THE KINGDOM IS COMING--GOD'S TRIBULATION CONQUEST OF REBELLIOUS MANKIND ON EARTH

The Scroll Contains the Plan of God for Earth’s Future:

Most likely this scroll is the same scroll we see in Ezekiel 2:9-10 and Daniel 12:4. It refers to the plan of God to take back the kingdom of the Earth, temporarily taken over by Satan. Some call this scroll the title deed, but it has so much more to do with the actual plan of action to judge sin and end the rebellion.

As we watch the scene of worship in Heaven, we have been studying the element of redemption. As we are hearing songs of worship that we will offer in the future, we are seeing the wonders of the beauty God has surrounded Himself with, in Heaven.

Now skip down and look at the opening of chapter 6. This scroll has seven seals. When we see that scroll opened in chapter 6 it represents the unfolding of the plan for God’s wrath to start pouring out in three parts: through the seven seals (Rev. 6-8), then the seven trumpets (Rev. 8-14), and finally the seven bowls (Rev. 15-19).

First, as each seal is loosed by Christ, the Lamb, the plan explodes into action. In Chapter 6 there are six seals opened, and in Chapter 8:1 the seventh seal opens to launch seven trumpets.

Second, the seven trumpets which cover chapters 8-14, where the seventh trumpet sounds in 11:15 is the prelude to the final set of judgments known as the bowl judgments.

Finally, the bowls of wrath get poured out starting in Rev. 15:7 as they are introduced, and these seven bowls initiate the final events before Christ’s Second Coming in power and glory in chapter 19, and His final acts consume all the rebels in chapter 20.

But this sequence of seals, trumpets, and bowls always makes me wonder. How can Revelation swing from Heaven and worship to Earth and horribly destructive judgment? We can see the answer by understanding the explanations God has given. First, we can see twice mentioned collected prayers of the saints. See them mentioned in Rev. 5:8 and again in 8:3? Revelation shows us God, as he finally launches:

The Answer to Centuries of Prayers

For twenty centuries God’s servants have prayed obediently: “Thy Kingdom Come”. Now, all of those prayers, collected by God, in bowls at His feet, in v. 8 are scooped up and the wrath begins.
But the mystery has always been: why does God wait?

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