LOOSING or UNVEILING THE SEVEN SEALS
HALF HOUR OF SILENCE and SEVEN THUNDERS
Coming to the 1335th day
in Daniel’s understanding of the truth of the 2300 day end
time prophecy, Daniel was left two questions:
How long to the end of these wonders? And,…
What shall be the end of these wonders?’
However just as it was told to Daniel, the how long
and just what would transpire in that undisclosed period of time for the
deliverance of God’s people, would remain a sealed secret until the time of the end when
knowledge, as to this mystery, would increase. Again, the Apostle John’s
expose of this same mystery was curtailed when he was told not to write the Seven Thunders contained in the Seven Sealed Mystery that were yet
to be revealed in the days of the Voice.
Now a simple reading of the book of Revelation
indicates, upon Christ’s return, that the seven sealed book would be opened by
him and its mystery contents sounded by the Seven Thunders contained therein,
thus disclosing the mystery of the two major wonders questioned by Daniel as to
the timing and method of deliverance.
With no repentance
on the part of Israel found by Daniel, nor in later years by Peter, except for
a small remnant, in the book of Acts, Chapter 2 and 3, nor at the end of the Seventy Weeks prophecy in the
fall of 1987, it appears that the game was over and as a result the promise of
deliverance was no longer available.
That uncertainty set in motion Jacob’s Trouble
as of the 1336th day, just like Jacob of old who saw no light at the end of his
labors in his attempt to acquire the promise and blessing. Obviously a miracle was needed. Like any game when time has run out and there
are no winners, the game must go into overtime.
That is just what happened here, as we will soon see revealed in the
releasing of the mystery of time and the deliverance concealed therein. The clock was stopped and there was silence.
Now the definition of a miracle is unexpected results. That is exactly what was needed at this
point, because time had run out.
Whatever was done was accomplished in silence, because the Bible said
nothing about it other than it was, “about the space of a half an hour,”
according to Revelation 8:1.
Now to understand that amount of time
relative to a clock divided into 60 minutes as one hour, we would divide that
in half. Right? However to which clock are we to look? Daniel’s clock indicates cycles called “time,
times and a half” which most understand to be a 3 ½ year period or 1260
days. But on God’s clock, a day unto the
Lord is as a thousand years, according to II Peter 3:8 and Psalms 90:4. Therefore 24
hours in a thousand year day says that there are 48 half hours which, when
divided into a thousand years, give us about 20 years. In other words, 20 years is about the space
of a half an hour. Now that
interpretation would stand alone except for the fact that according to Genesis 31:38 – 41, Jacob’s trouble was exactly the same amount of time, 20 years. So here is the answer to the first
wonder. God stopped His clock ½ hour to
win the game, thus leaving room for the second wonder as to how the deliverance
would come during that shortened period of time, now understood to be 20 years, from December 4, 1987
through December 4, 2007. (For a more complete look at the 2300 day prophecy of Daniel 8:23-14 and this
20 years encapsulated within it, please follow this link - 2300 DAYS.)
THE VOICE OF THE SEVEN THUNDERS BEHIND
THE SEVEN SEALED MYSTERY OF GOD
The first four seals conceal the mystery of God’s character. This is paralleled by the same
illustration of four horses
spoken of in the Prophet Zechariah. Remember, the seals are like
closed doors to an undisclosed truth, yet to be revealed, once that door is
opened. Thus like the four powers depicted in Zechariah shown to be horses,
they quench or “quiet" the Spirit of God or bring no understanding and
close out the truth of the Spirit of God’s character. The Spirit of God is the mind set of God’s
thinking expressed in His words given through His prophets and now through His
Son, by loosing the sealed book to bring true understanding to the Bible.
Remember, a thought remains unseen as spirit until it is expressed by
words. Comprehending those words can
only be in the interpretation, through the mindset of the one that spoke
them. This is even more so when
expressed by the Anointed person of that expression and only he having the
authority as the Author of the book.
That authority is clearly expressed to the Prophet Daniel when he was
told in
Daniel 10:21
But I will show thee that which is noted in the
scripture of truth: and there is none that holdeth with me in these things, but
Michael your prince,
thus identifying, by name, the only one authorized to
interpret the mysteries of the book expressed in words as the mindset of God.
This has been done in this manner so that mouths might be stopped, for there
are none righteous, no not one. God speaks Himself, as to the truth, through
His manifested and positionally placed Son, being the expressed image of God
Himself. This son is one firstborn of
many, to come up in the resurrection, thus passing from death unto life by the
understanding of the truth of the mysteries of The Thunders, as they have been
concealed within Seven Seals.
The
mystery of truth behind the seals is expressed as Seven Thunders, being the
Voice of God to unveil His character by way of the first four mysteries. The fifth is the
timing and disclosure of the mystery as to ‘when’ He would do this. The sixth seal
holds the mystery of ‘how’ He will do it and the seventh seal
is the mystery of ‘who’ will do it.
First Seal
Revelation
6:1-2
1 And I saw
when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of
thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw,
and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was
given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.
Now in examining those Seven Seals remember, they are
a negative, standing in the way of a clear view of the truth expressed in the
Voice of the Thunders. The First Seal
hides us from the fact that God is Sovereign.
Like the commandments that direct us to God’s character, they cannot be
understood without the Spirit of God to interpret them. Hence the commandments and traditions of men
make the word of God of none effect unto salvation. In other words, the only commandment
necessary to all truth is, ‘God is and beside Him there is none other.’ This leaves no room for free moral agency,
free will or self-determination that led to the downfall of mankind from the
beginning.
Second Seal
Revelation 6:3-4
3 And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the
second beast say, Come and see.
4 And there went out another horse that was red: and
power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that
they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.
The Second Sealed Mystery, like that of the first,
strikes unity and no discord because God’s Sovereignty says that He pulls all
the strings, even the deeds and will of mankind. Therefore if any of the creation offends you,
it is God’s doing and responsibility, not that of your fellow man. This outlook brings peace not accusation and
war. No guilt is involved. Thus no law can accuse of guilt when there is
none. The Law of Sin and Death, brought
at the hands of Moses, carried with it guilt and condemnation and no
deliverance from the consciousness of sin.
However the Law of Liberty, of which I speak, removes the conscience from
guilt because it is based solely on the understanding that God is Sovereign and
controls all things, including the will of mankind.
Simply put, the First Four Seals restrict us from seeing God’s character of Sovereignty.
By the nature given to us by our father and mother and originally from the Garden
of Eden, we are born with five physical senses, that of sight, hearing, smell,
taste and touch. All of these declare
to us that we are in control of our own lives by self-will. The life we receive from our natural birth is
thus sown in corruption. It is mortal,
earth bond and terrestrial, as so clearly stated by the Apostle Paul in I
Corinthians 15. Our natural birth gives us absolutely no cognition of a God or
Sovereign Power other than the parents that gave birth to us; no God
consciousness at all. The existence of a
God can only be shown by teachings that may or may not be accurate. For the most part, they are inaccurate
because the carnal mind does not know God nor can it. This is strictly planned obsolescence, having
no redemptive factors in it of itself.
The best men have been able to do is to look to the
guidance offered by the unseen Creator at the hands of Moses by the way of a
set of laws. These laws were impossible to keep and most definitely could not
remove the consciousness or the guilt of sin they declared. In other words, the Law was like a mirror
declaring unto us that we were unclean and unrighteous and hopelessly lost as
sinners, as the result of our transgression of that law. The only character God displayed in that Law
was a demand for righteousness and justice, accomplishable by none. Again, the Law was nothing more than planned
obsolescence in order to make way for something better. The Law could only govern our lives in
obedience thereto and under a God that was not understood.
This is a very depressing predicament, but it is not
the end of the story. For contained in the Seven Sealed Mystery lies the answer
to our deliverance from sin and death yoked upon us by the Law, which Law brings
no deliverance from original sin and its nature given to us by the five
physical senses which declares to us, starting from birth, that there is no
God. With the proper perspective that
God controls it all, we now can see the mystery of that unseen God. So really,… it is a mindset. The only thing
that will change that mindset, with which we were born into the world, is to
see life correctly as it actually is and not as we perceive it with our carnal
minds. The starting point, in order to
make that change, is to honor God as God.
That is, acknowledging and recognizing His total and absolute
sovereignty, having no other God beside Him, not even your self-will. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge
and understanding according to Proverbs 1:7 and 2:5 and the whole
duty of man is to fear and honor God and keep His commandments. That sounds simple enough,…Right? No,…because honoring God is the only way you
WILL keep His commandments. Sounds like
double talk,… Huh?
Let’s make it simple.
There is a law that says to keep the Sabbath day and do no work on that
day, not even kindling a fire, etc., etc.
So,… have a Gentile, not under the law, strike the match for you.
Right? Wrong! Sounds like partners in crime to me. So where is the “rest” in the keeping of the
day? There is none,… if you outline a
set of do’s and don’ts and then claim
you have ceased from your labors. Death
would be the only real answer!!! You
laugh,... but that is exactly the only
way you can rest from all your labors.
Death is precisely what is required by God. Your carnal nature that has lied to you from
birth, claiming that you are in control by self-will – free moral agency, must
be reckoned dead and replaced by the fear of God because God does it all.
Therefore being God’s labors, we need not labor and thus rest as God has rested
after a finished work.
The mystery of the fall and regeneration of mankind
has been illustrated in the simplest of things, even a child’s fairy tale,
called “Pinocchio.” The puppet master
desired a real son. To accomplish that
goal, he created a wooden puppet and simulated lifelike movement with strings
that the puppet master controlled. To
express free will, Pinocchio cut the strings that tethered him to his
Creator. In his efforts to experience
liberty, short of that control, he found it necessary to lie to cover for his
perceived guilty conscience. However, his
nose grew in length when he lied, thus his insecurities were measured by the
barometer set before his eyes on the front of his face. Like the law that constantly condemned him,
he found no security until he returned to the One that created him and once
again honored the sovereignty of that Creator’s control. At this point, an unexpected thing happened
in Pinocchio’s new birth. Miraculously,
Pinocchio became a real living little boy and the strings that once bound him
vanished, having fulfilled their purpose.
Like the law that once controlled and watched over us
in our infancy, it is no longer needed in our maturity, not doing away with it,
but rather fulfilling it by understanding the spirit of the law or the purpose
of the law. For the letter of the law
kills, but the spirit of the law, or the mindset behind the letter, gives life
and guidance to us, through enlightenment by true knowledge with understanding
or wisdom. Knowledge without wisdom is
death and keeps us separated from our Creator, the Source of all life. Thus, the start of the New Birth is the fear
of the Lord which is the beginning of that knowledge and understanding. Without that foundational rock, of trusting
in the sovereignty of the Creator, one remains dead in his sins and in
condemnation magnified by a Law that he does not understand.
Going forth with the new birth confidence in God,
knowing that He is in control and that we have ceased from our labors and
efforts to fulfill the law, we are under no condemnation because we no longer
walk after the flesh but after the Spirit.
We operate no longer by the works of the law but by the newness of the
Spirit. We cannot fail or make a mistake
because it is not our doing but rather that of God’s. Now if God be for us, who can be against us?
With that thought we are led to the disclosure of the Second
Mystery which is behind the Second Seal.
With the ground work now laid by the understanding, of Who it is that is
really in control of everything, it is easy to see how peace and rest are
restored to the creation. We enter that
rest by virtue of a finished work, not by any supposed accomplishment on our
part but by what has been done by God. Historically, the reason that Cain’s
offering was unacceptable versus that of his brother Abel, whom he slew, was by
virtue of the mindset in which it was offered.
Cain took credit for his works, viewing his offering as a taxation of
his labor. Therefore he received no
blessing. On the other hand, Abel offered a more acceptable offering, again, by
virtue of his mindset that said it was already God’s bounty, God’s labors and
God’s offering. So we see that Abel was
only giving back to God that which WAS God’s.
What takes peace from the earth? It is the accusatory mindset that doesn’t
recognize God’s sovereignty and strikes out unjustly against that which
offends, like Cain, that did not realize that it was not of Abel’s doing but
rather that of God’s. The identification
of the beast nature received from his father Adam is marked out as the “mark of
the beast” or, again, beast nature. It
is opposed to God by claiming its own alleged right to rule above God or
without God’s sovereign control, thus making an enemy or enmity between God and
mankind. That mark of the beast
permeates all of humanity today with their alleged claims of free moral
agency. Now this is no more so than with
the modern State of Israel, claiming to be the Israel of God,... when everyone
knows, or should know, that it was created out of time and born in whoredom
with the nations of the world. The
believers know the truth…No Messiah… No Israel of God! Thus, they properly wait
in patience for Messiah and do not make haste.
Making haste to establish the State of Israel, out of time and contrary
to the Laws of God, has indeed taken peace from the earth. It is now so obvious, that the whole world
knows the trouble it has caused. It will
continue to cause trouble until the antichrists begin honoring the Sovereignty
of God, denying their own works and adopting Messiah as their God ordained
government. When they say, “blessed is
he that comes in the Name of the Lord,” then they will have the blessing of
rest and through that, all the nations of the earth will be blest with peace.
Third Seal
Revelation
6:5-6
5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the
third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that
sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts
say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny;
and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
The mystery behind the Third Seal is the fact that the
Spirit of God is a free gift. It is not
to be bought and sold in the manner many are attempting to do. The nature of the beast is to steal – rob and
sell that which is not its own. With a
church on every street corner and every other radio and television show geared
to marketing salvation through their limited understanding of the Bible, it is
no wonder why God has hidden the truth and understanding of the Mystery behind
Seven Seals, until His appointed time and Messenger comes to reveal it. For, if they would have known this mystery,
it is certain that they would have merchandised it as well.
Fourth Seal
Revelation 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the
voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name
that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto
them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger,
and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
The Mystery of the Fourth Seal, like that of the
third, discloses the message of the ministers of darkness; those not having the
seal of God or the Spirit of God. They
claim that they know God and are called to a ministry of that alleged knowledge
of saving truth when, in fact, they are blind leaders of the blind, with no
insight at all into the saving truth of which I speak. By their teachings, they have made the Word
of God of none effect unto salvation.
Their unregenerate nature, claiming they are not puppets on God’s
strings, keeps their congregations striving with works and money to fulfill a
law, they nor their constituents understand.
Thus, with their sorcery, they kill the people with their message of
death. What makes matters even worse,
they charge for their services and offer no real rest for the weary. They are clouds without water that keep their
congregations in the condition of ever learning but never able to come to the knowledge
of the truth. They have a form of
religion but deny the Sovereignty of God in their lives. It can be said no better than the following
words of the Apostle Peter.
II Peter 2
1 But there were false prophets also among the people,
even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in
damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon
themselves swift destruction.
2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by
reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned
words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not,
and their damnation slumbereth not.
4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but
cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be
reserved unto judgment;
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the
eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the
world of the ungodly;
6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into
ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that
after should live ungodly;
7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation
of the wicked:
8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in
seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their
unlawful deeds;)
9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of
temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the
lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled,
they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
11 Whereas angels, which are greater in power and
might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.
12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be
taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and
shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as
they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and
blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with
you;
14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease
from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous
practices; cursed children:
15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone
astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of
unrighteousness;
16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass
speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.
17 These are wells without water, clouds that are
carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity,
they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that
were clean escaped from them who live in error.
19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves
are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is
he brought in bondage.
20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of
the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are
again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than
the beginning.
21 For it had been better for them not to have known
the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy
commandment delivered unto them.
22 But it is happened unto them according to the true
proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed
to her wallowing in the mire.
Now if one thinks this is only speaking of so called
Christian ministers, think again, because hundreds of years before Peter spoke,
the Prophet Isaiah spoke of false leadership.
Isaiah 28:14-22
14 Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful
men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with
death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall
pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and
under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in
Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure
foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and
righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies,
and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled,
and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge
shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take
you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it
shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch
himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.
21 For the Lord shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he
shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange
work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
22 Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be
made strong: for I have heard from the Lord God of hosts a consumption, even
determined upon the whole earth.
Now the preachers lie, making one believe they have received
the Holy Spirit or the New Birth by virtue of some imagined evidence. This evidence is subject, of course, to their
interpretation or rather misinterpretation of the Bible. They use such things
as ‘speaking in tongues,’ which is nothing more than gibberish with no meaning,
yet they claim that it is utterances of the Holy Spirit. Hog Wash!!!
No unknown languages were spoken in Jerusalem in the book of Acts. What occurred in the record, of the first
outpouring of truth at Pentecost, was subsequently taken throughout the known
world by way of those that were actually present on that particular day. Upon
their return at the next season of holy days in Jerusalem, every man bore
record that they had heard, in their own respective language, of the event and
message that had transpired on the day of Pentecost.
Now
the utterances referred to by the Apostle Paul in I Corinthians 13:1, as the
“tongues of angels,” is that of the Words of God interpreted by understanding
the truth. Therefore if one speaks, Paul
directed him to know, with understanding or with interpretation, that of which
he speaks or keep silent. In other
words, this was a polite way for Paul, having the understanding, to tell those
that did not understand, to shut up and listen.
Now I say, that if a man has the real Holy Spirit, he will speak the
truth with clear understanding because that is the evidence and the only
evidence, that he does indeed possesses the mindset of God, for the Word of God
expresses the mindset or Spirit of God.
Other evidences are offered to erroneously attempt to prove that one has
the Holy Spirit, but we will leave it there with the above rendering. This is probably the most prolific example of
the conception of the lie that says, “Surely you will not die,” when in truth
souls were kept in total insecurity concerning their salvation every time their
conscience condemned them. This is just the way the preacher wants it, keeping
the congregation looking to him for the answers of deliverance while his hand
is in their pocket. The Bible plainly
says, that if a man has the Holy Spirit he has no need that any man teach him
according to I John 2:27. Now, that is the one thing that the preachers
don’t want known, because it would put them out of business.
According to Malachi 3:18,
in the last days, by way of the Son of righteousness that shall rise for the
healing of the nations, a plumb line will be established whereby discernment
between the righteous and the wicked, between he that serves God and he that
serves Him not, can be made. I have
established that plumb line by virtue of the Mystery behind the First Four
Seals. If a minister teaches that one is
a free moral agent, with freewill and in control of his own destiny and not a
puppet on God’s strings, he is liar, leading one away from faith in God and
offering faith in self-works. Remember,
the ability to believe is given by God according to Ephesians 2:8-10. The works that follow are only good because it is God that is doing
them.
Along with the threat of punishment for one’s failures they, thus, dole
out a sip of wine or grape juice and a wafer, claiming it keeps one in
communion with God and gives one eternal life.
Again, Hog Wash!!! It all ends up
as crap in the toilet and you know it! Communion
was the actual Passover meal observed from the Exodus out of Egypt,
symbolically pointing to the coming Messiah and that greater fulfillment. Therefore in I Corinthians 11, Paul did not approve the early believers but rather rebuked them, for
not discerning the Lord’s body in crucifixion and fulfillment of the Passover
Lamb by their continued observance of such a ritual. Their ignorance in continuing such a
tradition left them spiritually sick and weak in their faith. Rather, they were to come together and break
the Bread of the Word to receive higher understanding as in Luke 24:13-35
and leave their literal food consumption at home, where it belonged.
THE GOSPEL OF GRACE
VERSUS
THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM
Matthew
24:14
And this
gospel of the
kingdom shall be preached
in all the
world for a
witness unto all nations; and then shall the end.
At
this point, an interlude is necessary between revealing the first four seals
and the last three. Remember, we are discussing what took place during the half
hour of silence. The Mystery is
concluded during that time, preparing the way for the disclosure of that
mystery by way of the Voice of the Arch Angel or Chief Messenger according to
Revelation 10:7.
So what IS the mystery now being disclosed? Well,… What it has all been about!!!
…understanding a sealed book when another book is opened. That other book is the Book of Life. Understanding the books or the Bible brought no life,
so another book was opened. The first
book judges mankind by their works. The
second passes no judgment because it is a finished work by God and not
man. Thus the white throne judgment sits
and the books are opened. What does that
mean? Let’s make it simple.
The plan of redemption is like building
a house. Building just a wall is repetitively easy, until a corner is
turned. A person, failing to hear the
master builder and with no understanding of the blueprint, will fail to turn
the corner and thus lose sight of the objective. At key points in history, the Master Builder
stepped on to the scene to determine that the house is correctly built. From Adam to Moses a wall was built and then
came the Law and a corner was turned.
From Moses to Jesus another wall was built and with the Gospel of Grace
another corner was turned. Another wall
was then built to the end of the age, when the Master Builder steps forth
again, for the final turn, with the Voice of the Arch Angel to declare the
Gospel of the Kingdom. Then, when the
Gospel of the Kingdom is preached into all the world, the end shall come
according to Matthew 24:14 and Revelation 11:15-19.
In
other words, when the Law came, those that failed to turn with the law remained
in sin. When grace came, those that
failed to turn with grace remained in their sins. Now, when this Gospel of the Kingdom goes
forth, those failing to turn the corner, in compliance with the Voice sounding
that message, will go out into outer darkness where there is weeping, wailing
and gnashing of teeth. According to
Paul’s instruction in Romans Chapters 9, 10 and 11, the Lord will return and
Israel will be grafted back in. Those
not observant of the truth will have their part removed from the kingdom. This is a mystery according to Romans 11:25-26.
Now
that all sounds pretty basic but here is the catch. Like the Law of Moses, the Gospel of Grace
through Christ was not perfect. As the
Gospel of Grace was offensive to the devout law abiding Jew, the Gospel of the
Kingdom will be just as offensive to the person devoutly holding to the Gospel
of Grace. This will be so much that,
like the Jews of old, they will condemn
it as false doctrine and reject its Messenger, claiming he opposes the truth,
as THEY view the Gospel of Grace that brought them ‘salvation.’ Like the manna that came morning by morning,
if kept over to the next outpouring, it became rotten. But the seventh was
unexpectedly preserved so no gathering took place, which is an exact example of
the message of the kingdom I am bringing, it comes not by law or by grace but
by Sovereignty of the Creator. In
comparison the law brought no grace as did the Gospel of Grace. It brought only condemnation from a broken
law. Anyone reading the New Testament
portion of the Bible can see that.
However, what is not so obvious is while the law requires an annual
atonement for the forgiveness of sin, the shed blood of a more perfect
sacrifice, once being offered for the remission of sin, still did not deal with
the consciousness of sin which came as the result of original sin from the
beginning with which we are all born.
The reason is this,… the judgment of sin, like a cancer, can be put in
remission once a year by the offering of animals and put in remission, once and
for all, with the blood of Christ.
However, here is the rub. When
one’s sins were forgiven under the blood, in so much that God could not pass
judgment against the sinner for the broken law, Christ’s death and sacrifice
were still under the law. So what is the
point? Simply, the blood of Christ does
not keep one from sinning nor does it remove the fact that he is a sinner. Like
a bandage, it only covers one’s sins from judgment. The consciousness of sin, as the result of
original sin, remains. Well,… why can’t
we just be satisfied with that effect, as long as that sacrifice remains
continually offered to us for our sins, thus forbearing the judgment from
sin? The reason is that sins under the
law are judged under and by the law and not by the righteousness of God which
did not come through the Law of Moses.
Jesus said, if we look upon a woman to lust after her, we commit
adultery and if we hate without a cause, we have murdered. Therefore the law
only magnifies sin and again does nothing for the fact that one is still a sinner,
just saved by grace if the blood of Christ, by faith, is ‘applied to the
doorposts of the heart.’ Here is the
mystery. Christ died under the law, being made sin for those that were under
the law, to save them from the judgment of sin which is death.
Clear as mud,…Right? Let’s make
it simple. Christ was not born in sin or
shapened in iniquity. He did not come into the world speaking lies. Therefore he was not a sinner but became sin
that he might save many according to II Corinthians 5:21. He became sin when he hung on
the cross, for cursed is everyone that is hung on a cross, as stated in Galatians 3:13. The curse is the premature abortion of life,
short of man’s normal allotted time here on the earth. Christ was most definitely cut off in the
midst of his years, thus the need for his return to save Israel and judge the
world according to Hebrews 9:28. Total expiation of sin will be brought at
that time, as Paul goes on to describe in Hebrews Chapter 10. Jesus Christ, in his first 3 ½
years ministry, preached the Gospel of the Kingdom, apart from Paul and the
early church which preached the Gospel of Grace offered by the blood of Christ. When Christ returns again, at age 34, the
Gospel of the Kingdom will be offered to the whole world. This will again come to the Jew as well as to
the Gentile. Those that had part in the First
Resurrection, as the result of responding to Christ and later Paul and the
other Apostle’s ministry, shall not precede those that are still asleep or dead
under the Law of Moses. For the Lord
shall descend with a Shout, the Voice of the Arch Angel, Michael and the
Trump of God (7th trumpet)
and the dead (those not having the foundation of belief in the SOVEREIGNTY OF
GOD) will rise to understand that truth at that time. Now if there be any physically alive, which
have previously received this truth at the time of Christ first coming, and the
First Resurrection, according to John 5: 24-25,
they will not precede those having not been previously raised in the Spirit by
the first ministry, but both will be joined with Christ together to meet the
Lord in that final manifestation. For when the trumpet shall sound, the dead
shall hear and be raised incorruptible, for this corruptible will put on
incorruption and this mortal will put on immortality, for death shall be
swallowed up in victory. For the sting
of death is sin and the strength of sin is the law but in Christ, or the
revelation of Christ, we have the victory over the law of sin and death, for
Christ is the end of the law to them that believe.
However, one cannot have faith in
that which he does not perceive. Faith
cannot be better than that in which one puts his faith. For example, it could be said that “the moon
is made out of green cheese.” One may
even have faith in that, but does that make it true? Absolutely not. Likewise, when one says he has faith in God
without understanding God, such faith is in vain. Faith is not blind. Another word for faith is ‘belief.’ One can say he believes anything but that
doesn’t make it so. Preponderance of the
evidence, based upon witnesses, convinces the jury of the mind that something
is indeed so. That evidence of witnesses
is based upon the facts as they are presented.
According to Hebrews 11:13,
hope looks forward to what is promised based upon the evidence. Faith looks backwards to the evidence in
order to evaluate that hope. A promise
unfulfilled is still a promise. The
confirmation of that promise is evidence of its substance. Now I have said all that to say this: God’s promise was confirmed in Christ as the
promised Messiah to deliver. When one
says he believes, that only says, he has received Christ as such. However, it does not mean that one has
received his message of deliverance.
Here is exactly where far too many fail. Many have come in his name claiming to be
Christians or believers when they are only accepting his physical presence as a
figure head and not the Spirit of God that he represented. Remember the Spirit of God is the mindset of
the Word and when expressed, allows one to perceive the unseen God.
So
what did the early believers have by way of the Gospel of Grace? They had forgiveness of sins past. Romans 3:24-25. They had the earnest of the promised
expectation Romans 8:20-25,
II Corinthians 1:22 and Ephesians 1:4-14. They were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,
which is the earnest or down payment of our inheritance UNTIL THE REDEMPTION of
the purchased possession. So once again,
what did the early believers have? To
answer that question, Apostle Peter says, in Acts 3, upon
Christ’s return, they had the restitution of all things. In other words, that
which was spoken by God, through the mouth of all His holy prophets, would
occur.
This
sets the stage for the purpose of the disclosure of the Mystery sealed by Seven
Seals upon Christ’s return. Now if a
person thinks that he has all the promise, offered by virtue of his profession
of faith in Christ and the Gospel of Grace via the first coming, and the
subsequent teachings through the Apostles, two things must be addressed. First, if Christ’s work was finished in the 3
½ yeas of his first ministry, then why is there a need for a Second Coming? Second, in light of the fact that it was the
blood redeemed believers, that were rejoicing over the fact that the Messiah
had prevailed to open the Seven Sealed Mystery, just what was so important to
them in that sealed book? Obviously it
was the redemption of the purchased possession, of which they only had the
earnest, prior to that opening. (Ephesians 1:12-14, Ephesians 4:30 and Romans 8:18-23)
Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Seal
Revelation 6:9-17
9 And when he had opened the
fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the
word of God, and for the testimony which the held:
10 And they cried with a
loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and
avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
11 And white robes were
given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest
yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren,
that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
12 And I beheld when he had
opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun
became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
13 And the stars of heaven
fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is
shaken of a mighty wind.
14 And the heaven departed
as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were
moved out of their places.
15 And the kings of the
earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the
mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens
and in the rocks of the mountains;
16 And said to the mountains
and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the
throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
17 For the great day of his
wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
Revelation 8:1
8 And when he had opened the
seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
So in full overview of the
plan of redemption, we see there is no conflict between any of the steps. Just as the law enhanced the need for grace,
so likewise, that unmerited favor or grace enhanced the need for the full
redemption brought by the Gospel of the Kingdom. It is in the manifested wisdom of God,
working His strange work after the counsel of His own understanding, now
revealed in His Son in these last days.
The only question then remaining was the When, How, and Who,
would bring the long sought Redemption to the creation as promised. The answer lies in the last three seals,
now here addressed. As to the timing
sought for under the Fifth Seal, actually it is already revealed in the
end time prophecy given to Daniel, as 2300 literal days and the cleansing of
the sanctuary, leading into the sixth seal. This all entails the countdown to the
final end. This being coupled with the mystery of the half hour of silence,
determined to be the stopping of time for 1/2 hour, or a twenty year period,
for this mystery to occur and later poured out in the air with the sounding of
the last and Great Trumpet upon the plagues being completed, will bring
us to that final end before that final generation, of 40 years, is
completed. The mystery of the Sixth
Seal speaks for itself. It is, as shown in Joseph’s dream, his father,
mother and brothers, portrayed as the sun, moon and stars of heaven, being the
government of Israel, and their claim to sovereignty over the Holy Mount, that is darkened out by the third overturning
of Jerusalem, November 29, 2012. The Seventh Seal, of course is, Michael
standing up with that DELIVERANCE OFFERED IN THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL AND THE
FULL REDEMPTION IT BRINGS.
That
is the good news! Here is the bad
news! Just as the Law of Moses was
closed out with the Gospel of Grace, so now, due to the unveiling of the
Mystery of God and its sounding through the Voice, or the ‘Who,’ the door of
grace is no longer open. The
consciousness of sin is no longer in remission by the blood covenant. What is now required, is nothing short of
the Life that was in that blood, made available by that which is perfect in the
understanding of the entire Plan of Redemption, as God sees it in the Gospel of
the Kingdom also known as the Gospel of Sovereignty which is the Everlasting Gospel. This is now
made available only to those that come up to the Feast of Tabernacles relative
to Zechariah 14:16 – 21 and more particularly, to the last great day of that feast and its
libation (water) offering, occurring as the final event during the half hour of
silence of the 7th Sealed Mystery.
Nearly 2000 years ago the Anointed One attempted to fulfill that same event with his offering which fell on deaf ears and as a
result he went to the cross of rejection.
May it be said this time, “Blessed is he that comes in the name of the
Lord.”