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6-28-2020 Weekly Message

Meditation of the week: Psalms 91:1-16

Text: Revelation 6:1-17

Word Title: Jesus Christ, the Only Redeemer and Lord of Judgment

          Jesus, the Christ, had already been predestined to appear as the Redeemer in the world before God laid the foundation of the world (Eph. 1:4). God, who had  known in advance that men God created shall be born in sins because of the Lucifer that had sinned in heaven before the creation of the world. The Christ was predestined to be the Redeemer through himself being sacrificed for the sins of the chosen people of Israel first.

          But the prophet Isaiah foretold in the Holy Spirit that his people would believe him not and reject Jesus, the Christ who shall appeared to the people of Israel:

“Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?

2For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

3He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. ” (Isaiah 53:1-3)

           Isaiah also prophesied that in the future, the last one week(seven years) that God had prepared to give them the final  chance that is the seven-year tribulation for them  to repent of their sins of unfaith in Christ:

” Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

5But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

6All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

7He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.

8He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.

9And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.

10Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.  ” (Isaiah 53:4-10).

          The prophet Isaiah also testified that during the Great Tribulation, the Israelites shall confess that they are sinners:

“5Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.

6But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.” (Isaiah 64:5-6)

          The prophet Jeremiah prophesied that the Israelites would suffer another time in the distant future, when he foretold that the sinful Israelites would be judged and destroyed by Babylon, and then they would be saved. In the Holy Spirit, he testified of the suffering they shall face during the last seven years of the tribulation, and the day they repent and be saved in suffering:

” And these are the words that the LORD spake concerning Israel and concerning Judah.

5For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.

6Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?

7Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it..” (Jer. 30:4-7)

            Not only that, but through the prophet Daniel, he testified of the suffering of the Israelites in the Great Tribulation, and the day when the Israelites repent during that time to be saved:

“And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.…. And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time (Three and half years). ” (Daniel 12:1, 7:25).

          The risen Lord Jesus Christ, who appeared to Apostle John, moved him in the Holy Spirit two thousand years later to show what would happen at the end of the age of church:

 “After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.”  (Revelation 4:1)

         Immediately upon hearing this voice, he was lifted up in the spirit to the throne of heaven, to see the throne of God and the glory of  God who was sitting down at his throne. He saw God’s appearances  as jasper and a sardine stone. He also saw twenty-four elders and four beasts, seraphs. He saw a book in the right hand of the one sitting on the throne. The book was written inside and outside, and it was sealed with seven seals, and Apostle John cried so hard that no one could read it or see it. At this time, one of the elders said to him:

” And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof..” (Rev. 5:5)

         At this time, he was startled. He witnessed of the Lord Jesus Christ  standing in the form of the Lamb, who died on the cross and rose again to be the Redeemer of Israel and the world:

” And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood 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.

7And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne.

8And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints..” (Revelation 5:6-8)

        At this time, Apostle John heard the praise of the twenty-four elders and ten thousand times and thousands ,and thousands of thousands, of angels around the elders. In a mighty praise, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lamb, began to open the seven seals. The seven seals was including judgments of wrath against the Jews and all the people of the world who did not believe in the Lamb Jesus Christ, the Redeemer of all the earth. Since only the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God is the only Redeemer, and there is only the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God  who can deserve judge the people of the world who do not believe in God in the midst of his long suffering. Only he can open it and pour out the wrath unto the world.

          Apostle John saw that after he was translated and ascended to heaven, he saw the judgment on the earth from heaven. And the seven seals are to show the judgment in total as outline that would take place during the tribulation in the seven years, and the wrath of trumpets and vials disasters afterwards shows the details of the judgment.

         When the Lamb opened the first seal, he beheld a white horse and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him; he was the Antichrist This is a clear indication of when Christians are to be translated. Christians shall see the Antichrist appear on the earth in heaven. Comparing to Apostle Paul’s testimony of the appearing of the Antichrist, we can be more surely aware of it:

“Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; ” (2 Thessalonians 2: 3)

       It is impossible to imagine how miserable the disasters of judgment that are to be poured unto the world  under the rule of Antichrist.  When the second seal is opened, there shall be no peace in the whole world due to great wars, and when the third seal is opened, great famine shall come, and when the fourth seal is opened, death and hell will follow, and the  sword and hunger, And the fourth part of the earth to be killed with sward, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth. When the fifth seal is opened, there shall be souls who have been beheaded for not receiving the mark of the beast. When he opens the sixth seal, there shall be a big earthquake and the sun will turn black like a cloth woven with hair and the moon will become like blood. Also, the stars in the sky will fall to the ground as if the fig tree is shaken by strong winds and the unripe figs will fall, and the heaven shall be rolled up and rolled like a scroll, and all the mountains and islands shall be removed from their places. At this time, the phenomena that occur on the earth are something that we dare not imagine. Because of this judgment of wrath, the kings of the earth, the great, the rich, the captains, the powerful, all the servants, and all the free men, each hiding in the crypts and the rocks of the mountains and saying to the mountains and the rocks, ‘Fall on us , and hide us from the face of him that sitts 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?” (Rev. 6:1-17)

           By sending the last days of judgment on the earth, God became a Lamb, who died for the sins of both Jews and Gentiles, and rose again is going to give the opportunity to be saved for the Jews and the Gentiles and the carnal Christians who not believed as if he is going to collect a grain after harvest. God has given the opportunity for salvation for the Gentiles because of the unbelief of the Jews.

           Apostle Paul has given a very important message for the gentiles of their salvation by the gospel of Christ:

 “ “Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;

2By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.

Amen! Hallelujah!