Min. Perkins, I so enjoyed learning during you presentation. The art work helped to make the information easier to understand. Thank you and BLB for the lesson.
The Seals are not judgment nor the wrath. The tribulation on the saints comes from their persecution from the Antichrist. They ask God a question for how long is He *not* going to judge and avenge them and those still on Earth: _And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou _*_not_*_ judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?_ - Revelation 6:10 Which makes you think is God really judging the Earth during this period of time? Clearly not yet. The wrath of the Lamb comes as the last 7th Seal is opened (end of chapter 6). _the wrath of the Lamb: 17 For the great day of his wrath _*_is_*_ come; and who shall be able to stand?_ The actual wrath begins in chapter 8, but not before the rapture (after the tribulation but before the wrath, somewhere in the midpoint around the first 3 1/2 years) which we see in chapter 7: _After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands_ - Revelation 7:9 _What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence [from where] came they?_ (v.13) _These are they which came out of great tribulation_ (v.14) Chapter 8: _And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets._ - Revelation 8:1-2 The Trumpets initiate the Wrath of the Lamb/God.
Jews are only one of the 12 tribes, the tribe of Judah which became dominant. The 144.000 are 12,000 of EACH TRIBE. There are not 144,000 Jews only. These cannot be future Jews. Consider what the Apostle Paul pleaded before Agrippa. Act 26:7 Unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews. These twelve tribes are at that time (2000 years ago) instantly serving God. They follow Christ everywhere He goes. These are not future. You read over the truth. They WERE REDEEMED - Not future, but past tense. They are in deed the firstfruit offering. Read 1 Cor 15. The time order is revealed. Christ, the firstfruits, Next in order those who are His now when He comes.
