The staggering scene at the end of the sixth seal ends with people all over the earth rushing to caves and screaming. Those panicked screams echoed in the distance as Christ’s thumb lingered at the seventh seal of the scroll. (Swindoll, 117) Two Scenes in Revelation 7: Scene one: The of Israel to God on the eve of the Great Tribulation. Revelation 7:1-8 “Those who have a stake in this world struggle with pulling up stakes and doing what God commissions them to do. It’s like I can’t do it now Lord because I have so many plans.” Carter Conlon Scene two: The in Heaven at the end of the Great Tribulation. Revelation 7:9-17 What we have seen leads us to three conclusions from the text: Christians need to live in this world of tribulation and evil. Isaiah 41:10 Revelation 21:3 Christians need in a world where we have put down stakes. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Philippians 3:13b-14 But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the LordJesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself. Philippians 3:20-21 Christians need in worship. Romans 8:18 Final thought: “When you get to where you are going, where will you be?” Adrian Rogers