The stage is set.
Earth’s cup of sin is full and overflowing. Most of its people do not anticipate they will be participants in a catastrophic drama. Jesus is holding back the “four winds” of wrath until the appointed time. At the appointed time, Jesus will select and seal the 144,000 and God’s wrath will begin.
After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth to prevent any wind from blowing on the land or on the sea or on any tree.
2 Then I saw another angel coming up from the east, having the seal of the living God. He called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea:
3 “Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.”
4 Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel. (Revelation 7:1-4)
Holy Spirit power will be poured out around the world. Jesus will speak through His servants and the survivors will consider a gospel that is contrary to almost everything they believe. There is good news. The Bible says there will be an innumerable group of people who find salvation during the Great Tribulation.
9 After this 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 before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands.
10 And they cried out in a loud voice:
“Salvation belongs to our God,
who sits on the throne,
and to the Lamb.”
11 All the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures. They fell down on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, 12 saying:
“Amen!
Praise and glory
and wisdom and thanks and honor
and power and strength
be to our God for ever and ever.
Amen!”
13 Then one of the elders asked me, “These in white robes—who are they, and where did they come from?”
14 I answered, “Sir, you know.”
And he said,
“Salvation belongs to our God,
who sits on the throne,
and to the Lamb.”
11 All the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures. They fell down on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, 12 saying:
“Amen!
Praise and glory
and wisdom and thanks and honor
and power and strength
be to our God for ever and ever.
Amen!”
13 Then one of the elders asked me, “These in white robes—who are they, and where did they come from?”
14 I answered, “Sir, you know.”
And he said,
“These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. (Revelation 7:9-14)
Jesus will be exalted as almighty God, the Creator of heaven and Earth, the Savior of the world, the God of the Old Testament, Michael the archangel, the Son of God, the Lamb of God, and a coeternal member of deity.
No one in the universe compares to Jesus because no one has done what He has done. When John closed his gospel, he wrote:
“Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.” (John 21:25)
When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment: (John 16:8)
This calls for patient endurance on the part of the people of God who keep his commands and remain faithful to Jesus. (Revelation 14:12)
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