let me just throw out 1 other point and then we're going to move along here.

You may ask the question, why is the Sabbath the seal of God?

Well, in Desire of Ages, Ellen White says, in order for men to keep the Sabbath holy, they must themselves be holy.

So In other words, if you're partying all week long, smoking cigarettes, watching dirty TV programs, and then you show up to church on Sabbath and think that you're keeping the Sabbath because you're not watching those TV programs that you're looking forward to watching once the sun goes down, that's not Sabbath keeping.

And the Sabbath is a sign of a holy relationship between you and God that you have been sanctified and set apart for holy use.

That's why the Sabbath is the seal of God.

And Sunday, on the other hand, is man's day that says we can worship God the way we want and he'll still save us.

Now here's the other thing I want to focus on quickly here.

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Alistair Huong and Norman McNulty: The Book Of Revelation

The 144,000

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