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18 SIGNS OF HIS COMING Again we notice the similarity to Matthew 24: Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. (Matt 24:29-30) Although the prophecy leaps from the “beginning of sorrows” to the coming of the Son of Man, the second heptad of the seven trumpets will fill the void left by the seven seals: We must not regard the order of what is said, because frequently the Holy Spirit, when He has traversed even to the end of the last times, returns again to the same times, and fills up what He had before failed to say. Nor must we look for order in the Apocalypse; but we must follow the meaning of those things which are prophesied. 1 THE SEALING OF THE ELECT: Before the plagues of the seven trumpets, John saw an angel putting the seal of the living God on the foreheads of the servants of God. Then he tells us the number of those sealed; one hundred and forty-four thousand. (Rev 7:1-3) This number symbolizes the total number of the elect, who will be given protection against the remaining plagues. Here, the Holy Spirit gives us assurance that even if we happen to be around during the Great Tribulation, we will enjoy God’s protection. The number is a composite one (12 X 12 X 1000). The number twelve is symbolic of being chosen by God. The Tribes of God’s chosen people, Israel, were twelve and so was the number of His chosen disciples. When 12 is multiplied by 12, that means God’s elect from among the converted Jews as well as from among the Gentiles. St. Paul assures us that from among the Jews a remnant shall be saved, (Rom 9:27) and later on in Revelation 11, there is allusion to a mass conversion of the Jews to Christianity. The number one thousand symbolizes a great number. So, 144,000 symbolizes the large number of 1 Victorinus: Commentary on the Apocalypse.
SIGNS OF HIS COMING 19 God’s elect from both Jews and Gentiles. The reference to the Tribes of Israel is here to be understood as referring to the New Israel, which is the totality of God’s elect, for whose sake the days will be shortened. This point becomes clear when we read on: After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb. And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God, Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen. And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they? And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. (Rev 7:9-14) Here the picture becomes clear; a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations and kindreds and people and tongues. And who are they? They are the elect that have come out of the Great Tribulation, victorious, the same that were sealed and protected by God’s own seal. Their number, no man could count, for only God knows the number of His elect, the number that is symbolically given to us as 144,000. THE SEVEN TRUMPETS: When the seventh seal is opened, we are told that there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. (Rev 8:1) I could not find any satisfactory explanation for this. Perhaps what it means is that the plagues already mentioned, wars, famine, pestilence and persecutions, will be separated from the coming plagues by a time interval (symbolized by half an hour.) This really makes sense, for the Lord tells us that “all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.” (Matt 24:6) The plagues announced by the seven trumpets being closer to the end, may be better indications that the end is near.
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ANTITHEOTOKOS 81 Antitheotokos dema
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ANTITHEOTOKOS 85 THE DATE OF HIS CO
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HIS BEGINNINGS 1 The ancient writer
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HIS BEGINNINGS 93 THE THREE KINGS:
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HIS BEGINNINGS 97 will appear, and
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THE GREAT TRIBULATION 1 Daniel 12:1
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GREAT TRIBULATION 103 Modern Orthod
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GREAT TRIBULATION 113 The wildernes
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GREAT TRIBULATION 115 woe unto me!
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GREAT TRIBULATION 121 St. Paul, try
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HIS END 139 with which he deceived
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HIS END 141 For if he were on earth
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1 Published: November, 2002 THE DAY
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DAY OF THE LORD 149 should be short
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DAY OF THE LORD 153 Revelation 20:9
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