United for Eternity

2 Questions in Revelation 6:
Question 1 – “WHEN WILL THE FULL NUMBER OF MARTYRS BE REACHED?”

Question 2 – “WHO CAN STAND IN THE DAY OF GOD’S JUDGMENT?”

Revelation 7:1-4 NLT
Then I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds so they did not blow on the earth or the sea, or even on any tree. And I saw another angel coming up from the east, carrying the SEAL of the living God. And he shouted to those four angels, who had been given power to harm land and sea, “WAIT! Don’t harm the land or the sea or the trees until we have placed the seal of God on the foreheads of his servants.” And I heard how many were marked with the seal of God—144,000 were sealed from all the tribes of Israel...

Revelation 7:9-10 NLT
After this I saw a vast crowd, too great to count, from every nation and tribe and people and language, standing in front of the throne and before the Lamb. They were clothed in white robes and held palm branches in their hands. And they were shouting with a great roar, “Salvation comes from our God who sits on the throne and from the Lamb!”

We are United for Eternity!
1. Our Unity is BEAUTIFUL

“The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool.”
—Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Psalm 89:14 NIV
RIGHTEOUSNESS and JUSTICE are the foundation of Your THRONE…

“The crisis is not that Christians are politically homeless; the crisis is that we ever thought we could make our home in politics at all.” — Michael Wear

James 1:19-20 NIV
My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.

We are United for Eternity!
2. Our Unity is ESSENTIAL

Revelation 7:13-14 NLT
Then one of the twenty-four elders asked me, “WHO are these who are clothed in white? Where did they come from?” And I said to him, “Sir, you are the one who knows.” Then he said to me, “These are the ones who died in the great tribulation. They have washed their robes in the blood of the Lamb and made them white.”

RAPTURE — The “catching up” (from Latin ‘rapti’ which means ‘to snatch, or seize’) of the saints to meet the Lord in the air.

Revelation 1:9 ESV
I, John, your brother and partner in the TRIBULATION and the kingdom and the patient endurance that are in Jesus...

1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 NIV
For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.

"You should only have one enemy—the devil." — St. John Chrysostom

If the Church failed the COVID test, how are we ever going to pass the TRIBULATION test?

We are United for Eternity!
3. Our Unity is ETERNAL

Revelation 7:14-17 NLT
Then he said to me, “These are the ones who died in the great tribulation. They have washed their robes in the blood of the Lamb and made them white. That is why they stand in front of God’s throne and serve him day and night in his Temple. And he who sits on the throne will give them shelter. They will never again be hungry or thirsty; they will never be scorched by the heat of the sun. For the Lamb on the throne will be their Shepherd. He will lead them to springs of life-giving water. And God will wipe every tear from their eyes.”

Our Father --- in Heaven, hallowed be Your Name. Your Kingdom come, Your Will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven. --- Give us today our daily bread. And forgive us our sins, as we have forgiven those who sin against us. --- And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from the evil one. --- For Yours is the Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory forever. Amen.

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