Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Eye salve to see... a book to be opened

Rev 5:6  And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.
Rev 5:7  And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne.

Daniel and Revelation - by Uriah Smith-

"Seven Horns and Seven Eyes."--Horns are symbols of power and eyes typify wisdom. Seven is a number denoting completeness, or perfection. We are thus taught that perfect power and perfect wisdom in here in the Lamb.

"He Came and Took the Book."--Commentators have found an incongruity in the idea that the book was taken by the Lamb, and have had recourse to several expedients to avoid the difficulty. But is it not a well-established principle that any action which could be performed by the person or being represented by a symbol, may be attributed to the symbol? The Lamb, we know, is a symbol of Christ. We know there is nothing incongruous in Christ's taking a book, and when we read that the book was taken, we think of the action, not as performed by a lamb, but by the one of whom the lamb is a symbol.

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Rev 1:1  The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

The WORTHY ONE took the book.
The WORTHY ONE is the ONLY ONE who can open this book.

The book was being held out for the taking but only the One worthy to open the book could take it, in any other's hands it would be pointless.

God the Father would have us KNOW what will come to pass, but only in a way that would protect generations and generations of people all the way to the end of the world as we know it. Books are sealed and protected, books are closed until their allotted time of comprehension.  Eyes are allowed to be blind, ears allowed to be deafened. On the other hand - eyes are allowed to be opened, and ears unstopped.  God is all in all and all things will unfold in His time. We can only hope and pray to have the eyesalve we so need to keep our eyes opened to all the truth that we NEED. We cannot decide what we need or when we need it, God alone can do that for us.

Our Savior - the LAMB SLAIN, the PERFECT Savior went to God the Father and took the PERFECT book because He alone was worthy of opening the perfect book to reveal God's truth to us.  We will know, and we will NOT have the excuse of ignorance to use. None of us will be able to say that God did not reveal the truth we would need to be prepared for the arrival of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ!

As all things come to pass, which they will because history has proved so much has already happened that was prophesized, there will be God's ELECT who will be His in the end.

More on this tomorrow… by God's WILL, through God's GRACE.

All in HIS LOVE.

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