Palm Sunday Test and Examine

Revelation 7
Good News for Palm Sunday (and Every Other Day!)
Sermon Notes for April 17, Palm Sunday 2011 by Pastor Dennis R. Tuuri

1. Our Need for Good News
   A. Palms and Palm Sunday, Rev. 7:9.10, John 12:13 (see also Jn. 12:14, 15)
   B. "Hosanna" Salvation - By the State or Jesus Christ?

2. The Basic Unity of the 144,000 and the Great Multitude
   A. Major Interpretations of the Two Groups
   1.) Jewish and Gentile Martyrs
   2.) Church Militant On Earth and Triumphant In Heaven
   B. Evidence Pointing to the Basic Unity
   1.) Hearing and Seeing (1:10-12; 5:5,6; 6:1-8)
   2.) The Answer (Singular) to the Question
   3.) New Jerusalem
   4.) Bookends - Core Identity - Servants and Serve

3 saying, “Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees, until we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.”

A. “13b Who are these,
B. clothed in white robes,
C. and from where have they come?”
D. 14 I said to him, “Sir, you know.”
C'. And he said to me, “These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation.
B'. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
A'. 15 “Therefore they are before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple;

    5.) Hot Wind (? - Hos. 13:15,16; Rev. 16:8.9) and Searing Heat
    6.) Isa. 4:4-6 AFTER Jerusalem's Fall

C. Unity AND Diversity in the Text

3. The Good News in the Text
   A. Sealing (So Judgments Can Begin - see Ezekiel 9:1-7)

   B. Assurance (of the Nature of the True Kings on the Earth; Signet)

   C. Provision

   D. Protection

   E. Comfort - Isa. 49:8-13)

Conclusion - Palm Leaves AND Fruit; "Crying With a Loud Voice" (vv. 2, 10), "A