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Amazing Facts

Doug Batchelor

144,000 & The Seal of God, Pt. 2

This presentation is brought to you by the Friends of the Amazing Facts Ministry.

If you've ever been to Arlington National Cemetery, you have probably seen a sharp-looking sentinel guarding the tomb of the unknown soldier.

Every detail of this honor guard service is flawlessly executed and it's filled with symbolism too.

Only a fraction of soldiers who try out for this position are accepted.

Candidates must meet strict qualifications and pass both written and proficiency tests.

Those who make the cut are held to a very high standard.

The guards, which are changed every 30 minutes in the summer and every hour in the winter, have been patrolling the tomb 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, continuously, since April 6, 1948, in all kinds of weather, including hurricanes.

For them, guarding the tomb is not just an assignment, it's the highest honor a service person can receive.

Did you know the Bible teaches that God has a memorial to be remembered in His Word?

It's found in the fourth commandment and it memorializes God's creative and sanctifying power honoring Him as our creator and redeemer.

Let's take a few minutes now and explore from the Bible this memorial found in God's word.

Tonight our presentation is going to be dealing with the subject of the 144, 000 in the seal of God.

Let's start with the 144, 000 in chapter 7 of Revelation and you can begin with verse 1, chapter 7 verse 1.

After these things, I saw 4 angels holding the 4 winds of the earth that the wind should not blow on the earth or the sea or any tree until something happens, it's going to blow eventually.

They're kind of summarized in the 7 last plagues.

And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God.

And he cried with a loud voice saying, Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees till we have sealed the servants of our God on their forehead.

And sort of with that as an introduction, let's go through some of our questions now that talk about the 144, 000 and the seal of God.

First question, so what is the seal of God?

It says there in Ephesians 4.30, Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God wherewith you are sealed for the day of redemption.

There's a seal of the Holy Spirit that happens inside, but there's something that is more tangible than that that can be seen in the life, and you'll find that in this verse, Isaiah 8, 16.

Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

So the law of God in a sense is the seal.

I'll take my law and write it in their hearts.

But we're going to go a step deeper to find out what is that seal in the law.

Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.

6 days you should labor and do your work, all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God, in it you shall not do any work.

You or your son or your daughter, your male servant or your female servant, nor your cattle or the stranger who is within your gates.

For in 6 days the Lord, Jehovah, His name, created, made, His office, He's the creator and sustainer, the heaven and the earth and the sea.

There you have the name of God, the title of God, the territory of God in the middle of the law of God is this seal.

And what we're going to be talking about now is the Sabbath commandment and why it is an important issue in the last days, because it talks about resting in the Lord.

It talks about having a relationship, It talks about having the Father's name.

Is the Father's name in that commandment?

Jehovah, the Lord made the heaven and earth and sea and all that is them and He rested the seventh day, therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and He howled at it.

God when He created the world, He created and sanctified a quality time to nurture our relationship with Him, and if you love God, if you know God, you'll love Him, if you love Him, you'll obey Him.

The devil is trying to destroy the quality time and the love relationship between people and God, and he is especially attacking the Sabbath.

Did God make the Sabbath only for Israelites?

Jesus said, Mark 2, 27, he said unto them, The Sabbath was made for Jews.

And well, you can spell Jews several different ways.

That word there is talking about Anthropos.

Everybody, humanity, The Sabbath was made for man, mankind.

Quick test, how many here are related to Adam and Eve?

Bible's really clear, it's for everybody.

Also the sons of the stranger that join themselves to the Lord to serve Him and to love the name of the Lord, to be His servants, everyone, the stranger, the Gentile, that keeps the Sabbath day from polluting it and takes hold of my covenant, even them I'll bring to my holy mountain and make them joyful in my house of prayer." What does He promise to everybody that remembers His commandment?

He didn't curse the day, he blessed the day, right?

So when did God establish the Sabbath truth?

Way back in the beginning in the Garden of Eden after God made everything in 6 days.

Do you know there's 7 days in the week when we went to China?

And they're technically an atheistic country.

Karen and I went to Russia right after the Iron Curtain fell.

7 days of the week in Korea, Japan, everywhere we've been.

It's really strange when you think about it.

It's understandable why all the nations of the world, even before the spread of modern civilization, had 360 to 370 days in their calendar for a year.

Because that's, they could see, they could observe, that's how long it took for the earth to go once around the sun.

So it shouldn't surprise us that all the ancient civilizations had a year with about the same number of days.

Shouldn't surprise us that they all had something like a month because it's the lunar cycle.

That's where you get the word month, moon.

And we all know it takes 24 hours for the earth to revolve once on its axis.

But where in the sun, moon and stars do you get a 7 day week?

The only place that the world can trace a 7 day week, is to in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

He finished everything in 6 days, why do we have 7?

He said, I'm not done yet, you're not gonna enjoy anything I made in these 6 days, unless you remember the seventh, because you need to rest with me and to recharge your relationship to go forth and do what I've created to enjoy your paradise, it's part of God's perfect plan.

He made a day to nurture our love relationships with Him.

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished and all the host of them.

And God blessed the seventh day, and He sanctified it, because in it He had rested from all His work, which He had created and made." Notice there's several things that he did there.

And this is where some people are surprised.

The Bible says, and notice back in creation, I'm repeating that verse here in Genesis 2, and I want to accentuate something.

And on the seventh day, God ended his work, which he had made, and he rested on the seventh day from all of his work, which he had made, and it says that God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it.

First time in the Bible God says something like this a number 3 times, what number is it?

Now, you may think this is just caveman theology, but for me, I think it's very interesting that there in the beginning in Genesis, God says 777, you get to the last book in the Bible and it says you don't want the 666.

It's like 1 is the number of God, 6 in the Bible is the number of man.

King Nebuchadnezzar makes a golden image, 60 cubits by 6 cubits.

Probably 6 wide, 6 deep, 60 high, 666 tells everyone bow down.

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