Bible Study 2, Part 3

The Day of Redemption: 

Signs in the Sky are seen by All the World!

SEAL 6 and MATT 24:22  

Revelation 6:12-17  “I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind. The heavens receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place. Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and everyone else, both slave and free, hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains. They called to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can withstand it?”  (see Isaiah 2:17,19 -21)   Matthew 24:22,26-33 “...for the sake of the elect those days (of Great Tribulation) will be shortened.... “So if anyone tells you, ‘There he is, out in the wilderness,’ do not go out; or, ‘Here he is, in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it. For as lightning that comes from the east is visible (to all) even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man...“Immediately after the distress of those days“ ‘the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.’ Then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. And then all the peoples of the earth will mourn when they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory. And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other. Now learn this lesson: As soon as the fig's twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it is near, right at the door.” 

1. God’s wrath is first announced in Revelation at the _____ seal.

2. Are believers going to feel God’s wrath? ____

1 THESS 5:9 “For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.”

3. The days of Great Tribulation are cut short (literally: decapitated) for the sake of the elect by the appearing of  J_________!

MATT 24: 22,29  "...those days will be shortened...Immediately after the distress of those day" `the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; "At that time the sign of the Son of Man (Jesus) will appear in the sky...” The Antichrist kingdom lasts the full 3 ½ years, but the last year is no longer the Great Tribulation, but God’s Wrath!

REV 3:7  "To...the church in Philadelphia write:  These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open. 8 I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.... 10 Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial (Seal 7) coming upon the whole world to test those who live on the earth.”

  "There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars.” LUKE 21:25 

4. Underline the wonders, seen by all the world, that announce Jesus’ coming to gather the Church to Himself:

MARK 13:23-27 (ESV)   “So be on your guard; I have told you all things beforehand. "But in those days, after that tribulation,  `the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light;  and the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken.' And then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory.  And then he will send out the angels and gather his elect from the four winds…” 1 THES 4:16-17  "For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever."  See that, up to verse 24 in Mark 13, Jesus says “you" disciples, until the cosmic signs appear and the church is gathered up (“in a twinkling of an eye”  I Cor 15:52). After this, Jesus speaks of “they” (those left behind) seeing the Son of Man in the clouds while we disciples are collected from around the world to meet Jesus in the air! 

5. These signs take place at the ____ th seal?

REV 6:12,13  “I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, and the stars in the sky fell to earth…”

6. What other event do these same signs announce, proving once and for all, that Jesus’ 2nd coming ushers in the Day of the Lord’s Wrath (Seal 7) ?  __________________

ISAIAH 13:9-11  “See, the day of the LORD is coming ... The stars of heaven and their constellations will not show their light. The rising sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light. I will put an end to the arrogance of the haughty and will humble the pride of the ruthless.”   JOEL 2:6   “..the sky trembles, the sun and moon are darkened, and the stars no longer shine.  11 The LORD thunders at the head of his army; his forces are beyond number, and mighty are those who obey his command. The day of the LORD is great... 31 The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD. OBEDIAH 1:15 "The day of the LORD is near for all nations. As you have done, it will be done to you;  your deeds will return upon your own head.” ( Isaiah 13:6-8)  JUDE 1:14-15  "Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about them: “See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones to judge everyone, and to convict all of them of all the ungodly acts they have committed in their ungodliness, and of all the defiant words ungodly sinners have spoken against him.” 

RAPTURE!! 

We have liftoff!   REV 7:9, 13,14  “After this (the 144,000 Israelites sealed as God’s)  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. 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…”      

Study all the verses that describe what will take place for us (the elect) 

as we’re gathered to Jesus when He comes again, at the last day:

1 THES 4:15-18   "According to the Lord’s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage one another with these words."

2 COR 15:51-54   “Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep (die), but we will all be changed--  in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. ... then the saying that is written will come true: "Death has been swallowed up in victory."

JOB 19:25-27  “I know that my Redeemer  lives, and that in the end he will stand upon the earth.  And, after I awake, though this body has been destroyed, then in my flesh I will see God;  I myself will see him with my own eyes--I, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!”

1 JOHN 3:2 "But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is." 

1 COR 15:42-44,49  “So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; ...it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body...we shall bear the image of the heavenly man (Jesus).”

JOHN 11:24  Martha answered, "I know he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day."

1 PETER 1:3,4 “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade.

LUKE 14:13,14  “But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous."

REVELATION 7:17  “The Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd; he will lead them to springs of living water. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

1 THES 5:9  “For God did not appoint us (believers) to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.” 

Which verse encourages you the most as you look for the Lord’s coming and our being gathered to Him?  Oh what a day that will be! 

The Day and the Hour

1. Should the Day of the Lord surprise us who know the truth? _____

1 THES 5:4,6  “But you, brothers, are not in darkness so that this day should surprise you like a thief... So then, let us be alert and self-controlled.”

2. We’ll know the season of his coming, but will we know the day or the hour? Yes   No

MATT 24:32  "Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. 33 Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it (His appearing) is near, right at the door.  36"No one knows that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son,  but only the Father.”   We know the Antichrist is revealed in the middle of the last 7 years but the final 3 ½ years is “cut short” by Christ’s second coming and our rapture, sometime before the final year, so we will not know the exact day or hour, only the ‘season’.

3. Will the world understand when God’s wrath is about to begin? ___ Will it be a secret, silent rapture? ____

REV 6:12,15-17 “I watched as he (the Lamb) opened the sixth seal....every slave and every free man hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains... hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! For the great day of their wrath has come..."

 What happens after the Church is taken up to heaven?

Silence followed by Judgment

SEAL 7 and REV 8:1ff

 “When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven 

for about half an hour.  

And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and to them were given seven trumpets... The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down upon the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, all the green grass was burned up.”

1. What do we see in the following prophecies as the judgment of God is about to come?  S________

ZEPH 1:7,14-16   “Be silent before the Sovereign LORD, for the day of the LORD is near, near and coming quickly. The cry on the day of the Lord is bitter; the Mighty Warrior shouts his battle cry. That day will be a day of wrath— a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness—a day of trumpet and battle cry.”

HAB 2:2 “Then the LORD replied: “Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald may run with it. 3 For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it linger, wait for it; it  will certainly come and will not delay.  4“Look at the proud! They trust in themselves, and their lives are crooked. But the righteous will live by their faithfulness to God.14For as the waters fill the sea, the earth will be filled with an awareness of the glory of the LORD.16 The cup from the Lord’s right hand is coming around to you, and disgrace will cover your glory.  19 Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Come to life!’ 20 But the LORD is in his holy temple; let all the earth be silent before him.”

2. What two accounts does Jesus use that show that judgment comes immediately after the removal of the righteous? N______ and  L_______

LUKE 17: 26-30  “Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man.  People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all. “It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.  But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all. “It will be just like this on the day the Son of Man is revealed.” 

3. Will the world repent?  The Bible says that mankind will be scarcer than gold. Only a remnant of the nations will remain.  The wrath of God is poured out on evil and those who have loved it.  

REV 9:13,20-21;16:9-11,21  "The sixth angel sounded his trumpet...The rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and ...idols that cannot see or hear or walk. Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts."  "They cursed the name of God, who had control over these plagues, but they refused to repent and glorify him. The fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was plunged into darkness. Men ... cursed the God of heaven because of their pains … but they refused to repent of what they had done.” 

4. The 7th Trumpet unleashes the final 7 Bowl Judgments poured out on the Beast.   Underline what will happen to Satan and his unholy minions:

DAN 7:7,9,25,11  “...in my vision at night I looked, and there before me was a fourth beast—terrifying and frightening and very powerful. It had large iron teeth; it crushed and devoured its victims and trampled underfoot whatever was left. It was different from all the former beasts, and it had ten horns.  “He will speak against the Most High and oppress his saints and try to change the set times and the laws. “Then I continued to watch because of the boastful words the horn was speaking. I kept looking until the beast was slain and its body destroyed and thrown into the blazing fire."   REV 12:9 “The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. DAN 13:2  The dragon gave the beast his power and his throne and great authority. DAN 16:12-14  The sixth angel poured out his bowl... Then I saw three evil spirits that looked like frogs; they came out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet ...which go out to the kings of the whole world, to gather them together for the war…” DAN 19:19.20  “Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to make war against the rider on the horse and his army. But the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who had performed the miraculous signs on his behalf. With these signs he had deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped his image. The two of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake....” DAN 14:7  “These will wage war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, because He is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those who are with Him are the called and chosen and faithful." (Jude 1:14-25)  DAN 7:21,22  “...this horn (ruler) was waging war against the saints and defeating them, until the Ancient of Days came and pronounced judgment in favor of the saints of the Most High, and the time came when they possessed the kingdom. DAN 7:11 “As I looked, thrones were set in place, and the Ancient of Days took his seat. I kept looking until the beast was slain and its body destroyed and thrown into the blazing fire."   2 THES 2:8 "... the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming.”  REV 16:17  "The seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and out of the temple came a loud voice from the throne, saying, “It is done!”  REV 20:1-3, 7-10   "And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key to the Abyss and holding in his hand a great chain. He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. He threw him into the Abyss, and locked and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended. After that, he must be set free for a short time. When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—and to gather them for battle. In number they are like the sand on the seashore. They marched across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of God’s people, the city he loves. But fire came down from heaven and devoured them. And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

Jesus will renew the earth and reign a thousand years.

DAN 7:13-14 “In my vision at night I looked, and there before me was one like a son of man,  coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into his presence. He was given authority, glory and sovereign power; all nations and peoples of every language worshiped him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed.|"

MICAH 5:4 “He will stand and shepherd his flock in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God. And they will live securely, for then his greatness will reach to the ends of the earth.”  

ISA 11:6  “The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together; and a little child will lead them.”  19:21,25 “So the LORD will make himself known to the Egyptians, and in that day they will acknowledge the LORD... The LORD Almighty will bless them, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria my handiwork, and Israel my inheritance.”  

1 Peter 2:9-10: “But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.”

REV 20: 5-10 “This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is the one who has a part in the first resurrection; over these the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with Him for a thousand years. 

Then He will make all things new for Eternity! 

PETER 3:10, 13 “The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare.  But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, the home of righteousness.”

ISA 65:16-18 “For the past troubles will be forgotten and hidden from my eyes. “Behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.  

But be glad and rejoice forever in what I will create…”  

REV 21:1,4 

“Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.  He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain,

 for the old order of things has passed away.”

Maranatha! Come, Lord Jesus!

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