2.Tribulation Saints

A special focus on the Tribulation Saints of the Sixth Seal and how it lead to understanding all the harvests.

The verses: https://ref.ly/Re7.9-17

The sixth seal rapture timing viewpoint has been the most neglected viewpoint for those looking to prove just one harvest event, as I used to. It seemed to be the most direct conclusion to come to when reading the Bible without over complicating it. But, upon closer inspection, I discovered even the sixth seal perspective was flawed. The ‘flaw’ seemed to be partially reconcilable by leaning preferentially on St. Paul’s greater enlightenment, when necessary, but it turns out to be much more involved than that:

The Crux of the Sixth Seal

Context of the fourth and fifth seals:

A quarter of humanity will perish at the fourth seal, then the fifth seal show martyrs crying out for eternal justice under God, YHWH, our Holy Father’s alter . . .

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But, with further study and prayer, I began to realize, and have faith, that there was an earlier harvest of the bride of Christ and that some of the preps I was making may end up being very useful to tribulation saints. And I enjoyed continuing to make a few preps for them, while I changed my focus to understanding how to be of Christ’s bride. I found out that some watchers were making ‘left behind’ kits; So I joined them in trying to seek out special individuals to whom the Lord might want certain things to go. (Easier said than done!) Data is especially important since Daniel 7:25 states that the Beast is going to try, to eliminate calendrical knowledge by changing the ‘times and laws’. AI has already been adulterating online Bibles. Woe to those who can’t tell the difference! The Bible warns about ‘a dessert of the WORD.’

7. Thessalonians Misstated

https://alephtav.blog/7-twisted/

How Does Revelation’s Sixth Seal Line up with the Olivet Discourse Harvest?

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Although the cosmic signs seem to line up, in Daniel’s 70th week there will be other very impressive earthquakes that will shake Earth and cosmic events that involve the sun, the moon and even the stars, before the Millennium begins; All of those will be expected to frighten the unsaved people on earth, although that’s not specifically mentioned in Matt. 24 and Mark 13; And likewise, the ‘redemption of the tribulation saints’ is not mentioned in Rev. 6, but is only mentioned in Rev. 7 after the sealing of the 144,000. Notice the difference between ‘the heavens receded like a scroll being rolled up’ and ‘heavenly bodies will be shaken.’ Only the former verse, Rev. 6:14, implies a displacement of Earth’s axis and/or orbit that will disrupt the positions of all the mountains and islands along with a likely speeding up of Earth’s spin.

Regarding the synoptic gospels: It’s useful to remember that there are three of them, but only one Olivet Discourse in which Jesus Christ revealed what is to come. It’s been recorded from three different vantage points. That’s not the same as three different prophesies lining up, although many modern scholars have derived an interesting hypothesis that each one is hinting at a different harvest: Matthew to the Jews, Mark to the tribulation saints in general and Luke to the bride of Christ, and that we should read them in reverse order. I’ve not studied that viewpoint thoroughly. The individual points they make sound good, yet I remain generally unconvinced so far. So here I’m just going to point out a few obvious things that apply to the final harvest, the harvest of the Jews.

Compare that Rev. 6 verse to these verses from the Synoptic Gospels:

Olivet Discourse – Mark 13: 19-20, because those will be days of distress unequaled from the beginning, when God created the world, until now—and never to be equaled again.  If the Lord had not cut short those days, no one would survive. But for the sake of the elect, whom he has chosen, he has shortened them.” (After the Jews see the A.O.D. and flee, signs in the cosmos are mentioned in verse 24.)

Olivet Discourse – Luke 21:22, “For these are the days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written.” (Only in verse 25 are signs in the cosmos mentioned. The tossing of the sea is also mentioned.)

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We shouldn’t be too alarmed; Peter quoted Joel 2 at Pentecost after there’d been a darkening of the sun in the daytime, from noon to 3 PM, on the day of Jesus’ crucifixion in conjunction with a great earthquake in Jerusalem; And there were partial and full blood moons in the Passover week for at least three years in a row starting from 31 AD.

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The rest of the explanations of why the Sixth Seal and Olivet Harvest signs in the cosmos are different are given below at marks: 2.15, 2.20, 2.26 and 2.28. Some preliminaries are covered first:

Three Harvests, each with three parts

The First Fruits of the Barley Harvest could also be the captives Jesus removed from the ‘Bosom of Abraham’ in Hades when “He took captivity captive.” Also, my interpretation of the two grape harvests of Rev. 14, is that only the second one is the grapes of wrath.

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The Three Harvest Model makes the most sense: The Sixth Seal Harvest, the Wheat Harvest of the Tribulation Saints, is by far the largest.

But each harvest has three parts . . .

. . . and since the Sixth Seal Wheat Harvest saints will follow the Fifth Seal Martyrs of the Barley Harvest, I’m writing about the martyrs first:

The Gleanings are Martyrs

Why does God Almighty pays such serious attention, in Leviticus 27, to what’s holy, what’s set apart, who they’re set apart to and their redeemablity?

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Now if the first-fruits are holy, so is the whole batch. And if the root is holy, so are the branches. (Romans 11:16)

But Not Everything that’s Set Apart is Set Apart to God:

Torah Law requires the corners of harvestable fields to be set apart, given over to the stranger and the poor, that they may glean. In that way, the poor and the strangers become the new owners of the gleanings. Nevertheless, the whole field, including its corners, will have become holy from the time that the first-fruits harvested from that particular field was presented by a priest to God at His temple.

A great visual, thanks to brother Jaco of ‘God’s Roadmap to the End’

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The first fruits belong to God, the owner’s portion belongs to the owner, and the gleanings belong to the stranger and the poor.

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Talking about Martyrs – a note on the Two Witnesses

I think the fact that they’re described as ‘the two lamp stands’ means they’ll be witnessing both to Jews and Christians.

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Certain Israelites were dedicated to God even before being born.

Under Torah law, all firstborn children of the Israelites were holy to God. Originally, the first born sons of the Israelites were to be set apart as priests of God spending their lives working in the tabernacle…

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But after the Israelites worshipped the golden calf in the dessert of Sinai, God only accepted the sons of Levi in His tabernacle, since the Levites were the only tribe that refused to take part in idol worship.

But, the first born of all Israelite sons had already been dedicated to God; So God allowed them to be redeemed by their parents for a price, while still remaining holy to God; But that’s not the same as God taking them back.

A similar thing took place with firstborn animals. They could be redeemed from God for a price that was used to support the Old Covenant temple/tabernacle functions. But if the new owner of the redeemed animal wanted to give it back to God after that, they could only do so by putting it to death.

Martyrdom is a sensitive topic . . .

The Mystery of the Rapture Course, parts 1-6

  1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIGCkuTsuO4&t=219s
  2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jS5EhizII4&t=26s
  3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd49LzN-ws8
  4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_uwVSdj1v0
  5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45uGa0dADtA
  6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_PIcXDOvRw

Jesus Christ will soon take His own portion of the Barley Harvest of Souls at the Open Door Harvest of Rev. 3:8. The gleanings/martyrs of the Barley Harvest will go up next.

PURIM Since early 2025 AD, watchers have begun observing the whole time interval ‘under the umbrella’ or ‘in the scope’ covered by the meaning of the Purim holiday, which points to the prophesy of the Book of Ester. It’s about how God the Father, Jesus Christ and the bride of Christ all work together to save the ultimate remnant of Israel. This important topic is explained in: 1. Jesus is the Door – His bride watches https://alephtav.blog/1-hisbride/

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After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands.

Revelation 7:9

Watch for Jesus Christ:

https://alephtav.blog/watchjesus/

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Increased Biblical knowledge leads us to let go of a few cherished simpler explanations.

This viewpoint fits best when the Book of Revelation is understood to be well ordered and chronological.

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Example of a forward overlap; the chain of events released when Jesus breaks the first, second and third seals (horsemen) overlap each other combining to bring about the death of a quarter of humanity at the fourth seal.

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The following is the Greek word for ‘they.’ Almost every translation gets it right but both King James versions got it wrong by translating ‘it’ as ‘us’ when it literally means ‘not us’!

them {into}
αὐτοὺς (autous)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun – Accusative Masculine 3rd Person Plural
Strong’s 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

While in God’s throne room, St. John saw the seven fold spirit as 7 blazing torches blazing before God’s throne (as applied to the New Covenant betrothal relationship). He wrote about it just a few verses after he finished writing of having seen Jesus walk among 7 lamp stands in his earthly vision – the vision he’d experienced immediately before he went up though the open door to God’s throne room. So, unless the bride of Christ isn’t going to have bodies, if she was already in God’s throne room when the 24 elders burst into song about Christ having redeemed ‘them’, wouldn’t St. John have actually seen them, standing there? St. John later, in Rev. 7: 9-17, sees the Tribulation Saints, an uncountable multitude, who he describes as being ‘bodily present’ in Gods throne room, singing songs of praise and waving palm branches, .

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Some of the 24 Elders May be From the Hebrews 11 Hall of Faith

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Where’s Proof that the Zadokites Stayed Faithful? https://biblehub.com/q/where’s_proof_zadokites_stayed_faithful.htm

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A few final things to consider

Appointed Times/Holy Convocations . . .

. . . are not merely rituals . . .

. . . they’re meetings with God Almighty.

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The Three Harvests of Saints interpretation would be broken if the events of the seals were expected to continue all the way to the end of Daniel’s 70th Week.

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Context, the Sixth Seal: Revelation 6: 15-17

The Super Rich’s Secret Doomsday Bunkers | WHILE THE REST OF US DIE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX1sRxCrduA

The sixth seal is also when four angels restrain the release of God’s Trumpet Judgements until 144,000 Jews, 12,000 from each tribe, are protectively sealed for their mission; An angel places the seal of the living God, Father and Son, on their foreheads.

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The Tribulation Saints of the Sixth Seal

After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”  And all the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, saying, “Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever! Amen.”
 Then one of the elders addressed me, saying, “Who are these, clothed in white robes, and from where have they come?”  I said to him, “Sir, you know.” And he said to me, “These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

Revelation 7 9-14

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Originally, I saw different ways to arrange the pieces of the multi-harvest puzzle;

But, because this site holds to God’s 6,000 yr. (Covenant years) plan for mankind, (slightly different according to human calendars) followed by the Millennial Kingdom of Jesus Christ, the possibilities have narrowed greatly.

https://alephtav.blog/4-last7yrs/

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