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3 And he gave a great shout like the roar of a lion. And when he shouted, the seven thunders answered.
This roar of the angel and of the seven thunders is hidden within the roar of the seventh trumpet of the seventh angel of judgment. To learn how to hear this sound we will begin with the prophet Amos.
Amos 3
3 Can two people walk together
without agreeing on the direction?
4 Does a lion ever roar in a thicket
without first finding a victim?
Does a young lion growl in its den
without first catching its prey?
5 Does a bird ever get caught in a trap
that has no bait?
Does a trap spring shut
when there’s nothing to catch?
6 When the ram’s horn blows a warning,
shouldn’t the people be alarmed?
Does disaster come to a city
unless the Lord has planned it?
Understand! Two legs walk together because they walk together by design for the same purpose. Likewise, two people walk together because they have one design in common. The prophet points to the foolishness of the atheism and materialism of the philosophy inherent in the mind of sin.
The mind of sin seeks wisdom and understanding by excluding G-d from thought, simply because it does not want to obey the commandment of G-d. By excluding G-d from thought the mind of sin is able to conclude that good and evil occur in the world by random chance. In truth, people do not manage the business of their lives on the principle of chance but by will and decision. Sinners walk with one another to do business only when they are agreed.
The mind of sin considers itself the one exception to the randomness of existence. Foolishly excluding from its thought The One who created the Adam in the beginning, the wisdom of the sinner is made meaningless and their understanding is made violence. Having made chaos its god, the mind of sin will face chaos in judgment, face to face, measure for measure.
In truth the lion roars because it has its prey in its sights. The messenger of G-d roars because the time that the Creator of heaven and earth will allow rebellion has come to its end.
We have already heard about this in >
Amos 1:2
This is what he saw and heard: “The Lord ’s voice will roar from Zion and thunder from Jerusalem!And this is repeated in >
Joel 3:16
The Lord ’s voice will roar from Zion and thunder from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth will shake. But the Lord will be a refuge for his people, a strong fortress for the people of Israel.And here we see that the roaring of the Lord's voice will signify the separation of His people from the nations, as in the day of the redemption of Israel out of Egypt.
Joel 3:17
“Then you will know that I, the Lord your God,
live in Zion, my holy mountain.
Jerusalem will be holy forever,
and foreign armies will never conquer her again.
How and when does this occur? It is at this time, when the voice of the Lord roars out of Zion. First it will be heard by those who hear the seven thunders through the mystery of eating the word of G-d which is written in the little scroll, as we will see.
Why are these prophecies from Amos and Joel applicable to this vision of the angel roaring with the voice of the seven thunders? Is the prophecy not that it would be the Lord who roared? Are they not that He would roar out of Zion? The revelation is teaching us that the roar of the Lord is the roar of the Good News of Israel and Her Messiah. This is His roar out of Zion, for this is the roar of His redemption of Israel out of all nations through the sacrifice of Yehoshua in Zion. The announcement of the angel is that the time for the manifestation of the accomplishment of what G-d has done through Yehoshua for Israel is come.
See this entry on this site:
A Shofar a Thousand Cubits Long
He will take up a Shofar a thousand cubits long and will sound it, and it will reverberate from one end of the world to another. With the first blast the world will be in an uproar; with the second, the earth will split," and so on. See also Pirkei deRabbi Eliezer, sec. 34.
