Bible 11: The Seven Seals of Revelation 5

The Seven Seals of Revelation 6

Note: The evidence and views presented in this assignment were not generated by me. The views presented in this report are drawn from the instruction and research of the teacher.

-The Sealed Book

In Revelation 5, we see a sealed book that is to be unsealed or understood at the end of time.

The book that was sealed was not the book of Revelation, but that portion of Daniel which related to the last

days. {17MR 6.3}

But since 1798 the book of Daniel has been unsealed… {GC 356.2}

Daniel stood in his lot to bear his testimony which was sealed until the time of the end, when the first angel’s

message should be proclaimed to our world. {TM 115.3}

When the book was opened, the proclamation was made, ‘Time shall be no longer.’ {17MR 6.3}

John sees the little book unsealed. Then Daniel’s prophecies have their proper place in the first, second, and

third angel’s messages to be given to the world. {1MR 99.2}

-       The First Seal

Revelation 6:1-2 KJG Revelation 6:1 ¶ And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.  2 And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.

The horse pictured here symbolizes a church according to Song of Solomon 1:9.

According to Revelation 6:1 verse, this church is not a church that will apostatize. It is a church that will conquer.

Also this church rides out to conquer. In 1840-1844 the ex-members of all the protestant churches that had rejected the three angel’s messages formed the Adventist Church. In effect, the Adventist Church rode out to conquer.

Near the close of the second angel’s message, I saw a great light from heaven shining upon the people of God.

The rays of this light seemed bright as the sun. And I heard the voices of angels crying, Behold the Bridegroom

cometh, go ye out to meet him! {1SG 140.2}

-       The Second, Third, and Fourth seals

-The next three seals represent the Protestant Churches and their progressive fall.  The second seal represents the fall of the protestant churches when they rejected the 1^st angels message in 1844 and became the third part of Babylon.

The word “out” is the same Greek word that is used in verse two, where the white horse “went out” conquering. The Protestant churches have also “moved out of or away from an area.” The area they have moved away from

is from being in a position of being blessed by God, because of their taking a noble stand for God and the truth, to being in a position where they “experienced a moral fall, in consequence of their refusal of the light of the advent message of the first angel [Rev. 14:6-8].” {GC

389.2}

-The Third Seal represents the fall of the protestant churches when the rejected justification by faith in the most holy place and place upon themselves a “yoke of slavery” in that they now must receive justification by works, rules, and traditions.

“He that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand”

In the Greek, balances can mean “yoke of slavery.” Christians get entangled with a yoke of bondage, when they think that the law justifies them, instead of faith in Christ’s righteousness at the marriage [Gal. 5:1,4,5].

-The Fourth Seal represents the complete fall of the Protestant churches by a national Sunday law being implemented.

Babylon, meaning the third part that is the false prophet, symbolizes apostate Protestantism [Rev. 16:19,13; Rev. 13:11-16;

Rev. 19:20]. Protestantism fell in 1844, by the rejection of the first angelʼs message, but that fall was not complete, and she has been progressively falling [See GC 389.2]; The pale horse with its Rider, Death, is symbolizing apostate Protestantismʼs complete fall and spiritual death, and it is evidenced by her employing the secular power of the state,

with its inevitable result – intolerance and persecution [Rev 13:11-17]. “power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword…” After Protestant America institutes a National Sunday law, Babylon then persecutes the people symbolized by the white horse. The fourth part are those who are part of the Seed, those who keep Godʼs commandments .

-       The Fifth Seal

The Fifth Seal represents the Judgment of the dead that began in 1844 and ends at the implementation of a national Sunday law.

Revelation 6:9-11   ¶ And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:  10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?  11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellow servants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.

Here, the righteous dead who have suffered for Christ even unto death are judged and given perfect characters. Then they rest in the grave until the mission of their brothers in Christ is fulfilled.

-       The Sixth Seal

“Revelation 6:12-17  KJV

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;

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

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

15 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;

16 And 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:

17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?

When the sixth seal is opened, “there is a great earthquake” and “the sun becomes black”. The moon appears “as blood” “and the stars fell”. And all of the wicked hide themselves from God. This obviously occurs at the second coming of Christ. The sixth seal therefore describes the reaction of the wicked at the second coming of Christ.

-Seventh seal

“One of the most solemn and yet most glorious truths revealed in the Bible is that of Christ’s second coming to complete the great work of redemption.” {GC 299.1} “The doctrine of the second advent is the very keynote of the Sacred Scriptures. From the day when the first pair turned their sorrowing steps from Eden, the children of faith have waited the coming of the Promised One to break the destroyer’s power and bring them again to the lost Paradise. Holy men of old looked forward to the advent of the Messiah in glory, as the consummation of their hope.” {GC 299.1}

The seventh seal is the reaction of the righteous when they see their savior and their bridegroom face to face for the first time. When the righteous cry with trembling, “Who shall be able to stand?” [in the sight of a holy God], the angels, who fill the sky, and who have been singing, hush their song, “and there is s a period of awful silence.” Then Jesus gives the assurance, “My grace is sufficient for you.” What an awesome climax to the whole book – when the righteous actually get to see Jesus, their Savior and friend, there is a period of silence, because they don’t know how to feel about this relationship. Here they are actually in the presence of the holy God, and who can stand? “The angels stop their singing for half an hour.”

“One of the most solemn and yet most glorious truths revealed in the Bible is that of Christ’s second coming to complete the great work of redemption.” {GC 299.1} “The doctrine of the second advent is the very keynote of the Sacred Scriptures. From the day when the first pair turned their sorrowing steps from Eden, the children of faith have waited the coming of the Promised One to break the destroyer’s power and bring them again to the lost Paradise. Holy men of old looked forward to the advent of the Messiah in glory, as the consummation of their hope.” {GC 299.1}