The Book of Revelation CHAPTER 6 Seven Seals

The Book of Revelation

CHAPTER 6 Seven Seals Ø Revelation 6 -8: Seven Seals Ø Revelation 8 -11: Seven Trumpets Ø Revelation 15 -16: Seven Vials

Literally 1000 years? D&C 77: 6 -7

FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE Ø Zechariah 1: 18 -21

6 SEALS OVERVIEW • • REVELATION 6: 1 -2 Horse: White Symbol: Purity Time: 4000 -3000 BC Adam • Application: How would you rate the level of purity in your life? ADAM 400 C 0 B 300 C 0 B 200 C 0 B 100 C 0 B 0 100 D 0 A 0 200 AD

6 SEALS OVERVIEW • • ADAM 400 C 0 B REVELATION 6: 3 -4 Horse: Red • Symbol: Violence Time: 3000 -2000 BC Noah Application: How would you rate the level of violence in your life? NOAH 300 C 0 B 200 C 0 B 100 C 0 B 0 100 D 0 A 0 200 AD

6 SEALS OVERVIEW REVELATION 6: 5 -6 • Horse: Black • Symbol: Famine and Starvation • the penny, or 'dēnarion', was 1 day’s wage • Time: 2000 -1000 BC • Days of Abraham/Joseph NOAH ADAM 400 C 0 B 300 C 0 B AB/JOSEPH 200 C 0 B 100 C 0 B 0 100 D 0 A 0 200 AD

6 SEALS OVERVIEW • • NOAH ADAM 400 C 0 B REVELATION 6: 7 -8 Horse: Pale • Application: How light/bright Symbol: Death (non-pale) are you? Time: 1000 -0 BC Herod/Alexander the Great 300 C 0 B AB/JOSEPH HEROD/ALEX 200 C 0 B 100 C 0 B 0 100 D 0 A 0 200 AD

“In your morning prayer each new day, ask Heavenly Father to guide you to recognize an opportunity to serve one of His precious children. Then go throughout the day with your heart full of faith and love, looking for someone to help. Stay focused. If you do this, your spiritual sensitivities will be enlarged and you will discover opportunities to serve that you never before realized were possible”. Elder Ballard, Conference, October 2012 “At the end of the day, we report back to our Father. We review the events of the day and express heartfelt thanks for the blessings and the help we received. We repent and identify ways we can do and become better tomorrow. ”

6 SEALS OVERVIEW REVELATION 6: 9 -11 5 th Seal: 0 -1000 AD Early Christian Martyrs NOAH ADAM 400 C 0 B 300 C 0 B AB/JOSEPH HEROD/ALEX 200 C 0 B 100 C 0 B MARTYRS 0 100 D 0 A 0 200 AD

EARLY CHRISTIANS Burned at the stake Killed by Gladiators Ground to death in mills Fed to wild animals Stoned to death Starved to death Boiled to death

Claudius Galenous “There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. ” “Fearlessness is something I witness in them everyday”

7 SEALS OVERVIEW Revelation 6: 12 -13 (6 th Seal) 1000 -2000 AD NOAH ADAM 400 C 0 B 300 C 0 B AB/JOSEPH HEROD/ALEX 200 C 0 B 100 C 0 B 6 th SEAL MARTYRS 0 100 D 0 A 0 200 AD

THE 1 ST 6 SEALS EVENTS • APOSTACY & DARK AGES • DISCOVERY AND USE OF PRINTING • PROTESTANT REFORMATION • RENAISSANCE • COLONIZATION OF AMERICA • TRANSLATION AND PRINTING OF BIBLE. • COMING FORTH OF THE BOOK OF MORMON • OPPOSITION TO THE BOOK OF MORMON • RESTORATION OF PRIESTHOOD • CHURCH RESTORED • GROWTH OF THE CHURCH • BUILDING OF LATTER-DAY TEMPLES • LORD TO COME SUDDENLY TO TEMPLE • PERSECUTION OF THE SAINTS • PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS • GOSPEL TO BE PREACHED IN ALL THE WORLD • SCIENTIFIC AND INVENTIVE PROGRESS • DISEASE, PLAGUE, PESTILENCE • ELEMENTS IN COMMOTION • VIOLENCE, TO INCREASE • GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH • ECONOMIC TURMOIL • MANY FALSE CHURCHES • LAMANITES TO BLOSSOM AS THE ROSE

“The day will come, after your fathers, and these prophets and apostles are dead, you will have the privilege of going into the towers of a glorious Temple built unto the name of the Most High (pointing in the direction of the bench), east of us upon the Logan bench; and while you stand in the towers of the Temple and your eyes survey this glorious valley filled with cities and villages, occupied by tens of thousands of Latter-day Saints, you will then call to mind this visitation of President Young and his company. “You will say: That was in the days when Presidents Benson and Maughan presided over us; that was before New York was destroyed by an earthquake; it was before Boston was swept into the sea, by the sea heaving itself beyond its bounds; it was before Albany was destroyed by fire; yea, at that time you will remember the scenes of this day. Treasure them up and forget them not. ' President Young followed and said: 'What Brother Woodruff has said is revelation and will be fulfilled. '" (DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS STUDENT MANUAL, SECTION 84; Lundwall, Temples of the Most High, pp. 97– 98. )

A TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM • • • First temple: Solomon’s temple (destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BC. ) Second temple: “Herod’s Temple” commissioned by Cyrus (destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD). Third Temple: (Two temples) • Jerusalem • The “New Jerusalem” (Independence, Missouri)

QUESTION: Revelation 6: 17 ANSWER: Revelation 7 NOAH ADAM 400 C 0 B 300 C 0 B AB/JOSEPH HEROD/ALEX 200 C 0 B 100 C 0 B 6 th SEAL MARTYRS 0 100 D 0 A 7 th SEAL 0 200 AD

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