The End of the World: Future Events and You
The Tribulation: What Is God’s Basis for Judgment? – Revelation 4
- THE T________ : GOD’S SOVEREIGNTY, vv. 2-5
- A form of the word appears _____ times in The Revelation, including ____ times in chapter 4.
- The Athiest says there is no throne…
- The Humanist says there is a throne, but Man sits upon it…
- Religion says there is a throne, but upon it is a god after our own image…
- The truth teaches that One sits upon the throne, and His name is Jesus Christ!
- I Timothy 6:14-16; Revelation 17:14, 19:16
- Jesus rules in the affairs of men and has every right and every responsibility to judge.
- God’s people, enthroned and crowned with Jesus, will be entrusted with judgment, v. 4. (I Corinthians 6:2-3)
- The entire creation exists ____ Christ’s pleasure, and _____ Christ’s pleasure! v. 11
- When He is no longer pleased: Genesis 6:5-7
- God will judge because Earth has become “the Prodigal Planet.”
- THE FOUR B________ : GOD’S HOLINESS, vv. 6-8
- These are the same four “living creatures” Ezekiel saw ___ years before The Revelation (Ezekiel 1) and realized they were cherubims (Ezekiel 10:20).
- They spend every moment proclaiming and exalting the Holiness of God!
- Holiness is God’s fundamental attribute.
- The Holiness of God (Defined): That divine attribute whereby God maintains His own moral excellency, abhors anything unlike Himself, and demands of others a purity identical to His own.
- God is outraged at sin, at man’s impudence, arrogance and rebellion.
- Psalms 7:11
- Romans 1:18
- THE R_________ : GOD’S COVENANTS, v. 3
- Genesis 9:13-16.
- Even in His wrath and judgment, God is bound by His own W______ .
- Some of God’s Other Covenants of Judgment:
- II Peter 2:4-9
- Jude 15-16
- Psalms 34:15-19
- Psalms 32:6
- Job 21:30
- Romans 2:3-11