"And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour."
In a series of sevens the Revelation of Jesus Christ lays out judgment meted out in accordance with the everlasting covenant. The day of salvation is distinct from the hour or months that we come across and it pertains to the nation of Israel. For example we have the rapture associated with the two witnesses. "And after three days and an half the spirit of life from God entered into them." The same power of God that lifted up Jesus Christ works on these witnesses. How the Spirit reckons those witnesses for the testimony of God is in this verse. It is set during the great tribulation but the "winepress of the wrath of God. is set in motion from Abel onwards " And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped."(14:16) In the series of seven what we read from Re. Ch.6 is the wrath of God upon the nations. "And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs."(14:20) 1600 furlongs as with 12000 furlongs are tags for the word of God and for the gospel respectively. 4x4x100 is counted according to the generation of Jesus Christ. 12x1000 likewise refers to the gospel of Christ and of God.
Three sets of sevens we can find beginning with the opening the book with seals. Seven trumpets pendent on the seventh seal lead us to the great switch-over: "The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever."(11:15)
The line is stretched across Jerusalem. "My house shall be built in it, saith the Lord of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem." This house is built on the stone which is to become the heavenly Zion."
"And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour."
In a series of sevens the Revelation of Jesus Christ lays out judgment meted out in accordance with the everlasting covenant. The day of salvation is distinct from the hour or months that we come across and it pertains to the nation of Israel. For example we have the rapture associated with the two witnesses. "And after three days and an half the spirit of life from God entered into them." The same power of God that lifted up Jesus Christ works on these witnesses. How the Spirit reckons those witnesses for the testimony of God is in this verse. It is set during the great tribulation but the "winepress of the wrath of God. is set in motion from Abel onwards " And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped."(14:16) In the series of seven what we read from Re. Ch.6 is the wrath of God upon the nations. "And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs."(14:20) 1600 furlongs as with 12000 furlongs are tags for the word of God and for the gospel respectively. 4x4x100 is counted according to the generation of Jesus Christ. 12x1000 likewise refers to the gospel of Christ and of God.
Three sets of sevens we can find beginning with the opening the book with seals. Seven trumpets pendent on the seventh seal lead us to the great switch-over: "The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever."(11:15)
The line is stretched across Jerusalem. "My house shall be built in it, saith the Lord of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem." This house is built on the stone which is to become the heavenly Zion."
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