Opus 2026-350: Uncharted Revelation: Literally Figurative

The fifth seal was hiding the martyrs who had been “slain for the word of God.”  They are anxious to get out, as you would expect, but are given white robes and told there would be more to join them before the end came.  You might ask yourself how this relates to the tribulation and also how it relates to the final resurrections.  If you interpret Revelation literally you have issues.  Figuratively the world is your oyster.

The sixth seal initiates a series of earthquakes and falling stars.  For some reason the entire population of the earth goes to hide in caves because they are afraid of the Lamb.  I don’t know about you but the last place I would hide in an earthquake is in a cave.  

When I read this,

(Rev 6:12 KJV)  And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
(Rev 6:13 KJV)  And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.

My mind goes to a friend who claims that God will never break His covenant with Israel.  As part of his arguement he quotes this,

(Jer 31:35 KJV)  Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:
(Jer 31:36 KJV)  If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.

It would seem to me that the events in the sixth seal would go a long way to fulfilling this impossible requirement.  I wonder if this would convince him that Israel has broken the status of chosen.

This is all very dramatic but I fail to understand what it has to do with us today.  Tomorrow will be too late.  For those who insist on taking Revelation literally it has always been too late.

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