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Throne
Room
Vision
All the types of the Old Testament
Sanctuary type meets antitype
are fulfilled in the antitypes of the
New Testament
And are fulfilled in Christ’s work as
the Son of Man and as our High
Priest in the heavenly sanctuary
Throne
Room Vision
“The four and twenty elders fall down before Him
that sat on the throne, and worship Him that
liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns
before the throne, saying, Thou art worthy”
Throne
Room Vision
“Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power,
be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and
unto the Lamb for ever and ever.”
Throne
Room Vision
Throne
Sealed book John sees concerns the
Room
Vision
redemption
of mankind.
During the Old Testament times,
property or persons could be alienated
by reason of severe debt owed to
another.
The record of the debt was kept in a
duplicate format, one sealed the other
open to witnesses.
Throne
There are three essential features
Room
Vision
constituting
the Jubilee
• Personal liberty
• Restitution of property
• Faith in God’s power to provide food
during the fallow years, or learning
to live by faith and not by their
works — a Sabbath of rest
Throne
There are three essential features
Room
Vision
constituting
the Jubilee
• Personal liberty
• Restitution of property
• Faith in God’s power to provide food
during the fallow years, or learning
to live by faith and not by their
works
Kinsman
• The kinsman must be a "near"
Redeemer
relative; the closest living relative
to the person needing redemption
• The near kinsman could redeem a
poor relative from slavery by
paying the required debt, if he
had sufficient financial resources
Kinsman
• If a person was murdered, it was the
Redeemer
responsibility of the near
kinsman to avenge the death of
the individual by watching for and
bringing the murderer to justice
• Property that had been sold could
be redeemed by the near
kinsman if he paid what the
relative owed against it
Kinsman
1. The kinsman must be a "near"
Redeemer
relative; the closest living relative
to the person needing redemption
2. The near kinsman had to have
sufficient resources to pay the debt
3. And he had to be able to bring the
murderer to justice
Kinsman
1. The kinsman must be a "near"
Redeemer
relative; the closest living relative
to the person needing redemption
• Christ MUST assume the nature of
man that needed redeeming so
that He could become our
“closest relative”
• Heb. 2:14-18; Rom. 8:3; Phil. 2:5-8
Kinsman
2. The kinsman must have sufficient
Redeemer
resources with which to pay the
debt which was owed
• Christ alone has sufficient assets
to meet the just demands of the
broken Law; His righteousness
is complete, lacking nothing
• Rom. 5:17, 18; 1 Tim. 2:6; 1 John 2:2
Kinsman
“. . . with the precious blood of
Redeemer
Christ, as of a lamb without blemish
and without spot: who verily was
foreordained before the foundation of
the world, but was manifest in these
last times for you, who by Him do
believe in God, that raised Him up
from the dead, and gave Him glory;
that your faith and hope might be in
God.”
1 Peter 1:19-21
“For Thou wast
slain, and hast
redeemed us to God
by Thy blood . . .”
“. . . Worthy is the Lamb that was slain”
“Worthy” means “full of value” and in
this context it means MORAL worth
Kinsman
2. The kinsman must have sufficient
Redeemer
resources with which to pay the
debt which was owed
• Christ has paid the debt that was
owed and has set the captives
free from slavery to sin and Satan
Kinsman
“Know ye not, that to whom ye yield
Redeemer
yourselves servants to obey, his
servants ye are to whom ye obey;
whether of sin unto death, or of
obedience unto righteousness? But God
be thanked, that ye were the servants of
sin, but [now] ye have obeyed from the
heart that form of doctrine which was
delivered you.”
Rom. 6:16, 17
Kinsman
“Let not sin therefore reign in your
Redeemer
mortal body, that ye should obey it in
the lusts thereof. Neither yield ye your
members as instruments of
unrighteousness unto sin, but yield
yourselves unto God as those who are
alive from the dead”
Rom. 6:11, 12
Kinsman
Redeemer
“Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and
make not provision for the flesh, to
fulfill the lusts thereof.”
Rom. 13:14
“Put on the whole armor of God, that ye
may be able to stand against the wiles
of the devil.”
Gal. 6:11
Kinsman
3. He had to be able to bring the
Redeemer
murderer to justice
Satan is a defeated foe, he has NO
POWER over us except what we
willingly give to him; he is living on
borrowed time and he knows it; that’s
why he is a “roaring lion seeking
whom he may devour”
Throne
Room Vision
Who is worthy to open the Book?
Basic Principle of Bible Interpretation
Nebuchadnezzar’s
Dream
“. . . Thou art this head
of gold. And after thee
shall arise another
kingdom inferior to thee,
and another third
kingdom of brass, which
shall bear rule over all
the earth. And the fourth
kingdom shall be strong
as iron . . .” Daniel 2:38-40
Babylon Medo-Persia
605-538B.C.
538-331B.C.
Four Beasts of
Daniel chapter 7
Greece
331-168B.C.
Pagan Rome
168 B.C. to A.D. 538
History Confirms the Bible
Greece
Media-Persia
Gabriel said: “The ram which thou sawest
having two horns are the kings of Media
and Persia. And the rough goat is the
king of Grecia: and the great horn that is
between his eyes is the first king.”
Pagan Rome
with 10 horns
Non-descript beast from the sea
Papal Rome
came up among
the 10 horns
Seven Seals
Vision
“. . . a Lamb as it had been slain,
having seven horns and seven eyes,
which are the seven Spirits of God
sent forth into all the earth. And He
came and took the book out of the
right hand of Him that sat upon the
throne.”
Rev. 5:6, 7
Seven Seals
Vision
“. . . And no man in heaven, nor in
earth, neither under the earth, was
able to open the book, neither to look
thereon. And I wept much . . .”
Rev. 5:3, 4
“The Lamb of God”
Paul’s Journeys
Christ Opens
the
Seals
Rider on the
white horse
going forth to
conquer Rev. 6:1 - 2
Christ Opens
thesaidSeals
Paul
that
the Gospel had
been “preached
to EVERY
creature which
is under heaven”
Colossians 1:23
Christ Opens
thesaidSeals
Paul
that
the Gospel had
been “preached
to EVERY
creature which
is under heaven”
Colossians 1:23
“Unto two thousand and three hundred
days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed”
Dan. 8:14
Type
meets
antitype
in the
history
of the
work of
Christ
The Four Horseman
White Horse = Ephesus church period
Red Horse = Smyrna church period
Black Horse = Pergamos church period
“As the stream of Christianity flowed
farther from its foundation, it became
more and more corrupt, and as the
centuries advanced, superstition
advanced with it . . . till at length, the
Book of God was being laid aside for
legendary tales, and the ‘traditions of
men,’ all these corruptions were
collected into a regular system of
superstition and oppression.”
J. C. Woodhouse, The Apocalypse, p. 146
(1805)
Pergamos church period
“ . . .the land tax, the capitation,
and heavy contributions of
corn, wine, oil, and wheat,
exacted from the provinces for
use of the court, the army and
the capital. . . . The great body
of Caracalla’s subjects were
oppressed by the aggravated
taxes, and every part of the
Empire crushed under the
weight of his iron scepter.”
Pergamos church period
Oppressive laws demanded
that the land be heavily taxed
based on its productivity. This
led landowners to deliberately
reduce the grain production to
avoid the high taxation. The
practice of destroying crops to
avoid taxes became so
widespread that the
government issued an edict
forbidding the destruction of
olive trees and grapevines.
Thyatira church period
“ . . . a pale horse, and
his name that sat on him
was Death, and Hell
followed with him. And
power was given unto
them over the fourth part
of the earth, to kill with
sword, and with hunger,
and with death, and with
beasts of the earth.”
Rev. 6:8
Thyatira church period
The original word
translated “pale” means
a sickly yellowish color
like that seen in plants
that don’t receive
enough light to maintain
photosynthesis so they
stay bright and green.
Thyatira church period
H.G. Wells described the
papacy as an attempt at
world dominion through
religion. During this
period of world history,
the “two witnesses” had
to do their work clothed
in sackcloth because
the Bible was no longer accepted as the
sole rule of faith and doctrine, having been
supplanted by man-made church traditions.
Futurism and the Four Horsemen
Futurism and Four Horsemen
Walvoord said: “The rider on the white
horse is none other than the ‘prince that
shall come’ of Daniel 9:26, who is to
head up the revived Roman Empire and
ultimately become the world ruler . . .
He is Satan’s masterpiece and the
counterfeit of all that Christ is or claims
to be . . . The same individual described
as the beast out of the sea in Revelation
13.”
(John Walvoord, The Revelation of Jesus Christ, 1966)
Futurism and Four Horsemen
Walvoord said: “The rider on the white
horse is none other than the ‘prince that
shall come’ of Daniel 9:26, who is to
head up the revived Roman Empire and
ultimately become the world ruler . . .
He is Satan’s masterpiece and the
counterfeit of all that Christ is or claims
to be . . . The same individual described
as the beast out of the sea in Revelation
13.”
(John Walvoord, The Revelation of Jesus Christ, 1966)
Fifth Seal — souls under the altar
“And when He had opened the fifth
seal, I saw under the altar the souls of
them that were slain for the word of
God, and for the testimony which they
held: and they cried with a loud voice,
saying, How long, O Lord, holy and
true, dost thou not judge and avenge
our blood on them that dwell on the
earth?”
Rev. 6:9, 10
Fifth Seal — souls under the altar
“The sacrificial altar was not in the sanctuary,
but outside; so Christ's literal sacrifice and the
figurative sacrifice of the martyrs took place,
not in the heavenly sanctuary, but outside,
here on earth. The only altar in heaven is that
antitypical to the earthly sanctuary altar of
incense. The blood of the martyrs symbolically
cries from the earth from under Christ's cross,
whereon they may be considered virtually to
have been sacrificed as they stood for God’s
truth.”
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Fifth Seal — souls under the altar
Albert Barnes, the noted Presbyterian
commentator said:
“We are not to suppose that this
literally occurred, and that John
actually saw the souls of the martyrs
beneath the altar—for the whole
representation is symbolical.”
Notes on the New Testament, vol. 9, p. 171
Fifth Seal — souls under the altar
Adam Clarke tells us:
“A symbolical vision was
exhibited, in which he saw an altar.
And under it the souls of those who
had been slain for the word of
God—martyred for their attachment
to Christianity . . . victims of
idolatry and superstition.”
Fifth Seal — souls under the altar
St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre
Fifth Seal — souls under the altar
“And the LORD said unto Cain,
Where is Abel thy brother? And he
said, I know not: Am I my brother's
keeper? And He said, What hast
thou done? the voice of thy
brother's blood crieth unto Me from
the ground.”
Genesis 4:9, 10
Fifth Seal — souls under the altar
In the Bible, we find many symbolic
statements about inanimate objects
that “cry out” —
“The stone shall cry out of the wall,
and the beam out of the timber
shall answer it.” Habakkuk 2:11
Fifth Seal — souls under the altar
We cannot take these verses
literally and claim that it is literal
dead persons who are crying out
for vengeance from God.
The dead “know not anything”
(Eccl. 9:5)
Thoughts perish when a person dies
(Psa. 146:4)
Fifth Seal — souls under the altar
“Dearly beloved, avenge not
yourselves, but rather give place
unto wrath: for it is written,
Vengeance is mine; I will repay,
saith the Lord.” Romans 12:19
The martyrs are told
they must remain at
rest for a short period,
or until the resurrection
at the SECOND COMING
of Christ .
The period of time
represented by the
sixth seal began in
1755 and continues
until the SECOND
COMING of Christ.
Sixth Seal – Philadelphia church
Three Great signs in nature
• Great Earthquake – 1755
• Dark day and moon of blood – 1780
• Falling Stars – 1833
Sixth Seal – Laodicea church
“And the heaven departed as a scroll
when it is rolled together; and every
mountain and island were moved out of
their places. And the kings of the earth,
and the great men, and the rich men, and
the chief captains, and the mighty men,
and every bondman, and every free man,
hid themselves in the dens and in the
rocks of the mountains . . .
Sixth Seal – Laodicea church
“And said to the mountains and rocks,
Fall on us, and hide us from the face of
Him that sitteth on the throne, and from
the wrath of the Lamb: for the great day of
His wrath is come; and who shall be able
to stand?”
Revelation 6:14-17
Sixth Seal – Laodicea church
“And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this
is our God; we have waited for Him,
and He will save us: this is the LORD;
we have waited for Him we will be glad
and rejoice in His salvation.”
Isaiah 25:9
Next week — chapter seven and the
sealing of God’s people