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What Does The Little Book of Revelation Chapter 10 Have To Do With The Concealed Sealing of The Tribe of Dan in Revelation Chapter 7?
We must make note of this question before going on to considering the sealing of the tribe of Dan as the key to the study of the relationship of the Exodus-Revelation judgements.
What is being revealed here – with the command to John not to write what he hears from the seven thunders and to eat the little book – is that something is being concealed. How is the revelation that something is being concealed an aspect of the revelation of Yehoshua as the Mashiach of Israel? This has the same nature as the ascension into heaven of Yehoshua being also an aspect of his sacrifice and resurrection for Israel. This is the divine concealment which is unfolded in the mystery of the gathering of the harvest of the nations, (which Mashiach does from his "concealed" place Above), and is the mystery of grace being unfolded. Therefore what we see here in Rev. 10, in the revelation of the concealment of the revelation is at the heart of all revelation.
What is more, just as the concealment of Yehoshua in heaven is not a full concealment to those who receive his spirit, indeed rather than a concealment in the natural sense it is a concealment wherein concealment is itself the power of salvation – for it is in this way that God works in them both to will and to do his good pleasure. And here the eating of the Little Book has the same meaning. When the Little Book of concealment is digested and turned into the nutrients and muscles and sinews of the body of Mashiach, then John and the whole of the body will testify before the world as the mature 144,000 representatives - which is to say, as the corporate representation of the camp of Israel - Rev. 14. So understand what this 144,000 is and what the concealed sealing of the tribe of Dan is in relation to this number.
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