Come and study the Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast, The Whole Council of God.

Father Stephen holds a Ph.D. in biblical studies, and it's an Orthodox priest serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church in Lafayette, Louisiana.

Okay, we'll go ahead and get started.

When we get started, we'll be picking up at the beginning of

Book of Revelation chapter 7.

So we made fair headway last time.

So by way of, hopefully not too belabor review,

what we mainly went through last time was St. John went into heaven through a door or a flap or a hatch,

right, depending on your orientation toward it, and saw this scene of the Lamb, meaning Christ, opening the seals on this document,

right, that represented sort of the deed or the claim or the authority over the earth.

So as he broke these seals, and he broke six of the seven in what we read last time,

as he broke them, these various things happen that sort of unfolded on earth that represented part of that process

of Christ sort of taking back authority over the earth from those who had it unrighteously.

And so it took the form of, we saw the four horsemen of the apocalypse, as they are now well known and depicted by Albrecht Durr and others.

And those represented conquest and famine and war and death that sort of went abroad in the earth.

A few years from now when we loop around and we get to Zephaniah, we'll see there are sort of matching chariots there. But we'll come back to that when we loop to Zefaniah, we'll see there, they're sort of matching chariots there,

but we'll come back to that when we live around.

They're the same colors in reverse order.

And then we saw a series of other judgments sort of culminating with the judgment of the angelic powers in heaven

and humans right on earth right sort of as this as this unfolds and we talked about how

what st john is getting at remember st John is not here like predicting the future.

Here's a bunch of stuff that's going to happen in a few thousand years, and here's how to

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