REVELATION: The Seven Seals

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REVELATIONThe Seven Seals

• By Patrick Evans

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"This is the revelation given by God to Jesus
Christ so that he could tell his servants about
the things which are very soon to take place ..."
Revelations 11
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Background

• The Book of Revelation was written by the prophet
  John.
• It is considered to be the most mysterious book
  of the New Testament.
• It is riddled with patterns of SEVENs.
• The seven seals portray what God considers to be
  the greatest events within that era leading from
  Christ's momentous and shattering appearance in
  Galilee to the day of Armageddon and the dawn of
  the final judgment.
• The events of the first four seals breaking are
  caused by Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

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Background continued.

• Seven times God's word is set into motion with
  the breaking of the seals. Given full power of
  judgment, each time the Lamb of God breaks a
  particular seal, one of the four animals (one of
  the four Gospels) calls into action the events
  which lay hidden behind it.
• God has given these four Gospels the power of all
  judgment on earth, so they rule here with an iron
  fist, pushing into motion through God's sentinels
  all the effects dictated by the causes they
  condemn.
• The words of the Book of Revelation shows that
  the breaking of these seals are fundamentally
  tied to the Gospel of Christ which is portrayed
  in the book as four animals which surround the
  royal throne of heaven.

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The First Seal..

• Revelation 61
• When the first seal is broken, Jesus Chris is
  said to be sent by the Word.
• He is able to make His appearance to men and ride
  on His white steed, Integrity.
• With His arm in full swing, he bears a sword, not
  peace, and brings forth a path of righteousness.

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The Second Seal..

• Revelation 63
• When the second seal is broken, the Gospel calls
  forth a red horse, with a rider wielding a large
  sword.
• This sword takes away peace.
• As the rider crosses the planet on his red horse,
  he leaves war and violence in his wake.

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The Third Seal..

• Revelation 65
• When the third seal is broken, the black horse of
  commerce appears.
• Toil, labor, and greed consume those in the path
  of the black horse.
• The black horse and red horse battle for
  supremacy, setting the stage for the fourth
  horseman.

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The Fourth Seal..

• Revelation 67
• When the fourth seal is broken, a deathly pale
  horse carried the rider, Plague, followed by
  Hades.
• A fourth of the Earth is destroyed by Plague and
  Hades through famine and disease.
• This is only the beginning of what Plague and
  Hades do to the Earth.

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The Fifth Seal..

• Revelation 69
• When the fifth seal is broken, John saw
  underneath the alter the souls of all those
  killed by witnessing the Word of God.
• The angel told John all the bad things were
  happening as judgment and patience was needed for
  God to carry out his ultimate secret plan.

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The Sixth Seal..

• Revelation 612
• When the sixth seal is broken, there will be a
  violent earthquake, the sun will go black, the
  moon red, and the stars will fall from the sky.
• The sky will disappear and mountains and islands
  will be shaken from their place.
• The population will taken to the mountains to
  hide in caves, for this is the coming of the Day
  of Anger of God and the Lamb.

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The Seventh Seal..

• Revelation 81
• When the seventh seal is broken, there will be a
  short silence in Heaven.
• There will be no silence on Earth due to the rise
  of the Beast.
• To show Gods knowledge of this rise, an angel
  appears to carry the prayers of the Beasts
  victims back to Heaven.
• After collecting the prayers, the angel hurls a
  great fire to Earth, causing earthquakes,
  thunder, and lightning.