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CHAPTER 14
PART I
Revelation 12 flows into Chapter 13 and Chapter 14
IT IS A CONTINUAL FLOWING SCENE
Revelation 12 shows …
The eternal battle between Satan and God’s People – especially Israel
(national and spiritual and the church)
Revelation 13 shows…
Exactly how all of this hatred will culminate in the final 7 years of man’s
history – with an “antichrist” - Satan will fill an “empire” , a man and
a religious system represented by a man to deceive the world and
influence world affairs. This deception will culminate in an all out
attack on the the TWO WITNESSES – Israel and the Church. This
“unholy alliance” – Satan and two men – make up a “false Trinity”. All
represented by man’s number 666 (God’s number – 777)
Revelation 14 shows… The ultimate and complete triumph, of those who are
faithful to Jesus Christ, over the world and the attacks of the antichrist.
READ REVELATION 14:1-5
NOTE the juxtapositions of Chapter 14 with Chapter 13.
Chapter 13 ends with an “apparently victorious” ANTICHRIST.
Chapter 14 begins with an OBVIOUSLY victorious “People of God”!
Chapter 14 continues and ends with a complete victory for God’s
people and a complete loss for the unbelieving world! (Next
week!)
SOME “UNDERSTANDING” of CHAPTER 14:1-5
“The Key elements of interpretation”
The Lamb standing on Mount Zion – Jesus
Mount Zion - Heaven (Jerusalem)
The 144,000 – the “first fruits” - Second time we have seen them
(Chapter 7)
Both instances describe the SAME event.
(These are two different “vignettes”.)
12 x 12 x 1000 - 12 = number of disciples (all Jews) and number of Tribes
of Israel – 1000 equals a large, unspecific number – ( A day with the
Lord is like a thousand years…)
THE PROMISED REMNANT
OF ISRAEL – Jews who are believers in Jesus Christ as Messiah and
Lord!
V.2 and V.3 – The sound from heaven like a “roar of rushing water”…THEY
sang a new song…” - This NOW is the CHURCH – Jew and Gentile
bought by the blood (this lines up perfectly with Chapter 7)
THE 144,000 and the “roar of the multitudes” they are “one in the same
now” These are the “Two Witnesses” in Heaven raptured shortly
after the antichrist requires all to take his mark!
MORE - juxtapositions:
* His Name and His Father’s Name - written on their Foreheads “sealed”
(Ephesians 1:13), they did not take the “mark of the beast”!
Eph 1:13-14
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And you also were included in Christ when you heard the word of truth,
the gospel of your salvation. Having believed, you were marked in him
with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit,
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who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of
those who are God's possession-- to the praise of his glory.
* Without blame – as opposed to the antichrist and his followers – the people of
the “world”
* Without a “lie” in them – as opposed to the total system of lies presented by
the antichrist and accepted by the unbelieving world. Rev. 13 and II
Thess. 2
MORE - juxtapositions:
*Did not defile themselves with “women”
1. Sexual impurity - generally speaking – ( Eph 5:3-7, Galatians 5:19-21, I Corinthians 6:
9-20, Rev 21:8)
2. Biblical purity – religiously speaking (as opposed to submitting to the “Great Harlot”
of Chapter 17)
Rev 7:1-17
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After this (After the 6th seal – which corresponds to the time of the rapture!) I saw four
angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth to
prevent any wind from blowing on the land or on the sea or on any tree.
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Then I saw another angel coming up from the east, having the seal of the living God. He
called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and
the sea:
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"Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the
servants of our God."
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Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel.
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After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from
every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and in front of the
Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands.
And they cried out in a loud voice: "Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne,
and to the Lamb."
All the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living
creatures. They fell down on their faces before the throne and worshiped God,
saying: "Amen! Praise and glory and wisdom and thanks and honor and power and
strength be to our God for ever and ever. Amen!"
Then one of the elders asked me, "These in white robes-- who are they, and where did they
come from?"
I answered, "Sir, you know." And he said, "These are they who have come out of the great
tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
REVELATION 14:3
AND THEY SANG A NEW SONG
VERSE 3
WHICH NO ONE (KJV – “no man”) (“no unbeliever”)
could learn:
A song of praise, a song of redemption –
To appreciate fully the songs of Zion; to understand the language of
praise; one must himself have been redeemed by the blood of the
Lamb! One must have known what it is to be a sinner under the
condemnation of a holy God; he must have known what it is to be in
danger of eternal Hell; he must have experienced the bliss of
forgiveness, and a new beginning with His creator… or he can never
understand, in its deepest sense, the songs sung by the redeemed.
HOW IS YOUR WORSHIP?
In SPIRIT AND TRUTH?
W.I.S.A.T.!