11 Tribulation

People got "the right and power to become God's children - children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God." (John 1:12-13) So, people got the right to escape from old lords to the new Lord.
This right started from the Crucifixion and ends at the end of creation, when the Man Jesus becomes God. Here is like a way of this right - the growth of this right to full realization. Then the same with humans, they start with pain and end in the glorious esteeming into God' children. They end like heavenly beings of God. In relation to the Church, the Early Church was suffering because the Earth was not Heaven but by the help of Heaven will be esteemed and raptured.log292

The issuing point for the Rapture are sealed words of God the Father (only He knew its date). And so, the issuing point for the Rapture is the breaking the first Seal. Is here also heavenly support for the Church?
[situation in Heaven at the openning the Heavenly Book]
It is logical for every Christian that the Lord Jesus Christ has received (more, all) power by coming on the Heavenly Throne (Revelation 5), and this must first go to Christians. It has always been that if someone sat on a throne, he preferred his family in his kingdom. (the principle of grace) Hence, Jesus's Coming on the Throne ought to prefer more Christians. They have received, got more right and power in the world. More right and power is realized by coming more angels on Earth. (Daniel 10:13)

The conclusion is: CHRIST'S COMING ON THE THRONE AND THE OPENING THE HEAVENLY BOOK MUST BRING BLESSINGS FOR CHRISTIANS, NOT TRIBULATION.

Angels come to support Christ Jesus, to show Him they are ready to serve Him during the Heavenly Book. So at least a part of them has gone to reinforce for His Church on Earth. You could see their crusading help for the Church in previous chapters.

Like the start of crusading for the Church is in Heaven and pictured by the Lord Jesus Christ stepping on the Throne, the end must be in Heaven. How should the end of the Church be pictured in Heaven?

11.1 Raptured and
Resurrected
in Heaven

John saw the next Heavenly session when people from every nation stood before the Heavenly Throne. Clearly, it is the Church, if we can call her that after the Rapture. (Revelation 7:9-12)

Christ Jesus stays in front of them. The Lamb, Christ Jesus, is not on God's Throne when He introduces His fiancée. You can see this from the passage "All the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures." The Bible pictures this as the Gospel teaches: Christ Jesus is the people's Mediator. We come nigh to God by Christ Jesus in acts of religious worship.

First, God the Father called Jesus Christ onto the Throne to manage the Heavenly Book. Now, it this session, God the Father takes the active role. His Son shows Him His fiancée (the Church) so that God the Father may accept her. Christ Jesus redeemed her from slavery, which the fiancée understands well. Therefore, she speaks these words: "Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb." Since the Lamb already has redeemed her, now she awaits acceptance (salvation) by His Father. The fiancée's salutation should be answered; God the Father's reaction should follow.log293

The first reaction of God the Father should be to His Son. If He likes his Son's actions, then Jesus Christ should return to God's Throne. If God the Father accepts Jesus in this situation, then He accepts also His fiancée. And so, the fiancée (the Church) becomes the Bride of the Lamb. I see God the Father's agreement in the breaking of the last Seal of the last Scroll by God the Son. Although managing there written words goes in hands of seven angels, God's (God the Father's) Seal must break God (God the Son).

The Bride of the Lamb is here, and the Father of the bridegroom should show any move toward her. Because God is the Highest Ruler and Judge, we may anticipate His actions as a judge -- see the victims of the world's crimes.log294 Therefore, there must be also a Heavenly court during the second session. It operates because Christ's resurrected ones are present. "When he opened the Seventh Seal, there was silence in Heaven for about half an hour." Evidently, the Heavenly Host awaits a decision in the Throne room. Hence, there is silence in Heaven, because all await his Heavenly Judgment.bib333

Let us look at this court's session in Heaven through the Apostle John's eyes.
"And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and to them were given seven trumpets." They get power to rule during the Seventh Scroll."Another angel, who had a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense to offer, with the prayers of all the saints, on the golden altar before the throne. The smoke of the incense, together with the prayers of the saints, went up before God from the angel's hand. Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it on the Earth; and there came peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning and an earthquake. Then the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared to sound them." (Revelation 8:2-6) The parties of a dispute must be present in court, if possible. The first party is the prosecutor. This party can consist of the victims themselves, or the lawyers representing them. Although saved people stand before God the Father still the lawyer represents them. Only archangels, who have seats there, could reach it. Therefore, one from those standing before God becomes their lawyer. Perhaps he is the same one who was the lawyer in Jesus Christ's case (Zechariah 3:1).log295

A case is usually presented to the court in written form, on papers. They presented a case in scrolls in the old days. A scroll may look like a cup, if held in one's hand. In this way, the golden censer held by the angel in Revelation 8:3 could be these papers.log296

The censer contains the prayers of the saints. Saints praised God, provided incense for God's Lamb, and were beaten for it by the slave drivers of the world. Such slave drivers, serving Satan, killed many people. Society did not punish these murderers; nevertheless, those killed prayed that they would be saved. Because only their souls were saved, not their flesh, their prayers wait to be answered completely. Therefore, God should explain why they have received Heavenly flesh and why others have dishonored their Earthly flesh.log297

Revenge is the right of victims. Yet in our everyday life, when we see a victim of any crime, words of judgment are handed down for the criminal who hurt them. There were many, of course, who were neither able to know God nor to pray. They asked the Creator for revenge because they were not allowed to begin life. These are the unborn babies (Revelation 6:9-11).log298

If God received them (victims), then He should (according to His identity) judge those who hurt them. But defendants are not present before the Judge.
Defendants are guilty people are unclean, and the unclean cannot stand before God the Father. They neither are full beings, did not receive eternal flesh, and that is the way they will be judged on the Last Judgment after the Second Resurrection (Revelation 20:11-15). Other defendants include fallen angels who can no longer enter. Then there are the societies themselves. Crime is a threat to the whole society, and so the government should prosecute any defendant in a criminal case. Because of this, the Bible tells governments to uphold God's Law (Romans 13:1). Yet many parliaments did the reverse, and allowed abortion and other sins to become law.

To resolve a dispute, a court must "find the facts." A court can decide, even if the defendant is not present, if the facts testify against him. Anyone can see that the clearest of these facts are the unborn babies. People never knew of their existence. Often neither parents nor the killer (the person who performed the abortion) thought about the baby's existence. Nevertheless, the baby was alive, and remains before the Creator. Their existence testifies against those who conceived them and then ordered the abortion.log299

The case is presented, and the decision is made in court. The Bible symbolizes this through the golden altar. God received the case, because the smoke from the incense with the prayers from the saints rose up to Him. He decided, and put His decision on the altar.log300

The Bible says the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it to the Earth. The world was found guilty and sentenced. The sequence speaks of catastrophes on the Earth (peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning and an earthquake). Angels sound the sentence; therefore, they have trumpets. They are seven, so there will be seven statements from the Judge. "And the seven angels who had the seven horns made ready for sounding them. And at the sounding of the first" THE GREAT TRIBULATION COMESlog301

The executors of God's sentences are the angels. The next events on Earth are sounded and carried out by them. Jesus Christ is not sounding them because, as I have said, He must be present at His wedding banquet. Therefore the Archangels are fully responsible for executing God's decision, for the subsequent events of the Seventh Scroll.

11.2. The Wrath of the Lamb, the first "Woe"

Three "Woes" are present in the Seventh Scroll, just as there were three small scrolls on the last arm of the Menorah. I believe that the Wrath of the Lamb represents the Lord's answer to the five "woes" in the Christian world as identified by Habakkuk. Then first trumpets sound the Lord's judgment for the world of Christianity because of was first "woe" and so on.
I consider all sounds (words) of five trumpets describing the one catastrophe happened or inflicting the third of the earth. Fourth trumpets describe the local catastrophe on the third of the earth happened in one moment then the fifth trumpet describes its influence over whole globe (as also some new happening in the time). Therefore the time called "Woe" is practically the time of the fifth trumpet. Anyway, the five trumpets of the first "Woe" in the Seventh Scroll also prove the Rapture occurred after five movements (2-6) against the Gospel and therefore after the Sixth Scroll or at the end of the Sixth Scroll.bib334

Lord's Wrath, First Woe
Habakkuk's woe Lord's action
Extortion A third of the Earth burned up
Gambling A third of the sea turned into blood
Totalitarian idealists take masses A third of the waters turned bitter
Abortion keeps many lives from seeing the light A third of the day was without light
Trend to clone living beings The smoke locusts came down upon the Earth

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