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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 reminder for our class that if you have a question or a comment or if you're going to read 1 of our verses, we ask that you wait for the microphone and we will get the microphone to you so you can answer your or make a comment and ask a question or read a Bible verse.

At this time let's go ahead and have a word of prayer and then we are going to get started with our class.

Father in heaven we thank you for this Sabbath day.

We thank you that we can study from your word.

We pray that your spirit would be with us now as we open up Revelation chapter 8.

We thank you for this privilege that we have and be with us in a special way in Jesus name Amen.

Okay so last week we studied Revelation chapter 7 and the 144, 000.

I received some emails and some comments about the study, for those of you who are listening on Audioverse, And just a couple of additional points that I will make about the 144, 000.

We were talking about the difference between the 144, 000 and the great multitude last week.

The most important thing about the 144, 000 is that God has called us as a remnant people to be part of the 144, 000.

And also it's important to keep in mind there is a comment on the website about are the feasts part of the seal of God in addition to the Sabbath?

The Bible and the Spirit of Prophecy make it very clear that the ceremonial law, which the feasts were a part of, were done away with at the cross.

And it's only the seventh-day Sabbath that is a testing issue at the end of time.

So I'll just make those 2 comments and then we're gonna move into Revelation chapter 8.

Now, primarily we are going to be getting into the 7 trumpets today but Revelation chapter 8 verse 1 is actually the seventh seal and there's 7 seals so we do need to tie up the seals very quickly.

Revelation chapter 8 verse 1 says, and when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.

Okay, so we went through the first 6 seals and the sixth seal we saw was ending in Revelation chapter 6 and there was this question, the great day of his wrath has come and who shall be able to stand.

We read in Psalms chapter 24 that he who has clean hands and a pure heart shall be able to stand.

Now I want to step back for just a second and take a look again at the big picture of Revelation.

You have the 7 churches, the 7 seals, and the 7 trumpets.

And if you remember from Revelation chapter 1, Jesus had 3 titles in Revelation chapter 1.

He is the faithful witness, he's the first begotten of the dead, and he's the prince of the kings of the earth.

Faithful witness, first begotten of the dead, prince of the kings of the earth.

Well, Jesus is the faithful witness to the 7 churches, and to the Laodicean church especially, he's the faithful and the true witness.

So he serves as the faithful witness to the 7 churches, but most especially in the seventh church, he serves the role as the faithful and true witness.

And then in the 7 seals, he's the first begotten of the dead, and in the 7 trumpets he's the prince of the kings of the earth.

Now, why is he the first begotten of the dead and the 7 seals.

In the 7 seals, we see the persecution of the saints and that many of the saints are slain for the word of God and the testimony in which they hold.

So, And at the beginning of the seals, we see a lamb as it had been slain.

So there's this promise here that Jesus is the lamb who was slain, but he was resurrected.

And then you have this history of the Christian Church where there's all these martyrs for the faith, for the Word of God, and for the testimony in which they hold.

And then the question is, so how is Jesus most especially serving in the function of first begotten of the dead and the seventh seal as he was the faithful and true witness in the seventh trumpet to fulfill his title.

Well in Revelation chapter 8 verse 1 I'm going to read a little quote from Word to the Little Flock and Ellen White addresses the concept of Revelation chapter 8 verse 1.

So this is Word to the Little Flock pages 14 and 15.

And Ellen White is talking about the second coming.

She says, Soon our eyes were drawn to the east, for a small black cloud had appeared, about half as large as a man's hand, which we all knew was the sign of the Son of Man." And she's quoting Matthew 24, 30.

And then she jumps down to his appearance.

She says, "'His eyes were as a flame of fire, Revelation 1.14, which searched his children through and through.

Then all faces gathered paleness, and those that God had rejected gathered blackness.

Then we all cried out, who shall be able to stand?" That's Revelation 6 17.

Then the angel ceased to sing and there was some time of awful silence.

And then she puts Revelation 8 verse 1 in brackets, which says there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.

And then she says, When Jesus spoke after that time of silence, those who have clean hands and a pure heart shall be able to stand.

So remember a couple of weeks ago we showed that the question is who shall be able to stand and Psalms 24 talks about those who have clean hands and a pure heart will be able to stand in that day.

And then after Jesus says those who have clean hands and a pure heart "'shall be able to stand, ' she goes on to say, "'He gazed on the graves of the sleeping saints, "'then raised his eyes and hands to heaven and cried out, "'Awake, awake, awake, "'ye that sleep in the dust and arise.

Then there was a mighty earthquake, the graves opened and the dead came up clothed with immortality." So in the seventh seal we have the resurrection.

So Jesus is the faithful and true witness in the seventh trumpet, he's the first begotten of the dead, and he resurrects those who have died in the Lord in the seventh seal.

So we see Jesus fulfilling his titles, especially in the seventh church, in the seventh seal, and then we'll see him fulfill his title as King of Kings and Lord of Lords in the seventh trumpet, where it says, the kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.

So here we have the seventh seal, there's silence in heaven for about half an hour, and traditionally Adventists have believed that this silence in heaven for about half an hour is the time in heaven in which it is silent when Jesus comes to this earth and takes us back to heaven.

Prophetically speaking, half an hour is literally 7.5 days.

And it says here about half an hour, so you know, half an hour is 7.5.

Now, what I am saying though, based on the quote that I read, I also believe that part of the silence, in addition to the 7 days, is the time in which there's this period of awful silence where the question is who shall be able to stand.

Everyone sees Jesus coming in his glory and everyone asks themselves the question who shall be able to stand.

There's a period of awful silence and then Jesus says, he who has clean hands and a pure heart shall be able to stand.

We don't know how long that period of awful silence will last and then we're told, Ellen White tells us, that it's 7 days from when we leave planet Earth, we start ascending towards heaven, we are translated, then it's 7 days from earth to heaven.

And so now we've had the 7 churches, we've had the 7 seals, and as a reminder, in the seventh church Jesus is the faithful and true witness pointing out to the Laodicean church their true condition, which is a wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked condition, trying to get them to repent so that they can overcome as Jesus overcame, and we're left with the question hanging, this is how God's church is at the end?

Then we go to the 7 seals and we see that out of God's last day church during the time of the sixth seal just before Jesus comes in the time of the seventh seal that the 144, 000 come out of God's Laodicean judgment-hour Church.

And the key for us is to be among that number.

That is the calling that God has given to each 1 of us.

When he raised up this movement, he raised us up to be part of the 144, 000.

Then we get to the seventh seal, we see that that's the time of the second coming when Jesus raises all those who died in the first 6 seals who were martyrs for their faith, he raises them up and just as he was the Lamb that was slain and was the first begotten of the dead when he was resurrected, He has power to resurrect those who died.

So that's Revelation chapter 8, verse 1, the seventh seal, the silence in heaven for about half an hour.

Now I'm looking forward to that half an hour.

I'm looking forward to the time when we get to travel that 7 days from earth to heaven.

That's going to be a very interesting time.

Okay, now we are going to transition to the 7 trumpets.

Now if you look at the history and the chronology, and, Dwayne, you pointed this out in 1 of our classes a couple of weeks ago.

If you do the chronology and line up the 7 churches, the 7 seals, and the 7 trumpets, you see that there's a parallel chronology with all 3 sevens.

Now it's not 100% absolutely precise, but it's very close, and you can see, so what I'm saying is, like, the first trumpet doesn't line up with the first church exactly and all that.

But you see very nicely chronology that takes you from the early Christian church all the way to 1844 and the Second Coming in each of the sevens.

And So now we're going to shift from the seals to the trumpets.

Now the 7 churches gave us a history of the churches as God saw it.

The 7 seals gave us a picture of the Christian church through the eyes of history.

And the 7 trumpets give us a picture of the political strife that existed on this earth during this period of time.

And also, the 7 trumpets are a judgment of God on Rome.

You have the 7 churches and the seventh church Laodicea is the church of the judgment.

In the 7 seals you clearly see in the fifth seal that God will at some point judge and avenge his saints for their blood that has been shed by pagan and papal Rome, and immediately following the seals, then we see that God in fact does judge Rome for slaying his people.

And he judges Rome in the order in which they persecuted the Saints.

So you start off with a judgment of Western Rome, then you have a judgment on Eastern Rome, and then finally a judgment on papal Rome.

So chapter 8 is the first 4 trumpets and I anticipate that we are only going to get through chapter 8 today, but the first 4 trumpets in chapter 8 are a judgment on Western Rome and when we get to the end of chapter 8, we reach 476 AD and the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

And then Revelation 9 is the fifth and sixth trumpets.

That's a judgment on the Eastern Roman Empire.

And then Revelation 11, 14 and 15 is when the seventh trumpet begins to sound, that's a judgment on spiritual Rome, that began on October 22, 1844.

So what we're going to do now is we're going to set the stage for the 7 trumpets, and I would like a volunteer to read Revelation chapter 8 verses 2 through 5.

So if someone could raise their hand and if you could read Revelation chapter 8 verses 2 through 5.

Revelation chapter 8 verses 2 through 5 and speak up so everyone can hear you.

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