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Week 6: Revelation 7 - 11 Flashcards

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Sealing God’s Servants: 7:1-3 –> Four Corners of Earth

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  • They did not believe the earth was flat
  • Simply a metaphor for all directions
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ch 7 : Holding back “the winds”

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that will harm people. Holding back strife on earth.

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Vegetation language (cf. Psalm 1:3, Jer 17:8)

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  • Don’t harm the earth the sea of the trees
  • Trees do matter.
  • Used for the very people of God. First psalm “keeps his law = be like a tree”
  • Don’t harm the people of God until we seal them!!
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Hearing vs. Seeing in Rev 7

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  • They are sealed with the seal of the living god
  • What is a seal? A marker of identity. A sign of ownership that he puts on people.
  • What is that seal? Compared between the new and old testament.
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“I want you to seal up my law on your foreheads” is an identifying mark of the people of God.

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  • Ancient seals = had name, title, and territory they ruled
  • It is exactly this case with God.
  • Also bind it on your arms
  • Law only matters if its lived out. It has to be part of your life.
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New testament seal (ch 7)

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  • you are sealed by the holy spirit
  • The holy spirit will write the law on your hearts
  • Forehead = where rational and moral decisions are made
  • Seal of God is internal
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144,000 from every tribe – 12,000 from each: 7:4-8

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  • Number 12 X 1,000
  • But there were 14 tribes…
  • There are two tribes missing ….
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The Missing Tribes from the 144,000

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  • Tribe of Dan
  • And Ephriam
  • These two set up their own places of worship.
  • Dan = canaanites
  • Ephraim = golden ram
  • People who turned away from yahweh
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Israel: Ethnic vs. Faithful

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  • 144,000 may not be literal jews
  • Northern ten tribes = were wiped out in ancient times
  • John’s book = excludes Israel being ethnic
  • A jew is one who is one inwardly. Circumsized inwardly. Heart is new and fresh and clean.
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If you are Christ’s you are a descendant of Abraham

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  • It was always intended to be people who believe in the Messiah
  • Matthew’s genealogy: several women are non-Jews. People whose lives are filled with scandal.
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Great Multitude: 7:9-17

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Saw a great multitude that no one could number

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Great Multitude: 7:9-17: Clothing

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  • White robes
  • Ties us back to the 5th seal
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Great Multitude: 7:9-17: Spatial Setting

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  • Standing
  • On mount zion
  • Where God’s temple was. His throne seat.
  • End of ch. 6 who is able to stand = 144,000. Then this multitude is standing before God.
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Great Multitude: 7:9-17 - Props

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Palm branches = triumphant entry in Gospels, praise to God

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Great Multitude: 7:9-17 - Actions

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Praising & Overjoyed

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Great Multitude: 7:9-17 - Great Tribulation (cf. Matt 24:21, Mark 13:19)

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  • Futurist = 7 years
  • Appears in Matthew 24.
  • Fits historically in the fall of the christian church. Millions who died to an apostate church.
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Great Multitude: 7:9-17 - Relation to Chs. 4-5

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  • Throne room
  • Seals broken
  • God is in the process of sealing people
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Great Multitude: 7:9-17 - Relationship to the 5th seal

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  • “I saw the souls at the altar”
  • This group appears to be those who lost their lives for God.
  • Spiritual Jews. Not literal Jews.
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ch 8 - Seventh seal & Silence & 1/2 hour

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  • Silence = Everyone is waiting to hear what’s on the scroll
  • 1/2 hour = may not be symbolic of anything
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Seventh Trumpets

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  • Trumpets are not apart of the 7 seals
  • Chapter divisions in the bible are absolutely arbitrary. Added much later.
  • Brant argues that the 7th seal could be in chapter 8
  • Table of show bread = throne of God
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New vision w/ the trumpets = new piece of furniture talked about (ch 8)

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  • We’re “following” a high priest through a temple throughout Revelation
  • Priest was always hidden from Israelites
  • Suggests that when you talk to God = He smells a beautiful smell
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(ch 8) Coronation

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Trumpets were blown at the coronation of the King

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Jewish new year festival and Judgment (ch 8)

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  • Rosh Hashanah
  • New years festival that starts in the fall
  • Trumpets were blown as a call that the judgments of God were about to start
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Fall of Jericho

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  • Trumpets were blown to signify the fall of Jericho
  • Trumpets = primarily blown to signify judgment
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Angel at the altar - Which altar is it? (8:3-5)

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The altar of incense

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Prayers of the saints

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Incense = prayers of saints

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Censer thrown to earth

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  • On earth there are judgments
  • Judgments = trumpets
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1st Trumpet

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  • Ch’s 8 & 9 are the most difficult of any apocalyptic literature.
  • We’re given general interpretation.
  • Each judgment is tied to the last plagues
  • These are small (⅓) ok not worldwide. Not complete.
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Hail and fire mixed with blood

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  • Would happen on the lords day
  • Fall on God’s people
  • John’s day = were Gods people judged? Yes
  • Jesus announced that god’s people would be lost (70 AD)
  • Some argue 1st is the fall of the temple
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2nd Trumpet

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  • Maybe = the fall of pagan Rome.
  • Like Pompeii But on a bigger scale
  • Sea = populated centers of the earth
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3rd Trumpet

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  • Burning star falling from heaven = fall of lucifer, brought corruption
  • Burning star makes water bitter
  • Springs of water = related to God’s providence for his people, “living water”
  • Suggesting apostasy of God’s people. Fall of christian church.
  • This parallels the 7 churches
  • Hist: parallels the dark ages
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4th Trumpet

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  • Clear parallels with the fall of the papal roman church
  • Parallels 7 churches
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Overall message and impression of the Trumpets

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  • Prayers of the saints
  • These are judgments in response to prayers of the saints
  • God does step in, but in small ways
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Three woes as the last three trumpets (8:13)

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Recipient of these trumpets: those who dwell on the earth

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Fifth trumpet (9:1 - 11) - Abyss

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The abyss = the bottomless ocean depths. Chaotic world.

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Fallen star

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  • Satan
  • Gets key to the abyss
  • Out come locusts
37
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Locusts

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  • Locusts can decimate crops
  • These Locusts can harm people (not crops) and they have a stinger in their tail
  • Look like horses
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Locusts - Limits of power

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  • Only can hurt people for 5 months. Limited power.
  • Locust swarms eat all the food = death
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Joel’s prophecy (Joel 1 & 2)

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  • Talks about locusts that also look like horses. And they destroy basically everything.
  • “Day of the lord is great and terrible”
    1. Locust plague
    2. Army of the Lord
  • We don’t know if Joel is talking about a literal bug army or a human army
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Locusts - Description

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  • Revelation: doesn’t appear to be bugs.
  • Lead by: Satan for sure
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Locusts - Interpretation

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  • An army of actual people
  • SDA = divided on the interpretation
  • March of the turks against europe or various things
  • Brant: doesn’t know
  • It’s a godless place
  • Something to do with the rise of atheism in the west
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Pause (9:12)

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One woe is past, still there are two more

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Sixth Trumpet (9:13-21)

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  • Number of armed people heard by John is larger than anything that exists rn
  • So its symbolic for sure
  • Note that John HEARS the 2 million armed people
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Sixth Trumpet (9:13-21) - Golden altar

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  • Where the voice comes from that says 2 million
  • Four angels tied to Euphrates river → set free to kill people
45
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Euphrates

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Runs under Babylon

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Sixth Trumpet (9:13-21) - Interpretation

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  • Hasn’t happened yet
  • An end time picture
  • Brant thinks people still have time to decide
  • This happens during a time when everyone has decided
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Purpose of the judgments (9:20 - 21)

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  • To help people turn their life around
  • Sorcery = pharmakeia
  • In the ancient world pharmakeia was used to describe speaking to the dead and casting spells. Wicca, etc.
  • A list of sins/vices
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Intercalation between 6th and 7th trumpets

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All happen in chapter 10 now !

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Strong angel (10:1-3) - Descriptors

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  • Face like sun
  • Rainbow around his face
  • Feet like pillar
  • One foot on either sides of a river → Daniel + seal up the book!
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Strong angel (10:1-3) - Identity

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  • Sounds like ch 1 pic of Jesus → doesn’t say who this is exactly.
  • A divine messenger
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Seven thunders (10:3-4)

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see psalm 29, job 37:5

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“Seal up”

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  • A tie to Daniel 12
  • Seal it up and don’t write it down
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Actions of the angel (10:4-7) → see Dan 12:1-9 “Raising right hand”

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  • Tie to dan 12
  • The messenger does this
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Actions of the angel (10:4-7) - swearing

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  • Tie to Dan 12
  • Not to write it down
  • “By the one who lives forever”
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“No more delay” (ch. 10)

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  • There will be time no longer
  • That prophecy in Daniel has come to an end
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A little book (10:8-11) → See Ezekiel 2:1 - 3:11

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John takes the little book and eats it

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Same book as 5:1?

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  • Some believe this little scroll is the same one that Jesus unsealed in chapter 7
  • Brant: doesn’t think its the same one because it is given a different name in the Greek
  • This greek word is meant to denote a small book specifically
    Ch 7 book was likely a will
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What book does a person eat??

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  • An analogy: Ezekiel 2 - 3
  • Ezekiel gets sent to Israel. God says his people are stubborn. God says Ezekiel you are gonna butt heads with these people.
  • Good luck!
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What book does a person eat?? (Cont.)

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  • God says: Here’s a little book, eat it. Sweet in your mouth.
  • Revelation is drawing on Ezekiel
  • Ezekiel says it was written on the front and back, and it was filled with prophecies against Israel and about their wickedness and their repentance.
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(Ezekiel story continued) BUT it never says it will be bitter in his stomach

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  • Every time he tried to speak this message, he was persecuted for it.
  • He ingests the word of God
  • Ezekiel is told to divide up his hair into 3 pieces. Burns some, cuts with sword, throws into wind → everyone has to watch him do this
  • Tell Israel that just as I’ve done this to my hair, an army will come and do this to you
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Ezekiel after doing the hair thing and the book thing

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  • God tells him to build a small scale Israel
  • God says make a siege scene in the middle of the street
  • This siege will happen to Jerusalem
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Poor Ezekiel (after hair + book + and siege thingy)

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  • Take a backpack
  • Climb out a hole in the Jerusalem
  • Cause Israel is gonna have to crawl out the holes like this
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Oh my god Ezekiel im so sorry (last “actor” thing Ezekiel does)

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  • Cook ur food over human feces
  • Ezekiel says: “Ok thats enough, I’m not gonna do it”
  • Gods like alright use cow poo
  • Ezekiel does this
  • Point: You’ll be in such famine that you’ll be fighting over donkey heads and cannibalism
  • God: “I’ve placed you to wake these people up”
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John as actor - Prophetic sign-act

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  • He is actually carrying things out that Ezekiel did
  • If you missed all the ties between Rev 10 and Dan 12 → harder to understand
  • Daniel is taking that little book, but is now open. And he is now eating it.
  • Hes told to prophecy and measure a temple…
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Is John symbolic?

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  • Is he being used as an actor like Ezekiel?
  • He’s seeing references to a book that Daniel saw
    We think he is kinda a symbol
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SDA self-understanding in Revelation 10

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  • Mid 1800s there was a movement in the western world called the second great awakening “Jesus is coming soon”
  • People were studying Daniel and Revelation like no time before
  • They studied the book of Daniel and they could make sense of the beasts etc
  • They began to preach that Dan and Rev were becoming true
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A group of people

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  • Thought they could announce that Jesus is coming soon at a specific date
  • “The sweetest prophetic message they could give”
  • Jesus didn’t come = “The great disappointment” in 1800s
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SDA church beginning

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  • People went back to Dan and Rev and asked “what did we miss?”
  • Wasn’t the system that we got wrong, it was the event
  • 2300 morning prophecy → a cleansing of a temple instead
  • “I guess now we have more to do, and there’s a little bit of time left”
  • SDA church was born out of this
  • “We have to keep prophesying”
  • Advent people = people looking forward for Jesus’s coming
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John’s measurement of the temple and worshippers (11:1,2)

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  • “Rise and measure the temple” … “Leave out the court”
  • Measurement is tied to judging
  • John is called to judge? Its more about giving that message of judgment…
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Two witnesses (ch 11)

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-Jewish parallel = any law or truth had to be established against two witnesses
- In the Jewish culture it was rare to be alone because of this

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Jesus story about the adulterous woman

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  • They bring the woman there and they accuse her
  • They didn’t bring the guy !
  • “Let the one without sin cast the first stone”
  • Writes in the ground
  • Jesus tells her “go and stop sinning”
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1260 days

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Given in Daniel as well

73
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What descriptions can you find of the two witnesses in REV 11:3-13 –> Two olives trees and two lampstands

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Zackariah = represents the prophetic word of God

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Fire precedes from their mouths if they are gonna get harmed

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alludes to another prophet

75
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No rain (two prophet descriptions)

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Elijah

76
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Power over waters, to turn them to blood and to strike plagues (two prophet descriptions)

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Moses had this power

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“An Elijah” (two prophet descriptions)

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  • John the baptist was called this by Jesus
  • He is “like” Elijah.
  • So these prophets are “like” Moses and Elijah
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They die → bodies not put in graves → people praise that they’re dead (ch 11)

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Basically there are people that don’t wanna hear about prophecy

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Fall of Roman church power (and ch 11)

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  • Napoleon
  • French revolution → wanted to live on reason alone
  • An atheist society
  • So figuratively, this throwing away of faith in God (lying dead in the streets) could be exemplified in this time
  • As a result, a very bloody time in French Revolution
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Sodom, Egypt, Jerusalem

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  • All rejected God or Jesus
  • Sodom = moral corruption / rejected
  • Jerusalem = Rejected Jesus
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The two witnesses - How would each interpretive methodology view them today?

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  • Preterist: John the baptist and jesus
  • Historicist: SDA = french revolution and succeeding years
  • Futurist: two actual guys who show up in the 7 years of tribulation
  • Idealist: God always has a witness in the world. In every era. Sometimes a church or a bible etc.
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Announcement of final woe (11:14)

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yep thats where it is

83
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Final trumpet (11:15-18)

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  • Kingdom of god set up to reign
  • …but somehow this is not the end of Revelation
  • It goes back and retells some stuff in subsequent chapters
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Hinge-verse of Revelation (11:18)

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Summary of past, and springboard to go on

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Temple opened, Ark of the Covenant (11:19)

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  • A new idea introduced
  • Should be in chapter 12

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