Shalom Friends,
Join us as we continue our study on the book of Revelation by discovering the seven trumpets and the two witnesses. As we leave the seven seals and the 144,000 sealed saints in previous chapters, now we will discover the seven trumpet judgements of Yah and the arrival of the two witnesses at a specific time at the end of the age.
Many Blessings,
Chadwick
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The day is coming and drawing so near.
The prophet's words are being fulfilled.
The times and seasons are at hand
for the glorious arrival of the Son of Man.
His life in the flashes, east and the west.
The earth will endure the Lord's test.
Be saved by his name while he can be found.
Seek his face before the trumpet sound.
The day of the Lord comes as a thief in the night.
For that day, keep your lamp trimmed.
The day of the Lord is full of wrath.
In that day, who can endure?
Peace and safety — and sudden destruction,
as labor pains upon a pregnant woman.
The powers of heaven will quake the earth,
shaking everything from the Lord's curse.
The day is gloomy and full of darkness.
Sun and moon will lose their brightness.
Nations prepare for the Lord's sacrifice.
His sickle is coming; the harvest is ripe.
The day of the Lord comes as a thief in the night.
For that day, keep your lamp trimmed.
The day of the Lord is full of wrath.
In that day, who can endure?
It's the day of vengeance — the redemption story.
The Lord is arriving with power and glory.
The fig tree is blooming and has started to bud,
for the King of Kings to pierce the heavens above.
Sons of the light and sons of the day —
sober and watchful, walk in his way.
The Lord is zealous and will roar like a lion.
He will sit on David's throne, dwelling in Zion.
The day of the Lord is full of wrath.
In that day, who can endure?
Hide me in your secret place.
Shelter me under the shadow of your wings.
Cover me in the day of trouble.
Shield me in your holy ar.
Whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved —
from the fire and from the sword —
to endure till the end.
Shine like the stars of heaven.
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Due to technical difficulties caused by a storm in the south, the teaching begins with a different system than usual. Shalom, and welcome. We are continuing the Book of Revelation series. This week we will cover Revelation chapters 8 through 11, which includes the seven trumpets, the two witnesses, and the book that John will eat in order to prophesy to the nations. There is a great deal of material here, and it will keep us on the trajectory we have been on in understanding the distinct sections of the Book of Revelation.
Before we go through tonight's lesson, let us do a quick summary of the first seven chapters to catch up anyone who has not been with us on the trajectory we are on.
When we look at the Middle East and North Africa and observe the trajectory of the prophecies, the timelines, and the calendars we study, it is quite apparent that we are living at the end of the age. We truly need to discern the times we are living in and understand where we are on God's prophetic timeline. Through the Holy Bible, God gives us the timeline — the details of the second coming events and the trajectory of the kingdoms that will come to fruition before the second coming. He has given us the manual to understand the end-of-the-age events, and the Book of Revelation is that manual.
However, the manual also includes the Torah, the prophets, the Psalms, and the Gospel accounts. If we understand the Torah, the prophets, and the Psalms, we will have a much better understanding of what John was communicating in the Book of Revelation. John would have understood what Isaiah spoke, what Ezekiel wrote, what Jeremiah and Moses said, and of course what Yeshua himself taught, since John walked with him. To get inside John's mind and understand how he received what the angel of Yeshua told him, we must recognize that he understood it through a reference point — a previous prophet, Moses, or something from the Torah, the prophets, or the Psalms — that gave him the framework to relate to what Yeshua's angel was speaking about. It is essential to enter into the mind of the prophet, in this case John the Revelator, and understand how he was looking at all of this from a Torah, prophets, and Psalms perspective. That perspective gives us greater depth and detail about what he was communicating.
Chapter one is the introduction of the Book of Revelation. It is truly remarkable how Yeshua instructed the angel to have John write the book. The first chapter covers both the first coming events and the second coming events, thereby identifying and revealing who Yeshua is — because this is, after all, the revelation of Yeshua the Messiah. He reveals himself through the scriptures of the Torah, the prophets, and the Psalms.
In chapter one we encounter John 1 and the Gospel accounts. Yeshua speaks to Isaiah 11 and the sevenfold spirit he possesses. The chapter also addresses the Passover and First Fruits — touching on his crucifixion and his resurrection — to identify him as the Messiah the Jewish people should be looking for. He identifies with Exodus 19, Deuteronomy 14, Isaiah 61, 1 Peter 2:9, and Revelation 5:5 as the kingdom of priests and a holy nation. From Mount Sinai forward, the Lord desired his people to be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation, but both Jew and Gentile have not obeyed the Lord God, which is why it has not yet been brought to fulfillment. Nevertheless, the theme of being set apart is central to chapter one, reaching back through Exodus 19, Deuteronomy, Isaiah, First Peter, and Revelation 5.
Yeshua identifies himself with these words: "Yeshua the Messiah — the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead" (that is, First Fruits, the resurrection), "the ruler of the earth's kings; to him, the one who loves us and has freed us from our sins at the cost of his blood" (the crucifixion, the Passover), "who has caused us to be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation" — returning again to Exodus, Deuteronomy, Isaiah, First Peter, and the Book of Revelation.
Chapter one then transitions to the second coming events. The first portion reveals who Yeshua is through his first coming — what he fulfilled in Passover, Unleavened Bread, and First Fruits — along with the sevenfold spirit of Yahweh in Isaiah 11. Then it shifts: "Look, he is coming with the clouds." That is Daniel 7:13–14. Every eye will see him, including those who pierced him — confirmed in Zechariah 12 — and all the tribes of the earth will mourn him. So in the first half of chapter one, Yeshua is identified as the suffering servant Messiah at his first coming, and in the second half he is revealed as the returning King, coming in the clouds as in Daniel 7.
The angel of Yeshua was directing John to write a Torah, prophets, and Psalms understanding of Yeshua — both at his first coming and at his second coming — incorporating Leviticus 23, Daniel 7, Isaiah 11, and all of these scriptures. The Book of Revelation gives us the information, but we must go deeper. We must go back and read the correlations in Isaiah 11, Zechariah 12, Leviticus 23, and throughout all of the prophets that Yeshua's angel wanted us to
