The Wrath Of The Lamb

THE WRATH OF THE LAMB (REVELATION 6)

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A woman asked John Wesley, “Suppose you knew that you were to die tomorrow night at midnight, how would you spend the time until then?” “Why, just as I intend to spend it. I should preach this evening at Gloucester, and again at five tomorrow morning. After that, I should ride to Tewkesbury, preach in the afternoon, and meet the Society in the evening. I should then repair to the home of my friends who expect to entertain me, converse and pray with my family as usual, retire to my room at ten o’clock, commend myself to my heavenly Father, lie down to rest, and wake up in glory.”

According to Wikipedia, “In the futurist view of Christian eschatology, the Great Tribulation is a relatively short period of time where everyone will experience worldwide hardships, persecution, disasters, famine, war, pain, and suffering, which will affect all of creation, and precede judgment of all when the Second Coming takes place. Some pretribulationists believe that those who choose to follow God will be raptured before the tribulation, and thus escape it. On the other hand, posttribulationists believe Christians who are alive at the time of the Great Tribulation must endure the Great Tribulation and will receive great blessings.

According to dispensationalists who hold the futurist view, the Tribulation is thought to occur before the Second Coming of Jesus and during the End Times. In this view, the Tribulation will last seven prophetic Hebrew years (lasting 360 days each) in all but the Great Tribulation will be the second half of the Tribulation period (see Matt 24:15 and Matt 24:21 showing the Great Tribulation is after the Abomination of Desolation, which marks the midpoint of the Tribulation).” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Tribulation

What is the Great Tribulation? How are we to prepare for the future, especially when we won’t be there? Why is the truth of the future scarier than its fiction?

You Got Invitation - The Warning is Ordered

1 I watched as the Lamb opened the first of the seven seals. Then I heard one of the four living creatures say in a voice like thunder, "Come!" 2 I looked, and there before me was a white horse! Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest. 3 When the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, "Come!" 4 Then another horse came out, a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to take peace from the earth and to make men slay each other. To him was given a large sword. 5 When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, "Come!" I looked, and there before me was a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand. 6 Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, "A quart of wheat for a day's wages, and three quarts of barley for a day's wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine!" 7 When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, "Come!" 8 I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.

The world in the Great Tribulation is much worse that all the disaster movies you can ever imagine. It is a mix and match and more of the top seven disaster movies I found on a website: Twister, The Perfect Storm, Independence Day, The Core, Dante’s Peak, The Day After Tomorrow and Contagion. Poseidon Adventure and Towering Infernos were the disaster movies of my time!

The Great Tribulation is incredible, incomprehensible and inexplicable than ever. Previously the four beasts made their debut in chapter 4 (4:6, 8, 9), the Lamb (5:8, 12, 13) and the seals (5:1, 2, 5, 9) in chapter 5, to be followed by the horses in chapter 6. The four beasts, who were by themselves in chapter 4 (Rev 4:6, 8, 9) and were with the 24 elders in chapter 5 (5:6, 8, 11, 14), now had a command for John: “Come” (v 1, 3, 5, 7). The four-fold imperative is Come (v 1, 3, 5, 7). All the verbs “come” previously is in the first person “I will come” or “I come” (2:5, 6, 3:13) or third person “he comes” (1:7) or “he came” (5;7), but this is the first time the verb “come” is in the imperative form, followed by a different color horse. It is a command, charge and a compliance issue. “Come and see” is repeated four times (vv 1, 3, 5, 7), preceded by the opening of a seal by the Lamb, followed by the announcement each time by a different beast and the appearance of a different color horse. It is mutual, The third rider, with a black horse, is to The fourth rider on a pale horse is to expect. The last kill (apokteino) and the second “slay” (sphazo).