The seven seals represent events to take place on this earth during each seal’s specific time period—beginning at the time of Christ and continuing until Christ’s second coming. Five days after The Day of Atonement, the joyous Feast of Tabernacles began, not only as a reminder of the Children of Israel dwelling in tents in their sojourn to Canaan, but also prophetically of the future rest in Heaven of the faithful. It’s purpose was to herald the coming of The Day of Atonement on the 10th day, calling the people to prepare their hearts, examining their lives and making things right with God. Fifty inclusive days, counting from the day after the Passover sabbath, a feast and sabbath were to be observed.

The emphasis of the Hebrew and Greek terms translated “for ever” in the Bible is on duration. Although God promised David a dynastic throne that would last “for ever,” David understood the promise to mean “for a great while to come.” It actually ended with Zedekiah in 586 B.C. While these terms may be translated “forever” or “everlasting/eternal” in English, both the Hebrew and Greek words derive their length from the nature of the object described. To Western minds the expression “forever” means “endlessness.” However, this is not the meaning to the Eastern mind-set when either the Hebrew `ôlām or the Greek aiōn/aiōnios is used.

Bible and Church History

Each tenet or fundamental belief of the Seventh-day Adventist Church can be found here. Orthodox Jews continue to observe the seventh-day Sabbath even today. However, on Friday, they were to gather twice the usual amount of manna, because none would be available Sabbath (Saturday) morning. However, the word, yom, always means a twenty-four-hour literal day when it is used with a numeral—day one, day two, first day, second day, etc.

If the third day is actually a long period of time, how could plants have existed without sunlight? In the Genesis Creation account, yom is used with a numeral, indicating that it intends the reader to understand that these are literal days of twenty-four hours. There is much evidence that Creation is a correct understanding of origins, but the belief that Creation took place in six literal days is based primarily on Scripture. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

Manna, the Sabbath and creation

For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. “Then God said, ‘Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years; and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth’; and it was so. Perfect agreement–Sunday the first day of the week, and Saturday the seventh.

On the second day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread was the offering of the “Wave Sheaf.” This included the slaying of the Passover lamb on the 14th of the first month, partaking of the lamb and observing the Passover sabbath on the 15th. Seven yearly sabbaths were observed in connection with these feasts.

Our calendar has been changed once since the time of Christ. We are living in a time of great profession, but of little possession; of great prog­ress, but of little prayer. It is one of the most dangerous spir­itual conditions that ever threatened the spiritual life of God’s people. There are a lot of lukewarm Christians today. “Laodicea” means the judging of the people or just people.

The second seal: a red horse

The view that each day of the Genesis Creation account is actually an extremely long period of time—rather than literal days of twenty-four hours—causes problems. The integrity of the weekly cycle continues and is an evidence for Creation week being composed of seven literal days. God set aside the seventh day of Creation week as a holy rest day.

In those days it was often worth a man’s life to be a Christian. Indeed, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and you will have tribulation ten days. Look back to the time of your first love, when that first love came from those first works, works of repentance, obedience, earnest Christian service, of suffering for the Master.

• But there were many faithful believers in those days.
• We come into the Christian faith warm and enthusiastic but after a while it becomes commonplace and we lose our first love.
• But the divine messenger declares that he has some­thing against even that first period of the Christian church, because he says in verse 4 “you have left your first love.”

When they were fulfilled in Christ’s sacrifice, Christ resurrection, Christ’s ascension briefly on Sunday morning as represented by “the wave sheaf,” and Pentecost, 50 inclusive days later, there was no need to continue the feasts. The yearly feast days pointed forward, (in other words, were prophetic), of Christ’s sacrifice. This is seen in 1 Corinthians 8 and Romans 14, in which those who do not understand about food offered to idols or observance of the feasts are not to have their consciences harmed by others, (even though the food and feast days to be observed are not God’s requirements). Are there passages in the Bible besides the prohibitions for the Gentiles in Acts 15 in which days to be regarded and food to be eaten is to accommodate those who have mistaken ideas about days and food? The weekly Sabbath was established at Creation and is what we could call a birthday memorial of Christ’s creative work.

Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.” And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. “Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. “Then God said, ‘Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear’; and it was so.

What are the 7 seals in Revelation?

This prophetic picture shows the apostolic church led on by its divine Captain to victory over a pagan world, its doctrines pure, and its victorious Leader, Christ Himself. In the first seal we see Christ with the wreath of a conqueror. Lucifer in heaven sought power in self-exaltation, but pin up casino Jesus humbled Himself and was awarded exaltation above every name—something He had never sought. When He took the book, the holy ones about God’s throne… As each of the seven seals is broken a picture or representation of events to take place on the earth during that seal period is described. The seven seals are found in Revelation chapters five, six and eight.

Day 1: Light

Was there historical evidence that the earthly temple services of sacrifices came to an end in fulfillment of Daniel’s prophecy? This was celebrated on the 1st day of the 7th month. All this historically occurred, fulfilling the prophecy. This represented Christ’s presentation before the Father on that day–Sunday the 16th of Nisan in 31 AD.

“For more than 3,000 years science has gone backward, and with profound research, reveals the fact that in that vast period the length of the day has not changed by the hundredth part of a single second of time.” Gen. O. M. Mitchell, Astronomy of the Bible, p. 235. The greatest need today is brotherly love among Christians. This sym­bolizes the condition of God’s people dur­ing the so-called Dark Ages of persecution when even the church often entered into the spirit of the age. Read also the won­derful blessings at the close of each church’s message or church prophecy. This is a wonderful testimony in any age, any time, to any people who are the true servants of God. At this same time, as Philip Schaff, the great church historian, says, she received into her bosom vast de­posits of foreign material from the world and from heathenism.

• It represents the period of Christian history following the conversion of Emperor Constantine to Christianity and the setting up of the full union of church and state.
• The weekly Sabbath was established at Creation and is what we could call a birthday memorial of Christ’s creative work.
• If the third day is actually a long period of time, how could plants have existed without sunlight?
• The vision of the sixth seal sweeps on to the events that occur in connection with the second coming of Christ.
• This, too, argues that the Creation week in Genesis was a week of seven literal days.

What does the Bible teach us about creation? Several publications and documentaries have featured the health and education systems of the Adventist church. The Seventh-day Adventist Church is also most commonly known for its worldwide hospital and education systems, adherence to scripture, promotion of total body health, and observance of the seventh-day Sabbath or Saturday. Fast forward to today and the Seventh-day Adventist Church has become one of the fastest growing denomination in North America with 1.2 million members in the United States & Canada and 22.8 million members worldwide, in 212 countries.

“By the word of the Lord were the heavens made, their starry host by the breath of His mouth. “The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands.” God reveals Himself through creation. Many will hide the truth that God created the Earth. They will say, ‘Where is this “coming” He promised?

These days, from the death of the apostles to exaltation of the worldly church by the great emperor Constantine, depicted the times of pagan persecution. “The week of seven days has been in use ever since the days of the Mosaic dispensation, and we have no reason for supposing that any irregularities have existed in the succession of weeks and their days from that time to the present.” Dr. W. W. Campbell, Director of Lick Observatory, Mt. Hamilton, California. This word “Philadelphia” means brotherly love, and applies to the church during the great Advent awakening and the days that have succeeded it. The changes made to the calendar from time to time through the centuries has not affected the weekly cycle of seven days. In 1582, the Gregorian calendar displaced the Julian calendar but, while the dates of the month were changed on the calendar, the days of the week and their sequence were not altered in any way.