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Comment by Glenn Robichaux on August 21, 2009 at 3:35pm

Chapter 8
The Lamb Breaks the Seventh Seal
1 When the Lamb broke the seventh seal on the scroll, there was silence throughout heaven for about half an hour.Rev 8:1 (NLT)

Comment by Helena Ahola on August 21, 2009 at 6:16am

Comment by Glenn Robichaux on August 13, 2009 at 5:41pm

1. The Sealing Of The 144,000 Of Israel (7:1-8)
7:1-3. The question was raised in 6:17 whether any would be saved in the Tribulation. This is answered in this chapter, and two classes of the saved are mentioned specifically: (1) those who are saved in Israel, (2) those of all nations who, though saved spiritually, are martyred. Four angels were told to withhold judgment on the earth until the servants of... God were sealed (v. 3). The seal on their foreheads symbolizes protection and ownership and God’s intention to protect the 12 tribes that are mentioned, much as He protected Noah from the Flood, Israel from the plagues of Egypt, and Rahab and her household in Jericho.
7:4-8. John heard the names of 12 tribes with 12,000 from each tribe... sealed and thus protected. The 12 tribes are not “lost” as some contend.
Attempts have been made to identify the 12 tribes here with the church, mostly to avoid the implication that this is literally Israel. The fact that specific tribes were mentioned and specific numbers from each tribe were indicated would seem to remove this from the symbolic and to justify literal interpretation. If God intended these verses to represent Israel literally, He would have used this means. Nowhere else in the Bible do a dozen references to the 12 tribes mean the church. Obviously Israel will be in the Tribulation, and though men do not know the identification of each tribe today, certainly God knows.
Much speculation has arisen about why the tribe of Dan is omitted. Joseph and one of his two sons, Manasseh, are listed, but Ephraim, Joseph’s other son, is omitted. Thus if Dan were included, there would have been 13 tribes. According to J.B. Smith, Scripture contains 29 lists of the tribes of Israel in the Old and New Testaments and in no case are more than 12 tribes mentioned (A Revelation of Jesus Christ, p. 130). The tribe omitted was usually Levi, from which the priesthood came. Inasmuch as it is normal to have only 12 and not 13 tribes, the omission of Dan is not significant. Perhaps Dan was omitted here because it was one of the first tribes to go into idolatry (Jud. 18:30; cf. 1 Kings 12:28-29). However, Dan is mentioned in Ezekiel 48:2 in the millennial land distribution.
The most important fact taught here is that God continues to watch over Israel even in the time of Israel’s great distress. There is no justification whatever for spiritualizing either the number or the names of the tribes in this passage, to make them represent the church.
—Bible Knowledge Commentary

Comment by Glenn Robichaux on August 12, 2009 at 7:03am

Natasha very well written and simple to understand inpart
Be Bless Brother Glenn Robichaux

Comment by Natasha Mayes on August 12, 2009 at 4:37am

Revelation 7

The marking of 144 000 witnesses and the redemption of those coming out of the Tribulation

Rev 7:1-3 “Then I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds from blowing upon the earth. Not a leaf rustled in the trees, and the sea became as smooth as glass
And I saw another angel coming from the east, carrying the seal of the living God. And he shouted out to those four angels who had been given power to injure land and sea,
Wait! Don't hurt the land or the sea or the trees until we have placed the seal of God on the foreheads of his servants."

At the beginning of this chapter, just before the last seal is broken, we are introduced to four angels that are holding the four winds so that they do not blow over the earth. These for angels are given power to “injure land and sea” God’s command. Then a 5th angel appears with the seal of God and tells these angels to wait until the bondservants of the Lord are sealed on their foreheads.

Verse 4-8 “And I heard how many were marked with the seal of God. There were 144,000 who were sealed from all the tribes of Israel:
from Judah 12,000 from Reuben 12,000 from Gad 12,000
from Asher 12,000 from Naphtali 12,000 from Manasseh 12,000
from Simeon 12,000 from Levi 12,000 from Issachar 12,000
from Zebulun 12,000 from Joseph 12,000 from Benjamin 12,000”

Through the years, people had continually made the mistake of thinking that Israel is forgotten by God, and that all promises made to them, now should be allocated to the church. For this reason these following few verses had been miss-interpreted to say that they apply to the church. How this is possible, is beyond me, because this passage distinctly refers to members of the 12 tribes of Israel! In fact they are mentioned by name – 12 000 servants from each of the 12 tribes are to be sealed. This also is a further reference to the 70th week of Daniel. In a previous discussion, I have explained the meaning of the 70 weeks of Daniel. This is a time period, existing of 70 periods of seven years, set aside by God to deal with His elect – NOT THE CHURCH, BUT ISRAEL! With the death and resurection of Christ the clock was stopped to allow for the Period of Grace (Time of the Gentiles). This clock is to resume it’s counting down after the Rapture of the Church / Bride of Christ, when Antichrist signs a covenant with Israel. The Tribulation is then in other words the final week of Daniel.

Dan 9:27 “He will make a treaty with the people for a period of one set of seven, but after half this time, he will put an end to the sacrifices and offerings. Then as a climax to all his terrible deeds, he will set up a sacrilegious object that causes desecration, until the end that has been decreed is poured out on this defiler.”

Later passages in Revelation tell of an awesome occurrence: God sends two supernatural witnesses to preach the Gospel for 1260 days. I believe that those servants to be sealed will be the first of Israel to repent and turn to God, thanks to the preaching of these two witnesses. The function of these 144 000 witnesses will be to go out to all the corners of the world, to preach the Gospel of the Kingdom of God, especially to the remnant of Israel. Zechariah prophesied that God’s Spirit will be poured out on your sons and your daughters in this time and they will finally realize that Christ is the Messiah.

Zech 12:10 “Then I will pour out a spirit of grace and prayer on the family of David and on all the people of Jerusalem. They will look on me whom they have pierced and mourn for him as for an only son. They will grieve bitterly for him as for a firstborn son who has died.”

Now imagine 144 000 Spirit-filled witnesses preaching the Gospel!!! It will be somewhat like 144 000 Apostle Pauls or Billy Grahams preaching all over the world! Where ever they are heard, the remnant will repent and come to the Lord.
In verses 9-17 we are seeing a vast crowd of people from EVERY NATION, EVERY TRIBE, and EVERY LANGUAGE standing before the Lamb. They are explained to be those that came out of the Great Tribulation. Of these people, Isaiah prophesied in chapter 49 verse 10 when he said that:
“They will not hunger or thirst, neither will mirage (mislead) or scorching wind or sun smite them; for He Who has mercy on them will lead them, and by springs of water will He guide them.”

It is my belief that, thanks to the awesome preaching of the two witnesses and the 144 000 sealed servants, many, many millions of people will come to the Lord.
To those that ask if there will be a second chance after the Rapture: It seems so, if judged by this passage. HOWEVER: I must warn very seriously AGAINST making the decision to wait until after the Rapture, to give your life to God. You cannot be sure that you will even survive this event – you do not know where you will be when it happens. IT IS BETTER BY FAR TO BE PREPARED FOR THE RAPTURE, than to “wait and see”!

Comment by Glenn Robichaux on August 11, 2009 at 9:27am

Finally found a dream I Glenn had
A Dream with a word,Feb.23-07
I had a dream this morning & when I just woke up These Words came so clear:
It Is Worth It!
It Is Worth It!
Later These Words came:
I Jesus, I Am walking amongst my people, My blood washed bride.
In tears I Declare:
PREPARE Yourself.
I Am Coming with Rewards,
PREPARE Yourself!
PREPARE!
My heart breaks here , because I see we His bride is dirty.
Instead of Letting Holy Spirit lead us into purity
we are fleshly living our own angenda!
It is time to wake up.
Seek First The Kingdom of God!
The Lord wants to set apart and cleanse His body with the washing of water by His Word.
To Present His Bride to Himself a glorious church,
not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing;
but that His body- His bride -be Holy and with-out blemish!
I Am Jesus walking amongst my people,
My blood bought bride.
In Tears I Declare :
PREPARE Yourself, I Am Coming!
I Am Coming with Rewards!
PREPARE!~
I Declare -
P R E P A R E !
I Am Coming!
I Am Jesus!
do you hear?

Comment by Glenn Robichaux on August 11, 2009 at 8:17am

Natasha Mayes keep it flowing
Brother Glenn

Comment by Glenn Robichaux on August 11, 2009 at 8:13am

PONDER THIS: Then I said:
Listen, you leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the nation of Israel.
You should know justice.
You hate good and love evil.
You strip the skin off my people and the flesh off their bones.
You eat my people's flesh.
You strip off their skin.
You break their bones to pieces.
You chop them up like meat for a pot, like stew meat for a kettle...
Your leaders exchange justice for bribes.

Your priests teach for a price.

Your prophets tell the future for money.

But they rely on the LORD when they say,
"After all, the LORD is with us.
Nothing bad will happen to us."...
"When that day comes," declares the LORD,

"I will gather those who are lame.
I will bring together those who are scattered
And those whom I have injured.
I will change those who are lame into a faithful people.
I will change those who are forced away into a strong nation."

The LORD will rule them on Mount Zion now and forever.

Micah 3:1-4, 11; 4:6-7

Comment by Natasha Mayes on August 10, 2009 at 1:37pm

Good evening Brothers and Sisters in Christ.

Last week, I wrote about the 1st four seals as described in Rev 6:1-8. Tonight we will take a look at the next two.
In verse 9 we find that when the 5th seal is broken, we see a group of people before the throne of God. They are those that had been martyred for their faith in the Lord Jesus and for bearing the testimony of His word. They are asking: how long Lord, must we wait till our spillt blood is avenged. They are told to rest patiently until the number of those that are to die as they did, are complete. I believe that the breaking of this seal will introduce the start of the greatest persecution of believers ever to have swept the earth. However, we see that even in this horrible persecution, GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL. He has already desided exactly what number of people will be martyred, and He is telling those that already died for His testimony that when that number is completed, then He will avenge their deaths!
The 6th seal is a judgement that seems to be directly from Jesus Himself!
It is a day when the sun will turn black as sack cloth and the moon will be as blood. It describes an event that will be accompanied by what seems to be a great meteor shower, because verse 13 describes stars falling from the sky "like a fig tree shedding its unripe fruit out of season when shaken by a strong wind".
It tells of a day when the sky will roll up like a scroll and a terrible earthquake that is so severe that "every mountain and island was dislodged from its place."
I don't know much about geography, but as I understand it, earthquakes cannot happen at different places at the same time. This one that is described here will effect THE WHOLE EARTH! It will be world wide...
So severe is this judgement that the prophet Joel said of this day:
(Joel 2:11) "... for the day of the Lord is great abd terrible, and who can endure it?"
Isaiah prophesied of this event: (Isa 2:10) "enter into the rock and hide yourself in the dust from before the terror of the Lord and from the glory of His majesty. Also read vers 19-21 of that same chapter, and you will get a further picture of the horror of that day!
The people on earth will know exactly that this is judgement from Heaven because they are begging the mountains to fall on them and hide them (verse 16 & 17) "from the face of Him Who sits on the throne and from the deep-seated indignation and wrath of the LAMB. For the great day of His wrath (vengeance, retribution, indignation) has come and who is able to stand before it?"
It is difficult to imagine such a catastrophy. A quick search on the Web will bring you to a myriad of sites where you can view pictures of places destroyed by an eathquake. I am priviledged to live in a country whereI have never had to live through such a disaster. But to think that the Bible foretells of an earthquake so severe that it will impact the whole world!
And to know that this earthquake will come right on the heels of the destruction caused by and the mayhem following a great war, is simply too terrible to contemplate!
Few years ago I was having a conversation with a person that was not really convinced that the Bible is true. I told her the following, and I want you to also think about this: WHAT IF there was only the slimmest of chances that the Bible is true? Let's say, less that 5% chance. Even then, wouldn't it be better to rather heed it's warnings? If it then turned out to be false; then you would have been right and I wrong, but what it's all true???
This lady did not have an answer for me.
I know that the majority of people on this Net are believers. I'm writing these messages as much to TRY and explain prophesy, as I am writing them in the hopes that people that have not yet discovered the truth, might read it and give them pause to think.
God has done far too many great and awesome things in my life for me to have any doubt that everything in His Word is true. With this said, I know that there are many people (yes, even true followers of Christ!) that still think the Book of Revelation is symbolic or not relevant to Christians today, or even that it is the Bible's equivelent of the "boogie-man": just scare-tactics. To those people I want to say the following: Think carefully before you dismiss this Book (Revelation) as myth or as just a scrary story. Remember that everything that was prophesied in the Old Testament about Jesus' 1st coming was fullfilled to the last letter. Why would those things prophesied about His 2nd coming not likewise be fullfilled?
Love in Christ
Natasha

Comment by R. Evan-Gombach on August 10, 2009 at 4:24am

666 is the number of man-it is the number of the perfection of man's own efforts-satans ploy is always to usurp the throne of God-he therefore empowers man to do God's work in his own wisdom and according to his own natural reasoning and intellect and according to his own strength apart from the life of Christ in Him-for instance, if it is not Christ in me leading the people then I am misleading the people-

the safety against this is "the way of the Cross" and its principal of self-denial. Our natural soul-life needs to be put to death so the life of the Spirit can be the governing factor in our lives and service. Christ said, "He who loves his soul-life(psuche) will lose it, and he who loses his soul-life for my sake shall find it unto life eternal(zoe) or divine life. And again, "If any one will be my disciple, let him deny his self, and take up his cross and follow me." The Lord wants us to put to death the natural life and live according to His Holy Spirit and to walk according to and be led by the Spirit. Satan does all he can to prevent the Christian from truly functioning according to the power of the Holy Spirit because that is a mighty force against the powers of darkness and he knows his time is short. He will even cause the Christian to think he is walking in the Spirit so as to prevent him from being crucified with Christ so he will not know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, travailing in deep heart burdened prayer for the people of God aginst the powers of darkness and filling up that which is lacking in the sufferings of Christ.

So the mark of the beast is man doing God's work in his own strength and wisdom apart from the life of Christ in him. Thus deceiving many. So safety is in seeing ourselves upon the cross in Christ and letting the Holy Spirit make that a living reality in our lives. Ask Him about it. Ask Him for your cross and let it utterly slay you and you will surely experience the power of His resurrection and the Person of the Holy Spirit in living and vibrant union with Christ.

May the Lord bless and keep you, and cause His Face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you!

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