Take Heart | Week Eight | Message to the faithful – You are sealed, counted and promised life

Jesus says, “I see you.”

Ephesus – Distraction
Smyrna – Domination
Pergamum – Deception
Thyatira – Deference
Sardis – Disengagement
Philadelphia – Discouragement
Laodicea – Decadence

Jesus says, “I am with you”

Revelation chapter 4 – A vision of heaven

God is on His throne

Revelation chapter 5 – chapter 6

The warnings of God to our fallen world

Seal 1 – Conquest
Seal 2 – War
Seal 3 – Famine
Seal 4 – Death
Seal 5 – A call for patience in the midst of persecution
Seal 6 – The final judgment
Seal 7 – A stop to the warnings and the start of God’s fight against evil

After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth to prevent any wind from blowing on the land or on the sea or on any tree. 2 Then I saw another angel coming up from the east, having the seal of the living God. He called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea: 3 “Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.” 4 Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel. Revelation 7:1-4 (NIV)

Take heart! You belong to God

9 After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands.0 And they cried out in a loud voice:
“Salvation belongs to our God,
who sits on the throne,
and to the Lamb.”
11 All the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures. They fell down on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, 12 saying:
“Amen!
Praise and glory
and wisdom and thanks and honor
and power and strength
be to our God for ever and ever.
Amen!”
13 Then one of the elders asked me, “These in white robes—who are they, and where did they come from?”
14 I answered, “Sir, you know.”
And he said, “These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Revelation 7:9-14 (NIV)

Take heart! If you belong to God, you will be rewarded with a life with God