Audio:Seven Seals: Judgment and Salvation

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Even as He brings great judgment upon the earth, God will also bring great salvation.

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Study Notes

Interpretive Approaches to Revelation

• Preterist
• Historicist
• Idealist
• Futurist

Three Views

• Premillennialism (Pre, Mid & Post-tribulational/ Dispensational)
• Postmillennialism
• Amillennialism

Dispensationalism

• A theological system which makes a clear distinction between Israel and the Church and, it is argued, more consistently follows a “literal/normal/plain” hermeneutic (system of Bible interpretation).

Pre-tribulational, Dispensational Premillennialism

• Rapture of the Church
• Seven Year Tribulation period
• Second Coming of Christ
• Millennium (fulfillment of certain OT promises to Israel)
• Final revolt
• General resurrection and final judgment
• New heaven and earth
• Eternal state

Help!!! (For Further Reading...)

• Systematic Theology by Wayne Grudem
• The Meaning of the Millennium by Robert Clouse
• Revelation: Four Views Parallel Commentary by Steven Gregg
• Dispensationalism by Charles Ryrie

My approach to understanding Revelation...

• Premillennialism (favoring Dispensationalism)
• Amillennialism is a respected and viable view
• Postmillennialism is difficult to reconcile with my understanding of Scripture

Understanding the Text

1. Introduction: “What You Have Seen” (Revelation 1)
2. Letters to the Seven Churches: “What is Now” (Revelation 2-3)
3. The Revelation of the Future: “What Will Take Place Later” (Revelation 4-22)
   1. The vision of the heavenly throne (Revelation 4)
   2. The seven-sealed scroll (Revelation 5)
   3. Four horses with riders (Revelation 6:1-8)
   4. The cry of the martyrs (Revelation 6:9-11)
   5. Devastation and despair on the earth (Revelation 6:12-17)
   6. The 144,000 (Revelation 7:1-8)
   7. The great multitude of the redeemed (Revelation 7:9-17)

Applying the Text

• Are you ready for His coming?