Their Big Question: For the great day of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand?”
– Revelation 6:17 (NKJV)
(vv.1-3)
Seal: sphragizo – to stamp (with a signet or private mark) for security or preservation (Strong’s)
Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees until we have sealed (sphragizo) the bond-servants of our God on their foreheads.” – Revelation 7:3 (NASB)
Christ…set his seal (sphragizo) of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come. – 2 Corinthians 1:21-22 (NIV)
Those sealed are from the of (v.4)
They sang as it were a new song before the throne, before the four living creatures, and the elders; and no one could learn that song except the hundred and forty-four thousand who were redeemed from the earth. These are the ones who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins.
– Revelation 14:3-4 (NKJV)
Nothing happens till this group is (v.3)
(vv.5-8)
Notice: Tribe of is not mentioned
“Dan shall be a serpent in the way, A horned snake in the path, That bites the horse’s heels, So that his rider falls backward. – Genesis 49:17 (NASB)
The Great Multitude (vv.9-17)
Not the Church but the of the 144,000 (v.9)
Shout about their common (vv.10-12)
They were shouting in a loud (megas) voice, – Revelation 7:10 (NCV)
(Jesus) …thrown into hell, where “their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.”
– Mark 9:47-48 (NKJV)
How the Mixed Multitude is different than the Church
Church is out of the Tribulation (Rev 3:10)
These out of the Tribulation (v.14)
Church is (Rev 4:4, 4:10)
These
Church as kings and priests (1 Pet 2:9, Rev 1:6)
These Him day and night (v.15)
Their Seal and Ours
In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed (sphragizo) with the Holy Spirit of promise.
– Ephesians 1:13-14 (NKJV)
Sealed for a
For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. – Ephesians 2:10 (NIV)
Sealed with a
Sealed to be
Sealed with to accomplish
their purpose