Revelation’s 7 Seals

The main purpose of this book is twofold. The first is to show how the Revelation 7 Seals fulfill the remaining seven years of Daniel 9:27 and then ends with God’s forever Kingdom as spoken of in Daniel 2:44-45, Daniel 7-18, and Revelation 20. The second is to show how Revelation provides the details of what actually happens in Daniel’s last 7 years. Everything in the New Testament is talked about, at least briefly in the OT, including end times prophecy. Even the new heaven and a new earth (Isa 65:17, 66:22, Rev 21:1). The New Testament may provide more details than the OT, but there is no completely new topic. Jesus said that He came to fulfill all of what was spoken of by the prophets (Matt 4:17-18). Jesus even says in verse 18 that Heaven and Earth will pass away, which is spoken of in Revelation 21 and 2 Peter 3:12-13. This information is not new because it is spoken of in Old Testament locations like Isaiah 65:17 & 66:22. What Revelation does is provide us with details of what was already spoken of in the Old Testament, and in particular the Book of Daniel. We just need to press in with God’s help and find those OT scriptures. We will see why pressing into God and scripture is important as many of the Old Testament scriptures will help keep us from getting too creative with God’s scripture in the New Testament, especially as it applies to future prophecy.

This may be a big “if” to some, but Satan exists if God/Lord/Jehovah/Yahweh/Elohim/Adonai exists. I have many reasons to know that I know that the Lord is 100% real, so Satan does exist and has no problem disrupting the ways of mankind. Satan has been doing that since the beginning of man, for thousands of years, and is very good at it. As a matter of fact, he knows God and scripture way better than any person ever has and continuously works to twist it to deceive all of us. Sorry if anyone is offended by that, but it’s true. There is a reason why Ephesians 6 teaches us to put on the Whole Armor of God for we battle not against human opponents, but rather evil spiritual forces. If we don’t have our full armor on, evil forces get strongholds in our lives. Satan started with Adam and Eve and he has never stopped. He even attacked Jesus in the desert for 40 days, but failed (Luke 4). Satan used Kings and Rabbis against God and that resulted in the loss of two Temples over time. One by Nebuchadnezzar’s army and the other by Commander Titus and the Romans around 70 AD. The Rabbis were (also) responsible for the death of Jesus on the cross. Satan tries to use as many pastors/priests/ministers today against God’s scripture as he can. They come as wolves in sheep’s clothing (Matt 7:15, Acts 20:29-30). Nothing new under the sun (Ecc 1:9). Remember that Satan fell into sin against God before man and led man down that same path. What is playing out before our very eyes is much bigger than many of us understand and it affects Satan and one third of the angels that followed him. Demonic angels, too, will be judged by God at the White Throne judgment (Rev 20) and spend their eternity in the Lake of Fire. Having said that, we define our own eternity in the life we have today. We can’t blame anyone else if we don’t like our (personal) ending, so do your homework as best you can with God’s help. When looking in the mirror, you are looking at the person responsible for your eternity. God knows the intent of your heart, He is telepathic, and eternity is a long-long time last I checked. Now is a good time to get your eternity location corrected to the Book of Life, if it is not there now (Rom 10:9-13; Rev 20:12-15).

I don’t know why Satan hates man so much, and I do not understand why God has allowed Satan to torment mankind the way he has for such a long period of time. However, remember that we see only in part (1 Cor 13) and need to realize that there is something much larger playing out here between God and some of His rebelling angels than we have been told. Regardless, the day will come when Satan will be thrown into the Lake of Fire and never bother us again (Rev 20:10), but until then he will do what he has always done and that is twisting everything that God says and does. The facts are that Satan has been busy creating all sorts of different religious belief systems, and to make things worse by creating conflicting views within each one of them. End-times prophecy is great proof of Satan’s ability to twist anything. That is why the Bride of Christ has no consensus on what the Bible says about how-when we become the “Wife” of Christ. There are more conflicting views than you may know about. Views such as the preterists, pretribulationism, prewrath, midtribulationalism, posttribulationism, and amillennialism. Only one is right and the rest are deceptions by Satan. How is the church so deceived in this area? The quick answer is that Satan is messing with everything. It is why divorce and abortion are in the church. It is why churches are against each other concerning aspects of God’s Word, and why the seven churches in Revelation no longer exist despite God saying He would always protect them if they did what He asked. If they couldn’t back then, what makes us different today?