Thursday, May 31, 2012

Revelation's Little Book | series post #2




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 Rev.10:2and he had a little scroll opened in his hand. He put his right foot on the sea, his left on the land, <>>>> MCK notes:  The little scroll in the angel's hand is open.  It is time for its contents to be heard.  Yochanan will hear its contents but will not be allowed to reveal what he hears in the Book of the Revelation of Yehoshua HaMashiach.  What is here heard by Yochanan will be kept in an oral tradition until the end of days when it will be revealed, before all rulers and all peoples.  What is written in the little scroll has application to all the continents of the earth, to the seas and to the land.  This reference corresponds to the word of Yehoshua that before the end comes the Good News of Israel and Her Messiah would be announced to the ends of the earth.


If we take a step back and look at the way that chapter 10 fits into the structure of the Book, we can sharpen our focus in seeing the meaning of the little book.  Just before the final three trumpets sound, Yochanan sees and hears an angel in the form of an eagle flying high overhead making and marking a very important announcement:
8:13I looked again and heard an eagle flying high overhead, crying out in a loud voice, “Woe! Woe! Woe to those who live on the earth, because of the remaining trumpet blasts that the three angels are about to sound!”
 Just before the third of these three woes this interlude in the narrative of judgment comes, beginning with chapter 10 and going on through chapter 14.   The end of chapter 14 is a transition out of this interlude of inside information and back to the narrative of the final seven vials or seven bowls of judgment, which all people on earth are made to experience and "understand", whether or not they can understand the inside information given in chapters 10-14.  Just before the end of chapter 14, just before it transitions out of the insider information back to the narrative of the judgments upon the nations which come out of the blowing of the seventh trumpet, Yochanan sees another angel making and marking a very important announcement flying overhead:
Rev.14:6Then I saw another angel flying high overhead, having the eternal gospel to announce to the inhabitants of the earth—to every nation, tribe, language, and people. 7He spoke with a loud voice: “Fear God and give Him glory, because the hour of His judgment has come. Worship the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea and springs of water.”
In this parallel of angels flying overhead to mark special announcements to all the world the first is an announcement embedded within the narrative that is directed to and that will be understood by the nations, like the narrative addressed by Moshe and Aaron to Pharaoh.  This second part of this parallel is embedded in the insider interlude, which corresponds to Moshe speaking inside information to Israel between the judgments, and especially concerning the preparation of the Passover just before the final judgment.  This second angelic announcement is to reveal the meaning of the judgments, especially the last three woes.  Just as the Passover and the redemption of Israel from Egypt was the reason for the judgments upon Egypt, as explained to the believers, those who believed Moshe and Aaron, so the revelation of the eternal good news, the Good News of Israel and Her Messiah, is the reason for the judgments in the Book of the Revelation of Yehoshua HaMashiach, the judgments that come upon all nations.

When this angel making the announcement flies overhead this time two other angels follow it. The first angel announces that the purpose of the judgments is the final revelation of the Good News of Israel's redemption through the Lamb of G-d, who was sacrificed for her.  This angel is described as having the responsibility of making sure this good news is heard by every nation, tribe, language and people.  This is a direct reference to the same responsibility that was prophetically given to Yochanan at the end of the vision of the little book in chapter 10.  We see that this angel is carrying within it the responsibility of the content of the voice of the seven thunders, that which Yochanan was to keep as oral tradition until the last day of prophetic testimony.

The announcement of the second angel, who immediately follows is:
8A second angel followed, saying: “It has fallen, Babylon the Great has fallen, who made all nations drink the wine of her sexual immorality, which brings wrath.”
Matthew 24:14.  It is when the good news of the kingdom is announced to the ends of the earth that the end comes.  This begins with the end of Babylon the Great, whose only power is in darkness, the concealment of the truth of the Good News of Israel and Her Messiah.  Therefore this second angel follows the first angel, which announces the good news in accordance with the promise of the little book and the seven thunders, as given to Yochanan in Revelation 10:11.

The reference to the sexual immorality of Babylon the Great is a reference to the whole rebellion of the natural Adam, the corporate Human Race, as it is called in This World, the rebellion against all obedience to the Creator.  Babylon the Great is the mind, the organized evil inclination, that leads the world in inventing the devices of its rebellion against the Creator.  Rebellion is in all the seven facets of the universal commandment given to the Adam.  That commandment is well known, not to partake of the knowledge which belongs to the Creator alone, the knowledge for judging what is good for creation and what is evil for creation.  

In Revelation 9:20 we saw listed the sins for which the world under the domination of Babylon the Great would not repent.  All these sins are the weapons of Babylon the Great's rebellion against the Creator of heaven and earth:   
  1. Blasphemy, which is ultimately for the purpose of sorcery.  This spirit is present as the spirit in all cursing.  All the evil of the human tongue originates from the misuse of the Holy Name, which is at the foundation of Babylon the Great.   
  2. Idolatry, the self-worship of the creature.  Today this self-worship expresses itself most notably as the arrogance of atheistic science and amoral technology.  In times past wood and stone sculptures were worshiped as gods.  Today, physical matter and physical energy themselves are served above all else and honored as the one true reality.  No one hides the nature of this idolatry of materialism.  Without shame, the shameful confession is universally made, "I only believe what I can see with my own eyes, what I can see demonstrated and proved."  This is the shameful confession that the highest god to the arrogant human being today is their own mind.
  3. The insidious corruption of justice.  Everywhere there is rationalization of means in the service of "just" ends; this is the evil of the Godless human heart.  In refusing to take full responsibility for truth and self-government the human heart chooses to compromise with lies, and therefore is brought into the service of demons.   According to the Book of the Revelation of Yehoshua the Mashiach of Israel, whoever will not repent and obey the commandments of the Creator of heaven and earth, the God of Israel, will end by avowing their servitude to demons.
  4. Destruction of life.   Whoever does not love the commandment of their Creator love death.  Yehoshua the Savior and Messiah of Israel said of Lucifer that he was a murderer from the beginning.  From the beginning Lucifer hated the commandment of his Creator.  He is a murderer and rages against all life.  The Adam was deceived by the serpent into believing that freeing life from the restrictions of the Creator's commandment would liberate life.  This lie that the end, liberty, could justify the means, rebellion, covered over the deeper lie.  The serpent, Lucifer, speaking through the animal, lied to the Adam by implying that he cared about the life that the Creator had created.  He did not.  All rebellion against the commandment of the Creator is hatred of life.  In believing the serpent the Adam became a student, a child of the serpent, a murderer.  The Great Babylon is the nurse employed by Lucifer to sustain all murder, war and violence in the world under the cover of darkness.
  5. Perversion of misused love.  It is this perversion that enables the delusion of idolatry.  The misuse of love expresses itself most obviously as sexual immorality.  And it is through the unrestrained spread of sexual immorality that Babylon the Great entices and captures the souls of all the world.  Therefore, it is by this sin that she is identified and known above all others.  However, the greatest goals of Babylon the Great are idolatry and sorcery, and it is primarily through immorality and the perverting of love that souls are brought fully into the captivity of idolatry and then into sorcery.  For the delusion of idolatry is the delusion of self-worship, belief above all in one's own thought.  It is love that prevents this spiritual insanity.  Therefore the spirit of rebellion against the truth and justice of the Creator takes opportunity through the fear of death and the need for love to pervert and twist love, seducing souls into acts of immorality.  When love has been twisted it can no longer protect the human heart against arrogance and where there is arrogance the delusion of idolatry can grow.
  6. Stealing wealth, power and souls.  Thieves are portrayed as the stereotype adversary of law and order, but Babylon the Great is the great thief.  And Babylon the Great is supported by the law and order of the four empires of the nations that keep Israel in captivity through the ages.  All that Babylon the Great has is stolen.  All who steal learn her craft.
  7. Predatory behavior toward all creators.  The devil is the great predator, the great parasite.  His kingdom becomes manifested in the end as the kingdom of all evil predators, all demon-hearted human beings, those who choose to live to war against all that is from Yehoshua the Lamb of Israel, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, those whose lust is cruelty.

The announcement of the third angel, who then follows is:
9And a third angel followed them and spoke with a loud voice: “If anyone worships the beast and his image and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand, 10he will also drink the wine of God’s wrath, which is mixed full strength in the cup of His anger. He will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the sight of the holy angels and in the sight of the Lamb, 11and the smoke of their torment will go up forever and ever. There is no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and his image, or anyone who receives the mark of his name. 12This demands the perseverance of the saints, who keep God’s commands and their faith in Yehoshua.”
As is seen in the Book of the Revelation of Yehoshua the Mashiach of Israel, when the Good News of Israel and Her Messiah is announced to the ends of the earth Jerusalem's light will come.  The cover of darkness that has covered the earth will be taken away.  Babylon the Great will be exposed.  That great mystery of iniquity will no longer have any power to deceive the nations.  The great serpent and his false messiah and his kingdom will then have no more use for the trap of Babylon the Great.  The beast, the great predator, and all who worship his image, will be exposed and destroyed by the truth.  For this reason this third angel follows the second, which follows the first.

Monday, May 28, 2012

Revelation's Little Book | series post #1

Yochanan ben Zakai Synagogue Door
Yochanan ben Zakai Synagogue Door (Photo credit: upyernoz)
Rev. 10:1Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, surrounded by a cloud, with a rainbow over his head. <>>>> MCK notes:  Yochanan/John has just witnessed angel's blowing the trumpets of judgment upon the nations.  These angels, these messengers, parallel in a certain way Moshe and Aaron before Pharaoh.  Just as Moshe and Aaron announced the judgments that would come upon Egypt before they came, so these trumpeting angels are messengers announcing the judgments that come upon the nations before they occur.  However, to this point the hearts of the nations are seen to be as hard as the heart of Pharaoh.  Just like the Nazis of Germany, the hearts of the nations at the time of the judgments that Yochanan/John witnesses are full of hatred toward the God of Israel and will not repent.  When Yochanan sees "another angel", he has just heard this testimony:
Rev. 9:20The rest of the people, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands to stop worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which are not able to see, hear, or walk.  And they did not repent of their murders, their sorceries, their sexual immorality, or their thefts.*
By "another" angel, Yochanan/John indicates that he recognizes that the angel that he now sees is of a different order than those who have been trumpeting the announcement of the judgments.  In that this angel  is most likely the same who brought the revelation of the presence of Yehoshua HaMashiach himself in the first chapter, who is also the angel to whom Yehoshua entrusted the overall revelation to Yochanan and to all to whom it is given through Yochanan, as is given in Revelation chapter 22 verse 16, there is a great "hint" of the Holy Scripture that is being given here.  The secret reason of these judgments will be given here.  This same hint is given in the fact that this is an interlude in the series of judgments taking place.  In the narrative of the judgments upon Egypt there is also an interlude pattern woven into the narrative.  The heart of that interlude pattern comes just before the final judgment, the judgment upon the firstborn of Egypt. 


Here this interlude comes just before the seventh trumpeting angel sounds.  When that angel does trumpet its announcement it is the final warning of judgment.  After that there are no more warnings, only the seven vials or bowls which represent the wrath of G-d poured out in full measure.  These seven vials or bowls are seven aspects of the last judgment.  This last judgment upon the nations corresponds to the last judgment upon Egypt, that upon the firstborn.  In both cases there was no more warning.  Once the judgment had been announced it came irrevocably.  However, before it came there was an interlude when the narrative of judgment in Egypt came away from the outside world and became private, with Israel only.  So here too, through the little book, the the narrative concerning the judgments becomes private.  It becomes known only to those who will be redeemed.  We have already seen those as being represented in the figure of the 144,000 formed from the 12 tribes of Israel.  Just as the safety of the Passover Lamb was revealed at this point privately to Israel, as an interlude in the narrative of the judgments, in the record of the redemption from Egypt, so there is a safety for the 144,000 in this last judgment, who are sealed in their minds with the seal Mashiach, of the prophecy of G-d and of the Name of G-d, Revelation 3:12.


We will see therefore that the secret of the final redemption of Israel from out of the nations, which allows for the return of Yehoshua, will be revealed in this chapter.  For background, read, Psalms 118:26 and Matthew 23:39.

As the Angel of The Name was associated in the Exodus with the the cloud of the Shekinah, so here this angel is associated with the heavenly cloud.  The rainbow appears as an halo.  The promise of the covenant of G-d was first made with Noah.  With Noah it was a promise of a promise.  It was only a promise that G-d's judgment upon the world would be mitigated.  The salvation of Noah and his family with the animals in the ark was itself a measured judgment, a mitigation of judgment.  The rainbow would signify a covenant of G-d that the salvation of Noah would not be in vain.  In the final judgment at the end of days there would not wash away all life from the earth.  There would be something saved, something redeemed.  The judgment would be mitigated.  This was the significance of the rainbow.
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* These are six sins against the seven aspects of the universal commandment given to all nations to obey their Creator.  See, Seven Laws With Seven Thunders.  The seventh sin, the sin of failing to practice justice will soon also be indicated when it is shown that instead of taking the responsibility to practice justice, as required explicitly of  all families saved with Noah from the Flood, the nations agree together to submit openly and formally to the rule of Lucifer and an actor, who acts the role of the Messiah, as it is written:
John 5:43I have come in My Father’s name, yet you don’t accept Me. If someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.
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