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The Book of Revelation was given as a mysterious,
closed and sealed book. It was SEALED WITH SEVEN
SEALS. It is similar to the book of Daniel, which God
told Daniel was sealed until the time of the end.
But if God wanted to hide this knowledge completely,
He never would have revealed it in the first place. He
meant for those seals to be opened. In fact, God
intended this important prophetic book to be
UNDERSTOOD in our time today!
The question is, when would those seals be opened,
and what would the book reveal?
Revelation tells us that Jesus Christ would be able to
open those seals. “And I wept much, because no man
was found worthy to open and to read the book,
neither to look thereon. And one of the elders saith
unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of
Judah, the Root of David, HATH PREVAILED to open the
book, and to loose the seven seals thereof” (Revelation
5:4-5).
CHRIST is the one who can show us all this revelation
that has been sealed. He alone can do so. But what
does it mean that He “PREVAILED to open the book”? It
shows that loosing these mighty seals was not a simple
matter. In order to reveal this prophecy, Christ had a
titanic battle with Satan the devil, and He won. He
qualified to replace Satan on his throne, and now He—
and only He—is qualified to open those seals.
Christ has loosed those seals—but He didn’t do so in
the book of Revelation itself.
I want to show you something Christ said that most
people do not understand. We will look at one chapter
of the Bible to see how that chapter alone UNSEALS
THOSE SEVEN SEALS.

Jesus delivered a pivotal prophecy—the longest single
prophecy in the Bible and the most important
prophecy Christ revealed when He was on this Earth.
He spoke this prophecy after He had prevailed in that
battle with Satan and qualified to reveal it. It is called
the Olivet prophecy. It is recorded in the Gospels of
Matthew, Mark and Luke. I will just focus on the
account in Matthew 24, and show how it looses the
seals on the prophecies of Revelation. All prophecy, in
a sense, revolves around Matthew 24.

In this chapter, Christ prophesied about a volcanic
eruption of crises on Earth that has never been
experienced—and about the birth of a new age that
will come from it. Jesus Christ has prevailed and has
revealed this, and we are now seeing these prophecies
being fulfilled.

The seven seals form the story flow of the book of
Revelation. Here is the overview: The first seal reveals
false prophets; the second, war; the third, famine; the
fourth, pestilence; the fifth, tribulation; the sixth,
heavenly signs; and the seventh, seven trumpets.
If you understand those seals, they lead you step by
step to the return of Jesus Christ: He returns at the last
of those seven final trumpet blasts. So the Second
Coming concludes those seven seals.
That makes this prophecy—even though it has a lot of
bad news—the most exciting, wonderful news
imaginable!

The First Seal

The first seal Christ opens reveals the first horseman
of the apocalypse. The first four seals reveal a total of
four horsemen.

“And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals,
and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of
the four beasts saying, Come and see. And I saw, and
behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a
bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went
forth conquering, and to conquer” (Revelation 6:1-2).
Christians usually assume this horseman is Jesus Christ
because Christ also comes on a white horse. But Christ
comes with a sword, not with a bow (Revelation
19:11-15) . And when you see what this white
horseman actually does, you realize that even though
he looks like Christ, it isn’t Christ at all! This is a false
Christ who has DECEIVED THE WORLD—the Christian
world and the non-religious—about the prophecies of
Revelation!

Christ unseals and explains this to us in Matthew 24.
“And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples
came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall
these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy
coming, and of the end of the world [or age]?” (verse
3). If you read through the chapter, you see that the
main sign is the gospel being preached around the
world (verse 14). Christ was saying that His true gospel
message would not be preached—but then, right
before the end, it would be. That commission being
completed would mark the world’s entering into the
very last end.

That was the main sign Christ gave, but there are
others here. The very first thing Christ said was this:
“TAKE HEED THAT NO MAN DECEIVE YOU. For many
shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall
deceive many” (verses 4-5).

Here, then, is the meaning of the first seal in
Revelation, the first horseman of the apocalypse. This
is what Christ revealed: It is the white horseman of
RELIGIOUS DECEPTION. This horseman proclaims a
lying message about Christ. This false religion
proclaims that Christ was the Messiah, but it is
deceiving people about what He said!

This horseman comes first because he causes the most
suffering by far. He is a false teacher of Christ’s
message, one who “went forth conquering, and to
conquer.” This deceitful ministry CONQUERS BY
DECEIVING, and it has deceived the whole world
(Revelation 12:9). This is the deadliest of all the
horsemen.

Second, Third and Fourth Seals

Here is what Revelation says about the second seal:
“And there went out another horse that was red: and
power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace
from the earth, and that they should kill one another:
and there was given unto him a great
sword” (Revelation 6:4). The second seal reveals the
horseman of war .

What did Christ say about this in the Olivet prophecy?
“And ye shall hear of WARS and rumours of wars: see
that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come
to pass, but the end is not yet” (Matthew 24:6). There
will be all kinds of wars from the first coming of Christ
to the Second Coming—but those right at the very end
before His Second Coming will be about 100 times
worse than any ever on this planet! That is what Christ
is telling us.

This is the same period that the Prophet Daniel called
“the time of the end”—or as the Moffatt Bible translates
it, “the CRISIS AT THE CLOSE.” It is the worst crisis ever
on this Earth! We ought to take note because it is
already beginning to unfold before our eyes. Look at
all the countries that have nuclear bombs and are
ready to detonate them. Once you start a nuclear war,
you can’t really stop it.

The third seal is described in verses 5-6: “And when he
had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say,
Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and
he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say,
A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures
of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil
and the wine.” Seal number three reveals the
horseman of famine.

“And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name
that sat on him was Death, and Hell,” or the grave,
“followed with him. And power was given unto them
over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword,
and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts
of the earth” (verse 7). The fourth of these seven seals
is the horseman of death .

Christ’s prophecy in Matthew 24 goes on to explain
these next two seals. “For nation shall rise against
nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall
be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers
places” (Matthew 24:7). There are the third and fourth
seals: famine and pestilence, and all the death that will
result worldwide.

“All these are the beginning of sorrows,” Christ warned
(verse .

THESE ARE THE CONDITIONS AND EVENTS JESUS
CHRIST SAID TO LOOK FOR RIGHT BEFORE HIS
RETURN!

The Fifth Seal
Verses 9-11 of Revelation 6 describe the next of these
seven seals. This passage begins, “And when he had
opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of
them, that were slain for the word of God 
…” (Revelation 6:9). This is discussing God’s own
people—people who knew God and the true gospel—
being killed.

Notice how Christ describes this same prophetic event
in Matthew 24:9: “Then shall they deliver you up to be
afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all
nations for my name’s sake.” Christ aimed this directly
at “you”—His own disciples. This is a world-shaking
event!

This seal is describing the Great Tribulation, a 2½-year
period of Satan’s great wrath (Revelation 12:12). This
isn’t the time of the wrath of God—that one-year “Day
of the Lord” comes right after the Tribulation, making a
total of 3½ years of unprecedented suffering before
Jesus Christ returns (Revelation 11:2-3; 13:5; Daniel
12:7).

Why were these saints killed during the Tribulation?
Several times in Scripture God promises to protect His
people during that period (e.g. Revelation 12:6). Why
didn’t these saints receive God’s protection?
Other scriptures reveal the answer. The last era of
God’s Church before Christ returns is described in
Revelation 3:14-22. Christ chastens it for being
lukewarm and spiritually wretched. The large majority
of God’s people today have fallen into that condition.
That is a shameful truth. These people who have
known God but turned away are not going to be
protected by Him! God will allow them to experience
the nightmares of the Tribulation because they were
lukewarm and not excited about the Second Coming of
Jesus Christ to stop all these crises forever! God says
that this is what it will take for them to turn back to
Him so that He can get them into the Kingdom of God,
into His Family. You can read more about this in our
free book Malachi’s Message .

Those lukewarm saints are going to be killed during the
Great Tribulation. But those who have known God and
clung to Him—the very elect—will be protected.
“And then shall many be offended, and shall betray
one another, and shall hate one another. And many
false prophets shall rise, and SHALL DECEIVE
MANY” (verses 10-11). The Greek word translated
many means that MOST of God’s own people will be
deceived! That is what Christ prophesied—and that is
exactly what has happened in this end time. Ninety-
five percent of God’s Church has been deceived. That
proves we have to work very hard not to be deceived.
We can be deceived so easily.

“And because iniquity [lawlessness] shall abound, the
love of many shall wax cold” (verse 12). This “love” is
the agape love of God, which comes from His Holy
Spirit (e.g. Romans 5:5; Galatians 5:22). Only the
people of God, who possess the Holy Spirit, have that
love, and here Christ prophesied that this love would
“wax cold” in MANY of these people! They had it but
they are losing it. Why? Because of lawlessness. This is
still in that fifth seal, the Great Tribulation.

The Main Sign

Now we come to the MAIN SIGN Christ gave of His
Second Coming. “And this gospel of the kingdom shall
be preached in all the world for a witness unto all
nations; and then shall the end come” (verse 14). The
true gospel, which has not been preached, will finally
be preached, Christ said; then comes “the end.”
This prophecy has been fulfilled! Do you know that the
true gospel of God, after being suppressed for
centuries, was in fact preached around the world for a
witness to all nations? Do you know who did that job?
These questions are also answered in Malachi’s
Message.

But which “end” comes after that commission is
finished? It is different from the “END of the world” in
verse 3, from the Greek synteleia. This is the Greek
word telos. Thayer’s Lexicon explains that the context
has to tell you what “end” it is. This is speaking of the
END of the gospel being preached around the world —
AFTER WHICH we will enter into the time when all of
these terrible events of Matthew 24 will unfold. This is
the “last end” spoken of in Daniel 8:19.
Christ has unsealed this for us. WE SHOULD
UNDERSTAND IT!

What did He say would happen next? “When ye
therefore shall see the ABOMINATION OF
DESOLATION, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand
in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him
understand” (Matthew 24:15). What is this? Luke
21:20 describes this “abomination” as “JERUSALEM
COMPASSED WITH ARMIES.” Other prophecies show
that these armies belong to a reconstituted Holy
Roman Empire in Europe! They also reveal that this
“abomination that maketh desolate” (Daniel 12:11) will
rise up just before the modern-day nations of Israel—
which include the United States and Britain—
COLLAPSE!

That might have seemed far off when Herbert W.
Armstrong first prophesied about Matthew 24, but
now we can see it happening!

The verses that follow are about the faithful people of
God fleeing destruction— fleeing to a place of
protection that God will provide. This is more proof
that God will in fact protect some.

And here is what He will protect them from: “For then
shall be GREAT TRIBULATION, such as was not since
the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever
shall be. And except those days should be shortened,
there should NO FLESH BE SAVED: but for the elect’s
sake those days shall be shortened” (Matthew
24:21-22).

This is Christ’s prophecy of HORRORS
UNPRECEDENTED IN HUMAN HISTORY—besieging the
world right at the end. He said that unless He
intervened, mankind would wipe itself completely off
the face of the Earth!

After World War I, Winston Churchill said, “Mankind
has never been in this position before. … Without
having improved appreciably in virtue or enjoying
wiser guidance, it has got into its hands for the first
time the tools by which it can unfailingly accomplish its
own extermination.”

Since that time, we have developed chemical and
biological weapons. We can exterminate ourselves
MANY TIMES OVER! The number one problem we face
is human extermination! That has never been possible
in history until very recent times.

WE ARE NOW IN EXACTLY THE POSITION JESUS CHRIST
PROPHESIED ABOUT IN REVELATION AND MATTHEW
24! This is the crisis at the close! More people should
see that. More ministers should be talking about that.
There is no excuse: There are prophecies throughout
the Bible that tell us that—over a hundred of them!
The end of all things is “AT THE DOORS” (verses
32-33).

In verse 41 we again see God’s Church divided
between those who cling to Him and do His work, and
those who are lukewarm. Both churches are in the
field, working away, but only one of them is going to
be taken and protected—and the other is going to be
left. Ninety-five percent of God’s people are not going
to be protected. But because they don’t look to Christ’s
prophecies, they won’t realize it. All these horrors are
going to spring on them like a steel trap!
In Luke 21:34-36, Jesus warned that you had better
watch for these prophecies. Watch world news, but
also watch your own spiritual life so you don’t fail to
see what is happening.

The Sixth and Seventh Seals
The sixth seal reveals mighty heavenly signs: “And I
beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo,
there was a great earthquake; and the sun became
black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as
blood; And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth,
even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is
shaken of a mighty wind” (Revelation 6:12-13). These
signs are an indication of the fearsome things about to
come next.

Christ explains this sixth seal in Matthew 24:29:
“Immediately after the tribulation of those days [which
was the fifth seal] 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.” Those are the same heavenly signs. You can
also read them prophesied in Joel 2:31: “The sun shall
be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood,
before the great and the terrible day of the Lord
come.” This confirms that these signs mark the end of
the Tribulation—the 2½ years of Satan’s wrath—and
signal the beginning of the Day of the Lord—the year
of God’s wrath.

These are world-shaking events. And just as Jesus’s
other prophecies have come to pass, so too will these!
Revelation 6:17 introduces the seventh seal: “For the
great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able
to stand?” That seventh seal is spoken of in Revelation
8 and 9. It consists of those seven trumpets.
Here is where Christ explained the seventh seal: “And
he shall send his angels with a great sound of a
trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from
the four winds, from one end of heaven to the
other” (Matthew 24:31). That seventh seal includes
seven trumpet plagues that God pours out on
mankind.

There are only a handful of scriptures about the Great
Tribulation in Matthew 24 and Revelation, but there
are over 30 about the Day of the Lord, which is the
day of God’s wrath on this Earth. Joel says the Day of
the Lord is at hand, as destruction from the Almighty .
God is sick of mankind’s sin and lawlessness, which
plunges us into the greatest crisis ever. The world has
never seen anything like the wrath of God that it is
about to see!

Yet sadly, throughout these plagues, mankind will
refuse to repent.
How does all this end? At the last trumpet, Jesus Christ
Himself is going to return to this Earth! “The kingdoms
of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord 
…” (Revelation 11:15). Jesus Christ is about to take over
this world in crisis, rule it with a rod of iron and bring
peace, joy, happiness and success to everybody on
Earth. That is the kind of prosperity mankind really
wants, but has never been able to achieve.
If you are willing to look into God’s Word with an open
mind, you will see that all Christ talked about 2,000
years ago is coming to pass—the bad news and the
good!

Very interesting and educative .thank l have been blessed.

sandyd:
Very interesting and educative .thank l have been blessed.

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These are world-shaking events. And just as Jesus’s
other prophecies have come to pass, so too will these!
Revelation 6:17 introduces the seventh seal: “For the
great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able
to stand?” That seventh seal is spoken of in Revelation
8 and 9. It consists of those seven trumpets.
Here is where Christ explained the seventh seal: “And
he shall send his angels with a great sound of a
trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from
the four winds, from one end of heaven to the
other” (Matthew 24:31). That seventh seal includes
seven trumpet plagues that God pours out on
mankind.

There are only a handful of scriptures about the Great
Tribulation in Matthew 24 and Revelation, but there
are over 30 about the Day of the Lord, which is the
day of God’s wrath on this Earth. Joel says the Day of
the Lord is at hand, as destruction from the Almighty .
God is sick of mankind’s sin and lawlessness, which
plunges us into the greatest crisis ever. The world has
never seen anything like the wrath of God that it is
about to see!
Yet sadly, throughout these plagues, mankind will
refuse to repent.
How does all this end? At the last trumpet, Jesus Christ
Himself is going to return to this Earth! “The kingdoms
of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord 
…” (Revelation 11:15). Jesus Christ is about to take over
this world in crisis, rule it with a rod of iron and bring
peace, joy, happiness and success to everybody on
Earth. That is the kind of prosperity mankind really
wants, but has never been able to achieve.
If you are willing to look into God’s Word with an open
mind, you will see that all Christ talked about 2,000
years ago is coming to pass—the bad news and the
good!

Christianity has done a mind job on folks for real!

All seven seals, including the tribulation described by Jesus Christ, happened and came to a close about 1900 years ago when the end — the final Judgement of God against His nation of Israel(and Judah) as well as all nations, took place.

sandyd:
Very interesting and educative .thank l have been blessed.

What part of it was "educative" when the assertions made by OP were all false?