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Advent HOPE Sabbath School

The Sealing

Tim Rumsey

The Sealing Part 2

The Sealing Part 1

Website that our ministry has been developing called SabbathRest.com.

And we understand that the Sabbath and Sunday issue is going to be the big thing at the end of time.

And so we've been developing this website to try to attract the attention of people that are concerned either about social issues or about environmental issues.

And at least at this point in our journey through Bible prophecy it seems like those are 2 of the big ways that the Sunday issue is going to come in.

These are just the size of glow tracks, but it explains the Seventh-day Sabbath, and then on the back it directs people to SabbathRest.com.

So if you'd like to take a few of those, we'll break apart these packs and you can grab a handful of those as well.

I got wiped out last night at the Romanian church where we were speaking, So I only have 1 stack left, but it says, is earth demanding a Sabbath rest?

And on the back it directs people to the same website, sabbathrest.com.

So if you'd like to grab a couple of those, we'll break this 1 apart as well.

And then finally, if you'd like to get on our mailing list, either email or physical mail, you can grab 1 of these cards.

You can fill out your information on the back and just leave that up here.

Or you can go to our website at pathwaytoperadise.org and just join the mailing list there.

I'm going to continue and finish our study on the seal of God, the sealing message, and we're going to take a journey through the book of Daniel, which I'm sure many of you have spent much time studying yourself, but we're going to kind of juice the entire book of Daniel, so to speak, and condense it down to a core message that hopefully we can take home with us.

But before we start, I'm going to kneel, I invite you to bow your heads where you're at, and let's pray together.

Heavenly Father, once again we thank you for the freedom that we have to gather together, to open your word, and to read and study.

We realize that through much of history and even today in many parts of the world, this simply would not be possible.

So we are grateful and we ask again for your Holy Spirit to guide and direct us as we open your word.

Now even though we're going to study the book of Daniel, let's start in the book of Revelation, chapter 6.

There are several places in the book of Revelation where the second coming is described.

1 of those is at the end of Revelation chapter 6.

And I will start reading from verse number 12, Revelation chapter 6 beginning in verse 12.

And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and lo, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, And the moon became as blood.

And the stars of heaven fell onto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs when she is shaken of a mighty wind.

And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together, and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.

And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man hid themselves in the dens, and in the rocks of the mountains." Verse 16 says, and they said to the mountains and rocks, fall on us and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb." Now we're gonna stop right there for just a moment.

How many of you have ever seen a lamb in person, right?

You go to the petting zoo and you see the goats, then you go to the next place you see the calves, and then you go and you see the chickens over here, and then you turn the corner and there's a lamb, and you stop in terror, right?

And then you run and you find a rock to hide under.

But we are told in the Bible that people will be running from the lamb at the second coming.

Now Jesus goes by several names in the book of Revelation.

1 of course is the lamb, but the other 1 is the lion of the tribe of Judah.

You're walking through the forest or the savanna and all of a sudden there's a lion in front of you.

I'd be the first 1, hopefully a few feet in front of you as we run away.

But it doesn't say they are running from the wrath of the lion, does it?

They are running from the wrath of the lamb.

Because if I run from Jesus when he returns, or if you are running from Jesus at the second coming, there's nobody else to blame except me or you.

Now verse 17, what do they say as they are running from the Lamb?

For the great day of His wrath has come, and who shall be able to what?

Stand." Important question, can you stand?

Will you be prepared to stand when Jesus comes back?

The Bible tells us that we should make sure we can stand lest we what?

But we want to make sure that we can stand.

Now the question actually is answered in the very next verses as we move into chapter 7.

Who is it that will be able to stand and that will not run from the Lamb?

After these things I saw 4 angels standing on the 4 corners of the earth holding the 4 winds of the earth that the wind should not blow on the earth nor on the sea nor on any tree 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 4 angels to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea saying hurt not the earth neither the sea nor the trees till we have sealed whom?" There's only a certain group of people that receives the seal of God, right?

And so if you're going to stand when the Lamb appears, you must first be a servant of God and then have received the seal of God.

If you have received the seal of God, if you are a servant of God, then you will be prepared to stand when Jesus comes back.

Now we're not going to study the seal from the book of Revelation, which is often where we study the seal from.

And we'll be here for the rest of our time.

We are told that the books of Daniel and Revelation should be studied together, aren't we?

Now what I want you to notice first about the book of Daniel, we're just going to flip through it quickly and look at some of the many times that we find the word stand, or at least the concept of standing in the book of Daniel.

So in Daniel chapter 1, we have the story of Daniel and his friends when they are first brought to Babylon, right?

And they are selected by King Nebuchadnezzar for a certain reason.

So let's look Daniel chapter 1 verse 3, the king spake unto Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs that he should bring certain of the children of Israel and of the king's seed and of the princes.

Probably the most intelligent is what he's looking for, those that are in good physical shape, those that are good looking, right?

They were well favored and skillful in all wisdom and cunning and knowledge and understanding science and such as had ability in them to what?

So Nebuchadnezzar picks Daniel and his friends because he thinks that they will be able to stand before whom?

Verse 5 says, the king appointed them a daily provision of the king's meat and of the wine which he drank, so nourishing them 3 years that at the end thereof they might stand before the king.

Verse 19, after they've passed this health test, verse 19 says, the king communed with them and among them all was found none like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.

There is this theme throughout the book of Daniel of standing or of falling.

So let's just keep looking through a few more chapters.

Daniel chapter 2, we touched on this this morning.

The wise men and Chaldeans cannot stand before King Nebuchadnezzar, right?

But Daniel and we, you know, maybe his friends were with him as he's explaining the dream, they stand in front of the king.

Now it's interesting, you look at the dream itself, right?

The metal image, head of gold, chest and arms of silver, belly and thighs of brass, legs of iron.

What happens to that image at the end of the dream?

Verse 44, and in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed and the kingdom shall not be left to other people but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall what?

It will stand forever." So the image falls and God's kingdom lasts forever.

Now, you know the story in Daniel chapter 3, right?

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