Seals and Trumpets

{SEVEN SEALS AND SEVEN TRUMPETS}
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  1. Is the Church Absent in the Book of Revelation? - (Does the church disappear from the earth after chapter 3 of the book?) - {PDF Copy}
  2. A Rapture in the Book of Revelation? - (Revelation 4:1 - Does the Summoning of John to Heaven represent the "rapture?") - {PDF Copy}
  3. The Throne and the Cosmos - (Revelation 4:1-11 - The image of the glorious Throne places God and His rule at the center of the created order and prepares the reader for the introduction of the Lamb) - {PDF Copy}
  4. The Scroll Sealed with Seven Seals - (Revelation 5:1-4 - The One Sitting on the Throne holds a Scroll sealed tight by seven seals. A search is made for someone in the Creation who is “worthy” to open the Sealed Scroll) - {PDF Copy}
  5. The Lamb is Worthy to Open the Sealed Scroll - (Revelation 5:5-14 - ) - {PDF Copy}
  6. The Unsealed Book. The Time of Fulfillment is Now - (The book of Revelation unveils the plan of God for this age) - {PDF Copy}
  7. Opening of the Seven Seals - An Overview - (Upon his arrival before the Throne, the Lamb commences immediately to open the Seven Seals of the Sealed Scroll.) - {PDF Copy}
  8. The First Seal - (Revelation 6:1-2 - The Lamb now breaks open the first seal, releasing a rider carrying a bow and riding a white horse) - {PDF Copy}
  9. The Second Seal - (Revelation 6:3-4 - The second rider is on a fiery-red horse sent to “remove peace from the earth” by causing men to “slay one another”) - {PDF Copy}
  10. The Third Seal - (Revelation 6:5-6 - The third seal releases a rider on a black horse. A voice from the Throne prohibits him from destroying what is needed for daily life) - {PDF Copy}
  11. The Fourth Seal - (Revelation 6:7-8 - The fourth seal releases a rider named “Death” who is followed by “Hades” gathering up the dead in his wake) - {PDF Copy}
  12. The Fifth Seal - (Revelation 6:9-11 - The fifth seal reveals the souls of martyrs underneath an altar from which they cry out for vindication and justice) - {PDF Copy}
  13. The Sixth Seal - (Revelation 6:12-17 - The Sixth Seal opening ushers in the Day of the Lord, the time of wrath upon mankind) - {PDF Copy}
  14. The Seal of God - (Revelation 7:1-3 - God’s servants are sealed before the “four winds of the earth” are unleashed by the four horsemen) - {PDF Copy}
  15. The Number of the Sealed Servants of God - (Revelation 7:4-8 - 144,000 males from the tribes of Israel are numbered and assembled for transit to the Promised Land ) - {PDF Copy}
  16. The Innumerable Multitude - The Vision - (Revelation 7:9-12 - John now sees an innumerable multitude from all nations standing before the Lamb and the Throne) - {PDF Copy}
  17. The Innumerable Multitude - The Interpretation - (Revelation 7:13-17 - One of the “elders” interprets the vision of a vast multitude that “no man could number,” standing before the Throne) - {PDF Copy}
  18. The Seventh Seal - (Revelation 8:1-6 - The Seventh Seal forms a transition to the next sevenfold series, the Seven Trumpets) - {PDF Copy}
  19. Overview  of the Seven Trumpets - (Revelation 8:7-11:19 - An overview of the Seven Trumpets and the several intervening events) - {PDF Copy}
  20. The First Trumpet - (Revelation 8:7 - The first trumpet unleashes a plague based on the seventh plague of Egypt, but with modifications ) - {PDF Copy}
  21. The Second Trumpet - (Revelation 8:8-9 - The second trumpet harms much of the commerce on which Babylon and the “inhabitants of the earth” depend) - {PDF Copy}
  22. The Third Trumpet - (Revelation 8:10-11 - The third trumpet produces a “great star” that falls onto the sources of freshwater, embittering them) - {PDF Copy}
  23. The First Four Trumpets - (Revelation 8:7-12 - The first four trumpets parallel the first four seal openings) - {PDF Copy}
  24. The Fifth Trumpet - (Revelation 8:13-9:12 - Three “woes” are proclaimed that correspond to the last three trumpets) - {PDF Copy}
  25. The Sixth Trumpet - (Revelation 9:13-21 - The sixth trumpet is related to the sixth bowl of wrath; both release creatures from beyond the Euphrates) - {PDF Copy}
  26. The Little Scroll - (Revelation 10:1-11 - The sixth trumpet did not produce repentance by the “inhabitants of the earth. Something else is needed to complete “the mystery of God") - {PDF Copy}
  27. The Measuring of the Sanctuary - (Revelation 11:1-2 - The Sanctuary is "measured" to prepare for the prophetic ministry of the Two Witnesses) - {PDF Copy}
  28. The Two Witnesses - (Revelation 11:3-14 - The Two Witnesses carry out their prophetic witness to the "inhabitants of the earth") - {PDF Copy}
  29. The Seventh Trumpet - Third Woe - (Revelation 11:15-19 - The Seventh Trumpet ushers in the Day of  the Lord, the time of the final judgment) - {PDF Copy}
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