Dimensions
Join J. Anthony and Tiffany Gilbert as they discuss current events and give biblical commentary to help educate, encourage, and elevate your faith.
Dimensions
Revelation Chapters 6,8 (The Seven Seals)
We want to hear from you! Send us a text!
Dimensions September 03 2025- Revelation Chapters 6,8 (The Seven Seals)
As y'all hear me say continually, this is a season you got to keep oiling your lamps, loving your heart, sin and loving out of your life. And why is that? Because we are in the end times, ladies and gentlemen, and so I've been given a little bit of an overview. You know, I was talking the last couple of days on the podcast about the mark of the beast and the antichrist and the image of the beast, and I was talking about some of the things that are going to happen in the seven years of tribulation, and as I was going through it, I started thinking about there are 21 different judgments that will come in the form of seals, trumpets and vials. Today I'm going to talk about the beginning of the seven seals. You're not going to want to miss it. All that and more coming up on Dimensions Welcome, welcome, welcome to another edition of Dimensions. I'm your host, jay Anthony Gilbert, and I am so glad you have taken time out of your schedule to come, hang out and see what the Spirit of the Lord is saying in the prophetic. Now, dimensions exists to prepare the body of Christ for the return of Jesus Christ and God's spoke that I want you to get on each and every day, monday through Friday, 8.30 pm. Listen, ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to be here five days a week. I hope that you'll join me for 30 minutes or more of just getting into the Word of God, speaking to current events, speaking to what God is saying concerning the prophetic now and anything else that God puts into my spirit, and listen. I'm so glad that you have tuned in. Would you do me a favor, would you like, subscribe, follow and share and let others know that you're tuning in? A lot of people aren't talking about the book of Revelation. People want to steer away from it. People say they're afraid of it. You're not going to be here anyways, but there are people that want to know about these seals I'm about to get into, so I need you to like, subscribe, follow, share to do that and listen. If you are not a Dimensions family member, shame on you. You need to get in right now. Go to wherever podcasts are being held and sign up for Dimensions and guess what? You'll be the latest member of the Dimensions family. And wherever you go, as soon as this live one is over, it's uploaded into the cloud or wherever it is that it goes, and it'll land on your iPad, your Droid, your cell phone. Wherever it is that you are, you can take Dimensions with you. You can listen to this when you're walking, running, riding in your car. Do all of this? For what reason? Keep oil in your lamps, love in your heart, sin 11 out of your life. I'm going to say that again. Keep oil in your lamp, love in your heart, sin 11 out of your life. Teaching to empower you, to inspire you, to give you education and insight into current events and anything else that the Lord puts upon our hearts in the moment. We just finished speaking to the Minnesota school shooting that happened last week, so unfortunate, but we wanted to talk to you about that, the stellar awards. We just finished talking about that and anything else that comes down the pike that the Lord lays upon my heart.
Speaker 1:But today we're going into the book of Revelations, chapter six and chapter eight. Man, oh man. We're going to get into the seven seals. Seven seals that will happen in the first three and a half years of the tribulation. Remember I talked about it yesterday that there is the tribulation years and there's seven of them.
Speaker 1:We talked about Daniel's 70 weeks and how, from the time that they made a decision to rebuild the wall when they came out of captivity. After the 70 years, there was going to be 70 weeks, and those weeks are weeks of years, total 490 years, 483 years to the day that Jesus showed up. And then there was a period of time where he wanted to gather them. They missed their visitation and Jesus said I would have loved to have gathered you. And he wept over Jerusalem. He said now you will not see me till you see me return and you will say blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord, speaking of the second coming of Jesus Christ at the end of the seven years of tribulation.
Speaker 1:But in the first three and a half years. No, let me go back a minute, those 69 weeks. Now there's been a pause until there's the signing of the agreement between the Antichrist and the nation of Israel for a seven-year peace treaty. That will begin and that will mark the beginning of the seven years of tribulation, the first three and a half years. He will appear to be a Messiah and that will be the beginning of the tribulation years, which is what we're getting into about the seals, the first seven seals. They will happen in the first three and a half years, the last 14 judgments, which will be in the form of trumpets, which will follow right after the seals, and then it'll be the vials. They will be shorter in duration but they will be very way more intense and they're going to happen quicker. So it's, everything is going to double. So you go from the tribulation to the great tribulation, which is split up in those three and a half years, to those two pockets.
Speaker 1:So all of that is coming up and we need to be aware why. That helps us to know what's taking place. And this is what's amazing. We need to know about it, we need to understand it, we need to see it, but we don't need to be afraid of it because we won't be here when it happens. In Jesus' name, come on somebody.
Speaker 1:So let's go to Revelation, chapter six, and let's get in on some of this. Let's take a peek and see what the Spirit of the Lord is saying. Father, I thank you for this right now, and every person that's listening. I pray that they will see it through your eyes. I pray, father, god, that as your word comes alive to us, father God, that it would be written upon our hearts that you would show us great and wonderful things through your word that, lord, this would be a time for us to realize what is coming, but, lord, and that it would equip us to warn others to avoid. That's why you said in Luke 21, I pray that you would be counted worthy to escape these things that are coming. And, father God, as long as we are under the blood, we know we shall escape them. So bless us today, in this time, in your word, in Jesus' name. Amen, all right.
Speaker 1:Revelation, chapter six, verse number one. This is the first seal. Now I saw, when the lamb opened, one of the seals and I heard one of the four living creatures say with a voice like thunder come and see. And I looked and behold a white horse and he who sat on it had a bow and a crown was given him and he went out conquering and to conquer. So this is the first thing that you have to understand. The first seal that opens up here is the white horse, which is symbolic of the first beast.
Speaker 1:Revelation, chapter 13. Revelation, chapter 13, I believe it is like 1 through 10, talks about the first beast, how he was mortally wounded and he would resurrect himself and he would be given authority through the dragon. Then the second beast which we talked about was the false prophet. That'll happen. From verses I want to say, somewhere around verse 11 on. So he's saying that this is the first beast that is going to begin to come forth Now. This is very important and we understand this is when the antichrist will appear. So the seal will be open, he will be unveiled and, as we've talked about before, this is very important that we get this. We will not be here. He cannot appear till we are gone.
Speaker 1:Second Thessalonians, chapter two, verse seven and eight. Let me go there real quickly, just because I just want to make sure that we have that Second Thessalonians and I want to make sure that we really understand this, because a lot of people are wondering is the Antichrist going to show up? Are we going to be here? You will not be here, ladies and gentlemen. You will be gone In Jesus' name. 2 Thessalonians, chapter number two. We are going to look here at verse seven and eight in just a moment, just getting my phone to cooperate here.
Speaker 1:But a lot of people get scared of that and worried about his antichrist here. Is he here now? Could he be in the earth right now? Without a doubt, he definitely could be here. But, ladies and gentlemen, this is the encouraging part. You ain't got to worry about any of that, because you're going to be gone in Jesus name and I've shown you that in Scripture. That's why you got to subscribe to this, because there's so much teaching that's happening every single day.
Speaker 1:Going into the different things, I broke down 2 Thessalonians 2. I mean I went through all of it. I mean you'll have to go back and check it out later, but I just want to revisit this and look here at verse number seven 2 Thessalonians 2, verse 7, for the mystery of lawlessness. Remember we talked about in Matthew 24, that because lawlessness would abound, the love of many would wax cold. That's the reason why I'm saying in this season keep oil in your lamp. Oil speaking of illumination and revelation, and then also insulation. It keeps you warm. You can heat with oil, but you can also illuminate with oil. So, therefore, if you keep oil in your lamp, you'll keep love in your heart. And when you have oil in your lamp, you're keeping yourself from the world, you're not allowing lawlessness to creep into your life. You're staying in church, you're keeping God first. You're not mixing with the things of the world.
Speaker 1:The mystery of lawlessness is already at work, which is causing people's hearts to grow cold. Sin causes your heart to grow cold, but the mystery of lawlessness is worked by the spirit of Antichrist. Okay, remember, we talked about this yesterday. Antichrist means against or and or in the place of. So he'll be against God, but then he'll put himself in the place of God. Okay, for the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. So we know that in the place of God. Okay, for the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. So we know that Only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way.
Speaker 1:Now it's important to understand that is the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit is in us. That's why we are salt and light, real quickly. That's why it says in 2 Chronicles 7, in verse number 14, it's my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray, seek my face and turn from their wicked way. Then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sins and heal their land. So there's something about the church being the church. That's why he called us salt. We are preserving it.
Speaker 1:If the salt is removed, destruction comes, judgment comes. But because we are here, just like Lot when he was in Sodom and Gomorrah. The angel said until you are removed, we can't bring destruction. So if God did it for Lot and Sodom and Gomorrah, why would he allow destruction and judgment to come to us when he is? If he didn't judge Lot, he had to bring him out in order. That was kind of like a form, if you will, of like a rapture. There was a removing before the judgment came, and that's the reason why, when you read on 2 Thessalonians, chapter 2, it talks about how the judgment is going to come to those that are unbelievers because they rejected the love of the truth. Ok, so very, very important. So the Holy Spirit, the church, going to be removed. He's not going to have the same influence that he had before. And then it says look here, he will restrain until he's taken out of the way. And the Holy Spirit is in us. It's not him by himself, he is in us. So we have to be removed by way of the rapture, by way of the church age.
Speaker 1:And then verse eight, and then the lawless one. So the mystery of lawless, which always, when you're dealing with mysteries, you're dealing with seed time and harvest, things being planted. It's a mystery how it grows, how it develops. It's already been at work and it's continuing to work. A mystery how it grows, how it develops. It's already been at work and it's continuing to work. And that's what's working right now trying to separate the wheat from the tare to prepare a bride for the Antichrist while Jesus is purifying his bride for the return of Jesus Christ. Okay, and then the lawless one will come, he will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of his mouth and destroy with the brightness of his coming. So he's going to show up with the mystery of lawlessness. Okay, we got to understand that and go to first Thessalonians, chapter five.
Speaker 1:I just want to revisit this one more time. First, thessalonians, chapter number five. I want you to catch this here. This is very important, because then you'll understand you are not called to be here. Let's look at verse three, for when they say peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes upon them as labor pains upon a pregnant woman, and they shall not escape.
Speaker 1:But you, brethren, are you a brethren or a sister? Look at this here. You brethren this is very important Watch this are not in darkness so that this day should overtake you as a thief. Look at verse two, for you yourselves know perfectly so that this day should overtake you as a thief. Look at verse two, for you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. But verse four says you, brethren, are not in darkness.
Speaker 1:Keep oil in your lamps. Are you staying with me? That's why you gotta stay in church. That's why you gotta stay in prayer. You gotta keep sin and leaven out of your life. Why they deplete the oil, they consume the oil, they waste the oil, they create oil leaks in your spiritual engine and therefore it builds up viscosity. As a result, things begin to break down in your life.
Speaker 1:Stay in church, keep God. Number one Don't mix with the things of the world. Very, very important. Teach your children, your family, to walk with God. But you, brethren, are not in darkness of this day should overtake you as a thief. You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness. Therefore, let us not sleep as others do, but let us watch and be sober.
Speaker 1:Okay, so he's telling us there that the Lord is going to show up as a thief in the night, but we are going to be watching for his return. Why do you think I'm teaching on these things? I believe the return of Christ is getting close and I believe that those that tune in, something in their spirit is going to resonate and they're going to say you know what? I know that Jesus is coming, your baby is going to begin to leap, you're going to begin to have an expectation. You have an expectation, you're going to begin to believe God and trust him that things are going to get ready to happen in the earth today. Okay, so the first one, now the first thing we have to look here.
Speaker 1:Go back to Revelation, chapter six. I want to read verse two again. And I looked and behold a white horse. He who sat on it had a bow and a crown was given to him and he went out conquering and to conquer. Now people think right here, that means war. But now watch this. This is very good here. Notice that he had a bow but no arrows, which means he will rule and reign and conquer by diplomacy. He will.
Speaker 1:Bow is symbolic of authority. He has power, but he doesn't use force at this point. So he will come on a horse, he will have a crown, which means he's authorized and that's where the authority comes in, and we talked about that. If you read in Daniel chapter 9, you can read that, and Daniel chapter 8, daniel 9, 26 and 27. And then Daniel chapter 8, verse 23, how Satan gives him power.
Speaker 1:You can read a Revelation, chapter 13 as well, how the devil will give him power in order to operate. So that's where the bow comes in. The bow means he has authority, he has power, he has the ability, he'll have that army. But that's not how he will conquer. He will conquer through diplomacy. He will conquer by bringing peace. He will conquer by being a messiah. He will conquer by being a savior. In essence. He will conquer by being a messiah. He will conquer by being a savior in essence. Uh, he will conquer as if, like man, this guy's the greatest thing since sliced bread. That's how he's going to go about and he's going to conquer. So it's very, very important that we understand how he's going to come. He's not coming immediately with bow and arrow, because if he had a bow, and arrow is one. He just has just a bow, which means he has authority, he's got power, he's got might, but he's not going to use all that up front.
Speaker 1:Eventually, at the end of the three and a half years, when he begins to bring about through the false prophet, the false prophet will then come up. He will then authorize the Antichrist and then he will erect an image to the beast which is speaking of the Antichrist, which I believe and I've talked about this before. You have to go back and listen to it is AI, artificial intelligence, which that doesn't mean AI right now is the antichrist. If you're using it I'm saying that will be used. It's that he will cause the image to begin to speak. I believe that he'll begin to give that over. I believe he'll be able to take credit for it. He'll begin to use it, he'll begin to operate with it. It'll become like a God to people. You'll be able to pray to it, you'll be able to ask it for wisdom and advice, all of those things, and he'll have influence over those things. And I believe it'll become like an image. It won't just be right now we look on our computer screen or on our phone or whatever we use AI, but it will become like an image, literally. He said he'll cause it to begin to speak and the people will worship it. And it'll be in honor of the beast, because the beast will see, you can't set up that image yet until you got some cachet. He'll have the cachet because, first of all, he resurrected himself from the dead. Secondly, signs and wonders false prophets. He's gonna call down fire from heaven. I mean, all these things are gonna begin to happen. He's gonna bring world peace. Never happened before. Even the Jewish people are gonna be like man, this guy. He's really for us and people are going to love it. People are going to love what he's doing up front while these different things are going to be happening. So all of this is going to be transpiring and it's going to give him the cachet needed for people to say, hey, he needs to be our leader.
Speaker 1:We're in the middle of all these things that are going on. Imagine if somebody would came in the middle of COVID-19, completely eradicated it, maybe even died. Now watch this. Died from COVID-19, right, resurrects themselves from the death. That gets up out of the grave. Then comes back, brings the cure to COVID-19, begins to solve all the problems. All the businesses begin to flourish. Brings all the nations together. All these things begin to happen. World peace comes about.
Speaker 1:Talk about the Nobel Peace Prize. I mean this guy. I mean he got the whole thing going on with still with Putin and Zelensky and trying to bring that together, and you've got all these things. He's going to bring peace to all that there in the Middle East. What's happening with Iran and all of those over there. They're all going to have peace. Israel's going to have a seven-year peace treaty and then, as a result of that, that's when the go say we need to erect this thing to him. How he's going to do it, we're not sure yet, but obviously there's some speculation involved and he's going to have a whole image to him and they're going to bow down and they're going to worship him. That's when he'll begin.
Speaker 1:Now watch when he's supposed to be worshiped and that's what the devil has always wanted. You can read in Isaiah, chapter 14, about how he wanted to be worshiped and that's why he was kicked out of heaven as Lucifer and now became Satan. You can read about that also in Ezekiel and he talks about how Lucifer would be cast down. Son of the morning. He said I will arise, I will be like the most high. And he said, yeah, you will be brought down to the pit. So that's what's happening.
Speaker 1:So now he gets this opportunity for people to worship him, he's going to establish all this and that's where the false prophet is going to come in. With his power, his influence, it's going to command everybody to worship him and that's where we talked about yesterday about taking the mark, and that's probably. Everybody will be tied into AI and then, as a result of that, this is when he'll start using force. He won't use force from the beginning. He'll use influence, diplomacy and all those other things, but when people will not worship him, his ego is going, in essence, is going to go to his head and he's going to be able to say all that I've done for y'all, all that I've done on this planet, everybody needs to worship me.
Speaker 1:And he is going to turn in the middle of that three and a half years and that's when his authority and stuff is going to be stripped. That's when he's going to start. You see, in the beginning he's going to have power and authority. But you got to remember I have time to go into it now you have the 144,000. You've got the two witnesses that are going to come about. There's going to be a turning in the middle of that three and a half years, and then he's going to slowly begin to lose, a little at a time, until eventually he's going to gang up upon Israel in the middle of the Armageddon war. That maybe we'll get into later on, later on.
Speaker 1:I don't know where we're going to go yet, but right now we're talking about these seals, and hopefully I can get through just one for today the seven seals. The first seal, though, that is open will be the appearing of the Antichrist. He's going to kick everything off and then it's going to go from there. So it's going to be amazing that those of us that are in heaven will have we're going to have a front row seat to what's going to happen. So remember this white horse. He's going to have a white horse, he's going to come with a crown. He's not going to have any arrows, he's going to have a bow. So he's going to have that bow there, which is going to be symbolic that he'll have authority to rule without war and he'll be able to have peace. So that's the first one. Let's see if we got time for another one here.
Speaker 1:The second seal, let's look here Revelation, chapter 6. Revelation, chapter 6. Now, if you want to learn more about the Antichrist and the false prophet. You can go back and check those out, but that's why I didn't spend as much time on that. The second seal when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying come and see. Now this is verse three and four.
Speaker 1:Another horse, fiery red, went out and it was granted to the one who sat on it to take peace from the earth and that people should kill one another. And that was given to him a great sword. So this is the second rider on the beast here, uh, on the horse. This rider will take peace from the earth and Jesus prophesied that in Matthew, chapter 24, that there would be wars, there would be rumors of wars, that there was the beginning of those things that were coming, that people would be offended, they would betray one another and they would hate one another. So this is where the spirit of Antichrist now is going to come into the earth to a full degree, but he won't be fully operational yet, but he's still on his rise there. So he's going to be power to take peace away. Now this is the second rise is going to come and it's going to start creating this war. That's going to happen.
Speaker 1:I want you to see something here. World War I, there was 10 million people that were died, that were killed. World War II, 15 million. What in the world is this going to be? People have been threatening about World War III for some time now. Ladies and gentlemen, it is coming. World War III will be. I don't know if they're going to call it World War III, but it is coming, it is brewing even as we speak. So there's going to be major wars that are going to break out. We can kind of see and that's why I talked about the whole thing with Putin and Zelensky, and all of that, with Russia trying to become the USSR again and all the things that are happening. Is this the formation? Maybe, maybe not. It could be the beginning of it, it may not have anything to do with it, it may just be still. Things are brewing, but things are coming together. There's a reason why all these things are happening and why it's taking place.
Speaker 1:Let's jump into the third seal, revelation 6, verse 5 and 6. And when he opened the third seal, I heard the living creature say Come and see. So I looked and behold a black horse. So we've had a white horse, we've had a red horse and now there's a black horse. A lot of people say the four horsemen of the apocalypse, as people will call it, but it's just a four horsemen here, come and see. So I looked and behold a black horse, and he who said I had a pair of scales in his hand and I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying a quart of wheat for denarius and three quarts of barley for denarius, and do not harm the oil and the wine. So now there's going to be a time. The third seal here is economic failure and famine. That has come. This is going to be the third. So this is going to be a time of economic inflation. This is going to be where the Antichrist is going to be moving his headquarters to Jerusalem. It's going to happen during that time.
Speaker 1:I want to read to you a couple of passages of scripture. Let's go to Lamentations, chapter four. Lamentations, chapter four, chapter 4. Lamentations, chapter 4. And we are going to look here at verse number 4 through 9. The tongue of the infant clings to the roof of its mouth for thirst. The young children ask for bread, but no one breaks it for them. Those who eat delicacies are now desolate in the streets. Those who are brought up in scarlet embrace ash heaps. The punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of sin of Sodom, which was overthrown in a moment with no hand helper. Her Nazarites were brighter than snow and whiter than milk. They were more ruddy in body than rubies, like sapphire in their appearance. Now their appearance is blacker than soot. They go unrecognized in the street. Their skin clings to their bones. It has become as dry as wood. Those slain by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger for these pine away, stricken for the lack of the fruits of the field. So it's basically giving us a rundown of what famine is going to be like and what it's going to look like.
Speaker 1:Let's look at Ezekiel, chapter 4. Ezekiel, chapter 4. We are going to look at a few different verses. I'm going to look at 10, 11, 16, and 17. 10, 11, 16, 17. And your food which you eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day. From time to time you shall eat it. You shall also drink water by measure, one sixth of a hen. From time to time you shall drink. And then jump down to verse 16 and 17.
Speaker 1:Mori said to me, son of man, surely I will cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem. They shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety, shall drink water by measure, and with dread that they may lack bread and water and be dismayed with one another and waste away because of their iniquity. So as a result, now things are going to begin to dry up in the earth, things are going to begin to dry up on the planet and there's going to be major, major famine and economic inflation. That's why they had the scales. So basically it could be a loaf of bread or be a day's labor, that type of a scale. I mean, think about that. I mean, what is a loaf of bread now? Maybe like maybe $2, $3, something along that line. Imagine it inflating to the point where what you'd work in a day will pay for a loaf of bread. I mean, so everything else is going to go up as well.
Speaker 1:There's this constant threatening. I don't know if you see it whether it's with the economy. You see the whole thing with the tariff wars and things like that that are coming out. There's these constant threats on the economy. People are talking about the national debt and how. That's what is it? 36 trillion now, or something like that. I can't remember exactly what the exact numbers are, but there's this constant threat of economic. We're teetering on the end times here. We're teetering on coming into these years. So everything's being set up. So none of these things should take you by surprise.
Speaker 1:And what's amazing is this, I believe what is holding up the return of Jesus Christ? What is holding up these things is his return, and the return of Jesus Christ is being held up because of the gospel going into all the earth. The Bible says the gospel is to go into all the earth and then the end shall come. So what is actually holding up all of this stuff? That's why it's teetering, but it didn't seem to give that full thrust yet. We're right there, at the edge, but it never goes over the edge. That's because the church is still here, the Holy Spirit's still here, the church age is still here, so evil doesn't have the power to dominate the way it should. It will invade, it will try to come in, but the church age is still now and the authority has been given to the church. So all the church has to do is just prevail and be who it is that God's called us to be and, as a result, we'll have victory and so, but what's? And eventually, the return of Christ is going to come, we're going to be raptured out and these things are going to be ready to go.
Speaker 1:So that is the first three there. I'm going to get into the fourth one tomorrow. You're not going to want to miss it. We'll be back here 8.30 pm. Go back and watch some of the other ones. Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast and you will be blessed, and then I'll be back here tomorrow. I'm going to go through the other ones as well. I don't know how far we're going to get. We're going to take our time, do a deep dive and study these different seals. So I hope that you've been blessed today. I know I'm letting you go. I wish I had a whole lot more time, but I don't. But that'll keep you hopefully coming back for more. So I'll see you tomorrow night 8. Right here on Dimensions, thank you.
