The Sealing of the Servants of God

Revelation 7:1: “And after these things” [Visions shown to John in Revelation 6:1-17] “I” [John] “saw” [The vision of] “four angels standing on the four corners of the earth,” [These angels were given power to hurt the earth and the sea, see verses 2-3] “holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.”

Revelation 7:2: “And I” [John] “saw” [The vision of] “another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God:” [The everlasting gospel, see Revelation 14:6] “and he” [The angel] “cried with a loud voice to the four angels,” [The four angels in the first verse] “to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,” See Revelation 8:7.

Revelation 7:3: “Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we” [The angel ascending from the east, and the four angels standing on the four corners of the earth] “have sealed the servants of our God” [The 144,000/Saints of the Most High] “in their foreheads.” With the everlasting gospel to preach to them that dwell on the earth, see Revelation 14:6-7.

The Number of those Sealed

Revelation 7:4: “And I” [John] “heard the number of them which were sealed:” [with the everlasting gospel, by the angel ascending from the east, and the four angels standing on the four corners of the earth] “and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.”

Revelation 7:5: “Of the tribe of Juda were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand.”

Revelation 7:6: “Of the tribe of Aser were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Nepthalim were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Manasses were sealed twelve thousand.”

Revelation 7:7: “Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Levi were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Issachar were sealed twelve thousand.”

Revelation 7:8: “Of the tribe of Zabulon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Joseph were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand.”

The Multitude from the Great Tribulation

Revelation 7:9: “After this” [The vision in verses 1-8] “I” [John] “beheld, and, lo,” [Another vision] “a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne,” [Of the Most High] “and before the Lamb,” [Christ] “clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;”

Revelation 7:10: “And cried with a loud voice,” [The great multitude] “saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.”

Revelation 7:11: “And all the angels stood round about the throne,” [Of the Most High] “and about the elders” [The 24 elders] “and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,”

Revelation 7:12: “Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen.”

This vision takes place in New Jerusalem, and is prophecy concerning the victory of the great multitude over the Beast, see Revelation 22:1-5.

The Elder's Question to John

Revelation 7:13: “And one of the elders” [The 24 elders] “answered, saying unto me,” [John] “What are these which are arrayed in white robes?” [The great multitude, see verse 9] “and whence” [From where] “came they?”

Revelation 7:14: “And I” [John] “said unto him,” [One of the 24 elders] “Sir, thou knowest. And he” [One of the 24 elders] “said to me,” [John] “These are they” [the great multitude] “which came out of great tribulation,” [See Acts 14:22, the great multitude suffered tribulation during the time periods, which includes the New Testament and the reign of the Beast] “and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.”

Revelation 7:15: “Therefore are they” [The great multitude, see Revelation 21:27] “before the throne of God, and serve him" [The Most High] "day and night in his temple:" [Holy Jerusalem, see Revelation 21:10-23] "and he” [The Most High] “that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them.” See Revelation 21:27.

Revelation 7:16: “They” [The great multitude] “shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.” See Revelation 21:23 and Isaiah 60:18-22.

Revelation 7:17: “For the Lamb” [Christ] “which is in the midst of the throne” [Of the Most High] “shall feed them,” [The great multitude] “and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters:” [See Revelation 22:1] “and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.” See Isaiah 25:8.

The Mighty Angel with the Little Book

Revelation 10:1: “And I” [John] “saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:”

Revelation 10:2: “And he” [The angel] “had in his hand a little book open:” [Explained in verses 8-10] “and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,”

Revelation 10:3: “And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he” [The angel] “had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.”

Revelation 10:4: “And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I” [John] “was about to write: and I” [John] “heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.”

Revelation 10:5: “And the angel which I” [John] “saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven,”

Revelation 10:6: “And sware by him” [The Most High] “that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:”

Revelation 10:7: “But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound,” [His trumpet] “the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.” This is explained in Revelation 11:15-19.

John Eats the Little Book

Revelation 10:8: “And the voice which I” [John] “heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.”

Revelation 10:9: “And I” [John] “went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.”

Revelation 10:10: “And I” [John] “took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.”

Revelation 10:11: “And he” [The angel] “said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.” The angel statement proves that John will be brought back, before the second coming of Christ, to prophesy. This is further proof of the promise from Christ found in John 6:39-40.

Those Without the Temple

Revelation 11:1: “And there was given me” [John] “a reed like unto a rod:” [A measuring instrument] “and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar," [New Jerusalem, see Revelation 21:2-3 with Revelation 7:9, 15] "and them” [See Revelation 21:27] “that worship therein.” See Revelation 7:15.

Revelation 11:2: “But the court which is without" [Outside] "the temple" [Holy Jerusalem, see Revelation 21:10-23] "leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles:” [See Revelation 22:15] “and the holy city" [Jerusalem] "shall they" [The followers of the Beast] "tread under foot forty and two months.” Three and half years, during the reign of the Beast.

The Two Witnesses

Revelation 11:3: “And I” [Christ, read Matthew 28:18] “will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy” [See Revelation 14:6-7] “a thousand two hundred and threescore days," [Three and half years] "clothed in sackcloth.”

Revelation 11:4: “These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.”

Revelation 11:5: “And if any man will hurt them,” [The two witnesses] “fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.”

Revelation 11:6: “These” [The two witnesses] “have power to shut heaven, that it rain not” [draught] “in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.”

The Two Witnesses Killed

Revelation 11:7: “And when they shall have finished their testimony,” [The end of their appointed time] “the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit” [See Revelation 17:7-11] “shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.” The Beast will kill the two witnesses at the end of their ministry.

Revelation 11:8: “And their dead bodies shall lie in the street” [They shall remain unburied] “of the great city,” [Babylon, see Revelation 14:8] “which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.”

Revelation 11:9: “And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations” [The people of the earth] “shall see” [By way of technology, example TV, Internet etc.] “their” [The two witnesses] “dead bodies” [Unburied] “three days and an half,” [Literally 3 ½ days, around 84 hours] “and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.”

Revelation 11:10: “And they that dwell upon the earth” [People and kindreds and tongues and nations, those that worship the Beast] “shall rejoice over them,” [The death of the two witnesses] “and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.” See verses 5-6.

The Two Witnesses Resurrected

Revelation 11:11: “And after three days and an half” [Literally 3 ½ days, around 84 hours] “the Spirit of life from God entered into them,” [The dead bodies of the two witnesses] “and they” [The two witnesses] “stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them” [The followers of the Beast who witnessed the resurrection of the two witnesses] “which saw them.”

Revelation 11:12: “And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them,” [The two witnesses] “Come up hither. And they” [The two witnesses] “ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies” [The Beast, false Prophet, and those that worship him] “beheld them.”

Revelation 11:13: “And the same hour was there a great earthquake,” [In Babylon] “and the tenth part of the city” [Babylon] “fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant" [The Elect] "were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.”

Revelation 11:14: “The second woe is past;” [The sixth Trumpet, which is the second of the three remaining woes, see Revelation 8:13] “and, behold, the third woe” [The seventh Trumpet, which is the last of the seven trumpets, see Revelation 8:2] “cometh quickly.”

The Woman, the Child and the Dragon

Revelation 12:1: “And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman” [Zion/Holy Jerusalem/New Jerusalem, see 2 Esdras 10:44, 54 and Revelation 21:2. The woman also represents her people, those written in the lamb’s book of life, see Revelation 21:27.] “clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:”

Revelation 12:2: “And SHE” [The Woman] “being with child cried, travailing in birth, and PAINED TO BE DELIVERED.”

Revelation 12:3: “And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.” Satan.

Revelation 12:4: “And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon" [Satan] "stood before THE WOMAN WHICH WAS READY TO BE DELIVERED, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.”

Revelation 12:5: “And she brought forth a MAN CHILD,” [Christ] “who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God,” [See Acts 1:10-11] “and to his throne.” See Philippians 2:8-11.

Revelation 12:6: “And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God,” [The Most High, during the reign of the Beast, has reserve a place of refuge for the people of Holy Jerusalem/New Jerusalem, the Elect/great multitude, those written in the lamb’s book of life, see Revelation 7:9-17 and Revelation 21:27.] “that they” [The teachers, two witnesses, see Revelation 11:3-6] “should feed her" [The Elect/great multitude] "there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.”

Satan Cast Out of Heaven

Revelation 12:7: “And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels” [The righteous angels, see Daniel 12:1] “fought against the dragon;” [Satan] “and the dragon fought and his angels," The wicked angels.

Revelation 12:8: “And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.” Contrary to what is being taught in the churches, the war in heaven between Satan, his angels and the righteous angels (Michael and his angels), will take place before the fourth king’s kingdom (the little horn, spoken of in Daniel chapter 7), is setup.

Revelation 12:9: “And the great dragon was cast out,” [Cast out of heaven] “that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.”

Revelation 12:10: “And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven,” [At the time when Satan and his angels are cast out of heaven (the “loud voice” heard from heaven, are the words written in verses 10, 11 and 12)] “Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ:” [The salvation of “the children of thy people”, see Daniel 12:1] “for the accuser” [Satan] “of our brethren” [The 144,000/Servants of God/Saints of the Most High] “is cast down,” [Satan cast into the earth] “which accused them” [The 144,000/Servants of God/Saints of the Most High raised up in the last day, see John 6:39-40] “before our God day and night.” Satan accused the 144,000/Servants of God/Saints of the Most High day and night before he was cast out of heaven.

Revelation 12:11: “And they” [The 144,000/Servants of God/Saints of the Most High raised up in the last day] “overcame him” [Satan] “by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony;” [Their testimony given during the time of the Beast] “and they loved not their lives unto the death.” See Revelation 15:1-4 and Revelation 20:4.

Revelation 12:12: “Therefore” [Because the 144,000/Servants of God/Saints of the Most High overcame Satan by their testimony and death] “rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them.” [The righteous angels are rejoicing] “Woe” [Affliction, suffering, misery etc.] “to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea!” [Mankind] “for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.” See Revelation 20:1-3, 10.

Vision Continues: The Woman Persecuted

Revelation 12:13: “And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he” [Satan, see Revelation 12:7-9] “persecuted the woman” [The Elect/great multitude, the 144,000] “which brought forth the man child.”

Revelation 12:14: “And to the woman" [The Elect/great multitude, see Revelation 7:9-17] "were given two wings of a great eagle,” [A way to escape] “that she" [The Elect/great multitude] "might fly into the wilderness," [See verse 6] "into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time,” [See Message to reader: Time and Times and the Dividing of Time (3 ½ Years)] “from the face of the serpent.” The Beast, see Revelation 13:1-2.

Revelation 12:15: “And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood" [See Revelation 13:6-7] "after the woman,” [The Elect/great multitude] “that he might cause her: [The Elect/great multitude] "to be carried away” [Destroyed] “of the flood.”

Revelation 12:16: “And the earth" [See Revelation 11:3, 6] "helped the woman,” [The Elect/great multitude] “and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.” 

Revelation 12:17: “And the dragon was wroth with the woman," [The Elect/great multitude, the 144,000] "and went to make war” [See Revelation 13:11-15] “with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God," [See Revelation 15:6-7] "and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.” The 144,000/Servants of God/Saints of the Most High, see Revelation 7:1-8, Revelation 14:1-7 and Revelation 15:2-4.