Expert: Patricia Burns - 8/27/2008

Question
what does the bible about the second coming of Christ, what should the church be doing before that time?

Answer
At the Sixth SEAL heaven and earth will witness the appearance of the Lord with power and majesty (Re.6:12-17 below).  

The Sixth SEAL should not be confused with the Seventh TRUMPET (1 Thess.4:16-17, 1 Cor.15:52, Re.10:7 below).  These are separate events.

Trumpet events begin when the trumpets are GIVEN to sound.  They are given at the Seventh, and final, SEAL (Re.8:1-6).

The Sixth SEAL is a single day event (Re.6:17 below); the Seventh TRUMPET is a plural days event (Re.10:7 below).

There are seven years between the Sixth SEAL and the Seventh TRUMPET.

NOTE that at the Sixth SEAL the Lord is sitting on a Throne of majesty (Re.6:16 below); at the Seventh TRUMPET the Lord descends from heaven with the trump of God (1 Thess.4:16 below).


Sixth SEAL -

Re.6:12      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 (Acts.2:20, Joel 2:31);

Re.6:13      And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth (Matt.24:29), even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.

Re.6:14      And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and EVERY MOUNTAIN (Ps.104:6) AND ISLAND WERE MOVED OUT OF THEIR PLACES (Isa.2:19).
  
Re.6:15      And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains (Isa.2:19, Isa.13:7-8);

Re.6:16      And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of HIM THAT SITTETH ON THE THRONE (Lk.21:27, Isa.2:19), and from the wrath of the Lamb (Rom.9:22-24):

Re.6:17      For the great day of his wrath is come (Re.6:16 above, Joel 2:31, Jer.30:7); and who shall be able to stand (Lk.21:36)?


Seventh TRUMPET -

1 Thess.4:16   For the Lord HIMSELF shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God (Re.10:7 below): and the dead in Christ shall rise first (1 Cor.15:52 below):

1 Thess.4:17   Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

Re.10:7      But in the DAYS of the voice of the SEVENTH angel, when he shall BEGIN to sound (1 Cor.15:52 below), the mystery of God should be finished (Eph.3:1-11, Dan.12:6-7), as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.

1 Cor.15:52   In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump (Re.10:7 above): for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed (1 Thess.4:16-17 above).


The church (1 Cor.10:32) will put on the whole armor of God to stand strong in the days after the Sixth SEAL.



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