Heaven's 7th Scene - Act Three of Temple Drama

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Heaven's 7th of 12 Scenes – Act Three of the Temple Drama - 4th of Lastday's 6 Scenes

Over half of Revelation's 100 verses to be fulfilled on the Lastday actually occur between the awesome signs that launch Seal 6 on the Day of Wrath and the Turning Point from God's “anger to His wrath”.

This Turning Point begins with ACT TWO (Seal 7's Tribunal). Rev.8:1-5. The T.P. is indicated by
the verdict of Seal 7's Angel of Fire (Rev.8:5) and climaxes with ACT THREE (7th Trumpet). Rev.11:15. Act Three is the 4th of Six Lastday Scenes...but the 7th of Heaven's 12 Scenes. In
the 2nd Act of the Temple Drama, the Angel of Fire renders a Verdict at midpoint of Lastday events described in 100 verses. See Centerpiece. As soon as that verdict is rendered, the 7th Angel sounds the 7th Trumpet...THE LAST TRUMP!

The Drama culminates with the 7th Angel blasting his Trumpet to crown Christ as King, to
announce “God's wrath has come” and to reveal the “appointed time has come to judge (resurrect) and reward the prophets and saints...and to destroy the destroyers of earth”.
This can only happen when the Temple "was open"...as it is from Rev.7:9 to Rev.8:5 and Rev.11:15-19. (See Rev.11:19).

From God's decree, “It is Done” at the 7th Plague, to Seal 6 – Rev.16:16-17 = 2 verses.
From the opening of Seal 6 to the sealing of 144,000 Jews – Rev.6:12 to 7:8 = 14 verses.
The rescue, a G & W Sign, two Songs, the Temple opens – Rev.14:1 to 15:5 = 24 verses.
From opening of Act One to the closing of Seal 7, Act Two – Rev. 7:9 to 8:5 = 14 verses.
These 54 verses immediately precede Act Three as the 7th Trumpet sounds. Fifty of these
54 verses are Rev.14:1 to Rev.15:5 and Rev.7:9 to the opening of the 7th Seal at Rev.8:1.

The Great and Wonderful Sign, found at #36 of 62 events listed in the Collation of Events of Heaven and Earth,
reveals God's patience is exhausted before the 7th Trumpet sounds that God's wrath has come.
At #54 of these events, God's “anger turns to wrath”. But Rev.14:20 is fulfilled later on during
the Lastday at Rev.19:15. I believe it is included in Rev.14, during the symbolic reaping,
because the actual “treading in the anger of His wrath” follows Heaven's Scene #8. Rev.19:15.

Scenario Requires Resurrection of Witnesses for Heaven's Climactic Temple Drama

The text does not show the Two Witnesses rising up prior to Act Two as witnesses in the Court
of Seal 7. They are shown rising up just before Act Three for the Triumph of the 7th Trumpet.
But we will see the logic of their ascent to heaven for both dramatic Acts as the Temple Drama
sets the stage for the T.P. from anger to wrath and the rejoicing in the 8th of Heaven's 12 Scenes.

Heaven's Court of Judgment is described in Daniel 7 and 7th Seal. Before the Court convenes,
there is no evidence of God's wrath. The Plagues “exhaust God's thumos”, meaning His patience. Just as “thumos” means patience; so “makro-thumos” (at the reaping of Rev.14:19) refers to His long-suffering patience during the 7 last Plagues...until the armies have gathered to Armageddon.

What led to the translation that the Plagues “complete God's wrath”? The “tradition of men”
since the time of Plato has influenced all but one translation by rendering thumos as "wrath"
rather than “anger”. Anger is an Attitude; Wrath an Action. Unfortunately, Anger has become
a synonym for Wrath.

Plagues of so-called “wrath” are the setting for executing God's wrath; not experiencing it.

The Two Witnesses are not the final Martyrs. They must finish their task of “manifesting God's Kingdom Power” for 1260 days. “There are some of those standing here (in the context of the
last 3 or 4 days, who must taste death after they see God's kingdom having come in power...
they will love not their life unto death; but overcome Satan by the word of God and by the testimony of Jesus. Mark 9:1; Rev.12:10-11,17.

The Beast will persecute and overcome the Saints during the 2nd half of Daniel's 70th Seven;
during 1260 of its total countdown of 2520 days. The Great Tribulation will have ended 3 or 4
days before the Martyrs sing the song of Moses. The souls of the Two Prophets are among them
for these few days until the last martyr “who should be killed has been killed”. These two rise
up to join the rest who, together with the 144,000 Firstfruit, present the Son of Man to the
Ancient of Days. While the Two Prophets are resurrected on the last day in advance of the
other Martyrs, the "souls" of the Martyrs remain in temporary bodies clothed with robes and
washed in the Lamb's blood until the First Resurrection on the same Day. Rev.7:9,14; 20:4-6.

John sees the Martyrs, retroactively, in a final mini-flashback, as “souls siting in Judgment”...
a final look at the Court Scene of the Temple Drama, Act Two. Rev.20:4a. The Two Witnesses
are raised up after they join the rest of the Martyrs and the Firstfruit of 144,000 Jews who sing
their songs before the Temple opens for the Lastday Three-Act Drama. The 144,000 must rise
up (on the last day) before the Two Prophets ascend to heaven because they are “Firstfruit
unto God and the Lamb”. Rev.14:4. This occurs before the main harvest of the “Called, Elect
and Faithful who come with the Lamb to make war against the Beast”. Rev.17:14.

Heaven's 7th Scene Follows Seal 7's Court of Judgment Logically, Sequentially, Instantly!

What is the amount of “time-span” between the Scenes for each Act of the Temple Drama?

From the position of LOGIC, there is none! The songs of Moses and the Lamb had presented
the Son of Man as worthy to take His Kingdom. Praise to God and the Lamb and the revelation
of a special reward for the Martyrs sets the stage for the evidence against the wicked to go on open display. Only six of the seven Trumpet Judgments are displayed because the 7th Trumpet Angel had not yet sounded. That's why the flashback of Rev.8:6 to Rev.9:21 ends with the 6th
Trumpet. Let us see why the 7th Angel sounds the last Trumpet immediately after the 6th Seal.

Participants in Seal 6's Court of Judgment meet before God immediately after Act One...in continuous context. The great tribulation martyrs have come out from under the Altar because
God promised to avenge the Martyrs when the last one who “should be killed has been killed”. Rev.6:11. God's long-suffering patience had been exhausted by the Plagues as men blasphemed
and continued to reject His deeds of justice and truth. Rev.9:20-21; Rev.16:9-11.

Until the Angel of Seal 7 renders the verdict by fire and the 7th Trumpet sounds, there is no
text for resurrecting and rewarding the Saints. God must first authorize the Son of Man to
“take the Kingdom of earth and give it to the people of the Saints”. This authorization occurs
in Scene #4, Rev.15:1-4 (Dan.7:9-22), followed immediately by the Open Temple Drama. How
can the Martyrs be avenged or their enemies destroyed before the last one who “should be
killed has been killed”? Text-wise they appear in Act One, right after Seal 6, because God's
answer to their urgent prayer in the 5th Seal inspires His first visible response to them in the Temple Drama.

Not only the Logic, but the very SEQUENCE of the Scenes in Heaven requires the opening of
the 7th Seal after the Plagues so the Saints coming out of the Great Tribulation and from under
the Altar may present their case after “petitioning God in song ” in Scene #4. Rev.15:1-4. And
to offer praise to God and the Lamb for their salvation in Act One of the Temple Drama...Scene
#5 of Heaven's 12 Scenes. Seal 7 opens only half way through 100 verses of Lastday events, but
this is the Turning Point from that of mixing the wine of God's anger in the Cup of His wrath to that of imploding the 7th Plague and pouring out the wine of that Cup of wrath.

The 7th Angel sounds his Trumpet to announce that God's wrath has come. Scene #7, time-wise, occurs immediately after Seal 7. The flashbacks from Rev.8:6 to Rev.11:14 take place on earth!
The movement from Act Two to Act Three happens INSTANTLY. There is no prompting; but only the advance notice that “God's mystery was finished (in 3 or 4 days) whenever the 7th Trumpet
is about to sound”. Without hesitation the Last Trump sounds. Christ is worthy to be crowned as
King and to avenge the Martyrs “without further delay”. Rev.10:6-7; Rev.11:6-7. The Saints, “blessed while watching for Christ's coming as a thief” in the context of Armageddons being
gathered together in the Valley of Decision, wait 3 or 4 days for a 2nd blast of the Last Trump.

Finally, the 7th and last Plague must instantly implode in order for Heaven's rejoicing in Scene
#8 as the dreadful contents of the Cup of anger and wrath begin to pour out, destroying great Babylon by history's greatest quake. The instant rejoicing of “heaven, the saints, the apostles
and the prophets” occurs before Christ descends at the 2nd blast of the Last Trump to “gather
the saints from earth and to send the angels to complete the gathering unto Jesus at the 3rd sounding of the Last Trump. Matt.24:31. [The Pre-Wrath view separates Matt.24:19-31 from Rev.19:1-15 by at least 30 days].

The 7th Trumpet calls for the instant movement from Act Three's first Trumpet blast to Scene
#8's rejoicing because the 7th Angel also announces “the appointed time has come to judge
and reward the prophets and saints, both small and great” at the very moment the 7th Plague implodes and the quake causes great Babylon to split into three sections. All three phases of
the Storm Theophany, following Act Two, Act Three and implosion of the 7th Plague, in my
view, represents one Storm, not three.

The Hour of Trial on all the inhabitants on all the face of all the earth will not overtake
Believers nor the millions who “escape” God's wrath by pleading: “Hosanna, save us”. God
proves His wish that no one should perish...not even on the Day of His Wrath. He is willing
to forgive every one, even those with the mark of the Beast...who “seek not to save
themselves; but beg for mercy...on that same Day”. Luke 17:30-33; Luke 21:36.

HEAVEN'S 12 SCENES IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION

I. God, the Lamb and 7-Sealed Book - Rev.4 and 5
II. War in Heaven - Rev.12:7-9
III. Prayer of the Martyrs - Rev.6:9-11
IV. Songs of Moses and Lamb - Rev.15:1-4
V. Praise to God and the Lamb - Rev.7:9-17
VI. Tribunal of Seal Seven - Rev.8:1-5
VII. Coronation of Christ - Rev.11:15-19
VIII. Rejoicing in Heaven - Rev.19:1-10
IX. Special Reward to Martyrs - Rev.20:4-6
X. Great White Throne Judgment - Rev.20:11-15
XI. New Heaven and Earth - Bride of the Lamb and Book of Life - Rev.21
XII. River of Life in Heaven - Saved Nations and the Tree of Life - Rev.22
Mel Miller