ARE THE SEALS JUDGEMENTS OF REVELATION ALREADY BROKEN?
TIMING OF THE RAPTURE
And the end of the Church Age
by Luis B. Vega
vegapost@hotmail.com
www.PostScripts.org
The nearly 2000-Year old question has been, ‘Have the Seal Judgments of the Book of Revelation already occurred? To help discern and dissect Prophecy in light of when the Seals that constitute the Wrath of the Lamb, it is good or suggested to map-it-out or create a model of one’s beliefs or how one is seeing it, understanding it, etc. In one’s case, the use of charts greatly has helped me see the ‘Patterns in Biblical Prophecy’. Why?
As the late Chuck Missler would often state, ‘Prophecy is Pattern’. For this topic of the Seals, only certain information is given. Beyond that, it is all speculation and conjecture. One has to also preface that it also depends on one’s knowledge of the Bible, research done on the topic, culture, one’s ability to discern, understand and comprehend, etc. And then there is one’s bias to consider. What happens often is that many Brethren rely just on the teaching of others.
We, as members of the Body of Christ have the indwelling of GOD, the Holy Spirit that is a world of difference and that the world does not have. And part of the task of the Holy Spirit is to teach and lead the Believers and Followers of Jesus into all Truth. That being said, one will offer one’s suppositions as to when the Seals are opened.
As we read the same verses, it is just 1 interpretation amongst all the other ones that are just as valid and equal to consider. So, what one will share is just that. One will start by addressing what has been shared about when the Seals are broken and what that looks like in history or will. Fair warning, as an Academic, one will tend to go long and be wordy.
- The Seals are Divine Judgment, all-inclusive, starting from Seal 1.
- Some Brethren see the initial Seals being either Man’s or Satan’s Wrath. Not so.
- They are part of the entire Tribulation Period of 2520 Days starting from Chapter 4.
- There are 7 Rapture one notes or ‘Translations’ that occur in the Book of Revelation.
- Sure, the Seals as prophecy have a multifaceted application, past, present and future.
- The 4 Horsemen are Spiritual Forces and metaphors, but the 1st Seal is a literal man.
- What Revelation describes will and can only occur after the Rapture event.
- What is described post chapter 4 is pertinent to completing Israel’s ‘Debt’.
- The Body of Christ cannot partake of Israel’s and the world’s divine judgment.
- Seal 6 is 1 of the 7 ‘Raptures’ seen that takes place from Earth to Heaven.
- The 144,000 Jews and 2 Witnesses are transferred the Gospel after the Rapture.- No, the Bride is not those in Revelation 7. The key motif is the Palm Branches (Israel).
- Saints ‘Under the Altar’ is not the Bride that is already seated as the 24 Elders.
- No. The AntiChrist will not be a Muslim, one will argue.
One will attempt to address these matters specifically. What is heartbreaking and scary is that Brethren that are left behind will still have the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. And those coming to faith in Jesus during the Tribulation, as in the Tribulation Saints will also. But 1 thing that has made all the difference on this side of the Rapture, is that they will no longer have something we take for granted. What is that? The Body of Christ, universal. That ‘Body’, i.e., the ‘Church’ will have been removed as well as the Restrainer or its restraining element.
If one thinks the brutal slaughter and martyrdom of Christians around the world is bad now, Nigeria, China, North Korea, Syria…it will not compare to what Brethren will have to endure then. This is why when the AntiChrist is given Total Power for the 2nd half or those 42 Months, he will prevail over the Tribulation Saints, sadly. This is impossible on this side of the Rapture now despite permitted persecution. It is precisely the Body of Christ presently on Planet Earth that serves as the Light and Salt, etc.
And any slaughter and martyrdom permitted against the Body of Jesus? He knows and feels it. And that is why the Wrath of the lamb is coming. So, now to one’s rationale for what one responded to the various points made by others as they see, understand and interpret the timing of the Seals. The Seals can only be broken as the scene is that of a reading of a ‘Last Will and Testament’ session, before a Judge in Heaven based on the Book of Revelation. Consider the following rationale and correspondences.
In order for that to occur, the Beneficiaries, the Bride of the Deceased, Jesus has to be summoned and present to break the Testament open. Only then can the reading begin and the will be implemented. In this case, this scene is presupposed in that one does subscribe to chapter 4 being a type and timing of the Rapture of the Bride. It is the 1st of the 7 ‘Raptures’ to follow. Why? It is because the Bride is the Benefactor of the Dead Man’s Work and has to be the Witness to the entire Adjudication. And that is? It is 2 fold.
1-The summonsing of the Bride to the Judicial Court in Heaven is to adjudicate her Accuser Lucifer, the ‘Accuser of the Brethren’. She has to face her Accuser, Satan.
2-The reading of the Will is to legally then take back the possession of Earth, its Domain and Authority that was last to Lucifer by Adam in Eden.
What is extraordinary in this ‘Reading of the Will’ is that the Deceased, Jesus is forevermore alive due to His Resurrection. And it is He, himself that can then open the Seals. Now, He, and only He as a Human in Heaven, mind you, sits at the Right Hand of Father. It is because now ‘All Authority and Power’ has been handed over to the Son. What this means is now, the Bride takes over Lucifer and his Minion’s Thrones.
The Seals attest to this Adjudication, legally as the Law’s demand is now satisfied in the Blood of Jesus. The ‘Last Will and Testament’ is what Jesus presents to all of Heaven, of what Lucifer has done and is deserving of. The Bride then sits as Queen, as the 24 Elders to be the Witness of the breaking of the Seals that will forever legally evict Lucifer from heaven.
Here is the evidence for why the 24 Elders is a euphemism for the Triumphant and redeemed Bride of Christ. The 24 Elders, if not the Glorified Church, then who else in all of Creation has it been revealed or understood that Adams’ Race is the one that has needed Redemption, and that by Blood?
1) They are wearing a Victor’s Crown.
2) They are modeled after the 24 Courses of the Priesthood.
3) The Church is not mentioned beyond Chapter 4 until the end.
4) The Bible teaches that the Believers of Jesus are already seated in Heavenly Places.
5) The 24 Elders testify that they too are redeemed by Blood.
By default, it is the Wrath of the Lamb as it is worked-out through Lucifer and then Man. It is not mutually exclusive in its application or execution. This will be correlated, in one’s estimation, when what one calls the ‘Revelation Sign 12 War’ and Lucifer along with his Rebel Angels are cast down to Earth. This will correspond to the midpoint of the Tribulation as there is but 1260 Days left.
In one’s interpretation, this is when Lucifer also enters his False Jewish ‘Son’ in possession and enters the Holy of Holies to sit on the Throne Chair that is the Ark of the Covenant. This is when the Mark of the Beast is mandated to come off a successful assassination of some sort.But in which through sorcery, he is apparently resurrected as Jesus was. And this is where the interphase between what occurs in Heaven can be discerned, as much as humanly possible, to suggest the following scenario. So, all this can only occur after the Rapture that recalls the Bride to Heaven.
The Bride of Christ is not Israel
But even before the Adjudication Session in the Throne of YHVH begins, the Bride has to go before the Bema Seat of Christ. This is for the Rewards, Crowns, etc. It is not for one’s Salvation or earning a ticket into the Throne Room. But it is after the Bema Seat Review, that then as the Bride enters that Celestial Council of Psalm 82, she will be decked-out, as they say.
All of Heaven will see her with all of the awards and crowns earned as a result of her salvation. She will be glowing, reflecting the beauty she has been transformed from, her Groom. Jesus. And it has been because of Jesus’ work for nearly 2000 years on Earth, through those 7 Iterations of what is called the Church Age. So, this is why the Bride of Christ cannot step 1 second into that which pertains to Jacob and what he still owes YHVH for not keeping the Sabbath of the Land.
The Bride of Christ owes no ‘Rent’ as her Promised Land, City and Temple are in Heaven, awaiting as promised at the Last Supper. And it is why, only after the Rapture Recall of the Bride, can then the AntiChrist be revealed as the Restrainer is set aside, etc. Why the 1st part of the 7-Year Tribulation might seem to be 'Man's Wrath’ is that in comparison to the ‘Great Tribulation’ of the 2nd half, it appears ‘tame’. But realize that at the beginning, as it has been Lucifer’s ploy, he starts out subtly.
It is always a ‘Bait-and-Switch’ tactic thereafter. Now, one does subscribe that since Prophecy is Pattern, the concept and the spirit of the Seals being broken can be applied since Eden in this case. This is what one argued about the Revelation 12 Sign back in 2009-10. It can be argued that it was a Celestial Motif that could infer Mary, Israel, the Church, etc. And how even the very 1st Prophecy given to Mankind in Genesis 3:15 was the Revelation 12 Sign seen in all those persons present.You had there the pre-incarnate Lion King, Jesus. Then you had the ‘Red’ Dragon Serpent ‘Shining One’, i.e., Lucifer. And then you had the Virgin, Eve. And how Adam was then to be by proxy an incarnate Jesus, that Man-Child that is eventually to rule the Nations, etc. As to the AntiChrist being a Muslim? Consider this rationale. No Jew would ever accept a Muslim as their Messiah. Just ask a Jews. And not after October 7. Realize that the authentication and expectation is that he is to be the ‘Son of David’.
The Jews comprehend that the credentials the Man has to present is that he will have to be a blood descendent of King David. The Jews take their Bloodlines seriously. Consider that the oldest continuous Christian Community in the world is the Aramean Church of Syria. They still speak the language of the 1st Century, of what is left of them before ISIS rolled in and massacred most of them.For example, they have identified enough Levites through DNA that they are now all trained to perform the Daily Sacrifices. Sure, there are glimpses that describe who this ‘Man of Sin’ will be. He is the ‘Assyrian’, for example. But one would argue that it is more of a characteristic than where he comes from. Assyria spanned the area from the border of Iran to Egypt.
A King like Solomon
So, by this scope of geography, he still could be coming out of Israel, for example. Or perhaps he may not even be born in Israel proper. One’s theory is that this Son of David will be like a Solomon 2.0, in that just like Solomon of old, he will build the 3rd Temple. The entire world will be at peace as his name means. It will be so much so that Delegates from the Nations will come to pay their respect. He will be powerful and wealthy beyond belief as Solomon was paid 666 Talents of Gold, yearly, etc.
One’s point is, no Jew would revere a Muslim, practicing and praying to ‘Allah’ and having had endless wars since Mohammed. Moreover, whomever this false Jewish Messiah will be, that the Nascent Sanhedrin of the 70 Elders of Israel will accept in ‘His own Name’, he should be by pattern in his early 30s, just like Jesus. Remember that to the Jews, it is at the age of 30 that a Jewish Man can become a Rabbi or Teacher and take on Disciples, i.e., Jesus.
Thus, the AntiChrist will be seen as not only a Great Master Builder, a Peace-Maker, but a Teacher, just like Solomon and Jesus were. To conclude one’s response as to when the Seals are broken? As said, what has helped me in this topic is to integrate and without concrete historical correlations in a lot of cases, is to model it. I have shared this chart below before, but it is an example of such a model of when the Seals are broken. It maps-out the entire Book of Revelation. Is it conclusive? No.But if it is beyond mere coincidence, the Book of Revelation has 22 chapters. So, if one assigns 1 block of time to equal 1 chapter, then some peculiar patterns emerge. This is especially the case when one also superimposes the meanings of each Hebrew letter to its corresponding numerical value and chapter. Here is the link to it online for your consideration and for those that might be new to this concept.
ChartTHE 7 RAPTURES OF REVELATIONOne does also want to bring-up an aspect of the Rapture that is not considered, if seldom coming across years of reading about it from others. Realize that the purpose of the Rapture is to precisely snatch-away the Bride of Christ from ‘Sudden Destruction’. Thus, the timing of the Rapture. Here in another glimpse only. Scripture paints a picture of a time when the entire Bride of Christ is about to be hit with an existential threat. And that is? Whatever it will be, we are on our way and Israel will be center to it. See article about the possible circumstances.
Article
A53: ISRAEL WORLD WARBURDENSOME STONE THAT CUTS AND CRUSHES
The Nations Against the ‘Zionist State’
The Coming TribulationWell, in context, when are the Seals opened then? One is more convinced at this point in time in one’s Learning Curve, that what is described in the Book of Revelation, post chapter 4 is to occur after the literal and real Rapture of the Bride of Christ. The Body of Christ cannot be cursed nor suffer Wrath as there is the ‘Shout of the King’ amongst her. This Rapture escape from the Wrath of the Lamb is typified in the escape of Lot from Sodom and in the Ark of Noah before the Flood, etc. So, what threat will that be?
How about if World War 3 could be that threat? Europe is essentially being steered into a war-footing with Russia as of this post. And most likely, at some point in time, it will go Nuclear. One is also of the belief that Enoch, ‘Walked with GOD and was no more’, as in snatched-up, was the type of the Bride. But Noah is to be the type of Israel that will ride the Wave of the Wrath. And it is considered ‘conspiratorial’, but one would bank on it being a ‘conspiratorial coincidence’ that the Luciferian 3 World Wars are coming to pass.
This was presumably conveyed by the 33rd Degree Luciferian Freemason, Albert Pike. And it is for the world to usher in their Solomon 2.0, to finish their Tower of Babel. See the Reverse Seal of the USA. It is essentially the Masonic Motif of how Lucifer will come down to unite the Capstone and complete their Temple of Light. One surmises that this will be the 3rd Temple that the false Jewish Messiah will rally the world around.This is where and when Lucifer, by proxy possesses his ‘Son’, also infused through the Human Blood lines of King David. To stress, he will sit in the Ark of the Covenant in that 3rd Temple that his ‘Son’ was commissioned to build. It is an amazing Divine Dichotomy of the Good and the Evil impersonating and usurping it. Here are some books one wrote about it all, if so inclined to peruse for further study. So, these have been only one’s rationales and interpretations about the topic and timing of the Seals, for what they are worth.______________________
Books
COVENANT WITH MANYIn the Bible, it teaches that in the End of Days, a World Leader will emerge that will ‘Confirm a Covenant with the Many’. What is that ‘Confirmation’? And who is the Many?THRONE OF SATANJesus warned that in the Last Generation, just before His Return to Earth, a False Jewish Messiah would enter into the Temple and sit in the Ark of the Covenant, the Throne.PAX JUDAICAGeo-Political, Astronomical and Biblical Factors that are heralding the coming ’Jewish World Order. It is the 7 last years of the Tribulation Period.