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Transcript of Chapter Six THE REVELATION. REVELATION 6: JESUS OPENS THE FIRST SIX SEALS Verse 1 only the Lamb is...
Chapter Six
THE REVELATION
REVELATION 6: JESUS OPENS THE FIRST SIX SEALS
• Verse 1 only the Lamb is worthy to open the seals.
• four living creatures = executors of God’s judgment
• thunder = judgment
REVELATION 6: JESUS OPENS THE FIRST SIX SEALS
• Verse 2 Christ (19:11) opens the whole affair so it doesn’t matter what follows.
• white horse = victory, heavenly mission
• crown = victory
• conquering (cf. Romans 8:37) (i.e. the going forth of Christ in the gospel)
REVELATION 6: JESUS OPENS THE FIRST SIX SEALS
• Verses 3-4 the persecution of the saints from the conflict with the world
• fiery red = war, bloodshed
REVELATION 6: JESUS OPENS THE FIRST SIX SEALS
• Verses 5-6 famine and economic hardship
• black horse = evil
• scales = to weigh food (cf. Eze. 4:10, 16)
• denarius = a day’s wages
• not harm oil and wine = famine not extreme
• Discrimination in labor and business added to the suffering of God’s people.
REVELATION 6: JESUS OPENS THE FIRST SIX SEALS
• Verses 7-8 judgments upon society because it rejected the truth
• pale horse = death, ghoulish, yellow-green, sick
• death and Hades = defeated enemies in Revelation
• fourth of earth = not final, complete judgment
• sword = war
• hunger=famine
• death= pestilence
• beasts= wild
REVELATION 6: JESUS OPENS THE FIRST SIX SEALS
• Verse 9 martyrs of truth (cf. Rev. 12:11; 20:4)
• Verse 10 no spite but justice (cf. 2 Tim 4:14; Gen 4:10)
• Verse 11 (cf. Rev. 14:13)
• Death is not the end; vindication will come according to God’s plan, timing, way (cf. Daniel 11:36, 45).
REVELATION 6: JESUS OPENS THE FIRST SIX SEALS
• Verses 12-17 the wrath of the Lamb, judgment on the world of the ungodly
• This is not the end of time. Judgment on the enemy is seen as a dismantling of their world (cf. 2 Pet 2:5; Isa. 13:1, 10, 13; 34:4-6; Eze. 26:15, 18; 27:35; Jer. 4:23-25; Joel 2:31; Mat 24:29-31).
REVELATION 6: JESUS OPENS THE FIRST SIX SEALS
• Verse 12 great earthquake (cf. Isa. 29:6), black as sackcloth of hair (Isa. 50:3)
• Verse 13 stars of heaven falling is not a meteorite or nuclear missiles
• Verses 14-15 How could this all be literal and still have all these people to run and hide?
• Verse 16 contrast 2 Pet. 3:10 (also cf. Hos. 10:8; Isa 2:10-11, 19-22; Luke 23:30)
• Verse 17 (cf. Isa. 13:9; Nah. 1:6). The answer to the question here is found in chapter 7.
Chapter Six
THE REVELATION