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The Historicist’s notion that Revelation 4-5 represents Christ’s ascension to heaven at the first advent is untenable. It neglects that Christ is already illustrated mediating in the first compartment in Revelation 1. His mediation affirms that he has already inaugurated the heavenly sanctuary in order to commence his mediation. [see Davidson, Richard M., “Christ’s Entry “Within the Veil” in Hebrews 6:19-20: The Old Testament Background” (2001). Faculty Publications. Paper 55.] Christ’s mediation is illustrated in Revelation 1:13 with Christ “clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.” The priestly garments illustrate the typical consecration of Aaron to his office (Leviticus 8:7). The seven candlesticks, instrumental in the typical mediation, are also indicative of Christ’s antitypical mediation. Consequently, Revelation 1 represents Christ’s antitypical mediation and not the typical Aaronic one.
Such evidence confirms that Christ’s approach to the throne in Revelation 4-5 is extra indicative of the yearly perambulation of the high priest during the seventh month and typical day of judgment, or Yom Teruah and Yom Kippur (Hebrews 9:1-5). The traditionalist structuring has Christ returning to the inauguration of the heavenly sanctuary again. This corrective view is supported by the trumpet’s sound in 4:1, which heralded the opening of each month between the spring and autumnal festivals, Yom Teruah being the most significant of the sounding of the trumpets (Leviticus 23:23-24). John hears the same voice heard in Revelation 1:10 that announces the “Day of the LORD,” the same voice that sounds and conveys the judgments of the historical and prophetic seven church eras. Christ’s voice is equated to the sounding of a trumpet to illustrate the seven churches are antitypical of the seven months between the spring and autumnal festivals, which equates the throne scene in Revelation 4-5 with Daniel’s throne scene in his chapter 7. This structuring indicates the seven seals pertain to the opening of the same books in Daniel 7, the judgment scene. Revelation 4-5 illustrate judgment upon the church and the release of the horsemen, easily related to the horsemen in Joel 2:4, the locust army that God sends as a judgment upon his people for their sins. This proper structuring coincides with the warning to the church era of Sardis and the open door left for the church of Philadelphia concerning the “hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth” (Revelation 3:10). There is a tremendous amount of supportive scripture that points to Revelation 4-5 being placed during the time of the last era of the church of the Laodiceans. The Adventist’s interpretation of the seven seals, taken from Henry Grattan Guinness, is untenable.
Such evidence confirms that Christ’s approach to the throne in Revelation 4-5 is extra indicative of the yearly perambulation of the high priest during the seventh month and typical day of judgment, or Yom Teruah and Yom Kippur (Hebrews 9:1-5). The traditionalist structuring has Christ returning to the inauguration of the heavenly sanctuary again. This corrective view is supported by the trumpet’s sound in 4:1, which heralded the opening of each month between the spring and autumnal festivals, Yom Teruah being the most significant of the sounding of the trumpets (Leviticus 23:23-24). John hears the same voice heard in Revelation 1:10 that announces the “Day of the LORD,” the same voice that sounds and conveys the judgments of the historical and prophetic seven church eras. Christ’s voice is equated to the sounding of a trumpet to illustrate the seven churches are antitypical of the seven months between the spring and autumnal festivals, which equates the throne scene in Revelation 4-5 with Daniel’s throne scene in his chapter 7. This structuring indicates the seven seals pertain to the opening of the same books in Daniel 7, the judgment scene. Revelation 4-5 illustrate judgment upon the church and the release of the horsemen, easily related to the horsemen in Joel 2:4, the locust army that God sends as a judgment upon his people for their sins. This proper structuring coincides with the warning to the church era of Sardis and the open door left for the church of Philadelphia concerning the “hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth” (Revelation 3:10). There is a tremendous amount of supportive scripture that points to Revelation 4-5 being placed during the time of the last era of the church of the Laodiceans. The Adventist’s interpretation of the seven seals, taken from Henry Grattan Guinness, is untenable.