Jan, 10, 2026 Sabbath-School Review

By Derek West

Source material, Seven Trumpet Luminescence, Book, 5.2, 2019

John exposes an episode whereby he was overwhelmed by a bout of hysterical weeping.  This portion of the Sabbath School Lesson began by uncovering the message attached to his dramatic expression of great anxiety.  None have ever addressed this aspect of Revelation before.

It turns out that John greatly sought salvation for humanity, as should be expected by a Christian, and he wept for failure of understanding of the advance theology of salvation.  Such components were unfolded in the SDA, 1844 judgment doctrine, 18 centuries after the time of his vision.  To John, it was saddening and vexing no one was able to take the book from God’s right hand.  This fact suggested to him that none of humanity could be saved —a legitimate reason for a true Christian to weep.  The true lesson is that “the old-time religion” is not good enough.  The path to salvational education is progressive.  Thus does an elder, one depicted as surrounding God’s throne, allay John’s sadness by expressing his higher educational judgment theology.  Hence, he was able to convince John that there was no reason to “weep much”.

Afterwards, we discussed the opening of the seven seals.  The first four seals, though they were opened by Jesus, were narrated by the four beasts who surrounded the throne —one beast per each seal.  The book uses this, with expanded explanation, to show that the beasts were symbolic of the saints who lived in the time epoch that is represented by each seal.  The time of all seven seals is chronologically ordered from the days of creation to the end.  Jesus, could not explain the first four seals because, as proven by the book, they covered a period of time before His conception, and having not pre-exist His conception 2000 years ago, He had no commentary pertaining that epoch of earth’s history.

The book begins to explain each of the seals making ground-work use of VT Houteff’s prior insight from an earlier epoch in Adventist history.

More exciting details can be anticipated.

Derek