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Describe The Seventh Seal
Jesus described the first six seals in the Olivet Prophecy, and the apostle John goes on in Revelation chapters 7 and 8 to further describe the seventh seal as the opening up of the second phase of the Great Tribulation on Earth. The first four seals are known as the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The first seal introduces the antichrist. The second seal causes great warfare. The third seal causes famine. The fourth seal brings pestilence. The fifth seal reveals that those who are martyred for their faith in Jesus during the Great Tribulation will just have to wait for God's timing for it to be over. The sixth seal is the one that causes massive and terrible devastation on the Earth with cosmic activity. I can't imagine the horror of the …show more content…
This time frame of judgment wrath coincides with Jesus’ warning that nothing would survive, if He did not return (Matthew 24:22). So, we can see here that wars, famines, pestilences, and earthquakes are minor compared to what is coming on a very, very large destructive scale. Jesus has given us oil through the presence of His Holy Spirit, which has become our intuitive intelligence to be prepared, as we have been instructed to be. Oil is synonymous with preparedness. The Bible is not a cliffhanger. God has told the end from the beginning. The anointing oil that comes to us from the presence of the Holy Spirit, which is our Helper, gives us the understanding of the necessity to always be prepared for the arrival of our rapture. We have all been warned that Jesus, our Bridegroom, will come for us at any moment. We are to keep our light burning brightly from the oil of knowledge that is given to us in God's Holy Word. Do not let your lamps go …show more content…
Jesus spent His last night there! What is the significance of that? In ancient Israel, olive oil not only served as fuel for lamps, but it was also used to anoint kings and priests. An interesting thing about an olive tree is that it has to be cultivated to produce optimum fruit. To become prolific, an olive tree needs to be grafted. In horticulture, grafted means that a good branch is made to grow on a wild branch. A wonderful reference here is the grafting in of the Gentiles with the Jews to become God's chosen people. "… if the root is holy, so are the branches. But some of these branches from Abraham's tree-- some of the people of Israel-- have been broken off. And you Gentiles, who were branches from a wild olive tree, have been grafted in. So now you also receive the blessings God has promised Abraham and his children, sharing in the rich nourishment from the root of God's special olive tree," Romans 11:16-17 NLT. Glory to God! By faith in Him, we are counted as the "children of Abraham," (Galatians

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