SEALED WITH BLOOD - Christians, If JOE & KAMALA Are Elected, Christian Persecution Is Coming! - Dr. Paul Fedena - Revelation 6:9-11
TEXT: Revelation 6:9-11
THESIS: To show the price that believers will pay for their stand in the Tribulation.
INTRO:
A. In the past believers have sealed their testimonies for Christ with their blood.
QUOTE: Dave Hunt: A Woman Rides The Beast
💥 “Remember, it is not that the woman’s hands are red with blood but that she is drunk with the blood of the martyrs. Her condition depicts a Church that not only kills but tortures its pitiful victims for days and even weeks. The inquisitors seemed to be drugged into insensibility until their normal sense of horror and sympathy had been numbed. Indeed, to be able to impose the most extreme torture without a twinge of conscience or compassionate thought became a mark of holiness and fidelity to the Church.
💥Try to imagine being suddenly arrested in the middle of the night and taken to an unknown location kept secret from family and friends. You are not told the charges against you nor the identity of your accusers, who remain unknown and thus immune from any examination to discover whether they are telling the truth. Whatever the accusation, it is accepted as fact and you are guilty without trial. The only ‘trial’ will be by the most ingeniously painful torture that continues until your confess to that unnamed crime or heresy of which you have been accused. Imagine the torment of dislocated joints, torn and seared flesh, internal injuries, broken bones on the rack and other devices, mended by doctors so they could be torn asunder again by fresh torture. Eventually you would confess to anything to end the torment, but no matter what you confess to it never fits the secret accusation, so the torture continues until at last you expire from the unbearable trauma…Such was the fate of millions…” p.249,250
B. Presently there are no doubt Christians being tortured and murdered for the faith in places like Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, China, etc.
C. But our focus this today is on the saints of the future Tribulation who will have “SEALED WITH BLOOD” their testimony for the Savior. 💥As horrible as were the tortures of the Inquisition and the persecution and murder of believers in the far east, the blood bath known as the Tribulation will cause all other persecutions of the Church to pale into insignificance.
I. THE TRIBULATION MARTYRS: v.9-11a
A. The Silence Of The Seraphs:
NOTE: When the 4 horsemen galloped onto the stage of future world history, the angelic beings cried out to John: “Come and see…” Here there is a reverential silence as the 5th Seal is opened and the martyrs are seen. The word “slain” here is the Greek word “sphazo” meaning a sacrificial slaughter. This is the reason they are associated with the altar of sacrifice in heaven.
B. The Scene Of The Sacrifice:
1. The blood of the sacrifices in the Tabernacle and Temple in the OLD TESTAMENT was poured
Lev. 1:8
8 And the priests, Aaron's sons, shall lay the parts, the head, and the fat, in order upon the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar:
Lev. 1:15
15 And the priest shall bring it unto the altar, and wring off his head, and burn it on the altar; and the blood thereof shall be wrung out at the side of the altar:
2. You will notice that the animals were decapitated - which will be the same method of capital punishment used on believers during the Tribulation.
Rev. 20:4
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
3. Decapitation will be the final form of capital punishment under Papal Rome just as it was under Pagan Rome in the time of Paul, James, etc.
B. The Sobs Of The Slain:
ILLUS: These saints are martyred “for the Word of God, and for the testimony which they held…”
💥Could it be possible that a day is coming when all who stand for the true Word of God will be martyred?
💥Along with all who stand and refuse to back down? (“…held”)
💥Some of us get nervous if someone gets offended at our witness!
💥Think of the horrors of the holocaust called the Tribulation.
💥Believers will be tracked down as the most heinous criminals, tortured and killed for their acceptance of Messiah!
a. Souls: Souls are simply people, i.e. the invisible part of every human being.
b. Saved: Many are saved in the Tribulation thru the witness of the 144,000 and the 2 witnesses, along with the Bible and the Holy Spirit.
c. Conscious: They are dead in Christ so they are alive in Heaven.
d. Rational: They are aware of what if going on and able to exercise logic.
e. Real: John “saw…” them!
f. Praying: For vengeance! “Oh Lord” = “Ho Despotes” (Despot in Eng.) they are praying to the Sovereign Ruler to bring Judgment to their tormentors.
g. Clothed: They are “given” (can’t be earned) robes (priests) to wear (even though they are “souls” (i.e. they have bodies!) which will be reunited with their bodies at the rapture of the Tribulation saints at end of Tribulation
II. THE TRIUMPHANT MAJESTY: v.11b
A. The Savior Speaks: “rest…until…”
1. Their prayers will not be answered till the martyred band is complete.
ILLUS: Just as today the Rapture will not take place till that last soul is saved and added to the Body of Christ. We may pray “Come quickly, Lord Jesus” but His response to us is the same: “rest…until…”
2. Their prayers for vengeance for their tormentors are not selfish, but sacred: i.e., they are concerned for His honor and thus address Him as “holy and true.”
B. The Sentence Secured: “…a little season”
1. God’s judgment may be slow by our reckoning, but He is operating according His own time-table. He tells them that many more will have to be martyred, before it is over.
CONCL: No matter how unjust it all seems…no matter how slowly God’s clock seems to run …all will be “fulfilled.” The blood bath will soon be over!
God says so!
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