The Seventh Seal Part 1: full transcript and answers

▶ 0:01 Today we’re going to talk about the long, long, an involved seventh seal. Here’s a little chart showing the seventh seal. We stopped at the sixth seal last week, but you can see here that there are seven seals, seven trumpets, and seven bowls, okay? But it’s all under what? The seventh seal. It’s all under what? The seventh seal, which is the full opening of the book, so it’s all under the book. Hallelujah. Now it says, and you can just follow along in your Bible, I’m going to be giving you a lot of scriptures this morning, starting in Revelations chapter 8,

▶ 1:01 verse 1: “The seventh seal was open, and there was silence in heaven for one half an hour.” Most of us have been silent all of our life, let alone a half an hour. God gives you one and a half an hour, and then He expects you to open up. “And trumpets were given to seven angels.” Okay, now we’ve got to remember, on the sixth seal, on the sixth seal, this is important, he said “the day of wrath has come.” All right, this is important. Remember that. Say that: “day of wrath.” Very important. I’m going to connect it to something. The Scriptures are going to connect it to something later. It’s going to really illuminate you, okay? Because a lot of you have been hearing TV and radio stuff on the second coming, and they have totally distracted you from the power of God in the church on

▶ 2:06 earth. All right. The scroll, the heavens are rolled up like a what? Scroll. That’s after the sun turned black and the moon turned to blood. The heavens rolled up like a scroll. Now, where are the moon and sun? In the heavens, right? So they’re gone. So this cannot be in sequence like they said, because the sun’s brought up later, and how can it be brought up when it’s gone? Are you there? Hallelujah. Now, the people hide from Him that’s sitting on the throne. Hiding from who? Him that’s sitting on the throne. Who’s on the throne? Jesus Christ, God Himself. He’s on the throne. His power speaks of His power, and people are hiding. The great men of the earth are hiding, the strong ones, you know, Buffet and all these, and Gates, and all these rich people, they’re

▶ 3:15 hiding from the One on the throne. So are they seeing the One on the throne? Yeah, there’s no what? Happened. They see the One on the throne, and they are hiding. Okay, okay, then the angel says we’ve got to have a delay: “Don’t let the four angels reserved to hurt the earth. Don’t do that yet.” We’ve got to do some things. Do you remember what they were? Number one, the martyrs, the people dying because they serve Jesus. Number two, saints sealed. Okay, the saints are sealed. And for those who say there’s 144,000 Jews going to be sealed, they’re going to be virgins, listen, I just read from one of the famous end-time people. They said there’s some Jews over in Israel that make a vow not to get married, and they’re going to be virgins, and they’re going to be converted during this tribulation period, and they’re going to evangelize the world. Folks, that is pure fantasy. That is just pure fantasy. See, when you say something, you try to reach out and bring answers for

▶ 4:28 it. Number one, God is going to do a lot more than 144,000 people, isn’t that right? I mean, He brought over two and a half million people out of Egypt. Surely He can do better than that in our generation, wouldn’t you say? An amen? And besides that, there’s two tribes missing. Which tribes are missing? Ephraim and Dan. Now, you think God’s mixed up up there? No, He’s not. He’s just trying to give an illustration of sealing the saints, and we do crazy things with it. Are you there? Aren’t you glad there’s more than 144,000 going to make it in? Hallelujah. Yes. Now, and then the third one was, I’ve got the infinity sign here, because I couldn’t take up room on my screen, an innumerable company of robed people, robed with righteousness by the blood of the Lamb. Now, let me ask you: is there any other way for us to get

▶ 5:35 righteous? No. We’re all given these white robes of righteousness because of the blood Jesus shed, and we believe and trust it and accept it. Now, folks, that’s not for 144,000. That’s for who? All of us. Come on, any kindergarten Christian can understand that there is no other way. It’s Him. Amen. Make sense? Yeah. And so there’s a delay because He hadn’t sealed all the people He wants to seal yet, and sealing is important because, and you’ll see that later, you’ll see why, you’ll see what happens because you’re sealed. Okay, and it says there’s no hunger, there’s no thirst, and there’s no tears, and there’s no [unclear]. Now, folks, that’s directly related to Revelation 21:1: “I saw a new heaven and a new earth, and the first heaven and earth were passed away, and there was no more sea. God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, and there will be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying, neither any more pain.” This is after Revelation 20, where there’s the resurrection, the great white throne judgment, the lake of fire, people being cast into it, and all the rest. This is after it, and it’s

▶ 7:06 right here at the sixth seal, so it cannot be in sequence. Do you understand that? Because if it was in sequence, it would be over right here, and it’s not. He has given us instruction of what things to come, the day of wrath, what’s going to happen in the day of wrath, just like the prophets did. Now, that’s good stuff. Are you getting it? Am I preaching over your head? All right, so that’s the simple little chart. Now, they say that Jesus is going to come like a thief in the night. Okay, and He’s going to come later at the end of this whole thing as a thief and in the night. Now, folks, they’re saying He’s

▶ 8:03 coming, people have disappeared, because they say the rapture is right here. There’s a little word up here that says “rapture.” See it? It says “rapture.” I know you can’t read it, but especially Mr. Barnes, because he won’t wear glasses. The second return is over here now, and then they tell me the second coming is as a thief in the night. Now, folks, you know, over half the people are dead. You know, you’ve got things falling out of the sky, you’ve got the heavens rolled back, you’ve got the graves open for this rapture thing, and you’ve got this antichrist superhuman being that’s in charge of the nations through the United Nations, they say. You’ve got an economic collapse of all the nations on the earth, everybody’s poor, there’s no jobs, nothing going on, economic collapse, they say, and then death is through war, hunger, beast, and death itself just dying. You’ve got all this stuff going on, and then they’re telling me He’s coming like a thief in the night. That would be like a thief coming to my

▶ 9:16 house. There’s a guy in my neighborhood’s got a little red bug, and that thing’s got a muffler on it, it’s loud. I’ll get out, I know when he leaves in the morning, I know when he comes home during the day, and I know when he comes home at night. That’s like a thief pulling up in front of my house, honking his horn, and then he gets out, and he shoots his gun in the air, bam, bam, bam. I’m going to sleep through that? And then he gets up on my roof, rings my doorbell, gets up on the roof, and takes my roof off, the heavens going to roll away, and I’m still sleeping? I don’t think so. Are you there? They tell them all this stuff, and then they say He’s going to come, nobody’s going to know it, because the Bible says a thief comes in an hour when what? You know not.

▶ 10:13 See, we know something’s up. Good grief, you have to be numb in your brain not to figure this thing out. It says in 1 Thessalonians 5:4, “Brethren, you’re not in darkness that that day should overtake you as a thief.” That day should what? Overtake you as a thief. Where are the people in that verse? Still on earth. “That day should not overtake you as a” what? Thief. The day of the Lord comes as a thief in the night. Where are the people of God still when Jesus comes? On earth. You see, we just read things in because we get an idea, and then we make the Scriptures try to work for us. And Jesus Himself said the thief comes at an hour that you what? Know not. Jesus Himself said, “As it was in the days of Noah, they’re buying, they’re selling, they’re marrying, they’re giving in marriage,” and all this stuff. In other words, what? Life is going on normal, and poof, Jesus comes. “Oh, there He

▶ 11:37 is.” But if all this stuff is coming up, and we’re leading up to a climactic thing, that ain’t no thief thing. Are you there? Hallelujah. Well, Lord, I’m doing my best. Open our eyes. Where’s the people in the house when Jesus said the thief comes in an hour you know not? Where are they at? In the house. And yet we want to take the church out, and then the thief comes, and all this stuff going on, and that’s not a thief. Are you with me? Okay. Hallelujah.

▶ 12:31 Now, here’s the part they leave out, every one of them. I read Chuck Smith, you know, all these people with their charts and all this stuff, they leave out this most important thing. I think there’s another angel. Okay, “another angel” comes. And this is after the seventh seal is open, and this angel stands at the altar, the altar of gold, and he has a golden censer, and he offers much incense before the throne. He says this incense, with the what? Prayers of the saints,

▶ 13:30 ascend. Anybody know what the word “ascend” means? Go up. So where are the saints? Below, on earth. Duh. Are you out there? Are you offering up prayers? Listen, our prayers go right up to God. Watch this, this is powerful. If you’re not a prayer, I trust today you will change your mind and find time to pray every day at home and come to church to pray, because this is what happens, the power of prayer. Okay, the prayers come up before God, they ascend to Him, then the censer is cast to earth. Okay, the prayers go up, and then what? What? God moves and touches the earth: voices, thunderings,

▶ 14:36 lightnings, and a quake, an earthquake, hit the earth. Now listen, this is what David said after he got victory over his enemies, Psalms 18, verse 6, and also in 2 Samuel: “In my distress I called upon the Lord. I cried unto my God. He heard my voice out of His temple, and my cry came before Him, even unto His ears.” Isn’t that

▶ 15:14 beautiful? Now listen, when his cry came before God, this is what God did. “Then the earth shook,” there’s that quake, “and trembled; the foundations of the hills moved and were shaken, because God was angry. There went up a smoke out of His nostrils, and fire out of His mouth that devoured; coals were kindled by it. The Lord thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave His voice, hailstones and coals of fire. Yea, He sent out His arrows and scattered them, my enemies, and He shot out lightnings and discomforted them.” Do you see the allegory? See, over there, our prayers went up, and then God what? Moved in the earth with lightnings and voices and shaking. And David told us, David didn’t see lightning bolts, he didn’t see hail coming down, he didn’t see fire, he saw his enemies

▶ 16:22 defeated, but that’s how God illustrated it. Amen. God said, as you pray, and when enough prayers get up there, I’m going to rise, smoke’s going to, I’m going to get mad. You think you’ve got a temper? Well, you stir up God’s temper, man. Smoke comes out of His nose, comes out of His ear, man. You mess with My people, I’m going to get you. Hallelujah. Do you get it? These theory people live this whole thing out. Why? Well, there’s nobody supposed to be down here, all the good folks are gone. But the prayer ascended, didn’t it? So it wouldn’t need to ascend if they were in heaven by Him with it, it’d go straight across. Folks, this Bible is a book of common sense. Think about it. It’s ascending because the prayers are going on where? On earth, because the people of God are still where? There’s no rapture yet, and there’s no word “rapture” in the Bible. They’re talking about 1 Thessalonians, where it says “we’re caught up.”

▶ 17:33 Okay. Hallelujah. Church, we’ve got to get serious about prayer at home and here, and I don’t care how feeble-minded you think you are and how weak you are. This verse says that if you will pray, it will come up to God, and God will come and defeat your enemies and His enemies and exalt His church in the earth. Can I hear an amen? He did it for David, and He’ll do it for who? You and I. See, we try to get out of our problems ourselves, but a little bit of prayer and a little bit of praise and worship will do wonders, I guarantee you. Prayer is very powerful. Amen. From this day forth, can we become a seriously praying church? Can we lift our voices and pray? Let me, let’s do it for one minute. Let’s lift up our voices and pray and just ask God to fulfill this. Father, we lift up our voices unto You right now, Lord. We’re not ashamed to come to You, come to Your throne. We’re not ashamed to stand before You, Lord. We’re not ashamed to let our prayers ascend into the heavenlies, Lord. We need our enemies defeated, Lord. We need our problems solved, and You are the One that defeats our enemies, and You are the One that solves our problems, and all You asked us to do, Lord Jesus, is to humble ourselves and pray and turn from our wicked ways, and Lord, that You will forgive us of our sins, and You’ll not only heal us, You’ll heal our land. And so, Lord, we pray this day that You move us to move America. You move us to move the nations. Lord, come with Your lightning bolts,

▶ 19:04 come with Your earthquakes, come, oh Lord, with Your hail and fire, Lord, and move in the earth, Lord, and subdue the enemies of God under His feet, Lord, and subdue our enemies under our feet. Lord, we’re going to pray. Lord Jesus, we’re going to pray like there’s no tomorrow. We’re going to worship like there’s no tomorrow. Lord, we’re going to be a changed people now, for we see in Your Word the power of prayer. You do hear, no matter how weak we are or how young we are in God, You hear our prayer, and You move on Your behalf. Thank You, Lord Jesus. And now that’s how you pray. That’s how Korea prays. That’s how Africa prays. They put us to shame. We won’t humble ourselves and lift our voice, kneel down before our God, raise our hands, and, you know, that’s simple things we can do.

▶ 20:02 Hallelujah. And don’t give me that stuff, “You’ve got to pray in your closet,” that means your attitude. We would never know, I just had to deal with this over the internet, we would never know Jesus’s prayers if He thought them. He prayed them out loud. We would never know the prayers of David and those prophets of old if they just thought them. They prayed them out loud. They were recorded. Amen. And we need to pray out loud. Why? Because we need to hear it. We’re the ones that need to hear it, not God. He knows already. You’re not telling Him anything new. You’re just telling Him, “Lord, I’m responding.” Amen. Hallelujah. And I guarantee you, church, if you begin to praise God like that and you begin to pray like that, when people come in, it just catches on. They just do it. But when you sit around and you talk and you giggle, like it’s going on at that little table right now, and distractions, then that’s what they

▶ 21:04 do. You say, “Well, I’m not in it today.” Then do the sacrifice. Grow up, you know. You’re not always walking on a cloud. You’re not always on fire inside. And so you do what? By faith. What do you think faith is? Faith is doing something because you don’t have it, but you know it’s there. Amen. You know it’s the right thing to do. The sacrifice of praise, are you with me, church? Next week, let’s just burn this mountain up with prayer and praise, and let’s watch God start expanding us and moving in people’s lives in [unclear]. And they leave this out. How many think this is an important part of the second coming? That’s all, just three of you, folks. Prayer is important. Now, how many of you believe prayer is important of the second coming? Yes, absolutely. Get away from this kindergarten, “Who is coming in the clouds like a thief? I’m going to be caught up out of this trouble.” I get grown up. We are here. “The gates of hell shall not prevail against” what? The church. We are here to conquer. Have you read your Bible? We are more than what? Conquerors and overcomers in this life. When? In this life. When? In this

▶ 22:20 life. Hallelujah. Praise God. Now we get the seventh trumpet. Now we get the seven trumpets. Number one, you can read this in Revelations 8:7: “The first angel sounded, and hail and fire mingled with blood was cast into the earth. One third of the trees and one third of the grass was burnt up.” There’s no time period given here at all. “A great fiery mountain” — the second trumpet — “was cast into the sea, and one third of the sea was turned to blood, and the sea creatures died, one third of them, and the ships were destroyed and sunk.” And it doesn’t say the people on them were destroyed. I don’t know why God didn’t tell us everything, and besides, I just believe He’s given us illustration of what’s going to take place before He comes. The burning wormwood star falls on earth. Here comes, now the stars are gone, supposedly, if you believe in the sequence, but here comes a star out of nowhere, fallen from something that’s not up there

▶ 23:36 anymore, and it’s called wormwood, and it’s bitter. And, you know, that 69% of the earth is salt water, correct? You know that 1.7% of the earth is fresh water, and you know that the rest, almost 30% of the earth, is land, because you went to school. Hallelujah. Now, it says it fell on the waters, the seas or the water, the fresh water. Up there’s the sea, that’s salt water, and then it falls on the fresh water, so that leaves about 1.2% fresh water left on earth. Okay, because one third of the fresh water is not working anymore. Now, folks, if we can live on 1.7% of fresh water, is it possible to live at 1.2% of fresh

▶ 24:40 water? Not that big a difference, is there? Hallelujah. But many people die. It doesn’t say how many, but I tell you, one third sure sounds like many to me. How about you? Many, and many, you usually means most, and so there’s a lot of people dying from this. One-third, one-half percent of the water, one-half of a percent of water being touched, and there’s no time periods for these events. You got that? No time periods. They fabricate these time periods. There’s no time period given.