Worthy Is The Lamb (Parts 1-3) Series

One of the most breathtaking passages on the second coming is Revelation chapter 5. The scene in chapter 5 is the same as in chapter 4. The scene is heaven, in the center is the throne of God. Lightning and thunder and glorious worship from the hosts of heaven.

Chapter 4 and chapter 5 anticipate the tribulation. Chapters 6 to 19 are the record of the exploding judgment of God in the world. And it comes through seven seals that are unrolled, seven trumpets that are blown, and seven bowls that are poured out on the earth.

At the same time judgment is being poured out, salvation is taking place to a degree never before known in the history of redemption. So many are saved from every tongue and tribe and people and nation they can’t even be numbered. The nation Israel is saved, and 144,000 of them are sealed as ministers and missionaries, and witnesses. Angels are preaching the gospel as they’re flying across heaven. Two witnesses are raised from the dead to preach the gospel so that the city of Jerusalem repents.

It’s an incredible time described in chapters 6 to 19. It is ultimately going to be the victory of our Lord Jesus Christ. Many people have attempted to define and decode these visions. There is an erroneous belief that buried in these visions are coded messages that require a special medium to decode.

In order to fully understand this, you don’t need some super-spiritual guide. All you need is the Holy Spirit, the Bible, and some understanding of history. The first spiritual truth we must understand is that history is as much a record of the spiritual conflicts transpiring through the ages as much as events of man. Once you begin to understand and perceive the world through spiritual eyes, things become more clear. History begins to make more sense and you begin to see both God’s eternal plan that started with His confrontation with a man in the Garden, and also Satan’s plan and patterns to deceive and defeat God’s people.

History is wrought with many who have desired to rule the world and be the ultimate monarch. Certainly, there was Lucifer, son of the morning, the anointed cherub who is now known as Satan is the prince of this prideful desire he puts in the hearts and minds of men. He desires to rule the world and the universe.

Humanly speaking, there were men that are recorded in the Bible and the annals of history that burned with this continual desire to overtake everything they possibly could. Nebuchadnezzar was the Babylonian ruler who reigned over much of the civilized world in 604-562 BCE. Nebuchadnezzar is notorious for decimating the Jewish presence in the Land of Israel, exiling the vast majority of its denizens to Babylon, and destroying the first Holy Temple.

There was Darius, commonly known as Darius the Great, a Persian ruler who served as the third King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire. Xerxes, the eldest son of Darius and Atossa, succeeded to the throne as Xerxes I. With Xerxes' accession, the empire was again ruled by a member of the house of Cyrus.

There was Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Napoleon. There was Hitler who envisioned an eternal reign of the Third Reich. Under Hitler, 12 million people were killed, including 6 million Jews. There was Marx, Lenin, and Stalin where untold millions of people were oppressed and killed throughout the world. And someday there will be Antichrist who will be the most powerful human, who will subdue all rulers and nations of the world under the influence of Satan. All of these rulers follow the same demonic pattern with a will to control and dominate worldwide power, dethrone God, and destroy God’s people.

Today, more than ever in the history of the world, do we see world events, including the world’s response to COVID-19, geopolitical alignments, cultural events, and demonic forces at work to bring in the powers and events that will be seen during the Great Tribulation. The Bible is clear about these things and these events and he has not hidden these things from the world but revealed it through this book, including Revelation. Sadly, there are pastors and churches that refuse to come near this or any prophetic writings in the Bible.

The reason is many churches are afraid of offending culture with the truth of God’s Word. We have too many woke pastors today that are afraid or unwilling to preach the truth. When they do that, they are not being “loving” as they claim, but are following along the plan of Satan. They are afraid of the spiritual implications of preaching through the Book of Revelation. The gospel has feet and calls us to stand in protest to the deceptions of the world’s systems. The way we do that is by preaching the truth in love.