Thank you for sharing that GSHd! If you'll permit me, I'd like to make a little summary:
In Revelation 6, the first six seals are opened by the Lamb, and the results of same are described. In Revelation 7 the 144,000 are sealed with the seal of the living God on their foreheads; 12,000 from each tribe of Israel, except Dan is not mentioned, instead of Dan there are 12,000 from Joseph and 12,000 from Benjamin.
Then John beholds a great multitude around the throne, wearing white robes and holding palm branches, praising and worshiping God and the Lamb along with the angels and the elders and the four living creatures.
The "great multitude", which it is said cannot be numbered, is described by one of the elders as those who have come out of the Great Tribulation, who have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Then in Revelation 8 the seventh seal is opened, and there is silence in heaven for a half an hour ... then comes the seven angels with the seven trumpets ... and then ...
This is intended by me as only a summary of what is described, and not as any interpretation.
Hello GSHd. I won't pretend to understand everything about Revelation 7. But I do know that the last verse, verse 17, is very beautiful:
For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes. (ESV)
As believers, this is our shared destiny.
I do also feel, as I go through Revelation, that I'm getting a little more out of it each time :)
Thank you JDJDJD! Your words are very encouraging. This is my testimony: I've been a Christian for a long time, since the seventies. But I've only started really intensely to study / meditate on / memorize God's Word since December 2014 when I found Memverse. Then in May 2015 I started on this site. Anyway, my life is different since I started doing this. I have a lot more peace and I feel closer to Him than I did before. I really love studying His Word. We love doing that because we love Him! And we love Him because He first loved us. Amen.
You are most certainly making progress Robinshe! Your devotion to God's Word most certainly has been bearing fruit in your life, perhaps in ways you are not even aware of yet.
Hello Annette! I see that you are adding a description to the new passages you learn. That's a useful method. I like it since, that way, you can look at your list of verse sets at some later date and use that as a kind of outline of each book you are studying :)
Hello madisonoriginal2. I like that chapter a lot. No other gospel ... I also like verse 4, "He gave Himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age..." (ESV)