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Revelation 7:1–8:5

A Great Multitude Before the Throne

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A Great Multitude Before the Throne

Revelation 7:1–8:5

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Revelation 7:1-8:5

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This song belongs to the Revelation collection. One recording is available to play here, with the complete lyrics below.

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[Verse 1] Four winds wait at the corners. Judgment pauses for the seal. From every tribe of Israel, one hundred forty-four thousand are numbered, the living God's name upon them. [Refrain] Who are these in white? They came through great tribulation. They washed their robes in the Lamb's blood; now they stand before the throne. [Verse 2] No nation can count the multitude, every kindred, people, and tongue. Palms rise in their hands; salvation belongs to God and to the Lamb. Angels and elders fall upon their faces, answering blessing, glory, wisdom, and might. [Interlude] [Verse 3] No hunger. No thirst. No sun shall strike them with heat. The Lamb in the midst becomes their Shepherd, leading them to living fountains; God wipes every tear from their eyes. [Bridge] The seventh seal opens. Heaven keeps silence about half an hour. Incense climbs with the prayers of saints; fire from the altar falls to the earth, voices, thunder, lightning, earthquake. [Outro] Before the throne, day and night, the white-robed multitude serves.

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Revelation 7: Those who can stand before the throne

Chapter 7 answers the question that closed the sixth seal by showing people identified by God before further harm and people standing before the throne. Four angels restrain destructive winds until servants receive the living God's seal. John then hears the exact number 144,000 arranged by tribes of Israel, a list notable for its unusual order and omissions. After hearing that number, he sees a multitude no one can count from every nation, kindred, people, and tongue. The relationship between those two companies is interpreted differently, but both scenes make belonging to God the answer to exposed human vulnerability. The white-robed multitude has come through great tribulation, has washed its robes in the Lamb's blood, and now serves before God's throne. The chapter closes by turning the Lamb into shepherd: he leads them to living waters, and God himself wipes tears from their eyes.

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Revelation 8: Silence, prayer, and the first four trumpets

The seventh seal opens not with immediate noise but with about half an hour of silence in heaven. That quiet is followed by seven trumpets and by the prayers of the saints rising with incense from the golden altar. Fire from the same altar is cast to earth, linking the heavenly worship scene with the judgments that follow. The first four trumpets strike vegetation, sea, fresh water, and the lights of heaven. Their repeated thirds show severe but bounded devastation, while individual details resist careless generalization: all green grass burns even though only a third of trees do. The Book of Revelation uses plague imagery familiar from Exodus without reducing it to a coded list of modern disasters. At the end, a flying herald cries three woes for the remaining trumpets, signaling a shift from damaged conditions of life toward direct torment and death among the earth's inhabitants.

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