Another Mighty Angel.

 

Continuing…The seventh seal was opened- seven angels were given seven trumpets and the last study had the sixth of those seven angels with trumpets sounding his trumpet. We pick up here in this very deep, study of prophecy and history with yet another angel appearing during the sixth angel with the trumpet sounding… (picking up from previous studies- we need to study over and over never allowing ourselves to forget the truth revealed. Remember we are to READ, to KNOW-understand, and KEEP the things in the Book of Revelation. Do we keep them? To do so we must read and know them first, and truthfully it is so easy to forget even after we read and believe we know. In forgetting we no longer keep what we've learned. God help us all only to ever know HIS truth in all things!)

 

Rev 10:1  And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:

Rev 10:2  And he had in his hand a little book open...

 

Here John's vision of the angel with the sixth trumpet is interrupted.

 

He sees another angel. Why the interruption? The last angel sounded the sixth trumpet and set about telling of the second woe. Could it be perhaps because even while the woe is occurring other things are happening as well?

 

 Think about it. Right now there are men and women overseas fighting in wars, some of us know some of those over there, or we know of others who have loved ones over there. What do you think their lives consist of? Anything but the normalcy which we know, in which we live. They exist in another whole world, a world of war where they have guns in their hands, slung across their backs, in a holster at their hips, in a strap about their leg, in a back pack they wear on their backs. They have weapons of war in their possession and they wield them with the intention of shooting another human being should they be attacked by them. They are fighting to uphold principles of freedom that the others don't seem to have. The war is ongoing and has been for several years now. Think about it, really think about what is going on right now in a place that we are not. We are sitting at our computers reading/writing this in the comforts of our own home, in our own town, in our own city, in our own state, in our own country and we aren't wielding weapons of warfare. Two different worlds and it's the same in all time. While wars are being waged there is also another existence for those who send their loved ones off to war while remaining home. Rarely is there war everywhere in fact most likely never. When a war is started it's for a purpose, whether or not that purpose is achieved, it is started for a reason. Perhaps to conquer, but there is no guarantee to being the conqueror, you could be the one conquered in the battle.

 

Anyway, the point that I'm trying to make here is that while wars go on they don't go on simultaneously everywhere so there is an existence that doesn't have the war going on and I believe that when this angel comes down from heaven after the angel with the sixth trumpet sounds and tells of the second woe, it's not necessarily a continuation of time because that would mean the seventh angel should sound. It isn't the seventh angel with the seventh trumpet but rather a completely different angel and we'd do well to pay attention what messages are given to us by this angelic interlude.

 

This mighty angel comes down from heaven and is clothed with a cloud and a rainbow rests upon his head, what an image this evokes. His face is as the sun, his feet as pillars of fire.

If ever an angel was grand in appearance this angel all but demands notice.

 

We are concerned with symbols and the symbolic references here are what? Clothed with a cloud and rainbow on his head. A reminder of God's past dealings with humans? The rainbow was given as a symbol that God would never flood the entire earth again in a way that would kill almost all living things, it was a sign, a covenant with God and His people. His face as the sun- brilliantly bright, illuminated with the most powerful luminary in the skies. Feet as pillars of fire, a pillar of fire led God's people at night when Moses was guiding them through God out of captivity into the land of freedom. Clearly this angel is bringing a powerful message from God, enlightenment, powerful enlightenment.

 

Rev 10:2  ... and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth

 

Symbolically in prophecy the sea can represent a place of many people, just as the earth can represent a place without so many people. It's possible the angel's stance is such that this messenger is going to give the message to all.

 

Rev 10:3  And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.

Rev 10:4  And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.

 

What a mighty cry! Yet just what his cry -was- isn't mentioned. His cry  precedes the voices of seven thunders to sound. Seven Angels, Seven Seals, Seven Trumpets, Seven Thunders- and yet whatever messages the Seven Thunders have to give to us we can't know, it wasn't for us to know or read, or hear, or keep. A voice came from heaven to John and told him to seal up the things the seven thunders uttered and write them not. That the angel who was amazing and glorious in appearance cried out and caused seven thunders to sound a message we weren't to know- tells us what? There are mysteries not meant for us, mysteries we cannot know. What we are being given isn't all there is but it's all we need and we have to trust that God has given us His words in such a way that we aren't completely overwhelmed.

 

Rev 10:5  And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven,

Rev 10:6  And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who CREATED HEAVEN, AND THE THINGS THAT THEREIN ARE, AND THE EARTH, AND THE THINGS THAT ARE THEREIN ARE, AND THE SEAS AND THE THINGS WHICH ARE THEREIN, that there should be time no longer

 

Thy will be done on EARTH as it is in HEAVEN. Mat 6:10 

 

For in six days the LORD made HEAVEN and EARTH, the sea, and all that in them is. Exo 20:11

 

Him that liveth forever and ever! The creator of HEAVEN, of EARTH, of the SEA.

For in six days the Lord made HEAVEN and EARTH, and the SEA.

 

The angel swore by the one and the only Creator God, the maker of HEAVEN, of EARTH, of the SEA.

 

This mighty angel cried out - SWEARING by GOD, by our LORD-- for God the Father with God the Son created the heavens, earth, and sea. This angel cried out that THERE BE TIME NO LONGER.  Then this…

 

Rev 10:7  But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.

 

The seventh angel HAS YET to sound and yet we are being told ahead of time that when the seventh angel does sound that the mystery of God would be finished.

 

The mystery of God

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Colossians

{2:1} For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and [for] them at Laodicea, and [for] as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

{2:2} That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the MYSTERY OF GOD, and of the Father, and of Christ;

{2:3} In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

{2:4} And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.

{2:5} For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.

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In whom are hid ALL the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

 

Romans

{16:25} Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the REVELATION OF THE MYSTERY, which was kept secret since the world began

{16:26} But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith

{16:27} To God only wise, [be] glory through Jesus Christ for ever. Amen.

Praise God!

 

1 Corinthians

{2:7} But we speak the wisdom of God in a MYSTERY [even] the hidden [wisdom,] which God ordained before the world unto our glory

{2:8} Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known [it,] they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

{2:9} But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

{2:10} But God hath revealed [them] unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

{2:11} For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.

{2:12} Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

{2:13} Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

{2:14} But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know [them,] because they are spiritually discerned.

{2:15} But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.

{2:16} For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

 

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Praise the Lord!

 

Ephesian

{3:9} And to make all [men] see what [is] the fellowship of the MYSTERY, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ

{3:10} To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly [places] might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God

{3:11} According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord

{3:12} In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.

{3:13} Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

{3:14} For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ

{3:15} Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named

{3:16} That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man

{3:17} That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love

{3:18} May be able to comprehend with all saints what [is] the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;

{3:19} And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

 

All Glory to God!

 

To be continued…. By the grace of God!