The Sixth Seal *[Updated]*

There has been an ongoing internal debate on whether or not to post this, but here it is anyway as a meaningful sign or complete nonsense--you decide.

So, after the August 6 shoot down of the helicopter containing 22 Seal Team 6 members, among others--and this the same team involved in the supposed OBL operation in May (meaning: tons of press lately)--I could not help but think "sixth seal" in conjunction to this.

Initially, this was rapidly dismissed as more of the detritus that crosses my mental desk each day, especially since I have been a staunch proponent of the chronological historicist interpretation of Revelation: first come the seven seals, then the trumpets, and finally the bowls. So obviously anyone with this view would have to believe that the sixth seal was far in the past.

But so heavy was this feeling that I sat down and did some more reading on the sixth seal. I immediately found the Coffman Commentaries. This was a staggering find for two reasons: 1) it still contains the major point of the Historicist view, i.e., that the majority of Revelation is behind us as we rapidly approach final judgement, and 2) it is entirely plausible that the sixth seal has been or is now being opened.

Revelation 6:12:

I looked when He broke the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the whole moon became like blood;

In the Coffman Commentaries you will find the view that the visions of the 7 seals, 7 trumpets, and 7 bowls all run parallel to one another. Coffman's Chapter 8 analysis:

The crucial importance of Rev. 8:1 requires our study of it to be as thorough as possible. It is the key to our conviction that the prophecy of Revelation is a series of sections, each ending in the final judgment, and all of them therefore parallel and having reference to the same extended time period between the two Advents of Christ, and each of them recapitulating from different viewpoints the events regarding all the world of both believers and unbelievers, with specific references to both classes again and again.

The similarities:

The book consists of seven sections, running parallel, and spanning the whole dispensation between the first and second coming of Christ.

Each ends in the judgment day.

Both the first trumpet and the first bowl affect the earth (Rev. 8:7, 16:2); the second trumpet and the second bowl affect the sea; the third trumpet and the third bowl affect the rivers; the fourth in both series refers to the sun. This type of correspondence in the series is extensive, including the divisions into groups of four and three, etc.

The same themes appear in all sections: the bliss of the redeemed, the destruction of Christ's enemies, the judgment of the wicked, divine judgments upon men, trials and persecutions of the church, etc.

Even the interludes are similarly constructed.

The seven churches addressed at the beginning constitute somewhat of an overture for the whole production; and they suggest a sevenfold division of the whole prophecy.

The same promises are repeated in all sections. God shall wipe away all tears appears in Rev. 7:17, and in Rev. 21:4.

So this find gave quite a bit of credibility to that initial feeling coupled with the pervasive sense of "something coming" that many people have.

-Notice the scroll at the bottom of the SEAL patch: "Who is worthy to open the scroll?"

-There were 22 SEALs killed in the attack; there are 22 chapters in Revelation.

-The SEAL's May Day mission is linked with 9-11 through OBL. As anyone following the Elenin comet saga knows, it reaches its closest point to the sun on 9-11.

--24 August--

Virgo
The sixth sign

What are the odds that on the first day the sun begins its transit of Virgo, the virgin (August 23 - September 22), there is a largish earthquake in Virginia?

It was odd yesterday when one of the news interviews with a D.C. local talked about a sense of relief after finding that it was only an earthquake, and not something else considering the proximity to the 10th anniversary of 9-11.

One will probably remember those videos showing the grouping of Elenin, the sun, the moon a couple planets, and Virgo this September:



While the opinions regarding this astronomical grouping are not endorsed here, it is interesting.

A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head.

The woman represents the entirety of God's people, from the Israelites to the Church Age (42 months). The "man child" who rules and is then snatched up to God's throne is Jesus Christ. If this sign in the heavens comes at the beginning of these eras, then might it not also come into play at the end?