There is something unique in Rev. 14. We will see that there’s a difference between the 144,000 in Rev. 14 and the 144,000 in Rev. 7. Rev. 7 clearly identifies the 12 tribes of Israel, and the great innumerable multitude.
 
Revelation 14:1: “And I looked, and I beheld the Lamb standing on Mount Sion, and with Him one hundred and forty-four thousand, having His Father’s name written on their foreheads.” You don’t have that in Rev. 7!
 
Verse 2: “Then I heard a voice from heaven, like the sound of many waters, and like the sound of great thunder; and I heard the sound of lyre players playing their lyres. And they were singing a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures and the elders. And no one was able to learn the song except the hundred and forty-four thousand, who were redeemed from the earth” (vs 2-3).
 
That’s an interesting phrase! This doesn’t give us any time period; no time period. Whereas, Rev. 7 it’s right there right after two years of the Tribulation. They’re redeemed from the earth.
 
Verse 4: “These are the ones who were not defiled with women…” Who is the worst woman of all? Babylon the Great! This has to refer to churches.
 
“…for they are virgins…” (v 4). None in Rev. 7 are called virgins! What does this mean? That the 144,000 here never had a problem with apostasy at all! They always believe God and kept the commandments of God.
 
“…they are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. They were purchased from among men as firstfruits to God and to the Lamb” (v 4). Not the firstfruits, but as firstfruits!
 
Verse 5: “And no guile was found in their mouths; for they are blameless before the throne of God.”
 
Can we determine something from this if we examine the seven churches in Rev. 2 & 3?
 
Church of Ephesus: Revelation 2:4: “Nevertheless, I have this against you, that you have left your first love. Therefore, remember from where you have fallen, and repent… [of sin] …and do the first works; for if you do not, I will come to you quickly; and I will remove your lampstand out of its place unless you repent” (vs 4-5).
 
You would have to say that those in this group of the Church could not be called virgins, because they left their first love.
 
·         What did they do?
·         Where did they go?
·         How did this come about?
 
We don’t know, but it’s probably adding things in. remember that one of the things that John wrote in 1-John 5, ‘Little children, flee idols.’ Why would he says that? Because some were bringing in idols! We could conclude that of the 144,000 in Rev. 14, perhaps very few came out of the Church of Ephesus.
 
Church of Smyrna: Verse 9: “‘I know your works and tribulation and poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who declare themselves to be Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. Do not fear any of the things that you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to cast some of you into prison, that you may be tried; and you shall have tribulation ten days. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you a crown of life” (vs 9-10). Not one bit of correction! He didn’t tell them to repent.
 
Church of Pergamos: Verse 14: “But I have a few things against you because you have there those who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit fornication.” If you commit fornication, you’re not a virgin! So, they had those sins.
 
Verse 15: “Moreover, you also have those who hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate.”
 
So, they had quite a few problems here: idols, wrongly taking the Passover, because the Eucharist of the Catholic Church is called the Sacrifice of the Mass!
 
They literally, in what they do, are saying that Christ is crucified again, because you get His blood and flesh right through eating the bread and drinking the wine, if the priest allows you to do it! Some priests drink so much that they’re almost drunk when they’re done.
 
Verse 16: “Repent! For if you do not repent, I will come to you quickly, and will make war against them with the sword of My mouth.”
 
They were so bad that Christ had to fight against them! That’s quite a thing when you consider it. We can conclude that those at Pergamos could not be considered virgins.
 
Church of Thyatira: Verse 20: “But I have a few things against you, because you allow the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce My servants into committing fornication and eating things sacrificed to idols…. [sin] …And I gave her time to repent of her fornication, but she did not repent” (vs 20-21). This has to be talking about the Catholic Church!
 
It’s interesting that the Council of Trent was setup by the Catholics to try and combat the rising insurgency of the Protestants. They actually had some Catholics factions of that Council who said, ‘We ought to go by Scriptures only.’
 
There was the opportunity to repent, but what happened? Just like what is written in Rome’s Challenge to the Protestants: Cardinal Gibbon said that they concluded, ‘Since the Protestants kept Sunday, and Sunday was a Catholic institution or tradition, therefore, they were not keeping Scriptures only.’ They were following tradition and Scripture! ‘So, we will keep our traditions and follow Scripture.’
 
But the way they follow Scripture is very little! So, you can’t say that those in Thyatira were virgins.
 
Verse 21: “And I gave her time to repent of her fornication, but she did not repent. Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of their works” (vs 20-21).
 
What eventually happened to the Catholic Church? In Europe it was very powerful in getting into the 1000-1400s and began eroding in the 1500s by the Protestants!
 
How did God eventually take care of the Catholic Church? Garibaldi and the armies of Italy in the 1870s revolted against the Catholic Church, because all of the areas of Italy were broken down into provinces that were run by the Catholic Church. So, he took all of them away and made the Catholics and the popes stay in the Vatican.
 
From that time until Mussolini, the pope never left the Vatican. No repentance! That’s how God came against them. It was not until Mussolini where they had the Treaty of Lateran when Mussolini recognized the pope that the pope was able to travel outside the Vatican area.
 
Verse 23: “And I will kill her children with death…” That’s exactly what happened when Garibaldi took over all of the Catholic Church and all of their territories in Italy!
 
“…and all the churches shall know that I am He Who searches the reins and hearts; and I will give to each of you according to your works. But to you I say, and to the rest who are in Thyatira, as many as do not have this doctrine, and who have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak…” (vs 23-24).
 
So, Thyatira was one of the best and one of the worst. You can’t say that those of Thyatira were virgins.
 
Church of Sardis: Revelation 3:1: “…I know your works, and that you have a name as if you are alive, but are dead.” They don’t keep the doctrines the way that they should and are about to die.
 
Verse 5—if you keep the few things remaining, “…I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels.”
 
Church of Philadelphia: Verse 10: “Because you have kept the Word of My patience, I also will keep you from the time of temptation, which is about to come upon the whole world to try those who dwell on the earth.” They’re not told to repent here either.
 
Church of Laodicea: They’re told to repent!
 
So, out of the seven churches, only two were what you would call virgins!
 
Speculation: Do those who fall into that category the ones of the 144, 000 in Rev. 14? Will they actually be the Bride of Christ? Remember, when the Corinthians were sinning, Paul said, ‘Behold, I want to present you as a chaste virgin to Christ!
 
Well the Corinthians can’t because they’ve had all their sins.
 
·         Do you think that Christ would marry a non-virgin?
·         Will those of the 144,000 be the Bride of Christ and all the rest of us are the guests? Don’t know!
 
I tell you how I first thought of it: I performed a wedding in Fairfield and it went well. Then we had the wedding supper. It was very interesting and everybody was sitting around talking and having a good time. Then the band struck up the music and the bride and groom danced. I thought to myself, all the rest of us out here are guests. I wondered if that’s the way it’s going to be with Christ and the Bride? Don’t know!
 
That’s just speculation, but it may be true! It may be true in degree, but Who’s going to make that choice? God the Father and Jesus Christ!
 
Wouldn’t Abraham and David be part of the Bride of Christ? I don’t think so, I think they will be at a higher level! Much higher!
 
How would you separate the guests and the Bride from Christ’s time until today? God knows! He has to make the decision; it’s not up to us!
 
But we can that those of Rev. 14 are distinctly different from those of Rev. 7. In looking at that, since they’re called virgins… If they weren’t called that, you wouldn’t suspect that they would only be the Bride of Christ! But since it says that they are, and we read Rev. 2 & 3, and we only find two churches that we can classify as virgins, then there may be something to it. We don’t know!
 
It’s two-fold down through the centuries and at the end-time as well. We don’t know exactly how all of that is going to work. That’s the only distinction that we can make here with this.
 
The Unpardonable Sin:
 
A lot of people feel sometimes that they have committed the unpardonable sin and they’re really grievously upset and worrying about their salvation. Let’s see what Christ said about the unpardonable sin.
 
It’s very interesting with what Jesus says here; Matthew 12:30: “The one who is not with Me is against Me…” In another place He says that ‘the one who is for Me is not against Me.’
 
That’s those in the world who are carnal and not called, but are for God and not against Him, they’re just in the world.
 
“…and the one who does not gather with Me scatters. Because of this, I say to you, every sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven to men except the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit; that shall not be forgiven to men” (vs 30-31). Why? Who sends the Spirit? God the Father and Jesus Christ!
 
We have the begettal to be the son or daughter of God, and we have the Holy Spirit to develop the mind of Christ! So, those are the two aspects of it.
 
·         What happens when someone commits the unpardonable sin?
·         Would they be grievous and repenting? No!
 
Verse 32: “And whoever speaks a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him…”
 
·         What did Jesus say when He was up on the cross? Father, forgiven them for they know not what they do!
·         How treacherous were they? As treacherous as could be!
 
“…but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this age nor in the coming age” (v 32). There you find the second resurrection! There are two parts to the second resurrection:
 
1.       those who have not committed the unpardonable sin
2.       those who have
 
Those who have committed the unpardonable sin will go into the Lake of Fire. Those who have not will have an opportunity for salvation. What kind of attitude does someone have who commits the unpardonable sin? They will:
 
·         be hateful toward God
·         reject the Holy Spirit of God
·         reject the Word of God
·         be set in their ways and bitter in animosity toward God and will not repent
 
Remember the DVD message called The Delusion of Drugs. There’s a family trying to redeem a son, and the relatives were there, too. They pleaded with him, ‘Please, won’t you come back. Please!’ He said no! ‘Please, we’ll help you.’ No! No! No! and he got up and walked out.
 
If you haven’t watched that first segment, that is something! That shows you as close as you can get to the unpardonable sin. Absolutely no thought of repentance.
 
How bad can a person get into and still repent and receive forgiveness from God. What are two classic ones from the Old Testament? Manasseh! Look at what he did! He became king when he was very young, and things were already very corrupt.
 
2-Chronicles 33:1: “Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.”
 
You can be thankful that we have Presidents that can only be in office eight years.
 
Verse 2: “But he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, like the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel, for he built again the high places, which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served them. And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, ‘In Jerusalem shall My name be forever’” (vs 2-4). Manasseh was really going at it!
 
Verse 5: “And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD. And he caused his sons to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom. He also observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD to provoke Him to anger. And he set a carved image, the idol, which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, ‘In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever. Nor will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of the land, which I have set apart for your fathers—if only they will take heed to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses’” (vs 5-8). That’s quite a thing that he was doing!
 
Verse 9: “But Manasseh led astray Judah and the people of Jerusalem, and caused them to do worse than the nations whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel. And the LORD spoke to Manasseh and to His people, but they would not listen” (vs 9-10). He spoke through Jeremiah!
 
Verse 11: “Wherefore, the LORD brought upon them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh with hooks and bound him with chains and carried him to Babylon.” Because Assyria ruled Babylon at that time!
 
Verse 12: “And when he was in affliction, he sought the LORD his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. And he prayed to Him, and He was entreated of him and heard his prayer, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD is God” (vs 12-13).
 
So, here we have a situation where this deep repentance was forgiven. The rest of the story is that he cleaned up the area around the temple and got rid of all the sacrifices to the other gods and so forth.
 
How many times was he repenting during that time of his repentance? It couldn’t be just one prayer! It would have to be really abhorring himself!’
 
Look at what Job had to go through before he abhorred himself! In a way he did worse than Manasseh, because he did everything that God said, but he took the credit for it all! He was, in his rebellion against God and in iniquity Job was worshipping himself instead of God! He even thought that he was on par with God, because he wanted to have a judge come and declare Job’s righteousness to God and settle the matter.
 
In a way—though Manasseh was more evil in what he was doing—Job was worse because Job had all the Truth, and yet, took the credit to himself instead giving all credit to God.
 
I’m sure that it was quite a spell that he was repenting, confessing and everything like that. It wasn’t just a one time prayer, ‘O Lord, forgive me.’ You can’t just have one small prayer and everything is forgiven. Read Psa. 51; you abhor yourself, you abhor your sins. You see that you have sinned against God greatly. That the only thing in you is nothing but sin! Then there will be forgiveness!
 
A little correction: Jeremiah wasn’t calling Manasseh to repentance, that was before, because Jeremiah started in the 12th or 13th year of Josiah.
 
Matthew 12:32: “And whoever speaks a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this age nor in the coming age. Either make the tree good…” (vs 32-33). What is that likened to? Repentance!
 
“…and the fruit good, or make the tree corrupt and its fruit corrupt; for a tree is known by its fruit” (v 33). If it’s corrupt and unredeemable, that’s the unpardonable sin. There’s no way out of that!
 
It’s just like in the segment on Delusion of Drugs, there was not talking to this man to get him to stop drugs, to quit doing what he was doing. He said no to his mother, father, his aunt and sister. Then he got up and walked out.
 
Another example of the unpardonable sin is Satan the devil. He has not and will not repent. His ultimate goal is always to be like God, the Most High. He won’t repent.
 
Those who have never been converted, it’s possible that some will refuse to repent. But the unpardonable sin in Heb. 6 talks about those who have repented, receive the Holy Spirit and then quit!
 
Hebrews 6:4: “For it is impossible… [Greek means there is no power possible] …for those who were once enlightened, and who personally obtained the heavenly gift, and became partakers of the Holy Spirit.” The heavenly gift is forgiveness, the gift of grace!
 
Verse 5: “And who have tasted the good Word of God, and the powers of the world to come, if they have fallen away… [to apostatize] …to renew them again unto repentance…” (vs 5-6)--nothing will get to them!
 
That depends on free choice. Will they repent? If they repent then they haven’t committed the unpardonable sin!
 
Manasseh probably came as close as anyone to committing the unpardonable sin, but he repented. But here it is that there’s no way “…to renew them again unto repentance…” Look at Cain; he did not repent! It showed he didn’t repent. He said, ‘Am I my brother’s keeper?’ He didn’t fall down on his knees and say, ‘O Lord, I killed him; I got angry.’ Esau didn’t repent of selling his birthright. But he wasn’t converted. Here we’re talking about converted people.
 
“…seeing that they are crucifying the Son of God for themselves, and are publicly holding Him in contempt” (v 6). The attitude is complete incalcitrant and contemptuous attitude toward God!
 
Verse 7: “For the ground that soaks up rain coming often upon it, and also produces useful plants for those for whom it is tilled, receives a blessing from God. But that which brings forth thorns and thistles is rejected and near to being cursed, the end of which is for burning” (vs 7-8)--which is the Lake of Fire! That’s the attitude of the unpardonable sin. There’s no way to bring them to repentance:
 
·         no remorse
·         no feeling
·         no nothing
 
Just hard-hearted, incalcitrant against God, against the Father, holding God in contempt, Christ in contempt and rejecting everything of God.
 
How many people will be that way? Don’t know! But I know of one man who may have come mighty, mighty close to it. But I have no idea. That’s why God judges the heart; He knows. There’s no way that we can even determine if someone has or not, because God alone knows!
 
Verse 9: “But, although we speak these things, beloved, we are persuaded of better things concerning you, even the fruits that accompany salvation. For God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the labor of love by which you have showed honor to His name, in that you have served the saints and are continuing to serve them. But we earnestly desire that every one of you be demonstrating the same diligence, unto the full assurance of the hope until the end; so that you do not become lazy, but that you be imitators of those who through faith and steadfast endurance inherit the promises” (vs 9-12). Then Paul goes back talking about Abraham!
 
Those are the odds and ends that I wanted to cover today. I would like to, in January, do a series in Galatians, because Galatians is one of the most difficult books in the New Testament, especially the way it’s translated in the King James. It has led many people to believe that you don’t have to keep the Law and that it has been abolished. But it actually teaches the opposite! 
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(FIRST HALF OF THE MESSAGE)

Scriptural References:
1)      1-Corinthians 15:20-23
2)      Daniel 7:13-25, 27
3)      Revelation 15:2-5, 8
4)      Revelation 19:9
5)      Hosea 5:10-15
6)      Hosea 6:1-2
7)      Revelation 6:12-17
8)      Revelation 7:3
9)      Jeremiah 18:1-10
10)  Revelation 7:3
11)  Ephesians 1:13
12)  Revelation 7:3-4, 9, 13-15
13)  Revelation 14:1-5
14)  Revelation 2:4-5, 9-10, 14-16, 20-24
15)  Revelation 3:1, 5, 10
16)  Matthew 12:30-32
17)  2 Chronicles 33:1-13
18)  Matthew 12:32-33
19)  Hebrews 6:4-12
 
Scriptures referenced, not quoted:
·         Ecclesiastes 1
·         Deuteronomy 16:1-8
·         Revelation 13; 17
·         Hebrews 2
·         Matthew 22
·         Romans 13
·         Isaiah 41; 44
·         Ezekiel 9
·         1 John 5
·         Psalm 51
 
Also referenced:
Articles:
·         World Leader of The Salvation Army General Brian Peddle Meets His Holiness Pope Francis {https://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq/news/inr081119}
·         Pope Francis Declares that Christian Fundamentalists Are “A Scourge” {https://grandmageri422.me/2019/12/04/pope-francis-declares-that-christian-fundamentalists-are-a-scourge/}
·         British Court in Transgender Case, Bible Belief is “Incompatible with Human Dignity” {https://www.dailywire.com/news/british-court-in-transgender-case-bible-belief-is-incompatible-with-human-dignity}
·         ACLU Sues to Make Sure that Unborn Babies Can be Dismembered piece by piece in Cruel Inhumane Abortions
{https://dcdirtylaundry.com/the-aclu-sues-to-make-sure-unborn-babies-can-be-dismembered-piece-by-piece-in-cruel-inhumane-abortions/}
 
§  Sermon: Daniel/Revelation Prophecies Being Fulfilled
§  Booklet: Rome’s Challenge to the Protestants by Cardinal Gibbon
§  DVD: Delusion of Drugs
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Overview of Prophecy
#2 Daniel/Revelation
Part #1​
Transcript Second Half
By: Fred R. Coulter--
February 13, 2016
In the Bible we see this: the Bible tells us a summary first, then gives us the details; after the summary! The details might not necessarily come in sequence right after the other, because we know the Bible is put together 'here a little and there a little,' etc.
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• How is every eye going to see Him?
• That is those who are living when Jesus returns?
• What does this do for the 'secret rapture'?

The 'secret rapture' is that we're all going to be taken out before the Tribulation begins, and 'all you dumb doe-dos who are not with us will go through the Tribulation, and we are so glad to escape.' No! It won't work!
Let's take the last week from Dan. 9—seven years—and he makes an agreement and in the middle of the seven-year period and the Tribulation begins. What starts the Tribulation that we've already covered? The abomination that makes desolate stands in the Holy place! That's when the Tribulation begins.
We have the seals that are opened; there was a white horse and this was not Christ; this was the false christ. 
Revelation 6:2 afaithfulversion.org/revelation-6/: "And I looked, and behold, there was a white horse; and the one who was sitting on it had a bow, and a crown was given to him; and he went out conquering, and to conquer." This has to be the false prophet bringing all the religions of the world together.
It's possible—speculation—that that seal has been opened with all the events that are taking place. How long that runs we don't know. This has to be before that 70th week.
Verse 3: "And when He opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, 'Come and see.' And another horse went out that was red; and power was given to the one sitting on it to take peace from the earth…" (vs 3-4). That has to be the beginning the Great Tribulation, which then has to be in the middle of the 7-year period when the Great Tribulation begins. That has to be right there.
Let's come to the sixth seal, and we will discover some other prophecies that help us understand and put it together in the timeframe within that last three and half-year period. That why the sermon series: Daniel/Revelation. It's a big, thick series with 40 sermons[transcriber's correction]. This will include what is there, but we may have an improvement on what I had given at that time. Here's an event that takes place that we will see that is described also in Matt. 24:
Verse 12: "And when He opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as the hair of sackcloth, and the moon became as blood; and the stars of heaven fell to the earth, as a fig tree casts its untimely figs when it is shaken by a mighty wind. Then the heaven departed like a scroll that is being rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved out of its place. And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the powerful men, and every bondman, and every free man hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains; and they said to the mountains and to the rocks, 'Fall on us, and hide us from the face of Him Who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, because the great day of His wrath has come, and who has the power to stand?'" (vs 12-17).
Let's take this sequence backward: How long is a day in prophecy in fulfillment? One year! This is the last year that comes. That means that if you have three and a half years, and there's one year left, how many years have passed before v 12? Two!
What takes place in Rev. 7 right after the heavens roll back as a scroll? The sealing of the 144,000 and the great innumerable multitude! The sealing of the 144,000 are from the children of Israel, the physical children of Israel!

• How do we know the events that take place?
• What is going to happen to Israel when the Tribulation begins?
• They are going to be under the domination of the beast power!
• They are going to be in captivity; wherever they are!

The book of Hosea was written concerning the ten northern tribes and Ephraim. They are called the house of Israel. Zech. 12 talks about the Jews and those in Jerusalem. They are included in Rev. 7.
Hosea 5:13: "When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound… [it's going to get very bad for Britain and the Israelis in Jerusalem] …then Ephraim went to the Assyrian and sent to King Contentious…. [the beast power] …Yet, he could not heal you nor cure you of your wound… [they're taken into captivity instead] …for I will be to Ephraim as a lion, and as a strong lion to the house of Judah…." (vs 13-14).
Both are included in the 144,000, although Ephraim is not named directly, but comes under the name of Joseph.
"…I, even I, will tear and go away. I will take away, and none shall rescue him. I will go; I will return to My place until they confess their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction they will seek Me earnestly" (vs 14-15). There they are in captivity.

• What do they do in captivity?
• What does Israel always do when they get in trouble?
• They call out to the Lord!

What you have to do is read the history of 1st and 2nd Samuel, Judges, Joshua and 1st and 2nd Kings, and so forth. Whenever they got in trouble they cried to the Lord, and the Lord saved them! What happened when 9/11 happened here in America. We all got 'religious' for three weeks!
They will repent, and this—Rev. 6—where the 144,000 are sealed and converted in the last year of the three and a half year Tribulation.
Hosea 6:1:1: "Come and let us return to the LORD, for He has torn, and He will heal us; He has smitten, and He will bind us up. After two days…" (vs 1-2). A day is as a year in prophecy. We have two days, which is two years.
"…He will revive us…" (v 2). Would you not say that the sealing of the 144,000 is reviving them? Yes, indeed! So, the Tribulation against them is two years, and we will see that in Matt. 24.
"…in the third day… [the beginning of the third year] …He will raise us up, and we shall live in His sight" (v 2). That's exactly where Rev. 7 starts; right there, right when this happens!
That's why I've said that after two years the Tribulation against Israel is released. There is still a year and a half left for the rest of the world! We will answer both questions there in Matt. 24:

• How will every eye see Him?
• The ending of the Tribulation after two years?
• How it will take place?

Matt. 24:15—the beginning of the Tribulation. Verse 21 confirms that. Then we have those saying there are the Christ, false christs and everything right there; don't believe it.
Again, we have the pattern of the Bible, which follows all the way through the Bible: What is going to happen is described first; the details come afterward. That's the way God does everything. What did God say to Israel? If you obey My voice, then you'll be a nation of priests to Me. They said, 'Yeah, we'll do it.' Look at all the details that came after they said they would.
Likewise it describes what is going to happen first, and then the details concerning it come afterward.
Matthew 24:27: "For as the light of day, which comes forth from the east and shines as far as the west, so also shall the coming of the Son of man be."
You've heard me say about a second sun. If there is a second sun, will every eye see that? Yes! For how long? We'll answer that question in a little bit.
Verse 28: "For wherever the carcass may be, there will the eagles be gathered together." Is that describing the resurrection? I don't know! That verse has been an enigma to me all my life.
Verse 29: "But immediately after the tribulation of those days…" Against whom? The children of Israel (Hos. 5-6 and Rev. 7). That's just against Israel.
"…the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken." That's what happened.
We read in Rev. 6 that the heavens roll back as a scroll. BAM! Right there at the end of the two-year period and the beginning of the third-year period. What did it say? The stars will fall, the heavens will darken and so forth!
Verse 30: "And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven…" What is that sign? Verse 27 tells us what it is; the light of day! That's the sign of the Son of man that shall appear in heaven.
"…and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn…" (v 30). That's when they begin fighting God and Christ!
"…and they shall see the Son of man coming upon the clouds of heaven with power and great glory" (v 30)—so every eye shall see Him!
Then it comes down to the resurrection, v 31: "And He shall send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet; and they shall gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other."
That is like looking down at the earth from heaven. There are going to be saints from everywhere in the whole world, and the angels are going to bring them.
When does that take place? Here's where we bring in the Calculated Hebrew Calendar. We'll answer some other questions and see the pattern: God gives us the summary first, then the details later. Or it is a prophecy from another part of the Bible that you put together with prophecies in another part of the Bible.
Imagine what the earth is going to be like when the heavens roll back as a scroll and the whole earth is shaken; earthquakes everywhere!

• When did God make Israel His people? When He gave the Law at Mt. Sinai and that was on Pentecost!
• When did the Church officially begin? On Pentecost!

based on the Pentecost thing:

• When is the resurrection?

Since we're the firstfruits of God, remember this: The Hebrew calendar is calculated beginning with the seventh month!When you count the Holy Days, Pentecost 'the last day.'
What did Jesus say? I will raise you up the last day (John 6)! Pentecost is the last day of the 50-day count. Pentecost is the last Holy Day beginning with Trumpets:

• Trumpets
• Atonement
• Tabernacles
• Last Great Day
• First day of Unleavened Bread
• Last day of Unleavened Bread
• Pentecost

You add the Passover in and that's eight, but it is the last Holy Day! Since--

• we have the pattern at Sinai
• we have the pattern of Acts 2
• then when you have the sealing of the 144,000

—doesn't it make sense that this would occur on Pentecost?
Let's take this one step further. Rev. 2 & 3, how many churches do we have? Seven! How many weeks to the harvest? Seven! But there's the 50th day!
Rev. 7 represents the 50th day harvest by God at this point. So, this takes place on Pentecost. One year later we have the resurrection of the rest of the saints. Does that make sense? Yes, indeed, because we are firstfruits unto God! We are the Church of the Firstborn! All of those tie together. When you begin to understand things in the Bible you have to include everything. That's why keeping the Holy Days, beginning with the Sabbath, and you keep the Passover so that you're in right standing with God, and then keep the Holy Days, this will add understanding as God gives us understanding.
Right after the heavens roll back as a scroll here is this new sun every day for a year, every day for a year every eye will see it. What happens when people get used to something? They just take it for granted! 'Oh well, the heavens were shaken up and this is just a new body that's in orbit around the earth now.'
Here's what happens: there's great peace and calm after all those earthquakes. Before we get to Rev. 8, what is the rest of the world doing while God is dealing with the 144,000? What do people do after every earthquake? They clean things up! It's going to be so messed up they are going to need the time between Pentecost and Trumpets to get things cleaned up. That is three and a half months; from Pentecost to Trumpets!What happens in Rev. 8? Trumpet plagues! Would those not begin on the Feast of Trumpets? Yes, indeed!
Let's talk about the 144,000 and the great innumerable multitude. They held back the winds so they didn't blow and then God sealed them by an angel. There was nobody there to baptize them, nobody there to preach to them. How are they going to receive the Holy Spirit and be sealed? God is going to send it and an angel is going to administer it.

• Can God do that? Yes, indeed!
• Will there be those baptizing people at that time, too? Could very well be, we don't know!

Revelation 7:4 "And I heard the number of those who were sealed: one hundred forty-four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the children of Israel." The first one is Judah, and God says in Zech. 12 that He 'will save the tents of Judah first.' There it is right there.
Did God save the tents of Judah first with the Church when it began? Yes! They were all Jews! 'To the Jew first, then to the Greek, or Gentile.' So, the patterns of God fit all the way through.
There's Judah, Reuben, Gad, Asher, Naphtali, Manasseh, Simeon, Levi, Issachar, Zebulon, Joseph, Benjamin, and then the great innumerable multitude.
Here we need to answer a question, because it looks like that these people immediately go to the throne of God, but they don't! Why? All those who are Christ's are resurrected at His coming! This is part of His coming, but this is the start of it. He has to come right close to the earth for the resurrection to occur. That has not happened, yet, because that sun is still out there and the earth is turning on its axis.
Verse 9: "After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude… [v 10]: …and they were calling out with a loud voice to Him Who sits on the throne and to the Lamb, saying, 'The salvation of our God has come.' Then all the angels stood around the throne, and the elders and the four living creatures, and fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, saying, 'Amen. Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honor, and power and strength be to our God into the ages of eternity. Amen'" (vs 9-12).
Verse 9 says that they were "…standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes and holding palms in their hands." That's the statement that tells what's going to happen. It describes it, but it doesn't happen until the resurrection.
We'll see why in just a minute. There are two verses in Rev. 8 and 9 that tell us that the saints are praying. If you have the Holy Spirit of God you are a saint. So, they don't immediately go to heaven, though it appears that they do with this description, which tells where they will be at the resurrection.
Verse 13: "And one of the elders answered and said to me, 'These who are clothed with white robes, who are they, and where did they come from?' Then I said to him, 'Sir, you know.' And he said to me, 'They are the ones who have come out of the Great Tribulation; and they have washed their robes, and have made their robes white in the blood of the Lamb. For this reason, they are before the throne of God and serve Him day and night in His temple; and the One Who sits on the throne shall dwell among them. They shall not hunger any more, nor shall they thirst any more; neither shall the sun nor the heat fall upon them, because the Lamb Who is in the midst of the throne will shepherd them, and will lead them to fountains of living waters; and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes'" (vs 13-17).
Notice that the latter part has to do with the new heaven and new earth.
1-Corinthians 15:20: "But now Christ has been raised from the dead; He has become the Firstfruit of those who have fallen asleep. For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. But each in his own order: Christ the Firstfruit; then those who are Christ's at His coming" (vs 20-23).
What else has to happen? This also tells us why those in Rev. 7 do not go immediately to the throne of God. What has to happen to make that take place?
Verse 51: "Behold, I show you a mystery: we shall not all fall asleep, but we shall all be changed, in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed" (vs 51-52).
No one is going to the throne of God until the last trumpet, and the 144,000 and the great innumerable multitude are sealed before the first trumpet. They are alive when the last trumpet blows!
Revelation 8:1: "Now, when He opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about a half hour. Then I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them" (vs 1-2). They blow in sequence: 1, 2, 3, 4; then 5 &6; then 7.
No one is going to be raised to come before God before the seventh trumpet. So, when you read Rev. 7 you need to get the time frame understood with other Scriptures, because it looks like—if you just read and end it there—that they immediately go before the throne of God, but they don't!
Verse 3: "And another angel, who had a golden censer, came and stood at the altar; and much incense was given to him, so that he might offer it with the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar that was before the throne."
If they had gone to heaven immediately, they wouldn't be on the earth praying, and they wouldn't be just called the saints, they would be the sons of God at that point.
This shows that the 144,000 and the great innumerable multitude are not in heaven, but on the earth and are praying.
Now, there's one other group that is still left that is in a place of safety. They will be praying, as well.

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