Tidings of Comfort and Joy

Revelation 7 Tidings of Comfort and Joy

 Revelation 6:  A dark picture of human history ending with the Day of Wrath
 Revelation 7:  The answer to the question asked in 6.17:  Who is able to stand?

A. THOSE WHO HAVE GOD'S SEAL [2-3]

 1.  Why have a seal?  [Joh 10.14;  2 Tim 2.19]

      a.  To mark possession

      b.  To protect

      c.  To give assurance

 2.  What is it?  [The Holy Spirit]

      a.  Eph 1.13-14

      b.  2 Cor 1.21-22

 3.  Who has it?  [ALL believers!]

      a.  The 144,000  [4]

      b.  The multitude which no one can count  [9]

B. THOSE WHO HAVE GOD'S SALVATION [10]

 1.  For all kinds of people everywhere  [9]

 2.  Forgiveness:  white robes washed in the blood  [9, 14]

 3.  For service  [15a]

 4.  For fellowship:  tabernacle  [15b]

C. THOSE WHO FOLLOW GOD'S SHEPHERD [17]

 1.  He leads us out of great tribulation  [13-14]

      a.  John experienced this tribulation  [1.9]

      b.  The church experiences this tribulation  [2.9-10]

 2.  He leads us through the wilderness  [16-17]

 3.  He leads us all the way home  [Psa 23]

John Olson