{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Christ Covenant Church","title":"Revelation 7 (Part 1)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3288,"description":"I. Preliminary Considerations\n-Verses 1-8 represent an interlude (i.e. a reprieve or delay in action) between the events represented in the breaking of the first 6 seals and the events represented by the breaking of the seventh seal/seven trumpets (8:1-6).\n-The events represented in the breaking of the six seals = The Jewish War from its beginning to w/in 5mos of its end (MAR/67 AD – APR/70 AD).\n-Where this places Titus and his Roman armies = they have surrounded the city of Jerusalem in anticipation of a full-scale siege on her walls. This is seen most specifically through what is communicated to us in the sixth seal (as discussed in the prev. study). It is the beginning of the end, the abomination of desolation, the prophetic consequence of Israel’s rejection of Christ/Son of God (Luk 21:20 w/Mat 24:15; Luk 19:41-44); regarding Daniel (Dan 12:11)\n\nHistorical support:\nRe: Daniel and the regular sacrifice:\n-According to Josephus, all of the priests (including the High Priest) were slaughtered by the zealots who took the city of Jerusalem and made the Temple their citadel at the beginning of the War (see Wars 4.2-5.2). This would have also meant that the regular sacrifices ceased to be offered (since those commissioned by God to do it were all dead).\nRe: Prophetic consequence of Israel’s rejection of Christ (the Son of God)“At Rome, Peter and Paul foretold that it would shortly come to pass, that God would send a king who would overcome the Jews and who would lay their city level with the ground. He would besiege themuntil they so pined with hunger and thirst, that they would start eating one another. Finally, they would fall into their enemies’ hands and would see their wives most grievously tormented in their sight andtheir virgins violated and prostituted. Their sons would be torn asunder and their little ones dashed to pieces. Everything would be destroyed by fire and sword and they would forever be banished from theirown lands. All this would happen, because...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/UXGjftzm8Yw--IISwUKe6A6-CX1YtARptisfLmFJFoI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81Zjc4/MmNmNTMxZjNmOTgw/YjA1NWRhYmMxMTNl/YmE1Zi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}