Foundations and Life’s Struggles
If you are born or sown where fornication, violence, murder or any character devours people’s life, destiny, you need to search for God’s plan. It is not God’s will for poverty or any problem to devour your life; you are under Satan’s seal. If you are born or you fell on wrong place, hard foundation, where you have just little or no opportunity to survive, you are under Satan’s seal. It is not God’s will for the sun to scorch your destiny or to cause your root to be withered.
‘Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth: And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away. And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them’ (Matthew 13:5-7).
Choosing Your Path and Purpose
There are people that were born in your family, they lived and died under the scorch of sun. At the prime of their lives, they withered away from the root. Some were choked because they fell among thorns. Even those born in good families, Christian foundation by Christian parents, because they could not put much effort, they fail to score pass mark.
‘But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold’ (Matthew 13:8).
To agree with the devil, and continue in sin when Christ had died for you, is the worst foolishness.
‘And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things? And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end’ (Daniel 12:8-9).
Believers, everyone in this earth must ask question, questions that will lead you to know your foundation, beginning and your end. It is not enough to be born again, you need to press forward, fight and resist evil forces. Daniel was a true child of God but he was not satisfied with the situation he found himself. His nation was not progressing; they were out of God’s plan, purpose and place of assignment.
He wanted to see the end, know the end and possibly what to do. Christian life is likened to warfare, wrestling and fight to discover your destiny, why you are here on earth and possibly what to do. It is a disgrace for a Christian or anyone to die under Satan’s will or seal. From what we see in the judgment seat of Christ, the bema judgment, many believers will lose their reward; their works on earth will be burnt by fire.
The Sealed Scroll and the Final Judgment
The book of Revelation we are studying is future and a warning to both saints and sinners. There is a case file opened with your name by God and Satan. You have to choose the one you want to be implemented in your life and for your life. If you remain a sinner, a prayer less Christian, you have made a choice. If you are born again, forsake your sins, you have equally made a choice, so start fighting to obtain a price even as a Christian. You can close up Satan’s case file against you or decide to live by it as a Christian.
‘And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour’ (Revelation 8:1).
We have seen God’s scroll for raptured believers in our first chapter. It unfolded two major events that will take place for the period of seven years, the judgment seat of Christ and the marriage supper of the lamb. What we are looking at is the seal for those who fail to rapture on earth. What is going to happen to them for the next seven years immediately after rapture? None of these things has happened, so anyone can decide where he wants to be. Scroll in this document, which determined the climax of human history, is yet to be implemented. Inside the scroll, on the backside are the seven stages of the end of man’s day on earth. From chapter 6 to chapter 19, the seven stages, one at a time, unfold. When the scroll is unfolded, opened and revealed, what happens? That is the beginning of the great tribulation.
‘And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see. And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer. And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see. And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword. And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine. And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see’ (Revelation 6:1-7).
In the time of Daniel, what shall be the end of these things was closed up and sealed until the time of the end. The sealed scroll is in the hand of God. Finally, man’s day ends, Christ returns in power to establish God’s day on earth in the form of the millennial kingdom.