Unfulfilled Prophecies & Events Yet to Come
 
XVI.  SEAL # 7 = THE WRATH OF GOD! There are several things that we can SEE about the "wrath of God."

THE SEVENTH SEAL is the WRATH OF GOD! The saints of GOD do not experience this! But they do go through the great tribulation period until Jesus returns the 2nd time.

1 Thessalonians 5:9-10
For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, 10Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. (KJV)

  1. The 144,000 are sealed first.
         
  1. All of the saved have been resurrected and are seen as a number that no man can number. These were resurrected after the great tribulation.

Revelation 7:14
And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

(Note what Jesus said,

Matthew 24:29-31
Immediately after
the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: 30And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 31And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. (KJV)

1 Corinthians 15:51-54
Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

= NO MORE death–NO MORE resurrection!

1 Thessalonians 4:16-17
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

(This passage is the answer to the question about the bodily dead who were saved and the saved one who are alive! It has nothing to do with a so called "secret rapture!" It simply states that those who are saved and living will not precede or go before (= KJV "prevent") those saved who have died, BUT that those who have died will be resurrected FIRSTLY (an adverb telling "when") and THEN, SECONDLY, the living shall be changed (according to 1 Cor. 15:51) and BOTH will be caught up together to meet the Lord Jesus in the clouds.

  1. The SEVENTH SEAL IS NOT opened until Rev. 8:1, and then there is a half-hour of silence before any wrath begins to be poured out.

Revelation 8:1
And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. (KJV)

  1. The seventh seal contains seven angels & seven trumpets.
         
  2. Each of these angels are to "SOUND" = salpizo {sal-pid’-zo} = to make reverberations.
         
  3. At the conclusion of the sixth angel sounding and before the seventh angel sounds, "TIME" (Greek = chronos) = as measured by an evening & a morning. (NOT meaning a delay) ----- "time" is no longer. There could be NO TIME because all of the heavenly bodies are changed.----

Matthew 24:29
Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: (KJV)

  1. Just as the seventh angel begins to sound, the MYSTERY OF GOD is finished.

Revelation 10:7
But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.

  1. The book of Revelation is not written in chronological order. It is more like a bicycle wheel of spokes, all starting in different places, but all coming to the central hub.
         
  2. Almighty God does NOT reveal ALL to us.

Daniel 12:8-9
And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things? 9And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. (KJV)

Revelation 10:4
And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not. (KJV)

Mark 13:31-33
Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away. 32But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father. 33Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is. (KJV)

 

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