The Endurance for Justice
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Introduction
Introduction
Main Idea:
Main Idea:
Transition
Context: Seals
1. The Execution of Judgment
1. The Execution of Judgment
Seal #1: White Horse — Conquest
Seal #2: Red Horse — War
Seal #3: Black Horse — Famine
Financial Crisis resulting from war
A Denarius equals a day’s wage for a common laborer
A Quart of wheat would feed a person for 1 day
The common man can barely afford enough food for the day
Seal #4: Pale Horse — Death
Application
Application
1. Progressive Removal of God’s Grace
The first rider brings a desire for conquest. With the second rider, God removes peace. The result of war brings inflation, famine, and hunger. The rider of the bears the name Death and brings Hades, a reference for the grave. they’re given authority to kill, but they use the forces of destruction already on the earth: the sword, famine, pestilence, wild beasts.
Passive Voice for the Riders
God’s Common Grace
What we come to realize is that the very fact that we don’t experience the ravages of sin at all times in our lives is an act of God’s grace.
For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
Full Circle of Depravity as God’s Common Grace is Removed
Progressive Destruction of Sin
For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
Matthew 5:45
2. Progressive Destruction of Sin
Lust
War
Empty
Death
14 But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. 15 Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.
Application
Application
Individual: Addiction
Relational: Marriage
Social: Racism
2. The Duration of Judgment
2. The Duration of Judgment
3 Ways the Pattern is Broken
In what John sees: Christ opens the 5th seal and instead of a colored horse with a rider, John sees an altar with souls underneath. It’s likely that those who were slain for the word of God and for their witness to Christ do so during the unfolding of the first seals. They’re under the altar to represent their sacrifice for Christ. In the sacrificial system, the animal would be sacrificed on the altar and the blood poured underneath the altar. The martyrs here are those who shed their blood for Christ.
In where John is: Not only does the 5th seal break the pattern in what John sees, but it also breaks the pattern by moving us to a new location. No longer are we looking at events unfolding on earth, but we get another glimpse into heaven.
In what John hears: There’s a third break in the patter in that the souls ask a question: “How long before you will judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on earth?”
God responds in two ways to the question:
He gives them a white robe
White Robes occur 5 times in Revelation
Worn by
Christ ()
The Faithful in Sardis ()
The Twenty-Four Elders ()
Cross Reference with , because they’ve washed their robes in the blood of the lamb
He tells them to rest/wait
The meaning of rest has more to do with waiting for a moment of time.
The moment till the specific number of martyrs is complete
Application
Application
Injustice of sickness/disease
Injustice of wayward child you raise
Injustice of a parent who abandoned or abused you as a child
Injustice of divorce
The justice of God is what enables us to entrust injustice to God
21 For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps. 22 He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth. 23 When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly.
21 For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps. 22 He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth. 23 When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2016), .
Illustration of the Bishop of Rwanda
3. The Burden of Judgment
3. The Burden of Judgment
Christ opens the sixth seal and we arrive back on earth to a great earthquake, the sun turns black, mood like blood. The starts begin to fall to the earth, the way overly ripened fruit falls off a tree when shaken in wind. Finally, the sky rolls up like a scrolls, while every mountain and island crumble.
Kings/generals: Authority and power
Strong
Rich
Powerful
Slave and Free
All people on earth tremble in fear and they too, like the souls cry out. But notice that instead of crying out to the Sovereign Lord, the cry out to the mountains and rocks. They’re created objects of worship that they spent their lives worshipping in place of the creator. They cry out, but the mountains and rocks can’t provide salvation, but only death.
The ask “The great day of God’s wrath has come, who can stand?”
We’ve already seen one who stands. Back in , after hearing of the lion of Judah, John turns and sees the slain lamb standing. And all around fall down in worship.
All people will fall at the feet of what or whom they worship. For those who trust in Christ will bow down in worship of the lamb who was slain under the wrath of God and now stands worthy to receive worship. While those who try to stand on their own strength, wealth, authority, or power, will fall down and be crushed by the object of their worship.
Conclusion
Conclusion