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REVELAT I O N 7
martyred for the word of God and for being
faithful in their testimony. 10 They shouted to
the Lord and said, “O Sovereign Lord, holy and
true, how long before you judge the people who
belong to this world and avenge our blood for
what they have done to us?” 11 Then a white
robe was given to each of them. And they were
told to rest a little longer until the full number
of their brothers and sisters*—their fellow servants of Jesus who were to be martyred—had
joined them.
12 I watched as the Lamb broke the sixth seal,
and there was a great earthquake. The sun became as dark as black cloth, and the moon became as red as blood. 13 Then the stars of the sky
fell to the earth like green figs falling from a tree
shaken by a strong wind. 14 The sky was rolled
up like a scroll, and all of the mountains and
islands were moved from their places.
15 Then everyone—the kings of the earth, the
rulers, the generals, the wealthy, the powerful,
and every slave and free person—all hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the
mountains. 16 And they cried to the mountains
and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from
the face of the one who sits on the throne and
from the wrath of the Lamb. 17 For the great day
of their wrath has come, and who is able to
survive?”
God’s People Will Be Preserved
Then I saw four angels standing at the four
corners of the earth, holding back the four
winds so they did not blow on the earth or the
sea, or even on any tree. 2 And I saw another
angel coming up from the east, carrying the seal
of the living God. And he shouted to those four
angels, who had been given power to harm land
and sea, 3 “Wait! Don’t harm the land or the sea
or the trees until we have placed the seal of God
on the foreheads of his servants.”
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• Justice
R E V E LAT IO N 6 :1 0
The martyrs call out to God, “How long
before you judge the people . . . for what
they have done to us?” As we see the
world’s wickedness, we too may cry out
to God, “How long?” We want those who
have hurt others to be punished. In the
following chapters, the judgment comes
at last. God has his plan and his timing,
and we must learn to trust him to know
what is best. Judgment is coming—be
sure of that. Thank God for the time he
gives you to turn from sin and work to
help others turn as well.
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4 And I heard how many were marked with
the seal of God—144,000 were sealed from all
the tribes of Israel:
from Judah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,000
from Reuben . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,000
from Gad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,000
6 from Asher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,000
from Naphtali . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,000
from Manasseh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,000
7 from Simeon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,000
from Levi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,000
from Issachar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,000
8 from Zebulun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,000
from Joseph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,000
from Benjamin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,000
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Praise from the Great Crowd
9 After this I saw a vast crowd, too great to count,
from every nation and tribe and people and language, standing in front of the throne and before the Lamb. They were clothed in white robes
and held palm branches in their hands. 10 And
they were shouting with a great roar,
“Salvation comes from our God who sits on
the throne
and from the Lamb!”
11 And all the angels were standing around
the throne and around the elders and the four
living beings. And they fell before the throne
with their faces to the ground and worshiped
God. 12 They sang,
“Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom
and thanksgiving and honor
and power and strength belong to our God
forever and ever! Amen.”
13 Then one of the twenty-four elders asked
me, “Who are these who are clothed in white?
Where did they come from?”
14 And I said to him, “Sir, you are the one who
knows.”
Then he said to me, “These are the ones
who died in* the great tribulation.* They have
washed their robes in the blood of the Lamb and
made them white.
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“That is why they stand in front of God’s
throne
and serve him day and night in his
Temple.
And he who sits on the throne
will give them shelter.
They will never again be hungry or thirsty;
they will never be scorched by the heat
of the sun.
For the Lamb on the throne*
will be their Shepherd.
6:11 Greek their brothers. 7:14a Greek who came out of.
7:14b Or the great suffering. 7:17 Greek on the center of the
throne.