Revelation’s 7 Seals

Craig Beltrand

Description

Revelation’s 7 Seals provide God's details of Daniel 70th week or Last Seven Years that end with the return of Jesus to earth to reign.

Revelation’s 7 Seals provide God's details of Daniel chapter 9's 70th week or Last Seven Years that end with the return of Jesus to earth to reign. The main themes are that when looking in a mirror, you are looking at the person responsible for your eternity, a second is to show how Revelation's seven seals fulfill Daniel's last seven years, and a third is to show how it actually happens using scripture to interpret scripture that takes us into God's everlasting kingdom replacing the kingdoms of mankind. It includes an insightfully written narrative of Craig Beltrand's spiritual journey starting in 1979 as a carefree young United States Air Force officer whose main goal in life was to "eat, drink and be merry" while cruising the Montana back roads on motorcycles with his buddies. After a horrific accident, which he survives with only a minor scratch, he begins to ask "What if" questions about his "Eternity." Through intense study and examination of the Old Testament and New Testament biblical Scriptures and end times prophecy Craig becomes a committed believer in Jesus Christ. Revelation’s Seven Seals provide the details of Daniel’s Last Seven Years (70th week). He invites you to join him on this journey that ends with an eternity destination that we each are individually responsible for.

Sujets

• Religion
• Christianisme
• Biblical Commentary
• Philosophie et théologie
• Babylon (software)
• Beast
• Antichrist
• Seals
• Eternity
• Revelation
• Babylon
• Daniel
• Antéchrist

Informations

• Publié par: WestBow Press
• Date de parution: 16 novembre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781664281004
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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REVELATION’S 7 SEALS
DANIEL’S LAST SEVEN YEARS - EXPLAINED
CRAIG BELTRAND


Copyright © 2022 Craig Beltrand.
 
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Scripture is taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
 
ISBN: 978-1-6642-8101-1 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-6642-8102-8 (hc)
ISBN: 978-1-6642-8100-4 (e)
 
Library of Congress Control Number: 2022919063
 
 
 
WestBow Press rev. date: 11/15/2022
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Description
 
Chapter 1 The Set-up
Chapter 2 Introduction Parts 1-4
Chapter 3 End-time Talking Points Using the Tanakh (Old Testament)
Chapter 4 When does the 7 year Tribulation Start?
Chapter 5 Revelation Snap Shot of all Chapters
Chapter 6 Revelation Chapters One through Five
Chapter 7 Revelation Chapter 6
Chapter 8 Revelation Chapter 7 & 8
Chapter 9 Revelation Chapter 9
Chapter 10 Revelation Chapters 10-11
Chapter 11 Revelation Chapter 12
Chapter 12 Revelation Chapter 13
Chapter 13 Revelation Chapters 14-15
Chapter 14 Revelation Chapter 16
Chapter 15 Revelation Chapter 17
Chapter 16 Revelation Chapters 18-19
Chapter 17 Revelation Chapter 20
Chapter 18 Revelation Chapter 21-22
 
Appendix A - Figures
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I want to thank everyone who inspired me along the way and/or helped make this happen: Floyd Johnson, Dan & Beth Moore, Dan & Linda Johnson, Robyn Bayerl, Jim Nelson, Gramps (Steve) Barnes, Mike Cortines, Juan Gonzalez, Spencer Robinson, and Russell Cloud. My wife for much needed prayer, support and bravery. Last but not least, my son Jacob who did a stellar job of critiquing. If I missed anyone, so sorry, but God knows and His thanks means so much more than mine!!! Shalom.
DESCRIPTION
“ Revelation’s 7 Seals Daniel’s Last Seven Years - Explained”
Is an insightfully written narrative of Craig Beltrand’s spiritual journey starting in 1979 as a carefree young United States Air Force officer whose main goal in life was to “eat, drink and be merry” while cruising the Montana back roads on motorcycles with his buddies. After a horrific accident, which he survives with only a minor scratch, he begins to ask “What if” questions about his “Eternity.” Through intense study and examination of the Old Testament and New Testament Scriptures and end times prophecy Craig becomes a committed believer in Jesus Christ. Revelation’s Seven Seals provide the details to Daniel’s Last Seven Years (70 th week). While there may be a brief mention in the Old Testament, there is nothing truly new in the New Testament. He invites you to join him on this journey that ends with an eternity destination that we each are individually responsible for.
CHAPTER ONE
The Set-up
The main purpose of this book is twofold. The first is to show how the Revelation 7 Seals fulfill the remaining seven years of Daniel 9:27 and then ends with God’s forever Kingdom as spoken of in Daniel 2:44-45, Daniel 7:18, and Revelation 20. The second is to show how Revelation provides the details of what actually happens in Daniel’s last 7 years . Everything in the New Testament is talked about, at least briefly in the OT, including end times prophecy. Even the new heaven and a new earth (Isa 65:17, 66:22, Rev 21:1). The New Testament may provide more details than the OT, but there is no completely new topic. Jesus said that He came to fulfill all of what was spoken of by the prophets (Matt 4:17-18). Jesus even says in verse 18 that Heaven and Earth will pass away, which is spoken of in Revelation 21 and 2 Peter 3:12-13. This information is not new because it is spoken of in Old Testament locations like Isaiah 65:17 & 66:22. What Revelation does is provide us with details of what was already spoken of in the Old Testament, and in particular the Book of Daniel. We just need to press in with God’s help and find those OT scriptures. We will see why pressing into God and scripture is important as many of the Old Testament scriptures will help keep us from getting too creative with God’s scripture in the New Testament, especially as it applies to future prophecy.
This may be a big “if” to some, but Satan exists if God/Lord/Jehovah/Yahweh/Elohim/Adonai exists. I have many reasons to know that I know that the Lord is 100% real, so Satan does exist and has no problem disrupting the ways of mankind. Satan has been doing that since the beginning of man, for thousands of years, and is very good at it. As a matter of fact, he knows God and scripture way better than any person ever has and continuously works to twist it to deceive all of us. Sorry if anyone is offended by that, but it’s true. There is a reason why Ephesians 6 teaches us to put on the Whole Armor of God for we battle not against human opponents, but rather evil spiritual forces. If we don’t have our full armor on, evil forces get strongholds in our lives. Satan started with Adam and Eve and he has never stopped. He even attacked Jesus in the desert for 40 days, but failed (Luke 4). Satan used Kings and Rabbis against God and that resulted in the loss of two Temples over time. One by Nebuchadnezzar’s army and the other by Commander Titus and the Romans around 70 AD. The Rabbis were (also) responsible for the death of Jesus on the cross. Satan tries to use as many pastors/priests/ministers today against God’s scripture as he can. They come as wolves in sheep’s clothing (Matt 7:15, Acts 20:29-30). Nothing new under the sun (Ecc 1:9). Remember that Satan fell into sin against God before man and led man down that same path. What is playing out before our very eyes is much bigger than many of us understand and it affects Satan and one third of the angels that followed him. Demonic angels, too, will be judged by God at the White Throne judgment (Rev 20) and spend their eternity in the Lake of Fire. Having said that, we define our own eternity in the life we have today. We can’t blame anyone else if we don’t like our (personal) ending, so do your homework as best you can with God’s help. When looking in the mirror, you are looking at the person responsible for your eternity. God knows the intent of your heart, He is telepathic, never forgets anything, and eternity is a long-long time last I checked. Now is a good time to get your eternity location corrected to the Book of Life, if it is not there now (Rom 10:9-13; Rev 20:12-15).
I do not know why Satan hates man so much, and I do not understand why God has allowed Satan to torment mankind the way he has for such a long period of time. However, remember that we see only in part (1 Cor 13) and need to realize that there is something much larger playing out here between God and some of His rebelling angels than we have been told. Regardless, the day will come when Satan will be thrown into the Lake of Fire and never bother us again (Rev 20:10), but until then he will do what he has always done and that is twisting everything that God says and does. The facts are that Satan has been busy creating all sorts of different religious belief systems, and to make things worse by creating conflicting views within each one of them. End-times prophecy is great proof of Satan’s ability to twist anything. That is why the Bride of Christ has no consensus on what the Bible says about how-when we become the “Wife” of Christ. There are more conflicting views than you may know about. Views such as the preterists, pretribulationism, prewrath, midtribulationalism, posttribulationism, and amillennialism. Only one is right and the rest are deceptions by Satan. How is the church so deceived in this area? The quick answer is that Satan is messing with everything. It is why divorce and abortion are in the church. It is why churches are against each other concerning aspects of God’s Word, and why the seven churches in Revelation no longer exist despite God saying He would protect them if they did what He asked. If they couldn’t back then, what makes us different today?
A purpose of this book is to show scripture that is needed to help a person make their decision on end-times prophecy, because it does affect their eternity. God states that He wants us to study all His scripture and that includes Revelation (Rev 1:3). But God’s scripture comes with warnings about getting it right (Rev 22:18-19; Matt 5: 17-19; Deut 4:2; Deut 12:32; Prov 30:6). Through Jesus, God’s Grace is a free gift to all and we should be prepared to counter anyone with scripture to the best of our ability. Where I’m headed is that once we accept God’s free gift of Grace, provided through Jesus, we should desire to do good things that result in gold, silver and precious stones rather than storing up more and more wood, hay, and