Sermon — Quovadisworld

FOUR RIDERS ON FOUR HORSES

Four seals riders on four horses. The 7 seals signify those events which prepare the way for the coming of the Kingdom.

JESUS THE ONE WORHTY TO OPEN THE SCROLL

With Your blood You purchased people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation.
“You have made them to be a kingdom [of royal subjects] and priests to our God; and they will reign on the earth.”

THE SCROLL AND THE LAMB OF GOD

And there between the throne (with the four living creatures) and among the elders I saw a Lamb (Christ) standing, [bearing scars and wounds] as though it had been slain, with seven horns (complete power) and with seven eyes (complete knowledge), which are the seven Spirits of God who have been sent [on duty] into all the earth.

THE TRONE SET IN HEAVEN

“Worthy are You, our Lord and God, to receive the glory and the honor and the power; for You created all things, and because of Your will they exist, and were created and brought into being.”

TO THE CHURCH IN PHILADELPHIA

“And to the angel (divine messenger) of the church in Philadelphia write: “These are the words of the Holy One, the True One, He who has the key [to the house] of David, He who opens and no one will [be able to] shut, and He who shuts and no one opens: [Isa_22:22]

TO THE CHURCH IN SARDIS

“To the angel (divine messenger) of the church in Sardis write: “These are the words of Him who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars: ‘I know your deeds; you have a name (reputation) that you are alive, but [in reality] you are dead.

TO THE CHURCH IN THYATIRA

. “And to the angel (divine messenger) of the church in Thyatira write: “These are the words of the Son of God, who has eyes [that flash] like a flame of fire [in righteous judgment], and whose feet are like burnished [white-hot] bronze: [Dan_10:6]

TO THE CHURCH IN SMYRNA

“And to the angel (divine messenger) of the church in Smyrna write: “These are the words of the First and the Last [absolute Deity, the Son of God] who died and came to life [again]:

PROLOGUE AND GREETINGS TO THE SEVEN CHURCHES

This is the revelation of Jesus Christ [His unveiling of the divine mysteries], which God [the Father] gave to Him to show to His bond-servants (believers) the things which must soon take place [in their entirety]; and He sent and communicated it by His angel (divine messenger) to His bond-servant John,
who testified and gave supporting evidence to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to everything that he saw [in his visions].

JUDGMENT ON FALSE TEACHERS

. Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I was compelled to write to you [urgently] appealing that you fight strenuously for [the defense of] the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints [the faith that is the sum of Christian belief that was given verbally to believers].