Can we go over the fourth seal? Not knowing will keep me up all night tryting to figure out what Holy Spirit is showing us at this time for a very important reason….
Little Person started to open up his mouth, but his words were not what he originally wanted to say…..
Little Person could not say no to her….. He said, we will go over the fourth seal… We are on a roll…. Just let your parents know or tell them to come on over…. Thank God that Peter and John do not mind us using this booth for a bible study….
He had not noticed all the booths and tables surrounding them were filled with eager ears and steaming cups of coffee. Peter and John were sitting in the booth behind him.
They smiled at Uri and put a finger to their lips to keep their presence quiet.
Uri smiled, Peter and John said to take our time here. Regarding my folks, they just want the study notes tomorrow for their own research. They are really excited on what they have as I sent them some notes on a picture from my phone on what we have been studying.
Little Person said, great…….. I have not really written them down concretely even for myself. All I have is my own crazy notes I have written in my notebook.
Uri said, I have….. I will print them off and drop them off tomorrow on the way to my class…..
Then she smirked, my boring class. Uri looked at Little Person and spoke, we have to finish the fourth seal before we leave today.
Little Person said, thanks for the notes…. Okay, text your folks and tell them to give me their thoughts and questions and if they disagree on anything.
Uri said, okay.
Her fingers were moving very quickly on her phone.
Uri looked up and said, they said thanks for the invite but they want to see my notes. They said you kids have a good time with our King and Holy Spirit. Just give us the intel Little Person received….They said to drive home safely too. They know our King presides over us and protects us.
They took a sip of their cream coffee and turned their attention to the scripture: Revelation 6:7-8
When He opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, “Come and see.”
So I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of
him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. And power was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death, and by the beasts of the earth.
This is an easy seal to interpret, I think. The fourth living creature face is an eagle… Divine life, eternal life…. Life that never ends given to us by Jesus Christ by faith in Him and what He has completed on the cross for us who believe.
In Him, we have been given divine life….But only as we believe and abide in Him and He in us is His life established in us as being members of His body…..
As written in John 5:16-27:
So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him.
In his defense Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.”
For this reason they tried all the more to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
Jesus gave them this answer: “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.
For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, and he will show him even greater works than these, so that you will be amazed.
For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it.
Moreover, the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son,that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father, who sent him.
“Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life.
Very truly I tell you, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live.
For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself.
And he has given him authority to judge because he is the Son of Man.
And also written in 1 John 5: 6-12:
This is the one who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ. He did not come by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.
For there are three that testify: the[a] Spirit, the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement.
We accept human testimony, but God’s testimony is greater because it is the testimony of God, which he has given about his Son.
Whoever believes in the Son of God accepts this testimony. Whoever does not believe God has made him out to be a liar, because they have not believed the testimony God has given about his Son.
And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.
I always want to clarify eternal existence because all souls will have eternal existence. Do you know what I mean?
Eternal life is with our King and God Almighty in Their Presence and the other is eternal death in the lake of fire where there is torment and gnashing of teeth forever also.
Again, the divine life is found only by residing or resting in the Son of God in faith and by the power of Holy Spirit and the proof from us is as written in 2 Peter that we just went over…. But there is more:
Revelation 12:11: And they overcame and conquered him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, for they did not love their life and renounce their faith even when faced with death.
This scripture is shown of those who lost their lives for the Testimony of Jesus Christ. The saints are revealed in the next- the fifth seal.
So we can see there is divine life that is given to us as we believe in Christ Jesus, we escape the second death as is written in the letter to the second church of Smyrna, willing to lay down their lives and will escape the second death. See the scripture in Revelation 2:8-11:
To the angel of the church in Smyrna write:
These are the words of him who is the First and the Last, who died and came to life again.
I know your afflictions and your poverty—yet you are rich! I know about the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. I tell you, the devil will put some of you in prison to test you, and you will suffer persecution for ten days. Be faithful, even to the point of death, and I will give you life as your victor’s crown.
Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who is victorious will not be hurt at all by the second death.
So we do know that there is for certain a second death…. Second death for the ungodly and resurrection for the righteous found in Him.
By the way, the four seals were revealed by the four living creatures representing the four gospels. This fourth seal is the last seal where the announcement comes from the living creatures revealing the seals broken.
These, I believe, seals explain the Revelation of Jesus Christ through the Gospels for those who are in Him and those who choose not to believe through out every generation.
The life eternal versus death for corruption. Freedom from our sin nature because of His work on the cross and His resurrection is revealed only in the eternalife we have found and is found only IN Christ Jesus for us.
But there is more to His life than what the norm of churches are preaching…. I think they have brought down to the earth a very low level of what has been given to us by the resurrection of Jesus Christ and His greatness that sits at the right hand of Jesus Christ……
The power that is exceedlingly working through us who believe is greater than we can ever think or imagine…. It is sort of exploring outerspace, they knew there was more to be explored, and they did. If God allowed men to orbit space and land on the moon, He will certainly reveal more of His Son to us, who want to venture into His Land of the Unknown, known as our King Jesus Christ.
I think unbelief runs rapid through Christianity of His reign. Since people have not searched Him out and do not have a solid relationship and trust in the Son of God, they have allowed His “I do not know you” mean I will not.
Instead of people searching out who He is in a deeper way and know Him, they have brought reproach to His name and His place in the Almighty God….. You and I both know how when we call on His name and seek Him, He answers and does what He says He does….He is always talking, but we must be given His ears to hear and His eyes to see what is given to us by His Spirit today and for the morrow, too!
I think of unlimited possibility of the life of God residing in us by Jesus Christ. He is a power of divine life beyond our imagination…..His life is of Him and not in of ourselves. If we can ask to understand all that His life in us means… I mean, WOW!….
The power of His Word, the Son of God, living within us being active as we abide and believe what He says He means. What He is doing this day within His believers is neverending. Now when we choose to lay down all for Him and gain Him… I mean think of this, we gain Him….
The neverending governing Factor of this universe and Ruler and Judge of all, we are His body. Think of it, He is alive in us, governing us with all He is. The Word of His power as written in Hebrews is very alive and active within us and around us. His government will always increase meaning so does this universe.
The revelation of Jesus Christ in us and us in Him is endless. After all, we are His body, the greatest King that ever will be and ever was.
His Christ within us is our only hope of glory as written in Colossians 1:26. Sometimes I sense He is saying to us, you have tasted a nibble of all I AM has prepared for you….. Come in to Me and gain My increase of I AM.
They both stopped to contemplate that statement for a while….. Seeing the snowflake fall onto the exact place it was meant to from His loving hands.
Then they were given more coffee which they paused to add their quart of cream. Little Person continued:
Okay, let’s move on to the judgment day of our God as revealed to us in Revelation 20:7-15:
And when the thousand years are completed, Satan will be released from his prison (the abyss), and will come out to deceive and mislead the nations which are in the four corners of the earth—[including] Gog and Magog—to gather them together for the war; their number is like the sand of the seashore.
And they swarmed up over the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints (God’s people) and the beloved city []Jerusalem]; but fire came down from heaven and consumed them.
And the devil who had deceived them was hurled into the lake of fire and burning brimstone (sulfur), where the beast (Antichrist) and false prophet are also; and they will be tormented day and night, forever and ever.
And I saw a great white throne and Him who was seated upon it, from whose presence earth and heaven fled away, and no place was found for them [for this heaven and earth are passing away].
And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened.
Then another book was opened, which is the Book of Life; and the dead were judged according to what they had done as written in the books [that is, everything done while on earth].
And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, and death and Hades (the realm of the dead) surrendered the dead who were in them; and they were judged and sentenced, every one according to their deeds.
Then death and Hades [the realm of the dead] were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire [the eternal separation from God].
And if [c]anyone’s name was not found [d]written in the Book of Life, he was hurled into the lake of fire.
So now we see there is a Book of Life written out and those whose names that are kept in that book move on to Eternal Life with our King and God Almighty….
We thank Him every day and there will be no dry eye or pride resounding…. We know that day when we stand before Him,…. we are there and were kept through all our days by Him alone…. It is all because of Him and not of us….He is the worthy One and we are the gratefuls ones to see His smile…. The great King of the universe, will be welcoming us into His realm, finally visible with our eyes, with the Ancient of Days.
All glory will be given to our God. I can almost hear the choir of voices in heaven giving the praise and exaltation to Him…. and our God.
Now as await His Day, we bow our knee and give all our praise to the King!
Now we can sit here in peace and rest in the knowledge of our King. We give praise to God for giving us His grace to know His Son and His Truth which has made us free, free indeed.
We have as a seal of our inheritance with our God for the next age as written in Ephesians 1:4-14:
For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight.
In love he[b] predestined us for adoption to sonship[c] through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will—
to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves.
In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s gracethat he lavished on us.
With all wisdom and understanding, he[d] made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, to be put into effect when the times reach their fulfillment—to bring unity to all things in heaven and on earth under Christ.
In him we were also chosen,[e] having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will, in order that we, who were the first to put our hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory.
And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation.
When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession to the praise of his glory.
We also know that our King who has triumphed over sin and death as our Champion, has the keys of Hades and of death as written in Revelation1. Let’s start at verse 13 and finish the chapter with verse 20:
and in the midst of the lampstands I saw someone [a]like the Son of Man, dressed in a robe reaching to His feet, and with a golden sash wrapped around His chest.
His head and His hair were white like white wool, [glistening white] like snow; and His [all-seeing] eyes were [flashing] like a flame of fire [piercing into my being].
His feet were like burnished [white-hot] bronze, refined in a furnace, and His voice was [powerful] like the sound of many waters.
In His right hand He held seven stars, and from His mouth came a sharp two-edged sword [of judgment]; and His face [reflecting His majesty and the [b]Shekinah glory] was like the sun shining in [all] its power [at midday].
When I saw Him, I fell at His feet as though dead. And He placed His right hand on me and said, “Do not be afraid; I am the First and the Last [absolute Deity, the Son of God], and the Ever-living One [living in and beyond all time and space].
I died, but see, I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of [absolute control and victory over] death and of Hades (the realm of the dead).
So write the things which you have seen [in the vision], and the thing which are [now happening], and the things ]which will take place after these things.
As for the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in My right hand, and the seven golden lampstands: the seven stars are the angels ([f]divine messengers) of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.
Our Champion has the keys of our enemy death and Hades….. All balances are weighed in His hand and by His fiery eyes. He has the keys of His life and Death and Hades.
Remember the warning He spoke to us about in Matthew 10:28?:
Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
We must be filled with our King and be known by Him…. Not found wanting or lacking Him…. I want to be found not having my own righteousness but His alone….
Our God’s kingdom is not to be confused with a higher retirement plan after our retirement plan has expired on this earth. He is not to be taken as a very convenient realm to expire to after our days are fulfilled on this earth.
If we do not pass His test on knowing His Son and His Son knowing us in that day. We will not pass go into the kingdom of our God….
The test is the humility we find at His bloody cross. The grace bestowed on us to
see Him and understand the cross of His sacrifice for you and me. Then we bow our knee
and crown Him: our Savior, Lord and King.
It is this simple….
Bow and kiss His Son,
His Son knows you?
Wearing His garments of choice and being filled with His seal of redemption of Holy Spirit are all His entry requirements for eternal Life…..
Be the member He has called you to be in His body.
After all, He holds all the keys…
He wrote the script by His blood.
He has all the rights for this is His Kingdom…..
The earth dwellers might have kicked Him out, but the earth is still His.
Our Lord God and King reigns.
We must watch and see who we are aligned with Death or Eternal Life…..
Our King has won the Highest Court and is reigning today.
He is the Only Door to walk through….
But it is a bloody path to His cross first…
There He will meet you in your repentence and His grace…..
Heart full of remorse and ready to be filled with His Spirit…..
This is the only way for those who are truly sorry and repentive of their breach from the God who loves them enough to create them and then come and redeem them.
When you say Rabbi? He turns and says to you, Come and see!
Now we come to the number four as this is the fourth horse and their riders who were given authority over the earth to kill one fourth of the earth by four means: sword, hunger, death and the beasts of the earth….Rider is death and eternal destruction pointing to Hades follows him.
So let’s start here on this……..
Little Person’s voice kept going like one who was a voice in the wilderness making straight the way of the Lord.
All hear the voice crying in the wilderness who is making straight the way of the Lord.
May they hear the voice and turn and see the lampstands with the Great King in their midst.
Then as the story comes to a close for the next door to open….. Hear the multitude shout and praise
the One who was and is in their midst and never left them and carryed them through all their days.
These multitude who see their God’s face and justice reign for He has fought their battle all their days.
The voice turned into multitudes praising and crying our: Alleluia to the King and our God.
As written in Revelation 19:
After this I heard what sounded like the roar of a great multitude in heaven shouting:
“Hallelujah!
Salvation and glory and power belong to our God,
for true and just are his judgments.
He has condemned the great prostitute
who corrupted the earth by her adulteries.
He has avenged on her the blood of his servants.”
And again they shouted:
“Hallelujah!
The smoke from her goes up for ever and ever.”
The twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God, who was seated on the throne. And they cried:
“Amen, Hallelujah!”
Then a voice came from the throne, saying:
“Praise our God,
all you his servants,
you who fear him,
both great and small!”
Then I heard what sounded like a great multitude, like the roar of rushing waters and like loud peals of thunder, shouting:
“Hallelujah!
For our Lord God Almighty reigns.
Let us rejoice and be gladand give him glory!
For the wedding of the Lamb has come,
and his bride has made herself ready.
Fine linen, bright and clean,
was given her to wear.”
(Fine linen stands for the righteous acts of God’s holy people.)
Then the angel said to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb!” And he added, “These are the true words of God.”
At this I fell at his feet to worship him. But he said to me, “Don’t do that! I am a fellow servant with you and with your brothers and sisters who hold to the testimony of Jesus.
Worship God!
For it is the Spirit of prophecy who bears testimony to Jesus.”
I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and wages war.
His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself.
He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. 14 The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean.
Coming out of his mouth is a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. “He will rule them with an iron scepter.”[a] He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty. On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written:
king of kings and lord of lords.
And I saw an angel standing in the sun, who cried in a loud voice to all the birds flying in midair, “Come, gather together for the great supper of God, so that you may eat the flesh of kings, generals, and the mighty, of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all people, free and slave, great and small.”
Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to wage war against the rider on the horse and his army.
But the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who had performed the signs on its behalf. With these signs he had deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped its image.
The two of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur. The rest were killed with the sword coming out of the mouth of the rider on the horse, and all the birds gorged themselves on their flesh.
More to come…. one the fourth seal….God is surely willing!
SELAH!
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