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Sealing
of 144,000 is completed
7. When they finish their testimony, the beast
that ascends out of the bottomless pit will
make war against them overcome them, and kill them.
8. And their dead bodies will lie in the street of the
¹great city which spiritually is called Sod’om
and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
9. Then those from the peoples, tribes tongues, and
nations will see their dead bodies’ three-and-a-half
days, and not allow their dead bodies to be put in to
graves.
10. And those who dwell on earth will rejoice over them,
make merry, and send gifts to one another, because these
two prophets tormented those who dwell on earth.
¹notice
how this city is described: Sodom=sexually immoral/
Egypt=pagan sunworship. "where also our Lord was
crucified." The current approach is to take this
whole passage as spiritual and symbolic . Consider that
it is spiritualy or symbolically sodom and egypt, but
literally where jesus was crucified.
Rev 14:1. And I looked and behold, a lamb standing
on Mount Zion, and with Him 144,000, having His Father's
name written on their foreheads.
2. And I heard a voice from heaven, like the voice of
many waters, and like the voice of loud thunder. And
I heard the sound of their harps.
3. And they sang as it were a new song before the throne,
before the four living creatures, and the elders; and
no one could learn that song except the 144,000 who
were redeemed from the earth.
4. These were the ones who were not defiled by the harlot,
for they are virgins. These are the ones who follow
the lamb wherever He goes. These are redeemed from among
men, firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.
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Rev
7:13. Then one of the elders answered, saying to me, "Who
are these arrayed in white robes, and where did they come
from?"
14. And I said to him "Sir, you know." So he
said to me, "These are the ones who came out of the
great tribulation, and washed their robes and made them
white in the blood of the lamb."
15. "Therefore they are before the throne of God,
and serve Him day and night in His temple. And He who
sits on the throne will dwell among them.
Judgment closes
14:14. And I heard, and behold, a white cloud, and on
the cloud sat One like the Son
of Man, having on His head a golden crown, and
in His hand a sharp sickle.
15. And another angel came
out of the temple,² crying with a loud voice
to Him who sat on the
cloud, “Thrust in Your sickle and reap, for the
time has come for you to reap, for the harvest of the
earth is ripe.”
16. So He who sat on the
cloud thrust in His sickle on the earth, and the earth
was reaped.
17. Then another angel came
out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having
a sharp sickle. . . .
18. And another angel came
out from the altar, who had power over fire, and he
cried with a loud cry to him who had the sharp sickle
and gather the cluster of the vine of the earth, for
her grapes are fully ripe.”
-Look
very closely at this passage. there are 3 angels and
Jesus. The first angel is the same angel from rev 7:2
who cried with a loud voice "do not harm, the earth,
sea and trees." In otherwords, before this angel
says he's not ready, now he's announcing he isfinished
sealing sealing the saved.
- The 2nd angel is told by the 3rd angel to reap or
mark the lost. clearly this is not the end of time as
revelation 20 clearly states that it is Jesus comes
to destroy the lost, not an angel.
-now consider that it is the 7 plagues that harm the
earth, sea, and trees.
-now as you read on in revelation, you will notice that
the very next thing to occur is the 7 last plagues.
this lends strong support for a chronilogical enterpretation
of parts of revelation.
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