1. Teaching the “whole counsel of God” (Acts 20:27)
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2. Revelation 7 – “Who shall be able to stand?”
Teaching the “whole counsel of God” (Acts 20:27)
Revelation 7 – “Who shall be able to stand?”
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3. A parenthetic chapter that answers the question, “Who is able to stand
Four angels waiting to hurt the earth
No wind – like the doldrums
Impending escalation of judgement
Ezekiel 18 verse 23 – no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but pleased when they repent and live
Ezekiel 33 verse 11 – same sentiment
An opportunity to save evangelistic servants
Probably the greatest number of people saved in the shortest period of time ever
The hurt to come from the four quarters of the earth, delivered by powerful angels
But everything held in stillness while the servants are sealed

4. Sealing of the servants
Not a new concept
Cain marked so no one would kill him (Gen 4 v 15)
The Angel with the inkhorn (Ezekiel 9)
We are sealed with the holy spirit (Ephesians 1 verse 13)
Matt 27 v 66 – the tomb was sealed
Revelation 20 v 3 – the pit is sealed
Romans 4 v 11 – Abraham’s circumcision
1 Cor 9 v 2 – Converts a seal of Paul’s Apostleship
Revelation 7 v 3 - Sealed from judgement
Ezekiel 9 – sealed from judgement
2 Tim 2 v 19 - a seal also mean belonging or possession
1 Peter 2 v 9 – we are a people for God’s own possession
In both cases this means to close in
A sign or seal of authenticity

5. Who are the sealed servants?
from the twelve tribes of Israel
12000 from each tribe
NOT JEHOVA’S WITNESSES
Approx 250,000 enrolled, so a bad organisation to join!
No Gentiles, only Jews
What about the names?
Why a list that omits Dan and Ephraim?
29 times the tribes are listed – often differences but always 12
Sometimes Dan, Menasseh,Levi, Ephraim or Joseph omitted (Joseph because of the inclusion of his 2 sons)

6. Who are the sealed servants?
In Genesis 35 verses 22 to 26 is the first mention
In Ezekiel 48 v 30 & following is the last mention
In Rev 7 Dan and Ephraim missing but Menasseh and Joseph included
Judges 18 v 30 & 31 – Dan set up a carved image in Shiloh
1 Kings 12 verses 28 – 30 – two calves of gold in Bethel and Dan under Jereboam
Bethel in Ephraim’s territory – Hosea 4 v 17
Deuteronomy 28 v 58
Deuteronomy 29 v
Same list same order
Plagued and name cut off from among the tribes for idolatory

7. The sealed servants
God had to judge Dan and Ephraim to fulfil His word
Perhaps when we get to The Millennium the list will be as it was in Genesis and Ezekiel?
God said he would never wipe out the Jews - Jeremiah 30 v 11
Israel will always exist – Jeremiah 31 v 37 – these tribes are still part of Jacob (Israel).
They are redeemed virgins devoted only to The Lamb
They are also evangelists

8. The fruit of the sealed servants
They are referred to as the ‘first-fruits unto God’
How did they come to know God?
Possibly the Messianic Movement converted
Possibly because of the witness of the rapture
Some say because of the two witnesses in Rev 11 – this interferes with the chronological view of the text
After these things
Converts from every people, tribe, tongue and nation – not Jews
For the Amillennialist – not converted by the church
The church told to preach to the Jew first, now the Jew preaching to the Gentile

9. The fruit of the sealed servants
All nations, tribes, tongues and peoples
Clothed in white
Washed in The Blood
Palms – speak of worship and adulation – connection with Tabernacles
Crying out, “Salvation” as an offering to God
Elders did not know who they were
2 Thess 2 v 10 – those who wilfully reject Him will be deluded

10. The fruit of the sealed servants
Promises
Before the throne of God – a special place promised
Serving Him day and night – to serve God is a great honour
In His temple – speaks, I believe, of the Temple in the millennium
Will not hunger or thirst any more – so others will if they are not sealed
The sun will not strike them – significant because this is part of the coming judgement
Nor any heat – again, the time to come will be unbearably hot
For The Lamb will shepherd them – as in Psalm 23
Fulfilment also of Isaiah 25 v 8

11. Teaching the “whole counsel of God” (Acts 20:27)
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