From the Book of Revelation    153 
during the first six seals, but will be spared many of the sufferings which will 
follow. 
    This pattern will also be repeated in the time of the nearly seven years of 
the Church's greatest suffering (about 400 years later). For nearly seven 
years, Christians will suffer severely, along with many unbelievers and 
sinners. Then, at the end of that time, after the Antichrist is cast down, there 
will be a series of worse sufferings, which fall only on the wicked (called the 
Seven Bowls of God's Wrath). The faithful will be preserved from these 
punishments. 
    In both cases, the last set of punishments, those from which God's 
servants are preserved, are more severe and come more directly from God. 
The earlier sufferings are more from human actions or from nature (each 
occurring under God's Providence). 
The Great Multitude (Rev 7:9 17) 
     After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no man could 
number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and tongues, 
standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with 
palm branches in their hands....  (Rev 7:9). 
    The great multitude is those persons who repented from their sins and 
who died during the tribulation, that is, during the time of war and suffering 
described by the six seals. This multitude is described after the passage 
where the servants of God are sealed to protect them from the punishments 
which follow. The multitude is those souls who did not receive the seal of 
God on their foreheads. 
    Some of these may have been holy persons who died before the seal was 
given out. Others may have been among those who did not receive the seal. 
These would include sinners who suffered God's punishment for their sins, 
but who repented and went to Heaven, where they will rejoice and be happy 
forever. The servants of God who receive the seal are not the only souls who 
will be saved. God saves both saints and sinners. 
    Those who received the seal are  mostly  protected from the punishments 
which follow, but they are not immune to death, so it is possible that the 
great multitude mentioned here includes some who received the seal. 
However, this passage mainly refers to those who did not receive the seal, 
who died during the tribulation, and who went to Heaven. 






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