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These are times that try men’s souls. Truly, the things that are happening in the world right now can be disturbing. But God’s word is a rock that strengthens faith. What an encouragement to study the book of Revelation; to know how all of this will end strengthens us to persevere.

We are living in a time that you might call the trouble before the trouble. Jesus said that the world will go through a period of trouble he called the beginning of “birth pangs.”

In other words, there are greater troubles to come. They will grow greater in intensity and closer together as the end draws near. But then, just as it seems things could not get worse, the Antichrist arises on the scene as a hero to be hailed, a type of Savior because he will save the world from great troubles. He will bring peace and safety.

But to this Paul wrote, “While they are saying, ‘Peace and safety!’ Then destruction will come upon them suddenly like labor pains upon a woman with child, and they will not escape.” 1 Thessalonians 5:3

In other words, we are now living in the time of troubles before the Great Tribulation which we are now studying in Revelation.

In the book of Revelation, we are taken with John into a scene of heaven. He saw a sea of glass like crystal upon which he saw a great throne. He who sat upon it had a scroll in His right hand with writing on the inside and the back. It was sealed with seven seals.

No one was found worthy to open the book and break the seals. At first this causes John to weep, but one of the elders said, “Stop weeping, the Lion from the tribe of Judah has overcome so as to open the book and break the seven seals.” But when John looked, he saw not a Lion, but a Lamb as though slain.

As the Lamb breaks each of the seven seals of the scroll of the book, each one unleashes an event of the coming seven-year Tribulation which is the wrath of God poured out on the world.

The first four seals reveal the four horsemen of the Apocalypse that brought first the deceiver, the Antichrist, then people slaying one another and war, then economic collapse and finally death and Hades.

When the Lamb will break the seventh seal of the scroll, it will set forth seven trumpets, each of each of those 7 trumpets will declare more cataclysmic events of the wrath of God during the Tribulation.

However, after the sixth seal of the scroll is broken, there is a pause in heaven before the seventh seal is broken. That’s where we are in Revelation 7. There is a pause so the bondservants of God can receive a seal on their foreheads. We are then given the actual number…144,000 receive this mark on their forehead.

A mark on their forehead? That sounds familiar, you might say; and you would be right. First, we know that the great counterfeit, the Antichrist, will place his mark on the back of the right hand or on the forehead of people during the Tribulation so that without this mark, no one can buy or sell.

We ourselves, we also have a seal upon us, we are sealed with the Holy Spirit. There is also a scene in Ezekiel when the Lord said to a powerful angel, “Go through the midst of the city, even through the midst of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the abominations which are being committed in its midst.”

I. God Always Has a Witness

 It’s a great truth. God always has a witness. There will always be a faithful remnant, even if only a few.

Illus – When Elijah was profit in the northern kingdom of Israel, he became so discouraged that it one point he said to the Lord, “I have been very zealous for the Lord, the God of hosts,; for the sons of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars and killed Your prophets with the sword. I alone am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”

God responded, “I have 7000 in Israel who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”

 Remember that the Great Tribulation is the wrath of God poured out on the earth.

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